If they need the Z machine just to run the tests, you can forget about minaturisation. That is the most powerful machine ever constructed, with the exception of nuclear bombs.
If this was a computer thing, the company wouldn't have patented just their time-release system. They'd also have patented 'use of a time-release mechanism for delivery of drugs' to make sure someone else couldn't just invent an alternative.
While the pharmacutical industry is certainly very patent-driven, they havn't yet reached the point of routinely using the over-broad patents now common in computing and consumer electronics.
Is it any wonder this gets confusing? Every drug has a minimum of three different names: The unpronounceable chemical name, the generic name, and the brand name. But most of them are sold under many, many brand names in different countries and by different manufactuers, and sometimes even by one manufacturer in one country. Even the one you refered to you have to mention under three different names, and that's before you even get into formulation differences and different regulatory classification schemes. Only a specialist could hope to keep track of them all.
Datawise, no. Phone calls, though transmitted digitally, are kept seperate from data by the network. It's a QoS thing, and also the reason you may find calls still work even if a data connection cannot be established.
That's how it works here in Europe, anyway. The US may be different.
Techno-socialism. The view that socialist economic structures can work when combined with modern information technology to allow more efficient management and more accountability of the government. Idealistic.
Also the view that in the longer term it may be the only form of economic structure that can work, as traditional free-market capitalism is entirely dependant upon a labor market that may be almost entirely collapsed by the spread of very-low-cost automation of jobs.
Not all. Some dumb people go on protest marches against the oppressive government (Or, in this age, DDoS the oppressor's website) and then are surprised to discover that they too can be thrown in jail.
That was always the plan. First, you deploy ipv6 alongisde ipv4. Then you transition software over, and gradually phase ipv4 out entirely. Eventually you can turn off ipv4, and run a purely v6 network. It'd need a few dirty bodges involving tunneling and encapsulation for unsupported, non-updateable legacy apps for decades, but these would pose no more of a problem than the few remaining applications depending on NetBIOS or IPX posed.
Windows is the best because it's the biggest. It's the one OS that you can be sure every major piece of software will not only run on, but by extensively tested on. Likewise hardware: You can buy any hardware and be sure that not only will it run on Windows, but the drivers will be tested and retested. The superiority of windows isn't inherent, it's just a business issue: It dominates, which is an advantage in itsself.
Until the rise of the internet, it was the only way any artist could hope to achieve any fame or commercial success. The label provides the capital to record the record, the experts to make it happen, the promotional machine to get people to buy it, the money to mass-produce discs, and the contacts with retail to get those discs into stores. If your independant garage-band went to the Wal-Mart headquarters and asked if they would like to sell your music, it wouldn't matter how good you are: You'd be laughed out of the building.
It's a little better now - with the internet, it's possible for an artist to achieve some level of fame without a label (see Jonathan Coulton) and even commercial success, but even for the most talented their dreams of one day being superstars playing to packed stadiums are impossible without the marketing machine and business management that only a label can provide.
You're far from the first to notice that simularity, but it seems to be entirely coincidential. They are both characters using the popular (accurate) perception of sewer rats as disease-ridden filthy animals, but Verminous just draws upon that image while Splinter subverts it. Both use it though to explain the character's isolation. Like all Captain Planet villains, Verminous never got a true origin story. I wonder if any fanfics address this.
Aside from the six previous supercomputers their government has built, you mean?
True, there are some things the private sector is better-suited for. But you make the mistake of infering from this that governments are incapable of doing anything.
Captain Planet already did a rat-mutated villain. Verminous Skumm. Specialist in biological warfare, and aspiring ruler of the world. Due to his extreme ugliness and residence in the sewers he is often shunned even by the other villains, but his demonstrated scientific abilities are second only to Blight.
Radiation follows the usual inverse-square law. You can't render a large area dangerous with a point source, unless it's something crazy-radioactive like an unshielded nuclear reactor. If it were spread over a large area it could be more dangerous - even if the radiation itsself is of a very low level, radiation is scary, and could easily cause a panic.
