The problem is that entire areas of knowledge only ever conclude something by the repetition of inconclusive studies. Those areas include stuff like macroeconomics and psicology, as also stuff like particle physics.
I suppose YOU don't see a problem with some news organizations taking biased scientific output and unquestioningly running with it as though it were the concrete truth for ever more.
The GP just wrote an entire post complaining about nothing but this, but ok, I guess he may have no problem with that.
3) Something more sinister involving patents and/or protectionism?
It is an ICAO rule. That means that a body of technical people, from dozens of different countries all agreed on that rule. Yeah, you won't find the proceeds published, as some members don't like that, but it is quite hard to get dozens of different countries to unanimously agree on some protectionist procedure.
The sooting will almost surely not help, since ICAO rules are mainly created by engineers and pilots.
By what the GP quoted, the ban is there because USPS uses comercial passenger flights to transport their cargo, and ICAO won't allow one to transport things that may explode on passenger flights.
At Brazil, if you are a consumer, and the seller didn't say anything, the warranty lasts for 90 days. Even for a pen. Of course, if you are not a consumer, you are expected to have lawyers to review the contract, and the means to get the seller into court, thus no protection (small business, as always, get the short end of the stick). By the way, one can't wave out the fact that he's selling for consumers just by saying that the equipment is professional.
In fact, if there is any power disparity when selling a house (for example, when you are buying from a big company), the seller must provide warranty on it. The same is true for used cars and other complex stuff. A consumer isn't expected to be able to discover hidden problems on such itens at negotiation time, but a big company is. About EULAs, nobody could ever enforce one here at Brazil, not even against other business.
If all our laws were as good as our consumer protection laws...
It moves slower than what the press or even your senses tell you (because most of the times it is hidden). It moves faster than any other kind of technology ever moved.
With a sufficient PR budget aimed at that, we could fix the part of it moving slower than your sensed tell you by correcting your senses.
Hardly so. Excell doesn't even like to use commas for separating values in its CSV files. MS wouldn't destroy a stantard they brought to market, they reserve that for 3rd party stuff.
what do you do when the MARKET itself decides it wants a "closed proprietary environment"?
You act to avoid it becomming concentrated on a single player's plataform, and laught about the stupidity of people while the shortsightedness lasts. Once enough people are burned, the MARKET itself will decide it is better playing with things that don't explode on your face.
Just pay attention to the first sentence of the above paragraph. The laughing part is optional.
It is shady, and obviously, I'd refuse to buy a computer from a suplier that does something like that (or like trusted boot).
But I think that is overblown. MS has no monopoly on the phone market, it is not even an important player. It is currently not abusing any other monopoly to push it... I think we should just get over it (and turn our attention on the real problems MS will certainly create).
You know, up to now Apple's strategy is working exceptionaly well for pushing people into Android. If people ever notice Windows phones, it will probably have the same result.
Technology moves slowly. Forget all the buzz you listen on the media, the time some tech needs to start making that buzz is huge (even if it has a PR budget).
The point, tough, is that everything else is even slower, so tech in fact moves fast, but nothing moves as fast as you expect.
That's how the election officials in Brazil are doing it.
And just what evidence you have that brazilian elections are fair? I'd like to know that, because our government doesn't bring those pieces of evidence to the public.
Humidity often gets around 4% here, and there aren't so many people dying because of it. In fact, so few people die that it doesn't even get on the news, or makes any dent on statistics.
The fact is that if you drink enough water, your nose has a perfect capacity of maintaining its own humidity.
Journalist publishes something that goes against my model of the world - Ok: 1 - Will I update my model? Hardly, I trust journalists to come only with BS quality data. 2 - It it insconsistent with other bits of information I have? No, I expect it to not fit my model, since I expect it to be BS. 3 - Will I update my model of trustness of the journalist? Nope, I trust him to be wrong, I'll only add the 10th nine at my bayesian estimation of "he is wrong".
But of course, that's just nitipiking. In fact if a journalist tells me something that is surprizing and not some error I'd expect him to make*, I'd check on a more reliable source.
* Yeah, there is an enire class of falsehoods I actively expet to hear from them. In fact, sometimes I read mainstream press with the intent of verifying wich of a set of falsehoods is published, so I can conclude the facts. Yep, they are that easy to model - can journalists pass the turing test while they aren't working?
It is my suspicion (IANAQMPBTIBO) that in precisely the same way that matter is merely energy that has "condensed" and entangled, particles are merely waves that have "condensed" and entangled.
Isn't that the mainstream interpretation of particle physics? IANAP, and could never dig that deep, but by what physicist normaly say, that is my impression.
And until you measure it, the answer is not the simplified version of the cat being dead and alive at the same time, but that there's a probability it's dead, and a probability it's alive...
Yep, and when you decide to measure two cats, each alone having a probability of being dead, and a probability of being alife, you'll discover that just by having two cats, now both can not be dead at all.
"Probability" is a bad word to use here. It implies lots of rules, and quantum mechanics don't follow those rules.
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There will be lawyers at some point, but they won't be dictating the rules.
Of course. Why is that important?
The problem is that entire areas of knowledge only ever conclude something by the repetition of inconclusive studies. Those areas include stuff like macroeconomics and psicology, as also stuff like particle physics.
