Except when it infects the machine that has you on life support or scrambles your med records or disables the safety systems in your friendly neighborhood nuclear power plant...
Yes, they will install MRI magnet which require massive amounts of liquid He at 4K and costs in the range of a million $ or two in all cctv cameras, airports, public houses, and anywhere else they want to.
Oh yeah, MRI doesn't work very well if you're more than a few feet from the magnet core
Oh yeah yeah hold still while we scan your thoughts (wiggle wiggle)
I still don't see what's so damned hard about making an MP3 player connect to a computer as a flash hard drive. Just let me copy/paste the files through whatever file browser I use, and skip this whole syncing nonsense if I don't want to do it.
So don't use iTunes and just do it. While prefer to use iTunes, I can just connect my iPod and it shows up and is usable just like a memory stick. I've dragged & dropped songs into the iPod.
I have an iRiver also that I can drag and drop rather than use their software.
Hey that was MY research that I did 5 years ago, but I couldn't publish because they were going to suppress the results and discredit me - but now I know what they were planning all along - to STEAL my research! But what the don't know - wait a piece of tinfoil fell off my window - oh no now they see what I've been writing! I better hide!
"Daddy's camera's got a penguin on the screen when he starts it up!"
Something like that happened a while ago when I got on on of those airplanes with a LCD on the back of each chair - they had to reboot the computer and the screen showed the boot sequence, including penguin. No, no no - this was the entertainment computer.
Nah, they'll just cap what Doctors and Hospitals can charge for their services
Just like the insurance-companies do now? What's the difference?
Not commenting on the advantages or disadvantages of socialized medicine,
Now people without insurance have to pay full price (at least that is the bill that they are presented with) - the price of which represents the shortfall resulting from other's bills being capped.
Problem with throwing nuclear waste into the Sun is not so much the effect it would have on the Sun (nil), but rather what happens when the launch goes bad and the waste crashes back to earth.
The best would be to recycle the waste and whatever is left over put into a subduction zone.
Might too late - now that oil is down, unfortunately the memory of the pain of prices that go with $150/barrel oil starts to fade - good for the wallet, good for economy, but not good for alternative energies (whether or not one feels that nuclear "batteries" are viable)
But who knows, maybe the late 2000's are different from the 1970's (previous oil "crisis")
People are brighter now than back then (I was going to make a jab at older people and leaded gas - "yes, its good for engines, lets put this neurotoxin into gasoline..." - but I wouldn't:-))
some guy who started his own little site and it got bigger and bigger. Basically he never designed the backup, the system was just slowly pieced bigger and bigger until it got to it's current state
Would someone with mod points give this fellow a +5 ? I would say that your post describes is a very likely scenario.
The bad thing is that it didn't happen when there was less data to loose.
Absolutely - they really needed to tighten up their data much earlier!
But grammatical pet peeves aside, you're absolutely right:
It was going to happen sooner or later.
I mean really - even if you don't know any better and you just spend a minute thinking about it, it so obvious that you can run into a situation like this with mirroring - even with just the thought: "what is an important file is deleted? " - never mind the whole shebang.
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Except when it infects the machine that has you on life support or scrambles your med records or disables the safety systems in your friendly neighborhood nuclear power plant...
What I want is one that can ply and look like Pong back in the good old days (all staticy with the screen jumping around when the numbers changed!)
"you make a gesture that signals you're detaching from the controller".
Why is it when I read that I thought that the most appropriate gesture would be a middle finger salute?
Do 747s often have military escorts over there?
Only when the galley runs out of tea and crumpets, particularly when it occurs at 4 PM.
Events such as that make the passengers feisty, and being escorted by F-16 jets calms them down.
The secret is in the directional indicator. That's where the magic happens.
Oh right-o - the double headed arrow on one end is quite important.
Well for me I'd say making it yourself IS a waste of company time, when it could be better spent on important matters such as reading Slash Dot posts.
I trust the Internet before I trust a support contract.
You must have a lot of products from the company formerly known as BEA.
Nah - if that was the case, he'd be currently consulting his oracle.
Oh wait...
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi412.htm
The funny part is, he was *immediately* labeled an imbecile when the earthquake was late.
