You mean, except for the whole thing with Crimea, "independent contractors" fielding equipment straight out of russian military depots, and even those little green men fielding weapons only produced for russian special operations units. Or the whole dismantling and transferring to Russia certain production facilities for ceramics needed for the production of new engines for fighters etc.
The AMD 761 held fixes for the bug, but VIA and nVidia had problems due to AMD withholding information of the bug. Ugh, I can still remember all that annoying AGPGART messing about...
The Sam Vimes theory of economy has a lot of basis in reality.
Look at real quality furniture for example. I inherited a kitchen work table that's been in the family for over 120 years. It's been sanded down and re-polished a number of times, but it's still a large thick slab of wood on REALLY sturdy legs. Great for baking or cooking in large batches etc(like say 10 plates of various rolls, bisquits and cookies. At the time it was made, it would have cost a working class family more than a year and a half's income to buy the table. Sure, I could buy something that would last us maybe 20-25 years at best with regular use fairly cheap, but it would still be more expensive in the long run, especially since with proper care, this table I have now could probably last another 100-150 years.
K5 had a bug like that too. And let's not forget Athlon/Athlon XP era and AGP issues. The Piledriver Opterons required a patch to fix a bug in the hypervisor system which allowed for escape from a VM. AMD has had just as many horrible bugs as Intel, which can be summed up like this: Making flawless high-performance chips is difficult.
Actually, in this case this has nothing to do with it. It's just faster to have the norwegian trains go through Sweden, even when it travels along our east coast
Fresh fish is sent by rail through Sweden, along the coastal rail route on the east, from the northern parts of Norway to Oslo in the south. Because that's faster than doing it along their own railways or highways.
Because, as you say, it doesn't solve the passenger issue, and passenger routes are fairly common along the norwegian coast, due to much shorter routes than with strictly land-based transportation.
Actually, in the largest study done so far, which lead to the Australian crackdown on homeopathy, it was shown that homeopathy had worse efficacy than even prayers, which in turn performed worse than placebos.
The LCS.... Such a stupid idea to start with. Our Visby class corvette is almost too large for littoral combat at 73m length, especially in dense archipelagos. So what does the US do? They build even LARGER ships for that purpose. Not just longer and wider, but with more draft as well.
Then there's the build quality you mentioned. The one crashing in the Panama Canal was not the first to develop hull cracks. LCS-1 had cracks from firing the Bofors 57mm cannon. And the US Navy tried to blame that on the cannon(as well as supposed accuracy problems), despite the fact that the cannon is used by quite a few navies around the world, without the same problems.
I should also point out the strong trait of stoicism or downright laughter in the face of death prevalent among cultures like the Norse or the Mongols. Like the old Norse saying goes, from the wife to her husband as he goes on a viking: Come home successful, on your shield, or not at all. And all the contemporary writings of the soft southern wankers seem to agree that the death-defying aspects of Norse or Mongol culture was a significant factor in their military success due to the effect on enemy troops.
A strong component of the psychological training that went into a samurai's upbringing , especially after the combination of zen buddhism with shintoism, was to actually consider the possibility of defeat, so that you could be better prepared. By refusing to acknowledge defeat, you did not factor in your own weaknesses, thus leaving yourself open.
A major component of Ninja mental indoctrination was the concept of considering yourself already dead, so you had nothing to fear in that regard.
And if we limit ourselves to remote control, don't forget the Fritz X or Hs 239 anti-ship guided bombs, or the Hs 117 joystick operated radio controlled SAM/AAM on the german side
Or the us Azon anti-shipping guided bomb, which was developed after the Fritz X and Hs 239
First of all, there's actually no such data regarding checkout. The data is regarding ease of browsing and ease of GETTING to the checkout.
As I clearly stated, it's not just Sweden. In fact, most of the world has introduced more secure but slightly more inconvenient payment methods. In fact, VISA, which you mention, is one of the developers of, and proponents of these methods, since they are more secure.
1: All banks in Sweden, and many banks in europe have this as part of basic services. Others use SMS as part of the authentication chain. The SMS checksums are common in south america too. The US and Canada really do stand out in these sloppy security practices.
2: Yes, it clearly is. Due to the way the US system is setup, Blizzard, Steam etc are all serious credit card exposure risks, to the degree that I use one-time CC numbers for purchases through them.However, with the systems used here in europe, that risk is massively reduced. So, US banks choose to expose their customers to unnecessary CC fraud risk.
