What they are doing is trying to hunt down and substantiate those quietly influencing the whole of the internet, not accidentally but purposefully via memes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... hidden in sarcasm, those being political and social memes not kitten memes. So what they will be doing is backtracking ideas and changes to existing ideas from larger more spread elements of internet media and attempting to track them back to original sources based upon date of occurrence and looking for repeated patterns. Then they will endeavour to silence or force influence over those quiet originators via one method or another. Likely they already have some suspects in mind from around the world and just want to confirm for action whilst expanding their search for others. The will also be looking be looking for collusion between originators to try to prove conspiratorial associations, this is likely where their ideas of substantiation will collapse as that consensus of thought between originators is 'Anonymous' to each other or of such loose circumstantial nature as to be legally negligible. Elements of government are basically pissed off at losing their propaganda war on the internet and looking for people to blame.
Talk about a goofy assed response. Companies own those assets because they generate an income that justifies their capital value. Hence it is no different for the government to own those assets and generate an income from them, of course people like you would complain, as oh no the government is taxing us. Which leads to another question, are privatised corporations simply elements of the government privatised and those fees including those inflated profits, simply privatised taxes, especially with regard to monopoly and cartel services.
At least when the government charges for a service, that income goes into general revenue and reduces tax burdens. So any essential service when government owned, helps to minimise additional non-service taxes. The only reason to privatise is because insatiably greedy psychopaths want to insert themselves as middlemen and suck up profit to line their own pockets. Not only charging us more but forcing us to pay additional non service based taxes to cover those government income losses. Fucking filthy bastards.
Sorry but ultimately it is all part of government, whether actual government or privatised by psychopathic greed elements of government, including all essential services.
It is pretty obvious the current US lead trade agreements are nothing more than vain attempt to lock in the corporate power obtained through propaganda as news and the corruption of democracy, when they took over the fourth estate and turned it into tool of corruption after Ronny Raygun killed the fairness doctrine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... basically legalising lies in the news. After growing exposure of the corruption on the internet, the corporate psychopaths are desperate to keep the power they have gained and that is now slipping away from them and they a looking to be facing justice for the countless crimes they have committed in every imaginable area of human economic interaction and politics.
Likely the more correct statement is the maximum speed of light is the speed of gravity. So there are quite few particles that travel faster than the speed of light. Now when it comes to reaching other galaxies, seriously who really cares, there is just so much of this galaxy to explore, even living to really ripe old age of 10,000 earth orbits and travelling really fast from sun to sun, there are so many places, likely so many species and societies to explore, even allowing only 1 luna orbit at each location, let alone travel time, likely you won run out of 'interesting' places, just like our own, to explore just in this galaxy. All you need to do is slip on by gravity.
The wording, the presentation and of course the nature of program, means the proper interpretation of the presentation was not for trolls to comment at that particular web site but an open invitation to everyone to become a troll and inform the FCC what they felt about the way Obama stuck a Telecoms Troll (a lobbyist basically the ultimate trolls on the face of the planet, well and truly above and beyond what you typical internet troll is, they a democracy trolls screwing up your government for money) in charge of the FCC. This basically to screw over net neutrality whilst pretending it is good for the customer, something along the lines of convincing everyone that anal rape is good for you because it will make getting barium enema for bowel cancer seem much easier by comparison.
It should be pretty obvious to you why windows 8 is way better than windows 7. Seriously it should be blatantly obvious to you. It is out and out going to do a far better job of selling windows 9, I mean, that is the whole point isn't it, selling the same software over and over and over and ad nauseum, again (and the whole idea is really getting pretty bloody nauseous and off smelling).
The "Start Menu" its a bloody upgrade and should you have to pay for upgrades, now all M$ has to do is purposefully break 'Classic Shell' to ensure you pay for the upgrade, suckers.
The point you seem to be missing is customer expectation of durability of product and planetary survivability of how much junk we can dump upon whilst burning resources like there is no tomorrow.
