John Quiggin and Tim Lambert have written that "the most striking feature of the claim against Carson is the ease with which it can be refuted." DDT was never banned for anti-malarial use,[85] (its ban for agricultural use in the United States in 1972 did not apply outside the US or to anti-malaria spraying;[86] the international treaty that banned most uses of DDT and other organochlorine pesticides — the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants — included an exemption for DDT for the use of malaria control until affordable substitutes could be found.[79]) Mass outdoor spraying of DDT was abandoned in poor countries subject to malaria, such as Sri Lanka, in the 1970s and 1980s, not because of government prohibitions, but because the DDT had lost its ability to kill the mosquitoes.[79] (Because of insects very short breeding cycle and large number of offspring, the most resistant insects that survive and pass on their genetic traits to their offspring replace the pesticide-slain insects relatively rapidly. Agricultural spraying of pesticides produces resistance to the pesticide in seven to ten years.[87])
Go to a second-hand store and buy a pair of men's used work boots, a really big pair. Put them outside your front door on top of a copy of Guns and Ammo magazine. Put a dog dish beside it, a really big dish. Leave a note on your front door that says something like "Bubba, Big Mike and I have gone to get more ammunition - back in 1/2 an hr. Don't disturb the pit bulls. They've just been wormed and they are a little edgy."
This would be a good and interesting article if only it did not come from Microsoft, a company who's only business is to make sure passwords are not stolen in the first place. To illustrate:
Microsoft: we cannot secure our system, but don't you worry, Banks will take care of password theft and clean up our mess.
Railroad maintainer: sometimes I make mistakes, but don't worry -- should a train derail the nearest hospital will take good care of you.
...and that is exactly why company management is required to declare all such things publicly in advance. This way all investors can see what's cooking.
I had a misfortune to buy a machine with a Radeon HD 7000 series. The open-source driver is a joke, it fails to play a simple video! (one frame per second is what it does if you try)
Upon installing AMD Catalyst Proprietary Display Driver the video is normal (but the screen is dim. Turns out they have the same problem with Windows 7 driver)
So hold your optimism, if you want a real driver you will need to get a proprietary one.
Interesting theory. Never mind that the chart you linked does not support your claim: the ratio was 1 to 4 in the 50's and climbed to 1 to 7. The difference is not as dramatic as the fact that overall incarcerations increased 7-fold! US is truly turning into a factory of slaves.
The weights and measures system you use doesn't make you more advanced or retarded...
There are many things that almost everybody does which are harder than other ways...
How many Elbows in a Mile? How many Feet per second squared do you need to accelerate one Pound to heat one Gallon of water by 30 Fahrenheit? Although you acknowledge that imperial system makes things difficult yet you don't feel comfortable abandoning it...
I myself had to switch from Metric to Imperial and let me tell you it was an absolutely hassle-free experience. Thank god my math classes are long over and I don't need to deal with learning the conversion crap. The only transition I refuse to adopt is Celsius to Fahrenheit, which is not a problem because it is roughly (x-32)/2, I can quickly estimate it every time.
Google Hangouts available only on Android and Iphone? What about PC? Linux?
Skype is falling apart on Linux since recently, and it looks like it is intentional (Skype is owned by MSFT now). I need a replacement ASAP, and it needs to be cross-platform. Any ideas? Has anyone tried Skype on Wine?
2. Prediction: "Real-time speech translation—once a vision only in science fiction—will become the norm"
Reality: Microsoft recently demonstrated realtime English-to-Chinese translation. [technologyreview.com] However, the very media buzz about that shows that it is far from "the norm". What we have is just tightly-controlled tech demos, not technology integrated into all of our smartphones ("the norm"). It's likely that existing software will get better (text translation has become amazingly good of late)... but it didn't happen within the 5 years they estimated.
The reality is that every Google Android phone can have Google Translate installed (free), and it does just that, "Real-time speech translation". I assume that you are brandishing an iphone and not aware that over 50% of smartphones today have this feature. There are some limitations: you need a fast internet connection and the translation is rather mediocre, but it is on par with best that computers can do today. On the plus side speech recognition is astounding, and I am able to dictate whole paragraphs in two different languages with very few errors.
