This is a complex issue and calling this just a tactic to gain more money in billable services is simplifying the issue into the absurd.
Or maybe it's not about money but keeping benchmarks and/or one's personal or departmental statistics at an (unjustified) high level.
My girlfriend, a medical specialist in infectious diseases, gave me the following example: Surgeons go to great lengths to keep patients alive when they develop a (usually bacteria-related) infection after an operation. Sometimes, as a byeffect of the treatment, even organs (mostly the kidneys) take damage and become disfunctional.
However, they only put that much effort in for a certain number of days. Afterwards, the patients may die in peace. Why? Because after a certain period, the death is not connected to the operation in the statistics, and they get to keep their perfect 'people who have survived because of my surgical intervention' score.
A COBOL-savvy man suffers from a deadly disease and decides to go for cryonics, hoping they will find a cure in the future. A hundred years from now they wake him up. He's relieved and asks: "Thank god, you've found a cure." - "No", they tell him, "we're short of COBOL programmers."
Has anyone noticed that JavaScript performance has actually decreased compared to RC2? Shouldn't it be the other way round because they remove debugging code in the final release? Look at my Sunspider benchmark results (the faster one is the RC2):
TEST COMPARISON FROM TO
TOTAL 1.22x as slow 3012.4ms 3666.6ms
3d: 1.12x as slow 372.6ms 415.6ms cube: 1.14x as slow 139.2ms 158.4ms morph: 115.2ms 115.2ms raytrace: 1.20x as slow 118.2ms 142.0ms
Who are they to decide what is and isn't safe? They're not a bank, so I don't think they necessarily have any liability if one of their customers loses money, correct? Please correct me if I am mistaken.
They are indeed a bank and as such have all the liabilities of a normal bank. They became a bank about a year ago.
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China National Body have been paid special attention to the ISO/IEC DIS 29500 ballot. Great work have been done and during the process we found it is a very complex technology which needs further more time to establish testing environment for thoroughly and deeply evaluation. We think the fast-track procedure is not suitable for this DIS....
iAlertU is definitely the coolest way to keep your MacBook (Pro) from being stolen. You can turn it on with your remote control like you do with your car keys. It even features the familiar car locking and unlocking sound. When someone grabs your notebook the fall sensor normally used to shut down your hard disk when a fall is detected activates, the screen starts flashing and an alarm siren goes off. It even snaps a photo of the thief with the built-in iSight webcam and emails it to a predefined address.
Be sure to check out the YouTube video of the software in action. It really made me laugh just because of the sounds. Can't wait to try that out in my university library:-)
I recently purchased a standard from the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO, www.iso.org) and they too watermark the document. The PDF is encrypted and at the bottom of each page your name and date of purchase is printed in light grey letters. Seems logical considering how expensive their standards are and how easily they would be copied.
Doesn't anybody think of the poor young people studying philosophy, psychology, journalism, dramatics and ancient numismatics? Where should they get a decent job now?
That's why they are virus particles, other than the slow degradation of all complex molecules if you have a tube full of virii they will just sit in the tube forever. Doing nothing. If you add sugar, protein, complex carbohydrates and sunlight to the tube of virii they will... sit there. Doing nothing. Not eating. Not metabolizing. Not replicating. Living things would either die, metabolize, or replicate, the virii do not.
Of course, if you define dying as not living any more, viruses don't die because they don't live in the first place. As you have said, given the described setup they will certainly degrade, especially under sunlight. The UV radiation breaks the molecules. That's why UV radiation causes cancer among other things. Some scientists even theorize that (amongst the warm weather helping the immune system work) people get ill in summer less often because of the increase of UV radiation compared to the winter.
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Or maybe it's not about money but keeping benchmarks and/or one's personal or departmental statistics at an (unjustified) high level.
My girlfriend, a medical specialist in infectious diseases, gave me the following example: Surgeons go to great lengths to keep patients alive when they develop a (usually bacteria-related) infection after an operation. Sometimes, as a byeffect of the treatment, even organs (mostly the kidneys) take damage and become disfunctional.
However, they only put that much effort in for a certain number of days. Afterwards, the patients may die in peace. Why? Because after a certain period, the death is not connected to the operation in the statistics, and they get to keep their perfect 'people who have survived because of my surgical intervention' score.
http://clientsfromhell.net/post/30462016381/me-our-backup-service-is-like-cloud-hosting-you
A COBOL-savvy man suffers from a deadly disease and decides to go for cryonics, hoping they will find a cure in the future. A hundred years from now they wake him up. He's relieved and asks: "Thank god, you've found a cure." - "No", they tell him, "we're short of COBOL programmers."
