Why would you need to patch if nobody has a clue about how to attack your system?
well, actually you got a point but you come at it from the wrong angle.
The problem is that thanks to the net, EVERY COMPUTER IS THE SAME. Internet capable...
Effecticly, this is to sexually transmitted virusses as all of us screwing everyone else at the same. The internet is a gangbang of computers.
What this leads to is that no matter how obscure your OS and the bugs on it, someone somewhere will know about it and have, thanks to the sheer size of the net, have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of targets.
There may not be many amiga's left but if they were all infected, it would still be a nice botnet.
No? You didn't serve your country yet live with in its borders defended by the egotistical macho jackoffs you so despise?
It is odd isn't it, that those who decry how others do their job the most would never do that job themselves or indeed work for the wages associated with those jobs.
The US gets the army that it is willing to pay for. Not its defence budget, but what it pays the soldiers. If that pay only attracts people with no other choices, then you get an army that resulted not just in the Iraq war, but vietnam and korea and all the small conflicts in between.
In WW2, US soldiers where volunteers from all walks of live and they were heroes. Post WW2 only the poor serve on the frontline because that is the only choice they got, often told to either serve or end up in jail in the days of vietnam. Little wonder that given guns and no control they went out of control.
Oddly enough, there was a time when only the best of a nation could serve. There was a spot for rifraf in the abslotute lowest rank, but anything from a sergeant up either quality before they went in, or shaped by the army.
There are many things wrong with the current US system, but it all started when the fast majority are not willing to serve anymore yet vote for politics that lead to war.
Complex is a relative term. There are simpler MMO's out there.
For that matter, while I never got into WoW enough, at later levels especially if you raid, there is a lot to consider. It ain't just "walk around spamming the same attack over and over while gaining dozens of levels in an evening".
What this guy seems to want is things to be simple. In an MMORPG. That is possible, just play any asian MMO.
Not all MMO's, typically the western ones, follow that design. Typically, western MMO's have fewer levels, but more happening in a level (skills) and are on the whole slower to play. One free MMO has me AoE a dozen of enemies and killing them with a single skill dropping piles of loot. Of course to pick it all up, you had to buy a piggy with real money or spend ages clicking loot after each 1 key press killing spree.
In for instance Lotro, such enemies are hard to find. For the new rune-keeper and warden classes, such enemies would be nightmare. They are classes that build up their attacks. One shot kills are boring.
The lore-master class has a lot of skills, but many depend on the situation. What enemy, how many, dictates how you play. Not nearly deep enough as far as I am concerned but I am sure way to complex for some.
SWG and the likes didn't fail because they were complex. WoW is complex. They failed because they were so bug ridden only the most devoted fan could tolerate it and then the developers screwed their fans. Funcom and SOE are companies that basically just don't get customer relations. They don't understand that a game is NOT their product. It belongs to the people who bought it and you can't just mess with it. Change it after the sale to attract more customers does NOT work. You upset the people who bought it for what it is and any new customers are going to be scared off even if they are now intrested by the way you treated your existing customers. After all, if they screwed their old customers, why wouldn't they screw their new ones just as hard?
SWG and Age of Conan have showed that you CANNOT just change the game and expect success. SWG has been talked about enough and AoC tried to lower its age rating by getting rid of nudity. Both failed. AoC and SWG are just waiting to die, if in fact AoC hasn't already.
The simple thing an MMO designer must do is this. Ask "WHAT IS MY MARKET".
Is it a simple, "chat with your mates in an internet cafe while clicking away barely paying attention to the action" korean MMO?
Is it, "Anybody can play this for half an hour a day, but paying a full monthly fee"? "Hardcore raiders only, anything takes at least a weekend to accomplish an end-content requires a cathater?" "Real life is to earn the monthly fee, this isn't second life, this is your life" style world-sim?
Mix and matching don't work so far. If you satisfy one customer you are sure to upset an other. SWG pleased some, then they changed it. AO was to messy and Eve is doing fine because the developers picked their audience and don't upset them.