The real question now is not whether we can tolerate our current system of wasteful egoistic mass consumption but whether we can tolerate those who promote it and corruptly seek to continue it to system collapse.
Not really all that niche. The optimum tool, the feedback exo-suit (the would normally connected to a remote control robot) could quite readily be used for virtual reality gaming in either gyms or in virtual reality gaming hotels (due to the cost of the exo-suit experience). That physical feedback (with resistance and or assistance based upon actual user ability), would make for a far more physically interactive gaming experience, so not just seeing and hearing in three dimension but physically moving in three dimension. So push weights, pedal a stationary bike or aimlessly jump about or 'well', doing anything that pretty much can be imagined in existing computer games all with direct physical interaction. Benefit of this is of course it will substantially subsidise the production of feedback exo-suits. Other uses using the remote controlled robot, include fire rescue operations, search and rescue, high risk security interactions and a whole range of harsh or high risk work environments, anything where human safety costs are high and will become higher and be completely avoided by the use of an exo-suit and a remote robot. Keep in mind, the more there are, the cheaper they become, the more they will be produced and they more they will be used.
Once you go the route of a exo-suit it makes more sense to hook it up to a remote control droid and take feedback from that droid to drive active resistance in the exo-suit for far more accurate interaction completely free of human risk.
The real problem with current planetary formation theory is the silly expectation that catastrophic formation is rare and stable systems within a specific range are the norm. Likely catastrophic impact is the norm and when analysing planetary formation theory to align measured outcome's we have to be able to exclude unusual outcomes and put them down to catastrophic impacts rather than attempt to adjust the theories.
No admitted guilt. It is illegal to obey illegal orders. By law he was required to protect the evidence of crimes that came into his possession and present it to the justice system for prosecution. This presentation need not be private and can be quite public. What is clearly apparent from 'recent' prior examples of this type of case where criminal acts of government agencies are exposed, the judge has blatantly criminally conspired to ignore this evidence, bury it and only allow the the prosecution of release official secret evidence of criminal acts. So blatant corruption within the US judiciary and the justice system and the US government. A a really rather pathetic response of Kerry, which comes off as a forced extorted response, likely as a result of evidence obtained by the NSA against Kerry to protect it's newly obtained power. Kerry talking about justice, it is most likely him that needs to confess and face justice for that confession and free himself from extortion.
What they actually want to do is secretly up the rent by externalising the cost. By establishing artificial internet access monopolies who will have to charge their tenants extra for the goods provided, they can pay the artificial monopoly costs. Basically their intent is to stick it too their tenants and hide the extra costs.
Really why dick about, simply block secure internet payment protocols and demand all payments be made via a service nominated and charge 20% tariff on payments, then claim it is a security measure to protect the students from financial scams.
Any scam attempted will be detected shared amongst the tenants and more importantly shared amongst potential tenants and the tenants lawyers will start exploring anti-competition laws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... and how much the landlords can be sued for. Of course you could actively censor the students from communicating with each other on the subject and good luck with that.
From Freedom House http://www.freedomhouse.org/co..., hardly seems an impartial group and as such its output has been snatched up for US corporate propaganda. One obvious failure of logic is Russia. It is pretty bloody obvious that Putin has to work very hard at being popular with the Russian electorate, as such their democracy must be fairly intact. Perhaps Freedom House measure democracy as to how well the public can be fooled into to believing that a corporate owned government is democratic.
It seems at the moment the real conflict between Russia and the US at the moment, is that Russia is most definitely not corporate controlled and the US which is corporate controlled is aggressively scheming and plotting to turn it into yet another corporate controlled state.
If "strong public interest in having someone's past run-ins with the law being available" is valid, than those people whom this information is about would be definition be considered unsafe and as such should remain in confinement.
So really you seem to need to make up your mind, either these people about whom the public needs to be warned need to remain in confinement or the need to be publicly ostracised forced into a life of crime and be returned to prison.
