There's that, and then there's the fact that Windows 7 has gotten a much better UI than previous versions of Windows... and to a real extent, to current versions of Linux.
I agree with the Linux comment, but previous versions of Windows? I'm still very happy using the Windows XP classic interface. Windows 7 is at best a marginal improvement, somewhat ruined by the fact they broke the start menu and removed the folder navigation "go up one folder" button (idiotic idea).
It's a choice the human driver would have to make, so when first starting your driverless car, it might as well prompt you with a series of moral questions like "should I crash into a bus or veer off a bridge if the situation arises?"
You're right, but why nuclear? Why not something that doesn't have the chance, however remote, of causing armageddon?
Because modern nuclear doesn't have even a remote chance of causing armageddon. The worst crisis in the history of nuclear power gave a few thousand people cancer. The second worst crisis has killed or injured almost nobody, although caused a lot of inconvenience in the area no doubt. No other nuclear failure has caused any health problems worth mentioning, and the ones whose failures were costly to clean up were old, and would not be produced in this day and age.
Nuclear power is the safestenergy source per TWh, bar none. Wind power is more deadly.
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Something I'm pretty sure will happen, and soon. I've got a good idea of the mentality of the Firefox UX people, and they'll simply dismiss people who don't agree with them as "a vocal minority" who they don't care about.
I've used Firefox for ages, but they're so obsessed with turning the UI into Chrome I'm switching to Seamonkey to get the UI back to the Firefox 3 days. Tabs on bottom, and tou even get a proper status bar back again! It's designed for people that have a monitor larger than a postage stamp. And it's not designed for "the masses" - it's designed for (and by) more advanced users like myself, which hopefully means it won't start pandering to the latest UI gimmicks further down the line, either.
If I install a bunch of new hardware in my machine, I don't have to reactivate XP. I've not tried it with Windows 7 - do you have to reactivate Win7? And what about switching its licence over to a new machine?
If you stand on the French-German border on the French side and I on the German side and I shoot you, wouldn't I have commited a crime in France (as well as in Germany, of course)?
and where they'd find the materials required to build it
Aren't energy and matter interchangeable? You could start building the Dyson sphere, and then it could sustain its own building by using the energy it's getting from the star to generate more matter for more Dyson sphere.
In other words, don't blame the electric vehicle. Blame the lack of wind turbines.
Actually, blame the lack of nuclear. The amount of energy generated per square metre of wind farm as opposed to a nuclear plant is utterly pathetic. I doubt you'll ever get the energy (epecially baseload) you need for mass adoption of electric cars through wind power.
What evidence is there that patents have brought products to market that otherwise would never have been made?
Well, in the UK, the rather famous example is Dyson vacuum cleaners. It's somewhat difficult for those of us who dislike patents to make the argument against in this case.
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There's that, and then there's the fact that Windows 7 has gotten a much better UI than previous versions of Windows... and to a real extent, to current versions of Linux.
I agree with the Linux comment, but previous versions of Windows? I'm still very happy using the Windows XP classic interface. Windows 7 is at best a marginal improvement, somewhat ruined by the fact they broke the start menu and removed the folder navigation "go up one folder" button (idiotic idea).
It's a choice the human driver would have to make, so when first starting your driverless car, it might as well prompt you with a series of moral questions like "should I crash into a bus or veer off a bridge if the situation arises?"
My console just needs to play games, allow me to watch videos, and surge the web. That's it.
I tried to surge the web once... it wasn't pretty.
You're right, but why nuclear? Why not something that doesn't have the chance, however remote, of causing armageddon?
Because modern nuclear doesn't have even a remote chance of causing armageddon. The worst crisis in the history of nuclear power gave a few thousand people cancer. The second worst crisis has killed or injured almost nobody, although caused a lot of inconvenience in the area no doubt. No other nuclear failure has caused any health problems worth mentioning, and the ones whose failures were costly to clean up were old, and would not be produced in this day and age.
Nuclear power is the safest energy source per TWh, bar none. Wind power is more deadly.
Modern nuclear can also process existing nuclear waste, which seems like a bit of a win.
Sorry to Godwinize here, but... Hitler provided some very strong leadership. It aint always good.
And what about if you have a political agenda that neither Coke nor Pepsi are interested in supporting? How are you supposed to get it done?
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You spend over $500 billion per year on the military. Why are you still using 10-year-old voting machines?
Something I'm pretty sure will happen, and soon. I've got a good idea of the mentality of the Firefox UX people, and they'll simply dismiss people who don't agree with them as "a vocal minority" who they don't care about.
Wait until they terminate tabs on bottom.
I've used Firefox for ages, but they're so obsessed with turning the UI into Chrome I'm switching to Seamonkey to get the UI back to the Firefox 3 days. Tabs on bottom, and tou even get a proper status bar back again! It's designed for people that have a monitor larger than a postage stamp. And it's not designed for "the masses" - it's designed for (and by) more advanced users like myself, which hopefully means it won't start pandering to the latest UI gimmicks further down the line, either.
If I install a bunch of new hardware in my machine, I don't have to reactivate XP. I've not tried it with Windows 7 - do you have to reactivate Win7? And what about switching its licence over to a new machine?
If you stand on the French-German border on the French side and I on the German side and I shoot you, wouldn't I have commited a crime in France (as well as in Germany, of course)?
Depends. Is this during or after World War 2?
Yeah, it does color my opinion of Slashdot a little.
So, thanks for the sentiment.
So why have you picked up the incredibly annoying habit of beginning half of your sentences with a pointless two-letter word?
Please, someone, make a browser that doesnt suck.
Try Seamonkey's browser.
Who needs textarea any more?
Slashdot?
Yeah, but their cars are less efficient and they don't want to make them more efficient, which is understandable.
And they don't want to bother with EVs, which is understandable.
And even if they did, they hate safe modern nuclear which is needed to generate the clean electricity, which is understandable.
So it's not really their fault. I really can't see anything they can do to alleviate the situation.
What do you do for toilet paper?
and where they'd find the materials required to build it
Aren't energy and matter interchangeable? You could start building the Dyson sphere, and then it could sustain its own building by using the energy it's getting from the star to generate more matter for more Dyson sphere.
Of course, if they figure out how to get energy directly from quantum fluctuations, or by mining antimatter from a parallel universe or something
By the time you get to that level, you're called Q.
In other words, don't blame the electric vehicle. Blame the lack of wind turbines.
Actually, blame the lack of nuclear. The amount of energy generated per square metre of wind farm as opposed to a nuclear plant is utterly pathetic. I doubt you'll ever get the energy (epecially baseload) you need for mass adoption of electric cars through wind power.
>I chose NOT to install CM.
Congratulations: Now you know you have a choice.
Oh, don't be so heartless. He didn't get his money back from Cyanogenmod, did he?
I've been using it for months and I think it looks and feels fine. So, go figure.
What evidence is there that patents have brought products to market that otherwise would never have been made?
Well, in the UK, the rather famous example is Dyson vacuum cleaners. It's somewhat difficult for those of us who dislike patents to make the argument against in this case.