It doesn't take a fool to see that a simplistic comparison of a person's height to their weight is not going to cut it. BMI just tries to put a nice simple number on something that is not nice and simple, your weight and your health.
Some people have more dense bones, hence are heavier. Compare them to a person of the same height who has less dense bone structure and that person is now "overweight". Does that make any sense to you? They are the same freakin' size, and BMI can't allow for that. It's too simplistic of a measurement..
How the fuck is an underweight, photoshopped model in a fashion ad, being called out for what it is, in any way infringing your rights? Jesus Fucking Christ. Go back under your Libertarian rock or wherever else you reside.
Clearly, the fashion industry still struggles to self-regulate itself and needs regulation to protect society from raising whole generations of young people who are obsessed with how skinny they are. Many models are already severely underweight, and photoshopping just makes the situation worse. Hopefully, in Isreal at least, this will make the practice unattractive enough to stop it.
The root problem in the US is the two party system. As the two party system has evolved, it becomes simply voting AGAINST what the other party does. Voting along party lines, towing the party line, whatever you want to call it. The one thing that seems to be violating this party rule, is big business. Even the Dems are towing that party line these days. They should just go ahead and call themselves the Republi-crats or Demo-licans and be done with it.
It's no wonder the whole country is so fucked up. Until the two party system is put to bed, and the idea that there can actually be more than two parties is accepted by the population, things are NOT going to improve. It's quite obvious that both major parties are in it for big business, regardless of what they say publicly.
And please don't bring up the tea-baggers... that is not a party, it's a lap-dog of the Republican party that's just a little too wacky to gain support from intelligent human beings.
Obviously, it has been a while since you installed Java. They fixed the multiple installed version issue some time ago. When a new update comes down, the old one is removed, assuming it is from the same release version (e.g. 1.4 would be left installed since it is a legacy version needed by some apps, but the previous 1.5 version would get removed during the update process to the latest 1.5 release).
You obviously do not understand the *nix updating process. In a vast majority of cases, it's not the OS vendor patching other software. The patches/updates are created and submitted by the owners (or more likely, maintainers) of the software that needs patching/updating. The patches/updates are pushed to the various distribution servers and are pulled in using a common updater process depending on the OS in question such as yum, apt, etc.
Yes, from time to time something breaks but that is pretty rare in my experience. MS has broken plenty of stuff from time to time with their updates, so what you propose does not prevent something from being broken and only keeps an additional hole open and available for attackers.
I have to agree somewhat. I used an early version of Unity and hated it. Found a way to install the fallback desktop and was happy again. Each new release that included Unity I installed and tried. Each one sucked a little bit less, but I still went back to the old desktop in every instance.
I downloaded 12.04 on release day and installed it to a VM just to see how much Unity still sucks, since I've almost entirely switched over to Mint due to Unity. And guess what, Unity in 12.04 is finally usable! It's not perfect, but I have to say that the strides they took between 11.10 and 12.04 were tremendous. I'm not 100% comfortable in Unity yet and haven't switched fully back to Ubuntu, but I can see it in the near future if they continue to improve Unity in the current direction.
Sorry, but NVIDIA have already hinted strongly that there is no "big Fermi" gaming card coming this year. At least nothing that will eclipse the 690. I'm seriously starting to wonder what happened to big Fermi, if it was all just a rumor or perhaps they are saving it for Quadro/Tesla.
Still, I can't wait for 680 prices to drop a bit so that I can replace my overclocked 570. AMD hardware is pretty decent these days, but every time I touch their drivers... I go back to NVIDIA. Hate to say it, but NVIDIA's drivers are still more stable and bug free, and they don't flash "gamey" looking crap in your face every time you open the driver control panel.
CEO pay in the US recently hit an all time high. In 2011, they made 209.4 times the average worker. Their pay has increased 127 times faster than worker's pay over the last 30 years. In the period from 1978 to 2011, CEO pay rose by 725%, while worker pay rose only 5.7% in the same period. This is in stark contrast to worker productivity which rose 93% in the same 30 year period. So, the average worker is doing nearly double the work for a less than 6% raise over a 30 year period. Unfortunately, I have not seen any stats on CEO productivity, but I doubt they are doing much more than they were 30 years ago.
You do the math... CEO's will lie as much as possible remain in the position to keep their massive pay packages. The gap between CEO pay and average worker pay is widening at an alarming rate, with the CEO absorbing a very large percentage of company net profits compared to 30 years ago.
