V9 is designed to run in a Web browser (just Chrome for now), but there's now a standalone home for Google Earth.
I don't know what the but means. You go there, and it tells you to download Chrome, so...
I swear "journalists" these days just throw prepositions around until the sentence they couldn't be bothered to construct coherently from scratch stops getting underlined as grammatically incorrect.
Not that that was a very coherent sentence... but then I'm not a journalist.
Right, right, right... but apart from Avatar, Edge of Tomorrow, Interstellar, Looper, Gravity, Inception, and District 9, what have the Romans ever done for us?!
I was expecting something that at least looked like a NES. But no, it's just a Raspberry Pi stuck in a case with a couple of gamepads. That's a really common use for a Raspberry Pi.
Is there anything new or innovative about this?
Perhaps I should write an article about how I installed Linux on a PC and use it to browse the internet and work on spreadsheets.
I didn't say that "whopper" more commony means "lie" than anything else, I said that, when meaning a lie, "whopper" is more commonly used than the full phrase, for exactly the reasons you've given.
It is virtually impossible for any adult in America to not have heard the phrase "a whopper of a lie". So, I doubt it.
Perhaps you should think through that statement and see where, even if your premise is correct (which I doubt), yuo may have made an unwarranted assumption.
My point about the etymology entry is that it doesn't even contain the phrase "whopper of a lie" which I would have expected it to do if that really was such a common phrase, and if it was the source of "whopper" as a single word meaning lie.
Would you say "whopper of a story" is a common phrase compared to "whopper of a lie"?
Understanding the real world is not something computers are good at
Go back 20 years, find someone making this same comment, then bring them forward 20 years and show them what's been achieved so far and see if they change their mind at all. At the very least, they'll admit there's been a lot of progress.
That's the thing about progress. It keeps getting better, by definition.
The fact that you realize what a bad idea it is and do it anyway
Or maybe, just maybe, by opinion that it is not a bad idea to me because I have different priorities to you makes my opinion just as subjective and valid as yours, only I don't try to tell you that you're an idiot for not wanting one for your own reasons.
But again, I'm not judging your choice
Like hell you're not. Did you even read your own comment? Did you even read the rest of that particular sentence? You're not judging my choice to put one in my house, you're just telling me I'm stupid to put one in my house.
Sheesh. I'd hate to see you actually judge someone.
And you'll presumably keep saying it until it suddenly isn't true, when you'll have to stop.
It doesn't matter much if auto-cars do get in accidents as long as they get in fewer accidents than humans do, as a result of the scenarios you've outlined and more. One day they will be smart enough to consider that a child might appear when a ball does, but for now they can just stop or slow down when they see the ball (which is an obstruction in the road).
They used to think computers would never beat humans at chess. Then it was Jeopardy. Then it was Go. One of the few certainties in life is that the "it can't be done!" crowd are invariably proven wrong, sooner or later.
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blast-from-the-past dept
Apt. It happened yesterday.
Given that you have to take all the fuel for deceleration with you
That's not how a solar sail works.
We've already "worked out" quantum entanglement enough to know that we can't "siwtch" an entangled particle's spin.
It's impossible to transmit information using entanglement.
All it's doing is squeezing already made juice out of a fancy bag.
All a regular juicer does is squeeze already-made juice out of a fruit, so...
It is so simple (and I'm guessing more economical) to go to the grocery store and get some veggies and/or fruits and throw down a regular juicer.
Or just buy some juice.
If physics change just through simple observation...
They don't, at least not in the way you're implying.
V9 is designed to run in a Web browser (just Chrome for now), but there's now a standalone home for Google Earth.
I don't know what the but means. You go there, and it tells you to download Chrome, so...
I swear "journalists" these days just throw prepositions around until the sentence they couldn't be bothered to construct coherently from scratch stops getting underlined as grammatically incorrect.
Not that that was a very coherent sentence... but then I'm not a journalist.
Nor was Tom Hanks's, so...
They should've just said un-American.
Right, right, right... but apart from Avatar, Edge of Tomorrow, Interstellar, Looper, Gravity, Inception, and District 9, what have the Romans ever done for us?!
Well... CSV files in Vim, anyway.
I was expecting something that at least looked like a NES. But no, it's just a Raspberry Pi stuck in a case with a couple of gamepads. That's a really common use for a Raspberry Pi.
Is there anything new or innovative about this?
Perhaps I should write an article about how I installed Linux on a PC and use it to browse the internet and work on spreadsheets.
I didn't say that "whopper" more commony means "lie" than anything else, I said that, when meaning a lie, "whopper" is more commonly used than the full phrase, for exactly the reasons you've given.
It is virtually impossible for any adult in America to not have heard the phrase "a whopper of a lie". So, I doubt it.
Perhaps you should think through that statement and see where, even if your premise is correct (which I doubt), yuo may have made an unwarranted assumption.
My point about the etymology entry is that it doesn't even contain the phrase "whopper of a lie" which I would have expected it to do if that really was such a common phrase, and if it was the source of "whopper" as a single word meaning lie.
Would you say "whopper of a story" is a common phrase compared to "whopper of a lie"?
By the same logic I should be absolutely fine with anyone ringing my doorbell and running away.
What makes developers unhappy is bloody researchers coming to the door with their surveys.
it doesn't mean that you are correct.
What he is not correct about? Every statement he made is true.
I note that your quote, seemingly from the online etymology dictionary, is for the single word "whopper," not the phrase "whopper of a lie."
http://www.etymonline.com/inde...
You're thinking of the common phrase "a whopper of a lie"
"Whopper" by itself, meaning a lie, is far more common than "whopper of a lie."
and good to hear some positive feedback for a change when the editors do a proper job
You'll always get positive feedback - or least, moderate surprise - when they do a proper job. The problem is that that is rarely ever.
often Javascript is the right tool for the job
Eh... right tool, or only tool?
It's the world's most popular programming language
"Most widespread" or "most used" does not mean "most popular." Plenty of people who hate it still use it.
Understanding the real world is not something computers are good at
Go back 20 years, find someone making this same comment, then bring them forward 20 years and show them what's been achieved so far and see if they change their mind at all. At the very least, they'll admit there's been a lot of progress.
That's the thing about progress. It keeps getting better, by definition.
The fact that you realize what a bad idea it is and do it anyway
Or maybe, just maybe, by opinion that it is not a bad idea to me because I have different priorities to you makes my opinion just as subjective and valid as yours, only I don't try to tell you that you're an idiot for not wanting one for your own reasons.
But again, I'm not judging your choice
Like hell you're not. Did you even read your own comment? Did you even read the rest of that particular sentence? You're not judging my choice to put one in my house, you're just telling me I'm stupid to put one in my house.
Sheesh. I'd hate to see you actually judge someone.
I've been saying it before and I'll say it again.
And you'll presumably keep saying it until it suddenly isn't true, when you'll have to stop.
It doesn't matter much if auto-cars do get in accidents as long as they get in fewer accidents than humans do, as a result of the scenarios you've outlined and more. One day they will be smart enough to consider that a child might appear when a ball does, but for now they can just stop or slow down when they see the ball (which is an obstruction in the road).
They used to think computers would never beat humans at chess. Then it was Jeopardy. Then it was Go. One of the few certainties in life is that the "it can't be done!" crowd are invariably proven wrong, sooner or later.
It's not exactly Shakespeare at the Globe, now, is it? You should really just relax.