Hmm let me think of a time in history where the vast majority of people did something stupid that was harmful and dangerous and they knew it but they were too lazy and had poor self control so they didn't bother refraining from it. Then there's smart people like me and a lot of slashdotters that do not use Facebook because we're smart enough to avoid it. I could probably think of about a thousand examples from history where something like this happened in society.
Ooh surprise result...just kidding. But they did sort of bury the lead. It's a first person shooter game. Let me put it this way. If I'm steering a car in a game, I'd rather have a 16-level variable sensitivity joystick instead of a single state key on a keyboard. It's just more accurate and better. If I'm shooting a gun, pseudo-absolute positioning from a mouse beats the crap out of relative positioning from a joystick. Aiming a gun with a joystick is like driving a car with your ass instead of your hands. Yeah, you can sort of get it done and pretend you're good at it but if you were doing it the correct way, you'd do better.
So resolution, screen tearing, FPS, prettiness, all that is great and everyone knew PCs were faster but the game really crashes and burns when you consider the thumbsticks you're forced to use. That just simply is not how you control a gun.
We already have an alternative in place and it's a lot harder to shoot down a satellite in orbit than a drone. If you're about to say satellites beaming down internet are more expensive than drones, the satellites are already up there and the drones aren't so not really.
Ooh, what a shrewd and wise character. I'm sure nothing gets past him! Here's what the major hint for me was, personally: EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE US IS AGAINST IT! All media coverage, every customer, even other countries are saying what a crock of monopoly bullshit it is. What a hard decision he has to make! I hope he's as clever as they say to figure this one out!
I wouldn't believe a word of this without proof. This sounds exactly like what an Asian company would say under the circumstances to cover for non-working hardware that they knew damn well didn't work but didn't fix for monetary reasons. You know, Toyota blaming drivers for braking incorrectly even though it was their software glitch. Certain Japanese nuclear power plant companies are a good example too, lol.
OMG measles is like a 1700's pirate disease. Nobody catches it anymore. That's ridiculous. The government is just injecting nano-bots into your bloodstream to spy on you and make you eat fatty foods so you die before they can pay you social security and...*cough*...*dies from measles*
"Agritopia, outside Phoenix, has sixteen acres of certified organic farmland, with row crops (artichokes to zucchini), fruit trees (citrus, nectarine, peach, apple, olive and date) and livestock (chickens and sheep)."
And not one of those is supposed to grow in the desert. They're wasting an unbelievable amount of water and ruining the environment just so they can feel all warm and fuzzy being eco-hippie douchebags. Good job.
This article is completely ridiculous. Google was scamming everyone with their off-white beige box with almost no border that indicated an ad. Unless you were looking directly at it at a perfectly 90 degree angle, any low to mid grade LCD monitors would turn the color back to white. They should gotten a billion dollar fine for that. I know some many people who had no idea those were ads.
Now it's a huge, bright yellow button that says "ad." Isn't this part of their settlement with somewhere in Europe about making ads more obvious? This is court-ordered. This is not making ads less obvious, it's making them more obvious. Thankfully now all I have to tell stupid people is to look for the word Ad and ignore it.
Newegg's is $49.99. Free ground shipping for a year and 50% off faster shipping methods. It's also been my experience that every single item on amazon that has ever been sold, is being sold, or ever will be sold just so happens to be cheaper on ebay which has a better "bad seller" flagging system. Considering I can't stand Amazon's UI and never could, I can't figure out why anyone in their right mind uses Amazon to buy anything. Even their search function is crap.
There have been a lot of projections on what would happen if even 50% of all bitcoins were stolen and 95% of exchanges were destroyed. Bitcoins still wouldn't go away. If 1/3 of the countries in the world thoroughly blocked bitcoin, it would still survive. If 99% of miners stopped minig, it wouldn't even have an effect and would simply attract new miners. Bitcoin basically can't die under any circumstances except a badly handled complete protocol meltdown.
This is genius! When their owners crash their cars from fiddling with data-related bullshit while driving, they'll buy another one. The best planned obsolescence I've ever heard.
