In Northern Europe, shingles are typically rigid clay or ceramic, and last pretty much forever. In much of the US, a standard shingle is a few mm thick flexible tar-coated mat, which degrades and starts cracking over time (especially in areas with big temperature fluctuations). Typical advertised lifespan is 20-30 years, but can be less depending on the weather in your area.
The US shingles are cheaper, but will cost you a lot more In the long run.
if they know the keys were stolen, can't they invalidate them????
Just because they got stolen, doesn't necessary mean that someone else didn't already own them. Invalidating them may also burn the original purchaser when they try to activate them down the road.
(For example, I myself have a few dozen steam keys that I haven't activated yet, most of which I received as part of past Humble Bundles, and some through kickstarter)
It's been Chip and signature everywhere I've used my cards in the US so far.
In Europe, most people have a single credit card issues by their own bank, and Pin is required.
In the US, banks appear not to want to force that issue, mostly because the majority of people carries multiple cards and banks don't want to impose the extra 'inconvenience' of having to remember a 4 digit number in fear of the user switching to the next card in their wallet and giving their business to another bank.
They do NOT have a right to sue because it's their own responsibility to build software checks and balances that would prevent cheating but THEY ARE TOO TIGHTFISTED to do so
They DO have a right to sue. Anyone can sue pretty much anyone. That doesn't automatically mean they stand a chance of winning of course.
Technically, Netflix isn't pushing anything - the ISP's own customers are *pulling* the data, using a pipe and bandwidth that they already paid the ISP to provide.
...You'll literally turn your car into a giant fly strip?
Someone should patent a cover for this to keep your car clean -- sound almost as good of an idea as the original patent.
If driverless cars are allowed as well, downtown traffic could get significantly worse: Right now, you have a choice of either use public transportation or a cab, or drive yourself and pay $$$ for premium parking.
With self-driving cars, there will be another option: Drive your own car to your office in downtown, and then send it along to park itself in some free or much cheaper parking place on the other side of town where it can wait until you are ready to be picked up again - that alone would lead to a lot of extra miles driven, and that's not even counting the disruption of stopping in traffic to let the owner back in at the end of the day.
Or come to think about it, why pay for parking at all? Need to do some shopping or a quick errand? I'm sure there will be plenty of people that would rather have their car circle the block on its own while they're inside instead of paying for parking....
So some lowly peon opened their wallet and paid out of pocket for printing the Google vinyls? Bullshit.
Cities and counties typically have equipment at their own public works department which can print plastic decals for things like street name signs, speed signs, traffic signs, etc. It wouldn't take much to print some custom decals on the same machines. Just because it got printed doesn't necessarily mean that the powers that be signed off on it.
The Windows GUI will prevent creation and removal of any 'special' foldername that looks like a device: LPT1, COM6, CON, etc.
To remove any of those "special" file/foldernames after the fact, all you need is look for the short 8.3 notation of the filename that the filesystem uses behind the scenes, and which the GUI hides from the end user.
Open a command prompt and navigate to the folder that contains the special name
dir/x will show the associated "short" filename, e.g. co~123 instead of COM4
You can directly remove/rename/etc the file from the command prompt when referring to these short names:
remove a file: del co~123
remove a folder with its contents: rd co~123/s
The whole idea that people are inherently lazy and won't work without being forced to always puzzled me. Most of the people I know want to do something productive, but more often than not it's either not something they can get enough income from quickly enough to be able to drop their day job and start doing it full-time or it's not something they can get enough income from to keep the bills paid. Give them a guaranteed basic income and they won't sit around doing nothing, they'll start doing what they want to do (instead of the day job they have to have because it pays the bills).
One catch is that there are a lot of jobs that noone really WANTS to do,but do anyway because it beats starving: untrained menial labor like cleaning toilets or picking crops in the hot sun, as well as backbreaking heavy labor like mining coal, etc. By effectively releasing a somewhat captive workforce from their NEED to continue doing those jobs, expect the salaries in such fields to have to rise dramatically overnight in order for them to remain sustainable when a large percentage of current workers say "screw this!" and quit. This would either lead to significiantly higher raises for some jobs, or could even make entire sectors and industries entirely non-viable when having to compete with other other countries without universal basic income.
