Since when does technological progress replace wage increases ? This is a right wingnut idea, that since 200 inch plasma tvs and 500 channels of high def x rated tv cost less, you don't deserve a wage increase, while the very wealthy do a very pernicious idea, on par with the 19th cent notion that labor unions were illegal because they intefered with a property owners right to use his property (look it up)
people use firefox cause it does things that other browsers dont. at least , that goes for the 95% of people who don't give a shit or even undrstand open source
tabs cntrl+ increases teext bookmark all tabs into folder good privacy
that is why i use firefox;i dont care one penney literally about whether it is ie or os or whatever
so, people use tools because the tool does something; they use nontools because marketing brainwahsed them that it was better or whatever
so, ff can be a tool, whihc means it has to offer things ie does not, real useful things, or it has to become a nontool and it is hip or whatever
it is really simple - this stuff aint hard or rocket science; the trick is figuring out what people want if u want to stay a tool. from what i have seen of the extensions, the people programming ff don't have a clue.
i don't know what the next good tool is maybe integration with a slashcode type thing so yo can set up your own web stie ?
a filter that takes out farm links ? ie a phone book. we have all gotten frustrated with searching for say a hotel in boston or a resturant in dayton and finding that 90% of the returns are shit. some phone book like tools are available in yahoo and aol and google, but ther eis a lot of room for improvement.
that is two ideas. if the people running ff have any brains, they will find one or two such things that people really wnat an put them in of course, the ff might fail - that is the nature of capitilism (and why ms is a problem, because aas a monopoly it avoids the rigors of the market; that sums up 99% of what is bad about ms)
yeah but..u don't need electricity or parts or repairs or anything to read and reread and trade and go to the libary wiht books... i wd also be interested in yr response to my 1st point, which is that if u cna buy a laptop at yr favorite retailer for 400, somoen could, with ease, put together a 100 dollar laptop runnign a std os this mit thing is just some sort of hype bullshit,
u can go to bestbuy/circuit/etc and buy a decent laptop for 3-400 bucks. idont know what the markup is, bu the implication is that a laptop costs ~ 200 dollars to make, with ms os so if some moderately wealthy person in india or korea or whatever actually gave a flying f*ck about anyone in the thrid world, they could order a years run of last years hardware, and ship a million pc at probably way under 100 bucks
and we all know about new non standard stuff: it never works why shd the cm1 be anydifferent ?
there is somehting really obscene about one of the most arrogant and well funded institutions in the world - the mit media lab - telling the 3rd world what it needs.
ps if you really want rugged and low maintenance, there are these things called books; don't require any electricity , you can fix them if they break, they last a logn time and they are really cheap.
How many books do you think you could mass produce on acid free paper for 100 dollars $ a few thousand pages - a few 10s of thousands of pages.
I could go on, but i think the enthusiasm for this project is a sign of sickness, that what is good for me is, in a watered down, untested form, good for someone else
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i really good comment to 100 wiseass stupid comments - pretty goood for/.
Can you comment on whether the data support a candidate such as wimps, machos, etc ? (or am I betraying my ignorance with these acronyms
that the night sky is not the temp of the suns surface is called olbers paradox http://jersey.uoregon.edu/~imamura/123/lecture-5/o lbers.html. I believe the resoluiton of this paradox is one of hte outstanding successes of the expanding universe idea discoverd by hubble
who made this tuft person dictator of design ? is there any DATA thats right DATA not opinions to back up his crap ?
this is an example of a whole field where someone becomes acknolwedged as a demigod based on nothing but his opinions, which are frequently wrong stupid or irritating
sorry bout the rant, but when somoene goes so far on so little it really gets to me
Is that at this time, no one has the slightst idea if they will or will not work, but we are betting tht thay will, because a very large fraction of our scarce research dollars are going into stem cells instead of exploring other avenues. Govt + non profit (howard hughes, amer canc soc, etc) biomedical research is ~ 40 billion a year, give or take. Considering that the war on iraq is >100, this does not seem like alot of moeny for heart disease, and alsheimers and canceer and diabetes (not to mention poor spelling). "Scarce" of this ~~ 40 B, way under a billion is given to stem cells and alternative treatments; considering the importance, I would say that funds are very scarc. (however, more money is not the answer; i bet Californias initiative will backfire) the problem is that researchers - people like Thomas Edison or Watson of Watson/crick dna are very scarce people, and you can t make them appear out of thin air.
