Know what tech company files nearly 10 times the number of patents in the areas of UI and what people claim are "obvious" technologies that Apple does? *Samsung*. Good for the goose, good for the gander. This is how every major (and minor) technology company plays the game these days. This isn't Apple's fault, anymore than it's the fault of IBM (huge, huge patent filer), Microsoft, Motorola, HP, Yahoo (also huge number of patents filed every year), Google, Asus or anyone else. I get tired of folks who focus solely on chastising Apple when these sorts of patents get noticed; they seem blinkered to anyone else's insane patents. For fun: take a look at the PatentBolt website and just see some of the "obvious" stuff coming out of tech firms... Apple is no worse than any of them. A "chameleonic device" that runs different OSes from Google? A laptop with a "built-in stylus" from Toshiba! A hybrid laptop-tablet! Wow! Whatever will these multi-billion dollar tech giants "invent" next!
Just a quick correction... when you say "... my great^50000 grandfather was an ape"... what you actually meant to say was that you and an ape in the zoo share a common ancestor some 50000 generations ago. You're great^50000 grandfather *wasn't* an ape, and neither was a modern ape an ape, but you both do share a common simian-type ancestor from which our two species diverged. But based on your rationale and well-composed point, I suspect you already know this. Just correcting for the less knowledgeable among the readers. [Thank you, science Nazi will now step down.]
Oh yes we do.
Herr Harper has his own agenda of paternalistic nonsense brewing. Sending government spokespeople to monitor Federally employed scientists at climate change conferences to make sure they don't say anything that might be, you know, true. Believing the tar sands are actually made of oil and are completely an utterly non-polluting during the extraction and distillation processes. Denying climate change. Opening friendly relations with Burma on the pretext of their "slow road to democracy" when it's really about that country's decent mineral wealth. Thinking evolution's a bit wrong. Completely f-ing up the purchase of F35 fighters by knowingly hiding their true cost of ownership. At least he's terrified of the abortion issue being re-opened... not because he's pro-choice, but simply that whatever position he'd be forced to take would wipe his political career out.
Harper would love love love to emulate the "best" aspects of controlling everything said and done... you know, because father knows best.
Now I'm one of those socialist Canucks, but ...
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To become a Law in your country, doesn't a Bill first have to pass both legislative bodies with a 66% vote? It failed to pass the House with this required % because of the 15 non-voting folks so there's no real way it can become a Law, is there? Please correct my US government "how-it-works"-fu if I'm mistaken.
Ah, the mighty and breathless media not understanding (again) that reserves != recoverable. There's a lot of water on the planet but not much of it is actually drinkable or in a form available to drink. Furthermore, the process to remove said shale "gas" involves seismic activity and a nasty, nasty (and highly secret) brew of toxic chemicals.
Once again, OpenStreetMap highlights that Clayton Christensen's idea's about how low-end disruptive innovation works seem to hold true. (I, too, have also used Duck Duck Go for almost a year now.)
Me? I drive with my right hand on the loop-style yoke, and the left one on the throttle. Though I do need to shift the left to the yoke and the right to the gear lever after takeoff for a few seconds in the Hawker Hurricane I see myself flying in my daydreams while I'm driving.
This. Truth. It was hard to find a bigger DII/LoD fan than myself... kept the games (and played them) on my hard drive longer than any other title I've ever owned. Now? Couldn't care less for D3 at this point and anxiously await Torchlight II and it's non-DRMed goodness. Buying two copies of T2 to play locally, and still will have $ left over from the price of D3, I'm sure.
Actually, it wasn't very nice of the NY Times to not put the stats they used to suggest a boycott of Apple into any sort of context. So I'll do that for them...
18 suicides per million workers at Foxconn? OK, that's very sad, but the Chinese national average is 220 per million. More than 12X higher.
7 fatal workplace injuries per million workers at Foxconn? Agains, tragic. But the US(!) national average is 35. 5X more.
