Mineral resources on Earth are becoming increasingly difficult to reach on environmental grounds alone. At some point wil become cheaper to get our metals from asteroids than from ever-deeper, ever more environmentally problematic terrestrial mines. Here in Arizona, a multibillion dollar copper mine is on hold to protect the habitat of a single individual panther.
Not jailed, but put into the same medical category as homeopaths. Believers could still patronize them, but they would no longer be part of the "real medicine" system.
"Way and colleagues simulated the Venusian climate at various time points between 2.9 billion and 715 million years ago, employing similar models to those used to predict future climate change on Earth."
Finding a layer of golf clubs and municipal bonds on Venus would indicate the presence of primordial Republicans, marking the start of runaway greenhouse gas buildup.
Greens, whipping up yet another guerrilla attack on infrastructure under the guise of native rights? If it really is a tribe protesting for safety in their area, they would also have been protesting against rattletrap oil trains running past their land.
"China is about 50 years behind the USA in just about any indicator of space progress or achievement...."
In my own lifetime, China was noted primarily for starving to death. Now look at their rate of progress. I wouldn't be surprised to see them reach Mars ahead of us.
"press bias is fucking hunting down and dragging through the mud, the entire life history of a guy who had the temerity to ask a tough question of our political overlord wannabes while having opinions of his own."
If I end up voting for Trump, it will be out of pure spite for press tactics like this. The bias is rich and ripe and on full display.
It takes time for social etiquette to develop around any new technology so that it becomes part of culture. It's the process we went through with the automobile and the telephone.
Because the need for people in the field who can find out why Granny's printer isn't connecting and who can do a sideload on a TV streaming box is bigger than ever. This is a job that can't be outsourced away from you.
The slump in sales is because, as others have pointed out, it has been a while since a killer app came along to require a major increase in computing power from that class of device. Processor power in smartphones, on the other hand, is still increasing because that's where the demand is.
Meanwhile, Internet of Things is building as another center of demand for computing power. As soon as bridge beams can continuously report their own status, you're out of a job.
You want these people to buy a more expensive edition of your software – as the solution for your main product failing?
Tone-deaf.
Fortunately, several weeks ago there was an OS X update to the stock Notes application that has the same essential features as Evernote, including being able to sync to multiple computers and devices. When Evernote restricted its free version to one machine, I moved over to Notes. Now it appears that I acted at the right time.
By the UN Treaty, those people cannot act as legal representatives of any government on Earth. And by the time the number reaches 100,000 , they definitely would not.
Government of any kind arises out of local need, for whatever size of 'local' we're talking about. The idea of defining a 'space nation' before there is any territory for it to represent is redolent of all that Silicon Valley posturing about sovereign floating islands on the high seas.
The UN Space Treaty has only two concerns: that earthly countries take responsibility for objects they launch, such as a failed American launch crashing in Brazil, and that terrestrial sovereignty not extend into space, such as the US claiming lunar territory because 'we got there first'. The Treaty allows local government to evolve naturally as needed, so long as it does not represent an extension of power by some part of Earth.
If the ISS eventually needs its own city council as private modules are added, one will evolve. Any Mars or asteroidal settlement can under the Treaty govern itself in the same way.
A big step will be having medical AIs feed on input from standardized electronic patient histories. It always galls me that every time one of us gets referred to a new specialist we have to spend most of the first visit scratching down half-remembered history information on paper forms. If the age I was when I had chicken pox is as important as I presume it is, why aren't we capturing this information once and keeping it forever in databases, like everything else in the 21st century? As the years pass it's less and less likely that I will keep on accurately remembering all those dates and vaccinations and diseases.
I know, the great patient privacy boogeyman excuse. But now that I can access my banking and brokerage online, why does paper still rule the medical world? National security, not to mention my own, will not be affected if al Qaeda finds out the results of my colonoscopy.
I have been waiting for someone to come out with a "wife mode navigation app" that would realistically simulate driver-navigator human interaction. Having your app respond to your change of mind about a route with "Recalculating..." seems so wimpy compared to the real-world "LEFT YOU STUPID FUCKHEAD, LEFT! NOW YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE ME LATE FOR MY PODIATRIST!"
"Eighty-four percent of clinicians listed the correct diagnosis in the top three possibilities, compared with 51 percent for the digital symptom-checkers. The difference between physician and computer performance was most dramatic in more severe and less common conditions. It was smaller for less acute and more common illnesses."
I'm surprised that digital diagnosis is that good already. The era of an "iDoc" app being as good as a gateway practitioner is probably not far off.
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Mineral resources on Earth are becoming increasingly difficult to reach on environmental grounds alone. At some point wil become cheaper to get our metals from asteroids than from ever-deeper, ever more environmentally problematic terrestrial mines. Here in Arizona, a multibillion dollar copper mine is on hold to protect the habitat of a single individual panther.
So now that the costs of research and experimentation have been paid for by the public, "entrepreneurs" are willing to step up and reap the profits?
As long as they don't try to patent it for themselves, why in hell not?
That was Stein, not Trump.
Not jailed, but put into the same medical category as homeopaths. Believers could still patronize them, but they would no longer be part of the "real medicine" system.
