No, they mean train since the Guardian is an English newspaper. I'm not sure what you call a collection of carriages with integrated engines in American but in English, it is definitely a train. Technically I believe it is an Electrical Multiple Unit train but I'll leave that to the experts to debate.
Apple Flies Top Privacy Executives Into Australia To Lobby Against Encryption
It sounds like they are lobbying against laws which require them to provide a backdoor for the government through their encryption. I'd call this arguing for encryption, not against it.
I can't afford to risk my remaining health cycling, since most cyclists seem to get hit eventually
The same is true for both pedestrians and drivers. Unless you never leave the house you will have an accident eventually.
It will, however, cost more money because we will build more cycle paths, because bicycles cannot safely coexist on public roads with automobiles.
Your two statements contradict one another. You cannot argue that so few people cycle that it will not affect traffic while at the same time arguing that there will be so many cyclists we need to build new paths to keep them safe. You only need new paths when there is a significant number of cyclists in which case there is an impact on traffic. If you don't have a huge number then they can safely use the road with cars.
Netflix has a pretty good track record, so unless the CEO is spouting some off-the-rails crap, I'll assume that they have a good plan in place.
This is "off-the-rails crap". All negative cash flow is an indication of is that the company is spending money faster than it can make it. This is an indication that whatever success you have had so far is at risk. The investments Netflix is making now need to not only keep its existing subscribers happy but must also attract enough new subscribers to increase revenue enough to cover the current level of expenses. The shows might all be successes but just not generate enough increase in revenue or the rate of new shows may turn out to be too low to maintain the existing subscribers.
I really like Netflix (I'm a subscriber myself) and I think they are doing exactly what they have to do to keep the company going but that's not an indication of success it's an indication of a company fighting to remain competitive.
All you are saying is that it is possible to invest the money they are making wisely and I completely agree. The point is that it is also possible to invest foolishly and this should be a particular concern when you have negative cash flow because it means that you cannot sustain that state for too long and so even small missteps in that situation can have a very magnified impact. Taking these sorts of risks is usually the indication of a company fighting to stay ahead of its competitors, not an indication of success.
Bicycles don't consume gasoline, nor does one pay a registration fee, yet it does cost money to build and maintain bike paths.
It also costs money to maintain footpaths so should they start taxing pedestrians too? Not everything is paid for by taxing the people using it especially when all of society benefits from the activity. Cycling makes you healthier reducing health care costs, lowers the need for more expensive roads saving the government money and produces no carbon emissions and pollution. Normally you don't want to discourage an activity like that by taxing it.
I suspect that there will soon be a lot of bike kits for sale where you purchase the frame and wheels separately. Quick release wheels are a doddle to attach so they could even offer free assembly.
In this application, steganography is probably better. Encrypted data is generally easy to spot and ban - China has already banned VPNs. However, with steganography, you can have what looks like an ordinary picture containing the data for the picture that you actually want to send. Since this looks just like an ordinary image unless they block the transmission of all images it should get through.
I think he's saying that spending money developing new shows is better than resting on their laurels and collecting cash.
If so he is saying very wrong. Investing in the future is a great way to ensure success in the future but it is by no means an indication or guarantee of success in the present or future. It's entirely possible to invest heavily and be an utter failure e.g. if they invested in shows which were complete flops. The fact that their CEO equates investment in the future to automatic success is not a healthy sign since it suggests they have not planned for what happens if the investments go awry.
Sorry, I can now see that English isn't your first language but this and your apparent lack of understanding of how current flows through a conductor means that there is little point my continuing to explain since you are misinterpreting what I say and have some serious gaps in your understanding. For example, in English electricity refers to the flow of electric charge or, if 'static electricity', the build up of charge and "charge carrier" refers to the thing which carries the charge when there is a flow of electrical charge whereas you interpret this as 'charged' which is not the same (charge carriers have to be charged but they also have to move).
I'd suggest looking up how electricity flows through wires in a suitable textbook - high school or first year university should be fine - and then remember that were enough of these particle produced and somehow stabilized they would behave like protons.
A physical electron does not travel. It simply moves out and back.
Not in a DC circuit. With a DC circuit, the electrons do have a net movement - they may more back and forth but they move forth more than they move back. If they did not move there would be no constant magnetic field. The electrons do move a lot slower than the electric field but they do move and you can measure their speed.
Scintillation is a completely different phenomenon to do with emission of light. In AC circuits the electrons still have a net movement but it reverses with the current so that over time it averages to zero. If there were no movement of charge there would be no magnetic field. Yes, there is a flow of energy but there is also a physical movement of electrons too.
Mr Turnbull has. What is with politicians today making nonsensical statements like this?
Well as someone who has studied the law I would expect him to have some knowledge of tax law. Usually, those laws rely on the laws of mathematics - at least I've no idea how you can calculate taxes without mathematics. If the laws of Australia are quite literally built on top of the laws of mathematics I'd be very careful about undermining the importance of those laws otherwise there might be interesting tax consequences.
A quick search shows that Malcolm Turnbull has Royal Blood and he is a direct descendant, all the way through male heirs, of King Canute.
