Well if you want business relations with China speaking Mandarin is as useful as speaking Spanish in Mexico, you'll find English speakers but only where they expect foreigners. Even here in Norway with 90%+ English speakers and a massive amount of language training through non-dubbed series and movies it's only in some international businesses everyone can seamlessly switch to English. Everyone where I work now could probably hold a basic conversation in English but many would be severely impeded and would much rather talk their native language if the other party was fluent in that. OTOH I'd say you're aiming below the "international business" level where people would be expected to speak English, you're more of a middle manager talking to a Mandarin-only middle manager about whatever business your respective bosses have agreed on - in English.
The "problem" with business lines is that usually you're also paying a lot for uptime and priority support because when they have an office full of people who can't get any work done or customer orders that aren't being processed their losses rack up pretty fast. You don't want that, you just want a residential line with normal service levels but high or no cap. And many businesses are just set up with those two service offerings, they're not going to create a custom deal just for you.
You have a many more social connections than genetic connections. You only have two parents, being a fourth cousin means you share a great-great-great-grandfather and you have at most 2^5 = 32 of them or less if they've interbred. The world fertility rate is now on average 2.36 children, it'll be a rough approximation but each great-great-great-grandfather will have approximately 2.36^5 = ~73 descendants. That's ~32*~73 = ~2336 fourth cousins ignoring any overlap. Of course you'll have other close relatives that'll also fall within that sphere, but we're still talking about a tiny fraction of the total population.
Well it's not quite that easy, if there was obvious profit in taking the company private and getting the "native" cash flow instead then you'd see a buyout. There are private equity funds/conglomerates that could buy out even huge companies, if there was free money in it. Of course private or public you're still making guesses to estimated future value, in which case you could end up thinking you're buying a Facebook when you're really buying a Myspace. But that ability to "cash out" makes it a lot more grounded than trading cards which only exist in their own bubble.
Well price isn't driven by cost, but by supply and demand. When a company needs a new laptop because they have a new employee who'll otherwise be twiddling their thumbs it'd take one helluva price hike to make them not buy one and look for a refurb/second hand laptop instead. What's the cost to Google if they have to close YouTube for new uploads and say "sorry, out of HDD space" do you think that's going to happen? At the first whiff of a shortage people go crazy and overbuy, which causes an actual shortage which again feeds the panic. If your products are practically going to sell anyway at any price because the market is squished, yeah I'd rise prices too. It's a business...
I know.:-( Wish they would upgrade 1080p to at least 120 Hz. Looks like we'll have to wait another 20 years before people figure out the importance of 100+ Hz.
Having lived with 50Hz PAL TVs and 60Hz CRTs we need high refresh rates, but an LCD doesn't go to black between refreshes so it doesn't suffer from flicker at any signal rate. Movies for example usually solve this by displaying 24 fps content at 3x24 = 72Hz which is flicker free. So the question is do we need 60+ Hz signal? We perceive fluid motion as around 25-30 FPS so 60 FPS is perfect smoothness for movies and television. Why? Because it's a capture of reality's "infinity" frames per second into 1/60 second time slots.
You can see flashes of light down to a few milliseconds (think a photo flash), but you can't say whether it was a 3 ms flash or a 20 ms flash or three 5 ms flashes with pauses. If I record it with a camera and play it back to you at 60Hz, it looks exactly the same. But in a game you can't see it unless it was rendered in a frame, only 60 FPS is like taking 60 snapshots with a 0.00001 second exposure time. If the flash of light wasn't in the frame it "doesn't exist". In order to capture all that a human would see, you need to render at much higher frame rates, perhaps something like 600 FPS. But you could motion blur ten frames into one for 60 Hz and it'd still look the same, you can't perceive 600 individual frames.
Having 120 Hz cables and monitors is really the brute force version of this, instead of motion blurring you just throw up razor-sharp images on the screen and let the brain do the motion blurring instead of the computer. It doesn't actually improve picture quality or smoothness. The only thing it improves is latency, all other lag in the gaming system being equal a 120 Hz monitor will render and make you start perceiving the image up to 8.3 ms faster than a 60 Hz monitor (16.6 vs 8.3 ms/frame). In an FPS it might mean you pulling the trigger faster than your opponent, but it doesn't do anything for non-gamers or games where 0.01 seconds doesn't make a difference.
