In order: yes and chrome implementation is a terrible downgrade, yes and having an add-on to replicate a partial functionality of something taken away is ridiculous, I don't care as I don't use IE.
Worth noting that soviets were absolute geniuses of this warfare, far eclipsing West. When USSR fell, the real size of their army proved to be approximately 40% smaller then most conservative estimates before that.
Reason? Large inflatable pseudo-armies, that actually had proper radar cross-section and IR signature that fooled all the massive reconnaissance conducted on USSR from air. It made the listed area51 tricks look like child play.
First of all, beneficial effects have been observed in humans who live above large uranium deposits in Australia for a long time now. You aren't going to see a paper on it this century at least, because anyone who dares to publish one will be choked to death by activists. Problem here is same as one for medical laboratories, the issue is so politicized that attempting a serious investigation would lead to a massive popular fallout regardless of results. It's simply dangerous on personal level, where activists will likely try to go the same path they currently go for researchers who work on animal testing - from false pedophile accusations to death threats to various levels of vandalism and violence. It's a nasty world out there if you're researching things that certain people feel very strongly about.
Point two: unlike iodine, stronrium and cesium actually do leave the body as a part of normal metabolic process at a reasonably fast rate, meaning that bioaccumulation for these two (especially Cs) requires a very steady diet of these substances.
Iodine stays a lot longer due to accumulation in thyroid gland, and because 131I damages through its specific beta rather then gamma emission, which is more damaging in low, rather then high intensity, as high intensity would kill cells outright, while low intensity keeps cells alive but is extremely efficient at mutating them. As a result, 131I in low dosages is considered significantly more dangerous then in high dosages.
Strontium is much less nasty as it's destructiveness lies mainly in its gamma irradiation, but has a tendency to accumulate in bone marrow to some extent. Extent is however significantly lower then that of 131I and thyroid, and it is metabolized out of the body much faster.
Caesium is a joke compared to other two. It behaves in human body like potassium, spreading uniformly across tissues rather then concentrating, and is metabolized out of the body just like potassium at a reasonably high speed.
Then you're claiming that education system that essentially made over 99% of population in industrialized countries capable of reading, writing, performing basic mathematical necessities like calculating their own budget, managing bank statements and taxes, and served as a platform to enable almost a third of all people in industrialised countries to get a highly specialised education is a "failure"?
You sure have some strict requirements to call something a success.
And on subject of math, yes, multiplication table is also taught in countries that have over 70% of total working population have a bachelor's or master's degree at least like Nordic countries, or South Korea. I'm not just talking about USA.
And personally I find it hard to imagine how I would be able to manage anything more then basic mathematic formulas without having double digit multiplication table learnt. As in I could, it's just that solving would take me several times longer as I would have to abstract the math instead of just using the numbers I learnt already.
It's comparable to writing an essay in a foreign language where you understand the language structure and basic words, but have to go through the dictionary for almost every word you write. It's doable - it will just take you many times longer. And in the end, you'll just end up memorizing it anyway, because that's how our brain works - memorized things are accessed fast and do not tax our ability to perform complex abstractions such as higher level mathematics, while actually abstracting every concept and calculating taxes our brain severely rendering it's ability to perform other similar tasks, such as higher level math itself unavailable until the other similar task has finished.
This is a well known and researched flaw in our brain, originating from the fact that it is a specialized computing system designed for needs of a caveman - not a modern person. As a result it can only run one similar task that requires abstraction (such as calculations) at a time efficiently, and any attempt to multitask destroys the performance. And that is why modern successful school system works around it by getting student to memorize things they will need often - so in case of advanced mathematics they can perform tasks that require basic math and advanced math to be done at the same time efficiently.
Denmark did not survive, it was taken over in a military assault, and later bombed and "liberated" by allies and soviets splitting it in two. For all bits and purposes, it was a vassal of Germany and later a vassal of Allied and Soviet forces, until it got it independence back a few years after the WW2.
