I think plenty of people in the UK at least and I imagine the rest of Europe too are perfectly well aware of what long haul flights mean. Now the US citizens maybe not so much, but please leave us Europeans out thank you very much.
You can do it by scrubbing the CO2 from an enclosed space. They slowly use up the O2 but because the CO2 levels never rise they don't notice the falling O2 levels and hence the urge to breath. They just pass out and then die. Hypoxic hypoxia is I believe the correct medical term.
Yeah I never understood that. They almost all have the physical space to accommodate a full sized SD card and 512GB versions of these have been available for quite sometime and at better GB/$ than microSD too.
That said 256GB of FLAC is a *LOT* of music, we are talking well in excess of 600 albums. I have 282 in just over 100GB and that includes a whole bunch of multi CD compilation albums.
Of course you could just go an change your SSID to end _optout which is what I did, but that was super annoying as every WiFi connected device needed updating.
The problem with this is that most people didn't have a clue what was going on. I know my family members where not impressed at all with Microsoft when I explained why I was changing the SSID on all the hotspots. It was a universal WTF.
The "tech" solution of course is to have a separate SSID for guests that can't access anything on your internal network. Of course most people are not tech savy enough to set that up.
You are assuming falsely that Tridge had entered into some sort of agreement to not reverse engineer the BitKeeper protocol and write an open source client. That was simply not the case so while LM was annoyed that someone was reverse engineering his software Tridge was not breaking any agreements.
Explodes the myth of fat people claiming they don't each too much. Basically the premise of the program is people kept a complete food diary. This was then compared to what they actually ate determined by close surveillance. The result was that in all cases the fat people lied through their fat asses about what they ate to the tune of thousands of calories a day on average.
A bit of Googling tells me that the show is coming (or possibly has already come) to the USA.
No they won't because the energy in the individual infra-red photons is insufficient to raise an electron up the energy levels for it to dissociate itself from the nucleus of the atom. That you think it would shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how this stuff works at the quantum mechanical level.
This is why physicists just laugh when people suggest that mobile phones might cause cancer. They know with absolute certainty that the microwaves are unable to ionize anything. If the physics around this was wrong then you would be unable to read this post, because the whole of the computer and telecoms would not work.
The only way lots of infra-red photons could ionize anything is by raising the thermal energy of the atom to the point where that can cause the electrons to be shed. However you would be dead from the heat long before that happened, and it would not matter one jot what the coherency of the photons where either.
I would argue that the only way to undercut SpaceX is via a Skylon approach and I don't think the technology is available to ULA.
On the other hand the ESA should ditch Ariane 6 before it goes any further and go full in on Skylon/Reaction Engines as the would have access to the technology.
One guesses the 14 days thing is that this is when gastrulation occurs. That is the point in which the developing bundle of cells reorganizes itself into three layers of cells and is no longer able to split into two or more groups and make twins, triplets etc.
As such it is not the arbitrary point in time that a lot of commentators are presuming it is.
The percentage of "Choicers" who punt it to nine months is so vanishing small it's not worth talking about. Most reasonable and rational people who believe in choice thats like 99.9999% of them put the end of "choice" where the foetus is able to survive independently of the mother.
I would point out from an evolutionary perspective being domesticated by humans even if these means being killed for consumption is a massive and I mean massive win. There is no more successful strategy in existence. If humans where to stop eating animals then billions of animals and hundreds of breads would disappear forever.
Just buy a brand new modern motherboard with ISA slot then. Just because they are not for sale at NewEgg does not mean they are not being produced. Yes they are more expensive than a standard motherboard but they exist.
The other option is a PCI to ISA bridge card which will do the job just as well. I imagined that PCIe to ISA bridge cards will appear in the not too distant future as well.
If you have a $ million+ piece of equipment that uses an ISA slot for the computer control you don't just replace the equipment because the PC is knackered.
I call bull shit on that. Both my nieces have Kindle Fires as do I and you just set them up an Amazon account with *NO* attached credit card. Put parent protection on the device so no purchases can be made with out parental consent. If you do want to make a purchase then you just load the childs Amazon account up with a gift voucher. You could also allow in app purchases if you want, because they are limited to what has been preloaded into their account.
You then give the Kindle Fire or Fire tablet as they like to call them now to the child and job is a good one. The current 7" Fire tablet is sufficiently cheap that the majority of people can afford one per child.
I am really at a total loss as to how people get caught out here. Why anyone would ever attach a credit card to a childs Amazon account is completely unfathomable to me.
