No, but if it was really committed to it, we would continue to outsource most of our production to South America (Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela). Maybe soybeans would be even better to use.
Help American farmers? Yeah, right. Just ask an American farmer about how well that works.
Yep. For those that don't know, there hopefully are archives of teh Skunkworks-L mail digest on the net, where several people who were associated with the SR-71 programs (USAF and NASA) have some great stories about this incredible aircraft, and how bad engine unstarts were when zipping along at Mach 3, with the typical reason being that the shock wave entered into the engine inlet faster than the inlet spike system could respond to it. IIRC, more than one SR71 was lost operationally because the restart didn't go well or the plane broke because of the violence of the yaw caused by the unstart.
I saw somewhere online reports that people have seen curious fuzzy worm-like creatures while out hiking. Curious, in that they are 10' long and periodically chirp like cats do sometimes, a kind of "chtrrrr" sound. Farmers in Eastern Oregon are reporting grisly remains from attacks on range livestock, but they cannot be explained by typical carnivore eating patterns. The state dept of agricultre and Idaho game & wildlife officials are pretty sure that Yellowstone wolves have not made it this far yet.
Yeah, I do like the "Chtorr" series by David Gerrold...
Talk to a nurse about the doctors he/she works with, and you'll get an earful about them ALL, good, bad and ugly. From "Dr So-and-So couldn't hit his own ass with a needle, yet he insists on starting his own IVs" to "No one who works here gets a Pelvic exam by Dr. Y". Even as a patient, it can come down to "Cool, Dr. Z is on duty tonite. He's real good with kids", which implies strongly that perhaps some of the other doctors do not work well with children patients...in a pediatric ward no less.
It would be fun to see the first time your naive rose-colored glasses were cruelly crushed.
I think people are concerned about the image of most said institutions, professing to take the high moral ground, more civilized people, etc., essentially acting like narcissistic powermongers doing everything in their power to ensure that only a Positive Image is presented of the school.
Chances are, most of us hate aspects about our jobs, who we work with, where we work, what we do, or other areas in our lives. We bitch about them to other people, our bosses, etc. It's a dangerous game, really, but saying you work with a bunch of asshats, and leaving it like that, whether it is a drunken comment at the bar one night or on some blog, and then getting fired for it next week by the Sr VP of Operations (didn't know the company had one?), isn't what normally happens.
The guy called an unspecified professor (his friends surely know who he was referring to) a cockmaster. He was also insulting about other students? Not really, all he did was state a general opinion about the people he has to associate with. Chances are, those around him who saw his blog, if they disagreed with it, will just put him into the "what an asshole, I hope I don't have to work with him" box.
If you're doing a joint project, and you think that everyone else in your group is just slacking off while you do all the work, you'll probably say the same things to everyone around you every chance you get as well, except of course to the people you're working with. And if you bring your feelings to your professor's attention, essentially asking for help to deal with your fellow asshat associates, he's probably just going to shrug his shoulders, and more or less say, "figure something out". He's NOT going to just give YOU an F on the spot, turn you into the School's administrative punishment systems for some alleged breach of student misconduct, and otherwise roast your balls over a bunsen burner however he can, unless you persist in not figuring something out and whining to him about it.
Well, how do you respond when someone calls you an asshole after you do something? Do you flip back, "well, fuck you too", do you shrug your shoulders and just walk away, or do you pull a Longshanks and do everything you can in your power/influence to disrupt or screw over the person who said it to you, especially if you have a position of power or authority over them in one way or another, such as threatening their job, publicly humiliating by name said person, running credit checks, reevaluating past job evaluations, etc?
The School WAYYYYY overreacted to this student's posting. And now it still thinks it has to save face, instead of taking the higher road and realizing it overreacted. It doesn't necessarily have to apologize, but they reacted so hard initially that they have painted themselves into a corner of still having to do something negative. I'll apply the student's judgement over all of the School's administrators: what a bunch of cockmasters.
Let's compare it though to the Dixie Chicks after 9/11 and their comments and corresponding backlash. The DCs have every right to espouse their beliefs, just like Ted Nugent so freely does during any chance he gets in the public's eye, yet Ted Nugent seems to be doing just fine in his own little world, and seems to be empowered by whatever negative reactions he invokes.
