1080p is on the way out with manufacturers. They have all moved most of their panel lines over to 4K production. They still make 1080p sets, but they are usually bottom of the barrel and way outnumbered by 4K at this point. As for dumb TVs, unless you want to go with a commercial panel (and the cost that goes with it) your best bet is eBay/Craig's list for older used devices. It's getting impossible to find.
The really unfortunate part, based on how some "apps" are coming out on smart TV stores before they are hitting Apple/Google/Roku/Fire stores, I think the unwashed masses are pulling another "It's good enough" and actually using the damn smart TV apps.
Or at least it will be. Unless the article on this just neglected to mention such an important fact, I'm going to assume this isn't decentralized and relies on some central infrastructure somewhere? If so, it will get pushed off host and provider after host and provider until it falls completely off the net entirely. If someone really wants to do this, it's got to be decentralized.
On the other hand, antivaxxers and the like often push vitamins, herbs, adjustments, accupuncture and all sorts of other interventions that have no proven efficacy or even have been proven to have no efficacy (NNT is infinity!). There logic is literally backwards.
This always gets me. They argue on the one had about the mulitbillion dollar pharma industry can't be trusted because they put profits above health, then suck up the completely unproven BS from the multibillion dollar supplement industry.
I agree with this. Speech, however stupid, should not be suppressed. But the thing I do worry about is not the books, but the algorithms Amazon may be using to suggest them to people. In particular, is their software pushing these books to people who are not specifically looking for them, but may have browsing and buying habits that suggest they may be influenced by them? For example if a new parent starts buying baby things, and looking for books on child health, do these books get suggested? That, I would have a problem with.
There is always a risk with any medical intervention, but with the vast majority of vaccines, it's often much lower than the risk of injury from the disease you are vaccinating against. Let's take this case. Pandemrix was given to about 30 million people in Europe in 2009. Of those, around 1,300 developed narcolepsy. And yes, there is a real link between the vaccine and those people getting the disorder. This was a new vaccine created to address the H1N1 strain that year and only used in the European market. It was discovered that the vaccine (probably due to a new adjunct used to stimulate the immune system) caused some people to form antibodies that could bind to neurotransmitter receptor sites in the brain that affect our wakefulness. So around 0.004% of those who received it had this reaction.
That same year in Europe, there were around 500,000 confirmed H1N1 infections, and about 2,900 deaths, or 0.6% of those infected. Two orders of magnitude higher than the rate of vaccine induced narcolepsy.
So yes, incidence like this will happen, it's unfortunate and everything that can be done should be done to prevent it. However, medicine is never going to be an exact science, things will go wrong along the way. People need to weigh the relative risks though.
No vaccine is 100% effective, and none advertise that they are. Annually, about 20% of flu deaths in otherwise healthy children (so kids without other conditions that would make them particularly vulnerable) in the US are children who were properly vaccinated. Then there are people who cannot, for legitimate reasons, get vaccinated. So no, it's not just people who choose not to that are protected by herd immunity.
As for vaccines not working, when was the last time you heard about polio epidemics in western countries? Measles was all but eliminated in the US before the anti-vax movement. It's still early days but we are also already seeing positive results from HPV vaccination campaigns as well. Going back to my first statistic, around 80% of the deaths in healthy children from the flu each year is in non-vaccinated kids. 4 out of every 5.
If one mutation confers HIV resistance, AND higher intelligence... why doesn't everyone have this mutation? Does it increase metabolism too much or something? Perhaps stroke resistance is considered a downside, in societies where elderly are a drain on resources.
It's not that we don't want that. It's that we are no where close to being smart enough to go tinkering just because of situations like this. Unforeseen consequences. In this case the kids may have lucked out (although even that isn't certain yet) but in the future others may not be so lucky. We just don't know enough about our own genetics to start tinkering with them yet. Maybe in the future sure. But it's going to be a long time before we are really knowledgeable enough to start doing it responsibly. Keep in mind that these changes won't just affect the children they are done to, they can also propagate down their line in their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc. We could accidentally introduce some new genetic disorder that may not even show itself until several generations later.
Think of it this way, imagine you and a team of brilliant software developers wrote a program that runs a giant company. It does everything from manufacturing control to payroll to HVAC. It even runs the automatic flusher on the toilets. Literally every function of the company relies on it.
Now imagine the company decided they want to make some changes to it, but you and your team have moved on so they hire some bright-eyed college grads to do it. Oh, and they don't have the source code or any documentation, so the kids need to study it in place and can only modify it using assembly language. And you can't really test it without pushing changes to the production system. How many unexpected disasters do you imagine would result from that? That's the stage we are at right now with genetic editing.
And no, this isn't some kind of argument for intelligent design, it's just an analogy.
I've run across 0 that are not owned by FB or are not tied in by their main function to social media (socialblade for instance, and then only if you want to track FB) that require a FB logon. Many off it, along with Google but I've yet to run into any that require it.
