http://tinyurl.com/b9j8h You want to tell me that the idea that somebody from outside US could be posting here (you know, outside world also has computers/Internet and stuff) hadn't crossed you mind even for a second?
Too bad that people don't realise that coal based energy production is much more hazardous to inveroment...furthermore, it's not only about what people typically understand as pollution, but also also radioactive "waste"! (typical nuclear plant doesn't release them to biosphere; typical coal plant releases some amount of it - radioactive elements that were in its fuel)
And meanwhile almost 100% of electricity here comes from coal, and worst of all, 2/3 of it is brown coal:/
And probably public will block construction of nuclear power plant, that is planned in the next ~10/15 years...
Of course perhaps I'm too pessimistic...but where money are we'll going to hear probably something among "look how wonderfully ms and intel cooperate, just like in the good old times; this product must thus be amazing, we have to buy it"
You're still missing my point...look at it not from the perspective of techs/geeks/ms even, but managers/average consumers. That is what matters unfortunatelly..
And that's exactly why I've said that Intel is the force behind it - with their marketing muscle, they'll really benefit from this, not AMD (unfortunatelly...)
I wonder...perhaps it's better for use to keep IE as dominant browser. After all crackers and advertisers come with popularity...currently I'm using Firefox (well, right now on Opera because of lack of ram on this machine), and I'd hate to abandon it because the browsing experience changed to worse (and I'd miss few extensions...)
Nah, I don't look at it this way - we mostly weren't dying for "natural" reasons after all. As for increasing lifespan...hmm, idea worth thinking about...after all parents who would be "better" in giving offspring in the late age, would have more of it (since children of mothers with complications would have to be stronger to survive pregnancy) - evolution would start again for us;) (One might also wonder if it would translate to higher max age...)
You shouldn't assume that great mind = high intelligence:P More seriously (jus a little...), ambition isn't everything. And don't forget that I was simplyfying things in the first place - but overall, it's safe to assume that "dumb" (please notice the " before commenting...) people leave much more offspring.
However Soyuz flew many more than 89 flights, and I'd also argue that the fatal accidents are the ones that count really (certainly there would also be people who'd say that because of Soyuzs more durable design the 'almost fatal' accidents weren'r fatal - I'm not one one of them, it's certainly more complicated issue; however 'almost fatal' doesn't really count into statistics that really matter, so...). After all you can't possibly make anything to be absolutely prone to errors/failures, accidents will always occur, but it's good when the design is such that people don't die because of them (for example (yeah, bad example, bud still): Buran was totally immune for the things that ended in disaster for Space Shuttle; not saying that it would be totally immune for everything of course (diffent design: problems of Shuttle can't occur, but others...), it could have its share of problems if it'd flew more). About Mir - I fully agree, however it should be noted that bulk of problmes were because of lack of funds/ much longer life than planned (as for other - well, it's good they were made on Mir, not ISS...). PS. And there was slight overhaul recently (of course one could argure that something like that should be done in a matter that wouldn't increase the risk; and unfortunatelly in case of Russians any changes usually do it...)
I wouldn't call it on purpose; more like: it's the unintentioned effect of evolution (most of our ancestors didn't live long enough to really begin to age, so the good condition of body past, say 40 years, wasn't preffered in evolutionary race)
You know, assuming that inteligence = you've got higher social position means that the people that are less inteligent leave more offspring. And the differences in our ancestors from 10k years ago can be caused by availability of food, that we don't have to work that early (for example: my generation is MUCH higher overall than the previous ones, which grew up during harsh years after WW2), etc.
One more thing to point out is that perhaps technological advances can be seen as evolution of humans, which has shifted from us to the "extensions" of our bodies
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http://tinyurl.com/b9j8h You want to tell me that the idea that somebody from outside US could be posting here (you know, outside world also has computers/Internet and stuff) hadn't crossed you mind even for a second?
