Oil running out, rampant corruption and government abuse in so-called "first world" countries, corporations buying the best laws they can, lobbyists, but what we really need is a *game* renaissance. No wonder the powers that be are not afraid, you're a bunch of children.
Multi tasking. A concept familiar to all life forms above flatworms and politicians.
Nobody's innocent anymore. There is too much information flowing about - we're all guilty of something. Even if you don't quite no what it is - it's not important. You're just guilty of something so it's important that somebody keep tags on you.
Because reading LCD screens, particularly in darkened rooms, is hard on the eyes compared to E-Ink devices (even with their lower contrast).
I'm going to call BS on that. Going white on black and dropping the brightness on my iPad, I can read for hours in a dark room. In fact, it's easier doing that than reading a paper book with a nightlight. Sure, if you crank the brightness up to eye bleeding levels and don't adjust it for ambient conditions then it's going to be annoying, but most people can handle the 'brightness' slider.
You're too late. Most laptops have backlights. Kids these days aren't stealing porn from their dad's drawers, they're downloading gigabytes of the stuff to their computer and putting them in TrueCrypt partitions.
Sewers aren't sexy. Can't be manufactured in China (well, I suppose they could be) and more importantly, rely on the local government to organize, install and maintain it. Can't have those sorts of things go on.
now its one tablet. Wait, do they both? Or do the kids get to pick which one they want more?
It's just one $New_Shiny per child^Hpoor-kid-that-we-can-use-to-extort-money-from-a-government.
That's the generically correct form for how this will play out. $New_Shiny can be a smartphone, tablet, laptop or Furby. Whatever some large company is trying to stuff down the third world consumption channel.
As usual, it has little to do with children, education, improving mankind or anything else other than PR and profit. Nothing to see here, move along.
Yes, you can switch to organic food. Note, however, that these are neonicotinoids -- they act on insects in the same way as nicotine (which used to be widely used as an insecticide, and is still used by organic farmers), but are designed to lower acute toxicity in mammals. So, assuming you're a mammal, rather than a honeybee, you might actually be choosing the more dangerous option. (Of course, with any pesticide, the levels of application are kept such that the amount in the final product shouldn't be harmful to humans, so the risk to you eating the produce is vanishingly small either way -- nicotine toxicity is more an issue for the farm workers applying the concentrated product.)
The FDA and EPA do a reasonably good job of making sure pesticides for food crops are pretty safe for humans, both acutely and chronically, because that's what they do. They don't test everything so thoroughly for honeybees, which is why it was assumed that if levels were kept below acute toxicity levels, there'd be no problem. It doesn't follow that it's a problem for humans.
The problem is that the FDA doesn't really do much in the way of studies of long term, low level exposure. They would be awfully difficult to do. Since we don't have very good proxy measures for this sort of effect (unless Colony Collapse Disorder turns out to be such a proxy), it would take long periods of time and many people. Millions and millions of dollars. All we can say is very low level exposure to the neonicontinoids isn't acutely dangerous for humans. Everything else is up for grabs.
I grew up in Florida during the 1960's with at least four major hurricanes during my childhood. We always thought they were fun. We got to erect tents in the living room and got new board games to play with.
Then afterwards we watched our folks blast rattlesnakes off the steps with shotguns.
Cinderblocks, hurricane shutters and no houses on the beach. No problem.
Then came federally funded flood insurance and idiots built on spots that only idiots would build on with the aforementioned packing-crate construction philosophy. I suppose it has it's advantages - for a bit of nuisance, you can have a new house paid for by the government every decade or so.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, or something along those lines.
WE need to start with all education degrees being REQUIRED to have several computer operation classes. Something a lot more than "how to type letters in word 101" and "internet for idiots 102" They whould be requlred to go through a couple of more advanced classes like "education systems troubleshooting and use 204"
Well, if this is what you're trying to accomplish, just print out this handy graphic and you're done.
Not really; as far as we can tell Pluto is roughly spherical, and has sufficient mass to reach hydrostatic equilibrium.
