I call bullshit. Magstripe cards aren't easily wiped. You really have to use power to wipe them. A phone ain't gonna cut it. The static electricity from your hand is more likely but under normal circumstances that isn't going to do anything either. Just put the card away when you're playing with VandeGraaf generators or Tesla coils.
Plane crashes don't happen (if you apply sane rounding). They just happen to be really well reported in those extremely few cases that fall in the rounding error.
Then you are just wasting the space that would usually be in fragments. Unless I am terribly misinformed modern filesystems figure that out themselves and try to prevent fragmentation in a much better way. Old file systems didn't do that properly so back in the 90's (and beginning 00's for windows) that probably was a good way to work.
The best advice I can give to all. Stop living off credit If you have to buy it on credit, it means you can't fvcken afford it. If you can't buy it cash - Don't buy it
In most cases I agree. There is a caveat though: sometimes it is cheaper in the long run to buy something on credit than the alternative. Example: I just bought an apartment with a mortgage. The alternative was to rent. However, houses are cheap to buy at the moment while renting is slowly going up. After careful calculation it turned out it was cheaper pay the mortgage to the apartment than to rent it.
An XBOX or PlayStation is not in that category. The alternative is free (not buy it) so it can't be cheaper to buy on credit.
Yes you could change the menus in Office. You can still put buttons that you use often on the Quick Acces Toolbar. However I'd be amazed if 2% of the users did that. For most users everything must be available from the menu's and with that requirement the ribbon is far more useful. You'd start complaining too if the toolbars started taking up over 60% of the screen.
For power users like you you can even set everything you want on the QAT and hide the ribbon. One toolbar with only the options you need.
I dislike MS office for a fair few reasons, but now that I work with it the Ribbon isn't one of them anymore.
If you have to lay the cable there isn't much difference in price between a cable that can handle 15 Mbps to each home and a cable that can handle 1 Gbps to each home. The price is really in the laying of the cable.
The companies rightfully aren't going to be jumping at the opportunity to spend $100K to lay a cable that can service 100 homes of which 10% will sign a contract. Getting $10K from a customer takes too long. And those 10% aren't going to pony up the $100K among them either. They'll say "screw it".
You could say the government has to step in. However I disagree. Then all the taxpayers have to pay for those few who choose to live in a location far away from everybody and still wish decent internet.
I say it's one of the prices of living in such a location. Along with occasional smells of nature, sounds of heavy farming equipment, noise of cows and distance to shops. For some those pale in sight of the good stuff: isolation, the opportunity to start a campfire at will, space, nobody cares if you have 100 people over for a party and go on until 6 in the morning, more space and many, many other reasons. I just moved away from such a location. I know the drawbacks as well as the good stuff. Different people different wishes. For us internet is really important. Keeping up to date is important. For many it isn't. You know what I found? They aren't less happy for it. Far from it.
Fiber is useful for last mile even if copper and wireless are last foot. If you are making a last mile connection nowadays you are not going to install copper. You are going to install fiber. Much of the old copper isn't suitable for what today's paying customer wants. Now you could replace it with new copper that can handle the current speed but not the near future speeds or you can replace it with fiber that can handle current and near future speeds. The total price isn't all that different. I am not going to use the max speed of the fiber to my new apartment. Not for years. But I am happy that there is fiber there so the last mile is future proof.
That 60 mbps (megabit per second) is "only" 7.5 mB/s (megabyte per second) is irrelevant. Everybody calculates connection speed in mbps (bit). So does Netflix. Spikes are a problem, but mostly with buffer size. Netflix isn't real time so it should have rather large buffers. There probably is a reason why this isn't so but I don't know it.
Non standard cases like 12 people streaming HD video require non-standard connections. Where is the surprise in that? At most parties I went to people *talked* instead of each watching their own video stream. In some cases a few people watched a single video stream.
Sounds like a nightmare scenario for robbers: any decent software will send all data to the owner (and police) in such an event. Data like images of the robbers, location, images of the cars (with license plates) and which way they went.
Most truck thefts in the Netherlands are done on truck stops. When the driver sleeps. Guess what? An SDC doesn't do that.
