I'm just drawing a distinction in terminology: medically, homeopathy unambiguously does not work, meaning it does not outperform a placebo; IE, it is a placebo. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be used: if the doctor thinks a placebo is the best cure, and homeopathy is the best placebo for the situation, then I don't have any objection to them using it.
I just object to diluting established medical terminology like "works" and "effective".
Sure, you can squeak by on minimum wage if you're very frugal. However, that doesn't include things like saving for retirement, putting the kids through college, health care, etc.
In higher wage jobs, many people are working long hours not by choice, but because their employers are demanding it.
A word of warning: the oil in the tub was almost certainly a full load of pure PCBs. They were ideal for the purpose: highly dielectric, nonflammable, stable. They're great so long as you look past the fact that they're horribly toxic and carcinogenic, so they were very widely used in exactly that kind of application. Be careful if you ever have to crack one open again.
If you're a fellow American, if you're a fellow member of Western Civilization, how does that not offend you to your core? "Their lives exist solely for someone else's profit" is the working definition of slavery. How can you possibly find this to be an acceptable situation?
Americans live to work, not work to live. In our own country we only get two to three weeks off a year, work relatively long hours (40 hours a week is considered a bare minimum slacker level, compared to most of the rest of western civilization where it's considered working yourself to death, let alone the 60-80 hours that MANY Americans have to work), and are completely dependent on staying employed lest we have no health coverage, yet we have poor job security even when we're being good little wage slaves.
That's how it is for lower and most middle class Americans; the upper-middle class at least has some savings to give themselves some safety net, but it's pretty much just how life is for the proverbial 99%.
Compare this to the Tianjin workers in TFA. It's different in degree, but that's not shocking when comparing a thoroughly post-industrialized nation with a developing one.
I'm not saying the situation is acceptable in either case. I'm just not surprised that people aren't outraged when it's not that fundamentally different from the conditions at home.
There's a difference between them not supporting what I'm doing (which was how it worked on the 2G), and their taking active steps to make it as hard as possible. I expected the former, and was happy to take responsibility for my own support (as I now do on my Nexus); it was a change from their former policy when they changed to the latter with their completely obnoxious DRM on the 3GS and later.
locking down new iPhones against jailbreaking and reflashing really, REALLY HARD.... Apple would alienate their most influential and enthusiastic group of hardcore users, and drive them away from the platform.
This has already happened. I was very happy with the original iPhone. Then I got a 3GS... Seriously locked down, boot signatures, the whole thing. I went from being able to trivially able to run whatever software I wanted to having to wait after each software release for someone to crack it (which didn't always happen), make sure that I wasn't going to end up in a dead-end upgrade path (can't downgrade it), and having to use ever increasingly flaky and slow tools. All just to keep my jailbreak.
With the 2G it was just hard enough to keep total noobs from tinkering with things they shouldn't. The 3GS was obnoxiously hard, and was a very clear message from Apple that they didn't want ANYONE tinkering with their toy under any circumstances.
I was QUITE alienated, and within a year I had sworn off Apple. I love the hardware, and iOS is much more polished than Android in many ways, but I insist on being able to open the hood. I now have a Galaxy Nexus and I'm not looking back. This whole patent war has just solidified my convictions.
I don't dispute that Apple has gotten many things right. They made quite a few brilliant moves that have put them in their current position, but that doesn't mean they get everything right.
The patent war is more recent than the things that made them successful. I think they're going to shoot themselves in the foot on this one, but that's just my opinion. We won't know for sure for some years.
Certainly not! I'm just illustrating that there's a disconnect there - maximizing profits by grabbing every possible dime is not what's mandated by law. If the shareholders don't like the course of things, they can either sell their shares or vote out the board. They don't have a case to sue just because a company doesn't take the maximally-profitable course.
Cite: "No, shareholders do not own the corporation. Rather, they own (or in some cases, temporarily hold) a type of security commonly called stock. Both corporate law and economic reasoning support the limited nature of this ownership, and also undermine the claim that directors should always strive to maximize shareholder value." -- http://www.directorship.com/stout-shareholders-as-owners/
That's nice. But you're one guy, with a few extra dollars, saying it's a bad idea. There are tens of thousands of lawyers who say it's a good idea. There's hundreds of thousands of pages from various court decisions, legislative works, and contracts, that support that notion. There's millions of workers that go to work every day to make sure that notion keeps right on ticking. And there's hundreds of billions of dollars backing that notion.
