I would like to see were you get your statistics since I have never seen any that corroborate your hypothesis.
In fact all statistics I have seen point in the opposite direction.
Here is one of many http://www.gun-control-network.org/GF01.htm
You would think that if you were a real scientist researching real things you would be reading scientific journals and not searching the web for random web pages.
And I would say the main reason for that answer is:
If you do not take the update and get in an accident because of it the insurance company and Toyota will blame you, but if you upgrade and get in an accident because of it you are blameless (you just did what the bid company told you to do).
And we already know that the current software is buggy (that is why they are releasing the update), so trade a known problem for a potential one.
The real debate here is if our molecules are somehow fundamentally better then their transistors, limiting computers from achieving the same things we humans achieve.
So the people who think that it is impossible are just speciesists.
A student in a grade 12 programming class can write a program to create English sentences that at least sound ~ right. So in my honest opinion their is no reason someone could not create a program to create music. Now getting a program that will write music that is as good as the greats is a huge accomplishment, don't get me wrong, but their is little reason to believe it is impossible.
It is great that they are doing this, but I really do not see this convincing all that many people to upgrade.
Most of the people using IE6 are corporations, and not allowing their workers/students to watch youtube would most likely be a feature for them anyways.
"How in the hell does the NHTSA even do their job?"
Like every other safety certification organization. The car companies pay for a certificate, NHTSA takes some of the blame when something happens, and the general population feels safe knowing their is an entire organization dedicated to protecting them.
But combining this with a a earlier/. article about the placebo effect and modern drugs (http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/07/1526234/Placebos-Are-Getting-More-Effective)
You get that even if they only produce the placebo effect they will do as good as many popular current drugs for patients and without the horrible side effects that come with them.
Since you are probably in the US the easiest place to move to would probability be Canada.
And from what I understand you could still even work in the US, and getting heath care insurance for the US from Canada is very cheap.
Well they might not be able to prove that all of the students privacy was harmed. to the ones they can prove it for, maybe only this one, hopefully get excessive amounts of money to make up for not being able to prove they did it to everyone.
My old high school, North Middlesex district high school, in Canade, Ontario
Only has IE6 installed on all the computers, the reason why: The others including IE7/8 make the machines unstable.
Having watched many tech decisions come to pass over my years their, in my opinion, they are just unwilling to learn anything new and prefer working with outdated methods and software. Not that the rest of the board are any better in their respective fields.
"the unshaven look on a man is actually a turn-on for 41 per cent of women."
Could that not mean that most (59%) actually dislike it?
Without some idea of how many dislike or are neutral for the unshaved look as well I do not see that statistic saying that women in general like unshaven men.
Why would different digital versions cost different amounts of money?
What they should do is just charge $X for the stories, giving them all digital formats (as digital is relatively free to distribute). and then charge a little extra if they also want it in print, as that actually costs them money to print.
This way it looks like if you want NYT available to you in all formats you would need to fork over ($10-$30)+Free+$14.95+(whatever they charge for paper)= [lots of money]
As long as the screen resolution is high enough view HD why would HD video take any time or money to get? and if you do not have a screen capable of it then it is going to be impossible.
Well Google still is relatively a new company (at least as a company successful enough to be handing out millions to charity), I am sure they just never got around to it yet.
Big companies give money to charity and Wikimedia makes sense for Internet based companies like Google because they make the web so much more worth using.
While it makes sense for the developer of any product to be held responsible for its quality, it does not make sense for some huge multinational company to sue a $20/hr programmer for billions in damages.
China has been getting a lot of flak recently, and from how I understand it deservedly.
If they have done some stuff that is damning enough for companies like Google and Firefox to risk alienating such a huge market, then how can you trust anything that comes from them?
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you would rather more people died if less people lost their pocket change?
I would like to see were you get your statistics since I have never seen any that corroborate your hypothesis.
In fact all statistics I have seen point in the opposite direction.
