Not gonna happen. The singularity crap is this era's Fountain of Youth. The truth is, the more we learn, the more we discover how little we know.
Every generation nurtures this myth that they have everything almost figured out. Militaries employ brass bands for the same purpose- to boost morale and keep everybody working hard, cuz the boss wants a new, bigger yacht.
Volkswagen's fix will reduce the mileage on the cars that it's applied to. I wonder if VW owners are really going to line up at the garage to have the fix applied. Or will mandatory emissions testing force them to allow VW to apply the fix?
1979 was a long time ago, before many of us (myself included) were ever born. Let's get over it already.
Some of us (myself included) campaigned and marched against the Shah of Iran in 1979. Many of the Iranians that we stood with in those times were subsequently exterminated by the oppressive regime which took control after the Iranian revolution. The fight for Freedom isn't something you 'get over already.'
I paid $70 for my locked 635. Right at Radio Shack, even. I consider the 'locked' part as kind of a feature, because it's a Virgin Mobile. For $35/mo with no commitment, I get unlimited voice and 3GB of data before the throttling. I can barely imagine paying more than $200 for a smartphone. A decent Android phone isn't more than $120.
Gasoline is not flammable in liquid form. Pouring gasoline on a weak fire can put the fire out. That's part of what makes gasoline a safe and stable fuel for motor vehicles. The gasoline has to be mixed with air; then the vapors are explosively flammable.
It certainly never takes me ten minutes to full my Ford Ranger at the gas pump. Maybe 3-5 minutes. And that's every 4-5 days. I always pay at the pump.
Somebody has to say it, since it's being overlooked in the summary. This project is an outspringing from the Cultural Revolution's 'Barefoot Doctor' movement.
Well, that would probably have to be 'privately' disfavored by Mr. Cook. He's not going to take a public stand on Gay Rights in the market that hasn't been captured yet.
Ben & Jerrys won't even release the trade secrets of their ice cream formulations to the public. Why should the frackers release their trade secrets to hostile scientists?
Essentially, this would trash the computer science/coding curriculum at most schools. Whereas now the classes consist of motivated students who want to learn, this would cram in all the dullards who don't want to be in the class. Thus it would suck the resources away from the students who want to learn.
Thank goodness he's just a mayor and can't rham his idea through.
MINIX is not an ancestor of UNIX. It is a pedagogical UNIX workalike originally included as a toy OS that accompanied Tanenbaum's Operating Systems textbook.
Historically it is a predecessor of Linux, because Linus Torcalds was a minix user who was unsatisfied with it, so began making his own OS. It made perfect sense for minix not to "innovate" btw, because it was a pedagogical tool, never intended to be the broad sort of thing that Linux has grown to be.
UNIX is (obviously) much older than minix or Linux.
The weird part about Slashdot mobile is how much better it looks if you're not logged in. Also the absence of any form of captcha when you're posting a comment as A..C.
The combination of those things is probably why there are more a.c. Posts now than in the past. It's just not worth logging in to comment and then having to completely shut the browser down to log out.
Had a friend that did this. Created a virtual hard disk in RAM and used it to play his games. The 64 gigs of ram where wholly unnecessary, but damn... those frame rates...
I did this, and ran my entire BBS in a virtual hard drive. The machine in question had all 640K of RAM, but the BBS software (WWIV 3.21d) only needed about 192K to run. So I made a 320K ramdisk and put the data files there. It meant I didn't need a hard drive at all. I had to back the ramdisk up to a floppy once in awhile to protect against power failures.
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Not gonna happen. The singularity crap is this era's Fountain of Youth. The truth is, the more we learn, the more we discover how little we know.
Every generation nurtures this myth that they have everything almost figured out. Militaries employ brass bands for the same purpose- to boost morale and keep everybody working hard, cuz the boss wants a new, bigger yacht.
The Action Figure of the timpanist is one of the most sought after. Most people overlook, though, that the English Horn player figure is much rarer.
That's the Apple Store. But they're not crap, just overpriced.
People lived in New Orleans for years before Air Conditioning was ever invented. Perhaps not people like you, however.
Volkswagen's fix will reduce the mileage on the cars that it's applied to. I wonder if VW owners are really going to line up at the garage to have the fix applied. Or will mandatory emissions testing force them to allow VW to apply the fix?
1979 was a long time ago, before many of us (myself included) were ever born. Let's get over it already.
