My point was that this is an example of effective homeopathy.
Homeopathy goes under the principle that you treat a symptom with something that is known to cause the same symptom. So for example, if you have inflammation, then you'd treat it with more inflammation. The problem is, assuming that you even had a meaningful dose of medication, this doesn't actually work.
Peanuts don't normally cause symptoms of any kind, so assuming that homeopathy was worth a shit at all (spoiler: it's not) there's no "like for like" treatment involved, so that theory wouldn't even apply.
Bigotry has nothing to do with racism. Bigotry is intolerance of an opinion. In fact, calling people racist because you don't like their opinions is bigotry.
Take your pick, though the declaration clearly makes deity references, especially the portion that I quoted (and it was spelled as "unalienable rights", along with many other spelling errors, which were common in all government documents at the time.) Nonetheless, the declaration of independence isn't a document legally binding to the US, and indeed it was even made before the articles of confederation, which we no longer use. Does the overall philosophy remain intact? Again, sort of. Somebody just modded me down because they think "overrated" means "I disagree".
Why so extreme? It's not about wanting stuff for free. Piracy is simply an answer to unfair practices that work against customers, such as bad value/money ratio, not having the right to use what you buy however you like, region locking, unwillingness to pay subscription fees, not wanting to share credit card information etc.
Or it's just karma. The only reason Hollywood is even a thing is because they wanted to move the studios far out west so they could avoid paying patent royalties to Thomas Edison.
And at the end of the day, good things often come from copying.
City employees were ordered to scrutinize contracts with Arizona companies to see which could legally be canceled but few, if any, were ultimately terminated. The City Council passed exemption after exemption permitting new contracts to be signed with Arizona companies and allowing employees to travel to the state. This week, the council approved a $57.6-million contract for police officer body cameras with Scottsdale-based Taser International. So much for sending a message.
Several other California cities and counties enacted and also failed to follow through on their boycotts.
They're called rolling brownouts and it's nothing new for CA.
California doesn't have active rolling brownouts, however if it lost its grid connectivity with neighboring states, you'd see much worse than even rolling blackouts, never mind brownouts. Most importantly you'd see a massive increase in energy costs there, and in which case, guess who would lose it first?
CA pays your bills, bitch. We hand over much more money than we receive from the feds. I hope we do succeed and pull the useless fucking bigoted morons in the middle of our country from our overflowing teats.
I'd like to see how you guys end up rationing your energy when you can no longer connect to the grid of neighboring states. You know your state only provides about 60% of its own energy demands, right? Let me guess, you'll just cut the power to all of the poor people's houses so that the industry there can remain intact? May as well because there are so many homeless people (and multiple families crowded into one single family home) there that you may as well just make everybody who isn't making at least $200,000 a year go the rest of the way to destitution.
Oh, and how did that Arizona boycott turn out for you? That lasted...what...two minutes?
And that's not even getting into the fact that if California seceded, they'd probably lose all of the rural counties that would want to form their own state (such as the already existing movement to form a state called Jefferson,) so California would have basically no farmland with all of those homeless people to feed.
There are a lot of things we should fix in America first before we try to help everyone else.
And how does allowing talented immigrants in not "fix" America? If we always did what Trump is doing, we'd be way behind the rest of the world technologically. Einstein was a refugee and so was Wernher von Braun (though he was a refugee for a much different reason.)
Speak of Wernher von Braun; he got to skip the gallows because of his knowledge, and if we didn't keep him we would have lost the space race for sure -- something to keep in mind if we're going to kick out immigrants from potentially hostile foreign nations, as that could cost us our next space race.
Neither place is broken down, but people in the EU certainly shouldn't throw stones from glass houses. The EU has for several years now been putting MANY self-described fascists into its parliament, and very recently, participating in it in an official manner:
As for Trump, I'm not sure what to make of him. I think his actions are boneheaded because they're going to create international retaliation against US IT firms, thus likely harming the domestic tech sector (Trump seems to like mercantilism as well, which will have a similar impact in other industries) however we can at least definitively say that Trump isn't a fascist, and anybody who says otherwise is either using hyperbole or has no idea what fascism is actually about. The most obvious difference is Trump still favors the individual (and individual liberties) whereas fascism is founded on the premise of a single national identity and almost no individual identity.
I will not be silent in the face of Donald Trump's racist agenda. Why is Slashdot silent while Donald Trump establishes a national religion based on his own bigotry???
Because it's really annoying hearing about every single fucking thing Trump does. If you love him that much, then go make a whitehouse petition to put a camera in every bathroom so you can masturbate to a live stream of him taking a shit, and stop bringing it up here.
