Exactly what I thought when I read this article. The effects of relativity won't be "counteracted" by cosmic radiation any more than a diet of donuts and lard can counteract the effects of relativity.
I find their choice of countries amusing. Are these really the only countries that significantly censor the internet? (Or are these the only ones that google cooperates with?)
turning space into a tourist attraction may be the only way we're ever really going to get off this rock
Why exactly do we need to get off of this rock, again? I mean, star trek is cool and everything, but until we're close to being able to teraform other planets, it's not going to be terribly useful to send people to live in space. The historical need for humans to be sent to different places in space has been the lack of ability to remote-control things because of time delays, but I guarentee you that AI will progress at a much faster rate than our ability to cheaply send something to another planet that can keep a human alive and safe.
The problem isn't getting off of this rock, the problem is preventing us from turning earth into a rock. How about we focus on that instead of being in such a hurry to leave it.
I can't understand why the government needs this data
Because if google says no, and they give in, then they look weak. This government has had a "not backing down under any circumstances" complex for the last 6 years. Hrm, I wonder why.
With all due respect, communism is not high on the chart of things that get the benefit of the doubt.
With all due respect, all governments should not be high on the chart of things that get the benefit of the doubt, but that doesn't justify irresponsible reporting.
What if an arab-american blogger posted to his blog saying that he'd been arrested for "reasons that we're all familiar with", and then it turns out he'd been arrested for shoplifting? I'm sure a similar situation would have arisen, and made future articles about US mistreatment of arabs would look more like conspiracy theories than they would have previously.
Yes, it was irresponsible of the bloggers to do what they did (and an obvious attempt to increase readership), but it was also irresponsible for news agencies to report on it without having any facts. It's very tabloidesque.
If the laptop was classified as evidence in the case, chances are it wouldn't be in his possession. If it wasn't, then he didn't commit a crime.
You don't know anything about lawsuits, do you? If a lawsuit is in place, they can subpoena any related documents (or documents that *might* be related). Deleting any of them is a crime - they all have to be turned over for both parties to decide what is related.
For those who don't want to read the entire article, here is the cliffsnote version.
I understand operating systems and am very smart and I have 20 computers and a dog named spot.
linux power.
Vista will suck because it won't be free.
linux power.
The graphics will suck because it takes an expensive computer to run Aeroglass.
linux power.
Memory management will suck because linux has had good memory management for years.
linux power.
Superfetch will suck because GCC has had it for years, and your dog can run off with your USB card. (Never mind that it's just a *cache*, and it won't do anything but slow your computer down again after your dog starts chewing on it)
linux power.
TCP/IP improvements will suck because it's been in other OS's for years.
linux power.
Security will be bad because they found a bug in vista.
Actually, since Mandarin is transliterated into English, and Tiananmen is a name, there is no "correct" spelling for Tiananmen.
First of all, that's not what transliteration is. Tiananmen doesn't literally mean anything in english. Transliteration is translating word for word instead of translating by meaning. Secondly, you could similarly argue that Chainah is just as correct as China, since it's just a phonetic mangling of "zhong guo", but you don't see anyone doing that.
And, thirdly, my favorite way of seeing how correct a spelling is, there are 25 million web hits for "Tiananmen", vs. 500 web hits for "Tianammen".
So yes, there is a correct spelling (as much as you can claim correct spelling of anything), and no, it's not Tianammen.
Maybe they're trying to create a market for multimedia stuff where there currently isn't one, but this doesn't seem like what people want. I'd rather have a cell phone with a long battery life than one that has really cool graphics that drain the battery after 20 minutes.
Maybe they're hoping that fuel cell technology gets small enough for cell phones by the time this hits the market.
I like how their screen capture of the image search has Tiananmen spelled "Tianammen". Also ironic that if you search for "Tianammen", you actually do get pictures of tanks, whereas you don't if you search for "Tiananmen".
A better lense isn't going to be the solution to my problem - no matter how good the lense, when you zoom in on a 1 inch by 1-inch square of an image (note: I'm saying image, NOT shot in the camera) that needs to actually be at least two to four times that size, then megapixels matter.
But what I was saying is that in *consumer cameras* (which is, after all, the subject of this entire thread), what needs to change isn't megapixels, it's the lenses. If you put a 1 gigapixel sensor on a canon a610, the lens quality would be too poor to get any more detail out of it than if you have an 8 megapixel sensor.
As a professional graphic designer and artist, I feel that we'll still need a bit more in order to say "we've got enough pixels."
You probably need a better lens, not more megapixels; and that won't be happening in consumer cameras for quite a while. I have an 8mp DSLR, and even at 8MP, the clarity isn't that great simply because I have cheap lenses. Also, they said that for the consumer cameras, the megapixel race is over. Of course for professional cameras (which I suppose you count as a professional, if you do it for your job), the megapixal race is far from over. (There are only a few DSLRs that have sensors that are actually the size of 35mm film - and they're like 16 megapixels)
I bet people sat around and wondered what the Carnegie Steel of 1995 would be like. I'm sure they had fun, but it probably wasn't worth the effort.
