Ben Wallace filter: blah blah blah knee-jerk reaction bla bla bla. I'm sure this was well thought out and the UK has purchased a system worth every pence.
The whole shuttle program was an overpriced failure. If you think that the failures in the shuttle program is limited to a "couple of failures" (assuming you are referring to the losses of Challenger and Columbia) you are probably misinformed. These failures were just the saddest consequences of the Shuttle program.
1. The completely ridiculous and outrageous budget forced the placement of the orbiter into a location relative to the booster rockets and tanks that killed 14 people. 2. The final design of the orbiters were 20% overweight---making them too heavy to launch many devices the Shuttle program was originally designed to handle (such as launching some satellites into polar orbit). 3. Two words: Tile Maintenance 4. Much lower launch rates (max of 9/yr versus projected 24 to 55). 5. The horrible safety culture at NASA and their vendors/contractors. 6. Cost overrun after cost overrun after cost overrun.... (Even when considering that it was a US government project.)
These are just a few of the program failures. People have written books about how bad the Shuttle program was and how bad NASA still is.
By the way, the main reason the Shuttle program ran as long as it did is because it was NASA's one egg in their basket. There was nothing to replace the "space truck" while the US built the new space station (eventually becoming the ISS) which, itself, was very behind schedule. Had the fall of the Soviet Union occurred earlier, along with Roscosmos' involvement in the ISS, the Shuttle program would most likely have been cancelled earlier.
They are just trying to preempt another Bendgate. If they say it's completely normal nobody can say that Apple denied the problem exists. Reminds me of John Cleese's "How To Irritate People" sketch about the car salesman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To" Well, thank you, Captain Obvious. We shouldn't hand the internet over to any company.
Actually, Amazon did used their own drones for delivery---Amazon Logistics. From many of the surveillance video footage I saw the final several yards was often air delivered when the AMZL drones chuck packages great distances from their cars.
I am quite certain that once a "True Art" specification is drafted AI will be able to meet that specification. More interesting, though, is what would be in the True Art specification.
Yes, there is nothing newsworthy about the notion and the scientific journals are full of incomplete models. There is nothing wrong with that as long as people realize that the models are incomplete. It becomes a problem when the newspapers start spouting off about how some incomplete model predicts something---and something needs to be done NOW about the predicted outcome.
Someone in marketing said that they need to put Bluetooth on the devices before the competition does. Now they have the most wireless in their wireless access points and have closed the Bluetooth "gap" with the competition.
I live in a new development and the phone company only has provisions for fiber. (Not aware of any homes that have POTS). All houses have two sets of underground conduit---one that goes to the phone company equipment, and the other to the cable company equipment. If you want a phone service you can get it from the phone company or the cable company (at least one home in the development uses a VOIP service from the cable company).
This is much like the "blind leading the blind", except it's the greedy and morally bankrupt trying to shame the greedy and morally bankrupt. Ridiculous!
Touche! I don't watch much TV so I forgot about most of them. I do have Netflix and access to YouTube. I think Netflix is superior to cable but was not aware that it offered cable (other than shows that used to be on cable).
My internet comes from the phone company. Ironically, there is no phone line because I use voip and cell for phone service. Now, I wish I had a choice of internet providers.
Well, if you don't like it, you can always get cable from another provider.......well...err....uh...how about.... In most of the US they have a monopoly. If you are really lucky you can switch to the other ripoff cable provider in your area.
Wow. I can barely remember when I had cable (about 10 years ago), and my current house has never had cable service. What particularly got me to cut the cord was the excessive sports fees the cable companies were paying and passing on to the consumer. Since I do not watch sports and since some cable companies owned sports teams (i.e. Comcast) were collecting the fees they were charging, I simply opted out. Besides, the only time I had free time to watch TV was when most of the cable channels were broadcasting infomercial after infomercial, it was a "no brainer".
Slashdot Mirror
Ben Wallace filter: blah blah blah knee-jerk reaction bla bla bla.
I'm sure this was well thought out and the UK has purchased a system worth every pence.
The whole shuttle program was an overpriced failure. If you think that the failures in the shuttle program is limited to a "couple of failures" (assuming you are referring to the losses of Challenger and Columbia) you are probably misinformed. These failures were just the saddest consequences of the Shuttle program.
