Comment Squirrel suit (Score 2) 125
Oh well, i guess it's back to the jet powered flying squirrel suit.
Comment Re:It's all the customers' fault... (Score 5, Insightful) 406
Sounds like that's exactly what they were doing. UNLIMITED data plans, shouldn't, you know, have a LIMIT.
Comment Re:They never learn. (Score 1) 509
F-105: thunderchief
F-111: Aardvark/Raven (BTW: turned out to be a pretty decent attack plane/anti-radar "Wild Weasel"
F-15 Eagle
F-18 Hornet
Story pretty much correct though.
Comment Re:Imagine in real life (Score 1) 247
Why do you have a hammer in an instrument stand in your kitchen?
An Operating System For Cities 216
CProgrammer98 writes "BBC News reports that cities may soon get their own operating system. From the article: 'The Urban OS works just like a PC operating system but keeps buildings, traffic and services running smoothly. The software takes in data from sensors dotted around the city to keep an eye on what is happening. In the event of a fire, the Urban OS might manage traffic lights so fire trucks can reach the blaze swiftly. The sensors monitor everything from large scale events such as traffic flows across the entire city down to more local phenomena such as temperature sensors inside individual rooms. The OS completely bypasses humans to manage communication between sensors and devices such as traffic lights, air conditioning or water pumps that influence the quality of city life."
Comment 1200 bps! Our c-64 had 300 Bps (Score 1) 368
...and we LIKED it!
Comment graphics not the main problem (Score 5, Insightful) 104
DF is an ALMOST great game. The problem is not the graphics so much...it's the utterly confusing command/menu system. The strange progress of its development, for example, implementing bees and armadillos in the face of game-ending crashes or utterly useless military commands, is also frustrating.
Comment Designed by Apple in California.... (Score 1) 260
...poisoned by Foxconn in China!
Comment No such thing as free trade.... (Score 3, Insightful) 260
When one of the parties has much higher environmental and safety regulations. Of course, this why the wingnuts will tell you we need to dismantle our regulatory systems. Yay! Race to the bottom!
Comment Great! (Score 4, Insightful) 226
But...why?
Comment They didn't fix a lot of things (Score 5, Insightful) 383
For example, they KNEW that the BOP (blowout preventer) was not functioning correctly. one of the 2 control systems was out, and they had been bringing up pieces of the rubber seal in the test fluid. They were cutting corners on their cut corners.
You'd think this would serve as exhibit A to silence all the "GOVERNMENT R BAD, CORPORATIONS R GOOD" nutcases in the USA today, but unfortunately it does not seem to have had that effect.
Comment Re:Laissez-Faire? Small government? Tea Party? (Score 1) 409
Not at all. They're all against big government, unless they are trying to cram their "morals" down your throat, or looking for a handout, or diverting tax money to their corporate overlords.
Comment Should be banned from even being considered (Score 1) 256
..while California doesn't even have a budget. This isn't their job.
Comment Any grownups work there? (Score 3, Insightful) 302
Because they are going to need some, and soon. EVERY time they make a change to the privacy scheme, it's ridiculous and gets the whole user base riled up.
Comment Let's ask the Chinese! (Score 1) 150
Bet they know what the engineers are doing...
