Maybe we can eat the JEROS. As long as we have a self-sustaining population of killer robots roaming the seas replacing the natural predators, we should probably try to get something good out of them, right?:-)
Because they don't use some backwater measuring system like 'feet'.
That's true. They should have reported it in terms of "football fields" (either kind). [see http://what-if.xkcd.com/58/ note 7]
Actually a sports field analogy would have been apt here. A sports field is something humans are familiar with running fast on, and this guy was clearly motivated to run fast.
They weren't kidding. During the three weeks I spent in India, our car was bumped into or struck on three separate occasions! (I haven't been involved in that many accidents in 35 years on American streets.) And that was just a few trips a day, nothing long-term spent in the vehicle. We had a corporate driver, who was among the best at navigating Indian roads - company policy forbids us American travelers from driving ourselves, or even from taking an auto-rickshaw ride.
I think the scariest part, though, was the advice from the travel company: "If you are involved in a traffic accident that results in serious injury to a child, death of a pedestrian, or causes the death of a cow (yes, they do roam the streets), quietly escape from the scene. It is possible that an outraged mob will form, and they have been known to light the offending car on fire, with the passengers still in it. Find an alternate way to your hotel and then report the incident to the police."
Holy shit -- flee the scene of an accident before you get torched!?!
Still, it was a great place to visit, and I'd go back at the drop of a hat. Nice, nice people, interesting places, beauty and poverty, it's amazing.
But those words already have meaning. We need new words to go completely gender neutral. We could use the word "person", but that has a root of "son", meaning a male child. So use the new word, "perchild". Thus,
"The number of male developers is currently close to the low, at 86%, which might indicate more females are taking up programming."
becomes
"The number of one class of gendered perchildren is currently close to the low, at 86%, which might indicate more opposite classed gendered perchildren are taking up programming."
The pre-segmented Tootsie Roll is actually a poor choice. A person who sees it already divided into seven chunks won't understand all those divisions have to move in order to divide it by eight.
Profitable doesn't imply that it isn't consuming a resource. It just means that the price charged covers the current costs of that resource, and still yields profits to the machine owners. As the supply of He dwindles, its price will go up, and MRI machines will become increasingly expensive to operate. Those costs will be passed to the patients (and their insurance companies.) Eventually the procedures will become unaffordable, and some hospitals will shut them down as a result.
Meanwhile, engineers will continue to look at alternate cooling solutions, such as liquid hydrogen. As hydrogen is the most abundant element on the planet, we won't be limited by availability. However, the hazards of liquid hydrogen will certainly increase risks, and those will come with their own costs.
So the lesson our management is taking away from all this is: get your MRIs now, while they're cheap!:-)
With this story being about automated translations getting it very wrong, there was a 95% chance people would have thought you were just making a joke about Apple doing language translations!
If you had posted a follow up like "That's what Apple translate gets when I wrote 'Orchards of apple trees have fans to spray microscopic poison dust on all trees', it would have been perfectly believable.
Much as I don't like to like Apple's "lock-you-in" marketing strategies, I have to agree that the Lightning connector is the best engineered small-form-factor connector of its type that I've used on any portable device. It's secure, it's invertible, and it is designed to not wear out through forceful insertions. The old "universal" connector was awful by comparison.
I find micro-USB to be annoyingly fragile, although that could be due to cheap, under-engineered connectors with weak physical board mounting hardware.
Oh, well. I live in America, so I expect Apple will continue to provide the US market with Lightning connectors, just to cheese off the EU. And they will no doubt continue to keep the Lightning connector on EU based iPads, just to remind people that they voted in a bunch of intrusive politicians.
Nope. They're requiring a micro-USB connector on the phone itself. All phone chargers and their connecting wires will be required to interoperate with it.
Easier, I just put Facebook IN MY hosts file and never SEE them again.
God, how does that idiot APK do all that random formatting all the time? That takes a lot of work to pick just the right set of nonsensical words to emphasize!
I saw an independent Australian documentary on Krokodil in one of the southern Russian cities, like Novobirisk. The addicts (in theit teens or twenties) figured they had about a week to live, and cared about nothing, living in a garbage pile in an abandoned building. The film crew tried to observe a drug buy, but ended up being chased by someone who spotted them. It was a incredibly sad, terrifying film.
For their part, Russian officials are claiming that the Taliban is shipping cheap drugs north across the steppes in an attempt to corrupt and destabilize their cities.
I'm all for legalization of a lot of substances and ending the Violence Due To Illegalization, but this one is so over-the-top in terms of both addiction and toxicity that I don't know what a rational response could be.
