It's amazing how programmed the top brass at Microsoft are to including this word "innovation" in every speech. I've hardly heard a pronouncement over the last ten years, particularly from Ballmer, and before him Bill Gates, that doesn't feature this word prominently.
People would die in an ER room lost power, that would cost the hospital and doctors an absolute fortune.
True? People die in hospitals from hospital-borne infections all the time. I'm not seeing a tidal wave of lawsuits that would motivate them to clean up.
Hmmm. I'm thinking these DNA based gates would be fussy, needing a comfy environment to run in. Also, how many cycles can they handle before falling apart?
For true tales of tech-hoarding horror, look to your local university.
I spent the past year clearing two physics spaces out. Forty years worth of leaky vacuum pumps, x-ray transformers, copper, stainless steel, botched and long-forgotten projects, a Heathkit PDP-8 rack, Hercules graphics cards....
"If there is precisely zero evidence for heaven, why do people believe it exists?" - This is a legitimate scientific question that isn't satisfyingly answered at present.
Heaven's an easy sell. It's a very comforting notion in the face of the grief of lost loved ones. A whole industry's sprung up to support the dispensing of that comfort.
The quality revolution in the US, which started after Japan's, is itself a testimonial to their being historically inefficient.
W Edwards Deming was an American who helped kick-start Japan's post-WWII production quality & efficiency. They had they advantage of starting from scratch. Many if not all american co's eventually got the message, too.
I think the idea was, instead of a physical wall, set up a long array of cameras, mikes, and other gadgets along the border. The sensors fed a system of monitoring stations that would send a patrol out if they saw people crossing in. One of the problems was in trying to automatically filter the feeds from umpteen cameras, which, most of the time, showed the same dreary, dead-assed desert. They did some kind of motion sensing, but wind, tumbleweeds, and animals set it off, too.
Soo, the contract for this proj had no non-performance clause which would have refunded the money back to the gov't if the thing didn't work?
Forget the 3.7 billion year thing. What's important is this thing's accurate to one part in 10^17. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it'll probably run faster or slower depending on how close you stand to the thing.
What if the monetization went to the rightful individuals, and Bill & Friends got, say, 10% for managing the thing.
Then you could volunteer your data and be compensated for it. With some demographics more valuable than others, you'd create markets.
The current system where corp's assume you're handing your data over for free so they can resell it should be recognized for the fraud it is and renegotiated accordingly.
Dr Nadrian Seeman has been working with DNA as a nanomechanical framework for decades now. Using the well-known mechanical and electrostatic properties of DNA as a sort of erector set. I'm not too surprised he's furthered this work.
How 'bout not including any network commands that would actually change anything?
I mean, the power grid was under manual control for decades. Was that such a bad thing?
In our northside Chicago neighborhood, the ATT-maintained land lines get all noisy and cross-talky whenever it rains.
We can hear other conversations on the line.
We call the 611 number, and they fiddle with it, it gets better. The next time it rains, the lines get noisy.
I'm completely unsurprised that ATT doesn't want to have land lines anymore. They're too cheap to be bothered with upkeep.
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It's amazing how programmed the top brass at Microsoft are to including this word "innovation" in every speech. I've hardly heard a pronouncement over the last ten years, particularly from Ballmer, and before him Bill Gates, that doesn't feature this word prominently.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it...""
People would die in an ER room lost power, that would cost the hospital and doctors an absolute fortune.
True? People die in hospitals from hospital-borne infections all the time. I'm not seeing a tidal wave of lawsuits that would motivate them to clean up.
Hmmm. I'm thinking these DNA based gates would be fussy, needing a comfy environment to run in.
Also, how many cycles can they handle before falling apart?
For true tales of tech-hoarding horror, look to your local university.
I spent the past year clearing two physics spaces out. Forty years worth of leaky vacuum pumps, x-ray transformers, copper, stainless steel, botched and long-forgotten projects, a Heathkit PDP-8 rack, Hercules graphics cards....
You can take some solace in that electronics has helped speed medical research in many, many ways.
"If there is precisely zero evidence for heaven, why do people believe it exists?" - This is a legitimate scientific question that isn't satisfyingly answered at present.
Heaven's an easy sell. It's a very comforting notion in the face of the grief of lost loved ones. A whole industry's sprung up to support the dispensing of that comfort.
The quality revolution in the US, which started after Japan's, is itself a testimonial to their being historically inefficient.
W Edwards Deming was an American who helped kick-start Japan's post-WWII production quality & efficiency. They had they advantage of starting from scratch. Many if not all american co's eventually got the message, too.
I think the idea was, instead of a physical wall, set up a long array of cameras, mikes, and other gadgets along the border. The sensors fed a system of monitoring stations that would send a patrol out if they saw people crossing in. One of the problems was in trying to automatically filter the feeds from umpteen cameras, which, most of the time, showed the same dreary, dead-assed desert. They did some kind of motion sensing, but wind, tumbleweeds, and animals set it off, too.
Soo, the contract for this proj had no non-performance clause which would have refunded the money back to the gov't if the thing didn't work?
This seems to be a mistake by the particular court that tried the case. Don't the Italians have an appeals process? It's just silly.
Evidence of doping?
Twenty dollars only to sign up? Haven't they learned anything? They should be charging $20 every time you play.
/sarcasm
How 'bout Xfinityplex = number of times you'll have to sit thru craptacular Xfinity ads on the tube.
Forget the 3.7 billion year thing. What's important is this thing's accurate to one part in 10^17. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it'll probably run faster or slower depending on how close you stand to the thing.
On toppa that, it never needs winding.
What if the monetization went to the rightful individuals, and Bill & Friends got, say, 10% for managing the thing. Then you could volunteer your data and be compensated for it. With some demographics more valuable than others, you'd create markets.
The current system where corp's assume you're handing your data over for free so they can resell it should be recognized for the fraud it is and renegotiated accordingly.
Joe's Pizza Delivery and Data Courier Co loses the personal health and financial records of every human being on earth.
What's more, this looks like a candidate for the Feynman Grand Prize. Not too shabby.
Dr Nadrian Seeman has been working with DNA as a nanomechanical framework for decades now. Using the well-known mechanical and electrostatic properties of DNA as a sort of erector set. I'm not too surprised he's furthered this work.
How 'bout not including any network commands that would actually change anything? I mean, the power grid was under manual control for decades. Was that such a bad thing?
'Nuff Said.
Beowulf cluster?
In our northside Chicago neighborhood, the ATT-maintained land lines get all noisy and cross-talky whenever it rains.
We can hear other conversations on the line.
We call the 611 number, and they fiddle with it, it gets better. The next time it rains, the lines get noisy.
I'm completely unsurprised that ATT doesn't want to have land lines anymore. They're too cheap to be bothered with upkeep.
Give that man a hand.
Please, dude, not unobtainium. upsidaisium
Unobtainium doesn't have unpaired electrons.
They just remove the naughty bits.
Dude, I think the vaccum woulda done a number on his unit.