Bullshit. Philipp Reis also invented a telephone and gave the first public demonstraton in 1854 - more than two decades before Alexander Graham Bell. Maybe we all should read Mark Twain's words at the start of TFA again?
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that. Mark Twain
And whoever uses "X invented Y" again, shall be forever banned from ever partaking in a discussion about inventions again.
Yes, and Nikola Tesla was simply wrong in promoting alternating current for about any use. If you look at modern electrical or electronic gear, they all have circuitry to convert alternating current to direct current before powering anything. Thomas Alva Edison was right. But where Nikola Tesla was right was that for transmitting current, alternating current beats direct current downhand. And that's why about any electrical system in the world transmits alternating current.
What's so special about poll results? They are just an attempt do understand the current opinion. They don't have any legal implications. If there was a real election, and the real results were hidden and the election faked, then there would be something to publish. But a poll? Seriously? If you don't believe the results, ask the next polling institute and get your own.
Because WikiLeaks can only publish material it gets. If they don't get material about Russia and China, they can't publish it. WikiLeaks doesn't actively go for material, they just offer a platform to publish it. If you want something about Russia and China published on WikiLeaks, go, get the stuff and publish it!
I live here since nearly 10 years now, my job has moved several times (I've changed companies), but I always used the bicycle to go to work. Distances were varying between 2 and 8 mls during that time, but the town is not much larger though... And yes, the place has its advantages. The daycare center is a 5 min walk, and the elementary school is in the same building. My oldest one is now in secondary school, but there is a bus line which goes there directly.
Depends on which process is used for cracking the longer chains in shorter parts. Normally, surplus carbon remains as tar or coke at the bottom of the process vessel.
I don't. For my job, I use a company owned car. To get to my job, I am using the bicycle. It's just 2 mls, and there is a path along the fields I can use. There is no point for me to own a second car. Thus I probably will not own an electric car for the time being.
For me, an electric car has its problems, the short range and long recharge cycle makes it a non-choice for long distances. My parents live about 400 mls from my home, my brother about 600 mls -- a trip with an electric car would surely take more than one day. But as I have children, going by train or by airplane would cost much more than taking the car for us all, that they really aren't an alternative.
Because there are countries like the U.S., where the infrastructure for gasoline is much better than for diesel. And diesel exhaust has more CO2 per Joule than gasoline, because longer carbohydride molecules have a higher carbon/hydrogenium ratio than the shorter ones.
In fact, Cristobal Colón advertised his exploration trip with ROI from the beginning - according to his theories, the Earth circumfence was about 15,000 mls instead of the actual 25,000 mls, He proposed to go to India via the western route because according to his theories, this way would be much shorter. He calculated something about 4000 mls for the whole trip, and it would avoid going around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, which was explored by the Portuguese at the time. The Portuguese knew the circumfence of the Earth was 25,000 mls, and they knew a western route would be more than 14000 mls and thus unattractive, so Cristobal Colón went to Spain instead and managed to persuade the Queen of Spain. And it wasn't until his third trip to New Spain, that he realized he had discovered a new continent. Other people at his time already figured so much, and Amerigo Vespucci was fast in publishing new maps with the new continent drawn in, thus we call it America now and not Colombia.
It's pretty easy to overcome audits. Open a trivial case against the person you want to snoop on (littering or something), pull the data, and then close the case with "no further investigation". So everything looks legitimate, and the audit doesn't ring any alarms.
While this is a myth, another anecdote probably is no myth. The russian word for trainstation is vokzal. The word is not of russian origin, but english. When the first railroad was built in Russia, the 12 mile track between St. Peterburg and Tsarskoye Selo and further to Pavlovsk Palace, there were extensive pleasure gardens around Pavlovsk Palace, which were called vokzal (Vauxhall translated to russian letters) in the russian language - and got their name from the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in London. Thus the terminus at Pavlovsk Palace was called vokzal, giving raise to the generic russian word for terminus.
So the smallest of al metro systems of the world, the Dorfbahn (village metro) of Serfaus, obviously doesn't need to follow the rule. But in fact, it does. It has a core, the stations Seilbahn and Raika, it has a single leg, consisting of Kirche and Parkplatz. About 25% of the stations, the Seilbahn one is connected to other lines, the ropeway and the busses.
Are you for mandantory searches of all homes? No? So you stand with the child pornographers. Are you for mandantory screening of all letters and packages? No? So you stand with the child pornographers. Are you for mandantory monitoring of all private places? No? So you stand with the child pornographers.
If enough people state publicly that he obviously stands with the child pornographers, maybe his bill will lose support.
On the other hand, if you ever got caught commiting a crime, for the rest of your life you seem to have to commit crimes to just get along, just as if zero tolerance and zero forgiveness were a recipe to increase crime rates.
No. > just means "forward" (for readers of the latin script, this is the natural direction of reading) and >> is "double forward" or "strong forward". No technology involved in the iconography, and you don't need any technological experience to understand it.