I'll second QNAP. I've had a 4-drive version (TS-419P) set up for a bit more than a year now, with 2.68TB of RAID-5 storage with one hot spare (four 1.5TB drives). It goes to sleep when there is no disk access and spins the drives down, so the average idle power draw is very low. Spinning the drives up takes only about 10 sec or so when there is a disk access. There are frequent firmware updates and it has been flawless so far. It's also very quiet, I have it sitting on my desk behind my monitor and it's not intrusive.
Your statement is true in the US. Not so much in the EU, where laws are generally written in much clearer language. There is little interpretation involved. As the parent poster basically said, it's up to the court to determine if a written law was broken, not to interpret the law itself.
When the laws are written so that interpretation is necessary, they are written incorrectly. A layperson should be able to understand the general principles of a law without needing to hire a lawyer to "interpret" it for them. Laws in the US are written this way so as to keep thousands of lawyers employed and keep the courts clogged up with frivolous and unwarranted cases (witness the huge backlog of cases in most courts). A majority of these cases would be laughed at if they were to make it to an European court, since many are so weak and badly wrong. The infamous McD hot coffee case of a few years ago is a perfect example of a case that would NEVER make it to an European court. So let me get this straight, you bought a HOT beverage, which you would have known was HOT since you were a toddler, and you spilled it in your lap? And you want to blame someone else for that? Exactly what law has been broken in this case? Is there a law against serving hot coffee? You would not be able to hear a thing for all the laughter...
This is not government regulation... this is LACK of government regulation. Get it right for once.
It's funny, I live in a small country (Finland) with only 5.2 million people, but I have a choice of at least a dozen internet providers and mobile operators (individually, not combined). Every time I visit the US, it seems at best you have 2 or 3 sources for either and none of them are good. Here we have real competition, good prices and good service. No caps either on broadband or mobile. You have unregulated free market capitalism that is running crazy, but not in a good way.
The US basically blackmailed the EU, by threatening to revoke visa-free travel to the US. The EU had no choice in the matter as they were backed into a corner.
This is truly a sad state of affairs when we in the EU are forced to collect and hand over private data, which is NOT allowed in our own countries, to a foreign power. Thus, our data is in the hands of someone else who can do as they see fit with the data without having to be accountable to the citizens whose data they are collecting.
Well, if this doesn't show how totally screwed up the US legal system has become, I don't know what will. How the fuck can you claim $5 *MILLION* in compensation over a $200 in-app purchase?!? Where is the harm? Did the child or parent lose their mind over this and get institutionalized for life? At best, they should be entitled to a refund on the purchases and little else. Perhaps throw in a gift card good for $100 of future purchases.
I agree that in-app purchases are a risk, but this was clearly preventable.
This just blows the mind. The courts should not allow this abuse of the legal system and consequent waste of tax dollars. There is no justification for the compensation claim.
The more functionality that becomes "built-in", the quicker that "display device" will become obsolete. Is it any wonder why the manufacturers are pushing smart TV's so hard?
First, there was TV! Then widescreen! Then HD Ready! Then Full HD! Then LED! Then 3D! Now Smart TV!
The rate of obsolescence has really increased in the past 15 years or so with TV's. That's why I waited for Full HD to drop into my price range, and I bought a good, high-end LCD of a decent size with HDMI inputs. I can plug anything into it. I do not miss LED, 3D or smart TV. I can play back blu-ray at full quality, which is enough. I have an HTPC connected to it for browsing and media playback.
I prefer to keep my displays dumb and put the smarts elsewhere. That is unless you want to buy a new TV every few years... (I certainly have better things to spend my money on)
Security is neither sexy nor cool, so Apple will never put too much effort in it. They are more concerned to make things easy for the user, and the problem is that sometimes good security makes things harder for the user. Apple's decision will always fall on the easier-for-the-user side, if given a choice.
Ever since 1920 x 1200 stopped being widely available, we have taken several steps backwards in computer displays. 1366 x 768 being the latest.
At work, I have two 1680 x 1050 22" displays... not the best resolution, but I can work with them since they are 16:10. My work laptop has a 1920 x 1200 17". At home I have one 1920 x 1200 24", a 1680 x 1050 22" (different computer) and one 1600 x 1200 20" 4:3 (again, different computer). All are "pro" level IPS displays, and I'm comfortable working or playing on any of them. At work we needed to test drive a 3D monitor, so we bought an Asus 23.6" display with the NVIDIA shutter glasses. It's 1920 x 1080, and let me tell you... that monitor feels cramped. As a result of the 16:9 aspect ratio and the 120 missing vertical pixels, it actually "feels" smaller than my 22" 1680 x 1050 displays. I would not be able to do much work on that display, and since it's a TN panel, the quality is also crap. Sure, it was cheap... but I always say you get what you pay for. Even if it had a good IPS panel, the resolution and aspect ratio are too limiting.
