"The Cloud" is more of a marketing term than a technical description of a specific hosting set up, and different people will use different definitions. You can let them continue the guessing game of which meaning you're using and keep calling them idiots, or you can define the term that you're using.
To me, "the cloud" is just a buzz word which corresponds roughly to the thin client rage of yesteryear.
When one child got sick with it, all the parents gathered their children to the sick child with the hope of catching it.
Oddly I've heard of this, but I've never actually seen it in practice. My parents never did it, I got infected because some dumbass parent brought their kid to bowling while they were still infectious and everyone got it. It was so pervasive that my middle school was shut down for nearly a month while everyone was off sick with it. It was probably the last great outbreak we've had of it here in southern ontario back in the 80's. Now of course we've got the nutbags not getting their kids vaccinated for measles and that's all over the place.
I wouldn't want to wish any of these diseases that have vaccines on anyone.
I'll agree that parent was irresponsible for bringing an infectious kid to a public place like the bowling alley. I could imagine someone twisting the law to prosecute that parent, much like how someone with AIDS who doesn't inform partners.
Try typing something like "It is raining cats and dogs." into Google translate, and you will almost always get the correct meaning, rather than a literal translation.
I just tried that, and in Portuguese it came up with "Está chovendo gatos e cachorros" (literal translation) with an alternative translation of "Está chovendo muito" (it's raining a lot).
It would be an invasion of privacy, sure. I mean, if this were any other sort of medical records, we probably wouldn't care at all. I mean, if anyone proposed a national registry of "broke their leg skiing" or "genetically predisposed to be an alcoholic", we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Actually, I fear my genetic information being available. Can you imagine a society similar to Gattaca? Car insurance company sees you're predisposed to be an alcoholic, so they charge you higher premiums, even though you don't drink. Health insurance company raises your rates because you're predisposed for some condition.
People with any number of diseases are a potential public health threat. HIV comes to mind. But putting health records into one big database might allow for the types of research to identify patterns of disease that don't rise above the 1 in 1000 or 1 in 10,000 threshold that most studies are limited to. Picking on vaccinations rather than just linking all health records to a centralized database seems narrow and punitive rather that good public policy.
HIV (and other STDs) are a bit more charged than simple vaccinations because of the way it spreads. Someone with HIV should notify any sexual partners of this before any risky activities (I have a vague memory of someone charged with homicide for purposefully infecting as many people as possible). This information should also be divulged in activities where other participants may be infected (sports where bleeding is normal comes to mind). However, HIV doesn't pose a major risk of spreading through normal, everyday contact. Contrast that to someone with the plague coughing in a movie theater.
You know the chickenpox vaccinations is one of those that I always thought was a bit unnecessary considering how mild it was. I guess if your fighting something else it can be a real bugger but I guess in this kid's case, Flu could have also been as deadly or a cold.
There wasn't even a chickenpox vaccination available when I was young. When one child got sick with it, all the parents gathered their children to the sick child with the hope of catching it. Those with the disease were isolated from the public, though, so parents could decide who got exposed.
The LdS Church has not destroyed the Boy Scouts of America (the Church actually published a statement they agree with the BSA's stance on homosexuality)
I'm pretty sure that's what he meant--that the BSA has taken those stances because of Mormon influence.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest sponsor of the BSA, with a unit for nearly every congregation (there's no denying that). You'll note that the LdS Church didn't throw a hizzy-fit over allowing openly gay boys in our troops. Also, other religious groups were up in arms because the BSA went this far.
It is perpetuated by people who are stupid or in on the Con.
So, YOU are either stupid or part of the con.
Either of those are people I do NOT want to associate with.
Welcome to slashdot where ad hominem is alive and well. If you can't come up with an intelligent argument, just call the other side stupid or a con man. Joseph Smith Jr was never committed of a single crime. The con is that we actually believe in the Bible. I recently watched the movie "Heaven Is for Real" in which the Wesleyan preacher was having a crisis of faith stating that they expect their children to believe in God, Jesus, and Heaven, but now that his son was describing a visit to Heaven (complete with sitting on Jesus' lap) he didn't know what he believes.
I have. I also know Mormon history better then most Mormons.
You are a cult that hide stuff from it's own believers. But worse of all: You use the government to dictate what other people can believe, and you have destroy boy scouts.
Fuckers.
Our official doctrine is available for all to see on our website. There are a couple of items from our past which we don't broadcast (Mountain Meadows - which was done against Brigham Young's orders - being one), but we don't lie about our history. We don't dictate what others can believe or not; one of our Articles of Faith states that we claim the right to worship whom we wish, how we wish, and where we wish, and we grant that right to everyone else (yes, this is a paraphrase). The LdS Church has not destroyed the Boy Scouts of America (the Church actually published a statement they agree with the BSA's stance on homosexuality).
