I think it's mostly things that aren't properly shielded and are particularly sensitive to magnetic interference.
I know I'll get crap about it, but for some reason my nervous system is capable of polarizing metallic wires. Causing them to cross and uncross in response to my thoughts. It's not particularly useful as a trick. Unfortunately, I still can't do telekinesis. Which would be cool.
Actually, that's a really good point. Having a car that could detect when a person had fallen asleep and automatically hit the brakes could save lives.
Unfortunately, I think we'll have self driving cars before we can have a car that can detect if it's being driven by an idiot.
I'm just skeptical that those areas actually exist. I'm sitting here within 15 miles of a major IXP and the fastest connection speed available is 5mbps. It's not like I'm in the boonies or in a place that's hard to wire, I know for a fact that there's a backbone going within 2 miles of my house.
My only options are Comcast, which has a pitiful cap and embarrassing customer service and Centurylink that has no cap, but is limited to 5mbps service in this neighborhood. And neither are showing any particular interest in competetition.
The only thing that might change it is that there's gigabit squared doing the neighborhood next to mine. I'm going to be literally 2 blocks outside of their coverage area, which means that I might never get coverage to my house.
The problem there is that the courts are typically deferential to the other branches on issues of national security. Basically they're afraid that if they say no and something happens that they'll be responsible.
The only reason why the high court started saying no to Bush was that Bush started acting like the court didn't have authority over anything he was doing. Had he kept his ego in check, the SCrOTUmS decisions would likely have continued in his favor.
Ultimately, as long as the SCrOTUmS don't feel like doing their job of ruling on the constitutionality of things, then there's very little shy of some form of rebellion that's going to change it.
The reason that there are 100k Iraqi civilians dead has nothing to do with the decision about whether or not to invade. The 100k is an argument for actually spending the time to make sure the plans are realistic. Had there been an adequate number of troops in Iraq that would never have happened.
It's beyond me how idiots like you can confuse the issue.
Why sarcasm tags? I didn't post it, but the reality is that there wouldn't be an internet as it is were it not for the US starting things. And the world does depend a great deal on the US being willing to get involved in far off parts of the world when the Europeans refuse to.
The main criticism comes down to jealousy and the fact that we don't feel the need to follow their directions.
Yes, the US does make mistakes from time to time, but really, what about in Libya where our waiting for appropriate permissions ran the risk of disaster for the rebellion? Or how about in Syria where there's already been 100k dead where US intervention might have spared some of the casualties?
No, the DHS was given the job of deciding what threats are out there and protecting us against them.
Of course they're going to see threats everywhere, that's how they justify getting more and more funding. And it will remain a problem as long as they're responsible for both.
I refuse to fly out of an American airport until they stop all this silliness. And if enough people refuse to fly, the airlines won't be able to stay in business until the government changes its policies.
Last time I needed to fly, I drove up to Vancouver to catch a flight. The border guards didn't even bother questioning why. I'm guessing that it's a common enough occurrence that it's not considered to be suspicious.
I see no harm in removing it even in cases where there isn't a medical condition. Ultimately, even for people that don't have a sensitivity or allergy to gluten, most sources of wheat are in processed foods. And one is generally best keeping that stuff to a minimum anyways due to the various other problematic ingredients.
Ultimately, the reason it's hard to avoid wheat in America is because until recently few people were doing so. But as more people avoid wheat, it gets easier to do. And considering that wheat doesn't contain any essential nutrients that aren't otherwise available, I don't see any reason to care.
This is why I don't respect skeptics. I tend to be rather skeptical myself, but your explanation is far less likely than a simple food intolerance.
If wheat wasn't the cause of the problems to begin with, then how do you explain the fact that I started feeling so much better with days of giving it up and started to feel like garbage again within days of eating it regularly again?
Also, gluten intolerance is a medical condition. It really does exist and there really are people that feel like crap until they stop eating the stuff. What's more, precisely why does it matter to you? I feel like garbage when I eat that crap, unless you're a wheat farmer it makes no difference to you.
BTW, Celiac disease is one type of intolerance to wheat, as in an autoimmune problem that's stimulated by wheat, it's separate to the issue of wheat allergies and other intolerance.
Gluten intolerance is actually quite common. There are degrees, it is true that only a couple percent have full blown celiac disease, but there's always people with minor allergies and intolerances that don't rise to the level necessary for a diagnosis or who have similar problems. I didn't realize that I was intolerant to the stuff until I spent a year having to do without. I didn't start to get sick again until I started to eat that crap.
Just because the medical establishment chooses not to do the research necessary to establish whether or not it's a real problem, does not mean that it isn't a real problem. Up until recently they wouldn't even order a test if you were overweight, because clearly that's not the case with gluten tolerance issues. Similarly, until recently doctors would refuse to diagnose ADHD in adults because all children grow out of it. The typical prevalance is about 4-6% of adults have problems sufficient to warrant a diagnoses. I was personally deeply skeptical of gluten problems until I had to do without. Then I magically got thinner, healthier and generally felt better. Until I started eating wheat again and started to feel like crap.
