If the way in which malware has evolved over the years is an indication, the most effective use would be to be able to remotely control the zombies and make them do whatever you want without them ever knowing that they were infected. All you need is a centralized C&C mechanism that tells all those zombies how to act and what to do.
Even if the stove costs like $10 (which is a lot for people in 3rd world countries), this is a smaller long term cost than being sick and dying earlier.
Somehow, I think that if you have to cook your food in your single pan over an open fire, long term concerns aren't really high on the list.
I do agree that it is a good investment, though. But I think that holds for stoves currently available as well. It seems getting corrupt governments to invest in them and honestly distribute them is the real problem.
Apparently they can afford rudimentary stoves, which, according to the English language, are types of stoves.
Rudimentary implies that they're very very probably not store-bought stoves ("Hello, good sir. I'd like one of you finest rudimentary stoves."), but rather bits and pieces thrown together.
You should take a look at TFA, especially at the picture with the following caption: "A crude cookstove over an open-flame fire." Personally, I think 'makeshift' would have been a better description than 'crude' or 'rudimentary'.
Irrelevant. The problem is that they can't afford any stove in the first place: "A recent study published in The Lancet estimates that 3.5 million people die each year as a result of indoor air pollution from open fires or rudimentary stoves in their homes."
I guess the real 'news' is this: "The team received a $900,000 grant"
Loving this line as well: "[...] a better cookstove, which researchers say will use half as much fuel and cut emissions by 90 percent." Compared to what? Open fire? Congratu-fucking-lations, that is amazing!
I understand that you are trying to point towards the effects of lawsuits (by parents) on schools. The problem is that your argumentation is flawed and that you are in a sense perpetuating the myth.
The reality is that if somebody asks "why did no one see the warning signs?!", a perfectly reasonable response could also be: "Well, we did see the warning signs and that is why we informed the parents, and had our school counselor and his teacher talk to him about them."
What the hell makes you think that the only possible response is to throw a kid in jail when there are warning signs? That is messed up, man.
Also, the whole idea of talking to the kid is to find out whether he is troubled and there is cause for real concern, whether he should seek mental help, etc. But I guess doing that would make too much sense.
Man, even now Nokia makes awesome distinctive hardware. I've often glanced with jealousy at some of the WP phones by Nokia (and HTC, for that matter), only to feel regret that similar hardware wasn't available with Android.
Considering their brand image is still rock solid - a source of popular (positive) memes even - I seriously think that Nokia would make a killing if they released similarly awesome Android devices.
Google is also well positioned with existing products that allow you to run Google Apps on x86 windows tablets. Intel is also investing a lot of money to port Android over to x86 natively for their phone x86 chips. So while a little behind Microsoft in porting their OS to a desktop environment between Intel's efforts and the Transformer book (which is very much like a desktop/laptop experience) Android could very easily cross over.
I installed Android 4.3 x86 this week (using Android x86 Easy Installer ) and although there's random reboots, choppy sound and an obvious lack of a proper video driver, I was surprised at how natural it felt using it on a desktop.
If the mentioned issues were taken care of, I wouldn't hesitate to make it the main OS for some of my technically challenged (older) friends.
The end result is the same, though: RT is destined for the bin. ARM SoCs are getting competition from SoCs made by a very potent behemoth. x86 will rise in the mobile market.
Well, it may be a terrible fucking workaround, but at least the functionality doesn't depend on other unrelated settings:
"For the LED flash feature to work, you will need to put your phone in silent mode by turning off vibration in Settings > Sounds and also flipping the switch on the side of your phone to turn off the ringer"
Apple, the master of usability. You know, it just works super-intuitively.
I just saw your new sig and realized that you weren't actually trolling. I puked a little.
You are in good company, my friend: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/365266-33-hdmi-text-fuzzy-works-fine (1st hit on your sig-link) "I suggest you use [CTRL-Shift-Print Screen] to capture the screen image, instead of taking a picture like you did. Then post them..." "EDIT: Looking at your screenshots, my eyes cannot detect any fuzziness in HDMI connection. They look the same. Maybe I should use magnifying glass to see it."
The stupid. It burns.
Anyway, I realized I was way too harsh. There is no merit in being unkind to the mentally retarded.
When I experience discomfort in either of my hands (which I rarely do nowadays and used to very frequently), just massaging my biceps and my triceps right above my elbow on the inside (where the ulnar nerve is) makes it disappear instantly. I believe (2) from bmo's sibling post actually helps preventing your arm muscles from becoming slightly cramped in the first place.
I will add that I have also forced myself to become ambidextrous to the point where I can use my mouse with either my left or right hand without really noticing on which side it is. Also: I use a light mouse and a Logitech K800 keyboard (an amazing keyboard on many fronts).
Britain, France, Spain, all have massive chunks of the globe speaking their respective languages as an outcome of colonialism, even as they've mostly lost those colonies
Including the US.
The US is one of the colonies. Now bow to your queen;-)
The third line in that posts links to this image, showing snapshots from the comparison between VP8, VP9, AVC (x264) and HEVC (HM10): http://i3.minus.com/i5vzrESbfwCmX.png
HEVC is just an absolute beast in (perceptual) video compression. If you look at the bitrates here, you assume that the videos must be crap, but they look ridiculously good. And that is with an early days reference encoder!
