Not at all. If you run a company with 10,000 PCs then it's a significant saving.
It's even more significant than that, there are between 1B and 1 1/2B Windows PC in the world. A single hour at that rate saves a gigawatt of power. The headline is highly misleading, it's like claiming "Pentagon boasts lowest insert-new-toy-name cost ever, only $5 per citizen".
So am I. He helped destroy the career of two promising football players. The school should have pushed for the death penalty to send a signal to others, rather than the wimpy ten years he's getting.
Do you know what you are talking about, sir ? "Counterfeit electronics" ? The counterfeit electronics that I know of are things like fake resistors and fake capacitors from China and Vietnam --- and they are all ***BRAND NEW***, not something salvaged from old electronics
Read the OP's post again: "remarked and sold on the market as either more expensive or newer parts". That's counterfeit, you think you're buying X when it's actually Y. And if you don't think it's counterfeit, I have a brand new 2013 model Mercedes S550 to sell you (please ignore the fact that it looks like a 1972 280SE).
You can augment that by stuffing the end of the screwdriver into a length of rubber hose; you get the same effect, without having to stick your face 4 inches from the reciprocating assembly.
Or you can use a long screwdriver.
That's what real mechanics do.
Or you can evacuate the inside of your head and create a parallel universe in there with the end of a screwdriver as the point source in the middle, connected to the car via 60,000 feet of tram cable and examine the engine while holding the giraffe and reciting from memory the verse contents of the Egyptian edition of "Lord of the Rings".
they doubled down on the meds and he ended up not being able to function on how own (or even hold a conversation) and in a group home.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
Every time I see this pointlessy show-offy use of latin, all I can think of is telling the OP is caput tuum revelle tuo e culo.
(And now we get an endless debate about whether I should have used clunes, and velle rather than revelle, and that's the real reason for the fall of the Roman empire, not the inability to terminate strings but the fact that they spent most of their time arguing over grammar).
We have two companies admitting failure here, B&N and MSFT.
Microsoft isn't admitting failure, it's a brilliant strategy. What they're no doubt planning to do is port Windows Nothing (formerly Windows RT, renamed due to its 0.00% market share), to the Nook. Anything divided by nothing is infinity, so Microsoft will gain infinite market share through this move. Sheer brilliance.
Anyone with launch control undergoes constant drilling and evaluation. If they fail an eval, they have to go through remedial training that's sufficiently obnoxious that few will risk failing. This is well-known among people who work in that sort of job. My guess is that the reason it's being made public in this case is because they want to send a message to someone for some reason (Congress for more funding? Embarrass the unit's CO/force someone's retirement/turf war? Who knows...).
New Zealand is only going to (try harder to) prohibit vague software patents. The language is still there to patent software.
Not only that, but this hasn't made it into law yet. Expect to see intense lobbying by (mostly) US business interests to get this provision spiked before the law becomes final. It's happened before with other law changes for which the initial drafts seemed reasonable, e.g. in the field of copyright.
Also don't they think that if you rape a baby you can cure your STDs?
The belief is actually that intercourse with a virgin cures AIDS. It's a really serious problem, not helped by the fact that it's been unofficially sanctioned by some government officials.
(Before this gets modded 'troll', ask any doctor who's worked in sub-Saharan Africa. The battle against AIDS there is largely a battle against superstition).
You can bet that the MAFIAA is hard at work writing legislation for their wholly owned subsidiary, the US Congress, to rubberstamp for them to redefine "public performance" to be pretty much anything they can charge royalties for.
It also depends on the size of the company. For our first few years we had a 100% retention rate, but the fact that we were only half a dozen people helped with that. Now that we're 400-odd, there is some churn. Not because people are bailing, the company is still a great place to work but people move to other cities, get married, whatever.
In the late1990s I worked in the research division of $large_corporation. Said corporation filed for a lot of patents, a few of which the researchers even considered patent-worthy (we had lots of lawyers who insisted on patenting everything). One day we got a chance to talk to an ex-USPTO staffer, and asked him about some should-never-have-issued patents in the area we worked in ("should never have issued" meant that they were patents on existing technology, for example one was on something that was at the time present in virtually every PC, laptop, and whatever other computing devices were around at the time). He looked a bit sheepish and said "Yeah, that was one of mine. We couldn't keep up any more so we just started rubberstamping patents until we'd caught up". Luckily this particular one was a defensive patent and the company who filed it (another $large-corporation) wasn't interested in enforcing it, but in just that one case it was only one of hundreds of patents that went through without any appraisal.
A bigger problem is that the examiners are rewarded based on how many patents they process. The "ideal" examiner is one who checks the name and date on the filing, verifies that the filing fee has cleared, and then approves the patent. They're likely to get the employee-of-the-year award for their high productivity.
In other words, technological superiority doesn't always win in digital photography.
In Panasonic's case it's not achieving superiority but dealing with inferiority, their consumer-grade camera sensors have always had terrible problems with chroma noise in low-light conditions, so this may just be a way of improving the low-light performance.
Replying to my own post, should have mentioned that there are experimental techniques that can sort of sometimes detect some of the components used in bombs, lasers to induce Raman scattering in the air above locations of explosives, differential absorption light detection and ranging using backscattering from air, coherent Stokes Raman scattering to find indications of bomb constituents, and so on and so forth. All of them pretty much only work under ideal lab conditions and have awful false positive rates. There's really only one truly effective bomb detector that works in almost all situations, you can get the precursors at places like Shorja Market for a few thousand dinars (it's not worth much), and they have four legs and go "woof".
What this guy did if accurately reported is shameful, criminal and wrong. I hope he'll be made an example of. I don't imagine it will make much difference on a larger scale. All thats unusual is he got caught.
What's unusual isn't that he got found out, it's that anyone cared enough to take action. As you're pointed out, the Iraq police action has been an absolute goldmine for an army of carpetbaggers who're willing to sell the victims (the Iraqis) anything they want (or at least something claiming to be what they want). The sale of assorted junk that's basically electronic dowsing rods as bomb detectors and similar has been going on for years, and it's reasonably well known to those involved. What's really unusual is that this guy got prosecuted for it. In fact it's quite baffling, I could name (although not from this account) between one and two dozen vendors of similar snake oil who've been doing it for years, companies in the US, the UK, and Europe, for whom the consequences have been nothing (shit, if I wasn't so scrupulously honest (snigger) I'd be selling some souped-up Heathkit in a fancy case as my own $40K bomb detector). What did this guy do to make anyone care enough to prosecute him?
More or less the same applies here in Sweden: I applied for a few ISBNs, and was given two with no fuss. The total cost to me was I had to write two emails, and read some instructions. No money was involved in the transaction.
Same in New Zealand. If you want an ISBN you go to the National Library web site, fill in their form, and that's it. No money involved.
The comparison on their site shows that it doesn't support Office 2007-2010 formats (only 2003 and earlier formats). Is that correct ?
Where does it say that? Looking at the entries for the various programs, it says "can read and edit DOC and DOCX formats", " import and export.xls or.xlsx", etc.
But the point it is that there's too much medical knowledge for one person to keep it all in their head at one time. If something like this were to come to market it wouldn't be replacing doctors, it would be augmenting them.
The attitudes towards the use of expert systems is kind of interesting. For example as long ago as the early 1970s programs like Mycin would consistently outperform medical experts, and yet they've never been adopted. There seems to be considerable reluctance by people to accept diagnosis-by-computer even when told that it's more accurate than human diagnosis. I agree with your comments that it's a support tool, but most patients won't even accept it as a support tool. One hypothesis is that if patients see their doctor as using computer-assisted decision support then they'll judge them less competent than doctors who "know all that themselves and don't need a prop". Having said that, attitudes towards computers have also changed considerably since then now that everyone has one in their home.
(When I say "outperform medical experts", that's on average. Expert systems are pretty consistent and may get, say, 70% accuracy, while humans can jump all over the place, from 90% on one diagnosis to 10% on the next. On average, expert systems perform better than humans, although for individual diagnoses humans can be more accurate).
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Java experiences 6-8 times the number of vulnerabilities, even over shorter time frames.
Leading to a statement even more unique than "Hold the newsreaderâ(TM)s nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers":
If you want to be safe, go with Microsoft's product.
Not at all. If you run a company with 10,000 PCs then it's a significant saving.
It's even more significant than that, there are between 1B and 1 1/2B Windows PC in the world. A single hour at that rate saves a gigawatt of power. The headline is highly misleading, it's like claiming "Pentagon boasts lowest insert-new-toy-name cost ever, only $5 per citizen".
And there is always a more intelligent way to express an idea than dropping the F-bomb.
