They can pry my Droid from my cold dead hands. I need to know where I'm going, and Google Maps does that much more safely and effectively than a paper map. Also, Pandora is much less of a hassle than a standard radio. Put it on, music I like comes out, and I don't have to fiddle with it at all.
If they're going to ban cell phones, they also need to ban mp3 players, gps, and radio, which are equally distracting for the 30 seconds or so it takes to configure them.
LCD costs and energy use have been consistently coming down for years now. At some point this sort of stuff is an inevitability if the trends continue.
What makes you say this is all about money? It's just as much about attention. The president and Congress spend at least a third of their time dealing with an unnecessary war. That's time they could be looking at all sorts of domestic reform programs that would improve our society in concrete ways.
Google engineers are mostly Linux engineers using Mac computers. Microsoft's dogfooding culture isn't really interested in those sorts of people. That's not to say they couldn't be a benefit to Microsoft, but it's a fundamentally different platform, and there's not a lot of incentive to learn it, especially when there are hundreds of universities churning out Microsoft-trained engineers.
It's more like taking off a trailer hitch on a sports car. Practically nobody uses their sports car with a trailer, but it's good to have the option.
Where your analogy fails is that cappuccino making has nothing to do with the basic function of the device. Even though few people use the Other OS feature, it's perfectly natural that people want to use an expensive computer to compute things, much like it's perfectly natural that people want to use an expensive automobile to tow their expensive boat.
Bull. If IE was faster, people would use it on their phones. I know no one who does. And Windows Mobile 7 will be shipping with IE7 - a full two versions behind the supposed speedy version - which will only be noticeably speedier if you have heavy duty hardware.
And speed and energy efficiency, it must be noted, are very different things.
Just looking at the cargo is deceptive, because it ignores the cost of re-entry. You're still paying shuttle prices for re-entry even though all that actually needs to come down is 7 astronauts, which would be done far more cheaply with a few Soyuz capsules, and the equipment could go up on rockets that don't need to come back down.
So while the shuttle is probably about 10 million dollars more expensive for people, a proper heavy lifter would probably be far cheaper for equipment (never mind that we don't have such a heavy lifter, but it's still evidence that the shuttle needs to go away.)
Czjzek's team compared the microbial genomes of 13 Japanese people with those of 18 North Americans.
Completely meaningless study. I'd also wager they only tested omnivores. The study is especially meaningless without looking at the 5% of the North American population that is vegetarian.
Where are you putting your email? On a private server? Even if you own all of the hardware and store it on your own property, the government can still get at it with a warrant.
As for a private server with some hosting company, I'd be very surprised if they protected my data with the same vigor Google would. Especially given that failure to do proper monitoring got an entire datacenter confiscated by the FBI for the actions of a single customer.
Users only use 20% of the features on a computer, if even that. However, everyone uses a different 20%. You can't just casually accept it when people strip out features you've bought, paid for, and used without incident.
I have an imagination. What you're missing is that there are very likely places a hypothetical could get functional nukes, and the bottom of the ocean is not one of them. Could it happen? Yes. But when it does happen, the nuke will probably come from Russia or one of the new and growing number of nuclear-capable states intentionally selling a nuke, not from someone digging a defunct waterlogged nuke off the ocean floor.
That statement is whimsical in every way. And it's the one line that made me fall in love with Doctor Who. That, and the Doctor riding a horse through a mirror are the two things from that episode that stick out in my mind. Yes, there are other things in there, but there is a lot of whimsy.
But the shuttle proved that a reusable launch vehicle was impractical for equipment launches. Getting things down from orbit is very expensive, so reducing costs requires that you allow anything you don't need to burn up. There's nothing so expensive that it's worth preserving through atmospheric re-entry.
The only case where that's not true is people, but we never send up enough people that a re-entry vehicle the size of the shuttle is justified.
It is however becoming quite a force, because Apple has convinced the content providers that it will magically provide them workable revenue streams and a dedicated customer base.
Fortunately, it looks like most of the offerings for iPad will show dividends for Android and other Linux-based systems, as well as Windows.
Adobe may be larger, but it's faster. In any case, Foxit has just about all the features Adobe has that turn what should be a document printing tool into a malware vector.
What you're leaving out however was that the whole intent of pdf was to provide a more stable version of ps, one that was not Turing complete and therefore not as vulnerable to this sort of attack.
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They can pry my Droid from my cold dead hands. I need to know where I'm going, and Google Maps does that much more safely and effectively than a paper map. Also, Pandora is much less of a hassle than a standard radio. Put it on, music I like comes out, and I don't have to fiddle with it at all.
If they're going to ban cell phones, they also need to ban mp3 players, gps, and radio, which are equally distracting for the 30 seconds or so it takes to configure them.
LCD costs and energy use have been consistently coming down for years now. At some point this sort of stuff is an inevitability if the trends continue.
