Old trees also die and decompose. Old forests are stable, new growth and decomposition happen at the same rate. New forests do much more growing than dying.
Perhaps you're too young to remember how popular the Apple II series and the first Macs were. You've also apparently missed that little iPod thing (introduced 10 years ago) and the iTunes Music Store (almost nine years ago) and the iMac.
Rather than wait forty years I suppose we could just do some simple statistics to figure out how likely it is that Apple's success is due purely to luck. Or just use common sense to come to the conclusion that a fifteen year rise from the verge of bankruptcy to the most valuable company in the world on a string of successes in at least three different markets isn't just luck, no matter what the strange Slashdot anti-fanboy insists.
If you go to sea depending on GPS you're an idiot. If you go to sea without GPS, yourte an idiot. You shouldn't depend on it, but it does make things safer.
Um, the e-mail on my iPhone goes through SSL and optionally through a VPN connection to wherever I want. BB mail is encrypted, but it goes to RIM, who have shown themselves willing to give access to governments who request it.
So what's more secure, encrypted e-mail with both endpoints under my control, or encrypted e-mail with one end under the control of a corporation who has already given out the keys to governments?
And your phone calls and texts are unencrypted whether you use a Blackberry or iPhone.
No, they shouldn't. tPA is finicky stuff. If its administered during the first three hours of an ischemic stroke it can help, but after that it's more likely to hurt, and if you give it for a hemorrhagic stroke it can easily kill. The decision to give tPA is based a lot on experience and absolutely requires a CT scan, someone trained to obtain that scan and someone trained to interpret both the scan and the patient. You could potentially do the interpretation remotely but I don't think anyone has shown that yet (we were working on it) and you'd still need a CT scanner, which is probably not reasonably for such a small base.
It's true. The way you've stated it is absolutely true. What's not true is if they can be wrong about relativity they ARE wrong about the greenhouse effect.
But the people reading and writing that are probably not ones who can be convinced anyway.
When a sizeable percentage of the wealth and political power in the world is at stake, people with trillions of dollars at stake tend not to take no for an answer. Certainly not from people who have to mortgage their houses to finance their companies.
Somehow we find uses for any amount of power we've ever been offered, and demand more.
Most of the power you use does NOT come to your home via an electric wire. Industry uses a huge amount on your behalf. There are quite a few industrial processes that aren't used as much as they might be because they're energy intensive. Probably quite a few more that aren't used at all because they're really, really intensive.
Besides, you might decide you like vacations in orbit.
The entire energy industry knows very well that if they could come up with a cheap, clean source of power we'd find all sorts of new ways to use it. The real tipoff that this is fake is that they haven't been bought out by one of the big energy producers.
I don't think you understand the amount of energy you get out of fusion reactions. If this (probably imaginary) process created stable copper out of stable hydrogen and nickel, you're looking at about 6.6% of the mass of the nickel being converted into energy. So if your "bag of nickel" had a mass of 1 kg, you'd be getting out something like 1.6 terawatt hours (if I did the math right, I'm doing this in a hurry so feel free to check). That's something like the equivalent of a quarter billion kilograms of coal.
Whenever a religious zealot is getting on my nerves I try to "save" them. They're wasting their all too limited lives being bigoted asses, and worse, ruining their childrens' lives too. That's as real as an oncoming bus. You NEED to listen! You need to get out of the road! Can't you see??
That's what you get with open access science. The alternatives are simple: make the public smarter or treat them like dumb animals and don't tell them anything. I prefer the former, even if it is more difficult.
You need to stop reading whatever that was then, because it's wrong. Considering it's one chip that handles both GSM and CDMA it's highly unlikely the phone is even capable of using both systems at the same time.
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Old trees also die and decompose. Old forests are stable, new growth and decomposition happen at the same rate. New forests do much more growing than dying.
Perhaps you're too young to remember how popular the Apple II series and the first Macs were. You've also apparently missed that little iPod thing (introduced 10 years ago) and the iTunes Music Store (almost nine years ago) and the iMac.
Rather than wait forty years I suppose we could just do some simple statistics to figure out how likely it is that Apple's success is due purely to luck. Or just use common sense to come to the conclusion that a fifteen year rise from the verge of bankruptcy to the most valuable company in the world on a string of successes in at least three different markets isn't just luck, no matter what the strange Slashdot anti-fanboy insists.
