The car on the road analaogy would be more like this:
Net Nuetrality: You travel on a toll road and pay per mile. You go anywhere you want.
No neutrality: You travel on a toll road and pay per mile, but before you get on, they check your destination. If you're going to Kmart, they let you on the freeway. But if you're going to Walmart, they charge you extra, and send you into stop-and-go traffic down the side streets.
(Yeah, I know, you probably shouldn't be going to either of those chains.)
Admittedly I didn't know much about Stuxnet until after reading more about it and it seems to me just yet another windows virus that hasn't until now been discovered and mistakenly spread via contractors laptops. . . .
Seems to me that this worm wasn't designed for a specific target and is like any other virus..
From what I've read, it was specifically written to infect Siemens controllers, root them so it could change the control algorithms while displaying the proper algorithms when polled. The controllers are located at each piece of equipment, typically running independently, each with a minimal OS, if any. They are connected in a local network to allow communication and central monitoring and adjustment.. Stuxnet only used Windows vulnerabilities as a vector to get onto the front-end workstations in order to load into the controllers through the local network.
JPEG makes things un-sharp because JPEG compresses gradients very well and compresses stark contrast very poorly. If you force it to compress the edge, it just blurs it.
That is just not true.
JPEG is terrible on shallow gradients spanning large distances.
It excels at compressing the "natural" variable contrasts found in photos in a way that is not so noticeable to the eye.
When it compresses sharp edges, it creates a ringing artifact, not a blur. (think of approximating a square wave with a series of sine waves)
Of course, all of the above depend on the settings for quantization and cut-off
Our product safety commission apparently can't understand the difference between learning tools for children and toys for physical play.
No, it is the congress that defined what falls into the categories requiring testing of children's products, namely anything marketed to or intended for children under 12.
Iran uses US software for all their critical systems including their nuclear reactor.
Siemens (who makes the control systems that are the target of the worm that's in the headlines lately for infecting so many systems in Iran) is not a US company.
The vast majority of North America doesn't have the Internet infrastructure that would be required to support large numbers of people downloading hi-def movies continously.
Gee, and here I thought that most people already had cable with the infrastucture to support large numbers of people downloading hi-def movies on demand, and that those cables were also able to carry the internet.
for example, hitting return in the google search box will perform the search and show the results.
Not anymore. Now it's all "instant" as you type. (unless your google leads to porn, where the instant results sometime seems to be supressed)
I still hit the enter key, though, and wonder why nothing happens.
McDonald's actually sued a donut shop owned by someone named McDonald and named of its' owner. and lost. Something tells me that had he been in the business of selling hamburgers instead of donuts, Mr McDonald would have lost to the big corporation.
Speaking of muscle memory, I know this sounds lame, but, in addition to the distracting visual jitter, one of the things that annoy me about this "instant search" is that when I'm done typing and hit enter - nothing happens.
I understand the feeling against overusing Excel (or any spreadsheet program), but often there really are good reasons for using it instead of the application design for the task. Mainly, especially if you're good at using macros and writing custom functions, spreadsheet programs allow a lot more flexibility and customization. Purpose-built applications are often good at what they do, but that does not always translate into exactly what you are trying to do.
MS Project is the only thing that I haven't actually found a solid open source replacement for, and no one ever actually USES it!
True, I haven't been able to find a replacement, open source or not, for MS Project, but
False, almost everyone in the construction industry uses MS Project.
I have to keep asking people to print it out to a.pdf since I don't have MS Project (and have no real need for using it directly).
Something else I've noticed is "all natural" fruit juices that have as their main ingredient white grape juice concentrate, which is essentially syrup with very little of what makes fruit good for you.
On Windows you can download or buy an app and have a very high degree of confidence that all you need to do to install it is run setup. An installer, generally using Windows' own internal install service, then guides you through the rest handling everything such as installing libraries needed, adding the program to things like the start menu and so on. On Linux, that only happens if you use the distro's package system.
So, you're basically saying, MS Windows is great because you install things using the MS installer, but Linux distros are bad, because if you don't use the distro's installer, it's hard to install?
True enough, most applications written for the MS Windows environment don't also have Linux distro installers, and also true that Linux software can be easier to install on one distro than on another, but that does not mean that there are no good install systems in the Linux world.
(Not to mention the fact that if you don't use MS's installer, you probably can't install the program at all on MS Windows)
First off, the constitution only protects US citizens.
The US constitution defines and limits the powers of the US government. It does not grant any "unalienable rights", like the right to free expression, to anybody, US citizen or not. People have those rights just by being.
For all we know, it had direct threats on him in it.
That is my guess, also. In which case it would not be an issue of freedom of speech.
I'm by no means fluent with relativity issues, but as I understand it, light we see now from an object 50 light years away did not happen a "looooong" time ago. The speed of light does not define a distant "past" for objects far away. Rather, the speed of light defines the limit of knowing whether "before" and "after" have any meaning at all between objects far apart or moving at greatly different velocities.
I remember back in the 70s that oil was going to run out by the 90s. Now in 2010, oil is going to run out by the 2030s. In 2030 I guess oil will be going to run out by the 2050s.
You are miscomprehending.
They are not saying that oil will run out by the 30s. They are saying peak oil will occur in the next few years and that will affect the price greatly by 2030. And, by the way, TFA, and many posters here, got the definition of peak oil wrong. It is not when production begins to decline. It is when new discoveries no longer keep up with production. While this is a useful metric, unfortunately it causes confusion about its' predictive powers. Since it is based on proven reserves, which only counts economically viable reserves, it changes with a change in price, as well as with a change in technology.
This will not result in pharmaceutical companies ceasing development and production of vaccinations. Or rather, they had already started to get out of the vaccine business, so Uncle Sam has stepped in to indemnify them and they are safe from lawsuits.
That does not seem at all uncommon. I and others I know have had similar experiences (though not usually as serious as the one you cited) with children's illness obviously being correlated with vaccinations but pediatricians refusing to consider any possible vaccine-related cause and effect because they "know" that it has been proven there is no relation. It's not that I think vaccines are bad overall, but consideration needs to be given to the probability that they cause complications so that complications can be avoided, even if they are relatively rare.
Actually, it does mean that vaccines cause autism, at least in certain rare circumstances:
Vaccines often cause high fevers,
people with this rare mitochondrial disorder often suffer brain damage from high fevers,
and brain damage sometimes results in autism.
It is well known that vaccinations can have complications damaging to the individual. But there is very good data showing vaccination programs improve the overall health of the general population. And there is almost always no way to prove that a specific individual medical problem associated with a specific individual vaccination was actually caused by that vaccination and not a coincident. That's what makes this case newsworthy: the evidence for cause and effect was there, regardless what you think about the size of the monetary award or the share of liability the vaccination should bear in light of the preexisting condition.
Now, if we could get good data on conditions that might contribute to vaccines causing problems, it should be possible to get a better handle on cause and frequency of side-effects and tailor vaccination protocols to individuals.
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The ones that say essentially that you can't think or imagine something are definately against freedom.
What kind of "IP rights" essentially say that you can't think or imagine something?
Oh, wait, I know: none of them do. (even though sometimes IP owners try to enforce them as if they do)
The investment bank cut its rating of Microsoft shares from "buy" to "neutral".
It said Microsoft was being threatened by the rise of tablet computers such as Apple's iPad, which do not run Windows software.
The car on the road analaogy would be more like this:
Net Nuetrality: You travel on a toll road and pay per mile. You go anywhere you want.
No neutrality: You travel on a toll road and pay per mile, but before you get on, they check your destination. If you're going to Kmart, they let you on the freeway. But if you're going to Walmart, they charge you extra, and send you into stop-and-go traffic down the side streets.
(Yeah, I know, you probably shouldn't be going to either of those chains.)
Admittedly I didn't know much about Stuxnet until after reading more about it and it seems to me just yet another windows virus that hasn't until now been discovered and mistakenly spread via contractors laptops. . . .
Seems to me that this worm wasn't designed for a specific target and is like any other virus..
From what I've read, it was specifically written to infect Siemens controllers, root them so it could change the control algorithms while displaying the proper algorithms when polled. The controllers are located at each piece of equipment, typically running independently, each with a minimal OS, if any. They are connected in a local network to allow communication and central monitoring and adjustment.. Stuxnet only used Windows vulnerabilities as a vector to get onto the front-end workstations in order to load into the controllers through the local network.
turbine != jet
stupid fuckin headlines
JPEG makes things un-sharp because JPEG compresses gradients very well and compresses stark contrast very poorly. If you force it to compress the edge, it just blurs it.
That is just not true.
JPEG is terrible on shallow gradients spanning large distances.
It excels at compressing the "natural" variable contrasts found in photos in a way that is not so noticeable to the eye.
When it compresses sharp edges, it creates a ringing artifact, not a blur. (think of approximating a square wave with a series of sine waves)
Of course, all of the above depend on the settings for quantization and cut-off
Our product safety commission apparently can't understand the difference between learning tools for children and toys for physical play.
No, it is the congress that defined what falls into the categories requiring testing of children's products, namely anything marketed to or intended for children under 12.
Depleted uranium is not particularly radioactive, but it is hazardous.
Iran uses US software for all their critical systems including their nuclear reactor.
Siemens (who makes the control systems that are the target of the worm that's in the headlines lately for infecting so many systems in Iran) is not a US company.
The vast majority of North America doesn't have the Internet infrastructure that would be required to support large numbers of people downloading hi-def movies continously.
Gee, and here I thought that most people already had cable with the infrastucture to support large numbers of people downloading hi-def movies on demand, and that those cables were also able to carry the internet.
for example, hitting return in the google search box will perform the search and show the results.
