Right, HTML5 is a paper tiger. They'll just add a codec= field to the video tag a call it day. Some browsers will support some codecs and others will support other codecs. End users will be baffled from the start and everyone will stick with Flash.
>There are A LOT of people out there who are 'convinced' that cell phones and wi-fi cause cancer.
In fact there are lots of people who claim to show symptoms (dizziness, depression, anxiety, pain, etc) when exposed to wifi or cell radio. The kicker is that they only claim this when they know they are being exposed to wifi/cell, not when they are actually exposed.
I really think the next version of the DSM should have an entry for 'radio phobia.' These poor people are simply mentally ill and need help from professionals. They dont need bullshit studies validating their illness.
>economic co-dependency is the best national security there is. We'll never go to war with China; we're both far too dependent on each other.
No, but war declaration is generally death by a 1,000 papercuts. One trade sanction here, one embargo there, one UN sanction there, one spy caught there, etc. Eventually, even world powers decide that its best to just shoot your trading partner, unless things are especially rosy.
Of course, if the alternative is isolationism, then trading partnership is by far the better choice. How that leads to world peace really seems to be optimistic thinking.
I cant imagine Taiwan doing China's bidding, especially since they are aligned with the US. I would feel safer with a Taiwanese design than a Chinese one. I think US foreign policy makes it especially attractive for Taiwan to keep designing parts to keep China away from the design market.
I have an iphone. I live in a major city. Its using Edge 50% of the time and about 20% of the time I use 3G, I get a long pause, then it drops to EDGE. If you think only tmobile and Nexus have reception issues then youre pretty ignorant of how smartphones work and shouldnt be giving advice to anyone.
>The entire point of NASA is to get people in Space.
That is not the organizations mission statement. You can make up crowd pleasing shit all your want, but that doesnt make it true. Here's the real mission statement, please note these are all doable without shoving meatbags on top of a rocket and having them play golf on the moon:
" To improve life here, To extend life to there, To find life beyond.[10] "
--NASA Mission Statement " NASA's mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.[11] "
--NASA Mission " To understand and protect our home planet, To explore the Universe and search for life, and To inspire the next generation of explorers... as only NASA can.[10] "
--NASA Vision
In fact, I would argue that finding life beyond the solar system can only be done with robotics. Your meatbag body isnt going to handle a 100 year journey too well and even if it was possible it wouldnt be worth the cost.
>Most adults have other things to do, or more powerful systems at home to play "serious" games on.
Or the adults dont want to pay EA 20 dollars for the phone version of Battlefield or whatever and also 60 dollars for the full PC version.
There's already a market for free/super cheap phone games. If anything "phones" are the most popular gaming platform. Trying to upsell us to 3D FPS and more expensive phones, and expensive software is just a failed market strategy.
Err, what? My phone is primary a web browser and SMS toy that happens to do phone calls.
I see people play games on their phone all the time. Every phone is a gaming phone. I guess the author thinks gaming means 3D FPS and kiddies yelling profanity at each other to be 'real gaming.'
>Because the original Exploration plan *did* close within the current budget. Cost growth and schedule delays made it grow beyond the budget.
Those two statements contradict each other. NASA cant deliver this thing without an extra 3 billion a year for the next 8 or 9 years. The path to the moon is not sustainable and would only relive 1950s era achievements. Better off with robotics and earth science and building a role for private enterprise.
>It's sad really and NASA is definitely who should get more budget. It's the idiotic short-sighted quick-profit thinking again.
How come Bush's promises of massive explorations with no funding backing isnt stupid, but when Obama has to clean up Bush's mistakes and bring Bush's BS promises to a real budget, then suddenly he's the bad guy?
You know what other path there is to barbarism? Spending yourself stupid so we cant fund schools, healthcare, business investment, etc for the sake of a moon base or two.
Not to mention, the pork politics of maintaining aging systems and cost runaways like Constellation.
Turns out smart sometimes means taking a cut from dramatic projects and trying something different like private enterprise and more robotic missions.
>If we're not going to move forward up there, other nations will. And we will have ceded the high frontier.
They'll go broke putting meatbags in space and learning the same lessons we have, while we're focused on robotic missions and investment into private enterprise, instead of a purely government approach.
On top of that, the Mars mission is still on. While China or India attempts to put a meatbag on the moon, the US will most likely be on its way to Mars. The US isnt ceding anything, its just spending its money more wisely along with the "trophy" of Mars. Turns out Bush's incompetence wasnt limited to just economies and wars, but to also signing checks his ass couldnt cash.