I love the buzzword bingo, it enabled me to pick up a 60" 2D dumb-TV for cheap because it wasn't "in" anymore. As for 4K I'd want it, but it'd have to be a TV or projector size where I could see it and from my current couch distance I can't. Now if I could get one of those huge 80-90" panels or an affordable native 4K projector (no, e-shift is not native 4K) then yes, but a 55-65" set doesn't make any sense from my couch distance. I could of course put a chair real up close, but meh. As for discs BDXL is already big enough to fit 4K movies with HEVC using the same laser, so if they can roll it out as a backwards compatible solution that reads both it looks doable.
I guess the main reason 4K has a better chance than 3D is that there's very little downside to 4K. Sony just released a 4K prosumer video camera for $4500, Blackmagic 4K production camera is $4000 base + accessories and if you want to go overkill on acquisition a Red Dragon 6K camera is $29k base and will probably come in under $50k complete and then you're ready to shoot Hollywood-class movies. I expect that already next year there'll be a "consumerish" $1500-2000 4K camera, if you don't already count the GoPro camera that has a very low framerate in 4K. Seiki managed to sell a 39" 4K set for $700 and 50" 4K for $1500 (under $1k on sale), it's coming.
Bands have fans, a producer of compilation albums I don't really think so. They had a product that was relevant before the iPod revolution where everybody started buying single songs and making their own playlists. They're practically obsolete now, but is looking to cash in before the label goes out of business. Like SCO trying to trick $699 out of people before going out of business, what did they have to lose?
Once you've strung out cable to a small village for the access point then it's not much of a big deal to just run a short wire around.
It's quite expensive to retrofit cables to existing areas and buildings, if you have to dig it all up just for that it's often more cost efficient to do wireless. However new buildings are different, you're going to dig up the ground to put in electricity/water/sewage anyway, pull all the cables in the walls along with everything else. I can't speak much for Africa but here in Norway I'm fairly sure fiber will become standard through "organic" growth but replacing most buildings takes 50-100 years, the only question is how much faster we'll go by retrofitting.
If you don't like your grocery store, should you try to improve it by continuing to shop there?
If you don't like your country's laws, should you try to improve it by continuing to vote there?
I think you're putting up a false analogy because the grocery store doesn't answer to you, it's a profit-seeking company that answers to its owners and the only way for you to influence it is through your wallet. Public schools on the other hand does ultimately have to answer to the public, though I'll gladly admit the political system of doing so is somewhat flawed.
Assuming you haven't already had a collapse and all the people who could and care have abandoned ship, who'd be far more likely to move than return to public school. I went to public school here in Norway and it was a somewhat mixed bag but the bright and average managed to keep a decent learning environment despite the disruptive and indifferent students, one year (8th grade, I think) they redivided the classes to split up a disruptive bunch across three classes and it helped keep a decent environment in all three. If they'd done the opposite and kept all the gifted together and all the disruptive together the last one would become a total hellhole that'd be sure to drag everyone in that class down with them. Nobody's going to send their kid into such a class as a "rescue" operation, once such a critical mass is created it only expands.
We've seen this with the distribution of minority students here, once the "minority" percentage of a school district reaches 60-70% the remaining natives abandon ship and a few years later it's at 90%-100%. Nothing wrong with minorities and getting to know other cultures but when you're raising a kid in Norway I'd like the primary cultural influence to be Norwegian. As a result you have many children in minority schools that grow up with hardly any contact with the rest and a lot of multiculturalists wants us to become better integrated but hardly anyone wants to send their kid to be the missionary. Instead of mingling it's more like a ghetto with border regions that keep moving.
But all those designs now are fixed and they won't be asking for new ones except maybe a die shrink for 5-10 years based on the last generation (Nintendo 6 years, Sony and Microsoft 8 years), if anything I would expect this generation to last longer. Those royalty payments will be much needed but that market won't provide any new business until 2020.
The fact that you can get an 8 core, 4 GHz CPU for $200 is a big plus for some people.
I guess, for the people who like big numbers never mind that it's usually just breaking even with competing quad-cores with lower frequency but higher IPC. The FX-8350 has a single threaded performance equal to the Phenom II X6 1100T and Intel Pentium G840, it can win some multi-threaded tests because price wise it competes against Intel's hyperthreading-crippled processors but it's no impressive chip. But at least it sucks less than the FX-8150 , which really was the worst of Bulldozer.
