I don't think we're getting less cancers now than we did in 1960.
We're getting more. By a very wide margin. But what's in question is whether that's caused by EMI from our electronic devices, or whether it's caused by contaminants in the environment. My money's on a mix of the two, with the bulk of the cause lying in the contaminants in the environment: We're eating a hell of a lot more toxic stuff now than we did 50 years ago. It's in our food, it's in our water, it's in the air. Individual devices/cars may be cleaner now than they were in the 60's, but there's so many more of them that the cumulative effect is much worse.
We're still waiting on the results of some longitudinal studies into whether EMI actually causes a problem. Frankly, without results from 30-year studies, we really can't know whether the cell phones actually have an effect like that. Besides, I don't know about you, but most of the time my cell phone is either in my purse (substitute laptop bag if you don't carry a purse) or sitting on my desk, and I spend a heck of a lot more time texting than I do actually on the phone. I don't think that I, or most of the younger generation for that matter, am at a very large risk from cell phones.
So... what you're saying is you want an iPad with Skype installed? After all, that's a very thin 10" tablet, it supports bluetooth, Skype would let you make phone calls, and you can get a "Digital AV" adapter that allows you to plug an external monitor into it.....
Depends on the wristwatch. I know several people who wear a dive computer as a wristwatch for their day-to-day use... those can be somewhat unwieldy compared to some other watches on the market, and aren't much bigger than the ones discussed in the submission.
That said, there's a reason dive computers are that big... they can be built into smaller devices, but are deliberately that big so that they can have large easy-to-read displays. Kind of an important thing when you're 100 feet under water, diving a wreck where the only light is coming from your safety lamp. When you don't need a display that big, it seems kind of pointless to wear a device of that size, especially when you already have a phone that does all of the above, and is in a form factor where having a screen with a usable size, or a fold-out keyboard, isn't going to make you look like an idiot.
You *could* fly from Van to Ottawa and rent a car... Boston is only a 10h drive from here.
That said, that may not save you from the naked body scanners if the cons get their way. They want to buy the damned things for Canadian airports, too.
Some inexpensive laptops, too... my $400 Dell Vostro V130, for example, has a really good 13" matte screen on it.
And you bring up my first reaction to reading this article.... "great, until it gets covered in fingerprints and dust". I definitely prefer a matte screen since I started working in an area where there's sunlight.:)
Yeah, it sucks that Apple's stuff uses a different cable than any other device, but that's the way it's going to be until the industry comes up with a standard connector that does everything that the Apple connector does
It's called Micro USB. Every device I've had for quite some time has a standard Micro USB connector on it. The cables are ubiquitous, and it is capable of everything that the Apple connector does. You may not have the software to allow audio playback through the connector as a dock, which is about the only feature I can think of which you may think is missing, but it certainly can be done: just look at some of the phones that HTC is putting out.
This one, for example, had a Micro USB connector that you could connect to any device that supports USB to mount the device as a hard drive, there was software available to synch the phone's contacts/etc. over the USB port, and the dock/speaker out/headphone out was through that same port. They sold dock devices that could plug directly into the port, and they also sold adapters to turn the port into a 3.5mm headphone jack if you wanted to use 3rd party headphones. And if you lost your cable, you could still use *any* Micro USB cable to connect the device to your computer/transfer files, or to charge it.
And if you don't like Micro USB, then everything the Apple proprietary connectors do can be duplicated with a standard HDMI connection, as well. There are devices on the market that use HDMI in exactly the same way that HTC used the Micro USB on the Dream (and several other phones since then). In fact, there's no reason *any* connection that allows you to send information two-ways couldn't be used to duplicate all of the features that you can get with the Apple connectors, there's just no point in adapting another to the purpose when there's already alternatives freely available. Apple are the ones that decided to use something different from a standard that already existed on the market, and they did it specifically to control the supply of cables for their device.
