The only people who've ever heard of "Amero" are the conspiracy theorists who made it up. China is "the powers that be, and they own so many dollars they certainly do not want to see it collapse.
It's hard for me to be rational about doubleclick, since I hated it so much and google has reigned it in. (But I guess if I were buying ads, I would be wondering if google's dominance makes them too expensive).
FTA: "The spate of deaths comes after a Foxconn employee in charge of shipping Apple's iPhone prototype units killed himself last year after one of the units went missing."
What a waste. I wonder what happened to make him take it so seriously.
Think about it: in just 30 years, we've gone from cell phones being prohibitively expensive and the size of briefcases, to cell phones that fit in your pocket and allow you to access the whole of human knowledge in a matter of seconds.
Having read The Road Ahead back in '95, the main thing I remember was Gates' prediction about pocket computers, which suddenly seems much more accurate than it did 3 years ago when smartphones were struggling to catch on. Consistent with Gates' blindside for the Internet, his pocket PC vision was not Internet-centric. But that, too, seems to be becoming improbably more accurate. Lately people are moving away from Internet-centricity and towards proprietary cell network centricity. Yes, I realize the iPad and iPhone still have Internet connectivity and would lose significant functionality without it; on the other hand, the mindset of "there's an app for that" is moving back to the pre-internet days when the Company provided each service that you might want to use, on their closed network. E.g. texting pushing aside email, and DRM-protected readers pushing aside the Web.
I suspect that this tradeoff will be a lot more attractive in areas of the world where gasoline/petrol is $7 ($us) a gallon, but here where the price is about 1/3 to 1/2 of that, I'm guessing that the loss of freedom and spontanity is not worth meager price savings.
I suspect that the average cost of a gallon of gas here in the US over the next 10 years (the lifetime of a car) will be more like $5/gallon. That would be $25,000 of gasoline for a car that gets 30 mpg and last 150,000 miles.
Of course, you don't want to give Obama carte blanche and blame everything he does on Bush, either. For example, healthcare reform is Obama's. Also, Obama is accountable for how quickly and effectively he repairs the damage from the Bush years. I think Obama has done fine de-escalating the Iraq war, but not so good on closing Guantanamo, and I think he's made a political calculus that he doesn't know how to wind down Afghanistan without getting skewered by hawks.
Personally I think Obama is fairly effective due to being intelligent and remaining calm. But sometimes I wonder what a more aggressive, Teddy Roosevelt-style leader could do today.
Unfortunately we remain committed to the war in Afghanistan for the same reason, which is killing lots of people, both "us" and "them." Musn't lose face.
The ugly might very well commit more crimes, but this study eliminates that as a confounding factor.
What some people here are trying to argue is that if ugly people commit more crimes, then being ugly is itself a piece of evidence, so they the burden of other, factual evidence is less.
I have conservative friends who think this way. DNA evidence springs some black guy from jail after serving 10 years for a rape he didn't commit, and my friend says, oh well, look at him, he probably did other crimes for which he was never caught.
Actually I think your sarcastic post is mostly correct, unless you at least bother to read the paper. Now that cnn allows posting replies to stories, we see slashdot is not alone; every study is "rebutted" with a bunch of meaningless kneejerk garbage.
My thoughts exactly, how does giving the wifi data to a government solve anything.
So they can determine whether google did anything wrong, and if so, google can be punished to prevent them or somebody else from repeating this in the figure. (What, too obvious?)
As for the other concerns, do you really think prosecutions of private citizens will arise from this? I don't. But I do think the govt. should collect just enough of the drives, say a randomly selected 1%, to determine what actually happened.
Recalling the BWB work done at McDonell Douglas and Boeing in the '90s, there was considerable resistance from passenger focus groups who could not get comfortable not seeing windows.
Well, they could always put windows in the floor to make people feel better.
I guess by your reasoning, it was wrong for the colonies to have rebelled against the British, too?
There must be some interesting alternate-history fiction on that. Canada never fought a war of independence from the British, but nevertheless they gained independence and are doing just fine. African-Americans weren't helped at all by the Revolutionary War so far as I can tell; they would have been emancipated sooner in Britain. India, South Africa, Australia... all the former colonies gained their independence, mostly for the better. And then again, Britain itself has changed alot since then and isn't even tyrranized by its own King any more. But maybe the states' colonial rebellion sped the fall of the British empire and hence the independence of all the others and its own democratization?
I wonder how often the opposite is true and people use Google and find that it suggests it is nothing to worry about and they don't go to the doctor?
