No. But I can see the day when a child with a genetic disease can sue his parents because given this technology they *should have known* offspring could inherit problems, therefore it is their actions can be considered willful harm.
Unless of course we build a rocket and fire all the lawyers into the sun.
I believe in God, but I'm no fundamentalist crackpot.
Even their basic premise defies logic. God supposedly loves us unconditionally, BUT you have to be Christian and believe in God otherwise you're doomed. And you can't be gay. So much for unconditional. (I love you but your soul has to burn in hell forever, sorry. Nothing I can do - them's the rules. Please file an appeal with Satan when you see him).
The concept that God is perfect, but created imperfect beings with sin and then expect perfection is just ridiculous. What is he really Loki the Viking trickster God? Or maybe a bitter software manager from another reality?
Godless liberal countries with universal healthcare like Canada and Finland have the best graduation rates in the world. Sorry Texas conservsatives, youre on the losing side of history.
I know you are kidding, but godless Canada? We actually have a God reference in our anthem, something the US anthem lacks.
Having a culture based on religious traditions is an entirely different thing than having religion rule that culture.
Separating church and state does not mean you ignore the many good lessons about morality that religion has to offer, but it DOES mean that any one religion does not get the power to decare supremacy over the religion of others.
If you buy crap, expect crap. If you want something long lasting, then buy quality. But you can't force people to buy machines with expensive components. Those 5 broken Latitudes would not be broken if the owners had bought Precision or Thinkpad instead. The would still be working. Swapping parts to try and cobble something together would be pointless.
So what is your solution? Create a universal standard and outlaw anything that doesn't fit? Standards aren't the problem - patents are, preventing another company from making compatible parts.
Actually for standards, Compaq is the worst offender. Even the timing is different. Every other computer on the planet uses a 10ms timer for event syncronization and task switching. Compaqs use 15ms. So everything has to be written special for running on Compaqs. Not sure about XP and later but you couldn't even install OEM NT onto a Compaq - install would fail telling you you had to have a Compaq version. Compaq is the worst piece of crap on the planet.
I don't think standards have anything to do with it - it's purely quality of parts. The reason Thinkpads were the most expensive at the time was they used quality components, and you had to pay a premium for that. Most people aren't willing to spend twice what they can get a discount laptop for, and ignore the long term cost of ownership.
Dell is a perfect example. Right now I have a Dell Precision M4400. Best laptop I've ever owned. However the Dell Insiron are half the price but complete crap. At work our IS department will refuse a request to get any Inpiron due to short lifespan. No problem with Precision line though. This applies to both desktop and laptop.
However I don't wish this to be mandated - if people want to buy crap let them. The last thing we need is more government interference through useless standards.
And how many laptops have you gone through now. Two? Three? How sad is it that computers are quickly becoming as disposable as cell phones. I wonder how many laptops are filling up the landfills right now because it would cost more to fix those proprietary hunks of plastic than they are worth.
In several decades of computer ownership I have NEVER had a computer just break. The only reason I've ever upgraded is in the cases wanted to do something that exceeded the computational abilities of the old computer. The one time I bought a desktop that was upgradeable, the standards changed so I couldn't upgrade it anyway (except for the case I guess).
So in that case, laptops cause no more landfill problems than desktops - less in fact because they are smaller. I've also switched to laptops - they are far more convenient and flexible.
Now as for TFA, this sounds like a PEBKAC problem to me. For this thing to work you have to have a website in IE that has no business throwing up Windows dialog boxes...
I think the real problem is that people keep running IE which is basically a portal for viruses into your computer.
Have you ever built anything substantial? Multi-million, multi-year dozen engineer project? I have.
You do save a bit on making a few instead of one, but trust me, significant economies of scale don't kick in until you produce more than 10 units. Before that it's only minor savings.
remember development costs only happen once and you get economies of scale when you make and launch a quantity of near identical spacecraft
No. Economies of scale really only kick in to any significant value when you make more than 10 units. And only really kick in when you make more than 100.
All these space probes are hand built. Manufacture costs for two are still about twice the cost of one.
Studying Saturn is a waste of money at this time even if there is life on Saturn's moon. We should focus on stuff which influences life one earth.
Yes, lets stop the space program and focus on real issues at home. Wait! Now there's about 100 thousand unemployed people laid off who directly or indirectly worked for the space program! That's much better than wasting time looking at Saturn,
Thats kinda like saying that guns are a problem in armed home robberies, so lets give everyone a gun, then there will be so many stupid people with guns firing them off that houses will have to be built with better security..