There is, at the moment, no way to accurately predict an earthquake. This is NOT correct. What is correct is this "There is, at the moment, no way to accurately predict an earthquake WITHIN THE LIMITS NEEDED FOR A SOCIETY TO COST EFFECTIVLY REACT TO A PREDICTION".
Put more simply, I can 100% accurately predict that an earthquake is going to hit. Give or take a hundred years. Tokyo for instance WILL be struck with in the next millenium.
That however is going to be a bit to wide a margin for an evacuation. Sure, you could argue that people shouldn't live in danger zones, but so much of the world is. We could, if we had the will, move ourselves. Make for instance the areas under sea level in Holland farmland and go and live on the high areas (well, above sea level anyway) that are currently farm land. We could, but who would want to? Live out in the untamed wilderness of Gelderland and move out of the big city metropolis of Amsterdam (pop > 750.000).
This guy claims to have predicted an earthquake. He didn't. Not with enough accuracy anyway. You can't just evacuate a city for a week. As harsh as it may sound, the few people who died this time just ain't worth the cost. Oh sure, if you say that you will be denounced as a cold and heartless person but JUST you try and raise the taxes to pay for evactuations of a couple of weeks around every disaster warning. Then you will see just how willing the average voter is to pay for saving lives.
What would be far more sensible is indeed to take the long view, but rather then evacuate, simply build better buildings. If you know an earthquake is likely in the next 100 years, build buildings that can withstand them and reinforce the ones you got. That works. Reliably and you know what? Better buildings are good even if the ground isn't shaking as they won't just collapse with a gas explosion or because of tunneling.
Because they might not be getting Windows but they SURE as hell ain't getting Linux either. I got one and I removed that piece of crap and installed a real OS as soon as I could put an image on a USB stick.
Linux of course, arch linux if you must know, but something I control, not Acer.
Linpus is horribly locked down and doesn't even have Firefox 3 by default. Updates are way to complicated. Sorry, but it seems like little more then those DOS machines Dell sells you because they have to supply an OS to keep MS happy.
Frankly, I think Ubuntu's remix is worth taking a look at as well. One thing that a netbook has is mobility but that comes with some serious drawbacks. For me, trying to use that bloody trackpad while in public transport. KEYBOARD people. The first distro to come with an interface that can be efficiently controlled in a moving train on a relatively small screen (hint, dialog boxes need to be SMALLER then the screen) could have a real winner. Or maybe just wait for Apple to do it right.
While I agree, that would upset all those people who can't understand just why apps want to lock the soundcard, just a few days ago someone used this as a rant against linux. That apps lock the soundcard (which actually doesn't happen anymore on most distro's)
Why are people so completely and utterly clueless about money? States are NOT private you!
North Korea does NOT have the money to buy imports, it however internally has as much money as it could want. Not that building a rocket costs money UNLESS you have to buy the materials. What it costs are resources and a dictatorship can freely control all the resources that a country has and that is a lot.
Simply put, if North Korea puts a thousand of its scientists on this project and forces a thousand farmers to supply them with food, then so be it. That 100.000 others are starving is of no concern. As long as NK can obtain the materials somehow someway, the labour is essentially free. It is something that americans especially are hard pressed to understand. An american won't do anything except for the love of money. Well, the americans on wall street anyway who after all claim they really run the world so it must be true.
The soviets proved before that you can have a space program without it having to cost billions in any real way. Just don't give your engineers a choice.
Not saying I agree with the NK way of doingthings, but claiming they don't have the money is silly. Dictatorships don't work that way.
PulseAudio is the future... but it is also a bit of an X. Not a curse word, X the server. X is fantastic and has features that make other GUI's look very poor indeed. Pity that for most people 99% of it is never needed and indeed gets in the way.
Linux, and for that matter all OS'es have always had trouble with sound. For some reason the powers that be (IBM) never really thought sound was needed beyond an occasional bleep. For a long time your soundcard was made by a taiwanese firm, the type of firm that you would expect to produce dirt cheap clones of western hardware, NOT the only supplier of sound for the IBM-PC (oh okay, leaving out a lot but still).
