Converting to digital at CD standard loses nothing you can hear.
You are theoretically right, of course, and I would have agreed in an instant before I had my own listening experience. It all starts with our ears and our brain, though. Those are analog devices. When we take digital data and attempt to simulate analog music you can hear the difference and it is not subtle. Put it on a scope and no doubt the waveform would look right. It should be right. It IS right...but it does not sound the same...and that's all that really matters in the end. The record companies should come out with some sort of analog format for people who want to pay for it. Maybe it could be some sort of chromatically-tinted clear plastic disc. Obviously, however much anyone might like the old analog lp format, there is never going to be any new music released for a technology that consists of dragging a sharp object through a vinyl groove. I bought the old turntable to convert old LPs to digital format but now I don't want to listen to the digital format. Unfortunately, though, no one will sell new needles or cartridges and the LPs will wear out and so...the future is digital rather it's better or not.
I recently obtained an old-fashioned turntable at a garage sale. Playing LP records on that thing makes the music come ALIVE. I am listening to The Band's "The Weight" cut from the Bob Dylan 'Before the Flood' live vinyl LP album and, comparing it with the either the CD or MP3 version is like comparing HDTV with pre-hdtv. The music is so much richer and fills the room. I never realized before what was lost when the switch to CDs was made. So...those downloaded tracks from a P2P source are only offering a fraction of the audio experience that used to be available decades ago...and the music companies are to blame because they must have known at the time what they were doing...selling less for more. Yeah, you couldn't get those LPs for free but then they were actually worth a lot more because they provided a much richer audio experience. The record companies should have worked a lot harder on an analog format rather than the CDA format they ended up with on music cds. Why? Because music is analog and the conversion to a digital format loses something. Hey record companies...here's some free advice. Give the digital files away for free...that's all they are worth...and sell us a new analog format on an optical disc.
Microsoft and their sleazy PR outfit invented 'astroturfing' and used it with great effectiveness to advance their agenda. It's only to be expected, then, that communist governments would turn to astroturfing as a more-effective form of the propaganda they have always relied on as a substitute for truth, honesty, and fairness.
It's inevitable that the game of 'football' is going to have to drastically change its rules to take away the traumatic brain injuries. It will start with high school football, then college, then the NFL. What school district or college can afford lawsuits over that? Maybe it will have to become flag football or, more likely, some sort of hybrid with limited blocking and tackling. Whatever results, though, the Football 2.0 rules will end the present situation where brain injuries are a certainty.
This kind of weapon would be an incredible boost for air defense, at least for close-in ground support and other low-level attacks. It wouldn't do much against artillery shells or naval gunfire. It would also likely allow the development of a laser-based missile defense system far superior to a patriot system. If these things come to pass, the balance of power would shift away from nations with a heavy emphasis on air power (i.e. the U.S. with its aircraft carriers and air force) towards nations with large and mobile ground forces.
Orignally, they started by making world-standard test equipment. Now, that would be Fluke. Later, they provided high-quality 'mini' computer-and-terminal systems to medium-size businesses. That business is long-gone. They used to make high-quality desktop computer systems. Now, they still 'sell' computers but they don't seem to have much to do with the hardware and software but just put the H-P badge on plastic junk. Asus is probably the rough equivalent, now, of what HP used to be in computers. In printers, HP invented 'inkjet' printers but have long-since lost their lead to Canon and Epson. They invented the first 'laserjet' relatively inexpensive desktop laser printer but have lost most of that business as well. So what exactly is HP's business these days? Calculators? I guess they still sell a couple models of those but their products were designed decades ago and are probably pretty much legacy business now. As a company, HP is the victim of years of horrible mismanagement at the top. Even if we assume that they have somehow, against all odds, managed to develop some actual management ability from within, can a company as broken as HP ever recover? The workers jumping to GM are just carving out a little piece of what's left of HP for themselves to preserve their jobs. Can anyone blame them?
The main justification for preferring the metric system over the 'english' system, at least for everyday non-technical use, was that the metric units were generally in multiples of 10 and were therefore easier to mentally manipulate to convert between mass, volume, and length. Now, with digital helpers everywhere, the ease of managing unit conversions is irrelevant and the impetus for changing to the metric system is gone. Moreover, we like the familiarity of our psi, pounds, degrees fahrenheit, miles per gallon, ounces, and teaspoons, etc for everyday use. Scientists and the military switched over to metric units years ago.
