In a way: yes. They seem to have bought Android to prevent the only choice to become Apple. Mostly because Apple is uncontrollable and thus a risk, but they did buy Android to give the users a choice. This doesn't mean they don't dream of removing that choice by removing Apple from the smartphone buisiness, but they wouldn't even admit such insanely wild dreams to themselves.
While you are correct it can. If the ones below average are extremely far below average and those above average are only a bit above this means there can be only a few above average ones. If 100 driving skill is the average, one idiot has 1 driving skill and all the others have 101 driving skill this means there must be 99 people with 101 driving skill. In this case there is only 1% that has below average skills. A decent driving test should make this impossible, for it should weed out the idiot with 1 driving skill.
I like my reality, yours is too boring. Mine has a decent chance of seing a space elevator this century, many more applications of robots and maybe some solution to FTL.
How does the reset button decide something should be transferred over? Theoretically there could be people who actually LIKE the Ask Taskbar (however unlikely). Does that mean it will not be destroyed by a reset? Then I would be severely dissapointed, for I would have to clean it anyways.
It's usefull in hospitals. MRSA is a slightly evolved version of a normal skin baterie. It doesn't do much on the skin, but when it gets into the blood people can die of it. MRSA is only one of the many bacteria that are harmless when on the skin (actually: many are usefull in the defence against germs that can go through the skin) but many of them are a big problem when they get in the bloodstream. Normally the human immune response kills them, but in hospitals there are (typically) a lot of people whith damaged immune systems (due to being young, old or having an immune system problem). They can get sick of it.
Women can understand the need not to poop in the neighbour's garden.
Women will not eat the neighbour's birds.
Women will (unless really drunk or clumsy) not damage the neighbour's property.
I can understand the need for a controlling wife, but a controlling cat is just a bad idea. Cats are not intelligent enough to be in control (unless you have a back yard that's large enough).
Cant you make the specific folder where the crappy program wants to write write enabled for all? I remember doing something like that on Vista years ago. I believe it was Eagle that wanted to write to it's program folder (and it couldn't, because I refused to start it as admin). I messed with the rights to the Eagle folder untill it would start. No problems after that. This way only the Eagle folder was in danger.
I don't hate cats, but most/some (haven't got good statistics) aren't really good pets. If you can't convince it to stay in your own back yard it isn't a good pet. Haven't had trouble with my current dog or her mother, they destroy cats if they get half a chance. I do believe some cats can be good pets, those are the ones that stay in their owner's back yard.
Due to the low chance of a large enough asteroid hitting earth and creating such a big moon I believe another theory: there seems to be a large layer of uranium and othe fissile materials between the mantle and the core of the earth. If it was dense and thick enough to form a huge nuclear explosion millions of years ago the resulting force may have pushed a lot of material in orbit. This material coalesced to form the moon. Both theories are verry hard to prove, since erosion and plate tektonics have removed the evidence (and the earth had most likely a liquid surface at the time. That removes a lot of evidence quickly)
And the Netherlands. If you count production divided over inhabitants you see we (the Dutch) produce 3.22 times as much cheese per captcha as the USA. (NL: 732 tons over 16,715,489 people => 0.0438 kg/inhabitant. USA 4,275 tons over 312,890,000 people => 0.0136 kg/inhabitant).
Disclaimer: this metric was created with the purpose of letting the Dutch win it.
Maybe, with some luck we can use one of them as a counterweight for a space elevator. Changing orbits is a hell of an energy drain, I know, but if it's already up there there are some slow but cool tricks to change it's orbit over a long period of time. Get it into a closer orbit (just outside geostationary) and get a cable to it. Since this is quite far from the moon the thing may remain stable for a long time (centuries) getting us time to get the tether up, devise a way to keep it outside geostationary but slow it down to 1 revolution per day (don't want to bind it down to earth with any delta-V. Your neighbours will dislike you for the rest of their (albeit short) lives and there will be a tether around the complete circumference of earth)
I only talked with my ISP's helpdesk once. They asked what my problem was, I asked for their DNS adresses so I could enter them manually (somehow DHCP mucked that up. I never took the time how to teach my router to give the correct DNS adresses). They gave it to me without questioning. Including waiting I don't think I was on the line for more than 5 minutes. But the USA doesn't have competition in ISP's, so a high class high price ISP like XS4ALL won't appear there.
The question you should ask yourself: is being able to walk the correct selection criteria? Ableness to walk is usefull, true, but are those unable to walk also unable to be usefull cogs in the great machine of society? I would set the selection criterium to those to stupid to think about their theories and of those only those who also broadcast them. Or those who miss certain brain functions (empathy for example) redering them unable to simply take care of the weaker parts of society.
The rules here in the Netherlands would probably forbid it, since the contact is powered when the car is charging and during that time the contact can be touched, eliminating the stupid genes out of the gene pool in the best case, roasting a kid that dropped a ball under the car in the worst case. There are ideas about a robotic arm with a connector.
Someone who cares about these things isn't going to get an 600kWh / year fridge. He is going to get a A+++ 161 kWh / year fridge freezer combo Maybe a second fridge to plug in in case of a party.
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In a way: yes. They seem to have bought Android to prevent the only choice to become Apple. Mostly because Apple is uncontrollable and thus a risk, but they did buy Android to give the users a choice. This doesn't mean they don't dream of removing that choice by removing Apple from the smartphone buisiness, but they wouldn't even admit such insanely wild dreams to themselves.
While you are correct it can.
If the ones below average are extremely far below average and those above average are only a bit above this means there can be only a few above average ones.