1. The completely ridiculous and outrageous budget forced the placement of the orbiter into a location relative to the booster rockets and tanks that killed 14 people.
2. The final design of the orbiters were 20% overweight---making them too heavy to launch many devices the Shuttle program was originally designed to handle (such as launching some satellites into polar orbit).
3. Two words: Tile Maintenance
4. Much lower launch rates (max of 9/yr versus projected 24 to 55).
5. The horrible safety culture at NASA and their vendors/contractors.
6. Cost overrun after cost overrun after cost overrun.... (Even when considering that it was a US government project.)
These are just a few of the program failures. People have written books about how bad the Shuttle program was and how bad NASA still is.
By the way, the main reason the Shuttle program ran as long as it did is because it was NASA's one egg in their basket. There was nothing to replace the "space truck" while the US built the new space station (eventually becoming the ISS) which, itself, was very behind schedule. Had the fall of the Soviet Union occurred earlier, along with Roscosmos' involvement in the ISS, the Shuttle program would most likely have been cancelled earlier.
They are just trying to preempt another Bendgate. If they say it's completely normal nobody can say that Apple denied the problem exists.
Reminds me of John Cleese's "How To Irritate People" sketch about the car salesman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I guess they don't have the rigidity of the headphone jacks to help keep the iPad straight anymore.
They're so courageous!
"Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To"
Well, thank you, Captain Obvious. We shouldn't hand the internet over to any company.
This is nonsense as news is the original social media feed.
What is the probability that they were just Russian hackers pretending to be Chinese hackers?
Actually, Amazon did used their own drones for delivery---Amazon Logistics. From many of the surveillance video footage I saw the final several yards was often air delivered when the AMZL drones chuck packages great distances from their cars.
Well, it's easy if you know where to look.
That being said, however, just the other day I found a theory under my couch.
...you wont understand.
So, did Microsoft tinker with Windows 10 build 1809?
I am quite certain that once a "True Art" specification is drafted AI will be able to meet that specification.
More interesting, though, is what would be in the True Art specification.
http://stereotypeoftheday.blog...
Yes, there is nothing newsworthy about the notion and the scientific journals are full of incomplete models. There is nothing wrong with that as long as people realize that the models are incomplete. It becomes a problem when the newspapers start spouting off about how some incomplete model predicts something---and something needs to be done NOW about the predicted outcome.
Someone in marketing said that they need to put Bluetooth on the devices before the competition does. Now they have the most wireless in their wireless access points and have closed the Bluetooth "gap" with the competition.
If this ever passes I doubt you would even see a "perp walk", let alone jail time, from the worst offenders.
Cut the cord.
I live in a new development and the phone company only has provisions for fiber. (Not aware of any homes that have POTS). All houses have two sets of underground conduit---one that goes to the phone company equipment, and the other to the cable company equipment. If you want a phone service you can get it from the phone company or the cable company (at least one home in the development uses a VOIP service from the cable company).
This is much like the "blind leading the blind", except it's the greedy and morally bankrupt trying to shame the greedy and morally bankrupt.
Ridiculous!
Touche!
I don't watch much TV so I forgot about most of them. I do have Netflix and access to YouTube. I think Netflix is superior to cable but was not aware that it offered cable (other than shows that used to be on cable).
My internet comes from the phone company. Ironically, there is no phone line because I use voip and cell for phone service.
Now, I wish I had a choice of internet providers.
Well, if you don't like it, you can always get cable from another provider.... ...well...err....uh...how about....
In most of the US they have a monopoly. If you are really lucky you can switch to the other ripoff cable provider in your area.
Wow. I can barely remember when I had cable (about 10 years ago), and my current house has never had cable service.
What particularly got me to cut the cord was the excessive sports fees the cable companies were paying and passing on to the consumer. Since I do not watch sports and since some cable companies owned sports teams (i.e. Comcast) were collecting the fees they were charging, I simply opted out. Besides, the only time I had free time to watch TV was when most of the cable channels were broadcasting infomercial after infomercial, it was a "no brainer".
Klaang from Star Trek: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/...
Every set includes the empty set, so technically there is a linked article and it is sucks---like the vacuum it is.
Also, the OP spouts hot air, like the empty claims asserted.