And if you look through history, the number one commonality between nations at war has not been religious, economic, or cultural differences, but sharing a border.
Rebooting is the hail mary of a tech that doesn't want to fix the problem. In my experience, very few, if any of those are true. This goes doubly for the desktop OS stuff I've had to support.
Rebooting is one of the first steps of troubleshooting because if you can't replicate the problem, you'll never be able to tell if you actually fixed it.
But... hang on a bit... how come 20 years ago this wasn't an issue?
It was, but honestly, this is the last few percentile that we're talking about. 100% washing hands will not stop 100% of secondary infections while it will take up a lot of time and effort. All the low hanging fruit that can really help healthcare has been done, now efforts like this are the extra effort in an attempt to clean up that last few outliers.
Mod points expired yesterday or I'd +1 this. StarCraft 2 seemed to be the same as Starcraft 1 prior to its expansion. I'm sure there were minor differences but there seemed no new units, missing units I was already used to, and no new game play. There was a story, built in online play, but lacked lan play. I played it for about a week before deciding to wait for an expansion.
Dark energy - a term coined to hide the fact that "we don't know".
It's not a term to hide the fact that "we don't know", it's a term to punctuate that "we don't know". If we were really trying to hide stuff, we'd define it as stuff we already know about rather that come up with a new term (like the MOND guys are doing with dark matter).
Most likely none. When galaxies "collide", they merge gravitationally, but stars don't run into one another. Thing of how small a star is compared to the vast space between them. The odds of two stars colliding are so small, even when you have literally billions of them heading towards one another, the odds of a collision are extremely remote.
No, there probably will not be very many collisions of stars. However, there probably will be large disruption of large objects in oort clouds around such systems. The few millions of years during the collision and few million years after will be a time of large comets and possibly even some "dwarf planets" crashing through some otherwise stable star systems in erratic orbits as they get disturbed.
Yahoo *could* stage a comeback, but why? What makes a product or service from Yahoo unique?
They don't have to do it uniquely. They just have to do it better. Google wasn't unique. Facebook wasn't unique. They both offered services that other companies were already in the lead for. People just seemed to like them better and switched. In the new world, web viewers are the commodity most these companies are fighting over, and it's just a matter of getting them to go to your site instead of somebody else's.
No, because history shows that big corporations buying start-ups never turns out well. The big corp has no idea how to effectively use the new start-up, and its potential (assuming it had any) ends up being wasted.
Perhaps they need to do like Apple. Find a startup like NeXt. Buy them, and then turn over all their resources over to the startup to run, essentially letting their people take over the company. Let the new fresh talent do the next best thing with the old company.
Somebody didn't get the memo that vampires are over.
The vampire thing has been ongoing for more than a century and a half so far and probably will never be over. Before Dracula, there was Lord Ruthven who every author made their main vampire. The 19th century was full of books and plays about vampires. Thing is that vampires are allegories for sex, death, and even sometimes romantic love which people have tended to dwell on since they started telling stories. They may be over used at times, but will never be over until something else comes along to replace them.
We would spend our time, doing art, music, entertainment, or any other leisure related activity/job
And who's gonna be paying you to spend your time doing art, music entertainment, or any other leisure activity?
That seems to be the mistake all the pie-in-the-sky thinkers make; they just assume that, with the elimination of work for humans, the elimination of a weighted financial system designed to separate us into differing economic classes will disappear with a magical POOF.
It's not even that. As people become more productive, that increase in production leads to better and better products. Those products require more labor to afford. The general population will never have that much leisure time because there will always be more expensive items to buy due to that increase in productivity. Sure, I could cut my work to 4-8 hours a week currently and live like what was considered a 'good life' around the end of the 19th century. I know some people who have or do live like that. Backwoods guys that live in a 10'x10' shack and satisfied to make enough to buy the food, clothing, and books. People that dropped out of their PhD programs to live the life of a beach bum. Idealistic gypsy wanderers that essentially couch surf across the world writing books on their hand me down laptop. Trouble is I want lots of things they didn't have then like cars, computers, cell phones, internet connection, decent sized house full of stuff, etc. That requires me to work at todays levels enough to get those products.