The problem with your solution is that the internet will be so unsafe that no one will be able to use it for anything lest they be robbed blind. We might as well just throw out the computers and go back to manual bank transactions.
Agreed. However if the sea level dropped by 100m, You can get to Crete from Greece via the island chain to the northwest, with only two boat trips: one of 6 miles, and the other of 15 miles. This is easily doable even in a primitive boat or raft.
This inalienable right is stated where exactly? And what happens when they can more easily gather DNA evidence by say a simple electronic scan? You are dropping DNA with every step.
This is estimated to be due to deglacification around 7k years ago. The National Institute of Oceanography states that in studies the sea level of India's coast were about 100m lower about 14k years ago, so extrapolating (a dangerous game I know =) we could say it may be possible that at some point the voyage to Crete was either walkable, or a very short sea voyage.
Good point. The size of the glaciers in the last ice age peaked about 18k years ago so the sea levels would have been lowest about then (the water had to come from somewhere). So potentially people could have either walked to Crete around that time frame, or it would have been a much easier boat trip so the boats need not have been very sophisticated, maybe no more than rafts.
Just putting forward an alternate explanation, I'm no expert in this area.
To the uneducated, a lot of source code just looks like bug ridden inane rantings from incompetent software people who have no social skills and have yet to get out of their parents basement. Oh wait - bad example.
It would be more surprising if no one thought of make a raft or boat for tens of thousands of years.
Just as equally surprising is that the romans didn't bother to build an airplane or nuclear reactor, since they obviously knew how to do that too.
Of course the missing part in the bible is that when Jesus rose from the dead, he hopped in his F22 and spread the message of love and advanced weaponry to the world. Thats how America got to be number one.
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No. But I can see the day when a child with a genetic disease can sue his parents because given this technology they *should have known* offspring could inherit problems, therefore it is their actions can be considered willful harm.
Unless of course we build a rocket and fire all the lawyers into the sun.
I believe in God, but I'm no fundamentalist crackpot.
Even their basic premise defies logic. God supposedly loves us unconditionally, BUT you have to be Christian and believe in God otherwise you're doomed. And you can't be gay. So much for unconditional. (I love you but your soul has to burn in hell forever, sorry. Nothing I can do - them's the rules. Please file an appeal with Satan when you see him).
The concept that God is perfect, but created imperfect beings with sin and then expect perfection is just ridiculous. What is he really Loki the Viking trickster God? Or maybe a bitter software manager from another reality?
Godless liberal countries with universal healthcare like Canada and Finland have the best graduation rates in the world. Sorry Texas conservsatives, youre on the losing side of history.
I know you are kidding, but godless Canada? We actually have a God reference in our anthem, something the US anthem lacks.
Having a culture based on religious traditions is an entirely different thing than having religion rule that culture.
Separating church and state does not mean you ignore the many good lessons about morality that religion has to offer, but it DOES mean that any one religion does not get the power to decare supremacy over the religion of others.
Without those religious fundamentalists fighting and dieing for their beliefs you would still be stuck under the rule of the Anglican church.
Religious fundamentalists? You mean the Taliban?
If you buy crap, expect crap. If you want something long lasting, then buy quality. But you can't force people to buy machines with expensive components. Those 5 broken Latitudes would not be broken if the owners had bought Precision or Thinkpad instead. The would still be working. Swapping parts to try and cobble something together would be pointless.
So what is your solution? Create a universal standard and outlaw anything that doesn't fit? Standards aren't the problem - patents are, preventing another company from making compatible parts.
Actually for standards, Compaq is the worst offender. Even the timing is different. Every other computer on the planet uses a 10ms timer for event syncronization and task switching. Compaqs use 15ms. So everything has to be written special for running on Compaqs. Not sure about XP and later but you couldn't even install OEM NT onto a Compaq - install would fail telling you you had to have a Compaq version. Compaq is the worst piece of crap on the planet.
I don't think standards have anything to do with it - it's purely quality of parts. The reason Thinkpads were the most expensive at the time was they used quality components, and you had to pay a premium for that. Most people aren't willing to spend twice what they can get a discount laptop for, and ignore the long term cost of ownership.
Dell is a perfect example. Right now I have a Dell Precision M4400. Best laptop I've ever owned. However the Dell Insiron are half the price but complete crap. At work our IS department will refuse a request to get any Inpiron due to short lifespan. No problem with Precision line though. This applies to both desktop and laptop.
However I don't wish this to be mandated - if people want to buy crap let them. The last thing we need is more government interference through useless standards.
