> I remember thinking "too little, too late" when IBM launched its x86 line (the IBM 5150 PC with 8088 CPU) in 1981.
Memories! I cut my programming teeth on an IBM 5120, entering Star Traders (like Starlanes only text-ier) and Star Trek from hobbyist coding books. The days!
> I am never for BIG GOVERNMENT, but there are times the government does need to step in to assure the safety of the food people buy and eat
Really? What's wrong exactly with industry self-regulation and/or privatising food safety testing?
Otherwise, why stop with the government telling us what to eat? They already contaminate drinking water with fluoride and spend your Socialist Tax dollar repairing roads you'll never use. Soon they'll make marrying your dog legal and if that don't make Jesus appear to sort them out, well I just don't know.
> So I guess whether I end up spending much time on Trove will depend immensely on how the discussion system works in practice.
For me, it's whether I can get it to look readable in Stylish.
The latest style of web design seems intent on making you actually move your head to look around at the content. And that line spacing, yeesh.. the trend had gone beyond "a bit more spacing makes reading easier" to "MOAR SPACING!"
Having a large accident would be a large liability for an energy company, and they would naturally take steps to avoid it.
Exactly. Just how banks took steps to avoid collapsing, by becoming "too big to fail". The banks survived, thanks to bailouts from taxpayers. So that turned out well - except for those very same taxpayers who lost their homes. I don't recall them being paid back. But basically you're correct, large companies are very good at "avoiding" (ie. displacing) risk.
It's important to note that right now in US politics one party is completely and totally against the concept of scientific inquiry putting Newspeak-like religious rhetoric above all else.
It's important to note that right now in US politics one party is completely and totally committed to the idea that winning an election against the Democrat vote is to appeal to the equally large segment of the population that responds enthusiastically to religious rhetoric above all else.
Google has better control of ads if they decide what you want to find.
Except the function is not gone at all. If you search for a location, then type a product - eg. "pizza" - then it will find all the pizza places around that area. It doesn't need the extra button, it works anyway. A button is useful as a visual clue for the clueless, but perhaps they want to use that button for something else later, or just want to "simplify" the interface (for certain product managers' values of "simplify").
> It was lucky enough to be the Last Big Thing before Apple hit top gear and it's desperate to find the Next Big Thing before it falls behind.
Apple didn't hit top gear, it just engaged a retro rocket called Steve Jobs. Rocket is now spent, and Apple will slow to its usual coasting speed over the next few years. There's no reason to think Apple will perform at the same level from now on. The right-place-right-time market breakthroughs are over.
Android will take over from here, becoming embedded in all kinds of devices - which is Google's breakthrough, if they play it right. IOS and Windows has missed the boat there. You can make phones and tablets to compete with Apple, but try making another device OS that embeds the way Android is going to embed over the next few years.
Android is going to be everywhere, and that will send Google's brand way beyond Apple's reach. People will begin to prefer Android devices, simply because of its pervasiveness - ironically, achieved the opposite way to Apple's lock-in, walled-garden approach.
Aussie here. If you're going to spend your life annoying dangerous animals, it's pretty predictable how you'll go out. If you spend your life sky-diving, same. They are big risks. Not saying Irwin annoyed the ray, but any normal person wouldn't be in waters around rays anyway. Not particularly surprising.
An interesting irony is that most people who love Capitalism do what benefits themselves, while looking at society's problems as "somebody else's problem". But who is this somebody else? It's like how most people think they are above average intelligence.
However, a tragedy of the commons is in no way in the interests of any individual!
This statement is absurdly false. If this were true, there would be no tragedy of the commons to talk about because everyone would be on the look out for such situations.
I stopped reading at that point, as your logic is absurdly false.
You really think everyone tends to do what is in the best interests of the individual? That everyone is on the look-out for things that aren't? Quite a fantasy world there. If that was the case, the phrase "free as in beer" would be redundant, as all beer would be.
> When will we stop saying who can and cannot spy on us
When we decide to turn off the GPS?
My GPS is off 99% of the time. Only time I turn it on is when I need - really need - directions while driving.
When Google starts collects my location info when my GPS tickbox is un-ticked, then I'll revolt. Until then, yawn.
If you turn it on and agree to the agreement, it's your own lookout. Go buy a separate GPS unit if you're that worried about it, but stop crying like you don't have choices.
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> I remember thinking "too little, too late" when IBM launched its x86 line (the IBM 5150 PC with 8088 CPU) in 1981.
Memories! I cut my programming teeth on an IBM 5120, entering Star Traders (like Starlanes only text-ier) and Star Trek from hobbyist coding books. The days!
> I am never for BIG GOVERNMENT, but there are times the government does need to step in to assure the safety of the food people buy and eat
Really? What's wrong exactly with industry self-regulation and/or privatising food safety testing?
Otherwise, why stop with the government telling us what to eat? They already contaminate drinking water with fluoride and spend your Socialist Tax dollar repairing roads you'll never use. Soon they'll make marrying your dog legal and if that don't make Jesus appear to sort them out, well I just don't know.
Thank god for Stylish is all I can say.
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Much better.
> So I guess whether I end up spending much time on Trove will depend immensely on how the discussion system works in practice.
For me, it's whether I can get it to look readable in Stylish.
The latest style of web design seems intent on making you actually move your head to look around at the content. And that line spacing, yeesh.. the trend had gone beyond "a bit more spacing makes reading easier" to "MOAR SPACING!"
