Unless touchsmart has X compatability it would be of little help to Linux. the last thing Linux needs is an incompatable UI system and fragmentation in the UI system. This would only create more confusion and a bigger mess. X is a well defined standard and its best for backwards compatability to stick with that.
It is quite pathetic that the United States is behind nearly every other advanced country in developing advanced public transportation systems. The state of public transportation in many parts of the country is simply awful. While we know we need to conserve and every time we turn the ignition on the car we lurch closer to total economic peak oil disaster and climate chaos, the US is unable to change its wasteful, gas guzzling drive 20 miles to work ways. Instead of doing the environmentally responsible thing to future generations and to our own well being, by developing clean new non fossil fuel sources of energy, and conservation, public transportation, etc, instead we have greedy republicans who want to threaten our coastal ecosystems and oceans with ruin for oil drilling, which will not reduce gas prices at all and which does subject the fragile coastal ecosystems and many endangered species with great harm. Anyone who says that oil drilling offshore is safe or will lower gas prices knows absolutely nothing what they are talking about or are lying. It is an outright lie and there is another sinister evil agenda at work here. Republicans mostly known its a lie but only tow the oil company line so they can get oil company donations for their campaigns, and to make it look like they are doing something when they are doing nothing. Oil drilling does not solve our energy problems and does nothing to lower prices but it distracts people from looking at alternative energy sources and conservation which is what we need to be doing. Offshore oil drilling will actually, since it uses resources and money that could otherwise be used for renewables, could lead to higher gas prices. The oil companies do NOT want lower gas prices because they want to make a profit. Oil companies are the only ones who would benefit from a little bit more profit but the total amount of oil in currently offlimits areas is only the amount we use in 2 years in the US, is insufficient to have any real effect on gas prices. Yet offshore oil drilling will ruin coastal ecosystems and beaches. It has been found that a rig off california has been leaking PCBs into the pacific for years. Every major hurricane can cause an inevitable spill from oil rigs, over 700,000 gallons were spilled from oil rigs after Katrina. Texas beaches are littered with tarballs from oil company spills, trash, barrels and refuse. Loggerhead turtles have been found dead after having eaten tarballs. Very high levels of mercury have been found covering the seafloor off alabama from pollutants released by oil rigs. This has resulting in astronomical levels of mercury in grouper. Whales and dolphins are disoriented and beached by seismic testing for oil exploration. it only takes one spill to completely ruin beaches and the chance of that is only increased by oil drilling. The US has 3% of the worlds oil but uses 25% and that is mostly due to the fact that we have horrible urban planning, instead of placing people near where they work, or encourage them to use bikes, walks or use public transportation. We could save more oil from a few conservation measures than we ever could get from offshore oil drilling. I have used public transportation in a part of the country where it is terribly inefficient. it is almost like you are being punished for using it and trying to help the environment. It is very frustrating to see someone who thinks they are a hot shot drive by in a hummer, like they are trying to keep you from saving the planet and undo any good you are trying to do. We really ought to ban the hummers, require 35 mpg minimum fuelstandards by 2010 and build public transportation, instead of ruin coastal ecosystems and threaten whales and dolphins so a few fat cat oil companies can make a little more profit. It is also very frustrating to see billions invested into massive highway projects instead of more efficient public transportation systems that both use less oil and keep our cities more liveable by reducing exhaust and using less space. We really need to get our act together and start moving to renewables and conserving rather than polluting this planet with toxic oil company wastes and offshore oil platforms spilling heavy metals and carcinogens into the water and beaching whales and dolphins.
This is truly sad disturbing and depressing news. This sort of mentality, where anything that doesnt make instant profits is ignored and is unfunded, is what is killing us. Without research, pure research into different technologies and sciences which do not necessarily have any apparent immediate commercial value, many technologies will remain undeveloped, it is harmful in the long run since many of the most profitable and commercially viable technologies that come from research that has no apparent immediate profit value. Its this greedy shortsighted mentality that is our undoing in so many areas and why it seems we are doomed. Not only in this instance but in regard to oil dependance, alternative energy and so many other things. This is sort of a republican mentality about things, very shortsighted, no tolerance for science, everything somehow has to make profits for corporate CEO yachts, even if it pre-empts future developments which corporations used to make their wealth, like the transistor.
that would be interesting if you turn a GPU into a general purpose CPU. That way they would have a CPU without having to invest much additional resources into developing it, using the same core for both. But I have no idea if that is possible. It is likely that the GPU actually has less processing power than a current CPU, so it might not be nearly as fast as regular CPUs. It could work for a low end market or embedded. The ISA though may be designed around 3D graphics operations and perhaps you wouldnt have the needed arithmatic and logic needed, but there could be a way to use graphics operations operations to do general calculations, who knows.
there was such a socket for some time, the Socket 7, around the time of the AMD K6 generation. You could put most intel and amd cpus of the era into the same motherboard.
