Really, please point to one story of any consequence in the last decade that the Daily Mail has broken. Can't think of one myself. Stories about celebrities and their private lives don't count.
First electrical power generation from a water turbine started in 1870 (it was the worlds first hydroelectric power station) to provide electric lighting using an arc-lamp which was replaced in 1880 with Swan incandescent lamps.
By my calculation that is 147 years, which is considerably longer than a century. Only an American could think that hydro power started with the Hoover dam.
Nope using wind for electricity is decidedly old hat. The RRS Discovery as captained by Scott had a wind turbine to generate electricity for lighting as far back as 1901. The turbine can be clearly seen on the bow of the ship.
I posted on this just the other day, but charge time is to a large extent a function of capacity.
That is if my car can go 600 miles on a full charge it does not matter if it takes 12 hours to charge because outside tag team driving I can't actually go that far without requiring breaks or becoming unsafe due to tiredness.
Sure it requires an extensive roll out of charging stations, especially at home, but that will happen, and think of all the jobs it would create:)
Not really what will do for the ICE car is fuel availability. Here in the UK we have gone from 37,500 filling stations in 1970 to 8,600 bu 2013 with further contractions since then. Heck by 2011 due to more fuel efficient cars and a recession we where burning less fuel in ICE than in 1970.
Basically "petrol stations" as we call them here operate on very thin margins, with many only profitable due to the shop they run. As the number of electric cars increases the demand for fuel will further fall, so more stations will close. This will then start having a network effect making electric cars ever more attractive because you don't need to go searching for a pump to fill up your ICE.
The average age of a passenger car in the EU is only 8 years (its a lot more in the USA. at nearly 12 years) which means that once it starts it will be very rapid, and my prediction is that average age of cars will start dropping as people ditch the ICE due to the hassles of filling up.
Oh I wish that where really the case. Unfortunately where a single run of a job on an HPC facility can produce 1TB of files that is not actually the case in the real world for everyone.
It can matter but most of the time it does not matter. For example in the UK most houses have suspended floors at ground level without basements which provides a space for a large amount of batteries without impacting the normal living space. My gut feeling is that even with lead acid batteries I could run my house for a couple of days if I filled that space up. Nickel-Iron would be much more sensible though.
The required charge time is a function of capacity. That is with sufficient capacity/range the time to charge becomes ever less relevant.
So for example if my car could go 700 miles on a charge it would not matter if it took 12 hours to charge the dam thing because at 70mph (maximum legal speed in the UK) I can only drive 647.5 miles in the 10 hours (during which I must at least 45 minutes of breaks) the Working Time directive classifies as the maximum safe time a professional driver is allowed to work. Exceeding these times for private driving would likely get you in hot water in the event of an accident so are a pretty good measure for all driving to go by.
Further I can only do that twice in any seven day rolling period too, otherwise I am limited to 9 hours with 30 minutes of break.
Now you could tag team drive to exceed these numbers but that is fantastically rare thing anyway. I can count on one had the number of times I have done that in over two decades on one hand.
As a further illustration, the longest journey you could manage in the UK without driving around in circles is probably Land's End to John O'Groats which Goggle tells me is 839 miles and would take 15 hours and 3 minutes. So a 900 mile range with say 8 hours charge time would cover every conceivable journey I could make in the UK.
Realistically a 600 mile range with a 15 hour charge time is good enough for any thing that 99.99% of what people would ever use a car for.
At 700 miles with 12 hour charge it's good enough for probably 99% of commercial journeys too.
The UK has been in debt ever since the Napoleonic Wars, which is over 200 years now. Unfortunately the idiot Gideon Osborne redeemed all the Consol bonds (they where perpetual) including the 2.5% ones because he could get lower rates on 10 year bonds at the time. Short sighted twat that he was.
Here in commy United Kindgom, 25% went on "Social Protection" which while it includes free handouts also includes things like childrens homes for orphans etc. so not all of that is free money either. Just shy of 20% when on health care but that's not free handouts of money to people. Then 12.8% went on State Pensions but to get a state pension you have to pay National Insurance so not really free money either. Then came education at 12%, that's not free money, interest on national debt came to 5.3%, then defence at 5.2%. The next bit of free money is Overseas aid at 1.2%
So lets be generous and assume that all "social protection" was free money being handed out, as is state pensions, overseas aid and the 1.1% that went to the EU then that comes to 40.1%, which being less than 50% is not the majority.
Being less generous and only including the "social protection" and overseas aid then 26.2% is no where near the majority.
Here is Her Majesties Treasury's web page on the subject for the tax year 2015/16. Note the UK's tax year runs from Lady Day (otherwise known as Feast of the Annunciation no 25th March) plus the 11 days from the shift from the Julian to Gregorian calendar in 1752.
And that trading floor database fits into the 0.00001% of use cases that at this point in time he claims are the ones suitable for deploying Oracle as a DB. You point being???
Still means that they are selling a product that is not compliant and they need to step up and fix it. Personally if was me I would be ringing up LG and demanding a full refund for a none compliant product while in the meantime informing trading standards (I live in the UK) that LG are selling products that are not CE compliant by their own admission.
You can put ordinary houses on piles too you know. Costs more than standard foundations but it's actually more common than you think and not prohibitively expensive. A quick google suggests that on sites with difficult ground conditions it can actually be similarly priced to strip or raft foundations, and of course many sites there is no option but to use piled foundations.
Lots of people, and why not. It's first fix. You run all the wires to where they are going to go, when you have easy access to drill holes through the timber framing and pull the wires. You then put up the plasterboard or potentially if you live somewhere where houses are not made from match wood, the base-coat plaster is applied to any brick/block walls, and then the whole lot is skimmed. After that you then come back for second fix which is where the cable is cut back, ends stripped and actual sockets and switches are installed. In the UK this is is standard practice, and I imagine it is in most countries.
Heck for a quality job this is almost necessary because you will need to install a support for a metal back box. Sure you can cut a hole in the plasterboard and stick one of those pieces of junk plastic ones that will break the first time the socket gets a whack when something is plugged in but that is not a quality job. A quality job has a timber support added between the timber framing and a metal back box screwed to that which can't easily be done once the plasterboard is installed.
I never said that vaping was not better than traditional cigarettes I just said it was not without some risk. There was a suggestion that you could vap all you wanted and there was *ZERO* risk from it, it is clear that is highly unlikely to be the case.
If you read carefully this is a FTTH deployment. As such the hard part is putting the fibre in. Once the fibre is in then changing the optics at each end to go faster is relatively quick and cheap. Looks to be a G-PON deployment, which allows for an easy and seamless upgrade to 10G-PON and 100G-PON is in the works and can coexist with G-PN and 10G-PON. Very very few home users will require anything beyond 100G-PON anytime soon. There is also a NG-PON2 as well that fits in between 10G-PON and 100G-PON in terms of speed.
The important thing is to get the fibre rolled out.
It probably does. For a long time it was thought to be on 30th December this year when 5703999 would expire, but then it was noticed that they had added 20 years to date of grant, rather than 17 years and come up with the wrong date. It is either 20 years is from date of filing, or 17 from date of grant which ever is the longer. So that has expired.
There are just two patents left 6185539 which expires on the the 19th February and 6009399 which expires on the 16th April 2017. I have had this date in my diary for a long time now.
The last decoding patent expired in September 2015 which is why it has been added to Fedora.
Note that MPEG2 will probably become patent free next year as well. Though this requires you to note that the standard was released in 1996 so anything filed after that is invalidated by the prior art in the standard and was improperly issued. So while the last patent 7334248 expires in 2026, it was first filed in 2002 and should never have been issued. However it probably needs a current licensee with some big Cahoonas to stop paying the license fee and invite the MPEG-LA to sue and get a ruling that the patents are not valid.
While probably much safer than traditional cigarettes, electronic cigarettes still carry risks. For starters the flavoured ones produce toxic and carcinogenic compounds when they are vaporized. See following link for peer reviewed paper on the subject.
If you need a low dose of nicotine then I would suggest gum or patches would be safer than e-cigarettes but I doubt even then that it is a zero risk choice because in general there is no such thing as zero risk choice.
That's because originally LAME was a set of patches against the "dist10" MPEG reference software sources. As such it was not an MP3 encoder. It took some time before all the original reference source was removed. Only 82 days left till the last of the MP3 patents expires...
Screw screen recorders, just go onto eBay and order yourself a self contained HDMI recorder. Remember that HDCP is a total busted flush for anything up to 1080p for definite and even 4K is probably also a bust.
The difference is that stamping out an additional Rolex costs a lot of $$$. Stamping out a new copy of a piece of software that is most downloaded these days costs well somewhere very close to zero.
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Really, please point to one story of any consequence in the last decade that the Daily Mail has broken. Can't think of one myself. Stories about celebrities and their private lives don't count.
Almost a century, I kindly refer you to Cragside
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
First electrical power generation from a water turbine started in 1870 (it was the worlds first hydroelectric power station) to provide electric lighting using an arc-lamp which was replaced in 1880 with Swan incandescent lamps.
