> "[...] why Jobs felt that stylus computing and handwriting recognition were inherent failures."
Well, yes, they *were* failures. This is why currently successful tablets (a) do not use styli, and (b) do not depend on handwriting recognition for primary text input.
Well, yeah. My understanding is that the meaning of "up to" is "usually less than" by definition. No matter what quantity we're talking about. Now, if you meant "up to" should be replaced by "designed to be less than, certain lots might peak at this spec, but we guarantee that none of these parts will ever exceed this performance" then I could agree with that.
> For those with motherboards using a Marvell controller, the solutions are few; build a new PC, or invest in a super-expensive add-in card.
$30 to $60 for a Sata 3 controller card on Amazon depending on number of ports and other factors. I haven't built a PC in awhile (I tend to overbuild and then keep them for a long time) but it seems to me that building a new PC isn't *that* cheap, yet.
It's very useful information about the Marvell controller, and I will be watching for that. But the conclusion appears to be hyperbole.
Sooooo..... is this Windows 8 touch interface what the Windows 7 Media Center became? In all fairness, if the Windows desktop really isn't loaded, and the touch interface will come up by itself, that's getting reasonably close to... well, what everyone else has... But I have to wonder, based on past experiences with M$ reuse and rebranding, whether the Windows 8 touch interface is actually an updated Media Center rebranded, and to actually get anything done that requires more than just touching big squares would require that you load the desktop.
For instance, I can read and create Slashdot articles on my Android phone. (It's not pleasant, due to the screen size, but it can be done.) Can the same thing be done (easily) from the Windows 8 touch interface, or as a practical matter, would you need to load the desktop? (Note I said "need", not "want". What I'm looking for is some glimmer of hope that a Windows 8 tablet would be useful without having to drag around a keyboard and mouse for those times when you know, you wanted to write something.)
...someone gets pulled over for wearing one of these while driving? I'm betting within the first year of release.
Of course, I have a family member who has a battery powered TV in the passenger seat so she can watch her soaps. (She swears she only watches at stoplights.) So maybe I'm biased.
But this raises a good point. What are the legal (treaty, I guess) ramifications of performing an experiment that has a significant (albeit probably small) chance of ending all life on earth?
Again, I'm not an expert and I'm personally ambivalent about this, but you appear to be wrong. Thiomersal clearly contains mercury, and "it is being phased out from routine childhood vaccines in the United States, the European Union, and a few other countries" is a far cry from "hasn't been used in vaccines in years". I would be inclined to say, when it's entirely phased out, come back and we'll talk about vaccines some more.
> And your friends are idiots.
They may be, (I haven't had them tested) but, it appears, not for this reason.
It's like many things -- Us consumers end up having a skewed idea of the total environmental footprint of the products and services we buy because the majority of the pollution is occurring out of sight. I think it's called point pollution as opposed to total pollution, and applies to a surprising number of things.
I'm somewhat ambivalent, personally, but I have friends who would respond, if you allow someone to inject your child with mercury, you are guilty of child abuse and should have your kids taken away. Just sayin'.
...twenty years from now, if there's going to be a similar hysteria when my daughter's generation declines to vaccinate their kids against chicken pox. Because, we all know, chicken pox has a probability of being fatal, for small enough values of "probability".
I bet it did. I don't even *remember* my first earthquake. I was probably a year old. There's been so many since then (living by the northern segment of San Andreas) that I couldn't begin to count them. It's all about what you're used to, as you said.
I also don't remember my first flood (the Sutter County flood of December 1955) as I was only six months old. I have my grandfather's pictures of the 1955 flood. I have pictures I took of the 1986 flood. (You'd think we'd learn not to live in flood plains, right??) I just missed the "World Series Quake" (1989, 7.0) having left the area just 36 hours before. My friend ran out of his apartment naked. Funny. Lots of people died when the freeway collapsed. Not so funny.
> I had measles before there were vaccines for it.
