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Comment Re:karma? (Score 1) 291

by loustic (#40464387) Attached to: Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home
Yea, sure, public health care is much better ....
Go to the UK and see how they decide to give you treatment for one eye only and not two, or to deny you cancer treatment because you are "too old"... people go abroad to get treatments.
Same goes for Canada and soon for the US as well.

Comment Re:Valleys and Language (Score 1) 404

by loustic (#39806713) Attached to: Study Suggests the Number-Line Concept Is Not Intuitive
There is a an excellent book explaining different systems to deal with spacial positioning: http://www.amazon.com/Through-Language-Glass-Different-Languages/dp/080508195X I won't summarize the book here, but think of a culture which uses only four cardinal points resembling our North South East West to describe positioning. This leads to funny situations when describing a painting or a TV scene, the direction depends on ... the position of the painting/TV ("the bad guy came from the East") as oposed to a relative positioning system ("the bad guy came from behind").
Firefox

Submission + - Mozilla caves, will support H.264 to avoid 'irrelevance' (engadget.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: It looks like Mozilla is ready to throw in the towel in its battle against the patent-laden H.264 video codec( http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/19/mozilla-caves-will-support-h-264-to-avoid-irrelevance/ ). Over the last week or so( http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/03/13/2027215/mozilla-debates-supporting-h264-in-firefox-via-system-codecs ), the software foundation has struggled publicly with whether or not to support the MPEG-LA-owned format. Now several of Firefox's biggest players have all come out in support of the move and all that's left is to actually bake the appropriate code into the browser. Both chairman Mitchell Baker( http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/03/18/video-user-experience-and-our-mission/1234/ ) and CTO Brendan Eich embraced the decision this weekend, however begrudgingly, in blog posts. Both admit that success in the mobile space requires them to abandon the quest to make WebM the standard for streaming video in HTML5. Even with Google's support, at least on the desktop, VP8 was never able to seriously threaten the entrenched and battery-friendly (not to mention, Apple and Microsoft backed) H.264.
Data Storage

Submission + - Seagate achieves storage density of 1 terabit per square inch (gizmag.com)

Submitted by cylonlover
cylonlover writes: Despite solid state drives increasing in capacity in recent years, the humble platter-based 3.5-inch hard drive still reigns supreme as the data storage device to beat in terms of bits for your buck. But if traditional drives are going to meet user’s ever-increasing data storage demands they will need to improve on the maximum 620 gigabits per square inch storage densities currently possible in platter based 3.5-inch drives. That’s just what Seagate has demonstrated with new technology that has achieved a milestone storage density of 1 terabit per square inch. Seagate says the technology promises to deliver 60 TB HDDs in the future.

Comment Re:Freedom vs. localism (Score 1) 129

by loustic (#39343433) Attached to: Swiss Voters Reject Book Price Controls

For books in French, amazon.fr ships for free in Switzerland on order above 20 EUR (since last year).

Amazon.de ships for free with no minimum amount, so that's for the books in German.

And for the books in English you get them where the price is the lowest.

And as written on te post website, the upper limit of the goods value (incl. transport costs) for an import exempt from VAT is:

8% VAT (the majority of items sent) => CHF 62

2,5% VAT (e.g. books) => CHF 200.

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