All in all, I think this is rather nifty. I love C#.
I wonder if Apple will allow these apps to be deployed through the app store? I wonder if the SDK has all of the available functionality that is exposed by Apple's SDK.
I want to be able to plug in MIDI instruments to my console. That way I could use MIDI drums, guitar and keyboards instead of the non-player instruments.
Exactly. I call complete bullshit on this. The utility company charges their customers $.xx cents per KWH; built into this price is everything from the cost to generate the power, distribute the power, their payroll costs, taxes, fees, advertising & marketing, research and development, lobbying, legal, snacks for the break room, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
My ethics are deontological, embryos blastocysts and anything else you might happen to call the product of a fertilized egg from the moment of its activation through its teleological end of birth belong in the womb. Therefore it is the right thing to do to put them there if they are not in such a place.
What nice, long words you use, Gramma.
Taking your position to its logical conclusion, you must be opposed to removing those eggs in the first place since "they belong there". Therefore, you are opposed to all of the benefits that come from their use, including IVF.
Therefore it is the right thing to do to put them there if they are not in such a place.
This certainly does not follow, deontological ethics or not. You are considering a disparate set of events to be a connected chain when you make such a claim. If I run across an abandoned broken down car, it does not follow that I must fix it simply because its place is "on the road". It may be beyond repair. It may be too expensive. It may be just plain ugly. The person who abandoned the car and the person who finds the car are unrelated, as are their respective moral obligations.
Your reliance on teleology to absolve you of any moral responsibility of your actions is disingenuous, unless you are willing to defer to nature in all of your dealings with this planet. Do you take aspirin for headaches? I strongly suspect the answer is "yes". Therefore, your morals in this regard are now relative to whatever motivates your opinion in this matter, the most common being a religious motivation.
Your relative morals should never be the basis for urging or compelling someone to adhere to your wishes, however heartfelt they might be. You are not the only one on this mudball with free will.
Are you willing to submit to society deciding when you are no longer useful and determining your end even if you do not agree with it?
If find this question snide, because it equates a living, breathing person with an embryo or a blastocyst.
Ray, while it's admirable that you feel the need to defend your ambulance-chaser brethren, I'm sure you do not need to be told that one word & sentence replies you give do not make your case.
Unfortunately this is severely mitigated by two groups - lawyers and patients. The original article could equally be titled 'why lawyers hate science' - as the parent says, many judgements against doctors are based on whether something could have been done, not whether there was evidence to support doing it, or even whether it would have been effective.
That is sheer and utter nonsense.
Would you disagree that doctors in this country practice defensive medicine far more aggressively than in counties where torts have been restrained? This simple fact belies your "utter nonsense" claim.
and the demands of anxious patients significantly skew treatment away from the scientific ideal
Nonsense.
Again, you fail to explain the reasons for your disagreement. IMO it is a simple claim to prove - just take a look at the avalanche of prescription drug ads we see. Big Pharma would NOT drop $4 billion a year on this stuff without an expected ROI. The ads continue, therefore there is an ROI. QED, this has an impact on patient perception away from the scientific ideal toward Big Pharma's profit ideal.
Now here on/. we have a bunch of armchair engineers believing they could do better?
You must be new here. If even 1% of the Slashdotters here found the will to get up off the couch, we could build our own manned Mars mission and ensure we pack a squeegee or two to clean the Rover solar panels.
Of course, D.N.F. will be out any day now, so on the couch we will stay.
You have to admit thought, the mental image of some geek suddenly appearing on the Rover's cameras with a bottle of windex and some paper towels at Houston is worth a smile or two...
Obama said it himself: people are ascribing their hopes and dreams on a man because he is a blank-slate in terms of experience.
People are ascribing their hopes and dreams on the man because the country is so fucking desperately jacked up from 20 years of Republican Presidents spending us into oblivion they need that kind of hope.
This sounds vaguely like the super-conservative "plan" to shrink the fed by getting it into so much debt it has no choice but to cut to the bone. Either we cut the fed by 80%, or just default.
The dumbest fucking think I've ever heard of, period.
First off, the "full faith and credit of the United States Government" is something that must never be devalued. In 232 years the US has never defaulted on a loan; a default would be a stain on our system of government well, forever. People of 2999 would still be wearing that stain.
Second, what do you think the Chinese would do if we defaulted? Throw up their hands and say "oh well, you got us good!"??? Of course not... they would simply nationalize all of the American investments in mainland China. What are we gonna do about it? Go to war with China?
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All in all, I think this is rather nifty. I love C#. I wonder if Apple will allow these apps to be deployed through the app store? I wonder if the SDK has all of the available functionality that is exposed by Apple's SDK.
