has been pushing development of linux partitions on its mid-range and mainframe devices for years.
A bit unlikely, but smart - run your favourite OS as one or more partitions on this high-spec hardware. They still rule the market for high-uptime hardware.... with an appropriate price tag, of course.
Hasn't that been the modus operandi of marketing since, well, forever?
Spend $$$ on advertising, if sales increase then the advertising works.
Except there's very little about that process that's provable. About the only thing I'd trust is exit interviews as customers leave the store (brick-and-mortar, or online).
"How did you hear about us?" is one of the most reliable, and direct sources of information about how someone found out about your product - but the whole marketing industry has been built on unprovable BS based on third-hand information, or as said above, proxy information.
That's not lame at all. Lame would be if the astronauts engaged in blatant product placement. They don't. Although you can see Thinkpads stashed on the wall/bulkhead in some photos, they're just part of the equipment.
Imagine the collective fanboi orgasm^W^W^W fooforaw IF the Macbook Pro was spotted on the ISS?
And mplayer/ffmpeg shits on VLC. So what? Some people like Winamp. I like Winamp. I like VLC, too. I also like mplayer and ffmpeg - and they're free, too. I use the tool/s that best suit my needs at the time.
BTW, VLC fails badly when asked to convert formats, it can't cope with damaged AVI indexes, and it's not very efficient at real-time playback of MKV files, so don't go crowing too loudly there.
I just wish the IT program at my kids' school was a bit more....organised.
Currently it's BYOx (Bring Your Own device), where YOU supply the windows/apple laptop. If it meets certain specs, you bring it to school, get a login to the school network, a free copy of Norton (if you didn't already have security software) and a free copy of MS Office.
So I bought her a nice Toshiba Z20t hybrid - a tablet with detachable keyboard. SSD, fantastic battery life with 2 batteries - one in the tablet, another in the keyboard* - and none of the teachers have optimised their lessons for using computers. My daughter's schoolbag has mostly "heavy days" where the weight of textbooks and notebooks exceed 12kg. When some parents started complaining about heavy bags, the next school newsletter had an article from the health department about how to wear heavy backpacks to distribute the weight.
"Why don't you ditch the notebooks and type your notes?" "They still give us handouts to glue into our notebooks" "The tablet's got a camera, take a photo of the handout and click 'insert, picture' to attach it to your Word document" -Shrug- "The teachers want us to have written notes"
This is the 21st century - why aren't the textbooks in e-book format?
*They're not allowed to charge laptops at school. One student in the state experienced a "halt and catch fire" while charging, so now no-one is allowed to charge laptops.
Meat animals are pretty well-rendered. Non-edible parts are sold for leather, fertiliser, fur/wool, animal feed (although potentially dangerous), decoration (horn buttons, bone handles), fat and bone for rendering, etc. They're too valuable to waste.
I think it's great that you've overcome an allergy and formed a bond with another creature, even if she does prefer to show you her ass:-) I have yet to conquer seasonal rhinitis (hay fever).
I have children, and they shit me sometimes, but I like them.
My preferred animals at the moment are the magpies and currawongs that visit for food. There's definitely a brief moment in eye contact when I leave some food nearby, and they come to collect it, look at me, and fly off.
Some days I'd prefer to never have to deal with people, but "people" pay me money to fix their problems, so the least I can do is smile. Sometimes I get a cup of tea and a piece of cake, so it's not all bad.
Of course meat consumption is natural, or have you managed to change the dietary habits of some of the planet's apex predators? Try telling that to a shark. Make no mistake, your animal brothers would have no hesitation eating you given the right circumstances, and they *won't* treat you to a humane kill - they'll rip you to pieces.
Why do we have some teeth adapted to tearing meat?
Why do we have a gut that's ideal for an omnivorous diet?
I could go on. We're omnivores.
And, meat tastes great (that's "good"), and it has concentrated nutrients - many calories/protein/micronutrients in a small volume. Many vegetables taste great, too, and some have high-ish concentrations of nutrients - I like meat *and* veg, and enjoy both.
Are the proteins, fats, and carbohydrates synthesized one-by-one and blended into soup? Or are cells artificially stimulated to reproduce like regular cells to grow, reproduce, and create muscle meat (or organ meat, if that's your thing. Personally, I'll eat lamb liver or kidney once every 5 years, and enjoy it - but no more frequently than that).
Sterile, from merriam-webster: "free from living organisms and especially pathogenic microorganisms".
I think your lab meat isn't sterile under the first part of that definition. It might be sanitary, as another poster said, but it ain't sterile.
And if it ain't sterile, consider this: a cell undergoing mitosis can have errors in DNA replication (I sound like Tyrell from Blade Runner). That means your lab-grown meat can yield a product that isn't 100% beef as we understand it. That's not really a problem at the moment because the beef in your t-bone steak probably has some faulty DNA in it.
