There needs to be serious penalties for companies that create poor products with serious defects. These flawed processors certainly qualify as inferior products.
That video is about the difference between organic and non-organic. I agree there's no difference in taste.
Whole Foods isn't just about organic food. Sure they market it like that. There's a ton of bullshit in their marketing: natural = healthy, organic = healthy, additives = unhealthy and a whole host of other bullcrap. They sell homeopathic "medicine" FFS, of course they're full of bullshit!
The simple, gullible people of this world are easily sold on the fact that it's "natural" and "organic". They'll happily part with their money for suce nonsense. However, just because Whole Foods are pushing bullshit marketing doesn't necessarily mean the food isn't genuinely of a better quality.
Bbehind all the bullshit, the food is genuinely better quality. I only know the flagship store in Kensigton, London, so I don't know how that differes from US stores or "regular" London stores, but the quality to me seems undoubtably better.
Most of it seems down to freshness. The most well known "upmarket" food store over here is Waitrose, and the difference is unbelievable. I buy quail eggs from Waitrose and more often than not they are rubbery and have clearly been sitting on the shelf for too long. The air sac is larger which means they've been in storage for longer as the amount of air let inside the shell is directly proportionate to the time they've been exposed to air since hatching.
The differenct varieties of a single food item is much better in Whole Foods. In the south-east of England, fruit is the main food crop. If you go into a regular food store, you'll see the same old varieties sold over and over again. For apples, you get things like Royal Gala, Pink Lady, Golden Delicious, etc, etc. These are chosen because they are varieties that produce large fruit in abundance and make more produce per acre of land. The varieties that taste better aren't such abundant producers so they don't get stocked by food stores that focus on cheap prices.
The meats are better tasting, because they've been aged for longer in the right conditions. This costs more but produces a better product.
The fish is fresh. It's not been sitting around on a boat off-sea for weeks, it's often caught in dayboats which means it was caught within the last 48 hours. This costs more, but improves the product.
The wine is better because it's from smaller vinyards that focus on quality rather than mass production. The large food store chains can't do this because they need to reduce the number of suppliers they have to reduce overheads.
The fruit and veg is better because it's been picked wen ripe and transported quickly. Most food stores buy the food when it's unripe and have it ripen in slower means of transit.
None of this has to do with whether it's organic or not and in fact I ratrely buy organic from Whole Foods if I have the choice.
Sounds like a job for anyone who ever said "I want to be paid for watching Cat Videos"
But I don't think cat beheadings were part of their plans.
Exactly. This sounds like an horrific job. They're being paid to watch the nastiest stuff on the Internet and judge if it's going to psychologically harm people.
I knew someone who's job it was to watch terrorist beheading videos and then watch all the gruesome blood, and death bits so it could be cut out to show on the news in a manner that wouldn't traumatise viewers. It's only a matter of time before seeing that stuff is going to affect you.
Pedestrians are slightly more likely to suffer a head injury than cyclists per mile travelled.
Car drivers are more likely to be hit by a car than cyclists in general. (Cyclists more likely per mile travelled, but generally they use safer transport like trains for longer distances)
Cyclists overall live much longer lives. So any head injury risk is completely outweighed by the risk of cardiac arrest, cancer, suicide caused by depression, getting stuck in a doorway and starving to death cos you're too fat, etc, etc
When I heard this story on the radio this morning, the most surprising bit was that Syria is responsible for the rise of ISIS. I'm sure last week it was the destabilization of Iraq that was the cause of ISIS.
Can someone send me the memo from the Ministry of Truth as I missed that one.
Oceania has always been at war with Syria.
Please report to the first room on the first floor for further information.
The word you are looking for in that sentence would probably be "warrants".
You're welcome.
No because that would change the context entirely. He's not saying that the post is warranting a discussion on Slashdot. He's suggesting that, on Slashdot, the bar set for a definition of "a discussion" is set so low as to include a post which consists only of a few "I agree posts".
or we could drop it into the oceans to counteract all the freshwater melt coming off the polar ice caps from the global warming.
I think this was OP's point. If you dump it back in the oceans then... unless you spread it very, very thinly over a wide area, you'll end up with pockets of highly concentrated saline ocean which is very harmful to sea life.
