1. Nerds tend to have less developed social skills or have a different cultural basis. Thus it's very easy for both of you to misunderstand each other. There are social queues you're sending that they won't pick up and queues they're sending that you won't pick up. That's just a communication issue.
2. They do actually know stuff you don't know and it isn't unreasonable when in their field of expertise for them to get a bit of respect. All other experts get that... why not them?
In either case, I've rarely had a problem with anyone if I was both patient and respectful. It costs me nothing and while occasionally aholes will attempt to take advantage of it on balance it serves me better.
Which departments are funded and how much funding they get is up to congress and not the president.
The president is not king or emperor and people need to stop treating the position this way. It is very dangerous because if we do this for too long the president will become emperor.
The majority of power must always reside in the legislature. They make the laws, they set policy, they debate the issues, they cut the deals. The president just runs the show after he's been given the rules.
First, let me say I'm generally in agreement with the copyright holders in that "it's their stuff and people are stealing"... it is their stuff and people are stealing it. That said, they really have no right to control general content delivery systems. The attempt to make the VCR illegal for example was one of the many things they've done over the years that is just wrong.
Do people have a right to rip them off? No. But they don't have a right to dictate the evolution of our technology either.
What's the balance here? I really think they need to adjust their business model to assume they don't have dictatorial control over these systems. Not only will that deal with third world piracy which is far worse then first world piracy. But it will also free them from caring about these content delivery systems. There are going to be pirates. GET OVER IT. Adjust your business model accordingly.
The only reason you can make things without renting time on a company or university computer is because consumer machines exist. If htey didn't you wouldn't be able to have such a high quality machine.
Trust, if the consumer computer market dies, you will suffer for it as someone that uses such machines.
Imagine tablets and smartphones with dramatically more processing power and memory. Why not run a full unchained OS on it? That is the future. Apple is enjoying a moment in time when the devices can do a lot if they're properly optimized. And had packaged it with a very slick content store and delivery mechanism.
What happens when a full blown OS can run on a tablet without any need for optimization?
How many people buy tv shows and movies on itunes on their PC for their PC? Suddenly you're competing with Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu. etc.
Apple's whole business model is based on dominating these devices so they can channel people into itunes. Once their ability to do that goes away their whole business model gets murky.
No, I'm not under that impression. THEY are under that impression when they say tablets and smartphones will replace the desktop. I quite clearly said they could compliment each other.
Please read someone's comment properly before attempting to correct them.
People that use desktop computers frequently use programs that are not approved by microsoft of apple or any other major corporation. An open source group can release a little program. Or some guy can write a program in his spare time that is great. Easily half the programs I use on a daily basis would likely not be approved by apple for one reason or another. If I have to ask apple's permission to run code, it isn't my machine. If it isn't my machine... why am I paying for it?
Either I get control or I see no reason to shell out dime one.
That said, the argument being made by this article is that we'll abandon your personal computers in favor of iFads. It's a completely goofy argument that demonstrates an ignorance of what ipads/iphones can do and what they can't. It fails to grasp what desktop computers can do and what tablets can't.
As someone else said, a tablet could be a desktop in a different form factor. Completely agree. But the people preaching the glories of the cloud aren't talking about that. They're talking about everyone giving up personal computing entirely and going to a massive dumb terminal system where every one uses the cloud instead of their own personal processing power.
There are applications for the cloud. I am not anti cloud. But I think it's an "ADDITIONAL" computing environment instead of a replacement. Further, as to the tablets and smart phones, that's the same situation. I think they're great. I have a few and I enjoy them. but they can't replace my desktop. They don't have the same utility.
If you jail break the ipad, then I'd agree. However, if not... then it's a much more restricted environment. A personal computer will run your own code. A default ipad will not.
The only sorts of people satisfied with a smart phone or an ipad rather then a proper computer never really used the computer properly in the first place. They do not do the same thing and you don't have the same control over it. That vital in business which is where much of the demand for computers started in the first place.
The cloud has it's uses and I think it will remain relevant for as long as our smart phones aren't powerful enough to do run desktop level applications entirely in their own processors/memory. That day will come though. And when that happens why trust the cloud and a likely unreliable internet connection when you can run the whole thing live?
The personal computer is as likely to go away as the pencil and paper... less likely actually. The iFad is enjoying it's day but in the end it can't deliver the same utility as a personal computer. And even if it could, there are matters of latency, security, customization, etc that are a systemic flaw of the cloud.
