So then we'd have a revolving door for programmers instead of politicians. I'm at the point where I think randomly picking people, like jury duty, might be better. That and a heavy handed approach to looking for "new business opportunities" that happen for friends and family for years after being picked for congress to prevent bribes. On the plus side, it would instantly reform campaign finance.
Really happy to see LLVM carry on, what a great project!
Well, that's because they've got a lot of rich sponsors - Apple, Qualcomm, etc. Basically what happened was GPLv3 and Apple spent a ton of money investing in alternative free compiler suites, of which LLVM was the most complete and well structured alternative. (That's why Clang is credited to Apple).
Of course, the favorable licensing terms of LLVM didn't hurt, either (I think it's MIT or BSD?).
So the fact it's easy to integrate into practically everything (IDEs and other things), has a good license, etc., has basically exploded its popularity. It's used in everything from the Xcode IDE where its code parsing engine helps syntax and error highlighting (as well as dynamic recompilation as you fix the error), but drivers needing to compile OpenCL or other code down to GPU native machine code.
WebAssembly is what makes possible projects like DOSbox that runs in a browser (see Internet Archive for demos) as well as many other things that run in a browser that were formerly C programs.
Wait a fucking minute. "Only" costs around $450? If I tried to spend $450 on a video card for gaming, my wallet would jump up and slap me on the head. Visa would call me and ask if my credit card had been stolen.
$500 cards have been mid-high end for a long time now. The high end cards cost around $1000 with the top of the line costing $2000 or so.
Of course, today's $500 card was yesterday's $1000 card, so it does rapidly cost a lot less money.
I thought Apple's service was all original content anyway, so is this really a story? The bigger question is are ANY other companies known to be in on Apple's service? I had not heard of any. I didn't think it was going to be a Netflix competitor, but rather something more like HBO with custom programming...
I think Apple's service is less content provider and more content aggregator. If we take what Apple has done with AppleTV, and why Netflix is entering into this discussion, you basically tell Apple (or subscribe through Apple) to the TV providers you want. Apple handles the billing and all that and you get a list of shows you can watch
In the end, there can be 1000 different content providers, you subscribe to some of them through Apple, and Apple generates a TV grid and search results based on what you can get.
That's why Netflix is saying they will not participate - Apple may want access to search Netflix's content archives so if a user subscribes to Netflix, they can search Netflix through the general Apple interface.
You want to watch TV, Apple makes it easy by aggregating all the providers together so you get one TV grid if you want to watch something upcoming or new, or if you search, Apple will search those provider's back catalogs as well.
So instead of trying to manually manage 100 providers. Apple's service does it for you, searching and "what's on TV now and in the future" And if you let Apple, they can handle the billing as well making it trivially easy to subscribe to new providers like Disney without having to do it manually.
No! "And those terms do say that "MoviePass has the right to limit the selection of movies and/or the times of available movies should your individual use adversely impact MoviePass's system-wide capacity or the availability of the Service for other subscribers."
So you will be able to watch an unlimited number of movies--the only tiny restriction is that these will be the rotten movies no one else wants to watch.
At times no one wants to watch movies at. So yeah, watch as many rotten movies as you want, the ones that play in the afternoon only. Evening showings are excluded. Also only on a Tuesday or Wednesday.
They typically already make much more than people in other industries, so I'm not too sure that collective bargaining for salary and benefits is going to be very interesting to most people there.
Sports also have unions, and I'm sure the athletes in them make way more than even techies do. Basketball players, hockey players, etc., their unions have gone on strike which leads to an abbreviated season.
I have to wonder how many of these random malware infections of industrial machinery could be avoided by having all control systems running Linux.
Sure they could still be targeted by a dedicated hacker but at least you wouldn't have general mass-market malware accidentally get in and shut you down.
Maybe you could even use Wine to run existing control software and switch over today... I can't imagine the software they use is very sophisticated in terms of Windows API use.
Linux wouldn't improve matters - OK it will in the short term, but in the long term, it makes zero difference. Sure the manufacturer could run things properly with proper privilege separation and such, but in reality, everything will run as root. At which point you're really not much better than a Windows based system. And even if you don't use root, eventually things will be that everyone uses root on the control PC.
