Selective breeding in the past did not create the equivalent of a "critical mass". One or two relatively minor mutations across may be tens or hundreds of specimens, then later, more interbreedings to select the characteristics. All the while, nature and time being the moderator allowing the weak, damaged, or DANGEROUS to fail or be isolated in the necessarily small group. Instead, a hurried implementation of mass genetic change could conceivably create a critical mass, such as planting a gene corn throughout the world, and though maybe technically inferior over a long time, but strong enough to survive in the ecosystem and disrupt native species, even though the erosive nature of time and nature would eventually win by selection.
Does ten small, hairless dogs have a chance to propagate in the wilderness?
Does a million? A big difference.
I simply cannot agree that old style breeding == new style en-masse genetic manipulation.
I'd buy one in a heartbeat. I could envision a small(er) wind compressor continously charging the car for the four or five short, lightly loaded trips a week.
I forever don't see the need of a multi-national coming between me and dropping the kids of at school.
Contractor or not, Do your homework to see what Business can and will do given the opportunity. And, what Employees will do in reverse.
Lives were literally given on both sides and it took a long time to arrive where we are at; don't be naive about the whole thing with a simpleton view. The American Dream, however you define it, is at stake.
... has stockholders to appease. Every week Wall Street Analysts compare your company with others for the amount profit or revenue per employee, amount of benefits, etc.; there are many other metrics; some are weird but are still measurable.
Funding comes easily for "temporary" help.
I saw a top ten pharmaceutical company management *shrink* under that kind of pressure.
Be smart; say No to contract work unless you really thrive that way.
for patches that don't work, work properly, or goes "boing."
for doing Microsoft's work of verifying stability...
No small amount at Government charge-out rates, at some factor higher than "normal" copnstractor rates. Imagine the thousands of Gov. admins spending their time, your dollar, to do MS's work, for what they charge the Gov., us, a premium.
To be economical, HDTVs must shoot for massive integration on chip. Digital TV means exactly that.
Unless you have access to xray machine, the ability to open a chip and identify and inspect traces, and just generally reverse engineer the chipset, and then reprogram it, it is a sealed component and will be very difficult to circumvent.
Not saying it couldn't be done, but a frontal assault would be extremely difficult, so as always, a backdoor located would be the approach. But they know that.
They already live where they want, and definitely don't keep a permanent mailing address in a high-rent state. They already move their capital and investments wherever necessary to minimize effect, which doesn't help their local economy.
I still love them; I have turned my kids on to them. I still get out the old luan plywood box and wire up a radio or a light buzzer. Way too much fun, especially today when many toys I have seen take away the electrical build-it aspects. A radio kit with a pre-built circuit board? no thanks.
I started with the 100-in-one in 1970, roughly, the 20-inone, the 60 in one, the 120-in-one (1972?), and now the 200-in-one, EBay them for cheap, and I have found them in good shape at garage sales. A little work cleaned them up and they all work.
The biggest problem with them seemed to be that they put no support under the cardboard, causing them to sink in. Careful removal and placement of styro peanuts and the problem is solved.
Of course, you are right. Zeiss and Nikon sells crappy, non-existent coatings. And, polycarbonate lenses are not significantly harder and longer lasting than the cheap ones pawned on uneducated consumers. Eyeglass retailers of course are on the up and up. Why, I routinely find $400.00 frames, list, offered at a half off "discount". I always up for a bargain. Made where? In China, where you can buy an entire motorcycle for that price. Oh, I forgot the valuable service retailers add, the custom "fitting" and the "selection". One more over-priced, ripoff, outdated business model to die a painful death.
Well, except for the Ferrari... kid's college fund(!)
Lived in the Chicago 'burbs, but the career sucked and was expensive so I returned to Michigan, in the weeds; a new home on a 300 acre sandy, all-sports lake. In full disclosure, I bought 120 ft. of frontage for $20k 10 years ago but for retirment or speculation. I now have time to pursue an advanced degree (Mich. State, Grand Valley State, Cornerstone, Calvin, WMU all within commute distance) and hobbies (building the home, local ski resort), my kids are happy here and my wife found the best paying job of her career. Family is not nearby.
I could not have lived here before; I grew up in Michigan and it was desert island, a real backwater. But now it is possible and pleasant because of technology. Kinda weird the first few months; it's so quiet and Dark (I can see the Milky Way and often northern lights very clearly), and the Locals raise quite a ruckus on a Friday night, pissing in the streets after bar closing and pushing stop signs over...
$2800/year taxes on a $235k home, taxes tied to inflation, sales 6%.
