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I've always wondered - paediatricians and dentists usually have candy in their offices and hand them out to younger patients. Isn't that a kind of a marketing ploy? Sure, they may know their stuff, but they're trying to create an environment where the younger patients would be more welcome and the parents would be less likely to take the kids to places where the kids don't want to go. There are some waiting rooms where they have toys and a play area for the kids too. Those certainly seem like they are appealing to the kids, something along the lines of a breakfast cereal placing toys in their television commercials in an attempt to influence the most vulnerable demographic. They may be well within their rights because it is legal, but is it ethical? Well, it may be border-line ethical because they aren't reaching out to the kids and presenting them with candy and toys - the kids are walking into their offices when they are ill, need a routine check out, or need vaccinations. Pictures of stuffed toys in brochures for vaccinations that are handed out at schools or to parents could be a bit unethical. No toys or candy would be ethical, but shouldn't they be allowed to provide some comfort to the kids too?

You can sign up for a VPN service. That will enable you to get a dynamic IP address from a different part of the world. Different providers give you different software but it is also possible to setup a VPN using only network settings interface in Windows or in Linux. The software only makes it simpler to make those settings.

Many computers have a combination of USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports. The USB 2.0 ports have a lower data transfer rate than the USB 3.0 ports, so your computer is suggesting that you use one of the USB 3.0 ports instead. You are not likely to see much higher speed from switching to the USB 3.0 port from the USB 2.0 port unless you have a really fast mobile Internet connection. A USB 3.0 port is recommended for connecting two computers together for data transfers, for connecting fast hard disk drives, or for connecting high speed broadband Internet connectivity devices.

I pixel is actually a logic unit of measurement rather than a physical measurement unit. The point on the rear surface of the CRT screen or the LCD screen that glows is of a specific color. By having a red, green, and blue dot glow, we get a pixel. Also, on some screens, particularly large ones, multiple dots comprise a pixel. Pixels can be observed easily on some black-and-white LCD displays where the pixels are represented by squares and the fine lines between the squares is visible.

Your post is old enough for me to assume that you either have a new laptop now, which is most likely not another Hewlett Packard or Compaq. Just in case, I thought I'd mention that you can try to power on the computer without hooking up the keyboard so you can check if the ribbon cable is making contact when it starts up and can also reverse the direction of the cable while the computer is still running. On many computers, the direction of the ribbon cable is indicated by the fold, but a Compaq Presario laptop that I disassembled had the ribbon connector going straight down; I could still figure out from the 'fit' which the correct direction was. BTW, there are reports that when buying a replacement OEM keyboard, the direction of the fold can possibly be reversed so you may have to bend it back the right way. It may be a manufacturing defect or a part manufactured for a laptop from a different region; it is perplexing because if the exact same model cannot be manufactured in the same way then what help would the service manual be. At the very least, they should at least be taking design cues from the floppy disk drive and IDE Parallel ATA hard disk drives - at least back in those days, they had the foresight to have one side of the ribbon colored in red indicating a connection to the first pin of the connector.

I was reading the other posts in this thread and was thinking about the flame wars that people usually have on the tech forums. Apple fan boys proclaim the supremacy of Apple's products and services. Most of the time, they try to make a point by mocking Windows - restarting after any update or software installation, the blue screen of death, and erratically changing estimates for how long copying, moving, or deleting a file would take. Windows supporters had their say too - Apple's operating system was only available with its hardware and it seemed overpriced compared to PC hardware. Also, there's much more software available for Windows than there is for Apple's Mac OS. While Microsoft did model some of the elements of the Windows user interface around Apple's design principles, Apple themselves seem to have gotten their user interface design philosophy from Xerox's operating system. There's no real trace of where Xerox got their ideas from, considering that there aren't any films that seem anything like the Minority Report equivalent of back then. Flame wars on forums were quite popular in the late 1990s and early to mid 2000s, but now moderators seem to keep it in check by locking such threads.

 

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Most people don't use free web hosting for reliable service. Most people use it to host a personal blog or a website for which twenty four-seven, round-the-clock availability is not really a concern. If you try the service here, you will find that getting hosting is more about interacting with the community rather than about getting a website hosted. Initially, everyone was roped in to try the web hosting service though. BTW, are you affiliated with 9cubehosting in any way?

Enforcing speed limits the old-tech way. In India, the enforcement of speed limits is by means of a low-tech recording of the time when a vehicle passes through two points on a road. When one gets to a toll booth, the time is recorded and relayed to the next toll booth. The next toll booth determines the average speed of the vehicle by taking the time when the vehicle reached the previous toll booth and the distance between the toll booth. They prefer to avoid penalising drivers who were driving at the exact speed limit so the speeds reported by the toll booths are slightly lower than the actual speed so drivers who get penalised for being slightly above the speed limit cannot dispute the accuracy of the system. There are laser based devices for reporting speeds that are used by highway patrols too, but they are less common and cannot cover all the roads so this cheaper alternative seems to get the job done.

Was there ever a time when you acted as a good samaritan but got penalised for it? That's exactly what happens when you drive carefully, avoid accidents, and give way to pedestrians in third-world nations. I have on numerous occasions been given a ticket for "obstructing traffic" either because a pedestrian stepped onto the road and I slowed down to let him/her off get all the way across the road instead of cutting him/her off, or because I gave way to oncoming traffic instead of overtaking a stopped vehicle. There are even pedestrians who tried to cross roads at junctions when the traffic light turned red and they want to hold me at fault for not frightening off the pedestrians and forcing them to step back by approaching them at a high speed. Apparently, the laws are made for the rich who go well over the speed limit in high priced vehicles, run over pedestrians and pay their way out of it, and turn to bribery if ever confronted by the policemen.

Every day that I head out with the car, I have a taxi tailgating me. No, it is not the exact same taxi - that would be creepy. It is a different taxi each time that is either exceeding speed limits, overtaking on a two-way street, suddenly stopping on the road, or suddenly starting after picking up or dropping off passengers. Of the things that they do, I can understand that they have to stop wherever their passengers ask them to be dropped off, but the other things that they do are quite likely to cause accidents. If somebody were to have an old car that they have had enough of but cannot seem to get a price for in the used car market, all that they would need to do is wait to get tailgated by a taxi while at about hundred kilometres per hour, and then slam the brakes to get the chassis totalled to get paid the value of the vehicle less depreciation because of the way the traffic laws work - it is almost always the fault of the vehicle that did the rear-ending irrespective of whether the vehicle in the front was driven by a maniac. Apart from that, no one else really wants to get involved in an accident even if they get the repairs at the expense of the owner of the vehicle that was tailgating. There are the locals and other taxi folk who would intentionally get ahead of other vehicles and slam their brakes to cause inconvenience and financial loss to others.

My typical browser usage involved about five open tabs with occasionally using up to fifteen when I am looking for something specific. When I use Firefox or Chrome, the activity of the web browser in one tab does not seem to affect the browser's display of the other tabs, unless it is a poorly written Javascript or a Flash object that is very resource intensive. Between Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome seems to start up the quickest, Mozilla Firefox is the most versatile because of the plugins that are available for it, and Microsoft Internet Explorer is installed by default and is integrated with the Windows operating system the closest (it is used to set the default proxy server that is used by all applications that use the environment settings from the operating system).