From the article: "And crucially, the effect only works when the wavelength of the light being scattered is roughly the same size as the object. So shielding from visible light would be possible only for microscopic objects."
OK. So if I have this straight... "You see that thing you can't see because it's too small? Well we just made it invisible! Please send more grant funding. And a few burritos. We're like, totally hungry dude."
"Have you ever tried to transfer 6 gigs over USB 1? I'd call it unusable."
A fair conclusion of course, but for others like me it's perfectly workable. I've got around 5GB of music. I'd be transferring that library only once onto the Mini. At around 1MB/sec, that would take about an hour and half.
Launch before a meeting, done when I return, schlep on new albums later at 60 seconds each. Perfect by my standards. Plus I've already got Firewire cables laying around, so if its absence helps meet a lower retail price then I'm all for it.
I think Apple worked the bell curve of target users pretty well on this one.
"I have a 2002 iBook and it only has USB1. [...] very sad to see I also had to purchase a firewire cable just to use the thing."
USB 2.0 is backwards-compatible - it'll just transfer at your old iBook's slower USB 1.0 rate using the cable. So unless by "using" you mean "doing transfers at 2.0 or Firewire speeds", you can use it out the box fine with your old iBook.
"While I completely agree with your comment.. we never realistically posed a military threat to N. Korea."
I should have better scoped my comments to point out deft (as opposed to daft) diplomacy and other options, rather than implying that somehow invading N.K. was what we should have done. Sorry about that.
I do think however that prior to invading Iraq, N.K. was taking the threat of invasion *very* seriously. Somehow if we could have worked with China and come up with a document that guaranteed N.K.'s security on the sole condition that they not develop or deploy WMDs, something could have been worked out. Instead our government has practiced "playground diplomacy" the past few years and seriously screwed the proverbial pooch.
N.K. is a dying regime, we all know that. All we needed to do was keep saying "nice doggy" while the icy grip of regime death encircled.
Unfortunately now that we've mired ourselves in Iraq, they know damn well we can't do anything. And they've also watched America act overtly and unilaterally to take down a regime in a "preemptive" act. Basically we've proven their every paranoia valid.
That leaves N.K. with no option but to build as many nukes as fast as possible while we're tied up elsewhere. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but from N.K.'s perspective I wouldn't have expected any other course of action.
"And given all the new Worlds of Warcraft players in S. Korea, that might cripple our economy."
"You don't realize that we had to invade Iraq just so that it would not become another North Korea?"
We need to invade any country that might someday start up a viable nuke program? Wow, by your logic that sure is a LONG list of countries that need invading ASAP.
And STILL completely ignores the countries that now have or are very close to REAL WMD, not phantoms painted on an oil-rich country.
And do you know why those countries accelerated (pun?) their efforts? They realized that America does NOT go after countries that have the Bomb. They also realize that America can't open a new war front. We're too tied down in a country that posed NO immediate threat to us, so the guys with the real nuke programs get to pursue them at will. We're currently toothless, and they know it.
Anyway, laugh it up, all the dead soldiers appreciate it.
They must listen to me gently badger them about switching away from Microsoft applications. Selling them on Firefox is usually easy.
Mention of MacOS X actually perks up their ears these days, as opposed to years past. A few of my office mates have even picked up their first Macs (one took up the advice of trying SuSE on existing hardware).
And as the article points out that it could have been a typo. Having two HTML items labeled "powerbook_g5" (and already changed now to "powerbook_g4" on the page in question), is a far cry from having a page with specs and/or prices accidentally uploaded for a few minutes.
A Powerbook G5 is inevitable, but this doesn't quite seem like the "Mac Mini" leak....
Calling someone a troll doesn't remove the dilemma you have in explaining the contradiction. Pouting, picking up your ball, and running home is your choice. (And not a rare response from fundamentalists.) You're the one who invoked logic in your defense, however. So now you can logically explain the difference for all of us to understand.
