When you were my age... Uh, when I was your age? Either you're a lot younger than me and technology has gotten a lot worse, or your old age has gotten to you and you're making funny mistakes!
Put Gramps back in the closet, Ma!
The summary may be bad, but the article is pretty accurate. The Wired article is basically saying that some of the latest developments in the cell industry are due to the iPhone. They are saying that Android wouldn't exist without the iPhone to break the carrier death grip. Yes, Android may get it done, but not without the iPhone laying the groundwork for it. The iPhone has fundamentally changed the way the carriers look at their business. They see that they can make money off of something like Android now. Before the iPhone, there wasn't a snowball's chance of that happening.
3) They dehumidify the air before chilling it. The heat exchangers use seawater cooling that require periodic cleaning, but nothing exceedingly difficult. In short, corrosion due to ventilation is not a problem.
That's assuming the ships will be going anywhere. These ships sound like semi-permanent installations. The rocking of a 100,000 ton ship in port is pretty negligible, as you said. Other than the almost insignificant rocking motion, there shouldn't be any other movement to account for.
You keep the rooms with equipment positively ventilated. That is, at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure. When the door opens, the dry air in the room spills out into the atmosphere instead of the wet, salty air entering the room. At least that's how I remember Naval ships working.
I'm not saying it's just as easy as a land based setup, this is just a particular problem that's been largely solved for quite a while.
That's assuming that the white people in New Hampshire represent the racial bias of all white people nationwide. You know very well that's not true. Racial bias is much, much stronger in Southern states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Education level is also another factor in racial bias. The more educated a person is, the less likely they will have a strong racial bias. New Hampshire is just crawling with well educated and rich people who moved there for the lower taxes.
They talk about her tears and not her policy because anyone really interested can find out how she stands on various policies. This isn't 40 years ago. We have the internet and we can easily research any candidate we want to a pretty deep level. The television news is completely unsuited to such a level of detail required to make informed decisions. The best they could hope to do is paint a very broad picture of each candidate... which they do.
They know this, so instead they focus on anything that will capture people's attention. They can easily cover Hillary breaking down in little clips and bites here and there. To cover her stances on various issues would require a large chunk of uninterrupted time (in addition to every other meaningful candidate). That won't keep people tuned in, most people will turn away before learning anything meaningful, and too many people won't be able to tune in anyway due to scheduling. In short, it would be pointless and non-profitable.
We sold 100 buggy whips this year! (out of 200 sold by all manufacturers)
Six years pass...
We sold 110 new and improved buggy whips this year! (out of 300 sold by all manufacturers) Meanwhile, 30 people traded their new buggy whips in for the older model buggy whips. Another 5 people converted theirs to an open source buggy whip.
They sold 10% more, but their actual market share decreased because more are being sold than six years ago. In addition to that, a good portion of those "sales" were effectively for the older model or a competitor.
I guess I used the wrong word. I meant desire, not demand. Diamonds have always been "desired". What De Beers was able to do was translate that desire into actual demand and increased sales.
Before the mid 19th century, diamonds were quite rare and expensive. Very few people could actually afford to have diamonds and there was very little demand for them. People still desired them, they just couldn't afford them. Just like Ferraris. They are very desirable, but there is little demand for them. De Beers created demand through iron-fisted control of the market and a truly genius slogan. They were also helped by a growing post-WWII middle class.
I mean, it's not like people were just kicking them off to the side if they happened upon them in the street...
Oh, what a load of crap. Not all diamonds are blood diamonds. Not "every one" of them. And diamonds have always been in demand. Long before the blood diamonds of Africa. It's okay to be against blood diamonds, but don't go around thinking diamond==blood diamond.
As someone who has spent a good deal of time in third world countries, I can say NO! They are not typically three or four riders with luggage strapped anywhere it can go. That would be like thinking the typical American is riding around with as many people as they can with as much luggage as they can carry. It's just not true.
Just as the typical American drives to work alone, the typical Indian or other third worlder rides to work alone. Or do you honestly think they drive around with their entire family and belongings on their motorbike every day?
