Exactly! If this tech works some oil company will buy the patent and the technology won't see the light of day until the patent expires, just like Chevron did last time...
I use it as a free offsite backup for a non-profit I volunteer with. They don't have any large files and I think the drive in the ancient box they are using is only 30GB total anyway... Free. Works well enough for their needs.
It's neat except that when developing for the browser as the least common denominator the dev tools are primitive and no multithreading so it feels like I'm developing for 16-bit Windows 3.1 again. Then of course not all code works in all browsers, so perhaps this is worse...
I've read they will also sue you if pollen from plants grown with their seeds makes its way from a neighbor's field onto yours via the wind or bees. Crazy!
I've been looking to install this to see what all the hype is about and because the Facebook app I work on at work can integrate with it. Unfortunately it's not compatible with my device and from what I've been reading in the comments of the Android news sites it's not compatible with a lot of other devices as well (including tablets like Toshiba Thrive, Acer A500/A100, ASUS Transformer Prime and some HTC, Samsung, and Motorola phones as well).
Totally lame. I don't usually see this many device incompatibility complaints for new apps.
When we got our first Best Buy 20 years ago or whatever, the prices were consistently really good. Usually on par with online it seemed.
The last time I was in there I was looking for a MicroSD card. No Class 10 and the ones they did have were way overpriced. Left empty handed.
They do occasionally have good sales. I went to buy a tablet there that was on sale before Christmas but they didn't have it in stock. The price on the tablet was better than what I was finding online so I ordered it and picked it up a few days later.
So I guess it depends on what you're looking for...
I think it's less that Capitalism doesn't work, as much as it is the extreme Ayn Rand based approach to business / government that's going on now doesn't work. The inmates are running the asylum, and they have been at least since Alan Greenspan, a Rand disciple, started applying Rand's principles to government.
Automation is part of the problem. A bigger part of the problem is the number of jobs that have gone overseas. It used to be that the top 10% gave a crap about the US. I don't think most of them do anymore. No one can shame them into doing what's right for the country and no one in government has the balls to make them.
I know some idiot is going to respond to this by saying that the middle and lower classes benefit from companies / investors doing well, but really, if the companies are doing well because all the jobs have been sent elsewhere then no, they aren't. Tell it to the factory worker who has been laid off for a couple of years.
There are a lot of things we could do. There is not the will in government to do them. Heck, we could start by figuring out where the billions of "lost" money went to in Iran / Iraq. How the hell do you just lose that much money? Also, I saw recently where hackers are gaming the e-file to extract like a billion in fake tax returns. It's crazy.
I read it. I disagree. What, you are so amazing that no one could possibly disagree with you?
If your existing medication is not working then you should talk to your doctor about alternatives. If it is working great, why switch? If your doctor is not proactive enough to recommend new medications when the become available if they would be better for your particular condition then your doctor is not doing his/her job.
I am not saying we should limit access to drug information. If you want to research drugs online that is fine. You can do that without ads.
I'm just saying that patient self diagnosing / self prescribing because they are bombarded with flashy ads that don't bestow on them the experience and knowledge of their doctor wastes a lot of doctor time explaining to patients why drug X isn't really the best drug for their particular condition.
So, do ads help slacker doctors who aren't keeping up to date by having the patient suggest treatments? Maybe. Is it worth raising the price of drugs for everyone and make some drugs unaffordable? I'm not convinced.
How it should work is that the patient tells the doctor the symptoms, the doctor has the education and knowledge to come up with the solution. Period.
The advertising that causes people to self diagnose and come into the office with their own solution at hand in the form of the latest drug is a real PITA for doctors!
Marketing and advertising are not the same as provider education. Don't conflate them.
Yes, and you are fine as long as you aren't doing any unlawful discrimination. Last time I checked there was no law against discriminating against "club rats" or "thugs" or people who give you a bad feeling. So you have the right but it is not absolute (eg. not hire women because of their gender).
OTOH, a lot of people would consider it "wrong" if you wanted to come and search their house or subject them to a body cavity search as part of a job interview, legal or not. That something is not illegal doesn't mean it is automatically ethical. Society must find the balance.
I like the idea of Republic Wireless, but I need to tether my laptop at times (eg. waiting for kids piano lessons) and they deleted all of the threads about tethering on their forums, so I'm thinking they are not going to allow it. I doubt I would use more than the 300 MB / mo guideline though. Just need to be able to work tethered about an hour a week.