Well, I was playing with my little daughter and suddenly her elbow was in terrible pain. I googled it and decided it was probably Nursemaid's Elbow. I did the suggested treatment (turning her palm up and flexing her elbow) and the ligament snapped back into place, and she was immediately better. A trip to the doctor or hospital would likely have taken the rest of the day and cost a lot of money. Yes, any nurse could have fixed it in two seconds, the problem is getting to see anybody takes hours.
So in my case, it did prevent us from going to the doctor, and that was a good thing.
I can see how empowering people is a pain in the butt for doctors and no doubt leads to occasional problems for patients who take too much into their own hands, but, too bad. Tech support has always dealt with ignorant know-it-alls, now doctors must, too.
How old are you? I am by no means "old," but as I've grown a little "less young" (ahem) I've started to have slight issues, and in particular I notice that if I work right up until bed, I toss and turn worrying all night (and sometimes dreaming up crazy "solutions" that seem great at the time but don't make a lot of sense in the light of day). Having a big political flamewar online right before bed doesn't help either. Also if I run home from work (about 10 miles) I feel awake all evening (good) and into the night (bad).
If by "better qualified" you mean being a silver tongued bastard who has an innate ability to always say what's politically expedient.
Follow that strategy, and you'll get Jon Stewart playing videotapes of you saying one thing and then the other.
I think the biggest problem of instant retrieval of everything is just the opposite - never being allowed to change without being called a flip-flopper. Of course, there will never be consensus on when principle and determination go too far and become self-denial and stubbornness.
What a complete asshole who thinks he's so much better than everyone else.
In general I'm very skeptical about the elite status and compensation executives grant to themselves. But Jobs is about the strongest case I can think of for somebody who has proven his worth. He leaves, the company tanks; he comes back, it thrives. I don't even like Apple products, time and again I predict this time, they missed the mark. Time and again they show me up. I still don't care that much for their products, but Jobs is special.
Well, personally, I'm thrilled they're trying to keep NASA alive.
NASA'S new direction is not a budget cut. What they are doing is directing money towards unmanned space flight. IMHO it is a simple question of whether to keep pouring money into the failed Ares program, or redirect it to something more promising.
I think hardware full disk encryption is the only way to go. There's no performance penalty and it's transparent to the OS (which is great for those of us who multiboot). Our experience with PGP and Credant has been horrible, making some laptops unusably slow. Is dm-crypt that much better?
Wait, are you saying you wouldn't be scared if you were Nintendo? Millions of people are buying smartphones, and oh, by the way, they have more gaming horsepower and screen real-estate than a DS.
If I were trying to sell special-purpose handheld game consoles, or handheld GPS units, or cheap digicams, or PDAs, I would certainly be thinking about the future, because smartphones do all that and more.
He didn't say there should be limits on education. He said that there should be limits on how much education the Government will subsidize.
Ok, x% of us should stop at highschool. You first!
This story is long on how college is not paying off.. but conveniently neglects the fact that those without college are even worse off.
Ours is increasingly a winner-takes-all society. By definition, that means most people will be losers. But getting on top is still the best chance you've got.
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The only people who've ever heard of "Amero" are the conspiracy theorists who made it up. China is "the powers that be, and they own so many dollars they certainly do not want to see it collapse.
They erased mention of the "slave trade" and replaced it with "Atlantic triangular trade." Why would they do that?
It's hard for me to be rational about doubleclick, since I hated it so much and google has reigned it in. (But I guess if I were buying ads, I would be wondering if google's dominance makes them too expensive).
What a waste. I wonder what happened to make him take it so seriously.
Having read The Road Ahead back in '95, the main thing I remember was Gates' prediction about pocket computers, which suddenly seems much more accurate than it did 3 years ago when smartphones were struggling to catch on. Consistent with Gates' blindside for the Internet, his pocket PC vision was not Internet-centric. But that, too, seems to be becoming improbably more accurate. Lately people are moving away from Internet-centricity and towards proprietary cell network centricity. Yes, I realize the iPad and iPhone still have Internet connectivity and would lose significant functionality without it; on the other hand, the mindset of "there's an app for that" is moving back to the pre-internet days when the Company provided each service that you might want to use, on their closed network. E.g. texting pushing aside email, and DRM-protected readers pushing aside the Web.
I suspect that the average cost of a gallon of gas here in the US over the next 10 years (the lifetime of a car) will be more like $5/gallon. That would be $25,000 of gasoline for a car that gets 30 mpg and last 150,000 miles.
They'll be built in the bay area, employing thousands of people. This announcement is what jobs recovery is all about.
