Another pedantic thing: When the title is "First Impressions of Windows 8 Powered Nokia Lumia 920 and 820", I'm a bit dissappointed that most of the description is not about first impressions of those devices. Oh well, I'm sure we'll get a lot of first impressions on 12th.
Well I have 7GB of map data on my Samsung wave phone, the phone will be unusable for offline navigation if it doesn't have enough storage for maps
If I remember correctly offline navigation for just about the whole world takes 7GB with Nokia Maps. If you only need Americas or Europe you need less than 3GB. (Or you could pick specific countries you're planning on visiting. Just a couple of clicks...). My estimates may be slightly outdated, but probably not much...
So is there something wrong with the study that you (or anyone else) can identify, or is this just presumptive cynicism?
Well. I've only checked two sources yet, but I would definitely say yes. When they reference other articles the negative effects of circumcision are not presented at all the same way as in the conclusions of the actual articles. Even two of these cases would be a bit much in my opinion, and what is the probability that I just happened to check the only two that happen to change the conclusions of the article. (The first one is a blatant lie, the second one is perhaps more a sin by omission..).
The foreskin, it has nerves. These are sensitive. No foreskin -> less nerves -> less sensations. I don't see how that is the cause of a debate.
Well.. They reference an article that concludes "Circumcision ablates the most sensitive parts of the penis" and change the meaning to "these findings failed to attain statistical signicance for most locations on the penis".
I mean... Seriously... "for most locations". I wonder, if I were to burn my fingertip, would they conclude that statistically most locations on the finger retain the same sensitivity.
So, I would masturbate even more if I hadn't been circumcised? Is this even possible?!
Probably not, but you might enjoy it more.
From the article
There is fair evidence from a cross-sectional study of Korean men of decreased masturbatory pleasure after adult circumcision
Or as they say in the referenced article
There were no differences in sexual drive, erection and ejaculation, but circumcised men reported decreased masturbatory pleasure and sexual enjoyment. We conclude that adult circumcision adversely affects sexual function in a signicant number of men, possibly because of loss of nerve endings.
Gah, another one. "Take away your studies and facts, I'm not listening, la la la la, I can't hear you..."
Go read it
From the 'Task Force' article:
There is fair evidence that men circumcised as adults demonstrate a
higher threshold for light touch sensitivity with a static mono
lament compared with uncircumcised men;
these ndings failed to attain statistical
signicance for most locations on the
penis, however, and it is unclear that
sensitivity to static monolament (as
opposed to dynamic stimulus) has any
relevance to sexual satisfaction.
And what does the actual article marked as source for this say:
The glans of the circumcised penis is less
sensitive to fine touch than the glans of the
uncircumcised penis. The transitional region
from the external to the internal prepuce
is the most sensitive region of the
uncircumcised penis and more sensitive than
the most sensitive region of the circumcised
penis. Circumcision ablates the most sensitive
parts of the penis..
I've never read 'an article' that as blatantly cherrypicks things supporting their view...
Maybe they left him in so that if the judgement didn't go their way they could use him as a reason to appeal.
At least with hindsight that would have been extremely stupid, as he seems to be the reason that the presented prior art was deemed to be not so prior art. This seems to be the largest contributing factor to the result...
I think that's a good example. I don't think swipe to unlock is obvious.
1) No one else used swipe to unlock prior to Apple. Generally they used hitting some sort of button to unlock.
2) There are other methods to unlock on a touch screen. For example MeeGo's double press to unlock.
Yes in retrospect it is obvious. But... there is pretty clear evidence in 2005, 2006 it wasn't obvious based on the fact that other people weren't thinking of it. If Samsung could prove everyone thought of it, they could have invalidated the patent.
Considering that Samsung, just ONE CONGLOMERATE, generates 20% of the entire country of Korea's GDP, I hardly think the judge(s) would be capable of being impartial.
Indeed, a conglomerate. So I don't see why the judge would have unreasonable difficulties to be impartial in a case that in practice involves a few non-flagship phone and tablet models...
