The main difference in the Mini compared to other small form factors is that the took the tactic of pulling the power supply out into an AC adapter and they don't have slots for PCI cards. This means the mini is about 1/3 the height of of even a shuttle.
So, yeah, when Intel announces that they are pulling the power supply and removing the PCI slots, and puts it in a chrome box about the size of a CD drive - they're ripping off Apple's design.
As a parent of a teen and an 8 year old, I find the 8 year old constantly frustrated at why some games are off limits but not others, even though they are all rated "T". (Yes, I actually check the games on a case by case basis).
To be honest, I'd prefer a game rating system similar to the toy rating system - something that measured difficulty/playability rather than simple violence. I mean, there's nothing in FF7 that my daughter shouldn't see or hear, but that doesn't mean she's capable of enjoying it.
Two things: First, unless you're knocking 80, I'm guessing your grandfather was farming in the 30's and 40's at the earliest, so industrialization, mores and medicine had all changed by that point.
I also suspect that skin coloration was a big factor - if anyone in *my* family had tried that trick they would have been in a lot of pain from permanent sun burn. I also strongly doubt the women of his time showed as much skin and worked as hard on their tans as women have for the past 30 years.
inally, according to the Annals of Surgical Oncology severity of melanoma is correlated with age. You might also want to read this PDF from Supportive Oncology which talks about how the aging population of the US is going to cause an explosion in the number of cancer cases - because cancer in general is correlated with age. For melanoma, it says: The incidence of melanoma, for example, peaks at around age 45 years in women and 60 years in men... This makes sense since the most reasonable theory of cancer is that it is caused by cumulative genetic damage - it would be quite difficult for a child to get a cancer causing dose of UV while a 40 or 50 year old probably passed the danger threshold 10 years prior.
I haven't worked for the feds for ~20 years now, so I'm not used to thinking in terms of how difficult it can be to implement regulations. I saw those statements and simply thought in terms of "keep your budget lines straight" without thinking about infrastructure and so on.
30 years ago, petroleum engineers did a study proven that fair honest auctions always favor the seller and the reason is actually straight forward:
The winner of an item being auctioned isn't the person with the best eye for bargains, it's the person with the most optimistic over estimate of the item's real worth.
I stopped bidding on anything on ebay after several incidents where I watched items get bidded right up past the price you could by them for on Amazon or Best Buy.
Ok, you consider Fox and Friends to be 'hard news coverage'. Its on right now. Everything is slanted to the republican point of view. For instance, it was just outed a few weeks ago that the White House was employing a 'reporter'...
Please provide evidence that Gannon was in the "employ" of the whitehouse.
that wasn't reporting for a legitimate newspaper,
Please define what constitutes a "legitimate newspaper". Also please provide reference to the laws that prohibit online newsservices from calling their staff "journalists".
had been using a false name that was ok'd by the secret service please cite relevant laws that make it illegal to use a pen name, stage name or similar.
and had questions vetted personally by their press secretary to softball back to him during the press conferences
Please provide evidence that the press secretary treated Gannon differently from other journalists. Testimony from the journalists themselves would be nice. -- sometimes getting secret information that normally took a 3 month background check by standard White House employees, but they skipped most of it to ensure that he could ask the right questions. Please provide evidence that Gannon received secret information.
In conclusion, put up or shut up, buddy-boy. In particular, I want to hear you make the case that we should have special standards or laws restricting who is - or is not - allowed to call themselves a journalist.
If the only thing of value is that more lives were saved than lost, then the same argument can be applied to therapies derived from embryonic stem cells.
If more lives are saved than lost, what do you care if a few embryos were harvested for this treatment.
There is no ban on stem cell research or even funding stem cell research - there is a ban on funding/embryonic/ stem cell research which has nothing to do with the original article - which people have pointed out over and over again.
The value of adult stem cells has been shown over and over again. The value of embryonic stem cells has never been shown and, in fact, embryonic stem cells cause all sorts of havoc when injected into another individual. Havoc like sudden cancers caused by the embryonic cells not adapting well to life in a grown host.