How can someone own rights on an ISA? Its like saying your own the rights to Esperanto and you going to demand licence fees from everyone who uses it. Languages, conventions, communications protocols etc are not copyrightable and patentable for good reason, only particular works made with them or implementations of them are. An ISA is basically a language or a protocol and the legal consensus is these are not copyrightable, and probably not patentable. We have so many independant implementations of languages and APIs already that are proof of this. In fact very little would work and progress on computer technology would have been stalled if such barriers had existed. From what I can see Nvidia does not have a restriction against an independant implementation of an ISA, and if there is any such restriction, its time it is legally challenged.
i think when hydrogen burns, it gets converted back into water. You probably would want to use non potable water for this as well, rather than cut into potable supplies.
yes, about what is unproven and beyond the realm of the observable, we have no idea if there could be other realms, other universes, if we have had past lives, if we are in fact metaphysical beings, etc, so for these areas really all theories should be on the table and people can make a personal choice about which one they like best but really shouldnt tell others that their theory is something everyone else has to believe. If science as well leads in the direction of metaphysics, we should not discard the evidence because it contradicts the atheist view.
I should add that when it comes to theoritical physics and expoloration, we should not limit ourselves strictly to materialistic or atheistic viewpoints, but also should explore possibilities that there is a metaphysical components to something. So if we have theories which point to the possibility of a metaphysical component, these should not be thrown out because they conflict with someones atheistic viewpoint. Until we have a clear answer and something that is provable with emperical evidence, we really should consider all possibilities regarding something, and even afterwards continue to test theories and laws, not assuming they are entirely correct. I do not believe, in a strict seperation of science and religion, religion can inspire science, but when it comes to established fact we should follow evidence. Science can also speculate about things which are presently undetermined and untested, and develop a hypothesis or theory, in which case all possibilities should be explored, regardless if they have an atheist or a religions aura about them. So especially with things hypothesis which conjectures in areas about might what be possible, i think it is important for all possibilities to be explored and seen as possible, and where there is evidence, the evidence should not be ignored because they conflict with religions or atheism.
I am a little bit concerned, that scientists, due to their philosophical bent, might actually try ignore evidence that does not fit into the atheist viewpoints. If there is an unpredictability and free will, which seems to imply something metaphysical, and this is where the evidence leads, so be it. Science is driven by evidence and if the evidence leads to a metaphysical something or to god, well then we have to follow the evidence and lay aside or religious ideas when it comes to scientific research, whether our religious or philosophy is atheism, christianity, islam or anything else. Science is about evidence rather than about preconceived religous ideas. Religions can be fun and can be a nice inspiration, and it can be fun and beneficial to speculate about metaphysics and life, i dont have any problem with science testing religious ideas, but it is the evidence that shows the outcome.
I think scientists can be of a particular religion as is their own choice, but when it comes to evidence and research what is reality should be told by evidence.
This is more reason to vote for Obama who has for sanity on these issues. McCains positions are designed to help corporations, and basically screw the people. He supports regulations on the internet wherever it benefits big corporations. Only an idiot would call net nuetrality "regulation", but in McCains twisted mind it is, and he opposes it because it would help the people and assure their free speech rights, but it does not help corporations. Net nuetrality would in fact prohibit regulation of the internet by corporations, but he only sees corporations as having rights, people dont have rights, and McCain is elected by and only respond to corporations, people mean nothing to him , the only concern he and other republicans have about the people is to trick and lie to the people enough to make them think republicans care about them, when all their care about is corporations and the super rich. So something which takes away peoples freedom and gives more power to corporations (quasi-government) is not regulation, in McCains twisted mind.
