Well, actually this seems fair to me. The credit card companies want to hide their actual fees and enforce that the retailers charge everyone more. Then they give their customers back a part of the money they received from the retailers. This makes using a credit card cheaper in the eyes of the consumers whereas in fact it costs more. So anyone who does not support their overpriced fees suffers. This was a try to enforce monopolistic behaviour by law. Ridiculous.
No this is not true. In fact, if it were true, unlocking would remain legal. It becomes illegal, because they want to force you to use that particular phone while you are with them and that you cannot use the phone with a different provider after the contract has ended!
I think this might be a intermediate step to change to IPv6. Nobody takes action until they suffer. Sharing one IPv4 address will make them suffer. Give them the option for an IPv6 address and a shared IPv4 address to maintain backward compatibility.
No, American companies are too ignorant to respect the local laws. If they sell millions of devices they are 'reminded' by a court ruling with a ridiculously small fine (given the extent of the infringement) and get a chance to correct their behaviour. Often they fail to do so and end up paying huge fines.
On the other side, American companies see the Europeans as cash cows. What costs 500USD in the US often costs 500EUR=670USD in the Euro zone and often comes to the market later.
This seems so wrong to me...
* current controllers hit the CPU for each transfer
-> there will be hardware acceleration if this is wanted
* the overhead is higher
-> what overhead? data overhead which is so much trouble if we have such an excessive amount of bandwidth?
* The latency is way higher, as it needs to set up and tear down connections for each transfer
-> the connection does not need to be opened and closed for each transfer - why not keep it open?
* It doesnt support ATA commands (TRIM, for one)
-> any kind of data can be transmitted over USB, also a TRIM command; but I have to admit that there might be need for a new 'mass storage class' that is targetted at SSDs.
It is not about that, but more or less the rest of the world uses SI unit. So the only logical thing is to build e.g. rods with a diameter of 1, 2, 3,... cm. Now of course they could convert that to 0.3937, 0.7874, 1.1811 inch - but nobody would buy that. So you actually have to change the manufacturing process to get useful ratios such as 1/2, 3/4,... inch - I am pretty sure the standard sizes in the use are not 0.3937 inch,...
Technically you are right, but the Japanese government made the choice by themselves. They had the option to surrender before Hirosjima. After Hirosjima, before Nagasaki, they had the option to surrender. They chose not to. Had the U.S. not used the weapon, the war could (and probably would) have cost millions of more lives.
Really awesome choice here. You could have surrendered. Next time there are terrorists holding hostages and demanding the U.S. president to step down and their colleagues in Guantanamo to be freed, you would have had the option to surrender.
If it would not have been for the brave Americans, millions of blacks wouldn't have been imported here and then enslaved.
And the Dutch. And the English. And the Spanish. That was a thing of that era.
Fair point. I only was one in a team of four bank robbers. My colleagues are responsible, certainly not me - I only got the biggest share of the profits.
If it would not have been for the brave Americans, the native americans who lived here before would still be alive, before we wiped them out by giving them blankets laced with small pox -- an act of genocide using a weapon of mass destruction.
That's even longer ago. You can't compare our generations with generations centuries ago. If it would not have been for the Catholic Church, no suspected witch would ever have been burned. Same story, same history lesson.
World War 2 will soon have been a century ago.
If it would not have been for the brave Americans... ah, well, the list goes on.
I get your point, I really do. But instead of focusing on the negative sides of your country, focus on the positive ones. Every society can be evil. I chose to live in the U.S. because at this point in time I feel that the U.S. is the less evil of all (is that proper grammar?). There are things that I disagree with, like Guantanamo, like Assange, like Manning, like the TSA's groping, but in the end, it's not that bad.
My point is, that in the end you always just look at the positive stuff and make decisions based only on them. U.S. politicians keep enforcing their laws in foreign countries and for their profit. The war in Iraq was (and still is!) not about the suppressed people, but about oil. Their morale is ridiculous: Iran should no be allowed to have nuclear weapons, but we have submarines equipped with up t tens of them each. Of course no one want Iran to have nuclear weapons, but frankly no one wants the U.S. to have nuclear weapons either. Clean up at home first.
Additionally, if something is decided in a team and turns out well (such as the no-fly-zone in Libya), you want all the credit. Honestly, this no-fly zone was mostly the work of France after being voted on by the NATO.
Of course the U.S. sometimes brings freedom and democracy, but most of their attempts fail and result in hundred thousands of deaths.
The proper grammar would be "the U.S. is the least evil of all".
This would be a huge problem for Apple, considering how much they earn through 3rd party apps being sold through the app-store. These approx. 30% would then almost certainedly be lowered, considering that this number is just insane.
What an irony when politicians are talking about creating jobs. Economy is not about creating jobs, but about eliminating the need to work and rising the quality of life.
This is the way to the future.
My advice to you are the following two points:
1. Teach mathematical modelling. In my experience many students, also those in technical sciences, have problems creating reasonable mathematical models. Once you teach them to do that, they will see by themselves how math can actually simplify their lives.
2. Work with examples from their (!) field. I have heard a lot how for example med students complain about their physics courses being completely unrelated to their studies. But as soon as you point out that Bernoulli's principle applies to blood flow and you give them some time to think about what this means in case of Arteriosclerosis they are fully interested again. This becomes even more important towards the end of the term when exams come closer and students might start skipping classes "not relevant for their further studies".
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Well, actually this seems fair to me. The credit card companies want to hide their actual fees and enforce that the retailers charge everyone more. Then they give their customers back a part of the money they received from the retailers. This makes using a credit card cheaper in the eyes of the consumers whereas in fact it costs more. So anyone who does not support their overpriced fees suffers. This was a try to enforce monopolistic behaviour by law. Ridiculous.
No this is not true. In fact, if it were true, unlocking would remain legal. It becomes illegal, because they want to force you to use that particular phone while you are with them and that you cannot use the phone with a different provider after the contract has ended!
Oh noez! We have created systems to increase out efficiency and we have achieved it. Now we might have to work less! What a shame!
So this is better Raspberry Pi at three times the price? They just added a twice-as-powerful CPU and 4 GB of flash. Or am I missing something?
I think this might be a intermediate step to change to IPv6. Nobody takes action until they suffer. Sharing one IPv4 address will make them suffer.
Give them the option for an IPv6 address and a shared IPv4 address to maintain backward compatibility.
No, American companies are too ignorant to respect the local laws. If they sell millions of devices they are 'reminded' by a court ruling with a ridiculously small fine (given the extent of the infringement) and get a chance to correct their behaviour. Often they fail to do so and end up paying huge fines.
On the other side, American companies see the Europeans as cash cows. What costs 500USD in the US often costs 500EUR=670USD in the Euro zone and often comes to the market later.
This seems so wrong to me...
* current controllers hit the CPU for each transfer
-> there will be hardware acceleration if this is wanted
* the overhead is higher
-> what overhead? data overhead which is so much trouble if we have such an excessive amount of bandwidth?
* The latency is way higher, as it needs to set up and tear down connections for each transfer
-> the connection does not need to be opened and closed for each transfer - why not keep it open?
* It doesnt support ATA commands (TRIM, for one)
-> any kind of data can be transmitted over USB, also a TRIM command; but I have to admit that there might be need for a new 'mass storage class' that is targetted at SSDs.
All in the sense of "print your chicken at home"
It is not about that, but more or less the rest of the world uses SI unit. So the only logical thing is to build e.g. rods with a diameter of 1, 2, 3, ... cm. Now of course they could convert that to 0.3937, 0.7874, 1.1811 inch - but nobody would buy that. So you actually have to change the manufacturing process to get useful ratios such as 1/2, 3/4, ... inch - I am pretty sure the standard sizes in the use are not 0.3937 inch, ...
Technically you are right, but the Japanese government made the choice by themselves. They had the option to surrender before Hirosjima. After Hirosjima, before Nagasaki, they had the option to surrender. They chose not to. Had the U.S. not used the weapon, the war could (and probably would) have cost millions of more lives.
Really awesome choice here. You could have surrendered. Next time there are terrorists holding hostages and demanding the U.S. president to step down and their colleagues in Guantanamo to be freed, you would have had the option to surrender.
If it would not have been for the brave Americans, millions of blacks wouldn't have been imported here and then enslaved.
And the Dutch. And the English. And the Spanish. That was a thing of that era.
Fair point. I only was one in a team of four bank robbers. My colleagues are responsible, certainly not me - I only got the biggest share of the profits.
If it would not have been for the brave Americans, the native americans who lived here before would still be alive, before we wiped them out by giving them blankets laced with small pox -- an act of genocide using a weapon of mass destruction.
That's even longer ago. You can't compare our generations with generations centuries ago. If it would not have been for the Catholic Church, no suspected witch would ever have been burned. Same story, same history lesson.
World War 2 will soon have been a century ago.
If it would not have been for the brave Americans... ah, well, the list goes on.
I get your point, I really do. But instead of focusing on the negative sides of your country, focus on the positive ones. Every society can be evil. I chose to live in the U.S. because at this point in time I feel that the U.S. is the less evil of all (is that proper grammar?). There are things that I disagree with, like Guantanamo, like Assange, like Manning, like the TSA's groping, but in the end, it's not that bad.
My point is, that in the end you always just look at the positive stuff and make decisions based only on them. U.S. politicians keep enforcing their laws in foreign countries and for their profit. The war in Iraq was (and still is!) not about the suppressed people, but about oil. Their morale is ridiculous: Iran should no be allowed to have nuclear weapons, but we have submarines equipped with up t tens of them each. Of course no one want Iran to have nuclear weapons, but frankly no one wants the U.S. to have nuclear weapons either. Clean up at home first.
Additionally, if something is decided in a team and turns out well (such as the no-fly-zone in Libya), you want all the credit. Honestly, this no-fly zone was mostly the work of France after being voted on by the NATO.
Of course the U.S. sometimes brings freedom and democracy, but most of their attempts fail and result in hundred thousands of deaths.
The proper grammar would be "the U.S. is the least evil of all".
This would be a huge problem for Apple, considering how much they earn through 3rd party apps being sold through the app-store. These approx. 30% would then almost certainedly be lowered, considering that this number is just insane.
What an irony when politicians are talking about creating jobs. Economy is not about creating jobs, but about eliminating the need to work and rising the quality of life. This is the way to the future.
This might not be a scam, the SMS could come from the MPAA: "You all pay us 5000 bucks or we will send over a nuclear missile". Booooom!
My advice to you are the following two points: 1. Teach mathematical modelling. In my experience many students, also those in technical sciences, have problems creating reasonable mathematical models. Once you teach them to do that, they will see by themselves how math can actually simplify their lives. 2. Work with examples from their (!) field. I have heard a lot how for example med students complain about their physics courses being completely unrelated to their studies. But as soon as you point out that Bernoulli's principle applies to blood flow and you give them some time to think about what this means in case of Arteriosclerosis they are fully interested again. This becomes even more important towards the end of the term when exams come closer and students might start skipping classes "not relevant for their further studies".