Why do people keep ignoring the fact that the President has had the ability to shut off the Internet for almost 75 years now due to the Communications Act of 1934. This bill is to regulate an existing power, not to create a new one.
This is kind of a relevant detail, but no one seems to care.
You're right. For most small scale endeavors we can and do operate under the assumption that the earth is flat, and it works fine great. It would be absurd to involve the curvature of the earth in our calculations.
I think you're going a little far calling Newtonian physics false. It is correct without the domain of what can be observed by us on the planet earth. Sure, it doesn't work when you try to apply it to objects at quantum and astronomical scales, but none of our theories work at all those scales. Quantum physics and Relativity are also both known to be broken when you try to apply them outside of their domains.
Yes, that was my point. There does not need to be a bevy of high quality Android tablets available to compete with the iPad, you only need one good one.
As opposed to the bevy of high quality iPads out there? In a month or two there will be at least as many high quality Android tablets on the market as there are iPads.
I don't particularly want the prompting, but I think in this case it wouldn't really be a problem. Sure you would pretty much expect and ignore the dialog every time you installed an app from the web, but I think I'd notice if I had to dismiss that prompt while I'm walking down the street nowhere near another computer.
You ask interesting questions, and scientists would certainly love to have a clear answer about what if anything is outside our universe or what happened before the big bang, but those sort of questions are largely out of the scope of science, or at least far beyond the reach of our modern science. But that doesn't make theories about the structure of the universe any more of a cop out then Mendel's theory of inheritance was a cop just because he didn't know about DNA.
You're reading it wrong. He said that the universe is at least 250x the size of the observable universe. The curvature that they measured was basically 0, which would imply a flat and thus infinite universe. However, they can't say it is exactly 0, all they can say is that given their margin of error if the universe is closed then it is at least 250x larger then we can see, but it is probably much larger then that and maybe infinite.
In case you didn't notice, the hosts of the Today show weren't college students back then. Many students had access at their schools, but that doesn't mean they or most other people had access at home.
Well yeah, but the OP was saying to take your brand new devices and replace them immediately with this new technology. My point is what you seem to be talking about as well, that it would probably be a better use of resources to replace them when they reach EOL and not sooner.
I think you are probably overestimating the savings from this change. Is the vast amount of energy used in a data center really from leakage in idle transistors? I'm a bit skeptical of that.
You want to save energy by replacing as many of the the currently installed systems in the world? Why do I get the feeling that trashing perfectly good equipment, and manufacturing replacements is not the best use of our energy resources.
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Why do people keep ignoring the fact that the President has had the ability to shut off the Internet for almost 75 years now due to the Communications Act of 1934. This bill is to regulate an existing power, not to create a new one.
This is kind of a relevant detail, but no one seems to care.
The concern isn't how Lightsquared will affect other 4G services, the concern is how it will affect GPS service.
Sorry, you've had your time old man. Report to your nearest Sleepshop immediately.
People were uppity because they should never have had the powers in the beginning.
Because falsehoods, no matter how pointless and insignificant, spread like wildfire when not confronted.
You're right. For most small scale endeavors we can and do operate under the assumption that the earth is flat, and it works fine great. It would be absurd to involve the curvature of the earth in our calculations.
I think you're going a little far calling Newtonian physics false. It is correct without the domain of what can be observed by us on the planet earth. Sure, it doesn't work when you try to apply it to objects at quantum and astronomical scales, but none of our theories work at all those scales. Quantum physics and Relativity are also both known to be broken when you try to apply them outside of their domains.
Yes, that was my point. There does not need to be a bevy of high quality Android tablets available to compete with the iPad, you only need one good one.
What are you talking about? The rest of us aren't talking about market share, we're talking about available purchasing options.
As opposed to the bevy of high quality iPads out there? In a month or two there will be at least as many high quality Android tablets on the market as there are iPads.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. You don't understand it.
I don't particularly want the prompting, but I think in this case it wouldn't really be a problem. Sure you would pretty much expect and ignore the dialog every time you installed an app from the web, but I think I'd notice if I had to dismiss that prompt while I'm walking down the street nowhere near another computer.
True. In most cases redirecting people's attention is easier then photons.
We refer to decades as the 80's, the 90's, the 2000's, the 2010's, etc... The 2010's didn't start this year, they started last year.
I don't know about you, but the decade started for me a year and one month ago.
No, I'm just kidding. Of course that doesn't make any sense. It actually started in mid-June, 2009.
You ask interesting questions, and scientists would certainly love to have a clear answer about what if anything is outside our universe or what happened before the big bang, but those sort of questions are largely out of the scope of science, or at least far beyond the reach of our modern science. But that doesn't make theories about the structure of the universe any more of a cop out then Mendel's theory of inheritance was a cop just because he didn't know about DNA.
You're reading it wrong. He said that the universe is at least 250x the size of the observable universe. The curvature that they measured was basically 0, which would imply a flat and thus infinite universe. However, they can't say it is exactly 0, all they can say is that given their margin of error if the universe is closed then it is at least 250x larger then we can see, but it is probably much larger then that and maybe infinite.
In case you didn't notice, the hosts of the Today show weren't college students back then. Many students had access at their schools, but that doesn't mean they or most other people had access at home.
Sure a few people could, but the inconvenience and cost made it unavailable to the general population.
The shoe fitting fluoroscope was certainly a useful tool.
Well yeah, but the OP was saying to take your brand new devices and replace them immediately with this new technology. My point is what you seem to be talking about as well, that it would probably be a better use of resources to replace them when they reach EOL and not sooner.
I think you are probably overestimating the savings from this change. Is the vast amount of energy used in a data center really from leakage in idle transistors? I'm a bit skeptical of that.
You want to save energy by replacing as many of the the currently installed systems in the world? Why do I get the feeling that trashing perfectly good equipment, and manufacturing replacements is not the best use of our energy resources.
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What's up with the no Unicode still? That's a disappointment.