When you look at the bigger picture, your mass IS part of the Earth's mass. To test your theory, hop in a ship and go a few million miles out. Measure the effective gravity with the sun and Earth aligned, then at 90 degrees (assuming this removes the negation the most, perhaps more than +90 degrees). Also make sure you know how much gravity every other body "should be exerting. Is there any discrepancy greater than error? My guess is yes, however it could be any of many different reasons.
Out of everything there exists to ID someone over, transportation makes the most sense to me. Without some sort of identification, the names on tickets suddenly become worthless and you haven't a clue who is on any given plane that takes off, lands, or crashes. I'm taking a couple flights home. If one crashes, I think my parents will at least be happy that they'll know to almost 100% certainty whether I'm on it in the case of a crash. If there was no IDing, they wouldn't have any idea, and might not for several days.
That being said the fact that I just mentioned I am going on a plane today and mentioned the fact that it could crash-- that everything I just said is a red flag to them-- THAT is wrong. Yes personal security through obscurity (Who am I?) would protect you from that, but your own civic duty supersedes that which should not even be an issue.
To me it's a tough call if MS should include a firewall / virus protection out of the box. That's two software industries that'll completely lose their non-corporate (personal user) interests and much of their corporate interest.
In the end, yes they should. As you so say, It's sad, but true.
A) Investors are stupid
B) Businesses are stupid for being run by investors
That's really all there is to it. Without the investors a company can stand on its own merit and not owe anything to anyone but its employees and customers. Advertising turns your customers into products. Investing turns yourself into a product. We're reduced to becoming products who buy products from products. No one is actually making anything anymore!
You know that your processor stores memory in register files and flops and these devices are also prone to failure by stay particles, right? So people are trying to deal with these problems just the question is.. how? We have the most basic element covered: Identifying a failure. A single parity bit can do this. Two simultaneous failures can occur making a parity test reveal false negative so we can use more parity bits, although the chance of the failures increase exponentially.
There is a major difference: Memory residing in the processor is for the most part extremely temporary (or never used at all). Memory on a disk is expected to be able to be left alone indefinitely. Now I can picture a redundancy system where everyone once in a while you plug in a disk and it self-fixes itself (this system would be at the price of storage, maybe up to half the potential space), then you'd put it back on the shelf. As for long-term independent storage I think a shielding device would be required. I'd expect shielding already in the disk itself, but it would probably be sub-par.
I don't remember what kind of radiation is bad for storage and the like. Is it Beta? (Anyone?)
Unless the companies that make the H3 are doing it by burning low grade petroleum products, it will have a very large impact (once people throw away their old polluters-- that is even a problem today). The idea is that if you can one thing generating (and storing) energy, it can be far more efficient than having millions of things (mobile things, no less) generating their own energy and immediately losing whatever they don't immediately use. It's the same savings as we have because (naerly) everyone gets their power over transmission lines instead of personally having their own generators. Sure, whatever plants cause massive pollution (coal, oil), but it's nothing compared 100,000,000 generators running 24/7.
I'd like to use Ogg, I'd like there to be more than one computer interface to the device, that is, I don't want to have to touch apple proprietary software.
I can agree Apple makes nice products, I just couldn't find myself to spend so much money for them, especially when competing products cost so much less. Then there's also the whole thing that I personally can't really use them. The applications I want to use don't exist and if an application is ever forced on me it almost certainly won't be available on Apple systems.
This being said I'd buy an iPod if the price dropped, the format became open, and the ability to record was added.
I think what you're attributing to nature is what we're nurturing them without realizing. Yes if you give a boy a doll he'll do more aggressive things than a girl, usually. What has that boy already experienced? Rougher treatment from the parents since birth, and being shown HOW to play with the toys. What do you do first thing? You show the kid how two smash two toys together. I'm guessing girls don't get the same treatment.
I think a whole lot of what we think is nature is really just nurture we aren't even paying attention to.
I hate it when companies put on double faces to try to get the best of both worlds. Despite the fact that they are offering what appears to be a better version to Asian countries, they are still offering crap here. Does this make my despise-o-meter go up or down? Whatever happened to these components being integral, or was that just BS you made up? What are the Asian countries going to think? You lied to them and said it couldn't be done, and then did it when they chose an alternative. They probably have a shopping list of other changes they want you to make that you'll again say is impossible until you realize you have no business in business.
We all know how unattractive CS people can be, especially the ones getting red in the face over frequent online arguments about KDE vs. Gnome.
