The one problem I had with Team Viewer (and it was a fatal one) is that it didn't work with the wonky network set up in my mom's assisted living home. It's run by a company that mostly does TV distribution and it's a total fuck up with anything that needs a router or firewall. Can't recall the name correctly, but it;s apparently a popular 'solution'.
Ended up with an iPad for her which works for 99% of what she does. The tech support issue was solved by giving my nephew another iPad and, as the price of the machine, he's responsible for the occasional physical support calls. This has the added bonus of actually getting him to see his grandmother in person.
Except when they just disconnect you. Which has happened to me more than one time. However I've found in those cases it is almost always effective to start swearing at the IVR and it gets you over to a CSR.
Swearing at computers gets you to humans? Your sig is uncannily appropriate.
Yes, you might be partially correct - however - the world is as it is. You can't fast track reactors in the US. The industry hasn't figured out how to make them cheaper, even with the Federal government covering virtually all of the insurance costs.
So, in a perfect world, run by engineers with a good budget, instead of politicians with not enough money to go around, you could have safe(r) nuclear power. We shall never live in that cornicopian intellectual paradise so we have a mess. In this mess that is the real world, nuclear power doesn't look all that attractive compared to solar.
Personally, I'd go Heinlein on this subject - give all of the nucs to the Navy or some spinoff. Keep Congress out of it somehow (give them a couple of Etch-A-Sketches and some hookers), give them a reasonable budget. But now I'm getting all utopian again. Slap me.
In 2001 no one but Apple could have predicted that users would tolerate anything so hostilec and counter-intuitive, but Apple wisely knew that people will do anything you ask them to do.
Wake up geeko. File systems ARE 'hostile and counterintutive' to that great wasteland of humanity that corresponds to the vast majority of people on the planet. Just because the first words out of your mouth were PIP *.* A: B: doesn't mean that the rest of them are comfortable with trees and extensions.
That was Apple's real contribution - the first step in creating successful 'appliance computing'.
I think they are planing to apply to the FDA for human trials next month
The FDA has already denied their application. They noted that in these difficult financial times, there was little need to replicate the same experiment that is shown on C-span every day.
I was going to get annoyed at TFA for showing an 'artists conception' of the protoplanet but then I glanced at the paper. The pictures there look like a doughnut that ate a bunch of psilocybin. Had to squint and cross my eyes before I could figure out what the authors where talking about.
...working to get 3d printing banned before it has a chance to take off...way too many industries are threatened by this technology.
Look, you can't even print tin foil with these things. They're useless. About the only people who should be 'afraid' of 3D printers is WalMart. In a couple of years you might be able to spend the afternoon printing some little plastic gizmo that you can buy for $1.99.
But physics, which trumps US firearms law, says that the barrel and chamber are the more important parts of the gun - the parts that impart the gun like behaviors to the object. The receiver is just a switch and bullet holder.
If you own the mill you can make yourself a firearm without consulting the ATF as is mentioned in the summary. 3d mills are considerably more expensive than 3d printers which is the only reason this story is a story at all.
Not really. You can get a second hand, computer controlled Bridgeport or a brand new, shiny computer controlled Sherline for about the same money as a decent 3D printer (around $2000 give or take). It might take more training to use a mill than a printer, but as can be seen by TFA, 3D printing of functional objects ain't so easy. You can't just draw something up on a CAD / CAM program and push it out. You need to design it for the materials and methods you plan to use.
As has been said numerous times, at present there are many more people that can crank out a receiver (and barrel and associated bits) with a CNC mill than can do so with a 3D printer.
No I don't have expectation of privacy but I do largely have an expectancy of anonymity; I'm not someone so famous that TMZ will be following me 24/7. It is not that far fetched to think of an Orwellian world where we are identified and tracked everywhere, not by a Governmental Bigbrother but our Corporate Masters such as Google.
While you're busy watching Star Trek reruns, some of us are trying to keep the current spaceship intact. You know, the one we need in order to launch ourselves off to other places. We don't have fusion yet, our current space tech is incredibly primitive. We need enormous resources to move that along and currently we seem have a real world shortage of same.
Keep dreaming, it's important. However, paying attention to the short course yields long term dividends. Like survival.
