They knew about the north/south flip pattern for a long time before they finally accepted continental drift. The problem was that they couldn't come up with a plausible mechanism to allow continents to drift over the mantle.
We'll never do that. Americans have money, Israelis have brains. Instead we'll do this and shortly thereafter we'll start using it on everything all the way down to stopping cars from running when the licensed driver is not in them.
Of course they'll need to track both, for your security, and the insurance co's will want in on it, etc. I can remember anti-virus programs blocking all sorts of basic functionality because of false positives. Life is going to get pretty odd when people start saying with a straight face; I couldn't get to your house, my car thought the road wasn't there and wouldn't let me drive on it. One more great step towards a brave new world wherein a cheap machine that can out-think a drunken moron is given authority over us all.
Well, thats the way it should be, yes. The way things are it's the intent of the media and politicians that matters. If they say you're a terrorist you are. Your motives notwithstanding.
It's marketing strategy. Linux helped them get an edge and introduce the older model, now they've got competition and are hedging their position against it. If their competitors get market traction expect Asus to begin pushing Microsoft as the "Mature solution" and probably sell the fact that it runs older games and their DRM'ed media better or some such.
I doubt they'll shut down TrueCrypt when they can use Trusted Computing backdoors to grab passwords at will. GNU Radio, on the other hand, can be used to circumvent Govt. and media controlled information channels allowing true independent consensus. The current dominant groups (i.e. the liberals and neo-conservatives) achieved their position by doing that and they've been gradually shutting down that path ever since.
He's part of the facade. By saying that he knows he's really going to be read as 'Yes video games to influence people to be more violent.' Of course the fact that they're living in the armpit of the state has nothing to do with it, it's games.
The only possible problem I've seen with video games and television violence is not that it makes people more violent it's that it makes them less effective in thinking through their violence. Real violence isn't ten minutes of posturing and increasingly hyperbolic threats followed by a punch or two. Real violence is walking by someone in a hallway and suddenly knocking their teeth in then kicking them into the hospital or sticking a sharpened pencil into their kidney or shooting them. Games don't make us more violent, but they may make us act more like children acting at being violent.
Hmm. Cher and the lawyer would eat the rats who'd eat the cockroaches and then one of them would eat the other one. They probably wouldn't get all the cockroaches, though, so the cockroaches would eat the survivor eventually.
One wonders whether a professed atheist, an Islamic mullah or Wiccan priest, instead of one of those dastardly Republicans, would get the same scrutiny or presumption of bias or other "odd" or "bizarre" feelings.
One shouldn't have to wonder. This is standard operational procedure. In fact it even happens on a national level, instead of being largely confined to the "leftist" media and internet.
True that. The 40 Gig. plan is not really sufficient for more than lightweight use as far as movies, teleconferencing, music, and games are concerned. The 5 Gig. plan is not even on the table. If I were just using that kind of bandwidth I'd go back to 56k and save myself $10 a month.
In a developed country. The condition of the infrastructure in the US has been stagnant or declining for decades. It seems we've had to funnel funds away from it to pay lawyers, lobbyists, and dirtbags like Darl McBride to kill companies.
If $1 per Gigabyte is high what about $5? The base cost of the plan in the article is ~$30 plus $1 peg Gig overage. If subsidizing the usage of others is so bad why are they trying to make light users pay this while heavy users pay less than $1 per Gig? ($54 per 40GB)
"Those prices cover the Internet portion of subscription bundles that include video or phone services. Both downloads and uploads will count toward the monthly cap."
Note this covers the internet portion of bundled plans.
The message delivered here; Use our service or we'll bankrupt you if you try to use anybody else's for movies or music.
Not true! The fun stuff that they can't get away will blocking will be kept. It's just the niche stuff that will go, along with anything remotely creative.
Tonga is not very close to Easter Island. It is 'on the way' of most proposed ancient routes from Polynesia to South America though, but there is still a lot of distance between them.
I have to second that. Three hours is only ultra-portable for people who carry a generator around with them. It needs the ability to put in a whole days worth of work to be classed as an ultra-portable. Six to eight hours would be sufficient, four would be tolerable, this just isn't good enough.
Those were the probably old IDE drives, they handled cylinder and head info in software and could conceivably be physically damaged by software. I never heard of it actually happening though. I do remember the one that VeNoM0619 mentioned, and the monitor thing too. If I recall correctly that one only worked on a particular kind of fixed-frequency monitor.
I, too am in that camp but in my experience that only switches out one set of problems for another. Some choice quotes from old girlfriends:
"You know very well what I mean, so I shouldn't have to say it!"
"Here wear this, I want you to look good, but not too good."
"I like it when you do things for me, but do you have to be such a 'guy' when you do it?"
That last was said just after I had replaced the Ignition coil on the car. My father worked on old cars a lot and I picked up a lot from him. She'd taken the car to a mechanic who saw a woman bringing a car in and got a bad case of greed. He said it needed a new fuel pump of all things. 50$ for parts and free labor vs. 150$ parts and another 200$ for labor and she tells me I did something wrong.
There's no particular reason why a pulsar cannot 'spin up' in an elongated orbit. It would take longer though, and it would need to be timed in such a way that it's material transfer events maintain the orbit, rather than 'flattening' it out.
Or, perhaps more likely, an especially energetic eruption pushed it out of a formerly 'flattened' orbit.
