You cannot easily load *other* sources of applications, say though Google Store. You are locked into Amazon's app store.
Can you crack into them? Sure, but Amazon is free to not consider it a Kindle if you do that. You can load your developed applications? Sure. But from the perspective of the customer, the Kindle is not open.... To you? Do what you want, but Amazon doesn't take kindly to hacking the kindle (what ever that means).
I would only add that Operators MUST be non-commercial to be subject to your rules.
Why?
Because commercial use of airspace is squarely in the FAA's wheelhouse. Conducting business in the air is what the FAA is about, and their primary focus. Hobby use of the airspace is something they won't care about if you are low enough and far enough away from people and structures.
But you are asking the wrong question.... What you should be asking is how should the regulations be different for the business?
I don't imagine that there would be much of a difference, mainly because I don't figure the FAA is going to care much if a business decides to fly under 400' away from populated areas, but it's likely going to limit the business usefulness in that case. I imagine that the business use of the airspace over populated areas is going to require licenses, inspections, minimum equipment features, and operating rules. But with that, businesses will get the privilege to work in areas that will be more profitable.
I'm not surprised. Face it, Ipads are EXPENSIVE toys for most people buying them. Yea, it runs IOS like a lot of phones, but at what price?
Amazon has been selling their Kindle devices for a LOT less, given what you get for for the money. I'm not a Kindle zealot (I hate that they are totally locked down) but Apple needs to face the fact that there are now other options out there that do just about everything that IPad can and they are cheaper. Add to that the large scale adoption of Android in both the handset and tablet market (including the Kindle, under the covers) and it is clear that Apple's dominance of this market is over. What can apple do? Add memory, processor speed, flash and battery life? Maybe higher resolution display hardware but what's that worth if you cannot really see a difference? Apple is about done with the tablet, unless they can innovate into something else, but what? Their run is over.
Who is surprised by this? Apple is getting its clock cleaned by Android, which is a trend I don't see changing. Not to mention that Microsoft is pushing pretty hard to stay relevant in the market. This is the problem with being in first place, everybody is gunning for you and it takes serious innovation to keep ahead of the pack. It may not be time to be short selling apple, but if I owned this stock, I would certainly have standing stop orders in place around any major scheduled press conferences.
I would only add that Operators MUST be non-commercial to be subject to your rules. Meaning that the activity must not be part of a "for profit" business, or additional requirements from the FAA may apply. If you are a hobbyist, flying for personal fun and stay away from populated areas and full sized aircraft, you should be able to fly your toy.
Anyone flying an RC aircraft has to follow precisely the same regulations. You can't violate airspace rules or operate recklessly. It's just that typically RC aircraft hobbyists have much more care and intelligence than random flaming assholes.
Us RC hobbyists also don't fly above 500', over populated areas, in restricted airspace, or near airports... At least the RESPONSIBLE ones don't. This nutcase deserves to be accosted by the FAA, as well as the local police for being a public danger, not to mention the owners of the property he damaged. Have fun with your toys, but do it responsibly.
You don't really have to test. It's pretty clear what you need to do and medically it's easy to cook up a way to do that using commonly available drugs. If you can induce unconsciousness, there is no pain. Then it's a question of how you want to induce death and what medication does that.
Or you can advertize for volunteers and actually test right?
can now be labeled 'tested'.
The test can either be graded as a success/fail according to your ethics.
EPIC FAILURE, but it wasn't really a failure of the drug mix. What we had was a failure of the delivery system and the process to deal with such failures. They won't make the same mistake again.
Besides, it's not as if this drug mix hasn't been used successfully before. It has. We know the mix works just fine, you just have to get it into the subject...
It was an execution that almost certainly violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The INTENT of the execution was NOT to cause him pain. The intent was to put him to sleep, then when he was unconscious, cause his death by medication. No pain is caused when this process works as designed. Had the IV not malfunctioned, or had they caught the fact that it had before they started the lethal part of the medication delivery, there would have been no pain caused.
