Anyone who's seen Casio's line of digital watches over the years note that much of their line still has analog watch dials as their primary means of displaying time. As such, I think it's more like people who are used to analog dials on watches still wanting them there even though watches now have digital innards.
Right now, IE 8.0 only scores about 141 out of 450 points in the current June 22, 2011 release of the HTML5Test.com test page. This is really low compared to the competition:
286 -- Firefox 5.0 328 -- Chrome 12.0.742.112 (current public stable release) 253 -- Safari 5.0.5 286 -- Opera 11.50
Hopefully, IE 10.0 has to be at least as good as the current Firefox 5.0 if they want to implement HTML 5.0 features correctly.
I would love to see France take the lead to developing the liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR).
Unlike uranium-based reactors, LFTR's have the following advantages:
1. It uses thorium-232 dissolved in a molten sodium fluoride salt solution, which is much easier to make than making uranium-235 fuel pellets that are assembled into fuel rods. Indeed, LFTR's can even use spent uranium fuel rods and plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons dissolved in molten sodium fluoride salt solution as fuel!:-) 2. Thorium-232 is 4-6 times more abundant than uranium, which means there's plenty of fuel to go around. 3. Because a LFTR doesn't use a pressurized reactor vessel, it means a lot less danger in case something goes wrong. Also, LFTR's are designed in a way that if there is an external event that requires a quick reactor shutdown, they can drain the reactor of the thorium-sodium fluoride salt solution quickly, stopping the reaction immediately. 4. The radioactive waste generated by a LFTR is very small compared to that of a uranium reactor, and best of all, the half-life of the waste is around 200 years, not tens of thousands of years. This means you can store the waste in disused salt mines or salt domes, vastly less expensive than long-term storage facilities like the now-shelved Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility.
While the old timers may love it, you suddenly realize that back then, because Internet access was pretty much command line _everything_, you had to be fairly literate in command-line UNIX just to be able to use it. Small wonder why Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, which eventually turned Internet access into one with a real graphical user interface (I still remember accessing the 'Net with Mosaic in early 1994--it was a huge breakthrough in terms of accessing the Internet).
I think the folks at the Google Chrome developer team would like to speak to the VUPEN folks and find out exactly what's going on. This is because Chrome does incremental upgrades "in the background" and Google will quietly slip in update to the browser code to close these vulnerabilities without user intervention.
A lot of the "doomsayers" as assuming the end of crude oil production based on _past_ technology.
With the arrival of fractional cracking and using proven technologies such as CO2 gas/high-pressure steam/special detergent fluid injection into the well (much of which was originally developed to pump out highly-viscous California crude oil), supposedly "tapped out" oilfields can suddenly be viable again. That right there could potentially double the world's known oil reserves without drilling a new well! And don't forget that the due to the unstable political situation in Iraq and Iran, those oilfields--which are said to be even bigger than the Saudi Arabian oilfields--are way under-exploited.
In short, technology has out-run the naysayers all over again.:-)
I'm glad somebody mentioned Limbaugh used a Mac. In fact, he has said he used to lug around a Macintosh SE and use the computer to connect to CompuServe to access the Lexis/Nexis database to find stories for his radio show.
If you see the webcam broadcast of his radio show from his home studio, you can see a couple of 30" Apple Cinema Displays driven by Mac Pro tower machines.
Unfortunately for him, I think this also points out the problem: we need unprecedented economic reform right now. And it must come in these steps:
1. Every government agency at the Federal, state and local level should be audited for bureaucratic overlap and agency size bloat and use the audit results to cut the size of government 30% now and eventually up to 50-60%.
2. We should massively overhaul the US national taxation system with far less complexity, lower compliance costs, and make it more business-friendly. That means at minimum we go with the Steve Forbes flat income tax plan he proposed in a book written in 2005.
3. Environmental regulations should adhere to a single, national standard to simplify implementation of these laws.
4. Aggressively overhaul financial services regulation with these changes:
a. Reimpose the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act to protect bank assets against the ups and downs of the stock market. b. Require real liquidity backing to trade in hedge funds, derivatives, credit default swaps and other "exotic" investments or ban them outright as too financially risky. c. Increase the minimum margin requirements for trading in commodities, stock and stock index futures to 15%, with 25% for certain strategic items like certain foodstuffs, crude oil, certain petroleum products, certain industrial metals and precious metals. d. Revise the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to make it easier to do stock Initial Public Offerings (IPO's). e. Start a ten-year phase out plan to replace the Federal Reserve Note "fiat currency" with a new US dollar backed by gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper and nickel (the most common metals used in coins and bullion blocks for monetary exchange).
