Granted the Scissor/Membrane chicklet keys arn't that bad. Compared to the 1980's Chiclets keys, where you had to be very precise (or hard) on your button pressing, with wide spacing, and lack of feedback. The new chicklet are just a diference face to the key, without the bevel to make it look like a mechanical keyboard.
Hey look you are having trouble paying off your bills, well guess what you are fired. Because you couldn't pay off your bills with your job, you will have no change to your troubles without a job.
That is the real problem now. These issues have long term affects while we are evolved to fix short term problems. The disciplines of Math and Science can show us trends and long term projections, and give us these big picture complex problems. But the solutions to solve these big problems seem to require suffering short term problems, which we are evolved to instinctively respond to. If a predator is threatening myself or my family, I am not going to go, well this animal is endangered, and us humans are over populated, so Ill just be passive about the problem and see what happens. I will setup conditions where my family is safe over the safety of such animal. The more urgent this threat, the less of a long term solution I will have for it.
Well for the Mac Laptop market. They all seem to still look like the 2002 G4 Powerbook. Thinner, a few new ports, less old ports, and general technical improvements. I haven't seen any new ideas in laptops in general for a long time.
Well it is in general the people who have been dis-empowered, are stating up for their rights. Not to get super political, But Trumps victory had embolden the Sexist and Racist, and took many of them out of the shadow and to the forefront. These groups who have been hurt from people in power, were riding on hope that things are slowly getting better. Then when all these people came out of the woodwork they realized it didn't improve. So they are fighting back harder then before. Also with many high profile cases, it also empowers victims to speak out as well.
I am not sure if any of you remembered some rather unpopular toys from the 1980's. They where pneumatic powered creatures. where you pumped them up 20-30 times. flip a switch they would walk/drive/hop for about 30 seconds. They had these tanks on them the size of 4 D sized batteries. Which they would have the energy to power such action for hours. If you were to fill them up too much the tanks would break, and the toy will be broken. Now the energy of the 30 pumps gave more energy then such movements onto a generator to charge a battery. But there were a lot of tradeoffs.
Moving parts wear out, a tank that is dealing with changing rising and dropping pressure forces will need to be monitored and maintained, enough room will need be made for to safely hold and store the tanks.
Compressed Air Energy has one major drawback. If there is a problem it could cause an explosion. And unlike from chemical energy storage such explosions cannot be monitored and cutoff as quickly. I once had a tanker truck drive by me, and at the same time, the tanker had buckled inwards a dent (probably from pressure differences from changing altitude) I needed to stop my car and inspect it, because that little buckle felt like something had hit my car from that pressure wave.
There is a lot of danger in compressed air.
This can be mitigated with proper maintenance and monitoring. But this is the same with nuclear energy, Companies don't want to do it, because it costs money that cuts into its profits, and governments don't want to do it, because the Tax payers need to pay for it.
Except for the fact I hate Bumper Stickers. Have you ever met a person who wen't. Look I changed my outlook on life because I saw that one clever bumper sticker.
Todays viruses are lot like the ones of old. Newer OS's tend to use the App Store concept for most of your trusted applications, that reduces viruses. However the realization that real damage doesn't need to be at the root/system level. But on the user level. Because you data is more important then the OS. Sure you may not be able to open up a low number IP Port, but your user account even on Linux systems, is often good enough to cause a lot of damage. Linux and Mac systems are protected by the fact that they are not used enough by average joe, and most software you get from trusted locations.
Well Linux, Mac, Unix... Can be just as easy to get Malware installed as well. Just as long as you have the ability to download data and make it executable you are open. Tools like Apt-get, and App Store, Microsoft Store, Google Play.... Give you a safe repository, but it also comes with baggage of being nice to the host OS, so competing products may get left out, or advanced features that could allow additional damage are blocked.
Time limit isn't the problem it is the fact that Copyrights are designed for printed material vs digital ones.
Back in the 1700's if I were to copy a book. It would take me (adjusted for inflation) at least $10,000 in labor and specialized equipment. And I would need to copy and sell thousands of books in order for me to break even. So copyright violators were doing serious business and were quite intentional on what they did. So the fines and punishments were just to the level of preventative action needed.
