One thing that really interests me for potential tightness of integration is the idea of the phone as a portable desktop - I think that for many people, a phone that you slap on a docking station on your desk to use like a desktop or even a tablet could well be all the computer they need.
Inevitably, some people will complain about the desktop experience there, but for browsing and email it should be just fine. Microsoft have made their fortune on "good enough" - well, this is easily good enough to serve the needs of the majority of people.
Even their MeeGo handset (the N9) sells more than their entire Lumia line, despite Stephen Elop's best efforts to make it unsuccessful by avoiding all the core markets for smartphones when deciding where to sell it.
1. Continue on their own with Symbian/Meego/Maemo or whatever they develop in house and try to carve out a niche for a 4th (or 5th depending on how you count) OS in an already highly competitive market.
Given that they are really the only manufacturer making a serious play with Windows Phone, they were still in this position of trying to carve a market for a niche OS. It made no sense for them to abandon the traction they had already gained with their preceding developers models and return to shaky ground with a new, untested platform.
Moreover, Elop did his best to sink their flagship MeeGo device, the N9, by deliberately only selling it in low-income, low smartphone areas rather than the core markets you'd expect to place any device you actually want to succeed - and despite being made into a pariah, it outsells their entire Lumia (Windows) line 3 to 1. This is a device that that Nokia don't even list on their website as a product, but it still outsells all their Windows phones combined? I don't think Elop succeeded in his mission to make Linux phones look bad.
The bottom line is that despite taking his paycheck from Nokia, Stephen Elop appears to still work for Microsoft.
Those movies make my brains hurt. I wanted to like them, just because I used to like Transformers in the 80s. But I can't, because they are so disorganized and shambolic that they fail to make a coherent plot form in my head.
The rest is just marketing dollars. Marketing dollars will bring life to almost anything, until it has it's life support removed.
It seems an ideal application for a public key web of trust ; the keys of researchers could gain reputation by being signed by others in the field, and your articles would gain reputation by being signed by keys with high reputation.
It sounds like the Concent structures in Anathem (Neal Stephenson) ; essentially an order of "Monks of Thinking Shit Up" ; each member has two occupations - their academic pursuit, and something else like beekeeping or stonemasonry to fall back on should they turn out to be a dumbass.
med school [...] is all memorization and pure endurance
Agreed, and so is the profession itself, one of the reasons I couldn't hack it and quit after a year. If you love people, medicine will be fine for you. If you bore easily without constant intellectual stimulation, do not study medicine.
The financial disincentive is the debt you must get into to train : a medical degree consumes 5 years, rather than the usual 3. In addition, the latter years of the degree have a much higher ratio of work to leave than a typical undergraduate degree course - in my 4th year, I had 4 weeks of leave, all of which were spent cramming for exams. In previous years, I had been able to work labour jobs over the summer to supplement my living expenses. By the end of my fourth year, I had an overdraft.
When I studied, there were no tuition fees, and students were still eligible for the "student grant", which together with student loans and a small stipend from my parents, kept my bank balance in the black until the end of that fourth year. Not without sacrifice - unlike my colleagues who seemed to be out boozing every night, my largest luxuries were a pizza and a few pints on a Saturday night. Oh, and a lack of crippling debt.
Fast forward to this century, where UK students are liable for tuition fees. My old alma mater charges £9,000 per annum - the maximum permitted. You can expect most medical schools to do the same. That's more than 3 years worth of the loans I took (adjusted for inflation, that £9,000 would have been worth about £5,300). My living expenses used to be about £3,000 per annum ; in today's money that's more like £5,000, which would give you a debt of about £70,000 at the end of it, assuming you have no source of income - which is not unreasonable, given that you are studying hard (9 to 5 every day, unlike the liberal arts courses with their 2 hours of scheduled lectures a week).
The average reported level of debt is £24,092 for 2011 ; however, tuition fees have only recently risen to their current levels ; prior to 2012, they capped out at £3,290 per annum. You can expect the attendance at medical school to drop like a stone this year.
Why would a studio that can attract crowdfunding ever let themselves be bought out by EA? Do creative types have a predilection for 80 hour weeks and having their decisions dictated by corporate suits all of a sudden?
They know it too ; search for the Citibank "Plutonomy" newsletters, in which they advise their investors that the biggest risk to their investments is that the proles might rise up and vote for a more even distribution of the wealth.
Shared responsibilities are what civilization is all about ; you don't seem to want to participate. If you don't want to pay your taxes (which after all, require the implied use of force by the state to collect), then you don't have to join in. Unless the law changes to allow you to secede your survivalist ranch from the United States, I suspect you may have to move to another country though.
