Hmm... So the facts go contrary to what you want and you declare them invalid. Great thinking. We've got this problem on both ends of the political spectrum so you're in good company. Party away.
"My own IQ marker has alway been the size of a group of males. Individually, any one of the boys might be pretty bright. But, two boys together share half the IQ that they started with. Three boys together halve their IQ's again. By the time you get four boys together, they don't have enough smarts to pour piss out of a boot. Larger groups are likely to die of asphyxiation, because they aren't smart enough to breathe."
Your rule might apply to jocks and such but the smart people I hung out with got smarter as a group.
What we need is for manufacturers to support their devices for far longer. As long as the device is functioning it is saving all that energy and other resources that it takes to manufacture a new one. It is a crying shame that Apple no longer supports OSClassic, 68K code and now PPC code. By dumping those they have abandoned tens of millions of functional machines as well as the extensive libraries of software solutions, particularly for education, small business and shareware, that ran on those platforms. Apple is a tens of billions of dollars profitable company. They should go green in a meaningful way by renewing support for the older devices and operating systems.
So why don't they? Greed. They want you to buy new equipment. They make a lot of money on new hardware.
Solution? Have a small annual fee that they charge which keeps updating. They already do this. It is called their operating system update. Just make it handle all devices to the best of the device's ability. Smart compiler builds.
Since the foil is on the outside we have no trouble with WiFi interference for our computers which are all inside the house. No problems with reflection and the signal goes right through the concrete walls, interestingly.
This is all based on a false premise. There is still heat H to be removed from the server. The oil speeds up the conductivity between electronics and medium BUT the heat still must be removed and dumped. This is not truly more efficient and certainly not "greener" than using air as the medium.
This will make servicing the equipment more difficult and possibly shorten the life of the equipment as well as requiring more complex coolant systems thus making this system less efficient and "green".
This reminds me of all the people who claimed we would never travel faster than 50mph, 60mph, 100mph, the speed of sound, the speed of light, etc. They were wrong. The key is to have enough people working on the problem. This is why you need to have more children. Expand the human population. There are not enough people yet. We need more people to add to the brain power of working on big problems like this because if we don't get off this rock and expand into space, other planets, moons, additional stars, etc then we're doomed like the dinosaurs. There is a astroid out there with our name on it. Let's get moving.
The problem is bigger than this portrays. Other tablets might have one good thing that is almost as good as an iPad but the iPad has it all wrapped together with the pretty bow and all of the support. Apple's got things to offer that no other manufacturer has and the synthesis of the total is what makes it key.
As to Android phones, I know of some people who went out and bought them when they couldn't get an iPhone. They universally regret the Android and still want an iPhone. Some of them have ditched their Android for an iPhone. More will. Again, it is the better product that wins in the long run. Android is just a piece of the puzzle. iPhone is the whole masterpiece.
The fact that Apple is doing it for a price the others can't beat clinches the deal.
This is dumb. I enjoy math. Algebra was easy, as were all the other maths and I went far beyond what was offered. But I'm a math person. Most people don't need Algebra I never mind Algebra II in the real world. Requiring it is just wasting time and resources. Instead teach what people have the interest and inclination for. The people promoting this don't actually understand math.
I had one. Still have it. Somewhere. And an Exidy Sorcerer, Mac128K, MacPlus, MacSE and even a PDP11 mini. Oh, and an HP-71B and a sliderule that are hanging on my wall right here. Incase of power outages.:)
Sure, I did too as a kid but I couldn't source one very, er, ahem, critical material. Back then, in 1978, the iron curtain hadn't fallen so the Russians weren't selling it on the black market, yet.
Just kidding, of course, wait! No! Don't stomp my fingers Mr. Hoover! (Governments can be so sensitive about this stuff...)
"250 miles of scorched earth" "doing a good job of it"?
No, I would say that Google is failing with both Chrome and Android. Neither are desirable experiences for the consumer. Sarfari/Mac/iOS is far better. Google really needs to focus on building its castle rather than scorching the earth. Too bad they lost sight of their motto to do no evil.
Speaking as an author I would much rather publish an eBook myself. Speaking as a publisher I would much rather publish eBooks. Speaking as a reader I am waiting for the dust to settle on the issues of format, compatibility, rights, etc.
The cost of publishing paper books is horrendous. eBooks are a far better solution from the publisher's point of view even with paying Apple 30% because the cost of printing and distribution is about 90% for paper books. With paper books we only got about 50% of the cover price from the distributor. They then marked it up 5% and sold it to the retailer who marked it up further to sell to the public. Meanwhile, the author only got about 2% in most cases. Often the author got almost nothing and on many books the publisher loses since the book never sells enough to cover its initial run costs. It is the few big sellers that make up for this. All of this is why I setup my own publishing company. Vertical integration is the way to go. eBooks give us further ability to save resources, cut costs and vertically integrate. It is also easier to release revised and updated versions.
