There are so many populated areas of the world that do not have any strategic values or counties which are not aligned with the waring parties enough to deal with the expense of attacking.
Even in the US in areas with low population. Make nearly no sence to drop a bomb on a mid western ranchs covering hundreds of miles. Sure Cities are targets but to blanket the entire world even if you have the means wouldn't make sence.
Even with the greats, there is a lot of subjective views on it. Sometimes such flicks are popular due to lowbrow reasons. Frankenstein popularity while may be a classic story, its success carries on from the movie adaptation. Also some genius Science Fiction has passed away threw the years, because modern sensibilities had made such stories obsolete. While other unpopular stories of the time, my get renewed attention as such stories may be ahead of its time.
There are a lot of factors that can become a classic. If it were so mechanical that a computer could figure it out, you would think writers would figure out the formula and use it in their stories, if they did, then the stories they produce would be too formulaic and relegated as cheap knockoff.
The thing is a Gun designed for self defense needs to be designed in hopes that you will never need to use it. But if you do it will function as needed. Smart Guns makes sense in theory, but if the battery dies because such a gun had been sitting idle for months or years. Or your "Mechanical Logic" which would mean either a large weapon, or a lot of fine tuning to make an unpredictable gun.
Controlling gun violence in't an easy fix where a few laws solve all the problems. 1. Gun usage and safety education is necessary. Teach this stuff in schools. If a child learns to respect the gun at an early age, there is less of a chance of them being irresponsible with the weapon when they are in their teens and early adult where their judgement centers are in flux. 2. Insuring that irresponsible people do not have guns. Punishment for irresponsible gun usage.
Those who live in cities or suburban areas see guns as a weapon. Those who live in more rural areas see guns as tools.
Well with the current situation, anything meaningful will not be passed. The Senate has a Republican Majority of 4 additional The House of Representatives has Republican Majority of 59 The Supreme Court of the United States is currently evenly split The Executive Branch is Democrat.
The republicans big thing right now is limited government so they will not be passing any laws of consequence. Especially sense the president takes reward of any positive changes, and they want to control the Executive branch so they can put in a Republican in the Supreme court and have control of the the process to push their agenda. Now the democrats want their side to be in full control too, so I am not complaining about that. However the problem is that because the republicans limited government agenda means they just have to block laws from getting created vs actually voting on them. So they had hacked the political process to their advantage.
Well being the first Heart Transplant was 50 years ago. A hundred years ago such a procedure would be considered extremely unethical, treatments would be finding ways to keep the bad heart working.
I am more curious on the long term effects vs. the procedure.
Our health and state of being is beyond just our brain. How we feel and experience the world is based on what our body translates as well. If you are feeling nervous stomach medicine can help that. Because when we feel nervous we send signals to our body and the sensation feedbacks to itself.
So getting a new body how much would that change the man?
"It has economic and scientific value to professional scientists although no value for laypersons." Who are these laypersons? Is there a certified scientist label that you can get? I have a bachelor in science as one of my degrees is that good enough? Do I need to stay in academia to be one of those scientists where such papers have values? Or can I be a person interested in a topic and would like to dig further to expand my own knowledge? Or am I forced to the depth of Wikipedia because I am not a real Scientist?
Science should be more acceptable and it doesn't need to be dumbed down. Normal Scientific journalism confusing a hypothesis and a theory all the time, jumping to conclusions or oversimplifying statements. If a topic is interesting enough, it would be nice for me to dig past all the media hype and look at the real findings.
But because I am not a real Scientist (Having to turn in my Science Card when i got a MBA) I should have to just be dumb to science and just trust those real guys at their words, without me having any understanding.
Well if your pirate radio station is interfering with other stations and an emergency happened, you would have blocked important emergency information.
Also such bandwidth could be reserved for a new station.
We westerns had been eating processed foods for centuries as well. Pickling, Smoking, Dehydrating, Salting, Fermenting.... However for westerners as well obesity is also still a rather modern problem.
The issue I expect is beyond food. But lack of exercise. Kids use to run around town and play, then stranger danger happened and parents tried keeping their kids closely monitored. So they couldn't run around as much, turn to TV, and Video Games to keep themselves entertained. Then this form of entertainment become common so the kids really don't want to play outside.
