Even a relatively small astroid hitting anywhere would be a major disaster for all people on Earth. This idea of choosing where to hit is just a distraction. If it hits it is a problem. The only solution is no hit. That actually isn't that hard if you're going to the trouble of doing anything at all.
So it sounds like they're going to do it on the body mass index scale. Dumb. That penalizes athletes who are in excellent physical condition. I'm 30 to 40 lbs over weight by those charts. But I'm not. I work hard physically, I farm, so I have a lot of muscle and dense bones. I have little body fat. My physical activity makes for a heavy body that puts my body mass way over for my height yet I am very healthy. Even life insurance companies have started to admit those charts are dumb. They fail to take in to account real health. Once again Microsoft is behind the times and simply wrong.
In Vermont they had a permanently established border point at a rest area about half way down the state on I-91. It was there for a long time and widely discussed in the newspapers. A terrorist would simply need to get off at the exit before and get back on at the exit after. This internal border check point was a totally pointless waste of tax payer dollars. Or they could look like your typical family of five in a minivan and get waved right through.
Microscope is the best. Decades of fun. They're old enough for a real one but even one of the cheap $25 kiddie scopes open up the world if the little things. Get one that is both optical and digital to connect to the computer. We got a National Optical Model DC-128 and love it.
Turn off Java, JavaScript, Plugins, etc or run programs like PithHelmet (Safari) that can even kill these selectively per web site. This greatly speeds up browsing and gets rid of all that ugly, flashing, moving junk.
So children raised in a more natural environment with less exposure to these things (pretty easy to do) will be more fertile (as well as not getting cancer as much according to other studies) resulting in a shift in the future population towards people who care about their health, vacate the cities and lead a more natural lifestyle eating organic foods (not necessarily Certified Big 'O' Organic but real organic). Darwinism in action.
I'm puzzled by all these arguments about the cost of health insurance. The $1.2 trillion is over a ten year period making it $120 billion per year of costs.
For comparison:
$3,000 BILLION ($3 Trillion) was the handout we gave the bankers, insurance companies, investors and automakers. Free money but only for the rich.
$300 BILLION a year is what we've been spending on average fighting the non-war in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Free money but only for the big corporations who supply weapons.
$16 BILLION dollars a year in subsidies are given to Big Ag to over produce corn and a few other commodities. Free money but only for corporations big enough to qualify and eat up their competition.
$400 per citizen per year is what this will cost those who can afford health insurance. That means that EVERYONE has insurance creating a pleasant cycle where the cost of care goes down because less emergency room primary care is done and people work more raising the tide that all boats float upon. If you buy $1.10 of coffee a day you too can provide health insurance for someone. Imagine that.
Nobody wants to pay higher taxes but an awful lot of people, and the corporations they control, seem to want free handouts. I'm not particularly fond of creating new entitlements however the cost of universal healthcare is minimal and the benefit is great. The trick is there must be some rationing. There is room for universal basic health care and private insurance for higher level healthcare.
No ads please. If a vendor starts forcing ads on me I won't buy their product. I've got real work to do. Anything that distracts me from my work is expensive and not appreciated. If Apple does this they'll lose me, and a lot of other people who are doing real work.
Maybe the 80% he identified as being pirates are not actually pirates. After all, when you buy music, or and iPhone App, it is within the license to use that on up to five computers and all their attached iPhones and iPod Touches within the household. So if you had a family of five people each with an iPod Touch or an iPhone they could buy the App once and very legally use it on all the devices.
Then, since they had already bought it legally for all the devices there is no reason they would then buy it again.
5 legal users => 80% and it could be higher than that, quite legally, since it is all connected devices to the five computers.
These users might not be pirates at all but really valid, legal users that that developer simply failed to account for in his little study. Since he makes no mention of this issue I suspect he failed to take it into account.
By the way, I called Apple and asked them about this just to make sure. It's all legal like I described.
Well, there goes the Internet. With Microsx behind it nobody will be allowed to use it for free, no standards will be followed, protocols will change daily.
