Most cars have folding seats which can be opened into the trunk from the inside. second a lot of cars have internal trunk release levers. you can open the trunk from the front seat.
exactly. cloud makes them more dependent on outside services which if you get an interruption say a drunk driver killing the local power and telecommunication grid then your completely fucked.
His excuse for moving to the could is weak, the physical servers and data were probably fine. the local power/ communication lines where probably being repaired which was effecting his uptime more than the servers being on site.
The only advantage of the cloud in such a case is you can make everyone work from home.
I love Ballmer, if anyone is going to permantly bury Microsoft it will be Ballmer. I say let Ballmer stay until he is forced out by the shareholders revolting and then Icann can show him how to properly strip mine a company of anything useful.
simple because what we don't KNOW about reality is a billion times greater than what we do know. Or when i was sleeping did we solve the physics of Gravity?
What happens if you take a higgs particle and add it to an existing atom?
Those two things alone should make you think about others. I think we are going to find a way to expand small quantum mechcanics effects on larger scales. Of course it is a pipe dream, and probably false but it is better than the flat earth philosophy you seem to think of .
I don't give a rats ass comparing anything to GDP. the Gross Domestic Profit has absolutely nothing to do with the Government, and anyone who says other wise is a fucking idiot.
Definition of 'Gross Domestic Product - GDP' The monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period,
Where does that definition say anything about Government income(taxes)? Why do people think that just because you and me run a million dollar business that we are worth a Million dollars? So why is the government worth the GDP, when it only worth the tax dollars paid into it?
Sorry I didn't mean to go off on you personally. I just get annoyed when people think the GDP is some how related government, and government spending. Taxes are the sole income of government.
I wish they would stop making it so easy to integrate stuff into chrome.
I was testing software packages for work and I spent 30 minutes removing self installing tool bars from chrome. I would remove one extension but by the time I got to remove the second one it would install the first one again.
I don't want 4 extension 3, toolbars, 2 home page settings, each with the ability to install software by themselves.
well drones are good for everything but thinking, and real time data processing. In case you didn't realize it but drones have a several second delay between button push and reaction. Something to do with Speed of light and satellite communications.
Drones are only good after an airspace has been cleared of enemy combat aircraft. Otherwise they are sitting ducks, easily jammed, easily spoofed, easily fooled by any technologically advanced group. Iran may not have stolen a drone but I bet it did interfere enough for it to crash in a given area.
Drones will be next to useless against Russia, china, Drug cartels(eventually), etc.
The trick with that is what was the ratio of attacks stopped versus the number of people "looked" at?
In the UK their is a current debate on random stop and search used by police. The noticeable point is that it is 9% effective in finding someone doing something wrong.
So if the police stop and search 100 cars they find 9 people who are breaking the law.
Prism is spying on tens of millions, to find a couple dozen.
that is why it should be stopped. They should turn that kind of data mining loose not on the outside world but their own internal agencies. If the NSA data mines, searches emails, databases, etc they could get far better results.
It would single handily merge the agencies that don't want to cooperate and produce far better results.
amazon wasn't selling below cost. amazon was selling books at low margin.
The thing is regular bookstores have massive overhead, and old publishers where using that to keep thing artificially inflated. Why does an ebook cost more than a regular book? You have to pay the writer the same, you have to pay the editor the same, you have to give a publisher their same pie, but you no longer have to pay multiple levels of distribution, shipping, printing, storage, inventory costs. that right there is 20-40% of the price of a book.
I am at work right now using VGA. Dell is selling VGA only computers right now.
I got lucky we ordered mine with dual video outputs to run two monitors. one runs from HDMI to DVI, the other is straight VGA. Talk about a complicated setup with stupid adaptors. but if say thunderbolt were standard then it wouldn't be a problem. but vendors don't like making products better only more money at the products they sell.
If the terminators are built of this kind of plastic then I am not afraid. all you have to do is tell your kids there is candy inside and they will be torn to shreds in seconds with no one hurt.
Seriously we are a long way from being able to do this with metal, or even circuit chips.
Heck all I want is to be able to do it with various types of rubber and silicone for gaskets, and other simple parts.
The egyptians tried that to protect others from their plague ridden corpses. Instead we call them tourist attractions, putting the bodies on display.
Heck even the egyptians put warnings we could read on the outside.
No the best bet is to bury it completely and really deeply preferably at the bottom of the ocean, where the water can act as a moderator for any spills.
There is a third point the other commentator missed.