Personally I've never had a problem with laptops. I have a 14 year old IBM Thinkpad that still works perfectly. No repairs, no failures of any kind.
Contrast that to my old desktop that had the floppy drive catch on fire (but it still worked after so I never bothered fixing it).
And how many laptops have you gone through now. Two? Three? How sad is it that computers are quickly becoming as disposable as cell phones. I wonder how many laptops are filling up the landfills right now because it would cost more to fix those proprietary hunks of plastic than they are worth.
In several decades of computer ownership I have NEVER had a computer just break. The only reason I've ever upgraded is in the cases wanted to do something that exceeded the computational abilities of the old computer. The one time I bought a desktop that was upgradeable, the standards changed so I couldn't upgrade it anyway (except for the case I guess).
So in that case, laptops cause no more landfill problems than desktops - less in fact because they are smaller. I've also switched to laptops - they are far more convenient and flexible.
Now as for TFA, this sounds like a PEBKAC problem to me. For this thing to work you have to have a website in IE that has no business throwing up Windows dialog boxes...
I think the real problem is that people keep running IE which is basically a portal for viruses into your computer.
Have you ever built anything substantial? Multi-million, multi-year dozen engineer project? I have.
You do save a bit on making a few instead of one, but trust me, significant economies of scale don't kick in until you produce more than 10 units. Before that it's only minor savings.
The heat on Enceladus comes from the massive gravitational effect of Saturn which is constantly twisting the planet and generating interior core heat.
It also takes time. Possibly 500 million years or more and Enceladus doesn't have that as well.
What are you talking about? Life here on Earth has only been around for 8000 years. Of course only non-intelligent life actually believes that.
remember development costs only happen once and you get economies of scale when you make and launch a quantity of near identical spacecraft
No. Economies of scale really only kick in to any significant value when you make more than 10 units. And only really kick in when you make more than 100.
All these space probes are hand built. Manufacture costs for two are still about twice the cost of one.
Studying Saturn is a waste of money at this time even if there is life on Saturn's moon. We should focus on stuff which influences life one earth.
Yes, lets stop the space program and focus on real issues at home. Wait! Now there's about 100 thousand unemployed people laid off who directly or indirectly worked for the space program! That's much better than wasting time looking at Saturn,
Thats kinda like saying that guns are a problem in armed home robberies, so lets give everyone a gun, then there will be so many stupid people with guns firing them off that houses will have to be built with better security..
The problem with your solution is that the internet will be so unsafe that no one will be able to use it for anything lest they be robbed blind. We might as well just throw out the computers and go back to manual bank transactions.
Agreed. However if the sea level dropped by 100m, You can get to Crete from Greece via the island chain to the northwest, with only two boat trips: one of 6 miles, and the other of 15 miles. This is easily doable even in a primitive boat or raft.
This inalienable right is stated where exactly? And what happens when they can more easily gather DNA evidence by say a simple electronic scan? You are dropping DNA with every step.
This is estimated to be due to deglacification around 7k years ago. The National Institute of Oceanography states that in studies the sea level of India's coast were about 100m lower about 14k years ago, so extrapolating (a dangerous game I know =) we could say it may be possible that at some point the voyage to Crete was either walkable, or a very short sea voyage.
Good point. The size of the glaciers in the last ice age peaked about 18k years ago so the sea levels would have been lowest about then (the water had to come from somewhere). So potentially people could have either walked to Crete around that time frame, or it would have been a much easier boat trip so the boats need not have been very sophisticated, maybe no more than rafts.
Just putting forward an alternate explanation, I'm no expert in this area.
Those look like rocks to me, not "stone tools".
To the uneducated, a lot of source code just looks like bug ridden inane rantings from incompetent software people who have no social skills and have yet to get out of their parents basement. Oh wait - bad example.
It would be more surprising if no one thought of make a raft or boat for tens of thousands of years.
Just as equally surprising is that the romans didn't bother to build an airplane or nuclear reactor, since they obviously knew how to do that too.
Of course the missing part in the bible is that when Jesus rose from the dead, he hopped in his F22 and spread the message of love and advanced weaponry to the world. Thats how America got to be number one.
No I have not (visited though - beautiful places in South America).
Like I said, if used correctly it could be a good tool to help prevent things like fraud and identity theft.
I agree with you, except that a social program such as health care or a public school system does not equate to socialism.
Why not just refuse and cash the check in your own bank if it was of concern to you?
Universal health care is no more socialist than is the public school system or the judicial system.
You are confusing publicly funded social program with socialism. An easy mistake for someone who gets all their information from Fox news.
Who the hell is Peter? Please stay on topic.