It is an underdog mainly because it makes up such a tiny portion of the browser market and because it failed to gain any meaningful traction against IE. Include Firefox on a list of underdogs right now seems to be completely innapropriate, it is in most places the number 2 browser and in some areas it's even the top dog. With the exception of South Korea, I can't think of anywhere that it couldn't conceivably overtake IE.
I don't think that Opera does use less memory than Firefox. Perhaps if you're going really nuts with the extensions Firefox will use more, but all the figures I've seen indicate that the current browser has a really low footprint.
I wish that meme would die a horrible death. It was never suggested that 640kb would be enough in perpetuity, anybody that was knowledgeable enough to know what a kb was, knew that it wasn't that long before that people were happy to have a whopping 48kb to work with.
The ACID3 isn't really a standards test, and passing it is about as useful as having the biggest dick in the room. Sure there's probably some utility to it possibly, but realistically it's not really going to make any meaningful difference. In fact the test itself purposely violates the standards in a way that a standards compatible browser shouldn't really be expected to deal with. Remember kids, friends don't let friends write poorly formatted HTML.
It's more than that, humor is more than that, it's a way of maintaining status, either by ridiculing enemies or disarming them. There's a reason why we're so much more inclined to like dirty jokes or ones that make fun of people.
That's not particularly random. Blue eyes became common because our ancestors thought it was really hot, I know there are hypotheses about it making it real easy to see dilation, but I'm not sure it's been particularly well established.
We don't have 4 eyes because that's not of any benefit. In order to have the extra 2 eyes, you would need to have the processing structures to handle it. Which would require one to either have less of other brain structures or a larger noggin. Neither of which are particularly useful. It's especially unlikely since we evolved to have 2 eyes placed on the front like predators rather than 2 on the side like prey.
It's even less useful when you consider the fact that humans can run down pretty much anything over a long enough distance and that with the increased intellect that our brains provided we could spook quite a few things to get them running away from us.
Yeah, I guess it is random in the sense that it wouldn't really be known ahead of time, but we're talking in most cases about small incremental changes over many millenia. I think blue eyes are really the only major exception to that rule that we know about at present.
And that's why we require doctors to make diagnoses. Psychiatry in particular is difficult to pin down and requires a lot of study to know what the diagnostic criteria really mean. Sure a lot of it looks like something obvious, but there's frequently a very specific meaning that differs for one reason or another from the common use in some subtle ways. Antisocial Personality Disorder is more than just being a jerk, it implies other things as well.
It's more than just being a jerk or hating people, it's things like compulsively lying to people or being unable to play well with others, and often times having no interest in doing so anyways. And even that's simplistic and not complete as there's a lot more to it than that. A genuine case of Antisocial Personality Disorder is something that you'll frequently recognize only if you know what you're looking for.
The difference is that the ads were in the game from the beginning and one typically expects for racing games to be plastered with ads. The difference is that rather than creating fake ads like many other games they used real games. I don't believe there was any impact on the speed of the game and people generally assume when they see the real trademark that money is changing hands.
Not that it really makes it OK, if the money isn't going to lower the cost for the consumer.
Good, so I'm not the only one that noticed that this isn't the first time that Sony had to pullback after being caught acting in such an egregious way. And I doubt it'll be the last. Which is a shame, because there are times when I'd like to buy one of their products, each time this sort of thing happens it reinforces my sense that I shouldn't be doing business with them.
It's been said that an unsuccessful psychopath is called a criminal, but a successful psychopath is called a CEO. The real key to this whole thing isn't necessarily eliminated the pathology, but rather to figure out how to dampen the symptoms and better align their interests with those that are socially helpful.
Believe me, there are a good number of fields where shallow to nonexistent empathy can create a significant amount of good.
That, unfortunately, should be expected. The problem is that if one is a psychopath one is typically better at hiding things than the doctor is at digging them up. Consequently, therapy can very well prove more practice than cure.
