eating out every other day or so when I otherwise wouldn't is not an effective cost saving measure. And that's further assuming that I'd even get an available charger, which are in very limited supply, fast chargers even more so.
Ah right... an hour to charge up.... compared to about 2 minutes to fill up with gasoline. Even people who make minimum wage have time that is more valuable than the money they would save over the course of a year by using an EV and always charging at a fast charging stations.
How much money they will save on gasoline is irrelevant if you live in an apartment or condo that doesn't have electrical outlets in each car stall, and the increased cost of moving into a brand new building that *has* those outlets could easily run to more than a thousand a year in higher mortgage payments.
... have nothing to do with "the wishes of the people". It is simply the outcome of the vote, and where voting is not mandatory, may reflect a disproportionately large representation of one particular view that is not actually held by the majority. Further, at most in only reflects how one person may have felt at the time that they voted, and may not reflect an informed decision they could be in a better position to determine at a later time.
While it is doubtless true that most voters that voted on the Brexit referendum did indeed vote to leave the EU, I am pretty sure that it is not what most people in Britain actually wanted. Calling it the "will of the people" is just balderdash. It is simply the outcome of the democratic process in this instance, nothing more and nothing less.
it's expensive enough that such a system is well outside of the financial reach of the few owners that would want it, so they wouldn't be able to get it installed until the number of electric cars has reached some kind if critical mass. Given that over 75% of the population in my metro area lives in apartments or condos this creates a kind of catch 22 situation
... in toy airports made for children under the age of 5 where neither the building nor the aircraft need have any strong similarity to something in the real world beyond being visibly identifiable as such, and thus a potentially healthy platform for the child's imagination launch from.
Sounds to me like this Dutch scientist should actually be working for Fisher Price.
Since you asked.... and speaking strictly for myself of course, because I am probably not in Tesla's (or any electric car manufacturer's) target demographic for an electric car. I live in an apartment, and I can't charge it at home because the parking stalls for the building residents don't have individual electrical outlets. Basically, anyone who lives in an apartment building that wasn't built in about the past 10 years or so is probably in the same boat. I know that newer buildings do have outlets in the parking stalls, but there's still one hell of a lot of older buildings around that aren't going anywhere.
I would totally get an electric car if I lived in a place where I could charge it over night, but that's just not going to happen anytime in the foreseeable future.
That's the whole reason why you *announce* a brainstorming session in advance... perhaps by as much as a week, but no less than 24 hours. Everyone is encouraged to jot down ideas on a notepad and bring them to the session. Then no more than two days later, but after everyone has had enough time to reflect upon the session, you come together again to discuss what further thoughts people have on what has been discussed and choose a course of action.
And they don't get their goods magically replaced if it was purchased with counterfeit currency either... which is the nearest cash analogy to what happens when stuff is purchased with a stolen credit card or other illegitimate electronic funds transfer. Since the relative risk of a fraudulent transaction is low compared to the convenience that it offers your customers, most providers of goods or services accept it... if you choose not to accept electronic transfers, then you lose out on the business of consumers that will refuse to deal with you because you create an added inconvenience for them of having to carry cash they wouldn't otherwise need to have on them.
"neural lace" technology that would allow people to communicate directly with machines without going through a physical interface
And immediately afterward, they say:
Neural lace involves implanting electrodes in the brain...
So it's pretty clear that not only is there a physical interface, the electrodes, but this interface is pretty darn invasive because you have to have it implanted in your skull.
Having updates on in Slackware is painless, and I'd suggest it's at least as stable as the most stable of any other distro because stability is always an emphasis for them everywhere except slackware-current (which will itself gets promoted to a new full release when appropriate)
This myth was busted on Mythbusters' first season. You can *fall* out of an airplane that has had major structural failure, but you aren't going to get sucked out of your seat unless the opening is literally underneath you (and large enough).
... when the decided that they wanted a monopoly on printer cartridges, and not wanting people to get refills, start manufacturing the printers and cartridges differently, so that the act of installing it in the printer or removing it after installation physically alters the cartridge in some way so that after you remove it, you physically cannot reinstall it again. There are numerous ways this could be done. One way that comes to mind is to use a breakaway tab that is used to lock that cartridge in place, but which must be broken off to remove the cartridge. They patent the tab which secures the cartridge in place so that if someone tries to make an otherwise compatible cartridge with a reusable tab, they are guilty of patent infringement. If there were legitimate problems with the cartridge that would warrant a refund or replacement that were not discovered until after it was installed, those cases could probably be handled individually by the manufacturer. This could be done by having a shipping label to send it back (postage paid by the receiver) supplied in each cartridge box that allows you to ship defective cartridges to them for replacement (or depleted cartridges for recycling). There are some printer companies that already do this for their cartridges for recycling purposes, so conceptually the mechanism is already in place for this.
