[...]improvements that prevent this sort of thing from again happening.
And if it turns out that it WAS indeed hit by a meteor? Let's just say it was struck by a 10 meter diameter meteor right in the cockpick, tearing it off - how does one go about preventing that?
<humor>Move the cockpick away from any vital structures, especially the cockpit. Next time the metor hits, no harm no foul.</humor>
<serious>Realisticly, after you find out what happened, you look for things that might have been avoidable. While a metor might not have been avoidable, you still would like to know if the tragedy could have been avoided. Metors are not the only things that can take out a plane. Nor is a metor strike a guareenteed death sentence, what if the problem wasn't that it took out the cockpit but instead that a much smaller one just took out a system that should have had backups but they failed for some reason.</serious>
What you want (and what you are getting with your thought process) is the illusion of control.
We want to feel as if we are in control of our destiny, not handing it over to some faceless being behind a locked cabin door. It doesn't matter if you are the sort of driver that spends more time on the sidewalk racking up points for hitting old ladies; you believe in your heart that you would be better at saving your skin than some highly trained but anonymous professional.
This is also why there is such a huge push against automated driving, not because it isn't safer than letting the average driver control things, but because we as a species have a difficult time trusting in a 'higher power' to save us.
(Incidentally, you probably don't want me to get into my ideas on what the implications this has on our 'need' for religion.)
If you know the history of him, or what of it people have been able to piece together he wasn't really that famous when he was alive, Gutenberg had a history of failing to keep promises or pay back debts. He lost control of his first workshop and half of the bible's he printed in it when his first 'venture capitalist' sued him for failing to pay back his loans.
My grandmother recently had her gallbladder removed and amusingly enough, the only 'electronic records' issues she had were the nurses who refused to provide things like IV's when they couldn't figure out how to scan the bar code off the bag so it could be tracked (and charged). They held up getting her one by about thirty minutes as they dithered around trying to pull their heads out of their asses and manually entered it into the system.
I absolutely guarantee you that a good portion of the 'paperwork overflow' weren't actual patient care records and were actually inventory control issues where the hospital was worried that an aspirin here or there might go unbilled.
Doctors and nurses know how to operate without electronic records. They know how to keep paper charts, while EHR's have the potential to make them more efficient but they aren't required for the job. Accounting, especially as detailed and 'cost controlled' as a hospital's, is a different story.
While in theory this will make it accessible to everyone, that doesn't convert to a reality of everyone using it.
Linux, believe it or not, is to the point where to use it you can just pop a CD in the computer and turn it on. Yet how many people actual do use Linux and of those, how many would have not done so if LiveCD's weren't around?
This means powerusers will find being powerusers slight less cumbersome, but not that everyone will become a poweruser.
The other difference is that you arent CHARGED for reading the bible: try and get an "advanced" scientology text (pure bull, BTW), without forking some serious cash.
It's always been about saving the little ones from a lake of fire and doom.
I'm not standing up for Scientology, but regardless of the saintliness you hold your own beliefs, Christianity (as most organized religions have) has had a very checked past when it comes to what those with power and influence in it have done.
Apple has not released OS X for open systems for 1 primary reason: they don;t want to support your junk kit, and they don;t want to get the blame for OS X having stability issues. If manufacturers are allowed to be held to the same wishy washy standards as micsoft, then not only would OS X be seen to be just as unstable, but it would likely be sold on many systems that don't really meet the minimum specs of iLife, and would provide a lack-luster performance.
Lets do ignore that the last time they allowed clones, they got their lunch eaten.
I agree, stability would be an excellent reason. But the pure truth of the matter is, even with the change to Intel, Mac's are priced more on brand name than the cost of the parts that go into them.
Apple can't compete against a company that can produce cheaper products because Apple considers one of it's strengths to be it's "Designer Computer" status.
Apple will never (in it's current incarnation and under Steve) allow anyone but Apple sell Apple computers. Period. They can talk all they want about how in the future we'll have jetpacks and a "Dell Mac" on every desk. But when it comes down to the brass tacks, it'll never happen and they certainly are not basing their business plans on the idea that it could.
The bigger the sensor, the more light that hits it. That, among other things, means the signal per pixel is stronger and thus there should be less noise in the image, all other factors being equal.
Or they are remembering one of the uses Poloroids had back in their heyday was taking pics in the bedroom.
Many a kid in the 70-80's was introduced to a world of nightmares and a desire to bleach their eyes by discovering their folks' "hidden" shoebox of memories...
So maybe you aren't an instant star. Big Fucking Deal.
Do you think that the guy behind Portal's Still Alive song was picked for that honor because the Valve devs heard him on the radio?
