and humans go and bring it back. This oughtta be good. Lets hope this tinkering with disaster is handled correctly, or shaved, sterilized and destroyed.
We should march in there and setup democracy just like we did for Iraq. Then we gun down "terrorists", and finally make friends with the government as our Oil Tankers are pulling up to the docks.
Will it make the Verizon or Comcast dividends (if any) worse..
Else as other posters have said, speed != learning ability.
Last I recall, the dot-com boom happened on dial-up.
Dang that fanboy site is ugly, slow and bloated. 32 digit user posting here from classic slashdot.
So.. will they keep this at classicslashdot.org? Or be like Coke and redo the recipe with corn-syrup, and call it classic.
Ads or not, it's the one game we watch as a family. This year I watched with more interest than in the past - and it was the first one I recall watching with just the wife and our two kids (not at a friends house, etc). It was fun, made a pizza and chips run at halftime (we were gonna go to a friends house, but wife kinda sick so we stayed home). Watched on OTA in HD - the picture looked great. Being a captive audience, the price was paid whether ads were lousy or not. Not my money:)
Had fun explaining some of the rules to wifey (4 attempts to go 10 yrds, e.g. 3rd & 13, 2 point conversion). When I first turned on the game and saw 26 players my first thought was 26! (factorial) and my ADHD was overwhlemed!! But oh yeah - 13*2 players - that is a lot of variables, but this is 2 teams... Reduce that to a few basic tactics (QB run, QB throw long|short, QB hand ball to another player, etc) and I enjoyed watching the tactical part of it.
Now to watch a game every Sunday - not sure I am willing to give up fixing/building/study time for that.
Technology disrupted, inconvenient, until it becomes ubiquitous will have weak points. Horses take all varieties of fuel, and carriages are pretty easy to maintain. But they had their limits. Once folks got a taste of electric and petrol cars, well - we know how this story turned out.
I would expect once the POTS lines are unplugged, some resources will go towards cellurlar. The remainder will be for pension obligations or pocket lining.
"Americans grew from watching 11 hours of media per day to 14 hours per day" What americans - a like retired or does "I code therefore I media" count?
These numbers seem way off..
The auto insurance industry has had very fine grained data on drivers and their habits for many, many years. That hasn't affected the auto industry at all, and it doesn't seem to have materially affected the auto insurance industry either.
If the government required auto insurance companies to insure people with pre-existing conditions (i.e. their car is already wrecked) then the situation would be different.
We have pre-existing conditions - it's called points on your driving record. Too many and you lose your license. Note you don't lose your insurance. I know of one guy that kept his insurance for 3 years while his license was suspended so he could keep the "continuous years of insurance" discount.
Hospital - totally understand. Get a text or alert: "check out my new cat sweater" - no I'll never understand. Like the difference between a fire trunk horn and angry commuter horn - one simply does not matter much. Learn to ignore that one.
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and humans go and bring it back. This oughtta be good. Lets hope this tinkering with disaster is handled correctly, or shaved, sterilized and destroyed.
We should march in there and setup democracy just like we did for Iraq. Then we gun down "terrorists", and finally make friends with the government as our Oil Tankers are pulling up to the docks.
Will it make the Verizon or Comcast dividends (if any) worse.. Else as other posters have said, speed != learning ability. Last I recall, the dot-com boom happened on dial-up.
With the ubiquity of cameras it will be hard, but ask and warn, else take it up with the owners how to handle "violators".
can be solved with more regulation.
and now I am.
Dang that fanboy site is ugly, slow and bloated. 32 digit user posting here from classic slashdot. So.. will they keep this at classicslashdot.org? Or be like Coke and redo the recipe with corn-syrup, and call it classic.
Ads or not, it's the one game we watch as a family. This year I watched with more interest than in the past - and it was the first one I recall watching with just the wife and our two kids (not at a friends house, etc). It was fun, made a pizza and chips run at halftime (we were gonna go to a friends house, but wife kinda sick so we stayed home). Watched on OTA in HD - the picture looked great. Being a captive audience, the price was paid whether ads were lousy or not. Not my money :)
Had fun explaining some of the rules to wifey (4 attempts to go 10 yrds, e.g. 3rd & 13, 2 point conversion). When I first turned on the game and saw 26 players my first thought was 26! (factorial) and my ADHD was overwhlemed!! But oh yeah - 13*2 players - that is a lot of variables, but this is 2 teams... Reduce that to a few basic tactics (QB run, QB throw long|short, QB hand ball to another player, etc) and I enjoyed watching the tactical part of it.
Now to watch a game every Sunday - not sure I am willing to give up fixing/building/study time for that.
With computing being more and more ubiquitious, coding would be a good complement/replacement for will-never-be used higher-level calculus.
is the 'redefined "the real thing"'.. I decided to became a corn-syrup snob and that helped me kick the soda habit. Now I just drink coffee all day.
Ask again in 4 years 'rem those 3 days of coding - of all those folks, who made a career out of it?' Then we'll have something to talk about.
if you can get killed by wind turbines? Trot with the turkeys ... and become dinner.
Technology disrupted, inconvenient, until it becomes ubiquitous will have weak points. Horses take all varieties of fuel, and carriages are pretty easy to maintain. But they had their limits. Once folks got a taste of electric and petrol cars, well - we know how this story turned out. I would expect once the POTS lines are unplugged, some resources will go towards cellurlar. The remainder will be for pension obligations or pocket lining.
It's the Corn Lobby needs to be weaned off ethanol. Few others besides them care for the stuff.
Yeah sure.. small like "we only sell books" and "provide some online storage and compute". Citrix should be afraid.
every. single. Toyota. fire?? Oh yeah - those aren't "new tech" disrupting cash-flush oil barons that would prefer to kill electric cars (again).
"Americans grew from watching 11 hours of media per day to 14 hours per day" What americans - a like retired or does "I code therefore I media" count? These numbers seem way off..
and I did not warned.. (But I use Unix all day)
Got all the basement nerds feathers ruffled.. "Now that you've made a mess, clean up this mess before dinner young man!"
The auto insurance industry has had very fine grained data on drivers and their habits for many, many years. That hasn't affected the auto industry at all, and it doesn't seem to have materially affected the auto insurance industry either.
If the government required auto insurance companies to insure people with pre-existing conditions (i.e. their car is already wrecked) then the situation would be different.
We have pre-existing conditions - it's called points on your driving record. Too many and you lose your license. Note you don't lose your insurance. I know of one guy that kept his insurance for 3 years while his license was suspended so he could keep the "continuous years of insurance" discount.
because wierdos we: get to wear flip-flops at work / free food / company stock / get up after the sun rises / understand how to code / etc..
with chips so they cannot be refilled easily... This awdda be gud!
Blame all the folks involved in this technological terror we've constructed.. oh wait!
bad or buggy software. So we are back to marketing on tech specs again? "Your lame phone just got faster!"
Hospital - totally understand. Get a text or alert: "check out my new cat sweater" - no I'll never understand. Like the difference between a fire trunk horn and angry commuter horn - one simply does not matter much. Learn to ignore that one.