If my damn house is going to burn down because I gave my old phone to my kid to play with, I sure as hell want to know where to draw the line and when to throw it out. If batteries aren't safe after 4 years... somebody needs to be putting huge warning labels on these phones. If this is a one in a billion chance, well OK. But if age increases chances, we need to know what the deal is.
So Apple, where do we draw the line? How old is too old of a battery? How often will this happen if the battery is 5 years old? And how does the consumer find out exactly how old the battery is?
Those with children pass their old phones to their kids. Extremely common in my hallway. Not saying I think a phone that costs as much as a nice PC is fair at all, but my company buys me my iPhone so... yeah, my kids get old iPhones.
T-rex was definitely a hunter. They've found more than one example of T-rex teeth scars in triceratops that survived and had the scars heal over proving that the triceratops lived through the battle and healed up. You can't tell me the mama T-rex was defending her babies from a carnivorous triceratops, and almost all dino experts say T-rex was a hunter with such evidence. Here is a link citing an embedded T-rex tooth in a hadrosaur, so you can't say it was another animal that attacked.
I quote, "This is unambiguous evidence that T rex was an active predator," the authors write in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Such evidence is rare in the fossil record for good reason â" prey rarely escapes."
I suspect only Horner is really into shaking things up for attention, like with the idea that T-rex was a vulture. More attention for dinosaurs, OK I get it, but take some of those wild theories with a grain of salt. Why would T-rex have to be incredibly fast? Why not be an ambush predator? Big cats are not faster than their prey for the most part, yet they survive by being hunters. Crocodilians can't cover ground fast, but with the element of surprise have been incredibly successful. All T-rex needed was to hide in the brush and wait, I suspect. One clamp of those incredibly powerful, the most powerful land jaws probably, bite is all that was often needed I bet.
With the correct controllers, I will be all over this! Hell I'll probably buy it regardless, but I really miss the paddle controllers and the feel of the original joysticks. Games needed, let's see what I can recall, are:
Yars' Revenge (OK, I cheated by looking up where the apostrophe goes) The Empire Strikes Back (the one with the snow walkers) Stargate, etc. (love them sounds) Robotron Combat (oh so much fun vs. my brother) Pac-Man (it looked terrible compared to the arcade but it was good enough!) Chopper Command Berzerk! Pitfall, oh it was so good Missle Command Centipede Space Invaders Moon Patrol so many more... something about those games, ah man, I love 'em!
I'll say this... I've always been a Windows guy, but the privacy thing is enough to push me to using another OS. Apple are certainly not in the same league as Microsoft when it comes to not giving a rat's about user privacy. Some flavor of pure Linux is looking better and better, too.
While it is human to worry about things that affect us in the present like net neutrality (I am very very concerned about it myself) and the like, it is too easy to miss the big picture. If the planet loses half its species in the next few decades, we are what you call "completely fucked". I send my donations to anything that will help preserve nature because, well, it eventually affects every other thing with a very long term effect.
Agreed, their video search bites pretty bad. The interface (on the playstation 3) is extra extra slow now b/c if you go to the "right" it takes time to load, and if that was an accident, you have to wait 5 or 10 seconds to go back to the "left" where the lists are. HATE IT.
With Netflix, they also screwed when they updated the Playstation 3 app/prog a year or two ago, so that you can't "page sideways" through lists with the fastforward buttons (I use the PS3 remote).
Two things I do like on Amazon though:
1. "Customers also watched" tab for similar movies or similar actors. Love this to get slightly random options.
2. Amazon Prime Music. I LOVE this stuff... naturally it's easier to deal with b/c I just use my PC to search their website then add tons of stuff to my music list.
For our parent company, this subscription would be a very bad model. OS and office "upgrades" are extremely disruptive to our operations groups... Excel version changes are so disruptive we plan everything around that as it directly affects business... millions of dollars at stake. We can never go to a subscription for that reason alone.
Large OS upgrades are not as bad, but are nearly. Any time it changes the interface and people have to relearn how to get around, the workforce complains greatly. And I'm talking about senior workforce... the ones that love to create waves with upper management. We always ease our child companies into these upgrades, so that less senior people get the upgrades first so they can babysit the senior guys, etc.