I had to do a lot of searching to find my 1920 x 1200 and 1680 x 1050 displays for home... I was not going to accept a 16:9 display and the above confirmed my gut feelings that 16:9 is a horrible choice for a computer display. In the end I found the displays I wanted and with IPS panels as I wanted. They were not the cheapest displays, but I do not regret spending the extra money on them at all.
I will hate the day that my work laptop finally gets replaced, because even the new CAD models we are using have 1920 x 1080 displays. Pure crap in my opinion. Please leave the "HD" resolution displays for TV's and consoles and give us proper computer displays.
Take even a cursory look at the inventions produced (and commercialized) by citizens of the United States, and you quickly realize that we created most of the things used in the modern world.
Bwahahaha. Seriously, you have been drinking the Kool-Aid too long. Ignorance is bliss I suppose. After moving out of the US, I soon discovered the white-washing that is American history as taught in US schools. With few exceptions, a lot of so-called American inventions were actually invented elsewhere first, and the ideas were stolen and "commercialized" in the US where credit was taken. Invention of the telephone? Not Bell. Airplane? Not the Wright brothers. I can go on and on...
Sure, the US was usually very successful at commercializing inventions... but many of the inventions came from outside the US. Unfortunately this is not the history taught to us when we were in school.
Seriously, we don't need yet another Android handset. At this point, any new Android handset just invokes a "me-too". There is no differentiation, other than the ridiculous screen-size war.
If it's your own personal Facebook or Twitter account, I would tell them it's a personal account for personal use and not for work. I have a personal Facebook account but I clearly keep that separated from work. I don't post work-related topics there at all, and if you do do that on your personal account, you are asking for trouble.
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It doesn't take a fool to see that a simplistic comparison of a person's height to their weight is not going to cut it. BMI just tries to put a nice simple number on something that is not nice and simple, your weight and your health.
Some people have more dense bones, hence are heavier. Compare them to a person of the same height who has less dense bone structure and that person is now "overweight". Does that make any sense to you? They are the same freakin' size, and BMI can't allow for that. It's too simplistic of a measurement..
How the fuck is an underweight, photoshopped model in a fashion ad, being called out for what it is, in any way infringing your rights? Jesus Fucking Christ. Go back under your Libertarian rock or wherever else you reside.
Clearly, the fashion industry still struggles to self-regulate itself and needs regulation to protect society from raising whole generations of young people who are obsessed with how skinny they are. Many models are already severely underweight, and photoshopping just makes the situation worse. Hopefully, in Isreal at least, this will make the practice unattractive enough to stop it.
The root problem in the US is the two party system. As the two party system has evolved, it becomes simply voting AGAINST what the other party does. Voting along party lines, towing the party line, whatever you want to call it. The one thing that seems to be violating this party rule, is big business. Even the Dems are towing that party line these days. They should just go ahead and call themselves the Republi-crats or Demo-licans and be done with it.
It's no wonder the whole country is so fucked up. Until the two party system is put to bed, and the idea that there can actually be more than two parties is accepted by the population, things are NOT going to improve. It's quite obvious that both major parties are in it for big business, regardless of what they say publicly.
And please don't bring up the tea-baggers... that is not a party, it's a lap-dog of the Republican party that's just a little too wacky to gain support from intelligent human beings.
Dammit, where are my mod points when I need them?!?
Ignorance and lack of higher education is the way forward for the Republican party.
While others will not recognize it until it is too late.
Obviously, it has been a while since you installed Java. They fixed the multiple installed version issue some time ago. When a new update comes down, the old one is removed, assuming it is from the same release version (e.g. 1.4 would be left installed since it is a legacy version needed by some apps, but the previous 1.5 version would get removed during the update process to the latest 1.5 release).
You obviously do not understand the *nix updating process. In a vast majority of cases, it's not the OS vendor patching other software. The patches/updates are created and submitted by the owners (or more likely, maintainers) of the software that needs patching/updating. The patches/updates are pushed to the various distribution servers and are pulled in using a common updater process depending on the OS in question such as yum, apt, etc.
Yes, from time to time something breaks but that is pretty rare in my experience. MS has broken plenty of stuff from time to time with their updates, so what you propose does not prevent something from being broken and only keeps an additional hole open and available for attackers.