But that's generally taken care of by the cattle's own systems - a foetus so faulty that it's not "beef" will be miscarried, and a foetus that's faulty but viable will probably end up on your dinner table some time in the future. What kind of expensive quality-control systems will guarantee your lab-grown beef is beef, and not near-beef, or mostly-beef? How will mildly-mutated meat - that hasn't been moderated by an actual cow - affect you when you consume it? Faulty DNA is dealt with by the animal that gestates it. Each cow moderates and deals with its own offspring - producing billions of tons of meat products, but each 250-1000 kilos is "checked" by its mother. What level of testing, moderating (and cancelling if necessary) will be performed once producers realise that vast vats of meat can be produced much more efficiently than ol' bessie can manage?
Well, as the owner of a 41-year-old LeMans, it still "gives me the horn" despite a lack of electronic aids*. It's not fuel-injected, it has no anti-lock brakes, mechanical suspension adjustment, hand-wave accuracy from the instruments, etc. It'll never achieve emissions standards, but it still draws attention, and it. just.keeps.going. It continues to do the job it was designed for - a reliable, fairly fast sports tourer.
*I caved in and installed an electronic igition system when I just couldn't tune it anymore - the various parts of the points system were too worn to get the timing right, and it would have cost just as much to replace it as it cost to install the Dyna.
What's this got to do with computing? Not much, but when I spot a fellow Guzzisti, I *have* to respond. Ummmm, a 1976 LeMans is the equivalent of that old AS400 over in the corner - it just keeps going.
Here's a thought - find a cinema that *doesn't* show all-hollywood stuff. There's plenty of thoughtful films coming from europe and asia - plenty of trash, too, but you can always try reading some online reviews to determine whether you're going to see something clever and funny from france or italy or S.korea, or another ear-piercing bollywood musical rom-com.
Apropos of the discussion - what's *your* idea of an entertaining film? Do you like drama, comedy, thrillers, "true stories", romance, noir, sci-fi, what? Do you just want to go to a cinema and be entertained with eye-and-ear-candy (quite a valid reason to go, cinema is a way of forgetting your worldly woes for a while), or do you want something more challenging, a film that gives you something to think about after you've left the cinema?
Access to the beach legally predates and/or overrides grant of title to property adjacent to the beach. This usually means that local authorities are obliged to provide easements between street and beach, either through a land title, or as a public pathway between two titles. The actual application of this principle is left to your imagination.
Landowners trying to restrict access to public beaches in Australia are welcome to try. Fortunately our beachside councils are sensible that way. There's LOTS of access to most beaches.
Not so much where those local authorities approve 20 and 30-storey apartment blocks adjacent to the beach, thus blocking direct sunlight after lunch. Dickheads. Pure greed destroying one of the fundamental appeals of going to the beach. Who the hell wants a shaded beach when the afternoon onshore starts to blow?
I'm surprised, but not really surprised, that modern commercial shipping doesn't have reliable backup systems - that's what the article seems to imply. I mean, how does a commercial sea-going ship's captain get certified without knowing some basic navigation skills - dead-reckoning, anyone?
Fair enough, dead-reckoning probably wouldn't suffice to avoid collisions in a major shipping channel, but still, you should be able to avoid the dry bits without having to rely on GPS. You can always turn on lots of flashing lights if you've lost communications - someone will come to help.
The $10K reporting requirement has been around for a long time. The bug is that they *stopped* reporting the transactions. Previous to this software update, the transactions were being reported, so the reporting was either deliberately stopped (possible, but unlikely), or the trigger wasn't pulled because some flag wasn't set because Total_A 10,000.00, even though it was.
How does a programmer turn off a process that should have "WARNING - THIS IS REQUIRED BY LAW" written all over the comments?
I bought a RAZR HD in 2013 for ~AUD$700 (outright). It's still got better than a day's battery life for normal use. It's rarely used to play videos or games, mostly it's my pocket computer, for business email and web browsing, occasionally as a hotspot, and occasionally for music.
The one drawback - and it could be seen as a major problem although I haven't experienced anything that interferes with my work - is that the carrier hasn't provided any updates since kitkat. I'm *never* buying a carrier-branded phone again.
That kind of money for a phone over a four-year lifespan is OK by me.
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Well, Office for Mac works.....sort of. I'm sure they'll get the bugs and interoperability worked out Real Soon Now.
has been pushing development of linux partitions on its mid-range and mainframe devices for years.
A bit unlikely, but smart - run your favourite OS as one or more partitions on this high-spec hardware. They still rule the market for high-uptime hardware.... with an appropriate price tag, of course.
Hasn't that been the modus operandi of marketing since, well, forever?
Spend $$$ on advertising, if sales increase then the advertising works.
