No seriously... Throughout history, back before established private schools and universities, the well to do would hire a educated person to basically follow their child around and given them instructions pretty much all the time.
You missed the world leading network quality we have in this part of the world. Considering the lightning fast speed of North American ISP's (What're we up to now? 28.8 kbps?) and their cutting edge innovations into bandwidth shaping technology cloud computing is obviously the wave of the future.
You missed the world leading road quality we have this part of world. Considering the the lightning fast speed of the North American horse and buggy (what are we up to? 4 horses?) and their cutting innovations into muddy road shaping technology model T car is obviously the wave of the future.
No seriously... Just because not everyone has good roads to drive on doesn't mean they can't sell the product to those who do.
That said - I'm more worrying about the consideration about exhausted flash on the motherboard. Have all avenues actually been considered here, or is that a built-in best before date that new motherboards will have?
One would assume that it would be as user replaceable as say... The ram or CPU.
Sucks to be me though, I've got a dominate eye so I can't see the 3D stuff. Just looks like an out of tune tv. Guess i've got that to look forward to when they go mainstream:P
I have the same problem to so when I wear 3d glasses I wear an eye patch.
That's because Germany and Poland only need about one Cell-Phone-Tower each to provide coverage to the entire country.
Maybe they could install that cell phone tower in New Jersey because I still get dropped calls and dead zones in the state with the highest damn population density in the whole United States!
It's like treating an infected wound by setting a person's arm on fire.
Its called cauterization, and some instances is the only way to save someone from death.
Of course we are lucky enough to live in a time where you don't have to bite on a leather belt drunk on whiskey while the blacksmith gets the iron hot, but there was a time that was the only option.
All the people crying OMG WE HAVE INTERNATIONAL LAWS AGAINST DOING THIS AND THIS AND THIS are the kind of people who don't understand this fact. The more horrible war is, the less likely it will happen.
This is not true.
Never has and never will be.
Given the hatred some people have and their beliefs, they'd be gladly go to war even if meant sending their own children to their deaths and cutting off their own limbs in the process just to kill the "enemy".
Then it just escalates from there...
Take the Balkan wars. They've been murdering each other for centuries in the most gruesome possible ways but the animosity is greater than the desire for peace. Its tragic in a sense, but the brutality of war will never stop it from happening.
Had it... We would have stopped at WWI.
Secondly the point of war crimes is basically not to prevent them from but rather have a recourse for the victors at the end of the conflict.
Strangely enough German Admiral Donitz was defended by an American Admiral at Nuremburg on the topic of unrestricted sub warfare simply because the Americans did exactly the same thing to Japan (even as going as far as machine gunning Japanese sailors in the water) yet no one stood trial for it.
Also Poland still is bitter to what the Soviets did to their pows in 1939 yet no one stood trial for that either.
But that does not even remotely mean that an engine failure has to be a fatal problem.
True, but most pilots go through intense training in order to know what to do in such a situation and log plenty of time in the air and via simulation on how to react under pressure.
Your average Joe can barely keep a proper distance between him and the next vehicle on the road, so I doubt the majority of people are going to be able to act properly under pressure when their engine cuts out while flying.
Let 3rd party apps integrate with the core software?
Let developers distribute apps to real devices without needing Apple's blessing?
(while not always as nice looking, other platforms don't have these limitations)
If I wanted viruses on my phone I would have gotten Windows Mobile. (Yeah WinMO doesn't really have a virus problem but I don't want the possibility on my iPhone because its popular enough to be targeted)
But yeah... Multi-tasking and a public API would be a nice start.
When the magicians disappeared, all the make-believe money that was coursing through the veins of the economy dried up and caused the businesses who were relying on people spending that make-believe money to burn out and fail.
Money and wealth are arbitrary values of measurement set by society, businesses, government, or between individuals as it is.
If you are trapped on an desert island with a suitcase full of gold, it won't seem that valuable compared to your neighbors crate of canned foods, or the guy with the can opener.
That said, the gap between utility and wealth often becomes over extended and bubbles will happen.
Just because society thinks something is valuable often does not increase its utility and the lack of value sometimes does not actually decrease utility of the commodity.
Although, if you have organizations like the IRS, world's largest prison system, and nuclear weapons you can make your money valuable by simple force of will.
Think about that next time you pay taxes or buy gas.
The fact that during the billions of years that life existed on Earth, Earth has not turned into a uniform mass of a single biomatter, utterly destroys the "grey goo" hypothesis.
Nuclear weapons weren't natural phenomenon either but we can make them.
The reasons "grey goo" isn't an natural phenomenon is because without applied intelligence such a thing would not survive in the open without adapting the environment.
Come to think of it, the closet thing we have to grey goo right now is humans. We basically can modify the environment to make it easier for more of us to live. Now if you designed machines that could in fact modify the environment to make it suitable for more of them to live is when you run into a problem.
That said... If we had to technology to create gray goo, we'd have the technology to destroy it or at least neutralize it.
Say if we made a gray goo that was solared power, we would just need to blot out the sun... Or just drop several thousand emps on the earth's surface.