1% of net income isn't a hefty penalty, IMO. Try 10% of gross. Per infringement. Assessed as the greater of the values for the year the patent is filed, or the year the patent is overturned, for every patent you file for which there's demonstrated to be prior art or for which the general industry concensus is that you have filed a patent on a fundamental concept.
That's a simulator of the firmware, so you can poke around in it and see what it's capable of. Some of the naming in the firmware is a bit weird, but I speak from experience when I say that it's a very good router: I have two of them that I'm currently using as I type this. One is at a charity I volunteer with, and they haven't had any problems at all since the install, and the other is running my home network.
Of note, the one that's running my home network has *very* good wireless coverage... good enough that the setup it replaced was actually a router + 2 access points connected by powerline networking between them. The joys of living in a 2800sqft bungalow. I placed it centrally, and it works fine, even having no trouble passing through the kitchen with a 30-year old microwave that I'm too lazy to replace and a hanging ceiling.
It supports OpenDNS and DynDNS updates (it's updating my own DynDNS account, which I use to SSH in to a local system), and while it supports the ability to configure a secondary router as an access point, as I said, there's no need to configure a bridge like that because the wireless coverage is good enough. It also has support for plugging in a USB hard drive or printer, and sharing it via SAMBA, and again from experience, it gets pretty good throughput on the network hard drive capabilities.
And as an added bonus, you won't need to void the warranty by installing a 3rd party firmware to get these features. It supports *almost* everything that Tomato supports out of the box. Also, did I mention that it was relatively inexpensive? Mine cost me just over $60 CAD.
Obligatory comment: I was in signals in the army for 4 years.
Female voices *are* easier to understand than male voices over the radio. And some males sound female on the radio.
*BUT*, female voices and male voices aren't significantly different from each other in pitch. Women are sometimes higher pitched, but on the whole, they're about the same pitch as male voices. The difference between the two is resonance... males tend to have larger lung capacity, and with that more space to resonate the lower frequencies in their voice, which is why their voice sounds lower pitched. This is why female voices sound higher pitched than males, and it's why some male-to-female transgenders are able to sound completely female by learning how to resonate their voice (hint: the ones who don't sound naturally female are the ones who adjust the pitch of their voice).
It's that lack of resonance that I think explains why females are easier to understand on the radio, and also why some males sound female on the radio. The radio isn't a very good medium for transferring something like resonance, because it's a single point of sound at the output, and usually not a particularly high end speaker at that... as a result, female voices sound more natural over the radio, and males sound distorted. It's not that they're *actually* distorted, just that they don't sound quite like we expect them to sound, and it causes a cognitive dissonance.
Here in Ottawa, Canada, the disembodied voice from above is a male. But I still find it very entertaining that they feel the need to say it in both English and French, even though most proper names don't translate, and the only thing that ever gets announced is the next stop....
Please don't tell me you used "maxdps.com" and no greens were suggested as upgrades. I'm pretty sure that every AEP calculator on the planet agrees that you're doing it wrong.
I ended LK with a full set of top tier, as did most in my guild. And almost all of mine was gone within two levels. If you actually believe that your hit, expertise, or any other caps were being maintained as you leveled up...
I was in the same situation... full 266 or better gear, working on LK heroic (everything else down) when the last expansion came out. But I still had a couple of pieces (well, one, a trinket) when I hit 85. You're right though... most of it was de'd and gone by the time I hit 83. And that was working on two gear sets at the same time: shadow and holy.
That said, my priorities shifted, and I stopped finding WoW to be fun. I canceled my subscription in February, and haven't looked back. The game really isn't fun for a casual player, but I don't think it's the game mechanics that made it not fun, it was the player base. Specifically, the game seems to be overrun with testosterone-fuelled 13-year olds who don't seem to understand that there's adults who play the game, and people who have real lives. I got tired of being yelled at by prepubescent twats with delusions of adequacy, to say nothing of being asked for naked pictures or to get on vent to cyber. It's revolting, and juvenile, and was enough to drive me away from the game, and I know several others who left for the same reason.
