Direct to consumer advertising isn't all bad. Especially since some doctors are wooed so easily. At least for the critical-thinking consumer, it's been a plus. There's an awareness that there's never been before. Knowing that there is a possible chemical fix to a problem, knowing the side-effects even if they are stated very quickly, and knowing the competition. A doctor who's been compromised by unethical marketing is not going to tell you all the risks, side effects, or even generic alternatives. Having foreknowledge of common pharmaceuticals has helped me greatly in doing my own basic research before I take medicine for anything.
You're not supposed to use metal utensils on Teflon. I have plenty of 5 year old pans that don't have any Teflon coming off. Once that starts happening, though, it's time to replace them.
720p at 30fps provides a higher resolution than 1080i. 1080i at 60 fields per second and only 540 pixels tall, provides only 3/4 the vertical resolution at twice the temporal resolution. On the other hand, they may be using 720p at 60fps. 1080i doesn't even make sense when you're talking about a camera taking WHOLE pictures.
I'm not sure who owns dot.com or if they have a Slashdot UID, but according to Valuate.com, the domain is only worth maybe $300,000. Not much of a fortune.
Well - if they wouldn't be willing to take the test at least out of curiosity, then they're probably not a good match for him anyway. How would you ever get along with someone like that unless you shared in some of the madness.
And if my friend and I both have email servers set up at home and we want to send each other a message, how much does it cost and who tracks that? What if we use a different port? What if we encrypt the data and do it over port 443. Is it delivery to port 25 that's taxed? If email is taxed, then all my friends drop email and move to Facebook messaging (is that taxed?). I'd probably set up a jabber server for good friends and family.
They can still take you to court and call it breach of contract. If you have an agreement that says you'll produce software x, then they'll argue that means you'll produce software x flawlessly. Any flaw or bug or unaccounted-for behavior is a breach of contract in their eyes. Even if you win the case, that will cost you.
There's a difference between an orange seed and a sprouted orange seed. And plant life doesn't have a distinct stage called birth. If murdering a tree is illegal (let's assume), when does killing that orange plant become murder?
Birth is a relatively arbitrary point to consider in a lot of ways.
Funny. Your well-reasoned direct response to a +5 Insightful is modded Off-topic. There isn't a -1 Disagree, so I guess it's more that even disagreeing puts you off-topic with regards to the topic of agreeing to the parent post.
For the actual research, and for academic publication, sure. But for relating as news it's all converted to common-use units. We don't buy anything by the Kg, nor do we know our own body weight in Kg. Lb just conveys more easily understood scales to us to be compared in relation to everyday weights we deal with.
You can boot into Windows 8 with secure boot turned off. It's not optional for hardware certification, but it still runs on older hardware and it still runs with secure boot off.
1 isn't true in theory, but in practice everyone's going to want to use a key provided by Microsoft, because that key will be preinstalled in the UEFI. You have to manually add keys to the UEFI, and that's not guaranteed to be available from hardware vendors. It can be turned off completely, but then only Microsoft users can benefit from the added security.
Most high school teachers I had didn't know a lot about teaching either. They knew how to write things on the chalkboard for students to copy down or equally projecting such words. But they sure didn't understand what it means to teach.
Hey, I agree with him. When you buy the drink the unlimited refills are an implied contract that it's only for one. You can't go in with a 5-gallon jug and keep refilling your cup and dumping it in until it's full, or pour it into another cup and sell it to other customers.
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Or like Ambien - a sleep aid - can lead to sleep-driving.
Direct to consumer advertising isn't all bad. Especially since some doctors are wooed so easily. At least for the critical-thinking consumer, it's been a plus. There's an awareness that there's never been before. Knowing that there is a possible chemical fix to a problem, knowing the side-effects even if they are stated very quickly, and knowing the competition. A doctor who's been compromised by unethical marketing is not going to tell you all the risks, side effects, or even generic alternatives. Having foreknowledge of common pharmaceuticals has helped me greatly in doing my own basic research before I take medicine for anything.