"Way and colleagues simulated the Venusian climate at various time points between 2.9 billion and 715 million years ago, employing similar models to those used to predict future climate change on Earth."
Finding a layer of golf clubs and municipal bonds on Venus would indicate the presence of primordial Republicans, marking the start of runaway greenhouse gas buildup.
Greens, whipping up yet another guerrilla attack on infrastructure under the guise of native rights? If it really is a tribe protesting for safety in their area, they would also have been protesting against rattletrap oil trains running past their land.
You mean...not in Massachusetts, then?
"China is about 50 years behind the USA in just about any indicator of space progress or achievement...."
In my own lifetime, China was noted primarily for starving to death. Now look at their rate of progress. I wouldn't be surprised to see them reach Mars ahead of us.
I'm working on self-walking pedestrian Gatling guns. Guess what *it* prioritizes?
These will be built into the new self-driving BMWs, enabling anesthesiologists to rule the Earth.
"press bias is fucking hunting down and dragging through the mud, the entire life history of a guy who had the temerity to ask a tough question of our political overlord wannabes while having opinions of his own."
If I end up voting for Trump, it will be out of pure spite for press tactics like this. The bias is rich and ripe and on full display.
It takes time for social etiquette to develop around any new technology so that it becomes part of culture. It's the process we went through with the automobile and the telephone.
Because the need for people in the field who can find out why Granny's printer isn't connecting and who can do a sideload on a TV streaming box is bigger than ever. This is a job that can't be outsourced away from you.
The slump in sales is because, as others have pointed out, it has been a while since a killer app came along to require a major increase in computing power from that class of device. Processor power in smartphones, on the other hand, is still increasing because that's where the demand is.
Meanwhile, Internet of Things is building as another center of demand for computing power. As soon as bridge beams can continuously report their own status, you're out of a job.
Huh?
You want these people to buy a more expensive edition of your software – as the solution for your main product failing?
Tone-deaf.
Fortunately, several weeks ago there was an OS X update to the stock Notes application that has the same essential features as Evernote, including being able to sync to multiple computers and devices. When Evernote restricted its free version to one machine, I moved over to Notes. Now it appears that I acted at the right time.
"...you wanna make this shit as simple as possible? Just install FreeNAS. It has all this built in. "
So that next time you have a fire or a breakin, you will have lost EVERYTHING.
But three years from now and five years from now, what will the differential error rate be?
By the UN Treaty, those people cannot act as legal representatives of any government on Earth. And by the time the number reaches 100,000 , they definitely would not.
Government of any kind arises out of local need, for whatever size of 'local' we're talking about. The idea of defining a 'space nation' before there is any territory for it to represent is redolent of all that Silicon Valley posturing about sovereign floating islands on the high seas.
The UN Space Treaty has only two concerns: that earthly countries take responsibility for objects they launch, such as a failed American launch crashing in Brazil, and that terrestrial sovereignty not extend into space, such as the US claiming lunar territory because 'we got there first'. The Treaty allows local government to evolve naturally as needed, so long as it does not represent an extension of power by some part of Earth.
If the ISS eventually needs its own city council as private modules are added, one will evolve. Any Mars or asteroidal settlement can under the Treaty govern itself in the same way.
I diagnose terminal "Whoosh" in this case.
A big step will be having medical AIs feed on input from standardized electronic patient histories. It always galls me that every time one of us gets referred to a new specialist we have to spend most of the first visit scratching down half-remembered history information on paper forms. If the age I was when I had chicken pox is as important as I presume it is, why aren't we capturing this information once and keeping it forever in databases, like everything else in the 21st century? As the years pass it's less and less likely that I will keep on accurately remembering all those dates and vaccinations and diseases.
I know, the great patient privacy boogeyman excuse. But now that I can access my banking and brokerage online, why does paper still rule the medical world? National security, not to mention my own, will not be affected if al Qaeda finds out the results of my colonoscopy.
I have been waiting for someone to come out with a "wife mode navigation app" that would realistically simulate driver-navigator human interaction. Having your app respond to your change of mind about a route with "Recalculating..." seems so wimpy compared to the real-world "LEFT YOU STUPID FUCKHEAD, LEFT! NOW YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE ME LATE FOR MY PODIATRIST!"
My suggestion for a name: Shotgun!
One of these could carry a dreaded Galaxy Note 7. This would flatly violate the Geneva Convention, but ISIS loves weapons that do that.
"Eighty-four percent of clinicians listed the correct diagnosis in the top three possibilities, compared with 51 percent for the digital symptom-checkers. The difference between physician and computer performance was most dramatic in more severe and less common conditions. It was smaller for less acute and more common illnesses."
I'm surprised that digital diagnosis is that good already. The era of an "iDoc" app being as good as a gateway practitioner is probably not far off.
Before I started navigating on the phone, my nav interface was my wife screaming at me.
"So what's not to love? This: sitting in traffic trying to enter an address, just finishing when traffic starts moving and...SAFETY LOCK ENABLED."
Now compare that interface to, "Hey Siri - navigate to Joseph Blow!"