The scary scenario is two radioactive Presidential candidates. I see a Godzilla style grudge match on Tuesday with 200' tall candidates fighting over Ohio.
It's times like this I miss aspects of the Amiga computers. They had a really friendly system for expanding ram. Most cards and drives came with extra ram slots. I never understood limiting ram expansion so severely. For computer graphics I see no top end in ram needs and I used to always say if your computer has slowed down nine times out of ten it's the ram not the CPU. 500 chips sounds like a couple of hundred gig of ram if the OSs and hardware would support the expansion.
People buy apple because it's in vogue to own apple products. Tablets don't have much use period. Smartphones are useful, laptops are useful. The tablet with a dock laptop concept is kind of interesting to me, but mostly only because it finally brings laptops with touch screens.
I don't see it ever being in vogue to own a Microsoft product - they're too hated for their business practices.
Over simplification. I own mostly Apple products due to ease of use. I mostly use my handhelds as media players which Apple excels at. It's also painless to check mail and surf the web and it's a good platform for gaming. Sure if you are willing to put up with some hassles you can do most of this with Android devices and probably Surface. It's the "some hassles" that talk me out of the other products. Back when I owned half and half Windows and Mac computers I always went to the Macs to watch movies and video clips let alone music. I constantly found the Windows machines couldn't handle the type of clip I was trying to play. I still have Windows machines but they drive me nuts because they are always trying to download updates in the background. Mac gives you the option. I finally got sick of it and use mostly Macs. I have Parallels on my main Mac because my web site software is Windows only. I can drag files directly into the Parallel window then everything else I do Mac. I just had my Windows Vista notebook freeze up due to an OS crash. I tried everything and it says it isn't fixable. I rarely use it so there was maybe a month or so of time on the machine and now it's dead because of the OS. Windows needs to do a ground up like Mac did with OSX. I never used to like Mac but now I'm sold. I'd love to use Linux but I found everything was a hassle with Linux. I want to spend my time with software and apps not fighting OSs.
There was a Next Generation episode with a similar revenge theme only it was one person infected with a plague that would kill members of a specific family as a kind of assassin. It's driving me nuts because I know there was a scifi series that had this exact scenario where a person close to some one was infected with a targeted disease that was harmless to everyone but the target. It wasn't Fringe or Regensis but it was something along those lines. Something in the last ten years but I just can't remember enough details to remember what it was. Funny how often a subject gets explored in science fiction before it is in science.
A two word description, sterile and boring. If you turned that in as a final design for design school I'd expect to flunk. Even the placement of the iMacs lacks imagination. I thought they'd be built in not sitting in a row blocking the window. A design fail on every level.
Funny how you can get a hearing enhancing set up for $10 but a fits in ear amplifier casts $2,000. I remember hearing aids for the mid to late 70s that were bulky but worked and average people could aford them. A cell phone if you had one was the size of a lunch pail. Now cell phones are tiny and dirt cheap but hearing aids are smaller and outrageously expensive. It's pure price gauging. Sorry but a computer chip will set you back a $100 but the same thing that does a 1/100 as much runs you $2,000? It's price fixing and everyone knows it but medical expenses are more sacred than religion in this country.
Okay how's this for some numbers. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one bushel of corn. That doesn't include processing to ethanol. Oil also takes huge quantities of water to produce refined gasoline or diesel. They are talking 3 to1 for biodiesel from algae. That's actually impressive! Also they assume we'd use chemical fertilizers. Why? Most proposals I've seen used farm waste especially pig waste which goes to waste and pollutes rivers. There's a frightening amount of farm waste, both pig and chicken, that could be used for algae production. FYI, some types of algae live in brackish water and there is effectively an unlimited supply of that. Most of the extraction techniques involve squeezing out the oil with maybe a small amount of alcohol used to soften the cell walls so there's limited energy needed in processing. If you cherry pick data you make the numbers sound scary.
So fugu (potentially lethal blowfish) sushi is insanely popular and expensive.... how long until we see Fukushima flounder sushi? The actual amount of cesium in two tiny pieces of fish can't be *that* harmful, can they?