I expect modernization of China is creating additional fear in the general public so children are pushed to follow the passive good child behavior. Which also equates to less exercise.
iTunes was one of the first software that was music industry approved. I am willing to bet there were a lot of compromises that Apple needed to do to get their approval. Now the industry is more tolerant, so other brands can make better software. However apple being first needs to keep compatibility, perhaps follow long term contractual agreements. And keep backwards compatibility, and designed to run on multiple platforms.
Design by committee. An attempt to cover all cases in one protocol = one bad protocol.
This complexity is part of the problem of not getting more secure systems. Because the business makers ask if this or that has the feature that the other has. And you will say No it doesn't it gets nixed. Even if you never ever use such feature.
The cloth bag got you dirty because most of the material stuck to the bag. On the Bagless systems it is contained in a hard plastic shell. That slides out without the need of a bunch of shaking.
"I had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for about a week before I threw it in the trash." Sounds rather wasteful. Perhaps you should have returned it to the store it should be under warranty. There are the occasional faulty product. Or you could had sold it with eBay or Craigslist?
I have one and no complains. It is the longest lasting vacuum that I owned so far.
Or don't be late. You can decide to have some basic courtesy towards these people who are trying to make a living with this. We all now have phones that are accurate within a couple seconds to each other. You shouldn't need to be late. If you are then it is because you are just not being courteous to other needs.
Does it Insure? No but capitalism is a big motivator. The ability to change your social status by offering goods and services that the community wants. Or inventing a new good or service that will allow you to change your status better due to its advantages.
The problem isn't capitalism, but the general depression of the population. Expensive collange loans, lack of affordable housing, lack of public transportation which force grads to take safe lower paying jobs as to avoid going further in debt. As the risk of starting your own enterprise is high, and getting low credit ratings at a young age will affect you for life. Also with technology they are these gaps in the corporate ladder. The old days, it was common for someone to start in the mail room, delivering mail to all the people, talking to them picking up skills and personal relationships which allows them to move to different units in the organization and work up the ladder. However email stop that mail room position, also a lot of starting jobs in particular units have been replaced by automation. So companies are looking for people with experience not for someone to do a bunch of legwork that builds experience. The cost of failure had risen, we need to lower the cost of failure to allow capitalism to work.
What is rejected? The concept of capitalism or the idea pushed from some political parties. Much like "Patriotism" do you need to be an American flag waving, car stuck with yellow ribbons to be a patriot? Or can you be a Patriot by concerning yourself with identifying the current problems and challenges in our government and work to fix them to help improve our nation for the long term?
Or Religion? Are they those guys who knock on your door and tell you that you are going to go to hell because of your modern lifestyle. Or faith based institutions who reach out the public and offer charity and services to the community and offer teachings of tolerance and understanding?
Capitalism had became one of these politicized words. For the most part it does more good than harm. However there should be regulations to minimize its harmful elements (Preventing the sale of harmful goods, insuring that monopolies don't form, ensuring that trade is being conducted fairly...) Capitalism isn't buyer beware consumerism. But allowing freedom to sell/trade goods and services with its value based on the supply and demand of such products and services. For example Communist Soviet Union had a problem shortages of common items, because the government was trying to filter out what it thought the people needed and not actually what the people really wanted. So some days the store may be overstocked with cooking oil while the next day it may have bread. While the demand for bread was much higher then cooking oil, it was treated equally thus creating a shortage in bread, causing the infamous bread lines.
HP and Lenovo: Boring professional line up. Sure they made consumer apps, but that isn't their main brand. Asus and Acer: The new Compaq and Packard Bell not known for innovation but affordable systems Dell and Gateway: Their MoJo was when they mode quality systems. Then their popularity caused them to cost costs to make cheaper desktops.
Desktops and Laptops have been boring for a while. But to contradict my statement some devices like the Lenovo Yoga had got some buzz and excitement, not Apple release level.
However, lately for the past 5 years or so. Apple made it to #1 and have started to play it safe. Really avoiding big new product releases. And just giving boring incremental updates.
I had quite a hard time following why Apple is outdated, because of individual apps. Did he find a way to SECURELY have apps communicate with each other, without allowing rogue apps to mess with their phone?
