Awesome news, IMO. Maybe they're stop chasing shit that have no real expertise in anyway. Had they paid more attention to their core business Vista would have never happened.
It's equally plausible that they might only apply these moral, ethical, and altruistic ideals to their own as humans have done for generations and continue to do so. Many nations today still think nothing of viewing those who are not their own as less then themselves, be it for nationalistic or religious reasons. I think Hawking's idea isn't without merit. We simply can't assume they're here for good any more than we can assume they're here for ill. But to be safe, assume the worse. I can buy that. Besides, in all those sci-fi movies it's the guy who goes up to shake the alien's hand that dies first!:p
My problem is with comments like "deniers." I, for one, won't deny any evidence that proves the Earth is getting warmer. It's the causation that is completely muddied. Some scientists don't hold to the idea that man is the primary causation. They, in turn, get tuned out. That's not "scientific." And now we're seeing evidence the Earth is in fact not warming at the rates many thought it should have. The data is simply conflicting proving what all climatologist CAN agree on: Climate change must be looked at over TIME! It takes long periods of time to know what the climate is really doing AND in the history of Earth our mild climate is a statistical anomaly. It was disingenuous to politicize this issue.
Oh please. the IPCC documentation clearly showed they wanted to skew the way the data was presented. You can argue the data all you want but the "scientists" in this case had a clear agenda to stifle critics. Truth should withstand the scrutiny and that's the fact they lost site of. Now they're whining. I've said from the beginning that politics muddied the water on climate change and as it turned out it wasn't just politicians doing the politicking. My advice to the climatologists is: Go the hell back to the lab and stay out of the camera eye where you as a scientist will find you're just as human as the rest of us and will spread your 15minutes of fame all over your body like a faux tan!
Well that "small part" is the part that hurls rockets into Israel. Of all the containers at my grocery store, bug sprays are a small part. But they are the poisonous.
The problem with this phone, even it if it is the new iPhone, is that it's like every other phone. It's almost identical to my Instinct. Why would Apple make a phone to look like this? I realize Gizmodo offered up a decent explanation for how it aligns with Apple's product line but to me it looks like anyone BUT Apple designed. If it's real, I hope it's a prototype that get's a redesign. I don't own an iPhone but I like them and would like to see them with continued differentiation from other phones.
This is a point people want to gloss over. Blind hatred for Bush has fomented ignorance of the worse kind. Wanna know why we lag in education? Idiots who believe shit like this. These are the same ingrates who voted Nagin back into office. Frankly, they need another hurricane.
Get over it. We decided during the Tienanmen Square debacle that China can pretty much do what they want. Stop bitching because no one, absolutely NO one is going to call China on it with any kind of success. Any "compliance" on their part would simply be a diplomatic bone tossed to the world while they continued to do business as usual.
Too high? We're going to friggin' space...SPACE...friggin' SPACE! The thought you can strap someone's ass to a huge rocket and send them into SPACE and not have some catastrophic problems is stupid. The men and women of the space program accept that risk because they feel the reward is worth it. They could just as easily work at Subway. Ask test pilots if what they do is worth the risk. Better to die doing what you love than to choke on a Hotpocket sitting at a desk criticizing those who do.
It would be far better spent on NASA than on bailing out banks and GM. Now we have no more jobs than before AND we're in deeper debt than ever in our history. I'm well aware this started under Bush, BTW. The bailout was essentially his idea. Obama took it to a new level, both were wrong. You can't justify Obama based on Bush. Wrong is wrong inherently and it's consequences could give a rat's about who you voted for.
I agree. I think Obama is on a quest to quell national pride in this country and change the view the world has towards the U.S. (in his mind). This explains comments he makes alluding to the U.S. being no better than any other country. It also explains his nuke policy. So it's no surprise he wants to see us ratchet back our space program. I wouldn't doubt it's designed to give other country's a chance to move forward with their own and not feel as if they're in competition with us.
Okay but given that the vast majority of enterprise PC's are not using fancy GPU's and such that IE 9 is essentially tagging onto to bolster it's speed, they are in fact targeting home users. I can assure you it will be at least 2 years before another desktop refresh for many companies so yeah, enjoy your hardware raping IE 9. Sorry, I just fall on the side of make better code. I'm not sure making the browser the applications launcher is a good idea.
