Please note this is the American Red Cross (a misnoma since it is based in the USA and there is a red cross organisation in Canada and other parts of America) and seems to have very little in common with the International Red Cross
The International Red Cross appears to be able to it's work without doing what the American Red Cross does? It does raise money by commercial activities but does not attempt to charge people for aid?
I agree, most bacteria couldn't care less about us, in fact don't even notice we exist
This is not "the age of Mankind", "the age of Primates", or even "The age of Mammals"... It's the age of Bacteria and has been for the last 4 billion years....There are more of them than everything else on earth, can survive more than anything else, and can out evolve anything else, the only competition they have is with other bacteria, everything else is food or a nice environment to them
But what would he have done if he had lived to a ripe old age.......Bach was for most of his life payed to produce a new piece of music every week, all of it brilliant..
But... An unlocked car will be stolen by any passing less than honest person, a locked car will be stolen by a car thief, a car with a state of the art lock, immobiliser etc.. will be stolen by... a car thief!
A combined Social Healthcare and Private insurance seems to be the norm in Europe, and this generally works well, i.e. no-one dies in the because they can't afford treatment. As long as the Medical Insurance companies are regulated properly (so they don't fleece people) and people can get essential treatment if they need it weather they can afford it or not, the system will work. The UK system is only creaking because the people who can afford health insurance, pay far too much for it and then find that everything they need it for is not covered, and those who use the NHS overburden it with trivial complaints because it is free...
The US system appears to be if you're insured then you have to wait to get approval for treatment (which the insurance company will try and get out of) the go to the hospital they choose, the doctor they choose, and pay what they say. Or if uninsured wait until it is an absolute emergency and get the minimum treatment. How can this produce a healthy population?
Now try using your Wii controller to select menus resize windows etc... repeatedly and you will find out what "Gorilla Arm" is...
The Wii Controller is not new, it's just that they actually found a use for it used as an analog for a sword/gun/racquet/club etc it is brilliant used as a replacement for a mouse it is rubbish the diffrence is between large sweeping movements and small accurate movements the latter causes Gorilla Arm the former does not...
Italy got bogged down in Ethiopia because they had been trained how to fight a modern army and didn't know how to fight small groups of native tribesmen who used guerilla tactics.
The English lost battles to the Zulu because they were hugely outnumbered and were fighting a very well organised army who had much the same weapons (because the Zulu had "liberated" them from the British) and those weapons were slow and required ammunition which was in short supply...
We can't conquer Iraq simply because you cannot conquer a country that wants to be independent, its been tried time and time again and it only works until the invading army gets fed up and goes away...
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We have a humanoid appearance because we evolved from a creature with a head at the front and four limbs, this did not evolve like that so we would be humanoid but because it was the best solution at the time, given that it evolved from a creature with a notochord and four limbs. It's a mixture of "Best" design and limits, what's the best solution given that you are start from here? We have five fingers because all mammals have 5 (or less), and they have 5 fingers because all lizards have 5 (or less) and so on back to the first creatures that left the water and because the first amphibian and apparently had between 8 and 6 "fingers" our descendants don't really have a choice they can lose a finger, but cannot (easily) gain one...
The points above about the octopus are very valid they evolved from something that has a totally different body plan but still have some things in common (2 eyes, central brain) maybe these are "more" universal
If they work in the way that some researchers hope thy can work? then problems that today take a stupidly long time could be done almost instantly (Cryptography is one example : Factoring large numbers *may* be trivial with a quantum computer)
Man made brain - Depends on your definition it's either already done (Insect brains) or far away (we don't know how the human brain works?, we only know how neurons work)
Quantum Computer - again depends on your definition - It's either already here (in a very basic form) or far away (or maybe even impossible) depending on which variant of quantum theory is true?
Since most people do not need a cutting edge PC to do what they require the latest and greatest chips/graphics cards are of no interest unless you are actually pushing them to the limit already. And the only users who do this are,
Playing newer games
Video Editing
Rendering 3D Graphics... and other intensive applications
Of these most people will only play games (and consoles are better at this!)
