I gotta admit, that's one thing that kind of struck me.
Here in southern California, in the dead of Winter, we get about 14 hours of night and about 10 hours of daylight. So even in our southern latitude, it appears that we'd come up four hours short.
One interesting thing about photos nowadays is that they're pretty much disposable. Much like spam, you take pictures of everything because it don't cost nothin' and, what the hell, if you take 1000 pictures and one of them is awesome, you're ahead of the game. But the vast majority of them are garbage which, if they disappeared in a sudden hard-drive failure, nothing of value would be lost.
My theory is that they wanted to watch the game and they didn't want to buy tickets. Thus, they have to be there "for security reasons." Which is why they have to be in the luxury boxes later on...
Some poor guy's car get wrecked up by an asshole and you are only worried protecting the asshole from paying the consequences?
Ah, but if the car was parked outside the bar, perhaps the owner of the car was drunk. By wrecking his car, he may have saved the streets from having another drunk driver!
Perhaps we should be lauding this young man for his quick thinking!
As I understand it--and I'm not up on the latest and greatest, granted--Intel is coming out with a new family of processors sometime this spring (Haswell, I believe they're calling it) which are better than the Ivy Bridge CPUs regarding power/heat.
So I would imagine that this is a stop-gap type of thing.
That depends on how much of road damage is due to vehicles and how much of it is due to nature.
Many bicyclists bring up the point that they are so light that they shouldn't have to pay a road tax because they're not damaging the road. Of course, for this theory to hold, we should never have to repair bicycle paths. Yet we do.
While I would agree that the Ford King Ranch pickup does more damage to the road than the Nissan Micra, I would say that a good strong rainstorm with minor flooding does significantly more damage. And that's nobody's "fault."
First, I would imagine that quite a few readers of slashdot would use it, meaning it's actually interesting for people here. Second, there's this whole attitude that because my Mom would never buy such a thing, no one should bother with it.
Second, to drag out the dreaded car analogy, there are lots of different cars out there. Because the Toyota Camry is the most popular car in the US, everybody else should just stop making cars.
Will Ubuntu Phone become the #1 phone OS in the entire universe? Hell, no! But a phone like that is going to be interesting to a certain number of people, who may be willing to pay for phones which have that capability.
Well, the reason airplanes are not crashing from the sky is that airplanes are not automated. There's a human being who can detect whether or not the messages are reasonable.
For example, I read a recent incident here where a smoke alarm went off in the cargo bay of an airplane. But just for a moment. It would come on and go off intermittently. The pilot reported it to the ground crew who checked out the system and found no problem. The maintenance people believed that somebody probably left a cellphone on in their checked bag.
The plane did not fall from the sky. It arrived at it's destination in one piece. But you now have a pilot who, next time he sees a smoke alarm go off in the cargo bay, might be inclined to ignore it since it's probably a cellphone. And when it isn't, well, I suppose it will be the pilot's fault for not paying attention.
NASA keeps a database which people will voluntarily contribute to discussing various issues that occur on flights. Do a quick search for PEDs (Passenger Electronic Device) and you'll see a few incidents. And these are just ones that are Voluntarily reported.
That said, I also note that many of the incidents come from older planes.
I have a Sony Bravia and I got the USB/WiFi adapter more as chuckle than anything else. But it's been fun.
I've used the YouTube and Crackle apps. It has NetFlix and Amazon's movie stores, but I haven't bothered to use them. Usually every few months I'll flip it on, update the Internet content, and see if there's anything new.
They are not trowing away their PC, they are just buying a second or third or fourth one.
I don't argue that people are currently buying tablets as an adjunct. The question is, will they buy another PC or buy another tablet?
Right now, there's the whole "I wouldn't want to write a book with a tablet" attitude. I don't disagree with that. But how many people do that much writing? Most of us are rattling off smaller notes, which might be perfectly reasonable on a larger tablet.
So when it comes time to replace that $500 PC, will they go with another $500 PC or will they just say, "Nah. I'll just keep the tablet."
Take me, for example. I downloaded the new Google Maps when it came out on December 14th. But it's not like I immediately upgraded to iOS 6. I did that this past Monday, December 17th.
Hell, I'm not going to risk upgrading until I actually make sure things are going to work. I know, call me crazy...
Consider something like gold. Let's say you find yourself a solid gold asteroid, mine it to rubble, and come back to Earth with a hold full of gold. What happens?
That pesky "supply and demand" problem. Suddenly there's a great big supply and the price, therefore, plummets. So your gold isn't that valuable anymore. Which means mining gold--or other valuable minerals--may not be so profitable either.
Let's see...WiFi screws up airplane, 300 people dead, and your first question would be, "Why the hell didn't they use sacks of potatoes or something like that instead of people?"
Previously, cellphones and other wireless devices were required to be turned off, and the only harmless electronic devices during take-off or landing were the ones that had no connectivity
FTA:
In the U.S., the Internet connectivity is available when the aircraft is above 10,000 feet and is turned off during take-offs and landings.
And, if I remember correctly, all electronic devices should be turned off. Not just ones with radios.
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I gotta admit, that's one thing that kind of struck me.
Here in southern California, in the dead of Winter, we get about 14 hours of night and about 10 hours of daylight. So even in our southern latitude, it appears that we'd come up four hours short.
It's a neat point.
One interesting thing about photos nowadays is that they're pretty much disposable. Much like spam, you take pictures of everything because it don't cost nothin' and, what the hell, if you take 1000 pictures and one of them is awesome, you're ahead of the game. But the vast majority of them are garbage which, if they disappeared in a sudden hard-drive failure, nothing of value would be lost.
So we share more photos of lesser value.
My theory is that they wanted to watch the game and they didn't want to buy tickets. Thus, they have to be there "for security reasons." Which is why they have to be in the luxury boxes later on...
