The question is if there's a "knee" in the curve around 114. Maybe, but I don't think we've even got enough data to say for sure.
More like a crunch where it all really collapses. I have some mortality data from Norway here, "Dødssannsynlighet for alder x" = "Death probability at age x" in parts of 1000, "Begge kjønn" = "Both sexes". Already around 98 years it's up to over 30% per year but it doesn't continue the collapse, it stays in the 30-40% range up until 105 in this table and as I understood it up to 114. Of course with only 60-70% surviving each year the chance of living from 98 to 114 is 0.65^16 = 0.1%, but right now 114 looks very close to a cutoff. That perhaps now it's an additional cause of death, not just the sum of everything that's affected "younger" hundred and something year olds.
Not entirely sure what you're aiming at, the Android platform = the Linux kernel + Android-specific code. Google is the copyright holder of all the Android code, so they can pick any license they want. If Google had accepted third party contributions under the Apache license, then yes they'd be bound to use it under those terms. However, it doesn't contain any copyleft clause like the GPL, so they'd still not have to give any source code. If you want the oversimplified version, Apache is prettty much BSD + patent grant. Like BSD code you can use it in pretty much anywhere, but the code will still be under an Apache license.
Nowhere near 80, but I think you answered your own question - it's not about how many years but how they'll be. As long as I'm able to feed myself, clothe myself, go to the bathroom by myself, see well enough to use a computer and is not in chronic pain I think I'd want to live, even if I was so fragile I'd be in a wheelchair. I've known people well into their 90s that have been a lot healthier than that, while others have had huge health problems long, long before that. Of course you're more likely to get them with age, but in itself I don't think it matters much.
A lifetime of healthy food (fruits, vegetables, nuts and algae), regular exercise, no stress, meditation, happiness and joy. Achievable, but not easy.
Or just to as the world's oldest person ever did, smoke for 96 years.... I doubt what shape you were in 50+ years ago matters for whether you become 100, 110 or 120.
Where do you work, some bring your own hardware startup or academia where the user gets what the user wants? Like hell no I get to put corporate information in places or devices the company don't approve, no matter how sweet I think that'd be. Apple does not give one shit about making Apple products usable in a corporate setting, it's all but accidental or incidental to making a good consumer product. They not only don't give a hoot about the IT department, but they don't give a hoot about people trying to use it as a business tool at all.
Apple equipment = square peg Corporations = round hole Employees = the hammer
Sure, with a big enough hammer you'll probably get an awkward fit but I don't see why Apple should get any credit for that, because I can't see how they could possibly do less.
Linux is the only piece that's GPL licensed, the rest is Apache licensed - not to mention fully written by Google so they're copyright holders and can relicense at will. So if Google wanted to they could have a tivoized phone with not a whiff of source for anything but the kernel out by the end of the day. Nothing stopping them but of course they can't take back what they've already licensed so others would just fork from the last Apache release.
True, but I did talk to one head of IT recently... he loved his tablet, but hated how to integrate anything Apple into their systems. So you might say it's happening almost despite Apple rather than with Apple. In my impression it's exactly opposite of the PC where people used Windows at home because they use Windows at work. Now they use iDevices at home and want to use iDevices at work.
Maybe it is true that 10x1 min high-intensity training is just as good as 20, 30 or even 40 minutes of easier training. But for most people I am not sure if it is any more fun or easier to commit to.
Amen to that, the best kind of exercise is the one that doesn't make you want to quit exercising. I hate going over 80% of my max heart rate, even for short periods of time. Anywhere from 65-80% (for me, 130-150 bpm) is good. And it terms of calories burned, I can do an hour at 500/hr but no way I can do 1000/hr for half an hour, you may get in better shape in other ways but if you're doing it to lose weight then slow and steady is the only thing that works.
As I understand it all you needed was a swapping service, you put a coin in and get a different coin back. It's a little more complicated to avoid correlation and timing attacks and such, but that's the basic idea.
It's not unusual for various national police forces to exchange information, cooperate on coordinated raids, apprehending fugitives and that sort of thing. As long as they're not exercising police power on foreign soil, they're well within their mandate to participate in any investigation to bring people in front of a US court. Maybe now it's live video instead of a paper report saying they've apprehended the suspects, but I don't see anything fundamentally new or controversial in that alone.
You volunteered. Think about it, even the old fashioned scans of your luggage - long before 9/11, the TSA and whatnot would be illegal if you didn't consent to a search. It's almost the same as EULAs, it's probably somewhere in the Terms & Conditions but who reads them? Most people think "I pay $X, I get a plane ticket from A to B." and the rest is for the lawyers...
Yes, if you're the parent and is asking for the government to do the parenting for you then I agree. But I absolutely think the government should set bounds for what is acceptable parenting. They may be your children, but they're also human beings with rights any civilized society should protect. That goes both for helping or teaching parents to raise their own children or in cases of gross neglect, physical or sexual abuse taking over the role as parents completely. In particular, I'm far more concerned about the religious indoctrination children get in sects than any government indoctrination they get in public school.
ALL cableTV and ALL satellite TV is 720P heavy compressed. I dont care what your settings on the receiver are, the signal is 720p and will stay that way for a very long time.
Maybe that anecdotal experience is true for where you live, but in general you are wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
You just dont have the bandwidth.
Again, maybe where you live. I could stream a BluRay live if I wanted, so stop trying to speak for the world.
If you want really good 1080p you are going to not only pay for it, but do it all yourself.
My 60" non-smart non-3D TV cost about half of what my uncle's 55" smart 3D TV cost him. Hook it up via HDMI via the receiver, then fire up the best the Internet has to offer. You may for example find out how a not over compressed 1080p capture looks like....
I know they have that for training sessions, but I doubt they use it in real life. Otherwise they'd have to constantly scan it again as the search came up empty but they can't tell if it was a fake image or a hidden compartment. In any case I was thinking of the gate you walk through yourself, I've walked through the same gates, on the same airport, wearing pretty much exactly the same and by far most of the time it doesn't beep, yet it seems impossible to get down to where it never beeps no matter how little metal I wear.
If you're arrive on an international flight and is connecting on a domestic flight here in Norway, you must pick up your luggage, carry it through the customs area and check in again. They've considered a simpler way but the problem is once the passenger has his luggage he can take out items he's not allowed to carry on him so he's no longer cleared. Doing customs clearance without the passenger is hopeless, how can he for example go through the red zone? And customs check at final destination has the problem that he can just swap luggage with an accomplice on the domestic flight, including the luggage tags.
When you're a regular traveler, you adapt to jump through all the hoops. I have the laptop and liquid bag ready and everything like toothpaste, deodorant, contact lens liquid etc. are less than 100ml, I wear shoes that won't beep, belt that won't beep, put all my stuff in the jacket pockets, don't carry large amounts of loose change, drink up my soda before the security check and so on. You don't forget to take off your watch or any other of the million annoyances. I swear they have a "beep anyway" button though, just to annoy you.
Then you've got everybody else that only travel a few times a year. Oh, I need to take out the laptop I put at the bottom of my bag? Oh, I have to throw away the soda? Oh, I have to spend two minutes getting all the change out of my pockets? Oh, I have to untie my shoes and send through? Oh, you mean I can't bring my regular size tooth paste? They get frustrated and I get frustrated waiting for them, I wish there was a frequent traveller's lane (not the insanely expensive business express lane) where if you got say >10 stamps a year don't have to stand in line with the rest.
The guideline that has been around since before language was invented is "if you do something stupid then you live with the consequences".
Or you just moved so far that it's unlikely you'd run into any of your classmates, colleagues or neighbors again. Before people started blogging and tagging and newspapers came on paper it'd actually take a lot of effort to connect you with your past apart from the few glimpses you gave like here's employment references and grade transcripts. Today your history sticks with you in perfect detail forever, unless you go really nuclear and start from scratch under a new name and a new face.
A quick check with a distance calculator says a person with 20/20 vision should be able to see the difference around 2 feet out and get full resolution at about 1 feet. I would think most people hold it closer than 2 feet, that'd really be at arm's length. That said, the order goes contrast, saturation, color accuracy, resolution... it's not the first thing people notice.
I think it's more like this, Obama was thrown off a cliff at the start of his presidency and that no big names want to take over is probably indicative that we haven't hit the bottom yet. Neither the US nor Europe has recovered from the financial crisis yet (look at the employment-population ratio, not the unemployment rate) and my guess is that Europe will end up giving the world economy another kick in the balls very soon.
So Sony should deliver the same hardware with the same Android OS as everybody else? Yeah, like that's differentiation. Sony has as far as I know never competed with TSMC, Intel, AMD etc. and why should they start now? They've been into producing consumer products, and there's plenty opportunity to pick components and make solid, well intgrated, price efficient combinations of good build quality and turn a good profit on that. My iPhone4 didn't even come with a flashlight function, though there's a dozen apps for that. Unless Sony really screws up the basic functions, why should people care? There's an app for that. But there's no app that would say give you a better camera, or better battery lifetime, or better resolution/color/contrast on your screen. Your hardware choice is once, your software is replaceable. You probably can't muck too far into the Android internals without too much cost for a fork, and nobody's buying a phone because it has some Sony branded apps.
bestiality: consent not possible, and an animal, like a corpse, isn't a sock.
Of course animals aren't asked to consent to anything, we breed them, we castrate them, we kill them, we keep them in cages and on leashes, if you're going to use human standards pretty much all animal owners would be put away for life on kidnapping, rape and murder charges. Pretty much the only rule that governs them is that they should not be maltreated, which obviously includes anything causing disease or injury. But if someone's idea of a good time is to suck a horse dick, well I can't really come up with a good reason why that should be illegal other than that it's unnatural, creepy sure but nobody objects to a vet artificially inseminating a cow sticking things in its private parts - and the cow gets pregnant.too.
So if I round up a lynch mob and we hang you from a tree, that's just a different justice not better or worse justice. Surely you're tolerant of alternative justice systems?
I mean the fact that a washout like Mitt Romney is leading just lets you know how awful the Republican candidates are.
How many troll points do I get for pointing out that despite that, Ron Paul is still fourth behind Romney, Santorum and Gingrich? I'll go put on the popcorn...
Should we maybe move to a more British model, like in the London riots, which I might point out, I had the unfortunate pleasure of living there when it happened. People still get knifed quite regularly, and yet England is completely disarmed, both in weapons and in spirit. In fact, during the riots, our local neighbourhood antique dealers got knifed because he wouldn't hand over his phone to a pack of thugs. He was airlifted and barely survived, and these blokes are now on the street again. So since idiots with guns don't kill people, idiots with knives kill people. Before you laugh at a cliche, actually think about it for 30 seconds.
Yes, but idiots with knives kill less. Take for example the assassination attempt on Giffords, unless she's high enough in the system that she has an iron ring around her all the time like the POTUS you probably could have walked right up to her and stabbed her, it's certainly true for 99.999% of the population. But it's a helluva lot less likely that he'd kill six others and injure thirteen, including accidentally stabbing a 9yo in the head. Someone waving a knife around isn't a fraction of the threat of someone waving a gun around, I perfectly understand police officers who'll shoot anyone doing that. This isn't Lucky Luke where you wait to see if he wants to point it at you and fire or not, unless the knife is at somebody's throat it's not the same.
Take any cases where you'd like to disengage, like surprising a thief during a break-in or such. It's pretty easy to flee a knife fight if not pursued - and a fair chance if pursued, it's pretty hard to escape a bullet. And while I'd rather not meet someone having a psychotic episode and a knife, I'd much rather not meet someone with a gun. Nor the crazy ex-employee who wants to shoot me because I happen to work in the same company, even though I had no part in his firing. In short, if you want to murder you can murder. But guns turn what didn't have to be murder into a situation where people feel forced to shoot and they turn murders into massacres.
Of course you can say that if you ban guns, only one side will have guns. But any gunman that gives you the chance to pull your own gun is an idiot, and any person that comes in guns blazing will have emptied at least one clip before anyone else gets to react. People aren't going to go around like they're soldiers on patrol duty in Afghanistan, and even if they did I couldn't stop the guy behind me in line at the grocery store from killing me ten different ways before I'd notice. All I can hope for is that I'm nobody's intended victim and don't end up being someone's random or accidental victim or even die from "friendly fire". And on the last three counts I'd take knifes over guns, in the first one I'm probably dead either way.
