I can't remember where I read it, but I saw a comment that said Samsung is leading the way with its "3D NAND" technology and they are pushing a lot of consumer products into the pipeline, which is why there has been a recent fall in 1TB SSD prices.
Makes you wonder if online cloud backup services are going to have a tough time in the future...
"...unlike regulatory bodies in 64 other countries, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not require labeling of GM foods.
... determination by the IARC in 2015 that glyphosate is a “probable human carcinogen”1 and 2,4-D a “possible human carcinogen.”
...These developments suggest that GM foods and the herbicides applied to them may pose hazards to human health that were not examined in previous assessments. We believe that the time has therefore come to thoroughly reconsider all aspects of the safety of plant biotechnology. The National Academy of Sciences has convened a new committee to reassess the social, economic, environmental, and human health effects of GM crops.
...we believe the time has come to revisit the United States' reluctance to label GM foods."
Surprise Surprise! The Chinese President is in the US and suddenly there are scare stories popping up everywhere.
What a coincidence that CloudFlare decide to look at months old data and publish a story making China look bad, at the exact same time the Chinese President is visiting.
Remarkable timing.
Also shame on the BBC for a headline which implies there is an attack happening right now.
You cannot squeeze out some kind of imprimatur of good citizenship by holding a product launch in a “civic” center.
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We all knew that Jobs’ refusal to dress ‘appropriately’ was the flipside of a loner genius with a unique vision who wasn’t going to conform. He was half-crazy but headed to unexplored territory. The first guy who does that is authentic; the second guy is not. CEO Tim Cook is the second guy.
Cook’s persona is creepy, almost mortician-esque. He has an unconvincing forced jubilance, wedded to a lurking, hunchbacked rigidity. His body seems superfluous, a nuisance. The white hair and nerdy glasses round out a kind of depthless, mealy look that betrays a measure of cruelty. His arms hang useless, as if he has to exert every ounce of willpower to raise them when the script calls for mock exultation.
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As an illustration of how the Apple Watch changed people’s lives, he tells us how the watch helped a man keep to an exercise schedule. Does he think we’re so dumb we believe this was never possible until the invention of this watch? Also he showed how a doctor could tilt the watch forward and check his daily schedule of rounds; ironically, this task was something that my own father could handle with a small notebook and a pencil in the 1960s, as a doctor at San Francisco General Hospital no less.
The Apple Launch soon became a drone-fest, with Cook introducing another man who was dressed virtually identically to Cook, who introduced another guy dressed the same, and then a woman dressed similarly, then again another guy, like Russian matryorska dolls popping out of each other. They were all in the same uniform, or rather anti-uniform, in some kind of California-forced-conformity/anti-conformity. The last time I saw so many people looking like that, it was the mass suicide at Heaven’s Gate.
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Mercifully, it ended with Cook giving a shout out to the Apple workers in the audience, who responded like cult members fed sugar and gumballs all week. And then, in a fawning introduction, he introduced the band One Republic, who gave a kind of generic performance that would offend nobody, in a hall that hosted revolutionary bands like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead.
Lest I be called a killjoy, let it be noted that I am typing this on a MacBook Air. I have an iPhone 6, and an iPad Mini. I am an Apple person, as it were. But just because I buy the products doesn’t mean that I buy the mythology surrounding them.
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The Apple Launch is a closed circle of fawning sycophants, thrilled with gimmicks, adapted to computers, programmed, a throng of identical authentic individuals chained to their machines and congratulating themselves on being ‘connected,’ led by a human that resembles a robot.
Two hours of watching the Apple Launch actually made the Manson Family seem homey.
If the tag was "No more illegals" every commentator and rabble-rouser and point-scoring politician would be on the airwaves.
The ethnic Chinese population in the US have a real problem - they appear to have no political voice. There are few ethnic Chinese political leaders and there are no mass organized protests. The result is that the concerns and needs of the ethnic Chinese population are not met.
Perhaps we can see some kind of political awakening in the second and third-generation Chinese i.e. those who are suing Harvard over racial bias on admissions.
It's a surprise that the ethnic Chinese do not vote majority Republican given that the community are broadly speaking, hard-working and pro-business.
> In the first weeks of classes, instead of calling roll, ask everyone to provide their name and pronouns. This ensures you are not singling out transgender or non-binary students.
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You can start meetings with requesting introductions that include names and pronouns, introduce yourself with your name and chosen pronouns, or when providing nametags, ask attendees to write in their name and pronouns.
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A few of the most common singular gender-neutral pronouns are they, them, their (used as singular), ze, hir, hirs, and xe, xem, xyr.
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“Oh, nice to meet you, [insert name]. What pronouns should I use?” is a perfectly fine question to ask.
The more we make sharing of pronouns a universal practice, the more inclusive we will be as a campus.