I suspect that a water-based extract of some bitter herb is all that is necessary,
Too bad they already tested that obvious possibility. Didn't work. Next idea.
The expensiveness and homicidal dreams of anti-malaria medication don't prevent a tea made from olive leaves from curing malaria. Fucking Pliny knew about this if that helps you understand how old it is, yet today we're using harmful bullshit to treat it instead.
Ah yes. Of course, if fucking Pliny's special tea worked, maybe they would actually use it in those many countries with endemic malaria. Guess it doesn't work well enough for Nigerians to import olive leaves...
I've got 4 Macs in the household. Not one of them runs Safari. That's what Firefox is for. Safari, like most Apple software (Aperture,iTunes, iLife) is fine for some people but I find it bizarre, limiting and generally annoying.
There is a difference between two countries that are otherwise fairly sane who have a (even very heated) dispute lasting decades or even longer... and crazy or religious idealogues in control of a countries nuclear arsenal.
North Koreas leader has shown a tendancy to be outright nuts, and doing crazy unpredictable things. He's said a lot of really really agressive things and we really don't know what to expect from someone like that. As such, allowing them to have nukes of any consequence (they have already shown to have nuke capaibility, but no real way to deliver it or any stockpile) would also be unpredictable.
Iran has a slightly less crazy ruler, but he is a religious idealogue. If he thinks god told him to nuke someone, it could very well happen. Or worse, he might have to live up to his hyperbole or risk the rath of his own people.
Ah yes, our responsible, sane rulers: from the article
# President Kennedy was given amphetamines by Dr. Max Jacobson. Known as “Dr. Feelgood” and “Miracle Max” because of the massive amphetamine doses administered to his clients. Kennedy photographer Mark Shaw, also a Jacobson client, died in 1969 from “acute and chronic intravenous amphetamine poisoning.” Jacobson’s medical license was revoked in 1975.
# Some reports attributed Boris Yeltsin’s bizarre behavior to alcoholism. Whatever the cause, his behavior often seemed incompatible with the responsibilities of a world leader capable of starting a nuclear war.
# George W. Bush and his wife have admitted that his use of alcohol impaired their relationship prior to his becoming president. There have been allegations that Bush’s alcohol problem may have been more serious and lasted longer than admitted.
# Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s recent memoirs acknowledge that he often had a “stiff whisky or G and T before dinner, couple of glasses of wine or even half a bottle with it.” At a minimum, this would mean that he might have to make a decision involving the use of nuclear weapons when he was impaired enough that it would be illegal to drive a car.
# There were reports that, prior to President Nixon’s resignation as a result of the growing Watergate scandal, he “broached the possibility of suicide [seriously enough that White House Chief of Staff] Gen. Haig ordered doctors to take away Nixon’s tranquilizers and deny his requests for pills.”
Yep, I feel better know...
(Man, that was hard with the new stupid reply box. Hey 'Taco - how about maybe floating the right margin? It's 2010.
But we haven't even been back to the moon despite it being easier to do than in the 60s.
You're basically correct but the reason we're not back on the moon has little to do with electronics and lots to do with the fact that physics hasn't changed much in those 38 years. Gravity sucks.
He mentioned that his friends run 3D graphics apps. Basically a game in terms of stress on the video system. You might well not get the performance you want out of a virtualization solution. Some network stuff doesn't work on Parallels or Fusion, especially old poorly coded Enterprise stuff. In order to run my hospital's miserable excuse for a clinical app, I either have to use bootcamp or just grab an old Windows laptop. We've tried for hours to get it to run under everything imaginable and have had limited success.
That said, I think most people can just run some virtualization environment and do just fine.
If Adobe dropped their DRM in favor of anything else, I would genuflect in front of whomever got them to do it. The crap system that Adobe uses is responsible for elevated blood pressure, hives, hemorrhoids and the end of Western Civilization.
Battery Life. Battery Life. Battery Life. Until the physics folks get off their stringy little butts and give us credit card sized fusion devices, we're stuck with shitty little batteries.
Not to mention the fact that Core duo 1.4's still have more computing power than I've used in the vast majority of machines I've owned. Now, get off my astroturf.
