So where is all the science that shows that fracking normally hurts the drinking water supply. Yes put regulations on it. If they do make a mistake they should make sure they pay for alternate water supply to the homes, however if fracking is as safe as it says it is, they shouldn't have a problem covering these cases of accidents.
Yes, because there man hours needed to be put into this. Even if they are volunteers they could be working on doing something else that may have saved them money.
Because it has a head and Angry eyebrows, and glowing yellow eyes. Why build a machine that can be considered a tool to make your life easier, when you can build a robot that does the same thing and look like it will overthrow you during the next uprising.
Crowdsourcing is a good brain storming method. However for the bombings there isn't really that much brain storming needed, we see all the people each one could have done it. So the Crowdsourcing would just filter out the easily dismissed people. But so can a small team of trained people. As for really pinpointing to a person. The Crowd isn't going to work too well. A lot of them will focus on stereotypes, or people they have in mind and just focus on that person looking for something slightly suspicious about them.
Microsoft dropped the ball on 64bit, Linux does too, however because most Linux tools are open source they can just be recompiled, so it isn't as big of an issue. However compared to Solaris and Apple Implementation from 32bit to 64Bit, the PC transition is very sloppy.
We have Windows 32bit and 64bit. You would expect if you have a 64bit Computer that getting the 64bit OS would be the best choice. No not really, there are too many (Not most, but a lot of them) 32bit apps out there that just will not work, or if you need to have them talk across each other you get more issues. I though.NET would have worked on helping resolve the issue 10 years ago, why else would we have a development platform that compiles to run as slow as Java but only works for Windows, I figured it would be for an easy transition to 64bit systems. No.NET doesn't even do that too well.
Sure the old 16bit apps for Windows 3.1 have finally died, I can get over that, but if you have Office 2007 and Office 2010 apps installed on the same system, you can get into trouble with some other tools that integrate with them.
Working with Solaris during this transition a few years earlier, it was seamless apps worked as designed and we weren't fighting 32bit vs 64bit. Apple too made it transparent. But Microsoft really dropped the ball, they could have allowed the move to 64bit happen much earlier, but they were too busy fighting Linux and Apple and Google vs trying to make this migration easier.
So an organization who asks for donations, waste their money changing Database systems for the sole purpose that they didn't like the company that bought the old one, although they didn't show any signs that they are going to damage the product or make it worse for them in any ways? Sounds like a wast of donated money to me.
Well going back to the originals they were good ones and bad ones. The problem is when they come back we have a time cut off so we can compare against. However a few sharks have been jumped, such as the Fry and Lilia Relationship. But the biggest problem I see is the big attempt to follow consistency across each episode, Sure it is nice to give homage, however it is limiting what they can do each episode.
Intelligence was invented by man, as a way to make them seem better then other animals in the world. Then we further classified it down so we can rank people.
So it isn't surprising if we want to find intelligent life outside of earth, then we need to change the rules again, as well we need to change the rules of what intelligence is by the fact we have created technology that emulates or exceeds us in many areas we use to classify intelligence.
Intelligence is a man made measurement, I expect it will always be in flux. However you shouldn't dismiss or automatically accept as good ideas just because someone number that was granted by a fluctuating scale.
So you choose to disbelieve in the idea of God, because your limited view on religions, doesn't align with your moral value. A typical straw-man argument from atheist.
Religions are a philosophy to try to understand God. All religions can be wrong, but still have a God. There is no solid proof the God does or doesn't exist. God can just be a human made construct to make us feel less isolated in the universe, and as a way to deal with some of the randomness in the universe. Or God can exist outside nature, thus undetectable by scientific methods, the only evidence of its existence is a desire to find it.
If you are an Atheist I am cool with that. However stop acting just as bad the evangelicals and trying to convert everyone to your way, with bad argument to counter the other sides bad arguments to make you seem like you are that much smarter then the guy who decides to believe in God.
When doing proper science God is not a variable, and it shouldn't be, otherwise it is just a lame shortcut to doing real science. But because we shouldn't use God as a variable it doesn't mean that it really is one or not, but if you come to that conclusion you will just need to dig further.
Actually if you get a mortgage at a low rate and invest the rest of your money over the 30 years you would have made more money then if you were just buy the house, and invest your existing money.
The problem with digital distribution is that it can be copied, saved and exactly duplicated many many times, all with equipment that the average citizen owns. This is brand new in our history.
Books needed expensive presses, Audio and video needed expensive tools to make audio media. Consumers tools to copy such information used analog copies, which means every copy of a copy degraded. So getting such media was priced based on Supply and Demand. Now with digital media, supply is so high that the price has dropped to near 0, however the cost to make it hasn't dropped that much. Any company that wants to stay in business will need to make money off their products, we tried selling at a loss in the 1990's and that didn't work.