People here are saying that weed is better than 'big pharma' drugs. TFA says that weed may cause psychoses. Three quarters of the celebs in Hollywood seem to have 'substance abuse' problems. What no one ever seems to say, though, is 'why do psychoactive drugs...ANY of them?' The chemistry of your brain is complex...incredibly so. Deliberately putting chemical substances in your body to artificially stimulate your nerve endings is nuts. It makes no difference if it is an artificial sweetener, glutamate, weed, meth, acid, coke, heroin, adderall, ritalin, doctor-prescribed psychoactive crap, whatever...it's all the 21st century equivalent of doing brain surgery with a stone knife. Okay, maybe there are a relatively tiny handful of people who have neurological conditions or chronic pain sufficiently-serious enough to justify using some sort of brain crap from their doc. For the rest of you, though, stop putting junk in your body, suck up your physical and psychic 'pain', and start using your brain and body for something useful during the short life that God has given to you on this earth.
Basically, he discusses the four c's: control, conveyance, continuity, and context, and gives examples about why all of these are horribly back-leveled from earlier Windows versions. Most damningly, he points to reduced control by the user...which is a trend that seems to have permeated through Windows since Windows 95. He summarizes by referring to someone else who observed that Windows 8 was really designed for content consumption by the user rather than content creation as personal computer devices were originally intended for. Content consumption is probably the main purpose of a tablet but we will still need content creation equipment and Windows 8 appears poorly suited for that, while not offering any alternative due to ending sales of Windows 7. His most damning comment is that Windows 8 is "user hostile." The best thing about his comments is that they will (hopefully) start the discussion about what capabilities need to be retained in future personal computers and future Windows versions.
A lot of comments here are dismissing the entire idea of God but they don't seem to have really wrapped their head around 'God.' Generally, God, as known in the old and new testament, is a being...a force...a 'father' who transcends the world and the entire universe and has existed forever and will always exist. God created everything that we see including all of the laws and relationships that define our understanding of 'science.' It is the 'actions' of God that define our understanding of him in the old testament. This is the God who delivered miraculous military victories in the face of overwhelming enemies, who caused bushes to burn but not be consumed, who delivered plagues and pestilence upon enemies, who parted the sea allowing escape, and who fed a people wandering in the desert, gave them a code to live by, and provided a new land for them to live in. We can dismiss all of these events as 'fables', secure in our scientific understanding that tells us such things are 'impossible' but we cannot deny that these events were very real to people who claimed to have experienced them. Similarly, there was a man who lived in what is now Israel approximately 2,000 years ago and performed a variety of miraculous actions before returning to life following a cruel execution. We cannot deny that the events that occurred 2,000 years ago were so amazing to the people who experienced them that their lives were transformed forever and they began living according to a new 'code' that has persisted to the present and is, coincidentally, the basis for most of our current civilization and law. Finally, we cannot deny that a significant portion of the entire population of the world believes in the principles taught by that man and follows them in their daily lives. So those dusty scrolls from 2200 to 1900 years ago, found in those old caves, represent documents produced during a time of religious ferment and upheaval. We are no different than those people were. If there were a religious figure today who was giving sight to the blind, curing uncurable diseases, causing paraplegics to give up their wheelchairs, changing water into wine, multiplying food at the local Safeway by 1000x, teaching us to love others, and then returning to life to walk among us after being beheaded by evildoers, we would be just as impressed as those people were then. Of course, those who were not actually present would be just a little skeptical and their descendants even more so...but, with the power of God, they would recognize the truth for what it was...and so do we.
Glutamate has become very common in all sorts of pre-cooked prepared foods...everything from canned soup to rice-a-roni mixes. It's usually added as something called "MSG" or monosodium glutamate although it is also often added under names such as 'hydrolyzed protein,' 'autolyzed protein,' 'sodium caseinate,' 'autolyzed yeast,' or 'yeast extract.' Food manufacturers have found that adding MSG has a powerful on flavor and makes consumers more likely to 'like' the food and consume greater quantities. A more scientific name for 'glutamate' is 'glutamic acid' and it is a common amino acid found in protein. Food manufacturers have argued successfully for years that since it is an amino acid found in protein, there should be no restrictions on its use. However, as TFA discusses, the quantity of glutamic acid consumed DOES matter and artificially spiking a variety of food with it to make the food taste better may be causing a lot of suicides. Perhaps the school shooter in Connecticut was a heavy consumer of something spiked with MSG such as, for example, many (although not all) varieties of potato chips.
