No.. that will be done by the Chinese who could then throw rocks from the moon.
Sure. Right after they finish building their new aircraft carriers and their new stealth fighter planes. Chinese talk as much as the American administrations do, and end up doing less.
While blue-ray and home theaters might be hurting movies, one friend posited last weekend that the reason they are having such issues is because another great golden age of TV is upon us. It seems that everybody has half a dozen series that they like and want to watch and by time they finish them, there are either new seasons or new series to add. Home theater and streaming works even better for them because we're not even tied to the original air times unless we just really, really want to see them as soon as possible. Why worry about a few two or three hour long shows when there are series that offer better stories, more development, and equal technical production values?
Space exploration and colonization are hopeless fantasies. Nobody in their right mind is going to spend insane fortunes to explore and colonize the most inhospitable places there are, for no apparent benefit.
It's inhospitable, but it has near limitless energy which is going to be the one resource we'll continue to need and want more of. Although we can send infrastructure up into space to collect it for us, eventually, that infrastructure will require people in space to maintain it. That infrastructure and the people in space to collect that energy will be the exploration which will eventually be self serving.
And how many innocent NK citizens will be consigned to labor camps, for possessing imperialist propaganda blaspheming the "Great Leader?"
Ten or more years ago, probably a lot. These days, not so much the case. It was always the case the NKs, even in the bad old days would contact people to alter their state supplied radios to pick up SK broadcasts. Currently VHS is fairly common as are SK soap operas smuggled in from China whose border became porous as people looked for food in the 90's. Where defectors used to be quite rare and usually only the upper elite who ran because their lives were in danger, these days, the flow of normal people through China to SK is common enough that the NK government is suspected of sending people specifically to work in SK and send back money. Not to say people aren't still brainwashed, or won't get in trouble for having such items, but it is probably already an issue of "if they want you" rather than "if you've done something wrong".
But, do the Norks who think Kim's a god control anything? Kim himself presumably knows that he pees & poops and though he talks about blowing up American cities and movie theaters, he won't actually do it, and neither would anyone who could do so.
Well, from watching Asian movies, their usage and meaning of the word god seems to be much different from that of the Westerner who has usually one straw man definition of such. To make light of the subject would be to say that to Asian (pop) culture (as seen through movies and TV shows by a Westerner) seems to be more in line with anything that does not die or pay taxes, whether due to mundane political power through a spectrum to being an omnipotent mythical being.
The summary and comments so far have been comparing tablets to phones. But the proper comparison is between tablets and laptops.
ANECDOTE ALERT
I'm a big believer that tablets will replace laptops. My ipad used to be for games, light browsing, etc. But two things happened that changed everything:
* I got a really high quality keyboard case that comes very close to replicating the look and feel of a laptop (search for ClamCase if you care to)
* my work switched to office 365, which means all of the outlook, word, excel, CRM, and sharepoint is available online and through ipad apps.
I've seen some users change over simply because tablets are small, light, and allow them to remote into their work machines and literally do everything there.
Because those stupid people in a hospital are nurses and doctors. Give them an opportunity to look down on you as an I.T. professional and you will never hear the end of it. As an I.T. contractor, I worked in a wide variety of companies with different cultures. A hospital is perhaps the most hostile work enviornment. Either you fall in line with the pecking order or the door hits your ass on the way out.
I work at three hospitals as IT and really don't see that. (However I have heard horror stories about other hospitals, but usually limited to particular individuals.) Perhaps if instead of laughing at them, you asked about their need cases and you'd find out that they need those large tablets they are making phone calls on because they are docs needing to get online, look at brain X-rays for blood, and then call the hospital with treatment instructions within 30 minutes of somebody having the stroke no matter where they are to make a difference. That's why we issued them to the doctors, although it is true that most doctors would rather use their personal equipment for the job than carry two. Even if they only use it for work once a year, many would rather have that ability than not.
Hospitals are a pretty stupid target in comparison to banks, physical retail environments, and online stores. A hospital DB might contain a social security number, addresses, illnesses, and birthdate. So what?
You're forgetting insurance information. Besides all the information you mentioned which is suitable to steal and identity, they can use the health records and insurance for fraud to either get drugs that might be allowed to the real patient or treatment or payment for costly procedures.
The best idea I've heard is to make use of aerodynamic lift for that, so instead of falling down on a purely ballistic trajectory you make large enough surfaces to actually _fly_.
I think the big issues is that the atmosphere of Mars isn't really enough to use like that. Keep in mind that even at ground level, the average atmospheric pressure of Mars would be considered a medium vacuum in a lab here on earth. the upper atmosphere would be even less.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you. Then you lose and kill yourself."