Yep, so did I, back in the sixties, and there was nothing to it. I'm sorry, there just wasn't. With most people it's just not a big deal. Getting upset doesn't make it so.
However, in my twenties I caught a common cold and it developed into double pneumonia. Took me two and a half months to shake it and I was fairly ill all through that time. Was even coughing up a little blood at one time. I'm a little afraid of catching colds now. We are all products of our experiences. You see people at work overuse Purell and chances are, they had a bad experience with a common ailment. It happens.
> The reappearance of the potentially deadly virus
Hang on, any virus, including the common cold, is potentially deadly. The treatment for uncomplicated Measles is roughly the same as a case of the flu. Isolation, bed rest, and ibuprofin. You don't think the case is overstated just a little?
Large glass windows can suddenly, catastrophically fail even in mild earthquakes due to the frame flexing. It's important to stay away from them. In California, you can almost tell the natives from the new arrivals by what they do in a quake. The new arrivals will flee towards the door. The natives will step smartly away from the door because that's usually where all those big plate glass windows are.
I think mild earthquakes are kinda fun, but I grew up with them. I can understand if you feel differently.
That's a good point. Last summer I made it a hobby to track down all of the sources of "free" newspapers and insist they stop throwing them in my yard. I had to call some of them several times. I had to get angry with a couple. But by the end of the summer, I was no longer getting those bundles of nothing useful being thrown in my yard. Now that I can turn them into fuel, I will probably regret that decision.
> but I don't think it's orders of magnitude more than the amount of cellulose on the planet.
I don't either. But what amount of that cellulose could be practically processed into fuel? I mean, we could consider all the cellulose on the entire planet, but then, what would we breathe?
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> "[...] why Jobs felt that stylus computing and handwriting recognition were inherent failures."
Well, yes, they *were* failures. This is why currently successful tablets (a) do not use styli, and (b) do not depend on handwriting recognition for primary text input.
Well, yeah. My understanding is that the meaning of "up to" is "usually less than" by definition. No matter what quantity we're talking about. Now, if you meant "up to" should be replaced by "designed to be less than, certain lots might peak at this spec, but we guarantee that none of these parts will ever exceed this performance" then I could agree with that.
> For those with motherboards using a Marvell controller, the solutions are few; build a new PC, or invest in a super-expensive add-in card.
$30 to $60 for a Sata 3 controller card on Amazon depending on number of ports and other factors. I haven't built a PC in awhile (I tend to overbuild and then keep them for a long time) but it seems to me that building a new PC isn't *that* cheap, yet.
It's very useful information about the Marvell controller, and I will be watching for that. But the conclusion appears to be hyperbole.
Sooooo..... is this Windows 8 touch interface what the Windows 7 Media Center became? In all fairness, if the Windows desktop really isn't loaded, and the touch interface will come up by itself, that's getting reasonably close to ... well, what everyone else has... But I have to wonder, based on past experiences with M$ reuse and rebranding, whether the Windows 8 touch interface is actually an updated Media Center rebranded, and to actually get anything done that requires more than just touching big squares would require that you load the desktop.
For instance, I can read and create Slashdot articles on my Android phone. (It's not pleasant, due to the screen size, but it can be done.) Can the same thing be done (easily) from the Windows 8 touch interface, or as a practical matter, would you need to load the desktop? (Note I said "need", not "want". What I'm looking for is some glimmer of hope that a Windows 8 tablet would be useful without having to drag around a keyboard and mouse for those times when you know, you wanted to write something.)
Nope, it's because the customers were all racists.
> >quoting wikipedia
> Don't do that.
What, facts are bad?
Of course, I have a family member who has a battery powered TV in the passenger seat so she can watch her soaps. (She swears she only watches at stoplights.) So maybe I'm biased.
> This idea gives me a cerebral boner
I'm trying to imagine what that would look like. And then I decided I didn't want to know.
