Most 61 year olds' biggest concern is an enlarged prostate and their blood sugar levels.
That's about as American-centric as an assertion as you can get.
A quick glance at 2015 statistics suggests that over half of Europeans (this study used Northern Ireland) aged 55-64 are sedentary for over four hours on weekdays (mainly watching TV). As for blood sugar, diabetes is an epidemic in Europe and accounts for more than 1 in 10 deaths there (not counting the complications: amputations and blindness and kidney failure and stroke).
You're assertion is about as ignorant as a European moron cam get.
Power is energy per unit of time. Watts are joules per second.
So an AR-15 with a large mag is a more powerful gun than your 30-06. It can deliver more energy to the target in a shorter time, even if that energy isn't in a single round.
So yeah, it's more "powerful."
In practice, it doesn't usually deliver more than one round to a given target.
A friend of a friend just the other day walked in to buy a pistol and managed to walk out with an AR-15 because he got caught up in how cool it looked. Make him wait 3 days and he'd have come to his senses and just bought the pistol he came in for.
I'm sorry your "friend" blew that money that you needed for groceries, but it's amazing that you desire for a federal law to keep your impulse shopping under control! You try to make it sound like buying a semi-automatic rifle, rather than a semi-automatic pistol, is a bad thing. Get over your buyer's remorse, enjoy your AR-15, and next time you can get another Glock. If your wife will let you go there unchaperoned again.
There are YouTube videos up suggesting complicated test procedures.
All you need to do is open the Notifications/Settings bar at the top, wiggle it, and then slowly drag your finger down the whole screen while moving back and forth from edge to edge. The bar should react to all of these inputs. If this doesn't cause motion in some place, that would be a dead spot.
let alone how the human brain processes two dimentional retinal images into the three dimentional phenomenon known as 'perception' yet you somehow brazenly declare: 'seeing is believing''
How about they charge any phone which makes a sound or whose screen is above XYZ brightness a fine and then distributes that fine to every other phone in that theater?
The could pay them in AssCoin, which can be redeemed for discounts on popcorn.
my public high school (a 'normal', traditional school and curriculum in minnesota, not a 'charter', 'prep' or 'tech' school) required computer science courses for graduation back in the 1980s.
Today's 14 year-olds know a lot more about computers than you probably learned in those high school "computer science" courses of 1980.
I saw high school classes from that era, and they typically covered: - What is a computer? - How to turn on a TRS-80, load a cassette, and play a game - "Keyboarding" - Understanding "computer science" career options, which consist of: Data Entry (punched card) worker, Operator (is allowed to put those cards in the computer and watch it go). Programmer (mysterious person who somehow tells it what to do, math aptitude required).
In my high school in the mid 1970s, we didn't have any "computer skills" type of classes, but we did have a computer class that was an elective in the Math department. You learned what a program was, and wrote trivial BASIC programs tp do things like convert F/C temperatures. You did have to understand what input, processing, and output steps were in a program, variables and loops were included, but probably not subroutines. It was a step up from copy-it-from-a-book, and some people never "got it". Just copying from a book without making enough mistakes in the transcription, so that you could get past "ERROR ON LINE 12", was a major challenge for most. Nothing about algorithms, abstraction, or any notion of computer science. Our school was VERY advanced to be offering this elective course.
Today's kids need lessons in things like: common sense, logic, skepticism, not trusting machines, understanding how to do research, Wikipedia is not the answer, what malware is (various) and how you contract it, networking (what is an IP address, can people really spoof it), what is a domain name, what is HTTPS, safe computer and network use; how wifi hotspots and even your ISP are untrustworthy. social media and how it all goes on Your Permanent Record (!), privacy: how Google and FB (and everyone) spy on you, what this data aggregation means and how you are sold. the role of Governments in spying on you, national firewalls, what these words mean: program, algorithm, heuristic, AI, variable, loop Emacs proficiency
OK I just threw that last one in because I was including the kitchen sink in my list....
Snapchat, Pinterest, Instagram, Vine, Twitter. (Not Facebook! That's for old people, like my parents! That's funnnie!) Also of course, proficiency with Siri.
Further, these robots have no training AI in them. They aren't learning, they aren't smart, they are able to get up/recover after disruption. Sensationalism at its worst.
Twitter is repealing and replacing their current app, and won't get rid of the existing one until the new one is available. It will be essentially simultaneous. And it will be MUCH better than the current app. MUCH. Also, Facebook will pay for it!
