Of course a local study is always necessary. If you've got a nature reserve where a river flows through a swamp into the sea, with a lot of rare animals living there, building any sort of plant there will have an impact. But we also have a lot of rivers where sadly the ecosystem has already been severely disrupted. Getting some power out of that would be quite nice.
Well, that's great and all, but there is such a thing as local ecology, which would be important to the locals.
True, but mouths of major rivers already tend to be quite seriously industrialised, what with major ports and petrochemical industry and all. That's what the mouth of the Rhine and Meuse looks like anyway (Rotterdam). I'm more worried about whether such plants would be an obstacle to big ships.
Then, in 2000, I was still using it. But I accidentally left it on a conference room table after a meeting and it disappeared. It actually got STOLEN. In the 21st century.
Sounds to me like you left it in the 20th century.
most new phones are essentially an iPhone plus a couple other features, like a high res display or a physical keyboard
And either being bigger and clunkier, or having a smaller screen. iPhone's screen size compared to form factor has unequaled for a long time. It was the only phone with multi-touch for a long time. It really was a very excellent device for its time. It's only the in last few months that other phones are surpassing it left and right.
The iPhone's only selling point is that it has a UI that sucks a lot less than most of its competitors.
That's a pretty big selling point, though. Before the iPhone, smartphones sucked. In fact, any non-make-a-phone-call functionality on any kind of phone sucked. iPhone showed the way in slick, easily navigatable UIs. Nowadays everybody's doing it (or trying to), but in simple, easy to use UIs, the iPhone did show the way.
Is that the entire basis for "it was 14-year-old Willow whose dignity was flung in the mud,"? It sounds to me like the joke was clearly a reference to the daughter that got knocked up.
The fact that that daughter wasn't even present at the game is hardly relevant, considering it's obviously a joke and not a credible claim.
Any real criticism that Sarah Palin has had about her daughters was, as far as I know, all concerning how her family values apparently included getting knocked up before marriage.
I mean it in the sense that anything Nazi related is banned including video games and movies where Nazi's are the enemy. A video game with Nazi's as the enemy will not change a person to join the Nazi party, but the German gov't seems to think so.
It's not fighting the nazis that's forbidden, it's showing nazi symbolism. An empty and stupid gesture, I admit, but it's definitely not about protecting or hiding nazis. Apparently they think symbols are important to nazis (and to some extend they are).
So, dehumanizing Bush for his intelligence is cool, and even funny, but making a monkey picture of a black person, irregardless of their potential intentions, is horribly offensive?
I guess so. Probably because the US has a horribly offensive history when it comes to racism, and not so much when it comes to the treatment of stupid people.
it's entirely possible to imagine that the picture was not racially charged at all when it was created.
That's certainly possible, but the racist association is still culturally present. I suspect it's going to take some time to get rid of that.
Disclaimer: I am not from North America, and I also think that the USA has some serious racial issues. That being said, explain to me how comparing Bush to a monkey is not dehumanizing him?
Of course it's dehumanizing. It's just not racist. Instead of making fun of his ethnic background, it makes fun of his genetic short-comings.
Now if Bush would have ordered the killing of a journalist or some such. Then, obviously, you would have seen them falling over their own feet censoring themselves, apologizing and groveling. But attacking Bush was cheap. Whatever else Bush was, he is a man of principles, and will never attack an American for any speech whatsoever.
I've seen little evidence of that. What about that CIA agent that got outed by a fall guy from his administration?
Didn't human beings EVOLVE from apes? Didn't blacks evolve BEFORE whites? Didn't whites evolve FROM blacks?
Yes and no. White people didn't evolve from blacks in the same way we didn't evolve from chimps, but the distant ancestors of white people lived in Africa and were almost certainly black. Just like the distant ancestors of modern black people.
Your implication that white skin is somehow more highly evolved than black skin is false, however. Neanderthals were very likely white, yet evolved before black Homo Sapiens did. It's just a matter of living in a different environment. Skin colour seems to be one of the easiest genetic traits to change through evolution.
Why would a racially charged comparisson fall into a different category? And for that matter, IF a racially charged comparisson does fall into a special category why do Michele Obama images get removed and not the images that compare Robert Mugabe with a chimp?
