The "more GB downloaded than reported" I can not answer. It might be a bug in the reporting software. The "I was on vacation and the ISP claims that I downloaded X GB which is unlikely" is most probably an insecure network component that has been accessed. Some people still do not know that you should use encryption, preferably WPA or better. The ISP should have provided a router that was preconfigured with WPA (and a long password, generated for that device, printed on a sticker on the back) but the user is also to blame.
There are resin based replacements in development to solve that problem too. It would often still need a thin waterproofing application so the product doesn't rot while in use. When the product is shredded for biodegradation that thin layer is only a small problem.
Really???? His hyperloop idea is just bolloks. It would work, if that highway didn't make any turns. However, it does so the passengers would get really damaged at those proposed speeds.
They are recycled. That's a main part of the plan. When you have a new one installed the old one is send back to the factory. Aluminium-air batteries aren't all that toxic. The main problem is that they are single use only. However, for the once or twice a year 300+ km trip that is not a problem. You add them to your current car if you have a longer trip that the normal battery can't do.
Are the insides of a gun exposed to temperatures above 60 C (140F)? Then normal epoxy won't hold and the sand comes out the barrel with the gun. Sand/epoxy printing seems to me to be a high strength relatively low temperature product. Like you need for a press for steel. For guns they'd use their laser sintered metal 3d printer. Laser sintered metal is sort of like cast iron: heat resistant but brittle. So it won't hold up to many shots.
In MS Excel 2003 and 2013 ctrl-T is your friend when debugging a couple of thousands of cells with formulas. It also indicates what cells have formulas and what cells have values.
Having said that, I am busy trying to convince my boss to have a massive pain in the ass excel working document with dozens of macros and a thousands of rows converted to a relational database. Excel is useful, but people often exceed it's limits.
No thanks. If I have the choice I don't want to share the road with cars who depend on the reaction speed of humans when shit happens. It has been proven over and over again that humans are not good in those situations.
I don't know. The arguments are strong. There is no way that a normal e-reader is going to be approved. The damn things give way to many hints as to the location of the ship. However, sailors like to read as much as the next man. Paper books cost a lot of space so you prefer not to have those on board. So you'll have to design a specific, crippled e-reader anyway. Why not make it as safe as possible? Ok, it should include far more books (say, the top 1000 sold books at the moment + the Gutenberg library (including the Koran)+ of course the anarchists cookbook:P) but the non-updatable feature is not strange IMHO. It's overly safe, perhaps, but who wants to take risks with the location of a ship in the fleet? A ship is prime ter'rist target if you ask me!
There are many factors in obesity. 1. The greatest is willpower. Pure, sheer wilpower. The willpower to eat less, the willpower to exercise. 2. Luck. I happen to have the luck to be able to sleep with a mostly empty stomach. It is surprising how much that helps. I also have the luck that I like biking and live in the Netherlands, where almost everybody bikes. Some people have the bad luck to have a body that gains easy and looses difficultly. 3. Food. I do not mean quantity, that's covered in 1. I mean types. There seems to be some indication that some types of food set the body to gain weight. How that works exactly is not yet known as far as I know. Apparently I don't eat much of them, or I compensate for it sufficiently. 4 and onwards are unknown to me. However, due to the complexity I expect them to be there.
I am 1m96 and weigh 95 kg. My ideal weight according to my doctor would be 88kg. I have dropped from 106kg in 6 months. That was easy, I halved my portion size and upped my bicycling distance significantly.
That's nothing. Here in the Netherlands we have "roundabouts" that have no right of way on the round going road... *glares at Nijmegen*
And we have many roundabouts with traffic lights. If the roundabout gets sufficiently heavy traffic then lights are default. Once you get used tot it it is actually better than no traffic lights.
It is an advantage that the soil loses it's nickel. For most life that stuff is toxic. Just deep plow the soil each couple of years after harvest to get the top 1m about equally. After a couple of decades the nickel will have left the upper 1m of soil. Remove 80 cm of it and continue. After 3 cycles you can return the upper layers so you can let forests grow there. No deep rooted trees, because those go deeper than 2.4m, but some species should fare quite well.
You guys do realize you're just trying to describe what exists, right? You can't just mess with the sample size, get different results, and call that good.