This is always the argument. How much of a toxic agent can I eat before I get sick? With lead there were "safe" levels given in the past but more recently it's been found there are no safe levels especially in children. The same with mercury. They say some levels are okay in fish because the figure the health benefits of the fish outweigh the damage of the mercury. A real devil's deal. Look there's no way to avoid radioactive materials. Every handful of dirt probably contains a tiny trace amount of Uranium just like gold and silver. It might be one particle but it's in there. The point isn't how much toxic waste can we handle, we get far too much already is the answer. The real point is trying to avoid it. Yes eating sushi from fish caught near the reactor won't make you throw up but that's a poor benchmark for safety! The real issue is if you eat it once a week for 20 years do you get cancer or at least does it increase your risk? My guess is the answer is yes. It may be less than a 1% increase or it might be a 20% or 30% increase. In that case look for another source for fish or consider giving up fish.
They've been monitoring the fish for a year and the radiation levels have remained constant. Makes me wonder what the radiation level was before the tsunami. I wouldn't want to eat bottom feeding fish downstream from a large city anyway.
Come on! As rationalizing goes that's a stretch. Are you saying there was no spike caused by the release of radiation? You'd be the first to make that claim. The point is it's unchanged. I realize it's ancient history to most but we're seen this before. Remember all those nuclear tests in the 50s? The claim was the radiation would quickly disperse. In that case it not only didn't disperse it increased. It's the old predator/prey issue. What's low levels in algae eaters becomes high levels in predator fish that eat the algae eaters. It happens with mercury too. My concern is that some of what they are talking about like cesium levels have to decrease because of the short half life. One of two things are happening. Either more cesium is being released or what's there is concentrating in the fish so the concentration is offsetting the decay. Being pro nuclear doesn't mean you have to bury your head in the sand when there's an accident. Ignoring data won't help explain what's happening. If it's just concentration of what's there it should reverse in a few years. If it's continuing to leak then there's a bigger problem. The source of the new cesium may be something very obvious. The land was badly contaminated so that cesium is slowly entering the oceans for the rain washing it out of the soil. If this is the source then the fish may be contaminated for decades to come.
Better nutrition. It's similar to the height change. Look at older homes in England and most have lower ceilings and doors while the wealthy grew much taller because of the better food. Willam Wallace who was a noble, no matter what they said in Braveheart, and was thought to 6' 6" tall. A friend was in Japan during the construction of Tokyo Disnyland and said it was like a sea of heads all the same height. He said by the time they were finished it had changed so much it was like any street in the US. The younger Japanese were eating burgers and fries and other dense foods. Most humans aren't genetically 5' 5" or less. The genetic average seems more like 6' and above even for men. The consumption of foods high in fatty acids especially fish has been shown to affect brain development. A hundred years ago for much of the US such foods would have been rare. The bulk of diet would have been bread and potatoes like most of the UK while in Asia rice would have been the major caloric food source. Historically high protein diets as in meat were found to affect brain development. Neanderthals had a much higher percentage of meat in their diets and some groups exceeded modern man in brain size. That trend may reverse now that we are eating a lot of junk food and fish are becoming more scarce. Also our cattle and other animals are raised on corn diets instead of grasses which reduce the fatty acid content of the meat.
That's Horner's BS theory. There is no part of a T-Rex to hint at it being a scavenger. His claim is that an excellent sense of smell means scavenger. Most scavengers are small not oversized. His turkey vulture example is a poor one. Their size means they can cover more territory to find food. T-Rexs weren't built as long distant runners, they were built to fight by anyone's standards. They were likely short distance sprinters as in ambush hunters. You don't ambush stalk carrion. If they attacked Triceratop's necks there was a good reason. Necks have major arteries so their teeth would be perfect for opening up arteries so the triceratops would bleed out. They've also been found to have the same pockets in their teeth as Komodo Dragons so bacteria would build up, also not a feature of pure carrion eaters. Once their prey is bitten they'd just have to follow until their prey was weak from infection and blood loss. Their size would keep away the actual scavengers.
