Comparing Microsoft to Google is embarrassing. Google makes much of its revenue from ads, Microsoft is extremely well rounded tech company selling a OS, Azure, Xbox, Office Suite, Cloud services, and hardware. Now comparing Apple to Microsoft would be a much more equal comparison.
If you asked me which one would most likely still be around 100 years from now I'd have to say Alphabet. Microsoft's two biggest software items, Operating System and Office could easily be usurped at any time. Lack of reasonable alternative has been the only reason Windows has stayed on top. What are the alternatives- Apple or Linux? No surprise windows is on top. Google, or someone else could come along with a better OS any day- and Office is a product whose day appears to have come- losing market share.
MS also has Xbox, but video game market is very tricky- and with mobile devices becoming more powerful- you'd have to bet on Xbox being a minority player in a decade.
In comparison, Alphabet seems more diverse, Operating Systems, Search Engines, self-driving cars, ISP, and unlike MS, they terminate dying products and replace them with new successful ones when they reach end of life.
If only one of those two companies were alive 100 years from now; I'd bet on Alphabet.
It's not about whether they 'would' work for people. It's about how many will accept having a car with these limitations for the price. We do road trips to remote areas and having no ICE or an unreliable ICE would prevent that.
So the solution could be. Buy an EV and with the money saved on fuel, rent an ICE on the rare occasions you need to take trips that are more than 200 miles from civilization and electricity.
A toe-curling foot offender has pleaded guilty Thursday to sucking a woman's toes at a North Carolina Walmart and was handed a 60-day jail sentence.... When asked by the reporter if he had anything to say to the victim's family — whom he met while posing as a podiatry student in the big-box store's shoe section — he went quiet
move yourself to an airtight room with only Co2 then.
Move yourself to a room with 100% pure oxygen.
Anything at too high a level is a pollutant. CO2 is already at levels that is harmful for our planet so, yes, is a pollutant.
CO2 is toxic at much lower levels than Oxygen. You can breathe pure oxygen for several days before you start experiencing any problems. CO2 at slightly elevated levels can have an almost immediate effect. Not to mention, CO2 causes global warming, perhaps the biggest problem facing our planet, and increased levels cause ocean acidification which is primarily responsible for almost all the world's reefs to have die-backs.
CO2 is essential for life, but we already have too much of it in the atmosphere.
A vehicle where the fuel is nearly free, goes the same distance, and has 5x the horsepower along with a nearly immortal lifetime due to nearly no moving parts.
What boggles my mind is that this is only happening because of elon musk, they spent decades and millions of dollars holding back electric vehicles for stupid reasons. This revolution should have happened a long time ago.
To be fair, batteries have improved tremendously over the last few decades partly fueled by needs from other industries. 20 years ago the battery technology wasn't anywhere near enough to have an EV revolution. Some people tried, like Sinclair, but the EVs weren't for the most part proper car equivalents because they were too heavy.
It makes tons of sense if you have a place to charge your car at home. Many do not, causing EVs to be more inconvenience than their benefits are worth.
Electric vehicles won't work for everybody (yet); but they would work for most people. The choice for society at this moment in time isn't everyone has to have ICE or everyone has to have EV. There is room for both on the road.
Eventually, especially as technology improves for things like batteries, it would be nice if all vehicles were EV... and with that change charging becomes easier- but for now it's ok that some people who can't get by with today's EVs don't have them. They aren't appropriate for everyone yet.
Actually a large percentage of electric vehicles are coal powered. Electric is only good for the environment if your electric power comes from non-fossil fuel sources.
It's still more efficient and uses less fossil fuels to produce energy at a centralized location at big plants than it is on-site in tiny little car engines. Sure, electric cars powered from solar power are responsible for less pollution than one's powered by coal plants... but both are less polluting than your average internal combustion engine.
Why not? DeBeers already did it with diamonds themselves. What a racket, take control of the worlds supply of extra hard-and-sparkly gravel so that you can artificially restrict the supply, and then convince people all over the world that it's extremely valuable.
