That's why there is that nasty speed of light constraint in this universe... you can't see past the light horizon... well you can but not in the present time, you only get to see pre-computed archived data.
Very good advice... $1000 in an IRA for instance (give your kid a job and pay him/her) will return several hundred thousand dollars by the time your child retires and needs that money for prescription payments;-p
If the list of genetic predispositions which can be helped (or any genetic disease for that matter) is in your family history, then it's probably a good bet to do this. If you're looking for some sort of insurance against accidental loss of limb or from an environmental disease (non-genetic diabetes, toxic poisoning, etc) it's a much bigger gamble and probably not worth it for most people (unless you can write it down as a health expense for instance).
THe placenta is stored in the US as well... standard, but they did not give us any info on how to get access... I believe it is in the waiver's you sign away rights for research but you can deny it as well.
I've been waiting for a valid business model to arise based on this but nobody seems interested. I also expected years ago that someone would create a massive opt-in system for advertisers that could be subscribed to on any commercial website, where the user would have an account and be able to manage their profile of interests... and then earn reward points or something for each email sent to them.
What seems to have happened instead is that every company tries to get you to opt in to their newsletters, offers, etc independently and advertisers have to rely on statistical analysis to determine what you are interested in, money changes hands but the customer never gets anything but the ads.
I would love to conduct a survey of what people WOULD opt in for. Obviously prizes are at the top of the list... as are social networking services. Would people just opt in to get information about products and services that match their managed interests, in return for discounts on related products? OR do websites in general cover this already by providing that information on demand rather than as a push notification?
Seems like there is still a market for letting people subscribe to get info they didn't know about - rather than stumbling upon it through tangential searches.
Back to spam though, I do think that spam would go away for the most part if there was a valid way to get customers to opt in... OTOH there would still be the low-budget mass marketing of things nobody really wants looking for impulse buyers (AsSeenOnTV, QVC style). Those distributors will never pay for a service when they can cheaply broadcast their products with as much success and much less overhead.
I worked on a touchscreen system used on airplanes built by Panasonic Avionics and this thing seems years ahead of what their latest hardware was doing... ie: it was a POS compared to what I'm seeing here. On top of that, the Panasonic hardware didn't do much more. It's two big advantages was that it could be updated remotely from a server, (big whoop) and had a Texas Instruments DaVinci chipset in it for handling Video and Audio streaming and could play emulated games (SNES, etc).
I imagine this thing could do the same using Flash player with a Red5 rtsp server available for H.264 and MP4... and the game emulator would be nothing on that CPU either....
I'm pretty sure they said each unit was around 10k;-p
My work typically does a 40 hour work week in 5 days but does 9 hours M-Th then 4 hours on Friday.
Everyone appreciates getting out early on Friday to get a head start on the weekend, either for local travel, weekend home improvements or just playing a round of golf while everyone else is in the office. We do sometimes have urgent projects that need some people to stay but we try to compensate them in some way later.
I don't think taking a full work day off is workable as some things simply have to be done each day due to other companies schedules... so a half day works well as this type of phone call/paperwork can be done easily in a few hours.
We just don't plan on getting anything 'completed' on a Friday. it's always due on Monday EOD or Tues morning. This is a good policy anyways as it's hard to find people toward the end of a Friday regardless of whether they are supposed to be there or not.
Do criminals (who have done their time) have the right to bear arms? If not, then how do you propose to limit their access? Is it more of an intrusion of privacy to monitor all ex-cons 24/7 or only to require that people register their firearms? Additionally without some form of registration, how do you propose to discover whom the true owner of a firearm is? When one is used to commit a crime, surely you agree with a means to discover the owner and find out how the firearm was stolen or otherwise inappropriated...
So many good arguments, so little time. Guns are for shooting things. You want to protect yourself from the government, get a law degree...
Microsoft could maintain their advantage with Word/Office if they released an open source toolset for providing self/private-hosted online groupware which integrates with the Office suite.
