But even demonstrations have been neutered thanks to "Free Speech Zones" and the like.
As repugnant as these `free speech zones' are, they don't stop mass demonstrations. Many of the demonstrations I mentioned were illegal, but arresting thousands of protesters is difficult, particularly if they are peaceful and have the sympathy of public opinion. Ghandi has shown the way...
PLease, if you have a solution to this, by ALL MEANS tell us, god knows there are plenty of us here who would LOVE to do something about this.
Mass demonstrations have helped in the past, both in the USA (e.g. against the war in Vietnam), and in other countries (e.g. the coloured revolutions).
They won't help instantly, but repeated or continuous mass demonstrations do get on the nerves of any governement. What was the name of that
lady camping on Bush'es farm again? Mr. Bush didn't like that one bit. (Cue one Patriotic American doing character assasination on that lady, and completely missing the point of this post.)
I'm sorry, but I really don't see your problem. I use my 12" iBook daily during my commute by Dutch train, and I don't have a problem. When I fly (tourist class) I can use it too. Yes, if you take it on a long hike it would be nice if it was even lighter, but the current one is something like 1.4kg, which is not exactly heavyweight either. And there are rumours that the new one will be lighter.
Look at it like this: all you have to do is diet a bit so that you are 0.5kg lighter yourself, and you can already travel with the total weight you would like to.:-)
Billions of people who've never heard of you before will now find out about you.
This may come as a shock here on/., but there are people that consider Miro more culturally important and rightly famous than Google. They probably even think that if you haven't heard of Miro by now you're not worth talking to anyway, you uncultured barbarian. I know, I know: totally deluded, the lot of them, but there you have it.
Not that even that point of view excuses the attitude of ARS.
but from what I remember from high school LEDs produce light by making an electrical arc over a _very_ short distance. This is highly energy efficient, however it's just white light similar to a prolonged static shock. Colored LEDs are made by surrounding the LED in colored plastic. Therefore, it would be impossible to dynamically change the color of an LED.
No. An arc light come closest to what you describe, but that is very old technology that is never used nowadays (except as a side-effect: arc welding). LEDs use the properties of silicon (same as standard integrated circuits) to generate light of a very pure, single colour. White LEDs can only be constructed by combining the output of a red, green, and blue LED., and even then the colour spectrum is very different from, say, sunlight.
In what way has Hamas, Al Queida or any other terrorist group show that they give a toss about the Geneva conventions in any of the actions that preceeded 9/11?
So Hamas and Al Quaida are your ethics teachers now?
Mainland China has been consistent in it's "One China" policy.
Consistent? yes. Reasonable? no. Taiwan has been an independent state for over 60 years now. The fact that it still exists as an independent state is a strong hint that the people of Taiwan like it this way.
The majority of the world adhere's to this policy.
Only to humour China. China has worked very hard to suppress even the smallest sign of recognition of Taiwan as an independent state.
The current leader of Taiwan has made recent statements that he will disregard/disband Taiwan's current policy (which basically agrees to the status quo).
And the status quo is that everyone says yes to China, but acts no.
I'm sorry, but I don't see your point. Even a short article is very useful if you don't know anything about the subject. Paper encyclopedia also have them. And sometimes there just isn't that much to tell, like for the `Governors of Tamil Na du' entry.
Europe's "Dark Ages" under Christian theocracy put a lid on science for a millenium. Any good arguments why it couldn't happen again?
The world is larger than the USA. Even if the USA descents into a Dark Age, that doesn't mean the rest of the world wil (provided the USA doen't do down with a bang, of course). A lot of science is done outside the USA, and a lot of science in the USA is done by foreigners.
Thank you for an intelligent posting on this subject. Very refreshing.
Then on the left we have people like Murtha and Kennedy screaming that we should leave, RIGHT NOW GODDAMNIT!!! That's just insane, we can't leave the Iraqis in a worse position than we found them. That would be like walking away from a car stuck underwater with a woman trapped inside. I mean, what kind of man does that?