This is essentially what was discussed rather extensively for the earlier decades of the internet at large, before and at the early eras of the world wide web.
As commercial forces work their way in, they see less and less of the technical marvel that makes the whole thing work and excel and what it does, and desire it to exist purely as a funnel of whatever is important to them at the moment.
The most interesting thing to me is how people equate "The Internet" with "Google". If you can't Google up something, it's "not on the Internet" (and to most people, therefore "it doesn't exist".) That's people's concept of "The Internet".
Starting in the 60's was harder, and is an actuarial question now. By the time of the early 70's, the PDP-8/e was on desktops and probably somewhat common. So was dial-up or even direct-connected terminals. (Both were available in high schools in central PA, which was NOT a high-tech area).
Perhaps you are thinking of the PDP-8, which was still not a desktop compter, but the CPU (taken out of the rack) could fit on top of a desk. http://images.computerhistory.... You'll still need peripheral devices (paper tape, maybe a disk drive) and of course a user interface (typically an ASR-33 http://physicsmuseum.uq.edu.au...).
By the mid 1970s our school district had HP 2000 (that is HP 2100 series) minicomputers for timesharing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Time-Shared_BASIC) and they were similar (in size and everything else) to the PDP-11 pictured above. http://www.decodesystems.com/h... We had ASR-33s, ADM-3A CRTs. then later HP 2640 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "smart" CRT terminals. When these HP 2000 TSB systems first came in, our school district, the richest one in the USA, was the only one outside of Cupertino (home of HP) to have this. These were very popular and by the late 70s there were a number of school districts in the country with similar setups.
A sightly smaller system of the era you're talking about would be the HP 1000 series, but it is still not a "desktop" computer! http://www.memoires-informatiq...
The first desktop computer I saw was when I started programming in 1972: the Datapoint 2200 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... But I only used it as a smart terminal to submit virtual punch-card decks to the IBM/370. Well, and playing 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (graphics!) on it, but no development environment was available to us.
The first real desktop computer I saw (and used) in those days was a few years later, in 1975, and it cost $20,000. That was the IBM 5100 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... I did APL programming on it (although mostly we worked on the mainframes, which were IBM/370 and Amdahl/470s).
The early-mid 1970s was the era of microcomputer kits (8080, Z80, 6502, 6800, etc.) and those would fit in a box on a desk. Typically with a television set on top. Keyboard separate, and probably some more boxes for periperhals (cassette tape player, floppy drives) etc. The Apple and TRS-80 complete computers all came much later.
As for tiny PDP-11 type systems...
The Heathkit H-11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... was a PDP-11 dekstop computer available in 1978 but was soon discontinued because it was too expensive for anyone to buy. (No market at that price point.) I also recall an advertisement in BYTE around 1979 for some kit that also used the LSI-11 and I am sure could fit on a tabletop by then. It might even be much slimmer than an Altair/OSI kind of box.
Of course the most beautiful desktop computer from the late 1970s was the Sol 20 http://oldcomputers.net/sol-20... . A friend of mine had one of those.
I've been programming since 1972. In the 1970s I was programming on IBM mainframes, Honeywell 6000 mainframes, HP 2000 minicomputers, PDP-10 mini-mainframes, a little microcomputer work. (A few years later I would be light years ahead, developing Lisp Machine wo
A Chemical Bath and a Hot-press Can Transform Wood Into a Material That is Stronger Than Steel, Researchers Find
Why pay $15 a pill when you can just immerse in a bath of our special salts? Warning: If you experience "steel" for longer than a few hot presses, contact your chemist immediately. Wood will be impregnated, but does not prevent pregnancy. May cause blue vision.
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The media as usual muddled his story. He didn't create Bitcoin. He invented email.
I am expecting to get a Month Of Bagels out of this.
Hot tubs kill people via hundreds of actual vectors none of which are cancer.
My damn hot tub has never killed anybody. My gun is sitting on the table in the same room as the hot tub and it has never killed anybody, either.
I assume they are keeping a murderous eye on each other!
Most 61 year olds' biggest concern is an enlarged prostate and their blood sugar levels.
That's about as American-centric as an assertion as you can get.
A quick glance at 2015 statistics suggests that over half of Europeans (this study used Northern Ireland) aged 55-64 are sedentary for over four hours on weekdays (mainly watching TV). As for blood sugar, diabetes is an epidemic in Europe and accounts for more than 1 in 10 deaths there (not counting the complications: amputations and blindness and kidney failure and stroke).
You're assertion is about as ignorant as a European moron cam get.
