I call BS on the explanation... those "probabilistic methods" are already implemented by most navigation programs, placing you not at the location of the GPS lock, but on the nearest street considering direction of travel. Also, who needs 1.5m accuracy for navigation? I've not had any destination that required me to be exact down to anything less than 5m... even street cutoffs typically do not need to be down to that scale...
Now, if they can spit out the coordinates actually down to 1.5m repeatedly for the same location, with me moving more or less erratically in between, and the program being stopped and started again, I will concede my argument...
... as long as the medicine affected is against easily preventable illnesses... sorry, but high cholesterol is a result of eating habits... by changing food intake to more healthy ways of eating, probably near 100% of high cholesterol can be cured... Of course it is easier to just treat the symptoms instead of the cause...
Not sure where those numbers come from, and what amount of taxes it includes, but the 0.19€ that sites lists for 2017 is WAY OFF... typical prices are in the range of 0.25 and 0.28 per kWh with all the taxes etc... plus additional fees on that (meters, etc.)
Unlike large companies, the regular consumer in Germany doesn't profit from the ever decreasing cost of electricity... prices keep going up, despite the falling prices on the energy market. Thanks to guaranteed prices for producers of renewable energy, the EEG-Umlage (Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz, renewable energy law) - which is something like an additional tax - has increased from about 0.02€/kWh to almost 0.07€/kWh between 2010 and 2017. Interestingly, this tax doesn't have to be paid by "energy-intensive" producing companies, like steel production etc., so - thanks to successful lobbying - the people have to pay the big companies' part, too... typically, Germans have to pay around 0.32€ per kWh of electricity... while electricity companies pay something like 0.05-0.06€ on the open market... While the EEG has succeeded in increasing the production of renewable energy, as usual the politicians have failed in writing a law that is halfway balanced... so private customers are paying the bill for companies...
read Dr. Joel Fuhrmann's books... type 2 is a modern sickness, caused by lifestyle and overabundance of (the wrong) food... switch to healthy foods, and you'll get rid of things like type 2, high blood pressure, etc...
Isn't anything Trump and the GOP nuts are doing (or want to do) putting corporate profits over the people? And yes, there are enough politicians from other party(/ies) that will put corporations before their constituents as long as the one paying for their re-election is happy... but GOP and Trump are just extreme...
From a scientific standpoint (which, of course, for Trump and the GOP is fake), the SAD (standard american diet) it's pretty much universally accepted that what causes all mayor causes of early deaths and poor health... the solutions may vary somewhat, but most nutrition experts will agree that the processed foods should be avoided as much as possible... which will not only reign in the growing amount of obesity, but will drastically improve health, reducing things like high blood pressure, heart disease, etc... I myself switched to mainly fresh produce, with very little animal products, and lost ~75 pounds, down to a healthy 165-170. health check done when I was almost down that amount gave me a perfect bill of health (apart from slight B6/B12/D deficiency, which is mainly taken from animal products, and can easily be fixed with some supplements).... and then the GOP/Trump complain about health care being too expensive...
To determine the amount of overbooking, one would need to know the total amount of people who could not use their originally booked flight... Anyway, the reason for over-booking is understandable (and also makes sense from more than just the economic PoV), but airlines should be forced to NOT involuntarily deny transport to passengers... that way, they could more or less auction off seats on the flight... just make the airline increase the payment they offer until the required number of passengers agree to postpone their flight... yes it will be more expensive for the airline, but at the moment the airline is the only one that has advantages out of the current system (apart from possibly lower fairs)
I've been running custom roms ever since my first Android phone (G1). As others have rightfully posted, phone makers do not provide updates for much more of the initial 1-2 years, plus most manufacturers have lots of junk on their setup that you can't get rid of otherwise. Not even going to start about the delays until updates are released. I do understand that there is little reason for a company to support a phone that's more than a generation back, as for one, many customers seem to swap their phones every 1-2 years, and supporting the old phones for longer would a) only cost money for a quickly diminishing amount of users and b) possibly keep people from buying new phones for the new OS they have. I typically replace a phone once the technical issues I have with it outweigh get on my nerves enough... (like decreasing battery capacity, actual defects, etc.) I'd probably still be using my Nexus 4 if the touch screen wouldn't have a dead vertical AND horizontal area... after that, I got an "old" S5, upgraded it with Cyanogen within 10 minutes of getting it... up to "N" now, and will probably use it until it too dies of old age;) Not what phone manufacturers would like their customers to do:)
The typical concept of a "diet" (as in, temporarily changing how/what/how much you eat) is the problem here... if you eat "a" and are fat, then eat "b" for a while to lose weight, and once you do go back to eating "a", why would you expect anything else than regaining the weight? People need to stop the concept of a diet, and instead change the way and what they eat... there are enough studies and science around food to show that meats, sugars, fat, processed foods etc are the cause for overweight and obesity, and by changing to more nutritional-value based foods not only the body loses weight, but many other civilization sicknesses are prevented or at least greatly reduced...
