After reading almost 3/4 of the leve 4 & 5 comments, I am going to jump in here.
I think that while the writers (may have) dropped the ball with plot holes, there is an opportunity to (if everyone was not totally truthful about moving on) have yet a few more episodes or a series revival. Well, that is, if Galactica is not cannibalized, and assuming another battlestar appeared after 5 years of being lost (a la Voyager returning to Federation space). This idea also assumes the surviving characters look fit enough to lead a new fight against the stray, fight-seeking Cylons still out in deep space.
If there is another BSG that is ancillary to "Caprica", hopefully they're physically fit, and not, say, geriatrics, as in ST's movies. The only reason to go see most of the Trek movies was to constantly see K/S/M and virtually not one major Scotty, Uhura, Chekov, et al sub plot of significance.
Don't get me wrong. I LIKE Trek, and watched it for the first time around 1970 (around age 5), then picked it up again around 1972, then continued watching over and over from 74 to 84, and resumed (after the USN) from 88-2002. I felt that TNG's ending was just unfulfilling. I felt sad at the end of DS 9. Voyager was OK, but i was disappointed that Harry Kim's promotion was really (to me) an alternate time line, and it nullified Kim's promotion/rank in the "real" Voyager timeline, and i begrudged the staff for allowing that. Enterprise was OK, tho I only saw maybe 1/2 of the episodes, and absolutely DESPISED that theme song (the only time i was spared of it was the Tholian episode, IIRC, or whichever one started in another timeline and thus, gratefully happy i was, obviated that song being sang... it sounded way too damned manifest destinest to me...). But, overall, while I was a core fan, bought ship blueprints, star charts/maps, more than 30 novels, numerous tech manuals, a script book, Trek compendiums/encyclopedias, once i started watching BSG, Trek went from 150 (on a scale of 0-100) to maybe 70 or 80. BSG (at least the miniseries, seasons 1 & 2, and some of 3) was suddenly **200**, on that same scale, mainly because it didn't pussyfoot around or get too cerebral, techno-babbly, or moralistic in the Trek way. It did so in it's own, deeper-character-exposition way. Trek thus was second, with Voyager, DS9, TNG, then Ent, then TOS...
Finally, the blessing of BSG is that it did NOT allow for some Homer/Kirk/Spock/McCoy triad to hijack the beauty in pursuing understanding supporting characters. Too many hollywood actions pin budgets on a handful of principal characters/actors, and big-ass ego trips undercut the others (Nichols, and IIRC, Takei, and Koenig wrote memoires about how shatner took the shooting scripts and redacted or stole lines from other characters, to give himself more screen time. Nimoy essentially supposedly did the same, but not as egomanically as shatner...), and it is egregious when so much money is put into a production and the others end up as foils or backdrop.
A lesson Moore and company should learn, however, is that when a show like BSG arrives and is lambasted as rudderless, they may need to fire the lawyers (or gag/strap them a few weeks) and "pseudo crowd-source" with disclaimers (wait, they already HAVE that power, in law) and just borrow from the audience to keep it happy. The mini-series and seasons 1 & 2 are highly regarded by most followers, but 3 & 4 went on the drift, so it would have been humbling and rewarding if 3rd and 4th rails were set up to keep the writers in line AND the audiences happy. But, even i, (if i ever create something) would not want to lose total property control (hence, i'd likely NEVER sell to a studio, and will crowdsource if i have to), and would distribute via the Internet(s) and use talent not afraid of nor controllable by hwood, and no egomaniacal or candy-ass pretty boy/girl talent capable of walking off the set and destroying the production.
"But higher temperatures can be less forgiving in the event of a cooling failure, and not likely to be welcomed by employees working in the data center.""
One possibility is to create an EOS (Enclosed Operating Space) similar to what was on ships such as the AE-32 (AE-26 class of USN ammunition ships). The boiler plant was automated and yet still hot down there. The EOS was where CHENG, MPA, and EOOW (Chief Engineer/Main Propulsion Assistant/Engineering Officer of the Watch) stood watches. The EOS was air conditioned, and saved the handful of watch standers from heat that could be VERY oppressive if, say, as boiler-driven ship operated in the tropical or equatorial areas.
