e-ink displays, including for laptops, have been around for a while now.
I came across a blog a couple of years ago that was dedicated to documenting swapping out laptop LED monitors with dual-purpose LED/e-ink monitors. I can't find the link now, however Dasung seem to be a known manufacturer.
He's confusing correlation with causation. ADD's impact on attention, executive skills, & being able to maintain a line of thought, can lead to effects that seem very much like a memory disorder.
When you've got a constant stream of multiple internal dialogues & other distractions circling around your head, it can be quite easy to forget why you walked into a room, where you just put your keys, or the name of the person you met literally only 30 seconds ago.
Come back in 15 more years when you start seeing the extended effects of those amphetamines on your nervous system. I took that shit for 12 years, from age 6 to 18. The damage it did is quite noticable. You'll start thinking you're getting Alzheimer's around 35 if you took it as young and as long as I did.
It took me the best part of a decade to get around to actually registering, I've been following/. for almost 20 years now.
I was on a high dose of ritalin from the age of 4, until about 12. I was a victim of all of that bullshit prejudice against the treatment of ADD & fell into the trap of believing all I lacked was disciplined focus & motivation. I pretty much dropped out of school after that.
I had reasonable success in my chosen niche of IT, but I ended up crawling back to the psychiatrist in my mid-20s, as my poor executive skills & time management was playing havoc on my life.
Since going back & accepting help, I'm now the owner of a successful business, manage a couple of federal datacenters, own my own home, & have a family. Those meds (& a patient wife) gave me the stability I needed to actually make a success of my life.
It's true that the drugs are strong, however I don't take them every day, moderate my dosages, and live an otherwise healthy & active life. But I call bullshit on the suggestion that being on them for a 12 year period of your life has given you the symptoms of Alzheimer's today - effects are still being studied, however we've now got over 30 years of literally millions of patients being treated on amphetamines for ADD, and a good 70+ years since they were first widely used. If the mid-term side-effects were that extreme, it'd have become common knowledge long ago.
I suspect there's a very good chance that what you are identifying as Alzheimer's are actually the symptoms of untreated ADD. Specifically, memory problems due to a mind that's unable to maintain a line of thought.
I've been diagnosed with ADHD since I was a child, and use medication selectively today, adjusting my dosage depending on the demands of the day & how I'm feeling (I only take my full dosage on "bad" days).
Your description is fairly spot on. Anecdotally however, I'm not sure the medication actually has much of a direct affect on memory, it simply helps in maintaining focus on the right things, which in turn helps you record the right things.
You call BS on the parent's comment that much of the rest of the world works as such, and then proceed to use an example from the USA...???!!!
The parent is correct. If you're found with such a large amount of hard cash, you'll be put under a lot of pressure to show where it came from, with the threat of confiscation.
And the US is no different. It's called Civil Forfeiture, and its use/abuse has raised a number of public controversies in the media.
Secondly, are you insinuating that Chinese are flying large sums of currency into the States to make purchases & transactions? Because that is also strictly controlled & must be declared at the threat of forfeiture. Any such transactions are inherently suspicious, which is the entire point of the regulations.
You're forgetting that those brains need a body. It would neither help the masses, nor affect population levels. Unless the bodies are being artificially grown in their entirety, someone's brain is going to be sacrificed so another can be hosted.
The only ethical solution here would be for the host to already be brain-dead.
I doubt the people who actually had something insightful & of actual value to add to the conversation would be much deterred by something quite so trivial.
If you can't be arsed to answer a simple question about TFA, then you'd unlikely be arsed enough to contribute anything of any value.
Odd, have you actually checked there aren't any other default schemes available? On all of the OSX, Linux, BSD & Cygwin Vims I've used, it's always included a standard pack to choose from.
Mr Coward seems to be forgetting that the world extends slightly beyond the peripheries of the northern Atlantic.
I'm in Brazil at the moment, and got a message from Facebook today telling me it was on by default. Although as I'm actually European, it makes me wonder how Facebook decides which locale's rules to apply to my profile. Does it automatically opt you in to everything it can as soon as you login from a location with weaker protections?
Given the remoteness of most of these regions, and that RAWs can be upwards of 50MB each, I don't think a phone's data connection would cut it.
Syncing via WiFi to another device could be an option, depending on the scenario, but it's relatively battery intensive so it requires preparation & knowledge of exactly when you're going to shoot. Not so great for journalists travelling in remote regions, often off-the-grid, who need to be able to whip out their camera at a moment's notice.
Government run infrastructure in natural monopolies is always the best solution.
As a card carrying lefty, I wish that were the case. Unfortunately, all monopolies have a tendency to stagnate, and public services are no exception to that. The definitive answer has rarely been simply nationalising/privatising the service, the subsequent monopoly eventually leads us back to where we started.
Big organisations have a habit of falling into bureaucratic ruts that are resistant to change. Some form of competition is needed to pressure them to continue to innovate & improve efficiency.