So to answer your question, I'm going to say not that many.
That's one of the things I miss about Firewire: being able to run a standard cable between two PC's and getting a network link. No fuss, no special cables, nothing. And at the time it was faster than using ethernet.
I put a list of items I want to buy into my phone.
- Back scratcher
- Glass wipes
- Magnifying glass
- Earplugs
- Camera batteries
Then, when GPS detects I'm 25 yards from a store that has one of those, flag me. I can snooze or make the purchase.
This is a great idea. Also you could alert the retailer, so they could send alerts if they are having a sale on one of those items. And have it send the retailer your contact info so they can get in touch to see if you want the items delivered instead. Or partner with delivery services to have drivers show up at your house with those goods to see if you want to buy them.
Someone should get on this now! You could make a fortune!
On March 12, Microsoft is planning a standalone update with SHA-2 code sign support for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. It also will deliver to WSUS 3.0 SP2 the required support for delivering SHA-2 updates.
Microsoft will make available a standalone update with SHA-2 code sign support for Windows Server 2008 SP2 on April 9, 2019.
Kind of like my brother. His wife didn't want a funeral, not even an obit in the paper. Hell I don't think she even made mention of it on Facebook. So to anyone out of the know, he just ceased to exist.
Since some of you are illiterate I guess, from the study:
"Conclusions: The use of NRT (nicotine replacement therapy) is not associated with any increase in the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, or death."
"There was no evidence that an increase in the incidence of either myocardial infarction or stroke occurred after the prescription of any particular formulation of NRT, or that the results differed for people prescribed NRT before or after April 2001 (table 4). Although the numbers were smaller the results were similar when we repeated the analyses using second myocardial infarction and stroke as the outcomes."
That link directly contradicts wiggles' assertion.
They do this where I live. It's kind of an idiot trap. Anyone with common sense would realize the local cops won't shut down a major interstate for a drug checkpoint.
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For those that don't want to give the Verge clicks https://www.techspot.com/news/75473-microsoft-updates-notepad-long-awaited-features-latest-windows.html
Definitely not alone. I was all excited to mail my boss edible excel reports.
At that size, get a 1080p monitor. Plenty of those to go around.
1080p is on the way out with manufacturers. They have all moved most of their panel lines over to 4K production. They still make 1080p sets, but they are usually bottom of the barrel and way outnumbered by 4K at this point. As for dumb TVs, unless you want to go with a commercial panel (and the cost that goes with it) your best bet is eBay/Craig's list for older used devices. It's getting impossible to find.
The really unfortunate part, based on how some "apps" are coming out on smart TV stores before they are hitting Apple/Google/Roku/Fire stores, I think the unwashed masses are pulling another "It's good enough" and actually using the damn smart TV apps.
Or at least it will be. Unless the article on this just neglected to mention such an important fact, I'm going to assume this isn't decentralized and relies on some central infrastructure somewhere? If so, it will get pushed off host and provider after host and provider until it falls completely off the net entirely. If someone really wants to do this, it's got to be decentralized.
On the other hand, antivaxxers and the like often push vitamins, herbs, adjustments, accupuncture and all sorts of other interventions that have no proven efficacy or even have been proven to have no efficacy (NNT is infinity!). There logic is literally backwards.
This always gets me. They argue on the one had about the mulitbillion dollar pharma industry can't be trusted because they put profits above health, then suck up the completely unproven BS from the multibillion dollar supplement industry.
The numbers are from the CDC and are for patients vaccinated for the strains that infected them.
I agree with this. Speech, however stupid, should not be suppressed. But the thing I do worry about is not the books, but the algorithms Amazon may be using to suggest them to people. In particular, is their software pushing these books to people who are not specifically looking for them, but may have browsing and buying habits that suggest they may be influenced by them? For example if a new parent starts buying baby things, and looking for books on child health, do these books get suggested? That, I would have a problem with.
There is always a risk with any medical intervention, but with the vast majority of vaccines, it's often much lower than the risk of injury from the disease you are vaccinating against. Let's take this case. Pandemrix was given to about 30 million people in Europe in 2009. Of those, around 1,300 developed narcolepsy. And yes, there is a real link between the vaccine and those people getting the disorder. This was a new vaccine created to address the H1N1 strain that year and only used in the European market. It was discovered that the vaccine (probably due to a new adjunct used to stimulate the immune system) caused some people to form antibodies that could bind to neurotransmitter receptor sites in the brain that affect our wakefulness. So around 0.004% of those who received it had this reaction.
That same year in Europe, there were around 500,000 confirmed H1N1 infections, and about 2,900 deaths, or 0.6% of those infected. Two orders of magnitude higher than the rate of vaccine induced narcolepsy.
