It's a reasonable hypothesis that these new dumbed-down science shows are precisely an attempt to lure the MTV generation by substituting Electronics Demo Derby for cosmology or evolutionary biology. If Wired had put half the effort into explaining science topics as it did in hiring grinning airheads and concocting embarassingly outdated graphic whizbang, it might have been worth watching. What a huge disappointment. Wired did teach me one thing, though: junk science is not just for creationists anymore.
Here's hoping for something better from tomorrow's audition.
Not a study, but some interesting stories about testosterone and the lack of it as told by those who lived through some heavy changes. A This American Life radio broadcast you can listen to here.
One of the blocks to getting more interest in solar tech is the lack of real comparisons. The article says a plant to produce 1000 megawatts worth of panels a year would cost around $25 million. By comparison, a nuke power plant of the same size costs $3 billion or more. But how long will the panels last compared to the nuke? Is the 1000 megs an average for the US or world climate, or a best-case scenario? And how does the cost of building a panel manufacturing plant relate to the end cost of the panels themselves? And what about related costs -- obvious in the case of nukes, but in the case of panels, stuff like energy storage and conversion, maintenenance and replacement, etc.?
I know this is all early days and all, but if they're looking for financing they already have ballpark numbers in answer to questions like these. That they apparently don't make those answers public gives their efforts the smell of hype. I want to believe, but faith-based economics is too much to swallow. Has anybody found some real comparative projections?
Rightly punished or not, she lost because she couldn't afford to defend herself. There's no difference between this case and the assaults by the RIAA and MPAA on random victims accused of the non-crime of "piracy".
I figured this would mention bigger applications like cars/tranportation, but they seem to studiously avoid that obvious question. So is there a reason this technology wouldn't scale up?
I guess "terrorism" is getting old as the all-purpose excuse for enforcing every corporate and political wishlist on the public. Time to haul out the ol' child porn whip to keep monopolies going, keep incumbents in office, secure better bribes for the elect. Wrecking the Internet is sure easier than having a society that's interested enough to teach kids to take care of themselves. Something like 8000 kids die from cars every year, but I haven't heard a peep about banning cars, or even thinking about minor changes in the transportation system. That, apparently, wouldn't feather any "child protectors'" nests.
It will be developed for Linux when it's developed. Not because somebody said so. Users of Linux, BSD, and older versions of Windows and Mac are shut out of full Net access. The solution is not to depend on the whims and spreadsheets of companies like Adobe. The solution is software for which anyone with the motivation and skills can develop readers for any platform.
Adobe's inability/uninterest in keeping Flash truly cross-platform should be a splash of cold water for folks who see it as part of a new Web generation. Adobe has proven for once and for all that using proprietary, closed tech in Web standards is a great way to cut your own throat. The coming of new demands on the Web offers a golden opportunity to get it right this time and make sure everything there is available to everybody, on any platform. Here's hoping that consideration drives the next wave of development.
"There's no "right to not be offended", but everyone has a right to feel safe."
This comment capsulates 95 percent of everything that's wrong with America. Police exist to investigate crime and arrest the perpetrators, if any. They have absolutely no business "checking up on this guy".
Messing with a blind person's visual perception? Terrible thing. Must prohibit.
If something like the Holocaust happened again, people with perfectly good livers could be given, um, other livers. Never again. Must prohibit transplants. Must defend Republican values. Nice try. Well, not very, actually.
always let us think that accusations had to have content -- you couldn't just point to some guy and get him arrested because you feel sure he's sending death rays in your direction. So I'm still unable to comprehend how this case lasted more than five minutes in any court.
Slow learner though I am, I finally see the opportunities this precedent presents for the good entrepruneurial American: I'll be filing a case against MBNA alleging that they stole my bazillion-buck payments, which are unspecified as to amount, time, date, and any supporting evidence other than the fact that they do process payments. They either have to prove that they didn't do it or pay. I promise to share my winnings with/. so they can buy a bunch of new Macs running XP.
'Course there's one small flaw in my business plan: I don't have bevies of hack shysters willing to bleed me by fighting non-cases through the courts year after insane year. Shit.
Nice to see that some old college traditions just keep on going and going. I, for one, will henceforth pay more attention to those diplomas on dentists' walls.
I guarantee every single one of the 51 percent is a so-called Christian. Your country decided to abdicate rationality when it decided that spouting ridiculous Christian fantasies was more important.
rip off yet another American invention. "For the Children" is OUR excuse for spreading fascism. We invented it, we use it constantly, we depend upon it. Go make your own, dammit.
wants these keystone kops snooping on what students do on the Net? Maybe if the FBI quit being such a corrupt gang of ineffectual, lying cronies, it would make sense to give a shit about what they want. But they don't, and it doesn't.
for having the idiocy to provide one more good reason for a new American revolution. Or did you grant a patent on that, too? At the very least, it's time to just shut down the PTO and void all current patents. I mean, the current regime is against government interference in private business, right?
