They are still human. Newton believed in alchemical transmutation. Boyle wrote a paper claiming to have generated heat using gold and a special form of mercury.
Scientists get it wrong all the time. The process of science helps us get a better understanding than we had with time and effort, it doesn't make scientists perfect.
For crying out loud its a belief.. Beliefs are by nature irrational.
I believe that if I throw this orange up in the air it will come back down. It's not an irrational belief, it's one arrived at based on a rational appraisal of what I've seen before. It's a belief that can be tested by actually throwing the orange up the air.
Accepting that beliefs are fundamentally irrational and unprovable is ridiculous.
What percentage do you think "many" is? I can only imagine it is very few. Only a minoriy of really dedicated gamers will buy multiple consoles in a generation, most people will buy one and stick with it until the next gen (or the console dies).
The Wii certainly did not cut substantially into Microsoft or Sony's sales
Certainly? I'd like to know how you justify that. I know a fair few people who owned an Xbox/PS2 last gen and have a Wii (and only a Wii) this generation. That's only anecdotal but I can see no reason why there won't be a lot of people like that.
People seem to want to put games consoles in distinct little boxes but I see no justification for that in reality, doing so is a gross oversimplification.
I'm not sure about the US but as I understand it in the UK many digital transmissions are currently transmitted at reduced power to avoid screwing with analogue reception. Once analogue is switched off digital reception should get a lot better.
There are some steam trains out there that are running and are over 100 years old... do we really think that a CPU or a RAM or a motherboard can live that long?
I imagine those steam trains have had rather extensive maintainance done on them in that time.
There are also a lot more old steam trains that are no longer servicable so a few still running is hardly an indication of resiliance.
It's amazing how much is revealed by these 2 questions.
The only thing it reveals to me is that you are probably a conspiracy theory nutbag.
The day of such a price cut probably is a good day for a bit of a retrospective.
What would you prefer? That they only reported the price cut? I don't see why simply regurgitating a press release would be the sort of reporting we should wish for.
To some extent. Older cars tend to have higher maintainance costs. They may not be depreciating much any more but they are probably taking money directly from your pocket instead.
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The tabs hit the top of the screen for me in XP (when the browser is in full screen mode).
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What struck me about this is that these are people who would never, in a million years, lift a finger to try Safari/Windows
Perhaps they, like me, have experienced enough Apple software on Windows to put them off trying.
I've only really used Quicktime and Itunes and while they are functional there's something that makes them clunky on a Windows desktop and I definitely don't want "clunky" on my browser. It tends to be gratuitously different.
Chrome is "different" too, but it seems to be different in a minimalist way, keeping out of the way and letting me browse.
It's not reasonable to expect to be able to keep the email address.
However they could set up a forwarder for a period of time which will allow you to notice and update any mailing lists etc you may have forgotten and then an automatic responder for an additional period to catch people who still haven't managed to update your email address and tell them your new one.
I've noticed that my Netflix "watch instantly" simply does not work properly from 4 pm to about 10pm every day. Netflix says it appears to be comcast that is throttling things.
I'd have thought there's a reasonable chance those hours also reflect peak usage hours.
Perhaps if they combined their "cap" with an "off-peak" allowance then all those people transferring bittorrent files while you're trying to stream something might instead be inclined to schedule it overnight.
I use it all up mainly on torrents for things like movies
How many movies do you manage to watch a month? I'm on a 25gig cap (18 peak, 7 off peak) and when the end of the month comes round I have heaps left and go looking for movies and can barely find much worth a download.
It seems funny to see Americans getting upset at a 250 gig cap. I think you could download enough reasonable quality divx files (perhaps not HD) to spend every waking hour watching it (if you could find that much stuff worth watching).
Through "normal usage" I'd probably do 5-6 gig a month max and that includes some daily backups over the network (rsync probably makes them rather efficient though).
What countries offer the best opportunity to balance a challenging work environment with enough vacation to explore
The other upside to New Zealand is that you'll only need a couple of weeks of vacation to see it all.
They'd be action packed weeks though. Rafting, caving, bungee jumping, jet boating. If doing something stupid is your thing the I couldn't recommend anywhere better than New Zealand.
Why on earth would you link to that article, it was widely debunked at the time because the test procedure was (to use a technical term) a complete load of horse shit.
The follow up article (though unfortunately filled with attempts to save face by proving their original conclusion correct even though their methodology was laughable) shows fairly clearly that SSDs can deliver great performance for the power they use. (Of course there are some shitty ones two, but that's what you expect in a newish product range).
That's the crux. It isn't worth more than the ingredients + labor, but it's the job of the capitalist to convince you it is.
Something is worth whatever people agree is it's value. What else could something be worth? There is no inherent value in either the ingredients or the labor, only what people agree it to be worth.
Fortunately this works rather well as it means there is incentive to produce things that people actually value.
If this continues for every transaction then you end up magically making more goods than exist.
It's called adding value. A loaf of bread is worth more than it's constituent ingredients. It's not "magically" creating anything, it's called "work".
No, you haven't "profited". You haven't "made" any money.
Groan. Stop thinking in terms of money as the only indicator of profit. Money is simply a method of exchange, a device we use to make trade easy. It has no value outside the fact that we can exchange it for things with actual value.
If Bob has three apples and Jenny has three bottles of water then they can both "profit" by exchanging one of their items because what they receive has more value to them than what they gave up.
Seriously, I don't mean to sound offensive but you really seem to have a lack of understanding of basic, basic economics. When I buy bread I don't make a profit.
It's you that lacks a basic understanding. You are making an exchange, clearly both parties are profiting from it otherwise they wouldn't make the exchange.
