But the phono cartridge produces a very small voltage. Which has to be amplified. Which is almost always by an amplifier connected to mains current. So, we're back to "Amplification? Power Supply modulated by a music signal."
That small voltage has to get from the cartridge to the amplifier. The cables need to well shielded if they aren't pick up stray electric field from, say, a nearby mains power equipment and/or cables.
And the vinyl is being spun by an electric motor. Which is powered from the mains current. Which can speed up/down according to power supply fluctuations, contributing (at least in part) to wow and flutter.
Let's bring back the spring powered gramophone !
You are missing the point.
The source either has or has no power supply. The quality of that supply determines the quality of the extraction of the information. Power supplies have certain common characteristics. Firstly, they are expensive, often the most expensive section of any electronic device. Better supplies cost even more money than cheap supplies, and the quality of reproduction is evident when costs are limited in the supply section.
The phono cartridge has no supply, therefore those (and other) limitations do not exist. But more importantly, the difference affects the sound quality.
I clearly stated that amplification required a power supply.
Aside from the only truly valid reason to own a turntable, which is, 90+ % of all the music produced prior to about 1990 will never be released in a digital format... in other words it's about the software, not the hardware. It is the fundamental reason for owning a vinyl playback system, or a cassette deck for that matter. All this hardware talk is just noise. Sure, some people want better playback of these analog formats, but focusing on that is a huge Red Herring. For some reason Tech writers can't get past a focus on hardware, and that goes for digital as well as analog audio.
But, we live in an analog world when it comes to music. It starts analog, and it ends analog (playback). A very, very long time ago I learned that with electronics, every time you make a translation... whether that's simply recording live to tape or Digital Audio Workstation, or a change in format, or any number of ways to do a job with the electronics... and there is always the final translation to moving air in a room, you lose something. Maybe not much, but something.
The other thing is you use the best tools for the job. Recording on a DAW is better than recording on magnetic tape, the only real viable alternative option. Yes, you can record direct to (vinyl) disk, but that's hard and doesn't lend itself to large quantity replication, so it's a niche example. It is better than mag tape, but it's also severely limiting, an "old-school" technique, live to final mix, that was happily abandoned when multitrack recording technology came along.
So, whatever tools were used to *create* an album, when it's final form is finished, that's your product. It doesn't matter if it was recorded, mixed and mastered on a DAW anymore than it matters that the artist used a toy piano or a concert grand to make the music. Once in finished form, then it matters how it's played back, because a vinyl record doesn't sound like a CD, and it shouldn't sound like a CD, otherwise there is something seriously wrong going on (with the CD, probably).
So, a phono cartridge is a transducer. Like a dynamic microphone, like a loudspeaker. What distinguishes transducers from other parts of the playback chain is they are not powered devices. A phono cartridge has no power supply, it generates it's own voltage through movement. If you push on the cone of your subwoofer, it generates a back-electromagnetic force on the power amp. And so on.
And although it's not obvious to most people, when you listen to music through a modern sound system, you are listening to the power supply, modulated by a music signal. So the quality of the power supply is paramount to the sonics.
CD player? Power Supply modulated by a music signal. Amplification? Power Supply modulated by a music signal.
But not a phono cartridge. There is a vast array of issues to deal with when you have to use a power supply driven by mains current from the wall. It would not be an exaggeration to say that almost everything in audio that has developed since the early 20th century is the story of power supply technology and ways to modulate that supply.
So, it would be unusual if vinyl *didn't* sound different, even if the final product (the shipping software, in LP or CD or whatever form) was created exactly the same way.
75 years is an actuarial accounting standard. Sometimes seen as an obligation to fund or project costs, it's actually a limit... in other words no pension fund anywhere projects beyond 75 years, even if they could.
Night Owl here and loving it. I have a 25.5 hour body clock.... if I stick to a regular job I'm fighting to get to bed, in fact before 1 AM is quite rare, even when I'm getting up at 6AM for work. It's the ONLY way to keep my body in a 24 hour clock cycle.
Now that I'm retired, I live the 25.5 life, and don't worry about it. Five to seven hours sleep and I'm up and feeling refreshed. It does mean that sometimes I'm sleeping in the afternoon after burning daylight, night light and morning light, but eventually I'll be back to waking early in the morning.
I don't mind, and I doubt that it will kill me earlier than I'm due, because it feels so right. But I might agree that if you have to force your sleep schedule, it might harm your health.
Apps that are not 64-bit are pretty rare if you are running OSX 10.13x... most apps broke when 10.4x was released, then 10.6x, and again when 10.10x was released. You can't submit 32-bit apps to the Mac App Store (as of January this year) so anything there should be good to go.
If you have "legacy apps" that run in 32bit mode you probably have a "legacy computer" with a "legacy version of OSX" to run them on (ideally not connected to the internet). So this won't affect you at all. Go! Sneakernet!