Now today we can use a Computer that costs less then $20.00 (say a raspberry Pi) We can take an exact copy and distribute it a billions of times. If we had gotten some malware on our system, it could had even do this without our knowledge. This throws justice into a difficult situation. The violator has tools which make copyright violation super easy, and effort is usually need to make sure you do not violate the law. While the company that is being violated is getting a bigger set of damages from not being able to sell such product, because of general availability.
Currently the punishment is very harsh to the violator, which isn't necessarily just to the crime, while the volated companies need to work hard to enforce their IP.
Sure Microsoft is in competition with Google for both its Search Engine and its browser. But having Bing go to a Malware site, which infects your Windows PC. Makes Windows, Edge, and Bing all look bad, as well as Microsoft for trying to be underhanded.
With all the attention to prevent Google Chrome from taking more Edge share away I would expect Bings relationship with searching for a Google Product should be tightly controlled and managed, and mostly in a way to insure fairness and get good sets of data. I would expect the #1 result would be from Microsoft Telling you why Edge is So much better then chrome. But as #2 it should be googles download.
Don't forget the leftwing nutjobs too. The problem of escalated tensions in discourse (I am going to side recent violence from the rightwing nutjobs, and focus on the normal communication discourse) is there no way to find who started it, and we really shouldn't care who did. However Post WWII Victory from the US, and with the horrors of war, and horrors of the Holocaust fresh in the generations head, lead to a strong dislike of war, and a feeling of needing increased morality in relations with other people. Now this didn't stop wars or racism, but unlike in previous generations these started to get push-back. Now this created the Anti-War movement for Vietnam. This created a lot of unfair and cruel redirect to the Solders who had to face the horrors of war, then go back and have their peers at home to mock them and call them a murderer. Now this made the people returning, not really like the left. The next big issue in political discourse was Row vs Wade, and abortion. Now the Right unhappy about this ruling are now the ones calling the other side murders. So we now have two sides with a strong ethical stance, fighting each other. But the political divide was more like fans of opposing sports teams. Then the redirect escalated as media diversity increased. Cable News with 24 hour cycles that in order to keep content flowing brought in the News Opinion to fill up the space, having arguments back and forth, the more heated the better the ratings. Then the internet came out, where the most crazy and often most vocal members of a side could get their voice out, with little fear of retribution, and little if any fact checking. This polarization isn't about ideas or policy (while many arguments are coded as such) we are now defensive because we hate the other guy, because the other guy hates us. I drive a Prius, I recently got cut off by a large pickup truck with a bumper sticker saying they will cut off Prius. I live in a rural areas, Pickup Trucks are common, because they are often needed for their livelihood. My Livelyhood requires me to commute 30 miles to work, so I got a car with the best gas mileage that I could afford at the time. The pickup truck driver sees Prius owners as a threat because Prius Owners has/had a tenancy to be preachy and he probably fears that if we have our way we will push him to get rid of his truck that he enjoys and uses for his livelyhood, and get the same little car that I have. Now that he was clearly targeting me, I no longer like that particular driver, but I always need to be cautious around larger pickup trucks because I know they see me as a threat. This sounds stupid, but it is a sign of our times. We see our differences a threat vs a benefit.
I never even heard of Blockcain media outlets? Let alone would I have any of those be considered a trusted new outlet.
Anonymity and New Outlets do not mix. A new source can have a source which can remain anonymous, however the people in the media reporting it shouldn't be such, as their reputation should back up any anonymous source.
They are also large, needing a lot of land space, deep soil and when they fall they often create a lot of damage. I thought about what if we just plant trees on top of all the roofs in Cities? Then I was like, well we need the roughs strong enough to handle the tons of soil, and deal with the constant moisture, the roots may try very hard to break them. Then what would happen if a tree fell down from a 40 story building onto the streets.... Also this would attract animals to the area, which may not necessarily be a good thing.
We are going on the dream of some piece of technology that will solve all our problems. There isn't any. This isn't fatalism, there are things we can do make the world better, but there will always need to be work around it.
Global Warming, and Water Quality seem to be the big environment problem. So effort in those areas can solve the problems, but make others worse. However if we fix those issues, we can re-adjust and focus on the problems these cause before they become unmanageable, then we may need to go back to the original problem or to others.
Complex problems needs complex solutions, and there isn't a number that you can dial that is just right, it needs to always be in motion.
When I was a kid, my Father was always working on the car, Tuning the Engine, replacing parts that had seemed to fall off, welding parts back on, Cutting off rust and putty and painting it back again....
