I'm not a huge fan of many of Microsoft's business practices, but the whole browser bundling issue was always pure bullshit.
Windows includes a lot of other bits of software that step on the toes of third-party software companies, too. MS correctly realized that a web browser was becoming an essential, ubiquitous piece of software. It is absurd to suggest they should have distributed a competitor's software in place of their own, and absurd to suggest that they should simply stay out of the market because there was competition. What business do governments have deciding what should or shouldn't be a core feature of an OS?
So what point is he making? "we need engineers, but only for a little while, until they built good enough robots" -- ?
Ridiculous. Robots don't replace engineers, they replace laborers.
Teaching science to children helps create objective, rational adults. Important traits for "voters that don't fall for deception." It's only part of the picture, but that doesn't make it unimportant.
You make a good point, in that schools tend not to teach a lot off important life skills. That doesn't mean we should skimp on foundation skills like math. What point is there teaching someone about real estate, if they can't even handle algebra? Understanding concepts like interest rates requires more than basic arithmetic.
Not sure why this should be a shocker. Ankle monitors need to report somehow or they aren't much use. Makes sense to use existing infrastructure rather than build a new network.
That link is just flat out wrong. LCD "refresh rate" does not work as the author of that article describes. LCDs have no need to redraw their image 60/120/240 times per second, the backlight is always on and the pixels keep their state until changed.
He is describing the way CRT refresh rate worked, and calling it a "new" issue with LCDs.
Characterizing Android as "just a copy" is blatant revisionist history. Work on Android started well before the iPhone was announced, let alone released.
This isn't "a bit valid," it is just intentionally obtuse. No one will stop you from creating a new unit, but it will be your responsibility to do the conversion. Aside from that, the current definition of a second wasn't set by any government.
Are you really going to argue that, say, feudalism doesn't also mandate greed and love of money? You can even throw in more thorough and blatant suppression of the lower classes as a bonus.
2. searching for everything? god I hate this garbage. It's a lot easier to just know where the icon is and click it.
Never-mind that you can still access your applications via icons, right?
The ability to quickly run typed commands is one of the only features I actually *like* in Windows (win-R). I'm more than happy to see it as a feature in GNOME.
I included both a biological group and a social group for a reason. Calling either one a "disease" would be frowned upon by most reasonable people, even if you do think choosing to join a particular social group is a poor choice.
As for obesity, yes, genetics play a role, but I don't know of a mechanism that has been found that allows a human body to create matter from nothing. Genetics can predispose people towards obesity, but you still have to consume more calories than you expend to gain weight.
Certainly obesity is more complicated than a single/. post can encompass, and I know I oversimplified for the sake of brevity. The point remains, however, that offering weight loss help is not remotely similar to offering to "cure" for loving the "wrong" type of person.
Gay Cure isn't the first app Apple has removed for touting an anti-homosexual philosophy.
Replace "anti-homosexual" with almost any other "anti-GROUP" and it would be called hate.
Grouping people together and rallying against them is hate. No matter how nicely you word it. I realize this particular app isn't all that offensive in a direct way. The indirect implications, however, are obviously quite inflammatory.
Really? You think products to help people lose weight or stop smoking are even remotely in the same league as a "gay cure?"
How about a "cure" for being black? Or a "cure" for being a Christian?
Being overweight is the result of poor choices. Yeah, it sucks when people get picked on for it, but it is an unhealthy condition that can be changed. Offering people help with that process is not hate. Being gay is not a disease and it has no cure. Telling people that a basic part of who they are is a disease is hate.
Maybe Apple shouldn't ban apps at all, I'd prefer that myself. They've already started down that road, however, and hate speech isn't exactly an unreasonable thing to ban, if you are going to ban anything.
Ripping CDs for personal use is covered by fair use.
DVD ripping is only illegal because you have to circumvent encryption to do so, and the DMCA can then be used to do an end-run around your fair use rights. Audio CDs are not encrypted, so they are still fully covered under fair use.
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...Radio is slower than light even in a vacuum...
It takes about 5 seconds of googling to disprove this statement.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/emspectrum.html
http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/c120/emwave.html
The customers who were liable for exactly $0 of fraudulent charges under US law?
There are plenty of websites and services out there that are too braindead to send a confirmation email before associating an address with an account.
Obviously the sun is relevant, but the sun does not "radically dwarf" everything else.
Don't believe it? Look up the surface temperatures of Mercury and Venus.
Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, yet it is roughly twice as far from the sun as Mercury.
Atmospheric composition has an enormous impact on surface temperatures.
The case is probably connected to the ground pin. This is pretty common practice.
Same thing would happen with a PC connected with a power cable that has live and ground swapped.
Huh? They're all Lenovo branded. The divide between business/consumer is ThinkPad vs IdeaPad (and the super cheap "Essentials" line).
