There is that. But really, any large corp that offers you a service with an implied "oh, your stuff is safe with us" and then shuts down the service is begging for redicule, if an indictment. To big to fail, to big to follow the law, I guess. Yeah, I'm complaining.
Jobs was a cult, not a man. I betcha dollahs to donuts the film is going to illustrate how Job's singular vision overcame the adversity of a hostile company board to bring joy and consumer products to thronging crowds. The scene where Scully fires Jobs is going to have a lot of violins in the background, watch.
Yeah, everything I've ever read about the dude wasn't exactly positive from an engineer's perspective. I like how Jobs "valued" art, keeping guitars from rockstars and motorcycles in the lobby of 1 Apple Way but demanding engineers spend 80% of their time in the office and farming out his products to Chinese sweatshops.
At the risk of turning this into a macbook battery forum I'm a 13" retina owner. I love the thing, except for the lack of a2dp in the bluetooth adapter (but that's another story), anyway I've been in the habit of running the book on battery until I get to ~10% cap, then plugging it in until fully charged, and repeating the cycle. Am I doing The Right Thing?
Germany, as the economic engine to the EU, certainly has the money to do the same, and don't think they won't. This will last only as long as its not inconvienient to each respective parrty.
If you're referring to the emancipation proclamation that was passed by a slim margin in congress. Now lets's examine the "Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act of 2012"...
...supreme court...can head out to Nevada and run it themselves!
Not their job. The Administration, as the Executive Branch, of the Gov., needs to, you know, do their job of EXECUTING law that the Legislative branch, you know, Congress, the people who MAKE THE LAW, create.
We've never been any further from a representitive government and closer to rule by decree than now.
Then they need to find a different business model 'cause I'm not pleased by this one. Mozilla is doing the right thing here, the IAB is just trying to spread FUD.
You can believe emperical evidence, which is supported by independant observation and recording, as was the Norman invasion of England. It was observed by many French and English chroniclers who wrote about plausible events supported by science that can be experimentally shown to work in ANY time period (gravity, medicine, etc). Jesus is mentioned NO WHERE ELSE but IN the BIBLE, and according to same he performed miracles that cannot be independantly verified by ANYONE at ANY TIME, EVER. Your reasoning would have people not able to believe anything at all, INCLUDING emperical evidence, which is clearly wrong. Your taking a childish approach to the subject.
You need to pick your battles by being an informed adult, not batting about at moths like a child.
This is accomplished by the use of a number called a MAC address.
Easily defeated by spoofing. And don't give me that "but few know how to do it" nonsense. Its not difficult and people learn how to do things when they realize they need to do it. REAL ignorance is believing that using MAC addresses for anything involving ID or security is a good idea.
i don't know about the Hospitallers but since you mentioned 1066 I do know that William I with his Normans used a stirrup, something the Saxons didn't have, requiring the Saxons to dismount before attacking, whereas the Normans could use cavalry charges. The Saxons only lasted as long as they did that day becuase they had a nice, up hill defensive position and using the shield wall tactic were able to withstand the Norman charges for a while.
I wasn't there; how do I know this? PEOPLE WRITE STUFF DOWN, Sperbels.
...if you can build an intercontinental ballistic missile, you can build a spacecraft...
Wrong. Two very different levels of technology involved. And missles of the type you are describing use chemical propulsion, already discussed in the article as being insufficiant for the tasks nessessary.
I'm using the classic definition of war; armed conflict declared between two opposing forces composed of professional armies going head to head. In that light the US hasn't been in such a conflict since the early 50's. The last such war ever that I'm aware of was the Iran-Iraq war. Everything else has been insurgencies.
One solar flare pointed in the wrong direction...science fiction...blah blah...
And then you go on to paint a very bleak portrait of space travel. We have sent men to the moon, have functioning sattellites, and sent man-made probes to Mars. Also, "one Solar flare" will be a factor with diminishing consequences the further from the sun you are. Clearly your "Space Travel == Instant Annihilation" scenario is not exactly (not even remotely) true. Are you writing a Science Fiction novel?
The main problem with your analysis is that the kind of people they will (or ought to) send will be very easy-going, non-violent, kind, highly intelligent and well educated.
Quite likely. For a working model we could actually use the early internet. Back before the arpanet became the internet there were fewer users and most were highly educated researchers. Forward to the present and we know what we have now.
Wars, maybe not, because there will never be enough people there to ever go to War, and the classic geographical style war is impossible anyway.
People will engage in war under any circumstances, geography is hardly a factor. A more likely scenario is that war will be difficult due to the scarcity of resources on Mars. War requires the squandering of vast amounts of resources, weather its money, goods, materials, or people. Far more likely is guerilla insugency, backed by earthly powers (countries) with some kind of vested interest in the social disruption of Martian society. Crime will be a given with the same scarcity of resources.
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There is that. But really, any large corp that offers you a service with an implied "oh, your stuff is safe with us" and then shuts down the service is begging for redicule, if an indictment. To big to fail, to big to follow the law, I guess. Yeah, I'm complaining.
Jobs was a cult, not a man. I betcha dollahs to donuts the film is going to illustrate how Job's singular vision overcame the adversity of a hostile company board to bring joy and consumer products to thronging crowds. The scene where Scully fires Jobs is going to have a lot of violins in the background, watch.
