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I desperately was sorry when the blink tag lost prominence. I hope it once again gets it's due respect. I also look forward to seeing the richer data sent to google from my machine due to facilitate the richer notification center.
So MS did not purposefully create a closed application front end in which many major websites only worked with IE. Compare this to Google in which Chrome may provide an 'optimized' experience, but their stuff pretty much works on any standards compliant browser. I can't believe I am defending google, but they could have made Chrome incompatible, even if it was based on an Apple product.
MS prospered because so much of the stuff you did would not work if you did not continue to have MS stuff. The MS Word format was always ill defined and it was impossible to know what would happen if a version was skipped. Certainly in the mid to late 90's we were shooting MS Word files around and there was always an even chance they would bork on different versions, even if filters were installed.
Now that people are getting used to open standards, like HTML 5, MS is having a harder time locking in users. They tried to hook the desktop and the phone, thus creating a locked ecosystem, but they failed. Now they are trying to reassert control by locking the laptop and tablet to MS Windows 8. At least now they are trying to do so by adding value, like Apple and Google, but what value is being added to the user may be much less than we expect.
Most tracking software security through obscurity. This is why phones are so susceptible. Everyone know the type of security that is on them, so everyone removes the SIM card and does not connect to the network until after the unit is completely set back to factory settings.
Which brings us to the real issue. A careful person will replace of reformat the drive. I have not run into a laptop where the drive cannot be removed and reformatted on another machine. Or the bios password can be bypassed, or sometimes just typing in several wrong passwords will automatically reformat the drive. Of the computer can be booted from an external drive and the original drive can sometimes be formatted that way. For a hard drive just replacing it is the best bet. For a *nix machine, it is pretty sure that the average thief is going to want to put MS Windows on it.
The best solutions are those that build the tracking into the hardware. That way a simple wipe or hard disk replace does not deactivate the tracking. The hardware can still be removed, and a network connection is still required, but that is the technology.
more importantly we have adapted to materials at certain levels. For instance, sugar at levels found in nature
are one thing, while concentrated levels found in process food might be a toxic or near toxic levels. Likewise there is an acceptable level of background radiation, while humans now have the ability to concentrate natural radiation and otherwise create levels that are instantly toxic.
So honestly, everything we have and can have is natural. Even elements that are made in reactors have existed somewhere in nature, but have just radiated away. Most plastic is just reorganized plants matter. It is just that in such reoganization we concentrate matter to levels not previously generally encountered by our bodies.
Now, if let nature take it course, and allow the, say, 30% of humans that are not fit to live in the current environment, certainly in a few generations everything will be ok. Of course we no longer live that way. We shoot kids up with drugs, and save babies that are not 100% viable, so we really can't talk about developing to a new norm. We are pretty much going to have to keep under the 'natural' toxicity levels or see increasingly levels of our economic output dedicated to compensating for toxic levels of input.
I would think QR codes might do it. You can format it as a page of data, then a QR code on the page to encode the data in human readable for. Or just print pages of QR codes. I assume that data will be exported in XML or something similiar so the computer will now what the data means when it is restoring it from text.
For compression or security, maybe consider creating a archive of the data with a password, then converting that to hexadecimal text file. That file can be converted in QR codes and printed. You of course trading security for security. The coded QR codes will not be human readable, but if any codes are messed up, then you lose the data. The plain text with qr codes are human readable, so not secure, but if a QR code is messed up, then it would be possible to get the data back from the plain text printout.
Also look at the travails of Apple to get microprocessors over the past 30 or 40 years. They started with MOS, went to Motorola, then IBM and then Intel, and now custom designed chips for mobile devices. These changes were made because the firms that "could do everything" could not make the chip that Apple needed. When one is just a customer, even a major customer that pays for special services, one has to compete for services and compromise based on the standard product.
So Apple now makes it own chip that will do more exactly what Apple wants. If Apple can expand this the desktop, then Intel will be in trouble. The WinTel conglomerate has not driven they type of innovation in chip technology that Intel can use. Apple has driven that market for Intel over the past several years. MS Windows 8 RT is ARM, so this is a second front to move away from Intel. AMD are not as likely, if not more likely, to be in traditional Windows machine as not. Samsung, which basically dominate the Android market, uses straight up ARM cortex.