Funny how the "fiscally responsible" Republicans want my tax dollars to keep subsidizing useless jobs in Florida and Texas and keep a runaway project like Constellation going to the tune of an extra 3 billion a year in cost overruns! Dont confuse the politics of pork with space exploration. Meatbags are too expensive to ship around all the time and moon base fantasies turn out to be too expensive in real life.
>What does this say about people who have a real degree that they didn't notice a difference in performance or at the very least that it took so long to find out?
At every place I worked, the good people took up the slack from the bad people. Im sure the competent people there are looking forward to hiring a competent person they no longer have to babysit.
Things have really changed since that article was published 10 months ago.
Im pretty happy with my OCZ Vertex 60gig on win7. It doesnt have the problems the jmircon based drives have and the prices on them are pretty good. I just saw the 60gig model go for $179 after rebate. Write/read speeds on Win7 are excellent even after you fill up the drive because win7 and the 1.4 firmware support TRIM natively. Now there's a vertex turbo model that gives a 10-20% performance increase.
Its funny how the market is playing itself out. OCZ for the low-end and Intel for the enterprise end. Without TRIM these things are pretty useless.
>The "way to a better future for the world" is birth control and education. Don't want to sound cold, but the places with the most human suffering are also the areas with the worst overpopulation
Many, many parts of the US are overpopulated and poor. Should we not allow vaccines, food stamps, welfare, etc in Detroit, Chicago, or LA inner-city areas for the sake of "a better future?" Its incredible the double standard we have for foreigners.
>I wonder if developing countries are as paranoid about vaccinations as the 1st world ones are.
Absolutely, partly because of lack of education and partly because religious groups and other Western groups with horrible agendas propagandize things like "Dont use condoms/birth control, its a western plot to control you." Im sure the anti-gay religious people, many of whom go to Africa to help fuel the hate of homosexuals, will dismiss the HIV vaccine as a plot also.
Not sure who will dismiss the malaria vaccine but Im sure humanity has no short of crazies willing to do so. Probably Jenny McCarthy, who gets quite a bit of free air time for her views on shows like Oprah and Tonight Show, but skeptics get almost zero airtime. Funny how that works.
This is really incredible. We're going to see a malaria and/or HIV vaccine in our lifetimes partly thanks to people like Gates.
I guess the larger issue is whether these poorer countries can handle having a much lower mortality rate. Probably. I imagine this initiative ties in with others and that these societies probably need more young people than old.
>At least, that's what I do with my laptop and a Nokia 2865 (via bluetooth DUN).
The ipad wont let you do DUN. Apple's idea of bluetooth is wireless keyboards and headphoness. It would upset their partner AT&T and their own bottom line if they cant bundle a new iphone with the ipad.
>Mobility. While a laptop is mobile, a tablet is dramatically more so. Can you walk and use your laptop? Nope. You can with a tablet. Imagine an administrative assistant for some executive with one.
You make it sound like Apple invent the tablet. Err, we've had tablets on the market for several years. I dont see anyone's assistant running around with them. I see them sometimes in POS and I usually see them in warehouses, because they replace clipboards and do wireless.
Those tablets run a full OS and have open development and run pretty much anything windows can. The apple tablet is a phone OS with a big screen. If any tablet is going to break through to corporate America's offices, I seriously doubt it will be the one known for its vast array of fart simulators and itunes intergration.
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I dont think the problem is as simplistic as you make it out to be. I have an iphone and I grudgingly accept its limitations because its a portable device that needs to be rock-solid and not randomly drain the battery on me, or whatever issues Apple has with multitasking.
Ive been thinking of buying a tablet for some time and have remained somewhat open-minded about this tablet, but you cant sell me the exact same iphone model with simply a larger device. You cant tell me I cant have flash for something that will primarily be a web tablet. You cant expect people to buy flash apps turned into iphone apps for every site. You cant say "Well, its really an iphone, but its not, so when you complain just remember its an iphone sans phone." Its supposed to be a tablet computer not a super ipod touch. Perhaps they should have marketed it as an ipod for your grandpa like those giant remote controls.
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Right, HTML5 is a paper tiger. They'll just add a codec= field to the video tag a call it day. Some browsers will support some codecs and others will support other codecs. End users will be baffled from the start and everyone will stick with Flash.
A partnership between France and Ford, what could possibly go wrong?
The robotic arm's seal broke after just five hours of use and, wait, is that wine spilling out?
