Ironically, without net neutrality, I imagine the FCC's website would be in the slow-lane and we wouldn't all be able to stream this at the same time. Just sayin'.
Nonsense. The cable companies have always known that the minor expense of giving the politicians favored access to the media is well worth it. Exhibit A: C-SPAN.
For the same reason your email server accepts emails with fake sender addresses - it's usually not possible for the telco to know that its fake.
Analogy fail. Emails are not billed as such, they're just part of the sea of data flowing across the network. Phone calls, on the other hand, *are* discretely billed, so phone companies *must* have an accurate record of where calls are coming from so they know where to send the bill. And they do. It's called ANI (automatic number identification). It's not Caller ID and is not normally spoofable.
The question is how long it will take the other nations to start their own chip fabrication plants and build their own routers / switches / etc.
Writing their own software, sure. Making their own hardware? Might be a while. Hardware manufacturing takes big start costs, has big fixed costs, and requires a lot of specialized experience and expertise. It's always much, much cheaper to let somebody who already has all that in place do it for you, and you get better results, too. This is particularly true of chip manufacture.
Reducing the number of mines to be cleared by 97% is a huge improvement.
But you *haven't* reduced the number of mines to be cleared by 97%, because you can't tell which ones have failed to deactivate (until they explode). So you still have to clear all of them.
When something looks like a sale, feels like a sale, and smells like a sale, it should behave like a sale, including all of the rights and privileges associated with ownership. And at those prices, this sure as hell looks like a purchase to me, rather than a rental.
It's not the price that makes something look like a rental--it's whether you're only allowed possession of the item for a limited amount of time. Which, in this case, you are.
Because it's not possible to impose it on anyone, as they are not yet availabe. The time between them becoming available and someone proposing laws to make them mandatory will likely be measured in milliseconds.
what failure mode is this exactly, if everything is working properly then by definition it is not a failure. they are adding a constraint to the definition of working properly to include "is within 10 inches of the wrist device" it being outside that range and not firing is not a failure.
Correct, that is not a failure. When the device *does* fail, when everything is *not* working properly--and nothing works properly all the time--it can result in the gun not firing when it should, when it *is* within 10 inches of the wrist device. And that can be fatal. The most dangerous weapon is the one that doesn't work when you need it. Every gewgaw you add to a device can fail, and adds the possibility that the device as a whole will fail. Particularly when the gewgaw's intended purpose is to make the device not work in the first place. A thing that activates when it is not supposed to is one the most common failure modes.
Now there's no proof the fundamental constants have changed at all since the big bang, but there's no proof they haven't.
Yes, there is. Astronomers are peering into the past every time they look through their telescopes--often the very distant past. They don't see anything that indicates that the laws of physics are changing.
Oh, and you had to include your flowchart and coding forms. If you didn't have your flowchart and everything all properly done, it got returned unrun (but it still counted as a run for your grade).
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Enforcement of a verdict from the ICJ is done by the Security Council. Where the US can veto it.
How can you fit that much spaghetti in 17 lines??
I ain't 'fraid of no goose!
Which, after you add in benefits, taxes, and other non-paycheck costs of hiring him, will come to about $40k a year.
Nonsense. The cable companies have always known that the minor expense of giving the politicians favored access to the media is well worth it. Exhibit A: C-SPAN.
What gets me is that Stevens has been dead for *four years* and only now are they finally able to close this boondoggle up.
Not when that comedy is Blazing Saddles. Thinking of it as "just a comedy" is to seriously underestimate it.
The first thing that came to mind was someone with a device that uses only the data connection.
But understandable. Building out and maintaining a wireless phone infrastructure is much easier and cheaper than doing so for a sewer system.
Analogy fail. Emails are not billed as such, they're just part of the sea of data flowing across the network. Phone calls, on the other hand, *are* discretely billed, so phone companies *must* have an accurate record of where calls are coming from so they know where to send the bill. And they do. It's called ANI (automatic number identification). It's not Caller ID and is not normally spoofable.
Writing their own software, sure. Making their own hardware? Might be a while. Hardware manufacturing takes big start costs, has big fixed costs, and requires a lot of specialized experience and expertise. It's always much, much cheaper to let somebody who already has all that in place do it for you, and you get better results, too. This is particularly true of chip manufacture.
Time to start buying real estate in the southwest.
But you *haven't* reduced the number of mines to be cleared by 97%, because you can't tell which ones have failed to deactivate (until they explode). So you still have to clear all of them.
Netcraft confirms it!
Current US Tomahawk Tactical Cruise Missile cost, per unit: $1.45 million.
You were saying?
It's not the price that makes something look like a rental--it's whether you're only allowed possession of the item for a limited amount of time. Which, in this case, you are.
I want this person arrested for aggravated assault on the English language, immediately.
...was the fossilized funnel cakes.
The phone looks cheap, so it sells well, and they make it all up and more on the back end.
Why don't other companies sell their stuff that way? Because other companies aren't selling a product that must be tied to a service to be useful.
...will they be able to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada?
Because it's not possible to impose it on anyone, as they are not yet availabe. The time between them becoming available and someone proposing laws to make them mandatory will likely be measured in milliseconds.
Correct, that is not a failure. When the device *does* fail, when everything is *not* working properly--and nothing works properly all the time--it can result in the gun not firing when it should, when it *is* within 10 inches of the wrist device. And that can be fatal. The most dangerous weapon is the one that doesn't work when you need it. Every gewgaw you add to a device can fail, and adds the possibility that the device as a whole will fail. Particularly when the gewgaw's intended purpose is to make the device not work in the first place. A thing that activates when it is not supposed to is one the most common failure modes.
Yes, there is. Astronomers are peering into the past every time they look through their telescopes--often the very distant past. They don't see anything that indicates that the laws of physics are changing.
So if I feel I'm being shortchanged, I'll just not do the work, ensuring that I don't get the education I'm paying for. That'll show 'em!
...you've invented the alternator!
Oh, and you had to include your flowchart and coding forms. If you didn't have your flowchart and everything all properly done, it got returned unrun (but it still counted as a run for your grade).