So what if the DC's comments were diametrically opposed to the opinions of probably 90% of their once core audience? They spoke their mind, and their fans spoke theirs right back, which is how things should work. It'll be interesting to see how strongly the DCs feel about their positions if they ever tour again. Were the DCs right? Were their fans right? Who cares at this point. But the whining by the DCs after the reactions to what they said was naive, at the very least. Gretchen Wilson wouldn't back down, but she's just a Red Neck Woman anyways.
Oh my gosh, they're burning our CDs, how ungrateful after all we have done for them!
The 1st Amendment guarantees you the right to speak, but it does not mandate that people, by proxy of the government, have to listen, agree, etc. to what you have to say.
Yes, but check out an Avanti. Those who like them love them. Personally, they're just too ugly.
Or the new Bugatti Veyron. Good thing they're making it. At least it's going to drive, but it's just as silly as that 16-cylinder supercar that Chrysler developed a couple of years back, the Viper-Engined-Motorcycle, the souped up Cadillacs, etc. (Didn't the Cadillac designers see the first Vacation movie? Their front-ends look like they were lifted right off of the Family Truckster).
In the US? You can go buy a motorcoach the size of a passenger bus (hey, it IS a passenger bus...made by Van Hool, Prevost, MCI), but because it's a "recreational vehicle", you don't need any special license endorsements like a regular bus driver needs.
Well, that's what they're doing in NASCAR at some of the race tracks... That's what they do when they cut trees down that are too close to the highway. That's why highway engineers like to have wide shoulders on at least one side of the highway.
3. I don't get distracted while driving easily, I'm one of the few people who realize that driving a vehicle is the most dangerous thing I'll do that day [yes this coming from someone who carry's a loaded.45], and I sure don't want to be at fault for an accident. Plus I live for combat flight sims, which I think has trained by brain to be more aware of the things going on around me. I like the vantage point having a large truck gives me because I can look through the windows of the car in front of me and see what the car or cars in front of him are doing. So If I see car #1 hit the brakes hard I know the guy in front of me will be soon, and I usually brake before they do.
Funny thing is, I do the same thing driving my stupid Saturn SW2 (yes, a station wagon), and did in my MR2 before that. It's really an *illusion* in a truck/SUV. I do not see appreciably more ahead in my F250 truck than I do in my Saturn or Honda Odyssey. I take advantage of whatever siteline I can. I guess I'm used to it now after almost 20 years of driving I don't think about it anymore. The main ingredient for this to work is not driving too close to the car in front of you, fancy that. And the worst vehicles to be driving behind? Not semitrucks. Not cars. But SUVs (Subs, Escalades, H1/H2, etc) and 4wd Pickup trucks. Why not semitrucks? Well, most semitruck drivers really do not want to slam on their brakes, so they're a lot more anticipatory and defensive drivers, so it doesn't take as much attention to drive behind a semi.
I'll take driving in SoCal any day now over driving in the Phoenix, AZ metro area. At least in SoCal, everyone is driving 80mph. In AZ, there is just too much speed differential between the fastest drivers (80+mph) and the rest of the drivers.
And yes, I don't care what situation anyone puts themselves in - it's your family over the others, if you think it's not then it's because you don't have a family of your own or you don't have the proper means to protect them and think it's unfair someone else does.
Just because it may be my right to walk down some of the side streets of North Chicago/Waukegan, IL doesn't necessarily mean it's the RIGHT thing to do. No amount of carrying a sidearm, etc. will really make it any more a right thing to do, perhaps even if I were getting paid to do it (i.e., I was a cop). In other words, if the situation is going to be bad, then why put myself into it willingly?
To me, the biggest factor in surviving an accident is not getting in one. Willingly choosing a vehicle that is far less capable of avoiding an accident than other choices (car, minivan), with little to no advantage in utility, well...
If you were a chemist, how would you have felt 150 years ago when the chemical table was being "discovered", that patents could have been applied for and recieved on elements?
I guess that's my beef with Biotech and the patenting of genetic sequences in general. If you have a specific product developed off of one, then it should be patentable (i.e., genetic marker XYZ54 is a good target for identifying likely Slashdot trolls), but what if it also is a good marker for other traits? Should one group of researchers be locked out entirely because someone else identified a novel, unique use for a chemical that wasn't thought up before, or should they have to publish in a way that allows the original patent holder to expand the scope of their patent retroactively to include the new use?