If you believe abortion is murder, then miscarriage is something you need to explain. What if a woman has a genetic defect that causes the fetus to automatically miscarry at the end of the 1st trimester? And not believing her doctors, she keeps trying?
Each and every "viable human life" you refer to is going to die three months into it. Guaranteed.
If abortion is murder, where do you judge this woman? If, as you say, "murder relies on intent", where does "ending a life through willful negligence" fit in your book?
"at the time of conception, a life form with a complete HUMAN DNA sequence, different from either parent, is formed. It is a human life, this is a fact, not a false predicate, regardless of what your opinion on the matter is."
And then you say...
"Tumors, while alive, are not people - just an "organ"."
My biology may be a little weak, but I was under the impression that tumor cells had a "complete HUMAN DNA sequence" as well. Since that is your core assertion as to the concept of what constitutes a "human life", it seems a bit contradictory.
"Except that for manslaughter you have to prove neglect."
And what if that poor woman has a history of miscarriages? If, as the fundamentalists claim, abortion is murder, then what if a woman gets pregnant knowing she's very likely to miscarry?
Is someone going to start a hate website focusing on her, or threaten to bomb her house?
"Miscarriages are clearly not murder, as there was no intent to kill. With an abortion, there is a clear intent to terminate the pregnancy, therefore it is murder."
So then by your argument, miscarriage would be manslaughter?
"Isn't logic fun?"
Especially when a counter-argument ends up reinforcing the point it's trying to refute.;-)
"If you are using Windows though, looks like this could be very useful."
Only if it can match the stability and security of IIS that we've come to depend on. Otherwise it's just another shoddy product built by communists for communists.
Don't give up, give a quality LCD a try first and you may never go back.
Response time is a critical feature for me. I won't buy any LCD screen unless it's in the 16ms-or-better range for typical pixel response.
My NEC LCD1760NX is great for games and movies. No hint of ghosting at all. Solid, bright, good footprint too. Digital/Analog connections as well.
LCDs still have problems with color correction for serious graphics work, or so I'm told. But you couldn't pay me to get in front of a CRT anymore. My eyes won't take it.
"a tourist said that she was surprised that after the waves, the area where she was staying no longer stank of sewage."
The article is fresh in my mind. The tourist in question was remarking about how clean the airplane smelled once she was able to leave the devastated area, which was awash in dead bodies and sewage.
I'd provide the link, but the keep updating the content often enough that it would probably be out of date the moment I posted it due to edits.
"I can claim it didn't hurt me because it didn't."
Pointing out that some killer app exist completely ignores the point of how many were crushed outright that you will never know you missed.
That's like saying increasing extinctions are irrelevant because "look at all the critters around here".
Assume MS had NOT used its monopoly to crush Netscape. How many countless hours of reinstalls, stolen data, stolen bandwidth (when your machine is now a spambot), etc. could have been avoided if more than half the market wasn't using a browser that was joined to the OS at the aorta? What's the actual dollar cost? And ultimately that's been passed on to you in one form or another.
How many software solutions and technologies were destroyed or bought out and mutated beyond usefulness by MS? How many "killer apps" and technologies withered on the vine after MS moved to crush them?
You can't claim that it hasn't hurt you, because you have no idea what you are missing today because of their actions.
"We could also mention Zion (the Machine will track us down!), just for completeness sake."
Heck yeah! All that sexy dancing by firelight in the caverns. Fightin' off Agents. What better way to pass the centuries while the surface recovers from the Doom From Outerspace?
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From the article: "And crucially, the effect only works when the wavelength of the light being scattered is roughly the same size as the object. So shielding from visible light would be possible only for microscopic objects."
OK. So if I have this straight... "You see that thing you can't see because it's too small? Well we just made it invisible! Please send more grant funding. And a few burritos. We're like, totally hungry dude."
Uh huh....
"Have you ever tried to transfer 6 gigs over USB 1? I'd call it unusable."
A fair conclusion of course, but for others like me it's perfectly workable. I've got around 5GB of music. I'd be transferring that library only once onto the Mini. At around 1MB/sec, that would take about an hour and half.
