The baseline is not "perfect" - rather, it's "better than status quo." MUCH different. If self-driving cars killed people at 20 times the rate of rail, it would still be a VAST improvement over the current situation.
One of the Gates Foundation biggest health initiatives is family planning.
Family Planning Overview
Family planning saves lives.
One of the most cost-effective public health interventions available today is family planning. Voluntary family planning is a critical lifesaving intervention that can significantly improve the health of women and their families.
Through family planning:
Maternal mortality is reduced. Family planning could prevent up to one third of all maternal deaths by allowing women to delay motherhood, space births, avoid unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions, and stop childbearing when they have reached their desired family size.
Deaths and illness among young women are reduced. Pregnancy is the leading cause of death for women under 19, with complications of childbirth and unsafe abortion being the major factors. Adolescents aged 15 to 19 are twice as likely to die in childbirth as those in their 20s, and girls under 15 are five times as likely to die as those in their 20s.
Child health and survival is improved. Reducing the number of births less than two years apart, births to very young and older women, and higher-order births, family planning lowers child and infant mortality. For example, if women spaced their births at least 36 months apart, almost 3 million deaths to children under age 5 could be averted.
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Seriously, they get it. Enough that they are drawing the ire of certain other groups, for what it's worth.
Oddly enough, the Earth seems to have no problem dealing with recycling waste. All it needs is a goodly variety of fish, insects, bivalves, and other organisms (both micro and macro) to handle the responsibility.
At what population density? Long-term sustainability of life on earth at the current population density is FAR from demonstrated.
So? People over-eat now, not only are they not paid back for the food, they get incredibly expensive medical conditions. Lots of fake pills advertise the ability to increase your metabolism, but that's what this would actually do. Even if it just dissipated heat into your bloodstream ("wasting" the energy completely), it might be useful. Or harmful, of course.
The last three trillion digits were all 0, since pi turned out to be rational after all, which turned out to be the key in efficiently factoring large numbers and proving that P=NP. So, we can all go home now, math is done.
I nominate Elizabeth Warren. She recognized the situation long ago and has been working to bring attention to the erosion of the middle class since before the bubble burst, for example the documentary "Maxxed Out" in 2006.
If your net worth is negative, you are not middle class. That is called poor.
The middle class IS poor! Look at the mean net worth of the 25-50% (the lower half of middle class) is dangerously near $0. (Though actually I think net worth can be misleading... most people are stuck in a hand-to-mouth mentality that guarantees their net worth will never grow, even if their income was good and their standard of living was high).
But, secondly, if this guy is protesting, don't you think he KNOWS is situation is in jeapordy? That he might not be so "middle-class" after all? I think what he's saying is, "I have skills, I'm economically productive, yet I'm stuck scraping by. That can't be right."
Whoo, I haven't heard the AltiVec vs MMX argument in a long time. I'm sure AltiVec was better, but that was swamped by numerous other factors years ago. Today GPUs are a similar idea on a much bigger scale.
Correct. (Without the sarcasm). Millions of dollars have been spent and people sent to jail, all in an effort to eradicate movies from filesharing networks. So far as I know, they've never managed to extinguish all copies of even one single movie.
Disagree; there is likely to be very different levels of illumination around the sphere (starting with sky vs ground) so I call independent exposure for each camera a feature, not a bug. If the camera registration or exposure looks bad in the output, it should be fixed in postprocessing software.
But from my (very limited) understanding of places like present-day Somalia, it's not the guys with good "No Trespassing!!!" signs that are surviving - individuals are weak. It's predators roaming in packs. And it's not because they were good little ants carefully stocking away supplies while the grasshoppers were out having fun, it's because they're good at finding what they need, and taking it.
I hope it never happens, but it would be pretty fascinating to see what would actually be the best strategies for the apocalypse / zombie invasion / nuclear holocaust etc.
