In fact we ostracise those that insist that there are natural alternatives to fight serious diseases which are conventionally either uncurable or unlikely to be cured even with costly conventional treatments involved.
They opened it up obviously because they are not worried about that happening. AMD is struggling as it is and currently there's no match for Intel processors, so why would anybody want to plug in an AMD processor there unless it was hugely cheaper or more powerful?
Blackberry probably made it not because people love them, but because the business world loves them. Lots of companies are handing them out to their employees in order to quench the last drop of productivity out of them.
The iPhone will appeal to the same kind of audience that likes the iPod.
Installing applications on phones is quite an expense with Windows Mobile edition.
I'd only consider installing software if it is opensource or at least free. So that leaves people like me to either install free java-based applications, buy a Linux-based phone like the OpenMoko FIC, or use an HTC phone and run Xanadux on it (I guess that would be pretty problematic).
I remember that years ago when I was on a plane lots of people received calls and text messages on their phones both at take-off and at landing. Mostly those phones were in the over-head lockers, so nobody bothered switching them off at the time.
The interference problem can obviously not be that bad. So technically I don't think there would be any problem implementing the in-plane GSM transmitter.
But whether this is desirable remains another issue. I wonder how healthy it is to be surrounded by so many mobile phones plus the GSM transmitter in such close proximity...
So far we have managed to survive without using our mobile phones on planes - is this really necessary?
I can see the financial benefits as being tempting though, carriers like Ryanair would probably make more money from on-flight phone calls than from selling tickets!
Thanks to the excellent Linux support by the HPLIP Project I am faithful to HP, at least for the time being. I am quite impressed that pretty much all features of my all-in-one printer have been working for years, without any major glitches.
I have seen the Windows HP drivers (quite a while ago) and have to say that at the time they were far too intrusive for my liking and I would not have used the HP software under Windows. So I'd buy an HP printer for Linux, but if I were using Windows I'd probably compare lots of makes first and my choice might be different.
this technology might make teachers a thing of the past
It requires teachers to adapt to a very powerful tool, which hopefully makes bad teacher less bad, and eases the work of brilliant teachers.
Now the lessons are more planned for teachers than ever, and bad drawing won't confuse pupils any more, since the screen comes with interactive drawings.
I don't believe that a screen itself could replace a teacher, since most pupils would lack the discipline to study on their own accord.
I wonder how fragile these screens are though. If they are quite sensitive, then I don't expect them to last very long...
how exactly will these light-sensitive chloride pumps get into the brains of already-living sick people?
Find a volunteer.
Using a surgical saw, cut LED sized holes into the skull and carefully remove the cut out bits. (At this stage the skull will look similar just like a colander.)
Insert LEDs into desired positions, leaving the connective wires hanging out of the holes in the skull.
Attach tiny solar panels which fit snuggly into the LED-sized holes in the skull.
Make sure patient does not enter unlit surroundings, and equip with backup torch.
What good is having CCTV and microphones when the punishment does not fit the crime?
A friend of mine was attacked in a pub for spilling someone else's pint of beer. Despite apologising, he was punched in the face and had to go to hospital, where he received numerous stitches.
Upset about the whole event he sued his assailant - the outcome: No fine, no social work, but simply a Warning.
How is this going to deter anyone? Who cares about being filmed and convicted of some crime or another, if there is no proper punishment?
If you are living in Germany you can actually hire a protestor to do the dirty work for you - in case online protesting isn't your thing and you don't want to be there yourself, for whatever reason.
Lessons learned: Adoption of Open Source, particularly for the desktop, requires investment in planning, training of users, development of skills for implementation and support, and detailed consideration of migration and interoperability issues.
It all depends on the general needs of the end users. Let's just say that most users will not go beyond using email, browsing the Internet, creating documents, instant messaging, listening to music and watching videos.
Leaving system administration aside, I don't think that the general Windows user would require any training at all in order to make the switch.
When replacing my mum's computer years ago I left her no choice and simply installed Debian with KDE for her, thereby cutting the cost of having to buy commercial software. She had no other option but to adapt, and despite being 60+ and generally not being a technophile, she never had any problems. (Well, I once upgraded the system for her and accidentally made GNOME the default display manager, and she said to me that GNOME was much easier to use. That came as a bit of a surprise to me.)