The stores don't suck too bad; the locals have built quite a supply system, and Best Buy, WalMart, KMart, Meijer, RadioShack is only 10-45 minutes away. Good Chinese food, Pizza just a hop away. And these guys STILL build high performance cars, mud-boggers, snowmobiles, and motorcycles under the shade tree. This happens to be one of the poorest parts of the nation, and it shows.
Chicago is 3.5 hours away; did the museums this summer. I won't go back there to live, unless there is REAL opportunity, not a 60hr/wk job.
Not the toys (Mattle, etc.) but the original '60's versions like Aurora. There is still quite a large group of enthusiasts, many scales, and highly collectible (HO is still my favorite; Playing Mantis/Johhny Lightning has released a brand new chassis/bodies in HO) among many others.
Yes, Slots are always problematic for young kids, both mechanically and fine motor skills, but rebuilding, modifying, and racing something with real motors/brushes that you rewound and hopped up can be fun.
...ask (demand) for the *real* anti-scratch coatings. Sometimes you have to be quite forceful, as the retailer doesn't mind if they scratch so you buy new sooner. Other glass wearers I know are always replacing their glasses just because of lenses.
I take NO care of my plastic lenses, and have no scratches after 4 years of wearing them. They are semi-rimless, lightweight metal; not heavy frames or lenses.
MS gives IE away for free, but there are free alternatives like Firefox. If you want the "Real Thing", you must pay for it *and* its development. So many competing internal projects, one way to get attention/funding/support is to raise more outsider awareness and support, influencing the influencers to begin chanting "We want a new IE, better, faster and we are willing to pay for it".
Good Point. A question: do broadcasters *want* a tv to last twenty years; look how hard they have to work to roll in a new broadcast technology model, and maybe manufacturers want a ongoing revenue stream from a short-lived product. Let alone the DRM implmentation and acceptance issues. So, OLEDs may not be that far off in life span?
My buddies thought that my homebuilt eeprom programmer was neat, but a little wasteful of time, so they designed and built me an eeprom eraser; a fine piece of solder, wrapped oh so carefully around my soldering iron, that when turned on, released the full swing of a 16 oz. framing hammer.
Voila; permanent erasure. What a bunch of great guys.
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Selective breeding in the past did not create the equivalent of a "critical mass". One or two relatively minor mutations across may be tens or hundreds of specimens, then later, more interbreedings to select the characteristics. All the while, nature and time being the moderator allowing the weak, damaged, or DANGEROUS to fail or be isolated in the necessarily small group. Instead, a hurried implementation of mass genetic change could conceivably create a critical mass, such as planting a gene corn throughout the world, and though maybe technically inferior over a long time, but strong enough to survive in the ecosystem and disrupt native species, even though the erosive nature of time and nature would eventually win by selection.
Does ten small, hairless dogs have a chance to propagate in the wilderness?
Does a million? A big difference.
I simply cannot agree that old style breeding == new style en-masse genetic manipulation.
I'd buy one in a heartbeat. I could envision a small(er) wind compressor continously charging the car for the four or five short, lightly loaded trips a week.
I forever don't see the need of a multi-national coming between me and dropping the kids of at school.
Cheap hardware relies on someone willing to do it that cheaply; how long can this last?
Parables.
Someone has to pay for all the "service" they would be providing.
..picking up the NetID, and slapping on the ethernet address to generate a unique global address...
Maybe I got it wrong, but it seems hauntingly familiar.
Contractor or not,
Do your homework to see what Business can and will do given the opportunity. And, what Employees will do in reverse.
Lives were literally given on both sides and it took a long time to arrive where we are at; don't be naive about the whole thing with a simpleton view. The American Dream, however you define it, is at stake.
... has stockholders to appease. Every week Wall Street Analysts compare your company with others for the amount profit or revenue per employee, amount of benefits, etc.; there are many other metrics; some are weird but are still measurable.
Funding comes easily for "temporary" help.
I saw a top ten pharmaceutical company management *shrink* under that kind of pressure.
Be smart; say No to contract work unless you really thrive that way.
for patches that don't work, work properly, or goes "boing."
for doing Microsoft's work of verifying stability...
No small amount at Government charge-out rates, at some factor higher than "normal" copnstractor rates. Imagine the thousands of Gov. admins spending their time, your dollar, to do MS's work, for what they charge the Gov., us, a premium.
And I happen to be OK with Microsoft...
Especially as you age; either the medical, the movie, or the music industry, or the local school and library district.
It used to be when you aged, you had no wealth in general so no one bothered. But now they do.
To be economical, HDTVs must shoot for massive integration on chip. Digital TV means exactly that.
Unless you have access to xray machine, the ability to open a chip and identify and inspect traces, and just generally reverse engineer the chipset, and then reprogram it, it is a sealed component and will be very difficult to circumvent.
Not saying it couldn't be done, but a frontal assault would be extremely difficult, so as always, a backdoor located would be the approach.
