Slashdot will be swamped with nuclear power industry apologists pretending "Not much and nothing" happened. Dissent will be modded to oblivion.
Reality will continue to disagree.
Then, as per Slashdot's usual and customary behavior, nuclear power haters will chime in with some hyperbolic argument in the opposite direction, citing such illustrious sources as YouTube, Wikipedia and the Daily Mail.
Meanwhile, someone will opine that it's George W. Bush's fault (or Dick Cheney, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or the Easter Bunny). Several hundred posts will go back and forth covering exactly the same arguments and counterarguments as the last 200 times these subjects were brought up.
The minuscule but apparently earth shattering differences between Democrats and Republicans will be brought up again. Op Cit.
An obscure component manufacturer somewhere in the Pacific Rim announces a major order for some bleeding-edge piece of technology that could conceivably become part of an expensive, digital-lifestyle-enhancing nerd toy.....
It's likely grayscale, but you just put three of them together, one with a red filter, one with a blue filter and one with a green filter and you've got color. 250 x 250 isn't near good enough for medical endoscopy, but you obviously can stack a couple of them together in an array - that's old tech. Extra points for making a radial array and reconstructing a nearly 360 degree image.
It's nice to have a scapegoat. Concise summary of stupid article: We used to make a lot of money. Now we're not and don't know how to deal with things. It's Google's fault.
People have climbed Mount Everest without oxygen so I don't see why you would lose consciousness due to lack of oxygen if you fall from just a little bit higher? Is it because it's hard to breath at that speed? Wouldn't it be possible to stop the air enough with your body and clothes to breath it?
Climbers spend weeks to months acclimatizing to high altitude to avoid acute mountain sickness, pulmonary edema and cerebral edema (along with a host of other annoying medical problems). Jumping / falling out of a plane at 30,000 feet sort of bypasses that routine.
Yes, that's how Outward Bound got started (the realization that numerous Merchant Marine crews torpedoed in WWII were dying when they really could have survived with training and a better mental attitude). However, the physics of floating in a lifeboat and bailing out at 30,000 feet without gear are slightly different.
Answer it. What have YOU personally EVER DONE that even begins to rival that man's achievements, hmmm, You fucking transparent little blowhard? Have you done better before he did in computing? How about during his heights & even afterward currently?? It's literally amazing how you little armchair quarterbacks online have all this nerve to try to cast dispersions on those in this field or any other even remotely like it, when you & "your kind" haven't even EVER DONE A DAMN THING THAT OTHERS HAVE NOTED AS WELL IN PUBLICATIONS, NEWS, OR OTHER SUCH LIKE AVENUES AS GOOD OR BENEFICIAL. Big talkers the lot of you (not everyone here, just easily seen thru little asswipes like this fool is I replied to.)
Steve, Steve - please calm down. The stress isn't good for you. Probably not a good time to be wandering around Slashdot. Maybe you should stick to Macworld or Times.
Go look at chimerafun's post above yours. This is really a non issue. Some 20 something marketing zombie thought it would be cool. Their 30 year old marketing manager droid didn't think it through completely. Since it was likely really low budget, it just got done, then slapped down.
You take a pill to cure baldness, ostensibly because you find your lack of hair hampers your ability to get laid. But after taking the pills you end up with a full head of hair and maybe even a woman because of it, and you're unable to perform?
Seems like you're damned if you do, damned if you dont...
I've got this funny shaped blue pill for you, sir. When you get a headache from that, why here's some aspirin. Got a tummy ache from the aspirin? Here's some Tagamet
And on and on and on.... It's pharmaceuticals all the way down.
The problem wasn't so much that Vioxx slightly increased one's risk of heart attacks - it was that Merck hid data, went on an insane advertising campaign calling it a 'super aspirin' and tried to sell it to everyone and their dog. We have much more dangerous medications that we use all of the time but are (supposedly) treated with more respect. We did throw the baby out with the bath on this one. But remember it wasn't the FDA that banned Vioxx - Merck pulled it from the market.
In that mythical pony-and-unicorn world of Steve Jobs and our dreams, the FDA would have forced Merck to sell rights to the drug to someone else who could act in a more responsible fashion.
And yes, Celebrex is just about as bad for cardiac risk and doesn't work as well. Newsflash: Drugs are dangerous.
But provide that amount of power in an open system and there'll be people who'll find beautiful ways of suing it.
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Yes, I think this is the saddest thing ever. I don't even dare RTFA. TFS is already more than I can stand.
Well, then don't read this one. Not goatse or anything similar but creepy in that unique Japanese way of introducing tentacles into everything.
Which is why we need to kill it first.
Hey, give us a break! We're working on it.
Avariciously yours, Dick Cheney & Co.
Slashdot will be swamped with nuclear power industry apologists pretending "Not much and nothing" happened. Dissent will be modded to oblivion.
Reality will continue to disagree.
Then, as per Slashdot's usual and customary behavior, nuclear power haters will chime in with some hyperbolic argument in the opposite direction, citing such illustrious sources as YouTube, Wikipedia and the Daily Mail.
Meanwhile, someone will opine that it's George W. Bush's fault (or Dick Cheney, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or the Easter Bunny). Several hundred posts will go back and forth covering exactly the same arguments and counterarguments as the last 200 times these subjects were brought up.