If you observed it during a credits sequence it is almost certainly due to the refresh rate of your display/video card not being matched to the refresh rate of the source. (Credits sequences are very easy to encode and decode and shouldn't run into a bottleneck anywhere).
The best way to start analysing this issue is to use MediaPlayer Classic Home Cinema or Black Editon (a fork of MPC-HC), and check the stats with CTRL+J (using Custom EVR as renderer): https://trac.mpc-hc.org/attachment/ticket/2682/screenshot3.gif The green and red lines should be perfectly straight if refresh rate and frame rate are perfectly matched.
Ugh. Please get the hell off Slashdot. Second comment in your link: "You are looking at font anti-aliasing [aka Cleartype in Windows 7]. It is turned off on the VGA image. Presumably because, the OS thinks that it is connected to a CRT."
There are so may things wrong with how you came to the conclusion that HDMI has anything to do with it, I can't even begin enumerating them.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes. That was the joke.
If the way in which malware has evolved over the years is an indication, the most effective use would be to be able to remotely control the zombies and make them do whatever you want without them ever knowing that they were infected. All you need is a centralized C&C mechanism that tells all those zombies how to act and what to do.
Wait..
You must be new here - I mean to the planet - welcome. Watch your back, we're a narrow-minded, short-sighted, fucked-up country.
FTFY.
Even if the stove costs like $10 (which is a lot for people in 3rd world countries), this is a smaller long term cost than being sick and dying earlier.
Somehow, I think that if you have to cook your food in your single pan over an open fire, long term concerns aren't really high on the list.
I do agree that it is a good investment, though. But I think that holds for stoves currently available as well. It seems getting corrupt governments to invest in them and honestly distribute them is the real problem.
Apparently they can afford rudimentary stoves, which, according to the English language, are types of stoves.
Rudimentary implies that they're very very probably not store-bought stoves ("Hello, good sir. I'd like one of you finest rudimentary stoves."), but rather bits and pieces thrown together.
You should take a look at TFA, especially at the picture with the following caption: "A crude cookstove over an open-flame fire."
Personally, I think 'makeshift' would have been a better description than 'crude' or 'rudimentary'.
Irrelevant. The problem is that they can't afford any stove in the first place:
"A recent study published in The Lancet estimates that 3.5 million people die each year as a result of indoor air pollution from open fires or rudimentary stoves in their homes."
I guess the real 'news' is this:
"The team received a $900,000 grant"
Loving this line as well: "[...] a better cookstove, which researchers say will use half as much fuel and cut emissions by 90 percent."
Compared to what? Open fire? Congratu-fucking-lations, that is amazing!
Yeah, although the ICP would be better, as they are known for their extremely thought provoking questions on our universe.
I understand that you are trying to point towards the effects of lawsuits (by parents) on schools. The problem is that your argumentation is flawed and that you are in a sense perpetuating the myth.
The reality is that if somebody asks "why did no one see the warning signs?!", a perfectly reasonable response could also be: "Well, we did see the warning signs and that is why we informed the parents, and had our school counselor and his teacher talk to him about them."
I.e.: there are more 'safe things' to do.
What the hell makes you think that the only possible response is to throw a kid in jail when there are warning signs?
That is messed up, man.
Also, the whole idea of talking to the kid is to find out whether he is troubled and there is cause for real concern, whether he should seek mental help, etc. But I guess doing that would make too much sense.
Well can you blame them. What is the first thing that happens when kid does something wrong.
"WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SEE THESE CLEAR WARNING SIGNS!"
It may be a crazy idea, but why not try talking to the (troubled) kid instead of fucking arresting him?
Jesus Christ.
Man, even now Nokia makes awesome distinctive hardware. I've often glanced with jealousy at some of the WP phones by Nokia (and HTC, for that matter), only to feel regret that similar hardware wasn't available with Android.
Considering their brand image is still rock solid - a source of popular (positive) memes even - I seriously think that Nokia would make a killing if they released similarly awesome Android devices.
Google is also well positioned with existing products that allow you to run Google Apps on x86 windows tablets. Intel is also investing a lot of money to port Android over to x86 natively for their phone x86 chips. So while a little behind Microsoft in porting their OS to a desktop environment between Intel's efforts and the Transformer book (which is very much like a desktop/laptop experience) Android could very easily cross over.
I installed Android 4.3 x86 this week (using Android x86 Easy Installer ) and although there's random reboots, choppy sound and an obvious lack of a proper video driver, I was surprised at how natural it felt using it on a desktop.
If the mentioned issues were taken care of, I wouldn't hesitate to make it the main OS for some of my technically challenged (older) friends.
haswell makes full windows with 100% backwards compatibility in a tablet device a desirable thing
Actually, if I'm not mistaken, the Atom line has been the one championing x86 tablets. Also, it is the line Intel feels is their best bet for entry into the tablet and phone market: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7263/intel-teases-baytrail-performance-with-atom-z3770-cinebench-score
The end result is the same, though:
RT is destined for the bin.
