Just an FYI... the Cisco Connect Cloud concept allows people to manage and view their home network from anywhere on the internet so long as their router has a connection to the internet.
Well, I for one got a router in the first place partly because I specifically don't want anybody or anything to manage or view my home network from anywhere outside said network.
I've set it up to disable all such silliness, and I want it to stay that way.
By forcing predominantly younger, poorer, healthier people to overpay for health plans far beyond what they need, to subsidize plans for older, wealthier, sicker people
And this is different from the current Medicare system, how?
Here's how: At least the younger, poorer, healthier people are now guaranteed to be able to GET access to health insurance. They're not simply stuck paying for old rich peoples' care while at the same time possibly being denied any coverage for themselves at all.
Gain is a meaningless term in the context you're using it
Not in the chosen context: a humorous bad pun.
But if you want to be a stereotypical humorless pedantic nerd, I also happen to be an electrical engineer. I'll define the reference as the output level of the musicians' microphones. The overall signal gain of the music industry system between the musicians' microphones and the consumers' DACs has been set too high.
The way the story is normally told the scorpion specifically points out that the frog can trust it because stinging the frog would kill them both.
Actually, the way I remember it is that the scorpion refreshes the tree of liberty while the river gradually warms up until the frog boils, but before that the frog uses 4 boxes for defense after it votes with two foxes about dinner, then the scorpion trades one thing for another, so it deserves neither, all of which is like if Ford sold cars with the hoods welded shut... or something like that.
Increasing the frame rate will make it look like a home video?
Yes. Home video was traditionally 50 or 60 fields per second. Movies have always been 24 frames per second, so we've been brought up to think that stuttering motion looks "cinematic".
This is probably the reason why some TV shows and music videos intentionally slow down the frame rate when they want to crank up the drama.
So basically no different than the original IBM PC plus monitor.
No, you saw 40 columns of text using at most 320x200 pixels on an interlaced display.
The IBM MDA text adapter had an effective 720x350 resolution that showed 80 columns of easy-to-read text, and used a high-persistence phosphor that eliminated flicker.
Apple II, C64 and Atari 800 were certainly all nice computers for their intended purpose: entertainment and light home computing. They all had 8-bit CPUs, used fuzzy TVs or miniature monitors for output, and had toylike plastic cases with non-ergonomic keyboards bolted on top. They all had decent graphics and sound for the time.
You apparently just weren't in the target market for the IBM PC, which was business computing. It had a 16-bit CPU (a crappy one, but 16 bits nevertheless). Most were initially sold with the crisp monochrome text-only monitor, which you could actually read all day without eye strain. (The crappy 4-color monitor was often a secondary add-on used mainly to show pie charts from Lotus 123.) It came with a top quality detached keyboard and a tank-like metal chassis. Music of any kind was not a design requirement. This was a computer that PHBs were willing to buy for their underlings.
If I were to time warp back to 1982 and were told to pick a computer to use on a daily basis for business activities like spreadsheets, word processing or software development, I'd still pick an IBM PC over those other machines.
In the government: 20 man-hours gathering competitive bids from 3 vendors who agree to work under the pricing schedule your agency requires. 4 man-hours / 2 calendar days ensuring the order complies with Clinger-Cohen and Section 508 regulations. 20 man-hours / 2 calendar weeks getting permission to place the order from one approving authority. Another month going back-and-forth with another approving authority. Then the order gets placed.
Your problem there is that you're thinking too small, just trying to buy one laptop.
If instead you go ahead and outsource to a private vendor all of the logistics and supplies to run an entire war, then that can be quickly and easily arranged with a no-bid contract.
The first part wasn't directly comparing the new cells to Gratzel cells. They said that solar cells *in general* suffer from problems like low efficiency, high cost, short lifetime, and toxic and/or rare ingredients. Most designs suffer major drawbacks in at least one of these areas.
This new cell seems to address all of the above, while giving reasonable 10% efficiency. In particular, it avoids costly and energy-intensive crystalline silicon, and the most obscure element they mention is cesium, which isn't all that rare.
If they really are able to cheaply stamp long-lived cells out by spreading an electrolyte solution between a couple of plates, it could indeed become a big deal.
This is obviously just another cry of "the sky is falling" from a bunch of alarmists pushing their anti-freedom agenda.
There's no credible evidence that this so-called "ground water" exists at all. Look down at your feet: The ground is made out of dirt. How do they supposedly turn all this dirt into water? Answer: They can't. Dirt is black, water is clear. You don't get one from the other. It's just common sense, people.
High fuel taxes on diesel, because 18-wheelers are business assets and gov't loves to tax business, since it's hidden from the consumer.
Since big rigs account for about 99% of road damage, the truck companies are still coming out ahead of car drivers on fuel tax paid vs. government entitlements received.
