Nope. I saw an 8K video at CES. It's jaw dropping, like looking out a window. It's clearly superior to 4K.
What you are seeing is the exceptional quality of a properly calibrated top of the line Tv. Provided that you are not sitting right in front of it you will not notice a difference from a top of the line 4K Tv and if you take a few steps even further back even a top of the line HD Tv will look just as good. I really love it when people compare old TFT LCD's to new higher quality IPS LCD displays and proclaim to be able to tell the huge difference retina makes. Hint it has little to do with resolution.
The problem then, is that the illness is rare enough that you could never make back $2.5 billion dollars selling three pills per year to patients, so no big pharma company would want to go thru all the red tape to get it approved by the FDA. As a result, there remains no effective FDA-approved treatment for CH.
Under U.S law rare diseases are designated as "orphan disease" and the FDA can give " orphan drug" status to drugs specifically targeting the rare disease.
The law gives tax incentives, enhanced patent protection and even subsidizes clinical research. In the U.S there is more than 300 orphan designated drugs under clinical trial process. The problem with your LSD like chemical is that it is likely so similar that you are in dubious legal ground with regard to anti-drug legislation. That is not the fault of either the FDA or the pharmaceutical industry.
I think the missing key in current smart home options that most people can actually afford to purchase, is reliable voice control. I know Google's acquisition of Nest (and whatever Apple gets around to doing) will make a big difference here, but I can already say that I'd be a lot happier with my "smart" lighting if I had:
A: More money for more components such as light switches and socket replacements.
B: Voice controls that were as responsive and reasonably reliable as the Amazon Echo, which gets it right a surprisingly large amount of the time.
Microsoft learned the hard way with the xbox 360 kinetic fiasco that nobody like yelling at their TV. I suspect google will quickly find out that nobody likes yelling at light switches either.
Don't want to vaccinate your kids. No problem, but we should keep them out of public schools to at least minimize the risk of damage this particular liberty can cause to other peoples children who might not have the option to vaccinate theirs. Liberty does not free you of the consequences of your choices.
The offense is unauthorized communications. Facebook posts are convenient proof of that offense. Someone with access to a telecommunications device could be ordering gangland hits just as easily as liking someone on Facebook.
buying a home. Hasn't made sense since the 1970s. The social contract is broken, you no longer can rely on job security or a decent pension. Yet the banks still expect you to pay them on time. A home is a *liability*, not an investment.
No, rent is a liability with no possible return on what you put in. Renting is for suckers and I wish that I had bought over a decade ago instead of renting all that time. I finally got into the property market and the assessed value of my condo has increased in just 6 months.
If someone paid as much rent in 20 years as they did owning a house than you would have a strong argument, that is never the case thou.
People will typically buy much more house than they were renting. Empty bedrooms, guestrooms, extra garage used for storage, rarely used home office, these are all common for owned homes but rarely have I seen renters with unneeded space.
People rarely calculate the price of yearly insurance, maintenance and repair needed for a house, things that are included in rent but not in a mortgage.
People almost never calculate the price of long term maintenance. Roofs, piping, septic-system at least one of those among others, is likely to need major maintenance/replacement every 15-20 years.
Finally, a lot of people spend a lot of money on improvements that do not add value. Things like swiming-pools, wall-to-wall carpeting, kitchen and bathrooms remodeling.
All the extra money going into the home could have been used to invest on things with much higher returns. About the only way a home as a investment makes sense is as a forced investment, in-case you simply cannot make yourself put aside a portion of your income.
The first step should be to require that all negotiated prices be made available publicly. As it stands the contracts are confidential and no one really knows who is paying what to license 'standards essential patent.'
Instead of traveling interstellar distances to colonize extrasolar planets would it not make much more sense to build out inhabitations in empty space. Imagine how much more economical the Death Star would be without light speed engines or super-powered lasers.
"The proxy account" would be a compromised North Korean computer running arbitrary code. No hacker in the world would use legitimate proxy servers to carry out attacks as you can bet that they hold logs.
Finding things that kill bacteria is easy. Finding things that kill bacteria and do not significantly harm the host, now that is the hard part.
That's exactly what they claim to have found (at least so far in tests on mice). They also assert that they think it would be extremely difficult for MRSA to adapt to this drug, as it would require a fundamental change in the structure of it as being a gram positive bacteria.
I should have specified a human host. Biotech is littered with drugs that seems to work great on test animals but have serious side effects on humans.
TFA bascially makes the point that you now have to pay for a lot of things individually on airlines that you used to get for "free", and that not everybody enjoys paying for these things. True enough, but the article brushes off the very real benefits of paying less when you get (and need) less. For example:
As fliers have learned all too well in the last decade, air flight has become unbundled. Want a bit of leg room? That will be a $50 upgrade for a seat in your airline’s “premium economy” cabin. Sandwiches are on sale for $9, a glass of wine for $7. Checking that bag costs $25, and there is a $200 change fee for your ticket, or buy a much more expensive one upfront.
However, what's wrong with bringing fewer bags, if you want to, or else paying the going price for the bags you really need?
In the cable world, I certainly can imagine someone whining about "Why do I now have to pay X for channel Y - that's a ripoff!", but I don't see how it can be a bad thing to pay less for only what you really want. It really boils down to economics: if it now is efficient to allow people to select and pay for cable channels individually, that's bound to happen. It's only a matter of time.
Unfortunately the airlines have been pushing their fees by deliberately making basic service as unbearable as possible. The seats are getting smaller while the waistlines are getting larger. A so called upgrade to a seat they can fit in is not a value added service, it is a necessity.
The majority of hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels by steam reforming or partial oxidation of methane and coal gasification. Not exactly zero-emissions technology.
The research says that people want flavorful healthy sounding food, not actual healthy less flavorful food. That "oats are known to be good for the heart" sticker helps them silence the little voice that says don't get this junk.
What the media regurgitated as findings made by scientific studies were in fact PR releases by chocolate companies filled with half truths and misleading information.
Of course the worst part is how people have been convinced that a Snickers and other junk food bars are actually chocolate.
large swathes of the population believe in Astrology.It is reported that even recent powerful world leaders Charles de Gaulle, Boris Yeltsin and Ronald Reagan consulted astrologers. While the exact impact of astrology on swaying opinion and ultimately influencing events can't really be quantized it is in my opinion certainly not trivial.
The human body is so efficiently optimized to run on as few calories as possible that exercise simply is not effective as a counter to overeating.
The calories in a piece of cheesecake would take hours of moderate exercise to burn off.
Of course exercise has many benefits, especially in keeping the cardiovascular system in shape which mitigates some of the risks of obesity even if not loosing weight.
Of course we would be cheering if they went after oil companies such as Exxon because their business is implicated not only in local environmental destruction but planetary scale pollution as well.
The primary problem we have today is not automation, it is over-concentration of wealth. Automation will destroy jobs to the extent that the people running the companies implementing the automation wish it to. If those companies are run by people who are happy to deliver worse service as long as they can pay fewer people, then, yes, we have a problem, but it is not with the technology.
There is no such thing a technological determinism. It's people all the way down.
The true problem is a society that values material wealth above all else. The concentration of wealth is just a symptom. The irony is that if wealth were more evenly distributed it would lead to greater economic growth and increased wealth for everyone, especially those at the top.
What I really want to know is how did the FBI figure out it was the work of North Korean government agents. Except for a privileged few, North Koreans are completely blocked off from the outside world and would never hear of this movie even if it won more Oscars than the Titanic. Why would North Korea reveal its capabilities and tactics in such dramatic fashion to achieve nothing of any value. It seems to me that all the speculation that was in the news recently about Kim's disappearance from public life and his possible overthrow was far more damaging to the cult of the Supreme Leader than some silly comedy.
This story made the front page news of every media outlet including Slashdot. You can't buy that kind of publicity. When the movie is re-released in a few weeks time it will be everyone's patriotic duty to show the North Koreans we are not afraid and go see the movie.
Either that or the hackers have far more damaging data on Sony exec's. Evidence that could land them in jail perhaps?
Personally I vote for it being a PR ploy by Sony to bolster ticket sales of what was otherwise sure to be a box-office flop
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Nope. I saw an 8K video at CES. It's jaw dropping, like looking out a window. It's clearly superior to 4K.
