Advertising must be "legal, decent honest and truthful" (at least, it does in this country), so if you read what is actually said in the advertising, and carefully understand it, then you have redress through standard consumer law if you have an issue.
Of course, part of the skill of advertising is to say one thing which readers will interpret to mean something else. But that is the fault of advert readers hearing what they want to hear for whatever reason.
I don't have to write advertising. But I do have to write technical reports that sometimes break extremely expensive bad news to customers. You'll be surprised just how keen people are to hear what they want to hear instead of what you're telling them.
Additionally, a previous Phoronix article stated they only got remote access for testing this thing - so at present this is basically the equivalent of a Kickstarter promise.
How do you make the equation "only getting remote access" EQUALS "the equivalent of a Kickstarter promise."?
The company are reasonably well-known (I looked at them several years ago when I was considering replacing my day-to-day laptop with one whose video chip hadn't just got static-fried), and they're very open about saying that they're evaluating options for building an entry into this market (see footnote). So they probably have a total of TWO systems at the moment - the one they're experimenting on, and a second one for testing and promotions and customer evaluation. So, are they going to spend hundreds of dollars shipping one of those two systems around a series of publicity sites, giving them (say) 2 days with the machine, and several times a week having to say "we DID tell you you need a 220V power supply. What, it's not booting... describe the output form the BIOS..." you're talking tech support hell, and you'll have crippled your development programme.
The alternative is to set the machine up with remote access via a VPN and displaying the screens remotely on their terminals. Then all hardware issues you have your own technical people on hand. Timing and benchmarking can be carried out just as well. IF the customer has (per my example in the footnote) a data library they want to do a test on, they can send you the hard drive in advance and book a slot on the machine to run their tests next Thursday afternoon.
Hang on - have you ever actually worked on a time-shared system? One where you prepare your job set one week, and get the tapes of the run and the error logs back a few days later? That's what I think of when I hear "workstation".
Footnote
I see workstations like this hauled to site for data acquisition routinely - a few terabytes of new raw data per day, but you need to process it and incorporate it with terabytes of existing data from the surrounding area which has been subject to months of detailed evaluation and interpretation. Someone asked upthread what you'd need to use 128GB of RAM for : seismic data processing will eat that happily. And with a boat for data acquisition running about a half million dollars a day and a crew of 50-odd, you're not going to quibble at tens of kilo-bucks for a workstation or several.
Don't be too sure. A point will come where NOR flash densities will surpass NAND,
Well, when that point is several years in the past, be sure to let me know, and if I haven't heard of a solid-state drive failure for several years, I'll consider buying some when I next need mass storage.
I have multiple devices - more than a typical hotel provides sockets for. So I carry a 4-way or 6-way power extension lead for my home-country's type of wall socket. Then I have all the usual chargers (my laptop; company's laptop; client's laptop ; generic USB charger ; camera battery charger) , which plug into that. This works if I'm at work in my home country, at a clinet in my home country, at a client in their home country, or at work in any other country (e.g., where the client is operating).
I additionally carry ONE adaptor each for home-country to US ; and home-country to European "Shucko" (which is mostly compatible with Russian). And I carry a multimeter and a screwdriver - but I carry them normally anyway.
In combination, this then gives me 4 (or 6) sockets to my home country, in any country in the world. Well, any country I've met so far. I've occasionally had problems with only having South African sockets available.
As I've said before, the reasons for "removing" "planet status" from Pluto (or, more strictly, defining "planet" and finding that it doesn't include Pluto) are not the reasons you give, but they are reasons.
For an accessible summary, see Hal Levison's "hand waving explanation." These may not be the criteria that you consider important, but the way to change that is to devote the couple of decades necessary to become a sufficiently respected voice in planetary science, and then to go and argue your case.
Hint : it's science. It is not a democracy. It is a meritocracy, with your merit being judged on the basis of your published work.
What is this thing you call an "anomalous result"? This can't happen to me. That's implying that I can't see an obvious problem before it happens, and that CANNOT be true.
[end outraged voice]
One of the things that you learn with experience is that you can actually be wrong. It's one of the things that a lot of people these days have to actually learn, because they haven't learned it in their pre-teen or teenage years.
