XP will no longer be "supported" but it will certainly still be used by 10's of millions of computers a year from now (and two, and three, and more). It's also a certainty that a stationary "unsupported" target will get a lot of attention by exploits and black hats.
Not likely as most that are running XP (in a year or two) will likely be single use pc's or ones that are not connected to anything else but the machine at the back of the factory or service they run.
Check out what Obama want's Bolden to do. Direct quote from Bolden:
"When I became the NASA administrator, (President Obama) charged me with three things," Bolden said in the interview which aired last week. "One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."
Their "foremost" task is to make Muslims feel good. He literally said that. Yet he still heads NASA
Thanks, jackasses, for electing Obama.
That is no direct quote from Bolden at all - that is a myth.
A manned exploration for the purpose of establishing a settlement is one sound reason. There is yet much to learn about mankind's physical and psychological ability to exist outside of Mother Earth for extended periods,
We already know plenty about mankind's physical and psychological abilities in space/moon. There is little data to be gained having had MIR, ISS, and other long term confinement scenarios and experiments here on earth.
and a settlement on the lunar surface would help advance technology for a Martian adventure.
Then you have to ask why you want to send meatbags to Mars anyway when we can explore that dead planet with much cheaper robots (and future androids). Sadly, in the current climate if there is no immediate payoff for sending humans then there is little reason to pursue it (even though we all understand the potential long term benefits of it).
Could they not just host overseas and then re"broadcast" back to the US? Any program there are numerous sites transmitting a live feed of from overseas. I always wondered about the legality of that since they are not part of the US copyright system.
The man has a Ph.D. in kinesiology. According to the Chart of Woo, that's at the corner of Quackery Bol. and Pseudoscientific Bol.
You are thinking of applied kinesiology. That is quite different from the legitimate field of kinesiology provided by numerous universities. Your high score gives me pause at/.'s mod's.
Good and evil are cultural universals, so rather than letting religions co-opt them for their own purpose, we need to avoid the idea that morals and ethics can only exist within a religious framework.
They are in fact, too generic a term to be using in your context. Relative good and evil are cultural. Why do we need to avoid the idea that morals and ethics can only exist in a religious framework? Relative, possibly, but absolute morals and ethics, no.
How do you have something like the Kinect and not have patents all over something related that basically would prevent this, or at least cause it to have to license numerous patents? Missed opportunity indeed.
Also, am I the only one that thought this was from the kids' toy mfg Leapfrog?
Why should I support those who are trying to combat the people who liberate software? I justify cracking games because it is the moral thing to do. It lets people own their software and to use it when ever or where ever they want without artificial limitations
How can you own something for which you pirated? At least as the GP said if you purchased it first, then pirated it for DRM free play, then you'd have a standing. Face it you're just trying to justify getting free games no matter what you tell yourself.
Would it not have been much easier and feasible to just send a remote camera instead of having to design a human capable device as well?
From the BBC article
Dr Alan Jamieson, from Oceanlab, said: "I think what James Cameron has done is a really good achievement in terms of human endeavour and technology.
"But my feeling is that manned submersibles like this are limited in scientific capabilities when compared to other systems, mostly due to the fact there is someone in it. Remote or autonomous systems can collect a far greater volume of useful scientific data for far less money."
Props to JC for his accomplishment but it seems it was mainly for his ego/personal curiosity.
Yeah I am not sure how true that is. If you can show some quantifiable effect, please do. Otherwise I suspect the so called Normal People will just continue to act as they otherwise would. I think we overestimate our influence on them.
Does it affect common users? Yes as I and others that usually vouch for Google are now cautious. They really should have held off longer between the two announcements and added more features to Keep. I won't be using it and will likely be wary of new services and will look to have alternatives lined out to switch current ones. Basically, I'm not as loyal to Google anymore, and that hurts them in the long run as I'm not alone.
I pay $0.34/KWh (been a while since you've looked at a bill?) Plus rates increase at about 8% a year. My investment will be fully paid off in 5-7 years, and will earn over 10% after that. Not many investments pay that well.
Are you paying extra for "green" energy or something? You must not live in the USA. In my area we pay around $0.08/KWh. That's just under the US national avg http://www.neo.ne.gov/statshtml/204.htm
$0.062 for Wyoming all the way up to $0.25 for Hawaii.
