Comment Re:In a perfect world (Score 2) 114
No, you ninny, everyone know you use a Sun stone to evolve to evolve their pokemon!
No, you ninny, everyone know you use a Sun stone to evolve to evolve their pokemon!
No one *actually* want a rational machine, we want an irrational one, one that can be skewed by emotions.
Remember the back-story of Will Smith's character in the movie "I, Robot"? In it, the Robot saving him made the "logical" decision of saving him rather than the girl, which is why he distrusts them. He wanted a robot that could judge his emotional outbursts and save the little girl, "despite" the rational choice.
We *say* we want a robot with Asimov's three laws, but truly. we *want* something that can be manipulated like putty, just like a human can be. That's how we have evolved, and that's how we *want* to evolve.
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Also, relevant, an XKCD What-If on this issue: http://what-if.xkcd.com/5/
No. Having *fun* is important for the Track day. And it doesn't matter if you win, if you can't have another go at it because your car is busy charging after X number of laps, while your petro-buddies can. The Charge times put a damper on your fun.
As for Top Gear, I still insist that that's what they *meant* to stage (which apparently they argued at court and won), and frankly, that's actual impression that I got the first time I saw that episode, before the brouhaha started.
I kid you not, when I say that I was absolutely sure that the car was *not* drained out, and Jeremy was staging the drag-back, because that it was pretty convenient that a car managed to "run out" of juice on the track.
I took the "drag-back" as a "re-enactment" of what an actual drag back might look like; sad face faces pushing the car all the way from the track to the garage, sheepishly looking for sockets, and wistfully looking out as your mates carried on, blah, blah. You know, the usual Top-Gear drill.
It was the *act* of dragging back the car, not the fact the car actually needed any dragging back (seriously, if it was real, they would have hooked a cable and dragged it by vehicle, and not by hand!)
It looked fake as hell (Jeremy isn't going to win any BAFTAs for his acting skills), but it didn't matter, because his point was solid: Electric charge time issues suck and put a damper on your fun. You win a certain set of laps, but when your buddies want to have another go, you can't join in.
And just just like you don't need to burn the "whole" log down to demonstrate how ash from a burning piece of wood looks like, they didn't need to totally drain the battery to demonstrate what a drag back looked like.
Further down the same article, they offer these gems:
Waitrose may have had an uncomfortable few days following a PR campaign online that went sour but it is not the first big player to be burned in this way.
Many other businesses have tried to whip up interest on Twitter only for it to blow up in their faces, while others initiatives have just been plain poorly judged or in bad taste.
In 2009 the Daily Telegraph wanted to show how techno-savvy it was by allowing tweets about the Budget to appear on its website automatically using a Twitterfall.
If someone used the hashtag #budget it would pop up on telegraph.co.uk but it was quickly hijacked by those who used it to make jokes at the paper's expense (pictured right)
Some choice comments included: 'Even the Indie is better than this drivel'.
McDonalds also wanted to boost its profile online by using the hashtag #McDStories to ask people to regale stories of their hard-working staff - but it didn't go at all to plan.
Tweeters came straight back with their horror stories at restaurants, claiming they were given food poisoning, and that one burger contained a finger nail.
Search engine giant Bing also courted controversy when it pledged to donate to charity following a devastating Japanese earthquake in a stunt they believed would also boost their profile online.
Their staff tweeted: 'How you can #SupportJapan - For every retweet, @bing will give $1 to Japan quake victims, up to $100k'.
But instead all it got was a barrage of abuse from people convinced it was in poor taste.
Only this year coffee giant Starbucks put its foot in it on Twitter.
They were forced to issue an apology after it managed to upset people in Ireland.
It 'erroneously posted' a tweet which encouraged followers on there to 'show us what makes you proud to be British' - and outraged replies followed.
And sometimes companies get it completely and utterly wrong.
Condom giant Durex decided to run a PR campaign with the hashtag #DurexJoke.
In utterly disastrous fashion it decided to start the ball rolling with this joke to its South African followers - 'Why did God give men penises? So they'd have at least one way to shut a woman up. #DurexJoke'.
It went very badly for them from there.
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at the end. I wonder what technical trickery they are doing
It's not the warning, it's the *penalty* faced for ignoring those warnings. Say you ignore them and are stranded on the track.
In a petrol car, you can call the garage, and they will send some one with a can of petrol, and within five minutes, you are good to go.
In a Tesla, you have drag the car back, and start a *lengthy* recharge process, since it's unlikely a random given track will have the super-charger. But say they do, even then, a) there is a drag back involved; and b) the recharge time is *still* more than it takes to refuel a car, so you are unlikely to join your buddies back in the race that day.
That's one problem. The second is that, say you *do* follow the meter, you still need to leave enough charge not just for the stretch back to the garage, but further on and out the nearest supercharger. Much larger time required (the dash all the way to the super charger, long fuel time, and dash back). Again, if there happens to be a charger in the garage, the time penalty might be reduced, but it's still significant.
Third, is when at the end of the day, you want to head back home. You can't just drive off with your buddies, you have to wait a while the car charges before you can take your trip back home.
In other words, Unless the track happens to be quite close to your home, AND your chosen track happens to have the super charger, Tesla sucks as a track car. Even you fill those two conditions, electrical charging times *still* put a noticeable dent in your over all track enjoyment time with your buddies, and thus sucks.
And *that's* what Top Gear was demonstrating and stating in their review. It didn't matter if *that* particular specimen had a 100% charge, that was just a tool to demonstrate the over all scenario; Tesla suck as track cars.
Even worse, they posed as fucking vaccination teams!
Do you know how hard it is to get into those illiterate anarchist skulls that reside in our tribal areas that polio vaccines are for their good? Think of your worst gun-toting, red-neck, vaccine fearing, stereotype, and multiply it by ten.
But NO! they *had* to go as a god damn Vaccination team! They had *so* many options (peddlers, beggars, candy men, etc)
If that Polio virus mutates and grows resistant to vaccines, don't blame us.
Nah, you are not a minority, simply in the wrong market.
If you wish for (relatively)decent speced but smaller phones, check out the Androids made to cater for Asia-Africa etc.
Try the gsmarena phone finder, you can tweak the search quite narrowly: http://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3
I used to this the same too, but then I read this...
YMMV
Butt refers to a lot of things, but given the first name, I am pretty sure it refers to the very common Kashimiri surname
21.0a1 (2013-02-19)
Meh, liked nano anyway.
On topic: I don't mind features, but I hate it when the clash with other features or they create unnecessary bloat and I can't shut them down. Case in point: I love Opera, and it's my daily browser, but I can't help but feel it slow down on 10+ tabs, there is a certain noticeable drag, and I can't pin it down!
(Separate note, nightly broke flashbroke a few daily updates ago, pisses me to no end, wonder what happened)
But, how will he support them, if all the buyers to his shop are more interested in 2x4s and other, non-edible, construction and maintenance related stuff?
Seems a bit...random, that's all.
Our local hardware store sells honey from local producers.
Um, Hardware store means the place where they sell lumber and plumbing, right? Why would they have honey?
PURGE COMPLETE.