As far as system administration goes, I don't think it's an easy task in Linux, and to do a proper job, I don't think it's easy in Windows either. In both cases I would say that there is need for training.
It can't possibly pass because this would wreak virtual havoc!
It would either mean the end of online communities, because I could get/. sued for posting copyrighted content -
"The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way."
would possibly read
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by ourselves. We are responsible for them in every way, so please be kind!
or every single forum, every single site which allows uploading of content by its users would have to censor the upload first - a gigantic and infeasible task - which would result in... um.... the end of online communities.
Having graphed out complicated answers definitely lifts the level of complexity though.
A little off-topic, but I wish there was a central site where one could see such graphs and the contents of each node not for legal cases, but for statements made by politicians.
Then it would be easy to see how many times politicians contradict themselves!
Although I don't quite have the same tendencies as you do, I also believe that racing games improve my driving skills. I used to play a lot of racing games, especially Ridge Racer, and learnt a lot of racing technique within the game.
I also love Go-Karting, and when put to the test, I actually managed to apply my skills from these games in real races. Although the physical behaviour of a Go-Kart was very different, I had a better feeling for handling the Go-Kart than others, and managed to slide around corners quite impressively. I have won a lot of Go-Karting races against a huge variety of people, and this is my only explanation why.
In the real world, lessons at driving schools do not prepare people for advanced driving at all. I believe that if in order to obtain a driving licence, people had to pass advanced driving tests (driving in adverse conditions, overtaking, sliding, handling a vehicle at high speed), the rate of accidents would reduce dramatically, even if speed limits on motorways and country roads were to be dropped completely.
Cancer is a fantastic business that is making the big pharmaceutical companies and the government ludicrous profits. The chances are that if there was an amazing cure out there, we would hear very little of it. There is a strong conflict of interest regarding the cure of the most common and deadly diseases.
Maybe this breakthrough discovery has made it this far precisely because it is not going to cure cancer so easily (and definitely not cheaply) after all. Helping the delivery of chemotherapy drugs is just another way of continuing to sell these drugs.
Even if there is a very elaborate design, then when requirements change, or a design problem is encountered, it can easily happen that code gets written and the design adapted in retrospect.
Since programming is like opening a can of worms, unless we are talking about a trivial project, the design is bound to be flawed somewhere down the line - even if the designer is a genius. What happens next is that design becomes documentation, which can be useful at times, though obviously not intended that way.
The biggest challenge is delivering software on time when there really isn't enough time (Google developers ignore this paragraph). Corners get cut, bugs sprout - welcome to the wonderful world of programming.
Sounds to me like we'll see the equivalent of Google Earth's community markers adapted to these devices.
Although I like the principle, I really don't like the implementation of community markers as I last saw it.
Too often there is a complete jungle of markers making it hard to find relevant ones.
Some community markers contain spam, some are riddled with mistakes and information that is totally wrong.
Mostly they can't be trusted, and there are so many simply annoying markers.
My apologies... this was a rhetoric question with a hint of sarcasm. Maybe I should have written:
Should there be warning labels as a replacement for a basic level of education? Of course not.
At what point in basic education do they teach common sense?!
But thank you for your eloquent reply. I fully agree that it is in the hands of the parents to transmit this valuable power. As with anything, there are exceptions, of course.
Some parents make notable efforts but their children are rebellious, stubborn and foolish - common sense is not transmitted.
There are parents with no common sense, yet their children nonetheless manage to develop it.
Amazingly, there are parents who ignore their children at the same time they're overly protective of them.
I think parents following this path deserve to win an award for bad parenting.
Unfortunately, a significant number of people in our society did not. I see you were being polite, but to be blunt I'd replace 'significant' with 'shocking'.
The advantage of this captcha is that it is not widespread yet and so the chances that a bot can crack it are lower.
Funny that when OCR software is supposed to work it often fails, but when there is some effort to hinder recognition then bots can deal with that. Maybe general OCR software should try to crack input instead!
When I first started using Linux I was drawn to it by the amazing amount of free software it had to offer, and the convenience of the command line. I decided to install Linux on my own machine and got rid of Windows. And oh my god, all hell broke loose. At the time I had to recompile the kernel in order to get my graphics card to work, sound setup was very difficult - things took ages.
