Because the English have a better reputation for dealing with such situations than Americans (I am neither). The US is all about fear, panic, lawsuits and eating fast food. The perfect environment for terrorism to succeed. If the US had've carried on with life as normal the the terrorists would've failed. As it stands Osama and co probably can't believe how successful 9/11 has been for them.
It's the Principle of Good Enough in action. A technology gets to a certain point where it meets most user's requirements, and from then the cost and effort of upgrading mostly outweighs any benefit. It's the same reason Windows XP is still around, the same reason flying cars will never work. When you find what you are looking for, you stop looking.
This is the point that security jerks miss. People who want to cause trouble will find a way. Doesn't matter how high tech or invasive the security checks are, the bad guys simply looks at the current measures and come up with a way around it.
Someone needs to offer flights that are security-check free. Put a strong lockable door on the cockpit and let the dice roll where they may. I for one would be quite happy to take such a flight as the risks of death from terrorism are still WAY lower than car accident, heart disease, cancer etc.
This is the main point seems to get missed. Even we lost 100 fully loaded planes a year, the death rate would still be lower than the current road toll.
That doesn't make sense. How do you have 'search habits'? I personally search for different things everytime I use Google. Once I know where something useful is, ie something worth habitually reading, I know where it is and therefore no longer have to search for it.
If anyone's an idiot, it idiot's who don't RTFA before making idiotic comments.
The research wasn't simply to find hot springs, it was to identify which locations in the US were the most favourable for Geothermal Energy production.
Seriously, why don't they make bigger windows? Even the latest and greatest Airliners still have the same sized windows as 50 years ago. Surely technology has improved enough that we can enjoy a decent view while flying?
Because more pixels in a smaller footprint = lower quality. There's a reason good cameras are big.
eg A 640x480 video from a dSLR will piss on anything in any res from any mobile phone.
For those outside Australia, The Pedestrian Council of Australia is a fringe element run by a media whore and general looney Harold Scruby. Their role seems to be one of self importance and can be found offering their opinion about 'road safety' to anyone who'll listen (mostly pseudo current affairs type shows that like to drum up controversy).
The best tactic here is to ignore anything they say. Like with most crazies, arguing back simply provides them with more attention than they deserve.
Not sure what movies you watch, but I was taught that WW2 was joint effort.
No one country won or lost it, it took the combined effort of hundreds of millions of people in most of the countries on the planet to achieve victory. There's no I in Team, and I'm pretty sure that no-one in here was a direct participant, so lets not disrespect others by trivialising this into some sort of nationalist pissing contest.
Not sure why you would bother with the streaming server idea. big, noisy, expensive, inflexible.
As others as pointed out go the WDTV and a portable HDD.
The HDD has everything on it and I can play from my PC, my laptop, my TV (via WDTV), take it to work, take it on holiday, take it to a friends and share (OMG! call the cops) and it's all there ready to go at all times.
Vote Up - until you mentioned Seagate.
If I had a dollar for every " I had a brand x HDD that died, I'll never buy them again".
It's all the same stuff and they all have roughly the same failure rates (ie very very small). Unless you're dealing with thousands and thousands of drives, your sample size far too small to be reliable.
Set for life yeah!
I'm guessing you're not a teacher, not related to a teacher, or have never met anyone on a personal level who is a teacher?
I thought exactly like you did until I met my wife. Trust me, teachers are underpaid. I get almost twice what my wife earns and I still wouldn't do it even if I kept my paycheck.
I'm about ready to grab a sledgehammer and start forcibly tattooing this mantra into the heads of every internet commenter and Slashdot editor who has to complain about the evils of something you don't like: If you don't like it, just ignore it. For Christ's sake, no one is holding a gun to your head and making you read these articles. There are, and always will be, alternatives.... yadda yadda....
"In the end, it wasn't worth it."
It wasn't worth it in the start either. It was never worth it. At no point was that debacle ever worth it.
But you still got paid for doing it, and no-one forced you to do it, so ultimately you are partially responsible for it.
Does anyone else think that touch technology is gonna end up being mostly hype? I get to play iPhones, Android, iPad etc as part of my job, and always end up going back to my Laptop and Blackberry. The touch interface has cool factor and works for small quick input (eg phone, quick game, ebook etc) but for productivity nothing beats keyboard and mouse (and gaming with k&m is unbeatable too).
The whole touch thing to me reeks of gimmick value. A small percentage of usefulness but the fact that you have to always check you input to ensure you've touched the right place, means it will never compete for speed with a tactile touch type keyboard with a mouse.
Thoughts?
I heard that GM got so big that they ceased to be an auto company and evolved into a finance company (and shortly after went bankrupt). SCO ceased to become a technology company and changed into a lawsuit company (then folded). Now Music is moving from selling records, to suing customers to becoming a tax collectors?
The death throws of Big Music are clear and present. If I owned shares in these companies I'd be selling up while they're still something.
Bleriot did it in 1909. The fact that there's a simple PV motor attached actually makes this less impressive than his original feat over a century ago.
I could probably knock up a smaller yet equally effective version with parts from my local electronics shop.
It might not be dumb, but it surely isn't news
"There are other places to buy it"
In this case there aren't. The initial shipment sold out of the 3G version in the first few days. I've been ringing all the resellers every few days since including and no-one has any.
My guess is that JB picked up on this demand/supply issue and tried to use it to increase their margin with upsell.
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Because the English have a better reputation for dealing with such situations than Americans (I am neither). The US is all about fear, panic, lawsuits and eating fast food. The perfect environment for terrorism to succeed. If the US had've carried on with life as normal the the terrorists would've failed. As it stands Osama and co probably can't believe how successful 9/11 has been for them.
