Interesting- thanks for taking the time to increase my knowledge. Perhaps I've had just enough information to make me worry about it and not enough to know better. I wonder if this is also the case with other prion thoughts- It's not the only reason that I avoid meat, but the thought really does bother me that, given (what I understand to be) the US's lousy meat inspection and meat industry practices (like feeding downed animals to healthy ones), there's a possibility that livestock nationwide could get silently infected with prions that cause CJD or something like that and get distributed across and eaten by a large portion of the population before anyone realized anything was wrong. Suddenly people's brains everywhere start going haywire. Is that possible? Unlikely?
I'll take your word for it, but for curiosity's sake- If it were a prion disease, how would it get transmitted, besides contaminated food? And if it were being transmitted by something else, how would one be able to find out what it was if it takes years or decades for the effects to be seen?
using the defacto standard "ctrl-c & ctrl-v" type shortcut keys
What drives me crazy more than anything about my mac is that the home and end keys don't do what they're supposed to. I have to do command-left arrow or command-right arrow to do those. It wouldn't be a problem, except that I have to use PC's at work. Constantly having to switch back and forth between keyboard shortcut paradigms is a pain in the butt.
What if the commercials were more interactive- like games where you clicked things? I'm thinking something like the microgames in WarioWare: Touched on the DS: Help the celebrity find the Coca Cola! Unroll the Charmin! Catch the Skittles! Etc, etc... What would be more addictive than a game where you get iTunes store credit for doing well?
FYI- his name is Steve Jobs, not Steve Job. I'm sure you know that, but clearly you don't understand how apostrophes work. When doing a possessive of a word already ending in s, you put the apostrophe after the s. So you'd say "Jobs' first priority". Some people say you should add an additional s, as in "Jobs's first priority", but we all know that's just silly.
This may be a little OT, but I'd like to see Apple offer advertisements for download on the iTMS in exchange for store credit. They could make them interactive or something if they want to make sure you watch them. I don't mind commercials, I just mind that they interrupt whatever I'm trying to watch. I'd gladly sit and watch/interact with commercials for 20-30 min if it got me $2-3 to spend on commercial-free TV shows like Lost or The Colbert Report. There's a strange bit of psychology that makes me despise spending $2 out of my pocket for an episode of Lost but be fine with watching 20 minutes of commercials for it, even though my time is worth more than that.
Nobody remembers that the lie was part of his sworn testimony in a court case
Right. His sworn testimony regarding something that was nobody's business in a court case that was nothing but a political witch hunt. Bush tells bigger lies every day, he just gets away with it because he refuses to go under oath for anything.
I kind of like it. The line lengths are short, which makes it easier to read because your eyes don't have as far to travel from the end of one line to the next, which makes it less likely that your eyes will land on the wrong line. Having multiple columns takes advantage of what would otherwise be white space or unrelated information and it minimizes scrolling. The IHT have put a lot of thought into their website- I think it's one of the best-designed news sites online.
What's wrong with not having programs written for OS X if it will be able to run the Windows apps anyway? Either way, people will buy macs and the mac marketshare will continue to increase. Eventually there are bound to be enough users to make having OS X versions of one's software (that can take full advantage of OS X's capabilities) advantageous enough to compel developers to make them in order to be competitive. Even if they don't, if MS does something with the next version to cause Windows compatibility to break, application developers will have to make Mac versions of their software in order to keep the customers happy. What's the big deal?
I need to start my own social networking site! Apparently teenagers will sign up for anything, and people just throw money at you if you own one, no matter how obscure it is! Awesome!
You got a degree in CS without learning what the ENIAC was? I have an ART degree and knew that... In art, we have to take art history classes. Do they not have computing history classes for CS majors?
The fuss with the Katrina refugees was that they were all dislocated overnight. Even then, most of them have already managed to get settled here in Houston or elsewhere, and it's only been 6 months. If the Greenland ice shelf melts, it will likely do so over the course of several decades. It's not like a wall of water will suddenly come rushing over Florida. This is not The Day After Tomorrow.
I agree. I think the most dangerous people on the road, after teenagers, are definitely the over 65 set who simply renew their license by mail. I can't tell you how many times I've been cut off by or stuck behind some old lady who can barely see over the steering wheel of her big boat of a Cadillac cruising down an open freeway at 40 mph. There's no way some of these people could pass a driving test, if they were only given them.
why not just have mcdonalds.com be a disambiguation page, with links to each of the trademark holders' sites?...or, i guess, people could just put mcdonald's into google...
I believe the OP intended to say "Being able to transport items to combat troops is definitely going to be a major use for these machines...". That's what these are supposed to be used for, anyway- the most vulnerable and costly part of an army is its supply lines. Replacing human-driven supply lines with these would allow the drivers and other personnel associated with the supply lines to be moved to the front lines, or wherever else they were needed. You could also expend a lot less resources on protecting these because they don't have humans on board to worry about.
