perhaps so but it doesn't matter. Competition ALWAYS works. When the patent expires another company will offer the same bottle type with 10% more ketchup for the same price.
I looked into it once.
Drivers for every nearly related printer in every language, an extra bloated install program to choose which the user probably needs, spyware, more spyware, drivers for related all-in-ones, extra bloated "user friendly" crap, useless programs supposed to be usable for things like screen capture, photo editing, scanning, photo archiving, thumbnails, and sample data.
Hopefully the increased demand will cause a significant upturn in the number of diamond manufacturers lending wider spread knowledge of the true value (much lower than popularly believed) of diamonds.
coffee pots. lights. garage doors. There is no decent reason to attempt to automate these things and by the time hardware worth automating comes out any software developed now will be as obsolete as BASIC on Commodore 64.
Walmart StraightTalk uses Samsung phones. Walmart was one of the the first to offer unlimited talk and text without a contract for a decent price. A direct result was the sale of a huge number of Samsung phones.
One thing that should definitely not be done is someone starting a website for publishing of papers copyrighted by journals. That would allow free access by anyone and make the journals lose profits. Then how many hookers could the corporations running the journals get?
Computers just aren't up to understanding complex English well enough to decently grade it. The smartest students will very quickly grow apathetic and start gaming it, whilst forgetting the skills they do have. The less intelligent students will just learn to run it through MS Word's grammar and spelling check and add words that don't fit but are long.
My South African friend was sure a particularly evil politician would stay in power in an election we were looking at. He was voted out in a landslide partly because of informed voters. (UN control of voting booths helped a lot too.)
African farmers are increasingly able to make use of modern farming methods. This too is due to the information age. B2B sales of farming equipment and open markets, global competition, and training via the internet have all played their part.
Technology failed to help in the past because it was being wielded by imperialists with agendas. Things in Africa are gettingbetter and will keep getting better.
I still think you were being a jerk. The group published a request for others to find out what went wrong and the media had a feeding frenzy. The scientists did nothing wrong.
And the news will tell them their local politician took a bribe so they'll end up with better leadership, closer international cooperation, and an extra goat next year.
And that there's a bumper crop of corn in the US so they'll plant cotton this year.
And that their child's cleft palate can be fixed by a local clinic almost free.
Not that I don't think most of it will be porn but don't underestimate the power of information.
You make some great points. Nevertheless offloading social decisions into the network is the way things are going. We just need better control over what we Like and Dislike.
It blows my mind to think of all the similar applications that have yet to be developed for social networking. "dislike all this guy's likes"; "like things that seem like this; join this coalition of things to like.
Non-social like, for specific ideas or products. An app that warns you if the product you're looking at was made by a disliked company. An app that suggests likes by association. An app that warns you not to buy a product if 60% of your social circle dislikes it. An app that auto-likes things Consumer Reports rated 4 stars or better. Partial dislike.
And like/dislike is only the bare beginning. Want. Want(urgent) Need. Looking for. Hate. Attempting to acquire.
Due to privacy concerns I don't facebook but this is obviously the next paradigm* in mass social interaction.
*Sorry to use that word but it's not a buzzword in this case: it fits.
We need an information based way of considering these things. A measurement of how much total distraction a car is allowed to give the driver. Then we can use that metric to allow or disallow various things.
It's perfectly safe for a driver on an open highway to use a cell phone. If he has a manual transmission, less so. If he's drinking coffee too, probably unsafe. A driver may be able to handle a GPS safely if it's in visual format for faster integration. Perhaps the car should allow no more than two of: manual transmission, radio, cell phone, GPS.
It's been proven that talking on the phone is almost as distracting without the headset.
My point is by worrying about where the driver's eyes are they're taking entirely the wrong approach.
That 7% is transmission loss only. Now consider using it in computing to prevent waste heat from being generated. In radio transmitters for better efficiency. In house wiring. In appliances. In cars. In electric cars. Now you're talking about at least a 50% boost. And that's before you consider using it in electric motors and generators.
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perhaps so but it doesn't matter. Competition ALWAYS works. When the patent expires another company will offer the same bottle type with 10% more ketchup for the same price.
It would be nice for the supreme court to formally endorse internet anonymity.
I looked into it once. Drivers for every nearly related printer in every language, an extra bloated install program to choose which the user probably needs, spyware, more spyware, drivers for related all-in-ones, extra bloated "user friendly" crap, useless programs supposed to be usable for things like screen capture, photo editing, scanning, photo archiving, thumbnails, and sample data.
