I wouldn't want my country to have a monopoly on something like nuclear weapons, because it would inevitably lead to them becoming a global bully. I wouldn't want any country to be in a position where they could do that. The US wanted to be in that position after WW2, refusing to share technology with their ally the UK. Fortunately the UK and USSR developed their own nuclear weapons, providing some balance of power.
He's describing an expansion chamber exhaust system used on two-stroke engines with open ports. There's a brief period when both the inlet and exhaust ports are open. The exhaust system is designed so that, at a chosen engine speed, the exhaust pulse from the previous power combustion is reflected back, reducing the amount of unburned air/fuel mixture passing out the exhaust port and improving compression. See the description and animation on the relevant Wikipedia page.
Clocks and "standard time" have existed for a few hundred years. For millennia, people defined the start of the day as astronomical sunrise. DST is supposed to be a kind of compromise for the way astronomical sunrise time varies throughout the year.
There's also gestational diabetes, which is a temporary thing that happens to pregnant women. My wife got this the first time, and it really scared her. Before that she used to give me shit and tell me I'd get diabetes from my eating habits. She got really strict with her eating and exercise the whole time she was pregnant. The second time she responded better to the glucose metabolism test, but they'd changed the threshold, so they still told her she had borderline gestational diabetes, and she had to do the whole testing regime again.
AliYun Hong Kong has good peering with Chinese and European ISPs. I don't store the master copy of anything important there, but I do use instances there for proxy/cache functionality because using it as a trampoline is often faster than connecting directly to/from stuff in Shanghai from elsewhere.
When you do that, Bank of China handles the details for you. They have CNY and USD reserves on hand, and when necessary they'll convert USD/CAD and USD/CNY to keep things in order. The first additional currency that they allowed to be converted directly to/from CNY was JPY about ten years ago. After that they added GBP and AUD. You kinda can convert HKD directly under certain circumstances, but you've got the whole weirdness with the Hong Kong banks being required to hold USD reserves to issue banknotes (HSBC, Standard Chartered, Bank of China, etc.) so USD is still involved.
Yeah, I'm kinda lucky that the line-of-business applications I develop are deployed on Linux, the open source projects I contribute to are portable across Windows/Linux/Mac, and for my photography etc. the Adobe stuff runs on Windows as well as Mac. I don't need (or want) to develop Mac or iPhone software at this point.
...if you're committed to the Mac and every single Mac laptop thatâ(TM)s sold uses the exact same keyboard, there's nowhere to run.
If you're "committed to the Mac" you have a problem. I used Macs all through the '90s, I weathered the PowerPC transition, Carbonised my applications, ran Mac OS X as my primary OS starting with Public Beta, and made the transition to Intel. But it was never a religion - it was because at the time it was the best option for me. I didn't use Macs exclusively - I had Sun workstations and Windows PCs as well - but the Mac was my "preferred desktop" so to speak.
After 2003 or so, there was just less and less to be happy about. The hardware quality hit a high in 2001, and hasn't been the same since. The 2001 iBook was really solid and reliable, with great battery life. I have a "Snakebite" dual G4 that still works fine. But from 10.4 "Tiger" onwards, every release of OS X was buggy and broke something. I got a first-generation MacBook so I had something to work with for porting to Intel, but it was a terrible machine. The cooling was very inadequate, the GMA950 GPU stole half the RAM bandwidth, it would kernel panic regularly if an external display was connected, the top case cracked, and the optical drive became misaligned with the slot in the case.
My last Mac was a 2010 17" MacBook Pro with the 1920*1200 matte display, running 10.6 "Snow Leopard". That was the last tolerable version of OS X, and even then there were annoyances. Xcode had been dumbed down to the point where I'd rather just use vim and work at the command line. The machine was compromised as well. The mechanical click in the trackpad wasn't coupled to the microswitch, so it would click mechanically without registering. Adjusting this required taking the battery out and messing with tri-wing screws. You can't have it running while adjusting it, so it's trial and error. The unibody MacBook Pros were never as tough as the previous models with the magnesium allow chassis. They'd bend, and the bottom panels were really thin and weak. At least that model had a battery that could be replaced easily enough with just some screwdrivers, unlike the newer ones with glued-in batteries.