In our modern capitalist economies, there seems to be a universal cycle: 1. Government creates public infrastructure X that works well & supplies for the population's needs at a reasonable cost; 2. After a number of years, the public infrastructure lacks sufficient improvement and/or bureaucracy becomes a huge drag with no incentive to streamline. Service improvements stagnate & administration costs spiral out of control; 3. The public become disillusioned with the public service & cry for competition; 4. The public infrastructure is privatised to incentivise competition; 5. Competition drives innovation & improved efficiencies; 6. The "winner" eventually becomes a monopoly, kills off competition through sheer market dominance, surpassing the need pressures to innovate, and uses its position in the market to gauge its customers; 7. The public become disillusioned with the high costs & poor service, & demand government intervention with the renationalisation of the service.
Rail, post, utilities, you name it. It's the same story, again & again.
It's a constant battle between monopolies' economies of scale versus the competitive pressure to constantly innovate.
Um, no. As A/C said, it's got nothing to do with seeing a "pixelated" face, we (yup!) see faces perfectly fine. The problem comes down to being able to reliably all of a person's facial characteristics with a specific identity.
Furthermore, as with most psychological quirks, it's a spectrum. If you're affected by it, it doesn't mean that you can simply never identify a face, in some more extreme cases maybe, but in others it just means that you take longer to be able to easily remember & associate all of someone's facial characteristics.
I meant that it was a lingua franca of its time, obviously. I pointed out its being the root of a number of languages as a demonstration that, once upon a time, it must have been in common use across a large geographical area.
From your linked article:
The use of lingua francas has existed since antiquity. Latin and Koine Greek were the lingua francas of the Roman Empire and the Hellenistic culture.
Sounds like you weren't taking due care when crossing an intersection, especially so if you chose to negotiate the crossing on a non-green light. The timing will show both of you failed to correctly heed the signal & sufficiently observe your surroundings.
I love how people love to talk with such authority about the real truths behind the $target_undesirables, as if they're privy to some secret information that the government is oblivious to.
Ugh, seems Slashdot strips chevron wrapped $vairables as invalid HTML.
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e-ink displays, including for laptops, have been around for a while now.
I came across a blog a couple of years ago that was dedicated to documenting swapping out laptop LED monitors with dual-purpose LED/e-ink monitors. I can't find the link now, however Dasung seem to be a known manufacturer.
Um...
This region of space, known as the corona, is filled with tiny, energetic particles that can reach above 3 million degrees Fahrenheit.
Which for the rest of the world, translates as "above 1.5 million degrees Celsius".
He's confusing correlation with causation. ADD's impact on attention, executive skills, & being able to maintain a line of thought, can lead to effects that seem very much like a memory disorder.
When you've got a constant stream of multiple internal dialogues & other distractions circling around your head, it can be quite easy to forget why you walked into a room, where you just put your keys, or the name of the person you met literally only 30 seconds ago.
Judging by your UID, you're a young millennial.
Come back in 15 more years when you start seeing the extended effects of those amphetamines on your nervous system. I took that shit for 12 years, from age 6 to 18. The damage it did is quite noticable. You'll start thinking you're getting Alzheimer's around 35 if you took it as young and as long as I did.
It took me the best part of a decade to get around to actually registering, I've been following /. for almost 20 years now.
I was on a high dose of ritalin from the age of 4, until about 12. I was a victim of all of that bullshit prejudice against the treatment of ADD & fell into the trap of believing all I lacked was disciplined focus & motivation. I pretty much dropped out of school after that.
I had reasonable success in my chosen niche of IT, but I ended up crawling back to the psychiatrist in my mid-20s, as my poor executive skills & time management was playing havoc on my life.
Since going back & accepting help, I'm now the owner of a successful business, manage a couple of federal datacenters, own my own home, & have a family.
Those meds (& a patient wife) gave me the stability I needed to actually make a success of my life.
It's true that the drugs are strong, however I don't take them every day, moderate my dosages, and live an otherwise healthy & active life. But I call bullshit on the suggestion that being on them for a 12 year period of your life has given you the symptoms of Alzheimer's today - effects are still being studied, however we've now got over 30 years of literally millions of patients being treated on amphetamines for ADD, and a good 70+ years since they were first widely used. If the mid-term side-effects were that extreme, it'd have become common knowledge long ago.
I suspect there's a very good chance that what you are identifying as Alzheimer's are actually the symptoms of untreated ADD. Specifically, memory problems due to a mind that's unable to maintain a line of thought.
I've been diagnosed with ADHD since I was a child, and use medication selectively today, adjusting my dosage depending on the demands of the day & how I'm feeling (I only take my full dosage on "bad" days).
Your description is fairly spot on. Anecdotally however, I'm not sure the medication actually has much of a direct affect on memory, it simply helps in maintaining focus on the right things, which in turn helps you record the right things.
You call BS on the parent's comment that much of the rest of the world works as such, and then proceed to use an example from the USA...???!!!
The parent is correct. If you're found with such a large amount of hard cash, you'll be put under a lot of pressure to show where it came from, with the threat of confiscation.