Except there's very little about that process that's provable. About the only thing I'd trust is exit interviews as customers leave the store (brick-and-mortar, or online).
"How did you hear about us?" is one of the most reliable, and direct sources of information about how someone found out about your product - but the whole marketing industry has been built on unprovable BS based on third-hand information, or as said above, proxy information.
Zoroaster?
electrical grids to switch to McAfee security products.
That's not lame at all. Lame would be if the astronauts engaged in blatant product placement. They don't. Although you can see Thinkpads stashed on the wall/bulkhead in some photos, they're just part of the equipment.
Imagine the collective fanboi orgasm^W^W^W fooforaw IF the Macbook Pro was spotted on the ISS?
I always found that tele-extenders were little more than soft-focus filters.
200mm Nikkor @ f22 with NDx8 + linear polariser on slide film. I should dig it out of the collection one of these days.
I'll have to go read "Footfall" again. They used fission bomb-pumped x-ray lasers to blat the invaders' space craft.
And mplayer/ffmpeg shits on VLC. So what? Some people like Winamp. I like Winamp. I like VLC, too. I also like mplayer and ffmpeg - and they're free, too. I use the tool/s that best suit my needs at the time.
BTW, VLC fails badly when asked to convert formats, it can't cope with damaged AVI indexes, and it's not very efficient at real-time playback of MKV files, so don't go crowing too loudly there.
I just wish the IT program at my kids' school was a bit more....organised.
Currently it's BYOx (Bring Your Own device), where YOU supply the windows/apple laptop. If it meets certain specs, you bring it to school, get a login to the school network, a free copy of Norton (if you didn't already have security software) and a free copy of MS Office.
So I bought her a nice Toshiba Z20t hybrid - a tablet with detachable keyboard. SSD, fantastic battery life with 2 batteries - one in the tablet, another in the keyboard* - and none of the teachers have optimised their lessons for using computers. My daughter's schoolbag has mostly "heavy days" where the weight of textbooks and notebooks exceed 12kg. When some parents started complaining about heavy bags, the next school newsletter had an article from the health department about how to wear heavy backpacks to distribute the weight.
"Why don't you ditch the notebooks and type your notes?"
"They still give us handouts to glue into our notebooks"
"The tablet's got a camera, take a photo of the handout and click 'insert, picture' to attach it to your Word document"
-Shrug- "The teachers want us to have written notes"
This is the 21st century - why aren't the textbooks in e-book format?
*They're not allowed to charge laptops at school. One student in the state experienced a "halt and catch fire" while charging, so now no-one is allowed to charge laptops.
Don't come between me and satay!!!!
You're channelling either Hunter S Thompson or P J O'Rourke, can't quite decide which.
Meat animals are pretty well-rendered. Non-edible parts are sold for leather, fertiliser, fur/wool, animal feed (although potentially dangerous), decoration (horn buttons, bone handles), fat and bone for rendering, etc. They're too valuable to waste.
I like to quote those nutrients at vocal anti-carnivores and watch them squirm. "Supplements" they say. Expensive supplements.
I even mentioned premarin to a vegan once and got a blank stare.
I think it's great that you've overcome an allergy and formed a bond with another creature, even if she does prefer to show you her ass :-) I have yet to conquer seasonal rhinitis (hay fever).
I have children, and they shit me sometimes, but I like them.
My preferred animals at the moment are the magpies and currawongs that visit for food. There's definitely a brief moment in eye contact when I leave some food nearby, and they come to collect it, look at me, and fly off.
Some days I'd prefer to never have to deal with people, but "people" pay me money to fix their problems, so the least I can do is smile. Sometimes I get a cup of tea and a piece of cake, so it's not all bad.
Of course meat consumption is natural, or have you managed to change the dietary habits of some of the planet's apex predators? Try telling that to a shark. Make no mistake, your animal brothers would have no hesitation eating you given the right circumstances, and they *won't* treat you to a humane kill - they'll rip you to pieces.
Why do we have some teeth adapted to tearing meat?
Why do we have a gut that's ideal for an omnivorous diet?
I could go on. We're omnivores.
And, meat tastes great (that's "good"), and it has concentrated nutrients - many calories/protein/micronutrients in a small volume. Many vegetables taste great, too, and some have high-ish concentrations of nutrients - I like meat *and* veg, and enjoy both.
Are the proteins, fats, and carbohydrates synthesized one-by-one and blended into soup? Or are cells artificially stimulated to reproduce like regular cells to grow, reproduce, and create muscle meat (or organ meat, if that's your thing. Personally, I'll eat lamb liver or kidney once every 5 years, and enjoy it - but no more frequently than that).
Sterile, from merriam-webster:
"free from living organisms and especially pathogenic microorganisms".
I think your lab meat isn't sterile under the first part of that definition. It might be sanitary, as another poster said, but it ain't sterile.
