Batteries can be divided into sections with firewalls in between.
This is what makes a battery a battery. If it's not compartmentalized, it's a cell. A battery of cells is a battery. Your average AA/LR6 "battery" is more accurately referred to as a "cell".
Car batteries, which are likely to be a major power consumers in the future, can be built with "smart chargers" that charge only when surplus energy is available (and thus the price is low).
This works until charging cars becomes more than a microscopic blip in the overall demand. As more people charge their cars, however smartly, the exploitable demand curve flattens, and the area under the entire curve increases. If electric cars start to replace regular cars, energy prices will go up, up, up and the opportunity to charge your car during "off-peak" times for a relative discount will go down, down, gone.
If you want a car analogy for charging your car, try this. Uber "surge" pricing. The more people using Uber, the more normal pricing approaches surge pricing, and the higher "surge" pricing goes.
Why are you suing over a violation of Illinois law in New York?
Regardless, the judge's reasoning is absurd - if Take Two violated the law the plaintiff's don't need to prove further harm. Violation of the law is the harm. The law exists to prevent such use of a person's biometric data because the state of Illinois has determined such use to be harmful.
The extent to which damages can be awarded can be decided in part by looking at harm caused, punitive assessments set forth in the law, potential harm caused (once the biometric cat spills the beans, you can't get the digital Humpty Dumpty back in the lamp), etc. A ruling on the violation of the law is a separate issue.
Had a popular vote been used, not only would Trump not be president, but congress would be Democratic, as they win the congressional vote every presidential election year.
A popular vote isn't used in this country, by design, to keep selfish ignoramuses like you from taking over. A popular vote doesn't mean anything. Hillary didn't win the majority of the popular vote. You're imagining a scenario in which a plurality is of the popular vote determines the President of the United States of America. You're also imagining a scenario where the campaigns and votes play out exactly the same despite the incredibly different rules for the election.
Bigotry is the rejection of opinions other than your own simply because they are not your own. Bigotry has NOTHING to do hate of a particular race, sex, nation, religion, etc. The original use of the word was related to religion, but still it merely meant rejecting other beliefs without consideration because they are not your own.
Exactly. In 2017 who the FUCK uses suspend/sleep/hibernate/etc.? A cold boot is plenty fast, doesn't waste storage space, doesn't use any power, and doesn't leave anything to chance, such as displays/peripherals not coming back on when the machine resumes. (Which is still a fairly common problem - didn't Slashdot just have a story about the newest Macbooks having this issue?)
Stagnant megacorp hires washed up exec from stagnant and companies in an effort to avoid further stagnation.
When your brand starts to lose its luster, don't hire faces from other big name companies to try and restore it.
1: If they're willing to leave for a bit more cash (and your illegal collusion and spying means you'll only ever offer a bit more) and enter your musty old claptrap, they're not the hip rockstar you think they are.
2: Your opinion of the companies they're coming from is vastly different from what that person can do for your opinion. Inertia is a big thing in big companies. Even if you see that company as a super hip brand, it's likely a facade covering an internal morass. Hint: Look at your own company and the problem you're trying to solve compared to the company image you put out). Even if the company you're hiring the person from IS legitimately agile/hip/innovative/buzzword, the odds of it being due to that one person, or that one person being able to repeat their success on your ship, are slim to none.
3: Your customers don't give a shit what monkey in a suit you hire, they care about the shit you sell them. Cut executive pay and roll it into product development, QA, or even salaries for regular staff if you want your company to BE healthy as opposed to just APPEAR healthy.
Not forcing people to pay for insurance does NOT mean other people pay for their care. Simply let them be denied treatment at emergency rooms if they can't pay.
On the surface is a simple joke playing on Homer's simple mind. However, there is a deep truth to it. We are ultimately all of equal worth in death, and thus in life.
Yup. There's no reason for [sic] to be there unless it was in the original quote.
Even if it were an error I argue against EVER putting [sic] inside a quote, or otherwise altering a quote. If the quote is incorrect, leave it. If you want to quote a portion of something and need to change a tense or replace a pronoun/article/whatever, you change your surrounding structure, not the fucking quote.
Accidents can happen at any age, but insurance is ultimately a bet against yourself and a bet against the odds. There's a reason it's an incredibly profitable industry, from medical to home to auto to whatever else. Statistically, you pay more in than you get out. The vast majority of young people would be better off without medical insurance.
The same is true of "preventive care". The costs of preventive care, routine screening, etc. have crept up and up yet they've shown little to no real benefit. Yes, someone will post about an early screening catching cancer, and to them that's invaluable. Aggregated across the whole population, however, the math doesn't add up.
What the ACA did is FORCE everyone to get insurance or pay a tax (and yes, it's a fucking tax). Ultimately, this just resulted in increased costs.
It is just very interesting because you clearly had some expectations about what the movie would be about, and those expectations were completely unfilled.
I had never heard of the movie before arriving for the holidays and being told we were going to watch it and that it stars "Baby Affleck" The SAG member in the family gets stacks and stacks of DVDs every year and chews through them as some sort of duty. If anything, my lack of expectations made the film worse. I didn't expect a mire of depression, I didn't know it was about loss and grief. I didn't expect incessant flashbacks.
I understand all the emotional shit, I just don't care to watch a movie about it. It was ultimately uninteresting. You say that you need some life experience to get or appreciate this movie, I say people with "life experience" have no need for a grey rehash of a stereotypical story of grief. It was bland and predictable by design to appear real and relatable. The problem is it was still bland and predictable. 100% of my family who watched it, young and old, agreed.
Even if you think all the flashbacks had to be done (and I agree that some amount was needed), they could have been done in a clearer or more consistent way. I'd stake my life on someone involved in the production saying they should add a simple text overlay with the year whenever time switches, and the director getting up in arms about violating his artistic vision of a confusing wallow of self-pity. Even if you find a text overlay abhorrent, there are many other ways to do this effectively. Visual effects (a color grading change or a vignetting effect) can be done as subtly as desired but still be effective. Simple editing where you bring the audio track of the flashback in early, at the tail end of the present day shot, before cutting over to it is also a common method. Following a pattern to flashback cuts, or at least having some visual landmark that exists in one time but not the other, would also help. (For one family member, this was the dead dad.)
I understand why they had those distant shots and what the director/cinematographer was trying to do. To me it was distracting in many cases and added nothing of substance.
As I said in my first post, this is a depressing and dull movie. I didn't say it was a bad movie, but I certainly think it's overrated and flawed. You're right, this movie isn't about plot or character development. Don't watch it for that. Watch this movie if you want to be depressed (and some people do enjoy depressing movies). This is what I recommended in my first post:
If you get sick of being happy, or there's a day where you look out the window and say "I wish there were less sun and that sky was about 7 pantone steps more grey", give it a watch.
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Social media - 50% of the accounts are bots, but 100% of the users are fake.
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Batteries can be divided into sections with firewalls in between.
This is what makes a battery a battery. If it's not compartmentalized, it's a cell. A battery of cells is a battery.
Your average AA/LR6 "battery" is more accurately referred to as a "cell".
Car batteries, which are likely to be a major power consumers in the future, can be built with "smart chargers" that charge only when surplus energy is available (and thus the price is low).
This works until charging cars becomes more than a microscopic blip in the overall demand. As more people charge their cars, however smartly, the exploitable demand curve flattens, and the area under the entire curve increases. If electric cars start to replace regular cars, energy prices will go up, up, up and the opportunity to charge your car during "off-peak" times for a relative discount will go down, down, gone.
If you want a car analogy for charging your car, try this. Uber "surge" pricing. The more people using Uber, the more normal pricing approaches surge pricing, and the higher "surge" pricing goes.
Why are you suing over a violation of Illinois law in New York?
