suffered from headaches and vomiting, were in critical condition, while others were able to go home after treatment in hospital, the officials said
Poisoned with what... Can't help but wonder WRT my past life doing chemistry. That's a kind of peculiar combination. Individually nothing unusual WRT to poisoning, but the precise set of 1) headaches 2) vomiting 3) able to go home almost immediately aka insta-antidote is kind of odd/unusual.. I can think of plenty of things causing 1 of 3, a couple causing 2 of 3, nothing causing 3 of 3.
Aside from that, its an excellent example of why multiculturalism should not exist. My daughter gains nothing by the existence of that culture. Let american consumerism steamroll it out of existence, no substantial loss.
music.google.com holds everything I have, and the "play music" app (what a stupid name) on my android phone can locally cache any weird combination of genre, musician, or album that I want, assuming I have space on the device.
So I have everything I have in the cloud, and everything I actually listen to also on the device. Not in the future or vaporware, but for many months now.
I think you'd have to start there first, before worrying about avoiding its conclusions. If we're wishing for the moon, we're probably more likely to install a matriarchy first.
This is Sony... remember "memory sticks" where they cost 5 times as much as CF or SD, simply because... they could?
"Special Sony BDR media" will almost certainly be the only kind that will work in the caddy and will cost at least $25 per disk... I would be shocked if Sony allowed its victims to use commodity products instead of Sony brand BDR.
"Unless Sony can get other companies to make and sell ODA drives, though, it will probably just go the way of the MiniDisc."
Hugely popular in Asia?
This is true. Got rid of my father's minidisc hardware and discs, all to.jp and local asian sounding names. Crazy popular little things over there, locally no one wants them.
Somehow, I was never quite certain how, their encoding and/or internal design was so much more energy efficient than early mp3 players, that you'd get like 4 times the playtime, despite the storage technology being a rotating disk.
Does it have the XCP trojan installed by default? Will they sell you 5 tb and take four of them back with the first "upgrade"?
My guess is it'll be released after 1.5 TB SSDs are widely available, yet somehow cost more. And I'll have to warn my family away from buying it, because they had a good experience with a Sony reel to reel tape player 40 years ago, therefore this must be pretty good too.
I doubt there's a less trustworthy entity on the planet.
Anyone in the.gov, anyone in mass media, anyone in marketing, anyone in finance, GM... Least trustworthy computer hardware mfgr on the planet, yeah, I think they fairly easily meet that..
3d printers civilian forfeiture seized as drug lab paraphernalia in 3... 2... 1...
It is an interesting economic problem as it costs way more than glass, but is "optimized". Not sure when it would economically pay off.
Recently I was making fun of chemistry glass taper standards on/., because just like in CS / IT there are so many conflicting standards that won't interoperate. Its almost as bad as screw threads. Printing a "optimized" 127 ml beaker with built in electrodes instead of taking a generic pyrex 125 ml off the shelf and sticking some off the shelf electrodes into it, seems a complete waste of expensive and slow 3-d printing resources, but writing a "magic" python script (or whatever) that could squirt out a 3-d file to adapt any ground glass taper to any other ground glass taper would be pretty handy.
Aren't the clamps for ground glass called "keck clips" or something like that? I'm talking about the little plastic clamps that hold ground glass joints together so they don't fall apart while working. I believe that product came out in the mid 80s a bit too late for my lab time in the early 90s. A fellow o-chem student had a nice small lab fire due to the lab not having those new-fangled keck clips available (no injury or property damage, thankfully). I think there is a realistic safety advantage by being able to print up the exact safety gear you need, whenever you need it. That might be another valid chem lab market. Not having the proper clamps and such is no excuse if you can just print another.
I also think it would be fun to 3-d print microscale apparatus, because at least its small and cheap and fast. Didn't read the article, maybe thats the scale they're talking about.
Not precisely- most certainly it would have at most four turbofans (much more fuel efficient), a full - flying (split, indepedendent) elevator and rudder (avoiding the wacko landing gear configuration or at least allowing greater adjustment and manuverability), more extensive ECCM and SEAD capabilities. It would also probably be cancelled as the USAF would fill it with composite materials which drive up production costs, new instead of proven commercial engines and so on.
Yes but you're basically agreeing with me, that it would look the same. From the outside, only a trained repair tech can tell the difference in ECCM gear and while in the air you don't see the retracted gear. Fundamentally the fuse is gonna be about the same diameter and length, the wingspans going to be about the same probably with the same or at least very similar airfoil...