Haha, yeah, or standard oil. Oh wait, if it weren't split up into 34 different companies, several of which are the largest and most profitable companies in the world now (Exxon-mobile has the largest profit of any corporation in the world), it would be a freaking scary company. The daughter companies combined have an annual revenue of well over a trillion dollars. Can you imagine a world in which they'd been able to leverage their monopoly?
I think back then, a few people thought about the future, and that's why they decided to break it up.
I tend to view every move of Gates in terms of wondering if he's doing these things with the ulterior motive of helping his company, Microsoft
I really don't think that using $49 Billion of your own money to start a charitable foundation could *possibly* be out of a motive to help your company financially. Why on earth wouldn't he reinvest it if his motives were to help Microsoft?
There have been, what, only...40 critical updates since SP2? That's a reasonable number of things to download over a modem before my operating system is usable.
I used to live in a house with 7 people, and we had a DVR that had 2 tuners. (so, you could record on one, and watch on the other)
Occasionally we would have conflicts with someone recording a movie during a regularly recorded TV show, and someone else was bored and wanted to surf channels - but even with 7 people, 3 or 4 tuners definitely would have done it. 11 is so overkill it's not even funny.
However...technology for technology's sake, I suppose.
Before, I had to watch TV for free on that terrifying screen that was so easy on my eyes. Now I can pay money to watch it on a tiny screen that I have to hold in a viewable position for 40 consecutive minutes.
Networks eager to get their shows on people's ipods will certainly be tempted to try to strike special deals to make their shows more easily obtainable
This makes no sense. People aren't going to browse iTunes looking for good TV shows to watch. They're going to download the shows that they missed. This makes the series more watchable, because missing a single episode doesn't ruin the plot. (It also makes it more portable)
But, your scenario you described is silly. You fail.
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How are the two connected again?
Exactly what I thought when I read this article. The effects of relativity won't be "counteracted" by cosmic radiation any more than a diet of donuts and lard can counteract the effects of relativity.
Big surprise, radiation kills you.
Were they from Nigeria? Yeah, I got one of those too. =P
I find their choice of countries amusing. Are these really the only countries that significantly censor the internet? (Or are these the only ones that google cooperates with?)
And it's not just the old or poor who are living offline
Pretty sure everyone they interviewed was in the 40's and 50's range. Sounds pretty old to me. =P
turning space into a tourist attraction may be the only way we're ever really going to get off this rock
Why exactly do we need to get off of this rock, again? I mean, star trek is cool and everything, but until we're close to being able to teraform other planets, it's not going to be terribly useful to send people to live in space. The historical need for humans to be sent to different places in space has been the lack of ability to remote-control things because of time delays, but I guarentee you that AI will progress at a much faster rate than our ability to cheaply send something to another planet that can keep a human alive and safe.
The problem isn't getting off of this rock, the problem is preventing us from turning earth into a rock. How about we focus on that instead of being in such a hurry to leave it.
I can't understand why the government needs this data
Because if google says no, and they give in, then they look weak. This government has had a "not backing down under any circumstances" complex for the last 6 years. Hrm, I wonder why.
All of the first 10 posts have been completely retarded. You guys sound like X-Files fans drooling over scully.
With all due respect, communism is not high on the chart of things that get the benefit of the doubt.
With all due respect, all governments should not be high on the chart of things that get the benefit of the doubt, but that doesn't justify irresponsible reporting.
What if an arab-american blogger posted to his blog saying that he'd been arrested for "reasons that we're all familiar with", and then it turns out he'd been arrested for shoplifting? I'm sure a similar situation would have arisen, and made future articles about US mistreatment of arabs would look more like conspiracy theories than they would have previously.
Yes, it was irresponsible of the bloggers to do what they did (and an obvious attempt to increase readership), but it was also irresponsible for news agencies to report on it without having any facts. It's very tabloidesque.
The drink is an invention, the beans are a discovery.
It's interesting to me that the #1 invention credited to islam is something that muslims are not allowed to drink.
If the laptop was classified as evidence in the case, chances are it wouldn't be in his possession. If it wasn't, then he didn't commit a crime.
You don't know anything about lawsuits, do you? If a lawsuit is in place, they can subpoena any related documents (or documents that *might* be related). Deleting any of them is a crime - they all have to be turned over for both parties to decide what is related.
For those who don't want to read the entire article, here is the cliffsnote version.
I understand operating systems and am very smart and I have 20 computers and a dog named spot.
linux power.
Vista will suck because it won't be free.
linux power.
The graphics will suck because it takes an expensive computer to run Aeroglass.
linux power.
Memory management will suck because linux has had good memory management for years.
linux power.
