I read all the way to the end hoping to get to the nymphomaniac fembot or the cloned and imprinted sex-kitten
And unfortunately, due to U.N. restrictions on human-derived cell lines (plus predilections of certain Japanese otaku scientists), your sex-kittens are literally derived from engineered Felis catus genetic material.
I absolutely will not buy a phone or tablet that does not have an SD slot.
Same here. Unlike a Tower-case PC, you can't future-proof a phone by upgrading components, but at least the microSD card can be upgraded. My old HTC Touch shipped with a 512MB card, but by retirement time was up to 4GB.
Nokia's patents may be purchasable, but buying the entire company would be a huge investment for Apple, one which would provide hardly any value outside of the patent portfolio - Nokia's products, philosophy, almost everything are completely orthogonal to Apple's. This is a terrible idea.
Switch Apple & Nokia with Google & Motorola. Patent Wars are making companies do crazy things.
The firm has made a tunable, steerable RF antenna using micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) which it says will change all that.
IANAE (I am not an Engineer), but looking at the picture in the article, is that little speck the actual antenna, or are they talking about developing some new antenna sub-component? I mean, can something that small intercept a reasonable amount of power flux?
I certainly can't find that part of the summary about saving money. A lifetime of constant care for someone with a head injury is going to be very expensive.
I just recently rotated through a long-term care unit. The burden related to cardiovascular disease, type-II diabetes, and metabolic-syndrome conditions is absolutely staggering. For each traumatic brain injury, there are literally hundreds of non-TBI patients who require long-term care because they're too debilitated by their chronic condition to care for themselves, and lifestyle-related risks are inflating that numbers dramatically.
Now, ideally we'd all be fit and healthy because we're exercising and wearing our helmets. But practically that's not going to happen, so the whole point of the article is that we'd do better with "The perfect is the enemy of the good" trade-off (article suggests and 20-1 risk trade-off).
Most Americans have never ridden a proper bicycle with smooth tires and geometry designed to go more than five miles.
I think it stems from our tendency to hero-worship athletes and treat bicycling as a sport rather than a practical method of transport (or worse, some kind of penance to the gods of Fitness). Back in the 70's-80's, professional cyclists rode hunched-over on racing bikes, equipped with skinny tires and finicky non-indexed shifters -- so that's what was popular. Later, when BMXers and mountain bikes were all the rage on the X-sports programs, that's what the mass market blindly started following (and they're an improvement on racing bikes, but the short gearing and high resistance still makes them awful for transportation).
Since we don't see our heroes riding them on TV, practical design features that make a bike functional as transportation, are instead considered dorky and uncool. Features like fenders and chain guard that allow you to ride without soiling your clothes (vital in rainy climates). Internally-geared hub (which are slightly less mechanically efficient than a well-maintained derailleur, but how many casual cyclists keep them well-maintained?), but are robust, low-maintenance, and easy to use. Folding designs which allow for easy storage and transport -- very few people in the U.S. ride them, but they're great for people with small apartments, or urban commutes. All of these features are available if you look hard, but it would be better if these were available as default choices.
Fun fact, per the DSM-IV Sociopathy, or actually Antisocial Personality Disorder, as it's now known, can't be diagnosed before age 18.
Technically correct, because the childhood version has its own separate equivalent, known as Conduct Disorder, in which the criteria are appropriately tailored for the characteristics of younger individuals. Note that the criteria list for Antisocial Personality Disorder includes an item for past history of Conduct Disorder, too.
So if you're planning on attending and haven't signed up yet, make sure you do so by the end of the day, so that we can be sure to have enough T-shirts on hand for you. (You can still sign up later, of course, but you may miss your chance at a free shirt.)
Whups, is that "may" or "will" miss your chance? Just signed up this morning (Saturday).
Now, apparently the default maps app sucks - at least for the moment - in many countries overseas. China oddly enough not being one of them. The Chinese are apparently marveling at how much better Apple's map app is than Google's. Go figure.
Might have something to do with the current state of relations between Google and the Chinese government. Mainland China considers accurate maps to be state secrets, and their export is highly regulated.
Just checking. And hoping no one scams it away in some corp. coup or something.
Dollars. And FYI, someone did indeed attempt to create an in-game fundraiser scam for Vile Rat, seeking ISK donations. Didn't take long for Goonswarm to issue a "Kill on Sight" order for him, and the character was removed by GMs shortly after.
