"You don't know what you are talking about. 98 was the worst of the bunch (especially the SE version), ME was the best. It ran fastest and used least resources"
I was Level 3 support back in those days. The biggest complaints that made its way up to me from the LAN & Internet service desks were WinModems & Windows ME issues.
Never seen it but I did read the original John Varley short story which was pretty good. Come to think of it pretty much every short story in his Persistence of Vision collection was worth reading
he is sooo fired. and in the inevitable reference to windows 95 crashing on the live demo, at least in that case the presenter had Bill himself on stage to save him.. Presenter: "And watch as we plug in this.... (BSoD) whoa...." Bill: " and that's why we're not shipping it just yet..."
Not to be a pedantic prick, but it was Windows 98. Yea, yea, I know - there wasn't much difference at that point.
Anyone who complains about Wn95 or Win98 has never tried to live with Windows Millennium which was so bad it made everyone think that Y2K was happening a few months late.
"You don't have to give up add-ons just because Firefox is. I've been using Waterfox [waterfoxproject.org] for years" What's the fate of Waterfox & the old extensions model now that Firefox is moving to Quantum?
"More like the American People have other spending priorities right now" Right now? When was the last time America didn't have "other spending priorities"? Considering that it's in 31st place globally for life expectancy, right above CUBA, for fuck's sake, those "other spending priorities" need to be looked at.
Wouldn't it make sense that the middle managers being racist weren't evolved in the hiring process?
So racist South Africans use HR people to hire minorities they despise & also racist middle managers to abuse them? Who's hiring the racist HR people? I'd love to hear how those various job interviews go. Do you think "kaffir-lover" is ever mentioned during the hiring process?
"That is nonsense. People died in areas where it was much hotter" 130 F is FIFTY-FOUR deg Celsius. The vast majority of people who died in the 2003 heatwave were stiff & cold long before it got that hot - which it didn't ANYWHERE
"I would not activate any AC below something like 130F"
Wow, you're hardcore. The European Heat Wave of 2003 killed thousands at lower temps than that.
"my GF is a Thai, she cools down her car to 16C. I got a bladder infection because of driving to much with her. Now I always have a thick jacket in her car"
?? Thailand is a fucking hot country - I can't believe anyone who grew up there would enjoy temps that cool. I spent a couple decades working outdoors in northern climates so 16C sounds like heaven to me & I'm quite uncomfortable above 22 - 25C especially if it's humid
Musk is South African and white South Africans love their racism.
Wouldn't it have been easier to be racist by NOT hiring minorities than to have to train them to do a skilled job & also train their supervisors to treat them badly?
Didn't invent it but made a big deal about writing a document proclaiming "inalienable rights" and "life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness" and then moved on slavery like a bitch.
More to the point, when AIs learn to write code better than human coders, the humans are no longer coders, they will instead be writing specifications for the code that the AI will write: essentially they will be managers for the AI.
No, the AI that writes the shittiest code will become the managers for all the other AIs
Given that the Model X is the only production car ever made with double-hinged doors that can open both horizontally & vertically at the same time, it has NO competition and the doors are more properly referred to as "falconwing"
Yet another nail in the coffin of fossil fuels. The sooner oil producing terrorist sponsoring states go broke, the better for our security - Saudi Arabia.
Many of those states will be able to take advantage of cheap solar, too, including solar thermal which the UK can't utilize efficiently or reliably.
The fuel/exhaust that a rocket uses and produces isn't exactly the cleanest or safest stuff on earth. I can't imagine people putting up with this stuff being produced on a daily (hourly) basis just outside of their city.
The plan is for the BFR to use methalox fuel
From Reddit - Methalox (which is shorthand for Methane + Liquid Oxygen) is a superior propellant choice to Kerolox (Kerosene + LOX) for several reasons. Most importantly, it offers higher specific impulse, does not "coke" (ie, deposit unburnt carbon chains everywhere, fouling up your engine), and has similar (80-85%) density to Kerolox. Hydrolox (Hydrogen + LOX) offers better Isp and less coking still, but it has other downsides such as a super low boiling temperature and causes hydrogen embrittlement.
not M$ or FB. They paid for it. My neighbor paid a contractor to build an extension to his house. But he didn't do so much as lift a fucking brick. It's his house, he paid for it but he did NOT "build" it.
a self-driving car will have to be at least as good as the best human driver under all driving conditions./quote
Those will certainly not the requirements for self-driving.
Self driving cars will be shown (programmatically) to follow the laws. They will be shown (statistically) to be safer than the average driver under common circumstances. That will be good enough for the insurance companies. Lawmakers are already trying to pass laws to speed the development of self-driving cars.
You can be in full compliance to the law and still be in violation of the rules of the road. If you're driving at exactly the speed limit and every other car is going at least 20 mph faster, you're the one who's in the wrong
"Competitors like Nissan are still using battery packs that don't even have climate control" Yeah, I don't get this but Nissan did change the chemistry to make it more heat-tolerant. But it's highly unlikely that's as good as active thermal management in places like the American South.
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"You don't know what you are talking about. 98 was the worst of the bunch (especially the SE version), ME was the best. It ran fastest and used least resources"
I was Level 3 support back in those days. The biggest complaints that made its way up to me from the LAN & Internet service desks were WinModems & Windows ME issues.
"and I think this one was at least decent:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00... "
Never seen it but I did read the original John Varley short story which was pretty good.
Come to think of it pretty much every short story in his Persistence of Vision collection was worth reading
he is sooo fired. and in the inevitable reference to windows 95 crashing on the live demo, at least in that case the presenter had Bill himself on stage to save him.. Presenter: "And watch as we plug in this.... (BSoD) whoa...." Bill: " and that's why we're not shipping it just yet..."
