Ok, one last time hydrogen is a carrier of energy not a generator.
I just think this thread is hilarious. Half the people are screaming "solar is useless without a way to store and transport it!" and the other half "hydrogen is useless without an energy source to produce it!"
I would like to know how my Internet and TV are being filtered, in fact I think it's important to know. Why do you think it's partisan? I don't see it that way, if anything a lot of people seem to complain that CNN is liberal-biased, so both parties/philosophies are implicated. Too many comments so far are about (A) homosexuality or (B) political parties, which distract from the issue of media self-censorship, which the summary correctly (IMHO) emphasized by making it the title.
I don't see how a short snippet like this, which is revealing about the media, could not be considered fair use. I also don't think the DMCA absolutely overrides fair use.
The title of the writeup makes it sound like the only difference between jobs is the language, but if you read the blurb that's not the only, or perhaps even the main difference between the two.
What jumped out at me is doing more small, self-contained jobs vs. making little contributions to a huge system. Personally I think the smaller jobs are much more fun - though they're also usually less important are not big resume builders.
"A lot more" out of a SLR, I think it depends. The bigger sensor (and correspondingly bigger, heavier, more expensive lenses) are the only really inherent advantage SLRs have over compacts in image quality. When does that matter? When light is scarce - which is fairly common, whether due to dim light, long focal length, fast action, or lack of a tripod. In good light, though, I don't think SLRs have much advantage in image quality.
Bill Gates (and by extension I suspect much of Microsoft) is very worred about missing the "next big thing" and being left in the dust. The history is that IBM gravely under estimated the PC revolution and handed it over to Microsoft, so Microsoft doesn't want to get shafted like they did to IBM. I agree this particular application doesn't seem very important, but Microsoft may be concerned in general about losing ground as an applications service provider. Apparently this new thing is based on ActiveX so personally I hope it is an utter failure.
I had thought for a while that Microsoft was just ignoring Linux, but now it seems they're opening up a new front, one where they're going to engage in overt psychological warfare in order to discourage adoption of competing products.
My thought was just the opposite - this is a blast from the past. Two or three years ago Microsoft was really trumping this FUD about Linux being legally risky. With the utter failure of the Microsoft-backed SCO lawsuit, I've heard much less of this issue in the past couple years. I guess Ballmer is "staying the course."
I am against counting only civilians. It's so easy to slap the label of "soldier" on somebody and not worry about it (as much) because they were "supposed" to die. In my book, dead American soldiers are dead Americans, and the decision to invade Iraq has resulted in tens of thousands of US casualties including thousands dead.
Doesn't the idea of artifical receptors (and actuators) assume neuronal adaptation in the first place? It's not like the surgeons could manually reconnect every neuron in your optic nerve to the correct pin on a chip.
I'd be interested if somebody has done a study to determine how much additional throughput is gained by giving X% of drivers congestion information. My guess is it would do more to reduce the variance of travel times than it would to reduce the average travel time.
It has already happened. Take linux: there's hardly a program out there that doesn't use libc. It's almost impossible to find a GUI program that doesn't use libX11. When's the last time you implemented sin()?
Agreed. This is a simple tragedy of the commons and suggesting a market-based solution is frightfully ignorant. If we let the markets take their course, the last surviving businesses in the fishing industry will be those that outfish all the others to the bitter end, resulting in a collapse of the fish population. Global fish production will then be only a tiny fraction of what it would be if effective regulations are enacted to ensure that enough fish can survive to keep the population (and the future harvest) up. As the article states, this has already been effective in US waters.
I don't see a lot of disagreement between the skeptics and the study's author. The skeptic says, "I'm worried about some areas of the world -- like Africa -- but other areas of the world have figured out how to do effective fishery management." The author of the study says, "the study's prediction of worldwide collapse is based on an average fishery of the future, and that some fisheries could end up well above the dismal average... Worm cited the North Pacific fisheries off Alaska as a success story, where harvest managers have avoided many of the mistakes made in other areas of the world."
