I don't think there is a rating for "not to be seen by anyone." A realistic example would be a porn site, which would probably benefit from using the voluntary ratings because people who have set their browser to block such sites are not their customers and it isn't worth serving them content that might anger them, or at least that won't be profitable. Children might be blocked, but that is a good thing too since kids can't pay and it might help avoid legal trouble since the site can claim that they did what they could to prevent minors from going to it.
This isn't about rating the quality of the site, so the hotel example doesn't apply. And as for finding a browser that ignores the ratings -- it's the other way around: you must explicitly turn them on. So that isn't the problem either.
This system makes sense, but people just don't know about it.
Yes, but that's cheating your way around the constitution. For example, Congress cannot pass a law limiting your right to free speech. But they could pass a law that says anyone who does not speak out against the government gets a $1000 tax break. That is exploiting a semantic loophole in the constitution. That is how the Department of Education operates - by exploiting the "funding" loophole.
The start menu is too cluttered on most machines to be useful any longer. That's why everything puts an icon in the tray, the quick launch bar, and the desktop too. Of course, now those are overrun with things like "Adobe Reader" and "Java Web Start" which nobody runs.
I recommend finding some kind of program manager tool that just shows the 5 icons they need, and forego the start menu until they are more advanced.
My experiences with Vista are similar to yours. But when I hear about Windows 7, those aren't the things they seem to be addressing. What I read is about it being cooler, having new features, etc. It doesn't sound like they are addressing the big issue: stability.
Fix the broken mixer, the performance and memory problems, the crashes in explorer, the video playback bugs, the unnecessary UAC messages, the driver installation issues... I haven't heard Microsoft even admit those problems exist, so I'm not sure they will fix them.
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Yes, but you often watch it over the second time to either - Relive the experience the first time - Look beyond the plot and into the intricacies you missed the first time
The first time experience of not knowing the plot is still important.
Wikipedia says a lithium-ion battery is about 540 to 720 kJ/kg. Based on the article summary, this device has 52 kilowatt hours in 281 lbs which is 1,469 kJ/kg. So this has twice the energy density of a modern battery.
They will once they try to load their music collection onto a non-Apple device and find it doesn't work. Apple can't stay on top forever. In 5-10 years, when iPods aren't the coolest game in town, we will start the hear the complaints. It already happened with Microsoft PlaysForSure, but that was a small enough group of people it didn't create mass outrage.
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes
If we have proof that there were no ships there at the time, then ships were not the cause. If the only remaining explanation is sabotage, then it was sabotage.
You are right, the phone company could have done this. But just because the phone company did not implement measures to protect someone from their own stupidity does not make it the phone companies fault.
However, if the phone company offered such a service, perhaps for a monthly fee, then I could see blaming the phone company for the failure of that service.
Davison has a four-digit password on the voice mail. That doesn't stop professional hackers, said Brett Rhodes, an expert in the field who runs SME Teleresources Inc. in Winnipeg.
I once saw a web site with a list of all 4-digit pins on it. I mean like, every single one!!!! There must be... hundreds.. no... thousands of possiblities! Keeping or distributing such a list should be illegal.
Pretend for a moment this was not cybercrime, but was physical. If someone physically broke into HUB computer's offices, and made $52,000 of phone calls from someone's desk, would the phone company be responsible?
No. The phone company did nothing wrong. It isn't their responsibility to screen your phone calls and determine which ones are fraudulent. This wasn't a case of the phone company's system being compromised. It was neglectful security by HUB.
A lot of standard medicine doesn't really pass the test of evidence-based medicine either
I suspect that this is part of why people are turning to homeopathy, chiropractic, etc. If the medical community ignores their own scientific evidence, then people don't see alternative medicine as being much different.
I think that in some cases, the scientific evidence seems counter intuitive, so it is ignored. And in some cases doctors have been doing something one way for years and convincing them to change is difficult. (Can you imagine being told that some procedure you have been doing for 20 years actually makes the patient worse? That could be a real blow to one's ego and conscience.)
For example, my wife just recently gave birth, and the statistics for how often unnecessary treatments are administered to laboring women (at least in the US, this is not true globally) is staggering. For example, episiotomy is commonly done to avoid tearing, yet statistics show that it it actually increases the time required to heal. But no doctor ever got paid for NOT performing a surgery.:-(
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But as long as you have chiros saying they can cure *everything*, and MDs saying *they* are the only valid practitioners of the healing arts, we're stuck in the middle.
If only there was some way to get a random sample of people, and test things out on them. Some sort of method that we could use that everyone could agree on... oh, like science!:)
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Can you provide a link with info about this?
I have always been confused why there is this medicine -vs- alternative medicine thing. It never made sense to me. If someone claims that tongue of newt cures a flu, then go get 100 people with the flu, and give 50 of them tongue of newt, and publish the results.
But you just implied that there might be a legislative reason why no one seems to research this. I'd like to know where to get more info.
I have 2 relatives with slipped disks. Not sure if this treatment applies to them, but could you post a link or reply with some terms I can search for?
Essentially, you asked me for members of the set of non-portable devices that are portable
That is not what I asked. Anyone reading this discussion can see that. Changing my question does not constitute an answer.
You also totally ignored my second point which is that other manufacturers don't seem to have this problem.
You named no other manufacturers who did not have this problem. Even more along that point, I specifically asked if other manufacturers had this problem, and named a few specific manufacturers who I was interested in, and you didn't answer that part at all.
Reading through this Slashdot discussion, lots of people have claimed to have scratched disks on their 360, but none of them claimed that they reoriented the Xbox 360 while it was running. So I'm still looking to understand who does this and why.
Point made. Then I revise my question to remove the "says it" part:
Name another non-portable console device that it is okay to reorient while the disc is spinning.
In my experience, this is not something I ever would do, or ever have had a need to do, or can even think of a reason why anyone would ever do. So I'm a bit confused on why this even matters. Don't move your non-portable device while it is in use. How common is it to do that?
...Yes, I know that this is different to an optical drive.../quote> Heh, you kinda defeated your own reply there. The point was entirely about optical drives. Also your example is laptops, which of course, are portable by definition. So I'm still looking for an an example of a non-portable device where you can safely re-orient it while the optical drive is spinning. I'm specifically wondering if any of the competing products allow this (Playstation, Wii, etc.)
Name another non-portable console device that says it is okay to reorient it while the disc is spinning. Also, I'd like to know why people are doing this in the first place. I own several consoles, and I've never had a need to reorient them except when I first set them up. Then they sit there for years unmoved. I guess I've taken it to a friend's house a few times. But never while it was running.
Let me ask this: What other non-portable devices allow you to reorient them while the disc is spinning? I just assumed that most other devices do not allow this. Ex: XBox (original), Playstation 1, 2, 3, Wii, etc. Am I incorrect about that? Do those devices specifically allow this?
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I don't think there is a rating for "not to be seen by anyone." A realistic example would be a porn site, which would probably benefit from using the voluntary ratings because people who have set their browser to block such sites are not their customers and it isn't worth serving them content that might anger them, or at least that won't be profitable. Children might be blocked, but that is a good thing too since kids can't pay and it might help avoid legal trouble since the site can claim that they did what they could to prevent minors from going to it.
This isn't about rating the quality of the site, so the hotel example doesn't apply. And as for finding a browser that ignores the ratings -- it's the other way around: you must explicitly turn them on. So that isn't the problem either.
This system makes sense, but people just don't know about it.
Internet Content Rating Association
ICRA ratings have been around for 10 years, and IE even supports it. But nobody uses it, and I've never even met a web developer who has heard of it.
Yes, but that's cheating your way around the constitution. For example, Congress cannot pass a law limiting your right to free speech. But they could pass a law that says anyone who does not speak out against the government gets a $1000 tax break. That is exploiting a semantic loophole in the constitution. That is how the Department of Education operates - by exploiting the "funding" loophole.
The start menu is too cluttered on most machines to be useful any longer. That's why everything puts an icon in the tray, the quick launch bar, and the desktop too. Of course, now those are overrun with things like "Adobe Reader" and "Java Web Start" which nobody runs.
I recommend finding some kind of program manager tool that just shows the 5 icons they need, and forego the start menu until they are more advanced.
My experiences with Vista are similar to yours. But when I hear about Windows 7, those aren't the things they seem to be addressing. What I read is about it being cooler, having new features, etc. It doesn't sound like they are addressing the big issue: stability.
Fix the broken mixer, the performance and memory problems, the crashes in explorer, the video playback bugs, the unnecessary UAC messages, the driver installation issues... I haven't heard Microsoft even admit those problems exist, so I'm not sure they will fix them.
Perhaps, but what would Mr. Heinlein think?
Yes, but you often watch it over the second time to either
- Relive the experience the first time
- Look beyond the plot and into the intricacies you missed the first time
The first time experience of not knowing the plot is still important.
Wikipedia says a lithium-ion battery is about 540 to 720 kJ/kg. Based on the article summary, this device has 52 kilowatt hours in 281 lbs which is 1,469 kJ/kg. So this has twice the energy density of a modern battery.
They will once they try to load their music collection onto a non-Apple device and find it doesn't work. Apple can't stay on top forever. In 5-10 years, when iPods aren't the coolest game in town, we will start the hear the complaints. It already happened with Microsoft PlaysForSure, but that was a small enough group of people it didn't create mass outrage.
