Not just time, but the fact that BP has been dumping shitloads of dispersants into the ocean which serve to do NOTHING OTHER than make the oil mix better with the water. There isn't any way you could make this job any harder if you fucking tried.
Anyone who has half a fucking brain, when asked the question "How do we get this oil out of the ocean", will not say "dump chemicals into the ocean that cause the oil and water to become nearly inseparable". BP, on the other hand, says "who cares if we get the oil out of the ocean, it's not profitable, more important is that we dump dispersant onto the spill to make the ocean surface look better to avoid bad press".
"Equipment that will properly do the job already exists, we just need to make it unprofitable to not use it."
It is NEVER profitable to do something safely. Safety requires extra equipment, review, supervision, strict adherence to policies, etc. That's the definition of safety. These things have and will always cost money.
The only thing you can do to make this "unprofitable" is to require amazingly huge fines for any problems that arise. Of course, then you have to deal with the issue of getting a multinational multi-billion dollar company to actually pay the fine.
You stop drilling and figure out a way to attach a failsafe to this thing. Maybe you can't replace the BOP itself, but don't try to tell me that you can't rig a mechanism to it that will prevent an oil leak should the BOP fail.
Doesn't matter if it's going to delay work for three months and cost a billion dollars. If it's too expensive to drill safely then you shouldn't be drilling at all.
"the last time I had a blood test, my body just shut down and stopped pumping blood"
You're an idiot. If your heart actually stopped (which is the only way your body can "just stop pumping blood") then you would have been told so after the doctors where you were restarted it. You don't just have your heart stop, "feel like you're about to pass out", and then feel just fine after the needle is taken out.
Just because other phones are poorly designed doesn't excuse this one. Seriously, Jobs is saying "Our phone doesn't work well, but the blackberry doesn't work well either, so we don't have to do a good job".
"Good point but the terminology is kind of debatable" No, it's not.
Yes, this camera uses a single lens and yes, it's digital. So does that $20 piece of junk point-and-shoot digital camera that you can buy at walmart. By your logic every single modern day camera is actually a DSLR because they use one lens and are digital.
"A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that uses a mechanical mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the lens to an optical viewfinder on the back of the camera." The iphone does not use a mechanical mirror system and pentaprism and therefore is not a DSLR, period. There's no debate here. It's simply not a DSLR camera.
From the TFA: "Now by no means would I consider myself a professional photographer. Heck… I am by would I even consider myself an amateur photographer. The truth is I really know nothing about photography. " Link: http://iphonedslr.com/blog/archives/42fb
By his own admission, he doesn't really know what he's doing or why this is simply a bad idea.
Yeah, but fusion IS possible. It's real science, none of this "OMG I CAN GET PERPETUAL MOTION!!!!ONEONE!!" nonsense. Fusion just has a bunch of problems that will be solved as technology progresses, there's no underlying concept that dooms it. It's a lot of "we don't have magnets that are more efficient" or "we can't contain a plasma stream of such a high temperature", things that are solved with new materials given some time.
"Regardless, there's definitely a lot of room here for leadership and oversight, things the Obama administration don't do."
Jesus fucking christ. Obama steps in and everyone bitches that he's interfering with private business and making the government into a fucking dictatorship. Obama doesn't do anything and people bitch that he's worthless. Pick one god damn it.
"You wouldn't say, "I attacked that system using a Dell""
You would if you used a Dell computer. This guy DID use an Arduino, so it isn't incorrect or "fanboy-ish" to say "Arduino".
There's also a second issue here. If you say "I used a computer to do such and such" then it's understood that you were using any hardware running windows, apple, or linux operating systems. There's really only three options. Not so with microcontrollers. There's hundreds of microcontrollers and they're all significantly different from one to another and attempting to replicate the results on a different microcontroller requires a fair bit of work. It's extremely helpful to say "I did this with an Arduino" or "I did this with a PIC model number XYZ", etc.
"I have re-purchased games after losing the disc..."
There's your problem. You think that it's acceptable to have to repurchase games simply because of a small problem like scratching the disc. Used to be that game companies would actually mail you a new disc if you sent in the old one. Not anymore.
"how many people are aware that there's an asphyxiation risk with dry ice?"
You've got to be kidding me. Sure, if you put this stuff in a cooler and then jam your face into it then yeah, you might have a problem. I could put 20 pounds of this stuff on my floor, open a window and be perfectly fine.
I completely agree. This absurd recklessness needs to end. Cars kill thousands per year, they should be made illegal. Car dealers should be thrown in jail.
Yes, and those consequences are laid out in the constitution of the United States of America. That is to say, the consequences for saying whatever the hell you want are non existent from a legal point of view. Sure, people might say other nasty things to you, but the constitution guarantees that there will be no legal repercussions for you saying something.
