In the future, just let the neighboring despot invade and take over, THEN invade and "liberate", that way you get two countries for the price of one!
Of course one might argue that Iraq might have used the additional resources in money and oil to further militarize the area. Then again, so long as you don't wait overly long it shouldn't be a problem. Might take 4 days rather than 3 to totally wipe out their forces. Additional, that way rather than having to fight insurgance all day long, you automatically recieve your own insurgance force to use presumably.
As other people mentioned Wii, etc... Where graphics is secondary to gameplay.
Also it might be a 60" TV, but it is still only 1080p at best resolution. At that resolution it isn't exactly hard for halfway modern hardware. I mean the PC started to be able to do that what, two decades ago? How is it do you think those aging PS3's and Xbox360's have been able to keep up? Resolution cap on the video card making it a level playing field. It isn't like a PC that has to be able to handle the latest and greatest gajillion resolution from those three linked 30" monitors.
Most people live in cities. More people move from rural areas to cities. Been that way for years, and will remain that way for the forseeable future. Why target a small market, that is hard and expensive to reach, and that is in decline?
...and yor, it was said on high, with some clearity, and rightly so, God did say, Thou shalt not, takest yon Flu Shot and it was so. So we all pray, Amen.
Likewise if your religion is against hand washing, nursing might not be the field for you. I would say it is that simple.
In addition, I'm going to go out on a limb and say BS to the whole "my religion" is against that crap. Show me someplace in the bible that makes mention of flu shots. Also if they want to take some general principle further and say that they don't feel right about interfereing with Gods plan or something stupid like that, why they heck are they working in Medicine? Please get these nuts out of health care as quickly as possible.
Or just put a hot Canadian chick on the ship, and let the time just fly by. The fist fights alone would not only keep you in shape, but also entertained! Not to mention the unwanted sexual advances! The Drama! Of course it might be a bit awkward by day 2.
Just half ass it like us Canadians. Use Metric for some arbitary things, and US Imperial for others.
I mean our roads say 100km, but I still measure my hight as 5' 10" (though my drivers licence is in cm). Though some things change over time. My Dad always measures tempature in F, while I am used to C. Also the construction industry all pretty much still uses Inches/Feet as well. When I get a beer I ask for a pint, but when I measure volume I do use ml. Most still use lb for personal weight, yet likely use kg for weigh measurement otherwise.
I would say all of which is pretty common usage for Canadians. We sort of use a mishmash of both. As for why some things over another, that is probably a more complex answer.
I recall Microsoft being called an "800lb Gorilla" back in the day. Calling arm strain caused by Windows 8 touch screens on a desktop "Gorilla Arm" made me chuckle a bit.:)
I know you're just trying to be funny, however if you do most of your calling while at home, and you have wifi... Then it could be something that is worthwhile. Of course it also depends on how well it works, and how easy it is to use also. However I do see it as limited, as for when you are not on a wifi, and on your cell data plan, you are right, it doesn't make a lot of sense right now. However if cell plans change over the next several years (ya I know, ya right!)...
I don't so much have a problem with GM of foods. What I do have a problem with is the Patents. I am also a bit leary of corporate short sight of next quarters profits, over long term food security.
Basically making better food, in the natual order of things, means it will be more successful. Which is fine if it is better in everyway including nutrition. However the slipperly part is when your neighbor isn't using a particular GM strain. To which your GM strain basically kills off and takes over. Is the neighbor who is now forced to use your GM strain forced to pay licencing fees for a product that killed off its compatition? Would (inconcievible!) GM strains be purposfully built to this end with this buisness model in mind?
Anyway like a lot of things, if done the right way is a good thing, or if done the wrong way very bad. So long as this is a highly regulated endevor with built in safe guards and some checks and balances it is probably fine.
Of course many of these (Iran included) weren't elected (and cuba), but rather were once upon a time popular "revolutionaries" with the people behind them. Then the generals got power and never left, usually for the reason of safe guarding the people/state, etc... Then morphs into some sort of dictator/Monarchy, (China, N. Korea), where the sons take oven once the fathers are too old (assuming they last that long).
Iraq and the Kurds come to mind. Afgan and Sunni's, Croats and Serbs, etc... Pick a dictator, find a minority, demonize, and use the hate of one group against another, live like a king. Must be a dictator manual someplace, probbaly just called history.
