The callousness of the government and the companies that have been executing the scam called "China speed train" is disgusting. People have been pointing out the problems and predicting that accidents due to faulty designs will happen. The people who built the train are responsible, disgusting and what not, not the people who call them out.
Probably not, on the surface it looks like bad design. But given how they buried the evidence of the crash (alongside with some bodies, and some apparently still moving) off the tracks before any investigation of the causes, they may never learn what was the problem. But the value of life is not so high in places with a lot of people, so if you're in China, and value your life, you'd better arrange your transportation according to your ideas of safety.
As I've said before, building a rival of the Shinkansen in Japan (or the speed trains in Europe) will take a lot more than copying the designs. Honestly assessing your mistakes and shortcomings is especially important.
Not really. My home (static, used for a long-long time) ip address was paired with coordinates roughly three years ago, long before I used an android phone at home. It locates me with a scary precision ~10 meters. I live 10 meters away from the street.
"but many people don't care about replacing the battery"
Actually, most people I know who have an iphone4 (that includes me) do care about battery. One reason I moved away was that I use the smart part of the phone (networked apps, apps that use the camera and the sensors) heavily, and that does kill the iphone4 for about 6-7 hours, which is for me totally unacceptable. Now that I'm using a smartphone that allows using replacement batteries, I can squeeze over a day of heavy usage. I still carry the iphone as an emergency phone though.
My opinion has changed from "replacing the battery is a good thing" to "if you can't use the battery on full throttle for over a day, you probably don't need a smartphone anyway".
Also, what I got is (unsurprisingly, because it is newer) a much better gadget than the iphone4 in terms of hardware and features.
While it is easy to calculate some numbers (all aircraft incidents are in the searchable NTSB database here: http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/index.aspx), you'll most likely be told that the comparisons are meaningless without an assessment of the threat level that the US is facing. And most likely than not, data on the actual threats will be classified.
I am sensing from people I meet that a big societal change is about to occur.
It is even easier to sense it from the Recent Financial News and the Government Bond Ratings talk. When the Government can't pay its Police and Military, you can bet that big societal change will occur.
The question that remains to ponder is Who Will Drive Them and will they be for Good or for Bad.
Actually, most people who board an aircraft that doesn't fly to US destinations aren't being patted on the fanny or squeezed by the buttocks and don't have to take off shoes, belts, open suitcases and have them rummaged, etc.
Still, the people who don't fly to the US are being hassled to some extent because of the common ICAO regulations pushed by the US. So, I'd say it isn't the 6 billions out there that are the problem, but the US government and its sponsors, who are milking the security theater for all it is worth.
simply because the idea was completely lifted from Apple.
Meh. And Apple "stole" the app market idea and implementation from Docomo, AU and Softbank in Japan, each of which had a working and thriving app market ages before Jobs even visited Japan to hunt for smartphone ideas. I'm forgetting who they stole it from, because it wasn't all that new in 2002 either.
Besides, there's nothing bad about stealing ideas.
The copyright and patents are _artificial_ monopolies that, ceteris paribus, impede development, technological, social and otherwise. The society puts up with them for two reasons: the alleged contribution to "innovation", which never materializes, and the large amount of money for lobbying that the monopoly rents make available. I'll let you figure out which reason is the most important.
But you would order your subordinates to do so if you're bossing a military outfit and your former boss is now bossing Booz and you both helped this contract to come about. Which is how these contracts happen anyway.
Because they produce and sell a lot of it, and want to sell even more. So there's always a sum of money around for every honest scientist, who can pen something that the wine marketing departments can use. I have very rarely seen research on the health benefits of wine that wasn't sponsored in some way by those who make it. Come to think of it, all positive "wine benefit" science that I bothered to research the funding for was paid for by the wine industry.
You seem to care much about Apple, and all in a negative way. Take a deep breath, look around, and you'll find that there are a lot of other things in the world, and that most of them will make you a happy person. Trust me on this one, it ain't in Apple's power to end the world. It ain't in their power to even end the world of IT for that matter.
If you don't know what you're looking for in a pile of documents assembled by less than gifted embassy staff by retelling newspaper clips and general gossip, you have no business being a journalist in the first place. There was nothing else but local newspaper clips and gossip in the Wikileaks embassy leak.
Worked miracles after I've gotten around the ugly HTML format they use to release all those INFORMATIONS. Still, there was very little new or worthwhile in the heap of those news clips and rumour aggregations. Frankly, the more I grep it, the less it looks like the "largest leak in history", and the more it seems like "the largest controlled release of information" in history.
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The callousness of the government and the companies that have been executing the scam called "China speed train" is disgusting. People have been pointing out the problems and predicting that accidents due to faulty designs will happen. The people who built the train are responsible, disgusting and what not, not the people who call them out.
Also, with over 200 dead and wounded, there's nothing to ROFL about.
Probably not, on the surface it looks like bad design. But given how they buried the evidence of the crash (alongside with some bodies, and some apparently still moving) off the tracks before any investigation of the causes, they may never learn what was the problem. But the value of life is not so high in places with a lot of people, so if you're in China, and value your life, you'd better arrange your transportation according to your ideas of safety.
