Indeed, but whilst the such accidents are extremely rare, CFIT (the pilot flies a perfectly-working airplane into the ground) ones not. In fact, they are one of the most common causes of serious accidents & loss of life.
'The primary reason that parents consider banking their newborn's cord blood is because they have a child or close relative with or a family medical history of diseases that can be treated with bone marrow transplants. Some diseases that more commonly involve bone marrow transplants include certain kinds of leukemia or lymphoma, aplastic anemia, severe sickle cell anemia, and severe combined immune deficiency.
The odds that the average baby without risk factors will ever use his or her own banked cord blood is considered low; however, no accurate estimates exist at this time.'
Having said that, if this had been an option when my kids were born, I've have probably done it. Compared with what kids cost you over time, 1000 is peanuts.
FTA: "Geode's origins can be traced back to the mid-90s when Cyrix developed the MediaGX integrated chip for sub-US$1,000 mainstream PCs, according to McCarron. Cyrix merged with National Semiconductor in 1999 and developed the first Geode chips for embedded devices from MediaGX design. AMD ultimately bought the Geode business from National Semiconductor in 2003" See also wikipedia, of course.
Sad how so many big companies buy these 'niche' technologies then 'manage' them into a smoking hole in the ground...
GateHouse had claimed Boston.comâ(TM)s actions violated copyright and trademark laws. Boston.com provided links that sent readers directly to âoeWicked Localâ stories, meaning readers bypassed ads posted on GateHouse home pages, GateHouse claimed.
...flip the voting preferences of 0.1 percent of your viewers by showing the opposing candidate's face from a disadvantageous angle (yes I made that number up).
Unfortunately, really easy. Claim that people do not have equivalent experience, qualification, competencies, whatever, so should be rewarded less (even if they are in practise doing exactly the same job). HR shills justify the impossible all the time...
The planned cooling device(s) do not cover the entire area of the chip - they are to deal with local 'hot spots', (a temp reduction of 15ÂC is claimed - quite a big deal).
As they sit between the chip and its (unchanged aluminium, copper, whatever) packaging, the main job of conducting heat away from the chip will still be done by the heatsink & air or water cooling...
So, a cool [sic] new way to make modern hi-perf chips either faster and/or more reliable, but not a revolution.
Nuke technology that has been long-discarded by the superpowers can still be appealing for others; say those with limited technology but unlimited resources of some kind.
Remember the Iranians piecing togther - by (mainly female, oh the irony), hand the shredded documents they stole from the US embassy in Tehran?
Equally, Iraq was well on the way to getting a decent quantity of fissile materiel using centrifuges to separate the different isotopes. The western powers initially discarded the rumours, since all their 'expert' advisors said that this was not considered a viable technology. They forgot that this was how the first enriched uranium was obtained, by the USA, to make the first Bomb.
So - can't afford/obtain the latest designs from a rogue Pakistani/Russian/North Korean source? But do have access to enriched uranium? No problem, build an 'old' Bomb. Still enough to devastate a city...
This comes just a few days after Britannica announced that readers will be allowed to suggest edits and have them reviewed within 20 minutes. Will we see the day when Britannica can be edited almost instantly while editing Wikipedia requires fighting bureaucracy, patience and the right contacts?"
As I believe I mentioned in the original thread, I find it hard to believe that a subscription service will be able to have enough 'eyes' to make good on this promise. Sure, the existing Wikipedia system could be improved, as could KDE, The Gimps... The important thing is, both the improvements, and the improvement process itself, are open to deep public scruntiny.
Oh c'mon. Windows server works very well, so does BSD/Linux... The old argument was that you could not get professional support, trained staff or robust add-ins and applications for Linux - no longer true...
So you pays your money, (or not, meh), and takes your chance.
True, but then again, many people cite the 'ease' of configurability of KDE as being why they like it.
A halfway-house would be nice - good default installation but easy tweaking via GUI as users got more advanced and confident. A bit like - dare I say it - Windows does it. Then again, even with windows you still end up having to download stuff like TweakUi or other powertools - or directly ediing the registry - for some stuff, (or using the console, which is OK).
Plus, he can still tesify on actions or decisions he took on behalf of his client, and why, without revealing any conversations and/or communications with the client. After all, he was representing them...
From the first link: 'Mr. Oppenheim is the person who has been identified by the RIAA lawyers sometimes as the "client", sometimes as the "industry representative", and sometimes as the "client representative", and on at least one occasion as "the only person who had settlement authority" for the RIAA members. He claims to be associated with an entity called "The Oppenheim Group", and has acted as attorney of record for the record companies in several proceedings in Washington, D.C.'
So, if he represents the interests of the artists, (ahem), why is he - or his legal team, taking such extraordinary steps to avoid testifying?
Of course, there are just as many examples of bad public spending than there are good - Japan's concreting-over of river beds, bridges to nowhere. These are typically the product of corrupt people and/or systems.
But real leaders with principles and vision have shown that good things can be done. Let's not let partisan feelings blind us to the facts - experienced the USA's infrastructure lately?
That's why the role of Govt. is so pivotal - not just in this instance, but also in cases where 'individualistic' impulses will not work for the common good - infrastructure development, for example.
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Indeed, but whilst the such accidents are extremely rare, CFIT (the pilot flies a perfectly-working airplane into the ground) ones not. In fact, they are one of the most common causes of serious accidents & loss of life.
http://www.flightsafety.org/cfit1.html
Presumably, UAVs would not have this problem...well, maybe not...
'The primary reason that parents consider banking their newborn's cord blood is because they have a child or close relative with or a family medical history of diseases that can be treated with bone marrow transplants. Some diseases that more commonly involve bone marrow transplants include certain kinds of leukemia or lymphoma, aplastic anemia, severe sickle cell anemia, and severe combined immune deficiency.
