Unfortunately I think any serious proposal to control population should really look at the consequences. Reducing births (whether cloned or otherwise) leads to an aging population which has its own cons for society, economics and goods distribution. The alternative method of reducing population without reducing births has been war or disease and seems to be the preferred method through out history and nature.
Considering that as you say a single browser game passed EA the entire company last year and he is saying browsers are the platform of the future. I see no problem with someone questioning him as he seems more reactive that insightful about the 'future'.
To be fair, not all assumptions are wrong and you already said you had one. I suppose you may be taking issue with whether or not you 'bought' it.
... and are seriously contemplating already buying the second one.
Uh huh, right. Nobody on Slashdot would understand the concept of finding something useful and contemplating whether it's worthwhile to upgrade. Mr. Jobs really is waving his voodoo around here, wooOOoo wooOOooo. Anyway, see you in the next Android Tablet thread.
While I believe the post you are replying to was being somewhat trollish I don't think it was without some grain of truth. Your post seems a little defensive (and unfortunately stereotypical of well a fan) considering most company leaders would love for you to buy every iteration of their product. Really, I thought since you already said they didn't sell you on buying the iPad2 that that was where the AC's post broke down insinuating you were contemplating it.
I'm posting because I'm at lunch and I'm bored and I want to say something.
You're comparing an uncompressed CD to a lossy compressed MP3. Both are 16-bit audio. I think the quality of an MP3 would be better served preserving more of what's already available rather than raising it to 24-bit. An MP3's bit-rate is generally 128 kbps where a CD's is closer to 150 kbps (1411.2 bps). Anything more than CD quality is generally going to go unnoticed by the vast majority of people so 192 kbps is overkill for most.
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I use qualifiers as much as possible to avoid being pinned down to any particular opinion.
NASA's budget for 2010 was ~18 billion dollars of a 3.55 trillion dollar budget. Making up a mighty half a percent of our budget. We can certainly afford it, even in these rough times. Whether it's a priority or not is up for debate.
My point is that there is no consensus as to what constitutes a distinct language and what constitutes a dialect and it boils down to popular opinion of whether the words spoken by two groups are separate dialects of the same language or are two languages.
Although a number of paradigms for distinguishing between languages and dialects do exist, these often render contradictory results. Focused broad Scots is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with Scottish Standard English at the other.[3] Consequently, Scots is often regarded as one of the ancient varieties of English, but with its own distinct dialects.[2] Alternatively Scots is sometimes treated as a distinct Germanic language, in the way Norwegian is closely linked to, yet distinct from, Danish.[2]
Then continues:
Those positions also being reflected in the 2010 Scottish Government study of "public attitudes towards the Scots language" in which 64% of respondents (around 1,000 individuals being a representative sample of Scotland's adult population) "don't really think of Scots as a language" but where "the most frequent speakers are least likely to agree that it is not a language (58%) and those never speaking Scots most likely to do so (72%)".
So, do you also differentiate between English, American English, and Australian English? How about South African English, or Indian English? They are very different, but they are still the same language.
How 'bout Scots English, or Jamacian Creole? There are no universally accepted criteria for what distinguishes a language and a dialect. There are Chinese dialects that differ more from each other than Italian does from Spanish. I is my personal opinion that this argument is basically argumentum ad populum.
Tolkein was/is a public figure, feels like there isn't much to stand on here especially if its fiction and portrayed as such. Seems like this fall well within the fair use realm.
Sooner or later we WILL run out of oil. Sad that there is no technology that can be developed to replace oil. No way another energy source could be found. No way hydrocarbons could be reproduced with something else. Oh well, at least it's our children's problem, not ours.
Low turn outs are good when you wan't to win elections legit. High turnouts are great if you wan't to stuff the ballet box, ie dead people, old people in retirement homes, kids that just turned 18.
Hmmm, the 2004 election was the highest turnout since 1968. Who won those elections? BTW 1876 had the highest turnout of 81.8% followed by the election of 1860 with 81.2% So what exactly are you saying?
