You mention Part P so clearly are in the UK where the term "Architect" has lots of legal protection, yet the fuck wits that are "Architects" who will all be first against the wall when my revolution comes get away with manslaughter.
Let me incompetently design a building that if there is some wind blowing will generate gusts at street level that blow vehicles over crushing pedestrians to death.
Personally I would put the Architect responsible for that building behind bars for corporate manslaughter and insist on the building being torn down.
Then there is 20 Fenchurch Street otherwise known as "The Walkie-Talkie" in London, that some moron of an architect designed as concave and there is the wonder that it melts things when it is sunny. Worse it was the second building this moron had designed with the same problem.
The standard "Morning After" pill works by preventing implantation of the blastocyst in the uterus wall and hence the pregnancy. However this takes place after conception.
That's Corbyn not May. However the reason the coal mines closed in the UK is exactly the same reason that coal mines are closing in the USA. It's cheap natural gas and the hard economics that follows from it folks.
In the UK the natural gas came from the North Sea, in the USA it has come from fracking. In both cases the result was the same, the market for coal dried up so the mines closed.
Well apart from the fact that GPFS or Spectrum Scale as they like to call it these days is a couple of orders of magnitude better than CEPH.
What puzzles me about this is that the licensing enforcement on GPFS is zero, nada none at all. You need a valid license to download the software but after that you just run mmlicense to say the node is licensed and bingo you are done. You could have purchased a couple of server license and be running 10 servers and 1000 nodes. It's not like the BSA can muscle their way into a Chinese government institution and demand to do a software audit. Sure you can't ring up IBM and get support but you can't do that with a hooky version complied from stolen source, and it's not like the GPFS source code is going to be easy to do self support on. It would likely be cheaper to just buy the support from IBM in the first place from the people who know and understand the code.
No it's not, it all depends on how long it persists in the atmosphere.
If methane has a half life of say one week, then it really does not matter that it is 20x worse than CO2 because it's not around long enough to matter.
The Freetime sandbox mode has two huge holes in it for kids. For some reason Plex is not allowed to use the SD card for synced content, but if you copy content onto the SD card then VLC will play it fine. Right pain in the backside as for little ones you need to copy the content they want over for them, where they could have done it themselves from the Plex interface.
The other problem is the nightime (aka no blue light) bit does not work when in the Freetime sandbox. This is an even bigger WTF.
However as you say a thousand times better than a $50 no-name Chinese knock off. Apart from anything else you can easily buy cases and screen protectors that fit them properly.
Once they stop being sold 10 years tops for the vast majority of fossil-fuel vehicles being scrapped.
Look at it this way, when I am out and about, if I actually look at cars and where I live (the UK) you can tell the age of a car from the registration plate the vast majority of cars are less than 10 years old. Push it out to 15 years and it must be about 1% of cars on the road.
So ten years after EV go mainstream there are hardly any fossil fuel cars left, which means that the garages selling the fuel will all be going out of business hand over fist, which will mean that people will be getting rid of their fossil fuel cars sooner than they would have because filling up has now become a headache with so few filling stations left open. In fact I expect these network effects to start kicking in sooner and hasten the end of fossil fuel vehicles.
However you need a vehicle with at least a 500 mile range that can be charged up overnight from empty to full. Basically that is a car that can make any reasonable journey within a days driving.
In the meantime give that 97% of the value of a barrel of oil comes from the 3% that is not burnt for fuel (aka the petrochemical industry) the oil industry will be around for a very long time.
A 256GB microSD card:) I imagine in in the next couple of years 512GB microSD cards will appear on the market which will settle it once and for all. I note that 512GB SD cards already exist.
It's 2017, so even if you had a collection of say 1000 albums you could easily store them in FLAC. For reference purposes last year I did my collection of music CD's which comes to just over 300 albums, many of which are compilation albums which skew the figures somewhat. However all of those albums, a 500x500px JPEG of the cover, a CSV file describing the tags for each file along with tagged FLAC and 256kbps MP3 for each track come to 148GB.
This is in the era of 2TB HDD's for under 100USD. The idea that space might be an issue for holding a music collection in FLAC (or ALAC if that is your poison) is ridiculous.