The PROBLEM was that the IV they where using to deliver the medications blew out the vein and stopped working sometime after the sleeping medication was started. This only became apparent AFTER the medications used to cause his death had been delivered. This was an unfortunate accident.
This will and should cause a care examination of the process being used. They will make adjustments to avoid this problem in the future. But one thing is CLEAR, this was not because they where using some untested mix of medications or the wrong dosages. I'm guessing that from now on they will start two IV's and then be ready to keep the subject unconscious though either, while the lethal medications are administered.
Episode VII is the movie they should have made years ago. Instead, we got the godawful prequels and now all the original cast is a hundred years old and will be lucky to get through filming without needing paramedics standing by at all times.
Have you watched any Harrison Ford movie in the past 20 years where you thought he did a good job? I haven't.
I must disagree. Mr. Ford has played in a number of films where I thought he did an excellent job, even though the films where of marginal quality overall. His portrayal of Jack Ryan is pretty good and both of those movies are worth seeing. I thought "Six Days Seven Nights" was horrible as a movie, but Harrison Ford was good in it. "The Fugitive" is a really great film for him as was "Witness" and "Sabrina" and they are well worth seeing, but forget about "K-19", "Random hearts", and "Air Force One". "Regarding Henry" is interesting too if you get a chance.
Don't judge Harrison Ford by his "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" characters which are both campy and unbelievable. But in both of these cases, remember that it's not about the characters in an action/adventure film anyway. It's about special effects and the action sequences. The characters are there to provide enough story to keep you engaged long enough to set up the next fight scene, car chase, gun fight or explosion.
I'm with you on your #1 and #2, but I thought Jedi was better than the episodes that came after the original trilogy. It might be that I didn't see the last three installments in theater but on DVD later. Actually, I only saw Empire and Jedi in theater, so I actually saw the original film after the last two.
Where I thought the prequels where interesting, and I generally enjoyed them, I found the inconsistencies in the story line way too distracting, not to mention all the new aliens they invented where even more trumped up than the original three. But hey, if you like them, feel free to watch them.
These are not the actors you are looking for... (Or the story, writers, or director.....)
You KNOW that after 6 movies of declining quality and a host of spin off cartoons of horrible quality, this can go only one way. I'm already disappointed that they didn't leave the story alone after the first three (i.e. Star Wars, Empire, Return). What can they do now? Invent another alien character like JarJar Binks? PLEASE NOOOOOOooooooo!!!
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Intelligently move into management?
Seriously, this is Slashdot you are asking, you've already FAILED at the intelligently part..
I get the impression that you've already agreed to the new job and now are having second thoughts but cannot take it back. If this is true, stop messing with Slashdot and HIRE your replacement. You have no choice, learn to sit on your hands and if you don't learn this quick, you are going to always have TWO jobs which you will be horrible at, one paycheck and zero free time..
But you need to get out before the price goes down...
The simple fact that you are comparing BitCoin to its price, indicates to me that it is a poor imitation of an investment. If BitCoin is a currency, who cares what it costs... The question is what can you GET for them... Right now? Not much. So it doesn't really matter how many of them there are.
Yea, but they will run their mining operations in their dorm rooms and MIT lab computers which will increase the university's electric bill by thousands of dollars a month. In the end, the University will have paid for one HUGE pot party and the further decline of their student's potential. Then when they try to clamp down on the parasite electricity drain, it will be time to break out the riot gear.
Oh I would in a second.... The rules of physics don't change despite our imaginations or wishes to the contrary. Some things are easy, some just possible but hard, others simply are not going to happen.
In order to establish communication over distances measured in "light years" it is going to take some serious coordination or incredibly lucky circumstances. The SETI projects results pretty much proves that. (Or does it prove life is unique to this solar system? Naw, but it's evidence of that.. )
I don't think we will break the speed of light barrier, assuming Relativity doesn't prove to be an approximation like Newtonian physics turned out to be. All indications are the special relativity is here to stay.
"Pretty much useless"? Do you have any idea how much we would learn about biology and the origins of life?
How? By having Morse code conversations with somebody when it takes 20 years get an answer to your question? Heck, it's going to take a career just to come up with valid questions... By then, the tinfoil hats will be claiming we didn't really hear anything, just like they don't think we went to the moon..
