For one zero-percent body-fat freak of humanity. Wake me when you can pack a hundred or more people with all their luggage in it and fly across the pond at the same speed and cost or better as that of a 777.
Bah. People, companies, organizations, etc have been trying to solarize vehicles for decades and it always winds up being a reality check in engineering disguised as a publicity stunt. Oooo look! They built a solar powered car that can be driven across Australia! Big whoop. Nobody would ever use it for anything practical. Bottom line is that all manner of sci-fi gadgets, robots, flying cars, interstellar spacecraft, jet packs, etc. are all hampered by the lack of a power source the size of a brick that can power a podracer at ludicrous speeds. That is what everyone should be doing Manhattan Project style. Everything else is cart before the horse.
Larry might want to proceed with caution because some patent trolls would have us believe that calling them patent trolls is a "hate crime" and therefore punishable by a huge fine payable to said patent trolls.
Nobody gives a crap about some unwieldy gossamer solar-powered plane that's built solely as a publicity stunt. If Google really wants to change the world, they need to focus their resources, brains and dollars, on making the über battery.
IMHO, Obama would get better support by requiring wireless providers to allow you to use your data plan on any device without having to cough up a monthly fee for each one.
Sorry, but using subjective terms such as "very likely" is not science. It's opinion. It would be like trying to decide which of the fifty shades of grey is the "best" one.
Lotus died a long time ago. Everyone on the planet uses Acrobat for electronic forms. Yet the US Government requires you to use crappy Lotus-based forms. Not only that, you have to submit them with Internet Explorer on Windows due to a crappy digital signature implementation that only works on IE and Windows. So, if you want keep an obsolete technology around, hire a lobbyist.
Seriously, you are all assuming that this was not only done by XTO, not only done intentionally, but also done under orders from Exxon management. How do you know that this wasn't done by some radical luddite with the express purpose of casting dispersions on the company, the drilling tech, and fossil fuels in general? You can spout off all you want but the fact of the matter is that you weren't there and you don't have any documents that show the plug removal was ordered so you can't say for sure who is to blame.
Maybe Kruse was a B.U. student and it's Schmuckerberg's thinly veiled attempt at railing against a university who is now #41 in the country. Go Terriers!
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to radical environmentalism, and nice green uniforms.
IMHO, the secret to Apple's success is disruptive technologies and products. From the Apple II (and Visicalc), to the Mac, to the iMac (in a way), to the iPod and iTunes, to the iPhone, possibly to the iPad. These products all were designed to throw a wrench into the hulking giant business models. Nokia never had any of that. That said, Apple needs to keep trying to disrupt the "way things have always been done" and at the same time they need to keep copycats from ripping off their ideas. I'm just wondering if the whole notion of the iWatch is a brilliant misdirection to tie up Samsung and send them down a path Apple has no intention of pursuing.
I generally have less of a beef with the web version of FB than I do with the iOS app which is a colossal piece of crap. Give me something that lets me turn off all the damn ads.
I can't believe nobody has thought about pitching a series based on the Dyson Sphere from TNG. Think about it. The potential scope is enormous and wouldn't fall prey to the "endless quest" type of story line. Get cracking. KTHXBYE.
Personally, I won't buy one if it's a friggin' electric car. If it's powered by good old in-your-face, enviro-fascists fossil fuels, I'd be interested. But seriously, for a long cross-country trip, this would be great. Even better if they can put it in an RV. That way, I could be making a sammich without having to watch the road.
Bah on healthcare.gov! That crappy site does NOT tell you if your existing insurance quote/unquote qualifies. The whole thing is B.S. My insurance company just jacked up my rates 25% this year. Not surprisingly, the premiums just happen to match the numbers effing healthcare.gov shows you would be paying if you went with them. Oh, and that's on top of 25% from last year that magically happened after the SCOTUS ruling.
What you're totally missing is the fact that the government doesn't have to make a profit on their garbage. What's infinitely worse is that they don't even have to cover their expenses because the money all comes out the the tax base. Private insurers won't be able to compete with that. Oh, but they can't refuse to cover you. Sure, at much higher premium which you won't be able to afford so you'll be willing to take the government plan. But why are so many special interest groups and federal agencies getting exemptions? Weren't we told the ACA was going to be the cat's tits?
