Well, China may spend a lot on science, but has comparatively few important innovations (in the last 100 years). I mean, try to think of one game-changing Chinese invention (in China) from the last 100 years.
The idea that we're slipping behind China technologically is utter bullshit.
I know, I know, this is slashdot, and asking you to RTFA is useless. But seriously, you don't have to read the article, or even the summary, because right in the article title it says "overtake US in science in two years," so what does the last hundred years have to do with anything?
(oh, and I'd call the synthesis of insulin - one of the first proteins ever synthesized a game changer, you on the other hand, may beg to differ).
My point is not about what IS done, but what COULD be done
Well, we COULD all have horses painted pink & use them to ride around collecting rubbish & the horses carefully lick clean each piece prior to sending to the recycle centre, but in the real world, new polystyrene is so cheap, that the cost of recycling is simply not worth it.
Apparently; so that was the plan behind the environmentally conscious crowd bullying them into no longer using those easily recyclable styrofoam containers!
I am afraid that you are totally incorrect in thinking a switch to paper increases the volume of waste.
There is a persistent myth that the McDonalds foamed polystyrene containers were more recyclable than their current paper packaging. This myth is used by people to try and show the environmental movement is emotional, rather than pragmatic & forward thinking (typically, there is a condescending "ho-ho-ho, those silly environmentalists have made the environment worse by replacing a recyclable product with a non-recyclable product" attitude).
However, the facts are that:
1) Food contaminated products are not recycled (most McDs food packaging is unsurprisingly contaminated by food) 2) Almost no foamed polystyrene is recycled in any case. 3) Switching to paper reduced McDonald's waste by around 90%
The paper packaging used to replace the clamshell is not recyclable but it is nonetheless better for the environment and was expected to reduce the volume of waste by 90 percent
Are you old enough to remember the styrofoam clam-shells McDonalds sandwiches were served in? Those were just "evil" according to environmentalists. Except they kept you food warmer and could be recycled into all kinds of things.
Polystyrene foams are very expensive to recycle and at least at the time of the McDonald's phase out were manufactured using CFCs, contributing to Ozone depletion.
Reading you're post, I'd say that you're not old enough to remember when styrofoam was in widespread use (or that you're a fucking idiot, or both.)
Actually Apple DOES warn you, via the GPS icon in the top menu bar. In Settings, you can disable Location services for any specific app and see if it's accessed your location in the last 24 hours.
The linked article says "Your contacts, city, *snip*, phone ID and username and password are all collected and sent to third parties."
Does the GPS icon really warn you when your contacts & phone ID are sent to a third party?
He wrote the first open source port scanner in 1995, and was contributing to PostgreSQL in 1996, and writing a plausible deniablility encryption system soon after.
He is far more of a computer expert than you will ever be.
In the past, framing events made them happen in reality (the story of US defeat in Vietnam, for example)
Do you honestly believe the US was defeated in vietnam due to US domestic anti-war protests? I find it extraordinarily hard to believe the viet cong was so irrelevant.
That's stupid. "Engineer", like "doctor" is a reserved title in many societies. In Quebec you can't call yourself an engineer unless you have a degree.
This is simply not true. Quebec is just about the only place in the world where the word engineer by itself is protected, otherwise, Microsoft would not be able to get away with certifying monkeys as MSCEs (the E stands for Engineer).
The word engineer as the spelling implies denotes someone who operates an engine. It used to mean train driver. Stop trying to redefine & protect an existing word. Set up a standards body & go with chartered engineer, professional engineers, etc.
Would you use a cell phone OS made by an advertising company? I only have a lowly call-and-text phone, but if I were buying a smartphone I'd avoid Android like the plague.
So which smartphone would you buy that doesn't come from an advertising company?
But that's about as difficult as the process is to create *snip* a Google Checkout account
My point is that you don't need a google account to download free applications.
Are you saying that Kindle and Steam are both user unfriendly?