It's just a matter of where we decide to spend our money." But Guidice remembers a more telling prophecy from O'Neill. "One of the most memorable things I ever heard him say was, 'If we don't do it right now,' meaning in the next 20 years, and that was 20 years ago, 'then we'll never do it, because we'll be overpopulated and the strain on the natural resources will be the number one priority. We will not have any sort of inclination to see this through.
First off, insurance companies in the US are already barred from using genetic data for insurability purposes.
Second, straight DNA sequencing doesnt give you the keys to the kingdom. Epigenetic factors like methylation are turning out to be extremely important factors in gene expression. Further, there are a number of classes of RNAs that are likewise critical to organism development.
Basically, the central dogma has been barking up the wrong tree.
Price isn't the only determinant of whether something is a 'routine part of medicine'. For the foreseeable future, there is remarkably little utility that an individual's genome brings to the table. It will become a very important part of medical research, but in terms of an individual's health, not so much.
It will be hyped. It will likely end up like 'full body CT scans" - a bragging tool for the seriously hypochondriac but of no help to the routine patient.
Even the Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) data which is pretty cheap now (basically what the police use for forensics) helps most people very little. In the context of answering a specific genetic question, perhaps - but not as a routine. When you send someone to a medical geneticist, most of the time and effort revolves around getting the person to understand what you are trying to accomplish and the pros and cons of doing so. Having whole genome sequencing just makes it even harder.
Move to Alaska! I've got 7 down / 2 up DSL for $150 / month (along with a POTS line). Not cheap, but it's fairly fast.
Then you just have to deal with the high price of everything else, the mosquitos and an occasional Californian. We feed the latter to the former, but that just seems to encourage the bugs to be more annoying.
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The one problem I had with Team Viewer (and it was a fatal one) is that it didn't work with the wonky network set up in my mom's assisted living home. It's run by a company that mostly does TV distribution and it's a total fuck up with anything that needs a router or firewall. Can't recall the name correctly, but it;s apparently a popular 'solution'.
Ended up with an iPad for her which works for 99% of what she does. The tech support issue was solved by giving my nephew another iPad and, as the price of the machine, he's responsible for the occasional physical support calls. This has the added bonus of actually getting him to see his grandmother in person.
Buy her two iPads.
Except when they just disconnect you. Which has happened to me more than one time. However I've found in those cases it is almost always effective to start swearing at the IVR and it gets you over to a CSR.
Swearing at computers gets you to humans? Your sig is uncannily appropriate.
Yes, you might be partially correct - however - the world is as it is. You can't fast track reactors in the US. The industry hasn't figured out how to make them cheaper, even with the Federal government covering virtually all of the insurance costs.
So, in a perfect world, run by engineers with a good budget, instead of politicians with not enough money to go around, you could have safe(r) nuclear power. We shall never live in that cornicopian intellectual paradise so we have a mess. In this mess that is the real world, nuclear power doesn't look all that attractive compared to solar.
Personally, I'd go Heinlein on this subject - give all of the nucs to the Navy or some spinoff. Keep Congress out of it somehow (give them a couple of Etch-A-Sketches and some hookers), give them a reasonable budget. But now I'm getting all utopian again. Slap me.
In 2001 no one but Apple could have predicted that users would tolerate anything so hostilec and counter-intuitive, but Apple wisely knew that people will do anything you ask them to do.
Wake up geeko. File systems ARE 'hostile and counterintutive' to that great wasteland of humanity that corresponds to the vast majority of people on the planet. Just because the first words out of your mouth were PIP *.* A: B: doesn't mean that the rest of them are comfortable with trees and extensions.
That was Apple's real contribution - the first step in creating successful 'appliance computing'.
I think they are planing to apply to the FDA for human trials next month
The FDA has already denied their application. They noted that in these difficult financial times, there was little need to replicate the same experiment that is shown on C-span every day.
I was going to get annoyed at TFA for showing an 'artists conception' of the protoplanet but then I glanced at the paper. The pictures there look like a doughnut that ate a bunch of psilocybin. Had to squint and cross my eyes before I could figure out what the authors where talking about.
I want to see actual pixels, dammit.
Dwarf.
No, you need hardware to do that.
Get an iPad. Between the touchscreen keyboard and it's inability to multitask, you'll drop all of those bad habits like a rock.
Or go stark raving mad.
"Greek style healthcare"?