So, for the 100 Degree Data Center, the "excessive" cooling delivery & power could be cut out of the system, and the least (plus safety margin) necessary could be pumped to the 100DDC "EOS". Only when the techs or admins need to crawl around racks and under false floors and cable trays/runs would they need to worry about the heat. As a backup, "flues" could be placed in critical areas to vent any sudden builup. Smaller fans or blowers (similar to what's on surface ships of various types (combatants as well as merchants) could create a draft to suck out and ventilate to atmosphere (or, if you're "Green", to waste heat recovery systems of decent quality) and keep the temperature managable...
It's probably time to get rid of fancy-dancy "air conditioning" cooling systems where not crucial. Either position the servers partly under ground or in cool caverns, or rethink the siting of them.
Re:Morning people... It COULD be worse...hehe
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We COULD addice lice to might! We'd be in a MITEY mighty bite of trouble... itchin' for trouble and cruisin' for a bruisin'...
WHile some may feel inclined or predisposed to wearing this "jack"et in such (or suck) movies to feel emmembered, i'd be disinclined from wearing one involving dangerous stunt action films or horror flicks involving dismemeberment... Or, even in a sinking submarine film or a violent cockpit ejection scene... COuld give verti-go! a whole (hole) new mean(ing)... imagine hundreds of moviegoers stuck to the ceiling...
But, what's/who's to say begrudged drug cartels won't go after the blimps. The US may want total information awareness, and might get 80%, but if the Mexican to-US and Mexico-to-Canad drug cartels and others get pissed off enough, there just might be fireworks in the sky.
The resources that already exist in the USA can be brought to bear by offering these to as MANY doctors as possible. It will first requiring conducting info gathering on providers, their electronic systems, having some insiders in the many types of medical offices to come in and user-test/kick the tires on these apps, and get THEIR opinions as to whether the software is worthy of being supported. It appears that some of the open source software might be qualified to pass the end-user-suitability-test (for lack of a better description). If ANY of these apps are found to be half-baked, like many apps written BY developers FOR developers (rather than BY developers FOR end-users), then they should by all means be shunned so they are forced to be upgraded to suitability for the office. After all, if medical, dental, and other offices reject the software, why should regulatory and office personnel even *listen*?
But, again, some/most of these apps *seem* to have what it takes; they seem to be the survivors of the past few years that i've noticed their names (since, oh, ~2001/2003).
Beyond that, the biggest hurdle will be lobbyists/SIGs (Special Interest Groups) that could be working on behalf of defense contractor-named companies (your Lockheed/GE/ and others-- who, incidentally have their hands in ship passenger reservation/assignment software, too...) who want NO competition that would undermine their self-anointed positions of high income.
"openEHR is about enabling ICT to effectively support healthcare, medical research and related areas. Today ICT is used ubiquitously elsewhere, but is far from effective in Healthcare. The main problem in health is the lack of shareable and computable information.
The principal challenge for health ICT is to represent the semantics of the sector, which are far more complex than in other industries. Doing this requires a knowledge-oriented computing framework that includes ontologies, terminology and a semantically enabled health computing platform in which complex meaning can be represented and shared. At the same time it must support the economically viable construction of maintainable and adaptable health computing systems and patient-centric electronic health records (EHRs).
The openEHR endeavour is about creating specifications, open source software and tools in the technical space for such a platform. In the clinical space, it is about creating high-quality, re-usable clinical models of content and process - known as archetypes - along with formal interfaces to terminology."
If the US has idiots in onbstructionist ways working in positions of power, then maybe, if other countries are technologically superior in such areas, offer help to them so they can grow and come back to haunt and compel the USA to "get with it, already!".