Which is why those jobs that went to China will not return. They are still worth what the Chinese are getting paid for doing them. Nobody wants to work that much to receive the level of compensation that they would receive. If those jobs come back, they will be automated and the automation will be handled by a relatively few skilled workers. The world may always need ditch diggers, but 50 guys with shoves that have to be supervised to make sure they are doing a good job aren't worth one halfway competent guy with a high school diploma (and probably more these days) who can run a $100k ditch digging machine safely.
You stupid fuck, when the British wanted to build a railroad in Bolivia and there weren't any handy gravel deposits nearby they smashed up big chunks of Tiahuanacu. You can still see pieces of statues in the foundations for the railroad bridges in the area. Greed and laziness will win out over respect for the past pretty much every time that money is involved.
While I don't doubt that the British did what you said they did, it wasn't necessarily greed or laziness. The simple fact is that ideas about heritage, property, and such have changed greatly over the years. There was an article on BBC a while back lamenting the loss of many such cultural heritage spots in Britain for similar reasons. Laws protecting such things are relatively recent development as society grew rich enough to preserve as well as value them. Respect for the past means little if you are still trying to get everybody in the present fed. Previous to the last century ownership had complete rights to tear down, reuse, or do whatever they wanted with their property, no matter what the history behind it.
It's no longer really possible for "normal" people to tell apart real images from photoshopped or even completely CGI rendered ones.
To be honest, it never has been. Photographers, long before Photoshop or computers, have been editing photos to the point that normal people can't tell the difference. It's always funny to read some photographer go off about the abuse of digital editing these days and give evidence of some well known photo as what photographers used to do 'in camera' only to have some other photographer show the original photo and show that most of that great photo was not done in camera.
It's painfully obvious that "Wrath of the Lich King" was the end of the story the original creators set out to tell.
Naw, I think the emerald dream and Deathwing stuff in Cataclysm has been around since vanilla also. Little bits here and there that ended up getting answered just like the undead bits got answered by WotLK.
Does everyone deserve a college education? Does everyone need one? Is it true that the world needs ditch diggers too?
Not sure if everybody deserves a college education, but today's society needs more people to have a college education. As we get more automated and make higher valued merchandise, the people needed to develop and run the industries will be needed to have more education than the people before them. A person without a high school degree can't be a ditch digger because these days a ditch digger is going to be put in charge of a $50k ditch digging machine that will do the work of fifty men with shovels in one tenth the time and do it cheaper and better. Manual labor jobs are increasingly becoming rarer and rarer or at least not worth it to pay what people want to be paid for such labor.
Actually, it was the aliens that threatened the world. In the later books (the movie was made from a book), we find out that Colossus detected the aliens and was trying to take over to protect against them, only to reveal that knowledge as he was being shut down. In the second book, the aliens took over and in the third book, they had to bring Colossus back to life to defeat the aliens and save the world.
Most tablet users own a laptop. They rather use the full laptop to do actual office work and use the tablet for media consumption and touch screen apps. Sales of the different devices clearly show that the vast majority of people isn't interested in hybrids, regardless the OS or applications on them. Windows 8, Android and iOS all have a very limited amount of users working with a tablet-with-keyboard style hardware device.
I'll agree with that. I have a laptop and several desktops that I use for a variety of things. Still, I'm not frustrated with my iPad because it does what I want it to do which is act as my computer when I don't need to do actual office work, or in my case photography work. Of course, if they'd make a hard drive version of the iPad that I could download photos from my camera to while on vacation like I used to be able to do on my iPod, it would mean I'd need a laptop that much less.
If antimatter is gravitationally repulsed by matter, then it could help explain dark matter. Instead of requiring a huge expansion of the Standard Model, it may simply be that the vacuum is gravitationally polarized.
