Not only is Chrome very fast, but the latest versions (from Version 52 on) are way less bloated in the use of system memory, not to mention close links to widely used Google services and just about the best HTML 5.0 compliance of any web browser out there.
Chipotle's latest problem is why restaurant and retailers need to offer Android Pay and Apple Pay support.
Why? Because under Android Pay and Apple Pay, you transact using a specially encrypted code that is not anywhere close to your credit card number. As such, there's no such thing as "skimming for card number," and it's extremely difficult--even if the hacker could intercept the data stream--to use it for credit card fraud.
We'll find out at WWDC if this thing is actually completed. If it is, there's a chance the 2017 iPhone models may incorporate this chip specifically to speed up Siri.
Wasn't there a link of bees dying in big numbers due to the over use of insecticides that are based on neonicotinoids? And why the EPA hasn't considered severely restricting or banning their use?
While this is true, the difference in picture quality betwen 4096x2160 and 3840x2160 is very small indeed, and very few viewers to will notice the difference.
Once they perfect the molten-salt reactor (MSR) design, it might be possible to eventually build a cruise ship powered by a nuclear reactor. Not only would there be way less air pollution, but it might even make it possible for even the largest cruise ships to potentially go as fast as 30 knots top speed.
But then, those early 20th Century passenger ships were designed specifically for long-distance voyages at speed--and as such, they had to be designed to travel as fast as possible, resulting in very sleek design for its time. Today's cruise ships--outside of the three boats operated by Cunard Cruises--are designed for relatively slow travel, so they tend to have a lot more amenities on board.
Completely correct. That's why there is a lot of interest in molten-salt reactors (MSR's), where the nuclear fuel (normally thorium-232) is dissolved in molten sodium fluoride salts. In fact, MSR's could even use reprocessed spent uranium-235 fuel rods or even plutonium-239/241 from dismantled nuclear weapons dissolved in molten fluoride salts as fuel.
Fukushima Dai-Ichi was a BAD nuclear plant design--no modern containment structures and highly vulnerable to a tsunami in the first place. They should have decommissioned that power plant by the late 1990's and replaced it with a more modern nuclear power plant located further inland with real containment structures around the reactor.
However, if you're running Chrome or Firefox, YouTube videos are played back using HTML 5.0 by default. Internet Explorer still uses Flash, though I believe that Edge from Windows 10 defaults to HTML 5.0 playback in YouTube.
1. The rapid expansion of railroads worldwide. 2. The development of electricity (both DC and AC). 3. The development of the automobile. 4. The development of the telegraph and eventually telephone. 5. The development of radio.
I think one reason why Amazon has been extremely successful is that they have been among the most diligent in protecting their retail web site from a hacker attack. They better be, given they are the world's largest online retailer and also a major provider of cloud computer services.
I think Comcast doesn't realize the data cap issue could be MUCH more serious than they thought.
It may be more than just a streaming video problem from Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and so on. The likes of Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are pushing for more and more operations "though the cloud," and that could really use up a lot of data over the Internet in the near future.
I believe that the downfall of data caps won't be a lawsuit from Netflix, Amazon or Hulu, but from Apple, Google and Microsoft as these tech companies embrace more and more "cloud computing" initiatives. And Comcast doesn't have the deep pockets of Apple, Google and Microsoft when it comes to legal wrangling.
That's not a problem in Israel, where there are enough sunny days to justify the initial cost of large-scale solar installation.
The problem with San Francisco is that between May and early September, the western 40% of the city gets socked in by "marine layer" fog, which can effectively block out the Sun for many days at a time. I should know--I used to live in the Bay Area and visited San Francisco fairly frequently; I remember in the Outer Sunset District, Golden Gate Park and Outer Richmond District, during the summer months you are socked in by that fog and never see the Sun for many days at a time. In the eastern third of the city, that fog usually burns off by late morning and doesn't roll back in until early evening, so solar panels on the roof make more sense there.
Actually, some archaeologists suggest that many of the human Great Flood myths may have come from a memory of 12,000 years ago, when the last great Ice Age ended and the melting massive glaciers inundated vast swaths of land often at very high speed, as evidenced by the sudden emptying of the prehistoric Lake Bonneville about that time as a possible ice dam melted, sending water down what is now the Snake River Canyon.