How is it unwitting if they spend $3.1 millions on it?
I was wondering this. The TFA says that it's the teachers that are the unwitting parties. It's the schools that are buying the spy software, and the teachers are having to use it. I guess unwilling would be a better term, but you get the gist.
If these are school-owned computers, on school property, then I don;thave much of a problem with this... privately owned devices and/or devicesa the students take home, not as much so
Interesting point. If they were adults then I'd agree. However kids aren't really able to ascertain the implications of this spying, so I'm unsure. Also, they don't have much choice about the matter. I can choose whether or not to work for an employer that acts like Big Brother, kids don't really have much of a choice about which school they go to.
If this is true - and they'll call the result when there's still enough people in line to change the result - then shame on Google. They've gone from organizing the world's information to predicting (and influencing) the future.
Great. Now people aren't even reading the fucking title:
Google Will Display Election Results As Soon As Polls Close
Great. Now people aren't even reading the fucking parent comment
In more contested districts, it is more common to have longer lines at the polls, which can mean that people technically vote after the poll close time
In more contested districts, it is more common to have longer lines at the polls, which can mean that people technically vote after the poll close times, if they arrived before that time. People waiting in line and giving up based on speculated information, like what Google will be providing, is exactly what happened before.
If this is true - and they'll call the result when there's still enough people in line to change the result - then shame on Google. They've gone from organizing the world's information to predicting (and influencing) the future.
Like everything else, it's got it's good points and it's bad... The whole point of (Or maybe this is just me) of dealing with someone's death, is the actual letting go part, recognising that they're gone and moving on.
My thoughts exactly. Something disturbs me greatly about this story. It reminds me of those that live with the dead body of a loved one because they don't want to believe they're dead.
At some point they're going to have to turn the AI off, or come to the realisation that this person wasn't just the sum of their IM output before they can move on, and the grief will hit them then.
[do people really talk to their phones] because i never see it and don't know anyone who does. other than doing it for safety reasons while driving this sounds like the most stupid thing ever. and i've tried Siri and Google Now and hate both
It used to be a useless gimmick, but the tech has come on massively recently. I use it a lot for certain specific tasks on my phones and tablets
I haven't used Siri in a while, but Google Now and Cortana especially work really well for me. If I want to call somewhgere that isn't in my contacts then I use voice. "Call the Apple store on Regents Street, London" is quicker than googling for a number and dialling it. Also, for playing music, it's a ton quicker, just tell the device what you want to play and it does it almost instantly. Much quicker than opening up the music app, and searchging for the song before pressing play: You can also do it across the room with Cortana and Google Now if you don't have the phone in your hand.
Reminds me of the olde fartes bemoaning the death of incandescant light bulbs.
I hated the death of incandecent light bulbs when the first started phasing them out. Compact flourecents just wern't as good. Now that we have LED bulbs, at affordable prices; I couldn't be happier.
Same goes for the 3.5mm jack. I'm not interested in wireless earphones because they're a pain in the ass. They need charging (for the same reason I use a wired keyboard and mouse). USB Type-C is awesome but as others have pointed out, most devices only have one type-C port so you can't charge and listen at the same time; not without some complicated adapter anyway.
When devices start coming with 2 or more USB ports, I'll be happy.
Doesn't really matter. Amazon returns procedures are very good. If I buy a product from them that doesn't meet my expectations then I can return it at very little cost to me in terms of time & money. If I buy from another seller and it turns out to be a dud, it can often cost more than it's worth to return it.
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There needs to be serious penalties for companies that create poor products with serious defects. These flawed processors certainly qualify as inferior products.
You work for AMD, right? :D
It's not better quality food anyways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_IoNQHMFLk
Captcha: amateurs
That video is about the difference between organic and non-organic. I agree there's no difference in taste.
Whole Foods isn't just about organic food. Sure they market it like that. There's a ton of bullshit in their marketing: natural = healthy, organic = healthy, additives = unhealthy and a whole host of other bullcrap. They sell homeopathic "medicine" FFS, of course they're full of bullshit!