Only the best, the brightest, the most quality diamonds are made from Monkey poo. All other diamonds are lacking the special Monkey Poo glow. If you love the lady in your life, you won't settle for anything less than a monkey poo diamond from DeBeers. No other gemsmith has the patent for making genuine monkey poo stones. Don't be fooled by cow poo diamonds produced by lesser gemsmiths. Don't lose her to another man, give her a monkey poo diamond today!
Better yet, what about diamonds literally made of part of the husband's penis? "Look honey, I gave up the remainder of my foreskin to make this ring for you!"
Finally a legitimate reason for circumcision: Honey, with this diamond ring made from the carbon in my foreskin, I thee wed.
It would be ironic if the non-carbon impurities in monkeyshit actually made diamonds of a brilliant and exotic color, otherwise unattainable. Think of Kopi Luwak -- maybe they'd be equally valuable.
It's all in marketing. From everything I've read- there is no better flavor with Kopi Luwak, it's just the marketing as something harder to comeby and exclusive that has made it sell for more. If you could make the same excuse with monkeypoo and market it as rare and exceptionally important you could run the same racket as the Kopi Luwak sellers do.
He only had sex with her once. It was a lay, not a relationship. There probably isn't video. Heck, the woman gets good money fir sex on camera. Why would she allow anybody to film her for free?
She claims she has evidence of it happening. Unless she is bluffing or has a semen stained dress, I'm not sure what evidence it would be. I'm also not sure why either of them would videotape it unless one was planning on using it against the other in the future- but who knows...... I'm still amazed ANYONE who isn't being paid voluntarily gets infront of a camera in this day and age when all the tapes get leaked.
Because it was the first to make direct debits in the USA work like they do in the developed world.
I didn't realize they had been around that long. How are they so far behind Paypal then if Paypal came after them? Paypal is everywhere- I've never heard of Venmo before today.
So is ocean acidification not a bad thing anymore? Sounds like they stumbled upon a beneficial side effect of pollution for a change.
Kind of like how global dimming in the 70's and 80's was having a minimal effect on keeping global warming down. Once we started controlling certain dark pollutants, such as soot down, dimming reversed and might have added a little to global warming.
The solution is easy. We just need to install an air pump with a bubbler in the ocean to cause surface disturbance and aid gas exchange. That's what I do in my non-planted aquariums.
Plain water has very little nutritional value. Rice has carbs, proteins, minerals, etc. It is the thing at the bottom of that food pyramid.
It doesn't have much proteins or minerals though. That food pyramid is old. 99% of people in the West if they cut their bottom step of the obsolete food pyramid in half.
The US topsoil is getting thin, and aquifers are being depleted.
And the US is dealing with it like a functioning society does: we take appropriate countermeasures. That's why output still keeps growing.
What countermeasures? By drilling deeper to get to the last more meager ground water? By using more fertilizer (which causes its own problems) to try and get output out of a more barren soil?
There's a hole in the roof and it's patched with several layers of duck-tape.
First environmentalists caused global warming by blocking CO2 free nuclear power
Any amount of realistic nuclear power deployment would have been insufficient to prevent global warming on its own.
No single thing would be sufficient to prevent global warming on its own. Higher nuclear power adoption would have helped; it would be a step in the right direction. Alone, no, not enough. You don't walk a mile with just one step though, you take many steps... adopting more nuclear power would have been a step in the right direction.
Finding a way to allow them to survive the milking would be economically beneficial because you can reuse your roaches. If they don't survive now, they will find a way to milk them without killing them.
Just like the slime extraction from snails- they used to end up killing them, but they found a way to let them live through the process.
What if the US is actually doing it to itself? That's another possible scenario. Those are two countries we might expect espionage in, so what if the US has some sort of device that is designed to mask what goes on inside the embassy to listeners outside (acoustic or electronic listeners) and that device is making people in the embassy go deaf?
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Worked so well in the commercial world. What good go wrong in the defense world?
Am I the only one who got a chuckle from this:
"Google Promises Ethical Principles To Guide Development of Military AI"
It's like a bad joke.
Comparing Microsoft to Google is embarrassing. Google makes much of its revenue from ads, Microsoft is extremely well rounded tech company selling a OS, Azure, Xbox, Office Suite, Cloud services, and hardware. Now comparing Apple to Microsoft would be a much more equal comparison.
