You forget access to mobile date (over the phone network). So Internet access over wi-fi isn't considered a permission, but Internet access over cellular is.
So this is supposedly the same company that makes cheap copies of Suunto/Garmin watches for the French budget sports chain Decathlon? Name and logo are identical. That is weird, because usually Decathlon sells slightly inferior products for a far lower price (which makes the Decathlon chain very popular with people that care more for outdoor sports than for appearances).
I think this "researcher" is full of shit. I think that we are still to blame for providing an easy and pervasive technological environment that allows them to bury their heads in their comfortable world of cyberspace and "social media", never having to come up for air. It's addictive as shit and they are all addicted to it. But, they're not at all interested in socializing IRL.
This is the most insightful AC post in a long time.
My kids can also socialize whatever they want (as long as their back by sunset, and if they don't, I do not mind picking them up), just like Danah Boyd did in her childhood. But still they spend an stupendous amount of time on social media - even when they are socializing.
It is not uncommon for them to sit around as friends, but to interact only with their smartphones with people that are not around. And these are smart, social, outwards looking kids.
We have to face it: it's the technology that is escapist and addictive by design.
We all contemplated suicide
We hoped for euthanasia
We were lulled into believing
Morphine dispelled pain
Rather than making it tangible
Like a mad Disney cartoon
Transforming itself into
Every conceivable nightmare
I guess it's good to have two systems. This can provide redundancy and improve reliability.
The difference in accuracy between just using GPS and a combination of GPS and GLONASS is gigantic, especially on places with limited view on the sky (canyons, but also cities). I used an Garmin etrex on a hike this summer, and I can clearly see in the recorded path were I switched from GPS + GLONASS to GPS and back again (I did this to save the batteries before I found spare batteries). It is the difference between right-on-track and wrong-side-of-the-valley.
I know you are joking, but there is plenty of water in the Atacama: rivers that originate in the Andes. They either flow out in the sea (through canyons), in salt pans, or sometimes through a tube to the coastal towns.
I set it to "classic" which goes a significant way to fixing the problem (gets rid of the giant images), but the title text is still gigantic and there's a lot of unnecessary white space and margins.
And all the body text - where all the frikkin content is - is smaller and thinner, and thus harder to read. Helloooooo designers, even heard about legibility? You do know that that is something you can actually measure, and not just an opinion?
It's pretty sad when the American government makes likes of Vladimir Putin look like a "good guy".
No matter how you dislike the American government, at least American lawyers do not die in Prison, and journalists do not get shot. If you complain about having your basics rights violated within the USA, you have evidently never travelled abroad.
One thing I've noticed since switching to a Windows tablet is how lousy the onscreen keyboard is. [...snip...] The Windows onscreen keyboards have none of that. What's more, they seem wildly inaccurate... the visual feedback seems to be telling me that I'm hitting the right keys, but when I look up at what I entered, half of the letters are keys right next to the ones I thought I was hitting (and although I can touch type on a physical keyboard, I do have to look at the keys on a tablet).
You may find it comforting that the keyboard on an iPad sucks too. Even with my short stubby fingers I have less problems typing on an iPhone than on an iPad. As soon as typing on the iPad reaches a certain speed, characters get dropped out (characters that, frustratingly, gave visual feedback on on the onscreen keyboard). And I *hate* having to dive 2 keyboards deep to reach the common math symbols.
This, here, is why Athiests [sic] are the least liked segment of America. You seem incapable of discussing your lack of faith without insulting those of us with faith in the Divine. You tell us that belief in God (or Gods) is foolishness.
So it is worse to call somebody a fool than to threaten them with eternal damnation, or torture in hell? Or reincarnation as a dog? Most religions I know of do not speak to kindly of non-believers. And some even follow that up with actions.
I am not a fool, nor do I insult you for your lack of faith.
Just as me, you _think_ you're not a fool (Please keep reading to the last paragraph - more explanation there). And I am sorry if you feel insulted, but I *really* can't take the belief in god any more serious than the belief in gnomes.
I look at the complex interplay of the physical laws of our universe and the infinitismal chance that they would all align with the requisite exactitude to create the necessary conditions for the devlopment of intelligent life and see that as evidence of some Divinity which has, at the very least, set this all in motion.
Elementary probability theory: the change of something happening is always 1 after it happened. The chance of my mom meeting my dad is 1, because if they hadn't, I wouldn't be here to calculate the chance. The chance of having rolled any series of dice is 1, but the chance of rolling the same series again is 1/6 * 1/6 etc.
If that makes me a fool, then a good number of humanities best and brightest are also fools.
I totally agree! There a lot people a lot smarter and better than me that are fools. That is because a certain level of foolishness is needed to operate properly, to motivate yourself and others, etc. The Dutch writer Matthijs van Boxsel turned the need for foolishness (or as he calls it, stupidity)
into a lifelong study. An English translation of his magnum opus is available on Amazon.
I guess that explains why the claimed SWAT thing wasn't reported in Dutch news (and also why they waited to pose so nicely on the picture).
The picture on their site does not even a show SWAT team (which would be a ‘arrestatieteam’), it shows ‘Mobiele Eenheid’, i.e. Riot Control. Or does anyone think they would use those batons to hit the bomb-proof door? Also, that kind of shield is good against bricks, but not against bullets.
Mobiele Eenheid is very seldom used for police raids. They only keep these at hand when they suspect a lot of bystanders that will interfere with a riad (trailer parks, really bad neigbourhoods), not when they raid a bunker.
What was China trying to get out of allowing NK to keep it's accounts anyway?
Simple: NK is a buffer state. If SK +NK would join, then American troops would be standing, on SK soil, right on the border with China. They obviously would hate that.
So what China does, is to keep the NK regime alive no matter what. But, they really hate what is happening now too: anti-ballistic systems in the US, and probably soon as well in Japan and SK. Because the GP is absolutely right, this weakens the militairy capabilities of China itself.
Not sure about the quality, but I think the price of the Phillips Hue is just insanely high.
That is because Philips is a top brand. We (used to) deal a lot with fluorescent tube lighting at work, and Philips always was the brand of choice, because of the long lifespan, high energy efficiency, and good color reproduction (high CRI value). But, being a top brand, they also have far higher margins.
Whether the extra quality is worth the double or triple price, is a personal decision.
No, only Iran disagrees, plus maybe Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the PLA. That are the only allies it has in the ME, and even those countries might not like a too powerful neighbour.
Renault cars with automatic transmission also come with an automatic parking brake, that switches on as soon as you switch off the engine. No cable in sight.
These kind of tricks don't have anything to do with people not understanding technology - it has everyting to do with the scammers understanding psychology. There are lots of ways to raise to the trust people have in you (which are not rational at all) that seem to get exploited, either by knowledge or by experience, by scammers and fraudsters worldwide.
One example would be the amounts 419 scammers ask to 'free your money'. Usually this is some weird amount like 423,50 instead of 500. Well, this is because a weird amount surprises us, and makes us more likely to believe the rest of the message!
What is happening here might be related to the 'authority by proxy' mechanism (don't take my word on it, I am not a psychologist in any way, I just like to read the science section in the newspaper). This is where people find it more likely for something to be true when you quote somebody else as the source. I.e. if I say "Cucumbers are bad for your teeth" you are less likely to believe that then when I say "Doctors say cucumbers are bad for your teeth". But if I can lie about the cucumbers, I might as wll lie about the doctors - there is no rational difference.
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You forget access to mobile date (over the phone network). So Internet access over wi-fi isn't considered a permission, but Internet access over cellular is.
So this is supposedly the same company that makes cheap copies of Suunto/Garmin watches for the French budget sports chain Decathlon? Name and logo are identical. That is weird, because usually Decathlon sells slightly inferior products for a far lower price (which makes the Decathlon chain very popular with people that care more for outdoor sports than for appearances).