Television doesn't have to be a cesspool, though. Look at PBS -- no advertising except for a brief thanks to the Sponsors. You get shows like Sesame Street and Electric Company for the younger kids, then on to NOVA, National Geographic, and such for the older ones.
I was thinking that too. If I were engineering this thing, I'd put a rupture disk in the pumping tube (set to vent through a pinhole orifice), which would open at a pressure just below the failure point of the pneumatic tube.
The issue is not so much the labor costs but that we dont have manufacturing facilities here anymore.
It's worse than that, we don't have the supply chains anymore.
You might be able to manufacturer the large structural components and key high-value items here, but then you'd have to import tons of different little bits, individually too low value to spend money to rebuild the supply network, but numerous and specialized -- so you might as well pre-assemble big chunks of it there. At which point, you might as well assemble the whole thing there.
I remember some old Slashdot poster that once related a story about trying to manufacturer some electronic device domestically. They had so much trouble sourcing some minor discrete component, that it turned out it was cheaper to buy finished consumer widgets from China, and salvage that one part to get what they needed.
I was trying to find the plant in question on IOS Maps, but I don't see it.
Funny you joke, but mainland China considers accurate maps to be a state secret. All exported maps, including those used for GPS units, are required by law to introduce deliberate distortions (although some devices have hacks available to correct them).
Maybe Google should have simply posted up their own services as an Advertisement item in search. Instant First rank, no problem -- they could even have the department "pay" the rest of Google to do it (although I'm pretty sure they would have to be careful with accounting rules, taxes, and so forth).
Are you affiliated with a university? Their legal department might be willing to lend a hand if you teach there, or least give some advice on how to proceed.
... no matter how much plant matter humans harvest for various reasons, the Earth is able to replenish it to its maximum level.
Globally perhaps. But maybe not with the original species useful to humans, or in the same place.
For instance, deforestation often leads to erosion and topsoil loss (see Haiti), such that even if human harvesting pressure were reduced, the forests could not grow back, instead being replaced by deserts, or grasses and scrub vegetation. The nutrients in the lost soil may end up being dispersed by wind and water, aiding plant growth elsewhere, such that global vegetative production does not suffer. But that doesn't help the local inhabitants much.
Always is a long time. Try visiting your local hardware store and aking about the "premium" brand of nails, or copper wire.
Funny you should use this example, the premium hardware market has been having problems with counterfeits coming from China (Inferior-grade fasteners being marked as Grade 8, protective coatings that aren't, etc.).
Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It
In other news, CNET reports that Apple patents "Giving your Phone a Reach-around to Check Voicemail", while RIM is rumored to be close to announcing a "Tongue the Screen Discreetly to Read E-Mail" feature. No word yet on Microsoft's rumored "Candles and Hot Wax Interface", designed to appeal to the S&M contingent of the Windows Phone userbase (which is most of them), or HP/Palm's "Necrophilia" WebOS initiative.
While I don't expect legit carriers to crap-flood for profit, it seems this presents a perverse economic incentive not to invest in improving the quality of their networks.
It's long been a mystery how such a collection of mismatched personalities manages to stay so perfectly organised. Now we know: They had a professionally trained diplomat.
I'll say. Even if he was a Tech guy at the Embassy, he knew what he was doing.
Right from the link to Mittani's blog: "If you play this stupid game, you may not realize it, but you play in a galaxy created in large part by Vile Rat’s talent as a diplomat. No one focused as relentlessly on using diplomacy as a strategic tool as VR. Mercenary Coalition flipped sides in the Great War in large part because of Vile Rat’s influence, and if that hadn’t happened GSF probably would have never taken out BoB. Jabberlon5? VR made it. You may not even know what Jabberlon5 is, but it’s the smoke-filled jabber room where every nullsec personage of note hangs out and makes deals. Goonswarm has succeeded over the years in large part because of VR’s emphasis on diplomacy, to the point of creating an entire section with a staff of 10+ called Corps Diplomatique, something no other alliance has. He had the vision and the understanding to see three steps ahead of everyone else - in the game, on the CSM, and when giving real-world advice."
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I read all the way to the end hoping to get to the nymphomaniac fembot or the cloned and imprinted sex-kitten
And unfortunately, due to U.N. restrictions on human-derived cell lines (plus predilections of certain Japanese otaku scientists), your sex-kittens are literally derived from engineered Felis catus genetic material.
In other words, A cat is fine, too.