If it could replace my MiFi and Tracfone it would be well worth it. If not then I am leaning towards what you are saying though (WiFi iTouch or small Android tablet) and using it with the MiFi I already have, when necessary.
Introducing the VAX PAK. It's a backpack that lets you strap your VAX to your back... Order the original VAX-11/780 size or the sleek new 8000/9000 series size... All for only $1995...
Yes, and less spending. I think S&P was quite clear in their evaluation that this will not be solved by spending cuts alone. Nor will it be solved by more taxes alone.
Essentially, undo all of the things that this administration has actively done to squelch economic activity, stifle the start-up and growth of businesses/jobs.
Like what specifically? The businesses have been sending jobs overseas for the last 35 or so years. It's not something new. Oh wait, you probably mean stuff like let companies bring money back into the US at low tax rates so they can stick it in their pocket and not create any new jobs like they did the last time we did that. Maybe you mean less regulation so businesses can come up with more crazy schemes like credit default swaps? The idea that business will act in the best interest of the country has been debunked (go read Greenspan's book). Nobody believes that crap anymore.
Well yes there are people in this country who are not paying taxes but most of these are rich people with lawyers. It was so helpful when President Bush shut down the part of the IRS that goes after rich tax evaders. Same with corporations. Exxon-Mobile payed $13B in taxes last year. None of it to the United States.
Yes, the rich are insufficiently taxed. If they are paying 15% by laundering their money through capital gains and I am paying higher than 15% then they are not paying their fair share. Period. All of this "disengenuous BS" stuff about the rich paying the "vast majority of taxes" is understood by anyone who has a general knowledge of elementary school math. So, 15% of 1 million is larger than 20% of 85,000. No shit! That doesn't mean that the guy making a million is paying his fair share if other people are paying a higher percentage of their income.
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Exactly! If this tech works some oil company will buy the patent and the technology won't see the light of day until the patent expires, just like Chevron did last time...
We're also talking about the program that paid to train Sri Lankans how to program in Java that was mentioned. Sri Lanka has no such relationship.
The Philippines are not a US territory. Where have you been since 1945?
I use it as a free offsite backup for a non-profit I volunteer with. They don't have any large files and I think the drive in the ancient box they are using is only 30GB total anyway... Free. Works well enough for their needs.
MS SkyDrive is 25GB for free and no hoops to jump through. They don't let you store large files though. Seems like they could do better than 5GB...
It's neat except that when developing for the browser as the least common denominator the dev tools are primitive and no multithreading so it feels like I'm developing for 16-bit Windows 3.1 again. Then of course not all code works in all browsers, so perhaps this is worse...
Yeah, I was thinking similarly. Chrome OS is Linux based.
If you want Chrome on Linux just run Chrome on Linux...
I've read they will also sue you if pollen from plants grown with their seeds makes its way from a neighbor's field onto yours via the wind or bees. Crazy!
I've been looking to install this to see what all the hype is about and because the Facebook app I work on at work can integrate with it. Unfortunately it's not compatible with my device and from what I've been reading in the comments of the Android news sites it's not compatible with a lot of other devices as well (including tablets like Toshiba Thrive, Acer A500/A100, ASUS Transformer Prime and some HTC, Samsung, and Motorola phones as well).
Totally lame. I don't usually see this many device incompatibility complaints for new apps.
Yes!
When we got our first Best Buy 20 years ago or whatever, the prices were consistently really good. Usually on par with online it seemed.
The last time I was in there I was looking for a MicroSD card. No Class 10 and the ones they did have were way overpriced. Left empty handed.
They do occasionally have good sales. I went to buy a tablet there that was on sale before Christmas but they didn't have it in stock. The price on the tablet was better than what I was finding online so I ordered it and picked it up a few days later.
So I guess it depends on what you're looking for...
I think it's less that Capitalism doesn't work, as much as it is the extreme Ayn Rand based approach to business / government that's going on now doesn't work. The inmates are running the asylum, and they have been at least since Alan Greenspan, a Rand disciple, started applying Rand's principles to government.
Automation is part of the problem. A bigger part of the problem is the number of jobs that have gone overseas. It used to be that the top 10% gave a crap about the US. I don't think most of them do anymore. No one can shame them into doing what's right for the country and no one in government has the balls to make them.
I know some idiot is going to respond to this by saying that the middle and lower classes benefit from companies / investors doing well, but really, if the companies are doing well because all the jobs have been sent elsewhere then no, they aren't. Tell it to the factory worker who has been laid off for a couple of years.
