I will never again buy a Sony product, I wonder how many other people feel the same way?
I'm sure plenty, but I'm not one of them. Sony has done some colossally stupid things in the past. rootkit on CDs, the other OS removal on the PS3, exploding batteries, and a bunch of other crap. The thing is, is that there are few to no other companies the size of Sony that haven't done as much or worse.
If you were to boycott every company that's done something incredibly dickish in the past, you'd be living in a cardboard box down by the river. No, probably not as I'm sure the company that made the box probably dumped toxic crap in a river at some point in its past.
I don't really play console games. And if I did I'd be buying the console for games, nothing else. I don't agree with what they did in regards to the Other OS option on the PS3, so I didn't buy one.
But when I bought my last two TVs the Sony XBR models had the best picture (as far as I could see) and options I wanted. So that's what I got. Their ES line of audio equipment has as good of sound as any (to my ears) in a price range that I'm willing to accept. So I have several ES products.
When I decided I wanted to use the 3D capabilities of my TV, I wasn't willing to update my receiver too, and Panasonic was the most reasonable option for a Bluray player with 2 HDMI ports. So I went with Panasonic.
If a company (or even a person) does something stupid and you hold it against them even if they've done something right afterward. What incentive is there for them to change? If I did something cruel to you and then recognized my mistake and treated you kindly afterward. But you kept holding that one mistake against me. What incentive do I have to care about you? Or are you 14 years old and believe that Beelzebub, Sauron, and Voldemort sit atop a tower at Sony and plot the end of days.
This was my first thought too. But I bet that turkey vulture wasn't flapping its wings. They are masters of riding thermal up drafts and can fly for many many hours without flapping their wings. The one you had a near miss with probably flapped its wing five or six times to get to 3000 feet. It most likely spent hours circling in an up draft to get to that altitude.
If one really wanted to look different than most people all one would have to do is shave one eyebrow off,
It'd be interesting to see how people would react. It's surprising how many people will speak louder and slower to you if you do shave your eyebrows off.
I remember when the US was the country people would come to when they wanted to get away from oppressive regimes.
Unfortunately, like me, you remember a time when people came to the US to escape more oppressive regimes. Sadly the reality is that was back when our government lied to us and we (mostly) believed what we were told. Or ignored the facts that were staring us in the face. I was born after WW2, but the Japanese internment camps were one very glaring example.
I'm sure these will be smaller than the Irridium satellites, but I have to wonder about satellite flare . Irridium satellites can ruin long exposure images. But there are only 66 of those. I have to wonder what 700 birds are going to do. Even at a much lower magnitude, they could show up in long exposure images very easily.
I have three Dobermans and I've seen the same behavior. One is a very large male and then we have an older female and a younger female.
The younger female will run to a door or window and bark to get something from the male in a similar fashion.But he simply doesn't care because he'll just take the bone away from her when he gets back.
The younger female will bark insistently at the older female until she gets annoyed and walks away from what ever it is she has. This sometimes works with the male. But usually he gets annoyed and rolls her end over end.
The older female doesn't really care if the younger female barks at anything. She just assumes it's nothing. But if the male barks, she comes running right away. It's a pretty funny dynamic.
I'm certainly not trying to marginalize the Soviet space missions. Their early moon rovers were fantastic feats. Hell, I don't think there's been a more successful rover program until Spirit and Opportunity.
But then look at the Voyager probes launched by the US. They've traveled farther than any man made object to date. And depending on your definition, are/will be the first to leave the solar system. Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause a little over 2 years ago. I'm pretty sure that's a first.;-)
The Russians had crafts in orbit, people in orbit, and landers on the Moon, Venus and Mars, before anyone else. The Russians were the definitive pioneers of space exploration, period.
First Soviet satellite in orbit: Sputnik 1. October 4 1957. Transmitted radio signals for 22 days and burned up on reentry in 92 days.
First US satellite in orbit: Explorer 1. January 31, 1958. Transmitted data for 111 days and was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen belt. remained in orbit until 1970.
So the Soviet Union sent up a radio transmitter that beeped at 20 and 40 MHz four months sooner than the US. Explorer 1 which had; a Geiger counter, multiple temperature sensors, a transducer and solid state amp to record micrometeorite impacts, and a wire grid for detecting micrometeorite impacts.