Most people in developed countries eat way to much nitrates via sodium nitrate which is used as a preservative in things like hot dogs, sausages, beef jerky, ground beef (pink slime).
mormon === scientology
you must mean stupidity not liberalism
If you equate Mormonism with Scientology, you have a lot to learn. Please study what we truly believe (http://www.lds.org and http://www.mormon.org/ instead of what people say we believe.
This just isn't true any more and Tesla has proven it. That's not to say the infrastructure is there today, but it's possible to have charging stops that are barely more inconvenient than fill ups. As much as I hate the idea, automated battery swaps could also eliminate the issue entirely.
I've done some more research. A Model S with a 85kWh battery may get up to 200-306 miles on a full charge depending on driving speed, temperature, etc. A supercharge station can charge a battery to 50% in 20 minutes, 80% in 45 minutes, or 100% in 75 minutes. If I drive 100 miles in a day, it would take 3.5 hours to charge at home with a 240V/40A outlet (over 30 hours at 100V/12A). An hour of charging at a public station gives enough juice for 20 miles. An hour charging on a 240V outlet gives 29 miles. 30 minutes at a supercharger station gives 170 miles. It may take up to 75 minutes at a supercharger station to fully charge your battery. It takes me 15 minutes to completely fill my gas tank, and I have over 400 mile range on a single tank.
This just isn't true any more and Tesla has proven it. That's not to say the infrastructure is there today, but it's possible to have charging stops that are barely more inconvenient than fill ups. As much as I hate the idea, automated battery swaps could also eliminate the issue entirely.
I've looked at the supercharge station map, and it would take a full charge battery for me to arrive at the closest one. Discounting the 30-60 minute charge at a supercharge station, it would still be a major inconvenience to charge a battery versus 15 minutes pumping fuel. Maybe one day, when the infrastructure is in place this will change.
Exactly Hydrogen requires wasted resources to create a new fuel cycle (good for capitalists I'm sure). Electricity is agnostic. It is simple (AC motor), and requires less 'special handling' and transport.
Hands down straight up electricity...just that pesky problem of are our batteries good enough yet?
I think so, but apparently Merrica needs 300+ mile range day to day.
I don't regularly need 300 mile range. Give me a battery that gets me to work and back, pick up the kids, and a grocery run -- 100 miles should be fine most of the time. The rub is that it takes too long to charge a battery if we want to take a road trip. Currently I can fill my gas tank within 15 minutes and drive for 400 miles. Compare that with hours to charge a battery.
You know, it's kinda nice to have units be related to one another...
4C seems a random temperature (especially when pontificating the benefits of a base-10 system), plus you fail to mention a pressure. If you increase pressure, you can fit more mass within the same volume.
But the tea party assures me that once we rid the world of gays and abortion, the deficits will right themselves!!1!
Another case of spreading lies about your adversaries. Many (not all) within the Tea Party are against homosexuality and elective abortions, but these perceived evils will not / do not have an economic impact. The Tea Party is about local governments having more control than the federal government (all powers not given explicitly to the federal government in the Constitution is reserved for the States or the Individuals). Being Pro-life and Pro-Traditional Marriage is not core to the Tea Party.
The deficits will right themselves when the government learns to live within its means. No more multibillion dollar programs without some way of funding them. Our loans incur millions of dollars of interest every day. Consolidate government entities when it makes sense. Off-load social programs to the state and local levels when it makes sense. Have the President pay a larger portion of his vacations (how many times has Obama flown to Hawaii to play golf?). Fix Senate and Congress pay to a multiple of minimum wage or the cost of living.
Knowledge is choice, without knowledge there is no choice. You can not choose to ignore knowledge, you are only in ignorance embracing ignorance. However DNA knowledge should be very tightly restricted with severe penalties including imprisonment, otherwise you will be 'opening up' people to organ donor bounties.
My biggest worry would be the insurance companies. Has everyone already forgotten Gataka? If I have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism, should I pay higher rates (even though I've never had a glass in my life)? If I have a genetic predisposition to certain types of cancer (but no symptoms) do my rates go up because of what may be?
My first name has at least 3 spellings, and mine is the least common of them. My last name has 3 or 4 that I can think of. That's a lot of variations on my name. Surely, one of those is a terrorist!
There are 86 common variations of my surname. I know that there individuals with my same first name with 5 of those variations, plus an additional three who use my exact surname. Mistaken identity is fun!
