Of course the ultimate extension of this is a bittorrent filesystem sync. Imagine you have a lot of music or movies and want to keep them in sync in multiple locations securely. Maybe allow friends to get a read-only sync copy of your media but not your financial data. Maybe sync everything to a NAS in your parents.
Benefits of just using rsync (which I use now) is obviously the torrent part of it, but an additional part is that you can likely do it without punching an extra hole in your network's security if you live behind a couple layers of routers.
And the solution to that is for each artist to open up their own website with downloadable mp3s for a relatively cheap amount.
A properly managed artist-owned site would have 1 - High quality mp3s with all the ID3 tags filled out and high res cover art embedded 2 - Liner notes available for free with purchase of an album at a time. 3 - Lyrics of all songs in the liner notes or even embedded in the mp3s (or both). All at a relatively inexpensive cost ($1 a song, $5 an album)
When musicians I have heard of offer these services, I buy from their sites. Why worry about the stress of getting caught on a filesharing network (no matter how small the risk is in reality).
I would expect that good independent artists could band together and link their sites to each other or through a common portal. Kind of like a grown up myspace.
Except "Doctor Who" is just a common response to the character's name "The Doctor" so to those familiar with the show, your parsing still makes more sense.
Except that in that case the who is superfluous (it makes it sound as if there's a line of doctors waiting for their turn to warn us about Facebook). It should be "Current Doctor Warns Against Facebook". Which makes me wonder who gets a doctorate in current...
My thinking was that if there was a gamma ray burst extinction event of significant magnitude, it could potentially wipe out even the single cell organisms and essentially reset the planet to "rediscover" life.
Imagine you were a time traveler who traveled 10 years in the future to find the entire planet had been wiped out... What would you do? Perhaps jump further and further in the future looking for sentient life again?
Perhaps they can't open source the stuff they own because they're not exactly sure what they own?
Think about a decade of legacy code which may not be completely documented of who each individual author is and what license each line is under. It could be a mess that they'd rather avoid by just helping the open source community write their own code from the ground up.
All it means is you need to go back and buy a PS3 or Xbox360 or Wii on discount. You may not get the latest games, but the game catalogs are pretty filled out at this time.
And it you haven't played a game, it's new to you.
How about if these lights were controlled by your home theater system or TV?
A couple possibilities: 1. Turning the TV on makes sure the lights are off. 2. Mood lighting that shifts based on the scene. (A couple TVs have these sort of lights on their borders already.)
Actually an electronics minimall actually sounds like an appealing idea and something that I might find interesting to look at if I was near a Best Buy.
First of all, I really don't think Google controls maps.
Second, it's only an issue if they abuse the monopoly in order to leverage themselves in another field.
They have a mapping application for Apple iPhones. Microsoft has their own mapping application. So does Apple. So does Tom Tom. So do a score of others. Google leveraging maps to increase the share of Android only works if Apple and Microsoft pretty much admit they need Google Maps.
You have a better argument saying Google has a monopoly on videos since they own YouTube.
The bottom line is that even if battery technology gets there, how will the grid handle such quick charging? I see that being the bigger obstacle to EV road trips as convenient as gas-powered trips are now.
I was under the impression that the reason they could make it free was that they were generating power on site with solar panels.
That being said, it doesn't scale well to popularity of the stations.
I can't stand the pillar the medical profession puts itself on. Let's run down the list of examples for how the medical profession doesn't give a shit about patients, shall we?
We're forced to be seen by inexperienced, sleep-deprived, overburdened, overworked trainees. We don't allow truckers to drive more than X hours in Y days and the medical profession has proven lack of sleep impacts mental abilities. But med student hours? Sky's the limit, and it's common knowledge that you're supposed to fake your timesheets now that hospitals "track" this and have "policies."
Surgeons routinely fuck up "which leg" or "which eye." They're taught all sorts of anatomy, except they can't seem to figure out "left" versus "right"
Despite the fact that hospitals are increasingly a cesspool of MRSA and other diseases, we continue to cling to the idea that we should treat people with transmissible diseases in close proximity to others, instead of having doctors travel to the sick patients, treat them, disinfect, and move on to the next patient. Gee, what could possibly go wrong with concentrating sick and weak people in one area?
As a physician I'm quite interested in the subject.:-) Things have been bad in the past, but is getting better on all fronts. Let's take your issues one at a time:
There's a cap placed on residency hours per week and hours in a row, now. Yes, it's sometimes broken, but it's a lot better than 20 years ago. And, no, it's not routine practice to fake your timesheets. Or at least where I trained ~15 years ago, and not in the training program I assist overseeing. That being said, in some subspecialty fellowships I wouldn't doubt that it's more common to do this -- But they do this to gain more experience as you may only get a once in a decade experience if you stay on call and extra 2 hours. Who would deprive themselves that?
Penmanship is not taught in medical school. But electronic perscriptions are becoming more commonplace in the last few years (both on the outpatient and inpatient sides). And the last couple decades have brought on more responsibility of the patient to know what they are taking. The outpatient medication errors are the combined fault of the physician, the pharmacist, and the patient.
