It's not California, it's the companies with intentionally bad labels that make the cancer warning a joke.
I noticed at one hardware store they now started printing warnings about wearing safety glasses on all of their product packages! And a "this product contains a substance known.." label is just as much a joke. It doesn't make anything safer, just helps the company to be in compliance. A clock that "..contains lead"! - Is it painted in lead or are they talking about the wiring inside? The water valve: are they talking about the brass only or do the valve parts containing lead? And the unboiled linseed oil, that might "contain a substance..", lead? chrome? solvents after all?
On the other hand there are good labels. A sander that warns you about lead present in old paint, any container that tells you that it contains X, not just "a substance", or very specific warnings, that tell you that part Y of this product contains X.
Usually I buy the stuff with the specific label and avoid the dishonest "something-bad-in-here, not-gonna-tell-you-what, but-now-you-are-responsible" brand
Is it bad of me that I didn't know the country HAD a CTO? Do we have a CEO, COO, and chairman of the board too?
Silly. CTO is just the title they use for/. readers. His real title is Tsar or more precisely Computa Tsar , so you don't confuse him with the Auto Tsar, the Dealing with Foreigners Tsar, or the War Tsar.
Foolish science it is
Or worse, good basic semiconductor research overhyped into a new kind of physics that brakes all of our expectations..
New physics my ass. smaddox is basically right, but so is quarterbuck: blackbody radiation is a bad comparison, the photons' energy isn't thermal but determined by the band gap, the color the led was designed for. A better comparison would be a crystal that gets heated up: If an electron that was captured in an excited state drops down it releases a photon. Except that they now also got a pump mechanism to lift the electrons, like in a laser. The energy for that lift comes from heating the diode. At 130C the probability would be pretty small, and I guess that's where their pico-current comes in: Creating regions, where a thermally excited electron can make it to the upper band.
Overall, it is kind of a heat driven led with electrical control. You could probably also speculate about tunneling or electron-phonon resonance effects. But calling it 230% efficient? That's like me calling a npn transistor 10,000% efficient after comparing I(BE) to I(CE). Don't get me wrong, they used thermal energy to pump photons, that is cool. But their hype is something neither I nor Einstein would have ever done, just plain assholery.
It's also a little like complaining that your basement window doesn't have curtains while your have a glass door in the front
DataBreach in gnome terminal sounds serious! But a tmp-file that can be read by root? Come on! Sure, it can be done safer. But no biggie compared to all the other crap./tmp is at least a place I already know has to be cleaned. Even the encrypted linux tutorials warn about it. There are a million more places in my home directory that are less safe if someone is root or has the hard drive. All the zeitgeist, couchdb, smart indexing stuff..? Nautilus puts file annotations simply into user's home. If a true-crypt volume gets unmounted, they're still there. File preview, the same thing.
The problem is that so many things are suspicious to the superstitious and uninformed. Your arduino board looks an awfully lot like a bomb to some laman.
Bombs have red blinking leds. What uc platform do you use to make leds blink. Well?
... But their behavior is of the most misguided sort. To bring about change you must win the hearts and minds of the public. LulzSec did neither.
Very typical for a radical movement. Whether right or wrong, whether you call them terrorists or revolutionaries, this is a very typical behavior for the radical wing of a movement.
The problem with a close-knit political (or religious) group is that it tends to isolate itself from people outside of their world view. Once you discovered that everything is a lie and something has to be done, you gravitate towards people with the same experience. Your peers confirm your believes and support your actions.
The same happens of course with what the main stream calls "normal". There can be 100,000 people demonstrating against war, mainstream media covers little of it or presents it completely distorted. And while the media have their own narrative into which they fit their reporting, this clashes with what the activist experience as their reality. Which only makes things worse, isolates, and radicalizes.
A society that doesn't want that would need to be pluralistic, with political access for groups other than big career politicans, and free speech, that is not ignored but lets groups participate based on member support not just money support.
Question directed at Wine users - how does it stack up against VMware, Virtualbox or the other virtual machine servers?
Virtualbox works for sure, wine sometimes.
