If the Chinese government keeps up this bullshit, people are going to call for boycotts of companies that advertise during the olympics, and that will reduce their revenue (because it will diminish the value of advertsising during hte olympics).
He has the most to lose if China's government gets more powerful.
I agree with him, I personally don't believe a boycott of the current olympics or advertisers is warranted in this case. The olympics is the one time every four years when athletes of all nations can come together. That serves more for global peace and understanding than petty quarreling, protests, and boycotts. Note, if there was serious shit going on I'll be the at the front of the protest line.
We need China to open, isolating them further will not be helpful. It's better the Chinese (people not govt.) be exposed to how people of other cultures are and vice versa.
When you move a window around in Vista (or XP etc.) the sides of the window flicker, even when you try this on a high end machine. In Mac OS, it never happens, no matter how low resourced the computer is.
If selected stories are presented in an unbiased manner, by selecting stories of a certain type, you can perpetuate a biased view.
For example, if a news organization wants to push the view that people of a certain race are violent they can choose to only report crimes committed by that race. Then, the general population will have no idea that actually that race's propensity to violence is the same as any other.
My point is, an organization reports the truth and leave out other truths that may be relevant.. they can actually offer tacit support to prejudicial views even though individual articles themselves may be unbiased. On an article by article basis it will be hard to tell that a certain view is being propagated. A system needs to be created that basically breaks down each article into what views are likely to be propagated by an article, and also which basic views are NOT propagated. And then you track on an organization or media wide basis whether a trend is emerging as to certain important facts are going unreported.
How can Britain not have a astronaut program, when a country like Nigeria already has astronauts in space. I got an email from one of their astronauts describing the funds to get him back down were in an account that needed to be transferred out of Nigeria in order to gain access to it.
Also worthy of pointing out is that the brain isn't patrolled by the immune system. Still, stage IV cancer will kill a person too. Furthermore, this virus.. VSVrp30a isn't a human attacking virus. I believe it would require too high a number of specific mutations in its genome to acquire the ability to target non cancerous cells (though I have no idea what the specific SNP's are). Now before someone runs around claiming this is in the rabies virus family... the amount of mutations required to get there is astronomical (unless there somehow exist conditions for directed evolution).
Viruses that attack tumors (oncolytic viruses), have been studied for years and there is a whole list of them.. check out wikipedia.
Outside the brain most viruses can be handled effectively by the immune system, especially if primed against it (thats why small pox, rabies etc. vaccines exist). Yes, yes, I know HIV and HCV aren't. They're exceptions.
Yes but they will also let me check email, type responses, and look up stuff on the web. All of which can be controlled by thought. There will have to be some thought pattern or sequence standardization i reckon.
Besides swirling, the zoom gesture can be done via touching the corner of the display or photo's window edge and dragging towards the opposite corner. If it's done from the top corner that can be shrink, if from the bottom corner that can be zooming in (expanding). Or vice versa (maybe top to bottom can be expand?) Actually this is in some ways better than pinching/unpinching cause your finger has a longer way to move so you can zoom in or out more than what pinch would allow. Also, it probably should detect acceleration (kinda like a mouse) so that the amount of zooming can increase if the finger moves faster.
To move or slide about the image itself, touch the center area and it will "stick" so you can drag around the image.
Google's stock price is inflated so they need to do stuff like this to satisfy the high forward P/E ratio.
Soon, they'll probably have to get into the hardware biz and compete with companies like Sun, IBM, Apple.
Hmm that brings up the prospect of high end linux laptops, mp3 players, gaming devices, and HDTV's from Google to compete. It could happen. They'll need a top dog designer though.
Use clean energy (such as nuclear, or hopefully in under 20 years, fusion) to turn it back into oil, or send it to space. Or dump it in middle of the deserts until we have the clean energy sources to turn it into plastic or something.
I hate commenting on another annoying stupid Roland article.
Birds and insects have very low mass. As mass increases components have deal with more stress etc.
Post another annoying stupid Roland article when birds flying at high speeds weigh as much as an aircraft (or even a human) and then we'll see how they handle things.
Btw, I could have sworn i saw the "ohnoitsroland" tag and then it disappeared.. what's up with that?
