I agree that modern plastics may be better than metal, but regardless of what the phone materials, you can put them in a case made out of whatever you want!
Which is the only smart thing about the article. This seems like a good height from which to drop-test a phone. It's about the maximum height from which somebody will accidentally drop it. Of course most people are taller than this, but the test isn't for people who want to balance their phone on their head. Most people hold the phone at chest height and that's when it's most likely to drop.
I think you may be looking at this the wrong way. Most US states have invested in online DMV activities so that you don't actually have to go there and wait. The only time I've had to go there is when importing a vehicle from out of state. It doesn't make sense to update a system that is seeing less and less usage. The investment is going into the web-based channel. At some point it won't even make sense to have physical DMV locations so why put money into upgrading the facilities or equipment?
Or perhaps their top scientists know how oppressive the regime is and they are intentionally dragging their feet. At some point in the future, they may be regarded as heroes. They are in a precarious situation no matter what. If they fail too spectacularly, they may get put to death. Once they are successful they may no longer be useful and know too much and get put to death. So self-interest and heroism may align here. Make just enough progress to stay alive.
I pointed this out earlier, but some loads are easy to shift. Many European homes have timers on their washer/dryer so that they run at night when electricity is cheap. We could easily shift the laundry energy load. Instead of pushing it to the middle of the night, it could go to the afternoon. Also hot water could be much smarter. Allow the tank temperature to cool after morning showers and then reheat it in the afternoon when the sun is shining. I'm not a solar zealot but some basic load shifting combined with minimal energy storage goes a long way to a much higher renewable percentage in the power mix.
You are correct, but A/C usage is one of the easiest loads to shift. Right now the peak happens when people start coming home from the office. Many electric utilities already have minimally smart grids to stagger the times when the A/C runs in order to smooth out load. If solar were more popular, it would be a very small incremental step to have the A/C crank all the way up in the afternoon when there is a glut of power. Then it could run only a very minimal amount during what are the current peak times.
Whether this is true or not, it's still somewhat of a non sequitor here. The GPL is a license and it can (and does) impose additional terms beyond copyright if you want to distribute. If I write a routine and publish the source on a web page, the RMS argument would have a tough time standing. However, once I start including a build system or detailed instructions on how to link in the third-party code, at some point I'm really just finding a creative way to distribute the binaries. There may not be a nice legal "bright line" here. That's why RMS avoided the whole thing by making libc LGPL! The one thing about the GPL that is hard to argue is that the license is written in a way that attempts to provide a clear bright line of what can and cannot be done. The intent is also very clear. We only get into these situations when people try to find creative ways to follow the letter of the license, not the spirit. Sadly this happens more often than it should.
This is a great post, but length and size are such simple names that they don't contain the modicum of creativity necessary for copyright protection. On the other hand, more complicated APIs may contain a large amount of creative work. Many times, the hardest part of designing a system is figuring out how the pieces and parts are going to fit together. I'm in no way arguing with your point or how the case was decided. Just trying to steer us toward a more apt analogy.
This is a great post. However, the example of a closed-source NIC driver and NDIS doesn't quite work. If the Oracle pretense were true, it would be a copyright violation to create the NDIS wrapper. But if somebody were to do so, it wouldn't create an obligation on the part of a third-party (In this case the owner of the copyright to the proprietary driver). Instead it would be something that could not be legally distributed.
They probably didn't have enough cash to pay off all of their bonds. Very few companies do. Financing the company involves rolling over debt of various maturities. But if somebody is out there accusing you of misstating your financial position and your stock is in the dumps, you will have difficulty accessing to the bond market. This is somewhat of a self-fulfilling property which is part of the reason that short and distort isn't allowed.
Yes but those get discarded. That's the whole point. You only take the pairs of HT or TH which cannot be predicted. The more biased a coin is, the more flips you throw away and the slower you acquire entropy. But what you acquire is unbiased.
Having a vaccine worker get killed would be a shame. But the other human cost is that when real vaccine workers show up, non-immunized members of the population turn them away assuming that they are CIA agents and then people die from things like Polio.
It presumably also reduced order errors. Everybody hates when their meal is wrong. Of course Disney has a good system even for the attended registers where you get a printed receipt to confirm. But with kiosks, you see the order before paying and they seem to have a lower error rate.