Now whilst I would agree those that test out as psychopaths should remain in confinement once a specific range of crimes have been committed, for the rest where rehabilitation will work, it should be allowed to work.
You left out an important point. All those carriers are quite capable of mirroring the bulk of that content a instead of hassling with transit deliver a legal copy from their own servers (legal as in once licence in and one licence out). Netflix content is ideal for this as the bulk of the traffic is the same thing.
Lets realistically talk about US infrastructure and collapsing bridges or sink holes or fallen power lines or farm animals on the side of the road or countless other unpredictable events that require a sound mature emergency response be taken. Now if you are talking Star Trek style three dimensional turbolifts where the route is a controlled environment, you are talking a whole different story. It is nothing to do with the vehicle it has everything to do with the route being taken and it's vagaries and unpredictability.
Democracy can not and does not exist within a cocoon of lies, where the truth us actively suppressed. You can not make an independent decision based upon lies and in the absence of truth, you only get to agree with what you have been instructed to agree with. What happens here is the minority who craft the public mind space to achieve their own personal goals will ruthlessly attack those who attempt to pierce that bubble of illusion, those attacks being outright extermination or severe torture and imprisonment. We are already in that stage and are currently somewhat protected by the internet. The ability to spread and diffuse the truth amongst many (so it comes from many, many sources, torrentable web sites might become popular with distribution from many points, individual level ISP like protections) and thus not come publicly under individual attack unless we specifically and expressly stand out from the crowd of online protesters and resistors unless of course we have something of true global significance to present, they we have to take our chances, like many others have done before us.
So what you are saying, whilst seeming to miss it completely. Is the desktop will continue to be used by the very same people who have used it since its first inception and that the general computer market, the rest of the consumers, lets be blunt, the idiot box market, will end up using alternate simplified devices, more along the lines of appliances, mobile phones and big screen smart TVs with the tablets as a remote for the TV and as mounted family message boards.
So the desktop market is pretty much not that much smaller than it used to be, except where it has been replaced with large notebooks but another market has grown beyond it targeting other consumers. What has really changed is the upgrade cycle and how often you need to replace your desktop to keep up, that has really stretched out. The hardware can really have a long life (I have an old win90SE with one of the first DVD drive and decoder card and it still functions, not as my main of course).
M$ biggest blunder with Windows 8 and dropping XP is in failing to acknowledge the two completely separate markets and treating them completely separately especially with regards to the GUI (a big ole fuck you back to the deciders at M$). As for Linux and China, the NSA, guaranteed that was going to happen and the only reason no one is saying much about it, is because they don't want M$ shareholders attempting to send the bill for that to the US government and the cooperating against the interests of M$, senior egoistic executives within M$ (you don't think Ballmer got that job offer within the Republican white house for free do you).
Spreadsheets are really easy to use properly, all you have to do is adjust your mind to the idea of creating two styles of spread sheet, the working spread sheet, well laid and and documented, to ensure the workings are understandable and checked and a linked presentation spreadsheets where the data is taken from the working spreadsheets and presented prettily of nepotistic management, so even the dumbest spawn of management can, well, at least pretend to understand.
Other things you can do is check formulas, where the totals and calculations are done in different manners and taken from different sources within the spreadsheet in order to check for errors, when the outcomes do not match.
The real problem with spreadsheets is they are completely and totally unable to present in simple terms what years of experience have taught and in the boardroom competition of what data gets accepted and rejected. The easy high profit (often completely and totally unrealistic) are accepted, against the words of wisdom drawn from experience, simply because it can not be presented in a spreadsheet ie reducing customer support and outsourcing 90% will save 90% of costs, the spreadsheet vs cutting support and making it shite will piss off lots of customers often for life, experience, impossible to accurately express in a spreadsheet of course as it is extremely complex and subject to product quality, clearly explained sales and what competitors are up to.
