Comment Re:Sopwith biplane, attempting to bomb enemy build (Score 2) 27
Since the source code was released, it is now obviously a Sopwith Gnu plane.
Researchers have previously found louder experiences seem to last longer,
This explains every Michael Bay movie ever.
You're either drinking too much or not enough.
If they're moving to Tennessee it's probably just a tax Dodge.
And tax breaks in TN. From the TFA (Oracle America closes on Nashville riverfront site) referenced in TFA...
Oracle America has paid nearly $254 million for slightly more than 60 acres of Nashville riverfront property,
Oracle bought 13 parcels of industrial and vacant land on the east bank of the Cumberland River on Tuesday.
Oracle committed to paying $175 million for Metro infrastructure upgrades and a pedestrian bridge over the river in exchange for a temporary property tax break.
The Tennessean article doesn't say how much or how temporary the property tax break is.
[Larry Ellison] said Nashville is an established health center and a "fabulous place to live," one that Oracle employees are excited about.
As if Larry actually cares about employees.
Ha, actually laughing out loud at that.
If I ever need an example of dramatic irony, I'll have to remember this one.
Lol, that joke hit too close to home for a couple of mods.
They're all LED displays. The nano ones are just smaller, which is what you need to make smaller displays while keeping the resolution the same.
Those video walls you see in stadiums and Times Square and everywhere else today are LED displays, except they use non-micro (i.e. bigger) LEDs so they're big and/or low resolution. I have a couple of the panels, they're squares with 30 cm sides and 64 x 64 LEDs. A few TV manufacturers made high res video walls with the smallest LEDs they could make, which at the time came out to 150" 4K displays. It looks like they've whittled that down to 75" or so now.
Quantum dots are hunks of semiconductor pretty much like all other LEDs except they're so small their size influences the colour they emit. You don't have to change the materials to tune the bandgap, you just change their size. So if you want to make LEDs really small you're eventually going to end up with quantum dots. To be fair, the dots are about 5 nm across, so they are nano. You'd never make single dot pixels for a TV though.
Now my car can run Emacs.
And I know this is a Linux milestone, but I wouldn't be surprised if NetBSD ran on cars like 20 years ago, right after being ported to a toaster (Google it) -- the bread kind, not Cylon, though that wouldn't surprise me either.
Slashdot seems to be on a tear making up headlines lately. This one is at least similar to the actual article title.
"No One Buys Books Anymore" implies this is a new situation. The article is "No One Buys Books" which I suppose might seem true to a blog author who gives it away for free: "Is anyone else alarmed that the top tier is book sales of 75,000 units and up? One post on Substack could get more views than that.." right down to the excessive ellipses.
What they did was not illegal, and fine print at the bottom on TL;DR user agreement is what legally constitutes informed consent.
TFA notes that, in some (many?) cases, the sales agent at the dealership was signing customers up for services during the vehicle sale, despite GM policy that the customer must do this themselves, w/o telling the customer exactly what was done.
According to G.M., our car was enrolled in Smart Driver when we bought it at a Chevrolet dealership in New York, during the flurry of document-signing that accompanies the purchase of a new vehicle.
I called our dealership, a franchise of General Motors, and talked to the salesman who had sold us the car. He confirmed that he had enrolled us for OnStar, noting that his pay is docked if he fails to do so. He said that was a mandate from G.M., which sends the dealership a report card each month tracking the percentage of sign-ups.
G.M. doesn’t just want dealers selling cars; it wants them selling connected cars.
[A] G.M. spokeswoman, said that dealers are not permitted to sign customers up and that the customer must be the one to accept the terms. At my request, she provided the series of screens that dealers are instructed to show customers during the enrollment for OnStar and Smart Driver. There is a message at the top of each screen: “The customer must personally review and accept (or decline) the terms below. This action is legally binding and cannot be done by dealer personnel.”
What I can say is that, regardless of who pushed the consent button, this screen about enrolling in notifications and Smart Driver doesn’t say anything about risk-profiling or insurance companies.
This is a myth possibly originating with The Martian, where the main character goes to great lengths to bury his RTG. That was silly, he should have used the thing as a foot warmer in the hab, and to charge his iPod.
They're potentially dangerous if you crack them open and munch on the plutonium inside, but they're generally also designed to survive reentry intact so good luck with that.
Don't worry, they've decided they need to get back to the moon right now because the Chinese are interested. There was a documentary on Netflix about it.
Mars' atmosphere is too thin for realistic passenger flight, it's just thick enough to be a PITA for both landing and taking off, any colony on Mars would have to be pretty self-sufficient right away since resupply is once every couple years, it's too far away and too big to supply anything useful to Earth, and is there actually a practical difference between 1/6 and 1/3 G?
Meanwhile the moon is close, made out of resources that would be useful for a space-based industry, and much easier to come and go from. Also, there's no thought it might have once had life, which means there's no real argument for mining the crap out of it. On the other hand, there's no thought it might have once had life.
fallen sharply beyond expectations
How far had Apple expected it to fall?
People will start to think like professional athletes: I have to earn a life's wage by the time I'm 35, because after that I won't have an income anymore.
To be fair, an athlete is more likely to experience a career-ruining injury than the average worker and then be unable to continue in that career. I'm not trying to justify the insane salaries many seem to get, but can understand why they'd want to earn while they can. Of course, being responsible with those earnings would go a long way toward future financial security. (Good advice for everyone.)
One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model.
