Studies have proven that having DST at all does save energy - artificial lights used fewer hours per day. I don't know if staying on that time all year would negate that savings or not.
I'm sure this is pointless to comment on, but if such robots existed, they could generate their own keys just by taking a picture of the inside of the lock, couldn't they? Fiber optics are great.
So if I take a phone book and list 110,000 numbers should I be prosecuted?
In a civil case, as that would only be a copyright issue. I'm sure phone books are salted with fake listings just like GPS map data to enable proving and prosecuting copyright infringement.
I know that's nothing to do with your argument, but it's worth mentioning.
The central authority (of which there is none) can't add more Bitcoins to the system. They have to be mined - just like real gold. It's getting harder and harder to find real gold in the ground, and the same holds for Bitcoin.
It's not backed by CPU power, it is a direct representation of that CPU power.
Is that fluctuation its value changing or its exchange rate changing?
It's not exactly fiat. The CPU/GPU power required to generate the bitcoins is the "gold standard" behind it. Someone decided once that gold had value, but it wasn't fiat currency either.
Since "BitCoin" isn't the authority in charge of reversing a charge, that would be up to the individual service provider who accepted the payment. A much bigger risk for fraud from the consumer side, but less risk of fraud for the vendors.
But NFC's can be near-universal just about as easily or quickly as an OS update to enable this. And the physical bump turns the circuitry on and off. How many Android phones out there are still stuck on their original version of Android?
For audio, you'd either have to activate it manually or have the microphone listening all day and interpreting all audio - that would kill that battery. Or a hardware button which adds to the cost about as much as a wireless chip that now includes NFC. The Broadcom BCM43341 has Bluetooth, wifi, and NFC.
So either way, it won't really be universal until phones have it built into the hardware. Opening an app to do this is already less convenient than other options.
On top of that, if the encoded audio is just a link, then why bother with the audio at all? Just push it to the other phone through the service and be done with it. If the point is being cross-platform, the audio is not a compatibility bridge if it still requires accessing the data from a central server.
Is there anybody on this planet that actually uses IE (except for MS employees at work) I mean Internet Exploder or Exploiter Should BE BANNED from the net
Welcome back from your trip to 1999. How were the Twinkies? Internet Explorer isn't my favorite choice, but I don't have any complaints at using it when I have to. It's stable and fast.
The drivers weren't fully mature in XP. XP did have its quirks, but the huge number of buggy drivers that were released at the same time across many manufacturers is what caused most of the problems that were attributed to XP.
DirectX is a big reason why IE10 wouldn't port well back to XP. It uses a hardware-accelerated compositing renderer. Something that a web browser needs more than most programs, with all the little pieces that have to be combined to make one page. To port IE10 to XP would require writing a completely separate rendering engine, or providing a massive free update to Windows XP.
Except that MS considers the OS to include the graphics drivers and drawing API and window compositing. IE10 was specifically written around the more modern compositing system in Windows 7 and up. Then they decided not to support Windows 7, because they wrote specifically to a few API's new to Windows 8 (for probably no good reason). And now they are backporting some of the updates that makes Windows 8 an upgrade into Windows 7.
It's not magic to go back and support XP. It's a complete rewrite of the rendering system. XP didn't use accelerated compositing. And to be honest, a web browser needs a speedy compositing system more than the rest of the OS combined. HTML is a complicated mess, but it works nicely.
Yes, I realize that's something they tied to hardware upgrades and not OS upgrades. But Apple doesn't charge for those OS updates. You see a lot of similar things in OS X but I couldn't come up with a clear example.
What about Siri? Apple certainly did restrict older devices. All it requires is a microphone and the ability to upload a recording to a server. And they pretended it used advanced technology on the phone itself. It wasn't even until a later phone that they actually improved the microphone to work well with Siri.
I'm not sure, but I believe the ANI number is equivalent to an IP address in the phone world. I think the problem is that it only takes you one hop closer to the source. If the call is bouncing through multiple levels, the ANI number will not give you the source.
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My thermostat doesn't have a clock. I don't adjust it most days at all. Maybe I'm not the "average" person, but I thought that was pretty common.
Studies have proven that having DST at all does save energy - artificial lights used fewer hours per day. I don't know if staying on that time all year would negate that savings or not.
I'm sure this is pointless to comment on, but if such robots existed, they could generate their own keys just by taking a picture of the inside of the lock, couldn't they? Fiber optics are great.
