Every time I hear or read about people demanding that electric cars somehow make unnecessary noises I get a little annoyed. One of the great things about electric cars (beyond not running on fossil fuel) is that they don't contribute to noise pollution.
I think it would be sufficient if one would just require to have someone with a red flag walk in front of every hybrid vehicle.
The article obviously failed to look at the total -eh- impact of hybrids killing pedestrians: The people who text while walking and cross the street without looking are also the people who text while driving and turn right without checking for bicycles.
So, overall pedestrian-killing hybrids might make the road safer for bicycles and pedestrians.
If the EU wants to prevent this type of misleading advertisement, my regulation-loving communist heart is all with them
Otherwise you soon have bottled water with a sticker "Can prevent deadly dehydration!",
corn syrup saying "Fat free", and on the lard package:"naturally low in carbohydrates!" -And who would want to live in a country like that ?!
(That was a rhetorical question - If you're an American, you can put your hand down again.)
If you value the play factor, you might consider getting one of the GPS kid tracking cell phones, but monthly fees will get you up to over $400 before you finish 4 years of school, even for the cheapest of cell phones.
Put in a European sim card. With roaming fees it is probably a couple $ per call, but you only need it when the scooter gets stolen. And a $20 card is good for a year.
Their main goal is not to maximize shareholder value, but to maximize member usefulness.
I was with a CU for a few years when they sent me a "check" over a few thousand dollars in the mail with a letter stating "you earned it". Cashing the check would have given me instant credit with very poor conditions (and at the same time it took them forever to clear my checks). I found that quite dishonest, not something I'd expect from a credit union that doesn't go for maximal profit but for usefulness.
Within a month I was with a different credit union. Lesson learned: Not-for-profit isn't enough. There are not-for-profit HMOs, where members never learn about or participate in internal decisions, but that have a well-paid CEO. And there are the same kind of credit unions that don't treat you much better than a for-profit bank would; usually they have their branches right at the mall or in the shopping center.
but when you need to gather information about someone all day it'd be a lot more fun to wear a shirt or something than have to carry a machine
Yes, but now you can also gather information about people who weren't carrying a machine before.
Think access control and exact location data for patients and staff, where they went, how long, who they met,..
Geeks are not more likely to have autistic kids.
- but there is a very high probability that they will have kids that are indistinguishable from autistic kids.
Dear Sir or Madam,
That xattrs of yours sounds like a wonderful idea!
But why not take it a step further? I could imagine an operating system where everything is just a file:
You plug in a camera, it shows up as a file. Hardware properties? Read them from a file and change them by writing to a file. CPU Speed? Sleep states? An audio stream? - I know it sounds crazy. But someone should really try it.
the desktop is dead, they say.
user now have tablets, notebooks, phones, they say
as computers become more common place, users will move away from the old desktop paradigm, they say.
but I use my desktop as a workhorse, I customize it, I use bash, I have my own views how things should look.
Yes, the desktop as a consumer device is dead, the desktop as a linux user device isn't.
Ubuntu has to decide whether it wants to please users or consumers.
If Windows is like a car with the hood welded shut, then Ubuntu is like a car where they put the lever to unlock the hood in a different place with each model. And they don't tell the driver, because it would only confuse him...
Wait, I don't get it, what's the name of that new voice assistant again?
Exactly!
"Hack enables Siri" is not a catchy head line.
I suggest "I can haz Siri" or "Make Siri your bitch."
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Well RMS is really just a big downer/complainer anyways. I personally have little respect for him as a person, he isn't someone I would want to work with or even socialize with.
You should invite him over for an oyster breakfast sometimes.
If your brain overheats, it increases the risk of cancer and all kinds of degenerative diseases. On top of that,
studies show that a tinfoil hat might actually work as a parabolic dish and increase radiation.
At the very least, wear an ice-pack and don't look at your wifi router while wearing a tinfoil hat
The supposed cancer risk with cell phones is that a microwave radiation source close to your skin will increase the temperature in some cells which increases the cancer risk. However, this temperature increase is very localized and only temporary. If there is a risk, it will be way below 10^ -5 and hard to quantify, since it is somehow a problem to find people that don't expose themselves to other cancer risks, like walking in the sun, eating a byte of junk food, or not getting enough sleep or being stressed...
Microsoft is not a "cool" brand. It's the brand that people are forced to use in the office because Microsoft has essentially left no choice. This is not a good reason to buy Microsoft.
Not just forced into. People who are not interested in computers at all will buy Microsoft. People who just want something that is common enough to not be too out of the ordinary or avantgarde-ish. If Microsoft made fanboy T-Shirts they would say "default"
Are you all so subtly implying that there are clueless people on the internets and that they don't follow the first rule to sit on one's hands for a while before posting? .. or was that just the sound of a chair flying by?
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Every time I hear or read about people demanding that electric cars somehow make unnecessary noises I get a little annoyed. One of the great things about electric cars (beyond not running on fossil fuel) is that they don't contribute to noise pollution.
I think it would be sufficient if one would just require to have someone with a red flag walk in front of every hybrid vehicle.