""According to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), 11 high-altitude airships would provide overlapping radar coverage of all maritime and southern border approaches to the continental U.S., and may be a significant asset in homeland defense efforts. The Stratospheric Platform System (SPS) dirigible operates just barely within the outer limits of the earth's atmosphere and is emerging as part of the military's 21st century transformational mindset."
A prototype of the blimp is already being developed at a cost of $40 million. The spy ship, called the High Altitude Airship, will be seventeen times larger than the Goodyear Blimp and hover 12 miles above the ground. Although it is very large it will be invisible to both the naked eye and ground radar because of its distance from the earth. Fuel economic and self sufficient, it will be powered by solar energy and will be able to fly for years at a time.
The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command has already conducted a study to determine some of the uses of the spy ship. It has the capability of monitoring an area 600 miles in diameter at a time with surveillance equipment, such as high-resolution cameras. The government has ordered 11 of them - enough to monitor every parcel of land in the U.S."
My comments:
Now, as for anyone thinking of using a plane to eyeball and shoot one of theses (11 or so) down, imagine what kind of plane and pressure suit that would be needed to survive flying along at 63,360,000 feet. I don't imagine that many countries possess ADM (Anti-Dirigible Missiles) or any capable of ASAT work, let along reaching 12 miles into the sky with precision, accuracy and the attendant lethality required to get an 80% kill probability.
Some here may already have read about this, but it appears that China makes some very good batteries, mainly for the electronics industry. Now, it seems they had not long ago seen a company produce (ugly) electric cars, but batteries that rival the USA Big 3 (well, which of them's big anymore?) and even Tesla. Given that Tesla's demo/sports car ran over $100k, and despite their announced sedan:
Thanks to whomever is the bastard who pummeled me down to "1, offtopic" from "2, informative"... I was ON topic, bitch, and you had to just fly off and shove my exposure down a notch to ingratiate yourself or satiate your pains.
There SURELY are some vindictive, sick, panged people here...
No, actually, i had that paren, but hastily tried to find the open paren and when my eye failed (or my mind failed to register its presence) i deleted the close paren. Later, after looking over my comment, I instantly saw the open paren.
Near the end of the audio report i heard something along the lines of "vicar", "closeted vicar" and murderous or bloodthirsty or the like...
On second thought, i might even have to be corrected about my assertions on the **nnnot* about concentration enhancement. But, then again, NPR is not *always* correct, either...
I heard this around 0900 this AM, and from what i gather (as in what i take from this) it is **not** so much about "concentrating better". The *real matter* is that the brain simply is wired to not want to shut down. It wants to process information virtually ALL THE TIME. (That might explain (i think) why we daydream and night dream.) Doodling is just so the body/person do(es) consciously or unconsciously/mindlessly so brain *has something to do* while we are concentrate or try to concentrate. After all, you can doodle just thinking about nothing critical, nothing useful, or just zoning out.
Honestly, how many have we doodled and just totally ignored what we were supposed to be listening to? That alone is enough indication that doodling won't or can't enhance concentration. Otherwise, people might imagine they could just go and doodle and use that as a way to study better or consider information more clearly. (And, it would undermine the business model of Brain Fitness Gym, brain enhancement pills, and other products aimed at getting money out of people's pockets more than actually improving people.
It doesn't seem to me that this has a single thing to do with "concentrating better".
What i found interesting was that the microsoft spokesperson contacted after the event fessed up that it was Bill Gates' notepad and not Tony Blairs. This is important, to me at least, because one of the handwriting analysist or one of the graphologists said the writing sample indicated a person who was a (closeted) Vicar with murderous intent. Had that been found to be Blair's the UK might have to worry. But, when I heard it was Gates', i felt, "Why would i be surprised?".
It could be titled "Deep Throbe" (Throat Probe), where inalienable sights lead to spatial anuoblasty.
Given the dearth of Kirks in the Galaxy, "Project Penises" could be the salvation of all humanoid females throughout. By seeding the planetoids with the Penises Probe, new life can be seeded by the beelions...
If Kirk has a labido six women in six days... well WATCH OUT, GREAL'll give it to you in SIX MINUTES.