Nope, but if you have a metric with a high standard deviation you can eliminate the noise caused by the standard deviation by having a large sample size. There are some fancy statistical rules that tell you what size of effects you can detect with 99+% certainty with a given standard deviation and a sample size but I haven't done these kinds of statistical analysis in a few years so I can't remember exactly.
To true. Cycling is sadly not a cure for idiocy. Many seem to thing fashion is more important than being seen and those high vis jackets aren't really fashionable. Especially in the winter when it is often dark the fashion seems to favor grey and black. Worst choices ever on a bike. I prefer my fluorescent yellow jacket with reflector stripes, thank you very much. Even in the Netherlands where car drivers tend expect bicyclists many are not seen until it is too late. In my case (good light + high vis jacket) that wouldn't be my own fault.
Due to many flaws in our visual system we tend to miss things. Even if they are brightly colored. Have you ever seen the clip where you have to count how many times the ball is thrown? That clip is about one of the flaws. However there are many more. For example: * When you move fast (optically) your visual cortex can't process everything. It lowers the processing of parts of your vision that are not in the middle of the view (things that are directly ahead of you). If a truck comes at you at a 90 degree angle it will be seen because it is huge. A car, motorcycle or bike isn't as big and will often not be seen. * When you turn your eyes or head you can't see anything due to motion blurr during the actual turning. The eye corrects for this by stopping the turning (or correcting it if you turn your head) every once in a while, look and continue turning. During that looking it only processes the part of the image directly the middle of your view. The rest isn't processed in detail or isn't processed at all. Now if you move too fast this means the steps are quite big and there is a gap between the "middle of view" points. A velociraptor could be hiding there and you wouldn't be able to see it.
Cats aren't pets. Cat "owners" are pets. That is why cat "owners" claim cats can't be taught not to defecate in other people's gardens or taught not to tear up garbage bags. Luckily I like big dogs. Big dogs tend to keep cats out of gardens. They can be taught not to exit that garden (although it can be difficult).
This is an extreme case. It doesn't happen often. Biking is still safer than not exercising enough. From the manufacturers POV the car should always try to protect it's owner best as possible. I am an avid cyclist, but autonomous cars should protect their drivers. They will already be far safer for cyclists because they are not drinking coffee, making a phonecall, checking facebook, drunk or whatever.
Yes I own an Android phone. Yes it is set up to only allow updating over wifi. That doesn't change the fact that the only apps that I have to manually update are apps that need additional rights. Thus the only apps I see updating are apps that require additional rights. Thus I concluded that Tasha26 would probably only see app updates that require pointless extra right because the only app update (s)he sees are app updates that require extra rights (while all the core functionality rights are already granted before installing, else it wouldn't have worked). Disallow auto update is beside the point. Most updates are benign. If they do not ask for new rights I have already assumed that they fully abuse the rights I give them. I chose to install it anyway because I need the functionality. Nothing changes with an update that needs no additional rights.
As long as it is legal the rights, once granted, will be very difficult to retract. And that is as it should be. If I get a building permit and the building permit is retracted halfway the build I am royally screwed. Retracting things that are legal is difficult. Like it or not, Comcast invested a lot of money in the cables. It shouldn't be easy for a city council to remove that.
What the city council should be able to do is demand a split, as Arker suggested.
Note: What I feel that should and shouldn't be possible may not align with what is or isn't possible or even what the city council feels should be possible. Also I am not an US citizen so the results of any regulation over there doesn't affect me much. However, I can choose any of about a dozen ISP's and the competition is nice. I choose an ISP that really holds customer satisfaction in high regard (xs4all). I pay a tad more each month but they fight anti-net neutrality laws and the few helpdesk calls I need are short, helpfull and to the point. No script, they listen to what I want to ask and fix it.
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The "more GB downloaded than reported" I can not answer. It might be a bug in the reporting software.
The "I was on vacation and the ISP claims that I downloaded X GB which is unlikely" is most probably an insecure network component that has been accessed. Some people still do not know that you should use encryption, preferably WPA or better. The ISP should have provided a router that was preconfigured with WPA (and a long password, generated for that device, printed on a sticker on the back) but the user is also to blame.
