I tip my hat to the Dutch judges or politicians who reserve judgement
Judges that reserve judgement? That's just ridiculous, not to mention selfish!
If I were a judge I'd hand out judgement freely to anyone who asked for it. Hell, even some who didn't! I'd be dedicated to my job!
for the money you got a lot more than the other home computers: a floppy drive, a computer that had a real operating system, 128K of RAM!
This reads like a marketing thing for IBM. Do you work there? Have you been locked in the basement for 30 years. Dude, the year is 2014, IBM has long since become irrelevant in the home PC market. You can go home. Are they still paying you the salary?
Wikipedia says it only had 64KB RAM. The article says the Commodore 64 was half the price. Maybe that's why it failed.
Go get a job at Dell or something?
Bad idea? You mean that if someone passes purposefully incorrect or dangerous data into their RoboCloud that all of them will have access to this poisoned data at once?
Ah, but they've already figured this out. Only robots are allowed to upload to the RoboWeb. Users have to complete a CAPTCHA. If they get it right then they must be human and are therefore blocked from uploading.
Personally, I'd be all for some (rational) TV or poster ads that said something like "cycling without a helmet? You're X times more likely to get a head injury"
The problem with that is that X = 0
Studies have shown that pedestrians are about as likely to get a head injury as cyclists.
Campaigns like the one you're up for suggest that cycling is dangerous - It isn't. Cyclists live longer than car drivers. TV and poster ads should be getting that message across if anything.
You quote a known kook site like cyclehelmets and you give thanks for being rational?
Ad hominem, much?
Because it's the law in civilised nations such as Australia and New Zealand.
In the United Kingdom. HEAT suggests that a law making helmets compulsory for cyclists may result in an overall increase in 253 premature deaths – 265 extra deaths from reduced cycling less 12 deaths saved among the reduced pool of cyclists receiving fatal head injuries.
http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1231.html
I for one am glad that I live in a rational nation, rather than one of the civilised ones which you mention!
On a side note, a question to the grammar Nazis. When using the word "Google" as a verb, should the first character be capitalized?
Not usually. However in the title it's correct to capitalize each word.
I don't care if my doctor Google's me. They'll have to weed through millions of results for Anonymous Coward.
Vanilla Ice Ice Babycoins!
Do you really have to make a Giant Pert Chart that lists the entire future of the NASA space mission,
1. Walk on the moon
2. ???
3. Profit!
The article makes it sound as if the crows are themselves acquiring genetic modifications giving them resistance to antibiotic compounds. However, it is the bacteria inhabiting the crows intestine that have acquired the antibiotic resistance genes, not the crows themselves.
There's only one solution: stone the crows!
if he doesn't file, he can then be arrested on tax evasion
Yeah, he's wanted for international espionage. I'm sure a charge of tax evasion doesn't bother him! What are they going to threaten him with next? A speeding ticket? Jaywalking? Littering?
"IT support. Have you tried turning the NSA tapping device off and on again?"
"Hello my name's Edward Snowden. I can help you today. I can see you tried switching it off and switching it off again but the password you just entered is not the one we have on file."
It's not you... this is the link:
http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-13-10-a-desktop-tour-slideshow-7000021826/
Hello Congratulations on your prize, jealousy? no!
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
