My 24" monitor is roughly 14x the size my Galaxy S4.
So yeah, I refer to that as a "postage stamp". A very NICE postage stamp. But still.
I get what you're saying about tablets and add-on keyboards. It's still somewhat at-odds with the fact that they're pushing this at iPhone/etc users as well.
Seriously? After years of 20+" monitors at high resolution, who the hell is going to want to REALLY use Office on a little postage-stamp phone screen? With an on-screen keyboard no less?
Maybe I'm missing something. But do people HONESTLY think anyone is going to be anything remotely resembling productive building documents that way?
over here in Canada it's not the Muslims bitching and whining, it's the Jews (omg! anti-Semitic!!) - they use hate speech laws to prevent people learning of their ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by threatening media organisations.
Muslim countries didn't trump up charges and go after Assange. Muslim countries didn't jail Manning. Muslim countries aren't after Snowden. Muslim countries didn't jail Drake, Kiriakou, and whistleblowers who exposed the illegal activity of our governments.
Turn your bloody TV off and stop drinking the anti-muslim propaganda you're being fed to try and turn you into a 'useful idiot'.
No, they just have guys break in, kidnap him, and then film them cutting off his head with a letter opener. All while talking about how great Allah is. And they kill the women he raped for having sex outside of marriage.
What is being done, currently, to get the US back into the rare earths mining market?
One of the major issues currently is that most rare earths are "contaminated" with Thorium. Is any work being done with the cooperation of the EPA to reduce regulatory burdens and possibly stockpile this potentially useful nuclear fuel?
What it DOES do is helps protect against every dumb idea with a lousy, insufficient, badly mangled data set.
Toss out 95% Confidence and you get assorted idiocies like flat earth, intelligent design and particle accelerators causing black holes.
When you're doing science, ESPECIALLY science in a field where there's the potential for massive investment and massive repercussions when you get shit wrong (like climate science), you want to make SURE you're right. Not just HOPE you're right.
Otherwise, you could conceivably kill a lot of people with your fuckup.
No. The first Amendment guarantees freedom of speech.
Separation of Church and State doesn't violate this. It's simply saying that the state CANNOT *subsidize* your right to religious speech. Nor can it quash your attempts to do so at a personal level. It's just under no obligation to be out-of-pocket to provide a venue.
I could easily see 'manual drive' roads cropping up once automation takes over, roads that are built only for fun and interesting driving rather than the functional roads that end up being fun by accident of on account of the terrain it was built on.
NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN
The only way such things would be built would be with government money. They're not going to ignore the existence of a current thoroughfare just to build "fun roads".
The thing is, driverless trains have a more or less unobstructed right-of-way. This makes it VERY easy to avoid obstacles. And, if it DOES hit something (jackass on the crosswalk, jackass dodging the gates, etc), it weighs in at least an order of magnitude more than the object it's hitting. Meaning catastrophic damage (for its own passengers at least) is kept to a minimum.
Automobiles...don't have any such right of way. Avoiding obstacles, especially in a malfunctioning vehicle isn't necessarily straightforward, and most collisions are with other objects of roughly equivalent mass.
There will be car error, but let's hope we can minimize that to almost zero. I doubt we will get rid of accidents entirely. Hopefully those accidents will be less deadly though.
Hope. This is kinda where the argument FOR this sort of thing fall down. We *hope* it'll fix the problem. Realistically, nobody knows if it's possible, or even plausible. But hey! Let's do it anyhow!
So, essentially, you're trying to sell it as a "magic fix".
And you said it yourself. "You're not going to find a magic fix".
No. 40-minute 5 mile is their standard. I've never met a soldier who can run that fast.
Huh? That's 8 minutes a mile. The standard PT-test 2 mile run is around 16 minutes for someone in their late teens and early 20's.
As for 5 minute miles (2 miles in 10 minutes)? I've known a couple soldiers that could. But these were guys who were built for running, to the point they actually scored lower in the pushup and situp tests than average.
The fastest I EVER got was 2 miles in 13. Of course, I was over in Korea at the time and spent the next 20 minutes gacking crap up outta my lungs.
If the military wasn't still using the idiotic BMI, they'd have almost NO weight issues.
But they've got a standard table of weight and height ratios, as well as tape lengths. This has been formulated against a prototypical 5'6" man with a mesomorphic body type. All they do is scale up and down. Unfortunately this makes several WRONG assumptions about the square/cube effect on human physiology, not to mention it assumes a universal sameness of lean muscle tissue versus skeletal type and other tissue mass.
Never mind that more than 2/3rds of people simply don't fit the body type standardized upon for the BMI calculations.
