HP paid $1.2 Billion. That's about $1 Billion more than it was really worth. I think Apple, RIM, and Google deliberately hobbled HP by bidding up the price but not high enough that HP would not still take that dinosaur into their house.
HP is famous for spending more than the target is worth - or what it si worth, but then blowing-it when it comes to selling/integrating it later
Worst case scenario, you spend a week cycling through chills and fevers, fevers and chills. Then you get TIRED. So tired you can barely move. Eventually, you go into a coma. After that there's plenty of bad shit going on to your system but you don't feel any of it because you're in a coma. Then you die. I didn't personally get to this part, but I'm guessing it's as painless as the coma was. According to my parents, I was certainly thrashing around a lot, had all kinds of fluids in my lungs, all that I'm sure appears painful, but honestly it was nothing compared to catheterization.
Which is to say, yes, deadly, yes, you don't want to get it, but no, not the most painful way to shake off this mortal coil. Not even close. I could think of so many worse ways to go.
We're all happy to know you didn't get to the "die" part!
Seriously, though - I was unaware that most of the malarial deaths happen post-coma: I thought it was a totally or mostly awake disease
'The trouble is it's [debris] in orbit and travelling at orbital speeds, which means that it is travelling at about 30,000 kilometres an hour," said the CEO of the Australian company. 'If even a tiny little piece runs into a satellite it'll destroy it or punch a hole through a person if they're out there space walking.'
Umm, maybe I'm not recalling middleschool science classes correctly - but when you're "space walking" you're ALSO moving at "orbital speeds"
So - how would the space debris punch a hole through a person if they were space walking? Sure, if it's traveling in a different direction it *might* - but still: the astronaut is moving at the same speed as the shuttle as the satellite they're deploying/fixing
You need a flywheel the size of the Library of Congress to do any grid scale peak power. Flywheels work best in data center UPS applications, replacing a room full of batteries.
It's like Weird AL. IS he brilliant, or is his niche so small, no one bothers to care to compete?
I'd argue Weird Al's brilliance has been spread with the advent of YouTube and the like. Parodies have never been mainstream, but they're nt incredily small as a niche, either.
What POSSIBLE use could a NON-sex site have for something like free-nude-girls.com? Adding the.xxx is one of those great-on-paper ideas. None of the.com/.org editions are going to disappear - there's no reason to. No one with a "clean" site would want to own supersex.com and then blog about pie recipes, would they?
FWI - a kid where I used to go to school did that a couple years ago. Waited for the train to come, then walked onto the tracks a few yards in front of it:-\
We should be looking at this per person carried: a 10mpg vehicle that carries 15 people is getting better mileage than 5 vehicles carrying 3 people each unless they're getting >50mpg.
Achieving 20mpg vs 10mpg vs 50mpg doesn't matter if the vehicle is being utilized better.
Also, if you have one vehicle driving with 15 people in it instead of 5 vehicles with 3 people each, you reduce the chances for crashes, driver fatigue, and wear and tear on 4 vehicles.
Another point: I have yet to see a Prius (which can get ~50mpg) be able to haul a horse trailer like a 15mpg F-250... It's all about what the vehicle is being used for.
On my way home from work, There is one intersection I always have to wait at all the time for about 3 minutes even though its empty. Rights on reds are prohibited, no sensors, just a timer, and it is a 5 way intersection, So even if right hand turns were allowed on red I would need to do right - U turn, Hard Right (Which is actually completely prohibited at that intersection) U turn, Right. It is very odd because every single other traffic light on the road except for that one has sensors, some even having approach sensors changing the light before the cars even reach them.
... You know that if you're biking you can become a pedestrian and cross using the cross walks by pushing your bicycle, and then start biking again, right?:)
that's what I always do when I can't make turns to get where I need to go.
I concede that I don't know anything about the university system in Portugal. I'd be willing to place a fairly large bet that this is not what's happening at Northern Arizona University.
Teachers routinely schedule more than can be done in a semester if they're a) new, or b) intent on failing-out students from a program in every university I've heard about in the US.
Why were you in class 30 hours a week? I took anywhere from 14-19 credits a semester, and was never in class more than 21 hours in a week. Were you taking 24+ credits?
True, failure of levees caused much of the damage. And how long had the Army Corps of Engineers been wanting to fix/upgrade those, but the local and state governments either a) wouldn't allow it, or b) funding was directed elsewhere?
Kind of like everyone blamed Bush for anything that happened in the previous 8 years? Including a few hurricanes?
No one blamed bush for Hurricane Katrina. Just for sitting on his ass when it hit, for appointing unqualified and flagrantly incompetent butt-buddies, excuse me, political henchmen to run FEMA, and for deliberately underfunding and eviscerating FEMA and nearly every other non-military federal agency in order to deliberately make them incapable of carrying out their mandate. Which worked brilliantly in his war against "big government", until we actually needed that government to rescue tens of thousands of people.