Superfetch will suck because GCC has had it for years, and your dog can run off with your USB card. (Never mind that it's just a *cache*, and it won't do anything but slow your computer down again after your dog starts chewing on it)
linux power.
TCP/IP improvements will suck because it's been in other OS's for years.
linux power.
Security will be bad because they found a bug in vista.
linux power.
Actually, since Mandarin is transliterated into English, and Tiananmen is a name, there is no "correct" spelling for Tiananmen.
First of all, that's not what transliteration is. Tiananmen doesn't literally mean anything in english. Transliteration is translating word for word instead of translating by meaning. Secondly, you could similarly argue that Chainah is just as correct as China, since it's just a phonetic mangling of "zhong guo", but you don't see anyone doing that.
And, thirdly, my favorite way of seeing how correct a spelling is, there are 25 million web hits for "Tiananmen", vs. 500 web hits for "Tianammen".
So yes, there is a correct spelling (as much as you can claim correct spelling of anything), and no, it's not Tianammen.
Maybe they're trying to create a market for multimedia stuff where there currently isn't one, but this doesn't seem like what people want. I'd rather have a cell phone with a long battery life than one that has really cool graphics that drain the battery after 20 minutes.
Maybe they're hoping that fuel cell technology gets small enough for cell phones by the time this hits the market.
I like how their screen capture of the image search has Tiananmen spelled "Tianammen". Also ironic that if you search for "Tianammen", you actually do get pictures of tanks, whereas you don't if you search for "Tiananmen".
Shoddy reporting.
A better lense isn't going to be the solution to my problem - no matter how good the lense, when you zoom in on a 1 inch by 1-inch square of an image (note: I'm saying image, NOT shot in the camera) that needs to actually be at least two to four times that size, then megapixels matter.
But what I was saying is that in *consumer cameras* (which is, after all, the subject of this entire thread), what needs to change isn't megapixels, it's the lenses. If you put a 1 gigapixel sensor on a canon a610, the lens quality would be too poor to get any more detail out of it than if you have an 8 megapixel sensor.
As a professional graphic designer and artist, I feel that we'll still need a bit more in order to say "we've got enough pixels."
You probably need a better lens, not more megapixels; and that won't be happening in consumer cameras for quite a while. I have an 8mp DSLR, and even at 8MP, the clarity isn't that great simply because I have cheap lenses. Also, they said that for the consumer cameras, the megapixel race is over. Of course for professional cameras (which I suppose you count as a professional, if you do it for your job), the megapixal race is far from over. (There are only a few DSLRs that have sensors that are actually the size of 35mm film - and they're like 16 megapixels)
And they use computers? This is excellent news!
Hej! Mi povas paroli esperanto, you insensitive clod!
l o/
For those of you who want to make equally cliche and off-topic posts, here's a link. =P http://www.kafejo.com/lingvoj/auxlangs/eo/traduki
I bet people sat around and wondered what the Carnegie Steel of 1995 would be like. I'm sure they had fun, but it probably wasn't worth the effort.
Haha, yeah, or standard oil. Oh wait, if it weren't split up into 34 different companies, several of which are the largest and most profitable companies in the world now (Exxon-mobile has the largest profit of any corporation in the world), it would be a freaking scary company. The daughter companies combined have an annual revenue of well over a trillion dollars. Can you imagine a world in which they'd been able to leverage their monopoly?
I think back then, a few people thought about the future, and that's why they decided to break it up.
I tend to view every move of Gates in terms of wondering if he's doing these things with the ulterior motive of helping his company, Microsoft
I really don't think that using $49 Billion of your own money to start a charitable foundation could *possibly* be out of a motive to help your company financially. Why on earth wouldn't he reinvest it if his motives were to help Microsoft?
That's messed up, man.
Conspiracy theories don't need reasons backing them up. I still think that microsoft eats babies.
There have been, what, only...40 critical updates since SP2? That's a reasonable number of things to download over a modem before my operating system is usable.
=P
I used to live in a house with 7 people, and we had a DVR that had 2 tuners. (so, you could record on one, and watch on the other)
Occasionally we would have conflicts with someone recording a movie during a regularly recorded TV show, and someone else was bored and wanted to surf channels - but even with 7 people, 3 or 4 tuners definitely would have done it. 11 is so overkill it's not even funny.
However...technology for technology's sake, I suppose.
Before, I had to watch TV for free on that terrifying screen that was so easy on my eyes. Now I can pay money to watch it on a tiny screen that I have to hold in a viewable position for 40 consecutive minutes.
No wonder video iPods are such a hit.
Networks eager to get their shows on people's ipods will certainly be tempted to try to strike special deals to make their shows more easily obtainable
This makes no sense. People aren't going to browse iTunes looking for good TV shows to watch. They're going to download the shows that they missed. This makes the series more watchable, because missing a single episode doesn't ruin the plot. (It also makes it more portable)
But, your scenario you described is silly. You fail.