Second that ("beefyness"). Playing "Masters of Orion 2" via DOSbox, on Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8100 @ 2.10GHz just keeps the fan spinning and spinning- haven't investigated if it uses both CPUs though
If you are talking about that blogger that mentioned that the "screenshot" of location is not taken at very brief intervals:
I think the reason is profiling; someone in charge for the revenue/advertising dept. might have thought that they would approach this with statistics, so they implemented a mechanism that sort of snapshots your locations every now and then in order to give a general idea for your whereabouts, so directed advertising can work somewhat better.
I do not think that, initially, there was a more sinister motivation than profit, but it does not surprise me that law enforcement knew about this; exactly the same can be done with any wireless device, and has been done so for almost 100 years now.
Exactly. OF COURSE they are going to hand it over to the authorities, if asked. They have to. What do you expect, have them make a stand and go to jail? After all, if so concerned, why not encrypt yourselves before uploading?
It is to enhance the user experience, and deliver better services. There was a public anouncement of the feature, down on the basement, behind the door with the sign "beware of the Leopard OS"
It is to enhance the user experience, and deliver better services. There was an anouncement of the feature, down on the basement, behind the door with the sign "beware of the Leopard OS"
Also, it's not that XP users have been spoiled for about a decade from an all-glorious robust support. Support was missing for years, missing it will not start now.
True, plus add to that the new "tourists-in-space" endeavors and the mean speed gets even higher.
Granted, those trips now are the exception and are pretty expensive, but there are some interesting side-effects on those 100km high zero-G dives: with some more planning, one can travel/send goods between continents at almost ballistic missile speeds- something that business travelers will certainly find very appealing. Okay, now expensive and a curiosity, but it helps those new "tourist-in-space" aviation industries to acquire a foothold in the market and, given time, it may become a trivial way for people to move about the planet.
I don't think that humanity is 'slowing down', neither literally nor metaphorically.
"In tropical regions moisture rises as the sun heats the surface, and it precipitates out as rain, which is why rain forests tend to occur in those latitudes."
"Tend to occur" my ass. First, a rainforest is not always in the tropics. Second, a tropic rainforest, like the ones that 'tend to occur at those latitudes' occurs all around earth in the tropics where there is land because sunlight is maximum all year long- NOT because they get rain all year long. A high fraction of the water that is in the atmosphere above a tropical rainforest area comes from the plants themselves, via their respiration.
To be serious though, I am afraid I was merely expressing a sentiment (as in 'too damn expensive for me'). I still think the $100+ series are -objectively now- a bit overpriced. I would suggest you try to expand to chain mails, and ladies purses (tricky, but you'll be rich if you manage to coat the inside somehow to guard their precious ladystuff)
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So he's an engineer, not a scientist
One out of many Oompa Loompas of science.
Second that ("beefyness"). Playing "Masters of Orion 2" via DOSbox, on Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8100 @ 2.10GHz just keeps the fan spinning and spinning- haven't investigated if it uses both CPUs though
Tim- Tim- TimmmYYYYEEE !
IMG tag? OMG!
From an extra-dimensional point of view, Hydrogen may as well already be Plutonium.
What needs to happen, argues Aberdeen Group's Andrew Borg
So a Borg is giving suggestions as to how Earth's networks are to be set up?
Careful now, people.
It demuxes it too
Do I get $50, if I read half of it?
If you are talking about that blogger that mentioned that the "screenshot" of location is not taken at very brief intervals:
I think the reason is profiling; someone in charge for the revenue/advertising dept. might have thought that they would approach this with statistics, so they implemented a mechanism that sort of snapshots your locations every now and then in order to give a general idea for your whereabouts, so directed advertising can work somewhat better.
I do not think that, initially, there was a more sinister motivation than profit, but it does not surprise me that law enforcement knew about this; exactly the same can be done with any wireless device, and has been done so for almost 100 years now.
Exactly. OF COURSE they are going to hand it over to the authorities, if asked. They have to. What do you expect, have them make a stand and go to jail? After all, if so concerned, why not encrypt yourselves before uploading?
So we better give birth to our offspring in an altitude, to set them up to be able to extract the maximum possible potential energy.
It is going to be all downhill from there.
And technically, you DO need a sun to have aluminum, on the rocks or otherwise
I think you are underestimating the power of NaOH.
It is to enhance the user experience, and deliver better services. There was a public anouncement of the feature, down on the basement, behind the door with the sign "beware of the Leopard OS"
It is to enhance the user experience, and deliver better services. There was an anouncement of the feature, down on the basement, behind the door with the sign "beware of the Leopard OS"
I'd think they are more into natural units; defined by Planck time, some fundamental particle ratios, the speed of light, that sort of thing.
Also, it's not that XP users have been spoiled for about a decade from an all-glorious robust support. Support was missing for years, missing it will not start now.
True, plus add to that the new "tourists-in-space" endeavors and the mean speed gets even higher.
Granted, those trips now are the exception and are pretty expensive, but there are some interesting side-effects on those 100km high zero-G dives: with some more planning, one can travel/send goods between continents at almost ballistic missile speeds- something that business travelers will certainly find very appealing. Okay, now expensive and a curiosity, but it helps those new "tourist-in-space" aviation industries to acquire a foothold in the market and, given time, it may become a trivial way for people to move about the planet.
I don't think that humanity is 'slowing down', neither literally nor metaphorically.
from TFA:
"In tropical regions moisture rises as the sun heats the surface, and it precipitates out as rain, which is why rain forests tend to occur in those latitudes."
"Tend to occur" my ass. First, a rainforest is not always in the tropics. Second, a tropic rainforest, like the ones that 'tend to occur at those latitudes' occurs all around earth in the tropics where there is land because sunlight is maximum all year long- NOT because they get rain all year long. A high fraction of the water that is in the atmosphere above a tropical rainforest area comes from the plants themselves, via their respiration.
I think TFA better get its facts straight.
Making procedures unpatentable would just make them more widely available wouldn't it?
Generally, perhaps. But aren't you missing the topic? Consider this:
[BiotexCorp] "We discovered that cells taken from the brain of living human embryos and implanted to the brains of human babies do this and that."
[Western authorities] "Say what? Where the hell did you get the babies from?"
[BiotexCorp] "Asia. Their parents where cool with it. Can we have a patent now?"
[Western authorities] "Of course. You must have lots of competition, what was I thinking. Here you go."
[Austrian accent] "You cloned the wrong guy."
Chrome is the epitomy of browsers spying on you. Why the hell do you people like it so much?
One perhaps slightly over scrap metal value?
To be serious though, I am afraid I was merely expressing a sentiment (as in 'too damn expensive for me'). I still think the $100+ series are -objectively now- a bit overpriced. I would suggest you try to expand to chain mails, and ladies purses (tricky, but you'll be rich if you manage to coat the inside somehow to guard their precious ladystuff)
Good idea though, best of luck!
So we need space plumbers. No wonder why you don't have a Ph.D.
Obama's focus on developing new technologies before trying for the Moon (again) or Mars.
What universe do you live in? The Fringe alternate one?
We know we can do it, the question is can we do it affordably enough to SUSTAIN a manned presence?
No, the question is still 'can you do it'.
Let's become a spacefaring civilization!
I like your points, but you are embarrassing yourself.
Sorry dude, your Dragon Droppings are too damn expensive.