It's not even unique. Every time Apple releases ANYTHING, there's a spate of articles about OS X getting locked down, being replaced by iOS or disappearing entirely. Blah.
I can't comment on the accuracy of your statements about the US, but you've really lived in Canada? Are you sure? Did you actually study anything about our government or are you just making things up? Maybe you watched, read or listened to a particularly irritated political pundit?
Nonsense. You're confusing an unlocked iPhone with a jailbroken one. Updated versions of iOS on a given device are often jailbroken as they come out, or very shortly afterward. You don't lose any features at all when you jailbreak.
Yes, books that tell you how to live your life should always be written in such a way that they are unclear and require lots of interpretation, preferably by highly trained specialists. Because there's no way THAT system could be abused. God is so wise!
So what you're saying is that we missed the rapture by, oh, at least 1900 years, and all of us left down here should really have been having lots of casual sex in the meantime? According to the bible, of course.
Religion, and it's relatives patriotism, tribalism, etc. let people work together for a common goal. That's highly advantageous for whoever's genes are in charge, and even fairly good for the ones in the flock.
Oh look, someone else who knows the snappy phrase, but doesn't understand it. Actually, that subject sounds familiar... you're the one who always posts this same crap, aren't you?
There are three possibilities - coffee reduces prostate cancer risk, reduced prostate cancer risk increases coffee consumption or a third factor increases coffee consumption and decreases prostate cancer risk. While the third one is possible, the first is much more likely, and even the summary says "indicates."
Your complaint doesn't have anything to do with correlation; it's that "coffee" isn't a specific compound. While true, objecting to a preliminary study on those grounds is silly. If the effect is real someone will eventually chase down exactly what the mechanism is.
Emphasis on ANY KNOWN (that is, any wifi network you've connected to before). As it should. iOS does not try to connect to random unknown networks unless you tell it to.
You know Windows, OS X and Linux, and I imagine any other major OS, all do the same thing, right?
A vibrator uses an electric motor to convert electricity to motion. If instead, you impose motion, then the electric motor becomes a generator and produces electricity.
There is actually. A metre was originally defined as (what they thought was) one ten millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole at sea level.
The gram is defined as the mass of 1 cubic centimetre of water. The simple inter-relationships between SI units are actually one of the biggest features of the system, and would be completely lost if you defined each scale independently of the others.
You're right, you don't usually need to go from cm to km, although it can happen. Much more common would be m to km. The equivalent would be yards to miles, which, as the GP pointed out, is a conversion most Americans can't do easily.
For example, my stride is about 1 m. If I count 3213 steps, how far have I gone? 3.2 km (divide 3213 by 1000). My stride is also about 1 yard. 3213 steps takes me, um, 1.8 miles (divide by 1760 - ouch).
"The problem is Canadians employ the metric system, but with US cars calibrated in imperial units, they cannot be allowed on Canadian roads and the cost of conversion is prohibitive."
Um, what? There are lots of US cars on Canadian roads. I have friends who own one. They drove to Montana to buy it, brought it back across the border (declaring it and paying taxes) and use it as their main vehicle. A lot of Canadians would PREFER a car with a speedometer in kilometres per hour because they don't have to translate all the time, but there's no law that requires it.
You can use fractions in metric if you want to, it's just that people who use metric usually don't because it really is easier to use decimals.
1/16" is pretty close to 1/6 cm. If those carpenters were working in metric they'd probably just use millimetres as the smallest unit, or 1/10 cm if you insist on using fractions. Change that measurement into inches and you have an inconvenient decimal, or a REALLY inconvenient fraction to deal with.
The "round fractions in imperial translate to ugly decimals in metric" is a silly one. Round measurements in metric translate to ugly measurements in imperial too. The moral of that story is to just use one system, not that one is inherently better than another.
The problem with imperial measurements is that almost EVERY unit is effectively a different system, so unless you round off you frequently end up with nasty measurements when switching WITHIN the imperial system. That doesn't happen with metric.
Fractions themselves are pretty irritating. If my 13 mm socket is too big I might try a 12 mm, or an 11 mm if I don't have a 12 mm. If my 1/2 inch socket is too big, what do I use? 3/8"? 7/16"? Which of those is bigger? Sure it's not that hard to figure out, but it's more mental work than the metric.
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It's not even unique. Every time Apple releases ANYTHING, there's a spate of articles about OS X getting locked down, being replaced by iOS or disappearing entirely. Blah.
Nobel prizes are not given posthumously.
Every consumer camera, including cell phone cameras, already has one of those.
I can't comment on the accuracy of your statements about the US, but you've really lived in Canada? Are you sure? Did you actually study anything about our government or are you just making things up? Maybe you watched, read or listened to a particularly irritated political pundit?
Lots of the "cell phones cause cancer!" people think that lower power EMFs are even worse for you.
