It's more likely the most shy and/or secretive ones responding. Typically spammers are selling something people don't want to be known to purchase, and they may even be reluctant to enter an inflammatory keyword into Google. If I had any thoughts of a political career, for example, I wouldn't want any chance of an "anal intruder" search tracing back to my IP. That's not the case, I proudly get mine from Walmart.
In this case, there is an easier way, and it's called optical links, which don't radiate RF when you send photons through them.
However the transmitters and receptors of the optical signal will generate ground transmissions no different from a standard electrical signal. A simple noise filter circuit will level off the sharp signal bursts into slower power drains which would be unintelligible to any signal detector.
What I hate about all the micro-car hype is that no drivers of taller vehicles are practiced in shoulder-checking for cars under 3' tall. Do you really expect a soccer mom with a minivan full of screaming kids to remember to look down before changing lanes every time? Any mileage stats from cars under five feet tall is pretty moot. Might as well make a 10,000 mpg go-cart for mice.
Tell that to my sophomore chemistry teacher, nailed me on it every time.
As far as I'm concerned, it's the same phrasal construction as "creating water", from hydrogen and oxygen.
There is no water in hydrogen or oxygen. When combined, water is created, with vastly different chemical properties.
There are electrons in atoms. Freeing them only changes the state of what was already there, resulting in only one chemical consequence, not a different compound.
But the press release says they lifted the beta term for marketing reasons, meaning no new standard of functionality or reliability has been met. So as far as anyone knows, they will always be beta. Their PR certainly still is. They should have made some visual changes to denote a significant upgrade. I guess their spin department is still in alpha.
Even better is how the cells "create electrons". All we need now are cells to create protons and neutrons, and solar powered replicators will be on the market in no time!
(TFA reads "creates free electrons", also a misnomer, should read "frees electrons")
By "free", Cuban is referring to the "not having to pay" part. Of course they're generating revenues to stay in business, but as someone who has never been bothered by the ads or even clicked on one, I use Google's services at absolutely no cost, a.k.a. free. Offering free services is a business model that Cuban claims is near impossible to perpetuate, rather it has a life cycle terminated by the introduction of a better and/or more effectively promoted free service.
However there is an angle that makes a difference, user investment. Facebook will hold up against any search engine because users have invested the time and effort to grow their friend networks. Switching to a competitor would mean starting from scratch, but switching search engines is effortless. I imagine that is part of why Gmail exists, to get people to invest and depend on them. Let's see how they fend off Microsoft's "decision engine", whatever that means...
Agreed. Throw that sentiment in with the fact that a war's going on, the economy is circling the bowl, we're destroying the planet with our excesses, but a laptop is too cumbersome for your precious hammock, so stop the press.
I sympathize with your plight, but please go to a store where they're paid to be insensitive. Pardon my optimism, but this marvel of intercommunication has more potential than an enhanced shopping channel.
The article describes an evolutionary "external transmission phase" referring specifically to the propagation of information, but doesn't mention the Internet as a driving force? If there's anything that has caused a recent escalation in this scheme it's gotta be the Web. The article only refers specifically to books! Meanwhile Facebook has to have changed human behavior more than any single book published in the last 50 years.
No doubt Dr. Hawking has not ignored the Internet in his deliberations, but it's strangely ironic for an online article to overlook its influence in this matter.
When you strip away the "transparent windows" and flashy glitz, the popular desktop computer O/Ses (Linux/OSX/Windows) are just as primitive as stuff 30 years ago.
So when you strip away all the things OS developers have been working on for the past 30 years, they're just as primitive as 30 year old OS's? You don't say!
Perhaps we could call the GUI improvements "memes" compared to the "Darwinian" aspects under the hood, but the whole point of the article is to convey the notion that memes have become as influential as Darwinian DNA. Can't think of a better example.
Boondoggle: n. work of little or no value done merely to keep or look busy.
Political favor is unfortunately a far more dominant motivation to develop sustainable energy technology than sustainability itself. I've seen too many boondoggle projects get huge grants because they are the most visible, like big wind farms within sight of a large population, in favor of more suitable locations. If we can't implement a centuries-old technology effectively today at ground level, what good is a new technology in one of the most foreign environments known to mankind? Ignorant energy harvesting is what got us in this mess in the first place!
