Which means nothing. The primary focus of the argument was more specifically the fact that just because life here started so quickly doesn't mean its a good expectation that life occurred as quickly anywhere life is supportable in the universe. Perhaps we were a statistical outlier and we had life appear far faster than the average. The fact is we just don't know, but because we don't know we can't make the assumption that life is on every earth-like planet.
I'm pretty sure they want to make absolutely sure it doesn't fail. Considering the fact the capsule costs a ton of money to make, and the historic factor here. If they fail now it could potentially destroy the companies finances and reputation. I highly doubt this is so simple as being 'not done coding yet.' Its more likely they decided to do another round of unit tests to make absolutely sure everything is going to work.
All these hackers are doing is making the government realize how inadequate the system currently is such that a small group of people can cause this much havoc. This will speed along more laws to help crack down on net traffic because they see an obvious security threat to the countries well being. This is counter productive anonymous. This isn't simple protesting. It's actual acts of crime and vandalism against a sovereign state. This will only make things worse in the long run.
Sure it doesn't cost them $7.99 to give you the file. It's called royalties, web hosting, and any other number of fee's tacked on. See that $1.79 you save compared to print? That's what you saved for downloading it, and a tree. It's actually cheaper than the print copy for once. Do you honestly expect the months of writing a book to be distilled down to simply the cost of downloading it? Get real.
That's why they say to take low doses. I recently had a TIA and the doctor told me I should take a dose of baby aspirin daily (81mg). 81mg isn't enough to cause GI bleeding.
I'm sorry but you mistakenly thought I was referring to gaming in any way shape or form. I was just responding directly to the previous post about home theater pc's. Pay more attention sassy-pants.
Just wait. Once apple jumps on the tv bandwagon this assumption will be blown away. There are already companies talking about putting an android based OS on a tv. Once Android and IOS make the jump to TV the entire idea of what a home theater pc will change, but at the same time thats exactly what we will have. I bought a smart tv a few months back that has full web browsing with flash, wifi/lan, usb support, and apps support. Those certainly sound like pc features don't they. It even came with a cool accelerometer based "wand" style remote that acts essentially just like a mouse. However, the current "smart tv" setups certainly don't have a very good OS, and in my experience don't have a very quick response time in the menu's, but once the established operating systems are adopted things will get better very quickly. One day very soon the standard living room TV will offer a very pc like experience.
You are incredibly inaccurate in your assumption that the new processor and screen resolution will give the Ipad 3rd gen a competing chance against dedicated gaming consoles. Even our current generation, which is now over 6 years old, still blows away the graphics from the 3rd gen ipad. The fact is the ARM architecture, while gaining an impressive following and getting more powerful with each iteration, simply doesn't have the power to actually compete. These are low power devices with limited batteries and you are trying to say they stand up to or even beat the console. The consoles of course are very high wattage devices designed to use every bit of juice they want to run circles around your little ipad with its 3 core 3.2ghz xenon processor and dedicated graphics card at 500mhz. The only thing the ipad has over the current console generation is memory. The xbox tops out at 512mb at 700mhz. This is probably the single most limiting factor of the current console generation, but not limiting enough for the puny ipad to have a chance. Full disclosure, I prepordered the ipad 3. I love the little device, but there is just no justifiable leg to stand on to say it has anywhere close to the graphic capability of a dedicated home console.
This is just one kind of experience. Mine is more like this...
I get home and jump on xbox.
I invite all my buddies to the chat channel that holds up to 8 people.
We all dick around gaming on our own while chatting it up and generally having a good time "hanging out" or we all hope into a multiplayer game and kick some ass.
I have both a ps3 and an xbox, and I exclusively use the xbox due to the chat room feature. Its the most social system I use on a regular basis, and nothing on facebook ever gets me close to what I achieve on the xbox.
This is essentially exactly what I was going to say. This stats are bogus and in no way are these little hand held 1 minute games going to ever replace serious dedicated consoles for the true gaming experience. At best this shows that a new and popular niche has appeared, but hardly a console killer. Now a portable console killer...maybe. There is already significant evidence to say tablets and phones are killing the portable dedicated gaming consoles. They were the traditional time wasters on the go.