I will give you the engine selection and configuration would almost certainly be different. Then again, you could almost unbolt the old engines and bolt new ones on. It would be a major job, but certainly theoretically possible. Unlike most cars, where almost all cars go to the crusher with the same engine they had installed on the assembly line, old planes occasionally get new engines both in the.mil and civilian world.
constrained solely by aerodynamics. I mentioned speed and altitude. Durability has nothing to do with the appearance of the plane, the aerodynamics of it.
I will give you that range has some effect on airframe and airfoil shape, longer range will mean bigger wings, although the modern tradition is if you want more range beyond a certain tactical minimum, you merely put a mid-air refueling probe on the nose and call it good.
Any plane that flys at B-52 speeds and altitudes is going to look a hell of a lot like a B-52 WRT to airframe config and airfoil design. Aerodynamics at "low" altitudes and "low" speeds hasn't changed that much.
Also I'm talking about general shape not microscopic details like a new B-53 would probably have a tiny little GPS antenna puck integrated into the airframe rather than sticking out into the air flow, and equivalent.
And by the magic of GOOG, the date appears to be 8-Jan-45. link to pix below. They just write "Aircraft crash landed on continent with battle damage" but verbally I was told by him that it was definitely landed on a farm in free-at-that-time France.
He was in the 487th and this happened in January of 1945, or the winter of 45, anyway. Paris was liberated in... the fall of 44 or so, like august?
He's dead more than a decade so I can't get further clarification, and, like most veterans, he didn't like talking about it much. The land was not German occupied land at that moment.. he was happy to land on free french land rather than having to set down while still in Germany, which would have been rather awkward, having just bombed it. He mentioned the French farmer was pretty happy to see him, they drank booze until a bunch of trucks came to pick them up, a much warmer welcome than the Germans would have given him.
Unlike modern 48 hour wars, WWII kind of dragged on a bit... there was not a flip of the switch in 1940 and/or 1945 where all of france was instantly under german control or instantly free.
I'm happy to announce that we submitted our Kickstarter earlier today and are simply waiting for it to be reviewed.
In other news, to save everyone the time, I'll point out that 100 people are going to post the lighttable does what smalltalk did in the 80s. As with all IT and most CS stuff, there really is nothing new under the sun, just recycling. That doesn't mean its bad, or reimplementation of a good idea is bad, just that it isn't new.
does the thought that you are about to burn a BILLION DOLLARS cross your mind
That's a question for the politicians who built it and "paid" for it, not the pilots.
My grandfather crashed a B-17 in free-at-that-time France, from his stories he was worried a hell of a lot more about fire and impact, than about who would pay the bill. It all turned out well in the end for everyone in the crew, probably because he worried more about being a pilot than doing accountant work.
Carrying X amount of bombs to target Y doesn't change much over the years
At a given altitude and given airspeed and given mission size / bomb weight, there's an optimum airframe shape. That shape is the B-52. You could make a new bomber to do the same mission. It would look exactly like a B-52.
Another car analogy would be rest stops. Ask your passenger if he's looking for bear, buff, twink or athletic, then just press a few keys and find out the mile marker.
Any others?
You mean like, congressmen, priest... oh you meant "any others" like other analogies...
Ask an old functionally illiterate guy like my long ex boss, if he reads books and he's all "f no". He did read a book once while 18 in high school, but he says "no"
I do not think its possible to go thru high school in the 00s 10s and not use the internet. Ask a 19 year old supermarket cashier who hasn't used the internet since copying and pasting a wikipedia article into a high school book report, and she'll say "yes" because it was recent.
Also I think functional illiteracy is in strong decline in the US, crazy as that opinion probably sounds. "when I was a kid" it was perfectly acceptable to go thru life without reading anything, especially in the lower social classes. That does not work in the era of facebook and texting.
But then how are less educated people supposed to become more educated? NBC, ABC, CBS/CW, and My/Fox haven't been doing a lot of good in that respect IMO.
They're supposed to get federal government guaranteed loans for the maximum possible amount to attend training schools of course. Educational-industrial complex profit maximizing, etc.
No, the definition is 50% are below median. The median doesn't necessarily have to equal the average, although for a typical bell curve like intelligence it usually is pretty close.
Its not terribly hard to find a distribution where median and mean are not the same. Stereotypical heartbeat rate in a morgue. Video game level/skill/score.
