How many people know that cadmium is a poison? Do you think that the jewelry in question had a warning label on it that said something to the effect of "this product is toxic and will cause brain damage"?
It did have a label. It said :
"New ! Now with cadmium for your likeness ! Rodulf will make happy happy red noose ! Many like ! Wishes for new chrisass ! (not to be et. made in China)"
Yes, apparently the religious bits have gone from most of the non anglo saxon countries (interesting page btw). In a lot of Western Europe, inclusion of a bible (or any religious text) would be seen as being very strange given the strong separation of churches and state. In tribunals and similar places, people swear on their honor. Things like the traditional ending of pretty much any US political speech with something along the lines of "god bless the country" would create a riot in a lot of places over here.
Consider yourself fortunate that you are not on the invite list. Remember the dorks who bought the iPhone when it first came out? Remember those same dorks just a few months later when Apple dropped the price?:)
That's where Google will be more innovative than Apple : the phone will remain invite only indefinitely, the price will not change and only 5000 will be made.
That way the happy few will get to remain exclusive dorks indefinitely.
Well, what can you expect with a camera with a single fixed aperture and speed? Almost every cell phone camera out there is f/2.8, although if you are (un)lucky, you might get one with f/5.6.
But whatever their so called aperture, the physical aperture is still a pinhole lens that is a couple millimetre across. My proper f./2.8 lens have a diameter of 77mm (and can close to f./22). Which actually lets some light in.
There's probably a physical limit under which you cannot go and still have a reasonably decent lens (not super studio high-end flawless quality, just decent). At a guess from the various compacts I've seen, I'd say it's around 1.5cm. Maybe a wee bit less.
What's happened is that countries without legacy copper and overbearing telcos have leapfrogged the US in terms of, well....pretty much everything mobile.
But it's difficult to keep up with the mobile market, it's such a moving target !
It might not have done anything to further their propagation (although the fact that MS paid to have them removed at least indicated that they might have been worth a look), but I still find it very puzzling that in this day and age, someone actually thought "oh noes, our sekret filez are on the intarweb, I'll just pay to have them removed" (duh). Maybe he was from sales, or marketing.
Removing stuff that's on the network works fine for the media publishers after all, so Microsoft shouldn't have any problems doing it.
1. Wear a Bigfoot costume and approach the border.
Since I first heard of this strange setup, I too have wondered why nobody has played with the cams, the potential for harmless shenanigans making fun of the security loonies is limitless.
I was planning a vacation to the USA in 2010, as I did in 2006, 7 and 8. Entering America was already a royal pain in the neck (standing in line for 2 hours in Miami was really a joy, so was secondary screening in DC followed by a canceled flight), but these new measures make it increasingly unlikely I will go forward with my plans. There is a limit to what I will acccept. This notion that everything in society has to defer to security is insane.
I kept deferring my plan for another vacation in the US until the security theatre calmed down, looks like I'll have to wait for another few years. That is if they ultimately allow anybody in at all by then.
BUT... What about all of those people that died in Spain? Or how about the ones in London? Have the Europeans decided to lock down all of their train stations and require body cavity searches?
Those people lost lives as much as anybody else, yet all we remember is 9/11. All we talk about is 9/11.
You don't actually expect the US to take notice, or care, of what happens in the "here be dragons"* areas of the world, do you ?
Nautilus and most other file browsers also default to Icon view, which is fine if you have only about 5 files on your computer, which was probably true for Windows for Workgroups 3.1, but these days List view should be the default.
That's fine for generic fine but not for media files. If you dabble a bit in photography, you absolutely want preview view, not a list. 300 files named _IGP* aren't very helpful when you're quickly looking for something and you don't want to be bothered with a dedicated app.
Linux users have figured out that Santa doesn't exist.
Hey, I just felt something woosh over my head! Was it Santa!? Maybe he does exist!
I'm pretty sure he's still stuck in an interrogation room at a US border somewhere...