Oh no - don't tell me the next thing that will happen there is they elect a new government that will make sure the the earthquakes arrive on time
Given the state of the art of earthquake prediction, he was pretty good - probably a bit better than Italian railroad arrival predictions. -)
Just use a laser
Really now -
How the heck are you going to wrestle one off the head of those fricking sharks???
Yes, they will install MRI magnet which require massive amounts of liquid He at 4K and costs in the range of a million $ or two in all cctv cameras, airports, public houses, and anywhere else they want to.
Oh yeah, MRI doesn't work very well if you're more than a few feet from the magnet core
Oh yeah yeah hold still while we scan your thoughts (wiggle wiggle)
That way next time the Earth is threatened by a dark comet coming to obliterate us, in order to use that idea everyone would have to pay you royalties and you'll clean up! Why this idea is even better than One Click(TM)©!!!!
You realize patents only last 20 years, right? Some of those "vital" x86 components must have expired or be pretty close.
OK gotcha. Herbie, start cranking out those 8086's - it alright now, patent's expired!
(yes, point taken :-))
you actually have to install iTunes.
Who told you that?
I still don't see what's so damned hard about making an MP3 player connect to a computer as a flash hard drive. Just let me copy/paste the files through whatever file browser I use, and skip this whole syncing nonsense if I don't want to do it.
So don't use iTunes and just do it. While prefer to use iTunes, I can just connect my iPod and it shows up and is usable just like a memory stick. I've dragged & dropped songs into the iPod.
I have an iRiver also that I can drag and drop rather than use their software.
I've got to finish my coffee first.
Hey if that works, they've got the solution to space travel all wrapped up!
So while the 'recreated' organism would not be 'exactly' the same as the scanned organism, it might be good enough.
Hey - that's what my wife tells me all the time!
[imagine low end DSLR] Problem would be getting the nose-prints off the lens when you answer the camera.
If they continue to pressure you, you just say, "Well, I hit the 'Delete' button. What more you you want?"
OMG- why did I just think of the officer being the Terminator [Arnold] and then he does something rather gross to you while saying "deleted"
"Daddy's camera's got a penguin on the screen when he starts it up!"
Something like that happened a while ago when I got on on of those airplanes with a LCD on the back of each chair - they had to reboot the computer and the screen showed the boot sequence, including penguin. No, no no - this was the entertainment computer.
another abundant biofuel source that we have a hard time eliminating and that nobody would eat: fecal waste.
That way we can say "that airline sure has its $#!^ together!"
(Although with this bio-fuels stuff, I can't seem to get that coconut song out of my head now...)
digging deep into the earth and dredging up old dead dinosaurs to burn.
Argh. No, oil from the ground is not from dead dinosaurs.
It's from the plants that lived during the time of the dinos.
Nah, they'll just cap what Doctors and Hospitals can charge for their services
Just like the insurance-companies do now? What's the difference?
Not commenting on the advantages or disadvantages of socialized medicine,
Now people without insurance have to pay full price (at least that is the bill that they are presented with) - the price of which represents the shortfall resulting from other's bills being capped.
The best would be to recycle the waste and whatever is left over put into a subduction zone.
But who knows, maybe the late 2000's are different from the 1970's (previous oil "crisis")
People are brighter now than back then (I was going to make a jab at older people and leaded gas - "yes, its good for engines, lets put this neurotoxin into gasoline..." - but I wouldn't :-))
some guy who started his own little site and it got bigger and bigger. Basically he never designed the backup, the system was just slowly pieced bigger and bigger until it got to it's current state
Would someone with mod points give this fellow a +5 ? I would say that your post describes is a very likely scenario.
The bad thing is that it didn't happen when there was less data to loose.
Absolutely - they really needed to tighten up their data much earlier!
But grammatical pet peeves aside, you're absolutely right:
It was going to happen sooner or later.
I mean really - even if you don't know any better and you just spend a minute thinking about it, it so obvious that you can run into a situation like this with mirroring - even with just the thought: "what is an important file is deleted? " - never mind the whole shebang.
Oops - reminds me - better back up my har@^#&* .