Simple solution is that any device sold to the NHS must be supplied with updates that work on a supported version of an OS for the lifetime of the equipment. Should such a manufacture try measures to get around that, then that equipment (say Siemens, Toshiba, GEC etc.) many not be purchased by the NHS until the situation is rectified.
The NHS one of the biggest victims here has the clout to make this mandatory and make it stick. Just needs the political will to make it the law. Loosing the NHS market because you want to try and gouge on updated software is not worth the loss, because one of your competitors will decided it's worth capturing the whole market.
Well a quick check on the Blue Riband Wikipedia page tells me the record for an eastbound Atlantic crossing is 2 days 20 hours held by an ocean-going *CATAMARAN* car and passenger ferry.
Technically it would need to go westbound to get the actual Blue Riband, which would be somewhat slower. The USS United States was 10 hours slower westbound than east bound according to the Wikipedia page. Anyways hydrofoils are all out of fashion these days.
There is not a cat in hells chance of recovering any data. If that is too complicated then for 9 USD just buy a copy of Parted Magic that has as GUI to do it all easily for you.
If you are extra paranoid then write some zero's all over the drive first. If you are majorly paranoid write zero's all over the drive, issue a secure erase then smash the drive up into pieces and do a fresh install onto a new hard drive.
Anyone ever questions why you replaced the drive just say it developed bad sectors so you purchased a new one. Or alternatively say you upgraded from a HDD to an SDD, or even you upgraded to a bigger drive. For bonus points buy the replacement drive before you commit the nefarious act.
Well indistinguishable from a CD would have to be Flac or Apple Lossless, which is considerably more than 320kbps.
However last time I checked at 256kbps you will not be able to tell the difference between an MP3 encoded by LAME on maximum quality settings and an AAC, according to the blind listening tests.
The quality of MP3's produced by LAME these days is markedly improved since the heyday of Napster. To be honest most people don't have the equipment to be able to tell the difference between a 320kbps MP3 and a Flac file. Not that the necessary equipment is that expensive either, however the vast majority of people don't feel the expense is worth it, or would rather waste their money on some Beats piece of junk.
Your Grandmother pays property taxes for schools to help educate her grandchildren would be a starting point. Further she pays taxes for schools so that there is a supply of people properly educated (doctors, nurses etc.) to look after her in her old age.
The idea that because you are not attending school means that you are not making use of the services provided by those schools is complete nonsense.
The basics are that in a modern technological society your standard of living is dependant on an army of educated professionals. You can either pay for this directly through higher prices on the goods and services you consume or you can pay taxes.
Here is an interesting thought for those that believe in pure free markets. Do you want the surgeon operating on you to be the best available or the one who could afford to put themselves through medical school? I know which I would prefer...
So your flabbergasted that a prokaryotic immune system that protects bacteria from viral infections can be used to protect eukaryotic cells from viral infections too?
Hijacking CRISPR/Cas9 for editing DNA is the "flabbergasting" bit, not using it for what it evolved for. Now wake me up when you can use this to cure HxNy please.
People get double glazing in the UK for reasons other than reduction in energy bills. Things like being able to get the room/house to a comfortable temperature in winter for example is one. Often people forget that if your home is cold insulating it may well not reduce your energy bills, just enable you to heat it to a reasonable temperature.
Another big driver is often that the existing windows are shot and in need of replacement anyway. At which point the incremental cost of double glazing means the ROI is actually very good.
The problem with the Surface RT was not that it was ARM, but that Microsoft crippled the Office install. No Exchange connectivity at the start, and you can't use it for business use. The hardware was good, they just fumbled the software.
So apart from a few deer, which need a minigun taking to anyway exactly who is this going to inconvenience? The other actively considered scheme in the UK that I am aware of is to expand the existing facility at Ben Cruachan, by digging a new turbine hall out the inside of the mountain and a larger dam up the mountain. There was an option for another one at Balmacaan but that has been shelved as far as I know. There is potential for some 500GWh of pumped storage in Scotland alone, which is about enough to power the UK overnight entirely from pumped storage. There is of course extra capacity in Wales and England that could be built to make going overnight easy peasy. That's before we figure in some tidal power which of course generates in the middle of the night anyway.
So one presumes that "Windows 10" compatible certification that my Surface Book has is er imaginary then? I say because you can turn off secure boot if you want. You get a big red unlocked padlock thing on the boot screen, but it *DOES* work.
I ended up turning it back on when I realized that Ubuntu supports secure boot, so there was no need to actually turn it off. Which reminds me I need to fix the grub font's because right now they are tiny.
Yes they can be fixed. Just drop them in a vlan of their own and deny they access to the internet. Plenty of cheap switches these days have vlan support. I got a 16 port gigabit switch for 70gbp from a major switch vendor last year.
There was a time when I only bothered with one card. Then I woke up and realized that this was a bad idea as all your eggs are in one basket. Mostly because I had my wallet stolen and it was a right pain and that was 20 years ago. It would be worse today.
Now I have one debit card, and two credit cards. I hardly use the debit card other than to withdraw cash from an ATM. Almost every card purchase is done with a credit card and I *NEVER* use the debit card on the internet. I only carry one of the credit cards with me, the other is heat sealed in a shielded bag between two pieces of cardboard. It's linked to my Amazon account and PayPal so it keeps ticking over with transactions. This card is for physical use in the even my primary card is lost, stolen, cloned, broken or the bank is having issues. It lives in a draw in my house, and when flying on holiday it travels in my suitcase separate from me, in case my main card has any of the above problems. Being heat sealed in a bag I can tell if it has been tampered with.
Further one of the credit cards is Visa and the other is Mastercard and they are issued from different banks. Finally I keep in a safe place in the house 150GBP in new notes (10*10GBP and 10*5GBP) for emergency use should both banks have issues at the same time.
True my washing line cost more like $3 a metre because it's plastic coated stainless steel wire, and I expect it to last at least 20 years.
On the other hand the poles to which it is attached are over 60 years old. Though about six or seven years ago (not long after I purchased the house) I did have to strip all the lead based paint off and repaint them.
Meanwhile most of my washing is dried out side at an extremely low environmental cost. I do dry inside sometimes and occasionally use a tumble dryer, but that is mostly down to washing and reproofing my ski wear.
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You mention Part P so clearly are in the UK where the term "Architect" has lots of legal protection, yet the fuck wits that are "Architects" who will all be first against the wall when my revolution comes get away with manslaughter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...
Let me incompetently design a building that if there is some wind blowing will generate gusts at street level that blow vehicles over crushing pedestrians to death.
Personally I would put the Architect responsible for that building behind bars for corporate manslaughter and insist on the building being torn down.
Then there is 20 Fenchurch Street otherwise known as "The Walkie-Talkie" in London, that some moron of an architect designed as concave and there is the wonder that it melts things when it is sunny. Worse it was the second building this moron had designed with the same problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So being regulated can mean jack shit if you are an architect.
The standard "Morning After" pill works by preventing implantation of the blastocyst in the uterus wall and hence the pregnancy. However this takes place after conception.
That's Corbyn not May. However the reason the coal mines closed in the UK is exactly the same reason that coal mines are closing in the USA. It's cheap natural gas and the hard economics that follows from it folks.
In the UK the natural gas came from the North Sea, in the USA it has come from fracking. In both cases the result was the same, the market for coal dried up so the mines closed.
Well apart from the fact that GPFS or Spectrum Scale as they like to call it these days is a couple of orders of magnitude better than CEPH.
What puzzles me about this is that the licensing enforcement on GPFS is zero, nada none at all. You need a valid license to download the software but after that you just run mmlicense to say the node is licensed and bingo you are done. You could have purchased a couple of server license and be running 10 servers and 1000 nodes. It's not like the BSA can muscle their way into a Chinese government institution and demand to do a software audit. Sure you can't ring up IBM and get support but you can't do that with a hooky version complied from stolen source, and it's not like the GPFS source code is going to be easy to do self support on. It would likely be cheaper to just buy the support from IBM in the first place from the people who know and understand the code.
No it's not, it all depends on how long it persists in the atmosphere.
If methane has a half life of say one week, then it really does not matter that it is 20x worse than CO2 because it's not around long enough to matter.
The Freetime sandbox mode has two huge holes in it for kids. For some reason Plex is not allowed to use the SD card for synced content, but if you copy content onto the SD card then VLC will play it fine. Right pain in the backside as for little ones you need to copy the content they want over for them, where they could have done it themselves from the Plex interface.
The other problem is the nightime (aka no blue light) bit does not work when in the Freetime sandbox. This is an even bigger WTF.
