Why not use Intel/AMD processor to run x86 code then? Alternatively Microsoft could port Windows to run on Java or some other virtual language and then just build virtual machines on all target platforms... but the performance still wouldn't be there.
It's just easier to do the straight forward thing and port the code to ARM. I don't think that majority of Windows code is in any way dependent on underlaying platform and therefore doesn't need to be ported just compiled.
In a lamp test by a Finnish magazine the 3 EUR fluorescent lamp died at 3000 hours. The more expensive ones are still going on but starting to show longer warming times, stains/cracks and other problems. In addition to these problems fluorescents are hazardous waste and should be recycled. At 10x longer lifespan the LED light sounds like a good deal to me.
And the FDA regulation traces back to lobbying from big pharma as HFA inhalers are protected and there are no generic alternatives available. Going straight back to corporate greed and using government as a tool for profits.
While I in general agree on the recommendation to READ the contracts you sign it's very dangerous to push all the responsibility of the contract to the individual. Definitions like "Unlimited" and "Free" have real world meaning that can be altered in contract. I just happen to have Palm Pre and Sprint General Terms. Here is example on what I basically agreed:
"Services are subject to our business policies, practices and procedures ("Policies"), including, but not limited to, our Privacy Policy and Acceptable Use Policy and Visitor Agreement - both available at our website. You agree to all of our Policies when you use our Services. Our Policies are subject to change at anytime with or without notice."
Additionally I waive my right to sue them, participate in class action or have a jury trial.
Palm side of booklets have similar intrusive clauses. They have right to disable any software for whatever reason, gather personal data, etc. In case I sell my Palm Pre and don't give this booklet to the person I sold the device to I need to immediately destroy these documents I was just reading.
This is just complete bullshit contract, but if I want to use mobile phone I do need to agree on these rules. There is no provider or device that wouldn't have exactly same or very similar clauses in their service agreement. Easiest way around this is to use common sense and not bother with the contract, just make sure about the charges and that's it. Same goes with EULA, no amount of time will be enough to read through the EULAs that come up all the time during installations, updates, etc.
This is exactly what you should have done, maybe the part where you went to store could have been done by someone else so you wouldn't infect more people. Also call to a doctor would be in order so you could have been monitored remotely and reported to the data collected on this outbreak.
Now of course you seem to have survived the flu as you should have, but there are many people who do get more severe symptoms for various reasons, they need to go to hospitals and not wait at home.
While this is true, the normal influenza does not spread to everyone. Huge parts of population don't get influenza because they are resistant to it. H1N1 does infect practically everyone and this is where low death rates of infected people will become much larger numbers than with regular influenza. Difference can be 10 fold, just for sake of argument normal influenza infects 100 million people worldwide. Out of those 100 000 die, many with pre-existing conditions. H1N1 infects 1 billion people, out of those 1 million die, many with pre-existing conditions. Additionally current death rates are given based on good availability of health care, what happens at the peak of the H1N1 epidemic is that even the most critical cases may not have a place to be treated and could push up the death rate significantly.
From WHO site: * Large populations susceptible to infection * Not the same as seasonal influenza (deaths occur in adults under the age of 50 years) * Higher risk of hospitalization and death
AK-47 is fully automatic. Only modified models are semi-automatic. I did my military with AK-47 clone and it was fully automatic. I don't know about the caliber, but AK-47 is a serious 7.66mm weapon that shouldn't be allowed to carry around outside military.
Even if you had money and will you wouldn't be able to build cable network, purchase wireless telecom frequencies, or run new electric lines to people. These are monopolies (or at least oligopolies) because of the barriers of entry to the market. Regulation would help in making sure virtual operators on each area would be able to utilize the infrastructure. Unless you are proposing that every company would be allowed to run any cables or transmit whatever frequency they want then you will need regulation.
Would it have something to do with the American allergy of getting government involved with any kind of regulation? The health insurance business is in same shape, all plans are same and all try to get you out of the contract if you become expensive. Other area where the competition is not working is cable, try getting a reasonable connection... or electricity. Most of these are well regulated and work under free market principles in more "socialist" countries. US just drags its feet on forcing health/cable/electricity/telecom providers to open up their monopolies for competition.
