So you are suggesting that the "usual" insurers are totally above the possibility of being influenced by lobbyists in regards to choosing which treatments to better cover/promote...
Apply some of the things you write to concept you're defending.
Yes, you can't reason with children in the same way, there's no mature thinking about action-consequences, they live in the moment, especially in a case of "intense" circumstances
So...in the moment of corporal punishment it is all that matters. Not what "caused" it, but the fact that they are being harmed by the most important people in their world.
It's better to exploit that last bit, refusing the comfort the presence of parent gives (just so it clear you're upset, but more in a sad then angry way; and be distanced for some time)
I can imagine using GPS in 1 in a 100 chance that I'm slightly lost and few minutes will save me (though gmaps works perfectly well then too), but the way many people use GPS is exactly an example of what you suggest. C'mon...why do I see it often brightly lit, during night, in a car in front of me that is certainly from within 10km of small city with straightforward road system...and heading towards it, 1km from the destination, at the ubermain route)
And please, don't paint me as a luddite, especially in cases where are overblowing reliance on tech - why do many people keep almost everything in the fridge? What's the point in keeping canned or dry food in it? Why do they prefer to drive a car for a few minutes searching for parking spot than walk 200m? Using car driving to force their children to sleep?...
AFAIK the nomenclature was (is?) often to post distances to centers / particular point in given locality, no matter from which direction you are approaching.
When applied without much thought to typical PL village (which often was more or less a long chain of houses along one road, as you surely remember), this could cause such discrepancies.
(though, to be fair, my judgment might be influenced by the thing that I have a big chance to be exposed either to Polish roads, which are an example of chaotic, highly complex system requiring trained wetware (with GPS maps often lagging a bit), or German ones with their supposed...perfection)
It's still a bit "fuzzy" though; never mind wondering if, perhaps, when you have to turn in fast moving traffic it's usually some main road with proper, big signs; or when that particular street similar to every other matters you're close to destination anyway. I'm stressing more "are you really in such a hurry?". Which is more of a problem in itself; probably a lot reckless driving stems from people who "must get there sooner!" (and who knows if always relying on GPS doesn't contribute to late departure or unrealistic expectation of travel time...)
I would agree such voice instructions to be very handy. Actual display OTOH...no, this should be kept to minimum. It's more about shifting focus (both optical and mental one) than capacity of optic nerve. Also, I wouldn't be too surprised from negative influence on vision when riding in the night with very bright display (as I sometimes see...from outside) just in front of your eyes, with totally different light spectrum than the road ahead.
I'd say we are more or less in an agreement, actually; you seem to use GPS in similar style to traditional methods. Certainly in agreement to what the summary is saying.
In vast majority of cases you drive in known area; always the same route, more or less. I don't see how GPS helps here. Any possible setbacks due to choosing slightly wrong way are more than offset by the elasticity in choosing better way due to momentary traffic conditions.
Not sure how representative this part is, but - when NOT driving in known area I'm always never in a real hurry. In few cases when that might be true it's easy to pre-plan it...or even ask somebody along the way / make a quick phonecall to known local resident when close to destination and lost (also - they, or other people who often travel the route you are planning to take, know much more than GPS: which way is more pleasant)
I was wondering - with current digital audio players wouldn't it be quite cheap to pick up sounds with some basic microphone in the player, shift it in phase, accordingly, on CPU/DSP...and that's it, without much in the way of specialized hardware?
Yes, the effect wouldn't be ideal because of ear-player separation, but in such usage scenario it's mostly about "good enough"...
(though regarding ear-player separation - would it be possible to use normal headphones as poor microphones (just for "good enough" noise canceling), at the same time as playing through them music and half-shifted in phase sounds picked up moments before? A bit too much, I guess...)
They're talking about "80 dB limit, with some setting that goes to 100 (vs. 120 that they measured in some players on the market)". I guess the power output at the latter number should be OK for some bigger/better headphones? (besides, isn't that some more complex deal with Ohms, etc.?)
PS. I see great possibility to mandate as standard feature "go to 11!"...
What do you understand by "iPod killer"? Or what means seriously competing with iPhone?
Marketshare? Visible momentum of one manufacturer with small product line? Yes, those two Apple devices are darlings of US and few other markets. But they represent a small minority of each class.
For quite a few years mobile phones with audio player functionality vastly outsold iPods (it's more or less "they ship in bigger numbers in given year than all iPods ever produced up to that point"). iPod popularity isn't very typical throughout the world, and yes, for some time if I see somebody listening to music it's usually from a mobile phone.