The best argument I've seen for leaving is that staying only makes things worse. I have seen good defences of that opinion, but a quick search only gave http://www.juancole.com/2004/04/guest-commentary-r ay-close-on-real.html: a guest commentary in Juan Cole's blog, which is good but only touches this point.
The article mentions that their logic was flawed, but they don't explain the logic problems with MacWorld's article. After looking at it I can't really seem how they came to the "14% faster" conclusion.
The problem with the Macworld benchmark is that many of the applications in it are not CPU bound (the disk, the graphics card, or even the CD drive (iTunes rippling) is likely the bottleneck). Other applications do not have enough parallelism to exploit all processing power, so are not using all available processors/cores. That's not a flaw on its own, but you have to explain what these results mean, and the Macworld article did a poor job; they were much more interested in in claiming that Jobs was wrong.
Not that MacSpeedZone is much better, but that's a different story.
I think that terevos makes a very valid point. The problem with science is, just like any other belief, there are some things that can't be explained. And when this happens, when there are things that not even science can explain, the hardcore scientists, fanatacists like the hard core religious folks, try to fill in the void with invalid theories.
If science is just like any other belief, why do Creationist want the stamp of approval of science, and have ID declared a scientific theory?
If science is just like any other belief, how dare Creationists force their own beliefs on it? They don't try to do that with Islam or Budhism, do they?
What evolution does NOT explain is how, for example, an organ such as the eyeball was formed. No form of evolution can explain this, and trying to is just as bad as a ID or creationism believer.
This argument has been refuted so many times in so many forums, including/., that I'm not going to do it again. Just Google.
i.e. to think that science explains EVERYTHING. It doesn't.
People that claim that science explains EVERYTHING are fools. Fortunately, they are rare. However, science does give a very solid explanation of many phenomena, including the origin of species.
That would be a valid answer if some spotty little kid managed to run RedHat on his father's Mac, but this is about a company that wants to support this, presumably because they expect to earn money this way. Why do they expect that?
I did the measurements once. My iMac G5 20" @ 1.8 GHz consumed 3.4 W at standby. Running, it consumed 75-100W, depending on things like processor use and screen backlight brightness. All these were before I upgraded memory from 650MB to 2GB, though.
According to Sony's product website, it will only display their BroadBand eBook (BBeB) format. Anything else you want to read will have to be converted before loading to the reader. You have to dig around quite a bit and find the footnote to learn that, though.
Gah! I You're right! I bet they can't handle half of the PDFs out there; PDF is not an easy format to convert.
If they really want to steal a page from Apple's book, they should realize that there is a reason the iPod supports mp3.
Why don't these fools ever learn? I guess we'll have to wait for Apple to show them how it's done.
If Saddam had no WMD, why did he not fully cooperate with the weapons inspectors over the years? He defied them all throughout the Clinton Administration. If he had no WMD, why didn't he cooperate?
He did cooperate, but on his own terms. It was a balancing act. He had to deter (real or percieved) local enemies, and at the same time do something about those annoying UN sanctions without giving in too openly and look weak. His solution was to destroy all WMD himself (so no propaganda victory for the UN), allow the inspectors in on strict conditions (give in but look tough), and darkly hint to his enemies that he wasn't defenceless. In the end he swallowed his pride, and even allowed inspection in his palaces.
Of course the Bush administration didn't have the inclination to acknowledge his (reluctant) cooperation, even when it became very clear to everyone else that he wasn't lying about the WMD.
The problem is it takes a lot of money and time to extract these secrets from nature.
You miss the point. The register intends to record traditional cures and remedies. The effort to extract these secrets from nature has been made by people a long time ago, and the register tries to ensure that nobody tries to claim that effort as their own. There indeed is no free ride.
The scientists commenting on global warming like to talk about record high tempuratures, and still increasing, but they like to omit that they're also finding certain years with below-normal tempuratures as well.
MOD PARENT FUNNY. Obviously this is a clever variation on the old joke that US math education is in crisis because 50% of the students perform below average.