"slightest idea that stem cells will work" I am not an expert in stem cells, but I don't think any one can really say they are ready for prime time; remember, there is a tremendous amout of hope and wishful thinking, peoples careers are on the line, etc. If you follow biomedical research for any period of time, you will know that there is always someone announcing some incredible break thru, and 999 times out of 1,000 these breakthrus dont pan out.
A classic example is the publication by a mexican md of astonishing results, in i think , the 80s on the effect of transplanting cells into the brains of parkinsons patients; the paper describe people who were virtually paralyzed running around shortly after surgery. zillions of dollars and euros and yen later, after dozens of people wasted time on follow up, we find that cell transplants for parkinsons aint so good. I would imagine that many people in the/. community can recall huge efforts by foreign govts to leapfrog in some way in technology, and that many times these huge efforts fail, so the investment by singapore or taiwan or whatever should not scare anyone. This is the state of the are Nat Med. 2004 Jul;10 Suppl:S42-50 Stem cell therapy for human neurodegenerative disorders-how to make it work.
* Lindvall O,
* Kokaia Z,
* Martinez-Serrano A.
Laboratory of Neurogenesis and Cell Therapy, Section of Restorative Neurology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, University Hospital, SE-221 84 Lund, Sweden. olle.lindvall@neurol.lu.se
Recent progress shows that neurons suitable for transplantation can be generated from stem cells in culture, and that the adult brain produces new neurons from its own stem cells in response to injury. These findings raise hope for the development of stem cell therapies in human neurodegenerative disorders. Before clinical trials are initiated, we need to know much more about how to control stem cell proliferation and differentiation into specific phenotypes, induce their integration into existing neural and synaptic circuits, and optimize functional recovery in animal models closely resembling the human disease.
Note the "before clinical trials.." in other words, this stuff, if it works at all, is years away. Not to mention, if stem cells are good because they are versatile and can grow, what keeps them from forming tumors ? Kind of a problem there..
As to the idea that the US is not, by every conceivable measure, the world leader in biomedical research is about as credible as wmds threatening our natnional security. so what if singapore spends a few hundred million and gets a few people; the US is the place to do biomedical research.
I could go on, but there is one word that really describes stem cells: band wagon It would not be so bad, except that we are diverting resources from investigating other avenues, and this is very, very bad.
I have a spring 2001 era HP laptop with Windows ME (the original) and windows 2000 (my dual boot OS) why ? if you have a problem, like you accidentally delete a system file, you can reboot to the other os and fix it, sometimes, more easily then any other way. I'm sure the mac zealots will pounce on this, but mac hardware is such a mix of god awfull and ok that they, are, so to speak, in glass houses
you can't leave your new hard drive in the car - proteins denature at 120 oF can't leave the hard drive in the car - protiens denature at -20oF.... There is a long list of people who have proposed using biological molecules such as proteins and dna in electronics apps. I challenge someone to give me a SINGLE example of a billion dollar product, or anything even close. Hint: the first, and one of the most succesful products from the whole biotech/genetic engineering thing was better laundry detergent additives......
bio molecules are fragile things that are incredibly $$$ on almost any basis, and the handling of these molecules wold require complete revamping of mfr lines, eg, proteins and dna exist in sterile water with a little salt.....
Although genentech is riding high on huge waves of publicity from its anticancer drugs, it is hard to say if many of them are actually doing anything. For instance, Genentech got a huge amount of publicity when one of its anticancer mabs worked in colon cancer - but in this case "works" meant extends median survivial from 14 to 16 months. I suppose if you are a cancer patient or a family member, two months is a lot. But if you are passionate about curing cancer, looks more like a super, super $$ drug that does not really do anything bottom line: genentech is certainly passionate about selling very, very exspensive drugs that may or may not be very very good.
as posted "Hot Hardware has just posted a unique review of Dell's flagship XPS M1710 notebook. They stumbled across some very interesting information within the BIOS which seems to indicate Dell is working on a docking station with its own discrete graphics. 'The user is given the option of using either the integrated GeForce Go 7900 GTX GPU found within the system or the extremely interesting option of using the graphics card found within a docking station. Could Dell be planning on releasing an enthusiast dock that features a high-end GPU that could not otherwise be crammed into the confinements of the notebook chassis? Perhaps an upgrade to allow for standard or even Quad-SLI would be possible with such a dock.'"