Money is simply a medium of exchange, grease that helps a market's wheels move efficiently. A common factor which makes it easier to barter what you produce for what someone else produces.
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They are still human.
Newton believed in alchemical transmutation.
Boyle wrote a paper claiming to have generated heat using gold and a special form of mercury.
Scientists get it wrong all the time. The process of science helps us get a better understanding than we had with time and effort, it doesn't make scientists perfect.
I believe that if I throw this orange up in the air it will come back down. It's not an irrational belief, it's one arrived at based on a rational appraisal of what I've seen before. It's a belief that can be tested by actually throwing the orange up the air.
Accepting that beliefs are fundamentally irrational and unprovable is ridiculous.
Beliefs should be able to stand up to scrutiny.
Massive magma pumps are what's needed.
The Earth's getting a little ahead of time? Rotate the Earths surface a little by pumping magma in the earths core in the opposite direction.
What percentage do you think "many" is? I can only imagine it is very few. Only a minoriy of really dedicated gamers will buy multiple consoles in a generation, most people will buy one and stick with it until the next gen (or the console dies).
Certainly? I'd like to know how you justify that.
I know a fair few people who owned an Xbox/PS2 last gen and have a Wii (and only a Wii) this generation. That's only anecdotal but I can see no reason why there won't be a lot of people like that.
People seem to want to put games consoles in distinct little boxes but I see no justification for that in reality, doing so is a gross oversimplification.
I'm not sure about the US but as I understand it in the UK many digital transmissions are currently transmitted at reduced power to avoid screwing with analogue reception. Once analogue is switched off digital reception should get a lot better.
Phew, on behalf of all Slashdot readers who were fraught with worry over how this would effect you, thanks for letting us know we can sleep easy.
I imagine those steam trains have had rather extensive maintainance done on them in that time.
There are also a lot more old steam trains that are no longer servicable so a few still running is hardly an indication of resiliance.
The only thing it reveals to me is that you are probably a conspiracy theory nutbag.
The day of such a price cut probably is a good day for a bit of a retrospective.
What would you prefer? That they only reported the price cut? I don't see why simply regurgitating a press release would be the sort of reporting we should wish for.
Utter rubbish.
While different consoles do have features that reach out to different niches there remains a huge area of market overlap in which they compete.
If the Wii didn't exist would MS have sold several million more 360s? Of course they would.
To some extent. Older cars tend to have higher maintainance costs. They may not be depreciating much any more but they are probably taking money directly from your pocket instead.
The tabs hit the top of the screen for me in XP (when the browser is in full screen mode).
Perhaps they, like me, have experienced enough Apple software on Windows to put them off trying.
I've only really used Quicktime and Itunes and while they are functional there's something that makes them clunky on a Windows desktop and I definitely don't want "clunky" on my browser. It tends to be gratuitously different.
Chrome is "different" too, but it seems to be different in a minimalist way, keeping out of the way and letting me browse.
http://code.google.com/chromium/
It's not reasonable to expect to be able to keep the email address.
However they could set up a forwarder for a period of time which will allow you to notice and update any mailing lists etc you may have forgotten and then an automatic responder for an additional period to catch people who still haven't managed to update your email address and tell them your new one.
I'd have thought there's a reasonable chance those hours also reflect peak usage hours.
Perhaps if they combined their "cap" with an "off-peak" allowance then all those people transferring bittorrent files while you're trying to stream something might instead be inclined to schedule it overnight.
How many movies do you manage to watch a month? I'm on a 25gig cap (18 peak, 7 off peak) and when the end of the month comes round I have heaps left and go looking for movies and can barely find much worth a download.
It seems funny to see Americans getting upset at a 250 gig cap. I think you could download enough reasonable quality divx files (perhaps not HD) to spend every waking hour watching it (if you could find that much stuff worth watching).
Through "normal usage" I'd probably do 5-6 gig a month max and that includes some daily backups over the network (rsync probably makes them rather efficient though).
The other upside to New Zealand is that you'll only need a couple of weeks of vacation to see it all.
They'd be action packed weeks though. Rafting, caving, bungee jumping, jet boating. If doing something stupid is your thing the I couldn't recommend anywhere better than New Zealand.
Saying it doesn't make it true.
I'm looking at those graphs and trying to work out exactly what definition of "one" you are using....
Why on earth would you link to that article, it was widely debunked at the time because the test procedure was (to use a technical term) a complete load of horse shit.
The follow up article (though unfortunately filled with attempts to save face by proving their original conclusion correct even though their methodology was laughable) shows fairly clearly that SSDs can deliver great performance for the power they use. (Of course there are some shitty ones two, but that's what you expect in a newish product range).
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Ceci n'est pas une pipe
I imagine serving up youtube videos and live streams are somewhat different scenarios.
Something is worth whatever people agree is it's value. What else could something be worth? There is no inherent value in either the ingredients or the labor, only what people agree it to be worth.
Fortunately this works rather well as it means there is incentive to produce things that people actually value.
It's called adding value. A loaf of bread is worth more than it's constituent ingredients. It's not "magically" creating anything, it's called "work".
Groan. Stop thinking in terms of money as the only indicator of profit. Money is simply a method of exchange, a device we use to make trade easy. It has no value outside the fact that we can exchange it for things with actual value.
If Bob has three apples and Jenny has three bottles of water then they can both "profit" by exchanging one of their items because what they receive has more value to them than what they gave up.
It's you that lacks a basic understanding. You are making an exchange, clearly both parties are profiting from it otherwise they wouldn't make the exchange.
Money is simply a medium of exchange, grease that helps a market's wheels move efficiently. A common factor which makes it easier to barter what you produce for what someone else produces.