Not to be a pedantic prick, but it was Windows 98. Yea, yea, I know - there wasn't much difference at that point.
Anyone who complains about Wn95 or Win98 has never tried to live with Windows Millennium which was so bad it made everyone think that Y2K was happening a few months late.
"You don't have to give up add-ons just because Firefox is. I've been using Waterfox [waterfoxproject.org] for years"
What's the fate of Waterfox & the old extensions model now that Firefox is moving to Quantum?
"More like the American People have other spending priorities right now"
Right now? When was the last time America didn't have "other spending priorities"?
Considering that it's in 31st place globally for life expectancy, right above CUBA, for fuck's sake, those "other spending priorities" need to be looked at.
Claiming performance reasons without performance review or HR documentation of performance problems can be basis for lawsuit in many states.
I don't think that holds true in at-will employment states like California
Russia "invaded" Ukraine after we created a revolution ( Victoria Nuland's fuck the EU) and put in a REAL NAZI? You have kool-aid all over you.
But America & Russia do a lot of asshattery outside their borders. The Cold War was never really over.
And we all know what that is.
Make Room! Make Room!
"Also, it's great you have a great big racist boogy-man like South Africa to bring out but that has nothing to do with the conversation"
Where did you fail reading comprehension?
Go look at the title of the comment that started this thread
Wouldn't it make sense that the middle managers being racist weren't evolved in the hiring process?
So racist South Africans use HR people to hire minorities they despise & also racist middle managers to abuse them?
Who's hiring the racist HR people?
I'd love to hear how those various job interviews go. Do you think "kaffir-lover" is ever mentioned during the hiring process?
"That is nonsense.
People died in areas where it was much hotter"
130 F is FIFTY-FOUR deg Celsius.
The vast majority of people who died in the 2003 heatwave were stiff & cold long before it got that hot - which it didn't ANYWHERE
+1 Informative
"I would not activate any AC below something like 130F"
Wow, you're hardcore. The European Heat Wave of 2003 killed thousands at lower temps than that.
"my GF is a Thai, she cools down her car to 16C. I got a bladder infection because of driving to much with her. Now I always have a thick jacket in her car"
?? Thailand is a fucking hot country - I can't believe anyone who grew up there would enjoy temps that cool.
I spent a couple decades working outdoors in northern climates so 16C sounds like heaven to me & I'm quite uncomfortable above 22 - 25C especially if it's humid
It may be that universes can't spawn inside an existing one and that others may be popping into existence outside our own
Musk is South African and white South Africans love their racism.
Wouldn't it have been easier to be racist by NOT hiring minorities than to have to train them to do a skilled job & also train their supervisors to treat them badly?
Yes, because America invented slavery ....
Oh, wait ...
Didn't invent it but made a big deal about writing a document proclaiming "inalienable rights" and "life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness" and then moved on slavery like a bitch.
More to the point, when AIs learn to write code better than human coders, the humans are no longer coders, they will instead be writing specifications for the code that the AI will write: essentially they will be managers for the AI.
No, the AI that writes the shittiest code will become the managers for all the other AIs
Given that the Model X is the only production car ever made with double-hinged doors that can open both horizontally & vertically at the same time, it has NO competition and the doors are more properly referred to as "falconwing"
Ever been to Poland?
Yet another nail in the coffin of fossil fuels. The sooner oil producing terrorist sponsoring states go broke, the better for our security - Saudi Arabia.
Many of those states will be able to take advantage of cheap solar, too, including solar thermal which the UK can't utilize efficiently or reliably.
The fuel/exhaust that a rocket uses and produces isn't exactly the cleanest or safest stuff on earth. I can't imagine people putting up with this stuff being produced on a daily (hourly) basis just outside of their city.
The plan is for the BFR to use methalox fuel
From Reddit -
Methalox (which is shorthand for Methane + Liquid Oxygen) is a superior propellant choice to Kerolox (Kerosene + LOX) for several reasons. Most importantly, it offers higher specific impulse, does not "coke" (ie, deposit unburnt carbon chains everywhere, fouling up your engine), and has similar (80-85%) density to Kerolox. Hydrolox (Hydrogen + LOX) offers better Isp and less coking still, but it has other downsides such as a super low boiling temperature and causes hydrogen embrittlement.
No, it is theater. There's been hundreds of tests against it, and they've found that in excess of 90% of the time the TSA will not catch a bad actor.
Basically, the TSA exists to make the paranoid feel better about themselves, at the expense of the rest of the nation.
And to give you a legally-sanctioned handjob to make the trip more memorable
not M$ or FB. They paid for it.
My neighbor paid a contractor to build an extension to his house.
But he didn't do so much as lift a fucking brick. It's his house, he paid for it but he did NOT "build" it.
a self-driving car will have to be at least as good as the best human driver under all driving conditions./quote
Those will certainly not the requirements for self-driving.
Self driving cars will be shown (programmatically) to follow the laws. They will be shown (statistically) to be safer than the average driver under common circumstances. That will be good enough for the insurance companies. Lawmakers are already trying to pass laws to speed the development of self-driving cars.
You can be in full compliance to the law and still be in violation of the rules of the road. If you're driving at exactly the speed limit and every other car is going at least 20 mph faster, you're the one who's in the wrong
"Competitors like Nissan are still using battery packs that don't even have climate control"
Yeah, I don't get this but Nissan did change the chemistry to make it more heat-tolerant.
But it's highly unlikely that's as good as active thermal management in places like the American South.