Sudo won't really help either if everyone simply gets used to issuing it before every command that fails.
Whatever Linux would provide, it would be temporary as it's just obscure at the moment, but once people get used to it, all the ugly shortcuts will be revealed.
I'm pretty sure that Apple uses only NVMe type drives. Even among the SATA SSDs, Kingston is cheap junk. An accurate price comparison is maybe $50 for a quality baseline, but the read/write speeds are way lower than you would get in NVMe, so that's not even a fair comparison.
Still, $200 should get you close to 1TB of high performance NVMe in any brand (ok, so the 970 EVO is over $200).
It's actually part of the T2 controller chip that Apple uses to manage the touchbar and other things.
It's PCIe based storage, and yes, it's a VERY fast device. I'm not sure if it emulates an NVMe interface.
The use of the T2 chip is why Apple's SSDs are strange - as in they're raw flash. In early iMacs, this lead to problems because people would assume they could take out the "SSD" and move it to another Mac, only to find out it doesn't work. The reason is the T2 chip encrypts all data on the flash and it's stored in the T2 chip itself, so moving the raw storage around does nothing without the key. That's why the updated iMacs soldered in the SSD - it was pointless to move the flash chips around without the T2 chip coming along
Nothing worse than an endless parade of bills that are voted on just to virtue signal, with no chance of accomplishing anything.
Would be nice if everyone would try to work together to solve real problems.
You want government to Do Something(tm), you'll get stuff like the Patriot Act.
In general, when government is tied up and unable to accomplish anything useful, things outside of government get done.
Also means stuff that requires fine details to be sorted out, like gun control, to either not go forward, or for it to take its own time to be hashed out, rather than rushed out and full of holes.
Beware when some bill passes quickly - it usually means something in there is set to screw you over. When government is log jammed it means they're not making up laws to screw you over.
I've used 7-Zip for years. Never had a problem, with RAR files (single or multi-part) or any other archive type. YMMV
The big reason is RAR introduced a new revision just a few years ago, called RAR5. It changed a lot of things and if your RAR decompressor didn't know how to handle RAR5, it would report the file as corrupt.
The solution as always is to update - 7zip doesn't have native RAR support, so you needed to update the unrar DLL or exe and all would be fine.
Even RAR users were caught - update WinRAR and everything would work again.
And cardiologists will soon be overloaded with work because many people have irregular heartbeats and in only a few of them this is problematic.
That assumes those with problematic irregular heartbeats will discover the problem independently, before it's too late to monitor and potentially correct.
And it opens the opportunity to do MORE research in discovering what is a "safe" irregular heartbeat and what is going to be problematic.
Atrial Fibrillation has a rather distinct signature on an ECG so it's not as if the watch will see "irregular heartbeat, see doctor!" it will try to figure out if it's potentially something serious.
- Business fully vulnerable to the likes of Amazon and Microsoft. IMO, at this point for any successful open source company it's just a matter of time before Amazon takes it over. Jeff Bezos didn't grow his fortune by giving back.
Or perhaps you based your business model on making people pay for a "cloud services" set up - knowing the popularity of services like AWS and Azure. So you decide to sell support on how to use your software in such a configuration and make people pay for it.
Problem is, AWS and Azure want your software to work with their services as well, and they also know making their customers pay you for support isn't good business for them. So they'll go and make a version of your software for their service - it's in their interest to provide your software for their service for their customers, and it's in their interest to do so for free.
And that's the real issue - the companies provide official paid support, but the cloud providers provide free versions they've developed that bypasses said support.
Of course, the real support would be to sell improved performance - more searches for less money. Since AWS and Azure charge by the CPU cycle, if your paid version can help save large installations money over the default free option...
I have a better solution. Google control that store and clearly they do not give a fuck about the products they sell as long as they get a share of the profits. They only 'care' when they are caught out and forced to do something.
They control the store, they do so as cheaply as possible and fuck the customers, time to make them pay for that attitude, especially based upon the scale that they do it, literally creating a system on purpose to allow hundreds of millions of people to be ripped off, again and again and again.