Regardless, the judge's reasoning is absurd - if Take Two violated the law the plaintiff's don't need to prove further harm. Violation of the law is the harm. The law exists to prevent such use of a person's biometric data because the state of Illinois has determined such use to be harmful.
The extent to which damages can be awarded can be decided in part by looking at harm caused, punitive assessments set forth in the law, potential harm caused (once the biometric cat spills the beans, you can't get the digital Humpty Dumpty back in the lamp), etc. A ruling on the violation of the law is a separate issue.
Many websites are using -webkit or blink specific CSS 3 tags and ignoring HTML 5 standards.
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Had a popular vote been used, not only would Trump not be president, but congress would be Democratic, as they win the congressional vote every presidential election year.
A popular vote isn't used in this country, by design, to keep selfish ignoramuses like you from taking over.
A popular vote doesn't mean anything.
Hillary didn't win the majority of the popular vote.
You're imagining a scenario in which a plurality is of the popular vote determines the President of the United States of America.
You're also imagining a scenario where the campaigns and votes play out exactly the same despite the incredibly different rules for the election.
CNN was reporting
You need to roll 17 or higher on a D20 for anything CNN reports to be accurate.
Bigotry is the rejection of opinions other than your own simply because they are not your own.
Bigotry has NOTHING to do hate of a particular race, sex, nation, religion, etc. The original use of the word was related to religion, but still it merely meant rejecting other beliefs without consideration because they are not your own.
LOL "turn on the computer". its 2017, not 1991.
Exactly. In 2017 who the FUCK uses suspend/sleep/hibernate/etc.? A cold boot is plenty fast, doesn't waste storage space, doesn't use any power, and doesn't leave anything to chance, such as displays/peripherals not coming back on when the machine resumes. (Which is still a fairly common problem - didn't Slashdot just have a story about the newest Macbooks having this issue?)
Will it be able to give meaning to poorly-translated newsfeeds like the ones this slashdot contributor's history?
Sample:
"Various framerates have been a warm theme before few years?"
It gets worse from there.
Different framerates have been a hot topic in recent years.
That'll be .001 BTC.
1st World Non-Problems.
Just do like the poor people do - pop em out and let em run amok.
Non compete agreements were ruled illegal a few years back in CA. "Poaching" is not a crime unless you're actually killing the employees.
Nope. Rusty Shackelford.
If it has to be advertised I don't need it.
So you need nothing, because almost everything is advertised now... Not that people see it at all...
Just because it is advertised doesn't mean it has to be advertised.
Stagnant megacorp hires washed up exec from stagnant and companies in an effort to avoid further stagnation.
When your brand starts to lose its luster, don't hire faces from other big name companies to try and restore it.
1: If they're willing to leave for a bit more cash (and your illegal collusion and spying means you'll only ever offer a bit more) and enter your musty old claptrap, they're not the hip rockstar you think they are.
2: Your opinion of the companies they're coming from is vastly different from what that person can do for your opinion. Inertia is a big thing in big companies. Even if you see that company as a super hip brand, it's likely a facade covering an internal morass. Hint: Look at your own company and the problem you're trying to solve compared to the company image you put out). Even if the company you're hiring the person from IS legitimately agile/hip/innovative/buzzword, the odds of it being due to that one person, or that one person being able to repeat their success on your ship, are slim to none.
3: Your customers don't give a shit what monkey in a suit you hire, they care about the shit you sell them. Cut executive pay and roll it into product development, QA, or even salaries for regular staff if you want your company to BE healthy as opposed to just APPEAR healthy.
You're a fucking moron.
Not forcing people to pay for insurance does NOT mean other people pay for their care. Simply let them be denied treatment at emergency rooms if they can't pay.
The details are in the summary: He and a high-ranking FSB official were laundering money from foreign accounts.
Yawn.
MDT is trash through and through.
Are you connecting via DisplayPort? This was a common issue on Nvidia cards.