So are my neighbors. In addition they've cleared a debris field that encompasses 'the neighborhood' (McDonald's, KFC, Wendy's and both grocery stores).
Please don't spell it "busses". The only reason it's an "acceptable" spelling now is because so many schools spelled it wrong on their signs. (How's that for irony?)
Why, is it spelled with three 's's'? (how the hell do you pluralize the letter 's'?)
But that's exactly what is useless in Internet video.
You've got a talking head (OK, a talking chest in this case). There are silly little graphics popping in and out (did you need a graphic to understand the concept of 1.3 billion)? There is bad techno music.
There is very little substance and what little there is could just as well be text (Chinese copies of Apple products are ubiquitous in China and pretty much crap- there, aside from the fact that I don't look at all like Li Anne, I did it).
Video is fine for a movie trailer or showing a tornado. If there is a human talking to the camera, it's just bandwidth bloat.
Good video is hard, really hard. Which is why you don't see much of it. Slashdot has problems dealing with anything beyond ASCII. Don't go there, just really don't.
1. Liebig's Law of the Minimum. It only takes one critical resource failure to slow the entire train. 2. Ah, the 'many advancements in technology since the 1970's'. Still using fossil fuels for the vast majority of our energy production (see No. 1). Where's your personal nuclear power plant / fuel cell? Where, in fact, is your gen III nuc plant - the one with 1970's technology? Got fusion? Seen a Thorium Cycle Reactor recently?
Cornucopians always amuse me. I wonder how many of them take apart their iPhone looking for the pixie dust.
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Oops. My apostrophe doesnt seem to be orking either.
It's my keyboards fault! I sear it is! My 'k' and 'w' keys ere stolen.
Oil running out, rampant corruption and government abuse in so-called "first world" countries, corporations buying the best laws they can, lobbyists, but what we really need is a *game* renaissance. No wonder the powers that be are not afraid, you're a bunch of children.
Multi tasking. A concept familiar to all life forms above flatworms and politicians.
Nobody's innocent anymore. There is too much information flowing about - we're all guilty of something. Even if you don't quite no what it is - it's not important. You're just guilty of something so it's important that somebody keep tags on you.
Just in case.
Because reading LCD screens, particularly in darkened rooms, is hard on the eyes compared to E-Ink devices (even with their lower contrast).
I'm going to call BS on that. Going white on black and dropping the brightness on my iPad, I can read for hours in a dark room. In fact, it's easier doing that than reading a paper book with a nightlight. Sure, if you crank the brightness up to eye bleeding levels and don't adjust it for ambient conditions then it's going to be annoying, but most people can handle the 'brightness' slider.
I often read while walking to work. For about half o the year there is plenty of light. The other half I would appreciate a built in light.
I just thought you were drunk.
You're too late. Most laptops have backlights. Kids these days aren't stealing porn from their dad's drawers, they're downloading gigabytes of the stuff to their computer and putting them in TrueCrypt partitions.
Good writing, not so much.
Sewers aren't sexy. Can't be manufactured in China (well, I suppose they could be) and more importantly, rely on the local government to organize, install and maintain it. Can't have those sorts of things go on.
now its one tablet. Wait, do they both? Or do the kids get to pick which one they want more?
It's just one $New_Shiny per child^Hpoor-kid-that-we-can-use-to-extort-money-from-a-government.
That's the generically correct form for how this will play out. $New_Shiny can be a smartphone, tablet, laptop or Furby. Whatever some large company is trying to stuff down the third world consumption channel.
As usual, it has little to do with children, education, improving mankind or anything else other than PR and profit. Nothing to see here, move along.
Well that's about the right price for Oracle stuff.
Dunno. This may explain why the general population can't navigate it's way out of a paper bag.
"Turn left at the next stop sign."
"No! Left! Not Right, turn Left!"
and so on....
Yes, you can switch to organic food. Note, however, that these are neonicotinoids -- they act on insects in the same way as nicotine (which used to be widely used as an insecticide, and is still used by organic farmers), but are designed to lower acute toxicity in mammals. So, assuming you're a mammal, rather than a honeybee, you might actually be choosing the more dangerous option. (Of course, with any pesticide, the levels of application are kept such that the amount in the final product shouldn't be harmful to humans, so the risk to you eating the produce is vanishingly small either way -- nicotine toxicity is more an issue for the farm workers applying the concentrated product.)