3: If 20-30 seconds extra time to give you massively increased security is such an inconvenience, measures like these would not have become so popular in europe, south america and asia. Hell, banks should love it because it'd reduce charge-back fraud too.
No, that's not what the Nobel price was about. It was a recognition reward, not an equivalent of a sponsorship or a grant, for discoveries in certain fields, as outlined by his will, that contributed the most to mankind(yes, that is SPECIFICALLY mentioned in the will that laid out the rules that govern the foundation). At the same time, the people involved in science have increased a couple of orders of magnitude. Also, some discoveries take decades to understand the exact worth. So you get awards like this.
To answer each in turn: 1: The devices are part of standard account package. 2: The inconvenience of the sloppy security of US bank practices is greater 3: The card reader is not connected to the PC when doing any of the things I mentioned. Only if you choose to use any cert-based method do you need to plug it in, and that's entirely optional.
Chip and Pin works online too, if the banks and vendors use proper systems. Let's just say Steam, Blizzard and other US vendors don't support it...
I'm in Sweden, and my bank has issued a small, hand-held device with various features, either login for the bank, signing payment order, or payment order. I make an order at a site and initiate the checkout procedure. Vendor site or my bank presents me with a string of numbers. I insert my card into the device, select the appropriate option, enter the number string into the device, hit ok, enter my PIN, then I get a control code in return, which I enter into the vendor site to confirm the payment.
Not just Irving Gould. Ali Mehdi was just as greedy personally, and penny-pinching in running the company. When engineers proposed the A3000 with a 68030, he personally called them up to ask whether the 68030 was truly necessary, if there weren't cheaper components that could be used
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You mean, except for the whole thing with Crimea, "independent contractors" fielding equipment straight out of russian military depots, and even those little green men fielding weapons only produced for russian special operations units. Or the whole dismantling and transferring to Russia certain production facilities for ceramics needed for the production of new engines for fighters etc.
The AMD 761 held fixes for the bug, but VIA and nVidia had problems due to AMD withholding information of the bug. Ugh, I can still remember all that annoying AGPGART messing about...
As for Piledriver: https://lists.debian.org/debia...
That's been the case on the AMD side too, like the hypervisor bug in Piledriver Opterons for example.
The Sam Vimes theory of economy has a lot of basis in reality.
Look at real quality furniture for example. I inherited a kitchen work table that's been in the family for over 120 years. It's been sanded down and re-polished a number of times, but it's still a large thick slab of wood on REALLY sturdy legs. Great for baking or cooking in large batches etc(like say 10 plates of various rolls, bisquits and cookies. At the time it was made, it would have cost a working class family more than a year and a half's income to buy the table. Sure, I could buy something that would last us maybe 20-25 years at best with regular use fairly cheap, but it would still be more expensive in the long run, especially since with proper care, this table I have now could probably last another 100-150 years.
K5 had a bug like that too. And let's not forget Athlon/Athlon XP era and AGP issues. The Piledriver Opterons required a patch to fix a bug in the hypervisor system which allowed for escape from a VM. AMD has had just as many horrible bugs as Intel, which can be summed up like this: Making flawless high-performance chips is difficult.
It's connecting two sides of a peninsula. Barges will carry quite a few loads, or, if setup properly, load straight into cargo ships
They already have the ports. With a tunnel for trains, you'll eventually also end up building bridges etc.
Actually, in this case this has nothing to do with it. It's just faster to have the norwegian trains go through Sweden, even when it travels along our east coast
I think an example is in order to highlight this:
Fresh fish is sent by rail through Sweden, along the coastal rail route on the east, from the northern parts of Norway to Oslo in the south. Because that's faster than doing it along their own railways or highways.
I think they mean in the sense of an actual route, not just storage/maintenance underground docks.
Because, as you say, it doesn't solve the passenger issue, and passenger routes are fairly common along the norwegian coast, due to much shorter routes than with strictly land-based transportation.
Only if you are a mindless slave to the proclamations of a monk. Reality is, beer is a family of beverages, with a fair amount of variation.