They were trying to prove a very specific point with that demonstration, which is that it isn't *what* you drive, it's *how* you drive it. And they were right with that... the M3 does use a ton of gas if you drive it like you're racing everywhere, but so will just about any car. If you drive it calmly and sedately, then you can still squeeze respectable mileage out of it.
Case in point: I routinely get 6L/100km or less when driving a 2011 Subaru Impreza, and have seen less than 5L/100km when driving on a flat road in cruise control. That's significantly better than the posted mileage for highway on the car. Now, most of us don't drive on arrow-straight perfectly flat roads in cruise control at exactly the speed limit, so that's not exactly a real world estimate of mileage, but it an example of exactly the point that Top Gear were making.
There's provisions in libel/slander laws for satire, and also for anything that's actually factual reporting (protection for the 4th estate). While it's borderline whether they're satire (some segments yes, some not so much), as long as everything they say is the truth of their experiences, it doesn't really matter if it's defamatory towards Tesla that they report it.
Even toilet humour can be done with class though... I remember a few episodes of Frasier that had me rolling in the aisles with what could be described as toilet humour....
It's based (loosely) on 10.04, with numerous packages backported from later releases, as well as their own packages, with a semi-rolling release model. And they're using e17 for the DE, which is hugely customizable and can be made to behave like KDE, or Gnome2, or whatever else you want it to. Right now, I have a setup that's *kind* of like NeXTSTEP was, but still very different... hard to describe. But basically, you can make it like anything you want it to be. It uses very little memory, too... I've seen e17 take up less than 40MB of RAM, with compositing enabled.
Digital will never be 100% for everybody... for most of us, it's pretty close though. The reason is that while light is a continuous spectrum of wavelengths, our perception of light is a mix of 3 primaries. There's 3 basic colours of cones in your eye (red, green, blue... what a coincidence!), and your brain compares how much each of those react to different wavelengths to produce a colour. Digital display relies on this in order to reproduce the same perception of colour... it displays relative intensities of each of these three primaries in order to trick your brain into thinking it's looking at a different wavelength when it's actually looking at a combination of primaries.
The thing is... your "red" cones aren't all responsive to exactly the same frequency. Ditto the green and blue ones. And my red peak sensitivity band is almost certainly different from yours. Because digital display doesn't reproduce the exact colours you're sensitive to, it'll never be 100% true to life. It'll be close enough that most of us won't notice the difference, but it can't be 100% true to life. More than that, some humans, mostly females, actually have 4 colours of cones instead of 3, and can see slightly into what most would consider the ultraviolet range (I'm one of them). For those people, digital playback can never be as vibrant as real life, because it's not capturing that extra information that the eye sees. (and no, Sharp with their quattron, is still a waste of money, because the 4th colour isn't yellow).
ebooks are cheaper on the whole for the Kobo, and the Kobo has a *much* larger library of ebooks available, including a very large selection of free ebooks, thanks to integration of their marketplace with Project Gutenberg and Smashbooks. Kobo also has the largest selection of international books in the bookstore of any of the manufacturers, which makes them a much better option for anybody living outside of the US, or who wants to read books in non-English languages. The hardware is very good quality, the screen is better than Sony is using (I've used both), and the battery lasts just as long. They also have a colour e-ink version coming out in the near future (already taking pre-orders) which means that they're likely to be first to market with colour e-ink ebook readers. They're also a lot easier to load ebooks from other sources to than the Sony, as it mounts as a USB drive when you plug it in to your computer... copy the ebooks to the device, turn it on, and your books are right there.
And that's just one of the competition that's better than Sony. There's others that I'd pick over the Sony in a heartbeat... the Amazon Kindle is a great ebook reader (their disabling 3G web access aside), the B&N ebook reader is super-easy to hack into an Android-based tablet, etc. The Sony is actually the worst of the bunch, based on the ebook readers that I've used, and giving mine away and replacing it with the Kobo Touch was a no-brainer.
