Really? You actually trust Cloud Supplier X to a) be taking usable backups of your data and b) not decide to shut down your account and delete all your data?
Good luck with that.
I totally trust the companies I deal with. danger has all the information on my Side-Kick backed up in case I ever lose my phone. Even if something does happen to them, I've carefully copied everything to my GeoCities page so I can not only access it but access it from anywhere.
I hate the Lord of the Rings movies. Hate. They're visually stunning, I'll give them that. Though, thats as far as I go. I read the books years before the movies came out, and to put it mildly, together they are a literary masterpiece.
Bah! I read the LotR books before the movies came out starting when my mother read them to me at 5 as bedtime stories. I read them on my own in grade school after that and then again several times in high school and college. After the movies, I read them again. They are dear and loved by me, but sorry, they don't hold up. The stories meander with plenty of plot holes. There are side bits that have very little to do with the plot. Female characters are all but non-existent, as even Eowyn's defeat of the Witch King is just a few lines and just there to be mythical play on words. He puts forth ideas of class and race that are best left in the early 20th century and usually not welcome in the 21st. The books needed to be updated as pure adaptations might have pleased the few Tolkien geeks out there, but would have been found fairly unpalatable by current society."
Narnia books are similar. Re-reading them as an adult and the preaching and hatred of liberals and muslims is disturbing. He never really even explains why liberals are bad, just that they are. His representation of muslims are bad because they worship the devil. In the end they really start to lose it. As children's books, they're ok, because nobody really cares about plot holes and logic in a children's book.
Watchmen was pretty good actually. Yes, I want my giant space squid, but I can see how that would have taken much more set up in the movie that there wasn't time for. I'll give you Constantine which is the problem with Hollywood these days. It would have been a pasable movie if it didn't have some other IP spashed across it.
Either get someone else to be on call or ask the judge to be dismissed from jury duty because of the undue burden it would put on you and your business. I personally have no idea if asking to be dismissed will work,...
It worked when I was on jury duty (Washington state) when one guy explained that he was on duty 24/7 with pager for his IT job as system admin. Judge told him to take a hike, but not until after the judge chided him. The same documentation that told him to show up, told him he'd have to go without an cell phone or pager and that he could call to get out of jury duty if his job would not allow it.
The female and casual market is an addition to the games market, not a replacement. No one is going to throw away their Xbox 360 in favor of Farmville.
Perhaps not throw away. They might not buy an Xbox 360 to upgrade their older Xbox, because computer games fill that need for less money.
Take your reality based @#$% and !@#$ off. DO NOT WANT. If you want to market to girls who want to play reality tv style games, go for it, but leave my games alone. I want to learn to fly like a fighter pilot on a realistic sim. I want to rescue the princess. I want to slog my way up a beach in a WWII where I kill nobody the only consequence if I fail is restarting the level. You take your Sims and Farmville and Pet simulator and @#$@ off.
Saying that Farmville is actually like managing a farm is like saying Minesweeper is actually like disposal of high explosives. Being a fighter pilot in a realistic sim is more reality based pointed out by your useage of the word "realistic". There is a term for other people's fun that you hold in contempt simply because you don't like it, it's called 'badwrongfun'.
"This is how capitalism works" and taxes don't go together. Taxes are not capitalism, they are government intervention.
Capitalism. Government. Who cares? This article is about Oklahoma so neither one of those has any bearing on it. In Oklahoma, it's all about funneling money to the good 'ol boy oligarchy that has run the state since the capitol was stolen at gun point from Guthrie.
Of course there are people here. This is where all the people from the coasts go when they realize that the job market where they are sucks, the people are all jerks, and it costs too much to live there.
Ha ha HAHHAHAHAAA ha *heh *heh* *can't breath* ha , he he he,
If they think the job market is bad on the coast, wait till they get to OK. When I left, people were fighting over jobs at McDonalds. Granted, that was a while back in a really bad recession, but I doubt it is much better or that you'll find as good of jobs there. Then there the work ethic. NYers would do fine, but people from the PNW will find a harsh change to their slacker work ethic when "free sodas in the break room" becomes "time to lean, time to clean". As for people being jerks, so long as you can handle redneck Christian bigots, you should do fine. It is cheap to live there. I could go there and buy a house for less than my annual salary in Seattle. It's also cheap because there is nothing to spend your money on unless you like Bud Lite, Rodeos, and pick up trucks.
