Here's my prediction, you are dead wrong.
"The version of OS X that comes after Mountain Lion will only let you install applications/software from the App Store."
More paranoia than reality. After spending better than a decade growing their OS and finally challenging Microsoft on the desktop front they shoot themselves in the foot by forcing all sales through the app store? They'd loose half their customers overnight. First off no one would upgrade to to Mountain Lion and most would hold off buying new equipment. Third party vendors would be shutout so the backlash would be epic. It may be a wet dream over at Apple but no one is that monumentally stupid. The number of pissed off customers would dwarf the Vista revolt. Why lock the barn door while more are trying to squeeze in? There's simply no rational reason to do it and there are major downsides. Sure they will keep trying to make it or attractive to use the app store but shutting out other vendors would be shooting themselves in the foot with a nuke. They'd also be putting an antitrust target on their chests so any gain would be offset by customer backlash and the next ten years in court.
"This signals the beginning of the end for something."
Common sense. This is similar to the feeding frenzy over Microsoft bundling Explorer. There's nothing that is forcing you to use it. I was far more upset about Apple bundling iTunes with Quicktime. I can't count the number of times I had to delete iTunes after installing Quicktime on Windows machines. This is a non story. Get back to me when they limit hard drive size and force you to use cloud storage. I'll be the first one to drop Mac.
Actually you are assuming the contamination was there before fracking. Care to quote any evidence? Every report I saw interviewed people that had never had trouble before the fracking. The the problems showed up one to three years later because it took it that long to perculate up through the ground into the water table. Natural gas is lighter than air so why wouldn't it migrate upward after it was released from the rock it was trapped in? People SHOULD fear fracking since it threatens the drinking water for millions of people. Never trust what corporations tell you. They are in it to make money period. I'm old enough to remember what it was like before things like the Clean Water act when corporations were allowed to do whatever they wanted. Trust me you don't want to go back to the bad old days. It wasn't that long ago that Lake Erie couldn't support life. They killed an entire Great Lake because of a lack of regulations. The politicians pushing corporate profits think of that as the good ole days. Don't let them write the laws or you may get stuck with imported bottled water to drink and end up showering in contaminated water.
The problem is you can't drink natural gas and oil. Say it takes 30 years to exhaust a field. The contamination will be there for thousands of years and potentially millions of years since it won't breakdown over time. Given half the country is slated for fracking what does that half do for water? If only 10% of the water is poisoned we're talking millions left without water all in the name of short term profits. They were able to extract plenty of natural gas before fracking. Franking simply made it more profitable. When is the last time you heard of a natural gas shortage?
I find it INSANE that everyone argues that IP holders HAVE TO LOOSE THEIR RIGHTS at some point. Why? I build a house I own it. If I write a book you say I should loose my rights after five years. Okay all writers stop writing and build houses instead. Who suffers more? The writer who now has perminate rights to their work and the readers that are denied their work? Both require the creator to spend their time creating but one has limited rights and the other has unlimited rights. If I grow apples no one argues that I have rights to the apple orchards that I planted 50 years ago but if I write a book 50 years ago I'm greedy from making money off it but the download sites and sleazy publishers selling knock offs of my book are okay to make money off it. As a writer I find the system insane but for the opposite reason. I'm better off building up a business that my kids can benefit from for the next 100 years than wasting my time writing books that people say I should have no rights to!!!! Honest to god within five years I'll never write another book. Next year I'm planting trees and apple orchards. You'll say I'm just blowing off steam but I spent most of today researching farming and I spend most of my time researching farming. Why is this an issue? I've been working in entertainment for nearly 35 years and I'm sick of everyone telling me I have no rights. I'd rather raise cattle, pigs and chickens than write books only to be told I'm a greedy son of a bitch for not giving my work away. I'll keep writing I simply will not publish anything once the farm is stable. Who looses then? I get to keep writing I simply don't waste my time and money publishing it. Society looses when writers get sick of it all and say fuck it! I write 3 to 4 books a year so I'll have 50 to 100 books backlogged when I die. I may leave them to my kids or I may delete the files on my death bed. You can't demand rights on work you never knew existed in the first place so who wins and looses? We all loose but at least I still control my work!!!!
As a professional writer I would have to quit publishing my work. It's not greed it's a fact. I won't tell you my personal situation since it's personal and not at issue. I can tell you most writers would be in the same boat. Some writers only publish one or two modestly popular books in a five year period, the rest selling poorly. Since the rest make little or no money the writer is stuck making his or her living off a single paying book. Look at the numbers. Most publishers pay a $5,000 advance and pay nothing more until future printings. If there's a single printing the 5K is all they make. Let's say their "popular" book has a single printing a year and they see another $5,000 off that one so they are making $10,000 a year. Below the poverty line in a risky profession. Even doubling those numbers is dirt. Most authors survive off reprinted versions of existing books. It's what allows them to keep writing. Take away that revenue and most have to find other work. With a five year limit I'd say conservatively 90% of the books disappear. Call it alarmist but trust me I know the numbers and I say it's much worse. Which is worse for the average person, the existing system where you pay for books and movies or a system where a tiny number are released a year by the corporations that can aford to advertizing blitz them before the copyright runs out? For indy writers that self publish, I'm headed down that road, it can take a year or more to develop sales. That leaves you with 3 to 4 years to squeeze what money you can out of it. Here's a thought. Instead of wasting time and energy imagining this utopia where everything is free focus on a realistic goal of taking the power away from the corporations and giving it back to the writers. The corporations whine and complain about eBooks selling for $10 while indy authors are thrilled with $2.99 for an ebook and if the system allowed it, Amazon basically has effectively a $2.99 minimum, some would charge a $1. Instead of asking that the writers rights be taken away after a few years take away the corporations rights to demand that writers sign over ALL rights. Writers can be your friends in this fight but not if the option is ending up on the bread line.
The problem with the analogy is if 89% of the cars were bank robbers and another 11% were probably guilty of something then every freeway would have a road block and traffic would crawl making them useless. In truth they would tear up all the freeways. If the inverse were true and 0.3% were illegal it wouldn't be cost effective to target them. Right now they have a great big target on their chests. In the end the legit users will suffer if the system collapses.
Sorry I know everything is supposed to be open but I fail to see the nobility. They were trying to piggy back off Mac's success not to provide cheaper computers for the masses, they were trying to make a buck off Apples development dollars. Notice any price difference between the Mac OS and Microsoft? The Mac OS sells for less than the Windows developers copies. The reason is Apple doesn't develop it for profit they develop it to support their hardware. It's not meant as a retail product it's provided as a courtesy to those that buy the hardware. They briefly toyed with licensing the OS but it was too much of a headache since they were then expected to support whatever hardware the vendors came up with. I just get tired of companies that are ripping off other companies seen as being noble. Selling the hardware at cost might be noble when bundling it with Mac OS but selling them at a profit is stealing from Apple so where's the noble act? Write a free bit of code that helps users install Mac OS on a home built computer if you want to do something noble.
Apples and oranges. This type of forge isn't used for basic structure but high strength parts. While some parts can be redesigned for composites the materials aren't interchangeable. The only other process like it is using explosives to create exotic alloys but that process only is practical on a small scale. It reminds me of old battleships. People don't realize that some processes can't be duplicated today. Working with large scale multi-ton parts is old technology and tough to replicate. Another example is high performance submarine propellers. The US has the only mill in the world that can produce the propellers used in high speed silent running. Composites aren't a magic product that replaces everything that came before it. If they were then why isn't anyone making engine blocks out of them? They have their uses but they have their limits as well.
It'd be interesting except every rumor I've ever heard quotes this 27" size which is small by today's standards and the prices I've heard are all well over a grand. If they came out with what amounts to a 42" iPad with a tuner and sold it for $1,200 to $1,500 I think they'd make a killing even if the resolution was the same as an iPad. Coming out with one half that sized when I can buy a 42" for $500 or $600 is pointless. 27" TVs sell for a couple of hundred not $1,500. What they are describing is an iMac without the computer part and a tuner thrown in. I really doubt the lack of a tuner is why people around the country aren't watching iMacs instead of TVs in their living rooms.
I hated high school. Facebook is high school 2.0. Why wouldn't I want it to die a horrible death? Social networking is for people that lack actual lives. I guess based on their numbers there's nearly a billion of them. Somehow I get through my day without logging onto Facebook and I somehow have survived by not posting on the site. Does this make me "uncool"? God I hope to hell it does if posting makes you cool. I thought being cool was NOT doing what the sheep do?
I know this is supposed to be an "Apple is evil" issue but imagine with all the standards trying to roll out a worldwide product? Is it an attempt to deceive or that support to local networks is lagging behind? Is it a matter of time or an issue that can't be corrected with the current product? There are simply too many standards to expect everyone to support every standard or local system. The advertising department is at fault for boasting of local support that doesn't exist but it's hard to say how intentional it was for the parent company.
Ion power isn't about horse power it's about efficiency. It uses less mass and mass is the thing in short or at least limited supply. I agree the design isn't practical especially since only the wheel would have gravity. A space wheel makes more sense. I have my doubts about his budget since it actually seems very conservative. I do have to say he wasn't proposing an actual starship since the most extreme destination he mentioned was Europa. Still a long way but a fraction of the distance of even the outer planets and far from the next star. When he says current technology I have to point out no one is sure humans can survive extended stays in interplanetary space. We're talking a healthy dose of radiation. Even the space station record isn't much more than a year and he's proposing multi-year trips. Here's a bizarre proposal, it might make more sense to man it with 60 year olds. The reason is the cancer factor. Better to develop cancer from radiation exposure in your 80s than your 40s. Generally it would take a decade or two to develop so the impact would be greater on young travelers. Odds are they'd be limited to s single trip so the risk of developing normal health problems in the year or two they'd be traveling could be minimized.
We just spent that much getting revenge for 911 and the meter is still running. By the time we pull out and add up all the benefits to soldiers the number I heard was 3 to 5 trillion. The point is just what we spent to date in the middle east would fund the project and which is likely to yield more benefits? It would even end up quasi commercial because most first world countries would sign on to have their scientists on board and pay to have probes launched. In the end it could pay for itself and it could become a source for locating and harvesting rare earth materials that are in short supply here on Earth. Cut 50 billion out of the military budget which isn't hard and there's your funding.
He didn't leave the country he used what amounts to a loophole to get around tax. What I love is he's one of what the Republicans call job creators when in truth a lot of them are tax dodgers that horde money and resources and not make jobs.
Yes but the cost of Platinum has been holding back the wide adoption of fuel cell technology. At one point only NASA could aford to use them. Most of the cost of a fuel cell is in the platinum. Say you want or need to live off the grid, this process can make afordable equipment possible for producing hydrogen at home. You can use it to store energy for lean days or refuel the car. Not caustic and expensive batteries and the fuel cells can be recycled. Hydrogen was never a solution. Bush only pushed it after it was pointed out to him that most hydrogen in use now is produced from fossil fuel. How about this for crazy, install one on an offshore wind farm and run a pipe back to shore and have a wind farm producing not electricity but hydrogen gas! No line loss and you can have a car hydrogen fueling station on shore. Hydrogen does escape mostly at fitting and valves since it's so small it's nearly impossible to completely contain hydrogen but in a closed line there would be less loss than the bleed that happens in power lines which could offset some of the energy lost in producing the hydrogen.
There is only one sacred thing to the US government, corporate profits. You can accurately determine their reaction to any proposal based on whether it benefits corporations or not. The point is if it's seen to harm corporate profits then expect government funding to get cut. Open sourced doesn't make the rich richer so expect the government to be against it. Government of the people and by the people died 200 years ago. Now we have government of the corporations and by the corporations. Oil companies are consulted on the clean air act so what is they likelihood of the government supporting open sourced text books? Don't hold your breath.
It's common practice to stop supporting versions that are two or more out of date. They just released CS6 so this would be perfectly normal. They aren't forcing an update they are simply saying they can't continue to support products that are out of date beyond a certain point.
I still see offices especially things like vets and some stores even that are using old DOS based record keeping systems. They weren't sure how to transfer all the information so they keep using systems that are several decades old. I haven't worked around it in years but up into the late 90s motion picture effects companies still used old DOS based machines to run motion control systems. The hardware and software they used at the time couldn't be adapted to Windows.
We've had unusually warm or record warm years for 12 to 15 years. There's evidence of it going back to the early 80s. So far it's following the predicted pattern, there's that nasty science, including the southwest being more mild. A shift in the jet stream was supposed to keep Arizona and Southern California mild compared to the rest of the country. Arizona has had a mild winter and now we are well into May with no 100 degree days. Some would call this proof global warming or climate change is false but it's due to the fact they haven't read what the models predicted. I've heard ridiculous claims that it was supposed to be 10 degrees warmer by now so it's false. I never read a single model that predicted that. The worst scenarios are for a roughly 10 degree increase in some areas in a hundred years, not ten. Three to five was the most likely outcome but we are actually running on the high side of all the models so it's likely to be worse than the best case scenario. Look at the statistics. If some one rolled ten or twelve sixes in a row with dice and could predict 90% of his rolls would that be proof of psychic powers? I think even James Randi would accept that as proof. We're seeing the same consistency in weather model predictions. People have claimed the lack of killer hurricanes as proof that it's all a lie while ignoring the explosion in deadly tornadoes. Also tornadoes are happening earlier and later in the year and they are happening from Maine to Southern California. Two places where they are very rare. Other factors can moderate hurricanes but tornadoes are cause by the mixing of warm and cool air. You have the right conditions you tend to get tornadoes. Usually there's only a portion of the country where conditions are right but now they can happen almost anywhere.
Republicans seem to vote against anything that Democrats propose. I'm 50 and I've never seen this in my entire life. Republicans either get every single thing they want or they hold their breath until they get their way. Without compromise there is no government only gridlock. If compromise is dead how are we different from every other banana republic out there? We used to rule from the middle but now we get our choice of extremes. Either the extreme right wing get their way or they threaten to bring the country to it's knees. They only amount to at the most a third of the citizens so since when do a third of the people call themselves a majority and demand we all obey them???? I don't like the Democrats but the right wing Republicans scare the hell out of me. The right wing and rich stole half the country during Bush 42's rule and now they are demanding the rest. If the rich get their way you better get used to a system that resembles feudal England. We'll all end up working for our rich masters. Don't believe me then in 50 years I dare you to tell me I'm wrong. In the last 10 years the rich got a LOT richer and the rest of us are struggling. The Republicans call it trickle down economics but I call it pissing down my neck and calling it rain!
Most people think of matter as a solid when in fact there is no fundamental solid but matter is in it's base form a vibration which is roughly the same as a wavefunction. In some ways a wavefunction is no different a vibrating string so it's not as crazy as it sounds.
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Here's my prediction, you are dead wrong. "The version of OS X that comes after Mountain Lion will only let you install applications/software from the App Store." More paranoia than reality. After spending better than a decade growing their OS and finally challenging Microsoft on the desktop front they shoot themselves in the foot by forcing all sales through the app store? They'd loose half their customers overnight. First off no one would upgrade to to Mountain Lion and most would hold off buying new equipment. Third party vendors would be shutout so the backlash would be epic. It may be a wet dream over at Apple but no one is that monumentally stupid. The number of pissed off customers would dwarf the Vista revolt. Why lock the barn door while more are trying to squeeze in? There's simply no rational reason to do it and there are major downsides. Sure they will keep trying to make it or attractive to use the app store but shutting out other vendors would be shooting themselves in the foot with a nuke. They'd also be putting an antitrust target on their chests so any gain would be offset by customer backlash and the next ten years in court.
"This signals the beginning of the end for something." Common sense. This is similar to the feeding frenzy over Microsoft bundling Explorer. There's nothing that is forcing you to use it. I was far more upset about Apple bundling iTunes with Quicktime. I can't count the number of times I had to delete iTunes after installing Quicktime on Windows machines. This is a non story. Get back to me when they limit hard drive size and force you to use cloud storage. I'll be the first one to drop Mac.
Actually you are assuming the contamination was there before fracking. Care to quote any evidence? Every report I saw interviewed people that had never had trouble before the fracking. The the problems showed up one to three years later because it took it that long to perculate up through the ground into the water table. Natural gas is lighter than air so why wouldn't it migrate upward after it was released from the rock it was trapped in? People SHOULD fear fracking since it threatens the drinking water for millions of people. Never trust what corporations tell you. They are in it to make money period. I'm old enough to remember what it was like before things like the Clean Water act when corporations were allowed to do whatever they wanted. Trust me you don't want to go back to the bad old days. It wasn't that long ago that Lake Erie couldn't support life. They killed an entire Great Lake because of a lack of regulations. The politicians pushing corporate profits think of that as the good ole days. Don't let them write the laws or you may get stuck with imported bottled water to drink and end up showering in contaminated water.
The problem is you can't drink natural gas and oil. Say it takes 30 years to exhaust a field. The contamination will be there for thousands of years and potentially millions of years since it won't breakdown over time. Given half the country is slated for fracking what does that half do for water? If only 10% of the water is poisoned we're talking millions left without water all in the name of short term profits. They were able to extract plenty of natural gas before fracking. Franking simply made it more profitable. When is the last time you heard of a natural gas shortage?
I find it INSANE that everyone argues that IP holders HAVE TO LOOSE THEIR RIGHTS at some point. Why? I build a house I own it. If I write a book you say I should loose my rights after five years. Okay all writers stop writing and build houses instead. Who suffers more? The writer who now has perminate rights to their work and the readers that are denied their work? Both require the creator to spend their time creating but one has limited rights and the other has unlimited rights. If I grow apples no one argues that I have rights to the apple orchards that I planted 50 years ago but if I write a book 50 years ago I'm greedy from making money off it but the download sites and sleazy publishers selling knock offs of my book are okay to make money off it. As a writer I find the system insane but for the opposite reason. I'm better off building up a business that my kids can benefit from for the next 100 years than wasting my time writing books that people say I should have no rights to!!!! Honest to god within five years I'll never write another book. Next year I'm planting trees and apple orchards. You'll say I'm just blowing off steam but I spent most of today researching farming and I spend most of my time researching farming. Why is this an issue? I've been working in entertainment for nearly 35 years and I'm sick of everyone telling me I have no rights. I'd rather raise cattle, pigs and chickens than write books only to be told I'm a greedy son of a bitch for not giving my work away. I'll keep writing I simply will not publish anything once the farm is stable. Who looses then? I get to keep writing I simply don't waste my time and money publishing it. Society looses when writers get sick of it all and say fuck it! I write 3 to 4 books a year so I'll have 50 to 100 books backlogged when I die. I may leave them to my kids or I may delete the files on my death bed. You can't demand rights on work you never knew existed in the first place so who wins and looses? We all loose but at least I still control my work!!!!
As a professional writer I would have to quit publishing my work. It's not greed it's a fact. I won't tell you my personal situation since it's personal and not at issue. I can tell you most writers would be in the same boat. Some writers only publish one or two modestly popular books in a five year period, the rest selling poorly. Since the rest make little or no money the writer is stuck making his or her living off a single paying book. Look at the numbers. Most publishers pay a $5,000 advance and pay nothing more until future printings. If there's a single printing the 5K is all they make. Let's say their "popular" book has a single printing a year and they see another $5,000 off that one so they are making $10,000 a year. Below the poverty line in a risky profession. Even doubling those numbers is dirt. Most authors survive off reprinted versions of existing books. It's what allows them to keep writing. Take away that revenue and most have to find other work. With a five year limit I'd say conservatively 90% of the books disappear. Call it alarmist but trust me I know the numbers and I say it's much worse. Which is worse for the average person, the existing system where you pay for books and movies or a system where a tiny number are released a year by the corporations that can aford to advertizing blitz them before the copyright runs out? For indy writers that self publish, I'm headed down that road, it can take a year or more to develop sales. That leaves you with 3 to 4 years to squeeze what money you can out of it. Here's a thought. Instead of wasting time and energy imagining this utopia where everything is free focus on a realistic goal of taking the power away from the corporations and giving it back to the writers. The corporations whine and complain about eBooks selling for $10 while indy authors are thrilled with $2.99 for an ebook and if the system allowed it, Amazon basically has effectively a $2.99 minimum, some would charge a $1. Instead of asking that the writers rights be taken away after a few years take away the corporations rights to demand that writers sign over ALL rights. Writers can be your friends in this fight but not if the option is ending up on the bread line.
The problem with the analogy is if 89% of the cars were bank robbers and another 11% were probably guilty of something then every freeway would have a road block and traffic would crawl making them useless. In truth they would tear up all the freeways. If the inverse were true and 0.3% were illegal it wouldn't be cost effective to target them. Right now they have a great big target on their chests. In the end the legit users will suffer if the system collapses.
