No infant at THAT hospital has survived at that age.
Plenty of kids at other hospitals have survived I believe the record for youngest is 21 weeks 6 day and the record for the smallest is 244 grams. So this girl doesn't really come close to those records.
In the article the hospital says they are only equipped for deliveries of preemies 28+ weeks and usually refer to a hospital with more specialized equipment for the cases more premature than that.
Reality TV star, Josie Duggar, was born at 24 weeks and is doing great (newest member of the Duggar family from "19 kids and counting" on TLC)
This is nothing. Back in the day I lived in a state that allowed fireworks. Typically around New Years my friends and I would get some empty wrapping paper rolls, some bottle rockets and pretend like we had bazookas. Light a bottle rocket it, stick it in one end, watch it come out the other and go wherever you pointed it.
I'm sure that was breaking some kind of law, but it sure was fun. Of course we were smart enough to go out into the woods where no annoying parents or busy bodies were around to see.
My predictions:
1. TV Replacement - Built in HDTV antenna , will work with Apple TV or another wireless TV spec to stream TV directly to the tablet. Sure, we know about internet TV and hulu, but I'm talking over the air TV and live TV. Killer feature for something this size.
2. Kindle Competitor - My bet is a new display type that has a very low power ambient light setting that allows the screen to be as easy on the eyes as a Kindle or other eInk reader.
So, while this will be a laptop/phone hybrid, it's really going to go after the TV/Paper publishing angle for it to have mass appeal. While it can surf the web and do general laptoppy/phone things...I see it as really something that's looking to create a new market and kill netbooks and eReaders all in one swoop.
There are a ton of companies out there that offer free snackies, gyms, on-site doctors, etc. For the most part they are prudent financial decisions.
free snacks: the cost is VERY minimal compared to the good will generated and assuming it's stocked internally, you don't have to allow an outside vendor in to stock machines improving your security.
gyms: healthy employees cost less to insure. healthy employees miss less work. healthy employees are more attractive and will lead to improved workplace chemistry. healthy employees impress customers.
on-site doc: employees only need to take 30m off work to see the doc instead of having to get in a car, drive to their doc, wait, wait, wait, see doc, drive back to work which is 2 hrs minimum.
so, while a lot of these really seem excessive, they aren't.
http://www.nanosolar.com/
They produce very low cost solar electric cells that could be placed on roofs. Currently they are just under $1/kw and expect their prices to drop as they improve their methods. They are building a plant that should be able to churn out 400+ Mw of capacity a year which will triple the US production capacity of solar panels.
Again, I wasn't trying to hate on nuclear. I love it.
Progress Energy tripled its estimate for its new nuclear power plant in Levy County, saying Monday that the new price is$17-billion....
It plans to build two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors, with a capacity of 1,100 megawatts each.
So, instead of $1 million per megawatt, the projected costs would be $7.7 million per megawatt. I'm sure these costs would rise during construction.
I'm all for nuclear power, but it's EXPEN$IVE!
Hopefully companies like NanoSolar will save the day. I'm sure we could get 92 * 92 miles if we just put NanoSolar on every roof top. Although, I have no idea on the comparative efficiency.
I do like the idea of solar thermal as it builds upon very time tested steam generation technologies. All I know is the sooner we start, the sooner we can get off of fossil.
Furthermore, Wal-Mart has also done the same thing by basically dictating that it will start selling CDs at $9-$10 or it won't sell them at all. I'm kind of shocked the music industry just sat back and let that happen (even though it joys me to see people able to buy Beatles albums at a decent price). I mean, why should Wal-Mart be able to dictate MSRP? Oh, that's right, they are the all-encompassing Wal-Mart... they probably dictate how much I pay for milk at the local grocery store some how.
Wal-Mart is not all powerful, it's the "consumer" (as a group, not individuals) that is all powerful and merely Wal-Mart that is our voice. Consumers are not willing to pay $15 for two decent songs and a bunch of filler. Instead, we go on-line to buy A La Carte or download/steal. As a result, the product Wal-Mart has on their shelves is neither in high demand nor profitable. Wal-Mart is merely passing on the demands of the customer to lower the price of a CD.
Isn't this the root of the problem? Retail CDs are not a competitive product with downloads. Wal-Mart is telling the music industry to change their product so that it will compete and be a viable retail product or they'll drop it from their stores. If they can make more money by selling other products, they will.
Operators are expected to achieve "five nines" of reliability or "uptime" -- the service must be available 99.999% of the time -- and they must report any instances of downtime longer than 2 minutes. That's a miniscule five minutes of downtime in the 525,600 minutes in a year.