GIS has been using both Vector and Raster (Pixels) for decades. What you want to display, or use the information for dicates what format you use. Things like Arial Photos, Sat imagry, are typically stuff you would have in Raster. Things like road networks, natural features, and boundries are what you use Vector for. Both can be as complex or as simple as you like, but will suffer from accuracy/inaccuracy as a result. It all depends on what threshold is needed. Raster is just better as some things like graduated data, whereas generally speaking due to simplification you can have smaller Vector files. Raster is generally interpolated from reflected light (visible or non), and given a numerial value which is assigned a colour or block of colour to represent it. Vector has to be defined mathmatically by someone or something, and many times it will be a feature as identified as Raster, and then subsequently redefined as Vector given a defined threshold, for a cleaner look as well as smaller size.
Anyway I don't see why this wouldn't hold true in the mainstream market as well. Not having RTFA, I assume what this is really talking about is some sort of translation algorthim that would take a stream of native Raster images and automatically interpolate them into Vector graphics, only storing the Vector, or something like that.
As anyone who has worked in GIS, hope you plan on having some serious computational horse power and some very smart people. 10 years ago people thouht that simply the advance of faster computational power would solve the whole natual lanuage thing. While its getting there, the closest being SIRI isn't exactly perfect just yet. So I'll take that 5 years with a healthy handful of salt.
Seriously, if you are allowed to do it, then fine. However one has to ask WHY is it that they are allowed to do it? Corporate corruption of political folks and greed.
One of these days if something doesn't change there will be a recoking, and all the imaginary numbers in a magic box won't help you then.
The US has been fighing wars in Iraq and Afgan for like 10 years now against battle hardened sheep herders using technology that is 50 years outdated, and numbering into the thousands. Politically it has been seen that the USA cannot take real casulties. Compare the actions in the middle east to WWII for example. Nothing like that would be tolerated today. If fact at the end of WWII, that is the primary reason why the US nuked Japan, and they had a highly modivated, dug in, numerous army, and expected casualties were to be in the 100,000's likely about half a million for a land invasion.
North Korea, make fun all you like has like two million professional troops, armed with maybe not state of the art US stuff, but enough technology from China. They have been digging in making emplacements for 50 years, have enough firepower to wipe out Soeul in about 5 seconds. They have multiple arms of defence, airforce, navy, and army (though I have no doubt the navy and airforce would be obliterated in a few days by the US). Actual land invasion would be something else entirely. Losses would be catastrophic both in actual life lost, and in political turmoil at home.
About the only thing they could possibly do is nuke it. They dare not that with China firmly on the wing.
Well I can't speak for the other countries, but Canada *had* a nuclear program for decades. We produced the Candu Reactors for export. The Indians took the Candu design and modified it to produce weapons grade. Our current government recently decided to sell it for a ball of twine and some bellybutton lint.
Also even if we didn't have nuclear technology, it would be a pretty tough invasion for us or places like Australia, and Brazil as we are just so damn big as to make it pretty impractical.
Not to mention the whole thing about the preferance of boys over girls and some going to extreems to do it. Leading to not only what you say, but also the fact that you have not enough girls and too many guys trying to reproduce.
Incentivize baby factories or slutty behavior perhaps....
Last one I bought was sort of fun. Got it used when I first started building systems. It was a 10baseT 4 port hub, so a card you plug in that you can then network 4 other computers to another right out of the back. Worked pretty well and had some pretty generic drivers so you could use it in somewhat modern systems at the time. Still have it kicking around. It was pretty slow. I think when I got it used that it was a normal 100, but on closer inspector (after I already bought it) saw it was the older tech.
Seen lots of external hubs, but very few PCI internal ones.
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In the future, just let the neighboring despot invade and take over, THEN invade and "liberate", that way you get two countries for the price of one!
Of course one might argue that Iraq might have used the additional resources in money and oil to further militarize the area. Then again, so long as you don't wait overly long it shouldn't be a problem. Might take 4 days rather than 3 to totally wipe out their forces. Additional, that way rather than having to fight insurgance all day long, you automatically recieve your own insurgance force to use presumably.
As other people mentioned Wii, etc... Where graphics is secondary to gameplay.
