This was the logical end of this stupidity. Face it folks, you can't be 100% safe, no matter how many liberties you give up.
I disagree. Just think of the potential advances. A full body CT scan and a colonoscopy for each passenger/patient. The potential for improving colon cancer detection alone is just mind boggling.
Really guys, this could go a long way to dealing with the problems of cancer screening. Add a mammogram, a Chest CT (for lung cancer), a bit better backscatter machine that can find melanomas, a prostate exam and you're golden. I guess the pap smear could be an issue (TSA would have to be able to differentiate between men and women) but that's a small price to pay for the country's health.
The FCC does a pretty good job, and they are entirely fee and fine based.
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BMO
Actually, given the constraints laid upon them, a number of Federal departments and agencies do a 'pretty good' job. That doesn't mean that nobody is pissed at them (which would happen no matter how 'good' they were). Doesn't mean that we shouldn't be screaming for reform when needed. But in the grand scheme of things we muddle along reasonably well.
I think a lot of people have this idea that we can have a 'government' that is set up so we push a button and it just works. That isn't ever going to happen. There will be competing interests, greed, dishonesty and just plain error that has to be corrected. The only department that I think just should be abolished outright is Homeland Security. That was just a giant hastily conceived cluster fuck which does nothing useful and helps no one with the exception of a few companies who have got rich on the various 'save America from the turbans' schemes.
China has been, and will be, developing a blue water navy. They're in no position to threaten the US at the moment and show no inclination to do so at any rate. So your point is exactly what? That the Chinese will risk a major confrontation with the rest of the world for rare earths? Righto. Best to loosen the tinfoil a bit.
Rare earths aren't particularly rare, they are just present in such low concentrations that they are expensive (and environmentally problematic) to mine. If the cost goes up a bit, there will be many other sources of rare earths developed. The short term issue is that developing such sources takes time and China has much of the current supply spoken for. However, these new Japanese discoveries will not come on line in the near future - they will take an enormous investment to get to the surface. So they will be of little help to the rest of the world. They do offer Japan a potentially home grown supply and they may find it advantageous to spend the time and considerable money working out the problems of hauling large amounts of muck out of an abyssal plain. Everyone else, not so much.
Dredging at a depth of two or three miles has an impact on anything we care about? The critters down there aren't even edible and don't impact the biosphere like surface plankton, who gives a shit?
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
i prefer ebooks as reference material, of course. but actually learning about a new subject is (for me) much easier with proper books i can hold, fold, throw around, and write on with a pencil./p>
But so far, the only target audiences of tablet users with any validity appear to be older people with no PC skills and people who are stood up on packed computer trains.
And there are a shitload more of THEM then there are of US. Apple is laughing all the way to the bank about it's lousy strategy to target non professional computer users for their media appliance.
A blood test later revealed that he had recently taken a Viagra.
Wow. Is that a non sequitur or what? Just what the hell are they screening for in Ohio?
Actually, my snarky point was that some implementations of Android don't 'just work'. True, it's easier to modify Android phones and customize them but that isn't the demographic that Samsung is going for. It's people like my mom who wouldn't know a boot loader from a sail boat.
And that is a big problem for Android - too many implementations are poorly done kludges. The incredibly odd part about this is the various modding groups have shown that it's possible to create a high quality product, but the big companies can't seem to be arsed to put enough effort to get there. You have to give Apple credit - they're pushing the customer experience farther and harder than anybody else.
And thanks for the tip on the Doro. My mom has a Jitterbug (actually a rebranded Samsung) but I'm not really overwhelmed with their system. I may look into it.
'American leadership in space will continue for at least the next half-century because we
- aha, keep dreaming.
The US bond crisis is coming, followed immediately by the currency crisis. I bet there will be more pressing needs, like more weapons to start resource wars against multiple countries much before the US will once again be able to go far into space in its new ships, never mind having humans on board there....
While you may well be correct, remember that the percentage of the GDP that the US expends for space exploration is pretty much a rounding error. We can afford it.
I am guessing this post is vetted by higher ups at Apple.
I think they realize that the new paradigm of Apple deskop/notebook OS does not sit too well with the geeks, and they feel the need to connect and explain in this fashion.
I also think that if 10.7 Lion was something Apple wanted to distribute openly in earnest, they would have done so without resorting to the locked-in App store (even if the actual 10.7 is not locked in).
Apple is playing a double game here - they want to hook in users with a new shiny OS and at the same time get them to embrace the lock-in of App store which will provide a stream of paid and DRMed applications. However, what worked for "consumption devices" like iPad may not necessarily work out so well for general purpose devices like a Macbook.
