This is part of what bothers me about GM crops. Maybe they really are safe for consumption. The companies that make them tell me they are. But When they demonstrate that they can't keep their test crops contained, I start to worry about unintended consequences.
It's about a type of genetically engineered bacteria that feeds on (and destroys) plastic, reducing it to (organic) dust within two hours of exposure to the air. Initially used for specially constructed plastic soda bottles... (see where this is going?) For some reason, some of the dust remains active and mutates to be able to reduce most/all plastics to this new mutated strain and, since it's now air-borne, easily spreads *everywhere*... including electrical insulation on airplanes...
I believe your question can be answered with the same response my 9 year old gives when asked to clean up a mess he made: "That's HARD! It's going to take SOOOOOO LOOOONG! That's BORING! I don't wanna do that. I wanna do something I LIKE doing and I want to do that NOW!"
Hmm... I foresee a job in Computer Science for your son... Can he be bribed to overcome those objections with snacks?
We're not putting the Constitution aside, we're putting it on display for all to see... in a cellar... without lights or stairs... in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".
But the point is that it's on display for all to see.
For some reason, the advise "Don't Panic" isn't really helping me here... All I see in our future is yellow bulldozers.
Even when doing graphics programming most of the fancy math is already handled through frameworks. You don't actually need to know how to do vector calculations...
Unless you want to actually work *on* those frameworks... Someone has to develop/maintain the tools the rest of us simply use.
Oh, you are doing it wrong. You should use new powerful Search function instead, just search for shutdown.exe !
You joke, but from TFAs:
Windows Blog: In Windows 8.1, the Search charm will provide global search results powered by Bing in a rich, simple-to-read, aggregated view of many content sources (the web, apps, files, SkyDrive, actions you can take) to provide the best “answer” for your query. We think this will really change the way you interact with the Web and with windows making it quicker and easier to get things done. It is the modern version of the command line!
ArsTechnica: Search is getting reworked to aggregate search results from multiple content sources, including files, apps, settings, and the Web, simultaneously.
I hope the user can customize the search scope.
I'm not sure I want my local searches pushed out to web searches and/or via Bing! (like the Ubuntu Shopping Lens)
Do hostels generally have quiet areas where work could be done? Is it OK to get out your laptop and spend the day in a cafe in Europe, assuming you keep buying drinks?
I haven't done any of this either, but I image that you can simply go and ask along the way. If you're polite and show some patronage, I'm sure most cafes will tolerate your laptop loitering, especially if you're considerate about their busy times, etc... Immerse yourself in the environment and you may get a richer experience than you imagine.
Isn't it odd that every other shelter organisation around has far fewer euthanizations and far more adoptions than PETA's shelters do ?
I believe that PETA believes it's more ethical to euthanize an animal than to have it suffer living in a shelter or with any family that PETA doesn't approve. So to sum up:
Unethical: Breeding, killing and eating an animal.
Ethical: Euthanizing and discarding a stray animal (for whatever reason).
According to records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 1,647 cats and dogs last year while placing just 19 in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 29,398 pets have died at the hands of PETA workers.
Starting with the Java installer for Windows being bundled with Ask Toolbar...
I was shocked when I first saw this as well... and here I thought Oracle was an enterprise level corporation?!
They are, but revenue is revenue. Larry Ellison would monetize his bowel movements if he thought it profitable - accessible only with a Service Contract, of course...
While I can't possibly see it as being legitimately profitable to Microsoft to provide 3x processing power in Azure for every X1 sold, I will at least say that Microsoft at least owns the datacenters and the software stacks for Azure as opposed to EA or Ubisoft. It's possible that MS will be better able to handle the processing and bandwidth for this reason.
To be fair, Microsoft didn't says how long they'd provide 3x processing in the cloud for each console... For example, didn't Apple's Siri get dumb or dumber sometime after launch? Not trolling, just asking - siriously:-)
In other words: Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Results
Well, hell, there's his problem. Everyone knows "The Illuminati" is like "Fight Club" for the rich and powerful - and *everyone* knows the rules about that.
While the solution would take 2-3 election cycles, two duopoly can be easily changed by encouraging people to vote for the party that actually represents their views.
The problem with that is there are a LOT of single-issue voters out there - people that will consider one issue to be WAY more important than all the others combined. For example, I know people that agreed with almost the entire platform for a candidate, but simply wouldn't vote for him/her because they differ from the candidate on (pick one) abortion/gun/gay rights. Some people are unable or unwilling to compromise. For the good of the country as a whole, I find this a little short-sighted and narrow-minded.
When private enterprise screws up it doesn't come out of your pocket. Unless of course you're a shareholder - but then again, you knew there was risk involved in buying shares. When government screws up it comes out of your pocket whether you agree or not.