They look pretty good when the grid is dead, snow is falling, the indoor temperature is 42F, and the sun barely rises above the horizon for about 6 hours in every 24 and can't be seen anyway through the clouds. Another thing that looks pretty good is the smelly and dangerous liquid that those dirty, noisy, and expensive devices like to drink.
Built-in assumptions of the 'just say no to college' philosophy: a) the goal of life is to accumulate wealth b) the only benefit of college education is to obtain training to achieve goal a) c) training alternatives to 'college' (online, self-study, internship, etc) are cheaper, quicker, and more focused d) Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have 'proved' the validity of a), b), and c)
But...young skywalker...what if a) is wrong? In that case, b), c) and, consequently, d) are also wrong. If you actually complete a college education at an accredited institution, most will compel you to take 'training' in a wide variety of areas, will force you to test your ideas with many other people, and...most importantly, will instill in you the idea that the acquisition of knowledge is a lifelong activity that has many benefits outside of a). As a consequence, most bright people who 'graduate' from college, leave with more well-developed goals and philosophy than a) above. College graduates are much more likely to cheerfully seek instruction in new areas during their later lives that do not offer the potential for large financial gain such as, for example, something like art history. And, of course, there are outliers like bill gates or steve jobs but, in general, studies have shown that college graduates accumulate more wealth than non-graduates even if it is not always intended.
10. "You don't have Flash 10.7 installed and need to upgrade to Flash 10.7" when you're running Flash 11.x 9. Embedded ads 8. 'special' video players (I'm looking at you ABC) 7. Video freeze during play due to lack of server response 6. Sound but no video 5. Video but no sound 4. Incompatible video formats 3. Video resolution inappropriate to the method of delivery...either way too high or way too low 2. Websites that insist on posting useless bandwidth-hogging 'talking head' videos rather than posting a simple photo and a text summary. 1. Digital Rights Management and all its limitations
The anandtech wii u teardown included running the SunSpider javascript benchmark. For comparison, the Wii U scored 2581 while an Iphone 5 scored 908. My Pentium M 1.6 Ghz laptop (the original Xbox used a Pentium 3 at 1 Ghz) scores 719 so the Wii U cpu looks to be about 3.5x more powerful than the 1.6 Ghz Pentium M. All of the "Wii U has a slow CPU" might be just FUD at this point.
Normally, when a business offers a 'new and improved' product as an 'upgrade,' the product has been improved sufficiently to make the consumer want to purchase it. However, in the case of Windows 8, the changes are all to help Microsoft supposedly improve its competitive position by moving a more powerful Windows to mobile devices. The main reason that Microsoft gives their customers to purchase "Windows 8" as an upgrade is: 'We will not support you if you don't buy it.' For people purchasing a new computer, there's no real choice as those computers will come with Windows 8 and so that's likely to be most of their sales to date. And then, of course, Microsoft also offers "Windows 8" for buyers of mobile devices...a completely different market segment. For those buyers, the main Microsoft sales pitch is 'buy a new device with Win 8 and it will run your old Windows apps such as Office' and give you a powerful Windows desktop on your mobile device.' In that situation, Microsoft is answering a question that no one is asking. All of Microsoft's problems come from one simple thing. Microsoft has not put themselves in their customer's shoes and asked 'what do our customer's want and how can we make our customer's lives better with our products?' Unfortunately for Microsoft, unless you have a monopoly or a state-owned economy, that is the driver for all business.
Lenovo limits your OS choice. Obviously there is a reason...and the likely one is that the OS choices they steer you towards are the ones that have the handy back doors installed for remote monitoring. Isn't that what you would do if you needed to monitor users?