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It's a reasonable hypothesis that these new dumbed-down science shows are precisely an attempt to lure the MTV generation by substituting Electronics Demo Derby for cosmology or evolutionary biology. If Wired had put half the effort into explaining science topics as it did in hiring grinning airheads and concocting embarassingly outdated graphic whizbang, it might have been worth watching. What a huge disappointment. Wired did teach me one thing, though: junk science is not just for creationists anymore. Here's hoping for something better from tomorrow's audition.
Not a study, but some interesting stories about testosterone and the lack of it as told by those who lived through some heavy changes. A This American Life radio broadcast you can listen to here.
One of the blocks to getting more interest in solar tech is the lack of real comparisons. The article says a plant to produce 1000 megawatts worth of panels a year would cost around $25 million. By comparison, a nuke power plant of the same size costs $3 billion or more. But how long will the panels last compared to the nuke? Is the 1000 megs an average for the US or world climate, or a best-case scenario? And how does the cost of building a panel manufacturing plant relate to the end cost of the panels themselves? And what about related costs -- obvious in the case of nukes, but in the case of panels, stuff like energy storage and conversion, maintenenance and replacement, etc.? I know this is all early days and all, but if they're looking for financing they already have ballpark numbers in answer to questions like these. That they apparently don't make those answers public gives their efforts the smell of hype. I want to believe, but faith-based economics is too much to swallow. Has anybody found some real comparative projections?
Rightly punished or not, she lost because she couldn't afford to defend herself. There's no difference between this case and the assaults by the RIAA and MPAA on random victims accused of the non-crime of "piracy".
Yet again we see American "Justice" sold off to the one with the money to pursue her personal obsessions. You can't pay, you lose. Period.
I figured this would mention bigger applications like cars/tranportation, but they seem to studiously avoid that obvious question. So is there a reason this technology wouldn't scale up?
I guess "terrorism" is getting old as the all-purpose excuse for enforcing every corporate and political wishlist on the public. Time to haul out the ol' child porn whip to keep monopolies going, keep incumbents in office, secure better bribes for the elect. Wrecking the Internet is sure easier than having a society that's interested enough to teach kids to take care of themselves. Something like 8000 kids die from cars every year, but I haven't heard a peep about banning cars, or even thinking about minor changes in the transportation system. That, apparently, wouldn't feather any "child protectors'" nests.
It will be developed for Linux when it's developed. Not because somebody said so. Users of Linux, BSD, and older versions of Windows and Mac are shut out of full Net access. The solution is not to depend on the whims and spreadsheets of companies like Adobe. The solution is software for which anyone with the motivation and skills can develop readers for any platform.
Adobe's inability/uninterest in keeping Flash truly cross-platform should be a splash of cold water for folks who see it as part of a new Web generation. Adobe has proven for once and for all that using proprietary, closed tech in Web standards is a great way to cut your own throat. The coming of new demands on the Web offers a golden opportunity to get it right this time and make sure everything there is available to everybody, on any platform. Here's hoping that consideration drives the next wave of development.
"There's no "right to not be offended", but everyone has a right to feel safe." This comment capsulates 95 percent of everything that's wrong with America. Police exist to investigate crime and arrest the perpetrators, if any. They have absolutely no business "checking up on this guy".
Messing with a blind person's visual perception? Terrible thing. Must prohibit. If something like the Holocaust happened again, people with perfectly good livers could be given, um, other livers. Never again. Must prohibit transplants. Must defend Republican values. Nice try. Well, not very, actually.
always let us think that accusations had to have content -- you couldn't just point to some guy and get him arrested because you feel sure he's sending death rays in your direction. So I'm still unable to comprehend how this case lasted more than five minutes in any court. Slow learner though I am, I finally see the opportunities this precedent presents for the good entrepruneurial American: I'll be filing a case against MBNA alleging that they stole my bazillion-buck payments, which are unspecified as to amount, time, date, and any supporting evidence other than the fact that they do process payments. They either have to prove that they didn't do it or pay. I promise to share my winnings with /. so they can buy a bunch of new Macs running XP.
'Course there's one small flaw in my business plan: I don't have bevies of hack shysters willing to bleed me by fighting non-cases through the courts year after insane year. Shit.
for calling by its real name instead of the corporatespeak "gaming" so supinely favored by the "news" media.
of the rest of the undeserving rich who haven't the slightest clue about how work gets done.
but not everybody pays their girlfriends for their services. They do pay their profs, tho.
Nice to see that some old college traditions just keep on going and going. I, for one, will henceforth pay more attention to those diplomas on dentists' walls.
I guarantee every single one of the 51 percent is a so-called Christian. Your country decided to abdicate rationality when it decided that spouting ridiculous Christian fantasies was more important.
AIDS fights Ebola in the battle to bring health to intellectual property's body of law. May the best plague win.
rip off yet another American invention. "For the Children" is OUR excuse for spreading fascism. We invented it, we use it constantly, we depend upon it. Go make your own, dammit.
wants these keystone kops snooping on what students do on the Net? Maybe if the FBI quit being such a corrupt gang of ineffectual, lying cronies, it would make sense to give a shit about what they want. But they don't, and it doesn't.
for having the idiocy to provide one more good reason for a new American revolution. Or did you grant a patent on that, too? At the very least, it's time to just shut down the PTO and void all current patents. I mean, the current regime is against government interference in private business, right?