Let's see, in 1989 I survived Hurricane Hugo. We didn't have phone service for around one week. BellSouth just used up 2,000 years worth of downtime in one week.
A few years ago got hit by an ice storm and lost phone service for over 36 hours. There goes over 400 years of downtime.
While talking about 5 9's is very nice, when mother nature, an idiot with a backhoe or any number of other random occurrences can use up hundreds of years of downtime 5 9's will be impossible. Sure, you can talk about co-location, redundancy and plenty of other contingency plans but at the end of the day there has to be physical connections and those can and will be broken.
I would say the biggest difference is that AIR apps are not web pages. They are applications that have to be installed and have full desktop rights. So, anyone that can do html+ajax or flash can now create desktop apps.
I imagine the full desktop rights is the big kicker as they can interact with and affect the computer. Breaking out of the sandbox if you will. I would compare it to desktop java vs applets. The difference in capabilities is amazing when you are no longer restricted to the browser sandbox.
Money follows the power, not the other way around.
If Congress didn't have the power to extend copyrights indefinitely, do you think Disney would hire as many lobbyists? Microsoft only started spending money on lobbyists once the government threatened them with anti-trust lawsuits. GM, Ford, Chrysler all sought to have the government bail them out with the medicare/aid Rx plan.
As long as the government has a basically infinite power to regulate, harass, tax and reward companies, those companies will continue to influence that power to help them and hurt their competitors. We need a drastic reduction in power in Washington and the money will then magically disappear since it would buy these companies nothing.
Given Lessig's knowledge of the Constitution I find it amazing that he supports passing laws restricting both the freedom of speech and of the press.
There are times where I've wanted to leave negative or neutral feedback, but won't because I know I'll get retaliated and the negative feedback hurts me a lot more than it hurts a power seller with 10,000 transactions.
It seems standard practice these days that a seller won't even leave feedback until they see what you've written.
The rail guns aren't going to be used for something as mundane as point defense when there is already a very capable system for that. No, rail guns are going to be used for an age old problem of how to destroy something from a long ways away.
Pure and simple ordinance delivery is the problem these rail guns will solve.
Let's see...take a chunk of metal, shoot it at mach 6 and have it strike the earth 200 miles away. Add a little satellite guidance and next thing you know you are making a large deep crater exactly where you want it. Not to mention you are firing these guys 10 times a minute out of the gun.
Think of these as modern day battleships, except without the need for the VW sized powder bag or the 16" shell.
I guess that depends on your definition of camcorder? The camera's used on Cloverfield for the "camcorder" shots, were prosumer models. I think I've heard Sony F23's and Panasonic HVX200's. Which are both $5k before you start adding on fancy lenses. In addition there are some very small professional cameras that are used by news crews that are shoulder mounted and weigh under 10 lbs.
That said, this definitely wasn't filmed with a $500 best buy special.
Actually, the Post Offices is not one the things that need to go. Regardless, the Post Office has been self supporting since 1971. Not a dime of tax dollars go toward supporting it.
However, if you wanted to end the statutory monopoly that the USPS currently enjoys, I wouldn't see that as a bad thing as long as you require others that enter the first class postal business to also serve every single resident (as the USPS is required to do).
Not really. The PULSTAR is a whopping 1MW reactor. Although, it is kinda freaky that it sits right smack in the middle of campus and that must students don't even know it's there!
It's funny, I grew up with a phone infrastructure where I never experienced a dropped call -- granted, a less complex (wired) achievement, but had "wired" phone service been invented today, I suspect the standard would have been "less dropped calls", too... because maximized profit dominates the industries' collective motivations, not quality products.
What's really funny is that 20 years ago, wired long distance carriers were waging advertising battles over who had the clearest call. Sprint's "Pin Drop" ads probably set the bar in this respect.
So, while you take the wired phone service for granted, it hasn't been that long since call quality was a very important part of a consumers purchasing system.
Go back another 20 years to the '60s and you still had a significant portion of the phone network that was manually switched by human operators.
What seems to be missing in all the comments was that the store clerk did not accuse or suspect the idiot in question of shoplifting. It appears he was just the trained monkey that was to stand at the exit and examine all bags and receipts.
LOL!
What a mess. Now, if he had just said, "Yes, we suspect you of stealing. We've had three stolen Wii's in the past week and are examining all bags. Please allow us to search yours. I apologize for any inconvenience."
