Except that the human mind can read it faster and more reliably when the letters are in the correct order. (And simply correct.)
Lazy and barely-literate types will mewl "o u new wut i ment", and it's true that a reasonably intelligent person can figure it out, but communication is easier and less stressful when everyone uses standard spelling. The fact that an experienced reader can go beyond deciphering individual phonemes and recognize the patterns is one part of that.
There are no totally innocent corporations out there, and I'll always favor independent booksellers, but looking at the Nook in contrast to Amazon's censorship of the Kindle and exclusivity deals for Kindle content, B&N's commitment to bricks-and-mortar stores, and now the company's decision to stand up to Microsoft, I really am finding myself a fan of B&N.
'We find that Supreme Court justices are significantly more predictable than one would expect from "ideally independent" justices in "ideal courts,"' that is, free agents independently evaluating cases on their merits, free of ideology, the study said."
That's because the Supreme Court isn't simply the last court of appeals. Deciding cases on their individual merits is what the rest of the judicial system is for. The Supremes don't accept cases because the facts are in question, but rather because the law is in question. Determining what the law should mean is an inherently ideological question, which is why political ideology has been a litmus test for Supreme Court appointments for so long.
Google is not the villain... nor the victim. Neither is Apple, or any other of the combatants in the Patent Wars. Unfortunately, patent law doesn't allow someone to stay out of it... which is one of the ways in which it has become Evil.
No, this really is how you "begin to measure the mental strain". First you test to see whether it's possible for them to survive a simulation of just the isolation and confinement, but without the weightlessness and danger. If-and-only-if that test goes well, you proceed to the next step (whatever that might be).
Unfortunately there's one big flaw in this experiment. The crew consisted of "three Russians, one Chinese and two [other] Europeans", which only demonstrates that Eurasians are capable of living together in that limited space for that period of time. We still don't know if an American could get along with them for that long.:)
Right, and you don't put a pair of cameras (front and back) on a "business and enterprise product". Those are gimmicks aimed squarely at the consumer market.
"Obviously they didn't want to push a sub-standard product to market..."
Um, this is Microsoft we're talking about; they do that all the time. And I'm not just saying that to be snotty, there's a whole history of examples: Windows 1 & 2, Windows Me, Windows Vista, the Zune, the first several versions of IE, the first several iterations of WinCE/PocketPC/Mobile. Microsoft often gets it right eventually, but getting a sub-standard product to market and then trying to fix it is a time-honored tradition with them.
And to show that I'm not just a Microsoft hater: I wish the Courier had made it to market (even if it was a typical MS 1.0 release), because it was a genuinely innovative design, and would have brought some different ideas to the tablet market beyond iOS and the iOS clones we're seeing.
As long as the majority of American voters believe in something called "God" there is zero chance that any elected official is going to seriously consider removing "under God" or "In God We Trust". It will not happen, regardless of how sound the arguments against it are. Full stop.
There is a small chance that a future Supreme Court (not the current one) might do it, because they are not elected. Otherwise, it will not come from the Legislative and Executive branches until the majority of American voters want it to happen. That's not even close.
It's proof that $500 is more than people will pay for a tablet that is not an iPad.
HP's PC business is sound, because they sell their not-as-good-as-an-Apple computers, running a more-popular OS, for less than an Apple. Trying to sell a device that is no better than an Apple, running a less popular OS, for the same price as Apple's... was idiotic. If they couldn't sell it for less (due to manufacturing/distribution costs and profit margins), they never should have put it into production in the first place.
Your question doesn't make sense. Do you understand that NCSA Mosaic was never controlled by Netscape Communications? It was controlled by the NCSA, at UIUC, a government/academic entity. That was the whole point of Netscape the company: the people who created Mosaic set out to create a browser that they could exploit commercially. Netscape Navigator and IE made Mosaic obsolete. But if Netscape Communications had been bought by Microsoft, and Netscape Navigator became Internet Explorer (as I'm sure was Microsoft's plan), there still would have been demand for an alternative, and Mosaic would've been the obvious candidate. It was still free(beer) and could have been made free(speech) or licensed to another company that wanted to compete with Microsoft for the browser market. In other words, exactly the same situation as we had in the real world, only with Navigator under the MS flag and Mosaic on the outside.
My first reaction was to think that MSN (as they originally conceived it: a Microsoft-owned alternative to AOL and CompuServ) would have dominated end-users' online experiences in the 90s.
But Netscape was not the only other graphical browser available in those days. There was still NCSA Mosaic, which (despite its family connection to Netscape) would not have fallen into Microsoft hands and would have remained available for users. Even though in the real world Mosaic quickly stagnated, got licensed to MS after all, and died; in this alternate reality it could have become the nexus for development of the web that Netscape was. Or perhaps Opera might have, coming along shortly after.
The streaming was presented as part of the deal when I signed up. By your "logic", they could have stopped including DVDs in the envelopes and said that the inclusion of DVDs was just a test of a new service, and they were just going to send me envelopes now.
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Except that the human mind can read it faster and more reliably when the letters are in the correct order. (And simply correct.)
Lazy and barely-literate types will mewl "o u new wut i ment", and it's true that a reasonably intelligent person can figure it out, but communication is easier and less stressful when everyone uses standard spelling. The fact that an experienced reader can go beyond deciphering individual phonemes and recognize the patterns is one part of that.