They ALREADY put ads on top. They have for years. This is the same. They just check the ads against that list (which doesn't change anything because the illegal content providers don't have the money to pay for the ads.
Now you may argue that the ads are wrong. OK. That is arguable. But that is a different discussion.
The relevant question is not whether the hydro station caused the dam to fail but whether the dam would have been there if without a hydro station. As the goal was both flood control and hydro power I can not say if it was.
How do they stop the service at the borders? Do the sats turn around? They are in polar orbits, so they cover the whole planet. How can that be considered regional?
Google doesn't really change anything. They just check the ads against a supplied list of providers that bought the searched content and won't place an add for a site that hasn't legally got the content. Just like now. The illegal content providers didn't pay for ads anyway. It's genius!
Fusion power would mean solar power is outdated. The area currently used for solar power can then be used for one of the (currently experimental) CO2 to CO and O processes. Combined with splitting water (directly with fusion power) and the Fischer-Tropsch process to convert CO and H to petrol it could give us both petrol for our cars and remove CO2 from the atmosphere. That is, in an ideal world. In practice we have no good method to split water in large quantities (electrodes wear out relatively fast) and none of the CO2 to CO and O processes have been effective at a large scale.
If we use all the deuterium in all the water we'd still have 99.9844% of the water left. Deuterium is that rare. That 60 l of water each year for each person will still be 59.99064 l of water when all the deuterium is out of it. And that is additional to the 4 billion years argument. If we still need energy in 4 billion years we'll be able to harvest helium from the sun and use that as a fuel source with beryllium as a waste product.
Running out of deuterium is not a problem. It really isn't.
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2/pi is the average power in the tidal flow, if we assume it to be a perfect sine. You see, tidal flow varies quite predictably.
I call bullshit. Magstripe cards aren't easily wiped. You really have to use power to wipe them.
A phone ain't gonna cut it. The static electricity from your hand is more likely but under normal circumstances that isn't going to do anything either. Just put the card away when you're playing with VandeGraaf generators or Tesla coils.
Nope. You can turn of BT. You can't turn off the NFC. You can only block it with a RFID blocking wallet, tin foil or something like it.
Disabling it on your phone changes nothing in the communication between your card and the thief's phone.
Plane crashes don't happen (if you apply sane rounding). They just happen to be really well reported in those extremely few cases that fall in the rounding error.
Worry about car crashes instead.
I don't believe you are a printer. You say something else than "PC load letter".
Then you are just wasting the space that would usually be in fragments.
Unless I am terribly misinformed modern filesystems figure that out themselves and try to prevent fragmentation in a much better way. Old file systems didn't do that properly so back in the 90's (and beginning 00's for windows) that probably was a good way to work.
The best advice I can give to all.
Stop living off credit
If you have to buy it on credit, it means you can't fvcken afford it.
If you can't buy it cash - Don't buy it
In most cases I agree. There is a caveat though: sometimes it is cheaper in the long run to buy something on credit than the alternative.
Example: I just bought an apartment with a mortgage. The alternative was to rent. However, houses are cheap to buy at the moment while renting is slowly going up. After careful calculation it turned out it was cheaper pay the mortgage to the apartment than to rent it.
An XBOX or PlayStation is not in that category. The alternative is free (not buy it) so it can't be cheaper to buy on credit.
They ALREADY put ads on top. They have for years.
No shit, Sherlock. Figured that out, did you?
What I haven't figured out yet is why you seem to have that figured out but you still argue like this changes anything. It doesn't.
Except for being crushed into a pancake bit and the deadly deadly amount of X ray radiation bit.
Yes you could change the menus in Office. You can still put buttons that you use often on the Quick Acces Toolbar.
However I'd be amazed if 2% of the users did that.
For most users everything must be available from the menu's and with that requirement the ribbon is far more useful. You'd start complaining too if the toolbars started taking up over 60% of the screen.
For power users like you you can even set everything you want on the QAT and hide the ribbon. One toolbar with only the options you need.
I dislike MS office for a fair few reasons, but now that I work with it the Ribbon isn't one of them anymore.
Ballistic end user management?
Not free. Payed with taxes.
That's a big difference.
