Well, he's probably a bit bored in there. And the yard is a bit grubby. Might have been hard to find the sticks again. But if you watch the video, it shows him picking up a stick again that he dropped when the cashew wasn't close enough. It also shows him picking up a random stick in the yard, and resizing a stick that was too large to manipulate the cashew.
Well, carbon composites aren't as durable as steel either. I don't think there's much risk of empalement. I think they do act much like the composites, esp when coated in epoxy.
A few of these claim greater durability than steel. I find that hard to believe, and I recall he was mentioning delaminating issues similar to carbon fibre.
From chatting with someone who was working on the bamboo bike project, my understanding is that its advantages in no particular order were: 1) Much lighter than steel, although of lower durability 2) Novelty 3) The epoxies used to hold the bamboo together and reinforce the bikes could be cheaply shipped in quantity to bike shops in Africa where bamboo was readily available but machined steel bike frames were not.
Presumably a steel frame, despite the weight, would last longer, but might be harder to repair in some areas.
I don't really know too much of the project, but I think the first world bamboo bikes were more about novelty. I don't think the bamboo bike is even that much cheaper than a carbon composite bike since the shops aren't mass producing.
Foxit has its vulnerabilities too, although it helps that it isn't as commonly used.
While I do resort to Evince and if absolutely necessary, Adobe (usually just for some work form PDF), I've found that most of the time I can get by with the new PDF.js functionality in Firefox.
I agree the same problem exists with absentee ballots, which are also excessively used and encourged, I think.
Getting an absentee ballot though is still a multistep process over a period of time. Not something you can just buttonhole someone in front of a computer to do. It seems to me online voting simplifies and expands something that is already a problem.
Especially if it became the defacto way to vote, so you couldn't even excuse yourself with "I just prefer to vote on election day in the polling booth"
Even if an online voting system could be implemented in perfect security, I'm still bothered by the fact that the voting booth is supposed to be influence free.
If you go vote, people pressuring you have to stay like 50 metres away from the polling place.
There is no such protection in online voting. A church could put the computer, oh, right in front of the altar and have the congregation line up. Heck. There's a lot of concern about buying votes (personally I'm thinking if you think someone will stay bought for $100 against their conscience, eh, welcome to try). But that whole situation changes with online voting. Again, can have people vote right at their workstation for a bonus in the next paycheck.
I'm sure there'd be proposals of laws against it, but, enforcement is still an issue. Esp since pressure can be as simple as peer pressure.
BTW, on the buying votes front, supposedly each campaign is spending over $1000 per undecided voter in swing states, w/ actual impact of the ads being very hard to measure. Amusing.
Reminds me of all the concern about rich people being able to self-fund campaigns. Should ask Meg Whitman how that worked out for her.
So. Not only a contract they wanted to make binding without any user agreement, but also a contract where the language could be rewritten after you agreed to it, without having to sign off on the new language.
Oh. As well as import duties, you guys have both tate and federal VAT. That's not as much as ludicrous external costs, but, as well as costs imposed in producing the SSD, there are presumably costs throughout the system imposed by it. So, isn't as simple as just comparing a $100 SSD in the US to a $150 SSD in Brazil after the various VAT.
I suspect if you add all the costs together that can be thought up (regulatory, VAT, component import tariffs, possibly higher shipping costs, maybe higher business tax rate...) that you'd probably end up with something close to what those locals are charging, and that it isn't just a vast conspiracy.
Otherwise, maybe you should get in the SSD business:)
To elaborate, the reason I think it is both, is that barring some barrier to production of SSDs that makes it likely that anyone who could produce an SSD would do so in collusion with existing manufacturers, it seems likely that a small trade war would ensue, causing an eventual value to be settled at that would be a bit above the final cost.
I think people in Brazil are ignorant perhaps of how much import duties might harm local manufacture, just as those in the UK are (apparently the Raspberry Pi foundation was until they actually tried to do it).
In the case of Apple, Apple controls the production of all iPads, so certainly it seems likely they would set their UK price to just slightly above what it would cost to bring one into the UK, since it isn't like iPads can be produced in the UK, even if it could be done cheaply (and it can't due to the taxes). So, they'll charge the cost it would take me to send some to the UK plus a small amount above that for convenience/labour of doing so.
It could well be that, sure. I'd discussed that w/ friend I was buying the iPad for. My guess was that the UK taxes and import duties impose a barrier, a kind of cost gradient. The price that Apple is going to impose then will be one based upon how much they know that gradient to be for others.
Basically the situation above. And, that seems totally natural. They are going to charge what the market will bear. And why shouldn't they? Just because the barriers are ones raised by the state, rather than by geography, they are still there, and merchants of any size will naturally take advantage of them. It's how human trade has always worked, unless someone is feeling particularly altruistic.
There's one other factor you should consider though. Building an SSD in Brazil might well cost more. Remember the Raspberry Pi guys were going to build their boards in the UK but had to abandon that due to prohibitive import duties on the needed components, and switched to Chinese manufacture.
I'm sure there are economies of scale in shipping, but if it was possible to cheaply ship an SSD to Brazil, people would go into business for themselves providing it to you, and undercut manufacturers.
I suspect the price difference can be chalked up to import tarrifs, local taxes and shipping costs.
I once sent an iPad to someone in the UK who wanted it on opening day. I paid US price, and did not charge them anything extra for it. Shipping was not a huge amount, something like... $15? He did end up paying quite a bit in UK taxes/tariffs. When we did the math, he hadn't really saved any money over the UK price.
He did get the iPad a bit sooner though. It was ofc a US model, so missing any UK customisations.
Yeah, flashblock just blocks flash, but some people prefer that to the more comprehensive noscript. Nowdays in Firefox you can go to about:config and set plugins.click_to_play to true to accomplish the same thing, although Flashblock, last I checked, still has a better UI
No history that I personally know of. I just have a general pet peeve about endlessly nesting blog articles getting between me and primary sources, each one repeating the exact same thing. Perhaps there's some way to write a Firefox addon that digs through links in a blog article searching for the primary source. Probably too complicated/bandwidth intensive.:-/
'cause, the quality doesn't seem up to that described in the article - I'd kind of assumed it was calculated from multiple angles from overhead plane flights.
Could it be they mean that if circumcision reduces penile cancer rates by some tiny amount, that therefore, the average reduction in costs per-case-of-penile-cancer would be $313? (which is indeed miniscule).
Well. Yeah, but that would be the Linux part. Opening that Word doc in Windows might do something evil, but in OpenOffice under Linux in a VM, should be pretty darn safe.
And of course, if someone *had* gone to the trouble to insert a trojan into that Word doc that worked under Linux+OpenOffice, they'd still need to be clever enough to break out of VirtualBox. They'd probably need to be lucky enough to have an exploit that worked w/ that particular Linux version to anything useful too. So long as the VM isn't networked, and has no host drives mounted, it seems like a safe enough way to still get to view data in the old files. Hell. Set the VM to reset on reboot too.
Yeah. Never had any problems with the Brother under Linux either. The other huge advantage besides cost-per-page for the Brother laser is that it is a really reliable tray fed. Drop in a fresh ream of paper, and you shouldn't get any jams.
I don't know about HP quality vs Brother, but I just stopped by my local Staples both times I needed a new laser printer. The last time the Brother was $80 and also had label maker thrown in.
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Well, he's probably a bit bored in there. And the yard is a bit grubby. Might have been hard to find the sticks again.
But if you watch the video, it shows him picking up a stick again that he dropped when the cashew wasn't close enough.
It also shows him picking up a random stick in the yard, and resizing a stick that was too large to manipulate the cashew.
Well, carbon composites aren't as durable as steel either.
I don't think there's much risk of empalement. I think they do act much like the composites, esp when coated in epoxy.
Random googling yields:
http://www.menziesbamboobikes.com/strength-and-durability-of-menzies-frames.html
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_bicycle
and
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/how-to-build-a-bamboo-bike#slide-1
A few of these claim greater durability than steel. I find that hard to believe, and I recall he was mentioning delaminating issues similar to carbon fibre.
http://durianrider.org/2011/05/28/bamboo-road-bike-review/
This review seems to claim better durability than the bikes he tries.
Although the bamboo pieces do look stockier than a carbon fibre.