Vaccination and autism is quite different. There was never any research to back the claim and a ton of research to back the safety of the shots over the long term. It wasn't until those fraudulent reports started to circulate that people started t believe it. And there's no statistical evidence that removing the chemicals that were blamed has led to a change in the prevalence of ASD.
You haven't met many Democrats have you? The Democratic Party is not an organized party. It's what's left of the left. You'd be a fool to suggest that Kucinich and Obama have much in common. The Republicans tend to be clumped together because they ejected anybody that didn't pass their purity tests.
Yes, because obviously, calling MS out for incompetence means that I wouldn't accept restitution for it.
Bottom line here is that if they're going to disable hardware functionality, then they have a responsibility to make the user aware that their doing it and what they're doing. I literally never saw a warning about it, meaning that regardless of whether disabling UDMA was an appropriate response, I was left out of the loop on the decision. As master and god of my machine, the OS has no fucking business going over my head like that.
What's more, if you don't look at the tray immediately, the notifications tend to disappear with or without user intervention.
And yes, the Linux way is better, the drive hadn't failed any tests and as such they didn't disable the UDMA on the drive. Windows had what was probably a driver problem and silently disabled the functionality without giving me any choice about it. It could also have been a cabling problem at which point, you can't just re-enable UDMA without resorting to hackery.
Ultimately, the reality here is that MS makes shit products for people that don't know what they're doing. For those of us that do know what we're doing, they make the experience extra shitty by preventing us from overriding the computer without going to great lengths to do it. If a HDD isn't failing any of the SMART tests or any of the other diagnostic testing and we have a backup, then we should have the option of telling the OS that we know what we're doing.
I had a netbook and I mostly liked it, but it was also cheap. It was under $200, but it was a real computer, I didn't have to run a cut down OS on it to get it to run properly. Sure, some things didn't work well because it was running a 900mhz celeron, but it did an admirable job, even when I wasn't connected to the internet.
It's a shame that MS had to kill the devices. They were rather nice.
Yes and ones sexual prowess is best measured by the length of ones penis.
The top speed they cite is completely mythical. Nobody is ever going to achieve it because the conditions don't reflect real life. It's great to know that your car can do over 200mph on a straightaway with perfect conditions, but real world conditions dictate a much lower top speed.
It's a bit like those gas consumption tests, rarely, if ever, do they actually reflect the gas mileage that you would be getting, because the tests don't reflect real life.
That's broken behavior if you have to go digging like that. For the more tech savvy people that's a reasonable place to go looking, but if somebody asks you why they're computer is so slow, that's not something that they're going to check before asking.
It's also not expected for a HDD to have functionality disabled when it still passes the SMART and isn't failing any other tests.
It's the same MS bullshit, hide things from the user so that it can be "user friendly" not bothering to pay attention to how painful it makes the computer use.
Bull shit. Windows was perfectly happy letting me continue to use the drive without mention of an error, it just made all the drive operations slower. The files would still have gone missing either way if it were a bad drive. And BTW, at no point did I receive a pop up notification that they had done that. Being a Windows installation, I assumed that it was the typical Windows bloat that it usually is.
Linux at least didn't hobble my attempts to get data off the drive by making the transfers take an eternity.
Bottom line here is that no matter how you look at it, it's broken behavior. A bad hard drive is hardly the only reason for a UDMA problem to pop up, that can be bad cabling or a problem with the driver as well. And I shouldn't have to look at the event viewer on the off chance that MS has chosen to hide something in there.
Spoken like somebody that hasn't wasted hours trying to figure out why the computer is running so slow. Only to discover that the computer is running so slow because MS decided to disable UDMA on the drive without bothering to ask permission or even bother to mention that they'd done so.
And that's hardly the only example, MS ought to be paying people to use their shitty software as they sure as hell shouldn't expect to be paid for the privilege of beta testing their software.
I agree, I rarely have trouble like that on Linux Mint. I think the last time I had trouble like that was when I was running RedHat, the people who designed the RPM system deserve to burn in hell for making it so that you couldn't just install all the packages you needed without manually installing each one. Presumably, they've fixed that by now. But, I gave up on them like a decade ago.
Unless you're somebody that never turns, the actual top speed of a vehicle is primarily based upon the ability to stop and maneuver at that speed. Going fast in a straight line is relatively easy, maintaining a high speed while maneuvering is substantially harder.
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I think it's mostly things that aren't properly shielded and are particularly sensitive to magnetic interference.
