Copernicus is typically consider pre-scientific process. The way discoveries were made at that time was to observe nature, come up with a hypothesis, and then infomally see if other observations were consistant. Most ideas were based on Occam's Razor. In this case if one maps the path of the Sun, the map becomes much simpler it the sun is at the center rather than the earth. More data showed that this simple model explained much. This is not proof, but rather the formations of model that are so important in science.
This 'Occam's Razor' science then lead to the proto-science of Galileo and then classical mechanics, relativity, and quantum mechanics. In any case, most theories continue to be predetermined and then shored up with real data. Take the assumption that energy is quantized. It solved a problem in the previous model, and then was useful in predicting other phenomena. We can also look at the idea the speed of light is constant in all reference frames. No reason to believe this, but it works.
Some may want to fight the science, but really do so with current data, not stuff that happened 500 years ago. I mean we don't make fun of the Catholic Church because Pope Julius II went around and raped women and had illegitimate children. We make fun of the catholic church because priests go around raping children and the pope seems to have few problems with it.
The fact that Pirates: Band of Misfits isn't doing better than yet another unoriginal sequel pulled out someone's anus.
I mean, I am going to see Avengers, but in no way expect to be of the caliber of creativity and technical caliber of Pirates. Plus, it is very unlikely that Avengers is going to have a reference to Are you being served a certain pussy belonging to a certain randomly colored hair lady.
Everyone always complain about the long line of sequels and regurgitated ideas we must endure, but seriously, look at what brings in the money?
The dye sublimation printers at reputable shops should give you the best lifetime in terms of cost. These are rated to 100 years.
I used solid ink printers for my prints, printed on acid free paper, placed in acid free archival fram under glass. it seems to be pretty stable afte several years. The advantage of this printer is that it will print on any flat paper.
A good inkjet printer, using pigment archival ink, is a reasonable choice for home use. It is not a cheap initial purchase, printer and ink is usually purchased separately, and this will be a dedicated machine. In any case this is sometimes how the Giclée prints are done, like the print on canvass offers one sees in the mall.
Was anyone else thinking about the IT Crowd episode where Moss emails the fire department. I think the reason not to have texting to 911 is that real time synchronous communication is best for emergencies.
I don't know that Google does not enforce proprietary formats. I know it can export and import, but I am not clear that the internal format is something like Opendocument that can be downloaded from a server using standard command line protocols. Without such a possibility Google is enforcing proprietary formats. At their whim they can remove exporting to anything but PDF.
Also recall that until Bing came along, Google was basically a stagnant product, with improvements meant to increase revenue, not help consumers. Link farms dominated many results. Even now the top results are the most commercial that have the most ads, not the site that will provide the best and easiest accesible information. If Bing were less complex I might use it.
We should also note that that MS never created a program to purposely collect users personal passwords, emails, and other personal data not related to company services.
I look at it another way. We can get rid of a whole inefficient industry at the loss of 15% of peak capacity. Sure the wasteful liberals just want everything to be given to them, but sometimes we must live within our means. This is what we should be doing everywhere. Figuring out how to be efficient.
Which is the way it was in the bad old days, when the security was there to protect the airlines profit margins, not the passenger safety. The idea of the TSA is not in itself a bad idea. The problem is that the TSA, and really Homeland security was developed to solve political problems, i.e. a deficit that was quickly rising as a percentage of GDP after 7 years of falling, and unemployment rate that was also increasing after years of falling.
The TSA should be part of the FBI, with agents profiles passengers. The problem with this, as Rand Paul well knows, is that it will decrease the employment opportunities for untrained persons. The TSA is wonderful because it provides many employment opportunities for unskilled and semi-skilled labor. The benefit of his proposal is that it reduces government payroll, which makes conservatives look good as they have spent years increasing government payroll(look at Texas), and it also provides a mean to further reduce the requirements of employment for such a position. As a government entity, a certain level of decorum is necessary. As a private matter, there is nothing preventing the hiring of people who will work just for the opportunity to grope and look at naked pictures.
VLC is the only reliable method to play video on any computer I use. No matter what,I download VLC. It will play almost any file, expect for the crappy Apple iTunes files, which is why I only have a limited collection of those.
Clearly Media Center has to do more than play DVDs, but the playing of DVDs is the hook to get people to buy the upgrade. This is nothing new. MS has always had an unreasonable number of SKUs. It allows them to give away the basic MS Windows to OEMs so the base PC remains cheap, while providing a method to upsell consumers who need a working PC.
