Pay with cash where possible. Electronic transactions leave a detailed dossier of your activities that can be accessed by the government or sold to telemarketers. "
So in other words: don't buy anything online... how about no.
Except that gaming is popular and becoming more popular with time.
I personally don't see the point of having anything over a p2/3 however two things are pushing for faster comps:
-The hardware itself, you can't get a new 1ghz computer or rather it's cheaper to just get the 2ghz computer in most cases.
-Software in general: XP needs better hardware than 98 and Longhorn (is that the right name?) will need a shit load more. It's the same with everything, the addition of pretty and useless features requires faster computers.
If nothing changed then these two would collapse soon however we are at a sort of plateau. No one really knows what to do with all the extra speed but that doesn't mean there isn't anything to use it for. With time computers will get "smarter" and that will require them to be faster. For all we know in the future your toaster will analyze the toast you put in, send the data to your PC (maybe just a computing server) which will then compute the best setting of the heating elements to get the desired result. Actually, I wish my microwave would do that.
Yes and no. If somehow you got a version of Doom 3 with all the really annoying parts taken and with all the good parts lengthened AND you had the money wouldn't you like it?
In essence that is what people are buying. Time is limited for a person so they would rather spend it on having fun (like killing things or whatever they think is fun) than or doing the same thing 50 times to get enough gold to buy an item they want.
It's not hard to make people fail school; the trick is to prevent their parents from stopping them. For example, putting Quake 2 on the school network of a school where cutting classes is easy.
Yeah, whipping out all life (including bacteria) would require a very big rock, probably one big enough to cause the whole surface of the planet to melt and then reform.
I believe that some speculate that a giant comet is the reason for Venus's current state.
Yeah, it's simply a better chocie to make a new one with fixes for the problems than to temp luck by flying the current one. Sure it may work but if it fails (read: this implies death of crew) then things could get problamatic.
I'll just add my 2 cents about fertility:
The world birth rate is going DOWN, at least know what you're talking about before rambling on about it.
At the current rate we're going to hit a stable population of 11 billion or so in 50 years.
They have the desire, one may say talent for it, and most importantly they spend a lot of time on it.
If you want to be an artists then you're gonna have to spend time to learn, and unless you have "talent" it may not be as easy ad programming. Artistic talent from what I noticed isn't just technical but also about "what looks good", and it's the later which may be harder to learn.
The new telescope will be mostly infrared and infrared seems to also be blocked by the Earth's atmosphere (althrough not as badly as UV). The new telescope seems to be aimed at catching what the Hubble couldn't catch, as the Hubble seems to be only near-infrared.
The problem with your reasoning is: stop where do we stop cutting funding, what science is "good". We don't always know what will give us breakthroughs, or even what we want in the end.
Here for example we have something which can make robots a viable option in space, while this robot may not be all that useful in the future what is important is the idea it conveys.
I don't see how this solves the problem: voting third party still "wastes" some of your vote. Letting someone vote 10 times will simply mean that they put 10 votes for one of the major parties since anything else would be a waste in their mind. A ranking system removes this problem but is imho too complicated.
And the malware will simply adapt, it will do only as much as it can and not any more. Then the protection needs to get more stringent and restrictive, malware adapts, rinse, repeat until computer is inoperable.
This isn't even going to include false positives, programs called malware without actually being malware. This would of course result in lawsuits, protection becoming weaker, etc.
Computers are simply too dynamic.
Didn't someone try this recently... oh yeah the "fix virus" did more damage than the actual one since it tried to spread too aggressively and as a result took down whole networks.
As soon as an "arms race" starts people will get more sloppy and the above will become more likely. It's not a solution.
Does it matter? Someone will leak the update anyway, and if the update itself has some protection mechanism then that can be cracked. I guess people will now have to use P2P networks to get windows updates.
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Anti-virus doesn't just stop viruses, it also stops Trojans. You know those things which let someone remotely control your computer.
Pay with cash where possible. Electronic transactions leave a detailed dossier of your activities that can be accessed by the government or sold to telemarketers. "
So in other words: don't buy anything online... how about no.
