The rumor about having a MEMS camera was based on someone checking the leaked phone logs, and seeing that the Sony sensor used by the camera was the same sensor used by the company that builds MEMS cameras. In other words, a leap of hope.
You do know that Social Security is completely paid for, has always been, through the soc sec trust fund (simplifying here)? The government borrows from social security! Not is it not " financially unfeasible" as you seem to think, but is't been (very) solvent for over 60 years, and with some relatively small adjustments, will be that way for ever.
But I read the rest of your nonsense, and it wouldn't surprise me if you didn't know this.
Found that out years ago. Got my HDHomerun box, put it on the wi-fi, and no worky. The "54 Mb/s" wi-fi couldn't do 12 Mb/s (or whatever 1080p over-the-air channel puts out) sustained through a wall.
But in this case, land is far less cheap today (no Native Americans to take it from, for starters). Railways were the enabling technology upon which the US was built then, now they hyperthingie just gets people from A to B - no freight, nothing radically new added to the transportation options already available. It would be a great make-work project, except there are millions of much better such projects available - crumbling bridges, for instance.
And really, is this a viable future technology, let alone a "futuristic" one?
The cheapest way to move people intercity is steel wheel on steel rail. Any transport expert worth his salt should know that. Why, in Japan, Europe, and China, they're already moving people at over 200 mph average. Today.
But if you can ignore practical considerations (like "visionary" businessmen can do) because the people (read governments) are willing to let you externalize costs such as land, hazard insurance, accident clean-up costs, etc. then sure, hyper-my-loop away.
The drugs are expensive because of the patents on them that allow big pharma to monopolize them. In this case, the people who develop the genes will then be poached by big pharma, or will form their own company, or the university will sell the patents to an IP shop, which will leave us exactly where we were before. But we will have glowing rabbits.
So spare me the homilies about poor people and drugs, and just say "shiny glowing rabbits!!! FTW!!!"
Ah, come on! They don't need to disappear them! With a population of 550, the rest of the country is probably heavily subsiding their post office, sheriff, the road that lets them even exist. In other words, the purse strings. They probably think they're out there, pioneers in the wilderness, and such BS.
I can see all of these problems being addressed if there is demand, especially with the kinds of money train-plane will involve.
For example, people want to move fast and on schedule - so use the bus as a feeder from downtown, suburban, or whatever areas are far away from the rail station. Drive the bus onto the train - you don't need Greyhound-style 45' buses, just Sprinters or something lighter. Once the train in under-way, passengers and leave the bus and use restrooms, pantry cars, etc. on the train. As for waiting for other buses, the train can carry a few buses, and me mostly regular passenger rail cars, so it isn't waiting on many buses. Can this really be worse than the flight delays these days?
Truck to train has been going on for decades. A more feasible approach is to have buses that can be driven on to, or hooked up to trains. It wouldn't cover the kinds of distances planes can, but it would happen a lot sooner.
Which comes first, the lithium-xxx battery that will last 7 days, or the plane-train?
If I buy a store brand potato chip all the time, and they give me a coupon for say, Frito Lays, I'm not like "hey, invasion of privacy", but more like "hmmm, only 25 c more for Frito, I'll try it, maybe I'll like it."
AC units for data centers can be ordered with economizers, which will vent outside air in when there's enough cooling potential. They will filter it, etc.
Interestingly enough, these units have to be freeze-rated also.
Like with Swartz, this is the prosecutors Christmas-treeing up the charges, to psych and make it too expensive for the defendants; and make them settle - for money, some jail time, whatever. That way they can chalk one up in the win column, which looks pretty good when they run for office. I'm assuming the defendant here was white, because if he were black, I'd expect to see charges for tax evasion, aiding offshore combatants, and possession of skills with intention to use for mass destruction of capitalism.
I don't "need" to "prove" anything. I stated an opinion, based upon what I put out there, and based upon what you choose to google for and read, you can choose to believe it, or not.
Animal testing is inhumane, but it is also mostly bogus. They immuno-suppressed the f out of these animals, right? So they'll easily develop cancers and other diseases, right? Yeah, so what relevance does that animal have to humans? Zilch. It is accepted that mice testing is simply something to get out of the way, something to get funding for ('cause all that the funders - like the NIH in the US - recognize is testing on mice). They get it out of the way, so they can get to human trials, and that's where you find out what works for humans and what doesn't.
I need to archive emails that I can search later - but with a twist. These are employees who've left the company. I can't keep 'em on at Google Apps 'cause I have to pay for that by user. So I use IMAP (making sure to set Chats to be shown in the IMAP list), create an account in Thunderbird, and slurp it all on to the local machine. It keeps all the folders, although I doesn't seem to be smart enough to figure out multiple labels, so it looks like it downloads the same email multiple times, once for it's folder, and once for "All Mail." Then I delete the account at Google. You just have to be sure to click through all the folders in Thunderbird and make sure it is done downloading before you blow the Google account away.
