I've kept my phone and iPad on iOS 10 because I haven't seen any reason to upgrade them. The other week I changed mobile carriers and I had to update my iPhone to the latest release and I haven't seen a positive thing about the move other than having my phone work with the new carrier. I have a 5s because that size of phone suits my needs. I'm sure that there are a number of security fixes in there that are good too.
Lately I've been seeing a number of apps requiring iOS 11 or even 12. These are apps that are fairly basic and don't do anything out of the ordinary.
Thankfully there are still some developers like you out there that still are willing to take the extra time to craft their products and actually care for their users. Please don't stop.
Don't blame the contractors, blame the people aren't specific in what they want. I've seen plenty of times when users, clients, managers, etc ask a developer and/or contractor to make them something and use a couple of words thinking the other person knows their domain and needs exactly.
It's like I asked you to build me a chair for $1000. You could go all out and build a power reclining, leather clad chair with cup holders, heating and a whole bunch of other neat features. Or you could nail two shipping palettes a right angles and toss in a couple of cushions, call it a day knowing that you'll get paid the same amount, and look for some other work. Probably you'll do something in the middle.
You would need thousands of rocket launches to get rid of all of the waste. It's not just spent fuel and material for warheads. It's everything that those things have been closely exposed to. Research material, containers, reactor vessels, and a whole lot more.
The consider that between 0.1% and 1% (closer to the 1%) of launches end up in failure. Even in the best case you are looking at multiple explosions with highly radioactive material but most likely in the 10's.
So they'll throw a bunch of adds that the people wanting free tickets will have to watch. I bet that will be before the set of ads that is normally played because the theatres aren't going to give up that revenue, especially in the first couple of weeks a movie plays when they get almost nothing (~10%) of ticket sales. Then there's the 15 to 20 minutes of trailers that show us the only good parts of movies that will be on a year from now and if we're lucky those scenes will actually be in the movie.
And if we buy the movie for home use we're stuck not being able to skip past through the FBI and anti-piracy warnings and sometimes even the trailers too. Wonderful if you are watching a ten year old movie on DVD and want to see trailers for movies that came out even before then.
Then they break up the streaming sites into almost 20 sites by the time Disney and all the new ones get introduced. Each one with it's own unique content so you have to subscribe to a whole bunch of them to get what you want. Just like cable and having to get a bunch of packages leaving you with a huge bill every month.
And the corporate big wigs wonder why people turned to downloading content./rant
No different than some of the other stuff that go on there or in other democracies. The Land of the Free isn't so free anymore in case you haven't been paying attention. Neither is the rest of the free world in case you think I'm picking on the US.
The main problem with antibiotics isn't that we can't make new ones. It's still very hard to create new ones and see them through all the trials. The real problem is that the drug companies don't want to spend the money to do so because there isn't the money in it. Any new antibiotics are going to be used so sparingly that there won't be profits in them even when they will cost a fortune to use.
Even if they came up with an everyday antibiotic most people would take it for a week or two and then stop it. And if they managed to capture all of the common antibiotic use it would seem to be a huge market but people have to stop taking it for cases that are unnecessary. The real market for everyday antibiotic use is under 10% of the current usage.
I got that from a program from the UK I saw in which an infectious disease specialist went into an ordinary practice (office with multiple family doctors) and tried to get people to stop taking antibiotics when they weren't needed. If they insisted even after he spent the extra time explaining why they didn't need them he gave them a prescription. On his first day he managed to get a couple people out of around 30 to change their mind. He had much better luck when he brought in a machine to determine if the cause of the patients condition was a virus or bacteria. But the test took time and money that the practice wouldn't get reimbursed for.
Even now when people are demanding antibiotics unnecessarily the big Pharma companies don't see financial sense for bringing through new antibiotics that university researchers are finding, and they are finding them. I can't see how the companies will ever want to make antibiotics if society can get the message across to only take antibiotics when you absolutely need to. Governments are going to have to get together and create a fund to make sure that we have antibiotics in the future.