I understand that patents for chemicals include the process path to make said chemical. There are chemicals where if you discover a different, novel path, then you also get to make said chemical, but not use it the way the original patentee uses it (phenobarbital used to treat seizure disorders by one company, and another company develops their own flavor of phenobarbital, say, to treat colon motility disorders).
It could very well be a meaningful new use, in which case either the original patentee can buy out...er, exclusively license, the new use, or it's just cheaper to buy the chemical from the original patentee for the new use...
If you live 70 years, that means you will have wasted away four years of your life passively putting up with marketing people's pandering to your baser instincts and treating you like a sheep to be shorn of a little wool every now and then.
Lambs waiting to be castrated and/or docked is more appropriate. You shear a 3-yr fleece off of a sheep some day and tell me that the sheep probably doesn't mind it being gone...
But...the actions for trying to lift a loaf of bread don't really seem to fit the crime per se, but do so to keep the rest of the store's customers from doing it.
But if that were also the case, then gas stations would be allowed to have remote-control semi-autonomous machine gun turrets on the roofs of their buildings to shoot drive-offs.
Also, Microsoft would just like to be able to turn "putting whatever they want in the OS" into "restricting what can be put onto the OS". buhbye to non-Windows Logo-compliant (i.e., paid MS the $$$ to get "certified") software...
most cars don't have turbos. Most cars sensibly void the warranties on their engines if you do install your own turbo (hint: make sure the car you might try this on is paid for, is at least out of warranty, or you just don't care about it!). And, unless you live in California, chances are you can get away with this w/o invoking someone saying, "you have to put all your OEM parts back on before you can smog-check your car".
It's fine if the car company says, "no user-servicable parts inside". It's quite another when messing with your car risks an unreasonable fine (in relationship to other crimes of more social import) or jail time, if you're caught.
At least in the real world, buying a "turbo" engine generally means that the engine manufacturer has taken the time to beef up the oil supply to add a line to lube the turbo, strengthening various parts of the engine, matching the transmission and clutch to the increased torque/HP, and lowered the compression ratio (different pistons, thinner head gaskets) so as to avoid detonation, and made the fuel injection system/ECS to provide enough fuel under load, instead of figuring out how to do these things on your own...
While Apple is also bundling, it happens that it doesn't seem to restrict others from doing what their bundled software does. In fact, they actually make their software (iPhoto, iTunes, etc) generally...well...GOOD, something that MS has failed to really do with its bundled products. Apple also "owns" its hardware, so it doesn't have to play by the same rules as Microsoft, just like IBM, Sun, HP, et al do not have to with their non-Windows-based hardware.
No one complains about wanting to run HP/UX on an i-Series or Sunfire server and those damn hardware bastards won't do anything to facilitate this!
The US/FDA COULD refuse to accept or deny the right to sale to any drug that is tested without adhering to the same restrictions/rules that they would have to in the US. Test subjects would still be cheaper, but at least there would be incentive for treating these people decently.
They already do. There are any number of drugs that are available in Europe, Canada, Japan, etc., that haven't been approved by the FDA, and some that have been banned by the FDA.
You would think that an approved medication in Europe or Britain would automatically gain approval in the US, but no.
I can see that the big benefit to the Pharmas is being able to do more Phase I (i.e., does it kill you/LD50) and Phase II trials (does it have medical benefit) with much less interference from university review boards, for one.
Besides, what exactly is an "informed" decision?
Dr: This is an experimental drug. In rats, it has been shown to kill off the kind of tumor you have rather well. But we haven't tested it on...
Me: Ok, I'll take it.
Dr: But...OK. Here you go.
Me: Mmm! It tastes like almonds...can't breathe...gasp cack...
Gamma radiation is very high energy (and short wavelength) EM radiation. Neutrons are...neutrons. Alpha particles are Helium nuclei, and Beta radiation is positron radiation. That's about it for the types of radioactive decay radiation [sic].
A sheet of paper is sufficient to block alpha particles. A thin sheet of wood will effectively block beta radiation. Lead works well for neutrons, and a LOT of lead is required for gamma radiation.
