fast enough to kill a human. I may be mistaken, but I am pretty sure that is the case. Current fighter pilots reach speeds high enough to black out (and/or red out). At said speed, they can't reach orbit. I can see no way for us to create a purely (or even mostly) land based launch system to supply enough energy in a short period of time to reach escape velocity. Not even if you built it on the Tibetan plateau that reaches 5000 meters above sea level.
To keep the human alive, we need a slower, longer burn, which requires an engine on the craft, not on the ground.
I am not saying that EVERYONE hates Windows. I am saying that some people hate windows. Those people. This is a natural result of their dominancy of the market, not of a failure on their product.
You admit that there are apple fanbois and low-end power users. These are the people that I am talking about.
What happened here is that you inserted your own hated ideas into what I wrote. We don't disagree, I just am not talking about the thing you dislike.
Common sense is neither common nor sensical.
Common sense says that heavier objects fall faster. Common sense says that a son of an islamic black diplomat must be islamic and can't be american. Common sense says that man can't be descended from apes.
Science is as much about proving common sense to be wrong as it is about discovering the rare occurences it is correct.
The reason why the Ipad sold well is that people are willing to spend extra money to get an Apple. Partly due to fashion (they are 'cooler') and partly due to anti-virus fears, and partly due to a hatred of Windows.
Apple did not 'figure out how to make one that sells', they just are the only company able to sell luxury PC products to average consumers and they realized that the reason tablets have not been sellign is that they are luxury PC products. So they moved in on a section of their own market that they had been ignoring.
As for netbooks, people buy them for one reason - they don't cost a lot of money. Thnis is the exact OPPOSITE market from apple. Both products will continue to thrive. Apple will continue to add on new 'almost cheap enough for mass market' features while the tablets will continue to get cheaper and cheaper.
True. But the cheapness is perfect for a traveler. Think of someone that goes on 10 trips a year. Do you want to haul an expensive PC around, knowing full well that there is the chance of it being knocked around, having the TSA abuse their authority and confiscate it for no reason (to return it 1 year later...) etc. etc.
Now, how much do you want to spend ond it.
Not by far. There are ultralight planes and some come with electric engines
If you actually read the article as opposed to the incorrect summary posted, you see no claims for smallness.
It is just the first ever FOUR engine all electric plane. The only important thing here was the 4 electric engines, not size.
OK, so I could use one website with 1 password, trusting them with all my information (and look how great Facebook does), or I could use multiple websites with one password. In either case, I am trusting people not to screw with my information. So I am trusting more people with multiple sites, but they don't KNOW that I am trusting them. Sure it's security by obscurity, but it still makes more sense than trusting the same company with all my info.
And it still lets me use one password for finances and another for my email and another for my medical information, and a third for all my social websites and games. No need to give the people I play games with ANY access to my finances.
But honestly there are many better solutions that moronically giving away your privacy just reduce the number of people that know your password. It's a really stupid idea.
The main remaining limit that prevents people from making real use of the enormous number of vid cameras in the world to track and invade our privacy is the fact that we have an enormous number of vid cameras. You basically need a person for every 10 cameras or so and watching it is boring.
Once someone comes up witha way to automate the scanning of all that video, then our privacy will always be gone, as opposed to simply invaded after a crime is committed.
Yes. But yeast don't use penicllin. The antibiotic yeast use to kill bacteria is called...ALCOHOL. Hence the alochol gels used in purell, etc. Alcohol is a deadly poison. Drink a gallon of it in 20 seconds and find out for youself. But unlike most antibiotics, our livers remove it from the bloodstream before it reaches concentrations capable of killinng bacteria in our body.
In other words, the local station is just interested in attracting attention, and willing to do a crappy job of reporting, so that they don't actually inform the people they are trying to serve.
Because honestly, anyone interested in this story would STILL need the information I requested.
I would love to know if this is newsworthy, unfortunately, they did not give us the important details. For example, what percentage of gasoline stations have fires in any year, and how many other hydrogen refueling stations of this type exist. Without that information we have no idea if this is a far greater risk or a far lesser risk.
I agree with you and the dissenting Judge Kozinski (Regan appointee).
Judge Kozinski said that the court was prejudiced against poor people, taking away their rights simply beause they could not afford a garage
He was right, your driveway is your property, people have an expectation of privacy on it.
Other District Courts of appeals have ruled it illegal. Right now, it is illegal in Washington DC, but legal in California.
Time for Kagan to show us what she's made of.
Biblical truth, as per Judaism started about 5,000 + years. If you count Hinduism (which I am sure you are prejudiced enough not to) It REPEATEDLY changed, pretty much every 100 years. Popes (and similar ruling bodies keep handing down new pronouncements. New religions keep splitting off.
The only people that believe that biblical truths have not changed are morons that have not studied the various religions own approved history. They all admit that truths have changed. When a religion makes a truly significant change in the truth, they often (but not always) create new religions. Even Islam, one of the more hidebound religions admits that 50 years ago they did not force the Habib on women.
