I bought a 11 inches 6 small netbook. Mostly for watching film while travelling or play old dosbox games or playing usic while on train. Nothing really special. I was searching for long battery time (some train travel can be up to 8 hours). I found 10' and 11'6 netbook. The 11'6 was less powerful but a longer time (8 hours versus as low as 360-420 minutes for more "powerful" netbook). At that point when we are speaking of 6 to 8 hours, the screen power consumption for 11'6 to 10' is probably not too different (11'6x9 to 10'x9' make a difference of 6%, so assuming for a first approximation that the surface of the LCD give the same power per cm^2, that is a 6% difference in surface, so 6% differenfce in power. For a 8h or ~500 minutes netbook battery power that is a difference of 30 minutes in minus).
If you mean this : Media misunderstanding on GS and zloty it was more like media not making real research on a subject and repeating hearsay. IOW business as usual, as media these day , except for a few rare exception, are glorified parrot.
A lot of excellent researcher aren't best with English grammar and spelling, because it is not their primary language to begin with, and you can only go so far with tool automatic grammar and spelling correction, and bad spelled but existing word aren't always detected (like the infamous your for you're). That said really sloppy spelling (missing vowel ; word which don't exists and would be signalled by a spell checker) is not excusable.
Whenever I buy something I do not want to have my name address and other private information to be spread to the whole world. I want this to be only given to the store I buy from and only for the STRICT necessary purpose of the transaction. And I have got the privacy law of my country agreeeing with me. You may live in a country where all privacy is long gone, but that is your problem. *IF* a store gives my private info to anybody against my will and it was not forseen in the contract I signed with them, then they get my lawyer on their ass, and *I* will win. And if they put originally in their contract that they will provide my user info for anything beyond simple delivery (markleting, etc...) , then they don't get my sale to begin with. And in what I agreed upon with the online storeI use it is *NOT* written they will sell or give my info.
Secondly that a privacy invasive procedure is NOW available whereas it was not available before, does not mean it should be used. Visa/MC can also "sell" the lsit of all what you buy to marketer. And it would certainly be a very very precise info. That does not mean it is desirable on any ground.
"STOP FUCKING PEOPLE WHO AREN'T YOUR WIFE/GIRLFRIED/SIGNIFIGANT OTHER!"
Abstinence and fidelity DOES NOT WORK. FFS there is enough demonstration of that around. So instead of closing ear and say "LALALA Absteinence / fidelity LALALA" one should simply stop being deaf and blind and realize that the only real solution for us human is to give new tool to prevent the infection or fight it.
The extrem majority of doctor want you to be healthy when you leave them. Some crook might see short term benefit to fraud everybody, but as seen above, it comes to bite them back. That is not the first example will not be the last. but condemning a WHOLE profession for a few crook, let me tell you another way to say it "there are a few mafia hacker making botnet, so all IT programmer and open source proponent are mafia asshole which want to botnet your PC, steal your CC, and laugh all the way to the bank, rape your kitty". This is the same type of fallacy you are doing. I am not saying pharma company are angels, but they certainly as a whole don't make up cure with the intention to make you stay ill and "hooked".
Care to explain what is in the brain that a physicist can't explain ? Sure it is a very complex system, but basically it is a bunch of atoms, stringed into oragnic molecules, composing cells. On the basic physical level, nothing really incredible. It isn't as if we were speaking of charm boson, H fine structure spectro in plasma, or anything exotic. Now , sure, biologically we don't have all the data on neurone, but on the physical level there is nothing special to the brain, at least nothing more special than a liver or even non biological phenomenon. Only a high bunch of atoms. Heck microship use probably more complex physic than organic chemistry.
You see unlike Iraq, N Korea really DOES have WMD (including chemical and biological weapons), and truly IS a threat to the US and it's allies.
And NK is still standing on their corner undisturbed, whereas Iraq and Afghanistan were steam rolled. So what does this tell me ? If I was a country which *MIGHT* come in friction with the US, I should develop my own WMD ASAP. Here around we call that escalation, and as far as I can tell, with the current strong arming politic of the US, there is no way to avoid it.
We have around here in europe a lot of social politic. Not only in hand out, but also in infrastructure. This ministry shortened to family ministery (sorry german) actually do quite a bit more , senior, civil duty, family, kids etc... For example the previous ministry made law to enhance kindergarten infrastructure to allow much more (250K) young kids to have a kindergarten available. And I pass many other stuff. The problem is here they are doing stuff which displease us (censorship) and IMHO should not be in their porfolio. Mind you, at least they can show full breast or half breast on TV here around. Other culture, other taboo.
