But is it truly obvious? It needs to be tested. If it's not tested in some manner, then it's not science. There are times when common sense isn't, and it doesn't apply to the circumstance. We don't make progress in true understanding unless the knowledge is tested in some way to prove whether we know something or not.
The one Java app outside of whatever bits are in some obscure part of OpenOffice is an internet-based USPS shipping label printer by Pitney Bowes. That software is crap, I often have to kill it twice and reprint before I can actually get a print. I could wait for it to load, but on loading, it is indistinguishable from crashed, and it's actually faster to kill it and try it again than to wait several minutes to do whatever it needs to do.
That may be true, but one basic fact is that part of the reasons it would be dangerous in the US is because US drivers are not safe. Japan and Europe have a car size class or two that's smaller and lighter than a US sub compact and they still get fewer fatalities per mile than US drivers do.
Twitter isn't the same as Myspace, AOL, Facebook, etc. Twitter doesn't have a revenue stream except their funding from the VCs. The other companies you name do or at least did at one time where Twitter is.com 2.0.
One factual error that you made is that you've implied that Facebook has peaked, they haven't peaked yet by any measure I've found, at least not yet, it is still growing.: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/facebook.com
Probably no web service will be popular for the long term, that's not a measure of anything because all things will come to an end, web services doubly so. I wouldn't doubt that Slashdot is down a lot from its peak as well, it's not a top 100 site anymore like I recall it was at one time, not even top 1000. The web changes so much so quickly that almost no one can predict what is going to be next.
Say what you might, but in general, those here that think copyright should be strenghened seem to be in a small minority here, those few might just be sock puppets for companies in certain industries.
The only people I recall that might be construed as saying copyright should be more like regular property laws are those that want IP taxed, I think they mostly wanted that in part so that it encourages IP to be freed more quickly.
I don't think it's unfair to say that the prevailing opinion here is for copyright reform. Maybe it was said in a clumsy way such that those with a tendency to argue would argue about it. But just because there is a variety of opinions here doesn't mean that they are all represented with similar numbers or similar level of interest.
The Lion King wasn't necessarily that original either. I'm almost swayed by the arguments that it was originally a remake of Kimba, until the rights negotiations broke down.
It may be a bunch of coincidences, but it's pretty interesting:
Go ahead, what was the last good original animated Disney movie (not counting those made by Pixar)? I don't know, but I'm estimating something like 20 years ago.
The problem is that using IE is kind of like taking a crap on the internet because of security issues that allow malicious bots to take hold, allowing the creation of huge spam and DDoS networks. Not so much of a problem if only a few people do it. But when most people do it, it craps up the very resource they are trying to use.
Isn't homebrew code speak for pirates these days? I think the idea of homebrew is great, but it seems like it's the pirates that use that as the skirt to hide their true meaning much more often than actual homebrew use.
This should be a solved problem. I don't know the terminology or component in pneumatics or hydraulics. In electronics, you add an inverter or a buffer, to use a weaker signal to control larger currents. You don't power following transistors using the output of a previous transistor, each one is connected to the power rails and are controlled by input.
I've heard of that before, and it is unfortunate. However, I suspect that pervasive cellular-type wireless will marginalize broadcast radio, you won't need a separate device for everywhere because you already take a capable device with you. It might be a boon for a new era of small broadcasters too, they won't have to worry about tower maintenance or the FCC.
I think it's surprising that a kind of instrument that's been use for millennia apparently doesn't have much in the way of surviving examples in any condition.
HDMI really wasn't complicated. This time there are silly variants that shouldn't be there.
HDMI doesn't have to be expensive, it's not a fault of the standard, it's just marked up a lot by retailers. It just takes a quick Google search to find far cheaper alternatives that do the job just as well. I get them for something like $5 a piece on monoprice (Google hit #1). The Monoprice cables work just fine. Amazon has cheap HDMI cables that are reputable too. The problem there is that B&M retailers are trying to make money on accessories & the hard sell because they often barely break even on the TV. That's why they push the "replacement warranties" even if the box clearly says it has a longer stock warranty than what the store is offering.
The problem with hypothetical wireless HDMI is that retailers are going to be reluctant to stock products that offer it, because they make such a profit on the cable. I've heard that this was why it was so hard to find wireless printers earlier on, retailers like to make money on the gold plated USB and Cat5e/6 cables and didn't want to sell anything that cut into that cash cow.
Wireless USB is not really a solution unless you add a lot of video crunching / uncrunching power. It is 100Mbps and 480Mbps (depending on distance), HDMI is about 10Gbps.