Solar panels are darker than sand and will therefore absorb more heat from sunlight rather than reflecting it back into space, so wouldn't this make the desert significantly hotter when deployed on a large scale, especially given the low efficiency of solar panels?
They will absorb more energy from the sunlight. Whether that energy gets turned into heat or electricity will depend on the efficiency of the solar panel. That electricity will mostly be turned back into heat as it is used, but that will also probably happen far away from the solar panels.
People in 2110 will be looking at copies of the Scientific American from 2010 that have Ray Kurzweil in them talking about a Singlularity and saying they want it. They'll also be wanting their flying cars, AI, and fusion power which the singularity was supposed to give them.
What I really have to wonder is that if essentially one guy with a website can get this much info, how much do the other nations with active espionage units manage to get?
So people are seriously buying that MacBook pro over that.. It makes my head hurt...M
Well, that's an easy one. The Apple is half the weight (4.5lb vrs. 9lbs) and half the thickness (.94" vrs. 1.92"). I bought my first laptop in the late 90's. It only weighed about 10 lbs and was fairly easy to lift and carry around when tested. However, it took less than a week of carrying it around and certainly before my first trip with it for me to make weight and size the new number one priority when looking at my second laptop.
Looking at the Samsung R530, the MacBook is still lighter and smaller while having a better native resolution(1280 by 800 vrs. 1280×720). There is also an advertised battery life of 10 hours versus 4.
But all in all, any comparison of laptops needs to also include weight and size comparison because that is very important if you actually carry your laptop anywhere. (...and if you don't, why did you buy a laptop?)
Those Windows Phone ads are worthless because they are saying use our phone and you'll be connected less.
Well, I certainly agree that the Windows Phone ads are simply bad. They seem to suggest you won't use your phone that much, but people like me like to use their phone. A different OS isn't going to let me read any faster or play games quicker. However, I wouldn't say they are worthless. They are funny and get remembered. I caught people at work playing the ads and have had links to them posted because they are funny. In the vein of any publicity is good publicity, they have done their job in that they are rememberable enough for us to be having this conversation. In many cases, advertising isn't about actually displaying the good points about your product, but just getting your product's name stuck in the consumer's head so they remember it when they are shopping.
Light Peak is still in its infancy and useless as there are no devices to connect to it yet. Why pay more for something that should be standard now, and something that it's going to be useful until he laptop is well past its prime?
There were no devices* to connect to the USB port when the iMac was announced.
What "apps" is Android missing? I work in the I.T. Industry and I've been carrying a Moto Droid since last December. I have yet to find anything that I need for work _or_ play that isn't available. So please give some examples of all these apps that Android is missing.
I don't think there is an Android version of Osirix yet or a suitable dicom viewer replacement that can view images off of our PACS systems. iPhones and iPads were adopted fairly quickly by clinicians who field of study required time sensitive callings on radiological exams. Now doctors in need of such can carry around an iPhone with them at all times and if they are contactible, view images and make the calls that sometimes need to be made in less time that it would take to get to the hospital. This was all due to the open source Osirix software for the Mac. If there is an Android version or substitute, we'd like to know about it.
Also, people here are all posting how "just a few games" aren't on the android. Let's not forget that computing devices are still governed by the idea of the "killer app". Some games being available isn't as strong a motivator as the one game I really want to play being available. I'm a Mac fan, but as there are Windows computer games I want to play, I also have always had a Windows computer. There was a game I wanted to play on the Xbox, so I bought an Xbox and so far it has never done anything other than play that one game. If those few games are important to people, it can well decide which phone they buy.
London for all intense and purposes does exactly the same thing. You cannot take "professional" pictures without a licence (which costs money) and if you have a DSLR you are presumed to be a professional - thus if you're lucky harassed by the police, and worst given a summons to turn up at court (or VERY unlucky arrested under vague anti-terrorism laws).