TSA : So tell me again what you're doing with all those kid's name and addresses while we finish checking all those laptops Santa : Look, I just explained it all for the fifth time to that other government guy just a couple hours ago !
There's a difference between sex and porno. There has been some debate about the role of women in porno-movies.
The main problem with kids being fed (current) porn before they can act it out is that they believe that what is pictured in porn films is how people are supposed to behave together instead of being a fantasy enhancing device. Most of them grow out of it but it makes their first relationships difficult. And since they will only talk about it with other similarly tainted youths, it's a (small) problem.
Just seeing naked people has no particular ill effects.
This is marginal and irrelevant. Also kids shouldn't be allowed online because white supremacists/christian cults/scientology/republicans/democrats/terrorists will subvert their fragile little minds. This is equally silly. Yes kids are inexperienced and gullible. It doesn't necessarily mean they will fall for *every* thing. Or our species would have died out long ago.
I was responsible for a newspaper ordering system that definitely would have stopped processing orders in 2000. Cost quite a number of man hours.
Well I had to fix a popular "Make a stupid things lists" applications, and frankly, in retrospect, I wonder why I even bothered. I should have gotten out, gotten drunk and have been sick all over the shoes of some nice girl. But no, I had to fix this stupid piece of code. I wish I hadn't.
Then this typical "end of year" fluff would have been posted way back in 99 and the author would have been hacked to death by Visigoths and Romans.
He argues that billions that governments spent avoiding the mostly fairly minor consequences of the vast majority of non-mission critical computers thinking it's the wrong date were whipped up by lazy journalists wanting easy copy: http://www.flatearthnews.net/chapter-one-bug-ate-world.
Not to mention that a number of (so called) journalists called it the "millennium bug" at the time instead of using the more proper "Y2K" or "date rollover" or "insert your favourite proper name here". Maybe "early millennium bug" ?
Of course, we're all familiar with the way the general press distorts anything that's marginally technical. But then it has happened several times that I was at the front line of several economic (Euro) headline worthy stories (I wasn't one of the actors, I just had access to all the data). And there too, the reporting was invariably terribly distorted at best, completely wrong in most cases.
Nowadays, I regrettably have to consider the press (broadly speaking, rolling all media under one name) as a "source of information" of sorts because I know it's what most people will use. But I never consider it as actual information. Merely as heavily distorted data that may, or may not, have anything to do with whatever actually happened. But numerous people will base their decisions on this which makes it somewhat important.
Such a survey is inherently inaccurate because of selection bias.
What selection biais ? Are you trying to deny that 100% of burned out Xbox machines no longer work ? That's not selection biais. It's twisting the facts. Not at all the same thing.
Your analogy really isn't fair. Intel is the big monolithic "GM" with the inefficient but powerful and popular engine. Sun is the import. The smaller but more modern company with an engine design that uses less energy. Guess which one is the way of the future?
Um... Big monolithic Intel, inefficient and popular ?
Small and modern Orac^H^H^H^HSun won't be pushing SPARC for much longer (there are other sources though). They are already a niche CPU. At best it will go the way of MIPS.
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Mary Jane will be some sort of mystical, prophesied Queen of the Spiders.
Riding a spider pony with a long gliterry mane. Which she combs languorously.
How many people know that cadmium is a poison? Do you think that the jewelry in question had a warning label on it that said something to the effect of "this product is toxic and will cause brain damage"?
It did have a label. It said :
"New ! Now with cadmium for your likeness ! Rodulf will make happy happy red noose ! Many like ! Wishes for new chrisass ! (not to be et. made in China)"
Now it seems obvious that it's less suitable for children's toys, because kids of a certain age tend to put everything in their mouth
But don't a lot of children toys get stuffed with cadmium batteries anyway ?
Sounds like a double standard to me. Not to mention that nickel can be toxic too (and a great allergen).
It's resting.
It's, errr, pining for the fjords.
Remarkable game DNF, beautiful graphics...
Stuns easily though.
It might just be an Anglo tradition. wiki.