Wasn't this covered in a Boston Legal episode already? It was the one where the cross-dressing lawyer and his female friend did a singing and dancing routine that made its way to Youtube and he almost got fired.
Maybe because someone might want to put one up in a sports bar, or a corporate lobby, or an airport, or a millionaire's private theater for friends and family.
No, these probably won't end up in the average person's home, but there IS a small niche market for displays this large.
For every geek who uses Pirate Bay, Usenet, etc, there's about 20 people at my work... Holy crap! Where the hell do you work? There's got to be millions of people at your workplace!
I still have the same monitor I bought 8 years ago. It's a 19" CRT and built like a tank. Unless it breaks, I don't see myself giving it up anytime soon.
As far as laptops go, my macbook pro is awesome. I wouldn't get an iMac though. They are fine for the average user, but the lack of upgradability just doesn't work for us geeky types in the long run. It's not just the screen either. It's also the hard drive, memory, processor, etc...
I made a visit to Africa on a U.S. Aid ship this year. One of the microwaves died during the voyage (wasn't a fuse, I checked). I was up there waiting for a shipmate so we could go out and get a drink. As soon as we pulled in, the cook dropped the microwave off at the gangway for one of the apprentices to throw out. Before he took five steps, one of the Benin dock workers asked for it and he sold it for I think five dollars.
We thought I had seen the last of that microwave, but I was wrong. Shortly after, my buddy and I caught a taxi and after a harrowing ride through the city, we ended up at a cool little bar. A few minutes after we got to the bar, a moped vroomed up the street and stopped at the place next to the bar (we were outdoors). The guy on the moped had our microwave! An old lady came out, took it from the guy, and proceeded to disassemble it on an old wooden table about ten feet from us. I wasn't paying too much attention to her, but she had it put back together and working in under 15 minutes.
The guy took it back from her, walked next door to the bar we were at, and sold it to the owner for $20! The guy who bought it from the cook said he made double his pay that day by skipping out of work and getting it fixed.
I guess, "one man's junk is another man's treasure" is really true....
My intro CS "professor" was absolute crap. I was a freshman with no programming experience beyond BASIC when I was 10 years old. I routinely had to correct him, nearly daily in fact. Not because I wanted to be a smartass, but because I could see the puzzled looks of my classmates as he contradicted himself constantly.
At first, I thought it was just a language barrier (he was Indian), but as I grew more skilled in the subject I realized he was just talking out his ass all the time. This led my and some fellow students to do some detective work on his credentials... where did he get his degree? We eventually figured out he was a big fat liar!
He claimed to have taught at various universities (I remember Georgia Tech off the top of my head). None of them had heard of him. His Ph.D. turned out to be a mail-in degree from an online school. That was, thankfully, his last semester. Unfortunately, I fear he just got a job somewhere else doing the same thing.
Maybe she doesn't care for porn because of how you treat her while watching it. I mean, my blow-up gal loves porn because I know how to treat her right! Remember to follow the manufacturer's instructions for cleaning and care and she'll like it a lot more!
Because the audio quality is good enough for the vast majority of people and file size isn't an issue for most people, either. There's just no compelling reason to force an entire industry to move to a better format. MP3 is not a broken format. There is no good reason to replace it.
Two issues here. One is that we don't know what the full content of the email was and we don't know what online communities she posted on. She could very well have been spouting all kinds of nonsense and generally making an ass of herself.
The second is that her job is very political and stepping on the wrong toe can easily get you canned. My family is from Texas. My mother was a principal and district administrator for over 15 years. My sister is currently a high school biology teacher. I know the horrors of Texas school politics.
To illustrate: My sister is teaching biology to special education students. The nature of the class requires another teacher or at least teacher's assistant be present. The assistant has only shown up three times in the past several weeks. She questions him and asks why he hasn't been showing up (he spends his time in the break-room). Next thing she knows, the principal is chewing her out for "disrespecting" the assistant. She's warned not to do it again. Why? Because he's the brother of a school board member. She'll get fired (contract not renewed next year) way before the assistant ever does.
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Put Gramps back in the closet, Ma!