Add in that every Android device I have ever owned has been able to talk ActiveSync to an Exchange server in like forever via the standard Mail app it is even less useful.
The headline makes it sound like you have not been able to connect to an Exchange server previously.
It's not a cherry picked version, and dictionary.com *DOES* not apply to legal definitions.
English common law has centuries of precidence that you only steal something if you "have the intention to permanently deprive". As you cannot permanently deprive someone of a copy of piece of software by making a copy it is not legally theft, and never will be. That's why it is under a whole bunch of different statutes and is called "copyright infringement". You will never see a competent lawyer file a court action claiming theft for an unauthorised copy of something under copyright.
At this juncture I would point out that Eagle is good enough for the mind blowingly impressive amplifiers used in LIGO. That is they have linearity and noise figures several orders of magnitude better than anything you can buy commercially. (They where designed and built in the Physics department where I work and the workshop uses Eagle for all it's EDA work).
The point being that Eagle is clearly good enough for cutting edge EDA work. Personally I dropped Eagle for KiCad a while back for my hobby work as KiCad was good enough and a lot cheaper.
Really I would say the whole hearing aid industry is due to go down the toilet the moment they perfect cochlear hair cell regeneration. I would say 10 years max.
In a similar vein the denture industry is facing extinction the moment they perfect tooth regeneration in humans. Though I predict this will mean a boom for dentists the moment you can have more than one set of adult teeth.
That is because currently there is no market for the extra lithium. No sane person is going to mine stuff that there is no market for. There is more than enough *KNOWN* reserves of lithium to make one billion 40kWh batteries.
Oh and for good measure there is an estimated 230 billion tonnes of the stuff in sea water. Given that the current price of lithium is not a major factor in the end price of Li batteries (I think like 6US per kg for the lithium and well over 100USD per kg for the finished product) and figures of 20USD per kg for it being extracted from the sea being floated about any shortage of supply would only be short term.
Given in the UK that it is a legal requirement to retain the last seven years of financial records in case HMRC decides to do a tax inspection, and I imagine that most countries are the same.
Also in the higher education sector (where I work) all research data has to be keep for at least 10 years. Again I imagine most sane countries are also the same.
In addition law firms have requirements for retention of documents that go well beyond two years. There is good reason why documents going back decades could be appropriated from Mossack Fonseca.
I would point out that nobody has *EVER* been prosecuted in the UK for ripping a CD they own. In fact as the only losses anyone bring a case could *EVER* get in these circumstances is *ACTUAL* losses which are a big fat *ZERO* it is not hard to understand while it is technically illegal, it is for all intense and purposes (I want to use the word practical here but it has special meaning in a legal context) legal.
See my other post for the very narrow ruling the music industry got on the law change and why it was a pointless waste of their time, as the minister will just come back and get his way.
In the UK ripping CD is illegal because there is no "fair use" exception in UK copyright law, so any rip of a CD is by default an unauthorised copy and thus illegal.
The government after a consultation decided this was silly, everyone was ripping CD's to MP3 and nobody had ever been prosecuted for doing so by a copyright holder.
Where it all went unstuck revolves around the method they used to make a change to the law. They used something called a Statutory Instrument.
This is secondary legislation (aka not voted for in the Houses of Parliament). The music industry challenged the SI on the basis that the government had not followed proper procedure in making the SI, and go a super narrow judgement. Specifically the minister had failed to consider whether allowing people to rip CD's to MP3 legally would encourage illegal ripping.
The relevant minister has a number of options now. They could appeal the decision, they could take into account whether legally ripping CD's would encourage illegal ripping and come to the conclusion it does not and reimpose the SI, or he could introduce primary legislation with a vote in the house, which is basically impossible at this point for the music industry to challenge.
My guess is that option two is the approach being taken. Just takes a bit of time to commission a study to prove the music industries scaremongering is groundless.
That's todays lesson in the UK constitution for you.
Amazon has generally not being paying much tax because it reinvests much if not all of it's profits back into the business to grow it. Nothing even morally wrong about reinvesting "profits" back into the business and thus not paying tax on them. Governments in general even encourage this behaviour.
What is odd about Amazon is that they have been doing this now for 20 years.
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I think plenty of people in the UK at least and I imagine the rest of Europe too are perfectly well aware of what long haul flights mean. Now the US citizens maybe not so much, but please leave us Europeans out thank you very much.