However as you say a thousand times better than a $50 no-name Chinese knock off. Apart from anything else you can easily buy cases and screen protectors that fit them properly.
Once they stop being sold 10 years tops for the vast majority of fossil-fuel vehicles being scrapped.
Look at it this way, when I am out and about, if I actually look at cars and where I live (the UK) you can tell the age of a car from the registration plate the vast majority of cars are less than 10 years old. Push it out to 15 years and it must be about 1% of cars on the road.
So ten years after EV go mainstream there are hardly any fossil fuel cars left, which means that the garages selling the fuel will all be going out of business hand over fist, which will mean that people will be getting rid of their fossil fuel cars sooner than they would have because filling up has now become a headache with so few filling stations left open. In fact I expect these network effects to start kicking in sooner and hasten the end of fossil fuel vehicles.
However you need a vehicle with at least a 500 mile range that can be charged up overnight from empty to full. Basically that is a car that can make any reasonable journey within a days driving.
In the meantime give that 97% of the value of a barrel of oil comes from the 3% that is not burnt for fuel (aka the petrochemical industry) the oil industry will be around for a very long time.
A 256GB microSD card :) I imagine in in the next couple of years 512GB microSD cards will appear on the market which will settle it once and for all. I note that 512GB SD cards already exist.
It's 2017, so even if you had a collection of say 1000 albums you could easily store them in FLAC. For reference purposes last year I did my collection of music CD's which comes to just over 300 albums, many of which are compilation albums which skew the figures somewhat. However all of those albums, a 500x500px JPEG of the cover, a CSV file describing the tags for each file along with tagged FLAC and 256kbps MP3 for each track come to 148GB.
This is in the era of 2TB HDD's for under 100USD. The idea that space might be an issue for holding a music collection in FLAC (or ALAC if that is your poison) is ridiculous.
Simple solution is that any device sold to the NHS must be supplied with updates that work on a supported version of an OS for the lifetime of the equipment. Should such a manufacture try measures to get around that, then that equipment (say Siemens, Toshiba, GEC etc.) many not be purchased by the NHS until the situation is rectified.
The NHS one of the biggest victims here has the clout to make this mandatory and make it stick. Just needs the political will to make it the law. Loosing the NHS market because you want to try and gouge on updated software is not worth the loss, because one of your competitors will decided it's worth capturing the whole market.
Well a quick check on the Blue Riband Wikipedia page tells me the record for an eastbound Atlantic crossing is 2 days 20 hours held by an ocean-going *CATAMARAN* car and passenger ferry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Technically it would need to go westbound to get the actual Blue Riband, which would be somewhat slower. The USS United States was 10 hours slower westbound than east bound according to the Wikipedia page. Anyways hydrofoils are all out of fashion these days.
Must have been, because if he had booted from a Linux USB drive and followed this procedure
https://www.thomas-krenn.com/e...
There is not a cat in hells chance of recovering any data. If that is too complicated then for 9 USD just buy a copy of Parted Magic that has as GUI to do it all easily for you.
If you are extra paranoid then write some zero's all over the drive first. If you are majorly paranoid write zero's all over the drive, issue a secure erase then smash the drive up into pieces and do a fresh install onto a new hard drive.
Anyone ever questions why you replaced the drive just say it developed bad sectors so you purchased a new one. Or alternatively say you upgraded from a HDD to an SDD, or even you upgraded to a bigger drive. For bonus points buy the replacement drive before you commit the nefarious act.
The Surface connector is not new, and I believe predates USB-C.
Well indistinguishable from a CD would have to be Flac or Apple Lossless, which is considerably more than 320kbps.
However last time I checked at 256kbps you will not be able to tell the difference between an MP3 encoded by LAME on maximum quality settings and an AAC, according to the blind listening tests.
The quality of MP3's produced by LAME these days is markedly improved since the heyday of Napster. To be honest most people don't have the equipment to be able to tell the difference between a 320kbps MP3 and a Flac file. Not that the necessary equipment is that expensive either, however the vast majority of people don't feel the expense is worth it, or would rather waste their money on some Beats piece of junk.
Your Grandmother pays property taxes for schools to help educate her grandchildren would be a starting point. Further she pays taxes for schools so that there is a supply of people properly educated (doctors, nurses etc.) to look after her in her old age.