For the last several years I've been introducing "Bright Young Things", recently recruited to a major company to work in managing the acquisition of data from the Real World. They too, despite being bright people, have to learn that they don't know everything, and that the Real World has things going on that they don't know about, and don't understand.
Plainly, from the scenario, measuring the humidity wasn't part of the original experimental plan. The experiment is already running, and what the lecturer is saying is that (some of) his students don't conceive that there might be something worth recording that isn't in the experiment plan. Realising that your plans may be wrong is the first step. THEN you go on to "well, what can I do about this.
You'd also be able to (probably) tell if there were a humidity effect by doing parameter-free ANOVA on your existing data, or attempting to back-estimate the humidity on other days of the experiment, in order to determine if there is an effect, if it's large enough to be detectable, and if it's large enough to be worth the £40 tool, the £130 tool, or simply taking a humidity report from the weather website.
You can only play it back on the device you recorded it on?
When I was looking for a PVR for TV, this is what I was told about the "record to USB" options.
What if that hardware gets upgraded?
You lose all your content. Tough shit. Read the fucking contract. If you don't have a hardware device that stores the content (possibly in a "disc" form factor), then you don't own it.
The dinosaurs have never been away, and since their species count is about twice that of the mammals, it's a very moot point if it's the dinosaurs or the mammals that are dominant on thee planet.
Of course, the bacteria are the real rulers, in biomass, and range of habitats.
Let's say that I have a couple of petabytes of full-spectrum (21cm hydrogen through to gamma-ray) data files from a range of telescopes on Earth and in space, and my intermediate processing files... that's a photograph, to a pretty close approximation. Are you going to recognise the format?
Marketing should have listened to Technical.
(It not an unreasonable example - a few years ago I did a practical astronomy course for the Open University when I had to face as couple-of-gigabyte version of this problem, and the problem of getting the dump from the working machines in the observatory to the other 4 members of my work group, in 3 countries, when I was the only one who had the forethought to bring a spare hard drive with me.)
You seemed to be trying to make a point the eugenics is only eugenics if it's carried out by government-level groups, and if it's carried out by individuals, then it's something else. That is not how the term was defined when it was invented by Galton, and since he invented the term and publicised it in the scientific literature, he got to define what it meant.
People do, at the moment, in most of the world, have some degree of choice over who they mate with and whether they have children. Of course, neither of those are absolute freedoms - in much of the world (but not all), the consent of both people is required ; in significant parts of the world, the right to access contraception is severely restricted, if not flat out illegal ; personally, I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised to see those freedoms further restricted as the right-wing continue their rise to ascendency into the next major war.
You are precisely wrong. You are conflating the fact that the German Nazi government promoted eugenics with the idea that the meaning of "eugenics" changed meaning at that time. Regardless of who chooses to do it or why (or even how), deliberately trying to change breeding habits to people to bring about a desired change in genetics is eugenics.
(Incidentally, at that time eugenics was very popular with other governments too. this was the era when the US and UK governments forcibly sterilised thousands of people in insane asylums, and for offences such as being poor. The testing of immigrants for IQ at Ellis Island was part of this move too.)
I'll expand on that "how" : there are two ways you can produce a change in gene frequencies in a population - you can cull some genes from the population (by sterilisation, or by murder - same outcome) OR you can try to persuade particular "desirable" groups to have more children - which is what Galton proposed in the 1870s and onwards, and deranged idiots like the "Quiverful" movement and the Catholic Church are continuing with to this day.
If you were a farmer, or a dog breeder, you too would be practising eugenics on the populations you control, though the term isn't generally used for non-human animals.
And while it [antibiotic-resistant bacteria] hasn't happened yet,
You need to be much more careful about how you say this. There isn't an antibiotic in use today to which there aren't some resistant bacteria somewhere. (There's an outbreak of resistant bacteria to the newest family of antibiotics - the ones that replace methicillins and vancomycins - in China at the moment.) What hasn't happened yet is that one bacterial strain has been resistant to all known antibiotics, and found in the wild. Yet.
I'm certain the artist took some liberty with the colors, but that's an intriguing painting.
