This is a fallacious argument. The amount of paper produced is significantly more than the number of iPads produced. The ratio would have to be on the order of an entire forest worth of paper per iPad for them to even start being close to the same scale in an economically meaningful way.
The image of each iPad costing 100 trees or something might be a strikingly effective visual against the type of people who would buy an iPad in the first place, but the economic argument it leads into doesn't really work like that. There's more to it.
For instance, if all the paper-equivalent iPad production were totaled up, I would be surprised if it even reached 5% of world-wide paper production. Thus, one iPad is insignificant against the power of the paper. There exists an argument that "every little bit helps" but the amount those little bits help can be economically demonstrated, and in this example iPads can be shown to be largely meaningless against the total environmental impact of paper.
So, yes, making iPads more green might be a worthy goal, but if you converted their impact to an equivalent "destruction of forests," it would be an inadequate comparison. Economists would laugh at you derisively.
As a final example, imagine I live in sub-Saharan Africa, and you live in Luxembourg. We might make the same amount of money in terms of US dollars, but my buying power will be incomparably higher in terms of respective GDP.
Wouldn't it be weird if all the bad press and lobbying against nuclear was really funded by the oil and coal folks? That would just be so... unexpected.
I believe Nerdfest was arguing that the continuation of copyright in perpetuity ought to be considered a criminal infringement of the rights of society at large, and that intellectual property laws should be rewritten to prevent the present situation from being possible, wherein art is institutionalized and can never become part of the public domain.
At least, that's an estimated translation in layman's term. His thick legalese can certainly be hard to digest.
If an object radiates away all its energy because it's in space, it doesn't get cold because space is cold. It gets cold because there's nothing there to radiate energy back into the object.
You can say that the stuff in space that isn't just empty space has a temperature, but it's so spread out that radiation becomes the dominant mode of heat transfer, and it has such little mass and is so cool that its black body radiation is meaningless. It is effectively not there for this interaction.
Space isn't actually cold. There's nothing there to be cold. In order to transfer heat, you need something to transfer it into, and there's just nothing there.
See this excellent discussion of cooling problems for the Star Wars planet-city Coruscant.
In James P. Hogan's Giants series, the Giants evolved a unique circulatory system wherein any creature that attempted to eat another would be poisoned.
This evolved before life had left the seas on their planet, and they assumed it would be impossible for life to exist otherwise, as too much evolutionary effort would be spent in killing each other off.
Maybe you should reconsider your assumptions. There are innumerable solutions to this system.
Now, I didn't RTFA or RTFS, but I did RTFH, and I'm pretty sure this story is about using lipstick to write an SQL injection attack directly across your face. I mean, duh.
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As I understand it, they would have lost the config stuff, and there was no back up. Big network, suddenly un-configured. Not a good day.
You're right. My mistake. Thank you.
Additionally, he was obligated by contract not to disclose the passwords, and he was meeting that obligation by not releasing them.
The teenage girls keep turning him down.
You can kill people and get less than five years in jail.
I know! Thank science he didn't smoke pot or something, then he'd be in for life!
This is a fallacious argument. The amount of paper produced is significantly more than the number of iPads produced. The ratio would have to be on the order of an entire forest worth of paper per iPad for them to even start being close to the same scale in an economically meaningful way.
The image of each iPad costing 100 trees or something might be a strikingly effective visual against the type of people who would buy an iPad in the first place, but the economic argument it leads into doesn't really work like that. There's more to it.
For instance, if all the paper-equivalent iPad production were totaled up, I would be surprised if it even reached 5% of world-wide paper production. Thus, one iPad is insignificant against the power of the paper. There exists an argument that "every little bit helps" but the amount those little bits help can be economically demonstrated, and in this example iPads can be shown to be largely meaningless against the total environmental impact of paper.
So, yes, making iPads more green might be a worthy goal, but if you converted their impact to an equivalent "destruction of forests," it would be an inadequate comparison. Economists would laugh at you derisively.
As a final example, imagine I live in sub-Saharan Africa, and you live in Luxembourg. We might make the same amount of money in terms of US dollars, but my buying power will be incomparably higher in terms of respective GDP.
Wouldn't it be weird if all the bad press and lobbying against nuclear was really funded by the oil and coal folks? That would just be so... unexpected.
Why would I want that BD-R junk when this is the same price and rewriteable?
"Ya, but you were chandlering all night afterwards..."
I believe Nerdfest was arguing that the continuation of copyright in perpetuity ought to be considered a criminal infringement of the rights of society at large, and that intellectual property laws should be rewritten to prevent the present situation from being possible, wherein art is institutionalized and can never become part of the public domain.
At least, that's an estimated translation in layman's term. His thick legalese can certainly be hard to digest.
What if you're sleeping with a clone? What if identical twins hook up?
Note for mods: check Ironix's sig.
If an object radiates away all its energy because it's in space, it doesn't get cold because space is cold. It gets cold because there's nothing there to radiate energy back into the object.
You can say that the stuff in space that isn't just empty space has a temperature, but it's so spread out that radiation becomes the dominant mode of heat transfer, and it has such little mass and is so cool that its black body radiation is meaningless. It is effectively not there for this interaction.
Space isn't actually cold. There's nothing there to be cold. In order to transfer heat, you need something to transfer it into, and there's just nothing there.
See this excellent discussion of cooling problems for the Star Wars planet-city Coruscant.
It is the National Air and Space Administration
Nah, most of EF/DALNet is shut down these days.
That's not true, it could have been an actual ghost/sea monster/space cow. You never know.
Wouldn't that be a great, sort of surreal Scooby episode?
We saw right through your scheme to hide cows inside of Jupiter, Mr Wilikins!
In James P. Hogan's Giants series, the Giants evolved a unique circulatory system wherein any creature that attempted to eat another would be poisoned.
This evolved before life had left the seas on their planet, and they assumed it would be impossible for life to exist otherwise, as too much evolutionary effort would be spent in killing each other off.
Maybe you should reconsider your assumptions. There are innumerable solutions to this system.
I will also posit that intergalactic travel is near impossible without the ability to understand anthropology
Score! I knew this master's degree in linguistic anthropology would get me somewhere in life! Andromeda, here I come!
What if I just shoot anyone who tries to get in? That's not obscurity, and it could be pretty secure.
If you send them to /dev/random, it should eventually give them everything on the internet. Eventually.
Now, I didn't RTFA or RTFS, but I did RTFH, and I'm pretty sure this story is about using lipstick to write an SQL injection attack directly across your face. I mean, duh.
Why don't you try to RTFH sometime?
I actually thought Zachary Quinto did probably the best job of anyone in the reboot.
Maybe, but he didn't get the best line.
"As you were."
Ten points if you actually knew what that was from when you first played the game.