Why? Time is nothing more than a system used to synchronise activities between groups of people. There's no reason why noon needs to be set to the highest point of the sun.
Yes, at one single given longitude in any timezone. Otherwise the sun isn't at its peak at noon. Also who really cares where the sun is at noon? It could be the middle of the night at noon and all the office workers stuck indoors unable to flex away from their regulated 9-5s wouldn't give a crap. But give people an extra hour of sunlight in the afternoon is a major change in lifestyle in a positive way too.
Now Florida already has enough sun, but there are many parts of the world that could benefit from this kind of change and with it tangibly improve afterwork life, reduce SAD, and reduce Vitamin D deficiency. (Though I think Florida may see a skin cancer increase as a result of this).
where the sun is at the highest point closest to noon
Who cares about that arbitrary point? People are at work at noon. It's about a bit of extra sunlight after hours. Despite what you think of the population of Flordia it has the 4th highest GDP in America. You don't get that with a population made up entirely of retirees and jobless beach hobos.
The XXI century is only 18% complete. Give it time. In the meantime here's the glass half full version of your story:
*cars which can almost drive themselves. *small thin slate devices which you can write on with pens, no need for some crappy notebook. *music on demand transmitted how you want to the device you want wirelessly *brand CPUs which are so fast that the computer performance no longer matters. We do things and they happen, and not even Microsoft can slow us down anymore. *an occasional vulnerability discovered and patched *and companies offer you a world of wealth free of charge in return for training their AIs to better serve you ever more useful apps that make your life easier based on your data.
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
Technology is awesome. The world is great. It's just a shame it's ruined by a few killjoys that seem to spend their lives focusing on the few negatives while we live easier, longer, richer, and better than we ever have in the past and in a century where we're incredibly bloodly likely not only to achieve that dream of flying cars but potentially also colonise another planet or start offering space tourism given how we have made HUGE technological leaps in only the first 18%.
Have a beer man and lighten up a bit. Life's good. You owe it to yourself. And if you destroy your liver in the process we can fix that shit too.
Not at all. In fact their use of QLED is entirely consistent with the entire industry which described LED TVs to define the technology that sits behind the LED. QLED TVs do use Quantum Dots and LEDs. Just because the technology isn't exactly applied where you want it to doesn't make it a con.
Your issue is not the lumens. Any headlight that can suitably light the road will already blind the oncoming driver. This is precisely why variable dipped beams and projectors were invented in the first place.
And yet side by side next to LGs OLEDs they look quite comparable. No one cares that the marketing term doesn't match the science behind it. You can't call it a "con" when it in fact shows all the performance and features you expect.
If you had 20k to burn on a TV you'd be buying it and getting someone to install it for you while you're already traveling around the world. Don't apply or people thinking to rich people toys.
And a screenshot: Hitting the down arrow in the top right and going for wired settings leads to the window which is open: http://i63.tinypic.com/2i7mrzp...
Where is the time that upgrades actually worked?
Good question. In all fairness this is pre-releases we are talking about. So I give them a pass here. Then I would also complain if a release upgrade dramatically changed running software (which I know it already does). There's really no good answer to this.
Half the time they aren't even using the proper equipment, (get a real spudger, guys) so I don't bother with their reviews.
Yeah indeed, let's complain about the people who open devices for a living don't have the right equipment and then draw parallels to some field based quick espionage.
Android users: OMG we don't get updates, it's a ploy to get us to buy new phones. iPhone users: OMG our updates slow our devices, it's a ploy to get us to buy new phones. All users: OMG {insert our favourite feature here} doesn't exist anymore. All users: OMG {insert feature we never needed before} I need this now and can't get it!
Indeed it isn't. That doesn't mean it isn't subject to huge amount of regulation, incredibly difficult to trade outside of restricted and monitored exchanges, and isn't even able to be easily physically moved without registering it with governments. Seriously people get arrested for travelling with gold between countries without registering them on a pretty much monthly basis.
Thank you for revealing what I apparently didn't realise.
You're welcome. Don't worry, a lot of people don't understand how movies are made and what the difference between copious overuse of CGI is vs practical effects.
Yes, you fucking deserve it.
Yes I do deserve your thanks. I assume that's what you meant given that you provided two statements separated by an OR. I'll just assume you meant the former.
Yes, this is flamebait.
