Thank you, I am honoured by the praise, especially as I learned English in school, as a foreign language! I'll see if I can do well on your request for people who can see the difference between adverbs and adjectives;-)
You should try to read the text again, where it says in the last paragraph that they look for the spectral lines that shows what molecules are present. It isn't the actual first HeH molecule, because that would be impossible to determine, so read it as the 'first type of molecule', ie. a combination of different types of atoms, where H and He were the first.
1. Kim Jon Il, and now his pimple faced son, Kim Jon Un tried for a long time to build up a scare towards the West, that they would have nuclear missiles to be able to attack South Korea, Japan and USA. 2. They were however for a long time not successful, with neither missiles of a decent range, nor nuclear tests. 3. Recently they were able to make some subterranean tests that they claimed were even thermonuclear (hydrogen bombs), but that I can't find any evidence of even being nuclear. A lot of classical explosives to make a large blast, and then some kind of nuclear radiation to simulate a nuclear blast may have been what they did. 4. Until very recently NK was very unsuccessful in their missile tests, but suddenly after the Russia-Ukraine spat, they were very successful. 5. So, could it be that NK was able to get hold of some missile engines from the Ukraine/Russia area, and use those in a number of tests showing the world that now they had finally broken into a successful line of making ICBMs that could even hit all of USA soil? 6. Now they are out of those engines, so they won't be able to make more successful launches, and therefore want to negotiate a peace treaty. 7. They have never been able to make successful nuclear bombs, and definitely not missile war heads, but pretending that they can, they want to use that for negotiation.
So, what I want to say with this message is, don't give NK too much credit when negotiating with them, because their capabilities aren't significant! They still rely heavily on the support from China and Russia, so focus should shift away from NK, to China and Russia, and pressure on those countries. North Korea in itself is insignificant to negotiate with.
Thank you so much for your candid answer, as this was one type of response that I could have hoped for!
In the networked world, I am always concerned about where my data and profiles go, but with companies like MS I am very concerned. My suspicious mind probably is based on the fact that I started with MS-DOS 3.1 and Windows 2.01 in the 1980'ies and I haven't seen anything good from that company since.
Therefore, discussions on what it is and for what, and inputs like this one from you is very important!
My interest is that we all get more aware what it is that we are using, and the implications on our privacy, which I unfortunately think most people aren't thinking too much about.
As with all closed source, you never really know what is going on underneath. I know that most people don't actually check open source software, but at least the possibility is there, which should keep people creating it more honest.
As MS is not the friend of Open Source or Free Software, and never has been, I am always reluctant to use their software, especially on Linux, which they still really really don't like!
Then, what is the purpose of Google, if you can't trust them and have to go by your own? The reason that EU fined Google is that they have a demanding market share, and therefore also a responsibility to not abuse it.
I will look forward to see the outcome of the court case, but I will also say that I am worried as a consumer, if I can't trust the search engine I am using to deliver an honest result, because then I am screwed, as well as everyone else using it.
If that search engine is a minor search engine I can always look for another, but if it has too much presence so I can't reliably use another one, then I am in a stalemate as consumer, and will have to rely on authorities to rectify it.
An American brand computer or not, doesn't matter anymore. American computers haven't even mattered for a long time, and unless you are a Trump supporter, which I am not implying that you are, it doesn't make sense to talk about US made or not, within the computer world. Computers is a global industry, and everyone making those, on every level, are dependent on each other.
I understand that the HW can have hidden attempts at compromising the whole system.
HOWEVER, the way I am thinking is the following, and please prove me wrong, if I am wrong!
1. The OS takes care of all sockets and even low level connections to other IP addresses. 2. If a HW layer below the OS wants to connect to an outside point, without the OS to know, it needs to have a full network stack available. 3. Even if 2. is possible and a lower layer is able to provide a what would then be a parallel network stack, it would not be possible without the main OS being able to 'see it'. 4. If the main OS is able to see all network connections, and you are are able to monitor those so nothing is hidden, then you are able to monitor your network traffic, and see and control what you want to go through, and not. 5. If you don't think so, and think that both Intel and AMD by their CPUs are able to bypass normal network monitoring, I would be interested in knowing? 6. What if I had my network go though a hub where I was able to monitor all traffic, then I would be able to see it, even if Intel or AMD had compromised my PC motherboard, right? 7. So, if 6. is possible, why would Intel or AMD even try, if they know that they could easily be detected to do something like that?