The best way to get them to stop is to pay your employees what they are worth and treat them well. They'll stop calling once they realize no one wants to leave your company because they are fat and happy.
I would think that the Zune team should be working on making a better mp3 player instead of trying to guilt trip MS employees into giving up their iPods.
Heck, it should be mandatory for every single employee on the Zune team to have an iPod just so they know what the best in breed mp3 player looks like.
A work created today has a copyright term of the life of the author plus 70 years or for works for hire a term of 95 years from first publication or 120 years from creation (whichever is sorter).
We'll give you fair use, if you give us limited times.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
You see, ever since the late 1920's Congress has been retroactively extending all copyrights every time they are close to expiring. The length of a copyright is currently at 95 years, which is far longer than the average author's life expectancy even if we assume they penned their work at the age of 1. Well past the lifetime of any human being if we assume they created their work after their teenage years. Every time copyrights are about to expire, congress extends them making them effectively unlimited.
So, how about a compromise here? We'll grant that not everything we do is fair use (such as posting to youtube.com and file sharing sites) and you grant us a copyright term of around 50 years?
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No infant at THAT hospital has survived at that age. Plenty of kids at other hospitals have survived I believe the record for youngest is 21 weeks 6 day and the record for the smallest is 244 grams. So this girl doesn't really come close to those records. In the article the hospital says they are only equipped for deliveries of preemies 28+ weeks and usually refer to a hospital with more specialized equipment for the cases more premature than that. Reality TV star, Josie Duggar, was born at 24 weeks and is doing great (newest member of the Duggar family from "19 kids and counting" on TLC)
This is nothing. Back in the day I lived in a state that allowed fireworks. Typically around New Years my friends and I would get some empty wrapping paper rolls, some bottle rockets and pretend like we had bazookas. Light a bottle rocket it, stick it in one end, watch it come out the other and go wherever you pointed it. I'm sure that was breaking some kind of law, but it sure was fun. Of course we were smart enough to go out into the woods where no annoying parents or busy bodies were around to see.
My predictions: 1. TV Replacement - Built in HDTV antenna , will work with Apple TV or another wireless TV spec to stream TV directly to the tablet. Sure, we know about internet TV and hulu, but I'm talking over the air TV and live TV. Killer feature for something this size. 2. Kindle Competitor - My bet is a new display type that has a very low power ambient light setting that allows the screen to be as easy on the eyes as a Kindle or other eInk reader. So, while this will be a laptop/phone hybrid, it's really going to go after the TV/Paper publishing angle for it to have mass appeal. While it can surf the web and do general laptoppy/phone things...I see it as really something that's looking to create a new market and kill netbooks and eReaders all in one swoop.
"Let's take away your ability to marry" Please do...prevent me from making yet another stupid mistake next time I visit Vegas!
The feds have been needed a computer that can balance a budget...think this monster is up to the task? Somehow I doubt it.
There are a ton of companies out there that offer free snackies, gyms, on-site doctors, etc. For the most part they are prudent financial decisions. free snacks: the cost is VERY minimal compared to the good will generated and assuming it's stocked internally, you don't have to allow an outside vendor in to stock machines improving your security. gyms: healthy employees cost less to insure. healthy employees miss less work. healthy employees are more attractive and will lead to improved workplace chemistry. healthy employees impress customers. on-site doc: employees only need to take 30m off work to see the doc instead of having to get in a car, drive to their doc, wait, wait, wait, see doc, drive back to work which is 2 hrs minimum. so, while a lot of these really seem excessive, they aren't.
http://www.nanosolar.com/ They produce very low cost solar electric cells that could be placed on roofs. Currently they are just under $1/kw and expect their prices to drop as they improve their methods. They are building a plant that should be able to churn out 400+ Mw of capacity a year which will triple the US production capacity of solar panels. Again, I wasn't trying to hate on nuclear. I love it.
Wal-Mart is not all powerful, it's the "consumer" (as a group, not individuals) that is all powerful and merely Wal-Mart that is our voice. Consumers are not willing to pay $15 for two decent songs and a bunch of filler. Instead, we go on-line to buy A La Carte or download/steal. As a result, the product Wal-Mart has on their shelves is neither in high demand nor profitable. Wal-Mart is merely passing on the demands of the customer to lower the price of a CD.
Isn't this the root of the problem? Retail CDs are not a competitive product with downloads. Wal-Mart is telling the music industry to change their product so that it will compete and be a viable retail product or they'll drop it from their stores. If they can make more money by selling other products, they will.