Some of us (myself included) campaigned and marched against the Shah of Iran in 1979. Many of the Iranians that we stood with in those times were subsequently exterminated by the oppressive regime which took control after the Iranian revolution. The fight for Freedom isn't something you 'get over already.'
I paid $70 for my locked 635. Right at Radio Shack, even. I consider the 'locked' part as kind of a feature, because it's a Virgin Mobile. For $35/mo with no commitment, I get unlimited voice and 3GB of data before the throttling. I can barely imagine paying more than $200 for a smartphone. A decent Android phone isn't more than $120.
This is greatly exacerbated by the fact that most police officers don't wear seat belts.
Slashdot is the kind of place where you can toss shit like that out unattributed and just continue on with your comment.
That's why this topic has over 400 comments in the four or so hours it's been up so far. Anybody can say whatever crap they want.
A 15 year old male is not a 'child.' Likely, if you called him a child to his face he'd punch you in the face.
Gasoline is not flammable in liquid form. Pouring gasoline on a weak fire can put the fire out. That's part of what makes gasoline a safe and stable fuel for motor vehicles. The gasoline has to be mixed with air; then the vapors are explosively flammable.
Right. You just described 1964. Fortunately it's 2015 now. You need to update you anecdotes to sync better to reality now.
It certainly never takes me ten minutes to full my Ford Ranger at the gas pump. Maybe 3-5 minutes. And that's every 4-5 days. I always pay at the pump.
Somebody has to say it, since it's being overlooked in the summary. This project is an outspringing from the Cultural Revolution's 'Barefoot Doctor' movement.
That is a profoundly racist outlook. It's exactly the expression of a racist point of view.
Well, that would probably have to be 'privately' disfavored by Mr. Cook. He's not going to take a public stand on Gay Rights in the market that hasn't been captured yet.
Those are just 'lifestyle' ads. Similar to the cowboy smoking the Marlboro cigarette.
It is mind bogglingly stupid by M$ to fail to produce Windows secure edition for computer geeks and nerds
Nerds have always secured their PC for themselves. It has never been Microsoft's job to do so for them.
I mean, get a clue.
Spyware comes separately with google play services or with installing just about any app from the cesspool that is the Android app store.
In other words, the spyware enters the android system within the first ten minutes of use by the average user.
WTF was your point, eh?
Ben & Jerrys won't even release the trade secrets of their ice cream formulations to the public. Why should the frackers release their trade secrets to hostile scientists?
Essentially, this would trash the computer science/coding curriculum at most schools. Whereas now the classes consist of motivated students who want to learn, this would cram in all the dullards who don't want to be in the class. Thus it would suck the resources away from the students who want to learn.
Thank goodness he's just a mayor and can't rham his idea through.
MINIX is not an ancestor of UNIX. It is a pedagogical UNIX workalike originally included as a toy OS that accompanied Tanenbaum's Operating Systems textbook.
Historically it is a predecessor of Linux, because Linus Torcalds was a minix user who was unsatisfied with it, so began making his own OS. It made perfect sense for minix not to "innovate" btw, because it was a pedagogical tool, never intended to be the broad sort of thing that Linux has grown to be.
UNIX is (obviously) much older than minix or Linux.
The weird part about Slashdot mobile is how much better it looks if you're not logged in. Also the absence of any form of captcha when you're posting a comment as A..C.
The combination of those things is probably why there are more a.c. Posts now than in the past. It's just not worth logging in to comment and then having to completely shut the browser down to log out.
I paid $600 for a motherboard with a 486-DX 33 on it.
But a few years earlier than that, I paid $400 for a '72 Camaro. It wasn't a good Camaro.
But in that same timeframe I also bought 256x1 RAM chips for about $12 each. Which was quite a low price at the time (they were second-hand pulls)
Be careful there. You'll hurt the feelings of the people who think a big job is ripping and converting their blueray movie.
Had a friend that did this. Created a virtual hard disk in RAM and used it to play his games. The 64 gigs of ram where wholly unnecessary, but damn... those frame rates...
I did this, and ran my entire BBS in a virtual hard drive. The machine in question had all 640K of RAM, but the BBS software (WWIV 3.21d) only needed about 192K to run. So I made a 320K ramdisk and put the data files there. It meant I didn't need a hard drive at all. I had to back the ramdisk up to a floppy once in awhile to protect against power failures.