What you are seeing is the exceptional quality of a properly calibrated top of the line Tv. Provided that you are not sitting right in front of it you will not notice a difference from a top of the line 4K Tv and if you take a few steps even further back even a top of the line HD Tv will look just as good. I really love it when people compare old TFT LCD's to new higher quality IPS LCD displays and proclaim to be able to tell the huge difference retina makes. Hint it has little to do with resolution.
The problem then, is that the illness is rare enough that you could never make back $2.5 billion dollars selling three pills per year to patients, so no big pharma company would want to go thru all the red tape to get it approved by the FDA. As a result, there remains no effective FDA-approved treatment for CH.
Under U.S law rare diseases are designated as "orphan disease" and the FDA can give " orphan drug" status to drugs specifically targeting the rare disease. The law gives tax incentives, enhanced patent protection and even subsidizes clinical research. In the U.S there is more than 300 orphan designated drugs under clinical trial process. The problem with your LSD like chemical is that it is likely so similar that you are in dubious legal ground with regard to anti-drug legislation. That is not the fault of either the FDA or the pharmaceutical industry.
I think the missing key in current smart home options that most people can actually afford to purchase, is reliable voice control. I know Google's acquisition of Nest (and whatever Apple gets around to doing) will make a big difference here, but I can already say that I'd be a lot happier with my "smart" lighting if I had:
A: More money for more components such as light switches and socket replacements. B: Voice controls that were as responsive and reasonably reliable as the Amazon Echo, which gets it right a surprisingly large amount of the time.
Microsoft learned the hard way with the xbox 360 kinetic fiasco that nobody like yelling at their TV. I suspect google will quickly find out that nobody likes yelling at light switches either.
Don't want to vaccinate your kids. No problem, but we should keep them out of public schools to at least minimize the risk of damage this particular liberty can cause to other peoples children who might not have the option to vaccinate theirs. Liberty does not free you of the consequences of your choices.
Retirement financial advisers would disagree with you. Putting money into an investment account is advised over putting money into equity in a home.
The offense is unauthorized communications. Facebook posts are convenient proof of that offense. Someone with access to a telecommunications device could be ordering gangland hits just as easily as liking someone on Facebook.
buying a home. Hasn't made sense since the 1970s. The social contract is broken, you no longer can rely on job security or a decent pension. Yet the banks still expect you to pay them on time. A home is a *liability*, not an investment.
No, rent is a liability with no possible return on what you put in. Renting is for suckers and I wish that I had bought over a decade ago instead of renting all that time. I finally got into the property market and the assessed value of my condo has increased in just 6 months.
If someone paid as much rent in 20 years as they did owning a house than you would have a strong argument, that is never the case thou.
People will typically buy much more house than they were renting. Empty bedrooms, guestrooms, extra garage used for storage, rarely used home office, these are all common for owned homes but rarely have I seen renters with unneeded space.
People rarely calculate the price of yearly insurance, maintenance and repair needed for a house, things that are included in rent but not in a mortgage.
People almost never calculate the price of long term maintenance. Roofs, piping, septic-system at least one of those among others, is likely to need major maintenance/replacement every 15-20 years.
Finally, a lot of people spend a lot of money on improvements that do not add value. Things like swiming-pools, wall-to-wall carpeting, kitchen and bathrooms remodeling.
All the extra money going into the home could have been used to invest on things with much higher returns. About the only way a home as a investment makes sense is as a forced investment, in-case you simply cannot make yourself put aside a portion of your income.
The first step should be to require that all negotiated prices be made available publicly. As it stands the contracts are confidential and no one really knows who is paying what to license 'standards essential patent.'
Instead of traveling interstellar distances to colonize extrasolar planets would it not make much more sense to build out inhabitations in empty space. Imagine how much more economical the Death Star would be without light speed engines or super-powered lasers.
"The proxy account" would be a compromised North Korean computer running arbitrary code. No hacker in the world would use legitimate proxy servers to carry out attacks as you can bet that they hold logs.
Finding things that kill bacteria is easy. Finding things that kill bacteria and do not significantly harm the host, now that is the hard part.
That's exactly what they claim to have found (at least so far in tests on mice). They also assert that they think it would be extremely difficult for MRSA to adapt to this drug, as it would require a fundamental change in the structure of it as being a gram positive bacteria.