AMD and to a lesser extent, Intel, are misreading the mass market. What everybody else except those hardcore GamerZ (rhymes with lamers) want isn't more "powerful" desktop systems that consume enough watts to power a third world household with room to spare but more power efficient APUs, aka SoCs or systems on a chip. I know Intel can do it, but they simply don't want to cannibalize their sales of power inefficient high-end chips.
How has Intel misread the market? Ivy Bridge was Sandy Bridge with much lower load power. Haswell is Ivy Bridge with much lower idle power. True, Intel is still struggling to compete in the smartphone/tablet segment that is dominated by ARM, but Haswell is far superior to past Intel chips when it comes to power consumption.
I'm finding that I'm not learning any more from the Internet now than the Internet of 13 years ago.
If you care to you can find plenty good how-to videos on YouTube that are far more instructional than the plain text files you could download back in the dial-up days (yes, 2000 I was still on ISDN, 64 kbps and pay-per-minute) but I much prefer using it for entertainment. And I love HD over grainy crappy old shit that takes forever to download, bring on UHD.
If you're going for automation - why not just fixed cameras and other sensors covering the whole area?
Cost and because they're also easier to map out and avoid? It doesn't need to be everywhere, it's enough that it could be everywhere as that makes the risk non-zero no matter the plan. I don't see this as an either-or, you'd want basic surveillance of the whole area with roaming security to add some dynamic to the system.
Spoken like a true bean counter, this is where economics meets accounting. Very often it is easier and more profitable to build a moat around your cash cow than to create new, profitable and big business. For example take Microsoft's stagnated IE6 and crippled Java implementation, could they have "embraced the web"? Sure, but why would they promote web applications and in the idea of "write once, run anywhere" when they could piss in the pool and get people to stay on thick clients and native software? What's the total, long term ROI on that? Or as we've seen in CPUs, short term you can gain cash by pushing out cheap processors on an old process but eventually you get trashed as the competition is selling smaller and cheaper chips and your technology is out of date as happened to AMD. Blind following of ROI is the way to bankruptcy.
Right, I want a car that stops periodically to take pictures before driving at walking speed over any perceived obstacle.
That has far more to do with a power budget of 125 watts (2.5 kWh/day) to move 899 kg than a limitation in the autonomous functions. Compare that to say a Tesla Model S with a 85 kWh battery, it uses less power in a month than the Model S on a single charge and it's also got lots of scientific equipment to power as well. Build some supercharger stations on Mars and we'll see entirely different speeds.
But the 9th amendment also doesn't support the opposite conclusion.
The Government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land. There is nothing in the Constitution of the United States similar to the Articles of Confederation, which exclude incidental or implied powers. If the end be legitimate, and within the scope of the Constitution, all the means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, and which are not prohibited, may constitutionally be employed to carry it into effect. -- McCulloch v. Maryland - 17 U.S. 316 (1819)
In short, Congress has the power to enact laws not specifically listed in the constitution. The 9th amendment says the people retain rights not specifically listed in the bill of rights. The process when non-enumerated laws clash with non-enumerated rights isn't exactly clear, sometimes the Supreme Court has "found" a right and a few times Congress has amended the constitution to specifically enumerate a few more like the 13th amendment. In many cases neither the Supreme Court nor Congress has been willing to recognize a right that people think they have. It's an argument, you can't from a plain reading of the law conclude either way.
Not true. You can get shifting in the surrounding rock as things move around, though the effects are complex.
It's earth's crust rising out of the mantle, if anything the surrounding seabed will rise slightly with it, certainly not the other way around.
There's also the differences due to the change of the local gravity field; all that ice has a lot of mass and does currently attract plenty of seawater to it.
Extremely minimal, even if you have 2km sideways pull from the ice there's 6400km of downwards pull towards the center of the earth so water doesn't gather much Heavy mineral deposits or a thick crust directly under the water is different, that adds more compression without trying to counteract the sideways forces.
I'd lean more towards the explanation that older people have more knowledge and experience which means they're more set in their ways and don't challenge accepted truths like the younger generation does. While it also from time to time produces gems it's also the cause of all the people trying to reinvent the wheel, why go for the new and crazy when you can use the tried and true. It might not be quite as glamorous, but the world needs both highly competent doctors as well as the odd Nobel prize in medicine.