My money is NOT on the guy with a bunker full of baked beans and 30 cases of ammo. He's a loner with a highly valuable stash. My crystal ball says he gets p0wned on day 3 by gang bangers, who understand organization without appeal to law.
Speaking of which, I wonder how US-based network providers like Cisco feel about this? They make a lot of money in China, helping them build the Great Firewall and all that. If there is one sure outcome of this action, it's that China will want to reciprocate in kind. There is no way an insult like this will go unanswered. So I think we have to see this as part of a larger trade war that may be brewing. Stock up on iPhones, everybody!
I think the problem is more structural - the economy is global, but government is only national, for the most part. Companies can easily stay a step ahead of governments by playing them off each other, resulting in the race to the bottom you see today. Notice that you do see more effective international regulation where powerful special interests are concerned - intellectual property for example. But the same thing for environmental and worker protection, no so much.
The real issue with it is how much of a dork you look like talking to your phone.
According to the writeup on wired (reprinted at cnn), they already addressed that problem by having you hold the phone to your ear when talking to it (instead of at arms length as when typing into it) to make it look normal.
(I would imagine this was also done to improve the quality of speech recognition by putting the microphone closer to your mouth.)
Fair enough. It sucks, but they never said it wouldn't, so they aren't liars. You win.
Disclaimer: I have a long history of predicting Apple's products will fail, and they keep proving me wrong. I still don't "get" the iPad. So, who knows?
Prescott was designed as it was for bad engineering reasons. They were trying to glue an extra pair of legs onto the frequency horse, with no concern for hay consumption; it didn't end well.
Well, wait a minute. Obviously it turned out to be a misstep, but what reason do you have for thinking they knew that going in and were just being disingenuous?
The i7 2600 is a $300 CPU. I thought it was really cool you could get a Sandy Bridge cpu for as low as $57 (G530), and on the newegg page it does have "Virtualization Technology Support." VMWare Workstation would still run fine with 1 or 2 guests without VT-d, wouldn't it? Lower speed for a lower price makes sense, but "you cannot run application X on this CPU" is more troubling.
The tradeoff between centralized and decentralized computing is a perfect example of a situation where the technology is constantly evolving at a rapid pace. Whether it's better to have a mainframe, a cluster, a distributed cluster (cloud), or fully decentralized (peer-to-peer) varies from application to application and from year-to-year. None of those options can be ruled in or out by making generalizations from the year 2000, let alone the 1960's.
And other new tech fads are good reimplementations of ideas that didn't pan out in the past but are now feasible due to advances in technology. You really can't generalize without looking at specifics - "somebody tried that a long time ago and it wasn't worth it" doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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The baseline is not "perfect" - rather, it's "better than status quo." MUCH different. If self-driving cars killed people at 20 times the rate of rail, it would still be a VAST improvement over the current situation.
One of the Gates Foundation biggest health initiatives is family planning.
Seriously, they get it. Enough that they are drawing the ire of certain other groups, for what it's worth.
At what population density? Long-term sustainability of life on earth at the current population density is FAR from demonstrated.
Well, what that 1 year old is doing is not "watching," she is interacting, which is different.
So? People over-eat now, not only are they not paid back for the food, they get incredibly expensive medical conditions. Lots of fake pills advertise the ability to increase your metabolism, but that's what this would actually do. Even if it just dissipated heat into your bloodstream ("wasting" the energy completely), it might be useful. Or harmful, of course.
The last three trillion digits were all 0, since pi turned out to be rational after all, which turned out to be the key in efficiently factoring large numbers and proving that P=NP. So, we can all go home now, math is done.
I nominate Elizabeth Warren. She recognized the situation long ago and has been working to bring attention to the erosion of the middle class since before the bubble burst, for example the documentary "Maxxed Out" in 2006.
The middle class IS poor! Look at the mean net worth of the 25-50% (the lower half of middle class) is dangerously near $0. (Though actually I think net worth can be misleading... most people are stuck in a hand-to-mouth mentality that guarantees their net worth will never grow, even if their income was good and their standard of living was high).