I'm surprised nobody has posted a link to this brilliant video yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
Has anyone noticed that JavaScript performance has actually decreased compared to RC2? Shouldn't it be the other way round because they remove debugging code in the final release? Look at my Sunspider benchmark results (the faster one is the RC2):
TEST COMPARISON FROM TO
TOTAL 1.22x as slow 3012.4ms 3666.6ms
3d: 1.12x as slow 372.6ms 415.6ms
cube: 1.14x as slow 139.2ms 158.4ms
morph: 115.2ms 115.2ms
raytrace: 1.20x as slow 118.2ms 142.0ms
access: 1.12x as slow 436.8ms 487.2ms
binary-trees: 2.14x as slow 54.0ms 115.8ms
fannkuch: 160.8ms 159.6ms
nbody: 165.8ms 154.6ms
nsieve: 56.2ms 57.2ms
bitops: 1.21x as slow 290.8ms 350.6ms
3bit-bits-in-byte: 1.75x as slow 46.8ms 82.0ms
bits-in-byte: 1.35x as slow 73.2ms 99.0ms
bitwise-and: 1.03x as fast 79.4ms 76.8ms
nsieve-bits: 91.4ms 92.8ms
controlflow: 2.77x as slow 39.0ms 108.2ms
recursive: 2.77x as slow 39.0ms 108.2ms
crypto: 1.53x as slow 183.6ms 280.8ms
aes: 1.33x as slow 71.2ms 94.8ms
md5: 1.69x as slow 56.0ms 94.4ms
sha1: 1.62x as slow 56.4ms 91.6ms
date:
Yes, in Europe. Don't know about America.
Who are they to decide what is and isn't safe? They're not a bank, so I don't think they necessarily have any liability if one of their customers loses money, correct? Please correct me if I am mistaken.
They are indeed a bank and as such have all the liabilities of a normal bank. They became a bank about a year ago.
The Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) has a Code of Ethics. Have a look at it. It gives quite a lot of guidance converning professional conduct in IT.
As is well known in HCI research using your hands like this for some time becomes very tiring. But for showing off it's an impressive application :-)
Cue Dilithium and Kryptonite jokes ...
Greetings from Freud: http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF233-Psychoanalyst.jpg
Also see Semacode for a similar idea.
At least some admit that they have been bribed :-) See China's sole comment (http://www.dis29500.org/category/countries/china/):
China National Body have been paid special attention to the ISO/IEC DIS 29500 ballot. Great work have been done and during the process we found it is a very complex technology which needs further more time to establish testing environment for thoroughly and deeply evaluation. We think the fast-track procedure is not suitable for this DIS.iAlertU is definitely the coolest way to keep your MacBook (Pro) from being stolen. You can turn it on with your remote control like you do with your car keys. It even features the familiar car locking and unlocking sound. When someone grabs your notebook the fall sensor normally used to shut down your hard disk when a fall is detected activates, the screen starts flashing and an alarm siren goes off. It even snaps a photo of the thief with the built-in iSight webcam and emails it to a predefined address.
Be sure to check out the YouTube video of the software in action. It really made me laugh just because of the sounds. Can't wait to try that out in my university library :-)
I recently purchased a standard from the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO, www.iso.org) and they too watermark the document. The PDF is encrypted and at the bottom of each page your name and date of purchase is printed in light grey letters. Seems logical considering how expensive their standards are and how easily they would be copied.
I, for one, welcome our new wireless relaying robotic overlords.
Best part: "The install on Vista is similar to other Windows installs but to install on Vista, you must turn off User Account Control first." :-)
Did it run Linux?
It was designed by the famous Roman programmer Linicus Torivicus.
The time's not that far off. The second pope's name was Linus.
I read it as "Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Netherlands?" :-)
Doesn't anybody think of the poor young people studying philosophy, psychology, journalism, dramatics and ancient numismatics? Where should they get a decent job now?
- German: inflection of the word "lernen" = "to learn"
- Russian: some verb forms of the word "idti" = "to go"
Other languages might be equally easy to find on the web.11. That Fucking road sign.
... In August 2005 the road signs were replaced with theft-proof signs welded to steel and secured in cement to make the signs harder to take. ...
Poor people of Fucking, Austria (Europe). As if they didn't have enough tourists stealing their sign. At least it has become harder to steal now:
This should be news? Haven't you heard about Beer in Space?
That's why they are virus particles, other than the slow degradation of all complex molecules if you have a tube full of virii they will just sit in the tube forever. Doing nothing. If you add sugar, protein, complex carbohydrates and sunlight to the tube of virii they will... sit there. Doing nothing. Not eating. Not metabolizing. Not replicating. Living things would either die, metabolize, or replicate, the virii do not.
Of course, if you define dying as not living any more, viruses don't die because they don't live in the first place. As you have said, given the described setup they will certainly degrade, especially under sunlight. The UV radiation breaks the molecules. That's why UV radiation causes cancer among other things. Some scientists even theorize that (amongst the warm weather helping the immune system work) people get ill in summer less often because of the increase of UV radiation compared to the winter.
They also have to take into account possible moonquakes. They seem to be quite common and are powerful enough to move furniture.