Once we get these changes, business activity will pick up very quickly, to say the least.
I think due to RF certification and space issues, Apple dropped the idea of having NFC built into the iPhone 5.
But I do think Apple may approve or develop on its own a low-profile adapter that plugs into the 30-pin iPod dock connector on the iPhone 5 that becomes the NFC transceiver, which would allow the iPhone 5 to do NFC transactions with the right app loaded. It would at most add 5 to 7 mm to the height of the iPhone 5.
I mean, think about it: the only time you need WiFi access on your Kindle is to download new books, the daily paper or a new issue of a magazine. Most of the time with a Kindle you're not connected to the Internet, and unlike a laptop, you rarely need to use a keyboard, too. And unlike the iPad, since it uses e-ink display there's no distracting backlit displays to deal with, either.
Look, as ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd is wont to say, "live through the windshield, not through the rear-view mirror." If you cater to an increasingly smaller audience you're going to end up losing money--NOT a good idea!
It's more than a disaster issue: if that city is where a larger part of the cloud computing services are located, it would be a VERY inviting target for a first strike by a single nuclear warhead if general war breaks out between China and the USA. Don't be surprised that the Chinese military puts in a lot of defensive missile positions using the licensed version of the Russian S-300PMU-1 missile so it could even defend this complex even against ICBM attack.
Yes, but when you buy an iMac, look at all the software already on your system besides MacOS: iLife, iTunes, Safari, QuickTime, and in some cases iWork. The same applies for commercial Linux distrubutions.
In fact, Microsoft right now is rolling out their Signature PC program, which essentially runs almost NO third-party software when the PC is bought at the retail level--indeed, there are just about no third-party drivers, either.
It's actually a very laudable move, especially given Internet Explorer 8.0 is actually a pretty decent web browser. (Of course, you can add a third-party browser--I'd recommend Google Chrome because 1) it's REALLY fast and 2) Chrome renders web pages pretty accurately. That could change depending on how fast the final Firefox 4.0 runs.)
I'd like to see all the desktop and laptop manufacturers offer their computers in Signature PC configuration.
I'm glad it happened. What the CRTC allowed to do would effectively become a form of violation of Free Speech rights, since it would effectively end the usefulness of online video hosting services like YouTube (remember, a lot of the videos from the political troubles in Egypt have been posted on YouTube in the last few weeks). And that's on top of potentially killing social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, sites that in recent years have become major conduits for news.
I also think companies that offer legal downloads like the Apple iTunes Store would NOT be happy with the potential for Canadian customers to suffer from bandwidth limitations, too--it would kill the buying of music and videos, not to mention video rentals for the Apple TV.
Also, because Intel caught this bug relatively early, it may fortunately NOT affect the rollout of the next-generation Apple iMac, MacBook and MacBook Pro computers that will likely use this chipset--I've heard Apple wouldn't roll them out until April 2011 at earliest anyway.
However, Ford's system--probably a variant of the system Mazda developed--is far less expensive to implement than the VW start-stop system. I wonder will the Ford start-stop system require the use of a direct-injected engine, though; mind you, this is less of a problem since Ford plans to switch to gasoline direct injection (GDI) over the next few years.
Given that Ford has access to Mazda's patent portfolio, my guess is that the Ford start-stop system IS a variant of the system Mazda developed, though modified to account for heavier use of air conditioning common in the USA.
I'd almost agree but with today's far more aerodynamic body designs and modern engines with computer-controlled fuel injection and variable valve timing, going slower won't save as much as you think. And slower speeds increase the boredom factor, which can cause MORE accidents from drivers nodding off on the road.
There's also another reason: if the US government DOES file charges against Julian Assange based on the Espionage Act, Apple could potentially be held liable as an accessory to committing a Federal felony if they allowed this app so stay on the App Store. Rightly or wrongly, Apple does have a reputation to hold up, and the last thing Apple wants is to get embroiled in the WikiLeaks controversy for all the wrong reasons.
I think one thing that has really helped the Realtek on-board audio is the fact many high-end CPU's now sport 3, 4 or 6 CPU cores. As such, if programmed correctly Windows Vista and Windows 7 could dedicate one CPU core to nothing but audio processing, and that means no more system slowdowns processing audio through the Realtek chip.
