Just looking at a standard 60 watt replacement soft white Cree led light bulb, they have a 10 year 100% satisfaction guaranteed warranty https://creebulb.com/warranty/
They require a receipt to actually make a claim. How many people are going to bother to keep paperwork on every light bulb in their house for ten years?
Companies can offer extraordinarily long warranties when they can be reasonably confident that only a small proportion of customers will go to the trouble of making a claim.
The OP is wrong in that they don't need the MTBF to be as low as for incandescents (since LED bulbs still cost quite a bit more than incandescents), but anyone who believes that it's going to be ten years is living in a fantasy world.
You're focusing on the wrong thing. The "system" resulted in the two worst major-party candidates in at least modern history being nominated, and yet your complaint is that the wrong dreadful candidate got elected?
If you fix your party and nominate a real candidate, then we won't have this problem in the first place.
Any argument that we can't stop robo-calls because it's "too expensive" is just stupid. The cost of stopping them is miniscule compared to the cost of allowing them.
If perfectly circular, average distance from any planet to any planet should be equal to the center of their path circle, which is, drum roll please, the center of the sun.
So, Earth-Mercury average distance shares the first place with any other of 45 planet pair combinations.
Reading through the article, they're doing something where they are considering the position of a planet to be "a uniform probabilistic distribution around a circle defined by the average orbital radius". It's not clear exactly how that distribution is defined, but depending on how that was done, it seems possible that the distance calculated could be different than the distance from the Earth to the sun.
There's no explanation that I can see on why they would believe that assumption of distribution to be a good one in the first place, though; if they did some research that led them to that assumption, that is probably more interesting than their "closest planet" result.
It is special. It effectively pushes Linus out of the 4.x kernel branch and puts Greg in charge of yet another.
Linus was never working on some "4.x kernel branch," as there isn't a separate branch of kernel development for each major version. He has always worked on the updates for the next mainline kernel release, regardless of what he's calling it.
We can speak opinions that are offensive to others. We can hurt the feelings of people who don't agree with our opinions. On the flip side, we tolerate other people who hurt our feelings and who don't agree without our opinions.
That sure as hell isn't recognizable as a description of America today.
...so Apple's rather blunt but effective block is to return a bad gateway error for Linux clients.
Yeah, "effective". Unless your attacker uses a common operating system instead of an unusual one. Or can figure out how to change their user agent string.
"Amazon has extorted New York from the start, and this seems to be their next effort to do just that," he said. "If their view is, 'We won't come unless we get three billion of your dollars,' then they shouldn't come."
This is just stupid. A deal involves two parties. New York politicians want the state to back out of their half of the deal, but this guy thinks that they should be able to hold Amazon to their half.
Mailinator and similar services are useful in cases where you either don't want email at all, or only want it for a short time -- like for registering on a website that insists on you verifying your email address. It doesn't work for longer-term things where you want to keep receiving email.
What I would imagine as what I would like to see:
Have a button in GMail to create a new email address that automatically forwards to your email. A really simple approach would be to just automatically pick an address like "@tempgmail.com".
Mail addressed to that new address would get a label indicating which address was used, which makes filtering really easy, and if that address starts getting spammed you can just automatically send it to the trash.
Just that would be really useful. You could get fancier by allowing the user to select an address; adding a browser extension so you don't even have to go to your email to set it up; allowing extensions to the address (like current "+" addresses, but using some character that most sites allow); automatically registering @tempgmail.com to forward to your address... that's just what comes to mind immediately.
Google is probably best positioned to do something like this, although obviously a third party could do a lot of it. Are there any services like that?
In my experience it's most. And even if you get it past the client-side filter, it sometimes will cause the web site to break in interesting ways -- for instance, I've found cases where a site will accept a "+" address to register for an account, but then you can't actually use it to log in...
I tried using it for a while to help me filter emails and keep track of who was selling my address, but it's broken on too many sites to be worth even making the attempt. I could report the problem, but most site owners won't bother fixing it, and it defeats the purpose of having easy-to-use aliases if I have to contact support every time I want to use one.
