Ideally it shouldn't be controlled by anyone, but I'll take the US over an organization with a membership that includes such icons of online freedom as Iran and china.
That's what they did with the Xbox division nearly a decade ago, and the division is still years from paying back the investment.
Even Microsoft can't afford to float vast sums of money to buy market share forever, and what's more I doubt the investors will tolerate pissing billions away.
The problem with the interesting moons like Callisto and Europa is that the liquid water oceans are dozens or hundreds of miles below the surface. Sure we might be able to sniff some pretty interesting stuff from ejected water, but the big finds on these moons are going to have to wait for future generations of equipment that can drill through kilometers of ice.
Mars is a reasonably good testing ground for this kind of tech. Not only is it an interesting body with a unique geology and a history that to a point wasn't so different from Earth's and at least a moderate candidate for some kind of life, but it is also considerably closer than Jupiter or Saturn. It serves as a great test bed for the kinds of probes we will likely end up sending to other bodies in the solar system.
I look at the Mars rovers as the best possible test bed for these new technologies, not only in building rugged mechanical systems that can survive intense temperature differentials, dust storms and climactic changes and even hard radiation, but also in the software. I expect with some of the major advances we're seeing in neural net development that by 2020 not only will the next rover be a more sophisticated machine, but it's brain will be considerably smarter too.
When you really think about it, NASA's Mars program is leading the way in highly sophisticated semi-autonomous probes. In a generation, we'll probably be able to launch the grandchildren of Curiosity to places like Titan and give them a far wider range of tools to explore.
I'm not so familiar with football, but I know that with hockey, it's been demanded from many quarters for a couple of decades now that all leagues stop the checking and the fighting. The leagues will pay lip service to it, but the hard facts are that fans want to see violence. They want to see enforcers smashing the shit out of the fast little guy from the opposing team that keeps scoring goals. They love it when a player is smashed against the boards by some guy doing thirty miles an hour. It sells tickets. Sure the end result is some fifty year old guy with joints and spine so damaged they're physically like a 70 year old, and their brains addled because they've been giving and taking hits since they were eight years old because their old man, their coach, and every fucking person in the arena wanted to seem some actions.
What I see happening in the football and hockey leagues is a long waver that expunges the league and team of all responsibility. The promise of big bucks, women and fan adulation will keep the bulk of players in the game. The smart ones, yeah, they'll probably go "My brains and my body aren't worth this...", but for the majority, they'll take the long term pain for the short term gain.
It is if you're an AC hanging out in his parents' basement writing flamebait posts about/.ers jacking off with Cheetoh-encrusted fingers. I mean, is there anything more pathetic than the grandparent poster, a complete fucking worthless loser whose life is filled with trolling Internet web sites.
First of all, it's pretty much been determined that helmets offer little more than a false sense of security, meaning the hits being taken are that much worse. I'll wager, as counterintuitive as it seems, that rugby players don't actually suffer the same degree of head injuries as sports like football or ice hockey, where helmets are sold as not only protection, but an excuse to keep smashing skulls.
Wherever there is money to be made, there will be industry people doing everything they can to keep the money rolling, even if it means insane amounts of damage.
But hey, it's America. Jesus loves a winner. Jesus hates taxes, Mexicans and poor sick people. Jesus loves the guy that gets thirty major concussions in his NFL career and suffers advanced dementia in his fifties.
I'm sure the wave of insanely monstrous lawsuits coming down the line will do that. And the NFL isn't the only one facing this. The NHL isn't far behind.
I just gave three examples of where liberties are limited. Are you suggesting that not being allowed to shout "fire" in a crowded theatre is tyranny.
There's freedom, my friend, and then there's anarchy. In times of pandemic, even free countries like the US instituted quarantines. There's not much use for liberty when a fair chunk of the population is sick near to the point of death.
Quite frankly I don't think it should even be a choice. We limit liberties in other ways for the general good; you can't throw toxic waste into water systems, you can't drive the wrong way down the highway, you can't shout "fire" in a theater and you shouldn't be allowed to move freely through the populace unvaccinated.
More than debunked, Andrew Wakefield (I refuse to use the epithet Dr. for this vile repugnant and thoroughly evil man) has been outed as a con artist who was attempting to undermine the use of MMR vaccines so he could push his own vaccine combo.
If it only affected their brats, I'd agree with you. The problem is that once you break herd immunity, others may die. There are people who for various reasons cannot take vaccines. Providing almost everyone they come into contact with is vaccinated, there is little likelihood of infection. Once herd immunity is broken, such individuals are at grave risk.
I've been working with my rep for major upgrades of Server and Exchange. I'm not seeing how any of this is cherry picked. CALs are being hiked in price. We've abandoned the idea of moving to server 2010 RDP CALs because the costs are just too difficult to justify. We will also be retaining our Server 2003 DCs at our branches until EOL. Not an ideal situation, but we can't currently justify the costs.
I'm wondering how this works. Does it scan for loops to remake them as event driven processes? Does it splice off multiple function calls and then throw the results into some sort of stack for retrieval? It's a cool idea, but man, for any kind of non-trivial program it must be some monumental piece of work.
It's a classic example of how IP law works now. In this case "on a computer" is replaced with "in a body".
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Yup. Why would it be any different than the printout of an ECG or an image from an MRI? Just because it's inside the body doesn't make it something other than a medical device.
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What exactly about iOS is hard to use?
Ideally it shouldn't be controlled by anyone, but I'll take the US over an organization with a membership that includes such icons of online freedom as Iran and china.
The Xbox division started turning a profit. That is not the same thing as paying back the huge amounts of money thrown at it.
And let us never forget the ions thrown at MSN/Live/Bing
That's what they did with the Xbox division nearly a decade ago, and the division is still years from paying back the investment.