Is that somewhere between an A-bomb and an H-bomb? If it were up to me, I'd go the whole way and drop a Z-bomb on the fucking fuckers.
I am literally speechless.
So am I. He helped destroy the career of two promising football players. The school should have pushed for the death penalty to send a signal to others, rather than the wimpy ten years he's getting.
Pets Emulsified and Toasted as Appetizer?
People for the Expedited Termination of Animals. A 90% kill rate means they're operating a slaughterhouse, not a shelter.
Do you know what you are talking about, sir ? "Counterfeit electronics" ? The counterfeit electronics that I know of are things like fake resistors and fake capacitors from China and Vietnam --- and they are all ***BRAND NEW***, not something salvaged from old electronics
Read the OP's post again: "remarked and sold on the market as either more expensive or newer parts". That's counterfeit, you think you're buying X when it's actually Y. And if you don't think it's counterfeit, I have a brand new 2013 model Mercedes S550 to sell you (please ignore the fact that it looks like a 1972 280SE).
Mind transference experiment. It's the only explanation for how Obama is almost exactly the same as Bush.
Same shit, different asshole?
You can augment that by stuffing the end of the screwdriver into a length of rubber hose; you get the same effect, without having to stick your face 4 inches from the reciprocating assembly.
Or you can use a long screwdriver.
That's what real mechanics do.
Or you can evacuate the inside of your head and create a parallel universe in there with the end of a screwdriver as the point source in the middle, connected to the car via 60,000 feet of tram cable and examine the engine while holding the giraffe and reciting from memory the verse contents of the Egyptian edition of "Lord of the Rings".
That's what surreal mechanics do.
they doubled down on the meds and he ended up not being able to function on how own (or even hold a conversation) and in a group home.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
Every time I see this pointlessy show-offy use of latin, all I can think of is telling the OP is caput tuum revelle tuo e culo.
(And now we get an endless debate about whether I should have used clunes, and velle rather than revelle, and that's the real reason for the fall of the Roman empire, not the inability to terminate strings but the fact that they spent most of their time arguing over grammar).
We have two companies admitting failure here, B&N and MSFT.
Microsoft isn't admitting failure, it's a brilliant strategy. What they're no doubt planning to do is port Windows Nothing (formerly Windows RT, renamed due to its 0.00% market share), to the Nook. Anything divided by nothing is infinity, so Microsoft will gain infinite market share through this move. Sheer brilliance.
Anyone with launch control undergoes constant drilling and evaluation. If they fail an eval, they have to go through remedial training that's sufficiently obnoxious that few will risk failing. This is well-known among people who work in that sort of job. My guess is that the reason it's being made public in this case is because they want to send a message to someone for some reason (Congress for more funding? Embarrass the unit's CO/force someone's retirement/turf war? Who knows...).
New Zealand is only going to (try harder to) prohibit vague software patents. The language is still there to patent software.
Not only that, but this hasn't made it into law yet. Expect to see intense lobbying by (mostly) US business interests to get this provision spiked before the law becomes final. It's happened before with other law changes for which the initial drafts seemed reasonable, e.g. in the field of copyright.
Also don't they think that if you rape a baby you can cure your STDs?
The belief is actually that intercourse with a virgin cures AIDS. It's a really serious problem, not helped by the fact that it's been unofficially sanctioned by some government officials.
(Before this gets modded 'troll', ask any doctor who's worked in sub-Saharan Africa. The battle against AIDS there is largely a battle against superstition).
You can bet that the MAFIAA is hard at work writing legislation for their wholly owned subsidiary, the US Congress, to rubberstamp for them to redefine "public performance" to be pretty much anything they can charge royalties for.
It also depends on the size of the company. For our first few years we had a 100% retention rate, but the fact that we were only half a dozen people helped with that. Now that we're 400-odd, there is some churn. Not because people are bailing, the company is still a great place to work but people move to other cities, get married, whatever.
I bet it was that Al Kayeeda guy again. His name seems to come up whenever there's an explosion somewhere.
