Sure, I know, they were supposed to, by law. But they at least didn't drag their feet too long, and deserve some kudos for choosing an open-source platform to begin with.
What, if any, is the (physical or otherwise) obstacle for this device to become a hacker's darling? Here "hacker" is used in that old, positive meaning.
As I said, there is not "pnaumonia vaccine". That will protect you from some of the bacteria that cause pneumonia, not all. And there are other causes of pneumonia, in addition to bacteria.
But I guess you prefer to be in love with your ignorance.
Good idea, I didn't even know there was a pneumonia vaccine. Thanks.
There isn't. That post is almost pure garbage, but since most/.ers are dumb, it got moderated sky-high. If you get that shot, you will decrease the chance of getting pneumonia only slightly, because it only targets one bacterial pneumonia agent. There are other bacteria that cause pneumonia, and there are also viral and fungal pneumonias. Viral pneumonias are quite common. And also some of the "less common" bacterial pneumonias are about 10% of the cases. In fact, I had pneumonia caused by a minority bacteria, hence my first antibiotic treatment didn't work.
What does "pneumonia vaccine" even mean? Pneumonia is caused by a half dozen different bacteria, by various viruses and sometimes by some fungi. There isn't such a thing as "pneumonia vaccine" - you might have been vaccinated against some of the more common pneumonia-inducing bacteria, but even if your shot included a vaccine against all the possible bacterial causes of pneumonia, you still could get it - for instance, viral pneumonia is actually quite common.
At 52% failure rate within a year of purchase, the Xbox360 is practically garbage (not to mention that it likes to cut nice deep grooves in your media, if you look at ti wring). So if you bought one, it's only fair that you get a bum deal, too.
I don't know how much taxes you pay, but overall, I feel we're getting a good deal. I could never imagine having a debt of tens of thousands of $, right after graduation.
and if I choose to have a problem with it, I can uninstall it.
One of the problems was that you, actually, couldn't. The only way was by manually editing a registry key. Microsoft did not follow the convention of other Firefox plugins, where you can just uninstall or install a plugin - it wasn't listed.
and so is in most of the EU. In spite of this, the scientific output of Finnish universities is comparable to that of the US institutions. I don't deny that the US has top-notch universities. But they are not significantly better, per capita, than Finland's.
hey Einstein, how is the consumer going to know how much that shiny new fridge is going to consume ? Without government intervention, he won't be able to tell the difference between a high and a low efficient device...
Here in Europe, every appliance sold in shops or otherwise, has the information about power consumption printed among the main properties of the product. I'm pretty sure the same is true for the USA. In other words, anyone can see how much a certain appliance consumes, before they buy it. It's exactly because of nannysms like the one we are talking about here, that the consumer doesn't look at it. It's just induced laziness, which however is easily curable - by drastically increasing the cost of electrical energy.
A lot of good programs and people were axed during his tenure which added to the short term bottom line but have shown in the last 4 years to hurt their long term objectives.
That's so textbook corporate psychopaty. When will people learn?
Anytime such grandiose outsourcing and/or workforce cutting schemes are created, you can suspect that a psychopathic suit just got an idea how to look busy and useful.
Mandating low consumption TV sets, or low consumption lightbulbs (here in Finland it's now forbidden to produce incandescent bulbs) is as dumb as mandating low consumption cars. It makes the whole process of enforcement and monitoring more complicated, more expensive and prone to corruption.
The logical and simpler solution is to increase the price of electricity and/or gasoline, to reflect the real cost of the commodity, through taxes. That way, there is a natural economic pressure to decrease the consumption of EVERY appliance. And if someone has the money to pay for the electricity consumed by his/her CRT TV, then let them. Their money can be used to find better sources of abovementioned commodities. I.E. invest in research of algae-produced combustibles.
They are good people because they are in those positions of power, sacrificing their superior selves to make the lives of we, the incompetent peons who need them to look after us, better.