I should have specified a human host. Biotech is littered with drugs that seems to work great on test animals but have serious side effects on humans.
Finding things that kill bacteria is easy. Finding things that kill bacteria and do not significantly harm the host, now that is the hard part.
TFA bascially makes the point that you now have to pay for a lot of things individually on airlines that you used to get for "free", and that not everybody enjoys paying for these things. True enough, but the article brushes off the very real benefits of paying less when you get (and need) less. For example:
As fliers have learned all too well in the last decade, air flight has become unbundled. Want a bit of leg room? That will be a $50 upgrade for a seat in your airline’s “premium economy” cabin. Sandwiches are on sale for $9, a glass of wine for $7. Checking that bag costs $25, and there is a $200 change fee for your ticket, or buy a much more expensive one upfront.
However, what's wrong with bringing fewer bags, if you want to, or else paying the going price for the bags you really need?
In the cable world, I certainly can imagine someone whining about "Why do I now have to pay X for channel Y - that's a ripoff!", but I don't see how it can be a bad thing to pay less for only what you really want. It really boils down to economics: if it now is efficient to allow people to select and pay for cable channels individually, that's bound to happen. It's only a matter of time.
Unfortunately the airlines have been pushing their fees by deliberately making basic service as unbearable as possible. The seats are getting smaller while the waistlines are getting larger. A so called upgrade to a seat they can fit in is not a value added service, it is a necessity.
The majority of hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels by steam reforming or partial oxidation of methane and coal gasification. Not exactly zero-emissions technology.
The research says that people want flavorful healthy sounding food, not actual healthy less flavorful food. That "oats are known to be good for the heart" sticker helps them silence the little voice that says don't get this junk.
What the media regurgitated as findings made by scientific studies were in fact PR releases by chocolate companies filled with half truths and misleading information. Of course the worst part is how people have been convinced that a Snickers and other junk food bars are actually chocolate.
large swathes of the population believe in Astrology.It is reported that even recent powerful world leaders Charles de Gaulle, Boris Yeltsin and Ronald Reagan consulted astrologers. While the exact impact of astrology on swaying opinion and ultimately influencing events can't really be quantized it is in my opinion certainly not trivial.
polygraphs are as much a science as astrology.
And exercise is the rest.
The human body is so efficiently optimized to run on as few calories as possible that exercise simply is not effective as a counter to overeating. The calories in a piece of cheesecake would take hours of moderate exercise to burn off. Of course exercise has many benefits, especially in keeping the cardiovascular system in shape which mitigates some of the risks of obesity even if not loosing weight.
On Andorid. Root, install Xposed framework. install Xprivacy from the Xposed repository and enjoy fine grain control to app permissions.
Of course we would be cheering if they went after oil companies such as Exxon because their business is implicated not only in local environmental destruction but planetary scale pollution as well.
The primary problem we have today is not automation, it is over-concentration of wealth. Automation will destroy jobs to the extent that the people running the companies implementing the automation wish it to. If those companies are run by people who are happy to deliver worse service as long as they can pay fewer people, then, yes, we have a problem, but it is not with the technology.
There is no such thing a technological determinism. It's people all the way down.
The true problem is a society that values material wealth above all else. The concentration of wealth is just a symptom. The irony is that if wealth were more evenly distributed it would lead to greater economic growth and increased wealth for everyone, especially those at the top.
1. Think of a clever scam.
2. Scam your customers out of hundreds of millions.
3. Pay a few million to settle the charges with the government while not admitting any wrongdoing (cost of doing business).
4. Profit.
5. Rinse and repeat.
What I really want to know is how did the FBI figure out it was the work of North Korean government agents. Except for a privileged few, North Koreans are completely blocked off from the outside world and would never hear of this movie even if it won more Oscars than the Titanic. Why would North Korea reveal its capabilities and tactics in such dramatic fashion to achieve nothing of any value. It seems to me that all the speculation that was in the news recently about Kim's disappearance from public life and his possible overthrow was far more damaging to the cult of the Supreme Leader than some silly comedy.
Either that or the hackers have far more damaging data on Sony exec's. Evidence that could land them in jail perhaps?
Personally I vote for it being a PR ploy by Sony to bolster ticket sales of what was otherwise sure to be a box-office flop