Bad analogy. ISPs are in a position of power over its users. Generally there are only a handful of plausible choices for broadband internet in a given location. Wikipedia is just one information-gathering web site out of thousands. If you don't like Wikipedia's conditions, you can put your stuff somewhere else, including many completely free wiki sites. Whereas you can't set up your own independent broadband connection without a huge investment of money and effort.
Antibodies against HIV are extremely hard to get right. For example, Dan Barouch has kept a group of vaccinated monkeys with an SIV/HIV hybrid alive for years... except for one whose virus mutated in just the wrong way. Based on the limited information in the article, it seems like the U Penn study works similarly.
if a baby monitor is interfering with your cordless phone or WiFi, that is probably the least of your problems!
Umm... so what is the bigger problem you are implying? And what exactly can't you agree with? When a lot of 2.4GHz devices are all operating in close proximity (such as apartments in a city) there will be more interference than if those devices are farther apart. It's simple physics.
I know from direct experience that a single 2.4GHz consumer product (such as this one, which BTW does not tell you it uses 2.4GHz video anywhere on or in the box, and only states the much lower frequency of its control channel) can completely swamp WiFi across the width of a suburban house. If there weren't a big yard between us, it would probably knock out my neighbor's WiFi too.
Doofus. Firehed didn't say that you were "making shit up". He said that the human authors of the Bible made that bit about God cutting people's lifespans so that their earlier fictions about Methuselah and friends would make more sense.
Back to partisan sniping — has not Barack Obama already fixed the global warming problem some time last year (before even taking office)? The 2008 was, like, the coldest in decades and 2009 is not particularly warm either...
1: No matter how much people on ALL sides of the debate like to scream about the latest short-term variation, one or two years of air temperature data do not constitute a trend. Decades are probably the smallest useful increment for considering climate change.
2: Everyone knows global temperature has fallen recently because of the valiant efforts of Somali environmentalists. Ramen!
If Taco wanted to implement semantics-aware achievements, he'd need to hire a few thousand well-trained page readers. Or clone an army of three-assed Tim Berners Lees.
However, several of the ones in the later half of your list could be handled by a tiny Perl script, and therefore are great ideas.
But it's really unlikely to be a "Mac" product. Lord Steve has been gradually fulfilling his 1996 quote, and he probably wants to finish it before he dies.
It's been about 20 years since I took E&M Physics, but...
How exactly would "two perpendicular electric fields" be different from one diagonal electric field equal to the vector sum? Mathematically, you can only describe two things as "perpendicular" if they are reasonably linear and uniform.
The web is hard enough to read already with these 10px hard-coded fonts everywhere. For every site I need a different combination of zoom and text embiggenment
It's called "Minimum font size". Both Firefox and Safari have easily accessible preference settings for this.
Sometimes a minimum size will break menu bars with hardcoded widths, but overall it's a big net plus.
He'd use his detective skills to learn the identities of the cyrillic mobsters who own the botnet. The next night he'd incapacitate a number of guards, then dangle the bosses headfirst off of an onion-domed cathedral until they give him all their passwords. And lastly fight a corrupt former-KGB super-enforcer.
So your philosophy may not be very applicable here.
Please recall that Mr pln2bz is an Electric Universe fanatic, pretending to be an objective outsider who was swayed by the Thunderbolts' persuasive arguments.
The most important thing you can provide is computer education for the educators. There have been far too many times when a school district (or grant foundation) lays out millions of dollars, and every classroom gets a shiny row of networked computers... which lie unused all year. Unless the teachers know both how to use the technology (which you can provide) and concrete ways it can improve their lessons (which may be the hard part), you'll be wasting a lot of effort.
Another problem is the threat that chemists can pose to themselves and others. For every Goodyear who succeeded, how many unknown chemists ended up with poisoning, burns, cancer, or other damage to the local neighborhood? I had two acquaintances from teenage bomb-making (back in the day) who ended up losing body parts.
There has to be a balance. Although the pendulum surely has swung too far in the "9/11! 9/11! 9/11!" direction, sending it all the way back to wild west days would also be a mistake.
I understand the article points out that they went with simply a "more responsive interface" paradigm (Web 2.0/AJAX, anyone?) and probably didn't really fix any serious problems.