It had got to the point where the only thing keeping me on the Mac was the annoyance of moving data and getting equivalent applications set up. Eventually that machine developed interrupt controller issues, and I looked at my options. I just wasn't interested in anything Apple was offering. I'd already switched to a Dell Precision T3610 as my main desktop, and I got a Dell Latitude as my new notebook. Sure, there are things I dislike about it, but it's a better machine. Everything's user-replaceable, including the keyboard and LCD. Bigger battery, still has built-in Ethernet, SD card reader, and even VGA out.
If you're "committed to the Mac" you're throwing your money away so that Apple can maintain its insane profit margins. You're getting worse products every time, with fewer upgrade options, less poorer serviceability, and less durability. Apple is not committed to you.
The US has the advantage of being able to inflate their problems onto the rest of the world, because the US dollar is the de facto global reserve currency for trading oil and gold. Hong Kong banks must keep US dollar reserves to issue banknotes. Until relatively recently, the US dollar was the only currency that could be directly converted to/from Chinese currency.
This started after the second world war, when the US had the strongest economic position, and was the biggest consumer. People also trusted the US government not to default on the gold standard, although that trust ultimately proved to be unfounded. But by the time the US defaulted on the gold standard, the US dollar was well established as necessary for trading oil.
Other governments need to walk a far finer line than the US when issuing debt and printing money because their currencies aren't seen as having inherent value globally.
I think you missed the sarcasm. The US likes to pretend to be a meritocracy, while still having these "old boys networks", political families like the Bushes, and every other kind of nepotism and cronyism.
Forged death certificates are fairly easy to get in India and not particularly expensive - might not've even got a real doctor, just a professional document forger. The thing is in India, record-keeping can be quite poor and sometimes the easiest way to get a document is just to get a forgery. A guy I knew was applying for a security clearance in Australia and needed a birth certificate. He'd somehow lost or damaged it, and the hospital where he was born had burned down with all its records, so he couldn't get a replacement. His dad went to a professional forger, gave him all the details, and got a convincing replacement. Aus DFAT accepted it without issues and he got his clearance. In this case there was no falsified information involved, but I imagine most forgers wouldn't bother to verify the information at all.
WeChat is free because they want you to use the mobile payment features. Any balance in your account is like an interest-free loan for them, and it adds up over a large number of users.
LINE is free because they apparently make a substantial amount of money selling vanity features like themes and animated emoji, "stickers", etc. kinda like TF2 hats.
Because people usually turn off IME edit for password fields. For one thing, a lot of systems reject exotic characters in passwords. Also, if you need to log in from a system that doesn't have a suitable Chinese IME you're screwed if you need Chinese characters. So they turn off IME edit, select US ANSI keyboard layout, and type the keys they would for an easy-to-remember Chinese phrase. It end up looking like random letters/numbers in English.
I'm going to be the stereotype here - the only person I knew who had HIV/AIDS was my uncle's boyfriend, and he died from it back in the early '90s when it was still a death sentence. I think a lot of people have become more blase about HIV now that you can go on living for years by taking a cocktail of anti-retroviral drugs. Back then, once you got HIV you were pretty much dead.
They were assuming you couldn't/wouldn't change the wheels, tyres, brakes, etc. yourself? That sounds pretty dumb for an "enthusiast" car. Was Apple somehow involved, or did this serve as inspiration for them? Definitely echoes of that in their soldered RAM and Flash storage.
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Admiral Hopper (RIP) was sharp and relevant in every interview I saw her take.
No, he's saying that with Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. down, couples have some chance of putting their phones down and copulating.
Is a Land Rover an incredibly powerful weapon that massively shifts the balance of power in a conflict? No.
I wouldn't want my country to have a monopoly on something like nuclear weapons, because it would inevitably lead to them becoming a global bully. I wouldn't want any country to be in a position where they could do that. The US wanted to be in that position after WW2, refusing to share technology with their ally the UK. Fortunately the UK and USSR developed their own nuclear weapons, providing some balance of power.