So now it cost $3000 to replace something that you could do yourself. However you had normally had that car for much longer then the life of the cars before that, So other then paying $5000 of maintenance over the life time you are paying $3000 once.
If you are going to be a traditionalist there just needs to lights shined in the captains eyes. I think they need at least 5 spotlights shined on them.
The Star Trek universe is based on ideals over 50 year old. As they use the universe more, more and more stuff gets Retcon into it, often rather sloppily. It is more then just technology and special effect. In "2001 A Space Odyssey" The characters were cool and rational much like Vulcan's in Star Trek. Because we more or less assumed that we would adapt to be rational to work better with technology vs. Having technology designed better to deal with our crazy human nonsense. The humans in Star Trek while not as extreme as Vulcan, still used a lot of this reasoning that we have became smarten and more rational with the use of computers. With a third grader kid in TNG complaining that he doesn't want to take Calculus, now I think the point they were making was STTNG was set so far in the future so like how Calculus 300 years ago was only for Math PHD's and today it is taught in High School, that in the next 300 years we can tech this to 3rd graders is kinda silly. But this fits on the vision we will adapt to the changes as fast as the changes expand.
The Orville dumped this universe. While they are smart people, they are also people who are street smart, or just kinda off dull. They may be good at their job, but that is about it.
I actually think the bulk of the problems with Discovery isn't due race. It is just a story that doesn't fit into the Star Trek Universe. It seems more of a plot for its own sci-fi show, but they realized it sucked to much to make any money on it, so they just put the Star Trek logo on it, and changed the names of the alians around to match the names of Star Trek aliens, And made sure all the good guys space ships had a saucer section and nacells.
For the most part diversity in shows has been getting much better. They are actually playing real people with issues that doesn't always center around their race or gender, or sexual preference. Now if only they can make the computer geek seem like a real person, and not the basement cheetos eating sub human.
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Granted the Scissor/Membrane chicklet keys arn't that bad. Compared to the 1980's Chiclets keys, where you had to be very precise (or hard) on your button pressing, with wide spacing, and lack of feedback. The new chicklet are just a diference face to the key, without the bevel to make it look like a mechanical keyboard.
Hey look you are having trouble paying off your bills, well guess what you are fired. Because you couldn't pay off your bills with your job, you will have no change to your troubles without a job.
That is the real problem now.
These issues have long term affects while we are evolved to fix short term problems. The disciplines of Math and Science can show us trends and long term projections, and give us these big picture complex problems. But the solutions to solve these big problems seem to require suffering short term problems, which we are evolved to instinctively respond to.
If a predator is threatening myself or my family, I am not going to go, well this animal is endangered, and us humans are over populated, so Ill just be passive about the problem and see what happens. I will setup conditions where my family is safe over the safety of such animal. The more urgent this threat, the less of a long term solution I will have for it.
Well for the Mac Laptop market. They all seem to still look like the 2002 G4 Powerbook. Thinner, a few new ports, less old ports, and general technical improvements. I haven't seen any new ideas in laptops in general for a long time.
Or you could just ask her what she would want?
Well it is in general the people who have been dis-empowered, are stating up for their rights.
Not to get super political, But Trumps victory had embolden the Sexist and Racist, and took many of them out of the shadow and to the forefront. These groups who have been hurt from people in power, were riding on hope that things are slowly getting better. Then when all these people came out of the woodwork they realized it didn't improve.
So they are fighting back harder then before.
Also with many high profile cases, it also empowers victims to speak out as well.
Do you have evidence that Diversity Hires are lower skilled?
If so please publish and allow for peer review.
Mostly material, reliability and size.
I am not sure if any of you remembered some rather unpopular toys from the 1980's. They where pneumatic powered creatures. where you pumped them up 20-30 times. flip a switch they would walk/drive/hop for about 30 seconds. They had these tanks on them the size of 4 D sized batteries. Which they would have the energy to power such action for hours.
If you were to fill them up too much the tanks would break, and the toy will be broken.
Now the energy of the 30 pumps gave more energy then such movements onto a generator to charge a battery. But there were a lot of tradeoffs.
Moving parts wear out, a tank that is dealing with changing rising and dropping pressure forces will need to be monitored and maintained, enough room will need be made for to safely hold and store the tanks.
But instead of blaming the dog, you can blame your cellphone.