I can't believe that no one here has made the obvious connection yet: Microsoft is copying yet another Mac OS feature: *TEH SNAPPY*!!!
IMO, the important question is not how much money came from weasels, or even what percentage, but whether you let the flow of money become important enough to subvert your judgment. Torvalds seems pretty robust; Obama remains in the maybe column for another few months.
Legislative seats (either state or federal) are certainly NOT "soft targets". The great majority of them are carefully gerrymandered to maximize reelection of the incumbent party. The only elected positions even close to level playing fields are city or county-wide offices like mayor (e.g. Gayle McLaughlin in Richmond).
BTW, many people don't know that Target Disk mode *also* gives the host Mac access to whatever is in the target Mac's optical drive. Very handy for certain tasks.
How about everyone take a deep breath and Google for 'Macbook Firewire card'. The Macbook does come with with one of those seldom used ExpressCard/34 slots on it.
How about YOU try a more relevant search: http://www.google.com/products?q=macbook+firewire+card+-pro (note the "-pro" exclusion). It returns exactly ZERO useful results, because MacBook Amateur doesn't have ExpressCard. There is no existing retail product that will provide 1394 capability to the new MB.
IMO, it's quite likely that Apple omitted Firewire from the new MacBook to prevent it from cannibalizing sales of MB Pro.
These guys gave us the frabjous green pigs, for which all Dr Seuss fans should be quite thankful.
But more seriously, the GFP gene is amazingly useful in genetic research. Personally I would have given them the Nobel in Biology rather than Chemistry.
What a crappy article. Subtracting the techno-babble, it sounds like they want to attach a thermocouple or heat engine to their chips, which has already been tried many times and found to be not worth the effort. Maybe they think they have a better method, but I sure couldn't tell from RTFA.
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I can understand Lord Steve's retirement, considering he's been running on secondhand parts for a while, but Taco?
No one else has abused this meme yet, so I may as well: not letting Taco keep his posting privileges is something that Hitler would do.
EOL.
Bad analogy. ISPs are in a position of power over its users. Generally there are only a handful of plausible choices for broadband internet in a given location. Wikipedia is just one information-gathering web site out of thousands. If you don't like Wikipedia's conditions, you can put your stuff somewhere else, including many completely free wiki sites. Whereas you can't set up your own independent broadband connection without a huge investment of money and effort.
p.s. Even worse, he's doing it ON THE INTERNET! Just like a CRAIGSLIST call girl!
Hmm... that Elastic Vapor guy is from Toronto, Canada. It seems FOREIGNERS are very happy indeed about this new database.
So, how many days until the 10:00 news is crowing that Obama is spending our tax dollars to give American secrets to other countries?
Antibodies against HIV are extremely hard to get right. For example, Dan Barouch has kept a group of vaccinated monkeys with an SIV/HIV hybrid alive for years... except for one whose virus mutated in just the wrong way. Based on the limited information in the article, it seems like the U Penn study works similarly.
if a baby monitor is interfering with your cordless phone or WiFi, that is probably the least of your problems!
Umm... so what is the bigger problem you are implying? And what exactly can't you agree with? When a lot of 2.4GHz devices are all operating in close proximity (such as apartments in a city) there will be more interference than if those devices are farther apart. It's simple physics.
I know from direct experience that a single 2.4GHz consumer product (such as this one, which BTW does not tell you it uses 2.4GHz video anywhere on or in the box, and only states the much lower frequency of its control channel) can completely swamp WiFi across the width of a suburban house. If there weren't a big yard between us, it would probably knock out my neighbor's WiFi too.
Doofus. Firehed didn't say that you were "making shit up". He said that the human authors of the Bible made that bit about God cutting people's lifespans so that their earlier fictions about Methuselah and friends would make more sense.
Back to partisan sniping — has not Barack Obama already fixed the global warming problem some time last year (before even taking office)? The 2008 was, like, the coldest in decades and 2009 is not particularly warm either...
1: No matter how much people on ALL sides of the debate like to scream about the latest short-term variation, one or two years of air temperature data do not constitute a trend. Decades are probably the smallest useful increment for considering climate change.
2: Everyone knows global temperature has fallen recently because of the valiant efforts of Somali environmentalists. Ramen!
If Taco wanted to implement semantics-aware achievements, he'd need to hire a few thousand well-trained page readers. Or clone an army of three-assed Tim Berners Lees.