Even if you are only getting half the alcohol as corn this is a waste product so it's not taking anything away from the food supply. This would offset 50,000 tons of corn just for California alone. Remember grapes are commonly grown all along both the east and west coasts from California to Washington state and from Florida to coastal Maine. The total supply has to be several times that. We're talking several hundred thousand tons that would offset easily a 100,000 tons of corn. The scary thing is I just did the math and 14 million tons of corn are used for ethanol. Recycling waste is important but it won't offset 1% of the corn used now. This isn't because corn is superior, it's a poor source of ethanol, but the massive corn subsidies mean the only practical source for ethanol is corn. Sorghum is a better sugar crop, it grows on poor soil and uses little water. Replace all the corn being grown for ethanol with sorghum and you use less water and less fertilizer and probably get twice the ethanol. Sadly there's no massive sorghum lobby.
Other waste sources are maple sugar production, honey production and apple pulp and peels as well as other fruit waste. We can probably replace 10% of the corn from other sources then if we switch to better sources like Sorghum we could double the ethanol output without reducing the food supply. When they say biofuels are no replacement they ignore the fact that the northern states can grow sugar beets as well as some types of sorghum. Increase flowering plants and raise more bees and the honey can be used for biofuels. With some creativity and effort we could replace half the petroleum with either ethanol or methane based bio-gas. Increase efficiency by a 100% which is possible and we no longer need fossil fuels. This ignores electric cars running off wind and solar. We can fix the mess we just need the will.
You can add in regular grape juice pulp to that mix. Just image all the over ripe fruit that your average super market throws out a week and add that in as well. The fundamental problem is we designed our society to run on casually wasting resources. Nature wastes nothing, in effect we waste everything. Traditionally we had one source for waste, the dump. Nature recycles all waste while recycling is blow off largely as a hyppie/tree hugger invention. The two best sources for methane are chicken and pig waste so what do we do? Most of it ends up in our rivers and streams while chicken and hog farmers are living just above minimum wage. Most chicken and hog farms could power dozens and in some cases hundreds of houses. The broken down waste could fertilize fields instead of petroleum. We worry about what gets us through the next 24 hours and ignore out kids and grandkids. If we worried more about the next generations most of our problems would vanish in a single generation. Our current society can't last more than a generation or two, the math simply doesn't work, so most of us will live to see it collapse unless we change. Change isn't a matter of if but when. Forget iPads in a generation or two you'll be worried about food and water. Look at it this way, in the past we kept a year's worth of grain in reserve. We now have three months and we just got hit with a drought. A large percentage of the ground water is polluted already and fracking will pollute a lot of what's left. Project this just ten years into the future and you'll be waiting on the corn harvest to buy a bag of corn chips and you'll be enjoying toilet to tap because hey it's all you can get other than bottled water that costs more than gasoline.
The stream still isn't working on the Apple web site so I'm following in on Wired. Oh well. I hope the announcement is more impressive than their live stream!
Nice try Anonymous Coward.. But most of the Slashdot readers here are educated enough to know that Obama is only slightly less authoritarian than Romney and 'socialism' is just a word used in the wrong context to demagogue Obama. Further, most Slashdot readers are smart enough to see that Romney changes his rhetoric for whatever crowd he's entertaining and either candidate just continues the march towards facism.. It's just that Obama seems to want to march slower.
I'll be voting Gary Johnson. Even though I think Obama is the slightly lesser of two evils, I am sick of voting for evil.
And that's the attitude that got us 8 years of Bush! Al Gore won the popular vote and take away the Ralph Nader votes and it was a landslide for Gore in 2000. Kerry lost over the Swift Boat BS which should have never been an issue since it was obvious lies. Voting for Gary Johnson IS a vote for Romney and history supports that stance. Obama means things won't change much. Vote for Romney and he's said he wants tax cuts for the rich and fewer deductions for the middle class. Get over the fact Obama is black and listen to what they actually say. Obama rarely wavers on his stances while Romney changes with every sunrise. In the court of law the guy that changes his story is assumed to be the liar and the one that never wavers is the truthful one. Funny how in elections that rule never applies unless it's a Democrat. Kerry was hammered on changing a couple of stances. Romney has changed practically EVERY stance! By that metric who is trust worthy?