Written in English "Hot Hardware has a review of Dell's flagship XPS M1710 notebook; they found information in the BIOS which suggests Dell is working on a docking station with its own graphics card. Customers can use either the laptop's graphics card, or a graphics card found within a docking station. Is Dell planning an enthusiast dock that features a high-end GPU that could not otherwise be crammed into the confinements of a notebook? Perhaps an upgrade to allow for standard or even Quad-SLI would be possible with such a dock.'"
and thats without even trying; 8.5 lines down to 6.5 - quite a savings "interesting" should be used, at most, once per page.
#5 - i bought a playstation 2 cause the guy said it doubles as a dvd player. boy, was i dumb - won't do that one again
#7 bullll shit. just like they say sports fans won't come back after a strike, enthusiasts always come back - heck the articles own argument list 20 years of coming back !!!! imho, anyone stupid enough to be an enthusiast, and pay thru the nose, deserves what they get (here in the boston area we have a stereo placed called godwins, that does hiigh end home entertainment (high end > 100K) there are people moronic enuf to spend thousands of dollars on cables - thats right, cables, for thdir speakers, so i don't think the next gen anything has to worry.
its simple, i can understand it, and i can get my work done today. these are all important things, so all the programmers should stop being snotty and superior , and instead focus on being helpful, which would mean providing excel add ons and training that solve a lot of the problems.
I bet you dollars to donuts tht 90% of the errors come from a small number of mistake classes, that could be handled easily. I furhter bet that the smart it guys have scripts that check all the spreadhseets for some of the common errors.
Nothing is cheaper then hard drive space. That anyone would care how many gigs vista takes indicates that they don't understand anything about mass market computers.
u can go down 2 circuit city TODAY and get a decent laptop for 300 - 400 bucks; this means it costs about 150 - 250 or so to actually make the damm things, which means that if anyone cared, they could produce a 100$ laptop to day, rounding off the numbers for the real world.
Apparently, of all the millions of wealthy people in the world, including all those in China and India and OPEC, not one cares enuf to step up to the plate, but has to have some publicty hound from MIT do it.
I say if hte poor people of hte world are so ill served by their own leaders, screw em - better to buy rifles for the revolution
Why on earth are these mit wankers getting so much press ? this is a total BS project: you can go down to compusa and buy a laptop for 400 bucks, or even less on sale - a real product, that actually works. so, companies in the 3rd world could easily make and sell a 100 dollar laptop today, if they wanted to. That they don't is their problem: if, of all the people in india and china and indonesia and nigeria and brazil, not one person wants to step up and make a 100 dollar laptop - screw em.
because it will condem java to the obscurity to which it deserves to go. everytime java activates, my computer slows down. why shd i put up with this ?
why is it ok to fork (your fav software) over any trivial issue you don't like, but it is NOT ok to fork to make a system dumb and stupid enough for people like me ? I don't want choice. I don't want options I don't high performance, much less cutting edge all i want is stick the CD in the drive, hit load, and come back, and I have a working install with an os, and an office suite and internet and antivirus. why is it not ok to fork to provide that ?
Like many of you, I am constantly in a state of confusion about cosmology. HOwever, I think this may be due to the very poor explanaitons given by the scientific community. Like many of you, I had taken the big bang to mean that there was something small that expanded, a view that certainly seems encouraged by popular writing on the subject.
However, other views I have read suggest this is completely wrong. the "big bang" actualy started with an infinite universe that was much hotter and denser then today...imagine a 2D univers, a brightly colored, infinite rubber sheet. after the big bang, the sheet grows, and the color becomes thinner..so the initially infinite universe becomes much larger and less colored...(I agree, the idea of infinities of different sizes aint easy to swallow, but I guess thats what georg cantor was talking about)
perhpas someone who understands this stuff can comment
why do u think apple has attention to detail ? bad batteries, keyboards that leave marks on laptop screens, to much paste..these are just the things that i am familiar with off the top of my head. apple has a highly underserved rep for making quality hardware. In fact, apple is a marketing comp;any like nike or pepsi (little scully thing for you older folk) every now and then they make a nice thing that appeals to people, but as a technology or as a manufacturing company, aint much there
how do you resist what is little more then a myth when it is labeled a best practice ? Humans have a propensity to regard anything they hear as a basis; even though you know it is totally rediculous, if i say that using consonant free paswwords is a good practice, simply hearing it will make you think in that direction; there is a whole literature in the psychology field on this ( i forge the term)
for instance, the whole change paswword frequency debate - if one can't get data, should one just ignore the "commonsense" idea that longer = better ?