While O2 and N2 don't absorb in the infrared spectrum, they do (like everything) emit in the infrared spectrum. Any H2O or CO2 molecules which absorb infrared radiation (and thereby increase in temperature) will essentially instantaneously collide with far more abundant O2 and N2 molecules and transfer the absorbed energy to them via the collision. As a result of these collisions, the temperature of all of the gases in the upper atmosphere in any particular location will be...the same...and all of those gases will radiate heat into space. TFA, however, is attempting to claim that the upper atmosphere at those altitudes will be...cooler...as a result of the presence of CO2, not warmer and is just one more example of pseudo-scientific nonsense that sputters continuously from the lips of AGW believers. The only things they know with certainty are that CO2 absorbs IR radiation and that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing. All of the rest of their 'knowledge' is...opinion masquerading as fact.
Doesn't anyone in the climate warming business know anything about the basic physics of gases? To paraphrase TFA for brevity: CO2 'collisions' with O2 molecules are exciting the CO2 molecules making them radiate heat??? It is basic physics that ALL gases in the upper atmosphere are constantly colliding at a rate proportional to their temperature and are constantly radiating (and absorbing) photons at frequencies determined by their molecular structure. Both O2 molecules and the very scarce CO2 molecules (and the far more abundant N2 molecules) are continually radiating heat into space. And then we read: "The density of carbon dioxide is too thin above altitudes of about 30 miles for the the molecules to recapture this heat" which is utterly meaningless. The only way that anything about this article makes even a tiny bit of sense is if we assume that the author is attempting to claim that the upper atmosphere is cooler as a result of heat being blocked by carbon dioxide in the lower atmosphere and that is, itself, a ridiculous claim as the planet heat balance between the heat arriving and the heat being radiated is always very nearly in balance or the planet would overheat in a matter of days as a result of the massive amounts of heat arriving and leaving every day. A change in the atmospheric heat flux sufficient to significantly change the temperature of the planet's outer atmosphere on a short term basis is obviously from something other than carbon dioxide and is probably due to a change in solar radiation or a change in interstellar radiation or some other less understood effect.
The problem with Windows 8 is that it isn't the best choice for anything anymore. Want to run old Windows apps? Want to run old games? Want to develop new games (as in TFA)? Want to run current Windows apps? Want a tested, stable Windows platform? Want a minimal hardware Windows platform? Whatever your question, there are better alternatives than Windows 8. Microsoft has really dug themselves into a deep hole at the moment...and the implications for the future are breathtaking.
It was a bad decision to tie the IE web browser function into the Windows operating system. It was a bad decision to fight the anti-monopoly folks when they came calling. It was a bad decision to drag their feet about offering browser alternatives in Windows. And, now, it has been a bad decision by Microsoft to blow off the EU regulators when they were ordered to include browser alternatives. Microsoft was gifted with their Windows monopoly thanks to being in the right place in the right year with the right software. Now, however, the world has moved on and the Windows monopoly is tottering. Microsoft should have just quietly enjoyed their monopoly while planning for its eventual demise rather than attempting to enjoy it in perpetuity. Now, the entire Microsoft 'empire' built on the Windows monopoly is in jeopardy...and the end will probably come much sooner than anyone thinks. It was stupid back a few years to ignore the EU and it is even more stupid now, given the new market realities that Microsoft faces. Microsoft needs new leadership...they need it really soon...and even then it might be too late.
Sure it would be good for them if all of their customers immediately bought new licenses for whatever the latest version is...in this case, 'windows 8.' But...but...but...for businesses those desktop computers are nothing but office equipment, just like the desks and chairs. Replacing 'old' office equipment with 'new' office equipment is expensive and creates major compatibility problems with software, user training, peripherals, support, etc. There is nothing in 'windows 8' which justifies the expense of conversion from Windows XP other than the threat of Microsoft to stop supporting XP and leave their customers adrift. If Microsoft's strategy for selling to corporate customers is to threaten them with pain if they don't migrate, it will certainly fail. Microsoft (or their successor) will need to eventually find ways to provide their corporate customers with what they want rather than trying to force them to accept what Microsoft wants.
Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar company that still depends on the revenue from Office and Windows to keep afloat. They don't have a future if that future depends on selling 'Windows 16' and 'Office 2024.' Even someone dumber than a box of rocks will eventually figure out that it's just software and the most important feature in 'Office 2024' is that it reads the 'new' file format. So...Microsoft has to develop new business doing something other than selling Office and Windows because there will come a day in the not-so-distant future when Office and Windows sales will trickle away to...nothing.
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Converting to digital at CD standard loses nothing you can hear.