By my calculation that is 147 years, which is considerably longer than a century. Only an American could think that hydro power started with the Hoover dam.
Nope using wind for electricity is decidedly old hat. The RRS Discovery as captained by Scott had a wind turbine to generate electricity for lighting as far back as 1901. The turbine can be clearly seen on the bow of the ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Possibly, on the other hand smog emissions from a EV are lower than a diesel...
I posted on this just the other day, but charge time is to a large extent a function of capacity.
That is if my car can go 600 miles on a full charge it does not matter if it takes 12 hours to charge because outside tag team driving I can't actually go that far without requiring breaks or becoming unsafe due to tiredness.
Sure it requires an extensive roll out of charging stations, especially at home, but that will happen, and think of all the jobs it would create :)
Not really what will do for the ICE car is fuel availability. Here in the UK we have gone from 37,500 filling stations in 1970 to 8,600 bu 2013 with further contractions since then. Heck by 2011 due to more fuel efficient cars and a recession we where burning less fuel in ICE than in 1970.
Basically "petrol stations" as we call them here operate on very thin margins, with many only profitable due to the shop they run. As the number of electric cars increases the demand for fuel will further fall, so more stations will close. This will then start having a network effect making electric cars ever more attractive because you don't need to go searching for a pump to fill up your ICE.
The average age of a passenger car in the EU is only 8 years (its a lot more in the USA. at nearly 12 years) which means that once it starts it will be very rapid, and my prediction is that average age of cars will start dropping as people ditch the ICE due to the hassles of filling up.
Yeah I said a *SINGLE* run mate.
Oh I wish that where really the case. Unfortunately where a single run of a job on an HPC facility can produce 1TB of files that is not actually the case in the real world for everyone.
It can matter but most of the time it does not matter. For example in the UK most houses have suspended floors at ground level without basements which provides a space for a large amount of batteries without impacting the normal living space. My gut feeling is that even with lead acid batteries I could run my house for a couple of days if I filled that space up. Nickel-Iron would be much more sensible though.
The required charge time is a function of capacity. That is with sufficient capacity/range the time to charge becomes ever less relevant.
So for example if my car could go 700 miles on a charge it would not matter if it took 12 hours to charge the dam thing because at 70mph (maximum legal speed in the UK) I can only drive 647.5 miles in the 10 hours (during which I must at least 45 minutes of breaks) the Working Time directive classifies as the maximum safe time a professional driver is allowed to work. Exceeding these times for private driving would likely get you in hot water in the event of an accident so are a pretty good measure for all driving to go by.
Further I can only do that twice in any seven day rolling period too, otherwise I am limited to 9 hours with 30 minutes of break.
Now you could tag team drive to exceed these numbers but that is fantastically rare thing anyway. I can count on one had the number of times I have done that in over two decades on one hand.
As a further illustration, the longest journey you could manage in the UK without driving around in circles is probably Land's End to John O'Groats which Goggle tells me is 839 miles and would take 15 hours and 3 minutes. So a 900 mile range with say 8 hours charge time would cover every conceivable journey I could make in the UK.
Realistically a 600 mile range with a 15 hour charge time is good enough for any thing that 99.99% of what people would ever use a car for.
At 700 miles with 12 hour charge it's good enough for probably 99% of commercial journeys too.
The UK has been in debt ever since the Napoleonic Wars, which is over 200 years now. Unfortunately the idiot Gideon Osborne redeemed all the Consol bonds (they where perpetual) including the 2.5% ones because he could get lower rates on 10 year bonds at the time. Short sighted twat that he was.
Utter bullshit.
Here in commy United Kindgom, 25% went on "Social Protection" which while it includes free handouts also includes things like childrens homes for orphans etc. so not all of that is free money either. Just shy of 20% when on health care but that's not free handouts of money to people. Then 12.8% went on State Pensions but to get a state pension you have to pay National Insurance so not really free money either. Then came education at 12%, that's not free money, interest on national debt came to 5.3%, then defence at 5.2%. The next bit of free money is Overseas aid at 1.2%
So lets be generous and assume that all "social protection" was free money being handed out, as is state pensions, overseas aid and the 1.1% that went to the EU then that comes to 40.1%, which being less than 50% is not the majority.
Being less generous and only including the "social protection" and overseas aid then 26.2% is no where near the majority.
Here is Her Majesties Treasury's web page on the subject for the tax year 2015/16. Note the UK's tax year runs from Lady Day (otherwise known as Feast of the Annunciation no 25th March) plus the 11 days from the shift from the Julian to Gregorian calendar in 1752.
https://www.gov.uk/government/...