So we have the following options to help pay for the content. DRM: Think of this as a way to limit supply. It is an artificial limit, but it makes sure that content providers can keep prices high enough to make money. Advertising: This is an attempt to keep supply high, however advertisers who are selling more tangible products will pay for time to be viewed with your content. Public Support: Donations, Grants; this works if you offer what a lot of people want and if you loose it it will be a big loss.
All content will not work well with Public Support, sometimes your media information value isn't realized for years after it has been released. Or it may of value, however there is enough alternatives, or other more worthy projects that will get the funding. Are you really going to donate to NPR, PBS, Every Open Source product you find useful? No you will free load on some perhaps pay some to others, often you will donate much less then the value it provides to you.
Yea we live in an imperfect world, it sucks, instead of complaining about the problems, try to come up with a good solution to it, that will work both for the consumer and the content providers. If you go consumer only, the content provider will not or can not give you the content. If you just go Convent provider only, things will be needlessly expensive, and the consumer will get screwed.
If you are going to be about non DRM and Open Source software, you better be just as strong against media piracy. Because if you want your license to be expanded and respected, you better respect the other licenses.
I doubt it. If they fire first they become the bad guy, if we fire first then we are the bad guy. China is the key. If North Korea fires first China will be much less supportive then if we fired first.
If you do work in the Union Shop everything is followed by the letter. So you the worker will get in trouble if you take a 61 minute lunch vs a 60 minute. While in most union shops they are usually not so petty about the details. They could but they would be wasting money on enforcing every little thing.
Companies have a simple Agenda and people will tend to read too much in it. Apples Goal is to make money. There are different ways to make money. Some companies make money by serving the niche markets other make money selling general products. Apple is the later.
Why does Apple choose to censor their Apps? Well to make money, If they allow images that the general population recognizes as inappropriate then it will get a recognition as being a source, and those rich parents will not get their kids an apple product as it may be too easy for them to get filth on. So the parents will not give them such a tool.
If American culture changes its views on what is acceptable, so will Apple change its policies. The only Agenda apple wants is to make a boat load of money.
NO! Scientist publish in these to help themselves, in the process they hurt overall science.
A shoplifter doesn't shoplift to try to close down the business, they shoplift because they want the goods it provides.
If a scientist has initial findings that may support an idea that is in contrary to the standard rule, they may publish it, and the hack journals will be the only ones to take it. Without peer review it is hard to really look at everything.
Publish or parish. That the accedemic motto. However a lot of science needs a lot of time to complete. However they are pressured to publish, in order to keep funding. Real journals are about real science, but those fake ones are so the can blabber about some stuff to get published, add it to their site and get back to work.
Your profession in life doesn't mean you are of a higher moral caliber. A scientist will hurt the rest of science so they just work on their stuff, they will lie cheat and steal to get what they want. Just like the rest of humanity you have good eggs and bad eggs and usually their motives are complex and hard to pass easy moral judgement on. The way to curve bad behavior is to constantly work on adjusting the culture to prevent people from manipulating the system.
Technically I am more of the old school definition of Hacker. And these criminals are actually crackers, and deserve to be punched in the face.
Oh all high and mighty Hacker, who broke into a website, made by some guy on a tight deadline, or is probably their first programming job. By using a SQL injection attack. How 7337 are they. By copying and pasting you have shown yourself to be some real computer wiz.
Sorry. I have no respect for these people. They just make the world a tougher place to live. Imagine how fast computers will be without layers of security to prevent people in breaking into their systems. But there are so many people who idealize these jerks think they are something special.
The games of old, we look back on when we were in our pre-teen to early adult years have a special place in our heart. These adventure games are the first few games that you have won and it was a hard win to have won. My nostalgia was more towards Sierra Online Adventures, but the premise is the same. You spend hours as there wasn't easy access to the internet to give you a hint. The excitement every time you were able to get to a new screen, as you are about to face a new challenge. Then you get older, you have real challenges in your life, and the new games just don't spark that kind wonderment. It isn't that the new games are any better or worse, but when you were a kid, things are new.
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So where is all the science that shows that fracking normally hurts the drinking water supply.
Yes put regulations on it. If they do make a mistake they should make sure they pay for alternate water supply to the homes, however if fracking is as safe as it says it is, they shouldn't have a problem covering these cases of accidents.
Yes, because there man hours needed to be put into this. Even if they are volunteers they could be working on doing something else that may have saved them money.
Because it has a head and Angry eyebrows, and glowing yellow eyes. Why build a machine that can be considered a tool to make your life easier, when you can build a robot that does the same thing and look like it will overthrow you during the next uprising.