First, fu for being a dick... no really... drink molten glass.
Second, researchers don't need to exaggerate? Then why do they... frequently?
This has been an ongoing and system wide issue in the halls of science.
Do journalists exaggerate as well? Oh god yes... more often then not frankly. But it's less acceptable for scientists to do it. And in any case, my only suggestion was that the abstract was ignored and have it be uncitable as a source. So the paper proper can be cited. But the abstract cannot be cited. Do that, and maybe the journalists will be forced to actually read the study in the first place which might lead to more nuanced reporting. We can only hope.
The high price of oil is largely what is driving grain prices up. Higher water prices are also not helping.
I can't speak for the rest of the planet, but in the US many politicians have been attracted to the idea of getting the US off oil by artifically raising the price of oil. Well, that's an idea but there are consequences. And one of those consequences is that everything linked to fuel goes up in price as well.
The other issue is water. Many cities have grown in size while not increasing their water resources. They haven't built reservoirs at the same rate that their populations have increased. And as a result, when there is a water shortage they run out of water much faster then they should. In the real world yearly rainfall is not constant. It changes from year to year. But it is fairly consistent decade over decade. so what you do is have storage such that you can survive a few bad years by gathering extra water in the good years. THIS IS BASIC. The Romans had this down to a science.
What the cities have been doing instead is pilfering the farmer's water to make up their own shortfall. They figure "oh the farmers use lots of water, why build more infrastructure when it's easier to just gank their water." Well fine... genius move... Farmers in Australia started literally... LITERALLY committing suicide when the local government started taking their water away. They were losing their family farms... and all because they couldn't get any water. And why? Because the cities didn't build water infrastructure that had been planned over 50 years prior to that point.
So why is food going up? Because politicians are dicking over farmers. It's the sort of short sighted penny wise and pound foolish thinking we've come to expect from the political class. They only think about the next election and never about planning for the future.
It's really pretty simple. If you want more food... grow more food. How do you grow more food? Provide what farmers need to grow food.
That is... fuel for farm equipment (unless you want to mobilize 60 percent of the labor force to do farm labor), oil for pesticides (unless you want upwards of 50 percent of all produce to be eaten by insects before it reaches market), fertilizer (unless you want farmers to use 80 percent more land and 80 percent more water), and of course... Water.
The cities need to stop stealing the farmer's water and politicians need to stop dicking with the fuel supply.
That or enjoy spiking food prices and global instability as large portions of the developing world start literally starving and things get really ugly.
Currently we grant the telecommunications giants regional monopolies. There is only one cable company serving you. There is only one local phone company serving you.
Tell the company that they have to make high speed internet available at a reasonable price to everyone within their region OR alternative companies will be granted a license within that zone to lay their own wire in direct competition.
Really, they should be able to do this regardless. However, many people are attached to the notion that allowing multiple companies to run wire would just be too messy. It wouldn't and it would solve our bandwidth issues in about six seconds flat. But this seems like a reasonable compromise.
Several small communities in rural states have tried to set up a local ISP just for themselves and have been shut down by court order. The big telecommunications companies claimed it violated their monopoly rights.
Well there you go... that's why the internet is slow there. Not lack of subsidies but excessive regulations that do little beyond promoting the status quo.
Seriously. Who is going to check there? You'll be living with some crazy people and drug addicts... and it will be embarrassing. But it will be cheap/free and there will be no record of you anywhere. You can wait that out for weeks. Keep a pre paid cell phone powered off. You can make phone calls occasionally to make sure certain people know you're okay. Then take the battery out/turn it off... and wait.
When you feel safe, just get on a bus and go home.
If you need to take other people with you... camping might be your best bet.
If you have a friend, borrow their car and leave them yours. If you don't have a friend or no "good" friends then just risk your own car. Once you're out of the city no more credit cards. Just cash. Again, possibly you can get a wire transfer of money from a friend as they might not monitor the bank accounts of friends.
Stay away for a week or so camping and then come back. Do it right and the family might not even know their lives were in danger. That's a good idea for the kids since it might traumatize them. As to the wife/husband... your call.
millions of Americans are not flocking to mexico for free medical care... rather millions of mexicans come north.
These stupid studies are all trying to prove the moon is brighter then the sun. It doesn't matter how many graphs, pie charts, or studies you do on the subject. The evident facts of the matter don't support the premise.
This isn't to say mexico can't one day have a great medical system. It's just that today... where do you honestly want to be treated? Exactly. End of argument.