The summary may be bad, but the article is pretty accurate. The Wired article is basically saying that some of the latest developments in the cell industry are due to the iPhone. They are saying that Android wouldn't exist without the iPhone to break the carrier death grip. Yes, Android may get it done, but not without the iPhone laying the groundwork for it. The iPhone has fundamentally changed the way the carriers look at their business. They see that they can make money off of something like Android now. Before the iPhone, there wasn't a snowball's chance of that happening.
3) They dehumidify the air before chilling it. The heat exchangers use seawater cooling that require periodic cleaning, but nothing exceedingly difficult. In short, corrosion due to ventilation is not a problem.
That's assuming the ships will be going anywhere. These ships sound like semi-permanent installations. The rocking of a 100,000 ton ship in port is pretty negligible, as you said. Other than the almost insignificant rocking motion, there shouldn't be any other movement to account for.
You keep the rooms with equipment positively ventilated. That is, at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure. When the door opens, the dry air in the room spills out into the atmosphere instead of the wet, salty air entering the room. At least that's how I remember Naval ships working.
I'm not saying it's just as easy as a land based setup, this is just a particular problem that's been largely solved for quite a while.
That's assuming that the white people in New Hampshire represent the racial bias of all white people nationwide. You know very well that's not true. Racial bias is much, much stronger in Southern states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Education level is also another factor in racial bias. The more educated a person is, the less likely they will have a strong racial bias. New Hampshire is just crawling with well educated and rich people who moved there for the lower taxes.
They talk about her tears and not her policy because anyone really interested can find out how she stands on various policies. This isn't 40 years ago. We have the internet and we can easily research any candidate we want to a pretty deep level. The television news is completely unsuited to such a level of detail required to make informed decisions. The best they could hope to do is paint a very broad picture of each candidate... which they do.
They know this, so instead they focus on anything that will capture people's attention. They can easily cover Hillary breaking down in little clips and bites here and there. To cover her stances on various issues would require a large chunk of uninterrupted time (in addition to every other meaningful candidate). That won't keep people tuned in, most people will turn away before learning anything meaningful, and too many people won't be able to tune in anyway due to scheduling. In short, it would be pointless and non-profitable.
Think of it like this...
We sold 100 buggy whips this year! (out of 200 sold by all manufacturers)
Six years pass...
We sold 110 new and improved buggy whips this year! (out of 300 sold by all manufacturers)
Meanwhile, 30 people traded their new buggy whips in for the older model buggy whips. Another 5 people converted theirs to an open source buggy whip.
They sold 10% more, but their actual market share decreased because more are being sold than six years ago. In addition to that, a good portion of those "sales" were effectively for the older model or a competitor.
I guess I used the wrong word. I meant desire, not demand. Diamonds have always been "desired". What De Beers was able to do was translate that desire into actual demand and increased sales.
Before the mid 19th century, diamonds were quite rare and expensive. Very few people could actually afford to have diamonds and there was very little demand for them. People still desired them, they just couldn't afford them. Just like Ferraris. They are very desirable, but there is little demand for them. De Beers created demand through iron-fisted control of the market and a truly genius slogan. They were also helped by a growing post-WWII middle class.
I mean, it's not like people were just kicking them off to the side if they happened upon them in the street...
Oh, what a load of crap. Not all diamonds are blood diamonds. Not "every one" of them. And diamonds have always been in demand. Long before the blood diamonds of Africa. It's okay to be against blood diamonds, but don't go around thinking diamond==blood diamond.
Like this maybe?
http://www.usbfever.com/index_eproduct_view.php?products_id=417
Ah Canada! The Maple Leaf state....
As someone who has spent a good deal of time in third world countries, I can say NO! They are not typically three or four riders with luggage strapped anywhere it can go. That would be like thinking the typical American is riding around with as many people as they can with as much luggage as they can carry. It's just not true.
Just as the typical American drives to work alone, the typical Indian or other third worlder rides to work alone. Or do you honestly think they drive around with their entire family and belongings on their motorbike every day?
He must have been in Soviet Russia...
