> All of these studies could have been done in 1980. I wonder if they were.
To my foggy recollection, they were. I remember seeing some convincing evidence in the late eighties that only 30% of blood cholesterol comes from fat in the diet, with the other 70% indirectly related to carb consumption. Not exactly what this study is saying, but going the right direction.
I learned that (TFA) in college biology, and it always seemed strange to me that doctors were advising the opposite of how the mechanisms actually worked.
But I'm sure that there will be another study next week that links saturated fat with erectile dysfunction, toe cancer and bleeding from the eyebrows. And around we go.
> except this is about the kernel version and not the distribution name/version.
As I and others have pointed out, TFA is about the kernel version but the responder's comment to which I was replying was clearly about the OS version. It's one of those things that's called A Side Issue.
> If you knew anything about GNU/Linux you would have had a clue about what the article was about.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Condescending Man!. I do have a clue about what the article was about, thanks. A good part of my living comes from RHEL administration, and I'm quite aware of the difference between kernel version and OS version.
Previous comment was: "Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows..." implying software version, not kernel, which unlike what TFA was talking about, is an integer, not a decimal.
With all the past lawsuits over sudden accelerations and other safety issues blamed (correctly or incorrectly) on software bugs, why would any automobile manufacturer in their right minds allow the customer to flash their own firmware? Seems to me that this is something to which any manufacturer who wants to stay in business (and out of jail) would be violently opposed.
I'd like my passenger to be able to program an address into the navigator without having to have the darn parking brake on. Yeah, I know, safety blah blah, but why is it less safe for a passenger to manipulate the console while I'm driving? (Assuming we aren't watching a movie or some other profoundly stupid thing.)
They actually had a good reason to skip 9. Too many third party products checked whether they were running on Windows 95 or Windows 98 by matching the string "Windows 9". It would have been the Microsoft version of the Y2K problem.
I used to drive "home" for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Had some hair-raising, painful, and very uncomfortable experiences and only realize now that I and my immediate family are lucky to be alive.
Since the mid-nineties, I've refused to travel on the holidays. We have Thanksgiving and Christmas at our house. This makes sense, because "Home" is not where your parents live (or used to live), it's where you have set roots and raised your own family.
Once a year I take a trip to see relatives, (and to have some time to myself) but it's not near any holiday.
> I am so fucking sick of people walking into my repair shop and telling me I'm wrong, they're not scammers, they didn't fall for anything, and they don't want to lose their alleged lifetime membership to unlimited support.
At that point I say "I can't do anything for you. Thanks for dropping by."
I've been blessed by customers who contact me when they get suspicious calls or emails, and can be trained to not click on scareware popups. When a computer is infected, it's almost always because someone's kid got access to it. But I still deeply resent these scam calls. They're directly interfering with *my* livelihood!
"Hello I am being Jim and I am with the Microsoft. I am calling you to tell you that your computer is infested with the viruses."
Alternately it's "The Internet" rather than "The Microsoft". (For some reason, you have to include the "The" both for Microsoft and viruses.)
Man, they're annoying. I'm not sure why I find them more unbearable than the usual offshore telemarketer. Perhaps because the lies are so brazen. The last time, I asked him if his mother knows he cheats people out of money for a living? He insisted no, he's trying to help me! He got really excited about it. Probably because he desperately needed this call's rupee for food that night.
Surveying friends and family (including a couple hundred facebook friends), calls at first seemed random, but in more recent months, appear to specifically be targeting people over 50. The most recent calls have asked for me by name. This leads me to believe that they're using someone's pilfered (or purchased?) address list. Has AARP had any breaches lately?
My limited understanding is the reason advertisers still view Nielsen ratings is for the demographics (i.e. 18-49 male, 18-49 female...). You can't get those from DVR and streaming viewing, you need a family doing the diary work. Netflix now has profiles which may eventually help, but for now the ancient creaking machine of Nielsen still determines how a company's advertising dollar is spent.
I understand, but that very demographic, 18-49 male or female, are the group least likely to be watching in real time.
I'd say that on the short term morality is a hindrance. But even if your morally questionable decisions don't cause your startup to implode, would you really want to be part of the kind of company it would become?
> Nielsen Will Start Tracking Netflix and Amazon Video
What, you mean they haven't been tracking on demand and streaming video? Then, how are they at all relevant? The TV Tray Generation, who watches TV in real time and sits through the commercials, have been dying out for some time, and as a group are all but irrelevant now.
Thinking about it, this may help to explain why network suits regularly drop promising series that go on to become streaming favorites. It's not just that they don't understand their audience, but also that they're going by statistics from an organization that also no longer understands their audience.
"Why not?" isn't a reason, granted. But it is a valid question. Enlarged, it might be "what is unethical about bringing back an extinct species?" Especially, reportedly in the case of the mammoth, when early man had a hand in the species becoming extinct.
As to breeding pets, I make absolutely no apology for that. My pets are companions, and live close to me, in a pack or flock or whatever, not in some remote place to be occasionally visited.
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> All of these studies could have been done in 1980. I wonder if they were.
To my foggy recollection, they were. I remember seeing some convincing evidence in the late eighties that only 30% of blood cholesterol comes from fat in the diet, with the other 70% indirectly related to carb consumption. Not exactly what this study is saying, but going the right direction.
Everything you know is wrong.
I learned that (TFA) in college biology, and it always seemed strange to me that doctors were advising the opposite of how the mechanisms actually worked.
