I'm happy (and alive) because my grandfather's rum-flask took a bullet for him in WWI. My brother has the dented flask in case anyone questions the legitimacy of the story.
Why are the car companies even offering infotainment? They should stick to making their cars ride smoothly and include a generic multimedia dock for customers to put in their own 3rd-party systems. The 3rd-party systems could be replaced every few years for people who want the latest and greatest.
This may lead to increased stereo thefts but a lot less future negative image for the car companies. If a modern youth's first car is a 10-year-old [insert model and make here] with a sucky stereo, he/she is unlikely to buy that make ever again.
A student writing a final exam in large room goes over on time. When approaching the front of the room to hand in the exam, a proctor informs the student that the exam is late and cannot be accepted. The student says: "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" to import some great significance. The proctor answers "No," as if he did not care. At which point, the student quickly thrusts his exam into the middle of the pile on the desk and runs away.
The mugger likely searched the victim on FB after the mugging. FB saw one person searching out another and suggested the pairing to the victim. With only 50 FB friends and a hidden profile, FB gives me suggestions all of the time. Often, the suggestions only make sense if the suggested friend had tried searching for me on FB.
Soon, I'll be able to send funds via Bitcoin through my bank's web interface. I won't worry about losing my Bitcoin wallet - the bank will take over that risk. I'll log in and choose to send regular currency to another account; one of my options will be a Bitcoin transaction. My bank and the other account's bank will handle the Bitcoin. I'll see regular currency leave my account and the other party will see regular currency enter his/her account.
Curing blindness sounds admirable - but at what cost? Don't forget the unseen side effects! The first Google hit on CRISPR side effects is: http://phys.org/news/2015-10-c...
... liies a smolderiin' [moulderin'] in the ground.
When I was young, I thought the lyric was "smolderin'," and I wondered what John Brown did to make so many people happy that he was smoldering in hell. Of course the song laments the death of John Brown and the the lyric is "moulderin'." Kids use the words they hear most often. Unfortunately, "terrorist" is a much more common word than "terraced."
Why does every car manufacturer reinvent the tech interface? Each should provide a simple standardized tech unit that could be replaced in the after market.
This way, the car manufacturers could better concentrate on what they do (or should do) best: making a decent-riding car with a good engine and a good transmission.
Quebec, have you ever heard of proxy servers? They are fairly easy to set up. You get your *trusted friend* living in another jurisdiction to leave a computer on for you. Point your Internet connections at the out-of-Quebec computer and you're good to go.
My first generation Nexus 7 died after two years. Maybe they are designed to last only two years. I took it apart, pierced its storage chip with a screwdriver, put it back together, and recycled it. Maybe its on a barge to a third-world country now.
Is this just a way to keep a robot-car manufacturer from specifically assigning weights to various bad outcomes and possibly avoiding lawsuits? Suppose a crash looks imminent. Whose life is more valuable? Instead of programming for this specifically, the manufacturer uses algorithms developed by obserations. Then the manufacturer could argue that it's not to blame when one person dies instead of another.
In any case, this sounds like a great way to teach a computer how to drive badly. No one is a perfect driver - we don't want to teach our mistakes. People make correct or safe driving decisions based on inputs that cannot always be well measured - we don't want to teach incomplete rules.
At the moment, natural-born animals have fewer complications throughout their lives. Keeping track of pedigrees is arguably more important now that clones are starting to show up. Horses are expensive; who wants to lay out $10K (or more) without some assurance that your horse will live a heathly life.
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I'm happy (and alive) because my grandfather's rum-flask took a bullet for him in WWI.
My brother has the dented flask in case anyone questions the legitimacy of the story.
I went through the entire Robot/Empire/Foundation series and found Pebble in the Sky the best - but you have to read it first
Take your WLAN card out and install a mini PCI express USB 3.0 card.
Hopefully it'll fit and you can find a way to run a cable out of your laptop.
Why are the car companies even offering infotainment?
They should stick to making their cars ride smoothly and include a generic multimedia dock for customers to put in their own 3rd-party systems.
The 3rd-party systems could be replaced every few years for people who want the latest and greatest.
This may lead to increased stereo thefts but a lot less future negative image for the car companies.