That being said, group therapy for these sorts of individuals does tend to work out quite a bit better and starts to work more or less as soon as the group members realize that the typical techniques don't really work on others of similar nature. I don't think it's possible to truly cure this sort of thing, but ideally you're looking to make it more profitable to behave than to misbehave. Until we as a society stop rewarding bad behavior, we have very little right to complain that some people are willing to accept the reward.
That's just because Nikon hasn't figured out how to do that. If you look at some of the samples that DPReview has with recent Canon DSLRs with cranked up sensitivity, it's surprisingly good.
Canon EOS 500D / Review Sample Is a pretty good example at ISO 1600. You can see the degradation, but it's pretty good overall. It's still not really a good substitute for a tripod, but it's definitely acceptable for many things.
And no, you can't really simulate high ISO like that, you can sort of do that with film, but digital doesn't really work like that. The maximum number ISO is usually decided upon based upon what kind of Signal to Noise ratio you're able to get. As the gain is upped the significance of the noise gets larger and at some point it degrades the quality to the point of being completely unrecognizable. But, the reason why you're suggestion doesn't really work is that the information has to be recorded in the first place and if you're trying to boost gamma in post production rather than boosting sensitivity during production, there's just not going to be enough information to work with the camera just won't have the dynamic range to handle it.
Projectors are just one of those things which companies shouldn't even think about building until they get the rest of their ducks in a row. Full HD video isn't bad in a DSLR provided that the camera functions properly first and that the video actually integrates in a way that works as well.
Google, is that the same Google that lost a lot of data a couple years back? I'm not really suggesting that they're not to be trusted, but they have lost data in the past, and as unlikely as it might be, it could happen again. Not to mention the fact that they allow access through insecure methods to the data.
Precisely, that's why my healthcare providers only use it to notify me that a message has been received. I have to log in to their site via SSL if I actually want to read the information. There are still risks, but with a properly secured DNS server and the appropriate measures to make sure it isn't a forgery, it's as secure as you can get.
Hosting this sort of thing off site on a service that's not really intended for HIPAA or similar is a recipe for disaster. It's not that Google is necessarily untrustworthy, it's that they're not promising to comply with the requirements under those laws. And they're certainly not going to be liable should anything go wrong that puts the firm or the IT department in breech of those particular laws.
Well for one thing, you don't have to know what a spleen does to notice a statistical increase in serious complications from infection. Yeah, yeah, correlation... causation, but the principle of erring on the side of caution frequently comes into play in medicine.
Technically speaking, the appendix isn't vestigial, it's whole purpose is to be teeming with bacteria. Basically a safe guard to make it less likely that you die should your intestines be depopulated of bacteria. Which is also why appendicitis is one of the few things that's significantly less common in the developing world than the developed world.
The obsession, is relatively reasonable. What isn't reasonable is the tendency to relegate still useful things into that category.
The ability to wiggle ones ears is a pretty good example, unless you can do it, you'd never appreciate the help that is in figuring out where sounds are coming from. Sure it's not as useful as it was. Well, scratch that, with all the randomly beeping things we have in the modern era it helps one figure out where they are hiding.
Not really, it's only in a relatively small part of the world where the appendix isn't that useful. Curiously, that's the developed world where there's also relatively easy access to apendectomies. But by population, the vast majority of people still need and use it. And even in the developed world, people do use it, it's just not as important with the easy access to probiotics.
Not to pass the blame, but was there really no way of testing it for design faults before installation? I mean sure you can't see how the whole thing works until you turn it on, but if the LHC guys can't figure out how to test it before installation, I'm not sure how the Fermilab guys could have.
Yeah, I know it's a tad blame the victim like, but it seems to me that this is an EU sort of problem.
Indeed, and they'd better be preying to the all-powerful Atheismo that Fermilab doesn't beat them to it. You know the other collider that looks like it has a good shot at beating them to it with a much smaller collider and for a fraction of the cost. I mean of course since they haven't already, they might not ever for one reason or another, but it'll be terribly embarrassing for the Europeans if they do.