So yes, incidence like this will happen, it's unfortunate and everything that can be done should be done to prevent it. However, medicine is never going to be an exact science, things will go wrong along the way. People need to weigh the relative risks though.
No vaccine is 100% effective, and none advertise that they are. Annually, about 20% of flu deaths in otherwise healthy children (so kids without other conditions that would make them particularly vulnerable) in the US are children who were properly vaccinated. Then there are people who cannot, for legitimate reasons, get vaccinated. So no, it's not just people who choose not to that are protected by herd immunity.
As for vaccines not working, when was the last time you heard about polio epidemics in western countries? Measles was all but eliminated in the US before the anti-vax movement. It's still early days but we are also already seeing positive results from HPV vaccination campaigns as well. Going back to my first statistic, around 80% of the deaths in healthy children from the flu each year is in non-vaccinated kids. 4 out of every 5.
It's a bold face lie to say vaccines do not work.
They figure anyone using Hyper-V is a masochist so they probably want it reboot randomly.
If one mutation confers HIV resistance, AND higher intelligence... why doesn't everyone have this mutation? Does it increase metabolism too much or something? Perhaps stroke resistance is considered a downside, in societies where elderly are a drain on resources.
It's not that we don't want that. It's that we are no where close to being smart enough to go tinkering just because of situations like this. Unforeseen consequences. In this case the kids may have lucked out (although even that isn't certain yet) but in the future others may not be so lucky. We just don't know enough about our own genetics to start tinkering with them yet. Maybe in the future sure. But it's going to be a long time before we are really knowledgeable enough to start doing it responsibly. Keep in mind that these changes won't just affect the children they are done to, they can also propagate down their line in their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc. We could accidentally introduce some new genetic disorder that may not even show itself until several generations later.
Think of it this way, imagine you and a team of brilliant software developers wrote a program that runs a giant company. It does everything from manufacturing control to payroll to HVAC. It even runs the automatic flusher on the toilets. Literally every function of the company relies on it.
Now imagine the company decided they want to make some changes to it, but you and your team have moved on so they hire some bright-eyed college grads to do it. Oh, and they don't have the source code or any documentation, so the kids need to study it in place and can only modify it using assembly language. And you can't really test it without pushing changes to the production system. How many unexpected disasters do you imagine would result from that? That's the stage we are at right now with genetic editing.
And no, this isn't some kind of argument for intelligent design, it's just an analogy.
I've run across 0 that are not owned by FB or are not tied in by their main function to social media (socialblade for instance, and then only if you want to track FB) that require a FB logon. Many off it, along with Google but I've yet to run into any that require it.
So to answer your question, I'm going to say not that many.
Wow that's got to be a world record attempt at a logical jump. You could become the Evil Knievel of pseudo science if you keep that up!
There were a couple of attempts by different companies to make client-side type 1 hypervisors a thing but they never caught on.
That's one of the things I miss about Firewire: being able to run a standard cable between two PC's and getting a network link. No fuss, no special cables, nothing. And at the time it was faster than using ethernet.
Literally anything else. This premise makes the Emoji Movie sound like a brilliant idea.
Really? Because it sounds like hot garbage to me. I'm guessing DC agreed since they didn't fight very hard for it.
Build this:
I put a list of items I want to buy into my phone.
- Back scratcher - Glass wipes - Magnifying glass - Earplugs - Camera batteries
Then, when GPS detects I'm 25 yards from a store that has one of those, flag me. I can snooze or make the purchase.
This is a great idea. Also you could alert the retailer, so they could send alerts if they are having a sale on one of those items. And have it send the retailer your contact info so they can get in touch to see if you want the items delivered instead. Or partner with delivery services to have drivers show up at your house with those goods to see if you want to buy them.
Someone should get on this now! You could make a fortune!
On March 12, Microsoft is planning a standalone update with SHA-2 code sign support for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. It also will deliver to WSUS 3.0 SP2 the required support for delivering SHA-2 updates.
Microsoft will make available a standalone update with SHA-2 code sign support for Windows Server 2008 SP2 on April 9, 2019.
Kind of like my brother. His wife didn't want a funeral, not even an obit in the paper. Hell I don't think she even made mention of it on Facebook. So to anyone out of the know, he just ceased to exist.
Since some of you are illiterate I guess, from the study:
"Conclusions: The use of NRT (nicotine replacement therapy) is not associated with any increase in the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, or death."
"There was no evidence that an increase in the incidence of either myocardial infarction or stroke occurred after the prescription of any particular formulation of NRT, or that the results differed for people prescribed NRT before or after April 2001 (table 4). Although the numbers were smaller the results were similar when we repeated the analyses using second myocardial infarction and stroke as the outcomes."
That link directly contradicts wiggles' assertion.
Yea but those are feds, not the local police.
Did you even read that study?
They do this where I live. It's kind of an idiot trap. Anyone with common sense would realize the local cops won't shut down a major interstate for a drug checkpoint.