They may be, but they have a very good series of releases on the problem - a lot of information. Compare that to other anti-virus, and you don't see much.
"Why so much focus on an alternative browser with even less market penetration than Firefox..."
Maybe for the same reasons we have so much news about Firefox, even tho it's got much less market share then IE. Opera is one of the biggest browsers; they're a company who make money; and they've probably got a bigger market share on mobiles.
Besides, they're not MS:-) So yeah, expect news stories about them!
--LWM
ps - I was very tempted to mod you "overrated" without a Troll...
I really recommend reading Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman. It explores some of the issues (many of them moral) that come about when one nation can make war on another nation with no risk to its own men (through the use of robotic suits that have eventually had the humans taken all the way out). We're definitely headed that way...
It's a fabulous book - from the same guy who wrote Forever War, but it's not a series or anything.
Anyway, here's a question to toss out:
If one man can cause pain to another man with no risk to himself, then it's basically torture.
If a group of men can do it to a different group of men, what is it?
EPR was not proposed as an attack on Quantum Mechanics as a set of equations, etc, but an attack on the Copenhagen interpretation, which is based on the Positivist philosophical position and says such things that a particle doesn't exist unless it's observed, has nasty things like collapsing wavefunctions, and has problems with observers being special in some way.
The EPR experiments were designed to show Spooky Action at a Distance. The Copenhagen interpretation of QM (championed by Bohr) has no local variables and tries to avoid Spooky Action at a Distance. Bohm's interpretation allows Local Variables (and particles that actually exist) but also forces Spooky Action.
There isn't a EULA now that you're aware of - but with DRM they can control what runs on the computer. Don't forget that - it's not about piracy, it's about control!
Did you honestly think the WTO handled human rights abuses?
No, of course not - the WTO is a tool for the multi-nationals; what do *they* care about rights abuses? They have privaledge; they don't need to worry about rights.
Of course, the Senate would never stoop to introducing anything about Russia's human right's policies. After all, they're one of our allies in the War on Terror (tm). Rights can get trampled on and no one acts. Money? Ha - can't lose export business, now can we?
"when the studios finally do make something worth watching, they're rewarded by higher numbers of people downloading their movie without paying"
No irony there. More people will download it without paying. But, more people will also pay for it - the two do go hand in hand. Remember, people who download music illegally are much more likely to buy music then those who don't. I suspect the same would apply to movies.
In New York, you have to present a library card in order to use the computers in the library.
You're not allowed to access the internet anonymously!
The only way to do it anonymously is through someone's open wireless...and in...Yonkers? they have propsed a law making open wireless connections (at businessees anyway) illegal.
Ok, a few more answers to your question that I haven't seen yet:
The plasma drive is good because it's efficient. A chemical rocket is terribly inefficient, so you have to carry a lot more fuel then you'd like to for a given amount of ability to thrust.
We already have an ion drive that's very efficient, but it's got a *very* low rate of thrust - essentially, it can't accelerate quickly. It's got great mileage, but you it'll take you 10 minutes to go from 25 to 75. The new drive still has great mileage. It's slightly bigger, but you can go from 25 to 75 in only 2.5 minutes (or whatever). To carry the analogy a bit further, a chemical rocket has *terrible* mileage, but you can get to 75 in about 2 seconds...
Low mileage is great - it means your intersteller probe (or interplanetary probe) can get some really high speeds built up. It just takes a while to get there. However, it doesn't have enuf thrust to get you out of a gravity well - great mileage, but you can't drive up a hill.
It's a pat on the back for an ion drive that gives many more times the thrust of the old model, which means your probe can do things like turn quicker, get up to speed quicker, and make emergency adjustments a little better (altho if we calculate that badly, you can probably kiss your probe goodbye). Not revolutionary, but a big step.
The fact that it uses electricity is convenient for a lot of reasons; ion drives are really cool. More information here:
I don't know **** about buying cameras/consumer electronics. WTF am I supposed to trust? I want to buy a digital camera, but all the sites look about the same to me...
Sure, it's easy to say "I'd rather pay a little more for a place I trust", but that doesn't really help all that much. If I just go to a place that charges a bit more, it's probably just more money in their pocket, not more value for me.
I hear enough about various places manipulating their reputations (either by threatening/suing websites with bad press, or by manipulating ratings on other sites, etc) that I can't really say who is "reputable" any more. Sure, I can say, "My brother bought one thing from them and it was ok", but that only goes so far...
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It also takes the sheer nerdiness of pulling this off.
:)
I'm impressed, and I think scrabble is stupid! This is...well, at least i'm impressed
--LWM
They may be, but they have a very good series of releases on the problem - a lot of information. Compare that to other anti-virus, and you don't see much.
No complaints.
--LWM
We don't see 3rd parties doing patches for MS problems much :-) They joining the Open Source bandwagon yet?
Ha, so much for such "features" - times have changed...
--LWM
"Why so much focus on an alternative browser with even less market penetration than Firefox..."
:-) So yeah, expect news stories about them!
Maybe for the same reasons we have so much news about Firefox, even tho it's got much less market share then IE. Opera is one of the biggest browsers; they're a company who make money; and they've probably got a bigger market share on mobiles.
Besides, they're not MS
--LWM
ps - I was very tempted to mod you "overrated" without a Troll...
Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn.
--LWM
Recently someone suggested that MS should simply buy Opera as a web browser for Vista. What do you think of that idea? Would you sell?