I'd be shocked if they didn't drop the iPad 2. There's no point in keeping it since it's old technology. It fit a niche but if people want a cheaper option they'll get the mini. I don't see a need to come up with one for every price point. You've got the full strength then a cheaper version for those that can't aford the full sized one. What I want to see is more memory. Where are the 128 and 256 models? I found the HD films looked only marginally better while sucking up twice my capacity so I stopped buying them right after I tried one. They burn up too much space. With 128 or 256 I could hold multiple seasons of TV shows or a decent movie collection, a 120 to 250 at standard def. Right now I have to plan ahead and only load what I'm likely to watch.
This case has always been much more about media bias than about a mexican shooting a black.
What's rarely brought up is Zimmerman's history of violence. The guy stalked a kid and the evidence points to him chasing him and jumping him. So he chases an unarmed kid carrying an ice tea and Skittles and attacks then shoots the kid and you're only worried about the attacker? Sounds like there's a lot of bias on your side. Zimmerman has been treated more than fairly. The guy lied about how much money he had so he had a way to skip the country but they foiled his plain by making him wear an ankle bracelet. He was carrying a gun which wasn't allowed for their neighborhood watch. He wasn't scheduled to work then after the police told him not to pursue the kid he chases him and attacks him. He'll probably get off and there will be no justice because it appears he murdered the kid because he assumed a black kid in that neighborhood was up to no good. It's disgusting where they are being allowed dig through his personal e-mail to find dirt on the kid. The judge should be ashamed!
Most have some brain disorders like dyslexia. There's something about the type of brain wiring involved in certain disorders that frees up the problem solving areas of the brain. I think part of the hard work involves overcoming the disorders. Most geniuses are unconventional thinkers. I remember a quote that genius was being about to connect A to C without going through B. It's that out of box thinking that defines true genius. Being able to take an equation with 12 steps and reduce it to 3 or 4.
Why not build them here? Yes they will cost slightly more but obviously given the rabid demand they haven't crossed the price point that drives away customers. The bigger issue is in spite dividends and buy backs and such Apple still has over 100 billion in their mattress and they don't have a clue what to do with it! Even with the increased production costs it's doubtful it would dent the 100 billion in the bank while it would mean hiring 500,000 new people that might turn into iPhone customers! It worked for Henry Ford. Being a good citizen could result in a windfall instead of reduced profits. Apple can't go broke at this point so why not help their mother country out for once? They get the added benefit of getting rid of two weeks in shipment delays due to having to ship them from China. They could also get them to Europe quicker so it's a win/win!
It sounds contradictory since the science requirement is for the vary reason you state to expose students to a variety of subjects. I find most who object to science requirements do so on religious grounds where they feel science threatens faith. If you aren't going to require any science classes then why require English? Are we talking only the three "R"s? Some object to anything past basic math. Kids should be exposed to Science, Math, English,Art and Music like they have in the past. Also we used to be required to do 5 hours a week of Gym and over weigh kids were rare. 5 hours of physical activity won't hurt them especially when many spend their after school hours ion front of a TV or Computer. We had more requirements when I was growing up like Geography and Civics and we received a better education than they do today. I say expose them to as much as possible except religion. The parents have the rest of the week to brainwash their kids, school should be for informing them of subjects to expand their experiences and education not limit it!
Why is it they are only willing to go to the mat for corporate interests and never seem to have time to do the business of the people? They spent most of this year on vacation but they seem to have time to threaten a government agency if they dare touch a rich corporate contributor. Shouldn't they be threatening them if they DON'T go after Google?
"Only three years away," doesn't make this news again.
Wake me up when one has successfully passed NHTSA crash saftey tests.
If they were smart they'd partner with someone to make the Fiat-500 or the Ford Fiesta air-powered versions. This is a wheel not worth reinventing, to some degree literally.
It falls under the new disposable car standard. You're required to take out life insurance and have a priest perform the last rights before you buy one but they are seen as increasing the safety for drivers of real cars since a Tata Nao won't scratch the paint on an American car even with a high speed impact.
If planets can form with the gravitational forces of a dual binary system I have to believe virtually all suns have planets of some form. Stars tend to have left over material when they form and that tends to form planets. The more conditions they find that can support planets the more system candidates there are for planets.
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The scary scenario is two radioactive Presidential candidates. I see a Godzilla style grudge match on Tuesday with 200' tall candidates fighting over Ohio.
