I had the same experience when I left Japan: shipped 2 big boxes of stuff home (from Tokyo to Europe) for about $25 each. Even crazier: they arrived the next day. Same for small mail-order packages from Japan: the postage was low and they generally arrive super-fast. But Japan hardly qualifies as a developing nation I should think...
Those are two different things: finding a problem in approved hardware and acting on that, or actively looking for problems and gaps during the approval process. Which would include for example the aforementioned lack of signed software updates.
Small players will not be "mercilessly punished"... nor will they be excused because they claim they do not have the means to comply. Now that the hysterics has died down, turns out the the requirements of the GDPR are really not that onerous. In most cases you won't even have to pay some clever middleman to manage GDPR-related issues for you. So big firms most certainly will not be let off the hook that easily.
Betteridge says no. It is unpossible to install a mesh WiFi network in a barn. At all. In your house sure, but not the barn. It will burn down if you try, so don't.
After that misguided verdict * in the Netherlands, I would have laughed my balls off if the government would have told the environmentalists: "In order to comply with this court order and further reduce CO2 emissions, we will order 5 new nuclear power plants from France"
*) Misguided because a judge has no business ordering policy.
saving the planet is not going to come from a political adventure such as a new tax, its going to come out of a laboratory.
Well, laboratories and engineers' drawing boards. And maybe also taxes, or at least fiscal policy. Take wind power. I suppose that the policy of subsidizing wind power has done a lot to drive installation of wind mills (it has over here), which in turn sped up further development. Existing installations have taught us a lot about building better ones that generate more power and can keep running in storms, and how to install and maintain them efficiently. The price per kWh is coming down to a point where they can run without subsidies. Same with solar; the lower price of rooftop solar is thanks in part to much lower installation costs, not just to cheaper panels.
Every single IPCC report has understated the danger because they didn't want to be accused of being scare mongers.
Has it? With one of the earlier reports at least, a bunch of scientists who worked on it refused to sign their name to it because the rather alarmist tone of the report's (political) summary did not at all match the much milder conclusions drawn in the actually scientific part.
"Every unemployment stipend paid, every public work of art erected, every bit of aid to the poor signifies, in the final sense, the theft of a rifle, a helmet or a ration from the boys who are tasked to lay their lives on the line to defend us from foreign aggressors". Maybe someone said something to that effect in my country just prior to WW2, but if he did, he was ignored. There's no doubt that wars are a colossal, pointless waste of human lives and capital. Military spending is almost always better spent on something else... unless there actually are foreign aggressors. Eisenhower's quote is great, but idealistic... Though you can argue about just how much we are supposed to spend on this. My country is a level 2 partner in the F35 programme, and I do not think it is money well spent.
Same. Years ago, our TV cable provider offered different new channels each month to find out what people might like. One month it was the SciFi channel. Was watching with a friend when MST3K came on, and we thought "What the #@&$ is this?". Then we were hooked. I used to bring home taped episodes of MST3K on VHS whenever I did overseas work in the US.
It's sad that they don't riff as many new release blockbusters anymore... Perhaps they don't make enough money on those; since people have to sync up the audio along with the video themselves, maybe they tend to go for a pirated pre-mixed version instead.
The costs are becoming competitive with other energy sources. The Netherlands already have a very dense transmission network so this is not that much of an issue. In the case of offshore wind, the government subsidized the transmission line to 4 huge new wind parks, but the parks themselves will receive zero subsidies: a first. And there were plenty of bidders for them.
The "fix" is to install a version of your graphics card drivers from back when the game released.
In other words: PC games also still work on their respective hardware. The difference is that we tend to keep our consoles, but we chuck out, rebuild or repurpose our obsolete PCs.
The demand for Tesla vehicles is not going to be an issue for the foreseeable future. The "fundamental" issues are supply (can they source or manufacture enough batteries, something many EV makers struggle with), and manufacturing (can they make these cars fast enough, reliably, without running at a loss). At a glance, the answer to those questions would seem to be Yes, and that hasn't changed. What has changed is Musk tweeting some rubbish and going one toke over the line, no fundamental stuff.
The big worry, as GP pointed out, is Tesla's current debt structure and cash flow. Not necessarily an issue if your stockholders have an unwavering trust in the company and the way it's being run, but Musk seems to be doing everything in his power to shake that trust.
Collaborative editing has its uses but I wouldn't call that a killer feature. Which is probably why non cloudy variants haven't taken off yet, because it's not the architecture that is stopping it.
The guy initially asked for $50.000. That doesn't seem nearly enough for a game even if it's partly a labor of love; after paying for licenses for a decent game engine that leaves you barely enough to pay a rather crappy wage to 1 (one) developer for a year. The fact that he stuck with it for 6 years is a testament to his dedication.
Even though it is a national system, is it really nationwide only? We have a similar system in the Netherlands, and besides the (nationwide) test every 6 months, it has been used a couple of times to send messages to specific areas, for example in case of a rather large industrial fire; the alert warned people in the immediate area to stay indoors and close doors and windows in order to avoid inhaling the smoke. It's quite useful for cases like that, as it reaches around 80% of the population.
Maybe the forklift driver in their warehouse is a "multilevel logistics manager". Title inflation. I did a gig for a bank once and you couldn't throw a keyboard across the room without hitting a "VP of something", but most of those weren't even what you'd consider a manager of anything.
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I had the same experience when I left Japan: shipped 2 big boxes of stuff home (from Tokyo to Europe) for about $25 each. Even crazier: they arrived the next day. Same for small mail-order packages from Japan: the postage was low and they generally arrive super-fast. But Japan hardly qualifies as a developing nation I should think...