It's the Principle of Good Enough in action. A technology gets to a certain point where it meets most user's requirements, and from then the cost and effort of upgrading mostly outweighs any benefit. It's the same reason Windows XP is still around, the same reason flying cars will never work. When you find what you are looking for, you stop looking.
This is the point that security jerks miss. People who want to cause trouble will find a way. Doesn't matter how high tech or invasive the security checks are, the bad guys simply looks at the current measures and come up with a way around it. Someone needs to offer flights that are security-check free. Put a strong lockable door on the cockpit and let the dice roll where they may. I for one would be quite happy to take such a flight as the risks of death from terrorism are still WAY lower than car accident, heart disease, cancer etc. This is the main point seems to get missed. Even we lost 100 fully loaded planes a year, the death rate would still be lower than the current road toll.
No they didn't. One side clearly lost and the other side clearly won.
You mean like the circular argument that linux guys use against windows guys regurgitating the same old myths about viruses and patching?
Which specific part of Linux inherently prevents 8 hour outages? Or is this one of those 'Linuxeses R teh awes0me, indows is teh suck' type post?
That doesn't make sense. How do you have 'search habits'? I personally search for different things everytime I use Google. Once I know where something useful is, ie something worth habitually reading, I know where it is and therefore no longer have to search for it.
If anyone's an idiot, it idiot's who don't RTFA before making idiotic comments. The research wasn't simply to find hot springs, it was to identify which locations in the US were the most favourable for Geothermal Energy production.
Seriously, why don't they make bigger windows? Even the latest and greatest Airliners still have the same sized windows as 50 years ago. Surely technology has improved enough that we can enjoy a decent view while flying?
Because more pixels in a smaller footprint = lower quality. There's a reason good cameras are big. eg A 640x480 video from a dSLR will piss on anything in any res from any mobile phone.
Gun control is not a fringe element, it had majority support, has still does in most parts of the western world outside the US. Interestingly there was a article about the effect this has had just last week: http://www.smh.com.au/national/howards-gun-legacy--200-lives-saved-a-year-20100829-13xne.html
For those outside Australia, The Pedestrian Council of Australia is a fringe element run by a media whore and general looney Harold Scruby. Their role seems to be one of self importance and can be found offering their opinion about 'road safety' to anyone who'll listen (mostly pseudo current affairs type shows that like to drum up controversy). The best tactic here is to ignore anything they say. Like with most crazies, arguing back simply provides them with more attention than they deserve.
Not sure what movies you watch, but I was taught that WW2 was joint effort. No one country won or lost it, it took the combined effort of hundreds of millions of people in most of the countries on the planet to achieve victory. There's no I in Team, and I'm pretty sure that no-one in here was a direct participant, so lets not disrespect others by trivialising this into some sort of nationalist pissing contest.
Not sure why you would bother with the streaming server idea. big, noisy, expensive, inflexible. As others as pointed out go the WDTV and a portable HDD. The HDD has everything on it and I can play from my PC, my laptop, my TV (via WDTV), take it to work, take it on holiday, take it to a friends and share (OMG! call the cops) and it's all there ready to go at all times.
Vote Up - until you mentioned Seagate. If I had a dollar for every " I had a brand x HDD that died, I'll never buy them again". It's all the same stuff and they all have roughly the same failure rates (ie very very small). Unless you're dealing with thousands and thousands of drives, your sample size far too small to be reliable.
Any one of the Martial Arts...
Set for life yeah! I'm guessing you're not a teacher, not related to a teacher, or have never met anyone on a personal level who is a teacher? I thought exactly like you did until I met my wife. Trust me, teachers are underpaid. I get almost twice what my wife earns and I still wouldn't do it even if I kept my paycheck.
I'm about ready to grab a sledgehammer and start forcibly tattooing this mantra into the heads of every internet commenter and Slashdot editor who has to complain about the evils of something you don't like: If you don't like it, just ignore it. For Christ's sake, no one is holding a gun to your head and making you read these articles. There are, and always will be, alternatives.... yadda yadda....
"Yes, but have you ever heard of any government just giving up its powers? That is completely unheard of... " Hong Kong 1997
"In the end, it wasn't worth it." It wasn't worth it in the start either. It was never worth it. At no point was that debacle ever worth it. But you still got paid for doing it, and no-one forced you to do it, so ultimately you are partially responsible for it.
Does anyone else think that touch technology is gonna end up being mostly hype? I get to play iPhones, Android, iPad etc as part of my job, and always end up going back to my Laptop and Blackberry. The touch interface has cool factor and works for small quick input (eg phone, quick game, ebook etc) but for productivity nothing beats keyboard and mouse (and gaming with k&m is unbeatable too). The whole touch thing to me reeks of gimmick value. A small percentage of usefulness but the fact that you have to always check you input to ensure you've touched the right place, means it will never compete for speed with a tactile touch type keyboard with a mouse. Thoughts?
I heard that GM got so big that they ceased to be an auto company and evolved into a finance company (and shortly after went bankrupt). SCO ceased to become a technology company and changed into a lawsuit company (then folded). Now Music is moving from selling records, to suing customers to becoming a tax collectors? The death throws of Big Music are clear and present. If I owned shares in these companies I'd be selling up while they're still something.
huh?
Bleriot did it in 1909. The fact that there's a simple PV motor attached actually makes this less impressive than his original feat over a century ago. I could probably knock up a smaller yet equally effective version with parts from my local electronics shop. It might not be dumb, but it surely isn't news
"There are other places to buy it" In this case there aren't. The initial shipment sold out of the 3G version in the first few days. I've been ringing all the resellers every few days since including and no-one has any. My guess is that JB picked up on this demand/supply issue and tried to use it to increase their margin with upsell.