Try finding that resolution on a laptop display. I've got a laptop with 1200 lines on it now, and I am spoiled. The 1080 is only 120 lines less, but it is noticable for what I do (embedded programming). Hopefully they start pushing out 17" 1440 or 1800 line laptop displays. I think at that point, any more resolution would be pointless.
I don't understand this. My understanding of the article is that if the police apprehend you and take your phone, if it's an iPhone, they won't be able to crack the encryption.
[kent brockman] Just miles from your doorstep, hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it the Army, but a more alarmist name would be... The Killbot Factory. [/kent brockman]
The proper question is "Which makes more profit"? They may have $50000 in revenue, but what you really want to know is after they paid their suppliers and workers, how much is left in the bank?
Name one private company that could fund a Mars Mission and still remain solvent. Only the government has the money to be able to pursue a goal where there is no clear profit motive.
The burden of proof is not on me to prove your bible wrong, but for you to go through the "scientific method process and axiomatic logic reasoning to establish your case".
Until you can do that, don't be surprised if the more scientifically minded do not accept your idea.
Most likely because like minds can now find others via the intertubes, reinforcing their belief. Note that this also works for conspiracy theorists, hate groups, and other minority belief groups.
The problem with these laws is that physically large criminals have a distinct advantage over smaller statured people. If they know that the law does not allow for people to be armed, they know that they can attack and overpower their victim. Not enough people are hand-to-hand combat experts to provide a disincentive to the crime.
Besides, how do you know if someone has a gun if they are concealing it? Most confrontations are not the "high noon" types where people square off after assessing the situation.
To be fair, payback times for rural deployments can stretch into decades. Usually, county government uses a big-city contract to ensure the connection for the outlying areas. However many rural areas have no big city nearby to balance it out. If there is no payout for the company, then they cannot be expected to do it.
In these cases, a government owned company can deploy it using state and federal grants.
Public broadcasting is not patronage, it is simply a company with a different business model. Their revenue comes directly from consumers, but they also accept advertising as well (it is much less intrusive advertising at that). They do not release their works to the public domain, but rather they use copyright just like any other company. Try to rip and distribute a Nova episode to see what happens.
1) If you are running a business, $7500 for all the standards in the federal code is not a lot of money. You'll spend much more than that on your first month's payroll, or rent, etc.
2) Most of these regulations are for checking that something is made correctly and won't kill or injure people. If you are a citizen (not a business), why do you need the regulations and standards on how to build something?
2) You probably don't need more than a few of them for whatever widget you are producing. For example, if you are making screwdrivers, you don't need the IEC60601 spec.
Also the problem with havering VERY low interest rates is that unemployment goes up... this is a basic economic principle...
This isn't necessarily cause and effect. Low interest rates are used to stimulate investment, which is typically done during times of economic distress. Yes you will see low interest rates when there is high unemployment, but low interest rates doesn't necessarily cause the unemployment. Rather the conditions that cause unemployment cause the Fed to lower interest rates.
The problem we have now is that the Fed is lending with zero interest and there is still not a lot of investment, mainly because the banks are using the money to fill the gaping hole left by the collapse of the housing market and all the derivatives that evaporated back in 2008. The only way the Fed can improve on zero percent interest is to pay the banks to take the money. But then there is no guarantee that the banks will lend that money back out.
Nevermind that money is pretty much imaginary (ones and zeros) these days. The Fed doesn't even have to print anything. They just adjust the balance on their books and call it "quantitative easing".
What's more, every wire (or fiber) is its own, dedicated, channel. So a wire going to you and one going to me share nothing. We each get all the bandwidth.
Until they get to the telco concentrator where you and your neighbors share the link back to the central office. There your neighborhood and other nearby neighborhoods share the connection to the local exchange.
Wired will still have bandwidth issues because the Internet is not point-to-point, and most of the segments that your data travels along are not dedicated to you.
That probably happened because Bubba made some sub-par wiring modifications for his kegerator and hot tub. He then sold the house to an attorney. Mr Shapiro unplugged the kegerator, plugged in a smoker and the house burned down.
400x30 is a really poor visualization for a WiFi like antenna. A circle about 85 miles across, is a much more intuitive way to understand 12000 square miles.