Do you think the reason someone gets invited to PAX every year is because he's got an agent behind him doling out the payola to Tycho and Gabe?
No, you can't find their CD's browsing Best Buy or Wal-Mart. But I bet you they still make enough on their work that they can afford dinner at the end of the day.
They have the perfect excuse: Money. They have the perfect backup bs excuse: Cars is hard!
They are protecting the poor, stupid, car owner. Who undoubtedly is incapable of understanding the workings of the modern car and therefore should always be directed to an authorized dealer to diagnose and repair any issues that pop up. Therefore, providing too much information must be avoided. The owner must prove they understand the workings of the car in order to access the information concerning the workings of their car.
In TOS, Kirk worked his way up the chain just as GP indicated.
In the movie, Kirk as a cadet receives a field promotion to first officer and causes the acting captain to step down.
There are no more senior officers than that, since the entire command crew seemed to have been staffed with cadets due to some unnamed issue elsewhere in the galaxy requiring the full fleet.
The grousing is two pronged and due to
He's promoted to first officer for purely dues ex machina reasons it seems.
At that at the end, Kirk gets to keep his position as captain of the flagship of the fleet.
Slightly unrealistic.
The manner the field promtion occured does allow some wiggle room as to why it actually happened, but on its face it was purely a "WTF!?" momment. There was no leadup to why it happened other than 'we need it to'. We don't even know if Kirk interacted with the person promoting him at all other than their intial meeting. And while it was appearent then that person did have a 'hardon' for Kirk and his 'potential', there is no reason to believe (especially with the scenes that had occured just prior to Kirk's joining the ship) that they still did.
On the other hand, I doubt there are few precedents in place for what he had just accomplished by the end of the movie. The closest I can think of is the old fairy tales of a lone warrior single handily saving the kingdom by slaying a dragon, at which point it really isn't all that unrealistic to think that the 'king' would grant the hero any honor he requested. Captian of the Flagship would have been a very reasonable honor to bestow, especially if the entire crew at that point was made of recently promoted cadets (thus providing you an excuse to keep said captain and flagship out of 'harms way').
Yes, they should have at least spelt it as here instead of hear and registered a official sounding name rather than 'anonymous coward'. Who the hell is going to trust their bank info to someone with that name?
How does Skype touch your bank account unless you give Skype the information concerning your bank account? OP was not referring to the auto-bill he was referring to the fact that the author grosses about how distrustful he is of auto-billing yet has already setup his account with his bank info stored on their side rather than doing the more 'cautious' method of not doing so and simply providing it each time.
In other words, he's calling out the minor hypocrisy in the author's statements.
When you see light, you most assuredly do 'see' the actual beams, as they bounce off objects. That is the entire mechanic.
As such, if you were to come up with a magical "radio wave" detector that worked just as eyes do, you'd see areas in your FOV which were 'brighter' as radio waves bounced off them or something actually emitted them (similar to a light bulb).
And as a resident of an urban environment that has to deal with bounced TV signals screwing up my reception all the time, I can assure you that while the waves pass through alot, there is also alot they don't quite make it through. And given our modern society is chock full of radio transmiters (from RFID to cell phones to unintentional items such as computer equipment) you shouldn't have a problem with 'illumination'.
The real question would be: how would you map the various radio wave lengths to what your eyes would actually be able to see? Visible light is a very small portion of the EM spectrum.
Batches ("Lets open our web comics folder and check to see which has updated.") and recursive reading ("How the hell did I get from the Wikipedia article on Love Hina to a howto on human branding?!") both allow me to easily go over 50 tabs at one time.
Could I do the same via other routes? Sure. Would it be as convient as the current method? No.
Do I think 'trees' will help me? Not really. In my case horizonal tabs is the 'best' since I don't honestly care about the other tabs other than that they are there for me to go back to when I get to them, when I'm done on one tab I close it and start on the next one that pops up. 'Organizing' them will be pointless effort put to something I don't really care about. Well except in those cases where my recursive reading leads me to have more than a couple of tabs opened from one article and I start to lose track of why any one tab was open since it's removed far enough from it's parent that I've forgoten the context. But those are fairly rare and even then a tree simply lets me follow one path all the way to the end before going to the next. I still have the problem of remembering why path #10 was opened at that point.
You would have to take three or four pictures at different directions to get a complete coverage (sky view + three compass directions = tetrahedral arrangement).
Wow an opportunity for a completely legitimate non-sarcastic FTFY. Glee.
That's prety much exactly what the president's supporters are claiming.
On the other hand, we have a lawyer whose clients were just before they could, as they claimed, blow the whistle on government corruption, is also killed just after he indicates HE knows the details of the first killings.
