Sure, polluted run-off and the diminishing of wetlands are important matters. Eventually, people will be more mindful of those effects. Perhaps keeping the "remember the environment" ball rolling may eventually address those matters closer to your mind.
A cow that burps less will fart more. Unless the methane coming out of the rear is less than the methane coming out of the front, this won't work.
Personally, I think it would be a lot more effective (and it makes more sense) to genetically engineer the methane-producing bacteria in their digestive tract, solving the problem at the root of the cause. Of course, you'd have to make bacteria that are more efficient than their natural counterparts; but this can be done faster and cheaper than raising generations of genetically engineered cattle would be.
While your post makes sense, I simply don't see Google as being willing to join that group of people.
Google's policies are generally the "nice guy" approach to things. They might be powerful, but they don't like to put themselves in a situation of potentially big liability.
(just imagine, google's servers could be hacked, revealing who is where and what they're doing). Google has enough problems trying to fend off the litigation it feels it doesn't deserve; why add to that plate?
you're surrounded by magnetic fields, whether it's from the power wiring in the house you live in or your wifi access point.
I'm guessing that the most significant reason why they have antennas that size is because they're trying to -not- have it interfere with things (well, your old microwave will still do that, but you can't do too much about that aside from replace it).
The threat from magnetic fields comes from strong magnetic fields (it polarizes the atoms). This is why magnets around CRTs is a bad idea, but that being said, it takes a SIGNIFICANT amount of power to make an amagnetic object behave in a magnetic fashion.
technically China has democratic systems too (they elect their local officials).
This doesn't mean that there's not corruption at the top, and that's exactly why Iran is going through what it's going through.
People in Iran think that there's shady things going on (and most likely with good cause), and where there's shady dealings, there's closed doors (definitely not open).
Just because they have a democratic system doesn't mean that they're following their own rules.
Arming the world doesn't work as well as we might like, but it certainly keeps the investors happy.
War is about keeping that money flow going. If there's a dime to be made without future loss, why not? This is a significant way to keep the talent pool paid.
Taking part in arming the world certainly has its disadvantages, and the Pentagon has been learning that in hard ways (i.e. Osama Bin Laden).
The question has to be asked: why does this matter? Iran would still do its own thing.
In this case, they had the product, so why not buy it? That's not such a hard thing to understand. This is like saying "omg Raytheon makes missiles!" which is no surprise to anyone. What about their clients? What about their unofficial clients? Even those aren't a surprise.
Sure, we may not agree with Iran's internet policy, and yes, the vendor may take a portion of the blame in an incident, but I hardly see Iran's isolationism as the fault of any one company.
Seeing as how most of the footage we get out of Iran is from mobile phones and such, is it any surprise that they'd ask a mobile phone maker for help? Business is business, and in this case, it's easy to pin the responsibility on the buying party.
Making text files simultaneuously "just work" for both landscape and portrait modes is an insurmountable task; mostly because there will always be something you can tweak about the final product, ultimately defeating the whole point of such software.
Take a simple flyer for example, the amount of vertical space allows for lots of neat, short snippets. A horizontal flyer ends up sub-par, because it looks both less businesslike and it can contain fewer sections of text. Short and sweet is the way to go for business products, and making it display on anything that is different from its form factor diminishes that effect.
Yes, I get irritated with endless scrolling, but there's nothing stopping me from going into two-page mode (which works out well for me, having a widescreen monitor and all) or from fitting the entire page to the screen. There's always options!
Hardware and software people get together when there's money involved. Otherwise, it's like trying to herd cows and chickens at the same time; everyone will want to go their own way (why not biometrics? why not biometrics support in HTML? why not tweak that biometrics hardware to be more accurate? you get the idea).
If you have 'awful problems' of landscape screens and portrait pages, try doing something about it. Change your monitor's orientation (if possible; i do so occasionally even on my laptop) or change the way the program displays those pages. If you can't read it in dual-page mode, try finding anti-aliasing viewing/editing software, so you can see the finer details. There's -always- something you can do; making it someone else's problem only works so far.
Agreed, but pornography doesn't make a culture intelligent or better than another culture, only different from another culture.
By the way, there was no slight intended; I was only stating one thing does not necessarily precede another. Just because a society is liberal enough to either ban or embrace pornography (i.e. nude colonies) does not make them more enlightened, if anything it only changes the circumstances of the never-ending pissing contest.