Not going to happen, a significant portion of the populace is in favor of fascism as a form of government. Considering those are the same people that wanted to impose democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's not really a shock how that's been going.
And this whole bit is just the logical extension, giving people the freedom to use their property how they wish threatens the growth of the economy. Which is for some reason bad. I can't figure out how since the vast majority of the wealth in the US goes to people that don't actually create it.
That's not accurate. According to every article on piracy we say it's not "theft" because you're not depriving the owner of the ability to use it. That is a huge difference. Theft of service wouldn't exist if workers could simultaneously do unlimited number of side tasks.
You're not understanding. The reason why police officers are issued side arms is because we have the 2nd amendment. If we were living in a nation where there was strict gun control and a reasonable expectation that coming in contact with armed individuals was rare, then disarming them might be a reasonable solution.
The problem is that we do have a lot of very dangerous people out there with firearms that are at times vastly superior to the ones that the police carry. On top of that you don't necessarily know when the weapon is going to save a life in there hands.
On top of that, the point of the gear is that it's probably not ever going to be used. While it is unusual, there are some beat cops out there that have never in an entire career unholstered their side arm on duty. Sure it doesn't happen that often, but I can guarantee you that should they need it and not have it there would be hell to pay later on.
As far as high speed chases go, you do realize that most if not all police departments frown on high speed chases for that very reason, that's not to say that they don't happen, but they are pretty rare and in most cases the officer will break off the chase pretty quickly. Instead deferring to helicopters and other cars to spike to disable the car.
Actually, in order for it to be self defense you have to be repelling the intruder typically. Yes I know there are backwards parts of the country that allow that kind of reckless and irresponsible behavior, but typically speaking once they've been repelled you no longer have the legal right to claim self defense.
On top of that, I wouldn't necessarily recommend assuming that those laws allowing it are going to withstand judicial scrutiny or that the jury will agree that it was actually self defense.
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It is an underdog mainly because it makes up such a tiny portion of the browser market and because it failed to gain any meaningful traction against IE. Include Firefox on a list of underdogs right now seems to be completely innapropriate, it is in most places the number 2 browser and in some areas it's even the top dog. With the exception of South Korea, I can't think of anywhere that it couldn't conceivably overtake IE.
I don't think that Opera does use less memory than Firefox. Perhaps if you're going really nuts with the extensions Firefox will use more, but all the figures I've seen indicate that the current browser has a really low footprint.
http://dotnetperls.com/browser-memory
I wish that meme would die a horrible death. It was never suggested that 640kb would be enough in perpetuity, anybody that was knowledgeable enough to know what a kb was, knew that it wasn't that long before that people were happy to have a whopping 48kb to work with.
The ACID3 isn't really a standards test, and passing it is about as useful as having the biggest dick in the room. Sure there's probably some utility to it possibly, but realistically it's not really going to make any meaningful difference. In fact the test itself purposely violates the standards in a way that a standards compatible browser shouldn't really be expected to deal with. Remember kids, friends don't let friends write poorly formatted HTML.
I thought placing parental controls on dictionaries was what caused places like 4chan.
It's more than that, humor is more than that, it's a way of maintaining status, either by ridiculing enemies or disarming them. There's a reason why we're so much more inclined to like dirty jokes or ones that make fun of people.
That's not particularly random. Blue eyes became common because our ancestors thought it was really hot, I know there are hypotheses about it making it real easy to see dilation, but I'm not sure it's been particularly well established.
We don't have 4 eyes because that's not of any benefit. In order to have the extra 2 eyes, you would need to have the processing structures to handle it. Which would require one to either have less of other brain structures or a larger noggin. Neither of which are particularly useful. It's especially unlikely since we evolved to have 2 eyes placed on the front like predators rather than 2 on the side like prey.
It's even less useful when you consider the fact that humans can run down pretty much anything over a long enough distance and that with the increased intellect that our brains provided we could spook quite a few things to get them running away from us.
