See also "time-sharing", "client-server" and "thin clients". Much of the evolution of computers has been a power struggle between centralization by technology producers and decentralization by users. "The cloud" is just more of the same.
I'll bet Steve Jobs' wife didn't pay any inheritance tax, either. Sometimes I think our system is broken in ways that only a revolution will fix. I'll be shocked if Zuckerberg actually pays that tax bill, versus finding a way around it.
Mike Brown discovered the planetoids that led to Pluto's demotion, but Tyson removed Pluto from a display at his planetarium, then wrote a book about it.
People just don't want to hear about it. They have their job, they expect you to do yours without bothering them about it.
Their eyes also glaze over when the air conditioner repairman starts talking about details of condenser recharging, or whatever. Computers are appliances these days, and appliance repair isn't very interesting.
That study is amazing; they found that people on cell phones slow down, change lanes less, and increase their following distance, and concluded that it's a bad thing because of societal costs of delay.
What I'd like to know: don't all three of those behavior changes lead to more safety? Maybe that's why accident rates and deaths have dropped steadily as cell-phone use has increased over the past twenty years.
The mantra in the media these days is "talking on a cell phone is as bad as drinking" while driving, based entirely on simulator studies where drivers are distracted. But drunks get aggressive and speed up, while cell phone users slow down. I suspect the popular image of cell phones as instruments of death is not only wrong, but completely backwards; they may actually be saving lives.
Our government bought up tons of shitty toxic assets from dumbshit investors to 'save' them yet no one tried to 'save' the jobs of the working class by just dumping billions of dollars into the rest of America.
How about the $25 billion bailouts of GM and Chrysler? Or did you mean "trillions"?
A bigger problem is their wild inconsistency on single books versus series; a great example is the top of the list: the Lord of the Rings trilogy, then a single book from the Hitchhikers "trilogy", then Ender's Game as a singleton, then Dune as a series, etc. Later they have two Asimov robot books separately, then The Silmarillion (but not The Hobbit), and so on.
Slashdot Mirror
Or: Turn on camera. Take picture of screen.
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids.
In fact, it's cold as Hell.
Grass-fed hoppers.
Locking an account after 20 wrong guesses enables a simple denial-of-service attack by your enemies.
And you mispeled "incompetant".
More warming means less ice, which should mean more sunlight and more plankton growth, hence more carbon tied up.
It's the first indicator of an invasion from Titan! Kurt Vonnegut foresaw this happening decades ago.
My house is 60 miles from the nearest FedEx Ground depot.
I'm guessing you're not too close to a Best Buy either.
Why can't people in rural or semi-rural parts of the US just use Amazon like everyone else in the US?
Exactly. FedEx will deliver anywhere.
Best Buy lost me years ago, deliberately. Pity, as they used to be one of my favorite stores.
{cue the former Y2K programmers pointing out that they saved the world}
Since when does an automobile entertainment system need security updates? Oh, the wonders of Microsoft...
See also "time-sharing", "client-server" and "thin clients". Much of the evolution of computers has been a power struggle between centralization by technology producers and decentralization by users. "The cloud" is just more of the same.
I'm better than your average driver.
Isn't everybody? ;)
I'll bet Steve Jobs' wife didn't pay any inheritance tax, either. Sometimes I think our system is broken in ways that only a revolution will fix. I'll be shocked if Zuckerberg actually pays that tax bill, versus finding a way around it.
Mike Brown discovered the planetoids that led to Pluto's demotion, but Tyson removed Pluto from a display at his planetarium, then wrote a book about it.
Great. The we should decrease their budget by at lease this much for the next fiscal year.
So instead of $8,100,000,000, they'll only get $8,099,600,000. That'll show 'em.
People just don't want to hear about it. They have their job, they expect you to do yours without bothering them about it.
Their eyes also glaze over when the air conditioner repairman starts talking about details of condenser recharging, or whatever. Computers are appliances these days, and appliance repair isn't very interesting.
3. It's incredibly expensive, and no private entity is going to fund it at half a billion dollars per launch.
That study is amazing; they found that people on cell phones slow down, change lanes less, and increase their following distance, and concluded that it's a bad thing because of societal costs of delay.
What I'd like to know: don't all three of those behavior changes lead to more safety? Maybe that's why accident rates and deaths have dropped steadily as cell-phone use has increased over the past twenty years.
The mantra in the media these days is "talking on a cell phone is as bad as drinking" while driving, based entirely on simulator studies where drivers are distracted. But drunks get aggressive and speed up, while cell phone users slow down. I suspect the popular image of cell phones as instruments of death is not only wrong, but completely backwards; they may actually be saving lives.
Our government bought up tons of shitty toxic assets from dumbshit investors to 'save' them yet no one tried to 'save' the jobs of the working class by just dumping billions of dollars into the rest of America.
How about the $25 billion bailouts of GM and Chrysler? Or did you mean "trillions"?
Funny, this is exactly the type of pompous pinhead slashdot response I was expecting to see.
Nice, a self-referential response.
"The protester" must be the one person left in our local "occupy" demonstration. He looks cold.
If the car isn't slowing down, it's more likely to run the light.
Deep.
One hesitates to suggest that if this was a vaccine against prostate cancer there would not be so much discussion.
CDC estimates that about 7,500 US males get cancer from HPV every year. This includes 400 cases of penile cancer. That should get their attention. :)
A bigger problem is their wild inconsistency on single books versus series; a great example is the top of the list: the Lord of the Rings trilogy, then a single book from the Hitchhikers "trilogy", then Ender's Game as a singleton, then Dune as a series, etc. Later they have two Asimov robot books separately, then The Silmarillion (but not The Hobbit), and so on.
It's soul was eaten by Carly.