How would you address the critique that you excessively extrapolate from a single data point to a generality?
Another example is the walking/running in the rain myth. They did that one twice, but in both cases the conclusion was dubious. For two reasons, in fact. The general setup (wear rubber suit with clothing over it, weigh clothing) is reasonable, but when the difference between two runs is in the order of one or two grams, I have serious doubts about the measurement accuracy. How about a longer run resulting in more substantial differences?
Moreover, this needs more than two data points. Speed does make a difference: if you stand still in the rain you will get soaking wet, so running is obviously better than that. What about three or four other walking speeds?
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As repugnant as these `free speech zones' are, they don't stop mass demonstrations. Many of the demonstrations I mentioned were illegal, but arresting thousands of protesters is difficult, particularly if they are peaceful and have the sympathy of public opinion. Ghandi has shown the way...
Mass demonstrations have helped in the past, both in the USA (e.g. against the war in Vietnam), and in other countries (e.g. the coloured revolutions). They won't help instantly, but repeated or continuous mass demonstrations do get on the nerves of any governement. What was the name of that lady camping on Bush'es farm again? Mr. Bush didn't like that one bit. (Cue one Patriotic American doing character assasination on that lady, and completely missing the point of this post.)
I'm sorry, but I really don't see your problem. I use my 12" iBook daily during my commute by Dutch train, and I don't have a problem. When I fly (tourist class) I can use it too. Yes, if you take it on a long hike it would be nice if it was even lighter, but the current one is something like 1.4kg, which is not exactly heavyweight either. And there are rumours that the new one will be lighter.
Look at it like this: all you have to do is diet a bit so that you are 0.5kg lighter yourself, and you can already travel with the total weight you would like to. :-)
This may come as a shock here on /., but there are people that consider Miro more culturally important and rightly famous than Google. They probably even think that if you haven't heard of Miro by now you're not worth talking to anyway, you uncultured barbarian. I know, I know: totally deluded, the lot of them, but there you have it.
Not that even that point of view excuses the attitude of ARS.
Sorry, but yes, you're wrong.
but from what I remember from high school LEDs produce light by making an electrical arc over a _very_ short distance. This is highly energy efficient, however it's just white light similar to a prolonged static shock. Colored LEDs are made by surrounding the LED in colored plastic. Therefore, it would be impossible to dynamically change the color of an LED.
No. An arc light come closest to what you describe, but that is very old technology that is never used nowadays (except as a side-effect: arc welding). LEDs use the properties of silicon (same as standard integrated circuits) to generate light of a very pure, single colour. White LEDs can only be constructed by combining the output of a red, green, and blue LED., and even then the colour spectrum is very different from, say, sunlight.
So Hamas and Al Quaida are your ethics teachers now?
Consistent? yes. Reasonable? no. Taiwan has been an independent state for over 60 years now. The fact that it still exists as an independent state is a strong hint that the people of Taiwan like it this way.
The majority of the world adhere's to this policy.
Only to humour China. China has worked very hard to suppress even the smallest sign of recognition of Taiwan as an independent state.
The current leader of Taiwan has made recent statements that he will disregard/disband Taiwan's current policy (which basically agrees to the status quo).
And the status quo is that everyone says yes to China, but acts no.
Fix the US. Then worry about China.
How about doing both at the same time?
Note the word server in the GP post.
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I'm sorry, but I don't see your point. Even a short article is very useful if you don't know anything about the subject. Paper encyclopedia also have them. And sometimes there just isn't that much to tell, like for the `Governors of Tamil Na du' entry.
Scaling this up to significant numbers of passengers is not trivial. Perhaps it won't be rocket science, but it sure will be rocket engineering.
And unlike the carnival ride, this will give you spectacular photo opportunities.
... In the USA. There are other countries. We even have scanners.
The world is larger than the USA. Even if the USA descents into a Dark Age, that doesn't mean the rest of the world wil (provided the USA doen't do down with a bang, of course). A lot of science is done outside the USA, and a lot of science in the USA is done by foreigners.