The simple, gullible people of this world are easily sold on the fact that it's "natural" and "organic". They'll happily part with their money for suce nonsense. However, just because Whole Foods are pushing bullshit marketing doesn't necessarily mean the food isn't genuinely of a better quality.
Bbehind all the bullshit, the food is genuinely better quality. I only know the flagship store in Kensigton, London, so I don't know how that differes from US stores or "regular" London stores, but the quality to me seems undoubtably better.
Most of it seems down to freshness. The most well known "upmarket" food store over here is Waitrose, and the difference is unbelievable. I buy quail eggs from Waitrose and more often than not they are rubbery and have clearly been sitting on the shelf for too long. The air sac is larger which means they've been in storage for longer as the amount of air let inside the shell is directly proportionate to the time they've been exposed to air since hatching.
The differenct varieties of a single food item is much better in Whole Foods. In the south-east of England, fruit is the main food crop. If you go into a regular food store, you'll see the same old varieties sold over and over again. For apples, you get things like Royal Gala, Pink Lady, Golden Delicious, etc, etc. These are chosen because they are varieties that produce large fruit in abundance and make more produce per acre of land. The varieties that taste better aren't such abundant producers so they don't get stocked by food stores that focus on cheap prices.
The meats are better tasting, because they've been aged for longer in the right conditions. This costs more but produces a better product.
The fish is fresh. It's not been sitting around on a boat off-sea for weeks, it's often caught in dayboats which means it was caught within the last 48 hours. This costs more, but improves the product.
The wine is better because it's from smaller vinyards that focus on quality rather than mass production. The large food store chains can't do this because they need to reduce the number of suppliers they have to reduce overheads.
The fruit and veg is better because it's been picked wen ripe and transported quickly. Most food stores buy the food when it's unripe and have it ripen in slower means of transit.
None of this has to do with whether it's organic or not and in fact I ratrely buy organic from Whole Foods if I have the choice.
But I don't think cat beheadings were part of their plans.
Exactly. This sounds like an horrific job. They're being paid to watch the nastiest stuff on the Internet and judge if it's going to psychologically harm people.
I knew someone who's job it was to watch terrorist beheading videos and then watch all the gruesome blood, and death bits so it could be cut out to show on the news in a manner that wouldn't traumatise viewers. It's only a matter of time before seeing that stuff is going to affect you.
It's lycra, not spandex
Spandex is the American term, Lyra's a British term. Elastane is the European term.
Pedestrians are slightly more likely to suffer a head injury than cyclists per mile travelled.
Car drivers are more likely to be hit by a car than cyclists in general. (Cyclists more likely per mile travelled, but generally they use safer transport like trains for longer distances)
Cyclists overall live much longer lives. So any head injury risk is completely outweighed by the risk of cardiac arrest, cancer, suicide caused by depression, getting stuck in a doorway and starving to death cos you're too fat, etc, etc
This study shows correlation, not causation.
Diet soda is marketed at fat people, it's drunk by fat people.
Fat people get strokes. Fat people suffer from dementia as a result of those strokes.
This is no suprise to anyone.
When I heard this story on the radio this morning, the most surprising bit was that Syria is responsible for the rise of ISIS.
I'm sure last week it was the destabilization of Iraq that was the cause of ISIS.
Can someone send me the memo from the Ministry of Truth as I missed that one.
Oceania has always been at war with Syria.
Please report to the first room on the first floor for further information.
The word you are looking for in that sentence would probably be "warrants".
You're welcome.
No because that would change the context entirely. He's not saying that the post is warranting a discussion on Slashdot. He's suggesting that, on Slashdot, the bar set for a definition of "a discussion" is set so low as to include a post which consists only of a few "I agree posts".
or we could drop it into the oceans to counteract all the freshwater melt coming off the polar ice caps from the global warming.
I think this was OP's point. If you dump it back in the oceans then... unless you spread it very, very thinly over a wide area, you'll end up with pockets of highly concentrated saline ocean which is very harmful to sea life.
What do they think the target audience is ? Do they intend to sell Nike shoes ?
Yup, hideous UI. whats wrong with a list?
A-level students are 17, 18 years old. They're at the age where school is no longer compulsory and they've decided to stay on anyway.
Since 2015, it's been compulsory to stay at school until 18...
https://www.gov.uk/know-when-y...
