Humans in general are easily distracted, no matter how mature they are or what kind of media you're working in.
And it is impossible to be more distracting while presenting information - which is often boring - than a competing medium whose sole purpose is "mindless" distraction. If it's so easy, please tell us all how to make integration more "interesting" than a YouTube video of a drunken cat. Twit.
Using a CRS-3, every person in China, which has a population just over 1.3 billion, could participate in a video phone call at the same time. (Or you could pump nearly one Library of Congress per second through the device, or give everyone in San Fransisco [their own private] 1Gbps internet connection.)
So that means we'll need maybe a thousand of these things to pipe the whole world's bandwidth? Doesn't seem like much of a market.
I don't see why patients should not be able to voluntarily accept this or other untested treatments provided that a full disclaimer is made.
Because until the studies are done, you don't know the limits of disclaim. I tell you there's always some chance you'll die in five years from cancer - hey! I don't know any different and, besides, people always find ways to die. Then, in four years, when 75% of the patients are turning up with cancer, you're PO'ed because now you're going to die in a year. More importantly, because this doctor is now being sued into oblivion by people who felt that 75% > "some", your medical costs are going to be picked up by someone else. And, I doubt you're going to go as far as to say no to palliative care, let alone the possibility of having the public (or others in your insurance pool) pay for actual treatment of iatrogenic illness brought on by your desire to experiment on yourself.
Yes, the FDA approval process sucks. In fact, it is the worst one around, except for all the other ones.
I'm so glad that we have the "leaders of the free world" on our side. It's a shame that this phrase can no longer be applied to the US. And I am sorry that this mantle has been cast away from us by the idiot politicians in DC.
They're not doing it because they want it; they're doing it because they're paid to do it.
I can say the same thing of just about everyone who is employed, even the folks at AMD. Though, it's only in the "creative" arts where there's always this odd shiny coating of "fidelity" that seems to be desired and added on as a last step. In reality, this coating is as faux as the images and sounds that these arts provide. The bottom line - it's a business, any art is just an afterthought. If they can make more money with a feature plus marketing kickbacks than by leaving the feature out, they'll do it. I guess AMD is getting its ass kicked and that's why they're whining. Please, spare us...
Legally mandate the same price for a procedure for everybody.
Stop the government takeover of health care!!!
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. At this point the best thing we could is have the government take over the other 50% of what it doesn't already control via Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA system.
It might also be some of these organizations that have part of their records done electronically, but not all that the government requires or that don't have proper linkages between their clinical and billing systems. There are often separate (and, in merged organizations, several) vendors for scheduling, EMR, lab, prescribing, and billing all working "together" with different amounts of integration.
Really? In what respect? Granted, the recordings were a bit noisy and the first one was a bit repetitive and mundane, but probably better than an initial composition turned out by a music major taking the composition class. It would be more listenable to an average layman than Schoenberg or Stockhausen.
The first one worked melodically and the dynamics, if they were composed by the program, were a bit of a saving grace. As for the second, there were a few nice chords in there - again, a bit repetitive, but not unpleasant. Certainly not "horrible" unless you're an oversensitive cretin like Hofstadter.
Aside from basic states of undress they may have caught kids in there's the likelihood of actually having captured sex acts, whether adults or children.
I always wonder, do these people WANT to work in a factory?
It pays better than competing with the Mexicans for lawn-care jobs. There are people who do not have the skills (nor would they be able to learn them - Glenn Beck viewers, I'm looking at you!) to hold down high-skill jobs. What are you going to do with them? The gammas and deltas will always be with us. Manufacturing jobs were a relatively good way to give them a decent life. It was called a middle class - remember that? I guess we can let them starve, instead.
A major part of why the manufacturing base is leaving is because there aren't enough unskilled laborers here.