Taking it in the ass?
...working to get 3d printing banned before it has a chance to take off...way too many industries are threatened by this technology.
Look, you can't even print tin foil with these things. They're useless. About the only people who should be 'afraid' of 3D printers is WalMart. In a couple of years you might be able to spend the afternoon printing some little plastic gizmo that you can buy for $1.99.
But physics, which trumps US firearms law, says that the barrel and chamber are the more important parts of the gun - the parts that impart the gun like behaviors to the object. The receiver is just a switch and bullet holder.
If you own the mill you can make yourself a firearm without consulting the ATF as is mentioned in the summary. 3d mills are considerably more expensive than 3d printers which is the only reason this story is a story at all.
Not really. You can get a second hand, computer controlled Bridgeport or a brand new, shiny computer controlled Sherline for about the same money as a decent 3D printer (around $2000 give or take). It might take more training to use a mill than a printer, but as can be seen by TFA, 3D printing of functional objects ain't so easy. You can't just draw something up on a CAD / CAM program and push it out. You need to design it for the materials and methods you plan to use.
As has been said numerous times, at present there are many more people that can crank out a receiver (and barrel and associated bits) with a CNC mill than can do so with a 3D printer.
Belgium also has a very active pedophile and child kidnapping and hidden room prison culture
Man, that is one hell of a straw man you just set up.
Strong work!
Why that's un possible!
Oh, there you are grampa. Mom was worried about you. You shouldn't run downstairs into the basement without telling somebody.
No I don't have expectation of privacy but I do largely have an expectancy of anonymity; I'm not someone so famous that TMZ will be following me 24/7. It is not that far fetched to think of an Orwellian world where we are identified and tracked everywhere, not by a Governmental Bigbrother but our Corporate Masters such as Google.
You're not that important. Nobody cares.
You will be anonymized.
While you're busy watching Star Trek reruns, some of us are trying to keep the current spaceship intact. You know, the one we need in order to launch ourselves off to other places. We don't have fusion yet, our current space tech is incredibly primitive. We need enormous resources to move that along and currently we seem have a real world shortage of same.
Keep dreaming, it's important. However, paying attention to the short course yields long term dividends. Like survival.
Look at the TFA that is. Too depressing.
It's just a matter of where we decide to spend our money." But Guidice remembers a more telling prophecy from O'Neill. "One of the most memorable things I ever heard him say was, 'If we don't do it right now,' meaning in the next 20 years, and that was 20 years ago, 'then we'll never do it, because we'll be overpopulated and the strain on the natural resources will be the number one priority. We will not have any sort of inclination to see this through.
Very sad. Very true.
It's probably an old one with impossible to get consumeables.
Just wait a a couple of years. They'll be giving them away in cereal boxes.
Although psychically provocative, blowing up CRTs spews lead around. Those things should be disposed of properly.
Go shoot watermelons with a .222 - about the same level of visceral satisfaction.
First off, insurance companies in the US are already barred from using genetic data for insurability purposes.
Second, straight DNA sequencing doesnt give you the keys to the kingdom. Epigenetic factors like methylation are turning out to be extremely important factors in gene expression. Further, there are a number of classes of RNAs that are likewise critical to organism development.
Basically, the central dogma has been barking up the wrong tree.
Price isn't the only determinant of whether something is a 'routine part of medicine'. For the foreseeable future, there is remarkably little utility that an individual's genome brings to the table. It will become a very important part of medical research, but in terms of an individual's health, not so much.
It will be hyped. It will likely end up like 'full body CT scans" - a bragging tool for the seriously hypochondriac but of no help to the routine patient.
Even the Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) data which is pretty cheap now (basically what the police use for forensics) helps most people very little. In the context of answering a specific genetic question, perhaps - but not as a routine. When you send someone to a medical geneticist, most of the time and effort revolves around getting the person to understand what you are trying to accomplish and the pros and cons of doing so. Having whole genome sequencing just makes it even harder.
Move to Alaska! I've got 7 down / 2 up DSL for $150 / month (along with a POTS line). Not cheap, but it's fairly fast.
Then you just have to deal with the high price of everything else, the mosquitos and an occasional Californian. We feed the latter to the former, but that just seems to encourage the bugs to be more annoying.
A+++++ would pedant again!
Yes, of course I should be more careful.