I'll concede your point, but I think it is of less value than you might think. My point really is, you will never be able to go there, so look if you are interested, just don't start making plans to visit. Heck, Mars is about as far as we will personally be able to go...
I suppose that depends on where you live. I have three choices for cable where I live. 1. Time Warner Cable, 2. Verizon FiOS, and 3. Dish.
The first two compete for phone, internet and cable services while the last one only for TV and possibly internet if you don't care about latency much.
Not that this makes it a free market, but it's better than nothing. You do understand the alternative to giving the vendors access rights is pretty much no service at all right? But I'm sorta with you in that I think such agreements should be time limited and/or require non-exclusive arrangements to allow multiple providers to use the infrastructure. Say the company that puts in the cable lines gets 10 years exclusive use and then surrender the whole infrastructure, or they must allow third party use of the infrastructure in a way that fosters competition.
Assuming we actually FIND something/someone to talk to out there..
We will NEVER be able to get there, or ever hope to even send something there (where ever there might be) and they are not coming here. We'd be better off trying to catch their attention by doing the cosmic equivalent of yelling (i.e. sending strong radio pulses) at them. But it's going to be like trying to get the attention of a rock fan in the mosh pit from the back row in the stadium using your cupped hands. Not to mention that it's going to take about 9 years to get a response if we found a habitable planet around Alpha Centauri, which so far has not been forthcoming. (Nearest possible place is 20+ Light years round trip).
It may be fun to look, but it's pretty much useless.. We are here to stay at this point. At least until we can figure out how to go faster than the speed of light, safely. And if we can do that, we can get out of black holes too...
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You cannot easily load *other* sources of applications, say though Google Store. You are locked into Amazon's app store.
Can you crack into them? Sure, but Amazon is free to not consider it a Kindle if you do that. You can load your developed applications? Sure. But from the perspective of the customer, the Kindle is not open.... To you? Do what you want, but Amazon doesn't take kindly to hacking the kindle (what ever that means).
I would only add that Operators MUST be non-commercial to be subject to your rules.
Why?
Because commercial use of airspace is squarely in the FAA's wheelhouse. Conducting business in the air is what the FAA is about, and their primary focus. Hobby use of the airspace is something they won't care about if you are low enough and far enough away from people and structures.
But you are asking the wrong question.... What you should be asking is how should the regulations be different for the business?
I don't imagine that there would be much of a difference, mainly because I don't figure the FAA is going to care much if a business decides to fly under 400' away from populated areas, but it's likely going to limit the business usefulness in that case. I imagine that the business use of the airspace over populated areas is going to require licenses, inspections, minimum equipment features, and operating rules. But with that, businesses will get the privilege to work in areas that will be more profitable.
I'm not surprised. Face it, Ipads are EXPENSIVE toys for most people buying them. Yea, it runs IOS like a lot of phones, but at what price?
Amazon has been selling their Kindle devices for a LOT less, given what you get for for the money. I'm not a Kindle zealot (I hate that they are totally locked down) but Apple needs to face the fact that there are now other options out there that do just about everything that IPad can and they are cheaper. Add to that the large scale adoption of Android in both the handset and tablet market (including the Kindle, under the covers) and it is clear that Apple's dominance of this market is over. What can apple do? Add memory, processor speed, flash and battery life? Maybe higher resolution display hardware but what's that worth if you cannot really see a difference? Apple is about done with the tablet, unless they can innovate into something else, but what? Their run is over.
Who is surprised by this? Apple is getting its clock cleaned by Android, which is a trend I don't see changing. Not to mention that Microsoft is pushing pretty hard to stay relevant in the market. This is the problem with being in first place, everybody is gunning for you and it takes serious innovation to keep ahead of the pack. It may not be time to be short selling apple, but if I owned this stock, I would certainly have standing stop orders in place around any major scheduled press conferences.
