Huh? No, "every 20-30 years" is *not* "correct"(!)
The OP was talking about "3D tv" and this is the *first* time round they've seriously tried to push 3D TV as a commercial concern.... but then, I'd already said that!
Well, you could say the poster was talking specifically about 3D TV and assume he is an idiot because it has not been tried before, or you could be reasonable and assume he was talking about 3D in general because that is an equally valid interpretation of his words and it is exactly right.
For a democracy as our own to function it is necessary for all voters to be educated.
This is often stated as fact, and yet I don't really see why it is necessarily true.
A shepherd doesn't need an intelligent flock to have a successful harvest.
You don't see why it's true perhaps because you are comparing citizens of a democracy to a herd of sheep. That is an entirely wrong comparison as sheep are not allowed any say in how they are governed.
I would argue that someone who can't even locate their own country on a map is not prepared to make reasonable political decisions.
I agree, but since the USA is a representative Democracy, one never has to make political decisions. They simply have to vote for someone who convinces them they can represent them well... and that convincing requires intelligence, if not in the politician themselves, then in their advisers (a la Bush Jr).
Voting for who can represent them best is exactly the type of political decisions I'm talking about. And in states like California there are frequently ballot measures which allows citizens to directly vote on issues in addition to voting for candidates.
I've watched a few of those cooking shows you speak of, and while I enjoy the cooking parts and the competition, I still find them unwatchable due to the melodramatic "reality show" aspects.
For a democracy as our own to function it is necessary for all voters to be educated. You can make good judgments in the voting booth without knowing how to change a serpentine belt, but I would argue that someone who can't even locate their own country on a map is not prepared to make reasonable political decisions.
Well obviously they get dirty to, they aren't magic... but you have to go out of your way to see it. The point he was referring to which you missed is that by getting a black keyboard you don't see filth.
Those points are smoke in mirrors. Credit card companies get the money to give you perks in part because they charge businesses a couple percent for credit card transactions. In turn, the businesses charge the customers -- either directly like Verizon or indirectly by raising rates.
In that case, if they aren't charging you directly for paying with your credit card then it would be foolish not to use it. They are going to charge you with higher rates regardless of if you use the card, so may as well use it and get something for your money.
It's true that the price you usually pay for an app influences how much you think an app is worth, but you are ignoring that the quality of the app is also a large factor. I've paid $8 for an app that I would gladly pay more for because I use it constantly and get so much in return. For another app I paid only $0.10 and still didn't feel like I got my money's worth. It matters not one bit to a customer how much time and effort you put into making an app, if the app doesn't fulfill your customers need then it isn't worth a cent to them.
That said, the reason we don't have a nice "visual basic" for phones is because Apple and Google does not WANT that on the platform. They do not want people writing their own apps easily. It's not profitable to allow everyone to write their own custom apps.
Whey did Google create this then? It sure looks like an attempt to enable app making for everyone.
What part of security screening doesn't scale linearly? Do screening interviews take longer when you have to do more of them? Do you need an increasing number of interviewers for each passenger as the volume increases? Neither of those sound plausible, so what is it?
You, sir, are wrong. What they good folks at the LHC are doing is smashing things together and observing the results. Get that? Observing, the root of all science. Was Newton not doing science when he observed that (apocryphal) apple falling from the tree and came up with gravity? Was Mendeleev not doing science when he observed how certain phenotype were passed from generation to generation and came up with genetics? Was Darwin not doing science when he observed the differentiation of different species in the Galapagos Islands and came up with evolution? Was Einstein not doing science when he used the observation that light is always travelling at the same speed and came up with relativity?
All of these notable scientists of the past were indeed doing science, just as it is being done at LHC. Observe, hypothesis, then test. That's how science works.
Being equivalent to gravity is not the same as being caused by gravity. Think about Einstein's original though experiment about the elevator. The point is that from within the elevator if you are feeling uniform acceleration it is impossible to tell the difference between a stationary elevator in a gravitational field or an accelerating elevator floating in space.
In short i think you're confused because you have it backwards. Not all forms of acceleration are gravity, but gravity is a form of acceleration just like any other.
I spend $50 a month for my smartphone and I use it practically non-stop. You need to shop around, you should't be paying anywhere near $80 a month if you use a smartphone only a few times a week.
Why were you waiting for the T-Mobile acquisition? T-Mobile already allows you to use your own phone. Just buy an Android phone and put your SIM in it, no need to destroy a perfectly good carrier to get what you want.
Too late: An install of pretty much any software is one click away. No software is too late - a later version can fix the problems of earlier versions
That's only true if some other software didn't already fix their problems first. A significant number of users have already switched from Firefox, only being as good as Chrome isn't enough to get anyone to switch back.
I'll take the piss out then. The target of this scope isn't supernovas, or anything that requires quick reaction time. It is meant to observe the pervasive background radiation from the early universe.
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Huh? No, "every 20-30 years" is *not* "correct"(!)
The OP was talking about "3D tv" and this is the *first* time round they've seriously tried to push 3D TV as a commercial concern.... but then, I'd already said that!
Well, you could say the poster was talking specifically about 3D TV and assume he is an idiot because it has not been tried before, or you could be reasonable and assume he was talking about 3D in general because that is an equally valid interpretation of his words and it is exactly right.
