Actually, when we looked at this a few years ago cyclists killed about as many people per passenger mile as motorists. In the UK, anyway, I don't know whether cyclists in other parts of the world are as dangerous as the 'red lights don't apply to me and get off that pedestrian crossing because I'm not stopping' lycra loons over there.
When was the last time you killed an SSD that way?
Me, never, because I've deliberately configured the system to ensure it minimises writes to the SSD.
Some guys who use their SSD for compilation were saying recently that they have to replace them at least once a year when they hit the write limits and the SSD dies (which makes sense for them as the programmer time saved more than pays for a new SSD every year). You'd probably burn through them even faster than that if you were using them for fast swap space on a machine with limited RAM.
And then, of course, since it's soldered onto the motherboard it's time to buy a new tablet/phone/whatever.
nice to know that the robot car people have, basically, no ethics whatsoever, considering that automobile-travel systems have killed more people than terrorism.
This is China; I haven't been there in a few years, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to build a machine that drives worse than the typical driver I saw on the roads there.
I mean, think about it. You have no outlook in life, you have no hope for progress, no hope to better your lot, and the "threat" you're facing is jail time?
From what I've seen, most of these 'revolutionaries' look to be just thieving chavs who've been given tons of free stuff on welfare all their lives and are basically unemployable due to their attitude and Britain's hopeless school system.
Here is what I don't understand: Is there anything about this new strike vehicle that would preclude a nuclear warhead in place of the conventional one?
Doubt it. And when you launch it on top of a rocket it will look rather like an ICBM anyway.
What a load of offensive drivel. Chav is a term used by white middle class males to ridicule the poor, and use of the term says way more about you, than it does them.
I take it you've never had to live or work in a chav-intested area. I used to work in chav-zone when I was in the UK and they were scum who thought that setting cars on fire was an entertaining night out. I'm not at all surprised to see them not stealing everything they can get their hands on and burning down the rest.
I grew up in a poor area, and we would never have considered acting the way chavs do (or, if we had, our parents or neightbours would soon have convinced us that it was a bad idea).
Why are people not cheering these protests as they did when they happened in other nominal democracies like Iran and Syria?
Because in one case they're political protests against authoritarian governments and in the other they're thieving scum stealing TVs and murdering people who try to protect their community?
Though I must admit that Cameron's support for riots and civil wars in other countries probably goes some way to encouraging low-IQ rioters in the UK.
The politicos don't understand the role that social media and internet communications play in people's lives. They wouldn't suggest shutting down the POTS network, or the postal service.
The PSTN in Britain is _DESIGNED_ so that the government can shut it down any time they want. Back in the Cold War era it was configured so that all 'non-essential' users (i.e. you and me) could be shut down while the 'essential' users (i.e. government and their cronies) would continue to get service.
Combat? Who said anything about combat? And what does combat matter? Or are you saying soldier's lives only count if they're killed in combat?
Soldiers die all the time; the military is a fairly high-risk job even in peacetime. The important question is, will they be less likely to die in whatever new duty they're given once they stop driving trucks in Afghanistan.
If the Army follows the suggestion up above about mining coal in Afghanistan to power the lasers, I think we can be pretty sure that more soldiers will die doing that than driving trucks to deliver drone fuel.
However much they saved by combining "TEMP", "CHARGE" and "OIL PRESSURE" into a single lamp they spent on extra pages in the manual.
Yeah, but the manager who removed the lights from the dashboard got a bonus for saving money and the manager who put the extra pages in the manual got demoted because they spent too much money.
I hate the idiot light. Perhaps something that communicated just a teeny bit more information?
Ours either blinks or comes on solid depending on whether it's a 'you need to go to the mechanic sometime' problem or a 'your car is about to explode, call a tow truck' problem. But I can't remember which is which:).
Where do you think the jobs to keep the polish and other recent immigrants employed came from?
Laying off British workers.
Where I was working at the time the borders were opened, within about two weeks all the British cleaners disappeared and were replaced by Poles. Who were mostly young blonde girls with degrees so we didn't complain too much, but I'm guessing the women they replaced weren't too happy about it.
Open Office is a bitch to use if all you want to do is a school paper and never used it before.
Uh, what? You... type stuff... and you... print it out. Or email it or whatever.
Open Office is no better or worse than any other word processor I've ever used. Yesterday, for example, I was using Word and deleting a bullet point would also delete the bullet point from the line above it but leave the text. Eventually I discovered that if I changed the format of the line of bullet point text before I deleted it then it wouldn't remove the bullet point from the line above. Exactly how easy is that to use?
But there are occasional compatibility problems between either of the two and Microsoft Office.
There are compatibility problems between Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office. I had to install a 16-bit version of Office a few years ago to open some Word documents that I found on an old CD.
I'm assuming that disk space won't really be the arbiter, in a world where you can solder a few gigs of flash to an embedded board for peanuts.
When I worked for a company that built hardware we'd have people spending weeks figuring out how to save a few cents on component costs; when you're shipping millions of units every cent you save means tens of thousands of dollars more profit.
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Sure, bicycles are safe.
Actually, when we looked at this a few years ago cyclists killed about as many people per passenger mile as motorists. In the UK, anyway, I don't know whether cyclists in other parts of the world are as dangerous as the 'red lights don't apply to me and get off that pedestrian crossing because I'm not stopping' lycra loons over there.
It's just $15,000. What are you whinging about?
My first SSD cost $50,000 and that was in 1990 money.
When was the last time you killed an SSD that way?
Me, never, because I've deliberately configured the system to ensure it minimises writes to the SSD.
Some guys who use their SSD for compilation were saying recently that they have to replace them at least once a year when they hit the write limits and the SSD dies (which makes sense for them as the programmer time saved more than pays for a new SSD every year). You'd probably burn through them even faster than that if you were using them for fast swap space on a machine with limited RAM.