His killing, prior to the distribution of the tape, was passed off as just another random murder (meaning releasing the tape was pointless if you were doing it to cover your tracks).
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Aeris dies. Just saying.
<humor>Move the cockpick away from any vital structures, especially the cockpit. Next time the metor hits, no harm no foul.</humor>
<serious>Realisticly, after you find out what happened, you look for things that might have been avoidable. While a metor might not have been avoidable, you still would like to know if the tragedy could have been avoided. Metors are not the only things that can take out a plane. Nor is a metor strike a guareenteed death sentence, what if the problem wasn't that it took out the cockpit but instead that a much smaller one just took out a system that should have had backups but they failed for some reason.</serious>
What you want (and what you are getting with your thought process) is the illusion of control.
We want to feel as if we are in control of our destiny, not handing it over to some faceless being behind a locked cabin door. It doesn't matter if you are the sort of driver that spends more time on the sidewalk racking up points for hitting old ladies; you believe in your heart that you would be better at saving your skin than some highly trained but anonymous professional.
This is also why there is such a huge push against automated driving, not because it isn't safer than letting the average driver control things, but because we as a species have a difficult time trusting in a 'higher power' to save us.
(Incidentally, you probably don't want me to get into my ideas on what the implications this has on our 'need' for religion.)
Actually....
If you know the history of him, or what of it people have been able to piece together he wasn't really that famous when he was alive, Gutenberg had a history of failing to keep promises or pay back debts. He lost control of his first workshop and half of the bible's he printed in it when his first 'venture capitalist' sued him for failing to pay back his loans.
My grandmother recently had her gallbladder removed and amusingly enough, the only 'electronic records' issues she had were the nurses who refused to provide things like IV's when they couldn't figure out how to scan the bar code off the bag so it could be tracked (and charged). They held up getting her one by about thirty minutes as they dithered around trying to pull their heads out of their asses and manually entered it into the system.
I absolutely guarantee you that a good portion of the 'paperwork overflow' weren't actual patient care records and were actually inventory control issues where the hospital was worried that an aspirin here or there might go unbilled.
Doctors and nurses know how to operate without electronic records. They know how to keep paper charts, while EHR's have the potential to make them more efficient but they aren't required for the job. Accounting, especially as detailed and 'cost controlled' as a hospital's, is a different story.
While in theory this will make it accessible to everyone, that doesn't convert to a reality of everyone using it.
Linux, believe it or not, is to the point where to use it you can just pop a CD in the computer and turn it on. Yet how many people actual do use Linux and of those, how many would have not done so if LiveCD's weren't around?
This means powerusers will find being powerusers slight less cumbersome, but not that everyone will become a poweruser.
Forget beta, forget gamma, it's time we went... PLAID!
No, of course not! The Church has never been aboutmoney or power ever.
It's always been about saving the little ones from a lake of fire and doom.
I'm not standing up for Scientology, but regardless of the saintliness you hold your own beliefs, Christianity (as most organized religions have) has had a very checked past when it comes to what those with power and influence in it have done.
Lets do ignore that the last time they allowed clones, they got their lunch eaten.
I agree, stability would be an excellent reason. But the pure truth of the matter is, even with the change to Intel, Mac's are priced more on brand name than the cost of the parts that go into them.
Apple can't compete against a company that can produce cheaper products because Apple considers one of it's strengths to be it's "Designer Computer" status.
Apple will never (in it's current incarnation and under Steve) allow anyone but Apple sell Apple computers. Period. They can talk all they want about how in the future we'll have jetpacks and a "Dell Mac" on every desk. But when it comes down to the brass tacks, it'll never happen and they certainly are not basing their business plans on the idea that it could.
The bigger the sensor, the more light that hits it. That, among other things, means the signal per pixel is stronger and thus there should be less noise in the image, all other factors being equal.
Some science for you.
Or they are remembering one of the uses Poloroids had back in their heyday was taking pics in the bedroom.
Many a kid in the 70-80's was introduced to a world of nightmares and a desire to bleach their eyes by discovering their folks' "hidden" shoebox of memories...
What the wife and I do in the privacy of our home is none of your damn business!
Natural Justice?
Is that where the lions that team up to bully those poor baby oxen on YouTube get chased into a river full of crocs by the vengful herd?
Yes, yes.
So maybe you aren't an instant star. Big Fucking Deal.
Do you think that the guy behind Portal's Still Alive song was picked for that honor because the Valve devs heard him on the radio?
Do you think the reason someone gets invited to PAX every year is because he's got an agent behind him doling out the payola to Tycho and Gabe?
