I don't think we're ever going to see a car that can be rebooted while going down the highway... rebooting usually implies a stop.
Not necessarily. I have a 93 Ford Escort, an old cheap car but I think I might be able to get another 50 thousand miles out of it. Well, about three years ago, while driving it, the check engine light would come on, especially if I gave it a lot of gas. Since I was a broke college student, I just ignored it. I used to "reboot" while driving down the highway all the time. Just take foot off gas, push gearshift into neutral (automatic transmission), turn off engine, start engine, gearshift into drive. Total elapsed time, about 2 seconds. After a while, I stopped putting it in neutral, since once the engine was turned back on, it started itself from the momentum of the car. Then I stopped caring about the check engine light because it gradually came to be on all the time, even when not flooring it. I've never had that check engine light checked, but the car still runs (even after 3 years), so I figure it was probably not important.
Loyalty will only go so far though. I remember I used to use lycos, and altavista. They worked pretty well. Sometimes I would check out yahoo or hotbot or inktomi. But then I discovered google, and it Just Worked [tm] and I completely stopped using any of the other engines. Now I am quite loyal to google, love my gmail account, etc., but if someone were to gome up with a search experience as much better than google than google was better than those other guys, I guarantee that I would switch.
The other thing about the tubes. They were surprisingly resilient! I used to have an old tube tv (don't remember if it was color or not). Well, one time I accidentally spilled a glass of orange juice into the back of it. Well, needless to say, it stopped working, but after a few days, it started working again. The only thing was, that the smell never went away.
I've never watched the show, but I have always been bothered by the name. If it stands for Orange County, California, shouldn't it be OCC? And why the name 'The OC'? Nobody says, "I live in the Orange County".
I always just tell them (truthfully) that I have a card, but I don't have it with me, so can I use theirs. They always have a card right there at the registers, so they scan it, I get the discount, and don't worry about it.
I can verify first hand the corrosive power of chlorine. When the US Postal Service was anthraxed, we cleaned out the Trenton New Jersey Processing and Distribution Center with Chlorine gas. It killed the anthrax, but just about all the mail processing equipment had some damage due to corrosion, and a great deal of it was so corroded that it was a total loss.
If you are wearing headphones, it will be noticed. They may not say anything, but they might complain. Get a waterfall, or a white noise machine, or something. You will still be able to talk to your coworkers, but the white noise will mask most of the noise. And, having an actual waterfall will definitely be more fun!
Still, it would be cool if someone like google or the government (yeah, yeah, I know) or even (gasp) the Gates Foundation gave a huge grant to Wikimedia to pay several full time wikipedia editors, to spend all day just hitting the random article button, and fixing any mistakes in it. They wouldn't have to have too many people, and they would probably not need special status. Just their existence would be a statistically significant push in the direction of accuracy. I do think that having a static version of pages, and a wiki version would be a good idea as well though.
My brother and his son have Bi-Polar disorder, and caffiene makes them sleepy too. On the other hand, something that makes normal people sleepy, like working a 16 hour day at the warehouse, makes him wide awake.
It doesn't work very well with extremly long terms. For instance, I started typing lla and "llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysili ogogogoch "(all one word) popped up, but it started to overwrite the text next to it.
I think the more puzzling issue is plumbing. If you look closely at the photos of the control touchscreen and the tower viewed from outside you can see there is a significant fraction of each unit that is in a stationary part that might be 20% of the floor space (bottom left on the screen, not the 'spindle'). You could probably do all the plumbing (kitchen and bathroom) in that fraction.
and as a result are sweeter with more fruity byproducts than the dryer crispier lagers.
You do realize that beer is a liquid right? Two adjecteves that will never apply are dry and crispy. I can see it now: "Hey bartender, break me off another hunk of that lager!":-)
that was either The Mote in God's Eye or its sequel, The Gripping Hand, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Both are excellent books, but I forget which one had the museum / fortress concept.
So you admit to posession of MP3 files. All right, let's see your Fraunhoffer license. What's that, you don't have a license? You say you didn't know the MP3 format is patented? OK, boys, book him.
I have a 17" widescreen eMachines (don't laugh) laptop. On planes (in coach of course) I generally can either barely fit it on my lap in the normal configuration (80 - 100 degrees open), but usually I open it up almost all the way (140 - 160 degrees or so) and put it upright on my legs. The only thing is that I have to move it around a bit, or it will cut off circulation to my legs. I wouldn't want to try to type a lot in that configuration, but for most gaming or watching movies it is fine.
I'm pretty sure the answer is number 2. I've heard that planes will be modified with "pico cells", tiny cell phone "towers" in the plane such that cell phones will talk to them at low wattage, instead of cranking up to maximum wattage to try to roam to a ground based tower.
Hear Hear! I have to admit sometimes I purchase on impulse. Well I got the excellent iJuice universal power adapter, and it is wonderful having power for my computer, cell phone, etc from any where there is AC power, also from my car's cigarette lighter plug. The iJuice also includes an "airplane" power adapter. I thought that would be a great opportunity for me, since I travel about once or twice a month for work. Well, I have been in exactly *1* plane that had the power outlets in the seats. Like a previous poster said, sometimes they do in first class, but my company is not going to pay for that.
I have to agree with you. I'm a USAA customer, and I love them. Their customer service is wonderful. Even if you call the wrong department, they will try to help you, or transfer you *once*. I've also never been on hold more than about a couple of minutes. Also, I like their banking as well. They are the only ones who would give me a checking account, thanks to a ChexSystems listing. I also like the fact that they are completely "customer owned." I just got a dividend check from them disbursing my share of the profits that they made this year.
