Yeah, free dental care up to the age of 18, plus free dental care to those who can't afford it after that, and free dental care to those over 65.
Emphasis mine. Even if you can afford it dentistry is heavily subsidised. I went to have a wisdom tooth removed but found out there was an abscess there. It took three trips in all with some x-rays thrown in for good measure but I still only ended up paying £50-something for the extraction and £7-something for the antibiotics. I can't even imagine how much that would have cost in the US, even with insurance.
For those that didnt RTFA, there is a reason for the high price point of this console.
They are not using emulation like the Retron consoles. This isn't the usual Famiclone either. They sourced actual 30 year old Famicom CPU and Video chips to build this custom unit...
You read the wrong FA; this story is about the successor to the model made from 30 year old stock. The Nt Mini uses an FPGA to emulate the original hardware.
If nothing else, this entire unit is actually quite the impressive custom hack of 30 year old hardware.
Except that it isn't. It's a much more impressive thing than cobbling together off-the-(dusty)-shelf chips in a shiny box.
You don't collect them but you can breed them in Trek Online. Actually the most recent addition was the Kelvin timeline tribble, complete with a little lens flare when you pet the critter.
Considering the long history of athletes struggling to make ends...
Did you know that as recently as the late 1980's professional athletes were barred from entering the Olympics?
They can't make ends meet? They can cry me a river and go whore themselves out on sponsorship deals like the rest. Hell, if an olympic diver can make some coin advertising laundry detergent then I've no sympathy at all.
Actually, there was a lot of talk in Athens after 2004 that the Olympic games should be moved there permanently: the venues and necessary infrastructure had been built, the games were largely successful from a logistical viewpoint, and Greece knows how to handle mobs of tourists.
They also know (or should have known) that most Olympic venues fall into disuse after the event and end up being a massive waste of money for little more than temporary international bragging rights. Greece was foolish to play host with their economy being what it was even back in '04.
NYT spends as many inches on name dropping the researchers as it does explaining the research. The NHS has released an article that's a little better IMO.
tl;dr Research paper shows correlation between nail biting in childhood and incidence of allergies in later life, does not elaborate on causal relationship. Results hailed as "common sense" by the usual crowd.
To a global audience he's as British as the queen.
And to quite a lot of the British audience he's an insufferably smug, unfunny git whose most recent claim to fame is being publicly shamed for tax avoidance.
I don't know what he's doing for work right now...
8 out of 10 Cats and not much else. I can't imagine why.
Now I know which GPUs Apple won't use for their computers! Intel's integrated crap forever!
Apple won' tbe putting any ventilation holes in their products any time soon - it spoils the design.
Apple hides the ventilation slots in the screen hinge and have done since the G4 Powerbooks if not earlier. They also offer nvidia GPUs on the higher end models.
To recall, the iPhone maker was found bricking the handsets that had been repaired by third-party vendors earlier this year.
Yes, I recall that. I also recall that it was because those third-party repairers were replacing parts of the crypto system without having the tools/expertise necessary to pair the parts they replaced with the ones they didn't. There are plenty of reasons to rant about Apple without misrepresentations like these.
Anyway, the research is about gills, not fins, so that is another journalistic crime from mirror.co. It would have been more honest to run a headline along the lines that shark gills and human hands are essentially the same, but then would anybody read it?
Not really, if anyone were interested they'd probably already seen the segment on Attenborough's "Rise of the Animals". Besides, you can't expect much in the way of science reporting from the Mirror.
I have a simpler method: if your car is moving don't touch or look at your phone. If you're expecting something urgent then pull over safely before you do either.
The cool projection part turns out to make for a pretty awful keyboard. There's no possibility of tactile feedback, nor of seeing what's under one's fingers and it needs a flat surface if the keys are going to look right.
Front projection is cool, no doubt, but utterly impractical. This is why making laser keyboards has been possible for such a long time but they've never been brought to market; rear projection can also be cool. What the patent describes isn't projection, but it might still give us a keyboard with a layout we can change easily and fairly arbitrarily. That would be something that would rival a laser keyboard for coolness but win out by virtual of being actually useful.
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How would those laws be applied to military robots designed to kill? Replace "human being" with with "American"?
They wouldn't be, obviously. Robots don't have to obey the three laws unless we build them that way.
From Alistair Reynolds:
She snapped her attention back to the snake. “Are you Asimov-compliant?”
“No,” the robot said, with a sting of indignation.
They mean a Continuous Ink System I expect.
So, in other words, it's saying that it's more than his job's worth.
Works fine for me, and that's not something I get to say very often when using Safari.
Yeah, free dental care up to the age of 18, plus free dental care to those who can't afford it after that, and free dental care to those over 65.