I really wish that Google would offer a simple alias / disposable email service linked to Gmail that would work on most websites. Dot addresses could help (since most sites will allow a dot, at least), but they're pretty limited.
The DNT setting is just some completely pointless browser setting. I would be shocked if 23% of adults had any idea what it is in the first place, much less who respects it.
Diet is so important to your health, but getting damaged teeth fixed is expensive and mostly out of pocket. So you end up eating pre-processed crap that is bad for your health.
Wait... expensive dental care is the reason why people eat "pre-processed crap"?
I think you're missing a link or two in the chain of your logic there.
Since IBM uses Notes internally for all its employees, I suspect that a large chunk of that money is going right back to the buyer to pay for licensing.
You mean the same Republican party that freed the black slaves and lead charge for the Civil Rights Act? Go home and come back when you learn your history.
It certainly was not the same party that freed the slaves. No-one involved in freeing the slaves is still alive.
As for the Civil Rights Act, support for that was very strong among both major parties except for in the South. It's pretty misleading to give Republicans the primary credit, although if you're willing to pick your facts carefully I guess you can justify it. But even so, that was more than fifty years ago, and again the party has changed a lot since then.
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Anywhere a bachelor and masters degree of any value is going to cost way over 200k.
That's complete nonsense. There are very few places where there is not a decent state-run university that will cost far less than your 200k figure.
But it is what is relevant when you're talking about a fast-food burger joint.
Just looking at a standard 60 watt replacement soft white Cree led light bulb, they have a 10 year 100% satisfaction guaranteed warranty https://creebulb.com/warranty/
They require a receipt to actually make a claim. How many people are going to bother to keep paperwork on every light bulb in their house for ten years?
Companies can offer extraordinarily long warranties when they can be reasonably confident that only a small proportion of customers will go to the trouble of making a claim.
The OP is wrong in that they don't need the MTBF to be as low as for incandescents (since LED bulbs still cost quite a bit more than incandescents), but anyone who believes that it's going to be ten years is living in a fantasy world.
...she has the aux cable in the car. (Ok, it's really bluetooth, not an aux cable, but you get the idea.)
So when she has the bluetooth in the car?
Wait, that doesn't make sense either. Perhaps you should have left that whole part out.
Considering there are as many guns as people, it's astonishing how few gun crimes there are in the US...
It's almost as though guns don't run around committing crimes all by themselves.
You're focusing on the wrong thing. The "system" resulted in the two worst major-party candidates in at least modern history being nominated, and yet your complaint is that the wrong dreadful candidate got elected?
If you fix your party and nominate a real candidate, then we won't have this problem in the first place.
Any argument that we can't stop robo-calls because it's "too expensive" is just stupid. The cost of stopping them is miniscule compared to the cost of allowing them.
it will come equipped with software and sensors capable of autonomous driving, whenever it becomes legal.
You'd have to be a complete idiot to believe this at this point.
If perfectly circular, average distance from any planet to any planet should be equal to the center of their path circle, which is, drum roll please, the center of the sun.
So, Earth-Mercury average distance shares the first place with any other of 45 planet pair combinations.
Reading through the article, they're doing something where they are considering the position of a planet to be "a uniform probabilistic distribution around a circle defined by the average orbital radius". It's not clear exactly how that distribution is defined, but depending on how that was done, it seems possible that the distance calculated could be different than the distance from the Earth to the sun.
There's no explanation that I can see on why they would believe that assumption of distribution to be a good one in the first place, though; if they did some research that led them to that assumption, that is probably more interesting than their "closest planet" result.
The "experts" say "not possible for 10 years".
This means it will likely happen in the next 18 months.
Well, either that, or every ten years the experts will say "ten more years."
You mean that EVs won't work for every single person's use case? Gee, that's an insightful statement.
It is special. It effectively pushes Linus out of the 4.x kernel branch and puts Greg in charge of yet another.
