'If whales live so long, we should not be hunting them. They probably have a very finite rate of reproduction, their numbers are low and getting lower, and we're even killing the old ones.'
Is anybody else alarmed about the news that we just killed an old whale?
It's doubtful that 100+ year old whales are still fertile, so killing them would have absolutely no effect on whale population rates. If we're going to kill whales (and I'm not saying we should), it's certainly preferable to kill only the oldest ones that are not able to increase the population anyway.
The only specs that are based on subscriber surveys are reliablity/repair history. Everything else is based on laboratory testing. More info here. I suspect they are statistically sound, since you often see "insufficient responses" in the results for high-end items.
The biggest problem with their method (buying off the shelf rather than getting product from the manufacturer) is that by the time the testing is complete, you have a great deal of information on last year's model. Good for bargain hunters, but not for those who need to be on the bleeding edge (though I suppose those people don't really care what Consumer Reports says about the product they just have to have today).
Is "1-click purchasing" even a software patent? I would think that it would be considered a business process patent. A "software design to implement 1-click purchasing" would be a software patent (and would be easily avoidable by developing a different software design to implement 1-click purchasing; the beauty of software is there's a million different ways to do anything).
Life Recorders will be a massive boon. Accused of a crime? No problem...
But using a life recorder IS a crime already according to the MPAA/RIAA. At the movie theater, listening to the radio, watching a baseball game, reading a book, at a live concert (except for the Grateful Dead), etc. etc.
I think maintaining the status quo of historical climates seems to have many economic benefits that should not be ignored.
And which historical climate do you propose maintaining? The Little Ice Age? The Medieval Warm Period? With or without human intervention, climate is constantly changing. We need to learn to deal with it.
True, but BSG ran longer than the original Battlestar Galatica and the original Star Trek; not to mention Star Trek Enterprise, Firefly, Space 1999, Buck Rogers, etc. Television sci-fi tends to be short lived unless it either has broad enough appeal to attract non-sci-fi viewers (TNG, X-files), is really cheap to produce (original Dr. Who), or both (Stargate SG1).
Women face this all the time when they take a fews years off to start a family. Resume 'holes' do raise red flags, so it's best to preemptively explain them in your covering letter (went back to school, tried to start my own business, took care of sick family member, etc).
China is to nations what Microsoft is to corporations, except far worse since they don't have to worry about legal issues beyond giving them lip service.
You had me up to the 'except' part. Since when does MS worry about legal issues?
People keep saying that but I have yet to see it. On the last two printers I bought (one an Epson and one a Canon), the original cartridge lasted as long as the replacement cartridges. Maybe they only do the 1/2 cartridge trick on the low-end Walmart printers?
As for the heat, why not just cyphon off some of the energy to power some cooling fans built into the frame of the panel? I don't know if it would work well enough, but I'm sure it would be at least somewhat effective.
I've heard of panels that combine photo-voltaic cells with solar hot water heating. Pumping water through piping under the cells heats the water (which can be used to reduce domestic hot water heating costs) and cools the PV cells, making them more efficient.
In the book "Jurassic Park" it is quite clear that Michael Crichton was aware of the work of Ostrom, Bakker and Horner, and in fact it seemed to me that he modeled his character Alan Grant after John Horner.
There's also a minor character in the sequel that seems to be modeled on Bakker (right down to the trademark cowboy hat). He gets eaten rather quickly.
Yellow Pages was not my intended analogy. They are a generic search by business type (e.g. searching for "Plumbers") and yes, if "Frank's Plumbing" buys an ad and "Joe's Plumbing" doesn't, then Frank gets the business. Fair enough.
But if someone is searching for "Joe's Plumbing" in the White Pages directory and finds an ad for "Frank's Plumbing" in the alphabetical spot where Joe's should be, that's just not kosher, because the user was searching for a specific business and the directory intentionally pointed him to another, competing business and violates the very purpose of an alphabetic directory. Yes, Frank could possibly buy a listing for a company called "Joey's Plumbing" or "Joe-Frank's Plumbing" or "Joe's-Plumbing-sucks-use-Frank's Plumbing" to get listed next to his competitor, but now we're (once again) getting into the area of potential trademark infringement. The difference is, while you can sue a company for registering a name confusingly close to yours, you can't do the same with Google search words.
All google does is put a well marked advertising link at the top or right of the search. Your store will still be returned as normal by google.
