we certainly would see Apple's remarkable market share gain next year
(emphasis mine)
I found that pretty amusing. Since when is a 10% (plus or minus; feel free to correct me with solid info) marketshare remarkable?
I think the problem was your emphasis peetering off too early. What's remarkable is Apple's market share gain, from all of the ipodders who have become imac/macbookers.
Yeah, that makes sense. No way our country's problems are attributable to governmental and media corruption, the effects of global warming, or our imperialistic foreign policy founded on racism. Must be the fluoride brainwashing us. I, for one, welcome our halogen overlords.
3. Do you really think dentists are making anywhere near the kind of money our friends at Bayer, Merck, Pfizer, and Novartis reap on lifelong medications for heart disease, cancer, and ED?
Exactly who did you get a second opinion from if all dentists are in the profession to make money off unnecessary surgery? Please think before making blanket ad hominem attacks. Yes, there are both bad dentists and good dentists, and unfortunately, just like any other service, you need to separate the wheat from the chaff to get the best results.
Largely, this is a case of poor planning and idiotic capital procurement. Seattle has long wanted and needed a rail system, but the bastardized version that the SMP represented was DOA from the start. A large part of the council that managed it were cronyistic appointees, and were basically out of touch with where the greatest need for public transport lies in Seattle. The 14-mile Green line, as it was proposed, was basically linking downtown with two of the wealthier and more car-disposed family neighborhoods in Seattle. The traffic in Seattle is indeed bad in Seattle (at least relative to our size), but the proposed line was simply not servicing the demographics that were likely to give up their cars, IMHO.
Secondly, there was great resentment for this project from the start, due to it outrageous inability to secure federal or state funds, and it reliance on a 1.4% annual car tab tax to pay the large part of the capital. The biggest problem Seattle has in building projects like these, as opposed to say, Portland, is our ridiculous regressive tax structure. No state income tax may be fine for states like Nevada, Wyoming, and Alaska, but in a state with an urban center as large as Seattle, it's just unbelieveable how anything gets done. Couple that with our pioneer-age constitution requiring direct resolution votes on almost anything important (name one Joe Blow that's going to directly choose to raise his taxes) and you get our recipe for stagnation over the past four decades since the world's fair, and its glorious Monorail.
Actually, there is in fact great interest for building rail transit in Seattle, the Monorail was just doomed from the start by poor management and poor planning. However, the Sound Transit Light Rail is chugging along just fine, and with any luck will complete its own line and supercede that which the monorail would have occupied in the near(ish) future.
In my experience, CD binders are a major cause of disc surface scratching, despite the "padded" sleeves most offer. Jewel cases really are the best way to preserve them, but I've found that the best alternative for compact storage are rolodex-type CD organizers. Discgear makes the one I use and it holds 100 discs in approximately 18"x6"x6". The added bonus is you never have to flip through a ton of pages to find anything, you just have to make a one-time spreadsheet assigning a number to each disc you own. I guess if you had 200+ it could be annoying to have multiple of these, but there may be others with larger capacity. For me, the preservation properties alone make it worthwhile.
Yeah, good point. But I don't really mind stories arriving a little later on slashdot than on direct news services. After all it's the dicussion that's interesting. At least in theory.
That's a darn good idea. I was thinking that the/. editors should go a step further and contact the owners of linked sites for the OK before posting. Bandwidth sure ain't cheap. Of course, it's possible that they do this already behind the scenes....
Do articles in the politics section still need to somehow involve the words "hacker", "Diebold", or "DMCA"? Or can we now submit stories about the next time Cheney goes berserk randomly?
As much as nostalgia for the 60's counts for, publicly funded manned space exploration has been dead for a while. Heck, the way our fearless leader in the White House runs things, the only way they'll resume REAL interest in NASA is if one of their probes finds hydrocarbon deposits on the Moon or Mars.
