Don't allow the drug companies to own the FDA. Break the drug companies hand-in-glove relationship with health insurance providers. Fix the FDA so drug companies can only market actual cures, not yet more temporary symptom suppressants. Review and fix all drug companies and health service providers pricing to be in line with all other countries.
The power that used to be consumed by your always-slightly-on tv, stereo, playstation, laptop etc, will just go to feed the multiple always-on power monitors and the always-on control box instead. Net savings could be 0 or even negative.
The real answer is to get manufacturers to fit 'proper' power switches to everything like the good ol' days when 'off' really meant 'off'.
Talk about bloat. Now you need an extra big server and 1Gb internet just as a bad replacement for what you could already do before. Specifically for a gaming solution, this is a terrible and impractical idea typical of Microsoft marketing departments worst failures.
For any game where quick reflexes matter (i.e. most), the extra latency when compared to running the same game locally would be terrible. Also I don't think any internet service yet offers even 100mpbs to the home affordably, let alone 1 gig.
You mention Windows 7 tags, but if I were you I would avoid any proprietary protocol, such as used by any Microsoft products. Try and find something generic or at least opensource.
Now we keep buying very overpriced ink cartridges just so some spammer can send Viagra ads directly to our printers, or worse, a facebook friend emails their entire set of holiday photos.
Am I the only one that expects judges to have better moral scruples than this, regardless of the mechanism they use to attain technical legality for illegal actions?
Her continued use of robodial must have done her campaign net damage. Thankfully she outed herself before the vote, proving that she is not only a clueless judge of human character but a corrupt one, in that she will bend the law when it benefits her. A singularly undesireable trait in a judge.
I live in Phoenix AZ. Its mostly mile long blocks. I've noticed after getting caught at one light, the next light has been stuck on green even though any waiting traffic passed ages ago, then it always turns red right as you get to it. The next light does the same, then the next, and so on. Consequently every light is an almost guranteed stop-start so you get innefficient and more dangerous 'pulses' of traffic rather than streams.
Someone told me they do it on purpose for 'traffic calming', which if true is f*cking idiotic thinking. Apart from extra unnecessary fuel costs, air pollution, and extra brake and engine wear, it increases the average number of cars on the road at any one time by making everyones journey take 3 times as long. It also punishes drivers who don't speed with extra delays, while rewarding those who speed to make the next green light before it changes.
They could easily avoid the whole issue by having the new feature default to "off" rather than forcing users to explicitly opt-out of sharing.
I hate the fact that opt-out is even legal, let alone has apparently become standard acceptable practice. Anyone entrusted with your private data should not be legally able to suddenly make it publicly available without your express permission.
Companies doing this should be deemed automatically liable for all damages and costs when they arbitrarily decide to leak private info, even if they do provide an opt-out.
consequently all traffic, speed and red light cameras in those 12 states must now also be illegal as they don't seek the consent of the driver and all passengers prior to filming.
I admire Google's pioneering spirit, and I also welcome any move towards relegating Microsoft to the trashcan of history, but I find it hard to believe that any OS intended for a PC environment that fundamentally requires an always-on internet connection could successfully compete for market share against those that also provide the option of running apps locally.
I don't think the world is wired enough yet for the Chrome/Software-as-a-service concept. I also don't think people will just silently accept making regular payments for a service that replaces what they used to be able to do for free locally. With Chrome the whole privacy issue is a serious one, and I can also imagine that just the associated network latency of running an app on a remote server instead of locally on a reasonably specced PC is always bound to make the experience feel clunkier.
If Chrome manages to fulfill Google's dream of entirely killing the notion that PCs can run apps locally, then it will be a triumph of marketing over substance.
Scientists don't agree with Intelligent Design. There's no scientific evidence to support it. Most Christians don't agree with ID. Nowhere in the bible is ID mentioned. No other religions propose ID. Most surveys indicate hardly anyone asked believes ID. (most either believe full religious creationism or evolution, not ID).
I'm fed up with all the baseless hype Sony keep generating around OLED. Sony have been showing various "in the lab" examples of flexible OLED screens for years. Decades even. OLED TV has become the "Duke Nukem Forever" of TV tech.
I'll only pay attention to any more new OLED stories when someone makes home-sized (52 inch+) OLED TVs at affordable prices (i.e. same price as LCDs) actually available for purchase.
