There's a black guy I know who drives in a normal, non-showoff manner without weaving in and out of traffic or doing U-turns when leaving the kerb. He has a clean driver license. Yes, he drives a BMW. No, he does not get stopped by the police. I wonder why that is?
In fact, although practice in vehicles easily accessible for maintenance is to rely on the friction to retain bolts, for more critical applications the correct answer is one of anaerobic threadlocking compound, wiring, lockwashers or cotter pins. I can't help wondering what is going on here. Perhaps someone thought that because space walks were possible, a proper mechanical lock wasn't necessary; perhaps it was weight saving; or perhaps a mechanical lock would not be usable under space walk conditions.
Personally, I like anaerobic adhesives. I spent time researching them when I was an R&D engineer, and they have never let me down when properly applied. But they are not the best for things that have to be routinely replaced.
What are you going to make it out of? It has to function in a vacuum over a wider temperature range. 5W20 oil will evaporate. The Hasselblads sent to the Moon had, as I recall, all the bearings replaced with PTFE so they could function lubricant free. (There is still at least one left on the Moon, if you want to collect it, but it's out of warranty).
The answer was correct. You've been told it is not a marketing or regulatory issue. It is very hard to make a phone that switches between lots of bands. One major reason is antenna design. If you only have basic EE, you won't know enough to understand why. Antenna theory is hard work, as is the design of very, very tiny tuned circuits with narrow passbands at microwave frequencies in close proximity.
Your example is badly flawed. "Drinkbox Studios" is surely trade markable, as is their logo, because drinking has nothing per se to do with boxes or video games and a logo is, in any case, a trade mark. Trade mark is a stronger protection than a "design patent" (in Europe a Design Registration).
Years ago I worked for a US conglomerate that was founded by a few good old boys from the Midwest. Legend has it that after they grew, one of them was walking round the new HQ and came across a vast suite for the legal department. When told what it was, he asked "What do we need all these lawyers for"? So someone investigated...and pretty soon there was a lot of empty space in that suite. Lawyers on the payroll multiply during the rare large cases, and then try and justify their salary when the big case is over. Pretty soon you have lawyers who are, basically, just touting for internal business.
That's about as much "engineering" as Xerox once found its engineers actually did in a survey. The rest was meetings and bureaucracy and travel.
My feeling is that if you need to work long hours, your job is badly designed. Studies have suggested that once over 44 hours a week, productivity starts to decline faster than the gains from longer working hours. I believe this; I've spent so long debugging code from people who thought pulling all-nighters was smart that in at least one case we might just as well not have employed him.
Sorry, are you saying that the BOFH would do worse than either Hilary Clinton or our own beloved William Hague? That's improbable; they both appear to be BPFH.
(White South African expat) is going back. We live in one of the best parts of the UK - near zero crime, countryside, employers moving into the area because land costs are low and infrastructure is good - and yet he wants to go back. He is planning to continue running his UK IT-based business remotely. So somebody who actually has local knowledge disagrees with you.
A wedge shape tilts the keyboard to a convenient angle and ensures the weight distribution makes carrying easier. Therefore, a generic wedge shape can never be a design patent. Apple must design patent a very specific shape with sufficient non-functional decoration to make it a "design".
I cannot think of a single occasion when I'm mobile that I would need more than 128G in a laptop. I would rather have the extra capacity in a USB HDD (actually I have mine in a 1Gbyte Firewire drive, but I digress). I can backup the laptop to the FW drive, replace it cheaply every year (called "insurance"). This is a more reliable and easy to understand solution for people who use computers for business.
I will just note that it depends on the design of the hinge. There is no "must" about it. But then, anybody whose view of economics is a simplistic as your sig presumably isn't too good at systems design.
The company doesn't have any obligation to buy shares back; they are in no sense a debt.
The share prices is the marginal trade price for small numbers of shares. Multiplying it by the number of shares is a bogus number. If all the shareholders in Apple tried to cash in on the same day - or even the same six months window - the price would collapse.
Market cap is a term invented by Wall Street to sell stock bubbles to dim punters.
For what we are doing, the principal benefit of Azure is the scalable SQL Server.The ability to fap around with little 1Gbyte databases and then scale them all the way to 150Gbytes (and beyond with sharding) is what sold me on it. The cost of hosting your own SQL Server is much higher.
