Having a cool laptop can sometimes be nicer than having a fast one. i.e. Word will chew up 100% processor time on any compuer I have used, but it works just as well and fast on all of them... thats why I run my laptop with reduced speed and drip LN on the keyboard when it gets too hot.
I'm really confused as to how the purchasers were taken advantage of. They bought a product and the battery failed... the battery is expensive to replace (other manufacturers are selling it for about the same price as apple). This happens all the time. many electrnoic appliances have batteries that you can only use for a few years and then you can't replace them for any cost (tooth brushes, razors).
Also please don't spread FUD about the iPods DRM. I buy a CD at a store, I rip it, I put it on the iPod... what prevents me from putting it on a another MP3 player? If you buy a song at the ITMS, you can burn it onto audio CD... What more could you ask for?
Actually, NMR can be used to find the 3d structure of a molecule in a solvent. x-ray crystalography it used on a crystal and therefore does require a single (perfect) crystal for detailed data (i.e. what do the individual molecules in the crystal look like) or a powder for simple distance data (i.e. the distance between two heavy atoms in a crystal).
You may also be able to use MAS to find information about a crystal via NMR but I have never heard of that being done (havent looked lately). NMR crystalography is so amazing because it has a hope of finding the aqueous configuration which is often different from the crystal structure.
Actualy, when I did it as an undergrad none of this was a huge problem. It took me one day to move the thing to the basement and set it up directly in the foundation (locating a relatively low vibration area with a laser and some Hg observing the beam to see how large its vibrations were).
Then about another day to learn how to cut the Pt-Ir needles to be atomic (this isn't that hard, a wire cutter worked). If you think about it there is probably a single atom at the bottom no mater what (there has to be one lowest atom) and since the tunneling falls off rapidly r^4 (?) others can be close but not interfear significantly.
On the third day I had it calibrated with the glassy carbon provided by the manufacturer.
But the biggest deal was the vibrations. I had to clog all the air vents in the room because they all made noise (vibration) and then use the room at the time of lowest building activity. I came to the building at 1 AM and took my worst images only to walk out the door and find a guy buffing the floor with a huge hopping floor buffer. Then I tried durring dinner and everything worked out great (I just ate pizza--typical student food).
Can someone please explain to me how owners of the iPods wronged? They bought the iPod, they used it, if it had problems while in warrenty they were fixed, then after the warenty ended, the battery died and costs a lot to replace. I can see why they were upset, but I just don't see how Apple is oging to be in legal trouble for this. How was the customer wronged?
What jurry is going to award these whiners any money what so ever?
Only 1% of blind people can read brail accorind to Lighthouse International (my wife called them for work, when considering translations of some DOH material so this is not necessarily on their website). This is because most blind people were not blind most of their life.
This means that most blind people do not get to vote in private. The voting rate among the disabled is significantly lower than that among the general public. These people do feel disenfranchised.
The advantage of e-voting is that people who could not vote in private are able to use e-voting machines to have them, for example, read to the blind.
For this we couuld have just a few e-voting machines at each electin site.
However, E-voting also realizes, for the first time, "instant run off" voting where you rank the candidates. Then in a series of rounds (until someone has more than 50% of the vote) all the votes are tabulated and the lowest vote getter is thrown out. Then the people who had this person ranked highest get their vote updated to their next highest ranked candidate. Very good for third parties.
Lazyness is not always the problem. Some people are too poor to vote. If you work an hourly job and have to take mass transit to your registration/voting centers the two half days off work can make the cost simply too high. While some states have polling day registration or motor-voter laws, others explicitly make it hard to register if you are poor.
Maybe we should bring the computer to people's houses. We could have mobile voting sites--vans with voting machines on them.
The problem this system is that it disenfranchises disabled people. e-voting systems, for example, read to blind voters. Don't write this advantage off, most of us will be disabled as we grow older.
The problem with OSS is that what you really need to read is not the source but the machine code--because the compiler matters too.
I believe that this was actually done in the case of old air traffic controll programs. But since Diebold has to recompile for each election, I can't imagine we could do this here.
Geez. I'm so sorry. Sounds like you need a real computer.:)
But seriously, to quote user 676199 "No one cares how you feel. It may get me modded down to say it, but that is just the worst reason to use a technology ever."
Which is to say, the DRM is much more sane on the ITMS, but you feel like using WMP, that's fine. Just don't claim that it is for some other reason relating to non-existant locks.
I'm sorry, I mistakenly thought that if I asked you to google something and you did you would then click on a link. You are correct that CDC has a conference named after Ryan White that regards prevention. To focus my recomendation, google Ryan White and try to find out about his life story. I would suggest clicking a link that takes you away from google and to a site with information about Ryan White's life. The fourth link is an excelent link to read.
CDC sets aside money for the states often called "Ryan White" funds by DOH workers that is specifically for caring for those with AIDS. It can not be spent of prevention. If you read one of the webpages about Ryan White you may understand why CDC thinks this is so important.
Clifgriffin writes that, "they lock me into their clunky interface to play my music." But I wonder, if you can burn an audio CD and then rip it, how is that a lock?
Do you often get stuck in various rooms in your house because you are "locked" in? You may want to try the door. Same advice for the 'fridge.
Using this same advanced technique of "burning" an audio CD, you can play the ITMS songs on a variety of devices (any audio CD players for example).
"This definition is also used by the CDC. It's used by lawmakers and ecologists. It's used by most public health departments. I don;(sic)t know of any other definition."
Now that is classic Slashdot! That's what I'm talking about. Broad sweeping unsuportable claims! I should point out that I can not comment on the last sentence.