Then we got our act together, at many times the expense, and with many times the casualties, than it would have entailed if a competent president had appointed a competent leader of FEMA, and not gutted the agency of funds and logistical support.
And yes, everyone (except the hard-core right) quite correctly blames him for that. And the illegal war he started, and the financial implosion that was a direct result of Republican lassaiz-faire bank regulation (and which the Republicans are trying to continue today by filibustering any meaningful bank reform).
It's bad enough they do these things and then try to make us feel bad for pointing out the error of their ways. It's even more disburbing how utterly incapable of learning from their mistakes, and correcting their ways, these idealogues are. They'd rather be stubbornly wrong regardless of the evidence, than have a hint of flip-flopping on an issue(what most of the rest of us would call "correcting a mistake")
Regardless of whether or not the head of FEMA was qualified, what is FEMA's purpose? They are an "emergency" management agency. Louisiana and the city of New Orleans asked them to wait to come down.
The mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana should take most or all of the blame for damages and injuries incurred during that hurricane. Hurricanes happen. New Orleans is below sea level. Katrina was a hurricane. It was heading towards New Orleans. And yet no one ordered an evacuation of the city until the storm was just hours away?
Likewise, why were out-of-state contractors hired to work on the cleanup and rebuilding? Excluding folks like myself who volunteered to go work there with aid teams like the Red Cross, Samaritan's Purse, etc, why were local folks not hired? Sure, some of them were unqualified to build bridges. But how qualified do you ave to be to take a shovel and muck-out a building?
Look at the government. They dont have a stable OS to use for any military operations.
Yeah: vessels going to sea today that were designed 10+ years ago are all running Windows NT (if they went with an MS OS). There's a scary thought: the most advanced weapons every devised run on Windows NT.
Hardrives are measured in bytes, 10^5 bytes is a gigabyte. However, memory is also measured in bytes, 2^30 bytes is a gibibyte (although often refered to as a gigabyte).
10^5 is a gigabyte?? Wouldn't that be 10^9 equals a gigabyte?
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HP paid $1.2 Billion. That's about $1 Billion more than it was really worth. I think Apple, RIM, and Google deliberately hobbled HP by bidding up the price but not high enough that HP would not still take that dinosaur into their house.
HP is famous for spending more than the target is worth - or what it si worth, but then blowing-it when it comes to selling/integrating it later
My money is on RIM. I look forward to the first Palm/RIM interface.
If only RIM was named Face..
As long as they were at it, it would have been nice if they could have bred them to really not like the taste of human blood too.
Or ones that would attack other mosquitos
Worst case scenario, you spend a week cycling through chills and fevers, fevers and chills. Then you get TIRED. So tired you can barely move. Eventually, you go into a coma. After that there's plenty of bad shit going on to your system but you don't feel any of it because you're in a coma. Then you die. I didn't personally get to this part, but I'm guessing it's as painless as the coma was. According to my parents, I was certainly thrashing around a lot, had all kinds of fluids in my lungs, all that I'm sure appears painful, but honestly it was nothing compared to catheterization.
Which is to say, yes, deadly, yes, you don't want to get it, but no, not the most painful way to shake off this mortal coil. Not even close. I could think of so many worse ways to go.
We're all happy to know you didn't get to the "die" part!
Seriously, though - I was unaware that most of the malarial deaths happen post-coma: I thought it was a totally or mostly awake disease
'The trouble is it's [debris] in orbit and travelling at orbital speeds, which means that it is travelling at about 30,000 kilometres an hour," said the CEO of the Australian company. 'If even a tiny little piece runs into a satellite it'll destroy it or punch a hole through a person if they're out there space walking.'
Umm, maybe I'm not recalling middleschool science classes correctly - but when you're "space walking" you're ALSO moving at "orbital speeds"
So - how would the space debris punch a hole through a person if they were space walking? Sure, if it's traveling in a different direction it *might* - but still: the astronaut is moving at the same speed as the shuttle as the satellite they're deploying/fixing
You need a flywheel the size of the Library of Congress to do any grid scale peak power. Flywheels work best in data center UPS applications, replacing a room full of batteries.
finally an analogy we can ALL understand...
That said, I don't like what Skype's been doing lately either - exclusive partnerships with Verizon, no Android app whatsoever...
no Android app? Really?
What's this, then? http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-mobile/skype-mobile/android/
I have it on my android phone
It's like Weird AL. IS he brilliant, or is his niche so small, no one bothers to care to compete?
I'd argue Weird Al's brilliance has been spread with the advent of YouTube and the like. Parodies have never been mainstream, but they're nt incredily small as a niche, either.
What POSSIBLE use could a NON-sex site have for something like free-nude-girls.com? Adding the .xxx is one of those great-on-paper ideas. None of the .com/.org editions are going to disappear - there's no reason to. No one with a "clean" site would want to own supersex.com and then blog about pie recipes, would they?
FWI - a kid where I used to go to school did that a couple years ago. Waited for the train to come, then walked onto the tracks a few yards in front of it :-\
Achieving 20mpg vs 10mpg vs 50mpg doesn't matter if the vehicle is being utilized better.
