All it would have taken is for the villain NOT to talk about it. That's all! In other words, any psychopath would have pulled this off and utterly ruined the poor bastard's life.
Firefox's usage share has been stagnant for about a year. Chrome's, on the other hand, has been steadily increasing. Add to this the steady (though not as fast as Chrome's) increase of Safari's usage share, and you get a pretty clear picture where IE's usage share is going. Firefox's is not increasing, though, even if it becomes the dominant browser. It will be a dominance of limited impact, as Chrome will overtake it in a year or two.
Our complex, chaotic modern society is already a great environment for psychopaths. Now we're giving them another advantage, with these scanners, which psychopaths will always, under all circumstances, pass with flying colors.
You get the same effect as live musicians -- and if you want little errors here and there, they can be introduced as well, just like deBeers' claims that mined diamonds are "better" can be derailed by adding some junk to diamonds being grown.
Live music and music produced by a computer really is not the same thing. I should know, I compose electronic music (have several software MIDI sequencers, a dozen hardware synths and a few softsynths). But I am also a lover of classical music, and I guarantee you, a computer will never be able to produce the emotions that some of the great artists' recordings can. The reason why you wouldn't know that this difference exists is, 90% of classical music recordings are crap. A 5-minute long movement can be pieced together from two dozen outtakes. It just sounds bland, as if it was played by a computer. But if you search carefully, especially among live recordings, you will find true gems, which reinvigorites you while you listen to it.
Put simply, computer-generated (I am not talking about music reproduced from recorded files like.flac,.wav or.mp3) music is boring and will make the listener sleepy. Live music, or a recording of live music can (not necessarily will) infuse you with strong emotions and actually awaken you and refresh you.
If there was life on Mars, based on our experience on Earth in looking at similar formations, these rock formations seem to be the most likely to have preserved evidence of past life.
Sorry for the little correction, but I think the two forms of conditional are too often confused, and it's worth pointing out that "were" is used in the case of unreal conditionals. This is not the case: the possibility of past life on Mars is not known, hence, not impossible.
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Back in the day (okay, I was only in high school at the time), we used to say that IBM stood for "I've Been Mislead".
Yes, this captures quite accurately the disappointment that Amiga users felt when seeing the expensive and over-hyped IBM PC running in command line mode, and having ASCII graphics apps. I thought the world must have gone mad.
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The Amiga was every bit as expandable as the IBM PC and way more open. I think you are making a huge disservice to computer history, if you think IBM PC won because of "expandability and openness", and disregard the importance of the three magic letters.
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The big, not-often-told truth is that IBM PCs sucked donkey ass, compared to the Amigas. I remember the huge hype that surrounded the IBM PC, so I wanted to have a look. I was spoiled on Amiga's full-fledged GUI (G for Graphical!) that permeated all the applications present on the Amiga. When I saw the apps on the IBM PC, I couldn't believe my eyes - in the most negative way possible: the poor ASCII graphics sported by the apps present on the IBM PC were a colossal turn-off. And the computers were considerably more expensive than the Amigas, even without soundcard and color graphics. And "colour" on the IBM PC meant 4 colours (CGA)! Of course, CGA cost you an arm and a leg.
I mean, c'mon! IBM PCs and Amigas? No comparison. The only thing the IBM PC had going for it were the three magic letters.
Well, a couple of years back I was thinking of a similar project: use an Atmel AVR 8 bit (RISC) microcontroller to create a sound chip, controlled by MIDI. Well, this Linus dude did that, and MUCH, MUCH more! Pluse, the guy is a great musician (he can actually play a full organ, which in addition to hand, needs also foot coordination), and can play the whole of Rob Hubbard's Spellbound entirely by heart.
In a perfect world, this guy should be famous, make millions, and sportsmen like Tiger Woods would be happy to mow his lawn:o) (that's my geek utopian dream).
Because BP was calling all the shots - BP had (and still has) legal and practical responsibility of the well. That is why, BTW, Anadarko and Mitsui are now suing BP.
This is a meta-comment: if Slashdot is going to have stories placed so randomly, then the whole category system is pointless and you could just as well junk it altogether.