The problem is that one uses the OEM versions to install on an existing PC and MS starts crying about how the software is not licensed for non-OEM machines. This along with continuous work draining validation is why I don't like to have MS software on my machine. I want to buy a product and then be allowed to use it.
This is a basic question that research such as this evokes, but really is not the fundemental problem of younger and yourger children training hard for sports.
The reality is that many injuries that can be corrected, or are not critical, in older players are very critical for younger players. Not all surgeries will work on a person who is not nearly an adult. The effects of a brain injury in a child can be magnified by the child's inability to learn at a 'normal' rate.
When I see some kids playing really hard on the field, which I see driving through the middle class suburbs, I wonder if the parents are just playing a lottery, thinking if my kid is lucky and a has a bit of talent they will hit the major league jack pot. If not, the state will take care of them and they may not be worse off than now. Otherwise there is no point.
What we do know is children's body are resilient, and they will quickly learn what they can and cannot do, and will in general be ok if a responsible adult monitors their actions and does nto push them. Children should play sports with minimal contact and require minimal gear. I am talking about soccer, basketball, baseball, friendly games of hockey. I would say if the sport requires padding and a helmet, other than just extra safety, sending a kid under 16 in to play should put the parents thinking in question.
In the case of football, people just don't want to believe it because they want their kids to play football, even though football does not give them the biggest scholarships or salary opportunities. In the US it is just cultural. Until the culture changes, no amount of research is going to keep people off the field.
It is interesting, however, to see public opinion change as those with vested interests in the past become less powerful. For instance, it was not that long ago that smoking was not considered bad. It was even considered a healthy thing to do in moderation. As new scientist were produced, educated in the most recent research, fewer of them were willing to take corporate dollars dedicated to proving smoking was good, or at last not significantly harmful. As new people reached their teens, uneducated by the promotions of the smoking interests, fewer of them started smoking, therefore fewer people have an interest in being able to consume drugs in public, something which has been discouraged for any drug other than tabaco(some surveys suggest that smoking among teens has dropped about 15 percentage points over the past 10-15 years). This in turn has lead to a reduction in money, i.e. power, of the smoking establishment, which in turn has lead to tabaco being treated the same as other legal drug, like alcohol.
Right now we are in a carbon economy. It is critically important to many people to show that humans have no impact on global warming, so there is a lot of money invested in promoting that point of view. Even if the science remains as is, we are going to be moving away from a carbon economy simply because new scientists and engineers are going to be educated in the possibility that the carbon economy is not the best solution, and, being scientists and engineers, many of them are going to looking for a better solution. As time goes on, and those vested in the carbon economy become less powerful, than a more balanced picture will emerge. Remember that the first paper show smoking was harmful was published over 100 years ago. Fifty years ago it was clear that smoking caused severe health problems. it was only 10 years ago that the smoking interests admitted that smoking was a serious problem. And smoking is not nearly as ingrained in our society as energy from carbon sources.
I think it also has to do with stock data. Someone correct or clarify, but I read somewhere that the exchange computers for stock trading is in new jersey, among other places. Everyone want to be near them because for high frequency trading, a millisecond can be of consequence. So there is a building where rack space pricing is phenomenally high since it is right next to the trading computers.
The thing is with the current Windows Phone, you are dealing with the grand parents of the smartphone category. MS has had a mobile platform for well over 10 years, and has been supply smartphone OS for almost 10. Nokia, the Windows Phone main ally, has been building mobile communications for coming up on 50 years, has had some of the best selling and most beautiful and desirable phones, and in general was the name in advanced mobile technology. They are going to create good kit.
Which is to say that I agree with you. Is the tech going to translate into sales. Right now Android has a near monopoly on the no contract inexpensive phone. We are talking under $100 to start and $50 a month. Android competes well with Apple in the premium market, but I still see more iPhones. In the US Nokia did not compete with premium phones. It is unclear if Samsung is really dedicated to make the Windows Phone compete. It is questionable, long term, what users are going to get if they buy a WIndows Phone. Of course right now Windows Phones are apparently free. The question is what will happen when the contact runs out.
All rational people understand that entropy exists and is always increasing. The point is not that humans can have an impact on climate and environment, the question is can we do things to minimize the impact.
For example, we replaced horse poop all over the city with leaded fuel exhaust. When we did not all live in cities, the horse poop was not so bad, but cars were better for cities. Then we realized that lead was not so good for us, so we took lead out. Then the exhaust was still not so good, so we made cars more efficient. These changes costs important people lots of money, so they were opposed by uncreative people with lots of money, but in the end we have more efficient transportation that do not leave piles of feces in the street.
