I am sure this has been repeated over and over in the threads (this is slash dot, right?) but the problem is simple;
* (Unencumbered) guns fire projectiles very fast (cool tech!). Like hitting something with an axe or driving over something in your car. Watch where you are aiming/going.
* (DRM) guns will fire only if you are the "right" person... or something screws up (batteries are dead, etc.)
The Bad Guys (tm) are going to have weapons without DRM, because they don't really care if they make a mistake. If required, only the Good Guys (tm) will have DRM guns, and they may or may not work when needed. On balance, that may or may not "save lives". When I purchase a gun, I want it to send lead sailing. If model X has DRM and model Y just lets fly, every time, no questions asked, I'd want model Y.
BTW. I do have children and own guns. They have been to the firing range, they know the rules. They keep asking when they can go again. The youngest have a natural fear after a demonstration, it is serious, it is loud. They just want to use smaller calibres. The older kidsn soon start asking to fire the "big guns", when they are older and appreciate the difference.
Some people just don't get it. Perhaps the earth is supposed to get warmer.
Gaia is just getting a little fever, like you do when you are sick. When all the bad germs are gone, bring on the global frozen daquiris again for the next ice age...
The proof is in the numbers - "N" home users with "nice" set-ups, vs "N*1000" users looking at "content" on their cellphones and PDA screens (trend to lower def) vs "N*100000" users with "what they have now". For most Hollywood fare, if you can hear the soundtrack ok and see some pictures, you get the story.
Most movies don't require HD to be enjoyed (or consumed).
It will be a long time before the masses find plain-ole DVD quality (on their $129 Wal-Mart 27" TV) not good enough.
Every new computer I have ever purchased - Dells included (Inspiron laptop was the last Dell) -- The FIRST thing I do is reformat the drive.
a) This usually saves lots of space and you can partition the way you like.
b) You know what you have, and only load what you want.
c) You can then image the minimal "clean" install for later recovery, cleanup, etc.
This method works wonders - my last el-cheapo HP Pavilion laptop went from 63 second boot time to under 30 seconds when it wasn't burdened with stuff I didn't want/need.
Just make sure you have any special drivers you'll need "on hand" before you do this.
Ice ages come, Ice ages go... and they did so long before people drove hummers.
It is just as likely that homo-sapiens are currenly holding off an Ice Age as they are helping bring in "global warming". The objective science is pretty thin either way. Maybe we'll be smacked by an asteroid or rogue gamma ray and end the agument once and for all (or until something else crawls out of the muck to take the issue up again...)
Anyhow, the answer to your question who will be burning [Fossil Fuels] is this: who ever can get at them for an energy source cheaper than any alternative. (India, China, evolved racoons 2 million years from now...)
Right now, it is whoever can pay the market rate (i.e. the Industrialized Nations).
Let's say there is some "day after tomorrow" or "an inconvenient truth" scenario in our future... and humans are whacked back to Ice-Age times, or "worse"... Do you think the raco-sapiens will give a whit about burning cheap hydrocarbons vs "the environment"?
In the long long long run, the planet will be a cinder either way.
If you really care about saving the planet - it is a lost cause. If you want to save human kind, then you should push for high-tech and space programs and spread people all over, off this doomed rock.
...personally I'm not sure I would have wanted a world of all eletric cars when the time came to recycle the batteries...
Since most electricity is still generated by burning fossil fuels, an all-electric car would most likely be worse than one burning the fuel directly. I have never heard of a perfectly efficient method of transmitting electricty from where it was produced to where it was needed (e.g. charge up the car). Ergo, there would be a net increase in "environmental badness" to use the e-car vs what we have now.
All the fossil fuels that are economically reachable will be burned. Do you want them burned in nice epa-mandated catalytic converter equiped cars or some 3rd world 2-stroke putt-putt cars?
Either way we will eventually get to "the next thing" - I'd say let us use it up the way we are going now.
I deal with things and my wife deals with people. This has worked out so far (20 mumble something years).
My wife has zero interest in upgrading the computers, fixing cars, doing yardwork... And I have zero interest in minding our relationships, e.g. remembering to send assorted greeting cards at the appropriate time, calling folks "just to chat", etc.
If some kid comes to the door selling something for a fund-raiser, she'll buy it to be nice, I'll tell them to pound sand.
Maybe females are different... Vive la differance!
I took a quick look at their Terms of Use - I didn't see any "50% photos" rule.
But they do say stuff like "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time".
Anyhow, I would guess their business model was to be aquired by someone else.
In this case it worked! Yahoo bought them, and users will be subject to the Yahoo TOS, which among other things includes the phrase "which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you"...
So, all-in-all, just another you get what you pay for deal.
...get laws passed that force us to buy their crap...
Short of forcing me to buy their stuff, I don't understand the problem - if it is crap, what do you care what they charge for it?
If their crap is not free and you don't want it, don't buy it.
The industry may or may not know what they are doing when it comes to optimizing their profits, but that is their business. Time will tell, meanwhile don't buy "crap".
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* (Unencumbered) guns fire projectiles very fast (cool tech!). Like hitting something with an axe or driving over something in your car. Watch where you are aiming/going.
* (DRM) guns will fire only if you are the "right" person... or something screws up (batteries are dead, etc.)
