you are 190 times more likely to die when in a car, than if you were flying, but yet we are so worried about air accidents.
people just don't understand statistics.
Actually the loss of control is an important factor.
This is a psychological and perhaps a subconscious evolutionary thing. To some people having their life in their own incompetent hands is preferable to having their life in someone else's more competent hands. If someone else is flying the plane, it's not much of a fitness test for your genes, compared to say if you rode a motorcycle;).
Where are the tracking accuracy tests? e.g. use something very accurate to move the mouse to position A, move it to position B, move it back to position A. How far is the cursor now? Get a machine to make the mouse draw a circle, does the mouse draw a circle or is it an oval? Repeat at different speeds.
Where are the max speed tests? There's a limit to how fast some mice can track, beyond which they guess and/or limit the max delta.
Where are the latency tests? How much time between mouse click, and the mouse click actually getting to the PC, compared to other mice? Same for mouse movement.
Surface compatibility tests? Repeat a subset of the above tests over different surfaces.
Actually that sort of stuff is more "magic" to me.
Especially when it stops working. Then you have to figure out why the heck it doesn't work.
That kind of stuff is like: 1) Do stuff 2) Magic/miracle happens 3) Result you want.
I think many of us nerds know that miracles are very very rare and we're interested in how the heck the stuff works, and how it typically stops working...
Prior to a few days ago, only Microsoft had such a certificate...
. What do you mean only Microsoft had such a certificate?
Go to your browser and look at the list of trusted root certs.
ANY of them can sign a cert that says "Yeah I'm a valid cert for *.hotmail.com" and your browser by default wouldn't warn you.
And any of those CAs can sign someone else's cert (who can sign someone else's cert, repeat, rinse etc) and allow them to sign a "*.hotmail.com" cert and it'll work too.
And just because some CA's cert is not in there doesn't mean it won't get auto-added by IE. In some scenarios CA certs can get auto-added by IE. For example, digicert's certificates do not appear in IE by default, but if you just go to https://www.digicert.com/ they'll show up in the cert store after that.
Just because you remove a CA from IE's (window's) list doesn't mean it will stay removed:).
p.s. I use Certificate Patrol on Firefox to help warn me of some CA/cert changes.
When Warhammer released they had features that WoW didn't. But it didn't take long before WoW had many similar features too (and without as much crashing;) ). Warhammer soon became an inferior WoW.
They still need to reform it. Currently the market/system is broken because there is little incentive to lower costs AND actually more incentive to increase costs (since it makes some companies more money and also covers butts).
If you don't like very sweet chocolate you should do what I do - buy the > 70% cocoa bars. There are 85% cocoa ones which are quite nice, some even go up to 99% but I've never tried those, not sure I'd enjoy those.
I've used my laptop exhaust to melt chocolate before:).
Never gets hot enough to burn it - stays nice and gooey for the times when I feel like having gooey chocolate instead of the firmer sort (you can coat or dip the firmer choc with/into the gooey cho).
It makes the hospital more. They pass the costs to the insurance companies who then pass it to the companies or individuals.
FWIW it also helps pay for the uninsured queuing up at the ER.
Whereas in some other countries you have: 1) private hospitals which charge a lot. 2) government/state hospitals which are tax subsidized/funded, but often (not always!) have longer queues - so if your condition is not serious you have to wait longer than someone who needs the stuff "right now".
The latter is not always inferior to the former. The government doctors often have more experience:).
So many stupid US people grumble about being forced to pay for other people's healthcare, blahblahblah.
They don't seem to realize that they're ALREADY paying when some uninsured person queues up at ER and either eventually gets treatment and/or dies there (that still costs money). Even just turning them away costs money and time (won't be surprised it lowers the effectiveness of the ER in treating actual emergencies).
Guess where the money comes from?
Guess how efficient the "long queues at ER" method is at providing healthcare?
Just look at how much healthcare costs per capita in the USA and what the US citizens get for it, and then compare with other countries.
