No the real problem with global warming is the change in climate. Humans causing it is actually a better situation than if it were naturally occurring because if human beings are the cause then we have a good idea of what we'd need to do to avert it. If the conservative wackos are correct and mankind isn't changing the climate on a global scale, then we are truly at nature's mercy unless we want to invent global climate control. Luckily, the anthropogenic climate change skeptics are either ill-informed or corporate-funded or both.
While you are no doubt correct, the fact that Apple makes 30% of each sale on the App Store means that the application store is a source of revenue, and thus bottlenecks actually hurt revenue. How "chuffed" do you suppose the shareholders will be that archaic budget practices developed in the 19th century are preventing income growth? Perhaps large organizations are ill-suited to doing new things? And yet Apple somehow manages, most of the time.
It's not like Apple could use its 20 Billion dollars in the bank to, you know, hire more people to handle the developer requests. That would just be impossible. Companies never grow by actually applying resources to a problem.
It's news because people have found that in the Mac world, stupid headlines drive hits. Yeah John C. Dvorak, I'm looking at you. Personally I think the new Mac minis look freakin sweet. The low power consumption, serious video upgrade and enhanced io ports make it very attractive.
Reading a book is a very different experience than reading something online. It requires a greater commitment/attention span, and the reward in return is a greater understanding of the subject (for non-fiction) or immersion in the story (for fiction). This is assuming the books are good, of course.
I read books online at both the Baen free library http://www.baen.com/library/ and Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/. Other than being able to click directly to the chapter I'm at, and to scroll instead of turn the page, I don't consider it a "very different" experience. Perhaps you meant that short-form reading -magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, cereal boxes- is a very different experience from long-form reading. And most web material tends toward essays, articles and short blurbs. There's nothing about the words being displayed as pixels rather than blobs of ink that makes for a different experience, at least for me. I understand that some people find it more difficult to focus on a screen for long periods compared to paper. But then again, some people find glossy laptop screens to be annoying as well.
Original research? In history? We can't perform experiments to repeat historical events, they only happened once. We can't build time machines to observe the events directly. We have only the primary documents to go from and a smattering of archaeological evidence. I think you're confusing history with other fields where there are other ways to learn rather than dealing with documents.
If they're all biased in the same way, then either a) they are all biased against you finding out the truth, and you're screwed since they're all in cahoots against you, or b) they have a bias towards reporting objective reality. Which is more likely? Perhaps you misunderstand the term independent sources. If they're colluding, they're not independent/
Learn as much as you can, check other independent sources, compare them. That's how historians do it. And be alert to freshly uncovered evidence that may contradict your previous conclusions.
It doesn't guarantee that it's the truth, but it's the best methodology any of us have, so it greatly increases the odds.
Actually, yes it has. Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression: Solution, add more government, FDR. Defeat the Depression *and* the Nazis and the Empire of Japan thanks to adding *more* government. Any other questions?
A gravity tractor is not a sky-high fantasy idea. It's simply giving a name to the fact that all objects attract each other at least a little. They're hovering a little spacecraft near the asteroid and then moving it away under low-power. The asteroid follows slowly due to the laws of physics, not because the ship carries a star-trek tractor beam. Yes, in the future we will send men to explore non-threatening asteroids. But currently we don't even have manned ships built that can get beyond low earth orbit. So no, the odds are we won't be sending men to do it, except perhaps as a backup. A small robot "tug" like this one is the only option other than nuking it with ICBMs until we have longer-range craft built.
It's important to point out that the 'rag-tag' resisters in Iraq are resisting using the surplus of weaponry formerly amassed by the former third-largest army in the world. Even in Iraq, artillery shells, RPGs, and detonators are not common household items. Saddam used his oil wealth to buy ridiculous quantities of Soviet weapons and cached them everywhere. The average iraqi household has an ak-47, but the weapons of choice of the insurgents are explosives.
First person shooter, running around the whole level IRL, sounds like Lazer Tag. And yeah, done properly it's quite a workout for the sedentary. I know I'm hot, sweaty and out of breath after a few rounds.
Yes, I want ISPs to take action to destroy botnets. There may need to be enabling legislation to shield them from liability when indignant negligent Windows users sue them. Stopping malware on the Internet should be a network-level issue since clearly many individual users are not qualified to do so themselves.
The only freedom you are advocating here is the right to run Windows in such a manner that it endangers others. It's perfectly possible to run Windows securely, it takes a lot of effort, and a level of understanding.
That said, it's also not a question of an "offending operating system." It's a question of uninformed (or incompetent, or both) users. If they can't be trusted to not double-click on an xxxxx.jpg.exe file in an email, they are likely to have problems with identity theft and other non-Windows-exclusive security issues. Rather than taking away Windows, these users need to receive training in basic computer security. Definitely they require training in basic computer security. However, once it is technically infeasible for their computer to become infected with a botnet (due to the lack of support for alternate OSes by botnet software), their remaining issues with computer security harm themselves primarily and not others.