For police to enforce consequences onto speech is absurd and, as far as I'm concerned, treason. It's such a blatant affront to the constitution that it's basically working to dismantle it and thus provide aid and comfort to our enemies.
No, that's not true. The private bittorrent sites require that you maintain a high ratio, which means you have to spend more effort downloading other things just to seed them and hoping that there's enough people to download it.
That only works because you're a company that purchased tens of these things. You experience is not typical for an individual. They get the "call india and spend 30 hours on the phone before we agree to maybe charge you to replace it" treatment.
I disagree. If you read the comments on the trackers then you can pretty much avoid poor quality rips. To bittorrent something I have to spend about an hour to get it including finding a torrent and then the time to download it. With hulu I just go to hulu.com, type in "family guy", and click play. I have to watch about 2-5 minutes of ads, which is far less than downloading the torrent.
That said, if it's a movie then it's not worth it to go to hulu. The commercials ruin the mood and flow of the movie, whereas TV shows are actually designed with commercials in mind. If it's something that I want to watch more than once then I will torrent it because I'll have to watch the ads on hulu multiple times.
It's not a "bittorrent is always better" or a "hulu is always better".
If you track it down to a pole of some type I think it might be quite simple to get them to fix it. Call whoever owns the box and tell them you saw sparks/smoke/loud sparks and bangs coming from their box.
"Firefox quite often complains about various security problems with Zynga games"
That's because zynga games are quite often malware in disguise. It's probably something to do with zynga's sloppy coding combined with the fact that their applications all try to push their advertising crap onto your machine in a covert way. Firefox is working as intended.
I realize that you aren't complaining here, but your post almost reads like "My antivirus keeps trying to delete all these viruses I downloaded".
". It's just as much to their advantage to get the movies to you (and therefore back) sooner"
No, it's not. They have to pay postage for every DVD they send. Thus, the more they send, the more postage they're charged.
Either you don't know how netflix works, or you didn't read my post. I don't know this from first hand experience, I know this because I read about it.
See information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix#.22Throttling.22
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"All it would have taken was an executive order to allow these skimmers in sooner saying that in this case they could purify the water "enough"."
Then we'd have: God damnit, Obama is overstepping his authority and OVERTURNING LAWS MADE BY CONGRESS!! He's UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!!
Pick one, you can't have it both ways.
Not just time, but the fact that BP has been dumping shitloads of dispersants into the ocean which serve to do NOTHING OTHER than make the oil mix better with the water. There isn't any way you could make this job any harder if you fucking tried.
Anyone who has half a fucking brain, when asked the question "How do we get this oil out of the ocean", will not say "dump chemicals into the ocean that cause the oil and water to become nearly inseparable". BP, on the other hand, says "who cares if we get the oil out of the ocean, it's not profitable, more important is that we dump dispersant onto the spill to make the ocean surface look better to avoid bad press".
"Equipment that will properly do the job already exists, we just need to make it unprofitable to not use it."
It is NEVER profitable to do something safely. Safety requires extra equipment, review, supervision, strict adherence to policies, etc. That's the definition of safety. These things have and will always cost money.
The only thing you can do to make this "unprofitable" is to require amazingly huge fines for any problems that arise. Of course, then you have to deal with the issue of getting a multinational multi-billion dollar company to actually pay the fine.
You stop drilling and figure out a way to attach a failsafe to this thing. Maybe you can't replace the BOP itself, but don't try to tell me that you can't rig a mechanism to it that will prevent an oil leak should the BOP fail.
Doesn't matter if it's going to delay work for three months and cost a billion dollars. If it's too expensive to drill safely then you shouldn't be drilling at all.
"the last time I had a blood test, my body just shut down and stopped pumping blood"
You're an idiot. If your heart actually stopped (which is the only way your body can "just stop pumping blood") then you would have been told so after the doctors where you were restarted it. You don't just have your heart stop, "feel like you're about to pass out", and then feel just fine after the needle is taken out.
"in fact I have locally anesthetized myself and performed minor surgery on myself (yes I am a doctor)"
I've removed splinters as well. Of course, I didn't use an anesthetic because I'm not a doctor.
Just because other phones are poorly designed doesn't excuse this one. Seriously, Jobs is saying "Our phone doesn't work well, but the blackberry doesn't work well either, so we don't have to do a good job".
"so basically he ends up with something way inferior more expensive, and by the looks of it, way less user friendly."
This literally describes every single apple product ever made. This project is perfect for the iphone.
"Good point but the terminology is kind of debatable"
No, it's not.
Yes, this camera uses a single lens and yes, it's digital. So does that $20 piece of junk point-and-shoot digital camera that you can buy at walmart. By your logic every single modern day camera is actually a DSLR because they use one lens and are digital.
"A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that uses a mechanical mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the lens to an optical viewfinder on the back of the camera."