I know it's fashionable to bash America when your guy isn't in office, but basically every carrier in the world uses CDMA modulation, as it's a vital component of UMTS.
That's not true, Android indeed does support x86, and other architectures as well, like MIPS and PowerPC. In fact if you look around, you can find devices running all of these, especially Intel in the case of Android TV.
The reason nobody ever makes Intel based phones is for several reasons, including the fact that Qualcomm makes the best modems and they are far more energy efficient than Intel.
Au any rate, you are correct that the GP is somewhat wrong. CDMA is used on basically all cellular networks, including GSM. GSM originally went with TDMA for voice and data (aka 2G) but it's very inefficient so CDMA is what GSM uses for 3G. And then of course, OFDMA is used for 4G.
There are competitors to Qualcomm in the ARM SoC space available to other OEMs though, namely in the form of Nvidia's tegra line, which I don't believe anybody else has mentioned.
My only question is: At what point do the protons fuse into one nucleus to form some rather delightful helium-2? I presume that is the motivation for all this of course, so that we can make some killer party balloons.
I don't think this is being pitched as a cure for diabetes, and it's likely diabetes treatment isn't the end goal (there are other problems that need to be solved first). It's likely this is just for proving the concept of xenotransplantation. My guess is that they chose beta cells because their function is easier to measure and they can be destroyed by the immune system much easier than whole organs, which probably can't be adequately tested since mice don't live long enough.
This will probably be useful for failed organs and tissues, but not if the cause is autoimmune related.
I keep hearing that, and yet every year more and more people keep moving here to Phoenix because they don't like the cold, and we still haven't had any kind of movement out of even warmer areas that can't afford air conditioning.
I could see people moving away from coastal areas, but frankly that wouldn't be anything new at all; the coastlines have never actually been all that constant, we're just used to thinking they are because we see them remain relatively similar across enough generations that we never notice how much they actually change.
And truth be told, there are many former towns that are now under ocean water. It's only going to be harder to deal with it now because we've built massive infrastructures right on the sea line, where in the past it was small huts that were easy to move or just flat out ignore if they got flooded.
You guys fail at trolling. You're supposed to make a half politically correct statement that offends two groups in such a way that they end up flamebaiting each other.
My favorite one liner to do this is: "Abortions are ok so long as they're only for minorities."
It's really not. I've seen too many people in college that really have no aptitude for anything, come out with a lot of debt, and then we have to hear about how they're overburdened with debt and it's somebody else's fault.
Besides, tuition is already very heavily subsidized in the US. When at community college, I recall seeing a Korean student's receipt and she paid something like $9000 for 12 credit hours whereas mine cost $700 for the same.
$700 was at the time (2004'ish) enough to make you say "well, let me think about it" vs "it's free so let's go to college whether it makes sense or not" but not so much that you needed a loan.
I also think we should get rid of student loans because they put upward pressure on tuition rates, making the super expensive colleges even more expensive even after the subsidies.
I recall long ago (2003 maybe?) one of the Wine developers showed up on Tech TV and Leo Laporte asked him something like "if wine isn't an emulator, then what is it?" and the dude answers back "it's an emulator". I have a feeling that the rest of the wine devs were gritting their teeth at that though, but I never checked their mailing lists to see.
My understanding is that rather than an emulator, it's just an API wrapper, or alternatively a simulator or maybe "high level emulator", but I'm not an expert on how you name these things.
Do NOT switch to calling it "Computer". The name "Alexa" was specifically chosen as a trigger word because it is a sequence of phonemes that is unlikely to occur in a normal conversation, and even so, we have had an occasional false trigger.
Wut? I always thought it was for the Amazon owned analytics company that distributes an annoying browser toolbar.
Maybe he should ask that guy who wrote the notification app that was copied by iOS7 (iirc?) how much of a case he has.
These guys should probably patent these things and then just stick it to Apple's ass (i.e. charge really steep royalties, say $10 per device) if they decide to remove the app in favor of their own. Maybe not for the notification thing (prior art on Android and all,) but certainly for the method of syncing itunes (proprietary) over wireless, and this find my airpods thing, both of which were likely patentable and Apple just yanked from the store when they decided to make a competing product. In fact it may not be too late to file a patent for the later.
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My point was that this is an example of effective homeopathy.
Homeopathy goes under the principle that you treat a symptom with something that is known to cause the same symptom. So for example, if you have inflammation, then you'd treat it with more inflammation. The problem is, assuming that you even had a meaningful dose of medication, this doesn't actually work.
Peanuts don't normally cause symptoms of any kind, so assuming that homeopathy was worth a shit at all (spoiler: it's not) there's no "like for like" treatment involved, so that theory wouldn't even apply.