I'm also not so convinced that the VM cost is that way out of line. The performance we get, both in and outbound, is high, and we pay considerably less than we used to for our hosting. I guess you have to compare like with like taking into account bandwidth, scalability and SLA, and the flexibility to dial cost up and down as the machines are scaled, which you do not have with a true hosted server and database.
Sorry, you don't have to travel to the tiers monde to find ignorant and desperately self-deluding people. Just look at the churchgoing percentage in the USA versus Western Europe. (And just look, for that matter, at gamblers, especially the ones in hedge funds and banks).
As in, if you lived in Nazi Germany and didn't have a copy of Mein Kampf displayed prominently in the drawing room, pretty soon you would have no status?
If small tablets are so much of a muchness that all someone can find to speculate on is fiddling little details like the width of the bezel, this is now a commoditised market.
This whole thing reminds me of the Hindi Ambassador. Basically it was an obsolete car design bought from the UK that had very few real improvements in its long life. Every year all Indian motoring journalists had to write about was minute changes to the tail light shape or the door handles.
Journalists should stop writing off RIM. Both Apple and Android products are getting so mature that, if RIM doesn't release BB 10 phones next year, there is going to be significant unemployment in the obsessing-over-gadgets industry.
All the important stuff is duplicated on the steering wheel. If I'm busy and the passenger wants to fiddle with the air conditioning, I can direct them to the touchscreen and I don't have to do anything. This to me is the ideal situation. The passenger can play with things that don't endanger anything, I can concentrate on avoiding the BMW driver who thinks that the little propeller sign on the front of his car means that he can pull out in front of people without looking.
But the ECHR does, which is why the Right in the UK want out of the EU. (Incidentally, typo alert - you mean "populace". "Populous" means "with many people". Another spellcheck fail, like brakes/breaks.)
There are plenty of good German histories of the Second World War and the rise of the Nazis, and they do not gloss over anything. And they teach children about it in school.
Whereas when I was at school the British Empire did nothing but bring peace and civilisation to mankind. Even the wars with the Maori in New Zealand were spun as a success story. It took my uncle living in Australia to tell me that the Aborigines were treated like dirt and were systematically wiped out by the British settlers.
"Trust me, Larry, our users are all sado-masochists. Deep down, we're giving them what they want. And deep down is where they're all going to end up, so it's kind of a win/win situation. Did I tell you about how they tried to get Heaven working on MySQL? They're back to clay tablets already."
Finishing schools = upper middle/lower upper class. (Really upper class didn't need the training). Most of them don't exist any more, but as your post appeared to be channelling the pre-War era (WW2, not Iraq) I thought the period was irrelevant.
My informant was the mother of a friend who went to one before WW2. She was posted to Egypt for much of the War and the skills she learned ensured an interesting social life.
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There's a black guy I know who drives in a normal, non-showoff manner without weaving in and out of traffic or doing U-turns when leaving the kerb. He has a clean driver license. Yes, he drives a BMW. No, he does not get stopped by the police. I wonder why that is?
Personally, I like anaerobic adhesives. I spent time researching them when I was an R&D engineer, and they have never let me down when properly applied. But they are not the best for things that have to be routinely replaced.
Get the beeswax up there at reasonable cost. SCRAMjet propelled bees?
What are you going to make it out of? It has to function in a vacuum over a wider temperature range. 5W20 oil will evaporate. The Hasselblads sent to the Moon had, as I recall, all the bearings replaced with PTFE so they could function lubricant free. (There is still at least one left on the Moon, if you want to collect it, but it's out of warranty).
The answer was correct. You've been told it is not a marketing or regulatory issue. It is very hard to make a phone that switches between lots of bands. One major reason is antenna design. If you only have basic EE, you won't know enough to understand why. Antenna theory is hard work, as is the design of very, very tiny tuned circuits with narrow passbands at microwave frequencies in close proximity.
Your example is badly flawed. "Drinkbox Studios" is surely trade markable, as is their logo, because drinking has nothing per se to do with boxes or video games and a logo is, in any case, a trade mark. Trade mark is a stronger protection than a "design patent" (in Europe a Design Registration).
Years ago I worked for a US conglomerate that was founded by a few good old boys from the Midwest. Legend has it that after they grew, one of them was walking round the new HQ and came across a vast suite for the legal department. When told what it was, he asked "What do we need all these lawyers for"? So someone investigated...and pretty soon there was a lot of empty space in that suite. Lawyers on the payroll multiply during the rare large cases, and then try and justify their salary when the big case is over. Pretty soon you have lawyers who are, basically, just touting for internal business.
