The anti-bacterial soaps all contain alcohol, this denatures proteins and kills all bacteria, it is unlikely that any bacteria can ever build up resistance to this......it's a bit like trying to build up resistance to having a nuclear bomb dropped on you...
This is one of the problems, people go to their doctor for anti-biotics for a cold or other Viral infection, and complain when the doctor (quite correctly) says it won't help...
The other issue is that people are given a course of anti-biotics (e.g. 3 weeks) and stop after 2 "because they are feeling better".. and so the remaining bacteria are the most resistant, and most likely to be treated by the same doctor with the same anti-biotic...
There have been loads of failures at Nuclear plants, you didn't hear about them because....nothing happened, they failed safe, no radiation leaked...
However the coal plants, which have the same number or more accidents, people were hurt and died, but it was only local news because it was only a coal plant and no radiation was involved...
The safety record of Nuclear plants is amazingly good simply because they are run to very high standards (because they have to be), it is only a Nuclear disaster like Fukashima that prompts people to check...
The advise that comes from Fukashima is don't build plants near the sea on the Pacific rim, in Earthquake zones... France is not on the Pacific, it's plants aren't in earthquake zones.... At least one of the USA's plants is....
Intel - have loads of experience in getting the creaking x86 architecture to work in the modern world, ARM however is much much newer and has much less layers of cruft, they have not shown their ability to throw away all that and start from scratch (which is what we really need)
Do they have the largest part of the SmartPhone market - No
Do they have the largest part of the Laptop market - No
Do they have the largest part of the Tablet market - Yes but they have little or no competition in the artificial market they created
Music Player - Well the market is shifting, and most people have a music player on their phone now so if you count these then the iPod is a minute part of the market... (From my experience I have has one mp3 player for 5 years, my friends have bought several (3 or more) iPods in this time due to breakage/battery issues, so I suspect their sales figures were inflated anyway?)
So that explains why all those social games exist, it's for all the introverts to play on-line, and chat with the friends they don't have...
That explains why Facebook, and Twitter etc is so popular it's for all the socially maladjusted types to interact with all the friends they don't have...
Most of the people on-line are very social, they see the internet as a tool, like many others, to enhance their life
While it can be also used by introverts, the people who use it most are not...
Tell those struggling amateur musicians that do not have a record deal, that "Shock horror" they don't need one.......Go get a PR company to promote your music on iTunes, and Amazon, and arrange and advertise concerts, and the record company can make those curious black and shiny wheel shaped things that no-one buys anymore
"..doesn't even work outside US" for small values of doesn't work, i.e. Google says it doesn't, makes it non-obvious how to setup outside the US (i.e. you cannot download from the app-store) but it works just fine thank you...
They did and the Result is Virgin Media... and they have their own fast fibre network, this is why this story is laughable, there are two big fibre companies, there is competition....and still the little leeches complain...
BT have managed to keep the existing system running, innovate and run Fibre with out going bust...
BT had a government sanctioned competitor (Mercury) that went bust as soon as they had to actually spend money on the infrastructure they should have built, but decided they could just leech off BT...
Virgin, are saddled with debt because they are the result of a spending spree by various companies who merged all the fibre companies (and others) into the only real competition BT have...
See above, software engineers used to publish their ideas, now they don't in case someone else patents them...
They just get told to patent them instead, so the entire industry has an extra overhead, but no advantage, have you read a software patent, it is written in legalese, usually by a patent lawyer not by a programmer, it is next to useless in designing software, and the patent database is almost impossible to search for ideas
Note most programmers and actively discouraged in looking at patents, if they know about a patent and violate it then the costs go up...
So instead of a free flow of ideas, and a bit of locking up company secrets, we have a patents system that encourages people to sue over trivial ideas, lock up ideas in legalese, and stifle innovation...
Was this not what the patent system was designed to prevent.... ?
Like IBM have had for years you mean....IBM is a small company that produces software and some other stuff...
It's research department is quite well known... five Nobel Prizes, four Turing Awards, nine National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science.