I've seen this first-hand. My CS degree course (class of 1993, University of Reading, England) had about 25 guys and 3 girls. It was amazing to see how all 3 girls shamelessly manipulated the nerdy guys into doing all their assignments for them just by sitting on their laps and other lame sexual innuendo.
For the entire course, I don't think any of the girls did much if any of their own assignments. Consequently they never learnt anything about software development or how computers actually worked. They all missed most lectures, yet somehow they always got reasonably high marks on coursework, (which inevitably looked just like the work also being handed in by the nerds they were currently abusing).
It was refreshing to see them fail badly in the final exams as for the first time they couldn't rely on someone else, but they still had enough good coursework scores to graduate with degrees that would lead a potential employer to incorrectly think they knew anything about computers. I was very disappointed that the uni didn't seem able to detect and weed out such people that think sex and plagiarism would get them a CS degree rather than their own hard work. I think a large part of the problem was that the course prof was a woman with a large emphasis on positive discrimination to get more women (even incompetent ones) into computing.
I still feel the bias and failure of the supposedly good university I attended devalues my own degree that I had to really work hard for.
There's all sorts of incorrect presumptions by the original article author, like all the time spent playing Google pac-man was necessarily at work. Like nobody is playing it in their own time.
Another one is that people would do work if it wasn't for pac-man. Hell I'd just find a different distraction to avoid work if the pac-man game wasn't around.
I can just imagine compliance with this being passed into law at some point, or at least yet more electronic junk that we can't avoid paying for if we want to buy a car. I also imagine that this will mean even more delays before the traffic moves when the light goes green, as we now have an additional wait for the slowest car in the queue to start its engine.
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Don't allow the drug companies to own the FDA.
Break the drug companies hand-in-glove relationship with health insurance providers.
Fix the FDA so drug companies can only market actual cures, not yet more temporary symptom suppressants.
Review and fix all drug companies and health service providers pricing to be in line with all other countries.
Nice :-) I'm gonna have to remember that for my own sarcastic replies :-)
why can't we just spin it up then freeze it solid?
As long as its kept cold you can use it at any angle, and even make a precision mold from it then make a less temperature sensitive version.
The power that used to be consumed by your always-slightly-on tv, stereo, playstation, laptop etc, will just go to feed the multiple always-on power monitors and the always-on control box instead. Net savings could be 0 or even negative.
The real answer is to get manufacturers to fit 'proper' power switches to everything like the good ol' days when 'off' really meant 'off'.
Talk about bloat. Now you need an extra big server and 1Gb internet just as a bad replacement for what you could already do before. Specifically for a gaming solution, this is a terrible and impractical idea typical of Microsoft marketing departments worst failures.
For any game where quick reflexes matter (i.e. most), the extra latency when compared to running the same game locally would be terrible. Also I don't think any internet service yet offers even 100mpbs to the home affordably, let alone 1 gig.
This clearly would not work for the usual PC gaming scenario, especially those games that require top-end 3D hardware.
Yeah because none of us that were teenagers before games consoles were invented ever drove fast. NOT.
You mention Windows 7 tags, but if I were you I would avoid any proprietary protocol, such as used by any Microsoft products. Try and find something generic or at least opensource.
Now we keep buying very overpriced ink cartridges just so some spammer can send Viagra ads directly to our printers, or worse, a facebook friend emails their entire set of holiday photos.
No thanks HP. Terrible idea.
Am I the only one that expects judges to have better moral scruples than this, regardless of the mechanism they use to attain technical legality for illegal actions?
Her continued use of robodial must have done her campaign net damage. Thankfully she outed herself before the vote, proving that she is not only a clueless judge of human character but a corrupt one, in that she will bend the law when it benefits her. A singularly undesireable trait in a judge.
She should be disbarred.
>> heat from the foot is applied on the top side and cold from the ground is applied on the opposite side
Cold from the ground? I live in Phoenix you insensitive clod.
I live in Phoenix AZ. Its mostly mile long blocks. I've noticed after getting caught at one light, the next light has been stuck on green even though any waiting traffic passed ages ago, then it always turns red right as you get to it. The next light does the same, then the next, and so on. Consequently every light is an almost guranteed stop-start so you get innefficient and more dangerous 'pulses' of traffic rather than streams.
Someone told me they do it on purpose for 'traffic calming', which if true is f*cking idiotic thinking.