I'd argue the wii is a poor choice of system for this study. Even at its most active you can sit calmly in a chair and simply wiggle your wrist to get it to work. If we really wanted to test this something that requires a broader range of motion would have been better. In this case both the Move and the Kinect would have been better.
Thats a wonderful view... Except its not entirely political. Sure there are a lot of political entities that will snag up a study and talk about it immediately, but the same can be true of any political point of view. What is really important is the actual science behind the politics. The politicians can bicker about whatever they want, but at the end of the day if the earth is warming then the earth is still warming. No amount of political bellyaching is going to change that fact. Hopefully one day your choice to ignore the topic won't bite you in the ass. I never use politics as my basis to determine how much I should or shouldn't care about something. If I used that as a measuring stick then I wouldn't care about anything.
An object has a color because it reflects the color and absorbs all others. So a red apple is red because it reflects red wavelengths. A black object reflects no wavelengths and absorbs all the visible colors. If you want to go attempt to claim that perhaps a black object reflects a spectrum that is non-visible to the human eye then this still doesn't help your cause. A theoretical object that absorbs all spectrum, including all non-visible wavelengths to the human eye, would still be black. Therefore, black is not a color, but the absence of color.
Sales tax is applied uniformly across all products sold whereas this is a tax on a specific product. Taxing any item sold regardless of the item doesn't have a chilling effect on consumers buying the product, but a targeted tax on the sales of a specific item is designed with that exact purpose in mind. Think cigarette taxes as an example.
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Which means nothing. The primary focus of the argument was more specifically the fact that just because life here started so quickly doesn't mean its a good expectation that life occurred as quickly anywhere life is supportable in the universe. Perhaps we were a statistical outlier and we had life appear far faster than the average. The fact is we just don't know, but because we don't know we can't make the assumption that life is on every earth-like planet.
I'm pretty sure they want to make absolutely sure it doesn't fail. Considering the fact the capsule costs a ton of money to make, and the historic factor here. If they fail now it could potentially destroy the companies finances and reputation. I highly doubt this is so simple as being 'not done coding yet.' Its more likely they decided to do another round of unit tests to make absolutely sure everything is going to work.
What a dumb question. I think any dictionary would make this fairly clear.
Chemtrails eh. Go jump on that conspiracy theory bandwagon some more. What a stupid theory.
Come on Google. Just block the entirely of Germany!
If I had a mod point you would so get one right now.
All these hackers are doing is making the government realize how inadequate the system currently is such that a small group of people can cause this much havoc. This will speed along more laws to help crack down on net traffic because they see an obvious security threat to the countries well being. This is counter productive anonymous. This isn't simple protesting. It's actual acts of crime and vandalism against a sovereign state. This will only make things worse in the long run.
He was at home and it was posted after 2am in the morning. Read the article more clearly please.
Sure it doesn't cost them $7.99 to give you the file. It's called royalties, web hosting, and any other number of fee's tacked on. See that $1.79 you save compared to print? That's what you saved for downloading it, and a tree. It's actually cheaper than the print copy for once. Do you honestly expect the months of writing a book to be distilled down to simply the cost of downloading it? Get real.
That's why they say to take low doses. I recently had a TIA and the doctor told me I should take a dose of baby aspirin daily (81mg). 81mg isn't enough to cause GI bleeding.
I'm sorry but you mistakenly thought I was referring to gaming in any way shape or form. I was just responding directly to the previous post about home theater pc's. Pay more attention sassy-pants.
Hahaha yeah. By the brand new shiny console hits the market its already outdated compared the the most up to date pc's.