So I read this report the other day, and my question is still the same. Would these locations prefer a windmill farm or coal fired plant. I ask this question because ultimately we cannot continue to reap the benefit of electricity production and outsource the consequences. It is expensive to do so. The question is not that does the new tech cause problems, but are those problems less than the old tech. I think it is arguably so.
I don't like offensive weapons at public space. I am glad that in the US the police do not carry automatic rifles as is the case in other countries I visit. But in this case, since the some western developed countries have been cast as in a war against religion, I can see why such weapons might seem necessary, as it would not be inconceivable that a moderately funded religous group might have access to significant arms.
And don't think it can't happen. The US is relatively peaceful and the security at high profile public events. Yet religious extremests managed to get a bomb into the centennial olympic park and kill a woman. Imagine what would have happened if the security was less. These religious extremist believe they are fighting for g-d, saving the heathens from an eternity in hell. They have no conscious. The kill innocent women and leave families without a mother. In this case, the christian extremist conspired to hide the terrorist for ove 5 years. There is reason to fear these people, and reason to defend. Olympics in a peaceful secular country is a target.
Microsoft complains that the US laws and taxes were too stifling, so whined that if the laws were not changed they would take their toys and move to a playground in Canada. Apple works within the rules and innovates methods to minimize the impact.
When the refurb Kindle Fire went on sale I bought one as a second tablet. It does provide a level of functionality and infrastructure. On thing I did was cancel Netflix(maybe they support crazy people in the media) and just use Amazon streaming video. I have mostly Kindle book, which I read on many other devices, but of course maybe less easy to read on a sony or nook, but there is an app for android of course.
The point is, like a PC, Android tablets are going to compete mostly on price. Amazon gives us a cheap tablet with services behind it. I can upload all my music to Amazon and stream. I can keep my books at Amazon and download as needed. It is not fully functional table, but it is much better than anything else our there at the price point.
To be sure, Microsoft's initial reaction to CISPA came before many of the privacy concerns had been raised. An anti-CISPA coalition letter (PDF) wasn't sent out until April 16, and a petition that garnered nearly 800,000 signatures wasn't set up until April 5.
So in other words MS was perfectly willing to allow the US government access to all it's customers data and machines without a warrant or any kind of reasonable probable cause as long as it was on the down low. But when it is publicized, they decide it is not such a s good idea. This situation leads credence that MS might already supply customer data on demand to the US government, so this is really SNAFU.
I know what they mean. Take a look at some of the doctor who stuff, especially when they are switching between film and video. There were time when the sets really were crappy, like Star Trek.
I think what is happening here is the same thing that is happened when TV when to HD. All the sets were built for low resolution, and looked really bad in HD. Many things had be rethought to look good in HD. I think they did good with the digital shooting of the LOTR. There seemed to a lot of thought that went into what was necessary to make that work. Perhaps not so much thought went into this.
Does Amazon charge tax on my order to my Texas adress, paid with my Amazon card funded by an offshore billing address and physical address? Does amazon charge tax on my order billed to a place other than Texas, but shipped to Texas. Does Amazon charge double tax if I live in Texas and send a gift sent to Nevada. This tax thing is a boondoggle to get more money out of the middle class while living the upper class free to complain that they pay all the taxes, while have the opportunity to make many of those taxes optional. This was the one thing the middle class had. Rather than fixing a regressive system, they made it more regressive(many analysis have shown that as a percentage of wealth, the middle class does pay greater taxes, this just makes it worse).
This is raising tax on the middle class, not those who pay for Rick Perry to be in office. Think how much sales tax, as a percentage of income, that a family that makes $40K a year pays. Now imagine how much Clayton williams pay as a part of income. He can travel to other countries for large purchases, hide money, and use other tricks to minimize overall tax rate. This is what is missing in the current tax debate. Most people of moderate income pay social security on all income, spend most of their money on purchases that are taxed, in addition to any income tax they may pay. Of course, in Texas basic food is not taxed, so the poor are not as screwed by the greedy governor and his friends.
What disappoints me is that conservatives could restructure the system, end sales tax, and generate income through other means, but they just do the same as always. Not cut costs, but tax more.
You obviously have never seen the cup holders in a mercedes. A relative was looking at a E class, the cup holder magically slide out, formed, and accepted the biggest drink. The SLK slides out of the console to hold two drinks.