For a democracy as our own to function it is necessary for all voters to be educated.
This is often stated as fact, and yet I don't really see why it is necessarily true.
A shepherd doesn't need an intelligent flock to have a successful harvest.
You don't see why it's true perhaps because you are comparing citizens of a democracy to a herd of sheep. That is an entirely wrong comparison as sheep are not allowed any say in how they are governed.
I would argue that someone who can't even locate their own country on a map is not prepared to make reasonable political decisions.
I agree, but since the USA is a representative Democracy, one never has to make political decisions. They simply have to vote for someone who convinces them they can represent them well... and that convincing requires intelligence, if not in the politician themselves, then in their advisers (a la Bush Jr).
Voting for who can represent them best is exactly the type of political decisions I'm talking about. And in states like California there are frequently ballot measures which allows citizens to directly vote on issues in addition to voting for candidates.
I've watched a few of those cooking shows you speak of, and while I enjoy the cooking parts and the competition, I still find them unwatchable due to the melodramatic "reality show" aspects.
For a democracy as our own to function it is necessary for all voters to be educated. You can make good judgments in the voting booth without knowing how to change a serpentine belt, but I would argue that someone who can't even locate their own country on a map is not prepared to make reasonable political decisions.
We're talking about something for use at hospitals. Guess where those immune deficient 1% you mention are likely to be...
Alcohol works very well, that is why there is little risk of bacteria developing a resistance to it.
The black ones turn just as gross
Well obviously they get dirty to, they aren't magic... but you have to go out of your way to see it. The point he was referring to which you missed is that by getting a black keyboard you don't see filth.
The sun puts out of lot of UV, but the UVC which is used as a germicide is almost entirely blocked by the atmosphere.
I've been boycotting Verizon for at least 5 years, why stop now?
Those points are smoke in mirrors. Credit card companies get the money to give you perks in part because they charge businesses a couple percent for credit card transactions. In turn, the businesses charge the customers -- either directly like Verizon or indirectly by raising rates.
In that case, if they aren't charging you directly for paying with your credit card then it would be foolish not to use it. They are going to charge you with higher rates regardless of if you use the card, so may as well use it and get something for your money.
$0.10 was the price for Google's Christmas sale. It was not the developer's regular price.
5 minutes is way too short. The Android market gives 15 minutes, and plenty of time that's still not enough to determine if an app does what you need.
It's true that the price you usually pay for an app influences how much you think an app is worth, but you are ignoring that the quality of the app is also a large factor. I've paid $8 for an app that I would gladly pay more for because I use it constantly and get so much in return. For another app I paid only $0.10 and still didn't feel like I got my money's worth. It matters not one bit to a customer how much time and effort you put into making an app, if the app doesn't fulfill your customers need then it isn't worth a cent to them.
That said, the reason we don't have a nice "visual basic" for phones is because Apple and Google does not WANT that on the platform. They do not want people writing their own apps easily. It's not profitable to allow everyone to write their own custom apps.
Whey did Google create this then? It sure looks like an attempt to enable app making for everyone.
Well, yeah. Of course science is more then observation. My point is that is where it starts.
What part of security screening doesn't scale linearly? Do screening interviews take longer when you have to do more of them? Do you need an increasing number of interviewers for each passenger as the volume increases? Neither of those sound plausible, so what is it?
You, sir, are wrong. What they good folks at the LHC are doing is smashing things together and observing the results. Get that? Observing, the root of all science. Was Newton not doing science when he observed that (apocryphal) apple falling from the tree and came up with gravity? Was Mendeleev not doing science when he observed how certain phenotype were passed from generation to generation and came up with genetics? Was Darwin not doing science when he observed the differentiation of different species in the Galapagos Islands and came up with evolution? Was Einstein not doing science when he used the observation that light is always travelling at the same speed and came up with relativity?
All of these notable scientists of the past were indeed doing science, just as it is being done at LHC. Observe, hypothesis, then test. That's how science works.
Being equivalent to gravity is not the same as being caused by gravity. Think about Einstein's original though experiment about the elevator. The point is that from within the elevator if you are feeling uniform acceleration it is impossible to tell the difference between a stationary elevator in a gravitational field or an accelerating elevator floating in space.
In short i think you're confused because you have it backwards. Not all forms of acceleration are gravity, but gravity is a form of acceleration just like any other.
I spend $50 a month for my smartphone and I use it practically non-stop. You need to shop around, you should't be paying anywhere near $80 a month if you use a smartphone only a few times a week.
Why were you waiting for the T-Mobile acquisition? T-Mobile already allows you to use your own phone. Just buy an Android phone and put your SIM in it, no need to destroy a perfectly good carrier to get what you want.
Moron with no actual understanding of language in general complain about language not being logical.
The probe is only supposed to be sent out as far as Jupiter. That's pretty far, but NASA communicates with probes further out then that all the time.
NASA has been communicating with remote probes for decades. What is so different about this one?
Too late: An install of pretty much any software is one click away. No software is too late - a later version can fix the problems of earlier versions
That's only true if some other software didn't already fix their problems first. A significant number of users have already switched from Firefox, only being as good as Chrome isn't enough to get anyone to switch back.
I'll take the piss out then. The target of this scope isn't supernovas, or anything that requires quick reaction time. It is meant to observe the pervasive background radiation from the early universe.