You can't avoid commercials by surfing.... all the stations have synced their commercials so you have no choice but to surf to 'their' commercial.
Right, because no one watches TV with a digital recording device that is capable of skipping ahead 10-30 seconds at a time, or skipping commercials almost automatically by pressing a single button.
If you use an Android set top box, you spend those 6 days searching for content they don't have, trying to figure out how to make the interface work with a remote, shopping for a new remote after you throw yours against a wall, and researching Netflix alternatives.
That's no probe, it's a relativistic kill vehicle.
Which leaves me wondering they have found that they need to target.These nano craft are large enough to do a lot of damage with collision speeds in the neighborhood of.2c . Maybe this beats going all Starship Troopers on extraterrestrial bugs. Slowing the craft enough to perform useful science on arrival would seem impractically difficult.
Help yourself to a map, as this is the wrong Washington. Unless the government secretly moved to Seattle and no one spilled the beans, until now. And there is little risk of disaster with the exact technology in question here. A used banana truck spilling banana peels all over Wall Street would be more dangerous.
They have it all wrong. In 15 years, the pinnacle of commercial airplanes won't be shiny, fast and high tech. They will be more like buses or trains: slow, boring, reliable and affordable.
They're already slow, boring and reliable. Where I disagree is that I don't see them getting a whole lot more affordable in 15 years. Fuel and maintenance costs should continue to drop as more old planes are replaced with current and upcoming models but ticket prices have only gone up. People will continue to pay high prices for air travel unless ground travel suddenly becomes a whole lot quicker and we build highways and railroads over large bodies of water. We all seem to hate airlines, but what are you going to do, go Greyhound? Yeah, right. Air travel will continue to be both expensive and popular for the foreseeable future, especially but not only in America. Not every place has a rail system like Western Europe, nor is as compact.
It failed because the cost of tickets was unsustainable...
The Concorde failed because a tire exploded, it streaked terrifyingly across the Paris sky trailing hundreds of feet of fire, and crashed in a giant fireball, killing everyone. And then the fleet was instantly and irrevocably grounded. The program had its economic issues over the years, but was still in operation nonetheless - until the disaster.
I think you are misremembering history. Concordes were not instantly and irrevocably grounded after the 2000 Paris accident, as some flew well into 2003. Maintenance costs were rising on the old planes and demand sagged after 9/11. The Paris wreck was a heavy blow but it is not what ultimately ended Concorde service. The flight deck of those things was so antiquated by 2003 and they were so inherently crappy to fly that I'm surprised they made it that long. Incredible machines, and a real marvel in their day, but it is not accurate to say that their one and only fatal accident did them in.
And, for the record, the tire only exploded because it had help from debris another plane had left on the runway, and because other factors caused the Concorde to use more of the runway than normal on takeoff. As demanding as it was (long runway requirement, so unique to fly, incredibly thirsty, limited cargo and seating capacity, old, and expensive to maintain) the plane in question was completely airworthy. Decreased demand and increased costs related to security caused a lot of grief in the airline industry after 9/11, and didn't just kill the Concorde.
What race is on? The race for funding for a project that requires new and unproven technology, and a ridiculously huge leap of faith, considering the fastest manned military aircraft in history has never even touched Mach 4? Yeah, um, the race is not on. Not yet, and sure as hell not any time soon. This half-assed summary reads like a bullshit Popular Mechanics blurb about someone's pie in the sky dream.
If fares were a modern equivalent of Concorde fares there would certainly be quite a few interested customers, and not just for the novelty of flying at Mach 8 or reaching any major city quicker than I can drive across Ohio. But beginning work soon on a Mach 8 commercial airliner would require skipping several logical and necessary steps, since there is currently no supersonic airliner in use or in the works and no manned military plane (some of the most advanced machines in the world) exceeds Mach 2 by very much. Achieving Mach 8 is no joke, and I can't see rocket propulsion receiving any consideration for a passenger craft.
But Cyanogen can't even seem to get bluetooth to work properly on my 3 year-old LG Optimus G. The BT MAC address is always an incorrect value, causing major connection and audio streaming issues. I have been a big fan of CM roms for 5-6 years now, but there are too many bugs they can't seem to rectify these days for me to take them completely seriously. This is especially true if they want to do Android without Google.
Good luck to them, but dancing with the devil (and undisputed king of unresolved bugs) doesn't seem like the way to perfect Android, even if it means taking the lead away from Google. This is disappointing, to say the least.