What is the mark of civilization? Every man for himself? Or everyone helping out?
Ironically, your vision of universal theft very neatly describes what occurs right now in the USA ; you spend more than double per capita what the next nearest of the G8 nations spends, but get outcomes that are very similar to other nations. The insurance companies utilize far more deadly force than the IRS by denying treatment and reaping the profits - just because their force comes from the barrel of a pen rather than a gun doesn't make it any less dangerous.
Be careful with this too ; I've had occasions where GRUB has overwritten the bootloader for the full-disk-encryption product, followed by embarassing visits from ICT who have to bring out a USB floppy drive blessed with an encryption key to reinstate it.
What I have now is a USB / SATA caddy with a 3.5" drive bay mount ; I connect the drive to work machines and boot Ubuntu from it, but I do any software updates involving GRUB or kernels from my personal desktop (which has the caddy slot installed in it).
The most profound mark of Japanese civilization and duty for me was the senior citizens volunteering for nuclear reactor cleanup duty, because they figured they were nearly dead anyway and the young-uns deserved to live a life without having their gonads irradiated.
The best argument against privately run jail is the potential for collusion of the company that runs them with judges. If your contract says you'll be paid for each incarcerated prisoner, you have an incentive to bribe judges to impose custodial sentences.
Or they may be skinny because they couldn't afford health insurance and broke a limb in a mugging. Oh shoot, medical bills in the $12,000 region. I guess they can't afford to feed themselves anymore.
Universal healthcare is not just the mark of a civilized society, it's cheaper than commercial healthcare, because you don't have to pay for all those claims adjusters and billing administrators.
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Your question seems to be about fission reactors - anything that involves anything heavier than iron as a fuel is not a fusion reactor.
One thing that really interests me for potential tightness of integration is the idea of the phone as a portable desktop - I think that for many people, a phone that you slap on a docking station on your desk to use like a desktop or even a tablet could well be all the computer they need.
Inevitably, some people will complain about the desktop experience there, but for browsing and email it should be just fine. Microsoft have made their fortune on "good enough" - well, this is easily good enough to serve the needs of the majority of people.
Even their MeeGo handset (the N9) sells more than their entire Lumia line, despite Stephen Elop's best efforts to make it unsuccessful by avoiding all the core markets for smartphones when deciding where to sell it.
1. Continue on their own with Symbian/Meego/Maemo or whatever they develop in house and try to carve out a niche for a 4th (or 5th depending on how you count) OS in an already highly competitive market.
Given that they are really the only manufacturer making a serious play with Windows Phone, they were still in this position of trying to carve a market for a niche OS. It made no sense for them to abandon the traction they had already gained with their preceding developers models and return to shaky ground with a new, untested platform.
Moreover, Elop did his best to sink their flagship MeeGo device, the N9, by deliberately only selling it in low-income, low smartphone areas rather than the core markets you'd expect to place any device you actually want to succeed - and despite being made into a pariah, it outsells their entire Lumia (Windows) line 3 to 1. This is a device that that Nokia don't even list on their website as a product, but it still outsells all their Windows phones combined? I don't think Elop succeeded in his mission to make Linux phones look bad.
The bottom line is that despite taking his paycheck from Nokia, Stephen Elop appears to still work for Microsoft.
Already happened on House, although the tattoo wasn't functional, they did MRI a patient with prison tattoos and cause him lots of pain.
There is plenty of prior art for the tech of implantable magnetics :
A Sixth Sense for a Wired World
Haptic feedback is probably a candidate for the Next Big Thing in human interface devices, the other being wearable displays.
A ruined and terrible form of life.
Those movies make my brains hurt. I wanted to like them, just because I used to like Transformers in the 80s. But I can't, because they are so disorganized and shambolic that they fail to make a coherent plot form in my head.
The rest is just marketing dollars. Marketing dollars will bring life to almost anything, until it has it's life support removed.
Kickstarter?
It seems an ideal application for a public key web of trust ; the keys of researchers could gain reputation by being signed by others in the field, and your articles would gain reputation by being signed by keys with high reputation.
Crispy on the outside, soft and chewy in the middle?
The plates are removable. You buy a spare one if you expect to tow something.