That is a canard. Right now there are approximately four million manufacturing workers that have lost their jobs due to the current recession. And four million additional manufacturing workers who lost their jobs to outsourcing over the remainder of the last decade. Did they suddenly forget how to work? It seems to me that eight million or so people would be enough to staff a small manufacturing company or two.
If there is a shortage of "unskilled laborers" for the future, it is because vocational and technical education at the high school level have seen dramatic declines as the manufacturing jobs that might have used graduates of these programs go away. Of course, if you don't train someone to use a lathe, there's not going to be a lot of lathe operators around. We try to train these people for the "jobs of the future" by putting them on a college track, which many will fail at, leaving them with nothing but a lifetime of minimum-wage jobs. But that's OK, they can get two or three of them to make up for the pay a single manufacturing job might have brought them. Of course, they and their kids will never climb out of poverty, but that's just dandy because we can always ship them to prison once they break the law trying to survive (or, of course, let them die from lack of health care).
Republican/Libertarian pussies like you talk a big game - tyranny this, liberty that. You own a bunch of guns but it really doesn't matter - you never get off your asses behind your keyboards and do anything. That's because you're pussies who talk big to raise a ruckus, but too chickenshit to do anything about it. If you believe that the US is a tyranny, you can go and visit Iran and see a real one in action (feel free to liberate them while you're there). Also, please feel free to start shooting up the tyrants in your neighborhood... in fact, go ahead and run over to Washington, DC to do the same - the world could use a few less jackasses (OK, one less jackass - yourself, even though I would be sad about the collateral damage).
$33/seat is not an unreasonable price for system management. If you've spent enough to have 500 Macs, $16K for system-wide admin is peanuts. If your company is in dire enough straits that they can't afford that, you might want to start looking for a more stable outfit to work for.
How will the State of Georgia arrest/punish a citizen 2000 miles away in California?
First of all, it's Florida and it's called extradition. States in the US are fairly lenient about honoring it. Basically, if you can get a criminal finding against another party and file the appropriate paperwork, you'll get the person (unless the state being asked is already holding them for another crime).
However, what will happen now, is that the pornographer will fight extradition, filing suit in the 9'th Circuit to prevent same. Assuming that the 9'th holds that what occurred is not a crime (and there's a fairly high probability that this will happen, given the liberal leaning of this Circuit) and that the pornographer not be delivered, the 11'th Circuit then has the right to appeal to the SC to force extradition. However, the 11'th Circuit is unlikely to do this, as this court has achieved it's political goals: show that Californians are deviant; show that they is "protectin' the chilluns"; and that "libruls" are destroying the country - all good things for the prosecutor who originally filed the case to run on in the South (and which make the hoi polloi happy with the court as it's screwing them over economically).
In short, if the pornographer appeals (rather than plea bargaining for a hefty fine - another possibility) and stays away from Florida (And who actually wants to go there? It's way too humid.) he should be OK. God bless our adversarial court system, which delivers true justice in the swiftest and most efficient manner possible!
When the economic system encourages self interest to the point of destroying others' wealth it's crony capitalism.
So show me how you get your "ideal capitalism" without its devolving to the "crony" counterpart. In the end, believers in Capitalism are just as irrational (and ultimately bad) as believers in Communism because they're just as corruptible as any human. At least the believers in Communism were not as prone to fall into the Anarchist trap (which many true Capitalists are prone to do) which leaves people with no protection at all.
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Or there will be... trouble.
And if I don't there will be double.
Humans in general are easily distracted, no matter how mature they are or what kind of media you're working in.
And it is impossible to be more distracting while presenting information - which is often boring - than a competing medium whose sole purpose is "mindless" distraction. If it's so easy, please tell us all how to make integration more "interesting" than a YouTube video of a drunken cat. Twit.
... almost no major label video games are completely free software and free assets.
Well, don't you have something better to do with your life than play games?
These were not the racks I wished to see.
I'm sure that with one of these routers, I've already been beaten to the punch!
Well, something's been beaten to the punch.