Using Windows is NOT a privilege, by the way. If the user paid for it, they have a right to use it. Absolutely and categorically false. Property rights are not absolute. A drunk driver with a pulled driver's license does not have a right to operate a car that he purchases on a public road endangering others. By the same token, a negligent Windows user does not have the right to pollute the public Internet through willful ignorance, infecting other zombies and clogging networks with spam. He has every right to use Windows stand-alone, as you said, he paid for it.
Cutting off internet and then asking for demonstration that... they've bought a Mac? Will this be demonstrated using ninja magic? A photo via mail? This is trivial. Upon reconnection, they will be subject to stateful packet inspection as a probationary period. If they are detected to be using a Windows browser or email client, they will be summarily yanked again. If botnet activity is detected they will be yanked again. If they're clever enough to fool their User Agent strings,or run Tor, they're clever enough to operate Windows securely if they so choose.
The obvious question is why not both? The problem with CCTV is that it's space-inefficient. It records a whole lotta nothing. By pairing a cctv with a motion sensor, it can turn on the recording just when something interesting is happening. Or if they still want to record the whole time, the motion sensors can be used to tag interesting time codes on the tape, so you know where to fast-forward to without having to watch the whole damned thing. Heck, I can do this with my iSight and Evocam http://www.evological.com/evocam.html
Using Windows is a privilege, not a right. Anybody found to have a zombied computer should have their Internet connection cut off immediately and it should only be restored when they can demonstrate that they have removed the offending operating system and either installed a free and secure alternative, or bought a Mac. They clearly do not have the training or inclination to operate Windows safely.
Sorry, but this is just journalistic hyperbole. It's not every moment of your life. If you were to store every moment of your life as HD video, it would consume far more than a TB. And that still leaves 3 other senses we haven't devised recorders or storage formats for. Not to mention high-resolution PET scans for internal state, brainwave records and who knows what else. This project is a cute scrapbook instead, not full-time, automagic, all-encompassing archiving of first-person experience. But yeah, we have a lot of storage and a person obsessed with scrapbooking minutiae could have a field-day.
I'd pay up to 50 bucks extra per ticket not to have to listen to the bores next to me jibber-jabbering. Noise-canceling headphones don't work that well versus irregular noise like human speech. Bring back the phone booth!
Of course maybe it would work just as well if I offered the 25 dollars to my seat neighbors directly to stay off the phone.
The same reason that companies do anything, to protect their short-term profits. If they had been appropriately reinvesting their revenue in their network to support their 'unlimited' claims, they wouldn't have been able to report X % profit on the bottom line. It's absolutely their fault for overselling (or rather, underinvesting) but they think if they whine sufficiently they may be able to squeeze more money out of people for doing nothing more than following through on what they originally promised.
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No the real problem with global warming is the change in climate. Humans causing it is actually a better situation than if it were naturally occurring because if human beings are the cause then we have a good idea of what we'd need to do to avert it. If the conservative wackos are correct and mankind isn't changing the climate on a global scale, then we are truly at nature's mercy unless we want to invent global climate control. Luckily, the anthropogenic climate change skeptics are either ill-informed or corporate-funded or both.
While you are no doubt correct, the fact that Apple makes 30% of each sale on the App Store means that the application store is a source of revenue, and thus bottlenecks actually hurt revenue. How "chuffed" do you suppose the shareholders will be that archaic budget practices developed in the 19th century are preventing income growth? Perhaps large organizations are ill-suited to doing new things? And yet Apple somehow manages, most of the time.
It's not like Apple could use its 20 Billion dollars in the bank to, you know, hire more people to handle the developer requests. That would just be impossible. Companies never grow by actually applying resources to a problem.
It's news because people have found that in the Mac world, stupid headlines drive hits. Yeah John C. Dvorak, I'm looking at you. Personally I think the new Mac minis look freakin sweet. The low power consumption, serious video upgrade and enhanced io ports make it very attractive.
Reading a book is a very different experience than reading something online. It requires a greater commitment/attention span, and the reward in return is a greater understanding of the subject (for non-fiction) or immersion in the story (for fiction). This is assuming the books are good, of course.
I read books online at both the Baen free library http://www.baen.com/library/ and Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/. Other than being able to click directly to the chapter I'm at, and to scroll instead of turn the page, I don't consider it a "very different" experience. Perhaps you meant that short-form reading -magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, cereal boxes- is a very different experience from long-form reading. And most web material tends toward essays, articles and short blurbs. There's nothing about the words being displayed as pixels rather than blobs of ink that makes for a different experience, at least for me. I understand that some people find it more difficult to focus on a screen for long periods compared to paper. But then again, some people find glossy laptop screens to be annoying as well.
