If non-ionizing radiation activated a part of the brain that made that person *think* they were experiencing physical effects, does it matter if the effects are physically happening?
I personally have no problems with electronics...I work in front of a computer all day.
That said, it's been shown that cell phone radiation can cause brain activity. Is it such a stretch to imagine that under some circumstances some people could experience that brain activity in a negative way?
I can't find a reference, but I seem to remember my psychology class covering people that could get skin burns because they were touched with a piece of metal that they *thought* was hot, but really wasn't. If the mind can do that, it seems plausible it could cause other symptoms.
I bought a new laptop this past January. I *could* have bought a blazing fast i7 with discrete graphics but I settled for an i3 with integrated. It was good enough for my needs, cost less, and the battery lasts longer.
Sure, I could use blazing fast speeds, but I don't *need* them. And I don't want them enough to pay the extra costs in dollars and energy consumption.
On a "pack light" trip to Europe, the iPad will be left behind because of it's limitations. Leaving the laptop behind is not an option because we may need to take advantage of a full web browser including flash.
Ironically, the HP Touchpad has a working web browser including flash.
They're just shutting down the connection and forcing the phone to re-establish it. Annoying, but I doubt it's illegal since every firewall and NAT box on the net has the same timeout mechanisms...they're just set for longer delays.
The carriers don't want to spend the money for NAT boxes, firewalls, deep-packet-inspection boxes, etc. with multiple open connections per subscriber--it eats up memory for connection information.
If you buy a Vostro you get business-class support. I called in because my fan was making a funny sound, they had a tech with a part there the next day.
Now if you buy an Inspiron, then you get consumer-class support.
I haven't used the others, but I bought a Touchpad for $99. It's fine. A $7 app plays all the downloaded TV shows I have, the built-in browser views all the websites I tried without any problems, including embedded flash video, a kindle app is free, a facebook app is free, there's a decent free weather app, it's got Angry Birds, and a developer mode is easy to enable which gives access to the homebrew apps and custom kernels.
Sure there are minor feature additions that would be nice, but on the whole it's a decent machine. I wouldn't pay full price for it, but then I wouldn't pay full price for the iPad or Transformer either.
In this most recent issue the Republicans refused to compromise, so the choices were basically go along with the Republicans or else cut government spending drastically and immediately so they could make the debt payments.
Personally I would have loved to see him stand up to the Republicans and then make the debt payments from the defence budget.
Like many others I've spent a lot of time on this site over the years. For all its flaws, it's still managed to keep the core that keeps me coming back.
I bought the touchpad on the weekend. I don't really have anything to compare it with, but I don't have any complaints about the UI performance. Some apps don't scroll particularly smoothly, but most do so I think it's an app-specific issue. Reading slashdot works just fine.
I've seen comments that some of the "homebrew" apps can make a significant difference in the apparent speed of the system--among other things the stock WebOS leaves a lot of logging enabled that doesn't need to be.
ARM is a bunch of different companies all contributing code to make their own device work. The problem is that very little effort is being spent to extract all the common bits, so you end up with many slightly different implementations of the same thing.
Our environment is designed for human-sized bipedal forms, so it makes a certain amount of sense to design robots that are generally the same size/shape. That way they can use our buildings, elevators, stairs, appliances, etc.
In the GPL v2, section 3 reads as follows...note in particular clause C.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
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You are what you experience.
If non-ionizing radiation activated a part of the brain that made that person *think* they were experiencing physical effects, does it matter if the effects are physically happening?
I personally have no problems with electronics...I work in front of a computer all day.
That said, it's been shown that cell phone radiation can cause brain activity. Is it such a stretch to imagine that under some circumstances some people could experience that brain activity in a negative way?
I can't find a reference, but I seem to remember my psychology class covering people that could get skin burns because they were touched with a piece of metal that they *thought* was hot, but really wasn't. If the mind can do that, it seems plausible it could cause other symptoms.