Caluclation is simple...with their typical markup is - like - 200% (at least?), this means their profits will also double... as the last thing Apple will do is take cuts in THEIR profits... and the last thing most of the Apple fanboys and -girls is care about the price, as long as they have the latest iProduct, so...
According to reports, they set up the agreement to reach back to 2009 - I wonder what for! As YouTube has been blocking suspected GEMA music since forever, there's no point in paying anything for unplayed music of the past... !?
... the ones who could probably profit the most from the additional steps will most likely find it too tiring and will use GPS spoofing instead. Also the study doesn't take into account the added risks to people not used to being in the actual world and moving about, which will as a result to the strange and dangerous surroundings fall prey to all those dangers present there. Like cars, bikes, air,...
The BBC, the new Top Gear production team, or Evans (or combination of those) made one major mistake - they attempted to copy the original Top Gear team... When TG US started, they also tried to set up the format identical to the UK original - and more or less failed. Until they found their own way and just stuck to the format of doing their show... And unless TG UK tries to actually do their own thing (albeit that might take another season or two of learning), they will fail again...
Knowing how botched up German laws are typically, they will find a way to mess it up... maybe through incompetence, maybe through malice because they (or lobbyists) don't want to give up going after "bad people"....
... that with all Trump is known for, and who is supporting him, that he has a large following in the low-income parts of the people? The myth of "trickle down economics" has been shown to not work, as proven by the US economics, as well as world wide, with the gap between the wealth of the wealthy and that of the poor ever widening... how can ANYBODY (apart from the very well off) vote for someone standing for the policies that Trump (and, for that matter, most of the other GOP candidates)??
To quote Fuhrman, you should eat "G-BOMBS", Greens, Beans, Onions, Mushrooms, Berries, Seeds...
As I said, the diet (or way of eating) is basically Vegan-oriented, with a focus on nutrient contents.. that means that not everything that is "vegan" is also recommended - e.g. heavily processed white rice may be vegan, but has very low nutrient levels due to being highly processed... instead, more natural, less processed brown rice should be used instead. White potatoes might be OK, but sweet potatoes have a higher nutrient content... and so on... he took the approach of looking at what the human body actually needs for nutrients, and what food sources can be used to supply that...
I reckon the basic problem with diets is the kind of diets... the typical "reduce by half" diet, or counting calories etc. will not work over the long run, because they are either tedious to follow, or deprive the body of necessary nutrients along with calories.
The way out of the whole dilemma is by not reducing what you eat, but by changing your food to healthy food. And not even looking at how much of that healthy (mostly vegetables) food you eat, but rely on the relatively low calories of those food to take care of your excessive calorie intake.
Check out e.g. books by Dr. Fuhrman, like "Eat to live" or "End of dieting"... his explanations - combined with referencing literally hundreds of studies done in the area of food and nutrition - will help most likely just about any person wanting to live healthier, and as a by-product - lose weight when followed...
E.g., some 10 years back I decided I needed to lose weight (albeit I didn't have any noticeable health issues even though I would have been classified as slightly obese). I managed to go down something like 60 pounds within 3-4 months by reducing the amount of food - and snacks - I ate, and even managed to keep my weight down decently for several years, though over the last 3-4 year regaining my weight.
Last August, with a BMI of 31.5 (anything above 30 is classified as obese), I started going on a "diet" based on Fuhrman's books, managing to get down to 25.5 within 3 months; currently I'm down to 22.5, with a total of almost 70 pounds lost. My personal goal is reacing a BMI in the area of 21.5 and a total loss of about 75-78 pounds. By switching to about 90-95% vegetarian/vegan food, I've had not much of a problem losing the weight, without/ANY/ of the typical "dieting" problems like suffering from hunger etc.... when hungry, I'll just eat something - like carrots, bell peppers etc. for snacks, or a nice bowl of salad... I've never not eaten vegetables, but were pretty picky... and the amount of meat etc. that I usually ate of course added to the calories...
