I agree with Hadlock. The editors are choosing the articles with negative spin more often. The same subject is often submitted multiple times by different people with different slants, yet the editors are picking out the negative articles more often than the positive ones even when the positive ones come out first.
That co-operation you speak of only works inside a community.
I don't know where the original poster keeps hearing this bias towards people believing that humans are naturally out to kill each other, but that's not the bias I see. Most people believe, evidence to the contrary, the myth of the "noble savage" & that kids will naturally be nice & innocent until culturally polluted by things like racism among other memes of how nice we are to each other.
The noble savage was always disconnected from the fact that all societies, even those presented as peaceful were making war on their neighbors (& it didn't take the arrival of european colonialism to spoil their "eden" though the europeans did make a habit of massacring the natives once they arrived it also happened before).
As for kids being naturally nice & innocent until spoiled by cultural pollution from adults, that innocence & acceptance only works within what they consider to be "their" community/tribe. Introduce a stranger to their midst & the stranger is almost always excluded. Given how easily groups of children the world over band together into what can only label tribes; I'd say that any study that doesn't take this into account is flawed to the point of being useless.
Eggs, Grandmother, etc... I've been a Freenaute for a decade. Besides which, XN got out of the Minitel & founded Free as soon as he could to stop FT from being the obligatory gateway between his company & his customers.
Bleh, Revisionism of the first order. My first job in France over 25 years ago was programming a minitel server so I know what I'm talking about.
Minitel only succeeded if you omit the massive investments France Telecom & the French government made in developing & deploying it. "Free" terminals, massive investment write-offs, special development funding that was systematically forgotten when cooking the books to show how "profitable" the minitel was. The only reason the Minitel took so long to die off is that they mandated a number of services to only be available on it way back & refused funding to make it available on the Internet.
I've read through the entire thread & not one person picked up on two of the biggest reasons it failed: - The Minitel was setup as a means of making sure that France Telecom got a cut of any money made on it. Minitel was setup so that customers were billed by FT for all services & FT transferred some of the money to whoever proposed the service. It was much like Apple's Appstore model but where Apple is generally liked by those on the appstore, FT wasn't. People thing Apple is greedy with their 30% cut? FT was worse... - Minitel was based on X25, not IP. Those old enough to have suffered through the installation & maintenance of X25 networks know why it failed.
So, if a cop pulls you over for speeding once, that means that he can retroactively issue tickets for every day since you passed your license because one proves that you always speed ? Mistakes do happen & extrapolations from a single data point are an exercise in stupidity.
Bullshit. I know people that have jailbroken phones because they tried & abandoned prior android phones (PITA to upgrade when the maker refuses to do it, few HW options compared to the iPhone, etc) but wanted apps not in apple's appstore. Calling a well reasoned judgement a cop-out just shows your continuing inferiority complex.
The sample size is ridiculous: One song was compared between CD/AAC/AAC (Mastered for iTunes), not even one album just one song!
This may be just another tempest in a teacup because somebody uploaded the wrong file to AAC (M4iT) & people are making wildly erroneous extrapolations from it.
Sounds more like the typical whine of people who, after tens of articles on/. bitching that Apple doesn't allow (apps similar to their OS apps, porn, flagrant ripoffs of existing apps), still don't comprehend that the Apple is not a monopoly & thus App store rules are not abuse of a monopoly.
If you want different app store rules on your iPhone, jailbeak it. If, as I suspect, you don't event have an iPhone, spare us from your whining...
You can dual boot Macs but with parallels it's not as important because the performance hit from using VM's isn't that big.
The Mac's multitouch trackpads is one of the best things about it. I adapt immediately to using it on my wife's MBP & take a day or two to forget that I can't use the gestures on my Dell.
In my experience: Dell has had nice screens for a generation or two but the laptops just aren't durable enough. The hinges give out, the plastic cracks etc. HP has nice equipment but is more expensive than the others for little gain Lenovo are pretty nice but are missing a 17' model that I want for my next PC Mac Book Pro's are incredibly durable with the unibody shrugging off mistreatment that would break anything else. Sony has nice stuff but not what I want.
