Although I don't put much faith in this process until I have more data, the "government subsidies" is not a good argument, since the oil being worth $1 a litre does not account for all the indirect subsidy of military intervention to insure constant suply.
I generally agree with everything that you have said. But there is an exceptional circumstance that must be considered, which is when the lawmakers and the law enforcers no longer are acting in the best interest of the people that elected them but in their own best interest. That thing you call democracy was enacted pretty much throughout the world by a bunch of "criminals" and "terrorists" that organized "riots" that eventually toppled the previous form of government.
How different do you find this situation? Has Wikileaks been charged, judged and convicted? No. The people's elected governments are using non-legal tactics to defend itself from the exposure of it's own misdeeds.
I don't understand your point. I pay my bank a bunch of fees for them to keep my money safe and available, otherwise I'd keep it under my matress. You mean that when they fail to provide me the service I pay for I should be punished for their mistake?
I completely agree but I one further advantage: forcing us to REMEMBER the lessons learned by having an ongoing need for the skills involved. We learned with the Apolo program how easy it is to forget skills and lose schematics...
Although I can't name it, there was a movie in the 80's about a building that recycled human body heat for energy... until the computer went awry and started killing everyone for their body heat.
Well, given that I posted this from work (IT consulting, nothing to do with Google or ads), I could say I have been paid to write this. Only that I own the company, so I kinda paid myself;)
I will probably be modded down as troll, but not only I don't mind at all having ads in my Gmail account (after all, I am getting a "free" service, it is only fair they get something in return) but in a number of occasions I've actually found them useful, suggesting me relevant products that I didn't know about.
I am not a neurosomething, but what we've been seeing seems to indicate differently. The brain is hugely adaptable on it's own to new input sources, as we have been shown by the hability do adapt do hearing and sight replacement devices. The systems we have for reading thoughts are nowhere nearly as adaptable to our individual differences.
A shame that a professional who is protected under the freedom of speech cloak disrespects it with such behaviour. Well, guess you can all use you right telling him so at kgreenbaum@post-dispatch.com
Although I agree that for some jobs that is a clever alternative and the almost eventual future, there will always be a lot of jobs that require the warm body around (medical, teaching and the likes). So yes, we should invest in reducing the need to commute but also in making the process as efficient as possible when we don't have a alternative.
If you haven't noticed, Google is making a huge effort to replace everything you should want on a computer with a Javascript webapp. Believe me, in time, Javascript raw speed will be pivotal to their hability to sell online services.
The type of customer regular airlines take the most profit from is the business customer. Now, let me see: I can take 4 hours by train to get there and get 4 hours of work in the meantime OR spend 30 minutes going through security check, spend 2 hours on flight with no laptop and work 1 and a half hours when I get there... Hummmmmmmmmmmm... It ain't going to happen.
I live in Portugal and the government does not keep such a stronghold on it's citizens. I know both a lot of journalists and quite a few SIS (the local spooks) and no such thing happens. In fact, at the smallest try of interference from the government you usually get a Streisand effect and is promptly newscasted all over the place.
Actually I fail to see how this is not fair game. They set a standard which they are entitled to (sorry, if you don't like it, don't buy it, there are plenty of alternatives to iPhone and Apple hasn't really become a monopoly threat), the developers said they met the standard and the App was approved.
Then, it turns out the App didn't meet the standard and was pulled. What's news about this except that if you're going to try to cheat... hey... DON'T POST ON THE INTERNET ABOUT IT.
I agree but... we've been doing it for a long time now. It's called "medicine". We are now able to keep alive and allow to reproduce humans with traits that are supposed to be unviable, allowing those traits to remain in our gene pool. If we don't do something to improve our gene pool, we're bound to become genetically weaker and more prone to disease.
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Although I don't put much faith in this process until I have more data, the "government subsidies" is not a good argument, since the oil being worth $1 a litre does not account for all the indirect subsidy of military intervention to insure constant suply.
True. Any suggestion on what to do in this circumstance?
