from what TFA says these new panels can work with dispersed light and that is why it is efficient. This means exact positioning and direct light is not longer a limiting factor. OTOH that these things can be produced & installed cheaply would mean that they do not have to sustain 20years of sun to be economical something that currently used solution requires.
since when do we trust Dubai's security/police/judiciary to deliver results that actually show the reality? Strangely they were not capable of catching a known terrorist before he got victimized by somebody - so how efficient are they really and how much can we trust them
is there any evidence that his was done by mossad? Even if we trust Dubai police (which I personally do not but I do not have to either - not living there etc) can they with all their professionalism actually find out who did it?
why is this a problem if a known terrorist gets killed and it is not a problem when he can travel as he pleases (he was obviously well known in Dubai)?
What really annoys me with this thing is that media and sad majority of people just jump to the conclusions without even passing the information trough their brains. Every now and then certain thing happens and for reasons that are not comprehensible for a thinking person whole world gets bananas - last time it was I think with Georgia that was 'attacked' by Russia. This just shows that one cannot trust any information provided.
BTW: not all of the passports were stolen or counterfeited - at least ones issued by German authorities were genuine albeit the actual persons whose identities were used knew nothing about these documents (or so they say).
If you read TFA you would know that the problem there is not only how random the results really are but that the used solution is just bloody pointless and utterly wrong. It also shows that albeit clueless these particular MS guys were also lucky enough not to break it in some other way (like crash every 10000 run of the 'radnom' routine etc) - something that TFA actually suggest could be possible.
Funny that. I think our forefathers did just that i.e. they (unknowingly?) created backups when knowledge was written by hand - the monks copied them by hand creating 'backup' copies - from dozens or hundreds only few survived and now we have them. If it is important (pr0n?) then it will survive because there will always be one place where there is a reading facility for the old stuff. So yes - back up stuff, keep it in many places and some part of it will survive. OC copyright may be an issue if technical means used to prevent piracy will make it difficult to decode and use if you have no contact with the server etc. but I think the important stuff like pr0n will do just fine. The rest if obviously not interesting enough....
so what you say is as long as it is written in obscured place that the phone records all what you do it is fine that it does. The problem with this is that: they violate people's rights and are happy as the customers want to be cool as you do. They also violate common sense and quality controls as these sensors do not work properly es explained in the article. It does not surprise me all too much after all cool is not far away from fool.
Well maybe not - I guess this is up to the company to set up rules for usage of their products. Instead of charging for games and usage fees on servers they could have change their business model into one where vendor benefits from either usage fees or registration and usage fees. without need to pay for software. This not only eliminates the need to purchase a game but at the same time eliminates the piracy as we know it. Of course then the trade in stolen access codes will ensue but this is easier to control than the stolen access codes on top of pirated software. But I guess at the end the user will be asked to pay on all occasions: by purchase, by on-line registration and monthly fee on top (plus a fart fee for farting while on-line).
I did not mean to force you to or prevent from anything. Whatever community you want to belong let it be your joy.
The barking christians that you mention share the same freedoms that you even if they do not appreciate them as much as you do. You cannot exclude beliefs from human life - so maybe you should accept that fact that people dislike other ones especially if they can easily mark them as strangers. In other words you may need fight to establish your rights as unfortunate as it is. Fortunately for you this fight has started long time ago at least in western societies and brought already number of fruits. Not all oft hem are really sweet though (PC for instance is a bitter pill albeit funny at times).
I must also say that I am surprised that I am writting this - I ran away from a country that is full of churches and live without going to one for decades now but I made few observation in a process which made me wonder.
In societies under duress people have to be ready to sacrifice in order for society to survive - this works better if there is a set of reasons and (possibly false) promises that can justify the sacrifice. Religion is one of such things, Strong nationalistic feelings another but they often come together and one may even argue how much different these two really are. So having religious society is not necessarily harming. Unless of course you are going to argue that religion is the very reason why society is in trouble in the first place. I would say it works both ways and sometimes medicine causes more trouble than illness that it is supposed to cure/has cured already. Making general claims about how harmful a religion can be is not justified however.
Now this discussion is pointless - it will (if it has not already done while I am writing) evolve into a religious war which is a fault of all sides of course. I guess humans cannot live without religion even if they do not want and consciously decided not to follow any.
Now/. bash me for I have sinned and took part in a discussion involving 'r' word!
