If there is not a sensible option available, demand that your vendor make a version that can be sensibly updated. Too many purchasing decisions just don't have any sensible criteria.
Yeah, that sounds great when you say it, but here in the real world it doesn't work that way. Not that I disagree with you in principle, though.
I work in the medical industry and can tell you for a fact that there are still a few systems running Windows NT. Granted they are firewalled off and locked down as best as possible. Lots of XP systems too, and I would guess that the vast majority of systems in hospitals are on Win 7 still.
Here's the issue. In the case of MRI scanners there are only 3 vendors for really advanced imaging, there are 5 realistic options if you are willing to lower your standards or don't want to do cutting edge work. In CT there are 2 options for the best scanners, and only 4 if you are willing to make compromises. Unless you can get a sizable number of hospital systems to band together to demand this, you will go bankrupt trying to do as you suggested. There is one vendor that uses Linux for their scanner console, but they've had a lot of quality issues in the past, and until recently have had a lot of limitations.
Additionally it will cost the scanner vendors hundreds of million dollars to do this, and probably years to implement it. The FDA approvals take time.
No kidding. most of the modern scanners can do a full rotation in under half a second.
Currently, you can get 320-slice scanners.
Actually I saw one of the newer Toshiba scanners a few months ago. They have a couple models that are 640 slice. With the speed that the table can move through one of those, I can see how a conveyor belt could move luggage through something like that a very fast rate.
Unfortunately, metal artifacts are still an issue. But the software has improved greatly to clean this up. But I doubt the TSA has a 3D lab full of techs post processing this stuff either.
With a Blockbuster sign in the background, you have to go to Oregon, or Brazil, or Australia...
I was in Iowa a couple months ago and was shocked to see a Blockbuster there. I was going to stop at it on my way back to my hotel, but found out it was closed. I'm guessing that there are many locations that closed but still have the sign and storefront intact.
Seriously, what was NASA thinking? You don't send two Vikings somewhere and expect them to not kill and plunder. Since there's nothing to plunder on Mars, it kind of narrows their options for things to do.
Dr. Seuss would have been my preference when I was 5 and into children's fantasies. Nothing against Steve Ditko or Stan Lee who certainly created colorful and magical dream worlds. But by the time I was 12, I left all that behind. Heroism that depends on magic doesn't seem heroic to me when there are real human heroes who have no supernatural advantages. I don't understand why an adult would continue to devote time and energy to such foolishness.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
I'm betting you wouldn't have the guts to tell someone living in the poorest parts of Africa or Asia that the food they have to scramble to get to literally keep their kids from starving to death will cost twice as much because you want to virtue signal and outlaw the use of fossil fuels.
I'm betting they do. How many people die from Malaria in Africa? That's not stopping many from trying to ban DDT worldwide.
Somebody needs to come up with a new concept for the space/future of humanity story type. Something grittier and dirtier than Trek and less fairy princessy than Wars. Something with less hopefulness and more brutality.
I guess you missed the Battlestar Galactica remake.
From what I could tell from the previews and have heard second hand, it's like Trek Continues. Except it has a lot more and better CGI, a bigger budget, nonsensical plot devices, maybe a bit better acting, worse stories, ignores a lot of Trek canon, and isn't made by people who actually enjoy Star Trek.
Are the Japanese alright with the US raising and converting the Yamato for space travel? And don't we need to go to Mars to get the plans for the wave motion engine first?
but at least they still basically work unlike a Dell or other PC laptop.
WTF. I just updated my Dell branded work laptop after 5 years. I would have kept using it but needed more video RAM. It had 2 GB. My new dell has 8GB of video RAM. I expect to get at least 5 years out of it.
My old laptop still worked fine and had whatever the high end i7 was at the time with 20GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD and a 2TB spinning drive. It has some small dents in the outside metal case and the battery needs to be replaced. But otherwise it's still a pretty fast laptop. Granted, it's not small like a Mac, but I needed a 17 inch screen, so Mac wasn't even an option for me.
That would be perfect in the perfect world, but the regulations are not linear or even close to being uniform. The regulations do not care about the miles per gallon, they only go by how much emissions come out of burning a regulated amount of fuel. This process harms small cars compared to large diesel trucks, because it assumes both vehicles would get the same mileage.
A v8 turbodiesel dually gets 12mpg and puts out 250 grams of pollution per liter of fuel burned. A 4 cylinder putting out 251 grams per liter while getting 4 times the mpg (48mpg vs 12) is "cheating".
If we figure the pollution if both vehicles drove 48 miles....