Seriously though. My OED links sanitation with disenfection and also says especially relating to toilets.
I would define sanitation as the deactivation or removal of potentially harmful biological agents. Exclusively in vitro.
"I'm tired of people saying 'Why me?'" Your quote exemplifies a very sophmoric view. Go to google and type in "Ryan White."
I am suprised that The American Heritage Dictionary uses such a poor definition. This definition clearly includes formulation and distribution of flu shots. I'm not sure that is what AHD intended.
On your other point, there is another answer. I know the one you propose is simple and fast and gets the job done, but it has the nasty side effect that about 1/2 of the people in the world have to die.
There are good answers out there, we just have to find them. We have gotten around several large imposible problems in the past and we can get around this one.
If there is, and we were just too lazy to look for it, I want you and all the people that think like you to look at least a few of those people in the eye and tell them that you are sorry, but they have to die because there are too many of us...
While Tufte is often longer on criticism than he is on constructive thought (aren't we all), on this one he does give us one example. See the figure near the bottom on the left.
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It is always tempting to think that the world around you is similar to the rest of the world. Watch out for that mentality, it can be very dangerous.
Having a cool laptop can sometimes be nicer than having a fast one. i.e. Word will chew up 100% processor time on any compuer I have used, but it works just as well and fast on all of them... thats why I run my laptop with reduced speed and drip LN on the keyboard when it gets too hot.
dude, I use his vaporware! oh, wait.
Xgrid is basically a way of executing command line calls in a distributed way. Doesn't help much for a DBMA.
Also please don't spread FUD about the iPods DRM. I buy a CD at a store, I rip it, I put it on the iPod... what prevents me from putting it on a another MP3 player? If you buy a song at the ITMS, you can burn it onto audio CD... What more could you ask for?
You may also be able to use MAS to find information about a crystal via NMR but I have never heard of that being done (havent looked lately). NMR crystalography is so amazing because it has a hope of finding the aqueous configuration which is often different from the crystal structure.
Then about another day to learn how to cut the Pt-Ir needles to be atomic (this isn't that hard, a wire cutter worked). If you think about it there is probably a single atom at the bottom no mater what (there has to be one lowest atom) and since the tunneling falls off rapidly r^4 (?) others can be close but not interfear significantly.
On the third day I had it calibrated with the glassy carbon provided by the manufacturer.
But the biggest deal was the vibrations. I had to clog all the air vents in the room because they all made noise (vibration) and then use the room at the time of lowest building activity. I came to the building at 1 AM and took my worst images only to walk out the door and find a guy buffing the floor with a huge hopping floor buffer. Then I tried durring dinner and everything worked out great (I just ate pizza--typical student food).
What jurry is going to award these whiners any money what so ever?
Since so many people are reporting having changed thier own battery, why don't you think they are user replacable?
The parent link is not correct. But This is
for my education, will you describe to me how the system works?
This means that most blind people do not get to vote in private. The voting rate among the disabled is significantly lower than that among the general public. These people do feel disenfranchised.
this is all irged!
For this we couuld have just a few e-voting machines at each electin site.
However, E-voting also realizes, for the first time, "instant run off" voting where you rank the candidates. Then in a series of rounds (until someone has more than 50% of the vote) all the votes are tabulated and the lowest vote getter is thrown out. Then the people who had this person ranked highest get their vote updated to their next highest ranked candidate. Very good for third parties.
Maybe we should bring the computer to people's houses. We could have mobile voting sites--vans with voting machines on them.
The problem this system is that it disenfranchises disabled people. e-voting systems, for example, read to blind voters. Don't write this advantage off, most of us will be disabled as we grow older.
I believe that this was actually done in the case of old air traffic controll programs. But since Diebold has to recompile for each election, I can't imagine we could do this here.
As they say in my home country, (to be pronounced with a crazy accent) "If you don't want a monkey, don't buy a monkey."
Yeah, and Oracle can also make that neat vacuum sound in your pocket. That's my favorite feature.
But seriously, to quote user 676199 "No one cares how you feel. It may get me modded down to say it, but that is just the worst reason to use a technology ever."
Which is to say, the DRM is much more sane on the ITMS, but you feel like using WMP, that's fine. Just don't claim that it is for some other reason relating to non-existant locks.
CDC sets aside money for the states often called "Ryan White" funds by DOH workers that is specifically for caring for those with AIDS. It can not be spent of prevention. If you read one of the webpages about Ryan White you may understand why CDC thinks this is so important.
Do you often get stuck in various rooms in your house because you are "locked" in? You may want to try the door. Same advice for the 'fridge.
Using this same advanced technique of "burning" an audio CD, you can play the ITMS songs on a variety of devices (any audio CD players for example).
Now that is classic Slashdot! That's what I'm talking about. Broad sweeping unsuportable claims! I should point out that I can not comment on the last sentence.
Seriously though. My OED links sanitation with disenfection and also says especially relating to toilets.
I would define sanitation as the deactivation or removal of potentially harmful biological agents. Exclusively in vitro.
"I'm tired of people saying 'Why me?'" Your quote exemplifies a very sophmoric view. Go to google and type in "Ryan White."
On your other point, there is another answer. I know the one you propose is simple and fast and gets the job done, but it has the nasty side effect that about 1/2 of the people in the world have to die.
There are good answers out there, we just have to find them. We have gotten around several large imposible problems in the past and we can get around this one.
If there is, and we were just too lazy to look for it, I want you and all the people that think like you to look at least a few of those people in the eye and tell them that you are sorry, but they have to die because there are too many of us...
While Tufte is often longer on criticism than he is on constructive thought (aren't we all), on this one he does give us one example. See the figure near the bottom on the left.