No. But then if I was driving the semi, I wouldn't have kept on reversing till I hit the shuttle either.
If I was the truck driver I would assume the shuttle would give way and let me complete my reversing manoeuvre, as that is what a (sane) human driver would have done.
Your tax dollars arent subsidizing my hobby you collosal asshat
I think the point is that we taxpayers are providing you with a free racetrack. Which would be a valid argument if no one used the roads except for boy-racers, and there were no commuters, people shopping, trucks delivering goods etc.
If there's one thing I regret about my teenage years, it's the hours I wasted away playing Starcraft. Get your kid a guitar, enroll him in sports, buy him books, get him a chemistry set. There are all sorts of intellectually stimulating activities that aren't a total waste of the human brain.
Unless he's going to become a professional musician, sportsman, writer or research chemist, these activities are equally a 'waste of time.'
In fact, everybody needs to do things for the sheer enjoyment, playing games is one of these. No one's saying you have to play Starcraft/whatever 12 hours a day.
look for one with a trackpad you are comfortable with. the vast majority of windows laptops i have used dont even come close to the usability that apples trackpads have.
The traditional way of doing long division is actually quite clumsy and mechanical in itself. I'm not sure why people here are holding it as some pure, classic method of training kids in logical analysis/ thinking. It's a bodge. Carry one over, cross out the 7 and write a little 8 next to it in pencil? Seriously, it's a kludge.
When a single btc will be worth $70k, those idiots will still spew their usual nonsense.
Why not just say $70 bazillion gillion trillion? Oh, because maybe then everyone would see how fucking ridiculous it is to think that a commodity can go on increasing in value ad infinitum.
This was, in essence, my first thought on reading the headline. C'mon, guys, there's nothing you really NEED a printer for on the ISS. Or much of anywhere else. Mostly, they're just legacy because some management type somewhere thinks that they need a "paper trail" for something. Not realizing you can accomplish the same end electronically....
You really ought to let NASA know about your concerns, they almost certainly are just buying these printers as some sort of elaborate joke.
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Hasn't anyone told you that people are tired of the russia defense? Someone meeds to update your script.
I thought we had progressed to the "well it's not as bad as North Korea" defence?
Ok, I'll bite..I'm stupid Someone explain to me what "bespoke typeface" means.
Does your internets not have the Google?
There are FOUR basic fonts, sans, serif, mono and comic sans. (The later is for websites).
Right, there are four basic fonts, sans, serif, mono, comic sans and OMG Ponies...FIVE basic fonts. I'll start again.
If I see Arial or Calibri, I deduce that someone has used a Microsoft product.
Yeah, it's a good way of working out who's behind that Word or Excel or Powerpoint file you got by email.
No. But then if I was driving the semi, I wouldn't have kept on reversing till I hit the shuttle either.
If I was the truck driver I would assume the shuttle would give way and let me complete my reversing manoeuvre, as that is what a (sane) human driver would have done.
Motorcyclists learn a useful rule of the road: if it's bigger than you, assume it's trying to kill you. Can't be that hard to program.
the 75% of the world who actually like driving manually (or at least like having the option)
You can't argue against solid statistics like that!
Your tax dollars arent subsidizing my hobby you collosal asshat
I think the point is that we taxpayers are providing you with a free racetrack. Which would be a valid argument if no one used the roads except for boy-racers, and there were no commuters, people shopping, trucks delivering goods etc.
If there's one thing I regret about my teenage years, it's the hours I wasted away playing Starcraft. Get your kid a guitar, enroll him in sports, buy him books, get him a chemistry set. There are all sorts of intellectually stimulating activities that aren't a total waste of the human brain.
Unless he's going to become a professional musician, sportsman, writer or research chemist, these activities are equally a 'waste of time.'
In fact, everybody needs to do things for the sheer enjoyment, playing games is one of these. No one's saying you have to play Starcraft/whatever 12 hours a day.
look for one with a trackpad you are comfortable with. the vast majority of windows laptops i have used dont even come close to the usability that apples trackpads have.
Or buy a $20 mouse like 99% of sane users.
Wow, you can't have used Windows since the XP days, prior to Service Pack 1... So 2002 maybe?
A True Slashdotter hasn't used Windows since 1991 when he first installed Linux, and so isn't familiar with anything after Windows 3.1
Nice word vomit. Did a fake research paper alogrithm write that for you?
Translation: I disagree with you but I can't be arsed to respond to your points so I'll throw out a general insult instead.
as someone with too high of an IQ to be swayed by ideological (as opposed to logical) arguments
Well, it's an improvement on the normal slashdot "as someone with an IQ too high to be measured by your puny sheeple methods" I suppose.
The traditional way of doing long division is actually quite clumsy and mechanical in itself. I'm not sure why people here are holding it as some pure, classic method of training kids in logical analysis/ thinking. It's a bodge. Carry one over, cross out the 7 and write a little 8 next to it in pencil? Seriously, it's a kludge.
BitCoin doesn't go down over the long haul. $1000 in BTC means $2000 in a few months, pretty much guaranteed.
Yeah, nothing says "legit " like a promised rate of return of over 100%
The value isn't going anywhere but up.
This is economically impossible.
When a single btc will be worth $70k, those idiots will still spew their usual nonsense.
Why not just say $70 bazillion gillion trillion? Oh, because maybe then everyone would see how fucking ridiculous it is to think that a commodity can go on increasing in value ad infinitum.
I got bingo on "the redesign of our application will be disruptive."
I think someone should point out to them that you're not supposed to disrupt your own fucking business.
Is it really funny? Or are you just bitter that you can't the best phone on the market?
I can the best phone on the market!
There are food printers, you can print with chocolate!! What could be more important than that?
Alcohol printers?
Don't ask what I do with the other devices.
What do you do with the other devices then?
This is 2017, when printers are all but obsolete, for ANYTHING.
Evidently you are too young to actually work in a real office.
From a Millennial's point of view being forced to work in a real office is basically Nazism.
I assumed Slashdot would just insert paragraphs as I typed them in the box, but I guess I have to actually enter the breaks in code.....
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I seriously doubt that some mid level manager is deciding what gets sent to the ISS.
This was, in essence, my first thought on reading the headline. C'mon, guys, there's nothing you really NEED a printer for on the ISS. Or much of anywhere else. Mostly, they're just legacy because some management type somewhere thinks that they need a "paper trail" for something. Not realizing you can accomplish the same end electronically....
You really ought to let NASA know about your concerns, they almost certainly are just buying these printers as some sort of elaborate joke.