After decades of personal research on effects of minitature icebergs on environmental conditions, I've determined that the temperature rises rapidly after the last bit of ice melts. Lime or lemon does not make much difference, but the ratio of gin to tonic may be positively correleted with the rate of metling.. But, seriously, once the ice is gone... that balancing repository of chill is gone. S0unds like a wilder temp ride once they are gone.
This is a great time to consider swapping out Windows-centric systems and making the break for the cloud and open source toolsets. There, I said it. The only thing lacking in this niche is inertia, but.. soon the schools will figure out that the students are intelligent and can be involved in the configuration/maintenance. Ok. well..maybe not K-12, but quite possibly grades 9-12. Whats local doesn't matter - this changes so much. Put data in a school cloud, and the schools will become just another place that hooks into the cloud resources. The pendulum swings again!
That intimate connection to the skin could be an inductive pick up point for blood monitoring . Watching for spikes in blood chemistry would be great for monitoring cancer remission (calcium levels etc), blood sugar, (insert new IOT thing here). The ANT+ interface spec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... could hook to a Phone in a flash though. Medical records? Pill handling?
If I only had a device that tells time, tracks steps. collects information, checks pulse, supports bidirectional communication in text, Email, video and voice formats, has a fat battery ( and requisite chargers with unique connections - Gah! ), does GPS, Traffic, predicts weather, has a huge developer base and global acceptance. Wait, I do.... Cell phone... many of you have them now. Will the FanBoy effect be enough to make 20,000,000 sales? The only different thing (it seems) is a continual proximity to the skin (might be niche?) for blood chemistry monitoring (There I said it.. prior art, though it seems obvious to me). I have a cell phone, and can get another in a variety of sizes...I am past the watch phase. Think most of us are, unless it does something that much better.. Do i want High def on a 1"x5/8" screen? Nope. Will wait till I get home for my garden variety 52" TV. It is interesting how MP3 Tech was scooped up and make into a proprietary format, but am skeptical that the same will happen for a format most of us keep in the drawer these days. Maybe medical monitoring will be the niche?
I do watch Nova, and am generally satisfied, but not.. really energized. With respect their political views affecting the science they -do- put out, I am waiting for an objective review of weather/climate change. Even the PBS ombudsman calls them out: http://thinkprogress.org/clima...
I winced at this one: "I watched NOVA last night, “Becoming Human”, and I was shocked and dismayed that PBS would air a show that is funded by David Koch and clearly supports his perspective: climate change is good for humans. "
So much for Koch Funded science-broadcasts being balanced. New Word : Greenwashing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... - Betraying the publics' trust should be a crime.
Lets see a piece from the Bros K about how to run industry, and look good. and from Scientists about things they find magical.
There are many reasons Systemd is a departure from what makes Linux great. (see above) Those that were part of that explosion are disenfranchised because the system feels more cathedral than bazaar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... .
What's good for a laptop is not necessarily good for a server. We can fix init, but don't have to change the ethos so dramatically. How Redhat will put systemd into its products is another matter. Systemd's scope of controls seem to spread like Kudzu. A RHEL release is supposed to be feature-static. Is this a good place to fork into a server OS branch and a laptop OS branch?? The latter festooned with Systemd, at least till it stabilizes for the former?
Our Chinese friends (yes.. the capital-communists ) are beginning to figure out the need to have a balance between industry and pollution for the publics' good. http://thinkprogress.org/clima... The incessant back and forth of the Red Vs Blue (especially when fabricated) is not helping anyone. There is no guarantee that the earth can stay inhabitable... Its up to us to treat it as the gift that it is. Why an instinct to protect our environment is harpooned is beyond me. Here is the question..., Does the perfect net catch -all- the fish? Think about it.
We are blessed with a fair amount of light-duty science shows on TV... but... it seems to be financed by non scientists.
Why is Nova paid for by the Koch Brothers ( http://www.cpb.org/ombudsman/d... )? Seems David and Charles are all for pushing the populace to see just enough science to not want to dig further. To displace science provided by scientists.
I want to see Science TV shows that make me want to learn more about the topics... to understand and even participate in the process of adapting / adopting. Why not feel part of science and not subject to it?
How about science that seeks to inform. Rather than fascination with Mars, how about how pollution affects the living world around us... how ocean currents work, how to integrate my home, How to wire up a Raspberry Pi to do myriad things, what life forms am I made of?