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The question is if there's a "knee" in the curve around 114. Maybe, but I don't think we've even got enough data to say for sure.
More like a crunch where it all really collapses. I have some mortality data from Norway here, "Dødssannsynlighet for alder x" = "Death probability at age x" in parts of 1000, "Begge kjønn" = "Both sexes". Already around 98 years it's up to over 30% per year but it doesn't continue the collapse, it stays in the 30-40% range up until 105 in this table and as I understood it up to 114. Of course with only 60-70% surviving each year the chance of living from 98 to 114 is 0.65^16 = 0.1%, but right now 114 looks very close to a cutoff. That perhaps now it's an additional cause of death, not just the sum of everything that's affected "younger" hundred and something year olds.
Aren't things supposed to break down shortly after the warranty expires?
Not entirely sure what you're aiming at, the Android platform = the Linux kernel + Android-specific code. Google is the copyright holder of all the Android code, so they can pick any license they want. If Google had accepted third party contributions under the Apache license, then yes they'd be bound to use it under those terms. However, it doesn't contain any copyleft clause like the GPL, so they'd still not have to give any source code. If you want the oversimplified version, Apache is prettty much BSD + patent grant. Like BSD code you can use it in pretty much anywhere, but the code will still be under an Apache license.
Nowhere near 80, but I think you answered your own question - it's not about how many years but how they'll be. As long as I'm able to feed myself, clothe myself, go to the bathroom by myself, see well enough to use a computer and is not in chronic pain I think I'd want to live, even if I was so fragile I'd be in a wheelchair. I've known people well into their 90s that have been a lot healthier than that, while others have had huge health problems long, long before that. Of course you're more likely to get them with age, but in itself I don't think it matters much.
A lifetime of healthy food (fruits, vegetables, nuts and algae), regular exercise, no stress, meditation, happiness and joy. Achievable, but not easy.
Or just to as the world's oldest person ever did, smoke for 96 years.... I doubt what shape you were in 50+ years ago matters for whether you become 100, 110 or 120.
Where do you work, some bring your own hardware startup or academia where the user gets what the user wants? Like hell no I get to put corporate information in places or devices the company don't approve, no matter how sweet I think that'd be. Apple does not give one shit about making Apple products usable in a corporate setting, it's all but accidental or incidental to making a good consumer product. They not only don't give a hoot about the IT department, but they don't give a hoot about people trying to use it as a business tool at all.
Apple equipment = square peg
Corporations = round hole
Employees = the hammer
Sure, with a big enough hammer you'll probably get an awkward fit but I don't see why Apple should get any credit for that, because I can't see how they could possibly do less.
Linux is the only piece that's GPL licensed, the rest is Apache licensed - not to mention fully written by Google so they're copyright holders and can relicense at will. So if Google wanted to they could have a tivoized phone with not a whiff of source for anything but the kernel out by the end of the day. Nothing stopping them but of course they can't take back what they've already licensed so others would just fork from the last Apache release.
True, but I did talk to one head of IT recently... he loved his tablet, but hated how to integrate anything Apple into their systems. So you might say it's happening almost despite Apple rather than with Apple. In my impression it's exactly opposite of the PC where people used Windows at home because they use Windows at work. Now they use iDevices at home and want to use iDevices at work.
Maybe it is true that 10x1 min high-intensity training is just as good as 20, 30 or even 40 minutes of easier training. But for most people I am not sure if it is any more fun or easier to commit to.
Amen to that, the best kind of exercise is the one that doesn't make you want to quit exercising. I hate going over 80% of my max heart rate, even for short periods of time. Anywhere from 65-80% (for me, 130-150 bpm) is good. And it terms of calories burned, I can do an hour at 500/hr but no way I can do 1000/hr for half an hour, you may get in better shape in other ways but if you're doing it to lose weight then slow and steady is the only thing that works.
As I understand it all you needed was a swapping service, you put a coin in and get a different coin back. It's a little more complicated to avoid correlation and timing attacks and such, but that's the basic idea.
It's not unusual for various national police forces to exchange information, cooperate on coordinated raids, apprehending fugitives and that sort of thing. As long as they're not exercising police power on foreign soil, they're well within their mandate to participate in any investigation to bring people in front of a US court. Maybe now it's live video instead of a paper report saying they've apprehended the suspects, but I don't see anything fundamentally new or controversial in that alone.
