The speed limit on the road is 30 mph, and Flint was clocked going over 40 mph down the hill. He had to brake suddenly in front of a car, causing his bike to flip over, fatally injuring him.
To make the whole thing completely moronic: it's a plug for an app THAT ISN'T AVAILABLE YET.
I'm in their target market, and was interested enough to go to the app store to check it out.... and it's not there (that I could find). So now I'm ticked off that they wasted my time, and probably won't buy it if/when it comes out.
Amateur radio is as old as radio - the early experimenters (Marconi, Hertz, etc) were amateur experimenters. Commercial radio only came years later.
In any case, how many slashdotters do you think were alive before radio existed? For this crowd, the iPhone 3 is "old" and the original iPhone is "ancient".
Walking down your street and stealing your mail gets *one* account. Hacking PayPal gets millions.
Walking down your street also entails a physical presence in the USA, and makes you subject to federal laws (stealing mail is a federal crime). Hacking PayPal can be done from anywhere, with no need to ever be on American soil, or even in any country with an extradition treaty.
It matters a whole lot if you're in the car when it submerges and catches fire. It also matters a whole lot if it's parked in your garage. Try calling your insurance agent and explaining how your house burned down because of the flood.
Anyone remember high-school chemistry, where the teacher put some sodium in a bowl of water? Lithium is similar - although the reaction is nowhere near as intense, I still don't want to be sitting right on top of a huge stack of lithium batteries when they get submerged.
"individual states" and "local government" are still government. Both are, in the end, subject to the US Supreme Court, and in many cases to other branches of the Feds.
Nobody gets hyped about *any* game system until there is a game, exclusive to that platform, that is interesting. If a new game comes out, and I can buy it for $60 for my current console, or $60 + $300 for the Wii U, it's not hard to guess which option I'll pick.
As far as 'selling at a loss' goes - hasn't every console from every manufacturer, way back to the N64, claimed that?
So fugu (potentially lethal blowfish) sushi is insanely popular and expensive.... how long until we see Fukushima flounder sushi? The actual amount of cesium in two tiny pieces of fish can't be *that* harmful, can they?
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The CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) was signed into law by Nixon. Blame him.
The cyclist in question did not "break the laws of the road" and was not "killed in traffic".
From ABC News:
The speed limit on the road is 30 mph, and Flint was clocked going over 40 mph down the hill. He had to brake suddenly in front of a car, causing his bike to flip over, fatally injuring him.
To make the whole thing completely moronic: it's a plug for an app THAT ISN'T AVAILABLE YET.
I'm in their target market, and was interested enough to go to the app store to check it out.... and it's not there (that I could find). So now I'm ticked off that they wasted my time, and probably won't buy it if/when it comes out.
TFA didn't say "Debut with an American carrier", it said "US Debut".
Of course, since it is made here, it has been flying in the USA for years - but they ignore that fact as well.
Amateur radio is as old as radio - the early experimenters (Marconi, Hertz, etc) were amateur experimenters. Commercial radio only came years later.
In any case, how many slashdotters do you think were alive before radio existed? For this crowd, the iPhone 3 is "old" and the original iPhone is "ancient".
All the desktop UI need to start focusing on what users need, not flashy features that aren't really useful.
Wait... Linus' main point was that he liked his wobbly windows. How is that a need, and not just some stupid flashy feature?
To think that thousands of dedicated engineers worked for years on awesome high-performance graphics hardware, only to have it wasted on this.....
Walking down your street and stealing your mail gets *one* account. Hacking PayPal gets millions.
Walking down your street also entails a physical presence in the USA, and makes you subject to federal laws (stealing mail is a federal crime). Hacking PayPal can be done from anywhere, with no need to ever be on American soil, or even in any country with an extradition treaty.
It matters a whole lot if you're in the car when it submerges and catches fire. It also matters a whole lot if it's parked in your garage. Try calling your insurance agent and explaining how your house burned down because of the flood.
Anyone remember high-school chemistry, where the teacher put some sodium in a bowl of water? Lithium is similar - although the reaction is nowhere near as intense, I still don't want to be sitting right on top of a huge stack of lithium batteries when they get submerged.
How does a copy of a DEC Alpha processor end up with a MIPS instruction set??
The problem is users using the search to try and find something local
The problem is a UI that co-mixes local searches with internet searches.
If you use a normal, non-UI command like 'find' to do local searches, there is no issue.
How is it an open standard, when I need to join their organization to see the specs?
That's why it only works in Canada. Have you seen how the average American parks??
"individual states" and "local government" are still government. Both are, in the end, subject to the US Supreme Court, and in many cases to other branches of the Feds.
Both the Microsoft and Intel C compiler already existed and could have been used.
The early stages of kernel development are all done with a cross-compiler anyway.
And, why do they hate Linus so much? From the Tresquel web page:
"Linus Torvalds did not write a whole operating system, he only wrote the last missing piece, a kernel"
Yeah, sure, completely gloss over the fact that the kernel is by far the most important piece.
If they *found* the bug, they could just fix it. If they wanted to know what caused it, 'svn blame' would let them know.
If they merely *reproduced* the bug, then they might want to use bisection.
Yes, I know that 'algal' is perfectly good english. But wouldn't 'algae-based' be much more clear to the 99% of the population that are not chemists?
Nobody gets hyped about *any* game system until there is a game, exclusive to that platform, that is interesting. If a new game comes out, and I can buy it for $60 for my current console, or $60 + $300 for the Wii U, it's not hard to guess which option I'll pick.
As far as 'selling at a loss' goes - hasn't every console from every manufacturer, way back to the N64, claimed that?
So fugu (potentially lethal blowfish) sushi is insanely popular and expensive.... how long until we see Fukushima flounder sushi? The actual amount of cesium in two tiny pieces of fish can't be *that* harmful, can they?
Jeez, I know slashdot has been ragging on X11 all week... but they're already testing X51?
This works - but wastes both ram space and performance.
This explains why porn stars are all completely shaved. *nobody* needs to know exactly where those body parts have been.
You are correct that there are many physical locations with no good OTA signal. However, not many people live in those places.
The top 10 metropolitan areas include 30% of households; top 25, close to 50%. All have a rock solid OTA signal from multiple stations.
You've only got to drop down to a city the size of Grand Junction, Colorado - still a city with a decent OTA signal - to cover 99% of the population.
(Source: neilsen tv market data at http://www.tvb.org/media/file/TVB_Market_Profiles_Nielsen_Household_DMA_Ranks2.pdf)
So if I run linux on three laptops (ubuntu, fedora, redhat), and my (android) phone, is that one single OS?
Came here to post exactly the same thing. Broadband is something that is much more essential to life these days than mobile broadband.
Does anyone feel that access to cable television is a fundamental human right?