The iphone is very pertinent. Because it happens to be much better than the compeition it is becoming a defacto monopoly. At some presumably the eu will make apple offer IE on it and open up the app store to all comers? I know if i was MS i'd would be having my lobbyists pointing this out rather forcefully.
It's somehwat ironic that safari is by far the worst thing about the iphone.
Actually that was one of the things we were looking at (without the electric arcing); there ARE very few low angle impact craters. There are a range of reasons but the largest is that an impact crater looks round even for pretty low impact angles. It has to be like 75 degrees from perpendicular to show any serious deformation (IIRC). On mars you also have an atmosphere to deal with and any body coming in at that kind of angle will just skip off, so only the ones relatively close to perpendicular will get through.
I am not. I am however frustrated by the singular lack of real progress that anyone's made in the 15 years since I was involved. Most of the Spirit/Opportunity mission seems to be mainly about confirming stuff that we were already pretty sure of, plus getting a few more pictures.
Which is not to say driving a buggy around mars is not pretty cool, but it's not really going anywhere.
Actually the final year of my space science degree almost entirely revolved around martian geology and impact cratering (you wanna know how many craters per square km there are in amazonis planitia? or the southern highlands? TS, go count em yourself...)
Sorry, I thought we'd already established that there was water on mars? You know, those giant ice cap things? The streams running down the slopes? Why do we have to be amazed and surprised each time we get a new picture of it?
I'm really failing to understand the priorities when it comes to exploration of Mars. All missions are now touted as searching for either water or "life", presumably to garner a bit of publicity in order to keep their funding. We must by now be 100% confident there is H20 there now, and 99.98% certain that there is no, and never has been, life. Also if we're wrong about the 0.02% we can be 100% confident that it is at least 2 billion years since it last metabolized whatever it is that hypothetical martians metabolize and therefore will have no ascertainable impact on, well, anything. Even geological literature will be pretty much unmoved at this point.
Anyway, the point is; can't we start doing some interesting stuff on Mars now? Send some monkeys up there or something?
Diddums. Tax is a zero sum game, it might hurt you but it's not going to hurt the economy overmuch: tax goes up, public spending goes up. For lower tax regimes than the US you might want to limit your search to Africa and some of the more war-torn regions of the planet. As a rule of thumb, anywhere with ADSL is going to be more expensive than where you are now.
That's funny, I got to exactly the same point and did exactly the same thing. Very disappointing, even the graphics aren't that good. Glad I only paid $3 for it, presumably that was during one of their price testing deals.
While you're thinking, here are some actual facts.
There are about 10 million school children in the UK who trump your single case.
There is no plausible evidence. The only paper to have found a link was based on just 12 subjects and the beliefs of their parents.
I have a small baby, were she to catch measles from one of the unvaccinated luddites wandering around the outcome for her would be much worse than for your unfortunate nephew.
I feel sorry for your nephew, but you have to accept that autism is naturally occuring and that there isn't always someone you can pin the blame on.
"Liberal"? I think you need to buy a dictionary. Lowering the wealthy would be Bolshevism. Liberalism is more about allowing personal freedom, kind of the opposite of Communism. Funny what decades of populist right-wing propaganda have done for the meaning of the word.
Because the services cost money to run and are free to use.
For most websites advertising is not just another revenue stream, it's their ONLY revenue stream. Servers and bandwidth cost money, and if you're doing something right, lots of money. If you're doing something right with video it's a heinous amount of money. Having a successful website doesn't qualify you for instant magic payments, you have to go earn the money somehow.
It's amazing that so many bright people who work with technology just don't get this concept (perhaps they live mainly in academia, where you do get magic payments)
The subscription revenue model died out five years ago. It didn't work. It turns out most people prefer to have their content for free and see a few ads rather than pay $30 a year for no ads. I have seen sites that went the wrong direction (ad funded to subscription only) and they either very quickly reverted or died. Traffic dropped by 90-99%, revenue by 50-75%. They can make it in some very specialised sectors (eg finance, nautical weather) but by and large it's a dud model.
