Back when I had a Wii, in order to get these network services, you essentially had to set the device to never turn off. And that was something I deemed as pointless and a waste of power.
And at least some models suffered from the disc drive spinning constantly when it was in standby mode and burning out, so you didn't want to leave it on with a disc in. Really made the power button on the remote useful.
I was using it for a while to browse news while eating cereal in the mornings. This was before I got a smartphone or tablet. It was slow as hell, though that was likely due at least in part to the slow connection. I usually finished eating by the time it loaded.
I don't know about that. Yesterday, some sequence analysis software told me that my sequence had four transmembrane domains, which was expected. However, it gave the probability of each as "1.2."
Apple seemed to be good, when Jobs was alive, at copying ideas out there already, adding a lot of polish to them, making them pretty, and then making them popular.
If google delivers an underbaked product, does something to make people lose interest in it, and clones Steve Jobs back to life, then I think the smart money would be on apple winning. It would also help if google changed names of the product so apple could call them iGlasses.
Oh look, another paid MS shill got the first post crowing about how MS is better at google than something. Nice try, Florian Muller. Next you'll tell us that Google is violating MS's patents on having a monopoly.
Longer than four hours, but you're right that it can't stay up indefinitely.
As a result, once the fuel/oxidizer combination were fed into the missile, it could maintain a 'ready to launch' condition for several days, or even weeks, like the R-27 SLBM; however it could not be kept longer than this, because of tank corrosion caused by the red fuming nitric acid. A fueled Musudan would not have the structural strength to be land transported, so would have to be fueled at the launch site
Wiki on Musudan Missile
I suppose it could be empty. It IS just posturing. Maybe they ran out of fuel or the oxidizer and can't afford more. Or maybe they did try firing it and it didn't go off. The article says it wasn't clear why it's just sitting there.
Although NK wants to reunite Korea they don't want to level the South or kill all its civilians. That would be counter-productive, effectively destroying what they consider to be part of their own country and their fellow countrymen.
This would be more convincing if the North wasn't currently killing its own civilians for imagined insults.
However it should have been treated publicly as a firing offence though instead of a graceful exit
It SHOULD have been treated with a repudiation of intrusive DRM.
The bluntness of his tweets was utterly inconsequential. MS cares about the PR disaster, but that's not the underlying issue. The fact that they think it's okay to treat their customers like they're Lance Armstrong trying to enter the Tour de France this year, is.
I'm wondering why everyone is rushing to upgrade phones as fast as possible. The same situation seems to apply. Angry birds star wars will run on a iphone 3GS, and I suspect it would run on earlier iphones as well were it not for artificial incompatibility.
Granted, most cell phone companies are charging you the same rate for upgrading every two years as they are for keeping the same phone, so there's some financial incentive to upgrade, but the demand seems to go beyond that.
The real story is the second part. You can stain for proteins and see where the localize. With SCALE, the previous method, you couldn't do that easily. Probably anyway, I never tried. You had to have fluorescent proteins expressing in the tissue, which isn't possible in human tissue samples from deceased patients unless you're trying some weird shit. Alternatively, you could stain sections, but that doesn't give you as good a 3D image of the 3D structure.
It's really interesting work. If it doesn't cost too much, I may have to try it in my lab (though I don't work on brains.)
Take a server. Move it outside. Congrats! Your "data center" is now bigger and has more capacity than google's. In fact, it could and does fit all of google's data centers in it!
Seems par for the course: anytime I try to get any information about a cell phone (specifically the last time I got a new phone and this time when I was wondering what the deal was), I'm astonished at how much shit there is out there. Google "HTC first." There are about 20 reviews of it in the last day or so, all of which seem to be the same thing. Is there really a demand for that many reviews of any mobile phone, let alone one that sounds like it's pretty average? I mean, I skimmed only one of three pages of the ars technica review, and aside from fucking facebook pictures showing up when you turn it on, nothing stands out.
Same gripe with how all malls seem to be at least 50% cell phone retail. That's way too much, given that they're basically all the same phones.
The gaming market is largely children or teenagers who are too young to know they deserve better.
The age of the average gamer is 30.
Quite right, but the amount of profit isn't a normal distribution across age. The younger half of the gaming audience has more spare time, and buys more games than those of us who work full time or have kids. They vote more often with their wallet than the rest of us do. "The gaming market" wasn't quite clear. I should have said something more along the lines of "the biggest customers" or "the most demographic that is most profitable for gaming companies." Kind of like how the average age of people who listen to music isn't anywhere near 15, but because teenagers spend the most money on music, the target audience IS closer to 15 than 30.
They're the ones throwing $60 at whatever game their friends are playing as soon as it hits
How do you figure that children have more disposable income than adults?
I agree with the rest of your analysis. I just blame adults who don't know any better instead of children who don't know any better.
I don't know that they do have more disposable income. I'm basing this largely on who I saw in the store when I was working at gamestop about 10 years ago. It was all kids. I've been on xbox live more recently, and judging from that, it hasn't really changed. In high school, I wasted most of my free time on whatever crappy games I could afford. In college, I could spend 90 hours in a few weeks playing through every Final Fantasy through completely. These days, a 10 hour game like Dead Space takes me a month to finish. I have about an hour of free time a night maybe.