For some reason I read that as KDE vs German. Unfortunately I was able to play that argument out in my head. It ended with both geeks swearing to destroy the other someday.
I'd just like to pre-respond to the obvious reply, by saying that I chose the word "many" as not to be talking about absolute terms. Many boys are also given dolls (that is, action figures) while there might be some girl's toy which also might stimulate something other than "Accessories!" (er but I would not know).
What I am really getting at is nature vs nurture and I am willing to say many of the societal disparities between women and men aren't natural (while some are).
I have a quick question, an answer to that question, and a suggestion.
Q. Why do people spam?
A. They Make money off of it.
Suggestion: With how open all our modes of communication are, and closing them being such a bad thing to do, perhaps our money would be better spent sending the message across to people that they should not be responding to this spam. Never, ever respond to a credit card offer in the mail. Never, ever respond to any ad of any kind sent to your email. Never follow the links.
It is my best hope that if literally no one (less than a one in a million response rate, hopefully less than one in a hundred million) responds to the spams, they will soon come to an end, although every so often someone will try again they will quickly be put out of business. There is no other way to stop spammers without having to break rules along the way IMHO. If anyone else has a suggestion I am open to it, but I really think the solution relies in our own personal responsibility.
Uh again, yes. I'd rather the entire world watch me get owned by Bubba than for it to happen and him not get in trouble. I'd rather they play it during the superbowl every year as part of their beer commercials and on the news every night, than for Bubba not to get in trouble.
Do you really want yourself, unjustly accused in the first place (and what social value is served by public humiliation of the unjustly accused?), publicly becoming Bubba's bitch? Recorded for all time?
If it happened, uh duh yes I want a record of it so he'll be hopping off to prison for the rest of his life. I don't care even if a jury sees it. Vanity is not more important than justice.
Not at all. If I said to give up the ISS, then that would hold some weight. However still none of these space explorations are vital in the same manner that you equate to road maintenance and construction. Flying cars? I hardly think that is a fair comparison at all.
How long a space elevator takes is very much a factor of how much people take it seriously. You don't take it seriously, yes it will take decades. You take it seriously, it might take one.
Well personally I'd rather see the money go towards space elevator development. The sooner that is done, that $1-$1.6 billion to repair the Hubble will decrease significantly. Even if it requires a manned crew that must launch separately a lighter craft can be used (once developed) to get people into space.
On a side note I think that should be a project to go alongside the space elevator: A bare-bones launcher made just to hold astronauts, life-support, and creature comforts. Let the "shuttle" then go Lego style over pieces sent up by the elevator, potentially becoming enormous.
Oh yes, and I hope we have the best of the best of the best working on this project or else we'll just be throwing money down the drain.
That being said I'd rather have a computer made by someone who is good at computers, rather than someone who is good at business/marketing. This is my view for every product pretty much: profitability and popularity don't even remotely correlate with quality. It's just the same as Dell really. I won't buy their highly profitable and popular product not only because I think their profit is directly at my expense, but also because I don't trust their quality.
I'm not trying to bash Apple in anyway I'm just trying to say to your holding up Apple so high as a company: I don't care. It just doesn't enter into the equation.
You.. cannot.. talk about Shatner.. like that. He's a roll model.. to.. all.. young.. boys out there. Don't forget he.. once had add sex with an alien.. or two.. every geeks dream. Actually to.. tell you the truth, what Shatner is really after.. is another.. speech.. therap.. y.. session.
That's not to say that the Xeon CPU necessarily deserves excessive praise just yet. At time of publication, our Xeon processor retails for $850 and the Athlon 3500+ retails for about $500 less. Also, keep in mind that the AMD processor is clocked 1400MHz slower than the 3.6GHz Xeon.
I think this sums it up (besides the fact Intel kicked their pants). The AMD is running at 2.2 ghz, and retails $500 less. To me this says AMD is working smarter and Intel is working harder. Intel is reaching a (transient) ceiling with their clockspeeds and one day AMD will catch up to it. It will be interesting to see if Intel's multicore plan kicks as much ass as they are presently hoping. It'll also be interesting to see AMDs attempt at the same.
Personally I'm rooting for both. If either company gets screwed, we're all screwed.