The fundamental problem with Social Security is that it is essentially a forced investment in US government Treasury bills. Your contribution goes to SS, which then invests it on your behalf in treasury bills. By purchasing T-bills, your contribution ends up into the government's general fund, where they can spend it at will. The government then makes payouts from the general fund to SS recipients. Essentially what you are doing is supporting last generation's retirees with the promise that the next generation will support you.
Over the past several decades, the government could pay out more benefits as the baby boomers entered the workforce and increased contributions. The problem is that now that they are entering retirement, there will not be enough workers making contributions to support the relatively larger burden. This is the problem with Ponzi schemes - everything seems to work fine as long as you can bring in more than you pay out.
This is why social security is fundamentally broken. If people could redirect that into a 401k or IRA, yes it would be subject to market swings, but it would still be more secure because the money is more directly controlled by the individual. It is not being redirected to someone else. You could invest in stocks when you are young and overall get a much better return.
The problem is that people get greedy and leave their money in the stock market as they get closer to retirement because they want that bigger return. Then they cry foul when the market tanks and takes 2-3 years to recover. But there are funds out there that re-balance themselves based on your expected retirement date so that market swings have a smaller effect on your retirement. If people could make these kinds of choices instead of being forced to invest in the government, two things would happen.
1) People would be better off with larger savings over the course of their lives.
2) The government would be able to shave off one big budget item, because people would withdrawing from their IRAs or 401(k)s instead of receiving a social security check.
Apple is a vertically integrated company, they don't farm out much. In fact, they recently bought up a processor design house so they could design their own processors for the iPhone/iPad/iPod.
If Asus designs mirror Apple's then I'm guessing that Asus is imitating taking some lessons from Apple designs (which is a good thing).
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You were the one that brought up the jackboots.
1920x1200 has always been available. Still is.
Try finding that resolution on a laptop display. I've got a laptop with 1200 lines on it now, and I am spoiled. The 1080 is only 120 lines less, but it is noticable for what I do (embedded programming). Hopefully they start pushing out 17" 1440 or 1800 line laptop displays. I think at that point, any more resolution would be pointless.
I don't understand this. My understanding of the article is that if the police apprehend you and take your phone, if it's an iPhone, they won't be able to crack the encryption.
Is this a bad thing? Are you a criminal?
Yes. That is why the police apprehended you.
It would be funny if your answer was a question - "An African or a European Swallow?"
C11 goes up to three. Or nine. Or seventeen. What's the base?
Or perhaps it does go to ten, but since 4 bits need to be allocated for storage, values eleven to fifteen are reserved for future expansion.
[kent brockman] ... The Killbot Factory.
Just miles from your doorstep, hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it the Army, but a more alarmist name would be
[/kent brockman]
The proper question is "Which makes more profit"? They may have $50000 in revenue, but what you really want to know is after they paid their suppliers and workers, how much is left in the bank?
Name one private company that could fund a Mars Mission and still remain solvent. Only the government has the money to be able to pursue a goal where there is no clear profit motive.
The burden of proof is not on me to prove your bible wrong, but for you to go through the "scientific method process and axiomatic logic reasoning to establish your case".
Until you can do that, don't be surprised if the more scientifically minded do not accept your idea.
Most likely because like minds can now find others via the intertubes, reinforcing their belief. Note that this also works for conspiracy theorists, hate groups, and other minority belief groups.
The problem with these laws is that physically large criminals have a distinct advantage over smaller statured people. If they know that the law does not allow for people to be armed, they know that they can attack and overpower their victim. Not enough people are hand-to-hand combat experts to provide a disincentive to the crime.
Besides, how do you know if someone has a gun if they are concealing it? Most confrontations are not the "high noon" types where people square off after assessing the situation.
I think you are making the assumption that because a community is gated that it is somehow immune from crime and the surrounding neighborhoods.
To be fair, payback times for rural deployments can stretch into decades. Usually, county government uses a big-city contract to ensure the connection for the outlying areas. However many rural areas have no big city nearby to balance it out. If there is no payout for the company, then they cannot be expected to do it.
In these cases, a government owned company can deploy it using state and federal grants.