Courier Tablet - sorry no-one seems to have heard of it, is that anything like the iPad or the Galaxy Tablet ?
Most people do not burn the Recovery software onto CD/DVD for the same reason they do not have backups... they are lazy, not stupid
If they have burned the recovery onto CD/DVD then by the time they need it they will not be able to find it.. they are human
Linux does not normally come with commercial software, but there is plenty for it, just not shouted about... Please go to a Hollywood animation shop and you will see the Linux cluster they use for rendering, and the Mac's they use for design (and the one Windows machine in the building...)....and some of the "crappy" non-commercial software is quite good, and fairly widely used (Apache runs the majority of Websites...)
Remember that most modern languages had their compilers or interpreters written in C (even if they are now self compiled), or often now Java... and the JVM and compiler is written in C...
You have a free market, anyone is free to install their own copper or fibre to your property, and charge you accordingly (they won't because it would maker thier service prohibitively expensive), anyone is free to use your current line provider's lines, and your current provider is free to charge what they like for them
This means in practical terms that you are stuck with whoever provides your lines...
Regulation in the EU means your line provider has to let other use their lines, only charge a "reasonable" amount, and gets a fixed reasonable fee direct from the customer for doing so (which means they actually maintain it)
The Free Market only works if you have a choice, but companies know the best way of maximising profits is to remove your choice...
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Mach 5.5 vs Mach 6 is not "a lot faster" but both are fast enough to make it unlikely it would be spotted before it hit ...which is the point
The talented ones are the ones who say that the Microsoft video-conferencing software must be playing up that's why there is no image only audio ....
Monitor a black screen ...
The anti-bacterial soaps all contain alcohol, this denatures proteins and kills all bacteria, it is unlikely that any bacteria can ever build up resistance to this ... ...it's a bit like trying to build up resistance to having a nuclear bomb dropped on you ...
This is one of the problems, people go to their doctor for anti-biotics for a cold or other Viral infection, and complain when the doctor (quite correctly) says it won't help ...
The other issue is that people are given a course of anti-biotics (e.g. 3 weeks) and stop after 2 "because they are feeling better" .. and so the remaining bacteria are the most resistant, and most likely to be treated by the same doctor with the same anti-biotic ...
There have been loads of failures at Nuclear plants, you didn't hear about them because....nothing happened, they failed safe, no radiation leaked ...
However the coal plants, which have the same number or more accidents, people were hurt and died, but it was only local news because it was only a coal plant and no radiation was involved ...
The safety record of Nuclear plants is amazingly good simply because they are run to very high standards (because they have to be), it is only a Nuclear disaster like Fukashima that prompts people to check...
The advise that comes from Fukashima is don't build plants near the sea on the Pacific rim, in Earthquake zones ... France is not on the Pacific, it's plants aren't in earthquake zones .... At least one of the USA's plants is ....
Even if you give a Lamborghini to an uncool guy, who can't drive, he still isn't cool ...
Intel - have loads of experience in getting the creaking x86 architecture to work in the modern world, ARM however is much much newer and has much less layers of cruft, they have not shown their ability to throw away all that and start from scratch (which is what we really need)
..winning in the Portable device market -
Do they have the largest part of the SmartPhone market - No
Do they have the largest part of the Laptop market - No
Do they have the largest part of the Tablet market - Yes but they have little or no competition in the artificial market they created
Music Player - Well the market is shifting, and most people have a music player on their phone now so if you count these then the iPod is a minute part of the market ... (From my experience I have has one mp3 player for 5 years, my friends have bought several (3 or more) iPods in this time due to breakage/battery issues, so I suspect their sales figures were inflated anyway?)
So that explains why all those social games exist, it's for all the introverts to play on-line, and chat with the friends they don't have ...
That explains why Facebook, and Twitter etc is so popular it's for all the socially maladjusted types to interact with all the friends they don't have ...
Most of the people on-line are very social, they see the internet as a tool, like many others, to enhance their life
While it can be also used by introverts, the people who use it most are not ...