I heard this before I went to London, but could never find anything official. I went and spent two weeks taking photos with my DSLR kit without any problems including pictures of a girl wearing a gasmask outside of parliament in the middle of a weekday afternoon and me laying down on the sidewalk, obstructing traffic, to get Big Ben in the shot. What costs money in most places is usually the right to drag out lights and a tripod. Once you start using a tripod, let alone lights, bounce cards, helpers etc (which pretty much a hobbiest can end up doing without much work), that's when you start getting attention from the police, usually because you really are obstructing traffic at that point for a significant amount of time.
Uh, the Soviet Union has been gone for 19 years. I watched the Russian Federation flags go up 26 December 1991.
The Russian Federation is not the USSR. Neither is the PRC.
So, who, exactly is cyber-warring with whom ?
The KGB and other soviet era ties that took over Russian enterprise and crime as the Russian Federation flags were going up and are the true power in the post Soviet Warsaw areas.
(I'm not sure if that was meant to be funny or not. If so, I'm laughing at my own joke with a nervous sort of laugh. Still, we've had a President that was head of the CIA who put his son into office. They have leaders that were KGB. I don't trust either organization to be honest about the grasping or controlling of power in either foreign or native soil as they both have lied to their own people and preformed black ops for decades.)
Pass a constitutional amendment that strips Congress of civil immunity for their unconstitutional laws.
Trouble is that there is no real way to have a judicial review of laws to see if they are constitutional before making them laws. It would be a crapshoot especially if new laws are in untested legal waters to begin with (which would be one of the reason there would need to be new laws). Add to that that judicial opinions change, there really is no way of determining if a law is constitutional until it is made a law and then tested in court.
I was more confused by the attempted assocation between Apple and freedom.
Since I get most of my tech news and discussions here at/. myself, I also have weird times with hearing things like that. Thing is, they are actually pretty free for a company that has a larger market cap than MS. They contribute a lot to open source. They produce a lot of open source programming. One of my friends went to a tech seminar on phone apps. The presenter started out by talking about how Apple opened up the phone app market. Before Apple and their App Store, it was each phone on each provider. If you wanted to make phone apps, you'd be dealing with each individual phone company to do so and their terms make Apple's look wonderful. With Apple, anybody could buy a Mac, develop, and start selling for just $99 and a vetting process that was a cake walk to what people had to deal with before. It did open up the app market for phones. The same goes for many other things. Once they could, they dumped DRM on their music.
Apple has also been big into standards. They have to. They will never have market share and they don't want it. To get market share, you have to cater to the cut throat business of cheap computing. They simply don't want to go there and leave it to others. They produce premium products with similar price and design. If you don't want their products, you're free to go buy elsewhere because they're never going to produce what you want. The only way they will ever remain significant without altering that is if they stick to standards. I'm pretty sure that they feel their products can compete on a level playing ground with everybody else.
What pisses people off is that Apple isn't as free as they want. While their kernel is open source, their GUI is not. Their code changes to open source projects are pretty much only relevant to their own needs. They have their little walled garden around their products that they have made as easy as they can to develop for. Open source wants to eat its cake and and have it too. Open Source has their goals, plenty of drive, and as many tools, so why aren't they the leaders in innovation in such products? Why is Apple succeeding where open source is only following in the foot steps?* Does it really take a large company to come up with such advances? Where is Google? They have smart people. They have been working on Android for many years before it came out. Why didn't they produce the iPhone or something better before Apple? Where is the open source equivilent of PARC? Why aren't all these patents for computing created today met simply with "prior art, the open source PARC did it three years ago"?** Why isn't open source beating Apple the punch with a degree fo freedom they want?
*Not to indicate that open source does not lead in areas. I'm pretty sure Linux servers can dance a jig on Apple servers without hurting their performance. We're talking consumer products like the phones and desktops here.
**Yes, in many cases, prior art is there and software patents are laughable, but hopefully you understand what I'm saying.
How exactly does atmospheric carbon penetrate the kilometers of sediment and rock needed to reach most oceanic gabbros?
Just pump it back down on one side of the oil field and keep it under pressure. Extract oil out the other after it filters through. It might not be atmospheric carbon that we're pumping down and it might have to be turned into some other form we have to pump down. However, it's not like we're likely to actually going to end up doing that. If it does turn out that oil comes from bacteria. If it's economically sound to do so, we'll just end up brewing oil in vats in a controlled environment on the surface.
