I don't know if any tests have been done officially, but I can tell you from personal experience that those lights can cause a reaction in photosensitives. I have epilepsy with photosensitivity, and I have once or twice had problems with those lights if I get stuck around them...
Um, for radio isotope decay to change, it would have to mean the laws of physics changed too... Not only do we not have evidence of the laws of physics changing periodically, we have evidence that it they don't.
Honestly, the above posters have given you all the information you need to see how it could happen. Hypothetically, the discussed air bladder could have come about as a mutation creating a gas-filled space in the abdomen. If properly formed, this would actually help if float and make movement easier. This give evolution something to act on. As successive generations filter for better designs you can end up with a fully-formed air bladder. Now if a fish(s) is born with born with a thinner air bladder and blood vessels closer to the inside and now you have oxygen passing through the skin into the blood. Again, evolution can act on this and eventaully you have lungs
Evolution is not, by any means a linear process. The classic "if we evolved from apes why are they still here?" argument is evidence of a lack of understanding of evolution. We did not come directly from apes. Instead, we share a common ancestor with modern great apes. But even if we did evolve directly from them, there is no evolutionary rule against them existing. This is the core idea of speciation. If it were linear we'd only have one living species at a time. Instead, an isolated group of a species is put under a stress that favors a specific trait(s). This causes the group to begin to show more of that trait in each generation. Eventually the changes become so compounded that the isolated group is no longer genetically compatible with the original main group. Now you have a new species. The "million other questions" about evolution usually have definite answers, it's simply that most people are not aware of these aspects. The evolution taught in (US) schools is an extremely simplified and if you take this Readers Digest version as all there is to it, it may seem flawed. This is not a failing of the evolutionary theory, but simply a failing in our ability to effectively communicate it to the average person.
Another test, already proven by the way, is the hypothesis of development/inheritance of adaptive traits. It's important to realize that when Darwin formulated the Theory of Evolution there was no understood mechanism for the passing of inherited traits. Darwin indicated that for his theory to be true, there must be a way for new traits to be introduced, and just as important, there had to be a way to pass these traits to the next generation. If, when the field of genetics was born, it was shown that the genes that carried our traits did not mutate, or that mutated genes weren't passed to children it would have been damning evidence that evolution wasn't the real story. Instead, genetics; a science that didn't even exist when evolution was developed, showed exactly what we'd expect it to according to evolution. Genes can be altered through mutation. Theses mutated genes can create new traits. These new traits, if advantageous can propagate through a species through inheritance. It's not that evolution couldn't be proven wrong, it just hasn't.
They get as compensation permission to enter the store. The store is private property and they are not required to allow you in. They lay terms for your entry. You may take the consideration and , in doing so, implicitly agree to the terms of the agreement.
Actually I used to work for Circuit City and they insist on owning their stores. I worked in what I believe to be one of the only stores to be situated on non-company owned property. Their general MO is they buy out whatever plaza they intend to put a store in and then charge rent to the other stores if applicable.
As for the individual in the article, I can see both sides of the arguement here. On one hand the store associates and especially the police overreacted. On the other hand this man unitentionally behaved in the exact same way that countless shoplifters did. In fact I stopped a shoplifter that acted the exact same way (blew past associates at the door, had a running get away car in the firelane, refused to get out of the car to talk to us, pretended they had no idea what we were talking about) and almost got away with an AppleTV and a set of Bose headphones. Add to that this store (which was actually in the district I was in) is "high-shrink" (read gets-ripped-off-a-lot) it's no wonder they reacted so badly.
If this is a little offtopic I apologize but I am curious, has your company thought about including a small resident memory scanner into your product? By this I mean essentially a small antivirus just to check the RAM for the pressence of known keyloggers, etc. That might silence some of the detractors here complaining about a compromised host. Though truthfully I don't understand that complaint given that anything sufficiently sensitive to be put on this device shouldn't be opened on an untrusted machine anyway....Anywho, I look forward to your response, this looks like a very interesting device and I can definitely see a lot of potential in it
As someone in the company (not corporate, I'm a firedog[go ahead a laugh, it pays the bills])I might be able to shed some light on this. Many of the stores that are closing are actually being replaced by stores nearby in better locations. In these cases the staff are simply being relocated to the new location. To do this, they have to build the new stores first and then close the old ones.
This is actually how current model Netgear routers are configured. After connection every url redirects to the setup wizard until it has been run through completely. It's actually a nice and straight forward setup for a novice computer user.
