You laugh, but for flash based gaming I prefer internet explorer. Now I know that isn't truly a FireFox issue, but it is the only reason I ever launch ie.
There's just the tiny problem that we have to stop using coal for energy generation like about right now.
No. Not really. Does coal have environmental issues? Of course. But solar takes up vast areas of land, which is an environmental issue too. It can fill a niche, but I don't see it being more than a small percentage of the world's consumption. i'd love to be proven wrong, but there is only so much sun to be sucked out of each square meter.
Now, outer space based generation would be interesting... but then comes the transmission method...
A few issues. The cost of the plant is not $1/watt. that is only for the solar panel itself. If you want a fairer comparison to the $1/watt, take the cost of mining coal. I do not have numbers in front of me, but have seen values of less than 3c per watt. Any additional cost is due to building and maintaining the power plants, other overhead and profit. Compared to your 10-25 cent range, you will come up with much different results.
I'm exagerating of course, but I hope you get the point, asking an uneducated user is not a security measure.
You are severely exaggerating this. I get them message a lot, only because I do a lot of configuration. But overall, the average user will only get questioned on things that are really important. If you are saying the average user cannot even be trusted to do this, then you may as well have Microsoft hold the administrator account, and you need to call them to install anything (at a small fee).
Overall I hate Vista with a passion. See my prior comment in the history for evidence of this. However, I believe they have made great strides in the security realm.
If a user becomes a part of a botnet because the user just must download the cool new toolbar, is it the fault of the OS? If the user chooses to use administrator privileges? What stops a linux box from being the victim of a similar program?
I used 2000 Server at home and XP at work. I can't even get my damn iPAQ to sync with Vista. I have issues with "Windows Explorer has stopped working" issues when copying files from external data stores to my PC. Picasa was causing blue screens until I uninstalled some Dell software.
Some of this could be third party vendor (copying files oughtn't be). But Windows 'Just Works(tm)'. When it fails to do this, it has no edge over Linux.
The study (or at least what was published in this article) says nothing about the rate of crimes solved before the cameras. The study doesn't talk about other issues like police force funding Nothing about the demographics of each borough. So while it may be true that cameras don't stop crime or help to solve it, there is nothing in this article to support that assertion.
" '4. Artificial Intelligence - Problem: Once upon a time, the bad guys in videogames wandered around mindlessly, shooting at you while they waited to die..."
I'm just curious. I see this phenomenon where folks reply to an unrelated first post... this usually happens when there are already several replies to the article itself. Why does this occur?
Moore's second law: "Moore's first law will only work for 10-15 more years". Moore's third law: "Moore's second law applies from the time it is quoted not from when it was originally uttered".
I disagree, while nuclear weapons may have hastened the end of the war, the "end" came in the form of a formal surrender.
Then you have so diluted the word "win" that it no longer has any meaning. It is like saying fists don't win a fight because my opponent begged for mercy and I stopped beating him. You are arguing that it was his begging that stopped the fight. The fact is that military CAN win a war through force alone, but our society (thankfully) puts a brake on that type of activity.
That is not true. Many civilizations no longer exist because they were destroyed by another. We, as a society, are unwilling to accept the measures needed to really win a military war. For this I am thankful. But saying that military might can't end a war is completely false.
If there is no point in a seventy year existence, then how is there any point in an infinite existence?
I'd also recommend reading Ecclesiastes. It is fascinating how folks 3,000-4,000 before you came to the exact same conclusions and what their reasoning was beyond that. It is probably a 30 minute read...
Because if we had a billion years to fool around with, the first 60 don't matter.
And that may be why we have such limited life spans. When you only have a few years to live, you are much more apt to make them count. Perhaps when we have truly learned to make use of our time productively, then we will deserve to live longer...
"I wish to live in a time where an intelligent species (doesn't have to be human) still exists and a technological singularity has happened to that species and available to all member of that species which enables them to live forever in a time where that species is no longer in danger of being wiped out for at least billions of years nor in danger of being enslaved by other species and is currently colonizing the known universe."
Why is it that people wish to live a billion years yet don't have anything more productive to do with their limited life than post on Slashdot?
Wow. I have seen a couple instances where you take fact A add it to fact B and come up with false conclusion C. This is another one.
Fact A: The US has a history of stereotyping other cultures Fact B: The US executive administration wants to go to war with Iran. False Conclusion C: We are not allowed to paint Iran as bigoted, sexist or totalitarian.
The fact that the US has problems does not correlate to Iran being pure as the wind-driven snow. In fact with all of our problems, I'd much rather live here we have the opportunity to fix our problems.
As a windows user who has very little experience with Windows: This is one of the strengths of open source. if you have a large enough base of contributors, these "little" details are brought out into the open, and you can really understand how things work. I've read a bit on the subject, and it is interesting to see the different approaches that can be taken to something that most of us do not even think about.
With Windows, how does this work? I will never know for sure. if MS doesn't choose to make it known, it isn't known. If they choose to make it known, then I just have to trust they are telling the truth (Windows Update anyone).
With a project like this, you are much more likely to get the best approach to the situation.
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You laugh, but for flash based gaming I prefer internet explorer. Now I know that isn't truly a FireFox issue, but it is the only reason I ever launch ie.
Noob. Any conspiracy theory has to involve black planes.
There's just the tiny problem that we have to stop using coal for energy generation like about right now.