The above shouldn’t surprise us owing to one of the chief reasons we left gold to begin with: a desire to undercut Japanese imports with a weaker dollar.
What a load of BS! The whole world was on Gold Standard for a while and had to abandon it in a haste with great losses. The Wikipedia article gently scratches the surfance of what happened. The reasons that make gold standard not feasible are simple:
1. Free trade.
2. Free exchange of currency.
So if your country, let's say Germany, is very successful, German goods are sold around the world, and payment for them has to be made in deuche marks -- the importers race to the German Central Bank to exchange currency, but marks are backed by gold, and Central Bank run out of gold -- end of free exchange!
In modern world we have free trade of currency, and if German goods become valuable, their currency will appreciate as well, something that was impossible with Gold Standard.
2) You've convinced yourself, through the magic of self-fulfilling prophecy, that anything from your own garden will absolutely taste "the best."
I am aware of the bias, but the garden is grandfather's, and i prefer cardboard-taste tomatoes because there is less hassle buying them on the corner, rather than transporting a bucket of them from grandfather. So my situation has some anti-bias, so to speak. Regardless of that, anything I say is anecdotal until someone conducts a proper study, which Stanford attempted to do.
They both grow in dirt (organic and conventional), they are the same plant, they don't, on balance, have more or less of anything
Care to explain why purchased (conventional) produce tastes like cardboard, while garden-grown stuff is delicious? To me that suggests some inequality on chemical level.
Also your notion that they both "grow in dirt" is uninformed. There exists artificial soil, and even the dirt can be soaked in various chemicals so much that a better name for it would be "a toxic dirt-like stew that maximises vegetable size". The possible side-effects, such as maximizing risk of cancer, etc are usually overlooked.
Honestly, the food industry competes on cost, they will inject rat poison in the soil wuthout a pause if it can increase their margin by 2 cents per pound. That simply cannot produce "the same plant".
Well, teaching an actual alien would involve a few more steps, such as
1. Locate an alien 2. Avoid being dissected and preserved in a methanol solution
3 = 2 x 1
4 = 2 x 2
etc....
...2008, and the license change discussions had already been started back then
It is only logical that the discussions started before the event of license change, and not after. This does not change anything.
Apple is not actually using much, if any OpenStreetMap data under the new license!
So you are confirming that they ARE using OSM under the new license? I actually looked more closely at the change, and not only does it allow to lock the map behind DRM, but contributors also cede all rights of their contributions to the OSM Foundation.
This misrepresents the purpose of the Open Database License. The ODbL has an exception for produced works such as image tiles or prints, but is otherwise a share alike license. So under the ODbL Apple would indeed be able to use OSM and keep the artistic components of their products, i.e. their pretty map designs, to themselves, but updates to the underlying factual data (and derivative databases such as routing graphs) would have to be open sourced.
I was not aware of the share-alike provision. Let's hope that Apple respects that part.
So Steve did what he was doing from the start: took an Open Source map (OSM) and gave gave it to himself, without an obligation to share back the updates. Unfortunally, OSM licence prohibited such treatment, so It appears he talked to OSM management and they changed the license, loosing roughly 30% of map data in the process! And before you can say "conspiracy theory", let me point out that both Apple decision to source OSM and the license change happened in 2010. Fortunately, OSM got forked, and the fork I found is called FOSM. It does need some work, though.
I want to be in control of my computer. The minute my computer starts selling me guidebooks, it does not belong to me anymore.
Call me old-fashioned, but I call picasa, facebook, etc integration "crapware", and I still remember last time i had to spend a few hours to clean it out of a pre-installed Win7 machine. Some people like it, and they are Apple customer base: they don't want know how computers work, as long as Facebook loads. What Ubuntu does is alienate its user base more and more in a vain attempt to become the next Apple.
Yes, they do. Who else are they supposed to support? The opposition has been securely tacked away. Medvedev election was a clown show (watch 3:33 -- both of them were presidential "candidates". Now Putin replaced him, I did not even bother to find out of there was any "formal" opposition.
and their grandma can use it"... (as long as someone carefully administers that box for them) is rarely mentioned.