So you have guys with weightlifter physiques who are failing weigh ins and tape tests being assigned "remedial PT". Which only bulks them up MORE. Conversely, you have guys with "matchstick" physiques who are actually OVERWEIGHT if they're at their BMI-mandated weight. So they're just being told to "bulk up". Regardless of the fact that they simply CANNOT put on that type of muscle mass, and that they're actually HEALTHIER at a lower weight.
Even now, 20 years later, this sort of thing still irritates the crap outta me.
Yes, and the gov't will never see anything like the fanciful returns they expect from this tax. They're no doubt assuming that usage will remain at current levels -- or, worse, that its current rate of growth remains unchanged.
Exactly. They're figuring, at current usage, they'll get X-dollars.
However, if this move encourages the austerity measures I predict, they won't even see half of that.
Pretty much the same situation Chicago is in with their traffic light system.
They expected 90-100M from their traffic light scheme. So they budgeted like they already had it, and then spent it...
Now the traffic light system has only brought in about 40M, and the city fathers are collectively shitting bricks.
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After years of 20+" monitors at high resolution,
Because:
A) My tablet has higher resolution than your desktop monitor.
B) I can take my tablet to the coffee shop, on the bus, to meetings, while your desktop remains chained to your desk.
Not talking about tablets. Talking about why the fuck would anyone use this stuff on their phone.
With tablets, at least there's a use case there.
But on a phone?
Actually yeah.
Native resolution is one thing.
But the size of the screen is something else.
My 24" monitor is roughly 14x the size my Galaxy S4.
So yeah, I refer to that as a "postage stamp". A very NICE postage stamp. But still.
I get what you're saying about tablets and add-on keyboards. It's still somewhat at-odds with the fact that they're pushing this at iPhone/etc users as well.
"the cloud".
Silly buzzword for "renting space on someone's internet-connected VM".
Who the fuck would WANT TO?
Seriously? After years of 20+" monitors at high resolution, who the hell is going to want to REALLY use Office on a little postage-stamp phone screen? With an on-screen keyboard no less?
Maybe I'm missing something. But do people HONESTLY think anyone is going to be anything remotely resembling productive building documents that way?
Anything you read in a logbook, you can be sure that it is a true and faithful account.
Seriously? You believe that?
Maybe there still IS a market for bridges and ocean front property in Flagstaff, AZ.
over here in Canada it's not the Muslims bitching and whining, it's the Jews (omg! anti-Semitic!!) - they use hate speech laws to prevent people learning of their ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by threatening media organisations.
Muslim countries didn't trump up charges and go after Assange.
Muslim countries didn't jail Manning.
Muslim countries aren't after Snowden.
Muslim countries didn't jail Drake, Kiriakou, and whistleblowers who exposed the illegal activity of our governments.
Turn your bloody TV off and stop drinking the anti-muslim propaganda you're being fed to try and turn you into a 'useful idiot'.
No, they just have guys break in, kidnap him, and then film them cutting off his head with a letter opener. All while talking about how great Allah is.
And they kill the women he raped for having sex outside of marriage.
Not that I don't like a good angry screed every now and again. But how does this address the point I made?
(Hint: It doesn't.)
Seriously.
Why do they have to have a distinct browser for devs? What, exactly, can the Mozilla plugin architecture NOT support?
Building a separate browser simply increases the chance that you will introduce compatibility problems into the environment as both projects progress.
What is being done, currently, to get the US back into the rare earths mining market?
One of the major issues currently is that most rare earths are "contaminated" with Thorium. Is any work being done with the cooperation of the EPA to reduce regulatory burdens and possibly stockpile this potentially useful nuclear fuel?
Okay, now start watching the price of pretty much EVERYTHING rise, as the added costs of power in various industries trebles or quadruples.
If you think that you're just going to pay more on your power bill, you quite simply haven't looked at this issue AT ALL.
Do you even care about the size of your electricity bill... Mine is mainly an annoyance, it's like 10-15 USD / month.
Now treble or quadruple it. Then tell me about how "insignificant" it is.
Wind is neither very expensive nor environmentally damaging.
You need to read up.
Look at "bird and bat deaths".
Also look at land use issues. Problems with soil erosion on wind farms.
Need I go on?
Sure, 95% Confidence isn't a law of the universe.
What it DOES do is helps protect against every dumb idea with a lousy, insufficient, badly mangled data set.
Toss out 95% Confidence and you get assorted idiocies like flat earth, intelligent design and particle accelerators causing black holes.
When you're doing science, ESPECIALLY science in a field where there's the potential for massive investment and massive repercussions when you get shit wrong (like climate science), you want to make SURE you're right. Not just HOPE you're right.
Otherwise, you could conceivably kill a lot of people with your fuckup.