I wouldn't say that anyone routinely operates on the wrong body part. But mistakes do happen. It's now standard of care to do a "time out" with the patient, nurse, and physician all in the operating room to agree on the patient's name, date of birth, and procedure to be performed before any sedation is administered or incisions are performed. But I once had a patient respond to a different name who expected to have the same procedure performed. Fortunately he was tripped up by the date of birth.
As for washing hands, that's a culture change. My hospital has random people anonymously assigned to watch people enter and leave patient rooms to make sure we always wash in and out. (The people are people that work on the floors anyway.) A couple verbal warnings and suddenly everyone's compliant. No need for technology.
And the younger generation of physicians are more humble. But that's also because they tread medicine as more of a job and less of a calling. I guess you can't get everything.:-(
A decade (or more) ago I set my dad up with a.yahoo.com email address and made his home page yahoo.com.
Now he has shared that email address with so many business contacts that he's locked in for life.
I'm the same way with my gmail address. I'm essentially locked in as well. They can offer me 5 ways to get my email out (and I do back up my email about once a year) but it doesn't matter if hundreds of contacts have that address.
Who gets to decide how much is too much?... people in those countries getting rid of their corrupt politicians and levying taxes on their own wealthy.
Something tells me you answered your own question just there. And if it is 'the people in those countries' deciding when too much is too much, then the GP poster commenting he feels Gates has too much is certainly within his rights to say.
And that's what the tax code is supposed to settle.
In a capitalistic society there is a need for some individuals to have excess capitol/money to invest in new ideas/companies. Gates just seems to be the richest.
And you know what? It has to be someone. Why not him. At least he seems to make an effort to give away some of the money towards his charity.
Do I like what he did with the Microsoft OS monopoly? Of course not. But what he's done with the money isn't as disgusting as just putting it into big oil or buying his own island or something like that.
It actually is simple. All you need to do is destroy the planet. And I don't mean just kill all life on the planet. I mean make it so that the planet Earth no longer exists. (see here: http://qntm.org/destroy )
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Don't particularly care about the licensing issues.
My question is whether it will allow me to stream from my home system, or will I have to upload every video file or use Dropbox or some other kludge.
Of course the ultimate extension of this is a bittorrent filesystem sync. Imagine you have a lot of music or movies and want to keep them in sync in multiple locations securely. Maybe allow friends to get a read-only sync copy of your media but not your financial data. Maybe sync everything to a NAS in your parents.
Benefits of just using rsync (which I use now) is obviously the torrent part of it, but an additional part is that you can likely do it without punching an extra hole in your network's security if you live behind a couple layers of routers.
And the solution to that is for each artist to open up their own website with downloadable mp3s for a relatively cheap amount.
A properly managed artist-owned site would have
1 - High quality mp3s with all the ID3 tags filled out and high res cover art embedded
2 - Liner notes available for free with purchase of an album at a time.
3 - Lyrics of all songs in the liner notes or even embedded in the mp3s (or both).
All at a relatively inexpensive cost ($1 a song, $5 an album)
When musicians I have heard of offer these services, I buy from their sites. Why worry about the stress of getting caught on a filesharing network (no matter how small the risk is in reality).
I would expect that good independent artists could band together and link their sites to each other or through a common portal. Kind of like a grown up myspace.
Except "Doctor Who" is just a common response to the character's name "The Doctor" so to those familiar with the show, your parsing still makes more sense.
Except that in that case the who is superfluous (it makes it sound as if there's a line of doctors waiting for their turn to warn us about Facebook). It should be "Current Doctor Warns Against Facebook". Which makes me wonder who gets a doctorate in current...
My thinking was that if there was a gamma ray burst extinction event of significant magnitude, it could potentially wipe out even the single cell organisms and essentially reset the planet to "rediscover" life.
Imagine you were a time traveler who traveled 10 years in the future to find the entire planet had been wiped out... What would you do? Perhaps jump further and further in the future looking for sentient life again?
So where am I supposed to get clean water for my scotch?
Perhaps they can't open source the stuff they own because they're not exactly sure what they own?
Think about a decade of legacy code which may not be completely documented of who each individual author is and what license each line is under. It could be a mess that they'd rather avoid by just helping the open source community write their own code from the ground up.
Do we not like Kernel Newbies anymore? I've always looked to them for a synopsis of kernel features: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.10
Bingo.
Faraday cages around the rooms. A payphone to call 911 right outside.
That being said, I wonder if this will drive the final stake in a movie theater's heart?
Do people still build movie theaters? All the ones I know have been around since I lived in the areas and just change hands every 5 years or so.
In the Fringe TV show, I was thinking that the Others were time travelers from the distant past you were trying to escape an extinction event.
Too bad. Would have made for more interesting Sci Fi than what actually happened on the show.
The Earth is over 4 billion years old.
The techtonic plates drift up and down over the mantle in 3 billion years.
There could have been a civilization that left Earth 3 billion years ago that we would never have known about.