You're also mistaking coverage for treatment in the same way that you mistake health insurance for health care. Just because the government says you're covered doesn't mean you're going to get top-of-the-line treatment. You're not. Try reading up on the IPAB and what it's real power is. A group of unelected, unaccountable functionaries with no medical training will be decided what forms of treatment get covered. Here's a very real world (not theoretical) example: You get Wet AMD. There are two drugs for treating it. Avastin is one and Lucentis is the other. Avastin has the nasty side effect of significantly increasing the likelihood that you'll get glaucoma. Lucentis doesn't have that problem. Avastin is $50 a shot and Lucentis is $1000 a shot (yes you get poked in the eye with a syringe). According to IPAB rules, they will not cover treatment with Lucentis because it's too expensive. Period. Think you're going to get a hip replacement? Wrong. Here's a cheaper bottle of Motrin. Have a nice day.
And since you brought up HMOs, let's talk about that for a moment. HMOs were supposed to "fix" healthcare. In reality, what happened was that new layers of bureaucracy were inserted between the doctor and the patient. All of those layers of bureaucracy had to get a salary and benefits and perhaps a pension. Where was that money supposed to come from? Those overpromised "savings" never materialized. But instead of chucking that system, those who invented it refused to believe that they couldn't fix it by adding more bureaucracy in the form of the feds. Now it's not just a train wreck but a missile the size of the Chrysler Building loaded with nuclear waste.
IMHO, the author's conclusion is a bit overly dramatic. I think a more realistic conclusion is a gradual fade out of cloud computing and cloud storage. Business and people will be more inclined to keep their private data on local, closed systems now because they no longer trust the government not to stick their nose in where it doesn't belong. How long will it be before the same effect happens to socialized medicine? Would you trust the government not to use your medical status against you?
FB doesn't make a dime off of people posting what they had for breakfast. They make money off of ads. For my own part, it's allowed me to stay in touch with people from the various chapters of my life. That's what it is to most people. But that doesn't make FB any money. FB's iOS app is pretty much useless because of the intrusive ads. They usually fill up the entire screen and I believe some of the postings from my friends are not being displayed in favor of ads in the same way that the postings from friends you rarely interact with aren't displayed in favor of the ones you interact with daily. FB must know that more intrusive ads will piss people off. But they still need to make money. Rock? Meet hard place.
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For one zero-percent body-fat freak of humanity. Wake me when you can pack a hundred or more people with all their luggage in it and fly across the pond at the same speed and cost or better as that of a 777.
Bah. People, companies, organizations, etc have been trying to solarize vehicles for decades and it always winds up being a reality check in engineering disguised as a publicity stunt. Oooo look! They built a solar powered car that can be driven across Australia! Big whoop. Nobody would ever use it for anything practical. Bottom line is that all manner of sci-fi gadgets, robots, flying cars, interstellar spacecraft, jet packs, etc. are all hampered by the lack of a power source the size of a brick that can power a podracer at ludicrous speeds. That is what everyone should be doing Manhattan Project style. Everything else is cart before the horse.
Larry might want to proceed with caution because some patent trolls would have us believe that calling them patent trolls is a "hate crime" and therefore punishable by a huge fine payable to said patent trolls.
http://boingboing.net/2013/09/17/patent-trolls-lumen-view-ca.html
Nobody gives a crap about some unwieldy gossamer solar-powered plane that's built solely as a publicity stunt. If Google really wants to change the world, they need to focus their resources, brains and dollars, on making the über battery.
This is my robot. This is my gun. This is for fighting, and this is for fun.
Not with my plan it's not. If you have a cadillac wireless plan, they oh-so-graciously waive the bullsh*t fee.
IMHO, Obama would get better support by requiring wireless providers to allow you to use your data plan on any device without having to cough up a monthly fee for each one.
Sorry, but using subjective terms such as "very likely" is not science. It's opinion. It would be like trying to decide which of the fifty shades of grey is the "best" one.
Lotus died a long time ago. Everyone on the planet uses Acrobat for electronic forms. Yet the US Government requires you to use crappy Lotus-based forms. Not only that, you have to submit them with Internet Explorer on Windows due to a crappy digital signature implementation that only works on IE and Windows. So, if you want keep an obsolete technology around, hire a lobbyist.
Sheldon: What if someone kidnaps me, forces me to record my voice, and then cuts off my thumb?
http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/university-jumps-in-us-news-world-report-rankings/
Haughty derision it is.
Seriously, you are all assuming that this was not only done by XTO, not only done intentionally, but also done under orders from Exxon management. How do you know that this wasn't done by some radical luddite with the express purpose of casting dispersions on the company, the drilling tech, and fossil fuels in general? You can spout off all you want but the fact of the matter is that you weren't there and you don't have any documents that show the plug removal was ordered so you can't say for sure who is to blame.
Maybe Kruse was a B.U. student and it's Schmuckerberg's thinly veiled attempt at railing against a university who is now #41 in the country. Go Terriers!
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to radical environmentalism, and nice green uniforms.