I know I'll get crap about it, but for some reason my nervous system is capable of polarizing metallic wires. Causing them to cross and uncross in response to my thoughts. It's not particularly useful as a trick. Unfortunately, I still can't do telekinesis. Which would be cool.
Actually, that's a really good point. Having a car that could detect when a person had fallen asleep and automatically hit the brakes could save lives.
Unfortunately, I think we'll have self driving cars before we can have a car that can detect if it's being driven by an idiot.
Then you'd probably know that schizophrenia is not what they used to call Multiple Personality Disorder.
I'm just skeptical that those areas actually exist. I'm sitting here within 15 miles of a major IXP and the fastest connection speed available is 5mbps. It's not like I'm in the boonies or in a place that's hard to wire, I know for a fact that there's a backbone going within 2 miles of my house.
My only options are Comcast, which has a pitiful cap and embarrassing customer service and Centurylink that has no cap, but is limited to 5mbps service in this neighborhood. And neither are showing any particular interest in competetition.
The only thing that might change it is that there's gigabit squared doing the neighborhood next to mine. I'm going to be literally 2 blocks outside of their coverage area, which means that I might never get coverage to my house.
Compete, you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
The problem there is that the courts are typically deferential to the other branches on issues of national security. Basically they're afraid that if they say no and something happens that they'll be responsible.
The only reason why the high court started saying no to Bush was that Bush started acting like the court didn't have authority over anything he was doing. Had he kept his ego in check, the SCrOTUmS decisions would likely have continued in his favor.
Ultimately, as long as the SCrOTUmS don't feel like doing their job of ruling on the constitutionality of things, then there's very little shy of some form of rebellion that's going to change it.
I'm sorry, but that has nothing to do with Syria.
The reason that there are 100k Iraqi civilians dead has nothing to do with the decision about whether or not to invade. The 100k is an argument for actually spending the time to make sure the plans are realistic. Had there been an adequate number of troops in Iraq that would never have happened.
It's beyond me how idiots like you can confuse the issue.
Why sarcasm tags? I didn't post it, but the reality is that there wouldn't be an internet as it is were it not for the US starting things. And the world does depend a great deal on the US being willing to get involved in far off parts of the world when the Europeans refuse to.
The main criticism comes down to jealousy and the fact that we don't feel the need to follow their directions.
Yes, the US does make mistakes from time to time, but really, what about in Libya where our waiting for appropriate permissions ran the risk of disaster for the rebellion? Or how about in Syria where there's already been 100k dead where US intervention might have spared some of the casualties?
No, the DHS was given the job of deciding what threats are out there and protecting us against them.
Of course they're going to see threats everywhere, that's how they justify getting more and more funding. And it will remain a problem as long as they're responsible for both.
I refuse to fly out of an American airport until they stop all this silliness. And if enough people refuse to fly, the airlines won't be able to stay in business until the government changes its policies.
Last time I needed to fly, I drove up to Vancouver to catch a flight. The border guards didn't even bother questioning why. I'm guessing that it's a common enough occurrence that it's not considered to be suspicious.
I see no harm in removing it even in cases where there isn't a medical condition. Ultimately, even for people that don't have a sensitivity or allergy to gluten, most sources of wheat are in processed foods. And one is generally best keeping that stuff to a minimum anyways due to the various other problematic ingredients.
Ultimately, the reason it's hard to avoid wheat in America is because until recently few people were doing so. But as more people avoid wheat, it gets easier to do. And considering that wheat doesn't contain any essential nutrients that aren't otherwise available, I don't see any reason to care.
This is why I don't respect skeptics. I tend to be rather skeptical myself, but your explanation is far less likely than a simple food intolerance.
If wheat wasn't the cause of the problems to begin with, then how do you explain the fact that I started feeling so much better with days of giving it up and started to feel like garbage again within days of eating it regularly again?
Also, gluten intolerance is a medical condition. It really does exist and there really are people that feel like crap until they stop eating the stuff. What's more, precisely why does it matter to you? I feel like garbage when I eat that crap, unless you're a wheat farmer it makes no difference to you.
BTW, Celiac disease is one type of intolerance to wheat, as in an autoimmune problem that's stimulated by wheat, it's separate to the issue of wheat allergies and other intolerance.
Of course if this becomes a common occurrence, I may have to run away shrieking every time I see an iPhone, because those dudes be crazy.
I am, it might finally settle the question of what precisely is it that an Apple Fanbois won't give up for their cult.
Gluten intolerance is actually quite common. There are degrees, it is true that only a couple percent have full blown celiac disease, but there's always people with minor allergies and intolerances that don't rise to the level necessary for a diagnosis or who have similar problems. I didn't realize that I was intolerant to the stuff until I spent a year having to do without. I didn't start to get sick again until I started to eat that crap.