Don't get me wrong. Sputnik 1 was first and a hell of an achievement. However, it's obvious the US could have sent up something sooner if they had wanted to. It's not like you can just develop a space program from scratch in four months. The US had started Project Orbiter in 1954 and was in competition with the Vanguard project, which gained favor politically. So work on Project Orbiter was shelved. Vanguard made an unsuccessful attempt to put Vanguard TV3 in orbit at the end of 1957. Once Sputnik 1 was launched, Project Orbiter was completed in less than 90 days.
The Soviet Union had five failed mars flyby missions before the US even attempted to send anything to Mars. The US then had one failed flyby before the first successful one by Mariner 4 in 1964. USSR then had three more failures followed by 2 successful US and one failed flyby by the US . Then two more failed USSR flybys before their first successful Mars mission. The Soviet Mars 3 orbiter/Lander sent back 8 months of data and the lander managed to transmit 20 seconds of data. However Mariner 9 successfully achieved orbit around Mars a little over two weeks before that in November 1971.
The Soviet Luna-2 crashed into the moon in 1959 and didn't do much else. So it was a first. The US crashed Ranger 7 into the moon in early 1965. But it returned 4300 pictures in the process.
Laika was sent into orbit knowing full well the dog would suffocate. As far as I know, all of the deaths of US launched animals were due to catastrophic mission failures.
I could go on, but there's not much point. While there was plenty of dick waving during the space race. The Soviet Union tended to get there first by simply lobbing a rock with the Soviet flag painted on it. While most of the US missions tended to actually send back useful data for the first time.
If the cars that fall back to AI then communicate their observations and decisions back to Google then to other cars then the next car wouldn't need AI and could improve knowledge of the area, plus any particularly bad problem spots can be highlighted for further investigation at Google HQ.
Personally, I think that's a brilliant idea. Some how I don't think the privacy rights crowd is going to be thrilled it though. The "Evilz Big Corporation" will be able to take over the world, control your mind and force you to buy figgy pudding. The only thing stopping them now is not knowing where you are physically located.
I was thinking the same. Then I found it amazing that the same company that failed miserably in the automotive industry within the US has this kind of manufacturing capability. Daewoo makes all kinds of things. But this was not something that I would have considered. It's very impressive.
Because you complained about modding like a twat, modbomb on the way to as many posts of yours as I can, once I get me one of them piles of 15 I get regularly.
While I understand the sentiment, as I have been tempted to do the same in the past, I respectfully ask you to not abuse the mod system this way. The mod system is meant to be used to rate each post on it's own merits, not the poster themselves. I'm not judging Jane.q here, but even trolls can make a good point on occasion.
The chemists claim that Cheerios are by far the best in the cereal aisle at growing chemically productive fungi.
I wonder how much spin the marketing team at General Mills will have to put on this to be able to use it in advertising. I'd buy them for having the quote above printed on the box.
I was going to do just that. Unfortunately I tried it with a honey badger first. The honey badger ate the lungfish, the goldfish, my dog and somehow found a snake to eat. Then it smacked the cup and said "I don't give a shit"
If you are onÂ/. you are not even supposed to know who this "Jennifer Lawrence" is!
Normally I would agree with you. However, being that she was in two X-men movies you should probably turn in your geek card.
This news is for the monkeys praying to the monolith! (and by monolith I mean systemd)
I didn't know anyone was praying to systemd.And would guess anyone who is, will not care. The hairless monkeys praying to the nuclear warhead would probably be more interested.
Because of osmotic pressure, freshwater fish are hypertonic and absorb water continually. Their kidneys work pretty hard to keep the correct electrolyte balance.
From the second half of the first sentence of TFS:
...writes aboutÂseven of the biggest factors that predict what makes for a long term stable marriage in America.
Emphasis mine.
It would be interesting to see what the divorce rate of Hindus is after living in the US after 5, 10, 20 years. And what the differences are when one or both of the couple's parents live with them or close by vs. their families remaining a large distance away.
I'm sure the divorce rate would be much lower the average American marriage. But I would guess without the pressures of culture and family, it would go up.
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I will never again buy a Sony product, I wonder how many other people feel the same way?
I'm sure plenty, but I'm not one of them. Sony has done some colossally stupid things in the past. rootkit on CDs, the other OS removal on the PS3, exploding batteries, and a bunch of other crap. The thing is, is that there are few to no other companies the size of Sony that haven't done as much or worse.
If you were to boycott every company that's done something incredibly dickish in the past, you'd be living in a cardboard box down by the river. No, probably not as I'm sure the company that made the box probably dumped toxic crap in a river at some point in its past.
