I'm fairly confident that if E85 does go the way of the dodo, agribusinesses and their politicians will continue to push corn subsidies for whatever the idea of the day is.
His point is that unless Honda and Toyota started making cars out of concrete, thinking they are radioactive is fear-mongering until there is actually evidence of that. I would eat their food, as it most definitely will have passed through a port with radiation monitors to get to me and be seen as safe to eat or be destroyed (see here). I also smoked for many years and drink a decent bit, so I don't exactly do everything I can to live a pristine and safe life.
Does Carfax report if a used car has been known to be in radioactive hot spots?
As far as I'm aware, Angry Birds failing to run well on some devices is not a software issue, but one of phones with inadequate hardware specs for it. I bet they won't play Crysis 2 either.
The fact though is that Google provides the tools for developers to handle the variations in screen size and such and in practice developers don't seem to be having too much trouble with the fragmentation issue.
Totally terrible statistic. That is only for developers that use Flurry Analytics. Considering Google has a Google Analytics SDK for Android, I'm not shocked at all that Flurry Analytics use is skewing toward Apple users.
Even if developers just stopped writing apps for Android, that is not proof that fragmentation was the cause.
What are you trying to do that C++ isn't good enough to do? If you are talking about ease of programming for hack jobs like yourself, then you should have said "they think C++ is easy enough". Most of your comment is incoherent gibberish and I shouldn't even be wasting my time replying.
Not to get too off topic, but when was the last time you went to McDonalds? It isn't considered awful food by millions and millions of people (or whatever their signs say now). Why would people eat it if it was awful? It's not like it's half the price of other places. They also do have some food choices that aren't bad for you. nutrion info at McD's.
I can agree with that. Michael Dell is probably a little right and wrong. He's right that desktops and servers will not go away, but I think he's seriously underestimating the potential of tablets for consuming media like you mention.
Really? I'd imagine that the amount of movies and music that is not worked on on a computer at some point is extremely small. I imagine there are still some movies that are shot on film and edited as film, but even most of those have some sort of effects added with computers. I doubt anything but the most indie of indie music is not recorded or mixed on computers now.
Not to mention that even if a movie or music was created without computers, how is it digitized to be viewed on a tablet?
Why does it matter if there is a continuity of your consciousness? If the end result is my body with my mind and consciousness inside it, seemingly identical to before the process, how does the journey matter? I can understand anxiety about doing it, but afterwards it is a simple matter of whether you are still alive or not.
You are considering the implications of creating a perfect copy of someone that can hold their self awareness. I don't see why this wouldn't make another copy of the self awareness/ self conscouisness.
Self awareness does not imply uniqueness. I think we are in some level of agreement that somewhere around 7 billion organisms on this planet all possess self awareness. We even have cases of organism pairs that have identical DNA and are both self aware.
Making an exact copy of yourself with it's own self awareness does not imply that it would be somehow magically or psychically linked to you. I can only think that both copies would go forward with identical memories and thoughts, but as soon as they start recieving different stimuli through their sensory organs, their thoughts, personalities and memory recalls would start to diverge.
I at first wondered why you would be trying to sell him 3 upgrades instead of 1, and then it clicked that the 3 pack is cheaper. What is the thought process MS had there? What version of 7 is that upgrade pack?
I have an old XP box that I would gladly upgrade if I could do it at what I consider to be a realistic cost. I'm not willing to spend 1 to 2 hundred dollars to get Win 7 on a machine that isn't worth that much after having it for 4 years now.
The real answer is laziness is preventing me from upgrading it to a Linux distro. That and not being familiar enough with Mono to know if any of my.Net code files will run properly under it.
First, incandescent light bulb are far from being banned and phased out. You will be able to buy them for a long time to come. Higher efficiency is all that's mandated. 100W bulbs will be replaced with higher efficiency, 72W incandescent bulbs.
Second, it's not going to be difficult to sell the ideas you mention in America, as most of them have already been sold and are in effect or going into effect soon.
Third, While an incandescent light bulb is not a toxic chemical, It uses more electricity. Our current power generation produces toxic chemicals along with electricity and along with the extraction of energy rich chemicals from the Earth. So there is a slippery slope between inefficient light bulbs and toxins.
Your argument that you should be able to do whatever you want if you can pay for it is tantamount to saying that you should be able to consume all of the Earth's resources and ruin someone else's neighborhood if you can afford it. Your concept of a free society seems to be one where everyone can do absolutely anything they please. This may be free, but not exactly much of a society. Words, like the ones in this thread are free, but actions have had consequences since the dawn of man. As there are more and more humans on this rock, using more and more natural resources, we need to watch how we live together.
What about so many other things that have been removed from the market that you can no longer purchase. Lead based paint - can't get it any more. Maybe you want to buy some baby bottles with Bisphenol A? Can't do it in some countries. Maybe you got a bug problem and want to start spraying DDT all over. Sorry it's banned.
You are saying that removal of choice, even when that choice is damaging to you or the world around you, is tyranny. I'm sorry if I don't think it's cruel and oppressive when the majority of people decide that something should be phased out for the public good. That's great that you actually want to be able to choose less efficient light bulbs and waste your money, but everyone else has decided that we need to have more energy efficient bulbs.