If a modern youth's first car is a 10-year-old [insert model and make here] with a sucky stereo, he/she is unlikely to buy that make ever again.
... does it run Linux?
I prefer JOWE - Johnny's Own Version of Vim and Emacs
(of course the double V makes a W in the acronym)
Wine is often sufficient.
A student writing a final exam in large room goes over on time.
When approaching the front of the room to hand in the exam, a proctor informs the student that the exam is late and cannot be accepted.
The student says: "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" to import some great significance.
The proctor answers "No," as if he did not care.
At which point, the student quickly thrusts his exam into the middle of the pile on the desk and runs away.
The mugger likely searched the victim on FB after the mugging.
FB saw one person searching out another and suggested the pairing to the victim.
With only 50 FB friends and a hidden profile, FB gives me suggestions all of the time.
Often, the suggestions only make sense if the suggested friend had tried searching for me on FB.
I use my cell phone for texting - the Q5 has a great keyboard.
I bought a new one last fall for about 1/3 its original cost.
I started on a Vic20 and found the Programmers Reference Guide most (in)valuable.
https://archive.org/details/VI...
I found a Win32 API book useful a dozen (or more?) years ago.
Now I'm on Debian variants, and Google is most helpful.
I wouldn't worry about Win10 reference manuals unless you were offline.
I could part with dollars, and my father-in-law could receive Euros without any delay.
For the purpose of trade, let the banks handle the transaction:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/...
Soon, I'll be able to send funds via Bitcoin through my bank's web interface.
I won't worry about losing my Bitcoin wallet - the bank will take over that risk.
I'll log in and choose to send regular currency to another account; one of my options will be a Bitcoin transaction.
My bank and the other account's bank will handle the Bitcoin.
I'll see regular currency leave my account and the other party will see regular currency enter his/her account.
Curing blindness sounds admirable - but at what cost?
Don't forget the unseen side effects!
The first Google hit on CRISPR side effects is:
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-c...
The last millennium ended Dec 31, 2000 - in my time zone.
... liies a smolderiin' [moulderin'] in the ground.
When I was young, I thought the lyric was "smolderin'," and I wondered what John Brown did to make so many people happy that he was smoldering in hell.
Of course the song laments the death of John Brown and the the lyric is "moulderin'."
Kids use the words they hear most often.
Unfortunately, "terrorist" is a much more common word than "terraced."
Isn't that where the monolith lies?
Insurance companies would want this data in order to better classify the risk of drivers.
What insurance companies want, they inevitably get.
Unless it's based on a one-time pad, a message can be decrypted.
Why does every car manufacturer reinvent the tech interface?
Each should provide a simple standardized tech unit that could be replaced in the after market.
This way, the car manufacturers could better concentrate on what they do (or should do) best: making a decent-riding car with a good engine and a good transmission.
Quebec, have you ever heard of proxy servers?
They are fairly easy to set up.
You get your *trusted friend* living in another jurisdiction to leave a computer on for you.
Point your Internet connections at the out-of-Quebec computer and you're good to go.
My first generation Nexus 7 died after two years.
Maybe they are designed to last only two years.
I took it apart, pierced its storage chip with a screwdriver, put it back together, and recycled it.
Maybe its on a barge to a third-world country now.
XOR is much much faster than your run-of-the-mill encryption algorithm.
Is this just a way to keep a robot-car manufacturer from specifically assigning weights to various bad outcomes and possibly avoiding lawsuits?
Suppose a crash looks imminent. Whose life is more valuable? Instead of programming for this specifically, the manufacturer uses algorithms developed by obserations. Then the manufacturer could argue that it's not to blame when one person dies instead of another.
In any case, this sounds like a great way to teach a computer how to drive badly.
No one is a perfect driver - we don't want to teach our mistakes.
People make correct or safe driving decisions based on inputs that cannot always be well measured - we don't want to teach incomplete rules.
At the moment, natural-born animals have fewer complications throughout their lives.
Keeping track of pedigrees is arguably more important now that clones are starting to show up.
Horses are expensive; who wants to lay out $10K (or more) without some assurance that your horse will live a heathly life.
See problems with animal cloning:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu...