Christ, you sounds like somebody who is butt hurt because they took a 3 week course for a technical certification and are insecure about how "expert" they are compared to people with actual education. Their description is accurate enough for marketing materials. By your own admission there is at least one green wavelength that blood cells absorb and at least one red one that they reflect. Therefore their information isn't incorrect and anyone with actual expertise in this area (like myself and others with this expertise have pointed out to you) can easily understand how they could make a sensor based on this phenomenon. It's not a new idea. These sensors have been around for decades and are used in hospitals routinely. It's basically a modified pulse oximeter, just since it uses only one wavelength instead of two it gets only the plethismograph information instead of the pleth AND oximetetry. Which is enough to determine a pulse rate.
As others have suggested this disrupts a part of Gram (+) cell wall synthesis which is difficult for bacteria to alter. Most antibiotics disrupt the protein constituents of the wall. Mutate one gene and the protein changes so it's relatively "easy" for bacteria to develop resistance. This new drug binds lipid constituents of the wall which are produced in a long synthesis pathway rather than a 1 to 1 gene to protein synthesis. Bacteria would need to mutate multiple genes coding multiple parts of the pathway simultaneously and in a complementary way to alter the structure of the target lipid without completely disrupting the pathway. So it's a much "harder" (meaning less likely to happen frequently) mutation to achieve.
You don't even need to do any of these. Just add the Nvidia repository to your system with Yast. It's already on the list of community repos. Automatically installs the latest driver no problem. Or use the 1-click button on the Nvidia driver page of the openSUSE wiki (which I'm pretty sure just does the exact same thing as the first option but even easier).
I've had absolutely no problems with 13.1 on either an Ivy Bridge laptop or a desktop with Nvidia GPU. Also using Gnome and not KDE though in case that makes any difference.
Yeah, I definitely agree about the notification system. It's excellent for some kind of things and pretty crap for others, like Dropbox. Having a persistent on screen notification icon that dropbox is running, what it's sync/connection status is, plus being able to double click it to always open the dropbox folder is really useful. Gnome's implementation of systray icons doesn't handle things like Dropbox nearly so elegantly.
I honestly don't get all the GNOME hate around here. Maybe I'm just late to the party and GNOME deserved all this hate a year or two ago. But I've been using OpenSuse 13.1 with GNOME since it was released on a laptop and a desktop and have found GNOME to be quite nice. I've avoided even trying it because of the almost universal panning that it gets online, but now that I've tried it I just don't get the hate. I understand that there's a certain percentage of Linux users who will curse any DE that tries to do anything differently than it was done in the "good old days" of Windows 95, but the hate for GNOME seems to exceed even what I'd expect from this persistent bias towards start menu + taskbar + individual text labeled application boxes.
So steam has somewhere to put the games it downloads for you. This really isn't that complicated. Game producers determine the DRM. If the producer chooses none then Steam downloads the files to the steam directory and keeps them up to date for you if you log in and launches the game for you if you log in. OR you can move the files wherever you want and log in or not and the game works just fine. Don't let reality get in the way of your anti-DRM narrative though.
Exactly this. I'm only a second year med student and even I could tell you that trying to kill someone with the mixture of drugs in the summary would be a really ugly process. I'm pretty sure we can't use propofol for the same reason we can't use the pentobarbital mentioned in the summary, but honestly a regular dose of propofol to knock someone unconscious plus a pneumatic piston like we use to humanely kill food animals would be the obvious option. Sure it makes a bigger mess, but it's WAY more humane for the person being executed, the one who were trying to protect from unnecessary cruelty and suffering. Propofol plus guillotine works well too. As it turns out medical science knows a lot more about reliably making people unconscious with drugs than about reliably killing them with drugs. Given that, if the killing is to happen, it should be done with something we know works reliably and quickly.
Calling it Nexus doesn't make the hardware magically capable of new workloads. There is no way to guarantee that cutting edge software can run well on old hardware. You can either cut hardware loose when it can't keep up or you can artificially hold back everybody else by never building anything too powerful for your first generation device. This argument is a canard. Nobody who buys Nexus devices for their access to upgrades expects the hardware to magically keep pace with hardware released 3 or 4 years later.