The only country to survive intact and uncounquered during the war in the mainland Europe was Switzerland. Everyone else was destroyed under German Wermacht. The only reason they got their indepence back was the fact that Wermacht lost the war in 1945.
The source of radiation matters because radioactivity inside the body has a higher absorption rate and stays inside the body, irradiating it longer. That said, a TOTAL effect of radiation, both in terms of time and irradiation is measured as a dose per time. In this effect, a small dose over long time is not only harmless, but often beneficial due to cells engaging more powerful regeneration mechanisms causing overall beneficial results.
On the other hand, a large dose in a short time is almost always harmful in some way, either by causing radiation poisoning when in severe doses, or momentarily overloading cellular regeneration and breaking DNA chains beyond it's capability to self-repair, causing mutations that have a very small potential to cause cancerous grouth some time later in life.
And it is in terms of dosage that the comparison is made. Therefore it's valid. You are arguing against basic mathematics.
P.S. In this regard, 137Cs and 90Sr are far less harmful when ingested internally in small doses then a dose of ionising gamma radiation received during a single long flight, hence the comparison by german officials. Slightly different is 131I, which causes more damage mainly because of the organ in which is resides being extremely fragile to radiation and tends to concentrate all ioidine in body into itself.
No, somewhere more cold. Bacteria and virii that cause various diseases that go under "cold" umbrella enter state similar to hibernation at around -5C.
Wait what? I recall seeing them being sold all over Estonia's markets. Locals really liked eating them too. Or is this another case of hysterical "they are a few percent more radioactive then mushrooms in [another country], HORROR!".
By the same school of thought, no one should live above sea level. Too radioactive. Not talking about percentages, several TIMES more radioactive. HORROR. Seriously, I had a flatmate in university who was from Mexico City. He really didn't glow in the dark. Or have two heads.
"About 2 percent of the 50,000 boars hunted are above the legal radioactivity limit, Reddemann said. And the government's radiation protection office says some mushrooms have registered up to 20 times the legal cesium limit.
Eating 200 grams of mushrooms tested seven times above the legal cesium limit, for example, would amount to the same exposure as the altitude radiation taken in during a 2,000-mile flight, according to Germany's Office for Radiation Protection."
So please, whatever you do, DO NOT FLY. And people who fly frequently are true hazards to everyone, as they irradiate us all in addition to clearly dying from radiation poisoning!/sarcasm
On topic of ATI vs nVIDIA, as it currently stands and has been for a couple of years, nvidia offers CUDA, but costs about 10% more per FPS you get out of the card at the same level of quality. Two years ago nvidia used to also have better drivers, but nowadays it's been in reverse (example: DA2) with nvidia actually having game breaking bugs at AAA game's release - something that used to happen to ATI before but hasn't lately.
So in the end you need decide if you need CUDA or not. That's the real choice. Speed per money is definitely on ATI's side, and driver quality is pretty much equal. That said, their advancement is really pretty limited in terms of quality, we're still limited by both DX9 and DX11, of which latter's new features remain largely unused as many titles want to have a multi-platform release meaning main design being for DX9 quality with all its limitations.
Option one: Help refugees, piss off big aggressor who has you surrounded. Take part in the war. Be forced to take sides, get bombed, and end up under one occupant or another. Option two: Stay neutral, avoid any and all sources of confrontation with the aggressor who has you surrounded including any and all refugees that aggressor wants dead.
Clearly, option one is likely more ethical from point of view of victims of the big aggressor. It's also very much suicidal for swiss themselves. Swiss chose their own survival over that of outsiders.
Good luck finding even one country that has chosen differently and survived in human history.
But once everyone rides transit, who is going to fund its losses? Better to lay the foundation of a transportation system that can pay its own way* now rather than squeeze cash out of private car drivers who will become increasingly scarce as time goes by.
