I am a little less concerned with your idiotic view of US tax law, and a little more concerned with what will and will not put me in prison. Don't pay US taxes the IRS says you owe, and your ass will end up in prison. I'd say that makes those laws pretty damned enforceable.
Graphics drivers are in Ring 0, but well isolated. Early on my nVidia driver would crash rather regularly while playing games - rather than blue-screen as XP would have, the driver was reloaded, re-initialized, and I was back to the desktop in a few seconds. These days though this never happens.
Modems already use the voice frequency range. They max out at about 64 kbps - and I was under the impression that this was pretty much the theoretical maximum using the 0-4kHz band.
Now, the author seems to be talking about pulling in the 4-25kHz band as well, but given that many modems can't manage to connect at even 28.8k in rural areas (I have personal experience with this) - this shows that even the 0-4kHz range is being heavily attenuated and distorted - why does he thing the 4-25KHz band will be any better without some upgrade to the lines involved? And if you are going to upgrade the lines, why not go full DSL?
I prefer iTunes, but I hope that competition from Netflix forces that idiot at the helm of Apple, what's his name - to realize that people actually like and want subscription based content.
Have it boot to a fake BSOD - normal boot when you hold down a specific key. It "works" - screen comes on, hard drive light flashes, etc, just looks like the OS is broken.
Huh, seems like it's be easy enough to add a temperature sensitive battery warmer - granted it would lower battery life a bit, but not as much as the temperature would.
I have a 20D, which does support ISO 3200, but the thing is, it's not a "real" ISO 3200 mode. It's just ISO 1600 shot under exposed and then level adjusted in camera to correct for the underexposure.
You can do the same thing yourself, set the camera at ISO 1600, dial down exposure until you get the shutter speed you were looking for, and then just adjust the levels in post processing to brighten up the pic. It will look like crap, but about the same level of crap as a photo shot with the fake ISO 3200 setting.
"Are you fucking kidding me? That's really in Vista? If it's a checkbox, why isn't it checked by default? If it's a slider, what does the other side say? "Needlessly consume CPU cycles"? "I'm stupid, tell me where to buy new hardware"?"
There are four radio buttons: - Let Windows choose what's best for my computer (default) - Adjust for best appearance - Adjust for best performance - Custom
The first radio button is selected by default, and at least on my system, is the same as "Adjust for best appearance", which is what I would expect to be selected by default. This might be different on lower powered machines.
The "Custom" option lets you enable and disable about two dozen fine grained options such as "Slide taskbar buttons", or "Smooth edges of screen fonts".
Holy buzzword-itis Batman. I am not exactly sure what that article was about, but Adobe's AIR, though a cool product, is no panacea. As broadband, WiFi, 3G and WiMax become ubiquitous we are still on that 20 year+ quest to develop those magical frameworks that let us easily take our apps that depend on network services "offline". The problem is, there were only ever a few use cases that made sense in an offline mode, and in 5-10 years it will be virtual impossible to go "offline".
The future is always on, always networked, and software developers who spend the vast amounts of time and effort required to replicate little portions of their database or webservice in a "local" mode are going to be eaten alive by those who simply depend on the ever increasing reliability, performance, and ubiquity of the Internet.
I am not terribly worried about ISP NATing. Besides, one IP per housesold doesn't consume but a tiny fraction of the overall addresses. Even if ISPs began regularly NATing their customers, services would spring up to allow you to serve content via a persistent tunnel to somebody who is publicly routable. Or gosh, the ISPs could do the forwarding themselves for a fee. If there is a demand, people will find a way, but I'd guess far less than 1% of ISP customers are running any sort of publically addressable service on their PC.
"NAT is a really, really bad solution. It creates two classes of internet user: those that may run servers, and those that may not; a second-rank type of internet citizen, so to speak."
I must then be imagining the public web server that I run over my NAT'd DSL connection.
In countries where people have been dying young of so-called AIDS indicator diseases, since well before the AIDS era, I don't think we need to look for a microbiological causes other than the actual disease agents themselves. Additionally with prostitutes we have a population that is heavily exposed to other STIs, and is more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs. Drug and alcohol abuse are independently associated with immune dysfunction and early death.
