Apple certainly has some kind of control. There are always lots of Apple product announcement rumours, including ones for real future products years in advance, but the rumours don't grow to fever pitch until there's ACTUALLY a product announcement in the near future. And those rumours are always basically on target, with the speculation limited to details.
It was obvious before the iPhone came out that Apple was going to announce a phone of some kind. Naturally the speculators didn't get the design right (otherwise Apple could just hire them instead of actual designers and engineers) but the phone part was dead on.
At the end of January Apple will release something, almost certainly some kind of touch interface tablet/slate/big iphone type device. As for the details? Everything we've heard is almost certainly substantially inaccurate.
"Those entities where they do it are done on a country level, which is fairly simple."
Nope. In Canada Amazon collects provincial AND national sales tax, including all the variations for what is taxed and how much in each province. Considering the entire country has about the same population as one of the larger US states, collecting sales tax wouldn't seem to be overly burdensome.
Strange, out in the boonies visiting my parents (and I'm talking northern Canada boonies, not those suburbs Americans call "rural"), my iPhone pulls in a usable signal where it is widely accepted that such things are not possible.
Everyone I know also takes reliability while driving for granted. Our cell companies are customer service horror stories, and we pay way too much, but from the stories their networks do seem to be quite a bit better than what you guys have got.
No, I said "for similar channels." Similar channels will have similar signal to noise ratios. It's true that data rate and signalling rate won't necessarily have the same proportionality constant between two very different mediums (like wireless and wired, for example), but we tend not to compare those directly anyway.
If we're going to compare our DSL or cable connections (for example, you're a bandwidth hog because you use ten times as much as I do), it's not a bad approximation to assume they have roughly equivalent S/N ratios. Even if you wanted to compare cable to DSL it wouldn't be such a terrible approximation.
I'm not saying that we're being correct when we say bandwidth when we mean data rate, just that it's a better approximation today than it used to be. You're absolutely correct that the noise characteristics of the channel still change the proportionality between the two, but for the consumer systems that the public usually talks about the S/N ratio tends to be a much smaller contributor to the variance than the modulation scheme used to be for modems.
As an aside, note that for the "bandwidth hog" type comparisons, we actually mean bandwidth, even though people usually use units of bits or bits/s. The important factor isn't how much data you transfer but rather how much of the available bandwidth you're occupying.
I did not claim that "bandwidth" and "data rate" are equal but that they are generally proportional today, since we normally push our communication channels very near their maximum data rates. That means that, for similar channels, if you have twice the bandwidth, which allows twice the signalling rate, you will get about twice the data rate as well. If my DSL connection is twice as fast as yours (by data rate), there is a very good chance that I'm using twice the bandwidth that you are.
This was not generally the case in the past since, as you point out, modems operating on 2400 Hz channels might provide 2400 b/s, 4800 b/s, 9600 b/s, 14400 b/s, etc., depending on how clever your modem was at exploiting the available bandwidth.
Never underestimate the cleverness of motivated people and the Internet.
You'd be releasing private information to the public. Sure, it might seem like you've figured out all the angles, but what if you miss one?
It's not even clear what the benefit would be. Okay, you see someone come into the building you're watching. Do they live there? Okay, they're sufficiently suspicious. Now what? Press the call the cops button? In the ten minutes it takes them to get there, the guy, who knows he's being watched (because everyone is) has done whatever he was going to do.
If you even get any active bacteria. Wasn't it Danone that just got slapped because someone actually tested their "probiotic" yogurt and found that there weren't any active cultures in it anyway?
Quite possibly. I'm definitely not saying we're all doomed, but it might be prudent to do a little research to at least see which direction we're going. The original poster's point was that just because we've got things pretty good right now (as judged by life expectancy) that doesn't mean our choices might not come back to haunt us later.
If we are going to need some sort of standard treatment in the future (or we want to act to avoid that) we're going to need some time to develop them.
True, but I'm not sure a guaranteed single-and-vulnerable woman would want her location and status broadcast to the world any more than a witness protection witness would want the world knowing where he or she was holed up.
The jealous husband/boyfriend might be able to think of a few interesting uses for the video feeds too. Nothing like video stalking your ex without having to break in and install the video surveillance yourself.
Methadone is literally a synthetic opioid - that is, made by man, as opposed to sourced from a plant. Since it's an opioid and heroin is an opioid (but a semi-naturally sourced one), methadone could quite accurately be labeled as synth-heroin. Being synthetic has nothing to do with it's potency. Since heroin isn't actually entirely natural I suppose you could call heroin synth-opium.
The article is really talking about using diazepam or a diazepam relative to replace alcohol. Diazepam is also a synthetic compound, but it's not nearly as closely related to alcohol as methadone is to heroin, so calling it synthahol is a bit more of a stretch, relying entirely on similar effects.
Or go eat some dirt. If you really want the stuff you would have gotten from the food supply, don't go ask some pharmaceutical company for some pills, go eat some dirt. It's cheaper, and you don't sound like an infomercial talking about probiotic supplements.