But this is something quite different, at least from a tactile point of view. The modern buttons at a radio are more like function keys, where pressing one button starts a new function, which keeps running until one stops or starts another function. But remember the radio buttons of old (and those of tape recorders and such), where there was a real mechanical reset of all other buttons? Even if you somehow managed to activate two buttons at once (with the recording button on the tape recorder, it was actually meant to be that way), each other button was a reset button for the currently running function, and if you didn't push it thoroughly but only touched it, you could stop the current function without starting a new one.
There is a lot wrong with "autosave & undo", because I often have configuration files which are pretty similar, and I open one as a template, modify it and then save it with a new name. "Autosave & undo" would immediately overwrite the file I use as a template.
No, there are valid reasons to especially request the original file to be overwritten with the one currently in the editor buffer, and if it was only to keep the old one as a "known good" roll back option if the new file doesn't work as expected.
The point in this case was not the usage of radio buttons, it was calling them "radio buttons" - who actually still has a radio with preset stations, where once one button is operated, all other buttons mechanically jump back into the "off" position?
(I actually think the handset icon is not "old tech", as I am still installing completely new handsets as part of my job;) ).
I think you don't understand what icons are. Look at the icons on an old tape recorder (<<, ||, >, >> etc.pp.). They are completely disassociated from any technology, and they were understandable at the time. And nevertheless they were icons = pictures following very strict design rules.
(The old christian icons, where the word icon actually comes from, had strictly codified rules how to portrait each saint, so laymen could recognize them without being able to read the descriptions.)
About every living creates the environment it lives in. Some in very obvious ways (ants, bees, beavers, moles...), some pretty subtle (grazing animals of the open plains tend to hinder the growing of shrubs and trees and thus keep the plain open). Same goes for plants, which change the immediate environment in a way to hinder concurrent species by shadowing the ground, changing water levels and chemical properties of the soil, and fend off enemies.
If you carry the bills and coins to the bank, you have either counted them beforehand (and will point out any difference to your count), or indeed you trust them enough. But this is just you and the bank, it's your individual decision to trust the bank bill counter. It's not the election result of 200 mio individual votes. And the Secretary of State has already the individual counts of all precinct to compare his count against them. And if there is any difference, there will be a recount. So your counter arguments are not valid.
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I wonder how the little model train then worked, which I had as a child - single phase alternate current at 0-24 V~.
Bell invented the telephone.
Bullshit. Philipp Reis also invented a telephone and gave the first public demonstraton in 1854 - more than two decades before Alexander Graham Bell. Maybe we all should read Mark Twain's words at the start of TFA again?
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.
Mark Twain
And whoever uses "X invented Y" again, shall be forever banned from ever partaking in a discussion about inventions again.
Neither Sweden nor Finland are member states of the NATO, and both were frontier states in the Cold War. No one else paid for their defense.
So this argument is moot.
Yes, and Nikola Tesla was simply wrong in promoting alternating current for about any use. If you look at modern electrical or electronic gear, they all have circuitry to convert alternating current to direct current before powering anything. Thomas Alva Edison was right.
But where Nikola Tesla was right was that for transmitting current, alternating current beats direct current downhand. And that's why about any electrical system in the world transmits alternating current.
What's so special about poll results? They are just an attempt do understand the current opinion. They don't have any legal implications. If there was a real election, and the real results were hidden and the election faked, then there would be something to publish. But a poll? Seriously? If you don't believe the results, ask the next polling institute and get your own.
Because WikiLeaks can only publish material it gets. If they don't get material about Russia and China, they can't publish it. WikiLeaks doesn't actively go for material, they just offer a platform to publish it.
If you want something about Russia and China published on WikiLeaks, go, get the stuff and publish it!
But I think, I found a watch with a huge geek appeal, while still being just a time piece:
The QLOCKTWO W.
It combines elegant tech chic with a certain usefullness.
I live here since nearly 10 years now, my job has moved several times (I've changed companies), but I always used the bicycle to go to work. Distances were varying between 2 and 8 mls during that time, but the town is not much larger though... And yes, the place has its advantages. The daycare center is a 5 min walk, and the elementary school is in the same building. My oldest one is now in secondary school, but there is a bus line which goes there directly.
Depends on which process is used for cracking the longer chains in shorter parts. Normally, surplus carbon remains as tar or coke at the bottom of the process vessel.
I don't. For my job, I use a company owned car. To get to my job, I am using the bicycle. It's just 2 mls, and there is a path along the fields I can use. There is no point for me to own a second car. Thus I probably will not own an electric car for the time being.
For me, an electric car has its problems, the short range and long recharge cycle makes it a non-choice for long distances. My parents live about 400 mls from my home, my brother about 600 mls -- a trip with an electric car would surely take more than one day. But as I have children, going by train or by airplane would cost much more than taking the car for us all, that they really aren't an alternative.