So the issue is not who manufacturers where, but who can deliver the microprocessor that a firms need to run what are increasingly embedded devices(which is why the silly argument about 'can I upgrade' is becoming increasingly silly, it's like can I upgrade the inkjet in my printer to a laserjet, no one cares). What is all too soon going to be legacy laptop and desktop may require a traditional processor, it is unclear if Intel can survive in such an environment, while ARM, and maybe to a lesser degree AMD, should thrive.
In the late 80's I developed some relatively complicated models on the first version of Excel. The big concession I had to make was turning autocalc off. The longest process was actually printing the report. And, btw, this including exporting and importing data into a database outside Excel. This was on an original Mac.
A few years later I was working with huge telemetry data sets that had to be scrubbed, reorganized, and plotted. I had been on the spreadsheet binge for years, so I started off with some C++ for scrubbing then importing it into Excel for organization and graphing. After a couple days I thought how stupid this is, found gnuplot, and had it done, so, once again the longest task was waiting for the pen plotter to finish the pretty pictures.
So yes, it is a matter of the right tool for the job. Of course so many people only know how to use a spreadsheet, so asking them to use a more efficient tool is out of the question. In reality clock cycles are infinitely cheaper than people, so it is often good to figure our how to maximize the clock cycles rather than change the people. Look at the GUI interface. An incredible waste of clock cycles. But for many things it allows the use of cheaper less qualified people, and sometimes allows more expensive people to work more efficiently. So win-win.
Standards change. It was not so long ago that phones each had their own cable, and not everyone had USB. Bluetooth, and what is can do, is evolving. A car made two years ago is not necessarily going to meet expectations of a user with the greatest and latest equipment.
Really, if look at what would have made cars expandable in term of devices, we are looking at a simple aux port. How many cars built in the past 10 years were built with a radio that did not have an aux port? Why did the radio not include one? An auxiliary port is not a complex thing. There is no reason when every car built in this century should not include one.
OTOH, the main concern with building devices used in cars is not he technology, but the user interface, which must be used by a driver who is supposed to be driving. The radio found in cars 30 years were a joke compared to what we had at home, but the purposes were different.
The promotion of the 3D technology to the mass market is exactly the same as inkjet. The hope is to sell ink. Unlike inkjet printers the application for the average person is not so clear. Sure, one can download files, but most do not have the experience to use the 3D modeling software. It is an order of magnitude more difficult than desktop publishing, and has not had 20 years to mature in usability.
Even one the printing gets done, the job does not end there. It is like publishing a book using an inkjet. There are skilled steps that are required to finish the product. On the printer I used, it required that I manually removed supporting material. If the design does not take this into account, this process will lead to damage of the part. Other printers use ultrasonic cleaners to remove support material, but I hear this has issues as well.
I have been in the position to acquire some nice machines, but the support, cost, and payback never made since. I can image for the hobbying who wants to do something original it would be a good investment. I also imagine that, like my high speed color printer, it might see significantly decreased use after a period of time.
What we are likely seeing is that the models we have created are incorrect. In science it is very important to be able to take in new data that is contradictory to the model. Now, it is true that V1, as it is refereed to in the papers, is only a single data point. We will have to send out other probes to confirm what the edge of our solar system is. V2 is not likely to survive long enough to give us a second data point. However, the IBEX is collected data and corroborating what V! is detecting.
So there is relative certainty that although a bow shock exists for other solar systems, it does not exist for ours. The current papers suggest that interface between the solar system and local interstellar medium is not as sharp as models suggest, but rather consists of a transition zone. This may or may not be true, but what is true is that the data we have does not fit the models, specifically that the solar particles would drop off but the magnetic fields will not change.
Could it be an artifact of the instrument? Could it be some artifact of V!? Sure, but these models we are testing have little previous verification. So it is better to let the data take us where we need to go rather than creating analogies.
Devices are not educational. However, unless you are one of those people who believe education is to teach trivia, and not skills, then teaching in a way that people are going to be expected to live is educational. For instance, I was fortunate enough to have computers in school in the early 80's, which meant that when I went to look for a job I had the skills. I was not one of the multitude that were unemployed. Tablets are the next coming thing, just like the PC was when I was in school. Fortunately we had apples in addition to mainframes. Forward looking administration.