The minuscule but apparently earth shattering differences between Democrats and Republicans will be brought up again. Op Cit.
An obscure component manufacturer somewhere in the Pacific Rim announces a major order for some bleeding-edge piece of technology that could conceivably become part of an expensive, digital-lifestyle-enhancing nerd toy.....
It's likely grayscale, but you just put three of them together, one with a red filter, one with a blue filter and one with a green filter and you've got color. 250 x 250 isn't near good enough for medical endoscopy, but you obviously can stack a couple of them together in an array - that's old tech. Extra points for making a radial array and reconstructing a nearly 360 degree image.
Unless someone makes a device to measure the prostate's volume, texture, density, etc., which will definitely not be a camera.
It's called an ultrasound. Now, roll up your sleeves and bend over.
Inspector Clouseau
It's nice to have a scapegoat. Concise summary of stupid article: We used to make a lot of money. Now we're not and don't know how to deal with things. It's Google's fault.
And this folks, is why you should always fly first class.
Huh? What's still flying? Apollo or Soyuz? The latter is probably the most flexible bit of space hardware known.
People have climbed Mount Everest without oxygen so I don't see why you would lose consciousness due to lack of oxygen if you fall from just a little bit higher? Is it because it's hard to breath at that speed? Wouldn't it be possible to stop the air enough with your body and clothes to breath it?
Climbers spend weeks to months acclimatizing to high altitude to avoid acute mountain sickness, pulmonary edema and cerebral edema (along with a host of other annoying medical problems). Jumping / falling out of a plane at 30,000 feet sort of bypasses that routine.
I'll bet your a lot of fun to sit next to on a plane.
Yes, that's how Outward Bound got started (the realization that numerous Merchant Marine crews torpedoed in WWII were dying when they really could have survived with training and a better mental attitude). However, the physics of floating in a lifeboat and bailing out at 30,000 feet without gear are slightly different.
Yes.
Here. Not so hard, but bog - can't the submitter figure that out? Slow down, guys, nobody is gonna scoop you on this stuff.
Software can't modify hardware[1],
Sure it can - software lets motor run beyond rated speed. Motor heats up and 'modifies' the bearings.
so if the hardware breaks then logically it cannot be the software's fault.
See above. Do you really think that software cannot interact with 'hardware' to make permanent, physical changes? If so, you need to get outside more.
Doh! One has to also recognize data urls. *sigh*
Or just don't click on links offered by people with UIDs > 2E6 and no posting history. Eternal September and all that.
Answer it. What have YOU personally EVER DONE that even begins to rival that man's achievements, hmmm, You fucking transparent little blowhard? Have you done better before he did in computing? How about during his heights & even afterward currently?? It's literally amazing how you little armchair quarterbacks online have all this nerve to try to cast dispersions on those in this field or any other even remotely like it, when you & "your kind" haven't even EVER DONE A DAMN THING THAT OTHERS HAVE NOTED AS WELL IN PUBLICATIONS, NEWS, OR OTHER SUCH LIKE AVENUES AS GOOD OR BENEFICIAL. Big talkers the lot of you (not everyone here, just easily seen thru little asswipes like this fool is I replied to.)
Steve, Steve - please calm down. The stress isn't good for you. Probably not a good time to be wandering around Slashdot. Maybe you should stick to Macworld or Times.
"Pan-fundatio"? That even confused Google.
Go look at chimerafun's post above yours. This is really a non issue. Some 20 something marketing zombie thought it would be cool. Their 30 year old marketing manager droid didn't think it through completely. Since it was likely really low budget, it just got done, then slapped down.
Nobody else cares.
Please tell me you don't do medical research....
You take a pill to cure baldness, ostensibly because you find your lack of hair hampers your ability to get laid. But after taking the pills you end up with a full head of hair and maybe even a woman because of it, and you're unable to perform? Seems like you're damned if you do, damned if you dont...
I've got this funny shaped blue pill for you, sir. When you get a headache from that, why here's some aspirin. Got a tummy ache from the aspirin? Here's some Tagamet
And on and on and on.... It's pharmaceuticals all the way down.
The problem wasn't so much that Vioxx slightly increased one's risk of heart attacks - it was that Merck hid data, went on an insane advertising campaign calling it a 'super aspirin' and tried to sell it to everyone and their dog. We have much more dangerous medications that we use all of the time but are (supposedly) treated with more respect. We did throw the baby out with the bath on this one. But remember it wasn't the FDA that banned Vioxx - Merck pulled it from the market.
In that mythical pony-and-unicorn world of Steve Jobs and our dreams, the FDA would have forced Merck to sell rights to the drug to someone else who could act in a more responsible fashion.
And yes, Celebrex is just about as bad for cardiac risk and doesn't work as well. Newsflash: Drugs are dangerous.
Despite the advertising claims to the contrary, my Internet line appears to be turtles, all the way down.
But provide that amount of power in an open system and there'll be people who'll find beautiful ways of suing it.
Dear Osmanjusri:
From your recent Freudian slip, it is obvious that you are spending too much time on Slashdot. We suggest a few weeks watching either Glen Beck or American Idol. Then feel free to rejoin us for our continuing series of stories concerning rampant tech litigation.
Just look at NVidia. Their driver package is up to version 270.51.
I thought that was the file size in GB.