An investment in intel won't necessarily stop riots, especially riots calculated to provoke violent retaliation without regard to own-side casualties. Less-lethal weapons won't produce bloody martyr cell phone footage.:) Smart opponents want martyrs, especially when the martyrs aren't their own operative and are just expendable locals they may not care for anyway or actively dislike.
Intel isn't something you can (always) buy. though that IS a good idea if done carefully.
While I agree with most of your points (good post), I am personally of the opinion that good intelligence would ALSO impede those kinds of riots you talk about, if not immediately then in the long run, by eliminating the ringleaders of the Taliban, which would incite those riots. Using the microwave weapon to quell the riots, even though non-lethal, will cause resentment as much as a few dead rioters would. Totally IMHO.
Rather than high-tech indiscriminate non-lethal weapons, the US should invest much more in intelligence gathering and infiltration. Which is difficult, but just because slapping a shiny new weapon into the battlefield is easier, doesn't mean it's better.
A USB cable is a specialist tool when it comes to mobiles, most users have never, and probably will never, connected their phone to their computer. This concept is alien to most users.
Huh... what?
Every mobile phone with a camera comes with a USB cable nowadays. How would otherwise those pictures be transfered to a PC? Furthermore, most if not all phones are nowadays capable of playing MP3 files, which, again, need to be transfered from a PC to the phone. Finally, most (all?) smartphones have calendaring functions which allow/require syncing with a PC. For which they use a USB cable.
A USB cable is absolutely not alien to current mobile phone users.It hasn't been for the last 5 years, in fact!
I agree with your points (of course). Just wanted to add: there seem to be sufficient domestic uranium, just waiting to be mined. Finland could, if she wanted, be 100% nuclear, just like France. And France didn't suffer too much from this status: they are selling shitloads of electrical energy to neighboring countries, especially to Germany, who decommissioned most of its nuke plants, and is now in dire shortage of domestic electricity. Those coal plants just aren't churning out enough of it (but they are churning out plenty of radioactive pollutants (not to speak of the nasty non-nuke ones). The Greens in Germany did a really superb job at worsening the environment.
The first is almost ready (was approved in 2002) and 2 more have been recently approved by parliament. The current 4 plants produce a total of 2721 MW, which is 30% of the total finnish electrical power, and the fifth, soon to be put into use (around 2012 - ok, soonish), will add another 1600 MW. The other two, recently approved, plants would add about 1400-1500 MW each.
The interesting thing is, the plants were approved mostly based on economic criteria, but everybody had in the back of their had the higher market stability of the fuel prices for nuke plants, and the independence on, shall we say, problem-prone sources (arab countires and russia). The group that lobbied against the plants proposed building natural gas plants, fueled by gas imported from Russia. After Russia used their natural gas supply as a political weapon, that group got pretty much stunted (even though it's not politically correct to say so). By the way, Libya used their natural gas as a weapon, too, for instance against Croatia, when that country criticized the PLO at the UN. Just in case you think Russia is the only country engaging in such tactics.
I can only speak for myself, of course, but I guess a lot of people who want this to happen (I am one of them) does so because of Zuckerberg rather than Facebook. Humans are naturally drawn towards justice and fairness, and see Zuckerberg as a person who denigrates his customers, abuses their privacy and takes advantage of their personal data - and always, ALWAYS pushes the boundaries of what Facebook is allowe3d to do and only retreats after a big community backlash. And so, people feel Zuckerberg does not deserve the fortune he has.
Facebook could, otherwise, be a useful and safe tool, in the hands of an ethical leadership.
The multiple posts about an external magazine review have been removed because discussing magazine articles is offtopic for a tech support board, just as discussing the latest Huffington Post article on Angelina Jolie is offtopic.
So, a magazine article about the iPhone is off-topic in a tech support board dedicated to the iPhone?
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More like, snatch utter, unmitigated defeat from the jaws of defeat.
All it would have taken is for the villain NOT to talk about it. That's all! In other words, any psychopath would have pulled this off and utterly ruined the poor bastard's life.
They'll be soon available as a free download.
What, you've never watched "Home alone"?
Now I want to play Civ V so badly! I can't afford it, though, time-wise. Wife and kid, and a full-time research position don't permit this luxury.