If you had a reserved, paid spot, did you try to recover from the entity who rented the spot to you. The towing company was likely a contractor to them. Not that it wouldn't still suck. I had my car towed once but I was parked wrong. It upset me terribly.
New York is very good about letting you plea to parking on the pavement regardless of how severe your infraction is. In court, charges can only be reduced to a lesser charge included in the charged offense. In other states, parking on the pavement is not a lesser charge included within driving twice the speed limit or going through a stop sign, so the plea deals aren't as lenient. I am not a lawyer. I have lived in NJ and NY and I've been to traffic court for one minor infraction and an erroneous parking ticket. I did win the parking ticket case. They gave me a form letter that had a checkbox for "wrong defendant." That happens often enough that it isn't an exception case.
Could you post a link to the plans being stolen? I tried to Google and found nothing that indicated stolen plans There is plenty of information on poor design choices in those plants but nothing that I can find about the plans being lifted from somewhere else and/or intentionally sabotaged.
That's true, but doctors can start using it right away. Once it is approved for one use, doctors can prescribe it for "off label" uses at least in the US. For cheap drugs that are available as generics like omeprazole, nobody is going to try to get them approved for additional uses. Getting approval is time-consuming and expensive and there is no profit in doing so. Instead, studies will be done to figure out if its effective or not. Some doctors will be convinced, some will not. But as a patient you start buying it OTC and using it today. But again there seems to be no evidence that omeprazole helps with Type I diabetes and some evidence that it is harmful. I'm not a doctor and this is not medical advice. If you have diabetes you should see a medical professional.
The answer is that the cost of industrial electricity goes so high that industrial users shut down. Residential users are so used to fixed rates that we are mentally divorced from energy market realities. Industrial users actually have a *lower* average cost than residential due to their ability to moderate usage. The fixed-retail price that we pay comes with a huge cost in the from of higher average prices.
https://www.eia.gov/electricit...
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I agree that modern plastics may be better than metal, but regardless of what the phone materials, you can put them in a case made out of whatever you want!
Which is the only smart thing about the article. This seems like a good height from which to drop-test a phone. It's about the maximum height from which somebody will accidentally drop it. Of course most people are taller than this, but the test isn't for people who want to balance their phone on their head. Most people hold the phone at chest height and that's when it's most likely to drop.
I think you may be looking at this the wrong way. Most US states have invested in online DMV activities so that you don't actually have to go there and wait. The only time I've had to go there is when importing a vehicle from out of state. It doesn't make sense to update a system that is seeing less and less usage. The investment is going into the web-based channel. At some point it won't even make sense to have physical DMV locations so why put money into upgrading the facilities or equipment?
Or perhaps their top scientists know how oppressive the regime is and they are intentionally dragging their feet. At some point in the future, they may be regarded as heroes. They are in a precarious situation no matter what. If they fail too spectacularly, they may get put to death. Once they are successful they may no longer be useful and know too much and get put to death. So self-interest and heroism may align here. Make just enough progress to stay alive.
I pointed this out earlier, but some loads are easy to shift. Many European homes have timers on their washer/dryer so that they run at night when electricity is cheap. We could easily shift the laundry energy load. Instead of pushing it to the middle of the night, it could go to the afternoon. Also hot water could be much smarter. Allow the tank temperature to cool after morning showers and then reheat it in the afternoon when the sun is shining. I'm not a solar zealot but some basic load shifting combined with minimal energy storage goes a long way to a much higher renewable percentage in the power mix.
You are correct, but A/C usage is one of the easiest loads to shift. Right now the peak happens when people start coming home from the office. Many electric utilities already have minimally smart grids to stagger the times when the A/C runs in order to smooth out load. If solar were more popular, it would be a very small incremental step to have the A/C crank all the way up in the afternoon when there is a glut of power. Then it could run only a very minimal amount during what are the current peak times.
Like commercial software, which you do not own but merely use under license...
Like commercial software that is now sold under "term licenses" so the minute you stop paying it shuts off.
Whether this is true or not, it's still somewhat of a non sequitor here. The GPL is a license and it can (and does) impose additional terms beyond copyright if you want to distribute. If I write a routine and publish the source on a web page, the RMS argument would have a tough time standing. However, once I start including a build system or detailed instructions on how to link in the third-party code, at some point I'm really just finding a creative way to distribute the binaries. There may not be a nice legal "bright line" here. That's why RMS avoided the whole thing by making libc LGPL! The one thing about the GPL that is hard to argue is that the license is written in a way that attempts to provide a clear bright line of what can and cannot be done. The intent is also very clear. We only get into these situations when people try to find creative ways to follow the letter of the license, not the spirit. Sadly this happens more often than it should.