Unless the automated car is on rails, it must retain manual control so that the user will be able to bring it to a guided stop. Even elevators come with an emergency stop button and they have only three states, going up, going down and stationary. A car without manuals controls to guide it to a safe stop in the event of control failure whether purposeful or accidental is really fucking crazy.
So logically, the healthy portion of the population would play the game based upon the marketing and advertising presented, find the game undesirable to play and move on. Of course psychopaths similarly will be drawn to psychopathic game play because it is in their nature. Hence the reason why certain three letter government agencies are monitoring those types of games and their users.
Take Eve online, any discussion of adding PvE, is ruthlessly attacked by psychopathic PvP adherents because they need the psychological kick of sticking it to other people and making them suffer. Even the idea of creating completely separate PvE servers is attacked because it might reduce the number of potential human victims. The reality is of course most normal people simply drop the game because they get sick of it and the attitude of psychopathic players and the psychopaths rebuttal 'Rage Quit, Rage Quit, Rage Quit', sorry crazies, it is not fun and boring, too much like working in a corporation, quit.
Catch with that. Taxi drivers are largely kid proof and computers are not. Much like elevators, those devices that interact within public space are very difficult to make child proof. Even something a simply as a swing is rather difficult to make child proof and something that needs to be used with adult supervision. Let alone the most obvious danger hacking of the service to facilitate remote control abduction of children. Children require adult supervision, that is their nature, they are learning to be human beings and will make many mistakes. Adult supervision reduces the number of mistakes children will make and the greater the risk the greater the need for adult supervision. Simple hack of an automated car and yet very disruptive especially in rush hour, would be for the child to instruct the vehicle to drive round and round, a roundabout actively denying other vehicles access, yet completely legal.
You obviously have no idea at all who Amazon are. They are a logistics company, a store and pick distribution company. They have an online retail presence retail via a web site but their core is to take product from manufactures store it at Amazons warehouses and the pick product as directed by retail sales and distribute it.
Their ultimate goal is to cut out all middlemen between producers and consumers at take all that profit between the two for themselves.
They don't actively promote that because of course other logistics companies might wake up to the threat Amazon is, deny the delivery services and start setting up their own retail web sites to directly sell product and fill that whole logistics gap between producer and consumer, especially when they already have a solid foundation of warehousing and deliveries. Of course that means sticking it to the current bunch of wholesalers and retailers.
It really does make sense for companies like FedEx, UPS, TNT to step up and add that retail web site to feed their logistic services (warehousing, picking, delivery) and directly compete with Amazon before Amazon pushes to global direct deliveries via internal transport services, it is inevitable and just a matter of time.
Reality is lame little book publishers are pretty much nothing in Amazons global vision, just something you step on along the way, no loss to anyone but the useless publishers themselves.
There are other means of control for example blackberries http://www.csiro.au/Outcomes/S.... Of course the current Australian government under the Abbott of Greed and Corruption, consider this a bad idea as there is no profit in it, along with Monsanto as herbicides are far more profitable 'er' better. So they are cutting the funding of the CSIRO in favour of expanding the ministry sport and the Australian Sports advertising Institute http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais as they are more reliable than CSIRO scientists when it comes to hand shaking vote gaining public appearances. So are right wing politicians edible or not and what can they be fed to (the fucking embarrassment of being Australian at this time).
Efficiency in this case is not measured in the composite product because that can be what ever you want it to be and doesn't necessarily need to be an epoxy. This is all about the efficiency of the fibre reinforcement, how much energy is required to produce it, how much water is required and how long it takes to produce.
So is it better than plantation forest and should it replace them? Is it more energy efficient that glass fibre production and should it replace it? Does it use less water than current plant fibre farms and should it replace them? Right now as a clothing fibre bamboo is largely dead, killed by an overly greedy patent and likely by the time the patent expires, something else will come along to replace it.
Patents do not promote innovation until you take the psychopathic insatiable greed out of them.