I agree with most of your comparisons to the US, but I would like to point out, as I am from another EU country, that Poland together with Hungary have your own set of problems with regard to free speech and democracy.
You are exactly right with the following two lines:
"The problem is allergies are problems with the fine-tuning of the immune system." "Otherwise this is a bit of highly important research, but it won't lead directly to anything usefully applicable"
As a better understanding of our immune system, and how we can help fine tune it, will have tremendous impact on disease research and finding treatment procedures. Allergy issues are increasing and so is the complexity of cancer, and they would both benefit from of an improved immune system, wrt. receptors.
So, this research is hugely important and I hope more institutions are following up on it.
Having all applications run on all platforms is a dream since the beginning of times, SW wise:-)
Some people mention Java and that it is already happening, but I'd say that it isn't. Even applications on the same platform, say Windows, can't always run on all variations of Windows, and the same goes with Linux unless you are able to do some or a lot of tweaking.
However, IF it could be made, then we would have a level playing field and the platform producers would have to improve their own platform to make it viable for users and customers. Just like in the car industry, where roads, parking refueling locations and other infrastructure is the platform and the cars are the applications.
But it won't happen, and just like biological mutations, even if at one point it could be made, things will evolve and people will want different solutions to different situations, so it will mutate away from each other. Like a mainframe won't easily run a mobile phone application or vice versa.
Yes, a revolution, and also because battery technology, even as of today, will mean a lot more distributed storage. Like the Tesla Powerwall that is available now.
More distributed power storage will also mean higher safety, because then there won't be one single plant to attack to put a lot of people in misery. Just like computing today, the net is the computer, not some single large mainframe.
Batteries may eventually not just be LiIon, but all kinds of electrical, chemical and mechanical systems, which will make the safety even better. Systems with built in redundancy are safer systems.
I don't have a lot of experience with the lighting connector, but I can see that the idea of not having to care about the insert direction is good, and fortunately that was adapted by USB-C.
My experiences with mini vs. micro USB is however the reverse of what yours seems to be. Mini is larger and should probably be more solid, but perhaps it is just clumsy, and for sure it took up a lot of space on the host side, which I believe was one of the main drivers to go for the micro.
I will however admit, that I don't like the USB 3 version of micro USB. I have one external HD with that, and it looks very flimsy.
I agree with you that allowing both data and charging on the same port has safety issues, but because of the advantages it has from a competitive point of view, I think EU was right in doing so anyway. The issues will then have to be dealt with, and as others have pointed out, some Android devices ask the user permission to do this or that, with the port.
However, I do not at all agree with regarding the advantages of the mini vs. the micro USB port! The micro USB mechanics may have challenges, but in my opinion the mini USB mechanics is total crap! I have yet to have any experience with the USB-C, but it should be tested and considered, if it is better.
I wrote 'to nationality' when I meant 'towards naturalistic results'. Normally I wouldn't correct such a small error, but in these times it seems like the better choice:-|
I am not a professional photographer, but I have used my Hasselblad 500 CM Classic a lot since 1991, and I worked with you in Harmony on Airport Road in Mississauga, around 1997.
I am still using my Hasselblad with various types of film, and my favorites are Fuji Velvia 50ASA and Provia 100ASA, positive films that produce breathtaking results when the light is set right!
Current 48bit film sensors are good, but just like vinyl albums compared to CD, film has an extra edge to nationality and the only thing they are lacking is the ease of use. That is of course also important, but in situations where you can live with it, it produces exquisite results!
I agree with you, and coming from Europe I am usually amazed by the level of commercials on US TV channels, when I visit. Except for just being annoying with the interrupts, it must also be annoying to know that when they for example do show movies, between the commercials, then it has been cut to fit the time slots. So you can never expect to see a full movie on TV. This looks like greed that hasn't been controlled.
I am sure your new president will change that, or will he? I mean, he is a TV man, isn't he?;-)
You seem to be very young so you can only back up your opinion with YouTube videos from others, so I can't take it seriously. USA is member of NATO and all over my continent and I know shit about what USA military should do, and unless you are a general in the same, you shouldn't tell me about shit! I am sorry if your family had bad experiences in the Middle East, but I hope they did their job and lived up to the expectations that USA want us all to live up to.