Yeah, I guess it is random in the sense that it wouldn't really be known ahead of time, but we're talking in most cases about small incremental changes over many millenia. I think blue eyes are really the only major exception to that rule that we know about at present.
And that's why we require doctors to make diagnoses. Psychiatry in particular is difficult to pin down and requires a lot of study to know what the diagnostic criteria really mean. Sure a lot of it looks like something obvious, but there's frequently a very specific meaning that differs for one reason or another from the common use in some subtle ways. Antisocial Personality Disorder is more than just being a jerk, it implies other things as well.
It's more than just being a jerk or hating people, it's things like compulsively lying to people or being unable to play well with others, and often times having no interest in doing so anyways. And even that's simplistic and not complete as there's a lot more to it than that. A genuine case of Antisocial Personality Disorder is something that you'll frequently recognize only if you know what you're looking for.
The difference is that the ads were in the game from the beginning and one typically expects for racing games to be plastered with ads. The difference is that rather than creating fake ads like many other games they used real games. I don't believe there was any impact on the speed of the game and people generally assume when they see the real trademark that money is changing hands.
Not that it really makes it OK, if the money isn't going to lower the cost for the consumer.
Good, so I'm not the only one that noticed that this isn't the first time that Sony had to pullback after being caught acting in such an egregious way. And I doubt it'll be the last. Which is a shame, because there are times when I'd like to buy one of their products, each time this sort of thing happens it reinforces my sense that I shouldn't be doing business with them.
It's been said that an unsuccessful psychopath is called a criminal, but a successful psychopath is called a CEO. The real key to this whole thing isn't necessarily eliminated the pathology, but rather to figure out how to dampen the symptoms and better align their interests with those that are socially helpful.
Believe me, there are a good number of fields where shallow to nonexistent empathy can create a significant amount of good.
That, unfortunately, should be expected. The problem is that if one is a psychopath one is typically better at hiding things than the doctor is at digging them up. Consequently, therapy can very well prove more practice than cure.
That being said, group therapy for these sorts of individuals does tend to work out quite a bit better and starts to work more or less as soon as the group members realize that the typical techniques don't really work on others of similar nature. I don't think it's possible to truly cure this sort of thing, but ideally you're looking to make it more profitable to behave than to misbehave. Until we as a society stop rewarding bad behavior, we have very little right to complain that some people are willing to accept the reward.
That's just because Nikon hasn't figured out how to do that. If you look at some of the samples that DPReview has with recent Canon DSLRs with cranked up sensitivity, it's surprisingly good.
Canon EOS 500D / Review Sample Is a pretty good example at ISO 1600. You can see the degradation, but it's pretty good overall. It's still not really a good substitute for a tripod, but it's definitely acceptable for many things.
And no, you can't really simulate high ISO like that, you can sort of do that with film, but digital doesn't really work like that. The maximum number ISO is usually decided upon based upon what kind of Signal to Noise ratio you're able to get. As the gain is upped the significance of the noise gets larger and at some point it degrades the quality to the point of being completely unrecognizable. But, the reason why you're suggestion doesn't really work is that the information has to be recorded in the first place and if you're trying to boost gamma in post production rather than boosting sensitivity during production, there's just not going to be enough information to work with the camera just won't have the dynamic range to handle it.
Projectors are just one of those things which companies shouldn't even think about building until they get the rest of their ducks in a row. Full HD video isn't bad in a DSLR provided that the camera functions properly first and that the video actually integrates in a way that works as well.
Google, is that the same Google that lost a lot of data a couple years back? I'm not really suggesting that they're not to be trusted, but they have lost data in the past, and as unlikely as it might be, it could happen again. Not to mention the fact that they allow access through insecure methods to the data.
Precisely, that's why my healthcare providers only use it to notify me that a message has been received. I have to log in to their site via SSL if I actually want to read the information. There are still risks, but with a properly secured DNS server and the appropriate measures to make sure it isn't a forgery, it's as secure as you can get.