OSS and even Alsa have problems with apps wanting to lock the soundcard to themselves. PulseAudio is supposed to once and for all end this and make it similar to X in that Pulse Audio can hook up any audio app and any soundcard, even over the network, and mix them together.
Sadly it was released before it was ready and Ubuntu especially implemented it in a really bad way. Hence it got a bad rep because a beta was put badly into a "just works" distro.
But trust me, once you get it working and you are the kind of person who has 2-3 PC's and can never remember which desktop is actually hooked up to a speaker set but just want to play music it is a very nice system.
A lot of people attending MS presentations have Symbian phones and run embedded non-ms in their cars. Nobody in their right mind would run a laptop as you would a server.
Try an app called "thepiratebay", they pre-shrink it for you, removing all the unwanted bits and it don't cost you a dime. Amazing!
Sadly, there service is not always spot on and sometimes you get a full release they missed and you have to deal with all the annoyances yourself. I wish the movie companies would work closer together with the piratebay so we customers can get our product the way we want it.
because that is how sound cards work
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Try a x-fi. Why on earth does an advanced soundcard like that need to switch "enviroments" and killall sound using apps when you do it? under linux you say? no, vista AND xp.
So next time you mouth of on linux, do a little bit of research first.
There are solutions to this problem and they are the same as under windows, software.
Who makes more money? The travel agent, or the vacation resorts? They travel agent NEEDS the resorts or they would have nothing to sell, but the resort is depended on the agent for their trade. If they are ignored by the travel agent, they don't do business as they are to small to attract their own customers.
Same with hotels and hotel booking agencies. Who controls who?
With google and the guardian it is pretty clear. Google is a multi-billion dollar company operating around the globe. The guardian a small british newspaper. This is in a way odd. It would be like the hotel booking agency being ten times the size of the hotels it refers to.
Because that is what google does. It indexes the newssites for us visitors and then allows us to choose the ones we want to visit. For that service it charges a fee in the form of advertising. The amazing thing is that Google has managed to make billions out of this. They are the portal that works! What is even weirder is that the end destinations of us visitors don't seem to be able to make enough money.
Imagine a travel agent that worked for free printing only a cheap add on your ticket, yet earned more money then the resorts themselves.
Historically, these type of refferal agencies have always had an uneasy relationship with their end-users. Travel companies have long since tried to get independent of travel agencies, selling their own products or forming alliances to operate their own.
Hotels love to have customers referred to them, but they hate that booking agencies can send potential customers to better/cheaper accomodations. Price compare sites are fought thought and nail by retailers. Hell, tv companies hate cable companies and expect them to pay for giving them the viewers that view their ads.
Google is making money thanks to others people content. This doesn't sit well, espeically when the people making the content have trouble making money themselves.
There is no easy solution. No content, no google. If news.google.com can't link to stories anymore, nobody would use it. Converserly, without news.google.com I wouldn;t vist half the news sites I do now.
Frankly both need to figure this out together as they need to realise they need each other. After all the guardian has an obvious solution, block google, but they don't want that. They just don't want the referrer to keep all they money for themselves. Google on the other hand has every right to say "though shit". They refer viewers to news sites. That the newssites can't make money of this ain't their problem. What next? A cabbie got to pay a portion of their fee to the hotel they drive people too? On the other hand, that cabbie as google NEEDS these end destinations.
But seeing the struggle in other industries makes it clear that this problem won't be solved.
The MOMENT you allow a matter of taste "obscene" to be part of law then you can just wait for SOMEONE to classify something as obscene that you don't agree with.
Jazz was obscene to the nazi's. Godwin be damned, either you have freedom of speech or you don't and if you don't want speech that you find obscene then you can't have free speech and sooner or later someone will find what you find normal obscene.
You do this because you a stupid. Adults CAN plan ahead and most sensible people do. We put our jacket on before going outside if we expect the weather to be cold. We prepare. A toddler, this study seems to claim, can't do that even if it wanted to.