He's describing an expansion chamber exhaust system used on two-stroke engines with open ports. There's a brief period when both the inlet and exhaust ports are open. The exhaust system is designed so that, at a chosen engine speed, the exhaust pulse from the previous power combustion is reflected back, reducing the amount of unburned air/fuel mixture passing out the exhaust port and improving compression. See the description and animation on the relevant Wikipedia page.
That story isn't credible, and no-one has produced a photograph of the chip.
Clocks and "standard time" have existed for a few hundred years. For millennia, people defined the start of the day as astronomical sunrise. DST is supposed to be a kind of compromise for the way astronomical sunrise time varies throughout the year.
There's also gestational diabetes, which is a temporary thing that happens to pregnant women. My wife got this the first time, and it really scared her. Before that she used to give me shit and tell me I'd get diabetes from my eating habits. She got really strict with her eating and exercise the whole time she was pregnant. The second time she responded better to the glucose metabolism test, but they'd changed the threshold, so they still told her she had borderline gestational diabetes, and she had to do the whole testing regime again.
Really? That long? Instances become available in seconds on Hetzner, and well under five minutes on AliYun. What's IBM doing?
AliYun Hong Kong has good peering with Chinese and European ISPs. I don't store the master copy of anything important there, but I do use instances there for proxy/cache functionality because using it as a trampoline is often faster than connecting directly to/from stuff in Shanghai from elsewhere.
At the risk of being modded troll, gnaa.eu - but you've got to admit they've been a part of slashdot for a long time.
When you do that, Bank of China handles the details for you. They have CNY and USD reserves on hand, and when necessary they'll convert USD/CAD and USD/CNY to keep things in order. The first additional currency that they allowed to be converted directly to/from CNY was JPY about ten years ago. After that they added GBP and AUD. You kinda can convert HKD directly under certain circumstances, but you've got the whole weirdness with the Hong Kong banks being required to hold USD reserves to issue banknotes (HSBC, Standard Chartered, Bank of China, etc.) so USD is still involved.
Yeah, I'm kinda lucky that the line-of-business applications I develop are deployed on Linux, the open source projects I contribute to are portable across Windows/Linux/Mac, and for my photography etc. the Adobe stuff runs on Windows as well as Mac. I don't need (or want) to develop Mac or iPhone software at this point.
Exactly. This line made me laugh:
If you're "committed to the Mac" you have a problem. I used Macs all through the '90s, I weathered the PowerPC transition, Carbonised my applications, ran Mac OS X as my primary OS starting with Public Beta, and made the transition to Intel. But it was never a religion - it was because at the time it was the best option for me. I didn't use Macs exclusively - I had Sun workstations and Windows PCs as well - but the Mac was my "preferred desktop" so to speak.
After 2003 or so, there was just less and less to be happy about. The hardware quality hit a high in 2001, and hasn't been the same since. The 2001 iBook was really solid and reliable, with great battery life. I have a "Snakebite" dual G4 that still works fine. But from 10.4 "Tiger" onwards, every release of OS X was buggy and broke something. I got a first-generation MacBook so I had something to work with for porting to Intel, but it was a terrible machine. The cooling was very inadequate, the GMA950 GPU stole half the RAM bandwidth, it would kernel panic regularly if an external display was connected, the top case cracked, and the optical drive became misaligned with the slot in the case.
My last Mac was a 2010 17" MacBook Pro with the 1920*1200 matte display, running 10.6 "Snow Leopard". That was the last tolerable version of OS X, and even then there were annoyances. Xcode had been dumbed down to the point where I'd rather just use vim and work at the command line. The machine was compromised as well. The mechanical click in the trackpad wasn't coupled to the microswitch, so it would click mechanically without registering. Adjusting this required taking the battery out and messing with tri-wing screws. You can't have it running while adjusting it, so it's trial and error. The unibody MacBook Pros were never as tough as the previous models with the magnesium allow chassis. They'd bend, and the bottom panels were really thin and weak. At least that model had a battery that could be replaced easily enough with just some screwdrivers, unlike the newer ones with glued-in batteries.