You're dead wrong on this one: psychopaths have no illusion whatsoever about what good they do to "us", the lowly ones. Psychopaths only and exclusively look for their own benefit, even if it means a damage for everyone else. They have no conscience whatsoever, but are very charismatic and expert at manipulating. I highly recommend the book Snakes in Suits for anyone interested in the phenomenon of psychopaty in corporate life.
You can't really compare a full field emission setup to this kind of instrument. It might be more appropriate to compare it to some of the similar LEO or Hitachi tungsten filament machines. Some of these are small enough to be operated in an average class room, and would actually be about $50000 less on the open market. In fact, I'm surprised some schools haven't done it yet.
There are of course the problems with maintenance. Older machines can be a bit finnicky, but I can't see the maintenance regime being any more or less rigorous than this tabletop model. Replace a filament here, change the pump oil there, clean apertures etc. But that's the problem, isn't it?
Maintenance. Any idiot can operate an SEM. I know, I've taught some of them. So that's your cost. Not the $60000 this thing is going to cost you, it's the $10000 to $15000 you're going to be charged by Hitachi every year to have a service engineer out to do all of the maintenance on the machine.
In principle, you're right. But the TM-1000 is also extremely easy to maintain. Changing the filament is a breeze. And a new filament is pretty cheap, too, so it's not bad at all, even from a point of view of TCO. Still, if I had $60K, I would rather get some of the used but more powerful setups and spend the rest on spare parts.
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Cobalt Qube Software-wise, it has easily one of the best management interfaces.
Why do breathless writers always say "saving lives" when they refer to military applications?
Honestly, I have not noticed this trend at all. This is the first instance, in fact.
But if you have an ICE1712 / Envy24 (M-Audio Delta) based pro sound card stay away, it's currently broken
Maybe that's the reason you haven't had weird audio routing issues yet - you have no sound!
It all makes sense, now.
It depends. Do you plan on selling microprocessors?
Now that would be an even battle. Possibly ending with some bitch-slapping of Microsoft.
Sure, I know, they were supposed to, by law. But they at least didn't drag their feet too long, and deserve some kudos for choosing an open-source platform to begin with.
What, if any, is the (physical or otherwise) obstacle for this device to become a hacker's darling? Here "hacker" is used in that old, positive meaning.
As I said, there is not "pnaumonia vaccine". That will protect you from some of the bacteria that cause pneumonia, not all. And there are other causes of pneumonia, in addition to bacteria.
But I guess you prefer to be in love with your ignorance.
Good idea, I didn't even know there was a pneumonia vaccine. Thanks.
There isn't. That post is almost pure garbage, but since most /.ers are dumb, it got moderated sky-high.
If you get that shot, you will decrease the chance of getting pneumonia only slightly, because it only targets one bacterial pneumonia agent. There are other bacteria that cause pneumonia, and there are also viral and fungal pneumonias. Viral pneumonias are quite common. And also some of the "less common" bacterial pneumonias are about 10% of the cases. In fact, I had pneumonia caused by a minority bacteria, hence my first antibiotic treatment didn't work.
What does "pneumonia vaccine" even mean? Pneumonia is caused by a half dozen different bacteria, by various viruses and sometimes by some fungi. There isn't such a thing as "pneumonia vaccine" - you might have been vaccinated against some of the more common pneumonia-inducing bacteria, but even if your shot included a vaccine against all the possible bacterial causes of pneumonia, you still could get it - for instance, viral pneumonia is actually quite common.
At 52% failure rate within a year of purchase, the Xbox360 is practically garbage (not to mention that it likes to cut nice deep grooves in your media, if you look at ti wring). So if you bought one, it's only fair that you get a bum deal, too.
I don't know how much taxes you pay, but overall, I feel we're getting a good deal. I could never imagine having a debt of tens of thousands of $, right after graduation.
and if I choose to have a problem with it, I can uninstall it.