Of course, I won't be able to supply long-term results yet, but by effectively changing my general food source and type of eating, I'm pretty confident that I'll be able to keep the weight off, and iron out the occasional "rare and appropriate" (thanks to Penn Jillette for his inspiration!) event of eating "normal", unhealthy food...
If Apple could technically (and could get away with it legally), they'd probably put some sort of expiry on their hardware... after all, what self-respecting Apple-fanboy/girl would use any of their Macs once it's older than 2 years, or any of their phones older than 1 year? Heck, how are you going to be proud of paying for the overpriced hardware Apple is selling, if you use it as long as it still works?
While the pros for a technology change like this would be interesting especially for motor tuning and efficiency, I assume the cons are pretty big... for one, the rise and lowering of the valves isn't a binary on/off setting, but requires specific speeds (otherwise you may mess up the valve springs etc.). Also, with the current cam shaft technology, destroying a motor is more or less dependent (at least as valves and cam shaft go) on failure of the timing belt or chain (which is why there are specific recommendations in which intervals they should be replaced). With more sophisticated actuators, any failure in controlling them correctly could lead to bent valves or worse...
While I'm in no way a fan of Facebook, I do applaud Zuckerman's step.
As for the people "complaining" and looking for excuses, I would wager a bet that almost all of them haven't even considered giving 1% of their income for any public cause (I'm talking about unforced giving, not taxes). They are just trying to find an excuse for their OWN failure to help out others. And even IF Zuckerman didn't pay any additional taxes - if what he is planing to do is done like that, and benefits in the way he hopes it does, I would also bet the money not paid as taxes would help at least twice as much as it would have by being taxed... seeing what the government spends the majority of its money on (hint: it's not spent for those that really need it...).
Sure, good journalism needs good pay... but what Springer - and especially their "Bild" paper does is neither. Apart from that, their blocking won't work if you have a JS blocker, too...:) So their technical abilities are similarly good as their journalistic ones;)
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I call BS on the explanation ... those "probabilistic methods" are already implemented by most navigation programs, placing you not at the location of the GPS lock, but on the nearest street considering direction of travel. ... even street cutoffs typically do not need to be down to that scale ...
Also, who needs 1.5m accuracy for navigation? I've not had any destination that required me to be exact down to anything less than 5m
Now, if they can spit out the coordinates actually down to 1.5m repeatedly for the same location, with me moving more or less erratically in between, and the program being stopped and started again, I will concede my argument ...
... as long as the medicine affected is against easily preventable illnesses ... sorry, but high cholesterol is a result of eating habits ... by changing food intake to more healthy ways of eating, probably near 100% of high cholesterol can be cured ... ...
Of course it is easier to just treat the symptoms instead of the cause
Not sure where those numbers come from, and what amount of taxes it includes, but the 0.19€ that sites lists for 2017 is WAY OFF ... typical prices are in the range of 0.25 and 0.28 per kWh with all the taxes etc ... plus additional fees on that (meters, etc.)
Slight correction, typical prices are in the range of 0.25-0.28€/kWh ... still high enough ...
Unlike large companies, the regular consumer in Germany doesn't profit from the ever decreasing cost of electricity ... prices keep going up, despite the falling prices on the energy market. Thanks to guaranteed prices for producers of renewable energy, the EEG-Umlage (Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz, renewable energy law) - which is something like an additional tax - has increased from about 0.02€/kWh to almost 0.07€/kWh between 2010 and 2017. Interestingly, this tax doesn't have to be paid by "energy-intensive" producing companies, like steel production etc., so - thanks to successful lobbying - the people have to pay the big companies' part, too ... typically, Germans have to pay around 0.32€ per kWh of electricity ... while electricity companies pay something like 0.05-0.06€ on the open market ... ... so private customers are paying the bill for companies ...
While the EEG has succeeded in increasing the production of renewable energy, as usual the politicians have failed in writing a law that is halfway balanced
read Dr. Joel Fuhrmann's books ... type 2 is a modern sickness, caused by lifestyle and overabundance of (the wrong) food ... switch to healthy foods, and you'll get rid of things like type 2, high blood pressure, etc ...
It putting corporate profits over children.
Isn't anything Trump and the GOP nuts are doing (or want to do) putting corporate profits over the people? And yes, there are enough politicians from other party(/ies) that will put corporations before their constituents as long as the one paying for their re-election is happy ... but GOP and Trump are just extreme ...