Using a CRS-3, every person in China, which has a population just over 1.3 billion, could participate in a video phone call at the same time. (Or you could pump nearly one Library of Congress per second through the device, or give everyone in San Fransisco [their own private] 1Gbps internet connection.)
So that means we'll need maybe a thousand of these things to pipe the whole world's bandwidth? Doesn't seem like much of a market.
I don't see why patients should not be able to voluntarily accept this or other untested treatments provided that a full disclaimer is made.
Because until the studies are done, you don't know the limits of disclaim. I tell you there's always some chance you'll die in five years from cancer - hey! I don't know any different and, besides, people always find ways to die. Then, in four years, when 75% of the patients are turning up with cancer, you're PO'ed because now you're going to die in a year. More importantly, because this doctor is now being sued into oblivion by people who felt that 75% > "some", your medical costs are going to be picked up by someone else. And, I doubt you're going to go as far as to say no to palliative care, let alone the possibility of having the public (or others in your insurance pool) pay for actual treatment of iatrogenic illness brought on by your desire to experiment on yourself.
Yes, the FDA approval process sucks. In fact, it is the worst one around, except for all the other ones.
I'm so glad that we have the "leaders of the free world" on our side. It's a shame that this phrase can no longer be applied to the US. And I am sorry that this mantle has been cast away from us by the idiot politicians in DC.
... don't think crippling Powerpoint and forcing a throwback will change anything.
It will actually be a very big regression - most people will have to present with the lights on, which will ruin my napping.
They're not doing it because they want it; they're doing it because they're paid to do it.
I can say the same thing of just about everyone who is employed, even the folks at AMD. Though, it's only in the "creative" arts where there's always this odd shiny coating of "fidelity" that seems to be desired and added on as a last step. In reality, this coating is as faux as the images and sounds that these arts provide. The bottom line - it's a business, any art is just an afterthought. If they can make more money with a feature plus marketing kickbacks than by leaving the feature out, they'll do it. I guess AMD is getting its ass kicked and that's why they're whining. Please, spare us...
Legally mandate the same price for a procedure for everybody.
Stop the government takeover of health care!!!
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. At this point the best thing we could is have the government take over the other 50% of what it doesn't already control via Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA system.
... does this mean they are getting smarter?
Having been a parent for twenty-three years (even one that loves his kids), I should think so.
It might also be some of these organizations that have part of their records done electronically, but not all that the government requires or that don't have proper linkages between their clinical and billing systems. There are often separate (and, in merged organizations, several) vendors for scheduling, EMR, lab, prescribing, and billing all working "together" with different amounts of integration.
I'd rather that they work on some fundamental usability issues - like returning to the same point in a long page when you perform a back action.
With a Williams score, a good production designer, and a big budget, a film can be a success even with a dumb plot and bad acting.
Hey! That's "dumb plot conceived by Crichton or Lucas"!
They sound horrible.
Really? In what respect? Granted, the recordings were a bit noisy and the first one was a bit repetitive and mundane, but probably better than an initial composition turned out by a music major taking the composition class. It would be more listenable to an average layman than Schoenberg or Stockhausen.
The first one worked melodically and the dynamics, if they were composed by the program, were a bit of a saving grace. As for the second, there were a few nice chords in there - again, a bit repetitive, but not unpleasant. Certainly not "horrible" unless you're an oversensitive cretin like Hofstadter.
drinking Bud Light.
And the difference between that and regular Bud is...?
Academically speaking, how would you support that statement?
Academically, I can't say... But anecdotally, there's Slashdot.
Aside from basic states of undress they may have caught kids in there's the likelihood of actually having captured sex acts, whether adults or children.
School funding problem... SOLVED!
It would be like calling people who need glasses (such as myself) "sight-challenged" instead of "long-sighted" or "near-sighted"
When in reality, the obviously correct term is "four eyes".
I always wonder, do these people WANT to work in a factory?