In the late1990s I worked in the research division of $large_corporation. Said corporation filed for a lot of patents, a few of which the researchers even considered patent-worthy (we had lots of lawyers who insisted on patenting everything). One day we got a chance to talk to an ex-USPTO staffer, and asked him about some should-never-have-issued patents in the area we worked in ("should never have issued" meant that they were patents on existing technology, for example one was on something that was at the time present in virtually every PC, laptop, and whatever other computing devices were around at the time). He looked a bit sheepish and said "Yeah, that was one of mine. We couldn't keep up any more so we just started rubberstamping patents until we'd caught up". Luckily this particular one was a defensive patent and the company who filed it (another $large-corporation) wasn't interested in enforcing it, but in just that one case it was only one of hundreds of patents that went through without any appraisal.
A bigger problem is that the examiners are rewarded based on how many patents they process. The "ideal" examiner is one who checks the name and date on the filing, verifies that the filing fee has cleared, and then approves the patent. They're likely to get the employee-of-the-year award for their high productivity.
In other words, technological superiority doesn't always win in digital photography.
In Panasonic's case it's not achieving superiority but dealing with inferiority, their consumer-grade camera sensors have always had terrible problems with chroma noise in low-light conditions, so this may just be a way of improving the low-light performance.
The Wayland People's Front will never stand for this! The People's Front of Wayland are just wannabes. Not to mention the Campaign for a Free Wayland.
Love,
Loretta (formerly Stan).
Replying to my own post, should have mentioned that there are experimental techniques that can sort of sometimes detect some of the components used in bombs, lasers to induce Raman scattering in the air above locations of explosives, differential absorption light detection and ranging using backscattering from air, coherent Stokes Raman scattering to find indications of bomb constituents, and so on and so forth. All of them pretty much only work under ideal lab conditions and have awful false positive rates. There's really only one truly effective bomb detector that works in almost all situations, you can get the precursors at places like Shorja Market for a few thousand dinars (it's not worth much), and they have four legs and go "woof".
What this guy did if accurately reported is shameful, criminal and wrong. I hope he'll be made an example of. I don't imagine it will make much difference on a larger scale. All thats unusual is he got caught.
What's unusual isn't that he got found out, it's that anyone cared enough to take action. As you're pointed out, the Iraq police action has been an absolute goldmine for an army of carpetbaggers who're willing to sell the victims (the Iraqis) anything they want (or at least something claiming to be what they want). The sale of assorted junk that's basically electronic dowsing rods as bomb detectors and similar has been going on for years, and it's reasonably well known to those involved. What's really unusual is that this guy got prosecuted for it. In fact it's quite baffling, I could name (although not from this account) between one and two dozen vendors of similar snake oil who've been doing it for years, companies in the US, the UK, and Europe, for whom the consequences have been nothing (shit, if I wasn't so scrupulously honest (snigger) I'd be selling some souped-up Heathkit in a fancy case as my own $40K bomb detector). What did this guy do to make anyone care enough to prosecute him?
More or less the same applies here in Sweden: I applied for a few ISBNs, and was given two with no fuss. The total cost to me was I had to write two emails, and read some instructions. No money was involved in the transaction.
Same in New Zealand. If you want an ISBN you go to the National Library web site, fill in their form, and that's it. No money involved.
The U.S. postal service, while government subsidized is actually still a private subsidy, they are also competing against USPS and Fedex.
Obviously you meant UPS in the latter, though they're really only competing for *packages*.
So it's a dicksize competition then?
The comparison on their site shows that it doesn't support Office 2007-2010 formats (only 2003 and earlier formats). Is that correct ?
Where does it say that? Looking at the entries for the various programs, it says "can read and edit DOC and DOCX formats", " import and export .xls or .xlsx", etc.
But the point it is that there's too much medical knowledge for one person to keep it all in their head at one time. If something like this were to come to market it wouldn't be replacing doctors, it would be augmenting them.
The attitudes towards the use of expert systems is kind of interesting. For example as long ago as the early 1970s programs like Mycin would consistently outperform medical experts, and yet they've never been adopted. There seems to be considerable reluctance by people to accept diagnosis-by-computer even when told that it's more accurate than human diagnosis. I agree with your comments that it's a support tool, but most patients won't even accept it as a support tool. One hypothesis is that if patients see their doctor as using computer-assisted decision support then they'll judge them less competent than doctors who "know all that themselves and don't need a prop". Having said that, attitudes towards computers have also changed considerably since then now that everyone has one in their home.
(When I say "outperform medical experts", that's on average. Expert systems are pretty consistent and may get, say, 70% accuracy, while humans can jump all over the place, from 90% on one diagnosis to 10% on the next. On average, expert systems perform better than humans, although for individual diagnoses humans can be more accurate).