A few months ago, Ars changed their web page to a grey text on grey background which made the site unreadable. There was a major uproar and the designers cancelled the change for a while and now it's black text on a lighter grey background.
In reddit the new/r/googlepixel subreddit has white text on a nearly white background in the header that allows one to select one's subscribed subreddits or change from the default Hot to New formats. They did change the font yesterday size, but if you want to read the text your mouse pointer must be on the heading line. Where do these people come from?
However, if the hardworking Norwegian works 258 hours less per year, using the numbers in the OP, the productivity advantage disappears to the tune of $745 per year. Of course it's more complicated. The Norwegian may be paying higher taxes that make the situation worse but then may get better social government support during the working years and in retirement than a US worker - or even less. Whether the Norwegian has a happier existence during working years and a longer retirement needs to be figured in and putting a dollar amount on that would be hard to do. Economics is complicated.
I wouldn't be surprised if Wells Fargo might be interested in setting up multiple accounts for Russia Today. They have the infrastructure in place to set up multiple accounts whether you want them or not, though that infrastructure has been sidelined recently.
Quote: "I'd expect evidence of any flammable peroxide accumulation in some phones which hadn't caught fire."
The only time the peroxides would show up is if the battery had leaked and in the absence of leakage there's no exposure to air so no peroxides.
Samsung quickly found replacement batteries from a different manufacturer but the same problem seems to obtain. Were the new ones on the shelf in numbers Samsung needed because they were a standard product of the manufacturer? If both the original and replacement batteries have been previously used in different devices and haven't started fires, then there must be something about the Note 7 that's a problem. You discuss aging, yet both kinds of batteries are new - the phones are only a few weeks old - and can't have been subject to many charge discharge cycles. I suppose it could be something different and unique about the Note 7's charging system compared to any other device they make.
Even though Samsung has said they don't know what caused the problem in the Note 7s, I have a theory. In the drive for thinness the battery is squeezed very tightly against the other internal parts of the phone. Charging and discharging will cause expansion and contraction of the battery and in the tight environment some warping and bending might occur causing breaking of the outer battery skin. In addition if the battery comes in contact with sharp or pointed components in the phone expansion could result in pierced battery skin. The result is leakage of the liquid ether containing liquid electrolyte. These are organic ethers, not diethyl ether once used as anesthetic, but more complex, higher molecular weight compounds. Ethers coming in contact with air form peroxides which are spontaneously explosive and flammable. This might explain why the phones burn when not in use as the accumulated organic ethers take some time to become oxidized to peroxides.
The suggestion by earlier posters that phones should contain customer replaceable batteries might mitigate what I have suggested happened. The design of the batteries I've seen for phones with replaceable batteries (like my wife's Samsung Galaxy S4) were contained in substantial metal cases to be placed in a cavity in the phone protected from internal phone components. Maybe the phones would the somewhat thicker. So what?
I used the term first degree murder. First degree means murder carried out with planning. Killing someone in a fight can mean a less severe crime such as second degree or manslaughter carrying a less severe penalty than a death sentence. The charge is often up to the prosecutors and perhaps the accused is given the option of pleading to a lesser crime than first degree murder. Sometimes the jury may be given a choice of deciding the level of the crime committed and the penalty.
IIRC, in Britain in the past there was no distinction between a planned murder or causing accidental death in an emotional outburst - causing death was murder and there was only one penalty to be carried out in three weeks or so. It thought I read the death penalty was gotten rid of because too many innocent persons were put to death. In the US some folks are being let out of prison after decades in prison because it's found they did not commit the crime they were found guilty of. The Innocence Project estimates 50% of persons convicted of a crime based on eye-witness testimony probably didn't commit the crime. We don't know how many are executed and not later found innocent of a crime.
That's exactly what my statement means. The time in jail is pretty short for most first degree murderers in Texas because in the end they are carried out of prison in a body bag, coffin or buried in the prison cemetery.
Not really. What I'm saying is that should Apple or other PC makers release their OS software code to the public all hell would break loose not only for the old hardware but new OS/hardware too. Of course, high end, sophisticated hackers manage to find ways to defeat the newest stuff. Just don't make it easier for them and others.
The Fender hardware could be hacked but that would occur by a repair shop and easily traced to its source.
If the source code for the OS in old Apple hardware were made public those old machines might become a magnet for hackers. Also, how much of the current software contains much of the old code? I wonder if the latest Mac OS is 90% the stuff that's five to seven years old.
I don't know anything about your Telecaster but my guess it's not connected to the Internet since it was born in 1967, long before the Internet existed, so public information about it is not likely to result in any hacking of its usefulness.
