According to Handy, Novell has been quite clear that they had never agreed that Microsoft had any proof of Microsoft patent violations in Linux
It doesn't matter what anyone says, what matters is the text of the agreement between the two companies and whether its contrary to the GPL and what Microsoft will do based on it.
I was unable to find any scientific evidence or reported cases of permanent psychological damage or death due to sleep deprivation, except in the case of an exceedingly rare biological disorder called Fatal Familial Insomnia. Of course, sleep deprivation can cause errors in judgment and reduced reaction time that can lead to death, but that wasn't what the parent meant.
Sleep deprivation can (but not necessarily will) kill you faster than dieing of hunger or thirst, that is a proven fact as far as I know. The few people in South Korea that have died in gaming marathons illustrate the point well. There were some experiments into how long can someone stay awake and stuff like that in a controlled environment. Things got really bad after 10 days.
between not feeling sleepy, and not needing sleep.
There is quite fascinating research into this subject actually with old people. Research determined that it's not that they need less sleep in old age, but that they can't sleep more and it is speeding up the consequences of old age.
So even if you don't feel sleepy, you need sleep and the effects would be quite devastating on a medium/long term. The problem with the drug industry is that it's more profitable for them to treat/mask sympthoms than to actually cure something. There are various anti-flu pills for example that only mask the sympthoms, so it will take a month or two to recover from a simple cold instead a week or two.
This is the third of your posts today that while having read half of it I was about to disagree with, when you turned the direction of your post completely around and made some insightful observations. Stop confusing me, man!;)
as a welcome source of underrepresented criticisms
Yeah, 0.1% or less of the scientific community (if we're really generous) that doubts global warming is given 50% airtime and their extreme minority views compared to the overwhelming scientific consensus are titled "debate". That is SO underrepresented.
I'm suprised that you didn't actually capitalize the truth like: "who wants to know THE TRUTH!!!!1111"
I'm also suprised that the old method of "I'll get modded down of course by a knee jerk reaction" gauging mods still works. Kinda like naming an unpatriotic law "patriot act" so that you cannot vote/talk against it. By definition noone knows "the truth", the science is basically a human approximation of it - try to come up with the best model we can't disprove. That's science.
There is a poignancy to watching the man who won the popular vote for US President in 2000 schlepping his stuff from venue to venue, telling the same story over and over.
Not to call the modern time Godwin on this one, but it is scary that Al Gore most likely accomplished more positive things while not being a president than Bush as a president. It would have been interesting to see what Al Gore would have been capable of as a president.
I usually don't take offense at the US centric thinking on/., since usians reading it are the majority, however it would be nice if you could just stop clinging to these myths, like "the united states is the land of the free and the brave", "the best democracy in the world", "we have the biggest economy in the world", "we manufacture the most stuff", etc.
Microsoft is about selling a product, not providing customer satisfaction.
I feel I need to add, that in most businesses selling a product provides customer satisfaction. However, such is the case with monopolies, that providing customer satisfaction is no longer a requirement, or a much less fulfilled requirement.
You don't know what is a fanboy until you read this:
The first buyer, Isaiah Triforce Johnson, had been waiting outside the store for more than a week. He wore a Nintendo Power Glove, a wearable controller that came out in 1989, while shaking hands with Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. Johnson said he had legally changed his name to include a reference to Nintendo's "Zelda" series of games.
Does anyone have raw numbers comparing the Wii and PS3 sales? (Or noone releases these?)
I would be interested in seeing how many times the number of Wii units sold vs PS3, since we know that the Wii supply was plentiful and the PS3 scarce.
Well maybe not in my living room, but if I have to choose the cost between storing the byproducts of solar panel manufacturing and this:
The stated goals for a commercial fusion power station design are that the amount of radioactive waste produced will be hundreds of times less than that of a fission reactor, that it will produce no long-lived radioactive waste, and that it will be impossible for any fusion reactor to undergo a large-scale runaway chain reaction. This is because the amount of fuel planned to be contained in a fusion reactor chamber (one half gram of deuterium/tritium fuel[14]) is only enough to sustain the reaction for an hour at maximum[15], whereas a fission reactor usually contains several years worth of fuel[16]. Proponents note that large-scale fusion power -- if it works -- will be able to produce reliable electricity on demand and with virtually zero pollution (zero gaseous CO2 / SO2 / NOx by-products are made).
