As for the whole 1 (US) thing, I wasn't aware that we had a different value for 1 than the rest of the world. Guess I'm just another ignorant american.
Then the doctor should be at home. If they are off in the city, it would take longer for them to respond to an emergency call (find the phone, take the call, collect your wife, get your car back from the valet, drive to the hospital) as opposed to being at home (take the call, leap in your car and go).
So, if you're at home, your automatically closer to where you work?
Interesting thought, all doctors should be at home. You don't even know how doctors typically operate, do you?
Hell, lets take my uncle for example. He's a psychiatrist that deals with a lot of really really wacked out people. He lives about 1-1.5 hours from the city he works in (depending on traffic). When he goes to a play or out to eat he's actually a lot closer to the hospitals he works at than if he's at home. When he gets a call/page and has to leave the play (no, he doesn't answer them during the play, just waits for the intermission) or restaurant, his wife just takes a cab home (if he's not back in time to pick her up). Even though he typically carries 2-3 pagers and/or cell phones, I have never heard any of them go off. Kind of sucks really, but he's committed to helping people.
Which of course is a variant of the standard model:
1. Hack 2. ??? 3. Profit
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Good. I hate Real Player. It's always been the most annoying player out there. Downloading a copy is a bitch (although they've made it somewhat easier recently), that Real Message Center is annoying as hell. The message here for Real should be really simple. Make your player as easy to get as possible. Require two clicks to download. Content is King. Annoying software is not. Give me a real reason to register. Look at how sites like slashdot and fileplanet work.
Car chippers? Is that a wood is that wood chipper wood?
One nice hack: a car chipped-up for the race track can be set back to factory specs for the street simply by pushing the cruise control button. And to turn cruise control on you simply crawl out of your car (while moving) crawl out while moving, run up to the front of the car, lift the hood, crawl out of the car, and then lift the hood and open up the top! LOL! It's so easy it's easy!
And Strictnein wastes another few strokes on his keyboard by making assumptions about assumption makers.
And I'll continue by assuming that you are an idiot. Almost everything you post is based on assumption. I assume one thing about someone when I read their post. Do I ever really know if I'm right or wrong? No.
Note to Europeans: while it is fun to point and laugh at us "stupid" Americans and our silly laws and lawsuits, you might want to take note that the same things are going on in your countries too, and will continue to get even worse.
I love these TV execs who are whining. "The numbers don't add up!" "How could they not be watching are ever-wonderful "Ass Crap Reality Show"? Everyone loves it!" Give me a break. As a geek who doesn't even own a tv right now I don't miss watching TV at all. When we moved into our house I had to sell my TV (65in Sony HDTV - boo hoo) and the only reason I want a new TV is for three things: DVDs, XBox, PS2, all of which I have hooked up to old 20in computer monitors. The message is clear, your shows suck, and while watching drama queens fight over getting to stay on the island might interest younger women, it does absolutely nothing for young men.
It probably won't, but it could - especially if you buy it for a child and they keep it into adulthood.
Except for the people who are "selling" land on the moon, have no legal right to do so, and therefore you are just giving money to them as an example of your own stupidity.
If you actually look at the text of the patent though, it reads completely different and the patent number is also different. It is patent 6,304,788 and relates to a patent for "Method and apparatus for controlling medical monitoring devices over the internet".
And now that I look at it, the first patent link is incorrect too. The text states that it is patent #6,389,458 but it links to patent #6,687,746.
WTF?
I think this guy is trying extortion, plain and simple.
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No, Gigabit is 1 (US) billion bits per second
;-p
No, Gigabit is 1 billion bits.
Gbps = 1 billion bits per second
As for the whole 1 (US) thing, I wasn't aware that we had a different value for 1 than the rest of the world. Guess I'm just another ignorant american.
Sorry, I'm a jackass.
yeah yeah yeah... it wasn't marked as that when I read it though... ;-p
Holy f@ck I'm an idiot.
I got to this point:
The technician's name? Lee Harvey Oswald.
Before realizing something was wrong with this post.
Then the doctor should be at home. If they are off in the city, it would take longer for them to respond to an emergency call (find the phone, take the call, collect your wife, get your car back from the valet, drive to the hospital) as opposed to being at home (take the call, leap in your car and go).
So, if you're at home, your automatically closer to where you work?
Interesting thought, all doctors should be at home. You don't even know how doctors typically operate, do you?
Hell, lets take my uncle for example. He's a psychiatrist that deals with a lot of really really wacked out people. He lives about 1-1.5 hours from the city he works in (depending on traffic). When he goes to a play or out to eat he's actually a lot closer to the hospitals he works at than if he's at home. When he gets a call/page and has to leave the play (no, he doesn't answer them during the play, just waits for the intermission) or restaurant, his wife just takes a cab home (if he's not back in time to pick her up). Even though he typically carries 2-3 pagers and/or cell phones, I have never heard any of them go off.