I'm guessing that you should switch to decaf in the very near future and loosen the duct tape holding your tinfoil hat on.
At least for me, 10.3 was the 'first stable' release of Snow Leopard. Since Lion doesn't give me any 'must have' features, I will wait for a couple of weeks and let the beta testers do their job.
And a big Thank You to all of you early adopters out there! You make my life much easier.
The big things of interest for OS X to me, as someone who likes efficiency and stability out of his systems, are:
* will they finally fix the horrible threading and context switching implementation so that running something like a spreadsheet program with a large spreadsheet not cause the gnashing of teeth?
You're holding it wrong.
* HFS+ replacement so IO won't be a horrendous bottleneck?
See above
* Better wifi implementation so that the macs I've got to deal with are not the main ones to have signal issues? (Seriously, when macs have more issues with APs than XP, you know you've got issue. You can't completely say it's the hardware, because Linux on the same systems is at least better...)
The problem here, as you should already know, is the Windows boxes are polluting the spectrum and slowing down the system. The Macs are desperately trying to clean up the air but you probably have too many copies of XP floating about. Buy everyone a nice shiny Mac and the problem will go away. (Notice I didn't say that the wifi speeds would be any faster).
* will they allow me to do what I want with the 'dock' and the sparse UI elements, or am I restricted to using it how they say I should (particularly as it pertains to multitasking/not multitasking: it doesn't matter if they make that not suck at the techincal level if the UI is still horribly crippled).
Do you really need me to answer that? You do it OUR way or the highway.
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Most men's 9-12 socks will cover a guinea pig almost perfectly.
You know this for a fact, do you? Why exactly is that?
I could volunteer a couple of such lounges for a clinical trial. Purely in the name of research, you understand.
I am not quite sure what I would do with all that blow and all those hookers, but surely they come with the position?
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Foolish child. That's for management. You're supposed to just sit there and approve the patents. You get nothing.
You haven't done much tech support recently, have you? Much of it is still at 'are you sure the computer is plugged in' level.
Again, this isn't pitched at you, it's for them.
Now voice-response menu systems are artificially intelligent. This is not an improvement.
Think an unholy union of Skynet and QVC.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Head asplode ...
This was the logical end of this stupidity. Face it folks, you can't be 100% safe, no matter how many liberties you give up.
I disagree. Just think of the potential advances. A full body CT scan and a colonoscopy for each passenger/patient. The potential for improving colon cancer detection alone is just mind boggling.
Really guys, this could go a long way to dealing with the problems of cancer screening. Add a mammogram, a Chest CT (for lung cancer), a bit better backscatter machine that can find melanomas, a prostate exam and you're golden. I guess the pap smear could be an issue (TSA would have to be able to differentiate between men and women) but that's a small price to pay for the country's health.
Stop being so negative!
Prior Art.
Taco Bell!
The FCC does a pretty good job, and they are entirely fee and fine based.
-- BMO
Actually, given the constraints laid upon them, a number of Federal departments and agencies do a 'pretty good' job. That doesn't mean that nobody is pissed at them (which would happen no matter how 'good' they were). Doesn't mean that we shouldn't be screaming for reform when needed. But in the grand scheme of things we muddle along reasonably well.
I think a lot of people have this idea that we can have a 'government' that is set up so we push a button and it just works. That isn't ever going to happen. There will be competing interests, greed, dishonesty and just plain error that has to be corrected. The only department that I think just should be abolished outright is Homeland Security. That was just a giant hastily conceived cluster fuck which does nothing useful and helps no one with the exception of a few companies who have got rich on the various 'save America from the turbans' schemes.
Wrong monsters. Let's try again: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
China is working on a blue water navy. Article is dated Sunday, April 18, 2010
China has been, and will be, developing a blue water navy. They're in no position to threaten the US at the moment and show no inclination to do so at any rate. So your point is exactly what? That the Chinese will risk a major confrontation with the rest of the world for rare earths? Righto. Best to loosen the tinfoil a bit.
Rare earths aren't particularly rare, they are just present in such low concentrations that they are expensive (and environmentally problematic) to mine. If the cost goes up a bit, there will be many other sources of rare earths developed. The short term issue is that developing such sources takes time and China has much of the current supply spoken for. However, these new Japanese discoveries will not come on line in the near future - they will take an enormous investment to get to the surface. So they will be of little help to the rest of the world. They do offer Japan a potentially home grown supply and they may find it advantageous to spend the time and considerable money working out the problems of hauling large amounts of muck out of an abyssal plain. Everyone else, not so much.
