I don't think the desktop is dead, but the docking story is getting better and better. Look at laptops. 10 years ago, a $2,000 laptop was barely enough computer for most people. Today, a $1,000 laptop is plenty of computer for most people. Flash storage looks poised to hit 100 GB for $50 in a cubic inch (or two); not this year, but the trend is there.
At some point, a desktop is much more interesting for use as a screen and keyboard to access your data with (that you are either carrying around, or on the network somewhere) than it is for local storage and computation. This won't work for every task, but huge swaths of day to day computing would benefit.
There is not cost to anyone (outside of Thompson) if you are correct. FLAC or whatever lossless format work just fine (where there is player support). Lossless formats probably don't matter to people who can't figure out that they need 2 different formats if their player doesn't support a lossless format.
This format is basically the worst of 2 worlds, so I don't see it catching on. The worst thing that could happen is that manufacturers actually decide to support it and end up ignoring the better alternatives.
The mechanism leading to gravitation attraction is certainly called a theory and is quite comparable to evolution (as a theory). That bodies move towards each other is pretty much a fact, as are things like natural selection and genetic drift (both have been repeatedly observed). The theory of evolution is the thing that tries to take those facts and combine them coherently.
There are forces that counter mutations. Unfavorable mutations are generally unable to compete with un-mutated individuals, and there are even correction mechanisms that operate directly on DNA.
Obsolete in what sense? Something not worth repairing can still be worth using (and this tends to get more true as price drops and performance increases...).
That is sort of a separate issue then, that the Netgear router you had was a POS. If the linux router box that you mention elsewhere in the thread had a weak password, you would be in the same boat as these routers (except you might be providing the botnet even more resources...).
You are repeatedly modded as a troll in your comment history. This isn't some conspiracy and is not entirely explainable by the lackluster quality of moderation, so it indicates that you are either actively trolling, or that you are unable to consistently communicate in a way that other people find useful.
Also, note that the only thing that I have asserted is that you are a troll (and I am willing to admit that you may simply be unaware of how ineffective your style of communication is; maybe style shouldn't matter, but that's life.).
Asserting that everything NASA accomplished would have been cheaper if done outside of a space program isn't based on logic, it is based on assertion (it isn't something that can be reasonably proved or disproved, history is). Repeatedly making un or weakly supported assertions is a great way to troll, you can just keep pretending they are facts.
Did you have a reasonable password set? The security industry has known that weak passwords are an issue for a lot longer than 18 months (though I do doubt that most cheapo routers have much support for anything like rate limiting, or alarms).
They didn't do enough testing of thalidomide. The proper response to mistakes is not to stop doing new things, it is to be more careful (like doing more testing, and developing models that help predict the impact of a molecule prior to that testing).
Bookmarklets are a lighter weight alternative, with the (potential) advantage that they default to not running, you just activate them when a web page is broken (so for webpages that are always broken, greasemonkey wins, but there are advantages to knowing that the current page has not been monkeyed with).
God forbid you just divide by 3. Most people, if you showed them the clouds separately, would have idea that there was a difference between 15,240 m and 16,667 m (numerically, the difference is about 10%).
Hell, 10,000 m is already pretty abstract (people would tend to think of it in terms of how long it would take to drive or walk that far, but they wouldn't have any sort of useful internal relation to the quantity strictly as a distance, the way we do with a foot or meter).
If you are worried about insurance companies acting like insurance companies, you should just advocate for a switch towards some sort of universal payer system (because denying the companies the ability to discriminate based on the thing they are insuring means that costs end up shared anyway).
Why shouldn't insurance companies be able to charge more for people who don't take care of themselves?
There are lots of good reasons for a wealthy society to provide medical care to everyone, but the current model where insurance companies don't get to act like insurance companies is pretty much insane (I'm young and healthy and not particularly inclined to engage in risky behaviors; if I have to pay more for people that are not healthy and take stupid risks, let's not call it insurance).
You only need to get tested regularly if you are engaging in risky behavior. Sleeping with someone you are only marginally acquainted with is risky behavior.
Most people can wait to get tested until they notice symptoms.
Kyoto is toothless economic suicide for the U.S. Take out the free pass for China and India (if you want to subsidize their development, that's fine, but there is no good reason to tie the subsidy to what is ostensibly an environmental treaty) and it might get signed. With the free passes, no freaking way.
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The software companies could offer worthwhile bounties. Short of that, I can't fault the prizewinners much.
Are you really sure you (always) want to pay for high quality software?
I don't think the desktop is dead, but the docking story is getting better and better. Look at laptops. 10 years ago, a $2,000 laptop was barely enough computer for most people. Today, a $1,000 laptop is plenty of computer for most people. Flash storage looks poised to hit 100 GB for $50 in a cubic inch (or two); not this year, but the trend is there.
