The argument is that you could attach a couple of them to the outside of a large wheel, they would push the wheel around and that could be used to generate electricity that would power the emdrive's.
The problem is that this all assumes that everything is lossless in the first place which clearly it is not. So as there is no known way to actually make such a device out of emdrives with known engineering they are cannot be used to create a perpetual motion machine.
The in the real world there are no spherical chickens.
Basically CRT glass in, pure glass and lead out, and lead is a reasonably valuable material for new batteries. Seems UPS are still all lead acid, which I guess is down to simple chemistry and given UPS's are stationary weight is not a problem. Then there is the battery in every IC vehicle out there.
Further more the idea of sending lead batteries to land fill is utterly ludicrous. Ring up any metal recycler and they will happily *PAY YOU* to take away your pile of old UPS batteries for crying out loud.
No they are looking to make truth in a web page a factor in it's ranking. So if I search for information on whether the Holocaust happened then the top ranked page should be one that acknowledges that the Holocaust happened (because it did) and not one full of lies.
The Holocaust is within living memory, whether it took place is not up for debate.
I think I have a reasonable expectation that ranking of search results should be based in some part on whether the site is telling the truth or a pack of lies. Otherwise the value of the search results rapidly diminish.
In this case as the Holocaust is an extremely well documented verifiable fact including hundreds of personal testimonies by people on both sides of the crime, then ranking a site first which denies the crime took place is in the vast majority of peoples mind a problem.
In various parts of the world the search results for this particular search could get Google into legal hot water as Holocaust denial is a serious criminal offence. We will start with Germany the country that perpetrated the crime in the first place.
The leakage from natural gas almost all occurs in the local distribution network used for domestic premises. This is because much of it is old cast iron pipe work.
Leakage of any sort in the high pressure transmission pipelines is generally catastrophic and so does not happen at any significant rate. You don't think a power station is hooked up to the high pressure transmission lines with a 50 year old 1" cast iron pipe do you?
Anyway the point is that preferential tax breaks liek the one Apple had from Ireland have been ruled as state aid and the EU does have remit over that, and there are *NO* exceptions to the state aid rules. Clearly the EU has at least *SOME* powers over even corporate tax rates in member states.
Hum, I know I have a much much better idea of how the EU works than the vast majority of people......
I think you will find the EU "fines" member states for failing to comply with directives all the time. Well perhaps not all the time, but it would certainly not be something new.
But specifically this year a fine for illegal state aid
Let's put it another way, what would be the point of banning state aid if the country giving illegal state aid could keep the gains of giving such aid?
Really the lack of clear thinking and common sense let alone actual knowledge when it comes to the EU is staggering at times.
Heck the UK can't even start negotiating trade deals on it's own before it has left the EU without facing large fines from the EU.
I forgot to mention the third amendment to the Irish constitution was approved 83.1% for to 16.9% against in a referendum on the 10th May 1972 on a turnout of 70.9%. So the Irish people voted heavily for it with a absolute majority of 58.9% of registered voters in favour.
The EU has *VERY* strong rules on state aid. The Irish government gave Apple a special tax deal, that was not available to everyone. This has been found to break those state aid rules and is therefore illegal under EU law and as EU law has primacy over Irish law as confirmed by the third amendment to the Irish constitution then it is illegal.
It is amazing the crap people spout about this sort of stuff without the first clue as to what they are talking about.
In fact you pick the worst and run the case to conclusion by which time you have set a precedent. It then becomes easier to bring all the others to book because all the grounds for appeal on technicalities and what the actual EU law/regulations mean have been worked out in case one.
It makes no sense whatsoever to run dozens of similar cases at the same time all appealing over the same technicalities.
They will because once all this is settled and the Irish government has actually collected the back taxes, the EU will promptly fine the Irish government for breaking EU state aid rules, aka special tax breaks are state aid and that is not allowed under the EU rules (this is ruling Apple and Ireland have lost on) and fine them somewhere near the amount of illegal state aid that Ireland gave to Apple in the way of a special tax deal.
Irish and US tax law are in this case both superseded by EU tax law in this case. So that argument is completely irrelevant in this case.
Remember by becoming a member of the EU the Irish agreed that their tax laws would be compliant with EU law. The commission found that Irish tax law was not compliant with EU law and as EU law is supreme Apple and Ireland are in trouble.
Sorry Apple cry me a river that you can't afford decent tax lawyers.
The massive benefit of single mode over multi-mode is is that OM1, OM2, OM3, etc... You get the picture every speed bump and you are running new fibre with multimode. On the other hand that OS1 single mode fibre you installed 20 years ago is still good for everything from 10Mbps to 100Gbps. So while single mode optics are a bit more expensive in the long run not having to rip and replace the fibre every few years is a massive cost/hassle saving in my view. Sure there is OS2 single mode fibre but that only brings lower loss for longer distances to the table, which unless you are doing 10's of km is not a concern.
