Are you sure? It's a pretty long list. Just off the top of my head? Korea. Defense of Taiwan. First (depends on how you count it, Second too) Gulf war. Afghan war (by proxy) against the Soviets. Afghan war (not by proxy)... again, depends on how you define "won". And, of course, dozens of minor military operations (SEAL Team-6 against Osama, would be one example.)
Oh yeah, and while it wasn't technically a "war", there was the little incident with the USSR. What was that called again? The Frozen... no, Cold War! Yeah, and that too. You were saying about a trailer park?
Just because there hasn't been a full-scale war by the US since 1946 doesn't mean there weren't a lot of victories. Quite a few defeats, too, although most were because of either politics (Vietnam is a good example) or failed covert operations (Operation Eagle Claw, for instance.)
You're right though, we shouldn't rip on the French for what happened in WWII. Their resistance was actually pretty badass. Plus, there are oh so many other, much better reasons to make fun of the French:)
IE 9 is nothing like IE 6. It is a competive browser with no lockin.
Extensions? Native Linux port? Didn't think so.
Also the latest HTML 5 score for IE 10 shows a 306 score with bonus points. Opera 12 alpha, by comparison, is the highest pre-release (346+9 bonus). And IE 9 is abysmal.
MS has (for quite a while, starting in Vista I think) put the install packages for a lot of software and Windows features into every installed copy of Windows. So turning features off doesn't remove them from the system, it just removes the installed components. A quick check shows this includes IE9 on 7. So turning it off in the Windows features (like they do in TFA) doesn't remove it entirely from the system (you can always reinstall it without a disk), although it does "uninstall" it I believe. This is rather convenient (helps greatly with their install process too.) So what if you can't remove every las trace of it from 8? You can uninstall it for all practical purposes.
Also, it may be possible to completely remove it, TFA just says MS hasn't said how yet. So, yeah, TFA is useless and spreading FUD, AFAICT.
The companies are in several different countries, so even if one doesn't want to look at malwarea virus (because they suspect it has government connections) someone else can and there is nothing local government can do. Diplomatic channels are right out, it would require semi-official acknowledgement of creating it. Even backroom channels would be dangerous.
Probably the people involved wouldn't even try to interfere, even with a local company. Too much possibility of it getting out. Keeping the malware low-key seems to be the preferred route, as it is for most competent intelligence operations. And it seems to be working.
Wait, this question was serious? The heat from the mantle will eventually migrate upwards anyways. And turning it into electricity won't introduce more heat into our atmosphere than we already are from burning coal/ natural gas. Considerably less so, especially without any CO2 production.
Geothermal can last a long, long time. Although I should point out that scharkalvin is wrong (about this one): Google's EGS plan doesn't use geothermal plumes like most geothermal power does, it just uses the Earth's natural heat at about 6.5km down (which occurs everywhere to various degrees.) Hence, the gradient map.
Oh, and lest we forget, sun unleashes something like 1*10^17 joules of energy on the Earth per second. It would take an absolute shitload of geothermal stations, probably more than we could ever effectively build, to add any considerable amount to that.
Ah, but who introduced and sponsored those bills? Google can point to those. Also, simply getting people aware of these laws (most people know little to nothing about the DMCA) could have a huge impact. Google could do that easily.
You know what politicians lile even more? Getting elected. Google could probably name names of people responsible, pointing out they are responsible for youtube no longer being youtube, and make sure they never get elected again. They have the presence, if they choose to use it.
Lots of people use youtube. Google could get massive numbers of people hopping mad at the MAFIAA if they spin it right. Also, Google is bigger and has a lot more money and internet control than the music industry. They could do it. Remains to be seen if they will.
Well, the LOC has 147 million items, 33 million of them books. At, say an average of 1kg each, that would be, say 40 million kilos? Probably more. Lets say 50 million kg, falling from infinity to the Earth's surface gives a total energy of 3.14*10^15 joules, at 4.184Gj/ton of TNT gives a total of 750kilotons of TNT. That would be about 57 Hiroshimas. Note that the LOC probably weighs at least 2-3 times that, but Google doesn't seem to know, so whatever.
Mandatory arbitration clauses might not stick up in court. Regardless, come to think of it class action probably wouldn't be appropriate anyways (they haven't harmed the consumer, they violated FCC regulations.)
Also, fines might have been the wrong word. What I meant was the FCC can tell Verizon "stop using Block C or stop locking down bootloaders." Verizon wouldn't like doing the first (although they wouldn't like the second, either).
The fines are just icing on the cake, although I agree they'll probably just be passed on to consumers. That wouldn't be a problem, of course, if the mobile market in the US was free (everyone could go elsewhere) but alas, it isn't really. And AT&T wants to make it less free. Damnit. this is why I don't own a smartphone.
There are a couple games that take good advantage of PC hardware. Just Cause 2 was pretty good at it, although not the best. Metro 2033 had hardware tessellation (DX11) graphics, something none of the consoles can do, and so did Stalker: Call of Pripyat. And of course, The Witcher 2 was looked amazing IMO, far and away better than anything any console has done yet.