I switched to them as my primary search engine about two years ago, and have been very pleased. They use the Bing engine and their results are pretty good, but I find I still have to fall back to Google search occasionally. I have noted that my usage of Google has gone down over time.
I actually personally think global warming is happening just I doubt the insurance companies care one way or another other than the direction and magnitude of expected adverse events.
And that's basically the short term direction. According to TFA, they don't really care if there's long term global warming or not, because they usually sell policies one year at a time. They just want to know how variable the next year might be so they can set the rates to offset the risk.
It's set a few years from now, when police DNA testing is ubiquitous. There was a very clever criminal who stumbled into a crime scene by accident. He had a spray bottle of "Stadium DNA" with him, so he squirted it around the room before leaving.
Tagging with DNA is fine, if you can pick out the exact molecule you need. But anything can be defeated.
Saying speeding is harmless is the same as saying falling is harmless. It's completely true, but it's the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts. Driving 96 mph under safe conditions does not hurt at all, and is rather exhilarating. Driving 96 mph into a car or a tree or a pedestrian or a moose is pretty much fatal.
Sure, you have a much smaller margin for error when you're driving that fast. If you're Jeff Gordon, you understand that very well, and he drives accordingly. If you're Joe Schmoe on a good clear day, on a wide open road, visibility for miles, no cross traffic, and are stone sober, you might be able to do it, depending on your own personal capabilities, and the capabilities of your equipment. You're the best one to make that judgement, as long as you are willing to accept the consequences. And the consequences for hurting anyone else by your actions must be severe. In that exact case, why should the police stop you?
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Maybe we can eat the JEROS. As long as we have a self-sustaining population of killer robots roaming the seas replacing the natural predators, we should probably try to get something good out of them, right? :-)
Because they don't use some backwater measuring system like 'feet'.
That's true. They should have reported it in terms of "football fields" (either kind). [see http://what-if.xkcd.com/58/ note 7]
Actually a sports field analogy would have been apt here. A sports field is something humans are familiar with running fast on, and this guy was clearly motivated to run fast.
Here's how to build your own Wasp Sucker: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/built/wasp-sucker.html. It's a really simple and clever way to deal with them that doesn't involve spraying neurotoxins around your house.
But these things are so big, you'd need a larger diameter hose - and maybe a stronger mesh screen!
They weren't kidding. During the three weeks I spent in India, our car was bumped into or struck on three separate occasions! (I haven't been involved in that many accidents in 35 years on American streets.) And that was just a few trips a day, nothing long-term spent in the vehicle. We had a corporate driver, who was among the best at navigating Indian roads - company policy forbids us American travelers from driving ourselves, or even from taking an auto-rickshaw ride.
I think the scariest part, though, was the advice from the travel company: "If you are involved in a traffic accident that results in serious injury to a child, death of a pedestrian, or causes the death of a cow (yes, they do roam the streets), quietly escape from the scene. It is possible that an outraged mob will form, and they have been known to light the offending car on fire, with the passengers still in it. Find an alternate way to your hotel and then report the incident to the police."
Holy shit -- flee the scene of an accident before you get torched!?!
Still, it was a great place to visit, and I'd go back at the drop of a hat. Nice, nice people, interesting places, beauty and poverty, it's amazing.
But those words already have meaning. We need new words to go completely gender neutral. We could use the word "person", but that has a root of "son", meaning a male child. So use the new word, "perchild". Thus,
"The number of male developers is currently close to the low, at 86%, which might indicate more females are taking up programming."
becomes
"The number of one class of gendered perchildren is currently close to the low, at 86%, which might indicate more opposite classed gendered perchildren are taking up programming."
That cleared it right up. You're welcome.
The pre-segmented Tootsie Roll is actually a poor choice. A person who sees it already divided into seven chunks won't understand all those divisions have to move in order to divide it by eight.
Speaking of Windows sounds: Ever hear a person say "h", "t", "t", "p", "colon", "backslash", "backslash", ... ? It merits a face palm and a heavy sigh.
Better. I helped a woman who mumbled something very much like "user is M12345, password is k-g-a-r-n-e-t"
Profitable doesn't imply that it isn't consuming a resource. It just means that the price charged covers the current costs of that resource, and still yields profits to the machine owners. As the supply of He dwindles, its price will go up, and MRI machines will become increasingly expensive to operate. Those costs will be passed to the patients (and their insurance companies.) Eventually the procedures will become unaffordable, and some hospitals will shut them down as a result.
Meanwhile, engineers will continue to look at alternate cooling solutions, such as liquid hydrogen. As hydrogen is the most abundant element on the planet, we won't be limited by availability. However, the hazards of liquid hydrogen will certainly increase risks, and those will come with their own costs.