Because there are countries like the U.S., where the infrastructure for gasoline is much better than for diesel. And diesel exhaust has more CO2 per Joule than gasoline, because longer carbohydride molecules have a higher carbon/hydrogenium ratio than the shorter ones.
In fact, Cristobal Colón advertised his exploration trip with ROI from the beginning - according to his theories, the Earth circumfence was about 15,000 mls instead of the actual 25,000 mls, He proposed to go to India via the western route because according to his theories, this way would be much shorter. He calculated something about 4000 mls for the whole trip, and it would avoid going around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, which was explored by the Portuguese at the time.
The Portuguese knew the circumfence of the Earth was 25,000 mls, and they knew a western route would be more than 14000 mls and thus unattractive, so Cristobal Colón went to Spain instead and managed to persuade the Queen of Spain. And it wasn't until his third trip to New Spain, that he realized he had discovered a new continent. Other people at his time already figured so much, and Amerigo Vespucci was fast in publishing new maps with the new continent drawn in, thus we call it America now and not Colombia.
It's pretty easy to overcome audits. Open a trivial case against the person you want to snoop on (littering or something), pull the data, and then close the case with "no further investigation". So everything looks legitimate, and the audit doesn't ring any alarms.
While this is a myth, another anecdote probably is no myth. The russian word for trainstation is vokzal. The word is not of russian origin, but english. When the first railroad was built in Russia, the 12 mile track between St. Peterburg and Tsarskoye Selo and further to Pavlovsk Palace, there were extensive pleasure gardens around Pavlovsk Palace, which were called vokzal (Vauxhall translated to russian letters) in the russian language - and got their name from the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in London. Thus the terminus at Pavlovsk Palace was called vokzal, giving raise to the generic russian word for terminus.
So the smallest of al metro systems of the world, the Dorfbahn (village metro) of Serfaus, obviously doesn't need to follow the rule. But in fact, it does. It has a core, the stations Seilbahn and Raika, it has a single leg, consisting of Kirche and Parkplatz. About 25% of the stations, the Seilbahn one is connected to other lines, the ropeway and the busses.
Are you for mandantory searches of all homes? No? So you stand with the child pornographers.
Are you for mandantory screening of all letters and packages? No? So you stand with the child pornographers.
Are you for mandantory monitoring of all private places? No? So you stand with the child pornographers.
If enough people state publicly that he obviously stands with the child pornographers, maybe his bill will lose support.
On the other hand, if you ever got caught commiting a crime, for the rest of your life you seem to have to commit crimes to just get along, just as if zero tolerance and zero forgiveness were a recipe to increase crime rates.
No. > just means "forward" (for readers of the latin script, this is the natural direction of reading) and >> is "double forward" or "strong forward". No technology involved in the iconography, and you don't need any technological experience to understand it.
But this is something quite different, at least from a tactile point of view. The modern buttons at a radio are more like function keys, where pressing one button starts a new function, which keeps running until one stops or starts another function. But remember the radio buttons of old (and those of tape recorders and such), where there was a real mechanical reset of all other buttons? Even if you somehow managed to activate two buttons at once (with the recording button on the tape recorder, it was actually meant to be that way), each other button was a reset button for the currently running function, and if you didn't push it thoroughly but only touched it, you could stop the current function without starting a new one.
There is a lot wrong with "autosave & undo", because I often have configuration files which are pretty similar, and I open one as a template, modify it and then save it with a new name. "Autosave & undo" would immediately overwrite the file I use as a template.
No, there are valid reasons to especially request the original file to be overwritten with the one currently in the editor buffer, and if it was only to keep the old one as a "known good" roll back option if the new file doesn't work as expected.
The point in this case was not the usage of radio buttons, it was calling them "radio buttons" - who actually still has a radio with preset stations, where once one button is operated, all other buttons mechanically jump back into the "off" position?
(I actually think the handset icon is not "old tech", as I am still installing completely new handsets as part of my job ;) ).
I think you don't understand what icons are. Look at the icons on an old tape recorder (<<, ||, >, >> etc.pp.). They are completely disassociated from any technology, and they were understandable at the time. And nevertheless they were icons = pictures following very strict design rules.
(The old christian icons, where the word icon actually comes from, had strictly codified rules how to portrait each saint, so laymen could recognize them without being able to read the descriptions.)
About every living creates the environment it lives in. Some in very obvious ways (ants, bees, beavers, moles...), some pretty subtle (grazing animals of the open plains tend to hinder the growing of shrubs and trees and thus keep the plain open). Same goes for plants, which change the immediate environment in a way to hinder concurrent species by shadowing the ground, changing water levels and chemical properties of the soil, and fend off enemies.
If you carry the bills and coins to the bank, you have either counted them beforehand (and will point out any difference to your count), or indeed you trust them enough.
But this is just you and the bank, it's your individual decision to trust the bank bill counter. It's not the election result of 200 mio individual votes.
And the Secretary of State has already the individual counts of all precinct to compare his count against them. And if there is any difference, there will be a recount. So your counter arguments are not valid.