So what - excell is evil and m$ is evil. I know - all corporations are so and products they churn out are just crap, cause global warming, free radicals and cancer and you have to drink a lot of red wine to get these all plagues remedied.
The fact however is that even if all these were true there were certain uses of spreadsheet software where excell is just better. Even if it is so because people that use it know nothing else - still for this particular situation it is just better even if on God made list of best practice and software excell is not present.
OTOH what you are talking about does not seem to be a problem with SW but a problem with documentation of methods and algorithms used. I suppose people you so much hate probably do not even know what an algorithm is and that is a problem, not use of excell or OO or whatever.
And you know what else you did wrong? You made me argue for m product - something I can hardly believe. I guess I am getting older and less bound to wholy principles. Life is easier this way.
it is certainly true that if you take both and compare you will see a lot more in excell than in oo but does this really matter? How much of this advanced stuff is actually used by majority of brain damaged gov. officials?
as for monitoring your toilet activity with your cell phone - I think I found the solution which should be relatively easy - I do not take my phone there.
carpet knives do nicely too but you must also admit that the feeling of terror that is spread by media when envelopes with white powder are sent randomly around is also magnificent and much more efficient even if it has no real danger associated with it.
hmm - that was one of things that crossed my mind. I recall living in Sweden for few years especially in Stockholm area and this is not really 'coverage friendly' and still it worked very well for me: in pubs, apartments, subway etc and this to the point that I had no fixed line phone: neither at workplace nor at my apartment. It is/has been (almost) the same in all other countries in Europe where I lived. Hence the question why it appears so different on the other side of the pond.
it has still been done in most parts of Europe even in mountainous parts. It can be that majority of EU is just more densely populated than US but as the problem seems to concern also urban areas of US and roaming too that but itself cannot be an argument why it is or or is perceived so.
I just crawled behind my desk to see the old desktop of mine before I realized that this was silly - the AGFA scanner I bought in 2000 has SCSI interface too, stands _on_ the same desk Iwas crawling behind and still works fine. This means that past tense in your post is only half of the truth.
This OT but quite some of the posts I read recently (not only in this thread) that mention QOS of mobile operators in US make me wonder - are they so bad as not being able to provide basic service throughout the country (something that seems to be put in license laws in Europe i.e. operators must provide service almost everywhere where humans are or their license is gone) or is it simply skewed view of a technically demanding audience of/. or something else? Anybody has a view on that?
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from what TFA says these new panels can work with dispersed light and that is why it is efficient. This means exact positioning and direct light is not longer a limiting factor. OTOH that these things can be produced & installed cheaply would mean that they do not have to sustain 20years of sun to be economical something that currently used solution requires.
What really annoys me with this thing is that media and sad majority of people just jump to the conclusions without even passing the information trough their brains. Every now and then certain thing happens and for reasons that are not comprehensible for a thinking person whole world gets bananas - last time it was I think with Georgia that was 'attacked' by Russia. This just shows that one cannot trust any information provided.
BTW: not all of the passports were stolen or counterfeited - at least ones issued by German authorities were genuine albeit the actual persons whose identities were used knew nothing about these documents (or so they say).
If you read TFA you would know that the problem there is not only how random the results really are but that the used solution is just bloody pointless and utterly wrong. It also shows that albeit clueless these particular MS guys were also lucky enough not to break it in some other way (like crash every 10000 run of the 'radnom' routine etc) - something that TFA actually suggest could be possible.
well it could have been funny but I fear it is also utterly realistic. In other words we chose to laugh although we should cry.
At least as long as banks in question are in Switzerland and stolen data can help in 'fixing' the budget deficit or so their propaganda says.
you had an excellent idea - I mean the lynching one. I guess at some point the only thing good men can do.
Funny that. I think our forefathers did just that i.e. they (unknowingly?) created backups when knowledge was written by hand - the monks copied them by hand creating 'backup' copies - from dozens or hundreds only few survived and now we have them. If it is important (pr0n?) then it will survive because there will always be one place where there is a reading facility for the old stuff. So yes - back up stuff, keep it in many places and some part of it will survive. OC copyright may be an issue if technical means used to prevent piracy will make it difficult to decode and use if you have no contact with the server etc. but I think the important stuff like pr0n will do just fine. The rest if obviously not interesting enough....
so what you say is as long as it is written in obscured place that the phone records all what you do it is fine that it does. The problem with this is that: they violate people's rights and are happy as the customers want to be cool as you do. They also violate common sense and quality controls as these sensors do not work properly es explained in the article. It does not surprise me all too much after all cool is not far away from fool.