Read back on the experiments with that B-36 that had a nuclear reactor on it. The crew area at the front was protected from the otherwise unshielded reactor core by something like 20 *tons* of lead...
every interface requires you to get used to it. So a new interface might leverage idioms from an old interface, perhaps even 1:1, so you don't have to "learn" new techniques.
But this isn't always the best or most intuitive way to do things because of overlooked perceptual impedence mismatches (obvious example: software fax interfaces that emulate physical fax machine vs WinFax's dialog where you enter receiving fax number and contact information, etc).
If you're going to code, code. Don't just stand there and talk about it. -Tuco
But wouldn't it be nice if they could do some work with the ICSharpDevelop team to add support for Perl and Python to SharpDevelop/MonoDevelop?
Some of the VisualStudio stuff they talk about not being able to Open Source is probably in the.Net Framework already, which SharpDevelop uses as much as they can.
Hmm... Civ3PTW plays WAY better than Civ2 or Civ3, just by the simple fact that you can now move a stack of units together, instead of one at a time.
A gaming machine for Civ4? The Civ4 demo runs just fine on my computer: Athlon 1400, NVidia GForce FX5200 (I bought it 3 yrs ago to play Halo) and 1GB RAM. and the mobo/proc combo is about 4 yrs old to boot.
The major source of problems with Civ4 seems to be with ATI cards.
The irony here, though, is you're complaining about something on a website, which further up is clearly advertised, described, etc., on another website. You complain about the lazyness of the editors [sic], yet it's too much to expect of yourself to do some of your own legwork and investigation?
I have a portable, battery-powered fence energizer (Premier 20B). Well, my daughter was bringing it over to me. I asked her (she was only 6 yrs old at the time...), "did you turn it off?"
"Uh huh"
So I grab the leads, one in each hand, and start to hook to fence.
I was not laughing a couple of moments later (it's about a 7000V discharge).
Well, heart was still ticking afterwards, so I didn't defib myself.
Main message? Trust but verify.
Other source of fun was crawling under the wire, and getting zapped in the back. It hurts your whole body.
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No, but if it was really committed to it, we would continue to outsource most of our production to South America (Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela). Maybe soybeans would be even better to use.
Help American farmers? Yeah, right. Just ask an American farmer about how well that works.
Yep. For those that don't know, there hopefully are archives of teh Skunkworks-L mail digest on the net, where several people who were associated with the SR-71 programs (USAF and NASA) have some great stories about this incredible aircraft, and how bad engine unstarts were when zipping along at Mach 3, with the typical reason being that the shock wave entered into the engine inlet faster than the inlet spike system could respond to it. IIRC, more than one SR71 was lost operationally because the restart didn't go well or the plane broke because of the violence of the yaw caused by the unstart.
I saw somewhere online reports that people have seen curious fuzzy worm-like creatures while out hiking. Curious, in that they are 10' long and periodically chirp like cats do sometimes, a kind of "chtrrrr" sound. Farmers in Eastern Oregon are reporting grisly remains from attacks on range livestock, but they cannot be explained by typical carnivore eating patterns. The state dept of agricultre and Idaho game & wildlife officials are pretty sure that Yellowstone wolves have not made it this far yet.
Yeah, I do like the "Chtorr" series by David Gerrold...
Talk to a nurse about the doctors he/she works with, and you'll get an earful about them ALL, good, bad and ugly. From "Dr So-and-So couldn't hit his own ass with a needle, yet he insists on starting his own IVs" to "No one who works here gets a Pelvic exam by Dr. Y". Even as a patient, it can come down to "Cool, Dr. Z is on duty tonite. He's real good with kids", which implies strongly that perhaps some of the other doctors do not work well with children patients...in a pediatric ward no less.
It would be fun to see the first time your naive rose-colored glasses were cruelly crushed.
I think people are concerned about the image of most said institutions, professing to take the high moral ground, more civilized people, etc., essentially acting like narcissistic powermongers doing everything in their power to ensure that only a Positive Image is presented of the school.
Chances are, most of us hate aspects about our jobs, who we work with, where we work, what we do, or other areas in our lives. We bitch about them to other people, our bosses, etc. It's a dangerous game, really, but saying you work with a bunch of asshats, and leaving it like that, whether it is a drunken comment at the bar one night or on some blog, and then getting fired for it next week by the Sr VP of Operations (didn't know the company had one?), isn't what normally happens.
