3) It's a product that someone in Nokia thought could save the company a few years ago, and which they're going to launch because it is finally actually finished. It would not be the first time.
As an S60 fan from their glory days, this is a traditional Nokia mistake. You'd be amazed at the incredible products Nokia has managed to render obsolete or irrelevant by competition between different business units.
It's classic Nokia, really: dispirate teams running over time on projects so that by the time they launch, the market no longer exists. Meego, Maemo, Symbian^3, you name it, Nokia can make it run so far over time that all the company can do is pitch it out ate at whatever region that device is least irrelevant in.
Actually if there's one thing we can agree on, it's that thermal effects are not the cause of the problem. The energies involved are vanishingly low; holding your hand near your face has more of an impact on its heating than holding a phone there.
That's because you've conditioned yourself to expect a vibrating sensation and respond promptly to it; your brain is hypersensitised. The same phenomenon occurs with the actual ringing sounds of phones, landlines or otherwise.
Cancer.gov as in a US government site summarising information from boundless non-US-government sources (scientists) who are in constant competition to one-up each other and for whom the prize for finding an interesting counter-intuitive result and proving it is fame and glory.
It's an opportunity for them to find faults in, and improve, the procedures that are meant to mitigate the impact of these sorts of attacks. This sort of issue is designed in to bitcoin, and therefore anticipated; consider this the first live exercise.
If you had made it to the end of the summary, you'd see that they are in fact asking for decentralisation and reject the role of the UN or any other single body in its operation.
You would think that a device you're supposed to wear as a pair of spectacles would be less loseable than a phone. If they're so inconvenient that you wind up carrying them around by hand instead of head and lose them, what's the point exactly?
It's a tradeoff, given the expense and hassle involved in hydro or ADP. (Both techniques involve calculating a person's density directly by how much of a fluid they displace.) Calipers and/or one of those conductivity doofers seem to be a much better compromise than BMI though, at least as far as our high school efforts to evaluate them went.
I've not got a horse in this race, being a non-American. (If we were going to talk troubling survey results, the nontrivial minority in the US who think the moon landings were faked is equally alarming.) I just have an intellectual itch to scratch, and I'd like to see (for example) what happens when you issue the same test in English versus a different language where astronomy and astrology aren't cognates.
It looks like the report aggregates about 30 surveys and unfortunately doesn't reference individual data sources for the astrology discussion. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's done or worked on one of these surveys to see if they investigated this.
If I was skimming a survey that asked about scientific topics I'd probably read "astrology" as "astronomy" by accident. I'd possibly even chalk it up to a typo and deliberately substitute the two. I'm reading the paper right now to see if they accounted for this.
It means somebody found a marketing gimmick that not only lets the buyer pretend it's a serious investment in their future survival, but allows the seller to engage in a five-blades-style over-engineering race with their competitors that drives up the profit margin. Make it "everyday carry" and people will both buy it and carry it everywhere without actually knowing when or if they'll ever need it, because by definition those are "just in case" items.
Think of it as a way to support Mozilla without making a donation. People who don't like ads will, presumably, grab a plugin that disables them and just cut Mozilla a cheque instead.
The brief article outlines that some IBM employees are major Wikipedians; some other IBM employees have edited IBM Wikipedia articles; IBM's Wikipedia articles are bad, but they are not a neutrality issue; he author thinks that some anonymous editors might be IBM employees but doesn't show as such.
I'm not sure where the problem is arising here. If Wikipedia had a blanket ban about people in IBM being senior members, or IBM people editing IBM articles. Of all the problems to highlight on Wikipedia this is one of the most nonproblematic one could find.
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China's still saying it's dead; it's amateur radio enthusiasts who have detected its broadcast.
A man that cannot stomach an analogy is a man whose capacity for free thinking has died.
"It's not hard to believe"... but there's no evidence that it is the case, and copious evidence otherwise.
...of radio. Not of cellular radio. In much the same way that I am a tall person, but I am a short basketball player.
