I see. So what you're saying is that in the country someone could build a directional baby monitor antenna and effectively create a universal jamming device. That's pretty interesting.
But it still doesn't make sense that people of African descent would be somehow more likely to make use of such technology than anyone else. They want their wifi too, I'm sure.
Consider this, though. If you lived in the countryside, you wouldn't be able to leech wifi from your neighbor because he'd be outside of the wifi AP's coverage.
So essentially you'd get the same service as far as wifi goes, but you also get the benefits of living closer to work and not having to own a car and be able to save all that money just by living in the urban area.
(or are we using code words like "baby monitor" and "urban" to mean something racist?)
When I was a student we still corresponded with one another using paper and ink. There was none of this fancy computerized email. It was all email by hand back then, and if you were lucky, maybe your parents would foot the bill for a quill.
But the key here is not the manner in which we wrote each other. Rather, it is simply that living in the isolated world of "university life", we had totally different writing habits than those who lived in the "real world".
Take, for instance, the frequency of our letters. While I could average a good 4 or 5 letters per evening, it was because my workload was such that it permitted much more free time than the work-a-day man could ever hope to enjoy. Between classes and quaffing pints of ale, we still had plenty of time to enjoy each others' companionship, even if only through the quill.
Now, with real work and real timelines to meet, I find that I have very little extra time to sit down to write a letter out by hand.
When you drive on the highway, if you are going 85mph passing a car going 80mph, you only really experience a 5mph velocity differential with that car. Given that both of you are traveling at similar speeds, maneuvering around each other should be relatively simple as you only have to gauge the distances with regard to the 5mph differential and not the 80mph absolute velocity.
So 17,000mph may sound fast, but given that the satellite itself is traveling the same speed, the astronauts don't really have to think about that.
RF waves surround us and penetrates us. Only I should be allowed to determine what passes through my body, not some deep-pocketed, top-hat wearing moneybag.
Watching the EU try to stumble its way into the 19th century is amusing, but also disheartening. These are the same people who gave us the Magna Carta. However, I do admit the possibility that all the smart people migrated to the U.S. and left the authoritarians in the Old World.
The isolation would only cause such an effect visible between generations. That assumes that there would be some sort of reproduction occurring. Given that you are isolated in your parents' basement, and you probably reek of sweat, garlic, and Cheetos, it's not likely (though not 100% impossible) that you'd be able to observe such evolution in action.
If you think about it, most animals are intellectually inferior to human retards. But they seem to get by in the wild just fine.
So assuming that there was a whole society of retarded human-like creatures living on an island in Indonesia, it wouldn't be much different than a band of monkeys or gorillas living in Africa.
Someone's going to retort that this is only because America hasn't built a new nuke power plant in ages, but the fact of the matter is that nuke power in Canada and France is reliable, efficient, and cheap because they have settled on a standard plant design. Contrast this with the fully customized design for each American nuke plant and you can see why we still consider nuclear power to be expensive and dangerous.
Extend this to software design. Sure, using standard libraries may mean that you are possibly using a sub-optimal algorithm or pulling in too many unwanted/unused features. But the alternative is to spend a lot of time reinventing the wheel. When it comes down to brass tacks, the cost spent to optimize software pales in comparison to the cost of delaying the product.
Reding claims that it is indefensible that one country control the internet as if it were prima facie true that this were the case.
However she prefaced that statement with the best defense: "Reding believes "The US, so far, has done this in a reasonable manner", referring to the oversight that the US government has given ICANN."
So the US is providing oversight in a reasonable manner according to the people who wish to strip that oversight from the US. Then they claim that such "reasonable oversight" is indefensible.
I think Ms. Reding would be surprised how a great many things she doesn't believe in have reasonable and sometimes convincing defenses. I also think she'd be surprised to see how many of the things she holds so dear are actually undefended biases.
Moss grows fat on a rolling stone, but that's not how it used to be.
Think about this. Demolition Man was released 16 years ago. As much as I liked the movie, and as much as it remains as topical and entertaining as ever, in the meantime so many other good movies were produced that to simply focus on one good movie over the years is to miss out on everything else.
Should we really be including both Windows and iPhone in the same OS usage chart?
My John Deere riding mower does a bang-up job cutting my lawn (get the fuck off it), but it's not quite built for the same purpose as my around-town Escalade.
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I see. So what you're saying is that in the country someone could build a directional baby monitor antenna and effectively create a universal jamming device. That's pretty interesting.
But it still doesn't make sense that people of African descent would be somehow more likely to make use of such technology than anyone else. They want their wifi too, I'm sure.
Packets in the country are friendlier and more courteous than those goldang city packets.
No. I'm genuinely curious.
Consider this, though. If you lived in the countryside, you wouldn't be able to leech wifi from your neighbor because he'd be outside of the wifi AP's coverage.