Windows boxes also need to be administered. Their administration also involves routine cleanup of "toolbars" and trojans and other crap that either installs itself, or with some help from a clueless user, and then the whole thing comes to a grinding halt once every two years due to malware, FAT shortcomings, or getting completely hijacked by some Trojan that blatantly demands a payment "to protect your computer". Thus, Linux administration is cheap and hassle-free compared to Windows, and your point is moot and void. There is a currently a shortage of neighbourhood kids who can help with Linux, but that is not what you were talking about, you meant that Windows does not require administration at all, didn't you?
1) Multiple keyboards/monitors connected to one desktop -- too expensive, a pain to setup
2) Mechanical typewriter -- need to restock paper and tape -- too expensive
3) Some kind of electric typewriter, like this one on Amazon.com
Try to buy them from China, where they cost pennies, or hunt for bargains, like the one I linked. There is 12 of them available for US $28.
As far as electricity being in limited supply -- that problem is much easier to fix: get a UPS power supply. (electric typewriters are not power-hungry), a solar panel, or even a power generator connected to a stationary bicycle (my father told me they used to use those during power outages)
The absolute majority of developers are male, which stacks the "market" against us. There is usually little to no selection, while the sole lady in the group gets all the attention of the 120+ male programmers. I suspect that this is the root cause of the "mom's basement" paradigm. I lost count how many times I wished to be an Accountant or something.
So, to those single devs on this thread: get off your little couches and your home gaming rigs, and find someone outside the office. I recommend friends of friends, or some sort of community. Can even go back to school and get a non-technical degree (like Accounting!).
90% of dektops/laptops still run Windows (=large volumes), and even if Windows 8 fails (like Vista), they will come back with Windows 9. It was the Windows PC hardware where Linux taken off and they are trying to do everything they can to stop its progress. They already started by locking down BIOS, and it looks like they plan to do the same to CPU. I have 0 clue how they plan to do this (be it a special chip or a "programmed" DRM), but the statement by Intel indicates that they are trying hard.
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John Quiggin and Tim Lambert have written that "the most striking feature of the claim against Carson is the ease with which it can be refuted." DDT was never banned for anti-malarial use,[85] (its ban for agricultural use in the United States in 1972 did not apply outside the US or to anti-malaria spraying;[86] the international treaty that banned most uses of DDT and other organochlorine pesticides — the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants — included an exemption for DDT for the use of malaria control until affordable substitutes could be found.[79]) Mass outdoor spraying of DDT was abandoned in poor countries subject to malaria, such as Sri Lanka, in the 1970s and 1980s, not because of government prohibitions, but because the DDT had lost its ability to kill the mosquitoes.[79] (Because of insects very short breeding cycle and large number of offspring, the most resistant insects that survive and pass on their genetic traits to their offspring replace the pesticide-slain insects relatively rapidly. Agricultural spraying of pesticides produces resistance to the pesticide in seven to ten years.[87])
How to install a wireless security system:
Go to a second-hand store and buy a pair of men's used work boots, a really big pair. Put them outside your front door on top of a copy of Guns and Ammo magazine. Put a dog dish beside it, a really big dish. Leave a note on your front door that says something like "Bubba, Big Mike and I have gone to get more ammunition - back in 1/2 an hr. Don't disturb the pit bulls. They've just been wormed and they are a little edgy."
...and that is exactly why company management is required to declare all such things publicly in advance. This way all investors can see what's cooking.
Upon installing AMD Catalyst Proprietary Display Driver the video is normal (but the screen is dim. Turns out they have the same problem with Windows 7 driver)
So hold your optimism, if you want a real driver you will need to get a proprietary one.
Interesting theory. Never mind that the chart you linked does not support your claim: the ratio was 1 to 4 in the 50's and climbed to 1 to 7. The difference is not as dramatic as the fact that overall incarcerations increased 7-fold! US is truly turning into a factory of slaves.
The weights and measures system you use doesn't make you more advanced or retarded ...
There are many things that almost everybody does which are harder than other ways...
How many Elbows in a Mile? How many Feet per second squared do you need to accelerate one Pound to heat one Gallon of water by 30 Fahrenheit? Although you acknowledge that imperial system makes things difficult yet you don't feel comfortable abandoning it...