This is true. There is a lot more to debate though regarding the significence of fundamentalist islam vs moderate islam - remembering that even moderate Islam has much the same social attitudes as the far-right Christian political movement. On the one hand, the percentage of Muslims who violently oppose the infidels is vanishingly tiny - a fraction of a fraction of a percent, and it wouldn't be fair to judge them all by the actions of such a small minority. On the other hand, even in places like Egypt, which is considered one of the most modern and westernised Muslim-majority countries, one recent PEW survey found 84% of the Muslim population believes anyone who leaves Islam should be executed*. Just because they aren't taking up arms doesn't mean their values are compatible with western notions like freedom of religion. These are very different cultures, and even the ideals that one consideres the most fundamental and self-evidently good are in another seen as advancing evil.
It's all very fuzzy. There are no clear boundries or definitions to even say what 'fundamentalist' Islam is, and views which could be considered abhorent and extremeist in one country are mainstream in others.
I've not seen the film, but I have seen a lot of right-wing propaganda, and have my own theory. A common sentiment on the right is that the western world and the islamic world are already fighting an undeclared culture war, and there can be only one victor. They are very concerned that those on the left deny this. From the point of view of the right, this is a disaster: There is a war on, and their own generals refuse to fight back or even admit a conflict exists. Thus the production of materials like this, intended to be inflamatory and provoke a violent reaction, and force this simmering culture war into an open conflict which no-one can deny.
I imagine that if someone in the US military went around talking about how much they need to purge the world of the evils of Islam, their superiors would make sure they are kept far, far away from the front lines. Right now, it's important the US military mainstains a squeaky-clean image. People in uniform declaring they are waging holy war are just providing material for enemy propaganda.
There are only two types of people who will take the risk of activism against those willing to use violence: Those who are so dedicated they are willing to risk their life or freedom, and those who are too dumb to realise that is what they are doing.
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If they need the Z machine just to run the tests, you can forget about minaturisation. That is the most powerful machine ever constructed, with the exception of nuclear bombs.
If this was a computer thing, the company wouldn't have patented just their time-release system. They'd also have patented 'use of a time-release mechanism for delivery of drugs' to make sure someone else couldn't just invent an alternative.
While the pharmacutical industry is certainly very patent-driven, they havn't yet reached the point of routinely using the over-broad patents now common in computing and consumer electronics.
Is it any wonder this gets confusing? Every drug has a minimum of three different names: The unpronounceable chemical name, the generic name, and the brand name. But most of them are sold under many, many brand names in different countries and by different manufactuers, and sometimes even by one manufacturer in one country. Even the one you refered to you have to mention under three different names, and that's before you even get into formulation differences and different regulatory classification schemes. Only a specialist could hope to keep track of them all.
Score points with users, but seriously lose them with carriers. Apple needs to maintain a good relationship with both.
Datawise, no. Phone calls, though transmitted digitally, are kept seperate from data by the network. It's a QoS thing, and also the reason you may find calls still work even if a data connection cannot be established.
That's how it works here in Europe, anyway. The US may be different.
Techno-socialism. The view that socialist economic structures can work when combined with modern information technology to allow more efficient management and more accountability of the government. Idealistic.
Also the view that in the longer term it may be the only form of economic structure that can work, as traditional free-market capitalism is entirely dependant upon a labor market that may be almost entirely collapsed by the spread of very-low-cost automation of jobs.
Not all. Some dumb people go on protest marches against the oppressive government (Or, in this age, DDoS the oppressor's website) and then are surprised to discover that they too can be thrown in jail.
Is any of that classful-only equipment still in use? It's gone beyond obsolete by now, even by government standards.
That works very well until you try to connect a new department up, and discover they also used 10.* for their network.
That was always the plan. First, you deploy ipv6 alongisde ipv4. Then you transition software over, and gradually phase ipv4 out entirely. Eventually you can turn off ipv4, and run a purely v6 network. It'd need a few dirty bodges involving tunneling and encapsulation for unsupported, non-updateable legacy apps for decades, but these would pose no more of a problem than the few remaining applications depending on NetBIOS or IPX posed.
Windows is the best because it's the biggest. It's the one OS that you can be sure every major piece of software will not only run on, but by extensively tested on. Likewise hardware: You can buy any hardware and be sure that not only will it run on Windows, but the drivers will be tested and retested. The superiority of windows isn't inherent, it's just a business issue: It dominates, which is an advantage in itsself.