I am not sure they want an actual arm race, because I am sure they haven't forgotten how Reagan brought them down economically with that in the 80'ies.
What I am sure that they do want is that NATO and friends will back off and not do anything, as we have done in so many places, Ukraine and Syria to name a few famous ones.
Every time Putin rattles the nuclear saber Western and NATO countries rattle their knees, so Putin has no reason to have _any_ respect for whatever we _say_.
A full scale war is not even necessary, and also something we don't want, but shooting down a few Russian planes and helicopters and destroying a few tanks and other important equipment that can easily be seen on media, so the Russian public can also see it, _then_ Putin will listen. That is the only language he understands, being a USSR hardliner.
Also, USA should not _excuse_ killing a number of Syrian Al Assad forces by saying it was a mistake. I hope it wasn't a mistake, and it should be strongly emphasized that there is more where that came from, unless _they_ back off!
Russia and Al Assad doesn't want any civilian to stay in Aleppo, as this is a genocide if there ever was one!
I have an N9 with MeeGo, which I think is the best of the mobile phone OS's I have seen, which includes Android, iOS, Ubuntu Touch and Symbian. Fixing bugs unfortunately stopped some years ago, and new models with faster HW are also not available, that are directly made for MeeGo, so it is less and less a viable platform, but actually it is still my favorite. What I like about it is the intuitive user interface, and what seems to be the way that applications are interacting with each other, so it seems like one system and not a bunch of independent applications, or apps as some people prefer to call them.
It would be great if New Nokia would continue with it, or perhaps Jolla/Sailfish that I however don't yet have experience with myself.
I don't why I continue to reply to Cowards, and this will be my last.
What makes you think that Putin is not also a dork? Have you seen any of the situations he is trying to create, showing that he is actually a superman?
Trump won the republican primaries because a lot of Americans are so fed up with politicians that has no connection with the lives of regular Americans, so they saw Trump as way to protest that. Trump has the most support by 'angry white low waged trash' that has little education and knowledge about the world surrounding them.
Using the Putin card doesn't favor Trump, because Putin is in himself a moron, and he is rather seeing a moron like the politically inexperienced Trump in office than the the experienced Clinton, that Putin knows he can't wind up his little finger. Putin knows more about what Clinton is like, but he doesn't like it because he know she is strong. Compared to the little experienced Trump that may throw fits, but won't otherwise know what he is doing and therefore a much easier target than Clinton.
In all of this I am not saying that Clinton is the perfect president candidate, but compared to Trump, there is no comparison. Trump is not anything that he claims and he is everything the moron that the opposition claims, about a financial and political failure. Jeb Bush or Ted Cruz would have been more regular and respectable Republican candidates that I could have supported, compared to Trump.
When has foreign policy paid any attention to the American voter? Americans are very similar to the British, with the world being 'disconnected from us', so foreign policy has only attention in a presidential electorate when a lot of American lives are at stake, eg. the Vietnam War.
Well, Putin is a moron as well as Trump, and Putin is not afraid of Trump as a president because he knows well that Trump will have a lot less power towards 'pressing the red button' than any previous US president had.
Reagan was initially thought as not being a threat to Russia because many thought he was not really educated, and a moron. This turned out to be false because he had a lot more experience that he had learned from, and a political focus that few outsiders had expected, so he turned out to be a great US president of recent times.
Trump shows none of those things, except being held up by his father, moving along with mafia connections and in general not getting the financial results he could have had with the environment he was in.
Trump looks like a financial failure if you ask me, and soon he will also be a political failure.
And I am not even in the race to decide it, as I can't vote the 8.Nov.
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Thank you, I am honoured by the praise, especially as I learned English in school, as a foreign language! ;-)
I'll see if I can do well on your request for people who can see the difference between adverbs and adjectives
You should try to read the text again, where it says in the last paragraph that they look for the spectral lines that shows what molecules are present.
It isn't the actual first HeH molecule, because that would be impossible to determine, so read it as the 'first type of molecule', ie. a combination of different types of atoms, where H and He were the first.
