I completely agree with the "symptom of a much larger problem" attribute. But specialized human killing weapons are unlikely to help with the problem.
To your question: at the time it seemed to me a very dangerous situation which necessitated the use of full force. The other party made an attempt at grievous bodily harm and I responded in the same vein. If ANY weapons had been at hand then somebody would have wound up injured, or worse. The thought that you have to defend your family tends to override most other rationale. Even for a geek. Although, like many modern geeks, I am in good shape.
I so agree. The worst incursion I have had on myself or my living area stemmed from a misunderstanding of epic proportions, was at my home, and went so far as to get to fisticuffs until sanity was restored. Bruises were sustained, egos were bruised and stuff had to be discussed (and I even declined to press charges even when it was within my right to do so. No harm, no foul).
Notice that nobody got shot dead.
I live in Sweden, in the worst neighborhood within a few hundred kilometer radius. I know that somebody got beaten up with a bat a few months ago in the neighborhood (reportedly a drug debt, happened after he let the drug dealers he owed money to into his apartment).
Hunting weapons are widely owned in Sweden, and there's a large army base in the town. But people don't keep loaded 9mm pistols or semi-automatics in the glove box. This is a possible influencing factor why a misunderstanding did not get elevated to homicide. Neither party had a weapon which pierces human bodies easily with a feather light pull on the trigger at a time when fear and tempers flared high. Most excellent.
A shooting is a national headline in a country which has 31 guns per 100 residents (Sweden). USA does have 90 guns per 100 residents (according to wikipedia) but 31 is not a low number. Why is gun crime not just 1/3 of what it is in the USA? Different rules and different mentality? Or are the other 60 guns per 100 persons mostly handguns and sprayfire weapons specialized for killing people and no good for hunting?
I kinda, sorta agree about the cohesiveness of the Linux user experience. It still contains too much command line/compiling frustration to be really great, and too many programs are mired in old interfaces designed by the programmers/engineers who made the original program (of which there may be little left). But the system itself, as in the case of Ubuntu, is in many cases consistent and a joy to use. Somebody there "gets it". Contrast this with just the control panel in any flavour of Windows and you get an amazing number of different and incompatible behaviours.
Ballmer lacks vision, and MS has completely lost any sense of vision, at least in what makes it to market. Which is sad because we see some R&D stuff from them which looks amazing, yet when that department has been forced to install something which does not fit that product (decided by two managerial levels above from four departments sideways) we finally get some unusable hunk of crap with more computational power than a Cray, yet slow and unresponsive.
I'm rooting for MS to get back on track, but until then I use my trusty iPhone, or an Android device. WebOS seems interesting too, and given my past love of my PalmVx I would be willing to give that a try. Lots of good options. MS doesn't seem to be willing to give us an option in the same class.
Probably agree. The first court cases would be interesting, anyway. Grieving family members vs. the state. The state having condoned behaviour which was deemed by experts and the police to be the primary factor in the death of the Ronson family, including their cute 4 year old Jenna(shown on news broadcasts with cute curls), their 7 year old son Simon (shown smiling on his bike) and the family dog. Can't you just SEE the PR disaster?
Even if the state would beat any charges, or charges wouldn't be filed, the state would still lose. A bill like this would inevitable become a huge liability for a state and would result in financial losses due to high income people moving out of state because of the state having become a less safe place to be. The cost of supporting crippled survivors, family members and rebuilding costs after powerful cars slam into nearby objects at ludicrous speeds would also make the profit somewhat smaller.
This guy is probably just trying to get attention..
I agree with the you on the actual quality of the camera. However, the usage of modern cameras is mostly for opportunity pics which means that the best camera is the one you always have on you. Additionally, the HDR feature should make the pictures seem quite a bit clearer/better than the any single pic.
It's just about modern usage patterns, although I think they should have higher res still pictures on the back camera. Preferably something like on the iPhone 4 which actually gets better pics than my two year old Olympus which is bigger than the iphone.. The Olympus wins on resolution (and physical zoom) but loses badly on noise, sensitivity and speed.
I have an Airport Extreme (time capsule without the disk) and must say that I'm pleased. I shopped around for this feature set and could only easily find a Belkin unit with the same features, but that was more expensive than the Apple unit.
Setup is a no brainer, and it works as advertised. Only one USB port, though, which means that I have a USB hub to connect two external drives and one printer. Annoying, but not a deal breaker for me. I also have fiber right to my home so I don't need no steenkin' ADSL functionality so I get to use just one box.