Ellen Pao is either lying about her motivation by attempting to underpay her workforce, or perhaps she is just an idiot. When she says, "Men negotiate harder than women do and sometimes women get penalized when they do negotiate," she is first being sexist, then undermining her own credibility as a policy setter within the company. First off, it is blatantly and horribly sexist to make a ludicrous blanket comment like that when she claims to be striving for equality. To then admit that her underlings might penalize women for negotiating for themselves is an admission of failure.
That, or she is simply looking for an excuse to refuse to negotiate in good faith, thus making it easier to underpay everyone across the board (and miss out on valuable talent, of course). What a load of crap, which should not be unexpected considering this is Reddit we are discussing, I guess.
Get rid of the point system. Have them keep going till someone gives up or gets KO'd. This simultaneously makes the sport more interesting and will cut back on the corruption.
...and the strategy, and the focus on fitness and stamina, and the length of careers, and all amateur boxing, and the health of boxers, and the frequency of fights, and the likelihood of boxing remaining legal and sanctioned. Boxing has never been street fighting, and will never become such.
I can't believe so many of you alleged males are dogging on boxing and other contact sports. None of these fighters/athletes are slaves, they CHOOSE the sport and the potential consequences. Go back to saving the internet now.
Bravo. While I agree wholeheartedly, I can't help but find it a bit ironic that you question the manliness of boxing detractors while purposely concealing your own fake online identity.
Of course the spectators are only watching for the thinking.
Just like everybody reads Playboy for the articles.
The Playboy argument is a common one but a bad one, and I'll tell you why. If no one cared about the articles in Playboy it wouldn't exist in the form it does. There are plenty of other skin mags, most of which do not include any appreciable journalism or literary entertainment. So if Playboy's success were not largely (certainly not entirely) due to the articles, it would not exist, or at the very least would not be the clear cut most popular magazine to feature naked ladies. Of course dudes dig the boobs, but if they didn't like the articles they'd buy the competing products that feature way more nudity and little to no text.
For the record, I've never purchased a Playboy or competing mag, and I don't buy any sort of magazine anymore, because the internet. And I do like boxing for reasons other than brutality. If someone just wants to see knockouts and people getting hurt there's Youtube and a million other sites for that.
I, for one, can't wait for OS X 10.11 "Vista," or for Apple to completely scrap the interface all of their users are used to when the go Full Microsoft.
As long as software is written well and it wont lag (doubt it).
Name one phone with good software and crappy hardware that I'd consider using. There isn't one. Good software doesn't make the weak screen or camera good. Processor speed may be over rated, but adequate RAM is certainly not, especially with a low-end processor.
Size - 4.0 inches (~61.3% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution - 480 x 800 pixels (~233 ppi pixel density)
OS - Android OS, v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset - Mediatek MT6572
Internal - 4 GB ROM, 512 MB RAM
CAMERA -2 MP, 1600 x 1200 pixels
BATTERY - Li-Ion 1300 mAh battery
Stand-by - Up to 432 h (2G) / Up to 384 h (3G)
The price? Less than $60.00
In what way the new Ubuntu phone can match it?
Eww, yuck.
Pros: cheap, has FM radio
Cons: every other single thing about it.
Verdict: no thanks. I don't care what you compare it to, it still stinks. This is like comparing dog shit to wolf shit.
If you aren't interested in the nature of our universe, or the possible existence of other universes that might be able to interact with ours, that's fine, but lots of us don't feel the same way. Numerous important scientific advances have come from what initially looked like useless findings, so just because you don't know right now how this might be applied to future technologies that doesn't mean it is a dead end.
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You can't avoid commercials by surfing.... all the stations have synced their commercials so you have no choice but to surf to 'their' commercial.
Right, because no one watches TV with a digital recording device that is capable of skipping ahead 10-30 seconds at a time, or skipping commercials almost automatically by pressing a single button.
If you use an Android set top box, you spend those 6 days searching for content they don't have, trying to figure out how to make the interface work with a remote, shopping for a new remote after you throw yours against a wall, and researching Netflix alternatives.
That's no probe, it's a relativistic kill vehicle.
Which leaves me wondering they have found that they need to target.These nano craft are large enough to do a lot of damage with collision speeds in the neighborhood of .2c . Maybe this beats going all Starship Troopers on extraterrestrial bugs. Slowing the craft enough to perform useful science on arrival would seem impractically difficult.