Of course, it would make MORE sense to use an embedded OS where the banks/ATM manufacturers have full access to the source.
Because a bank is much less prone to being hacked or otherwise leaking sensitive information than a major technology company.
Having a large accident would be a large liability for an energy company, and they would naturally take steps to avoid it.
Exactly. Just how banks took steps to avoid collapsing, by becoming "too big to fail". The banks survived, thanks to bailouts from taxpayers. So that turned out well - except for those very same taxpayers who lost their homes. I don't recall them being paid back. But basically you're correct, large companies are very good at "avoiding" (ie. displacing) risk.
It's important to note that right now in US politics one party is completely and totally against the concept of scientific inquiry putting Newspeak-like religious rhetoric above all else.
It's important to note that right now in US politics one party is completely and totally committed to the idea that winning an election against the Democrat vote is to appeal to the equally large segment of the population that responds enthusiastically to religious rhetoric above all else.
FTFY.
Google has better control of ads if they decide what you want to find.
Except the function is not gone at all. If you search for a location, then type a product - eg. "pizza" - then it will find all the pizza places around that area. It doesn't need the extra button, it works anyway. A button is useful as a visual clue for the clueless, but perhaps they want to use that button for something else later, or just want to "simplify" the interface (for certain product managers' values of "simplify").
The underlying problem is a trivial argument escalating to violence due to the inability of an individual to control their temper.
Bullshit. If someone didn't get murdered, then you can say "the underlying problem is escalation to violence".
The underlying problem here is that it was *easy to kill someone out of anger*.
People get angry all the time. Fights happen all the time. The problem is it's too easy to completely end someone's life by getting mad.
> It was lucky enough to be the Last Big Thing before Apple hit top gear and it's desperate to find the Next Big Thing before it falls behind.
Apple didn't hit top gear, it just engaged a retro rocket called Steve Jobs. Rocket is now spent, and Apple will slow to its usual coasting speed over the next few years. There's no reason to think Apple will perform at the same level from now on. The right-place-right-time market breakthroughs are over.
Android will take over from here, becoming embedded in all kinds of devices - which is Google's breakthrough, if they play it right. IOS and Windows has missed the boat there. You can make phones and tablets to compete with Apple, but try making another device OS that embeds the way Android is going to embed over the next few years.
Android is going to be everywhere, and that will send Google's brand way beyond Apple's reach. People will begin to prefer Android devices, simply because of its pervasiveness - ironically, achieved the opposite way to Apple's lock-in, walled-garden approach.
We all remember what happened to the Tsien.
.. everyone Tsai'd?
(inter-language humour..)
There are some rocks of significant size immediately behind the rover.
You mean Rocks Of Unusual Size(tm)
The entire country pointing and saying "You people are crazy and dangerous" is a better safeguard than throwing some folks in jail.
Really? We do that all the time to politicians and it doesn't seem to help.
If God wanted us to know about stuff on the bottom of the ocean he'd have put that bit on top.
God is a seagull manager; he'll pop back in sometime to fix that and bugger off again.
If he were a psychopath, he'd not be disturbed by it.
Oh sage of all things psychological, what exactly backs up that assertion?
Psychopaths do have access to emotions. They just aren't always triggered in the same way, as "normal" people.
It is far easier to destroy then to create ...
... the English language. It's *THAN*.
10x more exiting ~~then~~ than building the next graphics engine
Life is neither fair or predictable.
Aussie here. If you're going to spend your life annoying dangerous animals, it's pretty predictable how you'll go out. If you spend your life sky-diving, same. They are big risks. Not saying Irwin annoyed the ray, but any normal person wouldn't be in waters around rays anyway. Not particularly surprising.
NaCl (in its standard, non-Portable flavor)
You mean before it's ground up and put into little shakers?
As a summary and FYI, our shit is 50% bacteria (mostly e. coli.) by mass
BZZT! Thank you for playing.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/203293/feces
Normally, feces are made up of 75 percent water and 25 percent solid matter. About 30 percent of the solid matter consists of dead bacteria [...]
Hello from Australia. Minimum wage here is $16.37 AUD ($15.23 USD). Seems pretty prosperous.
Sure, until you want to buy or rent somewhere to live.
Source: Live here too. And http://www.rs.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=sp&s=wa&u=perth
An interesting irony is that most people who love Capitalism do what benefits themselves, while looking at society's problems as "somebody else's problem". But who is this somebody else? It's like how most people think they are above average intelligence.
However, a tragedy of the commons is in no way in the interests of any individual!
This statement is absurdly false. If this were true, there would be no tragedy of the commons to talk about because everyone would be on the look out for such situations.
I stopped reading at that point, as your logic is absurdly false.
You really think everyone tends to do what is in the best interests of the individual? That everyone is on the look-out for things that aren't? Quite a fantasy world there. If that was the case, the phrase "free as in beer" would be redundant, as all beer would be.
> When will we stop saying who can and cannot spy on us
When we decide to turn off the GPS?
My GPS is off 99% of the time. Only time I turn it on is when I need - really need - directions while driving.
When Google starts collects my location info when my GPS tickbox is un-ticked, then I'll revolt. Until then, yawn.
If you turn it on and agree to the agreement, it's your own lookout. Go buy a separate GPS unit if you're that worried about it, but stop crying like you don't have choices.
> The pilot is already a single point of failure.
Following that logic, so is the plane.