Of course, especially in a democracy, we are all shareholders in the Government. We vote the people in charge in/out. If they continually screw up, it's our fault for keeping them in office. I don't have a definitive answer as to *why* we, "the people", keep doing this, and don't really think it boils down to something simple, but, in general terms, the phrases "narrow minded" and "short sighted" probably apply on the broader scale.
That doesn't make it not price fixing. If the only way to get the digital versions is to pay $100 more, and clearly it doesn't cost the publishers that amount to make the books (since the dead-tree versions somehow sell for less), it's still price fixing.
True. I wasn't saying the game isn't rigged; I was saying he doesn't have to play. No one *forced* him to buy a more expensive e-book version instead of a paper one... (Somehow, that got modded "Troll")
A dead tree book and an ebook are not equivalent on many levels. Each has unique properties the other does not.
Possibly, but they share the most important properties for a book, like the words...:-) The question is whether the "unique" properties of an e vs paper book are worth the extra $100 the parent mentioned. My guess is, for most (set of) books, probably not.
I personally probably paid more than $100 extra because of this price fixing... As you said, you know the market is broken when the digital price is higher than the same thing printed on dead tree shipped to your door.
Of course, you realize that you could have simply bought those dead-tree versions and saved yourself that $100, right?
I wouldn't allow flying cars until the technology was up to self-driving.
Thinking about that... Wouldn't self-driving flying vehicles be easier to implement and manage than self-driving ground vehicles? Don't many of the larger commercial (military?) aircraft have this capability already?
To make life easy (for us) we created a fancy interface in the application to enter the data but hid it behind a weird hot key combination so the user wouldn't find it and be tempted to monkey with it. AFAIK no one has ever stumbled upon it.
In general, security by obscurity is the incorrect approach. Better to make the option known, like "Vendor Maintenance", with hardware and/or software access protection (and logging).
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Hubris and "what could possibly go wrong".
This is part of what bothers me about GM crops. Maybe they really are safe for consumption. The companies that make them tell me they are. But When they demonstrate that they can't keep their test crops contained, I start to worry about unintended consequences.
Ever read the book, "Mutant 59: The Plastic-Eaters" by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis?
It's about a type of genetically engineered bacteria that feeds on (and destroys) plastic, reducing it to (organic) dust within two hours of exposure to the air. Initially used for specially constructed plastic soda bottles... (see where this is going?) For some reason, some of the dust remains active and mutates to be able to reduce most/all plastics to this new mutated strain and, since it's now air-borne, easily spreads *everywhere* ... including electrical insulation on airplanes...
What happens if you get an evil bit by accident?
You get a job offer from Wall Street.
I believe your question can be answered with the same response my 9 year old gives when asked to clean up a mess he made: "That's HARD! It's going to take SOOOOOO LOOOONG! That's BORING! I don't wanna do that. I wanna do something I LIKE doing and I want to do that NOW!"
Hmm... I foresee a job in Computer Science for your son ... Can he be bribed to overcome those objections with snacks?
We're not putting the Constitution aside, we're putting it on display for all to see... in a cellar... without lights or stairs... in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".
But the point is that it's on display for all to see.
For some reason, the advise "Don't Panic" isn't really helping me here... All I see in our future is yellow bulldozers.
Even when doing graphics programming most of the fancy math is already handled through frameworks. You don't actually need to know how to do vector calculations...
Unless you want to actually work *on* those frameworks... Someone has to develop/maintain the tools the rest of us simply use.
Oh, you are doing it wrong. You should use new powerful Search function instead, just search for shutdown.exe !
You joke, but from TFAs:
Windows Blog: In Windows 8.1, the Search charm will provide global search results powered by Bing in a rich, simple-to-read, aggregated view of many content sources (the web, apps, files, SkyDrive, actions you can take) to provide the best “answer” for your query. We think this will really change the way you interact with the Web and with windows making it quicker and easier to get things done. It is the modern version of the command line!
ArsTechnica: Search is getting reworked to aggregate search results from multiple content sources, including files, apps, settings, and the Web, simultaneously.
I hope the user can customize the search scope.
I'm not sure I want my local searches pushed out to web searches and/or via Bing! (like the Ubuntu Shopping Lens)
I've been trying to download this "baseball" game all morning and all every website I visit just shows me a bunch of sweaty dudes in pajamas.
They're using wooden controllers (!) and even worse, they're outside. Is this a beta? wtf
Be careful, adult videos/websites are *really* going to confuse you... Similar wooden controllers though.
there will always be talented people willing to do whatever they have to in order to stay competitive and even excel.
Cheating isn't competition or excellence.
Do hostels generally have quiet areas where work could be done? Is it OK to get out your laptop and spend the day in a cafe in Europe, assuming you keep buying drinks?
