$400 for the headset, but then you need a powerful PC to drive it too. Sony wants $450 for the headset and console, and you are guaranteed to get the best possible experience because the console hardware is a fixed, known quantity for the developers.
The Ryzen parts have some really great features too. The Pro ones in particular support encrypted RAM, finally closing the cold boot security hole. Plenty of PCIe lanes too, and all for a fraction of the price of a similarly performing Intel part with fewer features.
To be fair many of them don't have credit cards. My fiance's sister gets paid in cash and doesn't even have a bank account, but she has a mobile phone and can make payments by buying credit for her QQ account in shops and then spending it in apps. Kinda like those Play Store / App Store gift cards you can buy.
The EU isn't just making repairs easier, it is making short product lifespans unprofitable. For example, they are considering making appliance manufacturers state the Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF) of various components, particularly the one with the lowest value. If consumers can see that a fridge with an MTBF of 5 years is only â20 cheaper than one with an MTBF of 10 years, they will likely pick the latter one.
By putting the number on the box, suddenly it becomes a stat that consumers can easily compare and something manufacturers are forced to compete on. At the moment all we have to go on is brand experience and anecdotal evidence.
By standardizing on USB for charging they have extended the natural life of phone chargers too. No point throwing old ones away if the new phone has the same connector.
Source code would let us fix things like security issues or Y2K style time bombs, and once fixed the firmware update should be relatively easy to install.
Schematics are definitely less useful now due to very high levels of integration. Take a look at the Raspberry Pi schematic, it's basically one chip and some connectors. Tiny bit of trivial power supply stuff. However, a lot of stuff could be fixed if parts were available, even if the parts were on the level of whole PCB assemblies or proprietary chips. There is a healthy market for such things already, on eBay and Aliexpress.
Retailers are trying to push the idea that stuff doesn't last very long. Fridge? Maybe 3 years unless you get a really expensive one. A good washing machine might reach 5 before something expensive breaks. The EU is right to force them to reduce repair costs or contribute heavily to recycling.
The deposit is twice the cost of the umbrella. It's about $3, which should cover the cost of a cheap umbrella at least four times over, considering they sell for $1 in shops even outside China.
The problem is that umbrellas are too cheap. If they make the deposit any higher people won't use the service out of fear of losing it, but at the same time it's not enough to motivate them to return the item.
Maybe they could be more like a library, with fines if you don't return it and no more books until you do.
I actually much prefer the Chinese model. It's terrible, don't get me wrong, but at least they are up front about it. None of this hacking people's property or hoarding critical vulnerabilities until they inevitably leak out. Just be up front, pass laws mandating that the service providers give you everything and set up a firewall to block anything you can't control.
From your link: "Perfect for charging 12 volt batteries of boats, trucks, RVs, tractors, cars and more"
It's not even designed for connecting to an inverter, it's designed for mobile DC charging. Even so, I bought a similar one with the charge circuit and a chassis for about $30 a few years ago. Walmart are taking the piss a bit there.
Most of those countries are investing heavily in other areas now, often tourism. Tourism is actually really good for them to invest in, because it means they have to be moderate and modernize in order to attract people to the region.
The end of large scale oil production in that region can only be a good thing.
The global fertility rate is nearing zero growth. The world population is still rising because the people already born are living longer so there are more generations alive today than ever before, but it is levelling off.
The only way to do what you suggest would be to actually create a decline in population, which has other extremely negative consequences for the economy and society.
Fortunately all we really need to do is plan better. Get rid of 5 year budgets for roads, go to 50 years. Build new towns around public transport, and fix old ones by demolishing a few things to put some in. Plan for the pay back to be in the 50 year range, not shareholder dividends after breaking ground.
We have enough resources, we just don't allocate them well.
The only problem with working from home is that for some people it's hard when they have a small house/flat and a family. Not everyone can have a dedicated space with a closed door, unfortunately.
A simple way to solve this would be to have shared office space for rent outside the city. Just a bunch of small offices that people can work remotely from. Fast internet, basic amenities and well away from any traffic congestion. My only concern is that it would create a disincentive to employ people without home offices, because the company would have to rent office space for them.
For once? The EU does more than any other democratic government to further consumer's interests against corporate ones.
Old fashioned countries like the UK greatly benefit from the influence of the more modern, progressive ones in the EU. That's why we want out of it - our country is shitty and that's the way we like it, thank you very much.
