High volume was not his example. It was letting 10 people know he would be out of town, and the excuse for using twitter was that he'd need to email 4, SMS 3, pone 1, etc.
Email would work perfectly fine in that situation for all 10 people in 99.99% of situations.
Unless you are claiming there are a substantial percentage of folks who use twitter but don't use email. I'll want citations for that though, because I don't believe it for a minute.
Certainly you might do that for the first few hundred, or few thousand solar systems you explore. After a while, you probably aren't going bother with the work/expense unless things look particularly interesting. With more than a billion stars in this galaxy, I can see not bothering to send probes to the vast, vast, vast majority.
You are still making a lot of assumptions in your theory.
1) What if they already mapped our solar system a billion years ago, and it just wasn't to their taste. You assume there is something great about our solar system that they'd want to hang around. What if they like 7G's of gravity with a methane atmosphere and liquid water surface? We don't might not have any planets that are to their particular taste, so they moved on from this wasteland of a solar system.
2) What if they mapped it out, but it wasn't quite right then? Maybe they dropped off seeds to kick off life on earth. Maybe they started some 'terraforming' on some planet, say Mars, that has changed it's atmosphere, but they just haven't come back yet to move in to the changed digs?
3) Maybe it takes a hell of a lot of resources to make a generation ship needed for travel, and they take much longer to produce than you think, or aren't made at a lot of the 'destination' planets because it would use too much resources. In any case, exploration may take a lot longer than you think it should for them.
4) We've likely only been 'advanced' enough to be interesting to talk to (if we actually are yet) for maybe a few thousand years. That's a tiny, tiny, tiny amount of time on the galactic scale. If their nearest inhabited planet is a few hundred light years away, why would they waste resources sending a ship to say hi to some funny looking monkeys?
Just ask Kevin Trudeau, the convicted felon con-man who can't sell anything else, but is allowed to sell books/publications all over late-night TV infomercials due to free speech issues.
Prisons have to let prisoners have access to law books so that they can participate in their own defense (think appeals). Studying the same books can lead to enough knowledge necessary to pass the bar exam.
They do no have to let prisoners have access to computers (which is kind of a requirement for writing a file system).
The only extra restriction on him as far as any type of publishing is that he is not allowed to profit from his crime (i.e. write a book about killing his wife and make money off the sales).
He doesn't have any diminished copyright to the file system code.
I'm not sure what your complaint about the current Dr. Who special affects are. They are quite decent. Not to the level of a Hollywood movie, but quite decent for current TV budget sci-fi. They are definitley not to the level of Battlestar, but that's really high-end compared to about anything else you will see on TV instead of the big screen. They are much more on-par with U.S. efforts than the old days of Blake's 7.
I'm an American who loves Dr. Who, and I'm very excited to hear about a possible return of Blake's 7. Maybe because that's because I grew up watching Captain Kirk throwing styrofoam boulders at aliens. Cheesy special effects don't bother me if the script and characters are worth watching.
If you have an explosion large enough to drive an electromagnet to shape a flow of liquid metal, the explosion itself would have been plenty powerful enough to shape the flow of the liquid metal itself.
Yes, XP with the minimum system requirements ran like a dog. You could do anything you wanted with it, but it was dog slow.
The difference is, with Vista, with the minimum requirements, it not only is dog slow, but there are many features of it that you simply can't run. At all. And others that you can run, but only with reduced function.
That's probably because they'd like to drive MUCH faster on the dry clear day, but are held back by the speed limits posted, and fear of massive tickets.
When lecture time is wasted because a professor has to repeat his question twice for all the students that aren't paying attention, it hurts the quality time of the other part of the class who do want to get their money's worth for the class. It is an issue.
The folks surfing during class aren't just cheating themselves. They are cheating the other people in the class who are trying to learn.
Is having to repeat questions twice because half the class isn't paying attention good for the other half of the class that paid for the class and want to get something productive out of it?
I just listened to the podcast, and it seems to me that Dawkins did a fine job, whereas David Quinns arguements were not logical. What's your point? Your problem is he is logical and his detractors are not? That's your problem with him?
I think you are thinking of the Pinto, or the corvair. Not the Vega. The Vega had a reputation for being a crappy car (it was, I had one), but not for getting folks killed. The Vega was a relatively safe car for it's day.
I run a few mysql servers in addition to postgresql and mssql servers. I LOATHE mysql. Yet I use it in a few cases. Why? Because there are a few applications I need to run which were unwisely written to only support mysql. If postgresql or any other database support is ever added to them (or I ever find the extra time to add it myself) I'll switch in a heartbeat. But for now, since I need to run those applications, I am stuck using mysql.
So don't think every mysql server running out there is running it because the admin thinks it's the best or even just-as-good of a database. (It isn't)
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High volume was not his example. It was letting 10 people know he would be out of town, and the excuse for using twitter was that he'd need to email 4, SMS 3, pone 1, etc.
Email would work perfectly fine in that situation for all 10 people in 99.99% of situations.
Or you could just email them all.
Unless you are claiming there are a substantial percentage of folks who use twitter but don't use email. I'll want citations for that though, because I don't believe it for a minute.
Certainly you might do that for the first few hundred, or few thousand solar systems you explore. After a while, you probably aren't going bother with the work/expense unless things look particularly interesting. With more than a billion stars in this galaxy, I can see not bothering to send probes to the vast, vast, vast majority.