As I've said before, building a rival of the Shinkansen in Japan (or the speed trains in Europe) will take a lot more than copying the designs. Honestly assessing your mistakes and shortcomings is especially important.
Heh thanks. I'm in for the sport, not the modpoints.
Not really. My home (static, used for a long-long time) ip address was paired with coordinates roughly three years ago, long before I used an android phone at home. It locates me with a scary precision ~10 meters. I live 10 meters away from the street.
What the hell is Microsoft thinking?
Bill Gates has finally caught up with the ideals of the Solarian society.
I would not link to it either. I was disappointed as well. I expected a cool story about a constant rain of comets or something.
"but many people don't care about replacing the battery"
Actually, most people I know who have an iphone4 (that includes me) do care about battery. One reason I moved away was that I use the smart part of the phone (networked apps, apps that use the camera and the sensors) heavily, and that does kill the iphone4 for about 6-7 hours, which is for me totally unacceptable. Now that I'm using a smartphone that allows using replacement batteries, I can squeeze over a day of heavy usage. I still carry the iphone as an emergency phone though.
My opinion has changed from "replacing the battery is a good thing" to "if you can't use the battery on full throttle for over a day, you probably don't need a smartphone anyway".
Also, what I got is (unsurprisingly, because it is newer) a much better gadget than the iphone4 in terms of hardware and features.
Yes, it is. The salty breeze, the port whores, the rum and the adrenaline, you won’t believe how good it feels, anonymous coward.
The monopoly is the economic nature of copyright. And, like pringles, it is addictive. Once you pop, you can't stop.
And a pair of dark shades, a shotgun and some frustration from lack of bubble gum will make it a good practice target.
Why are you using "anymore"? When was Linux ever relevant on the desktop?
Disclaimer: linux desktop user
While it is easy to calculate some numbers (all aircraft incidents are in the searchable NTSB database here: http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/index.aspx), you'll most likely be told that the comparisons are meaningless without an assessment of the threat level that the US is facing. And most likely than not, data on the actual threats will be classified.
I am sensing from people I meet that a big societal change is about to occur.
It is even easier to sense it from the Recent Financial News and the Government Bond Ratings talk. When the Government can't pay its Police and Military, you can bet that big societal change will occur.
The question that remains to ponder is Who Will Drive Them and will they be for Good or for Bad.
Actually, most people who board an aircraft that doesn't fly to US destinations aren't being patted on the fanny or squeezed by the buttocks and don't have to take off shoes, belts, open suitcases and have them rummaged, etc.
Still, the people who don't fly to the US are being hassled to some extent because of the common ICAO regulations pushed by the US. So, I'd say it isn't the 6 billions out there that are the problem, but the US government and its sponsors, who are milking the security theater for all it is worth.
simply because the idea was completely lifted from Apple.
Meh. And Apple "stole" the app market idea and implementation from Docomo, AU and Softbank in Japan, each of which had a working and thriving app market ages before Jobs even visited Japan to hunt for smartphone ideas. I'm forgetting who they stole it from, because it wasn't all that new in 2002 either.
Besides, there's nothing bad about stealing ideas.
The copyright and patents are _artificial_ monopolies that, ceteris paribus, impede development, technological, social and otherwise. The society puts up with them for two reasons: the alleged contribution to "innovation", which never materializes, and the large amount of money for lobbying that the monopoly rents make available. I'll let you figure out which reason is the most important.
Actually, considering what "our country" has done to the region over the past decade it may have been the patriotic decision.
But you would order your subordinates to do so if you're bossing a military outfit and your former boss is now bossing Booz and you both helped this contract to come about. Which is how these contracts happen anyway.
Because they produce and sell a lot of it, and want to sell even more. So there's always a sum of money around for every honest scientist, who can pen something that the wine marketing departments can use. I have very rarely seen research on the health benefits of wine that wasn't sponsored in some way by those who make it. Come to think of it, all positive "wine benefit" science that I bothered to research the funding for was paid for by the wine industry.
That better be a sticker on the contract, not on the phone.
But it helps to know if you're standing on the tracks or not.
You seem to care much about Apple, and all in a negative way. Take a deep breath, look around, and you'll find that there are a lot of other things in the world, and that most of them will make you a happy person. Trust me on this one, it ain't in Apple's power to end the world. It ain't in their power to even end the world of IT for that matter.
If you don't know what you're looking for in a pile of documents assembled by less than gifted embassy staff by retelling newspaper clips and general gossip, you have no business being a journalist in the first place. There was nothing else but local newspaper clips and gossip in the Wikileaks embassy leak.
Worked miracles after I've gotten around the ugly HTML format they use to release all those INFORMATIONS. Still, there was very little new or worthwhile in the heap of those news clips and rumour aggregations. Frankly, the more I grep it, the less it looks like the "largest leak in history", and the more it seems like "the largest controlled release of information" in history.
/ takes off conspiracy theory hat // flame on
You mean there are, like, no public phones in your country?