That ones easy: Robert Mugabe is a bad guy, and Michelle Obama is not.
My thoughts exactly. I fully agree the image is in bad taste, but Google can't be held responsible for it, and they shouldn't feel responsible for it. Go blame the guy who put it on his website.
Only if your daily activity makes you so dirty that daily showers are required. If you work out every day, or if you work in a manure processing plant or something, then daily showers are good. If you sit on your ass all day (and you don't have a condition that makes you sweat profusely), daily showers are overkill and may do more harm than good.
Color e-Ink displays at a reasonable cost. THAT is going to usher in a huge change to our mobile landscape. It might not be the $20 model you state is impossible, but it's my prediction.
Remember how much CRT monitors once cost? How much the first flat screens cost? You can bet the price of e-paper is going to drop a lot over the next couple of decades. Maybe not to less than $20, or maybe it will drop to the price of paper. It's impossible to predict (who could have predicted how cheap cellphones (with the same processing power that supercomputers had 30 years ago) would become?).
But if it's going to be big (and I think it will), then prices will drop.
A lot of time when I search for something technical I get tons of useless links to acm, ieeexplore, arxiv etc. sites that give one set of data to googlebot and another to non-paying visitors.
Interesting trick, but isn't that easily defeated by looking at the version in google's cache instead?
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The review is not a review of the game, it's a review of the reviewer's experience with the game. Other than it being a real-time strategy game, he tells absolutely nothing about the game itself.
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So what's your proposal? Instead of building these plants, reroute all rivers towards the Sahara?
Of course a local study is always necessary. If you've got a nature reserve where a river flows through a swamp into the sea, with a lot of rare animals living there, building any sort of plant there will have an impact. But we also have a lot of rivers where sadly the ecosystem has already been severely disrupted. Getting some power out of that would be quite nice.
the process will discharge MORE salt water, hence increasing the salt content of the river and probably killing off all life for miles down stream.
There is no downstream at a river mouth. Downstream is sea.
Well, that's great and all, but there is such a thing as local ecology, which would be important to the locals.
True, but mouths of major rivers already tend to be quite seriously industrialised, what with major ports and petrochemical industry and all. That's what the mouth of the Rhine and Meuse looks like anyway (Rotterdam). I'm more worried about whether such plants would be an obstacle to big ships.
Then, in 2000, I was still using it. But I accidentally left it on a conference room table after a meeting and it disappeared. It actually got STOLEN. In the 21st century.
Sounds to me like you left it in the 20th century.
most new phones are essentially an iPhone plus a couple other features, like a high res display or a physical keyboard
And either being bigger and clunkier, or having a smaller screen. iPhone's screen size compared to form factor has unequaled for a long time. It was the only phone with multi-touch for a long time. It really was a very excellent device for its time. It's only the in last few months that other phones are surpassing it left and right.
The iPhone's only selling point is that it has a UI that sucks a lot less than most of its competitors.
That's a pretty big selling point, though. Before the iPhone, smartphones sucked. In fact, any non-make-a-phone-call functionality on any kind of phone sucked. iPhone showed the way in slick, easily navigatable UIs. Nowadays everybody's doing it (or trying to), but in simple, easy to use UIs, the iPhone did show the way.
The fact that the old lady didn't put up much of a fight when the mugger took her purse doesn't make it less of a mugging.
'But she was so easy to rob, didn't put up any fight at all! Send her to jail since she's not taking any self defense classes!'
Are you calling the US Army a little old lady?
Is that the entire basis for "it was 14-year-old Willow whose dignity was flung in the mud,"? It sounds to me like the joke was clearly a reference to the daughter that got knocked up.
The fact that that daughter wasn't even present at the game is hardly relevant, considering it's obviously a joke and not a credible claim.
Any real criticism that Sarah Palin has had about her daughters was, as far as I know, all concerning how her family values apparently included getting knocked up before marriage.
I mean it in the sense that anything Nazi related is banned including video games and movies where Nazi's are the enemy. A video game with Nazi's as the enemy will not change a person to join the Nazi party, but the German gov't seems to think so.