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When you look at the bigger picture, your mass IS part of the Earth's mass. To test your theory, hop in a ship and go a few million miles out. Measure the effective gravity with the sun and Earth aligned, then at 90 degrees (assuming this removes the negation the most, perhaps more than +90 degrees). Also make sure you know how much gravity every other body "should be exerting. Is there any discrepancy greater than error? My guess is yes, however it could be any of many different reasons.
Out of everything there exists to ID someone over, transportation makes the most sense to me. Without some sort of identification, the names on tickets suddenly become worthless and you haven't a clue who is on any given plane that takes off, lands, or crashes. I'm taking a couple flights home. If one crashes, I think my parents will at least be happy that they'll know to almost 100% certainty whether I'm on it in the case of a crash. If there was no IDing, they wouldn't have any idea, and might not for several days.
That being said the fact that I just mentioned I am going on a plane today and mentioned the fact that it could crash-- that everything I just said is a red flag to them-- THAT is wrong. Yes personal security through obscurity (Who am I?) would protect you from that, but your own civic duty supersedes that which should not even be an issue.
To me it's a tough call if MS should include a firewall / virus protection out of the box. That's two software industries that'll completely lose their non-corporate (personal user) interests and much of their corporate interest.
In the end, yes they should. As you so say, It's sad, but true.
I'm sorry but if your password is "god" or "sex" no algorithm is gonna save your sorry ass.
A) Investors are stupid
B) Businesses are stupid for being run by investors
That's really all there is to it. Without the investors a company can stand on its own merit and not owe anything to anyone but its employees and customers. Advertising turns your customers into products. Investing turns yourself into a product. We're reduced to becoming products who buy products from products. No one is actually making anything anymore!
You know that your processor stores memory in register files and flops and these devices are also prone to failure by stay particles, right? So people are trying to deal with these problems just the question is.. how? We have the most basic element covered: Identifying a failure. A single parity bit can do this. Two simultaneous failures can occur making a parity test reveal false negative so we can use more parity bits, although the chance of the failures increase exponentially.
There is a major difference: Memory residing in the processor is for the most part extremely temporary (or never used at all). Memory on a disk is expected to be able to be left alone indefinitely. Now I can picture a redundancy system where everyone once in a while you plug in a disk and it self-fixes itself (this system would be at the price of storage, maybe up to half the potential space), then you'd put it back on the shelf. As for long-term independent storage I think a shielding device would be required. I'd expect shielding already in the disk itself, but it would probably be sub-par.
I don't remember what kind of radiation is bad for storage and the like. Is it Beta? (Anyone?)
Unless the companies that make the H3 are doing it by burning low grade petroleum products, it will have a very large impact (once people throw away their old polluters-- that is even a problem today). The idea is that if you can one thing generating (and storing) energy, it can be far more efficient than having millions of things (mobile things, no less) generating their own energy and immediately losing whatever they don't immediately use. It's the same savings as we have because (naerly) everyone gets their power over transmission lines instead of personally having their own generators. Sure, whatever plants cause massive pollution (coal, oil), but it's nothing compared 100,000,000 generators running 24/7.
Maybe it's a blessing. Maybe it's just super-staining fire retardant.
Or.. as it is more likely.. a super-staining mark of a retard.
Woah woah, back up! Are you implying the existence of money?
If only this were true in software.
I'd like to use Ogg, I'd like there to be more than one computer interface to the device, that is, I don't want to have to touch apple proprietary software.
I can agree Apple makes nice products, I just couldn't find myself to spend so much money for them, especially when competing products cost so much less. Then there's also the whole thing that I personally can't really use them. The applications I want to use don't exist and if an application is ever forced on me it almost certainly won't be available on Apple systems.
This being said I'd buy an iPod if the price dropped, the format became open, and the ability to record was added.
I think what you're attributing to nature is what we're nurturing them without realizing. Yes if you give a boy a doll he'll do more aggressive things than a girl, usually. What has that boy already experienced? Rougher treatment from the parents since birth, and being shown HOW to play with the toys. What do you do first thing? You show the kid how two smash two toys together. I'm guessing girls don't get the same treatment.
I think a whole lot of what we think is nature is really just nurture we aren't even paying attention to.
I hate it when companies put on double faces to try to get the best of both worlds. Despite the fact that they are offering what appears to be a better version to Asian countries, they are still offering crap here. Does this make my despise-o-meter go up or down? Whatever happened to these components being integral, or was that just BS you made up? What are the Asian countries going to think? You lied to them and said it couldn't be done, and then did it when they chose an alternative. They probably have a shopping list of other changes they want you to make that you'll again say is impossible until you realize you have no business in business.
