Considering the battery is there for running a moderate output transmitter, its not surprising that playing music pretty much has bugger all effect on battery life if you are involved in a call a day. (My W350's battery is barely scratched by playing music as opposed to normal standby).
So basically you argue that the effect is mostly negligible. I tend to disagree, but I find even a six hours difference over a week matters so I guess we can't agree.
If you read the GSM spec, you'll find when your phone is idle its transmitter is switched off. It listens to the closest towers, and when it notices its switched area (as in group of towers) it wakes up, notifys the BSC and goes back to sleep. Considering then its mainly a non-transmitting device like an iPod - I doubt the health issues are from anything but hippies. (I mean come on, its got a tiny battery - just how much energy can it deliver to your balls without flattening it?:P)
I'd have spoken of EM waves, but since many have answered with the word 'radiation', let's use it. It's not like it's inaccurate, after all.
For those who mock the attitude, shall I remind you that first, radiation of any kind have a cumulative effect over time. So, sure, your phone may not be dangerous by itself, but it's far from the only thing around you that emits something. Whatever step you can take to diminish these is positive.
My second point is related to that: the power of those waves decreases tremendously with distance - if only a few meters - hence avoiding to keep over myself even an intermittent transmitter if there's no valid reason to do so.
My third point is that my stance may be of the tinfoil hat category, but scientist have demonstrated time and again that having money to fund whatever (which basically is their paycheck) was reason enough to write biased articles (at least it is for many of them). It's not like having a framed diploma makes you magically wealthy. As for the companies themselves, whoever thinks that they'd have second thoughts is fooling themselves.
- Because I'd like to avoid shooting my mobile's battery to hell through constant use for music.
- Because despite the propaganda from various cell phones makers, there's more and more evidence coming out that tends to show it's not very healthy to carry one over you for long stretches of time.
- Because I'll never again bind myself with another 12/24/36 months contract to have the latest 'ooh, shiny' and I much prefer buying a cheap phone with no strings attached which will last me at least a couple of years. That way I can change provider whenever I feel like it.
That's thinking about it for a couple of minutes. I'm pretty sure different people could find other reasons easily enough.
Well, the author does not make movies. What he does is write books, and he makes each and everyone of them available for download (in various ebooks format).
So far it's been a success - his last novel, "Little Brother", has been one of the top ten best-sellers for at least 6 weeks.
If you admit the presence of a god/goddess/spagheti monster creator of the universe, how could you know whether said being has an infinite existence. By definition its existence predates that of the universe, but it doesn't mean it has no beginning.
Saying it's alwaysbeen is a supplementary strech.
Hence you only pushed back your need for an explanation that much further back
A EULA is a piece of toilet paper that's first seen light to exonerate software producing companies from facing pissed consumers when their poorly coded crap inevitably crashed down.
That such a thing could sometime be considered valid is a testimony to how much law makers/judiciaries are on the payroll of big business.
On the other hand (and ignoring problems such as the need to retrofit the ISS for such a task), even though you need to launch at the same speed, what you don't need is life-support systems designed to last for 1 week-10 days.
You only need those systems for a few hours, everything else is payload.
I've known quite a few people learning both English and German at the same time. Even after a few years (more specifically, 5-6 of English and 3-4 of German) they were confusing words between the two.
I speak fluently in two languages beside my native one, such things happen even when they're not very close to each other (in my case, English and Japanese).
It's at most a minor annoyance, and it's beside the point. The point is that the language center in the brain gets better at learning new ones when you train it. It's usually considered that you pass some kind of threshold in the learning process/speed after the 3rd/4th/5th one - depending on the person and how closely related to one another each of the languages they know are.
The interesting thing about Esperanto is that, because of its regularity, it appears it significantly cuts down what's required to get to that threshold.
Disclaimer: The lowered threshold doesn't mean that you don't have to work to learn a new language, only that it takes less time (for example one that would have taken 3 years will only require 2)
Actually learning Esperanto has another use: it's been proven learning it helps people more easily learn other languages afterward. And sinc it can easily be picked up...
