But who am I to reason with retards, fucktards and fanbois?
Nearly their equal?
The primary functionality of the iPad is moving money from the consumers' pockets to the manufacturer's. This a characteristic shared by virtually all luxury items, regardless of who the manufacturer is. Challenging others' use of discretionary income definitely earns you the first two of the three epithets.
In an OS with limited multitasking how much RAM do you need? 512MB is twice as much as has proven adequate for the iPad and iPod Touch for the past year, I think ample is not an unreasonable characterization. An 8MP camera is of dubious value on a large unwieldy tablet. The compelling reasons to avoid the iPad like the plague are not in the hardware or the OS per se.
You did make a persuasive case that Samsung did a poor job of spec'ing their product though that was not your intent.
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) which is part of DHS (Department of Homeland Security) is charged with intercepting counterfeiti products and protecting intellectual property rights . I think they have gone well beyond any reasonable charter since the "infringed" IP is not being imported. Treasury (Secret Service) is supposed to be in charge of computer related issues so DHS really doesn't belong in this.
Valid points - good link; no fluff. I actually run timed backups in addition to the RAID because of the issues noted. You are correct, and I should have said "timed backups to hard drives" instead of "RAID". Use of Blu-Ray for backup would present its own set of problems - a backup that isn't done correctly and often is of little value.
The point was that the difference in storage capacity is more of a marketing point than a practical one.
Yeah, great I can backup my server with only 100 discs instead of 167. Oh Wait, I have RAID. I am having a bit of déjà vu to the VHS vs Beta war when capacity also won over other considerations.
AACS was adopted on both formats. HD-DVD had the restriction against HD playback on component video connections turned on for some discs before the format war was over, Blu-Ray only recently activated the flag. Perhaps you would expand on what the difference in DRM between the two formats. I had always favored HD-DVD technically, but I am not familiar with its advantage in this area.
You made a very specific allegation of the plant being "poorly maintained/upgraded".
I wasn't wondering about which reactor was at issue, but perhaps you should do some more research. You have referenced the wrong group of reactors, the failed unit is Fukushima 1, Unit 1, you cite Fukushima 2 units 1, 3 and 4 which are bigger, newer and of a very different design. None of the problems are indicative of maintenance or upgrade deficiencies.
I do not believe that ignorance is a good defense against the charge of libel.
For you to suggest that the plant was poorly maintained is libelous unless you have some evidence to support the claim.
Failure is failure. Repairs and maintenance of the safety system are codified and an integral part of the operating license. As such, a failure due to a maintenance issue, which is not certain in this case, is a failure of the technology.
The chances of stopping GE, Westinghouse, Toshiba,and the other megacorporations involved in the construction of new plants in the US is very, very small.
Laddermill: "A Laddermill is a hypothetical airborne wind turbine..." Do you know the meaning of hypothetical? Most of your claims are BS. Bill Maher is a political pundit, not an engineer.
Yeah, we don't need the 13% of the electricity generated worldwide by nuclear power plants. All we have to do is eliminate a quarter to half a billion people, assuming that we are selective and concentrate on the highest consumers.
By modern reactor do you mean not currently in service and not scheduled for construction? All of the reactor fleet in service and planned are either BWR or PWR designs and none are passively safe. Virtually all rely on the emergency diesel generators, like those that failed at Fukushima, to supply power for the emergency component cooling systems; I believe Oconee uses a nearby power plant as its emergency power system. I am a cautious proponent of nuclear power and have worked for suppliers to the industry for 25 years and been in about 2/3 of the plants in the US. The reactors approved for construction in the US are safer than the existing ones because they have significantly reduced the number of components (valves, pumps, etc.) that are required to safely shut down the plant, they have more systems that are passive, but they are not passive by any stretch. The molten salt reactor you cite is only viable commercially as a thorium cycle reactor like the ORNL reactor. I believe the pebble bed reactor may have a slight edge on safety to the MSR, but either would potentially be an improvement over our present units.
It does not have a containment dome because it is a boiling water reactor (BWR), not because of its age. Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR) have containment domes. Dresden and Quad Cities in Illinois are very similar plants to Fukushima 1. In a BWR the steam is radioactive and the turbines and piping act as primary containment.
