*sigh*
You skeptics need to read up more. Skepticism is only useful if it motivates you to learn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor#Reactor_types
Notice the Light Water Reactor (LWR) description mentions a "negative feedback system". This technique is very common for guaranteeing stability in lots of other disciplines outside of nuclear engineering. I really don't know why it took nuclear engineers so long to implement it, but that delay has had a real negative impact on public perception. This particular Japanese reactor was not designed as such modern reactors are.
While this could bring to light more violations of net neutrality that have gone largely unappreciated (see AT&T's recent caps or lack thereof), I wouldn't hold out for a shiny new internet business model. Even if Netflix were to start producing a bunch of shows, chances are they'd eventually raise rates on everyone that wanted access to just one of them and continue the old cable model in a new medium. What I'd really like to see, which hasn't been mentioned, is a per-show subscription model.
There's only one group that "won't buy no matter what". That's group number 2.
I personally find torrents are so much better than anything else when it comes to ease of acquisition and viewing. I hate in-browser media players unless I'm at work or something. I always download youtube videos instead of watching them through the site. I like how I can quickly find what I want on torrent sites, get the content basically as soon as it's done airing, download the content at speeds that max my internet connection, and watch the content on whatever media player I choose whenever I want. If someone could make an online store with all of that and reasonable prices then it would definitely replace my torrent client.
Getting content over the internet shouldn't be that difficult. It should be a very pleasant experience.
You don't care because you're not a high usage subscriber. The people with U-verse (such as myself) that download a lot of media might have to cut back on our TV/movie/game time. That is, of course, unless we want to subscribe to the U-verse television service *COUGH anti-competitive COUGH*.
This "active learning" has been done long before the iPad with much cheaper devices. http://lt.osu.edu/resources-clickers/
The iPad thing is obviously just a stunt to generate publicity and attract more applicants. The iPad, like all apple products, is never the cheapest way to do anything.
I think they're literally stuck in the second dimension because that's how they were shot. I've seen what happens when they try to make a 3D movie that was shot in 2D. They end up just layering 2D images. It's awful.
I'm not sure if this is indicative of a leak or not, but when firefox runs for days on my computer and the memory usage climbs (around 500 MB or so) I end up seeing significant lag in the browser. I almost always have at least 1.5 GB of free memory as well. This leads me to believe that using more RAM isn't always benign, even with a good amount still free.
I've switched to chrome recently anyway. I got sick of waiting for the FF4 RC after all of the delays and decided to try the beta. I really don't like where they're heading. The tabs are on top, technically, but not in the title bar like in chrome. They decided to go with the huge bright menu button in the top corner like office 2010 which I find extremely distracting. The new tab management system (panorama) seems like pointless bloat. After switching to chrome I realized that I should have done it much sooner.
To be fair: GWB is wanted by Switzerland for war crimes, you can't tell me with a straight face that Palin wouldn't make a disastrous president, Fox news is quite obviously the greatest fear monger of all TV news stations (even the other biased ones), and the implications of global warming aren't really an immediate threat but are supported by an extremely wide scientific (peer reviewed) consensus.
I'm not saying that Glenn Beck is the only fear monger, but your response to this is completely disingenuous.
Also, the poor are the only ones who aren't taxed (theoretically), and you can thank the liberals for that.
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*sigh* You skeptics need to read up more. Skepticism is only useful if it motivates you to learn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor#Reactor_types Notice the Light Water Reactor (LWR) description mentions a "negative feedback system". This technique is very common for guaranteeing stability in lots of other disciplines outside of nuclear engineering. I really don't know why it took nuclear engineers so long to implement it, but that delay has had a real negative impact on public perception. This particular Japanese reactor was not designed as such modern reactors are.
While this could bring to light more violations of net neutrality that have gone largely unappreciated (see AT&T's recent caps or lack thereof), I wouldn't hold out for a shiny new internet business model. Even if Netflix were to start producing a bunch of shows, chances are they'd eventually raise rates on everyone that wanted access to just one of them and continue the old cable model in a new medium. What I'd really like to see, which hasn't been mentioned, is a per-show subscription model.
There's only one group that "won't buy no matter what". That's group number 2. I personally find torrents are so much better than anything else when it comes to ease of acquisition and viewing. I hate in-browser media players unless I'm at work or something. I always download youtube videos instead of watching them through the site. I like how I can quickly find what I want on torrent sites, get the content basically as soon as it's done airing, download the content at speeds that max my internet connection, and watch the content on whatever media player I choose whenever I want. If someone could make an online store with all of that and reasonable prices then it would definitely replace my torrent client. Getting content over the internet shouldn't be that difficult. It should be a very pleasant experience.
To be fair, their codec support was much better than Apple's. I love me some h.264
You don't care because you're not a high usage subscriber. The people with U-verse (such as myself) that download a lot of media might have to cut back on our TV/movie/game time. That is, of course, unless we want to subscribe to the U-verse television service *COUGH anti-competitive COUGH*.
What is this digg? Where are the mods?
This "active learning" has been done long before the iPad with much cheaper devices. http://lt.osu.edu/resources-clickers/ The iPad thing is obviously just a stunt to generate publicity and attract more applicants. The iPad, like all apple products, is never the cheapest way to do anything.
I think they're literally stuck in the second dimension because that's how they were shot. I've seen what happens when they try to make a 3D movie that was shot in 2D. They end up just layering 2D images. It's awful.
Exactly.
There's a link to the "full text" (pdf form) on the side. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/02/22/1014961108.full.pdf+html
I'm not sure if this is indicative of a leak or not, but when firefox runs for days on my computer and the memory usage climbs (around 500 MB or so) I end up seeing significant lag in the browser. I almost always have at least 1.5 GB of free memory as well. This leads me to believe that using more RAM isn't always benign, even with a good amount still free. I've switched to chrome recently anyway. I got sick of waiting for the FF4 RC after all of the delays and decided to try the beta. I really don't like where they're heading. The tabs are on top, technically, but not in the title bar like in chrome. They decided to go with the huge bright menu button in the top corner like office 2010 which I find extremely distracting. The new tab management system (panorama) seems like pointless bloat. After switching to chrome I realized that I should have done it much sooner.
To be fair: GWB is wanted by Switzerland for war crimes, you can't tell me with a straight face that Palin wouldn't make a disastrous president, Fox news is quite obviously the greatest fear monger of all TV news stations (even the other biased ones), and the implications of global warming aren't really an immediate threat but are supported by an extremely wide scientific (peer reviewed) consensus. I'm not saying that Glenn Beck is the only fear monger, but your response to this is completely disingenuous. Also, the poor are the only ones who aren't taxed (theoretically), and you can thank the liberals for that.