The entire rest of the arena settled on FRAND, generally cross-licensing everything, and focused on out-competing each other with ever better products for quite a while. There were some tiffs, but the complete mess of lawsuits didn't start until Steve decided that Android had to die. So no, it's not just me. It was the entire industry for a long time. Apple is the outlier, not the status quo.
They can, they should, and they must. They have a legal obligation to maximize profits.... If they don't, they can be sued by the shareholders, and the entire board of directors could be thrown out.
Bullshit. They have an obligation to represent the interests of the shareholders. I am a shareholder in several companies, and I am interested in ethical behavior over profits.
That aside, I don't even think it's a good strategy to maximize profits: it may work short term, but turning the patent cold war into a shooting war is going to hurt everyone in the arena long term, Apple included.
Not in my experience. The stuff on the table is vile sugarwater with caramel coloring. When I asked if they had some real maple syrup they were seriously unable to wrap their minds around the idea and tried bringing me sugar-free syrup to appease me. I now just bring my own bottle when I have a 2 AM pancake craving.
Not true - magnetic media requires a minimum magnetic field strength to alter it. Think of it like the friction of a book sitting on a table. If you push very gently on it, nothing happens. It doesn't start moving just because you start pushing in random directions either. However, at some point if you push hard enough the static friction is overcome.
The effect is called coercivity. Old floppies required around 300 Oe, and were thus easily damaged by moderately strong magnets. Credit cards and modern hard drives are around 4000 Oe. More examples.
Earth's magnetic field is less than 1 Oe. It's not in the league to even begin pushing magnetic domains around on modern media no matter how much they move.
They really don't care unless you can show significant damages. For $500, they will just ignore you. For $5000 in documented damages they'll take a report and file it somewhere never to be seen again. For $50k they'll actually keep your information around in case they can use you as a part of a larger case. For $500k they may take you seriously.
Citation: my own experience calling the feds when cleaning up messes.
AAC, MP3, H.264, etc, are all high latency codecs. They're great for pre-encoded audio, but there's actually a considerable opportunity for a new codec to move in for low-latency use. Opus has a good chance to fill that niche.
A few years ago I started setting my desk up lefty: keyboard on the right, mouse on the left. This means that the QWERTY section is dead center and that reaching over to the mouse is a much shorter distance. My typing speed is up considerably and my right wrist no longer bends at a weird angle.
Retraining to mouse left-handed was easy. It took a few days of being a fumbling klutz but now it's completely natural. Having to buy ambidextrous mice really limits your options though.
You lefties DO NOT want a lefty keyboard. That just gets you back to the same dysfunction that I had to escape. I want a lefty keyboard. Does anyone know of a lefty keyboard with light clicky keyswitches (Cherry MX Blues are perfect)?
Can't they have the healthy attitude of accepting the flaws exist and be helpful to those looking for solutions? is it too much to ask?
Well, it's complicated. There are a few very prolific malcontents who were following up on every. damn. thread. they could shoehorn themselves into ranting about how this is yet another failing of the foundation...
The foundation, for their part, seem to be noobs when it comes to moderating forums, and haven't yet gotten the hang of carefully proportioned response.
Both sides kinda suck and are turning this into more drama and less collaboration than would be ideal.
Traditionally, it was the wagon used to get people to and from a train station. Brits call it an estate; this is probably similarly linked to their driving problem.
Also, a 2-door station wagon is called a "shooting brake" for similar historical reasons: a brake was a light wagon used to break in horses; a shooting brake was a variant used to go hunting.
I'd get my testimony and any relevant information in my possession as widely distributed as I could. Once the information is beyond containing, stopping me will no longer solve my opponent's problem. They'll have bigger problems to worry about than me.
How's that working out for Julian Assange? Once you spread the information, their priority changes from containment to revenge.
but the only ones that really scarred me are ones of sick fucks torturing animals. Sometimes it's in the same of science; sometimes it's just sadism. But nothing leaves me more ashamed of my species, and those are the ones that are scorched into my retinas and will never come out.
NASA should offer the chance to laser-engrave your name on a Martian rock. For megabucks, they could write your name in giant cursive with the rover's wheel tracks; all applications must include a program written in LOGO.
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I'm just drawing a distinction in terminology: medically, homeopathy unambiguously does not work, meaning it does not outperform a placebo; IE, it is a placebo. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be used: if the doctor thinks a placebo is the best cure, and homeopathy is the best placebo for the situation, then I don't have any objection to them using it.
I just object to diluting established medical terminology like "works" and "effective".
In a medical context, "Working" means performing better than a placebo. By this definition, homeopathy DOES NOT work.
