There is no dichotomy KDE3 is nice, KDE 4 is nice, Gnome 2 is nice, Gnome 3 is nice, but some is XFCE, Blackbox, Ratpoison, etc...in the right circumstances
Use what you prefer on the particular machine you are using... KDE4 on a 486 is a bad idea, but generally so is Blackbox on an array of 6 x 40" displays...
Winnie the Pooh - Bought the rights for a pitance, and copyrighted thier version...so the original cannot complete Aladdin/Little Mermaid/etc.etc... - Used very well known ancient story, and copyrighted thier version and sue anything remotely like it
Most disney TV is cable TV filler and not worth watching....not exactly creative genius
The difference is that in China most of what people are searching for is from China, Baidu rely on this for market share and tailor their searches accordingly... this will not be true in many other counties
If what you are searching for is Movies or Music related then unless it's Bollywood or Hong Kong Cinema then the main sites are likley to be US based ?
There will always be some local content, but often a lot of what you are searching for is USA based...
They ran it on the Top Gear test track, this is notorious for massively reducing the apparant range of petrol/diesel cars, they thrash cars on the track massive acceleration, decceleration, power slides etc... most normal cars only get 10 mpg (or less) under these conditions, they have driven several cars until empty, so the Tesla's 200 mile range could be nearer 50miles under these conditions, which they could easily have done...
Also the Tesla did break down, and Tesla do not seem to be disputing this...?
..and the US reactors where are they, on the pacific coast?, very near an earthquake fault? I suspect not
Japan had no option, the whole country is an earthquake zone and it is almost all coast
The US has a lot of inland, and a lot of land well away from major faults.....unfortunately as you say it also has no will to update reactors and the reactors were probalby built in stupid places...San Onofre seems to be a good example (on the Pacific coast, in California)
You will find that the Police are very good at not arresting people when they do not have enough evidence and are unlikely to find any.....they would be remiss however if they did not ask you as the obvious person, just as they always question the householder in a burglary, just in case it was an insurace scam...
In the UK at least this is voluntary phasing out of incandescent bulbs for sale to the general public, no ban, no law
So no 'ban' just it is much more difficult to buy them, most stores do not stock them anymore and so less will be produced so pushing up the price (as economy of scale no longer keeps the price down), so you can still buy them if you really want
This would be like the big retail bookshops not buying certain books, you can still buy them from specialist bookshops, or order them, or buy over the internet, but it will be harder to find them, and they will be more expensive....
If they kept cranking them out but no store would stock them, they would lose money and so stop.......in the same way that they could try and sell anything that does not meet safety standards, nothing stopping you, but if no one will sell them and no one will buy them then it is proably not a very good idea...
Most DNA tests are done to the 1:100,000 level because this is a) quick and b) cheap
DNA testing can be done reliably and accurately to 1:1 billion but this is very expensive and takes a long time....
But if you are relying on DNA evidence alone then you have a very unsound case, if you test everyone you will find at least 6 matches even at 1:1billion...
Same goes for IP tracking, you can do it quickly and cheaply and it is often inaccurate, or you can do it properly and it can be made very reliable but this is very expenside and time consuming and does not usually prove any more than the quick test... the defense lawayer first question should laways be what other evidence do you have linking the person to the crime?
Yes it is a critical situation, but not as bad as this hype
The "Several people" are workers at the plant....
Radiation in this case is mostly Iodine, which has a short halflife but is dangerous if ingested, not because of the whole body effects of the radiation (which are minimal) but because it is concentrated in the thyroid... this is why short term avoidance of tapwater was advised
Caesium is usually distributed all over the body and is expelled natuarlly and so is less worrying in small doses...
40 year old badly designed reactors survived the worst earthquake and tsunami in living memory... not much of a story there
These sites support the rapid free sharing of information..., which as a side effect, amoungst other things alows the sharing of copyrighted information......thus reducing the ability of publishers to profit from the books authors write, of record companies to profit from the songs singers sing and songwriters write, of film companies to profit from the films they directors, producers, writers, and film stars make
The problem is that rather than finding a solution to copywirte infringement they fight it by blocking everything that helps it... What is next : Websites with clips, pictures, unfavourable reviews....