I would only add that Operators MUST be non-commercial to be subject to your rules. Meaning that the activity must not be part of a "for profit" business, or additional requirements from the FAA may apply. If you are a hobbyist, flying for personal fun and stay away from populated areas and full sized aircraft, you should be able to fly your toy.
Anyone flying an RC aircraft has to follow precisely the same regulations. You can't violate airspace rules or operate recklessly. It's just that typically RC aircraft hobbyists have much more care and intelligence than random flaming assholes.
Us RC hobbyists also don't fly above 500', over populated areas, in restricted airspace, or near airports... At least the RESPONSIBLE ones don't. This nutcase deserves to be accosted by the FAA, as well as the local police for being a public danger, not to mention the owners of the property he damaged. Have fun with your toys, but do it responsibly.
How does one test lethal injections?
You don't really have to test. It's pretty clear what you need to do and medically it's easy to cook up a way to do that using commonly available drugs. If you can induce unconsciousness, there is no pain. Then it's a question of how you want to induce death and what medication does that.
Or you can advertize for volunteers and actually test right?
can now be labeled 'tested'. The test can either be graded as a success/fail according to your ethics.
EPIC FAILURE, but it wasn't really a failure of the drug mix. What we had was a failure of the delivery system and the process to deal with such failures. They won't make the same mistake again.
Besides, it's not as if this drug mix hasn't been used successfully before. It has. We know the mix works just fine, you just have to get it into the subject...
It was an execution that almost certainly violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The INTENT of the execution was NOT to cause him pain. The intent was to put him to sleep, then when he was unconscious, cause his death by medication. No pain is caused when this process works as designed. Had the IV not malfunctioned, or had they caught the fact that it had before they started the lethal part of the medication delivery, there would have been no pain caused.
The PROBLEM was that the IV they where using to deliver the medications blew out the vein and stopped working sometime after the sleeping medication was started. This only became apparent AFTER the medications used to cause his death had been delivered. This was an unfortunate accident.
This will and should cause a care examination of the process being used. They will make adjustments to avoid this problem in the future. But one thing is CLEAR, this was not because they where using some untested mix of medications or the wrong dosages. I'm guessing that from now on they will start two IV's and then be ready to keep the subject unconscious though either, while the lethal medications are administered.
Episode VII is the movie they should have made years ago. Instead, we got the godawful prequels and now all the original cast is a hundred years old and will be lucky to get through filming without needing paramedics standing by at all times.
Have you watched any Harrison Ford movie in the past 20 years where you thought he did a good job? I haven't.
I must disagree. Mr. Ford has played in a number of films where I thought he did an excellent job, even though the films where of marginal quality overall. His portrayal of Jack Ryan is pretty good and both of those movies are worth seeing. I thought "Six Days Seven Nights" was horrible as a movie, but Harrison Ford was good in it. "The Fugitive" is a really great film for him as was "Witness" and "Sabrina" and they are well worth seeing, but forget about "K-19", "Random hearts", and "Air Force One". "Regarding Henry" is interesting too if you get a chance.
Don't judge Harrison Ford by his "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" characters which are both campy and unbelievable. But in both of these cases, remember that it's not about the characters in an action/adventure film anyway. It's about special effects and the action sequences. The characters are there to provide enough story to keep you engaged long enough to set up the next fight scene, car chase, gun fight or explosion.
You forgot the start of the Title sequence...
A long time ago, In a galaxy far far away..... (pause)
I'm with you on your #1 and #2, but I thought Jedi was better than the episodes that came after the original trilogy. It might be that I didn't see the last three installments in theater but on DVD later. Actually, I only saw Empire and Jedi in theater, so I actually saw the original film after the last two.
Where I thought the prequels where interesting, and I generally enjoyed them, I found the inconsistencies in the story line way too distracting, not to mention all the new aliens they invented where even more trumped up than the original three. But hey, if you like them, feel free to watch them.
These are not the actors you are looking for... (Or the story, writers, or director .....)
You KNOW that after 6 movies of declining quality and a host of spin off cartoons of horrible quality, this can go only one way. I'm already disappointed that they didn't leave the story alone after the first three (i.e. Star Wars, Empire, Return). What can they do now? Invent another alien character like JarJar Binks? PLEASE NOOOOOOooooooo!!!