Of course the question is a car a travel utility or a living room. Given the number of accidents I see in the morning, and the fact that most of friends, careful drivers, have never had one, I image most people think it is the later and want fully entertaiment system and ktichen.
That said, I tend to limit the functionality of my car. It seems that it just provides an attractive nuisance. Can you imagine what would happen if you had the Apple logo on display to every person passing by your car. At some point one would break the window and jack the device. Look at the theft rate of other Apple devices. OEM kit may suck but no one wants it.
I would say it is a lot of duplication of effort to keep MS Office going when there is OpenOffice and Google Docs. If you need a high level of shared editing and some programability, Google Docs is it. If you need a basic Office application, OpenOffice is it, with much better compatibility over versions. There are some niche features that some people need, but mostly OO.org and Google has you covered.
It costs several dollars a gram to get it up there, it only makes sense to try to recoup some value. Reusing it does not nearly have the security concerns of forcing it down and burning it up.
Google used to be really good at giving very fast very good results. Now it has a lot of bell and whistles, while the basic functionality is gone.
Take for example the preview pane. This exists because the results are no longer very good, and it is useful to preview a result before going there. This minimizes all the ad farms and spam sites that occupy the top results now from getting traffic.
But what is gone? The cache link. This was the greatest thing for a number of reasons. It let the user look at a site that is non responsive. It let users look at an original site that has been sanitized in response to some controversy. It was a useful tool. Much more useful than preview.
So MS does what it always does. Takes a useful and responsive product and bloats it with minimally useful features that causes over value to decrease. I am not as a dogma opposed to MS. They have created many useful products. MS WIndows 3.11w/workgroups,. WIndows NT, Wiindows XP SP3, and even Windows 7 are very good operating systems. OTOH, WIndows Excel was an innovative spreadsheet, that has been bloated to the point where it is not so useful.
In my opinion, the most dangerous science is always going to be physics. It is going to produce the most direct methods to destroy whatever you want destroyed. It is going to pose the most direct challenges to whatever dogma the aristocracy is using to part the pesants from their meager treasure. The application of physics can and may destroy the entire world.
Everything else just make the danger slightly more efficient. Genetically engineered bird flu might be scary, but a few blankets with small pox has a mortality rate of maybe 30%. We might talk about screening for gender, but really just killing the girls after they are born has been a tested and proven tradition. Pretty much, we know how to do damage using conventional methods. Physics tells us who to do damage using methods unknown.
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This 'Occam's Razor' science then lead to the proto-science of Galileo and then classical mechanics, relativity, and quantum mechanics. In any case, most theories continue to be predetermined and then shored up with real data. Take the assumption that energy is quantized. It solved a problem in the previous model, and then was useful in predicting other phenomena. We can also look at the idea the speed of light is constant in all reference frames. No reason to believe this, but it works.
Some may want to fight the science, but really do so with current data, not stuff that happened 500 years ago. I mean we don't make fun of the Catholic Church because Pope Julius II went around and raped women and had illegitimate children. We make fun of the catholic church because priests go around raping children and the pope seems to have few problems with it.
I mean, I am going to see Avengers, but in no way expect to be of the caliber of creativity and technical caliber of Pirates. Plus, it is very unlikely that Avengers is going to have a reference to Are you being served a certain pussy belonging to a certain randomly colored hair lady.
Everyone always complain about the long line of sequels and regurgitated ideas we must endure, but seriously, look at what brings in the money?
I used solid ink printers for my prints, printed on acid free paper, placed in acid free archival fram under glass. it seems to be pretty stable afte several years. The advantage of this printer is that it will print on any flat paper.
A good inkjet printer, using pigment archival ink, is a reasonable choice for home use. It is not a cheap initial purchase, printer and ink is usually purchased separately, and this will be a dedicated machine. In any case this is sometimes how the Giclée prints are done, like the print on canvass offers one sees in the mall.
Was anyone else thinking about the IT Crowd episode where Moss emails the fire department. I think the reason not to have texting to 911 is that real time synchronous communication is best for emergencies.
Also recall that until Bing came along, Google was basically a stagnant product, with improvements meant to increase revenue, not help consumers. Link farms dominated many results. Even now the top results are the most commercial that have the most ads, not the site that will provide the best and easiest accesible information. If Bing were less complex I might use it.
We should also note that that MS never created a program to purposely collect users personal passwords, emails, and other personal data not related to company services.
I look at it another way. We can get rid of a whole inefficient industry at the loss of 15% of peak capacity. Sure the wasteful liberals just want everything to be given to them, but sometimes we must live within our means. This is what we should be doing everywhere. Figuring out how to be efficient.
