I can't help but think that proximity sensors (beeps faster when items are closer) would be just as effective at preventing fatalities, and far cheaper. Audible alerts don't even need you to pay attention... they GRAB attention.
A Lego RCX kit is quite accurately called 'DIY' even if Lego does not provide open-source schematics of how to create your own RCX. Soldering your own breadboard isn't the only thing that qualifies something as DIY.
Back when retailers had a more personal connection to their clients, it was also not uncommon for a shopkeeper to notice that a customer was pregnant and stock something specifically for her. Personalization has always existed; this is a more of a comeback than something completely new.
The flipside is that a shopkeeper also had a personal connection to the mother. Target has no such connection to Customer#9810957065409. This takes the personalization away from 'cozy' toward 'creepy'. It's like the uncanny valley of interactions.
I posted a 84 word comment; health is a vast field with seriously complex interactions. I stand by my point. Though there are completely true assertions such as yours that stand in opposition to 'fit is more important than slim', I believe the significant over-emphasis in current American culture of your weight and the under-emphasis of exercise is a great disservice to our health as a whole.
You're confusing 'fit' with 'slim'. Many people do. It's completely possible to have a healthy cardiac system (the most important part), but be quite obese. How thin you are is mainly a function of diet; how healthy you are is mainly a function of exercise. They have significant correlation, but they are distinct data points with separate causes.
The more important of the two for health is your cardiac fitness. The more desirable of the two in social situations is your BMI. Choose wisely.
There are social network 'haves' and 'have nots'. Some people have 500,000 twitter followers, and can ask just about any question and get a slew of responses, some of them excellent. Some people have 15 with nary a high school graduate in the list; getting insightful and timely answers from that list is not nearly as likely. People with hundreds or thousands of followers think that social media is going to change the world; they literally do not realize that not everyone has the same type of network that they do. That, in fact, they are blessed with a surplus of social power in the same way that some people have wealth.
Search engines don't care how many friends you have. They have answers. Search is an equalizer; social networks are not.
This decision is going to be challenged, directly or via changing of law, because it's a huge loss for the RIAA. I suspect it will be an important legal precedent, if it is not overturned.
It should also be noted that the amenities we expect in a home have significantly changed. And in a car. In 1982 it would not be that surprising to find a home without electricity (not common, but not weird), or heated by a wood stove, or lacking common appliances like dishwashers, washer dryer, ovens, or microwaves. The minimum expectations we have of a 'finished' home have risen, as well as the construction costs as we improve insulation and remove asbestos. If you compare the rent of places with identical and qualities, then the cost of rent has risen in a manner far closer to wages.
You are misunderstanding what we are discussing. The nuke test images are from the 50s, very old images. There were several insanely high speed stills of a nuke's first moments. The difference between a photograph and a video in this case is that the position of the lens is different for each still.
This was not a single camera; what you're seeing is the images from 10 closely spaced cameras that were triggered at slightly different times. We could take very quick images in the 50's... we couldn't take a video. Video capture is new.
Can someone describe the differences between NaCl (Salt?) and ActiveX? They both seem to be methods to run native code inside a browser sandbox. What are the ways Google's offering is superior? Is it better at all than the current implementation of ActiveX? I like Google, but this particular initiative seems kind of backwards thinking.
While I personally disagree with most of the changes to IP that have happened over the past couple decades, this is a shortsighted view. The constitution is good, but imperfect; we cannot hold it as some holy document, unchanging, the word of our holy fathers who art in heaven, blah blah.
Most people, when they say 'Damnit, we should stop adding to the constitution!' really mean 'Damn, our government is huge and unwieldy, and I think it should be a lot smaller.' They just use 'follow the constitution' as a rallying cry to head toward what they really want (typically tighter fiscal policy and less government intrusion... ie, libertarianism). Please don't be 'most people'. The framers of the Constitution of the United States were unable to appreciate all the changes that progress has brought us, and there will be many changes that existing laws, even ones properly based on a constitutionally sound underpinning, do not handle well.
'Follow the Constition' is not the end of the story; it was the beginning.
I have moderator points, but there's no entry for 'slashvertisement' or 'paid shill'. It's possible that your post is completely accurate and insightful, but it sounds like you're flogging one fringe opinion. "One need only fully understand...", "Gerald Pollack's investigation into the mistakes in [the establishment] are revolutionary...".