When a ship hails another they open an audio and possibly a video feed to the other ship giving the standard information of who they are. The captain of the hailed ship then says whether or not to display the video when they reply. There are plenty of times that they make the other ship, or they make the "good guys", wait.
It's the standard thing that you get when you video call someone today. They see who is calling and can choose when to view your camera.
You use different colours of crystal to separate them of course. Reports to the Captain are clear. Centauri porn are blue Recordings from Commander Ivanova's quarters are green
Even turning the ringer off wouldn't stop calls coming in. You would have to turn the sound off and put it into airplane mode but you would still get alerts in vibration mode.
The best thing to do is to turn everything off. If something important enough to interrupt an interview like that a CEO of a big company would have someone with them or would have someone who knows how to get in touch with them while their phone was off.
Larger computers allow models to be run faster so you can repeat more runs to see what the probable impacts the model predicts. They also allow finer scale detail in the model and the modellers to add new variables to the model. The amount of exponentially goes up massively if you are mapping the climate and you decrease the size of your grid element (a block where weather conditions are the same). New data is coming in from the field all of the time and our understanding how systems work is always improving. With better computers more variables may be added to a model to make it more accurate. Those variables may have used up too much computer time on the older systems.
I'm not ruling out that there's some national pride at work and the awarding of the contract to a specific company might not have helped out someone.
Counting the emissions during the production of the solar panel but ignoring the emissions of building the nuclear plant is dishonest. The construction of the nuclear plant requires a massive amount of concrete and steel, both of which output large values of CO2.
If you are connected to a physical switch, such as a Centrix or POTS (Plain Old Telephone Switch), then the phone number comes from the line card. When a line is configured the phone number is assigned at that time
I spent a number of years working on an application that interfaced with Centrix switches. It allowed the users to make changes without having to log onto the switch directly and learn the cryptic commands.
Do you really think that the MPs sitting in London are writing the laws that they vote for? Or the members of the Senate or the Congress in Washington?
There are bureaucracies behind every level of elected office from the city up to the EU. Part of that is lawyers who specialize in writing up the laws. Less so for cities or for less important laws such as changing the national anthem. There is a special language that needs to be used and if you don't get the grammar correct there may be serious implications.
One of the main reasons why the Scottish independence referendum failed was that people wanted to remain in the EU, something that wouldn't happen if they left the UK. She's outraged because only a couple years after the Sottish referendum the UK has a non-binding referendum with such a small margin of victory that is going to take Scotland out of the EU.
Is there really that much difference between China and Taiwan if China were going to have a backdoor installed into a product? (I'm not trying to start a debate on whether Taiwan is or isn't a part of China. Just pointing out that China's influence isn't that much reduced there.) If you were wanting to be protect yourself from Chinese backdoors then it would be better to choose one of the many other low cost production countries. Especially for something as simple as a power cord.
However, this sounds like another BS don't trust the Chinese stories put out by the US government in order to further weaken trade between the two countries. The problem is these don't trust the Chinese government and businesses start becoming shortened to don't trust Chinese and it becomes ingrained into the nation if done for long enough.
No, we're supposed to waste all that energy with wireless power just so that people don't have to see a power cord hanging down from a television mounted on a wall.
The problem is that it isn't just US owned servers. The US authorities also believe that any servers owned by the subsidiaries of US companies are also fair game. Microsoft recently tried to fight having data stored in Ireland, owned by Microsoft Ireland, being included in a search in the US.
So this act will include servers in Europe owned by European companies that have to follow the GDPR just because they have an American parent company. The companies are going to do some creative working in order to break up the ownership link to foreign subsidiaries while still maintaining the value they have in order to prevent the stocks from tanking. They can't just create a parent for all of the companies because the parent needs to be outside of US jurisdiction. But they all have expensive and creative accountants and lawyers so they will figure something out.
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I've kept my phone and iPad on iOS 10 because I haven't seen any reason to upgrade them. The other week I changed mobile carriers and I had to update my iPhone to the latest release and I haven't seen a positive thing about the move other than having my phone work with the new carrier. I have a 5s because that size of phone suits my needs. I'm sure that there are a number of security fixes in there that are good too.