Remember that the toldler has been TOLD it is cold outside and still doesn't plan ahead. That is not what sensible adults do. Maybe you ain't sensible and have the intelligence of a toddler but that is a whole other problem.
Not out of his mind, just not terribly rooted in r
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He hasn't lost his mind, it just ain't particullary rooted in reality. Never was.
His solution should CO2 become a problem? Plant trees.
Forest around the world are being cut down. Where would we plant not just the trees to replace the ones we had last year but the ones we need extra? He doesn't so much deny that CO2 is a potential problem but seems to think planting lots of trees is the answer without apparenly ever having thought about how we are supposed to do that. Great minds are like that, they can think about immense and complex things we can't fathom, but can't quite grasp that the world can't just turn farmland into forests.
"Bio-tech, he writes in his book, Infinite in All Directions (1988), offers us the chance to imitate natures speed and flexibility, and he imagines the furniture and art that people will grow for themselves, the pet dinosaurs they will grow for their children, along with an idiosyncratic menagerie of genetically engineered cousins of the carbon-eating tree: termites to consume derelict automobiles, a potato capable of flourishing on the dry red surfaces of Mars, a collision-avoiding car."
A potato that grown on Mars. How nice. And how do we get there einstein? This is the kind of stuff we read about 20 years ago that would be with us in 20 years. It is flying cars. As well all know, they don't exist and probably never will. Why? Because they are practical.
Enviromentalists like Al Gore have to be practical. They are dealing with the very real effects of ricing sea levels NOW because you can't just build higher dikes when they have been destroyed by a storm. That is for instance the problems in Holland right now. As a country we are more then rich enough to raise the dikes but we need to do it NOW when the danger is years or even decades away because it will take years and even decades to finish and worse, if the predictions are to conservative, then those higher dikes might be needed sooner rather then later. You can't just plant a lot of trees if Dyson is wrong in 30 years. By then it will be to late.
That is the real problem with the supposed climate change. Say we follow Al Gore and there turns out not to be a problem. We would have wasted lots of money. Say we don't follow Al Gore and he is right, then we are in deep shit and it is to late to do anything about it. That is roughly the left and the right. The left want to be save and pay insurance now. The right wants to keep their money and their childeren be damned.
Sending nude pictures of yourself via a social website in the US is a known legal risk. Maturity means being able to do a risk/benefit analysis. A mature person would have decided against this and either send the pics in some other way that could NOT be traced or not even done it. Every part of her actions shows she is NOT mature.
The splitting of the cells, the growing of said cells, keeping the cells supplied with nutrients, that is what limits the growth of a plant. Not silly gravity. Gravity has an effect (perhaps) on the shape of the plant. I could imagine that with less gravity a tree would be more upright, its branches not bending down by their own weight. There might be a reduction in the cost to pump the sap around although you got to wonder if gravity is not actually used in this process.
But hey, smarter people then me and you have tried thinking about this, didn't come up with a clear answer so they decided to do an experiment. Soon we will know or have another hole in the moon.
Or perhaps we should teach kids about libraries. Where dozens of books are found on the same subject, each with a different view. Not constrained by size or editors who insist that their view is the neutral view.
Libraries, Wikipedia without the trolls, random edits and shallowness of the net. An amazing invention and they are right there in your neighbourhood.
Wikipedia is a tool, but don't pretend that it is any more then an extremely shallow encyclopedia. This is important. If you want to know about a subject an encyclopedia will only tell you the barest minimum on it. That is its function. Sadly most of the internet is like this. Everything got to be short, shorter, shortest and depth and with that accuracy goes right out of the window.
Don't get me wrong, I like wikipedia and use it a lot, but it is an encyclopedia. Libraries contain DOZENS of those.
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well, actually you got a point but you come at it from the wrong angle.
The problem is that thanks to the net, EVERY COMPUTER IS THE SAME. Internet capable...
Effecticly, this is to sexually transmitted virusses as all of us screwing everyone else at the same. The internet is a gangbang of computers.
