"The only reasonable solution to this is that most countries make stuff for themselves. India, China and Africa should concentrate of getting the skills and making the stuff they need for themselves,"
I think I am going to have to say you are wrong.
It is not possible for every country to just sit in their own corner of the world and "make stuff for themselves"
Not every country has all resources to produce all things and the world economy is such that poor nations will always be a source of cheap labor for rich nations.
Is how I will survive the next 100 years.
Ok I am not *that* selfish. But I love love love seeing the world change around me.
I am only 28 and comparing the world today to the world when I was a child.. It amazes me the things that have changed.
If I am lucky enough, rich enough, and if medical science has advanced enough to keep me alive and sane until about 2100 or so. I will be very happy.
I am so sick of reading news every 6 months about some new "iPod Killer"
We can talk about who killed the ipod when it is dead. Until then... Stop pointing fingers.
CD's and DVD's take up space, get scratched, and you have to keep them organized.. if you have a large collection it's quite a pain in the ass. I would much rather just have enough bandwidth to have HD movies streamed to me and the ability to save them onto a hard drive.
This is just a bunch of sensationalist crap put out by the damn liberal hippy media
There is absolutely ZERO proof of climate change or global warming.. there never has been and there never will be.
I dislike myspace because of all the social networking sites out there it is probably the worst one. But I don't want to see it go down. Just.. don't use it or something.
Yeah.. because meteor impacts ONLY hit the moon.. there are NEVER meteors to worry about around the ISS or the space shuttle.
Also, the article said nothing of making a profit, nothing about mining gold and nothing about bringing stuff back to earth.
They just want cheaper access to water, air, and fuel so that having a moon base is cheaper and can perhaps provide us with experience before going on to mars some day.
How the hell does your comment even remotely make sense?
You are saying that mining antarctica will provide cheap food, oxygen, and fuel, for astronauts on the moon?
I hope you are aware that the moon is not located in antarctica.
Yeah.. it's a pretty bad idea to put a base on the moon and have it be exposed to meteors. The International Space Station is much better and totally immune from such threats.
When I first got into the adult industry, I fought really hard to "protect" my copyrights. Any time I found my photos elsewhere on the internet I would have my lawyer send out threatening letters, I would try to sue people. I would get peoples websites shut down.. it cost a lot of time and money and mostly I just pissed people off.
Eventually I figured out that in most cases when people copied my photos and shared them.. it increased revenue because people would come to my site looking for more. I then restricted any lawsuits to people who would charge money to access content they stole from me.
I think the music and movie industry could learn the same lesson.
For example, google pays the telcoms a huge amount of money every month for the bandwidth it uses.
The people who use google pay the telcoms for their internet service.
Now you say google should have to pay again for something they already pay for
Spaceflight, cloning, teleportation... all sci-fi.. none of that stuff has ever happened in reality.
There is nothing wrong with being pessemistic and pointing out flaws in a concept. In fact it is quite important.
But to say something will never work is silly.
I'm really getting tired of looking for good conversation about slashdot topics because way too many people post before even reading the article or even really thinking about the summary.
Now, my thoughts on the topic. I manage the google ads (and other internet ads) at the small health product company i work for. It is always a challenge to come up with wording for the ads that makes us stand out from our cometitors because you only get 3 short lines of text. A video ad would really give us more time to explain things to the potential customer. If people click on them of course is yet to be seen.
I also think that people who use adsense on their sites should be given the choice.
Having images suddenly appear where there was previously text could kinda muck up the design of their site if they were not wanting images.
The difference is often more than half a second, for a while the difference could be as much as 10 minutes on orbitz.com. I'm not sure if it was something fixed in a recent firefox update or if orbitz did something to their code.
I think it really depends on what is being researched.
Don't get me wrong, wikipedia is awesome, but when you read an article on wikipedia you don't know anything about the person who wrote it.
Was it written by someone qualified?
Was it written by someone who only thinks they know what they are talking about?
Was it written by someone with an agenda?
The beauty of wikipedia is inaccuracies can be quickly corrected, but you have no way of knowing if what you are reading is accurate until you compare it to other sources. Thankfully, the internet is a big place with a lot of free information and a little google work can usually find it.
I just get a little worried when people tout Wikipedia as THE place for information.
It's great, just don't count on it for everything.
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"The only reasonable solution to this is that most countries make stuff for themselves. India, China and Africa should concentrate of getting the skills and making the stuff they need for themselves,"
I think I am going to have to say you are wrong.
It is not possible for every country to just sit in their own corner of the world and "make stuff for themselves" Not every country has all resources to produce all things and the world economy is such that poor nations will always be a source of cheap labor for rich nations.
Is how I will survive the next 100 years. Ok I am not *that* selfish. But I love love love seeing the world change around me. I am only 28 and comparing the world today to the world when I was a child.. It amazes me the things that have changed. If I am lucky enough, rich enough, and if medical science has advanced enough to keep me alive and sane until about 2100 or so. I will be very happy.