I absolutely will not buy a phone or tablet that does not have an SD slot.
Same here. Unlike a Tower-case PC, you can't future-proof a phone by upgrading components, but at least the microSD card can be upgraded. My old HTC Touch shipped with a 512MB card, but by retirement time was up to 4GB.
Nokia's patents may be purchasable, but buying the entire company would be a huge investment for Apple, one which would provide hardly any value outside of the patent portfolio - Nokia's products, philosophy, almost everything are completely orthogonal to Apple's. This is a terrible idea.
Switch Apple & Nokia with Google & Motorola. Patent Wars are making companies do crazy things.
Actually, there are plenty of women around.
They just often get confused for men...
(...it's the beards).
The firm has made a tunable, steerable RF antenna using micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) which it says will change all that.
IANAE (I am not an Engineer), but looking at the picture in the article, is that little speck the actual antenna, or are they talking about developing some new antenna sub-component? I mean, can something that small intercept a reasonable amount of power flux?
Hey Charlie, if you're on Slashdot, would you like to comment on your blistering excorication of Ultrabooks?
I certainly can't find that part of the summary about saving money. A lifetime of constant care for someone with a head injury is going to be very expensive.
I just recently rotated through a long-term care unit. The burden related to cardiovascular disease, type-II diabetes, and metabolic-syndrome conditions is absolutely staggering. For each traumatic brain injury, there are literally hundreds of non-TBI patients who require long-term care because they're too debilitated by their chronic condition to care for themselves, and lifestyle-related risks are inflating that numbers dramatically.
Now, ideally we'd all be fit and healthy because we're exercising and wearing our helmets. But practically that's not going to happen, so the whole point of the article is that we'd do better with "The perfect is the enemy of the good" trade-off (article suggests and 20-1 risk trade-off).
Most Americans have never ridden a proper bicycle with smooth tires and geometry designed to go more than five miles.
I think it stems from our tendency to hero-worship athletes and treat bicycling as a sport rather than a practical method of transport (or worse, some kind of penance to the gods of Fitness). Back in the 70's-80's, professional cyclists rode hunched-over on racing bikes, equipped with skinny tires and finicky non-indexed shifters -- so that's what was popular. Later, when BMXers and mountain bikes were all the rage on the X-sports programs, that's what the mass market blindly started following (and they're an improvement on racing bikes, but the short gearing and high resistance still makes them awful for transportation).
Since we don't see our heroes riding them on TV, practical design features that make a bike functional as transportation, are instead considered dorky and uncool. Features like fenders and chain guard that allow you to ride without soiling your clothes (vital in rainy climates). Internally-geared hub (which are slightly less mechanically efficient than a well-maintained derailleur, but how many casual cyclists keep them well-maintained?), but are robust, low-maintenance, and easy to use. Folding designs which allow for easy storage and transport -- very few people in the U.S. ride them, but they're great for people with small apartments, or urban commutes. All of these features are available if you look hard, but it would be better if these were available as default choices.
Fun fact, per the DSM-IV Sociopathy, or actually Antisocial Personality Disorder, as it's now known, can't be diagnosed before age 18.
Technically correct, because the childhood version has its own separate equivalent, known as Conduct Disorder, in which the criteria are appropriately tailored for the characteristics of younger individuals. Note that the criteria list for Antisocial Personality Disorder includes an item for past history of Conduct Disorder, too.
So if you're planning on attending and haven't signed up yet, make sure you do so by the end of the day, so that we can be sure to have enough T-shirts on hand for you. (You can still sign up later, of course, but you may miss your chance at a free shirt.)
Whups, is that "may" or "will" miss your chance? Just signed up this morning (Saturday).
Now, apparently the default maps app sucks - at least for the moment - in many countries overseas. China oddly enough not being one of them. The Chinese are apparently marveling at how much better Apple's map app is than Google's. Go figure.
Might have something to do with the current state of relations between Google and the Chinese government. Mainland China considers accurate maps to be state secrets, and their export is highly regulated.
Just checking. And hoping no one scams it away in some corp. coup or something.
Dollars. And FYI, someone did indeed attempt to create an in-game fundraiser scam for Vile Rat, seeking ISK donations. Didn't take long for Goonswarm to issue a "Kill on Sight" order for him, and the character was removed by GMs shortly after.
Television doesn't have to be a cesspool, though. Look at PBS -- no advertising except for a brief thanks to the Sponsors. You get shows like Sesame Street and Electric Company for the younger kids, then on to NOVA, National Geographic, and such for the older ones.
