but the limited length of the study would seem to introduce an error in the other direction.
As you said yourself there's differences between human and rats when it comes to cancer gestation. However rats are none the less a great model for a carcinogen's behaviour in humans, and incidentally the faster development of problems is precisely why they typically get used in studies in the first place.
Some people think that to fix this we have to completely throw out the patent system.
I don't think any sane person would suggest that. But an overhaul to prevent filing and granting of trivial non-inventions is none the less in order. If for no other reason than to reduce the backlog and cashflow of those who profit from an insane number of patent applications.
IBM filed for 9043 patents last year. Even if the troll littigation stops there are still legitimate problems with the patent system that rewards this behaviour.
Oh, yeah, that's why there are literally tens of thousands of messages from Android users who disable Wi-Fi and cellular data and "enjoy" up to 35% battery drain overnight and this drain is not shown in Battery information.
As I said, a micromanaging power user. I.e. one of the 1% (10s of thousands seems about the right number) that actually don't do something simple like have their phone on charge overnight.
So, you're right, I'm the geekest geek and people are making things up and Android battery management is perfect. Except it sucks.
Why are you putting words in my mouth? Yes, you are the geekiest of geek (wave at your fellow geeks here on Slashdot). I didn't say Android battery management is perfect. I said micromanagement isn't needed for 99% of people.
You see I've owned close to a dozen Android devices and I have yet to see a single one where battery information is complete and self-explanatory and you're always in control of your battery discharge.
You see I've owned close to a dozen Android devices where I've never looked at or cared about battery information beyond the little percentage symbol in the top right. My phone gets hours of screen time and call time per day and I use it to navigate to and from work. I typically have 1/3rd charge still at night when it lands on the charger.
Battery management may well suck. Few people give a shit. Hell even my girlfriend used to turn her Wifi, bluetooth, location etc off and on manually until I told her she should try just not doing it to see what happens. Nothing happened. Tiny bit more battery drain and her life (and phone use) went on.
I and many others have better shit to do than micromanage the devices which are supposed to make our life easier.
Battery management: it's nigh impossible to understand what exactly is draining your memory, how often your device wakes up and what sensors are in use unless you install quite specific apps and grant them quite specific permissions via adb, which is near impossible for 99% of users out there.
To be fair to those 99% of users they likely just charge their device at night and don't have problems. If your battery needs "management" you're either the most power of power users, your phone needs a factory reset, or your phone needs to be replaced/repaired.
Hmm, doesn't it sound awfully a lot like Android users could benefit from the optional Processor Throttling feature also posted on Slashdot today?
Or more likely doesn't it sound like we could all use more accurate estimates for battery life remaining at the very edge of a battery's usable life. Seriously these kinds of estimates are hard to make. But since you need a low power option it may be worth mentioning that not only has Android had such a feature for a good 5+ years now, but you can even set it to automatically activate at a low battery on most phones.
I wonder if there's anything on Android like a battery capacity check? Maybe it's simpler failing batteries with lower capacity that are seeing lower life under Android Pie for some reason...
Every single release of Android to date, and I'm sure every release of iOS has had people reporting battery life problems. It's far more likely that the upgrades are hitting edge case bugs.
Americans complaining about border control in the EU amounts to war? Are you high? Have you ever traveled into either the EU or into America as a non-resident? If this was leading to war then the USA would have been in a perpetual state of wa....... oh crap.
Wait, people who argue that UBI would increase unemployment aren't arguing that $2,000 a year will do this. They argue that giving someone $2K a month would increase unemployment. $2K a year could net you a nice holiday But I don't even think you could live off that in a tent.
Indeed. Another "UBI" test falls short on one of the three characters. In this case the "B". You can't survive on $2000 a year so this isn't "basic" income. It's a small boost.
There is not "more spending money". The only way a government can do this is to take money from A and give it to B.
You can take $100 from A and give it to B easily enough. However you can incur variable costs in doing so. You can staff an entire department require complicated processing using archaic rules that result in taking $100 from A and only having $30 left to give to B. Or you can simplify it all, have the entire department run by the night janitor and take $100 from A and give $95 to B.
That is the increased spending money that results from UBI. If there ever was a true UBI. Unfortunately there isn't, and all these tests fall short of proving the concept in one way or another.
Read that again while thinking of certain members of congress and a willy wonka escapee....
Still holds true. Nothing Trump says due to the nature of being the babbling buffoon who happens to be president actually changes the way the world works. There are people who will look up what he says independently, and there are people who will take his word for it because he's president and people who will flat out assume he's wrong because he's Trump.
While the latter camp will be right most of the time given his history it doesn't change the fact that it takes a certain kind of mentality to blindly follow an appeal to authority.
I have experienced that once too, only to reload the page and get an error message and then come back later in the afternoon to be let in without issue. reCAPTCHA also varies the difficulty with risk so it takes longer to get to somewhere through a VPN for instance. Part of that is precisely the problem Google is trying to solve: better identify bots so that people *don't* get stuck in these situations. This has always been the case as well, even back in the "what are these two words" days. Access a site directly, get two clear words, go via VPN get gobbeldygook.
Again this still supports my assertion. The difficulty of passing the reCAPTCHA at the moment leads to quirky bugs that piss off people like youself, not on purpose, and through better detection of people this would be eliminated.
Climate Science is probably the only Science that rejects empirical data for data ginned up on computers.
Quite the opposite. Climate Science has generated the single most scrutinized set of datum from temperature sensors around the world resulting in an ever increasing accuracy as faults are calibrated out.
But it's easier to say "science bad" than it is to actually read how and why data sets get compensated. I mean if you tried to do the latter you'd actually have to come up with a basis for your argument. "science bad" is just easier.
A lot of people bought 3d TV's because they thought it was trend, but it was a Fad.
Actually I think you'll find a lot of people bought 3D TVs because they made good TVs with high frame rates despite a fad feature they never ended up using. At least that's how it worked out for us. Our TV just happened to be a 3D one, it didn't at all come into the purchasing decision.
Ask yourself this: Should we have more class actions, or fewer? Answer: I dunno.
I do, it's quite clear the class-action ecosystem of America has done (to excuse my french) fuck all for consumers. There have been far greater effects of actual laws that regulate behaviour, to say nothing of countries which actually have consumer advocacy departments that enforce those regulations with actual punishment.
If this is nothing more than "outsourcing" to the private sector then it appears to be working as well as any other outsourcing claim does. Just look at the Xbox360 red ring issue:
Australia: 15 year old complains to the ACCC under the fair trade act. ACCC launches investigation and forces Microsoft to honour all red ring failures under warranty. America: MS extends American warranty to 3 years after losing in Australia. Class Action filed. Lawyers rich. A new Xbox 360 slim is released and the extended warranty program is cancelled.
End result: In the USA consumers are back to having to sue again, in Australia you're still covered under warranty because the laws require equipment to have expected performance.
And that's just a minor case when you compare to how Google's Privacy violations appear to be going in Europe.
Class actions aren't worth the time and certainly aren't changing behaviours of corporations. They are a speeding fine payed to the legal system, and a written off cost of doing business. Another example: BP. The class action litigation resulted in a few rich lawyers. Individual claims set aside on the other hand paid billions directly to the affected people. Actual fines and total costs for the spill amounted to the 10s of billions rendering the class-action completely moot, but at least some lawyers got rich of that one too.
Yep. Still with the name calling and zero technical comeback.
interspersed with your 'internet tough guy' routine
Oh I'm not a toughguy. I'm an internet thick skinned who simply laughs at people who jump in and namecall whenever someone calls out their stupid arguements.
I'll treat you like the 4chan-esque
Why am I not surprised that you're have stored reading material from 4chan. Also TL;DR. Keep to your one-liner insults, they get the point across better.
There is no claim of higher performance, just lower failure rates. It is *entirely* about failure rates.
And you missed my point. There are no high failure rates. They do not exist. It's like enterprise HDDs show no difference in failure rates compared to consumer drives. And even if there was a concern about failure rates then you wouldn't be spending useless money on RAM in a shitty machine fully of otherwise relatively low end junk components.
No "but still" about it. I fully agree with you. I was supporting the AC's statements that the type of customers using these chips are precisely the type of customers who would use the extra PCI-E lanes.
The google search was entirely my point. I started this entire post with a Google search and even linked my result as to why I didn't get the joke.
No I'm not a troll, troll's don't bother Googling something before they post. Don't congratulate me. Google wouldn't have helped me either, WWF does not return any wrestling results and honestly I had no idea that they even changed their name to WWE.
But thanks I now get the joke, and it makes perfect sense now that the connection has been made.:-)
Thankyou for your detailed and technical comeback. It's always interesting having a discussion with people. Some people fight their stupid opinions, some people admit they were wrong, and then there's those who revert to their 5 year old self. What a pleasant child you must have been.
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but the limited length of the study would seem to introduce an error in the other direction.
As you said yourself there's differences between human and rats when it comes to cancer gestation. However rats are none the less a great model for a carcinogen's behaviour in humans, and incidentally the faster development of problems is precisely why they typically get used in studies in the first place.
Some people think that to fix this we have to completely throw out the patent system.
I don't think any sane person would suggest that. But an overhaul to prevent filing and granting of trivial non-inventions is none the less in order. If for no other reason than to reduce the backlog and cashflow of those who profit from an insane number of patent applications.
IBM filed for 9043 patents last year. Even if the troll littigation stops there are still legitimate problems with the patent system that rewards this behaviour.
It looks cool. I'm sorry the fun child in you who likes cool looking things died.
Oh, yeah, that's why there are literally tens of thousands of messages from Android users who disable Wi-Fi and cellular data and "enjoy" up to 35% battery drain overnight and this drain is not shown in Battery information.
As I said, a micromanaging power user. I.e. one of the 1% (10s of thousands seems about the right number) that actually don't do something simple like have their phone on charge overnight.
So, you're right, I'm the geekest geek and people are making things up and Android battery management is perfect. Except it sucks.
Why are you putting words in my mouth?
Yes, you are the geekiest of geek (wave at your fellow geeks here on Slashdot).
I didn't say Android battery management is perfect. I said micromanagement isn't needed for 99% of people.
You see I've owned close to a dozen Android devices and I have yet to see a single one where battery information is complete and self-explanatory and you're always in control of your battery discharge.
You see I've owned close to a dozen Android devices where I've never looked at or cared about battery information beyond the little percentage symbol in the top right. My phone gets hours of screen time and call time per day and I use it to navigate to and from work. I typically have 1/3rd charge still at night when it lands on the charger.
Battery management may well suck. Few people give a shit. Hell even my girlfriend used to turn her Wifi, bluetooth, location etc off and on manually until I told her she should try just not doing it to see what happens. Nothing happened. Tiny bit more battery drain and her life (and phone use) went on.
I and many others have better shit to do than micromanage the devices which are supposed to make our life easier.
Battery management: it's nigh impossible to understand what exactly is draining your memory, how often your device wakes up and what sensors are in use unless you install quite specific apps and grant them quite specific permissions via adb, which is near impossible for 99% of users out there.
To be fair to those 99% of users they likely just charge their device at night and don't have problems. If your battery needs "management" you're either the most power of power users, your phone needs a factory reset, or your phone needs to be replaced/repaired.
It's worse than that even.
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So it's not worse at all then since no one ever sees the API version number.
If you can't remember what letter of the alphabet you are up to, how are you supposed to remember the number?
Hmm, doesn't it sound awfully a lot like Android users could benefit from the optional Processor Throttling feature also posted on Slashdot today?
Or more likely doesn't it sound like we could all use more accurate estimates for battery life remaining at the very edge of a battery's usable life. Seriously these kinds of estimates are hard to make. But since you need a low power option it may be worth mentioning that not only has Android had such a feature for a good 5+ years now, but you can even set it to automatically activate at a low battery on most phones.
I wonder if there's anything on Android like a battery capacity check? Maybe it's simpler failing batteries with lower capacity that are seeing lower life under Android Pie for some reason...
Every single release of Android to date, and I'm sure every release of iOS has had people reporting battery life problems. It's far more likely that the upgrades are hitting edge case bugs.
Why is that?
I'm just a bit of a bastard.
Do you want war? That's how you get war!
Americans complaining about border control in the EU amounts to war? Are you high? Have you ever traveled into either the EU or into America as a non-resident? If this was leading to war then the USA would have been in a perpetual state of wa....... oh crap.
But you don't get paid to read, just to comment. Is that correct, AC?
As I like pointing out on Slashdot. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a shill. Some people are genuinely stupid.
Wait, people who argue that UBI would increase unemployment aren't arguing that $2,000 a year will do this. They argue that giving someone $2K a month would increase unemployment. $2K a year could net you a nice holiday But I don't even think you could live off that in a tent.
Indeed. Another "UBI" test falls short on one of the three characters. In this case the "B". You can't survive on $2000 a year so this isn't "basic" income. It's a small boost.
There is not "more spending money". The only way a government can do this is to take money from A and give it to B.
You can take $100 from A and give it to B easily enough. However you can incur variable costs in doing so. You can staff an entire department require complicated processing using archaic rules that result in taking $100 from A and only having $30 left to give to B. Or you can simplify it all, have the entire department run by the night janitor and take $100 from A and give $95 to B.
That is the increased spending money that results from UBI. If there ever was a true UBI. Unfortunately there isn't, and all these tests fall short of proving the concept in one way or another.
Read that again while thinking of certain members of congress and a willy wonka escapee ....
Still holds true. Nothing Trump says due to the nature of being the babbling buffoon who happens to be president actually changes the way the world works. There are people who will look up what he says independently, and there are people who will take his word for it because he's president and people who will flat out assume he's wrong because he's Trump.
While the latter camp will be right most of the time given his history it doesn't change the fact that it takes a certain kind of mentality to blindly follow an appeal to authority.
It isn't as easy as you think; unplug a microphone without turning the gain down.
So ... use a switch with two contacts, one to alert the audio chip that the mic is unplugged.