Because TFS mentions them in the last paragraph, and some folks only read the first and last sentence of a paragraph and make up the middle, not realizing that this story has nothing to do with the iPhone beyond mentionning that such a service would be against Apple's TOS.
Just take a moment to think about where we'd be without Spamhaus.
Actually, just about where we are right now. Most major mail providers don't use Spamhaus at all... it certainly doesn't affect delivery to GMail or Yahoo or anything like that. They use heuristic analysis of the messages (stuff like Spamassassin), coupled with Greylisting, forced delays in the server greeting, and throttling based on number of recipients. And it works. I don't get any spam at all to my inbox. None. And I've had the same address for nearly 6 years, now. And I don't use Spamhaus, SORBS, or any of the other lists like that, because you don't need them once you've set up your mail server properly. (and yes, I have set up my own mail server, which is sitting on a 100mbit pipe in colocation, with multiple domain names pointing at it, some of which are more than 10 years old).
Lazy sysadmins use spamhaus like it's gospel. Ones that know what the hell they're doing realize they don't need spamhaus at all.
As a general rule, I'd say that cleaning up at least part of the spilled oil before breaking it up would always be better. I say that as an environmentalist, not as a scientist (my studies were in a different field), but I would think that leaving less released toxins in the environment would usually be the better choice.:)
They aren't talking about this replacing breaking down the oil, they're talking about it as a way to reduce the amount of oil that needs to be broken down, as well as the amount of chemicals that need to be released in order to break it down.
I'd also say that this invention is worth a hell of a lot more than $1m to the industry.
On that note, my next home printer is going to 90% be a brother or cannon, I just can't seem to find myself to like HP photo printing (not sure about brother, cannon is amazing), which is a feature I require for my printers:)
My B&W laser is a Brother. It's cheap to run, prints relatively quickly, and has built in Ethernet and Wireless capabilities. It works great, even under Linux, and the only computer I've run that required me to actually download/install a driver was a Windows XP laptop.... the built-in foomatic driver in CUPS has support for the printer.
My colour laser is a Lexmark. It isn't as cheap to run as the B&W laser, but it's still fairly inexpensive to run. The print quality is pretty good, too. I usually don't print with that printer at all, because it's a beast on electricity (spikes to over 1KW draw when it's warming up the drum), but it still produces pretty nice colour prints when I want to.
The last time I used an HP printer was 15 years ago. They are simply too expensive to buy and to run. Even when I worked for HP/Compaq, it was still cheaper to run a Brother laser. My employers gave up on HP a while ago, too... at work, the last time I used an HP printer was when I worked for them as well... since then it's always been Lexmark and Xerox.
Reality check, the upcoming CX5 will be far and away the most fuel efficient AWD vehicle available in North America when it's introduced later this year. In 2013 (2014 model year) if they bring the Skyactiv diesel to the US like they've announced then you will be able to get an ~42mpg AWD crossover. They are doing this without the very expensive and environmentally dubious hybrid or electric drivetrains, just good old fashioned engineering.
Reality check, indeed. I routinely see 4.8L/100km highway consumption in my 2011 Subaru Impreza, when I'm driving sedately and on a flat road. That goes to shit when I start driving up hills, and when I stop worrying about consumption, but that is a real world consumption figure in a car with AWD that most certainly wasn't designed for efficiency that pushes 49mpg. More realistic consumption is about 6.4-6.8L/100km average depending on the weather and my mood, and that still approaches 38mpg in a petrol-burning car that was designed to go around corners really fast, rather than for efficiency. 42mpg in a car with a turbodiesel is appalling when compared against other turbodiesels that can best 60-70mpg without even trying.
I've never seen one that recommended 3,000 miles, unless used in taxi service or police usage (with extended idling and frequent short trips).
Oil changes. Though that's changed with synthetic oils... I drive a 2011 model year car, and oil changes are every 10,000kms, or about every 6,000 miles. Actual service checks are every 30,000kms.
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I don't think we're getting less cancers now than we did in 1960.