Cynicism aside, resource hunting is going to be our only real shot to get private companies to follow in the the footsteps of the X-prize. It's a sad fact, but the 60's space race was fueled completely on Cold War fears and the simple novelty of our newfound abilities as a species. If we're really going to get off our asses and resume exploring with the same urgency we had then, it's not going to be ideology driven.
Take a look at the "Discovery" of the "New World". Do you think the Spanish, English, and Portugese would have spent all their bling on tall ships if the only result was finding an uninhabitable wasteland? No, they were convinced by the astronauts of the time that the New World contained resources galore, and the rest is history.
To really understand how a human works takes more than four years of university level study.
Maybe I missed something, but most people off the street would have no clue about how to code a linux kernel, much less keep their computers from being spam servers. And last time I checked, most programmers aren't exactly GED cases. Yes, years of CS training, while not requisite, are certainly the norm among the best code writers.
What would be the incentive of creating drugs or getting the education to do so?
Ahem, sounds almost identical to most closed-source companies' arguments for years? Lo and behold, open source now has M$FT on a run for their money, literally.
This isn't Linux, it's a complicated process of creating a drug for a human.
Being a biological researcher myself, who happens to also be facile with computers (a rarity, believe me), I'll tell you that the difference is small. Trial and error, code and debug, it's all the same. The only difference is the time-frame. Biotech "programmers" just have a bit more leeway for losing days of work on an error than a computer counterpart would. It's the nature of the beast.
Get it wrong, and your monitor refresh rate is off? No, people die.
This argument is stupid. A drug is a tool for combating disease based on technological invention. Just as the EKG monitor in the ER that runs on UNIX is a tool. Not to mention the prehistoric plants that were kind enough to die 50 million years ago and convert into combustible hydrocarbons to power an ambulance. All technology saves lives.
I don't know about anyone else, but I started to get a bit woozy once he got to Oregon, and 5 starts to actually have bends in the road. I think if anyone tried this on 95, it would darn near impossible to watch. I'd rather see 90, and attempt to pick out Wall Drug signs at Mach 9.
With any luck, we'll be able hook up some Dilithium batteries on laptops. Heck, if Moore's law keeps holding, warp cores may yet be needed to power your average 3.4EHz Pentium X.
Perhaps they can restart the cat cycle with the Thundercats names. OS 10.5, Panthro?
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Has anybody out there successfully made a mini-ITX nehemiah-based PVR box? I'm sort of hesitant to build one, since the VIA proc/motherboard's seem to be slightly underpowered for MPEG decoding and other proc-intensive video capture and playback functions. If you have built one of these, did you have to use a beefy PVR/video card like a Happauge 250/350, or will any All-in-Wonder-esque video card do? I'm thinking of MythTV as my PVR software, and not quite sure which linux distro to use (suggestions?). Thanks, and I apologize in advance for my noob questions; just wanted to get some fellow/.ers' input before I dive into this. And no, I won't be putting this inside of an XP box.
Perhaps it's all the California-transplants that I see not using their signal on a daily-basis.
I find the highways actually the easiest part of Seattle to navigate. You just have to pretend you're driving in the UK with the rightmost lane being the fastlane...
...Seeing as using headlights and turn signals are apparently optional in the State of Washington. Sorry to troll, but as an East-coast transplant here in rain city, I've been meaning to get that off my chest for a while.
yes, as a tumor grows beyond a certain diameter, the blood supply can no longer reach the center, which becomes the necrotic core. Since these central cells are dead, they'll have low O2 flux. But the outer shell of the tumor can heavily recruit new blood vessel formation to feed its insatiable growth, yielding a high O2 flux. Seems like the high dO2/dx could be detected easily by this EPR technique.
That is already the case on most mobile phones with standard keypads, as you know. You can't really do that with this one, because most of the letters are in gaps between two or more numbers, and are not tied to a particular number (i.e jkl5 on a std. pad).
Pressing the four surrounding letters to indicate which number you are selecting seems like the only way to accurately get number input.