So essentially the regulations don't care that the V8 turbo diesel trucks pollute 1,000 grams on the same drive that the VW would pollute 251 grams. I. E. The truck gets a free pass to pollute 4 times as much while calling rhe VW a "cheater".
Suuuuuurrreee. But really, fix the regulations.
You forgot to factor in the amount of mass moved in that distance. What if that V8 turbo diesel is in a bus that is carrying 100 passengers? Or a truck that is hauling 50 tons of some product? How many more trips will that 4 cylinder VW need to make to do the same? Basically it can carry 4 people plus a driver. So it would need to make 25 trips to move the same number of people as the bus. I'll be generous and say you can haul half a ton in the VW. That's 100 trips to haul what the truck did. In either case, the milage per gallon is also going to drop in the VW as well.
The Switch version of Fortnite will only support cross-play with Xbox One, PC, Mac, and mobile.
What a strange way to word that. it will "only" work with everything but PS4.
The Verge reports:
That aligns with past cross-play implementations between Xbox One, PS4, PC, and mobile,
So did the PS4 used to work with Xbox One, PC, and Mobile?
with Sony blocking other console platforms from playing with its own. You can cross-play between PS4, mobile, and PC.
Wait, no. Sony won't work with any other consoles. But it still works with PC and mobile.
I don't even want to RTFA as it might say that it will work with NES, Atari 2600, Magnavox Odyssey and Ms. Pacman. And if you sacrifice a goat during a blue super moon it will also work with Duesenberg cars, the original Eli Whitney cotton gin, and any abacus built before 1874.
The car horn is probably the worst invention of all time. It's supposed to be used in emergencies-
This is somewhat state dependent. I just did some looking. In Virginia, New Jersey, and Rhode Island legally you are supposed to honk your horn before passing someone.
The car horn is probably the worst invention of all time. It's supposed to be used in emergencies-
No it's not. It's meant to get someones attention. I don't recall which state, but within the last couple decades they still had it on the books that you were required to honk your horn when approaching a Y in the road to make sure everyone else knew you were approaching.
but what it's really used for is a way to make your car say expletives. I suspect the car horn has killed more people (by startling them and making them crash) than it has saved lives.
Ten years ago I probably would have agreed with you. But in the last 2 or so years the only thing I've used my horn for has been to get the person ahead of me to look up from their phone to move because the light turned green.
In my case, I'm going to have to say the horn has saved lives. Because if I didn't have a horn, I would have had to get out of my car to get them to move. At that point, it would have been a public service to beat them to death.
Doesn't seem likely. Mars was the best option and it's not panning out. Europa is about the only other option but that's a slim chance. Given we are not leaving the solar system, ever, it doesn't seem likely ANYBODY will discover life on another planet... We are marooned here for the duration of our survival, which will be either until we destroy ourselves, or the Sun takes care of it as it expands and fries earth to a crisp before the end of 5 billion more years.
Uncompromised performance (of course); improved connectivity with 5G on the horizon; a dramatic increase in battery life; developing more adaptable platforms that go beyond 2-in-1s and convertibles; and a push towards more intelligent machines with AI and machine learning integration.
Uncompromised performance (of course) and a dramatic increase in battery life typically don't go together well. Granted, they can get better battery life, but it generally means that at least some compromise in performance is needed.
Still, most of this just sounds like a long winded way of saying they want to get into the mobile phone market. Better battery performance- check, 5G connectivity- check, AI blah blah, Siri, Google voice, etc- check. More adaptable platforms, phones are getting pretty powerful these days. I can certainly foresee the possibility of being able to wireless connect them to a keyboard mouse and monitor. Actually it may evolve into a device that you wear/implant that contains your stored files and setup preferences and a phone works as a handheld interface, or you can interface it with a wireless KVM. Or your home entertainment system. If there were some type of standard interface it would start making upgrades less painful too.
First the NOAA satellite has a cooling issue and not gas that's contributing to global warming is being pumped into the atmosphere. We better get Charlie Sheen to Arecibo.
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If there is not a sensible option available, demand that your vendor make a version that can be sensibly updated. Too many purchasing decisions just don't have any sensible criteria.
Yeah, that sounds great when you say it, but here in the real world it doesn't work that way. Not that I disagree with you in principle, though.
I work in the medical industry and can tell you for a fact that there are still a few systems running Windows NT. Granted they are firewalled off and locked down as best as possible. Lots of XP systems too, and I would guess that the vast majority of systems in hospitals are on Win 7 still.