I don't think it's for the lack of trying, it's kind of like unifying the world governments, in some ways good, and some ways bad. Everyone has their own preferences and agendas, getting them to unify on anything isn't going to work. It hasn't worked well in the commercial UNIX world, and it looks like it's not going to work for the FOSS UNIX world.
Regardless, the checks and balances on scientists exist but are antiquated an ineffective. The institutions and traditions are outdated.
And...?
I'd be more interested in what you think would fix it rather than another statement that the problem exists, because that's not all that constructive either. I take it that you are saying that peer review isn't a sufficient means of monitoring and auditing?
I don't think it's that, or at least it's not the entire problem.
Florida is very often a key state and many Cubans live there, they're a pretty significant voting group. A lot of them seem to be so blind in their hatred of Castro that they don't see the embargo that they support is hurting their countrymen more than it hurts Castro.
The problem I see is that they've made a declaration in trying to mimic Apple's line product for product. To me, a better service to provide is to fill in the niches (gaps) in the Apple product line, a Hackintoshed netbook and a consumer tower are two obvious ones. That's not protection from getting sued though, I don't remember Psystar offering much other than consumer towers and a hokey "server".
Having heard of WoW is very different from actually having time to play it, it seems like it's been featured on several fictional shows, been parodied, and I think I read that some regular talk shows covered it.
It's not so simple as that. What you call an "unlock" gets you double the bit rate too. A workaround that Apple execs have talked about publicly is that you burn it to CD and rip it back. If you're not at all interested in doubling the bit rate, the small amount of loss in re-encoding probably isn't going to be a big deal.
We can talk about coulda woulda shoulda, but I doubt Apple is the main problem here. If the RIAA is involved in the mix, I think the RIAA should get the lion's share of the blame if it doesn't go the way you think it should.
VLC isn't that good. People promote it even though, possibly because they don't know any better. The people that know better seem to recommend the KMPlayer.
But there's still an issue of the land that it takes in order to power cars. Even the most efficient vehicles require a lot of energy to operate. I recall that Brazil did it for economic reasons, not ecological.
Wouldn't a forest be a far better capture of carbon than a crop like sugar cane?
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But is it truly obvious? It needs to be tested. If it's not tested in some manner, then it's not science. There are times when common sense isn't, and it doesn't apply to the circumstance. We don't make progress in true understanding unless the knowledge is tested in some way to prove whether we know something or not.
The one Java app outside of whatever bits are in some obscure part of OpenOffice is an internet-based USPS shipping label printer by Pitney Bowes. That software is crap, I often have to kill it twice and reprint before I can actually get a print. I could wait for it to load, but on loading, it is indistinguishable from crashed, and it's actually faster to kill it and try it again than to wait several minutes to do whatever it needs to do.
That may be true, but one basic fact is that part of the reasons it would be dangerous in the US is because US drivers are not safe. Japan and Europe have a car size class or two that's smaller and lighter than a US sub compact and they still get fewer fatalities per mile than US drivers do.
Twitter isn't the same as Myspace, AOL, Facebook, etc. Twitter doesn't have a revenue stream except their funding from the VCs. The other companies you name do or at least did at one time where Twitter is .com 2.0.
One factual error that you made is that you've implied that Facebook has peaked, they haven't peaked yet by any measure I've found, at least not yet, it is still growing.: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/facebook.com
Probably no web service will be popular for the long term, that's not a measure of anything because all things will come to an end, web services doubly so. I wouldn't doubt that Slashdot is down a lot from its peak as well, it's not a top 100 site anymore like I recall it was at one time, not even top 1000. The web changes so much so quickly that almost no one can predict what is going to be next.
Isn't Megacaldera a heavy metal tribute band from the SCO group?
Say what you might, but in general, those here that think copyright should be strenghened seem to be in a small minority here, those few might just be sock puppets for companies in certain industries.
The only people I recall that might be construed as saying copyright should be more like regular property laws are those that want IP taxed, I think they mostly wanted that in part so that it encourages IP to be freed more quickly.
I don't think it's unfair to say that the prevailing opinion here is for copyright reform. Maybe it was said in a clumsy way such that those with a tendency to argue would argue about it. But just because there is a variety of opinions here doesn't mean that they are all represented with similar numbers or similar level of interest.
Also, some of it is bull shit, not bullshit.
The Lion King wasn't necessarily that original either. I'm almost swayed by the arguments that it was originally a remake of Kimba, until the rights negotiations broke down.
It may be a bunch of coincidences, but it's pretty interesting:
http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm
Go ahead, what was the last good original animated Disney movie (not counting those made by Pixar)? I don't know, but I'm estimating something like 20 years ago.