The iphone does not use a mechanical mirror system and pentaprism and therefore is not a DSLR, period. There's no debate here. It's simply not a DSLR camera.
From the TFA:
"Now by no means would I consider myself a professional photographer. Heck… I am by would I even consider myself an amateur photographer. The truth is I really know nothing about photography. " Link: http://iphonedslr.com/blog/archives/42fb
By his own admission, he doesn't really know what he's doing or why this is simply a bad idea.
Yeah, but fusion IS possible. It's real science, none of this "OMG I CAN GET PERPETUAL MOTION!!!!ONEONE!!" nonsense. Fusion just has a bunch of problems that will be solved as technology progresses, there's no underlying concept that dooms it. It's a lot of "we don't have magnets that are more efficient" or "we can't contain a plasma stream of such a high temperature", things that are solved with new materials given some time.
The world resets every Tuesday for maintenance.... if only it actually did.
"Regardless, there's definitely a lot of room here for leadership and oversight, things the Obama administration don't do."
Jesus fucking christ. Obama steps in and everyone bitches that he's interfering with private business and making the government into a fucking dictatorship. Obama doesn't do anything and people bitch that he's worthless. Pick one god damn it.
"You wouldn't say, "I attacked that system using a Dell""
You would if you used a Dell computer. This guy DID use an Arduino, so it isn't incorrect or "fanboy-ish" to say "Arduino".
There's also a second issue here. If you say "I used a computer to do such and such" then it's understood that you were using any hardware running windows, apple, or linux operating systems. There's really only three options. Not so with microcontrollers. There's hundreds of microcontrollers and they're all significantly different from one to another and attempting to replicate the results on a different microcontroller requires a fair bit of work. It's extremely helpful to say "I did this with an Arduino" or "I did this with a PIC model number XYZ", etc.
"I have re-purchased games after losing the disc..."
There's your problem. You think that it's acceptable to have to repurchase games simply because of a small problem like scratching the disc. Used to be that game companies would actually mail you a new disc if you sent in the old one. Not anymore.
Also, if your hard drive becomes corrupted, or whoever you bought it from loses the records of your purchase you can still play your game.
"how many people are aware that there's an asphyxiation risk with dry ice?"
You've got to be kidding me. Sure, if you put this stuff in a cooler and then jam your face into it then yeah, you might have a problem. I could put 20 pounds of this stuff on my floor, open a window and be perfectly fine.
There's a restriction that says you can't buy dry ice under age 18. Another one of the restrictions on science this country likes to keep making.
I completely agree. This absurd recklessness needs to end. Cars kill thousands per year, they should be made illegal. Car dealers should be thrown in jail.
Yes, and those consequences are laid out in the constitution of the United States of America. That is to say, the consequences for saying whatever the hell you want are non existent from a legal point of view. Sure, people might say other nasty things to you, but the constitution guarantees that there will be no legal repercussions for you saying something.
For police to enforce consequences onto speech is absurd and, as far as I'm concerned, treason. It's such a blatant affront to the constitution that it's basically working to dismantle it and thus provide aid and comfort to our enemies.
No, that's not true. The private bittorrent sites require that you maintain a high ratio, which means you have to spend more effort downloading other things just to seed them and hoping that there's enough people to download it.
That only works because you're a company that purchased tens of these things. You experience is not typical for an individual. They get the "call india and spend 30 hours on the phone before we agree to maybe charge you to replace it" treatment.
I disagree. If you read the comments on the trackers then you can pretty much avoid poor quality rips. To bittorrent something I have to spend about an hour to get it including finding a torrent and then the time to download it. With hulu I just go to hulu.com, type in "family guy", and click play. I have to watch about 2-5 minutes of ads, which is far less than downloading the torrent.
That said, if it's a movie then it's not worth it to go to hulu. The commercials ruin the mood and flow of the movie, whereas TV shows are actually designed with commercials in mind. If it's something that I want to watch more than once then I will torrent it because I'll have to watch the ads on hulu multiple times.
It's not a "bittorrent is always better" or a "hulu is always better".
If you track it down to a pole of some type I think it might be quite simple to get them to fix it. Call whoever owns the box and tell them you saw sparks/smoke/loud sparks and bangs coming from their box.
"Firefox quite often complains about various security problems with Zynga games"
That's because zynga games are quite often malware in disguise. It's probably something to do with zynga's sloppy coding combined with the fact that their applications all try to push their advertising crap onto your machine in a covert way. Firefox is working as intended.
I realize that you aren't complaining here, but your post almost reads like "My antivirus keeps trying to delete all these viruses I downloaded".
". It's just as much to their advantage to get the movies to you (and therefore back) sooner"
No, it's not. They have to pay postage for every DVD they send. Thus, the more they send, the more postage they're charged.
Either you don't know how netflix works, or you didn't read my post. I don't know this from first hand experience, I know this because I read about it.
See information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix#.22Throttling.22