And in any case, this isn't a mid sized city, but perhaps the largest city area in all of the USA.
What if the scenario was the following.
1. Kim Jon Il, and now his pimple faced son, Kim Jon Un tried for a long time to build up a scare towards the West, that they would have nuclear missiles to be able to attack South Korea, Japan and USA.
2. They were however for a long time not successful, with neither missiles of a decent range, nor nuclear tests.
3. Recently they were able to make some subterranean tests that they claimed were even thermonuclear (hydrogen bombs), but that I can't find any evidence of even being nuclear. A lot of classical explosives to make a large blast, and then some kind of nuclear radiation to simulate a nuclear blast may have been what they did.
4. Until very recently NK was very unsuccessful in their missile tests, but suddenly after the Russia-Ukraine spat, they were very successful.
5. So, could it be that NK was able to get hold of some missile engines from the Ukraine/Russia area, and use those in a number of tests showing the world that now they had finally broken into a successful line of making ICBMs that could even hit all of USA soil?
6. Now they are out of those engines, so they won't be able to make more successful launches, and therefore want to negotiate a peace treaty.
7. They have never been able to make successful nuclear bombs, and definitely not missile war heads, but pretending that they can, they want to use that for negotiation.
So, what I want to say with this message is, don't give NK too much credit when negotiating with them, because their capabilities aren't significant!
They still rely heavily on the support from China and Russia, so focus should shift away from NK, to China and Russia, and pressure on those countries.
North Korea in itself is insignificant to negotiate with.
Yes, Daimler's plans are not new:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
Hi 'ledow'
Thank you so much for your candid answer, as this was one type of response that I could have hoped for!
In the networked world, I am always concerned about where my data and profiles go, but with companies like MS I am very concerned.
My suspicious mind probably is based on the fact that I started with MS-DOS 3.1 and Windows 2.01 in the 1980'ies and I haven't seen anything good from that company since.
Therefore, discussions on what it is and for what, and inputs like this one from you is very important!
My interest is that we all get more aware what it is that we are using, and the implications on our privacy, which I unfortunately think most people aren't thinking too much about.
As with all closed source, you never really know what is going on underneath.
I know that most people don't actually check open source software, but at least the possibility is there, which should keep people creating it more honest.
As MS is not the friend of Open Source or Free Software, and never has been, I am always reluctant to use their software, especially on Linux, which they still really really don't like!
Then, what is the purpose of Google, if you can't trust them and have to go by your own?
The reason that EU fined Google is that they have a demanding market share, and therefore also a responsibility to not abuse it.
I will look forward to see the outcome of the court case, but I will also say that I am worried as a consumer, if I can't trust the search engine I am using to deliver an honest result, because then I am screwed, as well as everyone else using it.
If that search engine is a minor search engine I can always look for another, but if it has too much presence so I can't reliably use another one, then I am in a stalemate as consumer, and will have to rely on authorities to rectify it.
An American brand computer or not, doesn't matter anymore.
American computers haven't even mattered for a long time, and unless you are a Trump supporter, which I am not implying that you are, it doesn't make sense to talk about US made or not, within the computer world.
Computers is a global industry, and everyone making those, on every level, are dependent on each other.
I understand that the HW can have hidden attempts at compromising the whole system.
HOWEVER, the way I am thinking is the following, and please prove me wrong, if I am wrong!
1. The OS takes care of all sockets and even low level connections to other IP addresses.
2. If a HW layer below the OS wants to connect to an outside point, without the OS to know, it needs to have a full network stack available.
3. Even if 2. is possible and a lower layer is able to provide a what would then be a parallel network stack, it would not be possible without the main OS being able to 'see it'.
4. If the main OS is able to see all network connections, and you are are able to monitor those so nothing is hidden, then you are able to monitor your network traffic, and see and control what you want to go through, and not.
5. If you don't think so, and think that both Intel and AMD by their CPUs are able to bypass normal network monitoring, I would be interested in knowing?
6. What if I had my network go though a hub where I was able to monitor all traffic, then I would be able to see it, even if Intel or AMD had compromised my PC motherboard, right?
7. So, if 6. is possible, why would Intel or AMD even try, if they know that they could easily be detected to do something like that?