It sounds like the Concent structures in Anathem (Neal Stephenson) ; essentially an order of "Monks of Thinking Shit Up" ; each member has two occupations - their academic pursuit, and something else like beekeeping or stonemasonry to fall back on should they turn out to be a dumbass.
med school [...] is all memorization and pure endurance
Agreed, and so is the profession itself, one of the reasons I couldn't hack it and quit after a year. If you love people, medicine will be fine for you. If you bore easily without constant intellectual stimulation, do not study medicine.
The financial disincentive is the debt you must get into to train : a medical degree consumes 5 years, rather than the usual 3. In addition, the latter years of the degree have a much higher ratio of work to leave than a typical undergraduate degree course - in my 4th year, I had 4 weeks of leave, all of which were spent cramming for exams. In previous years, I had been able to work labour jobs over the summer to supplement my living expenses. By the end of my fourth year, I had an overdraft.
When I studied, there were no tuition fees, and students were still eligible for the "student grant", which together with student loans and a small stipend from my parents, kept my bank balance in the black until the end of that fourth year. Not without sacrifice - unlike my colleagues who seemed to be out boozing every night, my largest luxuries were a pizza and a few pints on a Saturday night. Oh, and a lack of crippling debt.
Fast forward to this century, where UK students are liable for tuition fees. My old alma mater charges £9,000 per annum - the maximum permitted. You can expect most medical schools to do the same. That's more than 3 years worth of the loans I took (adjusted for inflation, that £9,000 would have been worth about £5,300). My living expenses used to be about £3,000 per annum ; in today's money that's more like £5,000, which would give you a debt of about £70,000 at the end of it, assuming you have no source of income - which is not unreasonable, given that you are studying hard (9 to 5 every day, unlike the liberal arts courses with their 2 hours of scheduled lectures a week).
The average reported level of debt is £24,092 for 2011 ; however, tuition fees have only recently risen to their current levels ; prior to 2012, they capped out at £3,290 per annum. You can expect the attendance at medical school to drop like a stone this year.
The accepted method in the UK is to loop an old tire over the camera, fill it with gasoline, and set fire to it.
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm
Why would a studio that can attract crowdfunding ever let themselves be bought out by EA? Do creative types have a predilection for 80 hour weeks and having their decisions dictated by corporate suits all of a sudden?
VirtualBox does now support live migration as of version 3.1 via it's "Teleporting" feature.
They know it too ; search for the Citibank "Plutonomy" newsletters, in which they advise their investors that the biggest risk to their investments is that the proles might rise up and vote for a more even distribution of the wealth.
You say "theft", I say "shared responsibility".
Shared responsibilities are what civilization is all about ; you don't seem to want to participate. If you don't want to pay your taxes (which after all, require the implied use of force by the state to collect), then you don't have to join in. Unless the law changes to allow you to secede your survivalist ranch from the United States, I suspect you may have to move to another country though.
What is the mark of civilization? Every man for himself? Or everyone helping out?
Ironically, your vision of universal theft very neatly describes what occurs right now in the USA ; you spend more than double per capita what the next nearest of the G8 nations spends, but get outcomes that are very similar to other nations. The insurance companies utilize far more deadly force than the IRS by denying treatment and reaping the profits - just because their force comes from the barrel of a pen rather than a gun doesn't make it any less dangerous.
Be careful with this too ; I've had occasions where GRUB has overwritten the bootloader for the full-disk-encryption product, followed by embarassing visits from ICT who have to bring out a USB floppy drive blessed with an encryption key to reinstate it.
What I have now is a USB / SATA caddy with a 3.5" drive bay mount ; I connect the drive to work machines and boot Ubuntu from it, but I do any software updates involving GRUB or kernels from my personal desktop (which has the caddy slot installed in it).
"I fart in your general... oh ... with extreme precision right in your face from 150 feet away!"
The most profound mark of Japanese civilization and duty for me was the senior citizens volunteering for nuclear reactor cleanup duty, because they figured they were nearly dead anyway and the young-uns deserved to live a life without having their gonads irradiated.
The best argument against privately run jail is the potential for collusion of the company that runs them with judges. If your contract says you'll be paid for each incarcerated prisoner, you have an incentive to bribe judges to impose custodial sentences.
I used to suffer horribly in classes like English, because I *was* looking for the right answer.
Or they may be skinny because they couldn't afford health insurance and broke a limb in a mugging. Oh shoot, medical bills in the $12,000 region. I guess they can't afford to feed themselves anymore.
Universal healthcare is not just the mark of a civilized society, it's cheaper than commercial healthcare, because you don't have to pay for all those claims adjusters and billing administrators.
Nixon was opposed to the idea, by the way. He really liked the idea of HMOs though.