I spent a long time avoiding Apple because I wanted something easy to dock. With Thunderbolt that is no longer a problem for macs. There was also a problem where the 17" MBPs were not using WUXGA but a lower resolution but that stopped over a year ago.
So, I'm pretty much set on a 17" MBP when my dell wears out.
The Mac Book Pro 17" comes with a WUXGA screen. I'm not planning on changing for another year or so but at present the MBP is the only PC I'm considering as a replacement. The MBP is just built better than the Dells, Acers, & even Lenovos & Sonys that I've seen for the same price point.
I only use the laptop screen when I'm at a client because I have a 24" WUXGA on my home system & at work my dock has another 24" WUXGA with a secondary that was a 23" FHD on loan for a while. When at work, 90% of my work was on the WUXGA because whenever I went full page, the 120 pixels missing from the FHD was annoying enough to make me pull the window back over to my main screen. After a while you just leave it on the WUXGA unless I need to compare data between 2 full screen windows. I've got a 1440x900 for the moment that I'll be replacing with another WUXGA as soon as I get the time to buy it.
Let me put it this way: Using a FHD instead of a WUXGA is like adding 3 toobars to every window. For work, I'll gladly pay the price difference between the two.
If only more people would hold off on the FHD 1980*1080 & buy XUXGA 1980*1200 screens...
All the goodness of wide screen & enough vertical resolution to make full page edits at 100% possible. The only reason WUXGA is so much more expensive is that there isn't enough demand because people are settling for the cheaper FHD screens that are missing those 80 vertical pixels.
You don't have to give up vertical resolution, you just need to buy a WUXGA screen: 1980*1200. Sure it's more expensive than the flood of FHD 1980*1050 screens out there, but then that's because not enough people are passing on the FHD & preferring to buy WUXGA. I moved from a 24" 1600*1200 years ago to WUXGA. The additional 380 makes real dual page editing possible as the controls can be places to the sides. I had a loaner FHD as a second screen for a while but replaced it with a WUXGA as soon as I could: The missing 80 vertical pixels made full page editing at 100% impossible.
So, just because you refuse to even take the time to google for "ipad battery replacement" that means that it's not possible? Suuuure....
Apple is one of the only companies to have increased production over the past few years, Macs have steadily been gaining market share yet compared to the runaway success of the iPad, it Mac market share seems almost to be standing still & Apple now sells more iPads than they do Macs.
I have both a pro & a home phone I have both an iPhone & a HTC android. What I carry around is an external pack using 2 AAs that I can connect to either phone. It's not in my pocket but in my backpack with the rest of the stuff I have to carry around when I'm on call. It's bulkier but the convenience of being able to use AAs...
That's easy enough: search for "iphone battery cases" and you will find cases that will double an iPhone's battery life. Oh, you don't want an iPhone? Well with android's fragmented market and multiplicity of formats there may never be enough of an aftermarket for these to exist.
You still can, but you have to turn off all the extras. I have lasted 6 days between charges on my iPhone 4 when out of the country & not using wifi/bluetooth/3G which were all turned off. I was even using the iphone's camera a lot but I had to switch away from the camera app quickly because it drains the battery.
That just shows that you are ignorant of how low opinion was of Carter when he left office. Carter too over a decade to let people forget before remaking his image in those who had forgotten or were too young to remember & it looks like GWB is doing the same.
Not disputing your point but the size of tech transfer part of this deal means that India should be capable of going it alone even if France decides to cut them off in the future.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Tanks were used on Iwo Jima, the highest fortified bastion that the US took from Japan. WWII era tanks were used in Korea which has terrain very close to that of Japan. Indeed it was the NK use of T-34 tanks that allowed them to overrun the SK forces all the way to Pusan & were essential to the success at Inchon. Operation Downfall explicitly included tank forces to engage hard points & exploit breakthroughs.
Dubya right now is much akin to to the Jimmy Carter of the early 80's who pretty much disappeared of the face of the earth for a decade after being blamed for all the ills of the Democratic Party.. Give it time, Dubya will be back...
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I agree with Hadlock. The editors are choosing the articles with negative spin more often. The same subject is often submitted multiple times by different people with different slants, yet the editors are picking out the negative articles more often than the positive ones even when the positive ones come out first.