*But* I was overjoyed when I got it working, a truly rewarding feeling. On the other hand, when programs crashed or failed to install in Windows I would find it frustrating, especially since we are talking about commercial software, which is supposed to work flawlessly.
Quickly becoming a penguin enthusiast I decided to install Linux with KDE on my mum's, my brother's and my girlfriend's (I know, I'm not a proper geek) machines. I administer these remotely and have, 3 years later, not received a single complaint regarding usability. They all use their computers to browse the web, send/receive emails, chat, manage photos, listen to music, print, write documents... all of which can be accomplished easily. And they are happier - mainly because it's free.
Yet would they use Linux own their own? No, definitely not. The only way for this to happen would be if administration was much simplified, in fact it would have to be pretty much inexistent. Non-technical users cannot be burdened with current Linux administration, because it is too challenging, too time-consuming and simply requires too much technical knowledge.
So in my opinion, it's not the GUIs that should take the blame. They don't think there is a lot that needs to be dumbed down. I know a lot of people who are intrigued by Linux and especially by Amarok, but who cannot find entry into the Linux world with their current computer proficiency, simply because of the administrative burden. And they all like choice.
I hope that music creation will never become unprofitable, because to me it sounds unfair not to financially reward artists for their great work, hopefully inspired by passion rather than greed.
However, obviously it's the artists who decide how to publish their own music. And if they decide to sign evil agreements with greedy institutions then that is their choice and they have to live with the consequences.
These days there are alternative ways of publishing music for artists. Some artists, like unclebob simply put their music on their own web site and hope and pray for donations. Others publish their work on sites that have fairer deals.
Personally I hope that sites like magnatune will become more widely used, so that the industry as a whole becomes more ethical.
A little off-topic, but in an interview the golfer Bernard Langer was once told that he was extremely lucky to sink a particularly difficult put.
He responded 'The more I practise, the luckier I get!'.
I don't believe the successes of Google or Microsoft are down to luck. Neither do I think that Warren Buffett is a lucky investor.
Being opportunistic and taking a calculated risk sounds more like it.
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You are right, paclitaxel is not an unconventional alternative at all, but rather a pharmaceutical marketing dream come true, because Bristol-Myers_Squibb, licensed to commercialise paclitaxel, held an exclusive contract in the harvesting of Pacific yew trees from US government lands.
Also paclitaxel causes cell death both in healthy cells and in cancer cells, and its extraction is quite difficult (costly).
My comment was rather misleading since I was making a general statement rather than commenting specifically on this chemical.
In fact we ostracise those that insist that there are natural alternatives to fight serious diseases which are conventionally either uncurable or unlikely to be cured even with costly conventional treatments involved.
\sigh
They opened it up obviously because they are not worried about that happening. AMD is struggling as it is and currently there's no match for Intel processors, so why would anybody want to plug in an AMD processor there unless it was hugely cheaper or more powerful?
Blackberry probably made it not because people love them, but because the business world loves them. Lots of companies are handing them out to their employees in order to quench the last drop of productivity out of them.
The iPhone will appeal to the same kind of audience that likes the iPod.
Installing applications on phones is quite an expense with Windows Mobile edition.
I'd only consider installing software if it is opensource or at least free. So that leaves people like me to either install free java-based applications, buy a Linux-based phone like the OpenMoko FIC, or use an HTC phone and run Xanadux on it (I guess that would be pretty problematic).
I remember that years ago when I was on a plane lots of people received calls and text messages on their phones both at take-off and at landing. Mostly those phones were in the over-head lockers, so nobody bothered switching them off at the time.
The interference problem can obviously not be that bad. So technically I don't think there would be any problem implementing the in-plane GSM transmitter.
But whether this is desirable remains another issue. I wonder how healthy it is to be surrounded by so many mobile phones plus the GSM transmitter in such close proximity...
So far we have managed to survive without using our mobile phones on planes - is this really necessary?
I can see the financial benefits as being tempting though, carriers like Ryanair would probably make more money from on-flight phone calls than from selling tickets!
