Not sure why you're confused? Deserts dry-out the tissue & make it not decay. Even now in Egypt people are still finding thousands-year-old corpses that were not mummified, but the desert still preserved their bodies.
Yeah I had to read it twice: - From 10,000 to 7000 BCE the area was dry - Then it became wetter so it was able to support a larger & more culturally-diverse culture - This culture saw a bunch of dried corpses laying-around from the previous 3000 years, so they decided to start mummifying people themselves.
Yeah ProPublica is wrong. It's called an accounting trick. Borrow money from the government in loan #2, and then pay back the government on loan #1 (TARP). General Motors pulled the same schenanigans when it claimed to "pay back" the loans, but in fact is still deep in debt to the government.
It's reminiscient to how a certain president (I'll let you guess) claimed to "put 100,000 more cops on the street". In reality the law said 100,000 cops or 100,000 cop-equivalents... like new computers. Most departments spent the money on computers and only hired an additional ~500 actual cops.
When you listen to a politician or CEO or marketer you have to realize they are not lying to you. Instead they are redefining words on the fly (a "cop" is not really a cop... could be a computer), or omitting crucial information (we paid TARP, but we borrowed money to do it).
>>>Which combined are still outsold by the iPad by a wide margin.
Android Tablets have risen to 40% of all tablet share (Amazon and B&N are about half of those sales). Meanwhile the iPad is a mere 57% so the margin is not that wide and keeps narrowing.
2011 was the year of Linux on the Cellphone (Android) with over 60% of sales. 2012 is looking like the year of Linux on the Tablet with linux distributions on the best-selling Amazon and Nook tablets/kindles. Is year of the desktop next??? (I won't hold my breath.)
This "firmware upgrade" really isn't that big of a deal. Obviously NASA doesn't want to screw it up but they do have experience in the past. One of the first upgrades they did was in the early 90s when they reprogrammed the Voyager 2 spacecraft to take photos of poorly-lit Uranus.
That craft had never been designed to last beyond Saturn, so they had to do some new ideas like leaving the camera shutter open for several minutes AND rotating the spacecraft at the same time to avoid image blur. They also upgraded the resolution & introduced image compression so they could store all the photos during the rapid flyby.
Plus wait a full workday (9 hours) to get a response from Voyager that said "success" or "fail" on the updates. This rover upgrade is likely easy in comparson.
In the very first paragraph, what does the first half about "Scared Straight" program not working have to do with the second half about Social Media legal risks??? I don't see the connection.
Per usual what is "popular" is typically not the best technology available. Look at game consoles: Atari 2600, NES, PS1, PS2, Wii were not the most powerful consoles of their generation but they still obliterated the rest.
Super Audio CD and DVD-audio were both superior to the MP3s and AACs, but sold poorly. And now we have twitter which you claim is inferior to RSS, but that doesn't really matter to the general populace.
>>>The fact that the SMS limit doesn't exist anymore...
It doesn't? Last I heard if you enter a really long text, the phone software will divide it into 2 to 3 SMS sends of 128 bytes each, and then double or triple-bill you for that text.
>>>i only count os's that actually have had releases in the last decade
AmigaOS 4.1 (2009) Update 5 released January 28, 2012
Dumbass. And th reason why I call you "dumb" is not because I expected you to know that, but because it only took 30 seconds on wikipedia to discover it. You were just too lazy to do the damn research.
>>>>>That way stupid shit like the TARP bill won't pass (80% of Americans were against it according to Gallup polling). >> >>If we don't trust voters to pick the right people to rep them, why would we trust them to make the right decision on individual bills?
The person in the House of Representatives is a loyal servant of the corporations... bought-and-paid-for through campaign donations & loyal to serving corporate interest (like sucking money from taxpayers for bailouts). The ~200 million at-large citizens are not corporate puppets, so they will vote in their best interests. Such as voting "no" on the TARP bill in 2008.
The government says it's safe, and I believe them! You whacko libertariqans and your anti-gov rhetoric is the true source of evil. The government is just there to help us and protect us! /end sarcasm
The 7" ones are designed not to hurt the woman, whereas the 10" ones often......
Oh wait. We were discussing tablets. Um. Well the 7" tablets from B&N and Amazon are meant to be used for actual work. They are meant to be used like portable TVs to watch downloaded videos, read books, and some facebook & email on the side.
My state uses scantrons. It has the advantages of both electronic voting (a quick tally by computer) and paper (hard to rig the election & provides an official tally in the event of a recount).
>>>You still need people as acting officials because sticking a robot in the UN is kinda silly for example.
The Animatrix tells me this is a very, very bad idea.
And for more-direct democracy, I'd favor modifying the House of Representatives so that, rather than taking a count of the ayes & nays, the Speaker looks at the result of an internet weekly vote by the People. That way stupid shit like the TARP bill won't pass (80% of Americans were against it according to Gallup polling). The Senate would continue to function as it does now, as a representative body for the States.
