This would be a valid theory, had an entire legion of the Emperor's best troops not lost to the build-a-bear workshop at then end of the Jedi.
Well, a legion is probably in the region of 1000-10000 troops: more than enough to deal with a commando raid but not an entire indigenous population. I give Lucas the benefit of the doubt and assume that the Ewoks were slaughtered in large numbers out of shot but they just kept coming.
There isn't really much news here. The Bank of England is somewhat independent of government, so it gets to offer an expert opinon on some possible scenarios. However, it needs to keep some appearance of impartiality, so it will make it in confidence.
If its advice were "Holy shit, you really don't want to do this", that would be a story.
You need two things to make such a sort of a journey practical: as well as the reactionless drive, you need some sort of Star Trek like deflector shield: because to you every 'stationary' hydrogen atom is a cosmic ray travelling at near light speed. And God help you if you hit a grain of dust.
Etymology is not always indicative of current meaning. OP may have been unaware
In any case, it's a highly dubious etymology anyway. Funnily enough, I discovered the word first in the works of that notorious anti-semite, Isaac Asimov.
You fall into the common error of equating the selfish gene with selfish individualism. Life is more complicated than that. There are times when protecting your family or the wider community at the risk of your own life is absolutely what is best for the survival of your genes.
And for sure, 'dove' is a lousy strategy in iterated prisoners dilemma. Hit him if he hits me first works fairly well though.
From the summary, you don't know that she didn't speak French as well. And to be honest, they could probably have delivered the baby, even if she hadn't understood a word they were saying.
Voyager 1, which is the operative craft that's been in service the longest and receives the least amount of heat from the sun is, after most of the heaters have been turned off to conserve energy, running at around -80C temperatures.
Yes, but it has a nuclear power cell onboard. Given sufficent plutonium, it's pretty easy to keep warm.
Uncontrolled is not necessarily the same as unsafe. If you pull the power to a steel plant, you have have steel set in all the wrong places, and it will be a devil's own job to return the plant to working order.
One of the biggest issues is going to be insurance and who will pay when one of these cars causes an accident.
I doubt this will be a big problem. Insurers will sooner or later offer policies for self-driving cars, and if the statistics are good, they will eventually be reasonably priced; you can only price fix for so long. What will take longer is for governments to relax the criminal liability of the driver.
Somehow we get along just fine, residential or commercial, with pretty much the same as what this limit allows./me awaits some Brit who's come to explain how their 240v 13A outlets allow them to suck the carpet right off the floor with their cleaners.
Actually, we use them mostly to take out drones and deflect NEOs into a safer orbit.
I'll admit to being willfully ignorant of IPv6 other than seeing it as enormously more complicated than IPv4
I think seeing it as way more complicated is a mistake. They took IPv4, fixed a few problems, and unfortunately introduced a few others. Sure, they could have done a little less.
Couldn't they just have added a couple of extra bytes to IPv4 to come up with something that worked like IPv4?
That fairly much describes IPv4; the other proposals floating around were far more radical.
node addresses are MAC addresses plus the network address
This is covered by RFC 2462 - IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration. However, privacy concerns have made this go out of fashion.
I'm sure someone's crunched the numbers and this makes sense on paper, but seriously? Porting to Itanium before x86? I know HP wants to prop up its teensy niche CPU server line, but I just can't see how to justify that.
The reason is they hardly have to do any work for Itanium; they just have to QA a 8-core system instead of a 4-core one. The original port was done over a decade ago. With 20/20 hindsight it was a wrong move, the right one being presumably to tell Intel to shove it and wait a few years for the x64.
Who's going to migrate software from old VMS systems to a new one on very highly vendor-locked hardware?
Someone that has a 2 or 4 core processor Itanium system already. If anything is a non-starter it's the x86 version.
This was a massive, massive failure, and I will frankly be shocked if multiple lawsuits aren't filed against Examsoft over this.
However, those that haven't passed the exam won't be allowed to sue; Tisias must be laughing in his grave. Seriously, though, the whole online examination business needs a shakeup.
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This would be a valid theory, had an entire legion of the Emperor's best troops not lost to the build-a-bear workshop at then end of the Jedi.
Well, a legion is probably in the region of 1000-10000 troops: more than enough to deal with a commando raid but not an entire indigenous population. I give Lucas the benefit of the doubt and assume that the Ewoks were slaughtered in large numbers out of shot but they just kept coming.
There isn't really much news here. The Bank of England is somewhat independent of government, so it gets to offer an expert opinon on some possible scenarios. However, it needs to keep some appearance of impartiality, so it will make it in confidence.
If its advice were "Holy shit, you really don't want to do this", that would be a story.
This thread is all kind of moot, since the victims weren't banks anyway. He defrauded companies by claiming to from a bank.