So instead of positing some magical virus capable of mutating beyond all of our abilities to detect it, why don't we study the actual diseases that are killing these people and the life style factors that might make them more susceptible to these diseases. In fact, how do we know it's mutated if we can't detect it? If we know it's mutated, that means we've detected something that looks like other HIV viruses, but with some percentage difference in its RNA.
HIV mutates fast and confusingly. De-activated HIV, for the purpose of creating a vaccine, can - and has - reactivated itself. HIV is not always immediately detectable - many methods use detection of antibodies, so those with a damaged immune system may carry the virus and be considered negative with such tests. This may have happened with a group of women in Africa who appeared to be immune to the virus (they remained negative, despite repeated exposure to the virus) but then some of them started dying from the full-blown form suddenly. None of the usual intermediate stages. My guess is that they still test negative, though, using the test they've been using so far.
Or maybe rather than using convoluted logic to salvage your theory that all deaths in Africa are caused by AIDS, we could surmise that these prostitutes died of what prostitutes usually die of - drug and alcohol abuse, or other diseases related to their profession.
Funny, because most African "AIDS" cases are virtually identical to the diseases previously caused by malaria, malnutrition and lack of access to a clean water supply.
There are no double blinded controlled studies of AIDS drugs that have actually proven, using clinical endpoints, that taking an AIDS drugs will extend your life a single day. The "fast track" approval process for AIDS drugs is farce, driven by the political pressure to "do something!", and nothing like the process that a heart medication for the general population has to go through.
Looked at Hulu. iTunes had every single Episode of BSG. Hulu doesn't. In general Hulu's depth is lacking. I wanted to catch up on some episode's I missed, and was more than willing to pay for them. NBC/Universal just doesn't seem to want my money.
I have the Sci-Fi channel - don't want or need a Tivo as I get almost everything I want to watch on demand or online if I miss it at it's appointed time slot. At least I used to be able to until NBC/Universal decided they didn't want my money any longer.
I used to watch NBC Universal content on iTunes all the time, probably about $50/year worth of content. Now I either watch it for free on Netflix, or I can't find it. Anybody know where I can legally obtain Sci-Fi channel content?
"Explain to me why most people who get HIV, also get AIDS or die of other causes before it could develop; statistically more so than any exceptions you might find. As for any who truly NEVER get AIDS: Anomalies exist for everything, YAY evolution!!"
About 13,000 people a year die of AIDS in the US. The estimated infected population is 1 million. These statistics have been quite steady for some time. In 2004, the age adjusted death rate in the US was about 800 per 100,000. The death rate from AIDS is 1300 per 100,000 people with HIV. Note this is a very rough comparison, that's not terribly statistically rigorous, but it gives you an idea of the relative risk of being HIV postitive.
Now the difference between 800 per 100000 and 1300 per 100000 is a significant difference, but it's less than double. I am not sure why this counts as an epidemic. Diabetes, smoking and heavy drinking will probably up your chances of dying just as much. Further, that's a death rate of 1.3% per year. You realize it would take over 50 years for you to have a 50% chance of dying? Roughly 25 years for a 25% chance. Given that most people with HIV are over 20 (and the average age even higher) - your chances of living a long life don't seem much hindered by HIV. Before you claim that this is all due to the wonders of ARV therapy, remember that the estimates include about 500,000 people who are HIV+ who don't know their status, and thus are not receiving treatment.
Now, I've looked at the studies, and I am convinced that a positive HIV test coorelates with increased risk of future disease, and premature death. These studies however cannot prove causation. I firmly believe that whatever anti-bodies the HIV tests are dredgeing up, they are simply related to immune processes that are a response to some other disease state. There are a host of known diseases that will cause false HIV+ test results, including leprosy and TB - so this is not at all a far fetched hypothesis.
And don't get me started on HIV RNA tests. These test can amazingly find HIV RNA in healthy people, with no risk factors, who test negative on the HIV antibody test. Yep, it's a fact. Many totally healthy people are walking around with HIV RNA in their bodies.