>>>there's no requirement for ID (nor should there be)..
I agree 100%! I want to be able to vote for Mitt Romney at least 5 times, and these damn voter-ID laws are making that difficult. Curses. Foiled again.
I'm not buying a Surface 1.0. I'll wait for the Surface 2.0 instead. -- "The name comes from the planned replacement of the Osborne 1 computer. In 1983 founder Adam Osborne pre-announced several next-generation computer models (the "Executive" and "Vixen" models), which had not yet been built, highlighting the fact that they would outperform the existing model. A widely-held belief was that sales of the Osborne 1 fell sharply as customers anticipated those more advanced systems, and dealers cancelled orders." And the company went bankrupt.
Other examples: "In 1978, North Star Computers announced a new version of their floppy disk controller, which had double the capacity, to be sold at the same price as their existing range. Sales of the existing products plummeted and the company almost went bankrupt."
"When Sega began publicly discussing their next-generation system, barely two years after launching the Saturn, it became a self-defeating prophecy. This move, combined with Sega's recent history of short-lived consoles, led to a chain reaction that quickly caused the Saturn's future to collapse. Immediately following the announcement, sales of the console and software substantially tapered off in the second half of 1997, while many planned games were canceled, causing the console's life expectancy to shorten substantially."
You're right! The Mac software won't let me run Microsoft Visio or ModelSim to do my job, whereas the PC will. Thanks for pointing that out. I'd forgotten. (whew). I almost blew $1300 on a computer that won't let me run the software I need to do my work! Good thing I'm a cheapass and stumbled on the right tool for the job by accident.
BTW the form factor has come-up a lot. If I wanted a PCmini in the same size as the MacMini there are plenty out there. And they STILL cost a few hundred dollars less.
Stupid Applebot..... fanboy..... Jobslover..... whatever is the current term.
Yes google SHOULD feel bad for putting WebM videos online that I can't play on my Video iPod, since it doesn't have the required codec. (And also for creating HTML5 websites that block all other browsers except Chrome.) Their actions are breaking the openness of the web.
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Not sure why you're confused? Deserts dry-out the tissue & make it not decay. Even now in Egypt people are still finding thousands-year-old corpses that were not mummified, but the desert still preserved their bodies.
Yeah I had to read it twice:
- From 10,000 to 7000 BCE the area was dry
- Then it became wetter so it was able to support a larger & more culturally-diverse culture
- This culture saw a bunch of dried corpses laying-around from the previous 3000 years, so they decided to start mummifying people themselves.
Yeah ProPublica is wrong. It's called an accounting trick. Borrow money from the government in loan #2, and then pay back the government on loan #1 (TARP). General Motors pulled the same schenanigans when it claimed to "pay back" the loans, but in fact is still deep in debt to the government.
It's reminiscient to how a certain president (I'll let you guess) claimed to "put 100,000 more cops on the street". In reality the law said 100,000 cops or 100,000 cop-equivalents... like new computers. Most departments spent the money on computers and only hired an additional ~500 actual cops.
When you listen to a politician or CEO or marketer you have to realize they are not lying to you. Instead they are redefining words on the fly (a "cop" is not really a cop... could be a computer), or omitting crucial information (we paid TARP, but we borrowed money to do it).
>>>Which combined are still outsold by the iPad by a wide margin.
Android Tablets have risen to 40% of all tablet share (Amazon and B&N are about half of those sales). Meanwhile the iPad is a mere 57% so the margin is not that wide and keeps narrowing.
2011 was the year of Linux on the Cellphone (Android) with over 60% of sales. 2012 is looking like the year of Linux on the Tablet with linux distributions on the best-selling Amazon and Nook tablets/kindles. Is year of the desktop next??? (I won't hold my breath.)
The rover's only carrying 256 megabytes of RAM. NASA could completely erase-and-replace its program 12 times before going over the cellphone cap.
Also it's processor is a mere 200 MHz. My dusty-old N64 has almost as much power.
This "firmware upgrade" really isn't that big of a deal. Obviously NASA doesn't want to screw it up but they do have experience in the past. One of the first upgrades they did was in the early 90s when they reprogrammed the Voyager 2 spacecraft to take photos of poorly-lit Uranus.
That craft had never been designed to last beyond Saturn, so they had to do some new ideas like leaving the camera shutter open for several minutes AND rotating the spacecraft at the same time to avoid image blur. They also upgraded the resolution & introduced image compression so they could store all the photos during the rapid flyby.
Plus wait a full workday (9 hours) to get a response from Voyager that said "success" or "fail" on the updates. This rover upgrade is likely easy in comparson.
In the very first paragraph, what does the first half about "Scared Straight" program not working have to do with the second half about Social Media legal risks??? I don't see the connection.
Per usual what is "popular" is typically not the best technology available. Look at game consoles: Atari 2600, NES, PS1, PS2, Wii were not the most powerful consoles of their generation but they still obliterated the rest.