You are theoretically right, of course, and I would have agreed in an instant before I had my own listening experience. It all starts with our ears and our brain, though. Those are analog devices. When we take digital data and attempt to simulate analog music you can hear the difference and it is not subtle. Put it on a scope and no doubt the waveform would look right. It should be right. It IS right...but it does not sound the same...and that's all that really matters in the end. The record companies should come out with some sort of analog format for people who want to pay for it. Maybe it could be some sort of chromatically-tinted clear plastic disc. Obviously, however much anyone might like the old analog lp format, there is never going to be any new music released for a technology that consists of dragging a sharp object through a vinyl groove. I bought the old turntable to convert old LPs to digital format but now I don't want to listen to the digital format. Unfortunately, though, no one will sell new needles or cartridges and the LPs will wear out and so...the future is digital rather it's better or not.
I recently obtained an old-fashioned turntable at a garage sale. Playing LP records on that thing makes the music come ALIVE. I am listening to The Band's "The Weight" cut from the Bob Dylan 'Before the Flood' live vinyl LP album and, comparing it with the either the CD or MP3 version is like comparing HDTV with pre-hdtv. The music is so much richer and fills the room. I never realized before what was lost when the switch to CDs was made. So...those downloaded tracks from a P2P source are only offering a fraction of the audio experience that used to be available decades ago...and the music companies are to blame because they must have known at the time what they were doing...selling less for more. Yeah, you couldn't get those LPs for free but then they were actually worth a lot more because they provided a much richer audio experience. The record companies should have worked a lot harder on an analog format rather than the CDA format they ended up with on music cds. Why? Because music is analog and the conversion to a digital format loses something. Hey record companies...here's some free advice. Give the digital files away for free...that's all they are worth...and sell us a new analog format on an optical disc.
Microsoft and their sleazy PR outfit invented 'astroturfing' and used it with great effectiveness to advance their agenda. It's only to be expected, then, that communist governments would turn to astroturfing as a more-effective form of the propaganda they have always relied on as a substitute for truth, honesty, and fairness.
It's inevitable that the game of 'football' is going to have to drastically change its rules to take away the traumatic brain injuries. It will start with high school football, then college, then the NFL. What school district or college can afford lawsuits over that? Maybe it will have to become flag football or, more likely, some sort of hybrid with limited blocking and tackling. Whatever results, though, the Football 2.0 rules will end the present situation where brain injuries are a certainty.
This kind of weapon would be an incredible boost for air defense, at least for close-in ground support and other low-level attacks. It wouldn't do much against artillery shells or naval gunfire. It would also likely allow the development of a laser-based missile defense system far superior to a patriot system. If these things come to pass, the balance of power would shift away from nations with a heavy emphasis on air power (i.e. the U.S. with its aircraft carriers and air force) towards nations with large and mobile ground forces.
Orignally, they started by making world-standard test equipment. Now, that would be Fluke. Later, they provided high-quality 'mini' computer-and-terminal systems to medium-size businesses. That business is long-gone. They used to make high-quality desktop computer systems. Now, they still 'sell' computers but they don't seem to have much to do with the hardware and software but just put the H-P badge on plastic junk. Asus is probably the rough equivalent, now, of what HP used to be in computers. In printers, HP invented 'inkjet' printers but have long-since lost their lead to Canon and Epson. They invented the first 'laserjet' relatively inexpensive desktop laser printer but have lost most of that business as well. So what exactly is HP's business these days? Calculators? I guess they still sell a couple models of those but their products were designed decades ago and are probably pretty much legacy business now. As a company, HP is the victim of years of horrible mismanagement at the top. Even if we assume that they have somehow, against all odds, managed to develop some actual management ability from within, can a company as broken as HP ever recover? The workers jumping to GM are just carving out a little piece of what's left of HP for themselves to preserve their jobs. Can anyone blame them?
The main justification for preferring the metric system over the 'english' system, at least for everyday non-technical use, was that the metric units were generally in multiples of 10 and were therefore easier to mentally manipulate to convert between mass, volume, and length. Now, with digital helpers everywhere, the ease of managing unit conversions is irrelevant and the impetus for changing to the metric system is gone. Moreover, we like the familiarity of our psi, pounds, degrees fahrenheit, miles per gallon, ounces, and teaspoons, etc for everyday use. Scientists and the military switched over to metric units years ago.