You are still making a lot of assumptions in your theory.
1) What if they already mapped our solar system a billion years ago, and it just wasn't to their taste. You assume there is something great about our solar system that they'd want to hang around. What if they like 7G's of gravity with a methane atmosphere and liquid water surface? We don't might not have any planets that are to their particular taste, so they moved on from this wasteland of a solar system.
2) What if they mapped it out, but it wasn't quite right then? Maybe they dropped off seeds to kick off life on earth. Maybe they started some 'terraforming' on some planet, say Mars, that has changed it's atmosphere, but they just haven't come back yet to move in to the changed digs?
3) Maybe it takes a hell of a lot of resources to make a generation ship needed for travel, and they take much longer to produce than you think, or aren't made at a lot of the 'destination' planets because it would use too much resources. In any case, exploration may take a lot longer than you think it should for them.
4) We've likely only been 'advanced' enough to be interesting to talk to (if we actually are yet) for maybe a few thousand years. That's a tiny, tiny, tiny amount of time on the galactic scale. If their nearest inhabited planet is a few hundred light years away, why would they waste resources sending a ship to say hi to some funny looking monkeys?
That depends on the state that you are in. Most states require a degree, some do not.
Just ask Kevin Trudeau, the convicted felon con-man who can't sell anything else, but is allowed to sell books/publications all over late-night TV infomercials due to free speech issues.
Prisons have to let prisoners have access to law books so that they can participate in their own defense (think appeals). Studying the same books can lead to enough knowledge necessary to pass the bar exam.
They do no have to let prisoners have access to computers (which is kind of a requirement for writing a file system).
Just making stuff up now, are we?
The only extra restriction on him as far as any type of publishing is that he is not allowed to profit from his crime (i.e. write a book about killing his wife and make money off the sales).
He doesn't have any diminished copyright to the file system code.
I'm not sure what your complaint about the current Dr. Who special affects are. They are quite decent. Not to the level of a Hollywood movie, but quite decent for current TV budget sci-fi. They are definitley not to the level of Battlestar, but that's really high-end compared to about anything else you will see on TV instead of the big screen. They are much more on-par with U.S. efforts than the old days of Blake's 7.
I'm an American who loves Dr. Who, and I'm very excited to hear about a possible return of Blake's 7. Maybe because that's because I grew up watching Captain Kirk throwing styrofoam boulders at aliens. Cheesy special effects don't bother me if the script and characters are worth watching.
If you have an explosion large enough to drive an electromagnet to shape a flow of liquid metal, the explosion itself would have been plenty powerful enough to shape the flow of the liquid metal itself.
I've had bad cuts, and I've had bad burns. I'll take the cuts anytime. Burns are about as painful as it gets.
An operating system is not a game.
Yes, XP with the minimum system requirements ran like a dog. You could do anything you wanted with it, but it was dog slow.
The difference is, with Vista, with the minimum requirements, it not only is dog slow, but there are many features of it that you simply can't run. At all. And others that you can run, but only with reduced function.
That's a huge difference.
I'm in Cleveland Ohio, and I felt it (6th floor),
That's probably because they'd like to drive MUCH faster on the dry clear day, but are held back by the speed limits posted, and fear of massive tickets.
When lecture time is wasted because a professor has to repeat his question twice for all the students that aren't paying attention, it hurts the quality time of the other part of the class who do want to get their money's worth for the class. It is an issue.
The folks surfing during class aren't just cheating themselves. They are cheating the other people in the class who are trying to learn.
Is having to repeat questions twice because half the class isn't paying attention good for the other half of the class that paid for the class and want to get something productive out of it?
I was just going to comment on that. Wild coincidence. And a bit of irony.
I didn't read todays cartoon either because of the flash requirement. Looks like I won't be reading dilbert anymore.
Intel has open specs on their integrated video hardware, so Open Source folks can write their own stable drivers.
ATI and Nvidia do not. I know who I'm rooting for to come up with a good hardware...
So you agree with the others then. The existence of matter is "proof" that there is a god? Really? That's logic?
Their arguments were full of flawed logic.
I just listened to the podcast, and it seems to me that Dawkins did a fine job, whereas David Quinns arguements were not logical. What's your point? Your problem is he is logical and his detractors are not? That's your problem with him?
I think you are thinking of the Pinto, or the corvair. Not the Vega. The Vega had a reputation for being a crappy car (it was, I had one), but not for getting folks killed. The Vega was a relatively safe car for it's day.
I'll be by later to snag a few hairs out of your comb. Never mind why I want them...
I make DNA all day in the lab. It's getting easier and cheaper to make every year.
DNA isn't going to turn out to be any more of a panacea than fingerprints.
Sorry, all you get to start this level is a crowbar.
As the other poster said, inertia.
I run a few mysql servers in addition to postgresql and mssql servers. I LOATHE mysql. Yet I use it in a few cases. Why? Because there are a few applications I need to run which were unwisely written to only support mysql. If postgresql or any other database support is ever added to them (or I ever find the extra time to add it myself) I'll switch in a heartbeat. But for now, since I need to run those applications, I am stuck using mysql.
So don't think every mysql server running out there is running it because the admin thinks it's the best or even just-as-good of a database. (It isn't)