"This is one bike you can really ride hard and not have to worry about chipping the 2mm carbon downtube"
So, dunno, actually sounds pretty cool.
I do know that steel frames are heavy and tiring to use.
From chatting with someone who was working on the bamboo bike project, my understanding is that its advantages in no particular order were:
1) Much lighter than steel, although of lower durability
2) Novelty
3) The epoxies used to hold the bamboo together and reinforce the bikes could be cheaply shipped in quantity to bike shops in Africa where bamboo was readily available but machined steel bike frames were not.
Presumably a steel frame, despite the weight, would last longer, but might be harder to repair in some areas.
I don't really know too much of the project, but I think the first world bamboo bikes were more about novelty.
I don't think the bamboo bike is even that much cheaper than a carbon composite bike since the shops aren't mass producing.
Foxit has its vulnerabilities too, although it helps that it isn't as commonly used.
While I do resort to Evince and if absolutely necessary, Adobe (usually just for some work form PDF), I've found that most of the time I can get by with the new PDF.js functionality in Firefox.
http://hackademix.net/2011/12/07/hulk-want-pdfjs/
https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/
PDF.js plays nice w/ NoScript these days btw. It used to require whitelisting the site (ugh).
I agree the same problem exists with absentee ballots, which are also excessively used and encourged, I think.
Getting an absentee ballot though is still a multistep process over a period of time. Not something you can just buttonhole someone in front of a computer to do. It seems to me online voting simplifies and expands something that is already a problem.
Especially if it became the defacto way to vote, so you couldn't even excuse yourself with "I just prefer to vote on election day in the polling booth"
Agreed. Not a fan of that either.
I just feel that online voting expands the problem and simplifies the abuse.
Even if an online voting system could be implemented in perfect security, I'm still bothered by the fact that the voting booth is supposed to be influence free.
If you go vote, people pressuring you have to stay like 50 metres away from the polling place.
There is no such protection in online voting. A church could put the computer, oh, right in front of the altar and have the congregation line up. Heck. There's a lot of concern about buying votes (personally I'm thinking if you think someone will stay bought for $100 against their conscience, eh, welcome to try). But that whole situation changes with online voting. Again, can have people vote right at their workstation for a bonus in the next paycheck.
I'm sure there'd be proposals of laws against it, but, enforcement is still an issue. Esp since pressure can be as simple as peer pressure.
BTW, on the buying votes front, supposedly each campaign is spending over $1000 per undecided voter in swing states, w/ actual impact of the ads being very hard to measure. Amusing.
Reminds me of all the concern about rich people being able to self-fund campaigns. Should ask Meg Whitman how that worked out for her.
That the judge found improper.
So. Not only a contract they wanted to make binding without any user agreement, but also a contract where the language could be rewritten after you agreed to it, without having to sign off on the new language.
Ah. So it was that. I was just speculating in my responses, but here sounds the voice of someone who apparently experienced this :)
Oh. As well as import duties, you guys have both tate and federal VAT. That's not as much as ludicrous external costs, but, as well as costs imposed in producing the SSD, there are presumably costs throughout the system imposed by it. So, isn't as simple as just comparing a $100 SSD in the US to a $150 SSD in Brazil after the various VAT.
I suspect if you add all the costs together that can be thought up (regulatory, VAT, component import tariffs, possibly higher shipping costs, maybe higher business tax rate...) that you'd probably end up with something close to what those locals are charging, and that it isn't just a vast conspiracy.
Otherwise, maybe you should get in the SSD business :)
Oh. Another source of costs you guys might have. Regulatory compliance. Sometimes just getting things tested and approved can be very expensive.
... price war, not trade war...
To elaborate, the reason I think it is both, is that barring some barrier to production of SSDs that makes it likely that anyone who could produce an SSD would do so in collusion with existing manufacturers, it seems likely that a small trade war would ensue, causing an eventual value to be settled at that would be a bit above the final cost.
I think people in Brazil are ignorant perhaps of how much import duties might harm local manufacture, just as those in the UK are (apparently the Raspberry Pi foundation was until they actually tried to do it).
