Yeah I've also got a Late 2007 15" MBP. It's a bit slow now, but it's getting pretty heavy usage. Thank goodness there was a special trick to exceed the max 4GB memory limit and you can get it up to 6GB. I also have a Early 2011 17" MBP, which I mostly use with Lightroom... I can tell you that unless it fails that I'll be using this for a long time too. I'll be unhappy upgrading to a new MBP at this point because I don't think 16GB RAM will be enough in five years time.
Code re-use is normally considered a good thing. Re-inventing the wheel when there's apparently a solution good enough to be popular is normally considered "unconscionable".
I also have my phone through work; nice perk and every time contracts expire I expect them to change the terms and tell use we can't use it for personal usage too...
My 5s loses ~8% battery per hour, whether or not I do anything. It's also often warm with the screen locked, which doesn't happen when I'm overseas. I've always put that down to Vodafone being shit in the UK (no service in the centre of Richmond in SW London, or GPRS or no service in huge swathes of the countryside outside London FFS).
"Still" using a 5s? They're not that old! My wife is still using her 4s, and is pretty happy with it. She didn't upgrade to iOS 9 mind you. I find it amazing how much people feel is acceptable to spend on a phone these days and how frequently they feel they _have_ to upgade. I'm happy with my 5s BTW, except the battery is rubbish compared with the four year 4 I had before it, but that was a problem from day one.
Yeah it's a shitty BT HomeHub 5, which I'm going to replace. I think the point I was trying to make though is that the OP was being a little too glib and that there is still a very real need for wired ethernet. WIFI doesn't always cut it despite its theoretical potential.
Rumour has it that Apple are going to go this way. For a few years now their laptops have been too thin for ethernet, so you have to use a DisplayPort (Thunderbolt) port coupled with an RJ-45 adaptor/dongle. The adaptor is a little inconvenient, but then you don't need it most of the time anyway (mine stays on the end of an ethernet cable at the office, and I rarely need it on other occasions). I do actually hope Apple fully embrace USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 soon, and the rest of the industry gets on board.
It took me 90 minutes to copy 13GB between a couple of laptops yesterday. Both have SSD and were connected to the WIFI point 2m away at 450mbs. The drives aren't the limitation here, but I'd still expect the theoretical time to be a few minutes. The trouble with wifi is latency and interference, which really slows it down. My wifi router itself is probably a bit crappy too, but again, that's part of the wifi problem.
Yes exactly. No more faffing around looking for money, dropping it on the floor or arguing with the driver because they don't have the right change. Flash the card as you walk by. If there's a problem, it's a few seconds to try again. If there's insufficient money, get one journey's grace so that you're not delayed and frustrated with the driver, and given chance to top-up before your next journey. They'll always be some dickhead who can't or won't pay, but then neither a cash or contactless system will solve that.
Pre-purchased tickets or topped up travel cards do require some infrastructure, which is probably the biggest impediment. London helped people with this transition by allowing cash and other means of payment for a while, but the cash fares were priced to discourage you from using them.
allow the driver to start while someone is still at the front paying
How about just stop accepting cash? I know this isn't practical in some places, but here in London where you have the choice of Oyster or contactless debit/credit cards, this has worked well.
Personally I don't like buses because I get motion sickness on them, or their ride is uncomfortable. Oh, and their reliability in terms of turning up when they're supposed too. I always take the Tube or rail if I can instead.
I think your theory breaks down when there are more than one or two cyclists going through the red light. Most cyclists do stop, so there are no numbers to disprove your theory.
I commute across London on bicycle most days, and the majority of cyclists stop at red lights. I drove down the M4 motorway at the weekend (in a car obviously), and noticed that most drivers were breaking the speed limit. It seems there are a lot of hypocrites out there.
We already have a lot of bureaucrats in Whitehall issuing endless reams of regulations and red tape. Then we have local councils doing the same thing, but even more small-mindedly. It's so much easier to blame outsiders for our self-inflicted problems though, isn't it?
I do find it ironic that you say "No central control, no central laws", given that the UK has one of the most centralised unitary governments in the world. Nearly half the Scottish voters expressed their displeasure about this recently, and if you go for a night out in Manchester you won't find a lot of positive things said about London.
Ask the UKIP's favourite role models from Norway and Switzerland how it's going having just a free trade agreement with the EU:
Switzerland basically cannot refuse to issue visas to anybody from the EU who has a definite job to go to. There were nearly 70,000 EU immigrants to the UK in the last year who already had jobs lined up. That's going to blow Nigel Farage's ridiculous 30,000 target.
Norway is forced to enact EU regulations whether they like it or not. Unlike the UK, they don't participate in the discussions leading to those regulations, and they certainly don't have the power of veto, which David Cameron used much to the chagrin of other EU members not so long ago to block a EU treaty that wasn't favourable to the UK. The UK will surrender more sovereignty if it leaves as it will want continued tariff-free access to its biggest market.
