Ok so the card is only really useful for mobile computing. To get that speed you have to be on an interstate in most of the US, or a school zone in california.
Apparently the US National Bureau of Standards decided in the 1960s that Jiggawatt was the one true pronunciation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga And jif is only correct for the same reason, the developers decided "Choosy developers choose Jif" was a hilarious slogan they could use internally for the gif format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gif#Pronunciation
So yes, Jigabit, Jigabyte, Jigawatt, those are how we are legally supposed to pronounce them, atleast in the US.
Or you could run a parallel processing setup, 3-5 sequencing chips all given the same sample at the same time. More expensive, but you'd get that effective 100% rate in the half hour time.
$5k for a genetic sequencer that could give effectively 100% accuracy in half an hour would be pittance for pretty much every hospital in the US. Hell, the first malpractice lawsuit it prevents (detect a disorder that would make a commonly used treatment crippling or fatal to the patient) would pay for the machine 1000 times over.
I bet the same guy either has never played an FPS game before, or thinks console controllers are the pinnacle of FPS control schemes. Cause frankly I have no clue how aiming a sniper rifle will work when you have to sight past your fingers. Half my headshots in the original UT were against targets less than a quarter inch high in my screen.
Touch screens have two major flaws, it's not possible to move the pointer and click at the same time, and there's only one button. Touch screens like imac mice, fine for idiots who get confused by anything more complicated than a hockey puck you mash down on, but slow and annoying for people who can comprehend the existence of more than one option.
Yes but Hyper Gravity has been replaced by Plucky Magnetism already, which is about to be replaced by Sneaky Waveforms if some researchers can get their paper approved.
Hrm... That works for me, let canada do the stimulus program to create jobs for lawyers, while america starts the infrastructure rebuild program. All the american lawyers will immigrate to canada for the better job prospects. Course then the canadian government will close the borders to protect their natural born lawyers, and the american lawyers will have to hop yachts and jump fences to get across the border. Soon immigrant lawyers in canada will be treated as second class citizens, sitting on street corners waiting for people with day-lawsuit work to drive by in a truck and grab them. Some will bring their entire families, others will just do work and save every bit they can to send a measly $100k a month to their poor, destitute families they left living in condos with only 2 vacation homes in the US.
Butbutbut, taxing the general populace and giving it to people who sit around and "represent" artists, lightening their workload in the process, will create jobs! Honest!
I can guess how that board meeting went: Engineer: *holds a model shark in one hand, a model of their laser system in another* "Behold!" *mashes two models together* Cue large round of applause and back patting from board members.
Imagine it? Try being anywhere within 5 miles of disneyland when they do their nightly fireworks show. Even better, be in their parking structure. 70+ cars per level going off with a concrete ceiling to channel the sound.
No, see, the siren doesn't feel you, you feel the sound. The siren will be the one filing the sexual harassment suits, against everyone who feels it's sounds.
When I lived in anaheim, just a mile and a half from disneyland, we were unable to get DSL. Apartments across the street were able to get it, but we weren't.
People can say all they want about government screwing things up when the run them, but fed/state/local govs would do a hell of a lot better getting broadband to the masses.
An in house tech can fix problems faster than an outsourced tech, and has an interest in getting things back up properly not just patched together. So not only factor in the hourly cost, but also take into account travel time, system familiarization, and the tech's vested interest in keeping the calls coming. All that equates to lost productivity, which can kill a small business at crunch time on a big project.
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Ok so the card is only really useful for mobile computing. To get that speed you have to be on an interstate in most of the US, or a school zone in california.
Apparently the US National Bureau of Standards decided in the 1960s that Jiggawatt was the one true pronunciation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga
And jif is only correct for the same reason, the developers decided "Choosy developers choose Jif" was a hilarious slogan they could use internally for the gif format.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gif#Pronunciation
So yes, Jigabit, Jigabyte, Jigawatt, those are how we are legally supposed to pronounce them, atleast in the US.
