Take a look here. The share of people that visit Wikipedia using Windows felt from nearly 90% at April 2009 to 80.46% at April 2010. That is not because of an anomalous month, the share was falling for the entire year, and is accelerating.
I know, the plural of anedonte is not data, and everything, but there are very few public accesible raw numbers on usage at the net. Wikipedia is no small site, and it ought to have some correlation to the total population.
Yeah, that same BASIC they were accused of stealing* from academics. They become a significant software company by that time, and since big companies only make business with other big companies...
* They plagiarized the code and copyrighted as their own, at a time when almost nobody copyrighted their works. And then sold the code back to the same people that writed it, as a hiden tax on new computers.
"If people had that same mindset/fear of the unknown that they did when penicillin and vaccines came out, I think we'd be seriously fucked as a human race."
As far as I know, they had. There were entire civil wars fighted by the pro and against vaccines populations.
Also, you seem to be ignoring that most GM crops that reduce the need of pesticides do so by being toxig themselves.
I do want GMO crops, but I'm radicaly against the way they currently are.
Take patents out of the way, and they may morph into something acceptable. Or, maybe, let governments work everywhere and impose on poluters their due sanctions, even if such pollution was created by plants that they created (and sold by lies), not directly by their hands. But, of course the second option won't ever happen, so take patents out of the way, and they may morph into something acceptable.
Except that, altough GMO had the potential to feed bilions of people, it seems there is little money in that, so the comercial varietes are created in a way that reduces costs, at the expense of productivity.
Or, at least, reduces costs for a couple of years, and then renders the land unusable for anything else, so they must be planted there, despite the costs increasing.
Except that many Monsanto plants are known to cross-polinate with normal plants in the field. But do not let the facts get in the way to the propaganda here.
Also, we'll pass that law giving law enforcement access to it anytime they want, without any paperwork. But that is just an unintented side effect, law enforcement will never make use of that law. We promisse, really!
Ok, the GP is modded into invisibility right now, so I'm wiling to ask you... Are you talking about coal, oil, gas, or nuclear power plants? Or are you talking abut the chemical industries in general? I guess you are not talking about hydro power, because their "fuel" cost them nothing, but the rest of the post aplies quite well for it too.
In the end, what makes it harder is that the things you do on software are usually way more complex than the things you do on hardware. If not for that, that argument would make perfect sense as hardware also have issues with communication latency, non-determinism, and localized data (not just caches), to an even higher degree than software. And you also must make it robust.
Airbus couldn't require anything from anyone, but several countries did require their replacement before the accident. Unfortunately, France wasn't one of them.
Looks like the GP has the wrong complain. Most people that complain about the low quality of laser printers are in fact complaining that laser's ink doesn't splash on the paper, like inkjet's ink does, but stays in a much smaler space, lefting some small unprinted areas and giving the picture a granular aspect. Quite the oposite of what he states, but the simptoms match.
And, well, of course, with hight enough resolution that problem simply goes away.
A bit torrent network can work quite well with any number of seeders bigger than (and including) one, with any number of leachers. In fact, depending on the data available to the leachers, it can work with no seeder at all. That is because the bit torrent protocol doesn't concentrate any kind of resource on any node.
Now, compare that to the Skype network. On that you need a minimum number of super nodes for each end node. Go below that minimum rate and the entire network fails. That happens because the connections are concentrated (that means, centralized) on those super nodes.
"That's always been the problem with centralized systems, they can only deal with so much change before they break."
There, fixed it for you. The reason people use decentralized systems is because they scale. That failure is proof that Skype is centralized. It is not centralized at Skype's server, but at the super nodes.
All of those are more complicate than what I've written. I've never messed with engine timing, so I know only the basics. I've acompanied quite a few window hangings, but around here most people just do that when it won't rain, our weather is quite predictable.
Ok, that is just to clarify a bit. I still wonder how is it so that people must know what will destroy their cars, but when it is about computers it is just ok to not know. And, no, it is not completely explained by safety concerns. And yes, a few people don't know what to do with their cars, but we do expect them to know (and most do know).
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Take a look here. The share of people that visit Wikipedia using Windows felt from nearly 90% at April 2009 to 80.46% at April 2010. That is not because of an anomalous month, the share was falling for the entire year, and is accelerating.
I know, the plural of anedonte is not data, and everything, but there are very few public accesible raw numbers on usage at the net. Wikipedia is no small site, and it ought to have some correlation to the total population.