Compressed Air Energy has one major drawback. If there is a problem it could cause an explosion. And unlike from chemical energy storage such explosions cannot be monitored and cutoff as quickly.
I once had a tanker truck drive by me, and at the same time, the tanker had buckled inwards a dent (probably from pressure differences from changing altitude) I needed to stop my car and inspect it, because that little buckle felt like something had hit my car from that pressure wave.
There is a lot of danger in compressed air.
This can be mitigated with proper maintenance and monitoring. But this is the same with nuclear energy, Companies don't want to do it, because it costs money that cuts into its profits, and governments don't want to do it, because the Tax payers need to pay for it.
Except for the fact I hate Bumper Stickers. Have you ever met a person who wen't. Look I changed my outlook on life because I saw that one clever bumper sticker.
Todays viruses are lot like the ones of old.
Newer OS's tend to use the App Store concept for most of your trusted applications, that reduces viruses. However the realization that real damage doesn't need to be at the root/system level. But on the user level. Because you data is more important then the OS. Sure you may not be able to open up a low number IP Port, but your user account even on Linux systems, is often good enough to cause a lot of damage.
Linux and Mac systems are protected by the fact that they are not used enough by average joe, and most software you get from trusted locations.
Well it will properly report if the Anti-virus program itself is indeed infected or not.
I guess it may be able to read the other files, but if you were to quarantine a file or fix one, you are leaving your sandbox for a lot of actions.
Well Linux, Mac, Unix... Can be just as easy to get Malware installed as well. Just as long as you have the ability to download data and make it executable you are open. Tools like Apt-get, and App Store, Microsoft Store, Google Play.... Give you a safe repository, but it also comes with baggage of being nice to the host OS, so competing products may get left out, or advanced features that could allow additional damage are blocked.
Time limit isn't the problem it is the fact that Copyrights are designed for printed material vs digital ones.
Back in the 1700's if I were to copy a book. It would take me (adjusted for inflation) at least $10,000 in labor and specialized equipment. And I would need to copy and sell thousands of books in order for me to break even. So copyright violators were doing serious business and were quite intentional on what they did. So the fines and punishments were just to the level of preventative action needed.
Now today we can use a Computer that costs less then $20.00 (say a raspberry Pi) We can take an exact copy and distribute it a billions of times. If we had gotten some malware on our system, it could had even do this without our knowledge. This throws justice into a difficult situation.
The violator has tools which make copyright violation super easy, and effort is usually need to make sure you do not violate the law. While the company that is being violated is getting a bigger set of damages from not being able to sell such product, because of general availability.
Currently the punishment is very harsh to the violator, which isn't necessarily just to the crime, while the volated companies need to work hard to enforce their IP.
Sure Microsoft is in competition with Google for both its Search Engine and its browser. But having Bing go to a Malware site, which infects your Windows PC. Makes Windows, Edge, and Bing all look bad, as well as Microsoft for trying to be underhanded.
With all the attention to prevent Google Chrome from taking more Edge share away I would expect Bings relationship with searching for a Google Product should be tightly controlled and managed, and mostly in a way to insure fairness and get good sets of data. I would expect the #1 result would be from Microsoft Telling you why Edge is So much better then chrome. But as #2 it should be googles download.
Don't forget the leftwing nutjobs too.
The problem of escalated tensions in discourse (I am going to side recent violence from the rightwing nutjobs, and focus on the normal communication discourse) is there no way to find who started it, and we really shouldn't care who did.
However Post WWII Victory from the US, and with the horrors of war, and horrors of the Holocaust fresh in the generations head, lead to a strong dislike of war, and a feeling of needing increased morality in relations with other people. Now this didn't stop wars or racism, but unlike in previous generations these started to get push-back. Now this created the Anti-War movement for Vietnam. This created a lot of unfair and cruel redirect to the Solders who had to face the horrors of war, then go back and have their peers at home to mock them and call them a murderer. Now this made the people returning, not really like the left. The next big issue in political discourse was Row vs Wade, and abortion. Now the Right unhappy about this ruling are now the ones calling the other side murders.
So we now have two sides with a strong ethical stance, fighting each other.
But the political divide was more like fans of opposing sports teams. Then the redirect escalated as media diversity increased. Cable News with 24 hour cycles that in order to keep content flowing brought in the News Opinion to fill up the space, having arguments back and forth, the more heated the better the ratings. Then the internet came out, where the most crazy and often most vocal members of a side could get their voice out, with little fear of retribution, and little if any fact checking.