Anomalies are often indications that your hypothesis is incorrect. In science, you don't just ignore such anomalies. It is a rather large anomaly, don't you think, that when a disease you claim is caused by a particular virus, is also observed in people who do not have this virus. That's a head scratcher, even if the numbers are small.
"Ever consider that a syndrome isn't a tangible thing that they can bottle and some might share a few symptoms with other diseases? Speaking of, what was the last pure virus you extracted and then bottled recently? "
Certainly - this is a big problem with the definition of AIDS. It's grown and expanded since it's inception to include quite a few diseases - all of which pre-date the AIDS era. The HIV virus is rather unique in this respect.
As for pure virus extract - all I said was that I would gladly inject myself with purified HIV virus. Could you explain what my failure to produce said extract on my own has to do with anything. If such an extract does not exist, one wonders how they arrived at the HIV RNA tests, as it seems a rather straightforward requirement to have isolated and purified an entity before you can sequence it's genome. For example, to sequence my DNA, you'd want a pure sample of my cells and nobody else's cells right? But with HIV it doesn't seem this is possible, so we sequence genes found floating around in a soup of human cellar material. One wonders why healthy people test positive for HIV RNA.
Really? Please explain to me why there are HIV positive people who never get AIDS. Please explain to me why there is a syndrome called Idiopathic CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia, or ICL for short, that is clinically identical to AIDS, except for the fact that its victims are embarrassingly HIV negative.
I will gladly inject myself with HIV - if someone can ever produce a vial of purified virus (hint, it's never been done, and never will be done). As for sharing needles, you are aware that some needle sharing programs were halted after those who were participating actually suffered *higher* rates of HIV/AIDS, aren't you? Explain that one. Drug abusers wasted away and died young well before the HIV era.
No I am not a vegan. Does pidgeon-holing people help you deal with claims that you might find otherwise intellectually taxing?
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I am a little less concerned with your idiotic view of US tax law, and a little more concerned with what will and will not put me in prison. Don't pay US taxes the IRS says you owe, and your ass will end up in prison. I'd say that makes those laws pretty damned enforceable.
Remote desktop actually works over broadband/VPN. X11, even with compression, is virtually useless at any broadband speeds I have available.
Graphics drivers are in Ring 0, but well isolated. Early on my nVidia driver would crash rather regularly while playing games - rather than blue-screen as XP would have, the driver was reloaded, re-initialized, and I was back to the desktop in a few seconds. These days though this never happens.
Modems already use the voice frequency range. They max out at about 64 kbps - and I was under the impression that this was pretty much the theoretical maximum using the 0-4kHz band.
Now, the author seems to be talking about pulling in the 4-25kHz band as well, but given that many modems can't manage to connect at even 28.8k in rural areas (I have personal experience with this) - this shows that even the 0-4kHz range is being heavily attenuated and distorted - why does he thing the 4-25KHz band will be any better without some upgrade to the lines involved? And if you are going to upgrade the lines, why not go full DSL?
I prefer iTunes, but I hope that competition from Netflix forces that idiot at the helm of Apple, what's his name - to realize that people actually like and want subscription based content.
Have it boot to a fake BSOD - normal boot when you hold down a specific key. It "works" - screen comes on, hard drive light flashes, etc, just looks like the OS is broken.
Huh, seems like it's be easy enough to add a temperature sensitive battery warmer - granted it would lower battery life a bit, but not as much as the temperature would.
That's "scarab" beetle, and don't call me Surly.
I have a 20D, which does support ISO 3200, but the thing is, it's not a "real" ISO 3200 mode. It's just ISO 1600 shot under exposed and then level adjusted in camera to correct for the underexposure.
You can do the same thing yourself, set the camera at ISO 1600, dial down exposure until you get the shutter speed you were looking for, and then just adjust the levels in post processing to brighten up the pic. It will look like crap, but about the same level of crap as a photo shot with the fake ISO 3200 setting.
So will GPL'd virtualization projects be similarly excluded? It seems to me they are the functional equivalent of NDISWrapper.
"Are you fucking kidding me? That's really in Vista? If it's a checkbox, why isn't it checked by default? If it's a slider, what does the other side say? "Needlessly consume CPU cycles"? "I'm stupid, tell me where to buy new hardware"?"