One of the problems with medicine prices in the US is that the congress has prevented the US funded health insurance providers from negotiating prices of drugs. This included Medicare, Medicaid and others. Were this allowed it would likely reduce the cost of medicines paid by private insurers as well reducing premiums for employers and employees having employer subsidized health insurance. . One example of high priced drugs involves treatment of age related macular degeneration. There are apparently two drugs for its treatment, one costing about $70 per injection and another is thousands of dollars. In the UK, the expensive one cannot be used in the treatment but in the US the cheaper one is generally not used. Treatments for this condition can continue at six week intervals for many years. This becomes an extremely expensive treatment course. And of course, since the administration of the drug is in a clinic and Medicare will pay the cost including the margin to the clinic, clinics use the expensive drug enhancing the profit of the drug provider and the clinic and its physician owner.
The usual justification for the high cost of medicines is that some of the profit can be used to research new treatments. This seems somewhat bogus because other countries allow governments to negotiate low prices for drugs. Are US consumers providing all the research funding for new drugs? I doubt it.
I'm not sure what all the fuss is about regarding the profit on a medicine and why Mylan would need to lie to congress or anyone else regarding its profit. If they have a patent on a product the company can charge what ever they want and if folks don't want to pay the price they don't have to buy it. In our economy there are many products where the cost of purchase has little relationship to the cost of manufacture. Other examples in the pharmaceutical industry are rampant including those of Martin Shkreli (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...). There are two examples cited where the price of drugs purchased by companies he was associated with were raised 5,556% (the antiparasitic Daraprim) and 2,000% (Thiola). The price of the second has not been reduced even though Shkreli was removed from the company. Not sure about the first. These prices made a lot of money for the companies, its share holders and the senior executives. Isn't that what capitalism is all about?
At first I was thinking the folks who perpetrated the DoS attack generated the SE (Streisand Effect) having the unintended consequence of drawing many more views of the Newsweek article then would otherwise occur. Then I thought maybe that was the purpose of the DoS attack. Draw your own conclusions.
You think Samsung has battery issues. Wait till folks charge their iPhones in a 1,500 watt microwave. Heating sealed lithium ion batteries having organic liquid electrolyte solvent will not only destroy the phone but the microwave oven and maybe the kitchen itself.
IIRC, Microsoft early on offered unlimited storage for Sky Drive, now One Drive. There was one account that had something like 70 T Bytes of data. That's a T, as in Terra. That's 1,000 Giga bytes. Not likely a single person but probably a "shared" account where a number of folks had the login name and password. A single home user wouldn't likely have the data speed to put all that stuff up even if their USP had no data limits. When MS noticed this they drastically reduced free storage limits.
I was just going to post that Prime subs get unlimited photo storage at full quality. How long will that last?
Google has unlimited photo storage but compressed to 12 mega pixels. Works well for my 12 mega pixel Nexus 6P camera. And Microsoft's One Drive gives up 1 T Bytes of storage for Office 365 subscribers and varying amounts depending on previous history of its use. IIRC, I have 40 G bytes on One Drive, others may have more or less.
Within the US shipping costs do vary by distance the package will travel. For UPS check this link for shipping from one zone to another: https://www.ups.com/content/us...
It's possible that the price of an item on Amazon's web site varies with shipping cost when "free shipping" is part of the deal. For Prime subscribers Amazon knows the Zip code of the recipient of a package and its point of origin as well as its weight. One way Amazon may be evening out shipping charges it pays is by building shipping warehouses all over the country so shipping costs are the lowest it can add to the base cost of an item. But if the closest warehouse doesn't have an item it must make a longer trip to the customer. The other thing Amazon may be doing is figuring price on the greatest shipping distance and keeping the profit when the distance is shorter resulting in lower cost to itself. I don't know the answer to all this and Amazon may be keeping this very secret.
I hate the term "Free Shipping." If there were free shipping UPS, USPS, FedEx wouldn't be paid to move Amazon purchases to your door. The term should be "Price includes shipping." And of course the value of this shipping depends on the distance from the shipping point to your door. Maybe the price depends on that, but I don't know. If the included shipping price is the same then those farthest from the shipping point to their door are being subsidized by those close to the shipping points. I'm surprised that some Federal regulator hasn't come down on Amazon and every other mail order company for using this term.
Oracle also will own copyright to any content stored on their servers. Those placing their copyrighted materials on the server will face copyright infringement consequences.
Set a permanent notification on phones that says the phone has the newer, safer battery. I have a couple of notifications that are always there when I swipe down to view them. If someone needs to prove they have an the new battery they can show the notification. Then when there's an update to a newer OS version is installed the notification can be removed, or not. Oh, wait, when will Samsung update the OS?
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A few months ago, Ars changed their web page to a grey text on grey background which made the site unreadable. There was a major uproar and the designers cancelled the change for a while and now it's black text on a lighter grey background.