Thanks to the excellent Linux support by the HPLIP Project I am faithful to HP, at least for the time being. I am quite impressed that pretty much all features of my all-in-one printer have been working for years, without any major glitches.
I have seen the Windows HP drivers (quite a while ago) and have to say that at the time they were far too intrusive for my liking and I would not have used the HP software under Windows. So I'd buy an HP printer for Linux, but if I were using Windows I'd probably compare lots of makes first and my choice might be different.
It requires teachers to adapt to a very powerful tool, which hopefully makes bad teacher less bad, and eases the work of brilliant teachers. Now the lessons are more planned for teachers than ever, and bad drawing won't confuse pupils any more, since the screen comes with interactive drawings.
I don't believe that a screen itself could replace a teacher, since most pupils would lack the discipline to study on their own accord.
I wonder how fragile these screens are though. If they are quite sensitive, then I don't expect them to last very long...
- Find a volunteer.
- Using a surgical saw, cut LED sized holes into the skull and carefully remove the cut out bits. (At this stage the skull will look similar just like a colander.)
- Insert LEDs into desired positions, leaving the connective wires hanging out of the holes in the skull.
- Attach tiny solar panels which fit snuggly into the LED-sized holes in the skull.
- Make sure patient does not enter unlit surroundings, and equip with backup torch.
Voilà.What good is having CCTV and microphones when the punishment does not fit the crime?
A friend of mine was attacked in a pub for spilling someone else's pint of beer. Despite apologising, he was punched in the face and had to go to hospital, where he received numerous stitches.
Upset about the whole event he sued his assailant - the outcome: No fine, no social work, but simply a Warning.
How is this going to deter anyone? Who cares about being filmed and convicted of some crime or another, if there is no proper punishment?
If you are living in Germany you can actually hire a protestor to do the dirty work for you - in case online protesting isn't your thing and you don't want to be there yourself, for whatever reason.
It all depends on the general needs of the end users. Let's just say that most users will not go beyond using email, browsing the Internet, creating documents, instant messaging, listening to music and watching videos. Leaving system administration aside, I don't think that the general Windows user would require any training at all in order to make the switch.
When replacing my mum's computer years ago I left her no choice and simply installed Debian with KDE for her, thereby cutting the cost of having to buy commercial software. She had no other option but to adapt, and despite being 60+ and generally not being a technophile, she never had any problems. (Well, I once upgraded the system for her and accidentally made GNOME the default display manager, and she said to me that GNOME was much easier to use. That came as a bit of a surprise to me.)
As far as system administration goes, I don't think it's an easy task in Linux, and to do a proper job, I don't think it's easy in Windows either. In both cases I would say that there is need for training.
Having graphed out complicated answers definitely lifts the level of complexity though.
A little off-topic, but I wish there was a central site where one could see such graphs and the contents of each node not for legal cases, but for statements made by politicians.
Then it would be easy to see how many times politicians contradict themselves!
Although I don't quite have the same tendencies as you do, I also believe that racing games improve my driving skills. I used to play a lot of racing games, especially Ridge Racer, and learnt a lot of racing technique within the game.
I also love Go-Karting, and when put to the test, I actually managed to apply my skills from these games in real races. Although the physical behaviour of a Go-Kart was very different, I had a better feeling for handling the Go-Kart than others, and managed to slide around corners quite impressively. I have won a lot of Go-Karting races against a huge variety of people, and this is my only explanation why.
In the real world, lessons at driving schools do not prepare people for advanced driving at all. I believe that if in order to obtain a driving licence, people had to pass advanced driving tests (driving in adverse conditions, overtaking, sliding, handling a vehicle at high speed), the rate of accidents would reduce dramatically, even if speed limits on motorways and country roads were to be dropped completely.
Who wants a cancer cure these days?
Cancer is a fantastic business that is making the big pharmaceutical companies and the government ludicrous profits. The chances are that if there was an amazing cure out there, we would hear very little of it. There is a strong conflict of interest regarding the cure of the most common and deadly diseases.
Maybe this breakthrough discovery has made it this far precisely because it is not going to cure cancer so easily (and definitely not cheaply) after all. Helping the delivery of chemotherapy drugs is just another way of continuing to sell these drugs.