There are a lot of things we could do. There is not the will in government to do them. Heck, we could start by figuring out where the billions of "lost" money went to in Iran / Iraq. How the hell do you just lose that much money? Also, I saw recently where hackers are gaming the e-file to extract like a billion in fake tax returns. It's crazy.
Nothing you have said in this post would be prevented if there were no pharma advertising.
I read it. I disagree. What, you are so amazing that no one could possibly disagree with you?
If your existing medication is not working then you should talk to your doctor about alternatives. If it is working great, why switch? If your doctor is not proactive enough to recommend new medications when the become available if they would be better for your particular condition then your doctor is not doing his/her job.
I am not saying we should limit access to drug information. If you want to research drugs online that is fine. You can do that without ads.
I'm just saying that patient self diagnosing / self prescribing because they are bombarded with flashy ads that don't bestow on them the experience and knowledge of their doctor wastes a lot of doctor time explaining to patients why drug X isn't really the best drug for their particular condition.
So, do ads help slacker doctors who aren't keeping up to date by having the patient suggest treatments? Maybe. Is it worth raising the price of drugs for everyone and make some drugs unaffordable? I'm not convinced.
If your doctor didn't know you had XYZ Syndrome, you either need to start talking to your doctor when you go in or get a new doctor.
How it should work is that the patient tells the doctor the symptoms, the doctor has the education and knowledge to come up with the solution. Period.
The advertising that causes people to self diagnose and come into the office with their own solution at hand in the form of the latest drug is a real PITA for doctors!
Marketing and advertising are not the same as provider education. Don't conflate them.
Yes, and you are fine as long as you aren't doing any unlawful discrimination. Last time I checked there was no law against discriminating against "club rats" or "thugs" or people who give you a bad feeling. So you have the right but it is not absolute (eg. not hire women because of their gender).
OTOH, a lot of people would consider it "wrong" if you wanted to come and search their house or subject them to a body cavity search as part of a job interview, legal or not. That something is not illegal doesn't mean it is automatically ethical. Society must find the balance.
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Not sure how any of this relates to what I said... Did you mean to reply to the parent?
Face it, both parties dispute whatever science doesn't fit their purposes.
Installed it. Ran it. It turned on my GPS. WTF? Unistalled it.
Yeah great job there Facebook! I'll stick with the web ui. At least then you won't suck my battery and require my current location.
I knew I should have tried to sell Google a picture of my house...
I like the idea of Republic Wireless, but I need to tether my laptop at times (eg. waiting for kids piano lessons) and they deleted all of the threads about tethering on their forums, so I'm thinking they are not going to allow it. I doubt I would use more than the 300 MB / mo guideline though. Just need to be able to work tethered about an hour a week.
If it could replace my MiFi and Tracfone it would be well worth it. If not then I am leaning towards what you are saying though (WiFi iTouch or small Android tablet) and using it with the MiFi I already have, when necessary.
Mini-computer?
Introducing the VAX PAK. It's a backpack that lets you strap your VAX to your back... Order the original VAX-11/780 size or the sleek new 8000/9000 series size... All for only $1995...
The authorities have found the way to stop this already. Just make recording police a felony.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/special_segments&id=8370540
http://bit.ly/tS2ZvF
Yes, and less spending. I think S&P was quite clear in their evaluation that this will not be solved by spending cuts alone. Nor will it be solved by more taxes alone.
Like what specifically? The businesses have been sending jobs overseas for the last 35 or so years. It's not something new. Oh wait, you probably mean stuff like let companies bring money back into the US at low tax rates so they can stick it in their pocket and not create any new jobs like they did the last time we did that. Maybe you mean less regulation so businesses can come up with more crazy schemes like credit default swaps? The idea that business will act in the best interest of the country has been debunked (go read Greenspan's book). Nobody believes that crap anymore.
Well yes there are people in this country who are not paying taxes but most of these are rich people with lawyers. It was so helpful when President Bush shut down the part of the IRS that goes after rich tax evaders. Same with corporations. Exxon-Mobile payed $13B in taxes last year. None of it to the United States.
Yes, the rich are insufficiently taxed. If they are paying 15% by laundering their money through capital gains and I am paying higher than 15% then they are not paying their fair share. Period. All of this "disengenuous BS" stuff about the rich paying the "vast majority of taxes" is understood by anyone who has a general knowledge of elementary school math. So, 15% of 1 million is larger than 20% of 85,000. No shit! That doesn't mean that the guy making a million is paying his fair share if other people are paying a higher percentage of their income.