...then I'll pick the latter tyvm.
By the way, I know that you're trolling, but that doesn't stop me from writing a post that might be interesting to other people.
It's pretty much the same way with a fusion plant. You can use or produce materials useful in nuclear weapons, but the reactor will be nowhere close to a weapon itself.
A fusion plant does not operate on weaponizable materials, period. It is the cleanest form of energy we know of, INCLUDING solar (creation of solar panels are not so green) and wind (messes up local wind patterns and disturbs wildlife).
Noone should read Michael Crichton and base scientific policy on it, most importantly because what he writes is fiction. It may a good thing for provoking some thoughts, but nothing else. Scientists taking advice from him? I would think we would know better than that to propose such thing especially after his State of Fear (the book where he portrays global warming/climate change as fud making terrorists).
I wouldn't take even Asimov novells as anything to be read if I would want to do science in a particular field. Fiction!=Science, no matter how good fiction it is.
people berating, criticizing and/or demanding of government (officials) without offering any solutions or compromises.
I don't see anything wrong with that. The voters don't have to come up with the solutions, thats why the politicians are there. Think of the voters as a review committee.
The politicians have _vastly superior_ platforms than the average blogger to explain themselves, their ideas, their situation or in your examples the concept of public taxation to support the public ventures, with which the government is tasked to carry out.
And as for your last point, response doesn't have to be immediate or direct in order to be a response.
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Thou shalt be cast down for prior art.
There are even scarier truths in science. Imagine this:
100% of the atoms making us up are DIFFERENT. No two person has the exact SAME atoms!!
Oh please say it ain't true! Say it ain't true! Now I will have to meditate for half an hour in my religious beliefs just to be able to breath again!
It's actually pretty tiring to refute you ignoramuses point by point every time...
between not feeling sleepy, and not needing sleep.
There is quite fascinating research into this subject actually with old people. Research determined that it's not that they need less sleep in old age, but that they can't sleep more and it is speeding up the consequences of old age.
So even if you don't feel sleepy, you need sleep and the effects would be quite devastating on a medium/long term. The problem with the drug industry is that it's more profitable for them to treat/mask sympthoms than to actually cure something. There are various anti-flu pills for example that only mask the sympthoms, so it will take a month or two to recover from a simple cold instead a week or two.
This is the third of your posts today that while having read half of it I was about to disagree with, when you turned the direction of your post completely around and made some insightful observations. Stop confusing me, man! ;)
I'm suprised that you didn't actually capitalize the truth like: "who wants to know THE TRUTH!!!!1111"
I'm also suprised that the old method of "I'll get modded down of course by a knee jerk reaction" gauging mods still works. Kinda like naming an unpatriotic law "patriot act" so that you cannot vote/talk against it. By definition noone knows "the truth", the science is basically a human approximation of it - try to come up with the best model we can't disprove. That's science.
It is just uninformed.
Freedom can be used for both good and bad things.
Here is the specification detailing those machines.
Does anyone have raw numbers comparing the Wii and PS3 sales? (Or noone releases these?)
I would be interested in seeing how many times the number of Wii units sold vs PS3, since we know that the Wii supply was plentiful and the PS3 scarce.
I know it's not usual around here, but please read the link I've provided.
By the way, I know that you're trolling, but that doesn't stop me from writing a post that might be interesting to other people.
You know what the previous sentence is? Yeah. It's the _bug_.
So low-risk.
Noone should read Michael Crichton and base scientific policy on it, most importantly because what he writes is fiction. It may a good thing for provoking some thoughts, but nothing else. Scientists taking advice from him? I would think we would know better than that to propose such thing especially after his State of Fear (the book where he portrays global warming/climate change as fud making terrorists).
I wouldn't take even Asimov novells as anything to be read if I would want to do science in a particular field. Fiction!=Science, no matter how good fiction it is.
The politicians have _vastly superior_ platforms than the average blogger to explain themselves, their ideas, their situation or in your examples the concept of public taxation to support the public ventures, with which the government is tasked to carry out.
And as for your last point, response doesn't have to be immediate or direct in order to be a response.