But getting back on topic, there is a likely possibility that modern humans may have experienced the effects of a supervolcano eruption: the eruption of the gigantic volcano at what is now Lake Toba around 75,000 years ago. That eruption--which was around 100 times bigger than the 1815 Mount Tambora eruption in what is now Indonesia--may have caused such severe weather changes that the number of larger mammals may have dramatically dropped in number, though most scientists now say that the drop in the number of humans to around 10,000 after that eruption probably didn't happen.
The infrared sensor on JWST may not be able to find a gas giant planet that far out from the Sun. But it may find my proposed small brown dwarf (which may have a fairly significant heat signature) orbiting around the Sun in a very elliptical orbit that at its closest pass is still well beyond the orbit of Pluto--probably beyond the orbit of Sedna, too.
My suggestion makes more sense given that binary star systems are a lot more common than people think.
I think with the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2018, this may be the instrument that could find that supposed large object--based on its infrared signature--orbiting a long distance from the Sun, possibly taking around 10,000 years to orbit our Solar System.
But is it a gas giant planet as now proposed? Is it possible the object may actually be a faint brown dwarf star, one that is much smaller than our gas giant planets but with a diameter a couple times that of Earth itself? If it's a brown dwarf, that might explain the strong gravitational influence on our Solar System.
As an owner of an iPad Air and iPhone 6, the Night Shift feature of iOS 9.3 has one advantage for me: because I have to wake up when it's still dark outside (I start work at 0630 hours in the morning), turning on my iPad or iPhone on the night stand next to my bed when I wake up no longer gives me eyestrain (and sometimes a headache) with that blast of bluish-white light.
There are three dangerous pollutants in coal burning: oxides of sulfur, heavy metals and particulates. The latest exhaust treatment technology has come very close to completely eliminating all three of these pollutants. (Remember back in the 1960's and 1970's we had major concerns about "acid rain"? Today, thanks to emission controls to remove oxides of sulfur, nobody talks about that issue anymore.)
China should aggressively install the latest exhaust emission control technologies at all their coal-fired power plants. Doing that will dramatically reduce urban air pollution, and make the air over the Korean Peninsula and in Japan much healthier in the long run.
Mostly because people who have seriously studied the DPRK military note their military is like the military divisions in Moscow during the Soviet era: all show and no go. Many have said that the DPRK military may not even have enough ammunition and military hardware to mount a full-scale invasion of South Korea.
Look, when Apple now offers their own battery case (love it or not the design of the case, though) for the iPhone 6/6s and 6+/6s+ models, there's a lot less excuse for running out of battery charge. And unlike a Mophie Juice Pack, the way the charging system works doesn't require a manual switching of charging the iPhone's battery when the iPhone battery runs low.
_American business tax laws actually encourage this type of activity_.
Why do you think Ford and just recently Carrier decided to move thousands of jobs to Mexico? Or the fact here in the USA, the states with the lowest tax burden are attracting many thousands of jobs? Or why in their (in my humble opinion) insanity in raising business income taxes, the state of Connecticut is losing thousands of jobs (GE just announced they're moving a lot of their operations out of the state)? Or why Apple has 70% of its $218 billion liquid asset hoard sitting in non-US banks? Or why American tech companies engage in that highly complex "Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich" accounting scheme to substantially lower their tax burden for European operations?
That's why I strongly support radical tax reform in the USA _so it encourages savings and capital formation staying in the country_. Business income should be taxed at a no-loophole flat rate of around 12%, which would make it among the lowest business tax rates on Earth and because the taxation is simple, save hundreds of billions per year in compliance costs, which could encourage businesses to far less likely export jobs for tax reasons.
After the major fallout over Twitter "unverifying" Milo Yiannopoulos' account, the last thing Twitter wants is shutting down Donald Trump's account, which would just about destroy Twitter in terms of public relations.
The story has really gotten traction because we know the identity of two of the shooters--unfortunately, both of Muslim faith.
And you wonder why people are increasingly wary of Muslims--especially the well-documented history of terrorist acts done by Muslims since the middle 1960's when groups like al-Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were formed.