His idea of "protecting children" means "lets censor the internet for consenting adults and arrest consenting adults for accessing porn of consenting adults". It is just another trick by republicans to take away more freedoms and rights from people, infringe on their free speech, and broaden their powers to incarcerate people for non violent non-crimes which hurt no one (pornography).
While I do not enjoy violent games the notions that this game will "ruin" the wii is absolutely absurd. Will users of the wii be forced to play the game? Of course not. If you dont like the game dont play it.
It is quite clear that this tracking indeed is search for which a warrant is required under the constitution. This is a type search which was not envisioned at the time the founders wrote the constitution and far more more dangerous and frightening than they likely imagined. They are spinning in their graves for certain. We are seeing grave risks to the very threat to our freedom by tyranny, worse than what the founders of the US had feared. The way everything people can do can be monitored tracked and then data mined would have shocked and deeply disturbed them if they were alive to see this. We should be very concerned about these dangerous trends.
Why can't they just support the legacy OpenGL API while providing a new OpenGL API at the same time? Usually you can just add new functions and features to the API without having to disturb whats already there. At worst they would need to simply include the new API in its own seperate library file, and just ship that alongside with the old library file. Thus you provide backwards support for old apps, while providing a new API for new apps. There is no reason backwards compatability should hold back development.
Perchlorates are highly toxic and can damage the body and are responsible for high rates of illness near facilities which used them. They can cause cancer I believe. They are component of rocket fuel. If this finding is true than it means mars would be particularly inhospitable to life. A big question would be, where did this perchlorate on mars come from, as well.
Yahoo did allow consumers to download DRM Less copies of songs they had purchased. But the monthly song rental service used DRM, but consumers would lose access to those soings if they had chosen to cancel that service, and knew it. The monthly service allows you to download unlimited songs, as long as you keep paying the monthly fee, you can still listen to them. You do not pay a per song fee for these and you dont own them, so if you stop paying the fee, you cant listen to them. This is not so with the songs you purchase outright, those have no DRM and you can listen to those even after you cancel.
The most serious materials scarcity issue which exists with transistors is not the silicon (of which there is plenty lying around), but rather, the trace metals which are used in the semiconductor doping. These trace metals are engangered and reserves of them will begin to be depleted in as soon as 10 years. Germanium for instance is predicted to become extinct in little as 10 years. The idea of a disposable semiconductor device is very disturbing as all trace metal material needs to be recycled and reused as we cannot afford to throw any of it away, we have finite trace metals to work with and it cannot be wasted like that. THere should be strict fines for throwing any electronic material into the trash due to the fact we will depleate not only trace metals, but iron and copper in only sixty years. We need to start recycling and reusing everything now or we will lead our selves to a dark ages because of our lack of foresight, when we run out of iron and copper and have not recycled and reused what we have already exrracted.
Your point is good. These are complex bills, very complex issues that have to be grappled with. Hopefully, Obama will come out and pledge to work to do away with telecom immunity, and explain more clearly why he voted for this bill, if indeed it place more restrictions on the wiretapping etc. Obviously he cannot vote for this bill out of a belief the immunity is good, the immunity he needs to denounce
It does make me mad that Obama would support this legislation and it undermines the principles he should be standing for. I do vote democrat but it is bothering that they seem to be eroding away their own support base by support republican ideas rather than differentiating themselves and actually supporting a free democratic society not trying to turn it into a police state. Pelosis idea of censoring the net was also very dissappointing. Of course the republicans are worse, but it is upsetting because we need a party to oppose the agenda which seems to be aimed at turning us into a police state. I would still vote democrat just to help keep Mccain out of power which would be worse than obama. Obama has made committments on the net neutrality which mccain has not done. Voting for mccain, a third party or not voting will do far more damage than voting for Obama, that i am sure of, so I will vote for obama and democrats which on the whole are better than the republicans by far. To not do so would be suicidal, i cant stand the idea of 4 more years of neocon war faring, slash education and social well being, damage the environment, etc, etc.
Another thing is, if people are fed up with the two party duopoly, maybe its time to look at a porportional or preferential election system, like Instant runoff voting so you can rank your candidates in order of preference and dont end up throwing away your vote on candidates who cant win and allowing another Bush to get elected.