What this leads to is that no matter how obscure your OS and the bugs on it, someone somewhere will know about it and have, thanks to the sheer size of the net, have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of targets.
There may not be many amiga's left but if they were all infected, it would still be a nice botnet.
No? You didn't serve your country yet live with in its borders defended by the egotistical macho jackoffs you so despise?
It is odd isn't it, that those who decry how others do their job the most would never do that job themselves or indeed work for the wages associated with those jobs.
The US gets the army that it is willing to pay for. Not its defence budget, but what it pays the soldiers. If that pay only attracts people with no other choices, then you get an army that resulted not just in the Iraq war, but vietnam and korea and all the small conflicts in between.
In WW2, US soldiers where volunteers from all walks of live and they were heroes. Post WW2 only the poor serve on the frontline because that is the only choice they got, often told to either serve or end up in jail in the days of vietnam. Little wonder that given guns and no control they went out of control.
Oddly enough, there was a time when only the best of a nation could serve. There was a spot for rifraf in the abslotute lowest rank, but anything from a sergeant up either quality before they went in, or shaped by the army.
There are many things wrong with the current US system, but it all started when the fast majority are not willing to serve anymore yet vote for politics that lead to war.
The argument is that the EXTRA copies sold because of the copy protection might not be worth it.
EXTRA, not TOTAL.
Comprehensive reading, you fail it.
Complex is a relative term. There are simpler MMO's out there.
For that matter, while I never got into WoW enough, at later levels especially if you raid, there is a lot to consider. It ain't just "walk around spamming the same attack over and over while gaining dozens of levels in an evening".
Mmm, nope. There goes the hope of the meat industry to beat the credit-crisis!
What this guy seems to want is things to be simple. In an MMORPG. That is possible, just play any asian MMO.
Not all MMO's, typically the western ones, follow that design. Typically, western MMO's have fewer levels, but more happening in a level (skills) and are on the whole slower to play. One free MMO has me AoE a dozen of enemies and killing them with a single skill dropping piles of loot. Of course to pick it all up, you had to buy a piggy with real money or spend ages clicking loot after each 1 key press killing spree.
In for instance Lotro, such enemies are hard to find. For the new rune-keeper and warden classes, such enemies would be nightmare. They are classes that build up their attacks. One shot kills are boring.
The lore-master class has a lot of skills, but many depend on the situation. What enemy, how many, dictates how you play. Not nearly deep enough as far as I am concerned but I am sure way to complex for some.
SWG and the likes didn't fail because they were complex. WoW is complex. They failed because they were so bug ridden only the most devoted fan could tolerate it and then the developers screwed their fans. Funcom and SOE are companies that basically just don't get customer relations. They don't understand that a game is NOT their product. It belongs to the people who bought it and you can't just mess with it. Change it after the sale to attract more customers does NOT work. You upset the people who bought it for what it is and any new customers are going to be scared off even if they are now intrested by the way you treated your existing customers. After all, if they screwed their old customers, why wouldn't they screw their new ones just as hard?
SWG and Age of Conan have showed that you CANNOT just change the game and expect success. SWG has been talked about enough and AoC tried to lower its age rating by getting rid of nudity. Both failed. AoC and SWG are just waiting to die, if in fact AoC hasn't already.
The simple thing an MMO designer must do is this. Ask "WHAT IS MY MARKET".
Is it a simple, "chat with your mates in an internet cafe while clicking away barely paying attention to the action" korean MMO? Is it, "Anybody can play this for half an hour a day, but paying a full monthly fee"? "Hardcore raiders only, anything takes at least a weekend to accomplish an end-content requires a cathater?" "Real life is to earn the monthly fee, this isn't second life, this is your life" style world-sim?
Mix and matching don't work so far. If you satisfy one customer you are sure to upset an other. SWG pleased some, then they changed it. AO was to messy and Eve is doing fine because the developers picked their audience and don't upset them.