Can't they just install Samsung Smart TVs in every hotel and take the pictures themselves?
I do not know how DDG is funded.
DuckDuckGo earns revenue in two ways:
Serving ads from the Yahoo–Bing search alliance network, and
Affiliate relationships with several companies
How is it unwitting if they spend $3.1 millions on it?
I was wondering this. The TFA says that it's the teachers that are the unwitting parties. It's the schools that are buying the spy software, and the teachers are having to use it. I guess unwilling would be a better term, but you get the gist.
If these are school-owned computers, on school property, then I don;thave much of a problem with this... privately owned devices and/or devicesa the students take home, not as much so
Interesting point. If they were adults then I'd agree. However kids aren't really able to ascertain the implications of this spying, so I'm unsure. Also, they don't have much choice about the matter. I can choose whether or not to work for an employer that acts like Big Brother, kids don't really have much of a choice about which school they go to.
TV pundits called the race before all the poles in the state (both time zones) had closed.
What have Polish people got to do with it?
If this is true - and they'll call the result when there's still enough people in line to change the result - then shame on Google. They've gone from organizing the world's information to predicting (and influencing) the future.
Great. Now people aren't even reading the fucking title:
Google Will Display Election Results As Soon As Polls Close
Great. Now people aren't even reading the fucking parent comment
In more contested districts, it is more common to have longer lines at the polls, which can mean that people technically vote after the poll close time
In more contested districts, it is more common to have longer lines at the polls, which can mean that people technically vote after the poll close times, if they arrived before that time. People waiting in line and giving up based on speculated information, like what Google will be providing, is exactly what happened before.
If this is true - and they'll call the result when there's still enough people in line to change the result - then shame on Google. They've gone from organizing the world's information to predicting (and influencing) the future.
the catalyst most certainly can be affected by a reaction.
Why should I listen to someone that doesn't know the difference between affect and effect?
Like everything else, it's got it's good points and it's bad...
The whole point of (Or maybe this is just me) of dealing with someone's death, is the actual letting go part, recognising that they're gone and moving on.
My thoughts exactly. Something disturbs me greatly about this story. It reminds me of those that live with the dead body of a loved one because they don't want to believe they're dead.
At some point they're going to have to turn the AI off, or come to the realisation that this person wasn't just the sum of their IM output before they can move on, and the grief will hit them then.
[do people really talk to their phones] because i never see it and don't know anyone who does. other than doing it for safety reasons while driving this sounds like the most stupid thing ever. and i've tried Siri and Google Now and hate both
It used to be a useless gimmick, but the tech has come on massively recently. I use it a lot for certain specific tasks on my phones and tablets
I haven't used Siri in a while, but Google Now and Cortana especially work really well for me. If I want to call somewhgere that isn't in my contacts then I use voice. "Call the Apple store on Regents Street, London" is quicker than googling for a number and dialling it. Also, for playing music, it's a ton quicker, just tell the device what you want to play and it does it almost instantly. Much quicker than opening up the music app, and searchging for the song before pressing play: You can also do it across the room with Cortana and Google Now if you don't have the phone in your hand.
Reminds me of the olde fartes bemoaning the death of incandescant light bulbs.
I hated the death of incandecent light bulbs when the first started phasing them out. Compact flourecents just wern't as good. Now that we have LED bulbs, at affordable prices; I couldn't be happier.
Same goes for the 3.5mm jack. I'm not interested in wireless earphones because they're a pain in the ass. They need charging (for the same reason I use a wired keyboard and mouse). USB Type-C is awesome but as others have pointed out, most devices only have one type-C port so you can't charge and listen at the same time; not without some complicated adapter anyway.
When devices start coming with 2 or more USB ports, I'll be happy.
High tech dupe
It's not a dupe;.it's just been automatically regenerated for your security!
If Amazon is the seller, you're getting screwed.
Doesn't really matter. Amazon returns procedures are very good. If I buy a product from them that doesn't meet my expectations then I can return it at very little cost to me in terms of time & money. If I buy from another seller and it turns out to be a dud, it can often cost more than it's worth to return it.
Protect the innocent
Serve the public trust
Uphold the law