So you can choose to be content because a few spots around the world are well-managed and thriving, or you can be worried because most of the world seems headed for crisis. I can see why professors at some universities near the northwest coast are more focused on their own local issues, but that doesn't make the larger global problem go away. There are a lot of people around the world who will have a very hard time of it if they don't start getting their act together immediately.
However, I've also read that the human immune system works better at higher temperatures. That means that, once you have an infection, your body will fight it off better if your body temperature is raised.
Don't most chemical reactions occur more rapidly in a warm environment? Thus the existence of "warm-blooded" creatures in the first place. If you could tweak your homeostasis mechanisms and lower your body temp, you just live that much slower, and hence longer. But who wants to be sluggish all the time, like a lizard or insect in cold weather?
You can't be serious. I really don't think anybody expects people to hold the phone up to their head and use the built-in speaker in order to listen to music.
I'd give the jpg format a 50/50 chance of outlasting the English language as we know it. Compared to English, jpeg is less complicated, better defined, and accepted more globally. (The same cannot be said for your old Word / WordPerfect documents, by the way).
Interesting point, and I appreciate the work you put into it, but I disagree. All those physical layers don't matter much with digital information, because changing formats is so easy - as easy as burning a DVD. The achilles' heel of the library of Alexandria was that there was only one copy.
Come 2008, Bush will be out of office and the U.S. will become a utopia just like it was when Clinton was President.
I originally voted against Clinton. Yet in retrospect, I've realized America was better off during his term than any other in my lifetime. Though not utopia, we had peace, prosperity, and falling crime, moreso then than either before or after. It's a matter of record. Now, I am not one to blame/credit the President for everything that happens during his term, but results have to count for something.
Congress writes the laws. Congress passes the laws. The President just gets a photo-op when he signs them. If we want change in the U.S. we must focus on Congress.
I think are describing the Constitution, rather than our current government. Have you noticed that President Bush has vetoed virtually nothing during his Presidency? It's not because he's afraid to use it, it's because our federal govt. has been under one-party rule for the last 6 years. The President is literally doing what he wants and getting it legalized afterwards. You think individual representatives can step out of line without consequences? The Democrats are spineless because they know they don't have the votes to make it stick. Even McCain, whom I respected, has been brought to heel.
For the first time, I am not voting the issues on Tuesday. I'm voting for a return to government gridlock, because we are living the consequences of too much concentration of power, and hundreds of billions of dollars are being wasted, and tens of thousands of people (including thousands of Americans) are dying.
They're not that different, certainly when it comes to CPUs. For years Sun and their adherents discounted the PC architecture saying "servers are not desktops," with very little more justification than that. Meanwhile they've watched PCs eat up most of the server market they once owned. Buy the right motherboard for this CPU and you can have lots of bus bandwidth. Sure, network and disk are critical, but look at it this way: now you can serve up the same nubmer of disks and bandwidth using fewer CPUs, thus reducing power and space requirements.
I guess he's not a criminal until convicted, so here's hoping. I'm taking bets on whether his laywer will try to invent some creative legal defense based on his victims' employment contract. "Employees have no expectation of privacy on company-owned computer systems," or "all goods and information produced during the term of employment are sole property of Jackass Inc." you know, those kind of clauses. Or maybe the boss will sue the company for careless handling of personal information in violation of state privacy law (proven, naturally, by the fact that he was able to steal so much $$$). OK, I'm obviously paranoid, but I didn't start out this way, so there must be a reason for it.
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I don't see how a short snippet like this, which is revealing about the media, could not be considered fair use. I also don't think the DMCA absolutely overrides fair use.
What jumped out at me is doing more small, self-contained jobs vs. making little contributions to a huge system. Personally I think the smaller jobs are much more fun - though they're also usually less important are not big resume builders.
You mean China is going to make, manufacture, and use technology themselves without paying us royalties? I'm outraged. We're screwed.