Make the fuckers at Alphabet/Google pay and make them really pay, for their cheap arse maximise profits criminal negligence.
You have to remember though, the Google Play Store was supposed to have no oversight whatsoever. It was a response to the Apple App Store Approval Process which was raising a bunch of articles about apps being rejected.
So Google simply adopted a "pay us $35 and post as many apps as you want and we will not reject apps". As Apple rejected apps, Google would happily take them.
Of course, the reality is it's actually easier to be extremely restrictive in the beginning and loosen the rules later, than to be loose and unrestricted in the beginning and having to tighten the reins.
The summary's comment that this ruling is "giving Qualcomm momentum" strikes me as being rather clueless. This $31 million judgment is coming the day after a preliminary ruling against Qualcomm that says they owe Apple all $1 billion in rebates that they promisedâ"but failedâ" to pay Apple. That's the case that matters. Suggesting this $31M ruling is giving them momentum in the $1B case that's already been ruled against them on a preliminary basis is like saying that a fly can change the course of a car by smashing into its windshield.
Moreover, Apple issued software updates months ago that worked around all of the claims. Qualcomm's experts even acknowledged in court that Apple wasn't still violating them, so they have no impact on Apple's future business, and they certainly don't have any impact on a case regarding whether Apple is owed the $1B that Qualcomm was contractually obligated to pay.
And even though $1B is big, supposedly Apple has already withheld $1B in royalties to Qualcomm over the years as well, so even Qualcomm won't have to fork over all the cash.
The more important point is the ruling may affect the other court cases on the same matter - Qualcomm had to backstop sales of the affected iPhones before they could proceed. From what was presented, Qualcomm did have a case, but Apple fixed the issue and bypassed the patents, so Qualcomm will get some of the money back, but likely they would've had to pay for the iPhones Apple didn't sell after the software patch was released.
They started with "global warming", then we got a very cold season here so they change the tone to "climate change". I guess, climate changing is bad?
The problem is complexity. The climate is warming, so:global warming" is accurate. However, you tell that to Joe On the Street and he thinks it just means Alaska will be like California in the end so what's wrong with that?
The real truth is with the added heat energy, the climate will swing more wildly. One day you can enjoy a spring day, the next, you get 3 feet of snow dumped on you.
The use of climate change is meant to reflect that - the climate is changing, and the wonderful summer days you remembered as a kid was replaced with scorching hot heatwaves years ago. Plus, the word "change" is scary
Dictators tend to feel anxious that their close officials, or the evil group du jour, are going to betray/usurp them; this is the typical cause of purges. Now scale this up to a dictatorial government, that is afraid much LARGER groups (say, all the Maoists) are going to roll out the guillotines, and the oppression gets much larger in scope and time scale.
Oppression is a side-effect of the #1 bureaucracy goal: continuity of the bureaucracy. Anything that threatens the CCP is considered an "existential threat" by them. The typical way to defeat these things is to have them implode due to power vacuum, although Thailand probably has a better model of having a non-violent coup every 20 years or so.
WIth respect to dictatorships versus democracies, the governments aren't too different. In fact, there are more similarities between the two than you realize and it sort of all makes complete sense when you actually see who government actually works for.
This is true as long as there is a ruling entity - a Dictator, a President, a Prime Minister, a Head, whatever.
I really do not see this happening on the Switch either for the same reason.
Actually, it could happen, and it likely will happen much deeper than you might realize. The Nintendo community isn't really that big of a community - friend codes and the like and all in all it's pretty janky. Even on the Switch.
People talk about their friends on PSN or Xbox Live all the time, not on Switch.
What's likely happening is Nintendo and Microsoft are in discussions on online play and handling friends and communities and quite likely there will be some arrangement where Nintendo leaves it to Microsoft and Xbox Live to handle and manage friend lists, chat, etc.
(Face it - what was that oddball thing Nintendo suggested for chat?)
Sony of course could nail M$ hard, real hard, include a boot to Sonyx a Sony Linux distribution on the playstation 5, not for gameplay but for everything else most users do.
'
Sony could, but they won't, because like any company in the lead, they'll be arrogant and believe they will be handed the crown again. (See the PS3). You already see it right now
Another reason is Linux - Sony's already been burned badly on this, to the point of refunding everyone $20 or so.
The only reason Sony is involved in crossplay is because of something bigger than Sony - Fortnite. And it took them so long to deal with it that it was obvious Sony was being Sony and wasn't trying to even deal with the problem - just hide and ignore the issue. Just claim Fortnite on PS4 is all you need. Only when it didn't go away after a couple of weeks did Sony give in to "consider" cross play.
The freedom to fly is greatest in two countries - the US and Canada, where anyone suitably trained and documented can get in and fly. And the little Cessnas and Pipers aren't the highly automated Boeings or Airbuses, they're quite manual. If you're lucky, you'll have a partial autopilot - one axis (elevator) usually, fancy pants ones have two (elevator and aileron).
One could fly from one end of the country to the other, avoiding controlled airspace and thus not talking to anyone if anyone so desired.
Some other countries notably Europe, imposes fees on flying. Lots of taxes. Sure they have some GA flights, but to do so requires a fair bit of perseverance and money.
The vast majority of countries though, make such thought of flight impossible.
Now tell me which pilot will likely have the best flying skills? The one who can on a spare day roll up to their little airport, get out and fly, or one who can only fly the bit iron and the simulator because the only other flying is military..
It's why I worried less about the US and Canada being late to the grounding party for the 737 MAX - the pilots here simply have better access to flight on their spare time than pretty much everyone else.
The only way to maintain stick and rudder skills is to fly stick and rudder, and really, that's stupidly easy to do in the US and Canada - you literally get to the airport and fly - no permits, no flight plans (within limits), and other than fuel, no taxes to just punch holes in the sky.
In China, they noticed this and the Chinese military let civilian pilots have a narrow slice of sky to fly between two airports in China. But you tell me - who will be the better pilot - one who has to put down their wings at the end of the day, or one who has access to the same sky they were just in?
And no, you don't have to own your own airplane Renting is popular, as is renting an instructor.
Think of all the new RF we've had in the past couple of decades with WiFi and cell towers absolutely everywhere.
What's happened to the rates of incidence of new cancer cases over that time? They're flat/down.
The thing with 5G is it's not just "new cell towers with 5G equipment", though that's the initial rollout. There are addons to 5G that involve going all the way to 60GHz+ - the millimeter wave part of the standard. Here the signal is weak that you'll need a "tower" in every streetlight, but you'll have basically covering the entire area in 60GHz RF and we're not too sure what the results may be.
The cell towers are simple enough since they work at frequencies and spectrum we're familiar with. The millimeter wave part of 5G is really what's at stake especially if you cover a dense city with it. And this is the only way you can have people getting gigabit speeds or faster in dense areas.
Anyone doing apnea training would need some kind of special exemption.
I'm sure they won't be training when the general public is out and playing in the pool where a lifeguard already has a hard enough time trying to see if there's someone in distress.
They'll either use a private pool, or close the pool at which point they can ask for the system to be disabled because well, there's more oversight.
We used to carefully sort and fill multiple recycling containers with paper, glass, metal, etc. But then they wanted to have only one pickup container, and call it single-stream. So now we're supposed to throw everything in there together. What did they expect?
Easy, recycling rates went up. Because people weren't getting confused where something went.
Our office recently prepared for a waste audit, so they put up new signs by the recycler. There are so many categories I get completely confused. For paper, it's easy - you dump it in the "mixed paper" bin. But for plastic, you have mixed containers, styrofoam, and soft plastics (LDPE plastic bags). Well, I have the lid of my lunch which is made of plastic. It's not really a mixed container, and definitely not styrofoam, and not a plastic bag. Now the plastic fork? At least the spoon says:compostable" so I toss it in the compost bin. And if you think "mixed containers", they do show plastic bottles, drink bottles, drink cans, juice cartons and the like.
Seriously I got so confused where something went sometimes I just toss it all the garbage.
Some fast food take out make it easy - it's all paper so it just goes into the compost.
The only way to get a 240v shock in a typical USA house is to somehow get connected to BOTH legs of the service, which would almost take intent.
Or a minor mistake in a breaker box. Those 2 poles are very close together.
They are actually on neighboring breakers. Take any breaker, and the other one will be on the leg of the service.
That's why when you need 240V, they use a double ganged breaker with a little connecting rod on the toggle switch - the double breaker connects to both legs, and the connecting rod ensures both power legs switch off if one trips, otherwise there's potential danger with a half-powered device.
Neutral in the breaker box is usually a bare metal bar just beside the breaker as well. I had to rewire a circuit from 110V to 220V and the neutral line was long enough to reach the breaker as well.
I don't know if Net Neutrality is a big enough deal to most voters for it to matter. The Dem's would be better off pushing things like gun control, protections for abortions, and other things that their base cares about if they're just signalling. If you want to signal that you're rich, you get a flash car and a gaudy but expensive looking wrist watch. That's going to be more effective than buying a $50,000 fountain pen because most people won't be able to pick up something like that as a signal for wealth.
Also, without both houses of Congress to even push bills to Trump's desk, there's no way to stop things from getting killed in the Senate or just so laden with excess bullshit that when they come back to the House they don't end up getting killed. That doesn't mean that there isn't signalling to voters to be done, only that there's different ways to go about it that are more effective in this case.
It's the least controversial and yet important enough subject with who the democrats are trying to attract - new voters who just turned 18 and got their ability to vote. And it's the "digital native" era, so these people have grown up with the Internet around them, and it's quite important to them.
Abortion is controversial, even among the liberal side there are controversies. As is gun control - this issue is so highly nuanced it's impossible to fit even part of it in a tweet (that's why it's easy to claim "they're going for our AR-15s" because that's simple, when instead you want some aspect controlled but not an outright ban.).
In fact, those issues are generally nuanced enough that you help rally your base and your opponent's as well because your rallying cry becomes their rallying cry.
But Net Neutrality is different - it's not hard to imagine a world where you have to pay a Netflix fee with your ISP, and it's easy to fight for without rallying your opponents. (What, they going to argue that Verizon needs you spending $5/month to watch Netflix? Or that Comcast will go bankrupt without that $5 so you can use facebook? Not going to generate much sympathy with the public.) That's why opponents are always promoting stuff like "it will increase investment" and other vague things. Especially easy since telecommunication companies are basically the most hated companies of all.
It seems they are interested in reducing collisions not in increasing revenue.
It's more of an edict that came down in Calgary or across Alberta (not sure who issued it) - the use of photo radar equipment must be shown to be for safety reasons and not just for revenue reasons. If this is not obeyed, the cameras will be removed forcefully.
So every installation must prove that it's created positive change (less accidents, etc). Otherwise the camera will be removed.
Slashdot Mirror
Funny enough, that's the premise of a RPG called Paranoia, where "The Computer is your friend". And yes, the top people are the coveted High Programmers.
And yes, it take place in the US.
Well, that's because they've got a lot of rich sponsors - Apple, Qualcomm, etc. Basically what happened was GPLv3 and Apple spent a ton of money investing in alternative free compiler suites, of which LLVM was the most complete and well structured alternative. (That's why Clang is credited to Apple).
Of course, the favorable licensing terms of LLVM didn't hurt, either (I think it's MIT or BSD?).
So the fact it's easy to integrate into practically everything (IDEs and other things), has a good license, etc., has basically exploded its popularity. It's used in everything from the Xcode IDE where its code parsing engine helps syntax and error highlighting (as well as dynamic recompilation as you fix the error), but drivers needing to compile OpenCL or other code down to GPU native machine code.
WebAssembly is what makes possible projects like DOSbox that runs in a browser (see Internet Archive for demos) as well as many other things that run in a browser that were formerly C programs.
$500 cards have been mid-high end for a long time now. The high end cards cost around $1000 with the top of the line costing $2000 or so.
Of course, today's $500 card was yesterday's $1000 card, so it does rapidly cost a lot less money.
A mid-tier card costs around $300 or so.
I think Apple's service is less content provider and more content aggregator. If we take what Apple has done with AppleTV, and why Netflix is entering into this discussion, you basically tell Apple (or subscribe through Apple) to the TV providers you want. Apple handles the billing and all that and you get a list of shows you can watch
In the end, there can be 1000 different content providers, you subscribe to some of them through Apple, and Apple generates a TV grid and search results based on what you can get.
That's why Netflix is saying they will not participate - Apple may want access to search Netflix's content archives so if a user subscribes to Netflix, they can search Netflix through the general Apple interface.
You want to watch TV, Apple makes it easy by aggregating all the providers together so you get one TV grid if you want to watch something upcoming or new, or if you search, Apple will search those provider's back catalogs as well.
So instead of trying to manually manage 100 providers. Apple's service does it for you, searching and "what's on TV now and in the future" And if you let Apple, they can handle the billing as well making it trivially easy to subscribe to new providers like Disney without having to do it manually.
At times no one wants to watch movies at. So yeah, watch as many rotten movies as you want, the ones that play in the afternoon only. Evening showings are excluded. Also only on a Tuesday or Wednesday.
Sports also have unions, and I'm sure the athletes in them make way more than even techies do. Basketball players, hockey players, etc., their unions have gone on strike which leads to an abbreviated season.
Linux wouldn't improve matters - OK it will in the short term, but in the long term, it makes zero difference. Sure the manufacturer could run things properly with proper privilege separation and such, but in reality, everything will run as root. At which point you're really not much better than a Windows based system. And even if you don't use root, eventually things will be that everyone uses root on the control PC.
Sudo won't really help either if everyone simply gets used to issuing it before every command that fails.
Whatever Linux would provide, it would be temporary as it's just obscure at the moment, but once people get used to it, all the ugly shortcuts will be revealed.
It's actually part of the T2 controller chip that Apple uses to manage the touchbar and other things.
It's PCIe based storage, and yes, it's a VERY fast device. I'm not sure if it emulates an NVMe interface.
The use of the T2 chip is why Apple's SSDs are strange - as in they're raw flash. In early iMacs, this lead to problems because people would assume they could take out the "SSD" and move it to another Mac, only to find out it doesn't work. The reason is the T2 chip encrypts all data on the flash and it's stored in the T2 chip itself, so moving the raw storage around does nothing without the key. That's why the updated iMacs soldered in the SSD - it was pointless to move the flash chips around without the T2 chip coming along
You want government to Do Something(tm), you'll get stuff like the Patriot Act.
In general, when government is tied up and unable to accomplish anything useful, things outside of government get done.
Also means stuff that requires fine details to be sorted out, like gun control, to either not go forward, or for it to take its own time to be hashed out, rather than rushed out and full of holes.
Beware when some bill passes quickly - it usually means something in there is set to screw you over. When government is log jammed it means they're not making up laws to screw you over.
The big reason is RAR introduced a new revision just a few years ago, called RAR5. It changed a lot of things and if your RAR decompressor didn't know how to handle RAR5, it would report the file as corrupt.
The solution as always is to update - 7zip doesn't have native RAR support, so you needed to update the unrar DLL or exe and all would be fine.
Even RAR users were caught - update WinRAR and everything would work again.
That assumes those with problematic irregular heartbeats will discover the problem independently, before it's too late to monitor and potentially correct.
And it opens the opportunity to do MORE research in discovering what is a "safe" irregular heartbeat and what is going to be problematic.
Atrial Fibrillation has a rather distinct signature on an ECG so it's not as if the watch will see "irregular heartbeat, see doctor!" it will try to figure out if it's potentially something serious.
Or perhaps you based your business model on making people pay for a "cloud services" set up - knowing the popularity of services like AWS and Azure. So you decide to sell support on how to use your software in such a configuration and make people pay for it.
Problem is, AWS and Azure want your software to work with their services as well, and they also know making their customers pay you for support isn't good business for them. So they'll go and make a version of your software for their service - it's in their interest to provide your software for their service for their customers, and it's in their interest to do so for free.
And that's the real issue - the companies provide official paid support, but the cloud providers provide free versions they've developed that bypasses said support.
Of course, the real support would be to sell improved performance - more searches for less money. Since AWS and Azure charge by the CPU cycle, if your paid version can help save large installations money over the default free option...
You have to remember though, the Google Play Store was supposed to have no oversight whatsoever. It was a response to the Apple App Store Approval Process which was raising a bunch of articles about apps being rejected.
So Google simply adopted a "pay us $35 and post as many apps as you want and we will not reject apps". As Apple rejected apps, Google would happily take them.
Of course, the reality is it's actually easier to be extremely restrictive in the beginning and loosen the rules later, than to be loose and unrestricted in the beginning and having to tighten the reins.
And even though $1B is big, supposedly Apple has already withheld $1B in royalties to Qualcomm over the years as well, so even Qualcomm won't have to fork over all the cash.
The more important point is the ruling may affect the other court cases on the same matter - Qualcomm had to backstop sales of the affected iPhones before they could proceed. From what was presented, Qualcomm did have a case, but Apple fixed the issue and bypassed the patents, so Qualcomm will get some of the money back, but likely they would've had to pay for the iPhones Apple didn't sell after the software patch was released.
The problem is complexity. The climate is warming, so :global warming" is accurate. However, you tell that to Joe On the Street and he thinks it just means Alaska will be like California in the end so what's wrong with that?
The real truth is with the added heat energy, the climate will swing more wildly. One day you can enjoy a spring day, the next, you get 3 feet of snow dumped on you.
The use of climate change is meant to reflect that - the climate is changing, and the wonderful summer days you remembered as a kid was replaced with scorching hot heatwaves years ago. Plus, the word "change" is scary
WIth respect to dictatorships versus democracies, the governments aren't too different. In fact, there are more similarities between the two than you realize and it sort of all makes complete sense when you actually see who government actually works for.
This is true as long as there is a ruling entity - a Dictator, a President, a Prime Minister, a Head, whatever.
Rules for Rulers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Death and Dynasties - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Actually, it could happen, and it likely will happen much deeper than you might realize. The Nintendo community isn't really that big of a community - friend codes and the like and all in all it's pretty janky. Even on the Switch.
People talk about their friends on PSN or Xbox Live all the time, not on Switch.
What's likely happening is Nintendo and Microsoft are in discussions on online play and handling friends and communities and quite likely there will be some arrangement where Nintendo leaves it to Microsoft and Xbox Live to handle and manage friend lists, chat, etc.
(Face it - what was that oddball thing Nintendo suggested for chat?)
'
Sony could, but they won't, because like any company in the lead, they'll be arrogant and believe they will be handed the crown again. (See the PS3). You already see it right now
Another reason is Linux - Sony's already been burned badly on this, to the point of refunding everyone $20 or so.
The only reason Sony is involved in crossplay is because of something bigger than Sony - Fortnite. And it took them so long to deal with it that it was obvious Sony was being Sony and wasn't trying to even deal with the problem - just hide and ignore the issue. Just claim Fortnite on PS4 is all you need. Only when it didn't go away after a couple of weeks did Sony give in to "consider" cross play.
The freedom to fly is greatest in two countries - the US and Canada, where anyone suitably trained and documented can get in and fly. And the little Cessnas and Pipers aren't the highly automated Boeings or Airbuses, they're quite manual. If you're lucky, you'll have a partial autopilot - one axis (elevator) usually, fancy pants ones have two (elevator and aileron).
One could fly from one end of the country to the other, avoiding controlled airspace and thus not talking to anyone if anyone so desired.
Some other countries notably Europe, imposes fees on flying. Lots of taxes. Sure they have some GA flights, but to do so requires a fair bit of perseverance and money.
The vast majority of countries though, make such thought of flight impossible.
Now tell me which pilot will likely have the best flying skills? The one who can on a spare day roll up to their little airport, get out and fly, or one who can only fly the bit iron and the simulator because the only other flying is military..
It's why I worried less about the US and Canada being late to the grounding party for the 737 MAX - the pilots here simply have better access to flight on their spare time than pretty much everyone else.