The Bad Guys (tm) are going to have weapons without DRM, because they don't really care if they make a mistake. If required, only the Good Guys (tm) will have DRM guns, and they may or may not work when needed. On balance, that may or may not "save lives". When I purchase a gun, I want it to send lead sailing. If model X has DRM and model Y just lets fly, every time, no questions asked, I'd want model Y.
BTW. I do have children and own guns. They have been to the firing range, they know the rules. They keep asking when they can go again. The youngest have a natural fear after a demonstration, it is serious, it is loud. They just want to use smaller calibres. The older kidsn soon start asking to fire the "big guns", when they are older and appreciate the difference.
Sure, it would be nice to put it underground, but it costs more that way...
That way, when the next Ice Age or nuclear winter comes, they can just switch modes...
Gaia is just getting a little fever, like you do when you are sick. When all the bad germs are gone, bring on the global frozen daquiris again for the next ice age...
Most movies don't require HD to be enjoyed (or consumed).
It will be a long time before the masses find plain-ole DVD quality (on their $129 Wal-Mart 27" TV) not good enough.
a) This usually saves lots of space and you can partition the way you like.
b) You know what you have, and only load what you want.
c) You can then image the minimal "clean" install for later recovery, cleanup, etc.
This method works wonders - my last el-cheapo HP Pavilion laptop went from 63 second boot time to under 30 seconds when it wasn't burdened with stuff I didn't want/need.
Just make sure you have any special drivers you'll need "on hand" before you do this.
The latter might help with the wino vote, but they don't turn out in great numbers.
The RIP party might gets some votes, at least in some Chicago districts - but I think the Democrats already have dibs on the dead.
You need more cylinders to pull the extra dead weight
Some sites have great explainations and demos.
This has nothing to do with image sensors, but does have some bearing on "what can eyes really see".
It is just as likely that homo-sapiens are currenly holding off an Ice Age as they are helping bring in "global warming". The objective science is pretty thin either way. Maybe we'll be smacked by an asteroid or rogue gamma ray and end the agument once and for all (or until something else crawls out of the muck to take the issue up again...)
Anyhow, the answer to your question who will be burning [Fossil Fuels] is this: who ever can get at them for an energy source cheaper than any alternative. (India, China, evolved racoons 2 million years from now...)
Right now, it is whoever can pay the market rate (i.e. the Industrialized Nations).
Let's say there is some "day after tomorrow" or "an inconvenient truth" scenario in our future... and humans are whacked back to Ice-Age times, or "worse"... Do you think the raco-sapiens will give a whit about burning cheap hydrocarbons vs "the environment"?
In the long long long run, the planet will be a cinder either way.
If you really care about saving the planet - it is a lost cause. If you want to save human kind, then you should push for high-tech and space programs and spread people all over, off this doomed rock.
I think deviled eggs, only because "Buffalo" (word or city) is much more recent than "eggs" or "devil".
I would finish this post, but I find myself a bit peckish (adj. def 2), no pun intended...
Since most electricity is still generated by burning fossil fuels, an all-electric car would most likely be worse than one burning the fuel directly. I have never heard of a perfectly efficient method of transmitting electricty from where it was produced to where it was needed (e.g. charge up the car). Ergo, there would be a net increase in "environmental badness" to use the e-car vs what we have now.
All the fossil fuels that are economically reachable will be burned. Do you want them burned in nice epa-mandated catalytic converter equiped cars or some 3rd world 2-stroke putt-putt cars?
Either way we will eventually get to "the next thing" - I'd say let us use it up the way we are going now.
I deal with things and my wife deals with people. This has worked out so far (20 mumble something years).
My wife has zero interest in upgrading the computers, fixing cars, doing yardwork... And I have zero interest in minding our relationships, e.g. remembering to send assorted greeting cards at the appropriate time, calling folks "just to chat", etc.
If some kid comes to the door selling something for a fund-raiser, she'll buy it to be nice, I'll tell them to pound sand.
Maybe females are different... Vive la differance!
LOL in advance.
But they do say stuff like "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time".
Anyhow, I would guess their business model was to be aquired by someone else.
In this case it worked! Yahoo bought them, and users will be subject to the Yahoo TOS, which among other things includes the phrase "which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you"...
So, all-in-all, just another you get what you pay for deal.
I fail to see the problem.
They can only afford to pay market labor rates, so that they can keep their prices so low and pass the savings on to you!
Ironically, those of us with no contacts in our yahoo mail make for the best of friends!
Sounds like you are "in" if the other cool kids like you.
With no objective criteria (sales volume, number of employees, anything?) it is pretty vague.
So, the question is what is more important? Time to code or Time to run?
If you have a one-off task, and your developer costs money, you want quick-to-develop.
If you are going to run the program a bijillion times (a lot), you quick-to-run at whatever developer cost.
I've coded C++, Java, and .NET services that all did what they needed to do (long running data collection applications).
There is more than one way to skin a cat, and the end result all tastes good with enough hot sauce.
I think the latest scientific evidence is that aluminum has nothing to do with Altzheimers.
Short of forcing me to buy their stuff, I don't understand the problem - if it is crap, what do you care what they charge for it?
If their crap is not free and you don't want it, don't buy it.
The industry may or may not know what they are doing when it comes to optimizing their profits, but that is their business. Time will tell, meanwhile don't buy "crap".
That is a hardware issue. The question is out of scope.
Because in places like that you can lose body parts for illegal stuff!
Sucks to be on that boat!
Obviously you don't get out to the movies much. Action picture movie stars are really really tough!