Solution was to dive into the registry and turn lots and lots of things off.
Sites that offer up AIO registry hack packs for windows should be more common.
I would totally pay for it. My time is worth enough that just getting a giant pack that has everything nicely labeled and organized would be worth a mint.
I use windows 7 and there are a lot of things you can't do on windows 7 that you could do in windows XP or Vista. For example, you could manually organize folders in windows in those operating systems. I mean, literally pick up folders and move them from one side of a window to the other. This is something I've gotten used to doing since windows 3.1. So I was deeply annoyed when window 7 disallowed it. Finally I found some registry hacks that would re-enable the feature.
Beyond that, there are full shell replacements for windows. I expect that using shell replacements might become more and more the thing to do on windows systems. On top of everything else, some of the shell replacements are much more configurable then windows shell meaning that if you want to hide features from users you can literally remove them from the GUI entirely.
A combination of those two factor should make more then a few companies look at shell replacements.
Most realistic scenarios involve intercepting the rock a long time before it gets that close to the earth. If you try to move it at the eleventh hour then yeah the amount of energy to get that sort of delta v is going to be absurd.
However, if you intercept it quite a bit earlier then bomb could be of reasonable size. Does this meet the criteria of blowing it apart? Depends. If you buried it in the middle of asteroid and we assumed the bomb fractured the rock and caused all the bits to drift slowly in various directions then wouldn't that qualify? It wouldn't recoalese at least not before the intercept with the earth.
Cuts both ways... Possibly the guy that isn't a blue dot in a blue neighborhood gets his tires slashed and his mail box stolen... or shot.
It's not like democrats don't own guns too. Remember, hunting days being mandatory holidays is in most of the union contracts especially in the rust belt.
This app is a generally bad idea and both sides have crazies. Crazy knows no ideology. Crazy just "is"...
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1. Nerds tend to have less developed social skills or have a different cultural basis. Thus it's very easy for both of you to misunderstand each other. There are social queues you're sending that they won't pick up and queues they're sending that you won't pick up. That's just a communication issue.
2. They do actually know stuff you don't know and it isn't unreasonable when in their field of expertise for them to get a bit of respect. All other experts get that... why not them?
In either case, I've rarely had a problem with anyone if I was both patient and respectful. It costs me nothing and while occasionally aholes will attempt to take advantage of it on balance it serves me better.
Right because the US Constitution, in protection of our liberties, was set up to make one man god king of everyone.
Or you're wrong.
Pick one... I'm too tired to correct everyone on the internet.
Which departments are funded and how much funding they get is up to congress and not the president.
The president is not king or emperor and people need to stop treating the position this way. It is very dangerous because if we do this for too long the president will become emperor.
The majority of power must always reside in the legislature. They make the laws, they set policy, they debate the issues, they cut the deals. The president just runs the show after he's been given the rules.
First, let me say I'm generally in agreement with the copyright holders in that "it's their stuff and people are stealing"... it is their stuff and people are stealing it. That said, they really have no right to control general content delivery systems. The attempt to make the VCR illegal for example was one of the many things they've done over the years that is just wrong.
Do people have a right to rip them off? No. But they don't have a right to dictate the evolution of our technology either.
What's the balance here? I really think they need to adjust their business model to assume they don't have dictatorial control over these systems. Not only will that deal with third world piracy which is far worse then first world piracy. But it will also free them from caring about these content delivery systems. There are going to be pirates. GET OVER IT. Adjust your business model accordingly.
The only reason you can make things without renting time on a company or university computer is because consumer machines exist. If htey didn't you wouldn't be able to have such a high quality machine.
Trust, if the consumer computer market dies, you will suffer for it as someone that uses such machines.
Imagine tablets and smartphones with dramatically more processing power and memory. Why not run a full unchained OS on it? That is the future. Apple is enjoying a moment in time when the devices can do a lot if they're properly optimized. And had packaged it with a very slick content store and delivery mechanism.
What happens when a full blown OS can run on a tablet without any need for optimization?
How many people buy tv shows and movies on itunes on their PC for their PC? Suddenly you're competing with Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu. etc.
Apple's whole business model is based on dominating these devices so they can channel people into itunes. Once their ability to do that goes away their whole business model gets murky.
No, I'm not under that impression. THEY are under that impression when they say tablets and smartphones will replace the desktop. I quite clearly said they could compliment each other.
