I said this in the original article on/. for this exploit, but I'll post it again. I use the portable version of Sumatra PDF on my Windows installation and have never had any problems while using it. I would certainly recommend it to people who do not like Foxit as a replacement for Acrobat.
Unit confusion aside, it wouldn't take much to be like "Hey, it doesn't use much power; let's get hundreds/thousands of these things working. Just imagine the unfathomable algorithms we can calculate!" Aaaaaand.... we're back where we started.
"I don't deserve medical cover if something happens, but you do?"
Did I say that? No. Explain how I'm responsible to pay for someone who consciously decides to go do something dangerous. I don't care if they do something stupid, but when I have to pay the price for people who behave in in that manner --- the people who decide they're going to live dangerously at my expense --- that's when I have a problem with the system.
Also, "medical cover" is not what we're talking about. "Health Care" does NOT mean "Medical Cover" as you (and much of the political propaganda) suggest. A broken bone is not detrimental to someone's health.
"Should they too be denied care?"
Again, no, that's not what I said. But I should be allowed to not have to pay for it.
It's because of these people why "health care" is so expensive. From what I understand, you don't understand my argument. I'd suggest researching what "health care" means, instead of going by what you hear from the political propaganda.
is for people to realize that "Health Care" is (read: 'should be') concerned with people's health and not be thrown around as "injury care". If someone goes out on vacation to go bungee jumping or runs a recreational boat into a bridge pier, there's no reason that my taxes should pay for injuries that were induced by a conscious (idiotic) decision on their own part.
Now, providing "health care" to people who have health problems? Yes, that's what Health Care is.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to call your bluff on this one. I could find "cromulent" at dictionary.com, but with "embiggen" you're just being silly.
Also, light is a massless wave/particle that is not influenced by gravity. Gravity affects the space that the light is traveling through.
You confuse me. For all intensive purposes, "gravity" does not exist as Newton described it. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. He couldn't find the opposite reaction for a falling object, so he made one up: gravity.
That being said, gravity does not affect the space through which light travels, but a body's mass does. Mass distorts space, creating a "gravity" effect.
This distortion of space is essentially synonymous with the concept of "gravity"; this is what affects light.
The guardian angel can take automated action on behalf of the user for various purposes (e.g., to compensate for memory loss, to remind a user to take medicine, to assist in social interactions by indicating whether the user has met an individual before, to gauge the appropriateness of jokes or comments given the demographics of the audience, etc.).
I'm slightly confused... Microsoft does this while complaining about privacy intrusion? I suppose the information may not be sent back to Microsoft as in Chrome's case, couldn't this be bad if some random person saw or got hold of that information? There's already a site that does that.
also:
[T]he monitoring component can take note of the number of conversations occurring in a room (and more specifically, a breakdown of the types of people in the room accompanied by a warning for dangerous persons, based on sex offender registration, FBI most wanted, etc.). The monitoring component sends relevant information for current or future decisions to the decision-making component that analyzes the information within the context of personal preference data stored in the user-attribute store in order to make a suggestion or implement a decision.
Where are the "decision-making component" and "user attribute store" located? Is it sending names for inspection across the internet just because their name is mentioned in a conversation?
I hate to think that anyone's computer might be dropping eaves on me at any given moment.:)
Metric is better than Fahrenheit, and USA should get on with the times.
It's not a matter of just "getting on with the times". Yes, the SI system is easier to work with, but there are immense costs in converting every system in use to another system. The government would have to replace all speed limit and mile marker signs across the country, roads would not line up with measured distances, as well as many other things. You also need to consider that every piece of software and every table of elevations and distances that engineers use when building such systems are not in metric. It is not just a matter of using a few conversions here and there; it's a matter rewriting software, referring to old designs, and many other factors. When my government is over $12,300,000,000,000 in debt, "getting on with the times" is the last thing on which I'd want it to waste more money.
But Fahrenheit is more accurate. But Celsius can be just as accurate, if you take decimals into the play.
I disagree with using Celsius; having a temperature of 0 equate to something that is/not/ equal to 0 energy in a system is one reason why so many students (and adults) have such trouble in basic science classes. Negative temperatures are Just a Bad Idea. As I'm sure you've guessed by now, yes, I am in favor of measuring temperatures in Kelvin; it is absolute and its value proportionally reflects the amount of energy in the system.
Consider it from the other side: why doesn't the world convert to Impirial Units? I'm sure no country wants to incur the cost of converting everything to another system.
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the supercomputer in the virtual galaxy that is simulating a galaxy?
I said this in the original article on /. for this exploit, but I'll post it again. I use the portable version of Sumatra PDF on my Windows installation and have never had any problems while using it. I would certainly recommend it to people who do not like Foxit as a replacement for Acrobat.