This is called hypernormalization. It happened in the USSR, and it happened in modern western politics. People know the way things are is wrong, that the system is broken, but they can't imagine living any other way so they perpetuate it.
The Soviet system is corrupt, but they couldn't imagine any other way of living.
Politicians are all corrupt liars, but since they are all that way we might as well vote for the demagogue we like the best.
Capitalism produces bad results, but communism is apparently the only other option and is reportedly terrible... So what can we do but carry on with it?
Don't worry, that quick free trade deal that The Donald told us about is exactly that - the US gets to send us whatever crap it likes and we can't say no.
It's also bollocks. It must have a battery, there is no way 3.5uW could power a speaker for you to hear the other person. It must harvest energy over time into a battery, and then consume it when you make a call.
Energy harvesting does have its uses, like wireless sensors for example, but this isn't one of them.
Militarizing space any more than it already is with passive things like spy/comms/navigation satellites is a really, really bad idea. The last thing we want is an arms race to develop space weapons. The original fear was that nukes would be placed in orbit, but there is potentially far worse stuff.
If NASA is planning to capture an asteroid then the US needs to be careful about the potential military applications for dropping rocks on other countries, and not do anything to suggest it might be interested in doing so.
Thanks. You are right, they keyboard I have now is MX Brown switches. Feels good and the sound is quiet but just audible enough for a little feedback in a quiet room.
Cherry MX series switches come in four basic types. One, I forget which, has a nice clicky feel but is also very quiet. A variety of keyboards use them and some aren't that expensive.
The air gapped systems are at risk though. As we saw in Iran and in leaked documents from the NSA, there are ways to cross that air gap. Infected USB media, for example.
Nuclear plants, hospitals and the like are attractive targets for malware. Even if it's only the admin network that is hit, they have to fix it. There are legal requirements for record keeping, privacy, that sort of thing. The place can be forced to shut down if it can't do the paperwork.
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$400 for the headset, but then you need a powerful PC to drive it too. Sony wants $450 for the headset and console, and you are guaranteed to get the best possible experience because the console hardware is a fixed, known quantity for the developers.
With the exception of the UK, where else is doing better? Certainly not the US. Canada maybe?
The Ryzen parts have some really great features too. The Pro ones in particular support encrypted RAM, finally closing the cold boot security hole. Plenty of PCIe lanes too, and all for a fraction of the price of a similarly performing Intel part with fewer features.
To be fair many of them don't have credit cards. My fiance's sister gets paid in cash and doesn't even have a bank account, but she has a mobile phone and can make payments by buying credit for her QQ account in shops and then spending it in apps. Kinda like those Play Store / App Store gift cards you can buy.
How much is 30 days rental? I'm guessing it's more than $2.75, which is what these guys are charging.
The EU isn't just making repairs easier, it is making short product lifespans unprofitable. For example, they are considering making appliance manufacturers state the Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF) of various components, particularly the one with the lowest value. If consumers can see that a fridge with an MTBF of 5 years is only â20 cheaper than one with an MTBF of 10 years, they will likely pick the latter one.
By putting the number on the box, suddenly it becomes a stat that consumers can easily compare and something manufacturers are forced to compete on. At the moment all we have to go on is brand experience and anecdotal evidence.
By standardizing on USB for charging they have extended the natural life of phone chargers too. No point throwing old ones away if the new phone has the same connector.
Source code would let us fix things like security issues or Y2K style time bombs, and once fixed the firmware update should be relatively easy to install.
Schematics are definitely less useful now due to very high levels of integration. Take a look at the Raspberry Pi schematic, it's basically one chip and some connectors. Tiny bit of trivial power supply stuff. However, a lot of stuff could be fixed if parts were available, even if the parts were on the level of whole PCB assemblies or proprietary chips. There is a healthy market for such things already, on eBay and Aliexpress.
Retailers are trying to push the idea that stuff doesn't last very long. Fridge? Maybe 3 years unless you get a really expensive one. A good washing machine might reach 5 before something expensive breaks. The EU is right to force them to reduce repair costs or contribute heavily to recycling.
The deposit is twice the cost of the umbrella. It's about $3, which should cover the cost of a cheap umbrella at least four times over, considering they sell for $1 in shops even outside China.
The problem is that umbrellas are too cheap. If they make the deposit any higher people won't use the service out of fear of losing it, but at the same time it's not enough to motivate them to return the item.
