Wow. I made three assertions and one conclusion, and in your angry tirade of a response you didn't manage to address any of them.
One of the biggest drivers of the economy is innovation. Not addressed
Innovation requires educated people to exist. Not addressed
Libraries are great sources of information when you are trying to get an education. Not addressed
Angrily attacking my conclusion without actually addressing any of my assertions just makes you look stupid. (You came close to addressing assertion #3, but I didn't actually say that libraries lead to innovation by themselves, merely that they are a useful tool when getting an education). Would you like to try again?
One of the biggest drivers of the economy is innovation. Innovation requires educated people to exist. Libraries are great sources of information when you are trying to get an education.
The problem with cutting library and other education spending when you get into "hard times" is that you will have a more difficult time getting out of them. I wouldn't consider libraries "least essential services."
I think the key word there is "ostensibly." I think several discussions here on/. have explored how little control the people have over the government. DHS anyone?
Well sure, but I don't think you would necessarily need to move the cursor to do everything. You might even do away with having a "cursor" icon present on the screen at all.
For example, if you want to change focus to a window that's partially behind another one (or minimized to the task bar), current mouse tech requires you to move the cursor to that window. What I'm suggesting is that the computer would see you glance at that window, and then bring it to the front for you.
Browsing with your eyes instead of your mouse wouldn't just be a substitution of eye movements for hand movements (that could get really tiring!), but would be a whole new implementation of user/screen interaction.
Tell you what. Try this, and let me know how your neck feels after an 8hr day.
It seems to me that the reason the mouse just won't die is that it is a very good way of allowing you to disconnect the motion of your eyes and the motion of your hands. "Touch" technology just isn't going to cut it.
The thing that will kill the mouse is eye-tracking software that allows you to select and interact with things on your screen by interpreting eye/facial motions. The ultimate in hands-free technology.
Oh sure there's a catch. You can't hold the developers responsible if the software doesn't work right. When you receive something without an exchange of value (eg, paying for it), you have no legal right to require that thing to work as claimed.
Its like free advice - the catch is that it might only be worth what you paid for it.
The throughput efficiency may go down slightly, but we are talking about orders of magnitude less fuel used in the process of getting that cargo up to geosynchronous orbit in the first place.
I agree with your assessment of their stated problem, but I'd like to know where they got that idea in the first place. Launching directly from the space elevator has never (in my understanding) been part of the concept. Instead, cargo (+ people) is offloaded at a station and is moved into a shuttle. The shuttle detaches from the station and then applies a thrust vector to move away.
The point of a space elevator is not to launch items directly into space, but to create a more efficient, higher through-put method of getting people and equipment out of the Earth's gravity well.
You should talk to a few RN's before you make the assertion that a nursing graduate has a more healthy lifestyle than a CS graduate. One of the nurses at the flu clinic recently had just come off of three straight "twelves." I was glad that it was the other lady who was giving me my shot . . .
I have no mod points, but I want to say I agree with you 100% For anyone who disagrees, I suggest a thought experiment: How would life be different if the following companies focused on serving their customers and not their shareholders?
Yeah, personal experience dictates otherwise. One year the cross country team went to a lighter stretching regimen . . . a stress fracture and several other injuries later and we were back to the old way of doing things.
I think you're right to lash out (well, at least to point out) how silly people are being about the size of the bandwidth caps.
I think people should be paying more attention to something that a few posters have brought up, namely that the ISPs will be picking and choosing what traffic gets counted as part of the "cap" calculation.
Downloading something from our "play to play" site? Not counted.
Yeah, but this isn't like leaving a shed unlocked in your backyard. This is like (to use a "car" analogy . ..) putting important papers in the glovebox of the company's carpool van (ie, a resource free for all to use) and then when a man approaches a stranger and says "Hey, I noticed your important papers in the glove box" then the stranger says "What were you doing in the company's car?"
Not that I read TFA, but I remember school administrators being pretty incompetent. The only reason that changes in college is instead of crucifying the smart ones, they *hire* them to do network security . . .
The hiker, Preston Morrow, said he found an FAA identity card, a pilot's license, a third ID and $1,005 in cash tangled in a bush off a trail just west of the town of Mammoth Lakes on Monday.
