No. You can't get chlorine gas from -OH and -H. As to the mechanism that makes it "bleach," my guess is that, once the breaking of the water bond takes place, two -OH radicals tend to combine to form hydrogen peroxide.
So, great, Silverlight is accessible to the blind. Last I checked, so is HTML (especially XHTML).
It's not the format that makes it accessible; it's the screen reader. I know nothing of the Silverlight specs, but the GP is saying that Silverlight has the ability to interface with screen readers -- which already work with HTML pages -- whereas Flash does not. Again, I do not know how accurate this statement is, but you seem to have missed the point (because HTML is accessible to the blind).
after our chat, she left me with the impression that, yeah, drinking really was common during Prohibition
Oh yeah, don't get me wrong. All I'm saying is, just because you drink, and I drink, and the politicians drink, isn't reason enough to convince the politicians to change a law. Major cities sliding into abject corruption and lawlessness, though -- yeah, that gets attention.
It's definitely a few years away. The stereo industry always loves to soak the "hi-fi" consumer; but meanwhile, mainstream consumers have been going nuts over MP3s, which generally have lower sound quality than CDs.
But remember, the industry holds the strings. All they have to do is start releasing new movies on Blu-Ray before they release them on DVD, and DVD dies sooner or later. Downloading DVD images that have been reformatted to 4.7GB with DVDShrink is one thing. Downloading DVD images of movie that you could get in hi-def for $20 is another.
I think it ultimately depends on what the consumer really wants. CDs had great audio quality, but they became mainstream maybe ten years after the Walkman. Portable CD players always sort of sucked. Enter the iPod, and the die is cast. Similarly, if consumers value being able to watch a movie right now more than they value building their own home theater -- the modern equivalent of hi-fi -- then in a few years it won't really matter what format the plastic discs come in.
I have a seven-year-old child who needs to understand complex concepts of parenting, ethics, and personal responsibility, but has trouble with intangible ideas. Does anyone have any suggestions for an appropriate analogy that has been proven effective in discussions of this kind? If it's effective, I'd like to be able to apply it to other public policy debates, as well. Thanks!
If you have access *and you know what you're doing*. I get the impression that the parents don't. As for whether the submitter should be doing it, if the parents are the type who install cybernanny software on their kids computers, I say go for it.
Uh... wait. "Cybernanny" software for high schoolers, yeah, I can see where that's the wrong approach. But what's the problem installing it on a computer for a seven-year-old? There really is a lot of really foul stuff on the Web, and stumbling on it by accident isn't uncommon. Why allow the child's experience to be colored by that?
I have a feeling this is going to turn out like Prohibition did. Despite the fact that it gets banned, everybody still does it, the authorities are powerless to stop it, and in the end, the authorities who puts those laws in place get moved aside by those who want those laws repealed.
Unfortunately, you seem to be reckoning without a guy named Al Capone, and others like him.
It's revisionist history to say that Prohibition ended because everybody drank anyway. Politicians never got tired of looking like fools over so-called moral issues. What they got tired of was dead bodies piling up in alleyways during election years -- and, to my knowledge, nobody has been killed over MP3s.
That's what we said about the US marijuana laws back in the 1970s, when it seemed everybody was smoking it and those who didn't didn't care if you were (including the police but excepting the politicians).
Now they have everyone convinced it's addictive (it's habit forming but not addictive), causes cancer (it doesn't, and in fact prevents cancer) and leads to harder drugs (it doesn't; the laws against it do).
OK, this is just crazy talk. I hear this kind of nonsense from potheads all the time. But have you actually gotten off the couch lately? Go outside and take a look at American society today. Maybe three out of five songs played on mainstream radio stations are by rappers who advocate smoking pot. All kinds of mainstream celebrities advocate it. You can buy shirts and necklaces with marijuana leaves on them at any mall. Kids wear them to school. In the movies, pot-smoking is never associated with bad behavior of any kind -- in fact, the first movie that I remember seeing where people smoked pot was "Poltergeist" in 1982, and it wasn't the kids smoking it, it was their mom. And in San Francisco, where I live, if you have the right kind of ID card you can walk down to a store and buy seven different kinds of pot, hash, and whatever paraphernalia you want over the counter. None of this was true in the illustrious 1970s, no matter how stoney the music may have been.