Not anymore. Now it's all "instant" as you type. (unless your google leads to porn, where the instant results sometime seems to be supressed)
I still hit the enter key, though, and wonder why nothing happens.
McDonald's actually sued a donut shop owned by someone named McDonald and named of its' owner.
and lost.
Something tells me that had he been in the business of selling hamburgers instead of donuts, Mr McDonald would have lost to the big corporation.
Speaking of muscle memory, I know this sounds lame, but, in addition to the distracting visual jitter, one of the things that annoy me about this "instant search" is that when I'm done typing and hit enter - nothing happens.
I understand the feeling against overusing Excel (or any spreadsheet program), but often there really are good reasons for using it instead of the application design for the task. Mainly, especially if you're good at using macros and writing custom functions, spreadsheet programs allow a lot more flexibility and customization. Purpose-built applications are often good at what they do, but that does not always translate into exactly what you are trying to do.
MS Project is the only thing that I haven't actually found a solid open source replacement for, and no one ever actually USES it!
True, I haven't been able to find a replacement, open source or not, for MS Project, but .pdf since I don't have MS Project (and have no real need for using it directly).
False, almost everyone in the construction industry uses MS Project.
I have to keep asking people to print it out to a
your sarcasm detector appears to be malfunctioning
Something else I've noticed is "all natural" fruit juices that have as their main ingredient white grape juice concentrate, which is essentially syrup with very little of what makes fruit good for you.
On Windows you can download or buy an app and have a very high degree of confidence that all you need to do to install it is run setup. An installer, generally using Windows' own internal install service, then guides you through the rest handling everything such as installing libraries needed, adding the program to things like the start menu and so on. On Linux, that only happens if you use the distro's package system.
So, you're basically saying, MS Windows is great because you install things using the MS installer, but Linux distros are bad, because if you don't use the distro's installer, it's hard to install?
True enough, most applications written for the MS Windows environment don't also have Linux distro installers, and also true that Linux software can be easier to install on one distro than on another, but that does not mean that there are no good install systems in the Linux world.
(Not to mention the fact that if you don't use MS's installer, you probably can't install the program at all on MS Windows)
First off, the constitution only protects US citizens.
The US constitution defines and limits the powers of the US government. It does not grant any "unalienable rights", like the right to free expression, to anybody, US citizen or not. People have those rights just by being.
For all we know, it had direct threats on him in it.
That is my guess, also. In which case it would not be an issue of freedom of speech.
I'm by no means fluent with relativity issues, but as I understand it, light we see now from an object 50 light years away did not happen a "looooong" time ago. The speed of light does not define a distant "past" for objects far away. Rather, the speed of light defines the limit of knowing whether "before" and "after" have any meaning at all between objects far apart or moving at greatly different velocities.
The ability to *use* knowldege[sic] has nothing to do with knowing it.
? ?
Only if by " *use* " you mean blindly applying canned "solutions" built by others.
However, that is not the type of use of knowledge that the GP was discussing.
I remember back in the 70s that oil was going to run out by the 90s. Now in 2010, oil is going to run out by the 2030s. In 2030 I guess oil will be going to run out by the 2050s.
You are miscomprehending.
They are not saying that oil will run out by the 30s. They are saying peak oil will occur in the next few years and that will affect the price greatly by 2030. And, by the way, TFA, and many posters here, got the definition of peak oil wrong. It is not when production begins to decline. It is when new discoveries no longer keep up with production. While this is a useful metric, unfortunately it causes confusion about its' predictive powers. Since it is based on proven reserves, which only counts economically viable reserves, it changes with a change in price, as well as with a change in technology.
This will not result in pharmaceutical companies ceasing development and production of vaccinations. Or rather, they had already started to get out of the vaccine business, so Uncle Sam has stepped in to indemnify them and they are safe from lawsuits.
That does not seem at all uncommon. I and others I know have had similar experiences (though not usually as serious as the one you cited) with children's illness obviously being correlated with vaccinations but pediatricians refusing to consider any possible vaccine-related cause and effect because they "know" that it has been proven there is no relation. It's not that I think vaccines are bad overall, but consideration needs to be given to the probability that they cause complications so that complications can be avoided, even if they are relatively rare.
Actually, it does mean that vaccines cause autism, at least in certain rare circumstances:
Vaccines often cause high fevers,
people with this rare mitochondrial disorder often suffer brain damage from high fevers,
and brain damage sometimes results in autism.
It is well known that vaccinations can have complications damaging to the individual. But there is very good data showing vaccination programs improve the overall health of the general population. And there is almost always no way to prove that a specific individual medical problem associated with a specific individual vaccination was actually caused by that vaccination and not a coincident. That's what makes this case newsworthy: the evidence for cause and effect was there, regardless what you think about the size of the monetary award or the share of liability the vaccination should bear in light of the preexisting condition.
Now, if we could get good data on conditions that might contribute to vaccines causing problems, it should be possible to get a better handle on cause and frequency of side-effects and tailor vaccination protocols to individuals.