I realize you enjoy posting that, but nobody even implied people only lived to 35. If infant mortality is very high then your expected lifespan (at birth) might indeed be 35. If sanitation is very bad, there is generally very high infant mortality. As we are born with less and less protective bacteria, it is not unreasonable to investigate whether infant mortality might again start to increase.
Yeah, well, you started it, didn't you? Of course, like all master race discussions, yours appears to start with a couple of false assumptions and goes from there.
"As I read through the article, blue eyes, fair skin and hair were as indicated as behavior."
No, they weren't. Even the short article notes that Belyaev selected foxes based on which ones snapped at him when he offered his hand. Changes in coat colour (similar to those observed in dogs vs. wolves) were noted as a surprising incidental result. The more recent actual paper also linked mentions that those changes are likely a side effect of general changes in the timing of development, and are similar to mechanisms seen in dogs.
"And in the articles, it was by selective breeding with these patterns in mind, that these new foxes and rats were created."
No, it wasn't.
"I am trying to avoid presenting this as an argument for racism, but I think it is almost instinctive that darker skinned people are more feared than lighter skinned people."
All your arguments for this belief are heavily based on what is likely your society of origin, the US, which has and continues to have a very uneven relationship with people who have dark skin.
"Never the less, it's always scary when humans play god. Something is going to happen eventually, so should be really careful about it."
We are talking about breeding foxes here. Just like breeding dogs/cats/horses/plants, which is done by tens of thousands (hundreds? millions?) of people the world over, and has been for thousands of years.
Except I haven't hear of anybody actually using NBP recently, and your machine shouldn't fail over to using zeroconf resolution by default. If you don't ask for an address in a zeroconf domain then your computer shouldn't respond when someone helpfully pipes up "oh, I know where that is!"
I didn't think anyone used netbios anymore either, but it is on by default still, isn't it?
"This is what happens when you have techies trying to" produce an education system.. Let's not lose sight of the goal. People implementing business plans fail pretty miserably at educating third world children too. They often fail at educating first world students, for that matter.
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Apple certainly has some kind of control. There are always lots of Apple product announcement rumours, including ones for real future products years in advance, but the rumours don't grow to fever pitch until there's ACTUALLY a product announcement in the near future. And those rumours are always basically on target, with the speculation limited to details.
It was obvious before the iPhone came out that Apple was going to announce a phone of some kind. Naturally the speculators didn't get the design right (otherwise Apple could just hire them instead of actual designers and engineers) but the phone part was dead on.
At the end of January Apple will release something, almost certainly some kind of touch interface tablet/slate/big iphone type device. As for the details? Everything we've heard is almost certainly substantially inaccurate.
Because you're a big fan of crayons?
Amazon would have to write a few thousand cheques? Say it isn't so!
Strange how Wal-Mart and your other national chains manage to do it.
"Those entities where they do it are done on a country level, which is fairly simple."
Nope. In Canada Amazon collects provincial AND national sales tax, including all the variations for what is taxed and how much in each province. Considering the entire country has about the same population as one of the larger US states, collecting sales tax wouldn't seem to be overly burdensome.
"I expected someone would have checked the math before posting this kind of story on Slashdot"
Seriously? This story had some math, even if it was made up. That's way ahead of the usual.
"Sleeping" costs another 60+ trillion a year, just in the US.
"It's the phone. It's been trash since day zero"
Strange, out in the boonies visiting my parents (and I'm talking northern Canada boonies, not those suburbs Americans call "rural"), my iPhone pulls in a usable signal where it is widely accepted that such things are not possible.
Everyone I know also takes reliability while driving for granted. Our cell companies are customer service horror stories, and we pay way too much, but from the stories their networks do seem to be quite a bit better than what you guys have got.
No, I said "for similar channels." Similar channels will have similar signal to noise ratios. It's true that data rate and signalling rate won't necessarily have the same proportionality constant between two very different mediums (like wireless and wired, for example), but we tend not to compare those directly anyway.
If we're going to compare our DSL or cable connections (for example, you're a bandwidth hog because you use ten times as much as I do), it's not a bad approximation to assume they have roughly equivalent S/N ratios. Even if you wanted to compare cable to DSL it wouldn't be such a terrible approximation.
I'm not saying that we're being correct when we say bandwidth when we mean data rate, just that it's a better approximation today than it used to be. You're absolutely correct that the noise characteristics of the channel still change the proportionality between the two, but for the consumer systems that the public usually talks about the S/N ratio tends to be a much smaller contributor to the variance than the modulation scheme used to be for modems.
As an aside, note that for the "bandwidth hog" type comparisons, we actually mean bandwidth, even though people usually use units of bits or bits/s. The important factor isn't how much data you transfer but rather how much of the available bandwidth you're occupying.
Wow. My "medical theory 'modern dirt has everything you need'?" Are you serious?
Reading on, I see that you're not. "the Jarrow Labs EPS is crap. I'm taking Nature's Way Primadophilus Optima probiotics."
So yeah. Another infomercial.
I think you've missed the point of my post.