I suggest you familiarise yourself with how basic infrastructure is financed and what financing is based on. They are essentially always returning a loss, because they are a part of BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE. The argument is that when basic infrastructure, which is costly to build up, is in place, local business opportunities grow and you can get a net gain from your tax revenue. This is certainly proven true across the world - if you don't have good infrastructure, you're not going to be a good place to invest to.
Public transport is a part of basic infrastructure in this regard. In major cities commuting by car already makes little sense even in USA, and absolutely no sense in EU. Public transportation that works (at a net cost to taxpayer) nets returns in general functionality of economy, as it allows cheap and efficient way of commuting and travelling without doing Beijing pollution-wise and turning traffic into insane gridlock. If you've ever been to a major European city, you'll know that car is more of a hindrance then an advantage when it comes to mobility there. Car is only needed for intercity travel (and even then, as Interrail showed, trains coupled with other public transportation in the target city often make much more sense).
As a result, the more people are shifted towards public transit, the more efficient it becomes. In the end, it may actually net a profit, but that would be doing it wrong. Doing it right would continue bringing reasonable net loss covered by extra taxes collected due to increased competitiveness of local area due to much more efficient transit.
Real cost is in laying cabling. Specifically digging ditches, ripping streets open and so on for many, many kilometers. After you get cables in, your maintenance costs are so hilariously small that after recouping your initial investment your profits go through the roof.
You would do well do educate yourself in how our brain's abstraction capability works if you ever want to even touch someone's education. For otherwise, it would be whoever you teach that will end up paying the price for your ignorance.
Perhaps then you would understand why "basic arithmetic" is necessary for teaching advanced mathematics, and why basic singe digit multiplication table is taught all over the world before advanced mathematics.
You're strawmanning the argument, with straw being a molecule sized one. It's extremely obvious that mathematics, physics and other scientific subjects are incremental - a pupil needs a good base, on which he can build understanding of more advanced aspects of the subject.
You are claiming that this is in fact false, and that we should just (to make an extreme example) skip teaching addition and multiplication and just go to teaching kids integral mathematics right away. Except that isn't possible, as kids won't have the base to understand what the hell integration is.
The main difference between teaching something, and applying something is that when teaching you need to go to basics, and teach those first and then advance from there, whereas when applying you do not have to go through basics and can apply advanced techniques right away. You just attempted to superimpose application over teaching while talking about teaching. If you are a teacher, this would be the point where you should consider going back to school and going over the basics of what teaching is all about.
What does writing a program have to do with mathematics, physics and so on?
Calculators are used for more then computer sciences (in fact CS usage is but a marginal fraction of their usage), and computer sciences apply but a small fraction of mathematics and physics.
You're essentially advocating cheating in one subject if you're good in another. Something no school worth a damn will ever accept. Else you would have to accept that a person with ability to write killer essays should be allowed to cheat on mathematics and physics as well.
Gamers, hackers and cheaters aren't their target customers. Schools are. TI loves schools. Hence it does everything to please them. Such as preventing tampering.
One of the things exams test is ability to solve certain kinds of problems on your own. If your calculator is too advanced, and can solve the problem for you, it nullifies the point of the exam.
Not only that but enthusiast crowd actually works on actively harming the goals of main target audience (schools, doing only what it is designed to do and nothing else). As a result TI has no choice but to stop hacking by any means necessary.
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In order: yes and chrome implementation is a terrible downgrade, yes and having an add-on to replicate a partial functionality of something taken away is ridiculous, I don't care as I don't use IE.
Malware writers don't choose target platform based on how hard it is to write malware for it. They choose it based on what is the target of malware.
Windows has been the obvious target because of its market share. As Mac OS market share grows, so does its attractiveness as target for malware.
Early PC stuff was a joke too. Give it some time to get going.
Worth noting that soviets were absolute geniuses of this warfare, far eclipsing West. When USSR fell, the real size of their army proved to be approximately 40% smaller then most conservative estimates before that.