If censorship was the sole province of government , nobody would be talking of "governmental censorship" that would be a repetition. Which is why I mostly laugh when I see people getting their tie in a knot when governement censor some stuff (be it bad word, nude nipple, or violence) but when a corporation do the same , they shrug it off and go on their merry life. Now think about this: who has the best position to censor stuff : the governement which nowadays in western democracy own next to now news generator (radio, tv, newspaper) or the news mega corporation which are ultimately in the hand of a few ? Governement censorship you CAN fight it. Ballot Box. Soap Box. Munition Box. But news corporation censorship, since they nearlyalways mostly have a local monopoly or protect the same interrest ? Noper. No box sir. You can simply NOT USE the service, or accept the possible censorship.
I have cash to burn, but I am definitively too old. The stuff which they put out for sale, DO NOT interest me. What I like is stuff like electrical music vangelis/Jean michel Jarre , classic from funeral march for a marionette to tocatta in c minor, and a few rock/hard rock group and strange stuff (queen, megadeth, smashing pumpkins, and a few other less known ; commercial stuff like e-nomine, and a few other like in-extremo). For the first group, there isn't much which was put to sale recently and has got the quality of an oxygen, or heaven and hell. For the second group you can own so many version of them until nothing new comes out, for the third group, i search and search but rarely find stuff of interrest.
So what bring us this long rambling on my taste ? I started buying a lot of CD end on 90. Then by 2002 it dwindled down. Because my classic collection was complete, and for electronic music I did not find anything new, except a few rare stuff coming from Japan (Idea/eufonius). Sure, I would wish to see much more new stuff, but my exposure (university) has dwindled only to friend and colleague. So now a day I try pirate stuff in hope of finding something to buy which please me , and I throw everything away after trying. The bottom line is that I buy no CD , not because of the crise, but because nothing cater to my taste.. Yeah my taste are eclectic.But hey nobody is perfect.
The university probably got in the contract that the student give a perpetual non revokable right to the university to use/give/copy the work without a fee. But unelss they qualify for as "work for hire" they retain the original copyright. Mind you it is not the same for work given to doctorant : their result is then really a work for hire and owned by the university.
Because if it is feasible, resource wise and time wise, another will do it. And in such case better have the resource of many many solar system to build your attack/defense, rather than be a sitting duck in your own system.
"In fact, the whole reason that ISO 13485 came about is because the FDA determined that ISO 9001 was stupid and dangerous" hm. No. The doc just says they don't see it as necessary to force firm to change to a standardized process. And neither do the EU rely on ISO 13485 for safety too. It is jsut for traceability to have a standardized way of getting documentation and process audit done. The satuff still has to go through a safety test anyway.
that is called externalities and is not limited to nuclear. A lot of chemical site are simply "left" buried or uncleaned for the next tenant. Which is why in such case the free market sucks. The free market dictate that all (chemical and nuclear plant) should not bother a fink to clean up. Only if the governement steps in and FORCE the aforementioned to either spare money for the clean up, or force all shareholder to cough up afterward (good luck with that if the firm disappear). Basically I am not surprised.
Ultima 9, remade with the ultima lore up to serpent isle. maybe even redo ultima 8. Or forget it. But ultima 9 was definitively a piss at all ultima fan. Redo it. Reboot it. Whatever.
So now instead of crying wolf very often you want to scream very loudly in their face, in an inescapable manner. You have not solved the problem that the "failed certificate" problem occurs too often, neither have you solved the problem of making the user understand why a failed cert MIGHT be important in some case (when a trusted conn is really necessary like to do bank ops).
Instead you just screan loudlier while hold them by the shoulder. That will not help, it will only do two things 1) search for a web browser which do not scream at them 2) ignore even more the cert warning by going take a coffee and click it away anyway when they come back.
"If you do have a CA-signed cert, the connection still isnt secure. Thats the real problem." Are you sure of that ? The connection in itself AFAIK is secure / encrypted and cannot be snooped, what isn't sure is WHO I am talking to, and could well be talking to Vladimir hackov in Ukraine instead of Wells Fargo.
Seriously, except letter for a job candidature or a post card, I never use handwriting anymore. And even for the job search , I really do think that hand writing is utter useless, except maybe as a useless filter (can't read his handwriting / can read). Everything I have to do, I do in block writing (official forms, bank receipt etc...) or with printer.
The hand writing is going the way of the draw-cariage with horse. Plainly and simply. Hand writing is QUAINT that is it.
