It's just a 3D rendering of something that will most likely never happen. I really don't get how things like this get so much press on tech blogs. Anyone can create a CG image of something cool, come up with a hand-waving explanation of the underlying technology (nanotech!), and get it posted all over the place as if it's actually feasible.
The rich spend more than the poor, so they will pay more tax.
Yes, but the poor spend a much higher percentage of their money (pretty much 100%), so they get hit harder than the rich. And the subsidies or exemptions that are available to the poor just shift the burden to the middle class. Consumption taxes are by nature regressive.
For everyone who's currently paying taxes, their tax burden would go down, because the tax base would be expanded and the economy would grow, and the tax is designed to be revenue neutral.
It's pure conjecture that the economy would necessarily grow under (and because of) a "FairTax". It's just a slightly more palatable presentation of supply-side economics. It takes the pseudo-populist angle of keeping taxes down for the poor, but only ends up shifting their tax burden to the middle class, while at the same time lowering taxes on the wealthy.
Who cares if the rich will pay less, if YOU will pay less too? I say everyone should pay less, the rich included - because they are paying way more than their fair share currently!
The crimes you're citing are random acts of violence. 9/11 wasn't random. Osama bin Laden may be retarded for thinking that we would bow to his demands, but he actually did have some. Even if his "retribution" wasn't justified in our eyes, we still shouldn't ignore his reasons for doing it.
I think he at least has the "people who enjoy creepily looking into a camera for 30 seconds and then inexplicably throwing a large rock into a lake" demographic locked up.
The Dell DJ failed because it sucked, but other Dell products (like their PDAs) probably failed because they were Dells. You might be on to something with the Alienware mention. If they were to enter the smartphone market, maybe using the Alienware brand name would be a smart move. It gives them some cover for higher prices, and also avoids people dismissing it as just another cheap Dell product.
Okay, the DJ was crap, but the Axims were pretty good actually. The hardware wasn't half-baked, although it was abandoned. My only complaint with the Axim was extremely cheap hardware buttons. But the feature list was pretty impressive: fast processors with hardware graphics acceleration, VGA screens, two memory card slots, and Bluetooth and Wifi. If Dell came up with a decent-looking smartphone in a smallish package, I'd definitely take a look at it.
I fear that over time a rich elite will be able to live indefinitely with ready made clones from harvested stem cells. This research makes a frankenstein much closer to reality. Just what we need.. the rich living forever.
Way to reject that whole "reads and watches too much sci-fi and buys into all of it" stereotype. I'm just afraid of when they start making animal-human-robot hybrids that become an underclass and then take their cruel, emotionless revenge on us all.
Probably because the term "hybrid" makes it sound like they're trying to create a functional animal that's a combination of two species. They're not making a centaur, they're trying to use an animal framework to produce human cells. They need to come up with a better term to use than "hybrid".
And they'll be safer drivers, not only for themselves, but also for everyone else sharing the road.
It's only safer when everyone drives slower. Seeing as that's not going to happen, driving slower than the flow of traffic is always going to be more dangerous.
Exactly. You don't use Yahoo! Answers to learn basic facts, you use it for questions that are more suited for human answers. You ask "What hotel is near the good bars in Portland, Oregon?" not "What's the melting point of Sn?"
What the hell do ratings have to do with advances in game controllers? Are they just trying to make some kind of a statement about the shape of the Wiimote?
I don't know where you got this from, but it's not in the 22nd Amendment. If you take it literally, it says that you can't be elected President if you've served two terms or 6 years. It doesn't mention Vice-Presidency.
Making the Car Chase Obsolete High-speed chases may be money shots in Hollywood, but everywhere else they're just dangerous. The StarChase Pursuit Management System uses a laser-guided launcher mounted on the front grill of a cop car to tag fleeing vehicles with a GPS tracking device. Then the fuzz can hang back as real-time location data are sent to police headquarters.
Who came up with that genius idea? I'm sure that the driver of the fleeing vehicle wouldn't notice you shooting a GPS tracking device at his car and then remove it... Or are these magic GPS/radio transmitters that are either microscopic or able to climb under your car and hide?
It makes sense to define capacity using hexadecimal.
Hexadecimal is just used as a convenient way to display binary numbers.
If you're going to use base10 numbers you should use base10 prefixes.
Agreed, but I don't think they should have started using base 10 to describe capacity in the first place. Computers operate in binary, so it makes sense to use it to define the size of files or disks they use. The only reason for describing a hard drive's capacity in base 10 is marketing.
Something should have been done at the beginning, but I would hardly blame software developers for the discrepancy. Logically, it makes sense to define capacity using binary numbers. I don't know the history of when the split took place between the different conventions, but it seems pretty convenient for hard drive manufacturers to be able to make their product seem bigger and cite ISO standards as the reason for doing so. It wasn't a bad decision to define files in terms of base two, it was a bad decision to use the standard prefixes kilo-, mega-, and giga- to refer to them.
You're obviously not anywhere near the target demographic. You sound like a guy who drives a 1987 Toyota Corolla complaining that you would never buy a BMW Z8 because it takes premium gas.