This polarization isn't about ideas or policy (while many arguments are coded as such) we are now defensive because we hate the other guy, because the other guy hates us.
I drive a Prius, I recently got cut off by a large pickup truck with a bumper sticker saying they will cut off Prius. I live in a rural areas, Pickup Trucks are common, because they are often needed for their livelihood. My Livelyhood requires me to commute 30 miles to work, so I got a car with the best gas mileage that I could afford at the time.
The pickup truck driver sees Prius owners as a threat because Prius Owners has/had a tenancy to be preachy and he probably fears that if we have our way we will push him to get rid of his truck that he enjoys and uses for his livelyhood, and get the same little car that I have. Now that he was clearly targeting me, I no longer like that particular driver, but I always need to be cautious around larger pickup trucks because I know they see me as a threat.
This sounds stupid, but it is a sign of our times. We see our differences a threat vs a benefit.
Wow it took over 20 minutes for that setup! I was expecting only 1 minute.
I never even heard of Blockcain media outlets? Let alone would I have any of those be considered a trusted new outlet.
Anonymity and New Outlets do not mix. A new source can have a source which can remain anonymous, however the people in the media reporting it shouldn't be such, as their reputation should back up any anonymous source.
They are also large, needing a lot of land space, deep soil and when they fall they often create a lot of damage.
I thought about what if we just plant trees on top of all the roofs in Cities? Then I was like, well we need the roughs strong enough to handle the tons of soil, and deal with the constant moisture, the roots may try very hard to break them. Then what would happen if a tree fell down from a 40 story building onto the streets....
Also this would attract animals to the area, which may not necessarily be a good thing.
We are going on the dream of some piece of technology that will solve all our problems.
There isn't any.
This isn't fatalism, there are things we can do make the world better, but there will always need to be work around it.
Global Warming, and Water Quality seem to be the big environment problem. So effort in those areas can solve the problems, but make others worse. However if we fix those issues, we can re-adjust and focus on the problems these cause before they become unmanageable, then we may need to go back to the original problem or to others.
Complex problems needs complex solutions, and there isn't a number that you can dial that is just right, it needs to always be in motion.
When I was a kid, my Father was always working on the car, Tuning the Engine, replacing parts that had seemed to fall off, welding parts back on, Cutting off rust and putty and painting it back again....
So now it cost $3000 to replace something that you could do yourself. However you had normally had that car for much longer then the life of the cars before that, So other then paying $5000 of maintenance over the life time you are paying $3000 once.
If you are going to be a traditionalist there just needs to lights shined in the captains eyes. I think they need at least 5 spotlights shined on them.
The Star Trek universe is based on ideals over 50 year old. As they use the universe more, more and more stuff gets Retcon into it, often rather sloppily.
It is more then just technology and special effect. In "2001 A Space Odyssey" The characters were cool and rational much like Vulcan's in Star Trek. Because we more or less assumed that we would adapt to be rational to work better with technology vs. Having technology designed better to deal with our crazy human nonsense. The humans in Star Trek while not as extreme as Vulcan, still used a lot of this reasoning that we have became smarten and more rational with the use of computers. With a third grader kid in TNG complaining that he doesn't want to take Calculus, now I think the point they were making was STTNG was set so far in the future so like how Calculus 300 years ago was only for Math PHD's and today it is taught in High School, that in the next 300 years we can tech this to 3rd graders is kinda silly. But this fits on the vision we will adapt to the changes as fast as the changes expand.
The Orville dumped this universe. While they are smart people, they are also people who are street smart, or just kinda off dull. They may be good at their job, but that is about it.
I actually think the bulk of the problems with Discovery isn't due race. It is just a story that doesn't fit into the Star Trek Universe. It seems more of a plot for its own sci-fi show, but they realized it sucked to much to make any money on it, so they just put the Star Trek logo on it, and changed the names of the alians around to match the names of Star Trek aliens, And made sure all the good guys space ships had a saucer section and nacells.
For the most part diversity in shows has been getting much better. They are actually playing real people with issues that doesn't always center around their race or gender, or sexual preference.
Now if only they can make the computer geek seem like a real person, and not the basement cheetos eating sub human.