I remember back in the Fido net when everyone thought "get the cheese to sickbay" was the coolest movie quote ever....
IMHO, her best scene was beeing in the tub with Q... not because of her in the tub, but rather the sheer absurdity and that she was quite calm considering that an omnipotent guy just popped up in her bathtub:-)
but I tried going back to S1 about a year ago & nearly lost an eye!:)
That's true for all (newer) Trek series, but on the other hand it's a sign of how much the characters (and actors) grow over the years. Compare first season Worf to DS9-Worf. That whole Klingon backstory gave him charackter depth. S1 now looks like pushing cardboard-cutouts around on the stage.
Even worse with Voyager. You might think, each character was limited to one character trait only! Daredevil Tom Paris, Mystic-indian Chakotay, funny Neelix, stubborn B'elana and "Captain I sense something"-Kes. Oh, and Spock-copycat Tuvok. Got slightly better, but as they never could go back to a planet (boldly going forward cause we can't find reverse...) there wasn't a chance to pick up again a narrative thread and develop it into a long story arch. Random encounters with popup-Borg and funny numbered species didn't quite fill that spot.
Your brain isn't a computer. You can't just upgrade the processor and it works 20% faster from that point on, but otherwise does the exact same stuff.
Why not stick with that analogy... Your brain is the CPU that's soldered into the iPhone of your body. if it's damaged, you wasted your body and live. You may be able to overclock it by 20% with drugs - but did you remember to improve the cooling by... well.. how many percent is save? You only have one try.
But nothing keeps an enterprise customer from buying consumer-class equipment if that also fits the specific requirements.
Those similar priced markets only exist because they have different requirements. "Targeting a business market segment" is not a carte blanche for selling the same crap at overprized rates.
And so where's the ACTUAL difference between this and the Google Goggles? Besides the pricetag? (Or in other words: what justifies that price difference?)
The "app" (ChromeApp, that is. a better website) you're using has to support an offline mode. HTML5 data storage is provided by Chromebooks. So technically, it's all there, but mostly unused.
I wouldn't call it "locked-down". It's a hardware-browser. no more, no less.
i would never recommend it as a general purpose mobile device (i'd prefer an android tablet for that) but had a few occasions where that limited feature set exactly hit the spot of what I needed.
The biggest point is the easy replacability. You forgot to bring yours or it broke? just borrow one, log in with your google account and you have all your data and settings back again. And not polluting any other accounts on the machine. So no need to worry if you hand it over to someone who just want to check his emails. Try doing that with an ipod.
That's a mobile radio like police uses untill today, but no telephone.
But even that wasn't unheard of then. The first mobile phone network in Germany has been set up in 1958. So mobile phones have been a reality since then, not only in the 80s
What do you mean we had an opportunity to opt out?? It was take it or leave it scenario. Lose your data, change your email, disrupt your life or let us assemble your data.
I doubt you'd actually have lost any of your data. Google services usually offer a way to export it for backup purposes - or if you indeed plan to switch. They even have a special team to organize that. www.dataliberation.org (well... they may not exactly LOOK like an engineering team...)
is there *any* country out there that doesn't censor the net in one way or the other?
Some for copyright (e.g. Youtube in germany), some for religious reasons (Iran), others call political comments a crime (China), others crush down on gambling sites cause that's a crime there (USA),
And they all have in common that they are "legal" and "fair" and "justified" as the gouvernment responsible for this or that souverign corner of the world declared it illegal. usually with best intents and in complete contradiction with the laws of that other corner of the world.
Deal with it. everyone is already censoring the net. And the differences become rather small if you recognize that the biggest difference is your point of view.
Back then, the muslim areas were the most advanced and enlighted ones you could find. Commerce, Arts, Science... I sometimes wonder what happend since then and if every religion sometimes has a few violent centuries now and then...
And then I doubt that they contain enough radioactive isotopes for the decay heat is measureable at all, let alone useable to power a device.
i didn't want to sound too alarmistic by stating that those pacemakers contain lots of plutonium, but if you compare it to cigarettes, it should be ok to say, that those pacemakers contain HUGE amounts of Pu.
As an intresting fact. The radioactivity contained in one cigarette was used as a comparision value for the amount of radiation that is allowed to escape from an nuclear power plants air vents per year. OTOH, that was stated by that guy who led the tour through that plant, so I wouldn't rule out that his "cigarette"-unit refers to one of these: http://www.nsma.org.au/records.htm
[...] that SpaceX and its competitors will have to enter fixed-price bids, instead of the old cost-plus contracts which gave the contractors zero incentive for efficiency.
Unfortunatly, the easiest way to increase efficiency is to reduce that expensive, and hardly ever needed thing called "security".
Both PWR and BWR usually have a closed, preasure proof lid (hence the name PWR) that prevents jumping in and swiming. Your parent poster was either describing a spent fuel pool or a completly different reactor configuration.
On the other hand, know that creating favourable conditions for the lettuce is in the best intrest of the farmer. So it's a win-win situation. You watch ads, you get a service.Fair and suqare until you confuse yourself with a customer.
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I remember back in the Fido net when everyone thought "get the cheese to sickbay" was the coolest movie quote ever....
IMHO, her best scene was beeing in the tub with Q... not because of her in the tub, but rather the sheer absurdity and that she was quite calm considering that an omnipotent guy just popped up in her bathtub :-)
but I tried going back to S1 about a year ago & nearly lost an eye! :)
That's true for all (newer) Trek series, but on the other hand it's a sign of how much the characters (and actors) grow over the years. Compare first season Worf to DS9-Worf. That whole Klingon backstory gave him charackter depth. S1 now looks like pushing cardboard-cutouts around on the stage.