/r/googlepixel subreddit has white text on a nearly white background in the header that allows one to select one's subscribed subreddits or change from the default Hot to New formats. They did change the font yesterday size, but if you want to read the text your mouse pointer must be on the heading line. Where do these people come from?
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I predict that the temperatures in London, England, will be lower in December, 2018 than the temperature in July, 2018.
Or used US gallons instead of British gallons. Both English units, but 20% difference in volumes.
However, if the hardworking Norwegian works 258 hours less per year, using the numbers in the OP, the productivity advantage disappears to the tune of $745 per year. Of course it's more complicated. The Norwegian may be paying higher taxes that make the situation worse but then may get better social government support during the working years and in retirement than a US worker - or even less. Whether the Norwegian has a happier existence during working years and a longer retirement needs to be figured in and putting a dollar amount on that would be hard to do. Economics is complicated.
I wouldn't be surprised if Wells Fargo might be interested in setting up multiple accounts for Russia Today. They have the infrastructure in place to set up multiple accounts whether you want them or not, though that infrastructure has been sidelined recently.
Quote: "I'd expect evidence of any flammable peroxide accumulation in some phones which hadn't caught fire."
The only time the peroxides would show up is if the battery had leaked and in the absence of leakage there's no exposure to air so no peroxides.
Samsung quickly found replacement batteries from a different manufacturer but the same problem seems to obtain. Were the new ones on the shelf in numbers Samsung needed because they were a standard product of the manufacturer? If both the original and replacement batteries have been previously used in different devices and haven't started fires, then there must be something about the Note 7 that's a problem. You discuss aging, yet both kinds of batteries are new - the phones are only a few weeks old - and can't have been subject to many charge discharge cycles. I suppose it could be something different and unique about the Note 7's charging system compared to any other device they make.
Even though Samsung has said they don't know what caused the problem in the Note 7s, I have a theory. In the drive for thinness the battery is squeezed very tightly against the other internal parts of the phone. Charging and discharging will cause expansion and contraction of the battery and in the tight environment some warping and bending might occur causing breaking of the outer battery skin. In addition if the battery comes in contact with sharp or pointed components in the phone expansion could result in pierced battery skin. The result is leakage of the liquid ether containing liquid electrolyte. These are organic ethers, not diethyl ether once used as anesthetic, but more complex, higher molecular weight compounds. Ethers coming in contact with air form peroxides which are spontaneously explosive and flammable. This might explain why the phones burn when not in use as the accumulated organic ethers take some time to become oxidized to peroxides.
The suggestion by earlier posters that phones should contain customer replaceable batteries might mitigate what I have suggested happened. The design of the batteries I've seen for phones with replaceable batteries (like my wife's Samsung Galaxy S4) were contained in substantial metal cases to be placed in a cavity in the phone protected from internal phone components. Maybe the phones would the somewhat thicker. So what?
I used the term first degree murder. First degree means murder carried out with planning. Killing someone in a fight can mean a less severe crime such as second degree or manslaughter carrying a less severe penalty than a death sentence. The charge is often up to the prosecutors and perhaps the accused is given the option of pleading to a lesser crime than first degree murder. Sometimes the jury may be given a choice of deciding the level of the crime committed and the penalty.
IIRC, in Britain in the past there was no distinction between a planned murder or causing accidental death in an emotional outburst - causing death was murder and there was only one penalty to be carried out in three weeks or so. It thought I read the death penalty was gotten rid of because too many innocent persons were put to death. In the US some folks are being let out of prison after decades in prison because it's found they did not commit the crime they were found guilty of. The Innocence Project estimates 50% of persons convicted of a crime based on eye-witness testimony probably didn't commit the crime. We don't know how many are executed and not later found innocent of a crime.
That's exactly what my statement means. The time in jail is pretty short for most first degree murderers in Texas because in the end they are carried out of prison in a body bag, coffin or buried in the prison cemetery.
In Texas, for first degree murder, it's maybe 10 years or a bit longer depending on the length of the appeals process.
Not really. What I'm saying is that should Apple or other PC makers release their OS software code to the public all hell would break loose not only for the old hardware but new OS/hardware too. Of course, high end, sophisticated hackers manage to find ways to defeat the newest stuff. Just don't make it easier for them and others.
The Fender hardware could be hacked but that would occur by a repair shop and easily traced to its source.
If the source code for the OS in old Apple hardware were made public those old machines might become a magnet for hackers. Also, how much of the current software contains much of the old code? I wonder if the latest Mac OS is 90% the stuff that's five to seven years old.
I don't know anything about your Telecaster but my guess it's not connected to the Internet since it was born in 1967, long before the Internet existed, so public information about it is not likely to result in any hacking of its usefulness.
The guy should now sell the software he wrote to the kettle's manufacturer at a nice upfront cost and a per kettle fee.
Maybe I should have added my :/ sarcasm tag.