Even Microsoft can't afford to float vast sums of money to buy market share forever, and what's more I doubt the investors will tolerate pissing billions away.
Which explains the sales
The problem with the interesting moons like Callisto and Europa is that the liquid water oceans are dozens or hundreds of miles below the surface. Sure we might be able to sniff some pretty interesting stuff from ejected water, but the big finds on these moons are going to have to wait for future generations of equipment that can drill through kilometers of ice.
Mars is a reasonably good testing ground for this kind of tech. Not only is it an interesting body with a unique geology and a history that to a point wasn't so different from Earth's and at least a moderate candidate for some kind of life, but it is also considerably closer than Jupiter or Saturn. It serves as a great test bed for the kinds of probes we will likely end up sending to other bodies in the solar system.
I look at the Mars rovers as the best possible test bed for these new technologies, not only in building rugged mechanical systems that can survive intense temperature differentials, dust storms and climactic changes and even hard radiation, but also in the software. I expect with some of the major advances we're seeing in neural net development that by 2020 not only will the next rover be a more sophisticated machine, but it's brain will be considerably smarter too.
When you really think about it, NASA's Mars program is leading the way in highly sophisticated semi-autonomous probes. In a generation, we'll probably be able to launch the grandchildren of Curiosity to places like Titan and give them a far wider range of tools to explore.
I'm not so familiar with football, but I know that with hockey, it's been demanded from many quarters for a couple of decades now that all leagues stop the checking and the fighting. The leagues will pay lip service to it, but the hard facts are that fans want to see violence. They want to see enforcers smashing the shit out of the fast little guy from the opposing team that keeps scoring goals. They love it when a player is smashed against the boards by some guy doing thirty miles an hour. It sells tickets. Sure the end result is some fifty year old guy with joints and spine so damaged they're physically like a 70 year old, and their brains addled because they've been giving and taking hits since they were eight years old because their old man, their coach, and every fucking person in the arena wanted to seem some actions.
What I see happening in the football and hockey leagues is a long waver that expunges the league and team of all responsibility. The promise of big bucks, women and fan adulation will keep the bulk of players in the game. The smart ones, yeah, they'll probably go "My brains and my body aren't worth this...", but for the majority, they'll take the long term pain for the short term gain.
Oh yes, the researchers are far too stupid to use control groups. Thank goodness you came along to explain science to them.
It is if you're an AC hanging out in his parents' basement writing flamebait posts about /.ers jacking off with Cheetoh-encrusted fingers. I mean, is there anything more pathetic than the grandparent poster, a complete fucking worthless loser whose life is filled with trolling Internet web sites.
First of all, it's pretty much been determined that helmets offer little more than a false sense of security, meaning the hits being taken are that much worse. I'll wager, as counterintuitive as it seems, that rugby players don't actually suffer the same degree of head injuries as sports like football or ice hockey, where helmets are sold as not only protection, but an excuse to keep smashing skulls.
Wherever there is money to be made, there will be industry people doing everything they can to keep the money rolling, even if it means insane amounts of damage.
But hey, it's America. Jesus loves a winner. Jesus hates taxes, Mexicans and poor sick people. Jesus loves the guy that gets thirty major concussions in his NFL career and suffers advanced dementia in his fifties.
God bless this great country!
I'm sure the wave of insanely monstrous lawsuits coming down the line will do that. And the NFL isn't the only one facing this. The NHL isn't far behind.
I just gave three examples of where liberties are limited. Are you suggesting that not being allowed to shout "fire" in a crowded theatre is tyranny.
There's freedom, my friend, and then there's anarchy. In times of pandemic, even free countries like the US instituted quarantines. There's not much use for liberty when a fair chunk of the population is sick near to the point of death.
Quite frankly I don't think it should even be a choice. We limit liberties in other ways for the general good; you can't throw toxic waste into water systems, you can't drive the wrong way down the highway, you can't shout "fire" in a theater and you shouldn't be allowed to move freely through the populace unvaccinated.
Shut up troll. The MMR-autism link was Wakefield's fabrication.
More than debunked, Andrew Wakefield (I refuse to use the epithet Dr. for this vile repugnant and thoroughly evil man) has been outed as a con artist who was attempting to undermine the use of MMR vaccines so he could push his own vaccine combo.
If it only affected their brats, I'd agree with you. The problem is that once you break herd immunity, others may die. There are people who for various reasons cannot take vaccines. Providing almost everyone they come into contact with is vaccinated, there is little likelihood of infection. Once herd immunity is broken, such individuals are at grave risk.
What kind of hardware do you need for a Fisher Price GUI?
We've been using Alfresco's community edition. It has AD integration and does an okay job with Sharepoint protocols.
I'll probably build a Samba 4 test bed in the spring. Our Server 2003 domains would be the target if it works, with replacement before 2003 EOL.
I've been working with my rep for major upgrades of Server and Exchange. I'm not seeing how any of this is cherry picked. CALs are being hiked in price. We've abandoned the idea of moving to server 2010 RDP CALs because the costs are just too difficult to justify. We will also be retaining our Server 2003 DCs at our branches until EOL. Not an ideal situation, but we can't currently justify the costs.
I'm wondering how this works. Does it scan for loops to remake them as event driven processes? Does it splice off multiple function calls and then throw the results into some sort of stack for retrieval? It's a cool idea, but man, for any kind of non-trivial program it must be some monumental piece of work.
It's a classic example of how IP law works now. In this case "on a computer" is replaced with "in a body".
Yup. Why would it be any different than the printout of an ECG or an image from an MRI? Just because it's inside the body doesn't make it something other than a medical device.
Translation: I need to make an ad hoc rhetorical barrier to win this argument.