And speaking of the 1876 election, 20 electoral votes in 3 states were disputed. Florida was one of them.
I have seen this come up from time to time on Slashdot so I will offer my two cents (American cents:) ) Slashdot is an American organization. As such, you should assume all locations are within the U.S. unless explicitly stated otherwise. When sites are connected to the Internet they are indeed visible everywhere. They may even support a community spread out all over the planet. Yet there is almost always a geographical bias.
Other things to keep in mind are that one million will mean 1,000,000 and one billion will mean 1,000,000,000. As you can also see, commas will be used instead of spaces. Periods will be used instead of commas. I know it's confusing, but that's the breaks.
It means only people who CARE about the election, and likely did actual research, are casting ballots
Not necessarily. I know plenty of regular voters who just vote party line without regard to the pros and cons of the individual candidates. One elderly woman I work with was very pleased when she found out she could just cast her vote automatically down party lines. I dare even say *most* of the people I know who vote always vote for one party or the other. Hardly informed votes.
I'm also inclined to think higher voter turnout is better because of jelly beans:) To get the most accurate number for how many jelly beans are in a jar you ask as many people as you can. In general, no individual is going to get closer than the average of estimates from a large enough group.
All Windows commmands accept slashes in place of backslashes in path and interpret it correctly, since DOS 2.0
Interesting. I just tried dir "/nvidia" and it worked. Then I tried md "/test" and it failed saying the syntax was not correct. md "\test" worked and rd "/test" worked. So I'm thinking somethings work like that and some still don't.
I once had a computer with a hard drive that had a cracked case. It was a tower and stopped booting up. I found that if I laid it on it's side, turned it on, and then stood it upright after it started booting it worked fine. My assumption was that upright, everything in the HDD didn't line up right. On it's side it did. I imagine that the gyroscopic nature of the platters in the hard drives kept them in place while I stood it upright again.
My ex-wife once threw an something towards me striking my computer. My computer had no case, just a motherboard sitting on a desk with the power supply and drives next to it. Cables everywhere. It was running and the motherboard went off the table and was hanging by cables. I turned it off and back on, nothing. Reseated the RAM and presto I'm still using it 4 years later. Did I mention every piece of that computer was found next to dumpsters? I believe the CPU and MB were the only two components that came out of the same machine.
Anyway, my point is computers are much sturdier than people think. In my completely objective all encompassing experience:) I've had more computers just stop working one day for no apparent reason than because of the brutal trauma I tend to give them.
I'm curious, what's the difference between this and this? I haven't had to convert HDMI or DVI to RCA before so I'm wondering why the first link is ~$13 and the second is ~$300
You sound like someone who has never owned an Apple computer EVER.
Their case designs have always been brilliant and serviceable, all the way back to the Apple II.
The Apple laptops are every bit as serviceable as another vendor's laptop (which is to say, you can replace the memory, laptop, and battery). Not sure where you're coming from with this.
From Apple's support site:
The battery in these MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro models should only be replaced by an Apple Authorized Service Provider. Please do not attempt to replace the battery in your Apple portable computer yourself if it is on this list:
MacBook Pro
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.53GHz, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2009)
MacBook Air
MacBook Air (Mid 2009)
MacBook Air (Late 2008)
MacBook Air (Original)
MacBook
MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009)
Oh and I believe every laptop has the ability to be replaced:)
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Unfortunately I think any serious proposal to control population should really look at the consequences. Reducing births (whether cloned or otherwise) leads to an aging population which has its own cons for society, economics and goods distribution. The alternative method of reducing population without reducing births has been war or disease and seems to be the preferred method through out history and nature.
saying that there was no First Amendment issue because activists "have already made their Twitter posts and associations publicly available.
I just woke up so maybe I'm reading it wrong but is this judge saying the First Amendment only applies to speech that is private?
People should have common sense "does everyone need to know my response?" It's as simple as that.
People think everybody needs to know what they had for dinner. Hence, the popularity of Twitter, Facebook, and Reply all.
Considering that as you say a single browser game passed EA the entire company last year and he is saying browsers are the platform of the future. I see no problem with someone questioning him as he seems more reactive that insightful about the 'future'.
