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"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?"
I should prefer it does not land on my house!
I think a rocket for going to mars may be totally different than one to go to Japan, because interplanetary one needs 2 or 3 stages and a Earth based one only one.
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But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town,
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That's too 21st centruy...
Scotty, beam me up!
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung are all chasing voice-based artificial intelligence with smart digital assistants that you talk to. "Alexa, tell me about the war with Google."
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Just seems like an answer in search of a question.
Does anybody really use these things?
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Errr, yes. We do.
This space for rent
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So... you're the one!
Seriously though, I'm curious - What room(s) do you have your device(s) located in? What are your main uses?
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Your C64 is not meant here by the word "home computer"
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Oooh modern tech.
This space for rent
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You should have heard my father-in-law arguing with Alexa yesterday.
Also, she spent more time trying to push unwanted content on him.
Alexa is definitely not AI.
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FCC chairman Ajit Pai wants Apple to turn on the FM radio that’s hidden inside of every iPhone. "Pretty please."
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The 'droids that support it generally don't have built in FM antennas either, they run an internal connection from the headphone jack to the FM tuner built into the rest of the RF chip they bought. That means Apple probably *can't* add it to their older phones even if they wanted to (since it'd've required adding the hardware support years ago); and with more Android OEMs drinking the no headphone jack coolaid support there will probably end up largely vanishing over the next few years.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Amazon surprised everyone with a press event that unveiled a bunch of new Echo hardware. An Echo here, an Echo there
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there... there... there...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A new look, better dev tools, and up to twice the performance in key benchmarks Striving to put right what once went wrong
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I thought this wasn't the second time I saw it. (First at the source.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Current speed test:
IE 11.0.9600.18792 - 39.3 ± 0.87
Chrome 61.0.3163.100 - 139 ± 13
Firefox 56.0 - 93.8 ± 1.8
If the double speed is true FF will fly off the grid...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Data is the new oil, or so the saying goes. So why are we giving it away for nothing more than ostensibly free email, better movie recommendations, and more accurate search results? Maybe one day celebrities will be cleaning my address off cute baby seals.
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Today we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first object-oriented programming language, Simula. Simula version 1.0 was presented in 1967
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I guess that rather proves that there's nothing new under the sun.
Quite surprised that I'd never heard of it before.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Toyota barely unveiled its second-generation self-driving testbed half a year ago, but it's already back with an update. Could give a whole new meaning to back seat drivers
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It will be available on January 31st. Maybe the best things in life aren't free
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If I read it correctly: a company that accumulates data about you without your permission or any kind of contractual relationship, sells it without your permission and fails, in the process, to secure said data, will try and look after it a little bit better (providing that you happen to be an American) for free (for a very limited time).
That's really rather good of them, isn't it? I like these people!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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