Comment Re:Ping pong is our national sport in China (Score 4, Interesting) 29
I once drove a marathon in 30 minutes in my car. I understand several top-level runners quit the sport in disgust following my achievement.
Comment Re:Where's the other wonder storages? (Score 1) 46
They were seriously challenged by optical drives in the 80s and 90s for storage capacity, but kept on growing faster than optical could manage:
Year Magnetic HDD capacity Optical capacity
1956 3.75 MB —
1982 10–100 MB 650 MB (CD)
1995 1–2 GB 4.7 GB (DVD)
2006 100–500 GB 25–50 GB (Blu-ray)
2020s 20+ TB 100 GB (consumer Blu-ray)
Comment Some episodes, not all (Score 1) 75
Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 2 doesn't seem to be there (Midnight on the Firing Line). Technically it's episode 1 if you don't include the pilot.
Currently I can see 3 episodes:
Babylon 5 | Full Episode | The Gathering: Season 1, Episode 1 (the pilot)
Not there - Midnight on the Firing Line
Babylon 5 | Full Episode | Soul Hunter: Season 1, Episode 3
Babylon 5 | Full Episode | Born To The Purple: Season 1, Episode 4
Comment Re:Are there any examples? (Score 1) 18
Yes, presumably the AI gets confused when you start adding different countries into the equation. If you have identical twins growing up in different places - Scotland and Australia, say - how is the AI going to account for the large differences in accents?
Comment Re:The OG goat. (Score 1) 11
Where's Rick Astley when you need him..
We're no strangers to love
Comment Re: "Massively Popular" (Score 1) 51
+1 Insightful, it's incredible that MTV couldn't capitalize on the explosion of online media in some way.
Comment Re:Toyota North America sold 185,748 vehicles in U (Score 1) 137
Toyota sold 29 million hybrid cars worldwide in 2024:
Toyota electrified vehicles sales in 2024 (all brands)
POWERTRAIN GLOBAL SALES
Hybrid electric 29,315,916
Plug-in hybrid electric 761,578
Fuel cell electric 27,723
Battery electric 289,840
Mild hybrid electric 141,593
Comment Re:How much can we trust statcounter's methodology (Score 1) 150
Countries with large numbers of English speakers are overrepresented here. Given PC ownership numbers, you'd expect Japan and Brazil to feature in the top 10:
China – 357.4 million
United States – 269.3 million
Japan – 59.5 million
Brazil – 52.5 million
Germany – 49.2 million
India – 41.6 million
United Kingdom – 36.9 million
France – 33.3 million
Russia – 32.1 million
Canada – 25.9 million
Comment Re:Weird (Score 2) 28
A tale of the APS returning to Vegas in 2023:
Comment The population of the richest country in the world (Score 1) 262
The population of the richest country in the world enjoys spending its money buying nice things. Since they are the richest country in the world, the mean wage there is high. Consequently, it's much cheaper to buy certain things from other countries, where the wages are far lower.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 63
The carrier sued Austin, Texas-based CrowdStrike three months after the July 19, 2024 outage disrupted travel for 1.4 million Delta passengers.
Delta has said the outage cost $550 million in lost revenue and added expenses, offset by $50 million of fuel savings.
TFA gives the relevant numbers.
Comment Re:No calculator in early age (Score 1) 19
Having the ability to do basic mental arithmetic is a valuable skill we use every day. Being able to make reasonable estimates can save you from making potentially expensive mistakes.
What's 23.71 x 42,372? No idea, but having a feel for numbers and mental calculations allows me to work out straight away that the answer is going to be somewhere near 1,000,000. If I then input the numbers into a calculator and get an answer closer to 100,000 or 10,000,000, I know from my estimate that I've messed something up.
How would somebody with no grasp of estimating numbers detect that error? Now use the same logic with somebody trying to understand a terrible car-finance deal that a salesman is pushing at you, or any kind of loan or contract?
Comment Re:for some reason I stopped buying new games (Score 3, Insightful) 124
Sidenote: I was cleaning out the attic last year and I found a whole lot of CDs. I *OWN* them. They don't depend on any server. I can't play any of them. Even if I were to jump through hoops installing dosbox to emulate an old system, my PC doesn't have a CD drive. So where does ownership get me? Just another thing I can't play.
You could order a USB DVD drive from Amazon for 10 bucks, if you had any interest in playing your old CDs.
Comment Re: Tips (Score 1) 52
Why not? There's a weird misconception on Slashdot that AC posters are all illiterate trolls. The majority of my posts are made AC, and all of my posts going back 20 years were AC until Slashdot forced us to create accounts. AC is one of Slashdot's best traditions, using it to make non-trolling posts helps to keep it alive.
I am not the AC you replied to.
Comment Re: Tips (Score 1) 52
The easiest way to tip your driver is through the app. At the end of your trip, you’ll be prompted to rate your driver. Once you provide a rating, you’ll be given the option to add a tip. Giving cash directly to your driver is also an option.
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