You volunteered. Think about it, even the old fashioned scans of your luggage - long before 9/11, the TSA and whatnot would be illegal if you didn't consent to a search. It's almost the same as EULAs, it's probably somewhere in the Terms & Conditions but who reads them? Most people think "I pay $X, I get a plane ticket from A to B." and the rest is for the lawyers...
Yes, if you're the parent and is asking for the government to do the parenting for you then I agree. But I absolutely think the government should set bounds for what is acceptable parenting. They may be your children, but they're also human beings with rights any civilized society should protect. That goes both for helping or teaching parents to raise their own children or in cases of gross neglect, physical or sexual abuse taking over the role as parents completely. In particular, I'm far more concerned about the religious indoctrination children get in sects than any government indoctrination they get in public school.
ALL cableTV and ALL satellite TV is 720P heavy compressed. I dont care what your settings on the receiver are, the signal is 720p and will stay that way for a very long time.
Maybe that anecdotal experience is true for where you live, but in general you are wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
You just dont have the bandwidth.
Again, maybe where you live. I could stream a BluRay live if I wanted, so stop trying to speak for the world.
If you want really good 1080p you are going to not only pay for it, but do it all yourself.
My 60" non-smart non-3D TV cost about half of what my uncle's 55" smart 3D TV cost him. Hook it up via HDMI via the receiver, then fire up the best the Internet has to offer. You may for example find out how a not over compressed 1080p capture looks like....
I know they have that for training sessions, but I doubt they use it in real life. Otherwise they'd have to constantly scan it again as the search came up empty but they can't tell if it was a fake image or a hidden compartment. In any case I was thinking of the gate you walk through yourself, I've walked through the same gates, on the same airport, wearing pretty much exactly the same and by far most of the time it doesn't beep, yet it seems impossible to get down to where it never beeps no matter how little metal I wear.
If you're arrive on an international flight and is connecting on a domestic flight here in Norway, you must pick up your luggage, carry it through the customs area and check in again. They've considered a simpler way but the problem is once the passenger has his luggage he can take out items he's not allowed to carry on him so he's no longer cleared. Doing customs clearance without the passenger is hopeless, how can he for example go through the red zone? And customs check at final destination has the problem that he can just swap luggage with an accomplice on the domestic flight, including the luggage tags.
When you're a regular traveler, you adapt to jump through all the hoops. I have the laptop and liquid bag ready and everything like toothpaste, deodorant, contact lens liquid etc. are less than 100ml, I wear shoes that won't beep, belt that won't beep, put all my stuff in the jacket pockets, don't carry large amounts of loose change, drink up my soda before the security check and so on. You don't forget to take off your watch or any other of the million annoyances. I swear they have a "beep anyway" button though, just to annoy you.
Then you've got everybody else that only travel a few times a year. Oh, I need to take out the laptop I put at the bottom of my bag? Oh, I have to throw away the soda? Oh, I have to spend two minutes getting all the change out of my pockets? Oh, I have to untie my shoes and send through? Oh, you mean I can't bring my regular size tooth paste? They get frustrated and I get frustrated waiting for them, I wish there was a frequent traveller's lane (not the insanely expensive business express lane) where if you got say >10 stamps a year don't have to stand in line with the rest.
The guideline that has been around since before language was invented is "if you do something stupid then you live with the consequences".
Or you just moved so far that it's unlikely you'd run into any of your classmates, colleagues or neighbors again. Before people started blogging and tagging and newspapers came on paper it'd actually take a lot of effort to connect you with your past apart from the few glimpses you gave like here's employment references and grade transcripts. Today your history sticks with you in perfect detail forever, unless you go really nuclear and start from scratch under a new name and a new face.
A quick check with a distance calculator says a person with 20/20 vision should be able to see the difference around 2 feet out and get full resolution at about 1 feet. I would think most people hold it closer than 2 feet, that'd really be at arm's length. That said, the order goes contrast, saturation, color accuracy, resolution... it's not the first thing people notice.