We're getting more. By a very wide margin. But what's in question is whether that's caused by EMI from our electronic devices, or whether it's caused by contaminants in the environment. My money's on a mix of the two, with the bulk of the cause lying in the contaminants in the environment: We're eating a hell of a lot more toxic stuff now than we did 50 years ago. It's in our food, it's in our water, it's in the air. Individual devices/cars may be cleaner now than they were in the 60's, but there's so many more of them that the cumulative effect is much worse.
We're still waiting on the results of some longitudinal studies into whether EMI actually causes a problem. Frankly, without results from 30-year studies, we really can't know whether the cell phones actually have an effect like that. Besides, I don't know about you, but most of the time my cell phone is either in my purse (substitute laptop bag if you don't carry a purse) or sitting on my desk, and I spend a heck of a lot more time texting than I do actually on the phone. I don't think that I, or most of the younger generation for that matter, am at a very large risk from cell phones.
So... what you're saying is you want an iPad with Skype installed? After all, that's a very thin 10" tablet, it supports bluetooth, Skype would let you make phone calls, and you can get a "Digital AV" adapter that allows you to plug an external monitor into it.....
Depends on the wristwatch. I know several people who wear a dive computer as a wristwatch for their day-to-day use... those can be somewhat unwieldy compared to some other watches on the market, and aren't much bigger than the ones discussed in the submission.
That said, there's a reason dive computers are that big... they can be built into smaller devices, but are deliberately that big so that they can have large easy-to-read displays. Kind of an important thing when you're 100 feet under water, diving a wreck where the only light is coming from your safety lamp. When you don't need a display that big, it seems kind of pointless to wear a device of that size, especially when you already have a phone that does all of the above, and is in a form factor where having a screen with a usable size, or a fold-out keyboard, isn't going to make you look like an idiot.
Yeah, but usually that's in Thailand, not in the USA....
You *could* fly from Van to Ottawa and rent a car... Boston is only a 10h drive from here.
That said, that may not save you from the naked body scanners if the cons get their way. They want to buy the damned things for Canadian airports, too.
Some inexpensive laptops, too... my $400 Dell Vostro V130, for example, has a really good 13" matte screen on it.
And you bring up my first reaction to reading this article.... "great, until it gets covered in fingerprints and dust". I definitely prefer a matte screen since I started working in an area where there's sunlight. :)
Yeah, it sucks that Apple's stuff uses a different cable than any other device, but that's the way it's going to be until the industry comes up with a standard connector that does everything that the Apple connector does
It's called Micro USB. Every device I've had for quite some time has a standard Micro USB connector on it. The cables are ubiquitous, and it is capable of everything that the Apple connector does. You may not have the software to allow audio playback through the connector as a dock, which is about the only feature I can think of which you may think is missing, but it certainly can be done: just look at some of the phones that HTC is putting out.
This one, for example, had a Micro USB connector that you could connect to any device that supports USB to mount the device as a hard drive, there was software available to synch the phone's contacts/etc. over the USB port, and the dock/speaker out/headphone out was through that same port. They sold dock devices that could plug directly into the port, and they also sold adapters to turn the port into a 3.5mm headphone jack if you wanted to use 3rd party headphones. And if you lost your cable, you could still use *any* Micro USB cable to connect the device to your computer/transfer files, or to charge it.
And if you don't like Micro USB, then everything the Apple proprietary connectors do can be duplicated with a standard HDMI connection, as well. There are devices on the market that use HDMI in exactly the same way that HTC used the Micro USB on the Dream (and several other phones since then). In fact, there's no reason *any* connection that allows you to send information two-ways couldn't be used to duplicate all of the features that you can get with the Apple connectors, there's just no point in adapting another to the purpose when there's already alternatives freely available. Apple are the ones that decided to use something different from a standard that already existed on the market, and they did it specifically to control the supply of cables for their device.
1% of net income isn't a hefty penalty, IMO. Try 10% of gross. Per infringement. Assessed as the greater of the values for the year the patent is filed, or the year the patent is overturned, for every patent you file for which there's demonstrated to be prior art or for which the general industry concensus is that you have filed a patent on a fundamental concept.