You can do it by scrubbing the CO2 from an enclosed space. They slowly use up the O2 but because the CO2 levels never rise they don't notice the falling O2 levels and hence the urge to breath. They just pass out and then die. Hypoxic hypoxia is I believe the correct medical term.
Yeah I never understood that. They almost all have the physical space to accommodate a full sized SD card and 512GB versions of these have been available for quite sometime and at better GB/$ than microSD too.
That said 256GB of FLAC is a *LOT* of music, we are talking well in excess of 600 albums. I have 282 in just over 100GB and that includes a whole bunch of multi CD compilation albums.
Of course you could just go an change your SSID to end _optout which is what I did, but that was super annoying as every WiFi connected device needed updating.
The problem with this is that most people didn't have a clue what was going on. I know my family members where not impressed at all with Microsoft when I explained why I was changing the SSID on all the hotspots. It was a universal WTF.
The "tech" solution of course is to have a separate SSID for guests that can't access anything on your internal network. Of course most people are not tech savy enough to set that up.
You are assuming falsely that Tridge had entered into some sort of agreement to not reverse engineer the BitKeeper protocol and write an open source client. That was simply not the case so while LM was annoyed that someone was reverse engineering his software Tridge was not breaking any agreements.
There was a program on Channel 4 here in the UK a while back called "Secret Eaters"
http://www.channel4.com/progra...
Explodes the myth of fat people claiming they don't each too much. Basically the premise of the program is people kept a complete food diary. This was then compared to what they actually ate determined by close surveillance. The result was that in all cases the fat people lied through their fat asses about what they ate to the tune of thousands of calories a day on average.
A bit of Googling tells me that the show is coming (or possibly has already come) to the USA.
No they won't because the energy in the individual infra-red photons is insufficient to raise an electron up the energy levels for it to dissociate itself from the nucleus of the atom. That you think it would shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how this stuff works at the quantum mechanical level.
This is why physicists just laugh when people suggest that mobile phones might cause cancer. They know with absolute certainty that the microwaves are unable to ionize anything. If the physics around this was wrong then you would be unable to read this post, because the whole of the computer and telecoms would not work.
The only way lots of infra-red photons could ionize anything is by raising the thermal energy of the atom to the point where that can cause the electrons to be shed. However you would be dead from the heat long before that happened, and it would not matter one jot what the coherency of the photons where either.
I would argue that the only way to undercut SpaceX is via a Skylon approach and I don't think the technology is available to ULA.
On the other hand the ESA should ditch Ariane 6 before it goes any further and go full in on Skylon/Reaction Engines as the would have access to the technology.
One guesses the 14 days thing is that this is when gastrulation occurs. That is the point in which the developing bundle of cells reorganizes itself into three layers of cells and is no longer able to split into two or more groups and make twins, triplets etc.
As such it is not the arbitrary point in time that a lot of commentators are presuming it is.
The percentage of "Choicers" who punt it to nine months is so vanishing small it's not worth talking about. Most reasonable and rational people who believe in choice thats like 99.9999% of them put the end of "choice" where the foetus is able to survive independently of the mother.
I would point out from an evolutionary perspective being domesticated by humans even if these means being killed for consumption is a massive and I mean massive win. There is no more successful strategy in existence. If humans where to stop eating animals then billions of animals and hundreds of breads would disappear forever.
Just buy a brand new modern motherboard with ISA slot then. Just because they are not for sale at NewEgg does not mean they are not being produced. Yes they are more expensive than a standard motherboard but they exist.
The other option is a PCI to ISA bridge card which will do the job just as well. I imagined that PCIe to ISA bridge cards will appear in the not too distant future as well.
If you have a $ million+ piece of equipment that uses an ISA slot for the computer control you don't just replace the equipment because the PC is knackered.
I call bull shit on that. Both my nieces have Kindle Fires as do I and you just set them up an Amazon account with *NO* attached credit card. Put parent protection on the device so no purchases can be made with out parental consent. If you do want to make a purchase then you just load the childs Amazon account up with a gift voucher. You could also allow in app purchases if you want, because they are limited to what has been preloaded into their account.
You then give the Kindle Fire or Fire tablet as they like to call them now to the child and job is a good one. The current 7" Fire tablet is sufficiently cheap that the majority of people can afford one per child.
I am really at a total loss as to how people get caught out here. Why anyone would ever attach a credit card to a childs Amazon account is completely unfathomable to me.