Because dark matter is dark, as in it doesn't interact with EM fields, but we know that anti-matter does interact with EM fields, in fact that's how it is different. We know that dark matter is dark, because of gravitational lensing. When looking at a galaxy side one, it is brighter than it should be because there is mass there lensing more light towards us. If such matter interacted with light, it would be darker edge on because there would be a cloud there, and we'd get standard absorbtion lines. We'd also probably see gamma ray bursts coming from colliding galaxies as velocities would probably overcome any negative gravitational repulsion. It can also be ruled out due to how the original universe would look and cosmic background radiation that would be present today. Put simply, dark matter postulated as any type of normal matter, even anti-matter, provides quite enough testable predictions which all turn out negative.
There is a lack of symmetry in the creation of matter and anti-matter.
How do we know this? How do we know that a distant galaxy isn't completely made of antimatter?
Basically because from things like the cosmic background radiation and other evidence, we can determine what the original conditions of the universe were like. In the time of primordial nucleosynthesis, about three minutes after the big bang, things were becoming cool enough for matter and anti-matter to form. In this time, things were still pretty well mixed and it was too hot for a nucleus to capture electrons or positrons, so matter and anti-matter were recombining as they were drawn to each other and annihilated. By time the universe was cool enough for atoms to form, matter dominated everything. If it didn't, then things would end up looking different as it would have taken a lot longer for stars and galaxies to form if they were constantly destroying each other till somewhat stable regions of matter and anti-matter formed. I imagine that the cosmic background radiation would end up looking a lot less even as there would be more coming from the boundry areas between those regions. Add in that we have looked and do not see any evidence of any large scale matter anti-matter events which we would expect if half (or any significant fraction) of the galaxies (let alone stars) out there we anti-matter.
So, matter and anti-matter must have been separated somehow in the early universe. The most likely answer would be that matter outnumbered anti-matter which would cause it to become dominant very quickly as in the early universe when everything was very well mixed and being created and destroyed regularly, each so called generation of matter/anti-matter generation would leave behind more and more matter which would annihilate the anti-matter even quicker till all available energy ended up as matter. Coming up with something like all matter went left while anti-matter went right causing no real boundry region would just mess up the idea of an isotropic universe. The only other even fanciful solution I could think of is to follow long with the anti-matter is just matter travelling backwards in time, and thus all the originally created anti-matter never annihilated with matter because it quickly went backwards in time away from the matter traveling forwards in time with the same momentum. Of course, then you have really difficult issues with the time before that because time probably didn't exist before such a situation as it is the opposite movements at their creation that created time. once again, if such were the case, I imagine we could figure out that the early universe would have looked much different than what we are seeing evidence of.
The original rationale for Windows in the enterprise began when companies wanted cheap "personal" computers in the workplace. They wanted those computers with a drop-stupid UI and a cheap OS on them.
I wouldn't even say they needed a UI. When they were taking over business, it was pretty much just script the launch of the one program people used. even with Windows 3.11 and 95, it was more a matter of just putting the icons to the important programs in an easy to click on place and train the users in the applications. If enterprise IT is forced to upgrade to Win8, we'll just also install some 3rd party program in the image that will make it easy for the users to do launch their applications and it will still be much less work than what we had to go through with 3.11 or 95. Nevermind that out hands are pretty much tied by what the vendors who make those programs decide to use for their front ends. They have been going towards linux servers for a while, but for delivery, things are getting even more tied down to IE it seems.
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All of them can reach Russia just fine.
That's because Russia borders China.
And if you look through history, the number one commonality between nations at war has not been religious, economic, or cultural differences, but sharing a border.
Rebooting is the hail mary of a tech that doesn't want to fix the problem. In my experience, very few, if any of those are true. This goes doubly for the desktop OS stuff I've had to support.
Rebooting is one of the first steps of troubleshooting because if you can't replicate the problem, you'll never be able to tell if you actually fixed it.