I myself had to switch from Metric to Imperial and let me tell you it was an absolutely hassle-free experience. Thank god my math classes are long over and I don't need to deal with learning the conversion crap. The only transition I refuse to adopt is Celsius to Fahrenheit, which is not a problem because it is roughly (x-32)/2, I can quickly estimate it every time.
Skype is falling apart on Linux since recently, and it looks like it is intentional (Skype is owned by MSFT now). I need a replacement ASAP, and it needs to be cross-platform. Any ideas? Has anyone tried Skype on Wine?
2. Prediction: "Real-time speech translation—once a vision only in science fiction—will become the norm" Reality: Microsoft recently demonstrated realtime English-to-Chinese translation. [technologyreview.com] However, the very media buzz about that shows that it is far from "the norm". What we have is just tightly-controlled tech demos, not technology integrated into all of our smartphones ("the norm"). It's likely that existing software will get better (text translation has become amazingly good of late)... but it didn't happen within the 5 years they estimated.
The reality is that every Google Android phone can have Google Translate installed (free), and it does just that, "Real-time speech translation". I assume that you are brandishing an iphone and not aware that over 50% of smartphones today have this feature. There are some limitations: you need a fast internet connection and the translation is rather mediocre, but it is on par with best that computers can do today. On the plus side speech recognition is astounding, and I am able to dictate whole paragraphs in two different languages with very few errors.
The above shouldn’t surprise us owing to one of the chief reasons we left gold to begin with: a desire to undercut Japanese imports with a weaker dollar.
What a load of BS! The whole world was on Gold Standard for a while and had to abandon it in a haste with great losses. The Wikipedia article gently scratches the surfance of what happened. The reasons that make gold standard not feasible are simple:
1. Free trade.
2. Free exchange of currency.
So if your country, let's say Germany, is very successful, German goods are sold around the world, and payment for them has to be made in deuche marks -- the importers race to the German Central Bank to exchange currency, but marks are backed by gold, and Central Bank run out of gold -- end of free exchange!
In modern world we have free trade of currency, and if German goods become valuable, their currency will appreciate as well, something that was impossible with Gold Standard.
Obligatory, of of course
2) You've convinced yourself, through the magic of self-fulfilling prophecy, that anything from your own garden will absolutely taste "the best."
I am aware of the bias, but the garden is grandfather's, and i prefer cardboard-taste tomatoes because there is less hassle buying them on the corner, rather than transporting a bucket of them from grandfather. So my situation has some anti-bias, so to speak. Regardless of that, anything I say is anecdotal until someone conducts a proper study, which Stanford attempted to do.
They both grow in dirt (organic and conventional), they are the same plant, they don't, on balance, have more or less of anything
Care to explain why purchased (conventional) produce tastes like cardboard, while garden-grown stuff is delicious? To me that suggests some inequality on chemical level.
Also your notion that they both "grow in dirt" is uninformed. There exists artificial soil, and even the dirt can be soaked in various chemicals so much that a better name for it would be "a toxic dirt-like stew that maximises vegetable size". The possible side-effects, such as maximizing risk of cancer, etc are usually overlooked.
Honestly, the food industry competes on cost, they will inject rat poison in the soil wuthout a pause if it can increase their margin by 2 cents per pound. That simply cannot produce "the same plant".
Well, teaching an actual alien would involve a few more steps, such as
1. Locate an alien
2. Avoid being dissected and preserved in a methanol solution
3 = 2 x 1
4 = 2 x 2
etc....
If you hadn't been taught that the character "2" means a value of two
Seriously? Let me teach you an alien language, and it will take you exactly odin delit' dva seconds to learn it:
. - odin
.. - dva
... - tri
.... - chetyre
chetyre [delit'] dva [ravno] dva
chetyre [delit'] chetyre [ravno] odin
chetyre [delit'] odin [ravno] chetyre
easy, huh?
No, this is not "censorship". This is Toyota reclaiming your car because you drove to a bar and they [Toyota] don't have a liquor license.