In fact, I believe that the antimatter was mostly gone before there were stable nuclei, and possibly even while the Universe was just a quark soup, well before the microwave background escaped, when neutral ions could first form.
Sounds good. That would put most antimatter having disappeared in the first three seconds of the universe. However, at that energy, I think that particles and anti-particles were still being created due to relativistic collisions. Any imbalance in the creation of matter versus anti-matter would mean that new anti-matter would be at an even more disadvantage, having to deal with not only the excess of matter from it's own creation, but all the left over matter from previous creations.
However, a particle and antiparticle won't annihilate if they do not come in contact with each other. If one half of the big bang were matter rich and the other half was antimatter rich, and were kept apart, then half the universe could be antimatter and half matter. Is there a way of detecting this?
I believe the easiest answer to this is that in the very early universe, things were hot enough that everything was an ion (the first 300,000 years). Oppositely charged particles would have collided and where particles of like types of matter would not annialate, different types of matter would. Given the conditions of the early universe being so compact, one can consider it mixed and uniform. Thus, when the universe cooled to the point that normal matter could exist and not be instantly broken back into ions, all the anti-matter was long gone.
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I totally trust the companies I deal with. danger has all the information on my Side-Kick backed up in case I ever lose my phone. Even if something does happen to them, I've carefully copied everything to my GeoCities page so I can not only access it but access it from anywhere.
Ha ha. Tell that to the owners of SideKick phones. The big sell was that people didn't need to worry because all their data was backed up to the cloud. Then Danger flubs a backup and restore and not only is all their data in the cloud lost, but it also resets their phones and erases all their data there too. Any time a user reprogrammed in their data they had in hard copy, it would sync with the empty server and destroy all that data again. After three weeks of that and dealing with the phone companies customer support, my friend bought a new phone swearing he will never own another phone that he can't backup himself.
Bah! I read the LotR books before the movies came out starting when my mother read them to me at 5 as bedtime stories. I read them on my own in grade school after that and then again several times in high school and college. After the movies, I read them again. They are dear and loved by me, but sorry, they don't hold up. The stories meander with plenty of plot holes. There are side bits that have very little to do with the plot. Female characters are all but non-existent, as even Eowyn's defeat of the Witch King is just a few lines and just there to be mythical play on words. He puts forth ideas of class and race that are best left in the early 20th century and usually not welcome in the 21st. The books needed to be updated as pure adaptations might have pleased the few Tolkien geeks out there, but would have been found fairly unpalatable by current society."
Narnia books are similar. Re-reading them as an adult and the preaching and hatred of liberals and muslims is disturbing. He never really even explains why liberals are bad, just that they are. His representation of muslims are bad because they worship the devil. In the end they really start to lose it. As children's books, they're ok, because nobody really cares about plot holes and logic in a children's book.
Watchmen was pretty good actually. Yes, I want my giant space squid, but I can see how that would have taken much more set up in the movie that there wasn't time for. I'll give you Constantine which is the problem with Hollywood these days. It would have been a pasable movie if it didn't have some other IP spashed across it.
What? Perposterous! Next you'll be claiming they found Troy or some such by looking where Greek Mythology said it was.
It worked when I was on jury duty (Washington state) when one guy explained that he was on duty 24/7 with pager for his IT job as system admin. Judge told him to take a hike, but not until after the judge chided him. The same documentation that told him to show up, told him he'd have to go without an cell phone or pager and that he could call to get out of jury duty if his job would not allow it.
Perhaps not throw away. They might not buy an Xbox 360 to upgrade their older Xbox, because computer games fill that need for less money.
Saying that Farmville is actually like managing a farm is like saying Minesweeper is actually like disposal of high explosives. Being a fighter pilot in a realistic sim is more reality based pointed out by your useage of the word "realistic". There is a term for other people's fun that you hold in contempt simply because you don't like it, it's called 'badwrongfun'.
Capitalism. Government. Who cares? This article is about Oklahoma so neither one of those has any bearing on it. In Oklahoma, it's all about funneling money to the good 'ol boy oligarchy that has run the state since the capitol was stolen at gun point from Guthrie.
