And who's decision should it be to decide what power man "should" or "should not" have?
Please spare me the doctrine of the ignorant masses. I'd like to believe that if there is a God, he/she/it put that lump of grey matter between your ears so that you could use that power to help yourself and others. While that cause seems lost with you, I congratulate the doctors and scientists who are using science and medecine to help their fellow man.
What dilemma is that? If you were the parent of a child who could only be saved by the use of embryonic stem cells, I suspect your outlook might be quite a bit different.
I wouldn't expect any further consolidation in the hard drive business to result in more price competition. There are only a very small number of manufacturers as it is. I suspect that hard drive prices have more or less bottomed out now in the "bargain" segment of the industry and that with current limits on areal density of data on the platters that any differentiation in prices will be based on performance rather than capacity.
One can only hope that someone comes up with some paradigm shift in storage (either in price or capacity) that puts real pressure on the hard disk manufacturers to innovate and remain competitive.
Why not use this information to post disinfection code on the next sober trigger date? That seems like the best use of this information since the author has probably already been tipped that he/she can't post their own code anymore. I wonder how many sober infected PC's are still in the wild?
Cheers,
The Defense Department has a more or less unlimited budget (they could have specified any OS they wanted) and they still chose Linux over the competition. Now THAT'S cool.
It seems whenever Dell needs more price concessions from Intel, they just have to dangle the possibility out there that they could start offering AMD-powered systems. I suspect after a few quick phone calls, Dell will get cheaper processors and this "rumour" will be relegated to the dustbin (again). Sigh...
I remember Switchfoot was so mortified that Sony broke their CD that they were actively helping fans to defeat the protection....long before it became a very public debacle.
My pet peeve is the almost unlimited combination of wall wart connectors, polarity, output voltage, output current, etc. Wouldn't it be so much easier if there was some sort of standard wall wart power supply with a standard connector? If you're a gadget geek, you wind up with a rather unwieldy pile of these things in your home and many of them invariably wind up staying plugged in all the time. You can tell they're using energy since they're always a bit warm to the touch, even when the actual device that's supposed to use it isn't even plugged in. Once they standardize the form factor, perhaps they could actually enhance them to the point where quiescent energy usage is much lower.
I'm not an expert (as a matter of fact, I'm not even qualified to be called ignorant on the subject), but what can we do to make things better? Surely this is not an insurmountable problem and given the rather substantial savings for government institutions (ignoring the lobbying payola), you would think the people with the purse strings would have an interest in this answer as well.
Perhaps I'm just ignorant of how this process works, but....
This is geothermal energy and aren't its byproducts "natural?" I mean, isn't the scaling or corrosive materials or whatever going to be released to the environment eventually by mother nature regardless of what us miniscule humans do? How do you "regulate" that? This isn't really a put down or complaint. I simply don't understand.
By an African swallow!
You DO know that an African swallow toting coconuts and beating his wings at 43 times a second can EASILY transport a prosimian to distant islands. I'm reasonably sure I saw one in Manhattan just the other day.
Doesn't it strike anyone else that Google might have a conflict of interest in giving you unbiased analytics? Having a company who's claim to fame is directing visitors to sites on the internet (for a fee) might be inclined to bias analytic reports such that "your results were so much better after you paid for our ad ranking service."
Paranoia?
Symbian should be the real target here. Mobile Windows is very resource hungry. An embedded Linux for mobile devices that is stingy with resources to conserve battery life would be a welcome addition.
This is China we're talking about. People have gotten a bullet behind the ear for relatively innocuous (to us) offenses. I'm not so sure I'd be the one to be playing that kind of cat and mouse game when the potential penalty could be something a lot more serious that the fine or frivolous lawsuit that someone in the west might face in similar circumstances.
I travel to China several times a year for business and frequently use Skype because it is vastly cheaper to make calls not only overseas, but to places like Hong Kong. Other posters have already mentioned, this is purely a revenue play and has nothing to do with "oppression."
Concern is good. Panic is not.
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Unless you spend your days working with poultry and you're in a country that is already dealing with infected bird populations, you have a better chance of getting struck by a meteor than you do of catching bird flu. If you're one of the aforementioned workers and you take the recommended precautions for maintaining a sanitary work environment, you've still got a better chance of getting hit by lightning.
If you're Joe Sixpack sitting at home in Ohio, your chances of contracting the disease are smaller still.
This whole "panic" is caused by manufactured news from the media. Instead of hoarding Tamiflu or Cipro, you're better off donating $10 to a charity that will spend the money immunizing children against diseases that are a genuine threat.
It's interesting to see what goodwill (none) France has gotten by pandering to the Islamists. Perhaps that will influence future French behaviour when dealing with radical Islamic states. Hope springs eternal.
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And who's decision should it be to decide what power man "should" or "should not" have? Please spare me the doctrine of the ignorant masses. I'd like to believe that if there is a God, he/she/it put that lump of grey matter between your ears so that you could use that power to help yourself and others. While that cause seems lost with you, I congratulate the doctors and scientists who are using science and medecine to help their fellow man.
