Seriously, though -- Opera must have a smaller "market share" than iCab, let alone OmniWeb, IE, Gecko-flavors or...well, smaller than ANYthing that browses on the Mac.
All I've ever seen from Opera is a delayed, three-steps-behind version that has been seemingly produced as a grudging, halting afterthought on the Mac. Why should I care? Essentially, we're being told "A product that nobody used BEFORE Safari came out is being discontinued because something else that IS popular has been released.". I'm supposed to care about something that is inferior, under-supported and over-priced?
And here I was, thinking that I needed to warn my friend who is looking to buy a new cellphone NOT to look at this model -- figured that it was, for some reason, being immediately EoL'd and those on the market would spontaneously combust or something...
Just like McDonalds makes money hand over fist serving "food" that would make a french chef gag.
Just two points: 1) McDonald's posted a loss this quarter, and is planning on closing over 500 branches -- sometimes people, it seems, don't forsake quality for lower cost. Even with a world-wide economic downturn, McDonald's doesn't seem to be making money "hand over fist" right now.
2) It is commonly accepted that McDonald's french fries are a culinary miracle -- delicious, cheap and quickly made. Even such a famous chef as Wolfgang Puck acknowledges how McDonald's has managed to make an exceptional product so readily available to so many. True, it is perhaps the only item on their menu that could be considered "good", but I think that in this case "familiarity breeds contempt".
You hate the game, you hate the company running things, you hate the "overseers" who are charged with keeping things running smoothly, you feel like your complains are ignored, you hate the other people playing...And you still keep sending in your money, on the extremely remote possibility that things will somehow get better, even though you know that those in charge have no reasonable impetus to improve the situation? You play this game, even though there is nothing compelling you to continue a completely unrewarding task?
Wow. If this is how players behave on EQ, which is a game that people pay for, with nothing to stop you from quitting, I can't begin to imagine how their work situation is, where workers have a vested interest in staying on, despite poor conditions.
Actually, I'm thinking of starting a company that uses EQ players exclusively as our workers. It seems I can abuse them as much as I want, since they'll put up with mistreatment as long as "things might get better". I'll occasionally pay them, but I won't have to worry about them enjoying their work. And as long as I hold out the possibility of job advancement, I can string them along as long as I'd like.
Here in Boston, I've had an opposite experience with my Sidekick. T-Mobile has been a *huge* improvement over Sprint PCS everywhere I travel in the local area.
Additionally, I've had almost no problems with data reception -- I get outstanding reception in the hospitals I work in (normally a problem for pager/phone reception) and I even get good reception in elevators and many "T" stops underground (Orange line is excellent).
I couldn't be happier with both the SK and T-Mobile as my new provider.
Keep in mind that Corbin Motors already has put solid, useful electrics on the roads. Can't say their vehicles would be very practical for everyone, but I've seen a few Corbin Sparrows in Boston and NYC, and it looks like they're the perfect urban-mobile.
Somehow, I think that you're very unlikely to find many Slashdot readers that fall into this category.
Actually, for this venue, I'd wager this is roughly akin to saying "For those of you who've never heard of Tolkein", or looking for readers who've no idea what Star Trek is/was.
Many people (probably those who don't live in Boston or those who haven't really read the associated articles) don't seem to get what the guy with the War Car is doing. The parent article here does, and should be modded up so we have less "its just a stunt" responses so prominent.
So, someone gutted a nice ole' tower, and put an intel-like system inside...And this is news?
Aside from the fact that its been seen here before, I (a "mac fanatic" am much more likely to get upset by folks making their beautiful old Mac Pluses into aquariums.
Can't worry about all the idiots let lose in the world...and anyway, this just means that Apple designed a very functional and beautiful case. As if we didn't know already.
You may, indeed, "get what you pay for", but that isn't why everyone is so ticked off. The point of this whole thread is about how printer companies practically lie to potential customers about their machines' specs.
A low price may warrant selling junk, but it doesn't (shouldn't?) permit deceptive marketing practices.
I can't help but wonder how Prince/the-artist-formerly-known-as-a-symbol-repre senting-the-artist-formerly-known-as-Prince/etc. affected the development of "l33t"-speak. Think about it B4 U dizmiz it...
