Sort of like how after you walk off a cliff, you don’t start falling until you look down.
An early bird in the hand gets the low hanging fruit in the bush.
Sort of like how after you walk off a cliff, you don’t start falling until you look down.
Sounds like A Nice Morning Drive. As noted in the archived page above, that story inspired the song Red Barchetta by the band Rush.
Sounds like Facebook’s going to get some new features.
It’s a reference to this scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
Scotty, having traveled back in time to the year 1986 as part of a mission to rescue some whales, attempts to use a computer by speaking to it and then mistakenly tries to use the mouse as a microphone when the machine does not respond. He is prompted to use the keyboard instead of verbal commands and gives information on how to manufacture transparent aluminum. This material was not invented until about 150 years later according to the pre-trip history of the Star Trek future but Scotty has given it a head start.
The AI said I could have the pilot’s seat. Open up, let me in and let’s light this candle!
Pons_Aelius is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Shit company is capable of doing the right thing once in a while. Now they can go right back to being evil.
They think they do but they don’t. They really, really don’t.
Sheesh, kids have it so easy now… Back in my day, we had to set sail along the Atlantic trade routes looking for ships full of the latest wax cylinders out of Europe and Asia. Didn’t have anything to play them on but at least we owned our collections.
It’s a lack of supervision, mostly. They assigned Jim to do the bolting that day but didn’t check his qualifications or work. At least this explains the hours of security footage discovered early in the investigation showing Jim sprinting back and forth between the work stations.
It could be irony but, aside from the plastic, I’d expect it to be a little more coppery and silicony.
You can queue (stand in line), you can cue (signal or cause to start). Not complete definitions. They sound the same and there are cases where you could use either in an otherwise-identical sentence for a valid but different meaning.
If I were a school bully, I’d be concerned about the readily-available projectile that could emerge in this scenario. Only one type of asshole should be doing its job in there.
My school had a TV production class that went into a lot of what you’re talking about. Stuff like setting up multiple cameras for an interview/news-type show, following the action while maintaining a sense of the big picture with a single camera at a sporting event, that sort of thing. Even had a workstation with shiny new digital editing software and a DVD burner so you didn’t have to shuffle VHS tapes (or their various forms) around.
I’d love to see an updated version of this where they also get into privacy, safety and bullying/harassment since those don’t tend to be the first things a kid will think about when installing the video app of the day. Let them know what they’re giving up and then teach the methods to do it right.
Or how about those kids get back to class since they’re at school.
…Or does he?
Interesting how the headline appears to imply that this is something that the president should intervene in. Perhaps somebody at Apple could invent backup plans next (other than paying off journalists* to try and deflect blame).
The lemmy.world instance doesn’t have the profanity filter enabled.
Drink verification can Insert verification cartridge to begin scan.
If you want to see someone who really deserves that title, check out Brendan O’Connor’s talk about the CreepyDOL project at DEFCON 21. Nice reminder of how much information most of us are leaking in the RF spectrum for anybody interested in listening and piecing things together.