Oooh, 3D and all, but is it really any advance over test strips?
The third world has been using test strips fine for the last n years. These 3D paper things don't seem to really be any easier to use or really cheaper to make.
Just because they're made from paper and tape does not mean they can be made in a mud hut. The critical part is treating the carrier with the reactants still requires a clean lab environment.
Sure it is more expensive to make stuff in America, mainly because American workers have excessive expectations. They expect to be able to afford condos and vacations and Xboxes while elsewhere in the world people doing the same job live in simple dwellings with few luxuries.
Spending on technology as a stimulus is a poor idea because it does not employ enough local people and sends too much money overseas. The stimulus programs of the 1930s did things like build dams and bridges - using huge amounts of labor and American made materials and machinery. That kick-started manufacturing, mining and other activitities. This caused earning and spending throughout the economy. Installing fibre into every school will involve far fewer people and send vast amounts of money overseas. Of course, the stuff could be built in USA, but that needs huge ramp ups in factory building and us a pointless exercise unless USA intends to restart its domestic electronic manufacturing industry and keep it producing for 10 to 20 years.
Of course that's a dream. As soon as the economy stabilises it will be back to the old ways - sending the manufacturing to China or wherever.
Measuring a country by broadband adoption is pointless. It is what people do with that broadband that is more important. If a country is just using their broadband for entertainment that's hardly building a strong economy.
Marijuana is not that bad (not as bad as alcohol and tobacco). Legalising marijuana. would cut the supply chain to other more destructive drugs.
Like any good salesman, a drug dealer will try to convert a marijuana user to use other drugs that turn a better profit. The good old upsell. Legalising marijuana would break that chain.
With earlier versions of XP Embedded you had to provide a block device for paging, which is pretty stupid in an embedded system. Some people subverted this by hiding some RAM from the OS and making it available as a "disk".
You also had to provide a display driver, even for devices with no display. Same deal, make a "fake one".
"We're all going to starve" is just fear mongering. It is hard to say who's behind it, but I'd finger big agri-biz, trying to prevent being forced into more sustainable farming practices.
We have vast excesses of food in this world. There are now more fat people than starving people.
Talk to any farmer (as I do, living in a rural area) and the problem they face is not production, but stimulating consumption to help increase demand and prices. Feedlots are highly inefficient ways to process food. Take 20 to 50 food units of grain, put them through a feedlot and get one food unit out. A vast % of the food stream is handled this way. Reducing feedlot meat consumption by 20% and the world's food supply will probably double.
You clearly have not been a part of many hardware development exercises.
Thinking that product follows a design it then ship it model is as broken as thinking the same for software.
It is very common for hardware designs to be modified during their lifetime. Frequently the first shipped product will have some hand modified parts to the circuit which will get fixed in a subsequent design. Frequently designs get modified to use cheaper components etc.
to anywhere near low enough to work with the piezo then you might as well use a very small battery.
Current cell phone technology is perhaps four orders of magnitude away from piezo power. At ten times the piezo power level, say 10mW, you may as well use small cheap batteries. One non-rechargable AAA cell would run for approx 700-800 hours at those levels.
where there is approx 40% unemployment, but not in USA where being poor means not having the latest Nikes.
In South Africa, copper is stolen on a massive scale, helped by the many black outs. When lack outs are scheduld the copper thieves can even plan their activities.
Even if people are enabled to do their own development that's not to say they always will.
In my experience, some companies would rather engage the original authors to do extensions so that their in house programmers don't have to learn all this new stuff. If they'd have to hire new staff to do this then hiring the original authors is often more cost effective than hiring newbies.
Rarely, but increasingly, some companies are starting to see value in supporting FOSS developers even if they don't have to. Some are starting to see this as a social obligation. I've even received an unsolicited check + a thank you card.
Hopefully this will continue to grow. Companies won't just see what they can suck off the internet for free, but will also see the value and be prepared to support those that generate the value.
Seen no ballot boxing, jury boxing or ammo boxing by NRA types. How far do liberties have to be eroded before you kick into another gear? With the worst president in history - both popularity and in terms of liberty - you're still on the soap box, so to think you'd ever go as far as the ammo box is just the beer talking. Face it, you're never going to need that gun for the cause of liberty.
Again I call your bluff!
I see good reason for having a well armed, but well trained and regulated, body of gun owners - like the Swiss.
What is bullshit is a bunch of untrained, unregulated couch cowboys that claim to need their weapons for freedom but really do nothing apart from subscribing to Soldier of Fortune magazine and lube their dicks with cammo paint.
And yes, I have owned and used guns and been in the military.
All these gun nuts say they need unlicensed firearms to protect there freedom.
You're full of shit. If you really were protecting freedom you'd have done something by now. Bush has violated more freedoms than any president before and you gun nuts have done absolutely nothing. I call your bluff!
Once you get to a certain level of quality/performance it it quite hard for anyone but the technophiles to appreciate any improvement.
Is HD really that much better than SD? Is a dual core really that much better than a single core? Is 100Mbits/sec really better than 20Mbits/s?Is a $5000 hifi really better than a $200 one?
Once people have something that is "good enough", they don't value an improvement. This is vexing for companies trying to psh consumers to the next level.
I'd go so far as to say that anyone thinking a kid of 2 needs a computer is sick. A baby needs to develop interactions with a 3D real world. Computer worlds are 2D and fake.
Even if this baby is a prodigy, the kid will benefit from being fully developed. It is a msitake to think that a kid that might one day become computer savvy will benefit from learning to use a computer at this age.
Services get structured to provide a sufficient level of service, at a reasonable price point, for the most common users. People with special wants will pay more to get a premium service.
10kGBP per site is hardly huge in the grand scheme of running a company so clearly you've made your decision that what you have is "good enough". Next time you move HQ, do some research as to where to locate if your data needs are so high.