People here are saying that weed is better than 'big pharma' drugs. TFA says that weed may cause psychoses. Three quarters of the celebs in Hollywood seem to have 'substance abuse' problems. What no one ever seems to say, though, is 'why do psychoactive drugs...ANY of them?' The chemistry of your brain is complex...incredibly so. Deliberately putting chemical substances in your body to artificially stimulate your nerve endings is nuts. It makes no difference if it is an artificial sweetener, glutamate, weed, meth, acid, coke, heroin, adderall, ritalin, doctor-prescribed psychoactive crap, whatever...it's all the 21st century equivalent of doing brain surgery with a stone knife. Okay, maybe there are a relatively tiny handful of people who have neurological conditions or chronic pain sufficiently-serious enough to justify using some sort of brain crap from their doc. For the rest of you, though, stop putting junk in your body, suck up your physical and psychic 'pain', and start using your brain and body for something useful during the short life that God has given to you on this earth.
He didn't say content creation was flat-out 'impossible' but only that it was painfully difficult in comparison to earlier OS versions.
Basically, he discusses the four c's: control, conveyance, continuity, and context, and gives examples about why all of these are horribly back-leveled from earlier Windows versions. Most damningly, he points to reduced control by the user...which is a trend that seems to have permeated through Windows since Windows 95. He summarizes by referring to someone else who observed that Windows 8 was really designed for content consumption by the user rather than content creation as personal computer devices were originally intended for. Content consumption is probably the main purpose of a tablet but we will still need content creation equipment and Windows 8 appears poorly suited for that, while not offering any alternative due to ending sales of Windows 7. His most damning comment is that Windows 8 is "user hostile." The best thing about his comments is that they will (hopefully) start the discussion about what capabilities need to be retained in future personal computers and future Windows versions.
A lot of comments here are dismissing the entire idea of God but they don't seem to have really wrapped their head around 'God.' Generally, God, as known in the old and new testament, is a being...a force...a 'father' who transcends the world and the entire universe and has existed forever and will always exist. God created everything that we see including all of the laws and relationships that define our understanding of 'science.' It is the 'actions' of God that define our understanding of him in the old testament. This is the God who delivered miraculous military victories in the face of overwhelming enemies, who caused bushes to burn but not be consumed, who delivered plagues and pestilence upon enemies, who parted the sea allowing escape, and who fed a people wandering in the desert, gave them a code to live by, and provided a new land for them to live in. We can dismiss all of these events as 'fables', secure in our scientific understanding that tells us such things are 'impossible' but we cannot deny that these events were very real to people who claimed to have experienced them. Similarly, there was a man who lived in what is now Israel approximately 2,000 years ago and performed a variety of miraculous actions before returning to life following a cruel execution. We cannot deny that the events that occurred 2,000 years ago were so amazing to the people who experienced them that their lives were transformed forever and they began living according to a new 'code' that has persisted to the present and is, coincidentally, the basis for most of our current civilization and law. Finally, we cannot deny that a significant portion of the entire population of the world believes in the principles taught by that man and follows them in their daily lives. So those dusty scrolls from 2200 to 1900 years ago, found in those old caves, represent documents produced during a time of religious ferment and upheaval. We are no different than those people were. If there were a religious figure today who was giving sight to the blind, curing uncurable diseases, causing paraplegics to give up their wheelchairs, changing water into wine, multiplying food at the local Safeway by 1000x, teaching us to love others, and then returning to life to walk among us after being beheaded by evildoers, we would be just as impressed as those people were then. Of course, those who were not actually present would be just a little skeptical and their descendants even more so...but, with the power of God, they would recognize the truth for what it was...and so do we.
Glutamate has become very common in all sorts of pre-cooked prepared foods...everything from canned soup to rice-a-roni mixes. It's usually added as something called "MSG" or monosodium glutamate although it is also often added under names such as 'hydrolyzed protein,' 'autolyzed protein,' 'sodium caseinate,' 'autolyzed yeast,' or 'yeast extract.' Food manufacturers have found that adding MSG has a powerful on flavor and makes consumers more likely to 'like' the food and consume greater quantities. A more scientific name for 'glutamate' is 'glutamic acid' and it is a common amino acid found in protein. Food manufacturers have argued successfully for years that since it is an amino acid found in protein, there should be no restrictions on its use. However, as TFA discusses, the quantity of glutamic acid consumed DOES matter and artificially spiking a variety of food with it to make the food taste better may be causing a lot of suicides. Perhaps the school shooter in Connecticut was a heavy consumer of something spiked with MSG such as, for example, many (although not all) varieties of potato chips.