I use pine for my email, and I have never had these issues. The fact that I'm not a lawyer dealing with billion dollar settlements has nothing to do with it.
Having lived in Miami, I know plenty of Cubans too.. including a few who have been there recently. And they're all waiting for Castro to take that final raft ride. In Cuba, people do live a healthy lifestyle, they get walking exercise, and they eat healthy food.. they refrain from junk food. But guess what, a healthy lifestyle can be lived here too. People choose not to do it.
Sure, some may claim it's a paradise over there..must be slow paced, what with people having no money to spend on cars and computers.. fine..
But one thing I can tell you for sure is that I never heard of anyone wanting to take a treacherous raft trip to Cuba from Miami!
America has far more opportunities. As do most countries where the state doesnt own monopolies. If you want to see what communism does.. look at North Korea versus South Korea.. before 1950.. North Korea was considered rich.. and South Korea was considered hopelessly poverty stricken. Countries like Singapore, Japan, western europe, modern China.. that decided to allow individual liberty and capitalism have shown enormous growth potential. So many people get lifted out of poverty. When the state owns monopolies, innovation stalls because incentives disappear amd corruption takes grip.
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I find solace knowing that the more paranoid and fearful I am, the less likely things will happen to me.
.. ohh nooo!
.. hmm nooo!!
I'm paranoid, so that means I have nothing to worry about!
No wait, now I'm not
Better, better
If the Chinese government keeps up this bullshit, people are going to call for boycotts of companies that advertise during the olympics, and that will reduce their revenue (because it will diminish the value of advertsising during hte olympics).
Even the Dalai Lama himself has firmly said that the Olympics should not be boycotted.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/18/2193461.htm
He has the most to lose if China's government gets more powerful.
I agree with him, I personally don't believe a boycott of the current olympics or advertisers is warranted in this case. The olympics is the one time every four years when athletes of all nations can come together. That serves more for global peace and understanding than petty quarreling, protests, and boycotts. Note, if there was serious shit going on I'll be the at the front of the protest line.
We need China to open, isolating them further will not be helpful. It's better the Chinese (people not govt.) be exposed to how people of other cultures are and vice versa.
When you move a window around in Vista (or XP etc.) the sides of the window flicker, even when you try this on a high end machine. In Mac OS, it never happens, no matter how low resourced the computer is.
Why the hell havent they fixed that? It's easy.
If selected stories are presented in an unbiased manner, by selecting stories of a certain type, you can perpetuate a biased view.
For example, if a news organization wants to push the view that people of a certain race are violent they can choose to only report crimes committed by that race. Then, the general population will have no idea that actually that race's propensity to violence is the same as any other.
My point is, an organization reports the truth and leave out other truths that may be relevant.. they can actually offer tacit support to prejudicial views even though individual articles themselves may be unbiased. On an article by article basis it will be hard to tell that a certain view is being propagated. A system needs to be created that basically breaks down each article into what views are likely to be propagated by an article, and also which basic views are NOT propagated. And then you track on an organization or media wide basis whether a trend is emerging as to certain important facts are going unreported.
Patent Reform sat on a wall
Patent Reform had a great fall
All the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't put Patent Reform together again.
So let's start over.
How can Britain not have a astronaut program, when a country like Nigeria already has astronauts in space. I got an email from one of their astronauts describing the funds to get him back down were in an account that needed to be transferred out of Nigeria in order to gain access to it.
It's quite possible that by 2015, most consumer PC's will not have hard drives. Hard drives will be relegated to servers that have over a terabyte.
That's it? One measly terabyte? For the whole planet?
Also worthy of pointing out is that the brain isn't patrolled by the immune system. Still, stage IV cancer will kill a person too. Furthermore, this virus .. VSVrp30a isn't a human attacking virus. I believe it would require too high a number of specific mutations in its genome to acquire the ability to target non cancerous cells (though I have no idea what the specific SNP's are). Now before someone runs around claiming this is in the rabies virus family... the amount of mutations required to get there is astronomical (unless there somehow exist conditions for directed evolution).
.. check out wikipedia.
