Given the cost of getting material up in space to start with, I'd rather see this 'space junk' mined / recycled / reused to build something else up in space, on the moon or somewhere else rather than bring it back down.
I've been an Apple fan of its peripheral devices for a few years now. I got in on the original Iphone and ever since then have bought quite a few of the products that Apple puts out. The problem in almost all of their launches is that they have initial problems, clean them up, and then things work out great for those who like their products. The only real part of the problem is that people want the next thing right now rather than waiting a month or so and figuring out if the device is everything they hoped it would be. Because of that, I don't really have a lot of sympathy for buyers until after the warming period has ended. I'll probably buy an Iphone 5 myself, but I'll buy it AFTER they've worked out the kinks, making it the phone I want rather than the phone that I MUST HAVE.
The problem isn't that 'please want the next thing right now' it's that Apple wanted to get the product on the market to compete against Samsung right now and the product isn't ready for market right now.
You're holding it wrong, you want to get lost, these pictures should be that colour, wifi connections should use your wireless bandwidth, battery life is supposed to be that poor if you use it (especially for facebook), those scratches are normal out of the case, this new connector is far better than the old one and adapters are the best you can get.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people rush out to purchase a new product with both unreviewed hardware and software and then get upset that there are flaws.
Do you not yet understand that the price for showing off your elite toy is that you are a paying beta tester?
I think the point is that if apple wants to hold / regain their market share they're going to have to do better testing and not release products that aren't ready for market.
If you read between the lines of Stratasys' statement, the company's president clearly says:
"For the love of god please don't give us this kind of press. If we don't shut this down now I'm going to have Homeland Security on, over and in my ass. Don't ever use gun and printed in the same sentence again. My hands are too delicate for jail. Why are you doing this to me?"
As likely he'd already had that call from 'homeland security' a few minutes before the statement was released...
It was tested. When Glock first came out there were articles full of "The Plastic Pistol" that bad people would use to get past security. The spring is big. the barrel is a very large chunk of metal that is hard to miss. It is a bunch of people trying their best to scare you. That is all.
True of firearms but I have to wonder if one couldn't print a flechette (needlegun) pistol without the big heavy parts.
Not sure we'll see what the minister is asking for on the mobile side of things because of the infrastructure involved but for fixed lines things are already very converged with providers here rolling most voice into the Internet package and it's cheap compared to what you pay in the UK and US.
For 30 Euros a month you get whatever bandwidth DSL or FTTH (which is being deployed at least in metro areas) can provide (up to 100M with fiber, 28M with copper - I was getting (tested, validated) 20M in Paris on copper, now I'm in the countryside relatively far from a pop so I'm down to 4M until they roll the fiber out here), unlimited calls to fixed lines and mobiles in France, unlimited calls to fixed lines in 107 countries round the world (yes I wrote 107), 185 TV channels (14 in HD, the decoder coming with an HDMI interface), wifi, etc.
For anyone curious about costs for mobile service, the same company (called free.fr) provides unlimited calls to mobiles in France, US and Canada, unlimited calls to fixed lines in 40 countries and unlimited SMS/MMS to France, unlimited use of their nationwide wifi network and 3G (HSDPA+) Internet (dropping to lower speeds after you hit a 3 gig soft cap for the month) for 20 Euros a month...without a subscription.
The real problem here involves laziness on the part of law enforcement, pure and simple - IP addresses don't mean LEOs can't track you down, it just means they actually need to come up with enough evidence to convince a judge to demand the ISP turn over the owner's info. It makes doing their job an actual job, rather than a five second query against WhoIs.
IP addresses are useless as anyone doing fraud can easily move from cafe to cafe to maintain their site(s).
I could see having to get a warrant to get at the identification data kept by a registrar but in order to be useful this still requires the registrar to make sure of your identity when you sign up. I have no problem with this so long as the registrar then has to abide by the (in my case EU and thus actually existant and useful) data protection / sharing rules and has an opt out (or better an opt in) for marketing to me.
1. South Korea, not North as the North are friendly with China 2. I think the US would not mind too much if they got to ignore the debt held by China. I think the bigger impact might be the west doing without Chinese made products which would be okay long term but might be a shock short term.
If they were our enemy in the first place then clearly the drone attacks are the correct move.
So we should kill anyone who is our enemy regardless of any other consideration, legal or otherwise?
If they were peace loving people then clearly the drone attacks were the wrong move.
Knowing they are our enemy now is useful information, knowing they were already our enemy before we attacked is also useful information. You don't want to make new enemies. You also don't want to let old enemies control your actions with threats, you want to kill them.