When in Windows, I use a portable version of Sumatra PDF.
Unit confusion aside, it wouldn't take much to be like "Hey, it doesn't use much power; let's get hundreds/thousands of these things working. Just imagine the unfathomable algorithms we can calculate!" Aaaaaand.... we're back where we started.
"I don't deserve medical cover if something happens, but you do?"
Did I say that? No. Explain how I'm responsible to pay for someone who consciously decides to go do something dangerous. I don't care if they do something stupid, but when I have to pay the price for people who behave in in that manner --- the people who decide they're going to live dangerously at my expense --- that's when I have a problem with the system.
Also, "medical cover" is not what we're talking about. "Health Care" does NOT mean "Medical Cover" as you (and much of the political propaganda) suggest. A broken bone is not detrimental to someone's health.
"Should they too be denied care?"
Again, no, that's not what I said. But I should be allowed to not have to pay for it. It's because of these people why "health care" is so expensive. From what I understand, you don't understand my argument. I'd suggest researching what "health care" means, instead of going by what you hear from the political propaganda.
is for people to realize that "Health Care" is (read: 'should be') concerned with people's health and not be thrown around as "injury care". If someone goes out on vacation to go bungee jumping or runs a recreational boat into a bridge pier, there's no reason that my taxes should pay for injuries that were induced by a conscious (idiotic) decision on their own part.
Now, providing "health care" to people who have health problems? Yes, that's what Health Care is.
Are there any among us who can honesty say they did not see this coming?
On an unrelated note, I found the image on the article's page with a PS3 and poor little Tux on his side to be somewhat amusing.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to call your bluff on this one. I could find "cromulent" at dictionary.com, but with "embiggen" you're just being silly.
Also, light is a massless wave/particle that is not influenced by gravity. Gravity affects the space that the light is traveling through.
You confuse me. For all intensive purposes, "gravity" does not exist as Newton described it. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. He couldn't find the opposite reaction for a falling object, so he made one up: gravity.
That being said, gravity does not affect the space through which light travels, but a body's mass does. Mass distorts space, creating a "gravity" effect.
This distortion of space is essentially synonymous with the concept of "gravity"; this is what affects light.
The original article is on March 31 at noon, PDT. If this is an April Fools joke, then Mr Matthew Ingram is pretty bad at April Fools-ing.
The guardian angel can take automated action on behalf of the user for various purposes (e.g., to compensate for memory loss, to remind a user to take medicine, to assist in social interactions by indicating whether the user has met an individual before, to gauge the appropriateness of jokes or comments given the demographics of the audience, etc.).
I'm slightly confused... Microsoft does this while complaining about privacy intrusion? I suppose the information may not be sent back to Microsoft as in Chrome's case, couldn't this be bad if some random person saw or got hold of that information? There's already a site that does that.
also:
[T]he monitoring component can take note of the number of conversations occurring in a room (and more specifically, a breakdown of the types of people in the room accompanied by a warning for dangerous persons, based on sex offender registration, FBI most wanted, etc.). The monitoring component sends relevant information for current or future decisions to the decision-making component that analyzes the information within the context of personal preference data stored in the user-attribute store in order to make a suggestion or implement a decision.
Where are the "decision-making component" and "user attribute store" located? Is it sending names for inspection across the internet just because their name is mentioned in a conversation? I hate to think that anyone's computer might be dropping eaves on me at any given moment. :)
As I scroll through looking for "Funny", I see jokes from 9 years ago repeated.
Metric is better than Fahrenheit, and USA should get on with the times.
It's not a matter of just "getting on with the times". Yes, the SI system is easier to work with, but there are immense costs in converting every system in use to another system. The government would have to replace all speed limit and mile marker signs across the country, roads would not line up with measured distances, as well as many other things. You also need to consider that every piece of software and every table of elevations and distances that engineers use when building such systems are not in metric. It is not just a matter of using a few conversions here and there; it's a matter rewriting software, referring to old designs, and many other factors. When my government is over $12,300,000,000,000 in debt, "getting on with the times" is the last thing on which I'd want it to waste more money.
But Fahrenheit is more accurate. But Celsius can be just as accurate, if you take decimals into the play.
I disagree with using Celsius; having a temperature of 0 equate to something that is /not/ equal to 0 energy in a system is one reason why so many students (and adults) have such trouble in basic science classes. Negative temperatures are Just a Bad Idea. As I'm sure you've guessed by now, yes, I am in favor of measuring temperatures in Kelvin; it is absolute and its value proportionally reflects the amount of energy in the system.
Consider it from the other side: why doesn't the world convert to Impirial Units? I'm sure no country wants to incur the cost of converting everything to another system.