Reason? Large inflatable pseudo-armies, that actually had proper radar cross-section and IR signature that fooled all the massive reconnaissance conducted on USSR from air. It made the listed area51 tricks look like child play.
First of all, beneficial effects have been observed in humans who live above large uranium deposits in Australia for a long time now. You aren't going to see a paper on it this century at least, because anyone who dares to publish one will be choked to death by activists. Problem here is same as one for medical laboratories, the issue is so politicized that attempting a serious investigation would lead to a massive popular fallout regardless of results. It's simply dangerous on personal level, where activists will likely try to go the same path they currently go for researchers who work on animal testing - from false pedophile accusations to death threats to various levels of vandalism and violence. It's a nasty world out there if you're researching things that certain people feel very strongly about.
Point two: unlike iodine, stronrium and cesium actually do leave the body as a part of normal metabolic process at a reasonably fast rate, meaning that bioaccumulation for these two (especially Cs) requires a very steady diet of these substances.
Iodine stays a lot longer due to accumulation in thyroid gland, and because 131I damages through its specific beta rather then gamma emission, which is more damaging in low, rather then high intensity, as high intensity would kill cells outright, while low intensity keeps cells alive but is extremely efficient at mutating them. As a result, 131I in low dosages is considered significantly more dangerous then in high dosages.
Strontium is much less nasty as it's destructiveness lies mainly in its gamma irradiation, but has a tendency to accumulate in bone marrow to some extent. Extent is however significantly lower then that of 131I and thyroid, and it is metabolized out of the body much faster.
Caesium is a joke compared to other two. It behaves in human body like potassium, spreading uniformly across tissues rather then concentrating, and is metabolized out of the body just like potassium at a reasonably high speed.
Then you're claiming that education system that essentially made over 99% of population in industrialized countries capable of reading, writing, performing basic mathematical necessities like calculating their own budget, managing bank statements and taxes, and served as a platform to enable almost a third of all people in industrialised countries to get a highly specialised education is a "failure"?
You sure have some strict requirements to call something a success.
And on subject of math, yes, multiplication table is also taught in countries that have over 70% of total working population have a bachelor's or master's degree at least like Nordic countries, or South Korea. I'm not just talking about USA.
And personally I find it hard to imagine how I would be able to manage anything more then basic mathematic formulas without having double digit multiplication table learnt. As in I could, it's just that solving would take me several times longer as I would have to abstract the math instead of just using the numbers I learnt already.
It's comparable to writing an essay in a foreign language where you understand the language structure and basic words, but have to go through the dictionary for almost every word you write. It's doable - it will just take you many times longer. And in the end, you'll just end up memorizing it anyway, because that's how our brain works - memorized things are accessed fast and do not tax our ability to perform complex abstractions such as higher level mathematics, while actually abstracting every concept and calculating taxes our brain severely rendering it's ability to perform other similar tasks, such as higher level math itself unavailable until the other similar task has finished.
This is a well known and researched flaw in our brain, originating from the fact that it is a specialized computing system designed for needs of a caveman - not a modern person. As a result it can only run one similar task that requires abstraction (such as calculations) at a time efficiently, and any attempt to multitask destroys the performance. And that is why modern successful school system works around it by getting student to memorize things they will need often - so in case of advanced mathematics they can perform tasks that require basic math and advanced math to be done at the same time efficiently.
Denmark did not survive, it was taken over in a military assault, and later bombed and "liberated" by allies and soviets splitting it in two. For all bits and purposes, it was a vassal of Germany and later a vassal of Allied and Soviet forces, until it got it independence back a few years after the WW2.
The only country to survive intact and uncounquered during the war in the mainland Europe was Switzerland. Everyone else was destroyed under German Wermacht. The only reason they got their indepence back was the fact that Wermacht lost the war in 1945.
The source of radiation matters because radioactivity inside the body has a higher absorption rate and stays inside the body, irradiating it longer. That said, a TOTAL effect of radiation, both in terms of time and irradiation is measured as a dose per time. In this effect, a small dose over long time is not only harmless, but often beneficial due to cells engaging more powerful regeneration mechanisms causing overall beneficial results.