Black and brown, in various intensities? I don't see any liberties there. Those are the colours that were inferred in the first melanocyte-mapping papers from... it was about 2005, wasn't it?
The descendants of the dinosaurs - birds, see signature - have a wide range of colours available. The other descendants of the ancestors of dinosaurs (mammals and the paraphyletic bucket called "reptiles") also have a wide range of colours available. An argument called a "phylogenetic bracket" suggests that the dinosaurs also had a similarly wide palette available.
What you mean is that genetic choice should be made by individuals [..] rather than by governments, in which case it's called eugenics.
you've obviously not studied the history of eugenics, which was originally precisely an encouragement of individuals to breed more offspring with (it was hoped) good ("eu-") genes ("-genic").
Look up Francis Galton, the main founder of the movement.
Different areas have different controlling authorities at different times. Just for starters, the airspace downrange from the South Uist missile launch range goes on military control from time to time. The airspace around the foreign nuclear missile bases is, surprisingly, under foreign control. Some of the airspace is under control of the UK's civilian aviation authority near London (i.e. foreign control). Other airspace in the North Sea is under control from somewhere in Fife (not sure if that's a Scottish government or a British government control).
Like any country with several borders with peers, it's a complex mess. That means just about any country that isn't the US or Canada.
My former address was on a street built in the late 1930s, with the expectation that the road would be used for deliveries and no-one would actually own a vehicle. So, no-off-road parking space. When I moved there in the early 1990s, maybe 1/3 of the houses had cars (obviously there was no off-road parking). When I moved away most houses had a car. Obviously the road was packed with parked cars, with only one lane for both directions of traffic.
Speed bumps were installed at every leg of every junction, and that dropped speeds by about 5 - 8 mph, though people were still speeding between the bumps. An improvement, but not a great improvement.
When I moved out, I went to an area where the roads had been designed with car ownership in mind, so every house had at least one parking space off-road (and one house still had four cars!). But more importantly, there was no straight stretch of road longer than about 10 metres. Everywhere was twists and turns ; corners were abrupt ; parking bays (for guests or deliveries) swapped from one side to the other unpredictably. Driving along the road was limited to about 10mph - far slower than on the road retro-fitted with speed humps.
Speed humps are better than nothing, but designing roads to slow traffic is much more effective. Speed humps are only a cheap retro-fit solution to roads designed without the needs of pedestrians in mind.
People in the process of learning the game normally start in the mid 30s of kyu and will frequently strengthen by several kyu per game until they get to the low twenties. After that, you really need to start sitting down to formally learn set pieces (e.g. how 1-stone or 2-stone jumps can be cut - and therefore when to do a 1-stone extension instead of a 2-stone extension).
It took me about 8 months simultaneously learning and running a teaching club to get to 14 kyu. Then it took another year to make 11 kyu. And there I've stagnated for nearly 30 years, because I only get about 2 or 3 games a year. (I've tried playing online. I hate it.)
No use. Different country. As far as I know, precedents don't transfer between countries.
There's nothing to stop them using the argument though. Whether it works under the property and tort laws of Colvada or wherever your problem is... you need a local lawyer.
You noticed how the commonest pre-politician employment of politicians is "lawyer" ; and who do you think they write laws to benefit?
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Of course, part of the skill of advertising is to say one thing which readers will interpret to mean something else. But that is the fault of advert readers hearing what they want to hear for whatever reason.
I don't have to write advertising. But I do have to write technical reports that sometimes break extremely expensive bad news to customers. You'll be surprised just how keen people are to hear what they want to hear instead of what you're telling them.
That would be this article?
How do you make the equation "only getting remote access" EQUALS "the equivalent of a Kickstarter promise."?
The company are reasonably well-known (I looked at them several years ago when I was considering replacing my day-to-day laptop with one whose video chip hadn't just got static-fried), and they're very open about saying that they're evaluating options for building an entry into this market (see footnote). So they probably have a total of TWO systems at the moment - the one they're experimenting on, and a second one for testing and promotions and customer evaluation. So, are they going to spend hundreds of dollars shipping one of those two systems around a series of publicity sites, giving them (say) 2 days with the machine, and several times a week having to say "we DID tell you you need a 220V power supply. What, it's not booting ... describe the output form the BIOS ..." you're talking tech support hell, and you'll have crippled your development programme.