Sorry I know everything is supposed to be open but I fail to see the nobility. They were trying to piggy back off Mac's success not to provide cheaper computers for the masses, they were trying to make a buck off Apples development dollars. Notice any price difference between the Mac OS and Microsoft? The Mac OS sells for less than the Windows developers copies. The reason is Apple doesn't develop it for profit they develop it to support their hardware. It's not meant as a retail product it's provided as a courtesy to those that buy the hardware. They briefly toyed with licensing the OS but it was too much of a headache since they were then expected to support whatever hardware the vendors came up with. I just get tired of companies that are ripping off other companies seen as being noble. Selling the hardware at cost might be noble when bundling it with Mac OS but selling them at a profit is stealing from Apple so where's the noble act? Write a free bit of code that helps users install Mac OS on a home built computer if you want to do something noble.
Apples and oranges. This type of forge isn't used for basic structure but high strength parts. While some parts can be redesigned for composites the materials aren't interchangeable. The only other process like it is using explosives to create exotic alloys but that process only is practical on a small scale. It reminds me of old battleships. People don't realize that some processes can't be duplicated today. Working with large scale multi-ton parts is old technology and tough to replicate. Another example is high performance submarine propellers. The US has the only mill in the world that can produce the propellers used in high speed silent running. Composites aren't a magic product that replaces everything that came before it. If they were then why isn't anyone making engine blocks out of them? They have their uses but they have their limits as well.
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I believe that was the title of a proposed sequel to Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes.
It'd be interesting except every rumor I've ever heard quotes this 27" size which is small by today's standards and the prices I've heard are all well over a grand. If they came out with what amounts to a 42" iPad with a tuner and sold it for $1,200 to $1,500 I think they'd make a killing even if the resolution was the same as an iPad. Coming out with one half that sized when I can buy a 42" for $500 or $600 is pointless. 27" TVs sell for a couple of hundred not $1,500. What they are describing is an iMac without the computer part and a tuner thrown in. I really doubt the lack of a tuner is why people around the country aren't watching iMacs instead of TVs in their living rooms.
I hated high school. Facebook is high school 2.0. Why wouldn't I want it to die a horrible death? Social networking is for people that lack actual lives. I guess based on their numbers there's nearly a billion of them. Somehow I get through my day without logging onto Facebook and I somehow have survived by not posting on the site. Does this make me "uncool"? God I hope to hell it does if posting makes you cool. I thought being cool was NOT doing what the sheep do?
I know this is supposed to be an "Apple is evil" issue but imagine with all the standards trying to roll out a worldwide product? Is it an attempt to deceive or that support to local networks is lagging behind? Is it a matter of time or an issue that can't be corrected with the current product? There are simply too many standards to expect everyone to support every standard or local system. The advertising department is at fault for boasting of local support that doesn't exist but it's hard to say how intentional it was for the parent company.
Ion power isn't about horse power it's about efficiency. It uses less mass and mass is the thing in short or at least limited supply. I agree the design isn't practical especially since only the wheel would have gravity. A space wheel makes more sense. I have my doubts about his budget since it actually seems very conservative. I do have to say he wasn't proposing an actual starship since the most extreme destination he mentioned was Europa. Still a long way but a fraction of the distance of even the outer planets and far from the next star. When he says current technology I have to point out no one is sure humans can survive extended stays in interplanetary space. We're talking a healthy dose of radiation. Even the space station record isn't much more than a year and he's proposing multi-year trips. Here's a bizarre proposal, it might make more sense to man it with 60 year olds. The reason is the cancer factor. Better to develop cancer from radiation exposure in your 80s than your 40s. Generally it would take a decade or two to develop so the impact would be greater on young travelers. Odds are they'd be limited to s single trip so the risk of developing normal health problems in the year or two they'd be traveling could be minimized.
We just spent that much getting revenge for 911 and the meter is still running. By the time we pull out and add up all the benefits to soldiers the number I heard was 3 to 5 trillion. The point is just what we spent to date in the middle east would fund the project and which is likely to yield more benefits? It would even end up quasi commercial because most first world countries would sign on to have their scientists on board and pay to have probes launched. In the end it could pay for itself and it could become a source for locating and harvesting rare earth materials that are in short supply here on Earth. Cut 50 billion out of the military budget which isn't hard and there's your funding.
He didn't leave the country he used what amounts to a loophole to get around tax. What I love is he's one of what the Republicans call job creators when in truth a lot of them are tax dodgers that horde money and resources and not make jobs.
Yes but the cost of Platinum has been holding back the wide adoption of fuel cell technology. At one point only NASA could aford to use them. Most of the cost of a fuel cell is in the platinum. Say you want or need to live off the grid, this process can make afordable equipment possible for producing hydrogen at home. You can use it to store energy for lean days or refuel the car. Not caustic and expensive batteries and the fuel cells can be recycled. Hydrogen was never a solution. Bush only pushed it after it was pointed out to him that most hydrogen in use now is produced from fossil fuel. How about this for crazy, install one on an offshore wind farm and run a pipe back to shore and have a wind farm producing not electricity but hydrogen gas! No line loss and you can have a car hydrogen fueling station on shore. Hydrogen does escape mostly at fitting and valves since it's so small it's nearly impossible to completely contain hydrogen but in a closed line there would be less loss than the bleed that happens in power lines which could offset some of the energy lost in producing the hydrogen.
There is only one sacred thing to the US government, corporate profits. You can accurately determine their reaction to any proposal based on whether it benefits corporations or not. The point is if it's seen to harm corporate profits then expect government funding to get cut. Open sourced doesn't make the rich richer so expect the government to be against it. Government of the people and by the people died 200 years ago. Now we have government of the corporations and by the corporations. Oil companies are consulted on the clean air act so what is they likelihood of the government supporting open sourced text books? Don't hold your breath.
It's common practice to stop supporting versions that are two or more out of date. They just released CS6 so this would be perfectly normal. They aren't forcing an update they are simply saying they can't continue to support products that are out of date beyond a certain point.
I still see offices especially things like vets and some stores even that are using old DOS based record keeping systems. They weren't sure how to transfer all the information so they keep using systems that are several decades old. I haven't worked around it in years but up into the late 90s motion picture effects companies still used old DOS based machines to run motion control systems. The hardware and software they used at the time couldn't be adapted to Windows.
The machine was just upset about gay marriage.
We've had unusually warm or record warm years for 12 to 15 years. There's evidence of it going back to the early 80s. So far it's following the predicted pattern, there's that nasty science, including the southwest being more mild. A shift in the jet stream was supposed to keep Arizona and Southern California mild compared to the rest of the country. Arizona has had a mild winter and now we are well into May with no 100 degree days. Some would call this proof global warming or climate change is false but it's due to the fact they haven't read what the models predicted. I've heard ridiculous claims that it was supposed to be 10 degrees warmer by now so it's false. I never read a single model that predicted that. The worst scenarios are for a roughly 10 degree increase in some areas in a hundred years, not ten. Three to five was the most likely outcome but we are actually running on the high side of all the models so it's likely to be worse than the best case scenario. Look at the statistics. If some one rolled ten or twelve sixes in a row with dice and could predict 90% of his rolls would that be proof of psychic powers? I think even James Randi would accept that as proof. We're seeing the same consistency in weather model predictions. People have claimed the lack of killer hurricanes as proof that it's all a lie while ignoring the explosion in deadly tornadoes. Also tornadoes are happening earlier and later in the year and they are happening from Maine to Southern California. Two places where they are very rare. Other factors can moderate hurricanes but tornadoes are cause by the mixing of warm and cool air. You have the right conditions you tend to get tornadoes. Usually there's only a portion of the country where conditions are right but now they can happen almost anywhere.
Republicans seem to vote against anything that Democrats propose. I'm 50 and I've never seen this in my entire life. Republicans either get every single thing they want or they hold their breath until they get their way. Without compromise there is no government only gridlock. If compromise is dead how are we different from every other banana republic out there? We used to rule from the middle but now we get our choice of extremes. Either the extreme right wing get their way or they threaten to bring the country to it's knees. They only amount to at the most a third of the citizens so since when do a third of the people call themselves a majority and demand we all obey them???? I don't like the Democrats but the right wing Republicans scare the hell out of me. The right wing and rich stole half the country during Bush 42's rule and now they are demanding the rest. If the rich get their way you better get used to a system that resembles feudal England. We'll all end up working for our rich masters. Don't believe me then in 50 years I dare you to tell me I'm wrong. In the last 10 years the rich got a LOT richer and the rest of us are struggling. The Republicans call it trickle down economics but I call it pissing down my neck and calling it rain!
Wow, Major geek demerits! Gamma rays would turn the school children green and give them muscles that any body builder would envy. For shame!
Most people think of matter as a solid when in fact there is no fundamental solid but matter is in it's base form a vibration which is roughly the same as a wavefunction. In some ways a wavefunction is no different a vibrating string so it's not as crazy as it sounds.