I was there, sheltering in our apartment as far away from the windows as we could get. While the telco had the sense to take down their giant dish in a hurry (and managed to put it back up again afterward in an equally big hurry), the management of our apartment complex went up to the roof and tightened all the bolts on their dishes. All were trashed; one of them made a lovely noise when it broke loose, flew clean across the complex, and took out five floors' worth of windows on its way to earth...
Didn't get power back for ten days, and we were lucky. By knowing people who know people, we somehow managed to get into one of the hotels for a hot meal. A stranded British Airways crew who'd been staying there were mucking in and doing what they could to keep the place running. Good times!
I remember seeing a billboard in the UK, right about the time when I was thinking about doing a Master's, advertising a Master's in Web Technologies at the university up the road. Perfect!
"To find out more, visit www.facebook..." Arse. Needless to say, I didn't.
Exactly, build a prototype and see if it works well enough to make demolishing bridges elsewhere worth it.
The stations are clearly elevated much as you would have with an overhead monorail, etc., in which case lifts/ramps are doable for access. Even though everyone's calling it a bus, I see this less as a replacement for a regular city bus with stops every block, more for a metro system with a relatively limited number of stops.
They're right here INSISTING that well, okay okay, it got built, but IT'LL NEVER WORK! Because turns and trucks and bridges and all KINDS of DUH OBVIOUS real-world stuff (not that they've ever seen it, holed up their moms' basements) that those stupid "engineers" CLEARLY haven't thought about before pissing away MILLIONS on this thing!
I remember buying a camera attachment for my Ericsson T68. Not long after that, every phone had a camera.
So if I rush out to buy this thing because I can clip a projector on it, there'll be better phones with better projectors built in long before my phone's out of contract.
Speaker module, though... Those things should come with a built-in shaped charge to take out the asshat who doesn't understand what headphones are for.
My idiot friend (at the time - now he's just an idiot) lost it on a country bend at what the police later estimated to be around 80mph, and flipped us clean over a dry stone wall and easily 60 metres into a field. The car rolled at least once, and the front passenger corner of the roof took the brunt of it. All four of us walked away, although one of the rear-seat passengers still has a nasty scar from sticking his head through the rear window.
That was 20 years ago, and the Ford Fiesta was easily 15 years old at the time. The reason the rear-seat passenger stuck his head out the rear window? No seat-belts fitted in the back. Idiot friend convinced another idiot to winch the wreck out of the field, then drove it 20 miles to the scrap yard. Roadworthy it most certainly was not, but it was drivable...
So: Amazing OMGWTFBBQ Tesla safety, or the same sheer blind luck we had?
I have an HP laptop for work, and the easiest way to tell it's the right way around when I put it on the docking station is that it says "dy" in the middle instead of "hp".
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They broke Selenium?! You mean I'll have to fill out my time sheets by hand again? No thank you.
You mean I can put hot sauce in my eyes when I'm reading Slashdot and I'll see punctuation where I see gibberish? Shut up and take my money!
They come out of the ATM machine when you enter your PIN number.
Drive it 1101 miles back again, two points...
Yep.
I was there, sheltering in our apartment as far away from the windows as we could get. While the telco had the sense to take down their giant dish in a hurry (and managed to put it back up again afterward in an equally big hurry), the management of our apartment complex went up to the roof and tightened all the bolts on their dishes. All were trashed; one of them made a lovely noise when it broke loose, flew clean across the complex, and took out five floors' worth of windows on its way to earth...
Didn't get power back for ten days, and we were lucky. By knowing people who know people, we somehow managed to get into one of the hotels for a hot meal. A stranded British Airways crew who'd been staying there were mucking in and doing what they could to keep the place running. Good times!
Still can't eat corned beef...
Which asshat modded that Troll?
Thanks AC.
Can't RTFA.
Still carrying my Desire Z and will not be parted from it.
Now there's someone who's never been laid!
Ferrous Oxide Research Department
Are those bastards at Comcast (but I'm repeating myself) still injecting ad code into webpages?
Get paid for the ads, get paid for overages caused by the ads. Nice work if you can get it.
Solar hovercraft?
"will never" != "have never".
Now that it's got all the backdoors the NSA needs, they can promise not to add any more.
I remember seeing a billboard in the UK, right about the time when I was thinking about doing a Master's, advertising a Master's in Web Technologies at the university up the road. Perfect!
"To find out more, visit www.facebook..." Arse. Needless to say, I didn't.
Exactly, build a prototype and see if it works well enough to make demolishing bridges elsewhere worth it.
The stations are clearly elevated much as you would have with an overhead monorail, etc., in which case lifts/ramps are doable for access. Even though everyone's calling it a bus, I see this less as a replacement for a regular city bus with stops every block, more for a metro system with a relatively limited number of stops.
They're right here INSISTING that well, okay okay, it got built, but IT'LL NEVER WORK! Because turns and trucks and bridges and all KINDS of DUH OBVIOUS real-world stuff (not that they've ever seen it, holed up their moms' basements) that those stupid "engineers" CLEARLY haven't thought about before pissing away MILLIONS on this thing!
In other words, a normal day on Slashdot. :)
I remember buying a camera attachment for my Ericsson T68. Not long after that, every phone had a camera.
So if I rush out to buy this thing because I can clip a projector on it, there'll be better phones with better projectors built in long before my phone's out of contract.
Speaker module, though... Those things should come with a built-in shaped charge to take out the asshat who doesn't understand what headphones are for.
Have these people ever actually written a stable piece of code they would be willing to stake their life or the life of a close relative on?????
If "mother-in-law" counts as a close relative...
Can Perl prevent shootings?
My idiot friend (at the time - now he's just an idiot) lost it on a country bend at what the police later estimated to be around 80mph, and flipped us clean over a dry stone wall and easily 60 metres into a field. The car rolled at least once, and the front passenger corner of the roof took the brunt of it. All four of us walked away, although one of the rear-seat passengers still has a nasty scar from sticking his head through the rear window.
That was 20 years ago, and the Ford Fiesta was easily 15 years old at the time. The reason the rear-seat passenger stuck his head out the rear window? No seat-belts fitted in the back. Idiot friend convinced another idiot to winch the wreck out of the field, then drove it 20 miles to the scrap yard. Roadworthy it most certainly was not, but it was drivable...
So: Amazing OMGWTFBBQ Tesla safety, or the same sheer blind luck we had?
Yep, they'd probably do more to reduce cancer by handing out free sunblock.
Yeah, typical stupid biased crap. What I'd like to see is some photos showing all that SOLAR radiation... Oh, wait...
Not dead, just lying comatose until the next generation of MBAs "invents" it again.
I have an HP laptop for work, and the easiest way to tell it's the right way around when I put it on the docking station is that it says "dy" in the middle instead of "hp".