- Hitler (well, not really)
I never understood what that Gandhi quote is so popular, sure that's what a victory looks like out the rear view mirror but most defeats start just the same.
Well, the point is, that if you aren't willing to be ignored and ridiculed to begin with, you'll never win because you'll never even try. Really, Hitler won and took over Germany. Then he won taking over Austria. Then he won taking over France. Then while still fighting Britain, he doubled down and tried for Russia, and then finally lost.
Either Obama has written off the Cuban vote in Miami or he has decided to concede FLA to the GOP.
Not so sure. Not familiar with current Florida-Cuban politics, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people who are still angry at Castro, aren't putting more importance on trying to see and visit family before they die, if they already haven't via Canada or Mexico.
Apply some of that massive Silicon Valley brainpower to developing large-scale desalination instead of the next batch of faddish social media apps.
Because most of the brain power in Silicon Valley is geared towards coding software and developing computers and this will require things like mechanical engineers and physicists. There's no app or computer that would fix this problem, and you are essentially asking electricians to fix a plumbing problem. There are already parts of the world with smart people working on such problems and it is hardly an unexplored field and while lots of money could probably make modest progress, if they had money for that solution, they could already implement it.
Man, every time I hear that phrase, Social Justice Warrior, it's like somebody starting a conversation with "I'm not racist but...".
Racism = Power + Bigotry
If by Social Justice Warriors, you mean Sociologists, you'd probably be correct, but they're talking about certain academic usage and cases you probably don't have the background to discuss. Much like/.ers talking about the various physics articles here without understanding of the original article and the math behind the physics.
Actually, no. Nazi party was _named_ "National Socialist", while its policies were pretty consistent with far-right wing. Basically, its name was only used for PR to drum up support.
Rohm was actually part of the faction that wanted the socialist in there and was for wealth redistribution from the aristocracy to the workers as well as nationalization of industry. Because of his help founding the party and friendship with Hitler, he was able to champion the cause and even maintain that he was Hitler's equal. That part of the Nazi party died in 1934 on the Night of Long Knives.
No, that ithe AC stated. The AC stated that the National Socialists (Nazis) were leftists because they are socialists.
Quoting the AC:
They were, but that part of the NAZI party died with Rohm on the Night of Long Knives in 1934. His faction was the one that put Socialist and Worker in the name of the party and sought nationalization of industry with greater worker control and wealth redistribution. After that night when Hitler and his faction took firm absolute of the NAZI party, Socialist was just an awkward term that everybody ignored.
The Baath party in Iraq and Syria had the same trouble since were/are the last vestiges of the NAZI political machine, being heavily influenced if not started by actual NAZIs sent to the Middle East to spread their political viewpoints in WW2.
But... but... they're a tech company... they have an app... they dispatch using technology. My god, can't you see that this is completely different from a taxi company?
Actually, it is more accurately called a chartered car service such as used for town cars and limos. The thing is that smart phones and wireless means that these days anybody can essentially call a home office, charter a car for right then, and have it show up where they are in minutes. IIRC, those were the laws that Lyft was operating under in Seattle in the beginning because it was all kosher as chartered car drivers and companies weren't as regulated as taxis. When the laws were made, nobody thought you'd call an office and charter a regular car because of the lack of pay phones and time lag involved. Technology got rid of those issues before the laws were updated. When the city redid it's taxi laws to deal with Uber, they also had to redo the chartered car laws to deal with other avenues of doing the same thing.
An expert claims that something that doesn't exist yet and is pretty much the realm of science fiction will perform in a matter suitable for him to get free publicity now!
Time cannot go backwards because time, as an independent phenomenon doesn't exist. The passage of time, and what enables "change" is the expansion of the universe. It expands slower or faster near or away from the influence of gravity as time passes faster or slower near or away from the influence of gravity. Time and space aren't simply "relative". The are the same thing. Entropy is strongly correlated but not actually coupled.
That's an interesting theory. I eagerly await your paper to see the math behind it or your science fiction novel, whichever you are attempting to support.
Try riding a cab in city where they aren't properly regulated and you may change your mind after you get in a cab with a driver who asks you for directions in a city you do not live in and is driving a clapped out ex cop car with bad shocks, a check engine light that's on and whose brakes squeal like metal to metal contact is being made whenever he uses them.
Sounds just like Seattle's regulated taxis. Not sure what the problem is.
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No.. that will be done by the Chinese who could then throw rocks from the moon.
Sure. Right after they finish building their new aircraft carriers and their new stealth fighter planes. Chinese talk as much as the American administrations do, and end up doing less.