Except for the crappy colour.
A calibrated and properly adjusted LCD does a much better job.
Screw boardrooms. I want one for my desk, and another for my coffee table.
Yup Apple got lucky. With the iPod, iPhone, iPad, Air.... Wow. They sure are lucky. Over and over and over again.
Yeah, you'll never have that ten seconds back.
If you go to sea depending on GPS you're an idiot. If you go to sea without GPS, yourte an idiot. You shouldn't depend on it, but it does make things safer.
Yes, you can. Until June.
It's a feature that you a) have to turn on and b) have to specifically ask to check for updates and install them.
So basically exactly like before except you don't have to plug your device into a computer to do it. Paranoid much?
Close, but your contacts and calendar entries will still sync via your Mac if you want them to.
You'll also be able to copy your purchases to each device without your computer, but you'll have to do it manually, it won't happen automatically.
Um, the e-mail on my iPhone goes through SSL and optionally through a VPN connection to wherever I want. BB mail is encrypted, but it goes to RIM, who have shown themselves willing to give access to governments who request it.
So what's more secure, encrypted e-mail with both endpoints under my control, or encrypted e-mail with one end under the control of a corporation who has already given out the keys to governments?
And your phone calls and texts are unencrypted whether you use a Blackberry or iPhone.
Sure you can. A pay as you go SIM card purchased at your destination.
No, they shouldn't. tPA is finicky stuff. If its administered during the first three hours of an ischemic stroke it can help, but after that it's more likely to hurt, and if you give it for a hemorrhagic stroke it can easily kill. The decision to give tPA is based a lot on experience and absolutely requires a CT scan, someone trained to obtain that scan and someone trained to interpret both the scan and the patient. You could potentially do the interpretation remotely but I don't think anyone has shown that yet (we were working on it) and you'd still need a CT scanner, which is probably not reasonably for such a small base.
It's true. The way you've stated it is absolutely true. What's not true is if they can be wrong about relativity they ARE wrong about the greenhouse effect.
But the people reading and writing that are probably not ones who can be convinced anyway.
When a sizeable percentage of the wealth and political power in the world is at stake, people with trillions of dollars at stake tend not to take no for an answer. Certainly not from people who have to mortgage their houses to finance their companies.
You're assuming this is cheap as well as nonvolatile.
We have nonvolatile memory now. It hasn't made hard disks disappear. I bet the new kid isn't going to either.
You know you can quit and restart memory hogs like Firefox, right?
Somehow we find uses for any amount of power we've ever been offered, and demand more.
Most of the power you use does NOT come to your home via an electric wire. Industry uses a huge amount on your behalf. There are quite a few industrial processes that aren't used as much as they might be because they're energy intensive. Probably quite a few more that aren't used at all because they're really, really intensive.
Besides, you might decide you like vacations in orbit.
The entire energy industry knows very well that if they could come up with a cheap, clean source of power we'd find all sorts of new ways to use it. The real tipoff that this is fake is that they haven't been bought out by one of the big energy producers.
Exactly. Awesome.
Or just watch John Stewart.
I don't think you understand the amount of energy you get out of fusion reactions. If this (probably imaginary) process created stable copper out of stable hydrogen and nickel, you're looking at about 6.6% of the mass of the nickel being converted into energy. So if your "bag of nickel" had a mass of 1 kg, you'd be getting out something like 1.6 terawatt hours (if I did the math right, I'm doing this in a hurry so feel free to check). That's something like the equivalent of a quarter billion kilograms of coal.
TV presenters in general should use more air quotes. That would be awesome.
Whenever a religious zealot is getting on my nerves I try to "save" them. They're wasting their all too limited lives being bigoted asses, and worse, ruining their childrens' lives too. That's as real as an oncoming bus. You NEED to listen! You need to get out of the road! Can't you see??
Spooky to?
That's what you get with open access science. The alternatives are simple: make the public smarter or treat them like dumb animals and don't tell them anything. I prefer the former, even if it is more difficult.
You need to stop reading whatever that was then, because it's wrong. Considering it's one chip that handles both GSM and CDMA it's highly unlikely the phone is even capable of using both systems at the same time.