Do you realize that you're arguing your subjective view on the usefulness of a technology in a debate about the advancement of technology, not the usefulness of it?
GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings
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Do you realize that you're arguing your subjective view on the usefulness of a technology in a debate about the advancement of technology, not the usefulness of it?
Lithose
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It's ironic you brought up folding screens and watches, because folding screens will probably eventually make smart watches viable, depending on what level it expands to. (Imagine a watch able to fold a screen like this. So with a button press the screen becomes as large as your hand and with another, folds back into a watch.)
The point being though, as you just admitted...Windows didn't actually change the underlying use. Windows just made it more efficient and accessible. Which are two things you said didn't count as "new". Now you're shifting goal posts to try and say it has to meet some criteria of higher efficiency or accessibility which results in some vague broader usage. (Which is weird you pointed out Cassette radios as not counting, as those greatly expanded the market of personal music listeners. I know you're old than me, so you MUST remember a time before everyone had a Walkman, right? Or a time before everyone had a GOOD stereo system right? You might have had a cheap record player but typically the only good STEREO system in the house was a big ass one your parents had. Cassette radios changed all that, all the sudden kids had boom boxes and most people had a walkman.)
You're just being cynical, Chuk. What you're trying to say is "nothing wows me anymore". I hate to tell you this bud, but that's more a product of getting old than lack of advancement. As your brain has more data to draw from, you begin seeing patterns in more things and realizing what is new is often just an improvement on what was old and less useful before.
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Chukzombi
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it changed the world, the system didnt matter. it caused a tonal shift in society. it has nothing to do with me being jaded about repackaged tech with more bells and whistles included to fool you into thinking you're getting something new. the trends we had in the last ten years were more or less fads. they came and they went. i'm waiting for something new to grab me by the booboo.
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Raes
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So, I was wondering. Dany has no heirs and is barren. But, she considered the dragons her children, soooo, if she takes the throne and then Jon kills her and then takes the black, does that make Drogon the new rightful ruler of the Seven Kingdoms?
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He'd be a bastard, so no throne for him.
Drogon Fire? Drogon Flame? Drogon Doom? What would the dragon bastard nomenclature be?
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jayrebb
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Originally, they were from set leaks.
All leaks come directly from the sets where the scenes were shot. There was a network of production assistants and aides communicating as the season was filmed, helping each other fill in the blanks from other locations when necessary.
Hence why the leaks are over 8 months to 10 months old at this point.
Cybsled
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Well, you have to figure in about a generation or two, the Wildlings/Westeros relationship will probably reset again. So the Night's Watch will probably go back to doing that.
Either that or Bran will be like "Evil will return...IN THE FUTURE!!!" and the Night's Watch will be needed to guard against Night King 2.0 or whatever.
Either that or Bran will be like "Evil will return...IN THE FUTURE!!!" and the Night's Watch will be needed to guard against Night King 2.0 or whatever.
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Gavinmad
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The tech derail is better than being nostradouched by faggots who've read the spoilers and can't just shut their fucking mouths for another few days.
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Hateyou
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This is one of the coolest inventions I’ve seen in last few years. A coworker bought one of the little demo knobs for work, it completely baffles people because they don’t work like we know how magnets work. The applications for this could be huge.
www.3ders.org
I’m not looking forward to Sunday. I would be so happy if HBO redid this travesty but I know it’s not feasible.
Revolutionary 3D printed magnets by Polymagnet can change engineering as we know it
Magnet pioneer Correlated Magnetics Research has been working on a unique 3D printing method for embedding custom magnetic fields on a single surface, enabling them to build extremely strong and flexible customizable Polymagnets with countless applications.
I’m not looking forward to Sunday. I would be so happy if HBO redid this travesty but I know it’s not feasible.
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That's completely wrong. Biopsies are still performed all day long for all kinds of reasons. Biopsies get tissue which allows for histopathological exam (ie, looking at the actual cells) so they can identify numerous disease processes. Imaging is used to help perform the biopsies, for example CT guided biopsies, or ultrasound guided biopsies, etc. In fact, the better argument is that imaging has evolved to allow doctors to cause less harm while getting biopsies, and get new types of biopes to help treat disease. A great example is the endobronchial ultrasound which allows you to look at the lymph nodes in the lungs, *biopsy* them, and better stage lung cancer and help plan for possible surgery. Another example is a CT guided biopsy, for example if you are concerned for osteomyelitis of one of the lumbar vertebra, the doctor can use a CT machine to go in and *biopsy* the vertebra, in the old days it would have been a much more difficult and invasive procedure. Another reason biopsies are performed are for difficult to diagnose skin conditions, and examining lymph nodes to see if they have cancer in them. All of which MRI is incapable of doing.
I'm not saying medical imaging isn't amazing, it is, and it is improving. Just saying the idea that they are magically replacing biopsies is wrong. The fact is medical imaging is helping us get better biopsies. ... and now I want to go be an interventional radiologist.
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Totally agree. I don't get the argument they are trying to make. They originally stated if someone was asleep for 10 years they would just be completely overwhelmed and so confused and amazed at the last 10 years of innovation. "HOLY FUCK I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, IPHONE IS NOW 1000 MEGAPIXELS AND HAS 4X THE STORAGE!" (I know wrong numbers.) Or "Someone made a phone that can bend? and no one can afford it?"
I think the bigger shock would be that you can no longer write online what you're actually thinking about something unless you want it to be on national news because "you're a racist" for everything
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