There's a core2duo (along with all the usual laptop goodness) in the keyboard part. It runs windows in laptop mode. When you pull it out, it switches to Snapdragon/Linux.
There's a new Lenovo just like that! The IdeaPad U1 is more or less like that. It has a Snapdragon and a SSD in the "tablet portion". In laptop mode, it runs whatever you want (presumably selling it with Windows7), and in slate mode it runs a custom Linux.
For all its worth, the tower was designed by an American firm... the same firm that designed the Freedom Tower that you'll get around to building sometime. They've designed a lot of buildings (seriously, a crap load of them) in the States. The primary builder is Samsung. They also built Petronas and Taipei 101. Two other very big, very tall, and well put together buildings. The people charged with designing and building this thing have their entire reputation riding on it. If there's any amount of non-trivial problems, they're pretty much screwed.
Nah man. Sex is biological. Gender is social. For the vast majority of cases, you can get away with male (sex) have a Y, if you don't have a Y you are female. But you cannot as easily go male (gender) has Y. For example, people who undergo sex change operations still have their original set of chromosomes. But they are of the opposite gender. Well, assuming you are going by standard western gender stereotypes, and they choose to obey them. And THEN you have an entire (small, but they really do exist) population of people who do not easily fit into standard ideas of male or female (GENDER) at all, which makes the whole goddamn form useless (for them).
I think you're over stating the weight issue. You know those nice leatherbound clipboards? They weigh about 1.7 lbs. That (paper) notebook (200 pages) that I've been carrying around taking notes in for the last 4 months? Weights at least 1.5lb.
They still exist. In fact there's lots of them. HP has a bunch of really nice ones, and Lenovo's X series are all apparently very very nicely put together. That being said, they're all a bit pricey. But Asus and Gigabyte have both released netbook style laptop-tablets. Asus has their T91 (brand new version just came out lately) and same with Gigabyte's T1028.
University students seem to love them. Everyone wants a laptop-tablet. They just cost too damn much.
Also, character recognition is getting really good. I mean, its annoying to write out urls by hand, but its not so bad. It's a choice thing. In exchange for loosing flexibility, you presumably get a much much cheaper tablet.
For what its worth, nearly every mid to high end commercial editor uses similar UIs. I know from personal usage that Adobe Premiere (even the pre-CS versions) had similar UI. And I won't even comment on Final Cut Pro. Suffice to say that it does all of that.
That's total bullshit. Army doesn't do dogfights at all. Yeah, the Air Force is shifting emphasis away from manned pilots, but it still stands that they have the largest fighter plane inventory among the services. And it's going to stay that way for quite a while.
Because cheap knock offs seems to make us a shit load of money right now.
Ok, I am a Chinese-Canadian, and among my immediate circle of Chinese-Canadian friends, we are share similar feelings in regards to Chinese ingenuity and such. We're all proud of our previous contributions to human discovery. My parents harped on and on about that when I was a kid. We are all sure that the Chinese people are still very smart. For example, Taiwan for all intents and purposes is Chinese. Identical culture, identical language, pretty much the same education based mindset. We (my parents are from Taiwan) managed create all sorts of high quality products. Chip foundries? Like half of them are in Taiwan. Asus? Taiwan. Hell, you want another example? ATI was founded by a Hong Kong immigrant.
At the same time, we know that we make retarded amounts of money selling cheap ass products. Why? Cause you stupid North Americans (including myself) want cheap ass products. I'm still talking about Taiwan here. Basically, North American shipped so much of their manufacturing base to Asia that any given Asian country is likely to be selling high quality 'brand name' products and crappy knockoffs at the same time. For example, nearly all Underarmor is made is Thailand. Thailand also exports a ridiculous fraction of cheap tourist shirts to North American cities.
What I guess I'm trying to say is that, Asia is connected to cheap knock offs cause thats how we made our money. That was the first thing that North American companies offloaded into Asia. Like another poster said, that's how Taiwan and Japan and Korea started. Factories pumping out cheap stuff. That eventually brought in enough capital that each country started its own companies that grew, and now produce high-quality products.
You'll be seeing that out of China sooner or later. For now, you guys seem happy throwing shit loads of money at China for making shit products. So they're going to keep doing it. But there's an entire middle and upper class in the large cities who are very well (often Western) educated. Just like the last wave of educated people kick started the current manufacturing growth spree, the next wave is going to make knowledge based industries, and higher quality products grow and explode.
Face it, its pretty much impossible over the long run for North America to hold its lead against Asia. The population base is fucking huge. And they are every bit as smart and ambitious (maybe even more ambitious) than North Americans. The best you can hope for is some sort of mutually favourable relationship where North America gets to keep most of its stature.
