Yes, laptops should standardize on some sort of power connector, and they should sell detachable solar panels, that you can move to your new laptop when you upgrade after some years.
But, a solar-powered laptop will have a big advantage: you'll be able to charge it in places where you don't have access to electricity. This of course does not negate the points in the previous paragraph.
Yes, stomping the phone will easily destroy the recording, which is stored on a very fragile medium. The act of giving the broken phone back, accompanied by some choice threats, really complements the boot-stomping nicely! There is absolutely no need to do difficult technical stuff in order to erase the recording, or to "confiscate" the phone. Breaking the screen of the phone is all it takes. Giving it back adds insult to injury so nicely! You deserve a sprinkle-encrusted donut for this brave and ironic act! Don't listen to those trolls talking about memory cards and other stuff, they're just trying to make you waste your precious time.
An army needs supplies; Organizing supplies (logistics) gets very complicated, and needs IT infrastructure; Disabling an opposing army's supply lines is a proved war strategy; Enemies could damage the IT infrastructure, thereby endangering the supply lines; In a conflict, enemies will try to damage the army's IT infrastructure; An army needs people who can protect its IT infrastructure and damage the enemy's.
His rant can also be interpreted as against globalization instead of against technology. All the people who will become lose their jobs now that more and more brick-and-mortar stores are being obsoleted by websites, they're not getting jobs in electronics factories, since the electronic devices are almost all made in low-wage countries these days.
The big labels have an effective advertising structure: they own many radio stations that play their songs. People aren't just going to buy songs from the Google Music Store that they haven't heard about before, except if they're the "if I know about it, it's too mainstream for me" type.
It's just what you get used to with your language sounds growing up, I guess.
The phonemes of your native language are what your brain's speech recognition center is trained to recognize, and if an unrelated language has some subtly different phonemes, they can be really hard to distinguish, or reproduce.
Similar here, but single-right-click brings up the context menu, which works properly. But I've turned off most of those nasty JavaScript capabilities like writing to the status bar (I like to actually know where links go) and disabling/replacing the context menu.
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What about hash collissions? If you have a 37-character password, but there exists a 5-character string with the same hash, you're screwed.
Sounds like a great idea!
The only problem is that laptop manufacturers employ an infinite diversity of batteries and infinite variations of power connectors.
Yes, laptops should standardize on some sort of power connector, and they should sell detachable solar panels, that you can move to your new laptop when you upgrade after some years.
But, a solar-powered laptop will have a big advantage: you'll be able to charge it in places where you don't have access to electricity. This of course does not negate the points in the previous paragraph.
Yes, stomping the phone will easily destroy the recording, which is stored on a very fragile medium. The act of giving the broken phone back, accompanied by some choice threats, really complements the boot-stomping nicely! There is absolutely no need to do difficult technical stuff in order to erase the recording, or to "confiscate" the phone. Breaking the screen of the phone is all it takes. Giving it back adds insult to injury so nicely! You deserve a sprinkle-encrusted donut for this brave and ironic act! Don't listen to those trolls talking about memory cards and other stuff, they're just trying to make you waste your precious time.
An army needs supplies;
Organizing supplies (logistics) gets very complicated, and needs IT infrastructure;
Disabling an opposing army's supply lines is a proved war strategy;
Enemies could damage the IT infrastructure, thereby endangering the supply lines;
In a conflict, enemies will try to damage the army's IT infrastructure;
An army needs people who can protect its IT infrastructure and damage the enemy's.
I thought he only used the middle M when writing science fiction? :-)
That too, except there you won't be sent to a forced labor camp for watching John Stewart instead of Fox News.
Except if they catch you streaming it illegally...
What news media? You do realize you're talking about 1947 Soviet Russia, right?
Nah, they probably just bought the rings in America.
Then set your DVD player to output 16:9 video instead of 4:3 video.
Exactly! There are still amoebas and apes, so we couldn't possibly have evolved from them!
for jesus in range(6000): print "Goddidit!"
We can't see it, we can only detect it by its power draw, and it makes up 95% of your chips!
They're on to me!
In Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series, this is glossed over in the backstory. These people became psychopaths.
Just hit ^Z to undo your mistake :-)
Imagine a robot foot stomping on a poor man's face, forever.
Well, I guess that "the freedom of the press shall not be abridged" could be interpreted as One E-Reader Per Child.
But why amend the Constitution then? You're right, that's totally insane.
His rant can also be interpreted as against globalization instead of against technology. All the people who will become lose their jobs now that more and more brick-and-mortar stores are being obsoleted by websites, they're not getting jobs in electronics factories, since the electronic devices are almost all made in low-wage countries these days.
The big labels have an effective advertising structure: they own many radio stations that play their songs. People aren't just going to buy songs from the Google Music Store that they haven't heard about before, except if they're the "if I know about it, it's too mainstream for me" type.
The phonemes of your native language are what your brain's speech recognition center is trained to recognize, and if an unrelated language has some subtly different phonemes, they can be really hard to distinguish, or reproduce.
Nah, as a Slashdotter, the most you can hope for is a holographic projection of an Asgard friend.
Now that's some bad-ass tronomy!
Similar here, but single-right-click brings up the context menu, which works properly. But I've turned off most of those nasty JavaScript capabilities like writing to the status bar (I like to actually know where links go) and disabling/replacing the context menu.
http://xkcd.com/224/
Men With Talent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58-9Ae9cvDI, for the furriners :-)