Nope, it was just an example of someone who can't stand being corrected having a cry. *THIS* is flamebait.
You're missing the point. It will sound different but the difference is irrelevant unless someone else is playing in the original key against it. It is not a case of quality. The song will still have the same quality even if it's played in a completely different key to say nothing of moving the pitch off by a percent. e.g. Guitarists playing solo just tune their strings to whatever the top one is very roughly set at. That doesn't change the quality of the music.
But to those with perfect pitch, it matters far more than you realize.
I've been playing both piano and guitar for 20 years. If it "matters" then get yourself tested for autism. Even if it does "matter" it still has no bearing on the quality of the music.
Network Settings? Sure, I can get those. It will say "automatic" (DHCP) and that's it.
What can I say other than you're doing it wrong. Either you're unable to find the most obvious place for the settings, or you're completely wrong in your assertion that your beta version is a proxy for the real version because if you follow the above written instructions I just gave on the 18.04 release that I downloaded not 30min before replying to you it will direct you to your network interface details:
Link speed 1000 Mb/s IPv4 address 10.0.2.15 IPv6 address fe80::36bd:caef:3dc2:afc1 Hardware address 08:00:27:FC:4B:F1 Default route 10.0.2.2 DNS 192.168.0.1 8.8.8.8
And that's just on the first of the 4 tabs in the window that pops up when you click the settings wheel under Network settings.
Heat guns work on pretty much every adhesive, including solder.
I take it you haven't looked at the iFixit scores for some tablets. In many cases it's pretty much impossible to get into some devices without destroying the screen in the process.
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The sun should be at its highest at noon
Why? Time is nothing more than a system used to synchronise activities between groups of people. There's no reason why noon needs to be set to the highest point of the sun.
Because time is the measure of a day's progress
It is nothing of the sort. Time is just a system used to synchronise activities between people.
Get up and go to work earlier so you can leave sooner
Oh look, a person of privilege. Guess what, the vast majority of people's lives don't work like that.
I agree - time of sunrise and sunset should be symmetrical around noon.
Why?
Noon is when the sun is at its peak
Yes, at one single given longitude in any timezone. Otherwise the sun isn't at its peak at noon. Also who really cares where the sun is at noon? It could be the middle of the night at noon and all the office workers stuck indoors unable to flex away from their regulated 9-5s wouldn't give a crap. But give people an extra hour of sunlight in the afternoon is a major change in lifestyle in a positive way too.
Now Florida already has enough sun, but there are many parts of the world that could benefit from this kind of change and with it tangibly improve afterwork life, reduce SAD, and reduce Vitamin D deficiency. (Though I think Florida may see a skin cancer increase as a result of this).
where the sun is at the highest point closest to noon
Who cares about that arbitrary point? People are at work at noon. It's about a bit of extra sunlight after hours. Despite what you think of the population of Flordia it has the 4th highest GDP in America. You don't get that with a population made up entirely of retirees and jobless beach hobos.
People who say "Crooked Hillary" all the time might not have voted for Trump
I do secretly wonder if Trump just ran a campaign as a joke and when he cast his ceremonial vote if he actually ticked Hillary on the box.
The XXI century is only 18% complete. Give it time. In the meantime here's the glass half full version of your story:
*cars which can almost drive themselves.
*small thin slate devices which you can write on with pens, no need for some crappy notebook.
*music on demand transmitted how you want to the device you want wirelessly
*brand CPUs which are so fast that the computer performance no longer matters. We do things and they happen, and not even Microsoft can slow us down anymore.
*an occasional vulnerability discovered and patched
*and companies offer you a world of wealth free of charge in return for training their AIs to better serve you ever more useful apps that make your life easier based on your data.
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
Technology is awesome. The world is great. It's just a shame it's ruined by a few killjoys that seem to spend their lives focusing on the few negatives while we live easier, longer, richer, and better than we ever have in the past and in a century where we're incredibly bloodly likely not only to achieve that dream of flying cars but potentially also colonise another planet or start offering space tourism given how we have made HUGE technological leaps in only the first 18%.
Have a beer man and lighten up a bit. Life's good. You owe it to yourself. And if you destroy your liver in the process we can fix that shit too.
and you should too.