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Since when does technological progress replace wage increases ? This is a right wingnut idea, that since 200 inch plasma tvs and 500 channels of high def x rated tv cost less, you don't deserve a wage increase, while the very wealthy do
a very pernicious idea, on par with the 19th cent notion that labor unions were illegal because they intefered with a property owners right to use his property (look it up)
the article gives a link to the french research agency cnrs, but that seems to be a dead end..anyone have a clue where the real science is posted
people use firefox cause it does things that other browsers dont. at least , that goes for the 95% of people who don't give a shit or even undrstand open source
tabs
cntrl+ increases teext
bookmark all tabs into folder
good privacy
that is why i use firefox;i dont care one penney literally about whether it is ie or os or whatever
so, people use tools because the tool does something; they use nontools because marketing brainwahsed them that it was better or whatever
so, ff can be a tool, whihc means it has to offer things ie does not, real useful things, or it has to become a nontool and it is hip or whatever
it is really simple - this stuff aint hard or rocket science; the trick is figuring out what people want if u want to stay a tool. from what i have seen of the extensions, the people programming ff don't have a clue.
i don't know what the next good tool is maybe integration with a slashcode type thing so yo can set up your own web stie ?
a filter that takes out farm links ? ie a phone book. we have all gotten frustrated with searching for say a hotel in boston or a resturant in dayton and finding that 90% of the returns are shit. some phone book like tools are available in yahoo and aol and google, but ther eis a lot of room for improvement.
that is two ideas. if the people running ff have any brains, they will find one or two such things that people really wnat an put them in of course, the ff might fail - that is the nature of capitilism (and why ms is a problem, because aas a monopoly it avoids the rigors of the market; that sums up 99% of what is bad about ms)
yeah but..u don't need electricity or parts or repairs or anything to read and reread and trade and go to the libary wiht books...
i wd also be interested in yr response to my 1st point, which is that if u cna buy a laptop at yr favorite retailer for 400, somoen could, with ease, put together a 100 dollar laptop runnign a std os
this mit thing is just some sort of hype bullshit,
u can go to bestbuy/circuit/etc and buy a decent laptop for 3-400 bucks. idont know what the markup is, bu the implication is that a laptop costs ~ 200 dollars to make, with ms os
so if some moderately wealthy person in india or korea or whatever actually gave a flying f*ck about anyone in the thrid world, they could order a years run of last years hardware, and ship a million pc at probably way under 100 bucks
and we all know about new non standard stuff: it never works
why shd the cm1 be anydifferent ?
there is somehting really obscene about one of the most arrogant and well funded institutions in the world - the mit media lab - telling the 3rd world what it needs.
ps if you really want rugged and low maintenance, there are these things called books; don't require any electricity , you can fix them if they break, they last a logn time and they are really cheap.
How many books do you think you could mass produce on acid free paper for 100 dollars $ a few thousand pages - a few 10s of thousands of pages.
I could go on, but i think the enthusiasm for this project is a sign of sickness, that what is good for me is, in a watered down, untested form, good for someone else
i really good comment to 100 wiseass stupid comments - pretty goood for /.
Can you comment on whether the data support a candidate such as wimps, machos, etc ? (or am I betraying my ignorance with these acronyms
that the night sky is not the temp of the suns surface is called olbers paradox http://jersey.uoregon.edu/~imamura/123/lecture-5/o lbers.html.
I believe the resoluiton of this paradox is one of hte outstanding successes of the expanding universe idea discoverd by hubble
who made this tuft person dictator of design ?
is there any DATA thats right DATA not opinions to back up his crap ?
this is an example of a whole field where someone becomes acknolwedged as a demigod based on nothing but his opinions, which are frequently wrong stupid or irritating
sorry bout the rant, but when somoene goes so far on so little it really gets to me
Is that at this time, no one has the slightst idea if they will or will not work, but we are betting tht thay will, because a very large fraction of our scarce research dollars are going
/. community can recall huge efforts by foreign govts to leapfrog in some way in technology, and that many times these huge efforts fail, so the investment by singapore or taiwan or whatever should not scare anyone.
into stem cells instead of exploring other avenues.
Govt + non profit (howard hughes, amer canc soc, etc) biomedical research is ~ 40 billion a year, give or take. Considering that the war on iraq is >100, this does not seem like alot of moeny for heart disease, and alsheimers and canceer and diabetes (not to mention poor spelling).
"Scarce" of this ~~ 40 B, way under a billion is given to stem cells and alternative treatments; considering the importance, I would say that funds are very scarc. (however, more money is not the answer; i bet Californias initiative will backfire) the problem is that researchers - people like Thomas Edison or Watson of Watson/crick dna are very scarce people, and you can t make them appear out of thin air.