Back Compatibility is assured by running OSX 10.6x Server in a Virtual Machine. Yes, the server license allows this.
I think the original idea of the stickers was to keep users from mucking around in their own devices trying to fix something and just breaking it worse. So the warranty would be voided in those cases. But I am sure plenty of companies use that excuse to also block third-party repairs since they too would have to break the seal.
Think of it this way, you take it to a 3rd party, who sucks at repairs and uses bad parts. This causes more damage to the device. The manufacture's costs to now provide warranty support now is much more costly, and frankly untenable for supporting stuff that they haven't approved.
This is a case of a good intent from the law (allowing you to repair from anyone) going to a bad extreme and forcing companies to unreasonably support things they shouldn't have to (bad parts, poor work, additional damage that are not their fault) or even encourage outright fraud.
I'm no fan of companies doing lock-in, but I can fully understand the reasonable requirements they want to impose for warranty repair.
The manufacturer's warranty does not, and is not legally required to, cover damage due to an improper repair by an unrelated entity. The exemption isn't unlimited... failure unrelated to that improper repair must still be covered... but I don't think the scenario you propose is a rational excuse for seal break warranty refusal.
Somewhat unrelated, but you should look up what "water resistant" means when applied to a wristwatch. I suspect it means something other than what you assume it does. But, moving along...
The water resistant watch case and back should not be opened by laymen, simply because they might not re-assemble it correctly and lose that water resistant protection. I recommend you always take a watch to a Jeweler to replace the battery. You're right... you don't *have to* do it that way, but unless the watch is fairly inexpensive... well below $100... the risk vs reward doesn't really make sense.
I have some quartz watches that are only certified to be water resistant if sent to the manufacturer for battery replacement. They are expensive (more than $1000) Swiss made brands you would probably recognize. Do I think it necessary? Not really, but the risk of damage to a watch that costs that much if the seal isn't done correctly when opening and resetting the back case, versus the $20 and a week it costs, I won't chance it.
Lest one thinks this is all a money grab for Jewelers and Watch Brands I had a Swiss Army watch that had the battery replaced by a Jeweler that had water ingress. Because of how I had the battery replaced, I was able to get the Jeweler to replace the watch.
If I were an Uber (or similar) driver. I would just sit at the spot where the ill passenger entered, and call an ambulance for him. That means I've done the one thing a citizen is reasonably required to do given an illness situation I've come across, and takes the legal liability out of the issue for me.
If every driver did the same, then the "problem" of people calling drivers instead of ambulances would end rather quickly.
As for the cost of ambulance care, I don't see it as a problem. If you have insurance, that pays for it. If you don't have insurance but do have a reasonable income, you pay it yourself. And if you don't have the means to pay it, anything serious enough to require emergency room attendance is serious enough that the cost (or probably more likely, the harassment by bill collectors) is irrelevant, versus your health. The point being the ambulance isn't going to deny you service based on ability to pay.
Where I live (Commie Medicine Canada) the cost of ambulance care is capped at about $US 280 (helicopter, air) or $US 261 + $US 1.15/mile (ground). It's possible to incur both an air and a ground ambulance charge.
A lot of answers come close, but don't quite complete the "discrepancy" mystery.
True, the torque output of a Tesla vehicle is very high at near-0 wheel RPM. True as well, it falls off as the electric motor increases in RPM.
But the horsepower discrepancy is easy to account for.
Dynamometers used to measure vehicle power measure torque, not horsepower.
Horsepower cannot be measured by any device, actually. Power can only be measured as torque.
A mathematical formula is used to convert torque (measured) to horsepower (calculated).
Normally with internal combustion engines torque in lbs/ft x RPM divided by 5252 (the formula) gives higher numbers when RPM increases, especially above 5252 RPM where +1 ft/lb now creates more than 1 HP.
The electric Tesla must generate huge torque values at very low (near but not zero) speeds to generate high HP at those RPMs. None the less, it is consistent with how these "engines" work.
Lead Free solder (aka RoHS compliant assembly) is not universally mandated in every application, for example it's use is banned (prohibited) in most aerospace and military contracts (you have to certify no lead-free solders are used), and with NASA. Also lead solder is allowed in any automotive application. There are multiple reasons for this, but essentially it boils down to reliability.
Modern (as in 2018 versus 2008) lead-free assemblies are much better in this respect, but there is still a difference with the smallest traces and component leads.
For hand-assembly, there are good techniques established to do a good solder joint. A large part of the success does rely on the fact that it's hand assembled, with the care and post-assembly examination by a competent human wielding the iron. Not to be confused with a whole-board assembly which will be automated or use wave soldering or some other non-hand method.