A computer (Majel Barrett-Roddenberry) with capabilities that varied by several orders of magnitudes from one episode to the next as required to further the plot.
Gee that's not biased at all, we have a GOP budget now, not a national budget. I challenge anyone to find a single mention of this subject prior to today. It is not news, it is revisionist propaganda. The Republicans use the same reprehensible tactics.
Looks like Democrats couldn't anticipate the consequences since there are zero mentions of this prior to this morning. This is political posturing, and a poor attempt at revisionist history, and seeking to capitalize on a natural disaster. No Democrats opposed the cut or made any statements on the subject prior to today. In the information age, I expect a group as powerful as the Democratic party to manipulate the media better than this.
So zero Android phones trump 6.1 million iPhones? I believe the only Android phone that is 28 months old is the T-Mobile G1, and that doesn't seem to be supported: http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices. I don't think having to rely on a roll your own version counts any more than jailbroken iPhones. Obviously the claim should be true in a year or so, but Apple may have provided an update to Safari by then.
I have a WinMo 6.5 phone that I think is fantastic, but I would not consider WP 7 because it will not do as much as my current phone, and it is unlikely to improve precisely because it is completely different. Microsoft abandoned all of its developers so they are late to the party with an OS with no track record and new developer tools and a multitude of incompatible devices. Nokia may be the best phone manufacturer,but they are well down the scale when it comes to smart phones. WP 7 phones will have as much influence on the smart phone market as the Zune has had on the MP3 player market.
survival rate == affect reproduction. You said it yourself, "Parents and grandparents contribute to the upbringing, support, social connections, mate selection, and other things affecting reproductive success..." (emphasis added)
There is no research whatever showing any link between smartphones and cancer.
Someone didn't RTFA. There is no causal link, but apparently Scientists at the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital have integrated a microNMR device that can be used with smartphones to detect cancer. I'm pretty sure that they did some research.
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But who am I to reason with retards, fucktards and fanbois?
Nearly their equal?
The primary functionality of the iPad is moving money from the consumers' pockets to the manufacturer's. This a characteristic shared by virtually all luxury items, regardless of who the manufacturer is. Challenging others' use of discretionary income definitely earns you the first two of the three epithets.
In an OS with limited multitasking how much RAM do you need? 512MB is twice as much as has proven adequate for the iPad and iPod Touch for the past year, I think ample is not an unreasonable characterization. An 8MP camera is of dubious value on a large unwieldy tablet. The compelling reasons to avoid the iPad like the plague are not in the hardware or the OS per se.
You did make a persuasive case that Samsung did a poor job of spec'ing their product though that was not your intent.
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) which is part of DHS (Department of Homeland Security) is charged with intercepting counterfeiti products and protecting intellectual property rights . I think they have gone well beyond any reasonable charter since the "infringed" IP is not being imported. Treasury (Secret Service) is supposed to be in charge of computer related issues so DHS really doesn't belong in this.
Valid points - good link; no fluff. I actually run timed backups in addition to the RAID because of the issues noted. You are correct, and I should have said "timed backups to hard drives" instead of "RAID". Use of Blu-Ray for backup would present its own set of problems - a backup that isn't done correctly and often is of little value.
The point was that the difference in storage capacity is more of a marketing point than a practical one.
Yeah, great I can backup my server with only 100 discs instead of 167. Oh Wait, I have RAID. I am having a bit of déjà vu to the VHS vs Beta war when capacity also won over other considerations.
AACS was adopted on both formats. HD-DVD had the restriction against HD playback on component video connections turned on for some discs before the format war was over, Blu-Ray only recently activated the flag. Perhaps you would expand on what the difference in DRM between the two formats. I had always favored HD-DVD technically, but I am not familiar with its advantage in this area.
You made a very specific allegation of the plant being "poorly maintained/upgraded".
I wasn't wondering about which reactor was at issue, but perhaps you should do some more research. You have referenced the wrong group of reactors, the failed unit is Fukushima 1, Unit 1, you cite Fukushima 2 units 1, 3 and 4 which are bigger, newer and of a very different design. None of the problems are indicative of maintenance or upgrade deficiencies.
I do not believe that ignorance is a good defense against the charge of libel.
For you to suggest that the plant was poorly maintained is libelous unless you have some evidence to support the claim.