No. Not really. Does coal have environmental issues? Of course. But solar takes up vast areas of land, which is an environmental issue too. It can fill a niche, but I don't see it being more than a small percentage of the world's consumption. i'd love to be proven wrong, but there is only so much sun to be sucked out of each square meter.
Now, outer space based generation would be interesting... but then comes the transmission method...
A few issues. The cost of the plant is not $1/watt. that is only for the solar panel itself. If you want a fairer comparison to the $1/watt, take the cost of mining coal. I do not have numbers in front of me, but have seen values of less than 3c per watt. Any additional cost is due to building and maintaining the power plants, other overhead and profit. Compared to your 10-25 cent range, you will come up with much different results.
I'm exagerating of course, but I hope you get the point, asking an uneducated user is not a security measure.
You are severely exaggerating this. I get them message a lot, only because I do a lot of configuration. But overall, the average user will only get questioned on things that are really important. If you are saying the average user cannot even be trusted to do this, then you may as well have Microsoft hold the administrator account, and you need to call them to install anything (at a small fee).
Overall I hate Vista with a passion. See my prior comment in the history for evidence of this. However, I believe they have made great strides in the security realm.
If a user becomes a part of a botnet because the user just must download the cool new toolbar, is it the fault of the OS? If the user chooses to use administrator privileges? What stops a linux box from being the victim of a similar program?
I used 2000 Server at home and XP at work. I can't even get my damn iPAQ to sync with Vista. I have issues with "Windows Explorer has stopped working" issues when copying files from external data stores to my PC. Picasa was causing blue screens until I uninstalled some Dell software.
Some of this could be third party vendor (copying files oughtn't be). But Windows 'Just Works(tm)'. When it fails to do this, it has no edge over Linux.
The study (or at least what was published in this article) says nothing about the rate of crimes solved before the cameras. The study doesn't talk about other issues like police force funding Nothing about the demographics of each borough. So while it may be true that cameras don't stop crime or help to solve it, there is nothing in this article to support that assertion.
" '4. Artificial Intelligence - Problem: Once upon a time, the bad guys in videogames wandered around mindlessly, shooting at you while they waited to die. .."
I think this describes me on any FPS.
I'm just curious. I see this phenomenon where folks reply to an unrelated first post... this usually happens when there are already several replies to the article itself. Why does this occur?
Quoting Star Trek doesn't prove any point. It was just a TV show.
You realize it was just a movie, right?
Moore's second law: "Moore's first law will only work for 10-15 more years".
Moore's third law: "Moore's second law applies from the time it is quoted not from when it was originally uttered".
I disagree, while nuclear weapons may have hastened the end of the war, the "end" came in the form of a formal surrender.
Then you have so diluted the word "win" that it no longer has any meaning. It is like saying fists don't win a fight because my opponent begged for mercy and I stopped beating him. You are arguing that it was his begging that stopped the fight. The fact is that military CAN win a war through force alone, but our society (thankfully) puts a brake on that type of activity.
You Can't END a war with weapons, only with words
That is not true. Many civilizations no longer exist because they were destroyed by another. We, as a society, are unwilling to accept the measures needed to really win a military war. For this I am thankful. But saying that military might can't end a war is completely false.
If there is no point in a seventy year existence, then how is there any point in an infinite existence?
I'd also recommend reading Ecclesiastes. It is fascinating how folks 3,000-4,000 before you came to the exact same conclusions and what their reasoning was beyond that. It is probably a 30 minute read...
Because if we had a billion years to fool around with, the first 60 don't matter.
And that may be why we have such limited life spans. When you only have a few years to live, you are much more apt to make them count. Perhaps when we have truly learned to make use of our time productively, then we will deserve to live longer...
"I wish to live in a time where an intelligent species (doesn't have to be human) still exists and a technological singularity has happened to that species and available to all member of that species which enables them to live forever in a time where that species is no longer in danger of being wiped out for at least billions of years nor in danger of being enslaved by other species and is currently colonizing the known universe."
Why is it that people wish to live a billion years yet don't have anything more productive to do with their limited life than post on Slashdot?
Wow. I have seen a couple instances where you take fact A add it to fact B and come up with false conclusion C. This is another one.
Fact A: The US has a history of stereotyping other cultures
Fact B: The US executive administration wants to go to war with Iran.
False Conclusion C: We are not allowed to paint Iran as bigoted, sexist or totalitarian.
The fact that the US has problems does not correlate to Iran being pure as the wind-driven snow. In fact with all of our problems, I'd much rather live here we have the opportunity to fix our problems.
Don't bother entering this topic unless you have asbestos briefs on.
As a windows user who has very little experience with Windows
:) Sheesh :)
Should be "very little experience with Linux". You would think Slashdot would have a 'preview' to help with this
As a windows user who has very little experience with Windows: This is one of the strengths of open source. if you have a large enough base of contributors, these "little" details are brought out into the open, and you can really understand how things work. I've read a bit on the subject, and it is interesting to see the different approaches that can be taken to something that most of us do not even think about.
With Windows, how does this work? I will never know for sure. if MS doesn't choose to make it known, it isn't known. If they choose to make it known, then I just have to trust they are telling the truth (Windows Update anyone).
With a project like this, you are much more likely to get the best approach to the situation.
I have developed an algorithm to efficiently decrypt ROT-26. You will need to use it to read this encrypted message.
Your user name is very appropriate.
What is this 'Halo'?