Please tell me that you aren't wearing a tin hat?
Thank you!
And what makes you think non "Cheap Chink Shit" has less backdoors?
Reinstalling Linux and making sure to monitor all ports for traffic, would be a good start to fight backdoors.
Windows, iOS and other closed source OS's will intrinsically be less reliable regarding backdoors.
I agree with most of your comparisons to the US, but I would like to point out, as I am from another EU country, that Poland together with Hungary have your own set of problems with regard to free speech and democracy.
You are exactly right with the following two lines:
"The problem is allergies are problems with the fine-tuning of the immune system."
"Otherwise this is a bit of highly important research, but it won't lead directly to anything usefully applicable"
As a better understanding of our immune system, and how we can help fine tune it, will have tremendous impact on disease research and finding treatment procedures.
Allergy issues are increasing and so is the complexity of cancer, and they would both benefit from of an improved immune system, wrt. receptors.
So, this research is hugely important and I hope more institutions are following up on it.
Having all applications run on all platforms is a dream since the beginning of times, SW wise :-)
Some people mention Java and that it is already happening, but I'd say that it isn't.
Even applications on the same platform, say Windows, can't always run on all variations of Windows, and the same goes with Linux unless you are able to do some or a lot of tweaking.
However, IF it could be made, then we would have a level playing field and the platform producers would have to improve their own platform to make it viable for users and customers.
Just like in the car industry, where roads, parking refueling locations and other infrastructure is the platform and the cars are the applications.
But it won't happen, and just like biological mutations, even if at one point it could be made, things will evolve and people will want different solutions to different situations, so it will mutate away from each other.
Like a mainframe won't easily run a mobile phone application or vice versa.
Nice dream but N/A
Yes, a revolution, and also because battery technology, even as of today, will mean a lot more distributed storage.
Like the Tesla Powerwall that is available now.
More distributed power storage will also mean higher safety, because then there won't be one single plant to attack to put a lot of people in misery.
Just like computing today, the net is the computer, not some single large mainframe.
Batteries may eventually not just be LiIon, but all kinds of electrical, chemical and mechanical systems, which will make the safety even better.
Systems with built in redundancy are safer systems.
I don't have a lot of experience with the lighting connector, but I can see that the idea of not having to care about the insert direction is good, and fortunately that was adapted by USB-C.
My experiences with mini vs. micro USB is however the reverse of what yours seems to be.
Mini is larger and should probably be more solid, but perhaps it is just clumsy, and for sure it took up a lot of space on the host side, which I believe was one of the main drivers to go for the micro.
I will however admit, that I don't like the USB 3 version of micro USB.
I have one external HD with that, and it looks very flimsy.
I agree with you that allowing both data and charging on the same port has safety issues, but because of the advantages it has from a competitive point of view, I think EU was right in doing so anyway.
The issues will then have to be dealt with, and as others have pointed out, some Android devices ask the user permission to do this or that, with the port.
However, I do not at all agree with regarding the advantages of the mini vs. the micro USB port!
The micro USB mechanics may have challenges, but in my opinion the mini USB mechanics is total crap!
I have yet to have any experience with the USB-C, but it should be tested and considered, if it is better.
I wrote 'to nationality' when I meant 'towards naturalistic results'. :-|
Normally I wouldn't correct such a small error, but in these times it seems like the better choice
I am not a professional photographer, but I have used my Hasselblad 500 CM Classic a lot since 1991, and I worked with you in Harmony on Airport Road in Mississauga, around 1997.
I am still using my Hasselblad with various types of film, and my favorites are Fuji Velvia 50ASA and Provia 100ASA, positive films that produce breathtaking results when the light is set right!
Current 48bit film sensors are good, but just like vinyl albums compared to CD, film has an extra edge to nationality and the only thing they are lacking is the ease of use. That is of course also important, but in situations where you can live with it, it produces exquisite results!
I am not a hipster, so I can't comment on that ;-)
I agree with you, and coming from Europe I am usually amazed by the level of commercials on US TV channels, when I visit.
Except for just being annoying with the interrupts, it must also be annoying to know that when they for example do show movies, between the commercials, then it has been cut to fit the time slots. So you can never expect to see a full movie on TV.