I know for a fact that smoking pot makes me paranoid, but I don't smoke enough to know if that will wear off over time. I'm guessing that it won't, though, because so-called pot activists have the silliest, most delusional persecution complex of anyone I know. Get over yourselves, already! You are nothing special. Nobody is out to get you. And if you had any friends, you'd realize that it's not just you -- everybody in America smokes pot. Everybody. And they have done for decades.
Note the "trade secret" provision, though. If you're talking about a pure service profession, like accounting, that's one thing. But if you were a software engineer with intimate knowledge of algorithms or techniques used at the competition, the noncompete might still hold.
More importantly, California companies dance around these and other labor laws all the time. Are you ready to go to court over it? Is your future employer?
When I read the question, "is this the future of journalism," I was thinking of something completely different. Most of the discussion here seems to be asking whether citizen journalism is "better" or "worse" than professional journalism. I think anyone would agree that a trained, professional journalist who does his job diligently will be able to do a better job than the average shmoe on the street. I think the real question is, just how many of those professionals are there going to be in the future?
Is this the future of journalism? Sure -- it will be, if the bosses say so (and as other posters have commented, there are only so many bosses these days). If the news media is going to continue the current trends -- where they seem to value sensationalism more than hard news, profitability more than public service, and competition more than competence -- then I see no reason why it shouldn't go this way. Because it's cheaper.
We regularly hear stories about newsrooms laying off reporters. We all assume this is because of the competition with new media, etc. -- newspapers don't make any money anymore. What a lot of people don't realize, however, is that the Los Angeles Times (for example) laid off its news staff despite the fact that it was still turning a profit. News is no longer the standard; the standard is profitability.
So why shouldn't this be the future of news? Get rid of all the reporters. Replace them with "the community." Works for open source, right? If I was the captain of a modern media corporation, free-as-in-beer reporting would sound pretty good to me. Take that, all you nay-sayers! Who needs a newsroom anyway?
Make no mistake, I think citizen journalism is valuable and it has its place, but in its current form it is absolutely no replacement for the "real thing." In other words, I agree wholeheartedly with the parent. I just don't think that's going to stop any of these corporate bean counters from completely dismantling the news business -- illusions of the "Fourth Estate" notwithstanding.
So are you saying that people who interpret art such as looking at a picture and drawing a different result than what you think are wrong? Mr. Ebert is clearly denying that other individuals can come to a different conclusion than his own
Um...no, he's clearly not, but I hope you feel better for the rant.
Still I don't really understand what he is saying
Try reading more slowly, and giving it some thought.
I forget where I read the article about military trained CEOs... apparently, they kick butt on Wall Street vs we college geeks. Lots of theories were stated... but when a guy can work for a seriously screwed up organization, be given screwed up goals and sorry resources, and still succeed in motivating his men and accomplishing the important goals... well that seems to translate real well into succeeding as a CEO in Dilbert land.
I'm not sure how "screwed up" the military even is, compared to most corporations of similar size (are there any?). But how many "superstar" CEOs these days accomplish their companies' important goals at all, or even make an effort to motivate the rank and file employees? A lot of corporate CEOs would never dream of stepping down from the rarified air of their executive suites to mingle with the grunts, and they carry on like that throughout their entire careers. I'm talking about guys whose entire resumes read "CEO of this" and "board member of that"... company after company, just running them for a while and then jumping ship. That's pretty hard to pull off in the military. Plus, being in the military is going to put you in touch with real-world logistics, something a lot of CEOs don't seem to grasp.