So essentially you'd get the same service as far as wifi goes, but you also get the benefits of living closer to work and not having to own a car and be able to save all that money just by living in the urban area.
(or are we using code words like "baby monitor" and "urban" to mean something racist?)
When I was a student we still corresponded with one another using paper and ink. There was none of this fancy computerized email. It was all email by hand back then, and if you were lucky, maybe your parents would foot the bill for a quill.
But the key here is not the manner in which we wrote each other. Rather, it is simply that living in the isolated world of "university life", we had totally different writing habits than those who lived in the "real world".
Take, for instance, the frequency of our letters. While I could average a good 4 or 5 letters per evening, it was because my workload was such that it permitted much more free time than the work-a-day man could ever hope to enjoy. Between classes and quaffing pints of ale, we still had plenty of time to enjoy each others' companionship, even if only through the quill.
Now, with real work and real timelines to meet, I find that I have very little extra time to sit down to write a letter out by hand.
Do you not change the radio while driving?
When you drive on the highway, if you are going 85mph passing a car going 80mph, you only really experience a 5mph velocity differential with that car. Given that both of you are traveling at similar speeds, maneuvering around each other should be relatively simple as you only have to gauge the distances with regard to the 5mph differential and not the 80mph absolute velocity.
So 17,000mph may sound fast, but given that the satellite itself is traveling the same speed, the astronauts don't really have to think about that.
Just connect the dots. What is the criteria?
1) The company is big
2) The company is essentially a monopoly
3) The company is American
I'd say Google. Maybe Oracle.
Wow! Video recording?!
What's next? Broadcast TV? True SMTP email? Intuitive UIs?
RF waves surround us and penetrates us. Only I should be allowed to determine what passes through my body, not some deep-pocketed, top-hat wearing moneybag.
Spectrum should be free!
Your use of the first person plural is worrisome.
Americans, like me, have this concept of due process enshrined in our Constitution.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment14/
Watching the EU try to stumble its way into the 19th century is amusing, but also disheartening. These are the same people who gave us the Magna Carta. However, I do admit the possibility that all the smart people migrated to the U.S. and left the authoritarians in the Old World.
The isolation would only cause such an effect visible between generations. That assumes that there would be some sort of reproduction occurring. Given that you are isolated in your parents' basement, and you probably reek of sweat, garlic, and Cheetos, it's not likely (though not 100% impossible) that you'd be able to observe such evolution in action.
If you think about it, most animals are intellectually inferior to human retards. But they seem to get by in the wild just fine.
So assuming that there was a whole society of retarded human-like creatures living on an island in Indonesia, it wouldn't be much different than a band of monkeys or gorillas living in Africa.
Someone's going to retort that this is only because America hasn't built a new nuke power plant in ages, but the fact of the matter is that nuke power in Canada and France is reliable, efficient, and cheap because they have settled on a standard plant design. Contrast this with the fully customized design for each American nuke plant and you can see why we still consider nuclear power to be expensive and dangerous.
Extend this to software design. Sure, using standard libraries may mean that you are possibly using a sub-optimal algorithm or pulling in too many unwanted/unused features. But the alternative is to spend a lot of time reinventing the wheel. When it comes down to brass tacks, the cost spent to optimize software pales in comparison to the cost of delaying the product.
Use your time wisely.
Reding claims that it is indefensible that one country control the internet as if it were prima facie true that this were the case.
However she prefaced that statement with the best defense:
"Reding believes "The US, so far, has done this in a reasonable manner", referring to the oversight that the US government has given ICANN."
So the US is providing oversight in a reasonable manner according to the people who wish to strip that oversight from the US. Then they claim that such "reasonable oversight" is indefensible.
I think Ms. Reding would be surprised how a great many things she doesn't believe in have reasonable and sometimes convincing defenses. I also think she'd be surprised to see how many of the things she holds so dear are actually undefended biases.
Moss grows fat on a rolling stone, but that's not how it used to be.
Think about this. Demolition Man was released 16 years ago. As much as I liked the movie, and as much as it remains as topical and entertaining as ever, in the meantime so many other good movies were produced that to simply focus on one good movie over the years is to miss out on everything else.
Bye bye, Miss American Pie.
5. Turns out Gosling preferred tea.
4. Hey, let's give everything away for free! That'll bring in the profits.
3. Scott McNealy has Gates-envy.
2. It ain't called Slowaris for nothing.
1. Not enough free soda pop.
*cue Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra to play something catchy*
Note the rate of growth of the rate of growth.
A pair of rabbits will produce offspring fairly regularly. This does not mean that the number of rabbits grows at a linear rate.
Should we really be including both Windows and iPhone in the same OS usage chart?
My John Deere riding mower does a bang-up job cutting my lawn (get the fuck off it), but it's not quite built for the same purpose as my around-town Escalade.