The sun's death will be a very slow one. Also, it's important to remember the scale of things. By the time the sun 'engulfs' the inner planets, its atmosphere will still be extremely diffuse near the Earth's orbit. Much closer to a vacuum than what we think of as an atmosphere.
Replace above with giant asteroid collision, ultrabug, or any other favorite apocalypse. All matters of when, not if. But the honest will admit that despite the likelihood of happening eventually, and the significance of the impact, it is not necessarily something we need to worry our little noggins over at the moment.
The hardware Apple computers used was much more expensive than what IBM used, as Apple was building hardware that could support GUIs. That was the main driving force for why they were so much more expensive. IBM's early machines were underpowered and used cheap equipment, even by the standards of the time.
'Woosh' is for when somebody takes a non-serious post serious, which is the reverse of the situation. If somebody implies that the healthy are somehow more patriotic than the sick, then chances are they aren't being serious.
I was clarifying the intent of the poster, as the AC was downmodded at the time. I made no commentary of my own, so any conclusions you and the other posters jump to about what I believe are wrong from the getgo.
Code with a finite half-life. Sometimes radiates when it decays. The byproducts tend to be hazardous to health, and most cause symptoms such as headaches, tremors, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and Acute Induced Tourette Syndrome. Handle with care. The Daily WTF has an emergency hotline if you or somebody you know has been exposed to unsafe levels of unstable code.
'Inefficiency' has little to do with why governments regulate and limit utilities. The biggest is safety; there used to be a time when there were many competitors for power supply and the combined distributions systems were incredibly dangerous. Not to mention a horrible pain to track and maintain for the companies and the technicians. There are also big issues with the legalities of easements, as well practical and technical problems. The market is very unlike common commodity markets.
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Is it really that hard to imagine there exists some middle ground?
Who's to say the NSA didn't also have issues of the same scale?
In other words, boring and lame. :p
I'm disappointed nobody made a BSD parody of that Black Sabbath song.
Somebody has not read Flatland.
Yeah, I realized my error about 600 milliseconds after hitting the reply button.
And doubting unsupported assertions that are passed off as realism is skepticism.
The sun's death will be a very slow one. Also, it's important to remember the scale of things. By the time the sun 'engulfs' the inner planets, its atmosphere will still be extremely diffuse near the Earth's orbit. Much closer to a vacuum than what we think of as an atmosphere.
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So does this mean no more hilights? :(
There tends to be much confusion right after events like these. Give it time.
Coors sells alcohol now? I thought they were strictly in the urea disposal business.
And that is any different from how things used to be?
Replace above with giant asteroid collision, ultrabug, or any other favorite apocalypse. All matters of when, not if. But the honest will admit that despite the likelihood of happening eventually, and the significance of the impact, it is not necessarily something we need to worry our little noggins over at the moment.
The hardware Apple computers used was much more expensive than what IBM used, as Apple was building hardware that could support GUIs. That was the main driving force for why they were so much more expensive. IBM's early machines were underpowered and used cheap equipment, even by the standards of the time.
It's their privacy and data to work with, not yours. Get off your high horse.
Uh, I don't think the GCC license places any restrictions on compiled code.
Hell no, we need to integrate them in!
'Woosh' is for when somebody takes a non-serious post serious, which is the reverse of the situation. If somebody implies that the healthy are somehow more patriotic than the sick, then chances are they aren't being serious.
I was clarifying the intent of the poster, as the AC was downmodded at the time. I made no commentary of my own, so any conclusions you and the other posters jump to about what I believe are wrong from the getgo.
You (and the misguided mods) missed this: "Furthermore, by keeping the future-sick out of the pool, they lower costs for the patriotically healthy."
Mods, I think this is a parody.
There would be no jobs. Then everybody loses.
Code with a finite half-life. Sometimes radiates when it decays. The byproducts tend to be hazardous to health, and most cause symptoms such as headaches, tremors, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and Acute Induced Tourette Syndrome. Handle with care. The Daily WTF has an emergency hotline if you or somebody you know has been exposed to unsafe levels of unstable code.
'Inefficiency' has little to do with why governments regulate and limit utilities. The biggest is safety; there used to be a time when there were many competitors for power supply and the combined distributions systems were incredibly dangerous. Not to mention a horrible pain to track and maintain for the companies and the technicians. There are also big issues with the legalities of easements, as well practical and technical problems. The market is very unlike common commodity markets.