We all know how unattractive CS people can be, especially the ones getting red in the face over frequent online arguments about KDE vs. Gnome. For some reason I read that as KDE vs German. Unfortunately I was able to play that argument out in my head. It ended with both geeks swearing to destroy the other someday.
I'd just like to pre-respond to the obvious reply, by saying that I chose the word "many" as not to be talking about absolute terms. Many boys are also given dolls (that is, action figures) while there might be some girl's toy which also might stimulate something other than "Accessories!" (er but I would not know).
What I am really getting at is nature vs nurture and I am willing to say many of the societal disparities between women and men aren't natural (while some are).
Many boys are given legos. Many girls are given dolls.
Go figure.
I have a quick question, an answer to that question, and a suggestion.
Q. Why do people spam?
A. They Make money off of it.
Suggestion: With how open all our modes of communication are, and closing them being such a bad thing to do, perhaps our money would be better spent sending the message across to people that they should not be responding to this spam. Never, ever respond to a credit card offer in the mail. Never, ever respond to any ad of any kind sent to your email. Never follow the links.
It is my best hope that if literally no one (less than a one in a million response rate, hopefully less than one in a hundred million) responds to the spams, they will soon come to an end, although every so often someone will try again they will quickly be put out of business. There is no other way to stop spammers without having to break rules along the way IMHO. If anyone else has a suggestion I am open to it, but I really think the solution relies in our own personal responsibility.
Uh again, yes. I'd rather the entire world watch me get owned by Bubba than for it to happen and him not get in trouble. I'd rather they play it during the superbowl every year as part of their beer commercials and on the news every night, than for Bubba not to get in trouble.
Do you really want yourself, unjustly accused in the first place (and what social value is served by public humiliation of the unjustly accused?), publicly becoming Bubba's bitch? Recorded for all time?
If it happened, uh duh yes I want a record of it so he'll be hopping off to prison for the rest of his life. I don't care even if a jury sees it. Vanity is not more important than justice.
Not at all. If I said to give up the ISS, then that would hold some weight. However still none of these space explorations are vital in the same manner that you equate to road maintenance and construction. Flying cars? I hardly think that is a fair comparison at all.
How long a space elevator takes is very much a factor of how much people take it seriously. You don't take it seriously, yes it will take decades. You take it seriously, it might take one.
Well personally I'd rather see the money go towards space elevator development. The sooner that is done, that $1-$1.6 billion to repair the Hubble will decrease significantly. Even if it requires a manned crew that must launch separately a lighter craft can be used (once developed) to get people into space.
On a side note I think that should be a project to go alongside the space elevator: A bare-bones launcher made just to hold astronauts, life-support, and creature comforts. Let the "shuttle" then go Lego style over pieces sent up by the elevator, potentially becoming enormous.
Oh yes, and I hope we have the best of the best of the best working on this project or else we'll just be throwing money down the drain.
That being said I'd rather have a computer made by someone who is good at computers, rather than someone who is good at business/marketing. This is my view for every product pretty much: profitability and popularity don't even remotely correlate with quality. It's just the same as Dell really. I won't buy their highly profitable and popular product not only because I think their profit is directly at my expense, but also because I don't trust their quality.
I'm not trying to bash Apple in anyway I'm just trying to say to your holding up Apple so high as a company: I don't care. It just doesn't enter into the equation.
You.. cannot.. talk about Shatner.. like that. He's a roll model.. to.. all.. young.. boys out there. Don't forget he.. once had add sex with an alien.. or two.. every geeks dream. Actually to.. tell you the truth, what Shatner is really after.. is another.. speech.. therap.. y.. session.
That's not to say that the Xeon CPU necessarily deserves excessive praise just yet. At time of publication, our Xeon processor retails for $850 and the Athlon 3500+ retails for about $500 less. Also, keep in mind that the AMD processor is clocked 1400MHz slower than the 3.6GHz Xeon.
I think this sums it up (besides the fact Intel kicked their pants). The AMD is running at 2.2 ghz, and retails $500 less. To me this says AMD is working smarter and Intel is working harder. Intel is reaching a (transient) ceiling with their clockspeeds and one day AMD will catch up to it. It will be interesting to see if Intel's multicore plan kicks as much ass as they are presently hoping. It'll also be interesting to see AMDs attempt at the same.
Personally I'm rooting for both. If either company gets screwed, we're all screwed.