If you're from NYC and you travel to L.A., you'll be getting up earlier and going to be earlier than L.A. people. If you 'stay' on NYC time you'll in effect become an L.A. morning person.
So determined are you to avoid acknowledging that, yeah, this fits pretty darned well the idea of a "flying car" that you'll move the goalposts so now it's only called "flying" if it uses something that currently is physically impossible? So, birds don't really fly either, then?
My point is that for 50 years, popular culture has 'trained' us as to what a flying car is / should be. It's Doc Brown's hover-converted DeLorean. It's Korben Dallas's taxi. It's George Jetson's car. It's Deckard's Spinner. When you talk 'flying car' rightly or wrongly that's what people expect.
Sure it does. If you buy The Avengers on Blu-Ray and you want to put it on your iPad it's by no means an easy process. If it was, you could just put the disk in your computer and drag it to the iPad.
The bigger problem with having an Israeli stamp on your passport means if you try and enter other countries in the region you are subject to being denied entry or detained simply for having been to Israel.
Mostly hellhole misogynistic anti-semitic countries you shouldn't be spending your money in anyway.
Last time I was in the Middle East I went from Israel to Jordan to Egypt. No troubles crossing the borders at all. In fact, the biggest hassle was subsequently getting into the USA with Arabic Egyptian and Jordanian visas in my passport. (I'm Canadian.) Eventually I just got a new passport.
Which single item will prevent 911 from ever happening again
Well, more than one -
1) New training for aircraft crews, so they no longer cooperate with hijackers. Just get the plane on the ground, period. This has already happened
2) Screen for guns and bombs. Means that hijackers can't say "Open the cockpit door or I'll shoot the passengers." No need to screen for sharps - There's nothing a hijacker can do onboard with a sharp.
So what does TSA do for us again?
Makes Ma and Pa Kettle feel 'safe' so they continue to fly. Gives Ma and Pa Kettle the illusion of security so it appears the govt. is protecting them
Security was done by the private sector, it was shoddy as hell and 9/11 was a direct result.
Wrong.
9/11 had nothing to do with airport security. It's this sort of thinking that perpetuates the TSA gong show.
9/11 succeeded for two reasons -
1) Prior to 9/11, airline crews were trained to cooperate with hijackers - So the suicidal hijackers were able to easily take over the planes. Confiscating water bottles and groping grannies wouldn't have made a lick of difference here.
2) Intelligence failures. The intelligence services failed to cooperate and failed to detect and prevent the terrorist hijackings.
Neither had anything to do with nude-o-scopes and confiscating nail clippers.
Cut your janitorial staff (they're almost certainly contractors, anyway) and make people take out their own trash. Management can vacuum up. We're talking about a 1% budget cut, not 20%.
...and a year later it will make ZERO difference. Sure, you've made a 'statement' but salaries and janitorial and their like are rounding errors. If you want to cut, and cut only, you've got three things to cut that would make a real difference:
- Medicare
- Social Security
- Military
Problem is they're all sacred cows, so your only other choice is to raise revenue.
It's interesting that the airlines are allowing customers to make changes to their itineraries at no charge to work around the problem. On the one hand this is good customer service, but on the other hand it would probably help the airlines to some degree if they instead said "Flight's cancelled. Don't like it? Call your congressman." As long as the airlines continue to accommodate those inconvenienced, then those truly responsible for this mess don't get blamed.
Software written for medical professionals is not like mass market software. They have a limited market and can't make back their money in volume because there isn't the volume for an eye doctor's database product like there is for Office or Quicken
?!?!
But according to Slashdot, all software wants to be free, with vendors feeding their children via 'services.'
Well, it's counter to American culture, and it will take a couple of generations, but the 'how' is through education. Fund schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Yemen and Sudan. Support local politicians, through dollars, who endorse education of their people, particularly girls. More than anything else, the Mullahs fear an educated populace. Educate them out of ignorance and terror.
There was no "kablooey" in the sense of something exploding into space. There was no space. The universe didn't come from nothing, it came from everything. Then it changed state.