Please read someone's comment properly before attempting to correct them.
People that use desktop computers frequently use programs that are not approved by microsoft of apple or any other major corporation. An open source group can release a little program. Or some guy can write a program in his spare time that is great. Easily half the programs I use on a daily basis would likely not be approved by apple for one reason or another. If I have to ask apple's permission to run code, it isn't my machine. If it isn't my machine... why am I paying for it?
Either I get control or I see no reason to shell out dime one.
I completely agree.
That said, the argument being made by this article is that we'll abandon your personal computers in favor of iFads. It's a completely goofy argument that demonstrates an ignorance of what ipads/iphones can do and what they can't. It fails to grasp what desktop computers can do and what tablets can't.
As someone else said, a tablet could be a desktop in a different form factor. Completely agree. But the people preaching the glories of the cloud aren't talking about that. They're talking about everyone giving up personal computing entirely and going to a massive dumb terminal system where every one uses the cloud instead of their own personal processing power.
There are applications for the cloud. I am not anti cloud. But I think it's an "ADDITIONAL" computing environment instead of a replacement. Further, as to the tablets and smart phones, that's the same situation. I think they're great. I have a few and I enjoy them. but they can't replace my desktop. They don't have the same utility.
If you jail break the ipad, then I'd agree. However, if not... then it's a much more restricted environment. A personal computer will run your own code. A default ipad will not.
The only sorts of people satisfied with a smart phone or an ipad rather then a proper computer never really used the computer properly in the first place. They do not do the same thing and you don't have the same control over it. That vital in business which is where much of the demand for computers started in the first place.
The cloud has it's uses and I think it will remain relevant for as long as our smart phones aren't powerful enough to do run desktop level applications entirely in their own processors/memory. That day will come though. And when that happens why trust the cloud and a likely unreliable internet connection when you can run the whole thing live?
The personal computer is as likely to go away as the pencil and paper... less likely actually. The iFad is enjoying it's day but in the end it can't deliver the same utility as a personal computer. And even if it could, there are matters of latency, security, customization, etc that are a systemic flaw of the cloud.
First, fu for being a dick... no really... drink molten glass.
Second, researchers don't need to exaggerate? Then why do they... frequently?
This has been an ongoing and system wide issue in the halls of science.
Do journalists exaggerate as well? Oh god yes... more often then not frankly. But it's less acceptable for scientists to do it. And in any case, my only suggestion was that the abstract was ignored and have it be uncitable as a source. So the paper proper can be cited. But the abstract cannot be cited. Do that, and maybe the journalists will be forced to actually read the study in the first place which might lead to more nuanced reporting. We can only hope.
Just make it standard for science reporters or editors for the science section to ignore the abstract entirely.
Certainly not helping and it's also an aspect of politicians toying with our energy supply.
Leave it to the market and stop forcing oil companies to turn corn into fuel.
The high price of oil is largely what is driving grain prices up. Higher water prices are also not helping.
I can't speak for the rest of the planet, but in the US many politicians have been attracted to the idea of getting the US off oil by artifically raising the price of oil. Well, that's an idea but there are consequences. And one of those consequences is that everything linked to fuel goes up in price as well.
The other issue is water. Many cities have grown in size while not increasing their water resources. They haven't built reservoirs at the same rate that their populations have increased. And as a result, when there is a water shortage they run out of water much faster then they should. In the real world yearly rainfall is not constant. It changes from year to year. But it is fairly consistent decade over decade. so what you do is have storage such that you can survive a few bad years by gathering extra water in the good years. THIS IS BASIC. The Romans had this down to a science.
What the cities have been doing instead is pilfering the farmer's water to make up their own shortfall. They figure "oh the farmers use lots of water, why build more infrastructure when it's easier to just gank their water." Well fine... genius move... Farmers in Australia started literally... LITERALLY committing suicide when the local government started taking their water away. They were losing their family farms... and all because they couldn't get any water. And why? Because the cities didn't build water infrastructure that had been planned over 50 years prior to that point.
So why is food going up? Because politicians are dicking over farmers. It's the sort of short sighted penny wise and pound foolish thinking we've come to expect from the political class. They only think about the next election and never about planning for the future.
It's really pretty simple. If you want more food... grow more food. How do you grow more food? Provide what farmers need to grow food.
That is... fuel for farm equipment (unless you want to mobilize 60 percent of the labor force to do farm labor), oil for pesticides (unless you want upwards of 50 percent of all produce to be eaten by insects before it reaches market), fertilizer (unless you want farmers to use 80 percent more land and 80 percent more water), and of course... Water.