Norway has tariffs imposed on one of its biggest export after oil: salmon. They're now beginning to get increasing pressure from Poland who basically create the same product at a lower cost, and then don't even have to face tariffs.
I don't the OP meant SQL language features. Like Excel on OS X still can't import XML data, what limitations will the Linux version of SQL Server have?
Yeah the cleaning industry, media etc have done an amazing job exploting people's ignorance and paranoia about "germs", making a lot of people unreasonably neurotic. When I lived in N. America I couldn't beleive the number of adverts on TV on topics like making your home's kitchen more sterile than a hospital's surgery. And you wonder why we're having more problems with superbugs and people's immune systems are all messed up?
Furthermore, by complying with the US government, foreign governments will be able to ask for this too. What's Apple going to do in China, give up their huge profits? Do Americans really want to let foreign governments have the power to open their phones? Probably most don't care given how many don't even have passports.
Given how often I watch a film (once, normally), the DIVX format was a very good price compared with DVD. I've never understood the point of buying a massive collection of DVDs and BDs (and VHS before that) because most people I've know who did this just have them sitting on the shelf without watching them enough to break even compared to rental. Parents with very young children seem to be the exception.
The OP said "We understand that there is often a great disparity in beliefs and actions between a nation's political/social/economic elites and the ordinary citizen". This isn't true if you live in a democracy and vote for those people, because they don't just miraculously get those jobs.
And incidentally, as one of the other replies points out: that statement is also wholly inaccurate. I've lived in the US (before that whole stupid, ignorant freedom fries thing that soured relations for a while) and heard American's joking about and bashing the French in ways that border on bigotry. How many times did I hear an American describe the French as smelly for instance? Baseless and normally uttered by people who've never known somebody from France or even been to France.
That still doesn't explain why more than half of American voters selected George W. Bush having already experienced four years of his presidency, nor why so many Republicans are currently choosing Donal Trump.
I ran Wireshark and during the last comment, and the following is what I see (some content replaced by asterisks). Perhaps your browser is encoding things differently? Perhaps you're using a different formatting (I'm posting as "Plain Old Text")?
The URLEncoded part decodes to the following, which clearly shows the GBP £ Symbol.
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Yeah I've also got a Late 2007 15" MBP. It's a bit slow now, but it's getting pretty heavy usage. Thank goodness there was a special trick to exceed the max 4GB memory limit and you can get it up to 6GB. I also have a Early 2011 17" MBP, which I mostly use with Lightroom... I can tell you that unless it fails that I'll be using this for a long time too. I'll be unhappy upgrading to a new MBP at this point because I don't think 16GB RAM will be enough in five years time.
Code re-use is normally considered a good thing. Re-inventing the wheel when there's apparently a solution good enough to be popular is normally considered "unconscionable".
I also have my phone through work; nice perk and every time contracts expire I expect them to change the terms and tell use we can't use it for personal usage too...
My 5s loses ~8% battery per hour, whether or not I do anything. It's also often warm with the screen locked, which doesn't happen when I'm overseas. I've always put that down to Vodafone being shit in the UK (no service in the centre of Richmond in SW London, or GPRS or no service in huge swathes of the countryside outside London FFS).
"Still" using a 5s? They're not that old! My wife is still using her 4s, and is pretty happy with it. She didn't upgrade to iOS 9 mind you. I find it amazing how much people feel is acceptable to spend on a phone these days and how frequently they feel they _have_ to upgade. I'm happy with my 5s BTW, except the battery is rubbish compared with the four year 4 I had before it, but that was a problem from day one.
Easy enough to install Kodi on it. All I had to do was buy a USB-A to USB-C cable. You need a Mac though becuase XCode is required...
Yeah it's a shitty BT HomeHub 5, which I'm going to replace. I think the point I was trying to make though is that the OP was being a little too glib and that there is still a very real need for wired ethernet. WIFI doesn't always cut it despite its theoretical potential.
Rumour has it that Apple are going to go this way. For a few years now their laptops have been too thin for ethernet, so you have to use a DisplayPort (Thunderbolt) port coupled with an RJ-45 adaptor/dongle. The adaptor is a little inconvenient, but then you don't need it most of the time anyway (mine stays on the end of an ethernet cable at the office, and I rarely need it on other occasions). I do actually hope Apple fully embrace USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 soon, and the rest of the industry gets on board.
It took me 90 minutes to copy 13GB between a couple of laptops yesterday. Both have SSD and were connected to the WIFI point 2m away at 450mbs. The drives aren't the limitation here, but I'd still expect the theoretical time to be a few minutes. The trouble with wifi is latency and interference, which really slows it down. My wifi router itself is probably a bit crappy too, but again, that's part of the wifi problem.