Heat management (for the guy asking about harming the motherboard) is necessary, but fine tips and heat-controlled irons are the norm. A good iron (I like HAKKO, but there are others) will maintain a set temperature during rest and while applying the iron without much issue.
It's not always easy to know what your natural enemies think of you; in fact it's the norm to be wrong there because everything is filtered through a ethnocentric lens. It doesn't have to be true for your adversaries to act as if it were. I think that is an important aspect to keep in mind.
Afghanistan is an example, maybe, of the exception to the rule, while few historians on either side would disagree that it was precisely the belief that drove the doctrine and actions of the North Vietnamese. In our modern "fake news" super-connected world, where propaganda is front and centre in the peacetime rhetoric, morale at home is quite possibly even more fragile than in conflicts of the 20th century.
I have little doubt a protagonist would not try to exploit that, and considering there is still a "commie faction" (small "c") that strictly controls it's own media, including the networked side... the Arab Spring provided lessons that they definitely took notice of, while in the West we seem to think we can sidestep these controls. Maybe we can, but then again maybe the holes are being shut faster than we can open them. At least that's how it seems.
It's a constantly changing landscape; there is ebb and flow, each side has it's successes and failures. But as we speak, it seems to me the closed media states are gaining advantages while we see erosion.
This one is simple. Move to a subscription-only revenue model, and I buy something else or find some other way to do whatever it was you aided me to do. Maybe I'll even discover I don't need no stinkin' software in the first place for the tasks I had previously assigned to your app.
As for the other doomsday scenarios (every app on Earth suddenly switching to a sub model... really?) I'll find a way, and so will the developers who jump into the now wide-open and ripe-for-the-pickings market hole you left behind.
I no longer use Photoshop (longtime user since Photoshop v2.5). I do just fine without it, and don't lose any functionality, and suprise, suprise... do it for less than even a PS upgrade license.
MS Office? The question is silly; I do have a copy but I've never, not once, composed a document in Word (since 1990). Same as Photoshop... my first copy ran on MacOS System 6.0.8. My last version is probably my last, as the standalone license options are diminishing.
I have always used other text or word processing software. My copy sits there to read documents others send me. No other reason. Same with Excel... I use it, but with documents others send me. I use others to create my own documents (and prefer database apps to spreadsheets in the first place, but that's neither here nor there).
Go ahead. Lose what has been a five figure outlay over almost thirty years of computing use, for me, just one simple user with no business requirements. Careful what you wish for...
I like your use of the word "allow" and the phrase "they won't allow". It's quaint.
History tells us, and with startling consistency, that wars don't start based on who allows what, they don't play out based on who allows what, and they don't end based on who allows what.
They start because of brinkmanship (check), territorial ambitions (check) and unexpected, often improbable and generally unanticipated (by both sides) events which lead to ad-hoc responses that weren't in the playbook devised by those who plan for such things.
They play out in such a way that the weaker employs tactics that negate the stronger's advantages, and the stronger applies force that the weaker doesn't possess. Lord help everyone if there is no demonstrably weaker and stronger side, because then the Shit Really Hits The Fan, and for longer than everyone, often including the eventual losers, would like.
The latter often means bigger and nastier weapons, often of a type yet deployed in battle, because... well... it's a perfect proving ground, there's a justification (to win the war and save {our side's / innocent civilians / the enemy's conscripted soldiers etc} lives... and interested minds want to know how effective the thing is, and what's the weakness we need to engineer out for the next war, or this one, if it lasts long enough.
Today we have a complex web of alliances and treaties that tends to prevent big conflicts by addressing small ones, but when the improbable and unexpected happens, that just means you get a bigger war. Throw in some widely held beliefs about the other side (one widely held by America's foes is that the US domestic population can't stand a prolonged conflict and will force political concessions to the enemy), regardless if they are actually true or not.
Really, I don't see much "allowing" going on. More like stumbling, guessing, thrashing, and suffering. Oh, and let's not forget the best one of all, "testing".
a 100-megaton bomb would kill 8 million people outright and injure 6 million more.
Good riddance. Bring it on.
Your quote is out of context.
Dropped on New York City, a 100-megaton bomb would kill 8 million people outright and injure 6 million more.
Torpedoes, last time I checked, weren't very good at leaping from the water into the sky thousands of feet to allow themselves to drop onto a city, thereby taking advantage of the largest possible and most lethal blast radius. An underwater nuke is far from trivial, but it's in another league, and a much less lethal league, in terms of mass casualties.
Best practice is to download but do not install every MacOS version as it's released. If you do that, every version of MacOS will be available to you in the AppleStore (provided you access it with that machine). If you have multiple Macs, do the same on each one.
The app is a form of Natural Birth Control. Contraceptives fall into two broad categories, based on their effectiveness in real use versus the potential effectiveness with perfect use.
