...people start using the same money more. Since thats unrealistic,... Not that realistic. Lowering taxes is a way to increase the velocity of money. Lowering interest rates can have the effect of increasing the money supply.
Not sure how US inflation is calculated, but in the EU/netherlands, inflation is corrected for just about everything (quality, technological progress, luxury/added features, substitution, etc).
Regarding the linked article, I think the example of the car is flawed. A car is a means of transportation and as such, they have become more expensive. The fact that now come standard power-steering, central door locks, powered windows doesn't change that. They only improve the driving experience. And the improved fuel-economy has largely been compensated by more taxes and increased fuel prices. The net result is that buying a car as a means of transportation has become more expensive.
Lucky bastards, they haven't even finished in the previous season here (Netherlands). Guess I'll be firing up BitTorrent tomorrow:-)
But I'm really looking forward to the closing season of Scrubs! Just one more month...
If this serves to unify behind some kind of scientific goal, it would really be great. Agree, but it remains to be seen if that is what is going to happen. The current outlook for 2020+ isn't all that positive for west-east relations.
[quote]your connection cannot be snooped by hackers, advertisers, your internet provider, another wireless user, or your employer.[/quote]
AFAIK, ISP's in the US have to be able to provide taps to Big Brother. Furthermore, Big Brother is plugged in to the vast majority of US IP-traffic, so being able to tap you at the ISP-level is just a convenience.
So not only is your post spam, it is completely silly.
It made me realise what is in retrospect a fairly obvious statement. The cost of the operating system on your hardware is an effect that should be minizimed. The operating system exists as a framework for runs tasks and applications, not for being a self-serving execuse to munch resources. While I completely agree with you, this issue is that today, hardware is cheap. Very cheap, compared to 10 or more years ago. OTOH, software development has become much more expensive, time-consuming and complex, so the emphasis lies on minimizing software development costs and complexity, which has a profoundly negative impact on hardware performance.
The difference between these drives is not only the firmware, the hardware is also different. If you look a bottom of the drives, you can see the board has a completely different layout and presumably (the pictures I've seen were too low quality and the memory was not on the visible side on the AAK-drives) different chips.
According to Seagate, the AAK drives were for an OEM-customer (unfortunately, they didn't mention which one). But how or why those drives made it to retail-channels (Seagate and the OEM-customer knowing the drives had a different performance profile)?
A lawyer told me once that an application by Nike to register "Air" as a trademark was rejected on the basis that no company could own the rights to one of the four ancient elements. Orange tried to do the same thing, but failed, because you can't trademark a color. Funny enough, they did send out letters in the Netherlands to website's with orange in their name threatening them with legal action (regardless of not having a trademark).
It isn't. This is easily demonstrated by beating a coma victim to death. They won't perceive your actions, but they'll still die. If you really want to try the schroedinger's cat falling in a forest line of things, make a robot do the beating. The coma victim will in fact die without being measured. There used to be a time that people who where "locked-in" where perceived to be in a coma. They actually weren't and were conscious of their surrounding. If you were beating them to death, they would perceive your actions.
Second, it also depends on how you defy dieing. If a coma patient has lost the ability to ever regain consciousness and self-awareness due to massive irreversible brain-damage, you could argue that they are already dead even though they are medically and legally not dead. There is no universal true definition of live, death and dying.
Last, if the robot that does the beating would also run the entire hospital, the robot might erase his memory of the event, all records of the patient ever being admitted and "erase" the now-dead patient itself, to cover up his actions. In that case, the patient would only have died from his/her own perspective, but would not have perceived t. For any outsider, death would not have taken place, simply because they have no way of knowing it. If no-one has perceived the event taking place and there is no way learn that the event has taken place, you can argue the event never took place.
But you'll probably live a long, healthy life, and never be diagnosed with cancer. Not sure about the latest numbers, but the risk of getting cancer as a male used to be about 50%.
Of course, a healthy lifestyle,...,etc will put the odds in your favor.
If I read it more closely:
"used a computer or device that does not have appropriate protective software and operating system installed and up-to-date, [...]" it would think that Windows users have the real problem. Appropriate protective [...]operating system. That doesn't sounds like any Windows version I ever encountered.
We must immediately lower our CO2 emissions and cripple our economic growth. That's short term thinking. There are plenty of ways to reduce CO2 emissions without crippling economic growth. one simple example: In the Netherlands, they started reusing industry produced CO2 in greenhouses, instead of having greenhouses producing their own CO2 by burning natural gas. Less CO2 emission and lower costs.
Second, what's the use of economic growth if it is not sustainable in the long term and the externalities outweigh your benefits?
I have to disagree. KHTML is one of the better html rendering engines, though it has its quirks (but every html rendering engine does). Just because you don't like Konqueror, doesn't mean choosing KHTML was a bad choice.
but also misleading.
Scientist are divided as to whether or not the animals are flourishing in the highly radioactive environment It is not highly radio-active, it has elevated levels of radiation. In fact, it might actually have a more healthy amount of radiation than non-contaminated areas, as there appears to be a positive link between health and slightly elevated levels of radiation. See http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article68 5386.ece and http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller12.html for instance.
I recently downloaded a movie and it took me a only a few hours. I don't feel an inch of guilt about it, since I ordered the DVD two months (!)ago and am still waiting. The only reason I haven't canceled my order is because I'm really curious to see how long it will take and I would feel guilty towards the director/writer/actors/crew etc.
