Actually, Venus is a good example because people best undersand extremes. If you want to demonstrate the effects of greenhouse gases, what better way than to point to a planet where they compose the vast majority of the atmosphere? Venus is what would happen if all of the Earth's atmosphere were to be replaced with greenhouse gases.
If you look at, say, Mars and Venus, you have the two opposites. Earth stands somewhere along the two; global warming is inching us closer to Venus. We'll never actually reach Venus levels, obviously, but the comparison is still apt.
Science is amoral. Morality will always exist and is fundamentally linked to us as humans. Even if science were to take a much larger place, I doubt morals would simply stop existing. However, philosophy's place should definitely be increased along with science's. They go hand-in-hand; science tries to explain the what and how, philosophy the why.
The problem is that companies don't actually comply - they ship their plants overseas instead. It is often more economical for them to transport goods and raw materials to and from, say, China, than it is to comply with such regulations. The only way for this to work is to implement it on a global level and well... good luck with that.
The Greeks were arguably far more educated than we are. There is a difference between knowing stuff and being educated. We know way more maths than they did, our science is lightyears ahead, but what does that change? If the state of the art is making wheels out of iron instead of wood, then democracy will ideally work when the voters have a minimal knowledge of wooden and iron wheels.
The Athenians, for instance, did. Obviously, the people who could vote in this ancient democracy were but a small subset of the population of the city, but those were pretty much guaranteed to have had extensive education in litterature and philosophy, with the latter being critical for thought processes and passing for science at the time.
In the modern days? State of the art is so diverse and impenetrable to the common man that they know nothing. They do not know the actual statistics on how much nuclear power is dangerous, nor have they read Darwin's theory and the multiple refinements done to it in the years after. They do not understand relativity, they do not comprehend how vaccines work or how virus work.Most do not know psychology, statistics, they barely have a primitive knowledge of their own history learned and then quickly forgotten in high school. In this perspective, we know more on average than the Greeks did absolutely, but quite a bit less relatively.
I'd say that unfortunately the problem is that democracy was initially created for mid-sized communities with a very uniform distribution of knowledge and education. For extremely large scale communities like many countries these days, where knowledge levels vary wildly, it isn't adapted.
Actually, from looking at IBM's history, IBM is a clever company, first and foremost. They adapt to the markets and do whatever is profitable for them at the time, and do it well.
MagSafe is patented and other manufacturers can't license either the connector or the technology. So much for stupid manufacturers, eh?
As for the rest, you're comparing 16:9 to 16:10. I wouldn't be surprised that Apple converts to 16:9 at some point, the trend seems almost inevitable. I don't like it, but we're all stuck with it. You're also comparing the MacBook Pro 15" with the optional 1680x1050 screen; default is 1440x900.
For the rest of your comparison, much of it is disingenuous. Thunderbolt? Intel's been working with Apple to get it in their machine. Backlit keyboard? I'll give you that. Firewire? Meh, it has USB3 and eSATA, which are far more common standards; daisy chaining is of such a limited interest I don't think 99.99% of Apple users know what you're talking about. Multitouch? Nah, it's only got a TrackPoint, one of the best input devices on the market. SSD? I wouldn't buy an SSD from either of them; you'll get OEM crap. Lower res? Not if you pick the optional screen, which you did for the MacBook. Thickness and heaviness are expected, this laptop is a tank and built like one. If you want sleek and thin, you don't shop ThinkPad. The optical drive is probably far sturdier than you'd think and I'm pretty sure they're still user-replaceable, unlike Apple's. Headphone and microphone are there just because you need one, but again this is a ThinkPad, you don't tend to do entertainment on them. Aluminium case, no, but ThinkPads are probably sturdier than MacBooks.
And then what you're not saying: this laptop has a fingerprint reader (useful to some, especially businesses), the 2.2GHz CPU is a *quad core*, which Apple does not have, and it's got freaking *Quadro* graphics, which are in a whole other class. Just look for Quadro desktop GPUs versus GeForce desktop GPUs of the same category, you'll see. Whether you need Quadro is irrelevant, the cards themselves cost a boatload more. Also, it has a VGA port, which for many is essential. DisplayPort is just a pain most of the time.