Shrimp trawl fisheries catch 2% of the world total catch of all fish by weight, but produce more than one-third of the world total bycatch. American shrimp trawlers produce bycatch ratios between 3:1 (3 bycatch:1 shrimp) and 15:1(15 bycatch:1 shrimp).[6]
They found discard rates (bycatch to catch ratios) as high as 20:1 with a world average of 5.7:1.[5]
Basically for every ton of shrimp caught worldwide, 5.7 tons of other stuff caught is discarded (and usually dead or good as dead by that time).
And the sad thing is it's scientifically proven that humans thrive on diets that contain certain oceanic fish. We won't do so well if they go extinct.
Stories about "dwindling food supply" and GM the "saviour" are mostly propaganda by GM companies to serve their agenda (to make them rich, get them favourable laws etc). There is still clearly enough food in the world. The number 1 reason people starve is politics.
I don't see why there would be an economic disaster at all.
At worst case the PC industry would probably become something like the fashion industry. People have been making shoes for thousands of years, the shoe industry still finds a way of making people pay. And often even for crappy ill-fitting shoes.
At best case, stuff will become cheaper and people will have extra money to spend on other crap, and companies will try to convince them to spend it.
The likely case is just like how refrigerator manufacturers stay in business - stuff becomes made of cheaper parts (not necessarily cheaper;) ) and breaks down sooner.
Depending on the marriage vows/contract, it could certainly be considered a breach of contract and a form of fraud.
Because it seems the guy was being dishonest, that's always a good hint that someone is doing something wrong.
If he just wanted to consensually have sex with multiple partners, that's not a problem in the USA, but in most states, it is generally assumed that "marriage" means you can't go around doing that.
From an "evolution" POV it's no surprise that many humans view cheating seriously. They don't produce offspring in the millions.
Seems Oracle thinks changing names is more important than getting technical stuff working right.
FWIW I recently had problems after updating "Oracle Virtualbox" so much so I had to go back to an older version (a VM was crashing, and with the newer version I had to somehow install some stupid plugin from Oracle to support some feature that the old version supported without any stupid add ons).
I might actually switch to vmware server (since I don't really need the desktop features that much).
In theory ISPs could implement something like back in the "dial-up" era.
Basically, you still have always-on internet, but your traffic is on low priority.
When you want to do stuff with high priority, you "dial in" or "login", then your packets get "normal priority". Then you can play your FPS or MMORPG.
Once you're done you log-off and go back to "low priority", you can actually still surf the web, send email etc, but it could be a lot slower depending on how oversubscribed the ISP is.
But it all depends on the package - you could get X number of hours per month or get charged $ per priority hour. Problem of course if you forget to "logoff".
So parents might "work the problem out" by not letting exposing their kids to Apple services/devices (and the Reality Distortion Field) at such a tender and easily influenced age.
Apple knows that, that's why they are fixing the problem. It's clear they don't want to be a "18 rated" device or even a "PG" one either;).
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Gross income? Look up Hollywood accounting.
The Corporations will just structure it so that the copyright holder earns nothing.
Yeah, science doesn't care if they live or die. Maybe society should.
That's the responsibility of a civilized society.
Many countries have universal healthcare, unemployment benefits/welfare, etc.
you are 190 times more likely to die when in a car, than if you were flying, but yet we are so worried about air accidents.
people just don't understand statistics.
Actually the loss of control is an important factor.
This is a psychological and perhaps a subconscious evolutionary thing. To some people having their life in their own incompetent hands is preferable to having their life in someone else's more competent hands. If someone else is flying the plane, it's not much of a fitness test for your genes, compared to say if you rode a motorcycle ;).
A number of famous mathematicians and physicists did a lot of great stuff before they were 25.
So from pure science POV it matters not that he burns out, but that his flame burns bright enough.
Yeah it's a pretty crappy test.
Where are the tracking accuracy tests? e.g. use something very accurate to move the mouse to position A, move it to position B, move it back to position A. How far is the cursor now? Get a machine to make the mouse draw a circle, does the mouse draw a circle or is it an oval? Repeat at different speeds.