One (of several throughout the US) is centered on Boston/Cambridge, MA. The Museum of Science has organized it, and it requires some travel to see all the planets.
"Next thing you know the stuff they use in silicon breast implants..."
Hmmm...The stuff they use in silicone breast implants...Hmmm...You wouldn't be talking about SILICONE, would you?
And its "silicone". Silicon breast implants would probably be there to get you a better processors speed or more mammary...er, MEMORY! I mean, "memory"!
I don't think it is a prerequisite for retroviral spread that they be sexually transmitted. The original paper wasn't commenting on how the vectors became infected, merely how the postulated disease might have acted and how immunity to it eventually developed. There is strong parallels to this and HIV.
And, AFAIK, even koalas get STDs. Simians of all stripe are affected/infected by retroviruses similar to HIV. I don't think sexual transmission is necessarily one that primates are resistant to.
Learning about the virus isn't a waste of time merely because we have a few stable strategies now to contain it. How do you think we learned enough to slow the progression in the first place?
Don't forget, we still have folks like Duesberg and the governments in Zimbabwe, S. Africa & Botswana who are causing great harm with their disinformation.
More truth, more information, more knowledge is always the best way to counteract a threat like this.
You're missing the point. The original paper states that chimps have a very specific (and uncharacteristic) loss of genetic variability in a area that controls a portion of the chimps' immune responses. This loss of variability affects the precise mechanism that HIV uses to infect humans.
The group posits that, because you have a very specific loss of variability in an area that controls the molecules HIV & similar retroviruses use for infection, and chimps are immune to these viruses, there may originally have been a varied population of chimps (like humans) that were culled down to a very small population that had immunity (and this current, limited genetic make-up).
This paper sorta contradicts what I'd been hearing about simian models for HIV transmission. I'd understood that infection & incorporation of the retroviral sequences into the host genome takes place, but CD4 cell apoptosis is somehow avoided. nb: Dalgleish, O'Byrne: AdvCanRes 84:231-76 (2002)
Virology is admittedly not my area of research, but I'd think that there seem to be two divergent opinions here on simian resistance. Anyone here working in the area care to explain the (seeming) contradiction?
Yeah, me too. The first thing I thought was: "Why on earth are they digging up that dead horse?"
Been a long time since I even saw a Works file, let alone used the program. Must be close to fifteen years now since I pilfered a copy of Works from the Comp Sci labs at me old alma mater -- easy enough to do when it all fit on one floppy disk!
If you think the NYTA's subway system is so miserable as to induce suicidal tendencies, you really need to travel a bit further afield. Trying to use Boston's "T" system, for example, is a truly miserable experience. Makes me actually miss the NYC subways, if you can imagine that.
When we use surgical lasers, we tend use a more narrow-spectrum green beam to coagulate (I've most often used argon) -- the green light is better tuned to the absorption properties of hemoglobin (and thus a greater amount of the energy is absorbed by the blood).
The cutting beams we use can be at a different wavelength, and they also tend to have a tighter focus and will have a longer pulse (even continuous)...The tighter focus and longer pulse are all better for cutting. With something like tattoo removal, or other superficial uses, you'll tend to use a less focused beam.
Its certainly not all the Amish kids, by any stretch, and its absolutely not something that the seems widespread amongst the adults, but (and I am getting this all second hand, mind you)...
it is more than "youthful drinking". It includes some promiscuous, unmarried sex. It includes gang-fights. It includes driving drunk. Television, music, electronic devices, automobile driving, use of illicit substances and sex all seem par for the course, and commonplace.
You can absolutely reject something you've been exposed to -- that's not the point. The point was that they're exposed to it in the first place, and the act of rejection has become important in their culture...They're hardly untainted by modern US culture, they just respond to it differently.
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Opera makes an Mac version? Who knew?
Seriously, though -- Opera must have a smaller "market share" than iCab, let alone OmniWeb, IE, Gecko-flavors or...well, smaller than ANYthing that browses on the Mac.