From a scientific standpoint (which, of course, for Trump and the GOP is fake), the SAD (standard american diet) it's pretty much universally accepted that what causes all mayor causes of early deaths and poor health ... the solutions may vary somewhat, but most nutrition experts will agree that the processed foods should be avoided as much as possible ... which will not only reign in the growing amount of obesity, but will drastically improve health, reducing things like high blood pressure, heart disease, etc ... I myself switched to mainly fresh produce, with very little animal products, and lost ~75 pounds, down to a healthy 165-170. health check done when I was almost down that amount gave me a perfect bill of health (apart from slight B6/B12/D deficiency, which is mainly taken from animal products, and can easily be fixed with some supplements). ... and then the GOP/Trump complain about health care being too expensive ...
To determine the amount of overbooking, one would need to know the total amount of people who could not use their originally booked flight ... ... that way, they could more or less auction off seats on the flight ... just make the airline increase the payment they offer until the required number of passengers agree to postpone their flight ... yes it will be more expensive for the airline, but at the moment the airline is the only one that has advantages out of the current system (apart from possibly lower fairs)
Anyway, the reason for over-booking is understandable (and also makes sense from more than just the economic PoV), but airlines should be forced to NOT involuntarily deny transport to passengers
I've been running custom roms ever since my first Android phone (G1). As others have rightfully posted, phone makers do not provide updates for much more of the initial 1-2 years, plus most manufacturers have lots of junk on their setup that you can't get rid of otherwise. Not even going to start about the delays until updates are released. ... (like decreasing battery capacity, actual defects, etc.) I'd probably still be using my Nexus 4 if the touch screen wouldn't have a dead vertical AND horizontal area... after that, I got an "old" S5, upgraded it with Cyanogen within 10 minutes of getting it ... up to "N" now, and will probably use it until it too dies of old age ;) Not what phone manufacturers would like their customers to do :)
I do understand that there is little reason for a company to support a phone that's more than a generation back, as for one, many customers seem to swap their phones every 1-2 years, and supporting the old phones for longer would a) only cost money for a quickly diminishing amount of users and b) possibly keep people from buying new phones for the new OS they have.
I typically replace a phone once the technical issues I have with it outweigh get on my nerves enough
The typical concept of a "diet" (as in, temporarily changing how/what/how much you eat) is the problem here ... if you eat "a" and are fat, then eat "b" for a while to lose weight, and once you do go back to eating "a", why would you expect anything else than regaining the weight? People need to stop the concept of a diet, and instead change the way and what they eat ... there are enough studies and science around food to show that meats, sugars, fat, processed foods etc are the cause for overweight and obesity, and by changing to more nutritional-value based foods not only the body loses weight, but many other civilization sicknesses are prevented or at least greatly reduced ...
Caluclation is simple ...with their typical markup is - like - 200% (at least?), this means their profits will also double ... as the last thing Apple will do is take cuts in THEIR profits ... and the last thing most of the Apple fanboys and -girls is care about the price, as long as they have the latest iProduct, so ...
Let's see how much Trump and his Nutcase Republicans in House & Senate can drive that number down in the next 4 years ...
According to reports, they set up the agreement to reach back to 2009 - I wonder what for! As YouTube has been blocking suspected GEMA music since forever, there's no point in paying anything for unplayed music of the past ... !?
I think I take more than 194 steps in the morning from getting up to fixing breakfast ... but then, I don't live in the US ... ;)
... the ones who could probably profit the most from the additional steps will most likely find it too tiring and will use GPS spoofing instead. ...
Also the study doesn't take into account the added risks to people not used to being in the actual world and moving about, which will as a result to the strange and dangerous surroundings fall prey to all those dangers present there. Like cars, bikes, air,
The BBC, the new Top Gear production team, or Evans (or combination of those) made one major mistake - they attempted to copy the original Top Gear team ... ... ...
When TG US started, they also tried to set up the format identical to the UK original - and more or less failed. Until they found their own way and just stuck to the format of doing their show
And unless TG UK tries to actually do their own thing (albeit that might take another season or two of learning), they will fail again
Why care about his ridiculous hair, when the person itself is so much more ridiculous! (except if the hair was controlling the person ...)
Knowing how botched up German laws are typically, they will find a way to mess it up ... maybe through incompetence, maybe through malice because they (or lobbyists) don't want to give up going after "bad people" ....
... that with all Trump is known for, and who is supporting him, that he has a large following in the low-income parts of the people? The myth of "trickle down economics" has been shown to not work, as proven by the US economics, as well as world wide, with the gap between the wealth of the wealthy and that of the poor ever widening ... how can ANYBODY (apart from the very well off) vote for someone standing for the policies that Trump (and, for that matter, most of the other GOP candidates)??
