Comment Re:What kind of cyborg? (Score 1) 206
Cyborgs are just kinds of humans, so yes.
The situation is really not that simple, even if you consider non-cyborg humans. See this Stack Exchange thread on the topic:
http://philosophy.stackexchang...
Cyborgs are just kinds of humans, so yes.
The situation is really not that simple, even if you consider non-cyborg humans. See this Stack Exchange thread on the topic:
http://philosophy.stackexchang...
i'm guessing the fact that it was aquatic dissuaded the rats and ferrets. I'm not sure the size of the creature means the small parasites would ignore it, either.
I'm guessing leeches and little shrimp-like things and jesus that's disgusting. No wonder it's extinct. Good thing, too. You wouldn't want one of these wandering into your backyard to get into your garbage. It would give your dog a heart attack.
Thanks, now we know what was swimming around in the Death Star's garbage disposal. They've just unearthed a Dianoga!
How is the modability of the Kindle firmware these days? I know earlier versions are relatively tamed at this point; but any time I see 'with offers' my loathing gland swells.
I bought the B&N Nook for $99 and rooted it. Works great, I use it to study with Ankidroid.
Car dealerships should be required to keep an inventory for every model on-hand in case my car needs to go in for warranty service for an extended period.
Actually, in my country (Israel) this _is_ law. All car dealerships have associated garages that must supply seven years worth expected spare parts for all new vehicles, including non-wear parts such as body parts, and to maintain that stock. I'm not sure about how the details pan out for older vehicles, but it ensures that the company cannot just up and leave us without any parts.
Asked here about a year an a half ago:
Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Motherboard Manufacturers?
That was not fair! I should have been done with my five-minute
In other words, thank you for the Mechanical Watch link. That professor is amazing.
And the state of the hardware. Some unknown number of systems on the real curiosity are degraded to the point of malfunctioning; And they have little to no way of exactly measuring what and where.
Opportunity. Curiosity is on the other side of Mars, nuturing holes in its wheels and looking for cats to kill.
You completely proved Cardoor's point.
OK, I'll bite.
Standardizing on tabs helps mitigate this, as everyone sees what they like to see (I se tabstop=4 in vim on my vertical monitor, my emac-using coworker likes tabs to look like 8 spaces on his widescreen monitor), yet indentation level 3 is represented by 3 of something, not 12 (as I would have it) or 24 (as Stas would have it) of something.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
Which will last exactly as long as it isn't profitable to make a virus for it.
If everyone swapped to a certain distro of Linux, I'd be willing to bet you'd have major problems within a week.
Then why isn't there "major problems" with CentOS / RHEL which are on the majority of computers connected to the internet? Because they are running an Apache webserver instead of a Gnome desktop?
The truth is, Linux computers are heavily represented on the internet yet we still don't see anything significant in the way of Linux malware.
Someone should first wire up management to zap them every time they get an idea for a "brilliant" addition.
I had this at work today. Somebody arbitrarily decided to store 3 months worth of hourly MySQL backups. Never mind that they were being stored on the MySQL server itself (some backup!) but each backup was over 1 GiB - that is 30 GiB per day. 30 * 90 = 2700 GiB on a server with a 2 TiB hard drive that was already half full.
I enjoyed cleaning up that mess, but I as usual people with no technical knowledge continue to make technical decisions.
Actually, the original code has been removed from all the repositories. There is no way to get to the code any more.
Putting aside the whole whitespace debate(*)...
* For which I personally do have trouble with python - I want the computer to bend to my will, not the other way around.
Do you only use languages that let you choose the language keywords? Surely there is leeway in how much bending to your will that you demand of a language.
If you indent your C, PHP, Java, or whatever else sanely, then you will have no issues with Python indentation rules. They are just the sane C rules, but enforced.
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst
