Distribution (a.k.a. land area or population density) probably plays a large role in the disparity. Europe has a much smaller land area than the US. It would be interesting to see emissions stats per capita adjusted for land area.
Wrong... according to Google, Europe is about 10,180,000 km^2 while the USA is 9,827,000 km^2 which makes Europe bigger (and Google is never wrong). The EU, however, is 4,324,782 km^2 but you said Europe...
lol, there is no factor of 5 to 10. There is a factor of 5, and there is a factor of 10. Huge difference between the two, which is it?
According to this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/18/china-average-europe-carbon-footprint Per capita emissions for the EU/China are about the same at just over 7 tons per capita while that for the US is just over 17 tons. That's a factor of c.a. 2,3. I don't know how accurate these figures are but the proportions sound about right (in the sense that they match other reports that I have heard previously).
Wikipedia has: China (ex.Macau, Hong Kong) at 7,031,916 thousand metric tons which is 23.53% of world total United States at 5,461,014 thousand metric tons which is 18.27% of world total The European Union (all 27 countries) at 4,177,817 thousand metric tons which is 13.98% of world total India at 1,742,698 thousand metric tons which is 5.83% of world total
Keep in mind that China has a population of 1,35 Biliion, India 1,2 Billion, the EU has about 0.503 Billion inhabitants and there are 0.314 Billion of our US American cousins. I know these figures don't quite match the per capita ones I cited from the Guardian article (which are probably newer than the ones on Wikipedia anyway) but it's the proportions that are interesting. Some 300 million US Americans manage to generate the carbon footprint of a Billion Chinese, while 500 million Europeans can hardly hold a candle to the US in terms of carbon emissions.
Nokia is too late to the table to grab the most delicious morsels; the easily picked fruit.
If they do this quickly enough, and offer the same feature set as Google Maps, they can get a whole mess of disgruntled iOS users as well as draining away market share from Google Maps. Google Maps is nice as long as you have network coverage, but it sucks ass the moment you loose your connection (at least it did on iOS). If Nokia maps offers better offline performance than the Google Maps app did on iOS then I'd use it in preference to Google Maps any day, it would beat dragging a Garmin unit around with me. Another downside of Google maps is that if you don't live in the US/EU and in the vicinity of a major population center there are many places where you do not get down-to-house-number navigation. This may all work perfectly for Android users but on iOS Google Maps kind of sucked. I have often found myself getting down-to-house-number navigation in many places with Nokia (Bing) maps where I was SOL with Google Maps. In places with no coverage or where even Bing Maps fails I usually reach for my Garmin unit. Come to think of it, if I was Apple I'd consider fixing Apple Maps by buying Garmin. Dunno if that is realistic but Garmin maps are really good including their international maps.
Yes. It keeps track of what you're doing. You know this because you can see the data it captures.
And yes, if you share what you're doing with someone else, they might notice you aren't doing what you're supposed to be doing.
I don't understand the constant alarmism.
And the scary part is that the clickbait worked. Assuming it lives up to the hype, this is actually a rather cool product, exactly what I need....:-D.... I wonder how accurate the calorie burn count is for different activities like static cycling, rowing or just general jogging/walking/hiking? Anybody ever used this thing? Privacy issues are a moot point, If the tracking ever gets creepy I can simply shut this thing off
Samsung hasn't lost the suit filed by Apple. You lose the suit when a court enters judgement against you, and no judgement has yet been entered by the trial court in Apple v. Samsung. A jury verdict has been returned on which the trial court has not yet entered judgement; the judgement in the case might follow the jury verdict, or it might dispense with it. In fact, the entire issue over juror misconduct relates to one of the grounds on which the trial court is being urged not to enter a judgement which reflects the jury verdict, and, if it succeeds, Samsung will not lose the case. This is not an appeal of a case they have lost, it is part of the process of case in the original trial court prior to a judgement being issued.
So basically Google wanted to have tight control over the branding (look and feel?) and add a feature which let Google keep track of where every iOS user is.
I can understand why Apple wants to make their own maps in the long run.
As I said, as much as Apple fans try to spin it, Apple still walked away.
Apple wont get the chance to make it work in the long term, they ruined it in the short term. For Apple to get a similar dataset to Google would take the better part of a decade.
First off, Latitude would be opt-in the same as it is on Android, but it gives users the option to use the service if they want.
Secondly, I'd sooner trust Google who are open about what is being collected and who gets it than Apple, who allow thrid party developers to collect information on you without even notifiying you (also it's automatically enabled and there's no opt out). Seeing as I never opted in to Latitude on Android, I don't have to worry.
But nice try to spin it. In the end, Apple shot themselves in the foot.
Google is being open about the data they collect? Is this the same Google who got caught circumventing browser security to gather data on user activities? As a Safari browser user I never opted in to Google ad tracking but I got tracked anyway and so did millions of MS IE users. This is all about the ability of soulless Megacorps to track users and their habits in a geographical context right down to the error margin of the GPS system and then profiting from it. Apple would like that data to flow into their own data-mining operation rather than Google's... end of story. It may take Apple a decade to gather enough data but it will doubtless be profitable for them and Google will get some competition so I'm not shedding any tears. There is relatively little I can do to prevent this sort of parasitism anyway. I can, in a way, understand Apple. Voice navigation is kind of a must and if you license, i.e. pay, for access to Google APIs and services a simple "Powered by Google Maps" in the splash screen of your app and the "Help->About" screen should be enough branding, you shouldn't have to wallpaper Google logos all over your app and integrate some crappy social networking system into your app as well as pay for access to maps. Google tracking the movements of every iDevice user on the planet is one helluva bonus without them demanding even more. Apple may have shot themselves in the foot with that maps app of theirs but I can easily understand why they dumped Google Maps.
As a European all I see is the Muppet show with Kermit Obama shouting "Five minutes till curtain" to Mitt Piggy backstage. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are obviously Statler and Waldorf. Maybe I'm just old.
I'm even older than you, the whole thing reminds me of the flurry of corruption and nepotism that surrounded the election of Holy Roman Emperors. I nevertheless prefer your analogy because it is more amusing.
Vote for the Mormon or you'll get the Muslim. Communism is NOT THE ANSWER.
As a Brit, I honestly have no idea whether this is parody or not.
I think he means that conversion to Mormonism is easier than conversion to Islam because Mormonism does not require you to, umm.... drop your Doogie Howsers and have a bit off of your Hampton Wick sliced off, also, on an unrelated note, movie and music piracy is wrong (strange tangent to go off on given where he started but sometimes these Yanks just do weird things).
Even if there is temporal variation, why are they so certain that the methane in the air is due biological activities?
They are not, in fact scientists have been really busy trying to come up with alternate explanations for the presence of methane on Mars. However, the indications that the methane may be due to life are strong enough to make this worth investigating even though the odds are probably rather slim.
And now Yahoo doesn't either as they can't tell if the user made an active choice in setting the DNT or not. Hell I could set my user agent string, scripts, return data e.t.c. to simulate IE10 and still be tracked with DNT on. Just go to show how utter useless DNT really is without a legal framework.
I don't think anybody really cares whether the do-not-track option is set or not. It sure as hell does not seem to matter to Facebook. The other day I kept being bothered by an nag screen due to an invalid Facebook SSL certificate. Setting the do-not-track check-box in my browser had no effect, it wasn't until I installed a dedicated Facebook blocker that the damn thing went away. If you want anonymous browsing don't rely on do-not-track options, either get yourself some sort of a general purpose anti tracking addon for your browser or download a browser specially designed for anonymous browsing.
The report ignores the energy input of the sunlight. It may be economically sensible to ignore that, but on a thermodynamic level it's stupid.
So, let me get this straight. You are looking for a process that produces more energy than it requires in inputs. And you are citing thermodynamics?
I think the idea behind the crops->ethanol->cars->co2->crops cycle is that the input of human generated energy should be less than the energy you get out of the fuel. The plants serve as a storage device for the solar energy and the nutrients they absorb during their growth phase. The energy input needed is largely absorbed by spreading fertiliser, spreading pesticides, harvesting, transport, and processing into ethanol and that last bit is the hard one. What you want is a 'weed' that grows anywhere, needs next to no maintenance, hardly any nutrients is insect resistant and can easily be converted into ethanol (again that 'easily converted' is the biggest stumbling block). The reason Ethanol works so well for the Brazilians is that they have such a crop and it gives them 87-96% greenhouse gas savings compared to petrol. Additional monetary savings come from the fact that sugar cane does not have to be transported half way across the world to Brazil, it does not require trillions of dollars worth of investment in military hardware, regular large scale military campaigns in the Middle East, nor do they need to prop up Israel and a dozen or more other countries to keep the flow uninterrupted, the stuff grows in their back yard.
Geeks/nerds are not generally considered to be terribly 'macho', at least not when compared to testicle-thinking, grunting and chest beating high-school jocks, but geeks do label some things as 'women's work' and usability research has to be near the top of that list. To be fair to Apple (unpopular as that may be at the moment) they do conduct A LOT of usability research and it has gotten them quite far in terms of product design, development and sales figures so I'm betting that Tim Cook isn't just venting hot air when he talks about what does and does not work when it comes to tablets, laptops and fusions of the two. I'll admit that I'd really like to see some sort of fusion device. There are times I wish I could comfortably do things like rotate my laptop through 90 degrees to read PDF's in landscape mode or sketch a diagram by hand with a stylus while taking notes. Typing notes is usually way more efficient but occasionally one wants to be able to sketch by hand because it's way faster. At other times though find myself wishing that iPad had an OS and apps that allows me to efficiently do sophisticated word-processing/graphics/programming work etc. Neither the iPad nor the Android tablets do that very well but from what I have seen so far Windows 8 tablets aren't terribly impressive either. In a perfect universe I'd like to see some totally new and innovative type of fusion device that makes way more radical changes that Windows 8 does and that would make both laptops and tablets obsolete (Hey... one can hope...)
You do realize that the English spoken in the Appalachian Mtns. more closely resembles the English spoken in Great Brittan in the 1600's then the English that is spoken in Great Brittan today.
Thats right, you all sounded like a bunch of flipping hill billies.
Extensive research has been conducted since the 1930s to determine the origin of the Appalachian dialect. One theory is that the dialect is a remnant of Elizabethan (or Shakespearean) English that had been preserved by the region's isolation.[2][3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_English
Don't even try... I'm a German, I just thought it would be fun to 'take the piss' out of you guys as my friends across the channel call it. It is nice to see that (most) Americans can still take a joke.
What I'd do, is wait for all the panic selling, pick up some Nov or Dec calls, and when the panic ends, folks will probably buy back in and push the price up a little. Or you could just go long.
Panic selling always overshoots down past where the price will eventually settle.
The only thing more amazing than the fact that people manage time and time and time again to convince them selves that constantly increasing growth is sustainable, is the shock they get when it turns out not to be.
Could this possibly hold up in court? Isn't it our right to sue?
The supreme court ruled in April 2011 that not only can they require you to agree to not form a class action, but they can also require you to mediate all claims in forced binding arbitration (basically, a parallel court system bought and sold by corporations).
It was a 5-4 decision, and pretty much every agreement is now including this boilerplate legal text. They don't even HAVE to offer an opt-out. AT&T started it, followed up by all cell phone carriers, Sony, Microsoft, Ebay, etc etc etc.
The mere fact that the decision was split shows that even the justices don't know what rights there ought to be, and, unfortunately, the opinion of 5 of them means that corporations now have the right to collude against the consumer. After all, if everyone does it, the consumer has no choice.
Let me guess... Paypal gets to choose the arbitrator?
They also forgot to mention what language to write it in. I would suggest using Whitespace encoding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)).
Nah, I say have some fun, write it in Mycenaean Linear B...
Yeah, fine the members of the department, so the individuals have to pay the fine. Then see how fast the situation changes.
I am firmly convinced that draconian punishments are counter productive and belong in places like North Korea. Why not just fix the problem? There clearly is a need for carting data around on USB sticks despite other options, else people would not be doing it. How about issuing only laptops/desktops with an OS that has been fixed so as to be unable to export data to anything other than hardware encrypted USB sticks like Iron Key and then make officers responsible for their USB key like officers are responsible for their fire arm if they carry one (and yes I have spent enough time in the UK to know most cops there don't carry a gun). Alternatively one could issue only computers incapable of mounting external storage.
All the EU is really doing is politically motivated posturing: they don't like Google because the big European corporations their member governments are in bed with haven't figured out how to compete with Google.
Actually, there are no European companies trying to compete with Google and failing. There are no European companies even trying. (I think, the last one was Telefónica, which bought Lycos years ago, but put it to rest in 2008). So which are those imaginary corporations you are talking about?
Stop ruining our anti-american conspiracy hysteria with 'facts'...
Never mind pretexts, the US cannot afford to pay for a full scale invasion of Iran, never mind the resulting 15-20 year occupation and bloody counter-insurgency (except perhaps in the warped minds of Fox News commentators and "Bibi" Netanyahu's wet dreams).
The US could not afford freeing Kuwait, invading Iraq, or invading Afghanistan. It did these things anyway.
All that oil must be very tempting to a country that has become utterly dependant on oil. It might just pay for the invasion and occupation whilst cutting off one of China's sources of fuel.
Back then the west was riding on an unsustainable economic boom and the US national debt was not 16 trillion dollars. Tempting as it may be to assume that oil will pay for the invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan and the much anticipated invasion of Iran, we have yet to see Iraqi oil pay off the invasion and 10 year occupation of that country. It's not as if the USA can declare Iraq a province, appoint a governor and tax the place till it bleeds, this is not the 2nd century BC. Afghanistan will never be anything but a money pit and occupying Iran for a decade or more (which the Iraq experience has shown is necessary) will be even more painful than Iraq has been. Another thing to consider is that if the USA invades and occupies Iran it will have one ally in that endeavour, Israel, and they would be a liability not an asset. Even the Brits would sit out a 20 year insurgency in Iran.
It's unclear if Iran did or didn't lauch any cyber attacks. However it's clear that Iran has been blamed for countless things since the Iraq invasion. Iran also has the world's third biggest oil reserves, oil reserves that the US is strong arming the world into not buying right now.
I'm with your theory. The US is trying to justify an invasion in order to take Iranian oil. However the US can't justify a full scale invasion with a few computer hacks, they will keep blaming Iran for everything and anything until they stumble onto something big enough to justify an invasion.
Never mind pretexts, the US cannot afford to pay for a full scale invasion of Iran, never mind the resulting 15-20 year occupation and bloody counter-insurgency (except perhaps in the warped minds of Fox News commentators and "Bibi" Netanyahu's wet dreams).
I do not like Apple. Some people do though, so I would like them to survive. Competition is good. Apple just needs to fucking build shit for their fanboys and leave the rest of the world alone.
I have worked in the Telco industry for 10 years now and you can trust me when I say that Apple's move into mobile devices has been like an earthquake in a petrified landscape and it has had an effect way outside the Apple 'fanboy' community. Like Apple or hate them, the iPod, iPad and iPhone have all transformed their respective market segments (and heavily influenced Android). Nobody took tablets terribly seriously until the iPad, the iPod has revolutionised music players (I know that because I was in the market for an MP3 player way back when the iPod came out in 2001... they all sucked) and the iPhone has collapsed the market share of RIM and Nokia drastically. Both of those companies were major players 6-7 year ago, now they are swimming for their lives. Until the iPhone came along Telcos were also struggling to get users to buy smartphones and use mobile Internet... that is no longer a problem. So damn, right... innovation and competition is good. While I generally accept Apple's claim that Samsung imitated them, giving a fuck is counterproductive. Apple should not spend their energy on lawsuits, they should be doing what they were doing up until recently which is innovate, set new standards and make Samsung look dated just like they did with Nokia, RIM and whole cohort of music player and tablet manufacturers. Samsung, HTC, Nokia and the rest should also try to do a bit more of their own thing and try to upstage Apple. Microsoft gave it a good try with Windows 8 and two thumbs up to them for trying. More competition please!!! I like the results so far...
P.S. It's funny how it used to be 'Microsoft Certified Minesweepers Experts' vs. 'Apple fanboys' but now it's 'Apple fanboys' vs. 'Google drones'. The Microsofties must be having right old laugh watching this shit-storm unfold from the sidelines. It's getting so bad that I'm inclined to join them for a beer and a hot-dog and then laugh at the spectacle.
Plagiarism does seem to be getting more and more common, with people getting ever more casual about it. When I was at University in the 90s, there were a small number of students caught engaging in plagiarism.
Are you sure plagiarism rates are increasing? Maybe it's simply that these days, with everything being digital, it is way easier to uncover plagiarism. I wonder what would happen if one was able to digitize the scientific literature of the last 100 years and then started plagiarism checking Phd. thesis from the same period with a computer.
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Distribution (a.k.a. land area or population density) probably plays a large role in the disparity. Europe has a much smaller land area than the US. It would be interesting to see emissions stats per capita adjusted for land area.
Wrong... according to Google, Europe is about 10,180,000 km^2 while the USA is 9,827,000 km^2 which makes Europe bigger (and Google is never wrong). The EU, however, is 4,324,782 km^2 but you said Europe...
lol, there is no factor of 5 to 10.
There is a factor of 5, and there is a factor of 10.
Huge difference between the two, which is it?
According to this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/18/china-average-europe-carbon-footprint
Per capita emissions for the EU/China are about the same at just over 7 tons per capita while that for the US is just over 17 tons. That's a factor of c.a. 2,3. I don't know how accurate these figures are but the proportions sound about right (in the sense that they match other reports that I have heard previously).
Wikipedia has:
China (ex.Macau, Hong Kong) at 7,031,916 thousand metric tons which is 23.53% of world total
United States at 5,461,014 thousand metric tons which is 18.27% of world total
The European Union (all 27 countries) at 4,177,817 thousand metric tons which is 13.98% of world total
India at 1,742,698 thousand metric tons which is 5.83% of world total
Keep in mind that China has a population of 1,35 Biliion, India 1,2 Billion, the EU has about 0.503 Billion inhabitants and there are 0.314 Billion of our US American cousins. I know these figures don't quite match the per capita ones I cited from the Guardian article (which are probably newer than the ones on Wikipedia anyway) but it's the proportions that are interesting. Some 300 million US Americans manage to generate the carbon footprint of a Billion Chinese, while 500 million Europeans can hardly hold a candle to the US in terms of carbon emissions.
Nokia is too late to the table to grab the most delicious morsels; the easily picked fruit.
If they do this quickly enough, and offer the same feature set as Google Maps, they can get a whole mess of disgruntled iOS users as well as draining away market share from Google Maps. Google Maps is nice as long as you have network coverage, but it sucks ass the moment you loose your connection (at least it did on iOS). If Nokia maps offers better offline performance than the Google Maps app did on iOS then I'd use it in preference to Google Maps any day, it would beat dragging a Garmin unit around with me. Another downside of Google maps is that if you don't live in the US/EU and in the vicinity of a major population center there are many places where you do not get down-to-house-number navigation. This may all work perfectly for Android users but on iOS Google Maps kind of sucked. I have often found myself getting down-to-house-number navigation in many places with Nokia (Bing) maps where I was SOL with Google Maps. In places with no coverage or where even Bing Maps fails I usually reach for my Garmin unit. Come to think of it, if I was Apple I'd consider fixing Apple Maps by buying Garmin. Dunno if that is realistic but Garmin maps are really good including their international maps.
Clickbait.
Yes. It keeps track of what you're doing. You know this because you can see the data it captures.
And yes, if you share what you're doing with someone else, they might notice you aren't doing what you're supposed to be doing.
I don't understand the constant alarmism.
And the scary part is that the clickbait worked. Assuming it lives up to the hype, this is actually a rather cool product, exactly what I need.... :-D .... I wonder how accurate the calorie burn count is for different activities like static cycling, rowing or just general jogging/walking/hiking? Anybody ever used this thing? Privacy issues are a moot point, If the tracking ever gets creepy I can simply shut this thing off
Samsung hasn't lost the suit filed by Apple. You lose the suit when a court enters judgement against you, and no judgement has yet been entered by the trial court in Apple v. Samsung. A jury verdict has been returned on which the trial court has not yet entered judgement; the judgement in the case might follow the jury verdict, or it might dispense with it. In fact, the entire issue over juror misconduct relates to one of the grounds on which the trial court is being urged not to enter a judgement which reflects the jury verdict, and, if it succeeds, Samsung will not lose the case. This is not an appeal of a case they have lost, it is part of the process of case in the original trial court prior to a judgement being issued.
Well, I suppose loosing a suit is better than being slapped with one:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-02-25/
So basically Google wanted to have tight control over the branding (look and feel?) and add a feature which let Google keep track of where every iOS user is.
I can understand why Apple wants to make their own maps in the long run.
As I said, as much as Apple fans try to spin it, Apple still walked away.
Apple wont get the chance to make it work in the long term, they ruined it in the short term. For Apple to get a similar dataset to Google would take the better part of a decade.
First off, Latitude would be opt-in the same as it is on Android, but it gives users the option to use the service if they want.
Secondly, I'd sooner trust Google who are open about what is being collected and who gets it than Apple, who allow thrid party developers to collect information on you without even notifiying you (also it's automatically enabled and there's no opt out). Seeing as I never opted in to Latitude on Android, I don't have to worry.
But nice try to spin it. In the end, Apple shot themselves in the foot.
Google is being open about the data they collect? Is this the same Google who got caught circumventing browser security to gather data on user activities? As a Safari browser user I never opted in to Google ad tracking but I got tracked anyway and so did millions of MS IE users. This is all about the ability of soulless Megacorps to track users and their habits in a geographical context right down to the error margin of the GPS system and then profiting from it. Apple would like that data to flow into their own data-mining operation rather than Google's... end of story. It may take Apple a decade to gather enough data but it will doubtless be profitable for them and Google will get some competition so I'm not shedding any tears. There is relatively little I can do to prevent this sort of parasitism anyway. I can, in a way, understand Apple. Voice navigation is kind of a must and if you license, i.e. pay, for access to Google APIs and services a simple "Powered by Google Maps" in the splash screen of your app and the "Help->About" screen should be enough branding, you shouldn't have to wallpaper Google logos all over your app and integrate some crappy social networking system into your app as well as pay for access to maps. Google tracking the movements of every iDevice user on the planet is one helluva bonus without them demanding even more. Apple may have shot themselves in the foot with that maps app of theirs but I can easily understand why they dumped Google Maps.
As a European all I see is the Muppet show with Kermit Obama shouting "Five minutes till curtain" to Mitt Piggy backstage. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are obviously Statler and Waldorf.
Maybe I'm just old.
I'm even older than you, the whole thing reminds me of the flurry of corruption and nepotism that surrounded the election of Holy Roman Emperors. I nevertheless prefer your analogy because it is more amusing.
Vote for the Mormon or you'll get the Muslim. Communism is NOT THE ANSWER.
As a Brit, I honestly have no idea whether this is parody or not.
I think he means that conversion to Mormonism is easier than conversion to Islam because Mormonism does not require you to, umm.... drop your Doogie Howsers and have a bit off of your Hampton Wick sliced off, also, on an unrelated note, movie and music piracy is wrong (strange tangent to go off on given where he started but sometimes these Yanks just do weird things).
Even if there is temporal variation, why are they so certain that the methane in the air is due biological activities?
They are not, in fact scientists have been really busy trying to come up with alternate explanations for the presence of methane on Mars. However, the indications that the methane may be due to life are strong enough to make this worth investigating even though the odds are probably rather slim.
You should write an article about the death of Angry Birds!
Only if Netcraft confirms it. (Sorry... but you kind of walked right into that one.)
And now Yahoo doesn't either as they can't tell if the user made an active choice in setting the DNT or not. Hell I could set my user agent string, scripts, return data e.t.c. to simulate IE10 and still be tracked with DNT on. Just go to show how utter useless DNT really is without a legal framework.
I don't think anybody really cares whether the do-not-track option is set or not. It sure as hell does not seem to matter to Facebook. The other day I kept being bothered by an nag screen due to an invalid Facebook SSL certificate. Setting the do-not-track check-box in my browser had no effect, it wasn't until I installed a dedicated Facebook blocker that the damn thing went away. If you want anonymous browsing don't rely on do-not-track options, either get yourself some sort of a general purpose anti tracking addon for your browser or download a browser specially designed for anonymous browsing.
The report ignores the energy input of the sunlight. It may be economically sensible to ignore that, but on a thermodynamic level it's stupid.
So, let me get this straight. You are looking for a process that produces more energy than it requires in inputs. And you are citing thermodynamics?
I think the idea behind the crops->ethanol->cars->co2->crops cycle is that the input of human generated energy should be less than the energy you get out of the fuel. The plants serve as a storage device for the solar energy and the nutrients they absorb during their growth phase. The energy input needed is largely absorbed by spreading fertiliser, spreading pesticides, harvesting, transport, and processing into ethanol and that last bit is the hard one. What you want is a 'weed' that grows anywhere, needs next to no maintenance, hardly any nutrients is insect resistant and can easily be converted into ethanol (again that 'easily converted' is the biggest stumbling block). The reason Ethanol works so well for the Brazilians is that they have such a crop and it gives them 87-96% greenhouse gas savings compared to petrol. Additional monetary savings come from the fact that sugar cane does not have to be transported half way across the world to Brazil, it does not require trillions of dollars worth of investment in military hardware, regular large scale military campaigns in the Middle East, nor do they need to prop up Israel and a dozen or more other countries to keep the flow uninterrupted, the stuff grows in their back yard.
My thought exactly.
Competitor bashes Microsoft product. Film at 11.
What exactly is news worthy about this?
Geeks/nerds are not generally considered to be terribly 'macho', at least not when compared to testicle-thinking, grunting and chest beating high-school jocks, but geeks do label some things as 'women's work' and usability research has to be near the top of that list. To be fair to Apple (unpopular as that may be at the moment) they do conduct A LOT of usability research and it has gotten them quite far in terms of product design, development and sales figures so I'm betting that Tim Cook isn't just venting hot air when he talks about what does and does not work when it comes to tablets, laptops and fusions of the two. I'll admit that I'd really like to see some sort of fusion device. There are times I wish I could comfortably do things like rotate my laptop through 90 degrees to read PDF's in landscape mode or sketch a diagram by hand with a stylus while taking notes. Typing notes is usually way more efficient but occasionally one wants to be able to sketch by hand because it's way faster. At other times though find myself wishing that iPad had an OS and apps that allows me to efficiently do sophisticated word-processing/graphics/programming work etc. Neither the iPad nor the Android tablets do that very well but from what I have seen so far Windows 8 tablets aren't terribly impressive either. In a perfect universe I'd like to see some totally new and innovative type of fusion device that makes way more radical changes that Windows 8 does and that would make both laptops and tablets obsolete (Hey... one can hope...)
You do realize that the English spoken in the Appalachian Mtns. more closely resembles the English spoken in Great Brittan in the 1600's then the English that is spoken in Great Brittan today.
Thats right, you all sounded like a bunch of flipping hill billies.
Extensive research has been conducted since the 1930s to determine the origin of the Appalachian dialect. One theory is that the dialect is a remnant of Elizabethan (or Shakespearean) English that had been preserved by the region's isolation.[2][3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_English
Don't even try... I'm a German, I just thought it would be fun to 'take the piss' out of you guys as my friends across the channel call it. It is nice to see that (most) Americans can still take a joke.
What I'd do, is wait for all the panic selling, pick up some Nov or Dec calls, and when the panic ends, folks will probably buy back in and push the price up a little. Or you could just go long.
Panic selling always overshoots down past where the price will eventually settle.
The only thing more amazing than the fact that people manage time and time and time again to convince them selves that constantly increasing growth is sustainable, is the shock they get when it turns out not to be.
http://www.horace.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/book-buy-sell-sell-sm.jpg
So much for the dispassionate never erring and invisible hand of the free market.
Is the BBC anglifying the spelling of a U.S. company's report, or are the people at Google huge anglophiles?
No, it's just that Americans don't speak proper English so some kind hearted soul took pity on Google and corrected their spelling.
Could this possibly hold up in court? Isn't it our right to sue?
The supreme court ruled in April 2011 that not only can they require you to agree to not form a class action, but they can also require you to mediate all claims in forced binding arbitration (basically, a parallel court system bought and sold by corporations).
It was a 5-4 decision, and pretty much every agreement is now including this boilerplate legal text. They don't even HAVE to offer an opt-out. AT&T started it, followed up by all cell phone carriers, Sony, Microsoft, Ebay, etc etc etc.
The mere fact that the decision was split shows that even the justices don't know what rights there ought to be, and, unfortunately, the opinion of 5 of them means that corporations now have the right to collude against the consumer. After all, if everyone does it, the consumer has no choice.
Let me guess... Paypal gets to choose the arbitrator?
They also forgot to mention what language to write it in.
I would suggest using Whitespace encoding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)).
Nah, I say have some fun, write it in Mycenaean Linear B...
Yeah, fine the members of the department, so the individuals have to pay the fine. Then see how fast the situation changes.
I am firmly convinced that draconian punishments are counter productive and belong in places like North Korea. Why not just fix the problem? There clearly is a need for carting data around on USB sticks despite other options, else people would not be doing it. How about issuing only laptops/desktops with an OS that has been fixed so as to be unable to export data to anything other than hardware encrypted USB sticks like Iron Key and then make officers responsible for their USB key like officers are responsible for their fire arm if they carry one (and yes I have spent enough time in the UK to know most cops there don't carry a gun). Alternatively one could issue only computers incapable of mounting external storage.
All the EU is really doing is politically motivated posturing: they don't like Google because the big European corporations their member governments are in bed with haven't figured out how to compete with Google.
Actually, there are no European companies trying to compete with Google and failing. There are no European companies even trying. (I think, the last one was Telefónica, which bought Lycos years ago, but put it to rest in 2008). So which are those imaginary corporations you are talking about?
Stop ruining our anti-american conspiracy hysteria with 'facts'...
Never mind pretexts, the US cannot afford to pay for a full scale invasion of Iran, never mind the resulting 15-20 year occupation and bloody counter-insurgency (except perhaps in the warped minds of Fox News commentators and "Bibi" Netanyahu's wet dreams).
The US could not afford freeing Kuwait, invading Iraq, or invading Afghanistan. It did these things anyway.
All that oil must be very tempting to a country that has become utterly dependant on oil. It might just pay for the invasion and occupation whilst cutting off one of China's sources of fuel.
Back then the west was riding on an unsustainable economic boom and the US national debt was not 16 trillion dollars. Tempting as it may be to assume that oil will pay for the invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan and the much anticipated invasion of Iran, we have yet to see Iraqi oil pay off the invasion and 10 year occupation of that country. It's not as if the USA can declare Iraq a province, appoint a governor and tax the place till it bleeds, this is not the 2nd century BC. Afghanistan will never be anything but a money pit and occupying Iran for a decade or more (which the Iraq experience has shown is necessary) will be even more painful than Iraq has been. Another thing to consider is that if the USA invades and occupies Iran it will have one ally in that endeavour, Israel, and they would be a liability not an asset. Even the Brits would sit out a 20 year insurgency in Iran.
It's unclear if Iran did or didn't lauch any cyber attacks. However it's clear that Iran has been blamed for countless things since the Iraq invasion. Iran also has the world's third biggest oil reserves, oil reserves that the US is strong arming the world into not buying right now.
I'm with your theory. The US is trying to justify an invasion in order to take Iranian oil. However the US can't justify a full scale invasion with a few computer hacks, they will keep blaming Iran for everything and anything until they stumble onto something big enough to justify an invasion.
Never mind pretexts, the US cannot afford to pay for a full scale invasion of Iran, never mind the resulting 15-20 year occupation and bloody counter-insurgency (except perhaps in the warped minds of Fox News commentators and "Bibi" Netanyahu's wet dreams).
I do not like Apple. Some people do though, so I would like them to survive.
Competition is good.
Apple just needs to fucking build shit for their fanboys and leave the rest of the world alone.
I have worked in the Telco industry for 10 years now and you can trust me when I say that Apple's move into mobile devices has been like an earthquake in a petrified landscape and it has had an effect way outside the Apple 'fanboy' community. Like Apple or hate them, the iPod, iPad and iPhone have all transformed their respective market segments (and heavily influenced Android). Nobody took tablets terribly seriously until the iPad, the iPod has revolutionised music players (I know that because I was in the market for an MP3 player way back when the iPod came out in 2001... they all sucked) and the iPhone has collapsed the market share of RIM and Nokia drastically. Both of those companies were major players 6-7 year ago, now they are swimming for their lives. Until the iPhone came along Telcos were also struggling to get users to buy smartphones and use mobile Internet... that is no longer a problem. So damn, right... innovation and competition is good. While I generally accept Apple's claim that Samsung imitated them, giving a fuck is counterproductive. Apple should not spend their energy on lawsuits, they should be doing what they were doing up until recently which is innovate, set new standards and make Samsung look dated just like they did with Nokia, RIM and whole cohort of music player and tablet manufacturers. Samsung, HTC, Nokia and the rest should also try to do a bit more of their own thing and try to upstage Apple. Microsoft gave it a good try with Windows 8 and two thumbs up to them for trying. More competition please!!! I like the results so far...
P.S. It's funny how it used to be 'Microsoft Certified Minesweepers Experts' vs. 'Apple fanboys' but now it's 'Apple fanboys' vs. 'Google drones'. The Microsofties must be having right old laugh watching this shit-storm unfold from the sidelines. It's getting so bad that I'm inclined to join them for a beer and a hot-dog and then laugh at the spectacle.
Right, like I pay the painter who painted the crossroads every time I cross the street?
That's just a plain stupid analogy.
Plagiarism does seem to be getting more and more common, with people getting ever more casual about it. When I was at University in the 90s, there were a small number of students caught engaging in plagiarism.
Are you sure plagiarism rates are increasing? Maybe it's simply that these days, with everything being digital, it is way easier to uncover plagiarism. I wonder what would happen if one was able to digitize the scientific literature of the last 100 years and then started plagiarism checking Phd. thesis from the same period with a computer.