This looks like greed that hasn't been controlled.
I am sure your new president will change that, or will he? I mean, he is a TV man, isn't he? ;-)
You seem to be very young so you can only back up your opinion with YouTube videos from others, so I can't take it seriously.
USA is member of NATO and all over my continent and I know shit about what USA military should do, and unless you are a general in the same, you shouldn't tell me about shit!
I am sorry if your family had bad experiences in the Middle East, but I hope they did their job and lived up to the expectations that USA want us all to live up to.
I am not sure they want an actual arm race, because I am sure they haven't forgotten how Reagan brought them down economically with that in the 80'ies.
What I am sure that they do want is that NATO and friends will back off and not do anything, as we have done in so many places, Ukraine and Syria to name a few famous ones.
Every time Putin rattles the nuclear saber Western and NATO countries rattle their knees, so Putin has no reason to have _any_ respect for whatever we _say_.
A full scale war is not even necessary, and also something we don't want, but shooting down a few Russian planes and helicopters and destroying a few tanks and other important equipment that can easily be seen on media, so the Russian public can also see it, _then_ Putin will listen. That is the only language he understands, being a USSR hardliner.
Also, USA should not _excuse_ killing a number of Syrian Al Assad forces by saying it was a mistake. I hope it wasn't a mistake, and it should be strongly emphasized that there is more where that came from, unless _they_ back off!
Russia and Al Assad doesn't want any civilian to stay in Aleppo, as this is a genocide if there ever was one!
NATO and liberal countries in the World, wake up!
I agree with you.
I have an N9 with MeeGo, which I think is the best of the mobile phone OS's I have seen, which includes Android, iOS, Ubuntu Touch and Symbian.
Fixing bugs unfortunately stopped some years ago, and new models with faster HW are also not available, that are directly made for MeeGo,
so it is less and less a viable platform, but actually it is still my favorite.
What I like about it is the intuitive user interface, and what seems to be the way that applications are interacting with each other, so it seems like one system and not a bunch of independent applications, or apps as some people prefer to call them.
It would be great if New Nokia would continue with it, or perhaps Jolla/Sailfish that I however don't yet have experience with myself.
I don't why I continue to reply to Cowards, and this will be my last.
What makes you think that Putin is not also a dork?
Have you seen any of the situations he is trying to create, showing that he is actually a superman?
Trump won the republican primaries because a lot of Americans are so fed up with politicians that has no connection with the lives of regular Americans, so they saw Trump as way to protest that. Trump has the most support by 'angry white low waged trash' that has little education and knowledge about the world surrounding them.
Using the Putin card doesn't favor Trump, because Putin is in himself a moron, and he is rather seeing a moron like the politically inexperienced Trump in office than the the experienced Clinton, that Putin knows he can't wind up his little finger.
Putin knows more about what Clinton is like, but he doesn't like it because he know she is strong. Compared to the little experienced Trump that may throw fits, but won't otherwise know what he is doing and therefore a much easier target than Clinton.
In all of this I am not saying that Clinton is the perfect president candidate, but compared to Trump, there is no comparison. Trump is not anything that he claims and he is everything the moron that the opposition claims, about a financial and political failure.
Jeb Bush or Ted Cruz would have been more regular and respectable Republican candidates that I could have supported, compared to Trump.
Trump is in himself a failure, in every way!
Actually I play more chess than checkers.
When has foreign policy paid any attention to the American voter?
Americans are very similar to the British, with the world being 'disconnected from us', so foreign policy has only attention in a presidential electorate when a lot of American lives are at stake, eg. the Vietnam War.
Well, Putin is a moron as well as Trump, and Putin is not afraid of Trump as a president because he knows well that Trump will have a lot less power towards 'pressing the red button' than any previous US president had.
Reagan was initially thought as not being a threat to Russia because many thought he was not really educated, and a moron. This turned out to be false because he had a lot more experience that he had learned from, and a political focus that few outsiders had expected, so he turned out to be a great US president of recent times.
Trump shows none of those things, except being held up by his father, moving along with mafia connections and in general not getting the financial results he could have had with the environment he was in.
Trump looks like a financial failure if you ask me, and soon he will also be a political failure.
And I am not even in the race to decide it, as I can't vote the 8.Nov.