I have never seen a Blu-Ray disk, and I am not too sure anyone I know has. You must live in the USA (not a device for connecting hardware).
The correct capitalization is Blu-ray. Also, are we going to argue the difference between disk and disc? Most (US) dictionaries list them as being the same. A disk can be defined as any thin, flat, circular plate or object or (when talking computers) any of several types of media consisting of thin, round plates of plastic or metal, used for external storage (magnetic disk, floppy disk, optical disk) (taken from dictionary.com). Admittedly, the BDA does use disc to refer to the media.
Hawaii has two official languages (English and Hawaiian), but 80% of the population speaks "Pidgin" (Hawaiian Creole English) and fewer than 4% are fluent in Hawaiian. In Hawaii's case, "official language" means that all official publications are available in these two languages (people specify which one they want, so as to not make the manual twice as thick, for example). Nothing prevents people from speaking Tongan, Samoan, Japanese, or Pidgin in everyday life. Nothing says that only Hawaiian and English are acceptable for store signage. Nothing says that private entities (including stores) have to make everything available in these languages. Indeed, only limited Hawaiian is taught in our regular schools (by the fourth grade I could count to ten and say the primary and secondary colors). What Hawaiian I know is purely by luck that it was preserved in Pidgin.
In the UK almost every plan seems to come with an unusuablly high or unlimited amount of SMS anyway which is still cheaper than the $1 a year Whatsapp costs.
I use it because I have that one friend who also insists on using it and nothing else. Maybe I should just stop speaking to him and save myself $1 a year.
The only actual benefit I can see to it is for images which are cheaper and seem to work more reliably than MMS.
I'm in the US, but I need to message people in Brazil, England, and China. International SMS is ridiculously expensive. Not everyone has Facebook or Skype, so WhatAapp makes sense if I want to chat and not pay outrageous per-minute voice calls.
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"The Cloud" is more of a marketing term than a technical description of a specific hosting set up, and different people will use different definitions. You can let them continue the guessing game of which meaning you're using and keep calling them idiots, or you can define the term that you're using.
To me, "the cloud" is just a buzz word which corresponds roughly to the thin client rage of yesteryear.
When one child got sick with it, all the parents gathered their children to the sick child with the hope of catching it.
Oddly I've heard of this, but I've never actually seen it in practice. My parents never did it, I got infected because some dumbass parent brought their kid to bowling while they were still infectious and everyone got it. It was so pervasive that my middle school was shut down for nearly a month while everyone was off sick with it. It was probably the last great outbreak we've had of it here in southern ontario back in the 80's. Now of course we've got the nutbags not getting their kids vaccinated for measles and that's all over the place.
I wouldn't want to wish any of these diseases that have vaccines on anyone.
I'll agree that parent was irresponsible for bringing an infectious kid to a public place like the bowling alley. I could imagine someone twisting the law to prosecute that parent, much like how someone with AIDS who doesn't inform partners.
Try typing something like "It is raining cats and dogs." into Google translate, and you will almost always get the correct meaning, rather than a literal translation.
I just tried that, and in Portuguese it came up with "Está chovendo gatos e cachorros" (literal translation) with an alternative translation of "Está chovendo muito" (it's raining a lot).
It would be an invasion of privacy, sure. I mean, if this were any other sort of medical records, we probably wouldn't care at all. I mean, if anyone proposed a national registry of "broke their leg skiing" or "genetically predisposed to be an alcoholic", we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Actually, I fear my genetic information being available. Can you imagine a society similar to Gattaca? Car insurance company sees you're predisposed to be an alcoholic, so they charge you higher premiums, even though you don't drink. Health insurance company raises your rates because you're predisposed for some condition.
People with any number of diseases are a potential public health threat. HIV comes to mind. But putting health records into one big database might allow for the types of research to identify patterns of disease that don't rise above the 1 in 1000 or 1 in 10,000 threshold that most studies are limited to. Picking on vaccinations rather than just linking all health records to a centralized database seems narrow and punitive rather that good public policy.
HIV (and other STDs) are a bit more charged than simple vaccinations because of the way it spreads. Someone with HIV should notify any sexual partners of this before any risky activities (I have a vague memory of someone charged with homicide for purposefully infecting as many people as possible). This information should also be divulged in activities where other participants may be infected (sports where bleeding is normal comes to mind). However, HIV doesn't pose a major risk of spreading through normal, everyday contact. Contrast that to someone with the plague coughing in a movie theater.
You know the chickenpox vaccinations is one of those that I always thought was a bit unnecessary considering how mild it was. I guess if your fighting something else it can be a real bugger but I guess in this kid's case, Flu could have also been as deadly or a cold.