The guy called an unspecified professor (his friends surely know who he was referring to) a cockmaster. He was also insulting about other students? Not really, all he did was state a general opinion about the people he has to associate with. Chances are, those around him who saw his blog, if they disagreed with it, will just put him into the "what an asshole, I hope I don't have to work with him" box.
If you're doing a joint project, and you think that everyone else in your group is just slacking off while you do all the work, you'll probably say the same things to everyone around you every chance you get as well, except of course to the people you're working with. And if you bring your feelings to your professor's attention, essentially asking for help to deal with your fellow asshat associates, he's probably just going to shrug his shoulders, and more or less say, "figure something out". He's NOT going to just give YOU an F on the spot, turn you into the School's administrative punishment systems for some alleged breach of student misconduct, and otherwise roast your balls over a bunsen burner however he can, unless you persist in not figuring something out and whining to him about it.
Well, how do you respond when someone calls you an asshole after you do something? Do you flip back, "well, fuck you too", do you shrug your shoulders and just walk away, or do you pull a Longshanks and do everything you can in your power/influence to disrupt or screw over the person who said it to you, especially if you have a position of power or authority over them in one way or another, such as threatening their job, publicly humiliating by name said person, running credit checks, reevaluating past job evaluations, etc?
The School WAYYYYY overreacted to this student's posting. And now it still thinks it has to save face, instead of taking the higher road and realizing it overreacted. It doesn't necessarily have to apologize, but they reacted so hard initially that they have painted themselves into a corner of still having to do something negative. I'll apply the student's judgement over all of the School's administrators: what a bunch of cockmasters.
Let's compare it though to the Dixie Chicks after 9/11 and their comments and corresponding backlash. The DCs have every right to espouse their beliefs, just like Ted Nugent so freely does during any chance he gets in the public's eye, yet Ted Nugent seems to be doing just fine in his own little world, and seems to be empowered by whatever negative reactions he invokes.
So what if the DC's comments were diametrically opposed to the opinions of probably 90% of their once core audience? They spoke their mind, and their fans spoke theirs right back, which is how things should work. It'll be interesting to see how strongly the DCs feel about their positions if they ever tour again. Were the DCs right? Were their fans right? Who cares at this point. But the whining by the DCs after the reactions to what they said was naive, at the very least. Gretchen Wilson wouldn't back down, but she's just a Red Neck Woman anyways.
Oh my gosh, they're burning our CDs, how ungrateful after all we have done for them!
The 1st Amendment guarantees you the right to speak, but it does not mandate that people, by proxy of the government, have to listen, agree, etc. to what you have to say.
Yes, but check out an Avanti. Those who like them love them. Personally, they're just too ugly.
Or the new Bugatti Veyron. Good thing they're making it. At least it's going to drive, but it's just as silly as that 16-cylinder supercar that Chrysler developed a couple of years back, the Viper-Engined-Motorcycle, the souped up Cadillacs, etc. (Didn't the Cadillac designers see the first Vacation movie? Their front-ends look like they were lifted right off of the Family Truckster).
(remembering pictures from the 80's of cars from Eastern Europe)... You *bought* a Skoda? Hey, I'll trade it for my Yugo!
*:)
Yes, I know Skodas have come a LONG ways since then...
In the US? You can go buy a motorcoach the size of a passenger bus (hey, it IS a passenger bus...made by Van Hool, Prevost, MCI), but because it's a "recreational vehicle", you don't need any special license endorsements like a regular bus driver needs.
Well, that's what they're doing in NASCAR at some of the race tracks... That's what they do when they cut trees down that are too close to the highway. That's why highway engineers like to have wide shoulders on at least one side of the highway.
3. I don't get distracted while driving easily, I'm one of the few people who realize that driving a vehicle is the most dangerous thing I'll do that day [yes this coming from someone who carry's a loaded .45], and I sure don't want to be at fault for an accident. Plus I live for combat flight sims, which I think has trained by brain to be more aware of the things going on around me. I like the vantage point having a large truck gives me because I can look through the windows of the car in front of me and see what the car or cars in front of him are doing. So If I see car #1 hit the brakes hard I know the guy in front of me will be soon, and I usually brake before they do.