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Not only is Chrome very fast, but the latest versions (from Version 52 on) are way less bloated in the use of system memory, not to mention close links to widely used Google services and just about the best HTML 5.0 compliance of any web browser out there.
Chipotle's latest problem is why restaurant and retailers need to offer Android Pay and Apple Pay support.
Why? Because under Android Pay and Apple Pay, you transact using a specially encrypted code that is not anywhere close to your credit card number. As such, there's no such thing as "skimming for card number," and it's extremely difficult--even if the hacker could intercept the data stream--to use it for credit card fraud.
We'll find out at WWDC if this thing is actually completed. If it is, there's a chance the 2017 iPhone models may incorporate this chip specifically to speed up Siri.
Wasn't there a link of bees dying in big numbers due to the over use of insecticides that are based on neonicotinoids? And why the EPA hasn't considered severely restricting or banning their use?
While this is true, the difference in picture quality betwen 4096x2160 and 3840x2160 is very small indeed, and very few viewers to will notice the difference.
Once they perfect the molten-salt reactor (MSR) design, it might be possible to eventually build a cruise ship powered by a nuclear reactor. Not only would there be way less air pollution, but it might even make it possible for even the largest cruise ships to potentially go as fast as 30 knots top speed.
But then, those early 20th Century passenger ships were designed specifically for long-distance voyages at speed--and as such, they had to be designed to travel as fast as possible, resulting in very sleek design for its time. Today's cruise ships--outside of the three boats operated by Cunard Cruises--are designed for relatively slow travel, so they tend to have a lot more amenities on board.
Completely correct. That's why there is a lot of interest in molten-salt reactors (MSR's), where the nuclear fuel (normally thorium-232) is dissolved in molten sodium fluoride salts. In fact, MSR's could even use reprocessed spent uranium-235 fuel rods or even plutonium-239/241 from dismantled nuclear weapons dissolved in molten fluoride salts as fuel.
Fukushima Dai-Ichi was a BAD nuclear plant design--no modern containment structures and highly vulnerable to a tsunami in the first place. They should have decommissioned that power plant by the late 1990's and replaced it with a more modern nuclear power plant located further inland with real containment structures around the reactor.
However, if you're running Chrome or Firefox, YouTube videos are played back using HTML 5.0 by default. Internet Explorer still uses Flash, though I believe that Edge from Windows 10 defaults to HTML 5.0 playback in YouTube.
Look at what happened in this period:
1. The rapid expansion of railroads worldwide.
2. The development of electricity (both DC and AC).
3. The development of the automobile.
4. The development of the telegraph and eventually telephone.
5. The development of radio.
I think one reason why Amazon has been extremely successful is that they have been among the most diligent in protecting their retail web site from a hacker attack. They better be, given they are the world's largest online retailer and also a major provider of cloud computer services.
I think Comcast doesn't realize the data cap issue could be MUCH more serious than they thought.
It may be more than just a streaming video problem from Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and so on. The likes of Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are pushing for more and more operations "though the cloud," and that could really use up a lot of data over the Internet in the near future.
I believe that the downfall of data caps won't be a lawsuit from Netflix, Amazon or Hulu, but from Apple, Google and Microsoft as these tech companies embrace more and more "cloud computing" initiatives. And Comcast doesn't have the deep pockets of Apple, Google and Microsoft when it comes to legal wrangling.
That's not a problem in Israel, where there are enough sunny days to justify the initial cost of large-scale solar installation.
The problem with San Francisco is that between May and early September, the western 40% of the city gets socked in by "marine layer" fog, which can effectively block out the Sun for many days at a time. I should know--I used to live in the Bay Area and visited San Francisco fairly frequently; I remember in the Outer Sunset District, Golden Gate Park and Outer Richmond District, during the summer months you are socked in by that fog and never see the Sun for many days at a time. In the eastern third of the city, that fog usually burns off by late morning and doesn't roll back in until early evening, so solar panels on the roof make more sense there.
Actually, some archaeologists suggest that many of the human Great Flood myths may have come from a memory of 12,000 years ago, when the last great Ice Age ended and the melting massive glaciers inundated vast swaths of land often at very high speed, as evidenced by the sudden emptying of the prehistoric Lake Bonneville about that time as a possible ice dam melted, sending water down what is now the Snake River Canyon.
