Trek fans love Discovery! Look at the forums and comments on popular YouTube channels like Trekspertise.
Discovery really delivered - a prime universe story, lots of opportunity for speculation, nods to the canon, fan favourite characters brought back and made more real than ever... The story is intriguing, they did the mirror universe as well as it's ever been done.
The characters are relatable and interesting. Some different ideas to what we have seen before, making it fresh and exciting again. It hit its stride much faster than any other Trek series.
It's been compared to The Orville. That show isn't bad, but it really quickly became apparent that it's just recycling some really old sci fi standard plots with jokes. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad, it just needs to be more original for season 2.
This kind of wording is common in law because being too specific makes it easier to work-around and means that the law tends to become out of date rapidly. It's usually better to say something like "easily" and then let courts decide what that means, applying it to new technologies as they appear.
This won't make phones bulky. There are plenty of really thin, light and waterproof phones with removable batteries and headphone jacks on the market.
Meat replacement products are going to be huge in the near future. If you haven't tried something like an Impossible Burger you will be surprised just how much like real meat it actually is. And that's before we get to lab grown meat.
People will want this stuff not primarily because they care about the environment, but because it's healthier and cheaper. Meat grown in a sterile environment will need less drugs during it's lifetime, and will be engineered to be high quality/taste without all the effort that goes into making animals that way.
Eventually McDonalds will switch. Real meat may more or less go away completely, as it becomes hard to justify keeping animals in captivity and then killing them for food that is inferior to the synthetic stuff.
People go to shows so they can post on social media about it and get some likes. It's a competition with other social media users, who all seem to be having more fun (because they don't post about the day-to-day drudgery).
These days an experience is only worth having if you can post it on Facebook later.
The only solutions to this are all somewhat undesirable. As Google point out, the problem is that asshat web devs will try to circumvent anything you do. If you disable HTML5 video, they will load a backup animated GIF that pisses away even more bandwidth.
Delayed loading might be the best option. When background tabs are opened and auto-play video is detected, just freeze them until the user actually switches to that tab. At least that way they don't start making noise in the background and wasting bandwidth.
There is always uBlock, but for various reasons that kind of thing won't get built into major browsers.
Disable PLAYBACK of animated GIF, but it still loads them entirely. The problem is that to even know it's an animated GIF and not just a normal static GIF you have to start loading it... And with the canvas hack you have to try to figure out if some random bit of Javascript is repeatedly loading images into the same space rapidly.
The only sane option is a uBlock rule that nukes the whole thing.
This is just the headline to get funding. It's like those "ignoble" scientific studies that are actually quite valuable once you get past the headline.
They did a study on the carbon impact of various foods. To get some PR and funding they did this little stunt.
As for your sandwich... It's probably one of the first foods that will start using artificial ingredients. Well, butter began being replaced long ago, but soon meat and probably cheese will be too.
Because the world needs more "programmers" that think like this.....
Yes, actually. A lot of programming doesn't need a deep understanding of things like memory management or how a CPU works. Javascript is a great example - as maligned as it is, there are literally millions of web sites and business applications written with it that do useful work, that are adequate and were cheap and quick to develop. For the desktop you have things like C#, where array.Sort() might not be the most optimal solution but it works and takes about a second to type.
Building the tools to make that kind of thing robust and perform reasonably well is a highly skilled, difficult job. It's also one that is in heavy demand. Since non-programmer programming languages from the 80s and 90s failed it's all we have.
You have to remember that most criminals are not particularly bright. How often do you hear that they were scuppered by posting incriminating photos on Facebook, or using the phone they just stole without wiping and disabling "find my phone"?
They probably don't realize that WattsApp is encrypting their messages, or that the NSA is trying to read them. They only become aware when they get arrested and they find that the police can't get past the unlock code on their iPhone.
So from the FBI's point of view if they could just convince WattsApp to weaken their encryption it would allow them to access a lot of communications that are currently unavailable even though the suspect made zero effort. They probably realize that anyone serious will just use some other system, but also understand that 90% of criminals are not that serious.
Of course, we should still tell them to go suck a lemon. Universal, on-by-default strong encryption is a good thing.
charge people who get in more accidents higher premiums
They do, which is why if you have an accident that isn't your fault you often find your premium goes up. You can then charge this increase to the at-fault party, although their insurance company will likely resist.
What other metrics could the browser measure to determine your risk as a drive?
- Running Windows XP - Browsing with IE6 - Referrer header is xhamster.com - Mouse cursor judders around due to shaky hands - Enters name and address in all lower/uppercase
I've tried a few cheaper phones. My current one is a Pixel XL, which I bought just before the Pixel 2 came out so it was less than half price. The Pixel XL is great, but of course you can't get them now. If you can hold on until September/October time you can probably get a Pixel 2 very cheaply.