All I've ever seen from Opera is a delayed, three-steps-behind version that has been seemingly produced as a grudging, halting afterthought on the Mac. Why should I care? Essentially, we're being told "A product that nobody used BEFORE Safari came out is being discontinued because something else that IS popular has been released.". I'm supposed to care about something that is inferior, under-supported and over-priced?
And here I was, thinking that I needed to warn my friend who is looking to buy a new cellphone NOT to look at this model -- figured that it was, for some reason, being immediately EoL'd and those on the market would spontaneously combust or something...
Context and inflection is everything, I guess
Just like McDonalds makes money hand over fist serving "food" that would make a french chef gag.
Just two points:
1) McDonald's posted a loss this quarter, and is planning on closing over 500 branches -- sometimes people, it seems, don't forsake quality for lower cost. Even with a world-wide economic downturn, McDonald's doesn't seem to be making money "hand over fist" right now.
2) It is commonly accepted that McDonald's french fries are a culinary miracle -- delicious, cheap and quickly made. Even such a famous chef as Wolfgang Puck acknowledges how McDonald's has managed to make an exceptional product so readily available to so many. True, it is perhaps the only item on their menu that could be considered "good", but I think that in this case "familiarity breeds contempt".
Why? Because New York City (more specifically, Manhattan) is the center of the universe.
I kid you not.
So, let me get this straight:
You hate the game, you hate the company running things, you hate the "overseers" who are charged with keeping things running smoothly, you feel like your complains are ignored, you hate the other people playing...And you still keep sending in your money, on the extremely remote possibility that things will somehow get better, even though you know that those in charge have no reasonable impetus to improve the situation? You play this game, even though there is nothing compelling you to continue a completely unrewarding task?
Wow. If this is how players behave on EQ, which is a game that people pay for, with nothing to stop you from quitting, I can't begin to imagine how their work situation is, where workers have a vested interest in staying on, despite poor conditions.
Actually, I'm thinking of starting a company that uses EQ players exclusively as our workers. It seems I can abuse them as much as I want, since they'll put up with mistreatment as long as "things might get better". I'll occasionally pay them, but I won't have to worry about them enjoying their work. And as long as I hold out the possibility of job advancement, I can string them along as long as I'd like.
Pizza makes us slaver...Hello, sailor!
Here in Boston, I've had an opposite experience with my Sidekick. T-Mobile has been a *huge* improvement over Sprint PCS everywhere I travel in the local area.
Additionally, I've had almost no problems with data reception -- I get outstanding reception in the hospitals I work in (normally a problem for pager/phone reception) and I even get good reception in elevators and many "T" stops underground (Orange line is excellent).
I couldn't be happier with both the SK and T-Mobile as my new provider.
Keep in mind that Corbin Motors already has put solid, useful electrics on the roads. Can't say their vehicles would be very practical for everyone, but I've seen a few Corbin Sparrows in Boston and NYC, and it looks like they're the perfect urban-mobile.
...If you've never read his work...
Somehow, I think that you're very unlikely to find many Slashdot readers that fall into this category.
Actually, for this venue, I'd wager this is roughly akin to saying "For those of you who've never heard of Tolkein", or looking for readers who've no idea what Star Trek is/was.
Many people (probably those who don't live in Boston or those who haven't really read the associated articles) don't seem to get what the guy with the War Car is doing. The parent article here does, and should be modded up so we have less "its just a stunt" responses so prominent.
IMHO, of course.
So, someone gutted a nice ole' tower, and put an intel-like system inside...And this is news?
Aside from the fact that its been seen here before, I (a "mac fanatic" am much more likely to get upset by folks making their beautiful old Mac Pluses into aquariums.
Can't worry about all the idiots let lose in the world...and anyway, this just means that Apple designed a very functional and beautiful case. As if we didn't know already.
Well, maybe I'm being optimistic, but I'm hopeful for that Lord of the Rings trilogy they're working on...
You may, indeed, "get what you pay for", but that isn't why everyone is so ticked off. The point of this whole thread is about how printer companies practically lie to potential customers about their machines' specs.
A low price may warrant selling junk, but it doesn't (shouldn't?) permit deceptive marketing practices.
