How the *fuck* did we function... without mobile phones
Poorly. I remember the bad old days when you had to get some change, go looking for a pay phone, find one that wasn't busted or covered with vomit, and hope the phone book page you needed wasn't torn out. All of which was a little hard to do if you had a bullet hole or knife wound in you or were being chased by bad guys or delinquents. Or if you were disabled.
Face it. Cell phones were the single most magnificent achievement to have benefited our lifetimes.
Earth to commenter. The clerk DID NOT use the machine without authorization. This is crystal clear. The EFF is absolutely correct, end of story. The clerk is guilty of theft, not some trumped-up "computer crime". Jesus save us from this SHIT. It is criminal justice CORRUPTION, plain and simple.
The solar impulse 2 just rounded the planet on nothing but solar power.
And took 15 months to do it. Magellan circled the world in 1519-1522 in 36 months, also using no fuel, but bringing back 26 tons of spices. The Solar Impulse 2 could barely carry one pilot and nothing else.
Since then, the sailing circumnavigation record has improved to 45 days, and the solo record is 58 days. Makes a sick joke out of the Solar Impulse 2.
Let's see. Very close to 500 years between the two feats. Going in, there was essentially no medicine or surgery, no proper Bessemer steel production, no internal or external combustion engines, no manned flight, no electricity, no radio or any travel or long distance communication faster than horses, no printed newspapers, and so on. 500 years later, and the state of travel without using fuel has not really advanced a bit.
Maybe we get crimea back, and russia becomes a democracy.
Who is "we"? Russia *IS* a representative democratic republic, Sparky. It's just as much a "democracy" as the US. As for the Crimea, the people spoke in a referendum, and unification with Russia won. Look, the Crimea was always overrun since antiquity by one set of conquerors after another; it got its ass handed to it when it was annexed by Russia in 1783. Then the USSR colonized it pretty thoroughly from 1917 on. Unfortunate, but no way is that going to be undone, any more than the seizure of North and South America from the natives by Europeans will be undone.
The cold war was too much of a good thing for too many of the power elite for them to let it go. Part of it (but not all of it) is that it fits their worldview of cowboys and indians. With the cold war to fall back on, they never have to evaluate real issues with real thought.
https://www.qubes-os.org/ claims (tongue in cheek) to be "Reasonably secure." Really it loo[k]s like they are all about the security, so this is kind of a big deal for them.
"All about security", so they insert "user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" in sudoers, right? And a PolicyKit rule for anybody to do anything? And DOM0 is set up with no-password root access? I gotta tell ya, those are real head-scratchers. They have some great ideas, but I'm not sure they are living in the same world I am.
Anything lightweight enough to fly is much too flimsy to navigate the open ocean. A Boeing 747 has a skin gauge of 1.8-2.2 mm, and is lightweight aluminum. The hull plating of the Titanic was 18.75 mm of solid steel.
And the speed and range on water would only be a tiny fraction of the speed and range in the air, anyway. That said, flying boats do have the ability to float around for extended periods if they have to (like if they break down), and they can taxi clumsily on the surface. A Catalina landed on the water to aid survivors of the USS Indianapolis. It picked up too many men to be able to take off again, so it floated with the survivors until surface vessels could be summoned to complete the rescue.
The Graf Zeppelin flew around the world in 4 hops in 1929, racking up a total flying time of 12d12h13m and a total elapsed start-to-finish time of 21d5h31m. The longest leg was Friedrichshafen, Germany to Kasumigaura, Japan; 11,743 km in 101h49m. The Pacific leg was 9634 km in 79h54m.
This was less than a year after completing the zeppelin, which was the first intercontinental commercial airship in the world. There were no breakdowns during the entire operation, and no unexpected stops or layovers. There was a full load of paying passengers and commemorative mail. Passengers slept comfortably in cabins, ate meals in a dining room, and viewed the spectacular scenery through large windows (which could be opened) from an altitude of only around 300 meters.
Contrast that with a cluster foxtrot lasting 2 years, taking 17 hops, and a total of 22 days flying time.
I have a feeling at that price the display is going to be a joke. What would be the point of connecting a 2560x1440 phone to a 800x480, or even a 1280x800 display?
There are residents in the Chernobyl exclusion zone who have lived there largely undisturbed and unhurt since right after the accident.