Um, I could be wrong but I think the parent agrees with you. He said nothing of whether AutoDesk has allowed for interoperability. He's stating that AutoDesk's attempt to use the Trademark provisions on the Lanham Act as protection against interoperability are doomed to failure and MUST be doomed to failure. If they are ruled to be valid it sets a horrible precident that could undermine whole industries. The parent is saying that AutoDesk should not be allowed to succeed because the courts have already ruled interoperability a valid reason for reverse engineering. He's not saying that AutoDesk isn't/won't try to curtail it anyway, nor is he saying anything about AutoDesk's policies. He's simply saying that their argument can't be valid
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To some extent this is already happening. I'm an In-home technician for a major electronics retailer and I can tell you that if you buy a PC in a retail store like ours, the sales people will pound into you the idea of in-home setup, virus protection, etc. The problem is that people will find a way around it if it'll save them a few bucks. People can be told it's better for a pro to configure it but they'll take their chances for a slightly smaller bill. Even if we made it mandatory with every purchase, people would just go elsewhere for "cheaper" pc's without the service. And even with the AV/AS installed and a pro setup they're not enough to combat consumer ineffectualism. I can't count how many times customers come in with virus-ridded pc's and tell us they "just ignore the anti-virus pop-up thingy" asking to do a scan.....
Yes, but you shouldn't be able to use a social trend to justify an individual action. Every person following into a trend needs to be accountable for their choice and participation. If the next "new thing" was bludgeoning yourself with a hammer, the participats would get no sympathy from me for "trying to fit in"
I hear you there. I go to an unnamed school in north east Ohio, and the only systems there that have ever run anything non-windows are the derelect systems pieced together for a "special topics" course on linux. I suppose i shouldn't complain(at least theyhad a course dealing with linux), but the majority of the computer tech students (including those that took the course) have little idea about linux, the command line, or anything but what they find in windows explorer.
The time I set foot into a church, they were just introducing a "new" version of the gospel. It was "revised" to include non-gender-specific referrences and "updated" to remove unusually harsh wording...And people wonder why I don't go there anymore.
I guess no one told you about the 942...The 942, and 721 Dish recievers both tend to have a lot of problems.There new tech for Dish. So without knowing it, you were beta testing for Dish. If it's any consolation, The more recent s/w versions eliminate a lot of the bugs. Eventually they should be just about usable;)
Tivo actually uses a filesystem similar to one of Apple's older filesystems. There was a story a while back describing the innards of the Tivo, but I'm too lazy to find the link right now...
Why is everybody horrified by this idea? Do you think Apple is the only company on the planet that does this? Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Ati do the exact same thing. When a new core comes out,they sell 1 version at the max speed and others, physically identical mind you, that are locked on slower speeds. Nobody here is screaming about how horrible they are for down clocking. This is marketing. If you want 2 monitors buy the powerbook. If, like most users, you won't need that you can get the iBook cheaper
I love that people can be so narrow-minded about these situations. Has it ever occured to you that the people watching broadcast tv aren't just fat, lazy, slobs. I know an older couple who are fall into the class of people affected by this change. They live on a very tight income and have had the same tv as long as I've been alive. They both work part/full time jobs. They have hobbies (gardening, knitting, and even helping out in schools).And at the end of the day they watch the evening news and Jepoardy. They cannot afford, nor do they want a new tv. They're happy the way they are. They are both in their 50's/60's and are not going to suddenly get up and pursue new carrers and "better themselves" as you see it.
If tommorrow a government agency came out and said "anyone who doesn't purchase a new computer in te next 3 months will be unable to access the internet at that time" there would be a flood of posts here from the same people outraged that their perfectly usable systems would be orphaned suddenly. Even if there was a legitimate reason for changing the core technologies in use that would cause the older systems to be incompatable, there would be an outcry that what we have now works and we don't want to be forced to change. Yet when it doesn't directly apply to you, it's okay that it's happening since "they don't need it"
I think its important to remember that, while OSS java might not be a big deal to every member of the java community, it is a big deal for java and OSS. A n open source java as a whole. This means that OSS like linux distrbutions could carry JVM's without liscense worries. It also mean the possibility of bring java to platforms Sun does not support on it own. This could negate a lot of the barriers to OSS using java. (Yes I know OSS apps are already being written in java, but those can only move to where java is. If Debian can't carry java, it can't really carry java apps either)
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I don't know if any tests have been done officially, but I can tell you from personal experience that those lights can cause a reaction in photosensitives. I have epilepsy with photosensitivity, and I have once or twice had problems with those lights if I get stuck around them...