This is like saying your Prius is better than my cargo van. So what. They do different things. My extended body cargo van gets better pound mileage than your Prius. That is to say I can transport more pounds of cargo for less cost and fuel than your Prius can. Not only that but I can actually stick your little Prius inside my cargo van and take it along. Carrying a full load in my cargo van makes virtually no difference in its fuel efficiency. I manage my trips carefully to take advantage of this. Your laptop does one thing. A tablet does another. Big deal. It's nice to have both a hammer and a screwdriver.
BTW, I have a laptop too. I also have an iPodTouch, my equivelant of the tablet but even smaller. I would love a tablet for some tasks. Someday.
Economics: It costs money to have and to hold the necessary certificates for HTTPS.
Energy: It costs more CPU power and thus more actual electricity to do HTTPS.
Storage: It costs a little more memory to do HTTPS.
Since nothing we serve on any of our web sites is confidential it would be a waste of money, time and energy to bother with HTTPS. HTTP is sufficient for the vast majority of web sites.
I am not about to leave my iPhone hanging on the local general store bulletin board but you bet I'm going to stick up a thumb tack with five of my business cards. I get a lot of business from those. Business cards are cheap. I can leave them in a jar, on a bulletin board, hand them out to people. Over they years I've gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales that traces back to my business cards.
Please get rid of Daylight Savings Time. It is a farce. It does not really help save energy or stimulate the economy. Instead it causes an increase in accidents, suicides, heart attacks and other health problems in addition to the simple inconvenience of the change.
"According to experts on circadian rhythms, the hour shift in sleep schedule from Daylight Saving Time can have serious effects on some people's health, particularly in people with certain pre-existing health problems. One study found that men were more likely to commit suicide during the first few weeks of Daylight Saving Time (DST) than at any other time during the year, and another study showed that the number of serious heart attacks jumps 6% to 10% on the first three workdays after DST begins. Dr. Xiaoyong Yang, an assistant professor of comparative medicine and cellular and molecular physiology at Yale University, theorizes that shifts in biologic rhythms could trigger harmful inflammatory or metabolic changes at the cellular level, to which these individuals may be more susceptible."
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Hmm... So the facts go contrary to what you want and you declare them invalid. Great thinking. We've got this problem on both ends of the political spectrum so you're in good company. Party away.
"My own IQ marker has alway been the size of a group of males. Individually, any one of the boys might be pretty bright. But, two boys together share half the IQ that they started with. Three boys together halve their IQ's again. By the time you get four boys together, they don't have enough smarts to pour piss out of a boot. Larger groups are likely to die of asphyxiation, because they aren't smart enough to breathe."
Your rule might apply to jocks and such but the smart people I hung out with got smarter as a group.
His system is ugly.
And difficult to use.
And a resource hog.
Yuk.
Fortunately we don't live in his dictatorship.
What we need is for manufacturers to support their devices for far longer. As long as the device is functioning it is saving all that energy and other resources that it takes to manufacture a new one. It is a crying shame that Apple no longer supports OSClassic, 68K code and now PPC code. By dumping those they have abandoned tens of millions of functional machines as well as the extensive libraries of software solutions, particularly for education, small business and shareware, that ran on those platforms. Apple is a tens of billions of dollars profitable company. They should go green in a meaningful way by renewing support for the older devices and operating systems.
So why don't they? Greed. They want you to buy new equipment. They make a lot of money on new hardware.
Solution? Have a small annual fee that they charge which keeps updating. They already do this. It is called their operating system update. Just make it handle all devices to the best of the device's ability. Smart compiler builds.
Attach the balloon to a fishing line. Works great. Makes it retrievable and keeps it positioned.
I'm way ahead of you tin foil hattists! My house has a tin foil hat! Check out:
http://flashweb.com/blog/2007/01/house-wrapped.html
http://flashweb.com/blog/2006/12/cap-sealed-on-tight.html
Since the foil is on the outside we have no trouble with WiFi interference for our computers which are all inside the house. No problems with reflection and the signal goes right through the concrete walls, interestingly.
http://flashweb.com/blog/2007/06/transparently-wireless.html
This is all based on a false premise.
There is still heat H to be removed from the server.
The oil speeds up the conductivity between electronics and medium
BUT the heat still must be removed and dumped.
This is not truly more efficient and certainly not "greener" than using air as the medium.
This will make servicing the equipment more difficult and possibly shorten the life of the equipment as well as requiring more complex coolant systems thus making this system less efficient and "green".
The discount is too little.
This reminds me of all the people who claimed we would never travel faster than 50mph, 60mph, 100mph, the speed of sound, the speed of light, etc. They were wrong. The key is to have enough people working on the problem. This is why you need to have more children. Expand the human population. There are not enough people yet. We need more people to add to the brain power of working on big problems like this because if we don't get off this rock and expand into space, other planets, moons, additional stars, etc then we're doomed like the dinosaurs. There is a astroid out there with our name on it. Let's get moving.
It would be interesting running on my iPodTouch, just for nostalgia...
The problem is bigger than this portrays. Other tablets might have one good thing that is almost as good as an iPad but the iPad has it all wrapped together with the pretty bow and all of the support. Apple's got things to offer that no other manufacturer has and the synthesis of the total is what makes it key.