>There are A LOT of people out there who are 'convinced' that cell phones and wi-fi cause cancer.
In fact there are lots of people who claim to show symptoms (dizziness, depression, anxiety, pain, etc) when exposed to wifi or cell radio. The kicker is that they only claim this when they know they are being exposed to wifi/cell, not when they are actually exposed.
I really think the next version of the DSM should have an entry for 'radio phobia.' These poor people are simply mentally ill and need help from professionals. They dont need bullshit studies validating their illness.
>Some say he can steer a car just by thinking evasive thoughts.
Works great, if you can think in German, that is.
>economic co-dependency is the best national security there is. We'll never go to war with China; we're both far too dependent on each other.
No, but war declaration is generally death by a 1,000 papercuts. One trade sanction here, one embargo there, one UN sanction there, one spy caught there, etc. Eventually, even world powers decide that its best to just shoot your trading partner, unless things are especially rosy.
Of course, if the alternative is isolationism, then trading partnership is by far the better choice. How that leads to world peace really seems to be optimistic thinking.
I cant imagine Taiwan doing China's bidding, especially since they are aligned with the US. I would feel safer with a Taiwanese design than a Chinese one. I think US foreign policy makes it especially attractive for Taiwan to keep designing parts to keep China away from the design market.
I have an iphone. I live in a major city. Its using Edge 50% of the time and about 20% of the time I use 3G, I get a long pause, then it drops to EDGE. If you think only tmobile and Nexus have reception issues then youre pretty ignorant of how smartphones work and shouldnt be giving advice to anyone.
Wow, youre so new here, youre still dripping wet and covered in placenta.
>The entire point of NASA is to get people in Space.
That is not the organizations mission statement. You can make up crowd pleasing shit all your want, but that doesnt make it true. Here's the real mission statement, please note these are all doable without shoving meatbags on top of a rocket and having them play golf on the moon:
" To improve life here, To extend life to there, To find life beyond.[10] "
--NASA Mission Statement
" NASA's mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.[11] "
--NASA Mission
" To understand and protect our home planet, To explore the Universe and search for life, and To inspire the next generation of explorers... as only NASA can.[10] "
--NASA Vision
In fact, I would argue that finding life beyond the solar system can only be done with robotics. Your meatbag body isnt going to handle a 100 year journey too well and even if it was possible it wouldnt be worth the cost.
>Most adults have other things to do, or more powerful systems at home to play "serious" games on.
Or the adults dont want to pay EA 20 dollars for the phone version of Battlefield or whatever and also 60 dollars for the full PC version.
There's already a market for free/super cheap phone games. If anything "phones" are the most popular gaming platform. Trying to upsell us to 3D FPS and more expensive phones, and expensive software is just a failed market strategy.
Err, what? My phone is primary a web browser and SMS toy that happens to do phone calls.
I see people play games on their phone all the time. Every phone is a gaming phone. I guess the author thinks gaming means 3D FPS and kiddies yelling profanity at each other to be 'real gaming.'
>Because the original Exploration plan *did* close within the current budget. Cost growth and schedule delays made it grow beyond the budget.
Those two statements contradict each other. NASA cant deliver this thing without an extra 3 billion a year for the next 8 or 9 years. The path to the moon is not sustainable and would only relive 1950s era achievements. Better off with robotics and earth science and building a role for private enterprise.
>It's sad really and NASA is definitely who should get more budget. It's the idiotic short-sighted quick-profit thinking again.
How come Bush's promises of massive explorations with no funding backing isnt stupid, but when Obama has to clean up Bush's mistakes and bring Bush's BS promises to a real budget, then suddenly he's the bad guy?
Wow, dramatic much?
You know what other path there is to barbarism? Spending yourself stupid so we cant fund schools, healthcare, business investment, etc for the sake of a moon base or two.
Not to mention, the pork politics of maintaining aging systems and cost runaways like Constellation.
Turns out smart sometimes means taking a cut from dramatic projects and trying something different like private enterprise and more robotic missions.
>If we're not going to move forward up there, other nations will. And we will have ceded the high frontier.
They'll go broke putting meatbags in space and learning the same lessons we have, while we're focused on robotic missions and investment into private enterprise, instead of a purely government approach.
On top of that, the Mars mission is still on. While China or India attempts to put a meatbag on the moon, the US will most likely be on its way to Mars. The US isnt ceding anything, its just spending its money more wisely along with the "trophy" of Mars. Turns out Bush's incompetence wasnt limited to just economies and wars, but to also signing checks his ass couldnt cash.
