Only 2.5% of the visible universe? Seven of nine could do this in the turbolift on the way back to the astrometrics lab and still have time for solitaire. (I am a Star Trek Voyager fan.....or more accurately, THE voyager fan.)
Yes but to be fair, this simulation was actually done, and well, Seven Of Nine is fictional. It's not really an apples to apples comparison.
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Okay, a regular canopy flies by generating lift from an air-filled airfoil, so we can use some of that with the squirrelsuit. The tricky bit is landing, because A) we need to land slow, and B) we need to land REALLY slow. A) is tricky, but I wonder if we can produce some extremely high drag (high lift?) wings, say cells with additional pockets that can be opened (air brakes if you will), and B) the flaring to land bit could be handled with cells all over the suit, that open when the flyer has a more vertical pitch - eg, falling vertically, cells all over the suit open to create maximum surface area. I dunno how cool it would be to land looking like the Michelin Man though.
No. The oligarchs that were crushed were only the ones that were not supporting Putin. The ones that opposed me, are in jail or exile or worse. Vladimir, is that you?
Yes, you might be able to get it into your local paper (maybe), but by-and-large, "the media" are the folks who benefit from these changes. The media IS the industry that's pushing for it! I guess acting local is the way to start, but I cannot honestly see a strong argument being put forth on national television.
It has nothing to do with voodoo or being god. It's called experience and education - I would trust a doctors own diagnoses more than any self-diagnoses for three reasons.
First, they have (at least competent ones) a much wider knowledge of the diseases out there, how they manifest themselves, how to differentiate between them, and what course of action is necessary based upon a medical history. Secondly, they have the experience necessary (being surrounded by it 24/7) to determine which of 5 similar sounding diseases it is more likely to be. Finally, a patient performing self-diagnosis is more likely to look at the worst-case scenario, even if it's a very uncommon disease.
Think of it this way - you wouldn't want a HR person fixing some huge hardware failure just because they read the manual. If they make a reasonable point or argument, you might expect an expert to listen to their opinion, but that's it. In my experience, you'd be wrong.
One of my grandmothers was misdiagnosed, and subsequently suffered greatly while dying of the cancer the doctor didn't think she had. She was a doctors-are-gods type.
My other grandmother fell and broke her hip, and was on morphine for waaay to long, and suffered from strokes and alzheimers since. She had a DNR (do not recussitate) order, which was happily ignored and added 3 years of suffering to her life. She was more skeptical, but ultimately never had a say.
I went to a doctor with a broken wrist, and the idiot (with his student I might add) decided it was just a sprain, so take some paracetemol, bandage it up, and I'd be fine. Oh, and I could still go to the gym with lighter weights if I wanted (which I did). A week later I found someone competent and got an x-ray and had a cast on it that day. 10 days of pain, and my wrist still isn't quite right (not uncommon for this break, I understand), but that was the last time I'll trust a GP.
A while back I had some physch issues I felt were chemically induced, didn't seem like just stress or whatever, and went to my local doctor. She handed out some prozac after a 10 minute chat. Certainly, that had an emotionally numbing effect - which was great, except a while afterwards I realized I had mercury leeching out of my fillings (why is my dental floss going grey there?) and was probably drinking too much caffiene and aspartame (eg, diet coke, etc). No blood tests, indeed any tests, were ever performed by the doctor.
One of my friends needed some medication, his life pretty much depends on it, and he'd left it to the last minute to get some. But the local clinic won't see him until their next appointment, while all he needs is a prescription signed off. I went down there with him and made it happen, but some folks would just accept it and hope they didn't... - I don't know, die? - in the meantime.
And even getting an appointment at a medical clinic is hard work. I went to three before I found one where The Doctor would take anyone. The medical industry is completely fucking broken. Specialists may well be good within their fields, but MOST GPs seem to get it wrong more than they get it right. They also need to realise they're just another service provider. Hopefully well trained and intelligent, but they damnwell need to listen to their customers.
To use your IT analogy, imagine an techie fixing a server. Now, he could look at the symptoms and replace the presumably faulty harddrive, or he could look at the symptoms AND check the system logs AND run some tests, and correctly diagnose a filesystem corruption. Most doctors do the former, while the few good ones do the latter.