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Well if you want business relations with China speaking Mandarin is as useful as speaking Spanish in Mexico, you'll find English speakers but only where they expect foreigners. Even here in Norway with 90%+ English speakers and a massive amount of language training through non-dubbed series and movies it's only in some international businesses everyone can seamlessly switch to English. Everyone where I work now could probably hold a basic conversation in English but many would be severely impeded and would much rather talk their native language if the other party was fluent in that. OTOH I'd say you're aiming below the "international business" level where people would be expected to speak English, you're more of a middle manager talking to a Mandarin-only middle manager about whatever business your respective bosses have agreed on - in English.
The "problem" with business lines is that usually you're also paying a lot for uptime and priority support because when they have an office full of people who can't get any work done or customer orders that aren't being processed their losses rack up pretty fast. You don't want that, you just want a residential line with normal service levels but high or no cap. And many businesses are just set up with those two service offerings, they're not going to create a custom deal just for you.
You have a many more social connections than genetic connections. You only have two parents, being a fourth cousin means you share a great-great-great-grandfather and you have at most 2^5 = 32 of them or less if they've interbred. The world fertility rate is now on average 2.36 children, it'll be a rough approximation but each great-great-great-grandfather will have approximately 2.36^5 = ~73 descendants. That's ~32*~73 = ~2336 fourth cousins ignoring any overlap. Of course you'll have other close relatives that'll also fall within that sphere, but we're still talking about a tiny fraction of the total population.
Well it's not quite that easy, if there was obvious profit in taking the company private and getting the "native" cash flow instead then you'd see a buyout. There are private equity funds/conglomerates that could buy out even huge companies, if there was free money in it. Of course private or public you're still making guesses to estimated future value, in which case you could end up thinking you're buying a Facebook when you're really buying a Myspace. But that ability to "cash out" makes it a lot more grounded than trading cards which only exist in their own bubble.
Well price isn't driven by cost, but by supply and demand. When a company needs a new laptop because they have a new employee who'll otherwise be twiddling their thumbs it'd take one helluva price hike to make them not buy one and look for a refurb/second hand laptop instead. What's the cost to Google if they have to close YouTube for new uploads and say "sorry, out of HDD space" do you think that's going to happen? At the first whiff of a shortage people go crazy and overbuy, which causes an actual shortage which again feeds the panic. If your products are practically going to sell anyway at any price because the market is squished, yeah I'd rise prices too. It's a business...
I know. :-( Wish they would upgrade 1080p to at least 120 Hz. Looks like we'll have to wait another 20 years before people figure out the importance of 100+ Hz.
Having lived with 50Hz PAL TVs and 60Hz CRTs we need high refresh rates, but an LCD doesn't go to black between refreshes so it doesn't suffer from flicker at any signal rate. Movies for example usually solve this by displaying 24 fps content at 3x24 = 72Hz which is flicker free. So the question is do we need 60+ Hz signal? We perceive fluid motion as around 25-30 FPS so 60 FPS is perfect smoothness for movies and television. Why? Because it's a capture of reality's "infinity" frames per second into 1/60 second time slots.
You can see flashes of light down to a few milliseconds (think a photo flash), but you can't say whether it was a 3 ms flash or a 20 ms flash or three 5 ms flashes with pauses. If I record it with a camera and play it back to you at 60Hz, it looks exactly the same. But in a game you can't see it unless it was rendered in a frame, only 60 FPS is like taking 60 snapshots with a 0.00001 second exposure time. If the flash of light wasn't in the frame it "doesn't exist". In order to capture all that a human would see, you need to render at much higher frame rates, perhaps something like 600 FPS. But you could motion blur ten frames into one for 60 Hz and it'd still look the same, you can't perceive 600 individual frames.
Having 120 Hz cables and monitors is really the brute force version of this, instead of motion blurring you just throw up razor-sharp images on the screen and let the brain do the motion blurring instead of the computer. It doesn't actually improve picture quality or smoothness. The only thing it improves is latency, all other lag in the gaming system being equal a 120 Hz monitor will render and make you start perceiving the image up to 8.3 ms faster than a 60 Hz monitor (16.6 vs 8.3 ms/frame). In an FPS it might mean you pulling the trigger faster than your opponent, but it doesn't do anything for non-gamers or games where 0.01 seconds doesn't make a difference.