Exactly. And explain to me how a faster browser makes the "website" faster? Does this mean by using IE I can download faster? Wow! That's pretty cool! So my Speedtest.net scores should increase too! Forget about paying for faster bandwidth! Get the slowest speed, use IE 9, and pocket the savings! Marketing....Microsoft's primary business.
RTFA, it does find that they had a keen interest in stonewalling critics. So much for peer review, taking some criticism, and I dunno integrity?
Truth should be easy to defend. There's not much scientific integrity if you have to stifle descent.
Also FTFA: "Lawmakers stressed that their report — which was written after only a single day of oral testimony — did not cover all the issues and would not be as in-depth as the two other inquiries into the e-mail scandal that are still pending."
As Winston Wolfe said: "Let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet, Gentlemen."
Why did they need to be in it? I realize that doing something because you can and because you want to be the one with all the marbles and such is part of competition but at some point it becomes obsession. It did so with Microsoft a decade ago. Everything someone does they want to mimic. That's the idiocy, they mimic and essentially have from the beginning. They're the Chevrolet of technology.
They can't except that Google is just better at search. Period. Why can't they just accept that and stop stalking the search market? At some point you have to accept that the chic just doesn't dig ya and move on.
Really? Out of the box? Wanna take the Pepsi Challenge on that? I have some WIndows servers that are pretty secure but not because WIndows is. Rather, because they are firewalled to hell and have a third party IDS running on them that prevents even casual copying to or execution within any system space without red flagging it for permission.
This issue is, in fact, Windows "Server." I put server in quotes because frankly it's hard to take seriously any server that has IE and My Documents on the console default.
First IE9 taps your GPU to up it's speed. That negates the need to be lean and mean and continues the long-standing tradition at Microsoft of let the browser get fatter, we'll just use more resources. Now it's not going to support it's own OS that has the most market share. Frankly, the more stupid the ideas from Microsoft the more likely people will abandon the crack dealer.
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Awesome news, IMO. Maybe they're stop chasing shit that have no real expertise in anyway. Had they paid more attention to their core business Vista would have never happened.
It's equally plausible that they might only apply these moral, ethical, and altruistic ideals to their own as humans have done for generations and continue to do so. Many nations today still think nothing of viewing those who are not their own as less then themselves, be it for nationalistic or religious reasons. I think Hawking's idea isn't without merit. We simply can't assume they're here for good any more than we can assume they're here for ill. But to be safe, assume the worse. I can buy that. Besides, in all those sci-fi movies it's the guy who goes up to shake the alien's hand that dies first! :p
My problem is with comments like "deniers." I, for one, won't deny any evidence that proves the Earth is getting warmer. It's the causation that is completely muddied. Some scientists don't hold to the idea that man is the primary causation. They, in turn, get tuned out. That's not "scientific." And now we're seeing evidence the Earth is in fact not warming at the rates many thought it should have. The data is simply conflicting proving what all climatologist CAN agree on: Climate change must be looked at over TIME! It takes long periods of time to know what the climate is really doing AND in the history of Earth our mild climate is a statistical anomaly. It was disingenuous to politicize this issue.
Correction: The exposed emails clearly showed they wanted to skew the way the data was presented.
Oh please. the IPCC documentation clearly showed they wanted to skew the way the data was presented. You can argue the data all you want but the "scientists" in this case had a clear agenda to stifle critics. Truth should withstand the scrutiny and that's the fact they lost site of. Now they're whining. I've said from the beginning that politics muddied the water on climate change and as it turned out it wasn't just politicians doing the politicking. My advice to the climatologists is: Go the hell back to the lab and stay out of the camera eye where you as a scientist will find you're just as human as the rest of us and will spread your 15minutes of fame all over your body like a faux tan!
Well that "small part" is the part that hurls rockets into Israel. Of all the containers at my grocery store, bug sprays are a small part. But they are the poisonous.
The problem with this phone, even it if it is the new iPhone, is that it's like every other phone. It's almost identical to my Instinct. Why would Apple make a phone to look like this? I realize Gizmodo offered up a decent explanation for how it aligns with Apple's product line but to me it looks like anyone BUT Apple designed. If it's real, I hope it's a prototype that get's a redesign. I don't own an iPhone but I like them and would like to see them with continued differentiation from other phones.
This is a point people want to gloss over. Blind hatred for Bush has fomented ignorance of the worse kind. Wanna know why we lag in education? Idiots who believe shit like this. These are the same ingrates who voted Nagin back into office. Frankly, they need another hurricane.