You present that idea as if it hasn't been around about EA for years. It's done nothing.
The gaming market is largely children or teenagers who are too young to know they deserve better. They're the ones throwing $60 at whatever game their friends are playing as soon as it hits, and they're the ones who will buy the rest of the game in DLC if they have any money left. Consumer action that excludes them is never going to cause EA to change: they're way too profitable. Consumer action that DOES include them... doesn't happen because again, they have no patience and don't know they can demand better.
And, truth be told, I'm deeply skeptical that any demographic really "votes with their wallet" with their own interests in mind.
Just throwing this out there: perhaps google figured that Houston public officials were already bought and paid for by one or two telecoms, and would be determined to make this second test a failure. Houston isn't exactly known for having honest public officials acting in the interests of the public. I remember hearing that public transit or even biking was near impossible in houston due likely to gas and car companies' influence.
I feel your pain, living in Chicago. Google fiber is never coming here. Even AT&T can't buy decent 4G speeds here.
Does it matter? We have little evidence that extra carbon and heat in the atmosphere will make our lives better, and plenty to the contrary. If the original predictions weren't very accurate, well I suppose that must be funny to some people rooting in favor of fossil fuels, but nobody "wins" either way.
I could see two ways in which these studies are/will be wastes:
1. By now, the studies are telling us what we already know, and aren't convincing policymakers or lobbyists to change because their opposition to curbing carbon dioxide emissions wasn't ever really based on skepticism of the science.
2. When most of the developed world starts feeling the negative consequences, they'll do something to alleviate the problem. And it will be some short-sighted solution that no one really fully investigated. Like iron injection. To deal with the consequences of that will be a chain of other decisions terminating in gorillas freezing to death. The bill will be sent to people who weren't involved in the decision to ignore the early warnings about climate change anyway.
Not everyone sees things in such absolutes. For one thing, no one was reading those journals. For another, doing research necessarily means dealing with corporations, all of which have a high chance that they're doing something to leech off of scientific progress.
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Back when I had a Wii, in order to get these network services, you essentially had to set the device to never turn off. And that was something I deemed as pointless and a waste of power.
And at least some models suffered from the disc drive spinning constantly when it was in standby mode and burning out, so you didn't want to leave it on with a disc in. Really made the power button on the remote useful.
I was using it for a while to browse news while eating cereal in the mornings. This was before I got a smartphone or tablet. It was slow as hell, though that was likely due at least in part to the slow connection. I usually finished eating by the time it loaded.
I believe you are the one who has been wooshed. I don't think MS pays people to advertise how much malware windows suffers from.
I don't know about that. Yesterday, some sequence analysis software told me that my sequence had four transmembrane domains, which was expected. However, it gave the probability of each as "1.2."
Apple seemed to be good, when Jobs was alive, at copying ideas out there already, adding a lot of polish to them, making them pretty, and then making them popular.
If google delivers an underbaked product, does something to make people lose interest in it, and clones Steve Jobs back to life, then I think the smart money would be on apple winning. It would also help if google changed names of the product so apple could call them iGlasses.
Oh look, another paid MS shill got the first post crowing about how MS is better at google than something. Nice try, Florian Muller. Next you'll tell us that Google is violating MS's patents on having a monopoly.
Why exactly are we kicking out people with masters degrees and good jobs? This is insanity.
You immediately answered your own question.
As a result, once the fuel/oxidizer combination were fed into the missile, it could maintain a 'ready to launch' condition for several days, or even weeks, like the R-27 SLBM; however it could not be kept longer than this, because of tank corrosion caused by the red fuming nitric acid. A fueled Musudan would not have the structural strength to be land transported, so would have to be fueled at the launch site
Wiki on Musudan Missile I suppose it could be empty. It IS just posturing. Maybe they ran out of fuel or the oxidizer and can't afford more. Or maybe they did try firing it and it didn't go off. The article says it wasn't clear why it's just sitting there.
You're right! China could become polluted!
Although NK wants to reunite Korea they don't want to level the South or kill all its civilians. That would be counter-productive, effectively destroying what they consider to be part of their own country and their fellow countrymen.
This would be more convincing if the North wasn't currently killing its own civilians for imagined insults.
However it should have been treated publicly as a firing offence though instead of a graceful exit
It SHOULD have been treated with a repudiation of intrusive DRM.
The bluntness of his tweets was utterly inconsequential. MS cares about the PR disaster, but that's not the underlying issue. The fact that they think it's okay to treat their customers like they're Lance Armstrong trying to enter the Tour de France this year, is.
I'm wondering why everyone is rushing to upgrade phones as fast as possible. The same situation seems to apply. Angry birds star wars will run on a iphone 3GS, and I suspect it would run on earlier iphones as well were it not for artificial incompatibility.
Granted, most cell phone companies are charging you the same rate for upgrading every two years as they are for keeping the same phone, so there's some financial incentive to upgrade, but the demand seems to go beyond that.