Average salary for production workers at Foxconn only $6,000? To us privileged Westerners, that seems like a pittance. The average for China as a whole? $4,500 or 25% less than Foxconn workers.
I'm not suggesting that Foxconn is a dream job, without harsh conditions etc etc. But to not provide context for your statistics is disingeous at best, and deliberately dishonest at worst. And what, exactly, would a boycott actually do?
Minor flaw in your logic re: free will. The notion of "free will" runs contrary to the existence of your god. Since the Christian god is omnipotent, and supposedly knows all, including the future, then we have no free will to choose anything, since someone/something already knows what we'll "choose." Therefore we live in a deterministic universe where evil can't exist because evil requires free will to choose a path without anyone, including a god, knowing what you'll choose until you do so. Yet, if he's not omnipotent, he's not god. I know there's a counter-argument to this... but since the whole notion of god is silly to begin with and unfalsifiable, I'll just stick with the real world I can see and touch.
On page one there's the (ACSM) up in the corner... maybe written down to remind the guy what the key is or how to translate it? What if each letter in the message is offset by some sort of repeating pattern based on those four letters?
Sorry, every child is born an atheist. They become religious when someone tells them what to think, instead of how to think. That can be parents when they are toddlers ("Hey, daddy was right about fire being hot, maybe the misogynistic sky fairy he tells me will punish me for eternity if I don't follow his rules must be true too!"), an authority figure when they're an angst-ridden teen ("But we all love you sister Hannah... everyone in the congregation think you're just the way the lord intended. Don't listen to those mean bullies who call you fat/gay/stupid"), a particularly charismatic pastor ("No, really, if you have sex with me it's what god wants."), etc. The only thing Rowthorn might have right is that religious people *may* procreate more and therefore teach/indoctrinate their larger broods to despise and ridicule anyone who believes anything else except their particular beliefs. But religion as a gene? Come on, really? I'll buy into common mythologies as deep-rooted societal stories, but even kids have to learn those.
I turn my engine off at many of the lights on my way to work just by turning the key. Doing that for years in both cars. There's one particularly long light that if you hit it as it's just turned red you wait two and a half minutes before you get the green again. I once did a test over two weeks and I'd average more than 70 minutes a week idling my car just waiting at lights. No reason not to just turn it off at reds instead of wasting more than an hours gas/week idling. The car doesn't get overly hot or cold regardless of it being off. And saves me lots of gas and $ in the long run. YMMV (pun not intended).
Professors Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok (the later now the head of the Perimieter Instititute here in Waterloo, Ontario and a former student of Hawking) have postulated this theory as well. In their book, Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang, they provide a simple and extremely elegant theory that explains how this happens, and more importantly, that their endless, cycling universe theory is the best way to explain away all of the fudges and math fixes needed to explain traditional Big Bang theory.
If we need to have hacks and fudges in the standard inflationary Big Bang theory, and we do, then it's probably wrong. Turok and Steinhardt's theory will, within a decade, have the necessary experimental evidence to be shown right or wrong so we'll soon know. The elegance of their theory, despite its reliance on some string theory that has yet to be experimentally demonstrated, is that it explains all of our observational evidence, without additions or fudges, as well as tying in our fundemental knowledge of things like conservation of energy, etc.
I, for one, welcome our balloon-like universe overlords.
Yup. I've been using computers since the days of Wang systems that required punchcards and were 15-20 feet long. This is the *ONE* thing holding me back from Ubuntu or any other Linux distro... the fact that there is no one simple app that I can make my iPad, iPod touches work with and sync to. I don't want to struggle with something that should be plug and play. Until then, I choose to stick with OSX.
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No true. Company of Heroes would need to be considered a "top game", no?