To be honest I think this should be main focus for FCC right now. Why they allow this oligopoly to exist? If the $20-$30/month subsidy for the phone was taken out it would be easy for customers to save money on using phones longer or getting them from second hand market. Prepaid or pay as you go plans are not currently competitive as well, the pricing is even worse than with a contract for average users. Other thing with pay as you go plans is that you are required to pay for at least 250 (or something close to that) minutes per month even if you don't use them.
I have two two lines right now, one from AT&T where I pay close to $100/month even if I don't use it much. I have only 450 minutes with iPhone plan, some text messages and international calling plan. This plan is just about the lowest I could get for my iPhone. Second line is DNA Finland where I pay 0.66EUR/month for 0 minutes and 0 messages. If I use the line my call time and SMS that are around 7 cents per minute/message, other plans with higher number of discounted minute prices are available. Data is unlimited with 10EUR/month, but I don't use it right now so I don't have it. With DNA I can buy subsidized phone with $30/month, but I choose not to.
At least my HD size requirement has peaked around 300GB several years ago. Same goes with processing power. I have been first time happy to use approximately same speed computers for several years. Unless something spectacular comes up I won't be needing to get larger HD or much faster computer and I consider myself a professional computer user.
I'm very careful not to distract myself, but I do time to time with radio, AC and talking to people next to me. These all are added distractions and I want to minimize them if they don't cause too much discomfort. There are things that I don't do, I don't take even one beer, text or talk on the phone while driving. Maybe that makes me inconsiderate in your eyes. You on the other hand will judge your own behavior as the gold standard and any objection to it will be faced with lethal (either wishing sudden death or splattering the brains on living room wall) force although your behavior will endanger (arguably less than texting) people around you as well.
You are angry at people who text but still you go through the trouble of checking who is calling, make decision to answer, second glance on who is calling, answer, explain your situation and pull over to a potentially dangerous location designed for emergencies with high speed traffic going past you.
Solution is either hands-free (not optimal) already installed when starting the trip, or not answer the phone call at all. Same for texting.
If I have 4 Gigabytes of memory and I want to transfer it via 1 Gigabit per second network I assume it will take 32 seconds. Other areas where your 1 Gigabyte = 1024 Megabytes doesn't apply are computer data interfaces, audio/video data, and real world. Why would your hard drive be any different?
I'm fine astronomists to use specific word (currently used is year) to describe one revolution around the sun for earth, but I would not be happy if they called it a kiloweek or megaday.
There is, each power of 10 has it's own name. Kilo just happens to be one of the names that gets more used because it's convenient.
10^1 = deca- 10^2 = hecto- 10^3 = kilo-
After that naming is in steps of power of 3 to make things easier. Now if 2^ system had special naming scheme it would be fine to use whatever power of 2 that is appropriate, but unfortunately it has mixed up commonly used prefixes with totally new meanings. Using kilobytes meaning 1024 bytes makes as much sense as having megafeet to mean a mile and not 10^6 feet.
You write these things boasting US current dominance and fail to recognize that between 2000 BC all the way until 1800 AD China with it's numerous dynasties was the superpower of the world. During industrial revolution Great Britain was clearly the most dominant nation and now 20th and beginning of 21st century US has been able to claim this distinction. In this historical perspective your boasting feels immature and childish, no nation has maintained the lead for long, except China. Additionally is the top spot in economical competition more important than increasing quality of life and healthy national pride?
I'm not saying US will go the way of Roman or Persian Empire. Great Britain is still very much competitive, China is still here, although dramatically changed. All I say is that the top spot in terms of GDP or other performance is not necessary as stable as it looks right now. All it takes is China or India to increase GDP per capita to 1/4th of the US person. I can see this happening easily, even within 20 years. Europe can easily content the for the top economical spot if the current plans are followed through and tighter union is formed. Even now European Union is essentially a country especially Eurozone. Same way as United States is formed from different states.