Dang. Here I was feeling all self-righteous and indignant and there you go point out that the author was actually proposing the right solution (that the EU start it's own online library program).
of whining about how Americans are forcing them to change their language, their eating habits and, now, preventing them from launching their own web sites?
This is *exactly* why Americans bash the French. Americans do something that has nothing whatsoever to do with the French and the French complain because the Americans were insufficiently attentive to France's passive-aggressive syndrome.
There are thousands of such groups across the US, holding star parties just as big - or many times larger - and it's annoying to hear that one group, that isn't even doing anything that special, is being held up as some revolutionary.
Its annoying in the sour grapes sense, but also in that you would expect a group like/. to be at least slightly aware of the world of amateur astronomy.
by which, I assume, you mean "day time" vibration shouldn't be a huge problem.
For stellar observations, where images might be built up over an hour or more, the mount usually costs more than the telescope - but for daytime use I'd suggest just using some masking tape to attach a webcam eyeball to your scope and see what happens.
For wireless - I'd look at the X-10 security cameras.
I'm sorry for being a grump but, where was/. last august when my astronomy club was hosting our big annual Starfest?
We had thousands of people, and I played Dr. Science and made dry-ice comets for the kids. Oh, and we measured the size of the solar system with toilet paper.
That explains why UC said this about the investigation:
"Unfortunately, we deserve this," UC spokesman Chris Harrington said. "But what we have done is correct the problems and put the right system in place so that we don't have to take this type of hit again."
I doubt UC would be admitting guilt if the evidence wasn't pretty damning.
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The main difference in the Mini compared to other small form factors is that the took the tactic of pulling the power supply out into an AC adapter and they don't have slots for PCI cards. This means the mini is about 1/3 the height of of even a shuttle.
So, yeah, when Intel announces that they are pulling the power supply and removing the PCI slots, and puts it in a chrome box about the size of a CD drive - they're ripping off Apple's design.
As a parent of a teen and an 8 year old, I find the 8 year old constantly frustrated at why some games are off limits but not others, even though they are all rated "T". (Yes, I actually check the games on a case by case basis).
To be honest, I'd prefer a game rating system similar to the toy rating system - something that measured difficulty/playability rather than simple violence. I mean, there's nothing in FF7 that my daughter shouldn't see or hear, but that doesn't mean she's capable of enjoying it.
Two things: First, unless you're knocking 80, I'm guessing your grandfather was farming in the 30's and 40's at the earliest, so industrialization, mores and medicine had all changed by that point.
I also suspect that skin coloration was a big factor - if anyone in *my* family had tried that trick they would have been in a lot of pain from permanent sun burn. I also strongly doubt the women of his time showed as much skin and worked as hard on their tans as women have for the past 30 years.
inally, according to the Annals of Surgical Oncology severity of melanoma is correlated with age. You might also want to read this PDF from Supportive Oncology which talks about how the aging population of the US is going to cause an explosion in the number of cancer cases - because cancer in general is correlated with age. For melanoma, it says: The incidence of melanoma, for example, peaks at around age 45 years in women and 60 years in men... This makes sense since the most reasonable theory of cancer is that it is caused by cumulative genetic damage - it would be quite difficult for a child to get a cancer causing dose of UV while a 40 or 50 year old probably passed the danger threshold 10 years prior.
they usually didn't live long enough to get cancer, either.
Women earn less than men.
I haven't worked for the feds for ~20 years now, so I'm not used to thinking in terms of how difficult it can be to implement regulations. I saw those statements and simply thought in terms of "keep your budget lines straight" without thinking about infrastructure and so on.
30 years ago, petroleum engineers did a study proven that fair honest auctions always favor the seller and the reason is actually straight forward:
The winner of an item being auctioned isn't the person with the best eye for bargains, it's the person with the most optimistic over estimate of the item's real worth.
I stopped bidding on anything on ebay after several incidents where I watched items get bidded right up past the price you could by them for on Amazon or Best Buy.