The almost blindingly obvious reason 1/5 of the population doesn't use the net is its almost impossible and fairly pointless if you're functionally illiterate. Which is probably a good description of about 1/5 the population. I had a former boss who "bragged" about not reading a book since high school... punchline was he had gray hair. Probably not a amazon/kindle customer, etc.
Streaming is the worst possible tech for your use. Download what you think you and your friends would like, watch later. Not as much buffering and related trouble, either.
The standard/. automotive analogy would be your scenario is like randomly pulling over and stopping shipping trucks on the highway looking for a crate of model CA7094 air filters, instead of going to autozone and buying a air filter off the shelf.
Go shopping more. Inflation is shrinking package sizes. My standard "half pound" can of snack almonds is now only 7 oz. Same 1/2 pound price, of course. Ice cream containers are shrinking at an almost visible velocity. What we used to call "two pound frozen dinners" are down to darn near 1.5 pounds now. Also see mini-cans of soda. I'm expecting to see cartons of eggs that only hold 10 eggs instead of a dozen pretty soon.
Its becoming a problem for cooking. So the recipe suggests a 16 oz can of tomatoes but the largest can I can now buy is 14 ounces. Hmm. Add about two shots of H2O to the recipe or what?
Clay Johnson believes that the issues the U.S. has with food, have become mirrored in how we consume information.
So the theory is walmart shoppers read too much... and thats a problem... show me a link on peopleofwalmart of someone with an excessive quantity of books and I'll believe it...
Did he write about fluff vs real literature? I believe the PC rallying cry in years past was against the western literature canon or some phrase like that, basically all the stuff I self educated myself with by reading and enjoying.
Does his book encourage zen meditation practice? Maybe something along the lines of all the benefits of meditation without the pesky religious connotations?
BTW thanks for publishing a review to a book not published by Packt.
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suffered from headaches and vomiting, were in critical condition, while others were able to go home after treatment in hospital, the officials said
Poisoned with what... Can't help but wonder WRT my past life doing chemistry. That's a kind of peculiar combination. Individually nothing unusual WRT to poisoning, but the precise set of 1) headaches 2) vomiting 3) able to go home almost immediately aka insta-antidote is kind of odd/unusual.. I can think of plenty of things causing 1 of 3, a couple causing 2 of 3, nothing causing 3 of 3.
Aside from that, its an excellent example of why multiculturalism should not exist. My daughter gains nothing by the existence of that culture. Let american consumerism steamroll it out of existence, no substantial loss.
You can't store/swap them locally
Why does it have to be binary?
music.google.com holds everything I have, and the "play music" app (what a stupid name) on my android phone can locally cache any weird combination of genre, musician, or album that I want, assuming I have space on the device.
So I have everything I have in the cloud, and everything I actually listen to also on the device. Not in the future or vaporware, but for many months now.
They're not quite there yet, but they're driving towards a future where you don't need to manage your iOS device with a PC at all – Mac or Windows.
Sounds like my android phone. Well, I can manage it from a desktop of any breed, all I need is a normal copy of firefox and an internet connection.
I would assume when apple releases a IOS that does everything that an android phone did long ago, it'll be announced as a new innovation.
(Not a fanboy of either, own ipad and a android phone, just stating the facts)
Does the fourth flavor, torrent, have pro + the media addon "slipstreamed" in or what?
I'm not about to actually use anything other than XP at home or work anytime soon, but its interesting to know about.
we reward the intelligent
I think you'd have to start there first, before worrying about avoiding its conclusions. If we're wishing for the moon, we're probably more likely to install a matriarchy first.
This is Sony... remember "memory sticks" where they cost 5 times as much as CF or SD, simply because... they could?
"Special Sony BDR media" will almost certainly be the only kind that will work in the caddy and will cost at least $25 per disk... I would be shocked if Sony allowed its victims to use commodity products instead of Sony brand BDR.
From TFA:
"Unless Sony can get other companies to make and sell ODA drives, though, it will probably just go the way of the MiniDisc."
Hugely popular in Asia?
This is true. Got rid of my father's minidisc hardware and discs, all to .jp and local asian sounding names. Crazy popular little things over there, locally no one wants them.
Somehow, I was never quite certain how, their encoding and/or internal design was so much more energy efficient than early mp3 players, that you'd get like 4 times the playtime, despite the storage technology being a rotating disk.
They gained some traction but still suffered from being an expensive single vendor solution.
That, and the famous click of death. Also the parallel port model was remarkably slow.
Does it have the XCP trojan installed by default? Will they sell you 5 tb and take four of them back with the first "upgrade"?