The requirements to run FL Studio compared to Pro Tools or Cubase is huuge. It's like saying SketchUp for hobby stuff works fine, therefore 3ds Max to create models for a hollywood movie will work fine as well (yes, I know Blender etc etc are available on Linux). When you're dealing with serious audio work, you're talking about layers and layers of synths and DSPs running. You NEED every bit of performance out of your machine. Emulation just isn't going to cut it.
You can get Linux to work for a lot of audio work. Ardor is passable/usable for many basic, and some advance stuff. But for truly high-end stuff, nothing comes even close to the commercial programs out on Windows and OSX.
Think about it. If you have big noticable scars... don't you think that would effect the scan? Also, I think they only transplanted part of each fingerprint around. So you would get a transplanted section in the middle of your finger or something. That would make detection harder.
Implications for Practice
Hypothermia shows promise as a treatment of traumatic brain injury. However, there are several important points to consider when contemplating its use. Hypothermia as a treatment of traumatic brain injury should be utilized in hospitals with specialized neuroscience units that have continuous resident coverage. In addition, nurses are at the front line of initiating the treatment and must be properly taught to care for these patients. There are many potential complications of hypothermia that nurses must be aware of and trained to aggressively treat. The nursing care involved in caring for a patient with a severe brain injury is complex, and it is crucial that they have the support and appropriate nursing ratios to care for these patients.
Granted, its from a nursing journal, so its going to promote the use of nurses. But it remains that just cooling people's brains nilly willy with ice packed helmets may not be the best idea.
TV is dead to you. Stupid shit. I'm sorry about the language, but this type of attitude is fucking stupid. "I don't use it, therefore it's useless". For fucks sake. You and your immediate acquaintances don't drive cars? 'Driving is end. I can just bike and take transit wherever I want'. And it's worst! This is like saying 'theatre's are dead! I just torrent the movies anyways'. That's just fucking stupid.
How the fuck did you get rated insightful? For fucks sake.
Well, its not as clear cut as that. Current research (a google search away!) tells us that while its probable that inducing hypothermia in the the brain reduces neurological damage, we currently get somewhat contradicting studies suggesting otherwise. In the best case, it may turn out that cooling the brain is an extremely delicate task that must be carefully controlled. Given the level of precision apparently needed, it seems unlikely that simply plopping on a cooled helmet is the best way to go about reducing brain trauma.
In any case, reducing circulation increases the chance of infection (important if there was actual head trauma in addition to brain trauma), and appears to raise the risk of blood clots and heart attacks.
Doesn't mean its useless though. Just that like so many other medical ideas, its complicated. And just cause some company makes a product based on it, doesn't mean it works just like they say it does.
Guessing you didn't RTFA. Or try the google link. Google Dictionary is still an definition aggregating thing from a bunch of sources (just like answers.com one). That includes wikitionary in the list.
If you were going to go do smuggling into Cuba or whatever, you would just turn off your damn AIS transponder. Won't do shit for the radar sweeps they do. But then again, only you Americans keep this embargo up. Ship full of Canadians go near Cuba? Big deal.
Ok. How about this. Your ship is not armed because it wants to be able to dock anywhere in the world. So you've been under attack and fighting them off with water cannons. You got some friendly navy on the radio and they send a chopper your way. So it's like... 10 minutes out when the dudes in the ship start turning tail. What the hell do you do? Fuck up their props. Just like how mace is used instead of guns in some cases, you'll use this device instead of guns in some cases.
But yes. Just shooting them when you get charged by dudes in speedboats would be a nice solution. Too bad the economics don't really work out.
This happens in pretty much every discussion involving pirates. Simply said, there are a very large amounts of ports in the world that do that ships with weapons. Beyond that, I'm sure arming your ship will bring you into completely different categories of international and maritime law that could cause all sorts of problems. And this is before we even start thinking about insurance companies.
The only similar features between the W700ds and this is that they're both laptops and both have two screens. The W700 easily has more than 4 times the performance that this laptop has.
You get use to such things. I've been using multiple monitors for a long time now, and for most programs (where a window stays on a single monitor), those don't matter too much.
That doesn't mean much. Some of the best tuna in the world is caught in the Atlantic. For example, the current 'premium' (or whatever) tuna supply chain looks like this. Caught in the Atlantic Ocean, brought to port on the East Coast. Japanese buyers pick out the best and send them to the Tokyo fish market. Yeah, all the way there. There they get auctioned off. A lot of it stays in Japan, but a lot of it goes back to top sushi restaurants in North America. So those super high end/quality sushi places in New York? That tuna traveled halfway across the world and then back to get to your plate. So really, in relative terms, when it comes to high quality sushi, New York (or anywhere in the continental United States) is only twice as far from where it was caught as Japan is. Trippy eh?