And that trading floor database fits into the 0.00001% of use cases that at this point in time he claims are the ones suitable for deploying Oracle as a DB. You point being???
Still means that they are selling a product that is not compliant and they need to step up and fix it. Personally if was me I would be ringing up LG and demanding a full refund for a none compliant product while in the meantime informing trading standards (I live in the UK) that LG are selling products that are not CE compliant by their own admission.
You can put ordinary houses on piles too you know. Costs more than standard foundations but it's actually more common than you think and not prohibitively expensive. A quick google suggests that on sites with difficult ground conditions it can actually be similarly priced to strip or raft foundations, and of course many sites there is no option but to use piled foundations.
Lots of people, and why not. It's first fix. You run all the wires to where they are going to go, when you have easy access to drill holes through the timber framing and pull the wires. You then put up the plasterboard or potentially if you live somewhere where houses are not made from match wood, the base-coat plaster is applied to any brick/block walls, and then the whole lot is skimmed. After that you then come back for second fix which is where the cable is cut back, ends stripped and actual sockets and switches are installed. In the UK this is is standard practice, and I imagine it is in most countries.
Heck for a quality job this is almost necessary because you will need to install a support for a metal back box. Sure you can cut a hole in the plasterboard and stick one of those pieces of junk plastic ones that will break the first time the socket gets a whack when something is plugged in but that is not a quality job. A quality job has a timber support added between the timber framing and a metal back box screwed to that which can't easily be done once the plasterboard is installed.
I never said that vaping was not better than traditional cigarettes I just said it was not without some risk. There was a suggestion that you could vap all you wanted and there was *ZERO* risk from it, it is clear that is highly unlikely to be the case.
If you read carefully this is a FTTH deployment. As such the hard part is putting the fibre in. Once the fibre is in then changing the optics at each end to go faster is relatively quick and cheap. Looks to be a G-PON deployment, which allows for an easy and seamless upgrade to 10G-PON and 100G-PON is in the works and can coexist with G-PN and 10G-PON. Very very few home users will require anything beyond 100G-PON anytime soon. There is also a NG-PON2 as well that fits in between 10G-PON and 100G-PON in terms of speed.
The important thing is to get the fibre rolled out.
It probably does. For a long time it was thought to be on 30th December this year when 5703999 would expire, but then it was noticed that they had added 20 years to date of grant, rather than 17 years and come up with the wrong date. It is either 20 years is from date of filing, or 17 from date of grant which ever is the longer. So that has expired.
There are just two patents left 6185539 which expires on the the 19th February and 6009399 which expires on the 16th April 2017. I have had this date in my diary for a long time now.
The last decoding patent expired in September 2015 which is why it has been added to Fedora.
http://www.osnews.com/story/24...
Note that MPEG2 will probably become patent free next year as well. Though this requires you to note that the standard was released in 1996 so anything filed after that is invalidated by the prior art in the standard and was improperly issued. So while the last patent 7334248 expires in 2026, it was first filed in 2002 and should never have been issued. However it probably needs a current licensee with some big Cahoonas to stop paying the license fee and invite the MPEG-LA to sue and get a ruling that the patents are not valid.
While probably much safer than traditional cigarettes, electronic cigarettes still carry risks. For starters the flavoured ones produce toxic and carcinogenic compounds when they are vaporized. See following link for peer reviewed paper on the subject.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10...
Here are three peer reviewed papers that show that e-cigarette vapour causes DNA damage
https://academic.oup.com/toxsc...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...
http://www.nature.com/ebd/jour...
If you need a low dose of nicotine then I would suggest gum or patches would be safer than e-cigarettes but I doubt even then that it is a zero risk choice because in general there is no such thing as zero risk choice.
That's because originally LAME was a set of patches against the "dist10" MPEG reference software sources. As such it was not an MP3 encoder. It took some time before all the original reference source was removed. Only 82 days left till the last of the MP3 patents expires...
Screw screen recorders, just go onto eBay and order yourself a self contained HDMI recorder. Remember that HDCP is a total busted flush for anything up to 1080p for definite and even 4K is probably also a bust.
The difference is that stamping out an additional Rolex costs a lot of $$$. Stamping out a new copy of a piece of software that is most downloaded these days costs well somewhere very close to zero.
And the awful exchange rate is directly caused by the vote in the referendum to leave the EU dipshit.
Till Brexit actually kicks in I can visit 27 countries and just take my voice package with me. This is currently unlimited calls. You where saying...