In the case of Apple, Apple controls the production of all iPads, so certainly it seems likely they would set their UK price to just slightly above what it would cost to bring one into the UK, since it isn't like iPads can be produced in the UK, even if it could be done cheaply (and it can't due to the taxes). So, they'll charge the cost it would take me to send some to the UK plus a small amount above that for convenience/labour of doing so.
It could well be that, sure. I'd discussed that w/ friend I was buying the iPad for. My guess was that the UK taxes and import duties impose a barrier, a kind of cost gradient. The price that Apple is going to impose then will be one based upon how much they know that gradient to be for others.
Basically the situation above.
And, that seems totally natural. They are going to charge what the market will bear. And why shouldn't they? Just because the barriers are ones raised by the state, rather than by geography, they are still there, and merchants of any size will naturally take advantage of them. It's how human trade has always worked, unless someone is feeling particularly altruistic.
There's one other factor you should consider though. Building an SSD in Brazil might well cost more.
Remember the Raspberry Pi guys were going to build their boards in the UK but had to abandon that due to prohibitive import duties on the needed components, and switched to Chinese manufacture.
I'm sure there are economies of scale in shipping, but if it was possible to cheaply ship an SSD to Brazil, people would go into business for themselves providing it to you, and undercut manufacturers.
I suspect the price difference can be chalked up to import tarrifs, local taxes and shipping costs.
I once sent an iPad to someone in the UK who wanted it on opening day. I paid US price, and did not charge them anything extra for it. Shipping was not a huge amount, something like... $15?
He did end up paying quite a bit in UK taxes/tariffs. When we did the math, he hadn't really saved any money over the UK price.
He did get the iPad a bit sooner though. It was ofc a US model, so missing any UK customisations.
Yeah, flashblock just blocks flash, but some people prefer that to the more comprehensive noscript.
Nowdays in Firefox you can go to about:config and set plugins.click_to_play to true to accomplish the same thing, although Flashblock, last I checked, still has a better UI
No history that I personally know of. I just have a general pet peeve about endlessly nesting blog articles getting between me and primary sources, each one repeating the exact same thing. :-/
Perhaps there's some way to write a Firefox addon that digs through links in a blog article searching for the primary source.
Probably too complicated/bandwidth intensive.
Did others find the fact that the link to the "biggest ever update" was to slashgear reiterating this slashdot post, kind of annoying?
http://google-latlong.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/making-google-maps-more-comprehensive.html
The link that slashgear links to.
Someone looking to drive traffic?
http://maps3d.svc.nokia.com/webgl/index.html
'cause, the quality doesn't seem up to that described in the article - I'd kind of assumed it was calculated from multiple angles from overhead plane flights.
Huh. Looked it up on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_and_HIV#Langerhans_cells_and_HIV_transmission ?
Could it be they mean that if circumcision reduces penile cancer rates by some tiny amount, that therefore, the average reduction in costs per-case-of-penile-cancer would be $313? (which is indeed miniscule).
I guess I should RTFA instead of speculating :)
Well. Yeah, but that would be the Linux part.
Opening that Word doc in Windows might do something evil, but in OpenOffice under Linux in a VM, should be pretty darn safe.
And of course, if someone *had* gone to the trouble to insert a trojan into that Word doc that worked under Linux+OpenOffice, they'd still need to be clever enough to break out of VirtualBox. They'd probably need to be lucky enough to have an exploit that worked w/ that particular Linux version to anything useful too.
So long as the VM isn't networked, and has no host drives mounted, it seems like a safe enough way to still get to view data in the old files.
Hell. Set the VM to reset on reboot too.
Yeah. Never had any problems with the Brother under Linux either.
The other huge advantage besides cost-per-page for the Brother laser is that it is a really reliable tray fed.
Drop in a fresh ream of paper, and you shouldn't get any jams.
Hm. How about. Copy the old disc (dd) convert to a virtualbox image, and access the virtualbox image from a virtualbox linux install?
That way he gets his information, and at least he's buffered by an OS less likely to have targetted malware written for it, and the virtual instance.
Too paranoid?
Not paranoid enough?
I don't know about HP quality vs Brother, but I just stopped by my local Staples both times I needed a new laser printer.
The last time the Brother was $80 and also had label maker thrown in.