Comment Turned down on religious grounds? (Score 1) 285
"The only students at the school sans iPad, Dr. Adams says, are a very small number who turned it down on religious grounds."
Who would turn down a free iPad?
"The only students at the school sans iPad, Dr. Adams says, are a very small number who turned it down on religious grounds."
Who would turn down a free iPad?
tend to get sick when exercising.
Motorola couldn't manufacture enough of the 68K CPUs, so Apple set up an alliance with IBM and Motorola (AIM). The first generation of the PowerPC was fast and easily manufactured.
Motorola sold Apple on AltiVec, the 128bit vector unit, and it was added to the PowerPC.
Once again, problems with the design and just sheer Motorola incompetence caused CPU production to fall behind. IBM, seeing the writing on the wall, bailed.
Apple, finally tired of Motorola's crap, ported everything to Intel, and left without looking back. Too bad it took them 20 years to realize this.
Motorola became synonymous with crap hardware and crap cellphones that would break. However, Motorola was great at the con game. They suckered Google into buying them, and then Google unloaded the Motorola unit at an $8 billion loss to Lenovo, probably for parts.
But whatever you feel about Apple, do not blame IBM. Motorola was the one holding back Apple.
Perfect opportunity. He would've loved the idea.
NHTSA: Economic costs of car crashes $277 billion
I've provided two links now. Where are yours?
People will run malware for pennies.
The programmers, sysadmins, and netadmins can only do so much. If you completely lock them down, the users can't do their jobs effectively and/or whine and complain and not buy your software or use your service.
People do pay more for bulletproof software and systems, but most people aren't buying airliners.
$160 million per mile, to prevent an average of 50-60 tornado deaths per year?
1) Build 1000 miles? Only $160 billion? Is that cost of labor alone? What about the cost of land?
2) Build just for cities? Which cities?
3) How does a city afford even 1 mile of wall?
We can drop nukes in tornadoes too for much less, not that I'm advocating that either.
Just last year, there were 32,850 vehicle fatalities in the good ol' USofA.
Driverless cars would've prevented 99% of the crashes. Let's concentrate on rolling those out first and soon.
What this parking app (and there are a couple of others too) does is encourage people to drive into town and make money by parking in spots, auctioning it off, then driving to the next one and repeating the process.
Just guess how much chaos this will cause when a lot of people start doing this professionally.
I see every spot taken by a car with someone in the driver's seat. I see this escalating into organized groups doing this, and then those groups start fighting over territories.
"ParkModo, which appears poised to launch later this week, according to recent employment postings on Craigslist, will employ drivers at a rate of $13.00 per hour to occupy public parking spaces in the Mission District."
Uh huh. Assholes gaming a system. I see the next revenue source for tweakers.
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