Google, Cyc, Wikipedia, and Watson are damned impressive. I wouldn't mind the government spending a billion dollars making another set possible
Every time a task like this is mastered it's suddenly not considered human level intelligence anymore. I can't believe it's long now...
So what you're saying is I need a skin covered knife?
Hopefully the increased demand will cause a significant upturn in the number of diamond manufacturers lending wider spread knowledge of the true value (much lower than popularly believed) of diamonds.
coffee pots. lights. garage doors. There is no decent reason to attempt to automate these things and by the time hardware worth automating comes out any software developed now will be as obsolete as BASIC on Commodore 64.
Walmart StraightTalk uses Samsung phones. Walmart was one of the the first to offer unlimited talk and text without a contract for a decent price. A direct result was the sale of a huge number of Samsung phones.
One thing that should definitely not be done is someone starting a website for publishing of papers copyrighted by journals. That would allow free access by anyone and make the journals lose profits. Then how many hookers could the corporations running the journals get?
$50 a month
Anyone can do that.
I'm sorry to inform you that you're unable to understand 30% of Obama's voter base.
If taxing the rich more than the poor is the beginning of lost freedoms, there is no free government on earth.
Speakers, reversed, are microphones. All it would take would be an invisible (to you) hardware change.
Computers just aren't up to understanding complex English well enough to decently grade it. The smartest students will very quickly grow apathetic and start gaming it, whilst forgetting the skills they do have. The less intelligent students will just learn to run it through MS Word's grammar and spelling check and add words that don't fit but are long.
Sir, you are well named.
My South African friend was sure a particularly evil politician would stay in power in an election we were looking at. He was voted out in a landslide partly because of informed voters. (UN control of voting booths helped a lot too.)
African farmers are increasingly able to make use of modern farming methods. This too is due to the information age. B2B sales of farming equipment and open markets, global competition, and training via the internet have all played their part.
Technology failed to help in the past because it was being wielded by imperialists with agendas. Things in Africa are getting better and will keep getting better.
I still think you were being a jerk. The group published a request for others to find out what went wrong and the media had a feeding frenzy. The scientists did nothing wrong.
All the government has to do to dodge that is claim it knows of a specific file. That claim alone is enough for a DA to subpoena your encrypted data.
And the news will tell them their local politician took a bribe so they'll end up with better leadership, closer international cooperation, and an extra goat next year. And that there's a bumper crop of corn in the US so they'll plant cotton this year. And that their child's cleft palate can be fixed by a local clinic almost free. Not that I don't think most of it will be porn but don't underestimate the power of information.
You make some great points. Nevertheless offloading social decisions into the network is the way things are going. We just need better control over what we Like and Dislike.
I must know who makes it.
It blows my mind to think of all the similar applications that have yet to be developed for social networking. "dislike all this guy's likes"; "like things that seem like this; join this coalition of things to like.
Non-social like, for specific ideas or products. An app that warns you if the product you're looking at was made by a disliked company. An app that suggests likes by association. An app that warns you not to buy a product if 60% of your social circle dislikes it. An app that auto-likes things Consumer Reports rated 4 stars or better. Partial dislike.
And like/dislike is only the bare beginning. Want. Want(urgent) Need. Looking for. Hate. Attempting to acquire.
Due to privacy concerns I don't facebook but this is obviously the next paradigm* in mass social interaction.
*Sorry to use that word but it's not a buzzword in this case: it fits.
We need an information based way of considering these things. A measurement of how much total distraction a car is allowed to give the driver. Then we can use that metric to allow or disallow various things.
It's perfectly safe for a driver on an open highway to use a cell phone. If he has a manual transmission, less so. If he's drinking coffee too, probably unsafe. A driver may be able to handle a GPS safely if it's in visual format for faster integration. Perhaps the car should allow no more than two of: manual transmission, radio, cell phone, GPS.
It's been proven that talking on the phone is almost as distracting without the headset.
My point is by worrying about where the driver's eyes are they're taking entirely the wrong approach.
That 7% is transmission loss only. Now consider using it in computing to prevent waste heat from being generated. In radio transmitters for better efficiency. In house wiring. In appliances. In cars. In electric cars. Now you're talking about at least a 50% boost. And that's before you consider using it in electric motors and generators.
That should be more than enough for heavy metal arbitrage.
People who try to ban things "because someone might be offended" are themselves the problem. And it is a wide-spread and serious one.
I only hope we can get over this state of permanent panic before it kills us.