Like duh. Most people are not millionaires. Most business owners barely make it. There are only a few thousand developers. No reason to expect more than a few millionaires made from the App Store. In fact, I'm surprised there would even be one after such a short period of time. So, it is a success.
But you don't have to type those slashes. Nor do you have to type out www or the dot. The browsers can fill it in. The servers can fill it in. Even the http and the colon can be left off in most cases unless you're doing secure https or ftp or something special. The waste is in people bothering to type those characters. In news articles they only need give NoNAIS.org or SugarMountainFarm.com or something like that and the path is implicit.
The patent system is a travesty.
Ideas are a dime a dozen.
Coming up with an idea is 0.1% of the work.
Working out the idea is about 1% to 10% of the work.
It is bringing the idea to the market and selling it that takes the final hard push.
I have brought many of my inventions to market and that is where I made the money.
I did not patent a single one - Waste of money and time.
A refund is no good. I don't want Corp/Gov pulling these kinds of strings. That's too much power. It's my computer, my data. They have no right to reach in and mess with it. The Amazon Animal Farm book rescinding fiasco proved how bad an idea this is. They destroyed the class notes people had made while reading the book. That was the user's data. I won't buy any products with remote deactivation. A kill switch is a product killer.
I have prior art that invalidates this patent attempt. My theses work from 1986 long predates this and did the same thing. If IBM pushes this patent they stand to lose.
ASCAP doesn't understand. Without getting a chance to hear a sample of the song I would not bother buying it in most cases. They make sales through samples. Idiots.
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For the portion of processing that the interpretation is occupying the 10:1 ration is probably conservative. It may be 400:1. Compile.
Compile.
Even a relatively small astroid hitting anywhere would be a major disaster for all people on Earth. This idea of choosing where to hit is just a distraction. If it hits it is a problem. The only solution is no hit. That actually isn't that hard if you're going to the trouble of doing anything at all.
So it sounds like they're going to do it on the body mass index scale. Dumb. That penalizes athletes who are in excellent physical condition. I'm 30 to 40 lbs over weight by those charts. But I'm not. I work hard physically, I farm, so I have a lot of muscle and dense bones. I have little body fat. My physical activity makes for a heavy body that puts my body mass way over for my height yet I am very healthy. Even life insurance companies have started to admit those charts are dumb. They fail to take in to account real health. Once again Microsoft is behind the times and simply wrong.
What will they patent next? Racism?
In Vermont they had a permanently established border point at a rest area about half way down the state on I-91. It was there for a long time and widely discussed in the newspapers. A terrorist would simply need to get off at the exit before and get back on at the exit after. This internal border check point was a totally pointless waste of tax payer dollars. Or they could look like your typical family of five in a minivan and get waved right through.
Quit and start your own programming company, play your own music and out compete your boss in the market place.
Microscope is the best. Decades of fun. They're old enough for a real one but even one of the cheap $25 kiddie scopes open up the world if the little things. Get one that is both optical and digital to connect to the computer. We got a National Optical Model DC-128 and love it.
Next is a telescope.
Turn off Java, JavaScript, Plugins, etc or run programs like PithHelmet (Safari) that can even kill these selectively per web site. This greatly speeds up browsing and gets rid of all that ugly, flashing, moving junk.
So children raised in a more natural environment with less exposure to these things (pretty easy to do) will be more fertile (as well as not getting cancer as much according to other studies) resulting in a shift in the future population towards people who care about their health, vacate the cities and lead a more natural lifestyle eating organic foods (not necessarily Certified Big 'O' Organic but real organic). Darwinism in action.
I fail to see the surprise.
I'm puzzled by all these arguments about the cost of health insurance. The $1.2 trillion is over a ten year period making it $120 billion per year of costs.
For comparison:
$3,000 BILLION ($3 Trillion) was the handout we gave the bankers, insurance companies, investors and automakers. Free money but only for the rich.