Crowdsourcing is a good brain storming method. However for the bombings there isn't really that much brain storming needed, we see all the people each one could have done it. So the Crowdsourcing would just filter out the easily dismissed people. But so can a small team of trained people. As for really pinpointing to a person. The Crowd isn't going to work too well. A lot of them will focus on stereotypes, or people they have in mind and just focus on that person looking for something slightly suspicious about them.
If they have a good technical reason, or support reason, sure... But just because they are like Ohhh Oracle is Bad, I better switch, is just stupid.
Microsoft dropped the ball on 64bit, Linux does too, however because most Linux tools are open source they can just be recompiled, so it isn't as big of an issue.
However compared to Solaris and Apple Implementation from 32bit to 64Bit, the PC transition is very sloppy.
We have Windows 32bit and 64bit. You would expect if you have a 64bit Computer that getting the 64bit OS would be the best choice. No not really, there are too many (Not most, but a lot of them) 32bit apps out there that just will not work, or if you need to have them talk across each other you get more issues. .NET would have worked on helping resolve the issue 10 years ago, why else would we have a development platform that compiles to run as slow as Java but only works for Windows, I figured it would be for an easy transition to 64bit systems. No .NET doesn't even do that too well.
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Sure the old 16bit apps for Windows 3.1 have finally died, I can get over that, but if you have Office 2007 and Office 2010 apps installed on the same system, you can get into trouble with some other tools that integrate with them.
Working with Solaris during this transition a few years earlier, it was seamless apps worked as designed and we weren't fighting 32bit vs 64bit. Apple too made it transparent. But Microsoft really dropped the ball, they could have allowed the move to 64bit happen much earlier, but they were too busy fighting Linux and Apple and Google vs trying to make this migration easier.
So an organization who asks for donations, waste their money changing Database systems for the sole purpose that they didn't like the company that bought the old one, although they didn't show any signs that they are going to damage the product or make it worse for them in any ways? Sounds like a wast of donated money to me.
Well going back to the originals they were good ones and bad ones. The problem is when they come back we have a time cut off so we can compare against.
However a few sharks have been jumped, such as the Fry and Lilia Relationship. But the biggest problem I see is the big attempt to follow consistency across each episode, Sure it is nice to give homage, however it is limiting what they can do each episode.
A criminal organization, now creating a money trail to follow. Anyone who gets put in jail from this deserves it because they are idiots.
True,
But some concepts are based on more solid definitions. Where we can measure it the same way every time to make the definition.
Intelligence was invented by man, as a way to make them seem better then other animals in the world.
Then we further classified it down so we can rank people.
So it isn't surprising if we want to find intelligent life outside of earth, then we need to change the rules again, as well we need to change the rules of what intelligence is by the fact we have created technology that emulates or exceeds us in many areas we use to classify intelligence.
Intelligence is a man made measurement, I expect it will always be in flux. However you shouldn't dismiss or automatically accept as good ideas just because someone number that was granted by a fluctuating scale.
So you choose to disbelieve in the idea of God, because your limited view on religions, doesn't align with your moral value.
A typical straw-man argument from atheist.
Religions are a philosophy to try to understand God. All religions can be wrong, but still have a God.
There is no solid proof the God does or doesn't exist. God can just be a human made construct to make us feel less isolated in the universe, and as a way to deal with some of the randomness in the universe. Or God can exist outside nature, thus undetectable by scientific methods, the only evidence of its existence is a desire to find it.
If you are an Atheist I am cool with that. However stop acting just as bad the evangelicals and trying to convert everyone to your way, with bad argument to counter the other sides bad arguments to make you seem like you are that much smarter then the guy who decides to believe in God.
When doing proper science God is not a variable, and it shouldn't be, otherwise it is just a lame shortcut to doing real science.
But because we shouldn't use God as a variable it doesn't mean that it really is one or not, but if you come to that conclusion you will just need to dig further.
Actually if you get a mortgage at a low rate and invest the rest of your money over the 30 years you would have made more money then if you were just buy the house, and invest your existing money.
Not having DRM will make that much worse.
The problem with digital distribution is that it can be copied, saved and exactly duplicated many many times, all with equipment that the average citizen owns.
This is brand new in our history.
Books needed expensive presses, Audio and video needed expensive tools to make audio media. Consumers tools to copy such information used analog copies, which means every copy of a copy degraded. So getting such media was priced based on Supply and Demand. Now with digital media, supply is so high that the price has dropped to near 0, however the cost to make it hasn't dropped that much. Any company that wants to stay in business will need to make money off their products, we tried selling at a loss in the 1990's and that didn't work.