Our own cultural dual-mindedness concerning pornography is not so different from Chinese or Islam points of view; we're all humans, and we act generally the same, even if our cultural differences are significant. Nobody's from outer space, even if we feel they should be.
Dual-mindedness is a very human trait. Why do we lie when we know the truth? Why do we cover up what is shameful to us? Human psychology is funny like that.
A culture that prohibits something usually has something rationale to it. Take, for example, an emotional underdevelopment within a culture (do you imagine I'm so and so in bed? cue Jealousy). It's not so surprising that situations like that over time would crystallize into cultural over-reaction of similar matters.
That's not the only fault with the system as it is.
The Executive branch appoints the Justices (who can do it better? probably nobody). However, they can be selected to push an agenda.
Take, for example, the Patriot Act. Everyone knows that it's unconstitutional, and yet it persists. I wouldn't be surprised if the Judges were getting some sort of kickback for taking the positions they take.
This renders the Judiciary branch both weak and without a punch that's thrown, because it's the puppet branch.
And from their point of view, pornography is the symptom of undisciplined actions, as well as overextending the activities of people in ways that are ultimately futile.
Both oversimplified points of view are the result of popularized culture.
The day when people in general get embrace moderation (the old definition; the kind that keeps things from becoming a controlling factor) and education (not institutionalized, but the uninhibited growth of the mind) will be the day when you see civilization truly start to flourish.
Our own propagandized signposts of civilization or authoritarianism often serve to cover up the ugly truth.
Limiting the competition doesn't give a competitive edge, it creates a monopoly mentality.
Baidu won't get better as quickly without that competition; and lowering the bar doesn't make competition a driving force.
This is akin to saying "lightbulbs only have to be this good; and because this brand is local, we're removing the competition."
If they want to give Baidu a competitive edge, I'd suggest limitations to the thoroughput that Google can attribute to Google Suggest. This would be like putting import restrictions on foreign bulbs, which doesn't ban them altogether, and still allows local industries to catch up technology-wise.
The C64 emulator will allow you to run numerous applications even if they are old and outdated.
A practical C64 emulator would have no choice but to allow all of the possibilities. If you can't access the program you're trying to emulate, you're effectively neutering any reason at all to have a C64 emulator, and there's a vast variety of software available. To give you an idea, I've seen Atari 8-bit collections that spanned into the 20 gigabyte range, and that's with programs measured in kilobytes, and without duplicates in those various programs.
To be reasonable, there are ways to limit the software available (specialty formats from other stores), which would make Apple's argument moot, but Apple doesn't like having "competition" from alternative stores. Additionally, you're talking about moving away from already commonly-used format(s) that C64 emulators already use, making it hard(er) to find the software you really know and want. This isn't an option you really want to explore, except for the most popular games.
Additionally, glitchy ROMs can still foul up emulation environments. The non-prohibitive secure solution to any bad programming (or malicious programming) is to sandbox it, and that equally applies to emulation environments, because there will always be ways that you can foul up the emulator. SEGA knows this, and they avoided this by shipping pre-packaged emulator/game combinations. The C64 emulator doesn't have that option so much. Of course, Apple's blanket policy makes this obstacle moot (especially for capable emulators); but I have to point out that Apple's software is so much more secure.
any regular should be using an Android based phone anyway.:P
I think that what we're seeing here is Apple's renowned flip-flopping on what is allowed into the Apple store. This is something that I would attribute to the individual reviewers, some of which are decidedly biased.
You just watch, they'll resubmit, and it'll probably pass.
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Sure, polluted run-off and the diminishing of wetlands are important matters. Eventually, people will be more mindful of those effects. Perhaps keeping the "remember the environment" ball rolling may eventually address those matters closer to your mind.
Every little bit matters, right?
A cow that burps less will fart more. Unless the methane coming out of the rear is less than the methane coming out of the front, this won't work.
Personally, I think it would be a lot more effective (and it makes more sense) to genetically engineer the methane-producing bacteria in their digestive tract, solving the problem at the root of the cause. Of course, you'd have to make bacteria that are more efficient than their natural counterparts; but this can be done faster and cheaper than raising generations of genetically engineered cattle would be.
