Sales of standalone memory may have increased from people not afraid to open their PC and insert some more RAM buying more to keep old PCs going for longer, but what the article is saying is that sales as part of a new PC (which for the majority of consumers is the only way they will ever buy RAM) have dropped. The overall effect is that sales of memory has dropped.
In any case, finding that a good architecture to start with helps make scaling from a 5 person team to a 25 person team reasonably free of overhead, does not mean that scaling will continue to teams of 100 or 1000 as are typical in enterprise scale failed projects.
It's about a livery company whose legally questionable practices and claims have drivers that are picking up hailed fares.
That's the black cab drivers' side of the story. The reality is that they are operating as a minicab business taking passengers on pre-arranged rides, which is perfectly legal, only they have replaced a phone call with a smartphone app / webpage. As long as Uber drivers are not picking up random people they spot trying to hail a cab on the side of the road, they are not infringing on the black cab legal monopoly.
The first racked up three charges for $900.00 in Japan
This is a similar situation to where my card has been blocked when I didn't want it. I had already advised the bank that I was travelling overseas, but when using my credit card to buy Shinkansen tickets for myself and my wife, the cashier tried to put them through as EIGHT separate transactions - one for each ticket in each direction, and one for each Shinkansen Express Supplement. The bank blocked them from the third transaction, and I got a phone call about 10 minutes later.
Actually a lot of larger trucks do just go between hubs, with smaller delivery trucks used for the "last few (tens in most countries, maybe hundreds in sparsely populated parts of the US) miles".
For updates it would make sense, but iTunes downloads get some metadata inserted that identifies the user, so it would have to be custom made for Apple's requirements.
When my kids were toddlers, a lot of friends used to comment on how well they ate. Usually while fighting a battle to force feed their own kids. If you shove food down kids throats, the only thing they learn from that experience is how to reject food.
A lot of it starts with the obsessive tracking of weight and height gain that doctors and midwives push onto parents these days, which makes parents unreasonably anxious about whether their child is eating enough. My eldest was tracking the lower 95th percentile for weight since he was born, and is still a skinny 10 year old despite eating adult sized portions. At first we were told we needed to feed him more, and almost ended up with social services assigned to the case, but after reviewing a food diary which showed him eating more quantity of more nutritious food than most toddlers his age, they finally left us alone.
And before you know it, they start catching anything they can find in the schoolyard to supplement their diet of vegetable soup with some protein. Snails, frogs... do we really want the children of America to start eating like the French?
1) Have a friendly guy in the shop who didn't look too closely at your signature in return for a couple of quid.
2) Have a moron in the shop who didn't look too closely at your signature.
Both of these are pretty common place
If you actually find someone working in retail who cares enough to not fall under 2, it'd probably take a bit more than a couple of quid to turn them into 1.
Not only is immigration good for Germany, it is essential for the economy as the peak of the Baby Boom generation reaches retirement age over the next 15 years. By 2030 their workforce will be 80% of what it is now, with the population down only a few percent. Other Western countries are in similar situations (though Germany is one of the most severe cases).
There's no way to tell the server "Hey, I know I'm on 5.5.5.5, but I'm actually that guy who was on 1.1.1.1 a moment ago, so start routing my packets here."
You don't need to tell the server, you need to tell the routers in between. This was part of the IMS standards that the 3GPP came up with in the early stages of defining "4G" networks. Probably you can't do it with IPv4 addresses unless your local network and the mobile network are somehow co-operating, but there is a block of IPv6 addresses reserved for such use IIRC.
But I'm not sure that connection level failover is needed for the use cases covered by this feature - normal connection retries from the apps that are designed to be used on flaky mobile networks in the first place should take care of everything unless the server is checking authentication cookies against originating IP for every request.
I don't see how netflix could automagically start streaming to your new IP address, so most likely, you will have to restart the stream from the beginning.
I've never used Netflix, as it is only available in limited parts of the world without using a VPN, but I can't imagine a video service in 2015 that does not support restarting the stream from somewhere other than the beginning - like the location it had downloaded up to before the connection broke, while it still has enough buffer to seamlessly cover the fact that it just switched connections.
Why would the thing after 4G be called 5G? As far as I know I already have the thing after 4G, it's called 4G+.
And like 3.5G, it will inevitably be called 5G by marketers anyway once the first competitor launches a real 5G network and others don't want to look like they are behind.
In some places in UK at least, short distances are indicated in metres, and longer distances in miles. Often both abbreviated to 'm', which makes for some amusing signposts (I recall some along the canal towpaths in central Birmingham: "National Sea Life Centre 150m, Wolverhampton 16m" or something like that)
It's a "cover my ass" letter. Bosch was complicit in coming up with this scam, but wanted to make sure that the final decision to go ahead was clearly VW's. There is no possibility with this letter in existence that VW can deny knowledge and point the finger at their suppliers.
You have two pipes of equal size at full capacity joining at right angles, and flowing into a third pipe of the same capacity as each of those pipes alone. Is encouraging the water to slow down as it approaches the intersection going to eliminate all the turbulence at the intersection even if the attempt to slow it down is successful?