I don't really play console games. And if I did I'd be buying the console for games, nothing else. I don't agree with what they did in regards to the Other OS option on the PS3, so I didn't buy one.
But when I bought my last two TVs the Sony XBR models had the best picture (as far as I could see) and options I wanted. So that's what I got. Their ES line of audio equipment has as good of sound as any (to my ears) in a price range that I'm willing to accept. So I have several ES products.
When I decided I wanted to use the 3D capabilities of my TV, I wasn't willing to update my receiver too, and Panasonic was the most reasonable option for a Bluray player with 2 HDMI ports. So I went with Panasonic.
If a company (or even a person) does something stupid and you hold it against them even if they've done something right afterward. What incentive is there for them to change? If I did something cruel to you and then recognized my mistake and treated you kindly afterward. But you kept holding that one mistake against me. What incentive do I have to care about you? Or are you 14 years old and believe that Beelzebub, Sauron, and Voldemort sit atop a tower at Sony and plot the end of days.
This was my first thought too. But I bet that turkey vulture wasn't flapping its wings. They are masters of riding thermal up drafts and can fly for many many hours without flapping their wings. The one you had a near miss with probably flapped its wing five or six times to get to 3000 feet. It most likely spent hours circling in an up draft to get to that altitude.
If one really wanted to look different than most people all one would have to do is shave one eyebrow off,
It'd be interesting to see how people would react. It's surprising how many people will speak louder and slower to you if you do shave your eyebrows off.
I don't know about that, but it doesn't bode well for Minnesota, "The land of 10,000 Lakes". Perhaps that's why they undercounted the lakes.
I remember when the US was the country people would come to when they wanted to get away from oppressive regimes.
Unfortunately, like me, you remember a time when people came to the US to escape more oppressive regimes. Sadly the reality is that was back when our government lied to us and we (mostly) believed what we were told. Or ignored the facts that were staring us in the face. I was born after WW2, but the Japanese internment camps were one very glaring example.
I'm sure these will be smaller than the Irridium satellites, but I have to wonder about satellite flare . Irridium satellites can ruin long exposure images. But there are only 66 of those. I have to wonder what 700 birds are going to do. Even at a much lower magnitude, they could show up in long exposure images very easily.
And if Nemesis exists it may toss any of them back into the Kuiper belt.
I was replying to dhammabum. Not TFA. Which I also understood, but thanks for expounding on TFS.
I have three Dobermans and I've seen the same behavior. One is a very large male and then we have an older female and a younger female.
The younger female will run to a door or window and bark to get something from the male in a similar fashion.But he simply doesn't care because he'll just take the bone away from her when he gets back.
The younger female will bark insistently at the older female until she gets annoyed and walks away from what ever it is she has. This sometimes works with the male. But usually he gets annoyed and rolls her end over end.
The older female doesn't really care if the younger female barks at anything. She just assumes it's nothing. But if the male barks, she comes running right away. It's a pretty funny dynamic.
Chalk it up for +1 diversity,
So we have an obligation to make sure they are not under represented in the tech industry.
If they were unhappy, they would have walked in one direction long enough to "discover" others. Leave them be.
Obviously they are simply to niave to realize how unhappy they truly are.
It is our duty to get them to American on an H1B ASAP. So they can sit in a cubicle in Silicon valley. Only then can they be truly happy.
Sooo it might hijack your brain to mine bitcoins. Big dealÂ:P
The average person only uses something like 20% of their brain anyhow. This will put those wasted clock cycles to use.
YOU will get the tip. ;)
That sounds like part of a "In Soviet Russia..." joke. But judging by TFS, apparently not.
I'm certainly not trying to marginalize the Soviet space missions. Their early moon rovers were fantastic feats. Hell, I don't think there's been a more successful rover program until Spirit and Opportunity.
But then look at the Voyager probes launched by the US. They've traveled farther than any man made object to date. And depending on your definition, are/will be the first to leave the solar system. Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause a little over 2 years ago. I'm pretty sure that's a first. ;-)
The Russians had crafts in orbit, people in orbit, and landers on the Moon, Venus and Mars, before anyone else. The Russians were the definitive pioneers of space exploration, period.
First Soviet satellite in orbit: Sputnik 1. October 4 1957. Transmitted radio signals for 22 days and burned up on reentry in 92 days.
First US satellite in orbit: Explorer 1. January 31, 1958. Transmitted data for 111 days and was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen belt. remained in orbit until 1970.