But... hang on a bit... how come 20 years ago this wasn't an issue?
It was, but honestly, this is the last few percentile that we're talking about. 100% washing hands will not stop 100% of secondary infections while it will take up a lot of time and effort. All the low hanging fruit that can really help healthcare has been done, now efforts like this are the extra effort in an attempt to clean up that last few outliers.
Eating meat nearly raw is mostly an American custom (ok, and some aboriginal groups'). So is drinking beer so cold you can't feel any taste.
Actually what you call rare in the US, is called well done in continental Europe.
American well done is typically what is called burnt in continental Europe.
OK AC, but how much do you have to cook troll meat to make it edible?
Mod points expired yesterday or I'd +1 this. StarCraft 2 seemed to be the same as Starcraft 1 prior to its expansion. I'm sure there were minor differences but there seemed no new units, missing units I was already used to, and no new game play. There was a story, built in online play, but lacked lan play. I played it for about a week before deciding to wait for an expansion.
Dark energy - a term coined to hide the fact that "we don't know".
It's not a term to hide the fact that "we don't know", it's a term to punctuate that "we don't know". If we were really trying to hide stuff, we'd define it as stuff we already know about rather that come up with a new term (like the MOND guys are doing with dark matter).
Most likely none. When galaxies "collide", they merge gravitationally, but stars don't run into one another. Thing of how small a star is compared to the vast space between them. The odds of two stars colliding are so small, even when you have literally billions of them heading towards one another, the odds of a collision are extremely remote.
No, there probably will not be very many collisions of stars. However, there probably will be large disruption of large objects in oort clouds around such systems. The few millions of years during the collision and few million years after will be a time of large comets and possibly even some "dwarf planets" crashing through some otherwise stable star systems in erratic orbits as they get disturbed.
Yahoo *could* stage a comeback, but why? What makes a product or service from Yahoo unique?
They don't have to do it uniquely. They just have to do it better. Google wasn't unique. Facebook wasn't unique. They both offered services that other companies were already in the lead for. People just seemed to like them better and switched. In the new world, web viewers are the commodity most these companies are fighting over, and it's just a matter of getting them to go to your site instead of somebody else's.
No, because history shows that big corporations buying start-ups never turns out well. The big corp has no idea how to effectively use the new start-up, and its potential (assuming it had any) ends up being wasted.
Perhaps they need to do like Apple. Find a startup like NeXt. Buy them, and then turn over all their resources over to the startup to run, essentially letting their people take over the company. Let the new fresh talent do the next best thing with the old company.
Somebody didn't get the memo that vampires are over.
The vampire thing has been ongoing for more than a century and a half so far and probably will never be over. Before Dracula, there was Lord Ruthven who every author made their main vampire. The 19th century was full of books and plays about vampires. Thing is that vampires are allegories for sex, death, and even sometimes romantic love which people have tended to dwell on since they started telling stories. They may be over used at times, but will never be over until something else comes along to replace them.
And who's gonna be paying you to spend your time doing art, music entertainment, or any other leisure activity?
That seems to be the mistake all the pie-in-the-sky thinkers make; they just assume that, with the elimination of work for humans, the elimination of a weighted financial system designed to separate us into differing economic classes will disappear with a magical POOF.
It's not even that. As people become more productive, that increase in production leads to better and better products. Those products require more labor to afford. The general population will never have that much leisure time because there will always be more expensive items to buy due to that increase in productivity. Sure, I could cut my work to 4-8 hours a week currently and live like what was considered a 'good life' around the end of the 19th century. I know some people who have or do live like that. Backwoods guys that live in a 10'x10' shack and satisfied to make enough to buy the food, clothing, and books. People that dropped out of their PhD programs to live the life of a beach bum. Idealistic gypsy wanderers that essentially couch surf across the world writing books on their hand me down laptop. Trouble is I want lots of things they didn't have then like cars, computers, cell phones, internet connection, decent sized house full of stuff, etc. That requires me to work at todays levels enough to get those products.
