It can be towed away. In the article it says: "Russia will only sell its products - electric power, heat and fresh water. [snip] A floating plant under the Russian flag would be taken up to the coasts of states that had signed the necessary agreements. It would drop anchor in a convenient place [snip]. Then it would start up its reactors and - let there be light!"
After 12 years, it would be towed back home, leaving no nuclear materials behind. It's like selling fish instead of fishing nets.
While I generaly agree with you, I think you are going too far. First, I get the same burning on my ear after gabbing on my landline, corded phone. In this case there is no radiation and the effect is the same.
Also, while having all that microwaves cooking your brain is not funny, there are many headsets available, both in brain-safe corded form and in slow cooking, 2.5 mW Bluetooth form. In both cases, you can pick less sensitive parts of your body to cook and still have the convenience of a cell phone.
The point is that they want to deter the rich from choosing the option meant for the poor. They want the rich "afraid" of traveling third class. That way they can completely separate the markets and charge the rich as much as they want without having passengers downgrade.
Replace Third Class with Celeron, First and Second with Pentium and passengers with users if it makes the analogy clearer.
But then again people with higher education are more likely to drink wine and those with less education more likely to drink beer.
I'm not going to argue wether HIV causes AIDS since I'm not an expert in the field. However I do object to your analogy: While there are no theories on how wine drinking makes you better educated, there are theories on how HIV leads to AIDS - namely HIV destroys your inmune system, so you become inmuno-deficient. This doesn't, on itself mean that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS. However, it gives the claim more credibility than what your analogy implies.
A more accurate analogy for the claims you make would have been the correlation between the nutrition a person receives during the early stages of his or her development and his or her IQ when he or she grows up. It is still not very precise, since AFAIK there are no other known factors that correlate as closely to AIDS as HIV does (while there are many for IQ), but here there is a hypothesised causality: less food -> fewer "building blocks" for the brain and less energy to spend building it -> lower IQ.
Regarding your last claim I can't quite understand what you mean. The way I read your post is (please correct me if I misunderstood you): "It is very probable that, in order to get AIDS, you need to have not only HIV but also some other factor. This factor is so hard to find that, before funding was interrupted, no progress had been made on finding its nature." If we all agree that without HIV there is no AIDS, how is funding research that may lead to cure HIV detrimental to the quest for a solution to the problem of AIDS?
If you know something most of us don't, please explain it. The way you stated your claims, they were needlessly aggressive and provided very little information. You may have friends still working on the field. Have they made any progress in the search for the second factor? Have there been any new discoveries that reduce the likelihood that HIV and AIDS are as linked as most of us believe?
I'm sorry, I went off-toppic with my previous answer. The answer to your question is no. Gravity is not instantaneous. From Gravitational radiation: "The Einstein field equations imply that any accelerated mass emits gravitational radiation, travelling at [the speed of light]."
For a more in depth discussion, see the discussion of gravitational radiation on the USENET physics FAQ. It says, in brief, that gravitational radiation (ie., changes in the gravity field, such as a sun dissapearing) travels, depending on which theory you read, either at the same speed or a tiny bit more slowly than electromagnrtical radiation (ie. light).
How do you want to make the sun disappear? Because of the First Law of Thermodynamics, the ammount of mass/energy there cannot just go away, they must turn into something.
Say all the sun entered a masive nuclear reaction and all the matter became energy (photons). These photons would still exert a gravitational pull (although they have zero REST mass, they have nonzero energy, thus, they behave as really small masses), which would initially be equivalent to that the material sun had an instant before. As the photons go away and stop attracting to the same point, they travel at the speed of light.
So, in brief, no. As long as we don't have teleportation for the sun, there is no way to have it make earth spin instantaneously into space. Gravity is a force between masses and masses don't travel faster than light.
Second that, if it doesn't affect Macs, it has to be installed soft. Either always hold down the shift key, or disable autorun. You will lead a much happier life.
Anyway, for the few albums that don't work with that method, Plextor drives have tools that tell it to work exactly as a CD player, so you can always play your music in your computer.
