Pretty much the same here, though I never really caught onto facebook. I'm 24. I use Skype and forums for most of my online communication. The only reason I even have a facebook account is because I have a lot of friends who don't care to use anything else (also managing a page for a project I'm working on). I have a Twitter account, but I haven't gotten around to getting it down to a manageable state (I'm using it largely to keep track of news in my field, which works well, but I have too many subs to read everything every day).
Your conclusion is only a small subset of the bigger conclusion: anything which requires a large critical mass to exist and work will eventually collapse as the mass decreases and passes below the threshold. This includes social networks, but also a lot of other things. Some could argue countries make it into such a definition;)
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This is part of the Member Agreement that you accept when you sign up. While I couldn't find anything more precise, the second sentence sure sounds like Nextdoor is giving themselves a license to using your content, which is what a lot of sites like this do. You get to keep your content (it's yours, you can do whatever the hell you want with it, etc.), but they grant themselves an unlimited, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to use it, which you agree to by posting the content there in the first place. Their user friendly-written license makes it harder to know for sure whether this can be considered as granting a license though (and IANAL).
Amusingly, TVs and laptops also very often look extremely similar, to the extent that you'd often be hard pressed to distinguish them if it weren't for the logo prominently displayed under the screen. And yet, only in smartphones do suits fly and lawyers make a ton of money, and most of the time a certain company is involved.
What the hell are you harping on about? This is all about the Communist Party banning a video game which casts them in a bad light (in this case, in a state of internal turmoil, with the entire country plunged into civil war). It's a move to preserve the public image of the party as something invulnerable and all-knowing.
98%? HTC, Motorola, Sony, Google's own Nexus line and probably more I've forgotten all have official bootloader unlocking toolkits which can be used on their current phones, even the flagships. The Google Play edition phones are also all unlockable. The elephant in the room is Samsung, but one would hope that pressure from the other OEMs might get them to do it too.
They don't treat you as criminals, but they do treat you as pariahs. The fact that having access to all of your phone's features locks you out of certain apps is absolutely ludicrous. I would be up in arms if the same thing happened on my Android phone! How can you even tolerate this sort of thing, let alone actually seem to appreciate them for it? If you've rooted your phone, you've taken up the responsibility of handling its security. The OS and apps on the phone shouldn't detect nor give a shit about it.
And if they kept them for any significant length of time (you know, enough for GM to get some value back), you'd have all those right-wing nutjobs (many of which are in the government) crying foul socialism. They just wanted rid of them as soon as possible.
And that's different from talking with the person next to you how, exactly? If people can't respect basic social manners, they won't respect them regardless of how. If it's not a phone it'll be something else. This is why we have personnel on board the airplanes.
When the first half of your post is spiteful conjecture and the second half is unsubstantiated claims being passed off as unambiguous truths, I find your demand for facts laughable.
You do realize that quantum mechanics were met with similar derision? Heck, Einstein never really accepted the notion, and that's as great a scientist as we've ever had. It took years to devise experiments that could validate quantum mechanics' existence.
This isn't to say that this theory is right or wrong, merely that groundbreaking theories almost invariably will look like "mathematical fancy" to most people (especially those with "get off my lawn!" syndrome) and will be met with confusion or denial by a lot of others, including respected scientists. It's crazy, but it might just work. Remember: the universe wasn't designed so that our puny minds would find it logical or straightforward. It just is.
Sure, so I take it you have a solution to the problem of efficiently collecting the energy from the sun? Because solar as it is right now just isn't very feasible in large swathes of the world.
This is like saying that we're all gigantic sources of nuclear fusion fuel and dismissing the problem of actually leveraging that fuel as an implementation detail.
Most people don't even know what Occam's razor even is. As much as you wish it were, the big reason for doubting science usually is that it doesn't align with your preconceived world views. God didn't make the Earth? Bullshit. We're wrecking our own planet through our unlimited greed? Bullshit. Oil is bad for the environment? Bullshit. Men are closely related to apes? Bullshit. It's pretty simple and has little to do with actual reasoning or well thought-out opinions.
Your only example is proof perfect that you're not really grasping things. As with most drugs, "anti-depressant" drugs have many physiological effects, including some entirely unrelated to depression. Just take a whole five seconds to look up random drugs and you'll see just how often they'll have multiple, seemingly unrelated effects. Guess why? Because the human body is a fucking hell of a lot more complicated than what you seem to think it is.
Much worse would've been opening up the container and distributing the cobalt-60 to friends and relatives as a sort of precious mineral. Since they had no idea what they were dealing with, I doubt they'd have any idea of how to actual sell it. You can't just walk over to a terrorist group's front yard and say "I got some cobalt-60 for sale, any takers?"