Emphasis mine. Even if you can afford it dentistry is heavily subsidised. I went to have a wisdom tooth removed but found out there was an abscess there. It took three trips in all with some x-rays thrown in for good measure but I still only ended up paying £50-something for the extraction and £7-something for the antibiotics. I can't even imagine how much that would have cost in the US, even with insurance.
BTW it takes a special kind of cocksucker to want to dug up a grave, move bodies and build upon a grave site.
Why? It's not like bones care where they're buried, or what's above ground either.
For those that didnt RTFA, there is a reason for the high price point of this console.
They are not using emulation like the Retron consoles. This isn't the usual Famiclone either. They sourced actual 30 year old Famicom CPU and Video chips to build this custom unit...
You read the wrong FA; this story is about the successor to the model made from 30 year old stock. The Nt Mini uses an FPGA to emulate the original hardware.
If nothing else, this entire unit is actually quite the impressive custom hack of 30 year old hardware.
Except that it isn't. It's a much more impressive thing than cobbling together off-the-(dusty)-shelf chips in a shiny box.
Most of the other models are 380hp or above. Even if the article writer forgot to include the other motor that still leaves quite a shortfall.
That means the kids that actually learn Arduino programming and make sumo bots are Fucking Alien Technomancer Magicians!
You say that as if it were a bad thing.
You don't collect them but you can breed them in Trek Online. Actually the most recent addition was the Kelvin timeline tribble, complete with a little lens flare when you pet the critter.
Considering the long history of athletes struggling to make ends ...
Did you know that as recently as the late 1980's professional athletes were barred from entering the Olympics?
They can't make ends meet? They can cry me a river and go whore themselves out on sponsorship deals like the rest. Hell, if an olympic diver can make some coin advertising laundry detergent then I've no sympathy at all.
Actually, there was a lot of talk in Athens after 2004 that the Olympic games should be moved there permanently: the venues and necessary infrastructure had been built, the games were largely successful from a logistical viewpoint, and Greece knows how to handle mobs of tourists.
They also know (or should have known) that most Olympic venues fall into disuse after the event and end up being a massive waste of money for little more than temporary international bragging rights. Greece was foolish to play host with their economy being what it was even back in '04.
NYT spends as many inches on name dropping the researchers as it does explaining the research. The NHS has released an article that's a little better IMO.
tl;dr Research paper shows correlation between nail biting in childhood and incidence of allergies in later life, does not elaborate on causal relationship. Results hailed as "common sense" by the usual crowd.
To a global audience he's as British as the queen.
And to quite a lot of the British audience he's an insufferably smug, unfunny git whose most recent claim to fame is being publicly shamed for tax avoidance.
I don't know what he's doing for work right now...
8 out of 10 Cats and not much else. I can't imagine why.
It has been known to happen, but normally when the deceased was hanged.
Now I know which GPUs Apple won't use for their computers! Intel's integrated crap forever!
Apple won' tbe putting any ventilation holes in their products any time soon - it spoils the design.
Apple hides the ventilation slots in the screen hinge and have done since the G4 Powerbooks if not earlier. They also offer nvidia GPUs on the higher end models.
Indeed. I'd be happy if they fixed the Finder so it didn't keep forgetting complicated things like column widths.
To recall, the iPhone maker was found bricking the handsets that had been repaired by third-party vendors earlier this year.
Yes, I recall that. I also recall that it was because those third-party repairers were replacing parts of the crypto system without having the tools/expertise necessary to pair the parts they replaced with the ones they didn't. There are plenty of reasons to rant about Apple without misrepresentations like these.
Give it the three finger salute instead.
Sounds vaguely like Clavain from Redemption Ark.
Anyway, the research is about gills, not fins, so that is another journalistic crime from mirror.co. It would have been more honest to run a headline along the lines that shark gills and human hands are essentially the same, but then would anybody read it?
Not really, if anyone were interested they'd probably already seen the segment on Attenborough's "Rise of the Animals". Besides, you can't expect much in the way of science reporting from the Mirror.
Who cares how much it costs if it can safe your life?
People who can't afford it.
And if you have no living enemies, you stood up, crushed your enemies, saw them driven before you, and heard the lamentations of the suits.
I prefer hot water and soft toilet paper myself.
I have a simpler method: if your car is moving don't touch or look at your phone. If you're expecting something urgent then pull over safely before you do either.
The cool projection part turns out to make for a pretty awful keyboard. There's no possibility of tactile feedback, nor of seeing what's under one's fingers and it needs a flat surface if the keys are going to look right.
Front projection is cool, no doubt, but utterly impractical. This is why making laser keyboards has been possible for such a long time but they've never been brought to market; rear projection can also be cool. What the patent describes isn't projection, but it might still give us a keyboard with a layout we can change easily and fairly arbitrarily. That would be something that would rival a laser keyboard for coolness but win out by virtual of being actually useful.