I bought a new laptop this past January. I *could* have bought a blazing fast i7 with discrete graphics but I settled for an i3 with integrated. It was good enough for my needs, cost less, and the battery lasts longer.
Sure, I could use blazing fast speeds, but I don't *need* them. And I don't want them enough to pay the extra costs in dollars and energy consumption.
And this CEO literally just said "The iPad 2 is better than our product!" Which is even stupider than Motorola overpricing the Xoom.
Why is it stupid? A Lexus is better than a Toyota, and it costs more. Toyota still sells lots of cars.
Given Apple's mindshare, either you compete on quality/features or you compete on price. These guys are competing on price.
Cable will do 250Mbps just fine. DSL currently maxes out around 50Mbps, so it does require fiber.
On a "pack light" trip to Europe, the iPad will be left behind because of it's limitations. Leaving the laptop behind is not an option because we may need to take advantage of a full web browser including flash.
Ironically, the HP Touchpad has a working web browser including flash.
They're just shutting down the connection and forcing the phone to re-establish it. Annoying, but I doubt it's illegal since every firewall and NAT box on the net has the same timeout mechanisms...they're just set for longer delays.
The carriers don't want to spend the money for NAT boxes, firewalls, deep-packet-inspection boxes, etc. with multiple open connections per subscriber--it eats up memory for connection information.
And there are now instructions available on how to replace the flash plugin with one that reports a different player ID, so it bypasses the block.
The client sees the "lie", and doesn't trust either of the offers because it isn't sure which is real.
Based on this, it's possible to DOS a router by sending out connection offers, but you can't do a MITM attack.
If you buy a Vostro you get business-class support. I called in because my fan was making a funny sound, they had a tech with a part there the next day.
Now if you buy an Inspiron, then you get consumer-class support.
I haven't used the others, but I bought a Touchpad for $99. It's fine. A $7 app plays all the downloaded TV shows I have, the built-in browser views all the websites I tried without any problems, including embedded flash video, a kindle app is free, a facebook app is free, there's a decent free weather app, it's got Angry Birds, and a developer mode is easy to enable which gives access to the homebrew apps and custom kernels.
Sure there are minor feature additions that would be nice, but on the whole it's a decent machine. I wouldn't pay full price for it, but then I wouldn't pay full price for the iPad or Transformer either.
In this most recent issue the Republicans refused to compromise, so the choices were basically go along with the Republicans or else cut government spending drastically and immediately so they could make the debt payments.
Personally I would have loved to see him stand up to the Republicans and then make the debt payments from the defence budget.
If he feels that signing statements are undemocratic, should he still use them to accomplish things that he feels should be done?
Like many others I've spent a lot of time on this site over the years. For all its flaws, it's still managed to keep the core that keeps me coming back.
Thanks for everything.
Cuz mine doesn't.
So he can't defend it badly.
I bought the touchpad on the weekend. I don't really have anything to compare it with, but I don't have any complaints about the UI performance. Some apps don't scroll particularly smoothly, but most do so I think it's an app-specific issue. Reading slashdot works just fine.
I've seen comments that some of the "homebrew" apps can make a significant difference in the apparent speed of the system--among other things the stock WebOS leaves a lot of logging enabled that doesn't need to be.
ARM is a bunch of different companies all contributing code to make their own device work. The problem is that very little effort is being spent to extract all the common bits, so you end up with many slightly different implementations of the same thing.
This was from last year.
Are you talking about tablets in general, or specifically the ipad?
Android supports both bluetooth-based external keyboard/mouse and has multiple terminal/ssh clients available.
How would something like a dog cook your food, serve you drinks, put away your groceries, or turn on your light switches?
Our environment is designed for human-sized bipedal forms, so it makes a certain amount of sense to design robots that are generally the same size/shape. That way they can use our buildings, elevators, stairs, appliances, etc.
It's possible that they'll upload the post-processed videos at a later date.
In the GPL v2, section 3 reads as follows...note in particular clause C.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)