Aye, I read that Asimov story back in the day, and it was pretty good. Of course the drummers were really more like hosts to nano based computation in Diamond Age though. Still, a great book. I personally liked it better than Snow Crash.
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Loyalty will only go so far though. I remember I used to use lycos, and altavista. They worked pretty well. Sometimes I would check out yahoo or hotbot or inktomi. But then I discovered google, and it Just Worked [tm] and I completely stopped using any of the other engines. Now I am quite loyal to google, love my gmail account, etc., but if someone were to gome up with a search experience as much better than google than google was better than those other guys, I guarantee that I would switch.
The other thing about the tubes. They were surprisingly resilient! I used to have an old tube tv (don't remember if it was color or not). Well, one time I accidentally spilled a glass of orange juice into the back of it. Well, needless to say, it stopped working, but after a few days, it started working again. The only thing was, that the smell never went away.
Stores will be suspicious of anyone buying Gummi Bears
I've never watched the show, but I have always been bothered by the name. If it stands for Orange County, California, shouldn't it be OCC? And why the name 'The OC'? Nobody says, "I live in the Orange County".
I always just tell them (truthfully) that I have a card, but I don't have it with me, so can I use theirs. They always have a card right there at the registers, so they scan it, I get the discount, and don't worry about it.
I can verify first hand the corrosive power of chlorine. When the US Postal Service was anthraxed, we cleaned out the Trenton New Jersey Processing and Distribution Center with Chlorine gas. It killed the anthrax, but just about all the mail processing equipment had some damage due to corrosion, and a great deal of it was so corroded that it was a total loss.
I have to agree, what an incredibly funny movie. The sequel was also hilarious.
If you are wearing headphones, it will be noticed. They may not say anything, but they might complain. Get a waterfall, or a white noise machine, or something. You will still be able to talk to your coworkers, but the white noise will mask most of the noise. And, having an actual waterfall will definitely be more fun!
Still, it would be cool if someone like google or the government (yeah, yeah, I know) or even (gasp) the Gates Foundation gave a huge grant to Wikimedia to pay several full time wikipedia editors, to spend all day just hitting the random article button, and fixing any mistakes in it. They wouldn't have to have too many people, and they would probably not need special status. Just their existence would be a statistically significant push in the direction of accuracy. I do think that having a static version of pages, and a wiki version would be a good idea as well though.
My brother and his son have Bi-Polar disorder, and caffiene makes them sleepy too. On the other hand, something that makes normal people sleepy, like working a 16 hour day at the warehouse, makes him wide awake.
We wanted to release a Windows version as part of Windows 98, but sadly, Microsoft has effective building security.
It doesn't work very well with extremly long terms. For instance, I started typing lla and "llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysili ogogogoch "(all one word) popped up, but it started to overwrite the text next to it.
You do realize that beer is a liquid right? Two adjecteves that will never apply are dry and crispy. I can see it now: "Hey bartender, break me off another hunk of that lager!"
that was either The Mote in God's Eye or its sequel, The Gripping Hand, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Both are excellent books, but I forget which one had the museum / fortress concept.
So you admit to posession of MP3 files. All right, let's see your Fraunhoffer license. What's that, you don't have a license? You say you didn't know the MP3 format is patented? OK, boys, book him.
I didn't realize that stored procedures ran as a different user than the user executing the query. What RDBMS is that? Postgresql? Oracle?
I have a 17" widescreen eMachines (don't laugh) laptop. On planes (in coach of course) I generally can either barely fit it on my lap in the normal configuration (80 - 100 degrees open), but usually I open it up almost all the way (140 - 160 degrees or so) and put it upright on my legs. The only thing is that I have to move it around a bit, or it will cut off circulation to my legs. I wouldn't want to try to type a lot in that configuration, but for most gaming or watching movies it is fine.
I'm pretty sure the answer is number 2. I've heard that planes will be modified with "pico cells", tiny cell phone "towers" in the plane such that cell phones will talk to them at low wattage, instead of cranking up to maximum wattage to try to roam to a ground based tower.
Hear Hear! I have to admit sometimes I purchase on impulse. Well I got the excellent iJuice universal power adapter, and it is wonderful having power for my computer, cell phone, etc from any where there is AC power, also from my car's cigarette lighter plug. The iJuice also includes an "airplane" power adapter. I thought that would be a great opportunity for me, since I travel about once or twice a month for work. Well, I have been in exactly *1* plane that had the power outlets in the seats. Like a previous poster said, sometimes they do in first class, but my company is not going to pay for that.
I have to agree with you. I'm a USAA customer, and I love them. Their customer service is wonderful. Even if you call the wrong department, they will try to help you, or transfer you *once*. I've also never been on hold more than about a couple of minutes. Also, I like their banking as well. They are the only ones who would give me a checking account, thanks to a ChexSystems listing. I also like the fact that they are completely "customer owned." I just got a dividend check from them disbursing my share of the profits that they made this year.
Sorry to reply to myself, but Diamond Age also had some nano-mechanical computers, in the spirit of the article on lego logic gates.
Aye, I read that Asimov story back in the day, and it was pretty good. Of course the drummers were really more like hosts to nano based computation in Diamond Age though. Still, a great book. I personally liked it better than Snow Crash.