The first time I saw the picture I could swear it was white / gold. I could see a slight blue hue to the white part but it was more or less white with gold.
After I read another article and saw the dress in a catalogue I read the first article again and it appeared blue / black. I couldn't believe it appeared so differently and had to check I was reading the same article with the same photo again.
I had the same experience. Kind of jarring isn't it? I had even saved a copy of the image when I first saw it (to play with in photoshop) and checked that to be sure someone wasn't messing with me and everyone else and swapping out the image.
We as a species always seem to be of the "believe it when I see it" persuasion but something like this happens and it is a pretty in-your-face example of just how much our own brains manipulate our sensory input before presenting it to us a reality.
So it appears to be linked to the lighting conditions that your eyes are adjusted to when seeing the image initially... even after they've adjusted to the ambient light, the brain appears to stick to the image it created initially.
Here is a pretty good explanation of why this might happen.
Something is wrong. You said "pretty good explanation" but you then linked to Gizmodo. These two things are mutually exclusive.
We have had Cola for generations.... However the health conditions that we blame it for, have been on the rise just recently.
I see the use of Corn Syrup being a bigger factor than blaming Cola.
Corn Syrup, increasing portion sizes, a shift to low fat, high carb diets, labeling bad fats as good and good fats as bad.... The past 50 years has not been a good period for nutritional science.
Probably one of the better hubs on the market. Bulbs have been solid for me too. I also use the GE Wink bulbs with the Philips Hue hub (they are compatible) where I just need lights without the color changing ability. The Wink bulbs run about $15 retail. The Wink bulbs are good if not perfect, they sometimes miss a command from the hub, the philips bulbs never do. The Wink Hub, while a crazy piece of hardware (so many radios) is, at the moment, a bit lacking in the software department.
On the ROI front I'm a bit of an outlier: my system is saving me enough money to pay for itself. I used to leave the 4 lights in my garage on pretty much 24/7 with 24w CFLs. My garage door opener light is pretty much useless and I wasn't fond of coming home to a pitch black garage at night. Swapped the 4 bulbs out with 4 GE Wink bulbs, and I now use the geofence feature of the Philips Hue software along with its timers. Lights come on in the morning at a set time, turn off when I leave, and come back on when I get home, turning off at a preset time a little later in the evening. The power savings from the wattage difference (9 vs 24w) and not having them run constantly comes out to around $28/mo for me doing it this way. Yes, it's my fault leaving the lights on all the time, And yes I could have added a traditional timer or motion detector, but the issue there was the damn CLFs sucked in winter. These days I could get Cree LED bulbs for about $10, but for $5 more I can get the smart bulbs that work with a system I already have so.... The 4 bulbs have literally paid for themselves in a little over two months. Again though, I imagine I'm a bit of an outlier when it comes to this. Most of these systems will never save the homeowner money.
If you are looking for a dumb 4K display that is above PC monitor size and cheaper or even the same price as a comparable "smart" tv, then the answer is probably no. The only real options you have are A) get the smart TV and never connect it to your network or B) buy a commercial grade display. Option B is going to be much more expensive than Option A. Well I guess there is always option C) Contract with a manufacturer to create a private brand line of your own. Pretty sure option C is not going to scale down to a production run of 1 very well cost wise though.
The potential exposure for individual financial fraud and identity theft is really bad with this but it's not the only concern. With this breach they have SSN plus detailed employment info for what probably amounts to nearly every employee at any company who uses Anthem for their health plans. What do 90% of helpdesks ask for when resetting something like a password or issuing one-time use tokens for 2-factor authentication? Last 4 of your SSN. With a little work to figure out a few things like login ID formats this data could be used as a jumping off point to target any of the thousands of companies that use Anthem for their employee health plans, across who knows how many industries. This could be the breach that keeps on breaching for a long time to come.
If my phone is running Android OS, then I should be able to get updates straight from Google.
If that's what you want, then BUY A PHONE FROM GOOGLE.
You mean like my Google Galaxy Nexus that is stuck at 4.3 because Google abandoned it after 18 months, and therefore won't be getting this exploit patched?
It's worth doing some reading, to understand the differences between the switch types. Here's a good description of three of the switches. You likely don't want the really loud ones - I recently bought a keyboard using Cherry Brown, which are tactile, but a bit quieter - it's still loud enough that my officemates had to get used to it, but at least they didn't kill me.
A lot of the sound from the mechanical keyboards with non-clicky switches like the Cherry reds and browns is from the keys bottoming out. You can add rubber o-rings to the keycaps to get rid of that bottoming out "clack".