Also, if you have one vehicle driving with 15 people in it instead of 5 vehicles with 3 people each, you reduce the chances for crashes, driver fatigue, and wear and tear on 4 vehicles.
Another point: I have yet to see a Prius (which can get ~50mpg) be able to haul a horse trailer like a 15mpg F-250... It's all about what the vehicle is being used for.
Better yet, see Seth Godin's piece from last August: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/08/not-so-good-at-math.html (and the math - http://charliepark.tumblr.com/post/169016492/in-seth-godins-post-this-morning-he-talks-about & http://www.onpreinit.com/2009/08/mpg-illusion-seth-godin.html)
.. they exist all over the place, pal :)
On my way home from work, There is one intersection I always have to wait at all the time for about 3 minutes even though its empty. Rights on reds are prohibited, no sensors, just a timer, and it is a 5 way intersection, So even if right hand turns were allowed on red I would need to do right - U turn, Hard Right (Which is actually completely prohibited at that intersection) U turn, Right. It is very odd because every single other traffic light on the road except for that one has sensors, some even having approach sensors changing the light before the cars even reach them.
... You know that if you're biking you can become a pedestrian and cross using the cross walks by pushing your bicycle, and then start biking again, right? :)
that's what I always do when I can't make turns to get where I need to go.
The advert for the Ford Ranger in 1981 had it getting ~35mpg
troll spotted.
bet you meant for that one to be anonymous, eh?
whoosh...
were you a kid in 2007? the 386 maxed-out at 40Mhz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386)
yep. Or, at least one of the X-37B projects was
I concede that I don't know anything about the university system in Portugal. I'd be willing to place a fairly large bet that this is not what's happening at Northern Arizona University.
Teachers routinely schedule more than can be done in a semester if they're a) new, or b) intent on failing-out students from a program in every university I've heard about in the US.
Actual classroom time was usually ~30 hours/week.
Why were you in class 30 hours a week? I took anywhere from 14-19 credits a semester, and was never in class more than 21 hours in a week. Were you taking 24+ credits?
True, failure of levees caused much of the damage. And how long had the Army Corps of Engineers been wanting to fix/upgrade those, but the local and state governments either a) wouldn't allow it, or b) funding was directed elsewhere?
Kind of like everyone blamed Bush for anything that happened in the previous 8 years? Including a few hurricanes?
No one blamed bush for Hurricane Katrina. Just for sitting on his ass when it hit, for appointing unqualified and flagrantly incompetent butt-buddies, excuse me, political henchmen to run FEMA, and for deliberately underfunding and eviscerating FEMA and nearly every other non-military federal agency in order to deliberately make them incapable of carrying out their mandate. Which worked brilliantly in his war against "big government", until we actually needed that government to rescue tens of thousands of people.
Then we got our act together, at many times the expense, and with many times the casualties, than it would have entailed if a competent president had appointed a competent leader of FEMA, and not gutted the agency of funds and logistical support.
And yes, everyone (except the hard-core right) quite correctly blames him for that. And the illegal war he started, and the financial implosion that was a direct result of Republican lassaiz-faire bank regulation (and which the Republicans are trying to continue today by filibustering any meaningful bank reform).
It's bad enough they do these things and then try to make us feel bad for pointing out the error of their ways. It's even more disburbing how utterly incapable of learning from their mistakes, and correcting their ways, these idealogues are. They'd rather be stubbornly wrong regardless of the evidence, than have a hint of flip-flopping on an issue(what most of the rest of us would call "correcting a mistake")
Regardless of whether or not the head of FEMA was qualified, what is FEMA's purpose? They are an "emergency" management agency. Louisiana and the city of New Orleans asked them to wait to come down.
The mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana should take most or all of the blame for damages and injuries incurred during that hurricane. Hurricanes happen. New Orleans is below sea level. Katrina was a hurricane. It was heading towards New Orleans. And yet no one ordered an evacuation of the city until the storm was just hours away?
Likewise, why were out-of-state contractors hired to work on the cleanup and rebuilding? Excluding folks like myself who volunteered to go work there with aid teams like the Red Cross, Samaritan's Purse, etc, why were local folks not hired? Sure, some of them were unqualified to build bridges. But how qualified do you ave to be to take a shovel and muck-out a building?
Look at the government. They dont have a stable OS to use for any military operations.
Yeah: vessels going to sea today that were designed 10+ years ago are all running Windows NT (if they went with an MS OS). There's a scary thought: the most advanced weapons every devised run on Windows NT.
As long as they can measure it in Libraries of Congresses, I'm okay with it.
One yLoC == what? a word?
Hardrives are measured in bytes, 10^5 bytes is a gigabyte. However, memory is also measured in bytes, 2^30 bytes is a gibibyte (although often refered to as a gigabyte).
10^5 is a gigabyte?? Wouldn't that be 10^9 equals a gigabyte?
If not... dang I've wasted a lot of money