But, secondly, if this guy is protesting, don't you think he KNOWS is situation is in jeapordy? That he might not be so "middle-class" after all? I think what he's saying is, "I have skills, I'm economically productive, yet I'm stuck scraping by. That can't be right."
Like this? And this? And this?
Let's face it, racing cars and practical cars are two different things.
Whoo, I haven't heard the AltiVec vs MMX argument in a long time. I'm sure AltiVec was better, but that was swamped by numerous other factors years ago. Today GPUs are a similar idea on a much bigger scale.
That's comparing apples and oranges. Scanning 35mm at 4k doesn't mean it ever had that much resolution. The grain is clearly visible.
Correct. (Without the sarcasm). Millions of dollars have been spent and people sent to jail, all in an effort to eradicate movies from filesharing networks. So far as I know, they've never managed to extinguish all copies of even one single movie.
Disagree; there is likely to be very different levels of illumination around the sphere (starting with sky vs ground) so I call independent exposure for each camera a feature, not a bug. If the camera registration or exposure looks bad in the output, it should be fixed in postprocessing software.
But from my (very limited) understanding of places like present-day Somalia, it's not the guys with good "No Trespassing!!!" signs that are surviving - individuals are weak. It's predators roaming in packs. And it's not because they were good little ants carefully stocking away supplies while the grasshoppers were out having fun, it's because they're good at finding what they need, and taking it.
No hands needed! It'll be hooked up to Siri and triggered by the phrase "don't tase me bro!"
My money is NOT on the guy with a bunker full of baked beans and 30 cases of ammo. He's a loner with a highly valuable stash. My crystal ball says he gets p0wned on day 3 by gang bangers, who understand organization without appeal to law.
Speaking of which, I wonder how US-based network providers like Cisco feel about this? They make a lot of money in China, helping them build the Great Firewall and all that. If there is one sure outcome of this action, it's that China will want to reciprocate in kind. There is no way an insult like this will go unanswered. So I think we have to see this as part of a larger trade war that may be brewing. Stock up on iPhones, everybody!
I think the problem is more structural - the economy is global, but government is only national, for the most part. Companies can easily stay a step ahead of governments by playing them off each other, resulting in the race to the bottom you see today. Notice that you do see more effective international regulation where powerful special interests are concerned - intellectual property for example. But the same thing for environmental and worker protection, no so much.
According to the writeup on wired (reprinted at cnn), they already addressed that problem by having you hold the phone to your ear when talking to it (instead of at arms length as when typing into it) to make it look normal.
(I would imagine this was also done to improve the quality of speech recognition by putting the microphone closer to your mouth.)
I would have modded you but +1: Insightful and -1: Sick cancelled each other out.
Disclaimer: I have a long history of predicting Apple's products will fail, and they keep proving me wrong. I still don't "get" the iPad. So, who knows?
Well, wait a minute. Obviously it turned out to be a misstep, but what reason do you have for thinking they knew that going in and were just being disingenuous?
The i7 2600 is a $300 CPU. I thought it was really cool you could get a Sandy Bridge cpu for as low as $57 (G530), and on the newegg page it does have "Virtualization Technology Support." VMWare Workstation would still run fine with 1 or 2 guests without VT-d, wouldn't it? Lower speed for a lower price makes sense, but "you cannot run application X on this CPU" is more troubling.
The tradeoff between centralized and decentralized computing is a perfect example of a situation where the technology is constantly evolving at a rapid pace. Whether it's better to have a mainframe, a cluster, a distributed cluster (cloud), or fully decentralized (peer-to-peer) varies from application to application and from year-to-year. None of those options can be ruled in or out by making generalizations from the year 2000, let alone the 1960's.
And other new tech fads are good reimplementations of ideas that didn't pan out in the past but are now feasible due to advances in technology. You really can't generalize without looking at specifics - "somebody tried that a long time ago and it wasn't worth it" doesn't necessarily prove anything.