Not to sound like an Apple Fan Boy but Apple had a rather good (Not Perfect) security record with the iPhone and Apps. But there hasn't been too many wide scale problems much like how we have with PC's. A big part of this is the isolated infrastructure of the apps.
Most cloud systems have an Open Source back end. I don't think it is a response to it. It is more due to the fact that it is cheaper to get faster network connections than cheaper hardware.
back in the 1980s a million dollar mainframe could handle about a thousand users, and dumb terminals with 9600bps serial connections to dumb terminal costing about a grand were cheaper than giving thousand people PC's for $5,000 (that price allowed them to be powerful enough to handle the work). In the 1990's PC prices for good enough systems fell within the $2,000 range. Making it cheaper for people to have PC's to do their work, perhaps connecting to $100,000 servers, over 10mbs network. In the 2000's the rise of PC hardware servers with cheaper OS (Linux/Windows) with the combination of Internet speeds well above 5mbs allowed for more work to go the servers again. 2010's Mobile devices with low power and network speeds over 10mbs and still the cheaper servers now setup with a Cloud configuration to better handle utilization made most of the processing back on the server.
Just as long as the Web UI loads fast and is easy to use most people are OK with it. Microsoft in general sucks major in making Web Apps, they just don't get it. I actually prefer gmail myself and don't bother with a mail client app.
However if the application doesn't need internet connection we don't necessarily need a web app for it.
Most devices support reading office files by themselves anyways. Office 360 give you the ability to edit those files. Where such office tools were never designed for touchscreen usage. The UI had just been hacked for functionality.
I am not a cloud hater, there are some big advantages to the cloud. However for Office Tools I see no real benefit. Our Computers are fast enough to handle them (even low end devices). Besides Office Tools should be available in an offline mode anyways. Microsoft 360 offers no real benefit to the end user except for Microsoft so people keep paying for the service. Vs. Getting a copy and using it for as long as it will work on their systems. If you want cloud for your office tool. use Google Drive.
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There are so many populated areas of the world that do not have any strategic values or counties which are not aligned with the waring parties enough to deal with the expense of attacking.
Even in the US in areas with low population. Make nearly no sence to drop a bomb on a mid western ranchs covering hundreds of miles.
Sure Cities are targets but to blanket the entire world even if you have the means wouldn't make sence.
Even with the greats, there is a lot of subjective views on it. Sometimes such flicks are popular due to lowbrow reasons. Frankenstein popularity while may be a classic story, its success carries on from the movie adaptation. Also some genius Science Fiction has passed away threw the years, because modern sensibilities had made such stories obsolete. While other unpopular stories of the time, my get renewed attention as such stories may be ahead of its time.
There are a lot of factors that can become a classic. If it were so mechanical that a computer could figure it out, you would think writers would figure out the formula and use it in their stories, if they did, then the stories they produce would be too formulaic and relegated as cheap knockoff.
The thing is a Gun designed for self defense needs to be designed in hopes that you will never need to use it. But if you do it will function as needed.
Smart Guns makes sense in theory, but if the battery dies because such a gun had been sitting idle for months or years. Or your "Mechanical Logic" which would mean either a large weapon, or a lot of fine tuning to make an unpredictable gun.
Controlling gun violence in't an easy fix where a few laws solve all the problems.
1. Gun usage and safety education is necessary. Teach this stuff in schools. If a child learns to respect the gun at an early age, there is less of a chance of them being irresponsible with the weapon when they are in their teens and early adult where their judgement centers are in flux.
2. Insuring that irresponsible people do not have guns. Punishment for irresponsible gun usage.
Those who live in cities or suburban areas see guns as a weapon. Those who live in more rural areas see guns as tools.
Well with the current situation, anything meaningful will not be passed.
The Senate has a Republican Majority of 4 additional
The House of Representatives has Republican Majority of 59
The Supreme Court of the United States is currently evenly split
The Executive Branch is Democrat.
The republicans big thing right now is limited government so they will not be passing any laws of consequence. Especially sense the president takes reward of any positive changes, and they want to control the Executive branch so they can put in a Republican in the Supreme court and have control of the the process to push their agenda. Now the democrats want their side to be in full control too, so I am not complaining about that.