There is enough science to go around. Lets light our kids' imaginations!!
Lets have some science with a capital S!
Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
It was formally scheduled for mandatory retirement in 2010 in accord with the directives President George W. Bush issued on January 14, 2004 in his Vision for Space Exploration.[20]
Unless maybe GHWB was a closet Left-sider?
So. whats the vision he had? Dumping our leadership position?
Why imprison kids at the consumer level by giving them all such a closed platform as the iAnything?
Select paths for several levels of technology, and let them pick their course.
Some will be into Fancy Displays, Some into 1's and 0's, some are into networking etc... Have them share the development thru release of a content delivery system... Top to bottom. Would Pi work for this ? sure. Would Ipad - for some levels, but why pay for it?
Stand back an look what will get invented!!!!!!!
I get the impression that current kids see past generations as "in the way", the generation responsible for the Internet's freedom that is now taken for granted. Its like food. Are we too used to pulling food from a plastic bag, and don't see where it came from. Gotta give everyone a sense of ownership and participation in the worlds realities.
Gotta reconnect to food as part of being a Earthling, and Dataflow as part of a people driven information service.
Otherwise we'll only find green slime to eat and be able to shop for crap on an information goatpath.
My engineering degree has prepared my for a job in IT in 2 main areas. First, critical thinking, and second, envisioning/building systems with many moving parts.
Basic concepts like UID/GID, and file permissions may seem core to IT Skills, but are the last thing that seem to be foundational to many SW developers. Also the ability to think on ones feet, to build a system of moving parts, into a system of many more moving parts. So many of my Graduating class have switched to IT jobs. Civil, Mechanical, chemical, even Electrical gearheads have made the jump. Reason? We are trained to think and consider all the details. Why, its where the money is. Want a foundationally sound system? Pair a software/Visionary with an Engineer and you will get solid/durable results. Be sure to spec out the requirements, the expectations, and the succcess criteria.
Have seen a few cranial reconstruction implants made from MRI/CT to replace cranial defects from trauma and cancer etc.
Amazing technology for sure. Beats the alternative by a huge margin.
Doing a MRI of a soldiers body at induction might be a good resource when bad things happen?
We need to stand behind our soldiers that go into harms way, in the many ways...
What is the exposure by which the Trojan is actually planted, and how does it differ from any other trojan?
If this is not a BackDoor, then its not a news item and deserves to be taken off the site.
Would a proper diagnosis of Low T, include the FSH and TH levels? Anything else to measure? Does insurance pay for GnRH? Wiki article gets into Leptin/Ghrelin as well. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... ). Simply pushing pellets or topical gels seems really imprudent. We need to treat symptoms less and find out why there is an imbalance. Do Doctors have the support of insurance companies to run the proper tests?
Why not a regional bang? Could a galaxy (or subset of the universe) invert into a medium bang? Always wondered if intelligent beings, always being fascinated by science and understanding, eventually win the Darwin-Award by blowing themselves up? Or... imploding their Solar System into a black hole... (also winning the Darwin-Award !!).
If everything is moving away from us, perhaps we -are- the center of the Universe! Sounds like there are still things we dont understand about the observable universe if we cant get the red/green shift stuff to make consistent sense.
How could one galaxy pass another or collide with it?
Assuming that everything that exists started from the same point, and receive its primary ejection vector (speed + direction), how is it that one galaxy could crash into another? Its not like one galaxy would decide to make a right turn into another. Plus there would be a VERY compelling velocity/vector gradient map that would point back (overall) to the point of origin of the big bang. Anyone seen one of these?
Science is based on observed evidence, but can also develop theories that go beyond. Fine. The big tip off is corroboration. Do bodies observed in the universe have a radial/spherical pattern with Faster bodies further from a common location, and slower bodies being closer to that point? If so, I'll start to listen.
Next, string theory, if I heat up a gyroscope, hang it onto a spring, and attach that spring to a buoy in the ocean, will I have a 12 dimensional energy state that is as valid as a 12 dimensional universe that we -had- been tired of hearing about. Even Sheldon Cooper is off string theory. didn't see a paper that says it was discredited.
Time for someone to step into the role of Science-Man - sort of like weather-man. Tell us whats coming, but would have to be just a teeny bit more accountable, as tax payers do drive science, substantially.