The cities need to stop stealing the farmer's water and politicians need to stop dicking with the fuel supply.
That or enjoy spiking food prices and global instability as large portions of the developing world start literally starving and things get really ugly.
This software empire is self destructing due to systematic mismanagement.
Currently we grant the telecommunications giants regional monopolies. There is only one cable company serving you. There is only one local phone company serving you.
Tell the company that they have to make high speed internet available at a reasonable price to everyone within their region OR alternative companies will be granted a license within that zone to lay their own wire in direct competition.
Really, they should be able to do this regardless. However, many people are attached to the notion that allowing multiple companies to run wire would just be too messy. It wouldn't and it would solve our bandwidth issues in about six seconds flat. But this seems like a reasonable compromise.
Several small communities in rural states have tried to set up a local ISP just for themselves and have been shut down by court order. The big telecommunications companies claimed it violated their monopoly rights.
Well there you go... that's why the internet is slow there. Not lack of subsidies but excessive regulations that do little beyond promoting the status quo.
And go to a homeless shelter.
Seriously. Who is going to check there? You'll be living with some crazy people and drug addicts... and it will be embarrassing. But it will be cheap/free and there will be no record of you anywhere. You can wait that out for weeks. Keep a pre paid cell phone powered off. You can make phone calls occasionally to make sure certain people know you're okay. Then take the battery out/turn it off... and wait.
When you feel safe, just get on a bus and go home.
If you need to take other people with you... camping might be your best bet.
If you have a friend, borrow their car and leave them yours. If you don't have a friend or no "good" friends then just risk your own car. Once you're out of the city no more credit cards. Just cash. Again, possibly you can get a wire transfer of money from a friend as they might not monitor the bank accounts of friends.
Stay away for a week or so camping and then come back. Do it right and the family might not even know their lives were in danger. That's a good idea for the kids since it might traumatize them. As to the wife/husband... your call.
go to a US emergency room and you'll see a line of illegals showing up for free treatment.
You want to know why care is so expensive in the US? This is part of the reason. You're paying for someone else.
millions of Americans are not flocking to mexico for free medical care... rather millions of mexicans come north.
These stupid studies are all trying to prove the moon is brighter then the sun. It doesn't matter how many graphs, pie charts, or studies you do on the subject. The evident facts of the matter don't support the premise.
This isn't to say mexico can't one day have a great medical system. It's just that today... where do you honestly want to be treated? Exactly. End of argument.
Solution was to dive into the registry and turn lots and lots of things off.
Sites that offer up AIO registry hack packs for windows should be more common.
I would totally pay for it. My time is worth enough that just getting a giant pack that has everything nicely labeled and organized would be worth a mint.
That's not even remotely possible. MS is just screwing the pooch.
I use windows 7 and there are a lot of things you can't do on windows 7 that you could do in windows XP or Vista. For example, you could manually organize folders in windows in those operating systems. I mean, literally pick up folders and move them from one side of a window to the other. This is something I've gotten used to doing since windows 3.1. So I was deeply annoyed when window 7 disallowed it. Finally I found some registry hacks that would re-enable the feature.
Beyond that, there are full shell replacements for windows. I expect that using shell replacements might become more and more the thing to do on windows systems. On top of everything else, some of the shell replacements are much more configurable then windows shell meaning that if you want to hide features from users you can literally remove them from the GUI entirely.
A combination of those two factor should make more then a few companies look at shell replacements.
Most realistic scenarios involve intercepting the rock a long time before it gets that close to the earth. If you try to move it at the eleventh hour then yeah the amount of energy to get that sort of delta v is going to be absurd.
However, if you intercept it quite a bit earlier then bomb could be of reasonable size. Does this meet the criteria of blowing it apart? Depends. If you buried it in the middle of asteroid and we assumed the bomb fractured the rock and caused all the bits to drift slowly in various directions then wouldn't that qualify? It wouldn't recoalese at least not before the intercept with the earth.
Cuts both ways... Possibly the guy that isn't a blue dot in a blue neighborhood gets his tires slashed and his mail box stolen... or shot.
It's not like democrats don't own guns too. Remember, hunting days being mandatory holidays is in most of the union contracts especially in the rust belt.
This app is a generally bad idea and both sides have crazies. Crazy knows no ideology. Crazy just "is"...