That sounds like a pretty nice manual. My 2008 Toyota Matrix has absolutely no "how to fix" info, very basic oil info (use 5W-30), and thats about it. I wish it would cover things like "how to turn off the 'needs maintenance' light after the guys at Jiffy Lube forgot that step in the oil change," "how to turn off the weight sensor in the front passenger seat that is letting me know that the pizzas aren't buckled in", etc. I guess they figure the owners of lower-end cars won't care. I may have to shell out for the repair manual.
Generalizing from my own experience: most recent cars don't come with manuals that are worth anything. They basically cover the warning lights on the dash and instruct the user to take the car to the dealer ($$) if any of the little lights come on.
I wish I had mod points to use on your post. "...I like the USA because we're the good guys." And if we're not the good guys (ie, if people in the government are making "bad guy" decisions) then people need to know about it and it needs to be fixed. Taking the high road is never fun, but having that integrity as a nation just seems like an important goal.
Thanks for the well-articulated response. I was probably too quick to post complaining about a lack of a "quit" button. However most Android apps, though lacking a "quit" button, quit when you use the back button to get back to the home page. In the case of an app that is intended to stay logged in you're right that that doesn't make sense, and I did eventually find the "sign out" setting that then causes the "back" button to quit the app.
Well, since I happen to have a convenient Android phone right here, I will rise to your unhelpful response.
ConnectBot
- explicit button in the menu to kill the current connection
- the "back" button quits the app
AndroidVNC
- the "back" button quits the app
Outlook mail client
- the "back" button quits the app
MapDroyd
- the "back" button quits the app
Google Maps
- the "back" button quits the app
Google "Talk"
- a button in the menu allows you to sign out, so . ..
- the "back" button then quits the app
I'm sorry, what was your point? In the Skype application the back button does not quit the app, and there isn't an easily accessible way to sign out. After digging around in the options I finally found the "Sign Out" button, but its not nearly as easy to access as in other apps. Hence my post.
The idea of voip calling over WIFI is kindof nice, but this app rubs me the wrong way immediately with its lack of a "quit" button. Once you start it up, it sits there in the background until you reboot your phone (or go kill the app from the settings menu, I know). I wouldn't go as far as to call this "sinister" but it isn't exactly customer friendly, either.
Don't you mean DIMM memory module's? I mean it's great that you want to tell me what kind, but it really doesnt make sense unless you tell me what they are, too.
When they boast about being SATA compliant, I don't think the point is that it could be used in {lap|desk}top motherboards, but more as a point of interest for embedded system designers who want onboard storage. Think of it rephrased as "hey, our chip uses that standard interface that your embedded ARM-based processor uses."
I'd like to point out that if you were to accuse someone of violating your copyright on your "public binary" you would use your "private source" to prove your accusations. In fact you would compare your "private source" against their "private source." The source code and the binary are inexorably linked both in terms of development/implementation and (in my opinion) copyright.
Heber-Katz said. "In these mice without p21, we do see the expected increase in DNA damage, but surprisingly no increase in cancer has been reported." In fact, the researchers saw an increase in apoptosis in MRL mice -- also known as programmed cell death -- the cell's self-destruct mechanism that is often switched on when DNA has been damaged
What are the consequences of apoptosis vs senescence?
Think of it this way: MOST of the time, your body tries mightily to STOP things from growing - those are typically cancers (uncontrolled cell division). It may have been easier in the evolutionary sense to shut down regeneration than to deal with it's consequences.
Agreed, but this line from the article is very iteresting:
Heber-Katz said. "In these mice without p21, we do see the expected increase in DNA damage, but surprisingly no increase in cancer has been reported." In fact, the researchers saw an increase in apoptosis in MRL mice -- also known as programmed cell death -- the cell's self-destruct mechanism that is often switched on when DNA has been damaged
So I guess the question is whether programmed cell death has certain other consequences.
How about the one that it is possible to disprove?
It is possible to disprove the theory of evolution, and therein lies the value: through researching the natural world we may one day discover facts that disprove the theory. This will advance the sum of human knowledge. On the other hand, it is impossible to disprove the existence of $DEITY from inside the framework of that religion.
I know where you're coming from. I was reacting more to a perceived hostility than a real one. I just hate it when people jump on "ask/." question submitters.