From Wikipedia: The usual practice in America today is to call an institution made up of several faculties and granting a range of higher degrees a "university" while a smaller institution only granting bachelor's or associate's degrees is called a "college"
No. Apple's two most hyped products now are being marketed to sell software (music through iTunes) at loss to sell hardware (iPods) at huge profit. Apple loses money in the iTMS
In computers it's the same story. If Apple is a software company, why did it kill the Mac Clones Program? Acording to Wikipedia, Jobs said that the clone program was doomed to failure from the start; and since Apple mostly made money by selling computer hardware, for the most part, it ought not engage in a licensing program to reduce its hardware sales.
The same way accidents in commercial airliners have not grounded commercial flying, a small percentage of accidents in spaceflight will not stop people from going to space.
However, I think this will start as a rich person "extreme sport" analogue, which is done knowing the risks involved, just like bungee jumping, parachuting or cave diving.
Look at the problems with SACD and DVD-A. Nobody is buying them
Nobody is buying because, unless you have awesome equipment (read, worth way over $10.000) after the reader (ie. in amps and speakers), you will have a hard time telling DVD-A and CD appart. Heck, with what most people have, MP3 (LAME in APS) will sound just as good to their ears. SACD is a flawed idea, designed more to fight piracy than to sound well.
The industry would benefit more from having ONE SINGLE TRUE UNIFIED STANDARD as opposed to a couple of standards, which would confuse people.
All right, say I'm mister Sony, and I agree with you... should I give up my precious Blu-Ray DVD, which already has an installed userbase in Japan? Say I'm mister Toshiba... should I give up my multi-million R&D investment to pay Sony's liscencing fees?
The hardest part is that both are, by different standards, winning. They have both several manufacturers commited to producing media, and studios commited to relasing their movies in their format.
The the industry focus can be put on actually releasing content and worthwhile stuff
The content creation industry (studios) is working on that, it's the media and recording equipment industry that is not getting together. Except in the case of Sony/Columbia, they don't overlap that much. But it is not as simple for media producers to accept their investments are sunk costs, and they all believe they can win.
As to adblocking, I have no idea, I have been using eDexter for a long time and I have such a tweaked hosts file, I do not even use adblock when I run firefox.
There is one more thing I would like to know whether I can do through FF extensions. One thing that annoys me a lot whenever I run FF is that, unless I spend time creating a whitelist, I can either have all pop-ups open (even those that would display adds if I weren't blocking their images) or none of them, not even those I want to open. Opera has an option for this that is "Block unwanted pop-ups," that opens pop-ups when requested, but ignores pop-ups on page loads and the like. Can I do that in FF?
Thank you very much for your extension list, I'll give it a spin! I hope I get to love it, because I am feeling morally obliged to pay for Opera now, with all the use I'm giving to it.
SCO announced on August 2, 2000 that it would sell its Server Software and Services Divisions, as well as UnixWare and OpenServer technologies, to Caldera Systems, Inc. The purchase was completed in May 2001. At that time Caldera changed its name to "Caldera International", and the remaining part of SCO, the Tarantella Division, changed its name to "Tarantella, Inc."
In August 2002 Caldera International renamed itself "The SCO Group" since the SCO UNIX products were still a strong source of revenue mainly due to the huge installation base dating back to the 1990s. It is this SCO Group, formerly known as Caldera, and not the former Santa Cruz Operation now known as Tarantella, that sued IBM in 2003 for $1 billion for allegedly "devaluing" Unix by contributing to the Unix-like Linux operating system.
Agreed, computers can be really helpful. However, in many cases they are overestimated as a teaching tool. You used a compter to learn how to use a computer. Today, in many schoools, computers are being used to teach mostly anything. I've been unlucky enough to have a computer try to teach me foreign languages, and believe me, in that case te money would have been better spent in teache salaries.
Money spent in computers used to teach computer skills is certainly an excelent investment. Money spent in computers used to teach mostly anyhing else is wasted.
Newer computers are becomnig commodity supercomputers(as Apple used to say in a PowerMac add campaign). And, as Ken Batcher said some years ago, "A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems."
Not if you use good error correction (not detection) methods. If the code is good enough for the degradation of your media, you should be ok.
Each generation gets the previous' data, corrects the error, and reaplies the protection code. The odds of one generation not being able to retrieve the data depend on your code, but can be made "arbitrarily" low.
It depends on which kind of RFID it is. Some tag systems (regular radio, like EZ Pass) can be read at a distance, though your power needs go up with the square of the double of the distance (power beam one way, signal the other).
