"Originally, that was intended to be destroyed. But I think this (shelter) will be so impressive that even in 100 years people will come to look at it,"
Yeah, sure:
"Honey, let's go take the kids near that radioactive site that was they covered by a shelter some guys build a 100 years ago"
Seriously...?
The Cyanogenmod team (however precisely it is defined) might not be responsible for that one: the guy who added that "feature" seems to be working independently: he used his username directly in the code...
How exactly do you manage to do that? I change update CM9 nightlies with CWM. No wipe is needed at all. Not a single app login is lost during the process! The only thing I need to setup again is the avast anti theft service.
Of course, not! They do it just for the lulz!
More seriously, for space systems and embedded systems in general, due to resource constraints on-board, you usually cannot fit all the functionality you would like to in one software image. So you keep only what is necessary for the first mission, and then you replace the obsolete ones with the next thing you want to do.
As a simplified example, when you launch a satellite, you will need it to deploy its solar arrays quickly (and do many initialization checks). When that is done, you could imagine changing this part of the software with something else...
Also, they might have had time planning constraints on the project, and needed to launch with a simpler first version of the software, while finalizing the second one. That does happen.
clearly, the word is common and abstract enough that anyone can claim it's usage
Exactly. Usually, no trademark issues are raised when the two companies' activities are so different. My guess in that case is that the German Metro wanted to avoid a splash of bad notoriety in case Windows 8 is a flop.
So much so, I wonder if the police monitor tweets and store potentially interesting ones?
Why wonder? Just assume that some agency, somewhere, does. Maybe not the police, but with all the agencies that could be interested in this, it's likely that this happens!
This is the most important part... Don't forget that our definition of intelligence today might be very different from the original "natural" one, as in "surviving in a wild environment". Maybe the bigger brain is better suited for the wildlife thing; from TFA: "Animals with larger brains relative to their body size have been shown to be more likely to thrive when introduced to new places"
On an another subject, I cannot find the curve they're referring to, to predict the brain size from the body's. From what I understand, it seems to be really curvy, not linear, so I am not sure it is that reliable for such predictions...Moreover, it is only applicable to mammals.
The fact that it was working just fine and the population liked and used it will be ignored for the brief moment that your comment is read.
In that case, the fact that it was a horribly ugly and slow even compared to 56k Internet (compare it to an old black-and-white teletext) should also be ignored. I forgot to mention the outrageous charges, even to connect to public administration services; I remember myself waiting for some nation-wide exam results to display, the connection timer was the real source of stress, not the results!
On the rare occasion I bow down to necessity and buy a laptop, the first thing I do is buy a new license to Windows, wipe the thing, and start fresh.
I am surprised by this part: last time I tried with a Win7 Pro laptop, I was able to use my own license number (the one on the sticker on the laptop case) with another Windows setup disc, without having to purchase a new license!
Couldn't the buyer of an OEM PC with Windows just flash their UEFI with one allowing disabling the Secure Boot?
This would add just one step to the alternative OS setup!
This is nice as a tool to increase users' awareness, but Idon't see the point of using this add-on more than a couple of minutes
Then you install ghostery if not already done, and you forget about trackers...
I realize I might have misunderstood you, but there does not seem to be a lower limit. An asteroid is a kind of meteorite if it resists impact on Earth
1- If you don't accept cookies, some websites simply don't work
2- Incognito/private browsing is not enough to avoid other trackers like pixels, scripts...
Does anyone have a non US-biased source about this UN proposal? I couldn't find anything on a European Google News.
The sensationalistic headline of TFA, without any actual numbers regarding this potential tax leaves me puzzled.
Don't get me wrong, I am all for net neutrality, but jumping from an article with two "work in progress" leaked documents to companies running out of business is a big leap!
Sure it is nice and "cyborg" just got a new dimension, but will transmitting ions and molecules will ever be as fast as transmitting electrons? I doubt that...
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"Originally, that was intended to be destroyed. But I think this (shelter) will be so impressive that even in 100 years people will come to look at it," Yeah, sure: "Honey, let's go take the kids near that radioactive site that was they covered by a shelter some guys build a 100 years ago" Seriously...?
http://what-if.xkcd.com/13/
Is it really going to happen if the "boosters" do not have to be taken often enough to keep the money flowing into the pharma industry?