You're not supposed to use metal utensils on Teflon. I have plenty of 5 year old pans that don't have any Teflon coming off. Once that starts happening, though, it's time to replace them.
720p at 30fps provides a higher resolution than 1080i. 1080i at 60 fields per second and only 540 pixels tall, provides only 3/4 the vertical resolution at twice the temporal resolution. On the other hand, they may be using 720p at 60fps. 1080i doesn't even make sense when you're talking about a camera taking WHOLE pictures.
And really, if anyone is committing libel, then it's Funnyjunk - especially if it has the users convinced that The Oatmeal thinks FJ is a bot.
I'm a bit surprised that they managed to find a lawyer...
Did you see the goofy (hand-drawn!) letterhead that lawyer is using? I don't think this is a lawyer to take seriously.
Expensive != nearly impossible. The current infrastructure can't even handle that.
I'm not sure who owns dot.com or if they have a Slashdot UID, but according to Valuate.com, the domain is only worth maybe $300,000. Not much of a fortune.
P.S. Yes, I realize you meant to say dot-com.
Well - if they wouldn't be willing to take the test at least out of curiosity, then they're probably not a good match for him anyway. How would you ever get along with someone like that unless you shared in some of the madness.
This is kind of a dumb comment, but servers could easily group players by ping time if they wanted to.
And if my friend and I both have email servers set up at home and we want to send each other a message, how much does it cost and who tracks that? What if we use a different port? What if we encrypt the data and do it over port 443. Is it delivery to port 25 that's taxed? If email is taxed, then all my friends drop email and move to Facebook messaging (is that taxed?). I'd probably set up a jabber server for good friends and family.
This is exactly why women football players are not taken seriously by the NFL (quite obviously I'm just joking).
They can still take you to court and call it breach of contract. If you have an agreement that says you'll produce software x, then they'll argue that means you'll produce software x flawlessly. Any flaw or bug or unaccounted-for behavior is a breach of contract in their eyes. Even if you win the case, that will cost you.
There's a difference between an orange seed and a sprouted orange seed. And plant life doesn't have a distinct stage called birth. If murdering a tree is illegal (let's assume), when does killing that orange plant become murder?
Birth is a relatively arbitrary point to consider in a lot of ways.
Funny. Your well-reasoned direct response to a +5 Insightful is modded Off-topic. There isn't a -1 Disagree, so I guess it's more that even disagreeing puts you off-topic with regards to the topic of agreeing to the parent post.
For the actual research, and for academic publication, sure. But for relating as news it's all converted to common-use units. We don't buy anything by the Kg, nor do we know our own body weight in Kg. Lb just conveys more easily understood scales to us to be compared in relation to everyday weights we deal with.
You can boot into Windows 8 with secure boot turned off. It's not optional for hardware certification, but it still runs on older hardware and it still runs with secure boot off.
1 isn't true in theory, but in practice everyone's going to want to use a key provided by Microsoft, because that key will be preinstalled in the UEFI. You have to manually add keys to the UEFI, and that's not guaranteed to be available from hardware vendors. It can be turned off completely, but then only Microsoft users can benefit from the added security.
And there aren't a whole lot of jobs for them. Manual labor is shipped off to the lowest bidding country. I'm not sure, but it seems unsustainable.
Most high school teachers I had didn't know a lot about teaching either. They knew how to write things on the chalkboard for students to copy down or equally projecting such words. But they sure didn't understand what it means to teach.
My first thought.
But we do buy large drinks to split at places that have free refills. We just don't refill.
Hey, I agree with him. When you buy the drink the unlimited refills are an implied contract that it's only for one. You can't go in with a 5-gallon jug and keep refilling your cup and dumping it in until it's full, or pour it into another cup and sell it to other customers.
I'd agree - I don't refill. I get mad at my wife when she wants to refill and say the same thing to her.
Stupid article had a picture of soda at a grocery store.