Comment Re:Short black with one (Score 1) 192
Creamer is made using the other 'cows' in the field that aren't busy making the (real) milk
Creamer is made using the other 'cows' in the field that aren't busy making the (real) milk
Day 0 - Our sun is puked into existence, with a shit-tonne of rubble floating around it.
100 million years later, a big rock hits earth - thus earth must have been there, so we know earth was made on or before 100 million years after the sun. Previous measurements of our atmosphere from rocks suggests this to be true.
French people look at all the observations, and saw that the calibrations were a bit off, and then worked out that collision took place 60 million years earlier than previously thought. Therefore, the earth must have formed 60 million years earlier than first thought, and been solid and "finished" enough to be able to produce the moon from the impact. That suggests the earth was formed in 40 million years, not 100 million years - that makes quite a difference to our understanding of how planets are formed. From the French perspective, this means the FSM didn't have as many RTT days in his contract as was previously thought, and possibly worked many of the days we now consider public holidays too.
I just found out last night that my Galaxy Note 8 can't write to it's SD card any more (after a KitKat update). This also is some brain-dead move by Google to make my tablet "more secure".
What it's actually done is pissed me off so much that I'm now going to spend the time rooting the thing. I can understand limiting apps to certain areas of the system, but giving them 100% unfettered access to the internal storage, and deny just about anything from the SD card isn't it.
I'd like to be able to see the list of permissions an app needs (in groups, if you like), and then deselect any I don't think it should have - if an app I don't like the look of wants to use my SD card, then I should be able to turn it off. I know this is possible with a rooted system, so it seems that's the only way to go for me (particularly as I quite like being able to use my SD card that Samsung took the time to bundle with my tablet).
If my phone asks me to upgrade to kitkat, I'm gonna say no. I'm sure that doesn't make me more secure. I'm sure rooting my tablet isn't really Google's idea of "more secure" either. Assuming I'm right about that, then they should find a way to let me override their brain-dead missteps.
So what you're saying is that we're VHS, and killed off the early, but actually superior, BetaMax?
It's a long way from brilliant, but all my designs are now on Youmagine.com - which I see is starting to get some really interesting stuff posted (far better than any of the tat I've come up with!
It's run by Ultimaker, so in theory vulnerable to the same problems as Thingiverse, but Ultimaker are quite responsive to their user base, so may do as we've suggested and create a foundation to run it instead. They're also a much smaller company, so don't expect quick turnaround as they're resource constrained, or indeed for this to be any sort of problem for some years yet (although YMMV).
The other good thing about Youmagine (and Ultimaker) is that they're European, and so not hamstrung by US patents, or indeed the litigation thereof.
Get onto https://www.writetothem.com/ and type in your postcode. Tell your MP that you don't care who he/she is, or how good their record for your local area. Tell them that because they're affiliated with the major parties that are either condoning this, or failing to do anything to stop it you no longer feel you can vote for them. Tell them you're going to vote for one of the smaller parties - you're not sure who just yet, but will look into it and pick one that seems like it's acceptable, just so long as it's not any of 'the big three'.
We already have protected witness testimony - lots of spooks have testified in court and have never been directly identified. Sorry, that one doesn't wash.
As I said above - the more reasons you can think of to make this secret, the more reasons there are to make it public. It's the wonderful irony of the whole thing.
I agree, but all the more reason we need this to be public. If what you suggest actually took place, then letting the government introduce secret trials for something as trite as some double-standards isn't anywhere near reason enough to allow it.
The wonderful contradiction of secret courts - if it's worth making secret, then it's almost definitely worth making public. I hope it ends up the latter - otherwise every tom, dick and harry being tried for anything worse than a parking violation will push for a secret trial just to slow the whole process down.
In which case, a TomTom will do a far better job than any factory-fit in-car system I've ever seen. I don't know why the car manufacturers don't either just copy TomTom exactly, or just license the technology. Instead, they insist on making crappy UIs that are either hard to use, slow to use, or outright dangerous or all three, crappy navigation that doesn't properly take into account reality, let alone that XYZ feature changed 5 years ago and still isn't right in this years maps, crappy/non-existent speed camera maps, crappy voices/customisation and make it really hard (or very expensive) to upgrade the maps (or core software).
For not much money, you can buy a TomTom and solve all these issues. Sure, it doesn't know how much fuel you have in your car, but actually, something the car manufacturers seem to do quite well is to be able to tell you how much fuel you have left in miles left to travel. I'll let you have the speed sensor thing though - although not all factory-fit systems bother to use one.
FWIW, I wonder why the car manufacturers don't talk to TomTom and work out a way to link an external device to the car (so you get the advantages of both solutions). That way, they could supply an 'external device' in a box in the boot and then let you upgrade that whenever you like. Sure, I won't go to my dealership to pay the 300% mark-up for the replacement - I'll go to Amazon instead. I'd be a happier customer though, and might be more inclined to pay the extra for such a feature next time (or this time, for that matter).
Just make sure you have the right back end capacity. It's usually just a matter of checking your logs.
That's a good point, and one of the weird things about VR - either you want 100% immersion, or you actually want very little. The crazy irony is that for VR to be really cool, you need the headset to be able to 100% replicate what the world is like without wearing it. That is, it needs cameras on it so that you can see as if you didn't have the headset on, and likewise microphones and headphones to do the same for sound. Once you've got that working, then start over-laying the degrees of immersion that you want (my personal requirement is to simulate a massive super-highres monitor floating in front of me to go with my physical keyboard that's sat on the desk.
Good luck getting any of this past your marketing department and PHB though. They're too pre-occupied with simulating things poking you in the eye to show-off how cool their headset is to worry about what people might actually want.
> Meyer stresses, is that it "must aid the agency mission. It is developmental and helps all stakeholders understand that we have rules in effect," he added
Aside from the poor editorial prose, here's what he really means:
"If you're a potential whistleblower, you must disclose to your immediate manager. It's the only way we'll ever know who all the people that work for us aren't really 'for' us, such that we might put them on projects 'more in keeping' with their principles and standards".
How on earth you can have a whisteblower hiding out in Russia (of all places!) in fear of the repercussions of his actions and say people should come forward is beyond me. At the very least, he should be in the US, on a (fair) public trial with known potential outcomes. Without that, no one is trustworthy.
Only if use use a Monster cable between your cable box and your TV. For those watching satellite, you'll only get the benefit on clear days, because as everyone knows, clouds obscure the sky and so degrade the signal. Getting a specially woven satellite dish can help - talk to your local representative for your options.
The mythical highly technically competent grandmother?
I never knew the Gnome folks were trying to keep things 'grandmother' friendly. I get along with Gnome (mostly because I can't be arsed to install anything else), but easy to use it ain't.
at a maximum of 25mph, you're not going near an expressway. Any accident you do have will likely be a bit of a bump rather than a crash (unless it's caused by someone else, going much faster, driving into you - but the risk of that is the same if the car you're in is autonomous or not).
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