I suspect the vast majority of people who would be interested in your suggestion probably already pirate windows, if they use it at all. The negligible loss of sales you are promoting wouldn't even be an annoyance to MS.
Unfortunately, with the desktop losing a lot of ground, and that being the only really customizable platform (face it, DIY notebooks don't have nearly the variety of options, especially in the most important component - the motherboard), we won't see the option we would have seen a few years ago. Namely bios that will allow you to turn Secure Boot on or off. The vendors that cater to DIYers tend to be a lot more interested in the segment of the market you are discussing.
Apple is building/their/ product and trying to get everyone to adapt their needs to it. At least MS is trying to make it's product general purpose (if ineptly in some cases), and allow people to have options at every level except the OS. Apple tries to restrict options at ALL levels.
Umm... I was arguing for an internal SDCard/reader - what you described. What you may or may not have thought of was that the person I was responding to was talking about AN EXTERNAL CARDREADER/drive. Why would an SDCard, put in my phone, be one more thing to carry around?
You, can but with the limited amount of space, unless you have a very small collection, you will be constantly swapping stuff in and out. I have a friend who does that, and isn't bothered by it, but I'd be annoyed as hell.
I believe they do have limited data plans, but they aren't much cheaper than the lower end plans with data, so most don't bother unless they are really desperate to save money.
Correct, but I think it was an imprecision on the language rather than an uncertainty.
I've said similar before myself.
There is not enough room on any phone/tablet's built in memory to hold what I want to put on them, but with SD/microSD cards, the usually have enough. Unless you swap the card a lot, you just start to think of it as part of the phone, because you don't have to remove it. And with some phones I've had (looking at you samsuck), I've had to take the battery cover off and even take out the battery in a couple cases, to swap the card. At that point, it might as well be part of the phone.
all successful species have an individual drive to procreate at a higher than replacement amount. However, what you are describing is that not all individuals of those species share this desire. It is safe to say, however, that for all known species, the at least the limiting reproductive members (and often the non-limiting members) have a drive to produce a greater-than-replacement number of reproductive offspring.
No it isn't reasonable. The human population at current tech levels can double every 35-50 years (we peaked at 30, I think we are down to 50).
Say tech is up, so carrying capacity is 10billion/earth, and the sphere is initially stocked with 10,000 people. Lets also say the star is similar to the sun, and for heat dissipation reasons, it's actually better to have the sphere about 1.5 AU in radius (that is, the radius is now 225*10^6km)
The surface area of one side of the sphere is 1.590 * 10^17km^2 The surface area of the earth is 5.1 * 10^8 km^2 The sphere can hold ~312 million earth surfaces on a side, or a carrying capacity of 3.12*10^18 people... ~61 doublings from 2 people. 2 people with proper medical care could bring the sphere to capacity in ~3050 years. 10000 people in closer to 2400.
Yeah, but remaining in a shroud of folded space-time that you couldn't enter, without the allowance of those inside, or be destroyed at the subatomic level, would be a much better solution, I think.
There's the/civilization's/ recognition of the limit, vs. the individual's desire to procreate, in the battle of need vs. freedom/rights. I recognize that humanity has overpopulated the earth, that does not diminish my desire to have a child at some point.
Also, as for remaining hidden, a race may decide instead of building a Dyson sphere which radiates over it's whole surface, to instead radiate over a smaller portion of the surface, and at a narrower angle. While you could be detected from the right angle, if you point it the right way, the closest thing that could bother you, probably wouldn't be close enough to care about.
Then again, the amount of mass needed for a Dyson sphere would be insane, if you have that level of tech, to acquire that mass, you probably have other solutions to the problem (direct matter->energy conversion perhaps?)
it's even less effective and even more insulting than most.
IIRC it is partially a privately run organization (TSA). The only thing worse than government, is private contractors to government, because of (a) the private sector's belief that the government is a endless source of income, (b) the private sector's disdain for the government and (c) the general belief that the government is usually the worst at getting things done (so the blame tends to slide completely over the private contractors)*.
* Note, this isn't to absolve the government of their incompetence or irresponsibility - just to point out part of the problem that is overlooked.
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I suspect the vast majority of people who would be interested in your suggestion probably already pirate windows, if they use it at all. The negligible loss of sales you are promoting wouldn't even be an annoyance to MS.
Unfortunately, with the desktop losing a lot of ground, and that being the only really customizable platform (face it, DIY notebooks don't have nearly the variety of options, especially in the most important component - the motherboard), we won't see the option we would have seen a few years ago. Namely bios that will allow you to turn Secure Boot on or off. The vendors that cater to DIYers tend to be a lot more interested in the segment of the market you are discussing.
I think it's worse than that.