I have the nagging suspicion that Apple is indeed going to turn anything but the MacPro into a larger version of an iPhone, or the equivalent of an XBox. Goodbye Mac, hello Linux.
OK you drama queens. Pop a couple of happy pills and float along. Look at what Apple is trying to do - sell machines to the masses. The masses, as we have demonstrated ad nauseum around here, can't install anything more complex than their breakfast cereal without causing grief to themselves and the rest of the ecosystem. So, if you want to sell them a system that allows them to install stuff it has to be PEBAC simple. One click for an application that does one thing. Not Autocad. Not Photoshop.
Now, there is nothing, repeat nothing, that prevents Apple from taking a two tier approach to this. Keep the underlying OS open and fungible, while keeping the idiots at bay with an idiot barrier. They certainly could have done this with iOS (hence the fact that jailbreaking is dead simple) but they didn't. I think the reasons for that were more paranoia on the part of the carriers and a real concern about malware on phones.
So unless you think there is something to gain by going backwards on the part of openness in the underlying OS for 'real' (ie, general purpose computers as opposed to appliances) I don't see where the angst is. Yes, the desktop computing paradigm (for the general consumer as opposed to business / professional use) is going to be appliance oriented. I just hope that Apple doesn't completely neglect the Rest of Us chained to our 26 inch monitors.
Do you really thing most smaller developers can't find a place to host their website and software which costs less than 30% of all their sales? Keep in mind that most developers don't need Steam/Microsoft/Amazon levels of bandwidth.
I think you're missing the point. Indie developers don't need the bandwidth, they need the exposure. Apple potentially gives this to them, assuming they don't screw it up like the iOS app store with 20 billion useless and annoying apps.
Apple has had this for a while. Look in the Store - you'll see lots of Apple software (including stuff from the Evil Twins, Adobe and Microsoft). This sounds like it's more for smaller / indie apps as I can't see Adobe or Microsoft (or Autocad or any other big company) giving Apple 30% of anything.
And this very slight anomaly, if it exists, might very well not have much impact outside of our understanding of cosmology...
But it might. And sending a few Pioneer class probes out to check this out could be done very inexpensively. It just takes long term vision and commitment - even for little things. That's exactly what we don't seem to be able to muster.
There is something of a qualitative and quantitative difference between a low tech communications satellite and a manned Mars (or even Lunar) mission. Don't get me wrong, I've contributed a lot to AMSAT over the years and have used their sats. It's a pretty impressive bit of organization, money raising and actual hands on satellite building.
But the OP's idea of building a major space initiative through volunteer machining work is just worlds apart from reality.
Let me guess -- it creates a lifelike visual stage with mellow yet crisp organic textures and deep black interscene silences. The muscular yet deft support structure enhances the vista responses of the viewer, allowing full appreciation for the rich yet subtle display of thermal inversion in the valley below.
That was uncalled for. Don't do that around here, OK?
O'rly? Makes me wonder why they seal the doors, and how they deal with the half normal atmospheric pressure at 35,000ft or so? I guess something that's not air tight can still experience http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_decompression right?
Probably because, in the usual course of flying a 747, the engines are running which have big dealybobs called 'compressors' which pump air to the cabin. A pressurized aircraft would be 'weather resistant' rather than waterproof. Note that the Airbus 320 that splashed into the Hudson river a couple of years ago floated (for a couple of hours) because it has a "ditch switch" that closes a number of valves and openings on the plane that makes it more water resistant.
You probably could seal a fuselage enough to make it reasonably watertight at low pressures, but you don't see too many 747 submarines (this side of movies that is).
They are trained to take control of situations and something silly like not respecting their authority and blowing bubbles can sometimes escalate quickly into something worse.
And often, taking 'control' of the situation means backing off. Moving back a few feet, losing the shades (notice the female officer with her glasses up) and smiling would have defused the whole thing right there.
It's not like she was being particularly menacing. The officer was being an aggressive jerk for no good reason. Makes everybody look bad.