Hosting this sort of thing off site on a service that's not really intended for HIPAA or similar is a recipe for disaster. It's not that Google is necessarily untrustworthy, it's that they're not promising to comply with the requirements under those laws. And they're certainly not going to be liable should anything go wrong that puts the firm or the IT department in breech of those particular laws.
Well for one thing, you don't have to know what a spleen does to notice a statistical increase in serious complications from infection. Yeah, yeah, correlation... causation, but the principle of erring on the side of caution frequently comes into play in medicine.
Technically speaking, the appendix isn't vestigial, it's whole purpose is to be teeming with bacteria. Basically a safe guard to make it less likely that you die should your intestines be depopulated of bacteria. Which is also why appendicitis is one of the few things that's significantly less common in the developing world than the developed world.
The obsession, is relatively reasonable. What isn't reasonable is the tendency to relegate still useful things into that category.
The ability to wiggle ones ears is a pretty good example, unless you can do it, you'd never appreciate the help that is in figuring out where sounds are coming from. Sure it's not as useful as it was. Well, scratch that, with all the randomly beeping things we have in the modern era it helps one figure out where they are hiding.
Not really, it's only in a relatively small part of the world where the appendix isn't that useful. Curiously, that's the developed world where there's also relatively easy access to apendectomies. But by population, the vast majority of people still need and use it. And even in the developed world, people do use it, it's just not as important with the easy access to probiotics.
Not to pass the blame, but was there really no way of testing it for design faults before installation? I mean sure you can't see how the whole thing works until you turn it on, but if the LHC guys can't figure out how to test it before installation, I'm not sure how the Fermilab guys could have.
Yeah, I know it's a tad blame the victim like, but it seems to me that this is an EU sort of problem.
Indeed, and they'd better be preying to the all-powerful Atheismo that Fermilab doesn't beat them to it. You know the other collider that looks like it has a good shot at beating them to it with a much smaller collider and for a fraction of the cost. I mean of course since they haven't already, they might not ever for one reason or another, but it'll be terribly embarrassing for the Europeans if they do.
Not going to happen, a significant portion of the populace is in favor of fascism as a form of government. Considering those are the same people that wanted to impose democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's not really a shock how that's been going.
And this whole bit is just the logical extension, giving people the freedom to use their property how they wish threatens the growth of the economy. Which is for some reason bad. I can't figure out how since the vast majority of the wealth in the US goes to people that don't actually create it.
That's not accurate. According to every article on piracy we say it's not "theft" because you're not depriving the owner of the ability to use it. That is a huge difference. Theft of service wouldn't exist if workers could simultaneously do unlimited number of side tasks.
You're not understanding. The reason why police officers are issued side arms is because we have the 2nd amendment. If we were living in a nation where there was strict gun control and a reasonable expectation that coming in contact with armed individuals was rare, then disarming them might be a reasonable solution.
The problem is that we do have a lot of very dangerous people out there with firearms that are at times vastly superior to the ones that the police carry. On top of that you don't necessarily know when the weapon is going to save a life in there hands.
On top of that, the point of the gear is that it's probably not ever going to be used. While it is unusual, there are some beat cops out there that have never in an entire career unholstered their side arm on duty. Sure it doesn't happen that often, but I can guarantee you that should they need it and not have it there would be hell to pay later on.
As far as high speed chases go, you do realize that most if not all police departments frown on high speed chases for that very reason, that's not to say that they don't happen, but they are pretty rare and in most cases the officer will break off the chase pretty quickly. Instead deferring to helicopters and other cars to spike to disable the car.
Actually, in order for it to be self defense you have to be repelling the intruder typically. Yes I know there are backwards parts of the country that allow that kind of reckless and irresponsible behavior, but typically speaking once they've been repelled you no longer have the legal right to claim self defense.
On top of that, I wouldn't necessarily recommend assuming that those laws allowing it are going to withstand judicial scrutiny or that the jury will agree that it was actually self defense.