So we have the following options to help pay for the content.
DRM: Think of this as a way to limit supply. It is an artificial limit, but it makes sure that content providers can keep prices high enough to make money.
Advertising: This is an attempt to keep supply high, however advertisers who are selling more tangible products will pay for time to be viewed with your content.
Public Support: Donations, Grants; this works if you offer what a lot of people want and if you loose it it will be a big loss.
All content will not work well with Public Support, sometimes your media information value isn't realized for years after it has been released. Or it may of value, however there is enough alternatives, or other more worthy projects that will get the funding. Are you really going to donate to NPR, PBS, Every Open Source product you find useful? No you will free load on some perhaps pay some to others, often you will donate much less then the value it provides to you.
Yea we live in an imperfect world, it sucks, instead of complaining about the problems, try to come up with a good solution to it, that will work both for the consumer and the content providers. If you go consumer only, the content provider will not or can not give you the content. If you just go Convent provider only, things will be needlessly expensive, and the consumer will get screwed.
If you are going to be about non DRM and Open Source software, you better be just as strong against media piracy. Because if you want your license to be expanded and respected, you better respect the other licenses.
Remember the Squeaky Axis of Evil gets the Grease.
I doubt it. If they fire first they become the bad guy, if we fire first then we are the bad guy.
China is the key. If North Korea fires first China will be much less supportive then if we fired first.
If you do work in the Union Shop everything is followed by the letter. So you the worker will get in trouble if you take a 61 minute lunch vs a 60 minute. While in most union shops they are usually not so petty about the details. They could but they would be wasting money on enforcing every little thing.
So they are two particles that are are in sync with each other. So the information doesn't travel faster then light, it is just implied.
So if we try to change the spin in a meaningful way we would break the sync thus they will no longer be entangled?
Companies have a simple Agenda and people will tend to read too much in it.
Apples Goal is to make money. There are different ways to make money. Some companies make money by serving the niche markets other make money selling general products. Apple is the later.
Why does Apple choose to censor their Apps? Well to make money, If they allow images that the general population recognizes as inappropriate then it will get a recognition as being a source, and those rich parents will not get their kids an apple product as it may be too easy for them to get filth on. So the parents will not give them such a tool.
If American culture changes its views on what is acceptable, so will Apple change its policies. The only Agenda apple wants is to make a boat load of money.
That and they are aliens who have the ability to see into the future. The Centari for one have a major role there.
However Babylon 5 wasn't as bad about it, compared to other Sci-Fi shows. They use Time Travel as a way to create the plot, not a way to resolve it.
Do you see any future in the Babylon 5 universe, you do you feel that you have milked it to death.
NO! Scientist publish in these to help themselves, in the process they hurt overall science.
A shoplifter doesn't shoplift to try to close down the business, they shoplift because they want the goods it provides.
If a scientist has initial findings that may support an idea that is in contrary to the standard rule, they may publish it, and the hack journals will be the only ones to take it. Without peer review it is hard to really look at everything.
Publish or parish. That the accedemic motto. However a lot of science needs a lot of time to complete. However they are pressured to publish, in order to keep funding. Real journals are about real science, but those fake ones are so the can blabber about some stuff to get published, add it to their site and get back to work.
Your profession in life doesn't mean you are of a higher moral caliber. A scientist will hurt the rest of science so they just work on their stuff, they will lie cheat and steal to get what they want. Just like the rest of humanity you have good eggs and bad eggs and usually their motives are complex and hard to pass easy moral judgement on.
The way to curve bad behavior is to constantly work on adjusting the culture to prevent people from manipulating the system.
Technically I am more of the old school definition of Hacker. And these criminals are actually crackers, and deserve to be punched in the face.
Oh all high and mighty Hacker, who broke into a website, made by some guy on a tight deadline, or is probably their first programming job. By using a SQL injection attack. How 7337 are they. By copying and pasting you have shown yourself to be some real computer wiz.
Sorry. I have no respect for these people. They just make the world a tougher place to live. Imagine how fast computers will be without layers of security to prevent people in breaking into their systems. But there are so many people who idealize these jerks think they are something special.
The games of old, we look back on when we were in our pre-teen to early adult years have a special place in our heart. These adventure games are the first few games that you have won and it was a hard win to have won. My nostalgia was more towards Sierra Online Adventures, but the premise is the same. You spend hours as there wasn't easy access to the internet to give you a hint. The excitement every time you were able to get to a new screen, as you are about to face a new challenge. Then you get older, you have real challenges in your life, and the new games just don't spark that kind wonderment. It isn't that the new games are any better or worse, but when you were a kid, things are new.