Universal basic income will ripple through the entire economy: prices for a lot of products like produce grown in your own country are likely to increase significantly, while more spending money on the underside of society will also lead to an increased demand for certain goods raising their prices. If foreign-grown foods are a lot cheaper, you may end up killing your own agriculture industry and becoming almost fully dependent on other countries for feeding your nation: a dangerous situation to be in.
Whatever the determined amount of money would be, it may very well end up having a lot less purchasing power than people would anticipate ahead of time.
In the short term, i could be VERY disruptive to the economy, but of course only time will tell how this would play out over the long term.. Unfortunately it's the kind of thing that's hard to experiment with on any large scale, since having the revoke it if things don't work out could also have a potentially disastrous impact on many people's lives.
If that is truly what it looks like, then it seems like a really odd choice -- you can't even just glance down at the speedometer in that setup, but have to look over at the center of the dashboard?
The name Mackenzie would be normally rendered in Japanese as three sounds, Ma Ken Ji. Normally these would be phonetic kana characters, and I have never heard of a Jaoanese database (I used to implement these) which didn't support kana. But if you rule out kana names, a foreigner can still choose kanji, or Chinese, characters to represent his name.
Even then, McKenzie is still a short name, at 8 characters, which happens to break down in chunks that happen to align relatively well into Japanese phonetics -- now try it with a sixteen character Dutch last name, which would take a lot more than three 'sounds' to fit into.
"Steam" is just the game manager GUI / DRM protection layer that manages, validates and launches 3rd party games -- It's the games themselves that (may) require DirectX, but that has nothing to do with the Steam portion of the equation.
The bottom dropped out of retail computer games, because millions of people switched to the online distribution methods: Xbox and Playstation have their own online store, and for pc you can buy umpteen thousand of games through steam, at prices retail stores can't compete with.
People still buy plenty of games - the big franchises can sell for literally hundreds of millions of dollars in pre-orders alone... they just don't need gamestop anymore.
All those 'hidden' gamers still buy powerful graphics cards.
Apple forces you to buy every single one of your apps and much of the other contents of your devices directly through them, and them alone -- they still get to track pretty much everything you do that way.
"canine transmissible venereal sarcoma (CTVS), sticker tumors and infectious sarcoma is a histiocytic tumor of the external genitalia of the dog and other canines, and is transmitted from animal to animal during mating." ...
"The tumor cells are themselves the infectious agents, and the tumors that form are not genetically related to the host dog.[1] Although the genome of a CTVT is derived from a canid (probably a dog, wolf or coyote), it is now essentially living as a unicellular, asexually reproducing (but sexually transmitted) pathogen.[2] Sequence analysis of the genome suggests it diverged from canids over 6,000 years ago; possibly much earlier" ...
"believed to be the longest continually propagated cell lineage in the world"
Well, was that Microsoft lying about minimum requirements, or OEMs ignoring them?
It was microsoft lying, after being pressured by the OEMs.
The problem was the multiple delays of Vista. Early on they set the specs for "Vista-ready" PC's so they could be sold as such before the Christmas shopping season, and then as time progressed and Vista kept getting delayed and changed, MS wanted to revise the specs upwards to account for the real requirements. They got threatened with court action by the large computer retail stores who had been selling "Vista ready" PC's that followed MS's requirements for a while, and that were afraid that they would get sued by their customers if MS raised the bar after the fact.
The end result: the posted specs were lowered back down again to keep those "Vista ready" PC's still compliant, even though the end user ended up with a slideshow instead of an OS on the lower end of the spectrum.
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He probably has the same name as his father, and somewhere long the lines their identities got switched up?
In Northern Europe, shingles are typically rigid clay or ceramic, and last pretty much forever. In much of the US, a standard shingle is a few mm thick flexible tar-coated mat, which degrades and starts cracking over time (especially in areas with big temperature fluctuations). Typical advertised lifespan is 20-30 years, but can be less depending on the weather in your area. The US shingles are cheaper, but will cost you a lot more In the long run.
if they know the keys were stolen, can't they invalidate them????