Apple does have rather heavy markup on their stuff. They make excellent products, but they're comparatively expensive.
And Galileo? And evolution? Are those all giant conspiracies from atheists too?
The issue with those kinds of debates is the insane overgeneralization that happens in most of them. Because a TINY fraction of atheists did something wrong, all atheists are wrong. Nice thinking.
The problem always lies with the extremes. Extreme anything, be it religious, political, moral, etc. creates trouble. Those who say that the majority of Christians are the issue because they support ID in schools forget that most people are very easy to influence and will go with the majority. The source of the problem is those who influence the majority i.e. the extremes. The vocal minority. Same goes for Islam or atheists.
Except Ubisoft is actually based in France, while Ubisoft Montreal just happens to be their largest and most successful studio. The executive decisions still happen in Montreuil, France.
AnandTech has a review up. For your questions, the drive has TRIM support, Samsung has been the SSD manufacturer of choice for Apple so I'd say OSX support is a given, costs will be in line with the SSD 470 which is within the range of the OCZ Vertex 3, Crucial m4 and Intel SSD 510 and it goes up to 512gb, which is the sample that has been reviewed.
Notably, they say that this is the first really exciting release by Samsung. Apparently, garbage collection is delayed to moments with low IO activity, making torture tests dip down to as low as 50mb/s, but on the flip side this boosts peak speeds. In normal operation such issues are not quite as problematic. Another thing to note is that this SSD is less dependent on compression. SandForce based drives like the Vertex 3 suffer tremendously with incompressible data, whereas Samsung's offering doesn't dip that much.
Most game developers don't want to show up on Faux News' front page with the headline "X is promoting killing of civilians!"
Combine player freedom with a clueless and/or biased press and you'll see why devs mostly just don't want to deal with the hassle. The only ones that do, do it because they actually LIKE said "scandals". Rockstar's thrived on scandals.
Nuclear is expensive, there's no denying it. Decommissioning a plant will cost money, will be complicated, there's no way around it. That's why nuclear plants tend to be built for the long term. If they can run for 50 years, their initial and final costs are amortized and the plants can even turn a profit.
If costs are not an issue, proper plans do exist to store the radioactive materials off in sealed containers. No, it's not ideal, but we're not supposed to destroy nuclear plants every 5 years for whatever reason politicians can think of. I'd still gladly trade even hundreds of hard steel containers buried under some area of a desert than all the pollution of coal/gas plants. Remember though that the structural materials make for a small part of all waste currently generated, though a lot of that comes from not being able to reprocess spent fuel.
That's the thing people need to realize: there is no ideal energy source. Everything is a matter of tradeoffs, and which tradeoff we wish to take.
You certainly don't need to understand how your calculator's microprocessor works to use it, or how its solar panel transforms electromagnetic waves in electric energy, or how its LCD panel works. You need to comprehend the user interface and that's it.
Computers (and for that matter, TVs) are the same. The sole difference is that unlike calculators, computers are not single-purpose devices. I can use it as a typewriter, a calculator, etc. If each individual item is a tool, why would something combining all of them not be?
My school went for IBM, actually. The entire school was outfitted with IBMs, back when they still made laptops. The desktops were IBM too.
It probably had a lot to do with the incredible warranty they'd offer; even a pencil sticking through the screen was covered. Sitting on the laptop until it cracked down was covered. Spilling juice then throwing it down the third floor onto electrified spikes lubricated with gas was covered. I've never heard of a laptop that did not get replaced. Apple would never do that.
However, that was a while ago, back when Apple wasn't "in" for everything.
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Actually, Venus is a good example because people best undersand extremes. If you want to demonstrate the effects of greenhouse gases, what better way than to point to a planet where they compose the vast majority of the atmosphere? Venus is what would happen if all of the Earth's atmosphere were to be replaced with greenhouse gases.
If you look at, say, Mars and Venus, you have the two opposites. Earth stands somewhere along the two; global warming is inching us closer to Venus. We'll never actually reach Venus levels, obviously, but the comparison is still apt.
Science is amoral. Morality will always exist and is fundamentally linked to us as humans. Even if science were to take a much larger place, I doubt morals would simply stop existing. However, philosophy's place should definitely be increased along with science's. They go hand-in-hand; science tries to explain the what and how, philosophy the why.