While your post makes sense, I simply don't see Google as being willing to join that group of people.
Google's policies are generally the "nice guy" approach to things. They might be powerful, but they don't like to put themselves in a situation of potentially big liability.
(just imagine, google's servers could be hacked, revealing who is where and what they're doing). Google has enough problems trying to fend off the litigation it feels it doesn't deserve; why add to that plate?
We are responsible for what happens within our own country. The DHS is responsible for knowing what happens within our own country.
I agree that domestic spying isn't the way to go; after all, we should be able to earn the trust of the people within our nation.
I'm not fond of police state policies. After all, it focuses too much power in one location, and power breeds corruption.
Thank you for the clarification.
you're surrounded by magnetic fields, whether it's from the power wiring in the house you live in or your wifi access point.
I'm guessing that the most significant reason why they have antennas that size is because they're trying to -not- have it interfere with things (well, your old microwave will still do that, but you can't do too much about that aside from replace it).
The threat from magnetic fields comes from strong magnetic fields (it polarizes the atoms). This is why magnets around CRTs is a bad idea, but that being said, it takes a SIGNIFICANT amount of power to make an amagnetic object behave in a magnetic fashion.
Agreed, thank you for the clarification.
technically China has democratic systems too (they elect their local officials).
This doesn't mean that there's not corruption at the top, and that's exactly why Iran is going through what it's going through.
People in Iran think that there's shady things going on (and most likely with good cause), and where there's shady dealings, there's closed doors (definitely not open).
Just because they have a democratic system doesn't mean that they're following their own rules.
Arming the world doesn't work as well as we might like, but it certainly keeps the investors happy.
War is about keeping that money flow going. If there's a dime to be made without future loss, why not? This is a significant way to keep the talent pool paid.
Taking part in arming the world certainly has its disadvantages, and the Pentagon has been learning that in hard ways (i.e. Osama Bin Laden).
The question has to be asked: why does this matter? Iran would still do its own thing.
In this case, they had the product, so why not buy it? That's not such a hard thing to understand. This is like saying "omg Raytheon makes missiles!" which is no surprise to anyone. What about their clients? What about their unofficial clients? Even those aren't a surprise.
Sure, we may not agree with Iran's internet policy, and yes, the vendor may take a portion of the blame in an incident, but I hardly see Iran's isolationism as the fault of any one company.
Seeing as how most of the footage we get out of Iran is from mobile phones and such, is it any surprise that they'd ask a mobile phone maker for help? Business is business, and in this case, it's easy to pin the responsibility on the buying party.
Making text files simultaneuously "just work" for both landscape and portrait modes is an insurmountable task; mostly because there will always be something you can tweak about the final product, ultimately defeating the whole point of such software.
Take a simple flyer for example, the amount of vertical space allows for lots of neat, short snippets. A horizontal flyer ends up sub-par, because it looks both less businesslike and it can contain fewer sections of text. Short and sweet is the way to go for business products, and making it display on anything that is different from its form factor diminishes that effect.
Yes, I get irritated with endless scrolling, but there's nothing stopping me from going into two-page mode (which works out well for me, having a widescreen monitor and all) or from fitting the entire page to the screen. There's always options!
Hardware and software people get together when there's money involved. Otherwise, it's like trying to herd cows and chickens at the same time; everyone will want to go their own way (why not biometrics? why not biometrics support in HTML? why not tweak that biometrics hardware to be more accurate? you get the idea).
If you have 'awful problems' of landscape screens and portrait pages, try doing something about it. Change your monitor's orientation (if possible; i do so occasionally even on my laptop) or change the way the program displays those pages. If you can't read it in dual-page mode, try finding anti-aliasing viewing/editing software, so you can see the finer details. There's -always- something you can do; making it someone else's problem only works so far.
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Unions like to get their dues, and they don't like competition, activity without union involvement, or for people to undercut them.
Unfortunately, that just about removes the option of doing it cheaply. At least they have the heavy equipment and the labor though.
I can just see him saying this to his seniors:
Your powers are weak, old man.
Did someone write this book down on Porpoise?
At least it's not all Crockery.
Agreed, but pornography doesn't make a culture intelligent or better than another culture, only different from another culture.