You need to either get with that idea, or come up with some real reasons why we should continue using old efficiency light bulbs. "Because, I want to" is not a valid argument. Tell us some positive benefits of the old bulbs over the new ones.
You continue to not define any of these terms properly.
Socialist is as Socialist does
This tells me nothing about socialism. Ducks do what ducks do, and trees do what trees do, but if you didn't know what a duck or tree was, those statements would not help explain that to you at all. You finally attempt to define socialism by giving one example that you say fits the definition.
Government forcing private individuals to purchase something from a private entity simply because they're citizens is Socialist
That's great, now I know that nations that do that are socialist. That will really help identify those socialist states.
Here is the definition from merriam-webster. 1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods 2:
a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
Which one of these does having to buy health insurance fall under again?
Exactly, It's one thing to learn and understand the concept of how something works, but another to know the exact implementation. Understanding cryptography is an important bit of knowledge, but knowing the ins and outs of every implementation of it is a bit excessive.
I don't really want a TV that I have to talk to and/or dance in front of. Streaming services are good for the average consumer, but the average/.er probably already has at least one device hooked up to their TV that streams. There really is no way to revolutionize the TV without revolutionizing what it means to watch and interact with TV, and that might not be what consumers want.
That makes a lot more sense. I was confusing social security benefits with my fathers government employee retirement benefits. That is only based on his 3 highest years of earnings, but he has to be eligible by working how ever long with the gov't.
I don't see your point, unless you are vested in Apple's success financially or emotionally. If product B takes the majority of the market, even if that majority is manufactured by multiple different companies, product B is what you need to be compatible with.
Apple still making more profit off a smaller slice is great if you personally profit off of that, say by owning shares of AAPL. For everyone that doesn't share in the profit taking, they just want the platform that is getting the most adoption, has more of their friends, and runs all the latest apps.
You can't tell me that this is a plausible exchange between Apple execs: Exec A: "No, it's cool if we lose the majority of the marketshare in a market segment we have been dominating, we'll still make more money than those other guys." Exec B: "Yeah, as long as we beat those guys, I'm okay with our company making less money than we could of from tablet sales."
I think the president minced his words and didn't mean $40 every week. The Whitehouse's math of ~$1000 a year fits best with a value of $40 every 2 weeks. or $20 every week. Which agrees fairly close to your value of less than $25 a week.
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Why not just use a break statement to get out of the switch block instead of a goto?
I'm fairly confident that if E85 does go the way of the dodo, agribusinesses and their politicians will continue to push corn subsidies for whatever the idea of the day is.
His point is that unless Honda and Toyota started making cars out of concrete, thinking they are radioactive is fear-mongering until there is actually evidence of that. I would eat their food, as it most definitely will have passed through a port with radiation monitors to get to me and be seen as safe to eat or be destroyed (see here). I also smoked for many years and drink a decent bit, so I don't exactly do everything I can to live a pristine and safe life.
Does Carfax report if a used car has been known to be in radioactive hot spots?
Maybe I'm biased being in Alaska, but it is no longer a territory that can just be sold off. It is a full fledged state in the union.
As far as I'm aware, Angry Birds failing to run well on some devices is not a software issue, but one of phones with inadequate hardware specs for it. I bet they won't play Crysis 2 either.
Totally terrible statistic. That is only for developers that use Flurry Analytics. Considering Google has a Google Analytics SDK for Android, I'm not shocked at all that Flurry Analytics use is skewing toward Apple users.
Even if developers just stopped writing apps for Android, that is not proof that fragmentation was the cause.
What are you trying to do that C++ isn't good enough to do? If you are talking about ease of programming for hack jobs like yourself, then you should have said "they think C++ is easy enough". Most of your comment is incoherent gibberish and I shouldn't even be wasting my time replying.
Not to get too off topic, but when was the last time you went to McDonalds? It isn't considered awful food by millions and millions of people (or whatever their signs say now). Why would people eat it if it was awful? It's not like it's half the price of other places. They also do have some food choices that aren't bad for you. nutrion info at McD's.
I can agree with that. Michael Dell is probably a little right and wrong. He's right that desktops and servers will not go away, but I think he's seriously underestimating the potential of tablets for consuming media like you mention.
Really? I'd imagine that the amount of movies and music that is not worked on on a computer at some point is extremely small. I imagine there are still some movies that are shot on film and edited as film, but even most of those have some sort of effects added with computers. I doubt anything but the most indie of indie music is not recorded or mixed on computers now.
Not to mention that even if a movie or music was created without computers, how is it digitized to be viewed on a tablet?
Why does it matter if there is a continuity of your consciousness? If the end result is my body with my mind and consciousness inside it, seemingly identical to before the process, how does the journey matter? I can understand anxiety about doing it, but afterwards it is a simple matter of whether you are still alive or not.
You are considering the implications of creating a perfect copy of someone that can hold their self awareness. I don't see why this wouldn't make another copy of the self awareness/ self conscouisness.