Where are the max speed tests? There's a limit to how fast some mice can track, beyond which they guess and/or limit the max delta.
Where are the latency tests? How much time between mouse click, and the mouse click actually getting to the PC, compared to other mice? Same for mouse movement.
Surface compatibility tests? Repeat a subset of the above tests over different surfaces.
Yeah I first saw this on Slashdot actually, early this month:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2020180&cid=35366952
What's modular programming?
:).
If you're talking about using other people's code/modules/libs, I've found it fairly easy to use CPAN
Actually that sort of stuff is more "magic" to me.
Especially when it stops working. Then you have to figure out why the heck it doesn't work.
That kind of stuff is like:
1) Do stuff
2) Magic/miracle happens
3) Result you want.
I think many of us nerds know that miracles are very very rare and we're interested in how the heck the stuff works, and how it typically stops working...
Prior to a few days ago, only Microsoft had such a certificate...
.
What do you mean only Microsoft had such a certificate?
Go to your browser and look at the list of trusted root certs.
ANY of them can sign a cert that says "Yeah I'm a valid cert for *.hotmail.com" and your browser by default wouldn't warn you.
And any of those CAs can sign someone else's cert (who can sign someone else's cert, repeat, rinse etc) and allow them to sign a "*.hotmail.com" cert and it'll work too.
CNNIC (one of China's CAs) has their cert signed by Entrust (whose certs are in most popular browsers out there): http://mozilla-xp.com/mozilla.dev.security.policy/CNNIC-cert-signed-by-Entrust
And just because some CA's cert is not in there doesn't mean it won't get auto-added by IE. In some scenarios CA certs can get auto-added by IE. For example, digicert's certificates do not appear in IE by default, but if you just go to https://www.digicert.com/ they'll show up in the cert store after that.
Just because you remove a CA from IE's (window's) list doesn't mean it will stay removed :).
p.s. I use Certificate Patrol on Firefox to help warn me of some CA/cert changes.
It's not just that.
;) ). Warhammer soon became an inferior WoW.
;).
When Warhammer released they had features that WoW didn't. But it didn't take long before WoW had many similar features too (and without as much crashing
The WoW developers know some code-fu
They still need to reform it. Currently the market/system is broken because there is little incentive to lower costs AND actually more incentive to increase costs (since it makes some companies more money and also covers butts).
If you don't like very sweet chocolate you should do what I do - buy the > 70% cocoa bars. There are 85% cocoa ones which are quite nice, some even go up to 99% but I've never tried those, not sure I'd enjoy those.
I've used my laptop exhaust to melt chocolate before :).
Never gets hot enough to burn it - stays nice and gooey for the times when I feel like having gooey chocolate instead of the firmer sort (you can coat or dip the firmer choc with/into the gooey cho).
It makes the hospital more. They pass the costs to the insurance companies who then pass it to the companies or individuals.
:).
FWIW it also helps pay for the uninsured queuing up at the ER.
Whereas in some other countries you have:
1) private hospitals which charge a lot.
2) government/state hospitals which are tax subsidized/funded, but often (not always!) have longer queues - so if your condition is not serious you have to wait longer than someone who needs the stuff "right now".
The latter is not always inferior to the former. The government doctors often have more experience
forces me to buy Hospital insurance
So many stupid US people grumble about being forced to pay for other people's healthcare, blahblahblah.
They don't seem to realize that they're ALREADY paying when some uninsured person queues up at ER and either eventually gets treatment and/or dies there (that still costs money). Even just turning them away costs money and time (won't be surprised it lowers the effectiveness of the ER in treating actual emergencies).
Guess where the money comes from?
Guess how efficient the "long queues at ER" method is at providing healthcare?
Just look at how much healthcare costs per capita in the USA and what the US citizens get for it, and then compare with other countries.
