Comment Re:The speed of sound? (Score 1) 108
Don't worry, at least the speed of light is different.
Don't worry, at least the speed of light is different.
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of transistors suddenly cried out in terror...
...except Safari, and mobile browsers in general. Also, expect XP support to disappear from Chrome shortly.
On the other hand, Microsoft has made it a point to discourage users from installing OS upgrades, by charging lots of money for them and changing core functionality in undesirable ways.
Twitter is RSS feeds, centralized and simplified. It works well for a lot of people.
If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.
It didn't get that far; apparently the game quit after the nations researched global thermonuclear war.
Probably a bug, they'll fix it in the next revision.
Oh, not the game—learning 'moccasin' is a color.
They could do that, but it wouldn't be a backdoor.
The tank wasn't made from transparent alumin(i)um. Scotty traded the formula for enough polycarbonate sheets to build the tank. IIRC they even say it will take years of research to manufacture the stuff.
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(mind you, they still could have done the job more cheaply with steel, or welded some deck plates together, or simply filled a cargo bay with water. But it made for a good scene, and who cares?)
I remember this, and it ends with me being called an ugly bag of mostly water.
No, my car has an air filter.
In a sufficiently strong crosswind, yes.
(Why do you think we have a grid road system, if not for tacking?)
Then again, if these are already areas of 'elevated seismic hazard', it's quite possible that inducing the plates to slip now will prevent an even larger quake in the future.
Geoengineering is a new science with great unknowns; we should not approach it without caution, nor should we assume anything we do is bad.
That does not make any sense. How could a 1.8 billion light-year supervoid be anyone's mother? Furthermore how could it be a mother of someone on Earth?
I am Groot.
$200 million bill
proveide homes to 224 low-income families
I'd like to see the low-income families that can buy $0.9M homes.
You'd be happy if Slashdot was owned by a EA subsidiary?
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect "Hungry." -- a Larson cartoon