If you have to lay the cable there isn't much difference in price between a cable that can handle 15 Mbps to each home and a cable that can handle 1 Gbps to each home.
The price is really in the laying of the cable.
The companies rightfully aren't going to be jumping at the opportunity to spend $100K to lay a cable that can service 100 homes of which 10% will sign a contract. Getting $10K from a customer takes too long.
And those 10% aren't going to pony up the $100K among them either. They'll say "screw it".
You could say the government has to step in. However I disagree. Then all the taxpayers have to pay for those few who choose to live in a location far away from everybody and still wish decent internet.
I say it's one of the prices of living in such a location. Along with occasional smells of nature, sounds of heavy farming equipment, noise of cows and distance to shops.
For some those pale in sight of the good stuff: isolation, the opportunity to start a campfire at will, space, nobody cares if you have 100 people over for a party and go on until 6 in the morning, more space and many, many other reasons.
I just moved away from such a location. I know the drawbacks as well as the good stuff. Different people different wishes.
For us internet is really important. Keeping up to date is important. For many it isn't.
You know what I found? They aren't less happy for it. Far from it.
Fiber is useful for last mile even if copper and wireless are last foot.
If you are making a last mile connection nowadays you are not going to install copper. You are going to install fiber.
Much of the old copper isn't suitable for what today's paying customer wants. Now you could replace it with new copper that can handle the current speed but not the near future speeds or you can replace it with fiber that can handle current and near future speeds. The total price isn't all that different.
I am not going to use the max speed of the fiber to my new apartment. Not for years. But I am happy that there is fiber there so the last mile is future proof.
That 60 mbps (megabit per second) is "only" 7.5 mB/s (megabyte per second) is irrelevant. Everybody calculates connection speed in mbps (bit). So does Netflix.
Spikes are a problem, but mostly with buffer size. Netflix isn't real time so it should have rather large buffers. There probably is a reason why this isn't so but I don't know it.
Non standard cases like 12 people streaming HD video require non-standard connections. Where is the surprise in that?
At most parties I went to people *talked* instead of each watching their own video stream. In some cases a few people watched a single video stream.
Sounds like a nightmare scenario for robbers: any decent software will send all data to the owner (and police) in such an event. Data like images of the robbers, location, images of the cars (with license plates) and which way they went.
Most truck thefts in the Netherlands are done on truck stops. When the driver sleeps. Guess what? An SDC doesn't do that.
They ALREADY put ads on top. They have for years. This is the same. They just check the ads against that list (which doesn't change anything because the illegal content providers don't have the money to pay for the ads.
Now you may argue that the ads are wrong. OK. That is arguable. But that is a different discussion.
That's because that will be there for permanent - 1 day.
The relevant question is not whether the hydro station caused the dam to fail but whether the dam would have been there if without a hydro station.
As the goal was both flood control and hydro power I can not say if it was.
How do they stop the service at the borders? Do the sats turn around?
They are in polar orbits, so they cover the whole planet. How can that be considered regional?
So should dihydrogenmonoxide!
Google doesn't really change anything. They just check the ads against a supplied list of providers that bought the searched content and won't place an add for a site that hasn't legally got the content.
Just like now. The illegal content providers didn't pay for ads anyway.
It's genius!
Yes and no.
Fusion power would mean solar power is outdated. The area currently used for solar power can then be used for one of the (currently experimental) CO2 to CO and O processes. Combined with splitting water (directly with fusion power) and the Fischer-Tropsch process to convert CO and H to petrol it could give us both petrol for our cars and remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
That is, in an ideal world. In practice we have no good method to split water in large quantities (electrodes wear out relatively fast) and none of the CO2 to CO and O processes have been effective at a large scale.
If we use all the deuterium in all the water we'd still have 99.9844% of the water left. Deuterium is that rare.
That 60 l of water each year for each person will still be 59.99064 l of water when all the deuterium is out of it.
And that is additional to the 4 billion years argument. If we still need energy in 4 billion years we'll be able to harvest helium from the sun and use that as a fuel source with beryllium as a waste product.
Running out of deuterium is not a problem. It really isn't.
Of course it's "CORRECT HORSE BATTERY STAPLE". Randall always shouts.