"These violent video games, on the other hand, can contain up to 800 hours of footage with the most atrocious content often reserved for the highest levels and can be accessed only by advanced players after hours upon hours of progressive mastery." Yeah. Right. Maybe if you count the full gameplay, or many many game additioned together. I would be hard pressed to find a GAME with 800 hours of gameplay for a single session until "mastery". You would have to add multiple gameplay. Unless somebody spot an error in my reasoning, I call shenanigan on this senator. Spouting non sense to support his cause should lead to an automatic impeachment,a s a politician.
In 10 years we will have artificial brain, in 50 we will have fusion. In 20 we will have true AI and cyborg. And in 5 years the date estimate for the 3 above will probably not have changed by much (I say probably as we could do leap and bound forward, but at the moment I don't see that as probable).
In a plane when you land or take off, other people for which it is the job to survey the sky made sure no plane come right and left. So the amount of attention you have to give to your 3D environment is far lower, actually you mostly have to pay attention to your instrument and what they read. In a car you have far less instrument , but you have a whole 3D environment to pay attention, with car coming left, right, ahead and behind, people on foot crossing streets left and right, bikes, motorbikes, speed limit and other signs and NOBODY to steer that traffic for you. I was only in simulator for plane, but comparing the amount of attention car win hand down on how much is needed to drive as opposed to fly. I seriously doubt you can train people to be "distracted", especially that a lot of people won't be trainable at all. Far far easier and far far safer is just to enforce a "no cell phone" policy in car.
There are 4 category of people:
1) Gnostic Theist (yes the question of whether it is KNOWABLE that god exists can be answer by yes, and, oh my, yes I belive in God)
2) Agnostic Theist (I don't think the "god existence" question is really knowable , still I *believe* there is a God)
3) agnostic Atheist (I don't think the question whether God exists is really knowable, but I don't see any reason to believe anyway)
4) gnostic theist (yes , the god existence question is answerable and yes the dude don't exists)
Some people says 1) and 4) are both about as arrogant, I am not too sure, I think it depends on how far they would eb ready to revise their belief is provided a proof going agaisnt their belief (if it does exists...).
Agnosticism DO NOT mean that you are neither atheist nor theist (what you believe) it only means that you think the question of God's existence is unknowable. Those which think it is a neutral position don't really understand the meaning of agnosticism, and are either weak believer or weak atheist without realizing it.
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I bought a 11 inches 6 small netbook. Mostly for watching film while travelling or play old dosbox games or playing usic while on train. Nothing really special. I was searching for long battery time (some train travel can be up to 8 hours). I found 10' and 11'6 netbook. The 11'6 was less powerful but a longer time (8 hours versus as low as 360-420 minutes for more "powerful" netbook). At that point when we are speaking of 6 to 8 hours, the screen power consumption for 11'6 to 10' is probably not too different (11'6x9 to 10'x9' make a difference of 6%, so assuming for a first approximation that the surface of the LCD give the same power per cm^2, that is a 6% difference in surface, so 6% differenfce in power. For a 8h or ~500 minutes netbook battery power that is a difference of 30 minutes in minus).
If you mean this : Media misunderstanding on GS and zloty it was more like media not making real research on a subject and repeating hearsay. IOW business as usual, as media these day , except for a few rare exception, are glorified parrot.
A lot of excellent researcher aren't best with English grammar and spelling, because it is not their primary language to begin with, and you can only go so far with tool automatic grammar and spelling correction, and bad spelled but existing word aren't always detected (like the infamous your for you're). That said really sloppy spelling (missing vowel ; word which don't exists and would be signalled by a spell checker) is not excusable.
Whenever I buy something I do not want to have my name address and other private information to be spread to the whole world. I want this to be only given to the store I buy from and only for the STRICT necessary purpose of the transaction. And I have got the privacy law of my country agreeeing with me. You may live in a country where all privacy is long gone, but that is your problem. *IF* a store gives my private info to anybody against my will and it was not forseen in the contract I signed with them, then they get my lawyer on their ass, and *I* will win. And if they put originally in their contract that they will provide my user info for anything beyond simple delivery (markleting, etc...) , then they don't get my sale to begin with. And in what I agreed upon with the online storeI use it is *NOT* written they will sell or give my info.
Secondly that a privacy invasive procedure is NOW available whereas it was not available before, does not mean it should be used. Visa/MC can also "sell" the lsit of all what you buy to marketer. And it would certainly be a very very precise info. That does not mean it is desirable on any ground.
"STOP FUCKING PEOPLE WHO AREN'T YOUR WIFE/GIRLFRIED/SIGNIFIGANT OTHER!"
