Fortunately, as I said earier, Blu-Ray's improvement over DVD is marginal, at best, anyway.
Before he died (4, nearly 5 years ago), my friend who was into AV stuff tried and failed to convince me of the benefits of a HD TV and BluRay over Standard Definition TV and DVD. He failed (though I did get a large TV not long after, despite the regular CRT still working fine).
Glad to hear that the situation hasn't changed. You hear s much hype about "new technology does X" but it doesn't actually do anything new.
Keeping Roku on internet makes sense. Everyone knows what it is really doing.
Not eveyone. I've heard the name, but never heard what it purports to do, or what it really does. [Wikis] TL;DR. Stopped paying attention at "streaming content". Sports and shit like that.
our (whatever the people with dumb TVs use to watch Netflix).
Errr, brain-dead laptop, I expect. Possibly even a screen-dead laptop.
I must admit to never having seen a Netflix [anything]. I thought it was a website to which you connected, and played the video in your browser window. A YouTube-alike, if you like. Same way you play video from your camera, unless NetFlix lets you dump the MP4s onto a memory card and plug that into the side of your TV. I'd have heard more about piracy from NetFlix if that were the case though.
Maintenance? On a fridge? That's a binary - working or not working. I've never heard of any maintenance other than install or remove. Well, not domestically.
HVACs are a lot more plausible - but the only HVACs I've ever used have been in flammable and/ or radio silence environments. I'll have to flag that for warning on future specifications.
Somebody else in the store at the time overheard the conversation, and told me about an article he had read about TVs which were so "smart" that they would jump on any non-secured wifi they could find, when they didn't have (or couldn't connect to) a configured network.
Set up an old phone, or laptop, or whatever to put out a *secured* WiFi signal, and tell your "Smart TV" to connect to that. But don't connect the phone/ laptop/ device to the Internet.
Probably a good idea to monitor the devices connected to your "honeynet," to see what digital detritus is trying to get on this seeming network. But not remote monitoring, numbers on the screen monitoring.
For counting users (or their devices, with many users having multiple devices and some devices having multiple users), wouldn't the modal income (most frequent in population) be more appropriate than median income (half way between lowest and highest) ? Probably not make a lot of difference, but it would lower the figure somewhat.
If the TV doesn't work without network access take it back for a refund.
You need to specify that the TV will have no network access of any sort when you order it, or when you "ask" the salesperson to show you TVs to choose from. In this country, and on most of this continent, the sellers are at fault (and are required to refund you) if what they "suggest" doesn't match your specifications ; but if you don't mention something in your specification, they aren't at fault. They'd be on weak ground PR-wise if they refused to refund, but would probably be OK on legal grounds.
I'd write the spec down before going into the store. Consult your spec often when talking to the sales person. Write time and the sales person's name on the listing, and the names/ model numbers of their suggestions. Tell they you're doing this "in case I decide to go home and think about it". Then, if they were to challenge your right to refund, you've got documentation to counter them with - far better than "he says, she says" in court.
Different countries, different laws in detail. But documentation is always good.
Daylight at the end of the day is much more valuable to me all year round.
In "Freedom Loving America" (), I assume that it is the rankest of communism to suggest that other people might have different lifestyles to you, and that they might actually deserve a little consideration.
Of course, you can always conduct your business on a 10:00 to 19:00 clock if you want. Good luck coordinating with the rest of the universe. You can even leave your kid home-alone for 4 hours a day before school opens and pick them up from school 4 hours before the end of your working day if you want to live your individualistic life to a clock that you find convenient and the rest of the world can work to what clocks you aren't following yourself. Feel free to pay for 8 hours a dy of home tutor if you want - it's your money.
There's a whole bunch of reasons that people synchronise their clocks to some degree. But mostly it adds up to being, on average, more efficient. "On average" is a a concept that Senator McArthy and his Commission on Un-American Activities tried to have made into an unthought in the anti-Communism purges of the 1950s, as parodied in Orwell's '1984'.
