Not so different. Siri can be left on with the new iPhones (if they are plugged into power). I'm pretty sure that Google does the same. On phones, you might not want to do that for power budgeting reasons. For a plugged in device, it makes sense although most of us would argue that it is twisted, abusive and unnecessary.
But for a commercial product clearly set up for the lowest common denominator - leaving it on is just too easy a way out.
I noticed an odd metallic aftertaste when I woke up the next morning (unlike blood or iron), all of these things happened before I even knew any of this was going on.
The manual specifically states your not supposed to sleep with the tin foil hat. This is what happens. Now you are all contaminated.
You all do realize that most of the people who made money off of the various 'gold rushes' haven't been prospectors? They've been 'support' people. They guys who sold the food and mules, operated the boats and stores. The poor fools who bought the mules, food and transportation got to hack it out in the backcountry. A few struck it rich. The rest didn't.
Although not associated with automobiles, there is an analogy here.
There is a well established way to deal with this problem in the case of real estate: property taxes based on assed value. This discourages people from holding onto something of value which they are not developing.
Explain, please, who has the relevant taxing authority for Internet 'property'?
You do realize that there 'have been studies' that show a link from pretty much anything to anything else. These sorts of studies are quick, easy and quite often, completely wrong when attempts are made to determine causality. They're like bible quotations. They can say anything you want them to say.
Huh. I wonder if a whole host of problems people have after major medical events can be attributed to a change in gut fauna triggered by antibiotics. My body has just been different after my emergency appendectomy.
It doesn't have to be all that bad. You freeze dry the feces (that can't be fun). The smelly parts go up the evaporator, mostly. Some protocols spin out the debris (yesterdays burrito bits) leaving you with some flotsam that should be mostly bacteria. You put that in an enteric coated pill (so the stomach acid doesn't clobber everything) or you shove it up the butt using one of a number of techniques (insert, so to speak, favorite joke here).
Wait a bit and see what happens.
This is a very trendy field since 1) it clearly works for a defined illness (Clostridium difficele infections) 2) has an interesting and biologically plausible mechanism(s) 3) is easy to make (see above, do not try this at home, professional driver on closed course and all that) and has virtually limitless advertising possibilities. Even aside from the Holy Grail of weight loss and 4) should be able to keep Jon Stewart, 4chan and the rest of the planet in bad jokes for quite some time.
Corporations in search of profit are the only arbiters of good and useful in this society? You seem to live in peculiar, shallow and sterile world. But whatever floats your boat.
Who says it can't be removed? If it's just under the skin it is a *very* minor procedure to put in and remove. We do the same thing all of the time for implanted contraception (Implanon). You don't want to do this every month but for a semi permanent sort of thing it's trivial.
But that would fly in the face of the resilient, independent American taxpayer, used to bootstrapping their entire life up from nowhere. Trained to walk uphill both ways.
Who gets rebates for farming, fishing, insulating, health care, baby sitting, tax preparation, eating right and donating to the religion of your choice (as long as they aren't terrorists).
Unlikely. The conspiracy theory about aliens says they crashed in Roswell after crossing an interdimensional rift to tell people to stop setting off nukes because it had the potential to destroy the universe by making the two dimensions collide. If the theory holds true the conspiracy theory just got a bit more legitimate sounding.
Maybe in your universe. This one isn't that weird.
But ISIS is sliding on a very slippery slope. They had so far managed NOT to overtly piss off the local powers enough to where the political costs of going after them have been overcome by the revulsion of the body politic (whatever it happens to be). They made a big mistake toasting a local as this brings on the internecine warfare that they have been avoiding so far. They have hard line Muslim clerics after them on purely religious grounds. That is pretty much their only claim to legitimacy. This one is going to be hard to put into back into a bottle.
As I pointed about above, the marine electronics people put together the NMEA spec just to allow various systems to talk to each other. I'm a bit surprised that that hasn't happened in the farming community - especially with data formats, but perhaps combines are typically just bought and used rather than modded up like most boats. (Most recreational and smaller commercial boats are sold bereft of electronics, it's up to the end user to customize the boat depending on taste and requirements.)
Since farming is Big Business, would you expect much different? Most of these companies are really just putting a computer hooked up to some hydraulic doohicky on a piece of standard farming equipment or trying to use a standard commercial product such as GPS or a weather station in a farming situation. Open everything up and the next guy down the street can program the Aurduno and sell the same thing.
What I'm a bit surprised hasn't happened is an analogy to boating. The NMEA standard allows manufacturers of various bits of marine electronics to talk to each other. After the usual startup problems of everyone's implementation being subtly different (Hi Garmin, you nitwits) it pretty much works as advertised. I still can't open up the guts to my chartplotter and do anything helpful, but if I don't like the way it is working, I can toss it and get another one and keep the rest of the network.
Even the marine engine people are finally figuring this out. While they don't use the OBDC spec like cars (for whatever reason), it is now possible to buy the adapter and software for engine diagnostics (most of the time, except for you idiots at Suzuki). ** I suppose it will just take continuing pressure to get manufacturers to streamline these things.
** Just a friendly note to the people at Mercury and Yamaha. MS-DOS has not been a commercially acceptable operating system in some decades. Shall we ramp it up a bit?
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Not so different. Siri can be left on with the new iPhones (if they are plugged into power). I'm pretty sure that Google does the same. On phones, you might not want to do that for power budgeting reasons. For a plugged in device, it makes sense although most of us would argue that it is twisted, abusive and unnecessary.
But for a commercial product clearly set up for the lowest common denominator - leaving it on is just too easy a way out.
All you Linux people do is complain.
Sheesh.
Like there is a google of it.
Ha ha. QOD is "Have you backed up the system lately?".
Fine words to live by.
