We're not otherwise spending the money fixing the world's most pressing problems
We (presumably you mean the United States) is indeed spending lots of money on world problems. If you rank the relative risk and potential consequences of things like over-population, genocide, disease, famine, extreme poverty, pollution, depletion of resources, etc, etc, versus the risk and consequences of an asteroid strike, it's easy to see why the money is better spent elsewhere.
Actually they didn't comparit it to anything, just made an empty statement.
The result of those moves are the new panels that Rive is unveiling today, which will produce at least 30% more power, while reducing the cost of installing solar panels on one’s roof by between 20 and 30 cents per watt.
Microsoft said a highly suspicious Windows update that was delivered to customers around the world was the result of a test that wasn't correctly implemented.
They were just checking to see if you really wanted to upgrade to Windows 10
That it's overcounting old code, or undercounting newer C99/C11 code, or that the man-hour estimates for post-1981 languages aren't up to date?
All of the them. COCOMO says "tell me how many lines of code there will be in project and how many LOC/HR your developers will write and I'll tell you how long it will take". Well, duh.
Wow, blast from the past. My first ever computer was an Ohio Scientific "Superboard"; single board computer with a keyboard on the motherboard, no case, power supply, or monitor. Came with 8KB of RAM, only ran Basic (Copyright Microsoft, 1978) and 6502 assembler (entered in hex). You could load and store your programs to cassette tapes at 300 baud. At the time I was programming IBM/370 mainframes at work in FORTRAN IV. Now get off my lawn.
Yellow Journalism is as old as journalism itself. One of my favorite examples of it was in Dan Rather's autobiography where he describes his early years in local TV reporting; when the day's news was boring they tossed in a "fuzz and wuz" story - police racing to the scene to the crime (the fuzz) and the body laying on the sidewalk (the wuz). The internet hasn't changed anything there.
Ever been to a water ski show? A common act they used to do was jumping through fire on a ramp. It would be pretty easy to get some of the fuel on your skis and get burned.
If life on Earth were wiped out (or severely impacted) the Mars colony would have no chance of survival. It's not like sending a ship full of pilgrims across an ocean.
Did you happen to read even the first line of the summary? This report came from Reuters, not a right-wing media outlet by any stretch of the definition.
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NASA is already watching all known asteroids that might be a threat. So don't worry, it isn't going to happen.
We're not otherwise spending the money fixing the world's most pressing problems
We (presumably you mean the United States) is indeed spending lots of money on world problems. If you rank the relative risk and potential consequences of things like over-population, genocide, disease, famine, extreme poverty, pollution, depletion of resources, etc, etc, versus the risk and consequences of an asteroid strike, it's easy to see why the money is better spent elsewhere.
Are you sure B612 could come up with something that would work on even a small asteroid? They didn't meet any of their project goals to date.
B-b-b-but if you ignore physics and economics the idea makes perfect sense.
On the other hand, if it's big enough to wipe out life on Earth we wouldn't be able to stop it anyway.
Ubuntu's desktop color scheme looks like poop to me.
which is what they build into the price of the drink.
A cup of soft drink from a dispenser costs almost nothing, a few cents at most. The price they charge is what people will pay.
Or more specifically, Cape Verde was uninhabited between 71K BC and 1500 AD
The result of those moves are the new panels that Rive is unveiling today, which will produce at least 30% more power, while reducing the cost of installing solar panels on one’s roof by between 20 and 30 cents per watt.
30% more power than what?
The US did that once, bomb was about 70 feet underwater, which is nothing for a nuke. It created so much fallout they never did it again.
Oh man, they should not retire the thing.
Why didn't you say "Oh person, they should not retire the thing"? It doesn't sound any more awkward than "Humanmade".
And it sure as heck isn't "30% to 40%" more
All the cases were related to the same patent, which the judge ruled was too vague. Clearly the right decision but there's still a long way to go.
Microsoft said a highly suspicious Windows update that was delivered to customers around the world was the result of a test that wasn't correctly implemented.
They were just checking to see if you really wanted to upgrade to Windows 10
Or, more likely, switch to FreeBSD and forget Linux ever existed.
That it's overcounting old code, or undercounting newer C99/C11 code, or that the man-hour estimates for post-1981 languages aren't up to date?
All of the them. COCOMO says "tell me how many lines of code there will be in project and how many LOC/HR your developers will write and I'll tell you how long it will take". Well, duh.
We have been conditioned to see ourselves in terms of our value to the ownership class.
Most of us have been conditioned to understand that the same word can have different meanings in different contexts.
How about you support the app on Windows, Mac, and Linux? Oh wait, the browser does that already.
Wow, blast from the past. My first ever computer was an Ohio Scientific "Superboard"; single board computer with a keyboard on the motherboard, no case, power supply, or monitor. Came with 8KB of RAM, only ran Basic (Copyright Microsoft, 1978) and 6502 assembler (entered in hex). You could load and store your programs to cassette tapes at 300 baud. At the time I was programming IBM/370 mainframes at work in FORTRAN IV. Now get off my lawn.
Yellow Journalism is as old as journalism itself. One of my favorite examples of it was in Dan Rather's autobiography where he describes his early years in local TV reporting; when the day's news was boring they tossed in a "fuzz and wuz" story - police racing to the scene to the crime (the fuzz) and the body laying on the sidewalk (the wuz). The internet hasn't changed anything there.
Ever been to a water ski show? A common act they used to do was jumping through fire on a ramp. It would be pretty easy to get some of the fuel on your skis and get burned.
Have them all stand still on a moving track.
If life on Earth were wiped out (or severely impacted) the Mars colony would have no chance of survival. It's not like sending a ship full of pilgrims across an ocean.
Did you happen to read even the first line of the summary? This report came from Reuters, not a right-wing media outlet by any stretch of the definition.
If it gets to the point of nukes landing on Reno we'll have much bigger problems than this data center.