Comment Ironic that Apple had two "enter" buttons... (Score 0) 306
...when for years and years they couldn't be fucking arsed to put a second button on their mouse.
...when for years and years they couldn't be fucking arsed to put a second button on their mouse.
That's why everyone goes to church, not just atheists.
Striking out on your own would be far more practical if we had universal healthcare, like every other first world country.
Holy shit, I'm wired after 3 cups. I can't imagine 25.
eh
but there's nothing you can do with my TV that concerns me
what if it has a microphone?
I think the real problem with his work is that he's completely willing to sacrifice almost everything in favor of whatever scene in the movie he currently wants to happen even if it ruins other aspects of the movie. For example, in The Force Awakens I was generally okay with the story up until the attack on the Death Star (or whatever it was called, but it's the new Death Star so whatever) begins and it fires its huge burst of energy across the galaxy that is somehow going to hit the target in a small amount of time and the rebel forces are also able to almost immediately travel across the entire galaxy while being on comms in real time.
He did something very similar in the first movie of the Star Trek reboot, when Nero destroyed Vulcan. Given how long the Enterprise was in warp before they dumped Kirk off on that ice planet, Vulcan should have been significantly farther away, but instead it was in the same relative neighborhood as the distance from the earth to the moon, because it was more than just a dot in the sky.
I choose to believe that these particular scenes aren't strictly canon, but are dumbed-down, flashier versions of what actually happened (for instance, Spock could have been carrying a portable subspace radio and heard of Vulcan's destruction that way). Starkiller base could have had a way of firing a weapon through hyperspace, but in the movie scene it was more flashy and dramatic to have it look like it must all be happening in the same solar system.
As long as I can come up with a plausible version of what happened that works in universe and still makes sense in the context of the story, I try to just let this stuff slide.
For most of the history of television, Americans believed a Russian named Zworykin invented television. RCA poured a lot of money into convincing people of that, while simultaneously using their monopoly power to relegate Farnsworth to obscurity. They were very successful at that. Farnsworth's key contributions to the technology that made television feasible on a large scale were not widely recognized until relatively recently.
An actual law was proposed and voted on by congress: http://www.legisworks.org/cong...
Here is the relevant text:
It shall be unlawful for any common carrier to make any unjust or unreasonable discrimination in charges, practices, classifications, regulations, facilities, or services for or in connection with like communication service, directly or indirectly, by any means or device, or to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, class of persons, or locality, or to subject any particular person, class of persons, or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage
People using this feature freak me out when I'm riding my motorcycle into San Francisco. The normal behavior of phone-users is to brake, speed up, slow down, bounce off of the lane markers (Driving by Braille) and generally endanger those of us on two wheels.
Tesla drivers? There they are, tapping away on the fucking phone with their eyes down and the car is gliding along, centered in the lane and steady, station-keeping a safe distance form the car in front of it.
Please, more like this.
As far as people blaming cars for their own stupidity, I'll trust the engineers at Tesla, thanks. Our Audi 5000 didn't take off by itself and neither do Teslas.
approximately 6 pints of beer. Is that really moderate drinking? That's basically having a drink or more a day.
I'm curious how you can have 1 or more drinks per day, adding up to 6 pints per week. Either you're using some new definition of week, or someone is drinking negative beers.
...then google's customers will stop preferring google. They may be the dominant market force right now, but things can change pretty fast in the tech industry.
Part of the reason that people use google is that they have policies stating that when a user clicks on a link, they see the same stuff that google sees. In other words, google provides the kind of search results that people tend to want. If they start favoring paywall sites over users, then upstart search engines like DuckDuckGo or whatever would be more than happy to snap those users up.
Yes, it's high time the FCC restored my right to have my local monopoly ISP block whatever traffic it wants, because nothing says freedom like not being able to access the content I want to access.
Your guys in congress don't give two shits about a free market. They care about their corporate lobbyists.
I already pay Microsoft about $60/year for a subscription service that allows me to download and play games. It's called XBox Live Gold. Perhaps no one told the new boss at XBox about?
This is exactly right. Unfortunately so many people think that constructing a building is a good analogy for "constructing" software, and think the same methods and ability to schedule in detail apply. It's the worst analogy. A better one is, making a schedule for the invention of a flying car. You know exactly what you want it to do, but you don't know how you'll make it happen yet, and you certainly don't know the exact date when you'll have it all figured out.
The means-and-ends moralists, or non-doers, always end up on their ends without any means. -- Saul Alinsky