Launch before a meeting, done when I return, schlep on new albums later at 60 seconds each. Perfect by my standards. Plus I've already got Firewire cables laying around, so if its absence helps meet a lower retail price then I'm all for it.
I think Apple worked the bell curve of target users pretty well on this one.
"I have a 2002 iBook and it only has USB1. [...] very sad to see I also had to purchase a firewire cable just to use the thing."
USB 2.0 is backwards-compatible - it'll just transfer at your old iBook's slower USB 1.0 rate using the cable. So unless by "using" you mean "doing transfers at 2.0 or Firewire speeds", you can use it out the box fine with your old iBook.
"While I completely agree with your comment
I should have better scoped my comments to point out deft (as opposed to daft) diplomacy and other options, rather than implying that somehow invading N.K. was what we should have done. Sorry about that.
I do think however that prior to invading Iraq, N.K. was taking the threat of invasion *very* seriously. Somehow if we could have worked with China and come up with a document that guaranteed N.K.'s security on the sole condition that they not develop or deploy WMDs, something could have been worked out. Instead our government has practiced "playground diplomacy" the past few years and seriously screwed the proverbial pooch.
N.K. is a dying regime, we all know that. All we needed to do was keep saying "nice doggy" while the icy grip of regime death encircled.
Unfortunately now that we've mired ourselves in Iraq, they know damn well we can't do anything. And they've also watched America act overtly and unilaterally to take down a regime in a "preemptive" act. Basically we've proven their every paranoia valid.
That leaves N.K. with no option but to build as many nukes as fast as possible while we're tied up elsewhere. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but from N.K.'s perspective I wouldn't have expected any other course of action.
"And given all the new Worlds of Warcraft players in S. Korea, that might cripple our economy."
Agreed. :-)
"You don't realize that we had to invade Iraq just so that it would not become another North Korea?"
We need to invade any country that might someday start up a viable nuke program? Wow, by your logic that sure is a LONG list of countries that need invading ASAP. And STILL completely ignores the countries that now have or are very close to REAL WMD, not phantoms painted on an oil-rich country.
And do you know why those countries accelerated (pun?) their efforts? They realized that America does NOT go after countries that have the Bomb. They also realize that America can't open a new war front. We're too tied down in a country that posed NO immediate threat to us, so the guys with the real nuke programs get to pursue them at will. We're currently toothless, and they know it.
Anyway, laugh it up, all the dead soldiers appreciate it.
Irony - you should look it up sometime.
"What is this word "evidence" you speak of?"
Judge (in the voice of Inigo Montoya): "You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
They must listen to me gently badger them about switching away from Microsoft applications. Selling them on Firefox is usually easy.
Mention of MacOS X actually perks up their ears these days, as opposed to years past. A few of my office mates have even picked up their first Macs (one took up the advice of trying SuSE on existing hardware).
If it yells when you try to paint it, salute it.
And as the article points out that it could have been a typo. Having two HTML items labeled "powerbook_g5" (and already changed now to "powerbook_g4" on the page in question), is a far cry from having a page with specs and/or prices accidentally uploaded for a few minutes.
A Powerbook G5 is inevitable, but this doesn't quite seem like the "Mac Mini" leak....
"such a worker would toil in a sweatshop with singlemindedness, as oxen would plow a field."
If that's the case, I'll bet EA is underwriting the research.
"Trust me Google are the new evil."
So long as they end up the lesser evil, that's fine with me!
"Go back under the bridge, troll."
Calling someone a troll doesn't remove the dilemma you have in explaining the contradiction. Pouting, picking up your ball, and running home is your choice. (And not a rare response from fundamentalists.) You're the one who invoked logic in your defense, however. So now you can logically explain the difference for all of us to understand.
If you believe abortion is murder, then miscarriage is something you need to explain. What if a woman has a genetic defect that causes the fetus to automatically miscarry at the end of the 1st trimester? And not believing her doctors, she keeps trying?
Each and every "viable human life" you refer to is going to die three months into it. Guaranteed.