Still, you could probably program the pad to let you get away with only three letters pressed. As long as they're in the same number space, there's no longer any doubt which number the user intends.
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I think the problem was your emphasis peetering off too early. What's remarkable is Apple's market share gain , from all of the ipodders who have become imac/macbookers.
Yeah, that makes sense. No way our country's problems are attributable to governmental and media corruption, the effects of global warming, or our imperialistic foreign policy founded on racism. Must be the fluoride brainwashing us. I, for one, welcome our halogen overlords.
Ahem,
1. Fluoridation of Water
2. One of many other innovations in development.
3. Do you really think dentists are making anywhere near the kind of money our friends at Bayer, Merck, Pfizer, and Novartis reap on lifelong medications for heart disease, cancer, and ED?
Exactly who did you get a second opinion from if all dentists are in the profession to make money off unnecessary surgery? Please think before making blanket ad hominem attacks. Yes, there are both bad dentists and good dentists, and unfortunately, just like any other service, you need to separate the wheat from the chaff to get the best results.
Hmm, if you really think dentists are continually ripping you off and making your dental problems worse, then why do you keep going?
Secondly, there was great resentment for this project from the start, due to it outrageous inability to secure federal or state funds, and it reliance on a 1.4% annual car tab tax to pay the large part of the capital. The biggest problem Seattle has in building projects like these, as opposed to say, Portland, is our ridiculous regressive tax structure. No state income tax may be fine for states like Nevada, Wyoming, and Alaska, but in a state with an urban center as large as Seattle, it's just unbelieveable how anything gets done. Couple that with our pioneer-age constitution requiring direct resolution votes on almost anything important (name one Joe Blow that's going to directly choose to raise his taxes) and you get our recipe for stagnation over the past four decades since the world's fair, and its glorious Monorail.
Actually, there is in fact great interest for building rail transit in Seattle, the Monorail was just doomed from the start by poor management and poor planning. However, the Sound Transit Light Rail is chugging along just fine, and with any luck will complete its own line and supercede that which the monorail would have occupied in the near(ish) future.
In my experience, CD binders are a major cause of disc surface scratching, despite the "padded" sleeves most offer. Jewel cases really are the best way to preserve them, but I've found that the best alternative for compact storage are rolodex-type CD organizers. Discgear makes the one I use and it holds 100 discs in approximately 18"x6"x6". The added bonus is you never have to flip through a ton of pages to find anything, you just have to make a one-time spreadsheet assigning a number to each disc you own. I guess if you had 200+ it could be annoying to have multiple of these, but there may be others with larger capacity. For me, the preservation properties alone make it worthwhile.
This puppy would actually eclipse Saturn, whose mean orbit is about 1.43 billion km.
Yeah, good point. But I don't really mind stories arriving a little later on slashdot than on direct news services. After all it's the dicussion that's interesting. At least in theory.
That's a darn good idea. I was thinking that the /. editors should go a step further and contact the owners of linked sites for the OK before posting. Bandwidth sure ain't cheap. Of course, it's possible that they do this already behind the scenes....
So I'm confused.
Do articles in the politics section still need to somehow involve the words "hacker", "Diebold", or "DMCA"? Or can we now submit stories about the next time Cheney goes berserk randomly?
As much as nostalgia for the 60's counts for, publicly funded manned space exploration has been dead for a while. Heck, the way our fearless leader in the White House runs things, the only way they'll resume REAL interest in NASA is if one of their probes finds hydrocarbon deposits on the Moon or Mars.
Cynicism aside, resource hunting is going to be our only real shot to get private companies to follow in the the footsteps of the X-prize. It's a sad fact, but the 60's space race was fueled completely on Cold War fears and the simple novelty of our newfound abilities as a species. If we're really going to get off our asses and resume exploring with the same urgency we had then, it's not going to be ideology driven.
Take a look at the "Discovery" of the "New World". Do you think the Spanish, English, and Portugese would have spent all their bling on tall ships if the only result was finding an uninhabitable wasteland? No, they were convinced by the astronauts of the time that the New World contained resources galore, and the rest is history.