True, but those temperatures preclude many organic chemical reactions being able to proceed at a manageable rate. Either the reactions won't happen at all or they will happen too quickly to arrive at the desired products. Again, we're talking about forms of life that we know about, but it seems unlikely that all of the basic building blocks that we know about would be absent in other forms of life. Temperature plays a very important role in the organic chemistry that we have observed thus far.
After the endless iPhone hype and the actual product turning out to be an overpriced and underfeatured commercial dud
Uhhh...I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but by exactly what standard is the iPhone a "dud"? Last I heard, it was beating every forecast sales target and had already captured 20 percent of the smartphone market in less than a year. In fact, if you haven't seen one at your local coffee shop, bar, or train station yet, you probably live in a cabin in the Ozarks.
If you sell the movie rights to a book, then you should probably say something like: I need to have access to the accounting procedures for complete independent review.
As far as I understand it, rights to books are usually sold for a flat fee, up front. Authors don't get a percentage; but that's OK, because they get paid whether the movie ends up getting made or not.
Another reason is that water molecules are highly polar, which gives them a comparatively high boiling point compared to other, similar molecules. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), for example, boils at -60 degrees Celsius. If we assume that primitive life would have an easier time getting on with the business of life within a liquid, rather than lying out in the open air, then the fact that water is still liquid at 90 degrees Celsius makes it a very useful medium.
Wired really seems to be fishing for material to keep this trial interesting. Emphasis mine:
All the while, the defendant gazed at his attorney to his left. Much of his pasty white skin was covered by the same dark dress coat he has donned since his trial began here three months ago. Jurors appeared un-animated.
Yes folks, that's the latest, coming to you live from the courtroom at Innsmouth...
Anyway, all of my peers jokingly told me before I went, "If you want out, just tell them during selection that you're college educated!"
Actually, being a single, white, unmarried male professional is probably enough to get you kicked off a jury in a domestic abuse case. It's nothing personal, you're just less likely to be sympathetic to the defendant than other demographic groups. I'm usually dismissed without any comments or questions from the attorneys in such cases.
Doesn't sound so bad to me, a few peices of my soul for a chance to visit a place where my American dollars are now worth crap and I widely disliked... Indeed, a win win proposition.
I've been a huge fan of Baen since their free library, but on average I like Tor books better so this makes me much more happy.
And on average, I don't give much of a toss about either one. Very little genre fiction interests me these days. I'd love to see more mainstream/"literary" publishing houses try this out. (On a side note, think how many trees could be saved if they delivered Thomas Pynchon's latest as an e-book.)
Clean coal isn't. Pumping CO2 underground is not a permanent solution.
Yes, it should be obvious to all patriotic Americans that the real solution is to pump the excess CO2 into water. In fact, many of the refreshing soft beverages currently available on your grocer's shelves, including the entire flavor line of Coca-Cola brand beverage products, contain significantly more carbonation than most sparkling water. When you drink beverages that contain still/non-sparkling water, the terrorists win. Have a Coke and a smile.
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No. You can't get chlorine gas from -OH and -H. As to the mechanism that makes it "bleach," my guess is that, once the breaking of the water bond takes place, two -OH radicals tend to combine to form hydrogen peroxide.
It's not the format that makes it accessible; it's the screen reader. I know nothing of the Silverlight specs, but the GP is saying that Silverlight has the ability to interface with screen readers -- which already work with HTML pages -- whereas Flash does not. Again, I do not know how accurate this statement is, but you seem to have missed the point (because HTML is accessible to the blind).
The name of the product is not as much the stumbling block as is the price. In fact, many (if not most) mainframes are not sold at all, but leased.
Oh yeah, don't get me wrong. All I'm saying is, just because you drink, and I drink, and the politicians drink, isn't reason enough to convince the politicians to change a law. Major cities sliding into abject corruption and lawlessness, though -- yeah, that gets attention.