The GP just wrote an entire post complaining about nothing but this, but ok, I guess he may have no problem with that.
It is an ICAO rule. That means that a body of technical people, from dozens of different countries all agreed on that rule. Yeah, you won't find the proceeds published, as some members don't like that, but it is quite hard to get dozens of different countries to unanimously agree on some protectionist procedure.
The sooting will almost surely not help, since ICAO rules are mainly created by engineers and pilots.
By what the GP quoted, the ban is there because USPS uses comercial passenger flights to transport their cargo, and ICAO won't allow one to transport things that may explode on passenger flights.
At Brazil, if you are a consumer, and the seller didn't say anything, the warranty lasts for 90 days. Even for a pen. Of course, if you are not a consumer, you are expected to have lawyers to review the contract, and the means to get the seller into court, thus no protection (small business, as always, get the short end of the stick). By the way, one can't wave out the fact that he's selling for consumers just by saying that the equipment is professional.
In fact, if there is any power disparity when selling a house (for example, when you are buying from a big company), the seller must provide warranty on it. The same is true for used cars and other complex stuff. A consumer isn't expected to be able to discover hidden problems on such itens at negotiation time, but a big company is. About EULAs, nobody could ever enforce one here at Brazil, not even against other business.
If all our laws were as good as our consumer protection laws...
It moves slower than what the press or even your senses tell you (because most of the times it is hidden). It moves faster than any other kind of technology ever moved.
With a sufficient PR budget aimed at that, we could fix the part of it moving slower than your sensed tell you by correcting your senses.
Yeah, maybe they love lockin. That "maybe" is understating it, they probably do.
That being the case, they shouldn't complain about extosionists, and have their dane money separated already.
Where are you from? There are no consumer protection laws where you live?
How is selling a defective product without warranty different from fraud?
Hardly so. Excell doesn't even like to use commas for separating values in its CSV files. MS wouldn't destroy a stantard they brought to market, they reserve that for 3rd party stuff.
You mean people complained when IE was blocked on computers, and thus Microsoft wrote an OS for running it?
That is not how I remember things happening.
You act to avoid it becomming concentrated on a single player's plataform, and laught about the stupidity of people while the shortsightedness lasts. Once enough people are burned, the MARKET itself will decide it is better playing with things that don't explode on your face.
Just pay attention to the first sentence of the above paragraph. The laughing part is optional.
It is shady, and obviously, I'd refuse to buy a computer from a suplier that does something like that (or like trusted boot).
But I think that is overblown. MS has no monopoly on the phone market, it is not even an important player. It is currently not abusing any other monopoly to push it... I think we should just get over it (and turn our attention on the real problems MS will certainly create).
Yep, exactly the same as Apple.
You know, up to now Apple's strategy is working exceptionaly well for pushing people into Android. If people ever notice Windows phones, it will probably have the same result.
Technology moves slowly. Forget all the buzz you listen on the media, the time some tech needs to start making that buzz is huge (even if it has a PR budget).
The point, tough, is that everything else is even slower, so tech in fact moves fast, but nothing moves as fast as you expect.
And just what evidence you have that brazilian elections are fair? I'd like to know that, because our government doesn't bring those pieces of evidence to the public.
Humidity often gets around 4% here, and there aren't so many people dying because of it. In fact, so few people die that it doesn't even get on the news, or makes any dent on statistics.
The fact is that if you drink enough water, your nose has a perfect capacity of maintaining its own humidity.
Let me see.
Journalist publishes something that goes against my model of the world - Ok:
1 - Will I update my model? Hardly, I trust journalists to come only with BS quality data.
2 - It it insconsistent with other bits of information I have? No, I expect it to not fit my model, since I expect it to be BS.
3 - Will I update my model of trustness of the journalist? Nope, I trust him to be wrong, I'll only add the 10th nine at my bayesian estimation of "he is wrong".
But of course, that's just nitipiking. In fact if a journalist tells me something that is surprizing and not some error I'd expect him to make*, I'd check on a more reliable source.
* Yeah, there is an enire class of falsehoods I actively expet to hear from them. In fact, sometimes I read mainstream press with the intent of verifying wich of a set of falsehoods is published, so I can conclude the facts. Yep, they are that easy to model - can journalists pass the turing test while they aren't working?
Isn't that the mainstream interpretation of particle physics? IANAP, and could never dig that deep, but by what physicist normaly say, that is my impression.
Yep, and when you decide to measure two cats, each alone having a probability of being dead, and a probability of being alife, you'll discover that just by having two cats, now both can not be dead at all.
"Probability" is a bad word to use here. It implies lots of rules, and quantum mechanics don't follow those rules.
Yep, on Solaris it is fun!
Thanks. On my PC the kill man page didn't explain SIGQUIT at all.
Do you have any religious aversion to the 'killall' command?
Also, what is the difference between SIGTERM and SIGQUIT?
To be fair, Google also didn't get much money selling it. They got nearly all the money from searches.
On nearly all cases, Android is free. The only exceptions are when it comes bundled with a Google product.
If they are tidally locked, there won't be any tidal heating.
Life like we need a planet at the habitable zone, with tick athmosphere (to hold water), and not tidally locked into its star.