However the problem is that because the republicans limited government agenda means they just have to block laws from getting created vs actually voting on them. So they had hacked the political process to their advantage.
If you keep the CPU and motherboard but add more ram and a better video card and a new case?
Well being the first Heart Transplant was 50 years ago. A hundred years ago such a procedure would be considered extremely unethical, treatments would be finding ways to keep the bad heart working.
I am more curious on the long term effects vs. the procedure.
Our health and state of being is beyond just our brain. How we feel and experience the world is based on what our body translates as well. If you are feeling nervous stomach medicine can help that. Because when we feel nervous we send signals to our body and the sensation feedbacks to itself.
So getting a new body how much would that change the man?
"It has economic and scientific value to professional scientists although no value for laypersons."
Who are these laypersons? Is there a certified scientist label that you can get? I have a bachelor in science as one of my degrees is that good enough?
Do I need to stay in academia to be one of those scientists where such papers have values?
Or can I be a person interested in a topic and would like to dig further to expand my own knowledge? Or am I forced to the depth of Wikipedia because I am not a real Scientist?
Science should be more acceptable and it doesn't need to be dumbed down. Normal Scientific journalism confusing a hypothesis and a theory all the time, jumping to conclusions or oversimplifying statements. If a topic is interesting enough, it would be nice for me to dig past all the media hype and look at the real findings.
But because I am not a real Scientist (Having to turn in my Science Card when i got a MBA) I should have to just be dumb to science and just trust those real guys at their words, without me having any understanding.
Well if your pirate radio station is interfering with other stations and an emergency happened, you would have blocked important emergency information.
Also such bandwidth could be reserved for a new station.
We westerns had been eating processed foods for centuries as well. Pickling, Smoking, Dehydrating, Salting, Fermenting.... However for westerners as well obesity is also still a rather modern problem.
The issue I expect is beyond food. But lack of exercise. Kids use to run around town and play, then stranger danger happened and parents tried keeping their kids closely monitored. So they couldn't run around as much, turn to TV, and Video Games to keep themselves entertained. Then this form of entertainment become common so the kids really don't want to play outside.
I expect modernization of China is creating additional fear in the general public so children are pushed to follow the passive good child behavior. Which also equates to less exercise.
iTunes was one of the first software that was music industry approved. I am willing to bet there were a lot of compromises that Apple needed to do to get their approval. Now the industry is more tolerant, so other brands can make better software. However apple being first needs to keep compatibility, perhaps follow long term contractual agreements. And keep backwards compatibility, and designed to run on multiple platforms.
Design by committee.
An attempt to cover all cases in one protocol = one bad protocol.
This complexity is part of the problem of not getting more secure systems. Because the business makers ask if this or that has the feature that the other has. And you will say No it doesn't it gets nixed. Even if you never ever use such feature.
The cloth bag got you dirty because most of the material stuck to the bag.
On the Bagless systems it is contained in a hard plastic shell. That slides out without the need of a bunch of shaking.
"I had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for about a week before I threw it in the trash."
Sounds rather wasteful. Perhaps you should have returned it to the store it should be under warranty. There are the occasional faulty product.
Or you could had sold it with eBay or Craigslist?
I have one and no complains. It is the longest lasting vacuum that I owned so far.
Or don't be late.
You can decide to have some basic courtesy towards these people who are trying to make a living with this. We all now have phones that are accurate within a couple seconds to each other. You shouldn't need to be late. If you are then it is because you are just not being courteous to other needs.
It doesn't need to climb stairs. It levels buildings
Does it Insure? No but capitalism is a big motivator. The ability to change your social status by offering goods and services that the community wants. Or inventing a new good or service that will allow you to change your status better due to its advantages.
The problem isn't capitalism, but the general depression of the population. Expensive collange loans, lack of affordable housing, lack of public transportation which force grads to take safe lower paying jobs as to avoid going further in debt. As the risk of starting your own enterprise is high, and getting low credit ratings at a young age will affect you for life. Also with technology they are these gaps in the corporate ladder. The old days, it was common for someone to start in the mail room, delivering mail to all the people, talking to them picking up skills and personal relationships which allows them to move to different units in the organization and work up the ladder. However email stop that mail room position, also a lot of starting jobs in particular units have been replaced by automation. So companies are looking for people with experience not for someone to do a bunch of legwork that builds experience.
