What's wrong with fantasizing about 20-30 year old women when you are 10-15? They are in peak physical shape and have experience. Biologically, that's the ideal age for child bearing, something, we, as a specie, associate with "sexy". Fantasies are an ideal. And what's more normal a straight male to fantasize about women the ideal age.
And about virtual child porn, my stance is that as long as no kid is harmed, anything goes. In fact true pedophiles have a skewed perception of sexiness, they just don't find the right category of person attractive. Kind of like homosexuals in fact. The difference is while homosexuals can (now) happily do as they like because they are consenting adults, pedophiles can't, the relationship is asymmetrical and will always be. To cope with this, pedophiles can turn to crime, or find substitutes. Substitutes can be virtual child porn, young looking adults, age play, etc... In fact there are probably millions of pedophiles you never heard of, simply because they know how to deal with their desires without harming anyone. But if you criminalize everything innocuous that could make a pedophile jack off, it is no wonder they end up as criminals.
I remember a friend delivering a phone book to a boiler. The reason : the boiler was connected to a phone line, probably for remote control. And because at that time, when you had a landline, a phone book was sent to the subscriber's address, the boiler had its phone book too.
Free.fr, a french ISP notorious for bringing low cost internet doesn't charge a rental fee for its "boxes" and using any other hardware is not supported. In a lawsuit related to the non-disclosure of some open source components, they argued that the freebox (that's the name of the modem) is part of their network and that the customer has nothing to do with it. IIRC, they lost, but I can see Charter pulling the same argument.
Germany has plenty of solar and wind, which have a nasty tendency to give you plenty of power when you don't need it. H2 production can be seen as way to store that energy, with a much better capacity than batteries.
Nope, because the universe doesn't like it. In this particular case the problem is that we don't know beforehand which particle is entangled with witch one. Some particles may not be entangled at all. The result is that by measuring his particles, Bob will only get random data. The only way for him to find the "good" particles is by comparing his measurement with Alice's, but first, Alice has to transmit her results, and this can only be done the "slow" way.
I know there's a black and a white ball in a box. I pick one of them without looking at it and transport it 10km away, then I check what colour it is. Now I also know the colour of the other ball, but is it fair to say that checking the colour "affected" the ball I left in the box over the distance of 10km? Obviously it's absurd. Why would quantum entaglement be any more mysterious than this?
What you describe here it the hidden variable theory, and it has been proven wrong using Bell's theorem. Quantum entanglement really is mysterious. Mysterious enough to drive Einstein nuts. And while the maths work, there is currently no satisfactory interpretation.
1. The majority of the profit comes from younger individuals who [want|need] NOW. They don't tend to think of ways to hack around the bad system that makes them pay for something they shouldn't have to pay for, so their demand and "I [want|need] it NOW" mentality drives them toward the thing that gets them what they want with a payment (slews of different ways to download music and pay).
I guess that by younger, you mean any age before retirement. Because yeah, active people have busy lives, and they don't want to keep track of things if they don't have to, they want convenience and are ready to pay for it, that's totally normal. And after so many years, the music industry finally realized the obvious. If you want to make people pay you have to offer people better service than pirates, and it means convenience.
I thought about this too. Snowden being a NSA puppet would really be the move of a grandmaster. It would be awesome in all senses of the word. I almost want to believe this.
However, using Hanlon's razor, it think that the NSA is simply a bloated administration and that Snowden's leaks are the results of sheer incompetence.
I think the only way Microsoft could gain any traction with Windows phones is if they manage to keep compatibility with real Windows apps. It means a x86 CPU, and there is probably a lot of work to be done to make a usable UI but it might be worth it, at least for now.
Look at Surface tablets. Windows RT was a failure but real Windows tablets are usually considered pretty good, except for the price.
The entire point of Tesla was not to dominate the market for EVs, it was to make EVs a real thing that people could buy.