Magnetic coupling devices (I think contactless subway passes and IDs are like this), on the other hand, are much more complicated to read at a distance, as the field works only at a distance of a small fraction of the wavelength of the read signal.
You will be able to read any of these, but some kinds of tags will be much harder than just getting a can of Pringles.
It may have to do with the fact that a lot of the "must-have" software for engineering, such as the board design protel and I think that some versions of Codewarrior, are Windows only.
Also, this software is usualy VERY expensive. When the manufacturers offer a non-windows version, you usualy have to buy again, rather than ask for the Mac/BSD copy.
Actually, they may not be willing to make a browser for mobile phone Microsoft platforms, as payback for a bad play MSN had on Opera.
Also, Opera for the desktop is one of the best applications I have ever seen. No other browser allows a PII with 384 megabytes of RAM have 200 open pages, without slowing down at all. It is an amazingly flexible browser, that can be molded to your prefferences without a hitch, and without extensions (that may or may not be updated with your browser). It's keyboard and mose shortcuts are impressive.
Furthermore, you have the ability to browse safely all the time. Entered a page that requires java/javascript/a pluggin/refferer logging? press F12 and enable it for the ocasion... if you trust the site.
I really don't think they consider desktop browsers a side job.
You can still get a trackball explorer. While it is not as comfortable as its previous, non-optical incarnation, it is still much more comfortable than anything else in the market.
And yes, it's from Microsoft, so what?
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Sounds like all you need is Burn To The Brim... But honestly, I'd just get a seccond HDD and use a File synchronizer
After 12 years, it would be towed back home, leaving no nuclear materials behind. It's like selling fish instead of fishing nets.
Also, while having all that microwaves cooking your brain is not funny, there are many headsets available, both in brain-safe corded form and in slow cooking, 2.5 mW Bluetooth form. In both cases, you can pick less sensitive parts of your body to cook and still have the convenience of a cell phone.
Replace Third Class with Celeron, First and Second with Pentium and passengers with users if it makes the analogy clearer.
I'm not going to argue wether HIV causes AIDS since I'm not an expert in the field. However I do object to your analogy: While there are no theories on how wine drinking makes you better educated, there are theories on how HIV leads to AIDS - namely HIV destroys your inmune system, so you become inmuno-deficient. This doesn't, on itself mean that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS. However, it gives the claim more credibility than what your analogy implies.
A more accurate analogy for the claims you make would have been the correlation between the nutrition a person receives during the early stages of his or her development and his or her IQ when he or she grows up. It is still not very precise, since AFAIK there are no other known factors that correlate as closely to AIDS as HIV does (while there are many for IQ), but here there is a hypothesised causality: less food -> fewer "building blocks" for the brain and less energy to spend building it -> lower IQ.
Regarding your last claim I can't quite understand what you mean. The way I read your post is (please correct me if I misunderstood you): "It is very probable that, in order to get AIDS, you need to have not only HIV but also some other factor. This factor is so hard to find that, before funding was interrupted, no progress had been made on finding its nature." If we all agree that without HIV there is no AIDS, how is funding research that may lead to cure HIV detrimental to the quest for a solution to the problem of AIDS?
If you know something most of us don't, please explain it. The way you stated your claims, they were needlessly aggressive and provided very little information. You may have friends still working on the field. Have they made any progress in the search for the second factor? Have there been any new discoveries that reduce the likelihood that HIV and AIDS are as linked as most of us believe?
It's the webmasters who feed different pages to different browswer's fault.
For a more in depth discussion, see the discussion of gravitational radiation on the USENET physics FAQ. It says, in brief, that gravitational radiation (ie., changes in the gravity field, such as a sun dissapearing) travels, depending on which theory you read, either at the same speed or a tiny bit more slowly than electromagnrtical radiation (ie. light).
Say all the sun entered a masive nuclear reaction and all the matter became energy (photons). These photons would still exert a gravitational pull (although they have zero REST mass, they have nonzero energy, thus, they behave as really small masses), which would initially be equivalent to that the material sun had an instant before. As the photons go away and stop attracting to the same point, they travel at the speed of light.
So, in brief, no. As long as we don't have teleportation for the sun, there is no way to have it make earth spin instantaneously into space. Gravity is a force between masses and masses don't travel faster than light.
