Broadband should be considered as an infrastructure and not as a luxury. Good infrastructure leads to economic development. The cost of providing infrastructure might be high initially but in the long run it has tremendous benefits for the economy of the area where that infrastructure was provided. Providing broadband in rural areas will attact outside businesses, help local businesses grow, make easier to provide education. The benefit will far outweigh the cost in the long run. Oh and what about steaming HD pr0n? Don't people in rural areas have needs?
Lately, the phrase ' in the world' has given way to ' on earth'. Things that used to fastest in the world are now fastest on earth. Factually both are correct but their implications are slightly different. When you use the word 'world' you are mostly concerned with what's happening on earth and you are not at all concerned with other heavenly bodies, however the moment you use the word 'earth' it implies that you are talking in a broader context with encompasses at least our other solar system bodies if not the entire universe. 'Fastest on earth' seems to imply that there are other computers on other planets and that you have knowledge of their existence and that you know that this supercomputer is fastest on earth, though it may not be fastest in the solar system. Of course there can be computers on other planets too (there probably are and this one is indeed fastest on earth) but the incorrect part is that 'on earth' implies that you have knowledge of existence of super computers elsewhere outside the earth too. I think 'in the world' is more appropriate.
Nobody wants to hire a person with less experience and then the employers complain that people lie on their resume. Of course people have to lie about their experience on their resume if they can't find a job for months because every employer wants more number of years of experience than they have.
I can tell that they want the voice data badly. They make it very difficult to delete call and voicemail history. You can't delete more than 10 records at a time and even then they go into trash and keep piling up over there. You can delete the data from trash but again only 10 at a time. There is no option to empty the trash. Their help section says that the history is purged from trash after 30 days automatically but only that it isn't. My call history sits in the trash indefinitely unless I painstakingly delete all history 10 records at a time.
Whenever I have tried to be too nice, I have always ended up getting hurt. The lesson I have learnt is - be nice as much as is needed, but do not over do it. You are overdoing it and will learn the same lesson the hard way.
I do not respect this Kaku guy. He spends more time on TV than doing actual physics. He is a an attention whore. He is on every channel BBC, Science, Discovery, History and he has 'expert opinion' on everything. Moreover, he uses sensationalist language, often implying more extreme consequences of whatever he is talking about than is actually the case.
To me it seems like it is a matter of pride and inconvenience. It is inconvenient to give up what you are used to and also one may feel that they are being forced to give up something they have used all along just because rest of the world is using a different system. This ostensibly hurts pride of some people. If you tell an average non science background, non-technical American (this will probably exclude most slashdotters) your weight in kilograms, you can't help but notice the look on their faces. It is clear they are at a complete loss and have absolutely no sense of that number at all. It is a matter of simple approximate multiplication or division that is taught to everybody in school. Regardless of what system you follow, or what country you live in, you should be able to at least do a rough calculation in your mind and have a some sense of at the least the scale being talked about. I am not talking about converting electron volts into Joules, but common units that are used in every day life.
I highly doubt that open source tools are used because they allow themselves to be modified. What percentage of people actually look into the code and modify them? The main reason is that most open source tools are free and have absolutely zero delay in being available. Download, install and code away! In most cases, you don't even have to install, just unzip and you are good to go.
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Broadband should be considered as an infrastructure and not as a luxury. Good infrastructure leads to economic development. The cost of providing infrastructure might be high initially but in the long run it has tremendous benefits for the economy of the area where that infrastructure was provided. Providing broadband in rural areas will attact outside businesses, help local businesses grow, make easier to provide education. The benefit will far outweigh the cost in the long run. Oh and what about steaming HD pr0n? Don't people in rural areas have needs?
Because 5 sounds better than 4.1.
"fastest computer on earth".
Lately, the phrase ' in the world' has given way to ' on earth'. Things that used to fastest in the world are now fastest on earth. Factually both are correct but their implications are slightly different. When you use the word 'world' you are mostly concerned with what's happening on earth and you are not at all concerned with other heavenly bodies, however the moment you use the word 'earth' it implies that you are talking in a broader context with encompasses at least our other solar system bodies if not the entire universe. 'Fastest on earth' seems to imply that there are other computers on other planets and that you have knowledge of their existence and that you know that this supercomputer is fastest on earth, though it may not be fastest in the solar system. Of course there can be computers on other planets too (there probably are and this one is indeed fastest on earth) but the incorrect part is that 'on earth' implies that you have knowledge of existence of super computers elsewhere outside the earth too. I think 'in the world' is more appropriate.
Nobody wants to hire a person with less experience and then the employers complain that people lie on their resume. Of course people have to lie about their experience on their resume if they can't find a job for months because every employer wants more number of years of experience than they have.
I can tell that they want the voice data badly. They make it very difficult to delete call and voicemail history. You can't delete more than 10 records at a time and even then they go into trash and keep piling up over there. You can delete the data from trash but again only 10 at a time. There is no option to empty the trash. Their help section says that the history is purged from trash after 30 days automatically but only that it isn't. My call history sits in the trash indefinitely unless I painstakingly delete all history 10 records at a time.
Whenever I have tried to be too nice, I have always ended up getting hurt. The lesson I have learnt is - be nice as much as is needed, but do not over do it. You are overdoing it and will learn the same lesson the hard way.
I do not respect this Kaku guy. He spends more time on TV than doing actual physics. He is a an attention whore. He is on every channel BBC, Science, Discovery, History and he has 'expert opinion' on everything. Moreover, he uses sensationalist language, often implying more extreme consequences of whatever he is talking about than is actually the case.
To me it seems like it is a matter of pride and inconvenience. It is inconvenient to give up what you are used to and also one may feel that they are being forced to give up something they have used all along just because rest of the world is using a different system. This ostensibly hurts pride of some people. If you tell an average non science background, non-technical American (this will probably exclude most slashdotters) your weight in kilograms, you can't help but notice the look on their faces. It is clear they are at a complete loss and have absolutely no sense of that number at all. It is a matter of simple approximate multiplication or division that is taught to everybody in school. Regardless of what system you follow, or what country you live in, you should be able to at least do a rough calculation in your mind and have a some sense of at the least the scale being talked about. I am not talking about converting electron volts into Joules, but common units that are used in every day life.
I highly doubt that open source tools are used because they allow themselves to be modified. What percentage of people actually look into the code and modify them? The main reason is that most open source tools are free and have absolutely zero delay in being available. Download, install and code away! In most cases, you don't even have to install, just unzip and you are good to go.