It could be a subset of Sharepoint which allows the users to edit in Word, but save to an online managed repository with versioning, permissions and group editing tools (ie: limited workflows).
They don't need to provide the extensive framework that Sharepoint provides to enterprise customers... just the basics needed by an average office pool.
Make it open source with an API so other word processing docs can also work with it to avoid any embrace and extend issues, and have it store documents in the ODF so it is fully cross-platform, etc.
Then MS can use their leadership in the market and their customer support contracts to keep selling the Office Suite which is their number one software. Other's will try to compete and may get a few niche markets if they can create custom office apps for industry or extend the online API for specific workflows... (if they can compete with the full Sharepoint stack) but MS will dominate and for very good reason. At the same time, they will provide for future proofing and be a good software citizen which interoperates with all other options.
Ummm. There's really easy proof that there is a "person" in every single 12 week fetus. Let it go to term. If at the end of the 40 weeks the woman does not deliver a fully formed individual human being, then you can make claims. Only in the rarest circumstances is a child born without a brain or a beating heart or some other condition where they are not a viable human who will grow into your neighbor.
Otoh I'm not against abortion when there is a near guarantee that the child will live a life full of pain and suffering. In this case a person who is likely to pass on their genetic disease should use in vitro with testing of embryos.
Abortion isn't evil it's just not necessary as a means of convenient birth control. There are so many better alternatives.
Next time just let them be and then proceed to drive like a madman (make sure you have an open road)... speed up then brake randomly, swerve around for no reason.... maybe do a little drifting around a wide turn;-p
Just a note on Apple hardware... unless your a Gamer and need to upgrade your video card every year, Apple hardware lasts a long time - since they continually make the OS faster. I use Apple hardware and only get new hardware every 3-5 years. I never get the feeling that my hardware is too slow or can't compete as it runs everything I need it to run at the same speed it did when I bought it (which is always pretty darn fast).
Ah but this will ensure their demise. People may try out those features to see what the stink is about but within a few days they will realize that the apps they were using for those very same features are better at it than the browser and that the browser with all that cruft added in isn't even a good browser any more.
What you're describing BTW isn't a browser, it's a bundled up OS and they've already tried that;-p
If MS wants to compete in the browser space, all that have to do is make the browser a top-notch browser. It doesn't need extra features, it just needs to implement standards, provide good performance in cpu and memory usage AND get out of the way.
People don't want to use a browser, they want to use websites. MS doesn't seem to get that.... with their browser or their OS (people don't want to use an Operating System, they want to use their applications).
An event that could create a lethal environment for early civilization won't necessarily have the same 'impact' on modern civilization. The scenario described here is that the impact caused weather patterns to change dramatically which lead to widespread famine. These people relied upon natural weather for their survival (rainfall for irrigation, etc.) and while this would cause huge issues for any society today it's not likely that it would be nearly as widespread or as long lasting.
Other than news channels and sports broadcasts there are very few programs which need to be live streams. Even the news channels are suspect as they often report the same news from this morning with 'live interviews' later in the day.
Seems to me we could probably do without live streams all-together for the public.... let the sports bars host live events using a satellite feed or some such for the sports junkies (it's more fun in a group at a bar anyways) - and let the news junkies get their fix from RSS feeds of actual news rather than the filler content that gets passed off as news.
Now that that is all cleared up, everyone can just subscribe to the content they want and depending on what they are willing to pay for bandwidth wise, they can watch the content when it gets downloaded at whatever speed they have. With an always on internet connection at home, people should be able to queue up a few shows to watch in the evening and come home after work to find their shows waiting for them.
So where is this service?
Personally I roll my own using Boxee and an RSS download setup but of course my content is limited to what is available online (YMMV depending on your ethics).
For live TV like sports and news I have an OTA connection with an HMDI HD receiver... which really fills in the gap IMHO (but may not work well in a large city where OTA signals get lost).