It's times like this I miss aspects of the Amiga computers. They had a really friendly system for expanding ram. Most cards and drives came with extra ram slots. I never understood limiting ram expansion so severely. For computer graphics I see no top end in ram needs and I used to always say if your computer has slowed down nine times out of ten it's the ram not the CPU. 500 chips sounds like a couple of hundred gig of ram if the OSs and hardware would support the expansion.
People buy apple because it's in vogue to own apple products. Tablets don't have much use period. Smartphones are useful, laptops are useful. The tablet with a dock laptop concept is kind of interesting to me, but mostly only because it finally brings laptops with touch screens. I don't see it ever being in vogue to own a Microsoft product - they're too hated for their business practices.
Over simplification. I own mostly Apple products due to ease of use. I mostly use my handhelds as media players which Apple excels at. It's also painless to check mail and surf the web and it's a good platform for gaming. Sure if you are willing to put up with some hassles you can do most of this with Android devices and probably Surface. It's the "some hassles" that talk me out of the other products. Back when I owned half and half Windows and Mac computers I always went to the Macs to watch movies and video clips let alone music. I constantly found the Windows machines couldn't handle the type of clip I was trying to play. I still have Windows machines but they drive me nuts because they are always trying to download updates in the background. Mac gives you the option. I finally got sick of it and use mostly Macs. I have Parallels on my main Mac because my web site software is Windows only. I can drag files directly into the Parallel window then everything else I do Mac. I just had my Windows Vista notebook freeze up due to an OS crash. I tried everything and it says it isn't fixable. I rarely use it so there was maybe a month or so of time on the machine and now it's dead because of the OS. Windows needs to do a ground up like Mac did with OSX. I never used to like Mac but now I'm sold. I'd love to use Linux but I found everything was a hassle with Linux. I want to spend my time with software and apps not fighting OSs.
There was a Next Generation episode with a similar revenge theme only it was one person infected with a plague that would kill members of a specific family as a kind of assassin. It's driving me nuts because I know there was a scifi series that had this exact scenario where a person close to some one was infected with a targeted disease that was harmless to everyone but the target. It wasn't Fringe or Regensis but it was something along those lines. Something in the last ten years but I just can't remember enough details to remember what it was. Funny how often a subject gets explored in science fiction before it is in science.
I don't know, it looks more like an iSore to me.
A two word description, sterile and boring. If you turned that in as a final design for design school I'd expect to flunk. Even the placement of the iMacs lacks imagination. I thought they'd be built in not sitting in a row blocking the window. A design fail on every level.
Funny how you can get a hearing enhancing set up for $10 but a fits in ear amplifier casts $2,000. I remember hearing aids for the mid to late 70s that were bulky but worked and average people could aford them. A cell phone if you had one was the size of a lunch pail. Now cell phones are tiny and dirt cheap but hearing aids are smaller and outrageously expensive. It's pure price gauging. Sorry but a computer chip will set you back a $100 but the same thing that does a 1/100 as much runs you $2,000? It's price fixing and everyone knows it but medical expenses are more sacred than religion in this country.
Okay how's this for some numbers. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one bushel of corn. That doesn't include processing to ethanol. Oil also takes huge quantities of water to produce refined gasoline or diesel. They are talking 3 to1 for biodiesel from algae. That's actually impressive! Also they assume we'd use chemical fertilizers. Why? Most proposals I've seen used farm waste especially pig waste which goes to waste and pollutes rivers. There's a frightening amount of farm waste, both pig and chicken, that could be used for algae production. FYI, some types of algae live in brackish water and there is effectively an unlimited supply of that. Most of the extraction techniques involve squeezing out the oil with maybe a small amount of alcohol used to soften the cell walls so there's limited energy needed in processing. If you cherry pick data you make the numbers sound scary.
So fugu (potentially lethal blowfish) sushi is insanely popular and expensive.... how long until we see Fukushima flounder sushi? The actual amount of cesium in two tiny pieces of fish can't be *that* harmful, can they?
This is always the argument. How much of a toxic agent can I eat before I get sick? With lead there were "safe" levels given in the past but more recently it's been found there are no safe levels especially in children. The same with mercury. They say some levels are okay in fish because the figure the health benefits of the fish outweigh the damage of the mercury. A real devil's deal. Look there's no way to avoid radioactive materials. Every handful of dirt probably contains a tiny trace amount of Uranium just like gold and silver. It might be one particle but it's in there. The point isn't how much toxic waste can we handle, we get far too much already is the answer. The real point is trying to avoid it. Yes eating sushi from fish caught near the reactor won't make you throw up but that's a poor benchmark for safety! The real issue is if you eat it once a week for 20 years do you get cancer or at least does it increase your risk? My guess is the answer is yes. It may be less than a 1% increase or it might be a 20% or 30% increase. In that case look for another source for fish or consider giving up fish.
Fine.
Is the radiation level of these fish sufficient to produce atomic breath, or is it merely enough to cause laser vision?
If you eat beans with the fish it can cause a release of radioactive gas.
They've been monitoring the fish for a year and the radiation levels have remained constant. Makes me wonder what the radiation level was before the tsunami. I wouldn't want to eat bottom feeding fish downstream from a large city anyway.
Come on! As rationalizing goes that's a stretch. Are you saying there was no spike caused by the release of radiation? You'd be the first to make that claim. The point is it's unchanged. I realize it's ancient history to most but we're seen this before. Remember all those nuclear tests in the 50s? The claim was the radiation would quickly disperse. In that case it not only didn't disperse it increased. It's the old predator/prey issue. What's low levels in algae eaters becomes high levels in predator fish that eat the algae eaters. It happens with mercury too. My concern is that some of what they are talking about like cesium levels have to decrease because of the short half life. One of two things are happening. Either more cesium is being released or what's there is concentrating in the fish so the concentration is offsetting the decay. Being pro nuclear doesn't mean you have to bury your head in the sand when there's an accident. Ignoring data won't help explain what's happening. If it's just concentration of what's there it should reverse in a few years. If it's continuing to leak then there's a bigger problem. The source of the new cesium may be something very obvious. The land was badly contaminated so that cesium is slowly entering the oceans for the rain washing it out of the soil. If this is the source then the fish may be contaminated for decades to come.
Better nutrition. It's similar to the height change. Look at older homes in England and most have lower ceilings and doors while the wealthy grew much taller because of the better food. Willam Wallace who was a noble, no matter what they said in Braveheart, and was thought to 6' 6" tall. A friend was in Japan during the construction of Tokyo Disnyland and said it was like a sea of heads all the same height. He said by the time they were finished it had changed so much it was like any street in the US. The younger Japanese were eating burgers and fries and other dense foods. Most humans aren't genetically 5' 5" or less. The genetic average seems more like 6' and above even for men. The consumption of foods high in fatty acids especially fish has been shown to affect brain development. A hundred years ago for much of the US such foods would have been rare. The bulk of diet would have been bread and potatoes like most of the UK while in Asia rice would have been the major caloric food source. Historically high protein diets as in meat were found to affect brain development. Neanderthals had a much higher percentage of meat in their diets and some groups exceeded modern man in brain size. That trend may reverse now that we are eating a lot of junk food and fish are becoming more scarce. Also our cattle and other animals are raised on corn diets instead of grasses which reduce the fatty acid content of the meat.
That's Horner's BS theory. There is no part of a T-Rex to hint at it being a scavenger. His claim is that an excellent sense of smell means scavenger. Most scavengers are small not oversized. His turkey vulture example is a poor one. Their size means they can cover more territory to find food. T-Rexs weren't built as long distant runners, they were built to fight by anyone's standards. They were likely short distance sprinters as in ambush hunters. You don't ambush stalk carrion. If they attacked Triceratop's necks there was a good reason. Necks have major arteries so their teeth would be perfect for opening up arteries so the triceratops would bleed out. They've also been found to have the same pockets in their teeth as Komodo Dragons so bacteria would build up, also not a feature of pure carrion eaters. Once their prey is bitten they'd just have to follow until their prey was weak from infection and blood loss. Their size would keep away the actual scavengers.
