No, that's how advertisers approach the math. 4k was not 4k but rather 4x the area of 1920 x 1024, or 2x the resolution. Recall the hemming and hawing trying to explain yet another common misunderstanding, why a 3840 wide wasn't quite 4k or 4000 (much less 4096).
Game cartridges in the 1990s used to be described as "8 MEGA" in size, when some advertising shill realized they could claim they had 8x the ROM by describing the number of bits rather than bytes.
To use your description, "that's how everyone describes it besides nerd snowflakes!"
The run out of oil issue has already been debunked -- there is, of course, a limited amount, but "suddenly running out and prices skyrocket!" is the debunked fraud.
As prices rise, markets create substitutes -- in this case, enlarge the supply, other fuels, other technologies, lighter vehicles, and most importantly, stuff nobody thought of before.
This process, counter-intuitively, stays ahead of the curve of trouble brewing, and prices and quality and length of life continue to advance when graphed. There may be several year spikes (the discoverer, Julian Simon, was uncomforable with granularity of less than 10 years) but it has successfully defeated all hets to the contrary.
There is thus no Peak Oil worry because alternative energy will take up the slack, naturally, in an economically free wod where people can invent. We will not run off a cliff. This is a retread of 1970s shortage scares that Julian Simon shot down in famous bets with scientists.
"Shortage" is an economic term, and scientists don't understand economics.
How exceptional are scientific theories that make counter-intuitive and repeated and repeatable predictions over and over again.
It is sad the best outcome may be Hillary winning, the Republicans maintaining control of Congress, and we have 4 more years of little more than funding bill renews.
A video byte is a video byte -- except when it isn't and it gets a free pass.
This is an attempt to stop them from acting like a gateway charging access. It isn't the difference between gramma'e email and Netflix. It is Netflix and some cable company's new video service.
Do you like the cable company selling you a service at a speed, then demanding, secretly, a cut of what you pay Netflix, or the cable company will crappify your Netflix video -- making a lie out of what they promised you for the cable service?
On the other hand, one would like elected officials to pass a law changing the status of such a massive thing, and not just do something Congress did not envision with that law. This is a massive sector for unelected officials to rewrite.
Except this isn't just about a company being sloppy (or outright lying) about a customer-friendly policy. There are laws about having to delete said things after a certain amount of time.
So, for the lawyers:
1. Does something in the drafts folder count as email? 2. Regardless of 1, does this draft still existing imply the whole email system database backup still exists, or does Yahoo do extra work to just clobber old in and outboxes?
If they deleted it from their drafts folder, I would expect it to be clobbered from the backup system after the expired time simply because it is only in backed up files of the entire email database.
So...it is in a separate database just for drafts (or all non-sent, non-received data)? Or is the general email database backup sitting around existing when it shouldn't?
Democrats have literally said, in the past, businesspeople should be joyous for all the burdensome, expensive environmental regulation because it creates more business, more things that need doing.
I lived in the Netherlands. Ray is spot on there, too. Even driving the long hour and a half on the highway from Amsterdam to Rotterdam, one giant supercity, you pass through many more miles of open farmland than urban area, dotted with villages. And inland it is almost solid farmland.
Ray is right. There is a ton of room to move out of cities there without addecting farmland use much (to say nothing of improving farming techniques that will more than compensate, i.e. food prices will continue to drop over the decades even as farmland becomed marginally, a few percent, less available. And a few percent is an enormous space for more spread out living.
12 comments deep before I find one that isn't some idiot's snark.
He is just re-making an old observation here, that instant worldwide communication (and now, camera videos) make the entire world a place of disaster observation. Heck, any old incident for that matter.
Tornado, hurricane, murder, car accident, train accident, these were incredibly rare in the days of old film cameras. Few had one, and never at the ready.
Now these scenes are not just common, but daily. We have an entire world of rare events to view on the Internet each evening...or live.
But that is a chimera making things seem worse when, by all objective measures, things are getting better.
Imagine a galactic society with fast information exchange. Or slow, lightspeed for that matter. Every minute you would see bombs and wars and collapsing buildings from a million worlds coming in...even if that society were 10x more peaceful per capita.
As for the land, he is right. Although much of the "unused" land is used by farms for the people in cities, as a fraction there is a buttload of room for living without impacting farm area much.
For that matter, improvements in farming not only compensate for population increase, but do so faster than it becomes a problem (thanks, Julian Simon [.org] for the unshocking observation). It would similarly budget for people moving out into these vast, "unused" spaces, and faster than it gets used.
Make a burger with fatless steak tartar and see. There's a reason unmarbled steak was rated a lower grade until anti-fat started in the 1970s. It still deserves low flavor ratings. Yicky flavor, actually.
The lab people know this and add beef fat. Just cut out the middleman and add beef fat to soy.
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No, that's how advertisers approach the math. 4k was not 4k but rather 4x the area of 1920 x 1024, or 2x the resolution. Recall the hemming and hawing trying to explain yet another common misunderstanding, why a 3840 wide wasn't quite 4k or 4000 (much less 4096).
Game cartridges in the 1990s used to be described as "8 MEGA" in size, when some advertising shill realized they could claim they had 8x the ROM by describing the number of bits rather than bytes.
To use your description, "that's how everyone describes it besides nerd snowflakes!"
The run out of oil issue has already been debunked -- there is, of course, a limited amount, but "suddenly running out and prices skyrocket!" is the debunked fraud.
As prices rise, markets create substitutes -- in this case, enlarge the supply, other fuels, other technologies, lighter vehicles, and most importantly, stuff nobody thought of before.