There are resin based replacements in development to solve that problem too.
It would often still need a thin waterproofing application so the product doesn't rot while in use. When the product is shredded for biodegradation that thin layer is only a small problem.
Really???? His hyperloop idea is just bolloks. It would work, if that highway didn't make any turns. However, it does so the passengers would get really damaged at those proposed speeds.
They are recycled. That's a main part of the plan. When you have a new one installed the old one is send back to the factory.
Aluminium-air batteries aren't all that toxic. The main problem is that they are single use only. However, for the once or twice a year 300+ km trip that is not a problem. You add them to your current car if you have a longer trip that the normal battery can't do.
shht, let him shoot himself in the foot.
Are the insides of a gun exposed to temperatures above 60 C (140F)? Then normal epoxy won't hold and the sand comes out the barrel with the gun.
Sand/epoxy printing seems to me to be a high strength relatively low temperature product. Like you need for a press for steel.
For guns they'd use their laser sintered metal 3d printer. Laser sintered metal is sort of like cast iron: heat resistant but brittle. So it won't hold up to many shots.
If the disk is damned then I'd prefer streaming.
I hesitate to google that at work, but I am sure it has been done.
Making electrons is difficult. Luckily it's usually sufficient to move the exiting ones around.
You are right though. It takes a lot of electrons to run a particle accelerator so you can make electrons.
I have done code review on spreadsheets, even when showing formulas with ctrl-t it sucks. But it can be done.
In MS Excel 2003 and 2013 ctrl-T is your friend when debugging a couple of thousands of cells with formulas. It also indicates what cells have formulas and what cells have values.
Having said that, I am busy trying to convince my boss to have a massive pain in the ass excel working document with dozens of macros and a thousands of rows converted to a relational database.
Excel is useful, but people often exceed it's limits.
No thanks. If I have the choice I don't want to share the road with cars who depend on the reaction speed of humans when shit happens. It has been proven over and over again that humans are not good in those situations.
Have you ever handled balsa? Splinters are not an issue if the hardness is insufficient to break the skin.
You'd risk tearing the breaks apart during the top of the 1000 mph run, purely due to centrifugal force.
I don't know. The arguments are strong. :P) but the non-updatable feature is not strange IMHO. It's overly safe, perhaps, but who wants to take risks with the location of a ship in the fleet? A ship is prime ter'rist target if you ask me!
There is no way that a normal e-reader is going to be approved. The damn things give way to many hints as to the location of the ship.
However, sailors like to read as much as the next man. Paper books cost a lot of space so you prefer not to have those on board.
So you'll have to design a specific, crippled e-reader anyway. Why not make it as safe as possible?
Ok, it should include far more books (say, the top 1000 sold books at the moment + the Gutenberg library (including the Koran)+ of course the anarchists cookbook
There are many factors in obesity.
1. The greatest is willpower. Pure, sheer wilpower. The willpower to eat less, the willpower to exercise.
2. Luck. I happen to have the luck to be able to sleep with a mostly empty stomach. It is surprising how much that helps. I also have the luck that I like biking and live in the Netherlands, where almost everybody bikes. Some people have the bad luck to have a body that gains easy and looses difficultly.
3. Food. I do not mean quantity, that's covered in 1. I mean types. There seems to be some indication that some types of food set the body to gain weight. How that works exactly is not yet known as far as I know. Apparently I don't eat much of them, or I compensate for it sufficiently.
4 and onwards are unknown to me. However, due to the complexity I expect them to be there.
I am 1m96 and weigh 95 kg. My ideal weight according to my doctor would be 88kg. I have dropped from 106kg in 6 months. That was easy, I halved my portion size and upped my bicycling distance significantly.
That's nothing. Here in the Netherlands we have "roundabouts" that have no right of way on the round going road... *glares at Nijmegen*
And we have many roundabouts with traffic lights. If the roundabout gets sufficiently heavy traffic then lights are default. Once you get used tot it it is actually better than no traffic lights.
It is an advantage that the soil loses it's nickel. For most life that stuff is toxic.