The TSA should be part of the FBI, with agents profiles passengers. The problem with this, as Rand Paul well knows, is that it will decrease the employment opportunities for untrained persons. The TSA is wonderful because it provides many employment opportunities for unskilled and semi-skilled labor. The benefit of his proposal is that it reduces government payroll, which makes conservatives look good as they have spent years increasing government payroll(look at Texas), and it also provides a mean to further reduce the requirements of employment for such a position. As a government entity, a certain level of decorum is necessary. As a private matter, there is nothing preventing the hiring of people who will work just for the opportunity to grope and look at naked pictures.
Clearly Media Center has to do more than play DVDs, but the playing of DVDs is the hook to get people to buy the upgrade. This is nothing new. MS has always had an unreasonable number of SKUs. It allows them to give away the basic MS Windows to OEMs so the base PC remains cheap, while providing a method to upsell consumers who need a working PC.
The problem is that one uses the OEM versions to install on an existing PC and MS starts crying about how the software is not licensed for non-OEM machines. This along with continuous work draining validation is why I don't like to have MS software on my machine. I want to buy a product and then be allowed to use it.
The reality is that many injuries that can be corrected, or are not critical, in older players are very critical for younger players. Not all surgeries will work on a person who is not nearly an adult. The effects of a brain injury in a child can be magnified by the child's inability to learn at a 'normal' rate.
When I see some kids playing really hard on the field, which I see driving through the middle class suburbs, I wonder if the parents are just playing a lottery, thinking if my kid is lucky and a has a bit of talent they will hit the major league jack pot. If not, the state will take care of them and they may not be worse off than now. Otherwise there is no point.
What we do know is children's body are resilient, and they will quickly learn what they can and cannot do, and will in general be ok if a responsible adult monitors their actions and does nto push them. Children should play sports with minimal contact and require minimal gear. I am talking about soccer, basketball, baseball, friendly games of hockey. I would say if the sport requires padding and a helmet, other than just extra safety, sending a kid under 16 in to play should put the parents thinking in question.
In the case of football, people just don't want to believe it because they want their kids to play football, even though football does not give them the biggest scholarships or salary opportunities. In the US it is just cultural. Until the culture changes, no amount of research is going to keep people off the field.
Right now we are in a carbon economy. It is critically important to many people to show that humans have no impact on global warming, so there is a lot of money invested in promoting that point of view. Even if the science remains as is, we are going to be moving away from a carbon economy simply because new scientists and engineers are going to be educated in the possibility that the carbon economy is not the best solution, and, being scientists and engineers, many of them are going to looking for a better solution. As time goes on, and those vested in the carbon economy become less powerful, than a more balanced picture will emerge. Remember that the first paper show smoking was harmful was published over 100 years ago. Fifty years ago it was clear that smoking caused severe health problems. it was only 10 years ago that the smoking interests admitted that smoking was a serious problem. And smoking is not nearly as ingrained in our society as energy from carbon sources.
I think it also has to do with stock data. Someone correct or clarify, but I read somewhere that the exchange computers for stock trading is in new jersey, among other places. Everyone want to be near them because for high frequency trading, a millisecond can be of consequence. So there is a building where rack space pricing is phenomenally high since it is right next to the trading computers.
Which is to say that I agree with you. Is the tech going to translate into sales. Right now Android has a near monopoly on the no contract inexpensive phone. We are talking under $100 to start and $50 a month. Android competes well with Apple in the premium market, but I still see more iPhones. In the US Nokia did not compete with premium phones. It is unclear if Samsung is really dedicated to make the Windows Phone compete. It is questionable, long term, what users are going to get if they buy a WIndows Phone. Of course right now Windows Phones are apparently free. The question is what will happen when the contact runs out.
All rational people understand that entropy exists and is always increasing. The point is not that humans can have an impact on climate and environment, the question is can we do things to minimize the impact.
For example, we replaced horse poop all over the city with leaded fuel exhaust. When we did not all live in cities, the horse poop was not so bad, but cars were better for cities. Then we realized that lead was not so good for us, so we took lead out. Then the exhaust was still not so good, so we made cars more efficient. These changes costs important people lots of money, so they were opposed by uncreative people with lots of money, but in the end we have more efficient transportation that do not leave piles of feces in the street.
