You're missing the point. Tablets are popular in several niches, the biggest one (probably, pulling out of my netherregions but hold on for a sec) is the demographic that can't keep a PC, either Windows or OS X or whatever, running for 5 years if their lives depended on it. The concept of 'upgrading' anything is foreign. They just want their GBs and Angry Birds and whatnot. Thinking is not part of the experience.
Yes, the battery is going to go south in 5 years (2 years, 3 years) but buying a new Shiny every couple of years is what these folks are designed to do. It beats actually learning about the computer or car or TV or $InsertHiTechItemHere.
This is a totally different 'computing' paradigm. It's not the computer you grew up with. It's probably not something you're much interested in.
But YOU are not THEM. You're a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist; you were never even born. Anonymous is your name. C++ your native tongue. You're no longer part of the System. You're above the System. Over it. Beyond it. We're "them." We're "they."
...for a change? I have another proposition: Lets pass a bill for a full massive surveillance infrastructure at all politicians, and here comes the important part, WITHOUT court order. Who is with me?
Why are you worried about getting a court order? I should think that being a politician would, in and of itself, be 'probable cause'.
Samsung, by contrast, had a 30,000 Sq.Ft. booth filled to the rim with gadgets and TVs.
And that's one of the big problems. 1500 different cell phones, monitors, computers, etc. All with exciting names like Sony XV-20039clb (now with tint control!).
It all gets lost in the ozone and long chain monomer haze. We don't need thousands more products, we need better ones.
Sony is one of the largest Robotics companies in the world (and I don't mean industrial robots). It only makes sense they want to put some brains in those robots.
That would be nice. The Republican presidential campaign is getting rather boring. Time to upgrade that firmware.
They really look like they want UID counter to overflow, lol.
I've got an idea. Any new account gets a 30 day blockout from using "Apple", "Microsoft" or "Google" in the comment. That would cut down on the trolling and improve the general quality of discussion as we have enough of those sort of experts here as it is.
Who was providing the enslaved Africans? It wasn't, for the most part, whites - it was other Africans.
As is always the case, Europeans didn't come into a virgin, unspoiled 'noble man' society - it easily triumphed over small scale tribal structures and put their own more efficient, but certainly at least as morally dubious, economic and political systems in place. It did not help the local populations that on abandoning the African states, the Europeans put about as much planning into as as starting out but that's human nature for you.
Face it, humans aren't an especially morally appealing species. Africans were assholes to each other before the white man came and will be assholes to each other left to themselves. Pretty much like the rest of us.
This is the open-source halo device that consumers will finally notice and then start switching to Linux desktop in droves as a result. Openmoko finally restores all the freedoms taken away by Apple's walled garden.
This is a game changer.
Consumers.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Scanned stuff works fine, at least according to my accountant. IF you ever had the IRS go back and question hundreds of documents - if they thought you were padding an account or similar - THEN the actual receipt might be useful. Otherwise, not so much.
You do realize that lots of stuff doesn't even get to paper at all these days.
The life sciences have reached a crossroads. The direction we choose and the process by which we arrive at this decision must be undertaken as a community and not relegated to small segments of government, the scientific community, or society. Physicists faced a similar situation in the 1940s with nuclear weapons research, and it is inevitable that other scientific disciplines will also do so.
Sure worked for limiting nuclear weapons proliferation. Actually, it didn't, of course. The big difference between nuclear physics and biology is that the latter is thought to require less infrastructure than the former. This would make it more likely that a non state actor / random psychopath millionaire could obtain the needed equipment and skill set and go off to terrorize the world.
While likely true - a couple of million dollars could by you a nice lab and the post doctoral level talent to run it - it's not clear that you could appreciably slow down research by simply not posting experimental details. Once you post the results, the details can be left as an exercise for the student. If you decide to limit research entirely you risk being blind sided by someone who hasn't been so constrained.
Recently, several scientific research teams have achieved some success in isolating influenza A/H5N1 viruses that are transmitted efficiently between mammals, in one instance with maintenance of high pathogenicity. This information is very important because, before these experiments were done, it was uncertain whether avian influenza A/H5N1 could ever acquire the capacity for mammal-to-mammal transmission. Now that this information is known, society can take steps globally to prepare for when nature might generate such a virus spontaneously.
The method they used (serial passage) isn't complex. The identification of the hemoglutinin protein as the determinant for increased infectivity is interesting, but not particularly relevant to someone interested in a "12 Monkeys" scenario.
Look at Alaska - all those blank spots. All those poor Mooses without 3G coverage. How are they ever going to get to watch Northern Exposure reruns? While it's common to denigrate them as just another ungulate, Moose are smarter than the average American voter, smell better than the average American voter and certainly are better behaved.