Laika was the first living creature to fly into orbit,
I've heard nothing of any attempts at sterilising Sputnik 1, so it's almost certain that it carried bacteria, insects and possibly tardigrades into space, where some would have persisted for a time.
Do people actually no think at all before committing their stream of consciousness to electrons?
Apart from Hollywood's finest contributions to archaeology, do you have any evidence that the labour gangs who built the Pyramids (and left their graffiti in dark corners of it) were slaves? The records indicate that they were farmers paying part of their tax burden with labour.
This bogus article doesn't mention the biggest source of nickel of them all: the huge asteroid buried under Sudbury, Canada,
Canada (including Sudbury, and minor others) produces about a quarter million tonnes of nickel/ year. Russia (including the Norilsk cumulates deposit) also produces about the same. The Philippines produces approximately as much as Canada and Russia put together. Sudbury is far from either the biggest, or the highest quality, nickel deposit in the world.
Yes, it's certainly associated with a meteorite impact structure. Whether the nickel is from the meteorite, of from mantle material brought up into the crust by the impact is not so clear. Most non-trivial impacts of course, vaporise both the impactor and the impact site, and spread them around the planet, thinly. Problem is, there's not a lot of character to differentiate terrestrial nickel from meteoritic nickel.
maybe I would rather be living in a biodome on the moon.
Of all the things that might keep me up at night, it's wondering what world my children may have to deal with when they're my age.
If you're living in a biodome on the moon, accept that you wouldn't have any meaningful control over your reproduction. Probably "unauthorised reproduction results in death for child and both parents", for whatever authorisation standards your society comes up with.
General hint for interacting with Linux - any problem which results in you thinking "I'm going to have to re-install Windows" is a problem with a different solution which does not involve installing Windows. More likely than not, several different solutions.
Finding a relevant solution for your problem... rather harder, because there is no one vendor, and so no one place to ask for help. But that is what search engines are designed for.
What about mixing cremated ash into cement and concrete?
What about mixing it into the soil of a moderately large pot plant? Long term reminder, regular attention to the deceased ; reasonably compact ; good for the house or apartment's atmosphere. Moves with owner.
When the C-64 was around in significant numbers, all my exams were ink-on-paper in a supervised classroom. A couple of minutes before the start time, after everyone was seated, the papers were handed out ; if you left early you clear your desk and hand the completed paper to the invigilator. Same for essays or multiple choices.
Computing changed slightly through the course from dumb terminals to the mainframe (initially paper teletypes; in 2nd year, glass teletypes ; nothing in third year and 4th year a variety of local machines working as glass teletypes to the mainframe. Nothing stored or run locally.
It's possible that there was one chemistry department stupid enough to do this. But since increasing numbers of lab instruments were becoming computer controlled in the years before that (no fancy GUIs, of course; generally no screen, just an RS-232 socket for plugging a passing teletype in), so I'd expect the chemistry department to have had some pretty devious technicians working there.
If they are turned off and checked in baggage then the chance of them catching fire is minimal
Many people don't understand how to turn their laptop off because they didn't RTFM or refuse to RTFM because "it's obvious". And so these various "convenience modes" - sleep, hibernation, whatever they're called get activated, not actually turning the machine off.
Turn the laptop off by removing the battery. Slip some sheets of insulator over one or more of the battery contacts before re-installing it. If you install it before reaching your destination.
Apparently there are some laptops which you can't remove the battery on. That's fine - just ship them with a "not safe for flying" logo installed at the factory or carved into the case.
[...]Just can't fly with that at all, either carry-on or checked.
Of course you can fly with it. You just need to go through the procedures for shipping dangerous goods. Your logistics officer can give you the details. The paperwork normally only takes a week or two. It might take longer to get you a seat on a cargo plane, but that's a very long way from "impossible" too.
Land-freight the batteries where they need to go. Sea-freight as necessary. If you're in some sort of emergency response system - well that's why you pre-position equipment in predictable disaster zones - like the Gulf Coast of America.