Even if there is a very elaborate design, then when requirements change, or a design problem is encountered, it can easily happen that code gets written and the design adapted in retrospect.
Since programming is like opening a can of worms, unless we are talking about a trivial project, the design is bound to be flawed somewhere down the line - even if the designer is a genius. What happens next is that design becomes documentation, which can be useful at times, though obviously not intended that way.
The biggest challenge is delivering software on time when there really isn't enough time (Google developers ignore this paragraph). Corners get cut, bugs sprout - welcome to the wonderful world of programming.
Sounds to me like we'll see the equivalent of Google Earth's community markers adapted to these devices.
Although I like the principle, I really don't like the implementation of community markers as I last saw it. Too often there is a complete jungle of markers making it hard to find relevant ones.
Some community markers contain spam, some are riddled with mistakes and information that is totally wrong. Mostly they can't be trusted, and there are so many simply annoying markers.
My apologies... this was a rhetoric question with a hint of sarcasm. Maybe I should have written:
At what point in basic education do they teach common sense?!
But thank you for your eloquent reply. I fully agree that it is in the hands of the parents to transmit this valuable power. As with anything, there are exceptions, of course.
- Some parents make notable efforts but their children are rebellious, stubborn and foolish - common sense is not transmitted.
- There are parents with no common sense, yet their children nonetheless manage to develop it.
I think parents following this path deserve to win an award for bad parenting. Unfortunately, a significant number of people in our society did not. I see you were being polite, but to be blunt I'd replace 'significant' with 'shocking'.At what point in basic education do they teach common sense?
The advantage of this captcha is that it is not widespread yet and so the chances that a bot can crack it are lower.
Funny that when OCR software is supposed to work it often fails, but when there is some effort to hinder recognition then bots can deal with that. Maybe general OCR software should try to crack input instead!
Any ideas how much malware has gone undetected?
When I first started using Linux I was drawn to it by the amazing amount of free software it had to offer, and the convenience of the command line. I decided to install Linux on my own machine and got rid of Windows. And oh my god, all hell broke loose. At the time I had to recompile the kernel in order to get my graphics card to work, sound setup was very difficult - things took ages.
*But* I was overjoyed when I got it working, a truly rewarding feeling. On the other hand, when programs crashed or failed to install in Windows I would find it frustrating, especially since we are talking about commercial software, which is supposed to work flawlessly.
Quickly becoming a penguin enthusiast I decided to install Linux with KDE on my mum's, my brother's and my girlfriend's (I know, I'm not a proper geek) machines. I administer these remotely and have, 3 years later, not received a single complaint regarding usability. They all use their computers to browse the web, send/receive emails, chat, manage photos, listen to music, print, write documents... all of which can be accomplished easily. And they are happier - mainly because it's free.
Yet would they use Linux own their own? No, definitely not. The only way for this to happen would be if administration was much simplified, in fact it would have to be pretty much inexistent. Non-technical users cannot be burdened with current Linux administration, because it is too challenging, too time-consuming and simply requires too much technical knowledge.
So in my opinion, it's not the GUIs that should take the blame. They don't think there is a lot that needs to be dumbed down. I know a lot of people who are intrigued by Linux and especially by Amarok, but who cannot find entry into the Linux world with their current computer proficiency, simply because of the administrative burden. And they all like choice.
...is right here at /.
I hope that music creation will never become unprofitable, because to me it sounds unfair not to financially reward artists for their great work, hopefully inspired by passion rather than greed.
However, obviously it's the artists who decide how to publish their own music. And if they decide to sign evil agreements with greedy institutions then that is their choice and they have to live with the consequences.
These days there are alternative ways of publishing music for artists. Some artists, like unclebob simply put their music on their own web site and hope and pray for donations. Others publish their work on sites that have fairer deals.
Personally I hope that sites like magnatune will become more widely used, so that the industry as a whole becomes more ethical.
A little off-topic, but in an interview the golfer Bernard Langer was once told that he was extremely lucky to sink a particularly difficult put.
He responded 'The more I practise, the luckier I get!'.
I don't believe the successes of Google or Microsoft are down to luck. Neither do I think that Warren Buffett is a lucky investor.
Being opportunistic and taking a calculated risk sounds more like it.