Anyways, my point is that when you apply intelligence to a system, you throw natural evolution out the window.
He blew his head off with a shotgun because that's the way he wanted to go out, clearly.
There is always the chance of messing up your suicide attempt. Hanging, posions, wrist cutting doesn't always work. Even with a 9mm some people have been known to survive, albeit in a very painful existence or mentally incapacitated.
A shotgun to the head would pretty much mean death would be ensured.
The only people I know personally died from cancer died peacefully in their sleep... After months of pain and surgery and living under the influence of morphine.
When they were awake they weren't aware anyways... And hospice basically had to clean their sheets every time they used the bathroom.
If you want to spend the last few months of your life crapping yourself in a drug crazed stupor, by all means.
The only way to survive is by being somewhere else when it erupts.
I think that applies to most disasters where being elsewhere is key to survival.
Take California for example... I'm doing pretty good right now living on the East Coast.
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I can't think of a single Windows user who wishes that Microsoft controlled access to every piece of hardware or software that would ever plug into a Windows machine, or who would be happy to pay Microsoft for that right. All I can say is, "Wow".
I don't think any windows user wishes actively to do so either, but do they really care enough to know any better?
The majority of windows users get windows computer simply because its cheap. There are a subset that really need windows for compatibility issues but the majority of joe sixpacks in the world go down to best buy and look at the laptops and think on cost of purchasing (not total cost after wards) so if they take the laptop home and have to use an app store I'm sure some will take it back but many just don't know any better.
The next scare tactic out there is carbon emissions.
I don't see the problem with simply reducing carbon emissions.
Putting billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere isn't happening in a vacuum. Whether or not it is really the cause of global warming is not the issue.
There are plenty of reasons to switch to other energy sources besides coal and oil.
Namely they are geo-political and economic considerations, but they are valid as global warming.
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And they want their personal tutors back.
No seriously... Throughout history, back before established private schools and universities, the well to do would hire a educated person to basically follow their child around and given them instructions pretty much all the time.
You know... Socrates and Alexader the Great
You missed the world leading network quality we have in this part of the world. Considering the lightning fast speed of North American ISP's (What're we up to now? 28.8 kbps?) and their cutting edge innovations into bandwidth shaping technology cloud computing is obviously the wave of the future.
You missed the world leading road quality we have this part of world. Considering the the lightning fast speed of the North American horse and buggy (what are we up to? 4 horses?) and their cutting innovations into muddy road shaping technology model T car is obviously the wave of the future.
No seriously... Just because not everyone has good roads to drive on doesn't mean they can't sell the product to those who do.
I've seen "Cloud Computing" around as a buzzword but I never really cared to investigate what it really was.
Its euphemism for "outsourcing".
Makes it sense when you think about it.
Well yeah... You get a drive with moving parts and write wear.
That said - I'm more worrying about the consideration about exhausted flash on the motherboard. Have all avenues actually been considered here, or is that a built-in best before date that new motherboards will have?
One would assume that it would be as user replaceable as say... The ram or CPU.
Of course Intel might solder it on for spite.
Sucks to be me though, I've got a dominate eye so I can't see the 3D stuff. Just looks like an out of tune tv. Guess i've got that to look forward to when they go mainstream :P
I have the same problem to so when I wear 3d glasses I wear an eye patch.
That's because Germany and Poland only need about one Cell-Phone-Tower each to provide coverage to the entire country.
Maybe they could install that cell phone tower in New Jersey because I still get dropped calls and dead zones in the state with the highest damn population density in the whole United States!
It's like treating an infected wound by setting a person's arm on fire.
Its called cauterization, and some instances is the only way to save someone from death.
Of course we are lucky enough to live in a time where you don't have to bite on a leather belt drunk on whiskey while the blacksmith gets the iron hot, but there was a time that was the only option.
Yes, just another instance of the onion-type repair model. Once a problem has become obvious, create another layer to fix the problem.
The issue is that if you break something do you expect it to fix itself?
I have seen code spontaneously fix itself one for no good reason, but it might not be the results we were looking for.
All the people crying OMG WE HAVE INTERNATIONAL LAWS AGAINST DOING THIS AND THIS AND THIS are the kind of people who don't understand this fact. The more horrible war is, the less likely it will happen.
This is not true.
Never has and never will be.
Given the hatred some people have and their beliefs, they'd be gladly go to war even if meant sending their own children to their deaths and cutting off their own limbs in the process just to kill the "enemy".
Then it just escalates from there...
Take the Balkan wars. They've been murdering each other for centuries in the most gruesome possible ways but the animosity is greater than the desire for peace. Its tragic in a sense, but the brutality of war will never stop it from happening.
Had it... We would have stopped at WWI.
Secondly the point of war crimes is basically not to prevent them from but rather have a recourse for the victors at the end of the conflict.
Strangely enough German Admiral Donitz was defended by an American Admiral at Nuremburg on the topic of unrestricted sub warfare simply because the Americans did exactly the same thing to Japan (even as going as far as machine gunning Japanese sailors in the water) yet no one stood trial for it.