Which is why those jobs that went to China will not return. They are still worth what the Chinese are getting paid for doing them. Nobody wants to work that much to receive the level of compensation that they would receive. If those jobs come back, they will be automated and the automation will be handled by a relatively few skilled workers. The world may always need ditch diggers, but 50 guys with shoves that have to be supervised to make sure they are doing a good job aren't worth one halfway competent guy with a high school diploma (and probably more these days) who can run a $100k ditch digging machine safely.
You stupid fuck, when the British wanted to build a railroad in Bolivia and there weren't any handy gravel deposits nearby they smashed up big chunks of Tiahuanacu. You can still see pieces of statues in the foundations for the railroad bridges in the area. Greed and laziness will win out over respect for the past pretty much every time that money is involved.
While I don't doubt that the British did what you said they did, it wasn't necessarily greed or laziness. The simple fact is that ideas about heritage, property, and such have changed greatly over the years. There was an article on BBC a while back lamenting the loss of many such cultural heritage spots in Britain for similar reasons. Laws protecting such things are relatively recent development as society grew rich enough to preserve as well as value them. Respect for the past means little if you are still trying to get everybody in the present fed. Previous to the last century ownership had complete rights to tear down, reuse, or do whatever they wanted with their property, no matter what the history behind it.
It's no longer really possible for "normal" people to tell apart real images from photoshopped or even completely CGI rendered ones.
To be honest, it never has been. Photographers, long before Photoshop or computers, have been editing photos to the point that normal people can't tell the difference. It's always funny to read some photographer go off about the abuse of digital editing these days and give evidence of some well known photo as what photographers used to do 'in camera' only to have some other photographer show the original photo and show that most of that great photo was not done in camera.
It's painfully obvious that "Wrath of the Lich King" was the end of the story the original creators set out to tell.
Naw, I think the emerald dream and Deathwing stuff in Cataclysm has been around since vanilla also. Little bits here and there that ended up getting answered just like the undead bits got answered by WotLK.
Does everyone deserve a college education? Does everyone need one? Is it true that the world needs ditch diggers too?
Not sure if everybody deserves a college education, but today's society needs more people to have a college education. As we get more automated and make higher valued merchandise, the people needed to develop and run the industries will be needed to have more education than the people before them. A person without a high school degree can't be a ditch digger because these days a ditch digger is going to be put in charge of a $50k ditch digging machine that will do the work of fifty men with shovels in one tenth the time and do it cheaper and better. Manual labor jobs are increasingly becoming rarer and rarer or at least not worth it to pay what people want to be paid for such labor.
and replace them all with electronics.
Yep, and then watch Colossus end the world. :)
Actually, it was the aliens that threatened the world. In the later books (the movie was made from a book), we find out that Colossus detected the aliens and was trying to take over to protect against them, only to reveal that knowledge as he was being shut down. In the second book, the aliens took over and in the third book, they had to bring Colossus back to life to defeat the aliens and save the world.
Most tablet users own a laptop. They rather use the full laptop to do actual office work and use the tablet for media consumption and touch screen apps. Sales of the different devices clearly show that the vast majority of people isn't interested in hybrids, regardless the OS or applications on them. Windows 8, Android and iOS all have a very limited amount of users working with a tablet-with-keyboard style hardware device.
I'll agree with that. I have a laptop and several desktops that I use for a variety of things. Still, I'm not frustrated with my iPad because it does what I want it to do which is act as my computer when I don't need to do actual office work, or in my case photography work. Of course, if they'd make a hard drive version of the iPad that I could download photos from my camera to while on vacation like I used to be able to do on my iPod, it would mean I'd need a laptop that much less.
So frustrated, that I have never bothered to even take the bluetooth keyboard I bought along with my iPad out of the box in the past two years.