Something that always sticks in my mind was a break in at a working men's club in the UK late on Christmas Eve many years ago. They got a lot of cash as being Christmas Eve they had not had time to bank it yet.
Nice solidly built brick building so they took a sledgehammer and went *THROUGH* the wall. Probably no harder than a chainsaw in the wall, though I could put a bunch of screws and nails in that would make using a chainsaw painful.
Anyway the take away lesson being, if they *WANT* to get in they *WILL* get in. The trick is to make your place less attractive to break in than somewhere else by making it more hassle.
You comment suggests that either you have a phone that does not do NFC or you have a phone that does have NFC but the manufacture thinks the only use for NFC is for payments and won't let anyone else use the NFC feature of the phone but themselves.
Yes. People who work excessive hours become dangerous to the rest of society. They might make a mistake in their job that could kill someone. For example here is a pharmacist that killed someone by working 60 hours a week, which is down right illegal
You say someone working in a warehouse is unlikely to kill someone from being over worked. Maybe, but what about say when they are commuting to and from work in a car on public roads. This is what can happen when you fall asleep at the wheel
That's 10 people dead, 82 seriously injured and serious disruption to the lives of tens of thousands of people.
Yeah people who work over long hours are in effect sociopaths, who put a potential gain for themselves ahead of potential serious outcomes, and I have no problem of denying them that right. I would also vastly increase the penalties from causing death when overwork was a contributory factor. Minimum 10 years in jail seems appropriate.
No you where told that Brexit was a risk to the economy and could jeopardise the fragile recovery from the financial meltdown of 2008.
The reality is that with our currency down the shitter since Brexit that you will be worse off as a result, probably to the tune of hundreds of pounds a year. For me personally it will be over one thousands pounds by my calculation. Fortunately I am well off enough to be able to manage. The bulk of the morons that voted for it (aka the uneducated just about managing's) will struggle.
As a side note 60 hour weeks would be illegal in the UK, but of course Farage and Johnson both independently wealthy individuals who would not care if everyone was £2000 a year worse off, just so long as they could stick it to the EU, are rubbing their hands at repealing the working time directive.
At this point the recall notice has been out long enough, that if you knowling keep and use a defective Note 7 and it burns your house down Samsung are off the hook. In fact Verizon by refusing to push the update are accepting that liability if any still exists above Samsung.
I note the idea of organic food for vegetarians and vegans, is a complete fantasy, as almost all organic food is fertilised with animal waste from animals that are kept for their meat.
You need to add in the ridiculous licensing on the version of Office shipped with the SurfaceRT (it was Home and Student version so unusable for business) and complete lack of Outlook at launch that basically killed the product.
Sorry but that is currently impossible to test because their are insufficient babies born from IVF that have actually reached adulthood to really analyse that.
I would note that Louise Brown has had two children conceived naturally and her sister Natalie has had four children all conceived naturally. For those ignorant of the facts Louise Brown was the first IVF child in the world and her sister was the fortieth born four years later.
Note that shows the low levels of IVF babies being born in the early years of the technology and why there are too few IVF born adults to really conduct any study into their fertility.
Basically Intel and by extension x86 won in a large part by exploiting a FAB advantage. That FAB advantage is over, and the chip architectures that managed to survive have an opportunity to come back from life support. So the likes of Power, Sparc, MIPS and ARM now have a chance to compete on a level technological playing field with x86.
Coupled with the increasing use of open source which also negates the value of the x86 instruction set lock in then interesting times indeed.
Right you are talking out your backside there on the Sony front, speaking as a Z1 Compact owner, with a sister with a Z3 Compact and her husband with a Z5 Compact.
Basically Sony have been doing waterproof with a 3.5mm jack "something" for decades, and the phones are no different. Everything *before* the Z5 had a cover for the microUSB and a magnetic charging connector.
The Z5 ditched the magnetic charging connector (which is a shame) and introduced a fully waterproof microUSB connector that does not need a cover.
Then after being first to the market with waterproof, they ditched it as everyone else started doing it. Way to go Sony not.
Your assuming the replacement cost is the same as the purchase cost. For almost any IT thing I have ever seen in the last three decades the replacement cost is *ALWAYS* lower than the purchase cost. The idea that a 4k OLED TV will cost the same in 8 years time as it does today is a frankly ludicrous suggestion.
I would love to buy and OLED TV, problem for me is the smallest sized ones are still way to big for my lounge.
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The argument is that you could attach a couple of them to the outside of a large wheel, they would push the wheel around and that could be used to generate electricity that would power the emdrive's.
The problem is that this all assumes that everything is lossless in the first place which clearly it is not. So as there is no known way to actually make such a device out of emdrives with known engineering they are cannot be used to create a perpetual motion machine.