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Interesting- thanks for taking the time to increase my knowledge. Perhaps I've had just enough information to make me worry about it and not enough to know better. I wonder if this is also the case with other prion thoughts- It's not the only reason that I avoid meat, but the thought really does bother me that, given (what I understand to be) the US's lousy meat inspection and meat industry practices (like feeding downed animals to healthy ones), there's a possibility that livestock nationwide could get silently infected with prions that cause CJD or something like that and get distributed across and eaten by a large portion of the population before anyone realized anything was wrong. Suddenly people's brains everywhere start going haywire. Is that possible? Unlikely?
I'll take your word for it, but for curiosity's sake- If it were a prion disease, how would it get transmitted, besides contaminated food? And if it were being transmitted by something else, how would one be able to find out what it was if it takes years or decades for the effects to be seen?
My money is on it being a prion disease related to CJD. The meat industry probably doesn't want you to know...
...Aquafresh? Surely the coloring they chose is not coincidental...
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using the defacto standard "ctrl-c & ctrl-v" type shortcut keys
What drives me crazy more than anything about my mac is that the home and end keys don't do what they're supposed to. I have to do command-left arrow or command-right arrow to do those. It wouldn't be a problem, except that I have to use PC's at work. Constantly having to switch back and forth between keyboard shortcut paradigms is a pain in the butt.
What if the commercials were more interactive- like games where you clicked things? I'm thinking something like the microgames in WarioWare: Touched on the DS: Help the celebrity find the Coca Cola! Unroll the Charmin! Catch the Skittles! Etc, etc... What would be more addictive than a game where you get iTunes store credit for doing well?
FYI- his name is Steve Jobs, not Steve Job. I'm sure you know that, but clearly you don't understand how apostrophes work. When doing a possessive of a word already ending in s, you put the apostrophe after the s. So you'd say "Jobs' first priority". Some people say you should add an additional s, as in "Jobs's first priority", but we all know that's just silly.
This may be a little OT, but I'd like to see Apple offer advertisements for download on the iTMS in exchange for store credit. They could make them interactive or something if they want to make sure you watch them. I don't mind commercials, I just mind that they interrupt whatever I'm trying to watch. I'd gladly sit and watch/interact with commercials for 20-30 min if it got me $2-3 to spend on commercial-free TV shows like Lost or The Colbert Report. There's a strange bit of psychology that makes me despise spending $2 out of my pocket for an episode of Lost but be fine with watching 20 minutes of commercials for it, even though my time is worth more than that.
Nobody remembers that the lie was part of his sworn testimony in a court case
Right. His sworn testimony regarding something that was nobody's business in a court case that was nothing but a political witch hunt. Bush tells bigger lies every day, he just gets away with it because he refuses to go under oath for anything.
Clearly we will have to develop chaos grid technology!
I kind of like it. The line lengths are short, which makes it easier to read because your eyes don't have as far to travel from the end of one line to the next, which makes it less likely that your eyes will land on the wrong line. Having multiple columns takes advantage of what would otherwise be white space or unrelated information and it minimizes scrolling. The IHT have put a lot of thought into their website- I think it's one of the best-designed news sites online.
Quit playing with your Wii Wii!
There's not a vibrator in the world that doesn't use C cells. Sometimes I wonder if vibrators are the only reason C cells are still in existence...
Yeah. It looks like it came out at the end of March. I didn't notice it until I saw the page for the 17".
They also released a universal binary version of Final Cut Studio.
What's wrong with not having programs written for OS X if it will be able to run the Windows apps anyway? Either way, people will buy macs and the mac marketshare will continue to increase. Eventually there are bound to be enough users to make having OS X versions of one's software (that can take full advantage of OS X's capabilities) advantageous enough to compel developers to make them in order to be competitive. Even if they don't, if MS does something with the next version to cause Windows compatibility to break, application developers will have to make Mac versions of their software in order to keep the customers happy. What's the big deal?
Maybe we'd sit in the chair facing the other way?
I need to start my own social networking site! Apparently teenagers will sign up for anything, and people just throw money at you if you own one, no matter how obscure it is! Awesome!
You got a degree in CS without learning what the ENIAC was? I have an ART degree and knew that... In art, we have to take art history classes. Do they not have computing history classes for CS majors?
The fuss with the Katrina refugees was that they were all dislocated overnight. Even then, most of them have already managed to get settled here in Houston or elsewhere, and it's only been 6 months. If the Greenland ice shelf melts, it will likely do so over the course of several decades. It's not like a wall of water will suddenly come rushing over Florida. This is not The Day After Tomorrow.
I agree. I think the most dangerous people on the road, after teenagers, are definitely the over 65 set who simply renew their license by mail. I can't tell you how many times I've been cut off by or stuck behind some old lady who can barely see over the steering wheel of her big boat of a Cadillac cruising down an open freeway at 40 mph. There's no way some of these people could pass a driving test, if they were only given them.
why not just have mcdonalds.com be a disambiguation page, with links to each of the trademark holders' sites? ...or, i guess, people could just put mcdonald's into google...
I believe the OP intended to say "Being able to transport items to combat troops is definitely going to be a major use for these machines...". That's what these are supposed to be used for, anyway- the most vulnerable and costly part of an army is its supply lines. Replacing human-driven supply lines with these would allow the drivers and other personnel associated with the supply lines to be moved to the front lines, or wherever else they were needed. You could also expend a lot less resources on protecting these because they don't have humans on board to worry about.
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