In this day and age, one does not have the legal right to kill one's enemy just because they are your enemy. There are laws that civilized nations are expected to follow although we have been ignoring them at our convenience. When we violate those laws, we are no better than those we call terrorists. America has not declared war on Pakistan and, as such, has no legal right to attack their territory. Attacks that kill civilians are can justifiably be considered to be terrorist attacks. Our attacks on Pakistan, which are not legal and which kill civilians, are no better than terrorist attacks against us.
Without the baseline information the summary is clearly propaganda.
You don't need a baseline for it to be useful information.
As well, if another country were sending in thousands of drone attacks and killing Americans you would consider that country your enemy just as the Pakistanis are considering America their enemy.
All the above links are all based on what actually had happened. They are not propaganda.
All newspapers have spin and are mechanisms of propaganda. You can't know what actually happened for sure unless you were there.
I am not saying that Pakistani christians aren't being persecuted. There is persecution of minorities in every country in the world to one degree or another often resulting in degraded living conditions and death for those of the minority. Muslims persecute Christians, Christians persecute Muslims, blacks persecute whites and whites persecute blacks, Chinese / Japanese, Jews / Palestinians...the list goes on without end and that's just today, never mind what happened in the middle ages. Not much of it makes it into the news because it happens all the time which means it isn't sensational and as such doesn't 'sell papers'. Only when there are genocides (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Genocide ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide ) do such items make it into the news.
But you do not get to read any of that in the main stream media, do you?
That is because the Western main stream media, - from New York Times to Le Monde of France, - are being controlled by the liberals who hate Christianity more than anything else.
They will not report any news on the persecution of the Christian minority in Indonesia or in Pakistan.
Putting your obvious right wing religious basis aside for a moment, I'll just say that you don't get stories on such topics in the US mainstream media because you get almost nothing in the US mainstream media of any substance unless it directly affects the US or US interests. This is not specific to any particular set of minority bashing (or any other number of subjects that get ignored in the US), but is a general reality for the media.
But if ever there is a single case of Muslim being hurt or killed, you bet on the next day those liberal controlled main-stream-media will have their BIG HEADLINE blaring "Evil Christian killing peace loving Muslims !!!"
This is just wrong. The American media, for instance, plays down what Israel does in Palestine all the time to the point where Americans generally haven't got the slightest clue of what actually goes on there.
Yep, the upgrade isn't mandatory. Also, the Google Maps website seems to work fine on iOS 6, so you're not really losing it. However, the website will never perform as well as a native app so hopefully Google will have one for us soon.
IOS 6 isn't supported on all hardware though (ie the ipad 1): http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/ (scroll to the bottom for what it will work on)
I still have my ipad 1 and have not had any need to upgrade to an ipad 2 or 3 as it does everything I need it to do not to mention that I can use it as a phone with iphoneit which doesn't work on the later ipads.
"...studying whether Chinese superiority in rote scientific knowledge translated into the kinds of creative thinking necessary for innovation."
Who needs innovation when you can copy everything that you can get your hands on and sell it for 1/10th or 1/100th of the price as the person or company who innovated it?
I do hold it out as an alternative to working for someone else, nonetheless. Anyone who is unhappy enough in their position as an employee should at least consider trying to work for themselves. The biggest reason there aren't more small businesses (or independents for that matter) is fear of failure. I know that it isn't possible for 100% of the people but I think it's possible for most, should they actually choose to try. I agree that there is some small percentage of people who just could not possibly go into business for themselves (ie people who aren't able to do even the most simple arithmetic) but in my life I have seen people of all reaches go into business and actually succeed once they get past that fear of failure.
With regard to financial 'common sense'....yes there are decades of bad habits (not to mention strong marketing and lobbying by financial institutions that teach people to spend more than they earn) that should be undone.
It's possible that if things get bad enough to see another great depression or devaluation of the dollar (or pound or whatever) that people will start behaving more rationally with their money but short of this I don't see any way to achieve financial intelligence on any comprehensive scale in the western world.
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Given the cost of getting material up in space to start with, I'd rather see this 'space junk' mined / recycled / reused to build something else up in space, on the moon or somewhere else rather than bring it back down.
