To shutter a business implies the facilities are abandoned and the windows are shuttered or boarded up.
A business can close every night and reopen in the morning. You may not like the term, but when a business is shuttered, it implies that it is permanently closed.
I predict that MS will sell quite a few of these in the enterprise market and almost none in the consumer space (well, almost none compared to the number of android and iPads that get sold).
If this turns out to be correct, what's wrong with this? The enterprise market has deep pockets and is willing to pay for a lot of features. It also helps tie enterprise markets into Microsoft's software and up sales of their other software.
But an electric vehicle can be zero emission dependent upon the source of the electric power. The common vernacular "zero emission" refers to the fact that no emissions are coming out of the vehicle while it is in operations. The emissions are decoupled from the vehicle and fall back to the power generation.
If we are going to be this pedantic about it, even an electric vehicle that gets it's power from a solar or hydro plant is not zero emissions because somewhere along the supply chain materials, processing, or assembling of either the vehicle or power plant would have used a power source that produced emissions.
Yes, it is important to realize that there are many variables in transportation that all have some contribution to emissions. Each one of those variables that can have its emissions removed is a good thing.
We put humans in smallish cages all the time (not exactly inches between skin and wall). Some for the rest of their natural lives. It seems that the biggest factor in shortening their life spans is the other humans in the other cages that they interact with.
I'm not saying Sea World should be caging whales, but I'm saying its gonna be hard to get people to stop doing something that they do to each other. They'll just come up with some whale crimes to charge them with before locking them up.
You're right, software doesn't age, but attackers will eventually find security holes in that software. You can continue to run Windows XP if you wish, but don't expect that software to get patched or have any other support. Do you think Mr. Martin could possible get support for WordStar?
I still think you're making far too big a deal of this event. My raising of other issues in regards to veterans was not to support any sort of cover up, it was to support the idea that there are a lot of issues we need to actively deal with. Continuing to discuss this issue does nothing to address our countries issues, it will also unlikely help the families of the people that lost their lives, and finally it will most likely have little to no sway on the next presidential election.
Obama can not run for president again. He will be gone. The most that can be done to him is alter his place in history. That can be done with him in or out of office.
Hillary Clinton will never win an election for president. I'd be a little surprised if she even wins the Democrat primary. Discrediting her will most likely be a huge waste of time and money that the Republicans could have used elsewhere.
I was mostly just trying to let the GP know that America is not some sort of crime ravaged wasteland like he must think from all our firearms talk. I absolutely did not want to indicate that having a firearm would never be of use in a personal defense situation, just that those times are thankfully not an everyday occurrence to most of us. Thankfully, I haven't had to use my gun in that sort of situation.
If this thing really only comes in 22LR, it's not worth a damn as a defensive firearm. If it did come in a larger caliber, I wouldn't want to trust it myself. I don't necessarily believe that the risk of failure to fire is huge, but I think it is larger than the risk of my gun being taken from me. If I was truly worried about my gun being taken and used by someone else, I would use a safe/locks to secure the gun when it is not on my person, and I would get a gun with a magazine safety so I could quickly disable the gun in a struggle. I would much rather trust a mechanical magazine safety than an electrical one.
TBH, I like revolvers because they are even less likely to fail. No misfeeds.
Age of an issue has no effect on its importance if the person is still in power and controversey over it isnt settled.
Well, Mrs. Clinton is not still in power. I know she's not much to look at, but in case you didn't notice the Secretary of State is currently a dude.
The controversy is non-existent. What is the issue exactly, that four people died in an American embassy in a country that had some shit going on at the time? That's horrible, but it is comparable to US military deaths that occur sadly far to often. Hell, more veterans committed suicide everyday in 2010 than this incident. Where is the outrage for not "supporting our troops" when they come home?
Was Bengahzi a problem, yes, four people died. Was it a big enough problem to justify the level of discourse about it, and let's be honest here, it was only if you want to discredit Hilary Clinton in case she runs for office. The irony of the situation is that anyone that would be swayed by arguments about Benghazi would be in the group of people that wouldn't vote for her anyway.
