Was that ever a problem? start shut down, and turn out the lights, It will be down when you come back in the morning.
It is for me sometimes. If I do what you stated above, sometimes I come back the next morning and the computer is still on, stuck at the "Windows is shutting down" screen. So I always make sure the damn thing is shut down and powered off before I leave for the day.
Even after decades of Moore's Law advances, computers still can't even convert speech to text with any kind of reliability. Artificial intelligence capable of passing the Turing test? Please.
Speech recognition is just so trivial a thing compared to human-level AI, it's like the difference between learning to walk and flying to the moon. And we still can't even walk properly without falling down all over the place yet.
I can guarantee real AI will never be achieved in my lifetime. And quite possibly not in anybody's liftetime.
Yes you do have a right to refuse an update. Even Microsoft gives you this right.
Just now Windows Update ran by itself, downloaded updates and popped up an alert saying "New updates are now ready to install." Underneath was a "CANCEL" button that you can press to refuse the update.
I had no idea that Kindle had such a feature where Amazon can wipe stuff off your device without your permission.
I was seriously considering buying one for myself, and one for my brother's birthday (pre-loaded with all his favorite SF novels). No way in hell i'm gonna buy one now. I guess he's getting a set of ShamWow this year.
BTW do iPods have a similar feature, wherein Apple can delete shit off your ipod that you purchased from iTunes? I've been wanting to buy an iPod Touch and access the App store for a while now, but the things that kept me from it are 1) battery not user-replaceable and 2) concerns about hidden powers Apple might have to mess with my device without me knowing.
Seriously, whining about "low income families" everytime something useful gets proposed is getting a bit old. Won't somebody please think of the children!!
"All this will do is make insurance unaffordable to low income families"
Well then the low income families need to drive less. Actually everybody needs to drive less, regardless of income.
Agreed with everything parent said. However, he is neglecting some the benefits of the Shuttle program, which are:
Empire-building for NASA bureaucrats
Pork for well-connected defense contractors (there was NO reason why a multi-segment SRB with O-ring joints should've been chosen over a single-piece design, except that the honorable senator from Utah who controlled the space budget commitee had to deliver the bacon to his home state... and being in landlocked Utah Thiokol could not ship by barge and could only build something that fits on trains, thus the segmented design and hydrogen leaking out of O-rings on a cold day)
Employment guarantees that come with such a massive, ongoing program
Bankrupting the Soviets, who were duped into trying to copy the Shuttle with their Buran program. Each shuttle mission costs $1.5 billion per launch; great way to get those commies to waste money!
These people are simply criminals, and deserve to be locked up as such. However Hollywood is famous for making large political contributions, and their boys are in power at the moment. (not that the "other" party did anything about it either)
Pretty much everybody qualifies as a "internet user" these days, so it's not surprising that the bottom 12% are doing stupid shit. We're talking about people whose IQ is in the 80-90 range.
People who think it's a simple self control issue are idiots.
Just as an anecdote: fat kids who get drafted into the army (I'm using South Korean army as an example, but probably applies to most non-western armies) shape up fast. They are only given the same standard rations as everyone else, and you have 10 minutes exactly to eat your food. Haven't finished your meal yet? Too bad, mealtime is over. Sneaking out some Twinkies to snack on later? Get caught and you'll get beat up. Literally, the sergeant will beat the crap out of you. Too tired, can't keep up with the rest of the platoon on the 5 km march? More beating (*SLAP*).
Yes, it IS a self control issue. When control is imposed on them from outside (with physical pain as punishment), the fat kids all lose weight. After they leave the army, they fall back to their old ways again and gain the weight back, usually. Some don't though.
...but there is no reason in the world that anyone needs to be fat, regardless of any "glandular" problem.
Easier said than done. You can also say there is no reason in the world why anyone needs to be a drug/alcohol addict, or a smoker, or (insert nonoptimum behavior)
Yeah you're right, it should've been "Man may have saved its own civilization"
Personally I prefer ice age fauna myself, I think sabertooth tigers and and Wooly Mammoths are really cool. Also the sea levels were so low, there was a huge landmass called Beringia where Bearing Sea is now, and the east coast of USA extended 500 miles beyond the current shoreline.