Those are two different things: finding a problem in approved hardware and acting on that, or actively looking for problems and gaps during the approval process. Which would include for example the aforementioned lack of signed software updates.
Does the FDA approval process include an audit of IT security measures and practices?
Small players will not be "mercilessly punished"... nor will they be excused because they claim they do not have the means to comply. Now that the hysterics has died down, turns out the the requirements of the GDPR are really not that onerous. In most cases you won't even have to pay some clever middleman to manage GDPR-related issues for you. So big firms most certainly will not be let off the hook that easily.
Also, quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
Betteridge says no. It is unpossible to install a mesh WiFi network in a barn. At all. In your house sure, but not the barn. It will burn down if you try, so don't.
And they have plans to take over the rest of the world?
After that misguided verdict * in the Netherlands, I would have laughed my balls off if the government would have told the environmentalists: "In order to comply with this court order and further reduce CO2 emissions, we will order 5 new nuclear power plants from France"
*) Misguided because a judge has no business ordering policy.
saving the planet is not going to come from a political adventure such as a new tax, its going to come out of a laboratory.
Well, laboratories and engineers' drawing boards. And maybe also taxes, or at least fiscal policy. Take wind power. I suppose that the policy of subsidizing wind power has done a lot to drive installation of wind mills (it has over here), which in turn sped up further development. Existing installations have taught us a lot about building better ones that generate more power and can keep running in storms, and how to install and maintain them efficiently. The price per kWh is coming down to a point where they can run without subsidies. Same with solar; the lower price of rooftop solar is thanks in part to much lower installation costs, not just to cheaper panels.
Every single IPCC report has understated the danger because they didn't want to be accused of being scare mongers.
Has it? With one of the earlier reports at least, a bunch of scientists who worked on it refused to sign their name to it because the rather alarmist tone of the report's (political) summary did not at all match the much milder conclusions drawn in the actually scientific part.
"Every unemployment stipend paid, every public work of art erected, every bit of aid to the poor signifies, in the final sense, the theft of a rifle, a helmet or a ration from the boys who are tasked to lay their lives on the line to defend us from foreign aggressors". Maybe someone said something to that effect in my country just prior to WW2, but if he did, he was ignored. There's no doubt that wars are a colossal, pointless waste of human lives and capital. Military spending is almost always better spent on something else... unless there actually are foreign aggressors. Eisenhower's quote is great, but idealistic... Though you can argue about just how much we are supposed to spend on this. My country is a level 2 partner in the F35 programme, and I do not think it is money well spent.
What was it? “I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this post-it is too small to contain”
Same. Years ago, our TV cable provider offered different new channels each month to find out what people might like. One month it was the SciFi channel. Was watching with a friend when MST3K came on, and we thought "What the #@&$ is this?". Then we were hooked. I used to bring home taped episodes of MST3K on VHS whenever I did overseas work in the US.
It's sad that they don't riff as many new release blockbusters anymore... Perhaps they don't make enough money on those; since people have to sync up the audio along with the video themselves, maybe they tend to go for a pirated pre-mixed version instead.
So: notchless is a feature, but waterproofing is a frill. What gives?
Germany outsources a lot of hydrodynamic storage to Norway.
The costs are becoming competitive with other energy sources. The Netherlands already have a very dense transmission network so this is not that much of an issue. In the case of offshore wind, the government subsidized the transmission line to 4 huge new wind parks, but the parks themselves will receive zero subsidies: a first. And there were plenty of bidders for them.
The "fix" is to install a version of your graphics card drivers from back when the game released.
In other words: PC games also still work on their respective hardware. The difference is that we tend to keep our consoles, but we chuck out, rebuild or repurpose our obsolete PCs.
The demand for Tesla vehicles is not going to be an issue for the foreseeable future. The "fundamental" issues are supply (can they source or manufacture enough batteries, something many EV makers struggle with), and manufacturing (can they make these cars fast enough, reliably, without running at a loss). At a glance, the answer to those questions would seem to be Yes, and that hasn't changed. What has changed is Musk tweeting some rubbish and going one toke over the line, no fundamental stuff.
The big worry, as GP pointed out, is Tesla's current debt structure and cash flow. Not necessarily an issue if your stockholders have an unwavering trust in the company and the way it's being run, but Musk seems to be doing everything in his power to shake that trust.
the high energy use only applies to the very beginning and end of the flight.
Only for fixed-wing aircraft (or autogyros). Which most of the proposed self-flying cars most decidedly are not.
"artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies" = Fully autonomous self-lying cars.
Collaborative editing has its uses but I wouldn't call that a killer feature. Which is probably why non cloudy variants haven't taken off yet, because it's not the architecture that is stopping it.
The guy initially asked for $50.000. That doesn't seem nearly enough for a game even if it's partly a labor of love; after paying for licenses for a decent game engine that leaves you barely enough to pay a rather crappy wage to 1 (one) developer for a year. The fact that he stuck with it for 6 years is a testament to his dedication.
And Alice Kramden
He's not lying! He is just trying to "shift the narrative in a changing world"
Even though it is a national system, is it really nationwide only? We have a similar system in the Netherlands, and besides the (nationwide) test every 6 months, it has been used a couple of times to send messages to specific areas, for example in case of a rather large industrial fire; the alert warned people in the immediate area to stay indoors and close doors and windows in order to avoid inhaling the smoke. It's quite useful for cases like that, as it reaches around 80% of the population.
Maybe the forklift driver in their warehouse is a "multilevel logistics manager". Title inflation. I did a gig for a bank once and you couldn't throw a keyboard across the room without hitting a "VP of something", but most of those weren't even what you'd consider a manager of anything.