The inventors of Siri, NOT Apple implemented 'attitude' for Siri, when Apple bought them out they didn't undo that decision. Also Google naming the software with a nod to the historical popularization of the idea, does not mean that the implementation will be similar in nature to popularization. You would likely have greater success in persuasion if you would check your facts and make sure that your assumptions are valid.

It increases intensity and frequency of both droughts and floods - it is divergence from 'moderate' climate that is what you are looking for.

If you have a basic understanding of physics it should be obvious that increased warmth would cause more floods and droughts - increased total temperature causes faster evaporation both over land and ocean - for those areas where the clouds tend to not drift (and hence low rain fall historically) this will lead to more droughts; for areas of historical high rain fall - the greater ocean evaporation leads to more rain and hence more flooding.

Actually flooding and droughts have been expected from the beginning. There is greater total energy which results in greater evaporation both over land and over ocean. Thus those areas that recieve modest rain fall historically end up with higher rates of evaporation leading to more frequent droughts, and those areas that have high rain fall historically get more frequent and stronger rains leading to more flooding.

The only ones who thought it was just droughts that would happen had little or no understanding of the science.

Except that is the opposite of history - Jobs kept trying to kill the project at Apple that brought the GUI to the masses. Raskin and his team had already incorporated most of the Xerox PARC technology in the Macintosh project, and Steve wanted it killed, so Raskin went over his head. Steve still kept trying to kill the project so Raskin organized a field trip to Xerox PARC so that Jobs could get a clearer idea of why the ideas were important and would hopefully stop trying to kill the project. After this instead of trying to kill the Mac, Jobs forced Raskin out to take his project.

So we have the GUI in SPITE of Steve Jobs, not because of him.

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mac/parc.html

Actually the real history is that Raskin arranged the visit so that Steve Jobs would see why the technology that was in the Macintosh was important and hopefully convince Jobs to quit trying to kill the Mac.

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mac/parc.html

Actually the ruthless kind of capitalist can often be of net negative. They most often find it easier to prevent competition (lawsuits, preventing suppliers from selling to them, preventing customers from purchasing from them) than to innovate; or they buy out competitors as it becomes obvious that the competitor will become successful.

First the ideas from Xerox PARC that were in the Macintosh he tried to kill multiple times, Raskin finally arranged the trip to Xerox so that Jobs could see the value of the technology they were integrating and would quit trying to kill it - so the Macintosh happened in SPITE of Steve Jobs, not because of him.

Android was bought by google before the first iPhone was announced. So yes it would have existed. A few different capactivie touch phones existed prior to the Apples - and one quite similar to the iPhone was demoed about a half year before the iPhone existed and was announced as a product around the same time as the public revealing of the iPhone.

Actually most of the industrial practices came from other folks - Oldsmobile did the first assembly line for cars. The contribution of Ford was the automated conveyor belts to the assembly line. He also made it a point to adopt best practices from other companies to improve efficiency. He was an inventor - his inventions were improvements on certain automobile parts.

[quote]Steve Jobs did not invent the smartphone or the tablet but it's because of him that those are now household words and we're moving towards a world where everyone carries a personal Internet-enabled device at all times, and all the technological and social change that entails. That's already shaped 21st century society more than any other person in the technology (or fashion) industry has to date.[quote]

We were already moving to everyone having a internet enabled smartphone. Everyone had RAZRs or better phones before the iPhone. The big difference is that instead of smartphones with slide out keyboards, we have smartphones with touch interfaces. It is quite possible that touch enabled smart phones would have happened anyway - indeed one quite similar to the iPhone went to market around the same time as the iPhone (and the founder claimed that the idea might have been copied from them).

With Jobs making it fashionable the spread of capacative touch phones probably spread more quickly, but probably only by a year or so.

If you reveal the mechanism before it before it is patented (or patent pending) it becomes unpatentable in most of the world.

He has done energy demonstrations and thus far the scientists who have observed haven't spotted any obvious fraud.

He has done so quite a few times with smaller scale demonstrations.

He isn't seeking funding. He plans to completely self finance, only selling the device and money is to change hands only after the device has been running satisfactorily for a long enough period of time to satisfy the customer.

He has patents in Italy and patents pending in the US. He has had some of his US patent filings rejected since the US patent office has determined that fusion by unknown means is impossible and therefore unpatentable. So the US system puts inventors of these devices in a bit of a quandry - either don't try and patent and rely on trade secret, or file but try and describe it in such a way that you can get past the US patent office automatic rejection of anything that involves fusion that isn't well known how it happens.

Businesses are not people, they don't have any rights against warrantless search.

This is one of the few times on this type of issue where the government isn't overreaching and violating the constitution.

We also already have inspections of other industrys for illegal practices (food industrys, chemical industrys, etc.) So why should replication businesses have any special status.

Lightwave is not an industry leader for particles. I'd put them 5th or 6th. Rought order would be Houdini, Maya, XSI, 3DSMax, Lightwave, Blender, Cinema4D.

I think the original poster over states things, while certainly a lot easier to use and learn. There is still definitely a learning curve and a few counter intuitive hotkey and mouse button choices.

Why not just block uploading/download attachments from those services. That seems like it would solve the problem for the most part, even if you could hand type or copy/paste sensitive informtiation the time to do so would be prohibative.