I understood that the whole article was about US dominance in health care lagging and potentially declining in some areas. This basically proves the fact, since the cancer diagnosis were done in mid 80's and follow-up in 2003. Several articles show that Europe is catching up fast in cancer treatment. Combine that with undiagnosed cancer deaths due to no health care vs. European style everyone gets diagnosed and you will start getting the picture.
In case those stories are true, which I don't doubt then what is the solution? I'm not sure from your posting whether you think it's inevitable that some people will not be able to handle money, or that it's their fault that they don't have the capacity to handle the money. In either case, fact is that even big lump sums of money (or steady income stream) won't make these people retain enough money to plan for the future. This inability to have enough money will result in inability to provide health care for themselves or their families. Should the health care be a national privilege or should it be available only to those who can afford it?
If you are getting the unbranded supermarket brands why would you go for organic stuff as an alternative? Just be reasonable, buy potatoes, onions, vegetables that are in season, discount fruits, chicken (no need to be organic), eggs, flour, etc. and make your normal food from these ingredients. It will be just as healthy as that crazy organic extravaganza you described with fraction of the cost.
Even if he was obese it doesn't make his life not worth saving. There is always more a person could do and more responsibility can be pinned on people themselves, but preventable deaths needs to be prevented without blaming the victim.
In your world (where only righteous and correct people are saved) who is the person who decides who is going to be saved and who isn't? Car crashes involving alcohol or speeding, let them bleed to death? Smokers, let them die in cancer? Obese, not worth treating? Democrats/Republicans (you pick), deny seeing doctor?
It's strange how it has become acceptable for 360 to behave like this. I don't know any other hardware that people would tolerate 2 major issues within 3 years of the purchase.
1) Bring back HARDWARE emulation of the PS2. Not the software version (which isn't even offered anymore).
I haven't used my PS2 hardware emulation, I tried couple games and then sold my PS2 and all the games with it. PS3 games are just so much better than PS2 games, also I have no intention of buying any PS2 games. If I still liked PS2 games too, then I would have kept my PS2.
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Why not use Intel/AMD processor to run x86 code then? Alternatively Microsoft could port Windows to run on Java or some other virtual language and then just build virtual machines on all target platforms... but the performance still wouldn't be there.
It's just easier to do the straight forward thing and port the code to ARM. I don't think that majority of Windows code is in any way dependent on underlaying platform and therefore doesn't need to be ported just compiled.
In a lamp test by a Finnish magazine the 3 EUR fluorescent lamp died at 3000 hours. The more expensive ones are still going on but starting to show longer warming times, stains/cracks and other problems. In addition to these problems fluorescents are hazardous waste and should be recycled. At 10x longer lifespan the LED light sounds like a good deal to me.
And the FDA regulation traces back to lobbying from big pharma as HFA inhalers are protected and there are no generic alternatives available. Going straight back to corporate greed and using government as a tool for profits.
While I in general agree on the recommendation to READ the contracts you sign it's very dangerous to push all the responsibility of the contract to the individual. Definitions like "Unlimited" and "Free" have real world meaning that can be altered in contract. I just happen to have Palm Pre and Sprint General Terms. Here is example on what I basically agreed:
"Services are subject to our business policies, practices and procedures ("Policies"), including, but not limited to, our Privacy Policy and Acceptable Use Policy and Visitor Agreement - both available at our website. You agree to all of our Policies when you use our Services. Our Policies are subject to change at anytime with or without notice."
Additionally I waive my right to sue them, participate in class action or have a jury trial.
Palm side of booklets have similar intrusive clauses. They have right to disable any software for whatever reason, gather personal data, etc. In case I sell my Palm Pre and don't give this booklet to the person I sold the device to I need to immediately destroy these documents I was just reading.
This is just complete bullshit contract, but if I want to use mobile phone I do need to agree on these rules. There is no provider or device that wouldn't have exactly same or very similar clauses in their service agreement. Easiest way around this is to use common sense and not bother with the contract, just make sure about the charges and that's it. Same goes with EULA, no amount of time will be enough to read through the EULAs that come up all the time during installations, updates, etc.
This is exactly what you should have done, maybe the part where you went to store could have been done by someone else so you wouldn't infect more people. Also call to a doctor would be in order so you could have been monitored remotely and reported to the data collected on this outbreak.