As far as the rest, it is garbage as well. For instance, schools may replace computers every few years, but that is not because they are obsolete. The old computers go to other teachers who do not have them. High end computers for career classes can be sent to core classes for a lifetime that can extend to 6 or 7 years. Likewise the first iPad I bought back in 20110 is still in use by a family member. I am still on a 2nd generation iPad. These things are much more solid than your equivalently priced laptop. They should last 5 years.
In terms of curriculum, there is backlash from the conservative politicians. There are two reasons for this. First and foremost is the money that is going to be saved. Right now each state has to pay huge sums of money to develop state objectives, curriculum, and testing. It used to be that this waste of money went to the district level. Much of this money was simply funneled directly from the tax payer to the private corporation to pay for testing materials, material that was often tweaked based on existing material, but still charged at huge markups. These private corporations, like pearsons, investing huge sums into conservative campaigns to insure this gravy train. The tax bill, however, grew too high and now most conservatives are rebelling(Remember GW Bush signed into law the bill that created an unfunded mandate at the state level requiring that companies like pearson be retained at whatever rate they wished to charged)
Second is the idea of states rights, that what is taught should be at the state level. If a state, for instance, what to teach that science is limited in that if often comes up with wrong conclusions, such as evolution, and not that science is a process where the data gathering skills are much more important than the trivia, they should feel free to do so. If a state wants to teach that Europe gave the world advanced culture and skills, and the natives of the americans, and the Mexicans, were just losers who had nothing to offer, they should.
Legitimate researchers and educators, not politician and administrators, have created the common core. It allows many companies to create a curriculum based on the core and market it. It ends the lockin that has existed over the past 10 years. It ends the boondoggle that is high stakes testing.
What I will add is that Google has shown more than a common tendency to pull the rug from under users who depend on their services. Recall that they arbitrarily removed access to all services for those who violated the TOS for google+. I saw educational instrutitions develop entire curriculum based on google wave, which was unceremoniously pulled. Google Dcos was morphed to Google drive, and though it still exists there really has been little done to expand the features, even though google wants to rent the services to companies.
In the end companies like Apple and MS has one advantage over google in the consumer and enterprise space. MS and Apple actually are accountable to end users, while Google is simple accountable to a rotating group of advertisers. The services, such as they are, exist so that I will allow google to keep cookies on my computer, so that advertisers can track me. If the services become less valuable, then the cookies do not get set, and they end up like 2o7.
Here is the problem. Publishers jumped in with Amazon on their DRM. This meant is did not matter who made the better eBook reader, who gave the publishers a better deal, most of us were not going to have a bunch of incompatible books. So Anazon has their book reader, and software to allow us to read it on many different devices. Is there a nook app for Kindle? I don't know. But there is a Kindle app for everything else. So Amazon controls the market. And most of the time has the best price. I don't buy so many books though because it is DRM and used books are cheap. I used to buy new books, but I like reading on my kindle, and I don't have to buy books to read later, I can but them as I want them, and knowing they could go away makes me want them les.
OTOH, because music is DRM free, I can buy it from anyone and play it anywhere, and back it up nicely. So I buy music. Movies are still heavily DRMed like books, and can't just be played, so I tend to buy few of those. DVDs with regions and such killed the movie, really.
The point being that publishers gave the industry away to Amazon who uses books the way a supermarket uses milk. To drive traffic, not to make a profit. So books are becoming less valuable and, because of DRM, someone like B&N who has an interest in keeping books valuable has no leverage to do so. Yes, lack of DRM would have meant lower sales, but at least there would have still been an industry.
In terms of who owns the technology, it really does not matter. The countries that are going to use the most reactors can pay for the research. That is not the US. Unless we put into some sort of cap and trade, or end fracking, the nuclear reactors are just not going to make any sense. Fission reactors are not too cheap to meter. They require the same sort of loan guarantees that wind or solar requires. In the end licensing fees are going to be infinitesimal compared to the markups GE are going to include. And nuclear will only get built if GE bribes enough congresscritters.
