Comment Re:Toyota (Score 1) 120
But even if it's safer, I'd love to see someone try to explain it to a LEO why they were driving at night with the headlights off...
But they can't see you from Low Earth Orbit if your headlights are off !
But even if it's safer, I'd love to see someone try to explain it to a LEO why they were driving at night with the headlights off...
But they can't see you from Low Earth Orbit if your headlights are off !
If someone showed up at your house and told you that your water could kill because of some microbe you have never heard of that they claim is getting into your pipes and the only way to make yourself safe is to install this helpful filter that they are selling would you believe them?
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If there was any profit in it, you could easily create a scare campaign about DHMO which could turn very messy. People can be insanely gullible when you present things the right way.
Did Airbus and Boeing say what levels of ash were OK?
If they don't say it's OK, you can't fly their planes through ash unless there's practically no ash.
AFAIK the regulators did their jobs properly.
The pilots and airplane engineers were singing a very different tune from the bosses of the airlines.
Here in France where the ban lasted quite some time (and the airlines were fairly vocal as well), the air force was supposedly conducting test flights using alpha jets which would then be examined by the maintenance crew.
What's not fine is that airlines would rather have people dying than lost revenue.
Of course if you put it like that...
But from their point of view it makes perfect sense... There will always be more people but lost revenue is lost. All businesses have always held this kind of reasoning. That's why everybody loves them so and gives them their money whenever they're in trouble.
I'm fairly sure there is no life in the Dead Sea outside of small amounts of bacteria. That's why it's called the Dead Sea. The salt content prevents life from living there.
There's quite a bit of life in the form of a fair number of tourists which are quite important to the area (on both banks) which apart from that is quite a hellhole (an interesting one to visit though if you ever go in the area).
The Dead sea is more than 400m below sea level and there are huge temperature extremes in the area which gets very little precipitations and has few springs. It's a great natural wonder and definitely worth a few days for it's ruins, it's fauna and the vista, but really not a great place to live.
I think any future changes in the companies are still going to reflect the culture of emphasizing a good, widely deployed Desktop Linux rather than necessarily turning a profit.
There could also be the fact that in many people's (and PHB's) eyes, if you don't pay through the nose for it then it has to be crap.
Hopefully a more commercial Ubuntu will help make it more visible in the corporate space as well as promote the integration of tools in that area (they're already there of course, you just have to add them yourself).
You do know that Linux was born as a desktop OS, don't you?
Not to mention that it has its roots in Unix, probably the first system designed specifically to play games (in this case Space Travel).
Now, in addition to lawyers and accountants, you need computer programmers to invest. This smells like a racket. On the other hand, it can't get any worse than the legalese, and maybe that is the point.
Depends, they could have specified it in Perl (or something really evil). Then legalese would look like Beginner's English in comparison.
Of course I suppose that to most lawyers, any programming language will look like cuneiform anyway.
The question is, what would happen if you tried to turn snake oil into biodiesel?
I'm pretty sure it's been established already that most of biodiesel is snake oil. Made from rain forest snakes too.
and take gymnastics and diving and figure skating out of the olympics then?
Dear sir,
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to join your lobbying group.
Sincerely,
Will this also be available on a system with an input controller suitable for shooters? Like, say, a mouse?
I was somewhat baffled by the reference to "left triggers" and "left analogue stick" until it finally dawned on me that they were talking about some kind of console controller (since my monitor is larger than my TV, I never bothered with consoles).
An FPS ported from a console likely will end up having some or all of approximate weapon aiming, textures designed for a ten year old PC, an awkward interface, poor networking support, etc.
So maybe they came up with something somewhat clever but I'll still pass.
The airspace closings were entirely based on computer models, which according to every test flight taken by major air carriers in the past few days, has been proven to be completely wrong..
Note that according to your link, the models aren't completely wrong, merely erring on the side of caution.
Clouds of ash are hard to spot either on radar or on sat imagery.
Granted it would probably been more scientific to close the airspace based on where the planes started to fall out of the sky but it would probably have pissed off the public even more.
There just isn't any *right* answer to this kind of answer to this kind of russian roulette problem.
If you define videoconferencing and (apparently) built-in active noise reduction as "nothing much," I'd hate to see what it takes to impress you.
Ooooh, videoconferencing !
Wait, hasn't every phone had that for five years ?
mod parent up: insightful
Done.
Wait. Damn.
I'm sure a carpet cloak like this would have military applications
Sure, if you have soldiers the size of a pinhead.
But then, remember that all the jihadists have to do is move sideways a bit and "ha ha, we can see your pinhead, you silly infidel !"
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