...We can do that.
Yeah, everything I've ever read about the dude wasn't exactly positive from an engineer's perspective. I like how Jobs "valued" art, keeping guitars from rockstars and motorcycles in the lobby of 1 Apple Way but demanding engineers spend 80% of their time in the office and farming out his products to Chinese sweatshops.
except your doing it wrong and hurting the battery. Let the charge controller do its job. You aren't smarter than it is.
Really? Why? Earlier manufactuerers of battries used to say the exact opposite. Why the reverse?
Because most batteries last much longer if you don't discharge them as far.
Why?
...that's about the most stupid thing you could do.
"X" hours? I don't need to get up to plug the charger in. So why is this the most stupid thing I could do?
At the risk of turning this into a macbook battery forum I'm a 13" retina owner. I love the thing, except for the lack of a2dp in the bluetooth adapter (but that's another story), anyway I've been in the habit of running the book on battery until I get to ~10% cap, then plugging it in until fully charged, and repeating the cycle. Am I doing The Right Thing?
Germany, as the economic engine to the EU, certainly has the money to do the same, and don't think they won't. This will last only as long as its not inconvienient to each respective parrty.
If you're referring to the emancipation proclamation that was passed by a slim margin in congress. Now lets's examine the "Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act of 2012"...
...supreme court...can head out to Nevada and run it themselves!
Not their job. The Administration, as the Executive Branch, of the Gov., needs to, you know, do their job of EXECUTING law that the Legislative branch, you know, Congress, the people who MAKE THE LAW, create.
We've never been any further from a representitive government and closer to rule by decree than now.
Coding is a communal and collaborative effort...
Of course! Becuase laughing at a clueless newb is worth hours of derisive laughter.
Then they need to find a different business model 'cause I'm not pleased by this one. Mozilla is doing the right thing here, the IAB is just trying to spread FUD.
...images have stirrups in them.
Right, the Normans are using stirrups, as I said.
You can believe emperical evidence, which is supported by independant observation and recording, as was the Norman invasion of England. It was observed by many French and English chroniclers who wrote about plausible events supported by science that can be experimentally shown to work in ANY time period (gravity, medicine, etc). Jesus is mentioned NO WHERE ELSE but IN the BIBLE, and according to same he performed miracles that cannot be independantly verified by ANYONE at ANY TIME, EVER. Your reasoning would have people not able to believe anything at all, INCLUDING emperical evidence, which is clearly wrong. Your taking a childish approach to the subject.
You need to pick your battles by being an informed adult, not batting about at moths like a child.
This is accomplished by the use of a number called a MAC address.
Easily defeated by spoofing. And don't give me that "but few know how to do it" nonsense. Its not difficult and people learn how to do things when they realize they need to do it. REAL ignorance is believing that using MAC addresses for anything involving ID or security is a good idea.
i don't know about the Hospitallers but since you mentioned 1066 I do know that William I with his Normans used a stirrup, something the Saxons didn't have, requiring the Saxons to dismount before attacking, whereas the Normans could use cavalry charges. The Saxons only lasted as long as they did that day becuase they had a nice, up hill defensive position and using the shield wall tactic were able to withstand the Norman charges for a while.
I wasn't there; how do I know this? PEOPLE WRITE STUFF DOWN, Sperbels.
...if you can build an intercontinental ballistic missile, you can build a spacecraft...
Wrong. Two very different levels of technology involved. And missles of the type you are describing use chemical propulsion, already discussed in the article as being insufficiant for the tasks nessessary.
I'm using the classic definition of war; armed conflict declared between two opposing forces composed of professional armies going head to head. In that light the US hasn't been in such a conflict since the early 50's. The last such war ever that I'm aware of was the Iran-Iraq war. Everything else has been insurgencies.
It sounds reasonable to me.
Its not, and here's a little history for ya.
One solar flare pointed in the wrong direction...science fiction...blah blah...
And then you go on to paint a very bleak portrait of space travel. We have sent men to the moon, have functioning sattellites, and sent man-made probes to Mars. Also, "one Solar flare" will be a factor with diminishing consequences the further from the sun you are. Clearly your "Space Travel == Instant Annihilation" scenario is not exactly (not even remotely) true. Are you writing a Science Fiction novel?
Seriously? You must be new to American Geek Culture.
...building things in orbit - not plugging modules together...
You will apparently be surprised to learn that modern building techniques make heavy use of modularized materials.
The main problem with your analysis is that the kind of people they will (or ought to) send will be very easy-going, non-violent, kind, highly intelligent and well educated.
Quite likely. For a working model we could actually use the early internet. Back before the arpanet became the internet there were fewer users and most were highly educated researchers. Forward to the present and we know what we have now.
Wars, maybe not, because there will never be enough people there to ever go to War, and the classic geographical style war is impossible anyway.
People will engage in war under any circumstances, geography is hardly a factor. A more likely scenario is that war will be difficult due to the scarcity of resources on Mars. War requires the squandering of vast amounts of resources, weather its money, goods, materials, or people. Far more likely is guerilla insugency, backed by earthly powers (countries) with some kind of vested interest in the social disruption of Martian society. Crime will be a given with the same scarcity of resources.