Actually there are four companies involved, plus a group of companies other than "Company A" that also use "Company B's" software. That would be the company (Company D?) that wrote the the GPL2 licensed code to begin with, and they are the plaintiff in most of the cases talked about in the article.
being asked to power up devices is not new at all. I had to power up my laptop on a flight sometime Fall 1998.
Yea but after 9/11 and all the reviews of airport security the "power on your devices" thing was dropped because at the time all the experts said it was useless.
And yet here we are today.... I'm just waiting for the day when you have to ship all your luggage a day ahead of travel and fly in paper hospital gowns.
...the ones mentioned in the job postings you want to apply for. As for real world value (outside of getting your resume past a text filter) most have very little. The big practical certs mentioned in other comments in here are the exceptions but the vast majority are just extra revenue for the vendors.
Everyone who gets the vaccine is guaranteed to feel crappy and be less productive that day
No. You're wrong, and you're spreading misinformation.
First, from the flu shot? Your arm might be sore that day, and that's generally about it. The odds of getting even a low-grade fever or being achy are quite low.
Not true. I know for myself when I get the Flu shot I generally feel like crap for about a day. This should be expected, the shot triggers the immune system. Even so, I've had the flu (not to be confused with the common cold, which most people do) twice in my life and I'm more than happy to trade a "meh" day to reduce the odds that I'll ever go through that again.
How does this not violate COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) when it comes to students under the age of 13? The law requires "...verifiable parental consent, with limited exceptions, prior to any collection, use, and/or disclosure of personal information from persons under age 13" Wikipedia
Wouldn't the person require a release form and consent from the people in the video to upload it or use it anywhere?
Depends on the circumstances and where it was taken but in most cases no release is required in the US. On top of that, it's part of the public record so that also factors in. At that point it's like republishing an arrest report or similar record.
This is something that can be fixed with legislation. Take the video out of the public record and restrict it to police/prosecutors and those individuals directly involved in a particular incident. Put a request process in place so the media can go through an judge where the privacy vs reporting issues can be weighed on a case by case basis. We already do this with other records where privacy of the individual(s) involved outweighs unrestricted public access. Some states have also started to do this with things like mugshots to prevent them from being used on mugshot websites (which are just a legal shakedown scheme).
What "studios" are you talking about? Isn't this kind of thing up to the publisher/funder (i.e. HBO)? In any case, it doesn't detract from the point. If these decisions are up to the studio, then every single person involved with marketing for the studio is incompetent. They're incompetent in thinking that DRM has a point when non-DRM files will always be posted on piracy sites within minutes of an airing. Why would someone pay for something inferior?
This isn't per-episode. It's a subscription to HBO, but sans cable. So no, all the content they show is not theirs. The vast majority is not theirs actually.
I suspect BS, but I'll hear out the argument if there is actual evidence. Sliding down the resolution to 900p from 1080p would mostly save you on GPU, and Graphics memory usages. In a more detailed artilce it was stated that they picked 900p because they didn't want to fight with the differences between the XBone and PS4. The main reason the PS4 keeps getting 1080p and the XBone does not is that the memory for the graphics is so much faster. So if someone actually has the PC version and can so that "AI" is burning every processor at 100% then I'll buy their argument as plausable. Until then the story has changed from day to day, and isn't believable. If the AI has something to do with it then the AI coder has probably deadlocked the system when they use multiple cores, and has been cheating by using only one core.
Well if Watch_Dogs (another UbiSoft title) is any indication then I would believe it. I bought the PC version (yea yea, I know, Watch_dogs!? Fool me once...) and ran it on a 2nd gen i5. Don't recall the model exactly but it was clocked north of 3Ghz. Not a beast by today's standards but not horrible either. With that and a 780ti, the game was horribly CPU bound. Constantly at 100% CPU. Upgrading to a i7 4790K and it still runs at around 60% CPU. So yes, I can completely believe that their games are CPU bound. Now, as to why, and if it's necessary or just massively unoptimized, well......
Consumptions of infected simian meat has been the explanation for a very long time. Why does everyone seem surprised?
Because, at the same time, we've been told HIV can't spread orally.
Well since we don't routinely butcher and eat people, I imagine they felt they could leave that method out of the pamphlet. However blood-blood contact is also a known, disclosed method of transmission. It's just a lot less common in humans than sexual contact.
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Now let them rest a bit then send them to Arizona
The first time I saw the picture I could swear it was white / gold. I could see a slight blue hue to the white part but it was more or less white with gold.
After I read another article and saw the dress in a catalogue I read the first article again and it appeared blue / black. I couldn't believe it appeared so differently and had to check I was reading the same article with the same photo again.