It doesn't even take an entire jigabyte of my HD to store my favorite movie, Jodzilla vs Jamera.
The North Atlantic Flying Cluefish, a cousin of the more common flying fish.
Or you could run a parallel processing setup, 3-5 sequencing chips all given the same sample at the same time. More expensive, but you'd get that effective 100% rate in the half hour time.
$5k for a genetic sequencer that could give effectively 100% accuracy in half an hour would be pittance for pretty much every hospital in the US.
Hell, the first malpractice lawsuit it prevents (detect a disorder that would make a commonly used treatment crippling or fatal to the patient) would pay for the machine 1000 times over.
Mmmm, human rice, the perfect food to get you through post-apocalyptic cannibalistic times.
Ugh, Shampoo isn't a meme, there's just a core group of people are trying to force it to be one.
Mods, can I do a "Wooosh!" here, please?
Umm... just how deep do you think the Mediterranean Sea is?
Apparently 20,000 leagues.
I was gonna say Anakin Skywalker...
I bet the same guy either has never played an FPS game before, or thinks console controllers are the pinnacle of FPS control schemes. Cause frankly I have no clue how aiming a sniper rifle will work when you have to sight past your fingers. Half my headshots in the original UT were against targets less than a quarter inch high in my screen.
Touch screens have two major flaws, it's not possible to move the pointer and click at the same time, and there's only one button.
Touch screens like imac mice, fine for idiots who get confused by anything more complicated than a hockey puck you mash down on, but slow and annoying for people who can comprehend the existence of more than one option.
Your capacity for puns is astounding!
Yes but Hyper Gravity has been replaced by Plucky Magnetism already, which is about to be replaced by Sneaky Waveforms if some researchers can get their paper approved.
Hrm... That works for me, let canada do the stimulus program to create jobs for lawyers, while america starts the infrastructure rebuild program. All the american lawyers will immigrate to canada for the better job prospects.
Course then the canadian government will close the borders to protect their natural born lawyers, and the american lawyers will have to hop yachts and jump fences to get across the border. Soon immigrant lawyers in canada will be treated as second class citizens, sitting on street corners waiting for people with day-lawsuit work to drive by in a truck and grab them. Some will bring their entire families, others will just do work and save every bit they can to send a measly $100k a month to their poor, destitute families they left living in condos with only 2 vacation homes in the US.
Butbutbut, taxing the general populace and giving it to people who sit around and "represent" artists, lightening their workload in the process, will create jobs! Honest!
Call in Mr Stevens, he's unemployed and looking for work.
4. 'snake charming' a nest of vipers with bagpipes
That's an AWESOME mental image. A scottish snake charmer.
I can guess how that board meeting went:
Engineer: *holds a model shark in one hand, a model of their laser system in another* "Behold!" *mashes two models together*
Cue large round of applause and back patting from board members.
Gives an old meaning to the term virus, huh?
Hackers will now use genetically engineered viruses to attack network links directly.
Because then they've got to follow the t-rex around with a giant pooper-scooper truck. And that's just silly.
Imagine it? Try being anywhere within 5 miles of disneyland when they do their nightly fireworks show.
Even better, be in their parking structure. 70+ cars per level going off with a concrete ceiling to channel the sound.
No, see, the siren doesn't feel you, you feel the sound.
The siren will be the one filing the sexual harassment suits, against everyone who feels it's sounds.
When I lived in anaheim, just a mile and a half from disneyland, we were unable to get DSL. Apartments across the street were able to get it, but we weren't.
People can say all they want about government screwing things up when the run them, but fed/state/local govs would do a hell of a lot better getting broadband to the masses.
An in house tech can fix problems faster than an outsourced tech, and has an interest in getting things back up properly not just patched together.
So not only factor in the hourly cost, but also take into account travel time, system familiarization, and the tech's vested interest in keeping the calls coming. All that equates to lost productivity, which can kill a small business at crunch time on a big project.
Lawyers don't play the Kevin Bacon game anymore, they play the 1 degree of separation to Jonathan Lee Riches game.