Get over it. We decided during the Tienanmen Square debacle that China can pretty much do what they want. Stop bitching because no one, absolutely NO one is going to call China on it with any kind of success. Any "compliance" on their part would simply be a diplomatic bone tossed to the world while they continued to do business as usual.
Too high? We're going to friggin' space...SPACE...friggin' SPACE! The thought you can strap someone's ass to a huge rocket and send them into SPACE and not have some catastrophic problems is stupid. The men and women of the space program accept that risk because they feel the reward is worth it. They could just as easily work at Subway. Ask test pilots if what they do is worth the risk. Better to die doing what you love than to choke on a Hotpocket sitting at a desk criticizing those who do.
It would be far better spent on NASA than on bailing out banks and GM. Now we have no more jobs than before AND we're in deeper debt than ever in our history. I'm well aware this started under Bush, BTW. The bailout was essentially his idea. Obama took it to a new level, both were wrong. You can't justify Obama based on Bush. Wrong is wrong inherently and it's consequences could give a rat's about who you voted for.
I agree. I think Obama is on a quest to quell national pride in this country and change the view the world has towards the U.S. (in his mind). This explains comments he makes alluding to the U.S. being no better than any other country. It also explains his nuke policy. So it's no surprise he wants to see us ratchet back our space program. I wouldn't doubt it's designed to give other country's a chance to move forward with their own and not feel as if they're in competition with us.
Okay but given that the vast majority of enterprise PC's are not using fancy GPU's and such that IE 9 is essentially tagging onto to bolster it's speed, they are in fact targeting home users. I can assure you it will be at least 2 years before another desktop refresh for many companies so yeah, enjoy your hardware raping IE 9. Sorry, I just fall on the side of make better code. I'm not sure making the browser the applications launcher is a good idea.
Exactly. And explain to me how a faster browser makes the "website" faster? Does this mean by using IE I can download faster? Wow! That's pretty cool! So my Speedtest.net scores should increase too! Forget about paying for faster bandwidth! Get the slowest speed, use IE 9, and pocket the savings! Marketing....Microsoft's primary business.
RTFA, it does find that they had a keen interest in stonewalling critics. So much for peer review, taking some criticism, and I dunno integrity?
Truth should be easy to defend. There's not much scientific integrity if you have to stifle descent.
Also FTFA: "Lawmakers stressed that their report — which was written after only a single day of oral testimony — did not cover all the issues and would not be as in-depth as the two other inquiries into the e-mail scandal that are still pending."
As Winston Wolfe said: "Let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet, Gentlemen."
We should have shit-canned our trade with China when Tienanmen Square happened. Period. Everything after was hypocrisy.
PolygamousRanchKid, you are a sick bastard! Beer?
I always thought going down had been a big part of their strategy? :p
If this makes it into the courtroom the judge is the idiot.
Why did they need to be in it? I realize that doing something because you can and because you want to be the one with all the marbles and such is part of competition but at some point it becomes obsession. It did so with Microsoft a decade ago. Everything someone does they want to mimic. That's the idiocy, they mimic and essentially have from the beginning. They're the Chevrolet of technology.
They can't except that Google is just better at search. Period. Why can't they just accept that and stop stalking the search market? At some point you have to accept that the chic just doesn't dig ya and move on.
It's an Android/iPhone world now. WinMo and Palm are marginalized.
"Newer Windows are just as secure as Linux/BSD."
Really? Out of the box? Wanna take the Pepsi Challenge on that? I have some WIndows servers that are pretty secure but not because WIndows is. Rather, because they are firewalled to hell and have a third party IDS running on them that prevents even casual copying to or execution within any system space without red flagging it for permission.
This issue is, in fact, Windows "Server." I put server in quotes because frankly it's hard to take seriously any server that has IE and My Documents on the console default.
"SO you would rather the insurance companies be the only ones with unfettered access to your information?"
Yeah, that's exactly what he said. Are you high? We know he is, he admitted it.
"I don't exactly want just anybody to be able to get to MY data either... But I trust google with it a lot more than I trust my insurance company!"
You are frightening!
First IE9 taps your GPU to up it's speed. That negates the need to be lean and mean and continues the long-standing tradition at Microsoft of let the browser get fatter, we'll just use more resources. Now it's not going to support it's own OS that has the most market share. Frankly, the more stupid the ideas from Microsoft the more likely people will abandon the crack dealer.