Tell those struggling amateur musicians that do not have a record deal, that "Shock horror" they don't need one .... ...Go get a PR company to promote your music on iTunes, and Amazon, and arrange and advertise concerts, and the record company can make those curious black and shiny wheel shaped things that no-one buys anymore
Listening to Google Music on my UK Bought, UK registered, Android phone ... Not as US centric as Google want ... or maybe they don't care ...
"..doesn't even work outside US" for small values of doesn't work, i.e. Google says it doesn't, makes it non-obvious how to setup outside the US (i.e. you cannot download from the app-store) but it works just fine thank you ...
They did and the Result is Virgin Media ... and they have their own fast fibre network, this is why this story is laughable, there are two big fibre companies, there is competition....and still the little leeches complain ...
BT have managed to keep the existing system running, innovate and run Fibre with out going bust ...
BT had a government sanctioned competitor (Mercury) that went bust as soon as they had to actually spend money on the infrastructure they should have built, but decided they could just leech off BT ...
Virgin, are saddled with debt because they are the result of a spending spree by various companies who merged all the fibre companies (and others) into the only real competition BT have ...
Especially since Clifford Cocks invented the "RSA" algorithm first (1973) ...
See above, software engineers used to publish their ideas, now they don't in case someone else patents them...
They just get told to patent them instead, so the entire industry has an extra overhead, but no advantage, have you read a software patent, it is written in legalese, usually by a patent lawyer not by a programmer, it is next to useless in designing software, and the patent database is almost impossible to search for ideas
Note most programmers and actively discouraged in looking at patents, if they know about a patent and violate it then the costs go up ...
So instead of a free flow of ideas, and a bit of locking up company secrets, we have a patents system that encourages people to sue over trivial ideas, lock up ideas in legalese, and stifle innovation ...
Was this not what the patent system was designed to prevent .... ?
Like IBM have had for years you mean ....IBM is a small company that produces software and some other stuff ...
It's research department is quite well known ... five Nobel Prizes, four Turing Awards, nine National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science.
Courier Tablet - sorry no-one seems to have heard of it, is that anything like the iPad or the Galaxy Tablet ?
Bunch of random questions about ancient technology, old TV programmes, Nicknames for old versions of OS's and some new tech ...
but everything the real Geeks either never knew, or have forgotten ...
Not a Geek text ... a Geek wannabe text ...
Most people do not burn the Recovery software onto CD/DVD for the same reason they do not have backups ... they are lazy, not stupid
If they have burned the recovery onto CD/DVD then by the time they need it they will not be able to find it.. they are human
Linux does not normally come with commercial software, but there is plenty for it, just not shouted about ... Please go to a Hollywood animation shop and you will see the Linux cluster they use for rendering, and the Mac's they use for design (and the one Windows machine in the building...) ....and some of the "crappy" non-commercial software is quite good, and fairly widely used (Apache runs the majority of Websites ...)
Remember that most modern languages had their compilers or interpreters written in C (even if they are now self compiled), or often now Java ... and the JVM and compiler is written in C ...
IOCCC code is hard to read
DemoScene code is efficient
Both are normal code taken to extremes
You can see my fingerprints, see my face, fairly easily see my retinas, watch what I do .... ....now tell me, what is my password ...?
Fingerprint readers can be easily defeated ...
Now go away and do some bricklaying without gloves, and then try and access your computer ... oh sorry you won't have fingerprints for a week or so ...
You have a free market, anyone is free to install their own copper or fibre to your property, and charge you accordingly (they won't because it would maker thier service prohibitively expensive), anyone is free to use your current line provider's lines, and your current provider is free to charge what they like for them
This means in practical terms that you are stuck with whoever provides your lines ...
Regulation in the EU means your line provider has to let other use their lines, only charge a "reasonable" amount, and gets a fixed reasonable fee direct from the customer for doing so (which means they actually maintain it)
The Free Market only works if you have a choice, but companies know the best way of maximising profits is to remove your choice ...
By making it not worth their while to not comply
Small birds harass much larger ones, they have no hope of stopping them, but they do make it not worth going after their vulnerable young....