Um, for radio isotope decay to change, it would have to mean the laws of physics changed too... Not only do we not have evidence of the laws of physics changing periodically, we have evidence that it they don't.
Honestly, the above posters have given you all the information you need to see how it could happen. Hypothetically, the discussed air bladder could have come about as a mutation creating a gas-filled space in the abdomen. If properly formed, this would actually help if float and make movement easier. This give evolution something to act on. As successive generations filter for better designs you can end up with a fully-formed air bladder. Now if a fish(s) is born with born with a thinner air bladder and blood vessels closer to the inside and now you have oxygen passing through the skin into the blood. Again, evolution can act on this and eventaully you have lungs
sorry, just replying to purge the flamebait mod i accidentally gave you...
Evolution is not, by any means a linear process. The classic "if we evolved from apes why are they still here?" argument is evidence of a lack of understanding of evolution. We did not come directly from apes. Instead, we share a common ancestor with modern great apes. But even if we did evolve directly from them, there is no evolutionary rule against them existing. This is the core idea of speciation. If it were linear we'd only have one living species at a time. Instead, an isolated group of a species is put under a stress that favors a specific trait(s). This causes the group to begin to show more of that trait in each generation. Eventually the changes become so compounded that the isolated group is no longer genetically compatible with the original main group. Now you have a new species. The "million other questions" about evolution usually have definite answers, it's simply that most people are not aware of these aspects. The evolution taught in (US) schools is an extremely simplified and if you take this Readers Digest version as all there is to it, it may seem flawed. This is not a failing of the evolutionary theory, but simply a failing in our ability to effectively communicate it to the average person.
Another test, already proven by the way, is the hypothesis of development/inheritance of adaptive traits. It's important to realize that when Darwin formulated the Theory of Evolution there was no understood mechanism for the passing of inherited traits. Darwin indicated that for his theory to be true, there must be a way for new traits to be introduced, and just as important, there had to be a way to pass these traits to the next generation. If, when the field of genetics was born, it was shown that the genes that carried our traits did not mutate, or that mutated genes weren't passed to children it would have been damning evidence that evolution wasn't the real story. Instead, genetics; a science that didn't even exist when evolution was developed, showed exactly what we'd expect it to according to evolution. Genes can be altered through mutation. Theses mutated genes can create new traits. These new traits, if advantageous can propagate through a species through inheritance. It's not that evolution couldn't be proven wrong, it just hasn't.
They get as compensation permission to enter the store. The store is private property and they are not required to allow you in. They lay terms for your entry. You may take the consideration and , in doing so, implicitly agree to the terms of the agreement.
Actually I used to work for Circuit City and they insist on owning their stores. I worked in what I believe to be one of the only stores to be situated on non-company owned property. Their general MO is they buy out whatever plaza they intend to put a store in and then charge rent to the other stores if applicable.
As for the individual in the article, I can see both sides of the arguement here. On one hand the store associates and especially the police overreacted. On the other hand this man unitentionally behaved in the exact same way that countless shoplifters did. In fact I stopped a shoplifter that acted the exact same way (blew past associates at the door, had a running get away car in the firelane, refused to get out of the car to talk to us, pretended they had no idea what we were talking about) and almost got away with an AppleTV and a set of Bose headphones. Add to that this store (which was actually in the district I was in) is "high-shrink" (read gets-ripped-off-a-lot) it's no wonder they reacted so badly.
If this is a little offtopic I apologize but I am curious, has your company thought about including a small resident memory scanner into your product? By this I mean essentially a small antivirus just to check the RAM for the pressence of known keyloggers, etc. That might silence some of the detractors here complaining about a compromised host. Though truthfully I don't understand that complaint given that anything sufficiently sensitive to be put on this device shouldn't be opened on an untrusted machine anyway....Anywho, I look forward to your response, this looks like a very interesting device and I can definitely see a lot of potential in it
As someone in the company (not corporate, I'm a firedog[go ahead a laugh, it pays the bills])I might be able to shed some light on this. Many of the stores that are closing are actually being replaced by stores nearby in better locations. In these cases the staff are simply being relocated to the new location. To do this, they have to build the new stores first and then close the old ones.
I'm not the parent but look here for some cheaper hdmi cables.
This is actually how current model Netgear routers are configured. After connection every url redirects to the setup wizard until it has been run through completely. It's actually a nice and straight forward setup for a novice computer user.