That may be true (I was never a user), but that does not negate the bad PR they are getting from geeks telling normal people about not trusting Google anymore.
Google seems to have reached the tipping point when they cancelled Reader. Now, their main base of loyal geeks are starting to question them, in print no less. This is not a good sign for Google. They are taking a much larger PR hit than just losing some respect from a few Reader users. Granted many of those services likely did need to be cut, or not even started, but it seems they've now pushed enough to where geeks are starting to push back and relaying that mistrust to their non-geek friends.
And for all of Apple's corporate facilities worldwide, we're at 75 percent
So their office buildings? What about the factories where all their products are made? You know... where probobly 99.9% of the power they use is consumed?
My fireplace is now powered by 100% renewable resources! I challenge the rest of the world to meet my same goals!
For some things simplicity is best. iOS Notes or Google Tasks where you have just basic information and easy input for simple things and it can be synced. Google Keep is good for a notepad/post-it note app currently, a scratch pad. But it is a long ways away from being a robust note storing and organizing tool such as SimpleNote or Evernote or OneNote. They should have just bought one of those type and incorporated it if they wanted to compete.
Plus now with their credibility in killing apps, no one will use this for serious note taking. If they don't, then whats the point for Google? Not much to be gleaned from scanning scratch notes, at least they didn't think so when they got rid of Google Notebook.
So, we must develop a plan to build a mooonbase, in order to justify developing the ability to land on the moon?
Yes. You should have a plan before you build anything.
And what is the plan/purpose to justify building the moonbase?
1. A second home for our species
2. A science lab
3. A base for exploitation of lunar resources, including ice and metals
4. A dormitory for the miners, construction workers and robot repairmen
Those are nice goals and nobody's knocking those as secondary objectives. Your number one goal will never suffice unless there is an immediate threat. Though the GP is correct, there has to be a larger incentive to spend that amount of resources for this, more than 'this would be nice to do'. And in today's world that, unfortunately, means payoff. Perhaps many sci-fi movies/books had it right, space exploration will be done need to be done by corporations.
So combine this tech with Google Glass and identify people you just don't want to see ever again, and you may end up walking right into them without even knowing.
We all know it would not removing them but likely replacing them with some attractive person. For/. probably w/o clothes, or if for Reddit, they'd be turned into cats.
Likewise just because the building blocks of life are in interstellar space doesn't mean that life is everywhere, just that when conditions are favorable, it's reasonable to presume that the amino acids necessary can show up.
We hear this a lot about having the building blocks of life and amino acids and such (I'm not a scientist), so if it is known all the blocks that make life and theorized it's possible, how come we are not running experiments constantly pulsing electricity through millions of different combinations of these building blocks to see if we can jumpstart life ourselves in the lab (or are we)? Or has it happened and just not made the 'joe public' newscast? Stories such as this come across as taking for granted we have the building blocks of life, so life must be abundant or at least n>1, but then we run into the wall of the Fermi Paradox.
Attacking Americans on American soil is wrong, we have a police force to arrest those people.
I can guarantee numerous bullet holes and/or downed drones if any ever start flying over the US and have attacked a person (and are not just used for video recon). Sure they would be hard to hit, but with as many rifles as there are out there (and the increased purchases if said event happened), as well as everyone potentially being a target, it would be commonplace.
The mineral of interest is epsomite, a magnesium sulfate compound that can only come from the ocean below.
So the great discovery on Europa are bath salts. Well I guess we do face an aging population, perhaps this will get a good push from all the AARP crowd so they can soak comfortably.
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XP will no longer be "supported" but it will certainly still be used by 10's of millions of computers a year from now (and two, and three, and more). It's also a certainty that a stationary "unsupported" target will get a lot of attention by exploits and black hats.
Not likely as most that are running XP (in a year or two) will likely be single use pc's or ones that are not connected to anything else but the machine at the back of the factory or service they run.
... for electing Obama.
Check out what Obama want's Bolden to do. Direct quote from Bolden:
"When I became the NASA administrator, (President Obama) charged me with three things," Bolden said in the interview which aired last week. "One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."
Their "foremost" task is to make Muslims feel good. He literally said that. Yet he still heads NASA
Thanks, jackasses, for electing Obama.
