Vaccines are not no-risk. They are however lower-risk than the diseases. However, when the majority of the population is vaccinated, the risk from a vaccine may be higher than the risk from an almost-eradicated disease. But in order for that balance to be maintained, the majority must continue to vaccinate DESPITE the risk. It's almost as if society is asking people to play the lottery-- society is the winner, even if there are a few losers. Yes, it truly does suck for those who draw the short straw-- but it would suck much worse without vaccination.
It's just not fair to the rest of us for people to reap the benefits of living in our vaccinated society if they're not willing to risk what we risked. While the numbers and risks aren't identical, in principle it's like draft dodging.
Java is not particularly concerned with being the fastest language on the block. They're more concerned with being fast enough. Java is not suitable for things where every ounce of performance is necessary. They are also moving closer and closer to being truly write/compile once, run anywhere.
Java is for business applications where performance is nice, but not critical.
But of course, they will market any performance gains, as that's just icing on the cake.
You've installed the program on your computer. The WoW client could be doing malicious things for all you know, and yet you're still concerned just about the warden program?
This is a simple case where if you don't want the risk of Blizzard stealing data, don't play WoW.
Of course, you may have already taken that step. Just don't try to convince us that what Blizzard is doing is evil.
Because opera has maybe 3% at most of the market share. Firefox has 10X the market share, and IE has almost twice that.
This is why nobody brings up opera in these debates, because statistically their position is insignificant. If they grow their market share, then people will start to listen.
That's why creationism belongs in philosophy class while evolution belongs in science class. They both deal with rules the other side doesn't recognize.
Physical science specifically only describes physical laws. Creationism recognizes a being that is not bound by physical law.
The solution is really simple. To remove yourself from the power of these companies, simply don't share music.
Here, I fixed your ideal system:
Politicians should make law. Citizens should obey the law to the best of their abilities. Police should investigate. Courts should convict. (or not) That's the way it's supposed to work.
There are situations that require citizens in good conscience to disobey authorities. Is file sharing really one of them?
You guys are so wrong about this. This is a carefully calculated PR move, just like the price break. First they will hype up that phones could become unusable. They know this is possible, and certainly some of the mods will be completely incompatible with the update, and result in an iBrick or two. But most iPhones will NOT break, and Apple will issue some sort of press release stating that they decided to listen to the community and not break modded phones (or some other BS like that).
Mark my words, this will be another PR coup for Apple.
I believe the GP and the GGP were referring to the fact that there are HD-DVD disks that also contain plain DVD data and can thus be read by standard DVD players.
Of course I may be wrong, that's just how it came across to me as I read the posts.
Content and presentation have been slowly merging over the course of the web. Adding these semantic tags appears to be an attempt to separate the presentation from the content.
The trouble is that nobody will add the new tags until a majority of browsers support HTML5. And nobody will be interested in upgrading until the major sites require it (or until the format is slowly merged in during users normal upgrade schedules). Add that to the fact that the current generation of browsers don't agree on implementations within HTML4, and I suspect that this will not really help us web developers./RANT
Oy! Lads! Trevor over 'ere finks there's an whole 'social underclass' being created. Any a you seen any 'underclass' being created in the UK? Not bloody likely in my lifetime, mate! Pull the other one, Trevor!
I find it interesting that you bring this up. Some of my favorite sci-fi books are Enders Game, and its sequels. Originally released in 1985, the series has shown interesting longevity in predicting computing developments:
1. A world wide network, linking (almost) all computers and providing forums and news in real-time. 2. Said network becoming detached from disks due to their inherent speed limitations; All needed programs and data are pulled from and stored to "the network" as needed. 3. A sentient being evolving from the interconnecting computers.
We're well on our way to #1, we can now see #2 on the horizon. How long until #3 happens?
(Ok, I'm not sure #2 or #3 will happen or be practical, but it's fun to imagine)
Version 1.7 will come out, and then you'll start moving to 1.6. When 1.8 comes out, then you can switch to 1.7. It seems like very few people actually use the most recent version. I suspect this is because new methods need to be researched, and community support for new features must be developed.
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Never attribute to malice what can be accounted for by incompetence.
Vaccines are not no-risk. They are however lower-risk than the diseases. However, when the majority of the population is vaccinated, the risk from a vaccine may be higher than the risk from an almost-eradicated disease. But in order for that balance to be maintained, the majority must continue to vaccinate DESPITE the risk. It's almost as if society is asking people to play the lottery-- society is the winner, even if there are a few losers. Yes, it truly does suck for those who draw the short straw-- but it would suck much worse without vaccination.