No, T-Mobile's plans (well, at least the one I have) come with free and lousy voicemail. Ever want to hear that waiting voicemail early in the morning because it could be from work? Well, how's about you go through 29 of your saved voicemail that must be re-saved or will be deleted before you can hear the new voicemail? Hows about you can't go to their site and download the ones you want to save?
Oh, you want to do that! OK, well, that will be premium voicemail. But yeah, the cheap-and-it-shows version is free.
RDP is fast even on a Linux box, so are you implying that the RDP client(s) in Linux know windows painting commands sent by Windows apps/desktops? If so, then why isn't there a Linux remoting solution that uses the same commands?
Something that's always been bugging me... why is RDP so much better (no, not flamebait, RDP has been buttery smooth even over ATT 1.5 Mbps "broadband")? And been that way for years, better than the lightweight VNCs, remote Xs, and the latest X2gos.
Is there a fundamental difference in how RDP does it vs X?
BTW, I'm talking the RDP clients that come with Windows, not the $$ Citrix ones.
And it is interesting that they don't fully understand the choice of lifestyle they made. So governments in Europe are moving to put in austerity measures, which is deepening their recession instead of helping. At least France did, until Hollande stopped going full bore austerity.
And they have a nice lifestyle, no healthcare bankruptcies, and they make decent stuff. They even decided not use LiON batteries in the A380, so it's not like they became completely vegetative because they don't have constant downward wage pressure to make them work hard like in a union-busting US state.
Oh, I missed the memo. Is the revolution here? Is it time to line 'em up against the wall?
But seriously, lawmakers talking of laws being too harsh? Judges releasing people convicted under three-strikes in California? For America with its chart-topping prison population numbers, that's revolutionary enough.
The evolution of sensory organs is satisfactorily explained by an increasingly complex series of organs in different species. ID, on the other hand, has no explanation (not that ID and reality - otherwise known as "science" need to have competing explanations). And Darwin != evolution.
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The rumor about having a MEMS camera was based on someone checking the leaked phone logs, and seeing that the Sony sensor used by the camera was the same sensor used by the company that builds MEMS cameras. In other words, a leap of hope.
You do know that Social Security is completely paid for, has always been, through the soc sec trust fund (simplifying here)? The government borrows from social security! Not is it not " financially unfeasible" as you seem to think, but is't been (very) solvent for over 60 years, and with some relatively small adjustments, will be that way for ever.
But I read the rest of your nonsense, and it wouldn't surprise me if you didn't know this.
Or maybe they want to ape Macs. The problem with that is given a choice between pretend-MacOS and real MacOS, people will choose the real one.
Found that out years ago. Got my HDHomerun box, put it on the wi-fi, and no worky. The "54 Mb/s" wi-fi couldn't do 12 Mb/s (or whatever 1080p over-the-air channel puts out) sustained through a wall.
Theoretically speaking, sure, just like you said.
But in this case, land is far less cheap today (no Native Americans to take it from, for starters). Railways were the enabling technology upon which the US was built then, now they hyperthingie just gets people from A to B - no freight, nothing radically new added to the transportation options already available. It would be a great make-work project, except there are millions of much better such projects available - crumbling bridges, for instance.
And really, is this a viable future technology, let alone a "futuristic" one?
The cheapest way to move people intercity is steel wheel on steel rail. Any transport expert worth his salt should know that. Why, in Japan, Europe, and China, they're already moving people at over 200 mph average. Today.
But if you can ignore practical considerations (like "visionary" businessmen can do) because the people (read governments) are willing to let you externalize costs such as land, hazard insurance, accident clean-up costs, etc. then sure, hyper-my-loop away.
The drugs are expensive because of the patents on them that allow big pharma to monopolize them. In this case, the people who develop the genes will then be poached by big pharma, or will form their own company, or the university will sell the patents to an IP shop, which will leave us exactly where we were before. But we will have glowing rabbits.
So spare me the homilies about poor people and drugs, and just say "shiny glowing rabbits!!! FTW!!!"
Ah, come on! They don't need to disappear them! With a population of 550, the rest of the country is probably heavily subsiding their post office, sheriff, the road that lets them even exist. In other words, the purse strings. They probably think they're out there, pioneers in the wilderness, and such BS.
I look forward to innovations in elder care and access as the Google bigwigs age. How about family care? Do these guys wish to marry, procreate?
They're all NSA-compliant, but looks like T-Mo is doing its own snooping before getting the spooks into the loop (highest time to first byte).
I can see all of these problems being addressed if there is demand, especially with the kinds of money train-plane will involve.
For example, people want to move fast and on schedule - so use the bus as a feeder from downtown, suburban, or whatever areas are far away from the rail station. Drive the bus onto the train - you don't need Greyhound-style 45' buses, just Sprinters or something lighter. Once the train in under-way, passengers and leave the bus and use restrooms, pantry cars, etc. on the train. As for waiting for other buses, the train can carry a few buses, and me mostly regular passenger rail cars, so it isn't waiting on many buses. Can this really be worse than the flight delays these days?