My guess is it'll be released after 1.5 TB SSDs are widely available, yet somehow cost more. And I'll have to warn my family away from buying it, because they had a good experience with a Sony reel to reel tape player 40 years ago, therefore this must be pretty good too.
I doubt there's a less trustworthy entity on the planet.
Anyone in the .gov, anyone in mass media, anyone in marketing, anyone in finance, GM ... Least trustworthy computer hardware mfgr on the planet, yeah, I think they fairly easily meet that..
Its even more mystifying trying to figure out what crime he committed.
Did he violate the Robinson-Patman act? No, it seems being a victim as defined by that act is illegal ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson-Patman_Act
3d printers civilian forfeiture seized as drug lab paraphernalia in 3... 2... 1...
It is an interesting economic problem as it costs way more than glass, but is "optimized". Not sure when it would economically pay off.
Recently I was making fun of chemistry glass taper standards on /., because just like in CS / IT there are so many conflicting standards that won't interoperate. Its almost as bad as screw threads. Printing a "optimized" 127 ml beaker with built in electrodes instead of taking a generic pyrex 125 ml off the shelf and sticking some off the shelf electrodes into it, seems a complete waste of expensive and slow 3-d printing resources, but writing a "magic" python script (or whatever) that could squirt out a 3-d file to adapt any ground glass taper to any other ground glass taper would be pretty handy.
Aren't the clamps for ground glass called "keck clips" or something like that? I'm talking about the little plastic clamps that hold ground glass joints together so they don't fall apart while working. I believe that product came out in the mid 80s a bit too late for my lab time in the early 90s. A fellow o-chem student had a nice small lab fire due to the lab not having those new-fangled keck clips available (no injury or property damage, thankfully). I think there is a realistic safety advantage by being able to print up the exact safety gear you need, whenever you need it. That might be another valid chem lab market. Not having the proper clamps and such is no excuse if you can just print another.
I also think it would be fun to 3-d print microscale apparatus, because at least its small and cheap and fast. Didn't read the article, maybe thats the scale they're talking about.
Not precisely- most certainly it would have at most four turbofans (much more fuel efficient), a full - flying (split, indepedendent) elevator and rudder (avoiding the wacko landing gear configuration or at least allowing greater adjustment and manuverability), more extensive ECCM and SEAD capabilities. It would also probably be cancelled as the USAF would fill it with composite materials which drive up production costs, new instead of proven commercial engines and so on.
Yes but you're basically agreeing with me, that it would look the same. From the outside, only a trained repair tech can tell the difference in ECCM gear and while in the air you don't see the retracted gear. Fundamentally the fuse is gonna be about the same diameter and length, the wingspans going to be about the same probably with the same or at least very similar airfoil...
I will give you the engine selection and configuration would almost certainly be different. Then again, you could almost unbolt the old engines and bolt new ones on. It would be a major job, but certainly theoretically possible. Unlike most cars, where almost all cars go to the crusher with the same engine they had installed on the assembly line, old planes occasionally get new engines both in the .mil and civilian world.
constrained solely by aerodynamics. I mentioned speed and altitude. Durability has nothing to do with the appearance of the plane, the aerodynamics of it.
I will give you that range has some effect on airframe and airfoil shape, longer range will mean bigger wings, although the modern tradition is if you want more range beyond a certain tactical minimum, you merely put a mid-air refueling probe on the nose and call it good.
Any plane that flys at B-52 speeds and altitudes is going to look a hell of a lot like a B-52 WRT to airframe config and airfoil design. Aerodynamics at "low" altitudes and "low" speeds hasn't changed that much.
Also I'm talking about general shape not microscopic details like a new B-53 would probably have a tiny little GPS antenna puck integrated into the airframe rather than sticking out into the air flow, and equivalent.
And by the magic of GOOG, the date appears to be 8-Jan-45. link to pix below. They just write "Aircraft crash landed on continent with battle damage" but verbally I was told by him that it was definitely landed on a farm in free-at-that-time France.
http://www.487thbg.org/Photos/43-38816.shtml
He was in the 487th and this happened in January of 1945, or the winter of 45, anyway. Paris was liberated in ... the fall of 44 or so, like august?
He's dead more than a decade so I can't get further clarification, and, like most veterans, he didn't like talking about it much. The land was not German occupied land at that moment.. he was happy to land on free french land rather than having to set down while still in Germany, which would have been rather awkward, having just bombed it. He mentioned the French farmer was pretty happy to see him, they drank booze until a bunch of trucks came to pick them up, a much warmer welcome than the Germans would have given him.