Before that I had a OnePlus One. That was a great phone for the most part. There were a few minor issues, not unexpected since OnePlus were a new player in the market, but they sorted them out with software updates. I know someone who got a OnePlus 5 and was very happy with that too.
I wouldn't actually advocate changing yearly necessarily. I had the OnePlus One for about 3 years and the Pixel XL will probably last me at least two, if not longer.
Sony make an ePaper smart watch. The whole band is covered in ePaper in fact, as well as the face. It's kinda expensive, but I probably didn't need to say that given that it's a Sony.
This is about winding NASA down, with the ultimate goal of shutting or at least massively slashing its funding. They are hoping that commercial spaceflight takes over.
The first person on Mars will be either a SpaceX employee or working for the Chinese state.
The ISS could do so much more if the US could learn to place nice with China.
I'd be more worried about having that data in iCloud. Celebrities' private photos leaking was bad enough, now imagine the next wave of celebrity medical record leaks.
I think the point he is trying to make is that even if something becomes a meme it retains its copyright and you can't just use it in your products without licensing.
It's different to say a trademark where you have to defend it, for example.
If your phone is less than a couple of years old just get them to replace the battery under warranty. If not, it's $25 to get another 12-18 months of full performance.
I did some, err, research, for science... And it turns out that you need to find a model who looks kinda like the celebrity and video which doesn't show their face at odd angles it can't cope with for it to work properly.
I can see a new industry starting up, with look-a-like porn stars who produce videos specially shot to suit face replacement.
As well as celebrity lawsuits I expect there will be a lot of blackmail and kids in court for putting a classmates face on some porn.
Okay, but we are getting away from the point here. Comparing the US to other countries is pointless. What matters is if it was great for people living in the US in the 20th century, and I think that clearly for a lot of people it wasn't.
It's all very well saying that the system was a meritocracy, but that kinda sucked if you couldn't apply because of your gender or could only attend the badly funded schools because of your skin colour.
That's the problem with MAGA: it was only great for some people some of the time, and was often dependent on outside influences that can't be reproduced like lack of competition from Europe and East Asia, or the space race.
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Trek fans love Discovery! Look at the forums and comments on popular YouTube channels like Trekspertise.
Discovery really delivered - a prime universe story, lots of opportunity for speculation, nods to the canon, fan favourite characters brought back and made more real than ever... The story is intriguing, they did the mirror universe as well as it's ever been done.
The characters are relatable and interesting. Some different ideas to what we have seen before, making it fresh and exciting again. It hit its stride much faster than any other Trek series.
It's been compared to The Orville. That show isn't bad, but it really quickly became apparent that it's just recycling some really old sci fi standard plots with jokes. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad, it just needs to be more original for season 2.
Maybe, but the problem is evil web developers will notice this and add Javascript to load some other crap.
Blacklists are the only really effective measure we have, and companies don't want to get into curating blacklists by hand.
This kind of wording is common in law because being too specific makes it easier to work-around and means that the law tends to become out of date rapidly. It's usually better to say something like "easily" and then let courts decide what that means, applying it to new technologies as they appear.
This won't make phones bulky. There are plenty of really thin, light and waterproof phones with removable batteries and headphone jacks on the market.
Meat replacement products are going to be huge in the near future. If you haven't tried something like an Impossible Burger you will be surprised just how much like real meat it actually is. And that's before we get to lab grown meat.
People will want this stuff not primarily because they care about the environment, but because it's healthier and cheaper. Meat grown in a sterile environment will need less drugs during it's lifetime, and will be engineered to be high quality/taste without all the effort that goes into making animals that way.
Eventually McDonalds will switch. Real meat may more or less go away completely, as it becomes hard to justify keeping animals in captivity and then killing them for food that is inferior to the synthetic stuff.
People go to shows so they can post on social media about it and get some likes. It's a competition with other social media users, who all seem to be having more fun (because they don't post about the day-to-day drudgery).
These days an experience is only worth having if you can post it on Facebook later.
The only solutions to this are all somewhat undesirable. As Google point out, the problem is that asshat web devs will try to circumvent anything you do. If you disable HTML5 video, they will load a backup animated GIF that pisses away even more bandwidth.
Delayed loading might be the best option. When background tabs are opened and auto-play video is detected, just freeze them until the user actually switches to that tab. At least that way they don't start making noise in the background and wasting bandwidth.
There is always uBlock, but for various reasons that kind of thing won't get built into major browsers.
Disable PLAYBACK of animated GIF, but it still loads them entirely. The problem is that to even know it's an animated GIF and not just a normal static GIF you have to start loading it... And with the canvas hack you have to try to figure out if some random bit of Javascript is repeatedly loading images into the same space rapidly.
The only sane option is a uBlock rule that nukes the whole thing.
This is just the headline to get funding. It's like those "ignoble" scientific studies that are actually quite valuable once you get past the headline.