As USA had initially led the charge along the path to the internet of things (ugghhh I hate how that sounds), we have to consider that the cost needs to drop and the service needs to improve. This is accomplished by customer service -and- increased efficiency and developing technology rather than just propagating the status quo. At my home, there is only one option for Internet, even though another ISP (has a V in the name) offers High Speed Internet that is -up to- 3 Mbps - in this day and age - thats BROKEN... Around the planet costs and service are way better. This seems a transgression of public trust. The Board of public utilities throws up its hands and professes it has no control over which provider provides what, but, how will this change/improvement come to be? Who is the consumer advocate that can get the ISPs to modernize? Google seems to be trying, but the rest of them are self absorbed and not going to budge on their good thing.. their... Triple play Hoax. The phone used to be copper lines, and was truly 24/7, but now its VOIP. Get Ooma and be done with it. Anyways... Who is going to lead the charge on modernization, and get things moving?
Ok. so this wont be repealed, and the i's are crossed and the T's are dotted, so no one broke the law, so... how about we push them to fulfill the promise they made, but do it wirelessly? Put wireless access points on each home, and tie our home networks into it. SO they find physical plant expensive - oops - I am SURE they can get us 45 Mbps to each house over wireless!
Verizon is off the hook? Who is going to answer for that?
Well rip me off! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Verizon has been getting breaks since this was first signed in early nineties. HP advises 4,000 -> 5,000 (excess charges and tax breaks) per houshold paid to Vz?
This rolls up to the Board of public Utilities for letting them off the hook. Time for a BridgeGate scandal check here.
We have a very anti-competitive environment, where each carrier must have a handshake-certified regional monopoly in many towns.
Comcast, Optimum, and Verizon seem to have cut the state into mico-monopolies, while the rest of the world is passing us by.
Are our taxes too low? Nope!
First, no medium or smaller company is going to want to own IT hardware, and employ IT Staff. they want to buy applications from Cloud. Or thats what they think they need - damn the torpedos and the internet availability issues and loss of control. Even large companies dont think their dedicated, hard working folks offer any competitive advantage. They are just overhead in MGT eyes. Levels of bureaucracy ensure that workers get no credit for their succes.
Second, letting H1B workers in displaces US workers, and drops the labor rates in the US for all other US workers. We train the foreign workforce,then chase them away so they go home with a clue on how to run businesses. Is it better to keep them here or not let em in, or restrict H1B count? Either way, business wants to pay less for what it perceives as commodity skillsets. (again, not recognizing the skills of the domestic worker).
Then the jobs can go offshore and then the contracts that are written and the cross training provided results in a loss of control of the IP, as well as the financial performance. The guy in the next cube works for your competition, and gets the sales reports for both before you and before your competition, and goes on day trading escapades accordingly.
The question never asked: Is the US worker more productive, more creative and more effective at doing IT work? I've heard hte rate is about >> 2:1 for headcount, favoring the US worker, but this is not acknowledged.
EU has a protectionist view. Wonder how history will see that?
There are many occupations that should be available to correlate this -rather direct- attack on one fuel type.
Truck Mechanics... Exposed to liquid and exhaust
Tunnel operators that sit by many idling diesel trucks
Truck drivers that drive older / dirtier vehicles.
Volkwagen TDI drivers vs gas powered cars
Sea Captains and deckhands that get exposed to bunker
The direct assault on Diesel only seems callous at first glance.
Am assuming that none of the Study participants never had exposure to diesel ever before.
How stressful was the test, and could that have caused measurable changes?
How did the test subjects not-know that they were breathing in diesel fumes?
Lets do the same test on theater smoke, on second hand tobacco smoke, Farts and other noxious things that don't kill immediately.
Yup. Protocols. Not the Home OS... this reminds me of the NOS battle of the 90's... which was more about TCP vs. IPX/SPX.. generally network protocols.
Ideally, any OS should participate in the mix, but, those that spew these garbage acronyms are just trying to win some sort of battle. This is not
as awful as the IoT (Internet of Things) acronym. that's an even more inappropriate ChOW (Choice Of Words). (see how I did that, I just made up a silly acronym).
normally, yes. run a thin jumper, but there were 30 parallel pads on the display that had to be connected as well. so I did what is done now, left less than stellar review for the device on amazon. is that the new normal? ?