GORAl will respond, "REAALY, Doctor, you must learn to goh-vern your passions. They will be your undoing. Throbgic suggesssts..."
An "Adolescent-Orgieistic-Anything-I-Can-Get-Uber-(bi)Sexual-Macho-Male" show, where the male grows up to become a Roman analog, conquering his foe, screwing him up the ass, and pining to die a good fight with his lover in the battlefield, but dreading to face his wife back home?
It could have all the underpinnings of the female-written Kirk-on/in-Spock Bruto-Logi-Gayle kirk-professing-love-for-Spock-in-the-Transporter-Room gooeyness.
Afterall, we've had Nerys kissing herself (or, her self), Jadzia Dax kissing a female, and in at least one non-Canon Trek FanFilm episode, gay lovers aboard a starship.
Trek has COME a long way, but not CUM a long way. It could be deep-space-cum-laud with fraternization to the hilt.
But, writing, directing, and producing THOSE episodes would be highly toxic to the career of any non-porn projects(ions).
And i was going to ask if this issue had any relation to why KDE 4 (in my Mandriva 2009 Free system) NEVER remembers what opened apps and folders i had open. I NEVER had KDE 3.x "forget" to remember my settings across sessions once i checked the box for it to do so. KDE 4, no matter what i try, keeps returning me to a blank/no previous session items desktop. Making changes in KDE 3 messes around with KDE 4, and that's a shame. Certain settings in KDE 4 are grayed out, and that's annoying.
But, i suppose someone will say my comment is off-topic, or not related. But, thought I'd mention this anyway...
I dare say the dialog for Eddington was really a jab a the US administration in its own (then, and possibly could be restated for the current, early administration's) failure or early failures in dealing with or appeasing terrorists and splinter terror groups that could be broken off and pitted against the others.
"Sending them replicators" and "Nobody leaves paradise" could directly be seen today, given that the public stance and backroom stances in various administrations can and did have repercussions.
(Really (for anyone demanding proof), do i need to cite anything to justify what i just wrote, or can this stand unmolested?)
innumerable incarnations of 1701. Just make a nice hull and stick with it. Surely, the Federation is not going to spend an astronomical amount of credits rebuilding "Enterprise" over and over. Newer ships would succeed, and would have different names. It's at the point of ridiculousness.
They should draft good stories, and make either miniseries or Movie of the Week, or something. But, wasting all that money on the silver screen is BEYOND EGREGIOUS. Make low-cost-straight-to-DVD if necessary. Make a mix of Enterprise and Voyager somehow. And, for GODS' SAKE, get over it with Kirk and Spock. There are innumerable other crew and scientists who make a nation, navy/fleet/organization.... And, no, don't make them Kirk's brother Samuel, or T'Pal or anyone else emotionally close.
to the person responding to you. S/he made a comment, and it probably had an effect on scoring of your comment. Slashdot, as it currently functions, has an asshat way of allowing -- without citations or proof -- other users to just do hit-and-run. Neither a freaking low account number nor high number of "esteemed" posts should be qualification for anyone to knock down someone's scores. It should take an odd number, like in voting, to tip one way or the other. It would be nice if the currently broken/. system "hunted" for votes when a comment is downgraded. Even up-scored comments need to be reigned in, too. But, as i said numerous times in the past,/. is irrefutably, and incorrigibly broken as regards the submission of stories and as regards scoring of comments.
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After reading almost 3/4 of the leve 4 & 5 comments, I am going to jump in here.
I think that while the writers (may have) dropped the ball with plot holes, there is an opportunity to (if everyone was not totally truthful about moving on) have yet a few more episodes or a series revival. Well, that is, if Galactica is not cannibalized, and assuming another battlestar appeared after 5 years of being lost (a la Voyager returning to Federation space). This idea also assumes the surviving characters look fit enough to lead a new fight against the stray, fight-seeking Cylons still out in deep space.
If there is another BSG that is ancillary to "Caprica", hopefully they're physically fit, and not, say, geriatrics, as in ST's movies. The only reason to go see most of the Trek movies was to constantly see K/S/M and virtually not one major Scotty, Uhura, Chekov, et al sub plot of significance.