That's exactly what I was thinking. People don't want to buy crippled devices that cost more than their equivalents that are only slightly bigger. No one wants a half-assed computer anymore unless it makes phone calls. Apparently Nokia thinks there is a niche between the iPhone and the Eee, but I'm just wondering where to set the over/under on how many months it takes this to be on woot.com.
I know those aren't terribly relevant contributions, but restricting my contributions to that certainly assures one thing: they are usually correct. Meanwhile, I know some "higher-level" Wikipedia contributors and I have the impression that they sometimes lose themselves between "standards", "wikification" and other stuff that, although necessary, might be decided by subjective criteria that make them go around in circles on a same article, not necessarily converging.
I'm the same way, I generally make small edits to correct mistakes rather than construct new articles from scratch. I registered a couple of years ago, but I do everything anonymously. It seems like a lot of the people who are more involved in the site get really caught up in politics and bullshit instead of trying to actually improve the site. I'd much rather concentrate on keeping articles coherent and factually correct than get into a pissing match over some obscure guideline or rule that might be broken. The big downside to anonymous contributions is the proclivity of some registered users to undoing any anonymous edit by assuming that it's vandalism without reading it.
I would take these supposed sightings with a huge grain of salt. If you're expecting to be watched, then you just might see something "watching" you. Sometimes a dragonfly is just a dragonfly.
Japan's close proximity to China is exactly why we should be in favor of Japan having a stronger military. China has been building theirs up for years, and with Kim Jong Il in the neighborhood, it's important for us to have strong allies in the region for the balance of power. South Korea and Taiwan can't exactly provide that by themselves.
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It's just a 3D rendering of something that will most likely never happen. I really don't get how things like this get so much press on tech blogs. Anyone can create a CG image of something cool, come up with a hand-waving explanation of the underlying technology (nanotech!), and get it posted all over the place as if it's actually feasible.
It benefits the very poor and the very rich, but at the expense of everyone else.
The crimes you're citing are random acts of violence. 9/11 wasn't random. Osama bin Laden may be retarded for thinking that we would bow to his demands, but he actually did have some. Even if his "retribution" wasn't justified in our eyes, we still shouldn't ignore his reasons for doing it.
I think he at least has the "people who enjoy creepily looking into a camera for 30 seconds and then inexplicably throwing a large rock into a lake" demographic locked up.
The Dell DJ failed because it sucked, but other Dell products (like their PDAs) probably failed because they were Dells. You might be on to something with the Alienware mention. If they were to enter the smartphone market, maybe using the Alienware brand name would be a smart move. It gives them some cover for higher prices, and also avoids people dismissing it as just another cheap Dell product.
Okay, the DJ was crap, but the Axims were pretty good actually. The hardware wasn't half-baked, although it was abandoned. My only complaint with the Axim was extremely cheap hardware buttons. But the feature list was pretty impressive: fast processors with hardware graphics acceleration, VGA screens, two memory card slots, and Bluetooth and Wifi. If Dell came up with a decent-looking smartphone in a smallish package, I'd definitely take a look at it.
It's not common at all. I've never seen or even heard of one before now.
Exactly. You don't use Yahoo! Answers to learn basic facts, you use it for questions that are more suited for human answers. You ask "What hotel is near the good bars in Portland, Oregon?" not "What's the melting point of Sn?"
What the hell do ratings have to do with advances in game controllers? Are they just trying to make some kind of a statement about the shape of the Wiimote?
I don't know where you got this from, but it's not in the 22nd Amendment. If you take it literally, it says that you can't be elected President if you've served two terms or 6 years. It doesn't mention Vice-Presidency.
Something should have been done at the beginning, but I would hardly blame software developers for the discrepancy. Logically, it makes sense to define capacity using binary numbers. I don't know the history of when the split took place between the different conventions, but it seems pretty convenient for hard drive manufacturers to be able to make their product seem bigger and cite ISO standards as the reason for doing so. It wasn't a bad decision to define files in terms of base two, it was a bad decision to use the standard prefixes kilo-, mega-, and giga- to refer to them.
You're obviously not anywhere near the target demographic. You sound like a guy who drives a 1987 Toyota Corolla complaining that you would never buy a BMW Z8 because it takes premium gas.
That's exactly what I was thinking. People don't want to buy crippled devices that cost more than their equivalents that are only slightly bigger. No one wants a half-assed computer anymore unless it makes phone calls. Apparently Nokia thinks there is a niche between the iPhone and the Eee, but I'm just wondering where to set the over/under on how many months it takes this to be on woot.com.
I would take these supposed sightings with a huge grain of salt. If you're expecting to be watched, then you just might see something "watching" you. Sometimes a dragonfly is just a dragonfly.
Japan's close proximity to China is exactly why we should be in favor of Japan having a stronger military. China has been building theirs up for years, and with Kim Jong Il in the neighborhood, it's important for us to have strong allies in the region for the balance of power. South Korea and Taiwan can't exactly provide that by themselves.