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There's a core2duo (along with all the usual laptop goodness) in the keyboard part. It runs windows in laptop mode. When you pull it out, it switches to Snapdragon/Linux.
There's a new Lenovo just like that! The IdeaPad U1 is more or less like that. It has a Snapdragon and a SSD in the "tablet portion". In laptop mode, it runs whatever you want (presumably selling it with Windows7), and in slate mode it runs a custom Linux.
linky:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/lenovo-ideapad-u1-hybrid-hands-on-and-impressions/
They mean thousands of real dollars that have been used to purchase in game assets...
For all its worth, the tower was designed by an American firm... the same firm that designed the Freedom Tower that you'll get around to building sometime. They've designed a lot of buildings (seriously, a crap load of them) in the States. The primary builder is Samsung. They also built Petronas and Taipei 101. Two other very big, very tall, and well put together buildings. The people charged with designing and building this thing have their entire reputation riding on it. If there's any amount of non-trivial problems, they're pretty much screwed.
*cough* war on drugs.
Nah man. Sex is biological. Gender is social. For the vast majority of cases, you can get away with male (sex) have a Y, if you don't have a Y you are female. But you cannot as easily go male (gender) has Y. For example, people who undergo sex change operations still have their original set of chromosomes. But they are of the opposite gender. Well, assuming you are going by standard western gender stereotypes, and they choose to obey them. And THEN you have an entire (small, but they really do exist) population of people who do not easily fit into standard ideas of male or female (GENDER) at all, which makes the whole goddamn form useless (for them).
Its the widescreen (16:9) version of 800x480.
I think you're over stating the weight issue. You know those nice leatherbound clipboards? They weigh about 1.7 lbs. That (paper) notebook (200 pages) that I've been carrying around taking notes in for the last 4 months? Weights at least 1.5lb.
They still exist. In fact there's lots of them. HP has a bunch of really nice ones, and Lenovo's X series are all apparently very very nicely put together. That being said, they're all a bit pricey. But Asus and Gigabyte have both released netbook style laptop-tablets. Asus has their T91 (brand new version just came out lately) and same with Gigabyte's T1028.
University students seem to love them. Everyone wants a laptop-tablet. They just cost too damn much.
Also, character recognition is getting really good. I mean, its annoying to write out urls by hand, but its not so bad. It's a choice thing. In exchange for loosing flexibility, you presumably get a much much cheaper tablet.
For what its worth, nearly every mid to high end commercial editor uses similar UIs. I know from personal usage that Adobe Premiere (even the pre-CS versions) had similar UI. And I won't even comment on Final Cut Pro. Suffice to say that it does all of that.
That's total bullshit. Army doesn't do dogfights at all. Yeah, the Air Force is shifting emphasis away from manned pilots, but it still stands that they have the largest fighter plane inventory among the services. And it's going to stay that way for quite a while.
Because cheap knock offs seems to make us a shit load of money right now.
Ok, I am a Chinese-Canadian, and among my immediate circle of Chinese-Canadian friends, we are share similar feelings in regards to Chinese ingenuity and such. We're all proud of our previous contributions to human discovery. My parents harped on and on about that when I was a kid. We are all sure that the Chinese people are still very smart. For example, Taiwan for all intents and purposes is Chinese. Identical culture, identical language, pretty much the same education based mindset. We (my parents are from Taiwan) managed create all sorts of high quality products. Chip foundries? Like half of them are in Taiwan. Asus? Taiwan. Hell, you want another example? ATI was founded by a Hong Kong immigrant.
At the same time, we know that we make retarded amounts of money selling cheap ass products. Why? Cause you stupid North Americans (including myself) want cheap ass products. I'm still talking about Taiwan here. Basically, North American shipped so much of their manufacturing base to Asia that any given Asian country is likely to be selling high quality 'brand name' products and crappy knockoffs at the same time. For example, nearly all Underarmor is made is Thailand. Thailand also exports a ridiculous fraction of cheap tourist shirts to North American cities.
What I guess I'm trying to say is that, Asia is connected to cheap knock offs cause thats how we made our money. That was the first thing that North American companies offloaded into Asia. Like another poster said, that's how Taiwan and Japan and Korea started. Factories pumping out cheap stuff. That eventually brought in enough capital that each country started its own companies that grew, and now produce high-quality products.
You'll be seeing that out of China sooner or later. For now, you guys seem happy throwing shit loads of money at China for making shit products. So they're going to keep doing it. But there's an entire middle and upper class in the large cities who are very well (often Western) educated. Just like the last wave of educated people kick started the current manufacturing growth spree, the next wave is going to make knowledge based industries, and higher quality products grow and explode.