Subscription would never work here. Apple iPhones are one thing, since they are a toy, but work PCs are never understood well by the masses because they refuse to get comfortable and only use them for work.
So they are finding more ways to cut up tech jobs and get low skilled or low educated people on payroll to help drive down their costs. Reminds me of the training at ITT which was a sham I hear. To the educated and highly trained/skilled out there, this sounds like a big problem. Outsourcing wasn't enough I guess.
Doctors and lawyers did a good job of putting up hurdles to keep their ranks lean, so more pay and power to them. Tech is a different beast. For one Tech workers tend to like to share info and encourage equality in many ways. Tech companies are the richest on the planet, and take advantage of all of these things to drive pay down.
Now that outsourcing to other countries is becoming less viable, they are finding ways to reduce pay to tech workers in the US it sounds like.
My suggestion? Don't stand for it. Don't hire low skilled people if they aren't good enough for the job. Don't buy from companies that outsource everything and have absolutely abysmal support. Don't work long hours for bad pay. I'm sure other suggestions exist, and I am all ears.
If he is a typical greed-driven business person, everything he is saying is said to help his cause which is to take more money from everybody else and make himself richer. I'm pretty sure you are implying that, and yes, I tend to agree.
To be clear, he's saying "Hey everybody, calm down. You'll be fine. Let us automate everything, use AI and robots to replace you. Really, you won't suffer. We'll share with you. Rich people love to give their money to other people, especially the poor. No way in HELL are we going to suck you dry. Rich people wouldn't do that, we are NICE, ok?!".
Sounds really nice to me. Once they get tabs introduced, I'm going to be using it plenty and more than that recommending to non-techies that want some privacy.
Good eye catching that. Surely some injuries require avoidance of certain stretches or exercises.
Some tips for somebody with back pain reading this: plain old walking and wearing non-tight pants helps a lot with back pain. Comfortable stretching and isometric exercises are good. As you get less pain and more strength or endurance, I would recommend progressing to longer workouts or more activity. But use common sense and don't overdo anything that causes more pain to appear the next day.
What a freaky cool looking event... series of events. That so very much doesn't look like the Jupiter I am familiar with. It's just fascinating. Now to read up on the science behind it to really enjoy this discovery completely.
Somebody else knows better than me regarding Star Trek, but the way Star Trek did it was something like providing food, shelter, and getting to choose any job you want. Nobody got paid money. Food came free out of devices that magically made food/beverages. The things you owned were mostly things you needed to do your job... plus extras to be sure, but they never explained how you paid for it.
If this take on it helps people wake up and fight for net neutrality, then it is worth it. No doubt the article is right about the motives... it is always about profits and control from big businesses. The last thing they want is regulations.
Sounds about right. Did you see the thing on netflix recently... it was a cameraman that goes to tribal places and hangs with the people a couple of days. All those really distant from modernization hunter-gatherer types seem so damned happy and unstressed. Although I do remember one African tribe having the ladies fuss at the men for not bringing in a kill for a couple of days, at least I think it was on the same show. I've watched a lot of this type of stuff lately.
This guy:
BBC Natural History Unit special, Tribes, Predators and Me,
I keep running into facts that piss me off so much about the schools around here.
Why do schools not allow 3 recesses for more physical activity? Why are school serving trash for lunch? Why the hell are the before/after care places all forcing the kids to stay indoors and be inactive?
France, Japan, and many others with thin kids allow 3 recesses/exercise breaks and serve better food.
Quote: "Another bigger contribution to French students' healthy disposition? Recess. Students have two 15-minute and one 60-minute recess every day, writes Plantier, and they also have the advantage of walking or biking to and from school, which students only attend four -- not five -- days out of the week."
Japanese friends rave about their childhood lunches. They also all walked to and from school, about a mile or two away. When they got older, they road bikes.
I hear my kids complaining about not having enough time to eat as well. I visited once and was amazed at the time restraint. Here is an Irish article with the same problem. This can't be good.
Well, you can't believe these 80% garbage stories without actual numbers/statistics. Anything is possible, so let's see the numbers. I'm also of the mind that kids, my kids for instance, eat healthier stuff the less you expose them to trash. The more junkfood they eat, the less they want to eat healthy food. If they are hungry, they are going to eat the healthy food eventually. If they aren't hungry, fine, don't eat.