"slightest idea that stem cells will work" I am not an expert in stem cells, but I don't think any one can really say they are ready for prime time; remember, there is a tremendous amout of hope and wishful thinking, peoples careers are on the line, etc. If you follow biomedical research for any period of time, you will know that there is always someone announcing some incredible break thru, and 999 times out of 1,000 these breakthrus dont pan out.
A classic example is the publication by a mexican md of astonishing results, in i think , the 80s on the effect of transplanting cells into the brains of parkinsons patients; the paper describe people who were virtually paralyzed running around shortly after surgery.
zillions of dollars and euros and yen later, after dozens of people wasted time on follow up, we find that cell transplants for parkinsons aint so good.
I would imagine that many people in the
This is the state of the are
Nat Med. 2004 Jul;10 Suppl:S42-50
Stem cell therapy for human neurodegenerative disorders-how to make it work.
* Lindvall O,
* Kokaia Z,
* Martinez-Serrano A.
Laboratory of Neurogenesis and Cell Therapy, Section of Restorative Neurology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, University Hospital, SE-221 84 Lund, Sweden. olle.lindvall@neurol.lu.se
Recent progress shows that neurons suitable for transplantation can be generated from stem cells in culture, and that the adult brain produces new neurons from its own stem cells in response to injury. These findings raise hope for the development of stem cell therapies in human neurodegenerative disorders. Before clinical trials are initiated, we need to know much more about how to control stem cell proliferation and differentiation into specific phenotypes, induce their integration into existing neural and synaptic circuits, and optimize functional recovery in animal models closely resembling the human disease.
Note the "before clinical trials.." in other words, this stuff, if it works at all, is years away. Not to mention, if stem cells are good because they are versatile and can grow, what keeps them from forming tumors ? Kind of a problem there..
As to the idea that the US is not, by every conceivable measure, the world leader in biomedical research is about as credible as wmds threatening our natnional security.
so what if singapore spends a few hundred million and gets a few people; the US is the place to do biomedical research.
I could go on, but there is one word that really describes stem cells: band wagon
It would not be so bad, except that we are diverting resources from investigating other avenues, and this is very, very bad.
I have a spring 2001 era HP laptop with Windows ME (the original) and windows 2000 (my dual boot OS)
why ? if you have a problem, like you accidentally delete a system file, you can reboot to the other os and fix it, sometimes, more easily then any other way.
I'm sure the mac zealots will pounce on this, but mac hardware is such a mix of god awfull and ok that they, are, so to speak, in glass houses
does that mean i need a web OS and my desktop ? wow, that is certainly less complicated...
you can't leave your new hard drive in the car - proteins denature at 120 oF ....
can't leave the hard drive in the car - protiens denature at -20oF
There is a long list of people who have proposed using biological molecules such as proteins and dna in electronics apps.
I challenge someone to give me a SINGLE example of a billion dollar product, or anything even close.
Hint: the first, and one of the most succesful products from the whole biotech/genetic engineering thing was better laundry detergent additives......
bio molecules are fragile things that are incredibly $$$ on almost any basis, and the handling of these molecules wold require complete revamping of mfr lines, eg, proteins and dna exist in sterile water with a little salt.....
Although genentech is riding high on huge waves of publicity from its anticancer drugs, it is hard to say if many of them are actually doing anything.
For instance, Genentech got a huge amount of publicity when one of its anticancer mabs worked in colon cancer - but in this case "works" meant extends median survivial from 14 to 16 months.
I suppose if you are a cancer patient or a family member, two months is a lot.
But if you are passionate about curing cancer, looks more like a super, super $$ drug that does not really do anything
bottom line: genentech is certainly passionate about selling very, very exspensive drugs that may or may not be very very good.
as posted
"Hot Hardware has just posted a unique review of Dell's flagship XPS M1710 notebook. They stumbled across some very interesting information within the BIOS which seems to indicate Dell is working on a docking station with its own discrete graphics. 'The user is given the option of using either the integrated GeForce Go 7900 GTX GPU found within the system or the extremely interesting option of using the graphics card found within a docking station. Could Dell be planning on releasing an enthusiast dock that features a high-end GPU that could not otherwise be crammed into the confinements of the notebook chassis? Perhaps an upgrade to allow for standard or even Quad-SLI would be possible with such a dock.'"