I haven't done any of this either, but I image that you can simply go and ask along the way. If you're polite and show some patronage, I'm sure most cafes will tolerate your laptop loitering, especially if you're considerate about their busy times, etc... Immerse yourself in the environment and you may get a richer experience than you imagine.
Good luck and good travels.
Isn't it odd that every other shelter organisation around has far fewer euthanizations and far more adoptions than PETA's shelters do ?
I believe that PETA believes it's more ethical to euthanize an animal than to have it suffer living in a shelter or with any family that PETA doesn't approve. So to sum up:
It's only defamation if it's false. How do you sue people for telling the truth?
Exactly: Proof PETA Kills
From the homepage: PETA Kills Animals
According to records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 1,647 cats and dogs last year while placing just 19 in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 29,398 pets have died at the hands of PETA workers.
Starting with the Java installer for Windows being bundled with Ask Toolbar...
I was shocked when I first saw this as well... and here I thought Oracle was an enterprise level corporation?!
They are, but revenue is revenue. Larry Ellison would monetize his bowel movements if he thought it profitable - accessible only with a Service Contract, of course...
Of course, it stands to reason that if they are looking to make this practice legal, they are probably already engaged in it.
Well... For Windows Vista/7/2008, not a rootkit, but certainly loss of control over your own resources: Protected Media Path
While I can't possibly see it as being legitimately profitable to Microsoft to provide 3x processing power in Azure for every X1 sold, I will at least say that Microsoft at least owns the datacenters and the software stacks for Azure as opposed to EA or Ubisoft. It's possible that MS will be better able to handle the processing and bandwidth for this reason.
To be fair, Microsoft didn't says how long they'd provide 3x processing in the cloud for each console... For example, didn't Apple's Siri get dumb or dumber sometime after launch? Not trolling, just asking - siriously :-)
In other words: Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Results
...some of the images in the paper were copied or manipulated.
On Facebook, Raub talked about the Illuminati,
Well, hell, there's his problem. Everyone knows "The Illuminati" is like "Fight Club" for the rich and powerful - and *everyone* knows the rules about that.
While the solution would take 2-3 election cycles, two duopoly can be easily changed by encouraging people to vote for the party that actually represents their views.
The problem with that is there are a LOT of single-issue voters out there - people that will consider one issue to be WAY more important than all the others combined. For example, I know people that agreed with almost the entire platform for a candidate, but simply wouldn't vote for him/her because they differ from the candidate on (pick one) abortion/gun/gay rights. Some people are unable or unwilling to compromise. For the good of the country as a whole, I find this a little short-sighted and narrow-minded.
When private enterprise screws up it doesn't come out of your pocket. Unless of course you're a shareholder - but then again, you knew there was risk involved in buying shares. When government screws up it comes out of your pocket whether you agree or not.
Of course, especially in a democracy, we are all shareholders in the Government. We vote the people in charge in/out. If they continually screw up, it's our fault for keeping them in office. I don't have a definitive answer as to *why* we, "the people", keep doing this, and don't really think it boils down to something simple, but, in general terms, the phrases "narrow minded" and "short sighted" probably apply on the broader scale.
That doesn't make it not price fixing. If the only way to get the digital versions is to pay $100 more, and clearly it doesn't cost the publishers that amount to make the books (since the dead-tree versions somehow sell for less), it's still price fixing.
True. I wasn't saying the game isn't rigged; I was saying he doesn't have to play. No one *forced* him to buy a more expensive e-book version instead of a paper one... (Somehow, that got modded "Troll")
A dead tree book and an ebook are not equivalent on many levels. Each has unique properties the other does not.
Possibly, but they share the most important properties for a book, like the words ... :-) The question is whether the "unique" properties of an e vs paper book are worth the extra $100 the parent mentioned. My guess is, for most (set of) books, probably not.
I personally probably paid more than $100 extra because of this price fixing ... As you said, you know the market is broken when the digital price is higher than the same thing printed on dead tree shipped to your door.
Of course, you realize that you could have simply bought those dead-tree versions and saved yourself that $100, right?
Rest assured, we remain committed to bringing our customers the latest mobile experiences, ...
Not necessarily the best mobile experiences, but certainly the latest.
I wouldn't allow flying cars until the technology was up to self-driving.
Thinking about that... Wouldn't self-driving flying vehicles be easier to implement and manage than self-driving ground vehicles? Don't many of the larger commercial (military?) aircraft have this capability already?
To make life easy (for us) we created a fancy interface in the application to enter the data but hid it behind a weird hot key combination so the user wouldn't find it and be tempted to monkey with it. AFAIK no one has ever stumbled upon it.
In general, security by obscurity is the incorrect approach. Better to make the option known, like "Vendor Maintenance", with hardware and/or software access protection (and logging).