Go back to high school or college physics.
Power is energy per unit of time. Watts are joules per second.
So an AR-15 with a large mag is a more powerful gun than your 30-06. It can deliver more energy to the target in a shorter time, even if that energy isn't in a single round.
So yeah, it's more "powerful."
In practice, it doesn't usually deliver more than one round to a given target.
A friend of a friend just the other day walked in to buy a pistol and managed to walk out with an AR-15 because he got caught up in how cool it looked. Make him wait 3 days and he'd have come to his senses and just bought the pistol he came in for.
I'm sorry your "friend" blew that money that you needed for groceries, but it's amazing that you desire for a federal law to keep your impulse shopping under control! You try to make it sound like buying a semi-automatic rifle, rather than a semi-automatic pistol, is a bad thing. Get over your buyer's remorse, enjoy your AR-15, and next time you can get another Glock. If your wife will let you go there unchaperoned again.
There are YouTube videos up suggesting complicated test procedures.
All you need to do is open the Notifications/Settings bar at the top,
wiggle it, and then slowly drag your finger down the whole screen while
moving back and forth from edge to edge. The bar should react to all
of these inputs. If this doesn't cause motion in some place, that would
be a dead spot.
Mine's fine.
One of the most popular locations for cell towers is at or next to schools.
(Because they get money from the lease.)
Are we irradiating our children?
Modded down by someone who is too young to remember the Toys R Us song.
Truly, the end of an era.
That porn RAG showed pussy up front, with pink lips open and dripping wet. If that is not disgusting, I don't know what is. I feel for Mrs. Thorne.
That was a Hubble image of a star cluster (in visible and near-infrared), and it just goes to show how dirty your mind is! I feel for Mrs. Coward.
I'm an Amazon kid
let alone how the human brain processes two dimentional retinal images into the three dimentional phenomenon known as 'perception'
yet you somehow brazenly declare: 'seeing is believing''
I Want To Believe
How about they charge any phone which makes a sound or whose screen is above XYZ brightness a fine and then distributes that fine to every other phone in that theater?
The could pay them in AssCoin, which can be redeemed for discounts on popcorn.
https://lolzombie.com/3977/bac...
my public high school (a 'normal', traditional school and curriculum in minnesota, not a 'charter', 'prep' or 'tech' school) required computer science courses for graduation back in the 1980s.
Today's 14 year-olds know a lot more about computers than you probably
learned in those high school "computer science" courses of 1980.
I saw high school classes from that era, and they typically covered:
- What is a computer?
- How to turn on a TRS-80, load a cassette, and play a game
- "Keyboarding"
- Understanding "computer science" career options,
which consist of: Data Entry (punched card) worker,
Operator (is allowed to put those cards in the computer and watch it go).
Programmer (mysterious person who somehow tells it what to do, math aptitude required).
In my high school in the mid 1970s, we didn't have any "computer skills"
type of classes, but we did have a computer class that was an elective
in the Math department. You learned what a program was, and wrote
trivial BASIC programs tp do things like convert F/C temperatures.
You did have to understand what input, processing, and output steps were
in a program, variables and loops were included, but probably not subroutines.
It was a step up from copy-it-from-a-book, and some people never "got it".
Just copying from a book without making enough mistakes in the transcription,
so that you could get past "ERROR ON LINE 12", was a major challenge for most.
Nothing about algorithms, abstraction, or any notion of computer science.
Our school was VERY advanced to be offering this elective course.
Today's kids need lessons in things like:
common sense, logic, skepticism, not trusting machines,
understanding how to do research, Wikipedia is not the answer,
what malware is (various) and how you contract it,
networking (what is an IP address, can people really spoof it),
what is a domain name, what is HTTPS,
safe computer and network use; how wifi hotspots and even your ISP are untrustworthy.
social media and how it all goes on Your Permanent Record (!),
privacy: how Google and FB (and everyone) spy on you,
what this data aggregation means and how you are sold.
the role of Governments in spying on you, national firewalls,
what these words mean: program, algorithm, heuristic, AI, variable, loop
Emacs proficiency
OK I just threw that last one in because I was including the kitchen sink in my list....
Snapchat, Pinterest, Instagram, Vine, Twitter.
(Not Facebook! That's for old people, like my parents! That's funnnie!)
Also of course, proficiency with Siri.
https://vimeo.com/239050403
Further, these robots have no training AI in them. They aren't learning, they aren't smart, they are able to get up/recover after disruption. Sensationalism at its worst.
