"In the classical times of several species, it was the custom of the powerful to nudge the power-counters (money or other economic tabulators, status points, etc.) into occasional violent perturbations from which the knowledgeable few profited."
- Comparative History, The BuSab Text,
"The Dosadi Experiment" by Frank Herbert
What if we just harvest a giant ice cube from say a comet and drop it in the ocean, do that every couple of years and it should cool off the planet right?
How much heat would be added to the atmosphere if you dropped a huge ANYTHING from orbit?
"If you're going to be in something volatile, you might as well be in something that's volatile and rising than volatile and falling," says Ryan Taylor, chief executive officer of crypto currency Dash Core..
Indeed. Just ask anyone from Zimbabwe, or Albania. (Disco Stu voice) "And if this trend continues... Eyyyyy!"
I've worked in user support and I'd say no. Most of them have defective firmware that prevents any form of updating, even with a very large stick. Better to chuck them away and BUY SOMETHING DIFFERENT NEXT TIME.
Media corporations in Australia have inflicted The Wiggles on the rest of the world.
Because of this they owe the world untold Trillions of dollars in damages, copyright infringement is a small, civil, crime compared to the Wiggles.
That was retaliation for Sesame Street. YOU fired first.
As for the original article... I defy anyone to point out a television show produced by Channel Ten (originally Channel Zero, btw) that anyone would go to the trouble of pirating.
The day they do that for exit instead of entry the world will be a safer place.
Indeed! This is good news for all the slave construction workers who can't leave Dubai because their contractors have taken their passports. Now they can just walk out.
I don't agree that Betamax was a failure. I owned two, and together they worked for over twenty-five years. Betamax was briefly superseded by VHS, which was then rendered obsolete by digital video. Does that make VHS a failure also?
... The second case was a total shoestring operation and one of the first things I discovered was that their so-called daily backup processes were not actually backing up anything.
Ah, that moment... months into it, when you decide to check the backup media and find it's empty. Heh heh heh.
Is there such a thing any more? I recently had access to a lot of second-hand low-end machines and thought it'd be fun to set up a cluster, but I couldn't find the software - it had vanished into a haze of different distros.
Slashdot Mirror
People still need things. And to trade things, you need money.
Only in cases where it isn't practical to trade things.
Gentle reminder: X-day is in THREE DAY'S TIME, people. Praise "Bob"!
I have MY saucer ticket. Do you have yours?
I bet it's not so huge that some arrogant administrator will declare it's not big enough to be called a planet.
It'll have to be someone from Europe, because I just read on Slashdot that there aren't any Presidential science advisors left.
Also, didn't Arthur C Clarke call this?
For a brief moment I thought... "What is 129 times the speed of light, and how did that city in Iran reach it?"
So kudos to someone previously associated with Engadget, of all places, to take Apple's marketing to task.
Never take marketing seriously. They exaggerate. They can't not exaggerate. Or as the rest of us say, they lie.
We do have some spares, right?
Destroying your homeworld is a great motivator for developing the technology to find another.
"In the classical times of several species, it was the custom of the powerful to nudge the power-counters (money or other economic tabulators, status points, etc.) into occasional violent perturbations from which the knowledgeable few profited."
- Comparative History, The BuSab Text, "The Dosadi Experiment" by Frank Herbert
What if we just harvest a giant ice cube from say a comet and drop it in the ocean, do that every couple of years and it should cool off the planet right?
How much heat would be added to the atmosphere if you dropped a huge ANYTHING from orbit?
... which geoengineering booster Jane Long breathlessly called "geopoetry."
Probably a methane bloom. She could try getting to higher ground.
Everyone else on Earth cheers as Wall Street replaced with algorithms capable of morality, compassion and empathy.
They're just the modern day equivalent of worry stones.
or rosary beads.
My folks got a pet rock as a gag gift back in the '70s. Forget which one of their friends did it.
It came with a handy little cage to keep it from roaming around at night.
Someone gave you a dead Horta? That's horrible.
Give them a dead Ogri. That'll teach 'em.
... and I'll be king of the playground again!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! =Smidge=
A cautionary tale:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad5BTc41HH0
"'Cause when you're in the jungle, watch it - it's a playground out there."
There is a definite anti-Apple bias on this site.
In comparison with the anti-microsoft bias, i'd say apple is getting off lightly.
"If you're going to be in something volatile, you might as well be in something that's volatile and rising than volatile and falling," says Ryan Taylor, chief executive officer of crypto currency Dash Core..
Indeed. Just ask anyone from Zimbabwe, or Albania. (Disco Stu voice) "And if this trend continues... Eyyyyy!"
I've worked in user support and I'd say no. Most of them have defective firmware that prevents any form of updating, even with a very large stick. Better to chuck them away and BUY SOMETHING DIFFERENT NEXT TIME.
fypfy
It wasn't so long ago that Network 10 was actually a very profitable station that never did well in the ratings.
When was that? 1972?
Still trying to think of a good show made by Ten. All I come up with is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Media corporations in Australia have inflicted The Wiggles on the rest of the world.
Because of this they owe the world untold Trillions of dollars in damages, copyright infringement is a small, civil, crime compared to the Wiggles.
That was retaliation for Sesame Street. YOU fired first.
As for the original article... I defy anyone to point out a television show produced by Channel Ten (originally Channel Zero, btw) that anyone would go to the trouble of pirating.
The day they do that for exit instead of entry the world will be a safer place.
Indeed! This is good news for all the slave construction workers who can't leave Dubai because their contractors have taken their passports. Now they can just walk out.
Isn't it that green liquid stuff from those Minecraft mods, that's made out of Eyes of Ender? No, wait, that's Enderium.
There, there!
A good product doomed by cheaper VHS technology.
I don't agree that Betamax was a failure. I owned two, and together they worked for over twenty-five years. Betamax was briefly superseded by VHS, which was then rendered obsolete by digital video. Does that make VHS a failure also?
... The second case was a total shoestring operation and one of the first things I discovered was that their so-called daily backup processes were not actually backing up anything.
Ah, that moment... months into it, when you decide to check the backup media and find it's empty. Heh heh heh.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster!
Is there such a thing any more? I recently had access to a lot of second-hand low-end machines and thought it'd be fun to set up a cluster, but I couldn't find the software - it had vanished into a haze of different distros.
Sloot's death was an inside job!
All heart attacks are.
What about that punk in "The Terminator"? I guess that began as an inside job.