The technological decline was obvious once episodes 1-3 were released. That was the peak of Galactic Civilization. Things have been in decline since. No more shines ships. The Millennium Falcon is still the fastest ship around. No more research into the force, and the little knowledge gained re: midichlorianes was completely lost. And the Jedi devolve from a quasi-science into a cult.
Agree wholeheartedly.
On the other hand, a couple suggestions/thoughts. Why is your gaming PCI on all the time? (Obvious, since she's complaining about the noise of the computer, not of the games.) Turn it off when not gaming and get a second, much smaller PC for your media player. Look at the nettop size computers.
Other thing is to not spend a significant amount of money on any of this. If it's not important to her, she'll be upset some time in the future, regardless of whether you can afford it.
Hell, the people who make things which are supposed to be connected to the interweb can't get security right. The people who make your fridge? Not bloody likely.
I was going to make a joke about how little a fridge could do to kill you, then I remember something that happened to me and my wife a couple weeks ago.
We were at a local grocery store and she picked up some cheese with an expiration date in November 2016. I told her my doubts (I don't recall any refrigerated cheese ever lasting that long).
My wife's response was that the label said it so it must be true. And this is coming from someone who doesn't believe the medical community much to begin with.
Two weeks later the cheese was going bad in the fridge. My wife didn't believe it and tried to cut away the bad parts. I put the whole thing in the garbage the first chance I got.
Why paint? Presumably we're talking about houses here (unless we own apartment complexes). Instead of white paint, buy light colored shingles or ceramics.
I would imagine the first couple on the block will be eye sores, but as more people get into it, they'll look more in place.
Just looked again. The top three of those were ads. I can't explain why the first two non-ads were both to mail.com.
For the same search term on Google (not logged in), 'free email account', with adblock turned off, I get:
mailchimp.com
yahoo.com
gmx.com
mail.com
mail.com (yes, twice!)
gmx.com (again?)
yahoo.com
google.com
hushmail
email.about.com
Seriously. WTF. No Microsoft in the top 10 and gmail is number 8 on the list.
Can you name some of these services?
Why not give some examples, and we can discuss where those examples rate in popularity vs. where they show up in search results in the various search engines.
Please give one example of how people are forced to use google products.
My dad's email address is via yahoo. He likely goes weeks without hitting the google homepage. He's not particularly technically literate, either. People with google/Hotmail/Yahoo email tend to use home pages associated with their email address.
I was kinda thinking the same thing.
If there is any bundling going on, it's exceedingly subtle. The only thing I can think of is the link to gmail and apps on their homepage if you aren't logged in. A hell of a lot less links than on Bing's or Yahoo's home pages.
Come to think of it, one of the reasons Google gained popularity is how sparse their pages are to begin with.
Don't know where you got your stats. Never have I heard of a Tesla battery being fully charged (from near-empty) in anything under 90 minutes. And that's on their superchargers.
If you want fast battery exchanges for a Tesla, I hear they got that to around 90 seconds, though.
Maybe not FTL, but what about worm holes or other forms that can cause information to travel without going between two points.
Quantum teleportation and subsequent "real" teleportation. Transporters that use entangled particles to create a new body for us at the destination. Rips in the universe.
All science fiction, true. But can we say with 100% certainty that none of them will ever be possible?
If you need an environment free of vibrations and atmosphere, can't you just park it a foot from the space station? And once the experiment is done, retrieve it?
The added bonus is that if the experiment needs modifications, you have the possibility of doing it in almost real time and send it out again.
Actually, I had the exact opposite thoughts.
Finally a geeky article on
For the price you can get instant messaging software for the teacher and she can pull up a cue on her tablet computer, if they're too afraid to raise their hands.
I was in an AP Calculus course in high school taught by my school principal. The day after parent-teacher conference, he mentioned that he told a mother that her son was caught cheating in a class and was essentially getting a slap on the wrist (this was a couple decades ago).
The teacher then gave us an anonymous ballot. He wanted to know how many of us cheated on a test or homework assignment in the last year (this was pre-WWW so cheating at home was basically collaborating on homework with others in the same class).
Every single one of us said we did.
FYI: 25 years later I'm doing fine at work and home and sleep soundly at night with the sleep of the just.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