Kind of sucks really, but he's committed to helping people.
You're just the asshole that talks in the movie theather, looking for some justification.
Sorry jackass, but I'm not. I own a cell phone but I almost always have it on vibrate no matter where I'm at.
They don't need them to work in the concert hall where I'm playing piano.
A doctor very well may, as many are frequently called at almost any time of day. People just need to turn their cells/pagers to vibrate.
with a subtler method of preventing cell-phone addicts from using the world as a phone booth
What about business people, doctors, police, etc. who need these devices to work?
And talk about lawsuit material. Someone gets hurt, but can't call 911 on their cell phone because it is being jammed by this (or a similar) device.
Hell, aren't devices like these illegal anyways?
Really big honkin' rocks hit the earth every X million years
Because the moon is much much much bigger than those "big honkin' rocks". A big meteor hitting earth or the moon is 1km in diameter.
A 1-2km rock hitting earth destroys most life on a continent on earth. 5-10km destroys most (larger) life across the planet.
The cockroaches will, of course, continue to live.
Linux, eh?
What's that, a Pengiun? There ain't no penguins in Canada!
One can only hope that Episode III is as good as Episode I and II.
Which of course is a variant of the standard model:
1. Hack
2. ???
3. Profit
Good. I hate Real Player. It's always been the most annoying player out there. Downloading a copy is a bitch (although they've made it somewhat easier recently), that Real Message Center is annoying as hell.
The message here for Real should be really simple. Make your player as easy to get as possible. Require two clicks to download. Content is King. Annoying software is not. Give me a real reason to register. Look at how sites like slashdot and fileplanet work.
Car chippers ?
Is that a wood is that wood chipper wood?
One nice hack: a car chipped-up for the race track can be set back to factory specs for the street simply by pushing the cruise control button.
And to turn cruise control on you simply crawl out of your car (while moving) crawl out while moving, run up to the front of the car, lift the hood, crawl out of the car, and then lift the hood and open up the top! LOL! It's so easy it's easy!
And Strictnein wastes another few strokes on his keyboard by making assumptions about assumption makers.
And I'll continue by assuming that you are an idiot. Almost everything you post is based on assumption. I assume one thing about someone when I read their post. Do I ever really know if I'm right or wrong? No.
So shut up fucktard. Your flame sucked.
Friction would also be problem.
well, as long as we're making an infinitely large wheel, i think we can also make a perfectly smooth one
Well, circular, with a diameter approaching infinity, of course. :-)
But what would the radius be then?
How can comments like this: a president in office that is probably a tax cheat himself. ever get moderated up?
Give it a rest. It doesn't do anything to help your "cause" to accuse Bush of every stupid thing under the sun. What next? He stole your underwear?
What you really need to be thinking about is whether or not you really want Hillary Clinton to be your candidate in 2008.
Well, unfortuntately for you, you seem to be in the small minority on that one.
Sorry.
Note to Europeans: while it is fun to point and laugh at us "stupid" Americans and our silly laws and lawsuits, you might want to take note that the same things are going on in your countries too, and will continue to get even worse.
Alternatively, mail a picture of a rifle to the French government. that will make them back down.
Nah... they'll just draw a line on the ground and politely ask you not to cross it, or go around it.
I agree with you. Just like naming a star after someone, "buying" land on the moon for someone would be a cool gift.
The original poster seemed to imply that you could actually buy property on the moon and that it would be a good investement someday.
I love these TV execs who are whining. "The numbers don't add up!" "How could they not be watching are ever-wonderful "Ass Crap Reality Show"? Everyone loves it!"
Give me a break. As a geek who doesn't even own a tv right now I don't miss watching TV at all. When we moved into our house I had to sell my TV (65in Sony HDTV - boo hoo) and the only reason I want a new TV is for three things: DVDs, XBox, PS2, all of which I have hooked up to old 20in computer monitors.
The message is clear, your shows suck, and while watching drama queens fight over getting to stay on the island might interest younger women, it does absolutely nothing for young men.
It probably won't, but it could - especially if you buy it for a child and they keep it into adulthood.
Except for the people who are "selling" land on the moon, have no legal right to do so, and therefore you are just giving money to them as an example of your own stupidity.
Looking at the "patents" they have and I'm really confused. On their (or really Steven's) page they have listed a patent for: PATENT NO: US 6,270,409 - Method and apparatus for gaming
If you actually look at the text of the patent though, it reads completely different and the patent number is also different. It is patent 6,304,788 and relates to a patent for "Method and apparatus for controlling medical monitoring devices over the internet".
And now that I look at it, the first patent link is incorrect too. The text states that it is patent #6,389,458 but it links to patent #6,687,746.
WTF?
I think this guy is trying extortion, plain and simple.