I have a strong respect for academic studies, but minds aimed at sustainable living are wasted on these implausible contrivances. There's enough dorks on Star Trek forums trying to prove useless theories. Don't waste our taxes on them.
MS is proof that competition is in the best interests of a free market. MS makes crappy software because attaining and maintaining a monopoly is their primary goal for every product they make. They surely spend more on lawyers than R&D.
They don't avoid them, they just have too much to gain to worry about puny little fines under $100M. That, and they have to find some way to keep their in-house legal entertained, or else they start suing each other.
You pressume all news bogs provide links to the *original* news source. Many of them don't even know who sourced the info by the time they read and repost it. At best, most of them link to the page they read it from without making the slightest effort to trace the original source. Their advertising clients sure don't care if the original news source is credited, why should they?
Case in point the 1995 referendum, there was rather rampant vote tampering in the form of perfectly valid "no" votes being discarded as spoiled in Quebec. I don't recall any proof of a conspiracy or even collusion, but there was certainly enough participation to mount one. Voting online means the vote-counting is in essence done behind closed doors. At the polls each political party or local candidate is permitted to have a scrutineer present to oversee the count.
Also online voting itself is done behind closed doors, no facilities to prevent voter coercion. There's a can of worms that needn't be opened. We need only look to Iran to appreciate how voter confidence is more important than voter convenience.
I blame low voter turnout on the dominance over the candidates by their respective parties. Everyone has a slanted agenda and nobody is simply committed to good politics. There's a big difference between giving the population something to vote for and serving the will of the population, which will never be served adequately as long as there are so many parties duking it out.
Slashdot Mirror
Chinese.
Someone advocating more efficient coding of websites should surely take less than 12 paragraphs to do so!
If by "carbon capture" you mean "sulfur release", then yes, we've all smelled paper mills...
By seeding other games, you're already playing it! Where's your proof of purchase, deadbeat!
Piracalypse (tm) - the first game ever pirated before its conception!
Order your copy now for only 30M kronor - financing available!
Not necessarily true. 50% of all people have less than median IQs.
88% of all readers see this as a very apt demonstration.
It's more likely the most shy and/or secretive ones responding. Typically spammers are selling something people don't want to be known to purchase, and they may even be reluctant to enter an inflammatory keyword into Google. If I had any thoughts of a political career, for example, I wouldn't want any chance of an "anal intruder" search tracing back to my IP. That's not the case, I proudly get mine from Walmart.
Slashdot mentality always seems to be that any contradicting reports beat the initial report.
We know the Romulans are behind everything, it's how they incite war.
In this case, there is an easier way, and it's called optical links, which don't radiate RF when you send photons through them.
However the transmitters and receptors of the optical signal will generate ground transmissions no different from a standard electrical signal. A simple noise filter circuit will level off the sharp signal bursts into slower power drains which would be unintelligible to any signal detector.
What I hate about all the micro-car hype is that no drivers of taller vehicles are practiced in shoulder-checking for cars under 3' tall. Do you really expect a soccer mom with a minivan full of screaming kids to remember to look down before changing lanes every time? Any mileage stats from cars under five feet tall is pretty moot. Might as well make a 10,000 mpg go-cart for mice.
Every Trekkie knows you take off your communicator before you disobey orders and go whack a Romulan!
Really, either way of phrasing it is fine.
Tell that to my sophomore chemistry teacher, nailed me on it every time.
As far as I'm concerned, it's the same phrasal construction as "creating water", from hydrogen and oxygen.
There is no water in hydrogen or oxygen. When combined, water is created, with vastly different chemical properties.
There are electrons in atoms. Freeing them only changes the state of what was already there, resulting in only one chemical consequence, not a different compound.
But the press release says they lifted the beta term for marketing reasons, meaning no new standard of functionality or reliability has been met. So as far as anyone knows, they will always be beta. Their PR certainly still is. They should have made some visual changes to denote a significant upgrade. I guess their spin department is still in alpha.
Even better is how the cells "create electrons". All we need now are cells to create protons and neutrons, and solar powered replicators will be on the market in no time!
(TFA reads "creates free electrons", also a misnomer, should read "frees electrons")
By "free", Cuban is referring to the "not having to pay" part. Of course they're generating revenues to stay in business, but as someone who has never been bothered by the ads or even clicked on one, I use Google's services at absolutely no cost, a.k.a. free. Offering free services is a business model that Cuban claims is near impossible to perpetuate, rather it has a life cycle terminated by the introduction of a better and/or more effectively promoted free service.
