Mean while in america we fine 1.92 billion HSBC for laundering money for terrorists and drug lords. Apparently laundering money for terrorists and drug lords is only 2.5 (roughly) times as bad as not complying with an EU court settlement.
Neither is as bad as sharing a song over bittorrent.
But what happens when cheaper, more power efficient ARM chips are powerful enough for desktops and laptops?
So far Intel has shown a remarkable ability to lower the x86's power consumption+price to keep pace with ARM, despite everybody saying it couldn't be done (Intel Atom).
Sure, the ARM is still cheaper and more frugal but the gap is never wide enough for people to abandon their legacy of software.
..and when they do that, better make fucking sure they're not doing an annual switching around of documentation site urls during that time, landing you on a wild goose chase
Also don't send me to an intermediate page that pops up a window: "Warning: The contents of this page are unencrypted, are you really 100% sure you want to read the Microsoft documentation? (Y/N)"
(or whatever that damned message is that appears every single time I go from Google to MSDN...)
Input parameters: Wangle - the wangle to be throbbed. HowMuch - how much to throb it
Return value: The function returns a status code indicating success or failure.
If you want to know what wangles are, what throbbing is, the valid range of "HowMuch", what the returned status codes are... well, you're off to StackExchange to see if anybody's managed to figure it out.
Yep. Surely it's far better to fire a cable at it and give it a good pull at 100% engine thrust than wait for a microscopic amount of gravity to have an effect.
Exactly. I don't have a tablet but I'm really thinking about getting one. I really want a 10 inch tablet. Neither 7 inch nor 10 inch will fit in your pocket
The really funny part is that it was obvious they were going to add a retina display in version II and all the apple fanbois would be forced to upgrade.
Cynical marking. It works. Especially when your customers are the type who camp outside the shops for every new product.
Why am I having a hard time believing this is real and has a hope of being passed into law?
Am I really so cynical/jaded that a good-sounding idea from government and/or lawmakers just feels like some sort of a trap? It say something about how the world's been run lately.
Just a play from the classic Apple playbook: Any feature that our competitor has that we don't is something customers don't want or need--until we do have it, and then it's awesome.
Yep. It's called "timing".
A year or two from now the equipment will be cheaper and there might be enough potential customers to make a business case for installing it. Hell, you might even get 10Gbit hardware for the same price as this year's 1Gbit.
Buying before then, just to keep up with a potential competitor's experiment, would be a silly move.
This may be a bigger hit than expected. Just a stressless cultural experience. Live music, dancing, shows and participation. Skilled artists, great shows, probobly great food too.
I agree.
Slashdot might not be the best place to vote whether an attraction with no WiFi will be a success or not.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep. Some engine manufacturers already monitor all their engines continuously, in real time.
Rolls Royce was the first, I think GE have started doing it too.
It's not a big leap from monitoring the engines to monitoring the entire aircraft.
If you take a look they still ban small knives, just not super tiny toy swiss army knife style ones that people forget are on their keychains.
My Spyderco Ladybug could saw the cockpit door in half.
Mean while in america we fine 1.92 billion HSBC for laundering money for terrorists and drug lords. Apparently laundering money for terrorists and drug lords is only 2.5 (roughly) times as bad as not complying with an EU court settlement.
Neither is as bad as sharing a song over bittorrent.
No, Google bundles the OS with the browser...
...or any number of other manufacturers/models. There's hundreds of them these days.
But what happens when cheaper, more power efficient ARM chips are powerful enough for desktops and laptops?
So far Intel has shown a remarkable ability to lower the x86's power consumption+price to keep pace with ARM, despite everybody saying it couldn't be done (Intel Atom).
Sure, the ARM is still cheaper and more frugal but the gap is never wide enough for people to abandon their legacy of software.
..and when they do that, better make fucking sure they're not doing an annual switching around of documentation site urls during that time, landing you on a wild goose chase
Also don't send me to an intermediate page that pops up a window: "Warning: The contents of this page are unencrypted, are you really 100% sure you want to read the Microsoft documentation? (Y/N)"
(or whatever that damned message is that appears every single time I go from Google to MSDN...)
Yep. Microsoft documentation is truly awful.
Typical Microsoft documentation page:
DWORD throbTheWangle(DWORD Wangle, FLOAT HowMuch)
Description:
This function throbs wangles.
Input parameters:
Wangle - the wangle to be throbbed.
HowMuch - how much to throb it
Return value:
The function returns a status code indicating success or failure.
If you want to know what wangles are, what throbbing is, the valid range of "HowMuch", what the returned status codes are... well, you're off to StackExchange to see if anybody's managed to figure it out.
Yeah, what's the "referendum" thing, and how did they ever get one on corporate wages/bonuses? Do Swiss pigs fly?
They weren't hipsters, they were Swiss.
What am I typing?? 33K is the triple point of hydrogen, liquid hydrogen is about 20K.
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_hydrogen
22K is well inside the range for liquid hydrogen (33K). Not as good as liquid nitrogen but still potentially a game changer.
(if they are lying on the ground you will probably need something new to put your feed on, but that's another story,..)
Your food comes in sacks?
Golgafrincham entered into a period of exceptional peace and prosperity.
Um, no. They all died from a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.
This. ^
It's a complete no-brainer.
Yep. Surely it's far better to fire a cable at it and give it a good pull at 100% engine thrust than wait for a microscopic amount of gravity to have an effect.
Exactly. I don't have a tablet but I'm really thinking about getting one. I really want a 10 inch tablet. Neither 7 inch nor 10 inch will fit in your pocket
Depends on your pockets...
Get some cargo pants.
I'm not normally one to leap to Jobs' defence, but IMO he was right about the preferable size.
Sooo...the correct design for all products is the design which best suits far sighted people who've forgotten their glasses.
Uhuh.
The really funny part is that it was obvious they were going to add a retina display in version II and all the apple fanbois would be forced to upgrade.
Cynical marking. It works. Especially when your customers are the type who camp outside the shops for every new product.
Wouldn't they improve even more by practicing with real laparoscopes?
Why am I having a hard time believing this is real and has a hope of being passed into law?
Am I really so cynical/jaded that a good-sounding idea from government and/or lawmakers just feels like some sort of a trap? It say something about how the world's been run lately.
They still have to exploit the patent, ie. make a product.
nb. This assumes the Slashdot summary is accurate and there's no hidden loopholes.
They should lose money just because a few geeks are ranting in a forum?
Just a play from the classic Apple playbook: Any feature that our competitor has that we don't is something customers don't want or need--until we do have it, and then it's awesome.
Yep. It's called "timing".
A year or two from now the equipment will be cheaper and there might be enough potential customers to make a business case for installing it. Hell, you might even get 10Gbit hardware for the same price as this year's 1Gbit.
Buying before then, just to keep up with a potential competitor's experiment, would be a silly move.
This may be a bigger hit than expected. Just a stressless cultural experience. Live music, dancing, shows and participation. Skilled artists, great shows, probobly great food too.
I agree.
Slashdot might not be the best place to vote whether an attraction with no WiFi will be a success or not.