So I read this report the other day, and my question is still the same. Would these locations prefer a windmill farm or coal fired plant. I ask this question because ultimately we cannot continue to reap the benefit of electricity production and outsource the consequences. It is expensive to do so. The question is not that does the new tech cause problems, but are those problems less than the old tech. I think it is arguably so.
And don't think it can't happen. The US is relatively peaceful and the security at high profile public events. Yet religious extremests managed to get a bomb into the centennial olympic park and kill a woman. Imagine what would have happened if the security was less. These religious extremist believe they are fighting for g-d, saving the heathens from an eternity in hell. They have no conscious. The kill innocent women and leave families without a mother. In this case, the christian extremist conspired to hide the terrorist for ove 5 years. There is reason to fear these people, and reason to defend. Olympics in a peaceful secular country is a target.
Microsoft complains that the US laws and taxes were too stifling, so whined that if the laws were not changed they would take their toys and move to a playground in Canada. Apple works within the rules and innovates methods to minimize the impact.
The point is, like a PC, Android tablets are going to compete mostly on price. Amazon gives us a cheap tablet with services behind it. I can upload all my music to Amazon and stream. I can keep my books at Amazon and download as needed. It is not fully functional table, but it is much better than anything else our there at the price point.
So in other words MS was perfectly willing to allow the US government access to all it's customers data and machines without a warrant or any kind of reasonable probable cause as long as it was on the down low. But when it is publicized, they decide it is not such a s good idea. This situation leads credence that MS might already supply customer data on demand to the US government, so this is really SNAFU.
I think what is happening here is the same thing that is happened when TV when to HD. All the sets were built for low resolution, and looked really bad in HD. Many things had be rethought to look good in HD. I think they did good with the digital shooting of the LOTR. There seemed to a lot of thought that went into what was necessary to make that work. Perhaps not so much thought went into this.
Does Amazon charge tax on my order to my Texas adress, paid with my Amazon card funded by an offshore billing address and physical address? Does amazon charge tax on my order billed to a place other than Texas, but shipped to Texas. Does Amazon charge double tax if I live in Texas and send a gift sent to Nevada. This tax thing is a boondoggle to get more money out of the middle class while living the upper class free to complain that they pay all the taxes, while have the opportunity to make many of those taxes optional. This was the one thing the middle class had. Rather than fixing a regressive system, they made it more regressive(many analysis have shown that as a percentage of wealth, the middle class does pay greater taxes, this just makes it worse).
What disappoints me is that conservatives could restructure the system, end sales tax, and generate income through other means, but they just do the same as always. Not cut costs, but tax more.
Of course the question is a car a travel utility or a living room. Given the number of accidents I see in the morning, and the fact that most of friends, careful drivers, have never had one, I image most people think it is the later and want fully entertaiment system and ktichen.
That said, I tend to limit the functionality of my car. It seems that it just provides an attractive nuisance. Can you imagine what would happen if you had the Apple logo on display to every person passing by your car. At some point one would break the window and jack the device. Look at the theft rate of other Apple devices. OEM kit may suck but no one wants it.
I would say it is a lot of duplication of effort to keep MS Office going when there is OpenOffice and Google Docs. If you need a high level of shared editing and some programability, Google Docs is it. If you need a basic Office application, OpenOffice is it, with much better compatibility over versions. There are some niche features that some people need, but mostly OO.org and Google has you covered.
It costs several dollars a gram to get it up there, it only makes sense to try to recoup some value. Reusing it does not nearly have the security concerns of forcing it down and burning it up.
Take for example the preview pane. This exists because the results are no longer very good, and it is useful to preview a result before going there. This minimizes all the ad farms and spam sites that occupy the top results now from getting traffic.
But what is gone? The cache link. This was the greatest thing for a number of reasons. It let the user look at a site that is non responsive. It let users look at an original site that has been sanitized in response to some controversy. It was a useful tool. Much more useful than preview.
So MS does what it always does. Takes a useful and responsive product and bloats it with minimally useful features that causes over value to decrease. I am not as a dogma opposed to MS. They have created many useful products. MS WIndows 3.11w/workgroups,. WIndows NT, Wiindows XP SP3, and even Windows 7 are very good operating systems. OTOH, WIndows Excel was an innovative spreadsheet, that has been bloated to the point where it is not so useful.
Everything else just make the danger slightly more efficient. Genetically engineered bird flu might be scary, but a few blankets with small pox has a mortality rate of maybe 30%. We might talk about screening for gender, but really just killing the girls after they are born has been a tested and proven tradition. Pretty much, we know how to do damage using conventional methods. Physics tells us who to do damage using methods unknown.