If abortion is murder, where do you judge this woman? If, as you say, "murder relies on intent", where does "ending a life through willful negligence" fit in your book?
First you assert:
"at the time of conception, a life form with a complete HUMAN DNA sequence, different from either parent, is formed. It is a human life, this is a fact, not a false predicate, regardless of what your opinion on the matter is."
And then you say...
"Tumors, while alive, are not people - just an "organ"."
My biology may be a little weak, but I was under the impression that tumor cells had a "complete HUMAN DNA sequence" as well. Since that is your core assertion as to the concept of what constitutes a "human life", it seems a bit contradictory.
"You can't equate a tumor to a child. "
I think you just did.
"Except that for manslaughter you have to prove neglect."
And what if that poor woman has a history of miscarriages? If, as the fundamentalists claim, abortion is murder, then what if a woman gets pregnant knowing she's very likely to miscarry?
Is someone going to start a hate website focusing on her, or threaten to bomb her house?"Miscarriages are clearly not murder, as there was no intent to kill. With an abortion, there is a clear intent to terminate the pregnancy, therefore it is murder."
So then by your argument, miscarriage would be manslaughter?
"Isn't logic fun?"
Especially when a counter-argument ends up reinforcing the point it's trying to refute. ;-)
"If you are using Windows though, looks like this could be very useful."
Only if it can match the stability and security of IIS that we've come to depend on. Otherwise it's just another shoddy product built by communists for communists.
Don't give up, give a quality LCD a try first and you may never go back.
Response time is a critical feature for me. I won't buy any LCD screen unless it's in the 16ms-or-better range for typical pixel response.
My NEC LCD1760NX is great for games and movies. No hint of ghosting at all. Solid, bright, good footprint too. Digital/Analog connections as well.
LCDs still have problems with color correction for serious graphics work, or so I'm told. But you couldn't pay me to get in front of a CRT anymore. My eyes won't take it.
"a tourist said that she was surprised that after the waves, the area where she was staying no longer stank of sewage."
The article is fresh in my mind. The tourist in question was remarking about how clean the airplane smelled once she was able to leave the devastated area, which was awash in dead bodies and sewage.
I'd provide the link, but the keep updating the content often enough that it would probably be out of date the moment I posted it due to edits.
"> or will it be both pissed and pleased?"
"Only if you don't look at it."
I wish that worked with my girlfriend. It would be great if I could resolve her into one state or the other and finally be done with it.
Hmmm.
- Faked a demo of a cool concept.
- Lacked the geek talent and dedication required to pull it off.
- Reaped the benefits (web hits and publicity) by duping the users.
Yep, clearly the guy is made for marketing/management.
Heck, for that matter think of the impact of a worm that posts pictures of the goatse guy on every networked digital picture frame it can find.
Everyone would revert back to cave paintings overnight.
Pointing out that some killer app exist completely ignores the point of how many were crushed outright that you will never know you missed.
That's like saying increasing extinctions are irrelevant because "look at all the critters around here".
Assume MS had NOT used its monopoly to crush Netscape. How many countless hours of reinstalls, stolen data, stolen bandwidth (when your machine is now a spambot), etc. could have been avoided if more than half the market wasn't using a browser that was joined to the OS at the aorta? What's the actual dollar cost? And ultimately that's been passed on to you in one form or another.
"You see, it hasn't hurt me."
How many software solutions and technologies were destroyed or bought out and mutated beyond usefulness by MS? How many "killer apps" and technologies withered on the vine after MS moved to crush them?
You can't claim that it hasn't hurt you, because you have no idea what you are missing today because of their actions.
Hmmm. I'd have figured the SCO license would have surely made that list. $699 and you don't even get a pet rock out of the deal.
"We could also mention Zion (the Machine will track us down!), just for completeness sake."
Heck yeah! All that sexy dancing by firelight in the caverns. Fightin' off Agents. What better way to pass the centuries while the surface recovers from the Doom From Outerspace?
We still get to eat glowing fungus though, right?