Help yourself to a map, as this is the wrong Washington. Unless the government secretly moved to Seattle and no one spilled the beans, until now. And there is little risk of disaster with the exact technology in question here. A used banana truck spilling banana peels all over Wall Street would be more dangerous.
They have it all wrong. In 15 years, the pinnacle of commercial airplanes won't be shiny, fast and high tech. They will be more like buses or trains: slow, boring, reliable and affordable.
They're already slow, boring and reliable. Where I disagree is that I don't see them getting a whole lot more affordable in 15 years. Fuel and maintenance costs should continue to drop as more old planes are replaced with current and upcoming models but ticket prices have only gone up. People will continue to pay high prices for air travel unless ground travel suddenly becomes a whole lot quicker and we build highways and railroads over large bodies of water. We all seem to hate airlines, but what are you going to do, go Greyhound? Yeah, right. Air travel will continue to be both expensive and popular for the foreseeable future, especially but not only in America. Not every place has a rail system like Western Europe, nor is as compact.
It failed because the cost of tickets was unsustainable...
The Concorde failed because a tire exploded, it streaked terrifyingly across the Paris sky trailing hundreds of feet of fire, and crashed in a giant fireball, killing everyone. And then the fleet was instantly and irrevocably grounded. The program had its economic issues over the years, but was still in operation nonetheless - until the disaster.
I think you are misremembering history. Concordes were not instantly and irrevocably grounded after the 2000 Paris accident, as some flew well into 2003. Maintenance costs were rising on the old planes and demand sagged after 9/11. The Paris wreck was a heavy blow but it is not what ultimately ended Concorde service. The flight deck of those things was so antiquated by 2003 and they were so inherently crappy to fly that I'm surprised they made it that long. Incredible machines, and a real marvel in their day, but it is not accurate to say that their one and only fatal accident did them in.
And, for the record, the tire only exploded because it had help from debris another plane had left on the runway, and because other factors caused the Concorde to use more of the runway than normal on takeoff. As demanding as it was (long runway requirement, so unique to fly, incredibly thirsty, limited cargo and seating capacity, old, and expensive to maintain) the plane in question was completely airworthy. Decreased demand and increased costs related to security caused a lot of grief in the airline industry after 9/11, and didn't just kill the Concorde.
What race is on? The race for funding for a project that requires new and unproven technology, and a ridiculously huge leap of faith, considering the fastest manned military aircraft in history has never even touched Mach 4? Yeah, um, the race is not on. Not yet, and sure as hell not any time soon. This half-assed summary reads like a bullshit Popular Mechanics blurb about someone's pie in the sky dream.
If fares were a modern equivalent of Concorde fares there would certainly be quite a few interested customers, and not just for the novelty of flying at Mach 8 or reaching any major city quicker than I can drive across Ohio. But beginning work soon on a Mach 8 commercial airliner would require skipping several logical and necessary steps, since there is currently no supersonic airliner in use or in the works and no manned military plane (some of the most advanced machines in the world) exceeds Mach 2 by very much. Achieving Mach 8 is no joke, and I can't see rocket propulsion receiving any consideration for a passenger craft.
Would'a been, damn network...
But Cyanogen can't even seem to get bluetooth to work properly on my 3 year-old LG Optimus G. The BT MAC address is always an incorrect value, causing major connection and audio streaming issues. I have been a big fan of CM roms for 5-6 years now, but there are too many bugs they can't seem to rectify these days for me to take them completely seriously. This is especially true if they want to do Android without Google.
Good luck to them, but dancing with the devil (and undisputed king of unresolved bugs) doesn't seem like the way to perfect Android, even if it means taking the lead away from Google. This is disappointing, to say the least.
Given that RAND stands for "Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory," is it a bit ironic ironic that Ron Paul's son is named Rand?
I can't say yet who I'm voting for in 2016, but I can tell you one guy I'm NOT voting for. Hint: I just mentioned him.
Really all they're doing is saving money.
Yep. I will bet good coin, that the average salary as a whole goes down over this.
BINGO! And I see I'm not the only one suspicious of her bizarre excuse for refusing to negotiate.
Ellen Pao is either lying about her motivation by attempting to underpay her workforce, or perhaps she is just an idiot. When she says, "Men negotiate harder than women do and sometimes women get penalized when they do negotiate," she is first being sexist, then undermining her own credibility as a policy setter within the company. First off, it is blatantly and horribly sexist to make a ludicrous blanket comment like that when she claims to be striving for equality. To then admit that her underlings might penalize women for negotiating for themselves is an admission of failure.