Now of course you seem to have survived the flu as you should have, but there are many people who do get more severe symptoms for various reasons, they need to go to hospitals and not wait at home.
While this is true, the normal influenza does not spread to everyone. Huge parts of population don't get influenza because they are resistant to it. H1N1 does infect practically everyone and this is where low death rates of infected people will become much larger numbers than with regular influenza. Difference can be 10 fold, just for sake of argument normal influenza infects 100 million people worldwide. Out of those 100 000 die, many with pre-existing conditions. H1N1 infects 1 billion people, out of those 1 million die, many with pre-existing conditions. Additionally current death rates are given based on good availability of health care, what happens at the peak of the H1N1 epidemic is that even the most critical cases may not have a place to be treated and could push up the death rate significantly.
From WHO site:
* Large populations susceptible to infection
* Not the same as seasonal influenza (deaths occur in adults under the age of 50 years)
* Higher risk of hospitalization and death
Link: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notes/h1n1_second_wave_20090828/en/index.html
AK-47 is fully automatic. Only modified models are semi-automatic. I did my military with AK-47 clone and it was fully automatic. I don't know about the caliber, but AK-47 is a serious 7.66mm weapon that shouldn't be allowed to carry around outside military.
Even if you had money and will you wouldn't be able to build cable network, purchase wireless telecom frequencies, or run new electric lines to people. These are monopolies (or at least oligopolies) because of the barriers of entry to the market. Regulation would help in making sure virtual operators on each area would be able to utilize the infrastructure. Unless you are proposing that every company would be allowed to run any cables or transmit whatever frequency they want then you will need regulation.
Funny, I thought conservatism always meant valuing traditions and status quo and that's what republicans are mostly doing.
Would it have something to do with the American allergy of getting government involved with any kind of regulation? The health insurance business is in same shape, all plans are same and all try to get you out of the contract if you become expensive. Other area where the competition is not working is cable, try getting a reasonable connection... or electricity. Most of these are well regulated and work under free market principles in more "socialist" countries. US just drags its feet on forcing health/cable/electricity/telecom providers to open up their monopolies for competition.
To be honest I think this should be main focus for FCC right now. Why they allow this oligopoly to exist? If the $20-$30/month subsidy for the phone was taken out it would be easy for customers to save money on using phones longer or getting them from second hand market. Prepaid or pay as you go plans are not currently competitive as well, the pricing is even worse than with a contract for average users. Other thing with pay as you go plans is that you are required to pay for at least 250 (or something close to that) minutes per month even if you don't use them.
I have two two lines right now, one from AT&T where I pay close to $100/month even if I don't use it much. I have only 450 minutes with iPhone plan, some text messages and international calling plan. This plan is just about the lowest I could get for my iPhone. Second line is DNA Finland where I pay 0.66EUR/month for 0 minutes and 0 messages. If I use the line my call time and SMS that are around 7 cents per minute/message, other plans with higher number of discounted minute prices are available. Data is unlimited with 10EUR/month, but I don't use it right now so I don't have it. With DNA I can buy subsidized phone with $30/month, but I choose not to.
At least my HD size requirement has peaked around 300GB several years ago. Same goes with processing power. I have been first time happy to use approximately same speed computers for several years. Unless something spectacular comes up I won't be needing to get larger HD or much faster computer and I consider myself a professional computer user.
I'm very careful not to distract myself, but I do time to time with radio, AC and talking to people next to me. These all are added distractions and I want to minimize them if they don't cause too much discomfort. There are things that I don't do, I don't take even one beer, text or talk on the phone while driving. Maybe that makes me inconsiderate in your eyes. You on the other hand will judge your own behavior as the gold standard and any objection to it will be faced with lethal (either wishing sudden death or splattering the brains on living room wall) force although your behavior will endanger (arguably less than texting) people around you as well.
You are angry at people who text but still you go through the trouble of checking who is calling, make decision to answer, second glance on who is calling, answer, explain your situation and pull over to a potentially dangerous location designed for emergencies with high speed traffic going past you.