I think it's more like this, Obama was thrown off a cliff at the start of his presidency and that no big names want to take over is probably indicative that we haven't hit the bottom yet. Neither the US nor Europe has recovered from the financial crisis yet (look at the employment-population ratio, not the unemployment rate) and my guess is that Europe will end up giving the world economy another kick in the balls very soon.
So Sony should deliver the same hardware with the same Android OS as everybody else? Yeah, like that's differentiation. Sony has as far as I know never competed with TSMC, Intel, AMD etc. and why should they start now? They've been into producing consumer products, and there's plenty opportunity to pick components and make solid, well intgrated, price efficient combinations of good build quality and turn a good profit on that. My iPhone4 didn't even come with a flashlight function, though there's a dozen apps for that. Unless Sony really screws up the basic functions, why should people care? There's an app for that. But there's no app that would say give you a better camera, or better battery lifetime, or better resolution/color/contrast on your screen. Your hardware choice is once, your software is replaceable. You probably can't muck too far into the Android internals without too much cost for a fork, and nobody's buying a phone because it has some Sony branded apps.
bestiality: consent not possible, and an animal, like a corpse, isn't a sock.
Of course animals aren't asked to consent to anything, we breed them, we castrate them, we kill them, we keep them in cages and on leashes, if you're going to use human standards pretty much all animal owners would be put away for life on kidnapping, rape and murder charges. Pretty much the only rule that governs them is that they should not be maltreated, which obviously includes anything causing disease or injury. But if someone's idea of a good time is to suck a horse dick, well I can't really come up with a good reason why that should be illegal other than that it's unnatural, creepy sure but nobody objects to a vet artificially inseminating a cow sticking things in its private parts - and the cow gets pregnant.too.
So if I round up a lynch mob and we hang you from a tree, that's just a different justice not better or worse justice. Surely you're tolerant of alternative justice systems?
I mean the fact that a washout like Mitt Romney is leading just lets you know how awful the Republican candidates are.
How many troll points do I get for pointing out that despite that, Ron Paul is still fourth behind Romney, Santorum and Gingrich? I'll go put on the popcorn...
Should we maybe move to a more British model, like in the London riots, which I might point out, I had the unfortunate pleasure of living there when it happened. People still get knifed quite regularly, and yet England is completely disarmed, both in weapons and in spirit. In fact, during the riots, our local neighbourhood antique dealers got knifed because he wouldn't hand over his phone to a pack of thugs. He was airlifted and barely survived, and these blokes are now on the street again. So since idiots with guns don't kill people, idiots with knives kill people. Before you laugh at a cliche, actually think about it for 30 seconds.
Yes, but idiots with knives kill less. Take for example the assassination attempt on Giffords, unless she's high enough in the system that she has an iron ring around her all the time like the POTUS you probably could have walked right up to her and stabbed her, it's certainly true for 99.999% of the population. But it's a helluva lot less likely that he'd kill six others and injure thirteen, including accidentally stabbing a 9yo in the head. Someone waving a knife around isn't a fraction of the threat of someone waving a gun around, I perfectly understand police officers who'll shoot anyone doing that. This isn't Lucky Luke where you wait to see if he wants to point it at you and fire or not, unless the knife is at somebody's throat it's not the same.
Take any cases where you'd like to disengage, like surprising a thief during a break-in or such. It's pretty easy to flee a knife fight if not pursued - and a fair chance if pursued, it's pretty hard to escape a bullet. And while I'd rather not meet someone having a psychotic episode and a knife, I'd much rather not meet someone with a gun. Nor the crazy ex-employee who wants to shoot me because I happen to work in the same company, even though I had no part in his firing. In short, if you want to murder you can murder. But guns turn what didn't have to be murder into a situation where people feel forced to shoot and they turn murders into massacres.
Of course you can say that if you ban guns, only one side will have guns. But any gunman that gives you the chance to pull your own gun is an idiot, and any person that comes in guns blazing will have emptied at least one clip before anyone else gets to react. People aren't going to go around like they're soldiers on patrol duty in Afghanistan, and even if they did I couldn't stop the guy behind me in line at the grocery store from killing me ten different ways before I'd notice. All I can hope for is that I'm nobody's intended victim and don't end up being someone's random or accidental victim or even die from "friendly fire". And on the last three counts I'd take knifes over guns, in the first one I'm probably dead either way.