I don't disagree with any of this, but I think the language excellently demonstrates the tremendous challenge scientists have explaining the origin of the universe to non-scientists - Particularly religious-inclined non-scientists. I think most people would just write it off as incomprehensible gibberish, and really, there's no 'easy' way to write it.
So much money for no actual contribution to the internet I can think of...
Flickr is a great service with lots of cool tools (granted it was an acquisition, but that was some years ago) - Every time someone bitches at me about Facebook's photo sharing tools I say "Go buy a Flickr account."
If I was a small business owner, the issue I'd have with advertising on Yelp! is the fact that I'm giving money to an organization that might post bad reviews of my establishment tomorrow.
[Insert frothing-at-the-mouth posts about Yelp! being corrupt and taking down bad reviews for customers who pay. All done? Good.]
Couple cases in point:
There's a little Thai joint in my 'hood that I quite like. There are negative reviews (along with my positive reviews). Why would he advertise on Yelp!?
I'm involved in the management of a little rustic resort - It has one review on Tripadvisor posted by a couple of wingnuts who smashed up and almost burned down a cottage. Why would I buy an ad on Tripadvistor?
So, what percentage are you thinking of when you specify "primarily"?
Show 100 people a hammer. Ask them what it's used for. Whatever the majority say its used for is its primary purpose. Ditto a handgun, a pogo stick, mining explosives etc.
Slashdot Mirror
If you're from NYC and you travel to L.A., you'll be getting up earlier and going to be earlier than L.A. people. If you 'stay' on NYC time you'll in effect become an L.A. morning person.
So determined are you to avoid acknowledging that, yeah, this fits pretty darned well the idea of a "flying car" that you'll move the goalposts so now it's only called "flying" if it uses something that currently is physically impossible? So, birds don't really fly either, then?
My point is that for 50 years, popular culture has 'trained' us as to what a flying car is / should be. It's Doc Brown's hover-converted DeLorean. It's Korben Dallas's taxi. It's George Jetson's car. It's Deckard's Spinner. When you talk 'flying car' rightly or wrongly that's what people expect.
Enough with the "Fake" Flying Cars Already - I think everyone is getting tired of these 'flying car' stories, be they on /., Wired, PopSci or wherever.
A Flying Car uses some kind of anti-gravity device. It can float. Don't show me a hovercraft, helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft.
For greater clarity but so as not to limit the generality of the foregoing, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhF4gu87rn0
Artists have always made money by touring and the recordings have never given them much income
How exactly does the author of an e-book "tour" and make money?
DRM doesn't effectively control reproduction.
Sure it does. If you buy The Avengers on Blu-Ray and you want to put it on your iPad it's by no means an easy process. If it was, you could just put the disk in your computer and drag it to the iPad.
When I went to school (I'm 46), "Wrinkle in Time" was on the curriculum.
The only problem is that, sadly, people aren't going to care.
Exactly right. My TV is online, my DVD player is online, my IP-TV PVR box is online. No one will care that their game box has to be online.
This is not a threat to consoles - What is a threat is the fact that, more and more, people just play sophisticated games on their tablets.
The bigger problem with having an Israeli stamp on your passport means if you try and enter other countries in the region you are subject to being denied entry or detained simply for having been to Israel.
Mostly hellhole misogynistic anti-semitic countries you shouldn't be spending your money in anyway.
Last time I was in the Middle East I went from Israel to Jordan to Egypt. No troubles crossing the borders at all. In fact, the biggest hassle was subsequently getting into the USA with Arabic Egyptian and Jordanian visas in my passport. (I'm Canadian.) Eventually I just got a new passport.
Which single item will prevent 911 from ever happening again
Well, more than one -
1) New training for aircraft crews, so they no longer cooperate with hijackers. Just get the plane on the ground, period. This has already happened
2) Screen for guns and bombs. Means that hijackers can't say "Open the cockpit door or I'll shoot the passengers." No need to screen for sharps - There's nothing a hijacker can do onboard with a sharp.
So what does TSA do for us again?
Makes Ma and Pa Kettle feel 'safe' so they continue to fly. Gives Ma and Pa Kettle the illusion of security so it appears the govt. is protecting them
Dubious value at best.
