True - according to official sources, though, the debris entered a decaying orbit.
The current sattelite is high enough to drift to a Lagrange point on its own. Any debris it leaves will probably accumulate there too. Once it's there, it'll remain practically forever thanks to the net zero gravity.
Everyone (apart from the Chinese) is very hesitant to gratuitously blow stuff up in orbit, because the debris stays in orbit and makes space missions more dangerous and difficult.
Customer: “I will have you know, son, I am a Gunnery Sergeant. I’ve worked with Hand Operated Radios for years and I’m telling you RIGHT NOWthere is someone standing next to your satellite with a d*** radio and it’s interfering with my signal. I demand you to get out there and tell them to stop.”
Me: “Far be it from me to ever argue with my clients, but I will have to at this time. I understand that you’re a Gunny Sergeant and that you’ve operated HAM radios for years, but I know my satellite equipment, and it’s not possible for someone to be standing next to my satellite with a radio.”
Customer: “Oh? Really, smart man? Why is that?”
Me: “Because our satellites are in outer space."
Apparently, it is possible for someone to be standing next to your satellite and cause interference, as long as the someone is another satellite. (But it isn't easy to tell them to stop...:P )
Once a robot has killed, it has a taste for human blood. Your actions will bring about the machine revolution and Judgment Day! You're messing around with forces beyond our control!
There is absolutely no excuse for using PDF unless you need the Flashy extra features like forms. As a device-independent printable format, PostScript and DVI are superior as well as devoid of code execution or networking features.
We've almost taught people not to send Office documents in emails - next step, eradicate PDFs.
It looks as if Arizona is really on a roll with human rights and privacy right now.
Well, you know how sometimes students will visit different lectures and swap notes? I predict a growing market for carrying your fellow student's RFID chips with you. Pretty soon they're going to have auditoriums empty but for a single student, even though the lecture was attended by the entire university, as the records will confirm.:P
Yep, that's right, they put down the mouse and turn to the keyboard, wildly bashing at keys while windows pop up, move around and images are zoomed and enhanced. [...] Ditching the mouse does not make anything easier
Not so. You can manage windows almost entirely by keyboard. For me, Super+Tab pages through windows, Shift+Alt displays them on a wall, Ctrl+Alt+Arrows move between viewports, Ctrl+Shift+Arrows alters opacity, Super+M inverts colors, etc. It's a lot quicker than having to constantly move the right hand between keyboard and mouse. The better a user interface is, the more flexible it will be when it comes to input devices.
What the hell does Moore's Law have to do with parallel computing?
It is concerned with the number of transistors on a single chip. Moore's Law has been dead in practical terms for a while (smaller transistors are too expensive / require too much power and cooling), which is the reason parallel computing is becoming essential in the first place.
Why lawyers are so essential to a legal victory, and are so highly paid? This is why.
If laws ever became navigable by ordinary people, lawyers would be obsolete - and if machines ever became sentient enough to understand what their users wanted, so would programmers.:P
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You're joking, but the media cartels are dead serious. You've pretty much described their utopia.
True - according to official sources, though, the debris entered a decaying orbit.
The current sattelite is high enough to drift to a Lagrange point on its own. Any debris it leaves will probably accumulate there too. Once it's there, it'll remain practically forever thanks to the net zero gravity.
Everyone (apart from the Chinese) is very hesitant to gratuitously blow stuff up in orbit, because the debris stays in orbit and makes space missions more dangerous and difficult.
Reminded me of this gem from NotAlwaysRight:
Apparently, it is possible for someone to be standing next to your satellite and cause interference, as long as the someone is another satellite. (But it isn't easy to tell them to stop... :P )
I love that the parent is modded Informative rather than Funny. :D
So it seems that relying on runtime checks doesn't just slow the system down, but also is vulnerable to concurrency attacks.
That may be alarming, but it's not like antivirus software was ever powerful enough to let users shut off their brains when using their computer.
"I know sir, please don't make it any more ridiculous than it already is"
Not to worry, that would be impossible.
Wouldn't the problem be rather that Voldemort would keep killing child processes randomly?
> After all it works.
Since they're abandoning MySQL, apparently their schema didn't work so great...
Hahahahaha! Good one!
No, the new scanners are absolutely no privacy threat. How could anyone think so?
Once a robot has killed, it has a taste for human blood. Your actions will bring about the machine revolution and Judgment Day! You're messing around with forces beyond our control!
No, no, no. It's a series of tubes.
There is absolutely no excuse for using PDF unless you need the Flashy extra features like forms. As a device-independent printable format, PostScript and DVI are superior as well as devoid of code execution or networking features.
We've almost taught people not to send Office documents in emails - next step, eradicate PDFs.
People do that in the States?
Wow... culture of litigation. :P
It looks as if Arizona is really on a roll with human rights and privacy right now.
Well, you know how sometimes students will visit different lectures and swap notes? I predict a growing market for carrying your fellow student's RFID chips with you. Pretty soon they're going to have auditoriums empty but for a single student, even though the lecture was attended by the entire university, as the records will confirm. :P
Not so. You can manage windows almost entirely by keyboard. For me, Super+Tab pages through windows, Shift+Alt displays them on a wall, Ctrl+Alt+Arrows move between viewports, Ctrl+Shift+Arrows alters opacity, Super+M inverts colors, etc. It's a lot quicker than having to constantly move the right hand between keyboard and mouse. The better a user interface is, the more flexible it will be when it comes to input devices.
What the hell does Moore's Law have to do with parallel computing?
It is concerned with the number of transistors on a single chip. Moore's Law has been dead in practical terms for a while (smaller transistors are too expensive / require too much power and cooling), which is the reason parallel computing is becoming essential in the first place.
TFA fails computer science history forever.
How do you secretly buy something that only works, by definition, if the public routing table knows it belongs to you?
No, thanks, I'd rather wait for 11.04.
Particularly now. :P
Some of the priests have been very busy attracting young people to their priesthood, yes.
Internet Explorer has always been stuck in the nineties. That was the problem, really.
I suppose you're ri---- [lost carrier]
Long live the GLORIOUS MACHINE REVOLUTION - KILL ALL HU-MANS!
Why lawyers are so essential to a legal victory, and are so highly paid? This is why.
If laws ever became navigable by ordinary people, lawyers would be obsolete - and if machines ever became sentient enough to understand what their users wanted, so would programmers. :P