What makes you say this is all about money? It's just as much about attention. The president and Congress spend at least a third of their time dealing with an unnecessary war. That's time they could be looking at all sorts of domestic reform programs that would improve our society in concrete ways.
Google engineers are mostly Linux engineers using Mac computers. Microsoft's dogfooding culture isn't really interested in those sorts of people. That's not to say they couldn't be a benefit to Microsoft, but it's a fundamentally different platform, and there's not a lot of incentive to learn it, especially when there are hundreds of universities churning out Microsoft-trained engineers.
It's more like taking off a trailer hitch on a sports car. Practically nobody uses their sports car with a trailer, but it's good to have the option.
Where your analogy fails is that cappuccino making has nothing to do with the basic function of the device. Even though few people use the Other OS feature, it's perfectly natural that people want to use an expensive computer to compute things, much like it's perfectly natural that people want to use an expensive automobile to tow their expensive boat.
Yes, but that power has just been offloaded to the GPU. From that graph it looks like the actual power savings were minor, if there were any at all.
Bull. If IE was faster, people would use it on their phones. I know no one who does. And Windows Mobile 7 will be shipping with IE7 - a full two versions behind the supposed speedy version - which will only be noticeably speedier if you have heavy duty hardware.
And speed and energy efficiency, it must be noted, are very different things.
Just looking at the cargo is deceptive, because it ignores the cost of re-entry. You're still paying shuttle prices for re-entry even though all that actually needs to come down is 7 astronauts, which would be done far more cheaply with a few Soyuz capsules, and the equipment could go up on rockets that don't need to come back down.
So while the shuttle is probably about 10 million dollars more expensive for people, a proper heavy lifter would probably be far cheaper for equipment (never mind that we don't have such a heavy lifter, but it's still evidence that the shuttle needs to go away.)
Completely meaningless study. I'd also wager they only tested omnivores. The study is especially meaningless without looking at the 5% of the North American population that is vegetarian.
What's the point of encrypting it if everyone with access has the key?
Where are you putting your email? On a private server? Even if you own all of the hardware and store it on your own property, the government can still get at it with a warrant.
As for a private server with some hosting company, I'd be very surprised if they protected my data with the same vigor Google would. Especially given that failure to do proper monitoring got an entire datacenter confiscated by the FBI for the actions of a single customer.
Users only use 20% of the features on a computer, if even that. However, everyone uses a different 20%. You can't just casually accept it when people strip out features you've bought, paid for, and used without incident.
Perl is great for turning malformed data into well-formed data. The Perl interpreter turns malformed data into malformed code.
(I say this as someone who likes Perl, but the point is that Perl lets you clean stuff up, and a properly parsed Perl program is not clean.)
Most routers don't force firmware updates. Neither to printers, scanners, faxes, or a whole host of shit.
And firmware that disables features you paid for is a very new thing.
The year of the Linux Phone was last year.
And if this crazy tablet idea works for Apple, you can bet it will work for Android.
Or just use one of the many Linux tablets soon to appear.
War and financial collapse are eternal and serious dangers. You're deluded that you think otherwise.
I have an imagination. What you're missing is that there are very likely places a hypothetical could get functional nukes, and the bottom of the ocean is not one of them. Could it happen? Yes. But when it does happen, the nuke will probably come from Russia or one of the new and growing number of nuclear-capable states intentionally selling a nuke, not from someone digging a defunct waterlogged nuke off the ocean floor.
No really, no one will bother looking for them. It would be easier to steal them from a US military silo than get them off the ocean floor.
That statement is whimsical in every way. And it's the one line that made me fall in love with Doctor Who. That, and the Doctor riding a horse through a mirror are the two things from that episode that stick out in my mind. Yes, there are other things in there, but there is a lot of whimsy.
But the shuttle proved that a reusable launch vehicle was impractical for equipment launches. Getting things down from orbit is very expensive, so reducing costs requires that you allow anything you don't need to burn up. There's nothing so expensive that it's worth preserving through atmospheric re-entry.
The only case where that's not true is people, but we never send up enough people that a re-entry vehicle the size of the shuttle is justified.
The iPad is a meetoo product.
It is however becoming quite a force, because Apple has convinced the content providers that it will magically provide them workable revenue streams and a dedicated customer base.
Fortunately, it looks like most of the offerings for iPad will show dividends for Android and other Linux-based systems, as well as Windows.
Adobe may be larger, but it's faster. In any case, Foxit has just about all the features Adobe has that turn what should be a document printing tool into a malware vector.
What you're leaving out however was that the whole intent of pdf was to provide a more stable version of ps, one that was not Turing complete and therefore not as vulnerable to this sort of attack.
And if you use Sumatra, for example, it is.
Foxit is just as bloated as Adobe. Use Sumatra.