Here's the issue. In the case of MRI scanners there are only 3 vendors for really advanced imaging, there are 5 realistic options if you are willing to lower your standards or don't want to do cutting edge work. In CT there are 2 options for the best scanners, and only 4 if you are willing to make compromises. Unless you can get a sizable number of hospital systems to band together to demand this, you will go bankrupt trying to do as you suggested. There is one vendor that uses Linux for their scanner console, but they've had a lot of quality issues in the past, and until recently have had a lot of limitations. Additionally it will cost the scanner vendors hundreds of million dollars to do this, and probably years to implement it. The FDA approvals take time.
They don't move slowly any more.
No kidding. most of the modern scanners can do a full rotation in under half a second.
Currently, you can get 320-slice scanners.
Actually I saw one of the newer Toshiba scanners a few months ago. They have a couple models that are 640 slice. With the speed that the table can move through one of those, I can see how a conveyor belt could move luggage through something like that a very fast rate.
Unfortunately, metal artifacts are still an issue. But the software has improved greatly to clean this up. But I doubt the TSA has a 3D lab full of techs post processing this stuff either.
a seriously impressive feat.
Or an impossible mission?
If you choose to accept it.
With a Blockbuster sign in the background, you have to go to Oregon, or Brazil, or Australia...
I was in Iowa a couple months ago and was shocked to see a Blockbuster there. I was going to stop at it on my way back to my hotel, but found out it was closed. I'm guessing that there are many locations that closed but still have the sign and storefront intact.
Seriously, what was NASA thinking? You don't send two Vikings somewhere and expect them to not kill and plunder. Since there's nothing to plunder on Mars, it kind of narrows their options for things to do.
Dr. Seuss would have been my preference when I was 5 and into children's fantasies. Nothing against Steve Ditko or Stan Lee who certainly created colorful and magical dream worlds. But by the time I was 12, I left all that behind. Heroism that depends on magic doesn't seem heroic to me when there are real human heroes who have no supernatural advantages. I don't understand why an adult would continue to devote time and energy to such foolishness.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
-George Bernard Shaw
I'm betting you wouldn't have the guts to tell someone living in the poorest parts of Africa or Asia that the food they have to scramble to get to literally keep their kids from starving to death will cost twice as much because you want to virtue signal and outlaw the use of fossil fuels.
I'm betting they do. How many people die from Malaria in Africa? That's not stopping many from trying to ban DDT worldwide.
Somebody needs to come up with a new concept for the space/future of humanity story type. Something grittier and dirtier than Trek and less fairy princessy than Wars. Something with less hopefulness and more brutality.
I guess you missed the Battlestar Galactica remake.
One more thing with a bright blue LED that I'll have to unplug or cover up.
What's Discovery even like;
From what I could tell from the previews and have heard second hand, it's like Trek Continues. Except it has a lot more and better CGI, a bigger budget, nonsensical plot devices, maybe a bit better acting, worse stories, ignores a lot of Trek canon, and isn't made by people who actually enjoy Star Trek.
I'll just leave this, here for you.
You can also put people into space from Florida. I believe we may have done so once or twice already.
Not in the last 7 years.
Are the Japanese alright with the US raising and converting the Yamato for space travel? And don't we need to go to Mars to get the plans for the wave motion engine first?
Sorry, I did the math.. 82 84 = 7 Ãf-- 12 So maybe "almost 12 weeks" would've worked better here.
I think he's using metric weeks. ;)
I think eating concrete is a bit beyond rodents capabilities at least.
Yeah, not so much.
but at least they still basically work unlike a Dell or other PC laptop.
WTF. I just updated my Dell branded work laptop after 5 years. I would have kept using it but needed more video RAM. It had 2 GB. My new dell has 8GB of video RAM. I expect to get at least 5 years out of it.
My old laptop still worked fine and had whatever the high end i7 was at the time with 20GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD and a 2TB spinning drive. It has some small dents in the outside metal case and the battery needs to be replaced. But otherwise it's still a pretty fast laptop. Granted, it's not small like a Mac, but I needed a 17 inch screen, so Mac wasn't even an option for me.
That would be perfect in the perfect world, but the regulations are not linear or even close to being uniform. The regulations do not care about the miles per gallon, they only go by how much emissions come out of burning a regulated amount of fuel. This process harms small cars compared to large diesel trucks, because it assumes both vehicles would get the same mileage.
A v8 turbodiesel dually gets 12mpg and puts out 250 grams of pollution per liter of fuel burned. A 4 cylinder putting out 251 grams per liter while getting 4 times the mpg (48mpg vs 12) is "cheating".