And the US is no different. It's called Civil Forfeiture, and its use/abuse has raised a number of public controversies in the media.
Secondly, are you insinuating that Chinese are flying large sums of currency into the States to make purchases & transactions? Because that is also strictly controlled & must be declared at the threat of forfeiture.
Any such transactions are inherently suspicious, which is the entire point of the regulations.
You're forgetting that those brains need a body. It would neither help the masses, nor affect population levels. Unless the bodies are being artificially grown in their entirety, someone's brain is going to be sacrificed so another can be hosted.
The only ethical solution here would be for the host to already be brain-dead.
Whoosh
Unless whatever analytics they use simply tracks you by your browser's "fingerprint"...
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
https://amiunique.org/
I doubt the people who actually had something insightful & of actual value to add to the conversation would be much deterred by something quite so trivial.
If you can't be arsed to answer a simple question about TFA, then you'd unlikely be arsed enough to contribute anything of any value.
Odd, have you actually checked there aren't any other default schemes available? On all of the OSX, Linux, BSD & Cygwin Vims I've used, it's always included a standard pack to choose from.
http://vimcolors.com/
https://github.com/flazz/vim-c...
For them...
Mr Coward seems to be forgetting that the world extends slightly beyond the peripheries of the northern Atlantic.
I'm in Brazil at the moment, and got a message from Facebook today telling me it was on by default. Although as I'm actually European, it makes me wonder how Facebook decides which locale's rules to apply to my profile. Does it automatically opt you in to everything it can as soon as you login from a location with weaker protections?
Re-read OP
...and who knows, maybe the smartphone could sync with a cloud service to get the images out of the region moments after captured?
Given the remoteness of most of these regions, and that RAWs can be upwards of 50MB each, I don't think a phone's data connection would cut it.
Syncing via WiFi to another device could be an option, depending on the scenario, but it's relatively battery intensive so it requires preparation & knowledge of exactly when you're going to shoot. Not so great for journalists travelling in remote regions, often off-the-grid, who need to be able to whip out their camera at a moment's notice.
Like...RAW? It's routinely used in forensic science & is legally admissible in court as evidence.
You're spraying their food with it though...
The overwhelming majority of livestock are raised on said crops themselves.
Government run infrastructure in natural monopolies is always the best solution.
As a card carrying lefty, I wish that were the case. Unfortunately, all monopolies have a tendency to stagnate, and public services are no exception to that. The definitive answer has rarely been simply nationalising/privatising the service, the subsequent monopoly eventually leads us back to where we started.
Big organisations have a habit of falling into bureaucratic ruts that are resistant to change. Some form of competition is needed to pressure them to continue to innovate & improve efficiency.
In our modern capitalist economies, there seems to be a universal cycle:
1. Government creates public infrastructure X that works well & supplies for the population's needs at a reasonable cost;
2. After a number of years, the public infrastructure lacks sufficient improvement and/or bureaucracy becomes a huge drag with no incentive to streamline. Service improvements stagnate & administration costs spiral out of control;
3. The public become disillusioned with the public service & cry for competition;
4. The public infrastructure is privatised to incentivise competition;
5. Competition drives innovation & improved efficiencies;
6. The "winner" eventually becomes a monopoly, kills off competition through sheer market dominance, surpassing the need pressures to innovate, and uses its position in the market to gauge its customers;
7. The public become disillusioned with the high costs & poor service, & demand government intervention with the renationalisation of the service.
Rail, post, utilities, you name it. It's the same story, again & again.
It's a constant battle between monopolies' economies of scale versus the competitive pressure to constantly innovate.
Um, no. As A/C said, it's got nothing to do with seeing a "pixelated" face, we (yup!) see faces perfectly fine. The problem comes down to being able to reliably all of a person's facial characteristics with a specific identity.
Furthermore, as with most psychological quirks, it's a spectrum. If you're affected by it, it doesn't mean that you can simply never identify a face, in some more extreme cases maybe, but in others it just means that you take longer to be able to easily remember & associate all of someone's facial characteristics.
I meant that it was a lingua franca of its time, obviously. I pointed out its being the root of a number of languages as a demonstration that, once upon a time, it must have been in common use across a large geographical area.
From your linked article:
The use of lingua francas has existed since antiquity. Latin and Koine Greek were the lingua francas of the Roman Empire and the Hellenistic culture.
the world's "lingua franca" ain't Latin
As the root of most of the languages in the modern western world, I'd contest that assertion...
Sounds like you weren't taking due care when crossing an intersection, especially so if you chose to negotiate the crossing on a non-green light. The timing will show both of you failed to correctly heed the signal & sufficiently observe your surroundings.
Ah yes, like those poor Europeans who fled to the "New World" looking for freedom & opportunities, integrating so well with the local populace.
I love how people love to talk with such authority about the real truths behind the $target_undesirables, as if they're privy to some secret information that the government is oblivious to.
Ugh, seems Slashdot strips chevron wrapped $vairables as invalid HTML.