No current operating system is immune to exploits. An accurate statement would be 'I use apple because their low population in the wild makes them unpopular targets for malware authors to write exploits for'.
The issue is that the USB standard defines that the 'host' device (the one with the brains) is required to be the 'power' device (the one that supplies power over USB).
My phone is fine as the brains, but I don't want it being the dang battery for any peripheral plugged into it. Unfortunately that's simply how the USB spec is defined. Until we get a new USB spec that improves on this, USB is a sub-optimal connection method for Android devices. That dumb battery operated dock cannot provide power the phone while also being the 'dumb' side of the USB protocol.
There is a wealth of information about usability, both for the web and in general, on this site. Years and years of articles. Many of the best ones are in the first few years, but there are nice ones scattered throughout. I recommend going through the bolded (most popular) articles, and send them links to relevant articles as issues come up.
Imagine if you had a giant neon sign on top of your roof with your SSID on it, available for everyone within a quarter mile to see... and you got pissed when someone started keep track of the location of all of those neon signs. Maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't make something public if you want it to be private.
The WiFi spec doesn't require broadcasting your SSID. If you want it to be private, don't shout it out; stop shouting your SSID to the world, and disable SSID broadcast in your router settings.
We can only simulate what we fully understand; beyond that, we're just guessing. This will do something between 'jack' and 'squat' for testing things like the effect of novel pharmaceuticals. There are too many unknowns when it comes to cellular biology.
Hell, just recently we discovered that removing the spleen caused a significant increase in diabetes; turns out that spleens create islet cells. We didn't know that. I'm skeptical of the usefulness of models that contain so many unknowns. Hell, we're lucky if we can get the relatively simple problems of fluid dynamics working accurately enough to model windflow over a single, simple object; we still cannot model it with any kind of accuracy on complex objects that move with the wind (for example, a tree or a towel flapping in the breeze). And that's just engineering! We have extremely precise and accurate ideas for how pressure, friction, temperature and deformation affect windflow individually, but when you put it all together, it becomes impossibly complex.
When you're talking about a system where we don't even know all the rules? And is unfathomably more complex?
The current spec allows for about 4.5W (900mA at 5V). One of the last sentences in the article mentions 0.9 Watts.
Now, I could totally understand this kind of mistake in the past. But don't these people understand the wonder that is Google? Before I made this post, I wanted to make sure that I wasn't the dufus, and typed 900mA * 5V into Google. It's not that hard to fact check, is it?
We don't have to tell anyone to have fewer children. It's automatic. The more well off you are, in the world, the lower your growth rate, because you have other things to do for fun than unprotected sex, and you don't need the children as free unpaid labor. Nor do you need 5 as insurance because 3 are expected to die.
privacy concerns associated with measuring energy usage data moment by moment: Almost believable, but since when has government cared about privacy?
potential for adverse impact on emergency communication systems used by first responders and amateur radio operators: Possible, I don't know what frequency they operate on. If it's not in the bands those areas use then this is FUD.
could well actually increase total electricity consumption and therefore the carbon footprint: Complete FUD. Driving around reading meters has a vastly higher carbon impact than a few watts a day.
significant health questions [re] increased electromagnetic frequently radiation: Complete FUD, as most of you are aware.
The information these meters provide would provide consumers with more power to make intelligent choices about their power consumption, likely lowering power usage for many users (those who pay attention to their consumption). In a similar way to how a fuel-efficiency readout helps people make better fuel-efficiency driving decisions, these would have helped provide users make better power-saving decisions. But FUD wins. Bah.
I'm confused, because TFA states "Taken as a whole, however, a leak of this elephantine magnitude, which appears to demonstrate no misconduct by the U.S., is difficult to defend on any basis other than WikiLeaks' general disdain for any secrecy at all." Did the author even look at them, or just accept this fact from others, because I've heard of several examples of misconduct. I've also heard of a ton of stuff that's innocuous or laudable, and I personally am uncertain this leak was overall a good idea, but to say that the release brought no evils to light is disengenuous at best.
The most notable that I recall is funding of companies that support child sex slavery. That's a pretty serious charge that was suppressed for political reasons. I don't really follow all the furor over the leaks, but I know there were other similarly damaging issues brought to light, and you cannot truthfully state that there was 'no misconduct' found.
