If Taco is like me (and in this respect I expect that he is), he intends to do some editing during his downtime while on vacation. At present, that's just not something that a semi-serious photographer is going to be able to take on using a tablet.
CmdrTaco, consider something from Kata, maybe the R-106. I'll vouch for the feel of the thing - I have a 105, and the weight distribution when loaded is pretty good.
Unfortunately, this technology probably won't get to far after people read the word 'radioactive', even though I'd hazard to guess that 8g of Thorium probably has less environmental and health impact than 7,500 gallons of gasoline. Otherwise it sounds awesome. Is there another word for 'radioactive' we can use to get rid of the negative connotation?
"Have you tried our new Frosted Thorium Cereal?"
"Hey, wait. I thought that Thorium is radioactive."
"Aha - you're referring to our special CoolDecay technology! It's Alpha-parti-tastic!! (tm)"
This is true, but... really? Even in my most pro-union moments, I'm having trouble getting behind the notion of a labor union specific to Apple retail locations.
RTA. The CBO report was requested by Senator Kent Conrad, who specifically addressed the fact that the migration of drivers to more fuel-efficient vehicles may impact the government's revenue stream from the gas tax.
I remember a few years ago, before the end of the dot com boom, reading an article about a bunch of newfound millionaires - and Bill Gates - talking about how the new information economy was going to completely revolutionize the economies of third world nations. To his credit, Gates was dismissive, stressing repeatedly that "the Internet" wasn't going to magically transform poverty stricken countries rife with malaria into paradises of soy-latte sipping professionals in Kenneth Cole shoes. With countries as with people there's a hierarchy of needs, and basic health and safety come way before widespread deployment of broadband.
It's odd that he saw that so clearly when it comes to other countries, but has trouble getting it closer to home.
(Also if anyone else remembers the article I'm referring to, I'd love a URL - gracias in advance.)
Is there a specific claim in the article that you think is unsubstantiated by fact? The opinion polls aren't being used to make a point about the physical sciences: I would hope that the large body of scientific literature on global climate change stands on its own. The polls in the story are used to illustrate a difference between conventional Republican party attitudes about the environment and popular opinion. How would you prefer the author go about that task?
I can see this in an environment when you need to stick a lot of 1U rack systems all over the place, and can't spread out over a larger footprint in any one location. But when else am I going to use this? Didn't we decide a long time ago that large amounts of internal storage wasn't really a good way to handle increasing storage needs?
I'd much rather see a big ol' SAN full of SDDs than put together something like this, unless someone else is seeing an advantage that I don't.
Also - I don't know about you, but when I press a "close doors" or a "use crosswalk" button and press it, and nothing happens, I tend to press it again. If there was a placebo effect in play, why would I bother pressing it again? The placebo effect suggests that I would be happy with the outcome, rather than stabbing relentlessly away at a soulless machine, like a rat trying to get a food pellet, muttering and cursing the infernal, non functional button and the soul sucking society it seems to embody, when all I want to do is get downstairs and across the street to a bar so I can drown my sorrows in a few glasses of gin and try to muster the courage to talk to that girl who is always there even though I know she's probably damaged goods and wouldn't give me the time of day besides...
I could have forgiven them for making it up as they went along - hell, I would have been impressed - if they'd just done a better job of it.
During an interview aired around the time of the series finale, Moore said that the team had agonized over the plot of the final episodes until he reached the realization that as long as they were "true to the characters", the plot would take care of itself. I interpreted that as meaning, "Yeah, we just gave up on trying to make it all make sense."
Don't discount large corporations which are resistant to change. I work for one such company (in the fifty largest companies in the world), and their plan is to roll out Windows 7 internally sometime in 2013.
What's particularly sad about this state of affairs is that it's a technology company. Feh.
Speaking as the father of a micro-preemie (12 weeks early, 1 pound 12 ounces), who is now going on six years old and mostly quite healthy.... I found them a little funny.
True on the technicalities, but seriously? Electric radiant heat is terribly inefficient, and more often than not you'll be putting the heat source literally at the ceiling.
Or hell, I dunno. Maybe you guys have fond memories of clustering underneath the bare bulb in your bedroom for warmth when you ran out of heating oil or something.
Depends on where he was when he sent the text. It's widely recognized that constitutional protections don't only apply to citizens, although they've never been construed as applying to non-citizens in other sovereign nations, as far as I know.