Actually it sounds like deciphering a CC# with the available digits is more of an application of a known algorithm... in which case you don't have to have a skill-set other than being able to search on google for said algorithm and plug in the numbers provided.
So they are saying in essence that we should criminalize any product or expression which may contribute to a pattern of behavior which could lead to committing a crime?
ie: those who make hentai with child-like characters are contributing to the obsessions of a mentally ill person who is or could become a pedophile or who may additionally be contributing support (financially or otherwise) to an industry which exploits children.
In the first case you have a mentally ill person who will grab ahold of whatever is available to stimulate their fantasies (kids clothing magazines, etc) and need to be identified and treated or incarcerated.
In the second case, you are talking about a 3rd hand contributory scenario which is a laughable connection at best. Again, it is the mentally ill person who is being taken advantage of and exploited by said industry (in addition to the children of course). The connection to the hentai producer is no better than to any number of other possible stimulating products (kids clothing magazine, etc).
If I get landline service from one provider and it's switching center gets knocked out during a disaster, can I then make calls through another provider?
Typically it is advisable to download and run the Combo update installer for these point releases. While Software Update is great for the little things, these bigger updates can cause issues for a variety of reasons if done through Software Update (sometimes files don't get updated that should be updated due to permissions or corruption or some other random change the update is not expecting to see).
Get a USB patch stick (search on google code), which includes SSH as an install... then do a search for "downgrade apple tv" and you'll find a little script which will download and install the 2.2 firmware for you (or 2.1 if you're so inclined)... then we it reboots, go and turn off the auto-update feature under settings.
So funny.... uh you don't need any scrubbing software, just copy the content of your Word Document, then paste it into a new blank document. That will leave behind any 'history' of the document.
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Yeah New Zealand is just one big Hollywood back lot nowadays....
That's why there is that nasty speed of light constraint in this universe... you can't see past the light horizon... well you can but not in the present time, you only get to see pre-computed archived data.
Very good advice... $1000 in an IRA for instance (give your kid a job and pay him/her) will return several hundred thousand dollars by the time your child retires and needs that money for prescription payments ;-p
If the list of genetic predispositions which can be helped (or any genetic disease for that matter) is in your family history, then it's probably a good bet to do this. If you're looking for some sort of insurance against accidental loss of limb or from an environmental disease (non-genetic diabetes, toxic poisoning, etc) it's a much bigger gamble and probably not worth it for most people (unless you can write it down as a health expense for instance).
Just my 0.02
THe placenta is stored in the US as well... standard, but they did not give us any info on how to get access... I believe it is in the waiver's you sign away rights for research but you can deny it as well.
I've been waiting for a valid business model to arise based on this but nobody seems interested. I also expected years ago that someone would create a massive opt-in system for advertisers that could be subscribed to on any commercial website, where the user would have an account and be able to manage their profile of interests... and then earn reward points or something for each email sent to them.
What seems to have happened instead is that every company tries to get you to opt in to their newsletters, offers, etc independently and advertisers have to rely on statistical analysis to determine what you are interested in, money changes hands but the customer never gets anything but the ads.
I would love to conduct a survey of what people WOULD opt in for. Obviously prizes are at the top of the list... as are social networking services. Would people just opt in to get information about products and services that match their managed interests, in return for discounts on related products? OR do websites in general cover this already by providing that information on demand rather than as a push notification?
Seems like there is still a market for letting people subscribe to get info they didn't know about - rather than stumbling upon it through tangential searches.
Back to spam though, I do think that spam would go away for the most part if there was a valid way to get customers to opt in... OTOH there would still be the low-budget mass marketing of things nobody really wants looking for impulse buyers (AsSeenOnTV, QVC style). Those distributors will never pay for a service when they can cheaply broadcast their products with as much success and much less overhead.