This is the most insightful AC post in a long time.
My kids can also socialize whatever they want (as long as their back by sunset, and if they don't, I do not mind picking them up), just like Danah Boyd did in her childhood. But still they spend an stupendous amount of time on social media - even when they are socializing.
It is not uncommon for them to sit around as friends, but to interact only with their smartphones with people that are not around. And these are smart, social, outwards looking kids.
We have to face it: it's the technology that is escapist and addictive by design.
And it even has been solved already, in Rwanda.
With enough morphine, it feels really good.
We all contemplated suicide
We hoped for euthanasia
We were lulled into believing
Morphine dispelled pain
Rather than making it tangible
Like a mad Disney cartoon
Transforming itself into
Every conceivable nightmare
Derek Jarman, Blue
The difference in accuracy between just using GPS and a combination of GPS and GLONASS is gigantic, especially on places with limited view on the sky (canyons, but also cities). I used an Garmin etrex on a hike this summer, and I can clearly see in the recorded path were I switched from GPS + GLONASS to GPS and back again (I did this to save the batteries before I found spare batteries). It is the difference between right-on-track and wrong-side-of-the-valley.
Where are mod points when you need them. By far the smartest answer in this post.
I know you are joking, but there is plenty of water in the Atacama: rivers that originate in the Andes. They either flow out in the sea (through canyons), in salt pans, or sometimes through a tube to the coastal towns.
I set it to "classic" which goes a significant way to fixing the problem (gets rid of the giant images), but the title text is still gigantic and there's a lot of unnecessary white space and margins.
And all the body text - where all the frikkin content is - is smaller and thinner, and thus harder to read. Helloooooo designers, even heard about legibility? You do know that that is something you can actually measure, and not just an opinion?
And at least Putin is honest about his intentions, instead of saying one thing to get elected and doing the exact opposite afterwards.
Quotation needed!
No matter how you dislike the American government, at least American lawyers do not die in Prison, and journalists do not get shot. If you complain about having your basics rights violated within the USA, you have evidently never travelled abroad.
Was just going to say that. 1 CCTV per 14 subjects in the UK, in 2006: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6108496.stm And the the fuckers can't even elect their head of state. Greetings from another medieval society, the one with the most wiretaps in the world: http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/766686/2006/02/11/Nederland-is-kampioen-afluisteren.dhtml I guess we all have our cross to bear.
One thing I've noticed since switching to a Windows tablet is how lousy the onscreen keyboard is. [...snip...] The Windows onscreen keyboards have none of that. What's more, they seem wildly inaccurate ... the visual feedback seems to be telling me that I'm hitting the right keys, but when I look up at what I entered, half of the letters are keys right next to the ones I thought I was hitting (and although I can touch type on a physical keyboard, I do have to look at the keys on a tablet).
You may find it comforting that the keyboard on an iPad sucks too. Even with my short stubby fingers I have less problems typing on an iPhone than on an iPad. As soon as typing on the iPad reaches a certain speed, characters get dropped out (characters that, frustratingly, gave visual feedback on on the onscreen keyboard). And I *hate* having to dive 2 keyboards deep to reach the common math symbols.
How about asking the native Alaudans? We should now better by now than to continue our colonial past.
Have you been listening extensively to Peaches by any change?
This, here, is why Athiests [sic] are the least liked segment of America. You seem incapable of discussing your lack of faith without insulting those of us with faith in the Divine. You tell us that belief in God (or Gods) is foolishness.
So it is worse to call somebody a fool than to threaten them with eternal damnation, or torture in hell? Or reincarnation as a dog? Most religions I know of do not speak to kindly of non-believers. And some even follow that up with actions.
I am not a fool, nor do I insult you for your lack of faith.
Just as me, you _think_ you're not a fool (Please keep reading to the last paragraph - more explanation there). And I am sorry if you feel insulted, but I *really* can't take the belief in god any more serious than the belief in gnomes.