Failure is failure. Repairs and maintenance of the safety system are codified and an integral part of the operating license. As such, a failure due to a maintenance issue, which is not certain in this case, is a failure of the technology.
The chances of stopping GE, Westinghouse, Toshiba,and the other megacorporations involved in the construction of new plants in the US is very, very small.
Laddermill: "A Laddermill is a hypothetical airborne wind turbine ..." Do you know the meaning of hypothetical? Most of your claims are BS. Bill Maher is a political pundit, not an engineer.
TMI is a PWR, Fukushima is a BWR. BWRs do not have containment domes. The failure modes of these reactor types are very different.
Yeah, we don't need the 13% of the electricity generated worldwide by nuclear power plants. All we have to do is eliminate a quarter to half a billion people, assuming that we are selective and concentrate on the highest consumers.
By modern reactor do you mean not currently in service and not scheduled for construction? All of the reactor fleet in service and planned are either BWR or PWR designs and none are passively safe. Virtually all rely on the emergency diesel generators, like those that failed at Fukushima, to supply power for the emergency component cooling systems; I believe Oconee uses a nearby power plant as its emergency power system. I am a cautious proponent of nuclear power and have worked for suppliers to the industry for 25 years and been in about 2/3 of the plants in the US. The reactors approved for construction in the US are safer than the existing ones because they have significantly reduced the number of components (valves, pumps, etc.) that are required to safely shut down the plant, they have more systems that are passive, but they are not passive by any stretch. The molten salt reactor you cite is only viable commercially as a thorium cycle reactor like the ORNL reactor. I believe the pebble bed reactor may have a slight edge on safety to the MSR, but either would potentially be an improvement over our present units.
It does not have a containment dome because it is a boiling water reactor (BWR), not because of its age. Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR) have containment domes. Dresden and Quad Cities in Illinois are very similar plants to Fukushima 1. In a BWR the steam is radioactive and the turbines and piping act as primary containment.
A computer (Majel Barrett-Roddenberry) with capabilities that varied by several orders of magnitudes from one episode to the next as required to further the plot.
Gee that's not biased at all, we have a GOP budget now, not a national budget. I challenge anyone to find a single mention of this subject prior to today. It is not news, it is revisionist propaganda. The Republicans use the same reprehensible tactics.
Looks like Democrats couldn't anticipate the consequences since there are zero mentions of this prior to this morning. This is political posturing, and a poor attempt at revisionist history, and seeking to capitalize on a natural disaster. No Democrats opposed the cut or made any statements on the subject prior to today. In the information age, I expect a group as powerful as the Democratic party to manipulate the media better than this.
So zero Android phones trump 6.1 million iPhones? I believe the only Android phone that is 28 months old is the T-Mobile G1, and that doesn't seem to be supported: http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices. I don't think having to rely on a roll your own version counts any more than jailbroken iPhones. Obviously the claim should be true in a year or so, but Apple may have provided an update to Safari by then.
Try saying Opera: http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1453241/Apple-You-Must-Be-17-To-Use-Opera#comments
I have a WinMo 6.5 phone that I think is fantastic, but I would not consider WP 7 because it will not do as much as my current phone, and it is unlikely to improve precisely because it is completely different. Microsoft abandoned all of its developers so they are late to the party with an OS with no track record and new developer tools and a multitude of incompatible devices. Nokia may be the best phone manufacturer,but they are well down the scale when it comes to smart phones. WP 7 phones will have as much influence on the smart phone market as the Zune has had on the MP3 player market.
Elected officials are not supposed to be leaders, they are supposed to be servants.
False dichotomy.
No, you can vote for candidates from other parties. When enough of us do that, we can disrupt the status quo.
Same handbasket, same destination, different route. Democrat == Republican. We are in year eleven of George dubya's reign of terror.
survival rate == affect reproduction. You said it yourself, "Parents and grandparents contribute to the upbringing, support, social connections, mate selection, and other things affecting reproductive success ..." (emphasis added)
There is no research whatever showing any link between smartphones and cancer.
Someone didn't RTFA. There is no causal link, but apparently Scientists at the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital have integrated a microNMR device that can be used with smartphones to detect cancer. I'm pretty sure that they did some research.