...then I wonder what people are reporting on their CV. I don't use Linkedin at all, but I could find there the profiles of many people I know. I was astonished to see how many lies they were reporting about their professional skills. Probably the most appaling profile was that posted by an ex-friend: he claimed that he worked in R&D for a chemical industry (he actually was a secretary, doing about 10,000 photocopies/day), is an inventor (never filed a patent), etc. His currently claims to be a security consultant for an university. I wonder what he is actually doing there...
I also noticed that the most skilled people I know neither have a Linkedin profile, nor they waste their time on Facebook. I think it does not happen by chance...
From TFA: In addition, early subscription holders were on average more exposed to radio frequency electromagnetic fields from their mobile phones as the early phones had a higher output power than newer generation phones.
If I am not wrong, the BTS controls the power used by each connected GSM handset, so that reciprocal interference and power consumption are minimized. This means that the amount of radiation dose received by each GSM user depends also from the BTS-to-user distance, and from the number of handsets simultaneously operating under the same BTS. It is a mistake to assume that the radiation dose received by each user is constant, and the study shouldn't be taken as conclusive.
It looks like that the same error has been made here as well: the dose received by each radio operator varied wildly. This probably means that the studies set up a low boundary to the effect of RF on human health, bu these effects could be more severely related to the amount of RF power exposure. However better measurements are needed to confirm or deny this. In the meanwhile, it is probably safer to stay away from strong RF fields, after all...
The problem is not only about banning texting. All the activities that can distract the attention of a driver should be heavily limited: phone calls, using ham radio/CB equipments, and so on. Some serious accidents happened here in Europe simply because the driver was busy tuning the car radio. Now car radio market is offering DTV/DVD on board: can you imagine the consequences ?!? I don't think that placing a sticker saying "don't use this product while driving" will avoid car accidents, isn't it ?!?
I am a physicist and in my daily job I usually have to keep open and study several papers and textbooks. Most of the documents I study are in electronic format (mostly pdf and dejavu), but paper is still covering a significant part of my desk. I currently use a PC with two large screens, but for looking at my documents I wanted to find something more comfortable and that was easy to carry along my travels (my laptop is a bit too big and heavy, and I am quite tired of bringing it with me). However after trying some ebook readers and tablets I decided that the best thing I could do was to keep my PC/laptop as a reader, and replace the software I used for looking at pdf documents. I switched from Acrobat reader to STDU viewer, it reads pdf, dejavu and other formats, and allows you to quickly open and switch several documents with just a mouse click. I only regret that I don't have a A4 monitor, so I cannot always look at a glance to a full page, however I noticed that replacing the pdf reader greatly improved the way I work.
IMHO tablets and Ebook readed are still very far from being a replacement to printed paper, and I suspect it will take a very long time before we will see a viable alternative.
I spent about 15 years in the boy-scout movement, and I learned pretty well how to walk in the world using maps, compass, sun and stars for finding my way to home. Furthermore, it is about 35 years I practice mountain hiking and climbing, often alone, and never got into troubles when I had to find my path. This experience has been fruitful also when it comes to driving: it is quite surprising how easy it is to find your road, when you have the ability to think in terms of cardinal points, notable references and you have in your mind a rough image of the territory you are crossing. So I never use a GPS in my daily activities, but I rescued twice people in the mountains who were into deep troubles, because they had neither map nor compass, but only a GPS with all the waypoints loaded in the memory, and a empty battery.
However I do have a small GPS tracker, and I use it when I go around in the woods picking up mushrooms and truffles: if you combine your findings with coordinates using geostatistics you get very interesting maps. And no, I am not going to publish them on the web!
The new patent war involving Apple vs. [Samsung | Motorola | Google | Nokia | Blackberry | The rest of the puny world] is going to keep consumers away from the market, as well as to force companies to be very cautious developing new devices, due to litigation costs. I am not happy with idea of blasting up patent system, since creativity and innovation should be properly rewarded, but what is happening is plain insane. I had some interest into handelds, but I decided I will be happy with my old paper books and my cellphone: I don't want to take the risk of buying a costly device that becomes obsolete due to a patent war.
This country is without government since more than a year. Given their unability to set up an agreement about how to rule themselves, their country should be delisted, and divided among their neighbours (hoping they will accept it).
Linux is dead
Microsoft is seriously ill
But Linux is going to succeed, at least in the enterprise battlefield
Time to stop reading Slashdot, and moving to do something better.
I bet that it is a meteorite that was ejected from the Earth due to a comet impact, and that reached Mars after a long journey bringing with itself traces of life.
Slashdot Mirror
...then I wonder what people are reporting on their CV. I don't use Linkedin at all, but I could find there the profiles of many people I know. I was astonished to see how many lies they were reporting about their professional skills. Probably the most appaling profile was that posted by an ex-friend: he claimed that he worked in R&D for a chemical industry (he actually was a secretary, doing about 10,000 photocopies/day), is an inventor (never filed a patent), etc. His currently claims to be a security consultant for an university. I wonder what he is actually doing there...
I also noticed that the most skilled people I know neither have a Linkedin profile, nor they waste their time on Facebook. I think it does not happen by chance...
Is it supported on linux ?!?
