Copper is not 'crappy', it is a better conductor than gold. You only use gold on the contacts because it does not corrode. If copper was precious metal, you'd use it all the way through.
Even though I do not care about the phone at all, if all of this excitement over one port somehow leads to a new standard for wireless audio, that would be awesome.
Bluetooth sucks for anything above skype calls. Bluetooth hifi-headphones are a joke. The better the headphone, the more you realize how horribly bluetooth compression mangles the sound quality.
Because of this, every manufacturer is running their own wireless audio format. Your typical audio sources (phone, pc, hi-fi system) do not support any of them. Adapters everywhere... I guess now we have yet another standard with Apple's... But maybe they can push theirs to more devices than just their phones? Any chance of something Apple to ever become an open standard?
One of the corner pieces of a functioning democracy is that majority rule does not completely fuck over the minority(s). Instead, they compromise.
If that is not the case, then you get civil wars, military intervention, separatists, domestic terrorism. For examples look at faling democracys like Egypt (muslim brothers), Russia (Chechens), or Turkey (Kurds).
So taking a 51.xx% margin and going 'ok that's it then', when the descission is of this consequence, is something I would not necessarily call democratic. It's certainly not wise.
One of the problems I see is that the current governement, which was also elected by the voters, is(was?) against the exit. Meanwhile the brexit vote barely got a yes.
So there are two contradictory votes for what the 'will of the people' is. That may have something to do with the weird first-past-the-post system which is used for the actual election, so I would say the brexit vote is more accurate. However only the election carries actual political weight.
The governement, which is still in power, would have to act against the general will of their own voters who initially voted them into that place, in order to follow the brexit vote.
So, the only possible solution I can see here is a reelection. If in that election a pro-brexit party wins, then its clear. If that is not the case however, then I can't see how that new governement could go thorugh with the brexit, seeing as they ran their election campaign on being against it.
They simply have the resources available to fight off the bullshit lawyers that try to milk the law by sending out tenthousands of copyright notices demanding fees. Something the normal citizen can't be expected to put up with.
And of course, them being an organization, the risk is much lower if there was an actual crime commited over the network. Can't send the church to prison.
Uhm, that's because there is no motor in the front and so there is no hood. The cabin starts right above the front bumper, leaving more cabin length compared to a standard lorry. I doubt the whole thing is longer.
A keyboard is typically on a serial connection (like USB) nowadays which does not produce real hardware interrupts on a key stroke. Timestamps may be created when the OS detects a keystroke, but that is based on how time is scheduled to the serial connection, the timekeeping process and so on. It seems likely that there is a certain pattern involved here caused by the OS scheduler that will become visible in time.
Maybe the system has direct control over the charger circuit, so if it locks up while the battery is being charged, it won't stop charging? Maybe it's just the temperature sensor, which is monitored by the system, so if there is any problem with the battery overheating, the safety does not trigger?
There are countless possibilities how this may occur. The bug bricks the system, so it seems to be pretty low level.
None of this should be possible in a proper designed system, but then again the initial bug is rediculous too.
The recent developements in average height, as well as within the next 100 years are not due to genetics. The timeframe for that is much too small to affect a huge population in the 100mio significantly.
They are mostly attributed to better food, lack of child deseases and (debated) growth hormons in food or other industrial substances that may have the same effect.
'Scientists have developed X' usually implies that this is a one off prototype in a lab somwhere, possibly using hand crafted instruments to operate and certainly not a streamlined manufacturing process.
That makes it hard to compare on many of those specifications with fully developed industrial products. Data density may be the only spec that they can truthfully give an accurate number for at this time. Of course if you'd ask the right people you will get some great sounding numbers for all of your questions right now, but those are usually not the scientists.
Think of an autonomous weapon that lays dormant until it detects something in range, then wakes up, kills it and goes back to sleep. A landmine on steroids.
This has nothing to do with the move away from nuclear. I don't even know if Belgium is moving away from it. France certainly isn't, so it's not like 'Europe is moving away from nuclear'.
These particular reactors have a fail basicly each week. Just over new years weeks they shut down and restarted three times due to various problems. They have cracks in their containment. They are horribly outdated. And not only is Belgium so small that any critical reactor failure would affect its neighbours directly anyway, they are also built right on the borders. So of course the neighbouring countries do have a word to say about these issues.
Most of the time I am not sure what Google app I am supposed to be in at the moment. They all seem to share some settings, but also have unique ones. I keep bouncing between (assumingly) gmail, g+, yt and others. But the names for each service change at random intervals too.
I may be old fashioned, but I do not think any of my personal matters are a topic to discuss with random strangers on the net.
If they are not strangers though, then there is no need to make a special case just because the communication is online. Just make sure it is a private channel.
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There is a HUGE difference between what people can do to their own stuff and get away with and what you can sell following regulations.
Copper is not 'crappy', it is a better conductor than gold.
You only use gold on the contacts because it does not corrode. If copper was precious metal, you'd use it all the way through.
Even though I do not care about the phone at all, if all of this excitement over one port somehow leads to a new standard for wireless audio, that would be awesome.
Bluetooth sucks for anything above skype calls.
Bluetooth hifi-headphones are a joke. The better the headphone, the more you realize how horribly bluetooth compression mangles the sound quality.