Not at all. In fact their use of QLED is entirely consistent with the entire industry which described LED TVs to define the technology that sits behind the LED. QLED TVs do use Quantum Dots and LEDs. Just because the technology isn't exactly applied where you want it to doesn't make it a con.
And if his beam his your eyes than his height is already illegally setup. A new law doesn't fix this.
Your issue is not the lumens. Any headlight that can suitably light the road will already blind the oncoming driver. This is precisely why variable dipped beams and projectors were invented in the first place.
Just take a normal photo and crop it down. Digital zoom is a farce.
No they've invented real wallpaper.
And yet side by side next to LGs OLEDs they look quite comparable. No one cares that the marketing term doesn't match the science behind it. You can't call it a "con" when it in fact shows all the performance and features you expect.
If you had 20k to burn on a TV you'd be buying it and getting someone to install it for you while you're already traveling around the world. Don't apply or people thinking to rich people toys.
For reference this is the ISO I downloaded. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/dail...
And a screenshot: Hitting the down arrow in the top right and going for wired settings leads to the window which is open: http://i63.tinypic.com/2i7mrzp...
Where is the time that upgrades actually worked?
Good question. In all fairness this is pre-releases we are talking about. So I give them a pass here. Then I would also complain if a release upgrade dramatically changed running software (which I know it already does). There's really no good answer to this.
Half the time they aren't even using the proper equipment, (get a real spudger, guys) so I don't bother with their reviews.
Yeah indeed, let's complain about the people who open devices for a living don't have the right equipment and then draw parallels to some field based quick espionage.
Android users: OMG we don't get updates, it's a ploy to get us to buy new phones.
iPhone users: OMG our updates slow our devices, it's a ploy to get us to buy new phones.
All users: OMG {insert our favourite feature here} doesn't exist anymore.
All users: OMG {insert feature we never needed before} I need this now and can't get it!
NOT registered anywhere.
Indeed it isn't. That doesn't mean it isn't subject to huge amount of regulation, incredibly difficult to trade outside of restricted and monitored exchanges, and isn't even able to be easily physically moved without registering it with governments. Seriously people get arrested for travelling with gold between countries without registering them on a pretty much monthly basis.
Anyone who knows anything about Bitcoin will tell you that such movement isn't even a fart in the wind.
That is kind of the problem with bitcoin. The "wind" is a frigging category 5 hurricane.
Thank you for revealing what I apparently didn't realise.
You're welcome. Don't worry, a lot of people don't understand how movies are made and what the difference between copious overuse of CGI is vs practical effects.
Yes, you fucking deserve it.
Yes I do deserve your thanks. I assume that's what you meant given that you provided two statements separated by an OR. I'll just assume you meant the former.
Yes, this is flamebait.
Nope, it was just an example of someone who can't stand being corrected having a cry. *THIS* is flamebait.
It sounds completely different to her.
You're missing the point. It will sound different but the difference is irrelevant unless someone else is playing in the original key against it. It is not a case of quality. The song will still have the same quality even if it's played in a completely different key to say nothing of moving the pitch off by a percent. e.g. Guitarists playing solo just tune their strings to whatever the top one is very roughly set at. That doesn't change the quality of the music.
But to those with perfect pitch, it matters far more than you realize.
I've been playing both piano and guitar for 20 years. If it "matters" then get yourself tested for autism. Even if it does "matter" it still has no bearing on the quality of the music.
Nope. In fact quite the opposite. Spin a faster record slower you are increasing fidelity.
Network Settings? Sure, I can get those. It will say "automatic" (DHCP) and that's it.
What can I say other than you're doing it wrong. Either you're unable to find the most obvious place for the settings, or you're completely wrong in your assertion that your beta version is a proxy for the real version because if you follow the above written instructions I just gave on the 18.04 release that I downloaded not 30min before replying to you it will direct you to your network interface details:
Link speed 1000 Mb/s
IPv4 address 10.0.2.15
IPv6 address fe80::36bd:caef:3dc2:afc1
Hardware address 08:00:27:FC:4B:F1
Default route 10.0.2.2
DNS 192.168.0.1 8.8.8.8
And that's just on the first of the 4 tabs in the window that pops up when you click the settings wheel under Network settings.
Heat guns work on pretty much every adhesive, including solder.
I take it you haven't looked at the iFixit scores for some tablets. In many cases it's pretty much impossible to get into some devices without destroying the screen in the process.