I generally agree with everything that you have said. But there is an exceptional circumstance that must be considered, which is when the lawmakers and the law enforcers no longer are acting in the best interest of the people that elected them but in their own best interest. That thing you call democracy was enacted pretty much throughout the world by a bunch of "criminals" and "terrorists" that organized "riots" that eventually toppled the previous form of government.
How different do you find this situation? Has Wikileaks been charged, judged and convicted? No. The people's elected governments are using non-legal tactics to defend itself from the exposure of it's own misdeeds.
I don't understand your point. I pay my bank a bunch of fees for them to keep my money safe and available, otherwise I'd keep it under my matress. You mean that when they fail to provide me the service I pay for I should be punished for their mistake?
I completely agree but I one further advantage: forcing us to REMEMBER the lessons learned by having an ongoing need for the skills involved. We learned with the Apolo program how easy it is to forget skills and lose schematics...
Well, in Portugal's capital, Lisbon, quite a few buses offer WiFi for a fee.
Well, since that model of iPhone hasn't been released yet, how can you prove that it's over $950?
... 25 minutes of cellphone on the right ear?
Actually most of it was backed up http://www.geocities.ws/
Obligatory quote: "Don't anthropomorphize our gadgets, they hate that"
Although I can't name it, there was a movie in the 80's about a building that recycled human body heat for energy... until the computer went awry and started killing everyone for their body heat.
Well, given that I posted this from work (IT consulting, nothing to do with Google or ads), I could say I have been paid to write this. Only that I own the company, so I kinda paid myself ;)
I will probably be modded down as troll, but not only I don't mind at all having ads in my Gmail account (after all, I am getting a "free" service, it is only fair they get something in return) but in a number of occasions I've actually found them useful, suggesting me relevant products that I didn't know about.
I am not a neurosomething, but what we've been seeing seems to indicate differently. The brain is hugely adaptable on it's own to new input sources, as we have been shown by the hability do adapt do hearing and sight replacement devices. The systems we have for reading thoughts are nowhere nearly as adaptable to our individual differences.
A shame that a professional who is protected under the freedom of speech cloak disrespects it with such behaviour. Well, guess you can all use you right telling him so at kgreenbaum@post-dispatch.com
Although I agree that for some jobs that is a clever alternative and the almost eventual future, there will always be a lot of jobs that require the warm body around (medical, teaching and the likes). So yes, we should invest in reducing the need to commute but also in making the process as efficient as possible when we don't have a alternative.
If you haven't noticed, Google is making a huge effort to replace everything you should want on a computer with a Javascript webapp. Believe me, in time, Javascript raw speed will be pivotal to their hability to sell online services.
They are working with those already: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/DTN.html
The one that drops me in the center of the city I'm headed instead of 50 kms off.
The type of customer regular airlines take the most profit from is the business customer. Now, let me see: I can take 4 hours by train to get there and get 4 hours of work in the meantime OR spend 30 minutes going through security check, spend 2 hours on flight with no laptop and work 1 and a half hours when I get there... Hummmmmmmmmmmm... It ain't going to happen.
I live in Portugal and the government does not keep such a stronghold on it's citizens. I know both a lot of journalists and quite a few SIS (the local spooks) and no such thing happens. In fact, at the smallest try of interference from the government you usually get a Streisand effect and is promptly newscasted all over the place.
"and that may take more energy to make than we'll get out of it anyways."
Fortunately the law of energy conservation still applies in Slashdot
Making up 500 words of bullshit is actually a quite important skill to have in any job.
Actually I fail to see how this is not fair game. They set a standard which they are entitled to (sorry, if you don't like it, don't buy it, there are plenty of alternatives to iPhone and Apple hasn't really become a monopoly threat), the developers said they met the standard and the App was approved.
Then, it turns out the App didn't meet the standard and was pulled. What's news about this except that if you're going to try to cheat... hey... DON'T POST ON THE INTERNET ABOUT IT.
I agree but... we've been doing it for a long time now. It's called "medicine". We are now able to keep alive and allow to reproduce humans with traits that are supposed to be unviable, allowing those traits to remain in our gene pool. If we don't do something to improve our gene pool, we're bound to become genetically weaker and more prone to disease.