But I'm sure that there will be another study next week that links saturated fat with erectile dysfunction, toe cancer and bleeding from the eyebrows. And around we go.
> except this is about the kernel version and not the distribution name/version.
As I and others have pointed out, TFA is about the kernel version but the responder's comment to which I was replying was clearly about the OS version. It's one of those things that's called A Side Issue.
> If you knew anything about GNU/Linux you would have had a clue about what the article was about.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Condescending Man!. I do have a clue about what the article was about, thanks. A good part of my living comes from RHEL administration, and I'm quite aware of the difference between kernel version and OS version.
Previous comment was: "Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows..." implying software version, not kernel, which unlike what TFA was talking about, is an integer, not a decimal.
With all the past lawsuits over sudden accelerations and other safety issues blamed (correctly or incorrectly) on software bugs, why would any automobile manufacturer in their right minds allow the customer to flash their own firmware? Seems to me that this is something to which any manufacturer who wants to stay in business (and out of jail) would be violently opposed.
I'd like my passenger to be able to program an address into the navigator without having to have the darn parking brake on. Yeah, I know, safety blah blah, but why is it less safe for a passenger to manipulate the console while I'm driving? (Assuming we aren't watching a movie or some other profoundly stupid thing.)
They actually had a good reason to skip 9. Too many third party products checked whether they were running on Windows 95 or Windows 98 by matching the string "Windows 9". It would have been the Microsoft version of the Y2K problem.
I'm voting for hit DEL at the login screen to bypass.
Every version number has been bumped!
Yeah, think of how much work this was. We had to create new entries in the inventory database, and... and... everything!
I used to drive "home" for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Had some hair-raising, painful, and very uncomfortable experiences and only realize now that I and my immediate family are lucky to be alive.
Since the mid-nineties, I've refused to travel on the holidays. We have Thanksgiving and Christmas at our house. This makes sense, because "Home" is not where your parents live (or used to live), it's where you have set roots and raised your own family.
Once a year I take a trip to see relatives, (and to have some time to myself) but it's not near any holiday.
Landlines, exclusively.
> I am so fucking sick of people walking into my repair shop and telling me I'm wrong, they're not scammers, they didn't fall for anything, and they don't want to lose their alleged lifetime membership to unlimited support.
At that point I say "I can't do anything for you. Thanks for dropping by."
Agreed. They desperately need to burn in hell.
I've been blessed by customers who contact me when they get suspicious calls or emails, and can be trained to not click on scareware popups. When a computer is infected, it's almost always because someone's kid got access to it. But I still deeply resent these scam calls. They're directly interfering with *my* livelihood!
"Hello I am being Jim and I am with the Microsoft. I am calling you to tell you that your computer is infested with the viruses."
Alternately it's "The Internet" rather than "The Microsoft". (For some reason, you have to include the "The" both for Microsoft and viruses.)
Man, they're annoying. I'm not sure why I find them more unbearable than the usual offshore telemarketer. Perhaps because the lies are so brazen. The last time, I asked him if his mother knows he cheats people out of money for a living? He insisted no, he's trying to help me! He got really excited about it. Probably because he desperately needed this call's rupee for food that night.
Surveying friends and family (including a couple hundred facebook friends), calls at first seemed random, but in more recent months, appear to specifically be targeting people over 50. The most recent calls have asked for me by name. This leads me to believe that they're using someone's pilfered (or purchased?) address list. Has AARP had any breaches lately?
My limited understanding is the reason advertisers still view Nielsen ratings is for the demographics (i.e. 18-49 male, 18-49 female...). You can't get those from DVR and streaming viewing, you need a family doing the diary work. Netflix now has profiles which may eventually help, but for now the ancient creaking machine of Nielsen still determines how a company's advertising dollar is spent.
I understand, but that very demographic, 18-49 male or female, are the group least likely to be watching in real time.
I'd say that on the short term morality is a hindrance. But even if your morally questionable decisions don't cause your startup to implode, would you really want to be part of the kind of company it would become?
Listen to me while I get it on while watching movies.
"I don't know, it seemed like they had "The Best of Me" and Animal Planet on at the same time."
> Nielsen Will Start Tracking Netflix and Amazon Video
What, you mean they haven't been tracking on demand and streaming video? Then, how are they at all relevant? The TV Tray Generation, who watches TV in real time and sits through the commercials, have been dying out for some time, and as a group are all but irrelevant now.
Thinking about it, this may help to explain why network suits regularly drop promising series that go on to become streaming favorites. It's not just that they don't understand their audience, but also that they're going by statistics from an organization that also no longer understands their audience.
Why debug the first draft when you have the entire nation acting as quality control?
Is at an all time high.
However, I'd rather have morons in power than smart guys. The smart guys can really screw us!
Even worse, smart guys with the best of intentions.
That'd definitely solve the "obese crisis". And eventually, the "population crisis".
Excellent point. As a general rule, if it's on Yahoo's home page, it doesn't belong on Slashdot.
You'd think that we'd have found all the parts of the human body by now ...
This is /. so I'm sure many of us have yet undiscovered parts of the human body...
At least, those that we can't conveniently reach...
"Why not?" isn't a reason, granted. But it is a valid question. Enlarged, it might be "what is unethical about bringing back an extinct species?" Especially, reportedly in the case of the mammoth, when early man had a hand in the species becoming extinct.
As to breeding pets, I make absolutely no apology for that. My pets are companions, and live close to me, in a pack or flock or whatever, not in some remote place to be occasionally visited.
Wasn't that a Frank Zappa album?