Just because they got stolen, doesn't necessary mean that someone else didn't already own them. Invalidating them may also burn the original purchaser when they try to activate them down the road.
(For example, I myself have a few dozen steam keys that I haven't activated yet, most of which I received as part of past Humble Bundles, and some through kickstarter)
It's been Chip and signature everywhere I've used my cards in the US so far. In Europe, most people have a single credit card issues by their own bank, and Pin is required. In the US, banks appear not to want to force that issue, mostly because the majority of people carries multiple cards and banks don't want to impose the extra 'inconvenience' of having to remember a 4 digit number in fear of the user switching to the next card in their wallet and giving their business to another bank.
750,000 units a year is still over 2,000 a day -- there's plenty of companies that would kill for those kind of numbers.
They do NOT have a right to sue because it's their own responsibility to build software checks and balances that would prevent cheating but THEY ARE TOO TIGHTFISTED to do so
They DO have a right to sue. Anyone can sue pretty much anyone. That doesn't automatically mean they stand a chance of winning of course.
Yup, looks like the flags in the background are going crazy.
The whole POINT of Nexus has always been to provide -stock- Android experience, without shovelware and other 'enhancements'. Seems an odd departure.
Technically, Netflix isn't pushing anything - the ISP's own customers are *pulling* the data, using a pipe and bandwidth that they already paid the ISP to provide.
...You'll literally turn your car into a giant fly strip? Someone should patent a cover for this to keep your car clean -- sound almost as good of an idea as the original patent.
If driverless cars are allowed as well, downtown traffic could get significantly worse: Right now, you have a choice of either use public transportation or a cab, or drive yourself and pay $$$ for premium parking.
With self-driving cars, there will be another option: Drive your own car to your office in downtown, and then send it along to park itself in some free or much cheaper parking place on the other side of town where it can wait until you are ready to be picked up again - that alone would lead to a lot of extra miles driven, and that's not even counting the disruption of stopping in traffic to let the owner back in at the end of the day.
Or come to think about it, why pay for parking at all? Need to do some shopping or a quick errand? I'm sure there will be plenty of people that would rather have their car circle the block on its own while they're inside instead of paying for parking....
So some lowly peon opened their wallet and paid out of pocket for printing the Google vinyls? Bullshit.
Cities and counties typically have equipment at their own public works department which can print plastic decals for things like street name signs, speed signs, traffic signs, etc. It wouldn't take much to print some custom decals on the same machines. Just because it got printed doesn't necessarily mean that the powers that be signed off on it.
...Easy solution for other cities that have been fighting to shut them down too?
Kobo is of the major ebook reader manufacturers in the world - they are the market leader in Canada and France among others.
The Windows GUI will prevent creation and removal of any 'special' foldername that looks like a device: LPT1, COM6, CON, etc.
/x will show the associated "short" filename, e.g. co~123 instead of COM4
/s
To remove any of those "special" file/foldernames after the fact, all you need is look for the short 8.3 notation of the filename that the filesystem uses behind the scenes, and which the GUI hides from the end user.
Open a command prompt and navigate to the folder that contains the special name
dir
You can directly remove/rename/etc the file from the command prompt when referring to these short names:
remove a file: del co~123
remove a folder with its contents: rd co~123
The whole idea that people are inherently lazy and won't work without being forced to always puzzled me. Most of the people I know want to do something productive, but more often than not it's either not something they can get enough income from quickly enough to be able to drop their day job and start doing it full-time or it's not something they can get enough income from to keep the bills paid. Give them a guaranteed basic income and they won't sit around doing nothing, they'll start doing what they want to do (instead of the day job they have to have because it pays the bills).
One catch is that there are a lot of jobs that noone really WANTS to do,but do anyway because it beats starving: untrained menial labor like cleaning toilets or picking crops in the hot sun, as well as backbreaking heavy labor like mining coal, etc. By effectively releasing a somewhat captive workforce from their NEED to continue doing those jobs, expect the salaries in such fields to have to rise dramatically overnight in order for them to remain sustainable when a large percentage of current workers say "screw this!" and quit. This would either lead to significiantly higher raises for some jobs, or could even make entire sectors and industries entirely non-viable when having to compete with other other countries without universal basic income.