The French government doesn't give a damn about the pedo websites beyond the "tough guy on scum" image they can get from this.
What is much more of a concern is that one part of the laws basically says that the Executive can pretty much add categories of website to blacklist whenever it wishes to.
Another use of the "think of the children" line to get what they really want...
If I compare to Japan, the average car does about 14kml (that's 14 km for 1 litre of gas). If I put that in mpg, it means about 31-32 mpg, and I'm not talking about subcompact here.
Yeah, keep thinking the gas-guzzler you're driving is "reasonable"...
My Vista notebook, XP x64 desktop, both are up and running in under 30 seconds.
Really?
And how long does it take until you can really use your desktop?
I can't speak for Vista, but on all PCs under XP I've seen, it takes about 30 seconds for the desktop to appear, and another minute or so before you can do anything with it.
Albeit a problematic one, pedophilia is a sexual orientation (or so I heard). As such, isn't it as impossible to change as that of a homosexual (another deviation from the sexual norm, but one that is more or less accepted now).
That said, you misunderstood me. What I was saying was that as long as you criminalize the fictionnal depiction of a forbidden sexual practice, why don't you criminalize every other that meets the same criteria?
I can believe that, but you should still seek therapy.If you like the idea of having sex with young boys, it's not an idea that is healthy for you. It's like liking the idea of killing people, or raping women.
This comment raises an interesting question: Is the depiction of rape on adult women forbidden in cartoons or porn movies (I'm not talking about the real thing here). If not, why not? The act is illegal, as much as that of sex with minors.
It's more or less common knowledge that when Tracy Lord was 16 when she began her porn career. Are these movies prohibited and (an even better question), were the people who participated in it (from the producers to guys who screwed her) prosecuted for child porn?
If you or the people who know you can't recognise you, I guess it's good enough.
Problem is, there may be cases where somebody has very specific body features that make them recognisable even if their face is hidden.
As someone said somewhere else, the French yellowpages website has had a similar service for years, and they bypassed the law by taking their pictures very early in the morning.
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Exactly my point. See my answer to the answer of ozphx
See my answer to the answer of ozphx
Considering the battery is there for running a moderate output transmitter, its not surprising that playing music pretty much has bugger all effect on battery life if you are involved in a call a day. (My W350's battery is barely scratched by playing music as opposed to normal standby).
So basically you argue that the effect is mostly negligible. I tend to disagree, but I find even a six hours difference over a week matters so I guess we can't agree.
If you read the GSM spec, you'll find when your phone is idle its transmitter is switched off. It listens to the closest towers, and when it notices its switched area (as in group of towers) it wakes up, notifys the BSC and goes back to sleep. Considering then its mainly a non-transmitting device like an iPod - I doubt the health issues are from anything but hippies. (I mean come on, its got a tiny battery - just how much energy can it deliver to your balls without flattening it? :P)
I'd have spoken of EM waves, but since many have answered with the word 'radiation', let's use it. It's not like it's inaccurate, after all.
For those who mock the attitude, shall I remind you that first, radiation of any kind have a cumulative effect over time . So, sure, your phone may not be dangerous by itself, but it's far from the only thing around you that emits something. Whatever step you can take to diminish these is positive.
My second point is related to that: the power of those waves decreases tremendously with distance - if only a few meters - hence avoiding to keep over myself even an intermittent transmitter if there's no valid reason to do so.
My third point is that my stance may be of the tinfoil hat category, but scientist have demonstrated time and again that having money to fund whatever (which basically is their paycheck) was reason enough to write biased articles (at least it is for many of them). It's not like having a framed diploma makes you magically wealthy. As for the companies themselves, whoever thinks that they'd have second thoughts is fooling themselves.
I, for one, prefer to err on the side of caution.
- Because I'd like to avoid shooting my mobile's battery to hell through constant use for music.
- Because despite the propaganda from various cell phones makers, there's more and more evidence coming out that tends to show it's not very healthy to carry one over you for long stretches of time.