But they know that.
so should you.
It looks like a combination of technologies to raise the efficiencies.
They already live where they want, and definitely don't keep a permanent mailing address in a high-rent state. They already move their capital and investments wherever necessary to minimize effect, which doesn't help their local economy.
I still love them; I have turned my kids on to them. I still get out the old luan plywood box and wire up a radio or a light buzzer. Way too much fun, especially today when many toys I have seen take away the electrical build-it aspects. A radio kit with a pre-built circuit board? no thanks.
I started with the 100-in-one in 1970, roughly, the 20-inone, the 60 in one, the 120-in-one (1972?), and now the 200-in-one, EBay them for cheap, and I have found them in good shape at garage sales. A little work cleaned them up and they all work.
The biggest problem with them seemed to be that they put no support under the cardboard, causing them to sink in. Careful removal and placement of styro peanuts and the problem is solved.
Of course, you are right. Zeiss and Nikon sells crappy, non-existent coatings. And, polycarbonate lenses are not significantly harder and longer lasting than the cheap ones pawned on uneducated consumers. Eyeglass retailers of course are on the up and up. Why, I routinely find $400.00 frames, list, offered at a half off "discount". I always up for a bargain. Made where? In China, where you can buy an entire motorcycle for that price. Oh, I forgot the valuable service retailers add, the custom "fitting" and the "selection". One more over-priced, ripoff, outdated business model to die a painful death.
Well, except for the Ferrari... kid's college fund(!)
Lived in the Chicago 'burbs, but the career sucked and was expensive so I returned to Michigan, in the weeds; a new home on a 300 acre sandy, all-sports lake. In full disclosure, I bought 120 ft. of frontage for $20k 10 years ago but for retirment or speculation. I now have time to pursue an advanced degree (Mich. State, Grand Valley State, Cornerstone, Calvin, WMU all within commute distance) and hobbies (building the home, local ski resort), my kids are happy here and my wife found the best paying job of her career. Family is not nearby.
I could not have lived here before; I grew up in Michigan and it was desert island, a real backwater. But now it is possible and pleasant because of technology. Kinda weird the first few months; it's so quiet and Dark (I can see the Milky Way and often northern lights very clearly), and the Locals raise quite a ruckus on a Friday night, pissing in the streets after bar closing and pushing stop signs over...
$2800/year taxes on a $235k home, taxes tied to inflation, sales 6%.
The stores don't suck too bad; the locals have built quite a supply system, and Best Buy, WalMart, KMart, Meijer, RadioShack is only 10-45 minutes away. Good Chinese food, Pizza just a hop away. And these guys STILL build high performance cars, mud-boggers, snowmobiles, and motorcycles under the shade tree. This happens to be one of the poorest parts of the nation, and it shows.
Chicago is 3.5 hours away; did the museums this summer. I won't go back there to live, unless there is REAL opportunity, not a 60hr/wk job.
Not the toys (Mattle, etc.) but the original '60's versions like Aurora. There is still quite a large group of enthusiasts, many scales, and highly collectible (HO is still my favorite; Playing Mantis/Johhny Lightning has released a brand new chassis/bodies in HO) among many others.
Yes, Slots are always problematic for young kids, both mechanically and fine motor skills, but rebuilding, modifying, and racing something with real motors/brushes that you rewound and hopped up can be fun.
... now enshrined, his words will last longer than the actual deeds or details?
I take NO care of my plastic lenses, and have no scratches after 4 years of wearing them. They are semi-rimless, lightweight metal; not heavy frames or lenses.
a serf being shaken down by the landlord. Granted, it's not food, but it isn't music (art) nearly as important(to human existence and experience)?
Isn't this close to having to buy from the company store?
MS gives IE away for free, but there are free alternatives like Firefox. If you want the "Real Thing", you must pay for it *and* its development. So many competing internal projects, one way to get attention/funding/support is to raise more outsider awareness and support, influencing the influencers to begin chanting "We want a new IE, better, faster and we are willing to pay for it".
Dunno.
Good Point. A question: do broadcasters *want* a tv to last twenty years; look how hard they have to work to roll in a new broadcast technology model, and maybe manufacturers want a ongoing revenue stream from a short-lived product. Let alone the DRM implmentation and acceptance issues. So, OLEDs may not be that far off in life span?
Am I expecting them to drop in any minute? Will I do it anyhow?
RaygunDan;
My buddies thought that my homebuilt eeprom programmer was neat, but a little wasteful of time, so they designed and built me an eeprom eraser; a fine piece of solder, wrapped oh so carefully around my soldering iron, that when turned on, released the full swing of a 16 oz. framing hammer.
Voila; permanent erasure. What a bunch of great guys.