Really? When was the last time you even TRIED waking a computer with a USB keyboard up?
My Asus P5Q SE Plus, a 5 year old board, wakes from usb (keyboard or mouse) just fine.
As for "beheading", can you name something within Darwinian Naturalism that argues against it, if it increases the propagation of the behead-ers DNA?
Congratulations on mistaking a scientific theory - an attempt to explain observed evidence - for a codified belief system.
I'm not a huge fan of many of Microsoft's business practices, but the whole browser bundling issue was always pure bullshit.
Windows includes a lot of other bits of software that step on the toes of third-party software companies, too. MS correctly realized that a web browser was becoming an essential, ubiquitous piece of software. It is absurd to suggest they should have distributed a competitor's software in place of their own, and absurd to suggest that they should simply stay out of the market because there was competition. What business do governments have deciding what should or shouldn't be a core feature of an OS?
So what point is he making? "we need engineers, but only for a little while, until they built good enough robots" -- ?
Ridiculous. Robots don't replace engineers, they replace laborers.
Teaching science to children helps create objective, rational adults. Important traits for "voters that don't fall for deception." It's only part of the picture, but that doesn't make it unimportant.
Be fair, there really is a difference between distrusting all ethnically Chinese people and distrusting the Chinese government.
You make a good point, in that schools tend not to teach a lot off important life skills. That doesn't mean we should skimp on foundation skills like math. What point is there teaching someone about real estate, if they can't even handle algebra? Understanding concepts like interest rates requires more than basic arithmetic.
Not sure why this should be a shocker. Ankle monitors need to report somehow or they aren't much use. Makes sense to use existing infrastructure rather than build a new network.
That link is just flat out wrong. LCD "refresh rate" does not work as the author of that article describes. LCDs have no need to redraw their image 60/120/240 times per second, the backlight is always on and the pixels keep their state until changed.
He is describing the way CRT refresh rate worked, and calling it a "new" issue with LCDs.
Android was just an inferior copy of the iPhone.
Characterizing Android as "just a copy" is blatant revisionist history. Work on Android started well before the iPhone was announced, let alone released.
with just about every one of them having a Starbucks (heck, that's in the library now, too)
Do you really think on campus Starbucks locations are operating at a loss? This just doesn't fit at all with the point you are trying to make.
Some android phones (Droid X2 for example) already have HDMI ports and support mirroring.
This isn't "a bit valid," it is just intentionally obtuse. No one will stop you from creating a new unit, but it will be your responsibility to do the conversion. Aside from that, the current definition of a second wasn't set by any government.
Are you really going to argue that, say, feudalism doesn't also mandate greed and love of money? You can even throw in more thorough and blatant suppression of the lower classes as a bonus.
2. searching for everything? god I hate this garbage. It's a lot easier to just know where the icon is and click it.
Never-mind that you can still access your applications via icons, right?
The ability to quickly run typed commands is one of the only features I actually *like* in Windows (win-R). I'm more than happy to see it as a feature in GNOME.
I included both a biological group and a social group for a reason. Calling either one a "disease" would be frowned upon by most reasonable people, even if you do think choosing to join a particular social group is a poor choice.
As for obesity, yes, genetics play a role, but I don't know of a mechanism that has been found that allows a human body to create matter from nothing. Genetics can predispose people towards obesity, but you still have to consume more calories than you expend to gain weight.
Certainly obesity is more complicated than a single /. post can encompass, and I know I oversimplified for the sake of brevity. The point remains, however, that offering weight loss help is not remotely similar to offering to "cure" for loving the "wrong" type of person.
From the summary:
Gay Cure isn't the first app Apple has removed for touting an anti-homosexual philosophy.
Replace "anti-homosexual" with almost any other "anti-GROUP" and it would be called hate.
Grouping people together and rallying against them is hate. No matter how nicely you word it. I realize this particular app isn't all that offensive in a direct way. The indirect implications, however, are obviously quite inflammatory.
Really? You think products to help people lose weight or stop smoking are even remotely in the same league as a "gay cure?"
How about a "cure" for being black? Or a "cure" for being a Christian?
Being overweight is the result of poor choices. Yeah, it sucks when people get picked on for it, but it is an unhealthy condition that can be changed. Offering people help with that process is not hate. Being gay is not a disease and it has no cure. Telling people that a basic part of who they are is a disease is hate.
Maybe Apple shouldn't ban apps at all, I'd prefer that myself. They've already started down that road, however, and hate speech isn't exactly an unreasonable thing to ban, if you are going to ban anything.
Ripping CDs for personal use is covered by fair use.
DVD ripping is only illegal because you have to circumvent encryption to do so, and the DMCA can then be used to do an end-run around your fair use rights. Audio CDs are not encrypted, so they are still fully covered under fair use.