For example do you have Word setup to access a database or something ridiculous like that?
Erm... you have worked in a real business haven't you? After creating "Out of Order" and christmas party notices in Word Art, mail-merge is probably the single most used function that word has.
TFA's FA (TFA is just blog spam) says it's $30m revenue. Which blows my mind. $30m turnover and it's not yet profitable?! Christ, how much has he lost already? And more to the point where does it all go? No wonder he won't open the books to anyone.
I wouldn't be surprised if China's markets are actually freer than most of Europe's markets
buh? Based on what? And why Europe specifically? The OECD country that gets shit most at WTO meetings is the US, for constantly putting protectionist tariffs on imports. cf steel, cotton, sugar, ethanol, etc, etc
I wish ID cards were a political suicide pill. I really don't understand why both main parties are pushing ahead with them come what may. It's ridiculously expensive, impossible to enforce and hugely unpopular, so whats in it for them??
the savings [to consumers] in the United States alone could easily exceed the cost of supporting software development
Capitalist economics doesn't work like that. Money that consumers don't spend doesn't contribute to GDP, but money they do spend does, and GDP is the magic number (remember, we're all happier when the numbers go up).
This highlights why OSS won't be a pillar of Obama's spending spree. Microsoft sell software made by developers they pay and these developers then spend their pay on other software (say). This moves money round the economy continuously and makes the GDP look great. Paying a developer to create a free piece of software is effectively a one off payment and doesn't contribute to GDP much (it mainly increases coffee consumption), in fact all it does really is inflate government spending/borrowing.
The end result for the user is clearly better in the second case, but better for the "economy" in the first. If you want the government to choose what's better for the user at the expense of the "economy", well, I guess you'd better move to Canada or one of those other commie countries cos it won't happen in the US of A.
How so? Passwords are just obscure strings, as are public/private keys. If someone knows what the string is it's no longer secure. A OTP is just an obscure algorithm to generate passwords, etc, etc, etc...
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They couldn't make ships that would routinely survive the antarctic sea until about 1750. How could they be be maps of antarctica in 1500?
It's somehwat ironic that safari is by far the worst thing about the iphone.
Actually that was one of the things we were looking at (without the electric arcing); there ARE very few low angle impact craters. There are a range of reasons but the largest is that an impact crater looks round even for pretty low impact angles. It has to be like 75 degrees from perpendicular to show any serious deformation (IIRC). On mars you also have an atmosphere to deal with and any body coming in at that kind of angle will just skip off, so only the ones relatively close to perpendicular will get through.
Which is not to say driving a buggy around mars is not pretty cool, but it's not really going anywhere.
Actually the final year of my space science degree almost entirely revolved around martian geology and impact cratering (you wanna know how many craters per square km there are in amazonis planitia? or the southern highlands? TS, go count em yourself...)
So anyway, bite me.
Sorry, I thought we'd already established that there was water on mars? You know, those giant ice cap things? The streams running down the slopes? Why do we have to be amazed and surprised each time we get a new picture of it?
I'm really failing to understand the priorities when it comes to exploration of Mars. All missions are now touted as searching for either water or "life", presumably to garner a bit of publicity in order to keep their funding. We must by now be 100% confident there is H20 there now, and 99.98% certain that there is no, and never has been, life. Also if we're wrong about the 0.02% we can be 100% confident that it is at least 2 billion years since it last metabolized whatever it is that hypothetical martians metabolize and therefore will have no ascertainable impact on, well, anything. Even geological literature will be pretty much unmoved at this point.
Anyway, the point is; can't we start doing some interesting stuff on Mars now? Send some monkeys up there or something?
Diddums. Tax is a zero sum game, it might hurt you but it's not going to hurt the economy overmuch: tax goes up, public spending goes up. For lower tax regimes than the US you might want to limit your search to Africa and some of the more war-torn regions of the planet. As a rule of thumb, anywhere with ADSL is going to be more expensive than where you are now.
You are doing something that it's not designed for and then complaining that it's broken?