So the Soviet Union sent up a radio transmitter that beeped at 20 and 40 MHz four months sooner than the US. Explorer 1 which had; a Geiger counter, multiple temperature sensors, a transducer and solid state amp to record micrometeorite impacts, and a wire grid for detecting micrometeorite impacts.
Don't get me wrong. Sputnik 1 was first and a hell of an achievement. However, it's obvious the US could have sent up something sooner if they had wanted to. It's not like you can just develop a space program from scratch in four months. The US had started Project Orbiter in 1954 and was in competition with the Vanguard project, which gained favor politically. So work on Project Orbiter was shelved. Vanguard made an unsuccessful attempt to put Vanguard TV3 in orbit at the end of 1957. Once Sputnik 1 was launched, Project Orbiter was completed in less than 90 days.
The Soviet Union had five failed mars flyby missions before the US even attempted to send anything to Mars. The US then had one failed flyby before the first successful one by Mariner 4 in 1964. USSR then had three more failures followed by 2 successful US and one failed flyby by the US . Then two more failed USSR flybys before their first successful Mars mission. The Soviet Mars 3 orbiter/Lander sent back 8 months of data and the lander managed to transmit 20 seconds of data. However Mariner 9 successfully achieved orbit around Mars a little over two weeks before that in November 1971.
The Soviet Luna-2 crashed into the moon in 1959 and didn't do much else. So it was a first. The US crashed Ranger 7 into the moon in early 1965. But it returned 4300 pictures in the process.
Laika was sent into orbit knowing full well the dog would suffocate. As far as I know, all of the deaths of US launched animals were due to catastrophic mission failures.
I could go on, but there's not much point. While there was plenty of dick waving during the space race. The Soviet Union tended to get there first by simply lobbing a rock with the Soviet flag painted on it. While most of the US missions tended to actually send back useful data for the first time.
All your account are belong to us.
Once the brain cells are all consumed they die of starvation. So only lawyers and politicians will be left.
If the cars that fall back to AI then communicate their observations and decisions back to Google then to other cars then the next car wouldn't need AI and could improve knowledge of the area, plus any particularly bad problem spots can be highlighted for further investigation at Google HQ.
Personally, I think that's a brilliant idea. Some how I don't think the privacy rights crowd is going to be thrilled it though. The "Evilz Big Corporation" will be able to take over the world, control your mind and force you to buy figgy pudding. The only thing stopping them now is not knowing where you are physically located.
I was thinking the same. Then I found it amazing that the same company that failed miserably in the automotive industry within the US has this kind of manufacturing capability. Daewoo makes all kinds of things. But this was not something that I would have considered. It's very impressive.
No need to throw your sabots into the whole process.
Indeed. But sabot rounds would be acceptable.
Because you complained about modding like a twat, modbomb on the way to as many posts of yours as I can, once I get me one of them piles of 15 I get regularly.
While I understand the sentiment, as I have been tempted to do the same in the past, I respectfully ask you to not abuse the mod system this way. The mod system is meant to be used to rate each post on it's own merits, not the poster themselves. I'm not judging Jane.q here, but even trolls can make a good point on occasion.
The chemists claim that Cheerios are by far the best in the cereal aisle at growing chemically productive fungi.
I wonder how much spin the marketing team at General Mills will have to put on this to be able to use it in advertising. I'd buy them for having the quote above printed on the box.
I was going to do just that. Unfortunately I tried it with a honey badger first. The honey badger ate the lungfish, the goldfish, my dog and somehow found a snake to eat. Then it smacked the cup and said "I don't give a shit"
Correct, who gives an F?
Agreed.
If you are onÂ/. you are not even supposed to know who this "Jennifer Lawrence" is!
Normally I would agree with you. However, being that she was in two X-men movies you should probably turn in your geek card.
This news is for the monkeys praying to the monolith! (and by monolith I mean systemd)
I didn't know anyone was praying to systemd.And would guess anyone who is, will not care. The hairless monkeys praying to the nuclear warhead would probably be more interested.
But consumes more water?
Because of osmotic pressure, freshwater fish are hypertonic and absorb water continually. Their kidneys work pretty hard to keep the correct electrolyte balance.
...writes aboutÂseven of the biggest factors that predict what makes for a long term stable marriage in America.
Emphasis mine.
It would be interesting to see what the divorce rate of Hindus is after living in the US after 5, 10, 20 years. And what the differences are when one or both of the couple's parents live with them or close by vs. their families remaining a large distance away.
I'm sure the divorce rate would be much lower the average American marriage. But I would guess without the pressures of culture and family, it would go up.