IT at my workplace actuall recomends Platntronics USB headsets for VoIP communications, though I never could quite fathom why. For a recording that I had to do one, I did a quick comparison between a simple analogue headset and Plantronics USB device. I'm not exactly an audiophile, but the analogue headset provided a much clearer recording. Is there actually a technical advantage in using a USB audio device, if your computer has an internal sound card anyway?
IIRC, (sadly I can't rmember where I read that) fit people do not actually live longer, but they die healthier. That may not sound like much, but if you ever saw the the difference between old and sick and old and healthy people, you might think it worth it.
Source? I certainly see enough malware on W7, though it is usually limited to the user's profile nowadays. Much easier to install without triggering alerts, but also easier to remove.
That would require a kind of gentlemen's agreement similar to a "fight of the two champions" in lieu of a a battle between two armies. That sort of civilized behavior never really caught on when the stakes are high enough. IIRC Saddam Hussein offered the same to George W. Bush in 2003, but somehow the US didn't accept this offer. While you celebrate your victory in your bunker, the "defeated" side may have just cut off the antenna and sealed the entrance to your bunker. Who's a winner then?
Options like printing voting tickets - to get both of best worlds (fast counting and verifyable counting) were considered, but quickly dismissed as there was no ready available hardware
I find that strange, every supermarket cash register does just that: You (or the cashier) press a button, the item or vote is counted electronically and the machine prints a reciepe that you can check and throw into an urn. Voila: Instant results and you can still count the paper votes.
before there was the means to ameliorate local suffering, this was called evolution, or survival of the fittest. Now that it is technologically possible to spread the wealth, should we? To take from the lucky and give to the unlucky do we propagate mediocrity and perpetuate neediocrity?
What does luck have to do with fitness or mediocrity? I'm pretty sure that you and me have no inherent genetic advantages over somebody who finds himself on the wrong end of an environmental disaster. I admit that there may be exeptions, like people who willingly live in cities in a dessert without sustainable water supply or near the ocean but below the level of said ocean.
Not so long ago, my company had "blank" access badges. In case one is lost, there's no need to give a thief or spy a hint which doors it might open for him.
Fiat money has value because someone with power and legitimacy says it has value. You can have your own definition if you want, but please excuse the rest of us for ignoring it and using the common definition.
It's not enough that a government says that the money has value, people actually have to believe it. In 1923, the German government could have announced that the value of the Mark hasn't changed at all for 20 years, but in fact the value dropped close to the paper the money was printed on.
I think "intrinsic value" and "because everyone thinks so" are more or less the same thing. If the value of gold was inherent to the material, independent of people's opinion, the gold price shouldn't fluctuate as much as it does. Of course you could also say, that the value of everything else fluctuates against gold...
Gold was already valuable before it was actually useful. If a large fraction of the value of gold was based on it's technical uses, the gold price should be more stable IMHO. The gold price is more based on a circular logic: It's valuable because everyone thinks so.
I don't think this miracle drug would change the world all that much. If you think of "death by old age" as the finishing line in the game of life, few people actually reach it. Most seem to die of causes that will probably not be affected by this drug, i. e. cancer, heart diseases, accidents, suicides... Especially the later could seem rather attractive once you had to bury your spouse and your children.
There may be some truth to the claim that you never cease being Catholic, just like alcoholism can't be cured. I wonder if there are any statistics about conversion rates between followers of various religions. If there are, I would expect that Catholics in general may cease to believe in god, but will rarely join other churches or religions.
Now, having said that, there *are* limits. DON'T YOU BE REPORTING ON MY PORN! THAT'S WILLIE'S TIME!!!
Great, now that every browser offers a "stealth mode" for err... browsing for birthday presents, there's another set of tracks you would have to cover, if that's even possible. I'm sure if you host a movie night on your new PC, people will be thrilled about the strange advertising you get.
I would modify that strategy if necessary. Example: In the dark ages, the German King Henry I did have a problem with Hungarians who were in the habit of to looting and pillaging southern Germany. He paid them tribute for a few years, while building castles and city walls and raising militias. When he felt he was ready, he unilaterally reduced the yearly tribute to one (1) dead dog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riade
Depending on the nature of "something", you might not actually want to have it. If someone would upload some pirated terrorist child porn to your server, left a log file on his PC and gets busted by the cyber police, you and your server would be their next target.
Here's the thing. They did an examination of people who were exposed, and those that weren't (a control group) and the incidents of Cancer? about the same. Who are "they" and where can one find this study?
But the rate of evolution slows down as technology matures. For example, WWI fighter planes of 1918 were way ahead compared to those from 1914. In WWII, there also was some progress, but at a much slower rate (ignoring completely new technology like jet planes). Or during 1995-2000, PCs became obsolete much faster than today.
You can get several older issues for free on playboyarchive.com, if you install Microsoft Silverlight. The full set is available for a few hundred $. Of course that would mean either paying for porn or installing Silverlight (possibly both).
Actually Vista pre SP1 had some horrible performance issues, for example with copying. Those were fixed eventually, but by that time everyone and their dog had written a negative review.
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IT at my workplace actuall recomends Platntronics USB headsets for VoIP communications, though I never could quite fathom why. For a recording that I had to do one, I did a quick comparison between a simple analogue headset and Plantronics USB device. I'm not exactly an audiophile, but the analogue headset provided a much clearer recording.
Is there actually a technical advantage in using a USB audio device, if your computer has an internal sound card anyway?