Funny thing is, I do the same thing driving my stupid Saturn SW2 (yes, a station wagon), and did in my MR2 before that. It's really an *illusion* in a truck/SUV. I do not see appreciably more ahead in my F250 truck than I do in my Saturn or Honda Odyssey. I take advantage of whatever siteline I can. I guess I'm used to it now after almost 20 years of driving I don't think about it anymore. The main ingredient for this to work is not driving too close to the car in front of you, fancy that. And the worst vehicles to be driving behind? Not semitrucks. Not cars. But SUVs (Subs, Escalades, H1/H2, etc) and 4wd Pickup trucks. Why not semitrucks? Well, most semitruck drivers really do not want to slam on their brakes, so they're a lot more anticipatory and defensive drivers, so it doesn't take as much attention to drive behind a semi.
I'll take driving in SoCal any day now over driving in the Phoenix, AZ metro area. At least in SoCal, everyone is driving 80mph. In AZ, there is just too much speed differential between the fastest drivers (80+mph) and the rest of the drivers.
And yes, I don't care what situation anyone puts themselves in - it's your family over the others, if you think it's not then it's because you don't have a family of your own or you don't have the proper means to protect them and think it's unfair someone else does.
Just because it may be my right to walk down some of the side streets of North Chicago/Waukegan, IL doesn't necessarily mean it's the RIGHT thing to do. No amount of carrying a sidearm, etc. will really make it any more a right thing to do, perhaps even if I were getting paid to do it (i.e., I was a cop). In other words, if the situation is going to be bad, then why put myself into it willingly?
To me, the biggest factor in surviving an accident is not getting in one. Willingly choosing a vehicle that is far less capable of avoiding an accident than other choices (car, minivan), with little to no advantage in utility, well...
If you were a chemist, how would you have felt 150 years ago when the chemical table was being "discovered", that patents could have been applied for and recieved on elements?
I guess that's my beef with Biotech and the patenting of genetic sequences in general. If you have a specific product developed off of one, then it should be patentable (i.e., genetic marker XYZ54 is a good target for identifying likely Slashdot trolls), but what if it also is a good marker for other traits? Should one group of researchers be locked out entirely because someone else identified a novel, unique use for a chemical that wasn't thought up before, or should they have to publish in a way that allows the original patent holder to expand the scope of their patent retroactively to include the new use?
I understand that patents for chemicals include the process path to make said chemical. There are chemicals where if you discover a different, novel path, then you also get to make said chemical, but not use it the way the original patentee uses it (phenobarbital used to treat seizure disorders by one company, and another company develops their own flavor of phenobarbital, say, to treat colon motility disorders).
It could very well be a meaningful new use, in which case either the original patentee can buy out...er, exclusively license, the new use, or it's just cheaper to buy the chemical from the original patentee for the new use...
If you live 70 years, that means you will have wasted away four years of your life passively putting up with marketing people's pandering to your baser instincts and treating you like a sheep to be shorn of a little wool every now and then.
Lambs waiting to be castrated and/or docked is more appropriate. You shear a 3-yr fleece off of a sheep some day and tell me that the sheep probably doesn't mind it being gone...
They need to start showing "Crocodile Dundee" in classrooms again, and serving Vegemite sandwiches in the cafeterias...
(but it wouldn't be too bad if they played Midnight Oil or Men At Work over the PA system).
But...the actions for trying to lift a loaf of bread don't really seem to fit the crime per se, but do so to keep the rest of the store's customers from doing it.
But if that were also the case, then gas stations would be allowed to have remote-control semi-autonomous machine gun turrets on the roofs of their buildings to shoot drive-offs.
Also, Microsoft would just like to be able to turn "putting whatever they want in the OS" into "restricting what can be put onto the OS". buhbye to non-Windows Logo-compliant (i.e., paid MS the $$$ to get "certified") software...
most cars don't have turbos. Most cars sensibly void the warranties on their engines if you do install your own turbo (hint: make sure the car you might try this on is paid for, is at least out of warranty, or you just don't care about it!). And, unless you live in California, chances are you can get away with this w/o invoking someone saying, "you have to put all your OEM parts back on before you can smog-check your car".
It's fine if the car company says, "no user-servicable parts inside". It's quite another when messing with your car risks an unreasonable fine (in relationship to other crimes of more social import) or jail time, if you're caught.