The fact that you bought the first one...
That is not a fact, that is an assumption.
To be fair, not all assumptions are wrong and you already said you had one. I suppose you may be taking issue with whether or not you 'bought' it.
... and are seriously contemplating already buying the second one.
Uh huh, right. Nobody on Slashdot would understand the concept of finding something useful and contemplating whether it's worthwhile to upgrade. Mr. Jobs really is waving his voodoo around here, wooOOoo wooOOooo. Anyway, see you in the next Android Tablet thread.
While I believe the post you are replying to was being somewhat trollish I don't think it was without some grain of truth. Your post seems a little defensive (and unfortunately stereotypical of well a fan) considering most company leaders would love for you to buy every iteration of their product. Really, I thought since you already said they didn't sell you on buying the iPad2 that that was where the AC's post broke down insinuating you were contemplating it.
I'm posting because I'm at lunch and I'm bored and I want to say something.
I had a boss tell me that getting laid was always a valid excuse for being late/absent to work.
I mixed by bits and bytes :( I was thinking of one speed CD-ROM being 150 KB/s. I'm going to get a beer.
CD format is 1.411 kbps. Not 150kbps. From the link you cite
Arg. 150 KB/s like a CD-ROM. I can't believe I switched bits and bytes.
I know I'm so ashamed. I was thinking of one speed cd-rom drives being 150 KB/s.
You're comparing an uncompressed CD to a lossy compressed MP3. Both are 16-bit audio. I think the quality of an MP3 would be better served preserving more of what's already available rather than raising it to 24-bit. An MP3's bit-rate is generally 128 kbps where a CD's is closer to 150 kbps (1411.2 bps). Anything more than CD quality is generally going to go unnoticed by the vast majority of people so 192 kbps is overkill for most.
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I use qualifiers as much as possible to avoid being pinned down to any particular opinion.
In other words you need a dedicated linux sysadmin to do basic tasks for you that you can do in Windows with right-clicking.
Where do you change the button order in Windows?
Really I was just using it like this, which may very well be wrong. At any rate I probably should have said Scottish English to avoid ambiguity.
I doubt we can afford this
NASA's budget for 2010 was ~18 billion dollars of a 3.55 trillion dollar budget. Making up a mighty half a percent of our budget. We can certainly afford it, even in these rough times. Whether it's a priority or not is up for debate.
I doubt if anyone will consider it seriously.
You are probably correct.
Scottish English is English; Scots is not
My point is that there is no consensus as to what constitutes a distinct language and what constitutes a dialect and it boils down to popular opinion of whether the words spoken by two groups are separate dialects of the same language or are two languages.
From Wikipedia:
Although a number of paradigms for distinguishing between languages and dialects do exist, these often render contradictory results. Focused broad Scots is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with Scottish Standard English at the other.[3] Consequently, Scots is often regarded as one of the ancient varieties of English, but with its own distinct dialects.[2] Alternatively Scots is sometimes treated as a distinct Germanic language, in the way Norwegian is closely linked to, yet distinct from, Danish.[2]
Then continues:
Those positions also being reflected in the 2010 Scottish Government study of "public attitudes towards the Scots language" in which 64% of respondents (around 1,000 individuals being a representative sample of Scotland's adult population) "don't really think of Scots as a language" but where "the most frequent speakers are least likely to agree that it is not a language (58%) and those never speaking Scots most likely to do so (72%)".
So, do you also differentiate between English, American English, and Australian English? How about South African English, or Indian English? They are very different, but they are still the same language.
How 'bout Scots English, or Jamacian Creole? There are no universally accepted criteria for what distinguishes a language and a dialect. There are Chinese dialects that differ more from each other than Italian does from Spanish. I is my personal opinion that this argument is basically argumentum ad populum.
Tolkein was/is a public figure, feels like there isn't much to stand on here especially if its fiction and portrayed as such. Seems like this fall well within the fair use realm.
If that was on purpose, that was very clever.