I did not claim that "bandwidth" and "data rate" are equal but that they are generally proportional today, since we normally push our communication channels very near their maximum data rates. That means that, for similar channels, if you have twice the bandwidth, which allows twice the signalling rate, you will get about twice the data rate as well. If my DSL connection is twice as fast as yours (by data rate), there is a very good chance that I'm using twice the bandwidth that you are.
This was not generally the case in the past since, as you point out, modems operating on 2400 Hz channels might provide 2400 b/s, 4800 b/s, 9600 b/s, 14400 b/s, etc., depending on how clever your modem was at exploiting the available bandwidth.
Today we tend to saturate the capacity of our channels so "bandwidth" and "data rate" are usually reasonably proportional, if not actually equal.
Never underestimate the cleverness of motivated people and the Internet.
You'd be releasing private information to the public. Sure, it might seem like you've figured out all the angles, but what if you miss one?
It's not even clear what the benefit would be. Okay, you see someone come into the building you're watching. Do they live there? Okay, they're sufficiently suspicious. Now what? Press the call the cops button? In the ten minutes it takes them to get there, the guy, who knows he's being watched (because everyone is) has done whatever he was going to do.
If you even get any active bacteria. Wasn't it Danone that just got slapped because someone actually tested their "probiotic" yogurt and found that there weren't any active cultures in it anyway?
Quite possibly. I'm definitely not saying we're all doomed, but it might be prudent to do a little research to at least see which direction we're going. The original poster's point was that just because we've got things pretty good right now (as judged by life expectancy) that doesn't mean our choices might not come back to haunt us later.
If we are going to need some sort of standard treatment in the future (or we want to act to avoid that) we're going to need some time to develop them.
True, but I'm not sure a guaranteed single-and-vulnerable woman would want her location and status broadcast to the world any more than a witness protection witness would want the world knowing where he or she was holed up.
The jealous husband/boyfriend might be able to think of a few interesting uses for the video feeds too. Nothing like video stalking your ex without having to break in and install the video surveillance yourself.
Methadone is literally a synthetic opioid - that is, made by man, as opposed to sourced from a plant. Since it's an opioid and heroin is an opioid (but a semi-naturally sourced one), methadone could quite accurately be labeled as synth-heroin. Being synthetic has nothing to do with it's potency. Since heroin isn't actually entirely natural I suppose you could call heroin synth-opium.
The article is really talking about using diazepam or a diazepam relative to replace alcohol. Diazepam is also a synthetic compound, but it's not nearly as closely related to alcohol as methadone is to heroin, so calling it synthahol is a bit more of a stretch, relying entirely on similar effects.
Good idea. Posting video feeds from in and around the buildings where witnesses and others in need of protection live sounds like a great idea.
Law enforcement: "Please watch these cameras and let us know if you see something suspicious."
Mafia: "$5000 for the first person who recognizes the building in this picture."
The side dishes and details of preparation and presentation are entirely up to the individual.
Or go eat some dirt. If you really want the stuff you would have gotten from the food supply, don't go ask some pharmaceutical company for some pills, go eat some dirt. It's cheaper, and you don't sound like an infomercial talking about probiotic supplements.
I realize you enjoy posting that, but nobody even implied people only lived to 35. If infant mortality is very high then your expected lifespan (at birth) might indeed be 35. If sanitation is very bad, there is generally very high infant mortality. As we are born with less and less protective bacteria, it is not unreasonable to investigate whether infant mortality might again start to increase.
The second is already done. It's given to addicts to ease them off the real stuff.
Yeah, well, you started it, didn't you? Of course, like all master race discussions, yours appears to start with a couple of false assumptions and goes from there.
"As I read through the article, blue eyes, fair skin and hair were as indicated as behavior."
No, they weren't. Even the short article notes that Belyaev selected foxes based on which ones snapped at him when he offered his hand. Changes in coat colour (similar to those observed in dogs vs. wolves) were noted as a surprising incidental result. The more recent actual paper also linked mentions that those changes are likely a side effect of general changes in the timing of development, and are similar to mechanisms seen in dogs.
"And in the articles, it was by selective breeding with these patterns in mind, that these new foxes and rats were created."
No, it wasn't.
"I am trying to avoid presenting this as an argument for racism, but I think it is almost instinctive that darker skinned people are more feared than lighter skinned people."
All your arguments for this belief are heavily based on what is likely your society of origin, the US, which has and continues to have a very uneven relationship with people who have dark skin.
"Never the less, it's always scary when humans play god. Something is going to happen eventually, so should be really careful about it."
We are talking about breeding foxes here. Just like breeding dogs/cats/horses/plants, which is done by tens of thousands (hundreds? millions?) of people the world over, and has been for thousands of years.
Except I haven't hear of anybody actually using NBP recently, and your machine shouldn't fail over to using zeroconf resolution by default. If you don't ask for an address in a zeroconf domain then your computer shouldn't respond when someone helpfully pipes up "oh, I know where that is!"
I didn't think anyone used netbios anymore either, but it is on by default still, isn't it?
"This is what happens when you have techies trying to" produce an education system.. Let's not lose sight of the goal. People implementing business plans fail pretty miserably at educating third world children too. They often fail at educating first world students, for that matter.