Ahh, but designs for that sort of stuff need large wings, with lots of internal space for the structural members as well as the hydraulics and stuff for folding the wings. The design calls for extremely high aspect ratio wings which just can't do that.
Interesting designs. Looking at the first one I have some reservation to this. Structural integrity of the wings is one. A wing has to effect a mass-flow large enough to lift the aircraft, and so has to be fantastically strong, as well as large enough to cause this massflow. A problem (or rather a limitation) with gliders is that when the aspect ratio gets very high that means that there is precious little internal volume to the wing for load bearing members. This is a very real limitation on sailplane wings and means that 20 metre wingspan is a real world limit (some types have gone longer, but the extreme flex of that length of wing means that they are impractical). This seems like a very real issue here. Of course, high aspect ratio wings are more efficient due to a number of effects, an important one being wingtip vortices affecting a smaller percentage of the wing. I have no idea how that pans out at high speeds, though. When you're reaching M0.8 I would imagine that interesting effects might start happening, but I'm sure that the MIT kids have calculated all that as well as can be done (I doubt them being dumb).
Icing would also be a concern, both for the wing (high aspect ratio, laminar flow) and (more seriously) for the whole fuselage which pollutes the airflow into the engines. MD80's (and other jets with rear fuselage mounted engines, the CL60 is another example) had some accidents due to ill visible icing forming on the wings prior to take-off, detaching from the wing on take-off and flying into the engines. This design would be quite sensitive to this sort of problem.
But all in all, a very intriguing design idea. Would be interesting to see if the real world problems can be solved as well.
This is seriously unscientific and just plain crap.
It takes me around 2-3 minutes to fall asleep. That's more evidence than CNN gives. Even if it is very low quality, anecdotal evidence.
This personal experiment in the CNN article has so many confoundings, and is so badly controlled that I am left gasping. He usually went to bed at midnight and felt tired (because of lack of sleep).. He then changes his whole evening pattern, including computer use, TV use, possibly changes in snacks and food items, and is then all surprised when he finds it easier to fall asleep earlier. What a genius.
Ok, lets run through that again. No late night TV, No late computer play, no snacks at nine or ten in the evening, AND a CONSCIOUS DECISION to change his patterns.
Serious crap reporting. The attempt to link it to scientific work was also pathetic. "personal preference" and "Normally, our brains start giving us that hormonal sleep aid at about 9 or 10 p.m. But if bright lights are shining in our eyes, that may not happen as planned. That's what worries some sleep researchers."
Ok, some sleep researchers? WHICH sleep researchers. Give an example/reference. Otherwise you fail your journalism test.
Most are this colour because the sodium vapour lamps are way more efficient and save large amounts of money for the cities that use them. They also cause less light pollution because of the limited light frequency they emit.
There's no health reason. It may even be a little unsafer as low colour temperatures and narrow frequency bands can cause tiredness/fatigue (tired drivers = bad). That doesn't necessarily mean that it calms anger. "Full spectrum" lights are sold as reducing tiredness and all that.
Additionally, the narrow spectrum of the light means that our colour vision is seriously impaired when using these lights. That's not necessarily good, either..
I would like to add that on the near accidents mentioned above the damage to the aircraft was also VERY extensive. The BA flight needed 4 new engines (around U$ 14 million EACH), new windows (more expensive than you would think), new pitot and static ports (and an overhaul of tubing and sensors) and a paintjob (big surface, costs quite a bit) as well as a thorough overhaul of pretty much everything.
Even if no one dies it is still extremely expensive to fly accidentally into an ash cloud.
I really don't think this was an overreaction. Safety must be paramount, and if only one or two aircraft had gone down due to ash that would have seriously impacted the publics faith in the airline industry and their view of safety. That would have been a lot more expensive in the long run, and the airline industry has spend decades building an image of themselves as super safety minded.
And just for the record, I'm an ex-commercial pilot. From Iceland. I've flown smaller aircraft around volcanic eruptions and had great fun.
Man.... trying to use mouse based programs on a touchscreen will be a hateful experience for those who decide to try this..
Just an exercise in frustration and possible anger management afterwards.
Thankfully, more and more people are realizing that specs aren't the be-all, end-all. Being able to actually USE all the features and specs that you have is much more important. What would be the use of a single seat rocket car on 50km/h twisty roads?
Select the right tool for the intended use. If that is lounging about on the couch reading websites and maybe some light text editing, get a custom built device like an iPad. If your hobbies include calls to tech support and tearing your hair out then buy a device sporting a touch controller but using software designed for a different class of devices.
Missing features? yeah, some have been mildly annoying.
But for the most part, just having phone/handheld computer that you can actually use has just been such a sweet relief that I can't even think about going back to a Nokia, HTC, or (gasp) any Windows Mobile device.
They all have better specs, more "features" but the specs don't get utilized and the features sit unused, because they're just too annoying to use on a daily basis, even for a power user.
That, dear sir, is not the dumbest comment I've seen so far.
Why is this so big in the US but we haven't really heard of the same problem in Europe? Is it due to the litigious nature of the US? Or due to some factor making this less of a problem here?
I could well imagine strong RF signals as a contributing factor, we've known for a long time that relatively weak signals can wreak havoc with aircraft navigation systems (I've seen VOR's go screwy and ADF needles try to imitate a cooling fan), while engine controls are less susceptible to problems (on aircraft, anyway) due their being shielded and not requiring any way of receiving outside signals.
Actually they are not referring to those ads from satan (flashy, splashy, moving and pop-up ads) but rather to "hiding" ads in the text, having the ad become part of the article. Also known as whoring out your integrity, which is done by too many media outlets.
The "punch the monkey" ads and similar should get someone shot. At least spanked. Bloody annoying.
I have now whitelisted Ars due to their asking me nicely, and the fact that they only have nice, static ads. I also view ads on Slashdot (even though slashdot gives me the option of turning them off, ok to support the sites I really use)
I think the comments on their site pretty much showed that their readers are willing to accept static ads only. Sound, or migraine inducing animations get them removed from whitelists.
Mail them, tell them your experience so they hopefully fix something.
mental and social development is more that just studying. Boys and girls use different methods to increase their social competence and one important element is their little fighting, shouting and jumping. The girls should also make noise and difficult towards each other. This is necessary. Educators should know this. Well, good educators, anyway.
And kids should not be studying on the bus at all. This attitude of "more TIME spent studying = better" needs to go the way of the Dodo. Socializing is probably even MORE important. And I know most of/. probably got beaten up on the school bus, but that was also a part of finding our social circle and knowing how to behave around jocks and other idiots. Part of the reason that you are an alpha geek is that you figured out that you don't have anything in common with those half-simian mooks on the school bus..
yeah, having a way of getting a more detailed explanation may be good, but maybe not necessary. Tech savvy and chemistry savvy are two very different things..
Yes, the user is smart and the OS and computer are both stupid.
HOWEVER, the user may be a very smart doctor (brick layer, astronaut, deep sea diver etc.) which does not necessarily make the user comfortable with computers or an OS. The OS should assist the user by giving him all the information he needs in real human language. If the assistance means showing a warning symbol on the battery and a popup (on hover) sayin "this battery will need replacing soon" or "this battery REEEEALLLLYYY needs replacing now" then that is what is required.
We technonerds who feel comfortable screwing our laptop computers apart and can look up all pertinent data (and understand it) are only a very small minority. Most users can use google in a very limited fashion and don't understand the difference between a.dll and a.avi Not because they are stupid, but rather because they focus their brainpower on other things (brain surgery, for instance)
The new OS has features which the old one didn't and now does more to inform the user about the computers state in an understandable manner.
Apple did something similar (I think it was with OS X Leopard) where suddenly lots of people got a "this battery needs servicing" type message. This was only due to Apple realizing the need for this feature to give real recommendations. Who knows at what health percentage a battery should be replaced?
Sounds like the windows team realized the same thing and decided to support the user in his decision making. That's great. No conspiracy needed.
Yeah, and the REALLY stupid thing is that even with the most scary made up statistics we can find on vaccines their danger is only a fraction of the danger of the diseases which the vaccines should stop.
Flu kills (seasonal flu). Children, adults and the elderly DIE from these diseases. I got H1N1 a little before the vaccine arrived in my neck of the woods, so did my wife and children. I got pneumonia and got VERY sick. My one year old daughter got veryvery sick but my two year old got a much higher fever (40C/104F) but recovered quicker. My wife got minor flu-like symptoms.
I can tell you, we would rather have wanted the vaccination, even with the side effects. H1N1 didn'd kill nearly as many as was feared/scaremongered but it was really nasty anyway, probably the sickest I've ever gotten.
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I completely agree with the "symptom of a much larger problem" attribute. But specialized human killing weapons are unlikely to help with the problem.
