Such things are not useful, but using our brain to do complex things is a source of pleasure for human beings, and arguably what pushed us to the current level of our civilization.
Many programs have translations to non-english languages that contains many ridicolous mistakes, obviously coming from people that don't understand the technical terms in that given program. In many cases I override the system language when I call certain programs, it's simply irritating.
Please choose to contribute to localization only for programs you fully understand and use.
Well, you can not force a company to hire more people, nor blame it for optimizing their warehouse. It they're really not firing people, that's a good thing. I guess their business is growing, too, so to compensate the reduction in manual labor.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10", it has an Atom CPU (unlike all other Samsung tablets), and it feels better than other ARM devices I tried, both in speed and battery duration. It seems like Intel is getting it right in the mobile too, and their silicon technology in unrivaled today (22 nm, or even less soon).
About software compatibility, they have a proprietary software, called houdini IIRC, that recompiles (I think) ARM native code to intel on the fly. I never noticed any differences with apps and games, and 99% of them have native ARM code inside.
But everything that's "strange" in physics cannot form the most part of the matter in the universe, isn't it? I'd bet more on our physics not having discovered everything yet, i.e. relativity, 3-dimensional space... could only be a temporary step in our evolution.
I don't know, imagine the bank discovers that someone installed the malware, and only one man serviced the machine recently... He would not be so safe.
You're right, I too feel for animals suffering, but would we be here talking about this if medicine had not evolved like it currently has, thanks (also) to research on animals? It's a sad choice you must make. And maybe you would not find a high enough number of human patients to experiment with.
A friend of mine working in a lab with rats, told me that rats live a very comfortable life there, at least until they are "used", arguably more comfortable than rats living in the wild. I know, this is not exactly a valid excuse.
I realize my post sounded cynical, but research on animals (or part of it) can contribute to save your life or the life of a loved one, so you have to choose, and it's sad to say but humans have evolved more than other animals, and exploit this condition to try to fight diseases and other problems. Maybe who knows, one day we will be able to save all the other species in exchange, think for example if one day a big asteroid will be directed towards earth and we will be able to deflect it.
Please everyone, let's draw a line with animal-right defense. It's rats here, the same rats we exterminate in thousands when they approach our towns. And we eat a lot of animals more intelligent than rats (we = majority of people). I would argue that curing lethal diseases and paralysis is as important as eating. Another thing I really hope for the future is having transpantable organs grown in pigs or other animals.
I'd rather die than have dozens, hundreds or thousands of animals tortured to help me live more comfortably
Really? Really? Tell us again when you'r really dying.
Obviously the average slashdot reader can always do better, be it rocket science or neuro science. Ask a paralysed person it this is good news or only "marketing". And why test it, risk some human lifes from the very beginning.
I wonder if they could actively change via computer control.
Not sure if you mean tuning each mirror, but as a minimum I expect the whole structure to rotate during the day to follow the sun, or you'd waste a lot of its potential.
People choosing Debian usually have a minimum of knowledge so that they can easily avoid choosing the default desktop from the installer, and pick another one later, usually by installing a single master packet that will manage all the dependencies automatically.
Uhm, you're talking about a tablet, so a slightly border-line system for Debian, even if from the specs it seems more like a laptop with no keyboard, not sure why they call it a tablet...
Really, from what you say they're so "illiterate" that putting them in front of a computer can only get damages. If their only need is e-mail, maybe they should use other forms of messaging, even SMS could be better. Otherwise, give them a computer with a very limited interface, email only, like e.g. those kiosks in the shops that allow you to print your photos.
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Such things are not useful, but using our brain to do complex things is a source of pleasure for human beings, and arguably what pushed us to the current level of our civilization.
... connected to tvs, but we cannot develop software for them. Ironic.
Please choose to contribute to localization only for programs you fully understand and use.
Well, you can not force a company to hire more people, nor blame it for optimizing their warehouse. It they're really not firing people, that's a good thing. I guess their business is growing, too, so to compensate the reduction in manual labor.
And what about the article? Not even a photo with some kind of visual cue of how and where the planet has been found.
Now we can see it in colors... Did IBM name "Deep Blue" after that?
About software compatibility, they have a proprietary software, called houdini IIRC, that recompiles (I think) ARM native code to intel on the fly. I never noticed any differences with apps and games, and 99% of them have native ARM code inside.
Many phone and tablet sellers don't even design them anymore.
Because on windows people don't complain when the system crashes.
But everything that's "strange" in physics cannot form the most part of the matter in the universe, isn't it? I'd bet more on our physics not having discovered everything yet, i.e. relativity, 3-dimensional space... could only be a temporary step in our evolution.
I don't know, imagine the bank discovers that someone installed the malware, and only one man serviced the machine recently... He would not be so safe.
The only problem would be getting the robots to let go of control, once the humans arrive.
People would not arrive, all the rockets needed to do this would have destroyed earth's atmosphere and all the living creatures in it.
I think you must do terraforming first, or the tecnhological infrastructure to keep one million people alive would be just prohibitive.
Indeed, I expect to see it featured on cracked.com soon.
Maybe unity is more meaningful if you mean it with respect to the rest of the world.
What do you mean by "evolved"? I mean it in the technological sense, like going beyond what nature offers you to survive.
A friend of mine working in a lab with rats, told me that rats live a very comfortable life there, at least until they are "used", arguably more comfortable than rats living in the wild. I know, this is not exactly a valid excuse.
I realize my post sounded cynical, but research on animals (or part of it) can contribute to save your life or the life of a loved one, so you have to choose, and it's sad to say but humans have evolved more than other animals, and exploit this condition to try to fight diseases and other problems. Maybe who knows, one day we will be able to save all the other species in exchange, think for example if one day a big asteroid will be directed towards earth and we will be able to deflect it.
I'd rather die than have dozens, hundreds or thousands of animals tortured to help me live more comfortably
Really? Really? Tell us again when you'r really dying.
Obviously the average slashdot reader can always do better, be it rocket science or neuro science. Ask a paralysed person it this is good news or only "marketing". And why test it, risk some human lifes from the very beginning.
I wonder if they could actively change via computer control.
Not sure if you mean tuning each mirror, but as a minimum I expect the whole structure to rotate during the day to follow the sun, or you'd waste a lot of its potential.
People choosing Debian usually have a minimum of knowledge so that they can easily avoid choosing the default desktop from the installer, and pick another one later, usually by installing a single master packet that will manage all the dependencies automatically.
Uhm, you're talking about a tablet, so a slightly border-line system for Debian, even if from the specs it seems more like a laptop with no keyboard, not sure why they call it a tablet...
Talking about luck, I recently read that there are a tenth or more of "missing" nuclear bombs, lost around the world by both USA and USSR.
Really, from what you say they're so "illiterate" that putting them in front of a computer can only get damages. If their only need is e-mail, maybe they should use other forms of messaging, even SMS could be better. Otherwise, give them a computer with a very limited interface, email only, like e.g. those kiosks in the shops that allow you to print your photos.