If you are unable to download free applications without going through a laborious account creation process (including entering a credit card), then they're certainly less user friendly than Android when it comes to downloading free apps.
You have beautifully demonstrated the difference between iPhones & Android.
iPhone: Want to download a free app? We'll make it so difficult to do without a credit card that there a 15 step knowledge base article on how you need to do it.
Android: Click on the app & wait for it to install.
If you want to install an app, first you need to sign up in our store, give us all of your personal information, and you will have to give us your credit card. We are the only providers, we are a monopoly, you can't buy apps from anywhere else.
Aside from the "no other store" it's not much different than any other purchase you make online.
I believe the OP was talking about free apps. There's not many places other than Apple's store that require you to put in your credit card number to download a free app. Android marketplace certainly doesn't.
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EPA regulations a broken CFL requires a hazmat team to properly clean up after it.
The EPA's website disagrees with you. Do you have a source for your claim?
Recycling CFL's doubles their cost
Bullshit. Cite? I find this hard to believe when Ikea recycles them for free.
Not recycling them guarantee's that the mercury will end up in your water table.
Guess what? Not using them guarantees that mercury will end up in water (from coal plants) regardless (unless you're in a rare non-coal-powered area).
The near-religious irrationality of the anti-CFL brigade pisses me off - your use of logic is as poor as the intelligent design crowd.
Well, China may spend a lot on science, but has comparatively few important innovations (in the last 100 years). I mean, try to think of one game-changing Chinese invention (in China) from the last 100 years.
The idea that we're slipping behind China technologically is utter bullshit.
I know, I know, this is slashdot, and asking you to RTFA is useless. But seriously, you don't have to read the article, or even the summary, because right in the article title it says "overtake US in science in two years," so what does the last hundred years have to do with anything?
(oh, and I'd call the synthesis of insulin - one of the first proteins ever synthesized a game changer, you on the other hand, may beg to differ).
My point is not about what IS done, but what COULD be done
Well, we COULD all have horses painted pink & use them to ride around collecting rubbish & the horses carefully lick clean each piece prior to sending to the recycle centre, but in the real world, new polystyrene is so cheap, that the cost of recycling is simply not worth it.
Apparently; so that was the plan behind the environmentally conscious crowd bullying them into no longer using those easily recyclable styrofoam containers!
I am afraid that you are totally incorrect in thinking a switch to paper increases the volume of waste.
There is a persistent myth that the McDonalds foamed polystyrene containers were more recyclable than their current paper packaging. This myth is used by people to try and show the environmental movement is emotional, rather than pragmatic & forward thinking (typically, there is a condescending "ho-ho-ho, those silly environmentalists have made the environment worse by replacing a recyclable product with a non-recyclable product" attitude).
However, the facts are that:
1) Food contaminated products are not recycled (most McDs food packaging is unsurprisingly contaminated by food)
2) Almost no foamed polystyrene is recycled in any case.
3) Switching to paper reduced McDonald's waste by around 90%
For fuck's sake, 40% of the male african population still thinks that raping a virgin can cure aids!
Where did you get that 40% of male Africans stat? Not from the article you linked to.
Remember it was US general Norman Schwarzkopf who said "Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion."
Uhhh, no it wasn't, those words were spoken by Jed Babbin, a former deputy undersecretary of defense in the first Bush administration
I guess it fits better into your chauvinistic view of the world for it to come from an actual general, than one of the chickenhawks.
From your own link:
Idiot.
A new process was implemented that didn't use CFC's for the manufacturing of the clam-shells prior to McDonalds discontinuing their use
Cite or your full o' shite.
I know there was at least one company that used the clam shells to make park benches at profit until they were discontinued.
Cite or your full o' shite.
Are you old enough to remember the styrofoam clam-shells McDonalds sandwiches were served in? Those were just "evil" according to environmentalists. Except they kept you food warmer and could be recycled into all kinds of things.
Polystyrene foams are very expensive to recycle and at least at the time of the McDonald's phase out were manufactured using CFCs, contributing to Ozone depletion.