$300 BILLION a year is what we've been spending on average fighting the non-war in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Free money but only for the big corporations who supply weapons.
$16 BILLION dollars a year in subsidies are given to Big Ag to over produce corn and a few other commodities. Free money but only for corporations big enough to qualify and eat up their competition.
$400 per citizen per year is what this will cost those who can afford health insurance. That means that EVERYONE has insurance creating a pleasant cycle where the cost of care goes down because less emergency room primary care is done and people work more raising the tide that all boats float upon. If you buy $1.10 of coffee a day you too can provide health insurance for someone. Imagine that.
Nobody wants to pay higher taxes but an awful lot of people, and the corporations they control, seem to want free handouts. I'm not particularly fond of creating new entitlements however the cost of universal healthcare is minimal and the benefit is great. The trick is there must be some rationing. There is room for universal basic health care and private insurance for higher level healthcare.
This sort of report is asinine and sensationalistic.
If you really want to save energy, eat a Politically Correct Greenie.
By the way, the planet doesn't need saving. It will continue on as if nothing happened when we are extinguished.
No ads please. If a vendor starts forcing ads on me I won't buy their product. I've got real work to do. Anything that distracts me from my work is expensive and not appreciated. If Apple does this they'll lose me, and a lot of other people who are doing real work.
Maybe the 80% he identified as being pirates are not actually pirates. After all, when you buy music, or and iPhone App, it is within the license to use that on up to five computers and all their attached iPhones and iPod Touches within the household. So if you had a family of five people each with an iPod Touch or an iPhone they could buy the App once and very legally use it on all the devices. Then, since they had already bought it legally for all the devices there is no reason they would then buy it again. 5 legal users => 80% and it could be higher than that, quite legally, since it is all connected devices to the five computers. These users might not be pirates at all but really valid, legal users that that developer simply failed to account for in his little study. Since he makes no mention of this issue I suspect he failed to take it into account. By the way, I called Apple and asked them about this just to make sure. It's all legal like I described.
Well, there goes the Internet. With Microsx behind it nobody will be allowed to use it for free, no standards will be followed, protocols will change daily.
Why am I not surprised? This is classic Microsocks strategy. They act like mal-ware. No wonder there is so much on their systems. Get a Mac.
Like duh. Most people are not millionaires. Most business owners barely make it. There are only a few thousand developers. No reason to expect more than a few millionaires made from the App Store. In fact, I'm surprised there would even be one after such a short period of time. So, it is a success.
But you don't have to type those slashes. Nor do you have to type out www or the dot. The browsers can fill it in. The servers can fill it in. Even the http and the colon can be left off in most cases unless you're doing secure https or ftp or something special. The waste is in people bothering to type those characters. In news articles they only need give NoNAIS.org or SugarMountainFarm.com or something like that and the path is implicit.
The patent system is a travesty. Ideas are a dime a dozen. Coming up with an idea is 0.1% of the work. Working out the idea is about 1% to 10% of the work. It is bringing the idea to the market and selling it that takes the final hard push. I have brought many of my inventions to market and that is where I made the money. I did not patent a single one - Waste of money and time.
A company called Danger? Responsible for data and servers? Yowsa! Red alert time!
...you owe 5Â. Not sure what I mean? Read it again. 10Â please. That's what they're after. Then every time you remember it.
A refund is no good. I don't want Corp/Gov pulling these kinds of strings. That's too much power. It's my computer, my data. They have no right to reach in and mess with it. The Amazon Animal Farm book rescinding fiasco proved how bad an idea this is. They destroyed the class notes people had made while reading the book. That was the user's data. I won't buy any products with remote deactivation. A kill switch is a product killer.
I have prior art on this dating back to 1986 in my thesis work. If IBM pushes this patent they will lose.
I have prior art that invalidates this patent attempt. My theses work from 1986 long predates this and did the same thing. If IBM pushes this patent they stand to lose.
ASCAP doesn't understand. Without getting a chance to hear a sample of the song I would not bother buying it in most cases. They make sales through samples. Idiots.