Only if the work environment is already completely fucked up
Actually, in the largest study done so far, which lead to the Australian crackdown on homeopathy, it was shown that homeopathy had worse efficacy than even prayers, which in turn performed worse than placebos.
The LCS.... Such a stupid idea to start with. Our Visby class corvette is almost too large for littoral combat at 73m length, especially in dense archipelagos. So what does the US do? They build even LARGER ships for that purpose. Not just longer and wider, but with more draft as well.
Then there's the build quality you mentioned. The one crashing in the Panama Canal was not the first to develop hull cracks. LCS-1 had cracks from firing the Bofors 57mm cannon. And the US Navy tried to blame that on the cannon(as well as supposed accuracy problems), despite the fact that the cannon is used by quite a few navies around the world, without the same problems.
Overall, the LCS are just a clusterfuck.
I should also point out the strong trait of stoicism or downright laughter in the face of death prevalent among cultures like the Norse or the Mongols. Like the old Norse saying goes, from the wife to her husband as he goes on a viking: Come home successful, on your shield, or not at all. And all the contemporary writings of the soft southern wankers seem to agree that the death-defying aspects of Norse or Mongol culture was a significant factor in their military success due to the effect on enemy troops.
A strong component of the psychological training that went into a samurai's upbringing , especially after the combination of zen buddhism with shintoism, was to actually consider the possibility of defeat, so that you could be better prepared. By refusing to acknowledge defeat, you did not factor in your own weaknesses, thus leaving yourself open.
A major component of Ninja mental indoctrination was the concept of considering yourself already dead, so you had nothing to fear in that regard.
And if we limit ourselves to remote control, don't forget the Fritz X or Hs 239 anti-ship guided bombs, or the Hs 117 joystick operated radio controlled SAM/AAM on the german side
Or the us Azon anti-shipping guided bomb, which was developed after the Fritz X and Hs 239
First of all, there's actually no such data regarding checkout. The data is regarding ease of browsing and ease of GETTING to the checkout.
As I clearly stated, it's not just Sweden. In fact, most of the world has introduced more secure but slightly more inconvenient payment methods. In fact, VISA, which you mention, is one of the developers of, and proponents of these methods, since they are more secure.
1: All banks in Sweden, and many banks in europe have this as part of basic services. Others use SMS as part of the authentication chain. The SMS checksums are common in south america too. The US and Canada really do stand out in these sloppy security practices.
2: Yes, it clearly is. Due to the way the US system is setup, Blizzard, Steam etc are all serious credit card exposure risks, to the degree that I use one-time CC numbers for purchases through them.However, with the systems used here in europe, that risk is massively reduced. So, US banks choose to expose their customers to unnecessary CC fraud risk.
3: If 20-30 seconds extra time to give you massively increased security is such an inconvenience, measures like these would not have become so popular in europe, south america and asia. Hell, banks should love it because it'd reduce charge-back fraud too.
So you liberretardians are squatting, imposing yourself on the natives
No, that's not what the Nobel price was about. It was a recognition reward, not an equivalent of a sponsorship or a grant, for discoveries in certain fields, as outlined by his will, that contributed the most to mankind(yes, that is SPECIFICALLY mentioned in the will that laid out the rules that govern the foundation). At the same time, the people involved in science have increased a couple of orders of magnitude. Also, some discoveries take decades to understand the exact worth. So you get awards like this.
To answer each in turn:
1: The devices are part of standard account package.
2: The inconvenience of the sloppy security of US bank practices is greater
3: The card reader is not connected to the PC when doing any of the things I mentioned. Only if you choose to use any cert-based method do you need to plug it in, and that's entirely optional.
Chip and Pin works online too, if the banks and vendors use proper systems. Let's just say Steam, Blizzard and other US vendors don't support it...
I'm in Sweden, and my bank has issued a small, hand-held device with various features, either login for the bank, signing payment order, or payment order. I make an order at a site and initiate the checkout procedure. Vendor site or my bank presents me with a string of numbers. I insert my card into the device, select the appropriate option, enter the number string into the device, hit ok, enter my PIN, then I get a control code in return, which I enter into the vendor site to confirm the payment.
Not just Irving Gould. Ali Mehdi was just as greedy personally, and penny-pinching in running the company. When engineers proposed the A3000 with a 68030, he personally called them up to ask whether the 68030 was truly necessary, if there weren't cheaper components that could be used