No, you can't find their CD's browsing Best Buy or Wal-Mart. But I bet you they still make enough on their work that they can afford dinner at the end of the day.
They have the perfect excuse: Money.
They have the perfect backup bs excuse: Cars is hard!
They are protecting the poor, stupid, car owner. Who undoubtedly is incapable of understanding the workings of the modern car and therefore should always be directed to an authorized dealer to diagnose and repair any issues that pop up. Therefore, providing too much information must be avoided. The owner must prove they understand the workings of the car in order to access the information concerning the workings of their car.
You see, it's all for you really.
That being they are being manufactured in a country with historically poor quailty control and an incentive to cut corners whenever possible.
In TOS, Kirk worked his way up the chain just as GP indicated.
In the movie, Kirk as a cadet receives a field promotion to first officer and causes the acting captain to step down.
There are no more senior officers than that, since the entire command crew seemed to have been staffed with cadets due to some unnamed issue elsewhere in the galaxy requiring the full fleet.
The grousing is two pronged and due to
Slightly unrealistic.
The manner the field promtion occured does allow some wiggle room as to why it actually happened, but on its face it was purely a "WTF!?" momment. There was no leadup to why it happened other than 'we need it to'. We don't even know if Kirk interacted with the person promoting him at all other than their intial meeting. And while it was appearent then that person did have a 'hardon' for Kirk and his 'potential', there is no reason to believe (especially with the scenes that had occured just prior to Kirk's joining the ship) that they still did.
On the other hand, I doubt there are few precedents in place for what he had just accomplished by the end of the movie. The closest I can think of is the old fairy tales of a lone warrior single handily saving the kingdom by slaying a dragon, at which point it really isn't all that unrealistic to think that the 'king' would grant the hero any honor he requested. Captian of the Flagship would have been a very reasonable honor to bestow, especially if the entire crew at that point was made of recently promoted cadets (thus providing you an excuse to keep said captain and flagship out of 'harms way').
Yes, they should have at least spelt it as here instead of hear and registered a official sounding name rather than 'anonymous coward'. Who the hell is going to trust their bank info to someone with that name?
How does Skype touch your bank account unless you give Skype the information concerning your bank account? OP was not referring to the auto-bill he was referring to the fact that the author grosses about how distrustful he is of auto-billing yet has already setup his account with his bank info stored on their side rather than doing the more 'cautious' method of not doing so and simply providing it each time.
In other words, he's calling out the minor hypocrisy in the author's statements.
When you see light, you most assuredly do 'see' the actual beams, as they bounce off objects. That is the entire mechanic.
As such, if you were to come up with a magical "radio wave" detector that worked just as eyes do, you'd see areas in your FOV which were 'brighter' as radio waves bounced off them or something actually emitted them (similar to a light bulb).
And as a resident of an urban environment that has to deal with bounced TV signals screwing up my reception all the time, I can assure you that while the waves pass through alot, there is also alot they don't quite make it through. And given our modern society is chock full of radio transmiters (from RFID to cell phones to unintentional items such as computer equipment) you shouldn't have a problem with 'illumination'.
The real question would be: how would you map the various radio wave lengths to what your eyes would actually be able to see? Visible light is a very small portion of the EM spectrum.
Batches ("Lets open our web comics folder and check to see which has updated.") and recursive reading ("How the hell did I get from the Wikipedia article on Love Hina to a howto on human branding?!") both allow me to easily go over 50 tabs at one time.
Could I do the same via other routes? Sure. Would it be as convient as the current method? No.
Do I think 'trees' will help me? Not really. In my case horizonal tabs is the 'best' since I don't honestly care about the other tabs other than that they are there for me to go back to when I get to them, when I'm done on one tab I close it and start on the next one that pops up. 'Organizing' them will be pointless effort put to something I don't really care about. Well except in those cases where my recursive reading leads me to have more than a couple of tabs opened from one article and I start to lose track of why any one tab was open since it's removed far enough from it's parent that I've forgoten the context. But those are fairly rare and even then a tree simply lets me follow one path all the way to the end before going to the next. I still have the problem of remembering why path #10 was opened at that point.
In Guatemala, it's not that faulty of a premise.
Wow an opportunity for a completely legitimate non-sarcastic FTFY. Glee.
His handler in the KGB told him so...
That's prety much exactly what the president's supporters are claiming.
On the other hand, we have a lawyer whose clients were just before they could, as they claimed, blow the whistle on government corruption, is also killed just after he indicates HE knows the details of the first killings.
His killing, prior to the distribution of the tape, was passed off as just another random murder (meaning releasing the tape was pointless if you were doing it to cover your tracks).
Which do you think would be more likely:
A family member did it.
Said government did it.