At some point, a desktop is much more interesting for use as a screen and keyboard to access your data with (that you are either carrying around, or on the network somewhere) than it is for local storage and computation. This won't work for every task, but huge swaths of day to day computing would benefit.
There are millions of enslaved humans, throughout the world.
There is not cost to anyone (outside of Thompson) if you are correct. FLAC or whatever lossless format work just fine (where there is player support). Lossless formats probably don't matter to people who can't figure out that they need 2 different formats if their player doesn't support a lossless format.
This format is basically the worst of 2 worlds, so I don't see it catching on. The worst thing that could happen is that manufacturers actually decide to support it and end up ignoring the better alternatives.
The mechanism leading to gravitation attraction is certainly called a theory and is quite comparable to evolution (as a theory). That bodies move towards each other is pretty much a fact, as are things like natural selection and genetic drift (both have been repeatedly observed). The theory of evolution is the thing that tries to take those facts and combine them coherently.
Man, there wasn't even nothing.
There are forces that counter mutations. Unfavorable mutations are generally unable to compete with un-mutated individuals, and there are even correction mechanisms that operate directly on DNA.
There are plenty of us that dislike American fundamentalism. By painting all Americans with the same brush, you repeat their mistake.
Obsolete in what sense? Something not worth repairing can still be worth using (and this tends to get more true as price drops and performance increases...).
That is sort of a separate issue then, that the Netgear router you had was a POS. If the linux router box that you mention elsewhere in the thread had a weak password, you would be in the same boat as these routers (except you might be providing the botnet even more resources...).
You are repeatedly modded as a troll in your comment history. This isn't some conspiracy and is not entirely explainable by the lackluster quality of moderation, so it indicates that you are either actively trolling, or that you are unable to consistently communicate in a way that other people find useful.
Also, note that the only thing that I have asserted is that you are a troll (and I am willing to admit that you may simply be unaware of how ineffective your style of communication is; maybe style shouldn't matter, but that's life.).
Asserting that everything NASA accomplished would have been cheaper if done outside of a space program isn't based on logic, it is based on assertion (it isn't something that can be reasonably proved or disproved, history is). Repeatedly making un or weakly supported assertions is a great way to troll, you can just keep pretending they are facts.
You are a self loving fanboy.
Did you have a reasonable password set? The security industry has known that weak passwords are an issue for a lot longer than 18 months (though I do doubt that most cheapo routers have much support for anything like rate limiting, or alarms).
Go away, troll.
Colbert is a reasonable name. At least as reasonable as Apollo.
They should just call every module "seven" anyway.
Yes, but I'm advocating for reasonable discourse, not 'fuck the sick' insurance-based healthcare.
Convincing people that their current medical coverage isn't really insurance is probably a good step towards improving things.
They didn't do enough testing of thalidomide. The proper response to mistakes is not to stop doing new things, it is to be more careful (like doing more testing, and developing models that help predict the impact of a molecule prior to that testing).
Bookmarklets are a lighter weight alternative, with the (potential) advantage that they default to not running, you just activate them when a web page is broken (so for webpages that are always broken, greasemonkey wins, but there are advantages to knowing that the current page has not been monkeyed with).
I got a lot of the bookmarklets I use from here:
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/
It isn't random code. It is barely arbitrary code (in that it is coming from someone you trust enough to do business with them...).
God forbid you just divide by 3. Most people, if you showed them the clouds separately, would have idea that there was a difference between 15,240 m and 16,667 m (numerically, the difference is about 10%).
Hell, 10,000 m is already pretty abstract (people would tend to think of it in terms of how long it would take to drive or walk that far, but they wouldn't have any sort of useful internal relation to the quantity strictly as a distance, the way we do with a foot or meter).
If you are worried about insurance companies acting like insurance companies, you should just advocate for a switch towards some sort of universal payer system (because denying the companies the ability to discriminate based on the thing they are insuring means that costs end up shared anyway).
Why shouldn't insurance companies be able to charge more for people who don't take care of themselves?
There are lots of good reasons for a wealthy society to provide medical care to everyone, but the current model where insurance companies don't get to act like insurance companies is pretty much insane (I'm young and healthy and not particularly inclined to engage in risky behaviors; if I have to pay more for people that are not healthy and take stupid risks, let's not call it insurance).
You only need to get tested regularly if you are engaging in risky behavior. Sleeping with someone you are only marginally acquainted with is risky behavior.
Most people can wait to get tested until they notice symptoms.
Kyoto is toothless economic suicide for the U.S. Take out the free pass for China and India (if you want to subsidize their development, that's fine, but there is no good reason to tie the subsidy to what is ostensibly an environmental treaty) and it might get signed. With the free passes, no freaking way.