But this raises a good point. What are the legal (treaty, I guess) ramifications of performing an experiment that has a significant (albeit probably small) chance of ending all life on earth?
> Mercury hasn't been used in vaccines in years.
Again, I'm not an expert and I'm personally ambivalent about this, but you appear to be wrong. Thiomersal clearly contains mercury, and "it is being phased out from routine childhood vaccines in the United States, the European Union, and a few other countries" is a far cry from "hasn't been used in vaccines in years". I would be inclined to say, when it's entirely phased out, come back and we'll talk about vaccines some more.
> And your friends are idiots.
They may be, (I haven't had them tested) but, it appears, not for this reason.
It's like many things -- Us consumers end up having a skewed idea of the total environmental footprint of the products and services we buy because the majority of the pollution is occurring out of sight. I think it's called point pollution as opposed to total pollution, and applies to a surprising number of things.
I'm somewhat ambivalent, personally, but I have friends who would respond, if you allow someone to inject your child with mercury, you are guilty of child abuse and should have your kids taken away. Just sayin'.
> Does it therefore follow that they're not worth preventing?
Yes.
Maybe.
It depends.
In some cases, absolutely yes.
Have we all forgotten what risk management means?
I bet it did. I don't even *remember* my first earthquake. I was probably a year old. There's been so many since then (living by the northern segment of San Andreas) that I couldn't begin to count them. It's all about what you're used to, as you said.
I also don't remember my first flood (the Sutter County flood of December 1955) as I was only six months old. I have my grandfather's pictures of the 1955 flood. I have pictures I took of the 1986 flood. (You'd think we'd learn not to live in flood plains, right??) I just missed the "World Series Quake" (1989, 7.0) having left the area just 36 hours before. My friend ran out of his apartment naked. Funny. Lots of people died when the freeway collapsed. Not so funny.
My daughter got the chicken pox vaccine, and promptly caught chicken pox. I always wondered if that was the intention of the vaccine.
> I had measles before there were vaccines for it.
Yep, so did I, back in the sixties, and there was nothing to it. I'm sorry, there just wasn't. With most people it's just not a big deal. Getting upset doesn't make it so.
However, in my twenties I caught a common cold and it developed into double pneumonia. Took me two and a half months to shake it and I was fairly ill all through that time. Was even coughing up a little blood at one time. I'm a little afraid of catching colds now. We are all products of our experiences. You see people at work overuse Purell and chances are, they had a bad experience with a common ailment. It happens.
> The reappearance of the potentially deadly virus
Hang on, any virus, including the common cold, is potentially deadly. The treatment for uncomplicated Measles is roughly the same as a case of the flu. Isolation, bed rest, and ibuprofin. You don't think the case is overstated just a little?
BTW, I just checked your wiki entry on the 2010 quake. Wow. Just wow.
(Magnetic Containment Fusion does have a nice ring to it).
You're probably right. And incidentally, we're all doomed. Just sayin'.
Large glass windows can suddenly, catastrophically fail even in mild earthquakes due to the frame flexing. It's important to stay away from them. In California, you can almost tell the natives from the new arrivals by what they do in a quake. The new arrivals will flee towards the door. The natives will step smartly away from the door because that's usually where all those big plate glass windows are.
I think mild earthquakes are kinda fun, but I grew up with them. I can understand if you feel differently.
Fusion could actually be the answer to a lot of energy questions, if only someone figures out how to make it work consistently.
That's a good point. Last summer I made it a hobby to track down all of the sources of "free" newspapers and insist they stop throwing them in my yard. I had to call some of them several times. I had to get angry with a couple. But by the end of the summer, I was no longer getting those bundles of nothing useful being thrown in my yard. Now that I can turn them into fuel, I will probably regret that decision.
> but I don't think it's orders of magnitude more than the amount of cellulose on the planet.
I don't either. But what amount of that cellulose could be practically processed into fuel? I mean, we could consider all the cellulose on the entire planet, but then, what would we breathe?