If you asked me which one would most likely still be around 100 years from now I'd have to say Alphabet. Microsoft's two biggest software items, Operating System and Office could easily be usurped at any time. Lack of reasonable alternative has been the only reason Windows has stayed on top. What are the alternatives- Apple or Linux? No surprise windows is on top. Google, or someone else could come along with a better OS any day- and Office is a product whose day appears to have come- losing market share.
MS also has Xbox, but video game market is very tricky- and with mobile devices becoming more powerful- you'd have to bet on Xbox being a minority player in a decade.
In comparison, Alphabet seems more diverse, Operating Systems, Search Engines, self-driving cars, ISP, and unlike MS, they terminate dying products and replace them with new successful ones when they reach end of life.
If only one of those two companies were alive 100 years from now; I'd bet on Alphabet.
It's not about whether they 'would' work for people. It's about how many will accept having a car with these limitations for the price. We do road trips to remote areas and having no ICE or an unreliable ICE would prevent that.
So the solution could be. Buy an EV and with the money saved on fuel, rent an ICE on the rare occasions you need to take trips that are more than 200 miles from civilization and electricity.
does Walmart need?
Walmart has a problem with feet. http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
A toe-curling foot offender has pleaded guilty Thursday to sucking a woman's toes at a North Carolina Walmart and was handed a 60-day jail sentence. ...
When asked by the reporter if he had anything to say to the victim's family — whom he met while posing as a podiatry student in the big-box store's shoe section — he went quiet
CO2 is not a pollutant.
move yourself to an airtight room with only Co2 then.
Move yourself to a room with 100% pure oxygen.
Anything at too high a level is a pollutant. CO2 is already at levels that is harmful for our planet so, yes, is a pollutant.
CO2 is toxic at much lower levels than Oxygen. You can breathe pure oxygen for several days before you start experiencing any problems. CO2 at slightly elevated levels can have an almost immediate effect. Not to mention, CO2 causes global warming, perhaps the biggest problem facing our planet, and increased levels cause ocean acidification which is primarily responsible for almost all the world's reefs to have die-backs.
CO2 is essential for life, but we already have too much of it in the atmosphere.
A vehicle where the fuel is nearly free, goes the same distance, and has 5x the horsepower along with a nearly immortal lifetime due to nearly no moving parts.
What boggles my mind is that this is only happening because of elon musk, they spent decades and millions of dollars holding back electric vehicles for stupid reasons. This revolution should have happened a long time ago.
To be fair, batteries have improved tremendously over the last few decades partly fueled by needs from other industries. 20 years ago the battery technology wasn't anywhere near enough to have an EV revolution. Some people tried, like Sinclair, but the EVs weren't for the most part proper car equivalents because they were too heavy.
It makes tons of sense if you have a place to charge your car at home. Many do not, causing EVs to be more inconvenience than their benefits are worth.
Electric vehicles won't work for everybody (yet); but they would work for most people. The choice for society at this moment in time isn't everyone has to have ICE or everyone has to have EV. There is room for both on the road.
Eventually, especially as technology improves for things like batteries, it would be nice if all vehicles were EV... and with that change charging becomes easier- but for now it's ok that some people who can't get by with today's EVs don't have them. They aren't appropriate for everyone yet.
Actually a large percentage of electric vehicles are coal powered. Electric is only good for the environment if your electric power comes from non-fossil fuel sources.
It's still more efficient and uses less fossil fuels to produce energy at a centralized location at big plants than it is on-site in tiny little car engines. Sure, electric cars powered from solar power are responsible for less pollution than one's powered by coal plants... but both are less polluting than your average internal combustion engine.
Why not? DeBeers already did it with diamonds themselves. What a racket, take control of the worlds supply of extra hard-and-sparkly gravel so that you can artificially restrict the supply, and then convince people all over the world that it's extremely valuable.
Only the best, the brightest, the most quality diamonds are made from Monkey poo. All other diamonds are lacking the special Monkey Poo glow. If you love the lady in your life, you won't settle for anything less than a monkey poo diamond from DeBeers. No other gemsmith has the patent for making genuine monkey poo stones. Don't be fooled by cow poo diamonds produced by lesser gemsmiths. Don't lose her to another man, give her a monkey poo diamond today!
