The Army spends a lot of time and money training their soldiers and officers to be independent thinkers and to react intelligently to new situations, but grounded on solid foundations of tactics and mission objectives. Directing blips on a screen is more likely to be harmful than useful.
Possibly in a any army but the americans or for the officers. The US army has a reputation of making fit and able but dumb minions who do one job and only one job. They rely on logistical and strategic planning more then on individual prowess of their soldiers. Their special forces are different, but their regular infantry are ussually described as idiots with a gun by my army buddies who go on excercise with them.
It doesn't mean the US army isn't capable, but their individual soldiers are throughly expendable.
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if US soldiers had GPS trackers on their person trasmitting their individual locations (all encrypted, of course) - it's the kind of thing that the people in HQ 30 miles away could use to direct a battle.
You can encrypt the signal all you want, but all you need to find those soldiers are 2 antenae that can pick up the gps signal in 2 slightly different locations, and a map.
development of batteries is lagging way behind all the other bits
This is problably due to the development curve for batteries being in the obviously logrithmic stage while we're at the "exponential" portion of the Computer developement curve. Not is exponential forever, everything natural curve is just logrithms with parts that look exponential locally. Batteries may never get significantly better. Thus the electronics must get more efficient.
if he ingested no materials, if the ambient ionizing radiation was low, and the heavy radio active dust had settled, then it's not surprising he didn't get sick. He might also have very good DNA repair mechanisms which would prevent cancer.
Is that PETA and hippies make up a very small fringe portion of "the left", whereas bible-thumping science haters seem to make up a majority of "the right"
Only in America, everywhere else the lefties are just about as crazy as the righties.
The american right is obvious anti-scientific. But there is anti-scientific left wing groups. PETA being one of them. They use obvious wrong science to support thier beliefs and object to science because a lot of studies "harm" animals. Indeed every "lefty hippy communist" I know has a very very loose grasp of science and thinks it's a tool of oppression (because they don't like biology homework). Both sides are at least somewhat anti-scientific.
I consider changing "days" to mean "millions of years" to be rewriting. If you decide that some of the words in your religious text don't mean what they usually mean because of something revealed through science, you are modifying your religion to accomodate science.
If your going to be a purist, please learn greek/hebrew/aramaik/latin and study ancient middle eastern culture. Because each and every translation is at best a little off, at worse completly distorted to support a certain agenda. To understand everything you must understand the culture of the day as well as the language. Otherwise you beleiving someone else modification to yrou religion. Even with this, you do know the cannonization of which books was as political as it was theological.
The program will run fine, return mediocre results, and download at 80% of the speed of bit torrent but since it comes pre-installed with every windows-longhorn it will kill off bit-torrent.
English, back then (Britain is a new invention). And no-one sat down in London and said "I know, genocide!" That was the colonists.
Indeed, except most of the genocide was committed through unintentional/intentional germ warfare. The spanish were brutal, and the "english" were bastards, but most of the estimated deaths were from european diseases and not through direct warfare.
Most large European powers were fairly bad back then. America's actions weren't exactly to be commended, either; genocide of natives, anyone? If you're allowed discriminate about people because they weren't very nice in the past, then, erm, that more or less leaves you with the Dalai Llama. Maybe.
Technically, that was "british" and Spanish forces that wiped out the natives. But thats splitting hairs since those "british" colonists are now americans.
Ah yes, but you missed the important part. You can't remove the IE control and make the system use something else instead.
Not to mention that it's used in all sorts of marketing tactics by Microsoft, and as a result many people now equate that piece of software with "The Internet" since Microsoft essentially forced it on them for all these years.
You missed an important part. About 10% of their customer base would have any idea how to set it to use something else. The other 90% have a hard time changing their wall papers. The secret to their success is they make "adaquete" very easy so no one wants to switch. We're all Computer geeks here. We can find and use "good" applications. However just like car geeks, no one cares but us.
What sort of argument is "I'm a bigot, so I shouldn't get modded down"? What's next - +5 for someone saying "Before you mark me as a troll, understand that I really do hate Jews"?
modern cultural bigottry aside, the french were right bastards during their colonialist era. Not as bad as the spanish, worse then the british, makes modern imperial america look like boy scouts.
French food tends to be on the heavier side, for my asian pallet it's a bit too much. I prefer italian, the sharpness of the tomatoes cuts down on the heavy olive oil ussage.
I'm sorry, if you can't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi, it's not because there isn't one, it's because your taste buds aren't able to detect it. There IS a difference, and many people are able to taste it. Most of those who can taste it have a preference for one or the other. It's not as much of a difference as between Coke and root beer, but for someone who can taste it, it's a taste shock when they order Coke and are served Pepsi without a warning.
As for the Mac OS, it is distinctly different from windows, and depending on your perspective, it can be either very similar to Linux, or worlds apart. It's not about brand loyalty for some of us - I prefer the Linux/GPL philosophy, but for a desktop platform Mac OS really is the best thing going right now.