I worked on a touchscreen system used on airplanes built by Panasonic Avionics and this thing seems years ahead of what their latest hardware was doing... ie: it was a POS compared to what I'm seeing here. On top of that, the Panasonic hardware didn't do much more. It's two big advantages was that it could be updated remotely from a server, (big whoop) and had a Texas Instruments DaVinci chipset in it for handling Video and Audio streaming and could play emulated games (SNES, etc).
I imagine this thing could do the same using Flash player with a Red5 rtsp server available for H.264 and MP4... and the game emulator would be nothing on that CPU either....
I'm pretty sure they said each unit was around 10k ;-p
They could have cast that kid who played Darth Vader (Annikin) in the last Star Wars... that kid was even worse than Keanu...
My work typically does a 40 hour work week in 5 days but does 9 hours M-Th then 4 hours on Friday.
Everyone appreciates getting out early on Friday to get a head start on the weekend, either for local travel, weekend home improvements or just playing a round of golf while everyone else is in the office. We do sometimes have urgent projects that need some people to stay but we try to compensate them in some way later.
I don't think taking a full work day off is workable as some things simply have to be done each day due to other companies schedules... so a half day works well as this type of phone call/paperwork can be done easily in a few hours.
We just don't plan on getting anything 'completed' on a Friday. it's always due on Monday EOD or Tues morning. This is a good policy anyways as it's hard to find people toward the end of a Friday regardless of whether they are supposed to be there or not.
Do criminals (who have done their time) have the right to bear arms? If not, then how do you propose to limit their access? Is it more of an intrusion of privacy to monitor all ex-cons 24/7 or only to require that people register their firearms? Additionally without some form of registration, how do you propose to discover whom the true owner of a firearm is? When one is used to commit a crime, surely you agree with a means to discover the owner and find out how the firearm was stolen or otherwise inappropriated...
So many good arguments, so little time. Guns are for shooting things. You want to protect yourself from the government, get a law degree...
Microsoft could maintain their advantage with Word/Office if they released an open source toolset for providing self/private-hosted online groupware which integrates with the Office suite.
It could be a subset of Sharepoint which allows the users to edit in Word, but save to an online managed repository with versioning, permissions and group editing tools (ie: limited workflows).
They don't need to provide the extensive framework that Sharepoint provides to enterprise customers... just the basics needed by an average office pool.
Make it open source with an API so other word processing docs can also work with it to avoid any embrace and extend issues, and have it store documents in the ODF so it is fully cross-platform, etc.
Then MS can use their leadership in the market and their customer support contracts to keep selling the Office Suite which is their number one software. Other's will try to compete and may get a few niche markets if they can create custom office apps for industry or extend the online API for specific workflows... (if they can compete with the full Sharepoint stack) but MS will dominate and for very good reason. At the same time, they will provide for future proofing and be a good software citizen which interoperates with all other options.
Ummm. There's really easy proof that there is a "person" in every single 12 week fetus. Let it go to term. If at the end of the 40 weeks the woman does not deliver a fully formed individual human being, then you can make claims. Only in the rarest circumstances is a child born without a brain or a beating heart or some other condition where they are not a viable human who will grow into your neighbor.
Otoh I'm not against abortion when there is a near guarantee that the child will live a life full of pain and suffering. In this case a person who is likely to pass on their genetic disease should use in vitro with testing of embryos.
Abortion isn't evil it's just not necessary as a means of convenient birth control. There are so many better alternatives.
Next time just let them be and then proceed to drive like a madman (make sure you have an open road)... speed up then brake randomly, swerve around for no reason.... maybe do a little drifting around a wide turn ;-p
Then respond: "Yes, I'm THAT kind of driver!"
Take a look at their PROFIT share and you'll change your tune.
Just a note on Apple hardware... unless your a Gamer and need to upgrade your video card every year, Apple hardware lasts a long time - since they continually make the OS faster. I use Apple hardware and only get new hardware every 3-5 years. I never get the feeling that my hardware is too slow or can't compete as it runs everything I need it to run at the same speed it did when I bought it (which is always pretty darn fast).
