You should see what they do to photographers. who take pictures. in public of all places.

What I read is you train the best (foreign) doctors, have the most (expensive) research institutes, and develop most of the (expensive) new medicines. This things do cost a metric shit ton of money. Except you're the only ones stupid enough to pay for it all. Believe it or not, most of the world is happy to get by on clean water and antibiotics. That alone solves 90% of the medical problems already. The remainder is spent on the really tough stuff. But US pharmaceuticals aren't interested in those problems. There is no money in 10-cent antibiotics when you can make $100 bottles of Viagra.

Try connecting to their online server. because I'm still............waiting.

To know that you would have to have access to their source code and developers. I had a hackintosh running on a Pentium D that doesn't work in 10.5 or 10.6 but it worked in 10.4. Something changed in the kernel, my PC wasn't supported, but I wouldn't go so far as saying that Apple sabotaged Pentium D owners.

Holy Cow, I was just like you at one point. 3 years at a design firm as the web developer. I was getting fed up with the long hours and abnormally low pay. Then one day I quit. To make ends meet I started doing the roving IT support scheme. Only difference was I wasn't very good at asking people for money. I remember I fixed one lady's PC. It took 10 minutes and I charged her $25 for the service. She gave me $50 because I had a long drive ahead of me. The money was alright, but I spent my free time volunteering, going to the parks, and basically just getting some fresh air. I lived in this city for years but didn't get to do or see a lot of things because I spent so much time at work.

Its a big empty building. To make it round you would need to create really exotic support system. Cooling towers are designed to move air. You can't build a rocket in the center of one because there is scaffolding inside.

If they did it circular, like the Gerkin tower in London, the wind shear actually twists the building like a rope. So you would have to get into more exotic support systems. Building it square means you can use regular beams for crossbracing.

For the same reason you don't assemble buildings horizontally and raise them. The lateral forces would be great and you would end up creating a lot of supports for one time use.

I'm watching the stream now of them assembling the Ares and I must say the VAB is the most impressive building I've ever seen. I got to tour the inside (way back in the early 90s) and the amount of empty space available, inside a building that can withstand hurricane force winds. It is truly mind-boggling.

I don't see why they couldn't go for the GPGPU and scientific computation market. They've acquired a lot of SGI and Cray IP. The x86 has been done to death. Except for more cores and a faster bus there isn't much more R&D there. And I'm not really sure why they got into the chipset business in the first place. Intel and AMD had it helmed up leaving very little for a third competitor.

Their core competences are in GPUs, they have a lot of IP there. This is valuable for negotiating licenses against the likes of Intel. And Intel's only dominance is in low margin integrated GPUs. Which is great for retailers but not great for the R&D team.

It was a pain to setup because their refusal to send anything important by email, but I guess it's for the best. The only email I receive from my bank is offers for more credit. Anything related to my account is done with registered mail and a phone call.

The obvious solution is to put a 10-inch stake pointing out the steering wheel. This would not only solve texting, but a whole lot of other problems with aggressive driving. Deaths would be high the first month, but that's just Darwin cleaning up the gene pool.

If you mean cultivated to be tasty and edible, then yes it took a long, long time to get there. But the GM stuff available now is tasteless and unappetizing. If your tomato leaves you thirsty after the first bite, the it's not a juicy tomato. If your strawberries are red on the outside and white and tasteless on the inside, then you've run into the magnificence of GM foods. Unfortunately, GM foods weren't designed to taste better, but to last longer. If you have the opportunity to buy at a farmers market than you won't have so much GM foods. But at Walmart, that tomato has been carried halfway around the planet, kept in warehouses, by the time it gets to the store it's barely edible, but as long as it looks fresh for most shoppers that's all that matters. As for pets, they've been inbred for so long that most purebreeds are thoroughly retarded.

I lived there! Really. on the couches by the soda machines. Bus service stops at 2am and sometimes I didn't feel like walking from the Empo. Some people would get really comfortable in there; pillows, blankets, and a coffee mug.

This works on CSI, in reality it's much more difficult than that. Unlike TVs the evidence to get a strong conviction doesn't really on a smoking. The evidence is used to build a case against you. If you leave the cellphone behind the prosecution will skip it and rely on other evidence like CC receipts, security cameras, witness testimony, etc. The only thing a cellphone can do is say you are in the area. It doesn't report which building you might have entered, what you possibly said, or what you were thinking.

The burden of proof in a criminal case is much higher than a civil case (the ones the RIAA is fond of). Because one means you could go to prison, lose your job, and way of life, the other just means you'll lose some money and probably be a little uncomfortable, temporarily.

The arguments slashdot users are making here are the same arguments a decent defense attorney also makes. The prosecutor doesn't like to be blind-sided because he/she relied on a single piece of evidence that could be disqualified or disputed. So they would never rely on just a security camera, or just a cellphone location report. Together they paint a strong picture. Add more evidence and you've got a compelling case.