Truck to train has been going on for decades. A more feasible approach is to have buses that can be driven on to, or hooked up to trains. It wouldn't cover the kinds of distances planes can, but it would happen a lot sooner.
Which comes first, the lithium-xxx battery that will last 7 days, or the plane-train?
If I buy a store brand potato chip all the time, and they give me a coupon for say, Frito Lays, I'm not like "hey, invasion of privacy", but more like "hmmm, only 25 c more for Frito, I'll try it, maybe I'll like it."
Sometimes a coupon is just a coupon.
AC units for data centers can be ordered with economizers, which will vent outside air in when there's enough cooling potential. They will filter it, etc.
Interestingly enough, these units have to be freeze-rated also.
Like with Swartz, this is the prosecutors Christmas-treeing up the charges, to psych and make it too expensive for the defendants; and make them settle - for money, some jail time, whatever. That way they can chalk one up in the win column, which looks pretty good when they run for office. I'm assuming the defendant here was white, because if he were black, I'd expect to see charges for tax evasion, aiding offshore combatants, and possession of skills with intention to use for mass destruction of capitalism.
I don't "need" to "prove" anything. I stated an opinion, based upon what I put out there, and based upon what you choose to google for and read, you can choose to believe it, or not.
And yes, pigs make for much better subjects. But you see, pigs can't be tailored or bread as fast as mice. And that is what determines what they use, not what is most suitable.Here's a long but interesting article about this.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_trap/2011/11/naked_mole_rats_can_they_help_us_cure_cancer_.html
Animal testing is inhumane, but it is also mostly bogus. They immuno-suppressed the f out of these animals, right? So they'll easily develop cancers and other diseases, right? Yeah, so what relevance does that animal have to humans? Zilch. It is accepted that mice testing is simply something to get out of the way, something to get funding for ('cause all that the funders - like the NIH in the US - recognize is testing on mice). They get it out of the way, so they can get to human trials, and that's where you find out what works for humans and what doesn't.
I need to archive emails that I can search later - but with a twist. These are employees who've left the company. I can't keep 'em on at Google Apps 'cause I have to pay for that by user. So I use IMAP (making sure to set Chats to be shown in the IMAP list), create an account in Thunderbird, and slurp it all on to the local machine. It keeps all the folders, although I doesn't seem to be smart enough to figure out multiple labels, so it looks like it downloads the same email multiple times, once for it's folder, and once for "All Mail." Then I delete the account at Google. You just have to be sure to click through all the folders in Thunderbird and make sure it is done downloading before you blow the Google account away.
No, T-Mobile's plans (well, at least the one I have) come with free and lousy voicemail. Ever want to hear that waiting voicemail early in the morning because it could be from work? Well, how's about you go through 29 of your saved voicemail that must be re-saved or will be deleted before you can hear the new voicemail? Hows about you can't go to their site and download the ones you want to save?
Oh, you want to do that! OK, well, that will be premium voicemail. But yeah, the cheap-and-it-shows version is free.
RDP is fast even on a Linux box, so are you implying that the RDP client(s) in Linux know windows painting commands sent by Windows apps/desktops? If so, then why isn't there a Linux remoting solution that uses the same commands?
Something that's always been bugging me... why is RDP so much better (no, not flamebait, RDP has been buttery smooth even over ATT 1.5 Mbps "broadband")? And been that way for years, better than the lightweight VNCs, remote Xs, and the latest X2gos.
Is there a fundamental difference in how RDP does it vs X?
BTW, I'm talking the RDP clients that come with Windows, not the $$ Citrix ones.
And it is interesting that they don't fully understand the choice of lifestyle they made. So governments in Europe are moving to put in austerity measures, which is deepening their recession instead of helping. At least France did, until Hollande stopped going full bore austerity.
And they have a nice lifestyle, no healthcare bankruptcies, and they make decent stuff. They even decided not use LiON batteries in the A380, so it's not like they became completely vegetative because they don't have constant downward wage pressure to make them work hard like in a union-busting US state.
Oh, I missed the memo. Is the revolution here? Is it time to line 'em up against the wall?
But seriously, lawmakers talking of laws being too harsh? Judges releasing people convicted under three-strikes in California? For America with its chart-topping prison population numbers, that's revolutionary enough.
The evolution of sensory organs is satisfactorily explained by an increasingly complex series of organs in different species. ID, on the other hand, has no explanation (not that ID and reality - otherwise known as "science" need to have competing explanations). And Darwin != evolution.
But hey, nice troll.
Brother, you should see the moving part sin a Norelco shaver head. It would put the Bolshoi ballet to shame.
Speaking of which, the most trouble free and long-lasting lithium batteries are in shavers. They run forever, until they die years later!