Sure, there are probably 5% of people who could truly benefit from an SDD, but with new low power drives, what do you gain, 10-20 minutes out of a 5-7 hour battery!?!? It;s simply NOT worth it.
For the price difference, you could easily pick up a spare battery. And then you're doubling your power time.
You just might be surprised at how fast the producers fall in line with the Chinese government after one or two are executed.
Unless you're implying China is going to assassinate foreign industrialists, you're apparently confused. Most of the known reserves of rare earth metals aren't in China - the problem, for Japan, is that China has negotiated exclusive trading rights with several developing countries over their stocks of rare earth metals. So the local governments may even be in on this 'black market' - the problem is that if they openly sell directly to Japanese companies, China will bring suit against them in the WTO.
Sorry, but that's an oxymoron. It may be tamper-resistant (and some wireless devices have pretty good tamper resistance), but nothing that can be controlled wirelessly is tamper proof.
Any time you see 'X'-proof in a description, you know they're bullshitting you. There's never been a lock made that couldn't be picked or bypassed in some way.
The real question is whether it's worth the hassle - hasn't London's experiences shown that CCTV cameras either get broken or people just move into the blind spot to do something they don't want seen?
So I'm guessing that setting up a stand selling fake mustaches, Guy Fawkes masks, and Groucho Marx glasses on a busy corner in Consta... er.. Istanbul would get me a lot of money and a lot of police attention quickly.
Which is why I always answer security questions from the perspective of my high school D&D characters.
So unless the crackers get access to one of the other six people from that group (and assuming they actually remember any of that from almost two decades ago), they can try my real birth place all day long.
A person has the right to destroy himself if he so desires. It is neither your place, nor your obligation to intercede in the matter, except when he is hurting others who can't help themselves in the process (i.e. his children).
I completely agree with the first part, and completely disagree with the second. Most people only quit an addiction when they have lost their job, their family, their friends.*
If the family/friends just pretend like nothing is happening, then it's just going to take longer before that person realizes how bad things really are. I'm not advocating the friend trying to physically restrain him from playing - but let him know in a reasonable tone that he thinks he is endangering his well-being with the computer, and that you can't keep being his friend if all he wants to do is play the game.
* Some people still don't do it then, but that's besides the point.
In Canada, a defendant has to prove a statement true,
You say this like its a bad thing . . . My phones aren't tapped regardless of the law
What does that have to do with the fact that, in Canada, at least, you are guilty until proven innocent in 'hate speech' cases? Sure, some things may be better up in the Great White North, but defending against one accusation by bringing up completely unrelated points isn't very effective debating.
The second is that the solution has to scale well, even for a company like Yahoo that probably gets so many complaints about user conduct every day that it would be impossible to read them all.
If your business model is based on your customer being unable to actually reach a real live human being, your company either should be set up to avoid complaints whenever possible, or your company is going to get a (probably well-deserved) reputation for crap customer service. But people like the submitter who expect that big companies can't have a big enough support staff to cover their complaints are part of the problem...
Outsourcing your customer service overseas isn't always a great solution, but it's almost always better than conducting 'customer service' through emails that involve cut & paste from FAQs.
Yes it can. Capitalism is the most efficient producer of common and uncommon goods mankind has ever devised.
'Common Good' as the OP is using it is a good that isn't owned by an individual or company. Usually those are things that the government is involved in the creation of because it's either not going to be profitable, or making it profitable would make it far more difficult to use.
I made it almost seven days with increasingly large dose of caffeine. By the last day, I drank 3 pots of coffee in under twelve hours, and then I started having extremely vivid visual hallucinations. That's when I decided I was at my personal limit. (And then I slept for over 24 hours.)
I've had some similar experience. One semester in college, I had a terrible schedule - almost all my classes were before lunch. The previous semester, I had gotten used to staying up very late since my I didn't have a single class before 2 PM. When I decided to try and stay up late, and then just take a nap in the afternoon, my grades in calculus, history, and physics suffered. But my creative writing class I did very well in. My computer science class was an even split - I came up with some very well-optimized code, but my documentation was horrible, and sometimes by the time I met up with the rest of the group to get all the modules working together, I couldn't even remember how it did what it did.
The only Sony product I could find in my house is my stereo amplifier. And that's almost twenty years old - it still works wonderfully,though. I wonder how many of the products their making today will last that long...
You're only supposed to use the ??? when the next step isn't obvious. Since 'Buy off legislatures to support your failing business model' has been their tactic for years, it's not a very secret step.
Oh, and remember that speed cameras don't go to criminal court (nor do normal speeding tickets, it's only if you're going fast enough to get a criminal reckless driving charge). There is a pretty noticeable difference in the standards for parking tickets, camera-issued tickets, traffic tickets, and criminal charges.
A lawyer that specializes in traffic law will get a miscalibrated radar gun thrown out of court without breaking a sweat. If somebody didn't getting a lawyer... well, you know what they say about people who represent themselves in court.
Polygraphs have been disallowed for this exact reason, while fingerprints are allowed, and DNA markers above a certain statistical threshold (one in one hundred thousand, IIRC). Any counterexamples?
solar event will cause transient events that will recover in a few seconds
A normal event, sure. But a repeat of the 1859 solar flare would likely damage many satellites not in the Earth's shadow at the height of the impact. Is the whole GPS constellation set up to handle that type of event? Or would more than half the satellites go down in a hour?