I was hoping we would quit cutting down trees and use more water to clean our behinds (water is renewable you know)
I have heard that trees might alse be renewable. Infact, I believe that cleaning water is harder than growing trees. Although I do agree that reduction in trees is definitely not a good thing.
They don't have a row of permanent icons along the bottom and a four by four grid of icons above that though. Nor do they meet any of the several other claims. Nor are they easily confused with the iPhone or iPad, which is what the trade dress part of the suit requires.
I'm sure that most non-technologically gifted would look at one and ask 'Is that an iPad?'
My view is similar but opposite: I get distressed that I can't play game 1 on PC 1 and at the same time play game 2 on PC 2.
I've bought both games, and I've been multi-gaming since the early 90s. Steam sadly doesn't allow this.
Hmm. Do they track the game launch times if in offline mode? As in, would you get in trouble with Steam by using the second computer in offline mode...
However, introduce non-gaming software and it's going to become bloody stupid. Can't work on PC 1 because you have a document open on PC 2? Maybe this'll finally end that ludicrous Steam constraint.
Even if the non-gaming software could be ran on several (or even two) computers at the same time, I doubt that this will change the terms for the games. A rather reasonable solution (in my mind) would be the possibility to mark certain computers to belong to 'homegroup' which would allow you to log into those with a single Steam account. Perhaps a single instance of a apecific game could be run at the same time (unless there are several licenses), but perhaps this limitation should not exist for the other software...?
I think in 2012 pointing out they don't support building in a 64bit environment is a fair complaint.
Well yes... But there's a difference between
"It's also a 32-bit only app and they don't even support building it in 64-bit distros (even though it'd only take a few buildsystem fixes to actually make it build in 32-bit mode fine, much like Wine)"
and
"It's a 32-bit only app and and building it in 64-bit distros is not currently supported. However it will only take a few buildsystem fixes to actually make it build in 32-bit mode fine, much like Wine"
You know, the source is available, and if the OP is correct in stating that fixing it is easy (and knows how to do it), he could and should fix it...
And then he mentions a console platform ("XBOX Arcade", which I take to mean Xbox Live Arcade). Several Slashdot regulars have told me that the only way to sell one's game on a console is to move out and work for a console-licensed video game developer for several years in order to build what Nintendo calls "relevant video game industry experience". And they've repeatedly told me that the only way to sell a game at all in a genre traditionally associated with consoles is on a console.
True. However, considering that he is currently just trying to find out a way to jump back into programming, I doubt that he has yet researched the various tresholds of getting published. One of the items listed is mobile, and that's not really (relatively) that difficult... Perspiration and a good(ish) idea may be enough. (Getting sales may not be that easy)
If he can write (logical) English and can learn stuff (albeit perhaps slowly), I don't see why he couldn't be at least a hobbyist programmer. Might not be the easiest hobby he could have, but then again, might be rewarding too. Probably not very quickly though.
they dont claim windows viruses, they claim PC viruses, last time I checked Apple makes Personal Computers
Well their answer in the 'why-mac faq' does look a bit misleading.
Is a Mac safe from PC viruses?
Yes. The OS X operating system isn’t susceptible to the thousands of viruses plaguing Windows-based computers. And although no computer connected to the Internet is completely immune to all viruses and spyware, OS X has built-in defenses designed with your safety in mind.
So it is safe from PC viruses, but not completely immune to all computer viruses... ^.^
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To me they lied. The video had: picture of the guy using a nokia, then OIS ON, OIS OFF, pureview etc. When it was actually "steadycam" sort of stuff.
OIS (Optical Image Stabilization) ON.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_stabilization
Another pedantic thing: When the title is "First Impressions of Windows 8 Powered Nokia Lumia 920 and 820", I'm a bit dissappointed that most of the description is not about first impressions of those devices. Oh well, I'm sure we'll get a lot of first impressions on 12th.
Well I have 7GB of map data on my Samsung wave phone, the phone will be unusable for offline navigation if it doesn't have enough storage for maps
If I remember correctly offline navigation for just about the whole world takes 7GB with Nokia Maps. If you only need Americas or Europe you need less than 3GB. (Or you could pick specific countries you're planning on visiting. Just a couple of clicks...). My estimates may be slightly outdated, but probably not much...