Just wait. Once apple jumps on the tv bandwagon this assumption will be blown away. There are already companies talking about putting an android based OS on a tv. Once Android and IOS make the jump to TV the entire idea of what a home theater pc will change, but at the same time thats exactly what we will have. I bought a smart tv a few months back that has full web browsing with flash, wifi/lan, usb support, and apps support. Those certainly sound like pc features don't they. It even came with a cool accelerometer based "wand" style remote that acts essentially just like a mouse. However, the current "smart tv" setups certainly don't have a very good OS, and in my experience don't have a very quick response time in the menu's, but once the established operating systems are adopted things will get better very quickly. One day very soon the standard living room TV will offer a very pc like experience.
You are incredibly inaccurate in your assumption that the new processor and screen resolution will give the Ipad 3rd gen a competing chance against dedicated gaming consoles. Even our current generation, which is now over 6 years old, still blows away the graphics from the 3rd gen ipad. The fact is the ARM architecture, while gaining an impressive following and getting more powerful with each iteration, simply doesn't have the power to actually compete. These are low power devices with limited batteries and you are trying to say they stand up to or even beat the console. The consoles of course are very high wattage devices designed to use every bit of juice they want to run circles around your little ipad with its 3 core 3.2ghz xenon processor and dedicated graphics card at 500mhz. The only thing the ipad has over the current console generation is memory. The xbox tops out at 512mb at 700mhz. This is probably the single most limiting factor of the current console generation, but not limiting enough for the puny ipad to have a chance. Full disclosure, I prepordered the ipad 3. I love the little device, but there is just no justifiable leg to stand on to say it has anywhere close to the graphic capability of a dedicated home console.
This is just one kind of experience. Mine is more like this... I get home and jump on xbox. I invite all my buddies to the chat channel that holds up to 8 people. We all dick around gaming on our own while chatting it up and generally having a good time "hanging out" or we all hope into a multiplayer game and kick some ass. I have both a ps3 and an xbox, and I exclusively use the xbox due to the chat room feature. Its the most social system I use on a regular basis, and nothing on facebook ever gets me close to what I achieve on the xbox.
This is essentially exactly what I was going to say. This stats are bogus and in no way are these little hand held 1 minute games going to ever replace serious dedicated consoles for the true gaming experience. At best this shows that a new and popular niche has appeared, but hardly a console killer. Now a portable console killer...maybe. There is already significant evidence to say tablets and phones are killing the portable dedicated gaming consoles. They were the traditional time wasters on the go.
I'd argue the wii is a poor choice of system for this study. Even at its most active you can sit calmly in a chair and simply wiggle your wrist to get it to work. If we really wanted to test this something that requires a broader range of motion would have been better. In this case both the Move and the Kinect would have been better.
Thats a wonderful view... Except its not entirely political. Sure there are a lot of political entities that will snag up a study and talk about it immediately, but the same can be true of any political point of view. What is really important is the actual science behind the politics. The politicians can bicker about whatever they want, but at the end of the day if the earth is warming then the earth is still warming. No amount of political bellyaching is going to change that fact. Hopefully one day your choice to ignore the topic won't bite you in the ass. I never use politics as my basis to determine how much I should or shouldn't care about something. If I used that as a measuring stick then I wouldn't care about anything.
Exactly.
Actually white is the combination of all colors reflected at once. Did no one take like 4th grade science? I learned this when I was a child.
An object has a color because it reflects the color and absorbs all others. So a red apple is red because it reflects red wavelengths. A black object reflects no wavelengths and absorbs all the visible colors. If you want to go attempt to claim that perhaps a black object reflects a spectrum that is non-visible to the human eye then this still doesn't help your cause. A theoretical object that absorbs all spectrum, including all non-visible wavelengths to the human eye, would still be black. Therefore, black is not a color, but the absence of color.
These kinds of software patents are patently bogus.
Sales tax is applied uniformly across all products sold whereas this is a tax on a specific product. Taxing any item sold regardless of the item doesn't have a chilling effect on consumers buying the product, but a targeted tax on the sales of a specific item is designed with that exact purpose in mind. Think cigarette taxes as an example.
A huge study was finished in 2011 that showed this is false. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/21/cellphones-cancer-danish-cellphone-study_n_1023713.html
Have you been under a rock for the last few months? Obviously its occupy wall street.