I have to agree somewhat. I used an early version of Unity and hated it. Found a way to install the fallback desktop and was happy again. Each new release that included Unity I installed and tried. Each one sucked a little bit less, but I still went back to the old desktop in every instance.
I downloaded 12.04 on release day and installed it to a VM just to see how much Unity still sucks, since I've almost entirely switched over to Mint due to Unity. And guess what, Unity in 12.04 is finally usable! It's not perfect, but I have to say that the strides they took between 11.10 and 12.04 were tremendous. I'm not 100% comfortable in Unity yet and haven't switched fully back to Ubuntu, but I can see it in the near future if they continue to improve Unity in the current direction.
Sorry, but NVIDIA have already hinted strongly that there is no "big Fermi" gaming card coming this year. At least nothing that will eclipse the 690. I'm seriously starting to wonder what happened to big Fermi, if it was all just a rumor or perhaps they are saving it for Quadro/Tesla.
Still, I can't wait for 680 prices to drop a bit so that I can replace my overclocked 570. AMD hardware is pretty decent these days, but every time I touch their drivers... I go back to NVIDIA. Hate to say it, but NVIDIA's drivers are still more stable and bug free, and they don't flash "gamey" looking crap in your face every time you open the driver control panel.
CEO pay in the US recently hit an all time high. In 2011, they made 209.4 times the average worker. Their pay has increased 127 times faster than worker's pay over the last 30 years. In the period from 1978 to 2011, CEO pay rose by 725%, while worker pay rose only 5.7% in the same period. This is in stark contrast to worker productivity which rose 93% in the same 30 year period. So, the average worker is doing nearly double the work for a less than 6% raise over a 30 year period. Unfortunately, I have not seen any stats on CEO productivity, but I doubt they are doing much more than they were 30 years ago.
You do the math... CEO's will lie as much as possible remain in the position to keep their massive pay packages. The gap between CEO pay and average worker pay is widening at an alarming rate, with the CEO absorbing a very large percentage of company net profits compared to 30 years ago.
I'll second QNAP. I've had a 4-drive version (TS-419P) set up for a bit more than a year now, with 2.68TB of RAID-5 storage with one hot spare (four 1.5TB drives). It goes to sleep when there is no disk access and spins the drives down, so the average idle power draw is very low. Spinning the drives up takes only about 10 sec or so when there is a disk access. There are frequent firmware updates and it has been flawless so far. It's also very quiet, I have it sitting on my desk behind my monitor and it's not intrusive.
Your statement is true in the US. Not so much in the EU, where laws are generally written in much clearer language. There is little interpretation involved. As the parent poster basically said, it's up to the court to determine if a written law was broken, not to interpret the law itself.
When the laws are written so that interpretation is necessary, they are written incorrectly. A layperson should be able to understand the general principles of a law without needing to hire a lawyer to "interpret" it for them. Laws in the US are written this way so as to keep thousands of lawyers employed and keep the courts clogged up with frivolous and unwarranted cases (witness the huge backlog of cases in most courts). A majority of these cases would be laughed at if they were to make it to an European court, since many are so weak and badly wrong. The infamous McD hot coffee case of a few years ago is a perfect example of a case that would NEVER make it to an European court. So let me get this straight, you bought a HOT beverage, which you would have known was HOT since you were a toddler, and you spilled it in your lap? And you want to blame someone else for that? Exactly what law has been broken in this case? Is there a law against serving hot coffee? You would not be able to hear a thing for all the laughter...
The sun deserves better. Shoot the fuckers into the vast vacuum of space, never to come into contact with any solid object for all eternity.
This is not government regulation... this is LACK of government regulation. Get it right for once.
It's funny, I live in a small country (Finland) with only 5.2 million people, but I have a choice of at least a dozen internet providers and mobile operators (individually, not combined). Every time I visit the US, it seems at best you have 2 or 3 sources for either and none of them are good. Here we have real competition, good prices and good service. No caps either on broadband or mobile. You have unregulated free market capitalism that is running crazy, but not in a good way.
The US basically blackmailed the EU, by threatening to revoke visa-free travel to the US. The EU had no choice in the matter as they were backed into a corner.
This is truly a sad state of affairs when we in the EU are forced to collect and hand over private data, which is NOT allowed in our own countries, to a foreign power. Thus, our data is in the hands of someone else who can do as they see fit with the data without having to be accountable to the citizens whose data they are collecting.
... and controlled by an uneducated high-school dropout who can't get a job at McD.
Well, I would say that the 737 nose is probably very easy to acquire, compared to a train cockpit (very heavy) or fighter jet cockpit.