That is no direct quote from Bolden at all - that is a myth.
Actually it is a direct quote in an interview with Al Jazeera (at the 1:20 ish mark) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e857ZcuIfnI
A manned exploration for the purpose of establishing a settlement is one sound reason. There is yet much to learn about mankind's physical and psychological ability to exist outside of Mother Earth for extended periods,
We already know plenty about mankind's physical and psychological abilities in space/moon. There is little data to be gained having had MIR, ISS, and other long term confinement scenarios and experiments here on earth.
and a settlement on the lunar surface would help advance technology for a Martian adventure.
Then you have to ask why you want to send meatbags to Mars anyway when we can explore that dead planet with much cheaper robots (and future androids). Sadly, in the current climate if there is no immediate payoff for sending humans then there is little reason to pursue it (even though we all understand the potential long term benefits of it).
Could they not just host overseas and then re"broadcast" back to the US? Any program there are numerous sites transmitting a live feed of from overseas. I always wondered about the legality of that since they are not part of the US copyright system.
The man has a Ph.D. in kinesiology. According to the Chart of Woo, that's at the corner of Quackery Bol. and Pseudoscientific Bol.
You are thinking of applied kinesiology. That is quite different from the legitimate field of kinesiology provided by numerous universities. Your high score gives me pause at /.'s mod's.
The fact is that the Bible is chock full of metaphor and parable, and understanding what is literal and what is not requires education.
God filled his book with logic traps to trick the people who want to believe in him?
Only a Christian could come up with logic like that to justify all the mistakes and impossibilities in the Bible.
It makes sense - "literal truth! Praise Jehovah!"
It doesn't make sense - "Oh, that's a parable/metaphor. You need to be specially educated to understand that part."
Jesus directly answers why he spoke in parables in Matthew 13:10-15
Good and evil are cultural universals, so rather than letting religions co-opt them for their own purpose, we need to avoid the idea that morals and ethics can only exist within a religious framework.
They are in fact, too generic a term to be using in your context. Relative good and evil are cultural. Why do we need to avoid the idea that morals and ethics can only exist in a religious framework? Relative, possibly, but absolute morals and ethics, no.
How do you have something like the Kinect and not have patents all over something related that basically would prevent this, or at least cause it to have to license numerous patents? Missed opportunity indeed.
Also, am I the only one that thought this was from the kids' toy mfg Leapfrog?
Why should I support those who are trying to combat the people who liberate software? I justify cracking games because it is the moral thing to do. It lets people own their software and to use it when ever or where ever they want without artificial limitations
How can you own something for which you pirated? At least as the GP said if you purchased it first, then pirated it for DRM free play, then you'd have a standing. Face it you're just trying to justify getting free games no matter what you tell yourself.
*I've lived in rural Oklahoma for nearly seven years and I have never met more maladjusted, sexually-closeted weirdos in my entire life...
Maybe that's why they lived in *sparsely populated* rural Oklahoma? Every place has weirdos, just look at the high concentration on Slashdot.
From the BBC article
Dr Alan Jamieson, from Oceanlab, said: "I think what James Cameron has done is a really good achievement in terms of human endeavour and technology. "But my feeling is that manned submersibles like this are limited in scientific capabilities when compared to other systems, mostly due to the fact there is someone in it. Remote or autonomous systems can collect a far greater volume of useful scientific data for far less money."
Props to JC for his accomplishment but it seems it was mainly for his ego/personal curiosity.
How long do you think the militia with the weapons it is legally allowed to own is going to last against the US military?
Any amount of time greater than 0 is actually the point. Ask any of the Afghanistani's.
Yeah I am not sure how true that is. If you can show some quantifiable effect, please do. Otherwise I suspect the so called Normal People will just continue to act as they otherwise would. I think we overestimate our influence on them.
Does it affect common users? Yes as I and others that usually vouch for Google are now cautious. They really should have held off longer between the two announcements and added more features to Keep. I won't be using it and will likely be wary of new services and will look to have alternatives lined out to switch current ones. Basically, I'm not as loyal to Google anymore, and that hurts them in the long run as I'm not alone.