The article obviously failed to look at the total -eh- impact of hybrids killing pedestrians: The people who text while walking and cross the street without looking are also the people who text while driving and turn right without checking for bicycles.
So, overall pedestrian-killing hybrids might make the road safer for bicycles and pedestrians.
If the EU wants to prevent this type of misleading advertisement, my regulation-loving communist heart is all with them
Otherwise you soon have bottled water with a sticker "Can prevent deadly dehydration!", corn syrup saying "Fat free", and on the lard package:"naturally low in carbohydrates!"
-And who would want to live in a country like that ?!
(That was a rhetorical question - If you're an American, you can put your hand down again.)
If you value the play factor, you might consider getting one of the GPS kid tracking cell phones, but monthly fees will get you up to over $400 before you finish 4 years of school, even for the cheapest of cell phones.
Put in a European sim card. With roaming fees it is probably a couple $ per call, but you only need it when the scooter gets stolen. And a $20 card is good for a year.
Women have been hiding messages in voice streams in like forever.
Now have a look outside of that window. Where would the bees go to collect the pollen?
Their main goal is not to maximize shareholder value, but to maximize member usefulness.
I was with a CU for a few years when they sent me a "check" over a few thousand dollars in the mail with a letter stating "you earned it". Cashing the check would have given me instant credit with very poor conditions (and at the same time it took them forever to clear my checks). I found that quite dishonest, not something I'd expect from a credit union that doesn't go for maximal profit but for usefulness.
Within a month I was with a different credit union. Lesson learned: Not-for-profit isn't enough. There are not-for-profit HMOs, where members never learn about or participate in internal decisions, but that have a well-paid CEO. And there are the same kind of credit unions that don't treat you much better than a for-profit bank would; usually they have their branches right at the mall or in the shopping center.
but when you need to gather information about someone all day it'd be a lot more fun to wear a shirt or something than have to carry a machine
Yes, but now you can also gather information about people who weren't carrying a machine before.
Think access control and exact location data for patients and staff, where they went, how long, who they met,..
Could they connect that to an on-star like service? So if grandma gets lost or wanders off again, they could shut her down remotely.
Geeks are not more likely to have autistic kids.
- but there is a very high probability that they will have kids that are indistinguishable from autistic kids.
Just make sure you have your towel ready.
Dear Sir or Madam,
That xattrs of yours sounds like a wonderful idea!
But why not take it a step further? I could imagine an operating system where everything is just a file: You plug in a camera, it shows up as a file. Hardware properties? Read them from a file and change them by writing to a file. CPU Speed? Sleep states? An audio stream? - I know it sounds crazy. But someone should really try it.
..your momma.
the desktop is dead, they say.
user now have tablets, notebooks, phones, they say
as computers become more common place, users will move away from the old desktop paradigm, they say.
but I use my desktop as a workhorse, I customize it, I use bash, I have my own views how things should look.
Yes, the desktop as a consumer device is dead, the desktop as a linux user device isn't.
Ubuntu has to decide whether it wants to please users or consumers.
... too annoyed by!
If Windows is like a car with the hood welded shut, then Ubuntu is like a car where they put the lever to unlock the hood in a different place with each model. And they don't tell the driver, because it would only confuse him...
(+1 car analogy)
Wait, I don't get it, what's the name of that new voice assistant again?
Exactly!
"Hack enables Siri" is not a catchy head line.
I suggest "I can haz Siri" or "Make Siri your bitch."
Well RMS is really just a big downer/complainer anyways. I personally have little respect for him as a person, he isn't someone I would want to work with or even socialize with.
You should invite him over for an oyster breakfast sometimes.
Good thing, Apple didn't name it Anna or Bob
Do tinfoil hats cause cancer?
Most certainly!
If your brain overheats, it increases the risk of cancer and all kinds of degenerative diseases. On top of that, studies show that a tinfoil hat might actually work as a parabolic dish and increase radiation.
At the very least, wear an ice-pack and don't look at your wifi router while wearing a tinfoil hat
The supposed cancer risk with cell phones is that a microwave radiation source close to your skin will increase the temperature in some cells which increases the cancer risk. However, this temperature increase is very localized and only temporary. If there is a risk, it will be way below 10^ -5 and hard to quantify, since it is somehow a problem to find people that don't expose themselves to other cancer risks, like walking in the sun, eating a byte of junk food, or not getting enough sleep or being stressed...
and the tablet from the Romans!
Why hasn't Steve rolled away the stone?
Because He doesn't have to?
Whenever He copied something, He always made it better and even more awesome than the original.
Microsoft is not a "cool" brand. It's the brand that people are forced to use in the office because Microsoft has essentially left no choice. This is not a good reason to buy Microsoft.
Not just forced into. People who are not interested in computers at all will buy Microsoft. People who just want something that is common enough to not be too out of the ordinary or avantgarde-ish. If Microsoft made fanboy T-Shirts they would say "default"
WHOOOOOOOSHH....
Are you all so subtly implying that there are clueless people on the internets and that they don't follow the first rule to sit on one's hands for a while before posting?
.. or was that just the sound of a chair flying by?
.. would the tea party support a NASA budget that wants to spend money for going to Europe.