The idea that because you are not attending school means that you are not making use of the services provided by those schools is complete nonsense.
The basics are that in a modern technological society your standard of living is dependant on an army of educated professionals. You can either pay for this directly through higher prices on the goods and services you consume or you can pay taxes.
Here is an interesting thought for those that believe in pure free markets. Do you want the surgeon operating on you to be the best available or the one who could afford to put themselves through medical school? I know which I would prefer...
So your flabbergasted that a prokaryotic immune system that protects bacteria from viral infections can be used to protect eukaryotic cells from viral infections too?
Hijacking CRISPR/Cas9 for editing DNA is the "flabbergasting" bit, not using it for what it evolved for. Now wake me up when you can use this to cure HxNy please.
People get double glazing in the UK for reasons other than reduction in energy bills. Things like being able to get the room/house to a comfortable temperature in winter for example is one. Often people forget that if your home is cold insulating it may well not reduce your energy bills, just enable you to heat it to a reasonable temperature.
Another big driver is often that the existing windows are shot and in need of replacement anyway. At which point the incremental cost of double glazing means the ROI is actually very good.
The problem with the Surface RT was not that it was ARM, but that Microsoft crippled the Office install. No Exchange connectivity at the start, and you can't use it for business use. The hardware was good, they just fumbled the software.
Er how is it a social disaster, at least here in the UK? The next one in the UK is in Corie Glas, here is a picture
https://commons.wikimedia.org/...
So apart from a few deer, which need a minigun taking to anyway exactly who is this going to inconvenience? The other actively considered scheme in the UK that I am aware of is to expand the existing facility at Ben Cruachan, by digging a new turbine hall out the inside of the mountain and a larger dam up the mountain. There was an option for another one at Balmacaan but that has been shelved as far as I know. There is potential for some 500GWh of pumped storage in Scotland alone, which is about enough to power the UK overnight entirely from pumped storage. There is of course extra capacity in Wales and England that could be built to make going overnight easy peasy. That's before we figure in some tidal power which of course generates in the middle of the night anyway.
So one presumes that "Windows 10" compatible certification that my Surface Book has is er imaginary then? I say because you can turn off secure boot if you want. You get a big red unlocked padlock thing on the boot screen, but it *DOES* work.
I ended up turning it back on when I realized that Ubuntu supports secure boot, so there was no need to actually turn it off. Which reminds me I need to fix the grub font's because right now they are tiny.
Nothing like using good old hard economics to achieve a desired outcome eh.
Yes they can be fixed. Just drop them in a vlan of their own and deny they access to the internet. Plenty of cheap switches these days have vlan support. I got a 16 port gigabit switch for 70gbp from a major switch vendor last year.
There was a time when I only bothered with one card. Then I woke up and realized that this was a bad idea as all your eggs are in one basket. Mostly because I had my wallet stolen and it was a right pain and that was 20 years ago. It would be worse today.
Now I have one debit card, and two credit cards. I hardly use the debit card other than to withdraw cash from an ATM. Almost every card purchase is done with a credit card and I *NEVER* use the debit card on the internet. I only carry one of the credit cards with me, the other is heat sealed in a shielded bag between two pieces of cardboard. It's linked to my Amazon account and PayPal so it keeps ticking over with transactions. This card is for physical use in the even my primary card is lost, stolen, cloned, broken or the bank is having issues. It lives in a draw in my house, and when flying on holiday it travels in my suitcase separate from me, in case my main card has any of the above problems. Being heat sealed in a bag I can tell if it has been tampered with.
Further one of the credit cards is Visa and the other is Mastercard and they are issued from different banks. Finally I keep in a safe place in the house 150GBP in new notes (10*10GBP and 10*5GBP) for emergency use should both banks have issues at the same time.
True my washing line cost more like $3 a metre because it's plastic coated stainless steel wire, and I expect it to last at least 20 years.
On the other hand the poles to which it is attached are over 60 years old. Though about six or seven years ago (not long after I purchased the house) I did have to strip all the lead based paint off and repaint them.
Meanwhile most of my washing is dried out side at an extremely low environmental cost. I do dry inside sometimes and occasionally use a tumble dryer, but that is mostly down to washing and reproofing my ski wear.
Yeah and my fusion powered dryer uses exactly zero electricity.