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Facebook already bought Oculus last year. Actually kind of makes sense that they'd sell units to Microsoft for Xbox use.
Facebook already bought Oculus last year. Actually kind of makes sense that they'd sell units to Microsoft for Xbox use.
if the calibration data are so important that the engine shuts down without them, how did the aircraft take off?
One engine delivering full power and 3 engines running at low RPM would be enough to take off, since the plane was empty and probably had a small fuel load as well.
Wiki has an article on the crash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...
Looks like they took off, but noticed a problem with the engines, turned around to do an emergency landing, but hit an electrical pylon and crashed. So it's not like they lost all power and fell out of the sky, they had some power and were doing an emergency landing when they hit an object on the ground just before touchdown. 2 of the 6 people on the plane survived.
This is just a thought experiment, please don't crucify me:
People tend to think of humans as different from the rest of life on earth. All plants and animals except humans form a natural balance and live in harmony; only humans screw everything up by overpopulating themselves and their livestock while making everything else go extinct.
But what if that's wrong, and humans are no different? After all we have pretty much the same DNA and cellular structure as anything else on the planet. Those wonderful wolves and deer you mentioned are actually like 99% same as us. What if human behavior is the inevitable result of earth-type lifeform? On a cosmic scale, planet earth's biosphere is just a tiny speck. Maybe other types of lifeforms are much better suited for long-term advanced civilization, and planet earth biosphere (DNA based) is an evolutionary dead end. Analogy: earth life = trilobytes. Life on other planets = vertebrates
In actuality the blood plasma was drawn from his gluteus maximus and he was known as the man with the "Golden Ass".
Tom Cruise Missile was legally ruled as a terrorist threat against Scientology. Does that qualify as a precedent?
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I see. So what you are saying is that there is a large number of skilled engineers and scientists, sitting at home watching TV, while they wait for salaries to go up?
No, they're doing something else in life. Working, teaching, studying, masturbating, whatever. Just not willing to work 80 hours a week for 50k a year.
Job skills and careers aren't things you can acquire and shift around instantly, it takes time. It took decades of abuse to get to this point. If a sensible gov't disbanded H1B program and said "fuck you" to Bill Gates right now, salaries will rise but you're not gonna have a sudden flood of programmers entering the job market. It takes times to make programmers. What you will have is a lot more students interested in CS.
I see what you did there, Taco.
Anyways I seriously doubt we'll be burning fossil fuels as our primary energy source in 2100. This is probably like politicians in 1880 signing a pledge to limit horse emissions before our cities drown in horse poop (a real concern at the time). Nice gesture but rendered moot by later technological advances.
when Fuckedcompany died in 2007, Pud put a notice on the front page.
"Fuckedcompany is.... fucked"
Even in death that site was amusing.
where will the founder explain how it died?
Did you achieve your rank all by yourself, or were there other people you shared your account with?
What is your favorite...
-Game type? (Team Deathmatch, Search and Destroy, etc)
-Loadout
-Perks
Any other comments or stories you'd like to share about your COD experience?
It won't take a lot to achieve critical mass on this. Once people have electric, self-driving cars, the behaviors of the owners (for better or worse) will influence others.
I agree. And I think if a competent self driving car really happens (a big if), that shit will sell itself. A significant percentage of the population will jump at the chance to spend the time driving watching movies or playing games or doing work instead. Also a significant percentage of the population buys/leases a new car frequently (3 year leases are the most common).
Also, if a majority of new cars sold are self-driving, the dynamics of luxury and performance cars will change. Who needs that 500hp turbocharged V-8 when the computer is gonna drive at the speed limit anyways? People will mostly want a quieter cab and smoother ride rather than power and handling.
Due to people there being less mobile and the gov't having police state-like control over the population, an outbreak in N. Korea will likely be at least as well-contained as in western nations or better.
Anyways if you wanted to kill N. Koreans by intentionally introducing a virus there (germ warfare), MERS is pretty silly. There are tons of more effective biological agents than that.
I have noticed zero change in the normal day-to-day life here, aside from a much larger presence of people wearing masks over their mouths.
That's pretty silly, the mask thing. It's the people INFECTED with the virus who should be wearing masks, not healthy people trying to avoid the disease. (but then infected people should be quarantined in a hospital and not walking about on the street, so...)
What people should be doing instead is wearing thick, heavy gloves in public places. Almost all flu virus transmissions happen from your hand touching a virus-coated surface and then touching your face with your hand. Wearing gloves means that your skin won't come into contact with the virus, and the thick heavy nature of the gloves means you're not likely to forget the fact that you're wearing gloves and thus will avoid touching your face with them.
I clicked on the link and saw all the pictures. Sadly the Colosseum still looks like a ruin, and the government of Italy has no money to halt the decay let alone a restoration to former glory.
As a Rome Total War player and an aficionado of all things Roman, I would love to see the Colosseum as it was originally. Yes I realize a restoration would cost billions and modern Italy as a PIIG nation cannot afford it. It really speaks to the immense power, wealth and engineering skill of the ancients that they BUILT this thing so long ago.
I still keep hoping that some internet billionaire will take it upon himself as his life achievement to do a full restoration and that I will get to see it before I die. Barring that, I hope someone will do a very high quality rendering of every inch of the original Colosseum that we can navigate freely in Oculus VR. Maybe even host virtual games with thousands of online participants and spectators.
On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN.