Viruses that attack tumors (oncolytic viruses), have been studied for years and there is a whole list of them
Outside the brain most viruses can be handled effectively by the immune system, especially if primed against it (thats why small pox, rabies etc. vaccines exist). Yes, yes, I know HIV and HCV aren't. They're exceptions.
Yes but they will also let me check email, type responses, and look up stuff on the web. All of which can be controlled by thought. There will have to be some thought pattern or sequence standardization i reckon.
I read this story, it may seem to have some credibility .. but let me tell you .. it's all fabrication.
Ba da Bim
When I read title "the promise of personal fabrication", I thought they meant the benefits of making up lies for oneself.
Honestly I did.
Besides swirling, the zoom gesture can be done via touching the corner of the display or photo's window edge and dragging towards the opposite corner. If it's done from the top corner that can be shrink, if from the bottom corner that can be zooming in (expanding). Or vice versa (maybe top to bottom can be expand?) Actually this is in some ways better than pinching/unpinching cause your finger has a longer way to move so you can zoom in or out more than what pinch would allow. Also, it probably should detect acceleration (kinda like a mouse) so that the amount of zooming can increase if the finger moves faster.
To move or slide about the image itself, touch the center area and it will "stick" so you can drag around the image.
as chris pointed out
Sorry about the typo. I did mean SP1.
Why did they have to rip out WinFS ..and why did they rip it out before he left .. it's not in RC1 even?
Well, then I would expect RC1 to be stable and have smooth instantly responsive performance like the mac does on lesser hardware.
Google's stock price is inflated so they need to do stuff like this to satisfy the high forward P/E ratio.
Soon, they'll probably have to get into the hardware biz and compete with companies like Sun, IBM, Apple.
Hmm that brings up the prospect of high end linux laptops, mp3 players, gaming devices, and HDTV's from Google to compete. It could happen. They'll need a top dog designer though.
Now you guys tell me!
What the Fudge man, I have been eating Snickers all this time thinking I'm getting more chocolate! Now I find this out?
Use clean energy (such as nuclear, or hopefully in under 20 years, fusion) to turn it back into oil, or send it to space. Or dump it in middle of the deserts until we have the clean energy sources to turn it into plastic or something.
You've heard of the space elevator .. now behold .. the space pipeline
I hereby propose that a flexible pipeline be built from Titan to Earth. It can be done using carbon nanotubes, we have the technology.
Ok, somewhat.
I hate commenting on another annoying stupid Roland article.
.. what's up with that?
Birds and insects have very low mass. As mass increases components have deal with more stress etc.
Post another annoying stupid Roland article when birds flying at high speeds weigh as much as an aircraft (or even a human) and then we'll see how they handle things.
Btw, I could have sworn i saw the "ohnoitsroland" tag and then it disappeared
I use pine for my email, and I have never had these issues. The fact that I'm not a lawyer dealing with billion dollar settlements has nothing to do with it.
Interestingly enough, the percentage of Cuban refugees compared to the population of Cuba is roughly the same as the proportion of Mexican
Mexicans have to try much less. The Cubans either have to risk their lives or somehow find the resources to get a plane ride.
Economic or not, fact is their government has failed them.
Having lived in Miami, I know plenty of Cubans too.. including a few who have been there recently. And they're all waiting for Castro to take that final raft ride. In Cuba, people do live a healthy lifestyle, they get walking exercise, and they eat healthy food .. they refrain from junk food. But guess what, a healthy lifestyle can be lived here too. People choose not to do it.
..must be slow paced, what with people having no money to spend on cars and computers .. fine ..
.. look at North Korea versus South Korea .. before 1950 .. North Korea was considered rich .. and South Korea was considered hopelessly poverty stricken. Countries like Singapore, Japan, western europe, modern China .. that decided to allow individual liberty and capitalism have shown enormous growth potential. So many people get lifted out of poverty. When the state owns monopolies, innovation stalls because incentives disappear amd corruption takes grip.
Sure, some may claim it's a paradise over there
But one thing I can tell you for sure is that I never heard of anyone wanting to take a treacherous raft trip to Cuba from Miami!
America has far more opportunities. As do most countries where the state doesnt own monopolies. If you want to see what communism does