The cost of failure had risen, we need to lower the cost of failure to allow capitalism to work.
What is rejected? The concept of capitalism or the idea pushed from some political parties.
Much like "Patriotism" do you need to be an American flag waving, car stuck with yellow ribbons to be a patriot? Or can you be a Patriot by concerning yourself with identifying the current problems and challenges in our government and work to fix them to help improve our nation for the long term?
Or Religion? Are they those guys who knock on your door and tell you that you are going to go to hell because of your modern lifestyle. Or faith based institutions who reach out the public and offer charity and services to the community and offer teachings of tolerance and understanding?
Capitalism had became one of these politicized words. For the most part it does more good than harm. However there should be regulations to minimize its harmful elements (Preventing the sale of harmful goods, insuring that monopolies don't form, ensuring that trade is being conducted fairly...) Capitalism isn't buyer beware consumerism. But allowing freedom to sell/trade goods and services with its value based on the supply and demand of such products and services. For example Communist Soviet Union had a problem shortages of common items, because the government was trying to filter out what it thought the people needed and not actually what the people really wanted. So some days the store may be overstocked with cooking oil while the next day it may have bread. While the demand for bread was much higher then cooking oil, it was treated equally thus creating a shortage in bread, causing the infamous bread lines.
HP and Lenovo: Boring professional line up. Sure they made consumer apps, but that isn't their main brand.
Asus and Acer: The new Compaq and Packard Bell not known for innovation but affordable systems
Dell and Gateway: Their MoJo was when they mode quality systems. Then their popularity caused them to cost costs to make cheaper desktops.
Desktops and Laptops have been boring for a while. But to contradict my statement some devices like the Lenovo Yoga had got some buzz and excitement, not Apple release level.
However, lately for the past 5 years or so. Apple made it to #1 and have started to play it safe. Really avoiding big new product releases. And just giving boring incremental updates.
I had quite a hard time following why Apple is outdated, because of individual apps. Did he find a way to SECURELY have apps communicate with each other, without allowing rogue apps to mess with their phone?
Not to sound like an Apple Fan Boy but Apple had a rather good (Not Perfect) security record with the iPhone and Apps. But there hasn't been too many wide scale problems much like how we have with PC's. A big part of this is the isolated infrastructure of the apps.
Most cloud systems have an Open Source back end. I don't think it is a response to it. It is more due to the fact that it is cheaper to get faster network connections than cheaper hardware.
back in the 1980s a million dollar mainframe could handle about a thousand users, and dumb terminals with 9600bps serial connections to dumb terminal costing about a grand were cheaper than giving thousand people PC's for $5,000 (that price allowed them to be powerful enough to handle the work).
In the 1990's PC prices for good enough systems fell within the $2,000 range. Making it cheaper for people to have PC's to do their work, perhaps connecting to $100,000 servers, over 10mbs network.
In the 2000's the rise of PC hardware servers with cheaper OS (Linux/Windows) with the combination of Internet speeds well above 5mbs allowed for more work to go the servers again.
2010's Mobile devices with low power and network speeds over 10mbs and still the cheaper servers now setup with a Cloud configuration to better handle utilization made most of the processing back on the server.
Just as long as the Web UI loads fast and is easy to use most people are OK with it.
Microsoft in general sucks major in making Web Apps, they just don't get it. I actually prefer gmail myself and don't bother with a mail client app.
However if the application doesn't need internet connection we don't necessarily need a web app for it.
Most devices support reading office files by themselves anyways. Office 360 give you the ability to edit those files. Where such office tools were never designed for touchscreen usage. The UI had just been hacked for functionality.
I am not a cloud hater, there are some big advantages to the cloud. However for Office Tools I see no real benefit.
Our Computers are fast enough to handle them (even low end devices). Besides Office Tools should be available in an offline mode anyways.
Microsoft 360 offers no real benefit to the end user except for Microsoft so people keep paying for the service. Vs. Getting a copy and using it for as long as it will work on their systems.
If you want cloud for your office tool. use Google Drive.