Isn't Mozilla just a bit to close to Godzilla for the Japanese market?
Prepare for a name change. I'm thinking "Pikascape" or "Mozachu"
Phase 1: Hold Shift Key Phase 2: ??? Phase 3: Profit!!
To really understand how a human works takes more than four years of university level study.
Maybe I missed something, but most people off the street would have no clue about how to code a linux kernel, much less keep their computers from being spam servers. And last time I checked, most programmers aren't exactly GED cases. Yes, years of CS training, while not requisite, are certainly the norm among the best code writers.
What would be the incentive of creating drugs or getting the education to do so?
Ahem, sounds almost identical to most closed-source companies' arguments for years? Lo and behold, open source now has M$FT on a run for their money, literally.
This isn't Linux, it's a complicated process of creating a drug for a human.
Being a biological researcher myself, who happens to also be facile with computers (a rarity, believe me), I'll tell you that the difference is small. Trial and error, code and debug, it's all the same. The only difference is the time-frame. Biotech "programmers" just have a bit more leeway for losing days of work on an error than a computer counterpart would. It's the nature of the beast.
Get it wrong, and your monitor refresh rate is off? No, people die.
This argument is stupid. A drug is a tool for combating disease based on technological invention. Just as the EKG monitor in the ER that runs on UNIX is a tool. Not to mention the prehistoric plants that were kind enough to die 50 million years ago and convert into combustible hydrocarbons to power an ambulance. All technology saves lives.
I don't know about anyone else, but I started to get a bit woozy once he got to Oregon, and 5 starts to actually have bends in the road. I think if anyone tried this on 95, it would darn near impossible to watch. I'd rather see 90, and attempt to pick out Wall Drug signs at Mach 9.
With any luck, we'll be able hook up some Dilithium batteries on laptops. Heck, if Moore's law keeps holding, warp cores may yet be needed to power your average 3.4EHz Pentium X.
Perhaps they can restart the cat cycle with the Thundercats names. OS 10.5, Panthro?
Has anybody out there successfully made a mini-ITX nehemiah-based PVR box? I'm sort of hesitant to build one, since the VIA proc/motherboard's seem to be slightly underpowered for MPEG decoding and other proc-intensive video capture and playback functions. If you have built one of these, did you have to use a beefy PVR/video card like a Happauge 250/350, or will any All-in-Wonder-esque video card do? I'm thinking of MythTV as my PVR software, and not quite sure which linux distro to use (suggestions?). Thanks, and I apologize in advance for my noob questions; just wanted to get some fellow /.ers' input before I dive into this. And no, I won't be putting this inside of an XP box.
Those who fail to remember Windows Me are doomed to repeat it.
Perhaps it's all the California-transplants that I see not using their signal on a daily-basis. I find the highways actually the easiest part of Seattle to navigate. You just have to pretend you're driving in the UK with the rightmost lane being the fastlane...
...Seeing as using headlights and turn signals are apparently optional in the State of Washington. Sorry to troll, but as an East-coast transplant here in rain city, I've been meaning to get that off my chest for a while.
yes, as a tumor grows beyond a certain diameter, the blood supply can no longer reach the center, which becomes the necrotic core. Since these central cells are dead, they'll have low O2 flux. But the outer shell of the tumor can heavily recruit new blood vessel formation to feed its insatiable growth, yielding a high O2 flux. Seems like the high dO2/dx could be detected easily by this EPR technique.
That is already the case on most mobile phones with standard keypads, as you know. You can't really do that with this one, because most of the letters are in gaps between two or more numbers, and are not tied to a particular number (i.e jkl5 on a std. pad).
Pressing the four surrounding letters to indicate which number you are selecting seems like the only way to accurately get number input.
Still, you could probably program the pad to let you get away with only three letters pressed. As long as they're in the same number space, there's no longer any doubt which number the user intends.