Because of this, every manufacturer is running their own wireless audio format. Your typical audio sources (phone, pc, hi-fi system) do not support any of them. Adapters everywhere...
I guess now we have yet another standard with Apple's... But maybe they can push theirs to more devices than just their phones? Any chance of something Apple to ever become an open standard?
Water not raising fast enough?
This seems to be one of those problems that comes around again.
On my news feed I'm getting more and more 'articles' lately, that are just a headline and a youtube video.
At some point in the near future 5G will be made obsolete by the next best thing but net neutrality will be screwed forever.
One of the corner pieces of a functioning democracy is that majority rule does not completely fuck over the minority(s).
Instead, they compromise.
If that is not the case, then you get civil wars, military intervention, separatists, domestic terrorism. For examples look at faling democracys like Egypt (muslim brothers), Russia (Chechens), or Turkey (Kurds).
So taking a 51.xx% margin and going 'ok that's it then', when the descission is of this consequence, is something I would not necessarily call democratic.
It's certainly not wise.
One of the problems I see is that the current governement, which was also elected by the voters, is(was?) against the exit.
Meanwhile the brexit vote barely got a yes.
So there are two contradictory votes for what the 'will of the people' is.
That may have something to do with the weird first-past-the-post system which is used for the actual election, so I would say the brexit vote is more accurate.
However only the election carries actual political weight.
The governement, which is still in power, would have to act against the general will of their own voters who initially voted them into that place, in order to follow the brexit vote.
So, the only possible solution I can see here is a reelection. If in that election a pro-brexit party wins, then its clear.
If that is not the case however, then I can't see how that new governement could go thorugh with the brexit, seeing as they ran their election campaign on being against it.
They aren't really using any workarounds.
They simply have the resources available to fight off the bullshit lawyers that try to milk the law by sending out tenthousands of copyright notices demanding fees.
Something the normal citizen can't be expected to put up with.
And of course, them being an organization, the risk is much lower if there was an actual crime commited over the network. Can't send the church to prison.
Uhm, that's because there is no motor in the front and so there is no hood. The cabin starts right above the front bumper, leaving more cabin length compared to a standard lorry. I doubt the whole thing is longer.
A keyboard is typically on a serial connection (like USB) nowadays which does not produce real hardware interrupts on a key stroke.
Timestamps may be created when the OS detects a keystroke, but that is based on how time is scheduled to the serial connection, the timekeeping process and so on.
It seems likely that there is a certain pattern involved here caused by the OS scheduler that will become visible in time.
Maybe the system has direct control over the charger circuit, so if it locks up while the battery is being charged, it won't stop charging?
Maybe it's just the temperature sensor, which is monitored by the system, so if there is any problem with the battery overheating, the safety does not trigger?
There are countless possibilities how this may occur. The bug bricks the system, so it seems to be pretty low level.
None of this should be possible in a proper designed system, but then again the initial bug is rediculous too.
But they are tiny if you compare them with robots!... wait
The engine is the oxidation part. It outputs water, not O2.
The process described in the arcticle would happen in an industrial complex of some sort.
The recent developements in average height, as well as within the next 100 years are not due to genetics. The timeframe for that is much too small to affect a huge population in the 100mio significantly.
They are mostly attributed to better food, lack of child deseases and (debated) growth hormons in food or other industrial substances that may have the same effect.
'Scientists have developed X' usually implies that this is a one off prototype in a lab somwhere, possibly using hand crafted instruments to operate and certainly not a streamlined manufacturing process.
That makes it hard to compare on many of those specifications with fully developed industrial products. Data density may be the only spec that they can truthfully give an accurate number for at this time.
Of course if you'd ask the right people you will get some great sounding numbers for all of your questions right now, but those are usually not the scientists.
You lack imagination.
Think of an autonomous weapon that lays dormant until it detects something in range, then wakes up, kills it and goes back to sleep.
A landmine on steroids.
You think that won't happen?
Can we use sane measuring units please?
How many stacked bananas is that?
So they shut down the reactor because of missing paper in the copying machine?
Because each time they reported about it, the reactor in question had undergone an emergency shutdown.
This has nothing to do with the move away from nuclear. I don't even know if Belgium is moving away from it. France certainly isn't, so it's not like 'Europe is moving away from nuclear'.
These particular reactors have a fail basicly each week. Just over new years weeks they shut down and restarted three times due to various problems. They have cracks in their containment. They are horribly outdated.
And not only is Belgium so small that any critical reactor failure would affect its neighbours directly anyway, they are also built right on the borders. So of course the neighbouring countries do have a word to say about these issues.
We are talking about the efficiency of the hiring process and this guy got hired.
Most of the time I am not sure what Google app I am supposed to be in at the moment. They all seem to share some settings, but also have unique ones. I keep bouncing between (assumingly) gmail, g+, yt and others. But the names for each service change at random intervals too.
And what about those of us on a dynamic ip that changes at least every day?
I may be old fashioned, but I do not think any of my personal matters are a topic to discuss with random strangers on the net.
If they are not strangers though, then there is no need to make a special case just because the communication is online. Just make sure it is a private channel.
No, that was Clinton.