Because of the way that the US works, the rate payers have paid huge amounts to subsidize the nuclear industry. We are going to be paying even more as time goes on. Though the feds have funds to pay for nuclear storage, right now utilities are receiving payments of hundreds of millions for the taxpayers, and there is not indication that those monies are going to reduce costs to ratepayers rather than directly into executives pockets.
Nuclear has had 40 years to show that it can be safe and cost effective. While the safety is clear, the cost effectiveness in the context of the US grid has not been shown. Even in the world, only France has a major presence with major production capacity. All this nuclear talk is merely fundamentalists trying to promote a technology that in theory is good but for many application has been shown to be a less than ideal solution.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/23/2249237/the-aging-of-our-nuclear-power-plants-is-not-so-graceful#
On one hand, giving tax incentives to locate where no one want to be makes sense. Iowa is in the bottom quartile of US in terms of population density, but around the midpoint, for example, of interstate highway. While transportation of produce justifies some of that, they need some commerce to support the cost. Iowa has half the GDP per mile as, for instance, Texas.
There is also some benefit to a central location. Light takes about 5 milliseconds to travel one thousand miles. That means that maybe 5-10 milliseconds is cut by this location, which can be significant. Also, compared to California and New York, Iowa is much more stable location, in terms of geology and weather, What also might be of concern is that current missile technologies attained by rouge nations in Asia can reach California, but maybe not the Midwest.
I have all three on various devices. Verizon on my iPad is often so slow as to be usable. I sometime have to go to my phone, which is on ATT, to get internet access. Verizon is often theoretically more available, but ATT often has better coverage. I just don't think that Verizon is worth the extra cost. My next tablet will probably not be Verizon.
I have Sprint through virgin mobile. The 'unlimited' data is nice, but the coverage data sucks. Also, it seems as the month goes on and I get up into multiple gigabytes, the service becomes less reliable. Also, when I renew for new month there always seems to be an issue with the renewal and reconnection. Out of the past 6 months, I might have had two good ones.
As in any science, the interesting thing is the process and data collected, not the end result. A young person is not generally going to post-graduate level work and actually create new knowledge. Unfortunately the press, which only understands endpoint and not the work it took to get there, is just rah rah rah around interesting people.
In fact such transformation from algae to various energy products has been. Four years ago Dow partnered to do exactly this, and a year later it broke up the partnership.
In fact producing a gallon of fuel from algae requires huge amount of resources, both water and nutrients. Of course I have not RTFA so I don't know if the innovation was the reduction in the use of fresh water, which in most of the US is very scarce, or the use of nutrients, which in the US are increasingly imported.
Possibly the best research path is efficiently converting weeds such as switchgrass into ethanol. Right now it is possible to increase yields fourfold. In fact moving away from a corn economy to more of a grass economy may solve many of our problems. This is not to say that algae has no benefit. Algae grown in saltwater, which is plentiful, can be good protein source,and is much less destructive than meat production, or even soybean production. But this is going to have to wait until the environment is degraded enough to make the other options not viable.
Honestly, ignorance is the problem. The US, and perhaps other countries, have two big issues with pornography. First, it is limited to sex so a movie like Hansel and Gretal gets an R rating instead of NC-17. Second, nudity and sex are always considered pornography so a movie like Dreamers get an NC-17 rating instead of an R rating. It is such ignorance that promotes the sex pornography industry because, after all, if you are going to have naked people, you might as well have then explicitly fucking for the camera because the rating is going to be the same. If there was more of a gradation for nudity and sex, like there is for violence, then we might have a country that is less afraid of the physical form, more able to hold intelligent conversations that do not devolve into what might be heard in the hallways on a middle school.
That said when people go out to make pornography they certainly know what they are making and labeling it as such helps everyone. It helps those that want to view it, and it helps those that do not themselves or their children to view it. Having a reasonable filter on internet access by default is not unreasonable. The only people it will hurt are the young people that want to see but only have access through their parents accounts. I don't really see this as an issue like the v-chip where a financial burden was put on society because a few parents were too lazy to take care of their kids. You do not need to pay extra to get extra content on the internet like you do on cable. One can choose to not let kids watch TV after a certain time.