If your car won't start, how can you prove that any other places in the world exist?
You need two things to make such a sort of a journey practical: as well as the reactionless drive, you need some sort of Star Trek like deflector shield: because to you every 'stationary' hydrogen atom is a cosmic ray travelling at near light speed. And God help you if you hit a grain of dust.
Except Starbucks UK Ltd can presumably buy their coffee from Sunbucks Bermuda Ltd (no relation, honest), and make a loss in the UK.
It's actually Starbucks Coffee Trading Co., which is a Swiss company, I believe.
It was sarcasm.
Etymology is not always indicative of current meaning. OP may have been unaware
In any case, it's a highly dubious etymology anyway. Funnily enough, I discovered the word first in the works of that notorious anti-semite, Isaac Asimov.
You fall into the common error of equating the selfish gene with selfish individualism. Life is more complicated than that. There are times when protecting your family or the wider community at the risk of your own life is absolutely what is best for the survival of your genes.
And for sure, 'dove' is a lousy strategy in iterated prisoners dilemma. Hit him if he hits me first works fairly well though.
From the summary, you don't know that she didn't speak French as well. And to be honest, they could probably have delivered the baby, even if she hadn't understood a word they were saying.
What two factor auth for Gmail?
Token sent by SMS.
Voyager 1, which is the operative craft that's been in service the longest and receives the least amount of heat from the sun is, after most of the heaters have been turned off to conserve energy, running at around -80C temperatures.
Yes, but it has a nuclear power cell onboard. Given sufficent plutonium, it's pretty easy to keep warm.
Maybe, but I would hazard a guess that where this old tech is being used at all is likely to be in a resource poor environment.
Alternatively, one with long term support requirements and onerous change control: e.g. military, nuclear, medical.
Uncontrolled is not necessarily the same as unsafe. If you pull the power to a steel plant, you have have steel set in all the wrong places, and it will be a devil's own job to return the plant to working order.
One of the biggest issues is going to be insurance and who will pay when one of these cars causes an accident.
I doubt this will be a big problem. Insurers will sooner or later offer policies for self-driving cars, and if the statistics are good, they will eventually be reasonably priced; you can only price fix for so long. What will take longer is for governments to relax the criminal liability of the driver.
I tried hard to decipher what could have triggered what I wrote into the obvious troll thread it became
It was an obvious troll from the start.
Yet in clinical trials of new drugs, it seems, only a single trial is ever done.
That's not true at all. Generally, multiple trials are done and the most favourable results published. http://www.alltrials.net/
Somehow we get along just fine, residential or commercial, with pretty much the same as what this limit allows. /me awaits some Brit who's come to explain how their 240v 13A outlets allow them to suck the carpet right off the floor with their cleaners.
Actually, we use them mostly to take out drones and deflect NEOs into a safer orbit.
If Scotland votes Yes in September, without a currency union the UK will lose almost 10% of its GDP overnight
Whereas Scotland, which will lose 90% of it's GDP overnight will be just peachy, right?
Isn't that much the same as the ISP market then? Lots of choice but lots of consolidation happening behind the scenes.
I'll admit to being willfully ignorant of IPv6 other than seeing it as enormously more complicated than IPv4
I think seeing it as way more complicated is a mistake. They took IPv4, fixed a few problems, and unfortunately introduced a few others. Sure, they could have done a little less.
Couldn't they just have added a couple of extra bytes to IPv4 to come up with something that worked like IPv4?
That fairly much describes IPv4; the other proposals floating around were far more radical.
node addresses are MAC addresses plus the network address
This is covered by RFC 2462 - IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration. However, privacy concerns have made this go out of fashion.
I'm sure someone's crunched the numbers and this makes sense on paper, but seriously? Porting to Itanium before x86? I know HP wants to prop up its teensy niche CPU server line, but I just can't see how to justify that.
The reason is they hardly have to do any work for Itanium; they just have to QA a 8-core system instead of a 4-core one. The original port was done over a decade ago. With 20/20 hindsight it was a wrong move, the right one being presumably to tell Intel to shove it and wait a few years for the x64.
Who's going to migrate software from old VMS systems to a new one on very highly vendor-locked hardware?
Someone that has a 2 or 4 core processor Itanium system already. If anything is a non-starter it's the x86 version.
No, those students will hire a lawyer to sue.
Yes, of course. I was making a joke. Obviously not a very good one.
This was a massive, massive failure, and I will frankly be shocked if multiple lawsuits aren't filed against Examsoft over this.
However, those that haven't passed the exam won't be allowed to sue; Tisias must be laughing in his grave. Seriously, though, the whole online examination business needs a shakeup.
Your argument about not wanting to change something due to the length of time that it's been unchanged is laughable.
As well as being entirely untrue, of course, given the number of incompatible format changes Office has gone through over over the years.