You're sure that those are modems, and not Winmodems?
Absolutely sure they are not. They were all used on Linux boxes.
I forgot about those. But now I remember accidentally buying one once, mainly because the packaging did not state it was a Winmodem.
Unfortunately this is the internet and it's very hard to tell what "tone" someone is using in their written text. But frankly I'd rather have the tone of a post misconstrued than to make the assumptions that you seem to have of me, let alone to resort to name calling.
Sometimes accidents like this happen and it's no ones fault. What I am sick of is all of the government regulation that seems to be there so that kids cannot ever get hurt. If you look at what goes on today you'd think it's practically a miracle that previous generations made it to adulthood. If we keep removing everything from the market every time a freak accident occurs, eventually our children will end up living in a 0 g rubber room. This is what truly pisses me off. I have no idea how the parents of these kids must feel, and I hope that I never do. My heart truly goes out to them.
My wife and I were considerably older than all of our friends were when we became parents, so I'm sure I was an over protective parent initially. And only having one certainly makes a difference. Most of our friend kids have graduated high school, or college by now. Fortunately early on I came to the realization that my daughter was fearless due to never really getting hurt. So my wife and I let her do things that would scrape her knee, or other minor cuts and scrapes. We also explained dangerous things to her early on, so she has always come to us when she finds something she does not know about. Sorry no inspections or leashes. But thanks for the additional insults about my parenting skills.
1. That somebody in a lab figured out a way to make a cell 15% more efficient doesn't mean it's going to be manufactured tomorrow.
2. 15% more efficient means "15% more efficient than what we started with". This means "We took a cell that coverts 15% of the Sun's energy into electricity and made it covert 17.5%", not 30% as people seem to expect.
3. Marketing types and news agencies intentionally phrase their statements to make it sound like the increase is 30%. Or even worse don't understand what the engineers have told them. For example, I understand that you meant 15% of the energy from the sun that contacts the panel is converted into electricity. However what you stated was:""We took a cell that coverts 15% of the Sun's energy into electricity". For this to be true, you'd probably need to construct a Dyson's sphere.
Or someone who's about to mysteriously come into a lot of money.
"Bribery!" is the geek's shout-out to any legal decision he doesn't like.
If it is not the judge who was bribed, it was the jury. If it was not the judge or the jury, it was the lawyers. If it was not the lawyers. it was the lawmakers.
First of all let me make it clear. I don't give a rats ass about this case! I was never a fan of WordPerfect and this case is so old it's ridiculous. Novell will never regain its place in the word processing market. Frankly I think it's disgusting that this case hasn't been concluded long ago.
"Bribery!" is not only "the geek's shout-out". It's used by all manner of people in the world. Do you know why? Because it's so fucking common! Hell the US government has practically legalized it and now calls it a campaign donation.
Yeah, because there's nothing at all wrong with eugenics...
There's one hell of a difference between offering something for free and it being compulsory. I find it highly unlikely that the mentioned charity is using its funding to forcibly sterilize anyone. Just like the salvation army does not force anyone to accept donated clothing, food or toys.
I'm all for parental responsibility, and yes there are many times when a parent should be supervising a child; but really there have to be some activities that at least require a more passive form of supervision or nothing will ever get done. Surely playing with the child's own toys should be one of those times?
From the summary, "Braden Eberle, 4, swallowed two tiny magnets from his older brother's construction kit on two successive days last spring and his mother's first reaction was that the magnet would pass through her son's system without a problem. "
I certainly agree with you that passive supervision should be all that is required when a child is playing with their own age appropriate toys, in a "baby-proofed area". But if you plan on only passive supervision then you also have the responsibility to make sure the child does not have access to non-age appropriate items as well. In this case the child got a hold of his older brothers toys, on two separate occasions I might add. As a good parent you should also be reasonably versed on what is and isn't safe to eat. My daughter is 8 years old and I've known for longer than that, that there is a danger in swallowing powerful magnets.
The problem: key members of the House Judiciary Committee still don't understand how the internet works, and worse yet, it's not clear whether they even want to."
And does anyone find this to be surprising? I'm not sure more than a handful of congressmen know how to do anything but accept donations and campaign for re-election
I think you're suggesting the only way we could have these things is if DARPA comes up with them. There's some history behind you, but, seriously, peaceful civilian tech doesn't have to originate with the military.
Cars, aircraft, and wireless communications all originated outside the military. Wars are the worst possible reason for government funding of tech improvements.