Right now even big companies are spending tens and hundreds of millions of dollars fighting these trolls. Patent Trolling is a multi billion dollar industry.billions that are costing even big companies like microsoft enough money to show up on upper management's radar.
it sounds like a joke, but I had one of the original Athlon processors. I couldn't put cover on the case or else the system would over heat. and even then it used four fans to draw air over it.
actually businesses won't care either in the short term.
As when th updates start businesses will no longer worry that an update might break their tools, so they can keep on working without fear. Also a lot of businesses are going virtual.
I took a new job last august, the machine I was initially given was win 2K. Now they updated it almost immediately for me, but other than the crappy keyboard, mouse and monitor,all it ran was remote desktop to the server.
The thing is if you line the theater walls, the interior hallways will also be blocked.
However once upon a time there was a thing called a Pay Phone. It had a cord.
There are very few things that happen in theaters that require immediate assistance. However I have always preferred the jammer solution. That could easily be turned off by theater personnel in an emergency.
For Most people to accept change, they must see some form of benefit to themselves to justify the difficulties. However there will always be those who refuse to accept the change and fight it just because they really can't accept change.
We did an ERP software shift at work. the move itself hasn't been bad. while it isn't perfect, there is a single problem I can't seem to get beyond with one user. She refuses to look at a single column, when the entering information. It clearly shows a major error in Units of Measure. All she has to do is change the Unit of Measure and everything will line back up. But nope. she can't get into that habit. I have to go back in and fix it afterwards. This same person has allergies. She refuses to adjust her allergy meds even though they clearly don't work anymore.
Actually the real reason so few died is because there were dozens of medics standing by at the end of the race course anyways.
They were doing medical triage on site 30 seconds after the explosions. That is why only three died. It is also why only those in desperate need were being rushed to the hospital.
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two points about valet keys.
Most cars have folding seats which can be opened into the trunk from the inside. second a lot of cars have internal trunk release levers. you can open the trunk from the front seat.
exactly. cloud makes them more dependent on outside services which if you get an interruption say a drunk driver killing the local power and telecommunication grid then your completely fucked.
His excuse for moving to the could is weak, the physical servers and data were probably fine. the local power/ communication lines where probably being repaired which was effecting his uptime more than the servers being on site.
The only advantage of the cloud in such a case is you can make everyone work from home.
I love Ballmer, if anyone is going to permantly bury Microsoft it will be Ballmer. I say let Ballmer stay until he is forced out by the shareholders revolting and then Icann can show him how to properly strip mine a company of anything useful.
simple because what we don't KNOW about reality is a billion times greater than what we do know. Or when i was sleeping did we solve the physics of Gravity?
What happens if you take a higgs particle and add it to an existing atom?
Those two things alone should make you think about others. I think we are going to find a way to expand small quantum mechcanics effects on larger scales. Of course it is a pipe dream, and probably false but it is better than the flat earth philosophy you seem to think of .
The problem is GDP doesn't reflect government income in any way shape or form.
even in a pure Communist society the GDP will never equal 100% of government income.
What is needed is GTR Government Tax Revenue. That way we can compare how much money is going into and out of the government.
I don't give a rats ass comparing anything to GDP. the Gross Domestic Profit has absolutely nothing to do with the Government, and anyone who says other wise is a fucking idiot.
Definition of 'Gross Domestic Product - GDP'
The monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period,
Where does that definition say anything about Government income(taxes)? Why do people think that just because you and me run a million dollar business that we are worth a Million dollars? So why is the government worth the GDP, when it only worth the tax dollars paid into it?
Sorry I didn't mean to go off on you personally. I just get annoyed when people think the GDP is some how related government, and government spending. Taxes are the sole income of government.
oh don't forget about internal heating. Internal heating has been slightly altering Voyager's trajectory for the last decade.
you can stream blurry? crap I am in Massachusetts and I can only sometimes stream 720P HD.
Most of the time I am limited to SD. Which is generally fine as SD is cheaper and 90% of the stuff I watch SD is fine.
I only switch to 720P HD when I want to. of course I have an older LCD TV so it's not like I can watch 1080P anyways.
I wish they would stop making it so easy to integrate stuff into chrome.
I was testing software packages for work and I spent 30 minutes removing self installing tool bars from chrome. I would remove one extension but by the time I got to remove the second one it would install the first one again.
I don't want 4 extension 3, toolbars, 2 home page settings, each with the ability to install software by themselves.
well drones are good for everything but thinking, and real time data processing. In case you didn't realize it but drones have a several second delay between button push and reaction. Something to do with Speed of light and satellite communications.
Drones are only good after an airspace has been cleared of enemy combat aircraft. Otherwise they are sitting ducks, easily jammed, easily spoofed, easily fooled by any technologically advanced group. Iran may not have stolen a drone but I bet it did interfere enough for it to crash in a given area.