There are no totally innocent corporations out there, and I'll always favor independent booksellers, but looking at the Nook in contrast to Amazon's censorship of the Kindle and exclusivity deals for Kindle content, B&N's commitment to bricks-and-mortar stores, and now the company's decision to stand up to Microsoft, I really am finding myself a fan of B&N.
That's because the Supreme Court isn't simply the last court of appeals. Deciding cases on their individual merits is what the rest of the judicial system is for. The Supremes don't accept cases because the facts are in question, but rather because the law is in question. Determining what the law should mean is an inherently ideological question, which is why political ideology has been a litmus test for Supreme Court appointments for so long.
Looks like a writer for some "entertainer" on Faux News is testing his material.
Not only does Andrew Tanenbaum have a good handle on polls and vote-projection, but his nerd credentials are excellent.
Google is not the villain... nor the victim. Neither is Apple, or any other of the combatants in the Patent Wars. Unfortunately, patent law doesn't allow someone to stay out of it... which is one of the ways in which it has become Evil.
To the under 25s: This is what kids will be listening to when you're middle-aged. Enjoy. :)
The more important question is knowing when to flip the pancake.
No, this really is how you "begin to measure the mental strain". First you test to see whether it's possible for them to survive a simulation of just the isolation and confinement, but without the weightlessness and danger. If-and-only-if that test goes well, you proceed to the next step (whatever that might be).
Unfortunately there's one big flaw in this experiment. The crew consisted of "three Russians, one Chinese and two [other] Europeans", which only demonstrates that Eurasians are capable of living together in that limited space for that period of time. We still don't know if an American could get along with them for that long. :)
That's beyond the scope of this experiment.
Between Mir and ISS, we already have some pretty good data about the physiological impact of medium-term weightlessness.
Is that May Day?
They so should have greeted the emerging "astronauts" wearing gorilla, chimp, and orangutan masks.
Right, and you don't put a pair of cameras (front and back) on a "business and enterprise product". Those are gimmicks aimed squarely at the consumer market.
I'm pretty sure I already commented on this strategy.
"Obviously they didn't want to push a sub-standard product to market..."
Um, this is Microsoft we're talking about; they do that all the time. And I'm not just saying that to be snotty, there's a whole history of examples: Windows 1 & 2, Windows Me, Windows Vista, the Zune, the first several versions of IE, the first several iterations of WinCE/PocketPC/Mobile. Microsoft often gets it right eventually, but getting a sub-standard product to market and then trying to fix it is a time-honored tradition with them.
And to show that I'm not just a Microsoft hater: I wish the Courier had made it to market (even if it was a typical MS 1.0 release), because it was a genuinely innovative design, and would have brought some different ideas to the tablet market beyond iOS and the iOS clones we're seeing.
As long as the majority of American voters believe in something called "God" there is zero chance that any elected official is going to seriously consider removing "under God" or "In God We Trust". It will not happen, regardless of how sound the arguments against it are. Full stop.
There is a small chance that a future Supreme Court (not the current one) might do it, because they are not elected. Otherwise, it will not come from the Legislative and Executive branches until the majority of American voters want it to happen. That's not even close.
Thank god we had George W. Bush to save us from that fate!
It's proof that $500 is more than people will pay for a tablet that is not an iPad.
HP's PC business is sound, because they sell their not-as-good-as-an-Apple computers, running a more-popular OS, for less than an Apple. Trying to sell a device that is no better than an Apple, running a less popular OS, for the same price as Apple's... was idiotic. If they couldn't sell it for less (due to manufacturing/distribution costs and profit margins), they never should have put it into production in the first place.
Your question doesn't make sense. Do you understand that NCSA Mosaic was never controlled by Netscape Communications? It was controlled by the NCSA, at UIUC, a government/academic entity. That was the whole point of Netscape the company: the people who created Mosaic set out to create a browser that they could exploit commercially. Netscape Navigator and IE made Mosaic obsolete. But if Netscape Communications had been bought by Microsoft, and Netscape Navigator became Internet Explorer (as I'm sure was Microsoft's plan), there still would have been demand for an alternative, and Mosaic would've been the obvious candidate. It was still free(beer) and could have been made free(speech) or licensed to another company that wanted to compete with Microsoft for the browser market. In other words, exactly the same situation as we had in the real world, only with Navigator under the MS flag and Mosaic on the outside.
My first reaction was to think that MSN (as they originally conceived it: a Microsoft-owned alternative to AOL and CompuServ) would have dominated end-users' online experiences in the 90s.
But Netscape was not the only other graphical browser available in those days. There was still NCSA Mosaic, which (despite its family connection to Netscape) would not have fallen into Microsoft hands and would have remained available for users. Even though in the real world Mosaic quickly stagnated, got licensed to MS after all, and died; in this alternate reality it could have become the nexus for development of the web that Netscape was. Or perhaps Opera might have, coming along shortly after.
The streaming was presented as part of the deal when I signed up. By your "logic", they could have stopped including DVDs in the envelopes and said that the inclusion of DVDs was just a test of a new service, and they were just going to send me envelopes now.
Just because you didn't see the adverts about "LOWER PRICES" doesn't mean they didn't exist.
Netflix not only raised their prices more, they did so shortly after an earlier price increase, effectively doubling the rate in about a year.
And then tried to spin it as "new lower prices".
I'll bet the main use of this app will be for teenagers to pick which houses to vandalize.
I wonder if features a map tagging the homes where "sex offenders" are registered with a bulls-eye or rifle cross-hairs.