I think it's important to point out that the kid 'Akill' was released without charge and that he didn't make any money out of the operation. Some sources are reporting that the group "raked in" $20 million, whereas that figure comes from estimates of "economic losses" so are probably inflated or meaningless depending on where the sources come from. Linkage
Thank you lawmakers all over the world for criminalizing the young. I'm sure they will feel really bad about breaking other laws as well It's not just the young, it's everyone. And yes, I think people everywhere are becoming less concerned about breaking laws...
The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ~Lao-tzu
Red Hat owns JBoss, which Marc Fleury produces. We can assume he's got an idea of what he's talking about.
That said, given the way Centos has been taking off lately, I'm pretty sure the value of a Brand for things people aren't paying for will be shown to be fairly low. Certainly, if you're reaching people who's only knowledge of the product is the name and image then a brand is a big deal... but in technical and/or OSS circles, not so much.
Anyone know if these chips could be used to make a passively cooled desktop video card, and if they're likely to be? Dunno about these chips yet, but Asus has their Silent Magic line of passively cooled cards. Their EN8500GT SILENT MAGIC/HTP/512M looks like a reasonable option.
Am I supposed to just accept that this violation-by-proxy is legal? Yes. This sort of thing (including communications interception) has been going on for decades between many countries.
Well, if I understand correctly, these virtual items are bought and sold for real money, so they certainly have a value. And he deprived the owners of the items whilst gaining it himself. No, because they're not buying virtual items. Sure it superficially seems that way, but they're really paying for services (eg, the server time to generate the representation of the item)... so there's no "owner" of the item as such, because there's no item (virtual or otherwise) to own.
I'll concede that the service does have value, but any beef is between the host and the client who is using their resources to the detriment of their other players.
Salary of a geek browsing slashdot most of the time - $100K Cost of a radio - $15K Saving an american life on a battlefield - priceless. Isn't it??? Saving any life on a battlefield - priceless. Isn't it???
There is no legitimate environmentalist standpoint worth discussing about the Moon. There is no life on the Moon. One of the concerns is aesthetic, but the main one for me is more practical. How long would it take before the change in mass of the moon would have an impact on life on our planet? E.g. changes in tidal influence. Serious mining can move serious amounts of material in a short time, and if the moon became Earth's primary source of material for power, I suspect we'd make a measurable impact within decades.
Half sarcasm and half serious: Give me one good reason that someone with a press pass deserves rights that you don't have without it. Logistics. Someone holding a press pass acts as proxy for the wider population. The press pass is just a convienient way to manage the number of people you have a deal with, and hopefully a gaurantee of some measure of professionalism in their interaction (as opposed to say, the "Don't tase me bro" guy).
The ruling made it clear that blogging is commentary and/or editorializing, but not reporting in the journalism sense. In 99% of all cases, bloggers are not journalists and they should not be given the rights of someone who holds a press card. I think the Content and Intention keywords cover this. Even if a blogger has aspirations (intention) of journalistic writing, they shouldn't just roll up expecting a press card without some previous work (content) to back up that position. If a blogger wants to call themself a journalist, they'll have to earn it - just like someone working for a print publication.
I know this is ATI's problem but the Radeon 9200 has no support (even with the FGLRX driver). For what it's worth, XiG's Accelerated-X supports the Radeon 9200 pretty well.
Looking to the future, Apple's next big move *needs* to be the implementation of a true metadata filesystem (preferably using ZFS). They can't let Microsoft beat them to it, and ZFS is simply too cool to pass up. Seconded. I keep considering MacBooks, but a native no-hacking required ZFS filesystem would be the clincher. Oh, and on the hardware front, ECC memory support please (yes, I know it's a notebook, but I favour correctness over speed).
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Only 2.5% of the visible universe? Seven of nine could do this in the turbolift on the way back to the astrometrics lab and still have time for solitaire. (I am a Star Trek Voyager fan. ....or more accurately, THE voyager fan.)
Yes but to be fair, this simulation was actually done, and well, Seven Of Nine is fictional. It's not really an apples to apples comparison.
Okay, a regular canopy flies by generating lift from an air-filled airfoil, so we can use some of that with the squirrelsuit. The tricky bit is landing, because A) we need to land slow, and B) we need to land REALLY slow. A) is tricky, but I wonder if we can produce some extremely high drag (high lift?) wings, say cells with additional pockets that can be opened (air brakes if you will), and B) the flaring to land bit could be handled with cells all over the suit, that open when the flyer has a more vertical pitch - eg, falling vertically, cells all over the suit open to create maximum surface area. I dunno how cool it would be to land looking like the Michelin Man though.