Lately I've been seeing a number of apps requiring iOS 11 or even 12. These are apps that are fairly basic and don't do anything out of the ordinary.
Thankfully there are still some developers like you out there that still are willing to take the extra time to craft their products and actually care for their users. Please don't stop.
Don't blame the contractors, blame the people aren't specific in what they want. I've seen plenty of times when users, clients, managers, etc ask a developer and/or contractor to make them something and use a couple of words thinking the other person knows their domain and needs exactly.
It's like I asked you to build me a chair for $1000. You could go all out and build a power reclining, leather clad chair with cup holders, heating and a whole bunch of other neat features. Or you could nail two shipping palettes a right angles and toss in a couple of cushions, call it a day knowing that you'll get paid the same amount, and look for some other work. Probably you'll do something in the middle.
You would need thousands of rocket launches to get rid of all of the waste. It's not just spent fuel and material for warheads. It's everything that those things have been closely exposed to. Research material, containers, reactor vessels, and a whole lot more.
The consider that between 0.1% and 1% (closer to the 1%) of launches end up in failure. Even in the best case you are looking at multiple explosions with highly radioactive material but most likely in the 10's.
Usenet will be "discovered" and make a comeback.
So they'll throw a bunch of adds that the people wanting free tickets will have to watch. I bet that will be before the set of ads that is normally played because the theatres aren't going to give up that revenue, especially in the first couple of weeks a movie plays when they get almost nothing (~10%) of ticket sales. Then there's the 15 to 20 minutes of trailers that show us the only good parts of movies that will be on a year from now and if we're lucky those scenes will actually be in the movie.
And if we buy the movie for home use we're stuck not being able to skip past through the FBI and anti-piracy warnings and sometimes even the trailers too. Wonderful if you are watching a ten year old movie on DVD and want to see trailers for movies that came out even before then.
Then they break up the streaming sites into almost 20 sites by the time Disney and all the new ones get introduced. Each one with it's own unique content so you have to subscribe to a whole bunch of them to get what you want. Just like cable and having to get a bunch of packages leaving you with a huge bill every month.
And the corporate big wigs wonder why people turned to downloading content. /rant
No different than some of the other stuff that go on there or in other democracies. The Land of the Free isn't so free anymore in case you haven't been paying attention. Neither is the rest of the free world in case you think I'm picking on the US.
But in purple, I'm stunning!
The main problem with antibiotics isn't that we can't make new ones. It's still very hard to create new ones and see them through all the trials. The real problem is that the drug companies don't want to spend the money to do so because there isn't the money in it. Any new antibiotics are going to be used so sparingly that there won't be profits in them even when they will cost a fortune to use.
Even if they came up with an everyday antibiotic most people would take it for a week or two and then stop it. And if they managed to capture all of the common antibiotic use it would seem to be a huge market but people have to stop taking it for cases that are unnecessary. The real market for everyday antibiotic use is under 10% of the current usage.
I got that from a program from the UK I saw in which an infectious disease specialist went into an ordinary practice (office with multiple family doctors) and tried to get people to stop taking antibiotics when they weren't needed. If they insisted even after he spent the extra time explaining why they didn't need them he gave them a prescription. On his first day he managed to get a couple people out of around 30 to change their mind. He had much better luck when he brought in a machine to determine if the cause of the patients condition was a virus or bacteria. But the test took time and money that the practice wouldn't get reimbursed for.
Even now when people are demanding antibiotics unnecessarily the big Pharma companies don't see financial sense for bringing through new antibiotics that university researchers are finding, and they are finding them. I can't see how the companies will ever want to make antibiotics if society can get the message across to only take antibiotics when you absolutely need to. Governments are going to have to get together and create a fund to make sure that we have antibiotics in the future.
When a ship hails another they open an audio and possibly a video feed to the other ship giving the standard information of who they are. The captain of the hailed ship then says whether or not to display the video when they reply. There are plenty of times that they make the other ship, or they make the "good guys", wait.
It's the standard thing that you get when you video call someone today. They see who is calling and can choose when to view your camera.