As for iPhone...it is given max 3 or 4% of the market from what I've heard. It's better when looking only at smartphones (however ambiguous that term would be...SE "dumphones", not included usually, might qualify on merit of features, when comparing with iPhone), but in this class you have Symbian trumping all with over 50% of sales.
Are iPods zombies? Is Nokia domination unreal and therefore beyond competition?
There is one downside to each manufacturer having their own implementation - the market fragments. Especially when some phones don't get updates to newer OS versions (that's already happening). Also, the benefits of open app market look nice on paper...but haven't materialized.
That said, I also agree that history will repeat itself in regards to Apple loosing dominance. But I have some doubts if it will be due to Android...
It almost seems like expectations of constant race towards put some number here times faster hardware shifted from PCs to smartphones... (since the former are good/fast enough for some time now)
Fast/high pixel count hardware doesn't make the phone "best". Where's long battery life? Sturdiness? Low price with rest of the features balanced? (yes, that includes two I mentioned previously)
When loading full distro on those ARM netbooks, a very cheap machine will get full featured OS. An OS that this time doesn't have the alternative to which people are used to...
Since it was able to play 1080p video, I'm guessing it was Tegra? Nvidia somehow managed to convince people to talk mostly about its HD playback acceleration (which is pointless on such device), which is handled by DSP/GPU of course.
What they don't talk about is that Tegra is based around ARM11 CPU core. Which is...a bit ancient. There are other solutions based around Cortex-A8, which is almost two times faster per clock. Even faster Cortex-A9, which can be also multicore, is upcoming.
I can't fully agree - many of the projects in this story simply aren't mass produced. Few of them that can be bought off-the-shelf (robotic arm? UAV?) are quite expensive there, targetting niche markets, and not consumers.
Yes, it has been done, but only for objects with small mass; decelerating them fairly easy in comparison to what would be required from several-tonne lander capable of carrying humans.
Planetary models from centuries were basically an example of: a) idealized scenario (frictionless vacuum kind of stuff) b) based on Newtonian physics; which is not quite accurate...
With the number of bodies and their interactions, Solar System is pretty much chaotic:
For example, in most post-soviet countries, where military service is theoretically compulsory, people with good education, coming mostly from rich homes, have the ways to weasel themselves out (with good reasons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Russia#Russian_Federation it wasn't that bad at my place (where conscription was recently abandoned), but gives good overview). Essentially, the ones who end up serving are from the so called "bottom" of the society, finance & education wise. The closest to "NCO = higher chance of becoming a manager" was doing what was essentially a 4 month summercamp, during studies; with the only purpose of making sure that "military won't bug me now". Similar attitude is prevailing even in "professional military" that we will only have now - serving is an easy way of attaining comfortable financial situation. It is even explicitly stated in draft marketing!
OTOH, from what little I know, it's quite a bit different in Finland. Widespread participation, you get selected for NCO or officer training, it isn't a summercamp (as a matter of fact your service is much longer then?). Makes me a little marveled at the whole thing.
Anyway, it was mostly just about pointing out that statistical chances of Finnish CEOs in a ring are probably quite high;p (at least against a typical CEO)
That sounds fine at first glance, but remember that Apple is the one who eagerly states they are ready to fight for their patents.
Si modifying a bit your scenario, the method of turning lead into gold is actually quite straightforward and obvious, with Nokia also arriving at it. But then the small company starts to bark; this Nokia sees as an entity not willing to "Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory" relations (remember any relations involves two entities, works both ways...)
Nokia contributed greatly to the development of those standards. As I understand you expect they hand it over for everybody to use without, say, expectation of mutual recognition?
There's one quite likely reason why Nokia CEO would possibly...destroy most corporate opponents:
Well into the mid-20th century, academic degrees remained important factors for politicians asking for the electorate's confidence. Likewise, one's military rank in reserves has been a decisive factor on selecting leaders and managers both in the public and the private sector. Even today, most Finnish managers are amongst those who have attained either an NCO (non-commissioned officer) or a reserve officer rank during their conscript tour of duty.
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So you are suggesting that the "usual" insurers are totally above the possibility of being influenced by lobbyists in regards to choosing which treatments to better cover/promote...
Apply some of the things you write to concept you're defending.