...just like for these political leaders there is no denying of their leadership expertise!
1) Disclose as open source all your source code.
2) Publish on your company web site the list of all your clients.
3) ???
4) Failure!
...in Soviet Russia, YOU track FBI !! Oh, wait...
When the corners of the device are bent by the user they become rounded, and Apple can sue you!!!
...at your choice between Russian, Chinese or Persian. US space program is disappearing, so you will have to work abroad.
From TFA: In addition, early subscription holders were on average more exposed to radio frequency electromagnetic fields from their mobile phones as the early phones had a higher output power than newer generation phones.
If I am not wrong, the BTS controls the power used by each connected GSM handset, so that reciprocal interference and power consumption are minimized. This means that the amount of radiation dose received by each GSM user depends also from the BTS-to-user distance, and from the number of handsets simultaneously operating under the same BTS. It is a mistake to assume that the radiation dose received by each user is constant, and the study shouldn't be taken as conclusive.
It looks like that the same error has been made here as well: the dose received by each radio operator varied wildly.
This probably means that the studies set up a low boundary to the effect of RF on human health, bu these effects could be more severely related to the amount of RF power exposure. However better measurements are needed to confirm or deny this. In the meanwhile, it is probably safer to stay away from strong RF fields, after all...
Apple patented the idea of designing a device that does not infringe their patents.
I am afraid that the US will shut down GPS due to lack of funds for maintaining it...
Yes, Galileo is more accurate but only when used in Switzerland.
A 3D display in three years
........
A 4D display in four years
The problem is not only about banning texting. All the activities that can distract the attention of a driver should be heavily limited: phone calls, using ham radio/CB equipments, and so on. Some serious accidents happened here in Europe simply because the driver was busy tuning the car radio. Now car radio market is offering DTV/DVD on board: can you imagine the consequences ?!? I don't think that placing a sticker saying "don't use this product while driving" will avoid car accidents, isn't it ?!?
He his a radio amateur, so he is accustomed to wasting big amounts of CO2 for nothing....
I am a physicist and in my daily job I usually have to keep open and study several papers and textbooks. Most of the documents I study are in electronic format (mostly pdf and dejavu), but paper is still covering a significant part of my desk. I currently use a PC with two large screens, but for looking at my documents I wanted to find something more comfortable and that was easy to carry along my travels (my laptop is a bit too big and heavy, and I am quite tired of bringing it with me). However after trying some ebook readers and tablets I decided that the best thing I could do was to keep my PC/laptop as a reader, and replace the software I used for looking at pdf documents. I switched from Acrobat reader to STDU viewer, it reads pdf, dejavu and other formats, and allows you to quickly open and switch several documents with just a mouse click. I only regret that I don't have a A4 monitor, so I cannot always look at a glance to a full page, however I noticed that replacing the pdf reader greatly improved the way I work.
IMHO tablets and Ebook readed are still very far from being a replacement to printed paper, and I suspect it will take a very long time before we will see a viable alternative.
I spent about 15 years in the boy-scout movement, and I learned pretty well how to walk in the world using maps, compass, sun and stars for finding my way to home. Furthermore, it is about 35 years I practice mountain hiking and climbing, often alone, and never got into troubles when I had to find my path. This experience has been fruitful also when it comes to driving: it is quite surprising how easy it is to find your road, when you have the ability to think in terms of cardinal points, notable references and you have in your mind a rough image of the territory you are crossing. So I never use a GPS in my daily activities, but I rescued twice people in the mountains who were into deep troubles, because they had neither map nor compass, but only a GPS with all the waypoints loaded in the memory, and a empty battery.
However I do have a small GPS tracker, and I use it when I go around in the woods picking up mushrooms and truffles: if you combine your findings with coordinates using geostatistics you get very interesting maps. And no, I am not going to publish them on the web!
The new patent war involving Apple vs. [Samsung | Motorola | Google | Nokia | Blackberry | The rest of the puny world] is going to keep consumers away from the market, as well as to force companies to be very cautious developing new devices, due to litigation costs. I am not happy with idea of blasting up patent system, since creativity and innovation should be properly rewarded, but what is happening is plain insane. I had some interest into handelds, but I decided I will be happy with my old paper books and my cellphone: I don't want to take the risk of buying a costly device that becomes obsolete due to a patent war.
If they shut down social networks, hooligans will sign in to an anti-social network.
Actually you can push silicon components past their capacity. The noise and the smoke they emit when they explode make them very interesting.
This country is without government since more than a year. Given their unability to set up an agreement about how to rule themselves, their country should be delisted, and divided among their neighbours (hoping they will accept it).
...I will have to wait for Firefox 20 just to have a browser that is 100% faster than Firefox 5 ?!?
Linux is dead
Microsoft is seriously ill
But Linux is going to succeed, at least in the enterprise battlefield
Time to stop reading Slashdot, and moving to do something better.
I bet that it is a meteorite that was ejected from the Earth due to a comet impact, and that reached Mars after a long journey bringing with itself traces of life.
> For example, you are actually exposed to less radiation while onboard a US nuclear sub than you would receive on the surface.
Is it true also in the Soviet Russia ?!?
With transparent fuselages, now they will have the opportunity of looking under the skirts of the passengers...