Looking around it appears that just lowering that 100Wh limit for attached checked batteries to 50Wh would cause some of the bigger ones to be required to be carried on.
It's been a while since I needed to shop for a laptop battery. And you reminded me that it's been several weeks since I ran mine down - in progress now. It's just 28Wh. Quite a stretch to a 50 or 100Wh battery - you'd need one of those not-exactly-portable dual-monitor laptop gaming rigs to push that limit.
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Is that available in mono? I only have mono-low-def hearing.
Before he died (4, nearly 5 years ago), my friend who was into AV stuff tried and failed to convince me of the benefits of a HD TV and BluRay over Standard Definition TV and DVD. He failed (though I did get a large TV not long after, despite the regular CRT still working fine). Glad to hear that the situation hasn't changed. You hear s much hype about "new technology does X" but it doesn't actually do anything new.
Not eveyone. I've heard the name, but never heard what it purports to do, or what it really does. [Wikis] TL;DR. Stopped paying attention at "streaming content". Sports and shit like that.
Errr, brain-dead laptop, I expect. Possibly even a screen-dead laptop.
I must admit to never having seen a Netflix [anything]. I thought it was a website to which you connected, and played the video in your browser window. A YouTube-alike, if you like. Same way you play video from your camera, unless NetFlix lets you dump the MP4s onto a memory card and plug that into the side of your TV. I'd have heard more about piracy from NetFlix if that were the case though.
Travis Kalanick has taken out a contract on your sorry ass. When he talks about disrupting an industry he's really going to disrupt it.
HVACs are a lot more plausible - but the only HVACs I've ever used have been in flammable and/ or radio silence environments. I'll have to flag that for warning on future specifications.
Set up an old phone, or laptop, or whatever to put out a *secured* WiFi signal, and tell your "Smart TV" to connect to that. But don't connect the phone/ laptop/ device to the Internet.
Probably a good idea to monitor the devices connected to your "honeynet," to see what digital detritus is trying to get on this seeming network. But not remote monitoring, numbers on the screen monitoring.
For counting users (or their devices, with many users having multiple devices and some devices having multiple users), wouldn't the modal income (most frequent in population) be more appropriate than median income (half way between lowest and highest) ? Probably not make a lot of difference, but it would lower the figure somewhat.
You need to specify that the TV will have no network access of any sort when you order it, or when you "ask" the salesperson to show you TVs to choose from. In this country, and on most of this continent, the sellers are at fault (and are required to refund you) if what they "suggest" doesn't match your specifications ; but if you don't mention something in your specification, they aren't at fault. They'd be on weak ground PR-wise if they refused to refund, but would probably be OK on legal grounds.
I'd write the spec down before going into the store. Consult your spec often when talking to the sales person. Write time and the sales person's name on the listing, and the names/ model numbers of their suggestions. Tell they you're doing this "in case I decide to go home and think about it". Then, if they were to challenge your right to refund, you've got documentation to counter them with - far better than "he says, she says" in court.
Different countries, different laws in detail. But documentation is always good.
In "Freedom Loving America" (), I assume that it is the rankest of communism to suggest that other people might have different lifestyles to you, and that they might actually deserve a little consideration.
Of course, you can always conduct your business on a 10:00 to 19:00 clock if you want. Good luck coordinating with the rest of the universe. You can even leave your kid home-alone for 4 hours a day before school opens and pick them up from school 4 hours before the end of your working day if you want to live your individualistic life to a clock that you find convenient and the rest of the world can work to what clocks you aren't following yourself. Feel free to pay for 8 hours a dy of home tutor if you want - it's your money.
There's a whole bunch of reasons that people synchronise their clocks to some degree. But mostly it adds up to being, on average, more efficient. "On average" is a a concept that Senator McArthy and his Commission on Un-American Activities tried to have made into an unthought in the anti-Communism purges of the 1950s, as parodied in Orwell's '1984'.