Wasn't this covered in a Boston Legal episode already? It was the one where the cross-dressing lawyer and his female friend did a singing and dancing routine that made its way to Youtube and he almost got fired.
Maybe because someone might want to put one up in a sports bar, or a corporate lobby, or an airport, or a millionaire's private theater for friends and family.
No, these probably won't end up in the average person's home, but there IS a small niche market for displays this large.
I still have the same monitor I bought 8 years ago. It's a 19" CRT and built like a tank. Unless it breaks, I don't see myself giving it up anytime soon.
As far as laptops go, my macbook pro is awesome. I wouldn't get an iMac though. They are fine for the average user, but the lack of upgradability just doesn't work for us geeky types in the long run. It's not just the screen either. It's also the hard drive, memory, processor, etc...
I made a visit to Africa on a U.S. Aid ship this year. One of the microwaves died during the voyage (wasn't a fuse, I checked). I was up there waiting for a shipmate so we could go out and get a drink. As soon as we pulled in, the cook dropped the microwave off at the gangway for one of the apprentices to throw out. Before he took five steps, one of the Benin dock workers asked for it and he sold it for I think five dollars.
We thought I had seen the last of that microwave, but I was wrong. Shortly after, my buddy and I caught a taxi and after a harrowing ride through the city, we ended up at a cool little bar. A few minutes after we got to the bar, a moped vroomed up the street and stopped at the place next to the bar (we were outdoors). The guy on the moped had our microwave! An old lady came out, took it from the guy, and proceeded to disassemble it on an old wooden table about ten feet from us. I wasn't paying too much attention to her, but she had it put back together and working in under 15 minutes.
The guy took it back from her, walked next door to the bar we were at, and sold it to the owner for $20! The guy who bought it from the cook said he made double his pay that day by skipping out of work and getting it fixed.
I guess, "one man's junk is another man's treasure" is really true....
you mean like:
Reticulated Giraffe
Masai Giraffe
Rothschild Giraffe
South African Giraffe
Thornicroft Giraffe
Nigerian Giraffe
You think you had it bad?
My intro CS "professor" was absolute crap. I was a freshman with no programming experience beyond BASIC when I was 10 years old. I routinely had to correct him, nearly daily in fact. Not because I wanted to be a smartass, but because I could see the puzzled looks of my classmates as he contradicted himself constantly.
At first, I thought it was just a language barrier (he was Indian), but as I grew more skilled in the subject I realized he was just talking out his ass all the time. This led my and some fellow students to do some detective work on his credentials... where did he get his degree? We eventually figured out he was a big fat liar!
He claimed to have taught at various universities (I remember Georgia Tech off the top of my head). None of them had heard of him. His Ph.D. turned out to be a mail-in degree from an online school. That was, thankfully, his last semester. Unfortunately, I fear he just got a job somewhere else doing the same thing.
Maybe she doesn't care for porn because of how you treat her while watching it. I mean, my blow-up gal loves porn because I know how to treat her right! Remember to follow the manufacturer's instructions for cleaning and care and she'll like it a lot more!
Because the audio quality is good enough for the vast majority of people and file size isn't an issue for most people, either. There's just no compelling reason to force an entire industry to move to a better format. MP3 is not a broken format. There is no good reason to replace it.
Two issues here. One is that we don't know what the full content of the email was and we don't know what online communities she posted on. She could very well have been spouting all kinds of nonsense and generally making an ass of herself.
The second is that her job is very political and stepping on the wrong toe can easily get you canned. My family is from Texas. My mother was a principal and district administrator for over 15 years. My sister is currently a high school biology teacher. I know the horrors of Texas school politics.
To illustrate:
My sister is teaching biology to special education students. The nature of the class requires another teacher or at least teacher's assistant be present. The assistant has only shown up three times in the past several weeks. She questions him and asks why he hasn't been showing up (he spends his time in the break-room). Next thing she knows, the principal is chewing her out for "disrespecting" the assistant. She's warned not to do it again. Why? Because he's the brother of a school board member. She'll get fired (contract not renewed next year) way before the assistant ever does.
Par for the course in Texas education politics...