Comment Re:I'd rather not use (Score 1) 521
Back in my day, computers would fail for no explicable reason.
My favorite unexplained error message from back in the mid 1980s was from tcsh, "Assertion botch: This can't happen!"
Back in my day, computers would fail for no explicable reason.
My favorite unexplained error message from back in the mid 1980s was from tcsh, "Assertion botch: This can't happen!"
Scientists have already found several microbes (fungi mostly) that can break down plastics and other petrochemicals.
And what could go wrong with that?
In the face of hard radiation life gets smaller, not larger. Expect really hardy bacteria, not giant reptiles.
We have both of those now; watch CSPAN.
she has virtually no control of any part of her body. She can't breathe on her own, and the only things she can move, ever so slightly, are her lips, eyelids and eyes
My condolences to your sister-in-law, her and your families, and congratulations on a healthy new baby. This is a terrible situation for everyone. I have some idea as my wife died of a brain tumor (GBM) that herniated her brain stem in January 2006, just 7 weeks after diagnosis (Remember Sue...) Thankfully, we had that time together and were able to discuss and finalize her wishes. (We even had one last kiss and "I love you" before she, unexpectedly, became unconscious.) Have you asked her what she wants to do and if she already has a DNR, advanced health-care directive and/or health-care proxy?
I know she is only 28 years old and may, over time, possibly recover further, but she may not and may get worse (soon). Please take this time as if it were your last together, just in case. Consider and prepare for the alternatives and unexpected. I'm sorry I cannot offer more.
Exactly, and when you use the Russian system you don't use GPS. you use GLONASS.
To be clear, in Soviet Russia, GLONASS uses you. (and the acronym actually includes the word "satellite".)
From Wikipedia:
GLONASS acronym for "Globalnaya navigatsionnaya sputnikovaya sistema" or "Global Navigation Satellite System"
If you're going to call things that aren't GPS as GPS, then you might as well call navigating by the stars GPS.
Though that is already called Celestial Navigation, which, oddly to me, would seem to define more than it does, as one might also use such a system to find your position in space:
Celestial navigation is the use of angular measurements (sights) between celestial bodies and the visible horizon to locate one's position on the globe, on land as well as at sea.
I'd like to see Blizzy sued to bankruptcy for this stupidity. But alas, pigs don't fly now do they?
I'm sure you could write a mod for that last part...
Reminds me of Idiocracy, Robocop, and a number of other films featuring dystopian futures.
I'm thinking Max Headroom.
But soon every fridge will be smart and have a screen. You will then have to accept the terms of service or the icemaker won't work.
LG does make refrigerators
We need to stop letting sociopaths run our prisons.
Or the US Government. Have you checked out the House or Representatives or Senate lately? And, frankly, I'm not so sure about the White House or Supreme Court either.
Have you ever tested a 9-colt with your tongue? I wouldn't try that with a similarly sized super capacitor. You are liable to bite your tongue off.
1 milligram of antimatter could power a cellphone for a couple of thousand years or so.
But I hear people really interested in protecting their shit are getting Emus, Emus are very territorial, and no one comes prepared to fight off a hyper aggressive 200 pound turkey (which can outrun them 3 times over). They also survive very well after getting shot, apparently, for some reason.
That sounds fine for the back yard, but I'm not sure about having (basically) a small Velociraptor running around *inside* the house...especially, if you're doing any coding.
Isn't the "cloud" just a bunch of servers? Should nobody be hugging THOSE servers either?
Obviously, it's Turtles all the way down.
Seems like Jay-Z might be ripe for parody. Something involving an elevator.
Is Solange from Ipanema?
You are surely not naive enough to think that your locked phone cannot be unlocked by certain people do you?
No, but probably not in time to notify next of kin while you die.
Trust me, a last kiss, "I love you," and goodbye is important - I know. Remember Sue...
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is the Latin for office automation?