You are probably right, but:
Free markets should take care of this, not protectionist measures. If you can't manufacture at a competitive price and someone else can, than let some else manufacture it and look for something else to do. I'm not saying I agree with that line of thought, but that is the way we chose it and you can't/shouldn't arbitrary change the rules as you see fit (though is a popular thing to do among Modern "Free Trade" Countries).
A truly superior being will understand why nature has given us both altruism and selfishness and will use logic to apply either one when most appropriate. Both have their merits.
I could type a very long comment why it is/will be, but it has been said and written so many times before. Advancement is great, but if you start meddling with what makes us human, it doesn't matter how good, noble or ethically correct your intentions are. You will lose.
They mean 4 channels/frequencies, not 4 cables. 40Mbps over a single channel is normal, so 160Mbps over 4 channels makes sense. Channel bonding is very normal to speed things up, they use it in 802.11n and most newer cellular data transmission protocols.
I don't see why this should make slashdot. It is nothing new and nothing revolutionary.
It still leaves the question open as to why it appears more bees are dying from this parasitic fungus in recent times. Could be completely due to natural causes, but there is also speculation that certain insecticides are harming the bees, causing them to be more vulnerable to parasites, fungi and disease.
Compare to most European countries - we have next to no murders compared to the US, because guns are not easily available and society at least tries to take care of the weak I doubt that those are the prime causes. You can't easily buy arms in Europe legally, but they are commonly available through clandestine channels. Everything from handguns, shotguns and automatic machine-guns to grenades, plastic explosives, RPG's and bazookas, though the latter ones will cost you big bucks. But even criminals and organized crime use them far less than in the USA. Also, I don't think there is a strong causality between protecting the weak and psychotic (mass)-murderers. We might have more accessible healthcare, the people who commit these crimes are not the ones who would access such healthcare voluntary.
I think the main difference lies in the history, culture and the social structure. Europeans tend to be moderate and introvert, whereas Americans are more expressive/extrovert and assertive upto a point where the average European might call it aggressive and dominant. Both have their merits and both have their flaws, but you can't say that one it better or worse than the other.
In this case, it seems it was an Chinese student, which makes it all the more puzzling.
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...people start using the same money more. Since thats unrealistic,Not sure how US inflation is calculated, but in the EU/netherlands, inflation is corrected for just about everything (quality, technological progress, luxury/added features, substitution, etc). Regarding the linked article, I think the example of the car is flawed. A car is a means of transportation and as such, they have become more expensive. The fact that now come standard power-steering, central door locks, powered windows doesn't change that. They only improve the driving experience. And the improved fuel-economy has largely been compensated by more taxes and increased fuel prices. The net result is that buying a car as a means of transportation has become more expensive.
Lucky bastards, they haven't even finished in the previous season here (Netherlands). Guess I'll be firing up BitTorrent tomorrow :-)
But I'm really looking forward to the closing season of Scrubs! Just one more month...
[quote]your connection cannot be snooped by hackers, advertisers, your internet provider, another wireless user, or your employer.[/quote] AFAIK, ISP's in the US have to be able to provide taps to Big Brother. Furthermore, Big Brother is plugged in to the vast majority of US IP-traffic, so being able to tap you at the ISP-level is just a convenience. So not only is your post spam, it is completely silly.
The difference between these drives is not only the firmware, the hardware is also different. If you look a bottom of the drives, you can see the board has a completely different layout and presumably (the pictures I've seen were too low quality and the memory was not on the visible side on the AAK-drives) different chips. According to Seagate, the AAK drives were for an OEM-customer (unfortunately, they didn't mention which one). But how or why those drives made it to retail-channels (Seagate and the OEM-customer knowing the drives had a different performance profile)?
Being a virtual bounty hunter sounds pretty cool though, virtual pepper spray, virtual taser :-D
I have to disagree. KHTML is one of the better html rendering engines, though it has its quirks (but every html rendering engine does). Just because you don't like Konqueror, doesn't mean choosing KHTML was a bad choice.
I recently downloaded a movie and it took me a only a few hours. I don't feel an inch of guilt about it, since I ordered the DVD two months (!)ago and am still waiting. The only reason I haven't canceled my order is because I'm really curious to see how long it will take and I would feel guilty towards the director/writer/actors/crew etc.
You are probably right, but: Free markets should take care of this, not protectionist measures. If you can't manufacture at a competitive price and someone else can, than let some else manufacture it and look for something else to do. I'm not saying I agree with that line of thought, but that is the way we chose it and you can't/shouldn't arbitrary change the rules as you see fit (though is a popular thing to do among Modern "Free Trade" Countries).
A truly superior being will understand why nature has given us both altruism and selfishness and will use logic to apply either one when most appropriate. Both have their merits.
I could type a very long comment why it is/will be, but it has been said and written so many times before. Advancement is great, but if you start meddling with what makes us human, it doesn't matter how good, noble or ethically correct your intentions are. You will lose.
We may not have oil, but we did make it into Pulp Fiction. I think you've mistaken us for Belgium.
They mean 4 channels/frequencies, not 4 cables. 40Mbps over a single channel is normal, so 160Mbps over 4 channels makes sense. Channel bonding is very normal to speed things up, they use it in 802.11n and most newer cellular data transmission protocols. I don't see why this should make slashdot. It is nothing new and nothing revolutionary.
It still leaves the question open as to why it appears more bees are dying from this parasitic fungus in recent times. Could be completely due to natural causes, but there is also speculation that certain insecticides are harming the bees, causing them to be more vulnerable to parasites, fungi and disease.