In that case, get one of these:
http://www.tp-link.com/simulator/tl-wr1043nd/index.htm
That's a simulator of the firmware, so you can poke around in it and see what it's capable of. Some of the naming in the firmware is a bit weird, but I speak from experience when I say that it's a very good router: I have two of them that I'm currently using as I type this. One is at a charity I volunteer with, and they haven't had any problems at all since the install, and the other is running my home network.
Of note, the one that's running my home network has *very* good wireless coverage... good enough that the setup it replaced was actually a router + 2 access points connected by powerline networking between them. The joys of living in a 2800sqft bungalow. I placed it centrally, and it works fine, even having no trouble passing through the kitchen with a 30-year old microwave that I'm too lazy to replace and a hanging ceiling.
It supports OpenDNS and DynDNS updates (it's updating my own DynDNS account, which I use to SSH in to a local system), and while it supports the ability to configure a secondary router as an access point, as I said, there's no need to configure a bridge like that because the wireless coverage is good enough. It also has support for plugging in a USB hard drive or printer, and sharing it via SAMBA, and again from experience, it gets pretty good throughput on the network hard drive capabilities.
And as an added bonus, you won't need to void the warranty by installing a 3rd party firmware to get these features. It supports *almost* everything that Tomato supports out of the box. Also, did I mention that it was relatively inexpensive? Mine cost me just over $60 CAD.
Obligatory comment: I was in signals in the army for 4 years.
Female voices *are* easier to understand than male voices over the radio. And some males sound female on the radio.
*BUT*, female voices and male voices aren't significantly different from each other in pitch. Women are sometimes higher pitched, but on the whole, they're about the same pitch as male voices. The difference between the two is resonance... males tend to have larger lung capacity, and with that more space to resonate the lower frequencies in their voice, which is why their voice sounds lower pitched. This is why female voices sound higher pitched than males, and it's why some male-to-female transgenders are able to sound completely female by learning how to resonate their voice (hint: the ones who don't sound naturally female are the ones who adjust the pitch of their voice).
It's that lack of resonance that I think explains why females are easier to understand on the radio, and also why some males sound female on the radio. The radio isn't a very good medium for transferring something like resonance, because it's a single point of sound at the output, and usually not a particularly high end speaker at that... as a result, female voices sound more natural over the radio, and males sound distorted. It's not that they're *actually* distorted, just that they don't sound quite like we expect them to sound, and it causes a cognitive dissonance.
Here in Ottawa, Canada, the disembodied voice from above is a male. But I still find it very entertaining that they feel the need to say it in both English and French, even though most proper names don't translate, and the only thing that ever gets announced is the next stop....
Please don't tell me you used "maxdps.com" and no greens were suggested as upgrades. I'm pretty sure that every AEP calculator on the planet agrees that you're doing it wrong.
I ended LK with a full set of top tier, as did most in my guild. And almost all of mine was gone within two levels. If you actually believe that your hit, expertise, or any other caps were being maintained as you leveled up...
I was in the same situation... full 266 or better gear, working on LK heroic (everything else down) when the last expansion came out. But I still had a couple of pieces (well, one, a trinket) when I hit 85. You're right though... most of it was de'd and gone by the time I hit 83. And that was working on two gear sets at the same time: shadow and holy.
That said, my priorities shifted, and I stopped finding WoW to be fun. I canceled my subscription in February, and haven't looked back. The game really isn't fun for a casual player, but I don't think it's the game mechanics that made it not fun, it was the player base. Specifically, the game seems to be overrun with testosterone-fuelled 13-year olds who don't seem to understand that there's adults who play the game, and people who have real lives. I got tired of being yelled at by prepubescent twats with delusions of adequacy, to say nothing of being asked for naked pictures or to get on vent to cyber. It's revolting, and juvenile, and was enough to drive me away from the game, and I know several others who left for the same reason.