It will seem restrictive to those would like to tweak the JVM and then use it to compete against Sun. Personally I think Sun made a great choice.
"A lot more" out of a SLR, I think it depends. The bigger sensor (and correspondingly bigger, heavier, more expensive lenses) are the only really inherent advantage SLRs have over compacts in image quality. When does that matter? When light is scarce - which is fairly common, whether due to dim light, long focal length, fast action, or lack of a tripod. In good light, though, I don't think SLRs have much advantage in image quality.
Bill Gates (and by extension I suspect much of Microsoft) is very worred about missing the "next big thing" and being left in the dust. The history is that IBM gravely under estimated the PC revolution and handed it over to Microsoft, so Microsoft doesn't want to get shafted like they did to IBM. I agree this particular application doesn't seem very important, but Microsoft may be concerned in general about losing ground as an applications service provider. Apparently this new thing is based on ActiveX so personally I hope it is an utter failure.
I run Google Earth under Linux. Will this new offering provide an alternative? (Let me guess - NO WAY!)
I am against counting only civilians. It's so easy to slap the label of "soldier" on somebody and not worry about it (as much) because they were "supposed" to die. In my book, dead American soldiers are dead Americans, and the decision to invade Iraq has resulted in tens of thousands of US casualties including thousands dead.
Somebody was going to say it.
Doesn't the idea of artifical receptors (and actuators) assume neuronal adaptation in the first place? It's not like the surgeons could manually reconnect every neuron in your optic nerve to the correct pin on a chip.
I'd be interested if somebody has done a study to determine how much additional throughput is gained by giving X% of drivers congestion information. My guess is it would do more to reduce the variance of travel times than it would to reduce the average travel time.
It has already happened. Take linux: there's hardly a program out there that doesn't use libc. It's almost impossible to find a GUI program that doesn't use libX11. When's the last time you implemented sin()?
Agreed. This is a simple tragedy of the commons and suggesting a market-based solution is frightfully ignorant. If we let the markets take their course, the last surviving businesses in the fishing industry will be those that outfish all the others to the bitter end, resulting in a collapse of the fish population. Global fish production will then be only a tiny fraction of what it would be if effective regulations are enacted to ensure that enough fish can survive to keep the population (and the future harvest) up. As the article states, this has already been effective in US waters.
So you can choose to be content because a few spots around the world are well-managed and thriving, or you can be worried because most of the world seems headed for crisis. I can see why professors at some universities near the northwest coast are more focused on their own local issues, but that doesn't make the larger global problem go away. There are a lot of people around the world who will have a very hard time of it if they don't start getting their act together immediately.
You can't be serious. I really don't think anybody expects people to hold the phone up to their head and use the built-in speaker in order to listen to music.
Interesting point, and I appreciate the work you put into it, but I disagree. All those physical layers don't matter much with digital information, because changing formats is so easy - as easy as burning a DVD. The achilles' heel of the library of Alexandria was that there was only one copy.
For the first time, I am not voting the issues on Tuesday. I'm voting for a return to government gridlock, because we are living the consequences of too much concentration of power, and hundreds of billions of dollars are being wasted, and tens of thousands of people (including thousands of Americans) are dying.
Fair enough; I doubt this 4-core chip will be widespread until its price comes way down. Maybe I was misinterpreting the gist of your point.
It's a no-brainer for any server. That's a pretty big market!
I guess he's not a criminal until convicted, so here's hoping. I'm taking bets on whether his laywer will try to invent some creative legal defense based on his victims' employment contract. "Employees have no expectation of privacy on company-owned computer systems," or "all goods and information produced during the term of employment are sole property of Jackass Inc." you know, those kind of clauses. Or maybe the boss will sue the company for careless handling of personal information in violation of state privacy law (proven, naturally, by the fact that he was able to steal so much $$$). OK, I'm obviously paranoid, but I didn't start out this way, so there must be a reason for it.