Face it, its pretty much impossible over the long run for North America to hold its lead against Asia. The population base is fucking huge. And they are every bit as smart and ambitious (maybe even more ambitious) than North Americans. The best you can hope for is some sort of mutually favourable relationship where North America gets to keep most of its stature.
The requirements to run FL Studio compared to Pro Tools or Cubase is huuge. It's like saying SketchUp for hobby stuff works fine, therefore 3ds Max to create models for a hollywood movie will work fine as well (yes, I know Blender etc etc are available on Linux). When you're dealing with serious audio work, you're talking about layers and layers of synths and DSPs running. You NEED every bit of performance out of your machine. Emulation just isn't going to cut it.
You can get Linux to work for a lot of audio work. Ardor is passable/usable for many basic, and some advance stuff. But for truly high-end stuff, nothing comes even close to the commercial programs out on Windows and OSX.
Think about it. If you have big noticable scars... don't you think that would effect the scan?
Also, I think they only transplanted part of each fingerprint around. So you would get a transplanted section in the middle of your finger or something. That would make detection harder.
There's one review of 6 studies here. http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/204205255_1.html
If you look at the last page, you get this:
Granted, its from a nursing journal, so its going to promote the use of nurses. But it remains that just cooling people's brains nilly willy with ice packed helmets may not be the best idea.
TV is dead to you. Stupid shit. I'm sorry about the language, but this type of attitude is fucking stupid. "I don't use it, therefore it's useless". For fucks sake. You and your immediate acquaintances don't drive cars? 'Driving is end. I can just bike and take transit wherever I want'. And it's worst! This is like saying 'theatre's are dead! I just torrent the movies anyways'. That's just fucking stupid.
How the fuck did you get rated insightful? For fucks sake.
Well, its not as clear cut as that. Current research (a google search away!) tells us that while its probable that inducing hypothermia in the the brain reduces neurological damage, we currently get somewhat contradicting studies suggesting otherwise. In the best case, it may turn out that cooling the brain is an extremely delicate task that must be carefully controlled. Given the level of precision apparently needed, it seems unlikely that simply plopping on a cooled helmet is the best way to go about reducing brain trauma.
In any case, reducing circulation increases the chance of infection (important if there was actual head trauma in addition to brain trauma), and appears to raise the risk of blood clots and heart attacks.
Doesn't mean its useless though. Just that like so many other medical ideas, its complicated. And just cause some company makes a product based on it, doesn't mean it works just like they say it does.
Guessing you didn't RTFA. Or try the google link. Google Dictionary is still an definition aggregating thing from a bunch of sources (just like answers.com one). That includes wikitionary in the list.
If you were going to go do smuggling into Cuba or whatever, you would just turn off your damn AIS transponder. Won't do shit for the radar sweeps they do. But then again, only you Americans keep this embargo up. Ship full of Canadians go near Cuba? Big deal.
Ok. How about this. Your ship is not armed because it wants to be able to dock anywhere in the world. So you've been under attack and fighting them off with water cannons. You got some friendly navy on the radio and they send a chopper your way. So it's like... 10 minutes out when the dudes in the ship start turning tail. What the hell do you do? Fuck up their props. Just like how mace is used instead of guns in some cases, you'll use this device instead of guns in some cases.
But yes. Just shooting them when you get charged by dudes in speedboats would be a nice solution. Too bad the economics don't really work out.
This happens in pretty much every discussion involving pirates. Simply said, there are a very large amounts of ports in the world that do that ships with weapons. Beyond that, I'm sure arming your ship will bring you into completely different categories of international and maritime law that could cause all sorts of problems. And this is before we even start thinking about insurance companies.
The only similar features between the W700ds and this is that they're both laptops and both have two screens. The W700 easily has more than 4 times the performance that this laptop has.
You get use to such things. I've been using multiple monitors for a long time now, and for most programs (where a window stays on a single monitor), those don't matter too much.
You're thinking of L'Hospital's Rule. It works when you end up with an indeterminate form, like inf/inf or 0/0.
That doesn't mean much. Some of the best tuna in the world is caught in the Atlantic. For example, the current 'premium' (or whatever) tuna supply chain looks like this. Caught in the Atlantic Ocean, brought to port on the East Coast. Japanese buyers pick out the best and send them to the Tokyo fish market. Yeah, all the way there. There they get auctioned off. A lot of it stays in Japan, but a lot of it goes back to top sushi restaurants in North America. So those super high end/quality sushi places in New York? That tuna traveled halfway across the world and then back to get to your plate. So really, in relative terms, when it comes to high quality sushi, New York (or anywhere in the continental United States) is only twice as far from where it was caught as Japan is. Trippy eh?