Not really, OS X likes to be rebooted from time to time. I have to remember to do that to my wife's MBP because she tends to flip it open, do something for a few minutes, flip it closed. It never gets to flush the caches or whatever little background maintenance it wants. It's better when Apple is doing major updates ever few weeks (which tend to need rebooting) but if I don't do that, after about a month, something goes wonky. It's usually Firefox (with very few extensions) but sometimes iCal or Mail.
Since I run Creative Suite, I'm always rebooting so I don't have that problem...
I often wonder what Apple would have looked like in an alternate history where Jobs walked and Woz was put in charge.
Apple products (if they existed at all) would be sold out of 1969 Volkswagen vans by couples with long hair and beards (male and female). The products would be powered by solar cells created out of fair trade hemp.
They would boot up using a special floppy.
There would be no iPod.
Bill Gates would be Sauron and Steve Ballmer would be Saruman.
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I suspect that a water-based extract of some bitter herb is all that is necessary,
Too bad they already tested that obvious possibility. Didn't work. Next idea.
The expensiveness and homicidal dreams of anti-malaria medication don't prevent a tea made from olive leaves from curing malaria. Fucking Pliny knew about this if that helps you understand how old it is, yet today we're using harmful bullshit to treat it instead.
Ah yes. Of course, if fucking Pliny's special tea worked, maybe they would actually use it in those many countries with endemic malaria. Guess it doesn't work well enough for Nigerians to import olive leaves...
Hah, my stuff is HD Digital.
The bestest.
What good does it do to know that habitable exoplanets are out there? Can we send people there? And even if we did ... (rest of depressing post)
Tiger got to hunt
Bird got to fly
Man got to sit and wonder - why, why, why?
Tiger got to sleep
Bird got to land
Man got to tell himself - he understand.
(Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
I've got 4 Macs in the household. Not one of them runs Safari. That's what Firefox is for. Safari, like most Apple software (Aperture,iTunes, iLife) is fine for some people but I find it bizarre, limiting and generally annoying.
There is a difference between two countries that are otherwise fairly sane who have a (even very heated) dispute lasting decades or even longer... and crazy or religious idealogues in control of a countries nuclear arsenal.
North Koreas leader has shown a tendancy to be outright nuts, and doing crazy unpredictable things. He's said a lot of really really agressive things and we really don't know what to expect from someone like that. As such, allowing them to have nukes of any consequence (they have already shown to have nuke capaibility, but no real way to deliver it or any stockpile) would also be unpredictable.
Iran has a slightly less crazy ruler, but he is a religious idealogue. If he thinks god told him to nuke someone, it could very well happen. Or worse, he might have to live up to his hyperbole or risk the rath of his own people.
Ah yes, our responsible, sane rulers: from the article
Yep, I feel better know...
(Man, that was hard with the new stupid reply box. Hey 'Taco - how about maybe floating the right margin? It's 2010.
But we haven't even been back to the moon despite it being easier to do than in the 60s.
You're basically correct but the reason we're not back on the moon has little to do with electronics and lots to do with the fact that physics hasn't changed much in those 38 years. Gravity sucks.
Artichoke mode?
Tying those points together: C2D isn't very good at power management. A low voltage Core i7 is more powerful and uses less power.
Right. I suppose you're better at systems integration than Apple. Maybe you should send them a resume.
He mentioned that his friends run 3D graphics apps. Basically a game in terms of stress on the video system. You might well not get the performance you want out of a virtualization solution. Some network stuff doesn't work on Parallels or Fusion, especially old poorly coded Enterprise stuff. In order to run my hospital's miserable excuse for a clinical app, I either have to use bootcamp or just grab an old Windows laptop. We've tried for hours to get it to run under everything imaginable and have had limited success.
That said, I think most people can just run some virtualization environment and do just fine.
If Adobe dropped their DRM in favor of anything else, I would genuflect in front of whomever got them to do it. The crap system that Adobe uses is responsible for elevated blood pressure, hives, hemorrhoids and the end of Western Civilization.
Battery Life. Battery Life. Battery Life. Until the physics folks get off their stringy little butts and give us credit card sized fusion devices, we're stuck with shitty little batteries.
Not to mention the fact that Core duo 1.4's still have more computing power than I've used in the vast majority of machines I've owned. Now, get off my astroturf.
