In France cities use taxis as a form of a tax. A taxi license in Paris costs 240 000 Euro
A new taxi license in France is free. 240 000 Euro is what taxi drivers pay to other taxi drivers in exchange for a transfer. The cities don't benefits from these. The state benefits a little because the transaction is taxed but that's about it.
Don't know about US law but here, when something is sold as medicine, it must be tested for side effects and the benefit/risk ratio analyzed. Homeopathy gets away with it because it has no harmful side effect (in fact no effect at all). If it did have an effect, it would have been much harder to pass the regulations.
Firefox may be open source software but the name "Firefox" and the logo are not. So you can freely change and redistribute Firefox but if you want to call it Firefox, you need Mozilla's permission. Only if you decide to call it something else, like "Iceweasel", you are free to do whatever you want as long as you respect the copyleft.
If you craft your definition of "most influential individual economic force" carefully, then yes, Linus can qualify. But consider that without Richard Stallman and the GPL, linux wouldn't have been what it is now. And to stay in the tech world, how about Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. And political figures like Vladimir Putin. Or maybe Osama bin Laden, just look at how much has changed since 9/11. But even though it was in 1983 so that it doesn't qualify, Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was perhaps the most influential man in the history of mankind. By correctly identifying a false alarm, he may very well have prevented an all out nuclear war.
Apparently, the 0F point was selected because it was the temperature of a harsh winter in Fahrenheit's town, formalized as the freezing temperature of some ammonium chloride solution. In other words, it means nothing practical for most people. 32F is freezing water temperature, OK, why not, but I find zero more convenient. 100F is horse blood temperature, probably the only thing that makes sense. IMHO, human blood would have been better but that's a decent high point. The trouble is that it is harder to experimentally measure than boiling water.
So I agree that in a preindustrial environment 100F may be more convenient than 100C but setting the zero point at freezing water temperature makes much more sense to me.
Seriously, if you want to write something that works in any platform, write it in C, C++ is a second but still valid choice. When people design a platform, one of the first thing they do make it run code written in C. It is also the language of choice for everything UNIX : Linux, BSD, GNU, etc... It is well standardized too : sure, it is easy to shoot yourself in the foot but if you code properly, it should work on any platform. And as an added bonus, good C code is also valid C++ and ObjC.
It's not that weired. It is a "most loved" survey. All these languages look very cool on paper and it's probably very fun toying with them. However, it doesn't say much about what is it like to do actual development where the language must serve the project and not the opposite.
It's usually how it ends when grown up things like family life don't take over. Interestingly, it doesn't seem to be a lot of open source games compared to the potential number of people doing it as a hobby. Lots of freeware though.
Video game industry is a bit special. It has nothing to to with H1Bs and suits. Working on video games is the dream of many young developers. They would sell their soul just to be able to work on the games they love... and companies are all to eager to take on the offer. But don't blame it solely on big names because if you decide to roll your own or join a small team, that's even more work for even less pay. When I left school, in the early 2000s, several friends tried the video game industry. They all came back and are now doing "boring" stuff with a decent pay and schedule, and it was before the outsourcing boom.
Well, lithium fire is almost impossible to extinguish without specialized equipment (class D extinguisher). A single battery in a house fire probably won't make a difference but it certainly won't help.
Equipping quarterbacks with VR headsets may a good way to test their robustness. However, I'm sure that players will prefer their regular helmet, even during training.
You won't create a new language if you just need to develop a small app, however, when things become big, creating a new language to fit what you are trying to build may become a worthwhile investment. Good programmers can pick up a language very quickly anyways.
how do you know that something is encrypted? I send send any number of things over the Internet that might appear to be encrypted objects. You going to bust everyone who sends data over the net in a format you aren't familiar with?
Data, encrypted or not, usually have headers describing the contents. And encrypted data typically looks random (tip : if you suspect a file is encrypted, compress it with a good compressor like PAQ, if you can't reduce its size, it likely is). This should be enough to know if data are encrypted or not in almost all cases that don't involve steganography.
They never had this slogan to begin with. It was "don't be evil" not "do no evil". And even in the early days, the scope of this slogan was quite limited. It was a business strategy along the lines of "treat our users correctly so that they want to stay with us rather than head to our competitors as soon as they can". It never was the irrealistic ideal people make it to be.
I guess that by including a FPGA in their chips, they could completely get rid of the southbridge/PCH and connect all I/Os directly to the chip. As a result, motherboards will only need to take care about the electrical and physical connections and provide a program to the FPGA for the logic.
"trusted computing", locked bootloaders,... controversial stuff like this are all improvements in security that are easy to mandate, are pushed by big companies and closely match the Tylenol example (where tamper resistance was the solution).
What I understand is that the lasered piece of graphene shoots out electrons, creating a thrust. But what happens when there are no more electrons ? Moreover, stripping off all these electrons will ionize the material, which would either cause nuclei to detach as well (like with a plasma thruster) or the resulting positive charge will eventually end up pulling back all the ejected electrons, negating the thrust.
First the costs for long term securing spent fuel are grossly underestimated. After all, can we really estimate the cost of securing spent fuel for over 100'000 years? It's a bit of a philosophical question, but point is - it can't really be estimated.
Long term storage is not that big of a problem. It's only a matter of converting all that waste into rock (aka vitrification) and dumping it into a hole drilled into rock. As long as there are no waterways, rocks can stay stable for thousands or even millions of years. There are fossils to prove it. Direct exposure from these sites would be negligible compared to natural background radiation. Water contamination would be more problematic (not catastrophic though), that's why it is important to chose the site wisely and have a few layers of safety (such as corrosion-proof containers).
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In France cities use taxis as a form of a tax. A taxi license in Paris costs 240 000 Euro
A new taxi license in France is free. 240 000 Euro is what taxi drivers pay to other taxi drivers in exchange for a transfer. The cities don't benefits from these. The state benefits a little because the transaction is taxed but that's about it.
I find Google finding censorship acceptable in its search results alarming now.
Only ads are censored, not regular search results (Google shopping = ads).
Don't know about US law but here, when something is sold as medicine, it must be tested for side effects and the benefit/risk ratio analyzed.
Homeopathy gets away with it because it has no harmful side effect (in fact no effect at all). If it did have an effect, it would have been much harder to pass the regulations.
Firefox may be open source software but the name "Firefox" and the logo are not.
So you can freely change and redistribute Firefox but if you want to call it Firefox, you need Mozilla's permission. Only if you decide to call it something else, like "Iceweasel", you are free to do whatever you want as long as you respect the copyleft.
If you craft your definition of "most influential individual economic force" carefully, then yes, Linus can qualify.
But consider that without Richard Stallman and the GPL, linux wouldn't have been what it is now.
And to stay in the tech world, how about Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.
And political figures like Vladimir Putin.
Or maybe Osama bin Laden, just look at how much has changed since 9/11.
But even though it was in 1983 so that it doesn't qualify, Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was perhaps the most influential man in the history of mankind. By correctly identifying a false alarm, he may very well have prevented an all out nuclear war.
Apparently, the 0F point was selected because it was the temperature of a harsh winter in Fahrenheit's town, formalized as the freezing temperature of some ammonium chloride solution. In other words, it means nothing practical for most people.
32F is freezing water temperature, OK, why not, but I find zero more convenient.
100F is horse blood temperature, probably the only thing that makes sense. IMHO, human blood would have been better but that's a decent high point. The trouble is that it is harder to experimentally measure than boiling water.
So I agree that in a preindustrial environment 100F may be more convenient than 100C but setting the zero point at freezing water temperature makes much more sense to me.
Apple certainly makes sure that your private life remains private and don't collaborate with government spies...
Seriously, if you want to write something that works in any platform, write it in C, C++ is a second but still valid choice.
When people design a platform, one of the first thing they do make it run code written in C. It is also the language of choice for everything UNIX : Linux, BSD, GNU, etc... It is well standardized too : sure, it is easy to shoot yourself in the foot but if you code properly, it should work on any platform. And as an added bonus, good C code is also valid C++ and ObjC.
It's not that weired. It is a "most loved" survey.
All these languages look very cool on paper and it's probably very fun toying with them. However, it doesn't say much about what is it like to do actual development where the language must serve the project and not the opposite.
Considering what types of goods were commonly exchanged on silk road, I find it amusing they used a *Breaking Bad* T-Shirt listing as an illustration.
It's usually how it ends when grown up things like family life don't take over.
Interestingly, it doesn't seem to be a lot of open source games compared to the potential number of people doing it as a hobby. Lots of freeware though.
Video game industry is a bit special. It has nothing to to with H1Bs and suits.
Working on video games is the dream of many young developers. They would sell their soul just to be able to work on the games they love... and companies are all to eager to take on the offer. But don't blame it solely on big names because if you decide to roll your own or join a small team, that's even more work for even less pay.
When I left school, in the early 2000s, several friends tried the video game industry. They all came back and are now doing "boring" stuff with a decent pay and schedule, and it was before the outsourcing boom.
Firefox is a great operating system, lacking only a decent web browser... oh wait
Well, lithium fire is almost impossible to extinguish without specialized equipment (class D extinguisher).
A single battery in a house fire probably won't make a difference but it certainly won't help.
Equipping quarterbacks with VR headsets may a good way to test their robustness. However, I'm sure that players will prefer their regular helmet, even during training.
Once some accidents happen, their financial penalties will be off the charts.
Unless they have good insurance ;)
You won't create a new language if you just need to develop a small app, however, when things become big, creating a new language to fit what you are trying to build may become a worthwhile investment.
Good programmers can pick up a language very quickly anyways.
how do you know that something is encrypted? I send send any number of things over the Internet that might appear to be encrypted objects. You going to bust everyone who sends data over the net in a format you aren't familiar with?
Data, encrypted or not, usually have headers describing the contents. And encrypted data typically looks random (tip : if you suspect a file is encrypted, compress it with a good compressor like PAQ, if you can't reduce its size, it likely is). This should be enough to know if data are encrypted or not in almost all cases that don't involve steganography.
I'm betting that the "severance" pay isn't really severance at all.... rather, it comes with conditions that the recipient won't sue.
Apparently not. However the severance pay is conditioned on "continued satisfactory performance", which looks pretty broad.
They never had this slogan to begin with. It was "don't be evil" not "do no evil".
And even in the early days, the scope of this slogan was quite limited. It was a business strategy along the lines of "treat our users correctly so that they want to stay with us rather than head to our competitors as soon as they can". It never was the irrealistic ideal people make it to be.
Or even better, register for a premium-rate phone number. You get paid each time they call you.
I guess that by including a FPGA in their chips, they could completely get rid of the southbridge/PCH and connect all I/Os directly to the chip. As a result, motherboards will only need to take care about the electrical and physical connections and provide a program to the FPGA for the logic.
"trusted computing", locked bootloaders, ... controversial stuff like this are all improvements in security that are easy to mandate, are pushed by big companies and closely match the Tylenol example (where tamper resistance was the solution).
What I understand is that the lasered piece of graphene shoots out electrons, creating a thrust. But what happens when there are no more electrons ?
Moreover, stripping off all these electrons will ionize the material, which would either cause nuclei to detach as well (like with a plasma thruster) or the resulting positive charge will eventually end up pulling back all the ejected electrons, negating the thrust.
First the costs for long term securing spent fuel are grossly underestimated. After all, can we really estimate the cost of securing spent fuel for over 100'000 years? It's a bit of a philosophical question, but point is - it can't really be estimated.
Long term storage is not that big of a problem. It's only a matter of converting all that waste into rock (aka vitrification) and dumping it into a hole drilled into rock. As long as there are no waterways, rocks can stay stable for thousands or even millions of years. There are fossils to prove it.
Direct exposure from these sites would be negligible compared to natural background radiation. Water contamination would be more problematic (not catastrophic though), that's why it is important to chose the site wisely and have a few layers of safety (such as corrosion-proof containers).