If you have a huge multi-CPU multi-threading system then internal OS data structure scalability and performance are very important for anything except very trivial applications. "OS pissing" basically acts as a scaling function for Amdahl's Law.
It is one thing to measure Drystones etc, or some other simple grunt-measuring metric, but that does not realistically stress the OS's influence on how the system will perform on huge complex number crunching models.
Microsoft has only been in this game for a short time and only recently got support for 256 cores. Getting support is one thing, getting **good**, optimised, support is quite another and that will take some time to get right.
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The third world has been using test strips fine for the last n years. These 3D paper things don't seem to really be any easier to use or really cheaper to make.
Just because they're made from paper and tape does not mean they can be made in a mud hut. The critical part is treating the carrier with the reactants still requires a clean lab environment.
Spending on technology as a stimulus is a poor idea because it does not employ enough local people and sends too much money overseas. The stimulus programs of the 1930s did things like build dams and bridges - using huge amounts of labor and American made materials and machinery. That kick-started manufacturing, mining and other activitities. This caused earning and spending throughout the economy. Installing fibre into every school will involve far fewer people and send vast amounts of money overseas. Of course, the stuff could be built in USA, but that needs huge ramp ups in factory building and us a pointless exercise unless USA intends to restart its domestic electronic manufacturing industry and keep it producing for 10 to 20 years.
Of course that's a dream. As soon as the economy stabilises it will be back to the old ways - sending the manufacturing to China or wherever.
Measuring a country by broadband adoption is pointless. It is what people do with that broadband that is more important. If a country is just using their broadband for entertainment that's hardly building a strong economy.
Prohibition helped getting the mob going too, just like how drugs are helping gangs.
Like any good salesman, a drug dealer will try to convert a marijuana user to use other drugs that turn a better profit. The good old upsell. Legalising marijuana would break that chain.
Macbooks are so ugly next to this thing.
Keep away from script kiddies.
You also had to provide a display driver, even for devices with no display. Same deal, make a "fake one".
We have vast excesses of food in this world. There are now more fat people than starving people.
Talk to any farmer (as I do, living in a rural area) and the problem they face is not production, but stimulating consumption to help increase demand and prices.
Feedlots are highly inefficient ways to process food. Take 20 to 50 food units of grain, put them through a feedlot and get one food unit out. A vast % of the food stream is handled this way. Reducing feedlot meat consumption by 20% and the world's food supply will probably double.
Thinking that product follows a design it then ship it model is as broken as thinking the same for software.
It is very common for hardware designs to be modified during their lifetime. Frequently the first shipped product will have some hand modified parts to the circuit which will get fixed in a subsequent design. Frequently designs get modified to use cheaper components etc.
Why should they care about EULAs?
Current cell phone technology is perhaps four orders of magnitude away from piezo power. At ten times the piezo power level, say 10mW, you may as well use small cheap batteries. One non-rechargable AAA cell would run for approx 700-800 hours at those levels.
... I'll try to evade capture afterwards.
In South Africa, copper is stolen on a massive scale, helped by the many black outs. When lack outs are scheduld the copper thieves can even plan their activities.
In my experience, some companies would rather engage the original authors to do extensions so that their in house programmers don't have to learn all this new stuff. If they'd have to hire new staff to do this then hiring the original authors is often more cost effective than hiring newbies.
Rarely, but increasingly, some companies are starting to see value in supporting FOSS developers even if they don't have to. Some are starting to see this as a social obligation. I've even received an unsolicited check + a thank you card.
Hopefully this will continue to grow. Companies won't just see what they can suck off the internet for free, but will also see the value and be prepared to support those that generate the value.
What he does with it is completely different to whether he has rights or not.
Seen no ballot boxing, jury boxing or ammo boxing by NRA types. How far do liberties have to be eroded before you kick into another gear? With the worst president in history - both popularity and in terms of liberty - you're still on the soap box, so to think you'd ever go as far as the ammo box is just the beer talking. Face it, you're never going to need that gun for the cause of liberty.
Again I call your bluff!
I see good reason for having a well armed, but well trained and regulated, body of gun owners - like the Swiss.
What is bullshit is a bunch of untrained, unregulated couch cowboys that claim to need their weapons for freedom but really do nothing apart from subscribing to Soldier of Fortune magazine and lube their dicks with cammo paint.
And yes, I have owned and used guns and been in the military.
You're full of shit. If you really were protecting freedom you'd have done something by now. Bush has violated more freedoms than any president before and you gun nuts have done absolutely nothing. I call your bluff!
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People has been suppressing alternative views since the beginning of time. Heck, even animals will eject non-conformists from the herd.
Is HD really that much better than SD? Is a dual core really that much better than a single core? Is 100Mbits/sec really better than 20Mbits/s?Is a $5000 hifi really better than a $200 one?
Once people have something that is "good enough", they don't value an improvement. This is vexing for companies trying to psh consumers to the next level.
Even if this baby is a prodigy, the kid will benefit from being fully developed. It is a msitake to think that a kid that might one day become computer savvy will benefit from learning to use a computer at this age.
Add yeast and you can have alien brew!
10kGBP per site is hardly huge in the grand scheme of running a company so clearly you've made your decision that what you have is "good enough". Next time you move HQ, do some research as to where to locate if your data needs are so high.
You send them to space.... and if they do crash you make sure to crash it outside of California so that you don't get the eco-Nazis on your case.
It is one thing to measure Drystones etc, or some other simple grunt-measuring metric, but that does not realistically stress the OS's influence on how the system will perform on huge complex number crunching models.
Microsoft has only been in this game for a short time and only recently got support for 256 cores. Getting support is one thing, getting **good**, optimised, support is quite another and that will take some time to get right.