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What they are doing is trying to hunt down and substantiate those quietly influencing the whole of the internet, not accidentally but purposefully via memes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... hidden in sarcasm, those being political and social memes not kitten memes. So what they will be doing is backtracking ideas and changes to existing ideas from larger more spread elements of internet media and attempting to track them back to original sources based upon date of occurrence and looking for repeated patterns. Then they will endeavour to silence or force influence over those quiet originators via one method or another. Likely they already have some suspects in mind from around the world and just want to confirm for action whilst expanding their search for others. The will also be looking be looking for collusion between originators to try to prove conspiratorial associations, this is likely where their ideas of substantiation will collapse as that consensus of thought between originators is 'Anonymous' to each other or of such loose circumstantial nature as to be legally negligible. Elements of government are basically pissed off at losing their propaganda war on the internet and looking for people to blame.
Talk about a goofy assed response. Companies own those assets because they generate an income that justifies their capital value. Hence it is no different for the government to own those assets and generate an income from them, of course people like you would complain, as oh no the government is taxing us. Which leads to another question, are privatised corporations simply elements of the government privatised and those fees including those inflated profits, simply privatised taxes, especially with regard to monopoly and cartel services.
At least when the government charges for a service, that income goes into general revenue and reduces tax burdens. So any essential service when government owned, helps to minimise additional non-service taxes. The only reason to privatise is because insatiably greedy psychopaths want to insert themselves as middlemen and suck up profit to line their own pockets. Not only charging us more but forcing us to pay additional non service based taxes to cover those government income losses. Fucking filthy bastards.
Sorry but ultimately it is all part of government, whether actual government or privatised by psychopathic greed elements of government, including all essential services.
It is pretty obvious the current US lead trade agreements are nothing more than vain attempt to lock in the corporate power obtained through propaganda as news and the corruption of democracy, when they took over the fourth estate and turned it into tool of corruption after Ronny Raygun killed the fairness doctrine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... basically legalising lies in the news. After growing exposure of the corruption on the internet, the corporate psychopaths are desperate to keep the power they have gained and that is now slipping away from them and they a looking to be facing justice for the countless crimes they have committed in every imaginable area of human economic interaction and politics.
Likely the more correct statement is the maximum speed of light is the speed of gravity. So there are quite few particles that travel faster than the speed of light. Now when it comes to reaching other galaxies, seriously who really cares, there is just so much of this galaxy to explore, even living to really ripe old age of 10,000 earth orbits and travelling really fast from sun to sun, there are so many places, likely so many species and societies to explore, even allowing only 1 luna orbit at each location, let alone travel time, likely you won run out of 'interesting' places, just like our own, to explore just in this galaxy. All you need to do is slip on by gravity.
The wording, the presentation and of course the nature of program, means the proper interpretation of the presentation was not for trolls to comment at that particular web site but an open invitation to everyone to become a troll and inform the FCC what they felt about the way Obama stuck a Telecoms Troll (a lobbyist basically the ultimate trolls on the face of the planet, well and truly above and beyond what you typical internet troll is, they a democracy trolls screwing up your government for money) in charge of the FCC. This basically to screw over net neutrality whilst pretending it is good for the customer, something along the lines of convincing everyone that anal rape is good for you because it will make getting barium enema for bowel cancer seem much easier by comparison.
It should be pretty obvious to you why windows 8 is way better than windows 7. Seriously it should be blatantly obvious to you. It is out and out going to do a far better job of selling windows 9, I mean, that is the whole point isn't it, selling the same software over and over and over and ad nauseum, again (and the whole idea is really getting pretty bloody nauseous and off smelling).
The "Start Menu" its a bloody upgrade and should you have to pay for upgrades, now all M$ has to do is purposefully break 'Classic Shell' to ensure you pay for the upgrade, suckers.
The point you seem to be missing is customer expectation of durability of product and planetary survivability of how much junk we can dump upon whilst burning resources like there is no tomorrow.