And really, if we want to challenge this thing, self censorship like on TV and mainstream websites are really the place to start. If we want to make such censorship less relevant then we need to make a naked man or women less objectionable. When I travel to other countries, or watch British TV, it is clear that full frontal is not always pornography. Yet showing breasts or a penis will freak everyone out.
I suspect it will have the quality of A Good Day to Die Hard or Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the crystal skull. Unlike WIllis and Ford, Schwazenager does not have a lot fo actually good movies behind him to make up for such a horrible movie.
Yes and no. "Desirable" areas like Washington state and California are going to typically have high costs of living without proportional wages. For instance in Seattle the median cost of house is $400K, while median income is $60K which means that one has to be a top earner to own a median house. In San Fransisco the value of houses is almost twice that, but income is only 20% higher.
OTOH a less desirable but equally technical city like Houston(before there was Apple, there was TI), the median house is value at around 120K and median income is almost $50K. This means that two earners can almost afford a median house.
In any case, if 10% of developers are earning about 200K, then that means they are twice as likely to do so than the average earner.
What I disagree with is all these laws that punish the acts of distracted driving, but all too often do not sufficiently punish the damage, or place the responsibility on the people who choose to take the risk.
Like drunk driving, I would like to see that laws punish those that actually cause damage, not just arbitrarily set rules and regulation. If someone is driving recklessly, I don't care if they are distracted or just don't know how to drive, they should be ticketed. Why should a attentive reckless driver be treated better than a distracted driver. If someone gets into an auto incident because they are drunk or because they are texting, then assign the blame completely on them. Sure the other party might have done something wrong, but in most situations it is two way street. Both drivers have to be aware so that when mistakes are made, which we all do, everyone is aware enough to avoid the incident. If someone dies as a result, and it is not the distracted driver, then manslaughter charges and prison time should be the norm. Not wasting cops time setting up roadblocks to punish drivers that are otherwise safe.
Actually the Pros were very upgradable, and much easier to do so than any PC. It was always pull a lever, or pull off the top. No screws, not hassle, and this was all the way back , in many cases, to Apple ][. I recall swapping my hard disk out of my Mac LC in about two minutes. Memory on my Mac G4 was about a minute. And worried about getting thing stolen from inside because it so easy? The pass through for the security cable also automatically locks the case.
Really with mac it was a design decision. Do you limit capability with internal, at the time, IDE ports or do you provide a high speed external port that is plug and play, before most things were plug and play. I have recounted many time how difficult it was to get a ZIP drive to work on a PC, but that such things were automatic on a Mac. Or that hard drives that were too big of slow on a PC were plug and play on a Mac.
In this case I assume that I would have networked storage through gigabyte Ethernet for archive.
The one thing apple did to screw up my workflow was getting rid of the key chain and disk on the online side. Everyone complained about the $100 a year for mac.com(I mean really, less that $10 bucks a month were enough to make everyone crazy, what freetards) but for me it meant my machines were interchangeable and a crash was not going to mean I lost anything important. icloud sucks in comparison and is not yet worth the money they want for it. It is really just a way to sell music.
If keychain integration is back in, then icloud is back on the way to being a decent product.
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I desperately was sorry when the blink tag lost prominence. I hope it once again gets it's due respect. I also look forward to seeing the richer data sent to google from my machine due to facilitate the richer notification center.
MS prospered because so much of the stuff you did would not work if you did not continue to have MS stuff. The MS Word format was always ill defined and it was impossible to know what would happen if a version was skipped. Certainly in the mid to late 90's we were shooting MS Word files around and there was always an even chance they would bork on different versions, even if filters were installed.
Now that people are getting used to open standards, like HTML 5, MS is having a harder time locking in users. They tried to hook the desktop and the phone, thus creating a locked ecosystem, but they failed. Now they are trying to reassert control by locking the laptop and tablet to MS Windows 8. At least now they are trying to do so by adding value, like Apple and Google, but what value is being added to the user may be much less than we expect.
Which brings us to the real issue. A careful person will replace of reformat the drive. I have not run into a laptop where the drive cannot be removed and reformatted on another machine. Or the bios password can be bypassed, or sometimes just typing in several wrong passwords will automatically reformat the drive. Of the computer can be booted from an external drive and the original drive can sometimes be formatted that way. For a hard drive just replacing it is the best bet. For a *nix machine, it is pretty sure that the average thief is going to want to put MS Windows on it.