This is absolutely mind-boggling. I'm fairly certain that the US knows were every plane in the air is at any given millisecond. It is IMPOSSIBLE to simply lose a gigantic plane. What the hell does Asia do differently?
You have 2 choices. 1, wait for the moron to take a selfie that auto-uploads to your instagram.
2. self destruct button with a significant amount of C4 (plus phone insurance)
Yeeeah, what we need in computing is memory that changes when the temperature changes slightly. You know, because computers never get hot. What a big improvement over what we use now.
"The United States, Great Britain and Russia agreed in a pact 'to assure Ukraine's territorial integrity' in return for Ukraine giving up a nuclear arsenal it inherited from the Soviet Union after declaring independence"
So they can get the nukes back from either the US and its allies or Russia. Hmmm...so basically if they start building the uranium enrichment plants now, they might have a working nuke in 10-20 years. They are seriously talking out their ass right now because that's ridiculous. Where would they get the nukes, ebay?
They're operating under the well established scientific fact that when water hits the ground, it's gone. It just simply ceases to exist. If you think maybe it's used to carry minerals up a plant's stem and into the leaves where it's aspirated out into the air and becomes water vapor that falls back down onto the ground when it rains elsewhere, you're just talking fantasy and science fiction. Clearly the water is just GONE!
"Changing one's diet to replace 50 percent of animal products with edible plants like legumes, nuts and tubers results in a 30 percent reduction in an individual's food-related water footprint"
So 300 million people should all change what they do on a daily basis instead of 1 government agency passing a law saying we can't export alfalfa, among others that would fix the drought situation. Great logic!
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Hmm let me think of a time in history where the vast majority of people did something stupid that was harmful and dangerous and they knew it but they were too lazy and had poor self control so they didn't bother refraining from it. Then there's smart people like me and a lot of slashdotters that do not use Facebook because we're smart enough to avoid it. I could probably think of about a thousand examples from history where something like this happened in society.
Ooh surprise result...just kidding. But they did sort of bury the lead. It's a first person shooter game. Let me put it this way. If I'm steering a car in a game, I'd rather have a 16-level variable sensitivity joystick instead of a single state key on a keyboard. It's just more accurate and better. If I'm shooting a gun, pseudo-absolute positioning from a mouse beats the crap out of relative positioning from a joystick. Aiming a gun with a joystick is like driving a car with your ass instead of your hands. Yeah, you can sort of get it done and pretend you're good at it but if you were doing it the correct way, you'd do better.
So resolution, screen tearing, FPS, prettiness, all that is great and everyone knew PCs were faster but the game really crashes and burns when you consider the thumbsticks you're forced to use. That just simply is not how you control a gun.
We already have an alternative in place and it's a lot harder to shoot down a satellite in orbit than a drone. If you're about to say satellites beaming down internet are more expensive than drones, the satellites are already up there and the drones aren't so not really.
Ooh, what a shrewd and wise character. I'm sure nothing gets past him! Here's what the major hint for me was, personally: EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE US IS AGAINST IT! All media coverage, every customer, even other countries are saying what a crock of monopoly bullshit it is. What a hard decision he has to make! I hope he's as clever as they say to figure this one out!
I wouldn't believe a word of this without proof. This sounds exactly like what an Asian company would say under the circumstances to cover for non-working hardware that they knew damn well didn't work but didn't fix for monetary reasons. You know, Toyota blaming drivers for braking incorrectly even though it was their software glitch. Certain Japanese nuclear power plant companies are a good example too, lol.
OMG measles is like a 1700's pirate disease. Nobody catches it anymore. That's ridiculous. The government is just injecting nano-bots into your bloodstream to spy on you and make you eat fatty foods so you die before they can pay you social security and...*cough*...*dies from measles*
"How do you think we can get through to the anti-vaxxers?"
Let them all die the way nature intended.
I'm pretty sure Korea or something successfully cloned a drug sniffing dog multiple times. Oh, then there's Dolly of course.
