...for the same reason that people have been becoming scientists since well before the concept of "scientist" was codified. I'll give you a hint, and tell you a few things that it's not about:
- fame
- wealth
- job security
- the "cool factor"
- the sexy colleagues
- the easy job
- the power
- the influence
Would it be feasible to create hybrid sat-phone/GPS satellites? The GPS satellites have to be replaced regularly anyway... Adding more to get better phone coverage would increase GPS accuracy.
Perhaps it's a weight/miniaturization thing?
Golly, if only Manning had been treated like Alan Turing and driven to suicide... right? I bet you would have been right there with the needle for the hormone therapy, trying to force one of the most brilliant minds of his--and possibly any--generation into a neat little cubbyhole that doesn't make you feel all icky inside.
You realize that homophobic douchbags like yourself very nearly made us lose WWII, don't you? Do you have any idea how close things were? What would have happened if we hadn't broken ULTRA?
Manning is a criminal, but leave his fucking sexual preference out of it, troll.
That was probably the thought behind some of the people in Florida who voted for Nader... didn't turn out too well, IMO.
Iran already blames Israel, for pretty much everything including why the crops fail. I mean, christ, they made the 100th anniversary of the original publishing of "the protocols of the elders of zion" (you know, the anti-semitic forged pamphlet) into a national holiday. It's not like things could get any worse.
The only reason that Iran doesn't attack Israel is because they know that Israel has nukes, and the will to use them with very little provocation. Even for those countries who would likely come down on Iran's side in any conflict, how many of them have any military to speak of? How many have nukes? Even one?
Really, it's in Israel's best interest that Iran starts hostilities and the sooner the better, before Iran gets nukes. In many ways it would actually stabilize the region to have Iran beat down somewhat--you know, at least from Israel's perspective.
Also, you should know by now that ulcers come from infection, not stress. Seriously, there was a Nobel Prize and everything.
Right, I didn't mean to suggest that people had believed pterosaurs to be birds, but that certain specific pterosaurs very closely resembled living bird species in proportion (presumably because they filled the same ecological niches, and not because they shared a close ancestor) i.e. pelicans and gulls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_primates_theory
I stand corrected, while this was once the current theory, more recent genetic studies suggest both branches had a common flying ancestor.
-sigh- that's what happens when you don't keep up on research.
As many others in this thread have noted, the summary completely misrepresents the content of the article.
Regardless, there are many very interesting examples of parallel evolution. Startling to me was finding out that fruit bats and insectivorous bats are very much unrelated... meaning that true flight evolved at least twice in mammals. Pterosaurs and true birds, the same thing. What a wondrous universe we live in.
The biggest difference being that for the guys doing North Sea fishing, most of us Americans wouldn't be able to understand their accents (or the slang, for god's sake). Everything would have to be subtitled, and so the target market of wannabe manly men wouldn't watch it.
I wish I were joking.
That's because all generalizations are false.
The thing about Courier is that nobody ever saw it actually working: they just saw tech demos. In the tech demos, the stylus handwriting recognition was always perfect. Considering that we never once saw an on-screen keyboard in the demos, it appears that the handwriting recognition portion of the formula was crucial to the concept. What do you want to bet that it wasn't nearly as good as it was supposed to be? Can you say Newton? "Eat up Martha?"
There was one other thing that made me think that perhaps it was less realistic than it first appeared: Battery life vs. weight. With both of those screens going all the time, that's two separate backlights sucking power. Either the weight would have to be a lot heavier than the iPad's (which is already heavier than I would like), or the battery life would be much worse.
Remember: Lies, Damn lies, Statistics, and Tech Demos.
We like to call that the True Scotsman Fallacy.
A: "Hey, some of the stuff you guys do really sucks."
T: "Us? Oh, no we don't do stuff like that."
A: "Those are your guys over there, and they are doing exactly what you claim you don't do."
T: "Oh, uh. They aren't with us, cause if they were with us they wouldn't do stuff like that. QED."
I don't know. If malicious apps have actually made it through the app store approval process, we certainly haven't heard much about them. There have been instances where people's iTunes account info was grabbed off a compromised PC and then used to generate fraudulent app sales, but that isn't quite the same as having a malicious app. That's probably why the flashlight tethering app was such a surprise--with the number of submitted apps that have gone through, this is the only one to be able to pull off something like this? On the other hand, there have been quite a number of Android marketplace apps identified as having malicious intent.
Neither approach is perfect, but it's not as if the risk is identical.
I realize that this isn't a popular viewpoint on this site, but I'm glad that both models exist (walled garden and wild west) in the marketplace right now. Competition is good, especially when the alternatives have markedly different approaches. (unlike say, Visa and Mastercard, which are essentially identical)
Eventually, there are a couple different possible outcomes: 1. one model or the other will prove to be so overwhelmingly superior that the other will either fold up, or incorporate the relevant parts of the others strategy. 2. It will turn out that there are enough users with such divergent tastes/priorities/platform loyalty that both marketplaces will flourish and grow independent of each other.
Take for instance sex. No one is going to say that sex is unhealthy, but when you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, its an addiction or an abuse and takes on a clinical aspect. That is actually how professionals do draw the line between harmless habits and addictions. A little fuzzy, but a relatively straightforward way of looking at what represents an abuse.
Ok, if it's only "a little fuzzy", then you are probably having sex with people of an inappropriate age, which would indeed be a serious problem.
The best feature of this proposed standard is that if you place a ceramic mug directly between your CPU and the external graphic processor, it will keep your (coffee, soup or whatever) steaming hot, all day long! Those days of long WoW raids with only cold beverages and snacks are over!
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery.'" -- Comedian Jay Leno