The best solutions are those that build the tracking into the hardware. That way a simple wipe or hard disk replace does not deactivate the tracking. The hardware can still be removed, and a network connection is still required, but that is the technology.
So honestly, everything we have and can have is natural. Even elements that are made in reactors have existed somewhere in nature, but have just radiated away. Most plastic is just reorganized plants matter. It is just that in such reoganization we concentrate matter to levels not previously generally encountered by our bodies.
Now, if let nature take it course, and allow the, say, 30% of humans that are not fit to live in the current environment, certainly in a few generations everything will be ok. Of course we no longer live that way. We shoot kids up with drugs, and save babies that are not 100% viable, so we really can't talk about developing to a new norm. We are pretty much going to have to keep under the 'natural' toxicity levels or see increasingly levels of our economic output dedicated to compensating for toxic levels of input.
I would think QR codes might do it. You can format it as a page of data, then a QR code on the page to encode the data in human readable for. Or just print pages of QR codes. I assume that data will be exported in XML or something similiar so the computer will now what the data means when it is restoring it from text. For compression or security, maybe consider creating a archive of the data with a password, then converting that to hexadecimal text file. That file can be converted in QR codes and printed. You of course trading security for security. The coded QR codes will not be human readable, but if any codes are messed up, then you lose the data. The plain text with qr codes are human readable, so not secure, but if a QR code is messed up, then it would be possible to get the data back from the plain text printout.
So Apple now makes it own chip that will do more exactly what Apple wants. If Apple can expand this the desktop, then Intel will be in trouble. The WinTel conglomerate has not driven they type of innovation in chip technology that Intel can use. Apple has driven that market for Intel over the past several years. MS Windows 8 RT is ARM, so this is a second front to move away from Intel. AMD are not as likely, if not more likely, to be in traditional Windows machine as not. Samsung, which basically dominate the Android market, uses straight up ARM cortex.
So the issue is not who manufacturers where, but who can deliver the microprocessor that a firms need to run what are increasingly embedded devices(which is why the silly argument about 'can I upgrade' is becoming increasingly silly, it's like can I upgrade the inkjet in my printer to a laserjet, no one cares). What is all too soon going to be legacy laptop and desktop may require a traditional processor, it is unclear if Intel can survive in such an environment, while ARM, and maybe to a lesser degree AMD, should thrive.
In the late 80's I developed some relatively complicated models on the first version of Excel. The big concession I had to make was turning autocalc off. The longest process was actually printing the report. And, btw, this including exporting and importing data into a database outside Excel. This was on an original Mac. A few years later I was working with huge telemetry data sets that had to be scrubbed, reorganized, and plotted. I had been on the spreadsheet binge for years, so I started off with some C++ for scrubbing then importing it into Excel for organization and graphing. After a couple days I thought how stupid this is, found gnuplot, and had it done, so, once again the longest task was waiting for the pen plotter to finish the pretty pictures. So yes, it is a matter of the right tool for the job. Of course so many people only know how to use a spreadsheet, so asking them to use a more efficient tool is out of the question. In reality clock cycles are infinitely cheaper than people, so it is often good to figure our how to maximize the clock cycles rather than change the people. Look at the GUI interface. An incredible waste of clock cycles. But for many things it allows the use of cheaper less qualified people, and sometimes allows more expensive people to work more efficiently. So win-win.
Really, if look at what would have made cars expandable in term of devices, we are looking at a simple aux port. How many cars built in the past 10 years were built with a radio that did not have an aux port? Why did the radio not include one? An auxiliary port is not a complex thing. There is no reason when every car built in this century should not include one.
OTOH, the main concern with building devices used in cars is not he technology, but the user interface, which must be used by a driver who is supposed to be driving. The radio found in cars 30 years were a joke compared to what we had at home, but the purposes were different.
Even one the printing gets done, the job does not end there. It is like publishing a book using an inkjet. There are skilled steps that are required to finish the product. On the printer I used, it required that I manually removed supporting material. If the design does not take this into account, this process will lead to damage of the part. Other printers use ultrasonic cleaners to remove support material, but I hear this has issues as well.