3) It's a product that someone in Nokia thought could save the company a few years ago, and which they're going to launch because it is finally actually finished. It would not be the first time.
As an S60 fan from their glory days, this is a traditional Nokia mistake. You'd be amazed at the incredible products Nokia has managed to render obsolete or irrelevant by competition between different business units.
It's classic Nokia, really: dispirate teams running over time on projects so that by the time they launch, the market no longer exists. Meego, Maemo, Symbian^3, you name it, Nokia can make it run so far over time that all the company can do is pitch it out ate at whatever region that device is least irrelevant in.
Given that we're talking about cellphones, yes, it's the low frequency band.
Actually if there's one thing we can agree on, it's that thermal effects are not the cause of the problem. The energies involved are vanishingly low; holding your hand near your face has more of an impact on its heating than holding a phone there.
A stopped clock is right twice a day: there are no prizes for getting the right result from dumb luck, contrary to or in the absence of evidence.
That's because you've conditioned yourself to expect a vibrating sensation and respond promptly to it; your brain is hypersensitised. The same phenomenon occurs with the actual ringing sounds of phones, landlines or otherwise.
Cancer.gov as in a US government site summarising information from boundless non-US-government sources (scientists) who are in constant competition to one-up each other and for whom the prize for finding an interesting counter-intuitive result and proving it is fame and glory.
It's an opportunity for them to find faults in, and improve, the procedures that are meant to mitigate the impact of these sorts of attacks. This sort of issue is designed in to bitcoin, and therefore anticipated; consider this the first live exercise.
More like someone pooping in the cheque deposit box.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that "+5 Funny" was probably not the moderation you were looking for.
If you had made it to the end of the summary, you'd see that they are in fact asking for decentralisation and reject the role of the UN or any other single body in its operation.
You would think that a device you're supposed to wear as a pair of spectacles would be less loseable than a phone. If they're so inconvenient that you wind up carrying them around by hand instead of head and lose them, what's the point exactly?
I'd settle for cognates that have drifted far enough in spelling that they're unlikely to be confused. You see what my point is.
It's a tradeoff, given the expense and hassle involved in hydro or ADP. (Both techniques involve calculating a person's density directly by how much of a fluid they displace.) Calipers and/or one of those conductivity doofers seem to be a much better compromise than BMI though, at least as far as our high school efforts to evaluate them went.
I've not got a horse in this race, being a non-American. (If we were going to talk troubling survey results, the nontrivial minority in the US who think the moon landings were faked is equally alarming.) I just have an intellectual itch to scratch, and I'd like to see (for example) what happens when you issue the same test in English versus a different language where astronomy and astrology aren't cognates.
It looks like the report aggregates about 30 surveys and unfortunately doesn't reference individual data sources for the astrology discussion. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's done or worked on one of these surveys to see if they investigated this.
If I was skimming a survey that asked about scientific topics I'd probably read "astrology" as "astronomy" by accident. I'd possibly even chalk it up to a typo and deliberately substitute the two. I'm reading the paper right now to see if they accounted for this.
It means somebody found a marketing gimmick that not only lets the buyer pretend it's a serious investment in their future survival, but allows the seller to engage in a five-blades-style over-engineering race with their competitors that drives up the profit margin. Make it "everyday carry" and people will both buy it and carry it everywhere without actually knowing when or if they'll ever need it, because by definition those are "just in case" items.
Think of it as a way to support Mozilla without making a donation. People who don't like ads will, presumably, grab a plugin that disables them and just cut Mozilla a cheque instead.
The brief article outlines that some IBM employees are major Wikipedians; some other IBM employees have edited IBM Wikipedia articles; IBM's Wikipedia articles are bad, but they are not a neutrality issue; he author thinks that some anonymous editors might be IBM employees but doesn't show as such.
I'm not sure where the problem is arising here. If Wikipedia had a blanket ban about people in IBM being senior members, or IBM people editing IBM articles. Of all the problems to highlight on Wikipedia this is one of the most nonproblematic one could find.