I mean it seriously, we need to think about what kind of world we leave for our children..
i do not have any children and frankly I do not believe there is anything special about our species or even life on this planet to merit such considerations. We merely exists and that's the end of it. Whether we continue to exist, or not makes no difference at all.
I assume that by "prepaid android devices" you mean low end devices. It is quite true, many of these devices never receive a single update and are often released with old versions of android. Google seems to want to do something about it with the Moto G and now the Android One. The Moto G not only demonstrated what a low end devices could be but it has the potential to define what it should be. Lets hope Lenovo has the foresight to let Motorola continue its development.
The lack of any mention of the device he is running it on strongly makes me suspect it is one with a A5 processor. Apple supports even very old devices because it helps the developers a lot having to debug for only a single version of the os, by contrast android development and the short support cycle is a complete nightmare as one has to support accross major and even minor releases. Android app reviews are filled with "It crashes at startup" comments, this is typically not the case for apple users the tradeoff being that their devices might slow down with each new release.
What happens If foreign countries outlaw, or even makes it a criminal offense to hand over data held in servers physically located in the country without a valid order from their own courts?
Personally I have little use for a large amount of storage. My music collection is small, I don't care to watch videos on my phone and I prefer not to keep my entire picture library on it. As long as the OS doesn't take up a unreasonable amount of space 16gb works just fine for me.
Once again, you can state facts and make arguments but according to the Constitution only SCOTUS has the authority to pass judgment. You can cry about it all you want but that's a fact!
However the point is that Microsoft is a victim of unconstitutional, illegal government system that usurped power and is stealing people's money. Income taxes are illegal and are collected illegally for a wide range of reasons. [slashdot.org]
I love when people make these long concise arguments about the constitutionality of income tax and declare the matter settled, conveniently forgetting the part of the constitution that empowers and tasks only the Supreme Court with judging a laws validity under the constitution. Until such day as the Supreme Court decides that your arguments have merit and the law invalid under the constitution, it shall remain enforceable law.
You clearly have no idea how far apart galaxies are.
My comment says nothing about the time it takes our heat signature to reach beings in another galaxy observing ours, only that we currently we do not generate enough of it to be detectable.
>Scientists in general and especially climate scientists and the IPCC, need to stay out of the public/political debate
yeah, let's leave the important decissions to lawyers and economists, and not to scientists and engineers. Now THAT would lead to a great society !
Lawyers and economists are very good in their respective fields, it would be foolish to believe that scientists and engineers would be better at matters of law or economy.
I know you're just smacking down a troll, but climate models have been over-estimating warming for years, as demonstrated by this science.
That's not to say that climate models are bad science, they are good science investigating the nature of the earth; but people who put too much faith in them without evidence were performing bad science.
There is a large movement of scientists, many not involved in climate science at all, urging meaningful action on climate change based on the worst case scenarios set by these incomplete/unreliable models. So what we end up with is backlash by people completely rejecting the entire field, and "feel good" projects and treaties that have minimal impact at best, all of which will only serve to delay the meaningful action they urge. Scientists in general and especially climate scientists and the IPCC, need to stay out of the public/political debate, it only undermines the public's faith on their impartiality.
I can see such in reproduction-related cells, but not regular body cells because those are not passed on.
More likely cancer is simply the result of the trade-offs between efficiency versus duration. In a competitive world efficiency guarantees genetic success more than life duration. After all, the alpha male is in almost a winner-take-all role. To be the alpha male you have to have a high metabolism and an efficient metabolism (get big without having to find extra food).
The research seems to suggest that the cells intrinsic ability to mutate developed early on in the evolution of life, certainly long before sexual reproduction.
This means that entropy (errors in cell division) builds up faster. There are generally two solutions to entropy: slower metabolism or error correcting mechanisms. Being slower means you'll never be able to be the alpha male, and error-correcting means you are less efficient during your prime because such mechanisms consume resources. (Some bacteria have such.)
Note how female mammals typically have lower metabolism and live longer. This is because they are not in the winner-take-all position of males.
Not sure about all mammals but this is certainly the case in humans, however the reason why are not very clear. At least some of it can certainly be explained with higher rates of risky behavior, excessive drinking, smoking, bravado, etc. as well as a reluctance to get check ups, among males of the species.
The mechanisms of evolution, like natural selection and genetic drift, work with the random variation generated by mutation. It would make sense that cells have have an intrinsic ability to mutate would have a higher chance of developing a beneficial mutation therefore would have a evolutionary advantage.
Public skepticism about GMO's has been growing in China and the government there is extremely concerned with anything that can enrage popular discontent. They know and are very fearful that a movement or protests against GMO's can quickly snowball and morph into anti-government protests. China is extremely mindful of protests because its reliance on global trade and the internet means that they way it can respond is much more limited. Another Tienanmen Square would be a complete disaster with severe repercussions for the government.