There wasn't even a chickenpox vaccination available when I was young. When one child got sick with it, all the parents gathered their children to the sick child with the hope of catching it. Those with the disease were isolated from the public, though, so parents could decide who got exposed.
The LdS Church has not destroyed the Boy Scouts of America (the Church actually published a statement they agree with the BSA's stance on homosexuality)
I'm pretty sure that's what he meant--that the BSA has taken those stances because of Mormon influence.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest sponsor of the BSA, with a unit for nearly every congregation (there's no denying that). You'll note that the LdS Church didn't throw a hizzy-fit over allowing openly gay boys in our troops. Also, other religious groups were up in arms because the BSA went this far.
The Mormon "Church" was started by a Con man.
It is perpetuated by people who are stupid or in on the Con.
So, YOU are either stupid or part of the con.
Either of those are people I do NOT want to associate with.
Welcome to slashdot where ad hominem is alive and well. If you can't come up with an intelligent argument, just call the other side stupid or a con man. Joseph Smith Jr was never committed of a single crime. The con is that we actually believe in the Bible. I recently watched the movie "Heaven Is for Real" in which the Wesleyan preacher was having a crisis of faith stating that they expect their children to believe in God, Jesus, and Heaven, but now that his son was describing a visit to Heaven (complete with sitting on Jesus' lap) he didn't know what he believes.
I have. I also know Mormon history better then most Mormons.
You are a cult that hide stuff from it's own believers. But worse of all: You use the government to dictate what other people can believe, and you have destroy boy scouts.
Fuckers.
Our official doctrine is available for all to see on our website. There are a couple of items from our past which we don't broadcast (Mountain Meadows - which was done against Brigham Young's orders - being one), but we don't lie about our history. We don't dictate what others can believe or not; one of our Articles of Faith states that we claim the right to worship whom we wish, how we wish, and where we wish, and we grant that right to everyone else (yes, this is a paraphrase). The LdS Church has not destroyed the Boy Scouts of America (the Church actually published a statement they agree with the BSA's stance on homosexuality).
Just watch the Southpark episode about Joseph Smith. Like the one on CoS, they are factually pretty much accurate.
I have watched the South Park episodes about Joseph Smith and Mormons, and they misrepresent our doctrine.
Potassium yes, nitrates no.
Most people in developed countries eat way to much nitrates via sodium nitrate which is used as a preservative in things like hot dogs, sausages, beef jerky, ground beef (pink slime).
Not all ground beef is pink slime.
mormon === scientology you must mean stupidity not liberalism
If you equate Mormonism with Scientology, you have a lot to learn. Please study what we truly believe (http://www.lds.org and http://www.mormon.org/ instead of what people say we believe.
Compare that with hours to charge a battery.
This just isn't true any more and Tesla has proven it. That's not to say the infrastructure is there today, but it's possible to have charging stops that are barely more inconvenient than fill ups. As much as I hate the idea, automated battery swaps could also eliminate the issue entirely.
I've done some more research. A Model S with a 85kWh battery may get up to 200-306 miles on a full charge depending on driving speed, temperature, etc. A supercharge station can charge a battery to 50% in 20 minutes, 80% in 45 minutes, or 100% in 75 minutes. If I drive 100 miles in a day, it would take 3.5 hours to charge at home with a 240V/40A outlet (over 30 hours at 100V/12A). An hour of charging at a public station gives enough juice for 20 miles. An hour charging on a 240V outlet gives 29 miles. 30 minutes at a supercharger station gives 170 miles. It may take up to 75 minutes at a supercharger station to fully charge your battery. It takes me 15 minutes to completely fill my gas tank, and I have over 400 mile range on a single tank.
Compare that with hours to charge a battery.
This just isn't true any more and Tesla has proven it. That's not to say the infrastructure is there today, but it's possible to have charging stops that are barely more inconvenient than fill ups. As much as I hate the idea, automated battery swaps could also eliminate the issue entirely.
I've looked at the supercharge station map, and it would take a full charge battery for me to arrive at the closest one. Discounting the 30-60 minute charge at a supercharge station, it would still be a major inconvenience to charge a battery versus 15 minutes pumping fuel. Maybe one day, when the infrastructure is in place this will change.
Exactly Hydrogen requires wasted resources to create a new fuel cycle (good for capitalists I'm sure). Electricity is agnostic. It is simple (AC motor), and requires less 'special handling' and transport.
Hands down straight up electricity...just that pesky problem of are our batteries good enough yet?
I think so, but apparently Merrica needs 300+ mile range day to day.