The manufacturer could easily determine if a cartridge for which replacement is requested *actually* warranted replacement if the consumer supplies a brief letter stating what was wrong with the product and why it was not fit for purpose.
The cartridges would further be clearly labeled "for limited use only", and the printers that use them would be similarly clearly labeled to the effect that they require only the limited use cartridges of the given brand.
This equips consumers with the information necessary for them to make an informed decision about whether they want to use such a printer and its cartridges, and allows manufacturers to control what products are used in theirs without having to rely on stupid-ass shit laws like the DMCA or something similar.
Yeah.... and what about places that you lived where you were too young to remember? I know for a fact that my parents moved at least twice before I was 3, but I would never be able to tell you the addresses, all I know are the city/town names.
.... but I was one of the people who actually liked the movie.
Was it the best thing I've ever seen? No... but I certainly didn't regret spending my money on it either. It was some 2 and a half hours or so of escapism, and I enjoyed it on that level.
...required visa applicants to hand over all phone numbers, email addresses, and social media accounts that they have used in the past
*ever*???
Personally, I know I wouldn't even be able to begin to comply with this kind of demand. I don't remember all of the old phone numbers I've had. All social media accounts? Does that include aliases on bulletin board systems from the 1980's? Again, I couldn't comply because I don't remember them all. I probably have about a half dozen expired email accounts at old internet service providers, some of which don't even exist anymore, where I can maybe remember half of them.
The disadvantage of many small pipes is that if they are too small, they may not be useful for some purposes, and if you make them too large, you could end up with lots of wasted space when some cables don't need that much room, and you will generally run out of available conduits to put new cables into sooner than if all of the cables had just been in a single much larger pipe. If you make them different sizes, then you create the risk running out of a pipe size if one size is used too often.
If the ratio of the cross sectional area of the available room in the common pipe to the cross sectional area of the cable you intend to run through it is high enough, damage to the cabling you want to run through or any adjacent wires is actually very unlikely to be a concern. Companies could easily add a more protective layering on their cables that would add to its size no more than a customized conduit would to further protect them... which is still going to be cheaper than digging a hole just to run some new conduit.
Actually, some of those could actually be pretty useful. An option to close tabs unvisited in the past x minutes would be particularly nice to have (where x is a user-configured value).
I suspect, however, that this kind of functionality can be added via plugin extensions to the browser, and may not need to be in the browser code.
.... then the evidence for it is in the laws of physics themselves, since the simulation would follow a fixed set of rules, what we happen to call the "laws of physics" would just be our perceived way of modelling the behaviour in the universe that we observe. The reason we wouldn't find anomalies in a properly done simulation is because the simulation runs on a set of rules that do not contain any way to perceive such an anomaly, even if it were to happen, and we, as part of that simulation are still constrained to operate within the parameters that are defined by the simulation. Even if what we call free will itself were somehow modelled within that simulation, we could no more "free-will" ourselves to think beyond the simulation that we could "free-will" ourselves to be in an alternative place and time than that which we appear to be living in. the hypothesis that the universe is a simulation is just as unfalsifiable as the notion that there is a god. You can't disprove the existence of something whose scope exceeds the boundaries of what is humanly possible to define. It therefore cannot be studied in any useful scientific way any more than a theistic assertion may be.
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eating out every other day or so when I otherwise wouldn't is not an effective cost saving measure. And that's further assuming that I'd even get an available charger, which are in very limited supply, fast chargers even more so.
Ah right... an hour to charge up.... compared to about 2 minutes to fill up with gasoline. Even people who make minimum wage have time that is more valuable than the money they would save over the course of a year by using an EV and always charging at a fast charging stations.
How much money they will save on gasoline is irrelevant if you live in an apartment or condo that doesn't have electrical outlets in each car stall, and the increased cost of moving into a brand new building that *has* those outlets could easily run to more than a thousand a year in higher mortgage payments.
While it is doubtless true that most voters that voted on the Brexit referendum did indeed vote to leave the EU, I am pretty sure that it is not what most people in Britain actually wanted. Calling it the "will of the people" is just balderdash. It is simply the outcome of the democratic process in this instance, nothing more and nothing less.
it's expensive enough that such a system is well outside of the financial reach of the few owners that would want it, so they wouldn't be able to get it installed until the number of electric cars has reached some kind if critical mass. Given that over 75% of the population in my metro area lives in apartments or condos this creates a kind of catch 22 situation
Sounds to me like this Dutch scientist should actually be working for Fisher Price.
Since you asked.... and speaking strictly for myself of course, because I am probably not in Tesla's (or any electric car manufacturer's) target demographic for an electric car. I live in an apartment, and I can't charge it at home because the parking stalls for the building residents don't have individual electrical outlets. Basically, anyone who lives in an apartment building that wasn't built in about the past 10 years or so is probably in the same boat. I know that newer buildings do have outlets in the parking stalls, but there's still one hell of a lot of older buildings around that aren't going anywhere.
