The dumbness of some of these systems (specifically including the humans) can be staggering. No one thinks, they just accept the numbers at face value.
My dad used to work for B&Q (a home improvement/hardware store). The big bosses in head office look at the trends of how certain things sell and when, which is all very good. But the dumbass managers see in, say, May that there was a huge spike in sale for a right angled copper pipe coupling in one store. So the next May they order a huge ton of right angle copper pipe couplings because they excitedly think thers's some seasonal trend here at that particular store. Not that, say, a plumber had a.one off large last minute job and happened to need a one off purchase of these things...
The sovereign nation is the United Kingdom (England is just one part of the UK, which consists of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). England doesn't raise taxes, the United Kingdom does.
You are no longer subject to UK income taxes the very day you leave the country to live somewhere else. So yes, it is just the USA (and Eritrea) that taxes non resident citizens for income tax.
Saying "we're not even back to 1969" is like saying "We're still only at 1959" at news about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Sure, the 787 does pretty much the same thing as the original Boeing 707, but it moves more stuff for less money, and is a lot less expensive to maintain and a lot more refined. SpaceX's launcher is less expensive to maintain, moves stuff for less money and is more refined than what we had prior to 1969.
And SpaceX also cuts out the pork barrel spending, since SpaceX did all the specifications to make a space vehicle, not specifications to distribute work to various contractors in various politically favorable states, making things still more efficient.
You need to consider that these days people are starting to use HTTPS by default for things like Facebook. You won't be able to inspect the contents.
If it's scammers he is genuinely worried about, education will solve it, not monitoring (which will catch it too late, after the scam has already started).
"Adequately reading for technical jargon" actually comes before "adequate reading in general" if you're a native English speaker and the foreign text is on an IT subject. Certainly in Spanish, I could adequately read Spanish computer manuals before, say, a novel. Much of the idiom is neologisms imported from English, so if your native language is English you have a good head start already.
That's rubbish. The fly by wire system didn't prevent anything. The engines actually spooled up quicker than the numbers in the book said they should. The problem is basically the crew didn't add power until the tail was already dragging through the tree tops (which added a tremendous amount of drag, as well as distorting and damaging the aerodynamic tail surfaces). Any airliner of that size, fly by wire or not, would have crashed doing what that crew did - unless it was fitted with JATO rockets.
This is the whole point of the GPL, so you don't take someone else's work, derive something off it, then distribute the derived product in a less free way. Your payment as such for using GPL software is that if you distribute something based on it (however small) you pay the community back by distributing your source.
If you don't want to do that, consider contacting the original author and working out a proprietary license deal, so the original author gets something (such as money) in lieu of the source code to something that extends his library. This is the GPL working as intended.
If the US did launch a pre-emptive large scale nuclear attack at Russia, even if Russia didn't retaliate, the nuclear winter that followed would ensure the US's pre-emptive strike was effectively suicidal.
Recent studies have shown that the predictions made on nuclear winter in the 1980s (independently arrived at by the US and Soviet Union) were in fact highly optimistic. New studies have shown even just a regional conflict, such as Iran/Pakistan with as few as 50 Hiroshima sized weapons destroying significant civilian infrastructure would cause a "nuclear autumn" severe enough to reduce the growing season in the breadbaskets of the west by 60 days. (Nuclear winter is a bit of a misnomer - at its height, during a nuclear winter caused by a large exchange of weapons, at mid-day in the northern hemisphere the light conditions would be equivalent to a moonlit night, and this would continue for months).
12V isn't used by much of the server at all. Instead of using 12V then converting to 3.3v, 1.8v, 5v et al. why not use 48v and convert to 3.3v, 1.8v, 5v et al. where most of the actual power is consumed. It'll hugely reduce losses in the bus bar, and make for much smaller bus bars with much lower current.
Motherboards don't run on 12V. Virtually nothing on the motherboard (save things like hard drive motors) will run off 12V, virtually all of the stuff on a motherboard runs at 3.3v or lower. The CPU is a major power consumer, and you still need a power supply to provide the other voltages.
You don't get to eliminate the power supply inside the server.
Most of what's inside a server runs at 3.3v and below, so it still needs a power supply. Others have pointed out the problems with high currents and therefore high losses at a low voltage like 12V. 48V would have been better.
The servers still need DC-DC converters, not much runs off 12V inside a server now apart from disc drive motors (and these all have a power supply of sorts anyway, I suspect they have a BLDC motor controller). The CPU (a major power draw) runs off a much lower voltage so you'll still need a reasonably specified power supply inside the server.
Because quite a lot of the underground network isn't. Many of the lines end up on the surface at some point, and the depots where the trains are kept overnight aren't in underground tunnels. Lines like the Circle and District are often very shallow, and even in central London are open to the sky.
A military exercise in 2002 shows a tin pot dictator could send most of the US fleet to the bottom of the sea. In fact, they had to change the rules of the exercise to stack it in the US's favour for them to win.
The piston engines, by the way, on the film Titanic are actually real working steam reciprocating engines on a still operational ship, the LIberty ship Jeremiah O'Brien. This ship still makes a couple of voyages each year.
The 727 has also been used as a skydiving jumpship. A friend of mine has jumped from the 727, and she said it was somewhat painful hitting the air at that speed (they are actually above terminal velocity when they jump, and can climb a little until they are higher than the actual jumpship before starting their fall)
We've already done that. The US, USSR, French and British have all exploded nuclear bombs, and the footage is available on YouTube. The USA even seriously irradiated a Japanese fishing vessel in one of these explosions, and some of the crew died from radiation sickness.
It's not that the TSA did it, but the attitude they take in doing it.
There was no justification for yelling, calling the child a "suspect" or the rest of it. If they handled it with sensitivity instead of having a huge attitude problem, then this story would never have blown up in their faces.
TSA agents seem to like to behave like NCOs shouting at privates in the Army. Why do they have to always be so agressive? In other countries, airport security are polite, don't raise their voices, say please and thank you and as a result you don't get these situations. If you need to search a child there are ways to do it which don't upset the child. However, every TSA officer seems to think they are a military policeman and can just shout at people and order them around.
Because people have tried to stop plane hijackings. The underwear bomber was subdued by the passengers. There was even a case a few years ago where someone was trying to break into the cockpit and the passengers KILLED the person. People are fighting back.
You're in Australia, that's the problem I suspect. I saw one of the lines on the changelog for iOS recently was to make Siri understand Australians better, I suspect there is still some work to do.
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The dumbness of some of these systems (specifically including the humans) can be staggering. No one thinks, they just accept the numbers at face value.
My dad used to work for B&Q (a home improvement/hardware store). The big bosses in head office look at the trends of how certain things sell and when, which is all very good. But the dumbass managers see in, say, May that there was a huge spike in sale for a right angled copper pipe coupling in one store. So the next May they order a huge ton of right angle copper pipe couplings because they excitedly think thers's some seasonal trend here at that particular store. Not that, say, a plumber had a.one off large last minute job and happened to need a one off purchase of these things...
The sovereign nation is the United Kingdom (England is just one part of the UK, which consists of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). England doesn't raise taxes, the United Kingdom does.
You are no longer subject to UK income taxes the very day you leave the country to live somewhere else. So yes, it is just the USA (and Eritrea) that taxes non resident citizens for income tax.
We're back, baby!
No offense, but we're not even back to 1969.
No, we're further along.
Saying "we're not even back to 1969" is like saying "We're still only at 1959" at news about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Sure, the 787 does pretty much the same thing as the original Boeing 707, but it moves more stuff for less money, and is a lot less expensive to maintain and a lot more refined. SpaceX's launcher is less expensive to maintain, moves stuff for less money and is more refined than what we had prior to 1969.
And SpaceX also cuts out the pork barrel spending, since SpaceX did all the specifications to make a space vehicle, not specifications to distribute work to various contractors in various politically favorable states, making things still more efficient.
You need to consider that these days people are starting to use HTTPS by default for things like Facebook. You won't be able to inspect the contents.
If it's scammers he is genuinely worried about, education will solve it, not monitoring (which will catch it too late, after the scam has already started).
"Adequately reading for technical jargon" actually comes before "adequate reading in general" if you're a native English speaker and the foreign text is on an IT subject. Certainly in Spanish, I could adequately read Spanish computer manuals before, say, a novel. Much of the idiom is neologisms imported from English, so if your native language is English you have a good head start already.
That's rubbish. The fly by wire system didn't prevent anything. The engines actually spooled up quicker than the numbers in the book said they should. The problem is basically the crew didn't add power until the tail was already dragging through the tree tops (which added a tremendous amount of drag, as well as distorting and damaging the aerodynamic tail surfaces). Any airliner of that size, fly by wire or not, would have crashed doing what that crew did - unless it was fitted with JATO rockets.
Not only were the engines not "unresponsive", they actually responded faster than their book values. He just painted himself into a corner.
This is the whole point of the GPL, so you don't take someone else's work, derive something off it, then distribute the derived product in a less free way. Your payment as such for using GPL software is that if you distribute something based on it (however small) you pay the community back by distributing your source.
If you don't want to do that, consider contacting the original author and working out a proprietary license deal, so the original author gets something (such as money) in lieu of the source code to something that extends his library. This is the GPL working as intended.
Why don't they make the loans only repayable when the income is greater than some amount?
Just download VLC already.
If the US did launch a pre-emptive large scale nuclear attack at Russia, even if Russia didn't retaliate, the nuclear winter that followed would ensure the US's pre-emptive strike was effectively suicidal.
Recent studies have shown that the predictions made on nuclear winter in the 1980s (independently arrived at by the US and Soviet Union) were in fact highly optimistic. New studies have shown even just a regional conflict, such as Iran/Pakistan with as few as 50 Hiroshima sized weapons destroying significant civilian infrastructure would cause a "nuclear autumn" severe enough to reduce the growing season in the breadbaskets of the west by 60 days. (Nuclear winter is a bit of a misnomer - at its height, during a nuclear winter caused by a large exchange of weapons, at mid-day in the northern hemisphere the light conditions would be equivalent to a moonlit night, and this would continue for months).
12V isn't used by much of the server at all. Instead of using 12V then converting to 3.3v, 1.8v, 5v et al. why not use 48v and convert to 3.3v, 1.8v, 5v et al. where most of the actual power is consumed. It'll hugely reduce losses in the bus bar, and make for much smaller bus bars with much lower current.
Motherboards don't run on 12V. Virtually nothing on the motherboard (save things like hard drive motors) will run off 12V, virtually all of the stuff on a motherboard runs at 3.3v or lower. The CPU is a major power consumer, and you still need a power supply to provide the other voltages.
You don't get to eliminate the power supply inside the server.
Most of what's inside a server runs at 3.3v and below, so it still needs a power supply. Others have pointed out the problems with high currents and therefore high losses at a low voltage like 12V. 48V would have been better.
The servers still need DC-DC converters, not much runs off 12V inside a server now apart from disc drive motors (and these all have a power supply of sorts anyway, I suspect they have a BLDC motor controller). The CPU (a major power draw) runs off a much lower voltage so you'll still need a reasonably specified power supply inside the server.
Well, a famous Starcraft ragequitter at least....
Because quite a lot of the underground network isn't. Many of the lines end up on the surface at some point, and the depots where the trains are kept overnight aren't in underground tunnels. Lines like the Circle and District are often very shallow, and even in central London are open to the sky.
Don't bet on it.
A military exercise in 2002 shows a tin pot dictator could send most of the US fleet to the bottom of the sea. In fact, they had to change the rules of the exercise to stack it in the US's favour for them to win.
http://www.rense.com/general64/fore.htm
The piston engines, by the way, on the film Titanic are actually real working steam reciprocating engines on a still operational ship, the LIberty ship Jeremiah O'Brien. This ship still makes a couple of voyages each year.
It's unlucky to be superstitious.
The 727 has also been used as a skydiving jumpship. A friend of mine has jumped from the 727, and she said it was somewhat painful hitting the air at that speed (they are actually above terminal velocity when they jump, and can climb a little until they are higher than the actual jumpship before starting their fall)
We've already done that. The US, USSR, French and British have all exploded nuclear bombs, and the footage is available on YouTube. The USA even seriously irradiated a Japanese fishing vessel in one of these explosions, and some of the crew died from radiation sickness.
It's not that the TSA did it, but the attitude they take in doing it.
There was no justification for yelling, calling the child a "suspect" or the rest of it. If they handled it with sensitivity instead of having a huge attitude problem, then this story would never have blown up in their faces.
TSA agents seem to like to behave like NCOs shouting at privates in the Army. Why do they have to always be so agressive? In other countries, airport security are polite, don't raise their voices, say please and thank you and as a result you don't get these situations. If you need to search a child there are ways to do it which don't upset the child. However, every TSA officer seems to think they are a military policeman and can just shout at people and order them around.
Because people have tried to stop plane hijackings. The underwear bomber was subdued by the passengers. There was even a case a few years ago where someone was trying to break into the cockpit and the passengers KILLED the person. People are fighting back.
You're in Australia, that's the problem I suspect. I saw one of the lines on the changelog for iOS recently was to make Siri understand Australians better, I suspect there is still some work to do.