As to Android phones, I know of some people who went out and bought them when they couldn't get an iPhone. They universally regret the Android and still want an iPhone. Some of them have ditched their Android for an iPhone. More will. Again, it is the better product that wins in the long run. Android is just a piece of the puzzle. iPhone is the whole masterpiece.
The fact that Apple is doing it for a price the others can't beat clinches the deal.
This is dumb. I enjoy math. Algebra was easy, as were all the other maths and I went far beyond what was offered. But I'm a math person. Most people don't need Algebra I never mind Algebra II in the real world. Requiring it is just wasting time and resources. Instead teach what people have the interest and inclination for. The people promoting this don't actually understand math.
I had one. Still have it. Somewhere. And an Exidy Sorcerer, Mac128K, MacPlus, MacSE and even a PDP11 mini. Oh, and an HP-71B and a sliderule that are hanging on my wall right here. Incase of power outages. :)
Reminds me of all those statistics about who pays the most taxes, etc.
Sure, I did too as a kid but I couldn't source one very, er, ahem, critical material. Back then, in 1978, the iron curtain hadn't fallen so the Russians weren't selling it on the black market, yet.
Just kidding, of course, wait! No! Don't stomp my fingers Mr. Hoover! (Governments can be so sensitive about this stuff...)
1/365th of it just doesn't cut the mustard. Backup carefully and frequently.
Wishful Thinking. Windoze is dead.
"250 miles of scorched earth" "doing a good job of it"?
No, I would say that Google is failing with both Chrome and Android. Neither are desirable experiences for the consumer. Sarfari/Mac/iOS is far better. Google really needs to focus on building its castle rather than scorching the earth. Too bad they lost sight of their motto to do no evil.
A good way for these music groups to lose the market - Sink radio. Radio is how people discover music.
This idea has been around for a long time.
Speaking as an author I would much rather publish an eBook myself.
Speaking as a publisher I would much rather publish eBooks.
Speaking as a reader I am waiting for the dust to settle on the issues of format, compatibility, rights, etc.
The cost of publishing paper books is horrendous. eBooks are a far better solution from the publisher's point of view even with paying Apple 30% because the cost of printing and distribution is about 90% for paper books. With paper books we only got about 50% of the cover price from the distributor. They then marked it up 5% and sold it to the retailer who marked it up further to sell to the public. Meanwhile, the author only got about 2% in most cases. Often the author got almost nothing and on many books the publisher loses since the book never sells enough to cover its initial run costs. It is the few big sellers that make up for this. All of this is why I setup my own publishing company. Vertical integration is the way to go. eBooks give us further ability to save resources, cut costs and vertically integrate. It is also easier to release revised and updated versions.
This is like saying your Prius is better than my cargo van. So what. They do different things. My extended body cargo van gets better pound mileage than your Prius. That is to say I can transport more pounds of cargo for less cost and fuel than your Prius can. Not only that but I can actually stick your little Prius inside my cargo van and take it along. Carrying a full load in my cargo van makes virtually no difference in its fuel efficiency. I manage my trips carefully to take advantage of this. Your laptop does one thing. A tablet does another. Big deal. It's nice to have both a hammer and a screwdriver.
BTW, I have a laptop too. I also have an iPodTouch, my equivelant of the tablet but even smaller. I would love a tablet for some tasks. Someday.
Economics: It costs money to have and to hold the necessary certificates for HTTPS.
Energy: It costs more CPU power and thus more actual electricity to do HTTPS.
Storage: It costs a little more memory to do HTTPS.
Since nothing we serve on any of our web sites is confidential it would be a waste of money, time and energy to bother with HTTPS. HTTP is sufficient for the vast majority of web sites.
I am not about to leave my iPhone hanging on the local general store bulletin board but you bet I'm going to stick up a thumb tack with five of my business cards. I get a lot of business from those. Business cards are cheap. I can leave them in a jar, on a bulletin board, hand them out to people. Over they years I've gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales that traces back to my business cards.
Letter to Congressional representatives:
Please get rid of Daylight Savings Time. It is a farce. It does not really help save energy or stimulate the economy. Instead it causes an increase in accidents, suicides, heart attacks and other health problems in addition to the simple inconvenience of the change.
http://healthland.time.com/2011/03/12/is-daylight-saving-time-bad-for-your-health/
"According to experts on circadian rhythms, the hour shift in sleep schedule from Daylight Saving Time can have serious effects on some people's health, particularly in people with certain pre-existing health problems. One study found that men were more likely to commit suicide during the first few weeks of Daylight Saving Time (DST) than at any other time during the year, and another study showed that the number of serious heart attacks jumps 6% to 10% on the first three workdays after DST begins. Dr. Xiaoyong Yang, an assistant professor of comparative medicine and cellular and molecular physiology at Yale University, theorizes that shifts in biologic rhythms could trigger harmful inflammatory or metabolic changes at the cellular level, to which these individuals may be more susceptible."