While blue-ray and home theaters might be hurting movies, one friend posited last weekend that the reason they are having such issues is because another great golden age of TV is upon us. It seems that everybody has half a dozen series that they like and want to watch and by time they finish them, there are either new seasons or new series to add. Home theater and streaming works even better for them because we're not even tied to the original air times unless we just really, really want to see them as soon as possible. Why worry about a few two or three hour long shows when there are series that offer better stories, more development, and equal technical production values?
Space exploration and colonization are hopeless fantasies. Nobody in their right mind is going to spend insane fortunes to explore and colonize the most inhospitable places there are, for no apparent benefit.
It's inhospitable, but it has near limitless energy which is going to be the one resource we'll continue to need and want more of. Although we can send infrastructure up into space to collect it for us, eventually, that infrastructure will require people in space to maintain it. That infrastructure and the people in space to collect that energy will be the exploration which will eventually be self serving.
So, a straw man argument to begin with.
And how many innocent NK citizens will be consigned to labor camps, for possessing imperialist propaganda blaspheming the "Great Leader?"
Ten or more years ago, probably a lot. These days, not so much the case. It was always the case the NKs, even in the bad old days would contact people to alter their state supplied radios to pick up SK broadcasts. Currently VHS is fairly common as are SK soap operas smuggled in from China whose border became porous as people looked for food in the 90's. Where defectors used to be quite rare and usually only the upper elite who ran because their lives were in danger, these days, the flow of normal people through China to SK is common enough that the NK government is suspected of sending people specifically to work in SK and send back money. Not to say people aren't still brainwashed, or won't get in trouble for having such items, but it is probably already an issue of "if they want you" rather than "if you've done something wrong".
But, do the Norks who think Kim's a god control anything? Kim himself presumably knows that he pees & poops and though he talks about blowing up American cities and movie theaters, he won't actually do it, and neither would anyone who could do so.
Well, from watching Asian movies, their usage and meaning of the word god seems to be much different from that of the Westerner who has usually one straw man definition of such. To make light of the subject would be to say that to Asian (pop) culture (as seen through movies and TV shows by a Westerner) seems to be more in line with anything that does not die or pay taxes, whether due to mundane political power through a spectrum to being an omnipotent mythical being.
It's the food you eat, the beer you drink, and which football/rugby/cricket team you support.
Awright, 'arry? See that ludicrous display last night?
Fing about Arsenal is, they always try an' walk it in.
If you don't like sport and don't drink beer you're a raving fairy, that's what.
Awright, 'arry? See that ludicrous display last night?
The summary and comments so far have been comparing tablets to phones. But the proper comparison is between tablets and laptops.
ANECDOTE ALERT
I'm a big believer that tablets will replace laptops. My ipad used to be for games, light browsing, etc. But two things happened that changed everything: * I got a really high quality keyboard case that comes very close to replicating the look and feel of a laptop (search for ClamCase if you care to) * my work switched to office 365, which means all of the outlook, word, excel, CRM, and sharepoint is available online and through ipad apps.
I've seen some users change over simply because tablets are small, light, and allow them to remote into their work machines and literally do everything there.
Because those stupid people in a hospital are nurses and doctors. Give them an opportunity to look down on you as an I.T. professional and you will never hear the end of it. As an I.T. contractor, I worked in a wide variety of companies with different cultures. A hospital is perhaps the most hostile work enviornment. Either you fall in line with the pecking order or the door hits your ass on the way out.
I work at three hospitals as IT and really don't see that. (However I have heard horror stories about other hospitals, but usually limited to particular individuals.) Perhaps if instead of laughing at them, you asked about their need cases and you'd find out that they need those large tablets they are making phone calls on because they are docs needing to get online, look at brain X-rays for blood, and then call the hospital with treatment instructions within 30 minutes of somebody having the stroke no matter where they are to make a difference. That's why we issued them to the doctors, although it is true that most doctors would rather use their personal equipment for the job than carry two. Even if they only use it for work once a year, many would rather have that ability than not.
I dont think telling people you can fix a mac book by baking it will end well. So perhaps a disclaimer saying NOT to do this would be in order?
It's already broken. So long as it doesn't cook off noxious chemicals, it won't hurt an already non-functioning computer any.
I lack a belief in a god. What is it that I truly believe?
I have no idea. You have yet to even define what this god you do not believe in might be for me.
It's not even logical to expect to prove God with science.
As with all logic problems, it depends on what your starting assumptions are.
Hospitals are a pretty stupid target in comparison to banks, physical retail environments, and online stores. A hospital DB might contain a social security number, addresses, illnesses, and birthdate. So what?
You're forgetting insurance information. Besides all the information you mentioned which is suitable to steal and identity, they can use the health records and insurance for fraud to either get drugs that might be allowed to the real patient or treatment or payment for costly procedures.
The best idea I've heard is to make use of aerodynamic lift for that, so instead of falling down on a purely ballistic trajectory you make large enough surfaces to actually _fly_.