Original research? In history? We can't perform experiments to repeat historical events, they only happened once. We can't build time machines to observe the events directly. We have only the primary documents to go from and a smattering of archaeological evidence. I think you're confusing history with other fields where there are other ways to learn rather than dealing with documents.
If they're all biased in the same way, then either a) they are all biased against you finding out the truth, and you're screwed since they're all in cahoots against you, or b) they have a bias towards reporting objective reality. Which is more likely? Perhaps you misunderstand the term independent sources. If they're colluding, they're not independent/
Learn as much as you can, check other independent sources, compare them. That's how historians do it. And be alert to freshly uncovered evidence that may contradict your previous conclusions. It doesn't guarantee that it's the truth, but it's the best methodology any of us have, so it greatly increases the odds.
Actually, yes it has. Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression: Solution, add more government, FDR. Defeat the Depression *and* the Nazis and the Empire of Japan thanks to adding *more* government. Any other questions?
A gravity tractor is not a sky-high fantasy idea. It's simply giving a name to the fact that all objects attract each other at least a little. They're hovering a little spacecraft near the asteroid and then moving it away under low-power. The asteroid follows slowly due to the laws of physics, not because the ship carries a star-trek tractor beam. Yes, in the future we will send men to explore non-threatening asteroids. But currently we don't even have manned ships built that can get beyond low earth orbit. So no, the odds are we won't be sending men to do it, except perhaps as a backup. A small robot "tug" like this one is the only option other than nuking it with ICBMs until we have longer-range craft built.
It's important to point out that the 'rag-tag' resisters in Iraq are resisting using the surplus of weaponry formerly amassed by the former third-largest army in the world. Even in Iraq, artillery shells, RPGs, and detonators are not common household items. Saddam used his oil wealth to buy ridiculous quantities of Soviet weapons and cached them everywhere. The average iraqi household has an ak-47, but the weapons of choice of the insurgents are explosives.
You have a secretary? Luxury!
I was thinking the same thing.
1) via laser beams 2) via laser beams
First person shooter, running around the whole level IRL, sounds like Lazer Tag. And yeah, done properly it's quite a workout for the sedentary. I know I'm hot, sweaty and out of breath after a few rounds.
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The Stainless Steel Rat becomes an interstellar secret agent later in the books working to support Democracy.
Yes, I want ISPs to take action to destroy botnets. There may need to be enabling legislation to shield them from liability when indignant negligent Windows users sue them. Stopping malware on the Internet should be a network-level issue since clearly many individual users are not qualified to do so themselves. The only freedom you are advocating here is the right to run Windows in such a manner that it endangers others. It's perfectly possible to run Windows securely, it takes a lot of effort, and a level of understanding.
I think we have a Mission of Gravity here. 5x the mass of earth but only 50% more radius? I for one, welcome our Mesklinite Overlords.
The obvious question is why not both? The problem with CCTV is that it's space-inefficient. It records a whole lotta nothing. By pairing a cctv with a motion sensor, it can turn on the recording just when something interesting is happening. Or if they still want to record the whole time, the motion sensors can be used to tag interesting time codes on the tape, so you know where to fast-forward to without having to watch the whole damned thing. Heck, I can do this with my iSight and Evocam http://www.evological.com/evocam.html
Using Windows is a privilege, not a right. Anybody found to have a zombied computer should have their Internet connection cut off immediately and it should only be restored when they can demonstrate that they have removed the offending operating system and either installed a free and secure alternative, or bought a Mac. They clearly do not have the training or inclination to operate Windows safely.
Sorry, but this is just journalistic hyperbole. It's not every moment of your life. If you were to store every moment of your life as HD video, it would consume far more than a TB. And that still leaves 3 other senses we haven't devised recorders or storage formats for. Not to mention high-resolution PET scans for internal state, brainwave records and who knows what else. This project is a cute scrapbook instead, not full-time, automagic, all-encompassing archiving of first-person experience. But yeah, we have a lot of storage and a person obsessed with scrapbooking minutiae could have a field-day.
When I own an airline, I'll get right on that!
I'd pay up to 50 bucks extra per ticket not to have to listen to the bores next to me jibber-jabbering. Noise-canceling headphones don't work that well versus irregular noise like human speech. Bring back the phone booth! Of course maybe it would work just as well if I offered the 25 dollars to my seat neighbors directly to stay off the phone.
The same reason that companies do anything, to protect their short-term profits. If they had been appropriately reinvesting their revenue in their network to support their 'unlimited' claims, they wouldn't have been able to report X % profit on the bottom line. It's absolutely their fault for overselling (or rather, underinvesting) but they think if they whine sufficiently they may be able to squeeze more money out of people for doing nothing more than following through on what they originally promised.