If you're going to buy into the crazy, why stop at the moderately crazy?
OMG! What if abbreviating words causes brain cancer? Or arguing on the Internet? We're going to lose two whole generations!
I wonder what they'd do if potato blight broke out?
Nonsense. You're confusing an unlocked iPhone with a jailbroken one. Updated versions of iOS on a given device are often jailbroken as they come out, or very shortly afterward. You don't lose any features at all when you jailbreak.
Updating the OS. Particularly to a custom version.
That IS the banner feature of "open" Android, isn't it?
Wrong. The OS is open. The devices aren't. The network isn't. The store isn't. Kinda marginalizes the value of an open OS.
Lasers, silicon, etc. were all known for a while before they had a noticeable impact on industry or society.
That's not sad. Idiots shouldn't have money. They might hurt themselves or someone else.
Yes, books that tell you how to live your life should always be written in such a way that they are unclear and require lots of interpretation, preferably by highly trained specialists. Because there's no way THAT system could be abused. God is so wise!
So what you're saying is that we missed the rapture by, oh, at least 1900 years, and all of us left down here should really have been having lots of casual sex in the meantime? According to the bible, of course.
Religion, and it's relatives patriotism, tribalism, etc. let people work together for a common goal. That's highly advantageous for whoever's genes are in charge, and even fairly good for the ones in the flock.
Have you ever seen a cathedral? They're generally not happy, friendly, brightly lit, everything white places. Even the modern ones.
Oh look, someone else who knows the snappy phrase, but doesn't understand it. Actually, that subject sounds familiar... you're the one who always posts this same crap, aren't you?
There are three possibilities - coffee reduces prostate cancer risk, reduced prostate cancer risk increases coffee consumption or a third factor increases coffee consumption and decreases prostate cancer risk. While the third one is possible, the first is much more likely, and even the summary says "indicates."
Your complaint doesn't have anything to do with correlation; it's that "coffee" isn't a specific compound. While true, objecting to a preliminary study on those grounds is silly. If the effect is real someone will eventually chase down exactly what the mechanism is.
Emphasis on ANY KNOWN (that is, any wifi network you've connected to before). As it should. iOS does not try to connect to random unknown networks unless you tell it to.
You know Windows, OS X and Linux, and I imagine any other major OS, all do the same thing, right?
A vibrator uses an electric motor to convert electricity to motion. If instead, you impose motion, then the electric motor becomes a generator and produces electricity.
Yes. Think that one through carefully. ;)
Nah, you need to allow for uncertainty. Use the blackjack scale.
There is actually. A metre was originally defined as (what they thought was) one ten millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole at sea level.
The gram is defined as the mass of 1 cubic centimetre of water. The simple inter-relationships between SI units are actually one of the biggest features of the system, and would be completely lost if you defined each scale independently of the others.
You're right, you don't usually need to go from cm to km, although it can happen. Much more common would be m to km. The equivalent would be yards to miles, which, as the GP pointed out, is a conversion most Americans can't do easily.
For example, my stride is about 1 m. If I count 3213 steps, how far have I gone? 3.2 km (divide 3213 by 1000). My stride is also about 1 yard. 3213 steps takes me, um, 1.8 miles (divide by 1760 - ouch).
I have never understood why anyone likes the Fahrenheit system. It's round numbers don't correspond to anything meaningful at all. 0 F? 100 F?
"The problem is Canadians employ the metric system, but with US cars calibrated in imperial units, they cannot be allowed on Canadian roads and the cost of conversion is prohibitive."
Um, what? There are lots of US cars on Canadian roads. I have friends who own one. They drove to Montana to buy it, brought it back across the border (declaring it and paying taxes) and use it as their main vehicle. A lot of Canadians would PREFER a car with a speedometer in kilometres per hour because they don't have to translate all the time, but there's no law that requires it.
You can use fractions in metric if you want to, it's just that people who use metric usually don't because it really is easier to use decimals.
1/16" is pretty close to 1/6 cm. If those carpenters were working in metric they'd probably just use millimetres as the smallest unit, or 1/10 cm if you insist on using fractions. Change that measurement into inches and you have an inconvenient decimal, or a REALLY inconvenient fraction to deal with.
The "round fractions in imperial translate to ugly decimals in metric" is a silly one. Round measurements in metric translate to ugly measurements in imperial too. The moral of that story is to just use one system, not that one is inherently better than another.
The problem with imperial measurements is that almost EVERY unit is effectively a different system, so unless you round off you frequently end up with nasty measurements when switching WITHIN the imperial system. That doesn't happen with metric.
Fractions themselves are pretty irritating. If my 13 mm socket is too big I might try a 12 mm, or an 11 mm if I don't have a 12 mm. If my 1/2 inch socket is too big, what do I use? 3/8"? 7/16"? Which of those is bigger? Sure it's not that hard to figure out, but it's more mental work than the metric.