It's not fighting the nazis that's forbidden, it's showing nazi symbolism. An empty and stupid gesture, I admit, but it's definitely not about protecting or hiding nazis. Apparently they think symbols are important to nazis (and to some extend they are).
So, dehumanizing Bush for his intelligence is cool, and even funny, but making a monkey picture of a black person, irregardless of their potential intentions, is horribly offensive?
I guess so. Probably because the US has a horribly offensive history when it comes to racism, and not so much when it comes to the treatment of stupid people.
it's entirely possible to imagine that the picture was not racially charged at all when it was created.
That's certainly possible, but the racist association is still culturally present. I suspect it's going to take some time to get rid of that.
Disclaimer: I am not from North America, and I also think that the USA has some serious racial issues. That being said, explain to me how comparing Bush to a monkey is not dehumanizing him?
Of course it's dehumanizing. It's just not racist. Instead of making fun of his ethnic background, it makes fun of his genetic short-comings.
You can't erase it like the Germans are trying to do with the Nazi history.
Er, what? The Germans aren't trying to erase it, they're trying to fix it. They take their Nazi history very seriously, there.
Now if Bush would have ordered the killing of a journalist or some such. Then, obviously, you would have seen them falling over their own feet censoring themselves, apologizing and groveling. But attacking Bush was cheap. Whatever else Bush was, he is a man of principles, and will never attack an American for any speech whatsoever.
I've seen little evidence of that. What about that CIA agent that got outed by a fall guy from his administration?
They never did that for the "Bush chimp" pictures.
That's political satire - not racism.
Racism won't be truly a thing of the past until we can make fun of black and white politicians alike.
Didn't human beings EVOLVE from apes? Didn't blacks evolve BEFORE whites? Didn't whites evolve FROM blacks?
Yes and no. White people didn't evolve from blacks in the same way we didn't evolve from chimps, but the distant ancestors of white people lived in Africa and were almost certainly black. Just like the distant ancestors of modern black people.
Your implication that white skin is somehow more highly evolved than black skin is false, however. Neanderthals were very likely white, yet evolved before black Homo Sapiens did. It's just a matter of living in a different environment. Skin colour seems to be one of the easiest genetic traits to change through evolution.
Why would a racially charged comparisson fall into a different category? And for that matter, IF a racially charged comparisson does fall into a special category why do Michele Obama images get removed and not the images that compare Robert Mugabe with a chimp?
That ones easy: Robert Mugabe is a bad guy, and Michelle Obama is not.
Monkey jokes aside, why ban it?
My thoughts exactly. I fully agree the image is in bad taste, but Google can't be held responsible for it, and they shouldn't feel responsible for it. Go blame the guy who put it on his website.
1 shower a day is good (*).
Only if your daily activity makes you so dirty that daily showers are required. If you work out every day, or if you work in a manure processing plant or something, then daily showers are good. If you sit on your ass all day (and you don't have a condition that makes you sweat profusely), daily showers are overkill and may do more harm than good.
Color e-Ink displays at a reasonable cost. THAT is going to usher in a huge change to our mobile landscape. It might not be the $20 model you state is impossible, but it's my prediction.
Remember how much CRT monitors once cost? How much the first flat screens cost? You can bet the price of e-paper is going to drop a lot over the next couple of decades. Maybe not to less than $20, or maybe it will drop to the price of paper. It's impossible to predict (who could have predicted how cheap cellphones (with the same processing power that supercomputers had 30 years ago) would become?).
But if it's going to be big (and I think it will), then prices will drop.
After all those accidents and mishaps, now they got a collision? They have some rotten luck.
A lot of time when I search for something technical I get tons of useless links to acm, ieeexplore, arxiv etc. sites that give one set of data to googlebot and another to non-paying visitors.
Interesting trick, but isn't that easily defeated by looking at the version in google's cache instead?
The review is not a review of the game, it's a review of the reviewer's experience with the game. Other than it being a real-time strategy game, he tells absolutely nothing about the game itself.
Aren't modern high-end smart phones basically the ultra mobile PCs of today?
And does it run Android?
Better to be dead and not paying premiums than to be alive with a chronic case.
Now I'm imagining a dystopian future where health insurance agencies hire hitmen.