But on the other hand, if you have an application that does work under wine, it is quite nice. It opens almost immediately, much faster than starting virtualbox, and often it can be integrated into your desktop. You can change settings according to application and have it kind of integrated into your desktop: It starts and doesn't look stranger than a java app.
On warm summer nights I enjoy sitting on my front porch, with a dry gin made from hand-picked juniper berries, some artisan cheese and bread made out of flour that has been milled before sunrise. And if I am in the mood for it, I also enjoy 192kHz music with my bat friends. For us discerning people this is just a standard of living.
I wish they would stop breading......
They seem to pop up everywhere....
No, you got it wrong. You see, it is the other way around: the fewer there are, the more it affects you. The fact that you notice them everywhere means there are almost none of them.
Isn't using your phone in any fashion without a hands-free kit already illegal in the UK?
It amazes me that so many people seem to believe the proximity of one's hand to one's ear is the problem when it comes to making phone calls while driving.
Not on a highway. But in town where you have to turn.
Right turn shoulder check for bicyclists? Nope. Just eye movement while one hand holds the head in place. Recently I almost got hit at a crosswalk by someone turning left, because he couldn't move his head into the direction the wheels where going.
I don't know whether this is a general risk or whether it just makes morons drive even worse, but there are enough people who drive around like they got a neck collar. I'd rather encounter one of these drunks that become extra cautious, than these idiots who act like their car is their living room and the outside is a TV screen with a semi-interesting plot.
\ G+ seems to be going another direction into something like world wide/online/hobby clubs...
That would be a nice reason to use it.
But my dirty little secret: My real name isn't formfeed
If you're in high school your teachers don't need to know that you are preparing for the zombie apocalypse. And if you're a teacher, the parents shouldn't be able to find out that your favorite sport is tethercat.
And there are a million more reasons I don't need an identity services or want my hobbies connected to my CV
Yes they embraced digital, but not full heartedly. And they had a good brand name but did not capitalize on that with their cheaper cameras.
When digital cameras came out, people bought Kodak for brand quality. Over the years it just turned into cameras with a Kodak label slapped on. The attitude: We have to be in this market, but these aren't the real camera buyers.
I got an older 8MP non-Kodak, which allows for manual focus, manual stops, and exposure settings! The 7MP Kodak Easyshare has none of that, just "modes". Well, it at least has some bracketing, where it lets you take three pictures in a row. With the 14MP Kodak Easyshare that was gone as well, instead it has exciting new features like smile detection...
In the old analog world, that stuff used to be Polaroid's brand image, not Kodak's. Don't do Disney if you have a professional brand name. The same hardware could have provided an "expert-mode" and -even if most people wouldn't use it- been seen as a limited beginners version of a better camera.
something made with parts that have been used previously? maybe even on a PC? code parts that could run on any grey unspectacular computer? a modified version of something coded for the masses?
Please tell me, they at least improved it so it would use functions only genuine apple hardware could provide.
Everybody put on your flame retardant suits in preparation for the inevitable flame war between global warming believers and deniers, which will almost certainly drown out discussion of the technical specifics of the referenced materials.
You forgot the group that argues that (a) pollution and global warming is real and not just a communist conspiracy but (b) green energy is unreliable and the only feasible solution will be to put a nuclear reactor in every car.
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It's not California, it's the companies with intentionally bad labels that make the cancer warning a joke.
I noticed at one hardware store they now started printing warnings about wearing safety glasses on all of their product packages! And a "this product contains a substance known .." label is just as much a joke. It doesn't make anything safer, just helps the company to be in compliance. A clock that " ..contains lead"! - Is it painted in lead or are they talking about the wiring inside? The water valve: are they talking about the brass only or do the valve parts containing lead? And the unboiled linseed oil, that might "contain a substance..", lead? chrome? solvents after all?
On the other hand there are good labels. A sander that warns you about lead present in old paint, any container that tells you that it contains X, not just "a substance", or very specific warnings, that tell you that part Y of this product contains X.
Usually I buy the stuff with the specific label and avoid the dishonest "something-bad-in-here, not-gonna-tell-you-what, but-now-you-are-responsible" brand
Is it bad of me that I didn't know the country HAD a CTO? Do we have a CEO, COO, and chairman of the board too?