If you don't like it, pay google for advertising.
And how do you do that if your competition has already bought those search terms from Google (including the trademarked name of your business)? Even if they haven't, it sounds a lot like extortion to have to buy "advertising" you don't want or need just to keep your competition from buying your own name. Imagine if the phone book company put an ad for your competitor on top of your phone listing if you didn't buy an ad from them.
The HDTV adoption rate is increasing. HDTV's are now a large percentage of new TV purchases.
The keyword there is new TV purchases. If my 12-year-old 32" Panasonic dies today, then yes, I'll go out and buy a HDTV; but not a minute sooner than I have to (the longer I wait, the cheaper they get). Given that most TV's last at least 10 years, even if every new TV sold was HDTV, you're looking at 10 years to get 100% market penetration.
The band Nine Inch Nails has intentionally 'leaked' songs via USB keys hidden at restrooms . . . . . Reznor may be building a new option for presenting music that augments the existing CD/tour scenario.'"
Google already has a plan for distributing files via restrooms
True, Amazon is the world's largest online retailer (mostly books of course). Is it the world's largest video retailer? No, Amazon doesn't come close to selling as many DVDs as Walmart. Is it even the world's largest online video retailer? Possibly, but I doubt it. No analogy is perfect, but my analogy is as accurate as the situation required.
That's somewhat akin to saying that CDs were a failure because they didn't sell as well as LPs when just a few people had CD players.
Perhaps, but saying Blu-ray is a success because the latest Bond film is in the top 10 at Amazon this week is a bit like saying Betamax was a success because a popular movie that was not available on VHS was a top 10 seller in it's first week of release (at a particular video store). It's a measurement that is so narrow in scope that generalizing a broader trend from it is absolutely pointless.
Since most people don't use nearly as much upload bandwidth as download, a dial-up upload with a very fast over the air download would be sufficient for the vast majority of users.
Hmmm...High download speed and low upload speed. Sounds like a plot to kill bit torrent (and pretty much any form of file sharing). I'll bet it has the support of the MPAA/RIAA.
You just used "factual" and "opinion" in the same sentence
So did you, just now. Ever hear of context?
Facts don't have bias (other the often touted joke "reality has a libery bias"); opinions do. That's a really important difference you seem to have missed.
Read my post again, it's you that seem to be missing something. Factual statements (which the OP contains) can be used to support opinions (which the OP doesn't actually state but are strongly implied via sarcasm) and can certainly be in the same post. Even if opinions were stated along with the facts, that still would not make the post flamebait. Even your post (which contains some inflammatory opinions) is not flamebait (IMHO).:-)
I don't have any mod points today, or I'd mod the parent post up; not necessarily because it is a great or insightful or even funny post, but because it doesn't deserve the 'Flamebait' mod someone gave it. "Macz rule, PCs sux" is flamebait. "George W Bush is a baby killer" is flamebait. A factual, on-topic post like the parent is not flamebait, even if you happen to disagree with the opinion it presents.
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Is anybody else alarmed about the news that we just killed an old whale?
It's doubtful that 100+ year old whales are still fertile, so killing them would have absolutely no effect on whale population rates. If we're going to kill whales (and I'm not saying we should), it's certainly preferable to kill only the oldest ones that are not able to increase the population anyway.
That's a shame, because everybody knows that washed-up Irish rockers are experts on Canadian foreign policy (just ask Bob Geldoff).
The biggest problem with their method (buying off the shelf rather than getting product from the manufacturer) is that by the time the testing is complete, you have a great deal of information on last year's model. Good for bargain hunters, but not for those who need to be on the bleeding edge (though I suppose those people don't really care what Consumer Reports says about the product they just have to have today).
Oh no, Google knows that I'm using Firefox! That narrows it down to me and 199,999 other people. Not exactly personally identifying information.
Is "1-click purchasing" even a software patent? I would think that it would be considered a business process patent. A "software design to implement 1-click purchasing" would be a software patent (and would be easily avoidable by developing a different software design to implement 1-click purchasing; the beauty of software is there's a million different ways to do anything).
But using a life recorder IS a crime already according to the MPAA/RIAA. At the movie theater, listening to the radio, watching a baseball game, reading a book, at a live concert (except for the Grateful Dead), etc. etc.
And which historical climate do you propose maintaining? The Little Ice Age? The Medieval Warm Period? With or without human intervention, climate is constantly changing. We need to learn to deal with it.