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After decades of personal research on effects of minitature icebergs on environmental conditions, I've determined that the temperature rises rapidly after the last bit of ice melts. Lime or lemon does not make much difference, but the ratio of gin to tonic may be positively correleted with the rate of metling.. But, seriously, once the ice is gone... that balancing repository of chill is gone. S0unds like a wilder temp ride once they are gone.
This is a great time to consider swapping out Windows-centric systems and making the break for the cloud and open source toolsets. There, I said it. The only thing lacking in this niche is inertia, but.. soon the schools will figure out that the students are intelligent and can be involved in the configuration/maintenance. Ok. well..maybe not K-12, but quite possibly grades 9-12. Whats local doesn't matter - this changes so much. Put data in a school cloud, and the schools will become just another place that hooks into the cloud resources. The pendulum swings again!
That intimate connection to the skin could be an inductive pick up point for blood monitoring . Watching for spikes in blood chemistry would be great for monitoring cancer remission (calcium levels etc), blood sugar, (insert new IOT thing here). The ANT+ interface spec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... could hook to a Phone in a flash though. Medical records? Pill handling?
If I only had a device that tells time, tracks steps. collects information, checks pulse, supports bidirectional communication in text, Email, video and voice formats, has a fat battery ( and requisite chargers with unique connections - Gah! ), does GPS, Traffic, predicts weather, has a huge developer base and global acceptance. Wait, I do.... Cell phone... many of you have them now. Will the FanBoy effect be enough to make 20,000,000 sales? The only different thing (it seems) is a continual proximity to the skin (might be niche?) for blood chemistry monitoring (There I said it.. prior art, though it seems obvious to me). I have a cell phone, and can get another in a variety of sizes...I am past the watch phase. Think most of us are, unless it does something that much better.. Do i want High def on a 1"x5/8" screen? Nope. Will wait till I get home for my garden variety 52" TV. It is interesting how MP3 Tech was scooped up and make into a proprietary format, but am skeptical that the same will happen for a format most of us keep in the drawer these days. Maybe medical monitoring will be the niche?
I do watch Nova, and am generally satisfied, but not.. really energized. With respect their political views affecting the science they -do- put out, I am waiting for an objective review of weather/climate change. Even the PBS ombudsman calls them out: http://thinkprogress.org/clima... I winced at this one: "I watched NOVA last night, “Becoming Human”, and I was shocked and dismayed that PBS would air a show that is funded by David Koch and clearly supports his perspective: climate change is good for humans. " So much for Koch Funded science-broadcasts being balanced. New Word : Greenwashing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... - Betraying the publics' trust should be a crime. Lets see a piece from the Bros K about how to run industry, and look good. and from Scientists about things they find magical.
There are many reasons Systemd is a departure from what makes Linux great. (see above) Those that were part of that explosion are disenfranchised because the system feels more cathedral than bazaar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... . What's good for a laptop is not necessarily good for a server. We can fix init, but don't have to change the ethos so dramatically. How Redhat will put systemd into its products is another matter. Systemd's scope of controls seem to spread like Kudzu. A RHEL release is supposed to be feature-static. Is this a good place to fork into a server OS branch and a laptop OS branch?? The latter festooned with Systemd, at least till it stabilizes for the former?
Our Chinese friends (yes.. the capital-communists ) are beginning to figure out the need to have a balance between industry and pollution for the publics' good. http://thinkprogress.org/clima... The incessant back and forth of the Red Vs Blue (especially when fabricated) is not helping anyone. There is no guarantee that the earth can stay inhabitable... Its up to us to treat it as the gift that it is. Why an instinct to protect our environment is harpooned is beyond me. Here is the question..., Does the perfect net catch -all- the fish? Think about it.
We are blessed with a fair amount of light-duty science shows on TV... but... it seems to be financed by non scientists. Why is Nova paid for by the Koch Brothers ( http://www.cpb.org/ombudsman/d... )? Seems David and Charles are all for pushing the populace to see just enough science to not want to dig further. To displace science provided by scientists. I want to see Science TV shows that make me want to learn more about the topics ... to understand and even participate in the process of adapting / adopting. Why not feel part of science and not subject to it?
How about science that seeks to inform. Rather than fascination with Mars, how about how pollution affects the living world around us... how ocean currents work, how to integrate my home, How to wire up a Raspberry Pi to do myriad things, what life forms am I made of?
