No doubt you've heard of, "singing for one's supper"? At one time that was quite literally true and even today there are probably people who wouldn't mind doing that provided that the performance was agreeable to the owner and the other patrons and the payment in beer and food was good.
Last Saturday evening I watched that happen in a Nashville truck stop. The guy was really good, the patrons generally really enjoyed it, and the guy got a meal.
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Yes. That's what that means. It applies to all people equally: people tend to tout their good news more than their bad news. You are repeating my point.
Isn't it just easier to apply this fix instead?
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This isn't meant to sound cruel but I've personally never met anyone that was so unfit they could not exercise or change their diet in some way that would help.
You are young and healthy and have never met anybody who was dealt a bad hand genetically or suffered a crippling accident or infection. Get north of 50 after a life of minor accidents, or hang out with young people who have two pacemakers, biweekly seizures and a heart that leaks blood when it beats, and you'll find that not everybody is physically capable of what you envision everybody as able to do. Sometimes it is as simple as a quick infection of the pericardium and heart as a young child. Other times it is something work related like the other car driving into a ditch atop your ATV while you were both pursuing a suspect in the dark. It can even be their fault: I've known people thrown out of the back of pickup trucks who live with a solid brace bolted into their spinal column. It doesn't matter: it is their reality, and they have to deal with what they can do. Eating well, exercising in the pool, doing exactly what their doctors tell them to, but still unable to really be fit.
These are the people who need help beyond mere "exercise and a change in their diet". There are people living beyond your sphere of experience who can benefit greatly from things like this.
If Picard had been young enough when he learned English, a British accent is perfectly plausible.
Yes. That was humor.
Presumably you mean aside from the fact that we haven't seen any sign of the high energy signatures that would surely happen from annihilation collisions when the solar wind meets this interstellar anti-matter.
If you're going to question facts within fictional works, I'd start out by with the point that we didn't actually discover warp theory with the help of four thumbed aliens from Alpha Centari. After that, the properties of interstellar gas seems fairly minor.
To be clear, let me restate: I haven't seen anything directly contradicting the "interstellar hydrogen is mostly antimatter" idea within any canon work of the fictional Star Trek setting invented for television and expanded in books and films by authors who are paid to invent stories for entertainment. This statement does not imply that I believe or have proposed any sort of belief that the vaguely defined warp drive, humanoid aliens, Q Continuum, transporters, tribbles, or an English actor playing a French captain are actually realistic nor exist in the real world. Well, the bit about the actor is technically true, but otherwise, it isn't real.
Dealing with particles via magnetic field was actually the job of the Bussard Collectors (you know, those red glowing things at the front of the nacelles), a.k.a., ramscoops. Which actually didn't deflect it, but collected all that mostly hydrogen in the ship's path.
They were around several years before Star Trek picked up on them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
For a fairly long time, in the gap between TOS and TNG, when the books were adding to and fleshing out the universe, there was the idea that the vast majority of interstellar hydrogen is antimatter (discovered by Voyager 6 or something like that, when it transmitted back what it found and was promptly annihilated). That was the key thing that allows for travel without having to carry around a ton of reaction mass. Then add dilithium crystals, which were discovered to have a very powerful resonance effect near a matter-antimatter reaction. The discovery was an lab-bench accident, similar to the discovery of X-Rays. Of course, this is back when first contact was between Earth and Alpha Centari, and the Alpha Centariuns (who look like humans, only a bit more stocky and a second opposable thumb instead of a pinky) worked with Earthlings together to discover warp theory. TNG and later canon continuity wiped out most of that, but I haven't seen anything that directly contradicted the "interstellar hydrogen is mostly antimatter" idea.
Have you tried pairing a different controller? I mean, it's one kind of fiasco if they shipped with a bad controller. That can be fixed in future versions, or by the user (with a purchase, which stinks, but hey: bleeding edge is aptly named). If it is the OS that causes the latency, they may be able to fix it. So, option two is bad, but still salvageable. If they shipped hardware that causes serious latency in basic games, then it's pretty dead.
5) What's the deal with CableCard, anyway? Are cable companies going to continue to support this? What about users of IP-based services, like AT&T's U-verse?
I had to talk to AT&T recently, and they pitched U-Verse, and I gave my usual, "Oh, I have several TiVos, so I can't use your service." The guy said they now support TiVo. Could have been a idiotic sales pitch, and Google isn't helpful (years of comments that it doesn't support it overwhelm the results), but if it's important to you, might as well call and ask.
users who say that you haven't taken anything from anyone when they copy bits, and then someone come along and copy bits they care about and the tune change.
And many don't, which you've acknowledged. So, how is this different from any number of other hypocrisies that human beings regularly commit in all areas of life? What you're describing has had entire books written on it that have nothing to do with tech or IP rights or law. What you're saying, essentially, is that Slashdot commentators are a fairly typical swath of human beings.
This is still a bad example, as it is an issue of credit for work done, not copying, as the person who did the work doesn't own it nor claim to have any right to it. It is a simple case of wanting credit for the work he or she did.
In the comments of TFA, one of the judges of the fair noted that the kid's presentation looked interesting. It was indeed a Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor -- and that the kid stated he wasn't related.
I believe this initial release is still Webkit, and that they will move to Blink in future releases. Or so TFA says (could be wrong, of course).
CPUs are magnitudes faster today than they were 10 years ago. Why is it that pages still take seconds to load? Go back 10 years and they still took the same amount of time. Why?
The two major updates so far this week: Google Chrome, which now renders faster, and flickr, which has significantly more complex and larger graphics. As things get able to and display process more, more is asked of them. We aren't targeting 580px wide simple HTML, no CSS and 15 color gifs. Nor are we targeting a single platform and the simple display of information. Even if you're just displaying stuff, if you're doing it right, you're divorcing content from presentation and sending a handful of files for each page: each a solution to a problem that was at one time annoying. Or "solved" poorly with the likes of early Frontpage or Dreamweaver.
Let's not forget about operation Poutine.
I have a feeling that will be the downfall of Canadians in space. Can you imagine gravy covered cheese curds bouncing into equipment in zero-G?
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