There is, at the moment, no way to accurately predict an earthquake. This is NOT correct. What is correct is this "There is, at the moment, no way to accurately predict an earthquake WITHIN THE LIMITS NEEDED FOR A SOCIETY TO COST EFFECTIVLY REACT TO A PREDICTION".
Put more simply, I can 100% accurately predict that an earthquake is going to hit. Give or take a hundred years. Tokyo for instance WILL be struck with in the next millenium.
That however is going to be a bit to wide a margin for an evacuation. Sure, you could argue that people shouldn't live in danger zones, but so much of the world is. We could, if we had the will, move ourselves. Make for instance the areas under sea level in Holland farmland and go and live on the high areas (well, above sea level anyway) that are currently farm land. We could, but who would want to? Live out in the untamed wilderness of Gelderland and move out of the big city metropolis of Amsterdam (pop > 750.000).
This guy claims to have predicted an earthquake. He didn't. Not with enough accuracy anyway. You can't just evacuate a city for a week. As harsh as it may sound, the few people who died this time just ain't worth the cost. Oh sure, if you say that you will be denounced as a cold and heartless person but JUST you try and raise the taxes to pay for evactuations of a couple of weeks around every disaster warning. Then you will see just how willing the average voter is to pay for saving lives.
What would be far more sensible is indeed to take the long view, but rather then evacuate, simply build better buildings. If you know an earthquake is likely in the next 100 years, build buildings that can withstand them and reinforce the ones you got. That works. Reliably and you know what? Better buildings are good even if the ground isn't shaking as they won't just collapse with a gas explosion or because of tunneling.
Because they might not be getting Windows but they SURE as hell ain't getting Linux either. I got one and I removed that piece of crap and installed a real OS as soon as I could put an image on a USB stick.
Linux of course, arch linux if you must know, but something I control, not Acer.
Linpus is horribly locked down and doesn't even have Firefox 3 by default. Updates are way to complicated. Sorry, but it seems like little more then those DOS machines Dell sells you because they have to supply an OS to keep MS happy.
Frankly, I think Ubuntu's remix is worth taking a look at as well. One thing that a netbook has is mobility but that comes with some serious drawbacks. For me, trying to use that bloody trackpad while in public transport. KEYBOARD people. The first distro to come with an interface that can be efficiently controlled in a moving train on a relatively small screen (hint, dialog boxes need to be SMALLER then the screen) could have a real winner. Or maybe just wait for Apple to do it right.
While I agree, that would upset all those people who can't understand just why apps want to lock the soundcard, just a few days ago someone used this as a rant against linux. That apps lock the soundcard (which actually doesn't happen anymore on most distro's)
Why are people so completely and utterly clueless about money? States are NOT private you!
North Korea does NOT have the money to buy imports, it however internally has as much money as it could want. Not that building a rocket costs money UNLESS you have to buy the materials. What it costs are resources and a dictatorship can freely control all the resources that a country has and that is a lot.
Simply put, if North Korea puts a thousand of its scientists on this project and forces a thousand farmers to supply them with food, then so be it. That 100.000 others are starving is of no concern. As long as NK can obtain the materials somehow someway, the labour is essentially free. It is something that americans especially are hard pressed to understand. An american won't do anything except for the love of money. Well, the americans on wall street anyway who after all claim they really run the world so it must be true.
The soviets proved before that you can have a space program without it having to cost billions in any real way. Just don't give your engineers a choice.
Not saying I agree with the NK way of doingthings, but claiming they don't have the money is silly. Dictatorships don't work that way.
PulseAudio is the future... but it is also a bit of an X. Not a curse word, X the server. X is fantastic and has features that make other GUI's look very poor indeed. Pity that for most people 99% of it is never needed and indeed gets in the way.
Linux, and for that matter all OS'es have always had trouble with sound. For some reason the powers that be (IBM) never really thought sound was needed beyond an occasional bleep. For a long time your soundcard was made by a taiwanese firm, the type of firm that you would expect to produce dirt cheap clones of western hardware, NOT the only supplier of sound for the IBM-PC (oh okay, leaving out a lot but still).