I'm talking about situation where i live, some small third world country ;)
Too bad that people don't realise that coal based energy production is much more hazardous to inveroment...furthermore, it's not only about what people typically understand as pollution, but also also radioactive "waste"! (typical nuclear plant doesn't release them to biosphere; typical coal plant releases some amount of it - radioactive elements that were in its fuel) And meanwhile almost 100% of electricity here comes from coal, and worst of all, 2/3 of it is brown coal :/
And probably public will block construction of nuclear power plant, that is planned in the next ~10/15 years...
VLC plays it.
What if due to errors something is done that has to be corrected? (doesn't matter in which direction the error was)
http://www.csdassn.org/software_reports.cfm But of course nobody will use Gnumeric...
Of course perhaps I'm too pessimistic...but where money are we'll going to hear probably something among "look how wonderfully ms and intel cooperate, just like in the good old times; this product must thus be amazing, we have to buy it"
You're still missing my point...look at it not from the perspective of techs/geeks/ms even, but managers/average consumers. That is what matters unfortunatelly..
And that's exactly why I've said that Intel is the force behind it - with their marketing muscle, they'll really benefit from this, not AMD (unfortunatelly...)
Neither did I.
By cpu makers you mean Intel I pressume (face it: AMD has no real influence on such things). Diclaimer: I'm using AMD
I wonder if people will ever stop this...he never said that (see wikipedia)
And users will write them on postit which will be on a monitor anyway...
I'm not interested in some 3-dimensional miniscale film scenography.
I wonder...perhaps it's better for use to keep IE as dominant browser. After all crackers and advertisers come with popularity...currently I'm using Firefox (well, right now on Opera because of lack of ram on this machine), and I'd hate to abandon it because the browsing experience changed to worse (and I'd miss few extensions...)
I'm waiting for hypercube-shaped cases.
Nah, I don't look at it this way - we mostly weren't dying for "natural" reasons after all. As for increasing lifespan...hmm, idea worth thinking about...after all parents who would be "better" in giving offspring in the late age, would have more of it (since children of mothers with complications would have to be stronger to survive pregnancy) - evolution would start again for us ;) (One might also wonder if it would translate to higher max age...)
You shouldn't assume that great mind = high intelligence :P More seriously (jus a little...), ambition isn't everything. And don't forget that I was simplyfying things in the first place - but overall, it's safe to assume that "dumb" (please notice the " before commenting...) people leave much more offspring.
That they're warm/hot doesn't mean they're overheating...that would require operating above the temp. that manufacturer planned.
However Soyuz flew many more than 89 flights, and I'd also argue that the fatal accidents are the ones that count really (certainly there would also be people who'd say that because of Soyuzs more durable design the 'almost fatal' accidents weren'r fatal - I'm not one one of them, it's certainly more complicated issue; however 'almost fatal' doesn't really count into statistics that really matter, so...). After all you can't possibly make anything to be absolutely prone to errors/failures, accidents will always occur, but it's good when the design is such that people don't die because of them (for example (yeah, bad example, bud still): Buran was totally immune for the things that ended in disaster for Space Shuttle; not saying that it would be totally immune for everything of course (diffent design: problems of Shuttle can't occur, but others...), it could have its share of problems if it'd flew more). About Mir - I fully agree, however it should be noted that bulk of problmes were because of lack of funds/ much longer life than planned (as for other - well, it's good they were made on Mir, not ISS...). PS. And there was slight overhaul recently (of course one could argure that something like that should be done in a matter that wouldn't increase the risk; and unfortunatelly in case of Russians any changes usually do it...)
I wouldn't call it on purpose; more like: it's the unintentioned effect of evolution (most of our ancestors didn't live long enough to really begin to age, so the good condition of body past, say 40 years, wasn't preffered in evolutionary race)
You know, assuming that inteligence = you've got higher social position means that the people that are less inteligent leave more offspring. And the differences in our ancestors from 10k years ago can be caused by availability of food, that we don't have to work that early (for example: my generation is MUCH higher overall than the previous ones, which grew up during harsh years after WW2), etc.
One more thing to point out is that perhaps technological advances can be seen as evolution of humans, which has shifted from us to the "extensions" of our bodies
I doubt that availablr brain power has anything to do (well, maybe slightly) with number of people available....unfortunately :/