Personally I think Obama is fairly effective due to being intelligent and remaining calm. But sometimes I wonder what a more aggressive, Teddy Roosevelt-style leader could do today.
Unfortunately we remain committed to the war in Afghanistan for the same reason, which is killing lots of people, both "us" and "them." Musn't lose face.
What some people here are trying to argue is that if ugly people commit more crimes, then being ugly is itself a piece of evidence, so they the burden of other, factual evidence is less.
I have conservative friends who think this way. DNA evidence springs some black guy from jail after serving 10 years for a rape he didn't commit, and my friend says, oh well, look at him, he probably did other crimes for which he was never caught.
Actually I think your sarcastic post is mostly correct, unless you at least bother to read the paper. Now that cnn allows posting replies to stories, we see slashdot is not alone; every study is "rebutted" with a bunch of meaningless kneejerk garbage.
So they can determine whether google did anything wrong, and if so, google can be punished to prevent them or somebody else from repeating this in the figure. (What, too obvious?)
As for the other concerns, do you really think prosecutions of private citizens will arise from this? I don't. But I do think the govt. should collect just enough of the drives, say a randomly selected 1%, to determine what actually happened.
Well, they could always put windows in the floor to make people feel better.
There must be some interesting alternate-history fiction on that. Canada never fought a war of independence from the British, but nevertheless they gained independence and are doing just fine. African-Americans weren't helped at all by the Revolutionary War so far as I can tell; they would have been emancipated sooner in Britain. India, South Africa, Australia... all the former colonies gained their independence, mostly for the better. And then again, Britain itself has changed alot since then and isn't even tyrranized by its own King any more. But maybe the states' colonial rebellion sped the fall of the British empire and hence the independence of all the others and its own democratization?
Well, I was playing with my little daughter and suddenly her elbow was in terrible pain. I googled it and decided it was probably Nursemaid's Elbow. I did the suggested treatment (turning her palm up and flexing her elbow) and the ligament snapped back into place, and she was immediately better. A trip to the doctor or hospital would likely have taken the rest of the day and cost a lot of money. Yes, any nurse could have fixed it in two seconds, the problem is getting to see anybody takes hours.
So in my case, it did prevent us from going to the doctor, and that was a good thing.
I can see how empowering people is a pain in the butt for doctors and no doubt leads to occasional problems for patients who take too much into their own hands, but, too bad. Tech support has always dealt with ignorant know-it-alls, now doctors must, too.
How old are you? I am by no means "old," but as I've grown a little "less young" (ahem) I've started to have slight issues, and in particular I notice that if I work right up until bed, I toss and turn worrying all night (and sometimes dreaming up crazy "solutions" that seem great at the time but don't make a lot of sense in the light of day). Having a big political flamewar online right before bed doesn't help either. Also if I run home from work (about 10 miles) I feel awake all evening (good) and into the night (bad).
Follow that strategy, and you'll get Jon Stewart playing videotapes of you saying one thing and then the other. I think the biggest problem of instant retrieval of everything is just the opposite - never being allowed to change without being called a flip-flopper. Of course, there will never be consensus on when principle and determination go too far and become self-denial and stubbornness.
Surely tethering is the better solution, since you could use any laptop with any phone.
In general I'm very skeptical about the elite status and compensation executives grant to themselves. But Jobs is about the strongest case I can think of for somebody who has proven his worth. He leaves, the company tanks; he comes back, it thrives. I don't even like Apple products, time and again I predict this time, they missed the mark. Time and again they show me up. I still don't care that much for their products, but Jobs is special.
NASA'S new direction is not a budget cut. What they are doing is directing money towards unmanned space flight. IMHO it is a simple question of whether to keep pouring money into the failed Ares program, or redirect it to something more promising.
I think hardware full disk encryption is the only way to go. There's no performance penalty and it's transparent to the OS (which is great for those of us who multiboot). Our experience with PGP and Credant has been horrible, making some laptops unusably slow. Is dm-crypt that much better?
If I were trying to sell special-purpose handheld game consoles, or handheld GPS units, or cheap digicams, or PDAs, I would certainly be thinking about the future, because smartphones do all that and more.
Ok, x% of us should stop at highschool. You first!
This story is long on how college is not paying off.. but conveniently neglects the fact that those without college are even worse off.
Ours is increasingly a winner-takes-all society. By definition, that means most people will be losers. But getting on top is still the best chance you've got.
Well, maybe enough successful prosecutions will make it easier for those so inclined to restrain themselves. I sure hope so.
I'm on ubuntu and apt-get install firefox installs 3.0.19, and the HTML5 music notation page shows nothing at all.