You've pretty much proven the GP's point by lumping atheism and evolution together, as if one had anything to do with the other whatsoever.
The problem is that companies don't actually comply - they ship their plants overseas instead. It is often more economical for them to transport goods and raw materials to and from, say, China, than it is to comply with such regulations. The only way for this to work is to implement it on a global level and well... good luck with that.
The Greeks were arguably far more educated than we are. There is a difference between knowing stuff and being educated. We know way more maths than they did, our science is lightyears ahead, but what does that change? If the state of the art is making wheels out of iron instead of wood, then democracy will ideally work when the voters have a minimal knowledge of wooden and iron wheels.
The Athenians, for instance, did. Obviously, the people who could vote in this ancient democracy were but a small subset of the population of the city, but those were pretty much guaranteed to have had extensive education in litterature and philosophy, with the latter being critical for thought processes and passing for science at the time.
In the modern days? State of the art is so diverse and impenetrable to the common man that they know nothing. They do not know the actual statistics on how much nuclear power is dangerous, nor have they read Darwin's theory and the multiple refinements done to it in the years after. They do not understand relativity, they do not comprehend how vaccines work or how virus work.Most do not know psychology, statistics, they barely have a primitive knowledge of their own history learned and then quickly forgotten in high school. In this perspective, we know more on average than the Greeks did absolutely, but quite a bit less relatively.
I'd say that unfortunately the problem is that democracy was initially created for mid-sized communities with a very uniform distribution of knowledge and education. For extremely large scale communities like many countries these days, where knowledge levels vary wildly, it isn't adapted.
In other words, what's your Star Wars Holiday Special?
Actually, from looking at IBM's history, IBM is a clever company, first and foremost. They adapt to the markets and do whatever is profitable for them at the time, and do it well.
MagSafe is patented and other manufacturers can't license either the connector or the technology. So much for stupid manufacturers, eh?
As for the rest, you're comparing 16:9 to 16:10. I wouldn't be surprised that Apple converts to 16:9 at some point, the trend seems almost inevitable. I don't like it, but we're all stuck with it. You're also comparing the MacBook Pro 15" with the optional 1680x1050 screen; default is 1440x900.
For the rest of your comparison, much of it is disingenuous. Thunderbolt? Intel's been working with Apple to get it in their machine. Backlit keyboard? I'll give you that. Firewire? Meh, it has USB3 and eSATA, which are far more common standards; daisy chaining is of such a limited interest I don't think 99.99% of Apple users know what you're talking about. Multitouch? Nah, it's only got a TrackPoint, one of the best input devices on the market. SSD? I wouldn't buy an SSD from either of them; you'll get OEM crap. Lower res? Not if you pick the optional screen, which you did for the MacBook. Thickness and heaviness are expected, this laptop is a tank and built like one. If you want sleek and thin, you don't shop ThinkPad. The optical drive is probably far sturdier than you'd think and I'm pretty sure they're still user-replaceable, unlike Apple's. Headphone and microphone are there just because you need one, but again this is a ThinkPad, you don't tend to do entertainment on them. Aluminium case, no, but ThinkPads are probably sturdier than MacBooks.
And then what you're not saying: this laptop has a fingerprint reader (useful to some, especially businesses), the 2.2GHz CPU is a *quad core*, which Apple does not have, and it's got freaking *Quadro* graphics, which are in a whole other class. Just look for Quadro desktop GPUs versus GeForce desktop GPUs of the same category, you'll see. Whether you need Quadro is irrelevant, the cards themselves cost a boatload more. Also, it has a VGA port, which for many is essential. DisplayPort is just a pain most of the time.
Apple does have rather heavy markup on their stuff. They make excellent products, but they're comparatively expensive.
Doesn't explain why they're ditching it *for Chrome*. If they're alienated by Firefox looking more like Chrome, they definitely won't go to Chrome.
And Galileo? And evolution? Are those all giant conspiracies from atheists too?
The issue with those kinds of debates is the insane overgeneralization that happens in most of them. Because a TINY fraction of atheists did something wrong, all atheists are wrong. Nice thinking.