Actually, I thought this was going to be covered in the TV series "Fringe" (when they talked about the First People), but was sorely disappointed.
All it means is you need to go back and buy a PS3 or Xbox360 or Wii on discount. You may not get the latest games, but the game catalogs are pretty filled out at this time.
And it you haven't played a game, it's new to you.
How about if these lights were controlled by your home theater system or TV?
A couple possibilities:
1. Turning the TV on makes sure the lights are off.
2. Mood lighting that shifts based on the scene. (A couple TVs have these sort of lights on their borders already.)
Actually an electronics minimall actually sounds like an appealing idea and something that I might find interesting to look at if I was near a Best Buy.
Or his personal porn collection.
Why back it up if you can get the world to do it?
First of all, I really don't think Google controls maps.
Second, it's only an issue if they abuse the monopoly in order to leverage themselves in another field.
They have a mapping application for Apple iPhones. Microsoft has their own mapping application. So does Apple. So does Tom Tom. So do a score of others. Google leveraging maps to increase the share of Android only works if Apple and Microsoft pretty much admit they need Google Maps.
You have a better argument saying Google has a monopoly on videos since they own YouTube.
This is how I envision IT departments to look like in 5 years: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091115174643/memoryalpha/en/images/f/f2/USS_Enterprise_(alternate_reality)_bridge.jpg
The bottom line is that even if battery technology gets there, how will the grid handle such quick charging? I see that being the bigger obstacle to EV road trips as convenient as gas-powered trips are now.
I was under the impression that the reason they could make it free was that they were generating power on site with solar panels.
That being said, it doesn't scale well to popularity of the stations.
I can't stand the pillar the medical profession puts itself on. Let's run down the list of examples for how the medical profession doesn't give a shit about patients, shall we?
As a physician I'm quite interested in the subject. :-) Things have been bad in the past, but is getting better on all fronts. Let's take your issues one at a time:
There's a cap placed on residency hours per week and hours in a row, now. Yes, it's sometimes broken, but it's a lot better than 20 years ago. And, no, it's not routine practice to fake your timesheets. Or at least where I trained ~15 years ago, and not in the training program I assist overseeing. That being said, in some subspecialty fellowships I wouldn't doubt that it's more common to do this -- But they do this to gain more experience as you may only get a once in a decade experience if you stay on call and extra 2 hours. Who would deprive themselves that?
Penmanship is not taught in medical school. But electronic perscriptions are becoming more commonplace in the last few years (both on the outpatient and inpatient sides). And the last couple decades have brought on more responsibility of the patient to know what they are taking. The outpatient medication errors are the combined fault of the physician, the pharmacist, and the patient.
I wouldn't say that anyone routinely operates on the wrong body part. But mistakes do happen. It's now standard of care to do a "time out" with the patient, nurse, and physician all in the operating room to agree on the patient's name, date of birth, and procedure to be performed before any sedation is administered or incisions are performed. But I once had a patient respond to a different name who expected to have the same procedure performed. Fortunately he was tripped up by the date of birth.
As for washing hands, that's a culture change. My hospital has random people anonymously assigned to watch people enter and leave patient rooms to make sure we always wash in and out. (The people are people that work on the floors anyway.) A couple verbal warnings and suddenly everyone's compliant. No need for technology.
And the younger generation of physicians are more humble. But that's also because they tread medicine as more of a job and less of a calling. I guess you can't get everything. :-(
A decade (or more) ago I set my dad up with a .yahoo.com email address and made his home page yahoo.com.
Now he has shared that email address with so many business contacts that he's locked in for life.
I'm the same way with my gmail address. I'm essentially locked in as well. They can offer me 5 ways to get my email out (and I do back up my email about once a year) but it doesn't matter if hundreds of contacts have that address.
How about filing a DMCA claim against their movies?
I use the Free Cable plugin almost every night. Maybe you have to make sure yours is being updated?
I don't know about the Hulu plugin. Haven't used that in a couple months.
Who gets to decide how much is too much? ... people in those countries getting rid of their corrupt politicians and levying taxes on their own wealthy.
Something tells me you answered your own question just there. And if it is 'the people in those countries' deciding when too much is too much, then the GP poster commenting he feels Gates has too much is certainly within his rights to say.
And that's what the tax code is supposed to settle.
In a capitalistic society there is a need for some individuals to have excess capitol/money to invest in new ideas/companies. Gates just seems to be the richest.
And you know what? It has to be someone. Why not him. At least he seems to make an effort to give away some of the money towards his charity.
Do I like what he did with the Microsoft OS monopoly? Of course not. But what he's done with the money isn't as disgusting as just putting it into big oil or buying his own island or something like that.
technically it's not that difficult.
It actually is simple. All you need to do is destroy the planet. And I don't mean just kill all life on the planet. I mean make it so that the planet Earth no longer exists. (see here: http://qntm.org/destroy )
The same Palin that had quotes miss-attrributed to her that were spoken by a half rate SNL actress...
Admittedly she must have been a reasonable actress if people were quoting her and thinking that they were quoting Palin.