That's funny, I got to exactly the same point and did exactly the same thing. Very disappointing, even the graphics aren't that good. Glad I only paid $3 for it, presumably that was during one of their price testing deals.
Surely apple are the complete opposite of that? They have like 3 products...
and your evidence for a link is....
While you're thinking, here are some actual facts.
I feel sorry for your nephew, but you have to accept that autism is naturally occuring and that there isn't always someone you can pin the blame on.
In practice communism is about as close to that ideal as the GOP is to invading Israel and giving the land back to the palestinians.
"Liberal"? I think you need to buy a dictionary. Lowering the wealthy would be Bolshevism. Liberalism is more about allowing personal freedom, kind of the opposite of Communism. Funny what decades of populist right-wing propaganda have done for the meaning of the word.
And how is this offtopic? Mods on crack? High on RMS?
How is this a troll? Mods on crack? High on Stallman?
Because the services cost money to run and are free to use.
For most websites advertising is not just another revenue stream, it's their ONLY revenue stream. Servers and bandwidth cost money, and if you're doing something right, lots of money. If you're doing something right with video it's a heinous amount of money. Having a successful website doesn't qualify you for instant magic payments, you have to go earn the money somehow.
It's amazing that so many bright people who work with technology just don't get this concept (perhaps they live mainly in academia, where you do get magic payments)
The subscription revenue model died out five years ago. It didn't work. It turns out most people prefer to have their content for free and see a few ads rather than pay $30 a year for no ads. I have seen sites that went the wrong direction (ad funded to subscription only) and they either very quickly reverted or died. Traffic dropped by 90-99%, revenue by 50-75%. They can make it in some very specialised sectors (eg finance, nautical weather) but by and large it's a dud model.
For example do you have Word setup to access a database or something ridiculous like that?
Erm... you have worked in a real business haven't you? After creating "Out of Order" and christmas party notices in Word Art, mail-merge is probably the single most used function that word has.
TFA's FA (TFA is just blog spam) says it's $30m revenue. Which blows my mind. $30m turnover and it's not yet profitable?! Christ, how much has he lost already? And more to the point where does it all go? No wonder he won't open the books to anyone.
I wouldn't be surprised if China's markets are actually freer than most of Europe's markets
buh? Based on what? And why Europe specifically? The OECD country that gets shit most at WTO meetings is the US, for constantly putting protectionist tariffs on imports. cf steel, cotton, sugar, ethanol, etc, etc
The UK already has biometric passports, though the fingerprint and iris scan info is voluntary (currently).
http://www.ips.gov.uk/passport/about-biometric-why.asp
I wish ID cards were a political suicide pill. I really don't understand why both main parties are pushing ahead with them come what may. It's ridiculously expensive, impossible to enforce and hugely unpopular, so whats in it for them??
the savings [to consumers] in the United States alone could easily exceed the cost of supporting software development
Capitalist economics doesn't work like that. Money that consumers don't spend doesn't contribute to GDP, but money they do spend does, and GDP is the magic number (remember, we're all happier when the numbers go up).
This highlights why OSS won't be a pillar of Obama's spending spree. Microsoft sell software made by developers they pay and these developers then spend their pay on other software (say). This moves money round the economy continuously and makes the GDP look great. Paying a developer to create a free piece of software is effectively a one off payment and doesn't contribute to GDP much (it mainly increases coffee consumption), in fact all it does really is inflate government spending/borrowing.
The end result for the user is clearly better in the second case, but better for the "economy" in the first. If you want the government to choose what's better for the user at the expense of the "economy", well, I guess you'd better move to Canada or one of those other commie countries cos it won't happen in the US of A.
Is that not quicklime? and does that not react explosively on contact with water?
Only a very tiny percentage of Microsoft's customers read this site. I'd wager that a significantly larger percentage of diskeeper's do.
How so? Passwords are just obscure strings, as are public/private keys. If someone knows what the string is it's no longer secure. A OTP is just an obscure algorithm to generate passwords, etc, etc, etc...
Ah, once you go outside computers it comes down to semantics; what does "security" actually mean? It depends on the situation and implementation..