Written in English
"Hot Hardware has a review of Dell's flagship XPS M1710 notebook; they found information in the BIOS which suggests Dell is working on a docking station with its own graphics card. Customers can use either the laptop's graphics card, or a graphics card found within a docking station. Is Dell planning an enthusiast dock that features a high-end GPU that could not otherwise be crammed into the confinements of a notebook? Perhaps an upgrade to allow for standard or even Quad-SLI would be possible with such a dock.'"
and thats without even trying; 8.5 lines down to 6.5 - quite a savings
"interesting" should be used, at most, once per page.
#5 - i bought a playstation 2 cause the guy said it doubles as a dvd player. boy, was i dumb - won't do that one again
#7 bullll shit. just like they say sports fans won't come back after a strike, enthusiasts always come back - heck the articles own argument list 20 years of coming back !!!! imho, anyone stupid enough to be an enthusiast, and pay thru the nose, deserves what they get (here in the boston area we have a stereo placed called godwins, that does hiigh end home entertainment (high end > 100K)
there are people moronic enuf to spend thousands of dollars on cables - thats right, cables, for thdir speakers, so i don't think the next gen anything has to worry.
its simple, i can understand it, and i can get my work done today. these are all important things, so all the programmers should stop being snotty and superior , and instead focus on being helpful, which would mean providing excel add ons and training that solve a lot of the problems.
I bet you dollars to donuts tht 90% of the errors come from a small number of mistake classes, that could be handled easily.
I furhter bet that the smart it guys have scripts that check all the spreadhseets for some of the common errors.
Nothing is cheaper then hard drive space. That anyone would care how many gigs vista takes indicates that they don't understand anything about mass market computers.
u can go down 2 circuit city TODAY and get a decent laptop for 300 - 400 bucks; this means it costs about 150 - 250 or so to actually make the damm things, which means that if anyone cared, they could produce a 100$ laptop to day, rounding off the numbers for the real world.
Apparently, of all the millions of wealthy people in the world, including all those in China and India and OPEC, not one cares enuf to step up to the plate, but has to have some publicty hound from MIT do it.
I say if hte poor people of hte world are so ill served by their own leaders, screw em - better to buy rifles for the revolution
Why on earth are these mit wankers getting so much press ? this is a total BS project: you can go down to compusa and buy a laptop for 400 bucks, or even less on sale - a real product, that actually works.
so, companies in the 3rd world could easily make and sell a 100 dollar laptop today, if they wanted to. That they don't is their problem: if, of all the people in india and china and indonesia and nigeria and brazil, not one person wants to step up and make a 100 dollar laptop - screw em.
because it will condem java to the obscurity to which it deserves to go.
everytime java activates, my computer slows down.
why shd i put up with this ?
i thought it was a pun on salicylic (salacious)..
why is it ok to fork (your fav software) over any trivial issue you don't like, but it is NOT ok to fork to make a system dumb and stupid enough for people like me ?
I don't want choice.
I don't want options
I don't high performance, much less cutting edge
all i want is stick the CD in the drive, hit load, and come back, and I have a working install with an os, and an office suite and internet and antivirus.
why is it not ok to fork to provide that ?
Like many of you, I am constantly in a state of confusion about cosmology. HOwever, I think this may be due to the very poor explanaitons given by the scientific community.
Like many of you, I had taken the big bang to mean that there was something small that expanded, a view that certainly seems encouraged by popular writing on the subject.
However, other views I have read suggest this is completely wrong. the "big bang" actualy started with an infinite universe that was much hotter and denser then today...imagine a 2D univers, a brightly colored, infinite rubber sheet. after the big bang, the sheet grows, and the color becomes thinner..so the initially infinite universe becomes much larger and less colored...(I agree, the idea of infinities of different sizes aint easy to swallow, but I guess thats what georg cantor was talking about)
perhpas someone who understands this stuff can comment
why do u think apple has attention to detail ? bad batteries, keyboards that leave marks on laptop screens, to much paste..these are just the things that i am familiar with off the top of my head.
apple has a highly underserved rep for making quality hardware.
In fact, apple is a marketing comp;any like nike or pepsi (little scully thing for you older folk) every now and then they make a nice thing that appeals to people, but as a technology or as a manufacturing company, aint much there
how do you resist what is little more then a myth when it is labeled a best practice ? Humans have a propensity to regard anything they hear as a basis; even though you know it is totally rediculous, if i say that using consonant free paswwords is a good practice, simply hearing it will make you think in that direction; there is a whole literature in the psychology field on this ( i forge the term)
for instance, the whole change paswword frequency debate - if one can't get data, should one just ignore the "commonsense" idea that longer = better ?