Just deep plow the soil each couple of years after harvest to get the top 1m about equally. After a couple of decades the nickel will have left the upper 1m of soil. Remove 80 cm of it and continue. After 3 cycles you can return the upper layers so you can let forests grow there. No deep rooted trees, because those go deeper than 2.4m, but some species should fare quite well.
You guys do realize you're just trying to describe what exists, right? You can't just mess with the sample size, get different results, and call that good.
Nope, but if you have a metric with a high standard deviation you can eliminate the noise caused by the standard deviation by having a large sample size. There are some fancy statistical rules that tell you what size of effects you can detect with 99+% certainty with a given standard deviation and a sample size but I haven't done these kinds of statistical analysis in a few years so I can't remember exactly.
Nope. Sample size can correct for that. A large enough test group can find differences within your standard deviation.
To true. Cycling is sadly not a cure for idiocy.
Many seem to thing fashion is more important than being seen and those high vis jackets aren't really fashionable.
Especially in the winter when it is often dark the fashion seems to favor grey and black. Worst choices ever on a bike.
I prefer my fluorescent yellow jacket with reflector stripes, thank you very much. Even in the Netherlands where car drivers tend expect bicyclists many are not seen until it is too late. In my case (good light + high vis jacket) that wouldn't be my own fault.
Due to many flaws in our visual system we tend to miss things. Even if they are brightly colored.
Have you ever seen the clip where you have to count how many times the ball is thrown? That clip is about one of the flaws.
However there are many more. For example:
* When you move fast (optically) your visual cortex can't process everything. It lowers the processing of parts of your vision that are not in the middle of the view (things that are directly ahead of you). If a truck comes at you at a 90 degree angle it will be seen because it is huge. A car, motorcycle or bike isn't as big and will often not be seen.
* When you turn your eyes or head you can't see anything due to motion blurr during the actual turning. The eye corrects for this by stopping the turning (or correcting it if you turn your head) every once in a while, look and continue turning. During that looking it only processes the part of the image directly the middle of your view. The rest isn't processed in detail or isn't processed at all.
Now if you move too fast this means the steps are quite big and there is a gap between the "middle of view" points. A velociraptor could be hiding there and you wouldn't be able to see it.
And many, many more.
Cats aren't pets. Cat "owners" are pets. That is why cat "owners" claim cats can't be taught not to defecate in other people's gardens or taught not to tear up garbage bags.
Luckily I like big dogs. Big dogs tend to keep cats out of gardens. They can be taught not to exit that garden (although it can be difficult).
This is an extreme case. It doesn't happen often.
Biking is still safer than not exercising enough.
From the manufacturers POV the car should always try to protect it's owner best as possible. I am an avid cyclist, but autonomous cars should protect their drivers.
They will already be far safer for cyclists because they are not drinking coffee, making a phonecall, checking facebook, drunk or whatever.
Yes I own an Android phone. Yes it is set up to only allow updating over wifi.
That doesn't change the fact that the only apps that I have to manually update are apps that need additional rights. Thus the only apps I see updating are apps that require additional rights.
Thus I concluded that Tasha26 would probably only see app updates that require pointless extra right because the only app update (s)he sees are app updates that require extra rights (while all the core functionality rights are already granted before installing, else it wouldn't have worked).
Disallow auto update is beside the point. Most updates are benign. If they do not ask for new rights I have already assumed that they fully abuse the rights I give them. I chose to install it anyway because I need the functionality. Nothing changes with an update that needs no additional rights.
As long as it is legal the rights, once granted, will be very difficult to retract.
And that is as it should be. If I get a building permit and the building permit is retracted halfway the build I am royally screwed. Retracting things that are legal is difficult.
Like it or not, Comcast invested a lot of money in the cables. It shouldn't be easy for a city council to remove that.
What the city council should be able to do is demand a split, as Arker suggested.
Note: What I feel that should and shouldn't be possible may not align with what is or isn't possible or even what the city council feels should be possible.
Also I am not an US citizen so the results of any regulation over there doesn't affect me much. However, I can choose any of about a dozen ISP's and the competition is nice. I choose an ISP that really holds customer satisfaction in high regard (xs4all). I pay a tad more each month but they fight anti-net neutrality laws and the few helpdesk calls I need are short, helpfull and to the point. No script, they listen to what I want to ask and fix it.