OSS and even Alsa have problems with apps wanting to lock the soundcard to themselves. PulseAudio is supposed to once and for all end this and make it similar to X in that Pulse Audio can hook up any audio app and any soundcard, even over the network, and mix them together.
Sadly it was released before it was ready and Ubuntu especially implemented it in a really bad way. Hence it got a bad rep because a beta was put badly into a "just works" distro.
But trust me, once you get it working and you are the kind of person who has 2-3 PC's and can never remember which desktop is actually hooked up to a speaker set but just want to play music it is a very nice system.
geez, stop watching fox will you.
A lot of people attending MS presentations have Symbian phones and run embedded non-ms in their cars. Nobody in their right mind would run a laptop as you would a server.
Try an app called "thepiratebay", they pre-shrink it for you, removing all the unwanted bits and it don't cost you a dime. Amazing!
Sadly, there service is not always spot on and sometimes you get a full release they missed and you have to deal with all the annoyances yourself. I wish the movie companies would work closer together with the piratebay so we customers can get our product the way we want it.
Try a x-fi. Why on earth does an advanced soundcard like that need to switch "enviroments" and killall sound using apps when you do it? under linux you say? no, vista AND xp.
So next time you mouth of on linux, do a little bit of research first.
There are solutions to this problem and they are the same as under windows, software.
Who makes more money? The travel agent, or the vacation resorts? They travel agent NEEDS the resorts or they would have nothing to sell, but the resort is depended on the agent for their trade. If they are ignored by the travel agent, they don't do business as they are to small to attract their own customers.
Same with hotels and hotel booking agencies. Who controls who?
With google and the guardian it is pretty clear. Google is a multi-billion dollar company operating around the globe. The guardian a small british newspaper. This is in a way odd. It would be like the hotel booking agency being ten times the size of the hotels it refers to.
Because that is what google does. It indexes the newssites for us visitors and then allows us to choose the ones we want to visit. For that service it charges a fee in the form of advertising. The amazing thing is that Google has managed to make billions out of this. They are the portal that works! What is even weirder is that the end destinations of us visitors don't seem to be able to make enough money.
Imagine a travel agent that worked for free printing only a cheap add on your ticket, yet earned more money then the resorts themselves.
Historically, these type of refferal agencies have always had an uneasy relationship with their end-users. Travel companies have long since tried to get independent of travel agencies, selling their own products or forming alliances to operate their own.
Hotels love to have customers referred to them, but they hate that booking agencies can send potential customers to better/cheaper accomodations. Price compare sites are fought thought and nail by retailers. Hell, tv companies hate cable companies and expect them to pay for giving them the viewers that view their ads.
Google is making money thanks to others people content. This doesn't sit well, espeically when the people making the content have trouble making money themselves.
There is no easy solution. No content, no google. If news.google.com can't link to stories anymore, nobody would use it. Converserly, without news.google.com I wouldn;t vist half the news sites I do now.
Frankly both need to figure this out together as they need to realise they need each other. After all the guardian has an obvious solution, block google, but they don't want that. They just don't want the referrer to keep all they money for themselves. Google on the other hand has every right to say "though shit". They refer viewers to news sites. That the newssites can't make money of this ain't their problem. What next? A cabbie got to pay a portion of their fee to the hotel they drive people too? On the other hand, that cabbie as google NEEDS these end destinations.
But seeing the struggle in other industries makes it clear that this problem won't be solved.
OTHERS WILL MISINTERPRET THIS ON PURPOSE!
The MOMENT you allow a matter of taste "obscene" to be part of law then you can just wait for SOMEONE to classify something as obscene that you don't agree with.
Jazz was obscene to the nazi's. Godwin be damned, either you have freedom of speech or you don't and if you don't want speech that you find obscene then you can't have free speech and sooner or later someone will find what you find normal obscene.
Should google this...
You bastard!