Unfortunately the private sector seems to find it harder and harder to see past the next quarters numbers. I agree that the worst reason to invent something is for carrying out a war. But much of what DARPA does would not be viable for the private sector. GPS comes to mind. We probably would not be on Slashdot either, if not for the military wanting to connect the Pentagon to SAC and Cheyenne mountain. I think DARPA's role is not so much to make killing more efficient as to make it scarier for enemies of the US to mount an attack. Of course the down side is when that tech gets used for first strikes.
micronauts (a toy that must have been an attempt to put as many choking hazards on one figure as possible,
I had those too. Most of them came with spring loaded guns that shot all kinds of projectiles too. I remember several with projectiles that had very large & heavy rubber ends. Naturally these had very heavy duty springs in the guns. When you took the rubber end off you could still shoot the very light thin plastic part that now had enough velocity to embed itself in drywall from 10+ feet away.
Third, resolution is poorer so you can miss small vessels and especially small occlusions.
True, but most cath labs still have single plane flouroscopes, so depending on how symmetric (or not) a stenosis is, you may not even see it. Besides if you have an occlusion, it's going to be pretty hard to miss as no contrast is going to go through.
Fourth, CT angio has a higher x-ray dose than x-ray angio. Significantly higher. As in, you hesitate to do it on young people.
You'd be more likely to do a CTA on a child initially than a cath. Ideally you'd put them in a magnet unless there were too many devices immplanted already.
The next couple of years are going to be very interesting in cardiac imaging as the high slice CT scanners and high field magnets make new advances. There's a company in Japan (I don't recall their name) that is developing a 32 channel coil for doing MRA in 3T magnets and are getting better images than any CTA data that I've seen to date.
How did you come up with that 1000:1 figure exactly?
By your thinking, I guess we should just send our troops to war with no training and a $5 ax from Walmart. Then a 1:40 kill ratio will make it financially viable when they come up against,"someone eating rice or falafel who cost all of $200 to train and equip"
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You give these mice that growth of musculature, something's going to take a beating
Yeah, any unaltered mice are going to take a beating for sure.
That wasn't a comet it was Kirk and company in a Klingon Bird-of-Prey trying to get back to the 23rd century.
Those thieving bastards just took off with a pair of my whales too. -Ismael
You're sure that those are modems, and not Winmodems?
Absolutely sure they are not. They were all used on Linux boxes. I forgot about those. But now I remember accidentally buying one once, mainly because the packaging did not state it was a Winmodem.
Who still has a modem thats capable of dial-up????
I have a couple in a box somewhere in my parts closet. I'd probably have to dig out a motherboard with ISA slots to use some of them though.
Unfortunately this is the internet and it's very hard to tell what "tone" someone is using in their written text. But frankly I'd rather have the tone of a post misconstrued than to make the assumptions that you seem to have of me, let alone to resort to name calling.
Sometimes accidents like this happen and it's no ones fault. What I am sick of is all of the government regulation that seems to be there so that kids cannot ever get hurt. If you look at what goes on today you'd think it's practically a miracle that previous generations made it to adulthood. If we keep removing everything from the market every time a freak accident occurs, eventually our children will end up living in a 0 g rubber room. This is what truly pisses me off. I have no idea how the parents of these kids must feel, and I hope that I never do. My heart truly goes out to them.
My wife and I were considerably older than all of our friends were when we became parents, so I'm sure I was an over protective parent initially. And only having one certainly makes a difference. Most of our friend kids have graduated high school, or college by now. Fortunately early on I came to the realization that my daughter was fearless due to never really getting hurt. So my wife and I let her do things that would scrape her knee, or other minor cuts and scrapes. We also explained dangerous things to her early on, so she has always come to us when she finds something she does not know about. Sorry no inspections or leashes. But thanks for the additional insults about my parenting skills.
Sure they do.
There are two problems though:
1. That somebody in a lab figured out a way to make a cell 15% more efficient doesn't mean it's going to be manufactured tomorrow.
2. 15% more efficient means "15% more efficient than what we started with". This means "We took a cell that coverts 15% of the Sun's energy into electricity and made it covert 17.5%", not 30% as people seem to expect.
3. Marketing types and news agencies intentionally phrase their statements to make it sound like the increase is 30%. Or even worse don't understand what the engineers have told them. For example, I understand that you meant 15% of the energy from the sun that contacts the panel is converted into electricity. However what you stated was:""We took a cell that coverts 15% of the Sun's energy into electricity". For this to be true, you'd probably need to construct a Dyson's sphere.
Or someone who's about to mysteriously come into a lot of money.
"Bribery!" is the geek's shout-out to any legal decision he doesn't like.