However there is an angle that makes a difference, user investment. Facebook will hold up against any search engine because users have invested the time and effort to grow their friend networks. Switching to a competitor would mean starting from scratch, but switching search engines is effortless. I imagine that is part of why Gmail exists, to get people to invest and depend on them. Let's see how they fend off Microsoft's "decision engine", whatever that means...
Here's an interesting comparison:
Paying for bottled water is popular without question in areas where people already pay for perfectly safe drinking water.
Where free wi-fi is proposed, the debate is virtually always a matter of ethics, and not cost.
Free health care? FUCK THAT!!! DON'T YOU DARE RAISE MY TAXES YOU PINKO COMMIES!!!
ahem.. I mean, it often encounters far more resistance.
Agreed. Throw that sentiment in with the fact that a war's going on, the economy is circling the bowl, we're destroying the planet with our excesses, but a laptop is too cumbersome for your precious hammock, so stop the press.
I sympathize with your plight, but please go to a store where they're paid to be insensitive. Pardon my optimism, but this marvel of intercommunication has more potential than an enhanced shopping channel.
The article describes an evolutionary "external transmission phase" referring specifically to the propagation of information, but doesn't mention the Internet as a driving force? If there's anything that has caused a recent escalation in this scheme it's gotta be the Web. The article only refers specifically to books! Meanwhile Facebook has to have changed human behavior more than any single book published in the last 50 years.
No doubt Dr. Hawking has not ignored the Internet in his deliberations, but it's strangely ironic for an online article to overlook its influence in this matter.
When you strip away the "transparent windows" and flashy glitz, the popular desktop computer O/Ses (Linux/OSX/Windows) are just as primitive as stuff 30 years ago.
So when you strip away all the things OS developers have been working on for the past 30 years, they're just as primitive as 30 year old OS's? You don't say!
Perhaps we could call the GUI improvements "memes" compared to the "Darwinian" aspects under the hood, but the whole point of the article is to convey the notion that memes have become as influential as Darwinian DNA. Can't think of a better example.
Hey man, if it's good enough for Batman, it's good enough for Shake Spear!!!!
Boondoggle: n. work of little or no value done merely to keep or look busy.
Political favor is unfortunately a far more dominant motivation to develop sustainable energy technology than sustainability itself. I've seen too many boondoggle projects get huge grants because they are the most visible, like big wind farms within sight of a large population, in favor of more suitable locations. If we can't implement a centuries-old technology effectively today at ground level, what good is a new technology in one of the most foreign environments known to mankind? Ignorant energy harvesting is what got us in this mess in the first place!
I have a strong respect for academic studies, but minds aimed at sustainable living are wasted on these implausible contrivances. There's enough dorks on Star Trek forums trying to prove useless theories. Don't waste our taxes on them.
MS is proof that competition is in the best interests of a free market. MS makes crappy software because attaining and maintaining a monopoly is their primary goal for every product they make. They surely spend more on lawyers than R&D.
They don't avoid them, they just have too much to gain to worry about puny little fines under $100M. That, and they have to find some way to keep their in-house legal entertained, or else they start suing each other.
Detectives were initially stumped by the kids underwear tied around MJ's upper arms, until a hospital orderly stated the obvious:
"He's on the patch"
You pressume all news bogs provide links to the *original* news source. Many of them don't even know who sourced the info by the time they read and repost it. At best, most of them link to the page they read it from without making the slightest effort to trace the original source. Their advertising clients sure don't care if the original news source is credited, why should they?
Case in point the 1995 referendum, there was rather rampant vote tampering in the form of perfectly valid "no" votes being discarded as spoiled in Quebec. I don't recall any proof of a conspiracy or even collusion, but there was certainly enough participation to mount one. Voting online means the vote-counting is in essence done behind closed doors. At the polls each political party or local candidate is permitted to have a scrutineer present to oversee the count.
Also online voting itself is done behind closed doors, no facilities to prevent voter coercion. There's a can of worms that needn't be opened. We need only look to Iran to appreciate how voter confidence is more important than voter convenience.
I blame low voter turnout on the dominance over the candidates by their respective parties. Everyone has a slanted agenda and nobody is simply committed to good politics. There's a big difference between giving the population something to vote for and serving the will of the population, which will never be served adequately as long as there are so many parties duking it out.