If we figure the pollution if both vehicles drove 48 miles....
Truck: (48 / 12) * 250 = 1000 grams of pollution.
4 cylinder vw: (48 / 48) * 251 = 251 grams of pollution...
So essentially the regulations don't care that the V8 turbo diesel trucks pollute 1,000 grams on the same drive that the VW would pollute 251 grams. I. E. The truck gets a free pass to pollute 4 times as much while calling rhe VW a "cheater".
Suuuuuurrreee. But really, fix the regulations.
You forgot to factor in the amount of mass moved in that distance. What if that V8 turbo diesel is in a bus that is carrying 100 passengers? Or a truck that is hauling 50 tons of some product? How many more trips will that 4 cylinder VW need to make to do the same? Basically it can carry 4 people plus a driver. So it would need to make 25 trips to move the same number of people as the bus. I'll be generous and say you can haul half a ton in the VW. That's 100 trips to haul what the truck did. In either case, the milage per gallon is also going to drop in the VW as well.
The Switch version of Fortnite will only support cross-play with Xbox One, PC, Mac, and mobile.
What a strange way to word that. it will "only" work with everything but PS4.
The Verge reports: That aligns with past cross-play implementations between Xbox One, PS4, PC, and mobile,
So did the PS4 used to work with Xbox One, PC, and Mobile?
with Sony blocking other console platforms from playing with its own. You can cross-play between PS4, mobile, and PC.
Wait, no. Sony won't work with any other consoles. But it still works with PC and mobile.
I don't even want to RTFA as it might say that it will work with NES, Atari 2600, Magnavox Odyssey and Ms. Pacman. And if you sacrifice a goat during a blue super moon it will also work with Duesenberg cars, the original Eli Whitney cotton gin, and any abacus built before 1874.
The car horn is probably the worst invention of all time. It's supposed to be used in emergencies-
This is somewhat state dependent. I just did some looking. In Virginia, New Jersey, and Rhode Island legally you are supposed to honk your horn before passing someone.
The car horn is probably the worst invention of all time. It's supposed to be used in emergencies-
No it's not. It's meant to get someones attention. I don't recall which state, but within the last couple decades they still had it on the books that you were required to honk your horn when approaching a Y in the road to make sure everyone else knew you were approaching.
but what it's really used for is a way to make your car say expletives. I suspect the car horn has killed more people (by startling them and making them crash) than it has saved lives.
Ten years ago I probably would have agreed with you. But in the last 2 or so years the only thing I've used my horn for has been to get the person ahead of me to look up from their phone to move because the light turned green.
In my case, I'm going to have to say the horn has saved lives. Because if I didn't have a horn, I would have had to get out of my car to get them to move. At that point, it would have been a public service to beat them to death.
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Aren't those made in Scotland?
Doesn't seem likely. Mars was the best option and it's not panning out. Europa is about the only other option but that's a slim chance. Given we are not leaving the solar system, ever, it doesn't seem likely ANYBODY will discover life on another planet... We are marooned here for the duration of our survival, which will be either until we destroy ourselves, or the Sun takes care of it as it expands and fries earth to a crisp before the end of 5 billion more years.
You're just a ray of sunshine aren't you? ;-)
NOPE!
Verizon should use that in their commercials. "Can you hear me now? Hello! Anyone there? Oh, it's a Comcast number."
Uncompromised performance (of course); improved connectivity with 5G on the horizon; a dramatic increase in battery life; developing more adaptable platforms that go beyond 2-in-1s and convertibles; and a push towards more intelligent machines with AI and machine learning integration.
Uncompromised performance (of course) and a dramatic increase in battery life typically don't go together well. Granted, they can get better battery life, but it generally means that at least some compromise in performance is needed.
Still, most of this just sounds like a long winded way of saying they want to get into the mobile phone market. Better battery performance- check, 5G connectivity- check, AI blah blah, Siri, Google voice, etc- check. More adaptable platforms, phones are getting pretty powerful these days. I can certainly foresee the possibility of being able to wireless connect them to a keyboard mouse and monitor. Actually it may evolve into a device that you wear/implant that contains your stored files and setup preferences and a phone works as a handheld interface, or you can interface it with a wireless KVM. Or your home entertainment system. If there were some type of standard interface it would start making upgrades less painful too.
First the NOAA satellite has a cooling issue and not gas that's contributing to global warming is being pumped into the atmosphere. We better get Charlie Sheen to Arecibo.