"Agritopia, outside Phoenix, has sixteen acres of certified organic farmland, with row crops (artichokes to zucchini), fruit trees (citrus, nectarine, peach, apple, olive and date) and livestock (chickens and sheep)."
And not one of those is supposed to grow in the desert. They're wasting an unbelievable amount of water and ruining the environment just so they can feel all warm and fuzzy being eco-hippie douchebags. Good job.
This article is completely ridiculous. Google was scamming everyone with their off-white beige box with almost no border that indicated an ad. Unless you were looking directly at it at a perfectly 90 degree angle, any low to mid grade LCD monitors would turn the color back to white. They should gotten a billion dollar fine for that. I know some many people who had no idea those were ads.
Now it's a huge, bright yellow button that says "ad." Isn't this part of their settlement with somewhere in Europe about making ads more obvious? This is court-ordered. This is not making ads less obvious, it's making them more obvious. Thankfully now all I have to tell stupid people is to look for the word Ad and ignore it.
Newegg's is $49.99. Free ground shipping for a year and 50% off faster shipping methods. It's also been my experience that every single item on amazon that has ever been sold, is being sold, or ever will be sold just so happens to be cheaper on ebay which has a better "bad seller" flagging system. Considering I can't stand Amazon's UI and never could, I can't figure out why anyone in their right mind uses Amazon to buy anything. Even their search function is crap.
"'Pono' is Hawaiian for righteous"
Pono is POLYNESIAN for righteous. In Hawaiian, it would be "righteous" since they speak English there.
There have been a lot of projections on what would happen if even 50% of all bitcoins were stolen and 95% of exchanges were destroyed. Bitcoins still wouldn't go away. If 1/3 of the countries in the world thoroughly blocked bitcoin, it would still survive. If 99% of miners stopped minig, it wouldn't even have an effect and would simply attract new miners. Bitcoin basically can't die under any circumstances except a badly handled complete protocol meltdown.
Don't have that much data. See, it really was that easy.
This is genius! When their owners crash their cars from fiddling with data-related bullshit while driving, they'll buy another one. The best planned obsolescence I've ever heard.
What the could have used was a $0.50 device called a radio and a $10 device called a GPS. I mean seriously, what the fuck.
downforeveryoneorjustme.com is free and uses many servers in different geographic locations.
Oh good. Let's name a ship the Lusitania and ship some nukes over. That'll go well.
This is absolutely mind-boggling. I'm fairly certain that the US knows were every plane in the air is at any given millisecond. It is IMPOSSIBLE to simply lose a gigantic plane. What the hell does Asia do differently?
You have 2 choices. 1, wait for the moron to take a selfie that auto-uploads to your instagram.
2. self destruct button with a significant amount of C4 (plus phone insurance)
Yeeeah, what we need in computing is memory that changes when the temperature changes slightly. You know, because computers never get hot. What a big improvement over what we use now.
I really, actually wanted a tricorder though.
"The United States, Great Britain and Russia agreed in a pact 'to assure Ukraine's territorial integrity' in return for Ukraine giving up a nuclear arsenal it inherited from the Soviet Union after declaring independence"
So they can get the nukes back from either the US and its allies or Russia. Hmmm...so basically if they start building the uranium enrichment plants now, they might have a working nuke in 10-20 years. They are seriously talking out their ass right now because that's ridiculous. Where would they get the nukes, ebay?
They're operating under the well established scientific fact that when water hits the ground, it's gone. It just simply ceases to exist. If you think maybe it's used to carry minerals up a plant's stem and into the leaves where it's aspirated out into the air and becomes water vapor that falls back down onto the ground when it rains elsewhere, you're just talking fantasy and science fiction. Clearly the water is just GONE!
"Changing one's diet to replace 50 percent of animal products with edible plants like legumes, nuts and tubers results in a 30 percent reduction in an individual's food-related water footprint"
So 300 million people should all change what they do on a daily basis instead of 1 government agency passing a law saying we can't export alfalfa, among others that would fix the drought situation. Great logic!