Don't get me wrong. I LIKE Trek, and watched it for the first time around 1970 (around age 5), then picked it up again around 1972, then continued watching over and over from 74 to 84, and resumed (after the USN) from 88-2002. I felt that TNG's ending was just unfulfilling. I felt sad at the end of DS 9. Voyager was OK, but i was disappointed that Harry Kim's promotion was really (to me) an alternate time line, and it nullified Kim's promotion/rank in the "real" Voyager timeline, and i begrudged the staff for allowing that. Enterprise was OK, tho I only saw maybe 1/2 of the episodes, and absolutely DESPISED that theme song (the only time i was spared of it was the Tholian episode, IIRC, or whichever one started in another timeline and thus, gratefully happy i was, obviated that song being sang... it sounded way too damned manifest destinest to me...). But, overall, while I was a core fan, bought ship blueprints, star charts/maps, more than 30 novels, numerous tech manuals, a script book, Trek compendiums/encyclopedias, once i started watching BSG, Trek went from 150 (on a scale of 0-100) to maybe 70 or 80. BSG (at least the miniseries, seasons 1 & 2, and some of 3) was suddenly **200**, on that same scale, mainly because it didn't pussyfoot around or get too cerebral, techno-babbly, or moralistic in the Trek way. It did so in it's own, deeper-character-exposition way. Trek thus was second, with Voyager, DS9, TNG, then Ent, then TOS...
Finally, the blessing of BSG is that it did NOT allow for some Homer/Kirk/Spock/McCoy triad to hijack the beauty in pursuing understanding supporting characters. Too many hollywood actions pin budgets on a handful of principal characters/actors, and big-ass ego trips undercut the others (Nichols, and IIRC, Takei, and Koenig wrote memoires about how shatner took the shooting scripts and redacted or stole lines from other characters, to give himself more screen time. Nimoy essentially supposedly did the same, but not as egomanically as shatner...), and it is egregious when so much money is put into a production and the others end up as foils or backdrop.
A lesson Moore and company should learn, however, is that when a show like BSG arrives and is lambasted as rudderless, they may need to fire the lawyers (or gag/strap them a few weeks) and "pseudo crowd-source" with disclaimers (wait, they already HAVE that power, in law) and just borrow from the audience to keep it happy. The mini-series and seasons 1 & 2 are highly regarded by most followers, but 3 & 4 went on the drift, so it would have been humbling and rewarding if 3rd and 4th rails were set up to keep the writers in line AND the audiences happy. But, even i, (if i ever create something) would not want to lose total property control (hence, i'd likely NEVER sell to a studio, and will crowdsource if i have to), and would distribute via the Internet(s) and use talent not afraid of nor controllable by hwood, and no egomaniacal or candy-ass pretty boy/girl talent capable of walking off the set and destroying the production.
Fraud. Maybe he wants to defraud the Australian public of genuine fraudulence?
if there are Psycho-like shower scenes. My first thought was soaping done in CGI/animation, hehehe....
Lovely or bubbly?
"But higher temperatures can be less forgiving in the event of a cooling failure, and not likely to be welcomed by employees working in the data center.""
One possibility is to create an EOS (Enclosed Operating Space) similar to what was on ships such as the AE-32 (AE-26 class of USN ammunition ships). The boiler plant was automated and yet still hot down there. The EOS was where CHENG, MPA, and EOOW (Chief Engineer/Main Propulsion Assistant/Engineering Officer of the Watch) stood watches. The EOS was air conditioned, and saved the handful of watch standers from heat that could be VERY oppressive if, say, as boiler-driven ship operated in the tropical or equatorial areas.