The real question now is not whether we can tolerate our current system of wasteful egoistic mass consumption but whether we can tolerate those who promote it and corruptly seek to continue it to system collapse.
Not really all that niche. The optimum tool, the feedback exo-suit (the would normally connected to a remote control robot) could quite readily be used for virtual reality gaming in either gyms or in virtual reality gaming hotels (due to the cost of the exo-suit experience). That physical feedback (with resistance and or assistance based upon actual user ability), would make for a far more physically interactive gaming experience, so not just seeing and hearing in three dimension but physically moving in three dimension. So push weights, pedal a stationary bike or aimlessly jump about or 'well', doing anything that pretty much can be imagined in existing computer games all with direct physical interaction. Benefit of this is of course it will substantially subsidise the production of feedback exo-suits. Other uses using the remote controlled robot, include fire rescue operations, search and rescue, high risk security interactions and a whole range of harsh or high risk work environments, anything where human safety costs are high and will become higher and be completely avoided by the use of an exo-suit and a remote robot. Keep in mind, the more there are, the cheaper they become, the more they will be produced and they more they will be used.
Once you go the route of a exo-suit it makes more sense to hook it up to a remote control droid and take feedback from that droid to drive active resistance in the exo-suit for far more accurate interaction completely free of human risk.
The real problem with current planetary formation theory is the silly expectation that catastrophic formation is rare and stable systems within a specific range are the norm. Likely catastrophic impact is the norm and when analysing planetary formation theory to align measured outcome's we have to be able to exclude unusual outcomes and put them down to catastrophic impacts rather than attempt to adjust the theories.
No admitted guilt. It is illegal to obey illegal orders. By law he was required to protect the evidence of crimes that came into his possession and present it to the justice system for prosecution. This presentation need not be private and can be quite public. What is clearly apparent from 'recent' prior examples of this type of case where criminal acts of government agencies are exposed, the judge has blatantly criminally conspired to ignore this evidence, bury it and only allow the the prosecution of release official secret evidence of criminal acts. So blatant corruption within the US judiciary and the justice system and the US government. A a really rather pathetic response of Kerry, which comes off as a forced extorted response, likely as a result of evidence obtained by the NSA against Kerry to protect it's newly obtained power. Kerry talking about justice, it is most likely him that needs to confess and face justice for that confession and free himself from extortion.
What they actually want to do is secretly up the rent by externalising the cost. By establishing artificial internet access monopolies who will have to charge their tenants extra for the goods provided, they can pay the artificial monopoly costs. Basically their intent is to stick it too their tenants and hide the extra costs.
Really why dick about, simply block secure internet payment protocols and demand all payments be made via a service nominated and charge 20% tariff on payments, then claim it is a security measure to protect the students from financial scams.
Any scam attempted will be detected shared amongst the tenants and more importantly shared amongst potential tenants and the tenants lawyers will start exploring anti-competition laws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... and how much the landlords can be sued for. Of course you could actively censor the students from communicating with each other on the subject and good luck with that.
From Freedom House http://www.freedomhouse.org/co..., hardly seems an impartial group and as such its output has been snatched up for US corporate propaganda. One obvious failure of logic is Russia. It is pretty bloody obvious that Putin has to work very hard at being popular with the Russian electorate, as such their democracy must be fairly intact. Perhaps Freedom House measure democracy as to how well the public can be fooled into to believing that a corporate owned government is democratic.
It seems at the moment the real conflict between Russia and the US at the moment, is that Russia is most definitely not corporate controlled and the US which is corporate controlled is aggressively scheming and plotting to turn it into yet another corporate controlled state.
If "strong public interest in having someone's past run-ins with the law being available" is valid, than those people whom this information is about would be definition be considered unsafe and as such should remain in confinement. So really you seem to need to make up your mind, either these people about whom the public needs to be warned need to remain in confinement or the need to be publicly ostracised forced into a life of crime and be returned to prison. Now whilst I would agree those that test out as psychopaths should remain in confinement once a specific range of crimes have been committed, for the rest where rehabilitation will work, it should be allowed to work.