Anyway, for the few albums that don't work with that method, Plextor drives have tools that tell it to work exactly as a CD player, so you can always play your music in your computer.
I hope that helped!
In computers it's the same story. If Apple is a software company, why did it kill the Mac Clones Program? Acording to Wikipedia, Jobs said that the clone program was doomed to failure from the start; and since Apple mostly made money by selling computer hardware, for the most part, it ought not engage in a licensing program to reduce its hardware sales.
However, I think this will start as a rich person "extreme sport" analogue, which is done knowing the risks involved, just like bungee jumping, parachuting or cave diving.
Nobody is buying because, unless you have awesome equipment (read, worth way over $10.000) after the reader (ie. in amps and speakers), you will have a hard time telling DVD-A and CD appart. Heck, with what most people have, MP3 (LAME in APS) will sound just as good to their ears. SACD is a flawed idea, designed more to fight piracy than to sound well.
All right, say I'm mister Sony, and I agree with you... should I give up my precious Blu-Ray DVD, which already has an installed userbase in Japan? Say I'm mister Toshiba... should I give up my multi-million R&D investment to pay Sony's liscencing fees?
The hardest part is that both are, by different standards, winning. They have both several manufacturers commited to producing media, and studios commited to relasing their movies in their format.
The content creation industry (studios) is working on that, it's the media and recording equipment industry that is not getting together. Except in the case of Sony/Columbia, they don't overlap that much. But it is not as simple for media producers to accept their investments are sunk costs, and they all believe they can win.
As to adblocking, I have no idea, I have been using eDexter for a long time and I have such a tweaked hosts file, I do not even use adblock when I run firefox.
There is one more thing I would like to know whether I can do through FF extensions. One thing that annoys me a lot whenever I run FF is that, unless I spend time creating a whitelist, I can either have all pop-ups open (even those that would display adds if I weren't blocking their images) or none of them, not even those I want to open. Opera has an option for this that is "Block unwanted pop-ups," that opens pop-ups when requested, but ignores pop-ups on page loads and the like. Can I do that in FF?
Thank you very much for your extension list, I'll give it a spin! I hope I get to love it, because I am feeling morally obliged to pay for Opera now, with all the use I'm giving to it.
So do Koala Bears, and they only eat leaves. Which proves what?
Money spent in computers used to teach computer skills is certainly an excelent investment. Money spent in computers used to teach mostly anyhing else is wasted.
Newer computers are becomnig commodity supercomputers(as Apple used to say in a PowerMac add campaign). And, as Ken Batcher said some years ago, "A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems."
Each generation gets the previous' data, corrects the error, and reaplies the protection code. The odds of one generation not being able to retrieve the data depend on your code, but can be made "arbitrarily" low.
Magnetic coupling devices (I think contactless subway passes and IDs are like this), on the other hand, are much more complicated to read at a distance, as the field works only at a distance of a small fraction of the wavelength of the read signal.
You will be able to read any of these, but some kinds of tags will be much harder than just getting a can of Pringles.
Also, this software is usualy VERY expensive. When the manufacturers offer a non-windows version, you usualy have to buy again, rather than ask for the Mac/BSD copy.
You're right!! thank you, and I 'm sorry... That'll teach me against posting pseudo-facts from memory without checking first!
Actually, they may not be willing to make a browser for mobile phone Microsoft platforms, as payback for a bad play MSN had on Opera. Also, Opera for the desktop is one of the best applications I have ever seen. No other browser allows a PII with 384 megabytes of RAM have 200 open pages, without slowing down at all. It is an amazingly flexible browser, that can be molded to your prefferences without a hitch, and without extensions (that may or may not be updated with your browser). It's keyboard and mose shortcuts are impressive. Furthermore, you have the ability to browse safely all the time. Entered a page that requires java/javascript/a pluggin/refferer logging? press F12 and enable it for the ocasion... if you trust the site. I really don't think they consider desktop browsers a side job.
You can still get a trackball explorer. While it is not as comfortable as its previous, non-optical incarnation, it is still much more comfortable than anything else in the market. And yes, it's from Microsoft, so what?
This is just like the robots a character (Richard) of the Rama series (by Arthur C. Clarke) makes to have companionship!