Well maybe not - I guess this is up to the company to set up rules for usage of their products. Instead of charging for games and usage fees on servers they could have change their business model into one where vendor benefits from either usage fees or registration and usage fees. without need to pay for software. This not only eliminates the need to purchase a game but at the same time eliminates the piracy as we know it. Of course then the trade in stolen access codes will ensue but this is easier to control than the stolen access codes on top of pirated software. But I guess at the end the user will be asked to pay on all occasions: by purchase, by on-line registration and monthly fee on top (plus a fart fee for farting while on-line).
I did not mean to force you to or prevent from anything. Whatever community you want to belong let it be your joy. The barking christians that you mention share the same freedoms that you even if they do not appreciate them as much as you do. You cannot exclude beliefs from human life - so maybe you should accept that fact that people dislike other ones especially if they can easily mark them as strangers. In other words you may need fight to establish your rights as unfortunate as it is. Fortunately for you this fight has started long time ago at least in western societies and brought already number of fruits. Not all oft hem are really sweet though (PC for instance is a bitter pill albeit funny at times).
In societies under duress people have to be ready to sacrifice in order for society to survive - this works better if there is a set of reasons and (possibly false) promises that can justify the sacrifice. Religion is one of such things, Strong nationalistic feelings another but they often come together and one may even argue how much different these two really are. So having religious society is not necessarily harming. Unless of course you are going to argue that religion is the very reason why society is in trouble in the first place. I would say it works both ways and sometimes medicine causes more trouble than illness that it is supposed to cure/has cured already. Making general claims about how harmful a religion can be is not justified however.
Now this discussion is pointless - it will (if it has not already done while I am writing) evolve into a religious war which is a fault of all sides of course. I guess humans cannot live without religion even if they do not want and consciously decided not to follow any.
Now /. bash me for I have sinned and took part in a discussion involving 'r' word!
Not sure what you want to say- that a. sex is better than other kinds or opposite?
The fact however is that even if all these were true there were certain uses of spreadsheet software where excell is just better. Even if it is so because people that use it know nothing else - still for this particular situation it is just better even if on God made list of best practice and software excell is not present.
OTOH what you are talking about does not seem to be a problem with SW but a problem with documentation of methods and algorithms used. I suppose people you so much hate probably do not even know what an algorithm is and that is a problem, not use of excell or OO or whatever.
And you know what else you did wrong? You made me argue for m product - something I can hardly believe. I guess I am getting older and less bound to wholy principles. Life is easier this way.
it is certainly true that if you take both and compare you will see a lot more in excell than in oo but does this really matter? How much of this advanced stuff is actually used by majority of brain damaged gov. officials?
a few banks to big to fail can destroy all your efficiency in using tax.
I think Intel simply wants to off shore its plant to pristine waters of Yangtze river.
as for monitoring your toilet activity with your cell phone - I think I found the solution which should be relatively easy - I do not take my phone there.
carpet knives do nicely too but you must also admit that the feeling of terror that is spread by media when envelopes with white powder are sent randomly around is also magnificent and much more efficient even if it has no real danger associated with it.
hmm - that was one of things that crossed my mind. I recall living in Sweden for few years especially in Stockholm area and this is not really 'coverage friendly' and still it worked very well for me: in pubs, apartments, subway etc and this to the point that I had no fixed line phone: neither at workplace nor at my apartment. It is/has been (almost) the same in all other countries in Europe where I lived. Hence the question why it appears so different on the other side of the pond.
it has still been done in most parts of Europe even in mountainous parts. It can be that majority of EU is just more densely populated than US but as the problem seems to concern also urban areas of US and roaming too that but itself cannot be an argument why it is or or is perceived so.
I just crawled behind my desk to see the old desktop of mine before I realized that this was silly - the AGFA scanner I bought in 2000 has SCSI interface too, stands _on_ the same desk Iwas crawling behind and still works fine. This means that past tense in your post is only half of the truth.
what about evil people that do not read at all - surely they cause even bigger losses or?
This OT but quite some of the posts I read recently (not only in this thread) that mention QOS of mobile operators in US make me wonder - are they so bad as not being able to provide basic service throughout the country (something that seems to be put in license laws in Europe i.e. operators must provide service almost everywhere where humans are or their license is gone) or is it simply skewed view of a technically demanding audience of /. or something else? Anybody has a view on that?