Genetics isn't magic. It doesn't spontaneously conjure lipid molecules from nothing. Fat is made of matter. Matter that enters a person's body when they eat it. The fact is that every person on the planet is losing weight every time they breathe. Where do you think those carbon atoms in exhaled CO2 come from? All you have to do is eat less and do more and, with few exceptions for certain rare diseases, you will lose weight. No X-men style genes are magic story telling required.
Don't hold your breath. He obviously could have just said that the screen eats enough power that you couldn't possibly cut total power consumption by half with just the CPU. But that doesn't make him sound as intelligent and mysterious as citing a mathematical argument for which he has no idea how it would actually work out without actual numbers and isn't really relevant in the first place.
Exactly. The balance due on the phone which you still own. That's not a fee. That's paying for something that you bought and get to keep. The only reason they cancel the phone installment plan immediately is because the terms of the loan are so generous in the first place that it's not viable to let people keep those terms when they aren't paying you otherwise anymore.
Direct evidence is easily found on Google. Look up how to activate a non-Verizon phone on Verizon's network. You can't is the answer because they won't do it. I know they used to in the past, but not in many years.
This is nonsense. Try doing exactly what you said with Verizon. They won't let arbitrary compatible devices on their network. Call them up to activate and they'll tell you to bring the device to a Verizon store so they can "assess it for compatibility" which just means figure out if you bought it from them or not. If not it magically becomes "incompatible".
There is NO TERMINATION FEE! That's what he meant by idiot. You have to pay back what you borrowed for the phone. That is NOT A FEE. Just because you pay it at termination doesn't make it a termination fee. A termination fee is a price you pay for nothing in return. This price you pay at termination is for the phone that you bought with borrowed money. It's not a fee. And it's not mandatory that you buy a phone with borrowed money or buy one from T-Mobile or buy one at all. You can put a Tmobile sim card into any device you want to. Borrowing money to pay for a device that you can't afford is your own decision. This is not a difficult concept to understand.
So what are people around here considering reading instead of Slashdot? This indecipherable summary is extremely common around here along with click bait, exaggerated headlines (click bait again), news that's days behind every other tech news site. I'd love to hear some fresh ideas for Slashdot replacements.
Seriously. I hate April Fools day because a large portion of the internet seems to become a barf bag filled with lame, obvious, and painfully stupid "fooled you!" articles that don't fool anybody. And especially don't fool anybody when EVERY post is lame nonsense. Google does this properly, everybody else should quit trying and let us read actual news.
This has been done. The results are entirely predictable in that almost any fool can tell the difference between a low bitrate MP3 and a CD or vinyl. Very few people can tell the difference between a 350kbps MP3 and CD or vinyl, but some people can (doubtful that all audiophiles fall into this group but some surely do). Most interestingly is that younger people had a much higher chance of preferring the low bitrate mp3 to the CD or vinyl.
I definitely agree and also want to point out that stopping you installing it for family probably shouldn't be a priority in the first place. I think interfering with they very organic nature of sharing among people you care about is only ever going to be a hindrance or perceived as greedy. Stopping someone making 10,000 copies and handing them out to complete strangers is the much bigger issue financially and morally.
I've always noticed among people that it's extremely easy to convince oneself that they are "breaking the rules" for a "legitimate" reason when it means they'll get something for free. People don't like obtrusive DRM, sure I get it. But one guy on one forum has one problem with a games DRM and all of a sudden it's war on that DRM and thousands of people latch onto to piracy as the holy cause despite all the evidence suggesting that likely none of them would have found the DRM obtrusive. I'm not saying there haven't been abuses by game companies and people left out in the cold by ruthless, greedy corporations. But the ease and vigor with which people jump on this particular bandwagon at the slightest provocation can only be due to the rewards they'll get for finding this tenuous moral justification. Basically if all pirate sites charged you the same money for the cracked version as the original developer did for the legit version this anti-DRM crusade would be almost completely deflated with no real cause to speak of beyond the relatively few cases of real abuse (Ubisoft, EA, Stardock) and people with philosophical hangups or truly unique computing requirements, which is likely to be a MUCH smaller set of the current "anti-DRM in any form" group that we're stuck with.