So, for the 100 Degree Data Center, the "excessive" cooling delivery & power could be cut out of the system, and the least (plus safety margin) necessary could be pumped to the 100DDC "EOS". Only when the techs or admins need to crawl around racks and under false floors and cable trays/runs would they need to worry about the heat. As a backup, "flues" could be placed in critical areas to vent any sudden builup. Smaller fans or blowers (similar to what's on surface ships of various types (combatants as well as merchants) could create a draft to suck out and ventilate to atmosphere (or, if you're "Green", to waste heat recovery systems of decent quality) and keep the temperature managable...
It's probably time to get rid of fancy-dancy "air conditioning" cooling systems where not crucial. Either position the servers partly under ground or in cool caverns, or rethink the siting of them.
We COULD addice lice to might! We'd be in a MITEY mighty bite of trouble... itchin' for trouble and cruisin' for a bruisin'...
"Will you join US?" (No, not Chevron, but USSSSSS...)
WHile some may feel inclined or predisposed to wearing this "jack"et in such (or suck) movies to feel emmembered, i'd be disinclined from wearing one involving dangerous stunt action films or horror flicks involving dismemeberment... Or, even in a sinking submarine film or a violent cockpit ejection scene... COuld give verti-go! a whole (hole) new mean(ing)... imagine hundreds of moviegoers stuck to the ceiling...
Bat Attack... But, then that would be...
Fowl play. But, fi the bat could be smelled, there might be some foul play in play...
Mistakes, or "woosh!"????
But, what's/who's to say begrudged drug cartels won't go after the blimps. The US may want total information awareness, and might get 80%, but if the Mexican to-US and Mexico-to-Canad drug cartels and others get pissed off enough, there just might be fireworks in the sky.
LOL: Captcha: "patrols"
Thanks....Interesting, additional and refresher information!
tively...
Screenshot of OpenEMR:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/#item3rd-2
The resources that already exist in the USA can be brought to bear by offering these to as MANY doctors as possible. It will first requiring conducting info gathering on providers, their electronic systems, having some insiders in the many types of medical offices to come in and user-test/kick the tires on these apps, and get THEIR opinions as to whether the software is worthy of being supported. It appears that some of the open source software might be qualified to pass the end-user-suitability-test (for lack of a better description). If ANY of these apps are found to be half-baked, like many apps written BY developers FOR developers (rather than BY developers FOR end-users), then they should by all means be shunned so they are forced to be upgraded to suitability for the office. After all, if medical, dental, and other offices reject the software, why should regulatory and office personnel even *listen*?
But, again, some/most of these apps *seem* to have what it takes; they seem to be the survivors of the past few years that i've noticed their names (since, oh, ~2001/2003).
Beyond that, the biggest hurdle will be lobbyists/SIGs (Special Interest Groups) that could be working on behalf of defense contractor-named companies (your Lockheed/GE/ and others-- who, incidentally have their hands in ship passenger reservation/assignment software, too...) who want NO competition that would undermine their self-anointed positions of high income.
Here are a few more links...
List of open source healthcare software:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_healthcare_software
Welcome to openEHR:
http://www.openehr.org/home.html
"openEHR is about enabling ICT to effectively support healthcare, medical research and related areas. Today ICT is used ubiquitously elsewhere, but is far from effective in Healthcare. The main problem in health is the lack of shareable and computable information.
The principal challenge for health ICT is to represent the semantics of the sector, which are far more complex than in other industries. Doing this requires a knowledge-oriented computing framework that includes ontologies, terminology and a semantically enabled health computing platform in which complex meaning can be represented and shared. At the same time it must support the economically viable construction of maintainable and adaptable health computing systems and patient-centric electronic health records (EHRs).
The openEHR endeavour is about creating specifications, open source software and tools in the technical space for such a platform. In the clinical space, it is about creating high-quality, re-usable clinical models of content and process - known as archetypes - along with formal interfaces to terminology."
If the US has idiots in onbstructionist ways working in positions of power, then maybe, if other countries are technologically superior in such areas, offer help to them so they can grow and come back to haunt and compel the USA to "get with it, already!".