Firefox's usage share has been stagnant for about a year. Chrome's, on the other hand, has been steadily increasing. Add to this the steady (though not as fast as Chrome's) increase of Safari's usage share, and you get a pretty clear picture where IE's usage share is going. Firefox's is not increasing, though, even if it becomes the dominant browser. It will be a dominance of limited impact, as Chrome will overtake it in a year or two.
Suse Linux's default dextop is (a very nice) KDE. Why the heck to they spend so many resources on Gnome?
Our complex, chaotic modern society is already a great environment for psychopaths. Now we're giving them another advantage, with these scanners, which psychopaths will always, under all circumstances, pass with flying colors.
(An interesting note from Wikipedia: Findings indicate psychopathic convicts have a 2.5 time higher probability of being released from jail than undiagnosed convicts, even though they are more likely to recidivate.
You get the same effect as live musicians -- and if you want little errors here and there, they can be introduced as well, just like deBeers' claims that mined diamonds are "better" can be derailed by adding some junk to diamonds being grown.
Live music and music produced by a computer really is not the same thing. I should know, I compose electronic music (have several software MIDI sequencers, a dozen hardware synths and a few softsynths). But I am also a lover of classical music, and I guarantee you, a computer will never be able to produce the emotions that some of the great artists' recordings can. The reason why you wouldn't know that this difference exists is, 90% of classical music recordings are crap. A 5-minute long movement can be pieced together from two dozen outtakes. It just sounds bland, as if it was played by a computer. But if you search carefully, especially among live recordings, you will find true gems, which reinvigorites you while you listen to it.
Put simply, computer-generated (I am not talking about music reproduced from recorded files like .flac, .wav or .mp3) music is boring and will make the listener sleepy. Live music, or a recording of live music can (not necessarily will) infuse you with strong emotions and actually awaken you and refresh you.
If there was life on Mars, based on our experience on Earth in looking at similar formations, these rock formations seem to be the most likely to have preserved evidence of past life.
Sorry for the little correction, but I think the two forms of conditional are too often confused, and it's worth pointing out that "were" is used in the case of unreal conditionals. This is not the case: the possibility of past life on Mars is not known, hence, not impossible.
Back in the day (okay, I was only in high school at the time), we used to say that IBM stood for "I've Been Mislead".
Yes, this captures quite accurately the disappointment that Amiga users felt when seeing the expensive and over-hyped IBM PC running in command line mode, and having ASCII graphics apps. I thought the world must have gone mad.
The Amiga was every bit as expandable as the IBM PC and way more open. I think you are making a huge disservice to computer history, if you think IBM PC won because of "expandability and openness", and disregard the importance of the three magic letters.
The big, not-often-told truth is that IBM PCs sucked donkey ass, compared to the Amigas. I remember the huge hype that surrounded the IBM PC, so I wanted to have a look. I was spoiled on Amiga's full-fledged GUI (G for Graphical!) that permeated all the applications present on the Amiga. When I saw the apps on the IBM PC, I couldn't believe my eyes - in the most negative way possible: the poor ASCII graphics sported by the apps present on the IBM PC were a colossal turn-off. And the computers were considerably more expensive than the Amigas, even without soundcard and color graphics. And "colour" on the IBM PC meant 4 colours (CGA)! Of course, CGA cost you an arm and a leg.
I mean, c'mon! IBM PCs and Amigas? No comparison. The only thing the IBM PC had going for it were the three magic letters.
Well, a couple of years back I was thinking of a similar project: use an Atmel AVR 8 bit (RISC) microcontroller to create a sound chip, controlled by MIDI. Well, this Linus dude did that, and MUCH, MUCH more! Pluse, the guy is a great musician (he can actually play a full organ, which in addition to hand, needs also foot coordination), and can play the whole of Rob Hubbard's Spellbound entirely by heart.
In a perfect world, this guy should be famous, make millions, and sportsmen like Tiger Woods would be happy to mow his lawn :o) (that's my geek utopian dream).
Because BP was calling all the shots - BP had (and still has) legal and practical responsibility of the well. That is why, BTW, Anadarko and Mitsui are now suing BP.
This is a meta-comment: if Slashdot is going to have stories placed so randomly, then the whole category system is pointless and you could just as well junk it altogether.