Add in that every Android device I have ever owned has been able to talk ActiveSync to an Exchange server in like forever via the standard Mail app it is even less useful.
The headline makes it sound like you have not been able to connect to an Exchange server previously.
It's not a cherry picked version, and dictionary.com *DOES* not apply to legal definitions.
English common law has centuries of precidence that you only steal something if you "have the intention to permanently deprive". As you cannot permanently deprive someone of a copy of piece of software by making a copy it is not legally theft, and never will be. That's why it is under a whole bunch of different statutes and is called "copyright infringement". You will never see a competent lawyer file a court action claiming theft for an unauthorised copy of something under copyright.
At this juncture I would point out that Eagle is good enough for the mind blowingly impressive amplifiers used in LIGO. That is they have linearity and noise figures several orders of magnitude better than anything you can buy commercially. (They where designed and built in the Physics department where I work and the workshop uses Eagle for all it's EDA work).
The point being that Eagle is clearly good enough for cutting edge EDA work. Personally I dropped Eagle for KiCad a while back for my hobby work as KiCad was good enough and a lot cheaper.
Except the MP3 player market has all but evaporated in recent years, with the vast majority of people just using their smartphone for the task.
Really I would say the whole hearing aid industry is due to go down the toilet the moment they perfect cochlear hair cell regeneration. I would say 10 years max.
In a similar vein the denture industry is facing extinction the moment they perfect tooth regeneration in humans. Though I predict this will mean a boom for dentists the moment you can have more than one set of adult teeth.
That is because currently there is no market for the extra lithium. No sane person is going to mine stuff that there is no market for. There is more than enough *KNOWN* reserves of lithium to make one billion 40kWh batteries.
Oh and for good measure there is an estimated 230 billion tonnes of the stuff in sea water. Given that the current price of lithium is not a major factor in the end price of Li batteries (I think like 6US per kg for the lithium and well over 100USD per kg for the finished product) and figures of 20USD per kg for it being extracted from the sea being floated about any shortage of supply would only be short term.
That must be why the Amazon App store is empty then?
Given in the UK that it is a legal requirement to retain the last seven years of financial records in case HMRC decides to do a tax inspection, and I imagine that most countries are the same.
Also in the higher education sector (where I work) all research data has to be keep for at least 10 years. Again I imagine most sane countries are also the same.
In addition law firms have requirements for retention of documents that go well beyond two years. There is good reason why documents going back decades could be appropriated from Mossack Fonseca.
I would point out that nobody has *EVER* been prosecuted in the UK for ripping a CD they own. In fact as the only losses anyone bring a case could *EVER* get in these circumstances is *ACTUAL* losses which are a big fat *ZERO* it is not hard to understand while it is technically illegal, it is for all intense and purposes (I want to use the word practical here but it has special meaning in a legal context) legal.
See my other post for the very narrow ruling the music industry got on the law change and why it was a pointless waste of their time, as the minister will just come back and get his way.
In the UK ripping CD is illegal because there is no "fair use" exception in UK copyright law, so any rip of a CD is by default an unauthorised copy and thus illegal.
The government after a consultation decided this was silly, everyone was ripping CD's to MP3 and nobody had ever been prosecuted for doing so by a copyright holder.
Where it all went unstuck revolves around the method they used to make a change to the law. They used something called a Statutory Instrument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is secondary legislation (aka not voted for in the Houses of Parliament). The music industry challenged the SI on the basis that the government had not followed proper procedure in making the SI, and go a super narrow judgement. Specifically the minister had failed to consider whether allowing people to rip CD's to MP3 legally would encourage illegal ripping.
The relevant minister has a number of options now. They could appeal the decision, they could take into account whether legally ripping CD's would encourage illegal ripping and come to the conclusion it does not and reimpose the SI, or he could introduce primary legislation with a vote in the house, which is basically impossible at this point for the music industry to challenge.
My guess is that option two is the approach being taken. Just takes a bit of time to commission a study to prove the music industries scaremongering is groundless.
That's todays lesson in the UK constitution for you.
Yeah I always wondered about that. I would have thought that the "right to a family" life in the ECHR would trump that French law.
That said I think the French law is the exception rather than the rule in Europe.
Amazon has generally not being paying much tax because it reinvests much if not all of it's profits back into the business to grow it. Nothing even morally wrong about reinvesting "profits" back into the business and thus not paying tax on them. Governments in general even encourage this behaviour.
What is odd about Amazon is that they have been doing this now for 20 years.