True, but BSG ran longer than the original Battlestar Galatica and the original Star Trek; not to mention Star Trek Enterprise, Firefly, Space 1999, Buck Rogers, etc. Television sci-fi tends to be short lived unless it either has broad enough appeal to attract non-sci-fi viewers (TNG, X-files), is really cheap to produce (original Dr. Who), or both (Stargate SG1).
Women face this all the time when they take a fews years off to start a family. Resume 'holes' do raise red flags, so it's best to preemptively explain them in your covering letter (went back to school, tried to start my own business, took care of sick family member, etc).
You had me up to the 'except' part. Since when does MS worry about legal issues?
And those immortals will go around chopping each others heads off since "there can be only one".
People keep saying that but I have yet to see it. On the last two printers I bought (one an Epson and one a Canon), the original cartridge lasted as long as the replacement cartridges. Maybe they only do the 1/2 cartridge trick on the low-end Walmart printers?
I've heard of panels that combine photo-voltaic cells with solar hot water heating. Pumping water through piping under the cells heats the water (which can be used to reduce domestic hot water heating costs) and cools the PV cells, making them more efficient.
There's also a minor character in the sequel that seems to be modeled on Bakker (right down to the trademark cowboy hat). He gets eaten rather quickly.
But if someone is searching for "Joe's Plumbing" in the White Pages directory and finds an ad for "Frank's Plumbing" in the alphabetical spot where Joe's should be, that's just not kosher, because the user was searching for a specific business and the directory intentionally pointed him to another, competing business and violates the very purpose of an alphabetic directory. Yes, Frank could possibly buy a listing for a company called "Joey's Plumbing" or "Joe-Frank's Plumbing" or "Joe's-Plumbing-sucks-use-Frank's Plumbing" to get listed next to his competitor, but now we're (once again) getting into the area of potential trademark infringement. The difference is, while you can sue a company for registering a name confusingly close to yours, you can't do the same with Google search words.
And how do you do that if your competition has already bought those search terms from Google (including the trademarked name of your business)? Even if they haven't, it sounds a lot like extortion to have to buy "advertising" you don't want or need just to keep your competition from buying your own name. Imagine if the phone book company put an ad for your competitor on top of your phone listing if you didn't buy an ad from them.
The keyword there is new TV purchases. If my 12-year-old 32" Panasonic dies today, then yes, I'll go out and buy a HDTV; but not a minute sooner than I have to (the longer I wait, the cheaper they get). Given that most TV's last at least 10 years, even if every new TV sold was HDTV, you're looking at 10 years to get 100% market penetration.
Man, I got half-way through printing my sailboat and the printer says "PC LOAD LETTER"! WTF?!?
Google already has a plan for distributing files via restrooms
True, Amazon is the world's largest online retailer (mostly books of course). Is it the world's largest video retailer? No, Amazon doesn't come close to selling as many DVDs as Walmart. Is it even the world's largest online video retailer? Possibly, but I doubt it. No analogy is perfect, but my analogy is as accurate as the situation required.
Perhaps, but saying Blu-ray is a success because the latest Bond film is in the top 10 at Amazon this week is a bit like saying Betamax was a success because a popular movie that was not available on VHS was a top 10 seller in it's first week of release (at a particular video store). It's a measurement that is so narrow in scope that generalizing a broader trend from it is absolutely pointless.
Hmmm...High download speed and low upload speed. Sounds like a plot to kill bit torrent (and pretty much any form of file sharing). I'll bet it has the support of the MPAA/RIAA.
So did you, just now. Ever hear of context?
Facts don't have bias (other the often touted joke "reality has a libery bias"); opinions do. That's a really important difference you seem to have missed.
Read my post again, it's you that seem to be missing something. Factual statements (which the OP contains) can be used to support opinions (which the OP doesn't actually state but are strongly implied via sarcasm) and can certainly be in the same post. Even if opinions were stated along with the facts, that still would not make the post flamebait. Even your post (which contains some inflammatory opinions) is not flamebait (IMHO). :-)
I don't have any mod points today, or I'd mod the parent post up; not necessarily because it is a great or insightful or even funny post, but because it doesn't deserve the 'Flamebait' mod someone gave it. "Macz rule, PCs sux" is flamebait. "George W Bush is a baby killer" is flamebait. A factual, on-topic post like the parent is not flamebait, even if you happen to disagree with the opinion it presents.