At least in the real world, buying a "turbo" engine generally means that the engine manufacturer has taken the time to beef up the oil supply to add a line to lube the turbo, strengthening various parts of the engine, matching the transmission and clutch to the increased torque/HP, and lowered the compression ratio (different pistons, thinner head gaskets) so as to avoid detonation, and made the fuel injection system/ECS to provide enough fuel under load, instead of figuring out how to do these things on your own...
While Apple is also bundling, it happens that it doesn't seem to restrict others from doing what their bundled software does. In fact, they actually make their software (iPhoto, iTunes, etc) generally...well...GOOD, something that MS has failed to really do with its bundled products. Apple also "owns" its hardware, so it doesn't have to play by the same rules as Microsoft, just like IBM, Sun, HP, et al do not have to with their non-Windows-based hardware.
No one complains about wanting to run HP/UX on an i-Series or Sunfire server and those damn hardware bastards won't do anything to facilitate this!
The US/FDA COULD refuse to accept or deny the right to sale to any drug that is tested without adhering to the same restrictions/rules that they would have to in the US. Test subjects would still be cheaper, but at least there would be incentive for treating these people decently.
They already do. There are any number of drugs that are available in Europe, Canada, Japan, etc., that haven't been approved by the FDA, and some that have been banned by the FDA.
You would think that an approved medication in Europe or Britain would automatically gain approval in the US, but no.
I can see that the big benefit to the Pharmas is being able to do more Phase I (i.e., does it kill you/LD50) and Phase II trials (does it have medical benefit) with much less interference from university review boards, for one.
Besides, what exactly is an "informed" decision?
Dr: This is an experimental drug. In rats, it has been shown to kill off the kind of tumor you have rather well. But we haven't tested it on...
Me: Ok, I'll take it.
Dr: But...OK. Here you go.
Me: Mmm! It tastes like almonds...can't breathe...gasp cack...
Gamma radiation is very high energy (and short wavelength) EM radiation. Neutrons are...neutrons. Alpha particles are Helium nuclei, and Beta radiation is positron radiation. That's about it for the types of radioactive decay radiation [sic].
A sheet of paper is sufficient to block alpha particles. A thin sheet of wood will effectively block beta radiation. Lead works well for neutrons, and a LOT of lead is required for gamma radiation.
Read back on the experiments with that B-36 that had a nuclear reactor on it. The crew area at the front was protected from the otherwise unshielded reactor core by something like 20 *tons* of lead...
every interface requires you to get used to it. So a new interface might leverage idioms from an old interface, perhaps even 1:1, so you don't have to "learn" new techniques.
But this isn't always the best or most intuitive way to do things because of overlooked perceptual impedence mismatches (obvious example: software fax interfaces that emulate physical fax machine vs WinFax's dialog where you enter receiving fax number and contact information, etc).
If you're going to code, code. Don't just stand there and talk about it.
-Tuco
But wouldn't it be nice if they could do some work with the ICSharpDevelop team to add support for Perl and Python to SharpDevelop/MonoDevelop?
.Net Framework already, which SharpDevelop uses as much as they can.
Some of the VisualStudio stuff they talk about not being able to Open Source is probably in the
Hmm... Civ3PTW plays WAY better than Civ2 or Civ3, just by the simple fact that you can now move a stack of units together, instead of one at a time.
A gaming machine for Civ4? The Civ4 demo runs just fine on my computer: Athlon 1400, NVidia GForce FX5200 (I bought it 3 yrs ago to play Halo) and 1GB RAM. and the mobo/proc combo is about 4 yrs old to boot.
The major source of problems with Civ4 seems to be with ATI cards.
The irony here, though, is you're complaining about something on a website, which further up is clearly advertised, described, etc., on another website. You complain about the lazyness of the editors [sic], yet it's too much to expect of yourself to do some of your own legwork and investigation?
Not as much fun as this...
I have a portable, battery-powered fence energizer (Premier 20B). Well, my daughter was bringing it over to me. I asked her (she was only 6 yrs old at the time...), "did you turn it off?"
"Uh huh"
So I grab the leads, one in each hand, and start to hook to fence.
I was not laughing a couple of moments later (it's about a 7000V discharge).
Well, heart was still ticking afterwards, so I didn't defib myself.
Main message? Trust but verify.
Other source of fun was crawling under the wire, and getting zapped in the back. It hurts your whole body.