IIRC, (sadly I can't rmember where I read that) fit people do not actually live longer, but they die healthier. That may not sound like much, but if you ever saw the the difference between old and sick and old and healthy people, you might think it worth it.
Source?
I certainly see enough malware on W7, though it is usually limited to the user's profile nowadays.
Much easier to install without triggering alerts, but also easier to remove.
That would require a kind of gentlemen's agreement similar to a "fight of the two champions" in lieu of a a battle between two armies. That sort of civilized behavior never really caught on when the stakes are high enough. IIRC Saddam Hussein offered the same to George W. Bush in 2003, but somehow the US didn't accept this offer.
While you celebrate your victory in your bunker, the "defeated" side may have just cut off the antenna and sealed the entrance to your bunker. Who's a winner then?
Then you might have stopped 20 years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/01/world/vatican-science-panel-told-by-pope-galileo-was-right.html
Options like printing voting tickets - to get both of best worlds (fast counting and verifyable counting) were considered, but quickly dismissed as there was no ready available hardware
I find that strange, every supermarket cash register does just that: You (or the cashier) press a button, the item or vote is counted electronically and the machine prints a reciepe that you can check and throw into an urn. Voila: Instant results and you can still count the paper votes.
In fact, you could use a slightly modified McDonalds cash register as a voting machine, they seem to be designed for just that.
before there was the means to ameliorate local suffering, this was called evolution, or survival of the fittest. Now that it is technologically possible to spread the wealth, should we? To take from the lucky and give to the unlucky do we propagate mediocrity and perpetuate neediocrity?
What does luck have to do with fitness or mediocrity? I'm pretty sure that you and me have no inherent genetic advantages over somebody who finds himself on the wrong end of an environmental disaster. I admit that there may be exeptions, like people who willingly live in cities in a dessert without sustainable water supply or near the ocean but below the level of said ocean.
Not so long ago, my company had "blank" access badges. In case one is lost, there's no need to give a thief or spy a hint which doors it might open for him.
Fiat money has value because someone with power and legitimacy says it has value. You can have your own definition if you want, but please excuse the rest of us for ignoring it and using the common definition.
It's not enough that a government says that the money has value, people actually have to believe it. In 1923, the German government could have announced that the value of the Mark hasn't changed at all for 20 years, but in fact the value dropped close to the paper the money was printed on.
I think "intrinsic value" and "because everyone thinks so" are more or less the same thing. If the value of gold was inherent to the material, independent of people's opinion, the gold price shouldn't fluctuate as much as it does. Of course you could also say, that the value of everything else fluctuates against gold...
Gold was already valuable before it was actually useful. If a large fraction of the value of gold was based on it's technical uses, the gold price should be more stable IMHO. The gold price is more based on a circular logic: It's valuable because everyone thinks so.
I guess I will have to bookmark this discussion fur future reference.
Anyway, here is the balm for my nerves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVUcjDO8-JM Venetian Lute Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVvqFqITYlY Luc Arbogast, a French street musician
I don't think this miracle drug would change the world all that much. If you think of "death by old age" as the finishing line in the game of life, few people actually reach it. Most seem to die of causes that will probably not be affected by this drug, i. e. cancer, heart diseases, accidents, suicides...
Especially the later could seem rather attractive once you had to bury your spouse and your children.
There may be some truth to the claim that you never cease being Catholic, just like alcoholism can't be cured. I wonder if there are any statistics about conversion rates between followers of various religions. If there are, I would expect that Catholics in general may cease to believe in god, but will rarely join other churches or religions.
Now, having said that, there *are* limits. DON'T YOU BE REPORTING ON MY PORN! THAT'S WILLIE'S TIME!!!
Great, now that every browser offers a "stealth mode" for err... browsing for birthday presents, there's another set of tracks you would have to cover, if that's even possible. I'm sure if you host a movie night on your new PC, people will be thrilled about the strange advertising you get.
I would modify that strategy if necessary. Example:
In the dark ages, the German King Henry I did have a problem with Hungarians who were in the habit of to looting and pillaging southern Germany. He paid them tribute for a few years, while building castles and city walls and raising militias. When he felt he was ready, he unilaterally reduced the yearly tribute to one (1) dead dog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riade
"Also, kino.to was making literally millions from advertisement."
Strange, that the movie industry ignores the opportunity to do the same.
Depending on the nature of "something", you might not actually want to have it. If someone would upload some pirated terrorist child porn to your server, left a log file on his PC and gets busted by the cyber police, you and your server would be their next target.
Here's the thing. They did an examination of people who were exposed, and those that weren't (a control group) and the incidents of Cancer? about the same.
Who are "they" and where can one find this study?
But the rate of evolution slows down as technology matures. For example, WWI fighter planes of 1918 were way ahead compared to those from 1914. In WWII, there also was some progress, but at a much slower rate (ignoring completely new technology like jet planes).
Or during 1995-2000, PCs became obsolete much faster than today.
That might well leave you with nothing much.35 years ago, homosexuality was not quite as widely accepted as it is today for example.
You can get several older issues for free on playboyarchive.com, if you install Microsoft Silverlight. The full set is available for a few hundred $.
Of course that would mean either paying for porn or installing Silverlight (possibly both).
You could map the caps lock key as windows key for example. In fact, I'm using a Model M, just had this idea and found a solution.
http://mattshaw.org/news/window-map-caps-lock-to-windows-key/
Actually Vista pre SP1 had some horrible performance issues, for example with copying. Those were fixed eventually, but by that time everyone and their dog had written a negative review.