Here is one of many http://www.gun-control-network.org/GF01.htm
Them as in the person who committed the crime and the US government how gave them the required tools and skills to do it?
And what happens when the first citizen used his rifle and training to steal or kill?
You would think that if you were a real scientist researching real things you would be reading scientific journals and not searching the web for random web pages.
And how many Tax Dollars were wasted on this farce of law?
Resident Evil 4 PC port.
Could not use mouse to aim (arrow keys to aim in FP view).
Could not exit game, had to ctrl+alt+del.
And I would say the main reason for that answer is:
If you do not take the update and get in an accident because of it the insurance company and Toyota will blame you, but if you upgrade and get in an accident because of it you are blameless (you just did what the bid company told you to do).
And we already know that the current software is buggy (that is why they are releasing the update), so trade a known problem for a potential one.
The real debate here is if our molecules are somehow fundamentally better then their transistors, limiting computers from achieving the same things we humans achieve.
So the people who think that it is impossible are just speciesists.
A student in a grade 12 programming class can write a program to create English sentences that at least sound ~ right. So in my honest opinion their is no reason someone could not create a program to create music.
Now getting a program that will write music that is as good as the greats is a huge accomplishment, don't get me wrong, but their is little reason to believe it is impossible.
It is great that they are doing this, but I really do not see this convincing all that many people to upgrade.
Most of the people using IE6 are corporations, and not allowing their workers/students to watch youtube would most likely be a feature for them anyways.
You can already use OpenGL if you make it in Java.
"How in the hell does the NHTSA even do their job?"
Like every other safety certification organization. The car companies pay for a certificate, NHTSA takes some of the blame when something happens, and the general population feels safe knowing their is an entire organization dedicated to protecting them.
But combining this with a a earlier /. article about the placebo effect and modern drugs (http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/07/1526234/Placebos-Are-Getting-More-Effective)
You get that even if they only produce the placebo effect they will do as good as many popular current drugs for patients and without the horrible side effects that come with them.
Since you are probably in the US the easiest place to move to would probability be Canada.
And from what I understand you could still even work in the US, and getting heath care insurance for the US from Canada is very cheap.
Well they might not be able to prove that all of the students privacy was harmed. to the ones they can prove it for, maybe only this one, hopefully get excessive amounts of money to make up for not being able to prove they did it to everyone.
and why were they watching in the first place?
My old high school, North Middlesex district high school, in Canade, Ontario
Only has IE6 installed on all the computers, the reason why: The others including IE7/8 make the machines unstable.
Having watched many tech decisions come to pass over my years their, in my opinion, they are just unwilling to learn anything new and prefer working with outdated methods and software. Not that the rest of the board are any better in their respective fields.
"the unshaven look on a man is actually a turn-on for 41 per cent of women."
Could that not mean that most (59%) actually dislike it?
Without some idea of how many dislike or are neutral for the unshaved look as well I do not see that statistic saying that women in general like unshaven men.
Why would different digital versions cost different amounts of money?
What they should do is just charge $X for the stories, giving them all digital formats (as digital is relatively free to distribute). and then charge a little extra if they also want it in print, as that actually costs them money to print.
This way it looks like if you want NYT available to you in all formats you would need to fork over ($10-$30)+Free+$14.95+(whatever they charge for paper)= [lots of money]
As long as the screen resolution is high enough view HD why would HD video take any time or money to get? and if you do not have a screen capable of it then it is going to be impossible.
That cannot be even close to legal.
Well Google still is relatively a new company (at least as a company successful enough to be handing out millions to charity), I am sure they just never got around to it yet.
Big companies give money to charity and Wikimedia makes sense for Internet based companies like Google because they make the web so much more worth using.
While it makes sense for the developer of any product to be held responsible for its quality, it does not make sense for some huge multinational company to sue a $20/hr programmer for billions in damages.
China has been getting a lot of flak recently, and from how I understand it deservedly.
If they have done some stuff that is damning enough for companies like Google and Firefox to risk alienating such a huge market, then how can you trust anything that comes from them?