I had the same experience. Kind of jarring isn't it? I had even saved a copy of the image when I first saw it (to play with in photoshop) and checked that to be sure someone wasn't messing with me and everyone else and swapping out the image.
We as a species always seem to be of the "believe it when I see it" persuasion but something like this happens and it is a pretty in-your-face example of just how much our own brains manipulate our sensory input before presenting it to us a reality.
So it appears to be linked to the lighting conditions that your eyes are adjusted to when seeing the image initially... even after they've adjusted to the ambient light, the brain appears to stick to the image it created initially.
Here is a pretty good explanation of why this might happen.
Something is wrong. You said "pretty good explanation" but you then linked to Gizmodo. These two things are mutually exclusive.
We have had Cola for generations.... However the health conditions that we blame it for, have been on the rise just recently.
I see the use of Corn Syrup being a bigger factor than blaming Cola.
Corn Syrup, increasing portion sizes, a shift to low fat, high carb diets, labeling bad fats as good and good fats as bad.... The past 50 years has not been a good period for nutritional science.
Probably one of the better hubs on the market. Bulbs have been solid for me too. I also use the GE Wink bulbs with the Philips Hue hub (they are compatible) where I just need lights without the color changing ability. The Wink bulbs run about $15 retail. The Wink bulbs are good if not perfect, they sometimes miss a command from the hub, the philips bulbs never do. The Wink Hub, while a crazy piece of hardware (so many radios) is, at the moment, a bit lacking in the software department.
On the ROI front I'm a bit of an outlier: my system is saving me enough money to pay for itself. I used to leave the 4 lights in my garage on pretty much 24/7 with 24w CFLs. My garage door opener light is pretty much useless and I wasn't fond of coming home to a pitch black garage at night. Swapped the 4 bulbs out with 4 GE Wink bulbs, and I now use the geofence feature of the Philips Hue software along with its timers. Lights come on in the morning at a set time, turn off when I leave, and come back on when I get home, turning off at a preset time a little later in the evening. The power savings from the wattage difference (9 vs 24w) and not having them run constantly comes out to around $28/mo for me doing it this way. Yes, it's my fault leaving the lights on all the time, And yes I could have added a traditional timer or motion detector, but the issue there was the damn CLFs sucked in winter. These days I could get Cree LED bulbs for about $10, but for $5 more I can get the smart bulbs that work with a system I already have so.... The 4 bulbs have literally paid for themselves in a little over two months. Again though, I imagine I'm a bit of an outlier when it comes to this. Most of these systems will never save the homeowner money.
If you are looking for a dumb 4K display that is above PC monitor size and cheaper or even the same price as a comparable "smart" tv, then the answer is probably no. The only real options you have are A) get the smart TV and never connect it to your network or B) buy a commercial grade display. Option B is going to be much more expensive than Option A. Well I guess there is always option C) Contract with a manufacturer to create a private brand line of your own. Pretty sure option C is not going to scale down to a production run of 1 very well cost wise though.
Windows 365 is a follow-on to Office 365, it seems. Will Windows 10 be hosted on a cloud?
That's actually a pretty good guess. Microsoft hosted VDI would not be outside the realm of possibility.
It's set to be released in the year of the Linux desktop.
The potential exposure for individual financial fraud and identity theft is really bad with this but it's not the only concern. With this breach they have SSN plus detailed employment info for what probably amounts to nearly every employee at any company who uses Anthem for their health plans. What do 90% of helpdesks ask for when resetting something like a password or issuing one-time use tokens for 2-factor authentication? Last 4 of your SSN. With a little work to figure out a few things like login ID formats this data could be used as a jumping off point to target any of the thousands of companies that use Anthem for their employee health plans, across who knows how many industries. This could be the breach that keeps on breaching for a long time to come.
If my phone is running Android OS, then I should be able to get updates straight from Google.
If that's what you want, then BUY A PHONE FROM GOOGLE.
You mean like my Google Galaxy Nexus that is stuck at 4.3 because Google abandoned it after 18 months, and therefore won't be getting this exploit patched?
It's worth doing some reading, to understand the differences between the switch types. Here's a good description of three of the switches. You likely don't want the really loud ones - I recently bought a keyboard using Cherry Brown, which are tactile, but a bit quieter - it's still loud enough that my officemates had to get used to it, but at least they didn't kill me.
A lot of the sound from the mechanical keyboards with non-clicky switches like the Cherry reds and browns is from the keys bottoming out. You can add rubber o-rings to the keycaps to get rid of that bottoming out "clack".
Actually there are four companies involved, plus a group of companies other than "Company A" that also use "Company B's" software. That would be the company (Company D?) that wrote the the GPL2 licensed code to begin with, and they are the plaintiff in most of the cases talked about in the article.
being asked to power up devices is not new at all. I had to power up my laptop on a flight sometime Fall 1998.