And, of all the insufferable pricks we have running around, they have to name it after Al Gore? Please.....
I noticed an odd metallic aftertaste when I woke up the next morning (unlike blood or iron), all of these things happened before I even knew any of this was going on.
The manual specifically states your not supposed to sleep with the tin foil hat. This is what happens. Now you are all contaminated.
You all do realize that most of the people who made money off of the various 'gold rushes' haven't been prospectors? They've been 'support' people. They guys who sold the food and mules, operated the boats and stores. The poor fools who bought the mules, food and transportation got to hack it out in the backcountry. A few struck it rich. The rest didn't.
Although not associated with automobiles, there is an analogy here.
There is a well established way to deal with this problem in the case of real estate: property taxes based on assed value. This discourages people from holding onto something of value which they are not developing.
Explain, please, who has the relevant taxing authority for Internet 'property'?
You do realize that there 'have been studies' that show a link from pretty much anything to anything else. These sorts of studies are quick, easy and quite often, completely wrong when attempts are made to determine causality. They're like bible quotations. They can say anything you want them to say.
Statistics is hard.
Huh. I wonder if a whole host of problems people have after major medical events can be attributed to a change in gut fauna triggered by antibiotics. My body has just been different after my emergency appendectomy.
Are you sure it was an appendectomy?
Roll up your sleeves and bend over.
It doesn't have to be all that bad. You freeze dry the feces (that can't be fun). The smelly parts go up the evaporator, mostly. Some protocols spin out the debris (yesterdays burrito bits) leaving you with some flotsam that should be mostly bacteria. You put that in an enteric coated pill (so the stomach acid doesn't clobber everything) or you shove it up the butt using one of a number of techniques (insert, so to speak, favorite joke here).
Wait a bit and see what happens.
This is a very trendy field since 1) it clearly works for a defined illness (Clostridium difficele infections) 2) has an interesting and biologically plausible mechanism(s) 3) is easy to make (see above, do not try this at home, professional driver on closed course and all that) and has virtually limitless advertising possibilities. Even aside from the Holy Grail of weight loss and 4) should be able to keep Jon Stewart, 4chan and the rest of the planet in bad jokes for quite some time.
Who ever thought we would have to worry about the security of our toasters?
Just wait until your toaster is sitting in the garage trying to warm up for the morning commute.
And your BMW is in kitchen, trying to make toast.
Libel isn't dissent. That's not a particularly difficult concept to grasp.
My aren't we a bit of the old narrow minded?
Corporations in search of profit are the only arbiters of good and useful in this society? You seem to live in peculiar, shallow and sterile world. But whatever floats your boat.
ACs can do that you know. The rest of us, not so much.
Easy on the bath salts there.
Watch for the black helicopters.
Gracefully surrender the things of youth: birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan.
Who says it can't be removed? If it's just under the skin it is a *very* minor procedure to put in and remove. We do the same thing all of the time for implanted contraception (Implanon). You don't want to do this every month but for a semi permanent sort of thing it's trivial.
But that would fly in the face of the resilient, independent American taxpayer, used to bootstrapping their entire life up from nowhere. Trained to walk uphill both ways.
Who gets rebates for farming, fishing, insulating, health care, baby sitting, tax preparation, eating right and donating to the religion of your choice (as long as they aren't terrorists).
USA! USA! USA!
You want all the stupid flowers, comic sans fonts and other excrescence that your co orkers brighten their day with?
Bog no.... just the ASCII please.
I'm French! How do you think I got this outrageous experiment design?
Unlikely. The conspiracy theory about aliens says they crashed in Roswell after crossing an interdimensional rift to tell people to stop setting off nukes because it had the potential to destroy the universe by making the two dimensions collide. If the theory holds true the conspiracy theory just got a bit more legitimate sounding.
Maybe in your universe. This one isn't that weird.
But ISIS is sliding on a very slippery slope. They had so far managed NOT to overtly piss off the local powers enough to where the political costs of going after them have been overcome by the revulsion of the body politic (whatever it happens to be). They made a big mistake toasting a local as this brings on the internecine warfare that they have been avoiding so far. They have hard line Muslim clerics after them on purely religious grounds. That is pretty much their only claim to legitimacy. This one is going to be hard to put into back into a bottle.
This is Unix, I know this.
As I pointed about above, the marine electronics people put together the NMEA spec just to allow various systems to talk to each other. I'm a bit surprised that that hasn't happened in the farming community - especially with data formats, but perhaps combines are typically just bought and used rather than modded up like most boats. (Most recreational and smaller commercial boats are sold bereft of electronics, it's up to the end user to customize the boat depending on taste and requirements.)
Since farming is Big Business, would you expect much different? Most of these companies are really just putting a computer hooked up to some hydraulic doohicky on a piece of standard farming equipment or trying to use a standard commercial product such as GPS or a weather station in a farming situation. Open everything up and the next guy down the street can program the Aurduno and sell the same thing.
What I'm a bit surprised hasn't happened is an analogy to boating. The NMEA standard allows manufacturers of various bits of marine electronics to talk to each other. After the usual startup problems of everyone's implementation being subtly different (Hi Garmin, you nitwits) it pretty much works as advertised. I still can't open up the guts to my chartplotter and do anything helpful, but if I don't like the way it is working, I can toss it and get another one and keep the rest of the network.
Even the marine engine people are finally figuring this out. While they don't use the OBDC spec like cars (for whatever reason), it is now possible to buy the adapter and software for engine diagnostics (most of the time, except for you idiots at Suzuki). ** I suppose it will just take continuing pressure to get manufacturers to streamline these things.
** Just a friendly note to the people at Mercury and Yamaha. MS-DOS has not been a commercially acceptable operating system in some decades. Shall we ramp it up a bit?