You do this because you a stupid. Adults CAN plan ahead and most sensible people do. We put our jacket on before going outside if we expect the weather to be cold. We prepare. A toddler, this study seems to claim, can't do that even if it wanted to.
Remember that the toldler has been TOLD it is cold outside and still doesn't plan ahead. That is not what sensible adults do. Maybe you ain't sensible and have the intelligence of a toddler but that is a whole other problem.
He hasn't lost his mind, it just ain't particullary rooted in reality. Never was.
His solution should CO2 become a problem? Plant trees.
Forest around the world are being cut down. Where would we plant not just the trees to replace the ones we had last year but the ones we need extra? He doesn't so much deny that CO2 is a potential problem but seems to think planting lots of trees is the answer without apparenly ever having thought about how we are supposed to do that. Great minds are like that, they can think about immense and complex things we can't fathom, but can't quite grasp that the world can't just turn farmland into forests.
"Bio-tech, he writes in his book, Infinite in All Directions (1988), offers us the chance to imitate natures speed and flexibility, and he imagines the furniture and art that people will grow for themselves, the pet dinosaurs they will grow for their children, along with an idiosyncratic menagerie of genetically engineered cousins of the carbon-eating tree: termites to consume derelict automobiles, a potato capable of flourishing on the dry red surfaces of Mars, a collision-avoiding car."
A potato that grown on Mars. How nice. And how do we get there einstein? This is the kind of stuff we read about 20 years ago that would be with us in 20 years. It is flying cars. As well all know, they don't exist and probably never will. Why? Because they are practical.
Enviromentalists like Al Gore have to be practical. They are dealing with the very real effects of ricing sea levels NOW because you can't just build higher dikes when they have been destroyed by a storm. That is for instance the problems in Holland right now. As a country we are more then rich enough to raise the dikes but we need to do it NOW when the danger is years or even decades away because it will take years and even decades to finish and worse, if the predictions are to conservative, then those higher dikes might be needed sooner rather then later. You can't just plant a lot of trees if Dyson is wrong in 30 years. By then it will be to late.
That is the real problem with the supposed climate change. Say we follow Al Gore and there turns out not to be a problem. We would have wasted lots of money. Say we don't follow Al Gore and he is right, then we are in deep shit and it is to late to do anything about it. That is roughly the left and the right. The left want to be save and pay insurance now. The right wants to keep their money and their childeren be damned.
The exact same size of wing...
After all, you said nothing about the speed. Wait long enough and the ship itself will move in the wind.
Sending nude pictures of yourself via a social website in the US is a known legal risk. Maturity means being able to do a risk/benefit analysis. A mature person would have decided against this and either send the pics in some other way that could NOT be traced or not even done it. Every part of her actions shows she is NOT mature.
All children need to be thrown in jail for this offense!
All children need to be thrown in jail.
There, fixed it for you.
The splitting of the cells, the growing of said cells, keeping the cells supplied with nutrients, that is what limits the growth of a plant. Not silly gravity. Gravity has an effect (perhaps) on the shape of the plant. I could imagine that with less gravity a tree would be more upright, its branches not bending down by their own weight. There might be a reduction in the cost to pump the sap around although you got to wonder if gravity is not actually used in this process.
But hey, smarter people then me and you have tried thinking about this, didn't come up with a clear answer so they decided to do an experiment. Soon we will know or have another hole in the moon.
Or perhaps we should teach kids about libraries. Where dozens of books are found on the same subject, each with a different view. Not constrained by size or editors who insist that their view is the neutral view.
Libraries, Wikipedia without the trolls, random edits and shallowness of the net. An amazing invention and they are right there in your neighbourhood.
Wikipedia is a tool, but don't pretend that it is any more then an extremely shallow encyclopedia. This is important. If you want to know about a subject an encyclopedia will only tell you the barest minimum on it. That is its function. Sadly most of the internet is like this. Everything got to be short, shorter, shortest and depth and with that accuracy goes right out of the window.
Don't get me wrong, I like wikipedia and use it a lot, but it is an encyclopedia. Libraries contain DOZENS of those.