I don't regularly need 300 mile range. Give me a battery that gets me to work and back, pick up the kids, and a grocery run -- 100 miles should be fine most of the time. The rub is that it takes too long to charge a battery if we want to take a road trip. Currently I can fill my gas tank within 15 minutes and drive for 400 miles. Compare that with hours to charge a battery.
1000ml of H20 @ 4C = 1kg
You know, it's kinda nice to have units be related to one another...
4C seems a random temperature (especially when pontificating the benefits of a base-10 system), plus you fail to mention a pressure. If you increase pressure, you can fit more mass within the same volume.
But the tea party assures me that once we rid the world of gays and abortion, the deficits will right themselves!!1!
Another case of spreading lies about your adversaries. Many (not all) within the Tea Party are against homosexuality and elective abortions, but these perceived evils will not / do not have an economic impact. The Tea Party is about local governments having more control than the federal government (all powers not given explicitly to the federal government in the Constitution is reserved for the States or the Individuals). Being Pro-life and Pro-Traditional Marriage is not core to the Tea Party.
The deficits will right themselves when the government learns to live within its means. No more multibillion dollar programs without some way of funding them. Our loans incur millions of dollars of interest every day. Consolidate government entities when it makes sense. Off-load social programs to the state and local levels when it makes sense. Have the President pay a larger portion of his vacations (how many times has Obama flown to Hawaii to play golf?). Fix Senate and Congress pay to a multiple of minimum wage or the cost of living.
Knowledge is choice, without knowledge there is no choice. You can not choose to ignore knowledge, you are only in ignorance embracing ignorance. However DNA knowledge should be very tightly restricted with severe penalties including imprisonment, otherwise you will be 'opening up' people to organ donor bounties.
My biggest worry would be the insurance companies. Has everyone already forgotten Gataka? If I have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism, should I pay higher rates (even though I've never had a glass in my life)? If I have a genetic predisposition to certain types of cancer (but no symptoms) do my rates go up because of what may be?
From the fine article: "Officials reported two deaths and several serious injuries...". It's the first paragraph in the damn article.
The latest news is that there have been 5 or 6 (depending on your news source) confirmed deaths.
We can't all live in Minnesota.
Not sure how you got Minnesota from my username or previous comments. I live in Utah and go over a mountain everyday in my commute.
As a bonus, brake pads might last you 60 or 70 thousand miles.
I actually had brake pads last 90k on my current car. Learn how to properly decelerate.
My first name has at least 3 spellings, and mine is the least common of them. My last name has 3 or 4 that I can think of. That's a lot of variations on my name. Surely, one of those is a terrorist!
There are 86 common variations of my surname. I know that there individuals with my same first name with 5 of those variations, plus an additional three who use my exact surname. Mistaken identity is fun!
I have never seen a Blu-Ray disk, and I am not too sure anyone I know has. You must live in the USA (not a device for connecting hardware).
The correct capitalization is Blu-ray. Also, are we going to argue the difference between disk and disc? Most (US) dictionaries list them as being the same. A disk can be defined as any thin, flat, circular plate or object or (when talking computers) any of several types of media consisting of thin, round plates of plastic or metal, used for external storage (magnetic disk, floppy disk, optical disk) (taken from dictionary.com). Admittedly, the BDA does use disc to refer to the media.
Hawaii has two official languages (English and Hawaiian), but 80% of the population speaks "Pidgin" (Hawaiian Creole English) and fewer than 4% are fluent in Hawaiian. In Hawaii's case, "official language" means that all official publications are available in these two languages (people specify which one they want, so as to not make the manual twice as thick, for example). Nothing prevents people from speaking Tongan, Samoan, Japanese, or Pidgin in everyday life. Nothing says that only Hawaiian and English are acceptable for store signage. Nothing says that private entities (including stores) have to make everything available in these languages. Indeed, only limited Hawaiian is taught in our regular schools (by the fourth grade I could count to ten and say the primary and secondary colors). What Hawaiian I know is purely by luck that it was preserved in Pidgin.
In the UK almost every plan seems to come with an unusuablly high or unlimited amount of SMS anyway which is still cheaper than the $1 a year Whatsapp costs.
I use it because I have that one friend who also insists on using it and nothing else. Maybe I should just stop speaking to him and save myself $1 a year.
The only actual benefit I can see to it is for images which are cheaper and seem to work more reliably than MMS.
I'm in the US, but I need to message people in Brazil, England, and China. International SMS is ridiculously expensive. Not everyone has Facebook or Skype, so WhatAapp makes sense if I want to chat and not pay outrageous per-minute voice calls.