Have you really never dissected a google url before??? This person clearly searched for "positron collider ghostbusters" and pasted the YouTube link that came up in the search results.
One hopes that a company would be responsible enough to dispose of its trash instead of shooting it at, or past, the moon, where it would likely be recaptured by the gravity well of another celestial...
I'm genuinely curious... why would that be a problem? I would think that space junk around another celestial object would be better than space junk around the earth.
Yeah I fucked up the phrasing. The joke is obvious and wouldn't be funny at this point, if it was ever funny. The real joke is politicians thinking that they can pick a technology as a "winner". Another good joke is an economic union without a common electrical standard dictating a common cell phone charger. So you'll be able to bring a cell phone anywhere in the EU to charge it, but you won't necessarily be able to plug in anything else you own without an adapter. Makes sense.
I'm not pro-corporation. I actually consider corporations to be an extension of government, and worthy of exactly the same scorn and ridicule. That said, they do serve a purpose, and unless there is an anti-trust issue I don't see the reason to intervene here. Unless we are talking about reform of the corporation in general, in which I'm all for it. But somehow I doubt that this particular government regulation will bring about reform. If the government really must get involved, they should snatch the Apple patent and use that as the standard.
Still not sure why you'd trust politicians to give you the best consumer experience, but so long as you can pedantically pick my joke apart you'll rule the world.
They are still forcing Apple to stick another port on the phone itself. My guess is Apple will respond by mating a little "adapter" to the phone to meet the letter of the law and people will promptly pull the little wart right off.
I would just like to point out that patents are also a government regulation. If the patent is all that is stopping them from making the connector universal, then that is a really stupid reason since they granted the patent.
Right but if you have an i-Things household, having separate chargers for your iPhone and your iPad will be inconvenient. If you were European, you would understand how unacceptable this situation is - inconvenience from a totally optional purchase! Obviously Parliament should make all things use the same charger. If only there were some competition in the cell phone world.
Panic stops happen all the time. I had to panic stop for a deer recently. I've been run into during a panic stop, too (the car in front of me panic stopped). I would assume that a panic stop would be a last-resort maneuver - if the logic got to an unhandled state or enough sensors were lost to warrant such a thing. I imagine that would be quite rare - probably less frequent than a tire blow out, for example.
I think that it would rather obviously need to fail safe. Depending on the contingency, this could include a panic stop - but the system can't just depend on the driver to "jump in".
Yes, quite expensive, I'd wager! They seemed to think that it would fill a niche market where magnetron ovens are too heavy, bulky, or delicate. Think mobile homes or airplanes. Or New York apartments:)
Well, THAT is easily explained. Since this combination gets caught by the hardware, you can rely on Windows to give you a real prompt. If they used some other method, you couldn't be sure if it was the real prompt or a program acting like the login prompt so it can steal your password. No matter what you are doing in Windows NT and it's successors, you can always guarantee that the real Windows will respond when you hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
That's a loaded question. I didn't. I kept "cheating" when trying to touch type, and finally gave up and just switched the keyboard over to Dvorak, which forced me to learn the keyboard. Sure, my keyboard is now "retarded", but I'm a much better typist now.
My shift key comment was a joke, by the way. I use both shift keys all the time - several times in this post, actually. I assumed it was so absurd a suggestion that people would know it was a joke, but people are defending my post, so... not such a good joke after all.
I'm a proud pirate. I think the whole system is corrupt and indefensible. I think there is a role for IP, but compared to where we are now I think we'd be better off scrapping it all together. I have been known to actually buy stuff, but only when it saves me time over piracy. Sadly, it is often more convenient to pirate (especially software and video).
The chip ran it (it booted s-l-o-w-l-y), but I needed more RAM and the video card was, um, ancient. I couldn't justify RAM and a video card when a whole new motherboard with integrated video, processor, and 8GB of RAM was under $200. I wouldn't have upgraded it at all, except that I really needed to reinstall Windows, and I couldn't justify the time spent setting up XP again. I would have used Windows 7, but I was ignorant and stupid and fell for the $40 price of Windows 8.
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Have you really never dissected a google url before??? This person clearly searched for "positron collider ghostbusters" and pasted the YouTube link that came up in the search results.
One hopes that a company would be responsible enough to dispose of its trash instead of shooting it at, or past, the moon, where it would likely be recaptured by the gravity well of another celestial...
I'm genuinely curious... why would that be a problem? I would think that space junk around another celestial object would be better than space junk around the earth.