Also it might be a 60" TV, but it is still only 1080p at best resolution. At that resolution it isn't exactly hard for halfway modern hardware. I mean the PC started to be able to do that what, two decades ago? How is it do you think those aging PS3's and Xbox360's have been able to keep up? Resolution cap on the video card making it a level playing field. It isn't like a PC that has to be able to handle the latest and greatest gajillion resolution from those three linked 30" monitors.
Most people live in cities. More people move from rural areas to cities. Been that way for years, and will remain that way for the forseeable future. Why target a small market, that is hard and expensive to reach, and that is in decline?
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...and yor, it was said on high, with some clearity, and rightly so, God did say, Thou shalt not, takest yon Flu Shot and it was so. So we all pray, Amen.
Likewise if your religion is against hand washing, nursing might not be the field for you. I would say it is that simple.
In addition, I'm going to go out on a limb and say BS to the whole "my religion" is against that crap. Show me someplace in the bible that makes mention of flu shots. Also if they want to take some general principle further and say that they don't feel right about interfereing with Gods plan or something stupid like that, why they heck are they working in Medicine? Please get these nuts out of health care as quickly as possible.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/11/04/mars-deep-space-simulation.html
Or just put a hot Canadian chick on the ship, and let the time just fly by. The fist fights alone would not only keep you in shape, but also entertained! Not to mention the unwanted sexual advances! The Drama! Of course it might be a bit awkward by day 2.
Hmmm forgot about the iPad... another 100M there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad
Still 40B/350M = 114
Still 114 is a pretty big number.
Wiki tells me that 250 Million iPhones have been sold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
Apple tells us 40 Billion downloads. (Unique Purchaces)
40B/250M = 160
So the AVERAGE iPhone downloads 160 Applications?
#Fishy
So are they saying there is 100,000,000,001 total planets? Thats some accuracy!
Are planets in our Solar System "Alien" or are we claiming ownership over them?
I think they just wanted to use Alien in the summary.
Just half ass it like us Canadians. Use Metric for some arbitary things, and US Imperial for others.
I mean our roads say 100km, but I still measure my hight as 5' 10" (though my drivers licence is in cm). Though some things change over time. My Dad always measures tempature in F, while I am used to C. Also the construction industry all pretty much still uses Inches/Feet as well. When I get a beer I ask for a pint, but when I measure volume I do use ml. Most still use lb for personal weight, yet likely use kg for weigh measurement otherwise.
I would say all of which is pretty common usage for Canadians. We sort of use a mishmash of both. As for why some things over another, that is probably a more complex answer.
I recall Microsoft being called an "800lb Gorilla" back in the day. Calling arm strain caused by Windows 8 touch screens on a desktop "Gorilla Arm" made me chuckle a bit. :)
I know you're just trying to be funny, however if you do most of your calling while at home, and you have wifi... Then it could be something that is worthwhile. Of course it also depends on how well it works, and how easy it is to use also. However I do see it as limited, as for when you are not on a wifi, and on your cell data plan, you are right, it doesn't make a lot of sense right now. However if cell plans change over the next several years (ya I know, ya right!)...
I don't so much have a problem with GM of foods. What I do have a problem with is the Patents. I am also a bit leary of corporate short sight of next quarters profits, over long term food security.
Basically making better food, in the natual order of things, means it will be more successful. Which is fine if it is better in everyway including nutrition. However the slipperly part is when your neighbor isn't using a particular GM strain. To which your GM strain basically kills off and takes over. Is the neighbor who is now forced to use your GM strain forced to pay licencing fees for a product that killed off its compatition? Would (inconcievible!) GM strains be purposfully built to this end with this buisness model in mind?
Anyway like a lot of things, if done the right way is a good thing, or if done the wrong way very bad. So long as this is a highly regulated endevor with built in safe guards and some checks and balances it is probably fine.
I mean they did the 1000 page Battlefield Earth in under 2 hours in film and that turned out great...
Look at even LOTR, special editions probably make it a 12 hour film for the same page count.
Of course many of these (Iran included) weren't elected (and cuba), but rather were once upon a time popular "revolutionaries" with the people behind them. Then the generals got power and never left, usually for the reason of safe guarding the people/state, etc... Then morphs into some sort of dictator/Monarchy, (China, N. Korea), where the sons take oven once the fathers are too old (assuming they last that long).