Pretty sure that's a software issue, not a hardware issue...
The headline is focusing on the wrong thingThere was already a process to make brains look like glass. It was really cheap and easy too: it's just urea basically.
The real story is the second part. You can stain for proteins and see where the localize. With SCALE, the previous method, you couldn't do that easily. Probably anyway, I never tried. You had to have fluorescent proteins expressing in the tissue, which isn't possible in human tissue samples from deceased patients unless you're trying some weird shit. Alternatively, you could stain sections, but that doesn't give you as good a 3D image of the 3D structure.
It's really interesting work. If it doesn't cost too much, I may have to try it in my lab (though I don't work on brains.)
Take a server. Move it outside. Congrats! Your "data center" is now bigger and has more capacity than google's. In fact, it could and does fit all of google's data centers in it!
these people are NOT employees. They are contractors.
I'm confused as to what the difference is in general, aside from job security.
Sure, but that wouldn't be very Japanese. On the windows of some trains on the Tokyo subway, there were big warnings that the window could not open. The windows in question were clearly stationary, if you broke your fingers trying to pry them open, that was on you. This is the same country that practices tiger escape drills in their zoos using costumes.
Seems par for the course: anytime I try to get any information about a cell phone (specifically the last time I got a new phone and this time when I was wondering what the deal was), I'm astonished at how much shit there is out there. Google "HTC first." There are about 20 reviews of it in the last day or so, all of which seem to be the same thing. Is there really a demand for that many reviews of any mobile phone, let alone one that sounds like it's pretty average? I mean, I skimmed only one of three pages of the ars technica review, and aside from fucking facebook pictures showing up when you turn it on, nothing stands out.
Same gripe with how all malls seem to be at least 50% cell phone retail. That's way too much, given that they're basically all the same phones.
This bubble is ridiculous.
The gaming market is largely children or teenagers who are too young to know they deserve better.
The age of the average gamer is 30.
Quite right, but the amount of profit isn't a normal distribution across age. The younger half of the gaming audience has more spare time, and buys more games than those of us who work full time or have kids. They vote more often with their wallet than the rest of us do. "The gaming market" wasn't quite clear. I should have said something more along the lines of "the biggest customers" or "the most demographic that is most profitable for gaming companies." Kind of like how the average age of people who listen to music isn't anywhere near 15, but because teenagers spend the most money on music, the target audience IS closer to 15 than 30.
They're the ones throwing $60 at whatever game their friends are playing as soon as it hits
How do you figure that children have more disposable income than adults? I agree with the rest of your analysis. I just blame adults who don't know any better instead of children who don't know any better.
I don't know that they do have more disposable income. I'm basing this largely on who I saw in the store when I was working at gamestop about 10 years ago. It was all kids. I've been on xbox live more recently, and judging from that, it hasn't really changed. In high school, I wasted most of my free time on whatever crappy games I could afford. In college, I could spend 90 hours in a few weeks playing through every Final Fantasy through completely. These days, a 10 hour game like Dead Space takes me a month to finish. I have about an hour of free time a night maybe.
But imagine if someone googled "how to clone hitler"!!! ~
You present that idea as if it hasn't been around about EA for years. It's done nothing.
The gaming market is largely children or teenagers who are too young to know they deserve better. They're the ones throwing $60 at whatever game their friends are playing as soon as it hits, and they're the ones who will buy the rest of the game in DLC if they have any money left. Consumer action that excludes them is never going to cause EA to change: they're way too profitable. Consumer action that DOES include them... doesn't happen because again, they have no patience and don't know they can demand better.
And, truth be told, I'm deeply skeptical that any demographic really "votes with their wallet" with their own interests in mind.
Just throwing this out there: perhaps google figured that Houston public officials were already bought and paid for by one or two telecoms, and would be determined to make this second test a failure. Houston isn't exactly known for having honest public officials acting in the interests of the public. I remember hearing that public transit or even biking was near impossible in houston due likely to gas and car companies' influence.
I feel your pain, living in Chicago. Google fiber is never coming here. Even AT&T can't buy decent 4G speeds here.
have any of the original predictions come true?
Does it matter? We have little evidence that extra carbon and heat in the atmosphere will make our lives better, and plenty to the contrary. If the original predictions weren't very accurate, well I suppose that must be funny to some people rooting in favor of fossil fuels, but nobody "wins" either way.
I could see two ways in which these studies are/will be wastes:
1. By now, the studies are telling us what we already know, and aren't convincing policymakers or lobbyists to change because their opposition to curbing carbon dioxide emissions wasn't ever really based on skepticism of the science.
2. When most of the developed world starts feeling the negative consequences, they'll do something to alleviate the problem. And it will be some short-sighted solution that no one really fully investigated. Like iron injection. To deal with the consequences of that will be a chain of other decisions terminating in gorillas freezing to death. The bill will be sent to people who weren't involved in the decision to ignore the early warnings about climate change anyway.
Not everyone sees things in such absolutes. For one thing, no one was reading those journals. For another, doing research necessarily means dealing with corporations, all of which have a high chance that they're doing something to leech off of scientific progress.