Comment Re:Missing option (Score 1) 149
"Only the ones with a Cowboy Neal option".
Can't you connect any of the portables via HDMI to a monitor already?
GSMArena lists 13 different phones with an HDMI port, and the trend seems to be increasing. http://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sFreeText=HDMI
A 1GHz processor drawing max 40 mAh means that such a device at full load uses less than one Watt a day! (for the CPU)
That's a couple of orders of magnitude over the current wall-wart Linux devices available today...
They even had the enforcement in place - using explosive charges...
Tangentially related, a shaken martini is more watered down than a stirred one. Guess Bond's a sissy.
This has been explained as his way of keeping his wits about while at the casino - after all he wouldn't be much of a spy if he's dead-drunk throwing up in the toilet most of the evening.
It is conceivable that:
(3) they got a similar deal for their choice of OS.
Some books should be read carefully and slowly.
Fixed that for you. Many dime-store novels are ruined if you read them too carefully and slow enough to take time to think about how dumb they are. E.g. anything by Dan Brown.
I respectfully disagree with your notion that Kaspersky is better than MSE.
The notion was that Kaspersky DOES better than the free ones - as in catching viruses, not in performance. It's like Columbo - always catches the bad guy, but it takes forever and annoys the hell out of everybody in the process.
The Wikipedia building?
Oh you wouldn't want to live there. Random people are constantly doing construction on it.
I tried it for a while, but had to move when my apartment was deemed insufficiently notable.
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It is wrong to have pillars that close to the track and Stephen Plate shows this to the rest of the world.
I think it is fine for pillars to be that close, on a track for a sport that is participated in voluntarily and with full knowledge that those pillars are there. All it would have taken is for the lugers to say "we aren't going down that course with those pillars there", if it were so clear that the pillars shouldn't have been there.
People train for years for the Olympics. I doubt that safety checks are on the top of their list when they finally get there. Does that mean they deserve to die?
Lugers can still die if they take a wall too high and capsize, smashing their heads into the solid ice track.
If you want to remove all means of death in the sport of luge, you might as well not luge at all. In fact, you won't be luging. You'll have to have a solid tube filled with soft water (instead of the open ice-caked half-tube). That's the "thrill ride" at a water park. How exciting. And someone could still drown if they aren't careful.
So we can't remove any risks (even obvious ones) because that leads to a slippery slope of killing the sport? Straw man, anyone?
How about solid concrete walls at most car race tracks?
They're in a goddamn car, designed so that the driver has a good chance of walking away from such a collision. The lugers are not. You're also forgetting that most of these walls have rows of tires in front to soften the blow (at least in the fastest races like Formula One).
Bugger off IOC and let the rest of the world see what is wrong so it can be prevented next time.
Next on NBC, the 2046 winter olympics. At 8PM, the US and Canada face off for the snowball fights, followed by the mackeral slapping contest between Great Britain and France. At 11PM, Greece and Latvia compete in 'walk around the block', and then Bolivia and Japan face off in a rematch of the famous 2042 "fill the slurpee cup as full as you can without spilling" contest. Stay tuned...
Great - another slippery slope straw man. Didn't you do that already?
Wouldn't a log scale have made more sense?
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.