So if I take a phone book and list 110,000 numbers should I be prosecuted?
In a civil case, as that would only be a copyright issue. I'm sure phone books are salted with fake listings just like GPS map data to enable proving and prosecuting copyright infringement.
I know that's nothing to do with your argument, but it's worth mentioning.
Couldn't have said it better myself, AC.
The same is generally true for gold.
The central authority (of which there is none) can't add more Bitcoins to the system. They have to be mined - just like real gold. It's getting harder and harder to find real gold in the ground, and the same holds for Bitcoin.
It's not backed by CPU power, it is a direct representation of that CPU power.
Is that fluctuation its value changing or its exchange rate changing?
It's not exactly fiat. The CPU/GPU power required to generate the bitcoins is the "gold standard" behind it. Someone decided once that gold had value, but it wasn't fiat currency either.
Since "BitCoin" isn't the authority in charge of reversing a charge, that would be up to the individual service provider who accepted the payment. A much bigger risk for fraud from the consumer side, but less risk of fraud for the vendors.
But NFC's can be near-universal just about as easily or quickly as an OS update to enable this. And the physical bump turns the circuitry on and off. How many Android phones out there are still stuck on their original version of Android?
For audio, you'd either have to activate it manually or have the microphone listening all day and interpreting all audio - that would kill that battery. Or a hardware button which adds to the cost about as much as a wireless chip that now includes NFC. The Broadcom BCM43341 has Bluetooth, wifi, and NFC.
So either way, it won't really be universal until phones have it built into the hardware. Opening an app to do this is already less convenient than other options.
Yes, and I'm sure an always-on microphone is going to aid battery life greatly. It's a glorified QR code.
Ah, so he's patented the endec then!
I think the word you're looking for is "codec"
On top of that, if the encoded audio is just a link, then why bother with the audio at all? Just push it to the other phone through the service and be done with it. If the point is being cross-platform, the audio is not a compatibility bridge if it still requires accessing the data from a central server.
Not all nudity is porn, but if its intent is arousal and to sell newspapers based on such, then yes - it's porn.
Since when did Tor stop convictions? Just blame the person who runs the exit node. As far as the US courts are concerned, that's just fine.
By your headline I thought you were referring to CO. So far, everyone's neglected the fact that CO2 isn't the only bad gas produced by cars.
This idea has some interesting real-world applications
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Is there anybody on this planet that actually uses IE (except for MS employees at work) I mean Internet Exploder or Exploiter Should BE BANNED from the net
Welcome back from your trip to 1999. How were the Twinkies? Internet Explorer isn't my favorite choice, but I don't have any complaints at using it when I have to. It's stable and fast.
The drivers weren't fully mature in XP. XP did have its quirks, but the huge number of buggy drivers that were released at the same time across many manufacturers is what caused most of the problems that were attributed to XP.
DirectX is a big reason why IE10 wouldn't port well back to XP. It uses a hardware-accelerated compositing renderer. Something that a web browser needs more than most programs, with all the little pieces that have to be combined to make one page. To port IE10 to XP would require writing a completely separate rendering engine, or providing a massive free update to Windows XP.
Except that MS considers the OS to include the graphics drivers and drawing API and window compositing. IE10 was specifically written around the more modern compositing system in Windows 7 and up. Then they decided not to support Windows 7, because they wrote specifically to a few API's new to Windows 8 (for probably no good reason). And now they are backporting some of the updates that makes Windows 8 an upgrade into Windows 7.
It's not magic to go back and support XP. It's a complete rewrite of the rendering system. XP didn't use accelerated compositing. And to be honest, a web browser needs a speedy compositing system more than the rest of the OS combined. HTML is a complicated mess, but it works nicely.
Yes, I realize that's something they tied to hardware upgrades and not OS upgrades. But Apple doesn't charge for those OS updates. You see a lot of similar things in OS X but I couldn't come up with a clear example.
What about Siri? Apple certainly did restrict older devices. All it requires is a microphone and the ability to upload a recording to a server. And they pretended it used advanced technology on the phone itself. It wasn't even until a later phone that they actually improved the microphone to work well with Siri.
You mean the Windows 8 app store? They have that. Yes, it's separate from OS updates, but it's centralized and drm-laden as you imagined.
I'm not sure, but I believe the ANI number is equivalent to an IP address in the phone world. I think the problem is that it only takes you one hop closer to the source. If the call is bouncing through multiple levels, the ANI number will not give you the source.