Who knows... I'm just foreseeing the future..
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Intelligently move into management?
Seriously, this is Slashdot you are asking, you've already FAILED at the intelligently part..
I get the impression that you've already agreed to the new job and now are having second thoughts but cannot take it back. If this is true, stop messing with Slashdot and HIRE your replacement. You have no choice, learn to sit on your hands and if you don't learn this quick, you are going to always have TWO jobs which you will be horrible at, one paycheck and zero free time. .
What does the IRS think about this little financial transaction?
Never fear, the IRS will get their cut. Just remember that they will never accept BitCoin, only DOLLARS.
But you need to get out before the price goes down...
The simple fact that you are comparing BitCoin to its price, indicates to me that it is a poor imitation of an investment. If BitCoin is a currency, who cares what it costs... The question is what can you GET for them... Right now? Not much. So it doesn't really matter how many of them there are.
Yea, but they will run their mining operations in their dorm rooms and MIT lab computers which will increase the university's electric bill by thousands of dollars a month. In the end, the University will have paid for one HUGE pot party and the further decline of their student's potential. Then when they try to clamp down on the parasite electricity drain, it will be time to break out the riot gear.
Transit time + cosmic radiation = certain death
Special relativity doesn't help..
You got a point... #5 was pretty bad, sort of like 1 and 3 where... Yawn
I wouldn't take that bet.
Oh I would in a second.... The rules of physics don't change despite our imaginations or wishes to the contrary. Some things are easy, some just possible but hard, others simply are not going to happen.
In order to establish communication over distances measured in "light years" it is going to take some serious coordination or incredibly lucky circumstances. The SETI projects results pretty much proves that. (Or does it prove life is unique to this solar system? Naw, but it's evidence of that.. )
I don't think we will break the speed of light barrier, assuming Relativity doesn't prove to be an approximation like Newtonian physics turned out to be. All indications are the special relativity is here to stay.
"Pretty much useless"? Do you have any idea how much we would learn about biology and the origins of life?
How? By having Morse code conversations with somebody when it takes 20 years get an answer to your question? Heck, it's going to take a career just to come up with valid questions... By then, the tinfoil hats will be claiming we didn't really hear anything, just like they don't think we went to the moon..
I'll concede your point, but I think it is of less value than you might think. My point really is, you will never be able to go there, so look if you are interested, just don't start making plans to visit. Heck, Mars is about as far as we will personally be able to go...
I suppose that depends on where you live. I have three choices for cable where I live. 1. Time Warner Cable, 2. Verizon FiOS, and 3. Dish.
The first two compete for phone, internet and cable services while the last one only for TV and possibly internet if you don't care about latency much.
Not that this makes it a free market, but it's better than nothing. You do understand the alternative to giving the vendors access rights is pretty much no service at all right? But I'm sorta with you in that I think such agreements should be time limited and/or require non-exclusive arrangements to allow multiple providers to use the infrastructure. Say the company that puts in the cable lines gets 10 years exclusive use and then surrender the whole infrastructure, or they must allow third party use of the infrastructure in a way that fosters competition.
Assuming we actually FIND something/someone to talk to out there..
We will NEVER be able to get there, or ever hope to even send something there (where ever there might be) and they are not coming here. We'd be better off trying to catch their attention by doing the cosmic equivalent of yelling (i.e. sending strong radio pulses) at them. But it's going to be like trying to get the attention of a rock fan in the mosh pit from the back row in the stadium using your cupped hands. Not to mention that it's going to take about 9 years to get a response if we found a habitable planet around Alpha Centauri, which so far has not been forthcoming. (Nearest possible place is 20+ Light years round trip).
It may be fun to look, but it's pretty much useless.. We are here to stay at this point. At least until we can figure out how to go faster than the speed of light, safely. And if we can do that, we can get out of black holes too...
Mr Scott got to chase the girl on occasion...
Wasn't he and Uhura an item at one point? Also season 3 episode 18 "The Lights of Zetar" Scottie has a girlfriend.