I am so sick of reading news every 6 months about some new "iPod Killer" We can talk about who killed the ipod when it is dead. Until then... Stop pointing fingers.
I am pretty sure google does not serve ads in this way. I have google desktop and never had this problem.
CD's and DVD's take up space, get scratched, and you have to keep them organized.. if you have a large collection it's quite a pain in the ass. I would much rather just have enough bandwidth to have HD movies streamed to me and the ability to save them onto a hard drive.
This is just a bunch of sensationalist crap put out by the damn liberal hippy media
There is absolutely ZERO proof of climate change or global warming.. there never has been and there never will be.
Why do you want to see myspace "go down"?
I dislike myspace because of all the social networking sites out there it is probably the worst one. But I don't want to see it go down. Just.. don't use it or something.
Yeah.. because meteor impacts ONLY hit the moon.. there are NEVER meteors to worry about around the ISS or the space shuttle.
Also, the article said nothing of making a profit, nothing about mining gold and nothing about bringing stuff back to earth.
They just want cheaper access to water, air, and fuel so that having a moon base is cheaper and can perhaps provide us with experience before going on to mars some day.
Where did the article say they wanted to mine titanium and uranium?
They want water, oxygen, and fuel.. so that astronauts may live on the moon.
How the hell does your comment even remotely make sense?
You are saying that mining antarctica will provide cheap food, oxygen, and fuel, for astronauts on the moon?
I hope you are aware that the moon is not located in antarctica.
Well there is already a crazy guy who claims to own all the planets, and some other crazy guys have claimed a ton of asteroids.
But they are just crazy guys... There is an international treaty that says no one can own other planets
Regardless, this is not a problem that will happen within our lifetimes, or the lifetimes of our children... so don't worry too much.
Transporting minerals?
the article was about mining fuel and oxygen and water and such. So as to support life on the moon.
The earths climate has always been the same and it always will be the same.
There is absolutely no evidence to prove otherwise.
Yeah.. it's a pretty bad idea to put a base on the moon and have it be exposed to meteors. The International Space Station is much better and totally immune from such threats.
I did
When I first got into the adult industry, I fought really hard to "protect" my copyrights. Any time I found my photos elsewhere on the internet I would have my lawyer send out threatening letters, I would try to sue people. I would get peoples websites shut down.. it cost a lot of time and money and mostly I just pissed people off.
Eventually I figured out that in most cases when people copied my photos and shared them.. it increased revenue because people would come to my site looking for more. I then restricted any lawsuits to people who would charge money to access content they stole from me.
I think the music and movie industry could learn the same lesson.
Why should they have to pay twice?
For example, google pays the telcoms a huge amount of money every month for the bandwidth it uses. The people who use google pay the telcoms for their internet service.
Now you say google should have to pay again for something they already pay for
How many times does it have to be paid?
Sci-fi will always be fiction eh?
Spaceflight, cloning, teleportation... all sci-fi.. none of that stuff has ever happened in reality.
There is nothing wrong with being pessemistic and pointing out flaws in a concept. In fact it is quite important.
But to say something will never work is silly.
I couldn't have said it better.
I'm really getting tired of looking for good conversation about slashdot topics because way too many people post before even reading the article or even really thinking about the summary.
Now, my thoughts on the topic. I manage the google ads (and other internet ads) at the small health product company i work for. It is always a challenge to come up with wording for the ads that makes us stand out from our cometitors because you only get 3 short lines of text. A video ad would really give us more time to explain things to the potential customer. If people click on them of course is yet to be seen.
I also think that people who use adsense on their sites should be given the choice.
Having images suddenly appear where there was previously text could kinda muck up the design of their site if they were not wanting images.
You can't make all porn sites do anything.. not unless one single government takes over the world...
I wish morons would stop suggesting this.
It't pretty clear that the "fibers" are really fibers from clothing..
I feel kinda sorry for these people
Photos here
The difference is often more than half a second, for a while the difference could be as much as 10 minutes on orbitz.com. I'm not sure if it was something fixed in a recent firefox update or if orbitz did something to their code.
I think it really depends on what is being researched.
Don't get me wrong, wikipedia is awesome, but when you read an article on wikipedia you don't know anything about the person who wrote it.
Was it written by someone qualified?
Was it written by someone who only thinks they know what they are talking about?
Was it written by someone with an agenda?
The beauty of wikipedia is inaccuracies can be quickly corrected, but you have no way of knowing if what you are reading is accurate until you compare it to other sources. Thankfully, the internet is a big place with a lot of free information and a little google work can usually find it.
I just get a little worried when people tout Wikipedia as THE place for information.
It's great, just don't count on it for everything.
Wikipedia is a great resource, especially for finding obscure information. But I wouldn't call it the best resource.
Please, remember this.
The world will be a better place if we all do.