Skin effect does not exist at 60 hertz. You have to get into the microwave range to see the skin effect. "DUMB ASS".
Skin depth @ 60Hz is ~8.4mm in Cu, or ~10.5mm in Al. It's why single conductor high-current AC distribution cables max out @ ~17-25mm thick (depending on material & frequency), and even higher-current cables are either wound bundles or larger diameter & hollow (which allows for oil cooling).
Not to mention the Mussolini quote dates from 1928 - a time when the USA didn't have a "rah rah democracy" foreign policy, fascism was considered a valid style of government and not a dirty word, and Coolidge, Hoover, and FDR were supportive of what they saw as a libertarian progressive Italian government that would resist Communism...
Nothing. It always was a cesspool of belligerent ignorance.
Well may we say God Save the Queen (pause) because nothing will save the Governor-General...
Gough got that wrong too - Kerr continued on as G-G for another 2 years...
As for Kerr, despite the foaming-at-the-mouth hatred Labor has carried against him for the last 40-odd years, everything that's come out since points to him doing the only thing feasible at the time - putting the question of government to the people by dismissing the government & causing an election to be called. If he made one mistake, it was not being completely open with Whitlam that he'd already come to an agreement with Fraser (and even that's disputed).
(You probably meant Myanmar, aka Burma. And they're in the process of adopting metric.)
And that's without even considering the fact that the US doesn't use "Imperial" measurements anyway. It uses "US Customary", which is mostly based on pre-imperial measurements. Fluid measures particularly are different, which makes the old saying "a pint's a pound the world around" a lie...
South Australia planned to replace this software after something else was available, so they chose to lease a short term solution. Now they changed their mind and wish they had bought a regular software license instead.
As somebody else has since pointed out up above, you've got that almost exactly wrong...
Econ 101 might lead you think those fees should approach the overhead costs and wouldn't be higher than 5% - but out in the real world, shops selling "access to the customers" (i.e. consignment stores) typically charge anywhere between 20%~50%, with better-performing shops tending towards the higher end of that.
Coin tosses are the stereotypical 'independent events', and the probability of 6 heads in a row is just as likely as any other sequence of 6 : one in 64.
Flip a coin 6 times every day, and you'd expect to get all heads 5 or 6 times each year.
Oh, they've had a few (Secunia's down for me at the moment, but there's a reasonably up-to-date list here), so they're not perfect - but yes, they seem on the whole to have their act together.
Sure, they're not as configurable as a cheap Linksys (although they can be pushed to do anything you'd reasonably* expect a home/SOHO router to do), you can't shoehorn Linux onto them, and the lack of a CLI or web interface (a OSX / Win only config utility) is shitty - but they're solid, robust, & pretty secure devices which are almost perfect for the average home or SOHO user.
Oh, and the AC who said "Cannot configure them via a wired port, only wireless (wtf?)" is either a troll or an idiot...
(* running a server, packet inspection, or doing heavily customised routing is not a reasonable expectation for a home/SOHO router - that sort of thing belongs on a separate machine that doesn't have one testicle dangling out on the WAN...)
Also on the top right of a new tab is a settings 'cog' where you can choose "Enhanced", "Classic" or "Blank" so you can easily turn this off.
Yes, but the questions people are asking themselves are these: why would I want to use a broswer that keeps doing this kind of shit? Particularly when they have a demonstrated history of removing from display the option to undo that shit, all in the name of 'simplification' and 'a cleaner UI'?
They're not new questions - they come up each time FF decides to 'improve' some aspect of their 'user experience', rather than actually improve their browser.
I, for one, have gotten sick of repeatedly asking myself those questions and am sitting back on an older ESR version. I doubt I'll ever install FF again, and am happy to wait another couple of years for somebody like PaleMoon to get their Mac version reasonably stable, up-to-date, and working.
I think you meant this: "Labels lend money to artists to pay the labels for recording their music, then the artists pay the labels to pay the radio stations to play their music, pay the labels to market their album to convince you to buy their $10 collection of songs, and pay the labels to pay the royalty services to collect money from the radio stations (who have been paid by the artists out of the money paid to the labels to pay the radio station to play them) to pay the labels.
The artists then pay the labels to pay them - and what's left is called 'profit'."
It won't actually happen, because our economy is roaring along thanks to the mining boom, and the powers-that-be want to slow it down a bit and rake in some of the dough while the going's good.
Errr, yeah, OK. Checked mineral commodity prices lately?
