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Killing off hope now, instead of just characters. Well played, sir, well played.
Killing off hope now, instead of just characters. Well played, sir, well played.
Go into the Dell "Work" section of the site - you can get this with i7 CPU, more SSD capacity options, etc.
Navigator 4, the browser that, when you turned off JavaScript, also turned off CSS. Good riddance. I really liked Navigator 3, though.
In fact, there is something nice about a Tesla or Prius's silence at idle
Unless you're blind, or happen to be looking the other way when the drunk in a prius bears down on you. Which is why some sort of fake engine noise will eventually be mandated (if it hasn't been already).
This is actually mandated now, but the rules are kind of mushy. It was signed into law in 2011 here in the US, and applies to 2012 models, but there weren't initially strict guidelines on the noises. So you'll find the 2011 Nissan Leaf has a 'silent' mode where it won't make the backing-up beep-beep alert or the turbine-like engine noise when driving, but the 2012 and later models cannot silence the engine noises.
Wikipedia has a good breakdown of the state of the current noise laws across the US, Japan, the EU, and the UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
DaVinci Resolve, by Blackmagic Design, is used in actual Hollywood movies (though I don't know if those Hollywood studios are using the Linux version or not).
"If you don't copy this scroll and send it to ten people within the next 24 hours, you will die in a volcano eruption!"
...to "Yahoo!". Easy to change back, though.
modem connection sounds
horse and buggy sounds
cranking noises of hand-started cars
records skipping
tv channel 'end of broadcast day' message
ticker tape machine
pagers
mechanical cash register sounds
mimeograph machines
If true - how is this not a flagrant antitrust violation?
Company X provides a device that collects personal data.
Company X announces a standard that prevents anyone from using such data for purposes such as advertising without the user's consent.
Company X exempts its own services from this restriction, such that its services - which otherwise compete on par with third-party services - can utilize such data notwithstanding, or even contrary to, the user's explicit withholding of consent.
Company X's services therefore have an unfair competitive advantage that is directly leveraged on Company X's sale of the device to users.
This is pretty much the definition of unfair competition in the form of tying, If the FTC / DoJ Antitrust Division had any teeth and, er, other body parts, it would be all over this.
It's so hard to keep those C64s running these days!
This excellent blog article describes a technique developed by Judea Pearl decades ago to do exactly this. Would be interested to understand how this is different/better.
What I wonder is how long it will be before some mega rich person(s) decides to build a semi-permanent offshore city, not so much a rig, more a case of a huge boat that is actually anchored to the ground and you take boats TO it.
There'd be loads of technical hurdles, but given the sheer size of such a construction, the issues of waves would be lesser, more so if it is designed properly to deal with them. (not to mention the use of large-scale wave guides similar in design to metamaterials, which is being tested on some oil rigs last I remember)
I'm not sure what the benefit of that would be over the very large mega-yachts the super-rich currently use - they're mobile, so they get the benefits of going to places around the world in luxury, plus being able to move out of the way of bad weather, etc.
I suppose the possible sheer _scale_ of a floating city has an appeal as a display of wealth to some.
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