I have been in the position to acquire some nice machines, but the support, cost, and payback never made since. I can image for the hobbying who wants to do something original it would be a good investment. I also imagine that, like my high speed color printer, it might see significantly decreased use after a period of time.
So there is relative certainty that although a bow shock exists for other solar systems, it does not exist for ours. The current papers suggest that interface between the solar system and local interstellar medium is not as sharp as models suggest, but rather consists of a transition zone. This may or may not be true, but what is true is that the data we have does not fit the models, specifically that the solar particles would drop off but the magnetic fields will not change.
Could it be an artifact of the instrument? Could it be some artifact of V!? Sure, but these models we are testing have little previous verification. So it is better to let the data take us where we need to go rather than creating analogies.
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As far as the rest, it is garbage as well. For instance, schools may replace computers every few years, but that is not because they are obsolete. The old computers go to other teachers who do not have them. High end computers for career classes can be sent to core classes for a lifetime that can extend to 6 or 7 years. Likewise the first iPad I bought back in 20110 is still in use by a family member. I am still on a 2nd generation iPad. These things are much more solid than your equivalently priced laptop. They should last 5 years.
In terms of curriculum, there is backlash from the conservative politicians. There are two reasons for this. First and foremost is the money that is going to be saved. Right now each state has to pay huge sums of money to develop state objectives, curriculum, and testing. It used to be that this waste of money went to the district level. Much of this money was simply funneled directly from the tax payer to the private corporation to pay for testing materials, material that was often tweaked based on existing material, but still charged at huge markups. These private corporations, like pearsons, investing huge sums into conservative campaigns to insure this gravy train. The tax bill, however, grew too high and now most conservatives are rebelling(Remember GW Bush signed into law the bill that created an unfunded mandate at the state level requiring that companies like pearson be retained at whatever rate they wished to charged)
Second is the idea of states rights, that what is taught should be at the state level. If a state, for instance, what to teach that science is limited in that if often comes up with wrong conclusions, such as evolution, and not that science is a process where the data gathering skills are much more important than the trivia, they should feel free to do so. If a state wants to teach that Europe gave the world advanced culture and skills, and the natives of the americans, and the Mexicans, were just losers who had nothing to offer, they should.
Legitimate researchers and educators, not politician and administrators, have created the common core. It allows many companies to create a curriculum based on the core and market it. It ends the lockin that has existed over the past 10 years. It ends the boondoggle that is high stakes testing.
Don't forget ask.com which is automatically installed with every Java update. If oracle supports it, and it works well with IE, it must be good.
What I will add is that Google has shown more than a common tendency to pull the rug from under users who depend on their services. Recall that they arbitrarily removed access to all services for those who violated the TOS for google+. I saw educational instrutitions develop entire curriculum based on google wave, which was unceremoniously pulled. Google Dcos was morphed to Google drive, and though it still exists there really has been little done to expand the features, even though google wants to rent the services to companies. In the end companies like Apple and MS has one advantage over google in the consumer and enterprise space. MS and Apple actually are accountable to end users, while Google is simple accountable to a rotating group of advertisers. The services, such as they are, exist so that I will allow google to keep cookies on my computer, so that advertisers can track me. If the services become less valuable, then the cookies do not get set, and they end up like 2o7.
OTOH, because music is DRM free, I can buy it from anyone and play it anywhere, and back it up nicely. So I buy music. Movies are still heavily DRMed like books, and can't just be played, so I tend to buy few of those. DVDs with regions and such killed the movie, really.
The point being that publishers gave the industry away to Amazon who uses books the way a supermarket uses milk. To drive traffic, not to make a profit. So books are becoming less valuable and, because of DRM, someone like B&N who has an interest in keeping books valuable has no leverage to do so. Yes, lack of DRM would have meant lower sales, but at least there would have still been an industry.
Because of the way that the US works, the rate payers have paid huge amounts to subsidize the nuclear industry. We are going to be paying even more as time goes on. Though the feds have funds to pay for nuclear storage, right now utilities are receiving payments of hundreds of millions for the taxpayers, and there is not indication that those monies are going to reduce costs to ratepayers rather than directly into executives pockets.