And "bigotry" isn't limited to racism.
Bigotry has nothing to do with racism. Bigotry is intolerance of an opinion. In fact, calling people racist because you don't like their opinions is bigotry.
I think the FBI should investigate the times where Wu was caught red handed creating fake accounts to harass himself.
Besides, even if 10% of the shit claimed by Wu wasn't made up, trolling is hardly worth spending actual money to investigate.
Take your pick, though the declaration clearly makes deity references, especially the portion that I quoted (and it was spelled as "unalienable rights", along with many other spelling errors, which were common in all government documents at the time.) Nonetheless, the declaration of independence isn't a document legally binding to the US, and indeed it was even made before the articles of confederation, which we no longer use. Does the overall philosophy remain intact? Again, sort of. Somebody just modded me down because they think "overrated" means "I disagree".
Why so extreme? It's not about wanting stuff for free. Piracy is simply an answer to unfair practices that work against customers, such as bad value/money ratio, not having the right to use what you buy however you like, region locking, unwillingness to pay subscription fees, not wanting to share credit card information etc.
Or it's just karma. The only reason Hollywood is even a thing is because they wanted to move the studios far out west so they could avoid paying patent royalties to Thomas Edison.
And at the end of the day, good things often come from copying.
Furthermore, the core philosophy of America was that all men are created equal and have inalienable rights, not just its own citizens.
Sort of. That was written into the declaration of independence, but so were some things that we've since cast aside, like god.
California's boycott of Arizona was successful
Successful? Are you on crack? It was just a boycott in name only:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion...
City employees were ordered to scrutinize contracts with Arizona companies to see which could legally be canceled but few, if any, were ultimately terminated. The City Council passed exemption after exemption permitting new contracts to be signed with Arizona companies and allowing employees to travel to the state. This week, the council approved a $57.6-million contract for police officer body cameras with Scottsdale-based Taser International. So much for sending a message.
Several other California cities and counties enacted and also failed to follow through on their boycotts.
They're called rolling brownouts and it's nothing new for CA.
California doesn't have active rolling brownouts, however if it lost its grid connectivity with neighboring states, you'd see much worse than even rolling blackouts, never mind brownouts. Most importantly you'd see a massive increase in energy costs there, and in which case, guess who would lose it first?
CA pays your bills, bitch. We hand over much more money than we receive from the feds. I hope we do succeed and pull the useless fucking bigoted morons in the middle of our country from our overflowing teats.
I'd like to see how you guys end up rationing your energy when you can no longer connect to the grid of neighboring states. You know your state only provides about 60% of its own energy demands, right? Let me guess, you'll just cut the power to all of the poor people's houses so that the industry there can remain intact? May as well because there are so many homeless people (and multiple families crowded into one single family home) there that you may as well just make everybody who isn't making at least $200,000 a year go the rest of the way to destitution.
Oh, and how did that Arizona boycott turn out for you? That lasted...what...two minutes?
And that's not even getting into the fact that if California seceded, they'd probably lose all of the rural counties that would want to form their own state (such as the already existing movement to form a state called Jefferson,) so California would have basically no farmland with all of those homeless people to feed.
Let me know how all of that works out.
Umm, no.
There are a lot of things we should fix in America first before we try to help everyone else.
And how does allowing talented immigrants in not "fix" America? If we always did what Trump is doing, we'd be way behind the rest of the world technologically. Einstein was a refugee and so was Wernher von Braun (though he was a refugee for a much different reason.)
Speak of Wernher von Braun; he got to skip the gallows because of his knowledge, and if we didn't keep him we would have lost the space race for sure -- something to keep in mind if we're going to kick out immigrants from potentially hostile foreign nations, as that could cost us our next space race.
Neither place is broken down, but people in the EU certainly shouldn't throw stones from glass houses. The EU has for several years now been putting MANY self-described fascists into its parliament, and very recently, participating in it in an official manner:
http://www.euractiv.com/sectio...
As for Trump, I'm not sure what to make of him. I think his actions are boneheaded because they're going to create international retaliation against US IT firms, thus likely harming the domestic tech sector (Trump seems to like mercantilism as well, which will have a similar impact in other industries) however we can at least definitively say that Trump isn't a fascist, and anybody who says otherwise is either using hyperbole or has no idea what fascism is actually about. The most obvious difference is Trump still favors the individual (and individual liberties) whereas fascism is founded on the premise of a single national identity and almost no individual identity.
I will not be silent in the face of Donald Trump's racist agenda. Why is Slashdot silent while Donald Trump establishes a national religion based on his own bigotry???