Actually I think the bigger problem is PCs themselves. A lot of them are pretty old and don't support the newest features, so if you want your game to run on them you can't make your game support the latest and greatest from the ground up, you have to tack it on at the end. So games that do support advanced graphical features often don't take full advantage of them, because they would have to make what amounts to multiple engines to do so. This is one reason I mentioned Just Cause 2: it actually required DX10, so they could support some of those graphical features. Didn't totally nail it, but got pretty close. Most games only require DX9.0c, meaning they can't be built with (for instance) tessellation as a primary feature.
On the other hand, console games, even the best ones, look like crap compared to the same game on a modern PC. The worst is the PS3, which seems to barely support anti-aliasing (I remember looking at the PS3 Bioshock and thinking: "really? No AA in this day and age?")
We are? Huh, I wonder why the EPA still exists, then.
Or maybe the richest of the rich, for that matter. You know, after paying about 35% of all income taxes in the US, you'd think the top 1% would try to get that changed. I could give a dozen other examples, like corporate regulation, anti-trust laws, etc.
I am really, really sick of this meme on/. The world is not a plutocracy or an oligarchy or any of those things. The wealthy have a vast amount of power, yes, because you know what? They always have, and they always will. Because power money. Always. Even in states that try to establish communism, or in ancient Sparta (which didn't even have real money), the rich are powerful and the powerful are rich. It's a fact of life, and it will never change. The solution is not to get rid of rich people (which a lot of people seem to want now a days) because again, you can't.
What is the solution? Make it in the rich people's best interest to have everyone else moderately well off. And this is capitalism, by (part of) Adam Smith's definition. It's a simple syllogism: people can only buy stuff from capitalist corporations if they have money. Corporations only make money if people buy their stuff. Therefore corporations (and by extension rich capitalists) need to make sure people have money. Doesn't always work perfectly, and government involvement if not careful can fuck it up royal, but I'd say living in the wealthiest period of human history is pretty damn good. Why the hell should I care if people get rich off it?
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libavcodec includes ALAC support (according to Wikipedia, anyways) so VLC or somesuch could convert ALAC->FLAC.
Huh, I didn't think "Home Econ" counts as a science degree.
You never know. Maybe he owns non-quantum cats.
Judging from Sony's previous attempts at "security" (actually, this "CAPTCHA" is even funnier), I don't think hackers have much to worry about.
Please list the wars won by America since 1946.
Are you sure? It's a pretty long list. Just off the top of my head? Korea. Defense of Taiwan. First (depends on how you count it, Second too) Gulf war. Afghan war (by proxy) against the Soviets. Afghan war (not by proxy)... again, depends on how you define "won". And, of course, dozens of minor military operations (SEAL Team-6 against Osama, would be one example.)
Oh yeah, and while it wasn't technically a "war", there was the little incident with the USSR. What was that called again? The Frozen... no, Cold War! Yeah, and that too. You were saying about a trailer park?
Just because there hasn't been a full-scale war by the US since 1946 doesn't mean there weren't a lot of victories. Quite a few defeats, too, although most were because of either politics (Vietnam is a good example) or failed covert operations (Operation Eagle Claw, for instance.)
You're right though, we shouldn't rip on the French for what happened in WWII. Their resistance was actually pretty badass. Plus, there are oh so many other, much better reasons to make fun of the French :)
IE 9 is nothing like IE 6. It is a competive browser with no lockin.
Extensions? Native Linux port? Didn't think so.
Also the latest HTML 5 score for IE 10 shows a 306 score with bonus points. Opera 12 alpha, by comparison, is the highest pre-release (346+9 bonus). And IE 9 is abysmal.
MS has (for quite a while, starting in Vista I think) put the install packages for a lot of software and Windows features into every installed copy of Windows. So turning features off doesn't remove them from the system, it just removes the installed components. A quick check shows this includes IE9 on 7. So turning it off in the Windows features (like they do in TFA) doesn't remove it entirely from the system (you can always reinstall it without a disk), although it does "uninstall" it I believe. This is rather convenient (helps greatly with their install process too.) So what if you can't remove every las trace of it from 8? You can uninstall it for all practical purposes.
Also, it may be possible to completely remove it, TFA just says MS hasn't said how yet. So, yeah, TFA is useless and spreading FUD, AFAICT.
Sounds great! Maybe, I don't know, Cuba?
The companies are in several different countries, so even if one doesn't want to look at malwarea virus (because they suspect it has government connections) someone else can and there is nothing local government can do. Diplomatic channels are right out, it would require semi-official acknowledgement of creating it. Even backroom channels would be dangerous.
Probably the people involved wouldn't even try to interfere, even with a local company. Too much possibility of it getting out. Keeping the malware low-key seems to be the preferred route, as it is for most competent intelligence operations. And it seems to be working.
Wait, this question was serious? The heat from the mantle will eventually migrate upwards anyways. And turning it into electricity won't introduce more heat into our atmosphere than we already are from burning coal/ natural gas. Considerably less so, especially without any CO2 production.