My feeling is that if you need to work long hours, your job is badly designed. Studies have suggested that once over 44 hours a week, productivity starts to decline faster than the gains from longer working hours. I believe this; I've spent so long debugging code from people who thought pulling all-nighters was smart that in at least one case we might just as well not have employed him.
Sorry, are you saying that the BOFH would do worse than either Hilary Clinton or our own beloved William Hague? That's improbable; they both appear to be BPFH.
(White South African expat) is going back. We live in one of the best parts of the UK - near zero crime, countryside, employers moving into the area because land costs are low and infrastructure is good - and yet he wants to go back. He is planning to continue running his UK IT-based business remotely. So somebody who actually has local knowledge disagrees with you.
A wedge shape tilts the keyboard to a convenient angle and ensures the weight distribution makes carrying easier. Therefore, a generic wedge shape can never be a design patent. Apple must design patent a very specific shape with sufficient non-functional decoration to make it a "design".
I cannot think of a single occasion when I'm mobile that I would need more than 128G in a laptop. I would rather have the extra capacity in a USB HDD (actually I have mine in a 1Gbyte Firewire drive, but I digress). I can backup the laptop to the FW drive, replace it cheaply every year (called "insurance"). This is a more reliable and easy to understand solution for people who use computers for business.
I will just note that it depends on the design of the hinge. There is no "must" about it. But then, anybody whose view of economics is a simplistic as your sig presumably isn't too good at systems design.
The share prices is the marginal trade price for small numbers of shares. Multiplying it by the number of shares is a bogus number. If all the shareholders in Apple tried to cash in on the same day - or even the same six months window - the price would collapse.
Market cap is a term invented by Wall Street to sell stock bubbles to dim punters.
Also the SSPTO is in the middle of the Europan north polar ocean under the sign saying "Beware of the kraken". Sorry...not very sorry
I'm also not so convinced that the VM cost is that way out of line. The performance we get, both in and outbound, is high, and we pay considerably less than we used to for our hosting. I guess you have to compare like with like taking into account bandwidth, scalability and SLA, and the flexibility to dial cost up and down as the machines are scaled, which you do not have with a true hosted server and database.
Sorry, you don't have to travel to the tiers monde to find ignorant and desperately self-deluding people. Just look at the churchgoing percentage in the USA versus Western Europe. (And just look, for that matter, at gamblers, especially the ones in hedge funds and banks).
As in, if you lived in Nazi Germany and didn't have a copy of Mein Kampf displayed prominently in the drawing room, pretty soon you would have no status?
This whole thing reminds me of the Hindi Ambassador. Basically it was an obsolete car design bought from the UK that had very few real improvements in its long life. Every year all Indian motoring journalists had to write about was minute changes to the tail light shape or the door handles.
Journalists should stop writing off RIM. Both Apple and Android products are getting so mature that, if RIM doesn't release BB 10 phones next year, there is going to be significant unemployment in the obsessing-over-gadgets industry.
All the important stuff is duplicated on the steering wheel. If I'm busy and the passenger wants to fiddle with the air conditioning, I can direct them to the touchscreen and I don't have to do anything. This to me is the ideal situation. The passenger can play with things that don't endanger anything, I can concentrate on avoiding the BMW driver who thinks that the little propeller sign on the front of his car means that he can pull out in front of people without looking.
But the ECHR does, which is why the Right in the UK want out of the EU. (Incidentally, typo alert - you mean "populace". "Populous" means "with many people". Another spellcheck fail, like brakes/breaks.)
Whereas when I was at school the British Empire did nothing but bring peace and civilisation to mankind. Even the wars with the Maori in New Zealand were spun as a success story. It took my uncle living in Australia to tell me that the Aborigines were treated like dirt and were systematically wiped out by the British settlers.
Making bricks without straw - isn't that the very definition of what Facebook is about?
"Trust me, Larry, our users are all sado-masochists. Deep down, we're giving them what they want. And deep down is where they're all going to end up, so it's kind of a win/win situation. Did I tell you about how they tried to get Heaven working on MySQL? They're back to clay tablets already."
My informant was the mother of a friend who went to one before WW2. She was posted to Egypt for much of the War and the skills she learned ensured an interesting social life.