There's a reason the old expression, "a picture is worth a thousand words" was created.
Maybe, but now we have more than 4bpp, the majority of pictures appear to be larger than 64k words, depite the fact that the entire article they "illustrate" has barely 100 words.
I blame the removal of floppy disk drives from computers for this degradation.
the keys were round and the touch clean and crisp.
I think your memory has gone clean round and crisp! The ASR33 keys were a total pain - uncomfortable and way too stiff, and typing at exactly 10 cps was not fun or convenient either.
Energy costs about 5 times as much in the form of Electricity as it does in the form of gas*. I would be better off with a personal truck engine converted to gas generating electricity in my house, and that is without considering the waste heat from a gas engine would heat my house - but the neighbours might complain about the noise.
Centralised energy generation was an excellent idea with steam engines in Victorian times, but its damn stupid now. Using giant gas turbines that are 10% more efficient than an SUV engine**, and then losing 30% in distribution losses is not a good way to get cheap energy - even without considering the legendary greediness of the electricity generators and distribution network.
* Being the UK, by gas I mean gaseous stuff that comes to my house through pipes, and not petrol.
** You might need a pre Euro-4 diesel engine converted to gas to get this concept to work.
I live in the UK - please can we move the whole of the UK to the South Pacific.
The way things are now, in the summer, its light from 3AM to 10PM,and in the winter its light from 10AM to 4PM. What the hell difference does moving the clocks one hour do apart from pissing us all off.
PS the cows cant tell the time, even using analogue clocks.
Lesson learned, don't get in a critical situation you know will happen with the back up crew.
It is a warship - critical situations can and do occur without notice! You should be expecting the unexpected at all times - ie should not have the ship at sea without competent people at the helm.
Heads should roll here, as well as at the contractors and whoever signed of the thing as fit to go to sea..
Good luck downloading a linux iso on a phone. Good luck downloading a linux iso on a phone.
It may be quicker using 3 than using my "Professional" BT broadband. However, I have yet to find a way to burn CD images from my phone.
However, the reason why people spend far longer using the Internet from a phone is obvious: its the UI, stupid! It takes at least 3 times longer to do the same task on a phone as a PC because of the crap UIs.
Why can't I have Gnome2/Mate/fvwm95 on my phone? Hierarchical Drop down menus are a great idea. Stupid, unrecognisable Icons - not so good.
Hyperloop will have all the problems you cite for trains, except here in Europe, we have had trains you can drive cars onto since about 1965.
Freeways are fine, if you can stand the congestion at the ends, however the figures are: you can build a mile of railway for the cost of ONE METRE of Freeway (and it is far cheaper to put in tunnels too).
I agree people love cars because stuff (mostly that stuff is propaganda from the auto industry).
Electric cars do not solve the problem of congestion and parking, and most likely not pollution either.
Here in the UK, we have BT Openreach. Millibits/second are what we are used to. Smoke signals would probably be an improvement apart from the pollution levels.
They've trained this algo to identify the latter, not the former.
With 17 samples? That is on a level with saying the kids next door quite often play football, so they might win the Premier league one day. It is true: they might - but they might all commit suicide before they win the Premier League.
My bet is the person who lost it still has 199 more with the same data on, so he won't miss it. Probably some are already in Iran/Moscow/Azerbajan/Karachi or wherever they are supposed to be, and the rest are hidden behind the seats on Circle Line trains.
The problem here is "because something is complex, we cant model it" is a new and improved kind of terminally stupid.
Rocket science is complex, but we (maybe not you) model it adequately.
Pete and Bogs* may be Bart Simpson's school mates for all I know, but it is clear as hell you do not understand the concept of science, and need to investigate that before you go on to find what science tells you.
*The stuff that forms boggy ground is called peat.
You will have to publicly hang a very large number of CxOs before you get ANY of this. In all probability, even a return visit from Mme Guillotine would not bring it about.
In fact, I can confidently predict the organisations involved will plead "not guilty by reason of corporate insanity" - and that will be extremely difficult to refute.
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Maybe, but now we have more than 4bpp, the majority of pictures appear to be larger than 64k words, depite the fact that the entire article they "illustrate" has barely 100 words.
I blame the removal of floppy disk drives from computers for this degradation.