We can learn some lessons from other countries maybe, or at least get ideas.
I read in the past that the French force their kids to eat the same food grownups do, and the kids adapt and eventually eat it. This article might touch on that:
Japan eats the complete opposite way to Americans. All Japanese folks rave about the excellent school lunches (blew my mind):
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wh...... oh, and the French and Japanese kids are way more active. Who would have guessed. I just saw this in one of the articles I linked:
Another bigger contribution to French students' healthy disposition? Recess. Students have two 15-minute and one 60-minute recess every day, writes Plantier, and they also have the advantage of walking or biking to and from school, which students only attend four -- not five -- days out of the week.
Yep. Giving kids cheap unhealthy food at school should be a crime. And I am shocked at how little outdoor time/physical activity my kids get. They are allowed outside about 1/5 the amount I was when I was in elementary school. Even more a problem because the before/after care places almost never let them play outside either. Everything is reducing physical activity and increasing junky food. Only the rich who send their kids to private schools are avoiding that very well in my state (in the US) from what I see.
So doing some reading based on your comment. I had no idea the extent of viruses ending up in our DNA... since ancient times and they can be very very beneficial. Some of this article sounds so insanely weird, I almost feel like it is fake. Time to read other sources.
Quote: "The placenta example points to a second way for endogenous retroviruses to turn beneficial: if their viral genes are straight up reused in new way. The same gene that allowed a virus to fuse to a mammal cell now lets cells of the placenta fuse together to form the organ. Interestingly, primates and mice and rabbits and cats all got their placental genes from separate viral infections. Not only does this endogenous retrovirus-turned-good story happen, but itâ(TM)s happened multiple times."
Slashdot Mirror
If my damn house is going to burn down because I gave my old phone to my kid to play with, I sure as hell want to know where to draw the line and when to throw it out. If batteries aren't safe after 4 years... somebody needs to be putting huge warning labels on these phones. If this is a one in a billion chance, well OK. But if age increases chances, we need to know what the deal is.
So Apple, where do we draw the line? How old is too old of a battery? How often will this happen if the battery is 5 years old? And how does the consumer find out exactly how old the battery is?
Those with children pass their old phones to their kids. Extremely common in my hallway. Not saying I think a phone that costs as much as a nice PC is fair at all, but my company buys me my iPhone so... yeah, my kids get old iPhones.
T-rex was definitely a hunter. They've found more than one example of T-rex teeth scars in triceratops that survived and had the scars heal over proving that the triceratops lived through the battle and healed up. You can't tell me the mama T-rex was defending her babies from a carnivorous triceratops, and almost all dino experts say T-rex was a hunter with such evidence. Here is a link citing an embedded T-rex tooth in a hadrosaur, so you can't say it was another animal that attacked.
https://www.theguardian.com/sc...
I quote, "This is unambiguous evidence that T rex was an active predator," the authors write in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Such evidence is rare in the fossil record for good reason â" prey rarely escapes."
I suspect only Horner is really into shaking things up for attention, like with the idea that T-rex was a vulture. More attention for dinosaurs, OK I get it, but take some of those wild theories with a grain of salt. Why would T-rex have to be incredibly fast? Why not be an ambush predator? Big cats are not faster than their prey for the most part, yet they survive by being hunters. Crocodilians can't cover ground fast, but with the element of surprise have been incredibly successful. All T-rex needed was to hide in the brush and wait, I suspect. One clamp of those incredibly powerful, the most powerful land jaws probably, bite is all that was often needed I bet.
With the correct controllers, I will be all over this! Hell I'll probably buy it regardless, but I really miss the paddle controllers and the feel of the original joysticks. Games needed, let's see what I can recall, are:
Yars' Revenge (OK, I cheated by looking up where the apostrophe goes) ... something about those games, ah man, I love 'em!
The Empire Strikes Back (the one with the snow walkers)
Stargate, etc. (love them sounds)
Robotron
Combat (oh so much fun vs. my brother)
Pac-Man (it looked terrible compared to the arcade but it was good enough!)
Chopper Command
Berzerk!