No. The first Amendment guarantees freedom of speech.
Separation of Church and State doesn't violate this. It's simply saying that the state CANNOT *subsidize* your right to religious speech. Nor can it quash your attempts to do so at a personal level. It's just under no obligation to be out-of-pocket to provide a venue.
Repeat after me.
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!
It's not a hard concept to grasp.
I could easily see 'manual drive' roads cropping up once automation takes over, roads that are built only for fun and interesting driving rather than the functional roads that end up being fun by accident of on account of the terrain it was built on.
NEVER
GOING
TO
HAPPEN
The only way such things would be built would be with government money.
They're not going to ignore the existence of a current thoroughfare just to build "fun roads".
The very idea is asinine.
The problem is fun is not part of SAFE driving.
And, yet another person willing to bend over and not even request a reach-around in their hurry to self-bugger for the false promise of "safety".
The thing is, driverless trains have a more or less unobstructed right-of-way. This makes it VERY easy to avoid obstacles. And, if it DOES hit something (jackass on the crosswalk, jackass dodging the gates, etc), it weighs in at least an order of magnitude more than the object it's hitting. Meaning catastrophic damage (for its own passengers at least) is kept to a minimum.
Automobiles...don't have any such right of way. Avoiding obstacles, especially in a malfunctioning vehicle isn't necessarily straightforward, and most collisions are with other objects of roughly equivalent mass.
There will be car error, but let's hope we can minimize that to almost zero. I doubt we will get rid of accidents entirely. Hopefully those accidents will be less deadly though.
Hope. This is kinda where the argument FOR this sort of thing fall down. We *hope* it'll fix the problem. Realistically, nobody knows if it's possible, or even plausible. But hey! Let's do it anyhow!
So, essentially, you're trying to sell it as a "magic fix".
And you said it yourself. "You're not going to find a magic fix".
The US government and NASA sit there with their collective thumbs up their collective asses.
No. 40-minute 5 mile is their standard. I've never met a soldier who can run that fast.
Huh? That's 8 minutes a mile. The standard PT-test 2 mile run is around 16 minutes for someone in their late teens and early 20's.
As for 5 minute miles (2 miles in 10 minutes)? I've known a couple soldiers that could. But these were guys who were built for running, to the point they actually scored lower in the pushup and situp tests than average.
The fastest I EVER got was 2 miles in 13. Of course, I was over in Korea at the time and spent the next 20 minutes gacking crap up outta my lungs.
If the military wasn't still using the idiotic BMI, they'd have almost NO weight issues.
But they've got a standard table of weight and height ratios, as well as tape lengths. This has been formulated against a prototypical 5'6" man with a mesomorphic body type. All they do is scale up and down. Unfortunately this makes several WRONG assumptions about the square/cube effect on human physiology, not to mention it assumes a universal sameness of lean muscle tissue versus skeletal type and other tissue mass.
Never mind that more than 2/3rds of people simply don't fit the body type standardized upon for the BMI calculations.
So you have guys with weightlifter physiques who are failing weigh ins and tape tests being assigned "remedial PT". Which only bulks them up MORE.
Conversely, you have guys with "matchstick" physiques who are actually OVERWEIGHT if they're at their BMI-mandated weight. So they're just being told to "bulk up". Regardless of the fact that they simply CANNOT put on that type of muscle mass, and that they're actually HEALTHIER at a lower weight.
Even now, 20 years later, this sort of thing still irritates the crap outta me.
Yes, and the gov't will never see anything like the fanciful returns they expect from this tax. They're no doubt assuming that usage will remain at current levels -- or, worse, that its current rate of growth remains unchanged.
Exactly. They're figuring, at current usage, they'll get X-dollars.
However, if this move encourages the austerity measures I predict, they won't even see half of that.
Pretty much the same situation Chicago is in with their traffic light system.
They expected 90-100M from their traffic light scheme. So they budgeted like they already had it, and then spent it...
Now the traffic light system has only brought in about 40M, and the city fathers are collectively shitting bricks.
You're talking over half a buck ($0.62) per gigabyte.
Think about this in terms of AT&T's DSL service. Where you're capped at 150GB (and it's ridiculously easy to exceed).
That's an additional $93 over and above the cost of the connection itself! The ISPs are currently selling connections for $20-40 a pop.
How, EXACTLY, are ISPs supposed to simply absorb these costs?
The correct answer is "they aren't".
So the additional costs are going to get kicked onto the end-user's bill.
Now imagine your $20 a month internet services suddenly becoming a $110 a month internet service.
This is a way to encourage people to NEVER use their internet service.
It's the sort of thing that can cripple the entire industry in that country.
Oh joy!