Depends on how religion is applied. The victims of Islamic terrorism are virtually all other muslims (or people who happen to born to a country predominantly muslim), who wish nothing more than to live at peace.
In a way it's connected with the climate change. The cold meltwater streams allow warmer seawater under the ice sheet when they meet the sea. Because the seas are warming up the calving underneath is pronounced.
Greenland has similar kind of meltwater streams, and at least some of them actually begin on the surface of the ice. Extreme Ice Survey has great material. That ice age permafrost is in danger of pronounced melting too.
Bitcoin is not an anonymous system, so the transactions should be trackable. I'd guess that's one of the weak links. Probably most of the users don't anonymize their Bitcoin usage. Silk Road may have accepted Bitcoins as a tip for example - it anyway gets a percentage of the transactions, and from all of the BC traffic a couple of hotspots can be identified.
The owner himself probably created a noticeable trail of real money. An Infomant is a good guess - when money and drugs are involved some of it is real enough for somebody to get busted (they accuse the guy to have dealt 1kg of mixed narcotics himself). They have probably been on the owner himself for a long period of time.
They also accuse him of hiring an assassin to eliminate somebody "who was threatening to release the identities of thousands of users or the site"...
I'm not sure if they actually inflate anything, because they simply set the device to the highest setting (and it's not higher than where the device sometimes operate even normally).
If you read that Ars Technica article it's evident that the max setting is reached in typical camera use for example. It's not limited to benchmarking apps. For benchmarking apps it's always on. This would be consistent with the idea of testing the device at max capacity. How about if the OS itself is hacked to give 533 MHz constantly to everything? Does that mean that the benchmarks become legit again?
What I meant about real world tests is something what's been recently done with the GFX cards for instance. The benchmarking is faulty, if it only relies on numbers.
The benchmarking itself seems to be flawed. Samsung wants to benchmark the devices at their full capacity, to see what they are capable of (the higher setting is reached in normal use of some apps anyway). The testers would probably like to do real world comparison tests (and not rely just on numbers). I don't see Samsung doing anything wrong here, even though the benchmarking apps are specifically chosen.
The parent didn't say that people change their user agents themselves. The parent was just using technical terms in the response.
iPad (so a device claiming to be an iPad from the point of view of a site) has 88% market share of web browsing, and that doesn't directly translate to the share in the tablet market.
People who don't care about gizmos, and who buy themselves into the Apple universe? It's funny how Apple has managed to create the "just phone". My uneducated guess is that for many the Apple devices are the tickets for easier living, although the paradise island is inclusive - but still the perceived cost is less than the manufactured (and also many ways real) satisfaction.
The strategy is unique: Apple keeps customers in a slow IV drip of improvements; provokes emotions from all sides and satisfies them in a torturing pace. Apparently that works. It's like a never ending strip tease.
You underline a good point. The facts are mostly presented to cater the needs of the other people who care about facts. The proportion of reasonable people of all of the population has been and will be pretty much constant. Being cared about facts or thinking too much in the past or future is not evolutionary useful. The life goes on with simple mechanics...
If it's effective viewport is 720x1280 pixels it's pretty modern. It's more than iPad Mini at least and all of the smartphones AFAIK. Witness the horrorshow for modern web design.
99% of music produced at any given time doesn't live to see the next decade or century. In the end the masters remain and their works become classics. There's been thousands of troubadours and composers, who never produced anything else than huge mass of light background music or cheap copies of the current major hits. All but few forgotten...
Because of the horizontalization (democratization?) of the field and the mass availability of music I'd argue that skills become increasingly appreciated. The open view to what everybody else is doing also acts as a catalyst of self improvement. Invention of computer graphics has not killed the field of visual artists and producers either.
What really skews the perceived reality of what's good and what's not is the marketing. Majority of population will always go with the easiest solution anyway. It's somewhat futile to wish that all of a sudden everybody becomes a connoisseur, because the genetics and biology can't be changed.
There's a documentary (free to download actually:)) which explores the subject: PressPausePlay
The Vertu luxury brand phones use Nokia HW platform, and switched to Android apparently without much work. Nokia Android phone was speculated early this year.
Let's try this. Imagine if aliens started to pour carbon dioxide, methane and other gases to Earth's atmosphere. As you know from the elementary school Earth's greenhouse effect keeps the temps at a nice level. Greenhouse effect that has been known well over 100 years is actualized because of the called greenhouse gases, which trap heat to the lower layers of the atmosphere. So ask yourself this: what will happen when the amount of those gases is increased?
Would you be welcoming the aliens who pour gases to the atmosphere? One effect of that would for example be that hugely larger areas of crops are threatened because of pests. Your very source of food is in danger.
Wouldn't you be pretty sure who is responsible for the anomalously amplified greenhouse effect? I'd guess the media would be in full blast declaring a war against them. It's interesting why it isn't happening at the moment.