The in the real world there are no spherical chickens.
It's makes even less sense than that as lead recovery from CRT glass is now a established process.
http://www.nulifeglass.com/faq...
Basically CRT glass in, pure glass and lead out, and lead is a reasonably valuable material for new batteries. Seems UPS are still all lead acid, which I guess is down to simple chemistry and given UPS's are stationary weight is not a problem. Then there is the battery in every IC vehicle out there.
Further more the idea of sending lead batteries to land fill is utterly ludicrous. Ring up any metal recycler and they will happily *PAY YOU* to take away your pile of old UPS batteries for crying out loud.
No they are looking to make truth in a web page a factor in it's ranking. So if I search for information on whether the Holocaust happened then the top ranked page should be one that acknowledges that the Holocaust happened (because it did) and not one full of lies.
The Holocaust is within living memory, whether it took place is not up for debate.
I think I have a reasonable expectation that ranking of search results should be based in some part on whether the site is telling the truth or a pack of lies. Otherwise the value of the search results rapidly diminish.
In this case as the Holocaust is an extremely well documented verifiable fact including hundreds of personal testimonies by people on both sides of the crime, then ranking a site first which denies the crime took place is in the vast majority of peoples mind a problem.
In various parts of the world the search results for this particular search could get Google into legal hot water as Holocaust denial is a serious criminal offence. We will start with Germany the country that perpetrated the crime in the first place.
The leakage from natural gas almost all occurs in the local distribution network used for domestic premises. This is because much of it is old cast iron pipe work.
Leakage of any sort in the high pressure transmission pipelines is generally catastrophic and so does not happen at any significant rate. You don't think a power station is hooked up to the high pressure transmission lines with a 50 year old 1" cast iron pipe do you?
Really. the EU has *NO* rules on tax? Want to explain the following Wikipedia page on Value Added *TAX* then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Anyway the point is that preferential tax breaks liek the one Apple had from Ireland have been ruled as state aid and the EU does have remit over that, and there are *NO* exceptions to the state aid rules. Clearly the EU has at least *SOME* powers over even corporate tax rates in member states.
Hum, I know I have a much much better idea of how the EU works than the vast majority of people......
I think you will find the EU "fines" member states for failing to comply with directives all the time. Well perhaps not all the time, but it would certainly not be something new.
But specifically this year a fine for illegal state aid
http://www.shippingherald.com/...
No mandate my ass.
Let's put it another way, what would be the point of banning state aid if the country giving illegal state aid could keep the gains of giving such aid?
Really the lack of clear thinking and common sense let alone actual knowledge when it comes to the EU is staggering at times.
Heck the UK can't even start negotiating trade deals on it's own before it has left the EU without facing large fines from the EU.
I forgot to mention the third amendment to the Irish constitution was approved 83.1% for to 16.9% against in a referendum on the 10th May 1972 on a turnout of 70.9%. So the Irish people voted heavily for it with a absolute majority of 58.9% of registered voters in favour.
WRONG, WRONG, and WRONG again.
I will point you to the following article on the supremacy of EU law over national law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I will then point you to the third amendment of the Irish constitution, which enshrined this primacy of EU law into the Irish constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The EU has *VERY* strong rules on state aid. The Irish government gave Apple a special tax deal, that was not available to everyone. This has been found to break those state aid rules and is therefore illegal under EU law and as EU law has primacy over Irish law as confirmed by the third amendment to the Irish constitution then it is illegal.
It is amazing the crap people spout about this sort of stuff without the first clue as to what they are talking about.
In fact you pick the worst and run the case to conclusion by which time you have set a precedent. It then becomes easier to bring all the others to book because all the grounds for appeal on technicalities and what the actual EU law/regulations mean have been worked out in case one.
It makes no sense whatsoever to run dozens of similar cases at the same time all appealing over the same technicalities.
They will because once all this is settled and the Irish government has actually collected the back taxes, the EU will promptly fine the Irish government for breaking EU state aid rules, aka special tax breaks are state aid and that is not allowed under the EU rules (this is ruling Apple and Ireland have lost on) and fine them somewhere near the amount of illegal state aid that Ireland gave to Apple in the way of a special tax deal.
Irish and US tax law are in this case both superseded by EU tax law in this case. So that argument is completely irrelevant in this case.
Remember by becoming a member of the EU the Irish agreed that their tax laws would be compliant with EU law. The commission found that Irish tax law was not compliant with EU law and as EU law is supreme Apple and Ireland are in trouble.
Sorry Apple cry me a river that you can't afford decent tax lawyers.