Yes, you can't reason with children in the same way, there's no mature thinking about action-consequences, they live in the moment, especially in a case of "intense" circumstances
So...in the moment of corporal punishment it is all that matters. Not what "caused" it, but the fact that they are being harmed by the most important people in their world.
It's better to exploit that last bit, refusing the comfort the presence of parent gives (just so it clear you're upset, but more in a sad then angry way; and be distanced for some time)
I can imagine using GPS in 1 in a 100 chance that I'm slightly lost and few minutes will save me (though gmaps works perfectly well then too), but the way many people use GPS is exactly an example of what you suggest. C'mon...why do I see it often brightly lit, during night, in a car in front of me that is certainly from within 10km of small city with straightforward road system...and heading towards it, 1km from the destination, at the ubermain route)
And please, don't paint me as a luddite, especially in cases where are overblowing reliance on tech - why do many people keep almost everything in the fridge? What's the point in keeping canned or dry food in it? Why do they prefer to drive a car for a few minutes searching for parking spot than walk 200m? Using car driving to force their children to sleep?...
I'm not a luddite (it's hard to be on /.)
AFAIK the nomenclature was (is?) often to post distances to centers / particular point in given locality, no matter from which direction you are approaching.
When applied without much thought to typical PL village (which often was more or less a long chain of houses along one road, as you surely remember), this could cause such discrepancies.
I live in the EU...
(though, to be fair, my judgment might be influenced by the thing that I have a big chance to be exposed either to Polish roads, which are an example of chaotic, highly complex system requiring trained wetware (with GPS maps often lagging a bit), or German ones with their supposed...perfection)
Where are you hurrying at 3am, when nobody is waiting for you at the destination area?
It's still a bit "fuzzy" though; never mind wondering if, perhaps, when you have to turn in fast moving traffic it's usually some main road with proper, big signs; or when that particular street similar to every other matters you're close to destination anyway. I'm stressing more "are you really in such a hurry?". Which is more of a problem in itself; probably a lot reckless driving stems from people who "must get there sooner!" (and who knows if always relying on GPS doesn't contribute to late departure or unrealistic expectation of travel time...)
I would agree such voice instructions to be very handy. Actual display OTOH...no, this should be kept to minimum. It's more about shifting focus (both optical and mental one) than capacity of optic nerve. Also, I wouldn't be too surprised from negative influence on vision when riding in the night with very bright display (as I sometimes see...from outside) just in front of your eyes, with totally different light spectrum than the road ahead.
I'd say we are more or less in an agreement, actually; you seem to use GPS in similar style to traditional methods. Certainly in agreement to what the summary is saying.
In vast majority of cases you drive in known area; always the same route, more or less. I don't see how GPS helps here. Any possible setbacks due to choosing slightly wrong way are more than offset by the elasticity in choosing better way due to momentary traffic conditions.
Not sure how representative this part is, but - when NOT driving in known area I'm always never in a real hurry. In few cases when that might be true it's easy to pre-plan it...or even ask somebody along the way / make a quick phonecall to known local resident when close to destination and lost (also - they, or other people who often travel the route you are planning to take, know much more than GPS: which way is more pleasant)
I was wondering - with current digital audio players wouldn't it be quite cheap to pick up sounds with some basic microphone in the player, shift it in phase, accordingly, on CPU/DSP...and that's it, without much in the way of specialized hardware?
Yes, the effect wouldn't be ideal because of ear-player separation, but in such usage scenario it's mostly about "good enough"...
(though regarding ear-player separation - would it be possible to use normal headphones as poor microphones (just for "good enough" noise canceling), at the same time as playing through them music and half-shifted in phase sounds picked up moments before? A bit too much, I guess...)
At least that's the story in the news.
They're talking about "80 dB limit, with some setting that goes to 100 (vs. 120 that they measured in some players on the market)". I guess the power output at the latter number should be OK for some bigger/better headphones? (besides, isn't that some more complex deal with Ohms, etc.?)
PS. I see great possibility to mandate as standard feature "go to 11!"...
What do you understand by "iPod killer"? Or what means seriously competing with iPhone?
Marketshare? Visible momentum of one manufacturer with small product line? Yes, those two Apple devices are darlings of US and few other markets. But they represent a small minority of each class.
For quite a few years mobile phones with audio player functionality vastly outsold iPods (it's more or less "they ship in bigger numbers in given year than all iPods ever produced up to that point"). iPod popularity isn't very typical throughout the world, and yes, for some time if I see somebody listening to music it's usually from a mobile phone.