Pitfall, oh it was so good
Missle Command
Centipede
Space Invaders
Moon Patrol
so many more
I'll say this... I've always been a Windows guy, but the privacy thing is enough to push me to using another OS. Apple are certainly not in the same league as Microsoft when it comes to not giving a rat's about user privacy. Some flavor of pure Linux is looking better and better, too.
While it is human to worry about things that affect us in the present like net neutrality (I am very very concerned about it myself) and the like, it is too easy to miss the big picture. If the planet loses half its species in the next few decades, we are what you call "completely fucked". I send my donations to anything that will help preserve nature because, well, it eventually affects every other thing with a very long term effect.
Agreed, their video search bites pretty bad. The interface (on the playstation 3) is extra extra slow now b/c if you go to the "right" it takes time to load, and if that was an accident, you have to wait 5 or 10 seconds to go back to the "left" where the lists are. HATE IT.
With Netflix, they also screwed when they updated the Playstation 3 app/prog a year or two ago, so that you can't "page sideways" through lists with the fastforward buttons (I use the PS3 remote).
Two things I do like on Amazon though:
1. "Customers also watched" tab for similar movies or similar actors. Love this to get slightly random options.
2. Amazon Prime Music. I LOVE this stuff... naturally it's easier to deal with b/c I just use my PC to search their website then add tons of stuff to my music list.
Somebody upvote here. If I'm not mistaken, I just learned something very cool! Thank you.
For our parent company, this subscription would be a very bad model. OS and office "upgrades" are extremely disruptive to our operations groups... Excel version changes are so disruptive we plan everything around that as it directly affects business... millions of dollars at stake. We can never go to a subscription for that reason alone.
Large OS upgrades are not as bad, but are nearly. Any time it changes the interface and people have to relearn how to get around, the workforce complains greatly. And I'm talking about senior workforce... the ones that love to create waves with upper management. We always ease our child companies into these upgrades, so that less senior people get the upgrades first so they can babysit the senior guys, etc.
Subscription would never work here. Apple iPhones are one thing, since they are a toy, but work PCs are never understood well by the masses because they refuse to get comfortable and only use them for work.
This seems very informative, no points to upvote it though.
So they are finding more ways to cut up tech jobs and get low skilled or low educated people on payroll to help drive down their costs. Reminds me of the training at ITT which was a sham I hear. To the educated and highly trained/skilled out there, this sounds like a big problem. Outsourcing wasn't enough I guess.
Doctors and lawyers did a good job of putting up hurdles to keep their ranks lean, so more pay and power to them. Tech is a different beast. For one Tech workers tend to like to share info and encourage equality in many ways. Tech companies are the richest on the planet, and take advantage of all of these things to drive pay down.
Now that outsourcing to other countries is becoming less viable, they are finding ways to reduce pay to tech workers in the US it sounds like.
My suggestion? Don't stand for it. Don't hire low skilled people if they aren't good enough for the job. Don't buy from companies that outsource everything and have absolutely abysmal support. Don't work long hours for bad pay. I'm sure other suggestions exist, and I am all ears.
If he is a typical greed-driven business person, everything he is saying is said to help his cause which is to take more money from everybody else and make himself richer. I'm pretty sure you are implying that, and yes, I tend to agree.
To be clear, he's saying "Hey everybody, calm down. You'll be fine. Let us automate everything, use AI and robots to replace you. Really, you won't suffer. We'll share with you. Rich people love to give their money to other people, especially the poor. No way in HELL are we going to suck you dry. Rich people wouldn't do that, we are NICE, ok?!".
Try Slashdot in this browser. Blazing fast... feels like old times before the world wide web became a bloated nightmare!
Sounds really nice to me. Once they get tabs introduced, I'm going to be using it plenty and more than that recommending to non-techies that want some privacy.
Good eye catching that. Surely some injuries require avoidance of certain stretches or exercises.
Some tips for somebody with back pain reading this: plain old walking and wearing non-tight pants helps a lot with back pain. Comfortable stretching and isometric exercises are good. As you get less pain and more strength or endurance, I would recommend progressing to longer workouts or more activity. But use common sense and don't overdo anything that causes more pain to appear the next day.
You have to appreciate your parents for avoiding stupid medical advice. Screw that school.
What a freaky cool looking event... series of events. That so very much doesn't look like the Jupiter I am familiar with. It's just fascinating. Now to read up on the science behind it to really enjoy this discovery completely.