Solution is either hands-free (not optimal) already installed when starting the trip, or not answer the phone call at all. Same for texting.
If I have 4 Gigabytes of memory and I want to transfer it via 1 Gigabit per second network I assume it will take 32 seconds. Other areas where your 1 Gigabyte = 1024 Megabytes doesn't apply are computer data interfaces, audio/video data, and real world. Why would your hard drive be any different?
I'm fine astronomists to use specific word (currently used is year) to describe one revolution around the sun for earth, but I would not be happy if they called it a kiloweek or megaday.
There is, each power of 10 has it's own name. Kilo just happens to be one of the names that gets more used because it's convenient.
10^1 = deca-
10^2 = hecto-
10^3 = kilo-
After that naming is in steps of power of 3 to make things easier. Now if 2^ system had special naming scheme it would be fine to use whatever power of 2 that is appropriate, but unfortunately it has mixed up commonly used prefixes with totally new meanings. Using kilobytes meaning 1024 bytes makes as much sense as having megafeet to mean a mile and not 10^6 feet.
It's un-American to use any system that can be converted without calculations. If we give in on this what comes next? Metric system?
You write these things boasting US current dominance and fail to recognize that between 2000 BC all the way until 1800 AD China with it's numerous dynasties was the superpower of the world. During industrial revolution Great Britain was clearly the most dominant nation and now 20th and beginning of 21st century US has been able to claim this distinction. In this historical perspective your boasting feels immature and childish, no nation has maintained the lead for long, except China. Additionally is the top spot in economical competition more important than increasing quality of life and healthy national pride?
I'm not saying US will go the way of Roman or Persian Empire. Great Britain is still very much competitive, China is still here, although dramatically changed. All I say is that the top spot in terms of GDP or other performance is not necessary as stable as it looks right now. All it takes is China or India to increase GDP per capita to 1/4th of the US person. I can see this happening easily, even within 20 years. Europe can easily content the for the top economical spot if the current plans are followed through and tighter union is formed. Even now European Union is essentially a country especially Eurozone. Same way as United States is formed from different states.
I understood that the whole article was about US dominance in health care lagging and potentially declining in some areas. This basically proves the fact, since the cancer diagnosis were done in mid 80's and follow-up in 2003. Several articles show that Europe is catching up fast in cancer treatment. Combine that with undiagnosed cancer deaths due to no health care vs. European style everyone gets diagnosed and you will start getting the picture.
In case those stories are true, which I don't doubt then what is the solution? I'm not sure from your posting whether you think it's inevitable that some people will not be able to handle money, or that it's their fault that they don't have the capacity to handle the money. In either case, fact is that even big lump sums of money (or steady income stream) won't make these people retain enough money to plan for the future. This inability to have enough money will result in inability to provide health care for themselves or their families. Should the health care be a national privilege or should it be available only to those who can afford it?
If you are getting the unbranded supermarket brands why would you go for organic stuff as an alternative? Just be reasonable, buy potatoes, onions, vegetables that are in season, discount fruits, chicken (no need to be organic), eggs, flour, etc. and make your normal food from these ingredients. It will be just as healthy as that crazy organic extravaganza you described with fraction of the cost.
Even if he was obese it doesn't make his life not worth saving. There is always more a person could do and more responsibility can be pinned on people themselves, but preventable deaths needs to be prevented without blaming the victim.
In your world (where only righteous and correct people are saved) who is the person who decides who is going to be saved and who isn't? Car crashes involving alcohol or speeding, let them bleed to death? Smokers, let them die in cancer? Obese, not worth treating? Democrats/Republicans (you pick), deny seeing doctor?
It's strange how it has become acceptable for 360 to behave like this. I don't know any other hardware that people would tolerate 2 major issues within 3 years of the purchase.
1) Bring back HARDWARE emulation of the PS2. Not the software version (which isn't even offered anymore).
I haven't used my PS2 hardware emulation, I tried couple games and then sold my PS2 and all the games with it. PS3 games are just so much better than PS2 games, also I have no intention of buying any PS2 games. If I still liked PS2 games too, then I would have kept my PS2.