Over 2000, including about 350 athmospheric explosions up to 50MT, so a couple of 1.2MT blasts beyond the Van Allen belt would indeed be a joke compared to that.
"One would think that high IQ breeding pairs should biologically desire to produce MORE offspring, not less."
Not necessarily.
You can see in nature that some species produce large quantities of offspings but them abandon them hopping that one or two would get lucky, and some having very few but spending as much time and energy as possible raising and protecting them. High IQ parents generally use the later strategy because it helps passing your good social status to your children.
And even if they simply copy a part of your body (it can realy cheap, you leave fingerprints everywhere you go and anyone with the right tools can make a 3D model of your head with just a couple of photos), you'll need expensive and painfull surgery.
Let's see... because, on 9/11 alone, more people died prematurely of cancer than of terrorism. Office pollution is the most dangerous thing around, but it is something that can be easily corrected (of course, if walking 5m to get a printout is a problem to you, odds are you already have a short life expectancy).
"Why don't we just throw up our hands and walk around with oxygen tanks and masks?"
Because, 1- in excess, O2 is toxic and 2- large scale bottled O2 production is rather expensive and polluting (the power requirement alone is huge).
So if I understand your logic, since apples contain cyanide and do not seem to be dangerous, it's OK to expose yourself to some more cyanide for no particular reason. The idea with laser printers is not to ban their use, but simply to put them in dedicated places where no worker spends over 2000 hours every year.
There is a major flaw in your reasonning: in that movie, they had an imperfect way to tell that someone was about to commit a crime, but at least the persons in charge were believing they were doing the right thing. Making a law that can allow to burry anyone under criminal charges without needing to bring up a single proof because more and more civil judges now understand RIAA has difficulties bringing good enouth proofs to back up their clains is simple abuse of power.
That's why I work in embedded real time/driver development: I had not a single day of unemployment in 8 years and worked for a large variety of manufacturers, plus, the job is usualy rather easy once you made the initial effort of knowing your system.
1- In developping countries, many people don't own a car either.
2- In large non-US towns, many people who could afford a car prefer not to.
3- There are also work machines (personnaly, I own 2 PC (one for gaming, the other (older) one for multimedia) and work with 3 (my dev PC, a test system and the reference generation system)).
I once worked for a GSM handset manufacturer that had a couple of test BTS in the building and I can tell you that after a day of work there, I was suffering of anxiety, headaches and tiredness, but almost never during weekends.
The whole point of OSS alternative is to prevent a shady corp to introduce untrustworthy elements into the final product, so an OSS based Dielbolt voting machine would still be as suspect as their current closed source ones.
Unfortunatelly, there is not only greed (and not many researchers choosed that job for the money, it would have been very silly). Most of the time, even the researchers who want their work to be available to everyone desperately need fundings to work and too many of them spend more time looking for money than to actually work because they simply couldn't work without that money, so they have to live in the grey area between selling themself and not selling their soul.
I see a major flaw in your point: you need quite a lot of room to truly enjoy the Wii with your friends, which is the main reason to own a Wii in the first place. I think there are several other reasons: -It is expensive (Very true in Europe, where the decided to bundle 2 last year games instead of dropping the price, but not that much in Japan). -It is power ungry. -It doesn't have many appealing games yet, it will be better for next christmas. -You need an expensive TV set to really appreciate the graphic improvement. -Everybody who might be interested in that console already has a PS2 with lots of good games (plus a XB360 in the US). -The Sony name isn't as cool as it used to be. It's big N turn now. -No rumble pad. Unexpectedly, the BR seemed to actually help selling the console.
You mean, like the big PS3 launch evening in London or Paris where the journalist to customer was about 3:1? At least, on a major event like E3, people not interested in their shallow and overpriced products can still spare 10 min to take a look at their stand.
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Over 2000, including about 350 athmospheric explosions up to 50MT, so a couple of 1.2MT blasts beyond the Van Allen belt would indeed be a joke compared to that.
"One would think that high IQ breeding pairs should biologically desire to produce MORE offspring, not less."
Not necessarily.
You can see in nature that some species produce large quantities of offspings but them abandon them hopping that one or two would get lucky, and some having very few but spending as much time and energy as possible raising and protecting them. High IQ parents generally use the later strategy because it helps passing your good social status to your children.
Can you guess what the 'N' stands for?