There is a difference. The vast majority of people simply fail to care about the difference.
I don't necessarily think it's that easy to blame him, for two reasons: firstly, OS X on Intel was a giant surprise, who is to say that a 4-cpu system was not possible on their own custom motherboard? There have been SMP motherboards that would work with non-SMP CPUs. It was false information, but it would have been well within the realm of possibility. Besides, "Pentium 4" means whatever Intel wants it to mean.
I think Jobs would have a tough time explaining spedning 5-10 million dollars on fabricating just 1 motherboard with 4 cpus to the share holders. Brcause designing a board isn't quick and cheap. It's unlikly it was a 4 pentium comp. The heat and fans needed wouldn't fit in any known desktop case/lap top case.
And people manually driving fighter ships or aiming guns at other ships (double you tee eff they have no computers?).
In technology, don't assume what we have is always discovered/required. The south american cultures created large and elaborate structures without the benifit of the wheel. Other civilizations may never develope or rely on sophisticated computers as we do because they may have such high mathematical skills they don't need them.
Human civilization is approx. 4000 years old. In that time we have pretty much closed the technology gap of the vairous tribes of humanity. We can all forge metal, we can all make things move via petroleum based products, we can kill each other with projectiles ect...
In 10,000 the technology gap of a community of star systems that communicate with each other woudl also close. So it's not such a huge issue. Technology doesn't have to spread directly, even the rumor of something being possible can send other cultures into a frenzy to find out how. The stories marco polo brought back from china were more useful then the inventions and products he brought back. It sent europe into a frenzy into trying to mimic these items.
In the proccess of trying to mimic these products they derived their own innovations and advanced further. Over 10,000 this would equilize the technologies of the various intelligent life forms. As for the robots, perhaps innovation in robot designed leveled off long ago and even 100 year old droid are useful. Or AI requires some rare material that is now in short supply so even old droids must be maintained.
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Ahh google, tapping deeper into what really runs the internet.
The Army spends a lot of time and money training their soldiers and officers to be independent thinkers and to react intelligently to new situations, but grounded on solid foundations of tactics and mission objectives. Directing blips on a screen is more likely to be harmful than useful.
Possibly in a any army but the americans or for the officers. The US army has a reputation of making fit and able but dumb minions who do one job and only one job. They rely on logistical and strategic planning more then on individual prowess of their soldiers. Their special forces are different, but their regular infantry are ussually described as idiots with a gun by my army buddies who go on excercise with them.
It doesn't mean the US army isn't capable, but their individual soldiers are throughly expendable.
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if US soldiers had GPS trackers on their person trasmitting their individual locations (all encrypted, of course) - it's the kind of thing that the people in HQ 30 miles away could use to direct a battle.
You can encrypt the signal all you want, but all you need to find those soldiers are 2 antenae that can pick up the gps signal in 2 slightly different locations, and a map.
Err... Most successful malware utilize a stupid end user as much as exploits in windows. No OS can be fool proof against a determined fool.
development of batteries is lagging way behind all the other bits
This is problably due to the development curve for batteries being in the obviously logrithmic stage while we're at the "exponential" portion of the Computer developement curve. Not is exponential forever, everything natural curve is just logrithms with parts that look exponential locally. Batteries may never get significantly better. Thus the electronics must get more efficient.
if he ingested no materials, if the ambient ionizing radiation was low, and the heavy radio active dust had settled, then it's not surprising he didn't get sick. He might also have very good DNA repair mechanisms which would prevent cancer.
Is that PETA and hippies make up a very small fringe portion of "the left", whereas bible-thumping science haters seem to make up a majority of "the right"
Only in America, everywhere else the lefties are just about as crazy as the righties.
If he was damaged, it would be obvious in him like it is in most of my kids. But Christensen can't ACT. That's the bigger problem.
Christensen (like portman/mcgreggor/jackson) can act.
Lucas cannot write or direct dialogue.
The american right is obvious anti-scientific. But there is anti-scientific left wing groups. PETA being one of them. They use obvious wrong science to support thier beliefs and object to science because a lot of studies "harm" animals. Indeed every "lefty hippy communist" I know has a very very loose grasp of science and thinks it's a tool of oppression (because they don't like biology homework). Both sides are at least somewhat anti-scientific.
I consider changing "days" to mean "millions of years" to be rewriting. If you decide that some of the words in your religious text don't mean what they usually mean because of something revealed through science, you are modifying your religion to accomodate science.
If your going to be a purist, please learn greek/hebrew/aramaik/latin and study ancient middle eastern culture. Because each and every translation is at best a little off, at worse completly distorted to support a certain agenda. To understand everything you must understand the culture of the day as well as the language. Otherwise you beleiving someone else modification to yrou religion. Even with this, you do know the cannonization of which books was as political as it was theological.
The program will run fine, return mediocre results, and download at 80% of the speed of bit torrent but since it comes pre-installed with every windows-longhorn it will kill off bit-torrent.