This process, counter-intuitively, stays ahead of the curve of trouble brewing, and prices and quality and length of life continue to advance when graphed. There may be several year spikes (the discoverer, Julian Simon, was uncomforable with granularity of less than 10 years) but it has successfully defeated all hets to the contrary.
There is thus no Peak Oil worry because alternative energy will take up the slack, naturally, in an economically free wod where people can invent. We will not run off a cliff. This is a retread of 1970s shortage scares that Julian Simon shot down in famous bets with scientists.
"Shortage" is an economic term, and scientists don't understand economics.
How exceptional are scientific theories that make counter-intuitive and repeated and repeatable predictions over and over again.
It is sad the best outcome may be Hillary winning, the Republicans maintaining control of Congress, and we have 4 more years of little more than funding bill renews.
50 years from now: "The Earth is getting too cold and plants grow suckily! We need more CO2 in the atmosphere again!"
A video byte is a video byte -- except when it isn't and it gets a free pass.
This is an attempt to stop them from acting like a gateway charging access. It isn't the difference between gramma'e email and Netflix. It is Netflix and some cable company's new video service.
Do you like the cable company selling you a service at a speed, then demanding, secretly, a cut of what you pay Netflix, or the cable company will crappify your Netflix video -- making a lie out of what they promised you for the cable service?
On the other hand, one would like elected officials to pass a law changing the status of such a massive thing, and not just do something Congress did not envision with that law. This is a massive sector for unelected officials to rewrite.
Angry wife: Why are you getting porno suggestions?
Sheepish husband: I swear, it is a bug in their system!
Evidently a boatman who carries you over the water, like the gondola guys or the guy who carries you over the River Styx.
I assume Wasserman is German for Waterman, but what the hell is a waterman?
Paying a thief to hack is illegal. Paying another news org to show you what the hacker gave them is not.
Nor is timing the releases to harm candidates illegal -- that is political speech, the most protected of all.
He only did something illegal if he paid for the info from the original hacker, or helped in some way.
It would still give off the same total energy, shifted into the IR...or much lower. I wonder if they detected longer wavelengths.
I also wonder if thjs impacts the estimate for total number of galaxies at 100 billion.
What really gets me is people wanting to watch hazy phone cam recordings of movies...to save a few dollars.
Government cannot force you to lie.
He is being sarcastic. Please think before contributing.
It is obvious in those cases they sought out the gun for suicide.
You are suggesting these happy people bought a gun, then, purely coincidentally, killed themselves quickly.
To go back to the train example, I am sure towns with a new train track suddenly get train suicides.
The presence of the Golden Gate Bridge is dangerously increasing suicides for a hundred years now. Without it they would be fewer by your argument.
"Oh thank Heaven for 7-11!"
Except this isn't just about a company being sloppy (or outright lying) about a customer-friendly policy. There are laws about having to delete said things after a certain amount of time.
So, for the lawyers:
1. Does something in the drafts folder count as email?
2. Regardless of 1, does this draft still existing imply the whole email system database backup still exists, or does Yahoo do extra work to just clobber old in and outboxes?
If they deleted it from their drafts folder, I would expect it to be clobbered from the backup system after the expired time simply because it is only in backed up files of the entire email database.
So...it is in a separate database just for drafts (or all non-sent, non-received data)? Or is the general email database backup sitting around existing when it shouldn't?
This is the investigation that needs to happen.
Sorry, to finish your answer, look to the investors in said business and do wnat a journalist does...follow the money backwards from there!
Democrats have literally said, in the past, businesspeople should be joyous for all the burdensome, expensive environmental regulation because it creates more business, more things that need doing.
No intelligible information in your pile of gibberish, either.
I lived in the Netherlands. Ray is spot on there, too. Even driving the long hour and a half on the highway from Amsterdam to Rotterdam, one giant supercity, you pass through many more miles of open farmland than urban area, dotted with villages. And inland it is almost solid farmland.
Ray is right. There is a ton of room to move out of cities there without addecting farmland use much (to say nothing of improving farming techniques that will more than compensate, i.e. food prices will continue to drop over the decades even as farmland becomed marginally, a few percent, less available. And a few percent is an enormous space for more spread out living.
It looks like you have written words, but I can find nothing intelligible in what you have said.
12 comments deep before I find one that isn't some idiot's snark.
He is just re-making an old observation here, that instant worldwide communication (and now, camera videos) make the entire world a place of disaster observation. Heck, any old incident for that matter.
Tornado, hurricane, murder, car accident, train accident, these were incredibly rare in the days of old film cameras. Few had one, and never at the ready.
Now these scenes are not just common, but daily. We have an entire world of rare events to view on the Internet each evening...or live.
But that is a chimera making things seem worse when, by all objective measures, things are getting better.
Imagine a galactic society with fast information exchange. Or slow, lightspeed for that matter. Every minute you would see bombs and wars and collapsing buildings from a million worlds coming in...even if that society were 10x more peaceful per capita.
As for the land, he is right. Although much of the "unused" land is used by farms for the people in cities, as a fraction there is a buttload of room for living without impacting farm area much.
For that matter, improvements in farming not only compensate for population increase, but do so faster than it becomes a problem (thanks, Julian Simon [.org] for the unshocking observation). It would similarly budget for people moving out into these vast, "unused" spaces, and faster than it gets used.
Meat is awful without beef fat to flavor it.
Make a burger with fatless steak tartar and see. There's a reason unmarbled steak was rated a lower grade until anti-fat started in the 1970s. It still deserves low flavor ratings. Yicky flavor, actually.
The lab people know this and add beef fat. Just cut out the middleman and add beef fat to soy.