If antimatter is gravitationally repulsed by matter, then it could help explain dark matter. Instead of requiring a huge expansion of the Standard Model, it may simply be that the vacuum is gravitationally polarized.
Because dark matter is dark, as in it doesn't interact with EM fields, but we know that anti-matter does interact with EM fields, in fact that's how it is different. We know that dark matter is dark, because of gravitational lensing. When looking at a galaxy side one, it is brighter than it should be because there is mass there lensing more light towards us. If such matter interacted with light, it would be darker edge on because there would be a cloud there, and we'd get standard absorbtion lines. We'd also probably see gamma ray bursts coming from colliding galaxies as velocities would probably overcome any negative gravitational repulsion. It can also be ruled out due to how the original universe would look and cosmic background radiation that would be present today. Put simply, dark matter postulated as any type of normal matter, even anti-matter, provides quite enough testable predictions which all turn out negative.
...never run an anti-virus, never got infected.
How would you even know?
I stopped reading when I saw the name Florian.
He is a professional Troll, STOP POSTING HIS STUPID BULLSHIT!
And he's not even a good troll. What ever happened to Dvorak? That was some classic tech click trolling!
Historically blacks have in fact been the most notoriously discriminated against race, so it's a good example.
Tell that to the Irish.
There is a lack of symmetry in the creation of matter and anti-matter.
How do we know this? How do we know that a distant galaxy isn't completely made of antimatter?
Basically because from things like the cosmic background radiation and other evidence, we can determine what the original conditions of the universe were like. In the time of primordial nucleosynthesis, about three minutes after the big bang, things were becoming cool enough for matter and anti-matter to form. In this time, things were still pretty well mixed and it was too hot for a nucleus to capture electrons or positrons, so matter and anti-matter were recombining as they were drawn to each other and annihilated. By time the universe was cool enough for atoms to form, matter dominated everything. If it didn't, then things would end up looking different as it would have taken a lot longer for stars and galaxies to form if they were constantly destroying each other till somewhat stable regions of matter and anti-matter formed. I imagine that the cosmic background radiation would end up looking a lot less even as there would be more coming from the boundry areas between those regions. Add in that we have looked and do not see any evidence of any large scale matter anti-matter events which we would expect if half (or any significant fraction) of the galaxies (let alone stars) out there we anti-matter.
So, matter and anti-matter must have been separated somehow in the early universe. The most likely answer would be that matter outnumbered anti-matter which would cause it to become dominant very quickly as in the early universe when everything was very well mixed and being created and destroyed regularly, each so called generation of matter/anti-matter generation would leave behind more and more matter which would annihilate the anti-matter even quicker till all available energy ended up as matter. Coming up with something like all matter went left while anti-matter went right causing no real boundry region would just mess up the idea of an isotropic universe. The only other even fanciful solution I could think of is to follow long with the anti-matter is just matter travelling backwards in time, and thus all the originally created anti-matter never annihilated with matter because it quickly went backwards in time away from the matter traveling forwards in time with the same momentum. Of course, then you have really difficult issues with the time before that because time probably didn't exist before such a situation as it is the opposite movements at their creation that created time. once again, if such were the case, I imagine we could figure out that the early universe would have looked much different than what we are seeing evidence of.
The original rationale for Windows in the enterprise began when companies wanted cheap "personal" computers in the workplace. They wanted those computers with a drop-stupid UI and a cheap OS on them.
I wouldn't even say they needed a UI. When they were taking over business, it was pretty much just script the launch of the one program people used. even with Windows 3.11 and 95, it was more a matter of just putting the icons to the important programs in an easy to click on place and train the users in the applications. If enterprise IT is forced to upgrade to Win8, we'll just also install some 3rd party program in the image that will make it easy for the users to do launch their applications and it will still be much less work than what we had to go through with 3.11 or 95. Nevermind that out hands are pretty much tied by what the vendors who make those programs decide to use for their front ends. They have been going towards linux servers for a while, but for delivery, things are getting even more tied down to IE it seems.