There is little doubt that obama is a lot better than mccain, even though he is not perfect. Mccain would be a total disaster at least there are some positive things about Obama. Voting for mccain would be suicide, and pretty much we can be assured with our first past the post dual party system it will be mccain or obama, obama is far better. Any liberal who votes for a third party is just going to help mccain win and we will end up in a far worse situation than with obama. So we need to look at who is overall best, just because obama isnt perfect we should not help get mccain elected which any liberal who goes third party or does not vote will do.
Instant runoff would give people the confidence to vote in a third party but have their vote fall back to the democrats if the third party cant win. It would actually cause third parties to become more prominent and encourage people to vote on principle rather than popularity. But we dont have that system yet so we do need to vote for obama so we end up with someone who is overall better than mccain. This goes for all the congressional races as well, where democrats need a lot of help to win and do have an overall better platform, although not perfect.
I am pretty sure XMLHttpRequest is a browser side feature, having written javascript code that runs on the browser that uses this feature, I am pretty sure this is the case. XMLHttpRequest allows you to have the browser start a connection to the server, for whatever reason, to fetch more data after a user generated event or something.
IE has actually provided several critical technologies which have expanded and improved the capabilities of the environment, including XMLHttpRequest without which interactive apps today would be rather difficult. If anything these technologies have actually helped grab back some ground from flash for the browser. Now, if w3c does not recognise these valuable and very important APIs, thats the w3c's problem! Stop blaming Microsoft for taking initiative and implementing features that are badly needed because W3C is too stupid and slow. If w3c doesnt implement these features it only has itself to blame! There is NOTHING stopping w3c from including these APIs in its standards, and they are so useful there is no reason not to. I am actually not an admirer of IE due to its closed source nature, I use firefox, but without a doubt, IE has made several improvements that have been picked up by firefox that really have expanded the versatility of the web tremendously and that without them we would not be seeing todays interactive web apps. w3c is too slow and it is too ignorant of the importance in providing highly flexible mechanism that gives as much control and capability as possible to the web developer. So limiting oneself to the w3c standards would greatly damage and limit your apps capabilities.
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Unless touchsmart has X compatability it would be of little help to Linux. the last thing Linux needs is an incompatable UI system and fragmentation in the UI system. This would only create more confusion and a bigger mess. X is a well defined standard and its best for backwards compatability to stick with that.
It is quite pathetic that the United States is behind nearly every other advanced country in developing advanced public transportation systems. The state of public transportation in many parts of the country is simply awful. While we know we need to conserve and every time we turn the ignition on the car we lurch closer to total economic peak oil disaster and climate chaos, the US is unable to change its wasteful, gas guzzling drive 20 miles to work ways. Instead of doing the environmentally responsible thing to future generations and to our own well being, by developing clean new non fossil fuel sources of energy, and conservation, public transportation, etc, instead we have greedy republicans who want to threaten our coastal ecosystems and oceans with ruin for oil drilling, which will not reduce gas prices at all and which does subject the fragile coastal ecosystems and many endangered species with great harm. Anyone who says that oil drilling offshore is safe or will lower gas prices knows absolutely nothing what they are talking about or are lying. It is an outright lie and there is another sinister evil agenda at work here. Republicans mostly known its a lie but only tow the oil company line so they can get oil company donations for their campaigns, and to make it look like they are doing something when they are doing nothing. Oil drilling does not solve our energy problems and does nothing to lower prices but it distracts people from looking at alternative energy sources and conservation which is what we need to be doing. Offshore oil drilling will actually, since it uses resources and money that could otherwise be used for renewables, could lead to higher gas prices. The oil companies do NOT want lower gas prices because they want to make a profit. Oil companies are the only ones who would benefit from a little bit more profit but the total amount of oil in currently offlimits areas is only the amount we use in 2 years in the US, is insufficient to have any real effect on gas prices. Yet offshore oil drilling will ruin coastal ecosystems and beaches. It has been found that a rig off california has been leaking PCBs into the pacific for years. Every major hurricane can cause an inevitable spill from oil rigs, over 700,000 gallons were spilled from oil rigs after Katrina. Texas beaches are littered with tarballs from oil company spills, trash, barrels and refuse. Loggerhead turtles have been found dead after having eaten tarballs. Very high levels of mercury have been found covering the seafloor off alabama from pollutants released by oil rigs. This has resulting in astronomical levels of mercury in grouper. Whales and dolphins are disoriented and beached by seismic testing for oil exploration. it only takes one spill to completely ruin beaches and the chance of that is only increased by oil drilling. The US has 3% of the worlds oil but uses 25% and that is mostly due to the fact that we have horrible urban planning, instead of placing people near where they work, or encourage them to use bikes, walks or use public transportation. We could save more oil from a few conservation measures than we ever could get from offshore oil drilling. I have used public transportation in a part of the country where it is terribly inefficient. it is almost like you are being punished for using it and trying to help the environment. It is very frustrating to see someone who thinks they are a hot shot drive by in a hummer, like they are trying to keep you from saving the planet and undo any good you are trying to do. We really ought to ban the hummers, require 35 mpg minimum fuelstandards by 2010 and build public transportation, instead of ruin coastal ecosystems and threaten whales and dolphins so a few fat cat oil companies can make a little more profit. It is also very frustrating to see billions invested into massive highway projects instead of more efficient public transportation systems that both use less oil and keep our cities more liveable by reducing exhaust and using less space. We really need to get our act together and start moving to renewables and conserving rather than polluting this planet with toxic oil company wastes and offshore oil platforms spilling heavy metals and carcinogens into the water and beaching whales and dolphins.