The problem always lies with the extremes. Extreme anything, be it religious, political, moral, etc. creates trouble. Those who say that the majority of Christians are the issue because they support ID in schools forget that most people are very easy to influence and will go with the majority. The source of the problem is those who influence the majority i.e. the extremes. The vocal minority. Same goes for Islam or atheists.
So, assuming I create my own DRM-protected file using my own algorithm and then proceed to crack it, I've violated a law?
What if I trick politicians into cracking my DRM? Do they go to jail? That'd be lovely.
Except Ubisoft is actually based in France, while Ubisoft Montreal just happens to be their largest and most successful studio. The executive decisions still happen in Montreuil, France.
AnandTech has a review up. For your questions, the drive has TRIM support, Samsung has been the SSD manufacturer of choice for Apple so I'd say OSX support is a given, costs will be in line with the SSD 470 which is within the range of the OCZ Vertex 3, Crucial m4 and Intel SSD 510 and it goes up to 512gb, which is the sample that has been reviewed.
Notably, they say that this is the first really exciting release by Samsung. Apparently, garbage collection is delayed to moments with low IO activity, making torture tests dip down to as low as 50mb/s, but on the flip side this boosts peak speeds. In normal operation such issues are not quite as problematic. Another thing to note is that this SSD is less dependent on compression. SandForce based drives like the Vertex 3 suffer tremendously with incompressible data, whereas Samsung's offering doesn't dip that much.
Just let them fight and bet on the winner.
Yeah. For Apple.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Netflix probably is looking at all those HTML5-only iThings and thinking it could make a tidy profit from them.
Linux, not so much.
Most game developers don't want to show up on Faux News' front page with the headline "X is promoting killing of civilians!"
Combine player freedom with a clueless and/or biased press and you'll see why devs mostly just don't want to deal with the hassle. The only ones that do, do it because they actually LIKE said "scandals". Rockstar's thrived on scandals.
We all know nuclear fallout always respects borders and exportation/importation laws. They're not uncivilized, sheesh.
Hypocrisy at its best, right?
Nuclear is expensive, there's no denying it. Decommissioning a plant will cost money, will be complicated, there's no way around it. That's why nuclear plants tend to be built for the long term. If they can run for 50 years, their initial and final costs are amortized and the plants can even turn a profit.
If costs are not an issue, proper plans do exist to store the radioactive materials off in sealed containers. No, it's not ideal, but we're not supposed to destroy nuclear plants every 5 years for whatever reason politicians can think of. I'd still gladly trade even hundreds of hard steel containers buried under some area of a desert than all the pollution of coal/gas plants. Remember though that the structural materials make for a small part of all waste currently generated, though a lot of that comes from not being able to reprocess spent fuel.
That's the thing people need to realize: there is no ideal energy source. Everything is a matter of tradeoffs, and which tradeoff we wish to take.
What about hydro? Yes, hydroelectric dams.
Oh wait, hydro isn't trendy these days.
The judge wants an Alienware tablet.
You certainly don't need to understand how your calculator's microprocessor works to use it, or how its solar panel transforms electromagnetic waves in electric energy, or how its LCD panel works. You need to comprehend the user interface and that's it.
Computers (and for that matter, TVs) are the same. The sole difference is that unlike calculators, computers are not single-purpose devices. I can use it as a typewriter, a calculator, etc. If each individual item is a tool, why would something combining all of them not be?
I'm sorry, I see as many old people with deficiencies in languages and maths as I see young people. You'll have to back up your claim.
Please do not mistakenly lump foreigners working with a second language, either. The world is far more multiethnic than ever before.
My school went for IBM, actually. The entire school was outfitted with IBMs, back when they still made laptops. The desktops were IBM too.
It probably had a lot to do with the incredible warranty they'd offer; even a pencil sticking through the screen was covered. Sitting on the laptop until it cracked down was covered. Spilling juice then throwing it down the third floor onto electrified spikes lubricated with gas was covered. I've never heard of a laptop that did not get replaced. Apple would never do that.
However, that was a while ago, back when Apple wasn't "in" for everything.
... Which were also 7". One has to wonder what kind of thinking went into this.