And if it ain't sterile, consider this: a cell undergoing mitosis can have errors in DNA replication (I sound like Tyrell from Blade Runner). That means your lab-grown meat can yield a product that isn't 100% beef as we understand it. That's not really a problem at the moment because the beef in your t-bone steak probably has some faulty DNA in it.
But that's generally taken care of by the cattle's own systems - a foetus so faulty that it's not "beef" will be miscarried, and a foetus that's faulty but viable will probably end up on your dinner table some time in the future. What kind of expensive quality-control systems will guarantee your lab-grown beef is beef, and not near-beef, or mostly-beef? How will mildly-mutated meat - that hasn't been moderated by an actual cow - affect you when you consume it? Faulty DNA is dealt with by the animal that gestates it. Each cow moderates and deals with its own offspring - producing billions of tons of meat products, but each 250-1000 kilos is "checked" by its mother. What level of testing, moderating (and cancelling if necessary) will be performed once producers realise that vast vats of meat can be produced much more efficiently than ol' bessie can manage?
You should talk to an ex of mine.
"Not a maternal bone in my body", but she always had a pet dog, and then she ended up breeding horses.
Seriously - one pet died, and she had another within days.
Well, as the owner of a 41-year-old LeMans, it still "gives me the horn" despite a lack of electronic aids*. It's not fuel-injected, it has no anti-lock brakes, mechanical suspension adjustment, hand-wave accuracy from the instruments, etc. It'll never achieve emissions standards, but it still draws attention, and it. just.keeps.going. It continues to do the job it was designed for - a reliable, fairly fast sports tourer.
*I caved in and installed an electronic igition system when I just couldn't tune it anymore - the various parts of the points system were too worn to get the timing right, and it would have cost just as much to replace it as it cost to install the Dyna.
What's this got to do with computing? Not much, but when I spot a fellow Guzzisti, I *have* to respond. Ummmm, a 1976 LeMans is the equivalent of that old AS400 over in the corner - it just keeps going.
Here's a thought - find a cinema that *doesn't* show all-hollywood stuff. There's plenty of thoughtful films coming from europe and asia - plenty of trash, too, but you can always try reading some online reviews to determine whether you're going to see something clever and funny from france or italy or S.korea, or another ear-piercing bollywood musical rom-com.
Apropos of the discussion - what's *your* idea of an entertaining film? Do you like drama, comedy, thrillers, "true stories", romance, noir, sci-fi, what? Do you just want to go to a cinema and be entertained with eye-and-ear-candy (quite a valid reason to go, cinema is a way of forgetting your worldly woes for a while), or do you want something more challenging, a film that gives you something to think about after you've left the cinema?
Access to the beach legally predates and/or overrides grant of title to property adjacent to the beach. This usually means that local authorities are obliged to provide easements between street and beach, either through a land title, or as a public pathway between two titles. The actual application of this principle is left to your imagination.
Landowners trying to restrict access to public beaches in Australia are welcome to try. Fortunately our beachside councils are sensible that way. There's LOTS of access to most beaches.
Not so much where those local authorities approve 20 and 30-storey apartment blocks adjacent to the beach, thus blocking direct sunlight after lunch. Dickheads. Pure greed destroying one of the fundamental appeals of going to the beach. Who the hell wants a shaded beach when the afternoon onshore starts to blow?
I'm surprised, but not really surprised, that modern commercial shipping doesn't have reliable backup systems - that's what the article seems to imply. I mean, how does a commercial sea-going ship's captain get certified without knowing some basic navigation skills - dead-reckoning, anyone?
Fair enough, dead-reckoning probably wouldn't suffice to avoid collisions in a major shipping channel, but still, you should be able to avoid the dry bits without having to rely on GPS. You can always turn on lots of flashing lights if you've lost communications - someone will come to help.
The $10K reporting requirement has been around for a long time. The bug is that they *stopped* reporting the transactions. Previous to this software update, the transactions were being reported, so the reporting was either deliberately stopped (possible, but unlikely), or the trigger wasn't pulled because some flag wasn't set because Total_A 10,000.00, even though it was.
How does a programmer turn off a process that should have "WARNING - THIS IS REQUIRED BY LAW" written all over the comments?
Nope.
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Queensland, Sunshine Coast Hinterland.
I bought a RAZR HD in 2013 for ~AUD$700 (outright). It's still got better than a day's battery life for normal use. It's rarely used to play videos or games, mostly it's my pocket computer, for business email and web browsing, occasionally as a hotspot, and occasionally for music.
The one drawback - and it could be seen as a major problem although I haven't experienced anything that interferes with my work - is that the carrier hasn't provided any updates since kitkat. I'm *never* buying a carrier-branded phone again.
That kind of money for a phone over a four-year lifespan is OK by me.