Comment Re:Hello, economics (Score 1) 223
Much like deep sea drilling for oil
You just gotta watch out for the Russian water tentacles.
Comment Re:Who wants to update?? (Score 1) 1012
Skipping the tire analogy, I could say that :
Apple knows its OS best and the Apple approved choices are the optimal choices and thus, the best result for the customer;
or that blocking hardware that works fine is just an attempt to maintain a stranglehold on the ecosystem (and their profits).
My initial point was that attacking the person shows the lack of merit of your argument. If their argument has flaws, expose them. If they are indeed morons, then it's self-evident and there's no need to lower oneself to name-calling.
Comment Re:Who wants to update?? (Score 2, Insightful) 1012
Skipping the tire analogy, I could say that
Apple knows its OS best and the Apple approved choices are the optimal choices and thus, the best result for the customer;
or that blocking hardware that works fine is just an attempt to maintain a stranglehold on the ecosystem (and their profits).
My initial point was that attacking the person shows the lack of merit of your argument. If their argument has flaws, expose them. If they are indeed morons, then it's self-evident and there's no need to lower oneself to name-calling.
Comment Re:Who wants to update?? (Score 1) 1012
My brakes worked fine before I got the "better" wheels.
This is about choice and control. If I want to run the thing on something they don't support, that is indeed my problem. When I can't run the thing because they arbitrarily don't allow me to, it's a different story.
Comment Re:Who wants to update?? (Score 1) 1012
If you have a valid argument, then state it and let it be debated. Repeatedly calling parent posters morons is just childish.
Comment Re:The police are morons (Score 2, Informative) 746
My glock 21 is a semi-automatic firearm and it is still accurate to call it an automatic. If the firearm in question uses gas from the firing of a bullet to load another round and prepare the firing pin to strike again. Then it is an automatic.
Depends on the context: Fully Automatic compared to Semi-automatic
Comment Re:The police are morons (Score 1) 746
An AK-47 is semi-auto, not full-auto, so your question is irrelevant.
The A in AK stands for Avtomat (Automatic). If it's semi-auto, then's it's not an AK proper, but one of the many variants.
Comment Whoosh (Score 1) 201
I believe governator was always a play on governor + terminator.
And from a quick search, "gubernator" is not even a real word.
Comment Obligatory (Score 5, Funny) 378
Deploy airbag? [Cancel | Allow]
Submission + - New "whisper campaign" against Fair Use (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Big Content is currently engaged in a worldwide 'whisper campaign' against Fair Use. 'The counter-reformation in question takes the form of a "whispering campaign" in which ministries in different countries are told that plans to expand fair use rights might well run afoul of the Berne Convention's "three-step test." The Convention, which goes back to the late 1800s, was one of the earliest international copyright treaties and is now administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).'
Feed Engadget: Brando offers up 2.4-inch digital photo frame, isn't joking (engadget.com)
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays
Generally speaking, we've seen digital photo frames get additional features, boosts in screen size and increases in resolution, but Brando is taking innovation in the opposite direction with its "portable" iteration. After triple checking to make sure this wasn't some sort of sick holiday prank, it looks as if the firm actually is offering up a 2.4-inch frame that touts a 320 x 240 resolution panel, comes with your choice of transparent or heart-shaped frames and gets its juice from a built-in Li-ion / USB port. Heck, you'll even get 16MB of internal storage space -- enough for 32 photos! If you're absolutely sure the novelty won't wear off after 7.3 minutes of use, feel free to cough up $45 and bring one home.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Feed Science Daily: New Solutions To Reproductive Problems Related To Chromosomal Variations (sciencedaily.com)
Approximately one in every 500 to 650 baby boys is born with an extra X chromosome, a variation in their genetic code that until a few years ago was thought to result in infertility in all cases. However, this is no longer the case. New treatments for both children and adults are coming available.
Feed Science Daily: Snake Venoms Share Similar Ingredients (sciencedaily.com)
Venoms from different snake families may have many deadly ingredients in common, more than was previously thought. A new study has unexpectedly discovered three-finger toxins in a subspecies of the Massasauga Rattlesnake, as well as evidence for a novel toxin genes resulting from gene fusion.
Feed Science Daily: Unknown Monumental Building Of Herod The Great (73-4 BC) Unearthed (sciencedaily.com)
Excavations are underway in the East Jordan Land. With findings on the mountain Tall adh-Dhahab (West) in the Jabbok Valley the archaeologists could substantiate one assumption: everything points to the fact that the building remains from the Hellenistic and Roman era, found in 2006, were part of a yet unknown monumental building of Herod the Great (73-4 BC).
Feed Science Daily: Bangladesh To Dramatically Expand Technology That Doubles Efficiency Of Urea Fer (sciencedaily.com)
Using current broadcast technology, most nitrogen is lost to the air and water, and rice plants actually use only one bag of urea in three. Urea deep placement (UDP) puts nitrogen near rice roots so it is not lost. Farmers who use UDP can increase yields by 25 percent with less than half as much urea. The Bangladesh Government is expanding UDP to almost 1 million hectares of riceland, reaching 1.6 million farm families, in the coming dry season. Urea deep placement cuts nitrogen losses significantly.
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