Slashdot Mirror
They knew about the north/south flip pattern for a long time before they finally accepted continental drift. The problem was that they couldn't come up with a plausible mechanism to allow continents to drift over the mantle.
He can't even use a decent example. The argument he's looking for is "You need us to decide whether or not you can get into your car today."
Of course they'll need to track both, for your security, and the insurance co's will want in on it, etc. I can remember anti-virus programs blocking all sorts of basic functionality because of false positives. Life is going to get pretty odd when people start saying with a straight face; I couldn't get to your house, my car thought the road wasn't there and wouldn't let me drive on it. One more great step towards a brave new world wherein a cheap machine that can out-think a drunken moron is given authority over us all.
I think, when all is said and done a lot of people are going to wish they'd never herd of this matter.
Well, thats the way it should be, yes. The way things are it's the intent of the media and politicians that matters. If they say you're a terrorist you are. Your motives notwithstanding.
It's marketing strategy. Linux helped them get an edge and introduce the older model, now they've got competition and are hedging their position against it. If their competitors get market traction expect Asus to begin pushing Microsoft as the "Mature solution" and probably sell the fact that it runs older games and their DRM'ed media better or some such.
Quick regurgitation is more prized everywhere, not just the internet. It's one of the things most heavily focused upon in schools.
I doubt they'll shut down TrueCrypt when they can use Trusted Computing backdoors to grab passwords at will. GNU Radio, on the other hand, can be used to circumvent Govt. and media controlled information channels allowing true independent consensus. The current dominant groups (i.e. the liberals and neo-conservatives) achieved their position by doing that and they've been gradually shutting down that path ever since.
He's part of the facade. By saying that he knows he's really going to be read as 'Yes video games to influence people to be more violent.' Of course the fact that they're living in the armpit of the state has nothing to do with it, it's games.
The only possible problem I've seen with video games and television violence is not that it makes people more violent it's that it makes them less effective in thinking through their violence. Real violence isn't ten minutes of posturing and increasingly hyperbolic threats followed by a punch or two. Real violence is walking by someone in a hallway and suddenly knocking their teeth in then kicking them into the hospital or sticking a sharpened pencil into their kidney or shooting them. Games don't make us more violent, but they may make us act more like children acting at being violent.
Hmm. Cher and the lawyer would eat the rats who'd eat the cockroaches and then one of them would eat the other one. They probably wouldn't get all the cockroaches, though, so the cockroaches would eat the survivor eventually.
One wonders whether a professed atheist, an Islamic mullah or Wiccan priest, instead of one of those dastardly Republicans, would get the same scrutiny or presumption of bias or other "odd" or "bizarre" feelings.
One shouldn't have to wonder. This is standard operational procedure. In fact it even happens on a national level, instead of being largely confined to the "leftist" media and internet.
True that. The 40 Gig. plan is not really sufficient for more than lightweight use as far as movies, teleconferencing, music, and games are concerned. The 5 Gig. plan is not even on the table. If I were just using that kind of bandwidth I'd go back to 56k and save myself $10 a month.
In a developed country. The condition of the infrastructure in the US has been stagnant or declining for decades. It seems we've had to funnel funds away from it to pay lawyers, lobbyists, and dirtbags like Darl McBride to kill companies.
If $1 per Gigabyte is high what about $5? The base cost of the plan in the article is ~$30 plus $1 peg Gig overage. If subsidizing the usage of others is so bad why are they trying to make light users pay this while heavy users pay less than $1 per Gig? ($54 per 40GB)
Note this covers the internet portion of bundled plans.
The message delivered here; Use our service or we'll bankrupt you if you try to use anybody else's for movies or music.
And it's the best frog there is at what it does.
Not true! The fun stuff that they can't get away will blocking will be kept. It's just the niche stuff that will go, along with anything remotely creative.
Tonga is not very close to Easter Island. It is 'on the way' of most proposed ancient routes from Polynesia to South America though, but there is still a lot of distance between them.
I have to second that. Three hours is only ultra-portable for people who carry a generator around with them. It needs the ability to put in a whole days worth of work to be classed as an ultra-portable. Six to eight hours would be sufficient, four would be tolerable, this just isn't good enough.
Why is this a troll? I've heard that same 'logic' several times. Well ok, the implication that it's limited to England is off, but still..
Those were the probably old IDE drives, they handled cylinder and head info in software and could conceivably be physically damaged by software. I never heard of it actually happening though. I do remember the one that VeNoM0619 mentioned, and the monitor thing too. If I recall correctly that one only worked on a particular kind of fixed-frequency monitor.
I, too am in that camp but in my experience that only switches out one set of problems for another. Some choice quotes from old girlfriends:
"You know very well what I mean, so I shouldn't have to say it!"
"Here wear this, I want you to look good, but not too good."
"I like it when you do things for me, but do you have to be such a 'guy' when you do it?"
That last was said just after I had replaced the Ignition coil on the car. My father worked on old cars a lot and I picked up a lot from him. She'd taken the car to a mechanic who saw a woman bringing a car in and got a bad case of greed. He said it needed a new fuel pump of all things. 50$ for parts and free labor vs. 150$ parts and another 200$ for labor and she tells me I did something wrong.
Or, perhaps more likely, an especially energetic eruption pushed it out of a formerly 'flattened' orbit.
True, most of us get bit sooner or later.