- Because I'll never again bind myself with another 12/24/36 months contract to have the latest 'ooh, shiny' and I much prefer buying a cheap phone with no strings attached which will last me at least a couple of years. That way I can change provider whenever I feel like it.
That's thinking about it for a couple of minutes. I'm pretty sure different people could find other reasons easily enough.
Hint: I don't know any kid that age who could stay in one spot to watch a three hours movie (except, maybe, if it goes boom every couple of minutes)
So far it's been a success - his last novel, "Little Brother", has been one of the top ten best-sellers for at least 6 weeks.
If you admit the presence of a god/goddess/spagheti monster creator of the universe, how could you know whether said being has an infinite existence. By definition its existence predates that of the universe, but it doesn't mean it has no beginning.
Saying it's always been is a supplementary strech.
Hence you only pushed back your need for an explanation that much further back
You're only pushing the explaination one step back...
That such a thing could sometime be considered valid is a testimony to how much law makers/judiciaries are on the payroll of big business.
You only need those systems for a few hours, everything else is payload.
I speak fluently in two languages beside my native one, such things happen even when they're not very close to each other (in my case, English and Japanese).
It's at most a minor annoyance, and it's beside the point. The point is that the language center in the brain gets better at learning new ones when you train it. It's usually considered that you pass some kind of threshold in the learning process/speed after the 3rd/4th/5th one - depending on the person and how closely related to one another each of the languages they know are.
The interesting thing about Esperanto is that, because of its regularity, it appears it significantly cuts down what's required to get to that threshold.
Disclaimer: The lowered threshold doesn't mean that you don't have to work to learn a new language, only that it takes less time (for example one that would have taken 3 years will only require 2)
For someone in a tech related field Japanase may be interesting as well.
Actually learning Esperanto has another use: it's been proven learning it helps people more easily learn other languages afterward. And sinc it can easily be picked up...
The main newspaper now belong to various private interest who are very interested in seeing such laws pass.
What is much more of a concern is that one part of the laws basically says that the Executive can pretty much add categories of website to blacklist whenever it wishes to.
Another use of the "think of the children" line to get what they really want...
Yeah, keep thinking the gas-guzzler you're driving is "reasonable"...
Really?
And how long does it take until you can really use your desktop?
I can't speak for Vista, but on all PCs under XP I've seen, it takes about 30 seconds for the desktop to appear, and another minute or so before you can do anything with it.
The only exception is a freshly installed box.
Albeit a problematic one, pedophilia is a sexual orientation (or so I heard). As such, isn't it as impossible to change as that of a homosexual (another deviation from the sexual norm, but one that is more or less accepted now).
That said, you misunderstood me. What I was saying was that as long as you criminalize the fictionnal depiction of a forbidden sexual practice, why don't you criminalize every other that meets the same criteria?
Once again this is thought police.
This comment raises an interesting question: Is the depiction of rape on adult women forbidden in cartoons or porn movies (I'm not talking about the real thing here). If not, why not? The act is illegal, as much as that of sex with minors.
It's more or less common knowledge that when Tracy Lord was 16 when she began her porn career. Are these movies prohibited and (an even better question), were the people who participated in it (from the producers to guys who screwed her) prosecuted for child porn?
I loathe the days when KDE, and then Gnome came to be. Whithout them, all these efforts would have been invested into it, afterstep and Enlightenment.
We'd be lightyears away from windows by now.
Problem is, there may be cases where somebody has very specific body features that make them recognisable even if their face is hidden.
As someone said somewhere else, the French yellowpages website has had a similar service for years, and they bypassed the law by taking their pictures very early in the morning.
I guess this explain the unwillingness from NVidia to release the specs and allow people to make gpl drivers for their cards.
Dick size comparison using massive phallic substitutes.
I see military types are the same all over the world...
And he's earning a living from it.
So whether one likes his books or not, at least he's shown that this specific business model works
That's a valid, worthwhile achievement.