It's just not fair to the rest of us for people to reap the benefits of living in our vaccinated society if they're not willing to risk what we risked. While the numbers and risks aren't identical, in principle it's like draft dodging.
Java is not particularly concerned with being the fastest language on the block. They're more concerned with being fast enough. Java is not suitable for things where every ounce of performance is necessary. They are also moving closer and closer to being truly write/compile once, run anywhere.
Java is for business applications where performance is nice, but not critical.
But of course, they will market any performance gains, as that's just icing on the cake.
Hey, I've got the same combination on my luggage!
You've installed the program on your computer. The WoW client could be doing malicious things for all you know, and yet you're still concerned just about the warden program?
This is a simple case where if you don't want the risk of Blizzard stealing data, don't play WoW.
Of course, you may have already taken that step. Just don't try to convince us that what Blizzard is doing is evil.
I would really like to see the answer to this one...
Yellow Wizard needs food - badly.
Yellow Wizard is about to die.
Red Warrior shot the food.
Yellow Wizard: Aaaaaah.
Because opera has maybe 3% at most of the market share. Firefox has 10X the market share, and IE has almost twice that.
This is why nobody brings up opera in these debates, because statistically their position is insignificant. If they grow their market share, then people will start to listen.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
That's why creationism belongs in philosophy class while evolution belongs in science class. They both deal with rules the other side doesn't recognize.
Physical science specifically only describes physical laws. Creationism recognizes a being that is not bound by physical law.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Here, I fixed your ideal system:
There are situations that require citizens in good conscience to disobey authorities. Is file sharing really one of them?
I want to be a breeder! Where can I sign up?
Yeah, but the admins might get suspicious when multiple people start submitting the same webcam feeds.
You guys are so wrong about this. This is a carefully calculated PR move, just like the price break. First they will hype up that phones could become unusable. They know this is possible, and certainly some of the mods will be completely incompatible with the update, and result in an iBrick or two. But most iPhones will NOT break, and Apple will issue some sort of press release stating that they decided to listen to the community and not break modded phones (or some other BS like that).
Mark my words, this will be another PR coup for Apple.
Have you heard anyone from the deep south talk? I think I'd rather outsource to India!
(I kid, I kid!)
Why don't you guys just put a cork in it! I'm trying to work here!
I believe the GP and the GGP were referring to the fact that there are HD-DVD disks that also contain plain DVD data and can thus be read by standard DVD players.
Of course I may be wrong, that's just how it came across to me as I read the posts.
Content and presentation have been slowly merging over the course of the web. Adding these semantic tags appears to be an attempt to separate the presentation from the content.
/RANT
The trouble is that nobody will add the new tags until a majority of browsers support HTML5. And nobody will be interested in upgrading until the major sites require it (or until the format is slowly merged in during users normal upgrade schedules). Add that to the fact that the current generation of browsers don't agree on implementations within HTML4, and I suspect that this will not really help us web developers.
Gaaaaaarn!
Here are some funny web comics that might put this whole debate into perspective:
http://xkcd.com/c221.html
Dilbert (from 2001)
I find it interesting that you bring this up. Some of my favorite sci-fi books are Enders Game, and its sequels. Originally released in 1985, the series has shown interesting longevity in predicting computing developments:
1. A world wide network, linking (almost) all computers and providing forums and news in real-time.
2. Said network becoming detached from disks due to their inherent speed limitations; All needed programs and data are pulled from and stored to "the network" as needed.
3. A sentient being evolving from the interconnecting computers.
We're well on our way to #1, we can now see #2 on the horizon. How long until #3 happens?
(Ok, I'm not sure #2 or #3 will happen or be practical, but it's fun to imagine)
Yes, but will it blend?
Version 1.7 will come out, and then you'll start moving to 1.6. When 1.8 comes out, then you can switch to 1.7. It seems like very few people actually use the most recent version. I suspect this is because new methods need to be researched, and community support for new features must be developed.
Your average windows user is used to resizing their windows by dragging any edge of the window.
I would consider recommending it if it didn't insist on using the stupid mac interface in windows.
I agree with you. Didn't we as a society learn anything from Les Misérables?
Oh, I forgot. We have to think of the children.
*rolls eyes*