It was to make EVs a real thing that people would buy. We had affordable EVs before, but they were not cool enough for people who like cars and too expensive for people who didn't care. Tesla actually went the opposite way, by making a luxury car that's fun to drive at about twice the price of other EVs. What they managed to do is to make EVs cool, but not more affordable. And at the same time they positioned themselves as the coolest manufacturer of the cool electric cars.
As for their true goal, I can tell you that it is green, but the kind that is printed on paper. What do you think they are? Charity?
Text files that are timestamped and stored on a server, often with multiple copies. I don't know how often e-mails are used in court but if you don't have an original signed document, this is probably the next best thing.
The ATSB also found that the aircraft was not fitted with an upgraded flight management system that would have prevented the data entry error via either automated initialisation or automatic correction of manual errors.
Do you think NK gives a shit about its people? (Hint: It doesn't)
Of course it does give a shit. NK may not care about its people well being but it still has to do the minimum to keep them alive. Without subjects, rulers can not exist.
72 virgins is a good investment. The afterlife is long, and these 72 virgins will probably get a lot of experience along the way. And while you can turn a virgin into a slutty girl, the opposite is impossible. If, for some reason, you really can't stand virgins, you also get 8000 servants in the package, so you can pick a few of your virgins and send them for training.
One of the stated reasons for the removal of the headphone jack is to improve water resistance. Yet "Liquid damage not covered under warranty" (quote from the official site).
It seems that Apple used up all its courage, there is none left to back up its claims.
When physicists talk about the universe, they usually talk about the observable universe, and we are right in the center of it, even more so now that we know it is directionless.
Interesting. It reminds me when I was a kid : I was given an assignment, couldn't do it properly, so I pushed for an incomplete solution with plenty of made up reasons why it is better. Of course, the person in charge could see right through me and I was usually told to get back to work and stop making excuses. Look like the Apple engineering team is a like bunch of kids without adult supervision.
But it wasn't a "computer glitch". If you want to have your trip featured on Slashdot, you should put a 3D printed gun in your hand luggage and pay for your ticket in Bitcoin.
This is not the case of video codecs. Video is a huge bandwidth hog and small improvements can really make a difference. This is why we still use JPEG and MP3 but video benefits from the latest technologies. It is also why Vorbis (audio) is much more successful than Theora (video). Both are patent-free formats from xiph.org.
Additionally, with hardware improving, more advanced compression algorithms can be used. For example entropy coders are mostly a performance/ratio tradeoff and newer standards tend to use more advanced schemes. Not that these couldn't have been used before, but the hardware requirement were too steep at that time. And you can't really put "insert preferred encoding scheme here" in your standard to make it future proof, because it wouldn't be a standard. All parts have to work together. You don't want to specify a super duper filter that melts CPUs and botch the job with a crappy entropy coder, you have to balance each part to get the best of your target hardware.
If need be, order a battery not made of Lithium Colbalt. The Cobalt part is Cancerous, get a Lithium Iron battery instead.
And get half the battery life, no thank you.
I know that LiFePO4 batteries (probably what you are talking about) have many advantages, including better safety, higher charge/discharge currents and longer life However, the low energy density is too much of a tradeoff. Especially since safety is a one-in-a-million risk (of fire, cancer is insignificant) if you buy good batteries, that the phone cannot take advantage of these high currents and replacing a removable battery after 3 years is cheap and easy.
Why not buy a Note7 if you want a Note7? You aren't affected by the problem because you didn't buy it yet. And after you buy it, the problem will be fixed. You just have to wait a bit.
You probably have your reasons but personally, I wouldn't get a Note5. It has lost plenty of features compared to the Note4 (SD card, removable battery, IR blaster,...) and compared to the Note7 it is globally inferior (because it is the older model) and lacks the SD card slot and water resistance. The price really has to be interesting to justify it.
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Pokemon go doesn't eat that much data.
Battery on the other hand...
What's wrong with fantasizing about 20-30 year old women when you are 10-15? They are in peak physical shape and have experience. Biologically, that's the ideal age for child bearing, something, we, as a specie, associate with "sexy".
Fantasies are an ideal. And what's more normal a straight male to fantasize about women the ideal age.
And about virtual child porn, my stance is that as long as no kid is harmed, anything goes.
In fact true pedophiles have a skewed perception of sexiness, they just don't find the right category of person attractive. Kind of like homosexuals in fact. The difference is while homosexuals can (now) happily do as they like because they are consenting adults, pedophiles can't, the relationship is asymmetrical and will always be.
To cope with this, pedophiles can turn to crime, or find substitutes. Substitutes can be virtual child porn, young looking adults, age play, etc... In fact there are probably millions of pedophiles you never heard of, simply because they know how to deal with their desires without harming anyone. But if you criminalize everything innocuous that could make a pedophile jack off, it is no wonder they end up as criminals.
I remember a friend delivering a phone book to a boiler.
The reason : the boiler was connected to a phone line, probably for remote control. And because at that time, when you had a landline, a phone book was sent to the subscriber's address, the boiler had its phone book too.
Free.fr, a french ISP notorious for bringing low cost internet doesn't charge a rental fee for its "boxes" and using any other hardware is not supported.
In a lawsuit related to the non-disclosure of some open source components, they argued that the freebox (that's the name of the modem) is part of their network and that the customer has nothing to do with it. IIRC, they lost, but I can see Charter pulling the same argument.
Germany has plenty of solar and wind, which have a nasty tendency to give you plenty of power when you don't need it.
H2 production can be seen as way to store that energy, with a much better capacity than batteries.
Was the message transferred FTL?
Nope, because the universe doesn't like it.
In this particular case the problem is that we don't know beforehand which particle is entangled with witch one. Some particles may not be entangled at all. The result is that by measuring his particles, Bob will only get random data.
The only way for him to find the "good" particles is by comparing his measurement with Alice's, but first, Alice has to transmit her results, and this can only be done the "slow" way.
I know there's a black and a white ball in a box. I pick one of them without looking at it and transport it 10km away, then I check what colour it is. Now I also know the colour of the other ball, but is it fair to say that checking the colour "affected" the ball I left in the box over the distance of 10km? Obviously it's absurd. Why would quantum entaglement be any more mysterious than this?
What you describe here it the hidden variable theory, and it has been proven wrong using Bell's theorem.
Quantum entanglement really is mysterious. Mysterious enough to drive Einstein nuts. And while the maths work, there is currently no satisfactory interpretation.
That space station is for export. They just don't know to where it will be exported.
1. The majority of the profit comes from younger individuals who [want|need] NOW. They don't tend to think of ways to hack around the bad system that makes them pay for something they shouldn't have to pay for, so their demand and "I [want|need] it NOW" mentality drives them toward the thing that gets them what they want with a payment (slews of different ways to download music and pay).
I guess that by younger, you mean any age before retirement.
Because yeah, active people have busy lives, and they don't want to keep track of things if they don't have to, they want convenience and are ready to pay for it, that's totally normal.
And after so many years, the music industry finally realized the obvious. If you want to make people pay you have to offer people better service than pirates, and it means convenience.
I thought about this too. Snowden being a NSA puppet would really be the move of a grandmaster. It would be awesome in all senses of the word. I almost want to believe this.
However, using Hanlon's razor, it think that the NSA is simply a bloated administration and that Snowden's leaks are the results of sheer incompetence.
A water resistant phone with a removable battery.
This is definitely not possible.
I think the only way Microsoft could gain any traction with Windows phones is if they manage to keep compatibility with real Windows apps.
It means a x86 CPU, and there is probably a lot of work to be done to make a usable UI but it might be worth it, at least for now.
Look at Surface tablets. Windows RT was a failure but real Windows tablets are usually considered pretty good, except for the price.
The entire point of Tesla was not to dominate the market for EVs, it was to make EVs a real thing that people could buy.
It was to make EVs a real thing that people would buy. We had affordable EVs before, but they were not cool enough for people who like cars and too expensive for people who didn't care.
Tesla actually went the opposite way, by making a luxury car that's fun to drive at about twice the price of other EVs. What they managed to do is to make EVs cool, but not more affordable. And at the same time they positioned themselves as the coolest manufacturer of the cool electric cars.
As for their true goal, I can tell you that it is green, but the kind that is printed on paper. What do you think they are? Charity?
Text files that are timestamped and stored on a server, often with multiple copies.
I don't know how often e-mails are used in court but if you don't have an original signed document, this is probably the next best thing.
From the investigation report :
The ATSB also found that the aircraft was not fitted with an upgraded flight management system that would have prevented the data entry error via either automated initialisation or automatic correction of manual errors.
Obligatory xkcd : https://xkcd.com/1098/
Do you think NK gives a shit about its people? (Hint: It doesn't)
Of course it does give a shit.
NK may not care about its people well being but it still has to do the minimum to keep them alive. Without subjects, rulers can not exist.
72 virgins is a good investment.
The afterlife is long, and these 72 virgins will probably get a lot of experience along the way. And while you can turn a virgin into a slutty girl, the opposite is impossible.
If, for some reason, you really can't stand virgins, you also get 8000 servants in the package, so you can pick a few of your virgins and send them for training.
One of the stated reasons for the removal of the headphone jack is to improve water resistance.
Yet "Liquid damage not covered under warranty" (quote from the official site).
It seems that Apple used up all its courage, there is none left to back up its claims.
When physicists talk about the universe, they usually talk about the observable universe, and we are right in the center of it, even more so now that we know it is directionless.
Interesting.
It reminds me when I was a kid : I was given an assignment, couldn't do it properly, so I pushed for an incomplete solution with plenty of made up reasons why it is better. Of course, the person in charge could see right through me and I was usually told to get back to work and stop making excuses.
Look like the Apple engineering team is a like bunch of kids without adult supervision.
But it wasn't a "computer glitch".
If you want to have your trip featured on Slashdot, you should put a 3D printed gun in your hand luggage and pay for your ticket in Bitcoin.
This is not the case of video codecs.
Video is a huge bandwidth hog and small improvements can really make a difference. This is why we still use JPEG and MP3 but video benefits from the latest technologies. It is also why Vorbis (audio) is much more successful than Theora (video). Both are patent-free formats from xiph.org.
Additionally, with hardware improving, more advanced compression algorithms can be used. For example entropy coders are mostly a performance/ratio tradeoff and newer standards tend to use more advanced schemes. Not that these couldn't have been used before, but the hardware requirement were too steep at that time. And you can't really put "insert preferred encoding scheme here" in your standard to make it future proof, because it wouldn't be a standard. All parts have to work together. You don't want to specify a super duper filter that melts CPUs and botch the job with a crappy entropy coder, you have to balance each part to get the best of your target hardware.
If need be, order a battery not made of Lithium Colbalt. The Cobalt part is Cancerous, get a Lithium Iron battery instead.
And get half the battery life, no thank you.
I know that LiFePO4 batteries (probably what you are talking about) have many advantages, including better safety, higher charge/discharge currents and longer life
However, the low energy density is too much of a tradeoff. Especially since safety is a one-in-a-million risk (of fire, cancer is insignificant) if you buy good batteries, that the phone cannot take advantage of these high currents and replacing a removable battery after 3 years is cheap and easy.
Why not buy a Note7 if you want a Note7?
You aren't affected by the problem because you didn't buy it yet. And after you buy it, the problem will be fixed. You just have to wait a bit.
You probably have your reasons but personally, I wouldn't get a Note5. It has lost plenty of features compared to the Note4 (SD card, removable battery, IR blaster, ...) and compared to the Note7 it is globally inferior (because it is the older model) and lacks the SD card slot and water resistance. The price really has to be interesting to justify it.