Also Poland still is bitter to what the Soviets did to their pows in 1939 yet no one stood trial for that either.
I'll continue to buy it on CD and rip it to MP3, thanks. :)
In theory you can buy the CDs, rip to MP3, and then use shout cast to stream them your phone!
Streaming lets you discover new music with little risk.
So true. I've found new music I didn't know I liked off Pandora that I had never heard before and bought it at a later time.
I want AT&T to feel the strain I feel every time I look at my monthly bill.
Might as well get my monies worth.
Why - just think, by 2029, you might be able to let everyone know the consistency of your latest shit, just by thinking about it!
My coworkers do that right now by not flushing after themselves.
But that does not even remotely mean that an engine failure has to be a fatal problem.
True, but most pilots go through intense training in order to know what to do in such a situation and log plenty of time in the air and via simulation on how to react under pressure.
Your average Joe can barely keep a proper distance between him and the next vehicle on the road, so I doubt the majority of people are going to be able to act properly under pressure when their engine cuts out while flying.
Run 3rd party apps in the background?
Let 3rd party apps integrate with the core software?
Let developers distribute apps to real devices without needing Apple's blessing?
(while not always as nice looking, other platforms don't have these limitations)
If I wanted viruses on my phone I would have gotten Windows Mobile. (Yeah WinMO doesn't really have a virus problem but I don't want the possibility on my iPhone because its popular enough to be targeted)
But yeah... Multi-tasking and a public API would be a nice start.
What an entire discussion and no one has brought up the SOL gun from Akira?
When the magicians disappeared, all the make-believe money that was coursing through the veins of the economy dried up and caused the businesses who were relying on people spending that make-believe money to burn out and fail.
Money and wealth are arbitrary values of measurement set by society, businesses, government, or between individuals as it is.
If you are trapped on an desert island with a suitcase full of gold, it won't seem that valuable compared to your neighbors crate of canned foods, or the guy with the can opener.
That said, the gap between utility and wealth often becomes over extended and bubbles will happen.
Just because society thinks something is valuable often does not increase its utility and the lack of value sometimes does not actually decrease utility of the commodity.
Although, if you have organizations like the IRS, world's largest prison system, and nuclear weapons you can make your money valuable by simple force of will.
Think about that next time you pay taxes or buy gas.
The fact that during the billions of years that life existed on Earth, Earth has not turned into a uniform mass of a single biomatter, utterly destroys the "grey goo" hypothesis.
Nuclear weapons weren't natural phenomenon either but we can make them.
The reasons "grey goo" isn't an natural phenomenon is because without applied intelligence such a thing would not survive in the open without adapting the environment.
Come to think of it, the closet thing we have to grey goo right now is humans. We basically can modify the environment to make it easier for more of us to live. Now if you designed machines that could in fact modify the environment to make it suitable for more of them to live is when you run into a problem.
That said... If we had to technology to create gray goo, we'd have the technology to destroy it or at least neutralize it.
Say if we made a gray goo that was solared power, we would just need to blot out the sun... Or just drop several thousand emps on the earth's surface.
Anyways, my point is that when you apply intelligence to a system, you throw natural evolution out the window.
He blew his head off with a shotgun because that's the way he wanted to go out, clearly.
There is always the chance of messing up your suicide attempt. Hanging, posions, wrist cutting doesn't always work. Even with a 9mm some people have been known to survive, albeit in a very painful existence or mentally incapacitated.
A shotgun to the head would pretty much mean death would be ensured.
From a certain perspective, that is cowardice.
The only people I know personally died from cancer died peacefully in their sleep... After months of pain and surgery and living under the influence of morphine.
When they were awake they weren't aware anyways... And hospice basically had to clean their sheets every time they used the bathroom.
If you want to spend the last few months of your life crapping yourself in a drug crazed stupor, by all means.
The only way to survive is by being somewhere else when it erupts.
I think that applies to most disasters where being elsewhere is key to survival.
Take California for example... I'm doing pretty good right now living on the East Coast.
I can't think of a single Windows user who wishes that Microsoft controlled access to every piece of hardware or software that would ever plug into a Windows machine, or who would be happy to pay Microsoft for that right. All I can say is, "Wow".
I don't think any windows user wishes actively to do so either, but do they really care enough to know any better?
The majority of windows users get windows computer simply because its cheap. There are a subset that really need windows for compatibility issues but the majority of joe sixpacks in the world go down to best buy and look at the laptops and think on cost of purchasing (not total cost after wards) so if they take the laptop home and have to use an app store I'm sure some will take it back but many just don't know any better.
I mean, is it really worth it? Isn't this the kind of behavior in China that earns you a bullet in the back of the head?
Depends on who you bribe and who you piss off.
The next scare tactic out there is carbon emissions.
I don't see the problem with simply reducing carbon emissions.
Putting billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere isn't happening in a vacuum. Whether or not it is really the cause of global warming is not the issue.
There are plenty of reasons to switch to other energy sources besides coal and oil.
Namely they are geo-political and economic considerations, but they are valid as global warming.