This is a great post, but length and size are such simple names that they don't contain the modicum of creativity necessary for copyright protection. On the other hand, more complicated APIs may contain a large amount of creative work. Many times, the hardest part of designing a system is figuring out how the pieces and parts are going to fit together. I'm in no way arguing with your point or how the case was decided. Just trying to steer us toward a more apt analogy.
This is a great post. However, the example of a closed-source NIC driver and NDIS doesn't quite work. If the Oracle pretense were true, it would be a copyright violation to create the NDIS wrapper. But if somebody were to do so, it wouldn't create an obligation on the part of a third-party (In this case the owner of the copyright to the proprietary driver). Instead it would be something that could not be legally distributed.
By buying Nexus branded devices instead of the OEM versions. Calculate the difference between the two prices, and you know what I pay!
SCALA although it runs in the JVM. Arguably, though, this running in the JVM go into the "Java" bucket for this discussion.
They probably didn't have enough cash to pay off all of their bonds. Very few companies do. Financing the company involves rolling over debt of various maturities. But if somebody is out there accusing you of misstating your financial position and your stock is in the dumps, you will have difficulty accessing to the bond market. This is somewhat of a self-fulfilling property which is part of the reason that short and distort isn't allowed.
Yes, there are two types of corn. Feed corn and sweet corn for human consumption. They are different crops.
I'm a Republican, you insensitive clod.
Yes but those get discarded. That's the whole point. You only take the pairs of HT or TH which cannot be predicted. The more biased a coin is, the more flips you throw away and the slower you acquire entropy. But what you acquire is unbiased.
Having a vaccine worker get killed would be a shame. But the other human cost is that when real vaccine workers show up, non-immunized members of the population turn them away assuming that they are CIA agents and then people die from things like Polio.
It presumably also reduced order errors. Everybody hates when their meal is wrong. Of course Disney has a good system even for the attended registers where you get a printed receipt to confirm. But with kiosks, you see the order before paying and they seem to have a lower error rate.
If you had a reserved, paid spot, did you try to recover from the entity who rented the spot to you. The towing company was likely a contractor to them. Not that it wouldn't still suck. I had my car towed once but I was parked wrong. It upset me terribly.
New York is very good about letting you plea to parking on the pavement regardless of how severe your infraction is. In court, charges can only be reduced to a lesser charge included in the charged offense. In other states, parking on the pavement is not a lesser charge included within driving twice the speed limit or going through a stop sign, so the plea deals aren't as lenient. I am not a lawyer. I have lived in NJ and NY and I've been to traffic court for one minor infraction and an erroneous parking ticket. I did win the parking ticket case. They gave me a form letter that had a checkbox for "wrong defendant." That happens often enough that it isn't an exception case.
Looking at the Pinto you would have suggested going back to horses!
Could you post a link to the plans being stolen? I tried to Google and found nothing that indicated stolen plans There is plenty of information on poor design choices in those plants but nothing that I can find about the plans being lifted from somewhere else and/or intentionally sabotaged.
That's true, but doctors can start using it right away. Once it is approved for one use, doctors can prescribe it for "off label" uses at least in the US. For cheap drugs that are available as generics like omeprazole, nobody is going to try to get them approved for additional uses. Getting approval is time-consuming and expensive and there is no profit in doing so. Instead, studies will be done to figure out if its effective or not. Some doctors will be convinced, some will not. But as a patient you start buying it OTC and using it today. But again there seems to be no evidence that omeprazole helps with Type I diabetes and some evidence that it is harmful. I'm not a doctor and this is not medical advice. If you have diabetes you should see a medical professional.
I wish I hadn't commented so I could mod you up.
The answer is that the cost of industrial electricity goes so high that industrial users shut down. Residential users are so used to fixed rates that we are mentally divorced from energy market realities. Industrial users actually have a *lower* average cost than residential due to their ability to moderate usage. The fixed-retail price that we pay comes with a huge cost in the from of higher average prices. https://www.eia.gov/electricit...