Linus was never working on some "4.x kernel branch," as there isn't a separate branch of kernel development for each major version. He has always worked on the updates for the next mainline kernel release, regardless of what he's calling it.
We can speak opinions that are offensive to others. We can hurt the feelings of people who don't agree with our opinions. On the flip side, we tolerate other people who hurt our feelings and who don't agree without our opinions.
That sure as hell isn't recognizable as a description of America today.
...so Apple's rather blunt but effective block is to return a bad gateway error for Linux clients.
Yeah, "effective". Unless your attacker uses a common operating system instead of an unusual one. Or can figure out how to change their user agent string.
That explanation isn't the least bit plausible.
"Amazon has extorted New York from the start, and this seems to be their next effort to do just that," he said. "If their view is, 'We won't come unless we get three billion of your dollars,' then they shouldn't come."
This is just stupid. A deal involves two parties. New York politicians want the state to back out of their half of the deal, but this guy thinks that they should be able to hold Amazon to their half.
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Mailinator and similar services are useful in cases where you either don't want email at all, or only want it for a short time -- like for registering on a website that insists on you verifying your email address. It doesn't work for longer-term things where you want to keep receiving email.
What I would imagine as what I would like to see:
Have a button in GMail to create a new email address that automatically forwards to your email. A really simple approach would be to just automatically pick an address like "@tempgmail.com".
Mail addressed to that new address would get a label indicating which address was used, which makes filtering really easy, and if that address starts getting spammed you can just automatically send it to the trash.
Just that would be really useful. You could get fancier by allowing the user to select an address; adding a browser extension so you don't even have to go to your email to set it up; allowing extensions to the address (like current "+" addresses, but using some character that most sites allow); automatically registering @tempgmail.com to forward to your address... that's just what comes to mind immediately.
Google is probably best positioned to do something like this, although obviously a third party could do a lot of it. Are there any services like that?
Some web forms see the plus char as invalid.
In my experience it's most. And even if you get it past the client-side filter, it sometimes will cause the web site to break in interesting ways -- for instance, I've found cases where a site will accept a "+" address to register for an account, but then you can't actually use it to log in...
I tried using it for a while to help me filter emails and keep track of who was selling my address, but it's broken on too many sites to be worth even making the attempt. I could report the problem, but most site owners won't bother fixing it, and it defeats the purpose of having easy-to-use aliases if I have to contact support every time I want to use one.
I really wish that Google would offer a simple alias / disposable email service linked to Gmail that would work on most websites. Dot addresses could help (since most sites will allow a dot, at least), but they're pretty limited.
The DNT setting is just some completely pointless browser setting. I would be shocked if 23% of adults had any idea what it is in the first place, much less who respects it.
This is what happens when your "fact checkers" are looking at the source of the information instead of the content.
I suggest that the "workaround" should be to have your fact checkers, you know, check the facts.
That's what they say. Yet some of it was implemented. That's a little... coincidental.
This was probably the first draft; what was actually presented to management was much, much worse.
Apparently the half that "wants to unionize" doesn't want it all that badly, or they would have done it already.
Diet is so important to your health, but getting damaged teeth fixed is expensive and mostly out of pocket. So you end up eating pre-processed crap that is bad for your health.
Wait ... expensive dental care is the reason why people eat "pre-processed crap"?
I think you're missing a link or two in the chain of your logic there.
Since IBM uses Notes internally for all its employees, I suspect that a large chunk of that money is going right back to the buyer to pay for licensing.
You could summarize this as "open-source companies are realizing that they don't actually want to open-source their work."
You mean the same Republican party that freed the black slaves and lead charge for the Civil Rights Act? Go home and come back when you learn your history.
It certainly was not the same party that freed the slaves. No-one involved in freeing the slaves is still alive.
As for the Civil Rights Act, support for that was very strong among both major parties except for in the South. It's pretty misleading to give Republicans the primary credit, although if you're willing to pick your facts carefully I guess you can justify it. But even so, that was more than fifty years ago, and again the party has changed a lot since then.