Even if you are only getting half the alcohol as corn this is a waste product so it's not taking anything away from the food supply. This would offset 50,000 tons of corn just for California alone. Remember grapes are commonly grown all along both the east and west coasts from California to Washington state and from Florida to coastal Maine. The total supply has to be several times that. We're talking several hundred thousand tons that would offset easily a 100,000 tons of corn. The scary thing is I just did the math and 14 million tons of corn are used for ethanol. Recycling waste is important but it won't offset 1% of the corn used now. This isn't because corn is superior, it's a poor source of ethanol, but the massive corn subsidies mean the only practical source for ethanol is corn. Sorghum is a better sugar crop, it grows on poor soil and uses little water. Replace all the corn being grown for ethanol with sorghum and you use less water and less fertilizer and probably get twice the ethanol. Sadly there's no massive sorghum lobby. Other waste sources are maple sugar production, honey production and apple pulp and peels as well as other fruit waste. We can probably replace 10% of the corn from other sources then if we switch to better sources like Sorghum we could double the ethanol output without reducing the food supply. When they say biofuels are no replacement they ignore the fact that the northern states can grow sugar beets as well as some types of sorghum. Increase flowering plants and raise more bees and the honey can be used for biofuels. With some creativity and effort we could replace half the petroleum with either ethanol or methane based bio-gas. Increase efficiency by a 100% which is possible and we no longer need fossil fuels. This ignores electric cars running off wind and solar. We can fix the mess we just need the will.
You can add in regular grape juice pulp to that mix. Just image all the over ripe fruit that your average super market throws out a week and add that in as well. The fundamental problem is we designed our society to run on casually wasting resources. Nature wastes nothing, in effect we waste everything. Traditionally we had one source for waste, the dump. Nature recycles all waste while recycling is blow off largely as a hyppie/tree hugger invention. The two best sources for methane are chicken and pig waste so what do we do? Most of it ends up in our rivers and streams while chicken and hog farmers are living just above minimum wage. Most chicken and hog farms could power dozens and in some cases hundreds of houses. The broken down waste could fertilize fields instead of petroleum. We worry about what gets us through the next 24 hours and ignore out kids and grandkids. If we worried more about the next generations most of our problems would vanish in a single generation. Our current society can't last more than a generation or two, the math simply doesn't work, so most of us will live to see it collapse unless we change. Change isn't a matter of if but when. Forget iPads in a generation or two you'll be worried about food and water. Look at it this way, in the past we kept a year's worth of grain in reserve. We now have three months and we just got hit with a drought. A large percentage of the ground water is polluted already and fracking will pollute a lot of what's left. Project this just ten years into the future and you'll be waiting on the corn harvest to buy a bag of corn chips and you'll be enjoying toilet to tap because hey it's all you can get other than bottled water that costs more than gasoline.
Their definition of "street" seems a bit loose.
The stream still isn't working on the Apple web site so I'm following in on Wired. Oh well. I hope the announcement is more impressive than their live stream!
Nice try Anonymous Coward.. But most of the Slashdot readers here are educated enough to know that Obama is only slightly less authoritarian than Romney and 'socialism' is just a word used in the wrong context to demagogue Obama. Further, most Slashdot readers are smart enough to see that Romney changes his rhetoric for whatever crowd he's entertaining and either candidate just continues the march towards facism.. It's just that Obama seems to want to march slower.
I'll be voting Gary Johnson. Even though I think Obama is the slightly lesser of two evils, I am sick of voting for evil.
And that's the attitude that got us 8 years of Bush! Al Gore won the popular vote and take away the Ralph Nader votes and it was a landslide for Gore in 2000. Kerry lost over the Swift Boat BS which should have never been an issue since it was obvious lies. Voting for Gary Johnson IS a vote for Romney and history supports that stance. Obama means things won't change much. Vote for Romney and he's said he wants tax cuts for the rich and fewer deductions for the middle class. Get over the fact Obama is black and listen to what they actually say. Obama rarely wavers on his stances while Romney changes with every sunrise. In the court of law the guy that changes his story is assumed to be the liar and the one that never wavers is the truthful one. Funny how in elections that rule never applies unless it's a Democrat. Kerry was hammered on changing a couple of stances. Romney has changed practically EVERY stance! By that metric who is trust worthy?