Public broadcasting is not patronage, it is simply a company with a different business model. Their revenue comes directly from consumers, but they also accept advertising as well (it is much less intrusive advertising at that). They do not release their works to the public domain, but rather they use copyright just like any other company. Try to rip and distribute a Nova episode to see what happens.
1) If you are running a business, $7500 for all the standards in the federal code is not a lot of money. You'll spend much more than that on your first month's payroll, or rent, etc.
2) Most of these regulations are for checking that something is made correctly and won't kill or injure people. If you are a citizen (not a business), why do you need the regulations and standards on how to build something?
2) You probably don't need more than a few of them for whatever widget you are producing. For example, if you are making screwdrivers, you don't need the IEC60601 spec.
Also the problem with havering VERY low interest rates is that unemployment goes up... this is a basic economic principle...
This isn't necessarily cause and effect. Low interest rates are used to stimulate investment, which is typically done during times of economic distress. Yes you will see low interest rates when there is high unemployment, but low interest rates doesn't necessarily cause the unemployment. Rather the conditions that cause unemployment cause the Fed to lower interest rates.
The problem we have now is that the Fed is lending with zero interest and there is still not a lot of investment, mainly because the banks are using the money to fill the gaping hole left by the collapse of the housing market and all the derivatives that evaporated back in 2008. The only way the Fed can improve on zero percent interest is to pay the banks to take the money. But then there is no guarantee that the banks will lend that money back out.
Nevermind that money is pretty much imaginary (ones and zeros) these days. The Fed doesn't even have to print anything. They just adjust the balance on their books and call it "quantitative easing".
YouTube is making a profit off the advertising. Hence the legal problem.
So what happened? Did he move to China and open his business?
People were probably hoping that Amazon was selling the Fire at a loss and that they were actually getting a $500 tablet.
What's more, every wire (or fiber) is its own, dedicated, channel. So a wire going to you and one going to me share nothing. We each get all the bandwidth.
Until they get to the telco concentrator where you and your neighbors share the link back to the central office. There your neighborhood and other nearby neighborhoods share the connection to the local exchange.
Wired will still have bandwidth issues because the Internet is not point-to-point, and most of the segments that your data travels along are not dedicated to you.
That probably happened because Bubba made some sub-par wiring modifications for his kegerator and hot tub. He then sold the house to an attorney. Mr Shapiro unplugged the kegerator, plugged in a smoker and the house burned down.
400x30 is a really poor visualization for a WiFi like antenna. A circle about 85 miles across, is a much more intuitive way to understand 12000 square miles.
The fundamental problem with Social Security is that it is essentially a forced investment in US government Treasury bills. Your contribution goes to SS, which then invests it on your behalf in treasury bills. By purchasing T-bills, your contribution ends up into the government's general fund, where they can spend it at will. The government then makes payouts from the general fund to SS recipients. Essentially what you are doing is supporting last generation's retirees with the promise that the next generation will support you.
Over the past several decades, the government could pay out more benefits as the baby boomers entered the workforce and increased contributions. The problem is that now that they are entering retirement, there will not be enough workers making contributions to support the relatively larger burden. This is the problem with Ponzi schemes - everything seems to work fine as long as you can bring in more than you pay out.
This is why social security is fundamentally broken. If people could redirect that into a 401k or IRA, yes it would be subject to market swings, but it would still be more secure because the money is more directly controlled by the individual. It is not being redirected to someone else. You could invest in stocks when you are young and overall get a much better return.
The problem is that people get greedy and leave their money in the stock market as they get closer to retirement because they want that bigger return. Then they cry foul when the market tanks and takes 2-3 years to recover. But there are funds out there that re-balance themselves based on your expected retirement date so that market swings have a smaller effect on your retirement. If people could make these kinds of choices instead of being forced to invest in the government, two things would happen.
1) People would be better off with larger savings over the course of their lives.
2) The government would be able to shave off one big budget item, because people would withdrawing from their IRAs or 401(k)s instead of receiving a social security check.
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Apple is a vertically integrated company, they don't farm out much. In fact, they recently bought up a processor design house so they could design their own processors for the iPhone/iPad/iPod.
If Asus designs mirror Apple's then I'm guessing that Asus is imitating taking some lessons from Apple designs (which is a good thing).