Until of course the valve sticks open...
I was thinking that too. If I were engineering this thing, I'd put a rupture disk in the pumping tube (set to vent through a pinhole orifice), which would open at a pressure just below the failure point of the pneumatic tube.
The issue is not so much the labor costs but that we dont have manufacturing facilities here anymore.
It's worse than that, we don't have the supply chains anymore.
You might be able to manufacturer the large structural components and key high-value items here, but then you'd have to import tons of different little bits, individually too low value to spend money to rebuild the supply network, but numerous and specialized -- so you might as well pre-assemble big chunks of it there. At which point, you might as well assemble the whole thing there.
I remember some old Slashdot poster that once related a story about trying to manufacturer some electronic device domestically. They had so much trouble sourcing some minor discrete component, that it turned out it was cheaper to buy finished consumer widgets from China, and salvage that one part to get what they needed.
I was trying to find the plant in question on IOS Maps, but I don't see it.
Funny you joke, but mainland China considers accurate maps to be a state secret. All exported maps, including those used for GPS units, are required by law to introduce deliberate distortions (although some devices have hacks available to correct them).
BTW, it's Taiwan guys. They're still relatively democratic, co the news sources are probably ok.
(-1: Clueless). Foxconn may be headquartered in Taiwan, but the Taiyuan plant is in the province of Shanxi, in Mainland China.
Maybe Google should have simply posted up their own services as an Advertisement item in search. Instant First rank, no problem -- they could even have the department "pay" the rest of Google to do it (although I'm pretty sure they would have to be careful with accounting rules, taxes, and so forth).
Are you affiliated with a university? Their legal department might be willing to lend a hand if you teach there, or least give some advice on how to proceed.
... no matter how much plant matter humans harvest for various reasons, the Earth is able to replenish it to its maximum level.
Globally perhaps. But maybe not with the original species useful to humans, or in the same place.
For instance, deforestation often leads to erosion and topsoil loss (see Haiti), such that even if human harvesting pressure were reduced, the forests could not grow back, instead being replaced by deserts, or grasses and scrub vegetation. The nutrients in the lost soil may end up being dispersed by wind and water, aiding plant growth elsewhere, such that global vegetative production does not suffer. But that doesn't help the local inhabitants much.
Always is a long time. Try visiting your local hardware store and aking about the "premium" brand of nails, or copper wire.
Funny you should use this example, the premium hardware market has been having problems with counterfeits coming from China (Inferior-grade fasteners being marked as Grade 8, protective coatings that aren't, etc.).
Basically it was done with specially doped ruby emitters if I remember correct.
It was a pentacene-based organic material: http://phys.org/news/2012-08-maser-power-cold-demo-solid-state.html
Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It
In other news, CNET reports that Apple patents "Giving your Phone a Reach-around to Check Voicemail", while RIM is rumored to be close to announcing a "Tongue the Screen Discreetly to Read E-Mail" feature. No word yet on Microsoft's rumored "Candles and Hot Wax Interface", designed to appeal to the S&M contingent of the Windows Phone userbase (which is most of them), or HP/Palm's "Necrophilia" WebOS initiative.
step 1. hire some flooders.
While I don't expect legit carriers to crap-flood for profit, it seems this presents a perverse economic incentive not to invest in improving the quality of their networks.
It's long been a mystery how such a collection of mismatched personalities manages to stay so perfectly organised. Now we know: They had a professionally trained diplomat.
I'll say. Even if he was a Tech guy at the Embassy, he knew what he was doing.
Right from the link to Mittani's blog:
"If you play this stupid game, you may not realize it, but you play in a galaxy created in large part by Vile Rat’s talent as a diplomat. No one focused as relentlessly on using diplomacy as a strategic tool as VR. Mercenary Coalition flipped sides in the Great War in large part because of Vile Rat’s influence, and if that hadn’t happened GSF probably would have never taken out BoB. Jabberlon5? VR made it. You may not even know what Jabberlon5 is, but it’s the smoke-filled jabber room where every nullsec personage of note hangs out and makes deals. Goonswarm has succeeded over the years in large part because of VR’s emphasis on diplomacy, to the point of creating an entire section with a staff of 10+ called Corps Diplomatique, something no other alliance has. He had the vision and the understanding to see three steps ahead of everyone else - in the game, on the CSM, and when giving real-world advice."