The US of A is not the government's property, and is not "collectively owned" by the nation, as much as I love Woody Guthrie, so that's a pretty terrible analogy.
But with all that said, this sounds really, really stupid and fishy to me. Like, "is there something else going on here" fishy. Like one of those "evil vs. stupid" debates, a la Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver.
Oh man, the "Tiny wireless camera!!!" ads? I remember them from the late 90s. I think that they were just flat out ubiquitous, as opposed to following specific people around.
The worst part of those ads was the pervyness. The ads would blare "for security," but they all ran with pictures of half-dressed women.
For certain items and types of purchases, it makes sense. Maybe I'm looking at purchasing a new TV, then decide to hold off for a bit. But because I happened to browse for one on Overstock.com, I might keep seeing ads for it everyplace that Overstock runs ads. In this case, it makes sense: I was about to make something of an impulse buy, and after seeing the ad repeatedly, I may be induced to do go through with it later.
But in other cases, it's annoying as hell and makes no sense at all. I'm in the middle of renovating my house, and was recently looking at ceiling fans and vessel sinks online. Now I can't click on a site without seeing ads for sinks and fans, despite the fact that I made my selection and purchased them weeks ago.
We trust government employees to do all kinds of stuff we don't allow the general citizenry to do. For example, it is generally illegal to walk around visibly strapped, but cops can do it all the time. The catch is that there are some responsibilities that we don't trust government officials to perform without some form of review. The search warrant is a perfect example: you want to bust in someone's door, you need to demonstrate probable cause to a judge.
How this managed to escape that kind of review is beyond me - this strikes me as a truly terrible decision, but one that might seem to flow naturally from our lack of a constitutionally enshrined right to privacy. Feh, I say. The whole thing stinks.
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If Taco is like me (and in this respect I expect that he is), he intends to do some editing during his downtime while on vacation. At present, that's just not something that a semi-serious photographer is going to be able to take on using a tablet.
CmdrTaco, consider something from Kata, maybe the R-106. I'll vouch for the feel of the thing - I have a 105, and the weight distribution when loaded is pretty good.
Unfortunately, this technology probably won't get to far after people read the word 'radioactive', even though I'd hazard to guess that 8g of Thorium probably has less environmental and health impact than 7,500 gallons of gasoline. Otherwise it sounds awesome. Is there another word for 'radioactive' we can use to get rid of the negative connotation?
"Have you tried our new Frosted Thorium Cereal?"
"Hey, wait. I thought that Thorium is radioactive."
"Aha - you're referring to our special CoolDecay technology! It's Alpha-parti-tastic!! (tm)"
This is true, but... really? Even in my most pro-union moments, I'm having trouble getting behind the notion of a labor union specific to Apple retail locations.
You say that now, but wait until that building actually takes off.
Unfortunately, they won't be able to untether it from the ground, as they won't have rolled out over-the-air syncing to it before their liftoff date.
Ladies. Look at your Orc. Now back to me. Now back to your Orc. Now back to me.
Okay, why is this story "news for nerds?"
(rolls eyes upward to see own hairline)
Oh. Nevermind.
(sobs)
Yeah, but given DNF's history, that politician has plenty of time to think about it.
RTA. The CBO report was requested by Senator Kent Conrad, who specifically addressed the fact that the migration of drivers to more fuel-efficient vehicles may impact the government's revenue stream from the gas tax.
So, does Edison finally get his final victory over Nikola "The Electric Jesus" Tesla?
I remember a few years ago, before the end of the dot com boom, reading an article about a bunch of newfound millionaires - and Bill Gates - talking about how the new information economy was going to completely revolutionize the economies of third world nations. To his credit, Gates was dismissive, stressing repeatedly that "the Internet" wasn't going to magically transform poverty stricken countries rife with malaria into paradises of soy-latte sipping professionals in Kenneth Cole shoes. With countries as with people there's a hierarchy of needs, and basic health and safety come way before widespread deployment of broadband.
It's odd that he saw that so clearly when it comes to other countries, but has trouble getting it closer to home.
(Also if anyone else remembers the article I'm referring to, I'd love a URL - gracias in advance.)
Fact free?
Is there a specific claim in the article that you think is unsubstantiated by fact? The opinion polls aren't being used to make a point about the physical sciences: I would hope that the large body of scientific literature on global climate change stands on its own. The polls in the story are used to illustrate a difference between conventional Republican party attitudes about the environment and popular opinion. How would you prefer the author go about that task?