Yea but after 9/11 and all the reviews of airport security the "power on your devices" thing was dropped because at the time all the experts said it was useless.
And yet here we are today.... I'm just waiting for the day when you have to ship all your luggage a day ahead of travel and fly in paper hospital gowns.
Mild problems following inactivated flu vaccine:
If these problems occur, they usually begin soon after the shot and last 1 or 2 days.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm#flu
...the ones mentioned in the job postings you want to apply for. As for real world value (outside of getting your resume past a text filter) most have very little. The big practical certs mentioned in other comments in here are the exceptions but the vast majority are just extra revenue for the vendors.
Everyone who gets the vaccine is guaranteed to feel crappy and be less productive that day
No. You're wrong, and you're spreading misinformation.
First, from the flu shot? Your arm might be sore that day, and that's generally about it. The odds of getting even a low-grade fever or being achy are quite low.
Not true. I know for myself when I get the Flu shot I generally feel like crap for about a day. This should be expected, the shot triggers the immune system. Even so, I've had the flu (not to be confused with the common cold, which most people do) twice in my life and I'm more than happy to trade a "meh" day to reduce the odds that I'll ever go through that again.
If Google doesn't also have this creative commons filter, Bing has become the superior product for clip art searches.
It does.
Indeed. Every single bit of technology ever devised has been used to kill people. It's what we do.
Unless you're writing cheesy made-for-TV movies, nothing to see here. Move along.
I wonder if anyone has ever used click-bait to kill someone....
How does this not violate COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) when it comes to students under the age of 13? The law requires "...verifiable parental consent, with limited exceptions, prior to any collection, use, and/or disclosure of personal information from persons under age 13" Wikipedia
Wouldn't the person require a release form and consent from the people in the video to upload it or use it anywhere?
Depends on the circumstances and where it was taken but in most cases no release is required in the US. On top of that, it's part of the public record so that also factors in. At that point it's like republishing an arrest report or similar record.
This is something that can be fixed with legislation. Take the video out of the public record and restrict it to police/prosecutors and those individuals directly involved in a particular incident. Put a request process in place so the media can go through an judge where the privacy vs reporting issues can be weighed on a case by case basis. We already do this with other records where privacy of the individual(s) involved outweighs unrestricted public access. Some states have also started to do this with things like mugshots to prevent them from being used on mugshot websites (which are just a legal shakedown scheme).
Because this is how you get Lex Luthors!
What "studios" are you talking about? Isn't this kind of thing up to the publisher/funder (i.e. HBO)? In any case, it doesn't detract from the point. If these decisions are up to the studio, then every single person involved with marketing for the studio is incompetent. They're incompetent in thinking that DRM has a point when non-DRM files will always be posted on piracy sites within minutes of an airing. Why would someone pay for something inferior?
This isn't per-episode. It's a subscription to HBO, but sans cable. So no, all the content they show is not theirs. The vast majority is not theirs actually.
Wow, Samsung apologist fanbois. They really are copying Apple on everything!
I suspect BS, but I'll hear out the argument if there is actual evidence. Sliding down the resolution to 900p from 1080p would mostly save you on GPU, and Graphics memory usages. In a more detailed artilce it was stated that they picked 900p because they didn't want to fight with the differences between the XBone and PS4. The main reason the PS4 keeps getting 1080p and the XBone does not is that the memory for the graphics is so much faster. So if someone actually has the PC version and can so that "AI" is burning every processor at 100% then I'll buy their argument as plausable. Until then the story has changed from day to day, and isn't believable. If the AI has something to do with it then the AI coder has probably deadlocked the system when they use multiple cores, and has been cheating by using only one core.
Well if Watch_Dogs (another UbiSoft title) is any indication then I would believe it. I bought the PC version (yea yea, I know, Watch_dogs!? Fool me once...) and ran it on a 2nd gen i5. Don't recall the model exactly but it was clocked north of 3Ghz. Not a beast by today's standards but not horrible either. With that and a 780ti, the game was horribly CPU bound. Constantly at 100% CPU. Upgrading to a i7 4790K and it still runs at around 60% CPU. So yes, I can completely believe that their games are CPU bound. Now, as to why, and if it's necessary or just massively unoptimized, well......
Consumptions of infected simian meat has been the explanation for a very long time. Why does everyone seem surprised?
Because, at the same time, we've been told HIV can't spread orally.
Well since we don't routinely butcher and eat people, I imagine they felt they could leave that method out of the pamphlet. However blood-blood contact is also a known, disclosed method of transmission. It's just a lot less common in humans than sexual contact.