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=15095
""According to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), 11 high-altitude airships would provide overlapping radar coverage of all maritime and southern border approaches to the continental U.S., and may be a significant asset in homeland defense efforts. The Stratospheric Platform System (SPS) dirigible operates just barely within the outer limits of the earth's atmosphere and is emerging as part of the military's 21st century transformational mindset."
A prototype of the blimp is already being developed at a cost of $40 million. The spy ship, called the High Altitude Airship, will be seventeen times larger than the Goodyear Blimp and hover 12 miles above the ground. Although it is very large it will be invisible to both the naked eye and ground radar because of its distance from the earth. Fuel economic and self sufficient, it will be powered by solar energy and will be able to fly for years at a time.
The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command has already conducted a study to determine some of the uses of the spy ship. It has the capability of monitoring an area 600 miles in diameter at a time with surveillance equipment, such as high-resolution cameras. The government has ordered 11 of them - enough to monitor every parcel of land in the U.S."
My comments:
Now, as for anyone thinking of using a plane to eyeball and shoot one of theses (11 or so) down, imagine what kind of plane and pressure suit that would be needed to survive flying along at 63,360,000 feet. I don't imagine that many countries possess ADM (Anti-Dirigible Missiles) or any capable of ASAT work, let along reaching 12 miles into the sky with precision, accuracy and the attendant lethality required to get an 80% kill probability.
So, they go from SPS to ISIS....
(search on keyword "battery" if you don't want to read all the way through)
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200904/chinese-innovation/3
Some here may already have read about this, but it appears that China makes some very good batteries, mainly for the electronics industry. Now, it seems they had not long ago seen a company produce (ugly) electric cars, but batteries that rival the USA Big 3 (well, which of them's big anymore?) and even Tesla. Given that Tesla's demo/sports car ran over $100k, and despite their announced sedan:
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/17/tesla-whitestar-electric-sedan-to-debut-this-year/
there is going to be some stiff global competition for such batteries, especially if what Chinese companies are working on can take off.
To recap the recent Detroit Show:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/detroit-auto-show
Thanks to whomever is the bastard who pummeled me down to "1, offtopic" from "2, informative"... I was ON topic, bitch, and you had to just fly off and shove my exposure down a notch to ingratiate yourself or satiate your pains.
There SURELY are some vindictive, sick, panged people here...
Go ahead, mark this one too. I dare you.
No, actually, i had that paren, but hastily tried to find the open paren and when my eye failed (or my mind failed to register its presence) i deleted the close paren. Later, after looking over my comment, I instantly saw the open paren.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101727048
Near the end of the audio report i heard something along the lines of "vicar", "closeted vicar" and murderous or bloodthirsty or the like...
On second thought, i might even have to be corrected about my assertions on the **nnnot* about concentration enhancement. But, then again, NPR is not *always* correct, either...
"NOW you're COOKIN'"...
Concentration....
I heard this around 0900 this AM, and from what i gather (as in what i take from this) it is **not** so much about "concentrating better". The *real matter* is that the brain simply is wired to not want to shut down. It wants to process information virtually ALL THE TIME. (That might explain (i think) why we daydream and night dream.) Doodling is just so the body/person do(es) consciously or unconsciously/mindlessly so brain *has something to do* while we are concentrate or try to concentrate. After all, you can doodle just thinking about nothing critical, nothing useful, or just zoning out.
Honestly, how many have we doodled and just totally ignored what we were supposed to be listening to? That alone is enough indication that doodling won't or can't enhance concentration. Otherwise, people might imagine they could just go and doodle and use that as a way to study better or consider information more clearly. (And, it would undermine the business model of Brain Fitness Gym, brain enhancement pills, and other products aimed at getting money out of people's pockets more than actually improving people.
It doesn't seem to me that this has a single thing to do with "concentrating better".
What i found interesting was that the microsoft spokesperson contacted after the event fessed up that it was Bill Gates' notepad and not Tony Blairs. This is important, to me at least, because one of the handwriting analysist or one of the graphologists said the writing sample indicated a person who was a (closeted) Vicar with murderous intent. Had that been found to be Blair's the UK might have to worry. But, when I heard it was Gates', i felt, "Why would i be surprised?".
