Another side benefit of these new displays is that you can't just get the LCD panel anymore for $50-100 when they break. Instead, you can only get the entire assembly which I've seen cost anywhere from $300 to $600+ if it's a touch-enabled display.
This is not consumer friendly. Manufacturers are watching how Apple rapes their customer base and desensitizes them to it, then the other manufacturers follow suit.
As a manufacturer of entire assemblies, I fail to see a problem.
Stop with the bezel-less bullshit. Pretty soon they'll have to ship their new shiny shit with a handle on the back because you won't be able to hold the fucking thing any other way.
So let's see. France produces a total of 1.2 TWh of nuclear power per day. That comes out to 190 billion dollars of the cheapest required energy storage or 763 billion dollars for lithium battery based storage for just one day of storage. And that does not include the cost of generating the electricity in the first place. Capitol costs for nuclear power are about the same as wind power so France got a deal without having to spend even more for storage.
What hurts the cost effectiveness of France's nuclear power is that it is being used as baseload capacity to support intermittent sources like solar and wind. Any reduction in the capacity factor of nuclear power makes it less economical. But without it, solar and wind become less economical because of the required storage infrastructure.
I don't see how blockchain is better than a centralized database in any of these use cases. The refugee example especially has many humorous angles: are refugees going to start mining identity-coin on their phones to keep the database up?
The blockchain is relatively immune to tampering. Entries (coins) can only be created through specific objective means and cannot be changed or destroyed once created.
A database on the other hand is at the mercy of the centralized authority which controls it.
When you say 'evading capital controls' you're basically saying 'use it as a means of laundering money' and/or 'use it for criminal activities', which is what I've said about so-called 'cryptocurrency' since the beginning. As anonymous as cash without having to ever physically transfer it.
I am sure the people of Greece and Venezuela agree with that.
You could look at the price of gold in the same time, and you will see a much larger fluctuation. If you take the value of the dollar from 1918, and you calculate the Federal Interest Rate into it from year to year, the dollar is amazingly stable. The interest rate for gold is nil. No one will pay you gold for being able to hold onto your gold coins for some time. Instead, they will charge you a deposit fee.
The interest rate for gold is zero but inflation means that it holds its value better than currency. Inflation is a negative interest rate which effectively taxes currency.
The navy either has to acquire longer range fighters and strike aircraft, buy more of their existing aircraft to use as tankers, or acquire a dedicated tanker aircraft.
There is no need for the navy to do any of the above. Consider:
"A total of 262 KC-135s and 46 KC-10s operating out of 21 locations in 10 countries provided round the clock aerial refueling support to U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and Coalition forces during Desert Storm." (https://archive.org/stream/DTIC_ADA279743/DTIC_ADA279743_djvu.txt with obvious typos in aircraft designations corrected.)
Yet the navy still maintains their own in-flight refueling capability using fighter/attack aircraft.
Isn't a majority of the air force's tanker assets reserved for strategic operations?
As far as reliability, I suspect an automated drone will be more reliable than a human pilot in short order for difficult operations like landings.
You can suspect all you want, but when was the last time you heard of a tanker crashing on a carrier? Navy pilots are exceptionally good at landing on carriers.
Using drones for refueling would free up pilots (or the expense of those pilots) for jobs they can currently do better than autonomous aircraft.
Two thoughts on this boondoggle: first, it's a terrible waste of money and second (and well put a few posts above), it's an accident waiting to happen on landing.
Think of it as an opportunity cost. The navy either has to acquire longer range fighters and strike aircraft, buy more of their existing aircraft to use as tankers, or acquire a dedicated tanker aircraft.
As far as reliability, I suspect an automated drone will be more reliable than a human pilot in short order for difficult operations like landings.
The F-18 (and F-35) are compromised, multirole airplanes, but the Navy really likes that because the carriers don't have room for a bunch of specialized models.
The Midway and Nimitz class carriers typically had like 90 aircraft during the the cold war. Since then, carrier air wings have dropped to 60 aircraft or less so space is not a consideration although having fewer aircraft does make operations easier.
This becomes especially relevant considering that operating radius has decreased to half with the loss of longer range fighters and attack aircraft which explains the navy's desire for a dedicated tanker.
The Navy wanted a dual purpose fighter-attack aircraft. To get it, the sacrificed range. The aircraft it replaced had far longer range, being designed for their task. Ever since, the Navy has been reliant on mid-air refueling to get anywhere. Planes launch with large bomb loads and nearly empty tanks, and have to mid-air refuel before they event start the mission.
That sounds like something that would be disastrous in anything other than uncontested airspace.
With the demise of the Soviet Union, it was decided that the capabilities of the F-14 did not need to be replaced and that shorter range air defense would be sufficient.
It's California's fault the firefighters even had to be there.
Yeah, if California didn't insist on having, you know, trees then they wouldn't have to fight wildfires.
He is referring to California's "conservation" policy going back decades to stop every forest fire allowing the forests to become overgrown producing much more destructive fires.
Possession of cannabis is punishable by up to 5 years in the UK.