So is there something wrong with the study that you (or anyone else) can identify, or is this just presumptive cynicism?
Well. I've only checked two sources yet, but I would definitely say yes. When they reference other articles the negative effects of circumcision are not presented at all the same way as in the conclusions of the actual articles. Even two of these cases would be a bit much in my opinion, and what is the probability that I just happened to check the only two that happen to change the conclusions of the article. (The first one is a blatant lie, the second one is perhaps more a sin by omission..).
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3078759&cid=41158789
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3078759&cid=41159567
The foreskin, it has nerves. These are sensitive. No foreskin -> less nerves -> less sensations. I don't see how that is the cause of a debate.
Well.. They reference an article that concludes "Circumcision ablates the most sensitive parts of the penis" and change the meaning to "these findings failed to attain statistical signicance for most locations on the penis".
I mean... Seriously... "for most locations". I wonder, if I were to burn my fingertip, would they conclude that statistically most locations on the finger retain the same sensitivity.
So, I would masturbate even more if I hadn't been circumcised? Is this even possible?!
Probably not, but you might enjoy it more.
From the article
There is fair evidence from a cross-sectional study of Korean men of decreased masturbatory pleasure after adult circumcision
Or as they say in the referenced article
There were no differences in sexual drive, erection and ejaculation, but circumcised men reported decreased masturbatory pleasure and sexual enjoyment. We conclude that adult circumcision adversely affects sexual function in a signicant number of men, possibly because of loss of nerve endings.
Gah, another one. "Take away your studies and facts, I'm not listening, la la la la, I can't hear you..."
Go read it
From the 'Task Force' article:
There is fair evidence that men circumcised as adults demonstrate a higher threshold for light touch sensitivity with a static mono lament compared with uncircumcised men; these ndings failed to attain statistical signicance for most locations on the penis, however, and it is unclear that sensitivity to static monolament (as opposed to dynamic stimulus) has any relevance to sexual satisfaction.
And what does the actual article marked as source for this say:
The glans of the circumcised penis is less sensitive to fine touch than the glans of the uncircumcised penis. The transitional region from the external to the internal prepuce is the most sensitive region of the uncircumcised penis and more sensitive than the most sensitive region of the circumcised penis. Circumcision ablates the most sensitive parts of the penis..
I've never read 'an article' that as blatantly cherrypicks things supporting their view...
Maybe they left him in so that if the judgement didn't go their way they could use him as a reason to appeal.
At least with hindsight that would have been extremely stupid, as he seems to be the reason that the presented prior art was deemed to be not so prior art. This seems to be the largest contributing factor to the result...
I think that's a good example. I don't think swipe to unlock is obvious.
1) No one else used swipe to unlock prior to Apple. Generally they used hitting some sort of button to unlock. 2) There are other methods to unlock on a touch screen. For example MeeGo's double press to unlock.
Yes in retrospect it is obvious. But... there is pretty clear evidence in 2005, 2006 it wasn't obvious based on the fact that other people weren't thinking of it. If Samsung could prove everyone thought of it, they could have invalidated the patent.
Well. I believe "no one" isn't quite accurate: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18709232
They are current generation. Pull your head out of your ass, neckbeard.
Original parent: "- Apple has their current-generation stuff banned." And since those aren't, logically they can't be current-generation stuff ^.^
I was actually going for funny, but perhaps my neckbeard got stuck on the way out.
Considering that Samsung, just ONE CONGLOMERATE, generates 20% of the entire country of Korea's GDP, I hardly think the judge(s) would be capable of being impartial.
Indeed, a conglomerate. So I don't see why the judge would have unreasonable difficulties to be impartial in a case that in practice involves a few non-flagship phone and tablet models...
- Samsung has their old-generation stuff banned from sale. - Apple has their current-generation stuff banned.
Yeah, the 4S and 'the new iPad' aren't really current-generation stuff.. Of course it might be a matter of opinion ^.^
But Steam's DRM doesn't suck, is the thing.
No. Steam's DRM just doesn't suck a lot, or often.