Nuclear has had 40 years to show that it can be safe and cost effective. While the safety is clear, the cost effectiveness in the context of the US grid has not been shown. Even in the world, only France has a major presence with major production capacity. All this nuclear talk is merely fundamentalists trying to promote a technology that in theory is good but for many application has been shown to be a less than ideal solution. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/23/2249237/the-aging-of-our-nuclear-power-plants-is-not-so-graceful#
There is also some benefit to a central location. Light takes about 5 milliseconds to travel one thousand miles. That means that maybe 5-10 milliseconds is cut by this location, which can be significant. Also, compared to California and New York, Iowa is much more stable location, in terms of geology and weather, What also might be of concern is that current missile technologies attained by rouge nations in Asia can reach California, but maybe not the Midwest.
I have Sprint through virgin mobile. The 'unlimited' data is nice, but the coverage data sucks. Also, it seems as the month goes on and I get up into multiple gigabytes, the service becomes less reliable. Also, when I renew for new month there always seems to be an issue with the renewal and reconnection. Out of the past 6 months, I might have had two good ones.
In fact such transformation from algae to various energy products has been. Four years ago Dow partnered to do exactly this, and a year later it broke up the partnership.
In fact producing a gallon of fuel from algae requires huge amount of resources, both water and nutrients. Of course I have not RTFA so I don't know if the innovation was the reduction in the use of fresh water, which in most of the US is very scarce, or the use of nutrients, which in the US are increasingly imported.
Possibly the best research path is efficiently converting weeds such as switchgrass into ethanol. Right now it is possible to increase yields fourfold. In fact moving away from a corn economy to more of a grass economy may solve many of our problems. This is not to say that algae has no benefit. Algae grown in saltwater, which is plentiful, can be good protein source,and is much less destructive than meat production, or even soybean production. But this is going to have to wait until the environment is degraded enough to make the other options not viable.
That said when people go out to make pornography they certainly know what they are making and labeling it as such helps everyone. It helps those that want to view it, and it helps those that do not themselves or their children to view it. Having a reasonable filter on internet access by default is not unreasonable. The only people it will hurt are the young people that want to see but only have access through their parents accounts. I don't really see this as an issue like the v-chip where a financial burden was put on society because a few parents were too lazy to take care of their kids. You do not need to pay extra to get extra content on the internet like you do on cable. One can choose to not let kids watch TV after a certain time.
And really, if we want to challenge this thing, self censorship like on TV and mainstream websites are really the place to start. If we want to make such censorship less relevant then we need to make a naked man or women less objectionable. When I travel to other countries, or watch British TV, it is clear that full frontal is not always pornography. Yet showing breasts or a penis will freak everyone out.
I suspect it will have the quality of A Good Day to Die Hard or Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the crystal skull. Unlike WIllis and Ford, Schwazenager does not have a lot fo actually good movies behind him to make up for such a horrible movie.
OTOH a less desirable but equally technical city like Houston(before there was Apple, there was TI), the median house is value at around 120K and median income is almost $50K. This means that two earners can almost afford a median house.
In any case, if 10% of developers are earning about 200K, then that means they are twice as likely to do so than the average earner.
Like drunk driving, I would like to see that laws punish those that actually cause damage, not just arbitrarily set rules and regulation. If someone is driving recklessly, I don't care if they are distracted or just don't know how to drive, they should be ticketed. Why should a attentive reckless driver be treated better than a distracted driver. If someone gets into an auto incident because they are drunk or because they are texting, then assign the blame completely on them. Sure the other party might have done something wrong, but in most situations it is two way street. Both drivers have to be aware so that when mistakes are made, which we all do, everyone is aware enough to avoid the incident. If someone dies as a result, and it is not the distracted driver, then manslaughter charges and prison time should be the norm. Not wasting cops time setting up roadblocks to punish drivers that are otherwise safe.
Really with mac it was a design decision. Do you limit capability with internal, at the time, IDE ports or do you provide a high speed external port that is plug and play, before most things were plug and play. I have recounted many time how difficult it was to get a ZIP drive to work on a PC, but that such things were automatic on a Mac. Or that hard drives that were too big of slow on a PC were plug and play on a Mac.
In this case I assume that I would have networked storage through gigabyte Ethernet for archive.
If keychain integration is back in, then icloud is back on the way to being a decent product.