I'd be shocked if they didn't drop the iPad 2. There's no point in keeping it since it's old technology. It fit a niche but if people want a cheaper option they'll get the mini. I don't see a need to come up with one for every price point. You've got the full strength then a cheaper version for those that can't aford the full sized one. What I want to see is more memory. Where are the 128 and 256 models? I found the HD films looked only marginally better while sucking up twice my capacity so I stopped buying them right after I tried one. They burn up too much space. With 128 or 256 I could hold multiple seasons of TV shows or a decent movie collection, a 120 to 250 at standard def. Right now I have to plan ahead and only load what I'm likely to watch.
This case has always been much more about media bias than about a mexican shooting a black.
What's rarely brought up is Zimmerman's history of violence. The guy stalked a kid and the evidence points to him chasing him and jumping him. So he chases an unarmed kid carrying an ice tea and Skittles and attacks then shoots the kid and you're only worried about the attacker? Sounds like there's a lot of bias on your side. Zimmerman has been treated more than fairly. The guy lied about how much money he had so he had a way to skip the country but they foiled his plain by making him wear an ankle bracelet. He was carrying a gun which wasn't allowed for their neighborhood watch. He wasn't scheduled to work then after the police told him not to pursue the kid he chases him and attacks him. He'll probably get off and there will be no justice because it appears he murdered the kid because he assumed a black kid in that neighborhood was up to no good. It's disgusting where they are being allowed dig through his personal e-mail to find dirt on the kid. The judge should be ashamed!
Most have some brain disorders like dyslexia. There's something about the type of brain wiring involved in certain disorders that frees up the problem solving areas of the brain. I think part of the hard work involves overcoming the disorders. Most geniuses are unconventional thinkers. I remember a quote that genius was being about to connect A to C without going through B. It's that out of box thinking that defines true genius. Being able to take an equation with 12 steps and reduce it to 3 or 4.
Why not build them here? Yes they will cost slightly more but obviously given the rabid demand they haven't crossed the price point that drives away customers. The bigger issue is in spite dividends and buy backs and such Apple still has over 100 billion in their mattress and they don't have a clue what to do with it! Even with the increased production costs it's doubtful it would dent the 100 billion in the bank while it would mean hiring 500,000 new people that might turn into iPhone customers! It worked for Henry Ford. Being a good citizen could result in a windfall instead of reduced profits. Apple can't go broke at this point so why not help their mother country out for once? They get the added benefit of getting rid of two weeks in shipment delays due to having to ship them from China. They could also get them to Europe quicker so it's a win/win!
It sounds contradictory since the science requirement is for the vary reason you state to expose students to a variety of subjects. I find most who object to science requirements do so on religious grounds where they feel science threatens faith. If you aren't going to require any science classes then why require English? Are we talking only the three "R"s? Some object to anything past basic math. Kids should be exposed to Science, Math, English,Art and Music like they have in the past. Also we used to be required to do 5 hours a week of Gym and over weigh kids were rare. 5 hours of physical activity won't hurt them especially when many spend their after school hours ion front of a TV or Computer. We had more requirements when I was growing up like Geography and Civics and we received a better education than they do today. I say expose them to as much as possible except religion. The parents have the rest of the week to brainwash their kids, school should be for informing them of subjects to expand their experiences and education not limit it!
Why is it they are only willing to go to the mat for corporate interests and never seem to have time to do the business of the people? They spent most of this year on vacation but they seem to have time to threaten a government agency if they dare touch a rich corporate contributor. Shouldn't they be threatening them if they DON'T go after Google?
"Only three years away," doesn't make this news again.
Wake me up when one has successfully passed NHTSA crash saftey tests.
If they were smart they'd partner with someone to make the Fiat-500 or the Ford Fiesta air-powered versions. This is a wheel not worth reinventing, to some degree literally.
It falls under the new disposable car standard. You're required to take out life insurance and have a priest perform the last rights before you buy one but they are seen as increasing the safety for drivers of real cars since a Tata Nao won't scratch the paint on an American car even with a high speed impact.
If planets can form with the gravitational forces of a dual binary system I have to believe virtually all suns have planets of some form. Stars tend to have left over material when they form and that tends to form planets. The more conditions they find that can support planets the more system candidates there are for planets.