Know what tech company files nearly 10 times the number of patents in the areas of UI and what people claim are "obvious" technologies that Apple does? *Samsung*. Good for the goose, good for the gander. This is how every major (and minor) technology company plays the game these days. This isn't Apple's fault, anymore than it's the fault of IBM (huge, huge patent filer), Microsoft, Motorola, HP, Yahoo (also huge number of patents filed every year), Google, Asus or anyone else. I get tired of folks who focus solely on chastising Apple when these sorts of patents get noticed; they seem blinkered to anyone else's insane patents. For fun: take a look at the PatentBolt website and just see some of the "obvious" stuff coming out of tech firms ... Apple is no worse than any of them. A "chameleonic device" that runs different OSes from Google? A laptop with a "built-in stylus" from Toshiba! A hybrid laptop-tablet! Wow! Whatever will these multi-billion dollar tech giants "invent" next!
Just a quick correction ... when you say "... my great^50000 grandfather was an ape" ... what you actually meant to say was that you and an ape in the zoo share a common ancestor some 50000 generations ago. You're great^50000 grandfather *wasn't* an ape, and neither was a modern ape an ape, but you both do share a common simian-type ancestor from which our two species diverged. But based on your rationale and well-composed point, I suspect you already know this. Just correcting for the less knowledgeable among the readers. [Thank you, science Nazi will now step down.]
My bad ... that roll was http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll192.xml as cited above. Tired. But he still abstained.
No he did NOT do the former ... he abstained today. You're confusing today's vote with the 2011 bill and vote.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll073.xml
Thank you for clarifying good sir. Or madam. Or cat.
Oh yes we do. Herr Harper has his own agenda of paternalistic nonsense brewing. Sending government spokespeople to monitor Federally employed scientists at climate change conferences to make sure they don't say anything that might be, you know, true. Believing the tar sands are actually made of oil and are completely an utterly non-polluting during the extraction and distillation processes. Denying climate change. Opening friendly relations with Burma on the pretext of their "slow road to democracy" when it's really about that country's decent mineral wealth. Thinking evolution's a bit wrong. Completely f-ing up the purchase of F35 fighters by knowingly hiding their true cost of ownership. At least he's terrified of the abortion issue being re-opened ... not because he's pro-choice, but simply that whatever position he'd be forced to take would wipe his political career out.
Harper would love love love to emulate the "best" aspects of controlling everything said and done ... you know, because father knows best.
To become a Law in your country, doesn't a Bill first have to pass both legislative bodies with a 66% vote? It failed to pass the House with this required % because of the 15 non-voting folks so there's no real way it can become a Law, is there? Please correct my US government "how-it-works"-fu if I'm mistaken.
Ah, the mighty and breathless media not understanding (again) that reserves != recoverable. There's a lot of water on the planet but not much of it is actually drinkable or in a form available to drink. Furthermore, the process to remove said shale "gas" involves seismic activity and a nasty, nasty (and highly secret) brew of toxic chemicals.
... portrays, in ghastly purples and yellows, Lisa Simpson giving head.
Once again, OpenStreetMap highlights that Clayton Christensen's idea's about how low-end disruptive innovation works seem to hold true. (I, too, have also used Duck Duck Go for almost a year now.)
Me? I drive with my right hand on the loop-style yoke, and the left one on the throttle. Though I do need to shift the left to the yoke and the right to the gear lever after takeoff for a few seconds in the Hawker Hurricane I see myself flying in my daydreams while I'm driving.
This. Truth. It was hard to find a bigger DII/LoD fan than myself ... kept the games (and played them) on my hard drive longer than any other title I've ever owned. Now? Couldn't care less for D3 at this point and anxiously await Torchlight II and it's non-DRMed goodness. Buying two copies of T2 to play locally, and still will have $ left over from the price of D3, I'm sure.
Where do I get me some freaky blue night-vision eyes?
Hannibal Chew?
why do you need an Internet connection to play a single player game?
Shut up, and stop asking that. Signed, Blizzard.
Actually, it wasn't very nice of the NY Times to not put the stats they used to suggest a boycott of Apple into any sort of context. So I'll do that for them ...
18 suicides per million workers at Foxconn? OK, that's very sad, but the Chinese national average is 220 per million. More than 12X higher.