IMAX-quality movies at home with new projectors - See the popularity of IMAX Cinema.... a mid-air mouse that requires no flat surface - Been there done that doesn't work (Gorilla Arm) a home quantum computer - Dreaming (Not possible yet - maybe never) a router-based peer-to-peer system - HAsn't this been done, it's called the internet? a man-made brain - Dreaming (Not possible yet - maybe never)
So two bad ideas done and forgotten Two good ideas that are much more difficult than they appear and once idea that appears to be a minor change to what we have already...
So
Badly implemented and annoying UAC or SUDO as it is known elsewhere
Driver signing... why...?
Fixed a bug in XP
Added a feature that most people won't use (Which other volume control is turned down I've tried three...)
Added a feature that is essentially a working search function (as opposed to the broken one in XP)
An improvement to Explorer (again a program not part of the operating system)
An improvement to Explorer (again a program not part of the operating system)
Searching... as above
A limited bodge of the Windows File system as it should have been... and is done properly in many flavours of Unix already
Sorry didn't XP have stadard dialogs... ?
The problem is that Microsoft thinks that Interoperability means using Linux services from Windows and converting a Linux system to Windows... and nothing else.. It does not mean allowing a Linux user to access Windows services since they want a Linux user to use Windows instead...
US Software patents are stupid beyond belief, the original purpose of patents was to protect innovators, and encourage innovation.. software patents as implemented in the USA seems to do the exact opposite and since there are now so many software patents on trivial and obvious things any program will infringe multiple patents and so the only way to protect yourself is to have a set of patents yourself and participate in MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) with the other Patent holders, this means that the small software house can be intimidated into oblivion but the large established software houses...
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Please note this is the American Red Cross (a misnoma since it is based in the USA and there is a red cross organisation in Canada and other parts of America) and seems to have very little in common with the International Red Cross
The International Red Cross appears to be able to it's work without doing what the American Red Cross does? It does raise money by commercial activities but does not attempt to charge people for aid?
J & J only use the Red Cross Symbol and only started using it because of it's association with the Red Cross organisation
So The International Red Cross *should* sue J&J for using their trademark! and the american government for letting anybody else say it is theirs!
Why are Cheetahs successful then ... they have extremely low genetic diversity?
Can't find the Ubuntu system on Dell UK either .....
I agree, most bacteria couldn't care less about us, in fact don't even notice we exist
... It's the age of Bacteria and has been for the last 4 billion years ....There are more of them than everything else on earth, can survive more than anything else, and can out evolve anything else, the only competition they have is with other bacteria, everything else is food or a nice environment to them
This is not "the age of Mankind", "the age of Primates", or even "The age of Mammals"
No it's Coup de grâce ... you ignorant douché-bag
But what would he have done if he had lived to a ripe old age ... ....Bach was for most of his life payed to produce a new piece of music every week, all of it brilliant..
DRM cannot work (since you have the key)...
... An unlocked car will be stolen by any passing less than honest person, a locked car will be stolen by a car thief, a car with a state of the art lock, immobiliser etc .. will be stolen by... a car thief!
But
Yes, I've used these too , and they are very unreliable ....
No it is a large company it can fail to do two things at once and make them incompatible with each other ...
A combined Social Healthcare and Private insurance seems to be the norm in Europe, and this generally works well, i.e. no-one dies in the because they can't afford treatment. As long as the Medical Insurance companies are regulated properly (so they don't fleece people) and people can get essential treatment if they need it weather they can afford it or not, the system will work. The UK system is only creaking because the people who can afford health insurance, pay far too much for it and then find that everything they need it for is not covered, and those who use the NHS overburden it with trivial complaints because it is free...
The US system appears to be if you're insured then you have to wait to get approval for treatment (which the insurance company will try and get out of) the go to the hospital they choose, the doctor they choose, and pay what they say. Or if uninsured wait until it is an absolute emergency and get the minimum treatment. How can this produce a healthy population?
Now try using your Wii controller to select menus resize windows etc... repeatedly and you will find out what "Gorilla Arm" is ...
...
The Wii Controller is not new, it's just that they actually found a use for it used as an analog for a sword/gun/racquet/club etc it is brilliant used as a replacement for a mouse it is rubbish the diffrence is between large sweeping movements and small accurate movements the latter causes Gorilla Arm the former does not
Italy got bogged down in Ethiopia because they had been trained how to fight a modern army and didn't know how to fight small groups of native tribesmen who used guerilla tactics.
...
