I feel for them. The print paper shuts down and their online offering falls flat.
Saw this recently:
"So how are things at the newspaper?"
"Really good. It's a boom industry right now. We actually drove here in a car made out of money. That's how good things are. Would you like some money? I have extra."
The hardware store by my house takes CFLs to be disposed of. Which is convenient, since that's also where I buy my new CFLs.
Is this not normal?
I still prefer the Tango.
Yes, the V2V stuff is very interesting, and I see a lot of future potential there. But Tangos are being built right now today.
The prototype runs for 35 miles, at a top speed of 35 mph, on lithium-ion batteries.
The Tango runs for 150 miles and has a top speed of 135mph. That's around 4x the range/speed of the PUMA. Of course, the PUMA is projected to cost a lot less, assuming they come to production.
Let's look over the pros and cons again.
Just because the PUMA is cheap doesn't mean I'd want to buy one. YMMV
I want an implant that makes it so keeping me drunk will be as simple as eating a donut.
Leading to a new national chain of "Drunkin' Donuts"
I know this is the AF joke for this year, but to be honest, I'm Type A, and achievements tickle me. Hence this completely unnecessary post, to get the April Fool achievement.
I used to be a teacher, and it bothered me when students fell asleep in class. Sometimes I would get right in their face and wake them up, so the first thing they see is my angry face and scary big eyes. They'd jump and the rest of the class would laugh.
And then I realized: I could only think of two reasons why they would fall asleep in class.
1) They were tired.
2) My lesson was boring.
If they were tired, who was I to wake them up? Maybe they had a part time job, or maybe they had trouble at home. Whatever. I don't know what's going on in their lives.
If my lesson was boring, was that their fault? No, it was mine. EVEN if they were tired, if my lesson were interesting enough they would stay awake for it.
I stopped waking up sleeping students, and instead worked on improving my lesson plans. The fewer snoozers, the better the lesson. (I also got a lot louder and more energetic, which also helped keep them awake/attentive)
By my third year as a teacher, I never had a student fall asleep in class again.
It was handled by one sentence: 'It's surprising there was no dissension' -- it sure is!
This is a technique called Lampshade Hanging. Here is a recent Dinosaur Comics about it.
I really wanted to like the finale, but this ruined it. I could no longer identify with the characters.
Abandon all technology? Frak. That. Felgercarb.
If you RTFA,
I see where you went wrong there.
OK, so now I've read the article (I don't know whether to go "What? I posted before reading the article?" or "What? I've read the the article?"), and it says:
Oil based hydraulic devices are said to be safer, but most such chairs on the market today use gas cylinders; naturally these tend to be made in China, where this accident occurred.
(emphasis mine)
Is this true? All (three) of my desk chairs use springs.
Per this story from the '80s:
The problem has cropped up with adjustable office chairs fitted with
nitrogen gas cylinders in place of the conventional springs in their height
control mechanism. Preliminary findings suggest that metal fatigue cracks
can develop in the cylinders, possibly caused by the poor chairs being asked
to cope with more than they can bear.
In short, if your chair uses a spring (most likely), then you are in no danger. You can sit easily now.
You got a bad lawyer fired. That was a week well spent.
An IP address is not like a street address (which is fairly permanent). It's more like a hotel room number (transitory). The identity of the occupants of room 128 are not public knowledge like in a phone book, but must be obtained through a 3rd party (the hotel's front desk).
Do police need a warrant to look at the front desk's guest log?
The hotel room analogy also explains why IP addresses are insufficient evidence of criminal activity. If they know that criminal activity took place in room 128 last week, and arrest whomever is staying in that room this week, they don't necessarily have the person responsible. Could it in fact be the criminal? Sure, it's possible. But hotel rooms change occupants on a regular basis.
Oh, I dunno. If you lost your sense of smell, you could always build a robot to smell things for you. That's the Slashdot way!
I would like to thank the mods for not upmodding the MANY bean- and politics-related "wind" puns that appear to be dominating the posts so far.
Stand fast, men. I fear it is only going to get worse.
Do YOU understand the issue?
Java installs the Java Quick Starter extension in Firefox. That's pretty much EXACTLY THIS SAME ISSUE. It can't be uninstalled like other extensions either.
It is exactly an example of software updating an independently installed third party program without giving and easy way of uninstalling.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