You left out an important point. All those carriers are quite capable of mirroring the bulk of that content a instead of hassling with transit deliver a legal copy from their own servers (legal as in once licence in and one licence out). Netflix content is ideal for this as the bulk of the traffic is the same thing.
Lets realistically talk about US infrastructure and collapsing bridges or sink holes or fallen power lines or farm animals on the side of the road or countless other unpredictable events that require a sound mature emergency response be taken. Now if you are talking Star Trek style three dimensional turbolifts where the route is a controlled environment, you are talking a whole different story. It is nothing to do with the vehicle it has everything to do with the route being taken and it's vagaries and unpredictability.
Democracy can not and does not exist within a cocoon of lies, where the truth us actively suppressed. You can not make an independent decision based upon lies and in the absence of truth, you only get to agree with what you have been instructed to agree with. What happens here is the minority who craft the public mind space to achieve their own personal goals will ruthlessly attack those who attempt to pierce that bubble of illusion, those attacks being outright extermination or severe torture and imprisonment. We are already in that stage and are currently somewhat protected by the internet. The ability to spread and diffuse the truth amongst many (so it comes from many, many sources, torrentable web sites might become popular with distribution from many points, individual level ISP like protections) and thus not come publicly under individual attack unless we specifically and expressly stand out from the crowd of online protesters and resistors unless of course we have something of true global significance to present, they we have to take our chances, like many others have done before us.
So what you are saying, whilst seeming to miss it completely. Is the desktop will continue to be used by the very same people who have used it since its first inception and that the general computer market, the rest of the consumers, lets be blunt, the idiot box market, will end up using alternate simplified devices, more along the lines of appliances, mobile phones and big screen smart TVs with the tablets as a remote for the TV and as mounted family message boards.
So the desktop market is pretty much not that much smaller than it used to be, except where it has been replaced with large notebooks but another market has grown beyond it targeting other consumers. What has really changed is the upgrade cycle and how often you need to replace your desktop to keep up, that has really stretched out. The hardware can really have a long life (I have an old win90SE with one of the first DVD drive and decoder card and it still functions, not as my main of course).
M$ biggest blunder with Windows 8 and dropping XP is in failing to acknowledge the two completely separate markets and treating them completely separately especially with regards to the GUI (a big ole fuck you back to the deciders at M$). As for Linux and China, the NSA, guaranteed that was going to happen and the only reason no one is saying much about it, is because they don't want M$ shareholders attempting to send the bill for that to the US government and the cooperating against the interests of M$, senior egoistic executives within M$ (you don't think Ballmer got that job offer within the Republican white house for free do you).
Spreadsheets are really easy to use properly, all you have to do is adjust your mind to the idea of creating two styles of spread sheet, the working spread sheet, well laid and and documented, to ensure the workings are understandable and checked and a linked presentation spreadsheets where the data is taken from the working spreadsheets and presented prettily of nepotistic management, so even the dumbest spawn of management can, well, at least pretend to understand.
Other things you can do is check formulas, where the totals and calculations are done in different manners and taken from different sources within the spreadsheet in order to check for errors, when the outcomes do not match.
The real problem with spreadsheets is they are completely and totally unable to present in simple terms what years of experience have taught and in the boardroom competition of what data gets accepted and rejected. The easy high profit (often completely and totally unrealistic) are accepted, against the words of wisdom drawn from experience, simply because it can not be presented in a spreadsheet ie reducing customer support and outsourcing 90% will save 90% of costs, the spreadsheet vs cutting support and making it shite will piss off lots of customers often for life, experience, impossible to accurately express in a spreadsheet of course as it is extremely complex and subject to product quality, clearly explained sales and what competitors are up to.