The alternative is to set the machine up with remote access via a VPN and displaying the screens remotely on their terminals. Then all hardware issues you have your own technical people on hand. Timing and benchmarking can be carried out just as well. IF the customer has (per my example in the footnote) a data library they want to do a test on, they can send you the hard drive in advance and book a slot on the machine to run their tests next Thursday afternoon.
Hang on - have you ever actually worked on a time-shared system? One where you prepare your job set one week, and get the tapes of the run and the error logs back a few days later? That's what I think of when I hear "workstation".
Footnote
I see workstations like this hauled to site for data acquisition routinely - a few terabytes of new raw data per day, but you need to process it and incorporate it with terabytes of existing data from the surrounding area which has been subject to months of detailed evaluation and interpretation. Someone asked upthread what you'd need to use 128GB of RAM for : seismic data processing will eat that happily. And with a boat for data acquisition running about a half million dollars a day and a crew of 50-odd, you're not going to quibble at tens of kilo-bucks for a workstation or several.
The biggest killers of humans in all history are still out there, brewing up new attacks and devastations.
Disease bacteria. Opportunistic wound-invading, skin-attacking and gut-attacking moulds, viruses and bacteria.
And of, the biggest killer of all - other humans, by various means.
Well, when that point is several years in the past, be sure to let me know, and if I haven't heard of a solid-state drive failure for several years, I'll consider buying some when I next need mass storage.
I additionally carry ONE adaptor each for home-country to US ; and home-country to European "Shucko" (which is mostly compatible with Russian). And I carry a multimeter and a screwdriver - but I carry them normally anyway.
In combination, this then gives me 4 (or 6) sockets to my home country, in any country in the world. Well, any country I've met so far. I've occasionally had problems with only having South African sockets available.
The OP specifically stated that the power supplies under discussion are rated to take 110 or 240 V. This is not an issue.
For an accessible summary, see Hal Levison's "hand waving explanation." These may not be the criteria that you consider important, but the way to change that is to devote the couple of decades necessary to become a sufficiently respected voice in planetary science, and then to go and argue your case.
Hint : it's science. It is not a democracy. It is a meritocracy, with your merit being judged on the basis of your published work.
What is this thing you call an "anomalous result"? This can't happen to me. That's implying that I can't see an obvious problem before it happens, and that CANNOT be true.
[end outraged voice]
One of the things that you learn with experience is that you can actually be wrong. It's one of the things that a lot of people these days have to actually learn, because they haven't learned it in their pre-teen or teenage years.
For the last several years I've been introducing "Bright Young Things", recently recruited to a major company to work in managing the acquisition of data from the Real World. They too, despite being bright people, have to learn that they don't know everything, and that the Real World has things going on that they don't know about, and don't understand.
It's an education for them.
You've never had to install sensor cabling, have you?
Plainly, from the scenario, measuring the humidity wasn't part of the original experimental plan. The experiment is already running, and what the lecturer is saying is that (some of) his students don't conceive that there might be something worth recording that isn't in the experiment plan. Realising that your plans may be wrong is the first step. THEN you go on to "well, what can I do about this.
You'd also be able to (probably) tell if there were a humidity effect by doing parameter-free ANOVA on your existing data, or attempting to back-estimate the humidity on other days of the experiment, in order to determine if there is an effect, if it's large enough to be detectable, and if it's large enough to be worth the £40 tool, the £130 tool, or simply taking a humidity report from the weather website.
When I was looking for a PVR for TV, this is what I was told about the "record to USB" options.
You lose all your content. Tough shit. Read the fucking contract. If you don't have a hardware device that stores the content (possibly in a "disc" form factor), then you don't own it.
Eh, what?
I've never owned an iPhone, so WTF is that about? Or is it something for your phone contract?
Of course, the bacteria are the real rulers, in biomass, and range of habitats.
Marketing should have listened to Technical.