Apple is building /their/ product and trying to get everyone to adapt their needs to it. At least MS is trying to make it's product general purpose (if ineptly in some cases), and allow people to have options at every level except the OS. Apple tries to restrict options at ALL levels.
Your Scottish, aren't you?
(sorry, I have a friend who's a Scottsman who loves to make jokes about Scotts and sheep...)
Umm... I was arguing for an internal SDCard/reader - what you described. What you may or may not have thought of was that the person I was responding to was talking about AN EXTERNAL CARDREADER/drive. Why would an SDCard, put in my phone, be one more thing to carry around?
That's assuming you'll watch it once.
No phone or tablet I've seen can hold all of my music without expansion... And I listen to songs more than once.
You, can but with the limited amount of space, unless you have a very small collection, you will be constantly swapping stuff in and out. I have a friend who does that, and isn't bothered by it, but I'd be annoyed as hell.
I believe they do have limited data plans, but they aren't much cheaper than the lower end plans with data, so most don't bother unless they are really desperate to save money.
woo-hoo! one more thing to carry around.
Not interested. I'll take the onboard card.
Correct, but I think it was an imprecision on the language rather than an uncertainty.
I've said similar before myself.
There is not enough room on any phone/tablet's built in memory to hold what I want to put on them, but with SD/microSD cards, the usually have enough. Unless you swap the card a lot, you just start to think of it as part of the phone, because you don't have to remove it. And with some phones I've had (looking at you samsuck), I've had to take the battery cover off and even take out the battery in a couple cases, to swap the card. At that point, it might as well be part of the phone.
And if it's that easy to find, thick walled non-corroding structures for holding in your wonderful, glorious, beautiful O2...
Oh. Could you produce documents of their registered flight paths?
Oh, the cow thing was me. Sorry, my bad.
You assume they'd use glass. You also assume that it's not a 'local' craft that would dock with a carrier for interstellar travel.
The lights on the craft could serve the same purpose as those on a airplane.
all successful species have an individual drive to procreate at a higher than replacement amount. However, what you are describing is that not all individuals of those species share this desire. It is safe to say, however, that for all known species, the at least the limiting reproductive members (and often the non-limiting members) have a drive to produce a greater-than-replacement number of reproductive offspring.
No it isn't reasonable. The human population at current tech levels can double every 35-50 years (we peaked at 30, I think we are down to 50).
Say tech is up, so carrying capacity is 10billion/earth, and the sphere is initially stocked with 10,000 people.
Lets also say the star is similar to the sun, and for heat dissipation reasons, it's actually better to have the sphere about 1.5 AU in radius (that is, the radius is now 225*10^6km)
The surface area of one side of the sphere is 1.590 * 10^17km^2
The surface area of the earth is 5.1 * 10^8 km^2
The sphere can hold ~312 million earth surfaces on a side, or a carrying capacity of 3.12*10^18 people... ~61 doublings from 2 people.
2 people with proper medical care could bring the sphere to capacity in ~3050 years.
10000 people in closer to 2400.
Actually, depending on the level of respect for freedom, population control may not be expected.
The desire of the individual and of the civilization are often in conflict, and procreation tends to be one of the areas of conflict.
Yeah, but remaining in a shroud of folded space-time that you couldn't enter, without the allowance of those inside, or be destroyed at the subatomic level, would be a much better solution, I think.
There's the /civilization's/ recognition of the limit, vs. the individual's desire to procreate, in the battle of need vs. freedom/rights.
I recognize that humanity has overpopulated the earth, that does not diminish my desire to have a child at some point.
Also, as for remaining hidden, a race may decide instead of building a Dyson sphere which radiates over it's whole surface, to instead radiate over a smaller portion of the surface, and at a narrower angle. While you could be detected from the right angle, if you point it the right way, the closest thing that could bother you, probably wouldn't be close enough to care about.
Then again, the amount of mass needed for a Dyson sphere would be insane, if you have that level of tech, to acquire that mass, you probably have other solutions to the problem (direct matter->energy conversion perhaps?)
Indeed. Well said sir.
IIRC it is partially a privately run organization (TSA). The only thing worse than government, is private contractors to government, because of (a) the private sector's belief that the government is a endless source of income, (b) the private sector's disdain for the government and (c) the general belief that the government is usually the worst at getting things done (so the blame tends to slide completely over the private contractors)*.
* Note, this isn't to absolve the government of their incompetence or irresponsibility - just to point out part of the problem that is overlooked.
You might be mistaking the smoke effect from your "cigarette" for lens effect.
The Apple Reality Distortion Field - now in a more visible purple color for your continence!
... Don't install Windows Vista?
Inventing a throw-a-chair-over-the-telephone device.
That happens on beta tests, if you don't want to take the risk, get the hell over it.
That's one reason I only beta tested it on a VM.