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Christ, you sounds like somebody who is butt hurt because they took a 3 week course for a technical certification and are insecure about how "expert" they are compared to people with actual education. Their description is accurate enough for marketing materials. By your own admission there is at least one green wavelength that blood cells absorb and at least one red one that they reflect. Therefore their information isn't incorrect and anyone with actual expertise in this area (like myself and others with this expertise have pointed out to you) can easily understand how they could make a sensor based on this phenomenon. It's not a new idea. These sensors have been around for decades and are used in hospitals routinely. It's basically a modified pulse oximeter, just since it uses only one wavelength instead of two it gets only the plethismograph information instead of the pleth AND oximetetry. Which is enough to determine a pulse rate.
As others have suggested this disrupts a part of Gram (+) cell wall synthesis which is difficult for bacteria to alter. Most antibiotics disrupt the protein constituents of the wall. Mutate one gene and the protein changes so it's relatively "easy" for bacteria to develop resistance. This new drug binds lipid constituents of the wall which are produced in a long synthesis pathway rather than a 1 to 1 gene to protein synthesis. Bacteria would need to mutate multiple genes coding multiple parts of the pathway simultaneously and in a complementary way to alter the structure of the target lipid without completely disrupting the pathway. So it's a much "harder" (meaning less likely to happen frequently) mutation to achieve.
Games.
You don't even need to do any of these. Just add the Nvidia repository to your system with Yast. It's already on the list of community repos. Automatically installs the latest driver no problem. Or use the 1-click button on the Nvidia driver page of the openSUSE wiki (which I'm pretty sure just does the exact same thing as the first option but even easier).
I've had absolutely no problems with 13.1 on either an Ivy Bridge laptop or a desktop with Nvidia GPU. Also using Gnome and not KDE though in case that makes any difference.
Yeah, I definitely agree about the notification system. It's excellent for some kind of things and pretty crap for others, like Dropbox. Having a persistent on screen notification icon that dropbox is running, what it's sync/connection status is, plus being able to double click it to always open the dropbox folder is really useful. Gnome's implementation of systray icons doesn't handle things like Dropbox nearly so elegantly.
I honestly don't get all the GNOME hate around here. Maybe I'm just late to the party and GNOME deserved all this hate a year or two ago. But I've been using OpenSuse 13.1 with GNOME since it was released on a laptop and a desktop and have found GNOME to be quite nice. I've avoided even trying it because of the almost universal panning that it gets online, but now that I've tried it I just don't get the hate. I understand that there's a certain percentage of Linux users who will curse any DE that tries to do anything differently than it was done in the "good old days" of Windows 95, but the hate for GNOME seems to exceed even what I'd expect from this persistent bias towards start menu + taskbar + individual text labeled application boxes.
So steam has somewhere to put the games it downloads for you. This really isn't that complicated. Game producers determine the DRM. If the producer chooses none then Steam downloads the files to the steam directory and keeps them up to date for you if you log in and launches the game for you if you log in. OR you can move the files wherever you want and log in or not and the game works just fine. Don't let reality get in the way of your anti-DRM narrative though.
Exactly this. I'm only a second year med student and even I could tell you that trying to kill someone with the mixture of drugs in the summary would be a really ugly process. I'm pretty sure we can't use propofol for the same reason we can't use the pentobarbital mentioned in the summary, but honestly a regular dose of propofol to knock someone unconscious plus a pneumatic piston like we use to humanely kill food animals would be the obvious option. Sure it makes a bigger mess, but it's WAY more humane for the person being executed, the one who were trying to protect from unnecessary cruelty and suffering. Propofol plus guillotine works well too. As it turns out medical science knows a lot more about reliably making people unconscious with drugs than about reliably killing them with drugs. Given that, if the killing is to happen, it should be done with something we know works reliably and quickly.
Calling it Nexus doesn't make the hardware magically capable of new workloads. There is no way to guarantee that cutting edge software can run well on old hardware. You can either cut hardware loose when it can't keep up or you can artificially hold back everybody else by never building anything too powerful for your first generation device. This argument is a canard. Nobody who buys Nexus devices for their access to upgrades expects the hardware to magically keep pace with hardware released 3 or 4 years later.
When you try to substitute fortune cookie slogans for reasonable argument only idiots will listen to you.
As per the article, there IS a workaround. It's called Wayland.