As for iPhone...it is given max 3 or 4% of the market from what I've heard. It's better when looking only at smartphones (however ambiguous that term would be...SE "dumphones", not included usually, might qualify on merit of features, when comparing with iPhone), but in this class you have Symbian trumping all with over 50% of sales.
Are iPods zombies? Is Nokia domination unreal and therefore beyond competition?
There is one downside to each manufacturer having their own implementation - the market fragments. Especially when some phones don't get updates to newer OS versions (that's already happening). Also, the benefits of open app market look nice on paper...but haven't materialized.
That said, I also agree that history will repeat itself in regards to Apple loosing dominance. But I have some doubts if it will be due to Android...
It almost seems like expectations of constant race towards put some number here times faster hardware shifted from PCs to smartphones... (since the former are good/fast enough for some time now)
Fast/high pixel count hardware doesn't make the phone "best". Where's long battery life? Sturdiness? Low price with rest of the features balanced? (yes, that includes two I mentioned previously)
Oh, but it will be different.
When loading full distro on those ARM netbooks, a very cheap machine will get full featured OS. An OS that this time doesn't have the alternative to which people are used to...
Since it was able to play 1080p video, I'm guessing it was Tegra? Nvidia somehow managed to convince people to talk mostly about its HD playback acceleration (which is pointless on such device), which is handled by DSP/GPU of course.
What they don't talk about is that Tegra is based around ARM11 CPU core. Which is...a bit ancient. There are other solutions based around Cortex-A8, which is almost two times faster per clock. Even faster Cortex-A9, which can be also multicore, is upcoming.
I can't fully agree - many of the projects in this story simply aren't mass produced. Few of them that can be bought off-the-shelf (robotic arm? UAV?) are quite expensive there, targetting niche markets, and not consumers.
Yes, it has been done, but only for objects with small mass; decelerating them fairly easy in comparison to what would be required from several-tonne lander capable of carrying humans.
Just shows that also this move was done in Arizona desert.
Planetary models from centuries were basically an example of:
a) idealized scenario (frictionless vacuum kind of stuff)
b) based on Newtonian physics; which is not quite accurate...
With the number of bodies and their interactions, Solar System is pretty much chaotic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body_problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_of_the_Solar_System
Hm, at NASA...I don't know, perhaps.
But Mars Express is ESA mission.
Sure, but you have to consider little details.
For example, in most post-soviet countries, where military service is theoretically compulsory, people with good education, coming mostly from rich homes, have the ways to weasel themselves out (with good reasons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Russia#Russian_Federation it wasn't that bad at my place (where conscription was recently abandoned), but gives good overview). Essentially, the ones who end up serving are from the so called "bottom" of the society, finance & education wise. The closest to "NCO = higher chance of becoming a manager" was doing what was essentially a 4 month summercamp, during studies; with the only purpose of making sure that "military won't bug me now". Similar attitude is prevailing even in "professional military" that we will only have now - serving is an easy way of attaining comfortable financial situation. It is even explicitly stated in draft marketing!
OTOH, from what little I know, it's quite a bit different in Finland. Widespread participation, you get selected for NCO or officer training, it isn't a summercamp (as a matter of fact your service is much longer then?). Makes me a little marveled at the whole thing.
Anyway, it was mostly just about pointing out that statistical chances of Finnish CEOs in a ring are probably quite high ;p (at least against a typical CEO)
That sounds fine at first glance, but remember that Apple is the one who eagerly states they are ready to fight for their patents.
Si modifying a bit your scenario, the method of turning lead into gold is actually quite straightforward and obvious, with Nokia also arriving at it. But then the small company starts to bark; this Nokia sees as an entity not willing to "Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory" relations (remember any relations involves two entities, works both ways...)
Nokia contributed greatly to the development of those standards. As I understand you expect they hand it over for everybody to use without, say, expectation of mutual recognition?
There's one quite likely reason why Nokia CEO would possibly...destroy most corporate opponents:
Well into the mid-20th century, academic degrees remained important factors for politicians asking for the electorate's confidence. Likewise, one's military rank in reserves has been a decisive factor on selecting leaders and managers both in the public and the private sector. Even today, most Finnish managers are amongst those who have attained either an NCO (non-commissioned officer) or a reserve officer rank during their conscript tour of duty.
(emphasis mine, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Grand_Duchy_of_Finland )