I can think of a certain group of American Republicans who would do exactly that...
Privately there are many Republicans that do believe in the scientific method and would like to see action on climate change but are reluctant to admit it because of fear of being labeled as traitors. On the Democratic camp there are many that realize that cap and trade, and so called "renewables" cannot be a complete solution to halting global warming but are simply afraid to support low or 0 carbon, but uncool power generation technologies, such as Nuclear for fear of being labeled the same.
Solar to heat to mechanical to electricity as already reached its maximum efficiency.
Photovoltaic has still many recent discoveries for great efficiency improvements, and more are likely to come.
Using heat for conversion is degrading the energy to its worst and less usable form, direct conversion is the way to go. Halting those heat projects is good news.
The big advantage heat-conversion plants have is that you can heat slow cooling material such as salt which can continue production electricity long after the sun has set, effectively turning it into a electricity storage medium. The big problem large scale use of Photovoltaic has, is that we do not have a cheap and scalable way to store generated electricity for use when needed, not just when the sun is shining.
That super expensive Hep C medicine has shown that you can have an overpriced miracle cure and make a ton of money.
What they demonstrated is that by overpricing a miracle cure you can effectively limit its use and keep it from lowering the the infection rates, thereby safeguarding the drugs future profits, all while making insane amounts of profit.
Lets hope this trial ends better than that of the poor woman who had tissue containing olfactory stem cells taken from her nose and implanted in her spine, and 8 years later had to have surgery to remove the nose that grew on her back!
The whole trip was a "matter of national pride " and little more than a PR stunt in response to China's space program. She spent 11 days on the ISS on what amounts to space tourism, the average stay for real astronauts is 2-7 months. After returning to earth her job has been little more than to be paraded around and to give speeches.
The only "flying cars" possible today are airplane-automobile hybrids that can get neither the driving nor the flying right. In the 50's and 60's the promise of science seemed unlimited, discoveries that would lead to a entire new method of flying, not relying on lift and drag, seemed not only possible but just around the corner. 50+ years later we still don't have a quantum theory of gravity and the mystery has only deepened.
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This doesn't seem like much of a surprise with the FCC chairman being a former big cable lobbyist.
I mean it seriously, we need to think about what kind of world we leave for our children. .
i do not have any children and frankly I do not believe there is anything special about our species or even life on this planet to merit such considerations. We merely exists and that's the end of it. Whether we continue to exist, or not makes no difference at all.
I assume that by "prepaid android devices" you mean low end devices. It is quite true, many of these devices never receive a single update and are often released with old versions of android. Google seems to want to do something about it with the Moto G and now the Android One. The Moto G not only demonstrated what a low end devices could be but it has the potential to define what it should be. Lets hope Lenovo has the foresight to let Motorola continue its development.
The lack of any mention of the device he is running it on strongly makes me suspect it is one with a A5 processor. Apple supports even very old devices because it helps the developers a lot having to debug for only a single version of the os, by contrast android development and the short support cycle is a complete nightmare as one has to support accross major and even minor releases. Android app reviews are filled with "It crashes at startup" comments, this is typically not the case for apple users the tradeoff being that their devices might slow down with each new release.
What happens If foreign countries outlaw, or even makes it a criminal offense to hand over data held in servers physically located in the country without a valid order from their own courts?
Personally I have little use for a large amount of storage. My music collection is small, I don't care to watch videos on my phone and I prefer not to keep my entire picture library on it. As long as the OS doesn't take up a unreasonable amount of space 16gb works just fine for me.
Can't be pirated? I think they meant music that can't be deleted!
People can't downgrade to ios8 because of U2's crap taking up precious space.
Once again, you can state facts and make arguments but according to the Constitution only SCOTUS has the authority to pass judgment. You can cry about it all you want but that's a fact!
However the point is that Microsoft is a victim of unconstitutional, illegal government system that usurped power and is stealing people's money. Income taxes are illegal and are collected illegally for a wide range of reasons. [slashdot.org]
I love when people make these long concise arguments about the constitutionality of income tax and declare the matter settled, conveniently forgetting the part of the constitution that empowers and tasks only the Supreme Court with judging a laws validity under the constitution. Until such day as the Supreme Court decides that your arguments have merit and the law invalid under the constitution, it shall remain enforceable law.
You clearly have no idea how far apart galaxies are.
My comment says nothing about the time it takes our heat signature to reach beings in another galaxy observing ours, only that we currently we do not generate enough of it to be detectable.
An alien civilization using this technique, would certainly not be able to spot us in our current level of development. In a few millennium perhaps.
>Scientists in general and especially climate scientists and the IPCC, need to stay out of the public/political debate yeah, let's leave the important decissions to lawyers and economists, and not to scientists and engineers. Now THAT would lead to a great society !