That co-operation you speak of only works inside a community.
I don't know where the original poster keeps hearing this bias towards people believing that humans are naturally out to kill each other, but that's not the bias I see. Most people believe, evidence to the contrary, the myth of the "noble savage" & that kids will naturally be nice & innocent until culturally polluted by things like racism among other memes of how nice we are to each other.
The noble savage was always disconnected from the fact that all societies, even those presented as peaceful were making war on their neighbors (& it didn't take the arrival of european colonialism to spoil their "eden" though the europeans did make a habit of massacring the natives once they arrived it also happened before).
As for kids being naturally nice & innocent until spoiled by cultural pollution from adults, that innocence & acceptance only works within what they consider to be "their" community/tribe. Introduce a stranger to their midst & the stranger is almost always excluded. Given how easily groups of children the world over band together into what can only label tribes; I'd say that any study that doesn't take this into account is flawed to the point of being useless.
Eggs, Grandmother, etc... I've been a Freenaute for a decade. Besides which, XN got out of the Minitel & founded Free as soon as he could to stop FT from being the obligatory gateway between his company & his customers.
...It probably failed where Minitel succeeded...
Bleh, Revisionism of the first order. My first job in France over 25 years ago was programming a minitel server so I know what I'm talking about.
Minitel only succeeded if you omit the massive investments France Telecom & the French government made in developing & deploying it. "Free" terminals, massive investment write-offs, special development funding that was systematically forgotten when cooking the books to show how "profitable" the minitel was. The only reason the Minitel took so long to die off is that they mandated a number of services to only be available on it way back & refused funding to make it available on the Internet.
I've read through the entire thread & not one person picked up on two of the biggest reasons it failed:
- The Minitel was setup as a means of making sure that France Telecom got a cut of any money made on it. Minitel was setup so that customers were billed by FT for all services & FT transferred some of the money to whoever proposed the service. It was much like Apple's Appstore model but where Apple is generally liked by those on the appstore, FT wasn't. People thing Apple is greedy with their 30% cut? FT was worse...
- Minitel was based on X25, not IP. Those old enough to have suffered through the installation & maintenance of X25 networks know why it failed.
So, if a cop pulls you over for speeding once, that means that he can retroactively issue tickets for every day since you passed your license because one proves that you always speed ?
Mistakes do happen & extrapolations from a single data point are an exercise in stupidity.
Bullshit. I know people that have jailbroken phones because they tried & abandoned prior android phones (PITA to upgrade when the maker refuses to do it, few HW options compared to the iPhone, etc) but wanted apps not in apple's appstore. Calling a well reasoned judgement a cop-out just shows your continuing inferiority complex.
explicitly authorized by the law so the AC shows he doesn't understands the subject...
The sample size is ridiculous: One song was compared between CD/AAC/AAC (Mastered for iTunes), not even one album just one song!
This may be just another tempest in a teacup because somebody uploaded the wrong file to AAC (M4iT) & people are making wildly erroneous extrapolations from it.
Sounds more like the typical whine of people who, after tens of articles on /. bitching that Apple doesn't allow (apps similar to their OS apps, porn, flagrant ripoffs of existing apps), still don't comprehend that the Apple is not a monopoly & thus App store rules are not abuse of a monopoly.
If you want different app store rules on your iPhone, jailbeak it. If, as I suspect, you don't event have an iPhone, spare us from your whining...
Ah well, Lenovo--
You can dual boot Macs but with parallels it's not as important because the performance hit from using VM's isn't that big.
The Mac's multitouch trackpads is one of the best things about it. I adapt immediately to using it on my wife's MBP & take a day or two to forget that I can't use the gestures on my Dell.
In my experience:
Dell has had nice screens for a generation or two but the laptops just aren't durable enough. The hinges give out, the plastic cracks etc.
HP has nice equipment but is more expensive than the others for little gain
Lenovo are pretty nice but are missing a 17' model that I want for my next PC
Mac Book Pro's are incredibly durable with the unibody shrugging off mistreatment that would break anything else.
Sony has nice stuff but not what I want.
I spent a long time avoiding Apple because I wanted something easy to dock. With Thunderbolt that is no longer a problem for macs. There was also a problem where the 17" MBPs were not using WUXGA but a lower resolution but that stopped over a year ago.