In the 'exclusion zone': yes. Close to the original site: no.
Reactor #2 at the Chernobyl power plant continued operations from the day of the accident with reactor #4 until 1991. Reactor #1 operated until 1996. Reactor #3 operated until 2000. The people operating those reactors weren't just working in the "exclusion zone", nor even NEAR the site. They were ON the site. And no harm came to them.
$32 Billion is a lot, even for a company the size of Apple.
Apple dwarfs SoftBank. In the Forbes Global 2000 list, SoftBank is #69, with total assets of $179 billion, a market value of $67 billion, and an annual profit of $4.3 billion. ARM holdings will cost SoftBank 7.4 years of profits.
Apple is #8, with total assets of $293 billion, a market value of $586 billion, and an annual profit of $54 billion. I don't see any other company on that list coming anywhere near Apple's annual profits. #1, ICBC, is only $44 billion. Acquiring ARM Holdings would only cost Apple 0.6 years of profits.
It would have made a lot of sense for Apple to make the acquisition. By far the greatest part of Apple's profits come from products built around ARM chips: iPhones and iPads, plus, of lesser value, iPods, Apple Watches, and Apple TVs. Macs don't even come close. Apple makes its own ARM chips and is phasing out those bought from Samsung. What would make more sense than eliminating licensing fees for those chips?
I'm still trying to figure out what kind of "test" he's going to give Muslims to see whether or not they believe in Sharia law.
Just make them eat a bacon cheeseburger.
You're going to trap a lot of Christians and Jews with that.
Leviticus 11:7 And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
there's nothing in the Qu'ran as far as violence, misogyny and plain old fashioned wickedness
Are you high, or just ignorant? How about:
"kill them wherever you find them"
"fighting is prescribed for you"
"soon shall we cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers"
"those who believe fight in the cause of allah"
"and be not weak hearted in pursuit of the enemy"
"and fight them until there is no more fitna and religion is all for allah"
"Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands"
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I could only find units with 3 ethernets on their order page, and the prices were all highly insulting (over $300).
Poorly. I remember the bad old days when you had to get some change, go looking for a pay phone, find one that wasn't busted or covered with vomit, and hope the phone book page you needed wasn't torn out. All of which was a little hard to do if you had a bullet hole or knife wound in you or were being chased by bad guys or delinquents. Or if you were disabled.
Face it. Cell phones were the single most magnificent achievement to have benefited our lifetimes.
Earth to commenter. The clerk DID NOT use the machine without authorization. This is crystal clear. The EFF is absolutely correct, end of story. The clerk is guilty of theft, not some trumped-up "computer crime". Jesus save us from this SHIT. It is criminal justice CORRUPTION, plain and simple.
Why on earth would you agree with that? There is absolutely no sign whatsoever that commercial solar powered flight could ever possibly be achieved.
And took 15 months to do it. Magellan circled the world in 1519-1522 in 36 months, also using no fuel, but bringing back 26 tons of spices. The Solar Impulse 2 could barely carry one pilot and nothing else.
Since then, the sailing circumnavigation record has improved to 45 days, and the solo record is 58 days. Makes a sick joke out of the Solar Impulse 2.
Let's see. Very close to 500 years between the two feats. Going in, there was essentially no medicine or surgery, no proper Bessemer steel production, no internal or external combustion engines, no manned flight, no electricity, no radio or any travel or long distance communication faster than horses, no printed newspapers, and so on. 500 years later, and the state of travel without using fuel has not really advanced a bit.
Who is "we"? Russia *IS* a representative democratic republic, Sparky. It's just as much a "democracy" as the US. As for the Crimea, the people spoke in a referendum, and unification with Russia won. Look, the Crimea was always overrun since antiquity by one set of conquerors after another; it got its ass handed to it when it was annexed by Russia in 1783. Then the USSR colonized it pretty thoroughly from 1917 on. Unfortunate, but no way is that going to be undone, any more than the seizure of North and South America from the natives by Europeans will be undone.
The cold war was too much of a good thing for too many of the power elite for them to let it go. Part of it (but not all of it) is that it fits their worldview of cowboys and indians. With the cold war to fall back on, they never have to evaluate real issues with real thought.