The massive benefit of single mode over multi-mode is is that OM1, OM2, OM3, etc... You get the picture every speed bump and you are running new fibre with multimode. On the other hand that OS1 single mode fibre you installed 20 years ago is still good for everything from 10Mbps to 100Gbps. So while single mode optics are a bit more expensive in the long run not having to rip and replace the fibre every few years is a massive cost/hassle saving in my view. Sure there is OS2 single mode fibre but that only brings lower loss for longer distances to the table, which unless you are doing 10's of km is not a concern.
This is how to do it properly...
http://www.colinfurze.com/bunk...
Something that always sticks in my mind was a break in at a working men's club in the UK late on Christmas Eve many years ago. They got a lot of cash as being Christmas Eve they had not had time to bank it yet.
Nice solidly built brick building so they took a sledgehammer and went *THROUGH* the wall. Probably no harder than a chainsaw in the wall, though I could put a bunch of screws and nails in that would make using a chainsaw painful.
Anyway the take away lesson being, if they *WANT* to get in they *WILL* get in. The trick is to make your place less attractive to break in than somewhere else by making it more hassle.
A phone and an app?
You comment suggests that either you have a phone that does not do NFC or you have a phone that does have NFC but the manufacture thinks the only use for NFC is for payments and won't let anyone else use the NFC feature of the phone but themselves.
Yes. People who work excessive hours become dangerous to the rest of society. They might make a mistake in their job that could kill someone. For example here is a pharmacist that killed someone by working 60 hours a week, which is down right illegal
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-n...
You say someone working in a warehouse is unlikely to kill someone from being over worked. Maybe, but what about say when they are commuting to and from work in a car on public roads. This is what can happen when you fall asleep at the wheel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's 10 people dead, 82 seriously injured and serious disruption to the lives of tens of thousands of people.
Yeah people who work over long hours are in effect sociopaths, who put a potential gain for themselves ahead of potential serious outcomes, and I have no problem of denying them that right. I would also vastly increase the penalties from causing death when overwork was a contributory factor. Minimum 10 years in jail seems appropriate.
No you where told that Brexit was a risk to the economy and could jeopardise the fragile recovery from the financial meltdown of 2008.
The reality is that with our currency down the shitter since Brexit that you will be worse off as a result, probably to the tune of hundreds of pounds a year. For me personally it will be over one thousands pounds by my calculation. Fortunately I am well off enough to be able to manage. The bulk of the morons that voted for it (aka the uneducated just about managing's) will struggle.
As a side note 60 hour weeks would be illegal in the UK, but of course Farage and Johnson both independently wealthy individuals who would not care if everyone was £2000 a year worse off, just so long as they could stick it to the EU, are rubbing their hands at repealing the working time directive.
At this point the recall notice has been out long enough, that if you knowling keep and use a defective Note 7 and it burns your house down Samsung are off the hook. In fact Verizon by refusing to push the update are accepting that liability if any still exists above Samsung.
I note the idea of organic food for vegetarians and vegans, is a complete fantasy, as almost all organic food is fertilised with animal waste from animals that are kept for their meat.
You need to add in the ridiculous licensing on the version of Office shipped with the SurfaceRT (it was Home and Student version so unusable for business) and complete lack of Outlook at launch that basically killed the product.
Sorry but that is currently impossible to test because their are insufficient babies born from IVF that have actually reached adulthood to really analyse that.
I would note that Louise Brown has had two children conceived naturally and her sister Natalie has had four children all conceived naturally. For those ignorant of the facts Louise Brown was the first IVF child in the world and her sister was the fortieth born four years later.
Note that shows the low levels of IVF babies being born in the early years of the technology and why there are too few IVF born adults to really conduct any study into their fertility.
Basically Intel and by extension x86 won in a large part by exploiting a FAB advantage. That FAB advantage is over, and the chip architectures that managed to survive have an opportunity to come back from life support. So the likes of Power, Sparc, MIPS and ARM now have a chance to compete on a level technological playing field with x86.
Coupled with the increasing use of open source which also negates the value of the x86 instruction set lock in then interesting times indeed.
Right you are talking out your backside there on the Sony front, speaking as a Z1 Compact owner, with a sister with a Z3 Compact and her husband with a Z5 Compact.
Basically Sony have been doing waterproof with a 3.5mm jack "something" for decades, and the phones are no different. Everything *before* the Z5 had a cover for the microUSB and a magnetic charging connector.
The Z5 ditched the magnetic charging connector (which is a shame) and introduced a fully waterproof microUSB connector that does not need a cover.
Then after being first to the market with waterproof, they ditched it as everyone else started doing it. Way to go Sony not.
Your assuming the replacement cost is the same as the purchase cost. For almost any IT thing I have ever seen in the last three decades the replacement cost is *ALWAYS* lower than the purchase cost. The idea that a 4k OLED TV will cost the same in 8 years time as it does today is a frankly ludicrous suggestion.
I would love to buy and OLED TV, problem for me is the smallest sized ones are still way to big for my lounge.