It's slowing down quite nicely by itself thank you, and no thanks to any (non-existant) government attempts to slow it down. Besides which the Aus govt is still wedded to the completely dickheaded means of manipulating the economy by controlling housing availbility & prices - anything else is a bit too complicated for the "Clever Country"*...
(* Where "clever" means "I negative geared out my arsehole & now have slightly more money than I started with"...)
If Amazon drones can communicate with each other and hopefully perform collision avoidance, how will they do the same with drones from the random Drones'R'Us startup companies that will be popping up all over the place in the next X years?
Simple.
The whole point of Amazon's current guff about drone deliveries is (a) P.R., and (b) grabbing patents to cover all aspects of drone delivery technology.
Because of (b) there simply won't be any "random Drones'R'Us startup companies" to interfere. At least, not ones that aren't licencing / using Amazon's patented communications & collision avoidance technologies...
The YouTube thing was never about getting people on to G+, it was about cleaning up YouTube. Anonymous accounts lead to every video's comments being filled with abuse.
Didn't work. If anything, YouTube comments are filled with even more poisonous shitty abuse from assorted pseudonymous fuckwits than ever before.
The second thing is, the Libs face a hostile senate... the LNP (Liberal/National Party) haven't been able to do much of anything
To put this into some perspective for non-Aus people: the LNP government is still trying to get major items from last year's budget passed. And this year's budget is only about 8 weeks away...
Once you get past the hype, the media stories, the click bait; and learn how to actually read scientific papers, they seem about as accurate as they've ever been.
^This^
/. articles like this one are basically stalking horse stooges - a paragraph of well-known minor concerns that together add up & appear to be 'truthy' evidence of a major problem, and an 'honest' question tacked onto the end.
Simple web app: $1000 Shared web hosting: $50/yr Managing a pool of postgrads, postdocs, researchers, and other subject matter experts to answer children's questions while fending off the Creationists, Tea-Partiers, and other assorted nutjobs who insist on being given equal access and status to teach the Truth to counter the Liberal Ivory-Tower Acedemic lies? Priceless...
Not being an American, I have few preconceptions about Bill Nye* - the little I know of him is entirely from the occasional comment on the internet, and I think I the only time I've ever seen him was in an epsiode of Stargate - but the summary is basically manipulative outrage-clickbait.
Read The Fine Article, people - or forever remain Slashdot Sheeple...
(*I did wonder why you all mispronounced his name just to make it fit into a little rhyme, and now I know.)
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Skin depth @ 60Hz is ~8.4mm in Cu, or ~10.5mm in Al. It's why single conductor high-current AC distribution cables max out @ ~17-25mm thick (depending on material & frequency), and even higher-current cables are either wound bundles or larger diameter & hollow (which allows for oil cooling).
Now, about your "dumb-arse" comment...
Not to mention the Mussolini quote dates from 1928 - a time when the USA didn't have a "rah rah democracy" foreign policy, fascism was considered a valid style of government and not a dirty word, and Coolidge, Hoover, and FDR were supportive of what they saw as a libertarian progressive Italian government that would resist Communism...
Nothing. It always was a cesspool of belligerent ignorance.
Gough got that wrong too - Kerr continued on as G-G for another 2 years...
As for Kerr, despite the foaming-at-the-mouth hatred Labor has carried against him for the last 40-odd years, everything that's come out since points to him doing the only thing feasible at the time - putting the question of government to the people by dismissing the government & causing an election to be called. If he made one mistake, it was not being completely open with Whitlam that he'd already come to an agreement with Fraser (and even that's disputed).
Best if you dont. It sounds like you might not like the answer: very well.
Not even that. Ghana uses metric.
(You probably meant Myanmar, aka Burma. And they're in the process of adopting metric.)
And that's without even considering the fact that the US doesn't use "Imperial" measurements anyway. It uses "US Customary", which is mostly based on pre-imperial measurements. Fluid measures particularly are different, which makes the old saying "a pint's a pound the world around" a lie...
As somebody else has since pointed out up above, you've got that almost exactly wrong...
Econ 101 might lead you think those fees should approach the overhead costs and wouldn't be higher than 5% - but out in the real world, shops selling "access to the customers" (i.e. consignment stores) typically charge anywhere between 20%~50%, with better-performing shops tending towards the higher end of that.
... and done well. She's got you all nicely polarised and arguing about an irrelevance in black and white terms.
Now you're all wound up and ready to go forth and argue with your family, friends, and workmates in similarly polarised terms.
The purpose is to shift the window away from rational & considerate discussion to polarised arguing. She's won.
Great. Now where will I buy my workclothes?
I'm not sure the kids will recognise me with just the balloon animals and little tricycle...