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes
If we have proof that there were no ships there at the time, then ships were not the cause. If the only remaining explanation is sabotage, then it was sabotage.
You are right, the phone company could have done this. But just because the phone company did not implement measures to protect someone from their own stupidity does not make it the phone companies fault.
However, if the phone company offered such a service, perhaps for a monthly fee, then I could see blaming the phone company for the failure of that service.
Davison has a four-digit password on the voice mail. That doesn't stop professional hackers, said Brett Rhodes, an expert in the field who runs SME Teleresources Inc. in Winnipeg.
I once saw a web site with a list of all 4-digit pins on it. I mean like, every single one!!!! There must be... hundreds.. no... thousands of possiblities! Keeping or distributing such a list should be illegal.
Pretend for a moment this was not cybercrime, but was physical. If someone physically broke into HUB computer's offices, and made $52,000 of phone calls from someone's desk, would the phone company be responsible?
No. The phone company did nothing wrong. It isn't their responsibility to screen your phone calls and determine which ones are fraudulent. This wasn't a case of the phone company's system being compromised. It was neglectful security by HUB.
A lot of standard medicine doesn't really pass the test of evidence-based medicine either
I suspect that this is part of why people are turning to homeopathy, chiropractic, etc. If the medical community ignores their own scientific evidence, then people don't see alternative medicine as being much different.
I think that in some cases, the scientific evidence seems counter intuitive, so it is ignored. And in some cases doctors have been doing something one way for years and convincing them to change is difficult. (Can you imagine being told that some procedure you have been doing for 20 years actually makes the patient worse? That could be a real blow to one's ego and conscience.)
For example, my wife just recently gave birth, and the statistics for how often unnecessary treatments are administered to laboring women (at least in the US, this is not true globally) is staggering. For example, episiotomy is commonly done to avoid tearing, yet statistics show that it it actually increases the time required to heal. But no doctor ever got paid for NOT performing a surgery. :-(
But as long as you have chiros saying they can cure *everything*, and MDs saying *they* are the only valid practitioners of the healing arts, we're stuck in the middle.
If only there was some way to get a random sample of people, and test things out on them. Some sort of method that we could use that everyone could agree on... oh, like science! :)
Can you provide a link with info about this?
I have always been confused why there is this medicine -vs- alternative medicine thing. It never made sense to me. If someone claims that tongue of newt cures a flu, then go get 100 people with the flu, and give 50 of them tongue of newt, and publish the results.
But you just implied that there might be a legislative reason why no one seems to research this. I'd like to know where to get more info.
Not all of them. Intel and Samsung both make controllers that do not have the buggy performance problems that the JMicron controllers have.
I have 2 relatives with slipped disks. Not sure if this treatment applies to them, but could you post a link or reply with some terms I can search for?
Essentially, you asked me for members of the set of non-portable devices that are portable
That is not what I asked. Anyone reading this discussion can see that. Changing my question does not constitute an answer.
You also totally ignored my second point which is that other manufacturers don't seem to have this problem.
You named no other manufacturers who did not have this problem. Even more along that point, I specifically asked if other manufacturers had this problem, and named a few specific manufacturers who I was interested in, and you didn't answer that part at all.
All of them, except Xbox360.
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Reading through this Slashdot discussion, lots of people have claimed to have scratched disks on their 360, but none of them claimed that they reoriented the Xbox 360 while it was running. So I'm still looking to understand who does this and why.
Point made. Then I revise my question to remove the "says it" part:
Name another non-portable console device that it is okay to reorient while the disc is spinning.
In my experience, this is not something I ever would do, or ever have had a need to do, or can even think of a reason why anyone would ever do. So I'm a bit confused on why this even matters. Don't move your non-portable device while it is in use. How common is it to do that?
...Yes, I know that this is different to an optical drive.../quote>
Heh, you kinda defeated your own reply there. The point was entirely about optical drives. Also your example is laptops, which of course, are portable by definition. So I'm still looking for an an example of a non-portable device where you can safely re-orient it while the optical drive is spinning. I'm specifically wondering if any of the competing products allow this (Playstation, Wii, etc.)
Name another non-portable console device that says it is okay to reorient it while the disc is spinning. Also, I'd like to know why people are doing this in the first place. I own several consoles, and I've never had a need to reorient them except when I first set them up. Then they sit there for years unmoved. I guess I've taken it to a friend's house a few times. But never while it was running.
Why are your kids moving the Xbox while it is running?
The XBox 360 is not a portable device.
Let me ask this: What other non-portable devices allow you to reorient them while the disc is spinning? I just assumed that most other devices do not allow this. Ex: XBox (original), Playstation 1, 2, 3, Wii, etc. Am I incorrect about that? Do those devices specifically allow this?