Sure, you can squeak by on minimum wage if you're very frugal. However, that doesn't include things like saving for retirement, putting the kids through college, health care, etc.
In higher wage jobs, many people are working long hours not by choice, but because their employers are demanding it.
A word of warning: the oil in the tub was almost certainly a full load of pure PCBs. They were ideal for the purpose: highly dielectric, nonflammable, stable. They're great so long as you look past the fact that they're horribly toxic and carcinogenic, so they were very widely used in exactly that kind of application. Be careful if you ever have to crack one open again.
If you're a fellow American, if you're a fellow member of Western Civilization, how does that not offend you to your core? "Their lives exist solely for someone else's profit" is the working definition of slavery. How can you possibly find this to be an acceptable situation?
Americans live to work, not work to live. In our own country we only get two to three weeks off a year, work relatively long hours (40 hours a week is considered a bare minimum slacker level, compared to most of the rest of western civilization where it's considered working yourself to death, let alone the 60-80 hours that MANY Americans have to work), and are completely dependent on staying employed lest we have no health coverage, yet we have poor job security even when we're being good little wage slaves.
That's how it is for lower and most middle class Americans; the upper-middle class at least has some savings to give themselves some safety net, but it's pretty much just how life is for the proverbial 99%.
Compare this to the Tianjin workers in TFA. It's different in degree, but that's not shocking when comparing a thoroughly post-industrialized nation with a developing one.
I'm not saying the situation is acceptable in either case. I'm just not surprised that people aren't outraged when it's not that fundamentally different from the conditions at home.
There's a difference between them not supporting what I'm doing (which was how it worked on the 2G), and their taking active steps to make it as hard as possible. I expected the former, and was happy to take responsibility for my own support (as I now do on my Nexus); it was a change from their former policy when they changed to the latter with their completely obnoxious DRM on the 3GS and later.
locking down new iPhones against jailbreaking and reflashing really, REALLY HARD. ... Apple would alienate their most influential and enthusiastic group of hardcore users, and drive them away from the platform.
This has already happened. I was very happy with the original iPhone. Then I got a 3GS... Seriously locked down, boot signatures, the whole thing. I went from being able to trivially able to run whatever software I wanted to having to wait after each software release for someone to crack it (which didn't always happen), make sure that I wasn't going to end up in a dead-end upgrade path (can't downgrade it), and having to use ever increasingly flaky and slow tools. All just to keep my jailbreak.
With the 2G it was just hard enough to keep total noobs from tinkering with things they shouldn't. The 3GS was obnoxiously hard, and was a very clear message from Apple that they didn't want ANYONE tinkering with their toy under any circumstances.
I was QUITE alienated, and within a year I had sworn off Apple. I love the hardware, and iOS is much more polished than Android in many ways, but I insist on being able to open the hood. I now have a Galaxy Nexus and I'm not looking back. This whole patent war has just solidified my convictions.
I don't dispute that Apple has gotten many things right. They made quite a few brilliant moves that have put them in their current position, but that doesn't mean they get everything right.
The patent war is more recent than the things that made them successful. I think they're going to shoot themselves in the foot on this one, but that's just my opinion. We won't know for sure for some years.
And you speak for all the shareholders?
Certainly not! I'm just illustrating that there's a disconnect there - maximizing profits by grabbing every possible dime is not what's mandated by law. If the shareholders don't like the course of things, they can either sell their shares or vote out the board. They don't have a case to sue just because a company doesn't take the maximally-profitable course.
Cite: "No, shareholders do not own the corporation. Rather, they own (or in some cases, temporarily hold) a type of security commonly called stock. Both corporate law and economic reasoning support the limited nature of this ownership, and also undermine the claim that directors should always strive to maximize shareholder value." -- http://www.directorship.com/stout-shareholders-as-owners/
That's nice. But you're one guy, with a few extra dollars, saying it's a bad idea. There are tens of thousands of lawyers who say it's a good idea. There's hundreds of thousands of pages from various court decisions, legislative works, and contracts, that support that notion. There's millions of workers that go to work every day to make sure that notion keeps right on ticking. And there's hundreds of billions of dollars backing that notion.
The entire rest of the arena settled on FRAND, generally cross-licensing everything, and focused on out-competing each other with ever better products for quite a while. There were some tiffs, but the complete mess of lawsuits didn't start until Steve decided that Android had to die. So no, it's not just me. It was the entire industry for a long time. Apple is the outlier, not the status quo.