Except that gaming is popular and becoming more popular with time. I personally don't see the point of having anything over a p2/3 however two things are pushing for faster comps: -The hardware itself, you can't get a new 1ghz computer or rather it's cheaper to just get the 2ghz computer in most cases. -Software in general: XP needs better hardware than 98 and Longhorn (is that the right name?) will need a shit load more. It's the same with everything, the addition of pretty and useless features requires faster computers. If nothing changed then these two would collapse soon however we are at a sort of plateau. No one really knows what to do with all the extra speed but that doesn't mean there isn't anything to use it for. With time computers will get "smarter" and that will require them to be faster. For all we know in the future your toaster will analyze the toast you put in, send the data to your PC (maybe just a computing server) which will then compute the best setting of the heating elements to get the desired result. Actually, I wish my microwave would do that.
Yes and no. If somehow you got a version of Doom 3 with all the really annoying parts taken and with all the good parts lengthened AND you had the money wouldn't you like it? In essence that is what people are buying. Time is limited for a person so they would rather spend it on having fun (like killing things or whatever they think is fun) than or doing the same thing 50 times to get enough gold to buy an item they want.
It's not hard to make people fail school; the trick is to prevent their parents from stopping them. For example, putting Quake 2 on the school network of a school where cutting classes is easy.
2002 is different from 2004, I feel bad for your HS Math teacher.
"19 March 2002" Please look at the correct article for this rock and not the one for an old rock.
Yeah, whipping out all life (including bacteria) would require a very big rock, probably one big enough to cause the whole surface of the planet to melt and then reform. I believe that some speculate that a giant comet is the reason for Venus's current state.
It would probably burn up so even your car is safe. On a related note does insurance normally cover asteroid impacts?
He may not have realized the problems. Quite often I dismiss some part of a problem as "easy" and then have it come back and torment me.
Yeah, it's simply a better chocie to make a new one with fixes for the problems than to temp luck by flying the current one. Sure it may work but if it fails (read: this implies death of crew) then things could get problamatic.
The first link seems to talk about people who basically don't want to be on the grid.
I'll just add my 2 cents about fertility: The world birth rate is going DOWN, at least know what you're talking about before rambling on about it. At the current rate we're going to hit a stable population of 11 billion or so in 50 years.
So why are people upset?
Don't tell me all the 15 year olds who warez all their games are complaining about a 75 cent increase.
So I assume they will have the deer carcass sent to them?
They have the desire, one may say talent for it, and most importantly they spend a lot of time on it. If you want to be an artists then you're gonna have to spend time to learn, and unless you have "talent" it may not be as easy ad programming. Artistic talent from what I noticed isn't just technical but also about "what looks good", and it's the later which may be harder to learn.
The new telescope will be mostly infrared and infrared seems to also be blocked by the Earth's atmosphere (althrough not as badly as UV). The new telescope seems to be aimed at catching what the Hubble couldn't catch, as the Hubble seems to be only near-infrared.
The problem with your reasoning is: stop where do we stop cutting funding, what science is "good". We don't always know what will give us breakthroughs, or even what we want in the end.
Here for example we have something which can make robots a viable option in space, while this robot may not be all that useful in the future what is important is the idea it conveys.
I don't see how this solves the problem: voting third party still "wastes" some of your vote. Letting someone vote 10 times will simply mean that they put 10 votes for one of the major parties since anything else would be a waste in their mind. A ranking system removes this problem but is imho too complicated.
And so it should be if the US wants it to become a stable democratic country. Granted I don't think it will do much good in the end anyway.
If they're old enough, very young babies will not notice.
And the malware will simply adapt, it will do only as much as it can and not any more. Then the protection needs to get more stringent and restrictive, malware adapts, rinse, repeat until computer is inoperable.
This isn't even going to include false positives, programs called malware without actually being malware. This would of course result in lawsuits, protection becoming weaker, etc.
Computers are simply too dynamic.
Didn't someone try this recently ... oh yeah the "fix virus" did more damage than the actual one since it tried to spread too aggressively and as a result took down whole networks.
As soon as an "arms race" starts people will get more sloppy and the above will become more likely. It's not a solution.
Yup, one could think of the human body as a computer with a good anti-virus program.
Does it matter? Someone will leak the update anyway, and if the update itself has some protection mechanism then that can be cracked. I guess people will now have to use P2P networks to get windows updates.