The other big wastage is "bycatch": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bycatch
Shrimp trawl fisheries catch 2% of the world total catch of all fish by weight, but produce more than one-third of the world total bycatch. American shrimp trawlers produce bycatch ratios between 3:1 (3 bycatch:1 shrimp) and 15:1(15 bycatch:1 shrimp).[6]
They found discard rates (bycatch to catch ratios) as high as 20:1 with a world average of 5.7:1.[5]
Basically for every ton of shrimp caught worldwide, 5.7 tons of other stuff caught is discarded (and usually dead or good as dead by that time).
And the sad thing is it's scientifically proven that humans thrive on diets that contain certain oceanic fish. We won't do so well if they go extinct.
Stories about "dwindling food supply" and GM the "saviour" are mostly propaganda by GM companies to serve their agenda (to make them rich, get them favourable laws etc). There is still clearly enough food in the world. The number 1 reason people starve is politics.
His friend Joe Konrath seems to think copyright is "forever" - note his remarks about grandchildren, royalties, "forever".
:).
Give them enough power and it may be their turn to screw the readers too
Put the pdf on rapidshare, megaupload or similar and link to it?
:).
Leave the Token Ring bit in. It's part of history
Not safe against MITM attacks though - they can fake/alter the "requiring the user to enter the password" bit and most users will not notice.
You won't get any warning if the stuff is merely staying on http.
That's why it is annoying when some sites force you to use some login page in http, even though you try to start with https.
I believe lithium batteries store for longer when half charged than when fully charged or low.
I don't see why there would be an economic disaster at all.
;) ) and breaks down sooner.
At worst case the PC industry would probably become something like the fashion industry. People have been making shoes for thousands of years, the shoe industry still finds a way of making people pay. And often even for crappy ill-fitting shoes.
At best case, stuff will become cheaper and people will have extra money to spend on other crap, and companies will try to convince them to spend it.
The likely case is just like how refrigerator manufacturers stay in business - stuff becomes made of cheaper parts (not necessarily cheaper
Depending on the marriage vows/contract, it could certainly be considered a breach of contract and a form of fraud.
Because it seems the guy was being dishonest, that's always a good hint that someone is doing something wrong.
If he just wanted to consensually have sex with multiple partners, that's not a problem in the USA, but in most states, it is generally assumed that "marriage" means you can't go around doing that.
From an "evolution" POV it's no surprise that many humans view cheating seriously. They don't produce offspring in the millions.
BTW committing adultery could technically get you a life sentence in Michigan, if they follow the law to the letter: http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-01-24/news/17225912_1_sexual-conduct-sentence-michigan-court
So are they going to get rid of "com.sun.java"?
I remember not long ago Oracle changed certain things from Sun to Oracle and broke stuff: http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/28/2121259/slashdot.sourceforge.net
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3258504/oracle-breaks-sun-support-document-links/
Seems Oracle thinks changing names is more important than getting technical stuff working right.
FWIW I recently had problems after updating "Oracle Virtualbox" so much so I had to go back to an older version (a VM was crashing, and with the newer version I had to somehow install some stupid plugin from Oracle to support some feature that the old version supported without any stupid add ons).
I might actually switch to vmware server (since I don't really need the desktop features that much).
In theory ISPs could implement something like back in the "dial-up" era.
Basically, you still have always-on internet, but your traffic is on low priority.
When you want to do stuff with high priority, you "dial in" or "login", then your packets get "normal priority". Then you can play your FPS or MMORPG.
Once you're done you log-off and go back to "low priority", you can actually still surf the web, send email etc, but it could be a lot slower depending on how oversubscribed the ISP is.
But it all depends on the package - you could get X number of hours per month or get charged $ per priority hour. Problem of course if you forget to "logoff".
It takes time for children to learn things.
;).
So parents might "work the problem out" by not letting exposing their kids to Apple services/devices (and the Reality Distortion Field) at such a tender and easily influenced age.
Apple knows that, that's why they are fixing the problem. It's clear they don't want to be a "18 rated" device or even a "PG" one either