Natural Birth Control has a perfect use effectiveness of about five or fewer pregnancies per 1000 users (women only).
Natural Birth Control has a real use effectiveness of 24% of users experiencing pregnancy within the first year of use. That's a quarter of women becoming pregnant, folks.
That it's an app makes headlines in/., but really it's irrelevant that an app is used as an aid to a basal temperature method. The method doesn't work well, period. No British woman should expect otherwise.
The French are like that. In case you haven't noticed, they have a few other unusual habits. To many cultures, so do we (speaking as a native English North American). They also don't give a damn who they offend, or why.
They are sensitive to English (mostly) words, that they would probably say are "polluting" their language.
It's not something anyone who isn't a native French speaker needs to concern themselves with; so any comment in an English speaking forum, really, is irrelevant.
They have this history with the English. It matters to them sometimes. Maybe it's silly, but it's real. It's also their culture to shepherd, not mine.
I say let 'em, it's not anything that affects me. It's interesting in an "factoid" kind of way but that's the end of it as far as I'm concerned. Whatever floats their boat.
SATs (and similar admissions testing) are not particularly universal worldwide. They are not used in Canada, for example, your High School grades are. Ironically, I had to take an SAT to enter university, but that was because I didn't graduate from High School.
"... The Digital Reader blog points out one great irony. "The program initially launched in 2007. It has been running for ten years, and the SFWA only just now noticed." They add that SFWA's tardiness "leaves critical legal issues unresolved."..."
I have no idea which "critical legal issues" might exist. Copyright is inalienable... a copyright owner has no obligation to act when made aware of infringement, and the right does not change simply because infringement was not acted upon.
If you set a root user/password that exploit doesn't work and never did. Any/.'er who failed that step should probably cancel their account here. Seriously.
Soundcloud are absolutely correct in that there are better codecs than mp3 available; mp3 is about 20 years old and it's development goes back at least five more. However 64 kbps codecs are generally quite crude sonically compared to 128 kbps variants of the same codec. So I understand the concern.
Satellite Radio. which uses a proprietary codec and therefore isn't available to others, is a 64~80 kbps codec. It doesn't sound terrible, and it's also quite old.
So the idea that a competent 64 kbps codec could be out there isn't all that crazy an idea. I think it's reasonable for Soundcloud to be live testing codecs of any bitrate, and I wouldn't want them to stop. It's far more than most lossy compressed streams ever bother to even consider, let alone practice.
These devices are true "Trojan Horses". You invite them into your home, and they inevitably start sucking money through their channels for items you normally would buy at a bricks-and-mortar store. Dog food, tissues, a pizza, whatever. Sooner or later you will buy something from the small value category that Amazon (a merchandising company) or Google (an advertising company) don't normally sell in significant volume, or can't sell through their normal commerce channels due to perishability. If you're a retailer and you're not part of these ecosystems, your bottom line will be declining as of today.
Cops get paid a lot of money, considering their education level, retirement and lifetime health benefits.
Being a cop has an inherent risk. They're the police, not a wartime army. They have to take risks to protect innocent civilians. Maybe the suspect has a gun, and maybe he doesn't. Maybe the suspect is not following orders because he doesn't understand, or he's deaf, or doesn't speak English. They can't just blow away anybody who looks suspicious.
If cops don't want to take the risk of the job, there are lots of people lining up to take their place.
Here in my city (Canada) city police start at $C53,500 and across Canada RCMP at $C 53,144. Selected conversions to $USD. Pension is at 60% of the highest five years earnings, including overtime and retired member is eligible for full pension at 25 years service.
City Constable, probationary, 1st 6 months: $C 53,500 $US 40,053 City Constable, probationary, 2nd 6 months: $C 58,356 City Constable, 2nd year $C 70,027 $US 55,044 City Constable 10th year $C 105,041 City Constable 17th year $C 106,986 $US 84,095 Sergeant $C 116,712 [earned promotion] Staff Sergeant $C 128,383 [earned promotion] $US 100,914 Obviously there are other positions that pay more. Above based on 4 days on, 4 days off, 12 hour shifts
RCMP constable, probationary $C 53,144 $US 41,773 RCMP, constable, 6 months $C 69,049 RCMP constable, 12 months $C 74,916 $US 58,886 RCMP constable, 24 months $C 80,786 RCMP constable, 36 months $C 86,110 $US 67,685 [RCMP pay and promotion is automatic with service, so renumeration will continue to rise, as follows] RCMP corporal $C 94,292 RCMP sergeant $ 102,775 $US 80,785 RCMP staff sergeant $ 112,028 [earned promotion]
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Also, you speak as if a CD player requires no amplification stages prior to the line level output. It does, and it has.
But the phono cartridge produces a very small voltage.
Which has to be amplified.
Which is almost always by an amplifier connected to mains current.