(It not an unreasonable example - a few years ago I did a practical astronomy course for the Open University when I had to face as couple-of-gigabyte version of this problem, and the problem of getting the dump from the working machines in the observatory to the other 4 members of my work group, in 3 countries, when I was the only one who had the forethought to bring a spare hard drive with me.)
People do, at the moment, in most of the world, have some degree of choice over who they mate with and whether they have children. Of course, neither of those are absolute freedoms - in much of the world (but not all), the consent of both people is required ; in significant parts of the world, the right to access contraception is severely restricted, if not flat out illegal ; personally, I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised to see those freedoms further restricted as the right-wing continue their rise to ascendency into the next major war.
(Incidentally, at that time eugenics was very popular with other governments too. this was the era when the US and UK governments forcibly sterilised thousands of people in insane asylums, and for offences such as being poor. The testing of immigrants for IQ at Ellis Island was part of this move too.)
I'll expand on that "how" : there are two ways you can produce a change in gene frequencies in a population - you can cull some genes from the population (by sterilisation, or by murder - same outcome) OR you can try to persuade particular "desirable" groups to have more children - which is what Galton proposed in the 1870s and onwards, and deranged idiots like the "Quiverful" movement and the Catholic Church are continuing with to this day.
If you were a farmer, or a dog breeder, you too would be practising eugenics on the populations you control, though the term isn't generally used for non-human animals.
I think that's a job for the incoming, meatbag-eating alien overlords.
You need to be much more careful about how you say this. There isn't an antibiotic in use today to which there aren't some resistant bacteria somewhere. (There's an outbreak of resistant bacteria to the newest family of antibiotics - the ones that replace methicillins and vancomycins - in China at the moment.) What hasn't happened yet is that one bacterial strain has been resistant to all known antibiotics, and found in the wild. Yet.
Black and brown, in various intensities? I don't see any liberties there. Those are the colours that were inferred in the first melanocyte-mapping papers from ... it was about 2005, wasn't it?
The descendants of the dinosaurs - birds, see signature - have a wide range of colours available. The other descendants of the ancestors of dinosaurs (mammals and the paraphyletic bucket called "reptiles") also have a wide range of colours available. An argument called a "phylogenetic bracket" suggests that the dinosaurs also had a similarly wide palette available.
you've obviously not studied the history of eugenics, which was originally precisely an encouragement of individuals to breed more offspring with (it was hoped) good ("eu-") genes ("-genic").
Look up Francis Galton, the main founder of the movement.
Like any country with several borders with peers, it's a complex mess. That means just about any country that isn't the US or Canada.
...but not very well.
My former address was on a street built in the late 1930s, with the expectation that the road would be used for deliveries and no-one would actually own a vehicle. So, no-off-road parking space. When I moved there in the early 1990s, maybe 1/3 of the houses had cars (obviously there was no off-road parking). When I moved away most houses had a car. Obviously the road was packed with parked cars, with only one lane for both directions of traffic.
Speed bumps were installed at every leg of every junction, and that dropped speeds by about 5 - 8 mph, though people were still speeding between the bumps. An improvement, but not a great improvement.
When I moved out, I went to an area where the roads had been designed with car ownership in mind, so every house had at least one parking space off-road (and one house still had four cars!). But more importantly, there was no straight stretch of road longer than about 10 metres. Everywhere was twists and turns ; corners were abrupt ; parking bays (for guests or deliveries) swapped from one side to the other unpredictably. Driving along the road was limited to about 10mph - far slower than on the road retro-fitted with speed humps.
Speed humps are better than nothing, but designing roads to slow traffic is much more effective. Speed humps are only a cheap retro-fit solution to roads designed without the needs of pedestrians in mind.
At least our overlords are asking us which side we want to be whipped on first.
It took me about 8 months simultaneously learning and running a teaching club to get to 14 kyu. Then it took another year to make 11 kyu. And there I've stagnated for nearly 30 years, because I only get about 2 or 3 games a year. (I've tried playing online. I hate it.)
There's nothing to stop them using the argument though. Whether it works under the property and tort laws of Colvada or wherever your problem is ... you need a local lawyer.
You noticed how the commonest pre-politician employment of politicians is "lawyer" ; and who do you think they write laws to benefit?