Most trucks drive on state and federal highways, so state and federal legislation makes sense.
Of course, truckers can still look up contacts, dial their phones, look up addresses and map them, download apps, and play games on their smartphones while driving. They just can't text.
There are no Microsoft phones. Never has been, as far as I know. Microsoft doesn't make computers either.
There are phones made by people like HTC that use a Microsoft operating system, under license. But then it is HTC who is in competition with Apple, not Microsoft.
Silicosis only becomes an issue for people that breathe in large amounts of it on a regular basis
Yes, but regular sand lies there on the ground - this stuff comes in an aerosol can. A layer of glass 20 atoms thick lining the inside of your lungs just can't be a good thing.
The article says the stuff is "breathable" - but cyanide gas is breathable, too. It just isn't a recommended thing to do.
Yes, it was clearly the US they were targeting. If they wanted to home-school their German-speaking children, they could easily and freely moved to Switzerland (the eastern part of the country speaks German). No political asylum needed, much cheaper to travel. Also their kids could speak with their new-found friends, and read books, and watch TV, without a huge learning curve.
It is hard to understate the importance of Neilsen numbers in Hollywood. The very first thing the average exec does in the morning - before he's even had coffee - is to check the overnight numbers. There *is* no other barometer of success.
And, these are not computer-savvy execs - for the most part, they grew up when "computer" meant "IBM", and they still have their secretaries print out their emails to be read. So they aren't going to be implementing their own alternate ratings system.
So the fact that Neilsen is improving the ratings system - however lame these initial improvements are - is going to make things better.
Top fuel and funny car classes don't have a transmission at all - they're one speed. There is a clutch pack that slowly engages - automatically, the timing is programmed by the mechanics before the run. That hardly qualifies as either manual or automatic.
Rally cars have a manual transmission, shifted by a paddle to the right of the steering wheel. Watch any of the TV coverage, you'll see them shifting with the right hand without having to remove it from the wheel. Rallying is, in fact, an example of why manual transmissions are better for racing - when broadsliding around a dirt road corner at 120 MPH, you really don't want the car to suddenly shift gears.
BECAUSE it is closed, there is not as much complication to have to figure out. There's no registry, no need for scripting, and if something crashes it tends to recover on its own.
Did you realize that Windows is a closed system as well?
There are some tasks that machines are bad at; gear selection in an automobile is one of them. Automatic transmissions cannot predict when you are approaching a curve, or a hill, or other vehicles. Gear selection needs to be based on what you are about to do, not what you just did.
Note that all race cars use manual transmissions, as does any decent sports car, for just these reasons.
Automatic transmissions are also mechanically inefficient. Cars with a manual gearbox generally get 1 or 2 more miles per gallon; it is strange how many people want an efficient car, yet they elect to pay extra for the automatic option.
Exactly. Bookstores allow people to browse - look at a shelf, ignore 99% of the books, only pick up one that looks interesting to look in more detail. And, like most news sites, you can read the entire book without paying a cent if you want; the business model of the bookstore is that if a book is interesting enough, you will pay money to get more convenient access to the content.
PCWorld seems to be taking the opposite stance arguing that blaming IE for attacks is a dangerous approach that could cause a false sense of security.
Well, of course they'd say that - they are running a PC/Windows/Microsoft magazine, after all.
AppleWorld, on the other hand, has been blaming hacker attacks on Microsoft Windows for many years now - and the general population seems to agree with them, even though it does lead to a false sense of security in OSX.
Everyone I know in the metal manufacturing field is currently using water jet technology to cut holes. Easier, cheaper, and neater than lasers; and cuts any arbitrary shape, unlike a die punch. And - very importantly - safe for the operator.
So how come no comparison in TFA with water jet? EMP doesn't sound like it can do intricate shapes, and they're only going through very thin steel. Why replace a proven inexpensive technology with a new inferior one?
And for fully blind people, wouldn't it be easier, rather than harder, to pipe digital text to a braille reader?
Not on a closed system like the Kindle. Sure, the bits are there, inside the device - but there is no (legal) way of getting them to the outside world, to interface with other devices.
There are other factors as well - such as using double the disk storage.
Also, 3D editing software is in its infancy - and is typically only available on the high end professional editing packages, not on the low end. So software costs (both initial and maintenance contract) will be significantly higher.
Why doesn't someone take some open-source router software (tomato, openwrt, etc), and allow the use of the MagicJack hardware on a wifi router's USB port?
No need for a computer on 24/7 - plus you could automatically prioritize the VOIP traffic from the USB port to guarantee call quality.
We don't need flying cars. Flying cars = Falling cars. Add in volatile fuel and you have bombs.
So, who is going to perform the security search before I leave for work in a flying car? Does the TSA come to my house every morning, or does my wife get to strip search me? And can I be checked before I put on my shoes, or do I have to put them on, then take them off, and then put them on again?
And if I bring a cup of coffee, does it have to be smaller than 3.4 ounces??
The meaning of words change over time, and the meaning of fag is quite different from the beginning of the decade.
Really? At the beginning of the decade it meant a cigarette. Based on my attempts to "bum a fag, mate" in Leicester Square last weekend, it still means a cigarette. Was there something I missed?
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Most trucks drive on state and federal highways, so state and federal legislation makes sense.
Of course, truckers can still look up contacts, dial their phones, look up addresses and map them, download apps, and play games on their smartphones while driving. They just can't text.
If this is an IE bug, why does it only affect some operating systems and not others?
If this is really an issue with the OS support used by IE, then wouldn't it affect Firefox etc?
Patch releases really need a "info for geeks" section.....
The points of interest feature has already been restored: http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2010/03/the_points_of_interest_return.html
Yeah, every time my boss drops by, my browser immediately goes to getoutofmyofficeyoumoron.com.