If it is not the judge who was bribed, it was the jury. If it was not the judge or the jury, it was the lawyers. If it was not the lawyers. it was the lawmakers.
First of all let me make it clear. I don't give a rats ass about this case! I was never a fan of WordPerfect and this case is so old it's ridiculous. Novell will never regain its place in the word processing market. Frankly I think it's disgusting that this case hasn't been concluded long ago.
"Bribery!" is not only "the geek's shout-out". It's used by all manner of people in the world. Do you know why? Because it's so fucking common! Hell the US government has practically legalized it and now calls it a campaign donation.
Yeah, because there's nothing at all wrong with eugenics...
There's one hell of a difference between offering something for free and it being compulsory. I find it highly unlikely that the mentioned charity is using its funding to forcibly sterilize anyone. Just like the salvation army does not force anyone to accept donated clothing, food or toys.
I'm all for parental responsibility, and yes there are many times when a parent should be supervising a child; but really there have to be some activities that at least require a more passive form of supervision or nothing will ever get done. Surely playing with the child's own toys should be one of those times?
From the summary, "Braden Eberle, 4, swallowed two tiny magnets from his older brother's construction kit on two successive days last spring and his mother's first reaction was that the magnet would pass through her son's system without a problem. "
I certainly agree with you that passive supervision should be all that is required when a child is playing with their own age appropriate toys, in a "baby-proofed area". But if you plan on only passive supervision then you also have the responsibility to make sure the child does not have access to non-age appropriate items as well. In this case the child got a hold of his older brothers toys, on two separate occasions I might add. As a good parent you should also be reasonably versed on what is and isn't safe to eat. My daughter is 8 years old and I've known for longer than that, that there is a danger in swallowing powerful magnets.
and it sounds like one guy held up the whole thing. It was an 11-1 vote AGAINST Microsoft. Sounds like we spotted a fanboy!
Or someone who's about to mysteriously come into a lot of money.
The problem: key members of the House Judiciary Committee still don't understand how the internet works, and worse yet, it's not clear whether they even want to."
And does anyone find this to be surprising? I'm not sure more than a handful of congressmen know how to do anything but accept donations and campaign for re-election
I think you're suggesting the only way we could have these things is if DARPA comes up with them. There's some history behind you, but, seriously, peaceful civilian tech doesn't have to originate with the military.
Cars, aircraft, and wireless communications all originated outside the military. Wars are the worst possible reason for government funding of tech improvements.
Unfortunately the private sector seems to find it harder and harder to see past the next quarters numbers. I agree that the worst reason to invent something is for carrying out a war. But much of what DARPA does would not be viable for the private sector. GPS comes to mind. We probably would not be on Slashdot either, if not for the military wanting to connect the Pentagon to SAC and Cheyenne mountain. I think DARPA's role is not so much to make killing more efficient as to make it scarier for enemies of the US to mount an attack. Of course the down side is when that tech gets used for first strikes.
micronauts (a toy that must have been an attempt to put as many choking hazards on one figure as possible,
I had those too. Most of them came with spring loaded guns that shot all kinds of projectiles too. I remember several with projectiles that had very large & heavy rubber ends. Naturally these had very heavy duty springs in the guns. When you took the rubber end off you could still shoot the very light thin plastic part that now had enough velocity to embed itself in drywall from 10+ feet away.
I can't decide if this is funny, sad, or both.
Or simply remove the HD and wipe if from an external enclosure.
"I want see the same story from the army point of view."
In theaters this summer, Cloverfield: Blue Shift.
Is Greenpeace against computers now too?
True, but most cath labs still have single plane flouroscopes, so depending on how symmetric (or not) a stenosis is, you may not even see it. Besides if you have an occlusion, it's going to be pretty hard to miss as no contrast is going to go through.
Fourth, CT angio has a higher x-ray dose than x-ray angio. Significantly higher. As in, you hesitate to do it on young people.
You'd be more likely to do a CTA on a child initially than a cath. Ideally you'd put them in a magnet unless there were too many devices immplanted already. The next couple of years are going to be very interesting in cardiac imaging as the high slice CT scanners and high field magnets make new advances. There's a company in Japan (I don't recall their name) that is developing a 32 channel coil for doing MRA in 3T magnets and are getting better images than any CTA data that I've seen to date.
How did you come up with that 1000:1 figure exactly? By your thinking, I guess we should just send our troops to war with no training and a $5 ax from Walmart. Then a 1:40 kill ratio will make it financially viable when they come up against,"someone eating rice or falafel who cost all of $200 to train and equip"