You sir, need a lesson in history taught by your clergy. I suggest you go to your church or temple and ask them to teach it to you
They had no business bring suit and I hope they have realized it.
There is a difference between a copy of a book in a different format and a program that translates something into a different format.
Is the rights holder of a German version of Harry Potter going to sue someone that writes a computer program that translates English into German? No of course not.
You make some good points. I could easily hate living the way my grandmother did for the last year of her life. But your objections could work just as well for sentient machines. They can fill up the world and they can go insane as well. Yes, we could stop those things from happening, but we can also do that for organic life. We already have memory erasure drugs (or at least I think we had hvae them...) and some very effective birth control. I can not consider your response to be a conclusive rebuttal to my main points:
Organics do it better than silicates. That is why we evolved while they had to wait for us to invent.
My main point remains, the people talking about sentient machines are bragging, not making valid points. They have made NO resonable explanation about why they think that silicate based life forms are easier to engineer to immortality than organic based ones. They know something about half of the facts involved and assume no one knows anything about the other half.
1. That we conquer cancer, allowing us to remove nature's favorite cancer fighter, called "old age". This extends human life indefintely (well, up until we meet a violent end that would of course also kill any so called sentient machines).
2. We invent a sentient machine.
I may just be a layman, but we are putting a LOT more resources into option #1 than option #2, and each year we make tangible progress for option #1, while each year we seem to learn more and more about the problems with option #2.
Frankly, this bullcrap sounds like a bunch of computer scientists trying to brag, rather than anyone that has seriously thought out the problems with both approaches. It's kind of like when physicists say stupid crap like "intelligent life has to be in a habitable zone in the galaxy" simply because we happen to use metals that are only found there.
They don't know anything about biology, so they think no one else does.
With a mobile phone you can get far higher grade information. It actively pings the cell tower, so it's detectable range is much greater. It gives identifiable information, that can in obviosuly be used to call that person. People are themselves not likley to 'forget' it.
Conclusion: RFID tagging is less scary than existing privacy intrustions we gladly accept.
In addition, just because somethign is saved to a company PC does not make it company property.
WHOOPS, I accidently saved a copy of Star Wars to the company PC, now they own it and will be suing Lucas for tons of cash.
Depends on what their definitions are. Businesses tend to do these studies using excessively strict standards. Things their own CEO do, (or far worse) are considered wrong.
For example, it mentions 'contacts'. Now, if you are a salesman AND the company introduced you to those contacts, then that would be company product. But if you are a computer programmer, copying your contacts is NOT stealing from the company. Furthermore, the courts have also ruled that even if you ARE a salesman, that taking contacts with you that you developed without aid from your company is again, NOT stealing (this is despite the stock brokerage firms repeatedly trying to ignore this law.)
These kind of stories are kind of like the shmucks that complain about IT people using their work PC, during work hours, to check their email. Then they want you to check answer your work emails at home via blackberry, even after working hours.
You need to take this kind of crap with boulder of skepticism
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To keep the human alive, we need a slower, longer burn, which requires an engine on the craft, not on the ground.
You admit that there are apple fanbois and low-end power users. These are the people that I am talking about.
What happened here is that you inserted your own hated ideas into what I wrote. We don't disagree, I just am not talking about the thing you dislike.
Common sense is neither common nor sensical. Common sense says that heavier objects fall faster. Common sense says that a son of an islamic black diplomat must be islamic and can't be american. Common sense says that man can't be descended from apes. Science is as much about proving common sense to be wrong as it is about discovering the rare occurences it is correct.
Apple did not 'figure out how to make one that sells', they just are the only company able to sell luxury PC products to average consumers and they realized that the reason tablets have not been sellign is that they are luxury PC products. So they moved in on a section of their own market that they had been ignoring.
As for netbooks, people buy them for one reason - they don't cost a lot of money. Thnis is the exact OPPOSITE market from apple. Both products will continue to thrive. Apple will continue to add on new 'almost cheap enough for mass market' features while the tablets will continue to get cheaper and cheaper.
True. But the cheapness is perfect for a traveler. Think of someone that goes on 10 trips a year. Do you want to haul an expensive PC around, knowing full well that there is the chance of it being knocked around, having the TSA abuse their authority and confiscate it for no reason (to return it 1 year later...) etc. etc. Now, how much do you want to spend ond it.
Not by far. There are ultralight planes and some come with electric engines If you actually read the article as opposed to the incorrect summary posted, you see no claims for smallness. It is just the first ever FOUR engine all electric plane. The only important thing here was the 4 electric engines, not size.