I still think this might just be misdirection on Apple's part.
IMHO, the secret to Apple's success is disruptive technologies and products. From the Apple II (and Visicalc), to the Mac, to the iMac (in a way), to the iPod and iTunes, to the iPhone, possibly to the iPad. These products all were designed to throw a wrench into the hulking giant business models. Nokia never had any of that. That said, Apple needs to keep trying to disrupt the "way things have always been done" and at the same time they need to keep copycats from ripping off their ideas. I'm just wondering if the whole notion of the iWatch is a brilliant misdirection to tie up Samsung and send them down a path Apple has no intention of pursuing.
I generally have less of a beef with the web version of FB than I do with the iOS app which is a colossal piece of crap. Give me something that lets me turn off all the damn ads.
I can't believe nobody has thought about pitching a series based on the Dyson Sphere from TNG. Think about it. The potential scope is enormous and wouldn't fall prey to the "endless quest" type of story line. Get cracking. KTHXBYE.
Personally, I won't buy one if it's a friggin' electric car. If it's powered by good old in-your-face, enviro-fascists fossil fuels, I'd be interested. But seriously, for a long cross-country trip, this would be great. Even better if they can put it in an RV. That way, I could be making a sammich without having to watch the road.
Bah on healthcare.gov! That crappy site does NOT tell you if your existing insurance quote/unquote qualifies. The whole thing is B.S. My insurance company just jacked up my rates 25% this year. Not surprisingly, the premiums just happen to match the numbers effing healthcare.gov shows you would be paying if you went with them. Oh, and that's on top of 25% from last year that magically happened after the SCOTUS ruling.
What you're totally missing is the fact that the government doesn't have to make a profit on their garbage. What's infinitely worse is that they don't even have to cover their expenses because the money all comes out the the tax base. Private insurers won't be able to compete with that. Oh, but they can't refuse to cover you. Sure, at much higher premium which you won't be able to afford so you'll be willing to take the government plan. But why are so many special interest groups and federal agencies getting exemptions? Weren't we told the ACA was going to be the cat's tits?
You're also mistaking coverage for treatment in the same way that you mistake health insurance for health care. Just because the government says you're covered doesn't mean you're going to get top-of-the-line treatment. You're not. Try reading up on the IPAB and what it's real power is. A group of unelected, unaccountable functionaries with no medical training will be decided what forms of treatment get covered. Here's a very real world (not theoretical) example: You get Wet AMD. There are two drugs for treating it. Avastin is one and Lucentis is the other. Avastin has the nasty side effect of significantly increasing the likelihood that you'll get glaucoma. Lucentis doesn't have that problem. Avastin is $50 a shot and Lucentis is $1000 a shot (yes you get poked in the eye with a syringe). According to IPAB rules, they will not cover treatment with Lucentis because it's too expensive. Period. Think you're going to get a hip replacement? Wrong. Here's a cheaper bottle of Motrin. Have a nice day.
And since you brought up HMOs, let's talk about that for a moment. HMOs were supposed to "fix" healthcare. In reality, what happened was that new layers of bureaucracy were inserted between the doctor and the patient. All of those layers of bureaucracy had to get a salary and benefits and perhaps a pension. Where was that money supposed to come from? Those overpromised "savings" never materialized. But instead of chucking that system, those who invented it refused to believe that they couldn't fix it by adding more bureaucracy in the form of the feds. Now it's not just a train wreck but a missile the size of the Chrysler Building loaded with nuclear waste.
IMHO, the author's conclusion is a bit overly dramatic. I think a more realistic conclusion is a gradual fade out of cloud computing and cloud storage. Business and people will be more inclined to keep their private data on local, closed systems now because they no longer trust the government not to stick their nose in where it doesn't belong. How long will it be before the same effect happens to socialized medicine? Would you trust the government not to use your medical status against you?
FB doesn't make a dime off of people posting what they had for breakfast. They make money off of ads.
For my own part, it's allowed me to stay in touch with people from the various chapters of my life. That's what it is to most people. But that doesn't make FB any money.
FB's iOS app is pretty much useless because of the intrusive ads. They usually fill up the entire screen and I believe some of the postings from my friends are not being displayed in favor of ads in the same way that the postings from friends you rarely interact with aren't displayed in favor of the ones you interact with daily.
FB must know that more intrusive ads will piss people off. But they still need to make money. Rock? Meet hard place.
"Well what the hell are we supposed to use? Harsh language?" ...aww crap....dang....errrm....!@#$%^&*(
I just wonder why Crossover, which is supposedly based on Wine, can't run current versions of Quickbooks.
I really want to be able to run things like Quickbooks Premiere without Parallels.