By the way, there was no slight intended; I was only stating one thing does not necessarily precede another. Just because a society is liberal enough to either ban or embrace pornography (i.e. nude colonies) does not make them more enlightened, if anything it only changes the circumstances of the never-ending pissing contest.
Our own cultural dual-mindedness concerning pornography is not so different from Chinese or Islam points of view; we're all humans, and we act generally the same, even if our cultural differences are significant. Nobody's from outer space, even if we feel they should be.
Dual-mindedness is a very human trait. Why do we lie when we know the truth? Why do we cover up what is shameful to us? Human psychology is funny like that.
A culture that prohibits something usually has something rationale to it. Take, for example, an emotional underdevelopment within a culture (do you imagine I'm so and so in bed? cue Jealousy). It's not so surprising that situations like that over time would crystallize into cultural over-reaction of similar matters.
That's not the only fault with the system as it is.
The Executive branch appoints the Justices (who can do it better? probably nobody). However, they can be selected to push an agenda.
Take, for example, the Patriot Act. Everyone knows that it's unconstitutional, and yet it persists. I wouldn't be surprised if the Judges were getting some sort of kickback for taking the positions they take.
This renders the Judiciary branch both weak and without a punch that's thrown, because it's the puppet branch.
Fighting their culture would serve mostly to alienate us from them. However, politeness and kind words often go farther to allow relations to happen.
Kindly saying "we'll turn this off if everyone else does too" wouldn't be such a terrible PR thing to do (in Chinese eyes), right?
And from their point of view, pornography is the symptom of undisciplined actions, as well as overextending the activities of people in ways that are ultimately futile.
Both oversimplified points of view are the result of popularized culture.
The day when people in general get embrace moderation (the old definition; the kind that keeps things from becoming a controlling factor) and education (not institutionalized, but the uninhibited growth of the mind) will be the day when you see civilization truly start to flourish.
Our own propagandized signposts of civilization or authoritarianism often serve to cover up the ugly truth.
Limiting the competition doesn't give a competitive edge, it creates a monopoly mentality.
Baidu won't get better as quickly without that competition; and lowering the bar doesn't make competition a driving force.
This is akin to saying "lightbulbs only have to be this good; and because this brand is local, we're removing the competition."
If they want to give Baidu a competitive edge, I'd suggest limitations to the thoroughput that Google can attribute to Google Suggest. This would be like putting import restrictions on foreign bulbs, which doesn't ban them altogether, and still allows local industries to catch up technology-wise.
Kudos, you're fighting the fight the right way.
You're not doing vigilantism (we have enough of that), you're telling the truth to counter misinformation.
We need more of that!
I'd imagine that Visicalc would be... difficult to use with Apple's onscreen keyboard.
I'd still like to see them try!
The fear of the unknown is always greater than the fear you have of something you know (and in this case, use).
This is the problem:
The C64 emulator will allow you to run numerous applications even if they are old and outdated.
A practical C64 emulator would have no choice but to allow all of the possibilities. If you can't access the program you're trying to emulate, you're effectively neutering any reason at all to have a C64 emulator, and there's a vast variety of software available. To give you an idea, I've seen Atari 8-bit collections that spanned into the 20 gigabyte range, and that's with programs measured in kilobytes, and without duplicates in those various programs.
To be reasonable, there are ways to limit the software available (specialty formats from other stores), which would make Apple's argument moot, but Apple doesn't like having "competition" from alternative stores. Additionally, you're talking about moving away from already commonly-used format(s) that C64 emulators already use, making it hard(er) to find the software you really know and want. This isn't an option you really want to explore, except for the most popular games.
Additionally, glitchy ROMs can still foul up emulation environments. The non-prohibitive secure solution to any bad programming (or malicious programming) is to sandbox it, and that equally applies to emulation environments, because there will always be ways that you can foul up the emulator. SEGA knows this, and they avoided this by shipping pre-packaged emulator/game combinations. The C64 emulator doesn't have that option so much. Of course, Apple's blanket policy makes this obstacle moot (especially for capable emulators); but I have to point out that Apple's software is so much more secure.
any regular should be using an Android based phone anyway. :P
I think that what we're seeing here is Apple's renowned flip-flopping on what is allowed into the Apple store. This is something that I would attribute to the individual reviewers, some of which are decidedly biased.
You just watch, they'll resubmit, and it'll probably pass.