--LWM
I really recommend reading Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman. It explores some of the issues (many of them moral) that come about when one nation can make war on another nation with no risk to its own men (through the use of robotic suits that have eventually had the humans taken all the way out). We're definitely headed that way...
It's a fabulous book - from the same guy who wrote Forever War, but it's not a series or anything.
Anyway, here's a question to toss out:
If one man can cause pain to another man with no risk to himself, then it's basically torture.
If a group of men can do it to a different group of men, what is it?
--LWM
EPR was not proposed as an attack on Quantum Mechanics as a set of equations, etc, but an attack on the Copenhagen interpretation, which is based on the Positivist philosophical position and says such things that a particle doesn't exist unless it's observed, has nasty things like collapsing wavefunctions, and has problems with observers being special in some way.
The EPR experiments were designed to show Spooky Action at a Distance. The Copenhagen interpretation of QM (championed by Bohr) has no local variables and tries to avoid Spooky Action at a Distance. Bohm's interpretation allows Local Variables (and particles that actually exist) but also forces Spooky Action.
--LWM
DRM...DRM...DRM...
There isn't a EULA now that you're aware of - but with DRM they can control what runs on the computer. Don't forget that - it's not about piracy, it's about control!
--LWM
Of course, the Senate would never stoop to introducing anything about Russia's human right's policies. After all, they're one of our allies in the War on Terror (tm). Rights can get trampled on and no one acts. Money? Ha - can't lose export business, now can we?
</bitter>
--LWM
Russia isn't exactly a place I'd want to meddle in business, even if it's on an international-agreements scale.
--LWM
"when the studios finally do make something worth watching, they're rewarded by higher numbers of people downloading their movie without paying"
No irony there. More people will download it without paying. But, more people will also pay for it - the two do go hand in hand. Remember, people who download music illegally are much more likely to buy music then those who don't. I suspect the same would apply to movies.
--LWM
And Narnia. If they actually released some good movies this summer, we might have seen higher P2P usage then, too.
--LWM
In New York, you have to present a library card in order to use the computers in the library.
...Yonkers? they have propsed a law making open wireless connections (at businessees anyway) illegal.
You're not allowed to access the internet anonymously!
The only way to do it anonymously is through someone's open wireless...and in
--LWM
PS. Stupid filter won't allow subject of ??!!!!!
Ok, a few more answers to your question that I haven't seen yet:
The plasma drive is good because it's efficient. A chemical rocket is terribly inefficient, so you have to carry a lot more fuel then you'd like to for a given amount of ability to thrust.
We already have an ion drive that's very efficient, but it's got a *very* low rate of thrust - essentially, it can't accelerate quickly. It's got great mileage, but you it'll take you 10 minutes to go from 25 to 75. The new drive still has great mileage. It's slightly bigger, but you can go from 25 to 75 in only 2.5 minutes (or whatever). To carry the analogy a bit further, a chemical rocket has *terrible* mileage, but you can get to 75 in about 2 seconds...
Low mileage is great - it means your intersteller probe (or interplanetary probe) can get some really high speeds built up. It just takes a while to get there. However, it doesn't have enuf thrust to get you out of a gravity well - great mileage, but you can't drive up a hill.
It's a pat on the back for an ion drive that gives many more times the thrust of the old model, which means your probe can do things like turn quicker, get up to speed quicker, and make emergency adjustments a little better (altho if we calculate that badly, you can probably kiss your probe goodbye). Not revolutionary, but a big step.
The fact that it uses electricity is convenient for a lot of reasons; ion drives are really cool. More information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_drive
--LWM
Could be they meant something along the lines of a brown dwarf.
;-)
As they said...there were problems
--LWM
SSH! SSH! vi! emacs!
:)
'nuff said.
Besides, I've always wanted a phone/pda/mp3(ogg) player that runs Linux
--LWM
And of course, the micropayment should be $1 per song, per listening.
--LWM
You, sir, can leave the building! Please don't talk to any other "astronauts" on your way out.
--The Administration.
This is so sad.
So, so, so sad.
And how did this make science.slashdot.org?
A sad tail.
Sad sad sad...
<goes to wipe his whiskers clean>
--LWM
For [insert favorite diety]'s sake, write your representative, and write your senators (both of them)!
Tell them this is a bad idea. Make up some ideas - I'm sure there will be plenty of discussion here.
Write them a physical letter if you can bear to touch it - those go farther...even if you're talking 'bout the internet.
--LWM
If you break the internal webserver at 7.30 on a Friday, you've got all weekend to fix it before anyone else comes in and realizes you broke it!
--LWM
There's already legislation in the US mandating this.
And who's gonna circumvent the DRM if it results in jail time?
Sux to be a consumer in the US...
--LWM
I would think MS needs more testing, not more integration.
--LWM
I don't know **** about buying cameras/consumer electronics. WTF am I supposed to trust? I want to buy a digital camera, but all the sites look about the same to me...
Sure, it's easy to say "I'd rather pay a little more for a place I trust", but that doesn't really help all that much. If I just go to a place that charges a bit more, it's probably just more money in their pocket, not more value for me.
I hear enough about various places manipulating their reputations (either by threatening/suing websites with bad press, or by manipulating ratings on other sites, etc) that I can't really say who is "reputable" any more. Sure, I can say, "My brother bought one thing from them and it was ok", but that only goes so far...
--LWM