Then on the left we have people like Murtha and Kennedy screaming that we should leave, RIGHT NOW GODDAMNIT!!! That's just insane, we can't leave the Iraqis in a worse position than we found them. That would be like walking away from a car stuck underwater with a woman trapped inside. I mean, what kind of man does that?
The best argument I've seen for leaving is that staying only makes things worse. I have seen good defences of that opinion, but a quick search only gave http://www.juancole.com/2004/04/guest-commentary-r ay-close-on-real.html: a guest commentary in Juan Cole's blog, which is good but only touches this point.
The problem with the Macworld benchmark is that many of the applications in it are not CPU bound (the disk, the graphics card, or even the CD drive (iTunes rippling) is likely the bottleneck). Other applications do not have enough parallelism to exploit all processing power, so are not using all available processors/cores. That's not a flaw on its own, but you have to explain what these results mean, and the Macworld article did a poor job; they were much more interested in in claiming that Jobs was wrong.
Not that MacSpeedZone is much better, but that's a different story.
If science is just like any other belief, why do Creationist want the stamp of approval of science, and have ID declared a scientific theory?
If science is just like any other belief, how dare Creationists force their own beliefs on it? They don't try to do that with Islam or Budhism, do they?
What evolution does NOT explain is how, for example, an organ such as the eyeball was formed. No form of evolution can explain this, and trying to is just as bad as a ID or creationism believer.
This argument has been refuted so many times in so many forums, including /., that I'm not going to do it again. Just Google.
i.e. to think that science explains EVERYTHING. It doesn't.
People that claim that science explains EVERYTHING are fools. Fortunately, they are rare. However, science does give a very solid explanation of many phenomena, including the origin of species.
That would be a valid answer if some spotty little kid managed to run RedHat on his father's Mac, but this is about a company that wants to support this, presumably because they expect to earn money this way. Why do they expect that?
I did the measurements once. My iMac G5 20" @ 1.8 GHz consumed 3.4 W at standby. Running, it consumed 75-100W, depending on things like processor use and screen backlight brightness. All these were before I upgraded memory from 650MB to 2GB, though.
Gah! I You're right! I bet they can't handle half of the PDFs out there; PDF is not an easy format to convert.
If they really want to steal a page from Apple's book, they should realize that there is a reason the iPod supports mp3. Why don't these fools ever learn? I guess we'll have to wait for Apple to show them how it's done.
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He did cooperate, but on his own terms. It was a balancing act. He had to deter (real or percieved) local enemies, and at the same time do something about those annoying UN sanctions without giving in too openly and look weak. His solution was to destroy all WMD himself (so no propaganda victory for the UN), allow the inspectors in on strict conditions (give in but look tough), and darkly hint to his enemies that he wasn't defenceless. In the end he swallowed his pride, and even allowed inspection in his palaces.
Of course the Bush administration didn't have the inclination to acknowledge his (reluctant) cooperation, even when it became very clear to everyone else that he wasn't lying about the WMD.
Pretty please?
Oh, and make it uncrippled. Yes, I'm looking at you, Sony.
You miss the point. The register intends to record traditional cures and remedies. The effort to extract these secrets from nature has been made by people a long time ago, and the register tries to ensure that nobody tries to claim that effort as their own. There indeed is no free ride.
Perhaps because they expect more with a doctorate?
MOD PARENT FUNNY. Obviously this is a clever variation on the old joke that US math education is in crisis because 50% of the students perform below average.
Another example is the walking/running in the rain myth. They did that one twice, but in both cases the conclusion was dubious. For two reasons, in fact. The general setup (wear rubber suit with clothing over it, weigh clothing) is reasonable, but when the difference between two runs is in the order of one or two grams, I have serious doubts about the measurement accuracy. How about a longer run resulting in more substantial differences?
Moreover, this needs more than two data points. Speed does make a difference: if you stand still in the rain you will get soaking wet, so running is obviously better than that. What about three or four other walking speeds?