I do appreciate the information. I may go try some of those solutions even though I've never myself had the problem in question.
You know what? I'm glad that the submitter did not investigate any of these before asking/.. If he had, then I wouldn't have had the opportunity to read his question, ponder the answer myself, and then read your informative (but surly) response.
Completely agree. The telecom companies have purchased the right to dig trenches in your front yard and run wires to your house so that they can isolate your buying power. If, on the other hand, a neighbourhood or a district or a city or a county (or... or...) got together and installed public utility pipes designed to carry internet traffic then the ISP would be required to deal with the purchasing power of a much larger (and therefore powerful) group of people.
I completely agree with the way you articulated that point, and I wish I had mod points to prove it. This is a part of the discussion that I missed in my post.
The issue that's being hinted at here is that governments have been looking for "non-lethal" crowd control devices like this - devices that (because of their supposed non-lethality) will be used more frequently by law enforcement (think handguns vs tasers). The fact these "non-lethal" devices turn out later to have serious health repercussions (up to and including death) is all the more reason to worry about it.
I've actually had trouble with Thunderbird doing automatic (encryption-like) things with email. And the trouble didn't stem from Thunderbird, but rather from my recipients. They noticed that emails coming from me suddenly had an extra icon by them (Thunderbird was signing all my outgoing messages) and they flipped out. "Why is that icon there?" "OMGWTFBBQ?!"
So unfortunately even doing automated stuff like that will still run into the under-informed user problem.
Well the Death Star is a little too big to really fit your mind around. I mean you look at it and you think its this little model. And then the Millenium Falcon gets closer to it and you're thinking "wow, that's the size of the moon". And then the tractor beams lock on and suddenly its the size of a space station!
So when it blows up its kindof hard to appreciate really the emotional impact. Was the Death Star happy? Sad? We will never know. And as far as the millions of inhabitants that perished at the same time - in order to see the whole Death Star you have to zoom out so far that any floating debris that was once human is of such scale as to be practically invisible.
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That sounds like a pretty nice manual. My 2008 Toyota Matrix has absolutely no "how to fix" info, very basic oil info (use 5W-30), and thats about it. I wish it would cover things like "how to turn off the 'needs maintenance' light after the guys at Jiffy Lube forgot that step in the oil change," "how to turn off the weight sensor in the front passenger seat that is letting me know that the pizzas aren't buckled in", etc. I guess they figure the owners of lower-end cars won't care. I may have to shell out for the repair manual.
Generalizing from my own experience: most recent cars don't come with manuals that are worth anything. They basically cover the warning lights on the dash and instruct the user to take the car to the dealer ($$) if any of the little lights come on.
I wish I had mod points to use on your post. "...I like the USA because we're the good guys." And if we're not the good guys (ie, if people in the government are making "bad guy" decisions) then people need to know about it and it needs to be fixed. Taking the high road is never fun, but having that integrity as a nation just seems like an important goal.
Thanks for the well-articulated response. I was probably too quick to post complaining about a lack of a "quit" button. However most Android apps, though lacking a "quit" button, quit when you use the back button to get back to the home page. In the case of an app that is intended to stay logged in you're right that that doesn't make sense, and I did eventually find the "sign out" setting that then causes the "back" button to quit the app.
Well, since I happen to have a convenient Android phone right here, I will rise to your unhelpful response.
.
ConnectBot
- explicit button in the menu to kill the current connection
- the "back" button quits the app
AndroidVNC
- the "back" button quits the app
Outlook mail client
- the "back" button quits the app
MapDroyd
- the "back" button quits the app
Google Maps
- the "back" button quits the app
Google "Talk"
- a button in the menu allows you to sign out, so . .
- the "back" button then quits the app
I'm sorry, what was your point? In the Skype application the back button does not quit the app, and there isn't an easily accessible way to sign out. After digging around in the options I finally found the "Sign Out" button, but its not nearly as easy to access as in other apps. Hence my post.
The idea of voip calling over WIFI is kindof nice, but this app rubs me the wrong way immediately with its lack of a "quit" button. Once you start it up, it sits there in the background until you reboot your phone (or go kill the app from the settings menu, I know). I wouldn't go as far as to call this "sinister" but it isn't exactly customer friendly, either.
Don't you mean DIMM memory module's? I mean it's great that you want to tell me what kind, but it really doesnt make sense unless you tell me what they are, too.