But however interesting it may be, a full ice age would be a total catastrophe for human civilization, probably 95% of humans would be wiped out.
It would be cool though, if mankind suddenly got hold of super technology (maybe from Outsiders or Puppeteers) and migrated to Ringworld or something, and Earth reverted to an ice age...
Man saved Earth?
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IIRC, the last time sunspots were at a minimum like this, earth was in the little ice age, and hundreds of millions of people died due to crops freezing, glaciers overrunning towns, disease, etc.
So maybe we're supposed to be in another little ice age, but all the greenhouse gases warmed the planet and saved us?
Well, the argument can be made that Air France disaster was due to an act of God, and that the money they gave the families is not an admission of liability, just helping them with funeral costs (or whatever). Whereas the RIAA verdict was for a willful violation of a law by the defendant.
Not saying I agree with this, just saying one *could* look at it like that...
So it seems like this will be a great way to power a spacecraft that's already in orbit, headed to say Mars, but not something that will get us into orbit in the first place?
Kindle took over when Oprah gushed about it on her show.
You think Slashdot has a wide reach? For every eyeball on the internets reading your Slashdot post, there are probably 10,000 old women watching Oprah on TV.
"If you tapped into 1% of the power in high-altitude winds, that would be enough to continuously power all civilization."
And if you tapped into 1% of the power in the heat of the earth's core, that would be enough to power all of civilization on Zeti Reticuli, and if you tapped into 1% of the solar output by building a tiny Dyson sphere that would be enough to power all of Known Space. But let's first ask ourselves, is it practical and cost-effective?
If the textbooks you require are available at Amazon, you can save money (ebooks cost less than paper)... if you need to buy lots of them then you might even save enough to offset the Kindle purchase price.
If not, there are other readers that handle PDF better (*ony makes one)
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Was that ever a problem? start shut down, and turn out the lights, It will be down when you come back in the morning.
It is for me sometimes. If I do what you stated above, sometimes I come back the next morning and the computer is still on, stuck at the "Windows is shutting down" screen. So I always make sure the damn thing is shut down and powered off before I leave for the day.
Are you the inventor of the world famous gay panel ?
Why was this modded -1 Troll? I was laughing my ass off :O
Even after decades of Moore's Law advances, computers still can't even convert speech to text with any kind of reliability. Artificial intelligence capable of passing the Turing test? Please.
Speech recognition is just so trivial a thing compared to human-level AI, it's like the difference between learning to walk and flying to the moon. And we still can't even walk properly without falling down all over the place yet.
I can guarantee real AI will never be achieved in my lifetime. And quite possibly not in anybody's liftetime.
Yes you do have a right to refuse an update. Even Microsoft gives you this right.
Just now Windows Update ran by itself, downloaded updates and popped up an alert saying "New updates are now ready to install." Underneath was a "CANCEL" button that you can press to refuse the update.
I had no idea that Kindle had such a feature where Amazon can wipe stuff off your device without your permission.
I was seriously considering buying one for myself, and one for my brother's birthday (pre-loaded with all his favorite SF novels). No way in hell i'm gonna buy one now. I guess he's getting a set of ShamWow this year.
BTW do iPods have a similar feature, wherein Apple can delete shit off your ipod that you purchased from iTunes? I've been wanting to buy an iPod Touch and access the App store for a while now, but the things that kept me from it are 1) battery not user-replaceable and 2) concerns about hidden powers Apple might have to mess with my device without me knowing.
Seriously, whining about "low income families" everytime something useful gets proposed is getting a bit old. Won't somebody please think of the children!!
"All this will do is make insurance unaffordable to low income families"
Well then the low income families need to drive less. Actually everybody needs to drive less, regardless of income.
According to the studios, Spider-Man, Return of the Jedi and Forrest Gump all lost money and therefore no royalty on net income needs to be paid.