Yes exactly. No more faffing around looking for money, dropping it on the floor or arguing with the driver because they don't have the right change. Flash the card as you walk by. If there's a problem, it's a few seconds to try again. If there's insufficient money, get one journey's grace so that you're not delayed and frustrated with the driver, and given chance to top-up before your next journey. They'll always be some dickhead who can't or won't pay, but then neither a cash or contactless system will solve that.
Pre-purchased tickets or topped up travel cards do require some infrastructure, which is probably the biggest impediment. London helped people with this transition by allowing cash and other means of payment for a while, but the cash fares were priced to discourage you from using them.
How about just stop accepting cash? I know this isn't practical in some places, but here in London where you have the choice of Oyster or contactless debit/credit cards, this has worked well.
Personally I don't like buses because I get motion sickness on them, or their ride is uncomfortable. Oh, and their reliability in terms of turning up when they're supposed too. I always take the Tube or rail if I can instead.
I think your theory breaks down when there are more than one or two cyclists going through the red light. Most cyclists do stop, so there are no numbers to disprove your theory.
I commute across London on bicycle most days, and the majority of cyclists stop at red lights. I drove down the M4 motorway at the weekend (in a car obviously), and noticed that most drivers were breaking the speed limit. It seems there are a lot of hypocrites out there.
We already have a lot of bureaucrats in Whitehall issuing endless reams of regulations and red tape. Then we have local councils doing the same thing, but even more small-mindedly. It's so much easier to blame outsiders for our self-inflicted problems though, isn't it?
I do find it ironic that you say "No central control, no central laws", given that the UK has one of the most centralised unitary governments in the world. Nearly half the Scottish voters expressed their displeasure about this recently, and if you go for a night out in Manchester you won't find a lot of positive things said about London.
Ask the UKIP's favourite role models from Norway and Switzerland how it's going having just a free trade agreement with the EU:
Switzerland basically cannot refuse to issue visas to anybody from the EU who has a definite job to go to. There were nearly 70,000 EU immigrants to the UK in the last year who already had jobs lined up. That's going to blow Nigel Farage's ridiculous 30,000 target.
Norway is forced to enact EU regulations whether they like it or not. Unlike the UK, they don't participate in the discussions leading to those regulations, and they certainly don't have the power of veto, which David Cameron used much to the chagrin of other EU members not so long ago to block a EU treaty that wasn't favourable to the UK. The UK will surrender more sovereignty if it leaves as it will want continued tariff-free access to its biggest market.
Norway has tariffs imposed on one of its biggest export after oil: salmon. They're now beginning to get increasing pressure from Poland who basically create the same product at a lower cost, and then don't even have to face tariffs.
I don't the OP meant SQL language features. Like Excel on OS X still can't import XML data, what limitations will the Linux version of SQL Server have?
Yeah the cleaning industry, media etc have done an amazing job exploting people's ignorance and paranoia about "germs", making a lot of people unreasonably neurotic. When I lived in N. America I couldn't beleive the number of adverts on TV on topics like making your home's kitchen more sterile than a hospital's surgery. And you wonder why we're having more problems with superbugs and people's immune systems are all messed up?
Furthermore, by complying with the US government, foreign governments will be able to ask for this too. What's Apple going to do in China, give up their huge profits? Do Americans really want to let foreign governments have the power to open their phones? Probably most don't care given how many don't even have passports.
But somehow you couldn't quite let go?
Given how often I watch a film (once, normally), the DIVX format was a very good price compared with DVD. I've never understood the point of buying a massive collection of DVDs and BDs (and VHS before that) because most people I've know who did this just have them sitting on the shelf without watching them enough to break even compared to rental. Parents with very young children seem to be the exception.
The OP said "We understand that there is often a great disparity in beliefs and actions between a nation's political/social/economic elites and the ordinary citizen". This isn't true if you live in a democracy and vote for those people, because they don't just miraculously get those jobs.
And incidentally, as one of the other replies points out: that statement is also wholly inaccurate. I've lived in the US (before that whole stupid, ignorant freedom fries thing that soured relations for a while) and heard American's joking about and bashing the French in ways that border on bigotry. How many times did I hear an American describe the French as smelly for instance? Baseless and normally uttered by people who've never known somebody from France or even been to France.
Were all the independents a bunch of crackpots? Why do so many Americans only feel like they can vote for candidates from the two biggest parties?
That still doesn't explain why more than half of American voters selected George W. Bush having already experienced four years of his presidency, nor why so many Republicans are currently choosing Donal Trump.
Only 45.5%? That's pretty good by France's standards!
I wish Apple would allow/expose Intel QuickSync on OS X. Can't even access this BootCamp running Windows on Apple hardware.
I ran Wireshark and during the last comment, and the following is what I see (some content replaced by asterisks). Perhaps your browser is encoding things differently? Perhaps you're using a different formatting (I'm posting as "Plain Old Text")?
The URLEncoded part decodes to the following, which clearly shows the GBP £ Symbol.