Lilo and Stich?
The problem is that using IE is kind of like taking a crap on the internet because of security issues that allow malicious bots to take hold, allowing the creation of huge spam and DDoS networks. Not so much of a problem if only a few people do it. But when most people do it, it craps up the very resource they are trying to use.
Isn't homebrew code speak for pirates these days? I think the idea of homebrew is great, but it seems like it's the pirates that use that as the skirt to hide their true meaning much more often than actual homebrew use.
I would suggest that they mislabeled what they are taxing then, this is a media download tax, media apparently being audio, vidio, text, photos.
This should be a solved problem. I don't know the terminology or component in pneumatics or hydraulics. In electronics, you add an inverter or a buffer, to use a weaker signal to control larger currents. You don't power following transistors using the output of a previous transistor, each one is connected to the power rails and are controlled by input.
I've heard of that before, and it is unfortunate. However, I suspect that pervasive cellular-type wireless will marginalize broadcast radio, you won't need a separate device for everywhere because you already take a capable device with you. It might be a boon for a new era of small broadcasters too, they won't have to worry about tower maintenance or the FCC.
I think it's surprising that a kind of instrument that's been use for millennia apparently doesn't have much in the way of surviving examples in any condition.
HDMI really wasn't complicated. This time there are silly variants that shouldn't be there.
HDMI doesn't have to be expensive, it's not a fault of the standard, it's just marked up a lot by retailers. It just takes a quick Google search to find far cheaper alternatives that do the job just as well. I get them for something like $5 a piece on monoprice (Google hit #1). The Monoprice cables work just fine. Amazon has cheap HDMI cables that are reputable too. The problem there is that B&M retailers are trying to make money on accessories & the hard sell because they often barely break even on the TV. That's why they push the "replacement warranties" even if the box clearly says it has a longer stock warranty than what the store is offering.
The problem with hypothetical wireless HDMI is that retailers are going to be reluctant to stock products that offer it, because they make such a profit on the cable. I've heard that this was why it was so hard to find wireless printers earlier on, retailers like to make money on the gold plated USB and Cat5e/6 cables and didn't want to sell anything that cut into that cash cow.
Wireless USB is not really a solution unless you add a lot of video crunching / uncrunching power. It is 100Mbps and 480Mbps (depending on distance), HDMI is about 10Gbps.
Let me get this right. You're saying that people bought these UMD thingies? That's crazy talk.
I don't think it's for the lack of trying, it's kind of like unifying the world governments, in some ways good, and some ways bad. Everyone has their own preferences and agendas, getting them to unify on anything isn't going to work. It hasn't worked well in the commercial UNIX world, and it looks like it's not going to work for the FOSS UNIX world.
Regardless, the checks and balances on scientists exist but are antiquated an ineffective. The institutions and traditions are outdated.
And...?
I'd be more interested in what you think would fix it rather than another statement that the problem exists, because that's not all that constructive either. I take it that you are saying that peer review isn't a sufficient means of monitoring and auditing?
I don't think it's that, or at least it's not the entire problem.
Florida is very often a key state and many Cubans live there, they're a pretty significant voting group. A lot of them seem to be so blind in their hatred of Castro that they don't see the embargo that they support is hurting their countrymen more than it hurts Castro.
The problem I see is that they've made a declaration in trying to mimic Apple's line product for product. To me, a better service to provide is to fill in the niches (gaps) in the Apple product line, a Hackintoshed netbook and a consumer tower are two obvious ones. That's not protection from getting sued though, I don't remember Psystar offering much other than consumer towers and a hokey "server".
Having heard of WoW is very different from actually having time to play it, it seems like it's been featured on several fictional shows, been parodied, and I think I read that some regular talk shows covered it.
It's not so simple as that. What you call an "unlock" gets you double the bit rate too. A workaround that Apple execs have talked about publicly is that you burn it to CD and rip it back. If you're not at all interested in doubling the bit rate, the small amount of loss in re-encoding probably isn't going to be a big deal.
We can talk about coulda woulda shoulda, but I doubt Apple is the main problem here. If the RIAA is involved in the mix, I think the RIAA should get the lion's share of the blame if it doesn't go the way you think it should.
VLC isn't that good. People promote it even though, possibly because they don't know any better. The people that know better seem to recommend the KMPlayer.
But there's still an issue of the land that it takes in order to power cars. Even the most efficient vehicles require a lot of energy to operate. I recall that Brazil did it for economic reasons, not ecological.
Wouldn't a forest be a far better capture of carbon than a crop like sugar cane?