To your question: at the time it seemed to me a very dangerous situation which necessitated the use of full force. The other party made an attempt at grievous bodily harm and I responded in the same vein. If ANY weapons had been at hand then somebody would have wound up injured, or worse.
The thought that you have to defend your family tends to override most other rationale. Even for a geek. Although, like many modern geeks, I am in good shape.
I so agree.
The worst incursion I have had on myself or my living area stemmed from a misunderstanding of epic proportions, was at my home, and went so far as to get to fisticuffs until sanity was restored. Bruises were sustained, egos were bruised and stuff had to be discussed (and I even declined to press charges even when it was within my right to do so. No harm, no foul).
Notice that nobody got shot dead.
I live in Sweden, in the worst neighborhood within a few hundred kilometer radius. I know that somebody got beaten up with a bat a few months ago in the neighborhood (reportedly a drug debt, happened after he let the drug dealers he owed money to into his apartment).
Hunting weapons are widely owned in Sweden, and there's a large army base in the town. But people don't keep loaded 9mm pistols or semi-automatics in the glove box. This is a possible influencing factor why a misunderstanding did not get elevated to homicide. Neither party had a weapon which pierces human bodies easily with a feather light pull on the trigger at a time when fear and tempers flared high.
Most excellent.
A shooting is a national headline in a country which has 31 guns per 100 residents (Sweden). USA does have 90 guns per 100 residents (according to wikipedia) but 31 is not a low number. Why is gun crime not just 1/3 of what it is in the USA?
Different rules and different mentality?
Or are the other 60 guns per 100 persons mostly handguns and sprayfire weapons specialized for killing people and no good for hunting?
And adding certain genes to humans makes them more.. mentally handicapped..
I kinda, sorta agree about the cohesiveness of the Linux user experience. It still contains too much command line/compiling frustration to be really great, and too many programs are mired in old interfaces designed by the programmers/engineers who made the original program (of which there may be little left).
But the system itself, as in the case of Ubuntu, is in many cases consistent and a joy to use. Somebody there "gets it".
Contrast this with just the control panel in any flavour of Windows and you get an amazing number of different and incompatible behaviours.
Ballmer lacks vision, and MS has completely lost any sense of vision, at least in what makes it to market. Which is sad because we see some R&D stuff from them which looks amazing, yet when that department has been forced to install something which does not fit that product (decided by two managerial levels above from four departments sideways) we finally get some unusable hunk of crap with more computational power than a Cray, yet slow and unresponsive.
I'm rooting for MS to get back on track, but until then I use my trusty iPhone, or an Android device. WebOS seems interesting too, and given my past love of my PalmVx I would be willing to give that a try. Lots of good options. MS doesn't seem to be willing to give us an option in the same class.
In other news, pilots suggest eliminating stupid CEO's who don't have a basic understanding of the business they're in..
Probably agree.
The first court cases would be interesting, anyway.
Grieving family members vs. the state.
The state having condoned behaviour which was deemed by experts and the police to be the primary factor in the death of the Ronson family, including their cute 4 year old Jenna(shown on news broadcasts with cute curls), their 7 year old son Simon (shown smiling on his bike) and the family dog.
Can't you just SEE the PR disaster?
Even if the state would beat any charges, or charges wouldn't be filed, the state would still lose.
A bill like this would inevitable become a huge liability for a state and would result in financial losses due to high income people moving out of state because of the state having become a less safe place to be. The cost of supporting crippled survivors, family members and rebuilding costs after powerful cars slam into nearby objects at ludicrous speeds would also make the profit somewhat smaller.
This guy is probably just trying to get attention..
I agree with the you on the actual quality of the camera.
However, the usage of modern cameras is mostly for opportunity pics which means that the best camera is the one you always have on you. Additionally, the HDR feature should make the pictures seem quite a bit clearer/better than the any single pic.
It's just about modern usage patterns, although I think they should have higher res still pictures on the back camera. Preferably something like on the iPhone 4 which actually gets better pics than my two year old Olympus which is bigger than the iphone.. The Olympus wins on resolution (and physical zoom) but loses badly on noise, sensitivity and speed.
This just in..
The internet says that Prince is over
I have an Airport Extreme (time capsule without the disk) and must say that I'm pleased. I shopped around for this feature set and could only easily find a Belkin unit with the same features, but that was more expensive than the Apple unit.
Setup is a no brainer, and it works as advertised. Only one USB port, though, which means that I have a USB hub to connect two external drives and one printer. Annoying, but not a deal breaker for me.
I also have fiber right to my home so I don't need no steenkin' ADSL functionality so I get to use just one box.