Well, if this doesn't show how totally screwed up the US legal system has become, I don't know what will. How the fuck can you claim $5 *MILLION* in compensation over a $200 in-app purchase?!? Where is the harm? Did the child or parent lose their mind over this and get institutionalized for life? At best, they should be entitled to a refund on the purchases and little else. Perhaps throw in a gift card good for $100 of future purchases.
I agree that in-app purchases are a risk, but this was clearly preventable.
This just blows the mind. The courts should not allow this abuse of the legal system and consequent waste of tax dollars. There is no justification for the compensation claim.
The more functionality that becomes "built-in", the quicker that "display device" will become obsolete. Is it any wonder why the manufacturers are pushing smart TV's so hard?
First, there was TV!
Then widescreen!
Then HD Ready!
Then Full HD!
Then LED!
Then 3D!
Now Smart TV!
The rate of obsolescence has really increased in the past 15 years or so with TV's. That's why I waited for Full HD to drop into my price range, and I bought a good, high-end LCD of a decent size with HDMI inputs. I can plug anything into it. I do not miss LED, 3D or smart TV. I can play back blu-ray at full quality, which is enough. I have an HTPC connected to it for browsing and media playback.
I prefer to keep my displays dumb and put the smarts elsewhere. That is unless you want to buy a new TV every few years... (I certainly have better things to spend my money on)
Security is neither sexy nor cool, so Apple will never put too much effort in it. They are more concerned to make things easy for the user, and the problem is that sometimes good security makes things harder for the user. Apple's decision will always fall on the easier-for-the-user side, if given a choice.
Ever since 1920 x 1200 stopped being widely available, we have taken several steps backwards in computer displays. 1366 x 768 being the latest.
At work, I have two 1680 x 1050 22" displays... not the best resolution, but I can work with them since they are 16:10. My work laptop has a 1920 x 1200 17". At home I have one 1920 x 1200 24", a 1680 x 1050 22" (different computer) and one 1600 x 1200 20" 4:3 (again, different computer). All are "pro" level IPS displays, and I'm comfortable working or playing on any of them. At work we needed to test drive a 3D monitor, so we bought an Asus 23.6" display with the NVIDIA shutter glasses. It's 1920 x 1080, and let me tell you... that monitor feels cramped. As a result of the 16:9 aspect ratio and the 120 missing vertical pixels, it actually "feels" smaller than my 22" 1680 x 1050 displays. I would not be able to do much work on that display, and since it's a TN panel, the quality is also crap. Sure, it was cheap... but I always say you get what you pay for. Even if it had a good IPS panel, the resolution and aspect ratio are too limiting.
I had to do a lot of searching to find my 1920 x 1200 and 1680 x 1050 displays for home... I was not going to accept a 16:9 display and the above confirmed my gut feelings that 16:9 is a horrible choice for a computer display. In the end I found the displays I wanted and with IPS panels as I wanted. They were not the cheapest displays, but I do not regret spending the extra money on them at all.
I will hate the day that my work laptop finally gets replaced, because even the new CAD models we are using have 1920 x 1080 displays. Pure crap in my opinion. Please leave the "HD" resolution displays for TV's and consoles and give us proper computer displays.
Take even a cursory look at the inventions produced (and commercialized) by citizens of the United States, and you quickly realize that we created most of the things used in the modern world.
Bwahahaha. Seriously, you have been drinking the Kool-Aid too long. Ignorance is bliss I suppose. After moving out of the US, I soon discovered the white-washing that is American history as taught in US schools. With few exceptions, a lot of so-called American inventions were actually invented elsewhere first, and the ideas were stolen and "commercialized" in the US where credit was taken. Invention of the telephone? Not Bell. Airplane? Not the Wright brothers. I can go on and on...
Sure, the US was usually very successful at commercializing inventions... but many of the inventions came from outside the US. Unfortunately this is not the history taught to us when we were in school.
Fragmentation FTW!
Seriously, we don't need yet another Android handset. At this point, any new Android handset just invokes a "me-too". There is no differentiation, other than the ridiculous screen-size war.
Oh, so denying there is a real problem is the way to go then? Screw the customer!
Kudos to Nokia for coming out and admitting there is a problem and promising a fix. Very un-Apple.
If it's your own personal Facebook or Twitter account, I would tell them it's a personal account for personal use and not for work. I have a personal Facebook account but I clearly keep that separated from work. I don't post work-related topics there at all, and if you do do that on your personal account, you are asking for trouble.