I've been an Apple fan of its peripheral devices for a few years now. I got in on the original Iphone and ever since then have bought quite a few of the products that Apple puts out. The problem in almost all of their launches is that they have initial problems, clean them up, and then things work out great for those who like their products. The only real part of the problem is that people want the next thing right now rather than waiting a month or so and figuring out if the device is everything they hoped it would be. Because of that, I don't really have a lot of sympathy for buyers until after the warming period has ended. I'll probably buy an Iphone 5 myself, but I'll buy it AFTER they've worked out the kinks, making it the phone I want rather than the phone that I MUST HAVE.
The problem isn't that 'please want the next thing right now' it's that Apple wanted to get the product on the market to compete against Samsung right now and the product isn't ready for market right now.
Don't blame the consumer for this.
You're holding it wrong, you want to get lost, these pictures should be that colour, wifi connections should use your wireless bandwidth, battery life is supposed to be that poor if you use it (especially for facebook), those scratches are normal out of the case, this new connector is far better than the old one and adapters are the best you can get.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people rush out to purchase a new product with both unreviewed hardware and software and then get upset that there are flaws.
Do you not yet understand that the price for showing off your elite toy is that you are a paying beta tester?
I think the point is that if apple wants to hold / regain their market share they're going to have to do better testing and not release products that aren't ready for market.
If you read between the lines of Stratasys' statement, the company's president clearly says:
"For the love of god please don't give us this kind of press. If we don't shut this down now I'm going to have Homeland Security on, over and in my ass. Don't ever use gun and printed in the same sentence again. My hands are too delicate for jail. Why are you doing this to me?"
As likely he'd already had that call from 'homeland security' a few minutes before the statement was released...
If you make printing guns criminal only criminals will have printers...
It was tested.
When Glock first came out there were articles full of "The Plastic Pistol" that bad people would use to get past security.
The spring is big. the barrel is a very large chunk of metal that is hard to miss.
It is a bunch of people trying their best to scare you. That is all.
True of firearms but I have to wonder if one couldn't print a flechette (needlegun) pistol without the big heavy parts.
Not sure we'll see what the minister is asking for on the mobile side of things because of the infrastructure involved but for fixed lines things are already very converged with providers here rolling most voice into the Internet package and it's cheap compared to what you pay in the UK and US.
For 30 Euros a month you get whatever bandwidth DSL or FTTH (which is being deployed at least in metro areas) can provide (up to 100M with fiber, 28M with copper - I was getting (tested, validated) 20M in Paris on copper, now I'm in the countryside relatively far from a pop so I'm down to 4M until they roll the fiber out here), unlimited calls to fixed lines and mobiles in France, unlimited calls to fixed lines in 107 countries round the world (yes I wrote 107), 185 TV channels (14 in HD, the decoder coming with an HDMI interface), wifi, etc.
For anyone curious about costs for mobile service, the same company (called free.fr) provides unlimited calls to mobiles in France, US and Canada, unlimited calls to fixed lines in 40 countries and unlimited SMS/MMS to France, unlimited use of their nationwide wifi network and 3G (HSDPA+) Internet (dropping to lower speeds after you hit a 3 gig soft cap for the month) for 20 Euros a month...without a subscription.
The real problem here involves laziness on the part of law enforcement, pure and simple - IP addresses don't mean LEOs can't track you down, it just means they actually need to come up with enough evidence to convince a judge to demand the ISP turn over the owner's info. It makes doing their job an actual job, rather than a five second query against WhoIs.
IP addresses are useless as anyone doing fraud can easily move from cafe to cafe to maintain their site(s).
I could see having to get a warrant to get at the identification data kept by a registrar but in order to be useful this still requires the registrar to make sure of your identity when you sign up. I have no problem with this so long as the registrar then has to abide by the (in my case EU and thus actually existant and useful) data protection / sharing rules and has an opt out (or better an opt in) for marketing to me.
What's next? They're gonna steal fox news stories?
Nah Onion stories are already more accurate why would they bother?
The acronym formed from "Robotic Aircraft for Public Enforcement" might be more accurate...
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The ruination of a man's life is a hard price to pay for a technical faux-pas.
If there was no intention to cause harm and there was no actual harm done then there should be no penalty or a symbolic slap on the wrist.
1. South Korea, not North as the North are friendly with China
2. I think the US would not mind too much if they got to ignore the debt held by China. I think the bigger impact might be the west doing without Chinese made products which would be okay long term but might be a shock short term.
You laugh but... http://www.booble.com/
That was monzy.
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If they were our enemy in the first place then clearly the drone attacks are the correct move.
So we should kill anyone who is our enemy regardless of any other consideration, legal or otherwise?
If they were peace loving people then clearly the drone attacks were the wrong move.