Instead this kid, guilty of murder or not, only gets 14 months. He's doing the very thing the laws say is smartest to do, and because of it it's possible a murderer may get away with their crime.
Except they will get a warrant (if necessary, I'm not sure if it is in the UK) for his Facebook content anyway and then add a cannabis conviction as well.
Why can't the authorities just ask Facebook for all private communications as part of the investigation? I'm sure Facebook works with authorities on other things. Maybe because the victim was a minor there is some special detail to this case?
To me it makes sense from his part if he did kill her, to take 14 months over however long he might get for murder.
They can. And Facebook will hand everything over. This is just a way to stack charges and convictions on him.
Surely easier to access why? I guess dead bodies don't have human rights any more, so they could waterboard the corpse until it coughs up the password, but is that really easier than a court order against a living being?
At least in the US, reasonable expectation of privacy does not apply to the dead so a court order if necessary is easier to get.
To me it sounds like they are just using this as a fishing expedition for crimes unrelated to her which would be standard procedure in the US to force a guilty plea.
Where did you find a personal atomic clock? Everything marketed by that name is nothing but a GPS receiver at best, or a radio synch receiver that may end up useless after NIST shuts off the beacons. It might help if I knew which technology it uses. Is it a cesium clock? Aluminum? Strontium?
Used HP cesium clocks are available and can be refurbished by a dedicated user. Used rubidium atomic clocks can be had for 100s of dollars.
You realize that Trumpâ(TM)s attacks on media alone have done more damage to democracy than a generation of Hilary ever could, right? He has done more to undermine public faith in journalism than ANY Western leader in history.
Trump was not needed to undermine faith in journalism. For those who were not paying attention and so did not already know the score, mainstream media did that all by itself leading up to the Iraq war.
Is Oracle pure evil? Does anyone have anything good to say about them?
I know that I hate Oracle, after some bitter experiences, and everyone I know hates them, but I figure there must be someone somewhere that once had a positive experience. Anyone?
The people who receive kickbacks to choose Oracle have a positive experience.
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Another side benefit of these new displays is that you can't just get the LCD panel anymore for $50-100 when they break. Instead, you can only get the entire assembly which I've seen cost anywhere from $300 to $600+ if it's a touch-enabled display.
This is not consumer friendly. Manufacturers are watching how Apple rapes their customer base and desensitizes them to it, then the other manufacturers follow suit.
As a manufacturer of entire assemblies, I fail to see a problem.
And would also get rid of the bezel as 16:9 laptops for some reason have the same dimensions as 16:10 laptops just with more bezel
Soon 16:10 laptops will have negative bezel.
^^^^^^^^ THIS, times a million billion.
Stop with the bezel-less bullshit. Pretty soon they'll have to ship their new shiny shit with a handle on the back because you won't be able to hold the fucking thing any other way.
You are holding it wrong.
Since when is it the government's job to pick winners and losers in the market?
It has been that way since the future winners can pay the government to select the future losers.
So let's see. France produces a total of 1.2 TWh of nuclear power per day. That comes out to 190 billion dollars of the cheapest required energy storage or 763 billion dollars for lithium battery based storage for just one day of storage. And that does not include the cost of generating the electricity in the first place. Capitol costs for nuclear power are about the same as wind power so France got a deal without having to spend even more for storage.
What hurts the cost effectiveness of France's nuclear power is that it is being used as baseload capacity to support intermittent sources like solar and wind. Any reduction in the capacity factor of nuclear power makes it less economical. But without it, solar and wind become less economical because of the required storage infrastructure.
I don't see how blockchain is better than a centralized database in any of these use cases. The refugee example especially has many humorous angles: are refugees going to start mining identity-coin on their phones to keep the database up?
The blockchain is relatively immune to tampering. Entries (coins) can only be created through specific objective means and cannot be changed or destroyed once created.
A database on the other hand is at the mercy of the centralized authority which controls it.
When you say 'evading capital controls' you're basically saying 'use it as a means of laundering money' and/or 'use it for criminal activities', which is what I've said about so-called 'cryptocurrency' since the beginning. As anonymous as cash without having to ever physically transfer it.
I am sure the people of Greece and Venezuela agree with that.
You could look at the price of gold in the same time, and you will see a much larger fluctuation. If you take the value of the dollar from 1918, and you calculate the Federal Interest Rate into it from year to year, the dollar is amazingly stable. The interest rate for gold is nil. No one will pay you gold for being able to hold onto your gold coins for some time. Instead, they will charge you a deposit fee.
The interest rate for gold is zero but inflation means that it holds its value better than currency. Inflation is a negative interest rate which effectively taxes currency.
The navy either has to acquire
longer range fighters and strike aircraft, buy more of their existing aircraft to use as tankers, or acquire a dedicated tanker aircraft.
There is no need for the navy to do any of the above. Consider:
"A total of 262 KC-135s and 46 KC-10s operating out of 21 locations
in 10 countries provided round the clock aerial refueling support to U.S.
Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and Coalition forces during
Desert Storm." (https://archive.org/stream/DTIC_ADA279743/DTIC_ADA279743_djvu.txt with obvious typos in aircraft designations corrected.)
Yet the navy still maintains their own in-flight refueling capability using fighter/attack aircraft.
Isn't a majority of the air force's tanker assets reserved for strategic operations?
As far as reliability, I suspect an automated drone will be more reliable than a human pilot in short order for difficult operations like landings.
You can suspect all you want, but when was the last time you heard of a tanker crashing on a carrier? Navy pilots are exceptionally good at landing on carriers.
Using drones for refueling would free up pilots (or the expense of those pilots) for jobs they can currently do better than autonomous aircraft.
Two thoughts on this boondoggle: first, it's a terrible waste of money and second (and well put a few posts above), it's an accident waiting to happen on landing.
Think of it as an opportunity cost. The navy either has to acquire longer range fighters and strike aircraft, buy more of their existing aircraft to use as tankers, or acquire a dedicated tanker aircraft.
As far as reliability, I suspect an automated drone will be more reliable than a human pilot in short order for difficult operations like landings.
The F-18 (and F-35) are compromised, multirole airplanes, but the Navy really likes that because the carriers don't have room for a bunch of specialized models.
The Midway and Nimitz class carriers typically had like 90 aircraft during the the cold war. Since then, carrier air wings have dropped to 60 aircraft or less so space is not a consideration although having fewer aircraft does make operations easier.
This becomes especially relevant considering that operating radius has decreased to half with the loss of longer range fighters and attack aircraft which explains the navy's desire for a dedicated tanker.
The Navy wanted a dual purpose fighter-attack aircraft. To get it, the sacrificed range. The aircraft it replaced had far longer range, being designed for their task. Ever since, the Navy has been reliant on mid-air refueling to get anywhere. Planes launch with large bomb loads and nearly empty tanks, and have to mid-air refuel before they event start the mission.
That sounds like something that would be disastrous in anything other than uncontested airspace.
With the demise of the Soviet Union, it was decided that the capabilities of the F-14 did not need to be replaced and that shorter range air defense would be sufficient.
Screw dog treatments. Please make cats less like jerks.
They are doing it because of marketing. They're trying to sell more toys by pretending to care about the environment.
Or as an excuse to sell blocks which degrade over time solving the "used Lego sales" problem.
Yeah, if California didn't insist on having, you know, trees then they wouldn't have to fight wildfires.
He is referring to California's "conservation" policy going back decades to stop every forest fire allowing the forests to become overgrown producing much more destructive fires.
Possession of cannabis is punishable by up to 5 years in the UK.
Instead this kid, guilty of murder or not, only gets 14 months. He's doing the very thing the laws say is smartest to do, and because of it it's possible a murderer may get away with their crime.
Except they will get a warrant (if necessary, I'm not sure if it is in the UK) for his Facebook content anyway and then add a cannabis conviction as well.
Why can't the authorities just ask Facebook for all private communications as part of the investigation? I'm sure Facebook works with authorities on other things. Maybe because the victim was a minor there is some special detail to this case?
To me it makes sense from his part if he did kill her, to take 14 months over however long he might get for murder.
They can. And Facebook will hand everything over. This is just a way to stack charges and convictions on him.
Surely easier to access why? I guess dead bodies don't have human rights any more, so they could waterboard the corpse until it coughs up the password, but is that really easier than a court order against a living being?
At least in the US, reasonable expectation of privacy does not apply to the dead so a court order if necessary is easier to get.
To me it sounds like they are just using this as a fishing expedition for crimes unrelated to her which would be standard procedure in the US to force a guilty plea.
Palm's Graffiti actually worked very well if you put even a fraction of the time learning to touch type into learning it.
Where did you find a personal atomic clock? Everything marketed by that name is nothing but a GPS receiver at best, or a radio synch receiver that may end up useless after NIST shuts off the beacons. It might help if I knew which technology it uses. Is it a cesium clock? Aluminum? Strontium?
Used HP cesium clocks are available and can be refurbished by a dedicated user. Used rubidium atomic clocks can be had for 100s of dollars.
How can they be secure if Google can restore access even if it takes days? Doesn't that mean Google can restore access for someone else?
You realize that Trumpâ(TM)s attacks on media alone have done more damage to democracy than a generation of Hilary ever could, right? He has done more to undermine public faith in journalism than ANY Western leader in history.
Trump was not needed to undermine faith in journalism. For those who were not paying attention and so did not already know the score, mainstream media did that all by itself leading up to the Iraq war.
Is Oracle pure evil? Does anyone have anything good to say about them?
I know that I hate Oracle, after some bitter experiences, and everyone I know hates them, but I figure there must be someone somewhere that once had a positive experience. Anyone?
The people who receive kickbacks to choose Oracle have a positive experience.
I just came here to laugh. Not even the Federal Government is dumb enough to use Oracle's cloud offering.
Never underestimate the federal government's stupidity. Or any government's stupidity for that matter.
Google blocks various legal firearm related links and searches so why not?