I would totally get an electric car if I lived in a place where I could charge it over night, but that's just not going to happen anytime in the foreseeable future.
That's the whole reason why you *announce* a brainstorming session in advance... perhaps by as much as a week, but no less than 24 hours. Everyone is encouraged to jot down ideas on a notepad and bring them to the session. Then no more than two days later, but after everyone has had enough time to reflect upon the session, you come together again to discuss what further thoughts people have on what has been discussed and choose a course of action.
And they don't get their goods magically replaced if it was purchased with counterfeit currency either... which is the nearest cash analogy to what happens when stuff is purchased with a stolen credit card or other illegitimate electronic funds transfer. Since the relative risk of a fraudulent transaction is low compared to the convenience that it offers your customers, most providers of goods or services accept it... if you choose not to accept electronic transfers, then you lose out on the business of consumers that will refuse to deal with you because you create an added inconvenience for them of having to carry cash they wouldn't otherwise need to have on them.
My point is that that I'd rather have an artificial external interface than an artificial internal one
And immediately afterward, they say:
So it's pretty clear that not only is there a physical interface, the electrodes, but this interface is pretty darn invasive because you have to have it implanted in your skull.
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Having updates on in Slackware is painless, and I'd suggest it's at least as stable as the most stable of any other distro because stability is always an emphasis for them everywhere except slackware-current (which will itself gets promoted to a new full release when appropriate)
Gentoo I understand, but what's wrong with Slackware?
This myth was busted on Mythbusters' first season. You can *fall* out of an airplane that has had major structural failure, but you aren't going to get sucked out of your seat unless the opening is literally underneath you (and large enough).
Fraduluent transactions with electronic funds are reversed as easily as pressing a button.
Not if being cashless is easy and convenient.
The manufacturer could easily determine if a cartridge for which replacement is requested *actually* warranted replacement if the consumer supplies a brief letter stating what was wrong with the product and why it was not fit for purpose.
The cartridges would further be clearly labeled "for limited use only", and the printers that use them would be similarly clearly labeled to the effect that they require only the limited use cartridges of the given brand.
This equips consumers with the information necessary for them to make an informed decision about whether they want to use such a printer and its cartridges, and allows manufacturers to control what products are used in theirs without having to rely on stupid-ass shit laws like the DMCA or something similar.
Yeah.... and what about places that you lived where you were too young to remember? I know for a fact that my parents moved at least twice before I was 3, but I would never be able to tell you the addresses, all I know are the city/town names.
Using the CPU draws more power than if it were just idle, so it is incorrect to say it does not matter.
Was it the best thing I've ever seen? No... but I certainly didn't regret spending my money on it either. It was some 2 and a half hours or so of escapism, and I enjoyed it on that level.
*ever*???
Personally, I know I wouldn't even be able to begin to comply with this kind of demand. I don't remember all of the old phone numbers I've had. All social media accounts? Does that include aliases on bulletin board systems from the 1980's? Again, I couldn't comply because I don't remember them all. I probably have about a half dozen expired email accounts at old internet service providers, some of which don't even exist anymore, where I can maybe remember half of them.
The disadvantage of many small pipes is that if they are too small, they may not be useful for some purposes, and if you make them too large, you could end up with lots of wasted space when some cables don't need that much room, and you will generally run out of available conduits to put new cables into sooner than if all of the cables had just been in a single much larger pipe. If you make them different sizes, then you create the risk running out of a pipe size if one size is used too often.
If the ratio of the cross sectional area of the available room in the common pipe to the cross sectional area of the cable you intend to run through it is high enough, damage to the cabling you want to run through or any adjacent wires is actually very unlikely to be a concern. Companies could easily add a more protective layering on their cables that would add to its size no more than a customized conduit would to further protect them... which is still going to be cheaper than digging a hole just to run some new conduit.
Actually, some of those could actually be pretty useful. An option to close tabs unvisited in the past x minutes would be particularly nice to have (where x is a user-configured value).
I suspect, however, that this kind of functionality can be added via plugin extensions to the browser, and may not need to be in the browser code.
.... then the evidence for it is in the laws of physics themselves, since the simulation would follow a fixed set of rules, what we happen to call the "laws of physics" would just be our perceived way of modelling the behaviour in the universe that we observe. The reason we wouldn't find anomalies in a properly done simulation is because the simulation runs on a set of rules that do not contain any way to perceive such an anomaly, even if it were to happen, and we, as part of that simulation are still constrained to operate within the parameters that are defined by the simulation. Even if what we call free will itself were somehow modelled within that simulation, we could no more "free-will" ourselves to think beyond the simulation that we could "free-will" ourselves to be in an alternative place and time than that which we appear to be living in. the hypothesis that the universe is a simulation is just as unfalsifiable as the notion that there is a god. You can't disprove the existence of something whose scope exceeds the boundaries of what is humanly possible to define. It therefore cannot be studied in any useful scientific way any more than a theistic assertion may be.