A dirty bomb with a short range set off in a stadium or a field during a big sports event (think Superbowl) could kill hundreds and wound ten times that, if only from the ensuing panic. Remember, there are circumstances where it's normal for thousands of people to be compacted in a small area.
If you bothered to RTFA (I know!), you'd see that they indeed checked this out. They flashed the BIOS of their sample card onto their worst performing retail card. There was a small difference, but far from enough to make up for the gap between that card and the sample unit they received from AMD. It also made the retail card crash because the voltage was too low. The sample card managed to give better performance at lower fan speeds and voltages.
At this point it's reasonable to assume that AMD cherry-picked the cards they sent reviewers to make sure they were as good as they could be.
Not that I agree with the idea of predetermined castes based on genders, I'd just like to point out that some of the most lucrative STEM fields such as biology, chemistry and medicine are currently at least 50/50 and sometimes more than that in favor of women. It's only a few very specific fields such as maths, computer science and physics where females are still underrepresented. At my own university, the ratio of male to female in medicine especially is staggering; it's a complete flip from what it was a few decades ago.
At this rate, I wouldn't even be surprised if we ended up having to worry about not enough men attending university in the coming years. Females are already over 50% of the graduates in many universities. There are still inequities in many areas regarding sex issues, but I don't think university attendance is the largest. Again, a few fields have the issue, and we should definitely look into it, but it'd be a good idea to acknowledge the progress made instead of blanket statements like "STEM" as a whole. My biggest question, honestly, is why biology and related fields have had such a huge intake, but not physics or maths? Is it that maths are considered "for men"? Can it be related to neurological differences, or not? Is it more of a societal problem? Even more importantly, can we correct it?
I use LastPass and the two-factor authentication adds a lot to the security. If someone can guess my password and obtain my two factor secret, I'm probably screwed regardless of what I did. I also enable two-factor on as many sites as I can (stupidly most banks don't have that).
Light speed, without any qualification after it, is generally accepted to mean c, celeritas. Adding "in a vacuum" is a pointless waste of space and only serves to confuse people who do not know, nor care, about the difference.
It's amusing though how there's always at least one pedant "correcting" the article or summary in each and every article with that short-form term in it.
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Pretty much the same here, though I never really caught onto facebook. I'm 24. I use Skype and forums for most of my online communication. The only reason I even have a facebook account is because I have a lot of friends who don't care to use anything else (also managing a page for a project I'm working on). I have a Twitter account, but I haven't gotten around to getting it down to a manageable state (I'm using it largely to keep track of news in my field, which works well, but I have too many subs to read everything every day).
Your conclusion is only a small subset of the bigger conclusion: anything which requires a large critical mass to exist and work will eventually collapse as the mass decreases and passes below the threshold. This includes social networks, but also a lot of other things. Some could argue countries make it into such a definition ;)
This is part of the Member Agreement that you accept when you sign up. While I couldn't find anything more precise, the second sentence sure sounds like Nextdoor is giving themselves a license to using your content, which is what a lot of sites like this do. You get to keep your content (it's yours, you can do whatever the hell you want with it, etc.), but they grant themselves an unlimited, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to use it, which you agree to by posting the content there in the first place. Their user friendly-written license makes it harder to know for sure whether this can be considered as granting a license though (and IANAL).
Amusingly, TVs and laptops also very often look extremely similar, to the extent that you'd often be hard pressed to distinguish them if it weren't for the logo prominently displayed under the screen. And yet, only in smartphones do suits fly and lawyers make a ton of money, and most of the time a certain company is involved.
What the hell are you harping on about? This is all about the Communist Party banning a video game which casts them in a bad light (in this case, in a state of internal turmoil, with the entire country plunged into civil war). It's a move to preserve the public image of the party as something invulnerable and all-knowing.
98%? HTC, Motorola, Sony, Google's own Nexus line and probably more I've forgotten all have official bootloader unlocking toolkits which can be used on their current phones, even the flagships. The Google Play edition phones are also all unlockable. The elephant in the room is Samsung, but one would hope that pressure from the other OEMs might get them to do it too.
They don't treat you as criminals, but they do treat you as pariahs. The fact that having access to all of your phone's features locks you out of certain apps is absolutely ludicrous. I would be up in arms if the same thing happened on my Android phone! How can you even tolerate this sort of thing, let alone actually seem to appreciate them for it? If you've rooted your phone, you've taken up the responsibility of handling its security. The OS and apps on the phone shouldn't detect nor give a shit about it.
In this day and age, the corporation is the pinnacle of human advancement. And corporations make money as a fundamental principle.
We don't need to know where your need to explore leads you... Please.
Slashdot is doing its part by posting the same data multiple times. Perhaps one copy will survive the test of time!