Indeed, multicore CPU's make it possible for dramatic improvements in even on-board video. Today's latest motherboards have surprisingly fast video, something that couldn't be said as little as five years ago.
Why do I have this feeling that another company may use part of the storage at this data center in exchange for prominent icon placement by Apple on the Apple TV? I can see Netflix doing this very thing.
You are correct. It wasn't until the work of Antoine Lavoisier almost 100 years after Newton's lifetime that we finally got chemistry as we know it today.
In fact, that's why I think the Toyota Prius with the lithium-ion battery pack and optional plug-in charging--which gives it an all-electric range of about 20-25 km before it switches back to conventional hybrid drive mode if you charge the battery pack overnight--makes a lot more sense. It's proven technology, and doesn't need a total redesign of the drivetrain outside of circuitry to accommodate a Li-On battery pack instead of a NiMH battery pack.
Ford--who uses a hybrid-drive technology very similar to what Toyota accomplished--plans to offer PHEV versions of the Focus compact and Grand C-Max "tall wagon" by 2012.
In my opinion, the quality of the vinyl and how accurately they punch the center hole on the LP are CRITICAL in how an LP sounds. I've seen too many examples of off-center and warped LP's, and gawd, they sound awful.
Good quality LP's are usually fairly heavy per disc to minimize disc warping, and they're extremely careful about properly centering the disc during the mass production phase.
Another critical problem is the phono cartridge itself. not only does tonearm adjustments become extremely critical (geometry, tracking force and anti-staking force) but the shape of the needle is critical, too. The best needles are those based on the Shibata shape pioneered by Audio-Technica in the early 1970's, which offer more accurate tracking even on high dynamic range LP's but imposes less wear on the LP itself.
Indeed, the biggest weakness of the original Kyoto Accord was the fact they specifically exempted China and India from the pollution restrictions that was to be imposed on more developed countries. As that satellite image proves, the world's biggest polluters--no contest!--are China and India, and these two countries need to be much more aggressive in fighting both air and water pollution in general. Small wonder why both South Korea and Japan complain about the bad quality air being blown west to east over the East China Sea coming out of China.
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Anyone who's seen Casio's line of digital watches over the years note that much of their line still has analog watch dials as their primary means of displaying time. As such, I think it's more like people who are used to analog dials on watches still wanting them there even though watches now have digital innards.
Right now, IE 8.0 only scores about 141 out of 450 points in the current June 22, 2011 release of the HTML5Test.com test page. This is really low compared to the competition:
286 -- Firefox 5.0
328 -- Chrome 12.0.742.112 (current public stable release)
253 -- Safari 5.0.5
286 -- Opera 11.50
Hopefully, IE 10.0 has to be at least as good as the current Firefox 5.0 if they want to implement HTML 5.0 features correctly.
I would love to see France take the lead to developing the liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR).
Unlike uranium-based reactors, LFTR's have the following advantages:
1. It uses thorium-232 dissolved in a molten sodium fluoride salt solution, which is much easier to make than making uranium-235 fuel pellets that are assembled into fuel rods. Indeed, LFTR's can even use spent uranium fuel rods and plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons dissolved in molten sodium fluoride salt solution as fuel! :-)
2. Thorium-232 is 4-6 times more abundant than uranium, which means there's plenty of fuel to go around.
3. Because a LFTR doesn't use a pressurized reactor vessel, it means a lot less danger in case something goes wrong. Also, LFTR's are designed in a way that if there is an external event that requires a quick reactor shutdown, they can drain the reactor of the thorium-sodium fluoride salt solution quickly, stopping the reaction immediately.
4. The radioactive waste generated by a LFTR is very small compared to that of a uranium reactor, and best of all, the half-life of the waste is around 200 years, not tens of thousands of years. This means you can store the waste in disused salt mines or salt domes, vastly less expensive than long-term storage facilities like the now-shelved Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility.
While the old timers may love it, you suddenly realize that back then, because Internet access was pretty much command line _everything_, you had to be fairly literate in command-line UNIX just to be able to use it. Small wonder why Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, which eventually turned Internet access into one with a real graphical user interface (I still remember accessing the 'Net with Mosaic in early 1994--it was a huge breakthrough in terms of accessing the Internet).