They did a study on the carbon impact of various foods. To get some PR and funding they did this little stunt.
As for your sandwich... It's probably one of the first foods that will start using artificial ingredients. Well, butter began being replaced long ago, but soon meat and probably cheese will be too.
In the UK car parks are usually designed to damage your car. The spaces are too small, the turns difficult and there are hidden obstacles everywhere.
I've noticed that in some other countries they avoid those things and all the cars look immaculate.
Because the world needs more "programmers" that think like this.....
Yes, actually. A lot of programming doesn't need a deep understanding of things like memory management or how a CPU works. Javascript is a great example - as maligned as it is, there are literally millions of web sites and business applications written with it that do useful work, that are adequate and were cheap and quick to develop. For the desktop you have things like C#, where array.Sort() might not be the most optimal solution but it works and takes about a second to type.
Building the tools to make that kind of thing robust and perform reasonably well is a highly skilled, difficult job. It's also one that is in heavy demand. Since non-programmer programming languages from the 80s and 90s failed it's all we have.
You have to remember that most criminals are not particularly bright. How often do you hear that they were scuppered by posting incriminating photos on Facebook, or using the phone they just stole without wiping and disabling "find my phone"?
They probably don't realize that WattsApp is encrypting their messages, or that the NSA is trying to read them. They only become aware when they get arrested and they find that the police can't get past the unlock code on their iPhone.
So from the FBI's point of view if they could just convince WattsApp to weaken their encryption it would allow them to access a lot of communications that are currently unavailable even though the suspect made zero effort. They probably realize that anyone serious will just use some other system, but also understand that 90% of criminals are not that serious.
Of course, we should still tell them to go suck a lemon. Universal, on-by-default strong encryption is a good thing.
charge people who get in more accidents higher premiums
They do, which is why if you have an accident that isn't your fault you often find your premium goes up. You can then charge this increase to the at-fault party, although their insurance company will likely resist.
What other metrics could the browser measure to determine your risk as a drive?
- Running Windows XP
- Browsing with IE6
- Referrer header is xhamster.com
- Mouse cursor judders around due to shaky hands
- Enters name and address in all lower/uppercase
I've tried a few cheaper phones. My current one is a Pixel XL, which I bought just before the Pixel 2 came out so it was less than half price. The Pixel XL is great, but of course you can't get them now. If you can hold on until September/October time you can probably get a Pixel 2 very cheaply.
Before that I had a OnePlus One. That was a great phone for the most part. There were a few minor issues, not unexpected since OnePlus were a new player in the market, but they sorted them out with software updates. I know someone who got a OnePlus 5 and was very happy with that too.
I wouldn't actually advocate changing yearly necessarily. I had the OnePlus One for about 3 years and the Pixel XL will probably last me at least two, if not longer.
Sony make an ePaper smart watch. The whole band is covered in ePaper in fact, as well as the face. It's kinda expensive, but I probably didn't need to say that given that it's a Sony.
They do have a subscription model. It's called "buy a new Fitbit every year". It's about $25/month.
Maybe you should blame Muller. When he interviews Trump it's going to be a media circus, 24/7 non-stop.
This is about winding NASA down, with the ultimate goal of shutting or at least massively slashing its funding. They are hoping that commercial spaceflight takes over.
The first person on Mars will be either a SpaceX employee or working for the Chinese state.
The ISS could do so much more if the US could learn to place nice with China.
I'd be more worried about having that data in iCloud. Celebrities' private photos leaking was bad enough, now imagine the next wave of celebrity medical record leaks.
I think the point he is trying to make is that even if something becomes a meme it retains its copyright and you can't just use it in your products without licensing.
It's different to say a trademark where you have to defend it, for example.
If your phone is less than a couple of years old just get them to replace the battery under warranty. If not, it's $25 to get another 12-18 months of full performance.
I did some, err, research, for science... And it turns out that you need to find a model who looks kinda like the celebrity and video which doesn't show their face at odd angles it can't cope with for it to work properly.
I can see a new industry starting up, with look-a-like porn stars who produce videos specially shot to suit face replacement.
As well as celebrity lawsuits I expect there will be a lot of blackmail and kids in court for putting a classmates face on some porn.
There is already a video of Obama apparently saying stuff he never said using this kind of tech. We need to think of a way to deal with this.
Except that they are not allowed to continue doing it. If they do, there will be another bigger fine, and so on util they go bankrupt or stop.
Okay, but we are getting away from the point here. Comparing the US to other countries is pointless. What matters is if it was great for people living in the US in the 20th century, and I think that clearly for a lot of people it wasn't.
It's all very well saying that the system was a meritocracy, but that kinda sucked if you couldn't apply because of your gender or could only attend the badly funded schools because of your skin colour.
That's the problem with MAGA: it was only great for some people some of the time, and was often dependent on outside influences that can't be reproduced like lack of competition from Europe and East Asia, or the space race.