Silly. CTO is just the title they use for /. readers.
His real title is Tsar or more precisely Computa Tsar , so you don't confuse him with the Auto Tsar, the Dealing with Foreigners Tsar, or the War Tsar.
Foolish science it is
Or worse, good basic semiconductor research overhyped into a new kind of physics that brakes all of our expectations..
New physics my ass.
smaddox is basically right, but so is quarterbuck: blackbody radiation is a bad comparison, the photons' energy isn't thermal but determined by the band gap, the color the led was designed for. A better comparison would be a crystal that gets heated up: If an electron that was captured in an excited state drops down it releases a photon. Except that they now also got a pump mechanism to lift the electrons, like in a laser. The energy for that lift comes from heating the diode. At 130C the probability would be pretty small, and I guess that's where their pico-current comes in: Creating regions, where a thermally excited electron can make it to the upper band.
Overall, it is kind of a heat driven led with electrical control.
You could probably also speculate about tunneling or electron-phonon resonance effects.
But calling it 230% efficient? That's like me calling a npn transistor 10,000% efficient after comparing I(BE) to I(CE). Don't get me wrong, they used thermal energy to pump photons, that is cool. But their hype is something neither I nor Einstein would have ever done, just plain assholery.
Seriously? Who doesn't use encrypted swap these days?
People who want hibernate to work.
It's also a little like complaining that your basement window doesn't have curtains while your have a glass door in the front
DataBreach in gnome terminal sounds serious! But a tmp-file that can be read by root? Come on! Sure, it can be done safer. But no biggie compared to all the other crap. /tmp is at least a place I already know has to be cleaned. Even the encrypted linux tutorials warn about it. There are a million more places in my home directory that are less safe if someone is root or has the hard drive. All the zeitgeist, couchdb, smart indexing stuff..? Nautilus puts file annotations simply into user's home. If a true-crypt volume gets unmounted, they're still there. File preview, the same thing.
Probably terrorists. We should pass some laws to arrest them without evidence or even a trial.
Probably just anonymous using the sun to take down the satellite network.
The problem is that so many things are suspicious to the superstitious and uninformed. Your arduino board looks an awfully lot like a bomb to some laman.
Bombs have red blinking leds. What uc platform do you use to make leds blink. Well?
... But their behavior is of the most misguided sort. To bring about change you must win the hearts and minds of the public. LulzSec did neither.
Very typical for a radical movement. Whether right or wrong, whether you call them terrorists or revolutionaries, this is a very typical behavior for the radical wing of a movement.
The problem with a close-knit political (or religious) group is that it tends to isolate itself from people outside of their world view. Once you discovered that everything is a lie and something has to be done, you gravitate towards people with the same experience. Your peers confirm your believes and support your actions.
The same happens of course with what the main stream calls "normal". There can be 100,000 people demonstrating against war, mainstream media covers little of it or presents it completely distorted. And while the media have their own narrative into which they fit their reporting, this clashes with what the activist experience as their reality. Which only makes things worse, isolates, and radicalizes.
A society that doesn't want that would need to be pluralistic, with political access for groups other than big career politicans, and free speech, that is not ignored but lets groups participate based on member support not just money support.
Question directed at Wine users - how does it stack up against VMware, Virtualbox or the other virtual machine servers?
Virtualbox works for sure, wine sometimes.
But on the other hand, if you have an application that does work under wine, it is quite nice. It opens almost immediately, much faster than starting virtualbox, and often it can be integrated into your desktop. You can change settings according to application and have it kind of integrated into your desktop: It starts and doesn't look stranger than a java app.
On warm summer nights I enjoy sitting on my front porch, with a dry gin made from hand-picked juniper berries, some artisan cheese and bread made out of flour that has been milled before sunrise. And if I am in the mood for it, I also enjoy 192kHz music with my bat friends. For us discerning people this is just a standard of living.
I wish they would stop breading...... They seem to pop up everywhere....
No, you got it wrong. You see, it is the other way around: the fewer there are, the more it affects you.
The fact that you notice them everywhere means there are almost none of them.