Yes, apparently the religious bits have gone from most of the non anglo saxon countries (interesting page btw). In a lot of Western Europe, inclusion of a bible (or any religious text) would be seen as being very strange given the strong separation of churches and state. In tribunals and similar places, people swear on their honor.
Things like the traditional ending of pretty much any US political speech with something along the lines of "god bless the country" would create a riot in a lot of places over here.
Can you imagine what would happen to a public leader in a Western country who refused to swear an oath on a Holy Book?
Very few western countries do this (does it even exist outside of the US ?) and most of the others consider it quite shocking. FYI.
"... the feeling I had as I was preparing our iPhone announcement
post -- my heart was pounding"
So they're still not hiring zombie writers ? I find that hard to believe.
Consider yourself fortunate that you are not on the invite list. Remember the dorks who bought the iPhone when it first came out? Remember those same dorks just a few months later when Apple dropped the price? :)
That's where Google will be more innovative than Apple : the phone will remain invite only indefinitely, the price will not change and only 5000 will be made.
That way the happy few will get to remain exclusive dorks indefinitely.
Perhaps because people don't want them. Very simple market rule. Demand!
Especially not the people at Redmond.
Well, what can you expect with a camera with a single fixed aperture and speed? Almost every cell phone camera out there is f/2.8, although if you are (un)lucky, you might get one with f/5.6.
But whatever their so called aperture, the physical aperture is still a pinhole lens that is a couple millimetre across. My proper f./2.8 lens have a diameter of 77mm (and can close to f./22). Which actually lets some light in.
There's probably a physical limit under which you cannot go and still have a reasonably decent lens (not super studio high-end flawless quality, just decent). At a guess from the various compacts I've seen, I'd say it's around 1.5cm. Maybe a wee bit less.
What's happened is that countries without legacy copper and overbearing telcos have leapfrogged the US in terms of, well....pretty much everything mobile.
But it's difficult to keep up with the mobile market, it's such a moving target !
GL/PJ isn't exactly know for being an unbiased source
As opposed to the "unbiased" generic computing press I suppose ?
It might not have done anything to further their propagation (although the fact that MS paid to have them removed at least indicated that they might have been worth a look), but I still find it very puzzling that in this day and age, someone actually thought "oh noes, our sekret filez are on the intarweb, I'll just pay to have them removed" (duh). Maybe he was from sales, or marketing.
Removing stuff that's on the network works fine for the media publishers after all, so Microsoft shouldn't have any problems doing it.
1. Wear a Bigfoot costume and approach the border.
Since I first heard of this strange setup, I too have wondered why nobody has played with the cams, the potential for harmless shenanigans making fun of the security loonies is limitless.
I was planning a vacation to the USA in 2010, as I did in 2006, 7 and 8. Entering America was already a royal pain in the neck (standing in line for 2 hours in Miami was really a joy, so was secondary screening in DC followed by a canceled flight), but these new measures make it increasingly unlikely I will go forward with my plans. There is a limit to what I will acccept. This notion that everything in society has to defer to security is insane.
I kept deferring my plan for another vacation in the US until the security theatre calmed down, looks like I'll have to wait for another few years. That is if they ultimately allow anybody in at all by then.
As a member of a flight club, [ ... ]
But isn't the first rule of flight club that you don't...
Oh, wait, never mind.
BUT... What about all of those people that died in Spain? Or how about the ones in London? Have the Europeans decided to lock down all of their train stations and require body cavity searches?
Those people lost lives as much as anybody else, yet all we remember is 9/11. All we talk about is 9/11.
You don't actually expect the US to take notice, or care, of what happens in the "here be dragons"* areas of the world, do you ?
(*) as seen by a large portion of its population
Nautilus and most other file browsers also default to Icon view, which is fine if you have only about 5 files on your computer, which was probably true for Windows for Workgroups 3.1, but these days List view should be the default.