But getting back on topic, there is a likely possibility that modern humans may have experienced the effects of a supervolcano eruption: the eruption of the gigantic volcano at what is now Lake Toba around 75,000 years ago. That eruption--which was around 100 times bigger than the 1815 Mount Tambora eruption in what is now Indonesia--may have caused such severe weather changes that the number of larger mammals may have dramatically dropped in number, though most scientists now say that the drop in the number of humans to around 10,000 after that eruption probably didn't happen.
The infrared sensor on JWST may not be able to find a gas giant planet that far out from the Sun. But it may find my proposed small brown dwarf (which may have a fairly significant heat signature) orbiting around the Sun in a very elliptical orbit that at its closest pass is still well beyond the orbit of Pluto--probably beyond the orbit of Sedna, too.
My suggestion makes more sense given that binary star systems are a lot more common than people think.
I think with the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2018, this may be the instrument that could find that supposed large object--based on its infrared signature--orbiting a long distance from the Sun, possibly taking around 10,000 years to orbit our Solar System.
But is it a gas giant planet as now proposed? Is it possible the object may actually be a faint brown dwarf star, one that is much smaller than our gas giant planets but with a diameter a couple times that of Earth itself? If it's a brown dwarf, that might explain the strong gravitational influence on our Solar System.
As an owner of an iPad Air and iPhone 6, the Night Shift feature of iOS 9.3 has one advantage for me: because I have to wake up when it's still dark outside (I start work at 0630 hours in the morning), turning on my iPad or iPhone on the night stand next to my bed when I wake up no longer gives me eyestrain (and sometimes a headache) with that blast of bluish-white light.
There are three dangerous pollutants in coal burning: oxides of sulfur, heavy metals and particulates. The latest exhaust treatment technology has come very close to completely eliminating all three of these pollutants. (Remember back in the 1960's and 1970's we had major concerns about "acid rain"? Today, thanks to emission controls to remove oxides of sulfur, nobody talks about that issue anymore.)
China should aggressively install the latest exhaust emission control technologies at all their coal-fired power plants. Doing that will dramatically reduce urban air pollution, and make the air over the Korean Peninsula and in Japan much healthier in the long run.
Mostly because people who have seriously studied the DPRK military note their military is like the military divisions in Moscow during the Soviet era: all show and no go. Many have said that the DPRK military may not even have enough ammunition and military hardware to mount a full-scale invasion of South Korea.
And Microsoft will probably patch it with the this month's security updates, which should be out next Tuesday (March 8, 2016).
Look, when Apple now offers their own battery case (love it or not the design of the case, though) for the iPhone 6/6s and 6+/6s+ models, there's a lot less excuse for running out of battery charge. And unlike a Mophie Juice Pack, the way the charging system works doesn't require a manual switching of charging the iPhone's battery when the iPhone battery runs low.
_American business tax laws actually encourage this type of activity_.
Why do you think Ford and just recently Carrier decided to move thousands of jobs to Mexico? Or the fact here in the USA, the states with the lowest tax burden are attracting many thousands of jobs? Or why in their (in my humble opinion) insanity in raising business income taxes, the state of Connecticut is losing thousands of jobs (GE just announced they're moving a lot of their operations out of the state)? Or why Apple has 70% of its $218 billion liquid asset hoard sitting in non-US banks? Or why American tech companies engage in that highly complex "Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich" accounting scheme to substantially lower their tax burden for European operations?
That's why I strongly support radical tax reform in the USA _so it encourages savings and capital formation staying in the country_. Business income should be taxed at a no-loophole flat rate of around 12%, which would make it among the lowest business tax rates on Earth and because the taxation is simple, save hundreds of billions per year in compliance costs, which could encourage businesses to far less likely export jobs for tax reasons.
After the major fallout over Twitter "unverifying" Milo Yiannopoulos' account, the last thing Twitter wants is shutting down Donald Trump's account, which would just about destroy Twitter in terms of public relations.
The story has really gotten traction because we know the identity of two of the shooters--unfortunately, both of Muslim faith.
And you wonder why people are increasingly wary of Muslims--especially the well-documented history of terrorist acts done by Muslims since the middle 1960's when groups like al-Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were formed.