They can, they should, and they must. They have a legal obligation to maximize profits. ... If they don't, they can be sued by the shareholders, and the entire board of directors could be thrown out.
Bullshit. They have an obligation to represent the interests of the shareholders. I am a shareholder in several companies, and I am interested in ethical behavior over profits.
That aside, I don't even think it's a good strategy to maximize profits: it may work short term, but turning the patent cold war into a shooting war is going to hurt everyone in the arena long term, Apple included.
Not in my experience. The stuff on the table is vile sugarwater with caramel coloring. When I asked if they had some real maple syrup they were seriously unable to wrap their minds around the idea and tried bringing me sugar-free syrup to appease me. I now just bring my own bottle when I have a 2 AM pancake craving.
It feels like someone could have heard a story about the dwindling dolphins around 10 years ago, traveled to China, and done something about it.
Douglas Adams took a shot at doing just that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See
Unfortunately it wasn't enough.
I don't expect any different. I'm just noting that the feds aren't going to care at all about what the OP posted about.
Not true - magnetic media requires a minimum magnetic field strength to alter it. Think of it like the friction of a book sitting on a table. If you push very gently on it, nothing happens. It doesn't start moving just because you start pushing in random directions either. However, at some point if you push hard enough the static friction is overcome.
The effect is called coercivity. Old floppies required around 300 Oe, and were thus easily damaged by moderately strong magnets. Credit cards and modern hard drives are around 4000 Oe. More examples.
Earth's magnetic field is less than 1 Oe. It's not in the league to even begin pushing magnetic domains around on modern media no matter how much they move.
They really don't care unless you can show significant damages. For $500, they will just ignore you. For $5000 in documented damages they'll take a report and file it somewhere never to be seen again. For $50k they'll actually keep your information around in case they can use you as a part of a larger case. For $500k they may take you seriously.
Citation: my own experience calling the feds when cleaning up messes.
AAC, MP3, H.264, etc, are all high latency codecs. They're great for pre-encoded audio, but there's actually a considerable opportunity for a new codec to move in for low-latency use. Opus has a good chance to fill that niche.
A few years ago I started setting my desk up lefty: keyboard on the right, mouse on the left. This means that the QWERTY section is dead center and that reaching over to the mouse is a much shorter distance. My typing speed is up considerably and my right wrist no longer bends at a weird angle.
Retraining to mouse left-handed was easy. It took a few days of being a fumbling klutz but now it's completely natural. Having to buy ambidextrous mice really limits your options though.
You lefties DO NOT want a lefty keyboard. That just gets you back to the same dysfunction that I had to escape. I want a lefty keyboard. Does anyone know of a lefty keyboard with light clicky keyswitches (Cherry MX Blues are perfect)?
Can't they have the healthy attitude of accepting the flaws exist and be helpful to those looking for solutions? is it too much to ask?
Well, it's complicated. There are a few very prolific malcontents who were following up on every. damn. thread. they could shoehorn themselves into ranting about how this is yet another failing of the foundation ...
The foundation, for their part, seem to be noobs when it comes to moderating forums, and haven't yet gotten the hang of carefully proportioned response.
Both sides kinda suck and are turning this into more drama and less collaboration than would be ideal.
Traditionally, it was the wagon used to get people to and from a train station. Brits call it an estate; this is probably similarly linked to their driving problem.
Also, a 2-door station wagon is called a "shooting brake" for similar historical reasons: a brake was a light wagon used to break in horses; a shooting brake was a variant used to go hunting.
It only goes about 1 Km/h with the remote. It's not much of a missile.
I'd get my testimony and any relevant information in my possession as widely distributed as I could. Once the information is beyond containing, stopping me will no longer solve my opponent's problem. They'll have bigger problems to worry about than me.
How's that working out for Julian Assange? Once you spread the information, their priority changes from containment to revenge.
Human powered has been done, sort of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland_Gamera_II_Human_Powered_Helicopter
It only flies in ground effect, but they've gotten it in the air for nearly a minute (with someone in much better shape than me pedaling like mad).
but the only ones that really scarred me are ones of sick fucks torturing animals. Sometimes it's in the same of science; sometimes it's just sadism. But nothing leaves me more ashamed of my species, and those are the ones that are scorched into my retinas and will never come out.
And then the dust devils will come and wipe it off ...
That's a feature, not a bug! It'd give the corporate sponsors some coverage without permanently defacing the surface of the planet.
NASA should offer the chance to laser-engrave your name on a Martian rock. For megabucks, they could write your name in giant cursive with the rover's wheel tracks; all applications must include a program written in LOGO.