Comment Re:Side effects (Score 4, Informative) 209
According to the study, it has more adverse effects, unfortunately.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...
But it may be worth it for the increase efficacy.
According to the study, it has more adverse effects, unfortunately.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...
But it may be worth it for the increase efficacy.
Well hopefully the authors are not dumb enough not to consider this. And even if they were, the peer reviewers would have caught it.
If it's genuinely 27% more effective when targeting the same flu variant (compared to regular vaccines), it's definitely a breakthrough.
Not really, because flu tend to kill old people who ALREADY had kids long ago.
It would be a good thing yes.
But it's still different. Historically, you could always buy a game from brick and mortar store not owned by Nintendo or Sony. That was never possible with the iPhone.
Not sure how it is with digital stores now, but I wouldn't be surprised if they followed Apple's "lead" in that vendor lock-in department as well.
Still, console makers would argue that they sell consoles at loss and they make profit with the games. Apple makes a huge profit on phones. It appears the EU DMA applies to general-purpose computing devices, and therefore smartphone/computers but not gaming consoles. You don't use your gaming console to install your bank's application, for instance. But I guess if the video game console market was becoming as anti-competitive as Apple, they could be regulated in the future as well.
Imagine if Toyota tried to charge 5% fee on all gas purchases not even sold by Toyota.
Oh I never denied that there are laptops with better touchpads/keyboards/displays than others. But you didn't mention any of those points in your original post, just "feel" and "plasticky".
Glass was just an example that a material can look/feel premium while be technically inferior. Up to a point we could say the same about metal. It's heavier than plastic so plastic laptops can be better even if they "feel" cheaper. My Thinkpad T is in plastic and I don't see anything wrong with that.
Oh, no problem with people who want their computer to look good. Just don't call it "build quality" as if it had anything to do with the quality of the product or it's ability to last. Call it "look and feel". And admit that sometimes inferior products from a durability perspective can look or feel better. Glass back on phones is a perfect example of this. Plastic would be superior from a technical perspective, but "look and feel" people and reviewers forced us to have a weaker material because it looks and feels more expensive.
I had a plastic Dell (Inspiron something several years ago) and we kept it for something like 7 years before replacing it by a newer laptop. Never cracked. Sounds like your problem is more that your users don't take care of the laptops because they are not theirs. In my field we often use rugged laptops to use in shops, maybe that's what you need as well.
What people call "build quality" is more often about looks and feel than actual strength anyways. Glass back on phones is a good example of this. A plastic laptop likely has better survivability to drops compared to metal ones, because they are lighter (less dense) and plastic absorbs shock instead of transmitting it to components.
Who care if it "feels" cheap? It's a laptop, not a status symbol. What matters is how it performs. A 100% glass laptop would not feel cheap but would be total crap.
Nothing wrong with plastic laptop. I never replaced a laptop because the plastic didn't last. Not once have I told myself, if I bought a metal laptop it would have lasted twice as long as this one I'm now forced to replace.
Well SMS/RCS doesn't work with the phone number on my business card either because it's an office landline/voip. So it's no better than the other application you criticize as not being universal enough.
Good messaging systems work. Period. SMS/MMS and RCS often work when your internet doesn't, even on insanely congested networks.
I rather not have the carrier in control, and not have a protocol depending on a phone number which I don't own, rather than have something that will work the 0.001% of the time where my Internet is too congested to send a simple message. Also I don't think RCS works any better as it uses the data connection, unlike SMS.
SMS has many flaws, including not receiving the message if you swapped your SIM card when traveling to another country. The carrier may or may not send you the message when you come back.
Sure. I'm all with you on avoid. That doesn't in any way mean we don't continue to develop them and have them in place so we can use them when needed.
That's my point we pretty much never "need" SMS. RCS was not even worth developing.
That still brings the question which problem is RCS trying to solve? And why do we want carriers to have control on text messages sent between two people?
SMS/MMS and RCS all suck. Less than single-platform solutions like iMessage, but still suck as long as carriers have control on it (I can't just create my own RCS server and use it to communicate with my contacts) and is based on a phone number (again, which is region-locked and controlled by the carrier).
Good messaging solutions work on any internet-connected devices (especially on PCs without a cellular connectivity (and no, piggy backing on a phone to send/receive the message doesn't count)). There are plenty to chose from. Just avoid cell phone-only solutions.
Having an aluminium plant working only in the summer is not going to be profitable.
I don't think it's meant to be profitable. It's meant to store power. That can be part of a system that's overall profitable because you sell the power.
Yes, understood, but still not profitable as an overall system. Your estimates all seem off by a couple orders of magnitude (think if we listened to you, aluminum or electricity price could increase by a factor of 10, 100 or 1000).
Having batteries with only 1 charge cycle per year would be even worse.
If the discharge is over a matter of months and the battery in question is cheap, then not really. It depends on what battery you meant there. If you meant a heat battery, that's generally pretty cheap. Consider for example that a lot of houses have a battery that stores about 15 kWh in their house that cost around $500. They just use a tank of hot water for power storage. An insulated tank on around the same scale as a municipal water tower tank can keep water hot even in winter conditions literally for years, so a season is not a problem and it's not very expensive. It works better for heat storage than electricity storage of course, although you can use such a system to produce electrical power as well. In any case, heating is one of the big applications for power in Winter anyway.
You don't seem to realize a $500 water heater will reach room temperature in only 2-4 days. And I think it's more like 10 kWh for a 60 gallons water heater.
Keeping it hot for years would require very expensive insulation.
Considering that many of those places are the places we vitally need fresh water to grow our crops
That's the thing. We don't "need" to grow that much crops in California. We CHOOSE to empty the Colorado and Rio Grande for agriculture. There could be other ways (producing food in other regions) instead.
Belgium and California are already net food exporters.
and also taking into consideration the transport issues you mentioned, the world actually does have a fresh water shortage.
The world doesn't. Still plenty of unused fresh water in places like Russia and Canada flowing into the ocean.
On my Debian stable:
rmmod: ERROR: Module algif_aead is not currently loaded
Does it means I'm not affected?
Debian's web site say it's fixed in a newer kernel release:
https://security-tracker.debia...
Having an aluminium plant working only in the summer is not going to be profitable. Having batteries with only 1 charge cycle per year would be even worse.
Unless Belgium itself has water shortages, desalinating seawater in Belgium is not a good idea. You are not going to move that water to Saudi Arabia it would be more expensive than desalinating over there. The world doesn't have a fresh water shortage. We only have local shortages in some places and it turns out it's often cheaper to desalinate seawater in those places compared to importing water from remote areas with surpluses (think Russia and Canada).
The world will one day stop burning oil.
Some people, including Trump, are working very hard to push that day as far as possible.
He keeps differentiating, flying off on a tangent.