Imagine that Cray computer decides to make a personal computer. It has a 150 MHz processor, 200 megabytes of RAM, 1500 megabytes of disk storage, a screen resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels, relies entirely on voice recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $300. What's the first question that the computer community asks?
On the other hand, some things (like animals and pedestrians) require some means of illumination at night.
I wonder how we ever managed to survive before electric light...
Oh, wait, humans can actually see by starlight alone.
You're not going to read a book or do rocket surgery but you can walk around outdoors without electric lights even when there's no moon. I've done plenty of hiking, etc. under a full moon.
I'm torn between the issue. I discovered old letters in my house from the 1800's and was able to glimpse in the past of how life was like back then. The letters had their words written phonetically, and while I did "notice" what I perceived to be errors at the time, I did understand the letter and remembered that eduction wasn't necessarily standardized back then and not everyone had access or could afford to attend school.
Most English spelling reform/standardization happened long after 1800 (yes, there was such a thing...).
we need are smarter drivers on the road who fucking know better.
Here's the problem: we've tried to make people into better drivers since the automobile was invented. It hasn't worked. You can't change human nature.
Yes you can, you just need to be tougher.
Start putting people in prison for a couple of weeks if you catch them texting/driving. No arguments, mandatory sentence for anybody caught red-handed. The word will soon go around.
Jail time doesn't dissuade gang-bangers (a lot of them enjoy being in prison) but it sure as hell dissuades normal people.
Or, send them to morgues...to look at some people who texted/drove. They need to know that it *does* have consequences.
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Imagine that Cray computer decides to make a personal computer. It has
a 150 MHz processor, 200 megabytes of RAM, 1500 megabytes of disk
storage, a screen resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels, relies entirely on
voice recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $300.
What's the first question that the computer community asks?
"Is it PC compatible?"
(Source unknown...)
A timely reminder why users should stick with a stable, proven OS such as Win7 (and to a lesser extent, WinXP).
???
A lot of their Windows XP stuff requires SP3. Is this any different?
She says she'd be OK with a "safe" vaccine.
Fair enough, let's go with that for a moment:
How will she decide when a vaccine is "safe"? What science will she use to make that decision...?
In other news: 44% of Slashdot readers have never posted a single comment.
Even if all that *was* junk, it doesn't mean today's science is also junk.
eg. Medicine in the 19th century was almost all quackery. Today? A lot less so.
WikiPedia may be the wrong thing to point to if you want "scientific journals".
If you can provide some examples of where Wikipedia is wrong about something non-trivial, please do...
On the other hand, some things (like animals and pedestrians) require some means of illumination at night.
I wonder how we ever managed to survive before electric light...
Oh, wait, humans can actually see by starlight alone.
You're not going to read a book or do rocket surgery but you can walk around outdoors without electric lights even when there's no moon. I've done plenty of hiking, etc. under a full moon.
I'm torn between the issue. I discovered old letters in my house from the 1800's and was able to glimpse in the past of how life was like back then. The letters had their words written phonetically, and while I did "notice" what I perceived to be errors at the time, I did understand the letter and remembered that eduction wasn't necessarily standardized back then and not everyone had access or could afford to attend school.
Most English spelling reform/standardization happened long after 1800 (yes, there was such a thing...).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Luckily the system is designed to be able to do that.
(And many sites have already done so).
Rest of GNOME are just vast layers of layers of wrappers for layers of abstractions for wrappers
...and no documentation.
..."avoid a shooting war", "national security or law enforcement need"....
Why does it always come down to those things?
Does the USA actually have any enemies like that or is it just the (government created) national paranoia?
If the framerate is jerky then they didn't plan the game properly.
There's no excuse on a console where you know the exact resources available, right down to individual clock cycles.
how about a car that extends a 4" spike from the steering wheel every time it sense you fscking around with your phone.
Sounds good to me.
a) No they're not.
b) There's adverts on the IRS internal websites?
Yeah, because it's totally inconceivable that an employee might need access to information that's not stored on the internal network.
a) They'll be the minority.
b) Anybody who *needs* that can be upgraded first.
Yes!
Most cars have a technology that allows them to pull over and stop. It's called a 'driver'...
Calls to emergency services could be allowed. Duh!
I feel there is no elegant solution to such a problem and the cost-benefit of a tech-based solution would be meager at best.
How about pulling over and stopping to enable the phone?
How would the phone differentiate between the driver and passengers?
It wouldn't, but SO FUCKING WHAT?
Pulling over to text/phone will add about 30 seconds to your journey.
They could even build special little texting areas on the freeways for people who really really can't wait.
How about passengers on a train?
Um, GPS.
We need enforcement of current laws. I have never, never, seen anyone pulled over for talking or texting on the phone. Let alone charged for it.
You need to go to Germany. The Autobahns are full of police cars. You can drive at any speed you like. Burn past one at 200mph? No problem.
Tailgate? Flash lights at people? Drive like a moron in any way and they'll be down on you like a ton of bricks.
Here's the problem: we've tried to make people into better drivers since the automobile was invented. It hasn't worked. You can't change human nature.
Yes you can, you just need to be tougher.
Start putting people in prison for a couple of weeks if you catch them texting/driving. No arguments, mandatory sentence for anybody caught red-handed. The word will soon go around.
Jail time doesn't dissuade gang-bangers (a lot of them enjoy being in prison) but it sure as hell dissuades normal people.
Or, send them to morgues...to look at some people who texted/drove. They need to know that it *does* have consequences.
Yep. It's a total waste of money.
Those machines aren't going to implode because they don't get updates.
Keep running them, keep on replacing them. Block all external web sites to employees (which they should be anyway).
Bird deaths are no myth:
http://www.cfact.org/2013/03/1...
Nobody's saying it is.
But how does it stack up when compared to other bird killers (like glass windows, cars, etc)?
So....what's that big scary number when you express it as a percentage of total bat deaths?
Special ops? those engines/motors couldnt take a 7.62x39 mm bullet (popular militia / rebel round) .
How many engines/blades can it lose and still fly?