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Waste of mod points, but: that is completely proper British English, you insensitive clod. This is an article written in the UK.
I can't help but think that proximity sensors (beeps faster when items are closer) would be just as effective at preventing fatalities, and far cheaper. Audible alerts don't even need you to pay attention... they GRAB attention.
A Lego RCX kit is quite accurately called 'DIY' even if Lego does not provide open-source schematics of how to create your own RCX. Soldering your own breadboard isn't the only thing that qualifies something as DIY.
Back when retailers had a more personal connection to their clients, it was also not uncommon for a shopkeeper to notice that a customer was pregnant and stock something specifically for her. Personalization has always existed; this is a more of a comeback than something completely new.
The flipside is that a shopkeeper also had a personal connection to the mother. Target has no such connection to Customer#9810957065409. This takes the personalization away from 'cozy' toward 'creepy'. It's like the uncanny valley of interactions.
I posted a 84 word comment; health is a vast field with seriously complex interactions. I stand by my point. Though there are completely true assertions such as yours that stand in opposition to 'fit is more important than slim', I believe the significant over-emphasis in current American culture of your weight and the under-emphasis of exercise is a great disservice to our health as a whole.
You're confusing 'fit' with 'slim'. Many people do. It's completely possible to have a healthy cardiac system (the most important part), but be quite obese. How thin you are is mainly a function of diet; how healthy you are is mainly a function of exercise. They have significant correlation, but they are distinct data points with separate causes.
The more important of the two for health is your cardiac fitness. The more desirable of the two in social situations is your BMI. Choose wisely.
There are social network 'haves' and 'have nots'. Some people have 500,000 twitter followers, and can ask just about any question and get a slew of responses, some of them excellent. Some people have 15 with nary a high school graduate in the list; getting insightful and timely answers from that list is not nearly as likely. People with hundreds or thousands of followers think that social media is going to change the world; they literally do not realize that not everyone has the same type of network that they do. That, in fact, they are blessed with a surplus of social power in the same way that some people have wealth.
Search engines don't care how many friends you have. They have answers. Search is an equalizer; social networks are not.
This decision is going to be challenged, directly or via changing of law, because it's a huge loss for the RIAA. I suspect it will be an important legal precedent, if it is not overturned.
It should also be noted that the amenities we expect in a home have significantly changed. And in a car. In 1982 it would not be that surprising to find a home without electricity (not common, but not weird), or heated by a wood stove, or lacking common appliances like dishwashers, washer dryer, ovens, or microwaves. The minimum expectations we have of a 'finished' home have risen, as well as the construction costs as we improve insulation and remove asbestos. If you compare the rent of places with identical and qualities, then the cost of rent has risen in a manner far closer to wages.
You are misunderstanding what we are discussing. The nuke test images are from the 50s, very old images. There were several insanely high speed stills of a nuke's first moments. The difference between a photograph and a video in this case is that the position of the lens is different for each still.
This was not a single camera; what you're seeing is the images from 10 closely spaced cameras that were triggered at slightly different times. We could take very quick images in the 50's... we couldn't take a video. Video capture is new.
Burning mod points here, but I apologize... that was a hoax. I suspected when I saw the original note and it was dated April 1st.
Can someone describe the differences between NaCl (Salt?) and ActiveX? They both seem to be methods to run native code inside a browser sandbox. What are the ways Google's offering is superior? Is it better at all than the current implementation of ActiveX? I like Google, but this particular initiative seems kind of backwards thinking.
While I personally disagree with most of the changes to IP that have happened over the past couple decades, this is a shortsighted view. The constitution is good, but imperfect; we cannot hold it as some holy document, unchanging, the word of our holy fathers who art in heaven, blah blah.
Most people, when they say 'Damnit, we should stop adding to the constitution!' really mean 'Damn, our government is huge and unwieldy, and I think it should be a lot smaller.' They just use 'follow the constitution' as a rallying cry to head toward what they really want (typically tighter fiscal policy and less government intrusion... ie, libertarianism). Please don't be 'most people'. The framers of the Constitution of the United States were unable to appreciate all the changes that progress has brought us, and there will be many changes that existing laws, even ones properly based on a constitutionally sound underpinning, do not handle well.