Or so the creators believed, until one day...
All Technology has its benefits and its problems. And not always do they equal out. But over the long haul, technology has benefited mankind.
If it's a benefit, it's not my problem.
(Now, where did I leave those memory engrams, I'm always forgetting them...)
For stuff like that, No Problem.
You know: Siri tell me this, Siri find me that.
We're all good at getting you the answers!
If you like the app you have, you can keep it.
Twitter is repealing and replacing their current app, and won't get rid of the existing one until the new one is available. It will be essentially simultaneous. And it will be MUCH better than the current app. MUCH. Also, Facebook will pay for it!
This is essentially what was discussed rather extensively for the earlier decades of the internet at large, before and at the early eras of the world wide web.
As commercial forces work their way in, they see less and less of the technical marvel that makes the whole thing work and excel and what it does, and desire it to exist purely as a funnel of whatever is important to them at the moment.
The most interesting thing to me is how people equate "The Internet" with "Google". If you can't Google up something, it's "not on the Internet" (and to most people, therefore "it doesn't exist".) That's people's concept of "The Internet".
Facebook?
That's for old people!
Like my parents!
That's funny....
Starting in the 60's was harder, and is an actuarial question now. By the time of the early 70's, the PDP-8/e was on desktops and probably somewhat common. So was dial-up or even direct-connected terminals. (Both were available in high schools in central PA, which was NOT a high-tech area).
This https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... was "on desktops"
I don't think so.
Perhaps you are thinking of the PDP-8, which was still not a desktop compter, but the CPU (taken out of the rack) could fit on top of a desk. http://images.computerhistory.... You'll still need peripheral devices (paper tape, maybe a disk drive) and of course a user interface (typically an ASR-33 http://physicsmuseum.uq.edu.au...).
By the mid 1970s our school district had HP 2000 (that is HP 2100 series) minicomputers for timesharing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Time-Shared_BASIC) and they were similar (in size and everything else) to the PDP-11 pictured above. http://www.decodesystems.com/h...
We had ASR-33s, ADM-3A CRTs. then later HP 2640 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "smart" CRT terminals.
When these HP 2000 TSB systems first came in, our school district, the richest one in the USA, was the only one outside of Cupertino (home of HP) to have this. These were very popular and by the late 70s there were a number of school districts in the country with similar setups.
A sightly smaller system of the era you're talking about would be the HP 1000 series, but it is still not a "desktop" computer! http://www.memoires-informatiq...
The first desktop computer I saw was when I started programming in 1972: the Datapoint 2200 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... But I only used it as a smart terminal to submit virtual punch-card decks to the IBM/370. Well, and playing 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (graphics!) on it, but no development environment was available to us.
The first real desktop computer I saw (and used) in those days was a few years later, in 1975, and it cost $20,000. That was the IBM 5100 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... I did APL programming on it (although mostly we worked on the mainframes, which were IBM/370 and Amdahl/470s).
The early-mid 1970s was the era of microcomputer kits (8080, Z80, 6502, 6800, etc.) and those would fit in a box on a desk. Typically with a television set on top. Keyboard separate, and probably some more boxes for periperhals (cassette tape player, floppy drives) etc. The Apple and TRS-80 complete computers all came much later.
As for tiny PDP-11 type systems...
The Heathkit H-11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... was a PDP-11 dekstop computer available in 1978 but was soon discontinued because it was too expensive for anyone to buy. (No market at that price point.) I also recall an advertisement in BYTE around 1979 for some kit that also used the LSI-11 and I am sure could fit on a tabletop by then. It might even be much slimmer than an Altair/OSI kind of box.
Of course the most beautiful desktop computer from the late 1970s was the Sol 20 http://oldcomputers.net/sol-20... . A friend of mine had one of those.
I've been programming since 1972. In the 1970s I was programming on IBM mainframes, Honeywell 6000 mainframes, HP 2000 minicomputers, PDP-10 mini-mainframes, a little microcomputer work. (A few years later I would be light years ahead, developing Lisp Machine wo
A Chemical Bath and a Hot-press Can Transform Wood Into a Material That is Stronger Than Steel, Researchers Find
Why pay $15 a pill when you can just immerse in a bath of our special salts?
Warning: If you experience "steel" for longer than a few hot presses, contact your chemist immediately.
Wood will be impregnated, but does not prevent pregnancy.
May cause blue vision.
The latest tech will instrument that thing in your hand to analyze how well you are stroking off; big data indeed!
Reminds me of that Bluetooth enabled device for women...