I pay $0.34/KWh (been a while since you've looked at a bill?) Plus rates increase at about 8% a year. My investment will be fully paid off in 5-7 years, and will earn over 10% after that. Not many investments pay that well.
Are you paying extra for "green" energy or something? You must not live in the USA. In my area we pay around $0.08/KWh. That's just under the US national avg http://www.neo.ne.gov/statshtml/204.htm
$0.062 for Wyoming all the way up to
$0.25 for Hawaii.
The backlash against Readers closure is silly.
That may be true (I was never a user), but that does not negate the bad PR they are getting from geeks telling normal people about not trusting Google anymore.
Google seems to have reached the tipping point when they cancelled Reader. Now, their main base of loyal geeks are starting to question them, in print no less. This is not a good sign for Google. They are taking a much larger PR hit than just losing some respect from a few Reader users. Granted many of those services likely did need to be cut, or not even started, but it seems they've now pushed enough to where geeks are starting to push back and relaying that mistrust to their non-geek friends.
And for all of Apple's corporate facilities worldwide, we're at 75 percent
So their office buildings? What about the factories where all their products are made? You know... where probobly 99.9% of the power they use is consumed?
My fireplace is now powered by 100% renewable resources! I challenge the rest of the world to meet my same goals!
If you care to actually read up http://www.apple.com/environment/our-footprint/
For some things simplicity is best. iOS Notes or Google Tasks where you have just basic information and easy input for simple things and it can be synced. Google Keep is good for a notepad/post-it note app currently, a scratch pad. But it is a long ways away from being a robust note storing and organizing tool such as SimpleNote or Evernote or OneNote. They should have just bought one of those type and incorporated it if they wanted to compete.
Plus now with their credibility in killing apps, no one will use this for serious note taking. If they don't, then whats the point for Google? Not much to be gleaned from scanning scratch notes, at least they didn't think so when they got rid of Google Notebook.
Wait, why does it cost $4 million a year to listen for and interpret the radio signal coming back?
Won't someone please think of the scientists!
So, we must develop a plan to build a mooonbase, in order to justify developing the ability to land on the moon?
Yes. You should have a plan before you build anything.
And what is the plan/purpose to justify building the moonbase?
1. A second home for our species 2. A science lab 3. A base for exploitation of lunar resources, including ice and metals 4. A dormitory for the miners, construction workers and robot repairmen
Those are nice goals and nobody's knocking those as secondary objectives. Your number one goal will never suffice unless there is an immediate threat. Though the GP is correct, there has to be a larger incentive to spend that amount of resources for this, more than 'this would be nice to do'. And in today's world that, unfortunately, means payoff. Perhaps many sci-fi movies/books had it right, space exploration will be done need to be done by corporations.
So combine this tech with Google Glass and identify people you just don't want to see ever again, and you may end up walking right into them without even knowing.
We all know it would not removing them but likely replacing them with some attractive person. For /. probably w/o clothes, or if for Reddit, they'd be turned into cats.
Likewise just because the building blocks of life are in interstellar space doesn't mean that life is everywhere, just that when conditions are favorable, it's reasonable to presume that the amino acids necessary can show up.
We hear this a lot about having the building blocks of life and amino acids and such (I'm not a scientist), so if it is known all the blocks that make life and theorized it's possible, how come we are not running experiments constantly pulsing electricity through millions of different combinations of these building blocks to see if we can jumpstart life ourselves in the lab (or are we)? Or has it happened and just not made the 'joe public' newscast? Stories such as this come across as taking for granted we have the building blocks of life, so life must be abundant or at least n>1, but then we run into the wall of the Fermi Paradox.
Attacking Americans on American soil is wrong, we have a police force to arrest those people.
I can guarantee numerous bullet holes and/or downed drones if any ever start flying over the US and have attacked a person (and are not just used for video recon). Sure they would be hard to hit, but with as many rifles as there are out there (and the increased purchases if said event happened), as well as everyone potentially being a target, it would be commonplace.
By Odin's Beard! An Anonymous Coward post at Score:5, Informative!
The mineral of interest is epsomite, a magnesium sulfate compound that can only come from the ocean below.
So the great discovery on Europa are bath salts. Well I guess we do face an aging population, perhaps this will get a good push from all the AARP crowd so they can soak comfortably.