Until the rise of the internet, it was the only way any artist could hope to achieve any fame or commercial success. The label provides the capital to record the record, the experts to make it happen, the promotional machine to get people to buy it, the money to mass-produce discs, and the contacts with retail to get those discs into stores. If your independant garage-band went to the Wal-Mart headquarters and asked if they would like to sell your music, it wouldn't matter how good you are: You'd be laughed out of the building.
It's a little better now - with the internet, it's possible for an artist to achieve some level of fame without a label (see Jonathan Coulton) and even commercial success, but even for the most talented their dreams of one day being superstars playing to packed stadiums are impossible without the marketing machine and business management that only a label can provide.
The decent ones cost money, they impact performance, and they take more knowledge to set up than just using a torrent client.
Which I just realised I spelled incorrectly.
Or in more modern terms, a mercinary.
You're far from the first to notice that simularity, but it seems to be entirely coincidential. They are both characters using the popular (accurate) perception of sewer rats as disease-ridden filthy animals, but Verminous just draws upon that image while Splinter subverts it. Both use it though to explain the character's isolation. Like all Captain Planet villains, Verminous never got a true origin story. I wonder if any fanfics address this.
Aside from the six previous supercomputers their government has built, you mean?
True, there are some things the private sector is better-suited for. But you make the mistake of infering from this that governments are incapable of doing anything.
Wouldn't work. The views of a politician depend upon who he believes is listening to the answer.
Captain Planet already did a rat-mutated villain. Verminous Skumm. Specialist in biological warfare, and aspiring ruler of the world. Due to his extreme ugliness and residence in the sewers he is often shunned even by the other villains, but his demonstrated scientific abilities are second only to Blight.
Radiation follows the usual inverse-square law. You can't render a large area dangerous with a point source, unless it's something crazy-radioactive like an unshielded nuclear reactor. If it were spread over a large area it could be more dangerous - even if the radiation itsself is of a very low level, radiation is scary, and could easily cause a panic.
This is true. There is a lot more to debate though regarding the significence of fundamentalist islam vs moderate islam - remembering that even moderate Islam has much the same social attitudes as the far-right Christian political movement. On the one hand, the percentage of Muslims who violently oppose the infidels is vanishingly tiny - a fraction of a fraction of a percent, and it wouldn't be fair to judge them all by the actions of such a small minority. On the other hand, even in places like Egypt, which is considered one of the most modern and westernised Muslim-majority countries, one recent PEW survey found 84% of the Muslim population believes anyone who leaves Islam should be executed*. Just because they aren't taking up arms doesn't mean their values are compatible with western notions like freedom of religion. These are very different cultures, and even the ideals that one consideres the most fundamental and self-evidently good are in another seen as advancing evil.
It's all very fuzzy. There are no clear boundries or definitions to even say what 'fundamentalist' Islam is, and views which could be considered abhorent and extremeist in one country are mainstream in others.
http://www.pewglobal.org/files/2010/12/Pew-Global-Attitudes-Muslim-Report-FINAL-December-2-2010.pdf - Page 14
I've not seen the film, but I have seen a lot of right-wing propaganda, and have my own theory. A common sentiment on the right is that the western world and the islamic world are already fighting an undeclared culture war, and there can be only one victor. They are very concerned that those on the left deny this. From the point of view of the right, this is a disaster: There is a war on, and their own generals refuse to fight back or even admit a conflict exists. Thus the production of materials like this, intended to be inflamatory and provoke a violent reaction, and force this simmering culture war into an open conflict which no-one can deny.
Just because people are outraged that the video exists doesn't mean they've actually seen it.
I imagine that if someone in the US military went around talking about how much they need to purge the world of the evils of Islam, their superiors would make sure they are kept far, far away from the front lines. Right now, it's important the US military mainstains a squeaky-clean image. People in uniform declaring they are waging holy war are just providing material for enemy propaganda.
There are only two types of people who will take the risk of activism against those willing to use violence: Those who are so dedicated they are willing to risk their life or freedom, and those who are too dumb to realise that is what they are doing.