If we're not careful, bannination.com will go and trademark hurrr. Pandora's box indeed.
Engage the media?
Yes, you might be able to get it into your local paper (maybe), but by-and-large, "the media" are the folks who benefit from these changes. The media IS the industry that's pushing for it! I guess acting local is the way to start, but I cannot honestly see a strong argument being put forth on national television.
First, they have (at least competent ones) a much wider knowledge of the diseases out there, how they manifest themselves, how to differentiate between them, and what course of action is necessary based upon a medical history.
Secondly, they have the experience necessary (being surrounded by it 24/7) to determine which of 5 similar sounding diseases it is more likely to be.
Finally, a patient performing self-diagnosis is more likely to look at the worst-case scenario, even if it's a very uncommon disease.
Think of it this way - you wouldn't want a HR person fixing some huge hardware failure just because they read the manual. If they make a reasonable point or argument, you might expect an expert to listen to their opinion, but that's it. In my experience, you'd be wrong.
One of my grandmothers was misdiagnosed, and subsequently suffered greatly while dying of the cancer the doctor didn't think she had. She was a doctors-are-gods type.
My other grandmother fell and broke her hip, and was on morphine for waaay to long, and suffered from strokes and alzheimers since. She had a DNR (do not recussitate) order, which was happily ignored and added 3 years of suffering to her life. She was more skeptical, but ultimately never had a say.
I went to a doctor with a broken wrist, and the idiot (with his student I might add) decided it was just a sprain, so take some paracetemol, bandage it up, and I'd be fine. Oh, and I could still go to the gym with lighter weights if I wanted (which I did). A week later I found someone competent and got an x-ray and had a cast on it that day. 10 days of pain, and my wrist still isn't quite right (not uncommon for this break, I understand), but that was the last time I'll trust a GP.
A while back I had some physch issues I felt were chemically induced, didn't seem like just stress or whatever, and went to my local doctor. She handed out some prozac after a 10 minute chat. Certainly, that had an emotionally numbing effect - which was great, except a while afterwards I realized I had mercury leeching out of my fillings (why is my dental floss going grey there?) and was probably drinking too much caffiene and aspartame (eg, diet coke, etc). No blood tests, indeed any tests, were ever performed by the doctor.
One of my friends needed some medication, his life pretty much depends on it, and he'd left it to the last minute to get some. But the local clinic won't see him until their next appointment, while all he needs is a prescription signed off. I went down there with him and made it happen, but some folks would just accept it and hope they didn't... - I don't know, die? - in the meantime.
And even getting an appointment at a medical clinic is hard work. I went to three before I found one where The Doctor would take anyone. The medical industry is completely fucking broken. Specialists may well be good within their fields, but MOST GPs seem to get it wrong more than they get it right. They also need to realise they're just another service provider. Hopefully well trained and intelligent, but they damnwell need to listen to their customers.
To use your IT analogy, imagine an techie fixing a server. Now, he could look at the symptoms and replace the presumably faulty harddrive, or he could look at the symptoms AND check the system logs AND run some tests, and correctly diagnose a filesystem corruption. Most doctors do the former, while the few good ones do the latter.
The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ~Lao-tzu
I agree. Public Domain licensing seems to be the worst of all worlds to me.
This one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/390933.stm Men had bigger balls back then.
Red Hat owns JBoss, which Marc Fleury produces. We can assume he's got an idea of what he's talking about.
That said, given the way Centos has been taking off lately, I'm pretty sure the value of a Brand for things people aren't paying for will be shown to be fairly low. Certainly, if you're reaching people who's only knowledge of the product is the name and image then a brand is a big deal... but in technical and/or OSS circles, not so much.
I'll concede that the service does have value, but any beef is between the host and the client who is using their resources to the detriment of their other players.
Cost of a radio - $15K
Saving an american life on a battlefield - priceless. Isn't it??? Saving any life on a battlefield - priceless. Isn't it???
FTFY
Right, but MS have only said they wouldn't hassle non-commercial OSS developers. That set doesn't contain OSS users, nor commercial OSS developers.
Which gives you an "out" when MS comes hunting for end-users to extort. Contribute your fixes back to the community, and call yourself a developer.