With one or two satellites below the 24 constellation, the accuracy isn't going to be impeded any noticeable amount. Any GPS reciever that can take DGPS signals might well not even notice.
The real concern is a major solar event - if they're having a big issue replacing one every other year, imagine if a major solar storm took out a dozen at once.
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The OP isn't talking about massive wind or solar farms, but rather roof mounted 2 KW units or small neighborhood 10 KW windmills.
For the price difference, you could easily pick up a spare battery. And then you're doubling your power time.
Unless you're implying China is going to assassinate foreign industrialists, you're apparently confused. Most of the known reserves of rare earth metals aren't in China - the problem, for Japan, is that China has negotiated exclusive trading rights with several developing countries over their stocks of rare earth metals. So the local governments may even be in on this 'black market' - the problem is that if they openly sell directly to Japanese companies, China will bring suit against them in the WTO.
For a dog? Yes.
Any time you see 'X'-proof in a description, you know they're bullshitting you. There's never been a lock made that couldn't be picked or bypassed in some way.
The real question is whether it's worth the hassle - hasn't London's experiences shown that CCTV cameras either get broken or people just move into the blind spot to do something they don't want seen?
So I'm guessing that setting up a stand selling fake mustaches, Guy Fawkes masks, and Groucho Marx glasses on a busy corner in Consta... er.. Istanbul would get me a lot of money and a lot of police attention quickly.
So unless the crackers get access to one of the other six people from that group (and assuming they actually remember any of that from almost two decades ago), they can try my real birth place all day long.
I completely agree with the first part, and completely disagree with the second. Most people only quit an addiction when they have lost their job, their family, their friends.*
If the family/friends just pretend like nothing is happening, then it's just going to take longer before that person realizes how bad things really are. I'm not advocating the friend trying to physically restrain him from playing - but let him know in a reasonable tone that he thinks he is endangering his well-being with the computer, and that you can't keep being his friend if all he wants to do is play the game.
* Some people still don't do it then, but that's besides the point.
If there's a prize for best tinfoil hat theory of the month, I'll writing you in for it.
2.)Some degree of loss of trust - they assumed that some other vendor would be less likely to force them to upgrade OS at some point in the future.
What does that have to do with the fact that, in Canada, at least, you are guilty until proven innocent in 'hate speech' cases? Sure, some things may be better up in the Great White North, but defending against one accusation by bringing up completely unrelated points isn't very effective debating.
If your business model is based on your customer being unable to actually reach a real live human being, your company either should be set up to avoid complaints whenever possible, or your company is going to get a (probably well-deserved) reputation for crap customer service. But people like the submitter who expect that big companies can't have a big enough support staff to cover their complaints are part of the problem...
Outsourcing your customer service overseas isn't always a great solution, but it's almost always better than conducting 'customer service' through emails that involve cut & paste from FAQs.
Lensflare. JJ Abrams certainly agrees.
Sure, but would any of them have had any (positive) effect on the hallucinations?
'Common Good' as the OP is using it is a good that isn't owned by an individual or company. Usually those are things that the government is involved in the creation of because it's either not going to be profitable, or making it profitable would make it far more difficult to use.
I made it almost seven days with increasingly large dose of caffeine. By the last day, I drank 3 pots of coffee in under twelve hours, and then I started having extremely vivid visual hallucinations. That's when I decided I was at my personal limit. (And then I slept for over 24 hours.)
I've had some similar experience. One semester in college, I had a terrible schedule - almost all my classes were before lunch. The previous semester, I had gotten used to staying up very late since my I didn't have a single class before 2 PM. When I decided to try and stay up late, and then just take a nap in the afternoon, my grades in calculus, history, and physics suffered. But my creative writing class I did very well in. My computer science class was an even split - I came up with some very well-optimized code, but my documentation was horrible, and sometimes by the time I met up with the rest of the group to get all the modules working together, I couldn't even remember how it did what it did.
The only Sony product I could find in my house is my stereo amplifier. And that's almost twenty years old - it still works wonderfully,though. I wonder how many of the products their making today will last that long...
You're only supposed to use the ??? when the next step isn't obvious. Since 'Buy off legislatures to support your failing business model' has been their tactic for years, it's not a very secret step.
think of the baby axes?!?
Oh, and remember that speed cameras don't go to criminal court (nor do normal speeding tickets, it's only if you're going fast enough to get a criminal reckless driving charge). There is a pretty noticeable difference in the standards for parking tickets, camera-issued tickets, traffic tickets, and criminal charges.
A lawyer that specializes in traffic law will get a miscalibrated radar gun thrown out of court without breaking a sweat. If somebody didn't getting a lawyer... well, you know what they say about people who represent themselves in court.
Polygraphs have been disallowed for this exact reason, while fingerprints are allowed, and DNA markers above a certain statistical threshold (one in one hundred thousand, IIRC). Any counterexamples?
A normal event, sure. But a repeat of the 1859 solar flare would likely damage many satellites not in the Earth's shadow at the height of the impact. Is the whole GPS constellation set up to handle that type of event? Or would more than half the satellites go down in a hour?
The real concern is a major solar event - if they're having a big issue replacing one every other year, imagine if a major solar storm took out a dozen at once.