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Sales of standalone memory may have increased from people not afraid to open their PC and insert some more RAM buying more to keep old PCs going for longer, but what the article is saying is that sales as part of a new PC (which for the majority of consumers is the only way they will ever buy RAM) have dropped. The overall effect is that sales of memory has dropped.
In any case, finding that a good architecture to start with helps make scaling from a 5 person team to a 25 person team reasonably free of overhead, does not mean that scaling will continue to teams of 100 or 1000 as are typical in enterprise scale failed projects.
That's the black cab drivers' side of the story. The reality is that they are operating as a minicab business taking passengers on pre-arranged rides, which is perfectly legal, only they have replaced a phone call with a smartphone app / webpage. As long as Uber drivers are not picking up random people they spot trying to hail a cab on the side of the road, they are not infringing on the black cab legal monopoly.
Are we even certain that only diesel cars are cheating?
This is a similar situation to where my card has been blocked when I didn't want it. I had already advised the bank that I was travelling overseas, but when using my credit card to buy Shinkansen tickets for myself and my wife, the cashier tried to put them through as EIGHT separate transactions - one for each ticket in each direction, and one for each Shinkansen Express Supplement. The bank blocked them from the third transaction, and I got a phone call about 10 minutes later.
Actually a lot of larger trucks do just go between hubs, with smaller delivery trucks used for the "last few (tens in most countries, maybe hundreds in sparsely populated parts of the US) miles".
Really it should be Jobs and Fiorina conspired to outfox consumers.
It's not really the same. FLIF is one of many image compression formats free of patents and other IP issues. Vorbis was up against MP3, WMA and AAC.
For updates it would make sense, but iTunes downloads get some metadata inserted that identifies the user, so it would have to be custom made for Apple's requirements.
A lot of it starts with the obsessive tracking of weight and height gain that doctors and midwives push onto parents these days, which makes parents unreasonably anxious about whether their child is eating enough. My eldest was tracking the lower 95th percentile for weight since he was born, and is still a skinny 10 year old despite eating adult sized portions. At first we were told we needed to feed him more, and almost ended up with social services assigned to the case, but after reviewing a food diary which showed him eating more quantity of more nutritious food than most toddlers his age, they finally left us alone.
And before you know it, they start catching anything they can find in the schoolyard to supplement their diet of vegetable soup with some protein. Snails, frogs... do we really want the children of America to start eating like the French?
Not true. I used a chip and signature card in Melbourne in March this year.
What sort of disability must one have to not be capable of pressing some buttons on a keypad, but still be capable of signing your name?
If you actually find someone working in retail who cares enough to not fall under 2, it'd probably take a bit more than a couple of quid to turn them into 1.
The hardships they have to endure before they reach Europe is a good filter for those types though.
What do Saudis have to do with the current wave of immigration?
Not only is immigration good for Germany, it is essential for the economy as the peak of the Baby Boom generation reaches retirement age over the next 15 years. By 2030 their workforce will be 80% of what it is now, with the population down only a few percent. Other Western countries are in similar situations (though Germany is one of the most severe cases).
You don't need to tell the server, you need to tell the routers in between. This was part of the IMS standards that the 3GPP came up with in the early stages of defining "4G" networks. Probably you can't do it with IPv4 addresses unless your local network and the mobile network are somehow co-operating, but there is a block of IPv6 addresses reserved for such use IIRC.
But I'm not sure that connection level failover is needed for the use cases covered by this feature - normal connection retries from the apps that are designed to be used on flaky mobile networks in the first place should take care of everything unless the server is checking authentication cookies against originating IP for every request.
I've never used Netflix, as it is only available in limited parts of the world without using a VPN, but I can't imagine a video service in 2015 that does not support restarting the stream from somewhere other than the beginning - like the location it had downloaded up to before the connection broke, while it still has enough buffer to seamlessly cover the fact that it just switched connections.
And like 3.5G, it will inevitably be called 5G by marketers anyway once the first competitor launches a real 5G network and others don't want to look like they are behind.
In some places in UK at least, short distances are indicated in metres, and longer distances in miles. Often both abbreviated to 'm', which makes for some amusing signposts (I recall some along the canal towpaths in central Birmingham: "National Sea Life Centre 150m, Wolverhampton 16m" or something like that)
It's a "cover my ass" letter. Bosch was complicit in coming up with this scam, but wanted to make sure that the final decision to go ahead was clearly VW's. There is no possibility with this letter in existence that VW can deny knowledge and point the finger at their suppliers.
You have two pipes of equal size at full capacity joining at right angles, and flowing into a third pipe of the same capacity as each of those pipes alone. Is encouraging the water to slow down as it approaches the intersection going to eliminate all the turbulence at the intersection even if the attempt to slow it down is successful?
You might want to look into a firewall before the FBI finds what you are sharing with the world.
It seems that even though Chrome is careful not to save cookies in incognito mode the "allow full screen" option, at least, still gets saved.