Some poor guy's car get wrecked up by an asshole and you are only worried protecting the asshole from paying the consequences?
Ah, but if the car was parked outside the bar, perhaps the owner of the car was drunk. By wrecking his car, he may have saved the streets from having another drunk driver!
Perhaps we should be lauding this young man for his quick thinking!
(Yes, I'm kidding)
As I understand it--and I'm not up on the latest and greatest, granted--Intel is coming out with a new family of processors sometime this spring (Haswell, I believe they're calling it) which are better than the Ivy Bridge CPUs regarding power/heat.
So I would imagine that this is a stop-gap type of thing.
That depends on how much of road damage is due to vehicles and how much of it is due to nature.
Many bicyclists bring up the point that they are so light that they shouldn't have to pay a road tax because they're not damaging the road. Of course, for this theory to hold, we should never have to repair bicycle paths. Yet we do.
While I would agree that the Ford King Ranch pickup does more damage to the road than the Nissan Micra, I would say that a good strong rainstorm with minor flooding does significantly more damage. And that's nobody's "fault."
Uh, if I remember right, 2008 was when they didn't have "Marcia" (ie, Tom) Brady. They still went 11-5.
That's kind of a sad attitude.
First, I would imagine that quite a few readers of slashdot would use it, meaning it's actually interesting for people here. Second, there's this whole attitude that because my Mom would never buy such a thing, no one should bother with it.
Second, to drag out the dreaded car analogy, there are lots of different cars out there. Because the Toyota Camry is the most popular car in the US, everybody else should just stop making cars.
Will Ubuntu Phone become the #1 phone OS in the entire universe? Hell, no! But a phone like that is going to be interesting to a certain number of people, who may be willing to pay for phones which have that capability.
Actually, I have nothing against yellow cars. I like yellow cars.
But a yellow Nissan Armada (ie, Big Honkin' SUV)?! That's a bit too much yellow.
For instance AppleTV works very nicely for me with all my Apple devices to the TV.
FTFY.
While the wireless aspect is certainly entertaining, I'm fine with just a cord. Pretty much every TV nowadays has an HDMI connector or two available.
I gotta admit, I read that and my first thoughts were:
1) Dear God, No!
2) Wait! If they existed, I'd've seen one! It's not like you could miss it!
Well, the reason airplanes are not crashing from the sky is that airplanes are not automated. There's a human being who can detect whether or not the messages are reasonable.
For example, I read a recent incident here where a smoke alarm went off in the cargo bay of an airplane. But just for a moment. It would come on and go off intermittently. The pilot reported it to the ground crew who checked out the system and found no problem. The maintenance people believed that somebody probably left a cellphone on in their checked bag.
The plane did not fall from the sky. It arrived at it's destination in one piece. But you now have a pilot who, next time he sees a smoke alarm go off in the cargo bay, might be inclined to ignore it since it's probably a cellphone. And when it isn't, well, I suppose it will be the pilot's fault for not paying attention.
Yes there has. NASA has a database of voluntarily reported incidents.
No accidents, but there have been issues.
NASA keeps a database which people will voluntarily contribute to discussing various issues that occur on flights. Do a quick search for PEDs (Passenger Electronic Device) and you'll see a few incidents. And these are just ones that are Voluntarily reported.
That said, I also note that many of the incidents come from older planes.
Great article! My favorites:
"I'll be darned, it's made of cheese!" -- Bob Hope
"Now how the hell do we get back?" -- Jim Whittaker
And, of course, the Eddie Izzard Classic.
I have a Sony Bravia and I got the USB/WiFi adapter more as chuckle than anything else. But it's been fun.
I've used the YouTube and Crackle apps. It has NetFlix and Amazon's movie stores, but I haven't bothered to use them. Usually every few months I'll flip it on, update the Internet content, and see if there's anything new.
But is it life-changing? Nope.
Another vote for QC.
They are not trowing away their PC, they are just buying a second or third or fourth one.
I don't argue that people are currently buying tablets as an adjunct. The question is, will they buy another PC or buy another tablet?
Right now, there's the whole "I wouldn't want to write a book with a tablet" attitude. I don't disagree with that. But how many people do that much writing? Most of us are rattling off smaller notes, which might be perfectly reasonable on a larger tablet.
So when it comes time to replace that $500 PC, will they go with another $500 PC or will they just say, "Nah. I'll just keep the tablet."
Perhaps people waited.
Take me, for example. I downloaded the new Google Maps when it came out on December 14th. But it's not like I immediately upgraded to iOS 6. I did that this past Monday, December 17th.
Hell, I'm not going to risk upgrading until I actually make sure things are going to work. I know, call me crazy...
One of these days these hands are gonna punch all over you.
And therein lies the rub.
Consider something like gold. Let's say you find yourself a solid gold asteroid, mine it to rubble, and come back to Earth with a hold full of gold. What happens?
That pesky "supply and demand" problem. Suddenly there's a great big supply and the price, therefore, plummets. So your gold isn't that valuable anymore. Which means mining gold--or other valuable minerals--may not be so profitable either.
Let's see...WiFi screws up airplane, 300 people dead, and your first question would be, "Why the hell didn't they use sacks of potatoes or something like that instead of people?"
There's just no pleasing you.
Actually, Mac users know that the world will end sometime in the year 29,940.
Previously, cellphones and other wireless devices were required to be turned off, and the only harmless electronic devices during take-off or landing were the ones that had no connectivity
FTA:
And, if I remember correctly, all electronic devices should be turned off. Not just ones with radios.
You had 330 baud? LUXURY! I had 110 and an acoustic modem (ie, stick the phone on top of the thing).
But you try to tell the young people of today that and they won't believe you.