They were trying to prove a very specific point with that demonstration, which is that it isn't *what* you drive, it's *how* you drive it. And they were right with that... the M3 does use a ton of gas if you drive it like you're racing everywhere, but so will just about any car. If you drive it calmly and sedately, then you can still squeeze respectable mileage out of it.
Case in point: I routinely get 6L/100km or less when driving a 2011 Subaru Impreza, and have seen less than 5L/100km when driving on a flat road in cruise control. That's significantly better than the posted mileage for highway on the car. Now, most of us don't drive on arrow-straight perfectly flat roads in cruise control at exactly the speed limit, so that's not exactly a real world estimate of mileage, but it an example of exactly the point that Top Gear were making.
There's provisions in libel/slander laws for satire, and also for anything that's actually factual reporting (protection for the 4th estate). While it's borderline whether they're satire (some segments yes, some not so much), as long as everything they say is the truth of their experiences, it doesn't really matter if it's defamatory towards Tesla that they report it.
Even toilet humour can be done with class though... I remember a few episodes of Frasier that had me rolling in the aisles with what could be described as toilet humour....
They do review normal cars!
They just don't review them normally.
im shopping around for something else.
Try Bodhi.
It's based (loosely) on 10.04, with numerous packages backported from later releases, as well as their own packages, with a semi-rolling release model. And they're using e17 for the DE, which is hugely customizable and can be made to behave like KDE, or Gnome2, or whatever else you want it to. Right now, I have a setup that's *kind* of like NeXTSTEP was, but still very different... hard to describe. But basically, you can make it like anything you want it to be. It uses very little memory, too... I've seen e17 take up less than 40MB of RAM, with compositing enabled.
Digital will never be 100% for everybody... for most of us, it's pretty close though. The reason is that while light is a continuous spectrum of wavelengths, our perception of light is a mix of 3 primaries. There's 3 basic colours of cones in your eye (red, green, blue... what a coincidence!), and your brain compares how much each of those react to different wavelengths to produce a colour. Digital display relies on this in order to reproduce the same perception of colour... it displays relative intensities of each of these three primaries in order to trick your brain into thinking it's looking at a different wavelength when it's actually looking at a combination of primaries.
The thing is... your "red" cones aren't all responsive to exactly the same frequency. Ditto the green and blue ones. And my red peak sensitivity band is almost certainly different from yours. Because digital display doesn't reproduce the exact colours you're sensitive to, it'll never be 100% true to life. It'll be close enough that most of us won't notice the difference, but it can't be 100% true to life. More than that, some humans, mostly females, actually have 4 colours of cones instead of 3, and can see slightly into what most would consider the ultraviolet range (I'm one of them). For those people, digital playback can never be as vibrant as real life, because it's not capturing that extra information that the eye sees. (and no, Sharp with their quattron, is still a waste of money, because the 4th colour isn't yellow).
actually, the competition *is* much better.
ebooks are cheaper on the whole for the Kobo, and the Kobo has a *much* larger library of ebooks available, including a very large selection of free ebooks, thanks to integration of their marketplace with Project Gutenberg and Smashbooks. Kobo also has the largest selection of international books in the bookstore of any of the manufacturers, which makes them a much better option for anybody living outside of the US, or who wants to read books in non-English languages. The hardware is very good quality, the screen is better than Sony is using (I've used both), and the battery lasts just as long. They also have a colour e-ink version coming out in the near future (already taking pre-orders) which means that they're likely to be first to market with colour e-ink ebook readers. They're also a lot easier to load ebooks from other sources to than the Sony, as it mounts as a USB drive when you plug it in to your computer... copy the ebooks to the device, turn it on, and your books are right there.
And that's just one of the competition that's better than Sony. There's others that I'd pick over the Sony in a heartbeat... the Amazon Kindle is a great ebook reader (their disabling 3G web access aside), the B&N ebook reader is super-easy to hack into an Android-based tablet, etc. The Sony is actually the worst of the bunch, based on the ebook readers that I've used, and giving mine away and replacing it with the Kobo Touch was a no-brainer.
