Comment Re:Three (Score 1) 301
6 or more since I always come up short, and a Centronics port as well to be able to run my EPROM programmer.
6 or more since I always come up short, and a Centronics port as well to be able to run my EPROM programmer.
Other parts of the world will still have Aspartame as sweetener.
Arsenic is actually having a sweet taste.
Google+ Failed because it did not provide any added value to the users.
Too much integration of services is actually lowering the value, I don't see any value between which YouTube videos I have commented on and which searches I have performed.
There is also a danger with too much integration - privacy matters, and if things are too integrated then it's a goldmine for anyone with malicious intent. If services are separated then each service needs to be targeted individually, which raises the stakes.
Of course - Providers of integrated services are obviously able to do statistical analysis of information that's valuable for marketing purposes, so that the ads that you will see when reading your favorite sites without an adblocker will be targeted for your specific demographics. There's usually no point in offering Viagra to teenagers or trendy boots to people in their 60's.
Maybe it's also a question of the personality of people, which means that you end up with different personalities:
- Facebook, a heaven for narcissists, people with a selfie stick and similar.
- Google, people that actually do things and in some cases show what they have done through YouTube.
- LinkedIn, an address book and CV online for professionals.
- Bing, a place for people unaware of technology and other offerings.
- DuckDuckGo, a place for semi-paranoid people.
- Tor, users that are either paranoid or performing illegal/semi-legal stuff.
Due to the bell curve we of course see people mainly using Google as Bing and DuckDuckGo users from time to time. But people frequently using DuckDuckGo are less likely to be on Facebook.
Also just ask yourself - do you use more than one browser? That's one way of breaking the statistics collectors to ensure that you show a different profile depending on what you do on the net. It's not a perfect safety, but it will shake up the statistics a bit and reduce the risk of cross-site reading of cookies trying to track your behavior. Personally I run Firefox, Opera and IE depending on what I do.
The exploding star, which was seen in the constellation Eridanus, faded over two weeks — much too rapidly to qualify as a supernova. The outburst was also about ten times fainter than most supernovae, explosions that destroy some or all of a star. But it was about 100 times brighter than an ordinary nova, which is a type of surface explosion that leaves a star intact. "The combination of properties is puzzling," says Mario Livio, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. "I thought about a number of possibilities, but each of them fails" to account for all characteristics of the outburst, he adds.
We can put this discovery on the bottom of a very long list of similar discoveries by Hubble, which this week is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its launch.
First, they took advantage of a kind of natural experiment: In 2011, Louisville converted two one-way streets near downtown, each a little more than a mile long, back to two-way traffic. In data that they gathered over the following three years, Gilderbloom and William Riggs found that traffic collisions dropped steeply — by 36 percent on one street and 60 percent on the other — after the conversion, even as the number of cars traveling these roads increased. Crime dropped too, by about a quarter, as crime in the rest of the city was rising. Property values rose, as did business revenue and pedestrian traffic, relative to before the change and to a pair of nearby comparison streets. The city, as a result, now stands to collect higher property tax revenues along these streets, and to spend less sending first-responders to accidents there.
Some of the findings are obvious: Traffic tends to move faster on a wide one-way road than on a comparable two-way city street, and slower traffic means fewer accidents. What's more interesting is that crime flourishes on neglected high-speed, one-way, getaway roads and that two-way streets may be less conducive to certain crimes because they bring slower traffic and, as a result, more cyclists and pedestrians, that also creates more "eyes on the street" — which, again, deters crime. "What we’re doing when we put one-way streets there is we’re over-engineering automobility," says William Riggs, "at the expense of people who want a more livable environment."
Facebook is just a pool for the exhibitionists.
AM is rare in Europe. There are a few, but mostly in central Europe.
The internet streaming services beats DAB+ as soon as you are at home.
That's complex - where I live I can just enter the approval in a text message on my phone if I think that the authorities got it right.
In addition to this DAB/DAB+ is obsoleted by internet streaming services.
Of course - it sucks to stream in a car, and the result may be that people won't be able to listen to radio in their cars at all and instead play their MP3s or whatever and miss out on traffic information and other important information.
I just wait for FM to be turned off and then a major event to happen where information is sent on the DAB+ net where nobody listens and then we have a lot of people driving into a closed off area.
Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long. -- Howard Kandel