So the lesson our management is taking away from all this is: get your MRIs now, while they're cheap! :-)
Laughing at the guy who tried to sound like a chipmunk for 30 seconds, but passed out and fell over!
The US has maintained the Strategic Helium Reserve for about ninety years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
As long as I get to wave a plunger around and yell EX-TERM-IN-ATE as part of my job duties, I suppose I could.
Now that you mention it, the awesome iOS 7 does have a distinctly Metro look... Microsoft must have copied them!
</sarcasm>
If they don't call them the Cybermen, I'm not joining.
With this story being about automated translations getting it very wrong, there was a 95% chance people would have thought you were just making a joke about Apple doing language translations!
If you had posted a follow up like "That's what Apple translate gets when I wrote 'Orchards of apple trees have fans to spray microscopic poison dust on all trees', it would have been perfectly believable.
Much as I don't like to like Apple's "lock-you-in" marketing strategies, I have to agree that the Lightning connector is the best engineered small-form-factor connector of its type that I've used on any portable device. It's secure, it's invertible, and it is designed to not wear out through forceful insertions. The old "universal" connector was awful by comparison.
I find micro-USB to be annoyingly fragile, although that could be due to cheap, under-engineered connectors with weak physical board mounting hardware.
Oh, well. I live in America, so I expect Apple will continue to provide the US market with Lightning connectors, just to cheese off the EU. And they will no doubt continue to keep the Lightning connector on EU based iPads, just to remind people that they voted in a bunch of intrusive politicians.
Nope. They're requiring a micro-USB connector on the phone itself. All phone chargers and their connecting wires will be required to interoperate with it.
Yes, that was it.
How will my iPhone possibly work if it has to be charged with a tool as common as a wall wart? Eeeww. It's 20% less cool than a Lightning cable!
Easier, I just put Facebook IN MY hosts file and never SEE them again.
God, how does that idiot APK do all that random formatting all the time? That takes a lot of work to pick just the right set of nonsensical words to emphasize!
I saw an independent Australian documentary on Krokodil in one of the southern Russian cities, like Novobirisk. The addicts (in theit teens or twenties) figured they had about a week to live, and cared about nothing, living in a garbage pile in an abandoned building. The film crew tried to observe a drug buy, but ended up being chased by someone who spotted them. It was a incredibly sad, terrifying film.
For their part, Russian officials are claiming that the Taliban is shipping cheap drugs north across the steppes in an attempt to corrupt and destabilize their cities.
I'm all for legalization of a lot of substances and ending the Violence Due To Illegalization, but this one is so over-the-top in terms of both addiction and toxicity that I don't know what a rational response could be.
Think about this: those $5 gift cards are the mutually-agreed-upon price of your privacy.
If I were selling my privacy for that cheap, I sure wouldn't waste time or effort worrying about the privacy features in my browser.
Have you looked at DuckDuckGo for search? Their main focus is on providing good search results with user privacy: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
https://duckduckgo.com/
https://ddg.gg/ (shorter URL)
I switched to them as my primary search engine about two years ago, and have been very pleased. They use the Bing engine and their results are pretty good, but I find I still have to fall back to Google search occasionally. I have noted that my usage of Google has gone down over time.
I actually personally think global warming is happening just I doubt the insurance companies care one way or another other than the direction and magnitude of expected adverse events.
And that's basically the short term direction. According to TFA, they don't really care if there's long term global warming or not, because they usually sell policies one year at a time. They just want to know how variable the next year might be so they can set the rates to offset the risk.
It's set a few years from now, when police DNA testing is ubiquitous. There was a very clever criminal who stumbled into a crime scene by accident. He had a spray bottle of "Stadium DNA" with him, so he squirted it around the room before leaving.
Tagging with DNA is fine, if you can pick out the exact molecule you need. But anything can be defeated.
Saying speeding is harmless is the same as saying falling is harmless. It's completely true, but it's the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts. Driving 96 mph under safe conditions does not hurt at all, and is rather exhilarating. Driving 96 mph into a car or a tree or a pedestrian or a moose is pretty much fatal.
Sure, you have a much smaller margin for error when you're driving that fast. If you're Jeff Gordon, you understand that very well, and he drives accordingly. If you're Joe Schmoe on a good clear day, on a wide open road, visibility for miles, no cross traffic, and are stone sober, you might be able to do it, depending on your own personal capabilities, and the capabilities of your equipment. You're the best one to make that judgement, as long as you are willing to accept the consequences. And the consequences for hurting anyone else by your actions must be severe. In that exact case, why should the police stop you?