Just wondering ...
To quote Fuhrman, you should eat "G-BOMBS", Greens, Beans, Onions, Mushrooms, Berries, Seeds ...
As I said, the diet (or way of eating) is basically Vegan-oriented, with a focus on nutrient contents .. that means that not everything that is "vegan" is also recommended - e.g. heavily processed white rice may be vegan, but has very low nutrient levels due to being highly processed ... instead, more natural, less processed brown rice should be used instead. White potatoes might be OK, but sweet potatoes have a higher nutrient content ... and so on ... he took the approach of looking at what the human body actually needs for nutrients, and what food sources can be used to supply that ...
I call BS on the NYT article ...
I reckon the basic problem with diets is the kind of diets ... the typical "reduce by half" diet, or counting calories etc. will not work over the long run, because they are either tedious to follow, or deprive the body of necessary nutrients along with calories.
The way out of the whole dilemma is by not reducing what you eat, but by changing your food to healthy food. And not even looking at how much of that healthy (mostly vegetables) food you eat, but rely on the relatively low calories of those food to take care of your excessive calorie intake.
Check out e.g. books by Dr. Fuhrman, like "Eat to live" or "End of dieting" ... his explanations - combined with referencing literally hundreds of studies done in the area of food and nutrition - will help most likely just about any person wanting to live healthier, and as a by-product - lose weight when followed ...
E.g., some 10 years back I decided I needed to lose weight (albeit I didn't have any noticeable health issues even though I would have been classified as slightly obese). I managed to go down something like 60 pounds within 3-4 months by reducing the amount of food - and snacks - I ate, and even managed to keep my weight down decently for several years, though over the last 3-4 year regaining my weight.
Last August, with a BMI of 31.5 (anything above 30 is classified as obese), I started going on a "diet" based on Fuhrman's books, managing to get down to 25.5 within 3 months; currently I'm down to 22.5, with a total of almost 70 pounds lost. My personal goal is reacing a BMI in the area of 21.5 and a total loss of about 75-78 pounds. By switching to about 90-95% vegetarian/vegan food, I've had not much of a problem losing the weight, without /ANY/ of the typical "dieting" problems like suffering from hunger etc. ... when hungry, I'll just eat something - like carrots, bell peppers etc. for snacks, or a nice bowl of salad ... I've never not eaten vegetables, but were pretty picky ... and the amount of meat etc. that I usually ate of course added to the calories ...
Of course, I won't be able to supply long-term results yet, but by effectively changing my general food source and type of eating, I'm pretty confident that I'll be able to keep the weight off, and iron out the occasional "rare and appropriate" (thanks to Penn Jillette for his inspiration!) event of eating "normal", unhealthy food ...
If Apple could technically (and could get away with it legally), they'd probably put some sort of expiry on their hardware ... after all, what self-respecting Apple-fanboy/girl would use any of their Macs once it's older than 2 years, or any of their phones older than 1 year? Heck, how are you going to be proud of paying for the overpriced hardware Apple is selling, if you use it as long as it still works?
While the pros for a technology change like this would be interesting especially for motor tuning and efficiency, I assume the cons are pretty big ... for one, the rise and lowering of the valves isn't a binary on/off setting, but requires specific speeds (otherwise you may mess up the valve springs etc.). Also, with the current cam shaft technology, destroying a motor is more or less dependent (at least as valves and cam shaft go) on failure of the timing belt or chain (which is why there are specific recommendations in which intervals they should be replaced). With more sophisticated actuators, any failure in controlling them correctly could lead to bent valves or worse ...
While I'm in no way a fan of Facebook, I do applaud Zuckerman's step.
As for the people "complaining" and looking for excuses, I would wager a bet that almost all of them haven't even considered giving 1% of their income for any public cause (I'm talking about unforced giving, not taxes). They are just trying to find an excuse for their OWN failure to help out others. ... seeing what the government spends the majority of its money on (hint: it's not spent for those that really need it ...).
And even IF Zuckerman didn't pay any additional taxes - if what he is planing to do is done like that, and benefits in the way he hopes it does, I would also bet the money not paid as taxes would help at least twice as much as it would have by being taxed
Sure, good journalism needs good pay ... but what Springer - and especially their "Bild" paper does is neither. Apart from that, their blocking won't work if you have a JS blocker, too ... :) So their technical abilities are similarly good as their journalistic ones ;)