I think the folks at the Google Chrome developer team would like to speak to the VUPEN folks and find out exactly what's going on. This is because Chrome does incremental upgrades "in the background" and Google will quietly slip in update to the browser code to close these vulnerabilities without user intervention.
A lot of the "doomsayers" as assuming the end of crude oil production based on _past_ technology.
With the arrival of fractional cracking and using proven technologies such as CO2 gas/high-pressure steam/special detergent fluid injection into the well (much of which was originally developed to pump out highly-viscous California crude oil), supposedly "tapped out" oilfields can suddenly be viable again. That right there could potentially double the world's known oil reserves without drilling a new well! And don't forget that the due to the unstable political situation in Iraq and Iran, those oilfields--which are said to be even bigger than the Saudi Arabian oilfields--are way under-exploited.
In short, technology has out-run the naysayers all over again. :-)
I'm glad somebody mentioned Limbaugh used a Mac. In fact, he has said he used to lug around a Macintosh SE and use the computer to connect to CompuServe to access the Lexis/Nexis database to find stories for his radio show.
If you see the webcam broadcast of his radio show from his home studio, you can see a couple of 30" Apple Cinema Displays driven by Mac Pro tower machines.
Unfortunately for him, I think this also points out the problem: we need unprecedented economic reform right now. And it must come in these steps:
1. Every government agency at the Federal, state and local level should be audited for bureaucratic overlap and agency size bloat and use the audit results to cut the size of government 30% now and eventually up to 50-60%.
2. We should massively overhaul the US national taxation system with far less complexity, lower compliance costs, and make it more business-friendly. That means at minimum we go with the Steve Forbes flat income tax plan he proposed in a book written in 2005.
3. Environmental regulations should adhere to a single, national standard to simplify implementation of these laws.
4. Aggressively overhaul financial services regulation with these changes:
a. Reimpose the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act to protect bank assets against the ups and downs of the stock market.
b. Require real liquidity backing to trade in hedge funds, derivatives, credit default swaps and other "exotic" investments or ban them outright as too financially risky.
c. Increase the minimum margin requirements for trading in commodities, stock and stock index futures to 15%, with 25% for certain strategic items like certain foodstuffs, crude oil, certain petroleum products, certain industrial metals and precious metals.
d. Revise the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to make it easier to do stock Initial Public Offerings (IPO's).
e. Start a ten-year phase out plan to replace the Federal Reserve Note "fiat currency" with a new US dollar backed by gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper and nickel (the most common metals used in coins and bullion blocks for monetary exchange).
Once we get these changes, business activity will pick up very quickly, to say the least.
I think due to RF certification and space issues, Apple dropped the idea of having NFC built into the iPhone 5.
But I do think Apple may approve or develop on its own a low-profile adapter that plugs into the 30-pin iPod dock connector on the iPhone 5 that becomes the NFC transceiver, which would allow the iPhone 5 to do NFC transactions with the right app loaded. It would at most add 5 to 7 mm to the height of the iPhone 5.
Which in my humble opinion is a terrible idea.
I mean, think about it: the only time you need WiFi access on your Kindle is to download new books, the daily paper or a new issue of a magazine. Most of the time with a Kindle you're not connected to the Internet, and unlike a laptop, you rarely need to use a keyboard, too. And unlike the iPad, since it uses e-ink display there's no distracting backlit displays to deal with, either.
Look, as ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd is wont to say, "live through the windshield, not through the rear-view mirror." If you cater to an increasingly smaller audience you're going to end up losing money--NOT a good idea!
It's more than a disaster issue: if that city is where a larger part of the cloud computing services are located, it would be a VERY inviting target for a first strike by a single nuclear warhead if general war breaks out between China and the USA. Don't be surprised that the Chinese military puts in a lot of defensive missile positions using the licensed version of the Russian S-300PMU-1 missile so it could even defend this complex even against ICBM attack.
Yes, but when you buy an iMac, look at all the software already on your system besides MacOS: iLife, iTunes, Safari, QuickTime, and in some cases iWork. The same applies for commercial Linux distrubutions.
In fact, Microsoft right now is rolling out their Signature PC program, which essentially runs almost NO third-party software when the PC is bought at the retail level--indeed, there are just about no third-party drivers, either.
It's actually a very laudable move, especially given Internet Explorer 8.0 is actually a pretty decent web browser. (Of course, you can add a third-party browser--I'd recommend Google Chrome because 1) it's REALLY fast and 2) Chrome renders web pages pretty accurately. That could change depending on how fast the final Firefox 4.0 runs.)