So, Microsoft could change its fate if it started doing programs that do just one thing, and do it well? Who'd guess?
Yeah, that same BASIC they were accused of stealing* from academics. They become a significant software company by that time, and since big companies only make business with other big companies...
* They plagiarized the code and copyrighted as their own, at a time when almost nobody copyrighted their works. And then sold the code back to the same people that writed it, as a hiden tax on new computers.
As far as I know, they had. There were entire civil wars fighted by the pro and against vaccines populations.
Also, you seem to be ignoring that most GM crops that reduce the need of pesticides do so by being toxig themselves.
Then all odds are off. If everything fails, that corrupt government will simply get by force everything it wants from you.
Seems the first step to deal with a corrupt government is to get ride of the corruption, not attack its simptoms.
I do want GMO crops, but I'm radicaly against the way they currently are.
Take patents out of the way, and they may morph into something acceptable. Or, maybe, let governments work everywhere and impose on poluters their due sanctions, even if such pollution was created by plants that they created (and sold by lies), not directly by their hands. But, of course the second option won't ever happen, so take patents out of the way, and they may morph into something acceptable.
Except that, altough GMO had the potential to feed bilions of people, it seems there is little money in that, so the comercial varietes are created in a way that reduces costs, at the expense of productivity.
Or, at least, reduces costs for a couple of years, and then renders the land unusable for anything else, so they must be planted there, despite the costs increasing.
Except that many Monsanto plants are known to cross-polinate with normal plants in the field. But do not let the facts get in the way to the propaganda here.
How much more control it gives besides what it currently gives?
Also, we'll pass that law giving law enforcement access to it anytime they want, without any paperwork. But that is just an unintented side effect, law enforcement will never make use of that law. We promisse, really!
That is easy, you atribute all the errors to gamma and neutrons (if those are present), and none of them for neutrinos.
The GP said a cheap way.
Ok, the GP is modded into invisibility right now, so I'm wiling to ask you... Are you talking about coal, oil, gas, or nuclear power plants? Or are you talking abut the chemical industries in general? I guess you are not talking about hydro power, because their "fuel" cost them nothing, but the rest of the post aplies quite well for it too.
If I understood that correctly, the sensors that measure altitude are the same that measure air speed.
In the end, what makes it harder is that the things you do on software are usually way more complex than the things you do on hardware. If not for that, that argument would make perfect sense as hardware also have issues with communication latency, non-determinism, and localized data (not just caches), to an even higher degree than software. And you also must make it robust.
Airbus couldn't require anything from anyone, but several countries did require their replacement before the accident. Unfortunately, France wasn't one of them.
I'm not a pilot, but shouldn't increasing the throttle help recovering from a stall?
That is true on any situation, any altitude.
No, it is not a pure P2P system. When it goes through a super node it is not P2P at all.
Looks like the GP has the wrong complain. Most people that complain about the low quality of laser printers are in fact complaining that laser's ink doesn't splash on the paper, like inkjet's ink does, but stays in a much smaler space, lefting some small unprinted areas and giving the picture a granular aspect. Quite the oposite of what he states, but the simptoms match.
And, well, of course, with hight enough resolution that problem simply goes away.
I guess it would be illegal to start a group like Anonymous at any time, not just near election time.
A bit torrent network can work quite well with any number of seeders bigger than (and including) one, with any number of leachers. In fact, depending on the data available to the leachers, it can work with no seeder at all. That is because the bit torrent protocol doesn't concentrate any kind of resource on any node.
Now, compare that to the Skype network. On that you need a minimum number of super nodes for each end node. Go below that minimum rate and the entire network fails. That happens because the connections are concentrated (that means, centralized) on those super nodes.
There, fixed it for you. The reason people use decentralized systems is because they scale. That failure is proof that Skype is centralized. It is not centralized at Skype's server, but at the super nodes.
Yes, you need the DNS server for that.
All of those are more complicate than what I've written. I've never messed with engine timing, so I know only the basics. I've acompanied quite a few window hangings, but around here most people just do that when it won't rain, our weather is quite predictable.
Ok, that is just to clarify a bit. I still wonder how is it so that people must know what will destroy their cars, but when it is about computers it is just ok to not know. And, no, it is not completely explained by safety concerns. And yes, a few people don't know what to do with their cars, but we do expect them to know (and most do know).