I think Reiser should be given access to a computer in his jail cell so he can continue to develop ReiserFS
This is truly sad disturbing and depressing news. This sort of mentality, where anything that doesnt make instant profits is ignored and is unfunded, is what is killing us. Without research, pure research into different technologies and sciences which do not necessarily have any apparent immediate commercial value, many technologies will remain undeveloped, it is harmful in the long run since many of the most profitable and commercially viable technologies that come from research that has no apparent immediate profit value. Its this greedy shortsighted mentality that is our undoing in so many areas and why it seems we are doomed. Not only in this instance but in regard to oil dependance, alternative energy and so many other things. This is sort of a republican mentality about things, very shortsighted, no tolerance for science, everything somehow has to make profits for corporate CEO yachts, even if it pre-empts future developments which corporations used to make their wealth, like the transistor.
that would be interesting if you turn a GPU into a general purpose CPU. That way they would have a CPU without having to invest much additional resources into developing it, using the same core for both. But I have no idea if that is possible. It is likely that the GPU actually has less processing power than a current CPU, so it might not be nearly as fast as regular CPUs. It could work for a low end market or embedded. The ISA though may be designed around 3D graphics operations and perhaps you wouldnt have the needed arithmatic and logic needed, but there could be a way to use graphics operations operations to do general calculations, who knows.
there was such a socket for some time, the Socket 7, around the time of the AMD K6 generation. You could put most intel and amd cpus of the era into the same motherboard.
How can someone own rights on an ISA? Its like saying your own the rights to Esperanto and you going to demand licence fees from everyone who uses it. Languages, conventions, communications protocols etc are not copyrightable and patentable for good reason, only particular works made with them or implementations of them are. An ISA is basically a language or a protocol and the legal consensus is these are not copyrightable, and probably not patentable. We have so many independant implementations of languages and APIs already that are proof of this. In fact very little would work and progress on computer technology would have been stalled if such barriers had existed. From what I can see Nvidia does not have a restriction against an independant implementation of an ISA, and if there is any such restriction, its time it is legally challenged.
i think when hydrogen burns, it gets converted back into water. You probably would want to use non potable water for this as well, rather than cut into potable supplies.
yes, about what is unproven and beyond the realm of the observable, we have no idea if there could be other realms, other universes, if we have had past lives, if we are in fact metaphysical beings, etc, so for these areas really all theories should be on the table and people can make a personal choice about which one they like best but really shouldnt tell others that their theory is something everyone else has to believe. If science as well leads in the direction of metaphysics, we should not discard the evidence because it contradicts the atheist view.
I should add that when it comes to theoritical physics and expoloration, we should not limit ourselves strictly to materialistic or atheistic viewpoints, but also should explore possibilities that there is a metaphysical components to something. So if we have theories which point to the possibility of a metaphysical component, these should not be thrown out because they conflict with someones atheistic viewpoint. Until we have a clear answer and something that is provable with emperical evidence, we really should consider all possibilities regarding something, and even afterwards continue to test theories and laws, not assuming they are entirely correct. I do not believe, in a strict seperation of science and religion, religion can inspire science, but when it comes to established fact we should follow evidence. Science can also speculate about things which are presently undetermined and untested, and develop a hypothesis or theory, in which case all possibilities should be explored, regardless if they have an atheist or a religions aura about them. So especially with things hypothesis which conjectures in areas about might what be possible, i think it is important for all possibilities to be explored and seen as possible, and where there is evidence, the evidence should not be ignored because they conflict with religions or atheism.
