This is called brand extension - people that know marketing (say proctor and gamble) know better than to do it. It reduces the value of the brand. Much better to create new brands..
The signal to noise in the research field varies a bit - but over all it is so bad that most medical and nutritional work is best ignored until replicated.
The norm is there are a few teams doing good work - but most of the papers are grant money prostitution. This muddies the waters for people trying to learn about some topic - reinforcing the accepted narrative in order to keep the grant gravy-train flowing.
A couple of examples: There is a long list of rodent papers with titles such as "High fat diet causes x-y or z bad things" But when one digs into the paper, the contents of the diet are not specified. Digging further one finds the supplementary information - where only a part number is listed. Pulling up the part number revels that the so-called high fat diet has no fat - instead is loaded with sugar and hydrogenated vegetable oil. (If this was real science the diets would come from one lot (or at least one company and only the single variable would be changed and they would run an independent analysis on the diet contents.) The truth of the matter is the outcome was decided before the research began.
Even in engineering I've talked with students that were told not to write up disturbing results as it would embarrass other researchers. One student was blackmailed with losing his Phd if he didn't leave out the failure of a 'student-T test'( a statistical test that looks at distribution validity).
Academia - even in engineering has become ever more politicized and is about supporting narratives of the biggest ego on the faculty rather than finding truth.
Be skeptical - most of what we know is not from theory but form endless trial and error.
Yes - the 'other guy' should walk or bike... that is why we have cities full of empty buses driving in circles and traffic squeezed to provide unused bike lanes...
What is really strange is a lot of sidewalks are not used - yet they ban bikes. Mixing bikes and cars is just stupid.
Of course socialism is obviously a form of capitalism. For the record - Capitalism is where people pool their capital in order to do projects they can't do on their own. The same pooling of capital happens with socialism. The difference between socialism and capitalism is one is FORCED to participate under socialism - one has the freedom not to take part under capitalism - at least in free countries.
The biblical form of cooperation was also voluntary.
Both systems can be corrupt. And neither of them works well with out free enterprise.
The idea that there is a meaningful difference between the major parties is usually a symptom of falling for a false dilemma - you are either with them or against them. Both parties are part of a cartel-socialist system - bought by fortune 500 cartels to prevent competing with smaller companies. (you might look in to how many finish their careers in congress with multi millions they got from special investment opportunities - influence peddling).What is missing is a level playing field - free enterprise.
The focus on the idea that the battle of the common man is between the Ds and the Rs is a way to keep you from seeing the greater corruption.
Going to college teaches people how to brown nose.. I've found that it isn't trade school but rather 4 year colleges and universities where people leave with a sense of entitlement, but no portable skills. EEs that can't calculate a resistor to go with an LED.. Useless..
If someone doesn't know how to program before they are 16 - they aren't going to be very productive as adults.
ME was my first thought as well - what might they have changed in the ME(Management Engine)? Now that people have figured out how to disable this Orwellian mess - I suppose they will 'fix' it..
When I first heard of 'secure boot' I figured it would be the opposite of the name - and sure enough it was.
Having the ability to connect to the Internet, write to one's system drive - based on closed code - the exact recipe to create exploits.. is rather insane.
I suspect they were paid for a backdoor and had no choice but to do it.
quite right - if someone wants to try a new browser more in-line with what Mozilla once offered - I would recommend looking at brave - usable - but needs some tweaks with the bookmark bit.
You do realize that oil gets burnt to recharge those batteries - and to manufacture them??
Probably not - most people don't think very deep - just parrot the PC stuff.
Anyway - batteries have this thing called a cycle life - you can with a bit of math -- or rather just simple arithmetic - calculate the cost of delivering the total power of the battery over it's life time -- it is twice that of ICE power... and that assumes the cost of the electricity to charge them is zero - which it isn't - and assumes one can't figure out that most of the electricity used to charge them comes from carbon based fuel.
The cost of the batteries is kept down by not noticing the use of slave labor to mine it.
If you have been paying attention - Google is a private company on paper - but actually has a mission statement written by a three letter agency. It has always been evil. Most slogans are the opposite...
BS - the Chinese gov is a bunch of thugs no different than Russia or Saudi - Nice people do go into government - anywhere.
We would be much better off without elections - picking the legislaters by a random draw of tax payers.. The one party system has failed China - as it is now failing the US (Demopublicans).
I've talked with Chinese students here for over 30 years - it is pure propaganda that they don't do slave labor - physically hitting workers is common. There is a serious problem with corruption in that those that survived the 'crazy time' in the '80s did so by grabbing what ever they could. Honest people starved to death. Not a culture I would want to live in.
I want to see restaurants and retail stores that take bitcoin!!!!
- if some store or restaurant won't take cash - I wouldn't go there anymore even if I usually pay with plastic.
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This is called brand extension - people that know marketing (say proctor and gamble) know better than to do it. It reduces the value of the brand. Much better to create new brands..
The signal to noise in the research field varies a bit - but over all it is so bad that most medical and nutritional work is best ignored until replicated.
The norm is there are a few teams doing good work - but most of the papers are grant money prostitution. This muddies the waters for people trying to learn about some topic - reinforcing the accepted narrative in order to keep the grant gravy-train flowing.
A couple of examples:
There is a long list of rodent papers with titles such as "High fat diet causes x-y or z bad things" But when one digs into the paper, the contents of the diet are not specified. Digging further one finds the supplementary information - where only a part number is listed. Pulling up the part number revels that the so-called high fat diet has no fat - instead is loaded with sugar and hydrogenated vegetable oil. (If this was real science the diets would come from one lot (or at least one company and only the single variable would be changed and they would run an independent analysis on the diet contents.) The truth of the matter is the outcome was decided before the research began.