Abstinence and fidelity DOES NOT WORK. FFS there is enough demonstration of that around. So instead of closing ear and say "LALALA Absteinence / fidelity LALALA" one should simply stop being deaf and blind and realize that the only real solution for us human is to give new tool to prevent the infection or fight it.
The extrem majority of doctor want you to be healthy when you leave them. Some crook might see short term benefit to fraud everybody, but as seen above, it comes to bite them back. That is not the first example will not be the last. but condemning a WHOLE profession for a few crook, let me tell you another way to say it "there are a few mafia hacker making botnet, so all IT programmer and open source proponent are mafia asshole which want to botnet your PC, steal your CC, and laugh all the way to the bank, rape your kitty". This is the same type of fallacy you are doing. I am not saying pharma company are angels, but they certainly as a whole don't make up cure with the intention to make you stay ill and "hooked".
Care to explain what is in the brain that a physicist can't explain ? Sure it is a very complex system, but basically it is a bunch of atoms, stringed into oragnic molecules, composing cells. On the basic physical level, nothing really incredible. It isn't as if we were speaking of charm boson, H fine structure spectro in plasma, or anything exotic. Now , sure, biologically we don't have all the data on neurone, but on the physical level there is nothing special to the brain, at least nothing more special than a liver or even non biological phenomenon. Only a high bunch of atoms. Heck microship use probably more complex physic than organic chemistry.
You see unlike Iraq, N Korea really DOES have WMD (including chemical and biological weapons), and truly IS a threat to the US and it's allies.
And NK is still standing on their corner undisturbed, whereas Iraq and Afghanistan were steam rolled. So what does this tell me ? If I was a country which *MIGHT* come in friction with the US, I should develop my own WMD ASAP. Here around we call that escalation, and as far as I can tell, with the current strong arming politic of the US, there is no way to avoid it.
We have around here in europe a lot of social politic. Not only in hand out, but also in infrastructure. This ministry shortened to family ministery (sorry german) actually do quite a bit more , senior, civil duty, family, kids etc... For example the previous ministry made law to enhance kindergarten infrastructure to allow much more (250K) young kids to have a kindergarten available. And I pass many other stuff. The problem is here they are doing stuff which displease us (censorship) and IMHO should not be in their porfolio. Mind you, at least they can show full breast or half breast on TV here around. Other culture, other taboo.
If censorship was the sole province of government , nobody would be talking of "governmental censorship" that would be a repetition. Which is why I mostly laugh when I see people getting their tie in a knot when governement censor some stuff (be it bad word, nude nipple, or violence) but when a corporation do the same , they shrug it off and go on their merry life. Now think about this: who has the best position to censor stuff : the governement which nowadays in western democracy own next to now news generator (radio, tv, newspaper) or the news mega corporation which are ultimately in the hand of a few ? Governement censorship you CAN fight it. Ballot Box. Soap Box. Munition Box. But news corporation censorship, since they nearlyalways mostly have a local monopoly or protect the same interrest ? Noper. No box sir. You can simply NOT USE the service, or accept the possible censorship.
I have cash to burn, but I am definitively too old. The stuff which they put out for sale, DO NOT interest me. What I like is stuff like electrical music vangelis/Jean michel Jarre , classic from funeral march for a marionette to tocatta in c minor, and a few rock/hard rock group and strange stuff (queen, megadeth, smashing pumpkins, and a few other less known ; commercial stuff like e-nomine, and a few other like in-extremo). For the first group, there isn't much which was put to sale recently and has got the quality of an oxygen, or heaven and hell. For the second group you can own so many version of them until nothing new comes out, for the third group, i search and search but rarely find stuff of interrest.
So what bring us this long rambling on my taste ? I started buying a lot of CD end on 90. Then by 2002 it dwindled down. Because my classic collection was complete, and for electronic music I did not find anything new, except a few rare stuff coming from Japan (Idea/eufonius). Sure, I would wish to see much more new stuff, but my exposure (university) has dwindled only to friend and colleague. So now a day I try pirate stuff in hope of finding something to buy which please me , and I throw everything away after trying. The bottom line is that I buy no CD , not because of the crise, but because nothing cater to my taste.. Yeah my taste are eclectic.But hey nobody is perfect.
The university probably got in the contract that the student give a perpetual non revokable right to the university to use/give/copy the work without a fee. But unelss they qualify for as "work for hire" they retain the original copyright. Mind you it is not the same for work given to doctorant : their result is then really a work for hire and owned by the university.
Because if it is feasible, resource wise and time wise, another will do it. And in such case better have the resource of many many solar system to build your attack/defense, rather than be a sitting duck in your own system.