OK you drama queens. Pop a couple of happy pills and float along. Look at what Apple is trying to do - sell machines to the masses. The masses, as we have demonstrated ad nauseum around here, can't install anything more complex than their breakfast cereal without causing grief to themselves and the rest of the ecosystem. So, if you want to sell them a system that allows them to install stuff it has to be PEBAC simple. One click for an application that does one thing. Not Autocad. Not Photoshop.
Now, there is nothing, repeat nothing, that prevents Apple from taking a two tier approach to this. Keep the underlying OS open and fungible, while keeping the idiots at bay with an idiot barrier. They certainly could have done this with iOS (hence the fact that jailbreaking is dead simple) but they didn't. I think the reasons for that were more paranoia on the part of the carriers and a real concern about malware on phones.
So unless you think there is something to gain by going backwards on the part of openness in the underlying OS for 'real' (ie, general purpose computers as opposed to appliances) I don't see where the angst is. Yes, the desktop computing paradigm (for the general consumer as opposed to business / professional use) is going to be appliance oriented. I just hope that Apple doesn't completely neglect the Rest of Us chained to our 26 inch monitors.
I think you're missing the point. Indie developers don't need the bandwidth, they need the exposure. Apple potentially gives this to them, assuming they don't screw it up like the iOS app store with 20 billion useless and annoying apps.
Apple has had this for a while. Look in the Store - you'll see lots of Apple software (including stuff from the Evil Twins, Adobe and Microsoft). This sounds like it's more for smaller / indie apps as I can't see Adobe or Microsoft (or Autocad or any other big company) giving Apple 30% of anything.
But it might. And sending a few Pioneer class probes out to check this out could be done very inexpensively. It just takes long term vision and commitment - even for little things. That's exactly what we don't seem to be able to muster.
Rather sad, actually.
There is something of a qualitative and quantitative difference between a low tech communications satellite and a manned Mars (or even Lunar) mission. Don't get me wrong, I've contributed a lot to AMSAT over the years and have used their sats. It's a pretty impressive bit of organization, money raising and actual hands on satellite building.
But the OP's idea of building a major space initiative through volunteer machining work is just worlds apart from reality.
Give me (or NASA, take your pick) the $10 billion. We'll try like heck and even if we don't get to Mars, we have your ten billion. And some great CG.
What's not to like?
That blank spot on the upper right corner of your browser... Type some words into it and see what happens. Magic!
Yeah, the engines. Large, round, very noisy.
Seems like a lot of women I know.
That was uncalled for. Don't do that around here, OK?
Probably because, in the usual course of flying a 747, the engines are running which have big dealybobs called 'compressors' which pump air to the cabin. A pressurized aircraft would be 'weather resistant' rather than waterproof. Note that the Airbus 320 that splashed into the Hudson river a couple of years ago floated (for a couple of hours) because it has a "ditch switch" that closes a number of valves and openings on the plane that makes it more water resistant.
You probably could seal a fuselage enough to make it reasonably watertight at low pressures, but you don't see too many 747 submarines (this side of movies that is).
Freud much?
And often, taking 'control' of the situation means backing off. Moving back a few feet, losing the shades (notice the female officer with her glasses up) and smiling would have defused the whole thing right there.
It's not like she was being particularly menacing. The officer was being an aggressive jerk for no good reason. Makes everybody look bad.
Not really, OS X likes to be rebooted from time to time. I have to remember to do that to my wife's MBP because she tends to flip it open, do something for a few minutes, flip it closed. It never gets to flush the caches or whatever little background maintenance it wants. It's better when Apple is doing major updates ever few weeks (which tend to need rebooting) but if I don't do that, after about a month, something goes wonky. It's usually Firefox (with very few extensions) but sometimes iCal or Mail.
...
Since I run Creative Suite, I'm always rebooting so I don't have that problem
Apple products (if they existed at all) would be sold out of 1969 Volkswagen vans by couples with long hair and beards (male and female). The products would be powered by solar cells created out of fair trade hemp.
They would boot up using a special floppy.
There would be no iPod.
Bill Gates would be Sauron and Steve Ballmer would be Saruman.
You will be eaten by a Grue.