The FDA and EPA do a reasonably good job of making sure pesticides for food crops are pretty safe for humans, both acutely and chronically, because that's what they do. They don't test everything so thoroughly for honeybees, which is why it was assumed that if levels were kept below acute toxicity levels, there'd be no problem. It doesn't follow that it's a problem for humans.
The problem is that the FDA doesn't really do much in the way of studies of long term, low level exposure. They would be awfully difficult to do. Since we don't have very good proxy measures for this sort of effect (unless Colony Collapse Disorder turns out to be such a proxy), it would take long periods of time and many people. Millions and millions of dollars. All we can say is very low level exposure to the neonicontinoids isn't acutely dangerous for humans. Everything else is up for grabs.
I grew up in Florida during the 1960's with at least four major hurricanes during my childhood. We always thought they were fun. We got to erect tents in the living room and got new board games to play with.
Then afterwards we watched our folks blast rattlesnakes off the steps with shotguns.
Cinderblocks, hurricane shutters and no houses on the beach. No problem.
Then came federally funded flood insurance and idiots built on spots that only idiots would build on with the aforementioned packing-crate construction philosophy. I suppose it has it's advantages - for a bit of nuisance, you can have a new house paid for by the government every decade or so.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, or something along those lines.
Lots of people were using MegaUpload for that... Now what?
Now you have the full force and faith of the US Government storing the data for you - full of win!
I don't use power supplies from companies named 'sparkle' and I don't run software called 'sparkle'.
I'm sorry, I stop at GIMP.
Man, I would have just loved a bulldozer in high school.
WE need to start with all education degrees being REQUIRED to have several computer operation classes. Something a lot more than "how to type letters in word 101" and "internet for idiots 102" They whould be requlred to go through a couple of more advanced classes like "education systems troubleshooting and use 204"
Well, if this is what you're trying to accomplish, just print out this handy graphic and you're done.
Not really; as far as we can tell Pluto is roughly spherical, and has sufficient mass to reach hydrostatic equilibrium.
So are my neighbors. In addition they've cleared a debris field that encompasses 'the neighborhood' (McDonald's, KFC, Wendy's and both grocery stores).
Should i report them to the IAU?
Anyone have an idea why this happened? Pilot error? Mechanical failure?
Gravity.
Please don't spell it "busses". The only reason it's an "acceptable" spelling now is because so many schools spelled it wrong on their signs. (How's that for irony?)
Why, is it spelled with three 's's'? (how the hell do you pluralize the letter 's'?)
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that"
(Just goes through my head when I think of this subject.)
No, you still need to give it an AI system that goes berserk and chooses to kill humanity.
Oh, like Siri?
But that's exactly what is useless in Internet video.
You've got a talking head (OK, a talking chest in this case). There are silly little graphics popping in and out (did you need a graphic to understand the concept of 1.3 billion)? There is bad techno music.
There is very little substance and what little there is could just as well be text (Chinese copies of Apple products are ubiquitous in China and pretty much crap- there, aside from the fact that I don't look at all like Li Anne, I did it).
Video is fine for a movie trailer or showing a tornado. If there is a human talking to the camera, it's just bandwidth bloat.
Good video is hard, really hard. Which is why you don't see much of it. Slashdot has problems dealing with anything beyond ASCII. Don't go there, just really don't.
Not on Slashdot. That's way too complicated.
1. Liebig's Law of the Minimum. It only takes one critical resource failure to slow the entire train.
2. Ah, the 'many advancements in technology since the 1970's'. Still using fossil fuels for the vast majority of our energy production (see No. 1). Where's your personal nuclear power plant / fuel cell? Where, in fact, is your gen III nuc plant - the one with 1970's technology? Got fusion? Seen a Thorium Cycle Reactor recently?
Cornucopians always amuse me. I wonder how many of them take apart their iPhone looking for the pixie dust.