I can't help but wonder how Prince/the-artist-formerly-known-as-a-symbol-repre senting-the-artist-formerly-known-as-Prince/etc. affected the development of "l33t"-speak. Think about it B4 U dizmiz it...
If you don't spread it around too much, I can point you to a really good set of spoilers.
Try here.
One (of several throughout the US) is centered on Boston/Cambridge, MA. The Museum of Science has organized it, and it requires some travel to see all the planets.
Here are details.
"Next thing you know the stuff they use in silicon breast implants..."
Hmmm...The stuff they use in silicone breast implants...Hmmm...You wouldn't be talking about SILICONE, would you?
And its "silicone". Silicon breast implants would probably be there to get you a better processors speed or more mammary...er, MEMORY! I mean, "memory"!
I don't think it is a prerequisite for retroviral spread that they be sexually transmitted. The original paper wasn't commenting on how the vectors became infected, merely how the postulated disease might have acted and how immunity to it eventually developed. There is
strong parallels to this and HIV.
And, AFAIK, even koalas get STDs. Simians of all stripe are affected/infected by retroviruses similar to HIV. I don't think sexual transmission is necessarily one that primates are resistant to.
Learning about the virus isn't a waste of time merely because we have a few stable strategies now to contain it. How do you think we learned enough to slow the progression in the first place?
Don't forget, we still have folks like Duesberg and the governments in Zimbabwe, S. Africa & Botswana who are causing great harm with their disinformation.
More truth, more information, more knowledge is always the best way to counteract a threat like this.
You're missing the point. The original paper states that chimps have a very specific (and uncharacteristic) loss of genetic variability in a area that controls a portion of the chimps' immune responses. This loss of variability affects the precise mechanism that HIV uses to infect humans.
The group posits that, because you have a very specific loss of variability in an area that controls the molecules HIV & similar retroviruses use for infection, and chimps are immune to these viruses, there may originally have been a varied population of chimps (like humans) that were culled down to a very small population that had immunity (and this current, limited genetic make-up).
This paper sorta contradicts what I'd been hearing about simian models for HIV transmission. I'd understood that infection & incorporation of the retroviral sequences into the host genome takes place, but CD4 cell apoptosis is somehow avoided. nb: Dalgleish, O'Byrne: AdvCanRes 84:231-76 (2002)
Virology is admittedly not my area of research, but I'd think that there seem to be two divergent opinions here on simian resistance. Anyone here working in the area care to explain the (seeming) contradiction?
Yeah, me too. The first thing I thought was: "Why on earth are they digging up that dead horse?"
Been a long time since I even saw a Works file, let alone used the program. Must be close to fifteen years now since I pilfered a copy of Works from the Comp Sci labs at me old alma mater -- easy enough to do when it all fit on one floppy disk!
If you think the NYTA's subway system is so miserable as to induce suicidal tendencies, you really need to travel a bit further afield. Trying to use Boston's "T" system, for example, is a truly miserable experience. Makes me actually miss the NYC subways, if you can imagine that.
No, the original poster got it right.
When we use surgical lasers, we tend use a more narrow-spectrum green beam to coagulate (I've most often used argon) -- the green light is better tuned to the absorption properties of hemoglobin (and thus a greater amount of the energy is absorbed by the blood).
The cutting beams we use can be at a different wavelength, and they also tend to have a tighter focus and will have a longer pulse (even continuous)...The tighter focus and longer pulse are all better for cutting. With something like tattoo removal, or other superficial uses, you'll tend to use a less focused beam.
Its certainly not all the Amish kids, by any stretch, and its absolutely not something that the seems widespread amongst the adults, but (and I am getting this all second hand, mind you)...
it is more than "youthful drinking". It includes some promiscuous, unmarried sex. It includes gang-fights. It includes driving drunk. Television, music, electronic devices, automobile driving, use of illicit substances and sex all seem par for the course, and commonplace.
You can absolutely reject something you've been exposed to -- that's not the point. The point was that they're exposed to it in the first place, and the act of rejection has become important in their culture...They're hardly untainted by modern US culture, they just respond to it differently.