I would say the biggest difference is that AIR apps are not web pages. They are applications that have to be installed and have full desktop rights. So, anyone that can do html+ajax or flash can now create desktop apps.
I imagine the full desktop rights is the big kicker as they can interact with and affect the computer. Breaking out of the sandbox if you will. I would compare it to desktop java vs applets. The difference in capabilities is amazing when you are no longer restricted to the browser sandbox.
Money follows the power, not the other way around.
If Congress didn't have the power to extend copyrights indefinitely, do you think Disney would hire as many lobbyists? Microsoft only started spending money on lobbyists once the government threatened them with anti-trust lawsuits. GM, Ford, Chrysler all sought to have the government bail them out with the medicare/aid Rx plan.
As long as the government has a basically infinite power to regulate, harass, tax and reward companies, those companies will continue to influence that power to help them and hurt their competitors. We need a drastic reduction in power in Washington and the money will then magically disappear since it would buy these companies nothing.
Given Lessig's knowledge of the Constitution I find it amazing that he supports passing laws restricting both the freedom of speech and of the press.
I couldn't agree more.
There are times where I've wanted to leave negative or neutral feedback, but won't because I know I'll get retaliated and the negative feedback hurts me a lot more than it hurts a power seller with 10,000 transactions.
It seems standard practice these days that a seller won't even leave feedback until they see what you've written.
The rail guns aren't going to be used for something as mundane as point defense when there is already a very capable system for that. No, rail guns are going to be used for an age old problem of how to destroy something from a long ways away.
Pure and simple ordinance delivery is the problem these rail guns will solve.
Let's see...take a chunk of metal, shoot it at mach 6 and have it strike the earth 200 miles away. Add a little satellite guidance and next thing you know you are making a large deep crater exactly where you want it. Not to mention you are firing these guys 10 times a minute out of the gun.
Think of these as modern day battleships, except without the need for the VW sized powder bag or the 16" shell.
I guess that depends on your definition of camcorder? The camera's used on Cloverfield for the "camcorder" shots, were prosumer models. I think I've heard Sony F23's and Panasonic HVX200's. Which are both $5k before you start adding on fancy lenses. In addition there are some very small professional cameras that are used by news crews that are shoulder mounted and weigh under 10 lbs.
That said, this definitely wasn't filmed with a $500 best buy special.
"To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
Actually, the Post Offices is not one the things that need to go. Regardless, the Post Office has been self supporting since 1971. Not a dime of tax dollars go toward supporting it.
However, if you wanted to end the statutory monopoly that the USPS currently enjoys, I wouldn't see that as a bad thing as long as you require others that enter the first class postal business to also serve every single resident (as the USPS is required to do).
First I would send every single House Rep and Senator to Dave Ramsey's FPU and then I'd give the entire nation a Total Money Makeover.
:) I figure that's enough work to last me 8 years...trying to get this nation to control spending and get out of debt.
We could certainly use some good fiscal discipline.
That's about it
Not really. The PULSTAR is a whopping 1MW reactor. Although, it is kinda freaky that it sits right smack in the middle of campus and that must students don't even know it's there!
If you'd like to know more about State's NE program here is a link, http://www.ne.ncsu.edu/
What's really funny is that 20 years ago, wired long distance carriers were waging advertising battles over who had the clearest call. Sprint's "Pin Drop" ads probably set the bar in this respect.
So, while you take the wired phone service for granted, it hasn't been that long since call quality was a very important part of a consumers purchasing system.
Go back another 20 years to the '60s and you still had a significant portion of the phone network that was manually switched by human operators.
I don't think this is a ranked list. However, many AI's are already very very competent while most water looks like crap.
What seems to be missing in all the comments was that the store clerk did not accuse or suspect the idiot in question of shoplifting. It appears he was just the trained monkey that was to stand at the exit and examine all bags and receipts.
LOL!
What a mess. Now, if he had just said, "Yes, we suspect you of stealing. We've had three stolen Wii's in the past week and are examining all bags. Please allow us to search yours. I apologize for any inconvenience."
The best way to get them to stop is to pay your employees what they are worth and treat them well. They'll stop calling once they realize no one wants to leave your company because they are fat and happy.
I would think that the Zune team should be working on making a better mp3 player instead of trying to guilt trip MS employees into giving up their iPods.
Heck, it should be mandatory for every single employee on the Zune team to have an iPod just so they know what the best in breed mp3 player looks like.
My bad! That was from 1920-1963.
A work created today has a copyright term of the life of the author plus 70 years or for works for hire a term of 95 years from first publication or 120 years from creation (whichever is sorter).