ARM SoCs are getting competition from SoCs made by a very potent behemoth.
x86 will rise in the mobile market.
To further support the latter I'd like to note that Intel is also putting effort into getting Android x86 working on the Atom, with success:
http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/asus-transformer-book-trio/4505-3126_7-35827211.html
Also:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2044617/new-intel-chief-sees-150-atom-tablets-this-year.html
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/tablets/tablets-atom.html
Well, it may be a terrible fucking workaround, but at least the functionality doesn't depend on other unrelated settings:
"For the LED flash feature to work, you will need to put your phone in silent mode by turning off vibration in Settings > Sounds and also flipping the switch on the side of your phone to turn off the ringer"
Apple, the master of usability. You know, it just works super-intuitively.
I just saw your new sig and realized that you weren't actually trolling. I puked a little.
You are in good company, my friend: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/365266-33-hdmi-text-fuzzy-works-fine (1st hit on your sig-link)
"I suggest you use [CTRL-Shift-Print Screen] to capture the screen image, instead of taking a picture like you did. Then post them..."
"EDIT: Looking at your screenshots, my eyes cannot detect any fuzziness in HDMI connection. They look the same. Maybe I should use magnifying glass to see it."
The stupid. It burns.
Anyway, I realized I was way too harsh. There is no merit in being unkind to the mentally retarded.
That's alright, I don't mind if I miss Talking Bullshit 101.
I get mouse pains in my hand and I'm still not 47.
Gratuitous tip: it may or may not apply to your case, but I've found that for me (and a number of my friends) the problem resides in (slightly) cramped muscles compressing nerves indicated here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Nerves_of_the_left_upper_extremity.gif
Specifically, compression of the nervus ulnaris and of the nervus interosseus antebrachii anterior:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulnar_nerve_entrapment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior_interosseous_nerve
When I experience discomfort in either of my hands (which I rarely do nowadays and used to very frequently), just massaging my biceps and my triceps right above my elbow on the inside (where the ulnar nerve is) makes it disappear instantly. I believe (2) from bmo's sibling post actually helps preventing your arm muscles from becoming slightly cramped in the first place.
I will add that I have also forced myself to become ambidextrous to the point where I can use my mouse with either my left or right hand without really noticing on which side it is. Also: I use a light mouse and a Logitech K800 keyboard (an amazing keyboard on many fronts).
Right. Because when you only have a touch or 3D waving interface you can choose to not use it at any time?
Also, I'm still waiting for your examples.
Conductors? No: http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/resources/articles/prosandcons.html
For the other part, you're going to have to give examples. I'd like to say up front that gesticulating while talking is generally facultative.
Britain, France, Spain, all have massive chunks of the globe speaking their respective languages as an outcome of colonialism, even as they've mostly lost those colonies
Including the US.
The US is one of the colonies. Now bow to your queen ;-)
conductors do it a lot, and a lot of people gesticulate while talking for long periods of time.
For 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 40 weeks a year?
Your argument is invalid.
True, but the AC is still right. I've looked at the comparisons and like it has been said elsewhere: VP9 is better than VP8, but that's about it.
See for yourself:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1620230#post1620230
The third line in that posts links to this image, showing snapshots from the comparison between VP8, VP9, AVC (x264) and HEVC (HM10): http://i3.minus.com/i5vzrESbfwCmX.png
HEVC is just an absolute beast in (perceptual) video compression. If you look at the bitrates here, you assume that the videos must be crap, but they look ridiculously good. And that is with an early days reference encoder!
If you observed it during a credits sequence it is almost certainly due to the refresh rate of your display/video card not being matched to the refresh rate of the source. (Credits sequences are very easy to encode and decode and shouldn't run into a bottleneck anywhere).
The best way to start analysing this issue is to use MediaPlayer Classic Home Cinema or Black Editon (a fork of MPC-HC), and check the stats with CTRL+J (using Custom EVR as renderer):
https://trac.mpc-hc.org/attachment/ticket/2682/screenshot3.gif
The green and red lines should be perfectly straight if refresh rate and frame rate are perfectly matched.
Other tools if your display/video card do not support a 23.976 Hz refresh rate:
- SmoothVideo Project - http://www.svp-team.com/
- MadVR smooth motion - http://www.svp-team.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1287 (MadVR smooth motion is discussed)
- ReClock - http://reclock.free.fr/ (last time I checked, it is not an option if you want to do audio bitstreaming)
Warning: once you get used to buttery smooth video playback, you will be ruined forever and unable to enjoy video that is not displayed properly ;-)
I also troubleshoot for a living. It's not hard to localize the issue. It's in the HDMI encoding. Most likely in the chip used by my motherboard.
Bahahahaha!
Alright, you successfully trolled me: I walked straight into it.
Well played, sir, well played.
Ugh. Please get the hell off Slashdot.
Second comment in your link: "You are looking at font anti-aliasing [aka Cleartype in Windows 7]. It is turned off on the VGA image. Presumably because, the OS thinks that it is connected to a CRT."
There are so may things wrong with how you came to the conclusion that HDMI has anything to do with it, I can't even begin enumerating them.