Just a minor nanite-layer replication error and the next user to touch that self-cleaning toilet seat will be converted directly into a lemony-fresh slurry. It'll be all downhill from there.
I've never heard that Soylent Green was lemony fresh. Learn something every day.
If your daughters are anything like mine, they are the cause of all of the crud in your car anyway. Robotic spider overlords might solve the problem, especially of they only come out when something is dropped.
At what level are they simulating the organism? Is it at a gross molecular level, or are they simulating each individual electron transport path through the Krebs Cycle, or somewhere in between?
I keep an old unlocked Motorola Razr V3 for just that reason. If I am going out in the evening, I slip my SIM into it instead of carrying my smartphone. All I need is to be able to send a quick text, make a restaurant reservation, or call a taxi. If I'm in Europe, I'll stick a local chip in it from TIM or whatever for the same use. It fits nicely into the ticket pocket of my jacket without looking like I'm packing a pistol. I suppose if I felt compelled to log everything to Facebook and Foursquare, I might feel differently, but I don't.
After many years of BB use, I'm still stuck with a device (Bold 9700) that can't do html mail. Granted, it's almost two years old, but the fact that RIM doesn't port it's newest OS to slightly older devices is a pain.
While the original blackberries (around 2000 or so) didn't support HTML email, blackberries have supported HTML email for many, many years now.
The "Bold" series of blackberries have always supported HTML email. Maybe you turned off HTML email or maybe your IT people have turned it off for you.
It's in Messages - Options - Email Settings - Enable HTML email.
Sadly, "Enable HTML email" doesn't exist as a menu option. It's not greyed-out; it isn't there.
I've been hearing about BB 10 since last year. It's not coming out this year. By the time it comes out, it will be irrelevant. My best guess is that it will have all of the bells and whistles of iOS 4 and will quietly fade away, taking RIM with it. To save RIM, it needs to have tremendous WOW factor, and it won't. It needs to be really, really cool, and RIM doesn't do cool. Maybe if it could make my lunch and drive me to work...
I would have thought just the opposite. Any doof can set up an active synch device, but it takes truly l33t skillz to keep a BES environment running. When the PHB's Blackberry goes down, Only You can fix it. BES makes you key personnel. Without it, you're just head count.:-)
After many years of BB use, I'm still stuck with a device (Bold 9700) that can't do html mail. Granted, it's almost two years old, but the fact that RIM doesn't port it's newest OS to slightly older devices is a pain. My next phone will be an iPhone or an SIII.
That's the Vogon Destructor ship that released the bomb. They think it's good for the crew's health to fly through the cloud after detonating one of these things.
It's hard to feel sympathy here; she chose Tom and his wacky religion. She decided he was good father material. Now she's changed her mind, but you know what? She doesn't get to do that. That's not how it works.
Her decision that scientology sucks NOW does not negate her decision that scientology was ok back THEN.
What she did is called "growing up" and "maturing" and"learning from experience." Generally speaking, this is a positive thing. I hope you come to experience it in your life. Otherwise, you will spend it being exactly as you are now. That would suck.
One of the things coming with smart meters is differential rates for electricity provided during peak and non-peak hours. I don't see this as a bad thing, but then I don't run an air conditioner. Setting my dishwasher to run after 9:00 am makes sense, for example.
The idiots prattling about RF sensitivity seem brain damaged to me, but not from RF. Around here they mostly move around in a fog of pot smoke.
In my opinion, a live musician is always preferable to a robot. Rhythm software/drum machines have been around since the 60's at least. Human is better.
And how is "sorting easier" when it's flying into a "central collection point" (read: steadily growing pile) at 60 mph?
All those people wandering trough your neighborhood picking through you trash cans now have a single, conveniently located place to go to work. It seems to work well in India and Brazil.
My early chemistry researches were finding household chemicals that could blow things up. I found them. YMMV
True that! These days I would have been locked up in Gitmo before I was 14, and I was a Boy Scout. Do you know how many interesting things a 12 year old can do with a nearly unlimited supply of carbide? I knew how to generate hydrogen for explosive balloons using household chemicals such as Drano. I learned about oxidizing agents using KClO3 fertilizer, which was pretty easy to get. I didn't learn how to make thermite until I got into high school though. That's the kind of stuff that got and kept me interested in science.
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Just a minor nanite-layer replication error and the next user to touch that self-cleaning toilet seat will be converted directly into a lemony-fresh slurry. It'll be all downhill from there.
I've never heard that Soylent Green was lemony fresh. Learn something every day.
Rain doesn't remove the oily film and the dirt that's attached to it you picked up from the road.
You obviously live in some backwards area with an insufficiently low pH to the rainfall.
If your daughters are anything like mine, they are the cause of all of the crud in your car anyway. Robotic spider overlords might solve the problem, especially of they only come out when something is dropped.
At what level are they simulating the organism? Is it at a gross molecular level, or are they simulating each individual electron transport path through the Krebs Cycle, or somewhere in between?