It's definitely a few years away. The stereo industry always loves to soak the "hi-fi" consumer; but meanwhile, mainstream consumers have been going nuts over MP3s, which generally have lower sound quality than CDs.
But remember, the industry holds the strings. All they have to do is start releasing new movies on Blu-Ray before they release them on DVD, and DVD dies sooner or later. Downloading DVD images that have been reformatted to 4.7GB with DVDShrink is one thing. Downloading DVD images of movie that you could get in hi-def for $20 is another.
I think it ultimately depends on what the consumer really wants. CDs had great audio quality, but they became mainstream maybe ten years after the Walkman. Portable CD players always sort of sucked. Enter the iPod, and the die is cast. Similarly, if consumers value being able to watch a movie right now more than they value building their own home theater -- the modern equivalent of hi-fi -- then in a few years it won't really matter what format the plastic discs come in.
I have a seven-year-old child who needs to understand complex concepts of parenting, ethics, and personal responsibility, but has trouble with intangible ideas. Does anyone have any suggestions for an appropriate analogy that has been proven effective in discussions of this kind? If it's effective, I'd like to be able to apply it to other public policy debates, as well. Thanks!
Uh ... wait. "Cybernanny" software for high schoolers, yeah, I can see where that's the wrong approach. But what's the problem installing it on a computer for a seven-year-old? There really is a lot of really foul stuff on the Web, and stumbling on it by accident isn't uncommon. Why allow the child's experience to be colored by that?
Unfortunately, you seem to be reckoning without a guy named Al Capone, and others like him.
It's revisionist history to say that Prohibition ended because everybody drank anyway. Politicians never got tired of looking like fools over so-called moral issues. What they got tired of was dead bodies piling up in alleyways during election years -- and, to my knowledge, nobody has been killed over MP3s.
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OK, I gotta do it: ....YET!!
OK, this is just crazy talk. I hear this kind of nonsense from potheads all the time. But have you actually gotten off the couch lately? Go outside and take a look at American society today. Maybe three out of five songs played on mainstream radio stations are by rappers who advocate smoking pot. All kinds of mainstream celebrities advocate it. You can buy shirts and necklaces with marijuana leaves on them at any mall. Kids wear them to school. In the movies, pot-smoking is never associated with bad behavior of any kind -- in fact, the first movie that I remember seeing where people smoked pot was "Poltergeist" in 1982, and it wasn't the kids smoking it, it was their mom. And in San Francisco, where I live, if you have the right kind of ID card you can walk down to a store and buy seven different kinds of pot, hash, and whatever paraphernalia you want over the counter. None of this was true in the illustrious 1970s, no matter how stoney the music may have been.
I know for a fact that smoking pot makes me paranoid, but I don't smoke enough to know if that will wear off over time. I'm guessing that it won't, though, because so-called pot activists have the silliest, most delusional persecution complex of anyone I know. Get over yourselves, already! You are nothing special. Nobody is out to get you. And if you had any friends, you'd realize that it's not just you -- everybody in America smokes pot. Everybody. And they have done for decades.
Note the "trade secret" provision, though. If you're talking about a pure service profession, like accounting, that's one thing. But if you were a software engineer with intimate knowledge of algorithms or techniques used at the competition, the noncompete might still hold.
More importantly, California companies dance around these and other labor laws all the time. Are you ready to go to court over it? Is your future employer?
Based on the article, this is not a toad at all, but a frog. It seems to be only the writer at Scientific American who considers this a toad.
When I read the question, "is this the future of journalism," I was thinking of something completely different. Most of the discussion here seems to be asking whether citizen journalism is "better" or "worse" than professional journalism. I think anyone would agree that a trained, professional journalist who does his job diligently will be able to do a better job than the average shmoe on the street. I think the real question is, just how many of those professionals are there going to be in the future?
Is this the future of journalism? Sure -- it will be, if the bosses say so (and as other posters have commented, there are only so many bosses these days). If the news media is going to continue the current trends -- where they seem to value sensationalism more than hard news, profitability more than public service, and competition more than competence -- then I see no reason why it shouldn't go this way. Because it's cheaper.