Isn't using your phone in any fashion without a hands-free kit already illegal in the UK?
It amazes me that so many people seem to believe the proximity of one's hand to one's ear is the problem when it comes to making phone calls while driving.
Not on a highway. But in town where you have to turn.
Right turn shoulder check for bicyclists? Nope. Just eye movement while one hand holds the head in place. Recently I almost got hit at a crosswalk by someone turning left, because he couldn't move his head into the direction the wheels where going.
I don't know whether this is a general risk or whether it just makes morons drive even worse, but there are enough people who drive around like they got a neck collar. I'd rather encounter one of these drunks that become extra cautious, than these idiots who act like their car is their living room and the outside is a TV screen with a semi-interesting plot.
I can text, check my Facebook, AND drive with no problems. I think I'm one of only about 20 world-wide that can do it.
I only can do that if I'm drunk.
Me too. But I only drink when driving across state borders while refilling propane cylinders.
Can somebody explain to me what they mean by "not smart enough"?
'They' don't read about a subject before making a comment, and instead expect some random individual of dubious agenda to do it for them.
I haven't read the OP or TFA , but that makes sense, I guess.
\ G+ seems to be going another direction into something like world wide/online/hobby clubs...
That would be a nice reason to use it. But my dirty little secret: My real name isn't formfeed
If you're in high school your teachers don't need to know that you are preparing for the zombie apocalypse. And if you're a teacher, the parents shouldn't be able to find out that your favorite sport is tethercat.
And there are a million more reasons I don't need an identity services or want my hobbies connected to my CV
Yes they embraced digital, but not full heartedly. And they had a good brand name but did not capitalize on that with their cheaper cameras.
When digital cameras came out, people bought Kodak for brand quality. Over the years it just turned into cameras with a Kodak label slapped on. The attitude: We have to be in this market, but these aren't the real camera buyers.
I got an older 8MP non-Kodak, which allows for manual focus, manual stops, and exposure settings! The 7MP Kodak Easyshare has none of that, just "modes". Well, it at least has some bracketing, where it lets you take three pictures in a row. With the 14MP Kodak Easyshare that was gone as well, instead it has exciting new features like smile detection...
In the old analog world, that stuff used to be Polaroid's brand image, not Kodak's. Don't do Disney if you have a professional brand name. The same hardware could have provided an "expert-mode" and -even if most people wouldn't use it- been seen as a limited beginners version of a better camera.
Now, see, a native gas grill attachment included with the phone MIGHT make me want to buy an iPhone.
I'm sure there's an app for it already.
Yes, there is an app for that already
And if you don't have an iPhone: Just get an iGrill
Because headlights only light up what is in front of a car...
TFA is about the UK. They drive on the wrong side of the road, so the headlights light up what is behind of the car.
Morons!
Just why is everyone assuming these weren't genuine apple stoves?
But then again, I have a hammer labeled "designed for windows XP"
Okay, sorry... But someone has to ask this...
Where did the clip of the birdsong come from? Is this something the OP recorded himself? Or did he use an audio clip from some other source?
And if the OP recorded himself, did he make sure the birds were indeed singing a song that is in the public domain?
While birds aren't people and can't own a copyright, a flock of birds is more like a corporation and therefor a person.
It is a "new variant of Flashback"
A new variant??
something made with parts that have been used previously?
maybe even on a PC?
code parts that could run on any grey unspectacular computer?
a modified version of something coded for the masses?
Please tell me, they at least improved it so it would use functions only genuine apple hardware could provide.
Everybody put on your flame retardant suits in preparation for the inevitable flame war between global warming believers and deniers, which will almost certainly drown out discussion of the technical specifics of the referenced materials.
You forgot the group that argues that
(a) pollution and global warming is real and not just a communist conspiracy but
(b) green energy is unreliable and the only feasible solution will be to put a nuclear reactor in every car.
Hey, thanks for the link. Does DEET work on these things?
No. But DDT. (which has been outlawed by ... the governement)
First thing that came to my mind was the Breeding cycle of the black helicopter
I should get out more
Now your grad school adviser can look at your project and comment:
"a dead parrot would have better chances of getting its paper accepted than you."