Comment Re:Author has obviously no clue at all (Score 4, Informative) 241
The author of this fine article has obviously no clue what he's talking about.
Agreed.
Here is an in-deph article on why forking Android won't work...
The author of this fine article has obviously no clue what he's talking about.
Agreed.
Here is an in-deph article on why forking Android won't work...
There are still signs around the all of the pumps here banning use of a cell phone in a filling station. The current reasons is because they could cause a spark. Is there any evidence of this, or is it another feeling that's become true by repetition?
Well, as they say... no smoke without fire
Sadly I lost my ham license while immigrating to a new country. I should really go get it sorted
You can do it online
You're posting this comment on a site that was once called "Chips and Dips".
It's still called Chips and Dips for me. I hated the change, so I resisted it as part of the FuckSlashdot campaign. I set up a personal proxy to automatically rebrand each page load back to Chips and Dips and it's been like that ever since!
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.
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