Super Audio CD and DVD-audio were both superior to the MP3s and AACs, but sold poorly. And now we have twitter which you claim is inferior to RSS, but that doesn't really matter to the general populace.
>>>The fact that the SMS limit doesn't exist anymore...
It doesn't? Last I heard if you enter a really long text, the phone software will divide it into 2 to 3 SMS sends of 128 bytes each, and then double or triple-bill you for that text.
Slashdot's new meme. (I've noticed it's now popular to post this on most articles.)
>>>i only count os's that actually have had releases in the last decade
AmigaOS 4.1 (2009)
Update 5 released January 28, 2012
Dumbass. And th reason why I call you "dumb" is not because I expected you to know that, but because it only took 30 seconds on wikipedia to discover it. You were just too lazy to do the damn research.
>>>>>That way stupid shit like the TARP bill won't pass (80% of Americans were against it according to Gallup polling).
>>
>>If we don't trust voters to pick the right people to rep them, why would we trust them to make the right decision on individual bills?
The person in the House of Representatives is a loyal servant of the corporations... bought-and-paid-for through campaign donations & loyal to serving corporate interest (like sucking money from taxpayers for bailouts). The ~200 million at-large citizens are not corporate puppets, so they will vote in their best interests. Such as voting "no" on the TARP bill in 2008.
The government says it's safe, and I believe them! You whacko libertariqans and your anti-gov rhetoric is the true source of evil. The government is just there to help us and protect us!
/end sarcasm
Hitting people with wrenches is forbidden by the Bill of Rights.
The 7" ones are designed not to hurt the woman, whereas the 10" ones often......
Oh wait. We were discussing tablets. Um. Well the 7" tablets from B&N and Amazon are meant to be used for actual work. They are meant to be used like portable TVs to watch downloaded videos, read books, and some facebook & email on the side.
My state has those same Voter ID conditions and it's legislature is 75% Democrat. So I can't really blame the repubs can I?
My state requires a photo ID. The poll watcher looks at me, then my photo, then at me before she allows me to proceed.
My state uses scantrons. It has the advantages of both electronic voting (a quick tally by computer) and paper (hard to rig the election & provides an official tally in the event of a recount).
>>>You still need people as acting officials because sticking a robot in the UN is kinda silly for example.
The Animatrix tells me this is a very, very bad idea.
And for more-direct democracy, I'd favor modifying the House of Representatives so that, rather than taking a count of the ayes & nays, the Speaker looks at the result of an internet weekly vote by the People. That way stupid shit like the TARP bill won't pass (80% of Americans were against it according to Gallup polling). The Senate would continue to function as it does now, as a representative body for the States.
>>>there's no requirement for ID (nor should there be)..
I agree 100%! I want to be able to vote for Mitt Romney at least 5 times, and these damn voter-ID laws are making that difficult. Curses. Foiled again.
You left-out Amiga OS.
I'm waiting for the Apple iPhone 5 to be released rather than buy one now. (I'm hoping the 4 will drop to ~$400 in price.)
I'm not buying a Surface 1.0.
I'll wait for the Surface 2.0 instead.
--
"The name comes from the planned replacement of the Osborne 1 computer. In 1983 founder Adam Osborne pre-announced several next-generation computer models (the "Executive" and "Vixen" models), which had not yet been built, highlighting the fact that they would outperform the existing model. A widely-held belief was that sales of the Osborne 1 fell sharply as customers anticipated those more advanced systems, and dealers cancelled orders." And the company went bankrupt.
Other examples:
"In 1978, North Star Computers announced a new version of their floppy disk controller, which had double the capacity, to be sold at the same price as their existing range. Sales of the existing products plummeted and the company almost went bankrupt."
"When Sega began publicly discussing their next-generation system, barely two years after launching the Saturn, it became a self-defeating prophecy. This move, combined with Sega's recent history of short-lived consoles, led to a chain reaction that quickly caused the Saturn's future to collapse. Immediately following the announcement, sales of the console and software substantially tapered off in the second half of 1997, while many planned games were canceled, causing the console's life expectancy to shorten substantially."
>>>the Mac mini comes with different software.
You're right! The Mac software won't let me run Microsoft Visio or ModelSim to do my job, whereas the PC will. Thanks for pointing that out. I'd forgotten. (whew). I almost blew $1300 on a computer that won't let me run the software I need to do my work! Good thing I'm a cheapass and stumbled on the right tool for the job by accident.
BTW the form factor has come-up a lot. If I wanted a PCmini in the same size as the MacMini there are plenty out there. And they STILL cost a few hundred dollars less.
Stupid Applebot..... fanboy..... Jobslover..... whatever is the current term.
Yes google SHOULD feel bad for putting WebM videos online that I can't play on my Video iPod, since it doesn't have the required codec. (And also for creating HTML5 websites that block all other browsers except Chrome.) Their actions are breaking the openness of the web.