Yeah I fucked up the phrasing. The joke is obvious and wouldn't be funny at this point, if it was ever funny. The real joke is politicians thinking that they can pick a technology as a "winner". Another good joke is an economic union without a common electrical standard dictating a common cell phone charger. So you'll be able to bring a cell phone anywhere in the EU to charge it, but you won't necessarily be able to plug in anything else you own without an adapter. Makes sense.
I'm not pro-corporation. I actually consider corporations to be an extension of government, and worthy of exactly the same scorn and ridicule. That said, they do serve a purpose, and unless there is an anti-trust issue I don't see the reason to intervene here. Unless we are talking about reform of the corporation in general, in which I'm all for it. But somehow I doubt that this particular government regulation will bring about reform. If the government really must get involved, they should snatch the Apple patent and use that as the standard.
Still not touching the reason you'd trust politicians I see. I wouldn't go there either.
Still not sure why you'd trust politicians to give you the best consumer experience, but so long as you can pedantically pick my joke apart you'll rule the world.
They are still forcing Apple to stick another port on the phone itself. My guess is Apple will respond by mating a little "adapter" to the phone to meet the letter of the law and people will promptly pull the little wart right off.
LOL, my daughter is a bit past it now... but I used to have it memorized. :)
Too bad it's patented
I would just like to point out that patents are also a government regulation. If the patent is all that is stopping them from making the connector universal, then that is a really stupid reason since they granted the patent.
I think you'll find that most people simply vote for the guy in their party.
I wonder how many times they shuffled between Strasbourg and Bruxelles while they decided that I do not need three 15 EUR chargers.
And this on a continent without a common electrical outlet standard.
You spell politicians with a "c" in Europe? Weird.
Right but if you have an i-Things household, having separate chargers for your iPhone and your iPad will be inconvenient. If you were European, you would understand how unacceptable this situation is - inconvenience from a totally optional purchase! Obviously Parliament should make all things use the same charger. If only there were some competition in the cell phone world.
I'm not an iOS user either, but I know that I design all of my interfaces for people with vestibular disorders.
Not if all the cars are automated :)
Panic stops happen all the time. I had to panic stop for a deer recently. I've been run into during a panic stop, too (the car in front of me panic stopped). I would assume that a panic stop would be a last-resort maneuver - if the logic got to an unhandled state or enough sensors were lost to warrant such a thing. I imagine that would be quite rare - probably less frequent than a tire blow out, for example.
I think that it would rather obviously need to fail safe. Depending on the contingency, this could include a panic stop - but the system can't just depend on the driver to "jump in".
I really hate to do this to such an insightful post, but it is "motherfucker". One word.
Oh, I meant inciteful.
Yes, quite expensive, I'd wager! They seemed to think that it would fill a niche market where magnetron ovens are too heavy, bulky, or delicate. Think mobile homes or airplanes. Or New York apartments :)
Well, THAT is easily explained. Since this combination gets caught by the hardware, you can rely on Windows to give you a real prompt. If they used some other method, you couldn't be sure if it was the real prompt or a program acting like the login prompt so it can steal your password. No matter what you are doing in Windows NT and it's successors, you can always guarantee that the real Windows will respond when you hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
Where did you learn to type?
That's a loaded question. I didn't. I kept "cheating" when trying to touch type, and finally gave up and just switched the keyboard over to Dvorak, which forced me to learn the keyboard. Sure, my keyboard is now "retarded", but I'm a much better typist now.
My shift key comment was a joke, by the way. I use both shift keys all the time - several times in this post, actually. I assumed it was so absurd a suggestion that people would know it was a joke, but people are defending my post, so... not such a good joke after all.
You know, for a guy with a name like "Sockatume", you sure do know how to spoil a joke! ;p
My keyboard has two shift keys. He should have used one of those.
I'm a proud pirate. I think the whole system is corrupt and indefensible. I think there is a role for IP, but compared to where we are now I think we'd be better off scrapping it all together. I have been known to actually buy stuff, but only when it saves me time over piracy. Sadly, it is often more convenient to pirate (especially software and video).
It uses these. They are MOSFETs, so probably not GaN, but maybe SiGe?
The chip ran it (it booted s-l-o-w-l-y), but I needed more RAM and the video card was, um, ancient. I couldn't justify RAM and a video card when a whole new motherboard with integrated video, processor, and 8GB of RAM was under $200. I wouldn't have upgraded it at all, except that I really needed to reinstall Windows, and I couldn't justify the time spent setting up XP again. I would have used Windows 7, but I was ignorant and stupid and fell for the $40 price of Windows 8.
True for now, but Midea apparently makes a 600 watt solid state microwave now. Amazing how powerful the solid state stuff has gotten.