Ironically, this investment failed largely because China is more effective at subsidizing their industries with public funds than we are. And it looks like their strategy in this case is going to win them the lion's share of the market going forward.
OTOH, you most likely don't *need* to repair new engines very often.
With the first car I had in the 1970s, I had to do some kind of under-the-hood repair every month or two. By the time the car was 10 years old, it had a dangerously rusted frame and had to be scrapped.
I now have a car that I've owned for just over 12 years. I'm probably luckier than most, but I've never had to touch anything on the engine other than battery, fluid and filter changes, plus one timing belt replacement. I'ts also rust free.
So it really doesn't matter to me if this car is less user serviceable, since it's needed almost no service.
Don't forget that this is a company whose entire business model is based on planned obsolescence and the endless hardware upgrade treadmill. Without that carbon-belching "ecosystem" of hardware "partners", Microsoft would be toast.
A similarly meaningless situation would occur if Bucyrus, the producer of gargantuan coal strip mining machines, had made their factories "carbon neutral".
The core of HomeOS is described in the white paper as a kernel that is agnostic to the devices to which it provides access,
I'm impressed with the major advances in AI that Microsoft is introducing. Not only does this OS seem to be sentient, but it is also apparently programmed to ponder deep metaphysical concepts.
The kernel must be thinking: "These devices I work with may indeed physically exist. Or they may just be something like a software simulation that's being fed to me. As a humble computer program, I really don't have enough evidence to make a final conclusion either way."
...And as with most language standards standards, that actually means that a developer can safely begin to use the new feature in portable code starting around the year 2025.
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Just an FYI ... the Cisco Connect Cloud concept allows people to manage and view their home network from anywhere on the internet so long as their router has a connection to the internet.
Well, I for one got a router in the first place partly because I specifically don't want anybody or anything to manage or view my home network from anywhere outside said network.
I've set it up to disable all such silliness, and I want it to stay that way.
By forcing predominantly younger, poorer, healthier people to overpay for health plans far beyond what they need, to subsidize plans for older, wealthier, sicker people
And this is different from the current Medicare system, how?
Here's how: At least the younger, poorer, healthier people are now guaranteed to be able to GET access to health insurance. They're not simply stuck paying for old rich peoples' care while at the same time possibly being denied any coverage for themselves at all.
So things just got better for younger people.
Those who refuse to get insurance that meets the Government's definition.
My current coverage, which does not include services for women does not meet their standards. So I will have to pay more for services I don't use.
By the same token, most women are stuck in insurance plans that cover prostate cancer.
Gain is a meaningless term in the context you're using it
Not in the chosen context: a humorous bad pun.
But if you want to be a stereotypical humorless pedantic nerd, I also happen to be an electrical engineer. I'll define the reference as the output level of the musicians' microphones. The overall signal gain of the music industry system between the musicians' microphones and the consumers' DACs has been set too high.
And no real gain.
Less gain is the whole point.
The law was passed because too many audio sources had excessive gain.
The way the story is normally told the scorpion specifically points out that the frog can trust it because stinging the frog would kill them both.
Actually, the way I remember it is that the scorpion refreshes the tree of liberty while the river gradually warms up until the frog boils, but before that the frog uses 4 boxes for defense after it votes with two foxes about dinner, then the scorpion trades one thing for another, so it deserves neither, all of which is like if Ford sold cars with the hoods welded shut... or something like that.
Increasing the frame rate will make it look like a home video?
Yes. Home video was traditionally 50 or 60 fields per second. Movies have always been 24 frames per second, so we've been brought up to think that stuttering motion looks "cinematic".
This is probably the reason why some TV shows and music videos intentionally slow down the frame rate when they want to crank up the drama.
So basically no different than the original IBM PC plus monitor.
No, you saw 40 columns of text using at most 320x200 pixels on an interlaced display.
The IBM MDA text adapter had an effective 720x350 resolution that showed 80 columns of easy-to-read text, and used a high-persistence phosphor that eliminated flicker.
One is for games, the other is for real work.
The common programs of the day like Lotus and WordPerfect were all ported to my Commodore 64, and I used them for writing reports.
And you looked at them on a frigging fuzzy color TV set. Do you realize just how crappy the NTSC standard is?
Real people don't work that way.
Apple II, C64 and Atari 800 were certainly all nice computers for their intended purpose: entertainment and light home computing. They all had 8-bit CPUs, used fuzzy TVs or miniature monitors for output, and had toylike plastic cases with non-ergonomic keyboards bolted on top. They all had decent graphics and sound for the time.
You apparently just weren't in the target market for the IBM PC, which was business computing. It had a 16-bit CPU (a crappy one, but 16 bits nevertheless). Most were initially sold with the crisp monochrome text-only monitor, which you could actually read all day without eye strain. (The crappy 4-color monitor was often a secondary add-on used mainly to show pie charts from Lotus 123.) It came with a top quality detached keyboard and a tank-like metal chassis. Music of any kind was not a design requirement. This was a computer that PHBs were willing to buy for their underlings.