Just because the medical establishment chooses not to do the research necessary to establish whether or not it's a real problem, does not mean that it isn't a real problem. Up until recently they wouldn't even order a test if you were overweight, because clearly that's not the case with gluten tolerance issues. Similarly, until recently doctors would refuse to diagnose ADHD in adults because all children grow out of it. The typical prevalance is about 4-6% of adults have problems sufficient to warrant a diagnoses. I was personally deeply skeptical of gluten problems until I had to do without. Then I magically got thinner, healthier and generally felt better. Until I started eating wheat again and started to feel like crap.
Vaccination and autism is quite different. There was never any research to back the claim and a ton of research to back the safety of the shots over the long term. It wasn't until those fraudulent reports started to circulate that people started t believe it. And there's no statistical evidence that removing the chemicals that were blamed has led to a change in the prevalence of ASD.
You haven't met many Democrats have you? The Democratic Party is not an organized party. It's what's left of the left. You'd be a fool to suggest that Kucinich and Obama have much in common. The Republicans tend to be clumped together because they ejected anybody that didn't pass their purity tests.
Yes, because obviously, calling MS out for incompetence means that I wouldn't accept restitution for it.
Bottom line here is that if they're going to disable hardware functionality, then they have a responsibility to make the user aware that their doing it and what they're doing. I literally never saw a warning about it, meaning that regardless of whether disabling UDMA was an appropriate response, I was left out of the loop on the decision. As master and god of my machine, the OS has no fucking business going over my head like that.
What's more, if you don't look at the tray immediately, the notifications tend to disappear with or without user intervention.
And yes, the Linux way is better, the drive hadn't failed any tests and as such they didn't disable the UDMA on the drive. Windows had what was probably a driver problem and silently disabled the functionality without giving me any choice about it. It could also have been a cabling problem at which point, you can't just re-enable UDMA without resorting to hackery.
Ultimately, the reality here is that MS makes shit products for people that don't know what they're doing. For those of us that do know what we're doing, they make the experience extra shitty by preventing us from overriding the computer without going to great lengths to do it. If a HDD isn't failing any of the SMART tests or any of the other diagnostic testing and we have a backup, then we should have the option of telling the OS that we know what we're doing.
I had a netbook and I mostly liked it, but it was also cheap. It was under $200, but it was a real computer, I didn't have to run a cut down OS on it to get it to run properly. Sure, some things didn't work well because it was running a 900mhz celeron, but it did an admirable job, even when I wasn't connected to the internet.
It's a shame that MS had to kill the devices. They were rather nice.
Yes and ones sexual prowess is best measured by the length of ones penis.
The top speed they cite is completely mythical. Nobody is ever going to achieve it because the conditions don't reflect real life. It's great to know that your car can do over 200mph on a straightaway with perfect conditions, but real world conditions dictate a much lower top speed.
It's a bit like those gas consumption tests, rarely, if ever, do they actually reflect the gas mileage that you would be getting, because the tests don't reflect real life.
That's broken behavior if you have to go digging like that. For the more tech savvy people that's a reasonable place to go looking, but if somebody asks you why they're computer is so slow, that's not something that they're going to check before asking.
It's also not expected for a HDD to have functionality disabled when it still passes the SMART and isn't failing any other tests.
It's the same MS bullshit, hide things from the user so that it can be "user friendly" not bothering to pay attention to how painful it makes the computer use.
Bull shit. Windows was perfectly happy letting me continue to use the drive without mention of an error, it just made all the drive operations slower. The files would still have gone missing either way if it were a bad drive. And BTW, at no point did I receive a pop up notification that they had done that. Being a Windows installation, I assumed that it was the typical Windows bloat that it usually is.
Linux at least didn't hobble my attempts to get data off the drive by making the transfers take an eternity.
Bottom line here is that no matter how you look at it, it's broken behavior. A bad hard drive is hardly the only reason for a UDMA problem to pop up, that can be bad cabling or a problem with the driver as well. And I shouldn't have to look at the event viewer on the off chance that MS has chosen to hide something in there.
Spoken like somebody that hasn't wasted hours trying to figure out why the computer is running so slow. Only to discover that the computer is running so slow because MS decided to disable UDMA on the drive without bothering to ask permission or even bother to mention that they'd done so.
And that's hardly the only example, MS ought to be paying people to use their shitty software as they sure as hell shouldn't expect to be paid for the privilege of beta testing their software.
I agree, I rarely have trouble like that on Linux Mint. I think the last time I had trouble like that was when I was running RedHat, the people who designed the RPM system deserve to burn in hell for making it so that you couldn't just install all the packages you needed without manually installing each one. Presumably, they've fixed that by now. But, I gave up on them like a decade ago.
Unless you're somebody that never turns, the actual top speed of a vehicle is primarily based upon the ability to stop and maneuver at that speed. Going fast in a straight line is relatively easy, maintaining a high speed while maneuvering is substantially harder.
No, because that would be sexist...