Why would she need proof? Has Trump ever denied it?
To be honest. I don't know if he has. Part of him is probably proud it has made news.
Better yet, what about diamonds literally made of part of the husband's penis? "Look honey, I gave up the remainder of my foreskin to make this ring for you!"
Finally a legitimate reason for circumcision: Honey, with this diamond ring made from the carbon in my foreskin, I thee wed.
It would be ironic if the non-carbon impurities in monkeyshit actually made diamonds of a brilliant and exotic color, otherwise unattainable. Think of Kopi Luwak -- maybe they'd be equally valuable.
It's all in marketing. From everything I've read- there is no better flavor with Kopi Luwak, it's just the marketing as something harder to comeby and exclusive that has made it sell for more. If you could make the same excuse with monkeypoo and market it as rare and exceptionally important you could run the same racket as the Kopi Luwak sellers do.
He only had sex with her once. It was a lay, not a relationship. There probably isn't video. Heck, the woman gets good money fir sex on camera. Why would she allow anybody to film her for free?
She claims she has evidence of it happening. Unless she is bluffing or has a semen stained dress, I'm not sure what evidence it would be. I'm also not sure why either of them would videotape it unless one was planning on using it against the other in the future- but who knows... ... I'm still amazed ANYONE who isn't being paid voluntarily gets infront of a camera in this day and age when all the tapes get leaked.
Because it was the first to make direct debits in the USA work like they do in the developed world.
I didn't realize they had been around that long. How are they so far behind Paypal then if Paypal came after them? Paypal is everywhere- I've never heard of Venmo before today.
Could be worse, you could be shelling out for a cat.
Yeah, but you can keep a cat locked up in your basement without clothes and no one will call the cops on you.
Short and Stout!
That's not a teapot, that's a beer glass.
So is ocean acidification not a bad thing anymore? Sounds like they stumbled upon a beneficial side effect of pollution for a change.
Kind of like how global dimming in the 70's and 80's was having a minimal effect on keeping global warming down. Once we started controlling certain dark pollutants, such as soot down, dimming reversed and might have added a little to global warming.
The solution is easy. We just need to install an air pump with a bubbler in the ocean to cause surface disturbance and aid gas exchange. That's what I do in my non-planted aquariums.
Or build desalinization plants.
Patching leaky pipes is WAY more cost effective than building energy-hungry desalination plants.
In all likelihood if their population is growing at 4.5% every year; they need to do both!
99% of people in the West if they cut their bottom step of the obsolete food pyramid in half
Ooops. Wish there were an edit button.
I meant to say 99% of people in the West would be healthier
Plain water has very little nutritional value. Rice has carbs, proteins, minerals, etc. It is the thing at the bottom of that food pyramid.
It doesn't have much proteins or minerals though. That food pyramid is old. 99% of people in the West if they cut their bottom step of the obsolete food pyramid in half.
And the US is dealing with it like a functioning society does: we take appropriate countermeasures. That's why output still keeps growing.
What countermeasures? By drilling deeper to get to the last more meager ground water? By using more fertilizer (which causes its own problems) to try and get output out of a more barren soil?
There's a hole in the roof and it's patched with several layers of duck-tape.
First environmentalists caused global warming by blocking CO2 free nuclear power
Any amount of realistic nuclear power deployment would have been insufficient to prevent global warming on its own.
No single thing would be sufficient to prevent global warming on its own. Higher nuclear power adoption would have helped; it would be a step in the right direction. Alone, no, not enough. You don't walk a mile with just one step though, you take many steps... adopting more nuclear power would have been a step in the right direction.
Do the roaches survive this milking?
Finding a way to allow them to survive the milking would be economically beneficial because you can reuse your roaches. If they don't survive now, they will find a way to milk them without killing them.
Just like the slime extraction from snails- they used to end up killing them, but they found a way to let them live through the process.
... Oh and as an addendum to my previous comment.
What if the US is actually doing it to itself? That's another possible scenario. Those are two countries we might expect espionage in, so what if the US has some sort of device that is designed to mask what goes on inside the embassy to listeners outside (acoustic or electronic listeners) and that device is making people in the embassy go deaf?