The only way to maintain stick and rudder skills is to fly stick and rudder, and really, that's stupidly easy to do in the US and Canada - you literally get to the airport and fly - no permits, no flight plans (within limits), and other than fuel, no taxes to just punch holes in the sky.
In China, they noticed this and the Chinese military let civilian pilots have a narrow slice of sky to fly between two airports in China. But you tell me - who will be the better pilot - one who has to put down their wings at the end of the day, or one who has access to the same sky they were just in?
And no, you don't have to own your own airplane Renting is popular, as is renting an instructor.
Given the Xbone has support for keyboard and mouse, this should be much less of a problem.
The thing with 5G is it's not just "new cell towers with 5G equipment", though that's the initial rollout. There are addons to 5G that involve going all the way to 60GHz+ - the millimeter wave part of the standard. Here the signal is weak that you'll need a "tower" in every streetlight, but you'll have basically covering the entire area in 60GHz RF and we're not too sure what the results may be.
The cell towers are simple enough since they work at frequencies and spectrum we're familiar with. The millimeter wave part of 5G is really what's at stake especially if you cover a dense city with it. And this is the only way you can have people getting gigabit speeds or faster in dense areas.
I'm sure they won't be training when the general public is out and playing in the pool where a lifeguard already has a hard enough time trying to see if there's someone in distress.
They'll either use a private pool, or close the pool at which point they can ask for the system to be disabled because well, there's more oversight.
Easy, recycling rates went up. Because people weren't getting confused where something went.
Our office recently prepared for a waste audit, so they put up new signs by the recycler. There are so many categories I get completely confused. For paper, it's easy - you dump it in the "mixed paper" bin. But for plastic, you have mixed containers, styrofoam, and soft plastics (LDPE plastic bags). Well, I have the lid of my lunch which is made of plastic. It's not really a mixed container, and definitely not styrofoam, and not a plastic bag. Now the plastic fork? At least the spoon says :compostable" so I toss it in the compost bin. And if you think "mixed containers", they do show plastic bottles, drink bottles, drink cans, juice cartons and the like.
Seriously I got so confused where something went sometimes I just toss it all the garbage.
Some fast food take out make it easy - it's all paper so it just goes into the compost.
They are actually on neighboring breakers. Take any breaker, and the other one will be on the leg of the service.
That's why when you need 240V, they use a double ganged breaker with a little connecting rod on the toggle switch - the double breaker connects to both legs, and the connecting rod ensures both power legs switch off if one trips, otherwise there's potential danger with a half-powered device.
Neutral in the breaker box is usually a bare metal bar just beside the breaker as well. I had to rewire a circuit from 110V to 220V and the neutral line was long enough to reach the breaker as well.
It's the least controversial and yet important enough subject with who the democrats are trying to attract - new voters who just turned 18 and got their ability to vote. And it's the "digital native" era, so these people have grown up with the Internet around them, and it's quite important to them.
Abortion is controversial, even among the liberal side there are controversies. As is gun control - this issue is so highly nuanced it's impossible to fit even part of it in a tweet (that's why it's easy to claim "they're going for our AR-15s" because that's simple, when instead you want some aspect controlled but not an outright ban.).
In fact, those issues are generally nuanced enough that you help rally your base and your opponent's as well because your rallying cry becomes their rallying cry.
But Net Neutrality is different - it's not hard to imagine a world where you have to pay a Netflix fee with your ISP, and it's easy to fight for without rallying your opponents. (What, they going to argue that Verizon needs you spending $5/month to watch Netflix? Or that Comcast will go bankrupt without that $5 so you can use facebook? Not going to generate much sympathy with the public.) That's why opponents are always promoting stuff like "it will increase investment" and other vague things. Especially easy since telecommunication companies are basically the most hated companies of all.
Cheap political points to be had here.
It's more of an edict that came down in Calgary or across Alberta (not sure who issued it) - the use of photo radar equipment must be shown to be for safety reasons and not just for revenue reasons. If this is not obeyed, the cameras will be removed forcefully.
So every installation must prove that it's created positive change (less accidents, etc). Otherwise the camera will be removed.