When they boast about being SATA compliant, I don't think the point is that it could be used in {lap|desk}top motherboards, but more as a point of interest for embedded system designers who want onboard storage. Think of it rephrased as "hey, our chip uses that standard interface that your embedded ARM-based processor uses."
I'd like to point out that if you were to accuse someone of violating your copyright on your "public binary" you would use your "private source" to prove your accusations. In fact you would compare your "private source" against their "private source." The source code and the binary are inexorably linked both in terms of development/implementation and (in my opinion) copyright.
Heber-Katz said. "In these mice without p21, we do see the expected increase in DNA damage, but surprisingly no increase in cancer has been reported." In fact, the researchers saw an increase in apoptosis in MRL mice -- also known as programmed cell death -- the cell's self-destruct mechanism that is often switched on when DNA has been damaged
What are the consequences of apoptosis vs senescence?
Think of it this way: MOST of the time, your body tries mightily to STOP things from growing - those are typically cancers (uncontrolled cell division). It may have been easier in the evolutionary sense to shut down regeneration than to deal with it's consequences.
Agreed, but this line from the article is very iteresting:
Heber-Katz said. "In these mice without p21, we do see the expected increase in DNA damage, but surprisingly no increase in cancer has been reported." In fact, the researchers saw an increase in apoptosis in MRL mice -- also known as programmed cell death -- the cell's self-destruct mechanism that is often switched on when DNA has been damaged
So I guess the question is whether programmed cell death has certain other consequences.
How about the one that it is possible to disprove?
It is possible to disprove the theory of evolution, and therein lies the value: through researching the natural world we may one day discover facts that disprove the theory. This will advance the sum of human knowledge. On the other hand, it is impossible to disprove the existence of $DEITY from inside the framework of that religion.
I know where you're coming from. I was reacting more to a perceived hostility than a real one. I just hate it when people jump on "ask /." question submitters.
I do appreciate the information. I may go try some of those solutions even though I've never myself had the problem in question.
Sorry AC, you're completely off base. GP clearly read the summary. He also clearly gave some useful information.
You know what? I'm glad that the submitter did not investigate any of these before asking /.. If he had, then I wouldn't have had the opportunity to read his question, ponder the answer myself, and then read your informative (but surly) response.
Excuse me, Obvious Troll, but you are being Obvious.
Completely agree. The telecom companies have purchased the right to dig trenches in your front yard and run wires to your house so that they can isolate your buying power. If, on the other hand, a neighbourhood or a district or a city or a county (or ... or ...) got together and installed public utility pipes designed to carry internet traffic then the ISP would be required to deal with the purchasing power of a much larger (and therefore powerful) group of people.
I completely agree with the way you articulated that point, and I wish I had mod points to prove it. This is a part of the discussion that I missed in my post.
Yell at it.
The issue that's being hinted at here is that governments have been looking for "non-lethal" crowd control devices like this - devices that (because of their supposed non-lethality) will be used more frequently by law enforcement (think handguns vs tasers). The fact these "non-lethal" devices turn out later to have serious health repercussions (up to and including death) is all the more reason to worry about it.
I've actually had trouble with Thunderbird doing automatic (encryption-like) things with email. And the trouble didn't stem from Thunderbird, but rather from my recipients. They noticed that emails coming from me suddenly had an extra icon by them (Thunderbird was signing all my outgoing messages) and they flipped out. "Why is that icon there?" "OMGWTFBBQ?!" So unfortunately even doing automated stuff like that will still run into the under-informed user problem.
Well the Death Star is a little too big to really fit your mind around. I mean you look at it and you think its this little model. And then the Millenium Falcon gets closer to it and you're thinking "wow, that's the size of the moon". And then the tractor beams lock on and suddenly its the size of a space station!
So when it blows up its kindof hard to appreciate really the emotional impact. Was the Death Star happy? Sad? We will never know. And as far as the millions of inhabitants that perished at the same time - in order to see the whole Death Star you have to zoom out so far that any floating debris that was once human is of such scale as to be practically invisible.
All I can say is that I loved Ewoks: The Battle for Endor as a kid.
Thanks for the vote of confidence :-)
Close, but no cigar. To whit:
Etymology: Middle English poumgrenet, from Anglo-French pome garnette, literally, seedy fruit
link: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pomegranate