So, we're back to "Amplification? Power Supply modulated by a music signal."
That small voltage has to get from the cartridge to the amplifier.
The cables need to well shielded if they aren't pick up stray electric field from, say, a nearby mains power equipment and/or cables.
And the vinyl is being spun by an electric motor.
Which is powered from the mains current.
Which can speed up/down according to power supply fluctuations, contributing (at least in part) to wow and flutter.
Let's bring back the spring powered gramophone !
You are missing the point.
The source either has or has no power supply.
The quality of that supply determines the quality of the extraction of the information.
Power supplies have certain common characteristics. Firstly, they are expensive, often the most expensive section of any electronic device.
Better supplies cost even more money than cheap supplies, and the quality of reproduction is evident when costs are limited in the supply section.
The phono cartridge has no supply, therefore those (and other) limitations do not exist. But more importantly, the difference affects the sound quality.
I clearly stated that amplification required a power supply.
Aside from the only truly valid reason to own a turntable, which is, 90+ % of all the music produced prior to about 1990 will never be released in a digital format ... in other words it's about the software, not the hardware. It is the fundamental reason for owning a vinyl playback system, or a cassette deck for that matter. All this hardware talk is just noise. Sure, some people want better playback of these analog formats, but focusing on that is a huge Red Herring. For some reason Tech writers can't get past a focus on hardware, and that goes for digital as well as analog audio.
But, we live in an analog world when it comes to music. It starts analog, and it ends analog (playback). A very, very long time ago I learned that with electronics, every time you make a translation ... whether that's simply recording live to tape or Digital Audio Workstation, or a change in format, or any number of ways to do a job with the electronics ... and there is always the final translation to moving air in a room, you lose something. Maybe not much, but something.
The other thing is you use the best tools for the job. Recording on a DAW is better than recording on magnetic tape, the only real viable alternative option. Yes, you can record direct to (vinyl) disk, but that's hard and doesn't lend itself to large quantity replication, so it's a niche example. It is better than mag tape, but it's also severely limiting, an "old-school" technique, live to final mix, that was happily abandoned when multitrack recording technology came along.
So, whatever tools were used to *create* an album, when it's final form is finished, that's your product. It doesn't matter if it was recorded, mixed and mastered on a DAW anymore than it matters that the artist used a toy piano or a concert grand to make the music. Once in finished form, then it matters how it's played back, because a vinyl record doesn't sound like a CD, and it shouldn't sound like a CD, otherwise there is something seriously wrong going on (with the CD, probably).
So, a phono cartridge is a transducer. Like a dynamic microphone, like a loudspeaker. What distinguishes transducers from other parts of the playback chain is they are not powered devices. A phono cartridge has no power supply, it generates it's own voltage through movement. If you push on the cone of your subwoofer, it generates a back-electromagnetic force on the power amp. And so on.
And although it's not obvious to most people, when you listen to music through a modern sound system, you are listening to the power supply, modulated by a music signal. So the quality of the power supply is paramount to the sonics.
CD player? Power Supply modulated by a music signal.
Amplification? Power Supply modulated by a music signal.
But not a phono cartridge. There is a vast array of issues to deal with when you have to use a power supply driven by mains current from the wall. It would not be an exaggeration to say that almost everything in audio that has developed since the early 20th century is the story of power supply technology and ways to modulate that supply.
So, it would be unusual if vinyl *didn't* sound different, even if the final product (the shipping software, in LP or CD or whatever form) was created exactly the same way.
The Topic Summary is completely unintelligible.
If there is a crisis in Silicon Valley, it's clearly a crisis in literacy.
75 years is an actuarial accounting standard. Sometimes seen as an obligation to fund or project costs, it's actually a limit ... in other words no pension fund anywhere projects beyond 75 years, even if they could.
Night Owl here and loving it. I have a 25.5 hour body clock .... if I stick to a regular job I'm fighting to get to bed, in fact before 1 AM is quite rare, even when I'm getting up at 6AM for work. It's the ONLY way to keep my body in a 24 hour clock cycle.
Now that I'm retired, I live the 25.5 life, and don't worry about it. Five to seven hours sleep and I'm up and feeling refreshed. It does mean that sometimes I'm sleeping in the afternoon after burning daylight, night light and morning light, but eventually I'll be back to waking early in the morning.
I don't mind, and I doubt that it will kill me earlier than I'm due, because it feels so right. But I might agree that if you have to force your sleep schedule, it might harm your health.
Apps that are not 64-bit are pretty rare if you are running OSX 10.13x ... most apps broke when 10.4x was released, then 10.6x, and again when 10.10x was released. You can't submit 32-bit apps to the Mac App Store (as of January this year) so anything there should be good to go.
If you have "legacy apps" that run in 32bit mode you probably have a "legacy computer" with a "legacy version of OSX" to run them on (ideally not connected to the internet). So this won't affect you at all. Go! Sneakernet!
Back Compatibility is assured by running OSX 10.6x Server in a Virtual Machine. Yes, the server license allows this.
I think the original idea of the stickers was to keep users from mucking around in their own devices trying to fix something and just breaking it worse. So the warranty would be voided in those cases. But I am sure plenty of companies use that excuse to also block third-party repairs since they too would have to break the seal.
Think of it this way, you take it to a 3rd party, who sucks at repairs and uses bad parts. This causes more damage to the device. The manufacture's costs to now provide warranty support now is much more costly, and frankly untenable for supporting stuff that they haven't approved.
This is a case of a good intent from the law (allowing you to repair from anyone) going to a bad extreme and forcing companies to unreasonably support things they shouldn't have to (bad parts, poor work, additional damage that are not their fault) or even encourage outright fraud.
I'm no fan of companies doing lock-in, but I can fully understand the reasonable requirements they want to impose for warranty repair.
The manufacturer's warranty does not, and is not legally required to, cover damage due to an improper repair by an unrelated entity. The exemption isn't unlimited ... failure unrelated to that improper repair must still be covered ... but I don't think the scenario you propose is a rational excuse for seal break warranty refusal.
Somewhat unrelated, but you should look up what "water resistant" means when applied to a wristwatch. I suspect it means something other than what you assume it does. But, moving along ...
The water resistant watch case and back should not be opened by laymen, simply because they might not re-assemble it correctly and lose that water resistant protection. I recommend you always take a watch to a Jeweler to replace the battery. You're right ... you don't *have to* do it that way, but unless the watch is fairly inexpensive ... well below $100 ... the risk vs reward doesn't really make sense.
I have some quartz watches that are only certified to be water resistant if sent to the manufacturer for battery replacement. They are expensive (more than $1000) Swiss made brands you would probably recognize. Do I think it necessary? Not really, but the risk of damage to a watch that costs that much if the seal isn't done correctly when opening and resetting the back case, versus the $20 and a week it costs, I won't chance it.
Lest one thinks this is all a money grab for Jewelers and Watch Brands I had a Swiss Army watch that had the battery replaced by a Jeweler that had water ingress. Because of how I had the battery replaced, I was able to get the Jeweler to replace the watch.
If I were an Uber (or similar) driver. I would just sit at the spot where the ill passenger entered, and call an ambulance for him. That means I've done the one thing a citizen is reasonably required to do given an illness situation I've come across, and takes the legal liability out of the issue for me.
If every driver did the same, then the "problem" of people calling drivers instead of ambulances would end rather quickly.
As for the cost of ambulance care, I don't see it as a problem. If you have insurance, that pays for it. If you don't have insurance but do have a reasonable income, you pay it yourself. And if you don't have the means to pay it, anything serious enough to require emergency room attendance is serious enough that the cost (or probably more likely, the harassment by bill collectors) is irrelevant, versus your health. The point being the ambulance isn't going to deny you service based on ability to pay.
Where I live (Commie Medicine Canada) the cost of ambulance care is capped at about $US 280 (helicopter, air) or $US 261 + $US 1.15/mile (ground). It's possible to incur both an air and a ground ambulance charge.
A lot of answers come close, but don't quite complete the "discrepancy" mystery.
True, the torque output of a Tesla vehicle is very high at near-0 wheel RPM. True as well, it falls off as the electric motor increases in RPM.
But the horsepower discrepancy is easy to account for.
Dynamometers used to measure vehicle power measure torque, not horsepower.
Horsepower cannot be measured by any device, actually. Power can only be measured as torque.
A mathematical formula is used to convert torque (measured) to horsepower (calculated).
Normally with internal combustion engines torque in lbs/ft x RPM divided by 5252 (the formula) gives higher numbers when RPM increases, especially above 5252 RPM where +1 ft/lb now creates more than 1 HP.
The electric Tesla must generate huge torque values at very low (near but not zero) speeds to generate high HP at those RPMs. None the less, it is consistent with how these "engines" work.
Lead Free solder (aka RoHS compliant assembly) is not universally mandated in every application, for example it's use is banned (prohibited) in most aerospace and military contracts (you have to certify no lead-free solders are used), and with NASA. Also lead solder is allowed in any automotive application. There are multiple reasons for this, but essentially it boils down to reliability.
Modern (as in 2018 versus 2008) lead-free assemblies are much better in this respect, but there is still a difference with the smallest traces and component leads.
For hand-assembly, there are good techniques established to do a good solder joint. A large part of the success does rely on the fact that it's hand assembled, with the care and post-assembly examination by a competent human wielding the iron. Not to be confused with a whole-board assembly which will be automated or use wave soldering or some other non-hand method.
Heat management (for the guy asking about harming the motherboard) is necessary, but fine tips and heat-controlled irons are the norm. A good iron (I like HAKKO, but there are others) will maintain a set temperature during rest and while applying the iron without much issue.
It's not always easy to know what your natural enemies think of you; in fact it's the norm to be wrong there because everything is filtered through a ethnocentric lens. It doesn't have to be true for your adversaries to act as if it were. I think that is an important aspect to keep in mind.
Afghanistan is an example, maybe, of the exception to the rule, while few historians on either side would disagree that it was precisely the belief that drove the doctrine and actions of the North Vietnamese. In our modern "fake news" super-connected world, where propaganda is front and centre in the peacetime rhetoric, morale at home is quite possibly even more fragile than in conflicts of the 20th century.
I have little doubt a protagonist would not try to exploit that, and considering there is still a "commie faction" (small "c") that strictly controls it's own media, including the networked side ... the Arab Spring provided lessons that they definitely took notice of, while in the West we seem to think we can sidestep these controls. Maybe we can, but then again maybe the holes are being shut faster than we can open them. At least that's how it seems.
It's a constantly changing landscape; there is ebb and flow, each side has it's successes and failures. But as we speak, it seems to me the closed media states are gaining advantages while we see erosion.
This one is simple. Move to a subscription-only revenue model, and I buy something else or find some other way to do whatever it was you aided me to do. Maybe I'll even discover I don't need no stinkin' software in the first place for the tasks I had previously assigned to your app.
As for the other doomsday scenarios (every app on Earth suddenly switching to a sub model ... really?) I'll find a way, and so will the developers who jump into the now wide-open and ripe-for-the-pickings market hole you left behind.
I no longer use Photoshop (longtime user since Photoshop v2.5). I do just fine without it, and don't lose any functionality, and suprise, suprise ... do it for less than even a PS upgrade license.
MS Office? The question is silly; I do have a copy but I've never, not once, composed a document in Word (since 1990). Same as Photoshop ... my first copy ran on MacOS System 6.0.8. My last version is probably my last, as the standalone license options are diminishing.
I have always used other text or word processing software. My copy sits there to read documents others send me. No other reason. Same with Excel ... I use it, but with documents others send me. I use others to create my own documents (and prefer database apps to spreadsheets in the first place, but that's neither here nor there).
Go ahead. Lose what has been a five figure outlay over almost thirty years of computing use, for me, just one simple user with no business requirements. Careful what you wish for ...
I like your use of the word "allow" and the phrase "they won't allow". It's quaint.
History tells us, and with startling consistency, that wars don't start based on who allows what, they don't play out based on who allows what, and they don't end based on who allows what.
They start because of brinkmanship (check), territorial ambitions (check) and unexpected, often improbable and generally unanticipated (by both sides) events which lead to ad-hoc responses that weren't in the playbook devised by those who plan for such things.
They play out in such a way that the weaker employs tactics that negate the stronger's advantages, and the stronger applies force that the weaker doesn't possess. Lord help everyone if there is no demonstrably weaker and stronger side, because then the Shit Really Hits The Fan, and for longer than everyone, often including the eventual losers, would like.
The latter often means bigger and nastier weapons, often of a type yet deployed in battle, because ... well ... it's a perfect proving ground, there's a justification (to win the war and save {our side's / innocent civilians / the enemy's conscripted soldiers etc} lives ... and interested minds want to know how effective the thing is, and what's the weakness we need to engineer out for the next war, or this one, if it lasts long enough.
Today we have a complex web of alliances and treaties that tends to prevent big conflicts by addressing small ones, but when the improbable and unexpected happens, that just means you get a bigger war. Throw in some widely held beliefs about the other side (one widely held by America's foes is that the US domestic population can't stand a prolonged conflict and will force political concessions to the enemy), regardless if they are actually true or not.
Really, I don't see much "allowing" going on. More like stumbling, guessing, thrashing, and suffering. Oh, and let's not forget the best one of all, "testing".
a 100-megaton bomb would kill 8 million people outright and injure 6 million more.
Good riddance. Bring it on.
Your quote is out of context.
Dropped on New York City, a 100-megaton bomb would kill 8 million people outright and injure 6 million more.
Torpedoes, last time I checked, weren't very good at leaping from the water into the sky thousands of feet to allow themselves to drop onto a city, thereby taking advantage of the largest possible and most lethal blast radius. An underwater nuke is far from trivial, but it's in another league, and a much less lethal league, in terms of mass casualties.
Best practice is to download but do not install every MacOS version as it's released. If you do that, every version of MacOS will be available to you in the AppleStore (provided you access it with that machine). If you have multiple Macs, do the same on each one.
The app is a form of Natural Birth Control. Contraceptives fall into two broad categories, based on their effectiveness in real use versus the potential effectiveness with perfect use.