Unless the automated car is on rails, it must retain manual control so that the user will be able to bring it to a guided stop. Even elevators come with an emergency stop button and they have only three states, going up, going down and stationary. A car without manuals controls to guide it to a safe stop in the event of control failure whether purposeful or accidental is really fucking crazy.
So logically, the healthy portion of the population would play the game based upon the marketing and advertising presented, find the game undesirable to play and move on. Of course psychopaths similarly will be drawn to psychopathic game play because it is in their nature. Hence the reason why certain three letter government agencies are monitoring those types of games and their users.
Take Eve online, any discussion of adding PvE, is ruthlessly attacked by psychopathic PvP adherents because they need the psychological kick of sticking it to other people and making them suffer. Even the idea of creating completely separate PvE servers is attacked because it might reduce the number of potential human victims. The reality is of course most normal people simply drop the game because they get sick of it and the attitude of psychopathic players and the psychopaths rebuttal 'Rage Quit, Rage Quit, Rage Quit', sorry crazies, it is not fun and boring, too much like working in a corporation, quit.
Catch with that. Taxi drivers are largely kid proof and computers are not. Much like elevators, those devices that interact within public space are very difficult to make child proof. Even something a simply as a swing is rather difficult to make child proof and something that needs to be used with adult supervision. Let alone the most obvious danger hacking of the service to facilitate remote control abduction of children. Children require adult supervision, that is their nature, they are learning to be human beings and will make many mistakes. Adult supervision reduces the number of mistakes children will make and the greater the risk the greater the need for adult supervision. Simple hack of an automated car and yet very disruptive especially in rush hour, would be for the child to instruct the vehicle to drive round and round, a roundabout actively denying other vehicles access, yet completely legal.
You obviously have no idea at all who Amazon are. They are a logistics company, a store and pick distribution company. They have an online retail presence retail via a web site but their core is to take product from manufactures store it at Amazons warehouses and the pick product as directed by retail sales and distribute it.
Their ultimate goal is to cut out all middlemen between producers and consumers at take all that profit between the two for themselves.
They don't actively promote that because of course other logistics companies might wake up to the threat Amazon is, deny the delivery services and start setting up their own retail web sites to directly sell product and fill that whole logistics gap between producer and consumer, especially when they already have a solid foundation of warehousing and deliveries. Of course that means sticking it to the current bunch of wholesalers and retailers.
It really does make sense for companies like FedEx, UPS, TNT to step up and add that retail web site to feed their logistic services (warehousing, picking, delivery) and directly compete with Amazon before Amazon pushes to global direct deliveries via internal transport services, it is inevitable and just a matter of time.
Reality is lame little book publishers are pretty much nothing in Amazons global vision, just something you step on along the way, no loss to anyone but the useless publishers themselves.
And politicians aren't lethal to humans ;D???
There are other means of control for example blackberries http://www.csiro.au/Outcomes/S.... Of course the current Australian government under the Abbott of Greed and Corruption, consider this a bad idea as there is no profit in it, along with Monsanto as herbicides are far more profitable 'er' better. So they are cutting the funding of the CSIRO in favour of expanding the ministry sport and the Australian Sports advertising Institute http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais as they are more reliable than CSIRO scientists when it comes to hand shaking vote gaining public appearances. So are right wing politicians edible or not and what can they be fed to (the fucking embarrassment of being Australian at this time).
Efficiency in this case is not measured in the composite product because that can be what ever you want it to be and doesn't necessarily need to be an epoxy. This is all about the efficiency of the fibre reinforcement, how much energy is required to produce it, how much water is required and how long it takes to produce.
So is it better than plantation forest and should it replace them? Is it more energy efficient that glass fibre production and should it replace it? Does it use less water than current plant fibre farms and should it replace them? Right now as a clothing fibre bamboo is largely dead, killed by an overly greedy patent and likely by the time the patent expires, something else will come along to replace it.
Patents do not promote innovation until you take the psychopathic insatiable greed out of them.