There are four radio buttons:
- Let Windows choose what's best for my computer (default)
- Adjust for best appearance
- Adjust for best performance
- Custom
The first radio button is selected by default, and at least on my system, is the same as "Adjust for best appearance", which is what I would expect to be selected by default. This might be different on lower powered machines.
The "Custom" option lets you enable and disable about two dozen fine grained options such as "Slide taskbar buttons", or "Smooth edges of screen fonts".
Holy buzzword-itis Batman. I am not exactly sure what that article was about, but Adobe's AIR, though a cool product, is no panacea. As broadband, WiFi, 3G and WiMax become ubiquitous we are still on that 20 year+ quest to develop those magical frameworks that let us easily take our apps that depend on network services "offline". The problem is, there were only ever a few use cases that made sense in an offline mode, and in 5-10 years it will be virtual impossible to go "offline".
The future is always on, always networked, and software developers who spend the vast amounts of time and effort required to replicate little portions of their database or webservice in a "local" mode are going to be eaten alive by those who simply depend on the ever increasing reliability, performance, and ubiquity of the Internet.
I am not terribly worried about ISP NATing. Besides, one IP per housesold doesn't consume but a tiny fraction of the overall addresses. Even if ISPs began regularly NATing their customers, services would spring up to allow you to serve content via a persistent tunnel to somebody who is publicly routable. Or gosh, the ISPs could do the forwarding themselves for a fee. If there is a demand, people will find a way, but I'd guess far less than 1% of ISP customers are running any sort of publically addressable service on their PC.
"NAT is a really, really bad solution. It creates two classes of internet user: those that may run servers, and those that may not; a second-rank type of internet citizen, so to speak."
I must then be imagining the public web server that I run over my NAT'd DSL connection.
"[The company plans] to install all new equipment at Starbucks as part of this agreement, so the changeover won't be as simple as flipping a switch."
No, it will be as simple as shipping out a new wi-fi hub and walking a barista through plugging it in and registering it over the phone.
In countries where people have been dying young of so-called AIDS indicator diseases, since well before the AIDS era, I don't think we need to look for a microbiological causes other than the actual disease agents themselves. Additionally with prostitutes we have a population that is heavily exposed to other STIs, and is more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs. Drug and alcohol abuse are independently associated with immune dysfunction and early death.
So instead of positing some magical virus capable of mutating beyond all of our abilities to detect it, why don't we study the actual diseases that are killing these people and the life style factors that might make them more susceptible to these diseases. In fact, how do we know it's mutated if we can't detect it? If we know it's mutated, that means we've detected something that looks like other HIV viruses, but with some percentage difference in its RNA.
HIV mutates fast and confusingly. De-activated HIV, for the purpose of creating a vaccine, can - and has - reactivated itself. HIV is not always immediately detectable - many methods use detection of antibodies, so those with a damaged immune system may carry the virus and be considered negative with such tests. This may have happened with a group of women in Africa who appeared to be immune to the virus (they remained negative, despite repeated exposure to the virus) but then some of them started dying from the full-blown form suddenly. None of the usual intermediate stages. My guess is that they still test negative, though, using the test they've been using so far.
Or maybe rather than using convoluted logic to salvage your theory that all deaths in Africa are caused by AIDS, we could surmise that these prostitutes died of what prostitutes usually die of - drug and alcohol abuse, or other diseases related to their profession.
Funny, because most African "AIDS" cases are virtually identical to the diseases previously caused by malaria, malnutrition and lack of access to a clean water supply.
There are no double blinded controlled studies of AIDS drugs that have actually proven, using clinical endpoints, that taking an AIDS drugs will extend your life a single day. The "fast track" approval process for AIDS drugs is farce, driven by the political pressure to "do something!", and nothing like the process that a heart medication for the general population has to go through.
Looked at Hulu. iTunes had every single Episode of BSG. Hulu doesn't. In general Hulu's depth is lacking. I wanted to catch up on some episode's I missed, and was more than willing to pay for them. NBC/Universal just doesn't seem to want my money.
Bionic woman? Pheww.