Because it's really annoying hearing about every single fucking thing Trump does. If you love him that much, then go make a whitehouse petition to put a camera in every bathroom so you can masturbate to a live stream of him taking a shit, and stop bringing it up here.
I know it's fashionable to bash America when your guy isn't in office, but basically every carrier in the world uses CDMA modulation, as it's a vital component of UMTS.
That's not true, Android indeed does support x86, and other architectures as well, like MIPS and PowerPC. In fact if you look around, you can find devices running all of these, especially Intel in the case of Android TV.
The reason nobody ever makes Intel based phones is for several reasons, including the fact that Qualcomm makes the best modems and they are far more energy efficient than Intel.
Au any rate, you are correct that the GP is somewhat wrong. CDMA is used on basically all cellular networks, including GSM. GSM originally went with TDMA for voice and data (aka 2G) but it's very inefficient so CDMA is what GSM uses for 3G. And then of course, OFDMA is used for 4G.
There are competitors to Qualcomm in the ARM SoC space available to other OEMs though, namely in the form of Nvidia's tegra line, which I don't believe anybody else has mentioned.
My only question is: At what point do the protons fuse into one nucleus to form some rather delightful helium-2? I presume that is the motivation for all this of course, so that we can make some killer party balloons.
You mean two halves of the way there.
I don't think this is being pitched as a cure for diabetes, and it's likely diabetes treatment isn't the end goal (there are other problems that need to be solved first). It's likely this is just for proving the concept of xenotransplantation. My guess is that they chose beta cells because their function is easier to measure and they can be destroyed by the immune system much easier than whole organs, which probably can't be adequately tested since mice don't live long enough.
This will probably be useful for failed organs and tissues, but not if the cause is autoimmune related.
I keep hearing that, and yet every year more and more people keep moving here to Phoenix because they don't like the cold, and we still haven't had any kind of movement out of even warmer areas that can't afford air conditioning.
I could see people moving away from coastal areas, but frankly that wouldn't be anything new at all; the coastlines have never actually been all that constant, we're just used to thinking they are because we see them remain relatively similar across enough generations that we never notice how much they actually change.
And truth be told, there are many former towns that are now under ocean water. It's only going to be harder to deal with it now because we've built massive infrastructures right on the sea line, where in the past it was small huts that were easy to move or just flat out ignore if they got flooded.
AC trollers are funny though. Just ride the trollercoaster (or the trolley, whichever you prefer.)
You guys fail at trolling. You're supposed to make a half politically correct statement that offends two groups in such a way that they end up flamebaiting each other.
My favorite one liner to do this is: "Abortions are ok so long as they're only for minorities."
Dan Rather would be proud. Make sure he gets the memo.
It's really not. I've seen too many people in college that really have no aptitude for anything, come out with a lot of debt, and then we have to hear about how they're overburdened with debt and it's somebody else's fault.
Besides, tuition is already very heavily subsidized in the US. When at community college, I recall seeing a Korean student's receipt and she paid something like $9000 for 12 credit hours whereas mine cost $700 for the same.
$700 was at the time (2004'ish) enough to make you say "well, let me think about it" vs "it's free so let's go to college whether it makes sense or not" but not so much that you needed a loan.
I also think we should get rid of student loans because they put upward pressure on tuition rates, making the super expensive colleges even more expensive even after the subsidies.
I recall long ago (2003 maybe?) one of the Wine developers showed up on Tech TV and Leo Laporte asked him something like "if wine isn't an emulator, then what is it?" and the dude answers back "it's an emulator". I have a feeling that the rest of the wine devs were gritting their teeth at that though, but I never checked their mailing lists to see.
My understanding is that rather than an emulator, it's just an API wrapper, or alternatively a simulator or maybe "high level emulator", but I'm not an expert on how you name these things.
Do NOT switch to calling it "Computer". The name "Alexa" was specifically chosen as a trigger word because it is a sequence of phonemes that is unlikely to occur in a normal conversation, and even so, we have had an occasional false trigger.
Wut? I always thought it was for the Amazon owned analytics company that distributes an annoying browser toolbar.
Maybe he should ask that guy who wrote the notification app that was copied by iOS7 (iirc?) how much of a case he has.
These guys should probably patent these things and then just stick it to Apple's ass (i.e. charge really steep royalties, say $10 per device) if they decide to remove the app in favor of their own. Maybe not for the notification thing (prior art on Android and all,) but certainly for the method of syncing itunes (proprietary) over wireless, and this find my airpods thing, both of which were likely patentable and Apple just yanked from the store when they decided to make a competing product. In fact it may not be too late to file a patent for the later.