Reading you're post, I'd say that you're not old enough to remember when styrofoam was in widespread use (or that you're a fucking idiot, or both.)
Actually Apple DOES warn you, via the GPS icon in the top menu bar. In Settings, you can disable Location services for any specific app and see if it's accessed your location in the last 24 hours.
The linked article says "Your contacts, city, *snip*, phone ID and username and password are all collected and sent to third parties."
Does the GPS icon really warn you when your contacts & phone ID are sent to a third party?
He is? I was unaware.
You must be blind. This is well known stuff.
He wrote the first open source port scanner in 1995, and was contributing to PostgreSQL in 1996, and writing a plausible deniablility encryption system soon after.
He is far more of a computer expert than you will ever be.
What? Something is bricked because it is no longer served programming info now?
This is bad, TIVO sucks, their lifetime subscription doesn't cover the lifetime of the device, etc.
But stop fucking using the term brick unless the device is incapable of powering on.
Balanced people certainly don't think MS is any more evil than Google or Facebook.
Of MS, Google & Facebook, which is a convicted monopolist?
In the past, framing events made them happen in reality (the story of US defeat in Vietnam, for example)
Do you honestly believe the US was defeated in vietnam due to US domestic anti-war protests? I find it extraordinarily hard to believe the viet cong was so irrelevant.
I'm not the one making retarded music analogies. Am I?
That's stupid. "Engineer", like "doctor" is a reserved title in many societies. In Quebec you can't call yourself an engineer unless you have a degree.
This is simply not true. Quebec is just about the only place in the world where the word engineer by itself is protected, otherwise, Microsoft would not be able to get away with certifying monkeys as MSCEs (the E stands for Engineer).
The word engineer as the spelling implies denotes someone who operates an engine. It used to mean train driver. Stop trying to redefine & protect an existing word. Set up a standards body & go with chartered engineer, professional engineers, etc.
like that Radio station that plays a lot of Nirvana and Foo Fighters.
Thanks for that analogy grandpa. Do you know any bands from this millennium?
If everyone stopped eating meat today, they would have to immediately slaughter billions of cows, chickens, pigs, sheep etc.
Wow! That is the stupidest thing I have read on slashdot all week. Congratulations dumbass.
So. What smartphone would you recommend to someone who does want both a smartphone & to avoid an advertising company?
Would you use a cell phone OS made by an advertising company? I only have a lowly call-and-text phone, but if I were buying a smartphone I'd avoid Android like the plague.
So which smartphone would you buy that doesn't come from an advertising company?
Apple? No, they're an advertising company.
Rim? No, they're an advertising company.
Nokia? No, they're an advertising company.
Looks like no smartphone for you.
Yes and the marketplace isn't keeping track of updates orotber data either.
Yes it does. Why do you think it doesn't?
What exactly is the process for buying apps on the market place anyway?
Very similar to itunes.
But that's about as difficult as the process is to create *snip* a Google Checkout account
My point is that you don't need a google account to download free applications.
Are you saying that Kindle and Steam are both user unfriendly?
If you are unable to download free applications without going through a laborious account creation process (including entering a credit card), then they're certainly less user friendly than Android when it comes to downloading free apps.
Thank you for that informative article.
You have beautifully demonstrated the difference between iPhones & Android.
iPhone: Want to download a free app? We'll make it so difficult to do without a credit card that there a 15 step knowledge base article on how you need to do it.
Android: Click on the app & wait for it to install.
Which one just works?
If you want to install an app, first you need to sign up in our store, give us all of your personal information, and you will have to give us your credit card. We are the only providers, we are a monopoly, you can't buy apps from anywhere else.
Aside from the "no other store" it's not much different than any other purchase you make online.
I believe the OP was talking about free apps. There's not many places other than Apple's store that require you to put in your credit card number to download a free app. Android marketplace certainly doesn't.
That really compares to being able to also watch movies and play games offline.
Do you really believe you're not going to be able to watch movies & play games offline?