I've heard nothing of any attempts at sterilising Sputnik 1, so it's almost certain that it carried bacteria, insects and possibly tardigrades into space, where some would have persisted for a time.
Do people actually no think at all before committing their stream of consciousness to electrons?
Apart from Hollywood's finest contributions to archaeology, do you have any evidence that the labour gangs who built the Pyramids (and left their graffiti in dark corners of it) were slaves? The records indicate that they were farmers paying part of their tax burden with labour.
Canada (including Sudbury, and minor others) produces about a quarter million tonnes of nickel/ year. Russia (including the Norilsk cumulates deposit) also produces about the same. The Philippines produces approximately as much as Canada and Russia put together. Sudbury is far from either the biggest, or the highest quality, nickel deposit in the world.
Yes, it's certainly associated with a meteorite impact structure. Whether the nickel is from the meteorite, of from mantle material brought up into the crust by the impact is not so clear. Most non-trivial impacts of course, vaporise both the impactor and the impact site, and spread them around the planet, thinly. Problem is, there's not a lot of character to differentiate terrestrial nickel from meteoritic nickel.
If you're living in a biodome on the moon, accept that you wouldn't have any meaningful control over your reproduction. Probably "unauthorised reproduction results in death for child and both parents", for whatever authorisation standards your society comes up with.
Anyone who in 2014 had written "Donald Trump would be an international laughing stock as US President".
Finding a relevant solution for your problem ... rather harder, because there is no one vendor, and so no one place to ask for help. But that is what search engines are designed for.
That's what is going to have to change. One way or another.
What about mixing it into the soil of a moderately large pot plant? Long term reminder, regular attention to the deceased ; reasonably compact ; good for the house or apartment's atmosphere. Moves with owner.
Really? I wouldn't put that past him. What is it - about Amendment 22?
When the C-64 was around in significant numbers, all my exams were ink-on-paper in a supervised classroom. A couple of minutes before the start time, after everyone was seated, the papers were handed out ; if you left early you clear your desk and hand the completed paper to the invigilator. Same for essays or multiple choices.
Computing changed slightly through the course from dumb terminals to the mainframe (initially paper teletypes; in 2nd year, glass teletypes ; nothing in third year and 4th year a variety of local machines working as glass teletypes to the mainframe. Nothing stored or run locally.
It's possible that there was one chemistry department stupid enough to do this. But since increasing numbers of lab instruments were becoming computer controlled in the years before that (no fancy GUIs, of course; generally no screen, just an RS-232 socket for plugging a passing teletype in), so I'd expect the chemistry department to have had some pretty devious technicians working there.
Or ... the OP only reads books that are read by dogs.
Many people don't understand how to turn their laptop off because they didn't RTFM or refuse to RTFM because "it's obvious". And so these various "convenience modes" - sleep, hibernation, whatever they're called get activated, not actually turning the machine off. Turn the laptop off by removing the battery. Slip some sheets of insulator over one or more of the battery contacts before re-installing it. If you install it before reaching your destination.
Apparently there are some laptops which you can't remove the battery on. That's fine - just ship them with a "not safe for flying" logo installed at the factory or carved into the case.
Of course you can fly with it. You just need to go through the procedures for shipping dangerous goods. Your logistics officer can give you the details. The paperwork normally only takes a week or two. It might take longer to get you a seat on a cargo plane, but that's a very long way from "impossible" too.
Land-freight the batteries where they need to go. Sea-freight as necessary. If you're in some sort of emergency response system - well that's why you pre-position equipment in predictable disaster zones - like the Gulf Coast of America.
It's been a while since I needed to shop for a laptop battery. And you reminded me that it's been several weeks since I ran mine down - in progress now. It's just 28Wh. Quite a stretch to a 50 or 100Wh battery - you'd need one of those not-exactly-portable dual-monitor laptop gaming rigs to push that limit.
Odd. I'm sure I could remove the battery from the last Apple product I owned. So, they've changed the design in the last decade or so?