Ha ha HAHHAHAHAAA ha *heh *heh* *can't breath* ha , he he he,
If they think the job market is bad on the coast, wait till they get to OK. When I left, people were fighting over jobs at McDonalds. Granted, that was a while back in a really bad recession, but I doubt it is much better or that you'll find as good of jobs there. Then there the work ethic. NYers would do fine, but people from the PNW will find a harsh change to their slacker work ethic when "free sodas in the break room" becomes "time to lean, time to clean". As for people being jerks, so long as you can handle redneck Christian bigots, you should do fine. It is cheap to live there. I could go there and buy a house for less than my annual salary in Seattle. It's also cheap because there is nothing to spend your money on unless you like Bud Lite, Rodeos, and pick up trucks.
They will absorb more energy from the sunlight. Whether that energy gets turned into heat or electricity will depend on the efficiency of the solar panel. That electricity will mostly be turned back into heat as it is used, but that will also probably happen far away from the solar panels.
Yes, they're working on it. They'll all be done 20 years in the future.
People in 2110 will be looking at copies of the Scientific American from 2010 that have Ray Kurzweil in them talking about a Singlularity and saying they want it. They'll also be wanting their flying cars, AI, and fusion power which the singularity was supposed to give them.
What I really have to wonder is that if essentially one guy with a website can get this much info, how much do the other nations with active espionage units manage to get?
Well, that's an easy one. The Apple is half the weight (4.5lb vrs. 9lbs) and half the thickness (.94" vrs. 1.92"). I bought my first laptop in the late 90's. It only weighed about 10 lbs and was fairly easy to lift and carry around when tested. However, it took less than a week of carrying it around and certainly before my first trip with it for me to make weight and size the new number one priority when looking at my second laptop.
Looking at the Samsung R530, the MacBook is still lighter and smaller while having a better native resolution(1280 by 800 vrs. 1280×720). There is also an advertised battery life of 10 hours versus 4.
But all in all, any comparison of laptops needs to also include weight and size comparison because that is very important if you actually carry your laptop anywhere. (...and if you don't, why did you buy a laptop?)
Well, I certainly agree that the Windows Phone ads are simply bad. They seem to suggest you won't use your phone that much, but people like me like to use their phone. A different OS isn't going to let me read any faster or play games quicker. However, I wouldn't say they are worthless. They are funny and get remembered. I caught people at work playing the ads and have had links to them posted because they are funny. In the vein of any publicity is good publicity, they have done their job in that they are rememberable enough for us to be having this conversation. In many cases, advertising isn't about actually displaying the good points about your product, but just getting your product's name stuck in the consumer's head so they remember it when they are shopping.
There were no devices* to connect to the USB port when the iMac was announced.
*Well, there was like five cameras.
I don't think there is an Android version of Osirix yet or a suitable dicom viewer replacement that can view images off of our PACS systems. iPhones and iPads were adopted fairly quickly by clinicians who field of study required time sensitive callings on radiological exams. Now doctors in need of such can carry around an iPhone with them at all times and if they are contactible, view images and make the calls that sometimes need to be made in less time that it would take to get to the hospital. This was all due to the open source Osirix software for the Mac. If there is an Android version or substitute, we'd like to know about it.
Also, people here are all posting how "just a few games" aren't on the android. Let's not forget that computing devices are still governed by the idea of the "killer app". Some games being available isn't as strong a motivator as the one game I really want to play being available. I'm a Mac fan, but as there are Windows computer games I want to play, I also have always had a Windows computer. There was a game I wanted to play on the Xbox, so I bought an Xbox and so far it has never done anything other than play that one game. If those few games are important to people, it can well decide which phone they buy.
I heard this before I went to London, but could never find anything official. I went and spent two weeks taking photos with my DSLR kit without any problems including pictures of a girl wearing a gasmask outside of parliament in the middle of a weekday afternoon and me laying down on the sidewalk, obstructing traffic, to get Big Ben in the shot. What costs money in most places is usually the right to drag out lights and a tripod. Once you start using a tripod, let alone lights, bounce cards, helpers etc (which pretty much a hobbiest can end up doing without much work), that's when you start getting attention from the police, usually because you really are obstructing traffic at that point for a significant amount of time.