On the other hand, a large dose in a short time is almost always harmful in some way, either by causing radiation poisoning when in severe doses, or momentarily overloading cellular regeneration and breaking DNA chains beyond it's capability to self-repair, causing mutations that have a very small potential to cause cancerous grouth some time later in life.
And it is in terms of dosage that the comparison is made. Therefore it's valid. You are arguing against basic mathematics.
P.S. In this regard, 137Cs and 90Sr are far less harmful when ingested internally in small doses then a dose of ionising gamma radiation received during a single long flight, hence the comparison by german officials. Slightly different is 131I, which causes more damage mainly because of the organ in which is resides being extremely fragile to radiation and tends to concentrate all ioidine in body into itself.
No, somewhere more cold. Bacteria and virii that cause various diseases that go under "cold" umbrella enter state similar to hibernation at around -5C.
Yes, and they paid for it when occupation tightened the fist in 1943? Which part of your quoted "this part" conflicts with my original statement?
Wait what? I recall seeing them being sold all over Estonia's markets. Locals really liked eating them too.
Or is this another case of hysterical "they are a few percent more radioactive then mushrooms in [another country], HORROR!".
By the same school of thought, no one should live above sea level. Too radioactive. Not talking about percentages, several TIMES more radioactive. HORROR.
Seriously, I had a flatmate in university who was from Mexico City. He really didn't glow in the dark. Or have two heads.
To spice things up, here is a nice photo of mushrooms from Lithuania on sale, fresh from wikipedia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Mashrooms_on_varena_roadside.jpg
Finally, according to huffington post's recent article on the issue, after a lot of scaremongering, the reality sets in:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/01/radioactive-boars-mushrooms-chernobyl_n_843498.html
"About 2 percent of the 50,000 boars hunted are above the legal radioactivity limit, Reddemann said. And the government's radiation protection office says some mushrooms have registered up to 20 times the legal cesium limit.
Eating 200 grams of mushrooms tested seven times above the legal cesium limit, for example, would amount to the same exposure as the altitude radiation taken in during a 2,000-mile flight, according to Germany's Office for Radiation Protection."
So please, whatever you do, DO NOT FLY. And people who fly frequently are true hazards to everyone, as they irradiate us all in addition to clearly dying from radiation poisoning! /sarcasm
A dead body is a dead body, be it drowned, irradiated, mutilated, dead from lung cancer or any other power-generation related reason.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Denmark
What about Denmark? It got bent over and taken up the ass, just like pretty much every other German neighbour in WW2 except Switzerland.
On topic of ATI vs nVIDIA, as it currently stands and has been for a couple of years, nvidia offers CUDA, but costs about 10% more per FPS you get out of the card at the same level of quality.
Two years ago nvidia used to also have better drivers, but nowadays it's been in reverse (example: DA2) with nvidia actually having game breaking bugs at AAA game's release - something that used to happen to ATI before but hasn't lately.
So in the end you need decide if you need CUDA or not. That's the real choice. Speed per money is definitely on ATI's side, and driver quality is pretty much equal. That said, their advancement is really pretty limited in terms of quality, we're still limited by both DX9 and DX11, of which latter's new features remain largely unused as many titles want to have a multi-platform release meaning main design being for DX9 quality with all its limitations.
Most people also forget that even if you don't count Banqiao Dam, hydro still has had more victims per power generated then nuclear.
In fact all major power sources have, including wind and solar. http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html (quotes WHO sources peer reviewed study).
Let's see that strawman and raise a simple fact:
Option one: Help refugees, piss off big aggressor who has you surrounded. Take part in the war. Be forced to take sides, get bombed, and end up under one occupant or another.
Option two: Stay neutral, avoid any and all sources of confrontation with the aggressor who has you surrounded including any and all refugees that aggressor wants dead.