We regularly hear stories about newsrooms laying off reporters. We all assume this is because of the competition with new media, etc. -- newspapers don't make any money anymore. What a lot of people don't realize, however, is that the Los Angeles Times (for example) laid off its news staff despite the fact that it was still turning a profit. News is no longer the standard; the standard is profitability.
So why shouldn't this be the future of news? Get rid of all the reporters. Replace them with "the community." Works for open source, right? If I was the captain of a modern media corporation, free-as-in-beer reporting would sound pretty good to me. Take that, all you nay-sayers! Who needs a newsroom anyway?
Make no mistake, I think citizen journalism is valuable and it has its place, but in its current form it is absolutely no replacement for the "real thing." In other words, I agree wholeheartedly with the parent. I just don't think that's going to stop any of these corporate bean counters from completely dismantling the news business -- illusions of the "Fourth Estate" notwithstanding.
Um...no, he's clearly not, but I hope you feel better for the rant.
Try reading more slowly, and giving it some thought.
Unless they're a socially conscious whistle-blower. Then they can talk about any goddamn thing they want.
I'm not sure how "screwed up" the military even is, compared to most corporations of similar size (are there any?). But how many "superstar" CEOs these days accomplish their companies' important goals at all, or even make an effort to motivate the rank and file employees? A lot of corporate CEOs would never dream of stepping down from the rarified air of their executive suites to mingle with the grunts, and they carry on like that throughout their entire careers. I'm talking about guys whose entire resumes read "CEO of this" and "board member of that" ... company after company, just running them for a while and then jumping ship. That's pretty hard to pull off in the military. Plus, being in the military is going to put you in touch with real-world logistics, something a lot of CEOs don't seem to grasp.
True, but those temperatures preclude many organic chemical reactions being able to proceed at a manageable rate. Either the reactions won't happen at all or they will happen too quickly to arrive at the desired products. Again, we're talking about forms of life that we know about, but it seems unlikely that all of the basic building blocks that we know about would be absent in other forms of life. Temperature plays a very important role in the organic chemistry that we have observed thus far.
Uhhh...I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but by exactly what standard is the iPhone a "dud"? Last I heard, it was beating every forecast sales target and had already captured 20 percent of the smartphone market in less than a year. In fact, if you haven't seen one at your local coffee shop, bar, or train station yet, you probably live in a cabin in the Ozarks.
As far as I understand it, rights to books are usually sold for a flat fee, up front. Authors don't get a percentage; but that's OK, because they get paid whether the movie ends up getting made or not.
Another reason is that water molecules are highly polar, which gives them a comparatively high boiling point compared to other, similar molecules. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), for example, boils at -60 degrees Celsius. If we assume that primitive life would have an easier time getting on with the business of life within a liquid, rather than lying out in the open air, then the fact that water is still liquid at 90 degrees Celsius makes it a very useful medium.
Actually, being a single, white, unmarried male professional is probably enough to get you kicked off a jury in a domestic abuse case. It's nothing personal, you're just less likely to be sympathetic to the defendant than other demographic groups. I'm usually dismissed without any comments or questions from the attorneys in such cases.
Well, to be fair, we started it.
And on average, I don't give much of a toss about either one. Very little genre fiction interests me these days. I'd love to see more mainstream/"literary" publishing houses try this out. (On a side note, think how many trees could be saved if they delivered Thomas Pynchon's latest as an e-book.)
Yes, it should be obvious to all patriotic Americans that the real solution is to pump the excess CO2 into water. In fact, many of the refreshing soft beverages currently available on your grocer's shelves, including the entire flavor line of Coca-Cola brand beverage products, contain significantly more carbonation than most sparkling water. When you drink beverages that contain still/non-sparkling water, the terrorists win. Have a Coke and a smile.