Good points. Further, look at the picture in TFA. Even though it's a prototype, you can see the scale of processes needed to create the methane. To create not a whole lot of methane. This isn't going to help anyone person or any one society move off of high cost fossil fuels.
Sounds like a fun project in industrial control, but that's about it.
""The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.""
- Batteries, lots of different kinds of batteries. Actually reasonable quality batteries. - The standard bits of Junk Electronics - cordless phones, clock radios, a scanner or two, cheap marine band radios (a local favorite). - RC airplane stuff. - Junk electronic games. - Cables, actually a reasonable selection of cables. Most 'normal' people can get what they want. (No 15 pin Amphenol waterproof bulkhead mounts). - Junk electronic games. - TVs. - Hot tubs. - Tanning booth in back. - Espresso Bar in front. - A rather odd selection of component parts - resistors, capacitors, LEDS, some surface mount stuff, some generic transistors, a couple of coils.
So, it appears that the owner has taken the core of Radio Shack inventory and overlaid it with stuff he thinks that the locals would want or just stuff he's interested in selling. Whatever works, I suppose.
In a related question: Can anyone tell me how to get more Bang for my buck?
12 gauge - always the best buy.
Short of that, try headphones. A pair of good headphones and you don't care about big amps, clumsy large speakers, room acoustics, your neighbors or your wife.
Sennhieser 650 - probably the best cost / performance headphone around.
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...did you even read my post?
And why would he want to do that? Just to be different?
You're missing the point. Tablets are popular in several niches, the biggest one (probably, pulling out of my netherregions but hold on for a sec) is the demographic that can't keep a PC, either Windows or OS X or whatever, running for 5 years if their lives depended on it. The concept of 'upgrading' anything is foreign. They just want their GBs and Angry Birds and whatnot. Thinking is not part of the experience.
Yes, the battery is going to go south in 5 years (2 years, 3 years) but buying a new Shiny every couple of years is what these folks are designed to do. It beats actually learning about the computer or car or TV or $InsertHiTechItemHere.
This is a totally different 'computing' paradigm. It's not the computer you grew up with. It's probably not something you're much interested in.
But YOU are not THEM. You're a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist; you were never even born. Anonymous is your name. C++ your native tongue. You're no longer part of the System. You're above the System. Over it. Beyond it. We're "them." We're "they."
whats even funnier is that Siri is just Wolfram alpha with a screen reader.
Funny, I thought it was Dragon Dictate on LSD...
...for a change? I have another proposition: Lets pass a bill for a full massive surveillance infrastructure at all politicians, and here comes the important part, WITHOUT court order. Who is with me?
Why are you worried about getting a court order? I should think that being a politician would, in and of itself, be 'probable cause'.
Samsung, by contrast, had a 30,000 Sq.Ft. booth filled to the rim with gadgets and TVs.
And that's one of the big problems. 1500 different cell phones, monitors, computers, etc. All with exciting names like Sony XV-20039clb (now with tint control!).
It all gets lost in the ozone and long chain monomer haze. We don't need thousands more products, we need better ones.
Sony is one of the largest Robotics companies in the world (and I don't mean industrial robots). It only makes sense they want to put some brains in those robots.
That would be nice. The Republican presidential campaign is getting rather boring. Time to upgrade that firmware.
They really look like they want UID counter to overflow, lol.
I've got an idea. Any new account gets a 30 day blockout from using "Apple", "Microsoft" or "Google" in the comment. That would cut down on the trolling and improve the general quality of discussion as we have enough of those sort of experts here as it is.
Did anyone else notice the recent copypasta ITWorld or whoever articles that read like press releases from Microsoft's website?
Recent? You must be new here.
ITWorld, InfoWorld and it's ilk have been using Microsoft press releases since it was just Turtles going up.
Ah yes, Mr. IRCTech who has exactly 2 posts - this one and the a canned post about trolling.
Thanks for yet another insightful first post, guy. Hopefully you got at least one free espresso from all of your hard work.
It's not like they had bright futures until they were pulled out of med school to become e-waste slaves.
That's a rather interesting moral stance, 'mis existentialist'.
Less Nietzsche and more 'Sesame Street' for you!
Obama 2012! Vote out the Republicans who've been holding up this nation's progress for the past 12 years.
Wait. What? I'm so confused....
I thought Obama was a Democrat.
Shit. I'm going to have to go back to watching TV again. Out of the loop!
Thanks, AC!
Remember the slave trade?
Who was providing the enslaved Africans? It wasn't, for the most part, whites - it was other Africans.
As is always the case, Europeans didn't come into a virgin, unspoiled 'noble man' society - it easily triumphed over small scale tribal structures and put their own more efficient, but certainly at least as morally dubious, economic and political systems in place. It did not help the local populations that on abandoning the African states, the Europeans put about as much planning into as as starting out but that's human nature for you.
Face it, humans aren't an especially morally appealing species. Africans were assholes to each other before the white man came and will be assholes to each other left to themselves. Pretty much like the rest of us.
This is the open-source halo device that consumers will finally notice and then start switching to Linux desktop in droves as a result. Openmoko finally restores all the freedoms taken away by Apple's walled garden.
This is a game changer.
Consumers.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Do it at work! Not only do they have better machines, you get paid to do it there!
When will you surf Slashdot then?
Scanned stuff works fine, at least according to my accountant. IF you ever had the IRS go back and question hundreds of documents - if they thought you were padding an account or similar - THEN the actual receipt might be useful. Otherwise, not so much.
You do realize that lots of stuff doesn't even get to paper at all these days.
And storing them on their Facebook page - priceless!
Another interesting quote:
The life sciences have reached a crossroads. The direction we choose and the process by which we arrive at this decision must be undertaken as a community and not relegated to small segments of government, the scientific community, or society. Physicists faced a similar situation in the 1940s with nuclear weapons research, and it is inevitable that other scientific disciplines will also do so.
Sure worked for limiting nuclear weapons proliferation. Actually, it didn't, of course. The big difference between nuclear physics and biology is that the latter is thought to require less infrastructure than the former. This would make it more likely that a non state actor / random psychopath millionaire could obtain the needed equipment and skill set and go off to terrorize the world.
While likely true - a couple of million dollars could by you a nice lab and the post doctoral level talent to run it - it's not clear that you could appreciably slow down research by simply not posting experimental details. Once you post the results, the details can be left as an exercise for the student. If you decide to limit research entirely you risk being blind sided by someone who hasn't been so constrained.
From the Biohazards committee:
Recently, several scientific research teams have achieved some success in isolating influenza A/H5N1 viruses that are transmitted efficiently between mammals, in one instance with maintenance of high pathogenicity. This information is very important because, before these experiments were done, it was uncertain whether avian influenza A/H5N1 could ever acquire the capacity for mammal-to-mammal transmission. Now that this information is known, society can take steps globally to prepare for when nature might generate such a virus spontaneously.
The method they used (serial passage) isn't complex. The identification of the hemoglutinin protein as the determinant for increased infectivity is interesting, but not particularly relevant to someone interested in a "12 Monkeys" scenario.
Too Late.
We're doomed.
What about Moose?
Look at Alaska - all those blank spots. All those poor Mooses without 3G coverage. How are they ever going to get to watch Northern Exposure reruns? While it's common to denigrate them as just another ungulate, Moose are smarter than the average American voter, smell better than the average American voter and certainly are better behaved.
Where's the love?
You can run, but you can't hide.
Satellite phones still work.
You only get pro-Google
At least paste your tripe in an article that's actually pro google nitwit.
It's funnier this way. It makes it clear that, no matter how good Google is at autonomous vehicle driving, they still have a way to go with chatbots.
To make a autonomous vehicle analogy, it just ran a red light.
Good points. Further, look at the picture in TFA. Even though it's a prototype, you can see the scale of processes needed to create the methane. To create not a whole lot of methane. This isn't going to help anyone person or any one society move off of high cost fossil fuels.
Sounds like a fun project in industrial control, but that's about it.
Double your fun if you can get a grant or two.
""The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.""
Hunter S. Thompson
My local Radio Shack (rural Alaska) sells:
- Batteries, lots of different kinds of batteries. Actually reasonable quality batteries.
- The standard bits of Junk Electronics - cordless phones, clock radios, a scanner or two, cheap marine band radios (a local favorite).
- RC airplane stuff.
- Junk electronic games.
- Cables, actually a reasonable selection of cables. Most 'normal' people can get what they want. (No 15 pin Amphenol waterproof bulkhead mounts).
- Junk electronic games.
- TVs.
- Hot tubs.
- Tanning booth in back.
- Espresso Bar in front.
- A rather odd selection of component parts - resistors, capacitors, LEDS, some surface mount stuff, some generic transistors, a couple of coils.
So, it appears that the owner has taken the core of Radio Shack inventory and overlaid it with stuff he thinks that the locals would want or just stuff he's interested in selling. Whatever works, I suppose.
In a related question: Can anyone tell me how to get more Bang for my buck?
12 gauge - always the best buy.
Short of that, try headphones. A pair of good headphones and you don't care about big amps, clumsy large speakers, room acoustics, your neighbors or your wife.
Sennhieser 650 - probably the best cost / performance headphone around.