I love the buzzword bingo, it enabled me to pick up a 60" 2D dumb-TV for cheap because it wasn't "in" anymore. As for 4K I'd want it, but it'd have to be a TV or projector size where I could see it and from my current couch distance I can't. Now if I could get one of those huge 80-90" panels or an affordable native 4K projector (no, e-shift is not native 4K) then yes, but a 55-65" set doesn't make any sense from my couch distance. I could of course put a chair real up close, but meh. As for discs BDXL is already big enough to fit 4K movies with HEVC using the same laser, so if they can roll it out as a backwards compatible solution that reads both it looks doable.
I guess the main reason 4K has a better chance than 3D is that there's very little downside to 4K. Sony just released a 4K prosumer video camera for $4500, Blackmagic 4K production camera is $4000 base + accessories and if you want to go overkill on acquisition a Red Dragon 6K camera is $29k base and will probably come in under $50k complete and then you're ready to shoot Hollywood-class movies. I expect that already next year there'll be a "consumerish" $1500-2000 4K camera, if you don't already count the GoPro camera that has a very low framerate in 4K. Seiki managed to sell a 39" 4K set for $700 and 50" 4K for $1500 (under $1k on sale), it's coming.
Bands have fans, a producer of compilation albums I don't really think so. They had a product that was relevant before the iPod revolution where everybody started buying single songs and making their own playlists. They're practically obsolete now, but is looking to cash in before the label goes out of business. Like SCO trying to trick $699 out of people before going out of business, what did they have to lose?
Once you've strung out cable to a small village for the access point then it's not much of a big deal to just run a short wire around.
It's quite expensive to retrofit cables to existing areas and buildings, if you have to dig it all up just for that it's often more cost efficient to do wireless. However new buildings are different, you're going to dig up the ground to put in electricity/water/sewage anyway, pull all the cables in the walls along with everything else. I can't speak much for Africa but here in Norway I'm fairly sure fiber will become standard through "organic" growth but replacing most buildings takes 50-100 years, the only question is how much faster we'll go by retrofitting.
If you don't like your grocery store, should you try to improve it by continuing to shop there?
If you don't like your country's laws, should you try to improve it by continuing to vote there?
I think you're putting up a false analogy because the grocery store doesn't answer to you, it's a profit-seeking company that answers to its owners and the only way for you to influence it is through your wallet. Public schools on the other hand does ultimately have to answer to the public, though I'll gladly admit the political system of doing so is somewhat flawed.
Assuming you haven't already had a collapse and all the people who could and care have abandoned ship, who'd be far more likely to move than return to public school. I went to public school here in Norway and it was a somewhat mixed bag but the bright and average managed to keep a decent learning environment despite the disruptive and indifferent students, one year (8th grade, I think) they redivided the classes to split up a disruptive bunch across three classes and it helped keep a decent environment in all three. If they'd done the opposite and kept all the gifted together and all the disruptive together the last one would become a total hellhole that'd be sure to drag everyone in that class down with them. Nobody's going to send their kid into such a class as a "rescue" operation, once such a critical mass is created it only expands.
We've seen this with the distribution of minority students here, once the "minority" percentage of a school district reaches 60-70% the remaining natives abandon ship and a few years later it's at 90%-100%. Nothing wrong with minorities and getting to know other cultures but when you're raising a kid in Norway I'd like the primary cultural influence to be Norwegian. As a result you have many children in minority schools that grow up with hardly any contact with the rest and a lot of multiculturalists wants us to become better integrated but hardly anyone wants to send their kid to be the missionary. Instead of mingling it's more like a ghetto with border regions that keep moving.
But all those designs now are fixed and they won't be asking for new ones except maybe a die shrink for 5-10 years based on the last generation (Nintendo 6 years, Sony and Microsoft 8 years), if anything I would expect this generation to last longer. Those royalty payments will be much needed but that market won't provide any new business until 2020.
The fact that you can get an 8 core, 4 GHz CPU for $200 is a big plus for some people.
I guess, for the people who like big numbers never mind that it's usually just breaking even with competing quad-cores with lower frequency but higher IPC. The FX-8350 has a single threaded performance equal to the Phenom II X6 1100T and Intel Pentium G840, it can win some multi-threaded tests because price wise it competes against Intel's hyperthreading-crippled processors but it's no impressive chip. But at least it sucks less than the FX-8150 , which really was the worst of Bulldozer.
AMD and to a lesser extent, Intel, are misreading the mass market. What everybody else except those hardcore GamerZ (rhymes with lamers) want isn't more "powerful" desktop systems that consume enough watts to power a third world household with room to spare but more power efficient APUs, aka SoCs or systems on a chip. I know Intel can do it, but they simply don't want to cannibalize their sales of power inefficient high-end chips.