Sooner or later we WILL run out of oil. Sad that there is no technology that can be developed to replace oil. No way another energy source could be found. No way hydrocarbons could be reproduced with something else. Oh well, at least it's our children's problem, not ours.
Low turn outs are good when you wan't to win elections legit. High turnouts are great if you wan't to stuff the ballet box, ie dead people, old people in retirement homes, kids that just turned 18.
Hmmm, the 2004 election was the highest turnout since 1968. Who won those elections? BTW 1876 had the highest turnout of 81.8% followed by the election of 1860 with 81.2% So what exactly are you saying?
And speaking of the 1876 election, 20 electoral votes in 3 states were disputed. Florida was one of them.
I have seen this come up from time to time on Slashdot so I will offer my two cents (American cents :) ) Slashdot is an American organization. As such, you should assume all locations are within the U.S. unless explicitly stated otherwise. When sites are connected to the Internet they are indeed visible everywhere. They may even support a community spread out all over the planet. Yet there is almost always a geographical bias.
Other things to keep in mind are that one million will mean 1,000,000 and one billion will mean 1,000,000,000. As you can also see, commas will be used instead of spaces. Periods will be used instead of commas. I know it's confusing, but that's the breaks.
It means only people who CARE about the election, and likely did actual research, are casting ballots
Not necessarily. I know plenty of regular voters who just vote party line without regard to the pros and cons of the individual candidates. One elderly woman I work with was very pleased when she found out she could just cast her vote automatically down party lines. I dare even say *most* of the people I know who vote always vote for one party or the other. Hardly informed votes.
:) To get the most accurate number for how many jelly beans are in a jar you ask as many people as you can. In general, no individual is going to get closer than the average of estimates from a large enough group.
I'm also inclined to think higher voter turnout is better because of jelly beans
All Windows commmands accept slashes in place of backslashes in path and interpret it correctly, since DOS 2.0
Interesting. I just tried dir "/nvidia" and it worked. Then I tried md "/test" and it failed saying the syntax was not correct. md "\test" worked and rd "/test" worked. So I'm thinking somethings work like that and some still don't.
I once had a computer with a hard drive that had a cracked case. It was a tower and stopped booting up. I found that if I laid it on it's side, turned it on, and then stood it upright after it started booting it worked fine. My assumption was that upright, everything in the HDD didn't line up right. On it's side it did. I imagine that the gyroscopic nature of the platters in the hard drives kept them in place while I stood it upright again.
:) I've had more computers just stop working one day for no apparent reason than because of the brutal trauma I tend to give them.
My ex-wife once threw an something towards me striking my computer. My computer had no case, just a motherboard sitting on a desk with the power supply and drives next to it. Cables everywhere. It was running and the motherboard went off the table and was hanging by cables. I turned it off and back on, nothing. Reseated the RAM and presto I'm still using it 4 years later. Did I mention every piece of that computer was found next to dumpsters? I believe the CPU and MB were the only two components that came out of the same machine.
Anyway, my point is computers are much sturdier than people think. In my completely objective all encompassing experience
I'm curious, what's the difference between this and this? I haven't had to convert HDMI or DVI to RCA before so I'm wondering why the first link is ~$13 and the second is ~$300
Do you save-to-disk every YouTube video you watch?
I believe the browser usually does, or used to anyway.
You sound like someone who has never owned an Apple computer EVER. Their case designs have always been brilliant and serviceable, all the way back to the Apple II. The Apple laptops are every bit as serviceable as another vendor's laptop (which is to say, you can replace the memory, laptop, and battery). Not sure where you're coming from with this.
From Apple's support site:
The battery in these MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro models should only be replaced by an Apple Authorized Service Provider. Please do not attempt to replace the battery in your Apple portable computer yourself if it is on this list: MacBook Pro MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010) MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009) MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009) MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.53GHz, Mid 2009) MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009) MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2009) MacBook Air MacBook Air (Mid 2009) MacBook Air (Late 2008) MacBook Air (Original) MacBook MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010) MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009)
Oh and I believe every laptop has the ability to be replaced :)