There is enough science to go around. Lets light our kids' imaginations!!
Lets have some science with a capital S!
Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... It was formally scheduled for mandatory retirement in 2010 in accord with the directives President George W. Bush issued on January 14, 2004 in his Vision for Space Exploration.[20] Unless maybe GHWB was a closet Left-sider? So. whats the vision he had? Dumping our leadership position?
Why imprison kids at the consumer level by giving them all such a closed platform as the iAnything? Select paths for several levels of technology, and let them pick their course. Some will be into Fancy Displays, Some into 1's and 0's, some are into networking etc... Have them share the development thru release of a content delivery system... Top to bottom. Would Pi work for this ? sure. Would Ipad - for some levels, but why pay for it? Stand back an look what will get invented!!!!!!! I get the impression that current kids see past generations as "in the way", the generation responsible for the Internet's freedom that is now taken for granted. Its like food. Are we too used to pulling food from a plastic bag, and don't see where it came from. Gotta give everyone a sense of ownership and participation in the worlds realities. Gotta reconnect to food as part of being a Earthling, and Dataflow as part of a people driven information service. Otherwise we'll only find green slime to eat and be able to shop for crap on an information goatpath.
My engineering degree has prepared my for a job in IT in 2 main areas. First, critical thinking, and second, envisioning/building systems with many moving parts. Basic concepts like UID/GID, and file permissions may seem core to IT Skills, but are the last thing that seem to be foundational to many SW developers. Also the ability to think on ones feet, to build a system of moving parts, into a system of many more moving parts. So many of my Graduating class have switched to IT jobs. Civil, Mechanical, chemical, even Electrical gearheads have made the jump. Reason? We are trained to think and consider all the details. Why, its where the money is. Want a foundationally sound system? Pair a software/Visionary with an Engineer and you will get solid/durable results. Be sure to spec out the requirements, the expectations, and the succcess criteria.
Have seen a few cranial reconstruction implants made from MRI/CT to replace cranial defects from trauma and cancer etc. Amazing technology for sure. Beats the alternative by a huge margin. Doing a MRI of a soldiers body at induction might be a good resource when bad things happen? We need to stand behind our soldiers that go into harms way, in the many ways ...
What is the exposure by which the Trojan is actually planted, and how does it differ from any other trojan? If this is not a BackDoor, then its not a news item and deserves to be taken off the site.
Would a proper diagnosis of Low T, include the FSH and TH levels? Anything else to measure? Does insurance pay for GnRH? Wiki article gets into Leptin/Ghrelin as well. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... ). Simply pushing pellets or topical gels seems really imprudent. We need to treat symptoms less and find out why there is an imbalance. Do Doctors have the support of insurance companies to run the proper tests?
Why not a regional bang? Could a galaxy (or subset of the universe) invert into a medium bang? Always wondered if intelligent beings, always being fascinated by science and understanding, eventually win the Darwin-Award by blowing themselves up? Or... imploding their Solar System into a black hole... (also winning the Darwin-Award !!).
If everything is moving away from us, perhaps we -are- the center of the Universe! Sounds like there are still things we dont understand about the observable universe if we cant get the red/green shift stuff to make consistent sense.
How could one galaxy pass another or collide with it? Assuming that everything that exists started from the same point, and receive its primary ejection vector (speed + direction), how is it that one galaxy could crash into another? Its not like one galaxy would decide to make a right turn into another. Plus there would be a VERY compelling velocity/vector gradient map that would point back (overall) to the point of origin of the big bang. Anyone seen one of these? Science is based on observed evidence, but can also develop theories that go beyond. Fine. The big tip off is corroboration. Do bodies observed in the universe have a radial/spherical pattern with Faster bodies further from a common location, and slower bodies being closer to that point? If so, I'll start to listen. Next, string theory, if I heat up a gyroscope, hang it onto a spring, and attach that spring to a buoy in the ocean, will I have a 12 dimensional energy state that is as valid as a 12 dimensional universe that we -had- been tired of hearing about. Even Sheldon Cooper is off string theory. didn't see a paper that says it was discredited. Time for someone to step into the role of Science-Man - sort of like weather-man. Tell us whats coming, but would have to be just a teeny bit more accountable, as tax payers do drive science, substantially.