I have the Sci-Fi channel - don't want or need a Tivo as I get almost everything I want to watch on demand or online if I miss it at it's appointed time slot. At least I used to be able to until NBC/Universal decided they didn't want my money any longer.
I used to watch NBC Universal content on iTunes all the time, probably about $50/year worth of content. Now I either watch it for free on Netflix, or I can't find it. Anybody know where I can legally obtain Sci-Fi channel content?
"Explain to me why most people who get HIV, also get AIDS or die of other causes before it could develop; statistically more so than any exceptions you might find. As for any who truly NEVER get AIDS: Anomalies exist for everything, YAY evolution!!"
About 13,000 people a year die of AIDS in the US. The estimated infected population is 1 million. These statistics have been quite steady for some time. In 2004, the age adjusted death rate in the US was about 800 per 100,000. The death rate from AIDS is 1300 per 100,000 people with HIV. Note this is a very rough comparison, that's not terribly statistically rigorous, but it gives you an idea of the relative risk of being HIV postitive.
Now the difference between 800 per 100000 and 1300 per 100000 is a significant difference, but it's less than double. I am not sure why this counts as an epidemic. Diabetes, smoking and heavy drinking will probably up your chances of dying just as much. Further, that's a death rate of 1.3% per year. You realize it would take over 50 years for you to have a 50% chance of dying? Roughly 25 years for a 25% chance. Given that most people with HIV are over 20 (and the average age even higher) - your chances of living a long life don't seem much hindered by HIV. Before you claim that this is all due to the wonders of ARV therapy, remember that the estimates include about 500,000 people who are HIV+ who don't know their status, and thus are not receiving treatment.
Now, I've looked at the studies, and I am convinced that a positive HIV test coorelates with increased risk of future disease, and premature death. These studies however cannot prove causation. I firmly believe that whatever anti-bodies the HIV tests are dredgeing up, they are simply related to immune processes that are a response to some other disease state. There are a host of known diseases that will cause false HIV+ test results, including leprosy and TB - so this is not at all a far fetched hypothesis.
And don't get me started on HIV RNA tests. These test can amazingly find HIV RNA in healthy people, with no risk factors, who test negative on the HIV antibody test. Yep, it's a fact. Many totally healthy people are walking around with HIV RNA in their bodies.
Anomalies are often indications that your hypothesis is incorrect. In science, you don't just ignore such anomalies. It is a rather large anomaly, don't you think, that when a disease you claim is caused by a particular virus, is also observed in people who do not have this virus. That's a head scratcher, even if the numbers are small.
"Ever consider that a syndrome isn't a tangible thing that they can bottle and some might share a few symptoms with other diseases? Speaking of, what was the last pure virus you extracted and then bottled recently? "
Certainly - this is a big problem with the definition of AIDS. It's grown and expanded since it's inception to include quite a few diseases - all of which pre-date the AIDS era. The HIV virus is rather unique in this respect.
As for pure virus extract - all I said was that I would gladly inject myself with purified HIV virus. Could you explain what my failure to produce said extract on my own has to do with anything. If such an extract does not exist, one wonders how they arrived at the HIV RNA tests, as it seems a rather straightforward requirement to have isolated and purified an entity before you can sequence it's genome. For example, to sequence my DNA, you'd want a pure sample of my cells and nobody else's cells right? But with HIV it doesn't seem this is possible, so we sequence genes found floating around in a soup of human cellar material. One wonders why healthy people test positive for HIV RNA.
Turn it into paper, use it for awhile, then bury it in a landfill.
Really? Please explain to me why there are HIV positive people who never get AIDS. Please explain to me why there is a syndrome called Idiopathic CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia, or ICL for short, that is clinically identical to AIDS, except for the fact that its victims are embarrassingly HIV negative.
I will gladly inject myself with HIV - if someone can ever produce a vial of purified virus (hint, it's never been done, and never will be done). As for sharing needles, you are aware that some needle sharing programs were halted after those who were participating actually suffered *higher* rates of HIV/AIDS, aren't you? Explain that one. Drug abusers wasted away and died young well before the HIV era.
No I am not a vegan. Does pidgeon-holing people help you deal with claims that you might find otherwise intellectually taxing?