I look at the complex interplay of the physical laws of our universe and the infinitismal chance that they would all align with the requisite exactitude to create the necessary conditions for the devlopment of intelligent life and see that as evidence of some Divinity which has, at the very least, set this all in motion.
Elementary probability theory: the change of something happening is always 1 after it happened. The chance of my mom meeting my dad is 1, because if they hadn't, I wouldn't be here to calculate the chance. The chance of having rolled any series of dice is 1, but the chance of rolling the same series again is 1/6 * 1/6 etc.
If that makes me a fool, then a good number of humanities best and brightest are also fools.
I totally agree! There a lot people a lot smarter and better than me that are fools. That is because a certain level of foolishness is needed to operate properly, to motivate yourself and others, etc. The Dutch writer Matthijs van Boxsel turned the need for foolishness (or as he calls it, stupidity) into a lifelong study. An English translation of his magnum opus is available on Amazon.
I guess that explains why the claimed SWAT thing wasn't reported in Dutch news (and also why they waited to pose so nicely on the picture).
The picture on their site does not even a show SWAT team (which would be a ‘arrestatieteam’), it shows ‘Mobiele Eenheid’, i.e. Riot Control. Or does anyone think they would use those batons to hit the bomb-proof door? Also, that kind of shield is good against bricks, but not against bullets.
Mobiele Eenheid is very seldom used for police raids. They only keep these at hand when they suspect a lot of bystanders that will interfere with a riad (trailer parks, really bad neigbourhoods), not when they raid a bunker.
What was China trying to get out of allowing NK to keep it's accounts anyway?
Simple: NK is a buffer state. If SK +NK would join, then American troops would be standing, on SK soil, right on the border with China. They obviously would hate that.
So what China does, is to keep the NK regime alive no matter what. But, they really hate what is happening now too: anti-ballistic systems in the US, and probably soon as well in Japan and SK. Because the GP is absolutely right, this weakens the militairy capabilities of China itself.
Not sure about the quality, but I think the price of the Phillips Hue is just insanely high.
That is because Philips is a top brand. We (used to) deal a lot with fluorescent tube lighting at work, and Philips always was the brand of choice, because of the long lifespan, high energy efficiency, and good color reproduction (high CRI value). But, being a top brand, they also have far higher margins.
Whether the extra quality is worth the double or triple price, is a personal decision.
No, only Iran disagrees, plus maybe Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the PLA. That are the only allies it has in the ME, and even those countries might not like a too powerful neighbour.
And how would you turn this Renault Laguna key one notch?
Renault cars with automatic transmission also come with an automatic parking brake, that switches on as soon as you switch off the engine. No cable in sight.
These kind of tricks don't have anything to do with people not understanding technology - it has everyting to do with the scammers understanding psychology. There are lots of ways to raise to the trust people have in you (which are not rational at all) that seem to get exploited, either by knowledge or by experience, by scammers and fraudsters worldwide.
One example would be the amounts 419 scammers ask to 'free your money'. Usually this is some weird amount like 423,50 instead of 500. Well, this is because a weird amount surprises us, and makes us more likely to believe the rest of the message!
What is happening here might be related to the 'authority by proxy' mechanism (don't take my word on it, I am not a psychologist in any way, I just like to read the science section in the newspaper). This is where people find it more likely for something to be true when you quote somebody else as the source. I.e. if I say "Cucumbers are bad for your teeth" you are less likely to believe that then when I say "Doctors say cucumbers are bad for your teeth". But if I can lie about the cucumbers, I might as wll lie about the doctors - there is no rational difference.
E-ink is only black white or grey.
Definitively not. Color E-ink does exist, and what's more: it exists in large sizes. This stuff was developed for digital signage projects.
Check out Magink.
Unfortunately in most real world situations it is easier to either use a billboard, or a LED screen.
How many other churches have, in the modern era, tried to infiltrate the government and destroy evidence against them (Operation Snow White)?
Ever heard of the Islamic republic of Iran? That did not come about peacefully.
Or the Banco Ambrosiano scandal?