How has Intel misread the market? Ivy Bridge was Sandy Bridge with much lower load power. Haswell is Ivy Bridge with much lower idle power. True, Intel is still struggling to compete in the smartphone/tablet segment that is dominated by ARM, but Haswell is far superior to past Intel chips when it comes to power consumption.
I'm finding that I'm not learning any more from the Internet now than the Internet of 13 years ago.
If you care to you can find plenty good how-to videos on YouTube that are far more instructional than the plain text files you could download back in the dial-up days (yes, 2000 I was still on ISDN, 64 kbps and pay-per-minute) but I much prefer using it for entertainment. And I love HD over grainy crappy old shit that takes forever to download, bring on UHD.
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With that UID the only way you can't know is if you have Alzheimer...
And so the Dalek 0.1 was born ;)
If you're going for automation - why not just fixed cameras and other sensors covering the whole area?
Cost and because they're also easier to map out and avoid? It doesn't need to be everywhere, it's enough that it could be everywhere as that makes the risk non-zero no matter the plan. I don't see this as an either-or, you'd want basic surveillance of the whole area with roaming security to add some dynamic to the system.
Spoken like a true bean counter, this is where economics meets accounting. Very often it is easier and more profitable to build a moat around your cash cow than to create new, profitable and big business. For example take Microsoft's stagnated IE6 and crippled Java implementation, could they have "embraced the web"? Sure, but why would they promote web applications and in the idea of "write once, run anywhere" when they could piss in the pool and get people to stay on thick clients and native software? What's the total, long term ROI on that? Or as we've seen in CPUs, short term you can gain cash by pushing out cheap processors on an old process but eventually you get trashed as the competition is selling smaller and cheaper chips and your technology is out of date as happened to AMD. Blind following of ROI is the way to bankruptcy.
Right, I want a car that stops periodically to take pictures before driving at walking speed over any perceived obstacle.
That has far more to do with a power budget of 125 watts (2.5 kWh/day) to move 899 kg than a limitation in the autonomous functions. Compare that to say a Tesla Model S with a 85 kWh battery, it uses less power in a month than the Model S on a single charge and it's also got lots of scientific equipment to power as well. Build some supercharger stations on Mars and we'll see entirely different speeds.
But the 9th amendment also doesn't support the opposite conclusion.
The Government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land. There is nothing in the Constitution of the United States similar to the Articles of Confederation, which exclude incidental or implied powers. If the end be legitimate, and within the scope of the Constitution, all the means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, and which are not prohibited, may constitutionally be employed to carry it into effect.
-- McCulloch v. Maryland - 17 U.S. 316 (1819)
In short, Congress has the power to enact laws not specifically listed in the constitution. The 9th amendment says the people retain rights not specifically listed in the bill of rights. The process when non-enumerated laws clash with non-enumerated rights isn't exactly clear, sometimes the Supreme Court has "found" a right and a few times Congress has amended the constitution to specifically enumerate a few more like the 13th amendment. In many cases neither the Supreme Court nor Congress has been willing to recognize a right that people think they have. It's an argument, you can't from a plain reading of the law conclude either way.
Not true. You can get shifting in the surrounding rock as things move around, though the effects are complex.
It's earth's crust rising out of the mantle, if anything the surrounding seabed will rise slightly with it, certainly not the other way around.
There's also the differences due to the change of the local gravity field; all that ice has a lot of mass and does currently attract plenty of seawater to it.
Extremely minimal, even if you have 2km sideways pull from the ice there's 6400km of downwards pull towards the center of the earth so water doesn't gather much Heavy mineral deposits or a thick crust directly under the water is different, that adds more compression without trying to counteract the sideways forces.
I'd lean more towards the explanation that older people have more knowledge and experience which means they're more set in their ways and don't challenge accepted truths like the younger generation does. While it also from time to time produces gems it's also the cause of all the people trying to reinvent the wheel, why go for the new and crazy when you can use the tried and true. It might not be quite as glamorous, but the world needs both highly competent doctors as well as the odd Nobel prize in medicine.
And only 1031 years after it was named so in order to trick people into immigrating there, better late than never I guess.
I'd say that most drivers are not employed as drivers and are wasting a lot of time driving their cars :)
Well the whole topic was about the job market, so it was in that context. Not going to correct myself on that one.