And then, of course, since it's soldered onto the motherboard it's time to buy a new tablet/phone/whatever.
its called trains, subways, bicycle paths, etc etc etc.
All of which suck ass unless you live in a city so poorly designed that driving becomes even worse.
nice to know that the robot car people have, basically, no ethics whatsoever, considering that automobile-travel systems have killed more people than terrorism.
This is China; I haven't been there in a few years, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to build a machine that drives worse than the typical driver I saw on the roads there.
I mean, think about it. You have no outlook in life, you have no hope for progress, no hope to better your lot, and the "threat" you're facing is jail time?
From what I've seen, most of these 'revolutionaries' look to be just thieving chavs who've been given tons of free stuff on welfare all their lives and are basically unemployable due to their attitude and Britain's hopeless school system.
You don't even need to get to those kind of speeds to start treating your "storage" as bubble memory.
Because repeatedly writing to media with a limited number of write cycles is such a good idea.
So your motherboard is toast once the SSD dies? Sounds like a great plan for motherboard manufacturers.
Here is what I don't understand: Is there anything about this new strike vehicle that would preclude a nuclear warhead in place of the conventional one?
Doubt it. And when you launch it on top of a rocket it will look rather like an ICBM anyway.
What a load of offensive drivel. Chav is a term used by white middle class males to ridicule the poor, and use of the term says way more about you, than it does them.
I take it you've never had to live or work in a chav-intested area. I used to work in chav-zone when I was in the UK and they were scum who thought that setting cars on fire was an entertaining night out. I'm not at all surprised to see them not stealing everything they can get their hands on and burning down the rest.
I grew up in a poor area, and we would never have considered acting the way chavs do (or, if we had, our parents or neightbours would soon have convinced us that it was a bad idea).
Why are people not cheering these protests as they did when they happened in other nominal democracies like Iran and Syria?
Because in one case they're political protests against authoritarian governments and in the other they're thieving scum stealing TVs and murdering people who try to protect their community?
Though I must admit that Cameron's support for riots and civil wars in other countries probably goes some way to encouraging low-IQ rioters in the UK.
The politicos don't understand the role that social media and internet communications play in people's lives. They wouldn't suggest shutting down the POTS network, or the postal service.
The PSTN in Britain is _DESIGNED_ so that the government can shut it down any time they want. Back in the Cold War era it was configured so that all 'non-essential' users (i.e. you and me) could be shut down while the 'essential' users (i.e. government and their cronies) would continue to get service.
What about a satellite connection? Could that work? Since all you need is a network connection, the latency shouldn't really be a problem.
Do you have any idea how much mobile satellite connections cost?
Combat? Who said anything about combat? And what does combat matter? Or are you saying soldier's lives only count if they're killed in combat?
Soldiers die all the time; the military is a fairly high-risk job even in peacetime. The important question is, will they be less likely to die in whatever new duty they're given once they stop driving trucks in Afghanistan.
If the Army follows the suggestion up above about mining coal in Afghanistan to power the lasers, I think we can be pretty sure that more soldiers will die doing that than driving trucks to deliver drone fuel.
From coal fired generators. Afghanistan has plenty of coal. Another option is solar arrays. Afghanistan also has plenty of sunshine.
Where are the coal mines and solar power plants in Afghanistan?
However much they saved by combining "TEMP", "CHARGE" and "OIL PRESSURE" into a single lamp they spent on extra pages in the manual.
Yeah, but the manager who removed the lights from the dashboard got a bonus for saving money and the manager who put the extra pages in the manual got demoted because they spent too much money.
I hate the idiot light. Perhaps something that communicated just a teeny bit more information?
Ours either blinks or comes on solid depending on whether it's a 'you need to go to the mechanic sometime' problem or a 'your car is about to explode, call a tow truck' problem. But I can't remember which is which :).
Where do you think the jobs to keep the polish and other recent immigrants employed came from?
Laying off British workers.
Where I was working at the time the borders were opened, within about two weeks all the British cleaners disappeared and were replaced by Poles. Who were mostly young blonde girls with degrees so we didn't complain too much, but I'm guessing the women they replaced weren't too happy about it.
Why don't they just provide plain-text error messages? Seriously.
You can't justify 500 programming jobs for plain text error messages.
Open Office is a bitch to use if all you want to do is a school paper and never used it before.
Uh, what? You... type stuff... and you... print it out. Or email it or whatever.
Open Office is no better or worse than any other word processor I've ever used. Yesterday, for example, I was using Word and deleting a bullet point would also delete the bullet point from the line above it but leave the text. Eventually I discovered that if I changed the format of the line of bullet point text before I deleted it then it wouldn't remove the bullet point from the line above. Exactly how easy is that to use?
Where are the open source ergonomic experts, the usability analysts, the aesthetic artists?
We're busy telling Ubuntu and Gnome what a disaster their new UIs are. Sadly, they don't care.
Have you actually used Linux since 2003?
But there are occasional compatibility problems between either of the two and Microsoft Office.
There are compatibility problems between Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office. I had to install a 16-bit version of Office a few years ago to open some Word documents that I found on an old CD.
I'm assuming that disk space won't really be the arbiter, in a world where you can solder a few gigs of flash to an embedded board for peanuts.
When I worked for a company that built hardware we'd have people spending weeks figuring out how to save a few cents on component costs; when you're shipping millions of units every cent you save means tens of thousands of dollars more profit.
I used a windows 7 machine not too long ago, still could not replace files in use, and all that other "single user OS in disguise" BS.
Ah, the joy of having to reboot Windows just to update a PDF viewer. I so miss it.