Ahhhhhh!... Brainbleach. Stat!
The KGB and other soviet era ties that took over Russian enterprise and crime as the Russian Federation flags were going up and are the true power in the post Soviet Warsaw areas.
(I'm not sure if that was meant to be funny or not. If so, I'm laughing at my own joke with a nervous sort of laugh. Still, we've had a President that was head of the CIA who put his son into office. They have leaders that were KGB. I don't trust either organization to be honest about the grasping or controlling of power in either foreign or native soil as they both have lied to their own people and preformed black ops for decades.)
Trouble is that there is no real way to have a judicial review of laws to see if they are constitutional before making them laws. It would be a crapshoot especially if new laws are in untested legal waters to begin with (which would be one of the reason there would need to be new laws). Add to that that judicial opinions change, there really is no way of determining if a law is constitutional until it is made a law and then tested in court.
Since I get most of my tech news and discussions here at /. myself, I also have weird times with hearing things like that. Thing is, they are actually pretty free for a company that has a larger market cap than MS. They contribute a lot to open source. They produce a lot of open source programming. One of my friends went to a tech seminar on phone apps. The presenter started out by talking about how Apple opened up the phone app market. Before Apple and their App Store, it was each phone on each provider. If you wanted to make phone apps, you'd be dealing with each individual phone company to do so and their terms make Apple's look wonderful. With Apple, anybody could buy a Mac, develop, and start selling for just $99 and a vetting process that was a cake walk to what people had to deal with before. It did open up the app market for phones. The same goes for many other things. Once they could, they dumped DRM on their music.
Apple has also been big into standards. They have to. They will never have market share and they don't want it. To get market share, you have to cater to the cut throat business of cheap computing. They simply don't want to go there and leave it to others. They produce premium products with similar price and design. If you don't want their products, you're free to go buy elsewhere because they're never going to produce what you want. The only way they will ever remain significant without altering that is if they stick to standards. I'm pretty sure that they feel their products can compete on a level playing ground with everybody else.
What pisses people off is that Apple isn't as free as they want. While their kernel is open source, their GUI is not. Their code changes to open source projects are pretty much only relevant to their own needs. They have their little walled garden around their products that they have made as easy as they can to develop for. Open source wants to eat its cake and and have it too. Open Source has their goals, plenty of drive, and as many tools, so why aren't they the leaders in innovation in such products? Why is Apple succeeding where open source is only following in the foot steps?* Does it really take a large company to come up with such advances? Where is Google? They have smart people. They have been working on Android for many years before it came out. Why didn't they produce the iPhone or something better before Apple? Where is the open source equivilent of PARC? Why aren't all these patents for computing created today met simply with "prior art, the open source PARC did it three years ago"?** Why isn't open source beating Apple the punch with a degree fo freedom they want?
*Not to indicate that open source does not lead in areas. I'm pretty sure Linux servers can dance a jig on Apple servers without hurting their performance. We're talking consumer products like the phones and desktops here.
**Yes, in many cases, prior art is there and software patents are laughable, but hopefully you understand what I'm saying.
Just pump it back down on one side of the oil field and keep it under pressure. Extract oil out the other after it filters through. It might not be atmospheric carbon that we're pumping down and it might have to be turned into some other form we have to pump down. However, it's not like we're likely to actually going to end up doing that. If it does turn out that oil comes from bacteria. If it's economically sound to do so, we'll just end up brewing oil in vats in a controlled environment on the surface.
Sounds good. That would put most antimatter having disappeared in the first three seconds of the universe. However, at that energy, I think that particles and anti-particles were still being created due to relativistic collisions. Any imbalance in the creation of matter versus anti-matter would mean that new anti-matter would be at an even more disadvantage, having to deal with not only the excess of matter from it's own creation, but all the left over matter from previous creations.
I believe the easiest answer to this is that in the very early universe, things were hot enough that everything was an ion (the first 300,000 years). Oppositely charged particles would have collided and where particles of like types of matter would not annialate, different types of matter would. Given the conditions of the early universe being so compact, one can consider it mixed and uniform. Thus, when the universe cooled to the point that normal matter could exist and not be instantly broken back into ions, all the anti-matter was long gone.