I'd like to see all the desktop and laptop manufacturers offer their computers in Signature PC configuration.
I'm glad it happened. What the CRTC allowed to do would effectively become a form of violation of Free Speech rights, since it would effectively end the usefulness of online video hosting services like YouTube (remember, a lot of the videos from the political troubles in Egypt have been posted on YouTube in the last few weeks). And that's on top of potentially killing social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, sites that in recent years have become major conduits for news.
I also think companies that offer legal downloads like the Apple iTunes Store would NOT be happy with the potential for Canadian customers to suffer from bandwidth limitations, too--it would kill the buying of music and videos, not to mention video rentals for the Apple TV.
Also, because Intel caught this bug relatively early, it may fortunately NOT affect the rollout of the next-generation Apple iMac, MacBook and MacBook Pro computers that will likely use this chipset--I've heard Apple wouldn't roll them out until April 2011 at earliest anyway.
However, Ford's system--probably a variant of the system Mazda developed--is far less expensive to implement than the VW start-stop system. I wonder will the Ford start-stop system require the use of a direct-injected engine, though; mind you, this is less of a problem since Ford plans to switch to gasoline direct injection (GDI) over the next few years.
Given that Ford has access to Mazda's patent portfolio, my guess is that the Ford start-stop system IS a variant of the system Mazda developed, though modified to account for heavier use of air conditioning common in the USA.
I'd almost agree but with today's far more aerodynamic body designs and modern engines with computer-controlled fuel injection and variable valve timing, going slower won't save as much as you think. And slower speeds increase the boredom factor, which can cause MORE accidents from drivers nodding off on the road.
There's also another reason: if the US government DOES file charges against Julian Assange based on the Espionage Act, Apple could potentially be held liable as an accessory to committing a Federal felony if they allowed this app so stay on the App Store. Rightly or wrongly, Apple does have a reputation to hold up, and the last thing Apple wants is to get embroiled in the WikiLeaks controversy for all the wrong reasons.
I think one thing that has really helped the Realtek on-board audio is the fact many high-end CPU's now sport 3, 4 or 6 CPU cores. As such, if programmed correctly Windows Vista and Windows 7 could dedicate one CPU core to nothing but audio processing, and that means no more system slowdowns processing audio through the Realtek chip.
Indeed, multicore CPU's make it possible for dramatic improvements in even on-board video. Today's latest motherboards have surprisingly fast video, something that couldn't be said as little as five years ago.
Why do I have this feeling that another company may use part of the storage at this data center in exchange for prominent icon placement by Apple on the Apple TV? I can see Netflix doing this very thing.
You are correct. It wasn't until the work of Antoine Lavoisier almost 100 years after Newton's lifetime that we finally got chemistry as we know it today.
In fact, that's why I think the Toyota Prius with the lithium-ion battery pack and optional plug-in charging--which gives it an all-electric range of about 20-25 km before it switches back to conventional hybrid drive mode if you charge the battery pack overnight--makes a lot more sense. It's proven technology, and doesn't need a total redesign of the drivetrain outside of circuitry to accommodate a Li-On battery pack instead of a NiMH battery pack.
Ford--who uses a hybrid-drive technology very similar to what Toyota accomplished--plans to offer PHEV versions of the Focus compact and Grand C-Max "tall wagon" by 2012.
In my opinion, the quality of the vinyl and how accurately they punch the center hole on the LP are CRITICAL in how an LP sounds. I've seen too many examples of off-center and warped LP's, and gawd, they sound awful.
Good quality LP's are usually fairly heavy per disc to minimize disc warping, and they're extremely careful about properly centering the disc during the mass production phase.
Another critical problem is the phono cartridge itself. not only does tonearm adjustments become extremely critical (geometry, tracking force and anti-staking force) but the shape of the needle is critical, too. The best needles are those based on the Shibata shape pioneered by Audio-Technica in the early 1970's, which offer more accurate tracking even on high dynamic range LP's but imposes less wear on the LP itself.
Indeed, the biggest weakness of the original Kyoto Accord was the fact they specifically exempted China and India from the pollution restrictions that was to be imposed on more developed countries. As that satellite image proves, the world's biggest polluters--no contest!--are China and India, and these two countries need to be much more aggressive in fighting both air and water pollution in general. Small wonder why both South Korea and Japan complain about the bad quality air being blown west to east over the East China Sea coming out of China.