What dilemma is that? If you were the parent of a child who could only be saved by the use of embryonic stem cells, I suspect your outlook might be quite a bit different.
I wouldn't expect any further consolidation in the hard drive business to result in more price competition. There are only a very small number of manufacturers as it is. I suspect that hard drive prices have more or less bottomed out now in the "bargain" segment of the industry and that with current limits on areal density of data on the platters that any differentiation in prices will be based on performance rather than capacity.
One can only hope that someone comes up with some paradigm shift in storage (either in price or capacity) that puts real pressure on the hard disk manufacturers to innovate and remain competitive.
For those of us without PhD's in medical sciences?
to go outside for a change.
Why not use this information to post disinfection code on the next sober trigger date? That seems like the best use of this information since the author has probably already been tipped that he/she can't post their own code anymore. I wonder how many sober infected PC's are still in the wild? Cheers,
The Defense Department has a more or less unlimited budget (they could have specified any OS they wanted) and they still chose Linux over the competition. Now THAT'S cool.
It seems whenever Dell needs more price concessions from Intel, they just have to dangle the possibility out there that they could start offering AMD-powered systems. I suspect after a few quick phone calls, Dell will get cheaper processors and this "rumour" will be relegated to the dustbin (again). Sigh...
I remember Switchfoot was so mortified that Sony broke their CD that they were actively helping fans to defeat the protection....long before it became a very public debacle.
My pet peeve is the almost unlimited combination of wall wart connectors, polarity, output voltage, output current, etc. Wouldn't it be so much easier if there was some sort of standard wall wart power supply with a standard connector? If you're a gadget geek, you wind up with a rather unwieldy pile of these things in your home and many of them invariably wind up staying plugged in all the time. You can tell they're using energy since they're always a bit warm to the touch, even when the actual device that's supposed to use it isn't even plugged in. Once they standardize the form factor, perhaps they could actually enhance them to the point where quiescent energy usage is much lower.
I'm not an expert (as a matter of fact, I'm not even qualified to be called ignorant on the subject), but what can we do to make things better? Surely this is not an insurmountable problem and given the rather substantial savings for government institutions (ignoring the lobbying payola), you would think the people with the purse strings would have an interest in this answer as well.
I say we tap the US Senate. 8-)
Perhaps I'm just ignorant of how this process works, but.... This is geothermal energy and aren't its byproducts "natural?" I mean, isn't the scaling or corrosive materials or whatever going to be released to the environment eventually by mother nature regardless of what us miniscule humans do? How do you "regulate" that? This isn't really a put down or complaint. I simply don't understand.
Cheers,
I guess I must really be getting old.
By an African swallow! You DO know that an African swallow toting coconuts and beating his wings at 43 times a second can EASILY transport a prosimian to distant islands. I'm reasonably sure I saw one in Manhattan just the other day.
I knew something was up when I saw that Aibo perched at my keyboard when I woke up this morning.
Next thing you know, they'll be after our precious bodily fluids.
Nobody knows if you're a blog.
Doesn't it strike anyone else that Google might have a conflict of interest in giving you unbiased analytics? Having a company who's claim to fame is directing visitors to sites on the internet (for a fee) might be inclined to bias analytic reports such that "your results were so much better after you paid for our ad ranking service." Paranoia?
Symbian should be the real target here. Mobile Windows is very resource hungry. An embedded Linux for mobile devices that is stingy with resources to conserve battery life would be a welcome addition.
This is China we're talking about. People have gotten a bullet behind the ear for relatively innocuous (to us) offenses. I'm not so sure I'd be the one to be playing that kind of cat and mouse game when the potential penalty could be something a lot more serious that the fine or frivolous lawsuit that someone in the west might face in similar circumstances.
I travel to China several times a year for business and frequently use Skype because it is vastly cheaper to make calls not only overseas, but to places like Hong Kong. Other posters have already mentioned, this is purely a revenue play and has nothing to do with "oppression."
Unless you spend your days working with poultry and you're in a country that is already dealing with infected bird populations, you have a better chance of getting struck by a meteor than you do of catching bird flu. If you're one of the aforementioned workers and you take the recommended precautions for maintaining a sanitary work environment, you've still got a better chance of getting hit by lightning.
If you're Joe Sixpack sitting at home in Ohio, your chances of contracting the disease are smaller still.
This whole "panic" is caused by manufactured news from the media. Instead of hoarding Tamiflu or Cipro, you're better off donating $10 to a charity that will spend the money immunizing children against diseases that are a genuine threat.
A Darknet is a private virtual network where users only connect to people they trust. That's it. It can be used for good or evil.
10cm?!?! You'll decimate the local Japanese beetle population! We can't have that. Somebody alert PETA!
Oh wait, that was for an egg donation. 8-)
It's interesting to see what goodwill (none) France has gotten by pandering to the Islamists. Perhaps that will influence future French behaviour when dealing with radical Islamic states. Hope springs eternal.