'Follow the Constition' is not the end of the story; it was the beginning.
I have moderator points, but there's no entry for 'slashvertisement' or 'paid shill'. It's possible that your post is completely accurate and insightful, but it sounds like you're flogging one fringe opinion. "One need only fully understand...", "Gerald Pollack's investigation into the mistakes in [the establishment] are revolutionary...".
I'm not buying the cool aid.
No current operating system is immune to exploits. An accurate statement would be 'I use apple because their low population in the wild makes them unpopular targets for malware authors to write exploits for'.
The issue is that the USB standard defines that the 'host' device (the one with the brains) is required to be the 'power' device (the one that supplies power over USB).
My phone is fine as the brains, but I don't want it being the dang battery for any peripheral plugged into it. Unfortunately that's simply how the USB spec is defined. Until we get a new USB spec that improves on this, USB is a sub-optimal connection method for Android devices. That dumb battery operated dock cannot provide power the phone while also being the 'dumb' side of the USB protocol.
There is a wealth of information about usability, both for the web and in general, on this site. Years and years of articles. Many of the best ones are in the first few years, but there are nice ones scattered throughout. I recommend going through the bolded (most popular) articles, and send them links to relevant articles as issues come up.
Imagine if you had a giant neon sign on top of your roof with your SSID on it, available for everyone within a quarter mile to see... and you got pissed when someone started keep track of the location of all of those neon signs. Maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't make something public if you want it to be private.
The WiFi spec doesn't require broadcasting your SSID. If you want it to be private, don't shout it out; stop shouting your SSID to the world, and disable SSID broadcast in your router settings.
That's your opinion. I love the eraserhead, far better than any touchpad.
We can only simulate what we fully understand; beyond that, we're just guessing. This will do something between 'jack' and 'squat' for testing things like the effect of novel pharmaceuticals. There are too many unknowns when it comes to cellular biology.
Hell, just recently we discovered that removing the spleen caused a significant increase in diabetes; turns out that spleens create islet cells. We didn't know that. I'm skeptical of the usefulness of models that contain so many unknowns. Hell, we're lucky if we can get the relatively simple problems of fluid dynamics working accurately enough to model windflow over a single, simple object; we still cannot model it with any kind of accuracy on complex objects that move with the wind (for example, a tree or a towel flapping in the breeze). And that's just engineering! We have extremely precise and accurate ideas for how pressure, friction, temperature and deformation affect windflow individually, but when you put it all together, it becomes impossibly complex.
When you're talking about a system where we don't even know all the rules? And is unfathomably more complex?
Sorry, I'm not convinced.
The current spec allows for about 4.5W (900mA at 5V). One of the last sentences in the article mentions 0.9 Watts.
Now, I could totally understand this kind of mistake in the past. But don't these people understand the wonder that is Google? Before I made this post, I wanted to make sure that I wasn't the dufus, and typed 900mA * 5V into Google. It's not that hard to fact check, is it?
We don't have to tell anyone to have fewer children. It's automatic. The more well off you are, in the world, the lower your growth rate, because you have other things to do for fun than unprotected sex, and you don't need the children as free unpaid labor. Nor do you need 5 as insurance because 3 are expected to die.
The information these meters provide would provide consumers with more power to make intelligent choices about their power consumption, likely lowering power usage for many users (those who pay attention to their consumption). In a similar way to how a fuel-efficiency readout helps people make better fuel-efficiency driving decisions, these would have helped provide users make better power-saving decisions. But FUD wins. Bah.
I'm confused, because TFA states "Taken as a whole, however, a leak of this elephantine magnitude, which appears to demonstrate no misconduct by the U.S., is difficult to defend on any basis other than WikiLeaks' general disdain for any secrecy at all." Did the author even look at them, or just accept this fact from others, because I've heard of several examples of misconduct. I've also heard of a ton of stuff that's innocuous or laudable, and I personally am uncertain this leak was overall a good idea, but to say that the release brought no evils to light is disengenuous at best.
The most notable that I recall is funding of companies that support child sex slavery. That's a pretty serious charge that was suppressed for political reasons. I don't really follow all the furor over the leaks, but I know there were other similarly damaging issues brought to light, and you cannot truthfully state that there was 'no misconduct' found.