The Cyanogenmod team (however precisely it is defined) might not be responsible for that one: the guy who added that "feature" seems to be working independently: he used his username directly in the code...
How exactly do you manage to do that? I change update CM9 nightlies with CWM. No wipe is needed at all. Not a single app login is lost during the process! The only thing I need to setup again is the avast anti theft service.
Of course, not! They do it just for the lulz!
More seriously, for space systems and embedded systems in general, due to resource constraints on-board, you usually cannot fit all the functionality you would like to in one software image. So you keep only what is necessary for the first mission, and then you replace the obsolete ones with the next thing you want to do.
As a simplified example, when you launch a satellite, you will need it to deploy its solar arrays quickly (and do many initialization checks). When that is done, you could imagine changing this part of the software with something else...
Also, they might have had time planning constraints on the project, and needed to launch with a simpler first version of the software, while finalizing the second one. That does happen.
clearly, the word is common and abstract enough that anyone can claim it's usage
Exactly. Usually, no trademark issues are raised when the two companies' activities are so different.
My guess in that case is that the German Metro wanted to avoid a splash of bad notoriety in case Windows 8 is a flop.
Not sure if real pistol fired next to the athletes is too easy or not geek enough...
So much so, I wonder if the police monitor tweets and store potentially interesting ones?
Why wonder? Just assume that some agency, somewhere, does. Maybe not the police, but with all the agencies that could be interested in this, it's likely that this happens!
at least as measured by IQ
This is the most important part... Don't forget that our definition of intelligence today might be very different from the original "natural" one, as in "surviving in a wild environment". Maybe the bigger brain is better suited for the wildlife thing; from TFA: "Animals with larger brains relative to their body size have been shown to be more likely to thrive when introduced to new places"
On an another subject, I cannot find the curve they're referring to, to predict the brain size from the body's. From what I understand, it seems to be really curvy, not linear, so I am not sure it is that reliable for such predictions...Moreover, it is only applicable to mammals.
Unless you are a software patents fundamentalist, this screen filled with big buttons looks just like any interface designed for the sight-impaired!
Some men just want to watch the world burn...
It's not like if we weren't warned; some Euro-MPs had announced this: https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Translation_Interview_Marielle_Gallo_ACTA_pcinpact
You mean, like any of the biggest military powers which were concerned by the diplomatic cables?
The fact that it was working just fine and the population liked and used it will be ignored for the brief moment that your comment is read.
In that case, the fact that it was a horribly ugly and slow even compared to 56k Internet (compare it to an old black-and-white teletext) should also be ignored. I forgot to mention the outrageous charges, even to connect to public administration services; I remember myself waiting for some nation-wide exam results to display, the connection timer was the real source of stress, not the results!
On the rare occasion I bow down to necessity and buy a laptop, the first thing I do is buy a new license to Windows, wipe the thing, and start fresh.
I am surprised by this part: last time I tried with a Win7 Pro laptop, I was able to use my own license number (the one on the sticker on the laptop case) with another Windows setup disc, without having to purchase a new license!
Couldn't the buyer of an OEM PC with Windows just flash their UEFI with one allowing disabling the Secure Boot?
This would add just one step to the alternative OS setup!
This is nice as a tool to increase users' awareness, but Idon't see the point of using this add-on more than a couple of minutes
Then you install ghostery if not already done, and you forget about trackers...
I realize I might have misunderstood you, but there does not seem to be a lower limit. An asteroid is a kind of meteorite if it resists impact on Earth
Well, it seems that Ceres (radius=950 km, 590 mi) is still called an asteroid, since it belongs to the Asteroid Belt.
I thought you had to wait several years, not months before declaring the cancer cured!
1- If you don't accept cookies, some websites simply don't work
2- Incognito/private browsing is not enough to avoid other trackers like pixels, scripts...
Does anyone have a non US-biased source about this UN proposal? I couldn't find anything on a European Google News.
The sensationalistic headline of TFA, without any actual numbers regarding this potential tax leaves me puzzled.
Don't get me wrong, I am all for net neutrality, but jumping from an article with two "work in progress" leaked documents to companies running out of business is a big leap!
Sure it is nice and "cyborg" just got a new dimension, but will transmitting ions and molecules will ever be as fast as transmitting electrons? I doubt that...
Because they don't need to "be on" to "hear a gunshot"?