They look pretty good when the grid is dead, snow is falling, the indoor temperature is 42F, and the sun barely rises above the horizon for about 6 hours in every 24 and can't be seen anyway through the clouds. Another thing that looks pretty good is the smelly and dangerous liquid that those dirty, noisy, and expensive devices like to drink.
Built-in assumptions of the 'just say no to college' philosophy:
a) the goal of life is to accumulate wealth
b) the only benefit of college education is to obtain training to achieve goal a)
c) training alternatives to 'college' (online, self-study, internship, etc) are cheaper, quicker, and more focused
d) Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have 'proved' the validity of a), b), and c)
But...young skywalker...what if a) is wrong? In that case, b), c) and, consequently, d) are also wrong. If you actually complete a college education at an accredited institution, most will compel you to take 'training' in a wide variety of areas, will force you to test your ideas with many other people, and...most importantly, will instill in you the idea that the acquisition of knowledge is a lifelong activity that has many benefits outside of a). As a consequence, most bright people who 'graduate' from college, leave with more well-developed goals and philosophy than a) above. College graduates are much more likely to cheerfully seek instruction in new areas during their later lives that do not offer the potential for large financial gain such as, for example, something like art history. And, of course, there are outliers like bill gates or steve jobs but, in general, studies have shown that college graduates accumulate more wealth than non-graduates even if it is not always intended.
10. "You don't have Flash 10.7 installed and need to upgrade to Flash 10.7" when you're running Flash 11.x
9. Embedded ads
8. 'special' video players (I'm looking at you ABC)
7. Video freeze during play due to lack of server response
6. Sound but no video
5. Video but no sound
4. Incompatible video formats
3. Video resolution inappropriate to the method of delivery...either way too high or way too low
2. Websites that insist on posting useless bandwidth-hogging 'talking head' videos rather than posting a simple photo and a text summary.
1. Digital Rights Management and all its limitations
The anandtech wii u teardown included running the SunSpider javascript benchmark. For comparison, the Wii U scored 2581 while an Iphone 5 scored 908. My Pentium M 1.6 Ghz laptop (the original Xbox used a Pentium 3 at 1 Ghz) scores 719 so the Wii U cpu looks to be about 3.5x more powerful than the 1.6 Ghz Pentium M. All of the "Wii U has a slow CPU" might be just FUD at this point.
Normally, when a business offers a 'new and improved' product as an 'upgrade,' the product has been improved sufficiently to make the consumer want to purchase it. However, in the case of Windows 8, the changes are all to help Microsoft supposedly improve its competitive position by moving a more powerful Windows to mobile devices. The main reason that Microsoft gives their customers to purchase "Windows 8" as an upgrade is: 'We will not support you if you don't buy it.' For people purchasing a new computer, there's no real choice as those computers will come with Windows 8 and so that's likely to be most of their sales to date. And then, of course, Microsoft also offers "Windows 8" for buyers of mobile devices...a completely different market segment. For those buyers, the main Microsoft sales pitch is 'buy a new device with Win 8 and it will run your old Windows apps such as Office' and give you a powerful Windows desktop on your mobile device.' In that situation, Microsoft is answering a question that no one is asking. All of Microsoft's problems come from one simple thing. Microsoft has not put themselves in their customer's shoes and asked 'what do our customer's want and how can we make our customer's lives better with our products?' Unfortunately for Microsoft, unless you have a monopoly or a state-owned economy, that is the driver for all business.
Lenovo limits your OS choice. Obviously there is a reason...and the likely one is that the OS choices they steer you towards are the ones that have the handy back doors installed for remote monitoring. Isn't that what you would do if you needed to monitor users?