It's not a binary choice.
An investment in intel won't necessarily stop riots, especially riots calculated to provoke violent retaliation without regard to own-side casualties. Less-lethal weapons won't produce bloody martyr cell phone footage. :) Smart opponents want martyrs, especially when the martyrs aren't their own operative and are just expendable locals they may not care for anyway or actively dislike.
Intel isn't something you can (always) buy. though that IS a good idea if done carefully.
While I agree with most of your points (good post), I am personally of the opinion that good intelligence would ALSO impede those kinds of riots you talk about, if not immediately then in the long run, by eliminating the ringleaders of the Taliban, which would incite those riots. Using the microwave weapon to quell the riots, even though non-lethal, will cause resentment as much as a few dead rioters would. Totally IMHO.
Rather than high-tech indiscriminate non-lethal weapons, the US should invest much more in intelligence gathering and infiltration. Which is difficult, but just because slapping a shiny new weapon into the battlefield is easier, doesn't mean it's better.
A USB cable is a specialist tool when it comes to mobiles, most users have never, and probably will never, connected their phone to their computer. This concept is alien to most users.
Huh... what?
Every mobile phone with a camera comes with a USB cable nowadays. How would otherwise those pictures be transfered to a PC? Furthermore, most if not all phones are nowadays capable of playing MP3 files, which, again, need to be transfered from a PC to the phone. Finally, most (all?) smartphones have calendaring functions which allow/require syncing with a PC. For which they use a USB cable.
A USB cable is absolutely not alien to current mobile phone users.It hasn't been for the last 5 years, in fact!
I wish we, humans, were a carrier for a disease that doesn't affect us much, but kills off mosquitoes.
Imagine a world without mosquitoes....!!!
I agree with your points (of course). Just wanted to add: there seem to be sufficient domestic uranium, just waiting to be mined. Finland could, if she wanted, be 100% nuclear, just like France. And France didn't suffer too much from this status: they are selling shitloads of electrical energy to neighboring countries, especially to Germany, who decommissioned most of its nuke plants, and is now in dire shortage of domestic electricity. Those coal plants just aren't churning out enough of it (but they are churning out plenty of radioactive pollutants (not to speak of the nasty non-nuke ones). The Greens in Germany did a really superb job at worsening the environment.
So all Toyota needs to do is issue new drivers.
Not sure about issuing new ones - but certainly, recall the faulty ones, as they pose a clear safety threat.
The first is almost ready (was approved in 2002) and 2 more have been recently approved by parliament. The current 4 plants produce a total of 2721 MW, which is 30% of the total finnish electrical power, and the fifth, soon to be put into use (around 2012 - ok, soonish), will add another 1600 MW. The other two, recently approved, plants would add about 1400-1500 MW each.
The interesting thing is, the plants were approved mostly based on economic criteria, but everybody had in the back of their had the higher market stability of the fuel prices for nuke plants, and the independence on, shall we say, problem-prone sources (arab countires and russia). The group that lobbied against the plants proposed building natural gas plants, fueled by gas imported from Russia. After Russia used their natural gas supply as a political weapon, that group got pretty much stunted (even though it's not politically correct to say so). By the way, Libya used their natural gas as a weapon, too, for instance against Croatia, when that country criticized the PLO at the UN. Just in case you think Russia is the only country engaging in such tactics.
I can only speak for myself, of course, but I guess a lot of people who want this to happen (I am one of them) does so because of Zuckerberg rather than Facebook. Humans are naturally drawn towards justice and fairness, and see Zuckerberg as a person who denigrates his customers, abuses their privacy and takes advantage of their personal data - and always, ALWAYS pushes the boundaries of what Facebook is allowe3d to do and only retreats after a big community backlash. And so, people feel Zuckerberg does not deserve the fortune he has.
Facebook could, otherwise, be a useful and safe tool, in the hands of an ethical leadership.
The multiple posts about an external magazine review have been removed because discussing magazine articles is offtopic for a tech support board, just as discussing the latest Huffington Post article on Angelina Jolie is offtopic.
So, a magazine article about the iPhone is off-topic in a tech support board dedicated to the iPhone?
Are you saying this with a straight face?