Um, I could be wrong but I think the parent agrees with you. He said nothing of whether AutoDesk has allowed for interoperability. He's stating that AutoDesk's attempt to use the Trademark provisions on the Lanham Act as protection against interoperability are doomed to failure and MUST be doomed to failure. If they are ruled to be valid it sets a horrible precident that could undermine whole industries. The parent is saying that AutoDesk should not be allowed to succeed because the courts have already ruled interoperability a valid reason for reverse engineering. He's not saying that AutoDesk isn't/won't try to curtail it anyway, nor is he saying anything about AutoDesk's policies. He's simply saying that their argument can't be valid
To some extent this is already happening. I'm an In-home technician for a major electronics retailer and I can tell you that if you buy a PC in a retail store like ours, the sales people will pound into you the idea of in-home setup, virus protection, etc. The problem is that people will find a way around it if it'll save them a few bucks. People can be told it's better for a pro to configure it but they'll take their chances for a slightly smaller bill. Even if we made it mandatory with every purchase, people would just go elsewhere for "cheaper" pc's without the service. And even with the AV/AS installed and a pro setup they're not enough to combat consumer ineffectualism. I can't count how many times customers come in with virus-ridded pc's and tell us they "just ignore the anti-virus pop-up thingy" asking to do a scan.....
Yes, but you shouldn't be able to use a social trend to justify an individual action. Every person following into a trend needs to be accountable for their choice and participation. If the next "new thing" was bludgeoning yourself with a hammer, the participats would get no sympathy from me for "trying to fit in"
I hear you there. I go to an unnamed school in north east Ohio, and the only systems there that have ever run anything non-windows are the derelect systems pieced together for a "special topics" course on linux. I suppose i shouldn't complain(at least theyhad a course dealing with linux), but the majority of the computer tech students (including those that took the course) have little idea about linux, the command line, or anything but what they find in windows explorer.
Um, I believe the jokes are because "Mac" is the prefix of many Scottish names....
actually linksys does make cable modems, as well as voip routers and the usual products like hubs, etc. Look here
The time I set foot into a church, they were just introducing a "new" version of the gospel. It was "revised" to include non-gender-specific referrences and "updated" to remove unusually harsh wording...And people wonder why I don't go there anymore.
I guess no one told you about the 942...The 942, and 721 Dish recievers both tend to have a lot of problems.There new tech for Dish. So without knowing it, you were beta testing for Dish. If it's any consolation, The more recent s/w versions eliminate a lot of the bugs. Eventually they should be just about usable ;)
Tivo actually uses a filesystem similar to one of Apple's older filesystems. There was a story a while back describing the innards of the Tivo, but I'm too lazy to find the link right now...
Why is everybody horrified by this idea? Do you think Apple is the only company on the planet that does this? Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Ati do the exact same thing. When a new core comes out,they sell 1 version at the max speed and others, physically identical mind you, that are locked on slower speeds. Nobody here is screaming about how horrible they are for down clocking. This is marketing. If you want 2 monitors buy the powerbook. If, like most users, you won't need that you can get the iBook cheaper
I agree with you there, "Manos" the Hands of Fate surpasses even a movie like this in the area of "Oh my God the let them film that" bad movies
I love that people can be so narrow-minded about these situations. Has it ever occured to you that the people watching broadcast tv aren't just fat, lazy, slobs. I know an older couple who are fall into the class of people affected by this change. They live on a very tight income and have had the same tv as long as I've been alive. They both work part/full time jobs. They have hobbies (gardening, knitting, and even helping out in schools).And at the end of the day they watch the evening news and Jepoardy. They cannot afford, nor do they want a new tv. They're happy the way they are. They are both in their 50's/60's and are not going to suddenly get up and pursue new carrers and "better themselves" as you see it. If tommorrow a government agency came out and said "anyone who doesn't purchase a new computer in te next 3 months will be unable to access the internet at that time" there would be a flood of posts here from the same people outraged that their perfectly usable systems would be orphaned suddenly. Even if there was a legitimate reason for changing the core technologies in use that would cause the older systems to be incompatable, there would be an outcry that what we have now works and we don't want to be forced to change. Yet when it doesn't directly apply to you, it's okay that it's happening since "they don't need it"
I think its important to remember that, while OSS java might not be a big deal to every member of the java community, it is a big deal for java and OSS. A n open source java as a whole. This means that OSS like linux distrbutions could carry JVM's without liscense worries. It also mean the possibility of bring java to platforms Sun does not support on it own. This could negate a lot of the barriers to OSS using java. (Yes I know OSS apps are already being written in java, but those can only move to where java is. If Debian can't carry java, it can't really carry java apps either)