7 fatal workplace injuries per million workers at Foxconn? Agains, tragic. But the US(!) national average is 35. 5X more.
Average salary for production workers at Foxconn only $6,000? To us privileged Westerners, that seems like a pittance. The average for China as a whole? $4,500 or 25% less than Foxconn workers.
I'm not suggesting that Foxconn is a dream job, without harsh conditions etc etc. But to not provide context for your statistics is disingeous at best, and deliberately dishonest at worst. And what, exactly, would a boycott actually do?
Do you know how hard that video was for me to find because you didn't put a link into your reply? I had to ask my kid for help to find it.
Minor flaw in your logic re: free will. The notion of "free will" runs contrary to the existence of your god. Since the Christian god is omnipotent, and supposedly knows all, including the future, then we have no free will to choose anything, since someone/something already knows what we'll "choose." Therefore we live in a deterministic universe where evil can't exist because evil requires free will to choose a path without anyone, including a god, knowing what you'll choose until you do so. Yet, if he's not omnipotent, he's not god. I know there's a counter-argument to this ... but since the whole notion of god is silly to begin with and unfalsifiable, I'll just stick with the real world I can see and touch.
Pfffft ... Stana Katic would've had Baldwin on the ground in cuffs before he even drew that weapon.
Same bloody thing.
On page one there's the (ACSM) up in the corner ... maybe written down to remind the guy what the key is or how to translate it? What if each letter in the message is offset by some sort of repeating pattern based on those four letters?
Sorry, every child is born an atheist. They become religious when someone tells them what to think, instead of how to think. That can be parents when they are toddlers ("Hey, daddy was right about fire being hot, maybe the misogynistic sky fairy he tells me will punish me for eternity if I don't follow his rules must be true too!"), an authority figure when they're an angst-ridden teen ("But we all love you sister Hannah ... everyone in the congregation think you're just the way the lord intended. Don't listen to those mean bullies who call you fat/gay/stupid"), a particularly charismatic pastor ("No, really, if you have sex with me it's what god wants."), etc. The only thing Rowthorn might have right is that religious people *may* procreate more and therefore teach/indoctrinate their larger broods to despise and ridicule anyone who believes anything else except their particular beliefs. But religion as a gene? Come on, really? I'll buy into common mythologies as deep-rooted societal stories, but even kids have to learn those.
I turn my engine off at many of the lights on my way to work just by turning the key. Doing that for years in both cars. There's one particularly long light that if you hit it as it's just turned red you wait two and a half minutes before you get the green again. I once did a test over two weeks and I'd average more than 70 minutes a week idling my car just waiting at lights. No reason not to just turn it off at reds instead of wasting more than an hours gas/week idling. The car doesn't get overly hot or cold regardless of it being off. And saves me lots of gas and $ in the long run. YMMV (pun not intended).
Professors Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok (the later now the head of the Perimieter Instititute here in Waterloo, Ontario and a former student of Hawking) have postulated this theory as well. In their book, Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang, they provide a simple and extremely elegant theory that explains how this happens, and more importantly, that their endless, cycling universe theory is the best way to explain away all of the fudges and math fixes needed to explain traditional Big Bang theory. If we need to have hacks and fudges in the standard inflationary Big Bang theory, and we do, then it's probably wrong. Turok and Steinhardt's theory will, within a decade, have the necessary experimental evidence to be shown right or wrong so we'll soon know. The elegance of their theory, despite its reliance on some string theory that has yet to be experimentally demonstrated, is that it explains all of our observational evidence, without additions or fudges, as well as tying in our fundemental knowledge of things like conservation of energy, etc. I, for one, welcome our balloon-like universe overlords.
Yup. I've been using computers since the days of Wang systems that required punchcards and were 15-20 feet long. This is the *ONE* thing holding me back from Ubuntu or any other Linux distro ... the fact that there is no one simple app that I can make my iPad, iPod touches work with and sync to. I don't want to struggle with something that should be plug and play. Until then, I choose to stick with OSX.