Blocking sites because a private company does not want you to use it is never a good idea....
It isn't, that's why the computer can beat you, it learns how you pick "random" numbers
Humans are terrible at picking random numbers, computers can easily be trained to see the patterns in the pseudo random sequences, this has been done before many many times...
If you use a proper random number generator to pick your choice then it's average score will go to chance (1/3 wins 1/3 draws 1/3 losses)
The biggest problem is that when something looks human people have too high expectations of it...
So when it fails to act human (as it will) they are frustrated by it, and hate it, if it looks like a dog, or cartoon then they have much lower expectations which it is (just) possible to meet
This looked to me to be a just too perfect human acting like a robot, until about halfway through the video and then it got more and more obvious it was not human
Interacting with this is likely to be slow frustrating and pointless...
No Disney(park) in the UK, No TV Shorts, No (new) Cartoons on TV....Don't have a Wii...
The only time I have seen Mickey lately is in adverts for Disneyland Paris, and then he is used as the Logo for Disney.......Obviously I am immune to the Disney marketing army ?
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You can change BSD licenced code to closed, and people still have the open code
You can change GPL licenced code to closed, and people still have the open code
from this point of view they are as open as each other
So if Amazon pay tax to a State they have no phyical presense in, what do Amazon or it's customers get back .... nothing
They are not using any services that have not already been paid for and taxed so what exactly are they paying taxes for?
There is no dichotomy KDE3 is nice, KDE 4 is nice, Gnome 2 is nice, Gnome 3 is nice, but some is XFCE, Blackbox, Ratpoison, etc ...in the right circumstances
Use what you prefer on the particular machine you are using ... KDE4 on a 486 is a bad idea, but generally so is Blackbox on an array of 6 x 40" displays ...
"..the patent system has gone horribly wrong and the whole notion of patents has become absurd" - Yes ....this is unfortunately the reality
Like :
Winnie the Pooh - Bought the rights for a pitance, and copyrighted thier version ...so the original cannot complete .etc ... - Used very well known ancient story, and copyrighted thier version and sue anything remotely like it
Aladdin/Little Mermaid/etc
Most disney TV is cable TV filler and not worth watching....not exactly creative genius
Government not needed - Baidu is not run by the Chinese government (it just plays by it's rules)
Just checked and there are 177+ UK based search engines .... currently kept down by Google.co.uk being better ...
The difference is that in China most of what people are searching for is from China, Baidu rely on this for market share and tailor their searches accordingly... this will not be true in many other counties
If what you are searching for is Movies or Music related then unless it's Bollywood or Hong Kong Cinema then the main sites are likley to be US based ?
There will always be some local content, but often a lot of what you are searching for is USA based ...
Music video's were originally used to advertise a new album, then a new single, then they were sold to Music TV, then to the Customer ....
We are buying adverts for products ....
And DOS programs could overwite the OS in memory ... Single tasking wasn't so hot either ...
They ran it on the Top Gear test track, this is notorious for massively reducing the apparant range of petrol/diesel cars, they thrash cars on the track massive acceleration, decceleration, power slides etc ... most normal cars only get 10 mpg (or less) under these conditions, they have driven several cars until empty, so the Tesla's 200 mile range could be nearer 50miles under these conditions, which they could easily have done ...
Also the Tesla did break down, and Tesla do not seem to be disputing this ...?
..and the US reactors where are they, on the pacific coast?, very near an earthquake fault? I suspect not
Japan had no option, the whole country is an earthquake zone and it is almost all coast
The US has a lot of inland, and a lot of land well away from major faults ... ..unfortunately as you say it also has no will to update reactors and the reactors were probalby built in stupid places ...San Onofre seems to be a good example (on the Pacific coast, in California)
You will find that the Police are very good at not arresting people when they do not have enough evidence and are unlikely to find any ... ..they would be remiss however if they did not ask you as the obvious person, just as they always question the householder in a burglary, just in case it was an insurace scam ...