These people are simply criminals, and deserve to be locked up as such. However Hollywood is famous for making large political contributions, and their boys are in power at the moment. (not that the "other" party did anything about it either)
Pretty much everybody qualifies as a "internet user" these days, so it's not surprising that the bottom 12% are doing stupid shit. We're talking about people whose IQ is in the 80-90 range.
People who think it's a simple self control issue are idiots.
Just as an anecdote: fat kids who get drafted into the army (I'm using South Korean army as an example, but probably applies to most non-western armies) shape up fast. They are only given the same standard rations as everyone else, and you have 10 minutes exactly to eat your food. Haven't finished your meal yet? Too bad, mealtime is over. Sneaking out some Twinkies to snack on later? Get caught and you'll get beat up. Literally, the sergeant will beat the crap out of you. Too tired, can't keep up with the rest of the platoon on the 5 km march? More beating (*SLAP*).
Yes, it IS a self control issue. When control is imposed on them from outside (with physical pain as punishment), the fat kids all lose weight. After they leave the army, they fall back to their old ways again and gain the weight back, usually. Some don't though.
...but there is no reason in the world that anyone needs to be fat, regardless of any "glandular" problem.
Easier said than done. You can also say there is no reason in the world why anyone needs to be a drug/alcohol addict, or a smoker, or (insert nonoptimum behavior)
Sho Yi Bi is a real word in a Chinese dialect.... so what they really heard was,
"nonsense nonsense nonsense hotmonkeysex"
Yeah you're right, it should've been "Man may have saved its own civilization"
Personally I prefer ice age fauna myself, I think sabertooth tigers and and Wooly Mammoths are really cool. Also the sea levels were so low, there was a huge landmass called Beringia where Bearing Sea is now, and the east coast of USA extended 500 miles beyond the current shoreline.
But however interesting it may be, a full ice age would be a total catastrophe for human civilization, probably 95% of humans would be wiped out.
It would be cool though, if mankind suddenly got hold of super technology (maybe from Outsiders or Puppeteers) and migrated to Ringworld or something, and Earth reverted to an ice age...
wait, I just thought of something: has Microsoft released a version of IE for the iPhone through the Apple App Store? That would be funny...
cos IE doesn't run on iPhone!
IIRC, the last time sunspots were at a minimum like this, earth was in the little ice age, and hundreds of millions of people died due to crops freezing, glaciers overrunning towns, disease, etc.
So maybe we're supposed to be in another little ice age, but all the greenhouse gases warmed the planet and saved us?
O____O
Well, the argument can be made that Air France disaster was due to an act of God, and that the money they gave the families is not an admission of liability, just helping them with funeral costs (or whatever). Whereas the RIAA verdict was for a willful violation of a law by the defendant.
Not saying I agree with this, just saying one *could* look at it like that...
Nah, more like impulse engine... warp speed would have to involve some kind of space-time bending.
"Full impulse power."
"No sir! You have Genesis! You can have whatever..."
"Full impulse power! Damn you!"
So it seems like this will be a great way to power a spacecraft that's already in orbit, headed to say Mars, but not something that will get us into orbit in the first place?
how many pounds of thrust is that? And how much does the thing weigh?
TFA is light on details, it reads like a press release.
uDie already... please
Kindle took over when Oprah gushed about it on her show.
You think Slashdot has a wide reach? For every eyeball on the internets reading your Slashdot post, there are probably 10,000 old women watching Oprah on TV.
"If you tapped into 1% of the power in high-altitude winds, that would be enough to continuously power all civilization."
And if you tapped into 1% of the power in the heat of the earth's core, that would be enough to power all of civilization on Zeti Reticuli, and if you tapped into 1% of the solar output by building a tiny Dyson sphere that would be enough to power all of Known Space. But let's first ask ourselves, is it practical and cost-effective?
If the textbooks you require are available at Amazon, you can save money (ebooks cost less than paper)... if you need to buy lots of them then you might even save enough to offset the Kindle purchase price.
If not, there are other readers that handle PDF better (*ony makes one)
cos they probably greased the palms of, erm I mean "contributed to the political campaign fund" of, the appropriate senator/congresscritter.