Drones will be next to useless against Russia, china, Drug cartels(eventually), etc.
The trick with that is what was the ratio of attacks stopped versus the number of people "looked" at?
In the UK their is a current debate on random stop and search used by police. The noticeable point is that it is 9% effective in finding someone doing something wrong.
So if the police stop and search 100 cars they find 9 people who are breaking the law.
Prism is spying on tens of millions, to find a couple dozen.
that is why it should be stopped. They should turn that kind of data mining loose not on the outside world but their own internal agencies. If the NSA data mines, searches emails, databases, etc they could get far better results.
It would single handily merge the agencies that don't want to cooperate and produce far better results.
amazon wasn't selling below cost. amazon was selling books at low margin.
The thing is regular bookstores have massive overhead, and old publishers where using that to keep thing artificially inflated. Why does an ebook cost more than a regular book?
You have to pay the writer the same, you have to pay the editor the same, you have to give a publisher their same pie, but you no longer have to pay multiple levels of distribution, shipping, printing, storage, inventory costs. that right there is 20-40% of the price of a book.
um who do you think the "girls" are? This is the internet, everyone loves games and all girls are really government agents spying on you.
I am at work right now using VGA. Dell is selling VGA only computers right now.
I got lucky we ordered mine with dual video outputs to run two monitors. one runs from HDMI to DVI, the other is straight VGA. Talk about a complicated setup with stupid adaptors. but if say thunderbolt were standard then it wouldn't be a problem. but vendors don't like making products better only more money at the products they sell.
If the terminators are built of this kind of plastic then I am not afraid. all you have to do is tell your kids there is candy inside and they will be torn to shreds in seconds with no one hurt.
Seriously we are a long way from being able to do this with metal, or even circuit chips.
Heck all I want is to be able to do it with various types of rubber and silicone for gaskets, and other simple parts.
The egyptians tried that to protect others from their plague ridden corpses. Instead we call them tourist attractions, putting the bodies on display.
Heck even the egyptians put warnings we could read on the outside.
No the best bet is to bury it completely and really deeply preferably at the bottom of the ocean, where the water can act as a moderator for any spills.
Setup your voice control system and then have several people make funny sounds at it.
Even things like Siri. Are horrible at sound recognition. Try burping at it. It is funny what it thinks.
There is a third point the other commentator missed.
Right now even big companies are spending tens and hundreds of millions of dollars fighting these trolls. Patent Trolling is a multi billion dollar industry.billions that are costing even big companies like microsoft enough money to show up on upper management's radar.
it sounds like a joke, but I had one of the original Athlon processors. I couldn't put cover on the case or else the system would over heat. and even then it used four fans to draw air over it.
actually businesses won't care either in the short term.
As when th updates start businesses will no longer worry that an update might break their tools, so they can keep on working without fear. Also a lot of businesses are going virtual.
I took a new job last august, the machine I was initially given was win 2K. Now they updated it almost immediately for me, but other than the crappy keyboard, mouse and monitor,all it ran was remote desktop to the server.
The thing is if you line the theater walls, the interior hallways will also be blocked.
However once upon a time there was a thing called a Pay Phone. It had a cord.
There are very few things that happen in theaters that require immediate assistance. However I have always preferred the jammer solution. That could easily be turned off by theater personnel in an emergency.
exactly sure the moon takes regular hits but not that regular.
you leave an odd shaped structure on the moon, with a reinforced center with whatever data you wish to preserve.
The real reason we haven't been back is because we found the message left to us by the atlantian's that said don't go into space it is expensive.
Sorry I have to modify this slightly.
For Most people to accept change, they must see some form of benefit to themselves to justify the difficulties. However there will always be those who refuse to accept the change and fight it just because they really can't accept change.
We did an ERP software shift at work. the move itself hasn't been bad. while it isn't perfect, there is a single problem I can't seem to get beyond with one user. She refuses to look at a single column, when the entering information. It clearly shows a major error in Units of Measure. All she has to do is change the Unit of Measure and everything will line back up. But nope. she can't get into that habit. I have to go back in and fix it afterwards. This same person has allergies. She refuses to adjust her allergy meds even though they clearly don't work anymore.
Some people will never accept change.
they can tell the difference between moving and non moving objects.
The next version will be able to tell the difference in general materials, brick, stone, sheetrock, wood, warm bags of no longer potable water.
The version after that will introduce portability. and thus the tricorder will be born.
Actually the real reason so few died is because there were dozens of medics standing by at the end of the race course anyways.
They were doing medical triage on site 30 seconds after the explosions. That is why only three died. It is also why only those in desperate need were being rushed to the hospital.