Funny how the "fiscally responsible" Republicans want my tax dollars to keep subsidizing useless jobs in Florida and Texas and keep a runaway project like Constellation going to the tune of an extra 3 billion a year in cost overruns! Dont confuse the politics of pork with space exploration. Meatbags are too expensive to ship around all the time and moon base fantasies turn out to be too expensive in real life.
So we should just be tolerating dishonesty?
>What does this say about people who have a real degree that they didn't notice a difference in performance or at the very least that it took so long to find out?
At every place I worked, the good people took up the slack from the bad people. Im sure the competent people there are looking forward to hiring a competent person they no longer have to babysit.
Things have really changed since that article was published 10 months ago.
Im pretty happy with my OCZ Vertex 60gig on win7. It doesnt have the problems the jmircon based drives have and the prices on them are pretty good. I just saw the 60gig model go for $179 after rebate. Write/read speeds on Win7 are excellent even after you fill up the drive because win7 and the 1.4 firmware support TRIM natively. Now there's a vertex turbo model that gives a 10-20% performance increase.
Its funny how the market is playing itself out. OCZ for the low-end and Intel for the enterprise end. Without TRIM these things are pretty useless.
>The "way to a better future for the world" is birth control and education. Don't want to sound cold, but the places with the most human suffering are also the areas with the worst overpopulation
Many, many parts of the US are overpopulated and poor. Should we not allow vaccines, food stamps, welfare, etc in Detroit, Chicago, or LA inner-city areas for the sake of "a better future?" Its incredible the double standard we have for foreigners.
>I wonder if developing countries are as paranoid about vaccinations as the 1st world ones are.
Absolutely, partly because of lack of education and partly because religious groups and other Western groups with horrible agendas propagandize things like "Dont use condoms/birth control, its a western plot to control you." Im sure the anti-gay religious people, many of whom go to Africa to help fuel the hate of homosexuals, will dismiss the HIV vaccine as a plot also.
Not sure who will dismiss the malaria vaccine but Im sure humanity has no short of crazies willing to do so. Probably Jenny McCarthy, who gets quite a bit of free air time for her views on shows like Oprah and Tonight Show, but skeptics get almost zero airtime. Funny how that works.
This is really incredible. We're going to see a malaria and/or HIV vaccine in our lifetimes partly thanks to people like Gates.
I guess the larger issue is whether these poorer countries can handle having a much lower mortality rate. Probably. I imagine this initiative ties in with others and that these societies probably need more young people than old.
>At least, that's what I do with my laptop and a Nokia 2865 (via bluetooth DUN).
The ipad wont let you do DUN. Apple's idea of bluetooth is wireless keyboards and headphoness. It would upset their partner AT&T and their own bottom line if they cant bundle a new iphone with the ipad.
>Mobility. While a laptop is mobile, a tablet is dramatically more so. Can you walk and use your laptop? Nope. You can with a tablet. Imagine an administrative assistant for some executive with one.
You make it sound like Apple invent the tablet. Err, we've had tablets on the market for several years. I dont see anyone's assistant running around with them. I see them sometimes in POS and I usually see them in warehouses, because they replace clipboards and do wireless.
Those tablets run a full OS and have open development and run pretty much anything windows can. The apple tablet is a phone OS with a big screen. If any tablet is going to break through to corporate America's offices, I seriously doubt it will be the one known for its vast array of fart simulators and itunes intergration.
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Wearing pasty white makeup
Being especially emo and whiney
Changing username to MrsCullen4Ever3
Wearing black nail polish
and hanging out with shirtless underage guys.
I suggest you actually read that contract. You'll find some language in there that lets them pretty much do as they please.
I dont think the problem is as simplistic as you make it out to be. I have an iphone and I grudgingly accept its limitations because its a portable device that needs to be rock-solid and not randomly drain the battery on me, or whatever issues Apple has with multitasking.
Ive been thinking of buying a tablet for some time and have remained somewhat open-minded about this tablet, but you cant sell me the exact same iphone model with simply a larger device. You cant tell me I cant have flash for something that will primarily be a web tablet. You cant expect people to buy flash apps turned into iphone apps for every site. You cant say "Well, its really an iphone, but its not, so when you complain just remember its an iphone sans phone." Its supposed to be a tablet computer not a super ipod touch. Perhaps they should have marketed it as an ipod for your grandpa like those giant remote controls.