It had got to the point where the only thing keeping me on the Mac was the annoyance of moving data and getting equivalent applications set up. Eventually that machine developed interrupt controller issues, and I looked at my options. I just wasn't interested in anything Apple was offering. I'd already switched to a Dell Precision T3610 as my main desktop, and I got a Dell Latitude as my new notebook. Sure, there are things I dislike about it, but it's a better machine. Everything's user-replaceable, including the keyboard and LCD. Bigger battery, still has built-in Ethernet, SD card reader, and even VGA out.
If you're "committed to the Mac" you're throwing your money away so that Apple can maintain its insane profit margins. You're getting worse products every time, with fewer upgrade options, less poorer serviceability, and less durability. Apple is not committed to you.
The US has the advantage of being able to inflate their problems onto the rest of the world, because the US dollar is the de facto global reserve currency for trading oil and gold. Hong Kong banks must keep US dollar reserves to issue banknotes. Until relatively recently, the US dollar was the only currency that could be directly converted to/from Chinese currency.
This started after the second world war, when the US had the strongest economic position, and was the biggest consumer. People also trusted the US government not to default on the gold standard, although that trust ultimately proved to be unfounded. But by the time the US defaulted on the gold standard, the US dollar was well established as necessary for trading oil.
Other governments need to walk a far finer line than the US when issuing debt and printing money because their currencies aren't seen as having inherent value globally.
I think you missed the sarcasm. The US likes to pretend to be a meritocracy, while still having these "old boys networks", political families like the Bushes, and every other kind of nepotism and cronyism.
Not suggesting that at all. Just saying that, as someone outside both the US and China, I don't trust any of these cunts.
Doesn't change the fact that the US bugged the hell out of it. All the superpowers and wannabe superpowers do this shit.
Forged death certificates are fairly easy to get in India and not particularly expensive - might not've even got a real doctor, just a professional document forger. The thing is in India, record-keeping can be quite poor and sometimes the easiest way to get a document is just to get a forgery. A guy I knew was applying for a security clearance in Australia and needed a birth certificate. He'd somehow lost or damaged it, and the hospital where he was born had burned down with all its records, so he couldn't get a replacement. His dad went to a professional forger, gave him all the details, and got a convincing replacement. Aus DFAT accepted it without issues and he got his clearance. In this case there was no falsified information involved, but I imagine most forgers wouldn't bother to verify the information at all.
Yeah, but it's a dumb thing to do because it won't display properly in a terminal and you'll have to rely on the punycoded form to deal with it.
WeChat is free because they want you to use the mobile payment features. Any balance in your account is like an interest-free loan for them, and it adds up over a large number of users.
LINE is free because they apparently make a substantial amount of money selling vanity features like themes and animated emoji, "stickers", etc. kinda like TF2 hats.
Kilowatt hours are a measure of energy, not power. Also, did you fail to recognise a Back to the Future reference?
Because people usually turn off IME edit for password fields. For one thing, a lot of systems reject exotic characters in passwords. Also, if you need to log in from a system that doesn't have a suitable Chinese IME you're screwed if you need Chinese characters. So they turn off IME edit, select US ANSI keyboard layout, and type the keys they would for an easy-to-remember Chinese phrase. It end up looking like random letters/numbers in English.
I'm going to be the stereotype here - the only person I knew who had HIV/AIDS was my uncle's boyfriend, and he died from it back in the early '90s when it was still a death sentence. I think a lot of people have become more blase about HIV now that you can go on living for years by taking a cocktail of anti-retroviral drugs. Back then, once you got HIV you were pretty much dead.
They were assuming you couldn't/wouldn't change the wheels, tyres, brakes, etc. yourself? That sounds pretty dumb for an "enthusiast" car. Was Apple somehow involved, or did this serve as inspiration for them? Definitely echoes of that in their soldered RAM and Flash storage.