I think the big issues is that the atmosphere of Mars isn't really enough to use like that. Keep in mind that even at ground level, the average atmospheric pressure of Mars would be considered a medium vacuum in a lab here on earth. the upper atmosphere would be even less.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you. Then you lose and kill yourself." - Hitler (well, not really)
I never understood what that Gandhi quote is so popular, sure that's what a victory looks like out the rear view mirror but most defeats start just the same.
Well, the point is, that if you aren't willing to be ignored and ridiculed to begin with, you'll never win because you'll never even try. Really, Hitler won and took over Germany. Then he won taking over Austria. Then he won taking over France. Then while still fighting Britain, he doubled down and tried for Russia, and then finally lost.
Either Obama has written off the Cuban vote in Miami or he has decided to concede FLA to the GOP.
Not so sure. Not familiar with current Florida-Cuban politics, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people who are still angry at Castro, aren't putting more importance on trying to see and visit family before they die, if they already haven't via Canada or Mexico.
Apply some of that massive Silicon Valley brainpower to developing large-scale desalination instead of the next batch of faddish social media apps.
Because most of the brain power in Silicon Valley is geared towards coding software and developing computers and this will require things like mechanical engineers and physicists. There's no app or computer that would fix this problem, and you are essentially asking electricians to fix a plumbing problem. There are already parts of the world with smart people working on such problems and it is hardly an unexplored field and while lots of money could probably make modest progress, if they had money for that solution, they could already implement it.
That's what Social Justice Warriors believe.
Man, every time I hear that phrase, Social Justice Warrior, it's like somebody starting a conversation with "I'm not racist but...".
Racism = Power + Bigotry
If by Social Justice Warriors, you mean Sociologists, you'd probably be correct, but they're talking about certain academic usage and cases you probably don't have the background to discuss. Much like /.ers talking about the various physics articles here without understanding of the original article and the math behind the physics.
Actually, no. Nazi party was _named_ "National Socialist", while its policies were pretty consistent with far-right wing. Basically, its name was only used for PR to drum up support.
Rohm was actually part of the faction that wanted the socialist in there and was for wealth redistribution from the aristocracy to the workers as well as nationalization of industry. Because of his help founding the party and friendship with Hitler, he was able to champion the cause and even maintain that he was Hitler's equal. That part of the Nazi party died in 1934 on the Night of Long Knives.
No, that ithe AC stated. The AC stated that the National Socialists (Nazis) were leftists because they are socialists.
Quoting the AC:
They were, but that part of the NAZI party died with Rohm on the Night of Long Knives in 1934. His faction was the one that put Socialist and Worker in the name of the party and sought nationalization of industry with greater worker control and wealth redistribution. After that night when Hitler and his faction took firm absolute of the NAZI party, Socialist was just an awkward term that everybody ignored.
The Baath party in Iraq and Syria had the same trouble since were/are the last vestiges of the NAZI political machine, being heavily influenced if not started by actual NAZIs sent to the Middle East to spread their political viewpoints in WW2.
But ... but ... they're a tech company ... they have an app ... they dispatch using technology. My god, can't you see that this is completely different from a taxi company?
Actually, it is more accurately called a chartered car service such as used for town cars and limos. The thing is that smart phones and wireless means that these days anybody can essentially call a home office, charter a car for right then, and have it show up where they are in minutes. IIRC, those were the laws that Lyft was operating under in Seattle in the beginning because it was all kosher as chartered car drivers and companies weren't as regulated as taxis. When the laws were made, nobody thought you'd call an office and charter a regular car because of the lack of pay phones and time lag involved. Technology got rid of those issues before the laws were updated. When the city redid it's taxi laws to deal with Uber, they also had to redo the chartered car laws to deal with other avenues of doing the same thing.
An expert claims that something that doesn't exist yet and is pretty much the realm of science fiction will perform in a matter suitable for him to get free publicity now!
Time cannot go backwards because time, as an independent phenomenon doesn't exist. The passage of time, and what enables "change" is the expansion of the universe. It expands slower or faster near or away from the influence of gravity as time passes faster or slower near or away from the influence of gravity. Time and space aren't simply "relative". The are the same thing. Entropy is strongly correlated but not actually coupled.
That's an interesting theory. I eagerly await your paper to see the math behind it or your science fiction novel, whichever you are attempting to support.
Try riding a cab in city where they aren't properly regulated and you may change your mind after you get in a cab with a driver who asks you for directions in a city you do not live in and is driving a clapped out ex cop car with bad shocks, a check engine light that's on and whose brakes squeal like metal to metal contact is being made whenever he uses them.
Sounds just like Seattle's regulated taxis. Not sure what the problem is.