Genetics isn't magic. It doesn't spontaneously conjure lipid molecules from nothing. Fat is made of matter. Matter that enters a person's body when they eat it. The fact is that every person on the planet is losing weight every time they breathe. Where do you think those carbon atoms in exhaled CO2 come from? All you have to do is eat less and do more and, with few exceptions for certain rare diseases, you will lose weight. No X-men style genes are magic story telling required.
Mod points and cookies for this fine explanation. Thank you.
Don't hold your breath. He obviously could have just said that the screen eats enough power that you couldn't possibly cut total power consumption by half with just the CPU. But that doesn't make him sound as intelligent and mysterious as citing a mathematical argument for which he has no idea how it would actually work out without actual numbers and isn't really relevant in the first place.
Exactly. The balance due on the phone which you still own. That's not a fee. That's paying for something that you bought and get to keep. The only reason they cancel the phone installment plan immediately is because the terms of the loan are so generous in the first place that it's not viable to let people keep those terms when they aren't paying you otherwise anymore.
Direct evidence is easily found on Google. Look up how to activate a non-Verizon phone on Verizon's network. You can't is the answer because they won't do it. I know they used to in the past, but not in many years.
This is nonsense. Try doing exactly what you said with Verizon. They won't let arbitrary compatible devices on their network. Call them up to activate and they'll tell you to bring the device to a Verizon store so they can "assess it for compatibility" which just means figure out if you bought it from them or not. If not it magically becomes "incompatible".
There is NO TERMINATION FEE! That's what he meant by idiot. You have to pay back what you borrowed for the phone. That is NOT A FEE. Just because you pay it at termination doesn't make it a termination fee. A termination fee is a price you pay for nothing in return. This price you pay at termination is for the phone that you bought with borrowed money. It's not a fee. And it's not mandatory that you buy a phone with borrowed money or buy one from T-Mobile or buy one at all. You can put a Tmobile sim card into any device you want to. Borrowing money to pay for a device that you can't afford is your own decision. This is not a difficult concept to understand.
So what are people around here considering reading instead of Slashdot? This indecipherable summary is extremely common around here along with click bait, exaggerated headlines (click bait again), news that's days behind every other tech news site. I'd love to hear some fresh ideas for Slashdot replacements.
Someone was actually dumb enough to broadcast to the internet that they are an idiot and didn't even do it as AC?
Seriously. I hate April Fools day because a large portion of the internet seems to become a barf bag filled with lame, obvious, and painfully stupid "fooled you!" articles that don't fool anybody. And especially don't fool anybody when EVERY post is lame nonsense. Google does this properly, everybody else should quit trying and let us read actual news.
This has been done. The results are entirely predictable in that almost any fool can tell the difference between a low bitrate MP3 and a CD or vinyl. Very few people can tell the difference between a 350kbps MP3 and CD or vinyl, but some people can (doubtful that all audiophiles fall into this group but some surely do). Most interestingly is that younger people had a much higher chance of preferring the low bitrate mp3 to the CD or vinyl.
I definitely agree and also want to point out that stopping you installing it for family probably shouldn't be a priority in the first place. I think interfering with they very organic nature of sharing among people you care about is only ever going to be a hindrance or perceived as greedy. Stopping someone making 10,000 copies and handing them out to complete strangers is the much bigger issue financially and morally.
I've always noticed among people that it's extremely easy to convince oneself that they are "breaking the rules" for a "legitimate" reason when it means they'll get something for free. People don't like obtrusive DRM, sure I get it. But one guy on one forum has one problem with a games DRM and all of a sudden it's war on that DRM and thousands of people latch onto to piracy as the holy cause despite all the evidence suggesting that likely none of them would have found the DRM obtrusive. I'm not saying there haven't been abuses by game companies and people left out in the cold by ruthless, greedy corporations. But the ease and vigor with which people jump on this particular bandwagon at the slightest provocation can only be due to the rewards they'll get for finding this tenuous moral justification. Basically if all pirate sites charged you the same money for the cracked version as the original developer did for the legit version this anti-DRM crusade would be almost completely deflated with no real cause to speak of beyond the relatively few cases of real abuse (Ubisoft, EA, Stardock) and people with philosophical hangups or truly unique computing requirements, which is likely to be a MUCH smaller set of the current "anti-DRM in any form" group that we're stuck with.