Somebody else knows better than me regarding Star Trek, but the way Star Trek did it was something like providing food, shelter, and getting to choose any job you want. Nobody got paid money. Food came free out of devices that magically made food/beverages. The things you owned were mostly things you needed to do your job... plus extras to be sure, but they never explained how you paid for it.
I can block more junk, ads, spying, etc. using Firefox, so I mostly use Firefox. The Tor Browser is really just Firefox.
I mostly use Chrome when I want to be as non-private as possible for testing. Simple as that.
If this take on it helps people wake up and fight for net neutrality, then it is worth it. No doubt the article is right about the motives... it is always about profits and control from big businesses. The last thing they want is regulations.
Sounds about right. Did you see the thing on netflix recently... it was a cameraman that goes to tribal places and hangs with the people a couple of days. All those really distant from modernization hunter-gatherer types seem so damned happy and unstressed. Although I do remember one African tribe having the ladies fuss at the men for not bringing in a kill for a couple of days, at least I think it was on the same show. I've watched a lot of this type of stuff lately.
This guy:
BBC Natural History Unit special, Tribes, Predators and Me,
http://www.express.co.uk/news/...
I keep running into facts that piss me off so much about the schools around here.
Why do schools not allow 3 recesses for more physical activity? Why are school serving trash for lunch? Why the hell are the before/after care places all forcing the kids to stay indoors and be inactive?
France, Japan, and many others with thin kids allow 3 recesses/exercise breaks and serve better food.
http://www.alternet.org/food/f...
Quote: "Another bigger contribution to French students' healthy disposition? Recess. Students have two 15-minute and one 60-minute recess every day, writes Plantier, and they also have the advantage of walking or biking to and from school, which students only attend four -- not five -- days out of the week."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wh...
Japanese friends rave about their childhood lunches. They also all walked to and from school, about a mile or two away. When they got older, they road bikes.
I hear my kids complaining about not having enough time to eat as well. I visited once and was amazed at the time restraint. Here is an Irish article with the same problem. This can't be good.
http://www.irishtimes.com/life...
Well, you can't believe these 80% garbage stories without actual numbers/statistics. Anything is possible, so let's see the numbers. I'm also of the mind that kids, my kids for instance, eat healthier stuff the less you expose them to trash. The more junkfood they eat, the less they want to eat healthy food. If they are hungry, they are going to eat the healthy food eventually. If they aren't hungry, fine, don't eat.
We can learn some lessons from other countries maybe, or at least get ideas.
I read in the past that the French force their kids to eat the same food grownups do, and the kids adapt and eventually eat it. This article might touch on that:
http://www.alternet.org/food/f...
or this
https://karenlebillon.com/fren...
Japan eats the complete opposite way to Americans. All Japanese folks rave about the excellent school lunches (blew my mind):
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wh... ... oh, and the French and Japanese kids are way more active. Who would have guessed. I just saw this in one of the articles I linked:
Another bigger contribution to French students' healthy disposition? Recess. Students have two 15-minute and one 60-minute recess every day, writes Plantier, and they also have the advantage of walking or biking to and from school, which students only attend four -- not five -- days out of the week.
Yep. Giving kids cheap unhealthy food at school should be a crime. And I am shocked at how little outdoor time/physical activity my kids get. They are allowed outside about 1/5 the amount I was when I was in elementary school. Even more a problem because the before/after care places almost never let them play outside either. Everything is reducing physical activity and increasing junky food. Only the rich who send their kids to private schools are avoiding that very well in my state (in the US) from what I see.
So doing some reading based on your comment. I had no idea the extent of viruses ending up in our DNA... since ancient times and they can be very very beneficial. Some of this article sounds so insanely weird, I almost feel like it is fake. Time to read other sources.
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/...
Quote: "The placenta example points to a second way for endogenous retroviruses to turn beneficial: if their viral genes are straight up reused in new way. The same gene that allowed a virus to fuse to a mammal cell now lets cells of the placenta fuse together to form the organ. Interestingly, primates and mice and rabbits and cats all got their placental genes from separate viral infections. Not only does this endogenous retrovirus-turned-good story happen, but itâ(TM)s happened multiple times."