One of the problems was that you, actually, couldn't. The only way was by manually editing a registry key. Microsoft did not follow the convention of other Firefox plugins, where you can just uninstall or install a plugin - it wasn't listed.
Sneaky.
Meanwhile FreeBSD doesn't give a crap about what zealots want or do not want, and does just fine with sound.
and so is in most of the EU. In spite of this, the scientific output of Finnish universities is comparable to that of the US institutions. I don't deny that the US has top-notch universities. But they are not significantly better, per capita, than Finland's.
hey Einstein, how is the consumer going to know how much that shiny new fridge is going to consume ? Without government intervention, he won't be able to tell the difference between a high and a low efficient device ...
Here in Europe, every appliance sold in shops or otherwise, has the information about power consumption printed among the main properties of the product. I'm pretty sure the same is true for the USA. In other words, anyone can see how much a certain appliance consumes, before they buy it. It's exactly because of nannysms like the one we are talking about here, that the consumer doesn't look at it. It's just induced laziness, which however is easily curable - by drastically increasing the cost of electrical energy.
A lot of good programs and people were axed during his tenure which added to the short term bottom line but have shown in the last 4 years to hurt their long term objectives.
That's so textbook corporate psychopaty. When will people learn?
Anytime such grandiose outsourcing and/or workforce cutting schemes are created, you can suspect that a psychopathic suit just got an idea how to look busy and useful.
Mandating low consumption TV sets, or low consumption lightbulbs (here in Finland it's now forbidden to produce incandescent bulbs) is as dumb as mandating low consumption cars. It makes the whole process of enforcement and monitoring more complicated, more expensive and prone to corruption.
The logical and simpler solution is to increase the price of electricity and/or gasoline, to reflect the real cost of the commodity, through taxes. That way, there is a natural economic pressure to decrease the consumption of EVERY appliance. And if someone has the money to pay for the electricity consumed by his/her CRT TV, then let them. Their money can be used to find better sources of abovementioned commodities. I.E. invest in research of algae-produced combustibles.
They are good people because they are in those positions of power, sacrificing their superior selves to make the lives of we, the incompetent peons who need them to look after us, better.
You're dead wrong on this one: psychopaths have no illusion whatsoever about what good they do to "us", the lowly ones. Psychopaths only and exclusively look for their own benefit, even if it means a damage for everyone else. They have no conscience whatsoever, but are very charismatic and expert at manipulating. I highly recommend the book Snakes in Suits for anyone interested in the phenomenon of psychopaty in corporate life.
He most likely granted the publisher an exclusive license.
He most likely the whole thing!
Is that bad?
No, my friend, you're not the only one: I definitely read the "magic word" right there, and thought "huh? WTF has THAT gotta do with anything?"
Do you realize that Android is Linux?
I have a vision of beduins making millions from the sale of rare-earth metals.
It's my all-times favourite game, and I would play it on Windows, too, if only there was a port. It's somewhat addictve, but not too much.
You can't really compare a full field emission setup to this kind of instrument. It might be more appropriate to compare it to some of the similar LEO or Hitachi tungsten filament machines. Some of these are small enough to be operated in an average class room, and would actually be about $50000 less on the open market. In fact, I'm surprised some schools haven't done it yet.
There are of course the problems with maintenance. Older machines can be a bit finnicky, but I can't see the maintenance regime being any more or less rigorous than this tabletop model. Replace a filament here, change the pump oil there, clean apertures etc. But that's the problem, isn't it?
Maintenance. Any idiot can operate an SEM. I know, I've taught some of them. So that's your cost. Not the $60000 this thing is going to cost you, it's the $10000 to $15000 you're going to be charged by Hitachi every year to have a service engineer out to do all of the maintenance on the machine.
In principle, you're right. But the TM-1000 is also extremely easy to maintain. Changing the filament is a breeze. And a new filament is pretty cheap, too, so it's not bad at all, even from a point of view of TCO. Still, if I had $60K, I would rather get some of the used but more powerful setups and spend the rest on spare parts.