One of the problems with medicine prices in the US is that the congress has prevented the US funded health insurance providers from negotiating prices of drugs. This included Medicare, Medicaid and others. Were this allowed it would likely reduce the cost of medicines paid by private insurers as well reducing premiums for employers and employees having employer subsidized health insurance. . One example of high priced drugs involves treatment of age related macular degeneration. There are apparently two drugs for its treatment, one costing about $70 per injection and another is thousands of dollars. In the UK, the expensive one cannot be used in the treatment but in the US the cheaper one is generally not used. Treatments for this condition can continue at six week intervals for many years. This becomes an extremely expensive treatment course. And of course, since the administration of the drug is in a clinic and Medicare will pay the cost including the margin to the clinic, clinics use the expensive drug enhancing the profit of the drug provider and the clinic and its physician owner.
The usual justification for the high cost of medicines is that some of the profit can be used to research new treatments. This seems somewhat bogus because other countries allow governments to negotiate low prices for drugs. Are US consumers providing all the research funding for new drugs? I doubt it.
I'm not sure what all the fuss is about regarding the profit on a medicine and why Mylan would need to lie to congress or anyone else regarding its profit. If they have a patent on a product the company can charge what ever they want and if folks don't want to pay the price they don't have to buy it. In our economy there are many products where the cost of purchase has little relationship to the cost of manufacture. Other examples in the pharmaceutical industry are rampant including those of Martin Shkreli (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...). There are two examples cited where the price of drugs purchased by companies he was associated with were raised 5,556% (the antiparasitic Daraprim) and 2,000% (Thiola). The price of the second has not been reduced even though Shkreli was removed from the company. Not sure about the first. These prices made a lot of money for the companies, its share holders and the senior executives. Isn't that what capitalism is all about?
At first I was thinking the folks who perpetrated the DoS attack generated the SE (Streisand Effect) having the unintended consequence of drawing many more views of the Newsweek article then would otherwise occur. Then I thought maybe that was the purpose of the DoS attack. Draw your own conclusions.
You think Samsung has battery issues. Wait till folks charge their iPhones in a 1,500 watt microwave. Heating sealed lithium ion batteries having organic liquid electrolyte solvent will not only destroy the phone but the microwave oven and maybe the kitchen itself.
IIRC, Microsoft early on offered unlimited storage for Sky Drive, now One Drive. There was one account that had something like 70 T Bytes of data. That's a T, as in Terra. That's 1,000 Giga bytes. Not likely a single person but probably a "shared" account where a number of folks had the login name and password. A single home user wouldn't likely have the data speed to put all that stuff up even if their USP had no data limits. When MS noticed this they drastically reduced free storage limits.
I was just going to post that Prime subs get unlimited photo storage at full quality. How long will that last?
Google has unlimited photo storage but compressed to 12 mega pixels. Works well for my 12 mega pixel Nexus 6P camera. And Microsoft's One Drive gives up 1 T Bytes of storage for Office 365 subscribers and varying amounts depending on previous history of its use. IIRC, I have 40 G bytes on One Drive, others may have more or less.
The summary text is unreadable. Only readable texts with proper grammar in summaries should be allowed to be posted.
Within the US shipping costs do vary by distance the package will travel. For UPS check this link for shipping from one zone to another: https://www.ups.com/content/us...
It's possible that the price of an item on Amazon's web site varies with shipping cost when "free shipping" is part of the deal. For Prime subscribers Amazon knows the Zip code of the recipient of a package and its point of origin as well as its weight. One way Amazon may be evening out shipping charges it pays is by building shipping warehouses all over the country so shipping costs are the lowest it can add to the base cost of an item. But if the closest warehouse doesn't have an item it must make a longer trip to the customer. The other thing Amazon may be doing is figuring price on the greatest shipping distance and keeping the profit when the distance is shorter resulting in lower cost to itself. I don't know the answer to all this and Amazon may be keeping this very secret.
I hate the term "Free Shipping." If there were free shipping UPS, USPS, FedEx wouldn't be paid to move Amazon purchases to your door. The term should be "Price includes shipping." And of course the value of this shipping depends on the distance from the shipping point to your door. Maybe the price depends on that, but I don't know. If the included shipping price is the same then those farthest from the shipping point to their door are being subsidized by those close to the shipping points. I'm surprised that some Federal regulator hasn't come down on Amazon and every other mail order company for using this term.
Oracle also will own copyright to any content stored on their servers. Those placing their copyrighted materials on the server will face copyright infringement consequences.
Set a permanent notification on phones that says the phone has the newer, safer battery. I have a couple of notifications that are always there when I swipe down to view them. If someone needs to prove they have an the new battery they can show the notification. Then when there's an update to a newer OS version is installed the notification can be removed, or not. Oh, wait, when will Samsung update the OS?