So, I'm pretty much set on a 17" MBP when my dell wears out.
The Mac Book Pro 17" comes with a WUXGA screen. I'm not planning on changing for another year or so but at present the MBP is the only PC I'm considering as a replacement. The MBP is just built better than the Dells, Acers, & even Lenovos & Sonys that I've seen for the same price point.
I only use the laptop screen when I'm at a client because I have a 24" WUXGA on my home system & at work my dock has another 24" WUXGA with a secondary that was a 23" FHD on loan for a while. When at work, 90% of my work was on the WUXGA because whenever I went full page, the 120 pixels missing from the FHD was annoying enough to make me pull the window back over to my main screen. After a while you just leave it on the WUXGA unless I need to compare data between 2 full screen windows. I've got a 1440x900 for the moment that I'll be replacing with another WUXGA as soon as I get the time to buy it.
Let me put it this way: Using a FHD instead of a WUXGA is like adding 3 toobars to every window. For work, I'll gladly pay the price difference between the two.
You need to look at what's on the market better. I've had WUXGA 1980*1200 15.4" screens in my last two laptops.
If only more people would hold off on the FHD 1980*1080 & buy XUXGA 1980*1200 screens...
All the goodness of wide screen & enough vertical resolution to make full page edits at 100% possible. The only reason WUXGA is so much more expensive is that there isn't enough demand because people are settling for the cheaper FHD screens that are missing those 80 vertical pixels.
You don't have to give up vertical resolution, you just need to buy a WUXGA screen: 1980*1200. Sure it's more expensive than the flood of FHD 1980*1050 screens out there, but then that's because not enough people are passing on the FHD & preferring to buy WUXGA. I moved from a 24" 1600*1200 years ago to WUXGA. The additional 380 makes real dual page editing possible as the controls can be places to the sides. I had a loaner FHD as a second screen for a while but replaced it with a WUXGA as soon as I could: The missing 80 vertical pixels made full page editing at 100% impossible.
According to TFA: "more than one billion aquatic organisms" are killed annually by NY's Indian Point plant.
No definition of what they mean by "aquatic organism" is given. Blue whales? Minnows? Paramecium?
So, just because you refuse to even take the time to google for "ipad battery replacement" that means that it's not possible? Suuuure....
Apple is one of the only companies to have increased production over the past few years, Macs have steadily been gaining market share yet compared to the runaway success of the iPad, it Mac market share seems almost to be standing still & Apple now sells more iPads than they do Macs.
I have both a pro & a home phone I have both an iPhone & a HTC android. What I carry around is an external pack using 2 AAs that I can connect to either phone. It's not in my pocket but in my backpack with the rest of the stuff I have to carry around when I'm on call. It's bulkier but the convenience of being able to use AAs...
That's easy enough: search for "iphone battery cases" and you will find cases that will double an iPhone's battery life. Oh, you don't want an iPhone? Well with android's fragmented market and multiplicity of formats there may never be enough of an aftermarket for these to exist.
You still can, but you have to turn off all the extras. I have lasted 6 days between charges on my iPhone 4 when out of the country & not using wifi/bluetooth/3G which were all turned off. I was even using the iphone's camera a lot but I had to switch away from the camera app quickly because it drains the battery.
That just shows that you are ignorant of how low opinion was of Carter when he left office. Carter too over a decade to let people forget before remaking his image in those who had forgotten or were too young to remember & it looks like GWB is doing the same.
Not disputing your point but the size of tech transfer part of this deal means that India should be capable of going it alone even if France decides to cut them off in the future.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Tanks were used on Iwo Jima, the highest fortified bastion that the US took from Japan. WWII era tanks were used in Korea which has terrain very close to that of Japan. Indeed it was the NK use of T-34 tanks that allowed them to overrun the SK forces all the way to Pusan & were essential to the success at Inchon. Operation Downfall explicitly included tank forces to engage hard points & exploit breakthroughs.
Dubya right now is much akin to to the Jimmy Carter of the early 80's who pretty much disappeared of the face of the earth for a decade after being blamed for all the ills of the Democratic Party.. Give it time, Dubya will be back...