Apart from extra unnecessary fuel costs, air pollution, and extra brake and engine wear, it increases the average number of cars on the road at any one time by making everyones journey take 3 times as long. It also punishes drivers who don't speed with extra delays, while rewarding those who speed to make the next green light before it changes.
They could easily avoid the whole issue by having the new feature default to "off" rather than forcing users to explicitly opt-out of sharing.
I hate the fact that opt-out is even legal, let alone has apparently become standard acceptable practice. Anyone entrusted with your private data should not be legally able to suddenly make it publicly available without your express permission.
Companies doing this should be deemed automatically liable for all damages and costs when they arbitrarily decide to leak private info, even if they do provide an opt-out.
...and whats to stop a cop with bad intentions from turning off or just blocking his own camera?
consequently all traffic, speed and red light cameras in those 12 states must now also be illegal as they don't seek the consent of the driver and all passengers prior to filming.
>> "leaders like Cisco tell us regularly that our focus and investment continues to surpass others."
They're probably right, however "focus" and "investment" do not indicate or replace actual results.
>> the system was built thanks to a database of millions of human-labeled images put together by Chinese workers
Happy car clash into barrier of non-moving.
I admire Google's pioneering spirit, and I also welcome any move towards relegating Microsoft to the trashcan of history, but I find it hard to believe that any OS intended for a PC environment that fundamentally requires an always-on internet connection could successfully compete for market share against those that also provide the option of running apps locally.
I don't think the world is wired enough yet for the Chrome/Software-as-a-service concept. I also don't think people will just silently accept making regular payments for a service that replaces what they used to be able to do for free locally. With Chrome the whole privacy issue is a serious one, and I can also imagine that just the associated network latency of running an app on a remote server instead of locally on a reasonably specced PC is always bound to make the experience feel clunkier.
If Chrome manages to fulfill Google's dream of entirely killing the notion that PCs can run apps locally, then it will be a triumph of marketing over substance.
Scientists don't agree with Intelligent Design. There's no scientific evidence to support it.
Most Christians don't agree with ID. Nowhere in the bible is ID mentioned.
No other religions propose ID.
Most surveys indicate hardly anyone asked believes ID. (most either believe full religious creationism or evolution, not ID).
Why then is it being taught in schools?
I'm fed up with all the baseless hype Sony keep generating around OLED. Sony have been showing various "in the lab" examples of flexible OLED screens for years. Decades even. OLED TV has become the "Duke Nukem Forever" of TV tech.
I'll only pay attention to any more new OLED stories when someone makes home-sized (52 inch+) OLED TVs at affordable prices (i.e. same price as LCDs) actually available for purchase.
criminals and terrorists actually have such a hard time faking ID ?
I've seen this first-hand. My CS degree course (class of 1993, University of Reading, England) had about 25 guys and 3 girls. It was amazing to see how all 3 girls shamelessly manipulated the nerdy guys into doing all their assignments for them just by sitting on their laps and other lame sexual innuendo.
For the entire course, I don't think any of the girls did much if any of their own assignments. Consequently they never learnt anything about software development or how computers actually worked. They all missed most lectures, yet somehow they always got reasonably high marks on coursework, (which inevitably looked just like the work also being handed in by the nerds they were currently abusing).
It was refreshing to see them fail badly in the final exams as for the first time they couldn't rely on someone else, but they still had enough good coursework scores to graduate with degrees that would lead a potential employer to incorrectly think they knew anything about computers. I was very disappointed that the uni didn't seem able to detect and weed out such people that think sex and plagiarism would get them a CS degree rather than their own hard work. I think a large part of the problem was that the course prof was a woman with a large emphasis on positive discrimination to get more women (even incompetent ones) into computing.
I still feel the bias and failure of the supposedly good university I attended devalues my own degree that I had to really work hard for.
There's all sorts of incorrect presumptions by the original article author, like all the time spent playing Google pac-man was necessarily at work. Like nobody is playing it in their own time.
Another one is that people would do work if it wasn't for pac-man. Hell I'd just find a different distraction to avoid work if the pac-man game wasn't around.
What ever happened to a la carte channel packages? I thought this was meant to finally be getting forced on the cable companies about 5 years ago?
I can just imagine compliance with this being passed into law at some point, or at least yet more electronic junk that we can't avoid paying for if we want to buy a car. I also imagine that this will mean even more delays before the traffic moves when the light goes green, as we now have an additional wait for the slowest car in the queue to start its engine.