Universal basic income will ripple through the entire economy: prices for a lot of products like produce grown in your own country are likely to increase significantly, while more spending money on the underside of society will also lead to an increased demand for certain goods raising their prices. If foreign-grown foods are a lot cheaper, you may end up killing your own agriculture industry and becoming almost fully dependent on other countries for feeding your nation: a dangerous situation to be in.
Whatever the determined amount of money would be, it may very well end up having a lot less purchasing power than people would anticipate ahead of time.
In the short term, i could be VERY disruptive to the economy, but of course only time will tell how this would play out over the long term.. Unfortunately it's the kind of thing that's hard to experiment with on any large scale, since having the revoke it if things don't work out could also have a potentially disastrous impact on many people's lives.
If that is truly what it looks like, then it seems like a really odd choice -- you can't even just glance down at the speedometer in that setup, but have to look over at the center of the dashboard?
The name Mackenzie would be normally rendered in Japanese as three sounds, Ma Ken Ji. Normally these would be phonetic kana characters, and I have never heard of a Jaoanese database (I used to implement these) which didn't support kana. But if you rule out kana names, a foreigner can still choose kanji, or Chinese, characters to represent his name.
Even then, McKenzie is still a short name, at 8 characters, which happens to break down in chunks that happen to align relatively well into Japanese phonetics -- now try it with a sixteen character Dutch last name, which would take a lot more than three 'sounds' to fit into.
Doesn't Japan actually require immigrants to adopt a Japanese name?
Even if they would, what about visitors/tourists/international customers?
"Steam" is just the game manager GUI / DRM protection layer that manages, validates and launches 3rd party games -- It's the games themselves that (may) require DirectX, but that has nothing to do with the Steam portion of the equation.
Windows built-in volume shadow system let's you back up open/locked files just fine, and has for many years
The bottom dropped out of retail computer games, because millions of people switched to the online distribution methods: Xbox and Playstation have their own online store, and for pc you can buy umpteen thousand of games through steam, at prices retail stores can't compete with. People still buy plenty of games - the big franchises can sell for literally hundreds of millions of dollars in pre-orders alone... they just don't need gamestop anymore. All those 'hidden' gamers still buy powerful graphics cards.
only apple seems to be the hold out on this
Apple forces you to buy every single one of your apps and much of the other contents of your devices directly through them, and them alone -- they still get to track pretty much everything you do that way.
There's also a canine cancer that transmits through sexual contact:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"canine transmissible venereal sarcoma (CTVS), sticker tumors and infectious sarcoma is a histiocytic tumor of the external genitalia of the dog and other canines, and is transmitted from animal to animal during mating."
"The tumor cells are themselves the infectious agents, and the tumors that form are not genetically related to the host dog.[1] Although the genome of a CTVT is derived from a canid (probably a dog, wolf or coyote), it is now essentially living as a unicellular, asexually reproducing (but sexually transmitted) pathogen.[2] Sequence analysis of the genome suggests it diverged from canids over 6,000 years ago; possibly much earlier"
"believed to be the longest continually propagated cell lineage in the world"
Well, was that Microsoft lying about minimum requirements, or OEMs ignoring them?
It was microsoft lying, after being pressured by the OEMs.
The problem was the multiple delays of Vista. Early on they set the specs for "Vista-ready" PC's so they could be sold as such before the Christmas shopping season, and then as time progressed and Vista kept getting delayed and changed, MS wanted to revise the specs upwards to account for the real requirements. They got threatened with court action by the large computer retail stores who had been selling "Vista ready" PC's that followed MS's requirements for a while, and that were afraid that they would get sued by their customers if MS raised the bar after the fact.
The end result: the posted specs were lowered back down again to keep those "Vista ready" PC's still compliant, even though the end user ended up with a slideshow instead of an OS on the lower end of the spectrum.