Ahh, but designs for that sort of stuff need large wings, with lots of internal space for the structural members as well as the hydraulics and stuff for folding the wings. The design calls for extremely high aspect ratio wings which just can't do that.
Interesting designs. Looking at the first one I have some reservation to this. Structural integrity of the wings is one. A wing has to effect a mass-flow large enough to lift the aircraft, and so has to be fantastically strong, as well as large enough to cause this massflow. A problem (or rather a limitation) with gliders is that when the aspect ratio gets very high that means that there is precious little internal volume to the wing for load bearing members. This is a very real limitation on sailplane wings and means that 20 metre wingspan is a real world limit (some types have gone longer, but the extreme flex of that length of wing means that they are impractical). This seems like a very real issue here.
Of course, high aspect ratio wings are more efficient due to a number of effects, an important one being wingtip vortices affecting a smaller percentage of the wing. I have no idea how that pans out at high speeds, though. When you're reaching M0.8 I would imagine that interesting effects might start happening, but I'm sure that the MIT kids have calculated all that as well as can be done (I doubt them being dumb).
Icing would also be a concern, both for the wing (high aspect ratio, laminar flow) and (more seriously) for the whole fuselage which pollutes the airflow into the engines. MD80's (and other jets with rear fuselage mounted engines, the CL60 is another example) had some accidents due to ill visible icing forming on the wings prior to take-off, detaching from the wing on take-off and flying into the engines. This design would be quite sensitive to this sort of problem.
But all in all, a very intriguing design idea. Would be interesting to see if the real world problems can be solved as well.
This is seriously unscientific and just plain crap.
It takes me around 2-3 minutes to fall asleep. That's more evidence than CNN gives. Even if it is very low quality, anecdotal evidence.
This personal experiment in the CNN article has so many confoundings, and is so badly controlled that I am left gasping.
He usually went to bed at midnight and felt tired (because of lack of sleep).. He then changes his whole evening pattern, including computer use, TV use, possibly changes in snacks and food items, and is then all surprised when he finds it easier to fall asleep earlier.
What a genius.
Ok, lets run through that again. No late night TV, No late computer play, no snacks at nine or ten in the evening, AND a CONSCIOUS DECISION to change his patterns.
Serious crap reporting. The attempt to link it to scientific work was also pathetic. "personal preference" and "Normally, our brains start giving us that hormonal sleep aid at about 9 or 10 p.m. But if bright lights are shining in our eyes, that may not happen as planned. That's what worries some sleep researchers."
Ok, some sleep researchers?
WHICH sleep researchers. Give an example/reference. Otherwise you fail your journalism test.
Most are this colour because the sodium vapour lamps are way more efficient and save large amounts of money for the cities that use them.
They also cause less light pollution because of the limited light frequency they emit.
There's no health reason. It may even be a little unsafer as low colour temperatures and narrow frequency bands can cause tiredness/fatigue (tired drivers = bad). That doesn't necessarily mean that it calms anger. "Full spectrum" lights are sold as reducing tiredness and all that.
Additionally, the narrow spectrum of the light means that our colour vision is seriously impaired when using these lights. That's not necessarily good, either..
I would like to add that on the near accidents mentioned above the damage to the aircraft was also VERY extensive. The BA flight needed 4 new engines (around U$ 14 million EACH), new windows (more expensive than you would think), new pitot and static ports (and an overhaul of tubing and sensors) and a paintjob (big surface, costs quite a bit) as well as a thorough overhaul of pretty much everything.
Even if no one dies it is still extremely expensive to fly accidentally into an ash cloud.
I really don't think this was an overreaction. Safety must be paramount, and if only one or two aircraft had gone down due to ash that would have seriously impacted the publics faith in the airline industry and their view of safety. That would have been a lot more expensive in the long run, and the airline industry has spend decades building an image of themselves as super safety minded.
And just for the record, I'm an ex-commercial pilot. From Iceland. I've flown smaller aircraft around volcanic eruptions and had great fun.
Man.... trying to use mouse based programs on a touchscreen will be a hateful experience for those who decide to try this..
Just an exercise in frustration and possible anger management afterwards.
Thankfully, more and more people are realizing that specs aren't the be-all, end-all. Being able to actually USE all the features and specs that you have is much more important. What would be the use of a single seat rocket car on 50km/h twisty roads?
Select the right tool for the intended use. If that is lounging about on the couch reading websites and maybe some light text editing, get a custom built device like an iPad.