I am a little bit concerned, that scientists, due to their philosophical bent, might actually try ignore evidence that does not fit into the atheist viewpoints. If there is an unpredictability and free will, which seems to imply something metaphysical, and this is where the evidence leads, so be it. Science is driven by evidence and if the evidence leads to a metaphysical something or to god, well then we have to follow the evidence and lay aside or religious ideas when it comes to scientific research, whether our religious or philosophy is atheism, christianity, islam or anything else. Science is about evidence rather than about preconceived religous ideas. Religions can be fun and can be a nice inspiration, and it can be fun and beneficial to speculate about metaphysics and life, i dont have any problem with science testing religious ideas, but it is the evidence that shows the outcome.
I think scientists can be of a particular religion as is their own choice, but when it comes to evidence and research what is reality should be told by evidence.
This is more reason to vote for Obama who has for sanity on these issues. McCains positions are designed to help corporations, and basically screw the people. He supports regulations on the internet wherever it benefits big corporations. Only an idiot would call net nuetrality "regulation", but in McCains twisted mind it is, and he opposes it because it would help the people and assure their free speech rights, but it does not help corporations. Net nuetrality would in fact prohibit regulation of the internet by corporations, but he only sees corporations as having rights, people dont have rights, and McCain is elected by and only respond to corporations, people mean nothing to him , the only concern he and other republicans have about the people is to trick and lie to the people enough to make them think republicans care about them, when all their care about is corporations and the super rich. So something which takes away peoples freedom and gives more power to corporations (quasi-government) is not regulation, in McCains twisted mind.
His idea of "protecting children" means "lets censor the internet for consenting adults and arrest consenting adults for accessing porn of consenting adults". It is just another trick by republicans to take away more freedoms and rights from people, infringe on their free speech, and broaden their powers to incarcerate people for non violent non-crimes which hurt no one (pornography).
While I do not enjoy violent games the notions that this game will "ruin" the wii is absolutely absurd. Will users of the wii be forced to play the game? Of course not. If you dont like the game dont play it.
It is quite clear that this tracking indeed is search for which a warrant is required under the constitution. This is a type search which was not envisioned at the time the founders wrote the constitution and far more more dangerous and frightening than they likely imagined. They are spinning in their graves for certain. We are seeing grave risks to the very threat to our freedom by tyranny, worse than what the founders of the US had feared. The way everything people can do can be monitored tracked and then data mined would have shocked and deeply disturbed them if they were alive to see this. We should be very concerned about these dangerous trends.
Why can't they just support the legacy OpenGL API while providing a new OpenGL API at the same time? Usually you can just add new functions and features to the API without having to disturb whats already there. At worst they would need to simply include the new API in its own seperate library file, and just ship that alongside with the old library file. Thus you provide backwards support for old apps, while providing a new API for new apps. There is no reason backwards compatability should hold back development.
Perchlorates are highly toxic and can damage the body and are responsible for high rates of illness near facilities which used them. They can cause cancer I believe. They are component of rocket fuel. If this finding is true than it means mars would be particularly inhospitable to life. A big question would be, where did this perchlorate on mars come from, as well.
Yahoo did allow consumers to download DRM Less copies of songs they had purchased. But the monthly song rental service used DRM, but consumers would lose access to those soings if they had chosen to cancel that service, and knew it. The monthly service allows you to download unlimited songs, as long as you keep paying the monthly fee, you can still listen to them. You do not pay a per song fee for these and you dont own them, so if you stop paying the fee, you cant listen to them. This is not so with the songs you purchase outright, those have no DRM and you can listen to those even after you cancel.