Any non-std STD that Krik would catch would be low-order detonation mono-nuclearosis.
It could be titled "Deep Throbe" (Throat Probe), where inalienable sights lead to spatial anuoblasty.
Given the dearth of Kirks in the Galaxy, "Project Penises" could be the salvation of all humanoid females throughout. By seeding the planetoids with the Penises Probe, new life can be seeded by the beelions...
If Kirk has a labido six women in six days... well WATCH OUT, GREAL'll give it to you in SIX MINUTES.
GORAl will respond, "REAALY, Doctor, you must learn to goh-vern your passions. They will be your undoing. Throbgic suggesssts..."
An "Adolescent-Orgieistic-Anything-I-Can-Get-Uber-(bi)Sexual-Macho-Male" show, where the male grows up to become a Roman analog, conquering his foe, screwing him up the ass, and pining to die a good fight with his lover in the battlefield, but dreading to face his wife back home?
It could have all the underpinnings of the female-written Kirk-on/in-Spock Bruto-Logi-Gayle kirk-professing-love-for-Spock-in-the-Transporter-Room gooeyness.
Afterall, we've had Nerys kissing herself (or, her self), Jadzia Dax kissing a female, and in at least one non-Canon Trek FanFilm episode, gay lovers aboard a starship.
Trek has COME a long way, but not CUM a long way. It could be deep-space-cum-laud with fraternization to the hilt.
But, writing, directing, and producing THOSE episodes would be highly toxic to the career of any non-porn projects(ions).
HIP HIP HOOOOO HOOOO RAISE...
And i was going to ask if this issue had any relation to why KDE 4 (in my Mandriva 2009 Free system) NEVER remembers what opened apps and folders i had open. I NEVER had KDE 3.x "forget" to remember my settings across sessions once i checked the box for it to do so. KDE 4, no matter what i try, keeps returning me to a blank/no previous session items desktop. Making changes in KDE 3 messes around with KDE 4, and that's a shame. Certain settings in KDE 4 are grayed out, and that's annoying.
But, i suppose someone will say my comment is off-topic, or not related. But, thought I'd mention this anyway...
I dare say the dialog for Eddington was really a jab a the US administration in its own (then, and possibly could be restated for the current, early administration's) failure or early failures in dealing with or appeasing terrorists and splinter terror groups that could be broken off and pitted against the others.
"Sending them replicators" and "Nobody leaves paradise" could directly be seen today, given that the public stance and backroom stances in various administrations can and did have repercussions.
(Really (for anyone demanding proof), do i need to cite anything to justify what i just wrote, or can this stand unmolested?)
innumerable incarnations of 1701. Just make a nice hull and stick with it. Surely, the Federation is not going to spend an astronomical amount of credits rebuilding "Enterprise" over and over. Newer ships would succeed, and would have different names. It's at the point of ridiculousness.
They should draft good stories, and make either miniseries or Movie of the Week, or something. But, wasting all that money on the silver screen is BEYOND EGREGIOUS. Make low-cost-straight-to-DVD if necessary. Make a mix of Enterprise and Voyager somehow. And, for GODS' SAKE, get over it with Kirk and Spock. There are innumerable other crew and scientists who make a nation, navy/fleet/organization.... And, no, don't make them Kirk's brother Samuel, or T'Pal or anyone else emotionally close.
IDIC! IDIC!
to the person responding to you. S/he made a comment, and it probably had an effect on scoring of your comment. Slashdot, as it currently functions, has an asshat way of allowing -- without citations or proof -- other users to just do hit-and-run. Neither a freaking low account number nor high number of "esteemed" posts should be qualification for anyone to knock down someone's scores. It should take an odd number, like in voting, to tip one way or the other. It would be nice if the currently broken /. system "hunted" for votes when a comment is downgraded. Even up-scored comments need to be reigned in, too. But, as i said numerous times in the past, /. is irrefutably, and incorrigibly broken as regards the submission of stories and as regards scoring of comments.