Even in engineering I've talked with students that were told not to write up disturbing results as it would embarrass other researchers. One student was blackmailed with losing his Phd if he didn't leave out the failure of a 'student-T test'( a statistical test that looks at distribution validity).
Academia - even in engineering has become ever more politicized and is about supporting narratives of the biggest ego on the faculty rather than finding truth.
Be skeptical - most of what we know is not from theory but form endless trial and error.
Yes - the 'other guy' should walk or bike... that is why we have cities full of empty buses driving in circles and traffic squeezed to provide unused bike lanes...
What is really strange is a lot of sidewalks are not used - yet they ban bikes. Mixing bikes and cars is just stupid.
Of course socialism is obviously a form of capitalism. For the record - Capitalism is where people pool their capital in order to do projects they can't do on their own. The same pooling of capital happens with socialism. The difference between socialism and capitalism is one is FORCED to participate under socialism - one has the freedom not to take part under capitalism - at least in free countries.
The biblical form of cooperation was also voluntary.
Both systems can be corrupt. And neither of them works well with out free enterprise.
The idea that there is a meaningful difference between the major parties is usually a symptom of falling for a false dilemma - you are either with them or against them. Both parties are part of a cartel-socialist system - bought by fortune 500 cartels to prevent competing with smaller companies. (you might look in to how many finish their careers in congress with multi millions they got from special investment opportunities - influence peddling) .What is missing is a level playing field - free enterprise.
The focus on the idea that the battle of the common man is between the Ds and the Rs is a way to keep you from seeing the greater corruption.
What I wonder about is if Vegan causes mental illness or if it is the other way round?
The Association between Eating Behavior and Various Health Parameters: A Matched Sample Study
http://www.plosone.org/article...
side-effects-of-vegetarianism
http://www.womenshealthmag.com...
Most likely using alternate libs written by a three-letter-agency - I assume M$ gets paid large amounts to do such things.
So I would consider M$ version of "openSSH" to be similar to 'secure-boot' - names intended to mislead the general public.
If it is still UN-patched one has to assume it is by design..
Going to college teaches people how to brown nose.. I've found that it isn't trade school but rather 4 year colleges and universities where people leave with a sense of entitlement, but no portable skills. EEs that can't calculate a resistor to go with an LED.. Useless..
If someone doesn't know how to program before they are 16 - they aren't going to be very productive as adults.
That is the real world.
The sad part is so few understand the limitations that exergy places on us..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
ME was my first thought as well - what might they have changed in the ME(Management Engine)? Now that people have figured out how to disable this Orwellian mess - I suppose they will 'fix' it..
When I first heard of 'secure boot' I figured it would be the opposite of the name - and sure enough it was.
Having the ability to connect to the Internet, write to one's system drive - based on closed code - the exact recipe to create exploits.. is rather insane.
I suspect they were paid for a backdoor and had no choice but to do it.
Problem.. Of course you get more research money if you blame climate change..
quite right - if someone wants to try a new browser more in-line with what Mozilla once offered - I would recommend looking at brave - usable - but needs some tweaks with the bookmark bit.
https://brave.com/
The bitcoin connection is quite important..
They can give money for firms that they want a US firm to buy.
You do realize that oil gets burnt to recharge those batteries - and to manufacture them??
Probably not - most people don't think very deep - just parrot the PC stuff.
Anyway - batteries have this thing called a cycle life - you can with a bit of math -- or rather just simple arithmetic - calculate the cost of delivering the total power of the battery over it's life time -- it is twice that of ICE power... and that assumes the cost of the electricity to charge them is zero - which it isn't - and assumes one can't figure out that most of the electricity used to charge them comes from carbon based fuel.
The cost of the batteries is kept down by not noticing the use of slave labor to mine it.
So this is irrational.
Anyway - here is the real answer you are looking for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm testing out the brave browser right now - I like what I see...
If you have been paying attention - Google is a private company on paper - but actually has a mission statement written by a three letter agency. It has always been evil. Most slogans are the opposite ...
It has been melting ever sense the end of the little ice age -- I'm so scared.
Nice people do NOT go into government - anywhere.[typo]
BS - they don't care until there is a big money flow - then the party-member supervisors will see that things happen correctly.
Anyway - a huge amount of the IP in China was stolen.
BS - the Chinese gov is a bunch of thugs no different than Russia or Saudi - Nice people do go into government - anywhere.
We would be much better off without elections - picking the legislaters by a random draw of tax payers.. The one party system has failed China - as it is now failing the US (Demopublicans).
I've talked with Chinese students here for over 30 years - it is pure propaganda that they don't do slave labor - physically hitting workers is common. There is a serious problem with corruption in that those that survived the 'crazy time' in the '80s did so by grabbing what ever they could. Honest people starved to death. Not a culture I would want to live in.
I want to see restaurants and retail stores that take bitcoin!!!!
- if some store or restaurant won't take cash - I wouldn't go there anymore even if I usually pay with plastic.
Totally agree..
What surprises me is how many times Im asked to fix someones Linux system - find that it is Ubuntu and why?
It is basically Debian testing or worse and yes - there are bugs that an average user will have trouble dealing with - why not just use Debian stable?
I have also fixed other Linux systems and find them better than Ubuntu. Just dont get why it is so popular..
Their "Linux phone" bit failed. Time to cash out.
( To be accurate - their phone isn't really Linux - it uses an android kernel with binary blobs that insure zero security ) .
Really - I'm an old fart - made my own cheat-sheet - just isn't that hard.
https://xtronics.com/wiki/Syst...
My biggest complaint was the replacement for ls /etc/init.d/ was too much to type.
Better yet - don't use Exchange.