The most serious materials scarcity issue which exists with transistors is not the silicon (of which there is plenty lying around), but rather, the trace metals which are used in the semiconductor doping. These trace metals are engangered and reserves of them will begin to be depleted in as soon as 10 years. Germanium for instance is predicted to become extinct in little as 10 years. The idea of a disposable semiconductor device is very disturbing as all trace metal material needs to be recycled and reused as we cannot afford to throw any of it away, we have finite trace metals to work with and it cannot be wasted like that. THere should be strict fines for throwing any electronic material into the trash due to the fact we will depleate not only trace metals, but iron and copper in only sixty years. We need to start recycling and reusing everything now or we will lead our selves to a dark ages because of our lack of foresight, when we run out of iron and copper and have not recycled and reused what we have already exrracted.
Since temperature is a property of matter, space has no temperature, so the article header is a bit misleading.
Your point is good. These are complex bills, very complex issues that have to be grappled with. Hopefully, Obama will come out and pledge to work to do away with telecom immunity, and explain more clearly why he voted for this bill, if indeed it place more restrictions on the wiretapping etc. Obviously he cannot vote for this bill out of a belief the immunity is good, the immunity he needs to denounce
It does make me mad that Obama would support this legislation and it undermines the principles he should be standing for. I do vote democrat but it is bothering that they seem to be eroding away their own support base by support republican ideas rather than differentiating themselves and actually supporting a free democratic society not trying to turn it into a police state. Pelosis idea of censoring the net was also very dissappointing. Of course the republicans are worse, but it is upsetting because we need a party to oppose the agenda which seems to be aimed at turning us into a police state. I would still vote democrat just to help keep Mccain out of power which would be worse than obama. Obama has made committments on the net neutrality which mccain has not done. Voting for mccain, a third party or not voting will do far more damage than voting for Obama, that i am sure of, so I will vote for obama and democrats which on the whole are better than the republicans by far. To not do so would be suicidal, i cant stand the idea of 4 more years of neocon war faring, slash education and social well being, damage the environment, etc, etc.
Another thing is, if people are fed up with the two party duopoly, maybe its time to look at a porportional or preferential election system, like Instant runoff voting so you can rank your candidates in order of preference and dont end up throwing away your vote on candidates who cant win and allowing another Bush to get elected.
There is little doubt that obama is a lot better than mccain, even though he is not perfect. Mccain would be a total disaster at least there are some positive things about Obama. Voting for mccain would be suicide, and pretty much we can be assured with our first past the post dual party system it will be mccain or obama, obama is far better. Any liberal who votes for a third party is just going to help mccain win and we will end up in a far worse situation than with obama. So we need to look at who is overall best, just because obama isnt perfect we should not help get mccain elected which any liberal who goes third party or does not vote will do.
Instant runoff would give people the confidence to vote in a third party but have their vote fall back to the democrats if the third party cant win. It would actually cause third parties to become more prominent and encourage people to vote on principle rather than popularity. But we dont have that system yet so we do need to vote for obama so we end up with someone who is overall better than mccain. This goes for all the congressional races as well, where democrats need a lot of help to win and do have an overall better platform, although not perfect.
Today security around the president is so much better than it used to be, the risk is not as great as it once was.
One application might be, oh say, keeping the a message window scrolled down in an IM application. I am sure many other cases where this is important
I am pretty sure XMLHttpRequest is a browser side feature, having written javascript code that runs on the browser that uses this feature, I am pretty sure this is the case. XMLHttpRequest allows you to have the browser start a connection to the server, for whatever reason, to fetch more data after a user generated event or something.
IE has actually provided several critical technologies which have expanded and improved the capabilities of the environment, including XMLHttpRequest without which interactive apps today would be rather difficult. If anything these technologies have actually helped grab back some ground from flash for the browser. Now, if w3c does not recognise these valuable and very important APIs, thats the w3c's problem! Stop blaming Microsoft for taking initiative and implementing features that are badly needed because W3C is too stupid and slow. If w3c doesnt implement these features it only has itself to blame! There is NOTHING stopping w3c from including these APIs in its standards, and they are so useful there is no reason not to. I am actually not an admirer of IE due to its closed source nature, I use firefox, but without a doubt, IE has made several improvements that have been picked up by firefox that really have expanded the versatility of the web tremendously and that without them we would not be seeing todays interactive web apps. w3c is too slow and it is too ignorant of the importance in providing highly flexible mechanism that gives as much control and capability as possible to the web developer. So limiting oneself to the w3c standards would greatly damage and limit your apps capabilities.