It pays better than competing with the Mexicans for lawn-care jobs. There are people who do not have the skills (nor would they be able to learn them - Glenn Beck viewers, I'm looking at you!) to hold down high-skill jobs. What are you going to do with them? The gammas and deltas will always be with us. Manufacturing jobs were a relatively good way to give them a decent life. It was called a middle class - remember that? I guess we can let them starve, instead.
A major part of why the manufacturing base is leaving is because there aren't enough unskilled laborers here.
That is a canard. Right now there are approximately four million manufacturing workers that have lost their jobs due to the current recession. And four million additional manufacturing workers who lost their jobs to outsourcing over the remainder of the last decade. Did they suddenly forget how to work? It seems to me that eight million or so people would be enough to staff a small manufacturing company or two.
If there is a shortage of "unskilled laborers" for the future, it is because vocational and technical education at the high school level have seen dramatic declines as the manufacturing jobs that might have used graduates of these programs go away. Of course, if you don't train someone to use a lathe, there's not going to be a lot of lathe operators around. We try to train these people for the "jobs of the future" by putting them on a college track, which many will fail at, leaving them with nothing but a lifetime of minimum-wage jobs. But that's OK, they can get two or three of them to make up for the pay a single manufacturing job might have brought them. Of course, they and their kids will never climb out of poverty, but that's just dandy because we can always ship them to prison once they break the law trying to survive (or, of course, let them die from lack of health care).
Republican/Libertarian pussies like you talk a big game - tyranny this, liberty that. You own a bunch of guns but it really doesn't matter - you never get off your asses behind your keyboards and do anything. That's because you're pussies who talk big to raise a ruckus, but too chickenshit to do anything about it. If you believe that the US is a tyranny, you can go and visit Iran and see a real one in action (feel free to liberate them while you're there). Also, please feel free to start shooting up the tyrants in your neighborhood... in fact, go ahead and run over to Washington, DC to do the same - the world could use a few less jackasses (OK, one less jackass - yourself, even though I would be sad about the collateral damage).
$33/seat is not an unreasonable price for system management. If you've spent enough to have 500 Macs, $16K for system-wide admin is peanuts. If your company is in dire enough straits that they can't afford that, you might want to start looking for a more stable outfit to work for.
How will the State of Georgia arrest/punish a citizen 2000 miles away in California?
First of all, it's Florida and it's called extradition. States in the US are fairly lenient about honoring it. Basically, if you can get a criminal finding against another party and file the appropriate paperwork, you'll get the person (unless the state being asked is already holding them for another crime).
However, what will happen now, is that the pornographer will fight extradition, filing suit in the 9'th Circuit to prevent same. Assuming that the 9'th holds that what occurred is not a crime (and there's a fairly high probability that this will happen, given the liberal leaning of this Circuit) and that the pornographer not be delivered, the 11'th Circuit then has the right to appeal to the SC to force extradition. However, the 11'th Circuit is unlikely to do this, as this court has achieved it's political goals: show that Californians are deviant; show that they is "protectin' the chilluns"; and that "libruls" are destroying the country - all good things for the prosecutor who originally filed the case to run on in the South (and which make the hoi polloi happy with the court as it's screwing them over economically).
In short, if the pornographer appeals (rather than plea bargaining for a hefty fine - another possibility) and stays away from Florida (And who actually wants to go there? It's way too humid.) he should be OK. God bless our adversarial court system, which delivers true justice in the swiftest and most efficient manner possible!
When the economic system encourages self interest to the point of destroying others' wealth it's crony capitalism.
So show me how you get your "ideal capitalism" without its devolving to the "crony" counterpart. In the end, believers in Capitalism are just as irrational (and ultimately bad) as believers in Communism because they're just as corruptible as any human. At least the believers in Communism were not as prone to fall into the Anarchist trap (which many true Capitalists are prone to do) which leaves people with no protection at all.