There are stories associated with the pictures? who knew?
I think your memory has gone clean round and crisp! The ASR33 keys were a total pain - uncomfortable and way too stiff, and typing at exactly 10 cps was not fun or convenient either.
I have a 760Xl as well. I agree the keyboard is not the best, but I am quite sure it was made after 1930!
Energy costs about 5 times as much in the form of Electricity as it does in the form of gas*. I would be better off with a personal truck engine converted to gas generating electricity in my house, and that is without considering the waste heat from a gas engine would heat my house - but the neighbours might complain about the noise.
Centralised energy generation was an excellent idea with steam engines in Victorian times, but its damn stupid now. Using giant gas turbines that are 10% more efficient than an SUV engine**, and then losing 30% in distribution losses is not a good way to get cheap energy - even without considering the legendary greediness of the electricity generators and distribution network.
* Being the UK, by gas I mean gaseous stuff that comes to my house through pipes, and not petrol.
** You might need a pre Euro-4 diesel engine converted to gas to get this concept to work.
Unfortunately, only Cubots can understand the theory, and they can also not understand it at the same time.
I live in the UK - please can we move the whole of the UK to the South Pacific.
The way things are now, in the summer, its light from 3AM to 10PM,and in the winter its light from 10AM to 4PM. What the hell difference does moving the clocks one hour do apart from pissing us all off.
PS the cows cant tell the time, even using analogue clocks.
Capn: "Left hand down a bit. Mr Pertwee"
AB Pertwee: "Aye, Aye sir"
(short pause, followed by long and loud crashing sound).
It is a warship - critical situations can and do occur without notice! You should be expecting the unexpected at all times - ie should not have the ship at sea without competent people at the helm.
Heads should roll here, as well as at the contractors and whoever signed of the thing as fit to go to sea..
Even at $10 a month, its hard to see how its worth paying for that dross.
I doubt it - I was using ARPANET with 300baud acoustic couplers. However, I totally endorse the rest of your points.
It may be quicker using 3 than using my "Professional" BT broadband. However, I have yet to find a way to burn CD images from my phone.
However, the reason why people spend far longer using the Internet from a phone is obvious: its the UI, stupid! It takes at least 3 times longer to do the same task on a phone as a PC because of the crap UIs.
Why can't I have Gnome2/Mate/fvwm95 on my phone? Hierarchical Drop down menus are a great idea. Stupid, unrecognisable Icons - not so good.
Freeways are fine, if you can stand the congestion at the ends, however the figures are: you can build a mile of railway for the cost of ONE METRE of Freeway (and it is far cheaper to put in tunnels too).
I agree people love cars because stuff (mostly that stuff is propaganda from the auto industry). Electric cars do not solve the problem of congestion and parking, and most likely not pollution either.
Like the two items of medical research I read about today, they probably trained it on only 17 samples.
Fuckwit Standard Time?
(James Therber claimed credit for it).
It may not be true, but I am not taking any risks.
I thought it was called the "Evil" bit.
Here in the UK, we have BT Openreach. Millibits/second are what we are used to. Smoke signals would probably be an improvement apart from the pollution levels.
They can already do it by face recognition - with at least 50% success rate!
With 17 samples? That is on a level with saying the kids next door quite often play football, so they might win the Premier league one day. It is true: they might - but they might all commit suicide before they win the Premier League.
Its not training, its bullshitting!
To be fair, the police probably would not know what a USB stick was.
Anyway, this is the UK - a USB stick is probably safer lying in a puddle in the street than in a "secure" government institution
They did. This is the UK - top security documents are often found blowing around in the streets.
My bet is the person who lost it still has 199 more with the same data on, so he won't miss it. Probably some are already in Iran/Moscow/Azerbajan/Karachi or wherever they are supposed to be, and the rest are hidden behind the seats on Circle Line trains.
Rocket science is complex, but we (maybe not you) model it adequately.
Pete and Bogs* may be Bart Simpson's school mates for all I know, but it is clear as hell you do not understand the concept of science, and need to investigate that before you go on to find what science tells you.
*The stuff that forms boggy ground is called peat.
In fact, I can confidently predict the organisations involved will plead "not guilty by reason of corporate insanity" - and that will be extremely difficult to refute.