In the UK at least this is voluntary phasing out of incandescent bulbs for sale to the general public, no ban, no law
So no 'ban' just it is much more difficult to buy them, most stores do not stock them anymore and so less will be produced so pushing up the price (as economy of scale no longer keeps the price down), so you can still buy them if you really want
This would be like the big retail bookshops not buying certain books, you can still buy them from specialist bookshops, or order them, or buy over the internet, but it will be harder to find them, and they will be more expensive ....
If they kept cranking them out but no store would stock them, they would lose money and so stop.... ...in the same way that they could try and sell anything that does not meet safety standards, nothing stopping you, but if no one will sell them and no one will buy them then it is proably not a very good idea ...
It is quite reasonable to ask you first .... but it is still up to them to prove it was you ...
Most DNA tests are done to the 1:100,000 level because this is a) quick and b) cheap
DNA testing can be done reliably and accurately to 1:1 billion but this is very expensive and takes a long time ....
But if you are relying on DNA evidence alone then you have a very unsound case, if you test everyone you will find at least 6 matches even at 1:1billion ...
Same goes for IP tracking, you can do it quickly and cheaply and it is often inaccurate, or you can do it properly and it can be made very reliable but this is very expenside and time consuming and does not usually prove any more than the quick test ... the defense lawayer first question should laways be what other evidence do you have linking the person to the crime?
Yes it is a critical situation, but not as bad as this hype
The "Several people" are workers at the plant ....
Radiation in this case is mostly Iodine, which has a short halflife but is dangerous if ingested, not because of the whole body effects of the radiation (which are minimal) but because it is concentrated in the thyroid ... this is why short term avoidance of tapwater was advised
Caesium is usually distributed all over the body and is expelled natuarlly and so is less worrying in small doses ...
40 year old badly designed reactors survived the worst earthquake and tsunami in living memory ... not much of a story there
These sites support the rapid free sharing of information..., which as a side effect, amoungst other things alows the sharing of copyrighted information .. ....thus reducing the ability of publishers to profit from the books authors write, of record companies to profit from the songs singers sing and songwriters write, of film companies to profit from the films they directors, producers, writers, and film stars make
The problem is that rather than finding a solution to copywirte infringement they fight it by blocking everything that helps it ... What is next : Websites with clips, pictures, unfavourable reviews ....
Blocking sites because a private company does not want you to use it is never a good idea ....
Batteries die
Flywheels wear
Gravitational PE has moving parts to ...
SuperCaps might be the answer .... but they are expensive and can arc and burn out ...
That would do nicely ....
It isn't, that's why the computer can beat you, it learns how you pick "random" numbers
Humans are terrible at picking random numbers, computers can easily be trained to see the patterns in the pseudo random sequences, this has been done before many many times ...
If you use a proper random number generator to pick your choice then it's average score will go to chance (1/3 wins 1/3 draws 1/3 losses)
The biggest problem is that when something looks human people have too high expectations of it ...
So when it fails to act human (as it will) they are frustrated by it, and hate it, if it looks like a dog, or cartoon then they have much lower expectations which it is (just) possible to meet
This looked to me to be a just too perfect human acting like a robot, until about halfway through the video and then it got more and more obvious it was not human
Interacting with this is likely to be slow frustrating and pointless ...
No Disney(park) in the UK, No TV Shorts, No (new) Cartoons on TV ....Don't have a Wii ...
The only time I have seen Mickey lately is in adverts for Disneyland Paris, and then he is used as the Logo for Disney ... ....Obviously I am immune to the Disney marketing army ?
Should Cyber Vigilantes Be Cheered Or Feared
Simple answer : Yes
The court Decided that there was no infringement ...
"After two and a half years of court battles, Microsoft paid US$20 million for the Lindows trademark, and Lindows Inc. became Linspire Inc."
i.e. Microsoft did not win they just bought the opposition