Again, if you're a PC gamer YMMV.
Ah but this will ensure their demise. People may try out those features to see what the stink is about but within a few days they will realize that the apps they were using for those very same features are better at it than the browser and that the browser with all that cruft added in isn't even a good browser any more.
What you're describing BTW isn't a browser, it's a bundled up OS and they've already tried that ;-p
If MS wants to compete in the browser space, all that have to do is make the browser a top-notch browser. It doesn't need extra features, it just needs to implement standards, provide good performance in cpu and memory usage AND get out of the way.
People don't want to use a browser, they want to use websites. MS doesn't seem to get that.... with their browser or their OS (people don't want to use an Operating System, they want to use their applications).
An event that could create a lethal environment for early civilization won't necessarily have the same 'impact' on modern civilization. The scenario described here is that the impact caused weather patterns to change dramatically which lead to widespread famine. These people relied upon natural weather for their survival (rainfall for irrigation, etc.) and while this would cause huge issues for any society today it's not likely that it would be nearly as widespread or as long lasting.
Other than news channels and sports broadcasts there are very few programs which need to be live streams. Even the news channels are suspect as they often report the same news from this morning with 'live interviews' later in the day.
Seems to me we could probably do without live streams all-together for the public.... let the sports bars host live events using a satellite feed or some such for the sports junkies (it's more fun in a group at a bar anyways) - and let the news junkies get their fix from RSS feeds of actual news rather than the filler content that gets passed off as news.
Now that that is all cleared up, everyone can just subscribe to the content they want and depending on what they are willing to pay for bandwidth wise, they can watch the content when it gets downloaded at whatever speed they have. With an always on internet connection at home, people should be able to queue up a few shows to watch in the evening and come home after work to find their shows waiting for them.
So where is this service?
Personally I roll my own using Boxee and an RSS download setup but of course my content is limited to what is available online (YMMV depending on your ethics).
For live TV like sports and news I have an OTA connection with an HMDI HD receiver... which really fills in the gap IMHO (but may not work well in a large city where OTA signals get lost).
Actually it sounds like deciphering a CC# with the available digits is more of an application of a known algorithm... in which case you don't have to have a skill-set other than being able to search on google for said algorithm and plug in the numbers provided.
So they are saying in essence that we should criminalize any product or expression which may contribute to a pattern of behavior which could lead to committing a crime?
ie: those who make hentai with child-like characters are contributing to the obsessions of a mentally ill person who is or could become a pedophile or who may additionally be contributing support (financially or otherwise) to an industry which exploits children.
In the first case you have a mentally ill person who will grab ahold of whatever is available to stimulate their fantasies (kids clothing magazines, etc) and need to be identified and treated or incarcerated.
In the second case, you are talking about a 3rd hand contributory scenario which is a laughable connection at best. Again, it is the mentally ill person who is being taken advantage of and exploited by said industry (in addition to the children of course). The connection to the hentai producer is no better than to any number of other possible stimulating products (kids clothing magazine, etc).
Do landlines work any different?
If I get landline service from one provider and it's switching center gets knocked out during a disaster, can I then make calls through another provider?
Typically it is advisable to download and run the Combo update installer for these point releases. While Software Update is great for the little things, these bigger updates can cause issues for a variety of reasons if done through Software Update (sometimes files don't get updated that should be updated due to permissions or corruption or some other random change the update is not expecting to see).
Or a friend or neighbor with such obscure hardware....
Get a USB patch stick (search on google code), which includes SSH as an install... then do a search for "downgrade apple tv" and you'll find a little script which will download and install the 2.2 firmware for you (or 2.1 if you're so inclined)... then we it reboots, go and turn off the auto-update feature under settings.
So funny.... uh you don't need any scrubbing software, just copy the content of your Word Document, then paste it into a new blank document. That will leave behind any 'history' of the document.