Yes actually it is precisely as easy as I think. I design exactly these kinds of audio circuits, in the past for a living, now for a hobby.
then throwing silicon at the problem is cheaper than the passives
The thing with passives is you already have them, unless you're not using "hardware" to detect conditions as the summary would imply.
I have experienced that once too, only to reload the page and get an error message and then come back later in the afternoon to be let in without issue.
reCAPTCHA also varies the difficulty with risk so it takes longer to get to somewhere through a VPN for instance. Part of that is precisely the problem Google is trying to solve: better identify bots so that people *don't* get stuck in these situations. This has always been the case as well, even back in the "what are these two words" days. Access a site directly, get two clear words, go via VPN get gobbeldygook.
Again this still supports my assertion. The difficulty of passing the reCAPTCHA at the moment leads to quirky bugs that piss off people like youself, not on purpose, and through better detection of people this would be eliminated.
Climate Science is probably the only Science that rejects empirical data for data ginned up on computers.
Quite the opposite. Climate Science has generated the single most scrutinized set of datum from temperature sensors around the world resulting in an ever increasing accuracy as faults are calibrated out.
But it's easier to say "science bad" than it is to actually read how and why data sets get compensated. I mean if you tried to do the latter you'd actually have to come up with a basis for your argument. "science bad" is just easier.
A lot of people bought 3d TV's because they thought it was trend, but it was a Fad.
Actually I think you'll find a lot of people bought 3D TVs because they made good TVs with high frame rates despite a fad feature they never ended up using. At least that's how it worked out for us. Our TV just happened to be a 3D one, it didn't at all come into the purchasing decision.
Ask yourself this: Should we have more class actions, or fewer? Answer: I dunno.
I do, it's quite clear the class-action ecosystem of America has done (to excuse my french) fuck all for consumers. There have been far greater effects of actual laws that regulate behaviour, to say nothing of countries which actually have consumer advocacy departments that enforce those regulations with actual punishment.
If this is nothing more than "outsourcing" to the private sector then it appears to be working as well as any other outsourcing claim does. Just look at the Xbox360 red ring issue:
Australia: 15 year old complains to the ACCC under the fair trade act. ACCC launches investigation and forces Microsoft to honour all red ring failures under warranty.
America: MS extends American warranty to 3 years after losing in Australia. Class Action filed. Lawyers rich. A new Xbox 360 slim is released and the extended warranty program is cancelled.
End result: In the USA consumers are back to having to sue again, in Australia you're still covered under warranty because the laws require equipment to have expected performance.
And that's just a minor case when you compare to how Google's Privacy violations appear to be going in Europe.
Class actions aren't worth the time and certainly aren't changing behaviours of corporations. They are a speeding fine payed to the legal system, and a written off cost of doing business. Another example: BP. The class action litigation resulted in a few rich lawyers. Individual claims set aside on the other hand paid billions directly to the affected people. Actual fines and total costs for the spill amounted to the 10s of billions rendering the class-action completely moot, but at least some lawyers got rich of that one too.
He flies to climate conferences in private jets and rumor has it his house consumes as much electricity as a small town.
I'm sure that is all true. But it takes a certain kind of mentality to discredit a global problem due to the actions of a single person.
Then there's trolls like you
Yep. Still with the name calling and zero technical comeback.
interspersed with your 'internet tough guy' routine
Oh I'm not a toughguy. I'm an internet thick skinned who simply laughs at people who jump in and namecall whenever someone calls out their stupid arguements.
I'll treat you like the 4chan-esque
Why am I not surprised that you're have stored reading material from 4chan. Also TL;DR. Keep to your one-liner insults, they get the point across better.
There is no claim of higher performance, just lower failure rates. It is *entirely* about failure rates.
And you missed my point. There are no high failure rates. They do not exist. It's like enterprise HDDs show no difference in failure rates compared to consumer drives. And even if there was a concern about failure rates then you wouldn't be spending useless money on RAM in a shitty machine fully of otherwise relatively low end junk components.
There simply is no justification for it.
Unless you're making a beowolf cluster of these.
No "but still" about it. I fully agree with you. I was supporting the AC's statements that the type of customers using these chips are precisely the type of customers who would use the extra PCI-E lanes.
The google search was entirely my point. I started this entire post with a Google search and even linked my result as to why I didn't get the joke.
No I'm not a troll, troll's don't bother Googling something before they post. Don't congratulate me. Google wouldn't have helped me either, WWF does not return any wrestling results and honestly I had no idea that they even changed their name to WWE.
But thanks I now get the joke, and it makes perfect sense now that the connection has been made. :-)
Thankyou for your detailed and technical comeback. It's always interesting having a discussion with people. Some people fight their stupid opinions, some people admit they were wrong, and then there's those who revert to their 5 year old self. What a pleasant child you must have been.