Maybe it's because his product is an international commodity. a change in the tax structure in Oklahoma has close to zero effect on the global oil price. He doesn't have the ability to raise his price. If he charges more, people will buy oil from other sources that are selling at the market price.
I'm not familiar with it, just sharing some info on what manufacturers have out there now.
If the Hilux is really immortal, the GP should have no problem finding one to buy. It could be possible that Top Gear is exaggerating something, but they wouldn't do that, would they?
Sure. We are now at 2 Billion TV sets in use globally. But mobile has 3.5 times users.
It is clear that they are confusing devices with users. TV sets can have multiple users per device, users can have multiple mobile devices a piece. Its an interesting bit of trivia that there are as many mobile devices as people, but to make too many conclusions from this is a mistake.
Okay, I know, I have a huge lawn that people keep walking on, but really, why is there NOBODY that sells basic vehicles that aren't loaded with all sorts of "safety features" that simply provide a safer way to do unsafe things while you drive? Hell, you can't even buy a light-duty pickup anymore (though they might still classify them as such). I am in a vehicle to move myself and optionally some other materials from point A to point B. I don't need to be entertained. I don't need a computer to tell me how to drive. I just want to go somewhere.
I'm not sure what you mean by a light duty pickup. Considering your questioning of their availablity, I'd wager you mean something smaller than a "full-size" 1/2 ton truck. If that is the case you have 3 options. 1. Nissan Fronteir 2. Toyota Tacoma and coming back in the fall is 3. Chevy Colorado / GMC Canyon. A new one of these will have way more bells and whistles than that 1992 Toyota.
You can still order the "work truck" versions of 1/2 ton trucks and get them without all the power options on the seats, windows, etc. It will still be more than the '92 truck, but closer to what you want.
You're going a little over board on the fatigue issue with Aluminum. How many times do you think you'd have to tap that frame with your fingernail?
If you are really worried about it, get a steel frame.
Not really. Riding on city roads places constant stress on frames. The zero fatigue limit on aluminum bikes basically means that your bike frame has a limit on how much it can be ridden. Ride it enough and it will crack. I have personally seen two cracked aluminum frames.
At the very least, I would never buy an aluminum frame unless I know that the frame is an aluminum alloy that has a non-zero fatigue limit. I would also never buy a used aluminum downhill bike.
I suppose I just don't ride enough to have a huge issue with this. I have 10 year old Aluminum frames that have not cracked. If I was out riding most days of the week an Aluminum frame might not last long enough, but I don't.
Downhill bikes are a whole other ball of wax. It's not my style of riding at all, so I can't imagine myself buying one. My assumption is that even with a steel or titanium frame the amount of stresses involved in downhill drops could still get over the fatigue limit and lead to an eventual failure. If you are putting your life on the line with crazy downhill drops, you better be certain you've checked your bike out beforehand regardless of frame material.
The odds of your toddler picking up your gun and using it on family or friend are significant - it happens at least several times a week in this country.
Someone else already pointed out that this seems like too high of a number of these events, but this doesn't tell us the 'odds' of any particular toddler doing this. There would be a plethora of variables that would make this more or less likely to occur. Many more variables than just toddler + gun = high chance of mayhem.
You are basically trying to sell us on this tech by saying that we are too stupid to take care of ourselves with firearms. Don't be very surprised when people don't take kindly to this.
Surely this is scaremongering right? Or does anyone actually worry about such scenarios on a daily basis?
There are most definitely people in the US that worry about such scenarios. It is not they have a real risk of being in one of these scenarios, but they don't want to literally be the guy that brought a knife to a gunfight.
I'm glad to hear that you don't have to worry about firearms where you are, but I have to warn you, you will never be able to really understand this issue from an American perspective. Gun ownership and use is completely ingrained in our culture. Be warned that you will be attacked for expressing any view about this issue (regardless of which side you are on).
However, a boycott of their games for their crappy "practices" might make them reconsider perhaps? Boycott schmoycott, at the end of the day nobody is going to care and they will do what the bean counters say looks best on the balance sheet.
A boycott might help if it could be done, but it seems clear that the majority of the gaming market doesn't care about this at all and will continue to buy EA games. The people that are impacted by this are exactly the people that aren't buying new games anyway.
"As games get replaced with newer titles, the number of players still enjoying the older games dwindles to a level - typically fewer than 1 per cent of all peak online players across all EA titles
So every EA online game will die when the figure on a spreadsheet drops below a certain threshold. Why not open source the server software rather than abandon it?
I know this isn't a popular idea here, but it really is a bad idea for EA to do anything to keep these games playing. They make money when selling a new game, anything that theoretically keeps old games out there being played takes up some of the gaming market and is interfering with them selling more games. As much as it sucks, it would be most useful to EA's position to try and stop people from playing these old games in any matter. It's not a matter of spending money maintaining old servers. No one expects them to do that forever. It's the fact that anything that they do to help people continue with old games potentially takes away from new game sales.
A replacement Cadillac key fob is ~$200 from a dealership without any programming. The programming can be done yourself from sitting in the drivers seat. It just takes a little time and patience. I know this isn't cheap, but this would clearly be the high end of any system GM implements and it's a little less than you are thinking.
I assume you are still in control of the vehicle. You can steer and apply the brakes. You can also shift into neutral if needed. Are you at all concerned that it would take a few seconds to come to a complete stop even if you are in complete control of your car?
Let's be honest people are driving uncontrollably for a few seconds at a time all day long while they play with their phones.
I don't think you understand. He wasn't talking about moving the water from the Great Lakes to California. He was talking about people from California moving to the Great Lakes.
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To shutter a business implies the facilities are abandoned and the windows are shuttered or boarded up.
A business can close every night and reopen in the morning. You may not like the term, but when a business is shuttered, it implies that it is permanently closed.
I predict that MS will sell quite a few of these in the enterprise market and almost none in the consumer space (well, almost none compared to the number of android and iPads that get sold).
If this turns out to be correct, what's wrong with this? The enterprise market has deep pockets and is willing to pay for a lot of features. It also helps tie enterprise markets into Microsoft's software and up sales of their other software.
But an electric vehicle can be zero emission dependent upon the source of the electric power. The common vernacular "zero emission" refers to the fact that no emissions are coming out of the vehicle while it is in operations. The emissions are decoupled from the vehicle and fall back to the power generation.
If we are going to be this pedantic about it, even an electric vehicle that gets it's power from a solar or hydro plant is not zero emissions because somewhere along the supply chain materials, processing, or assembling of either the vehicle or power plant would have used a power source that produced emissions.
Yes, it is important to realize that there are many variables in transportation that all have some contribution to emissions. Each one of those variables that can have its emissions removed is a good thing.
We put humans in smallish cages all the time (not exactly inches between skin and wall). Some for the rest of their natural lives. It seems that the biggest factor in shortening their life spans is the other humans in the other cages that they interact with.
I'm not saying Sea World should be caging whales, but I'm saying its gonna be hard to get people to stop doing something that they do to each other. They'll just come up with some whale crimes to charge them with before locking them up.
I think he meant HARTZ flea dip.
I can guarantee you that you can get a diesel vehicle with more torque than a model S. It may have shit gas mileage, but it'll have more torque.
You're right, software doesn't age, but attackers will eventually find security holes in that software. You can continue to run Windows XP if you wish, but don't expect that software to get patched or have any other support. Do you think Mr. Martin could possible get support for WordStar?
You can be reasonable sure that the vinyl record will play the next time you try to listen to it, it just may sound slightly worse.
If a CD has reached its end of life, like many things digital, it will most likely completely stop working. Possibly with no warning at all.
A shitty worn down vinyl record is a good warning that you need to replace that album or find a digital copy.
I still think you're making far too big a deal of this event. My raising of other issues in regards to veterans was not to support any sort of cover up, it was to support the idea that there are a lot of issues we need to actively deal with. Continuing to discuss this issue does nothing to address our countries issues, it will also unlikely help the families of the people that lost their lives, and finally it will most likely have little to no sway on the next presidential election.
Obama can not run for president again. He will be gone. The most that can be done to him is alter his place in history. That can be done with him in or out of office.
Hillary Clinton will never win an election for president. I'd be a little surprised if she even wins the Democrat primary. Discrediting her will most likely be a huge waste of time and money that the Republicans could have used elsewhere.
I was mostly just trying to let the GP know that America is not some sort of crime ravaged wasteland like he must think from all our firearms talk. I absolutely did not want to indicate that having a firearm would never be of use in a personal defense situation, just that those times are thankfully not an everyday occurrence to most of us. Thankfully, I haven't had to use my gun in that sort of situation.
If this thing really only comes in 22LR, it's not worth a damn as a defensive firearm. If it did come in a larger caliber, I wouldn't want to trust it myself. I don't necessarily believe that the risk of failure to fire is huge, but I think it is larger than the risk of my gun being taken from me. If I was truly worried about my gun being taken and used by someone else, I would use a safe/locks to secure the gun when it is not on my person, and I would get a gun with a magazine safety so I could quickly disable the gun in a struggle. I would much rather trust a mechanical magazine safety than an electrical one.
TBH, I like revolvers because they are even less likely to fail. No misfeeds.
Age of an issue has no effect on its importance if the person is still in power and controversey over it isnt settled.
Well, Mrs. Clinton is not still in power. I know she's not much to look at, but in case you didn't notice the Secretary of State is currently a dude.
The controversy is non-existent. What is the issue exactly, that four people died in an American embassy in a country that had some shit going on at the time? That's horrible, but it is comparable to US military deaths that occur sadly far to often. Hell, more veterans committed suicide everyday in 2010 than this incident. Where is the outrage for not "supporting our troops" when they come home?
Was Bengahzi a problem, yes, four people died. Was it a big enough problem to justify the level of discourse about it, and let's be honest here, it was only if you want to discredit Hilary Clinton in case she runs for office. The irony of the situation is that anyone that would be swayed by arguments about Benghazi would be in the group of people that wouldn't vote for her anyway.
Maybe it's because his product is an international commodity. a change in the tax structure in Oklahoma has close to zero effect on the global oil price. He doesn't have the ability to raise his price. If he charges more, people will buy oil from other sources that are selling at the market price.
I'm not familiar with it, just sharing some info on what manufacturers have out there now.
If the Hilux is really immortal, the GP should have no problem finding one to buy. It could be possible that Top Gear is exaggerating something, but they wouldn't do that, would they?
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Sure. We are now at 2 Billion TV sets in use globally. But mobile has 3.5 times users.
It is clear that they are confusing devices with users. TV sets can have multiple users per device, users can have multiple mobile devices a piece. Its an interesting bit of trivia that there are as many mobile devices as people, but to make too many conclusions from this is a mistake.
Okay, I know, I have a huge lawn that people keep walking on, but really, why is there NOBODY that sells basic vehicles that aren't loaded with all sorts of "safety features" that simply provide a safer way to do unsafe things while you drive? Hell, you can't even buy a light-duty pickup anymore (though they might still classify them as such). I am in a vehicle to move myself and optionally some other materials from point A to point B. I don't need to be entertained. I don't need a computer to tell me how to drive. I just want to go somewhere.
I'm not sure what you mean by a light duty pickup. Considering your questioning of their availablity, I'd wager you mean something smaller than a "full-size" 1/2 ton truck. If that is the case you have 3 options. 1. Nissan Fronteir 2. Toyota Tacoma and coming back in the fall is 3. Chevy Colorado / GMC Canyon. A new one of these will have way more bells and whistles than that 1992 Toyota.
You can still order the "work truck" versions of 1/2 ton trucks and get them without all the power options on the seats, windows, etc. It will still be more than the '92 truck, but closer to what you want.
You're going a little over board on the fatigue issue with Aluminum. How many times do you think you'd have to tap that frame with your fingernail?
If you are really worried about it, get a steel frame.
Not really. Riding on city roads places constant stress on frames. The zero fatigue limit on aluminum bikes basically means that your bike frame has a limit on how much it can be ridden. Ride it enough and it will crack. I have personally seen two cracked aluminum frames.
At the very least, I would never buy an aluminum frame unless I know that the frame is an aluminum alloy that has a non-zero fatigue limit. I would also never buy a used aluminum downhill bike.
I suppose I just don't ride enough to have a huge issue with this. I have 10 year old Aluminum frames that have not cracked. If I was out riding most days of the week an Aluminum frame might not last long enough, but I don't.
Downhill bikes are a whole other ball of wax. It's not my style of riding at all, so I can't imagine myself buying one. My assumption is that even with a steel or titanium frame the amount of stresses involved in downhill drops could still get over the fatigue limit and lead to an eventual failure. If you are putting your life on the line with crazy downhill drops, you better be certain you've checked your bike out beforehand regardless of frame material.
You're going a little over board on the fatigue issue with Aluminum. How many times do you think you'd have to tap that frame with your fingernail?
If you are really worried about it, get a steel frame.
The odds of your toddler picking up your gun and using it on family or friend are significant - it happens at least several times a week in this country.
Someone else already pointed out that this seems like too high of a number of these events, but this doesn't tell us the 'odds' of any particular toddler doing this. There would be a plethora of variables that would make this more or less likely to occur. Many more variables than just toddler + gun = high chance of mayhem.
You are basically trying to sell us on this tech by saying that we are too stupid to take care of ourselves with firearms. Don't be very surprised when people don't take kindly to this.
Surely this is scaremongering right? Or does anyone actually worry about such scenarios on a daily basis?
There are most definitely people in the US that worry about such scenarios. It is not they have a real risk of being in one of these scenarios, but they don't want to literally be the guy that brought a knife to a gunfight.
I'm glad to hear that you don't have to worry about firearms where you are, but I have to warn you, you will never be able to really understand this issue from an American perspective. Gun ownership and use is completely ingrained in our culture. Be warned that you will be attacked for expressing any view about this issue (regardless of which side you are on).
However, a boycott of their games for their crappy "practices" might make them reconsider perhaps? Boycott schmoycott, at the end of the day nobody is going to care and they will do what the bean counters say looks best on the balance sheet.
A boycott might help if it could be done, but it seems clear that the majority of the gaming market doesn't care about this at all and will continue to buy EA games. The people that are impacted by this are exactly the people that aren't buying new games anyway.
"As games get replaced with newer titles, the number of players still enjoying the older games dwindles to a level - typically fewer than 1 per cent of all peak online players across all EA titles
So every EA online game will die when the figure on a spreadsheet drops below a certain threshold. Why not open source the server software rather than abandon it?
I know this isn't a popular idea here, but it really is a bad idea for EA to do anything to keep these games playing. They make money when selling a new game, anything that theoretically keeps old games out there being played takes up some of the gaming market and is interfering with them selling more games. As much as it sucks, it would be most useful to EA's position to try and stop people from playing these old games in any matter. It's not a matter of spending money maintaining old servers. No one expects them to do that forever. It's the fact that anything that they do to help people continue with old games potentially takes away from new game sales.
A replacement Cadillac key fob is ~$200 from a dealership without any programming. The programming can be done yourself from sitting in the drivers seat. It just takes a little time and patience. I know this isn't cheap, but this would clearly be the high end of any system GM implements and it's a little less than you are thinking.
I assume you are still in control of the vehicle. You can steer and apply the brakes. You can also shift into neutral if needed. Are you at all concerned that it would take a few seconds to come to a complete stop even if you are in complete control of your car?
Let's be honest people are driving uncontrollably for a few seconds at a time all day long while they play with their phones.
Is the guy upstream of you able to dam it off and drain all the water before it reaches you?
I don't think you understand. He wasn't talking about moving the water from the Great Lakes to California. He was talking about people from California moving to the Great Lakes.