What bending the "laws of probability"?
Coin tosses are the stereotypical 'independent events', and the probability of 6 heads in a row is just as likely as any other sequence of 6 : one in 64.
Flip a coin 6 times every day, and you'd expect to get all heads 5 or 6 times each year.
Oh, they've had a few (Secunia's down for me at the moment, but there's a reasonably up-to-date list here), so they're not perfect - but yes, they seem on the whole to have their act together.
Sure, they're not as configurable as a cheap Linksys (although they can be pushed to do anything you'd reasonably* expect a home/SOHO router to do), you can't shoehorn Linux onto them, and the lack of a CLI or web interface (a OSX / Win only config utility) is shitty - but they're solid, robust, & pretty secure devices which are almost perfect for the average home or SOHO user.
Oh, and the AC who said "Cannot configure them via a wired port, only wireless (wtf?)" is either a troll or an idiot...
(* running a server, packet inspection, or doing heavily customised routing is not a reasonable expectation for a home/SOHO router - that sort of thing belongs on a separate machine that doesn't have one testicle dangling out on the WAN...)
Consider the binonial distribution...
Given N features changed, what are the odds of any one change being a fuck-up vs all of the changes being good?
Yes, but the questions people are asking themselves are these: why would I want to use a broswer that keeps doing this kind of shit? Particularly when they have a demonstrated history of removing from display the option to undo that shit, all in the name of 'simplification' and 'a cleaner UI'?
They're not new questions - they come up each time FF decides to 'improve' some aspect of their 'user experience', rather than actually improve their browser.
I, for one, have gotten sick of repeatedly asking myself those questions and am sitting back on an older ESR version. I doubt I'll ever install FF again, and am happy to wait another couple of years for somebody like PaleMoon to get their Mac version reasonably stable, up-to-date, and working.
I think you meant this:
"Labels lend money to artists to pay the labels for recording their music, then the artists pay the labels to pay the radio stations to play their music, pay the labels to market their album to convince you to buy their $10 collection of songs, and pay the labels to pay the royalty services to collect money from the radio stations (who have been paid by the artists out of the money paid to the labels to pay the radio station to play them) to pay the labels.
The artists then pay the labels to pay them - and what's left is called 'profit'."
Errr, yeah, OK. Checked mineral commodity prices lately?
It's slowing down quite nicely by itself thank you, and no thanks to any (non-existant) government attempts to slow it down. Besides which the Aus govt is still wedded to the completely dickheaded means of manipulating the economy by controlling housing availbility & prices - anything else is a bit too complicated for the "Clever Country"*...
(* Where "clever" means "I negative geared out my arsehole & now have slightly more money than I started with"...)
Simple.
The whole point of Amazon's current guff about drone deliveries is (a) P.R., and (b) grabbing patents to cover all aspects of drone delivery technology.
Because of (b) there simply won't be any "random Drones'R'Us startup companies" to interfere. At least, not ones that aren't licencing / using Amazon's patented communications & collision avoidance technologies...
Didn't work. If anything, YouTube comments are filled with even more poisonous shitty abuse from assorted pseudonymous fuckwits than ever before.
Yeah, I see it works just as well here...
So, apart from that, what did you think of Melbourne?
Bogans, camping, & fishing?
Or maybe attitudes towards workplace abuse have changed just a little in the last 27 years?
To put this into some perspective for non-Aus people: the LNP government is still trying to get major items from last year's budget passed. And this year's budget is only about 8 weeks away...
^This^
/. articles like this one are basically stalking horse stooges - a paragraph of well-known minor concerns that together add up & appear to be 'truthy' evidence of a major problem, and an 'honest' question tacked onto the end.
The whole point is to sow FUD...
What fucking idiot has ever claimed that?
In other news, the strawman still needs a brain...
Simple web app: $1000
Shared web hosting: $50/yr
Managing a pool of postgrads, postdocs, researchers, and other subject matter experts to answer children's questions while fending off the Creationists, Tea-Partiers, and other assorted nutjobs who insist on being given equal access and status to teach the Truth to counter the Liberal Ivory-Tower Acedemic lies? Priceless...
This.
Not being an American, I have few preconceptions about Bill Nye* - the little I know of him is entirely from the occasional comment on the internet, and I think I the only time I've ever seen him was in an epsiode of Stargate - but the summary is basically manipulative outrage-clickbait.
Read The Fine Article, people - or forever remain Slashdot Sheeple...
(*I did wonder why you all mispronounced his name just to make it fit into a little rhyme, and now I know.)