That's fine for generic fine but not for media files. If you dabble a bit in photography, you absolutely want preview view, not a list. 300 files named _IGP* aren't very helpful when you're quickly looking for something and you don't want to be bothered with a dedicated app.
Linux users have figured out that Santa doesn't exist.
Hey, I just felt something woosh over my head! Was it Santa!? Maybe he does exist!
I'm pretty sure he's still stuck in an interrogation room at a US border somewhere...
TSA : So tell me again what you're doing with all those kid's name and addresses while we finish checking all those laptops
Santa : Look, I just explained it all for the fifth time to that other government guy just a couple hours ago !
There's a difference between sex and porno. There has been some debate about the role of women in porno-movies.
The main problem with kids being fed (current) porn before they can act it out is that they believe that what is pictured in porn films is how people are supposed to behave together instead of being a fantasy enhancing device. Most of them grow out of it but it makes their first relationships difficult. And since they will only talk about it with other similarly tainted youths, it's a (small) problem.
Just seeing naked people has no particular ill effects.
Some (at least 1) countries have political parties promoting/condoning sex with children http://www.pnvd.nl/EN_index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Neighbourly_Love,_Freedom,_and_Diversity . Instead of blindly/easily/lazily/cowardly tolerating whatever comes the most effortlessly to your mind, try grow some testicles and add something insightful to the discussion, instead of blurting colourless platitudes.
This is marginal and irrelevant.
Also kids shouldn't be allowed online because white supremacists/christian cults/scientology/republicans/democrats/terrorists will subvert their fragile little minds. This is equally silly.
Yes kids are inexperienced and gullible. It doesn't necessarily mean they will fall for *every* thing. Or our species would have died out long ago.
I was responsible for a newspaper ordering system that definitely would have stopped processing orders in 2000. Cost quite a number of man hours.
Well I had to fix a popular "Make a stupid things lists" applications, and frankly, in retrospect, I wonder why I even bothered. I should have gotten out, gotten drunk and have been sick all over the shoes of some nice girl. But no, I had to fix this stupid piece of code. I wish I hadn't.
Then this typical "end of year" fluff would have been posted way back in 99 and the author would have been hacked to death by Visigoths and Romans.
Pro-choice on both abortions and guns.
You know medical science has made lots of progress since women had to resort to firearms to get rid of unwanted children.
He argues that billions that governments spent avoiding the mostly fairly minor consequences of the vast majority of non-mission critical computers thinking it's the wrong date were whipped up by lazy journalists wanting easy copy: http://www.flatearthnews.net/chapter-one-bug-ate-world.
Not to mention that a number of (so called) journalists called it the "millennium bug" at the time instead of using the more proper "Y2K" or "date rollover" or "insert your favourite proper name here". Maybe "early millennium bug" ?
Of course, we're all familiar with the way the general press distorts anything that's marginally technical. But then it has happened several times that I was at the front line of several economic (Euro) headline worthy stories (I wasn't one of the actors, I just had access to all the data). And there too, the reporting was invariably terribly distorted at best, completely wrong in most cases.
Nowadays, I regrettably have to consider the press (broadly speaking, rolling all media under one name) as a "source of information" of sorts because I know it's what most people will use. But I never consider it as actual information. Merely as heavily distorted data that may, or may not, have anything to do with whatever actually happened. But numerous people will base their decisions on this which makes it somewhat important.
Such a survey is inherently inaccurate because of selection bias.
What selection biais ? Are you trying to deny that 100% of burned out Xbox machines no longer work ? That's not selection biais.
It's twisting the facts. Not at all the same thing.
*runsaway*
Your analogy really isn't fair. Intel is the big monolithic "GM" with the inefficient but powerful and popular engine. Sun is the import. The smaller but more modern company with an engine design that uses less energy. Guess which one is the way of the future?
Um... Big monolithic Intel, inefficient and popular ?
Small and modern Orac^H^H^H^HSun won't be pushing SPARC for much longer (there are other sources though). They are already a niche CPU. At best it will go the way of MIPS.