As USA had initially led the charge along the path to the internet of things (ugghhh I hate how that sounds), we have to consider that the cost needs to drop and the service needs to improve. This is accomplished by customer service -and- increased efficiency and developing technology rather than just propagating the status quo. At my home, there is only one option for Internet, even though another ISP (has a V in the name) offers High Speed Internet that is -up to- 3 Mbps - in this day and age - thats BROKEN... Around the planet costs and service are way better. This seems a transgression of public trust. The Board of public utilities throws up its hands and professes it has no control over which provider provides what, but, how will this change/improvement come to be? Who is the consumer advocate that can get the ISPs to modernize? Google seems to be trying, but the rest of them are self absorbed and not going to budge on their good thing.. their ... Triple play Hoax. The phone used to be copper lines, and was truly 24/7, but now its VOIP. Get Ooma and be done with it. Anyways... Who is going to lead the charge on modernization, and get things moving?
Toilet Net - I heard it was just a series of tubes that carry filth :^)
Ok. so this wont be repealed, and the i's are crossed and the T's are dotted, so no one broke the law, so... how about we push them to fulfill the promise they made, but do it wirelessly? Put wireless access points on each home, and tie our home networks into it. SO they find physical plant expensive - oops - I am SURE they can get us 45 Mbps to each house over wireless!
Verizon is off the hook? Who is going to answer for that? Well rip me off! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... Verizon has been getting breaks since this was first signed in early nineties. HP advises 4,000 -> 5,000 (excess charges and tax breaks) per houshold paid to Vz? This rolls up to the Board of public Utilities for letting them off the hook. Time for a BridgeGate scandal check here. We have a very anti-competitive environment, where each carrier must have a handshake-certified regional monopoly in many towns. Comcast, Optimum, and Verizon seem to have cut the state into mico-monopolies, while the rest of the world is passing us by. Are our taxes too low? Nope!
First, no medium or smaller company is going to want to own IT hardware, and employ IT Staff. they want to buy applications from Cloud. Or thats what they think they need - damn the torpedos and the internet availability issues and loss of control. Even large companies dont think their dedicated, hard working folks offer any competitive advantage. They are just overhead in MGT eyes. Levels of bureaucracy ensure that workers get no credit for their succes. Second, letting H1B workers in displaces US workers, and drops the labor rates in the US for all other US workers. We train the foreign workforce,then chase them away so they go home with a clue on how to run businesses. Is it better to keep them here or not let em in, or restrict H1B count? Either way, business wants to pay less for what it perceives as commodity skillsets. (again, not recognizing the skills of the domestic worker). Then the jobs can go offshore and then the contracts that are written and the cross training provided results in a loss of control of the IP, as well as the financial performance. The guy in the next cube works for your competition, and gets the sales reports for both before you and before your competition, and goes on day trading escapades accordingly. The question never asked: Is the US worker more productive, more creative and more effective at doing IT work? I've heard hte rate is about >> 2:1 for headcount, favoring the US worker, but this is not acknowledged. EU has a protectionist view. Wonder how history will see that?
There are many occupations that should be available to correlate this -rather direct- attack on one fuel type. Truck Mechanics... Exposed to liquid and exhaust Tunnel operators that sit by many idling diesel trucks Truck drivers that drive older / dirtier vehicles. Volkwagen TDI drivers vs gas powered cars Sea Captains and deckhands that get exposed to bunker The direct assault on Diesel only seems callous at first glance. Am assuming that none of the Study participants never had exposure to diesel ever before. How stressful was the test, and could that have caused measurable changes? How did the test subjects not-know that they were breathing in diesel fumes? Lets do the same test on theater smoke, on second hand tobacco smoke, Farts and other noxious things that don't kill immediately.
Yup. Protocols. Not the Home OS... this reminds me of the NOS battle of the 90's... which was more about TCP vs. IPX/SPX .. generally network protocols.
Ideally, any OS should participate in the mix, but, those that spew these garbage acronyms are just trying to win some sort of battle. This is not
as awful as the IoT (Internet of Things) acronym. that's an even more inappropriate ChOW (Choice Of Words). (see how I did that, I just made up a silly acronym).
normally, yes. run a thin jumper, but there were 30 parallel pads on the display that had to be connected as well. so I did what is done now, left less than stellar review for the device on amazon. is that the new normal? ?