Clearly, option one is likely more ethical from point of view of victims of the big aggressor. It's also very much suicidal for swiss themselves. Swiss chose their own survival over that of outsiders.
Good luck finding even one country that has chosen differently and survived in human history.
But once everyone rides transit, who is going to fund its losses? Better to lay the foundation of a transportation system that can pay its own way* now rather than squeeze cash out of private car drivers who will become increasingly scarce as time goes by.
I suggest you familiarise yourself with how basic infrastructure is financed and what financing is based on. They are essentially always returning a loss, because they are a part of BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE. The argument is that when basic infrastructure, which is costly to build up, is in place, local business opportunities grow and you can get a net gain from your tax revenue. This is certainly proven true across the world - if you don't have good infrastructure, you're not going to be a good place to invest to.
Public transport is a part of basic infrastructure in this regard. In major cities commuting by car already makes little sense even in USA, and absolutely no sense in EU. Public transportation that works (at a net cost to taxpayer) nets returns in general functionality of economy, as it allows cheap and efficient way of commuting and travelling without doing Beijing pollution-wise and turning traffic into insane gridlock. If you've ever been to a major European city, you'll know that car is more of a hindrance then an advantage when it comes to mobility there. Car is only needed for intercity travel (and even then, as Interrail showed, trains coupled with other public transportation in the target city often make much more sense).
As a result, the more people are shifted towards public transit, the more efficient it becomes. In the end, it may actually net a profit, but that would be doing it wrong. Doing it right would continue bringing reasonable net loss covered by extra taxes collected due to increased competitiveness of local area due to much more efficient transit.
These two are cheap.
Real cost is in laying cabling. Specifically digging ditches, ripping streets open and so on for many, many kilometers. After you get cables in, your maintenance costs are so hilariously small that after recouping your initial investment your profits go through the roof.
You would do well do educate yourself in how our brain's abstraction capability works if you ever want to even touch someone's education. For otherwise, it would be whoever you teach that will end up paying the price for your ignorance.
Perhaps then you would understand why "basic arithmetic" is necessary for teaching advanced mathematics, and why basic singe digit multiplication table is taught all over the world before advanced mathematics.
You're strawmanning the argument, with straw being a molecule sized one. It's extremely obvious that mathematics, physics and other scientific subjects are incremental - a pupil needs a good base, on which he can build understanding of more advanced aspects of the subject.
You are claiming that this is in fact false, and that we should just (to make an extreme example) skip teaching addition and multiplication and just go to teaching kids integral mathematics right away. Except that isn't possible, as kids won't have the base to understand what the hell integration is.
The main difference between teaching something, and applying something is that when teaching you need to go to basics, and teach those first and then advance from there, whereas when applying you do not have to go through basics and can apply advanced techniques right away. You just attempted to superimpose application over teaching while talking about teaching. If you are a teacher, this would be the point where you should consider going back to school and going over the basics of what teaching is all about.
What does writing a program have to do with mathematics, physics and so on?
Calculators are used for more then computer sciences (in fact CS usage is but a marginal fraction of their usage), and computer sciences apply but a small fraction of mathematics and physics.
You're essentially advocating cheating in one subject if you're good in another. Something no school worth a damn will ever accept. Else you would have to accept that a person with ability to write killer essays should be allowed to cheat on mathematics and physics as well.
Gamers, hackers and cheaters aren't their target customers. Schools are. TI loves schools. Hence it does everything to please them. Such as preventing tampering.
One of the things exams test is ability to solve certain kinds of problems on your own. If your calculator is too advanced, and can solve the problem for you, it nullifies the point of the exam.
For hackers, gamers and cheaters. None of whom are TI's target audience.
On the other hand it makes them more desirable for target audience, schools.
Not only that but enthusiast crowd actually works on actively harming the goals of main target audience (schools, doing only what it is designed to do and nothing else). As a result TI has no choice but to stop hacking by any means necessary.