The odds that the average baby without risk factors will ever use his or her own banked cord blood is considered low; however, no accurate estimates exist at this time.'
Having said that, if this had been an option when my kids were born, I've have probably done it. Compared with what kids cost you over time, 1000 is peanuts.
The performance part.
MTBF is Mean Time Between Failures, (device is repairable).
For HDDs, you should really be talking about MTTF.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTBF
And a range of 5 miles if you use it.
Now that gas has come down in price, predict these things - as always - arriving too late/early for the market.
Still want a Tesla, tho'.
http://www.teslamotors.com/
http://icanhascheezburger.com/?s=smoke
FlightSim is dead. Cyrix is dead.
FTA: "Geode's origins can be traced back to the mid-90s when Cyrix developed the MediaGX integrated chip for sub-US$1,000 mainstream PCs, according to McCarron. Cyrix merged with National Semiconductor in 1999 and developed the first Geode chips for embedded devices from MediaGX design. AMD ultimately bought the Geode business from National Semiconductor in 2003" See also wikipedia, of course.
Sad how so many big companies buy these 'niche' technologies then 'manage' them into a smoking hole in the ground...
FTA:
GateHouse had claimed Boston.comâ(TM)s actions violated copyright and trademark laws. Boston.com provided links that sent readers directly to âoeWicked Localâ stories, meaning readers bypassed ads posted on GateHouse home pages, GateHouse claimed.
...flip the voting preferences of 0.1 percent of your viewers by showing the opposing candidate's face from a disadvantageous angle (yes I made that number up).
That's OK, 78.32154% of statistics are made up.
Unfortunately, really easy. Claim that people do not have equivalent experience, qualification, competencies, whatever, so should be rewarded less (even if they are in practise doing exactly the same job). HR shills justify the impossible all the time...
Disguised as a pen, or whatever.
Like here, for instance.
http://www.spycameras.com/
Yes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling
The planned cooling device(s) do not cover the entire area of the chip - they are to deal with local 'hot spots', (a temp reduction of 15ÂC is claimed - quite a big deal).
As they sit between the chip and its (unchanged aluminium, copper, whatever) packaging, the main job of conducting heat away from the chip will still be done by the heatsink & air or water cooling...
So, a cool [sic] new way to make modern hi-perf chips either faster and/or more reliable, but not a revolution.
Nuke technology that has been long-discarded by the superpowers can still be appealing for others; say those with limited technology but unlimited resources of some kind.
Remember the Iranians piecing togther - by (mainly female, oh the irony), hand the shredded documents they stole from the US embassy in Tehran?
Equally, Iraq was well on the way to getting a decent quantity of fissile materiel using centrifuges to separate the different isotopes. The western powers initially discarded the rumours, since all their 'expert' advisors said that this was not considered a viable technology. They forgot that this was how the first enriched uranium was obtained, by the USA, to make the first Bomb.
So - can't afford/obtain the latest designs from a rogue Pakistani/Russian/North Korean source? But do have access to enriched uranium? No problem, build an 'old' Bomb. Still enough to devastate a city...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F
This comes just a few days after Britannica announced that readers will be allowed to suggest edits and have them reviewed within 20 minutes. Will we see the day when Britannica can be edited almost instantly while editing Wikipedia requires fighting bureaucracy, patience and the right contacts?"
As I believe I mentioned in the original thread, I find it hard to believe that a subscription service will be able to have enough 'eyes' to make good on this promise. Sure, the existing Wikipedia system could be improved, as could KDE, The Gimps... The important thing is, both the improvements, and the improvement process itself, are open to deep public scruntiny.
Oh c'mon. Windows server works very well, so does BSD/Linux... The old argument was that you could not get professional support, trained staff or robust add-ins and applications for Linux - no longer true...
So you pays your money, (or not, meh), and takes your chance.
True, but then again, many people cite the 'ease' of configurability of KDE as being why they like it.
A halfway-house would be nice - good default installation but easy tweaking via GUI as users got more advanced and confident. A bit like - dare I say it - Windows does it. Then again, even with windows you still end up having to download stuff like TweakUi or other powertools - or directly ediing the registry - for some stuff, (or using the console, which is OK).
Yes, I saw that, but that's why they would claim, right? We'll see what the court decides...
Depends on the court, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney-client_privilege
Plus, he can still tesify on actions or decisions he took on behalf of his client, and why, without revealing any conversations and/or communications with the client. After all, he was representing them...
From the first link: 'Mr. Oppenheim is the person who has been identified by the RIAA lawyers sometimes as the "client", sometimes as the "industry representative", and sometimes as the "client representative", and on at least one occasion as "the only person who had settlement authority" for the RIAA members. He claims to be associated with an entity called "The Oppenheim Group", and has acted as attorney of record for the record companies in several proceedings in Washington, D.C.'
So, if he represents the interests of the artists, (ahem), why is he - or his legal team, taking such extraordinary steps to avoid testifying?
Must have misread the article - did not see that it was automatic in case of power failure?
Hmmm...mod up!
Now then. I'm no bleeding heart liberal.
Of course, there are just as many examples of bad public spending than there are good - Japan's concreting-over of river beds, bridges to nowhere. These are typically the product of corrupt people and/or systems.
But real leaders with principles and vision have shown that good things can be done. Let's not let partisan feelings blind us to the facts - experienced the USA's infrastructure lately?
That's why the role of Govt. is so pivotal - not just in this instance, but also in cases where 'individualistic' impulses will not work for the common good - infrastructure development, for example.
Screw that, does it run Android?