"In fact, the whole reason that ISO 13485 came about is because the FDA determined that ISO 9001 was stupid and dangerous" hm. No. The doc just says they don't see it as necessary to force firm to change to a standardized process. And neither do the EU rely on ISO 13485 for safety too. It is jsut for traceability to have a standardized way of getting documentation and process audit done. The satuff still has to go through a safety test anyway.
that is called externalities and is not limited to nuclear. A lot of chemical site are simply "left" buried or uncleaned for the next tenant. Which is why in such case the free market sucks. The free market dictate that all (chemical and nuclear plant) should not bother a fink to clean up. Only if the governement steps in and FORCE the aforementioned to either spare money for the clean up, or force all shareholder to cough up afterward (good luck with that if the firm disappear). Basically I am not surprised.
Ultima 9, remade with the ultima lore up to serpent isle. maybe even redo ultima 8. Or forget it. But ultima 9 was definitively a piss at all ultima fan. Redo it. Reboot it. Whatever.
So now instead of crying wolf very often you want to scream very loudly in their face, in an inescapable manner. You have not solved the problem that the "failed certificate" problem occurs too often, neither have you solved the problem of making the user understand why a failed cert MIGHT be important in some case (when a trusted conn is really necessary like to do bank ops).
Instead you just screan loudlier while hold them by the shoulder. That will not help, it will only do two things 1) search for a web browser which do not scream at them 2) ignore even more the cert warning by going take a coffee and click it away anyway when they come back.
"If you do have a CA-signed cert, the connection still isnt secure. Thats the real problem." Are you sure of that ? The connection in itself AFAIK is secure / encrypted and cannot be snooped, what isn't sure is WHO I am talking to, and could well be talking to Vladimir hackov in Ukraine instead of Wells Fargo.
Seriously, except letter for a job candidature or a post card, I never use handwriting anymore. And even for the job search , I really do think that hand writing is utter useless, except maybe as a useless filter (can't read his handwriting / can read). Everything I have to do, I do in block writing (official forms, bank receipt etc...) or with printer.
The hand writing is going the way of the draw-cariage with horse. Plainly and simply. Hand writing is QUAINT that is it.
It does not sound surprising, knowing it is the country of origin of the Chaos Computer Club...
"These violent video games, on the other hand, can contain up to 800 hours of footage with the most atrocious content often reserved for the highest levels and can be accessed only by advanced players after hours upon hours of progressive mastery."
Yeah. Right. Maybe if you count the full gameplay, or many many game additioned together. I would be hard pressed to find a GAME with 800 hours of gameplay for a single session until "mastery". You would have to add multiple gameplay. Unless somebody spot an error in my reasoning, I call shenanigan on this senator. Spouting non sense to support his cause should lead to an automatic impeachment,a s a politician.
No problem, they just need to climb up one floor from their basement and voila, they can show the article to their mother :).
In 10 years we will have artificial brain, in 50 we will have fusion. In 20 we will have true AI and cyborg. And in 5 years the date estimate for the 3 above will probably not have changed by much (I say probably as we could do leap and bound forward, but at the moment I don't see that as probable).
In a plane when you land or take off, other people for which it is the job to survey the sky made sure no plane come right and left. So the amount of attention you have to give to your 3D environment is far lower, actually you mostly have to pay attention to your instrument and what they read. In a car you have far less instrument , but you have a whole 3D environment to pay attention, with car coming left, right, ahead and behind, people on foot crossing streets left and right, bikes, motorbikes, speed limit and other signs and NOBODY to steer that traffic for you. I was only in simulator for plane, but comparing the amount of attention car win hand down on how much is needed to drive as opposed to fly. I seriously doubt you can train people to be "distracted", especially that a lot of people won't be trainable at all. Far far easier and far far safer is just to enforce a "no cell phone" policy in car.
There are 4 category of people :
1) Gnostic Theist (yes the question of whether it is KNOWABLE that god exists can be answer by yes, and, oh my, yes I belive in God)
2) Agnostic Theist (I don't think the "god existence" question is really knowable , still I *believe* there is a God)
3) agnostic Atheist (I don't think the question whether God exists is really knowable, but I don't see any reason to believe anyway)
4) gnostic theist (yes , the god existence question is answerable and yes the dude don't exists)
Some people says 1) and 4) are both about as arrogant, I am not too sure, I think it depends on how far they would eb ready to revise their belief is provided a proof going agaisnt their belief (if it does exists...).
Agnosticism DO NOT mean that you are neither atheist nor theist (what you believe) it only means that you think the question of God's existence is unknowable. Those which think it is a neutral position don't really understand the meaning of agnosticism, and are either weak believer or weak atheist without realizing it.