I mostly agree, but you've forgotten about the inadequately secured door to the cockpit.
#1 meant you didn't need adequately secured doors. Prior to 9/11 the pilots cooperated with hijackers, so the hijackers needed access to the cockpit.
Security was done by the private sector, it was shoddy as hell and 9/11 was a direct result.
Wrong.
9/11 had nothing to do with airport security. It's this sort of thinking that perpetuates the TSA gong show.
9/11 succeeded for two reasons -
1) Prior to 9/11, airline crews were trained to cooperate with hijackers - So the suicidal hijackers were able to easily take over the planes. Confiscating water bottles and groping grannies wouldn't have made a lick of difference here.
2) Intelligence failures. The intelligence services failed to cooperate and failed to detect and prevent the terrorist hijackings.
Neither had anything to do with nude-o-scopes and confiscating nail clippers.
Cut your janitorial staff (they're almost certainly contractors, anyway) and make people take out their own trash. Management can vacuum up. We're talking about a 1% budget cut, not 20%.
- Medicare
- Social Security
- Military
Problem is they're all sacred cows, so your only other choice is to raise revenue.
It's interesting that the airlines are allowing customers to make changes to their itineraries at no charge to work around the problem. On the one hand this is good customer service, but on the other hand it would probably help the airlines to some degree if they instead said "Flight's cancelled. Don't like it? Call your congressman." As long as the airlines continue to accommodate those inconvenienced, then those truly responsible for this mess don't get blamed.
Software written for medical professionals is not like mass market software. They have a limited market and can't make back their money in volume because there isn't the volume for an eye doctor's database product like there is for Office or Quicken
?!?!
But according to Slashdot, all software wants to be free, with vendors feeding their children via 'services.'
"Before the planes can fly, they must be fitted with a "containment and venting" system
Scotty, eject the core!
Well, it's counter to American culture, and it will take a couple of generations, but the 'how' is through education. Fund schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Yemen and Sudan. Support local politicians, through dollars, who endorse education of their people, particularly girls. More than anything else, the Mullahs fear an educated populace. Educate them out of ignorance and terror.
how the hell can you find a suspect for something like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#Investigation
There was no "kablooey" in the sense of something exploding into space. There was no space. The universe didn't come from nothing, it came from everything. Then it changed state.
I don't disagree with any of this, but I think the language excellently demonstrates the tremendous challenge scientists have explaining the origin of the universe to non-scientists - Particularly religious-inclined non-scientists. I think most people would just write it off as incomprehensible gibberish, and really, there's no 'easy' way to write it.
her claim to fame was designing the google news site. you use that, right?
Every day, often multiple times per day. Thanks for asking.
So much money for no actual contribution to the internet I can think of...
Flickr is a great service with lots of cool tools (granted it was an acquisition, but that was some years ago) - Every time someone bitches at me about Facebook's photo sharing tools I say "Go buy a Flickr account."
If I was a small business owner, the issue I'd have with advertising on Yelp! is the fact that I'm giving money to an organization that might post bad reviews of my establishment tomorrow.
[Insert frothing-at-the-mouth posts about Yelp! being corrupt and taking down bad reviews for customers who pay. All done? Good.]
Couple cases in point:
There's a little Thai joint in my 'hood that I quite like. There are negative reviews (along with my positive reviews). Why would he advertise on Yelp!?
I'm involved in the management of a little rustic resort - It has one review on Tripadvisor posted by a couple of wingnuts who smashed up and almost burned down a cottage. Why would I buy an ad on Tripadvistor?
And Steve was right almost every time
No he wasn't. I've got an x86 Samsung Win8 tablet in front of me here. It's got HDMI out, a USB port and a micro SD slot. That's what I want.
Why should I, a 5' 10" man have to pay more for weighing 180# than a woman that's 5' tall and weighing only 100#?
Because it costs more to transport you.
what are you going to do?
Vote for politicians who have the 25-year vision to fund and build an American high-speed rail network.
So, what percentage are you thinking of when you specify "primarily"?
Show 100 people a hammer. Ask them what it's used for. Whatever the majority say its used for is its primary purpose. Ditto a handgun, a pogo stick, mining explosives etc.