At least it'll be less habitable, because the climate change at hand is a whole lot faster than what it has naturally been. The planet tries to accommodate the relatively quick input of energy (coming from the suddenly enhanced greenhouse effect and deforestation...), and in the process goes to extremes more often than before. The cycles in the past hundreds of thousands of years have been relatively stable and changes have been taking place in thousands of years. We are in the middle of a balance seeking process, and the new balance is unknown. The historical oscillations have been perturbed.
What comes to to the original question the land in Finland rises 3 - 9 mm per year for example (although this may not all be from recovering from the ice age). The rise has even changed the direction of river flows. Islands of one archipelago gain new area about 1 km^2 per year. The total land area gains 7 km^2 year. 12000 years ago Finland was buried under 2 - 3 kilometers of ice.
In the end it comes down to the fact that no person can be totally controlled. It's always a wish. You are looking at the problem from the wrong end. The installation of nationalist and other power structures into the minds (even since being a newborn) can never reach an absolute authority - this is the facade, or the farce even.
What follows is that the control mechanisms would grow ad infinitum to control something that in reality is not controllable. Snowden exploited the obvious weakness in the system. The authorities do not want the simple fact to be inherently known, that the power is just an illusion. The illusion is backed up by real force however, which makes it very dangerous. Relatively few people have a huge deadly force at their disposal.
Whistle-blowing is not about getting handouts either... That would just enforce the farce further.
Components in general become more interchangeable in the future. Need your computer to be a camera? Attach a camera module to a CPU module - the handshaking happens and you have created a new device. How about a phone then? Add the phone module. The next wave of miniaturization is at hand.
It's a cruel reality. Instead of using advanced high tech and knowledge to create impartial and protected communication networks for the UN the member countries try to take the systems down for their own use.
So true. Another way media reacts is a day later, when the headlines call people to see auroras tonight (which happened last night). Anyway, here's cool data 3D data and predictions about the solar wind by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center: Solar Wind Prediction. When solar wind really hits the speed can be over 1000 km/s, which probably will not happen because the maximum at hand is weak anyway.
Fundamentalist Christian (and also ignorant, to be fair) views on LGBT individuals kill children and young adults every day in the US (and globally). Social isolation because of the sexuality is one of the major factors contributing to adolescent suicides. Words can and do hurt.
In the case of unnaturally enforced sexual dogmas the fundamentalist religious groups have a lot in common.
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Gordan Ugarkovic is one of many contributing to the film In Saturn's Rings., of which that footage is from.
Depends on how religion is applied. The victims of Islamic terrorism are virtually all other muslims (or people who happen to born to a country predominantly muslim), who wish nothing more than to live at peace.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/03/11/06/058249/linux-kernel-back-door-hack-attempt-discovered
In a way it's connected with the climate change. The cold meltwater streams allow warmer seawater under the ice sheet when they meet the sea. Because the seas are warming up the calving underneath is pronounced.
Greenland has similar kind of meltwater streams, and at least some of them actually begin on the surface of the ice. Extreme Ice Survey has great material. That ice age permafrost is in danger of pronounced melting too.
Bitcoin is not an anonymous system, so the transactions should be trackable. I'd guess that's one of the weak links. Probably most of the users don't anonymize their Bitcoin usage. Silk Road may have accepted Bitcoins as a tip for example - it anyway gets a percentage of the transactions, and from all of the BC traffic a couple of hotspots can be identified.
The owner himself probably created a noticeable trail of real money. An Infomant is a good guess - when money and drugs are involved some of it is real enough for somebody to get busted (they accuse the guy to have dealt 1kg of mixed narcotics himself). They have probably been on the owner himself for a long period of time.
They also accuse him of hiring an assassin to eliminate somebody "who was threatening to release the identities of thousands of users or the site"...
I'm not sure if they actually inflate anything, because they simply set the device to the highest setting (and it's not higher than where the device sometimes operate even normally).
If you read that Ars Technica article it's evident that the max setting is reached in typical camera use for example. It's not limited to benchmarking apps. For benchmarking apps it's always on. This would be consistent with the idea of testing the device at max capacity. How about if the OS itself is hacked to give 533 MHz constantly to everything? Does that mean that the benchmarks become legit again?
What I meant about real world tests is something what's been recently done with the GFX cards for instance. The benchmarking is faulty, if it only relies on numbers.
The benchmarking itself seems to be flawed. Samsung wants to benchmark the devices at their full capacity, to see what they are capable of (the higher setting is reached in normal use of some apps anyway). The testers would probably like to do real world comparison tests (and not rely just on numbers). I don't see Samsung doing anything wrong here, even though the benchmarking apps are specifically chosen.
Isn't this more the result from not fearing the government? The amicable facade is impenetrable, and surrogate victims plenty.
Winter is coming.
The parent didn't say that people change their user agents themselves. The parent was just using technical terms in the response.
iPad (so a device claiming to be an iPad from the point of view of a site) has 88% market share of web browsing, and that doesn't directly translate to the share in the tablet market.