However, several of the ones in the later half of your list could be handled by a tiny Perl script, and therefore are great ideas.
The other possibility is "iPhone Pro".
But it's really unlikely to be a "Mac" product. Lord Steve has been gradually fulfilling his 1996 quote, and he probably wants to finish it before he dies.
http://www.google.com/search?q=steve+jobs+milk+worth+busy+great
It's been about 20 years since I took E&M Physics, but... How exactly would "two perpendicular electric fields" be different from one diagonal electric field equal to the vector sum? Mathematically, you can only describe two things as "perpendicular" if they are reasonably linear and uniform.
The web is hard enough to read already with these 10px hard-coded fonts everywhere. For every site I need a different combination of zoom and text embiggenment
It's called "Minimum font size". Both Firefox and Safari have easily accessible preference settings for this. Sometimes a minimum size will break menu bars with hardcoded widths, but overall it's a big net plus.
He'd use his detective skills to learn the identities of the cyrillic mobsters who own the botnet. The next night he'd incapacitate a number of guards, then dangle the bosses headfirst off of an onion-domed cathedral until they give him all their passwords. And lastly fight a corrupt former-KGB super-enforcer.
So your philosophy may not be very applicable here.
Please recall that Mr pln2bz is an Electric Universe fanatic, pretending to be an objective outsider who was swayed by the Thunderbolts' persuasive arguments.
The most important thing you can provide is computer education for the educators. There have been far too many times when a school district (or grant foundation) lays out millions of dollars, and every classroom gets a shiny row of networked computers ... which lie unused all year. Unless the teachers know both how to use the technology (which you can provide) and concrete ways it can improve their lessons (which may be the hard part), you'll be wasting a lot of effort.
Another problem is the threat that chemists can pose to themselves and others. For every Goodyear who succeeded, how many unknown chemists ended up with poisoning, burns, cancer, or other damage to the local neighborhood? I had two acquaintances from teenage bomb-making (back in the day) who ended up losing body parts.
There has to be a balance. Although the pendulum surely has swung too far in the "9/11! 9/11! 9/11!" direction, sending it all the way back to wild west days would also be a mistake.
I understand the article points out that they went with simply a "more responsive interface" paradigm (Web 2.0/AJAX, anyone?) and probably didn't really fix any serious problems.
I can't believe that no one here has made the obvious connection yet: Microsoft is copying yet another Mac OS feature: *TEH SNAPPY*!!!
Your post history looks right-libertarian. Y/N?
IMO, the important question is not how much money came from weasels, or even what percentage, but whether you let the flow of money become important enough to subvert your judgment. Torvalds seems pretty robust; Obama remains in the maybe column for another few months.
Legislative seats (either state or federal) are certainly NOT "soft targets". The great majority of them are carefully gerrymandered to maximize reelection of the incumbent party. The only elected positions even close to level playing fields are city or county-wide offices like mayor (e.g. Gayle McLaughlin in Richmond).
1897? Bah, silly kids. Those of us who were watching television in 1978 remember that Ezekiel saw the wheel...
BTW, many people don't know that Target Disk mode *also* gives the host Mac access to whatever is in the target Mac's optical drive. Very handy for certain tasks.
http://macworld.com/article/57005/2007/03/tdmoptical.html
How about everyone take a deep breath and Google for 'Macbook Firewire card'.
The Macbook does come with with one of those seldom used ExpressCard/34 slots on it.
How about YOU try a more relevant search: http://www.google.com/products?q=macbook+firewire+card+-pro (note the "-pro" exclusion). It returns exactly ZERO useful results, because MacBook Amateur doesn't have ExpressCard. There is no existing retail product that will provide 1394 capability to the new MB.
IMO, it's quite likely that Apple omitted Firewire from the new MacBook to prevent it from cannibalizing sales of MB Pro.
These guys gave us the frabjous green pigs, for which all Dr Seuss fans should be quite thankful.
But more seriously, the GFP gene is amazingly useful in genetic research. Personally I would have given them the Nobel in Biology rather than Chemistry.
What a crappy article. Subtracting the techno-babble, it sounds like they want to attach a thermocouple or heat engine to their chips, which has already been tried many times and found to be not worth the effort. Maybe they think they have a better method, but I sure couldn't tell from RTFA.