The English lost battles to the Zulu because they were hugely outnumbered and were fighting a very well organised army who had
much the same weapons (because the Zulu had "liberated" them from the British) and those weapons were slow and required ammunition which was in short supply...
We can't conquer Iraq simply because you cannot conquer a country that wants to be independent, its been tried time and time again and it only works until the invading army gets fed up and goes away
---
We have a humanoid appearance because we evolved from a creature with a head at the front and four limbs, this did not evolve like that so we would be humanoid but because it was the best solution at the time, given that it evolved from a creature with a notochord and four limbs. It's a mixture of "Best" design and limits, what's the best solution given that you are start from here? We have five fingers because all mammals have 5 (or less), and they have 5 fingers because all lizards have 5 (or less) and so on back to the first creatures that left the water and because the first amphibian and apparently had between 8 and 6 "fingers" our descendants don't really have a choice they can lose a finger, but cannot (easily) gain one...
The points above about the octopus are very valid they evolved from something that has a totally different body plan but still have some things in common (2 eyes, central brain) maybe these are "more" universal
If they work in the way that some researchers hope thy can work? then problems that today take a stupidly long time could be done almost instantly (Cryptography is one example : Factoring large numbers *may* be trivial with a quantum computer)
Man made brain - Depends on your definition it's either already done (Insect brains) or far away (we don't know how the human brain works?, we only know how neurons work)
Quantum Computer - again depends on your definition - It's either already here (in a very basic form) or far away (or maybe even impossible) depending on which variant of quantum theory is true?
Well get a keyboard and mouse for the Wii then ...?
http://www.wiikeyboard.com/
Since most people do not need a cutting edge PC to do what they require the latest and greatest chips/graphics cards are of no interest unless you are actually pushing them to the limit already. And the only users who do this are,
... and other intensive applications
Playing newer games
Video Editing
Rendering 3D Graphics
Of these most people will only play games (and consoles are better at this!)
Or say the less extreme versions
1) Linux is not all good
2) Microsoft is not all Bad
3) Opensource is not the solution to all problems, closed source can be better
IMAX-quality movies at home with new projectors - See the popularity of IMAX Cinema ....
...
a mid-air mouse that requires no flat surface - Been there done that doesn't work (Gorilla Arm)
a home quantum computer - Dreaming (Not possible yet - maybe never)
a router-based peer-to-peer system - HAsn't this been done, it's called the internet?
a man-made brain - Dreaming (Not possible yet - maybe never)
So two bad ideas done and forgotten
Two good ideas that are much more difficult than they appear
and once idea that appears to be a minor change to what we have already
Revolutionary(TM)?
Because US laws do not apply outside the US?
.. who exactly will prosecute and where?
If China (where they are made) exports an OLPC to Cuba
Sorry but Windows is insecure ... IE7 runs as an Admin so the Internet has access greater than you do...
...
On Unix/Linux/MacOSX the Browser runs as the user and so is secure even if it is bug ridden
This is a tool written by SysInternals out of frustration with the lack of tools for doing this!
..
Proved popular because it actually did something useful, So Microsoft then bought the company
Please note it should have been easy for Microsoft to write this themselves but the didn't?
So ... why ...?
... as above
... and is done properly in many flavours of Unix already ... ?
...!
Badly implemented and annoying UAC or SUDO as it is known elsewhere
Driver signing
Fixed a bug in XP
Added a feature that most people won't use (Which other volume control is turned down I've tried three...)
Added a feature that is essentially a working search function (as opposed to the broken one in XP)
An improvement to Explorer (again a program not part of the operating system)
An improvement to Explorer (again a program not part of the operating system)
Searching
A limited bodge of the Windows File system as it should have been
Sorry didn't XP have stadard dialogs
And this took Six years
The problem is that Microsoft thinks that Interoperability means using Linux services from Windows and converting a Linux system to Windows ... and nothing else .. It does not mean allowing a Linux user to access Windows services since they want a Linux user to use Windows instead ...
I agree,
.. software patents as implemented in the USA seems to do the exact opposite and since there are now so many software patents on trivial and obvious things any program will infringe multiple patents and so the only way to protect yourself is to have a set of patents yourself and participate in MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) with the other Patent holders, this means that the small software house can be intimidated into oblivion but the large established software houses ...
US Software patents are stupid beyond belief, the original purpose of patents was to protect innovators, and encourage innovation