That, or she is simply looking for an excuse to refuse to negotiate in good faith, thus making it easier to underpay everyone across the board (and miss out on valuable talent, of course). What a load of crap, which should not be unexpected considering this is Reddit we are discussing, I guess.
Get rid of the point system. Have them keep going till someone gives up or gets KO'd. This simultaneously makes the sport more interesting and will cut back on the corruption.
...and the strategy, and the focus on fitness and stamina, and the length of careers, and all amateur boxing, and the health of boxers, and the frequency of fights, and the likelihood of boxing remaining legal and sanctioned. Boxing has never been street fighting, and will never become such.
I can't believe so many of you alleged males are dogging on boxing and other contact sports. None of these fighters/athletes are slaves, they CHOOSE the sport and the potential consequences. Go back to saving the internet now.
Bravo. While I agree wholeheartedly, I can't help but find it a bit ironic that you question the manliness of boxing detractors while purposely concealing your own fake online identity.
Even _interesting_ sports are not highly regarded among geeks, I'm not sure how this article was even considered "stuff that matters."
Maybe gladiators would be worth posting about, but boxing is as Neanderthal as it gets.
You care enough to type about it. And as someone whose DNA is upwards of 3% neanderthal, I am offended.
Of course the spectators are only watching for the thinking.
Just like everybody reads Playboy for the articles.
The Playboy argument is a common one but a bad one, and I'll tell you why. If no one cared about the articles in Playboy it wouldn't exist in the form it does. There are plenty of other skin mags, most of which do not include any appreciable journalism or literary entertainment. So if Playboy's success were not largely (certainly not entirely) due to the articles, it would not exist, or at the very least would not be the clear cut most popular magazine to feature naked ladies. Of course dudes dig the boobs, but if they didn't like the articles they'd buy the competing products that feature way more nudity and little to no text.
For the record, I've never purchased a Playboy or competing mag, and I don't buy any sort of magazine anymore, because the internet. And I do like boxing for reasons other than brutality. If someone just wants to see knockouts and people getting hurt there's Youtube and a million other sites for that.
You realize that boxing isn't some new concept, right?
Of course it isn't, but in ancient times most men didn't live long enough to worry about anything like Parkinson's.
As already pointed out above, boxing does not cause Parkinson's disease, so please come up with a better argument.
I've got 4 Yosemite macs at home, a 2009 iMac, a 2015 iMac 5k, a 2014 retina 15 and a 2011 macbook air. None have had any issues with wifi.
I see an issue with your wifi: you spent way too much money on computers to use it.
Here's a general list of where NOT to drive your electric car:
Almost anywhere more than 50 miles away from your garage.
Somewhere, Steve Jobs is spinning in his grave.
I, for one, can't wait for OS X 10.11 "Vista," or for Apple to completely scrap the interface all of their users are used to when the go Full Microsoft.
As long as software is written well and it wont lag (doubt it).
Name one phone with good software and crappy hardware that I'd consider using. There isn't one. Good software doesn't make the weak screen or camera good. Processor speed may be over rated, but adequate RAM is certainly not, especially with a low-end processor.
Size - 4.0 inches (~61.3% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution - 480 x 800 pixels (~233 ppi pixel density)
OS - Android OS, v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset - Mediatek MT6572
Internal - 4 GB ROM, 512 MB RAM
CAMERA -2 MP, 1600 x 1200 pixels
BATTERY - Li-Ion 1300 mAh battery
Stand-by - Up to 432 h (2G) / Up to 384 h (3G)
The price? Less than $60.00
In what way the new Ubuntu phone can match it?
Eww, yuck.
Pros: cheap, has FM radio
Cons: every other single thing about it.
Verdict: no thanks. I don't care what you compare it to, it still stinks. This is like comparing dog shit to wolf shit.
Ubuntu phone, not Obama phone, but thank you for your interest Mr. Limbaugh.
Nothing to see here.
...in your comment.
If you aren't interested in the nature of our universe, or the possible existence of other universes that might be able to interact with ours, that's fine, but lots of us don't feel the same way. Numerous important scientific advances have come from what initially looked like useless findings, so just because you don't know right now how this might be applied to future technologies that doesn't mean it is a dead end.