And if they kept them for any significant length of time (you know, enough for GM to get some value back), you'd have all those right-wing nutjobs (many of which are in the government) crying foul socialism. They just wanted rid of them as soon as possible.
The update system was completely revamped with Vista so honestly you're doing a big assumption there.
And that's different from talking with the person next to you how, exactly? If people can't respect basic social manners, they won't respect them regardless of how. If it's not a phone it'll be something else. This is why we have personnel on board the airplanes.
When the first half of your post is spiteful conjecture and the second half is unsubstantiated claims being passed off as unambiguous truths, I find your demand for facts laughable.
You do realize that quantum mechanics were met with similar derision? Heck, Einstein never really accepted the notion, and that's as great a scientist as we've ever had. It took years to devise experiments that could validate quantum mechanics' existence.
This isn't to say that this theory is right or wrong, merely that groundbreaking theories almost invariably will look like "mathematical fancy" to most people (especially those with "get off my lawn!" syndrome) and will be met with confusion or denial by a lot of others, including respected scientists. It's crazy, but it might just work. Remember: the universe wasn't designed so that our puny minds would find it logical or straightforward. It just is.
Sure, so I take it you have a solution to the problem of efficiently collecting the energy from the sun? Because solar as it is right now just isn't very feasible in large swathes of the world.
This is like saying that we're all gigantic sources of nuclear fusion fuel and dismissing the problem of actually leveraging that fuel as an implementation detail.
Most people don't even know what Occam's razor even is. As much as you wish it were, the big reason for doubting science usually is that it doesn't align with your preconceived world views. God didn't make the Earth? Bullshit. We're wrecking our own planet through our unlimited greed? Bullshit. Oil is bad for the environment? Bullshit. Men are closely related to apes? Bullshit. It's pretty simple and has little to do with actual reasoning or well thought-out opinions.
Your only example is proof perfect that you're not really grasping things. As with most drugs, "anti-depressant" drugs have many physiological effects, including some entirely unrelated to depression. Just take a whole five seconds to look up random drugs and you'll see just how often they'll have multiple, seemingly unrelated effects. Guess why? Because the human body is a fucking hell of a lot more complicated than what you seem to think it is.
Much worse would've been opening up the container and distributing the cobalt-60 to friends and relatives as a sort of precious mineral. Since they had no idea what they were dealing with, I doubt they'd have any idea of how to actual sell it. You can't just walk over to a terrorist group's front yard and say "I got some cobalt-60 for sale, any takers?"
A dirty bomb with a short range set off in a stadium or a field during a big sports event (think Superbowl) could kill hundreds and wound ten times that, if only from the ensuing panic. Remember, there are circumstances where it's normal for thousands of people to be compacted in a small area.
If you bothered to RTFA (I know!), you'd see that they indeed checked this out. They flashed the BIOS of their sample card onto their worst performing retail card. There was a small difference, but far from enough to make up for the gap between that card and the sample unit they received from AMD. It also made the retail card crash because the voltage was too low. The sample card managed to give better performance at lower fan speeds and voltages.
At this point it's reasonable to assume that AMD cherry-picked the cards they sent reviewers to make sure they were as good as they could be.
CSI is on TV right now, can this wait?
Not that I agree with the idea of predetermined castes based on genders, I'd just like to point out that some of the most lucrative STEM fields such as biology, chemistry and medicine are currently at least 50/50 and sometimes more than that in favor of women. It's only a few very specific fields such as maths, computer science and physics where females are still underrepresented. At my own university, the ratio of male to female in medicine especially is staggering; it's a complete flip from what it was a few decades ago.
At this rate, I wouldn't even be surprised if we ended up having to worry about not enough men attending university in the coming years. Females are already over 50% of the graduates in many universities. There are still inequities in many areas regarding sex issues, but I don't think university attendance is the largest. Again, a few fields have the issue, and we should definitely look into it, but it'd be a good idea to acknowledge the progress made instead of blanket statements like "STEM" as a whole. My biggest question, honestly, is why biology and related fields have had such a huge intake, but not physics or maths? Is it that maths are considered "for men"? Can it be related to neurological differences, or not? Is it more of a societal problem? Even more importantly, can we correct it?
I use LastPass and the two-factor authentication adds a lot to the security. If someone can guess my password and obtain my two factor secret, I'm probably screwed regardless of what I did. I also enable two-factor on as many sites as I can (stupidly most banks don't have that).
Light speed, without any qualification after it, is generally accepted to mean c, celeritas. Adding "in a vacuum" is a pointless waste of space and only serves to confuse people who do not know, nor care, about the difference.
It's amusing though how there's always at least one pedant "correcting" the article or summary in each and every article with that short-form term in it.
That's only true of some devices. Many root techniques use exploits which are entirely invisible to OEMs and don't require unlocking.