While O2 and N2 don't absorb in the infrared spectrum, they do (like everything) emit in the infrared spectrum. Any H2O or CO2 molecules which absorb infrared radiation (and thereby increase in temperature) will essentially instantaneously collide with far more abundant O2 and N2 molecules and transfer the absorbed energy to them via the collision. As a result of these collisions, the temperature of all of the gases in the upper atmosphere in any particular location will be...the same...and all of those gases will radiate heat into space. TFA, however, is attempting to claim that the upper atmosphere at those altitudes will be...cooler...as a result of the presence of CO2, not warmer and is just one more example of pseudo-scientific nonsense that sputters continuously from the lips of AGW believers. The only things they know with certainty are that CO2 absorbs IR radiation and that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing. All of the rest of their 'knowledge' is...opinion masquerading as fact.
Doesn't anyone in the climate warming business know anything about the basic physics of gases? To paraphrase TFA for brevity: CO2 'collisions' with O2 molecules are exciting the CO2 molecules making them radiate heat??? It is basic physics that ALL gases in the upper atmosphere are constantly colliding at a rate proportional to their temperature and are constantly radiating (and absorbing) photons at frequencies determined by their molecular structure. Both O2 molecules and the very scarce CO2 molecules (and the far more abundant N2 molecules) are continually radiating heat into space. And then we read: "The density of carbon dioxide is too thin above altitudes of about 30 miles for the the molecules to recapture this heat" which is utterly meaningless. The only way that anything about this article makes even a tiny bit of sense is if we assume that the author is attempting to claim that the upper atmosphere is cooler as a result of heat being blocked by carbon dioxide in the lower atmosphere and that is, itself, a ridiculous claim as the planet heat balance between the heat arriving and the heat being radiated is always very nearly in balance or the planet would overheat in a matter of days as a result of the massive amounts of heat arriving and leaving every day. A change in the atmospheric heat flux sufficient to significantly change the temperature of the planet's outer atmosphere on a short term basis is obviously from something other than carbon dioxide and is probably due to a change in solar radiation or a change in interstellar radiation or some other less understood effect.
The problem with Windows 8 is that it isn't the best choice for anything anymore. Want to run old Windows apps? Want to run old games? Want to develop new games (as in TFA)? Want to run current Windows apps? Want a tested, stable Windows platform? Want a minimal hardware Windows platform? Whatever your question, there are better alternatives than Windows 8. Microsoft has really dug themselves into a deep hole at the moment...and the implications for the future are breathtaking.
It was a bad decision to tie the IE web browser function into the Windows operating system. It was a bad decision to fight the anti-monopoly folks when they came calling. It was a bad decision to drag their feet about offering browser alternatives in Windows. And, now, it has been a bad decision by Microsoft to blow off the EU regulators when they were ordered to include browser alternatives. Microsoft was gifted with their Windows monopoly thanks to being in the right place in the right year with the right software. Now, however, the world has moved on and the Windows monopoly is tottering. Microsoft should have just quietly enjoyed their monopoly while planning for its eventual demise rather than attempting to enjoy it in perpetuity. Now, the entire Microsoft 'empire' built on the Windows monopoly is in jeopardy...and the end will probably come much sooner than anyone thinks. It was stupid back a few years to ignore the EU and it is even more stupid now, given the new market realities that Microsoft faces. Microsoft needs new leadership...they need it really soon...and even then it might be too late.
Sure it would be good for them if all of their customers immediately bought new licenses for whatever the latest version is...in this case, 'windows 8.' But...but...but...for businesses those desktop computers are nothing but office equipment, just like the desks and chairs. Replacing 'old' office equipment with 'new' office equipment is expensive and creates major compatibility problems with software, user training, peripherals, support, etc. There is nothing in 'windows 8' which justifies the expense of conversion from Windows XP other than the threat of Microsoft to stop supporting XP and leave their customers adrift. If Microsoft's strategy for selling to corporate customers is to threaten them with pain if they don't migrate, it will certainly fail. Microsoft (or their successor) will need to eventually find ways to provide their corporate customers with what they want rather than trying to force them to accept what Microsoft wants.
The skyhook was used in the 1968 John Wayne movie "The Green Berets." I think they used it to skyhook a communist agent that they had captured.
Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar company that still depends on the revenue from Office and Windows to keep afloat. They don't have a future if that future depends on selling 'Windows 16' and 'Office 2024.' Even someone dumber than a box of rocks will eventually figure out that it's just software and the most important feature in 'Office 2024' is that it reads the 'new' file format. So...Microsoft has to develop new business doing something other than selling Office and Windows because there will come a day in the not-so-distant future when Office and Windows sales will trickle away to...nothing.