Because TFS mentions them in the last paragraph, and some folks only read the first and last sentence of a paragraph and make up the middle, not realizing that this story has nothing to do with the iPhone beyond mentionning that such a service would be against Apple's TOS.
Just take a moment to think about where we'd be without Spamhaus.
Actually, just about where we are right now. Most major mail providers don't use Spamhaus at all... it certainly doesn't affect delivery to GMail or Yahoo or anything like that. They use heuristic analysis of the messages (stuff like Spamassassin), coupled with Greylisting, forced delays in the server greeting, and throttling based on number of recipients. And it works. I don't get any spam at all to my inbox. None. And I've had the same address for nearly 6 years, now. And I don't use Spamhaus, SORBS, or any of the other lists like that, because you don't need them once you've set up your mail server properly. (and yes, I have set up my own mail server, which is sitting on a 100mbit pipe in colocation, with multiple domain names pointing at it, some of which are more than 10 years old).
Lazy sysadmins use spamhaus like it's gospel. Ones that know what the hell they're doing realize they don't need spamhaus at all.
As a general rule, I'd say that cleaning up at least part of the spilled oil before breaking it up would always be better. I say that as an environmentalist, not as a scientist (my studies were in a different field), but I would think that leaving less released toxins in the environment would usually be the better choice. :)
They aren't talking about this replacing breaking down the oil, they're talking about it as a way to reduce the amount of oil that needs to be broken down, as well as the amount of chemicals that need to be released in order to break it down.
I'd also say that this invention is worth a hell of a lot more than $1m to the industry.
On that note, my next home printer is going to 90% be a brother or cannon, I just can't seem to find myself to like HP photo printing (not sure about brother, cannon is amazing), which is a feature I require for my printers :)
My B&W laser is a Brother. It's cheap to run, prints relatively quickly, and has built in Ethernet and Wireless capabilities. It works great, even under Linux, and the only computer I've run that required me to actually download/install a driver was a Windows XP laptop.... the built-in foomatic driver in CUPS has support for the printer.
My colour laser is a Lexmark. It isn't as cheap to run as the B&W laser, but it's still fairly inexpensive to run. The print quality is pretty good, too. I usually don't print with that printer at all, because it's a beast on electricity (spikes to over 1KW draw when it's warming up the drum), but it still produces pretty nice colour prints when I want to.
The last time I used an HP printer was 15 years ago. They are simply too expensive to buy and to run. Even when I worked for HP/Compaq, it was still cheaper to run a Brother laser. My employers gave up on HP a while ago, too... at work, the last time I used an HP printer was when I worked for them as well... since then it's always been Lexmark and Xerox.
Reality check, the upcoming CX5 will be far and away the most fuel efficient AWD vehicle available in North America when it's introduced later this year. In 2013 (2014 model year) if they bring the Skyactiv diesel to the US like they've announced then you will be able to get an ~42mpg AWD crossover. They are doing this without the very expensive and environmentally dubious hybrid or electric drivetrains, just good old fashioned engineering.
Reality check, indeed. I routinely see 4.8L/100km highway consumption in my 2011 Subaru Impreza, when I'm driving sedately and on a flat road. That goes to shit when I start driving up hills, and when I stop worrying about consumption, but that is a real world consumption figure in a car with AWD that most certainly wasn't designed for efficiency that pushes 49mpg. More realistic consumption is about 6.4-6.8L/100km average depending on the weather and my mood, and that still approaches 38mpg in a petrol-burning car that was designed to go around corners really fast, rather than for efficiency. 42mpg in a car with a turbodiesel is appalling when compared against other turbodiesels that can best 60-70mpg without even trying.
I've never seen one that recommended 3,000 miles, unless used in taxi service or police usage (with extended idling and frequent short trips).
Oil changes. Though that's changed with synthetic oils... I drive a 2011 model year car, and oil changes are every 10,000kms, or about every 6,000 miles. Actual service checks are every 30,000kms.