"All about security", so they insert "user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" in sudoers, right? And a PolicyKit rule for anybody to do anything? And DOM0 is set up with no-password root access? I gotta tell ya, those are real head-scratchers. They have some great ideas, but I'm not sure they are living in the same world I am.
Leave WHAT? Leave town? Is there any chance you could make your point comprehensibly?
That is weird, weird logic. I prefer simply this:
"The government should fear the citizens. The citizens should not be in fear of their government."
All he has to do is change "HTTPS" to "UTF-8".
WTF?
It's just the fruits of the laughably poor, misfocused public education system.
Why do we have to pick one or the other? Greenie weenies are both scientifically ignorant AND dishonest.
The no-fly list, being deemed mentally deranged, and being deemed mentally incompetent, are all wide open doors for abusing human rights.
Anything lightweight enough to fly is much too flimsy to navigate the open ocean. A Boeing 747 has a skin gauge of 1.8-2.2 mm, and is lightweight aluminum. The hull plating of the Titanic was 18.75 mm of solid steel.
And the speed and range on water would only be a tiny fraction of the speed and range in the air, anyway. That said, flying boats do have the ability to float around for extended periods if they have to (like if they break down), and they can taxi clumsily on the surface. A Catalina landed on the water to aid survivors of the USS Indianapolis. It picked up too many men to be able to take off again, so it floated with the survivors until surface vessels could be summoned to complete the rescue.
On what planet is 38.8 meters "similar" to 99.5 meters? And no, 36.9 meters is not "longer" than 66.7 meters.
The Graf Zeppelin flew around the world in 4 hops in 1929, racking up a total flying time of 12d12h13m and a total elapsed start-to-finish time of 21d5h31m. The longest leg was Friedrichshafen, Germany to Kasumigaura, Japan; 11,743 km in 101h49m. The Pacific leg was 9634 km in 79h54m.
This was less than a year after completing the zeppelin, which was the first intercontinental commercial airship in the world. There were no breakdowns during the entire operation, and no unexpected stops or layovers. There was a full load of paying passengers and commemorative mail. Passengers slept comfortably in cabins, ate meals in a dining room, and viewed the spectacular scenery through large windows (which could be opened) from an altitude of only around 300 meters.
Contrast that with a cluster foxtrot lasting 2 years, taking 17 hops, and a total of 22 days flying time.
I have a feeling at that price the display is going to be a joke. What would be the point of connecting a 2560x1440 phone to a 800x480, or even a 1280x800 display?
Reactor #2 at the Chernobyl power plant continued operations from the day of the accident with reactor #4 until 1991. Reactor #1 operated until 1996. Reactor #3 operated until 2000. The people operating those reactors weren't just working in the "exclusion zone", nor even NEAR the site. They were ON the site. And no harm came to them.
Apple dwarfs SoftBank. In the Forbes Global 2000 list, SoftBank is #69, with total assets of $179 billion, a market value of $67 billion, and an annual profit of $4.3 billion. ARM holdings will cost SoftBank 7.4 years of profits.
Apple is #8, with total assets of $293 billion, a market value of $586 billion, and an annual profit of $54 billion. I don't see any other company on that list coming anywhere near Apple's annual profits. #1, ICBC, is only $44 billion. Acquiring ARM Holdings would only cost Apple 0.6 years of profits.
It would have made a lot of sense for Apple to make the acquisition. By far the greatest part of Apple's profits come from products built around ARM chips: iPhones and iPads, plus, of lesser value, iPods, Apple Watches, and Apple TVs. Macs don't even come close. Apple makes its own ARM chips and is phasing out those bought from Samsung. What would make more sense than eliminating licensing fees for those chips?
BWAHAHAHA! What's it like out there in fantasyland? How is it possible for anyone to be that ignorant?
The legend is of a boob in a motor home who engaged cruise control and went in the back to lie down.
You're going to trap a lot of Christians and Jews with that.
Leviticus 11:7
And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
Are you high, or just ignorant? How about:
"kill them wherever you find them"
"fighting is prescribed for you"
"soon shall we cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers"
"those who believe fight in the cause of allah"
"and be not weak hearted in pursuit of the enemy"
"and fight them until there is no more fitna and religion is all for allah"
"Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands"
and on, and on, and on.