...2008, and the license change discussions had already been started back then
It is only logical that the discussions started before the event of license change, and not after. This does not change anything.
Apple is not actually using much, if any OpenStreetMap data under the new license!
So you are confirming that they ARE using OSM under the new license? I actually looked more closely at the change, and not only does it allow to lock the map behind DRM, but contributors also cede all rights of their contributions to the OSM Foundation.
This misrepresents the purpose of the Open Database License. The ODbL has an exception for produced works such as image tiles or prints, but is otherwise a share alike license. So under the ODbL Apple would indeed be able to use OSM and keep the artistic components of their products, i.e. their pretty map designs, to themselves, but updates to the underlying factual data (and derivative databases such as routing graphs) would have to be open sourced.
I was not aware of the share-alike provision. Let's hope that Apple respects that part.
So Steve did what he was doing from the start: took an Open Source map (OSM) and gave gave it to himself, without an obligation to share back the updates. Unfortunally, OSM licence prohibited such treatment, so It appears he talked to OSM management and they changed the license, loosing roughly 30% of map data in the process! And before you can say "conspiracy theory", let me point out that both Apple decision to source OSM and the license change happened in 2010.
Fortunately, OSM got forked, and the fork I found is called FOSM. It does need some work, though.
... and maybe sell me a London guide book.
I want to be in control of my computer. The minute my computer starts selling me guidebooks, it does not belong to me anymore.
Call me old-fashioned, but I call picasa, facebook, etc integration "crapware", and I still remember last time i had to spend a few hours to clean it out of a pre-installed Win7 machine. Some people like it, and they are Apple customer base: they don't want know how computers work, as long as Facebook loads. What Ubuntu does is alienate its user base more and more in a vain attempt to become the next Apple.
First of all, majority of russians support Putin.
Yes, they do. Who else are they supposed to support? The opposition has been securely tacked away. Medvedev election was a clown show (watch 3:33 -- both of them were presidential "candidates". Now Putin replaced him, I did not even bother to find out of there was any "formal" opposition.
and their grandma can use it" ... (as long as someone carefully administers that box for them) is rarely mentioned.
Windows boxes also need to be administered. Their administration also involves routine cleanup of "toolbars" and trojans and other crap that either installs itself, or with some help from a clueless user, and then the whole thing comes to a grinding halt once every two years due to malware, FAT shortcomings, or getting completely hijacked by some Trojan that blatantly demands a payment "to protect your computer". Thus, Linux administration is cheap and hassle-free compared to Windows, and your point is moot and void. There is a currently a shortage of neighbourhood kids who can help with Linux, but that is not what you were talking about, you meant that Windows does not require administration at all, didn't you?
Is there any evidence... clean energy technology" being bought out and extinguished by the oil industry?
You are welcome
1) Multiple keyboards/monitors connected to one desktop -- too expensive, a pain to setup
2) Mechanical typewriter -- need to restock paper and tape -- too expensive
3) Some kind of electric typewriter, like this one on Amazon.com Try to buy them from China, where they cost pennies, or hunt for bargains, like the one I linked. There is 12 of them available for US $28. As far as electricity being in limited supply -- that problem is much easier to fix: get a UPS power supply. (electric typewriters are not power-hungry), a solar panel, or even a power generator connected to a stationary bicycle (my father told me they used to use those during power outages)
The absolute majority of developers are male, which stacks the "market" against us. There is usually little to no selection, while the sole lady in the group gets all the attention of the 120+ male programmers. I suspect that this is the root cause of the "mom's basement" paradigm. I lost count how many times I wished to be an Accountant or something.
So, to those single devs on this thread: get off your little couches and your home gaming rigs, and find someone outside the office. I recommend friends of friends, or some sort of community. Can even go back to school and get a non-technical degree (like Accounting!).
90% of dektops/laptops still run Windows (=large volumes), and even if Windows 8 fails (like Vista), they will come back with Windows 9. It was the Windows PC hardware where Linux taken off and they are trying to do everything they can to stop its progress. They already started by locking down BIOS, and it looks like they plan to do the same to CPU. I have 0 clue how they plan to do this (be it a special chip or a "programmed" DRM), but the statement by Intel indicates that they are trying hard.