OK, so I could use one website with 1 password, trusting them with all my information (and look how great Facebook does), or I could use multiple websites with one password. In either case, I am trusting people not to screw with my information. So I am trusting more people with multiple sites, but they don't KNOW that I am trusting them. Sure it's security by obscurity, but it still makes more sense than trusting the same company with all my info. And it still lets me use one password for finances and another for my email and another for my medical information, and a third for all my social websites and games. No need to give the people I play games with ANY access to my finances. But honestly there are many better solutions that moronically giving away your privacy just reduce the number of people that know your password. It's a really stupid idea.
Once someone comes up witha way to automate the scanning of all that video, then our privacy will always be gone, as opposed to simply invaded after a crime is committed.
Yes. But yeast don't use penicllin. The antibiotic yeast use to kill bacteria is called ...ALCOHOL. Hence the alochol gels used in purell, etc. Alcohol is a deadly poison. Drink a gallon of it in 20 seconds and find out for youself. But unlike most antibiotics, our livers remove it from the bloodstream before it reaches concentrations capable of killinng bacteria in our body.
Because honestly, anyone interested in this story would STILL need the information I requested.
I would love to know if this is newsworthy, unfortunately, they did not give us the important details. For example, what percentage of gasoline stations have fires in any year, and how many other hydrogen refueling stations of this type exist. Without that information we have no idea if this is a far greater risk or a far lesser risk.
I agree with you and the dissenting Judge Kozinski (Regan appointee). Judge Kozinski said that the court was prejudiced against poor people, taking away their rights simply beause they could not afford a garage He was right, your driveway is your property, people have an expectation of privacy on it.
Other District Courts of appeals have ruled it illegal. Right now, it is illegal in Washington DC, but legal in California. Time for Kagan to show us what she's made of.
Biblical truth, as per Judaism started about 5,000 + years. If you count Hinduism (which I am sure you are prejudiced enough not to) It REPEATEDLY changed, pretty much every 100 years. Popes (and similar ruling bodies keep handing down new pronouncements. New religions keep splitting off.
The only people that believe that biblical truths have not changed are morons that have not studied the various religions own approved history. They all admit that truths have changed. When a religion makes a truly significant change in the truth, they often (but not always) create new religions. Even Islam, one of the more hidebound religions admits that 50 years ago they did not force the Habib on women.
You sir, need a lesson in history taught by your clergy. I suggest you go to your church or temple and ask them to teach it to you
They had no business bring suit and I hope they have realized it. There is a difference between a copy of a book in a different format and a program that translates something into a different format. Is the rights holder of a German version of Harry Potter going to sue someone that writes a computer program that translates English into German? No of course not.
Organics do it better than silicates. That is why we evolved while they had to wait for us to invent.
My main point remains, the people talking about sentient machines are bragging, not making valid points. They have made NO resonable explanation about why they think that silicate based life forms are easier to engineer to immortality than organic based ones. They know something about half of the facts involved and assume no one knows anything about the other half.
1. That we conquer cancer, allowing us to remove nature's favorite cancer fighter, called "old age". This extends human life indefintely (well, up until we meet a violent end that would of course also kill any so called sentient machines).
2. We invent a sentient machine.
I may just be a layman, but we are putting a LOT more resources into option #1 than option #2, and each year we make tangible progress for option #1, while each year we seem to learn more and more about the problems with option #2.
Frankly, this bullcrap sounds like a bunch of computer scientists trying to brag, rather than anyone that has seriously thought out the problems with both approaches. It's kind of like when physicists say stupid crap like "intelligent life has to be in a habitable zone in the galaxy" simply because we happen to use metals that are only found there.
They don't know anything about biology, so they think no one else does.
when they detect that you have purchased gasoline from a non-GM approved gas station.
True, but teen agers grow up. And once you accept something as a teenager, you pretty much accept it for life.
If you try to get a teen ager to turn off, or worse, convince them to stop using, a cell phone, you will realize that my assumptions are proven true.
Conclusion: RFID tagging is less scary than existing privacy intrustions we gladly accept.
In addition, just because somethign is saved to a company PC does not make it company property. WHOOPS, I accidently saved a copy of Star Wars to the company PC, now they own it and will be suing Lucas for tons of cash.
For example, it mentions 'contacts'. Now, if you are a salesman AND the company introduced you to those contacts, then that would be company product. But if you are a computer programmer, copying your contacts is NOT stealing from the company. Furthermore, the courts have also ruled that even if you ARE a salesman, that taking contacts with you that you developed without aid from your company is again, NOT stealing (this is despite the stock brokerage firms repeatedly trying to ignore this law.)
These kind of stories are kind of like the shmucks that complain about IT people using their work PC, during work hours, to check their email. Then they want you to check answer your work emails at home via blackberry, even after working hours.
You need to take this kind of crap with boulder of skepticism
1. You enjoy doing the work (and are unemployed or otherwise bored from lack of work).
2. You are using it as an excuse to learn how to do the work, with ready made sample projects.
3. You are (or work for) an organization in search of good publicity. (Schools, corporations, etc.)
No, this is Fark. The 'risks' they mentioned are obvious and belong to almost all contests.