I keep an old unlocked Motorola Razr V3 for just that reason. If I am going out in the evening, I slip my SIM into it instead of carrying my smartphone. All I need is to be able to send a quick text, make a restaurant reservation, or call a taxi. If I'm in Europe, I'll stick a local chip in it from TIM or whatever for the same use. It fits nicely into the ticket pocket of my jacket without looking like I'm packing a pistol. I suppose if I felt compelled to log everything to Facebook and Foursquare, I might feel differently, but I don't.
> The guy who blew up that bus full of Israeli's yesterday in Burgas, was apparently a former Gitmo [rt.com] resident, who was sent back to Sweden.
No, he was not.
Indeed.
You know what happens when someone forgets to check the bounds of their array and starts writing data to another process's memory?
Yeah. Imagine if that other process was your visual cortex.
We used to have drugs for that.
After many years of BB use, I'm still stuck with a device (Bold 9700) that can't do html mail. Granted, it's almost two years old, but the fact that RIM doesn't port it's newest OS to slightly older devices is a pain.
While the original blackberries (around 2000 or so) didn't support HTML email, blackberries have supported HTML email for many, many years now.
The "Bold" series of blackberries have always supported HTML email. Maybe you turned off HTML email or maybe your IT people have turned it off for you.
It's in Messages - Options - Email Settings - Enable HTML email.
Sadly, "Enable HTML email" doesn't exist as a menu option. It's not greyed-out; it isn't there.
The linked article notes that this is also practiced in North Carolina, which is even more disturbing.
Yes. It had issues with BES, and I had to downgrade.
I've been hearing about BB 10 since last year. It's not coming out this year. By the time it comes out, it will be irrelevant. My best guess is that it will have all of the bells and whistles of iOS 4 and will quietly fade away, taking RIM with it. To save RIM, it needs to have tremendous WOW factor, and it won't. It needs to be really, really cool, and RIM doesn't do cool. Maybe if it could make my lunch and drive me to work...
I would have thought just the opposite. Any doof can set up an active synch device, but it takes truly l33t skillz to keep a BES environment running. When the PHB's Blackberry goes down, Only You can fix it. BES makes you key personnel. Without it, you're just head count. :-)
After many years of BB use, I'm still stuck with a device (Bold 9700) that can't do html mail. Granted, it's almost two years old, but the fact that RIM doesn't port it's newest OS to slightly older devices is a pain. My next phone will be an iPhone or an SIII.
That's the Vogon Destructor ship that released the bomb. They think it's good for the crew's health to fly through the cloud after detonating one of these things.
It's hard to feel sympathy here; she chose Tom and his wacky religion. She decided he was good father material. Now she's changed her mind, but you know what? She doesn't get to do that. That's not how it works.
Her decision that scientology sucks NOW does not negate her decision that scientology was ok back THEN.
What she did is called "growing up" and "maturing" and"learning from experience." Generally speaking, this is a positive thing. I hope you come to experience it in your life. Otherwise, you will spend it being exactly as you are now. That would suck.
One of the things coming with smart meters is differential rates for electricity provided during peak and non-peak hours. I don't see this as a bad thing, but then I don't run an air conditioner. Setting my dishwasher to run after 9:00 am makes sense, for example.
The idiots prattling about RF sensitivity seem brain damaged to me, but not from RF. Around here they mostly move around in a fog of pot smoke.
>Or maybe they just don't want their customers to feel like HP screwed them.
Where, in the last three years, can you find a customer who doesn't feel screwed by HP?
Is this why your girlfriend prefers a vibrator to whatever you bring?
In my opinion, a live musician is always preferable to a robot. Rhythm software/drum machines have been around since the 60's at least. Human is better.
Once again, Futurama points the way.
And how is "sorting easier" when it's flying into a "central collection point" (read: steadily growing pile) at 60 mph?
All those people wandering trough your neighborhood picking through you trash cans now have a single, conveniently located place to go to work. It seems to work well in India and Brazil.
Everyone that I know that has diabetes has type 1. It sucks, they need insulin, and lifestyle choices won't cure it.
Are they going to charge extra for lube, or is it included?
>How could all that possibly be necessary?
They're old. Stuff starts going wrong.
>Wouldn't it be better just to suffer through whatever symptoms they have?
No. Suffering through the symptoms of diabetes, hypertension, atrial fibrillation pretty much sucks and also leads to earlier death than otherwise.
My early chemistry researches were finding household chemicals that could blow things up. I found them. YMMV
True that! These days I would have been locked up in Gitmo before I was 14, and I was a Boy Scout. Do you know how many interesting things a 12 year old can do with a nearly unlimited supply of carbide? I knew how to generate hydrogen for explosive balloons using household chemicals such as Drano. I learned about oxidizing agents using KClO3 fertilizer, which was pretty easy to get. I didn't learn how to make thermite until I got into high school though. That's the kind of stuff that got and kept me interested in science.