Lawyers and economists are very good in their respective fields, it would be foolish to believe that scientists and engineers would be better at matters of law or economy.
I know you're just smacking down a troll, but climate models have been over-estimating warming for years, as demonstrated by this science. That's not to say that climate models are bad science, they are good science investigating the nature of the earth; but people who put too much faith in them without evidence were performing bad science.
There is a large movement of scientists, many not involved in climate science at all, urging meaningful action on climate change based on the worst case scenarios set by these incomplete/unreliable models. So what we end up with is backlash by people completely rejecting the entire field, and "feel good" projects and treaties that have minimal impact at best, all of which will only serve to delay the meaningful action they urge. Scientists in general and especially climate scientists and the IPCC, need to stay out of the public/political debate, it only undermines the public's faith on their impartiality.
I can see such in reproduction-related cells, but not regular body cells because those are not passed on.
More likely cancer is simply the result of the trade-offs between efficiency versus duration. In a competitive world efficiency guarantees genetic success more than life duration. After all, the alpha male is in almost a winner-take-all role. To be the alpha male you have to have a high metabolism and an efficient metabolism (get big without having to find extra food).
The research seems to suggest that the cells intrinsic ability to mutate developed early on in the evolution of life, certainly long before sexual reproduction.
This means that entropy (errors in cell division) builds up faster. There are generally two solutions to entropy: slower metabolism or error correcting mechanisms. Being slower means you'll never be able to be the alpha male, and error-correcting means you are less efficient during your prime because such mechanisms consume resources. (Some bacteria have such.)
Note how female mammals typically have lower metabolism and live longer. This is because they are not in the winner-take-all position of males.
Not sure about all mammals but this is certainly the case in humans, however the reason why are not very clear. At least some of it can certainly be explained with higher rates of risky behavior, excessive drinking, smoking, bravado, etc. as well as a reluctance to get check ups, among males of the species.
The mechanisms of evolution, like natural selection and genetic drift, work with the random variation generated by mutation. It would make sense that cells have have an intrinsic ability to mutate would have a higher chance of developing a beneficial mutation therefore would have a evolutionary advantage.
Perhaps the internet reverting to a state where there were less grumpy cat videos, or viral ice bucket challenges, wouldn't be such a terrible thing.
Public skepticism about GMO's has been growing in China and the government there is extremely concerned with anything that can enrage popular discontent. They know and are very fearful that a movement or protests against GMO's can quickly snowball and morph into anti-government protests. China is extremely mindful of protests because its reliance on global trade and the internet means that they way it can respond is much more limited. Another Tienanmen Square would be a complete disaster with severe repercussions for the government.
So your situation is something you saw on 24?
Before Snowden we would have said the same thing about mass government surveillance.
I can think of a certain group of American Republicans who would do exactly that...
Privately there are many Republicans that do believe in the scientific method and would like to see action on climate change but are reluctant to admit it because of fear of being labeled as traitors. On the Democratic camp there are many that realize that cap and trade, and so called "renewables" cannot be a complete solution to halting global warming but are simply afraid to support low or 0 carbon, but uncool power generation technologies, such as Nuclear for fear of being labeled the same.
Solar to heat to mechanical to electricity as already reached its maximum efficiency.
Photovoltaic has still many recent discoveries for great efficiency improvements, and more are likely to come.
Using heat for conversion is degrading the energy to its worst and less usable form, direct conversion is the way to go. Halting those heat projects is good news.
The big advantage heat-conversion plants have is that you can heat slow cooling material such as salt which can continue production electricity long after the sun has set, effectively turning it into a electricity storage medium. The big problem large scale use of Photovoltaic has, is that we do not have a cheap and scalable way to store generated electricity for use when needed, not just when the sun is shining.
Next time my kids ask for food, I will take them to South Sudan to witness starvation instead. I am sure that will cure them of hunger!
That super expensive Hep C medicine has shown that you can have an overpriced miracle cure and make a ton of money.
What they demonstrated is that by overpricing a miracle cure you can effectively limit its use and keep it from lowering the the infection rates, thereby safeguarding the drugs future profits, all while making insane amounts of profit.
Lets hope this trial ends better than that of the poor woman who had tissue containing olfactory stem cells taken from her nose and implanted in her spine, and 8 years later had to have surgery to remove the nose that grew on her back!
The whole trip was a "matter of national pride " and little more than a PR stunt in response to China's space program. She spent 11 days on the ISS on what amounts to space tourism, the average stay for real astronauts is 2-7 months. After returning to earth her job has been little more than to be paraded around and to give speeches.
The only "flying cars" possible today are airplane-automobile hybrids that can get neither the driving nor the flying right. In the 50's and 60's the promise of science seemed unlimited, discoveries that would lead to a entire new method of flying, not relying on lift and drag, seemed not only possible but just around the corner. 50+ years later we still don't have a quantum theory of gravity and the mystery has only deepened.