Largest state in USA is Alaska, including water it's 1,723,337 km2 (665,384.04 sq mi). Not even close to "almost the same area as the EU"!!
By way of boasting, the state I live in has an area (not including water as do those figures above) 2,529,875 square kilometres (976,790 sq mi). So, my state alone is more than half the size of the entire EU. . . and larger than Alaska and Texas together.
"You can no longer purchase a Google Home from Amazon's store."
I'm fairly sure you can't buy a new Dodge, Honda, VW or Ford from a Chevrolet dealership, nor go to MacDonalds and ask for a Whopper and expect to get one.
Excluding the competition from accessing your customers - in your own store - is quite standard, I understand?
Yes, that's what I've moved to as well. mp3s when gaming on gaming PC and YouTube music vids when relaxing in the actual house (games room is separate from house for... reasons).
At work, it's usb sticks of my mp3s, for background music.
I suspect that's because people no longer "come on over" to listen to the latest release from popular band, when someone has bought 'bands' new album.
I used to buy albums, 45s, cassingles and then CD singles.
None of these (except albums) seem to exist anymore, it's all online downloads, and often laden with DRM so you can pay your money and yet, one day in the future, be unable to play the music that you paid for. Or have to pay again to listen to a song you paid for on your phone, since you bought it on your work computer, laptop, tablet, gaming PC or old phone. . .
"Plays for sure"? Yeah, no thanks.
I can't even buy a single in hardcopy these days, just the entire album on CD. And if the the artist is a one hit wonder? Wow, well, that's money down the drain (unless I like their 'unreleased to streaming' songs).
Artists complain about the lack of money from singles sales, but.... don't release singles that people like me can buy. Umm, seriously? Do they not see the problem here?
I even miss the JJJ dvds of the Hottest 100 songs, they haven't sold them for several years, for some reason (licencing costs and return on investment, I suspect).
If they want a snack, don't students just reach for their selection of snacks that they've previously purchased and stored? Because I suspect that the snacks delivered by a robot are not likely to be as cheap as snacks purchased on a shopping trip at the cheap place down the road a bit... And when I was a student, money was important as I didn't have any! so... what am I missing here? Are modern students so flush with cash and so poor with planning that they find it easier to order snacks when they're feeling peckish?
I own one, a 2016 Skoda Octavia wagon, base model.
When idling it burns 0.5L fuel an hour, so it's not shutting down to conserve fuel.
It turns off to reduce emissions (and I get 10% cheaper car insurance because of this).
I find the stop/start (which is able to be turned off) to be fine, doesn't bother me at all unless I have the aircon on, which in Australia, is often.
And getting 4.7L/100km on highways and 5.3L/100km around the city is pretty impressive. In British MPG that's 60mpg and 53mpg respectively. In USAnian miles and gallons it's a bit less, but still impressive for a car that comfortably seats 4 adults and carries their camping gear in the back.
It's got 110kw, the 1.4 litre turbo motor and 6 speed manual is fun to drive and no slouch.
No regenerative braking on mine, though. And with such a small capacity engine, engine braking is non-existent too.
I'm on the other side of the country, we've had people selling that kind of house in Sydney, moving west and buying a nice house in a nice suburb, with a new car and new furniture and wondering what to do with the lefover cash.
Note how old that data is, and prices have FALLEN since then as the bubble is collapsing.
The million dollar houses are in Sydney and Melbourne, but Brisbane, Hobart, Darwin, Adelaide and Perth are much cheaper.
Sure, most of the population is in Sydney or Melbourne, but your median (sorry, you did say average, ie mean, but...) price is NOT $1 million Australian dollars, certainly not US$1 million!
Govt: "provide as much technical assistance and information as possible when requested"
App Dev: "Yeah, sorry mate, can't break the laws of maths no matter what the laws of your country say, the encryption is unbreakable unless you want to pay for running a supercomputer for the next 10,000 years? Maybe it'll have cracked it by then? It's certainly possible it might have."
Proto fascist? After the next federal election the Australian govt will change, dramatically, to one which (claims to and usually does) value freedom, individual rights over companies, and supports workers, not businesses. Far more socialist than fascist.
I'm not happy with the outcome of todays parliamentary conniptions, though, not at all.
Well, AC, is Australia party to any such ISDS agreement with the USA?
And if there's a leak, it could come from Apple or Microsoft or Facebook, just as easily as from the Australian spies.
Also, of course, there are already companies from 'friendly' nations that sell software that breaks Apple's encryption, as well as others. Hello Israel!
My current resolution is 5760x 1080, 3 HD screens in Eyefinity mode, on my gaming PC. What's that, 5k? And a bit?:)
I have 4K on my HTPC.
Eyefinity (or the Nvidia equivalent) is great for games, particularly car racing games - it's like looking out of the windscreen. When you add the force feedback steering wheel and pedals it is VERY immersive (and yes, I have 5.1 sound using my old home theatre amp & sub and the Logitech 5.1 speakers that I haven't blown up yet to make it even more immersive).
My tv that HTPC is plugged into is 165cm (65") 4k and 4k blu rays look nice on it, but is it amazingly better than Netflix in 720? (watching using Win10 box, with i5 and RX480 gpu - on that 165cm 4k tv).
No.
It's better, yes, but not amazingly so.
But Rocket League in 4k on that big HTPC screen? That IS awesome:) As are other PC or Xbox One S games (that's my 4K bluray player).
So for TV and movies? 4K on Big screen is... a nice bragging point. But I only buy CGI heavy movies in 4K - I believe they are the only ones that benefit from it. As in - I get a benefit from it, seeing the crispness of the CGI as it's meant to be.
Getting a whopping great big tv is great, but 1080 is probably all you need. 4k is nice, but on my home theatre it's used mainly for 2 player games, not movies. Oh, and for looking at webpages...:)
That said, I think that once you go over 42" these days, you're getting a 4k tv, like it or not?
You can plug the aerial into your tv and get Free to Air channels.
Free. And not that many of them in some parts of USA.
And then subscribe to Netflix or Prime or whatever to watch other stuff.
Oh, sorry, this is the USA isn't it, so... your cable tv probably IS your only internet provider?
I have never understood the cognitive dissonance of the USA's cheerleading of capitalism and competition and yet their apparent large lack of competition in many locales when it comes to ISPs and Cable TV options...
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"there are states in the US that have almost the same area as the ENTIRE EU."
Really?
According to a quick internet search...
https://www.google.com/search?...
EU area is 4,422,773 km2 (1,707,642 sq mi).
Largest state in USA is Alaska, including water it's 1,723,337 km2 (665,384.04 sq mi). Not even close to "almost the same area as the EU"!!
By way of boasting, the state I live in has an area (not including water as do those figures above) 2,529,875 square kilometres (976,790 sq mi). So, my state alone is more than half the size of the entire EU. . . and larger than Alaska and Texas together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Welcome to Western Australia, try not to get lost...
"You can no longer purchase a Google Home from Amazon's store."
I'm fairly sure you can't buy a new Dodge, Honda, VW or Ford from a Chevrolet dealership, nor go to MacDonalds and ask for a Whopper and expect to get one.
Excluding the competition from accessing your customers - in your own store - is quite standard, I understand?
I do like Dredd.
Been reading about Megacity One since... well, before my friends/siblings kids (some now adult & breeding) were born.
I like all the movies, too, they've captured, fairly well and certainly better than I expected, some of the aspects that make Dredd Dredd.
Yep, that's my modus operandi as well.
The non-commercial radio stationt that I listen to (JJJ)>
I buy their best of CD every year.
It's voted on by the world.
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej...
Regulators?
In which country/s?
Because YouTube is a global issue...
Yes, that's what I've moved to as well. mp3s when gaming on gaming PC and YouTube music vids when relaxing in the actual house (games room is separate from house for... reasons).
At work, it's usb sticks of my mp3s, for background music.
I suspect that's because people no longer "come on over" to listen to the latest release from popular band, when someone has bought 'bands' new album.
I used to buy albums, 45s, cassingles and then CD singles.
None of these (except albums) seem to exist anymore, it's all online downloads, and often laden with DRM so you can pay your money and yet, one day in the future, be unable to play the music that you paid for. Or have to pay again to listen to a song you paid for on your phone, since you bought it on your work computer, laptop, tablet, gaming PC or old phone. . .
"Plays for sure"? Yeah, no thanks.
I can't even buy a single in hardcopy these days, just the entire album on CD. And if the the artist is a one hit wonder? Wow, well, that's money down the drain (unless I like their 'unreleased to streaming' songs).
Artists complain about the lack of money from singles sales, but.... don't release singles that people like me can buy.
Umm, seriously? Do they not see the problem here?
I even miss the JJJ dvds of the Hottest 100 songs, they haven't sold them for several years, for some reason (licencing costs and return on investment, I suspect).
...
And probably a LOT more theft . . .
Possibly because the USA doesn't have Tim Tams, I understand?
Some of the responses to my response are ... worrying!!
If they want a snack, don't students just reach for their selection of snacks that they've previously purchased and stored?
Because I suspect that the snacks delivered by a robot are not likely to be as cheap as snacks purchased on a shopping trip at the cheap place down the road a bit...
And when I was a student, money was important as I didn't have any!
so... what am I missing here?
Are modern students so flush with cash and so poor with planning that they find it easier to order snacks when they're feeling peckish?
I own one, a 2016 Skoda Octavia wagon, base model.
When idling it burns 0.5L fuel an hour, so it's not shutting down to conserve fuel.
It turns off to reduce emissions (and I get 10% cheaper car insurance because of this).
I find the stop/start (which is able to be turned off) to be fine, doesn't bother me at all unless I have the aircon on, which in Australia, is often.
And getting 4.7L/100km on highways and 5.3L/100km around the city is pretty impressive. In British MPG that's 60mpg and 53mpg respectively. In USAnian miles and gallons it's a bit less, but still impressive for a car that comfortably seats 4 adults and carries their camping gear in the back.
It's got 110kw, the 1.4 litre turbo motor and 6 speed manual is fun to drive and no slouch.
No regenerative braking on mine, though. And with such a small capacity engine, engine braking is non-existent too.
All figures are from the cars trip computer.
Nothing like that happened in the western third of the country, where electricity supply is still govt owned.
Maybe you easterners shouldn't have privatised an essential service?
Ah, understood, thank you.
I'm on the other side of the country, we've had people selling that kind of house in Sydney, moving west and buying a nice house in a nice suburb, with a new car and new furniture and wondering what to do with the lefover cash.
Sorry, what?
The median price is $626k.
https://www.livingin-australia...
Note how old that data is, and prices have FALLEN since then as the bubble is collapsing.
The million dollar houses are in Sydney and Melbourne, but Brisbane, Hobart, Darwin, Adelaide and Perth are much cheaper.
Sure, most of the population is in Sydney or Melbourne, but your median (sorry, you did say average, ie mean, but...) price is NOT $1 million Australian dollars, certainly not US$1 million!
Fighting that stupid ISDS law?
Yes, and Australia has, more recently, just said "Nope!" to any agreement that tries to include such idiocy, thankfully.
Govt: "provide as much technical assistance and information as possible when requested"
App Dev: "Yeah, sorry mate, can't break the laws of maths no matter what the laws of your country say, the encryption is unbreakable unless you want to pay for running a supercomputer for the next 10,000 years? Maybe it'll have cracked it by then? It's certainly possible it might have."
Proto fascist? After the next federal election the Australian govt will change, dramatically, to one which (claims to and usually does) value freedom, individual rights over companies, and supports workers, not businesses. Far more socialist than fascist.
I'm not happy with the outcome of todays parliamentary conniptions, though, not at all.
Well, AC, is Australia party to any such ISDS agreement with the USA?
And if there's a leak, it could come from Apple or Microsoft or Facebook, just as easily as from the Australian spies.
Also, of course, there are already companies from 'friendly' nations that sell software that breaks Apple's encryption, as well as others. Hello Israel!
My current resolution is 5760x 1080, 3 HD screens in Eyefinity mode, on my gaming PC. What's that, 5k? And a bit? :)
I have 4K on my HTPC.
Eyefinity (or the Nvidia equivalent) is great for games, particularly car racing games - it's like looking out of the windscreen. When you add the force feedback steering wheel and pedals it is VERY immersive (and yes, I have 5.1 sound using my old home theatre amp & sub and the Logitech 5.1 speakers that I haven't blown up yet to make it even more immersive).
My tv that HTPC is plugged into is 165cm (65") 4k and 4k blu rays look nice on it, but is it amazingly better than Netflix in 720? (watching using Win10 box, with i5 and RX480 gpu - on that 165cm 4k tv).
No.
It's better, yes, but not amazingly so.
But Rocket League in 4k on that big HTPC screen? That IS awesome :) As are other PC or Xbox One S games (that's my 4K bluray player).
So for TV and movies? 4K on Big screen is... a nice bragging point. But I only buy CGI heavy movies in 4K - I believe they are the only ones that benefit from it. As in - I get a benefit from it, seeing the crispness of the CGI as it's meant to be.
Getting a whopping great big tv is great, but 1080 is probably all you need. 4k is nice, but on my home theatre it's used mainly for 2 player games, not movies. Oh, and for looking at webpages... :)
That said, I think that once you go over 42" these days, you're getting a 4k tv, like it or not?
Force? How do they force people to buy a new TV?
Perhaps you shouldn't be having intercourse at a restaurant?
"we're actually putting the money in envelopes and we'll give it back to them when they graduate."
Why not bank it so it can't be stolen while also earning some interest for them, ideally more than inflation?
Yep, I usually see 6 adults and 4 cygnets as I stroll to/from the car going through Hyde Park (Perth, WA).
Black Swans are on my state flag.
What's unusual about them?
On the Abit BH2 motherboard? That's what I had, it annoyed my friends who owned the much more expensive Pentiums no end! :)
You can plug the aerial into your tv and get Free to Air channels.
Free. And not that many of them in some parts of USA.
And then subscribe to Netflix or Prime or whatever to watch other stuff.
Oh, sorry, this is the USA isn't it, so ... your cable tv probably IS your only internet provider?
I have never understood the cognitive dissonance of the USA's cheerleading of capitalism and competition and yet their apparent large lack of competition in many locales when it comes to ISPs and Cable TV options...