Maybe they could be more like a library, with fines if you don't return it and no more books until you do.
Socialism and regulated capitalism seems to work reasonably well.
Did he follow you around the whole time making sure that you didn't slyly order stuff while he wasn't listening?
Who leaves their terminal unlocked and logged into Amazon and their email without any kind of protection?
I actually much prefer the Chinese model. It's terrible, don't get me wrong, but at least they are up front about it. None of this hacking people's property or hoarding critical vulnerabilities until they inevitably leak out. Just be up front, pass laws mandating that the service providers give you everything and set up a firewall to block anything you can't control.
From your link: "Perfect for charging 12 volt batteries of boats, trucks, RVs, tractors, cars and more"
It's not even designed for connecting to an inverter, it's designed for mobile DC charging. Even so, I bought a similar one with the charge circuit and a chassis for about $30 a few years ago. Walmart are taking the piss a bit there.
Most of those countries are investing heavily in other areas now, often tourism. Tourism is actually really good for them to invest in, because it means they have to be moderate and modernize in order to attract people to the region.
The end of large scale oil production in that region can only be a good thing.
This is actually a myth: http://data.worldbank.org/indi...
The global fertility rate is nearing zero growth. The world population is still rising because the people already born are living longer so there are more generations alive today than ever before, but it is levelling off.
The only way to do what you suggest would be to actually create a decline in population, which has other extremely negative consequences for the economy and society.
Fortunately all we really need to do is plan better. Get rid of 5 year budgets for roads, go to 50 years. Build new towns around public transport, and fix old ones by demolishing a few things to put some in. Plan for the pay back to be in the 50 year range, not shareholder dividends after breaking ground.
We have enough resources, we just don't allocate them well.
The only problem with working from home is that for some people it's hard when they have a small house/flat and a family. Not everyone can have a dedicated space with a closed door, unfortunately.
A simple way to solve this would be to have shared office space for rent outside the city. Just a bunch of small offices that people can work remotely from. Fast internet, basic amenities and well away from any traffic congestion. My only concern is that it would create a disincentive to employ people without home offices, because the company would have to rent office space for them.
For once? The EU does more than any other democratic government to further consumer's interests against corporate ones.
Old fashioned countries like the UK greatly benefit from the influence of the more modern, progressive ones in the EU. That's why we want out of it - our country is shitty and that's the way we like it, thank you very much.
This is called hypernormalization. It happened in the USSR, and it happened in modern western politics. People know the way things are is wrong, that the system is broken, but they can't imagine living any other way so they perpetuate it.
The Soviet system is corrupt, but they couldn't imagine any other way of living.
Politicians are all corrupt liars, but since they are all that way we might as well vote for the demagogue we like the best.
Capitalism produces bad results, but communism is apparently the only other option and is reportedly terrible... So what can we do but carry on with it?
Don't worry, that quick free trade deal that The Donald told us about is exactly that - the US gets to send us whatever crap it likes and we can't say no.
It's also bollocks. It must have a battery, there is no way 3.5uW could power a speaker for you to hear the other person. It must harvest energy over time into a battery, and then consume it when you make a call.
Energy harvesting does have its uses, like wireless sensors for example, but this isn't one of them.
Militarizing space any more than it already is with passive things like spy/comms/navigation satellites is a really, really bad idea. The last thing we want is an arms race to develop space weapons. The original fear was that nukes would be placed in orbit, but there is potentially far worse stuff.
If NASA is planning to capture an asteroid then the US needs to be careful about the potential military applications for dropping rocks on other countries, and not do anything to suggest it might be interested in doing so.
Thanks. You are right, they keyboard I have now is MX Brown switches. Feels good and the sound is quiet but just audible enough for a little feedback in a quiet room.
Cherry MX series switches come in four basic types. One, I forget which, has a nice clicky feel but is also very quiet. A variety of keyboards use them and some aren't that expensive.
I'd like to see it mandatory on new cars, but they are talking about not allowing older drivers to keep using their old cars.
The air gapped systems are at risk though. As we saw in Iran and in leaked documents from the NSA, there are ways to cross that air gap. Infected USB media, for example.
Nuclear plants, hospitals and the like are attractive targets for malware. Even if it's only the admin network that is hit, they have to fix it. There are legal requirements for record keeping, privacy, that sort of thing. The place can be forced to shut down if it can't do the paperwork.
So there is a strong incentive to pay the ransom.