Dredging at a depth of two or three miles has an impact on anything we care about? The critters down there aren't even edible and don't impact the biosphere like surface plankton, who gives a shit?
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Nietzsche
Appropriate at several levels.
i prefer ebooks as reference material, of course. but actually learning about a new subject is (for me) much easier with proper books i can hold, fold, throw around, and write on with a pencil. /p>
I bet your librarian hates you.
or, y'know, the US could just not be dicks about this kind of thing.
Why do you hate America?
But so far, the only target audiences of tablet users with any validity appear to be older people with no PC skills and people who are stood up on packed computer trains.
And there are a shitload more of THEM then there are of US. Apple is laughing all the way to the bank about it's lousy strategy to target non professional computer users for their media appliance.
A blood test later revealed that he had recently taken a Viagra. Wow. Is that a non sequitur or what? Just what the hell are they screening for in Ohio?
Actually, my snarky point was that some implementations of Android don't 'just work'. True, it's easier to modify Android phones and customize them but that isn't the demographic that Samsung is going for. It's people like my mom who wouldn't know a boot loader from a sail boat.
And that is a big problem for Android - too many implementations are poorly done kludges. The incredibly odd part about this is the various modding groups have shown that it's possible to create a high quality product, but the big companies can't seem to be arsed to put enough effort to get there. You have to give Apple credit - they're pushing the customer experience farther and harder than anybody else.
And thanks for the tip on the Doro. My mom has a Jitterbug (actually a rebranded Samsung) but I'm not really overwhelmed with their system. I may look into it.
Great. I'll tell my mom all about this.....
i could care less if the US is seen as the "leader" in space exploration.
Why do you hate America?
Good point. Tends to get lost in the discussion.
'American leadership in space will continue for at least the next half-century because we
- aha, keep dreaming.
The US bond crisis is coming, followed immediately by the currency crisis. I bet there will be more pressing needs, like more weapons to start resource wars against multiple countries much before the US will once again be able to go far into space in its new ships, never mind having humans on board there....
While you may well be correct, remember that the percentage of the GDP that the US expends for space exploration is pretty much a rounding error. We can afford it.
And even if so, what's the best way to justify a four hour round trip drive to and from the nearest Apple Store to others in one's household?
I take it you're not married?
I am guessing this post is vetted by higher ups at Apple. I think they realize that the new paradigm of Apple deskop/notebook OS does not sit too well with the geeks, and they feel the need to connect and explain in this fashion. I also think that if 10.7 Lion was something Apple wanted to distribute openly in earnest, they would have done so without resorting to the locked-in App store (even if the actual 10.7 is not locked in). Apple is playing a double game here - they want to hook in users with a new shiny OS and at the same time get them to embrace the lock-in of App store which will provide a stream of paid and DRMed applications. However, what worked for "consumption devices" like iPad may not necessarily work out so well for general purpose devices like a Macbook.
I'm guessing that you should switch to decaf in the very near future and loosen the duct tape holding your tinfoil hat on.
At least for me, 10.3 was the 'first stable' release of Snow Leopard. Since Lion doesn't give me any 'must have' features, I will wait for a couple of weeks and let the beta testers do their job.
And a big Thank You to all of you early adopters out there! You make my life much easier.
The big things of interest for OS X to me, as someone who likes efficiency and stability out of his systems, are:
* will they finally fix the horrible threading and context switching implementation so that running something like a spreadsheet program with a large spreadsheet not cause the gnashing of teeth?
You're holding it wrong.
* HFS+ replacement so IO won't be a horrendous bottleneck?
See above
* Better wifi implementation so that the macs I've got to deal with are not the main ones to have signal issues? (Seriously, when macs have more issues with APs than XP, you know you've got issue. You can't completely say it's the hardware, because Linux on the same systems is at least better...)
The problem here, as you should already know, is the Windows boxes are polluting the spectrum and slowing down the system. The Macs are desperately trying to clean up the air but you probably have too many copies of XP floating about. Buy everyone a nice shiny Mac and the problem will go away. (Notice I didn't say that the wifi speeds would be any faster).
* will they allow me to do what I want with the 'dock' and the sparse UI elements, or am I restricted to using it how they say I should (particularly as it pertains to multitasking/not multitasking: it doesn't matter if they make that not suck at the techincal level if the UI is still horribly crippled).
Do you really need me to answer that? You do it OUR way or the highway.
Steve
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