Unlike modern 48 hour wars, WWII kind of dragged on a bit... there was not a flip of the switch in 1940 and/or 1945 where all of france was instantly under german control or instantly free.
Here's the funding plan:
I'm happy to announce that we submitted our Kickstarter earlier today and are simply waiting for it to be reviewed.
In other news, to save everyone the time, I'll point out that 100 people are going to post the lighttable does what smalltalk did in the 80s. As with all IT and most CS stuff, there really is nothing new under the sun, just recycling. That doesn't mean its bad, or reimplementation of a good idea is bad, just that it isn't new.
does the thought that you are about to burn a BILLION DOLLARS cross your mind
That's a question for the politicians who built it and "paid" for it, not the pilots.
My grandfather crashed a B-17 in free-at-that-time France, from his stories he was worried a hell of a lot more about fire and impact, than about who would pay the bill. It all turned out well in the end for everyone in the crew, probably because he worried more about being a pilot than doing accountant work.
Carrying X amount of bombs to target Y doesn't change much over the years
At a given altitude and given airspeed and given mission size / bomb weight, there's an optimum airframe shape. That shape is the B-52. You could make a new bomber to do the same mission. It would look exactly like a B-52.
Another car analogy would be rest stops. Ask your passenger if he's looking for bear, buff, twink or athletic, then just press a few keys and find out the mile marker.
Any others?
You mean like, congressmen, priest ... oh you meant "any others" like other analogies...
Ask an old functionally illiterate guy like my long ex boss, if he reads books and he's all "f no". He did read a book once while 18 in high school, but he says "no"
I do not think its possible to go thru high school in the 00s 10s and not use the internet. Ask a 19 year old supermarket cashier who hasn't used the internet since copying and pasting a wikipedia article into a high school book report, and she'll say "yes" because it was recent.
Also I think functional illiteracy is in strong decline in the US, crazy as that opinion probably sounds. "when I was a kid" it was perfectly acceptable to go thru life without reading anything, especially in the lower social classes. That does not work in the era of facebook and texting.
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TV is for poorer, less educated people.
But then how are less educated people supposed to become more educated? NBC, ABC, CBS/CW, and My/Fox haven't been doing a lot of good in that respect IMO.
They're supposed to get federal government guaranteed loans for the maximum possible amount to attend training schools of course. Educational-industrial complex profit maximizing, etc.
No, the definition is 50% are below median. The median doesn't necessarily have to equal the average, although for a typical bell curve like intelligence it usually is pretty close.
Its not terribly hard to find a distribution where median and mean are not the same. Stereotypical heartbeat rate in a morgue. Video game level/skill/score.
The almost blindingly obvious reason 1/5 of the population doesn't use the net is its almost impossible and fairly pointless if you're functionally illiterate. Which is probably a good description of about 1/5 the population. I had a former boss who "bragged" about not reading a book since high school... punchline was he had gray hair. Probably not a amazon/kindle customer, etc.
square peg round hole
Streaming is the worst possible tech for your use. Download what you think you and your friends would like, watch later. Not as much buffering and related trouble, either.
The standard /. automotive analogy would be your scenario is like randomly pulling over and stopping shipping trucks on the highway looking for a crate of model CA7094 air filters, instead of going to autozone and buying a air filter off the shelf.
Go shopping more. Inflation is shrinking package sizes. My standard "half pound" can of snack almonds is now only 7 oz. Same 1/2 pound price, of course. Ice cream containers are shrinking at an almost visible velocity. What we used to call "two pound frozen dinners" are down to darn near 1.5 pounds now. Also see mini-cans of soda. I'm expecting to see cartons of eggs that only hold 10 eggs instead of a dozen pretty soon.
Its becoming a problem for cooking. So the recipe suggests a 16 oz can of tomatoes but the largest can I can now buy is 14 ounces. Hmm. Add about two shots of H2O to the recipe or what?
Clay Johnson believes that the issues the U.S. has with food, have become mirrored in how we consume information.
So the theory is walmart shoppers read too much... and thats a problem... show me a link on peopleofwalmart of someone with an excessive quantity of books and I'll believe it...
Did he write about fluff vs real literature? I believe the PC rallying cry in years past was against the western literature canon or some phrase like that, basically all the stuff I self educated myself with by reading and enjoying.
Does his book encourage zen meditation practice? Maybe something along the lines of all the benefits of meditation without the pesky religious connotations?
BTW thanks for publishing a review to a book not published by Packt.