Self awareness does not imply uniqueness. I think we are in some level of agreement that somewhere around 7 billion organisms on this planet all possess self awareness. We even have cases of organism pairs that have identical DNA and are both self aware.
Making an exact copy of yourself with it's own self awareness does not imply that it would be somehow magically or psychically linked to you. I can only think that both copies would go forward with identical memories and thoughts, but as soon as they start recieving different stimuli through their sensory organs, their thoughts, personalities and memory recalls would start to diverge.
I at first wondered why you would be trying to sell him 3 upgrades instead of 1, and then it clicked that the 3 pack is cheaper. What is the thought process MS had there? What version of 7 is that upgrade pack?
I have an old XP box that I would gladly upgrade if I could do it at what I consider to be a realistic cost. I'm not willing to spend 1 to 2 hundred dollars to get Win 7 on a machine that isn't worth that much after having it for 4 years now.
.Net code files will run properly under it.
The real answer is laziness is preventing me from upgrading it to a Linux distro. That and not being familiar enough with Mono to know if any of my
First, incandescent light bulb are far from being banned and phased out. You will be able to buy them for a long time to come. Higher efficiency is all that's mandated. 100W bulbs will be replaced with higher efficiency, 72W incandescent bulbs.
Second, it's not going to be difficult to sell the ideas you mention in America, as most of them have already been sold and are in effect or going into effect soon.
Third, While an incandescent light bulb is not a toxic chemical, It uses more electricity. Our current power generation produces toxic chemicals along with electricity and along with the extraction of energy rich chemicals from the Earth. So there is a slippery slope between inefficient light bulbs and toxins.
Your argument that you should be able to do whatever you want if you can pay for it is tantamount to saying that you should be able to consume all of the Earth's resources and ruin someone else's neighborhood if you can afford it. Your concept of a free society seems to be one where everyone can do absolutely anything they please. This may be free, but not exactly much of a society. Words, like the ones in this thread are free, but actions have had consequences since the dawn of man. As there are more and more humans on this rock, using more and more natural resources, we need to watch how we live together.
What about so many other things that have been removed from the market that you can no longer purchase. Lead based paint - can't get it any more. Maybe you want to buy some baby bottles with Bisphenol A? Can't do it in some countries. Maybe you got a bug problem and want to start spraying DDT all over. Sorry it's banned.
You are saying that removal of choice, even when that choice is damaging to you or the world around you, is tyranny. I'm sorry if I don't think it's cruel and oppressive when the majority of people decide that something should be phased out for the public good. That's great that you actually want to be able to choose less efficient light bulbs and waste your money, but everyone else has decided that we need to have more energy efficient bulbs.
You need to either get with that idea, or come up with some real reasons why we should continue using old efficiency light bulbs. "Because, I want to" is not a valid argument. Tell us some positive benefits of the old bulbs over the new ones.
Socialist is as Socialist does
This tells me nothing about socialism. Ducks do what ducks do, and trees do what trees do, but if you didn't know what a duck or tree was, those statements would not help explain that to you at all. You finally attempt to define socialism by giving one example that you say fits the definition.
Government forcing private individuals to purchase something from a private entity simply because they're citizens is Socialist
That's great, now I know that nations that do that are socialist. That will really help identify those socialist states.
Here is the definition from merriam-webster.
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2:
a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
Which one of these does having to buy health insurance fall under again?
Exactly, It's one thing to learn and understand the concept of how something works, but another to know the exact implementation. Understanding cryptography is an important bit of knowledge, but knowing the ins and outs of every implementation of it is a bit excessive.
you got a good THz transmitter and receiver? or know where I can get one?
I've got a 32" TV in my living room. It works just fine. A little bigger would be nice, but considering it's operational, I'll keep it as it is.
I don't really want a TV that I have to talk to and/or dance in front of. Streaming services are good for the average consumer, but the average /.er probably already has at least one device hooked up to their TV that streams. There really is no way to revolutionize the TV without revolutionizing what it means to watch and interact with TV, and that might not be what consumers want.
Haven't you ever seen his TV show? Archie Bunker hates everyone.
That makes a lot more sense. I was confusing social security benefits with my fathers government employee retirement benefits. That is only based on his 3 highest years of earnings, but he has to be eligible by working how ever long with the gov't.
I don't see your point, unless you are vested in Apple's success financially or emotionally. If product B takes the majority of the market, even if that majority is manufactured by multiple different companies, product B is what you need to be compatible with.
Apple still making more profit off a smaller slice is great if you personally profit off of that, say by owning shares of AAPL. For everyone that doesn't share in the profit taking, they just want the platform that is getting the most adoption, has more of their friends, and runs all the latest apps.
You can't tell me that this is a plausible exchange between Apple execs:
Exec A: "No, it's cool if we lose the majority of the marketshare in a market segment we have been dominating, we'll still make more money than those other guys."
Exec B: "Yeah, as long as we beat those guys, I'm okay with our company making less money than we could of from tablet sales."
I think the president minced his words and didn't mean $40 every week. The Whitehouse's math of ~$1000 a year fits best with a value of $40 every 2 weeks. or $20 every week. Which agrees fairly close to your value of less than $25 a week.