Even worse with Voyager. You might think, each character was limited to one character trait only! Daredevil Tom Paris, Mystic-indian Chakotay, funny Neelix, stubborn B'elana and "Captain I sense something"-Kes. Oh, and Spock-copycat Tuvok. Got slightly better, but as they never could go back to a planet (boldly going forward cause we can't find reverse...) there wasn't a chance to pick up again a narrative thread and develop it into a long story arch. Random encounters with popup-Borg and funny numbered species didn't quite fill that spot.
What's wrong with improving the wetware directly?
Your brain isn't a computer. You can't just upgrade the processor and it works 20% faster from that point on, but otherwise does the exact same stuff.
Why not stick with that analogy... Your brain is the CPU that's soldered into the iPhone of your body. if it's damaged, you wasted your body and live. You may be able to overclock it by 20% with drugs - but did you remember to improve the cooling by... well.. how many percent is save? You only have one try.
Dolphins, whales.. where's teh difference.
Come back when you have real fish talking.
But nothing keeps an enterprise customer from buying consumer-class equipment if that also fits the specific requirements.
Those similar priced markets only exist because they have different requirements. "Targeting a business market segment" is not a carte blanche for selling the same crap at overprized rates.
Except of course this company: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-10-21/
And so where's the ACTUAL difference between this and the Google Goggles? Besides the pricetag? (Or in other words: what justifies that price difference?)
The "app" (ChromeApp, that is. a better website) you're using has to support an offline mode. HTML5 data storage is provided by Chromebooks. So technically, it's all there, but mostly unused.
I wouldn't call it "locked-down". It's a hardware-browser. no more, no less.
i would never recommend it as a general purpose mobile device (i'd prefer an android tablet for that) but had a few occasions where that limited feature set exactly hit the spot of what I needed.
The biggest point is the easy replacability. You forgot to bring yours or it broke? just borrow one, log in with your google account and you have all your data and settings back again. And not polluting any other accounts on the machine. So no need to worry if you hand it over to someone who just want to check his emails. Try doing that with an ipod.
The thought of "ethical" or "good for the customers" isn't in their vocabulary, is it?
selling "goods to the customer", however, is.
That's a mobile radio like police uses untill today, but no telephone.
But even that wasn't unheard of then. The first mobile phone network in Germany has been set up in 1958. So mobile phones have been a reality since then, not only in the 80s
What do you mean we had an opportunity to opt out?? It was take it or leave it scenario. Lose your data, change your email, disrupt your life or let us assemble your data.
I doubt you'd actually have lost any of your data. Google services usually offer a way to export it for backup purposes - or if you indeed plan to switch. They even have a special team to organize that. www.dataliberation.org (well... they may not exactly LOOK like an engineering team...)
I switched to DuckDuckGo for search
isn't that a google search query in disguise?
I wouldn't buy a licence for that patent if I made a 3D-printer.
is there *any* country out there that doesn't censor the net in one way or the other?
Some for copyright (e.g. Youtube in germany), some for religious reasons (Iran), others call political comments a crime (China), others crush down on gambling sites cause that's a crime there (USA),
And they all have in common that they are "legal" and "fair" and "justified" as the gouvernment responsible for this or that souverign corner of the world declared it illegal. usually with best intents and in complete contradiction with the laws of that other corner of the world.
Deal with it. everyone is already censoring the net. And the differences become rather small if you recognize that the biggest difference is your point of view.
Or back to the 12th - 13th-ish century.
Back then, the muslim areas were the most advanced and enlighted ones you could find. Commerce, Arts, Science... I sometimes wonder what happend since then and if every religion sometimes has a few violent centuries now and then...
Mao didn't need a religious excuse to kill millions, neither did Stalin.
But that's not really any kind of progress compared to those who use religion as a pretext.
First of all: another reason to stop smoking.
And then I doubt that they contain enough radioactive isotopes for the decay heat is measureable at all, let alone useable to power a device.
i didn't want to sound too alarmistic by stating that those pacemakers contain lots of plutonium, but if you compare it to cigarettes, it should be ok to say, that those pacemakers contain HUGE amounts of Pu.
As an intresting fact. The radioactivity contained in one cigarette was used as a comparision value for the amount of radiation that is allowed to escape from an nuclear power plants air vents per year. OTOH, that was stated by that guy who led the tour through that plant, so I wouldn't rule out that his "cigarette"-unit refers to one of these: http://www.nsma.org.au/records.htm
Feel free to use the paid version of Google's email service. ad-free.
Including pacemakers makes that category sound less dangerous than it may actually be. These things contain plutonium....
http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/miscellaneous/pacemaker.htm
[...] that SpaceX and its competitors will have to enter fixed-price bids, instead of the old cost-plus contracts which gave the contractors zero incentive for efficiency.
Unfortunatly, the easiest way to increase efficiency is to reduce that expensive, and hardly ever needed thing called "security".
WoW before it was an intenet only game
should be a dead giveaway....
Both PWR and BWR usually have a closed, preasure proof lid (hence the name PWR) that prevents jumping in and swiming. Your parent poster was either describing a spent fuel pool or a completly different reactor configuration.
Yes. Accept it.
On the other hand, know that creating favourable conditions for the lettuce is in the best intrest of the farmer. So it's a win-win situation. You watch ads, you get a service.Fair and suqare until you confuse yourself with a customer.
And Lew Zealand is a boomerang fish thrower!
Gentlemen, start your ad blockers.
I'm very carefull with those as I'd like to keep my free ad-financed sites, but this is a short-cut to my blacklist.
As is content-obscuring ads, any kind of noise and excessive blinking.
Touche. I should read this more often:
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/