Science is just one long history of turning incorrect theories into facts for no reason
You had me until you got here, and totally failed. Science is about exploring possibilities. There is a very good reason to attempt to turn theories into facts: they might be useful.
Have you ever spoken with someone outside the US?
Are you really this stupid, or does it just switch on when you hit slashdot?
I don't you overly credible either.
Right back you.
Out of curiosity, have you ever heard America referenced in conversation without it being a negative reference?
Yes. It always amazes me, but it seems to actually be the norm. Of course, that's because I discount all the outright hypocritical standards. For instance, I'm not going to bag on Pakistan for terrorism, because the USA is terrorist in many ways, if not most. We just call it something else because we're the biggest bullies on the playground. So when someone from the UK gets on me for free speech or criminal law, I laugh a lot but I don't count it as credible.
Because, as far as I've ever heard it, it's only ever used as a pejorative term, and definitely not as an endearing shortening of the word.
Out of curiosity, have you ever heard Pakistan actually mentioned in conversation without it being a negative reference, anyway? The best thing I've ever heard said about the place is that they make cheap knives that will break easily and won't hold an edge. Maybe you've never heard it used any way other than negatively for a reason; maybe every time they were brought up, it was to make a complaint.
HP URLs appear to be by-department. Whether this actually represents the structure of HP's web servers or is only a logical arrangement is another question
I use the word "logical" loosely here
Statistics is a dirty word today, even though modern science depends upon it. The public most commonly encounters them when they are lied about.
How do you fuck something like that up?
All too easily it seems; my first MacBook Pro power lead caught fire a few years ago as well. This was the low-voltage (hence high current) end, though: in their quest to make everything thin and light, the cable was thin and flimsy, so one of the braided conductors frayed after a while. More current going down a thinner wire meant more heat - which softened the remaining copper and made the problem worse, until arcing started and I got a micro-firework display on my desk. (One of is successors managed to melt the plastic in the plug, that didn't make me happy either!)
On the mains end, even a hefty (for laptops) 300-odd watt PSU is only 3A from a US outlet, half that on the higher voltages elsewhere - usually easy enough to deal with, but one sloppy connection and you can get a tiny point getting very hot indeed. It's worse on the low voltage end: a single cable possibly carrying 20 or more amps, while getting rolled up, folded and stood on in transit, designed to be very light weight - yet also done on a budget. As soon as you start trying to shave weight and cost, I suspect it's all too easy for a wire to be just slightly too thin for the current, or a connection to be a little bit too weak for long term mobile use.
If you were building a high school or college electronics project and said you planned to run laptop currents and voltages through such thin wires and tiny connectors, you'd probably be told off or marked down - but commercially, thin, light and cheap trump safety margins and robustness.
Must be marketed toward the old geezer crowd or something.
No, you've got it exactly wrong. He's lamenting that they stopped marketing tape drives toward the old geezer crowd.
When did hard drives not fail? I've had failures since the early 90s, when they were in the 200 MB range.
Well, I'm sure someone will speak up about some tales of DASDs of yore still older than what I've had, but I still remember when Seagate was called "Seizegate" because of the frequency of occasion when one needed to dismount the drive, place it upon a soft surface, and give it a good rap on one corner (perpendicular to the axis of rotation) in order to permit it to spin up. 21MB of ST-225, baby.
There's an easy answer for that, once you've had 16+ years in the industry, and I stumbled onto it by accident, and thanks to this one weird tip I have gotten a raise every few months.
That weird tip: keep your Dice, Monster, and Linked In profiles active and up to date.
I'm not currently looking for a change, but last week I had 48 hours in which I had 12 recruiter calls. And I've been able to wrangle a 2%-4% raise out of every job change for the past three years.
"The vast majority of your deities, including today's most popular ones were conjured up by winos and opium addicts."
Yes, they were. You can tell them from the real thing by not being universal and lacking the ability to say, choose the gravitational constant for the entire universe.
The safest roads will be when ALL cars are autonomous. Having humans in the mix will just ruin all the gains that autonomous cars provide.
That's not true at all. An automated car which can't deal with unexpected human actions also can't deal with unexpected vehicle actions due to software error or hardware failure.
Great. The so-called "Green Revolution" has resulted in the destruction of topsoil everywhere it has been used, and increasing fossil energy dependence. What's next?
err did you see the side by side comparison Top Gear did of an original tesla vs the donor car the handling difference due to increased mass was very obvious.
You're talking about the Roadster, we're talking about the Model S. Please stay on topic.
It never caught on, because
...they were trusting Cirrus Logics to put together two out of four chips, and they failed to execute in a timely fashion. By the time they had a prototype, the hardware was outdated.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire
