Actually, this article is much ado about virtually nothing.
According to this page there were 35 million passengers through Liberty International Airport in 2014. That's about 3 million / month. 70 laptops in that pile of people is less than a tenth of a percent. Lots less.
You must be an American because either your history or geography is completely confused. Most Saudi Oil currently goes to Europe. If the Sauds shut down production it would upset the EU big time and then the US as collateral damage to some degree. The increase in oil prices actually would HELP a number of foreign countries like Alaska and Russia.
But you have to remember that Saudi Arabia really doesn't have all that much else to offer the world. Being annoyed at Iran and starting proxy wars in places no one can pronounce doesn't count. If they don't pump, they don't get paid.
The point here is that commodity products, even with significant functional downsides will beat more expensive specialty products most of the time.
Yes, TomToms have a better GPS chip and antenna. But the smart phone works pretty well. Yes, GoPros can survive reentry from orbit but if you're just skateboarding you don't need that sort of build quality.
GoPro lost it's niche and then was unable to push the technology (4K, 5K video, decent battery). Wild expansion into everybody else's niche probably sounded great in the Board Room. In engineering, not so much. Remember, also, that GoPro relied on commodity electronics for it's core. The video and support chips were off the shelf Chinese. Available to anyone else with some cash (or credit or VC funding).
Another conclusion is that we shouldn't make all that much out of small functional MRI studies done by random researchers since they're hard to do correctly.
Of course, we could also use a dead fish as a control.
You must really like hearing about Trump. WTF is with this need to be updated on 'news' every few minutes when it's the same shit that the media has been chomping on for the past month?
Or perhaps you're just an Amazon marketing bot. In which case, carry on....
Feeling cranky today but I really wish ALL of this nonsense with calendar invites would stop. People are forever 'inviting' me to meetings that I don't have to go to. Typically when I'm supposed to be doing something else. It seems that whoever designed at least iCal made no allowance for the fact that I'm not available to everyone all of the time. I have work to do. Have you meetings but leave me out of your twisted plans.
I hear that's partially already happening. More foreign doctors are being hired. X-Rays are sent over the Internet to India for analysis. Even pharmacy workers are being replaced with H-1B visa workers.
This shit can't last.
Lots of foreign doctors have entered the US over the past 30 years. There is a dedicated pathway for this. Some of the are OK, lots of them are pretty marginal. The marginal ones tend to go into marginal residency (post doctoral) programs and turn out to be marginal docs. Some of them end up pretty competent. You'll find many MD / DO job postings that cater to FMG s (Foreign Medical Graduates) because they're in places that US trained docs don't want to go (downtown Baltimore, NE. S. Dakota) and even those jobs are better than what they can get in rural India. There are still primary care residencies that don't fill so in and of itself, FMGs aren't the answer.
There is a big pushback on some of the radiology reading firms who have used dodgy, ill trained docs to read films. They were really popular a couple of years ago but a number of high profile malpractice cases has cooled everybody's ardor. Pharm techs and pharmacists, pathology techs and a number of other bits of the medical puzzle are being outsourced with fairly variable results.
Six years is a pretty good run an all. That said, I do wish they would actually update the 2011 17" MBP with the nifty matte screen and the upgradable memory and hard drive bays. Oh, an ports.
Because it's risky, takes years and takes expertise that Apple doesn't have. There are only a few foundries that CAN produce what Apple wants. Since they are a dominant customer, they have a fairly large voice in what gets produced without the risk of having a major investment screw up.
Please tell me how come things spark in a microwave oven.
"Research shows that your microwave oven.. in fact will threaten your health by violently ripping the molecules in your food apart, rendering some nutrients inert, at best, and carcinogenic at its worst."
Wow. Thanks for that (since the Rest of Us were too lazy to look it up).
For the Rest of Us ---
1. This is a vaccine that is designed to work ONLY against RSV - one semi common (10-20% of all URIs) virus albeit one that can be deadly in little kids (especially premies) 2. TFA managed to imply that this vaccine would work on the Big Three (Rhinovirus, Coronovirus an RSV) making it a reasonable candidate for a 'cold vaccine'. But this is not true at all. It was developed to PREVENT (as in vaccine) not CURE only RSV. 3. Profit (I suppose, the Daily Mail is full of this sort of crap).
Come on 'editors'. At this rate we will see a dupe of this sometime tomorrow.
All American-made cars are complete trash in this way, compared to Japanese or European imports. Doesn't matter if it's a cheap and cheerful compact or a supercar.
My 16 year old GMC pickup laughs at your stupid comment.
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No you don't. Some things are best left set to 'virtual'.
Actually, this article is much ado about virtually nothing.
According to this page there were 35 million passengers through Liberty International Airport in 2014. That's about 3 million / month. 70 laptops in that pile of people is less than a tenth of a percent. Lots less.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Your non offensiveness is offensive.
Trump shows occasional flashes of real promise -
Yeah, like flashes of WW 3. Promise!
You must be an American because either your history or geography is completely confused. Most Saudi Oil currently goes to Europe. If the Sauds shut down production it would upset the EU big time and then the US as collateral damage to some degree. The increase in oil prices actually would HELP a number of foreign countries like Alaska and Russia.
But you have to remember that Saudi Arabia really doesn't have all that much else to offer the world. Being annoyed at Iran and starting proxy wars in places no one can pronounce doesn't count. If they don't pump, they don't get paid.
The Golden Rule, again.
"Mostly harmless" my ass....
The point here is that commodity products, even with significant functional downsides will beat more expensive specialty products most of the time.
Yes, TomToms have a better GPS chip and antenna. But the smart phone works pretty well. Yes, GoPros can survive reentry from orbit but if you're just skateboarding you don't need that sort of build quality.
GoPro lost it's niche and then was unable to push the technology (4K, 5K video, decent battery). Wild expansion into everybody else's niche probably sounded great in the Board Room. In engineering, not so much. Remember, also, that GoPro relied on commodity electronics for it's core. The video and support chips were off the shelf Chinese. Available to anyone else with some cash (or credit or VC funding).
Nothing to see here, move along.
Another conclusion is that we shouldn't make all that much out of small functional MRI studies done by random researchers since they're hard to do correctly.
Of course, we could also use a dead fish as a control.
You must really like hearing about Trump. WTF is with this need to be updated on 'news' every few minutes when it's the same shit that the media has been chomping on for the past month?
Or perhaps you're just an Amazon marketing bot. In which case, carry on....
Feeling cranky today but I really wish ALL of this nonsense with calendar invites would stop. People are forever 'inviting' me to meetings that I don't have to go to. Typically when I'm supposed to be doing something else. It seems that whoever designed at least iCal made no allowance for the fact that I'm not available to everyone all of the time. I have work to do. Have you meetings but leave me out of your twisted plans.
Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
An off the cuff estimate of a complicated event with virtually no precedents. Made by an entity responsible for the disaster.
I think everyone who thought about it for more than a couple of minutes was figuring to multiply the 'estimate' by a factor between 2 and 10.
I hear that's partially already happening. More foreign doctors are being hired. X-Rays are sent over the Internet to India for analysis. Even pharmacy workers are being replaced with H-1B visa workers.
This shit can't last.
Lots of foreign doctors have entered the US over the past 30 years. There is a dedicated pathway for this. Some of the are OK, lots of them are pretty marginal. The marginal ones tend to go into marginal residency (post doctoral) programs and turn out to be marginal docs. Some of them end up pretty competent. You'll find many MD / DO job postings that cater to FMG s (Foreign Medical Graduates) because they're in places that US trained docs don't want to go (downtown Baltimore, NE. S. Dakota) and even those jobs are better than what they can get in rural India. There are still primary care residencies that don't fill so in and of itself, FMGs aren't the answer.
There is a big pushback on some of the radiology reading firms who have used dodgy, ill trained docs to read films. They were really popular a couple of years ago but a number of high profile malpractice cases has cooled everybody's ardor. Pharm techs and pharmacists, pathology techs and a number of other bits of the medical puzzle are being outsourced with fairly variable results.
You tend to get what you pay for.
Dillards corporate headquarters only hires H1-B visa workers for their IT dept. CEO salary last year was $500,000,000.
One would think he could have gotten by on only$498,000,000 and kept the American jobs, but nooooooo. Somebody like that has no conscience.
Did you just go all Donald on us? 500 million US dollars?
Yes, he makes more than the rest of us combined, but give the hyperbole a break, shall we?
Six years is a pretty good run an all. That said, I do wish they would actually update the 2011 17" MBP with the nifty matte screen and the upgradable memory and hard drive bays. Oh, an ports.
A professional machine.
Sigh.
They can shape the curvature into a sphere...
You have stumbled on Apple's plan for World Dominance. A completely enclosed spherical bubble (OLED no less).
The ultimate Reality Distortion Field.
Because it's risky, takes years and takes expertise that Apple doesn't have. There are only a few foundries that CAN produce what Apple wants. Since they are a dominant customer, they have a fairly large voice in what gets produced without the risk of having a major investment screw up.
Pretty smart, actually.
i wish! what we have currently doesn't even remotely resemble what this country's founders envisioned or intended.
Like slavery and women-as-chattel.
Trump actually spoke directly to the beaten down American worker. He acknowledged his pain and suffering and promised to help him recover.
"I feel your pain". - William Jefferson Clinton.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Please tell me how come things spark in a microwave oven.
"Research shows that your microwave oven .. in fact will threaten your health by violently ripping the molecules in your food apart, rendering some nutrients inert, at best, and carcinogenic at its worst."
Don't even worry about the sparks.
Wow. Thanks for that (since the Rest of Us were too lazy to look it up).
For the Rest of Us ---
1. This is a vaccine that is designed to work ONLY against RSV - one semi common (10-20% of all URIs) virus albeit one that can be deadly in little kids (especially premies)
2. TFA managed to imply that this vaccine would work on the Big Three (Rhinovirus, Coronovirus an RSV) making it a reasonable candidate for a 'cold vaccine'. But this is not true at all. It was developed to PREVENT (as in vaccine) not CURE only RSV.
3. Profit (I suppose, the Daily Mail is full of this sort of crap).
Come on 'editors'. At this rate we will see a dupe of this sometime tomorrow.
It's Trump's fault.
All American-made cars are complete trash in this way, compared to Japanese or European imports. Doesn't matter if it's a cheap and cheerful compact or a supercar.
My 16 year old GMC pickup laughs at your stupid comment.
But especially on the Internet. That's even more dangerous.
Where men are men, women are men and children are FBI agents.
I like this better:
ICANTHEARYOU
(No, I don't know what it's supposed to stand for. That is left as an exercise to the reader.)
And where the hell did 'mn' come out of? Who did English steal that particular spelling atrocity from?
The best thing about mnemonics is that there are so many to chose from.
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What The Fuck Does This Stand For
Memory aids, indeed.