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Angrily attacking my conclusion without actually addressing any of my assertions just makes you look stupid. (You came close to addressing assertion #3, but I didn't actually say that libraries lead to innovation by themselves, merely that they are a useful tool when getting an education). Would you like to try again?
One of the biggest drivers of the economy is innovation. Innovation requires educated people to exist. Libraries are great sources of information when you are trying to get an education.
The problem with cutting library and other education spending when you get into "hard times" is that you will have a more difficult time getting out of them. I wouldn't consider libraries "least essential services."
I think the key word there is "ostensibly." I think several discussions here on /. have explored how little control the people have over the government. DHS anyone?
Well sure, but I don't think you would necessarily need to move the cursor to do everything. You might even do away with having a "cursor" icon present on the screen at all.
For example, if you want to change focus to a window that's partially behind another one (or minimized to the task bar), current mouse tech requires you to move the cursor to that window. What I'm suggesting is that the computer would see you glance at that window, and then bring it to the front for you.
Browsing with your eyes instead of your mouse wouldn't just be a substitution of eye movements for hand movements (that could get really tiring!), but would be a whole new implementation of user/screen interaction.
Tell you what. Try this, and let me know how your neck feels after an 8hr day.
It seems to me that the reason the mouse just won't die is that it is a very good way of allowing you to disconnect the motion of your eyes and the motion of your hands. "Touch" technology just isn't going to cut it.
The thing that will kill the mouse is eye-tracking software that allows you to select and interact with things on your screen by interpreting eye/facial motions. The ultimate in hands-free technology.
Oh sure there's a catch. You can't hold the developers responsible if the software doesn't work right. When you receive something without an exchange of value (eg, paying for it), you have no legal right to require that thing to work as claimed.
Its like free advice - the catch is that it might only be worth what you paid for it.
Would you care to clarify that statement or are you content with being terse and rude?
The throughput efficiency may go down slightly, but we are talking about orders of magnitude less fuel used in the process of getting that cargo up to geosynchronous orbit in the first place.
I agree with your assessment of their stated problem, but I'd like to know where they got that idea in the first place. Launching directly from the space elevator has never (in my understanding) been part of the concept. Instead, cargo (+ people) is offloaded at a station and is moved into a shuttle. The shuttle detaches from the station and then applies a thrust vector to move away.
The point of a space elevator is not to launch items directly into space, but to create a more efficient, higher through-put method of getting people and equipment out of the Earth's gravity well.
You should talk to a few RN's before you make the assertion that a nursing graduate has a more healthy lifestyle than a CS graduate. One of the nurses at the flu clinic recently had just come off of three straight "twelves." I was glad that it was the other lady who was giving me my shot . . .
Its a great book, but man is it depressing.
no, no, I'm right there with you . . .
Err . . . you might be leaving out a precipitate there . . .
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter (or at least your Youtube bookmark list)
Yeah, personal experience dictates otherwise. One year the cross country team went to a lighter stretching regimen . . . a stress fracture and several other injuries later and we were back to the old way of doing things.
I think you're right to lash out (well, at least to point out) how silly people are being about the size of the bandwidth caps.
I think people should be paying more attention to something that a few posters have brought up, namely that the ISPs will be picking and choosing what traffic gets counted as part of the "cap" calculation.
Downloading something from our "play to play" site? Not counted.
Downloading from our competitor? Counted x2 . . .
Wait, so you can burn through your entire cap in 13 hrs? Neato.
You must be new here?
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Yeah, but this isn't like leaving a shed unlocked in your backyard. This is like (to use a "car" analogy . . .) putting important papers in the glovebox of the company's carpool van (ie, a resource free for all to use) and then when a man approaches a stranger and says "Hey, I noticed your important papers in the glove box" then the stranger says "What were you doing in the company's car?"
Not that I read TFA, but I remember school administrators being pretty incompetent. The only reason that changes in college is instead of crucifying the smart ones, they *hire* them to do network security . . .
If I had mod points I would mod you up.
I would dearly like to hear if you get any response to this letter (especially if it's anything more than the standard, canned response).
Will the rouge government attack its citizens with mascara and lipstick?
It took me a full five minutes to figure out what you were trying to say. FWIW
The hiker, Preston Morrow, said he found an FAA identity card, a pilot's license, a third ID and $1,005 in cash tangled in a bush off a trail just west of the town of Mammoth Lakes on Monday.
I wonder if the hiker bothered to look *up* ?