And even if they simply copy a part of your body (it can realy cheap, you leave fingerprints everywhere you go and anyone with the right tools can make a 3D model of your head with just a couple of photos), you'll need expensive and painfull surgery.
I would even prefer subdermal RFID...
So what, because toxic particules can land on furnitures and the become airbone again before being breathed, it makes them less toxic?
"So why is this now suddenly such a big deal?"
Let's see... because, on 9/11 alone, more people died prematurely of cancer than of terrorism. Office pollution is the most dangerous thing around, but it is something that can be easily corrected (of course, if walking 5m to get a printout is a problem to you, odds are you already have a short life expectancy).
"Why don't we just throw up our hands and walk around with oxygen tanks and masks?"
Because, 1- in excess, O2 is toxic and 2- large scale bottled O2 production is rather expensive and polluting (the power requirement alone is huge).
So if I understand your logic, since apples contain cyanide and do not seem to be dangerous, it's OK to expose yourself to some more cyanide for no particular reason.
The idea with laser printers is not to ban their use, but simply to put them in dedicated places where no worker spends over 2000 hours every year.
There is a major flaw in your reasonning: in that movie, they had an imperfect way to tell that someone was about to commit a crime, but at least the persons in charge were believing they were doing the right thing.
Making a law that can allow to burry anyone under criminal charges without needing to bring up a single proof because more and more civil judges now understand RIAA has difficulties bringing good enouth proofs to back up their clains is simple abuse of power.
That's why I work in embedded real time/driver development: I had not a single day of unemployment in 8 years and worked for a large variety of manufacturers, plus, the job is usualy rather easy once you made the initial effort of knowing your system.
And the PC sold with XP but running with a Linux or BSD?
1- In developping countries, many people don't own a car either.
2- In large non-US towns, many people who could afford a car prefer not to.
3- There are also work machines (personnaly, I own 2 PC (one for gaming, the other (older) one for multimedia) and work with 3 (my dev PC, a test system and the reference generation system)).
It would be silly to go that far for something that is nothing more than a kind of enhanced pink phone.
From what I saw, only weirdos, politicians and journalists seemed to be interested in that thing.
So you think it might have been linked to the workhaolic tyran boss, the culture of permanent emergency and the noisy openspace?
Could we swap my "Interesting" and your "Funny", I'll think it would be better.
I once worked for a GSM handset manufacturer that had a couple of test BTS in the building and I can tell you that after a day of work there, I was suffering of anxiety, headaches and tiredness, but almost never during weekends.
The whole point of OSS alternative is to prevent a shady corp to introduce untrustworthy elements into the final product, so an OSS based Dielbolt voting machine would still be as suspect as their current closed source ones.
Never memorize anything you can look up.
I didn't find the exact reference, but I remember he also said something about making as simple as possible, but not simplier.
Unfortunatelly, there is not only greed (and not many researchers choosed that job for the money, it would have been very silly). Most of the time, even the researchers who want their work to be available to everyone desperately need fundings to work and too many of them spend more time looking for money than to actually work because they simply couldn't work without that money, so they have to live in the grey area between selling themself and not selling their soul.
This is a widely accepted theory, but you are wrong about all life using DNA: some virii and bacteria are still relying on RNA.
It's already covered, after all, a political opponent might be a threat to the current legimately elected government.
Curreently, I'm on Yahoo news, /., The Register, two other (french) tech blogs, Dilbert, Penny Arcade, WTF and DamnInteresting, so I guess I'm OK.
I see a major flaw in your point: you need quite a lot of room to truly enjoy the Wii with your friends, which is the main reason to own a Wii in the first place.
I think there are several other reasons:
-It is expensive (Very true in Europe, where the decided to bundle 2 last year games instead of dropping the price, but not that much in Japan).
-It is power ungry.
-It doesn't have many appealing games yet, it will be better for next christmas.
-You need an expensive TV set to really appreciate the graphic improvement.
-Everybody who might be interested in that console already has a PS2 with lots of good games (plus a XB360 in the US).
-The Sony name isn't as cool as it used to be. It's big N turn now.
-No rumble pad.
Unexpectedly, the BR seemed to actually help selling the console.
I would bet the #1 reason is that it tries to avoid being eaten by a fish.
You mean, like the big PS3 launch evening in London or Paris where the journalist to customer was about 3:1?
At least, on a major event like E3, people not interested in their shallow and overpriced products can still spare 10 min to take a look at their stand.