In other words - programmers can do brilliant things, only to have them screwed up royally by management.
Hey! Where's Lynx?
There are no Microsoft phones. Never has been, as far as I know. Microsoft doesn't make computers either.
There are phones made by people like HTC that use a Microsoft operating system, under license. But then it is HTC who is in competition with Apple, not Microsoft.
The spec on LTO is only 15-30 years.
DVD claims 30 to 100 years.
Neither lasts as long as necessary for archival storage.
Silicosis only becomes an issue for people that breathe in large amounts of it on a regular basis
Yes, but regular sand lies there on the ground - this stuff comes in an aerosol can. A layer of glass 20 atoms thick lining the inside of your lungs just can't be a good thing.
The article says the stuff is "breathable" - but cyanide gas is breathable, too. It just isn't a recommended thing to do.
The nerds will create a massive video wall constructed of 40" flat screens, to circumvent the 55" limitation....
Yes, it was clearly the US they were targeting. If they wanted to home-school their German-speaking children, they could easily and freely moved to Switzerland (the eastern part of the country speaks German). No political asylum needed, much cheaper to travel. Also their kids could speak with their new-found friends, and read books, and watch TV, without a huge learning curve.
It is hard to understate the importance of Neilsen numbers in Hollywood. The very first thing the average exec does in the morning - before he's even had coffee - is to check the overnight numbers. There *is* no other barometer of success.
And, these are not computer-savvy execs - for the most part, they grew up when "computer" meant "IBM", and they still have their secretaries print out their emails to be read. So they aren't going to be implementing their own alternate ratings system.
So the fact that Neilsen is improving the ratings system - however lame these initial improvements are - is going to make things better.
Top fuel and funny car classes don't have a transmission at all - they're one speed. There is a clutch pack that slowly engages - automatically, the timing is programmed by the mechanics before the run. That hardly qualifies as either manual or automatic.
Rally cars have a manual transmission, shifted by a paddle to the right of the steering wheel. Watch any of the TV coverage, you'll see them shifting with the right hand without having to remove it from the wheel. Rallying is, in fact, an example of why manual transmissions are better for racing - when broadsliding around a dirt road corner at 120 MPH, you really don't want the car to suddenly shift gears.
BECAUSE it is closed, there is not as much complication to have to figure out. There's no registry, no need for scripting, and if something crashes it tends to recover on its own.
Did you realize that Windows is a closed system as well?
There are some tasks that machines are bad at; gear selection in an automobile is one of them. Automatic transmissions cannot predict when you are approaching a curve, or a hill, or other vehicles. Gear selection needs to be based on what you are about to do, not what you just did.
Note that all race cars use manual transmissions, as does any decent sports car, for just these reasons.
Automatic transmissions are also mechanically inefficient. Cars with a manual gearbox generally get 1 or 2 more miles per gallon; it is strange how many people want an efficient car, yet they elect to pay extra for the automatic option.
The Internet is a great place to let people know God is real.
True. Before the Internet, how many people had even heard of the one true supreme being?
Exactly. Bookstores allow people to browse - look at a shelf, ignore 99% of the books, only pick up one that looks interesting to look in more detail. And, like most news sites, you can read the entire book without paying a cent if you want; the business model of the bookstore is that if a book is interesting enough, you will pay money to get more convenient access to the content.
PCWorld seems to be taking the opposite stance arguing that blaming IE for attacks is a dangerous approach that could cause a false sense of security.
Well, of course they'd say that - they are running a PC/Windows/Microsoft magazine, after all.
AppleWorld, on the other hand, has been blaming hacker attacks on Microsoft Windows for many years now - and the general population seems to agree with them, even though it does lead to a false sense of security in OSX.
Everyone I know in the metal manufacturing field is currently using water jet technology to cut holes. Easier, cheaper, and neater than lasers; and cuts any arbitrary shape, unlike a die punch. And - very importantly - safe for the operator.
So how come no comparison in TFA with water jet? EMP doesn't sound like it can do intricate shapes, and they're only going through very thin steel. Why replace a proven inexpensive technology with a new inferior one?
And for fully blind people, wouldn't it be easier, rather than harder, to pipe digital text to a braille reader?
Not on a closed system like the Kindle. Sure, the bits are there, inside the device - but there is no (legal) way of getting them to the outside world, to interface with other devices.
There are other factors as well - such as using double the disk storage.
Also, 3D editing software is in its infancy - and is typically only available on the high end professional editing packages, not on the low end. So software costs (both initial and maintenance contract) will be significantly higher.
Why doesn't someone take some open-source router software (tomato, openwrt, etc), and allow the use of the MagicJack hardware on a wifi router's USB port?
No need for a computer on 24/7 - plus you could automatically prioritize the VOIP traffic from the USB port to guarantee call quality.
These are a bunch of guys who have a hard time understanding "shall make no law" and "shall not be infringed"
Say what? The RIAA may be evil, but I don't think they are trying to either enforce a religion or restrict your access to guns.
Well, not yet, anyway.
We don't need flying cars. Flying cars = Falling cars. Add in volatile fuel and you have bombs.
So, who is going to perform the security search before I leave for work in a flying car? Does the TSA come to my house every morning, or does my wife get to strip search me? And can I be checked before I put on my shoes, or do I have to put them on, then take them off, and then put them on again?
And if I bring a cup of coffee, does it have to be smaller than 3.4 ounces??
The meaning of words change over time, and the meaning of fag is quite different from the beginning of the decade.
Really? At the beginning of the decade it meant a cigarette. Based on my attempts to "bum a fag, mate" in Leicester Square last weekend, it still means a cigarette. Was there something I missed?