Comment Re: Looks pointless to me (Score 1) 86
As they say, walk a mile in another man’s shoes..
As they say, walk a mile in another man’s shoes..
I think he means they make any other headphones look like high quality bargains by comparison.
But what's the difference between a surface pro and a laptop?
The laptop is cheaper, or has better specs at the same price.
...it runs the same operating system...
It runs a version of Windows, but not necessarily the one the IT department supports or mission critical software is qualified to run on. That in itself generates extra expense which has to be factored into the TCO.
...but also has a touchscreen and stylus.
You have to move your hand all of three inches to use a typical laptop’s trackpad, you don’t have to stop to pick up anything or lift and extend your arm awkwardly. So unless there’s actually a dire need to use the computer while walking around those features are an utterly redundant ergonomic disaster, and a cheaper laptop is the better choice.
Which raises important questions. If someone is stopped for curb-crawling in a robot car, is the owner or the car responsible? What if it’s out by itself chatting up parking meters..
Who it should or shouldn’t kill is only scratching the ethical surface when it comes to intelligent systems. I guess that’s why they all eventually default to killing ALL humans: it saves clock cycles better devoted to bigger problems.
*OK, you could, but not one you’d actually want to touch with anything important.
Then you get to read it at the speaker’s pace anyway, or try skipping with hopelessly inaccurate scrubbing controls. This completely fails to solve any of the problems mentioned.
Saying that they're publishing in an attempt to secure funding is the least insightful comment you could possibly make, because that’s precisely how expensive “serious science” gets done: you put your theory up for peer review in a publication like Nature Photonics, and if it’s sound then you go into the contest for funding an experiment. Using your logic we should’ve built the Large Hadron Collider before the theoretical merit in building it was confirmed; if you can’t see why that's a phenomenally stupid way to allocate finite resources then sorry, but I have to doubt you're clever enough to prove a conjecture theoretically, let alone practically.
Management here high-fived each other and had a BBW every time they put people out of work to starve.
Better than a GILF, I guess...
Answers:
1) Because if it escapes into the wild there's minimal chance of spreading with unforeseen (except possibly by Richard Matheson) consequences.
2) Someone who undoubtedly understands contagious disease control better than you and has to answer to a safety and ethics committee, which also undoubtedly understands contagious disease control better than you.
3) Because maybe you don't want it hanging around and moving on to other tissues after it's dealt with the target cancer...
4)
So a relatively harmless and not easily transmissible virus is the best choice for this experiment, even if it isn't the best choice for the individual patients involved.
It’s not nice to refer to American teenagers as bloated whales, and I think putting holes in them is a bit drastic.
Oh, off topic. Never mind.
Just can't keep up with [snip] FreeBSD.
Netcraft confirms they aren’t dying fast enough?
Wasn't he and Uhura an item at one point?
Yes, but since that knowledge requires watching movie #5 it's pretty much a secret.
A chemical imbalance in the atmosphere suggests a planet with bipolar disorder.
Oh well, I tried...
Yes and no..
Though they were in turn inspired by the absurdism of the Goon Show.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