If 100 driving skill is the average, one idiot has 1 driving skill and all the others have 101 driving skill this means there must be 99 people with 101 driving skill. In this case there is only 1% that has below average skills.
A decent driving test should make this impossible, for it should weed out the idiot with 1 driving skill.
I like my reality, yours is too boring. Mine has a decent chance of seing a space elevator this century, many more applications of robots and maybe some solution to FTL.
How does the reset button decide something should be transferred over? Theoretically there could be people who actually LIKE the Ask Taskbar (however unlikely). Does that mean it will not be destroyed by a reset? Then I would be severely dissapointed, for I would have to clean it anyways.
Well, you can knock the top out of a barrel, put some wheels on it and fill it with money. And that would be a lot of money.
I got a hellbound soul anyway. Google can have it for their email service.
Where do you live? Here in the Netherlands only those who run a red light get a flash.
It's usefull in hospitals.
MRSA is a slightly evolved version of a normal skin baterie. It doesn't do much on the skin, but when it gets into the blood people can die of it.
MRSA is only one of the many bacteria that are harmless when on the skin (actually: many are usefull in the defence against germs that can go through the skin) but many of them are a big problem when they get in the bloodstream. Normally the human immune response kills them, but in hospitals there are (typically) a lot of people whith damaged immune systems (due to being young, old or having an immune system problem). They can get sick of it.
Like most people. I only ever upend my keyboard when there is a stable stuck under a key.
Including a horse?
Women can understand the need not to poop in the neighbour's garden.
Women will not eat the neighbour's birds.
Women will (unless really drunk or clumsy) not damage the neighbour's property.
I can understand the need for a controlling wife, but a controlling cat is just a bad idea. Cats are not intelligent enough to be in control (unless you have a back yard that's large enough).
Cant you make the specific folder where the crappy program wants to write write enabled for all? I remember doing something like that on Vista years ago. I believe it was Eagle that wanted to write to it's program folder (and it couldn't, because I refused to start it as admin). I messed with the rights to the Eagle folder untill it would start. No problems after that. This way only the Eagle folder was in danger.
I don't hate cats, but most/some (haven't got good statistics) aren't really good pets. If you can't convince it to stay in your own back yard it isn't a good pet.
Haven't had trouble with my current dog or her mother, they destroy cats if they get half a chance.
I do believe some cats can be good pets, those are the ones that stay in their owner's back yard.
Due to the low chance of a large enough asteroid hitting earth and creating such a big moon I believe another theory: there seems to be a large layer of uranium and othe fissile materials between the mantle and the core of the earth. If it was dense and thick enough to form a huge nuclear explosion millions of years ago the resulting force may have pushed a lot of material in orbit. This material coalesced to form the moon.
Both theories are verry hard to prove, since erosion and plate tektonics have removed the evidence (and the earth had most likely a liquid surface at the time. That removes a lot of evidence quickly)
And the Netherlands. If you count production divided over inhabitants you see we (the Dutch) produce 3.22 times as much cheese per captcha as the USA.
(NL: 732 tons over 16,715,489 people => 0.0438 kg/inhabitant. USA 4,275 tons over 312,890,000 people => 0.0136 kg/inhabitant).
Disclaimer: this metric was created with the purpose of letting the Dutch win it.
I prefer an even number, for ease of decryption.
So if more than 33% of the brittish use facebook does that imply facebook prevents divorces?
Maybe, with some luck we can use one of them as a counterweight for a space elevator. Changing orbits is a hell of an energy drain, I know, but if it's already up there there are some slow but cool tricks to change it's orbit over a long period of time. Get it into a closer orbit (just outside geostationary) and get a cable to it. Since this is quite far from the moon the thing may remain stable for a long time (centuries) getting us time to get the tether up, devise a way to keep it outside geostationary but slow it down to 1 revolution per day (don't want to bind it down to earth with any delta-V. Your neighbours will dislike you for the rest of their (albeit short) lives and there will be a tether around the complete circumference of earth)
Ah, whishfull thinking.
I only talked with my ISP's helpdesk once. They asked what my problem was, I asked for their DNS adresses so I could enter them manually (somehow DHCP mucked that up. I never took the time how to teach my router to give the correct DNS adresses). They gave it to me without questioning. Including waiting I don't think I was on the line for more than 5 minutes.
But the USA doesn't have competition in ISP's, so a high class high price ISP like XS4ALL won't appear there.
If I were a maffia boss I'd lobby agains the legalisation of drugs.
The question you should ask yourself: is being able to walk the correct selection criteria? Ableness to walk is usefull, true, but are those unable to walk also unable to be usefull cogs in the great machine of society?
I would set the selection criterium to those to stupid to think about their theories and of those only those who also broadcast them.
Or those who miss certain brain functions (empathy for example) redering them unable to simply take care of the weaker parts of society.
Choose Goatse. Most people wouldn't want to touch that.
There is another reason why earth may become unhabitable due to heat within this timeframe.
The rules here in the Netherlands would probably forbid it, since the contact is powered when the car is charging and during that time the contact can be touched, eliminating the stupid genes out of the gene pool in the best case, roasting a kid that dropped a ball under the car in the worst case.
There are ideas about a robotic arm with a connector.
Someone who cares about these things isn't going to get an 600kWh / year fridge. He is going to get a A+++ 161 kWh / year fridge freezer combo Maybe a second fridge to plug in in case of a party.
You'd better have a Defy or some other ruggedised phone or it'll get damaged by the shower.