If your hobbies include calls to tech support and tearing your hair out then buy a device sporting a touch controller but using software designed for a different class of devices.
Missing features? yeah, some have been mildly annoying.
But for the most part, just having phone/handheld computer that you can actually use has just been such a sweet relief that I can't even think about going back to a Nokia, HTC, or (gasp) any Windows Mobile device.
They all have better specs, more "features" but the specs don't get utilized and the features sit unused, because they're just too annoying to use on a daily basis, even for a power user.
That, dear sir, is not the dumbest comment I've seen so far.
Why is this so big in the US but we haven't really heard of the same problem in Europe?
Is it due to the litigious nature of the US? Or due to some factor making this less of a problem here?
I could well imagine strong RF signals as a contributing factor, we've known for a long time that relatively weak signals can wreak havoc with aircraft navigation systems (I've seen VOR's go screwy and ADF needles try to imitate a cooling fan), while engine controls are less susceptible to problems (on aircraft, anyway) due their being shielded and not requiring any way of receiving outside signals.
SHIELDING FOR CAR SYSTEMS, please.
Actually they are not referring to those ads from satan (flashy, splashy, moving and pop-up ads) but rather to "hiding" ads in the text, having the ad become part of the article. Also known as whoring out your integrity, which is done by too many media outlets.
The "punch the monkey" ads and similar should get someone shot. At least spanked. Bloody annoying.
I have now whitelisted Ars due to their asking me nicely, and the fact that they only have nice, static ads. I also view ads on Slashdot (even though slashdot gives me the option of turning them off, ok to support the sites I really use)
I think the comments on their site pretty much showed that their readers are willing to accept static ads only. Sound, or migraine inducing animations get them removed from whitelists.
Mail them, tell them your experience so they hopefully fix something.
mental and social development is more that just studying.
Boys and girls use different methods to increase their social competence and one important element is their little fighting, shouting and jumping. The girls should also make noise and difficult towards each other. This is necessary. Educators should know this. Well, good educators, anyway.
And kids should not be studying on the bus at all. This attitude of "more TIME spent studying = better" needs to go the way of the Dodo. Socializing is probably even MORE important. And I know most of /. probably got beaten up on the school bus, but that was also a part of finding our social circle and knowing how to behave around jocks and other idiots. Part of the reason that you are an alpha geek is that you figured out that you don't have anything in common with those half-simian mooks on the school bus..
But seriously. BAD idea.
yeah, having a way of getting a more detailed explanation may be good, but maybe not necessary.
Tech savvy and chemistry savvy are two very different things..
Yes, the user is smart and the OS and computer are both stupid.
HOWEVER, the user may be a very smart doctor (brick layer, astronaut, deep sea diver etc.) which does not necessarily make the user comfortable with computers or an OS.
The OS should assist the user by giving him all the information he needs in real human language.
If the assistance means showing a warning symbol on the battery and a popup (on hover) sayin "this battery will need replacing soon" or "this battery REEEEALLLLYYY needs replacing now" then that is what is required.
We technonerds who feel comfortable screwing our laptop computers apart and can look up all pertinent data (and understand it) are only a very small minority. Most users can use google in a very limited fashion and don't understand the difference between a .dll and a .avi
Not because they are stupid, but rather because they focus their brainpower on other things (brain surgery, for instance)
The new OS has features which the old one didn't and now does more to inform the user about the computers state in an understandable manner.
Apple did something similar (I think it was with OS X Leopard) where suddenly lots of people got a "this battery needs servicing" type message. This was only due to Apple realizing the need for this feature to give real recommendations. Who knows at what health percentage a battery should be replaced?
Sounds like the windows team realized the same thing and decided to support the user in his decision making. That's great. No conspiracy needed.
I have no idea why you were modded down, nothing wrong with your comment, made sense to me.
Yeah, and the REALLY stupid thing is that even with the most scary made up statistics we can find on vaccines their danger is only a fraction of the danger of the diseases which the vaccines should stop.
Flu kills (seasonal flu).
Children, adults and the elderly DIE from these diseases. I got H1N1 a little before the vaccine arrived in my neck of the woods, so did my wife and children.
I got pneumonia and got VERY sick. My one year old daughter got veryvery sick but my two year old got a much higher fever (40C/104F) but recovered quicker. My wife got minor flu-like symptoms.
I can tell you, we would rather have wanted the vaccination, even with the side effects. H1N1 didn'd kill nearly as many as was feared/scaremongered but it was really nasty anyway, probably the sickest I've ever gotten.