I want to be able to plug in MIDI instruments to my console. That way I could use MIDI drums, guitar and keyboards instead of the non-player instruments.
I've got mod points. However, I don't see a -1 Naive Idiot mod.
Exactly. I call complete bullshit on this. The utility company charges their customers $.xx cents per KWH; built into this price is everything from the cost to generate the power, distribute the power, their payroll costs, taxes, fees, advertising & marketing, research and development, lobbying, legal, snacks for the break room, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
You're right! I'll take one of those tubines T, and put it in my back yard. I'm already connected to the grid, so I'm already saving you some $$$.
I want to say you're breaking fourth normal form, but I can't.
I want to say you're storing derived data, but I can't.
I CAN say that data structure is just butt-ass-ugly.
or drop it and scramble the positions of all those nanoparticles.
+1 Cool New Word: impecunious.
Dr. Who who?
Don't they still hang Sherman in effigy down there? I bet they'd love to find one of his relatives...
Oh yea, 'cos the best way to make new friends is to ask to fuck their mothers! Preferably in the basement bedroom of their 40yo slashdotting sons.
What nice, long words you use, Gramma.
Taking your position to its logical conclusion, you must be opposed to removing those eggs in the first place since "they belong there". Therefore, you are opposed to all of the benefits that come from their use, including IVF.
This certainly does not follow, deontological ethics or not. You are considering a disparate set of events to be a connected chain when you make such a claim. If I run across an abandoned broken down car, it does not follow that I must fix it simply because its place is "on the road". It may be beyond repair. It may be too expensive. It may be just plain ugly. The person who abandoned the car and the person who finds the car are unrelated, as are their respective moral obligations.
Your reliance on teleology to absolve you of any moral responsibility of your actions is disingenuous, unless you are willing to defer to nature in all of your dealings with this planet. Do you take aspirin for headaches? I strongly suspect the answer is "yes". Therefore, your morals in this regard are now relative to whatever motivates your opinion in this matter, the most common being a religious motivation.
Your relative morals should never be the basis for urging or compelling someone to adhere to your wishes, however heartfelt they might be. You are not the only one on this mudball with free will.
If find this question snide, because it equates a living, breathing person with an embryo or a blastocyst.
Ray, while it's admirable that you feel the need to defend your ambulance-chaser brethren, I'm sure you do not need to be told that one word & sentence replies you give do not make your case.
Would you disagree that doctors in this country practice defensive medicine far more aggressively than in counties where torts have been restrained? This simple fact belies your "utter nonsense" claim.
Again, you fail to explain the reasons for your disagreement. IMO it is a simple claim to prove - just take a look at the avalanche of prescription drug ads we see. Big Pharma would NOT drop $4 billion a year on this stuff without an expected ROI. The ads continue, therefore there is an ROI. QED, this has an impact on patient perception away from the scientific ideal toward Big Pharma's profit ideal.
I don't know about being ONE of the Pussy Cat Dolls... I'd much prefer to be IN ONE of the Pussy Cat Dolls...
You must be new here. If even 1% of the Slashdotters here found the will to get up off the couch, we could build our own manned Mars mission and ensure we pack a squeegee or two to clean the Rover solar panels.
Of course, D.N.F. will be out any day now, so on the couch we will stay.
You have to admit thought, the mental image of some geek suddenly appearing on the Rover's cameras with a bottle of windex and some paper towels at Houston is worth a smile or two...
Would you trade for a date with my sister? I swear she's HOT!
People are ascribing their hopes and dreams on the man because the country is so fucking desperately jacked up from 20 years of Republican Presidents spending us into oblivion they need that kind of hope.
Unfortunately, they only have to be right once.
Bah, throw a couple of Playstations in the capsule and just wait and see how many of the "younger generation" suddenly get interested.
If by "preemptive strike" you mean reacting to the 22 times Hamas attacked in violation of the ceasefire, you are entirely correct.
Where d'ya think she learned her great command of the English language?
1234 -> 12345. 25% more secure =)
This sounds vaguely like the super-conservative "plan" to shrink the fed by getting it into so much debt it has no choice but to cut to the bone. Either we cut the fed by 80%, or just default.
The dumbest fucking think I've ever heard of, period.
First off, the "full faith and credit of the United States Government" is something that must never be devalued. In 232 years the US has never defaulted on a loan; a default would be a stain on our system of government well, forever. People of 2999 would still be wearing that stain.
Second, what do you think the Chinese would do if we defaulted? Throw up their hands and say "oh well, you got us good!"??? Of course not... they would simply nationalize all of the American investments in mainland China. What are we gonna do about it? Go to war with China?
Can I getta AMEN-A!!!