"If he's so smart, home come he's dead?"
-Homer Simpson
On the surface is a simple joke playing on Homer's simple mind. However, there is a deep truth to it. We are ultimately all of equal worth in death, and thus in life.
Yup. There's no reason for [sic] to be there unless it was in the original quote.
Even if it were an error I argue against EVER putting [sic] inside a quote, or otherwise altering a quote. If the quote is incorrect, leave it. If you want to quote a portion of something and need to change a tense or replace a pronoun/article/whatever, you change your surrounding structure, not the fucking quote.
Accidents can happen at any age, but insurance is ultimately a bet against yourself and a bet against the odds.
There's a reason it's an incredibly profitable industry, from medical to home to auto to whatever else. Statistically, you pay more in than you get out. The vast majority of young people would be better off without medical insurance.
The same is true of "preventive care". The costs of preventive care, routine screening, etc. have crept up and up yet they've shown little to no real benefit. Yes, someone will post about an early screening catching cancer, and to them that's invaluable. Aggregated across the whole population, however, the math doesn't add up.
What the ACA did is FORCE everyone to get insurance or pay a tax (and yes, it's a fucking tax). Ultimately, this just resulted in increased costs.
It is just very interesting because you clearly had some expectations about what the movie would be about, and those expectations were completely unfilled.
I had never heard of the movie before arriving for the holidays and being told we were going to watch it and that it stars "Baby Affleck" The SAG member in the family gets stacks and stacks of DVDs every year and chews through them as some sort of duty. If anything, my lack of expectations made the film worse. I didn't expect a mire of depression, I didn't know it was about loss and grief. I didn't expect incessant flashbacks.
I understand all the emotional shit, I just don't care to watch a movie about it. It was ultimately uninteresting. You say that you need some life experience to get or appreciate this movie, I say people with "life experience" have no need for a grey rehash of a stereotypical story of grief. It was bland and predictable by design to appear real and relatable. The problem is it was still bland and predictable. 100% of my family who watched it, young and old, agreed.
Even if you think all the flashbacks had to be done (and I agree that some amount was needed), they could have been done in a clearer or more consistent way. I'd stake my life on someone involved in the production saying they should add a simple text overlay with the year whenever time switches, and the director getting up in arms about violating his artistic vision of a confusing wallow of self-pity.
Even if you find a text overlay abhorrent, there are many other ways to do this effectively. Visual effects (a color grading change or a vignetting effect) can be done as subtly as desired but still be effective. Simple editing where you bring the audio track of the flashback in early, at the tail end of the present day shot, before cutting over to it is also a common method. Following a pattern to flashback cuts, or at least having some visual landmark that exists in one time but not the other, would also help. (For one family member, this was the dead dad.)
I understand why they had those distant shots and what the director/cinematographer was trying to do. To me it was distracting in many cases and added nothing of substance.
As I said in my first post, this is a depressing and dull movie. I didn't say it was a bad movie, but I certainly think it's overrated and flawed. You're right, this movie isn't about plot or character development. Don't watch it for that. Watch this movie if you want to be depressed (and some people do enjoy depressing movies). This is what I recommended in my first post:
If you get sick of being happy, or there's a day where you look out the window and say "I wish there were less sun and that sky was about 7 pantone steps more grey", give it a watch.
Get ready America, Trumps going to run the US just like his idol Putin runs Russia.
Fairly well, catering to its own interests, and unbeholden to foreign powers?
What fetish? The memo reports he hired women to pee on the bed the Obama's sleep in. It quoted known spies in the hotel, and known spies in the FSB.
If there were known spies in the hotel, the Obama family would not be staying in the hotel.
You people are so fucking stupid.
1/3 spammer army, 1/3 in the hands of botnet operators to be sold off for use in trolling/harassment/activism campaigns, 1/3 Twitter inflating user numbers to get that sweet, sweet money.
Social media - 50% of the accounts are bots, but 100% of the users are fake.