With SOE taking over, Matrix online is gradually evolve in World of Warcraft just like EverQuest did.
English, back then (Britain is a new invention). And no-one sat down in London and said "I know, genocide!" That was the colonists.
Indeed, except most of the genocide was committed through unintentional/intentional germ warfare. The spanish were brutal, and the "english" were bastards, but most of the estimated deaths were from european diseases and not through direct warfare.
Most large European powers were fairly bad back then. America's actions weren't exactly to be commended, either; genocide of natives, anyone? If you're allowed discriminate about people because they weren't very nice in the past, then, erm, that more or less leaves you with the Dalai Llama. Maybe.
Technically, that was "british" and Spanish forces that wiped out the natives. But thats splitting hairs since those "british" colonists are now americans.
Of course, all the people who acted like bastards during the colonial era are dead now.
You forget that they were a colonial power until the 1960's. Those bastards are mostly still alive and doing well in france.
Where do the freaky-deak Dutch figure into all of this? Or did Sid Meier just add them to the game for their funny looking ships?
Look up African history, and indonesian history. The dutch were a little bit meaner thent he french.
Who is your friend? The article specifically mentions, "The Batsuit for 'Batman Begins' was created by costume designer Lindy Hemming."
He didn't fabricate it alone. He has a work shop and employees.
Ah yes, but you missed the important part. You can't remove the IE control and make the system use something else instead.
Not to mention that it's used in all sorts of marketing tactics by Microsoft, and as a result many people now equate that piece of software with "The Internet" since Microsoft essentially forced it on them for all these years.
You missed an important part. About 10% of their customer base would have any idea how to set it to use something else. The other 90% have a hard time changing their wall papers. The secret to their success is they make "adaquete" very easy so no one wants to switch. We're all Computer geeks here. We can find and use "good" applications. However just like car geeks, no one cares but us.
What sort of argument is "I'm a bigot, so I shouldn't get modded down"? What's next - +5 for someone saying "Before you mark me as a troll, understand that I really do hate Jews"?
modern cultural bigottry aside, the french were right bastards during their colonialist era. Not as bad as the spanish, worse then the british, makes modern imperial america look like boy scouts.
French food tends to be on the heavier side, for my asian pallet it's a bit too much. I prefer italian, the sharpness of the tomatoes cuts down on the heavy olive oil ussage.
I'm sorry, if you can't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi, it's not because there isn't one, it's because your taste buds aren't able to detect it. There IS a difference, and many people are able to taste it. Most of those who can taste it have a preference for one or the other. It's not as much of a difference as between Coke and root beer, but for someone who can taste it, it's a taste shock when they order Coke and are served Pepsi without a warning.
As for the Mac OS, it is distinctly different from windows, and depending on your perspective, it can be either very similar to Linux, or worlds apart. It's not about brand loyalty for some of us - I prefer the Linux/GPL philosophy, but for a desktop platform Mac OS really is the best thing going right now.
There is a difference. The vast majority of people simply fail to care about the difference.
I don't necessarily think it's that easy to blame him, for two reasons: firstly, OS X on Intel was a giant surprise, who is to say that a 4-cpu system was not possible on their own custom motherboard? There have been SMP motherboards that would work with non-SMP CPUs. It was false information, but it would have been well within the realm of possibility. Besides, "Pentium 4" means whatever Intel wants it to mean.
I think Jobs would have a tough time explaining spedning 5-10 million dollars on fabricating just 1 motherboard with 4 cpus to the share holders. Brcause designing a board isn't quick and cheap. It's unlikly it was a 4 pentium comp. The heat and fans needed wouldn't fit in any known desktop case/lap top case.
the PSP market is mostly 18-35 not 12-18. So it's a smaller hinderance then you think.
And people manually driving fighter ships or aiming guns at other ships (double you tee eff they have no computers?).
In technology, don't assume what we have is always discovered/required. The south american cultures created large and elaborate structures without the benifit of the wheel. Other civilizations may never develope or rely on sophisticated computers as we do because they may have such high mathematical skills they don't need them.
Human civilization is approx. 4000 years old. In that time we have pretty much closed the technology gap of the vairous tribes of humanity. We can all forge metal, we can all make things move via petroleum based products, we can kill each other with projectiles ect...
In 10,000 the technology gap of a community of star systems that communicate with each other woudl also close. So it's not such a huge issue. Technology doesn't have to spread directly, even the rumor of something being possible can send other cultures into a frenzy to find out how. The stories marco polo brought back from china were more useful then the inventions and products he brought back. It sent europe into a frenzy into trying to mimic these items.
In the proccess of trying to mimic these products they derived their own innovations and advanced further. Over 10,000 this would equilize the technologies of the various intelligent life forms. As for the robots, perhaps innovation in robot designed leveled off long ago and even 100 year old droid are useful. Or AI requires some rare material that is now in short supply so even old droids must be maintained.