Knowing they are our enemy now is useful information, knowing they were already our enemy before we attacked is also useful information. You don't want to make new enemies. You also don't want to let old enemies control your actions with threats, you want to kill them.
In this day and age, one does not have the legal right to kill one's enemy just because they are your enemy. There are laws that civilized nations are expected to follow although we have been ignoring them at our convenience. When we violate those laws, we are no better than those we call terrorists. America has not declared war on Pakistan and, as such, has no legal right to attack their territory. Attacks that kill civilians are can justifiably be considered to be terrorist attacks. Our attacks on Pakistan, which are not legal and which kill civilians, are no better than terrorist attacks against us.
Without the baseline information the summary is clearly propaganda.
You don't need a baseline for it to be useful information.
As well, if another country were sending in thousands of drone attacks and killing Americans you would consider that country your enemy just as the Pakistanis are considering America their enemy.
All the above links are all based on what actually had happened. They are not propaganda.
All newspapers have spin and are mechanisms of propaganda. You can't know what actually happened for sure unless you were there.
I am not saying that Pakistani christians aren't being persecuted. There is persecution of minorities in every country in the world to one degree or another often resulting in degraded living conditions and death for those of the minority. Muslims persecute Christians, Christians persecute Muslims, blacks persecute whites and whites persecute blacks, Chinese / Japanese, Jews / Palestinians...the list goes on without end and that's just today, never mind what happened in the middle ages. Not much of it makes it into the news because it happens all the time which means it isn't sensational and as such doesn't 'sell papers'. Only when there are genocides (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Genocide ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide ) do such items make it into the news.
But you do not get to read any of that in the main stream media, do you?
That is because the Western main stream media, - from New York Times to Le Monde of France, - are being controlled by the liberals who hate Christianity more than anything else.
They will not report any news on the persecution of the Christian minority in Indonesia or in Pakistan.
Putting your obvious right wing religious basis aside for a moment, I'll just say that you don't get stories on such topics in the US mainstream media because you get almost nothing in the US mainstream media of any substance unless it directly affects the US or US interests. This is not specific to any particular set of minority bashing (or any other number of subjects that get ignored in the US), but is a general reality for the media.
But if ever there is a single case of Muslim being hurt or killed, you bet on the next day those liberal controlled main-stream-media will have their BIG HEADLINE blaring "Evil Christian killing peace loving Muslims !!!"
This is just wrong. The American media, for instance, plays down what Israel does in Palestine all the time to the point where Americans generally haven't got the slightest clue of what actually goes on there.
Forget the petition - start a 'new twitter (twatter?) service that doesn't block useful features -
Why would Gates support anything that undermines Microsoft...or am I missing some angle here where M$ wins anyway?
Quite a few as Sophos mac is free...
Yep, the upgrade isn't mandatory. Also, the Google Maps website seems to work fine on iOS 6, so you're not really losing it. However, the website will never perform as well as a native app so hopefully Google will have one for us soon.
IOS 6 isn't supported on all hardware though (ie the ipad 1):
http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/ (scroll to the bottom for what it will work on)
I still have my ipad 1 and have not had any need to upgrade to an ipad 2 or 3 as it does everything I need it to do not to mention that I can use it as a phone with iphoneit which doesn't work on the later ipads.
"...studying whether Chinese superiority in rote scientific knowledge translated into the kinds of creative thinking necessary for innovation."
Who needs innovation when you can copy everything that you can get your hands on and sell it for 1/10th or 1/100th of the price as the person or company who innovated it?
"There is no such thing as bad publicity"
- Brendan Behan
Who says they didn't know better?
Might be interesting - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19524962
We agree to agree :-)
I do hold it out as an alternative to working for someone else, nonetheless. Anyone who is unhappy enough in their position as an employee should at least consider trying to work for themselves. The biggest reason there aren't more small businesses (or independents for that matter) is fear of failure. I know that it isn't possible for 100% of the people but I think it's possible for most, should they actually choose to try. I agree that there is some small percentage of people who just could not possibly go into business for themselves (ie people who aren't able to do even the most simple arithmetic) but in my life I have seen people of all reaches go into business and actually succeed once they get past that fear of failure.
With regard to financial 'common sense'....yes there are decades of bad habits (not to mention strong marketing and lobbying by financial institutions that teach people to spend more than they earn) that should be undone.
It's possible that if things get bad enough to see another great depression or devaluation of the dollar (or pound or whatever) that people will start behaving more rationally with their money but short of this I don't see any way to achieve financial intelligence on any comprehensive scale in the western world.