People who don't care about gizmos, and who buy themselves into the Apple universe? It's funny how Apple has managed to create the "just phone". My uneducated guess is that for many the Apple devices are the tickets for easier living, although the paradise island is inclusive - but still the perceived cost is less than the manufactured (and also many ways real) satisfaction.
The strategy is unique: Apple keeps customers in a slow IV drip of improvements; provokes emotions from all sides and satisfies them in a torturing pace. Apparently that works. It's like a never ending strip tease.
There also exists public domain recording by musopen.org, which will probably pale in comparison, but nonetheless it's great that these efforts exist.
You underline a good point. The facts are mostly presented to cater the needs of the other people who care about facts. The proportion of reasonable people of all of the population has been and will be pretty much constant. Being cared about facts or thinking too much in the past or future is not evolutionary useful. The life goes on with simple mechanics...
If it's effective viewport is 720x1280 pixels it's pretty modern. It's more than iPad Mini at least and all of the smartphones AFAIK. Witness the horrorshow for modern web design.
99% of music produced at any given time doesn't live to see the next decade or century. In the end the masters remain and their works become classics. There's been thousands of troubadours and composers, who never produced anything else than huge mass of light background music or cheap copies of the current major hits. All but few forgotten...
Because of the horizontalization (democratization?) of the field and the mass availability of music I'd argue that skills become increasingly appreciated. The open view to what everybody else is doing also acts as a catalyst of self improvement. Invention of computer graphics has not killed the field of visual artists and producers either.
What really skews the perceived reality of what's good and what's not is the marketing. Majority of population will always go with the easiest solution anyway. It's somewhat futile to wish that all of a sudden everybody becomes a connoisseur, because the genetics and biology can't be changed.
There's a documentary (free to download actually :)) which explores the subject: PressPausePlay
The pill dispenser made me think about the accompanying pet robot shaped like Pac Man.
The Vertu luxury brand phones use Nokia HW platform, and switched to Android apparently without much work. Nokia Android phone was speculated early this year.
Let's try this. Imagine if aliens started to pour carbon dioxide, methane and other gases to Earth's atmosphere. As you know from the elementary school Earth's greenhouse effect keeps the temps at a nice level. Greenhouse effect that has been known well over 100 years is actualized because of the called greenhouse gases, which trap heat to the lower layers of the atmosphere. So ask yourself this: what will happen when the amount of those gases is increased?
Would you be welcoming the aliens who pour gases to the atmosphere? One effect of that would for example be that hugely larger areas of crops are threatened because of pests. Your very source of food is in danger.
Wouldn't you be pretty sure who is responsible for the anomalously amplified greenhouse effect? I'd guess the media would be in full blast declaring a war against them. It's interesting why it isn't happening at the moment.
At least it'll be less habitable, because the climate change at hand is a whole lot faster than what it has naturally been. The planet tries to accommodate the relatively quick input of energy (coming from the suddenly enhanced greenhouse effect and deforestation...), and in the process goes to extremes more often than before. The cycles in the past hundreds of thousands of years have been relatively stable and changes have been taking place in thousands of years. We are in the middle of a balance seeking process, and the new balance is unknown. The historical oscillations have been perturbed.
What comes to to the original question the land in Finland rises 3 - 9 mm per year for example (although this may not all be from recovering from the ice age). The rise has even changed the direction of river flows. Islands of one archipelago gain new area about 1 km^2 per year. The total land area gains 7 km^2 year. 12000 years ago Finland was buried under 2 - 3 kilometers of ice.
In the end it comes down to the fact that no person can be totally controlled. It's always a wish. You are looking at the problem from the wrong end. The installation of nationalist and other power structures into the minds (even since being a newborn) can never reach an absolute authority - this is the facade, or the farce even.
What follows is that the control mechanisms would grow ad infinitum to control something that in reality is not controllable. Snowden exploited the obvious weakness in the system. The authorities do not want the simple fact to be inherently known, that the power is just an illusion. The illusion is backed up by real force however, which makes it very dangerous. Relatively few people have a huge deadly force at their disposal.
Whistle-blowing is not about getting handouts either... That would just enforce the farce further.
Components in general become more interchangeable in the future. Need your computer to be a camera? Attach a camera module to a CPU module - the handshaking happens and you have created a new device. How about a phone then? Add the phone module. The next wave of miniaturization is at hand.
It's a cruel reality. Instead of using advanced high tech and knowledge to create impartial and protected communication networks for the UN the member countries try to take the systems down for their own use.
More like a room full of mirrors.
So true. Another way media reacts is a day later, when the headlines call people to see auroras tonight (which happened last night). Anyway, here's cool data 3D data and predictions about the solar wind by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center: Solar Wind Prediction. When solar wind really hits the speed can be over 1000 km/s, which probably will not happen because the maximum at hand is weak anyway.
Fundamentalist Christian (and also ignorant, to be fair) views on LGBT individuals kill children and young adults every day in the US (and globally). Social isolation because of the sexuality is one of the major factors contributing to adolescent suicides. Words can and do hurt.
In the case of unnaturally enforced sexual dogmas the fundamentalist religious groups have a lot in common.