I can see this in an environment when you need to stick a lot of 1U rack systems all over the place, and can't spread out over a larger footprint in any one location. But when else am I going to use this? Didn't we decide a long time ago that large amounts of internal storage wasn't really a good way to handle increasing storage needs?
I'd much rather see a big ol' SAN full of SDDs than put together something like this, unless someone else is seeing an advantage that I don't.
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You gotta admit, that's pretty funny.
Agreed.
Also - I don't know about you, but when I press a "close doors" or a "use crosswalk" button and press it, and nothing happens, I tend to press it again. If there was a placebo effect in play, why would I bother pressing it again? The placebo effect suggests that I would be happy with the outcome, rather than stabbing relentlessly away at a soulless machine, like a rat trying to get a food pellet, muttering and cursing the infernal, non functional button and the soul sucking society it seems to embody, when all I want to do is get downstairs and across the street to a bar so I can drown my sorrows in a few glasses of gin and try to muster the courage to talk to that girl who is always there even though I know she's probably damaged goods and wouldn't give me the time of day besides...
I'm sorry, what were we talking about again?
I could have forgiven them for making it up as they went along - hell, I would have been impressed - if they'd just done a better job of it.
During an interview aired around the time of the series finale, Moore said that the team had agonized over the plot of the final episodes until he reached the realization that as long as they were "true to the characters", the plot would take care of itself. I interpreted that as meaning, "Yeah, we just gave up on trying to make it all make sense."
I wonder if this was part of the inspiration for Ruse? Or maybe vice versa?
Don't discount large corporations which are resistant to change. I work for one such company (in the fifty largest companies in the world), and their plan is to roll out Windows 7 internally sometime in 2013.
What's particularly sad about this state of affairs is that it's a technology company. Feh.
Speaking as the father of a micro-preemie (12 weeks early, 1 pound 12 ounces), who is now going on six years old and mostly quite healthy.... I found them a little funny.
Time heals all wounds.
True on the technicalities, but seriously? Electric radiant heat is terribly inefficient, and more often than not you'll be putting the heat source literally at the ceiling.
Or hell, I dunno. Maybe you guys have fond memories of clustering underneath the bare bulb in your bedroom for warmth when you ran out of heating oil or something.
Just think: if they had been Jersey Shore viewers, it would have been called Sensor NOdes for lo-Ohm Carrier Infrastructure.
In other news, I may have just set a record for worst backronym.
Depends on where he was when he sent the text. It's widely recognized that constitutional protections don't only apply to citizens, although they've never been construed as applying to non-citizens in other sovereign nations, as far as I know.
The US of A is not the government's property, and is not "collectively owned" by the nation, as much as I love Woody Guthrie, so that's a pretty terrible analogy.
But with all that said, this sounds really, really stupid and fishy to me. Like, "is there something else going on here" fishy. Like one of those "evil vs. stupid" debates, a la Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver.
Use an ad blocker? I'd have one less thing to complain about, and bitching and moaning are two of my favorite pastimes.
Oh man, the "Tiny wireless camera!!!" ads? I remember them from the late 90s. I think that they were just flat out ubiquitous, as opposed to following specific people around.
The worst part of those ads was the pervyness. The ads would blare "for security," but they all ran with pictures of half-dressed women.
For certain items and types of purchases, it makes sense. Maybe I'm looking at purchasing a new TV, then decide to hold off for a bit. But because I happened to browse for one on Overstock.com, I might keep seeing ads for it everyplace that Overstock runs ads. In this case, it makes sense: I was about to make something of an impulse buy, and after seeing the ad repeatedly, I may be induced to do go through with it later.
But in other cases, it's annoying as hell and makes no sense at all. I'm in the middle of renovating my house, and was recently looking at ceiling fans and vessel sinks online. Now I can't click on a site without seeing ads for sinks and fans, despite the fact that I made my selection and purchased them weeks ago.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
We trust government employees to do all kinds of stuff we don't allow the general citizenry to do. For example, it is generally illegal to walk around visibly strapped, but cops can do it all the time. The catch is that there are some responsibilities that we don't trust government officials to perform without some form of review. The search warrant is a perfect example: you want to bust in someone's door, you need to demonstrate probable cause to a judge.
How this managed to escape that kind of review is beyond me - this strikes me as a truly terrible decision, but one that might seem to flow naturally from our lack of a constitutionally enshrined right to privacy. Feh, I say. The whole thing stinks.