Geothermal can last a long, long time. Although I should point out that scharkalvin is wrong (about this one): Google's EGS plan doesn't use geothermal plumes like most geothermal power does, it just uses the Earth's natural heat at about 6.5km down (which occurs everywhere to various degrees.) Hence, the gradient map.
Oh, and lest we forget, sun unleashes something like 1*10^17 joules of energy on the Earth per second. It would take an absolute shitload of geothermal stations, probably more than we could ever effectively build, to add any considerable amount to that.
Probably about the same time all those wind farms start blowing Earth off it's orbit.
Ah, but who introduced and sponsored those bills? Google can point to those. Also, simply getting people aware of these laws (most people know little to nothing about the DMCA) could have a huge impact. Google could do that easily.
You know what politicians lile even more? Getting elected. Google could probably name names of people responsible, pointing out they are responsible for youtube no longer being youtube, and make sure they never get elected again. They have the presence, if they choose to use it.
Lots of people use youtube. Google could get massive numbers of people hopping mad at the MAFIAA if they spin it right. Also, Google is bigger and has a lot more money and internet control than the music industry. They could do it. Remains to be seen if they will.
Damn, can't believe I forgot that step. Meh, too much time spent studying physics. Thanks.
Given the amount of porn on the Internet, somehow I don't see that being a problem...
Or wooden shoes in the gears, if you wanna go for some real old-school sabotage.
Well, the LOC has 147 million items, 33 million of them books. At, say an average of 1kg each, that would be, say 40 million kilos? Probably more. Lets say 50 million kg, falling from infinity to the Earth's surface gives a total energy of 3.14*10^15 joules, at 4.184Gj/ton of TNT gives a total of 750kilotons of TNT. That would be about 57 Hiroshimas. Note that the LOC probably weighs at least 2-3 times that, but Google doesn't seem to know, so whatever.
I hasd the same thought. But clouds meant i wouldnt have seem it anyways. Anyone know how long this will last?
Mandatory arbitration clauses might not stick up in court. Regardless, come to think of it class action probably wouldn't be appropriate anyways (they haven't harmed the consumer, they violated FCC regulations.)
Also, fines might have been the wrong word. What I meant was the FCC can tell Verizon "stop using Block C or stop locking down bootloaders." Verizon wouldn't like doing the first (although they wouldn't like the second, either).
The fines are just icing on the cake, although I agree they'll probably just be passed on to consumers. That wouldn't be a problem, of course, if the mobile market in the US was free (everyone could go elsewhere) but alas, it isn't really. And AT&T wants to make it less free. Damnit. this is why I don't own a smartphone.
Class action, maybe? Or FCC fines, that'd probably more effective.
There are a couple games that take good advantage of PC hardware. Just Cause 2 was pretty good at it, although not the best. Metro 2033 had hardware tessellation (DX11) graphics, something none of the consoles can do, and so did Stalker: Call of Pripyat. And of course, The Witcher 2 was looked amazing IMO, far and away better than anything any console has done yet.
Actually I think the bigger problem is PCs themselves. A lot of them are pretty old and don't support the newest features, so if you want your game to run on them you can't make your game support the latest and greatest from the ground up, you have to tack it on at the end. So games that do support advanced graphical features often don't take full advantage of them, because they would have to make what amounts to multiple engines to do so. This is one reason I mentioned Just Cause 2: it actually required DX10, so they could support some of those graphical features. Didn't totally nail it, but got pretty close. Most games only require DX9.0c, meaning they can't be built with (for instance) tessellation as a primary feature.
On the other hand, console games, even the best ones, look like crap compared to the same game on a modern PC. The worst is the PS3, which seems to barely support anti-aliasing (I remember looking at the PS3 Bioshock and thinking: "really? No AA in this day and age?")
We are? Huh, I wonder why the EPA still exists, then.
Or maybe the richest of the rich, for that matter. You know, after paying about 35% of all income taxes in the US, you'd think the top 1% would try to get that changed. I could give a dozen other examples, like corporate regulation, anti-trust laws, etc.
I am really, really sick of this meme on /. The world is not a plutocracy or an oligarchy or any of those things. The wealthy have a vast amount of power, yes, because you know what? They always have, and they always will. Because power money. Always. Even in states that try to establish communism, or in ancient Sparta (which didn't even have real money), the rich are powerful and the powerful are rich. It's a fact of life, and it will never change. The solution is not to get rid of rich people (which a lot of people seem to want now a days) because again, you can't.
What is the solution? Make it in the rich people's best interest to have everyone else moderately well off. And this is capitalism, by (part of) Adam Smith's definition. It's a simple syllogism: people can only buy stuff from capitalist corporations if they have money. Corporations only make money if people buy their stuff. Therefore corporations (and by extension rich capitalists) need to make sure people have money. Doesn't always work perfectly, and government involvement if not careful can fuck it up royal, but I'd say living in the wealthiest period of human history is pretty damn good. Why the hell should I care if people get rich off it?
Well, I typed that on an Android tablet... so I'm gonna go ahead and blame Google. Its better that way.
Oh, you mean the US laws that banned the Galaxy Tab for being a rectangle? News flash: this isnt just a US problam.