Ok, you consider Fox and Friends to be 'hard news coverage'. Its on right now. Everything is slanted to the republican point of view. For instance, it was just outed a few weeks ago that the White House was employing a 'reporter'...
Please provide evidence that Gannon was in the "employ" of the whitehouse.
that wasn't reporting for a legitimate newspaper,
Please define what constitutes a "legitimate newspaper". Also please provide reference to the laws that prohibit online newsservices from calling their staff "journalists".
had been using a false name that was ok'd by the secret service
please cite relevant laws that make it illegal to use a pen name, stage name or similar. and had questions vetted personally by their press secretary to softball back to him during the press conferences
Please provide evidence that the press secretary treated Gannon differently from other journalists. Testimony from the journalists themselves would be nice.
-- sometimes getting secret information that normally took a 3 month background check by standard White House employees, but they skipped most of it to ensure that he could ask the right questions.
Please provide evidence that Gannon received secret information.
In conclusion, put up or shut up, buddy-boy. In particular, I want to hear you make the case that we should have special standards or laws restricting who is - or is not - allowed to call themselves a journalist.
At the same time people stop spreading the FUD that this article proves the funding ban is preventing valuable research.
As a quick google would have told you.
If the only thing of value is that more lives were saved than lost, then the same argument can be applied to therapies derived from embryonic stem cells.
If more lives are saved than lost, what do you care if a few embryos were harvested for this treatment.
There is no ban on stem cell research or even funding stem cell research - there is a ban on funding /embryonic/ stem cell research which has nothing to do with the original article - which people have pointed out over and over again.
The value of adult stem cells has been shown over and over again. The value of embryonic stem cells has never been shown and, in fact, embryonic stem cells cause all sorts of havoc when injected into another individual. Havoc like sudden cancers caused by the embryonic cells not adapting well to life in a grown host.
The NIH even publishes guidelines on how to keep your embryonic stem cell research from impacting your other funding.
Please list for us the therapies under development that use embryonic stem cells.
Dang. Here I was feeling all self-righteous and indignant and there you go point out that the author was actually proposing the right solution (that the EU start it's own online library program).
You know, you could always use an OS that has a built-in spelling checker that's available for all applications.
Like, oh, OS X.
of whining about how Americans are forcing them to change their language, their eating habits and, now, preventing them from launching their own web sites?
This is *exactly* why Americans bash the French. Americans do something that has nothing whatsoever to do with the French and the French complain because the Americans were insufficiently attentive to France's passive-aggressive syndrome.
if you could speak correct English.
There are thousands of such groups across the US, holding star parties just as big - or many times larger - and it's annoying to hear that one group, that isn't even doing anything that special, is being held up as some revolutionary.
/. to be at least slightly aware of the world of amateur astronomy.
Its annoying in the sour grapes sense, but also in that you would expect a group like
the point - but I appreciate the feedback.
I'll have to hassle the newsletter editor - I didn't realize the current newsletter (which should be HTML) was offline.
by which, I assume, you mean "day time" vibration shouldn't be a huge problem.
For stellar observations, where images might be built up over an hour or more, the mount usually costs more than the telescope - but for daytime use I'd suggest just using some masking tape to attach a webcam eyeball to your scope and see what happens.
For wireless - I'd look at the X-10 security cameras.
And SLOOH has special educational programs.
/. last august when my astronomy club was hosting our big annual Starfest?
I'm sorry for being a grump but, where was
We had thousands of people, and I played Dr. Science and made dry-ice comets for the kids. Oh, and we measured the size of the solar system with toilet paper.
What about every night?
SLOOH has been running for, what, more than six months now.
It should be good for a laugh, since they weren't fired for losing the disks.
That explains why UC said this about the investigation:
"Unfortunately, we deserve this," UC spokesman Chris Harrington said. "But what we have done is correct the problems and put the right system in place so that we don't have to take this type of hit again."
I doubt UC would be admitting guilt if the evidence wasn't pretty damning.