From a recent update:
- Fixed broken offline mode if Steam process didn't shutdown correctly
I was hoping we would quit cutting down trees and use more water to clean our behinds (water is renewable you know)
I have heard that trees might alse be renewable. Infact, I believe that cleaning water is harder than growing trees. Although I do agree that reduction in trees is definitely not a good thing.
They don't have a row of permanent icons along the bottom and a four by four grid of icons above that though. Nor do they meet any of the several other claims. Nor are they easily confused with the iPhone or iPad, which is what the trade dress part of the suit requires.
I'm sure that most non-technologically gifted would look at one and ask 'Is that an iPad?'
Ask Slashdot: Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover if it was running Personal Tape Drive NAS?
My view is similar but opposite: I get distressed that I can't play game 1 on PC 1 and at the same time play game 2 on PC 2.
I've bought both games, and I've been multi-gaming since the early 90s. Steam sadly doesn't allow this.
Hmm. Do they track the game launch times if in offline mode? As in, would you get in trouble with Steam by using the second computer in offline mode...
However, introduce non-gaming software and it's going to become bloody stupid. Can't work on PC 1 because you have a document open on PC 2? Maybe this'll finally end that ludicrous Steam constraint.
Even if the non-gaming software could be ran on several (or even two) computers at the same time, I doubt that this will change the terms for the games. A rather reasonable solution (in my mind) would be the possibility to mark certain computers to belong to 'homegroup' which would allow you to log into those with a single Steam account. Perhaps a single instance of a apecific game could be run at the same time (unless there are several licenses), but perhaps this limitation should not exist for the other software...?
I think in 2012 pointing out they don't support building in a 64bit environment is a fair complaint.
Well yes... But there's a difference between
"It's also a 32-bit only app and they don't even support building it in 64-bit distros (even though it'd only take a few buildsystem fixes to actually make it build in 32-bit mode fine, much like Wine)"
and
"It's a 32-bit only app and and building it in 64-bit distros is not currently supported. However it will only take a few buildsystem fixes to actually make it build in 32-bit mode fine, much like Wine"
You know, the source is available, and if the OP is correct in stating that fixing it is easy (and knows how to do it), he could and should fix it...
Pointing out a limitation != whining. People should learn what a word means before trying to be an asshole while misusing it.
True enough, however phrases such as "they don't even support" sound a bit whinyish.
And then he mentions a console platform ("XBOX Arcade", which I take to mean Xbox Live Arcade). Several Slashdot regulars have told me that the only way to sell one's game on a console is to move out and work for a console-licensed video game developer for several years in order to build what Nintendo calls "relevant video game industry experience". And they've repeatedly told me that the only way to sell a game at all in a genre traditionally associated with consoles is on a console.
True. However, considering that he is currently just trying to find out a way to jump back into programming, I doubt that he has yet researched the various tresholds of getting published. One of the items listed is mobile, and that's not really (relatively) that difficult... Perspiration and a good(ish) idea may be enough. (Getting sales may not be that easy)
I don't see why he couldn't be at least a hobbyist programmer.
Absolutely. But he wants to be a professional programmer.
That is perhaps debatable: "My goal is to make games as a hobby for now"
If he can write (logical) English and can learn stuff (albeit perhaps slowly), I don't see why he couldn't be at least a hobbyist programmer. Might not be the easiest hobby he could have, but then again, might be rewarding too. Probably not very quickly though.
Yes, I was actually trying to agree with you. And then I failed. /s/Well/Yes in my original reply would probably improve it.
they dont claim windows viruses, they claim PC viruses, last time I checked Apple makes Personal Computers
Well their answer in the 'why-mac faq' does look a bit misleading.
Is a Mac safe from PC viruses?
Yes. The OS X operating system isn’t susceptible to the thousands of viruses plaguing Windows-based computers. And although no computer connected to the Internet is completely immune to all viruses and spyware, OS X has built-in defenses designed with your safety in mind.
So it is safe from PC viruses, but not completely immune to all computer viruses... ^.^
I refuse to believe that you are not DemomanDeveloper until you log in and demonstrate a posting history.
And yet the comment is valid even if the writer was DemomanDeveloper.