You use different colours of crystal to separate them of course.
Reports to the Captain are clear.
Centauri porn are blue
Recordings from Commander Ivanova's quarters are green
They've had too much already.
Even turning the ringer off wouldn't stop calls coming in. You would have to turn the sound off and put it into airplane mode but you would still get alerts in vibration mode.
The best thing to do is to turn everything off. If something important enough to interrupt an interview like that a CEO of a big company would have someone with them or would have someone who knows how to get in touch with them while their phone was off.
Wonder if the date is important at all?
It runs at an expected 1 exaflops but with the Spectre prevention it'll be running at just under 900 petaflops.
Larger computers allow models to be run faster so you can repeat more runs to see what the probable impacts the model predicts. They also allow finer scale detail in the model and the modellers to add new variables to the model. The amount of exponentially goes up massively if you are mapping the climate and you decrease the size of your grid element (a block where weather conditions are the same). New data is coming in from the field all of the time and our understanding how systems work is always improving. With better computers more variables may be added to a model to make it more accurate. Those variables may have used up too much computer time on the older systems.
I'm not ruling out that there's some national pride at work and the awarding of the contract to a specific company might not have helped out someone.
Counting the emissions during the production of the solar panel but ignoring the emissions of building the nuclear plant is dishonest. The construction of the nuclear plant requires a massive amount of concrete and steel, both of which output large values of CO2.
If you are connected to a physical switch, such as a Centrix or POTS (Plain Old Telephone Switch), then the phone number comes from the line card. When a line is configured the phone number is assigned at that time
I spent a number of years working on an application that interfaced with Centrix switches. It allowed the users to make changes without having to log onto the switch directly and learn the cryptic commands.
Do you really think that the MPs sitting in London are writing the laws that they vote for? Or the members of the Senate or the Congress in Washington?
There are bureaucracies behind every level of elected office from the city up to the EU. Part of that is lawyers who specialize in writing up the laws. Less so for cities or for less important laws such as changing the national anthem. There is a special language that needs to be used and if you don't get the grammar correct there may be serious implications.
One of the main reasons why the Scottish independence referendum failed was that people wanted to remain in the EU, something that wouldn't happen if they left the UK. She's outraged because only a couple years after the Sottish referendum the UK has a non-binding referendum with such a small margin of victory that is going to take Scotland out of the EU.
Is there really that much difference between China and Taiwan if China were going to have a backdoor installed into a product? (I'm not trying to start a debate on whether Taiwan is or isn't a part of China. Just pointing out that China's influence isn't that much reduced there.) If you were wanting to be protect yourself from Chinese backdoors then it would be better to choose one of the many other low cost production countries. Especially for something as simple as a power cord.
However, this sounds like another BS don't trust the Chinese stories put out by the US government in order to further weaken trade between the two countries. The problem is these don't trust the Chinese government and businesses start becoming shortened to don't trust Chinese and it becomes ingrained into the nation if done for long enough.
No, we're supposed to waste all that energy with wireless power just so that people don't have to see a power cord hanging down from a television mounted on a wall.
An additional benefit of setting up farms of shellfish can help clean up the water.
With their attitude they'll probably be reincarnated as a fish, just for the irony.
The problem is that it isn't just US owned servers. The US authorities also believe that any servers owned by the subsidiaries of US companies are also fair game. Microsoft recently tried to fight having data stored in Ireland, owned by Microsoft Ireland, being included in a search in the US.
So this act will include servers in Europe owned by European companies that have to follow the GDPR just because they have an American parent company. The companies are going to do some creative working in order to break up the ownership link to foreign subsidiaries while still maintaining the value they have in order to prevent the stocks from tanking. They can't just create a parent for all of the companies because the parent needs to be outside of US jurisdiction. But they all have expensive and creative accountants and lawyers so they will figure something out.
Couldn't have looked that hard.
Virginia Tech in 2004 upgraded their PowerMac G5s to Xserve G5s .
https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles...
Feb 01, 2005 - University of Illinois preps 640-node Apple Xserve G5 cluster
https://appleinsider.com/artic...