Natural Birth Control has a perfect use effectiveness of about five or fewer pregnancies per 1000 users (women only).
Natural Birth Control has a real use effectiveness of 24% of users experiencing pregnancy within the first year of use. That's a quarter of women becoming pregnant, folks.
That it's an app makes headlines in /., but really it's irrelevant that an app is used as an aid to a basal temperature method. The method doesn't work well, period. No British woman should expect otherwise.
Note: Data above from Health Canada
The French are like that. In case you haven't noticed, they have a few other unusual habits. To many cultures, so do we (speaking as a native English North American). They also don't give a damn who they offend, or why.
They are sensitive to English (mostly) words, that they would probably say are "polluting" their language.
It's not something anyone who isn't a native French speaker needs to concern themselves with; so any comment in an English speaking forum, really, is irrelevant.
They have this history with the English. It matters to them sometimes. Maybe it's silly, but it's real. It's also their culture to shepherd, not mine.
I say let 'em, it's not anything that affects me. It's interesting in an "factoid" kind of way but that's the end of it as far as I'm concerned. Whatever floats their boat.
SATs (and similar admissions testing) are not particularly universal worldwide. They are not used in Canada, for example, your High School grades are. Ironically, I had to take an SAT to enter university, but that was because I didn't graduate from High School.
" ... The Digital Reader blog points out one great irony. "The program initially launched in 2007. It has been running for ten years, and the SFWA only just now noticed." They add that SFWA's tardiness "leaves critical legal issues unresolved." ..."
I have no idea which "critical legal issues" might exist. Copyright is inalienable ... a copyright owner has no obligation to act when made aware of infringement, and the right does not change simply because infringement was not acted upon.
If you set a root user/password that exploit doesn't work and never did. Any /.'er who failed that step should probably cancel their account here. Seriously.
Soundcloud are absolutely correct in that there are better codecs than mp3 available; mp3 is about 20 years old and it's development goes back at least five more. However 64 kbps codecs are generally quite crude sonically compared to 128 kbps variants of the same codec. So I understand the concern.
Satellite Radio. which uses a proprietary codec and therefore isn't available to others, is a 64~80 kbps codec. It doesn't sound terrible, and it's also quite old.
So the idea that a competent 64 kbps codec could be out there isn't all that crazy an idea. I think it's reasonable for Soundcloud to be live testing codecs of any bitrate, and I wouldn't want them to stop. It's far more than most lossy compressed streams ever bother to even consider, let alone practice.
These devices are true "Trojan Horses". You invite them into your home, and they inevitably start sucking money through their channels for items you normally would buy at a bricks-and-mortar store. Dog food, tissues, a pizza, whatever. Sooner or later you will buy something from the small value category that Amazon (a merchandising company) or Google (an advertising company) don't normally sell in significant volume, or can't sell through their normal commerce channels due to perishability. If you're a retailer and you're not part of these ecosystems, your bottom line will be declining as of today.
Cops get paid a lot of money, considering their education level, retirement and lifetime health benefits.
Being a cop has an inherent risk. They're the police, not a wartime army. They have to take risks to protect innocent civilians. Maybe the suspect has a gun, and maybe he doesn't. Maybe the suspect is not following orders because he doesn't understand, or he's deaf, or doesn't speak English. They can't just blow away anybody who looks suspicious.
If cops don't want to take the risk of the job, there are lots of people lining up to take their place.
Kansas City cops get a median of $52,000/year, and some of them get a lot more. https://www1.salary.com/MO/Kan... http://www.kansascity.com/news...
Here in my city (Canada) city police start at $C53,500 and across Canada RCMP at $C 53,144. Selected conversions to $USD. Pension is at 60% of the highest five years earnings, including overtime and retired member is eligible for full pension at 25 years service.
City Constable, probationary, 1st 6 months: $C 53,500 $US 40,053
City Constable, probationary, 2nd 6 months: $C 58,356
City Constable, 2nd year $C 70,027 $US 55,044
City Constable 10th year $C 105,041
City Constable 17th year $C 106,986 $US 84,095
Sergeant $C 116,712 [earned promotion]
Staff Sergeant $C 128,383 [earned promotion] $US 100,914
Obviously there are other positions that pay more.
Above based on 4 days on, 4 days off, 12 hour shifts
RCMP constable, probationary $C 53,144 $US 41,773
RCMP, constable, 6 months $C 69,049
RCMP constable, 12 months $C 74,916 $US 58,886
RCMP constable, 24 months $C 80,786
RCMP constable, 36 months $C 86,110 $US 67,685
[RCMP pay and promotion is automatic with service, so renumeration will continue to rise, as follows]
RCMP corporal $C 94,292
RCMP sergeant $ 102,775 $US 80,785
RCMP staff sergeant $ 112,028 [earned promotion]