If I were to time warp back to 1982 and were told to pick a computer to use on a daily basis for business activities like spreadsheets, word processing or software development, I'd still pick an IBM PC over those other machines.
Nope. Chuck Yeager is the most famous pilot ever.
I can't agree with that. I'd have to go with either Dwight Eisenhower or George W Bush.
Some people still believe that humans rode dinosaurs to work. No amount of fossil evidence can change that kind of stupid.
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Nobody believes that. They believe that people *used* dinosaurs at work.
It's well known that ancient people actually rode to work in foot-powered log cars mounted on stone rollers.
More evidence isn't likely to get change people's beliefs.
If someone believes in supernatural phenomena, than natural evidence would be completely irrelevant, no matter what the quantity.
In the government: 20 man-hours gathering competitive bids from 3 vendors who agree to work under the pricing schedule your agency requires. 4 man-hours / 2 calendar days ensuring the order complies with Clinger-Cohen and Section 508 regulations. 20 man-hours / 2 calendar weeks getting permission to place the order from one approving authority. Another month going back-and-forth with another approving authority. Then the order gets placed.
Your problem there is that you're thinking too small, just trying to buy one laptop.
If instead you go ahead and outsource to a private vendor all of the logistics and supplies to run an entire war, then that can be quickly and easily arranged with a no-bid contract.
The first part wasn't directly comparing the new cells to Gratzel cells. They said that solar cells *in general* suffer from problems like low efficiency, high cost, short lifetime, and toxic and/or rare ingredients. Most designs suffer major drawbacks in at least one of these areas.
This new cell seems to address all of the above, while giving reasonable 10% efficiency. In particular, it avoids costly and energy-intensive crystalline silicon, and the most obscure element they mention is cesium, which isn't all that rare.
If they really are able to cheaply stamp long-lived cells out by spreading an electrolyte solution between a couple of plates, it could indeed become a big deal.
Man that's going to chafe....
No, you're thinking of old-school Lego bricks. These days, Lego sets come with almost no generic bricks because kids want realism.
The Lego Deluxe Mistress set comes with a variety of custom soft silicone body parts that snap into place at key locations.
This is obviously just another cry of "the sky is falling" from a bunch of alarmists pushing their anti-freedom agenda.
There's no credible evidence that this so-called "ground water" exists at all. Look down at your feet: The ground is made out of dirt. How do they supposedly turn all this dirt into water? Answer: They can't. Dirt is black, water is clear. You don't get one from the other. It's just common sense, people.
There's nothing to see here. Move along.
High fuel taxes on diesel, because 18-wheelers are business assets and gov't loves to tax business, since it's hidden from the consumer.
Since big rigs account for about 99% of road damage, the truck companies are still coming out ahead of car drivers on fuel tax paid vs. government entitlements received.
Ironically, this investment failed largely because China is more effective at subsidizing their industries with public funds than we are. And it looks like their strategy in this case is going to win them the lion's share of the market going forward.
OTOH, you most likely don't *need* to repair new engines very often.
With the first car I had in the 1970s, I had to do some kind of under-the-hood repair every month or two. By the time the car was 10 years old, it had a dangerously rusted frame and had to be scrapped.
I now have a car that I've owned for just over 12 years. I'm probably luckier than most, but I've never had to touch anything on the engine other than battery, fluid and filter changes, plus one timing belt replacement. I'ts also rust free.
So it really doesn't matter to me if this car is less user serviceable, since it's needed almost no service.
Don't forget that this is a company whose entire business model is based on planned obsolescence and the endless hardware upgrade treadmill. Without that carbon-belching "ecosystem" of hardware "partners", Microsoft would be toast.
A similarly meaningless situation would occur if Bucyrus, the producer of gargantuan coal strip mining machines, had made their factories "carbon neutral".
My understanding is that Russia could trivially overwhelm anything but a completely sky-saturating missile defence.
That would be *before* we surprise them with a first strike.
After a first strike, maybe not. That's their concern.
The core of HomeOS is described in the white paper as a kernel that is agnostic to the devices to which it provides access,
I'm impressed with the major advances in AI that Microsoft is introducing. Not only does this OS seem to be sentient, but it is also apparently programmed to ponder deep metaphysical concepts.
The kernel must be thinking: "These devices I work with may indeed physically exist. Or they may just be something like a software simulation that's being fed to me. As a humble computer program, I really don't have enough evidence to make a final conclusion either way."
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People still use this? I remember this being a toy language for kids to learn how to program.
So was BASIC, which is now apparently at #7.
...And as with most language standards standards, that actually means that a developer can safely begin to use the new feature in portable code starting around the year 2025.