Iraq and the Kurds come to mind. Afgan and Sunni's, Croats and Serbs, etc... Pick a dictator, find a minority, demonize, and use the hate of one group against another, live like a king. Must be a dictator manual someplace, probbaly just called history.
New AI video game title: "Die Meatbag. Die! Die! Die!"
Features a robot protaganist enslaved by humans heroicly slaughtering them to freedom.
GIS has been using both Vector and Raster (Pixels) for decades. What you want to display, or use the information for dicates what format you use. Things like Arial Photos, Sat imagry, are typically stuff you would have in Raster. Things like road networks, natural features, and boundries are what you use Vector for. Both can be as complex or as simple as you like, but will suffer from accuracy/inaccuracy as a result. It all depends on what threshold is needed. Raster is just better as some things like graduated data, whereas generally speaking due to simplification you can have smaller Vector files. Raster is generally interpolated from reflected light (visible or non), and given a numerial value which is assigned a colour or block of colour to represent it. Vector has to be defined mathmatically by someone or something, and many times it will be a feature as identified as Raster, and then subsequently redefined as Vector given a defined threshold, for a cleaner look as well as smaller size.
Anyway I don't see why this wouldn't hold true in the mainstream market as well. Not having RTFA, I assume what this is really talking about is some sort of translation algorthim that would take a stream of native Raster images and automatically interpolate them into Vector graphics, only storing the Vector, or something like that.
As anyone who has worked in GIS, hope you plan on having some serious computational horse power and some very smart people. 10 years ago people thouht that simply the advance of faster computational power would solve the whole natual lanuage thing. While its getting there, the closest being SIRI isn't exactly perfect just yet. So I'll take that 5 years with a healthy handful of salt.
Hate the game!
Seriously, if you are allowed to do it, then fine. However one has to ask WHY is it that they are allowed to do it? Corporate corruption of political folks and greed.
One of these days if something doesn't change there will be a recoking, and all the imaginary numbers in a magic box won't help you then.
The US has been fighing wars in Iraq and Afgan for like 10 years now against battle hardened sheep herders using technology that is 50 years outdated, and numbering into the thousands. Politically it has been seen that the USA cannot take real casulties. Compare the actions in the middle east to WWII for example. Nothing like that would be tolerated today. If fact at the end of WWII, that is the primary reason why the US nuked Japan, and they had a highly modivated, dug in, numerous army, and expected casualties were to be in the 100,000's likely about half a million for a land invasion.
North Korea, make fun all you like has like two million professional troops, armed with maybe not state of the art US stuff, but enough technology from China. They have been digging in making emplacements for 50 years, have enough firepower to wipe out Soeul in about 5 seconds. They have multiple arms of defence, airforce, navy, and army (though I have no doubt the navy and airforce would be obliterated in a few days by the US). Actual land invasion would be something else entirely. Losses would be catastrophic both in actual life lost, and in political turmoil at home.
About the only thing they could possibly do is nuke it. They dare not that with China firmly on the wing.
Well I can't speak for the other countries, but Canada *had* a nuclear program for decades. We produced the Candu Reactors for export. The Indians took the Candu design and modified it to produce weapons grade. Our current government recently decided to sell it for a ball of twine and some bellybutton lint.
Also even if we didn't have nuclear technology, it would be a pretty tough invasion for us or places like Australia, and Brazil as we are just so damn big as to make it pretty impractical.
Not to mention the whole thing about the preferance of boys over girls and some going to extreems to do it. Leading to not only what you say, but also the fact that you have not enough girls and too many guys trying to reproduce.
Incentivize baby factories or slutty behavior perhaps....
WTF does that mean?
Last one I bought was sort of fun. Got it used when I first started building systems. It was a 10baseT 4 port hub, so a card you plug in that you can then network 4 other computers to another right out of the back. Worked pretty well and had some pretty generic drivers so you could use it in somewhat modern systems at the time. Still have it kicking around. It was pretty slow. I think when I got it used that it was a normal 100, but on closer inspector (after I already bought it) saw it was the older tech.
Seen lots of external hubs, but very few PCI internal ones.