Canute tried to command the tide knowing full well that it would not work to show his idiot advisors that there were limits to the power of the crown. So Turnbull must have been related to Canute's advisors which makes sense since Prime Minister is the modern equivalent to an advisor in a Royal Court even if the power dynamics are now very different.
Perhaps the Queen could step in to re-educate this twit since it worked before for his distant ancestor? I'd suggest having him stand in the middle of the outback in the full sun on a hot summer's day while she signs a law to make the sun to stop shining or 8pm to follow 10am if you want a more mathematical flavour.
the reality of walking through the airport without having to show a boarding pass is going to win this argument in the end
Really? Showing a boarding pass is just about the least onerous thing you do in an airport. If it allowed them to reduce the security theatre required then I'd say it is perhaps worth it. However, since a boarding pass contains information about your seat, gate number and boarding time I am still going to want one whether or not I have to show it and once you have it showing it to someone is not really that hard.
I used a rift once a few months ago and that's how I did it. However, it was a real pain and taking it off was harder since it pulled my glasses off and I had to retrieve them from the device because the fit was so tight. If I were doing this on a regular basis I would be worried that it would damage them given the very tight fit. In comparison, the Vive seemed to work a lot better with glasses because it had more room for them.
Something along the lines of uploading your prescription to the goggles, which then tweaks FOV ingame
There is no software fix that will work. However, all you need is the ability to move the lens closer to the screen so that the image it produces will be closer to the wearer's eyes which will allow even us short sighted people to focus on it. This is how things like microscopes, telescopes and binoculars work for everyone: you can adjust the focus by moving the lens until the image is in focus. So all they need to do is add a focus wheel to adjust the position of the lenses.
The key words here are "because of an express agreement". To incur a rent obligation you have to sign a contract and if that contract stipulates the allowed methods of payment it is game over. Without a contract, you are just going month-to-month with no obligation to pay for the next month and so no debt.
The electrons never reach anyone, regardless of whether it's AC or DC.
That's true for AC but not true for DC although the drift velocity is usually in milli- or micro- metres per second so it will take a while for the electrons to get very far. Even with AC there will be some diffusion of electrons as the current flows since when the current reverses it's not guaranteed that exactly the same electrons will flow back, just the same number. However, this process should be even slower than DC.
In the end, though it's a pointless exercise since there is no such thing as a "green" electron. However, if you look inside the nucleus you will find that all the protons and neutrons each contain a green quark.
PSE is going to be stuck with the clean-up costs of the sites containing the coal-fired energy generation plants.
Since they presumably own those plants what is the problem? If a customer decides to stop doing business with a company they are not responsible for the associated costs because of the loss of business. Frankly, I don't understand why MS even has to pay $23.6M just to not use PSE's power anymore. It would be completely unacceptable for a customer who switched from Windows to Linux to have to pay Microsoft a fee to cover the increase in costs to Microsoft due to the switch.
The original cost of an Oculus was more than LASIK eye surgery for most patients. Talk about fucked up priorities!
Well speaking as someone who wears glasses but could also easily afford LASIK eye surgery I tend to prioritize avoiding risks to my vision over the convenience of not wearing glasses. LASIK eye surgery carries a risk of serious complications which can severely impact your vision. Even in the best of cases, your night vision is impaired. The risk might be small but so is the benefit and the impact if you are unlucky is huge. The only time I would consider it is if my vision required such a severe correction that glasses can not easily provide it.
Never understood how apartment and rent can be required to be non-cash payment.
Legal tender only applies when you have a debt. A shop is perfectly free to decide not to sell something to you unless you pay in a form that they are willing to accept. However, a restaurant where you typically eat first and pay at the end, probably can't refuse (IANAL) to accept cash because at that point you have acquired a debt with them and they are required to accept legal tender in payment of debts.
Usually, rents are paid in advance so you are not paying off a debt but purchasing the right to live there in advance. Hence if the landlord does not want to accept your cash s/he is entitled to refuse to rent to you although I expect this could get more complicated when combined with tenants rights.
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In which case the correct response is to increase enforcement and fine them, not build more bike paths. Pandering to misbehaving children never works.
He was an engine, not a train, as in "Thomas the Tank Engine".
No, they mean train since the Guardian is an English newspaper. I'm not sure what you call a collection of carriages with integrated engines in American but in English, it is definitely a train. Technically I believe it is an Electrical Multiple Unit train but I'll leave that to the experts to debate.
Apple Flies Top Privacy Executives Into Australia To Lobby Against Encryption
It sounds like they are lobbying against laws which require them to provide a backdoor for the government through their encryption. I'd call this arguing for encryption, not against it.
I can't afford to risk my remaining health cycling, since most cyclists seem to get hit eventually
The same is true for both pedestrians and drivers. Unless you never leave the house you will have an accident eventually.
It will, however, cost more money because we will build more cycle paths, because bicycles cannot safely coexist on public roads with automobiles.
Your two statements contradict one another. You cannot argue that so few people cycle that it will not affect traffic while at the same time arguing that there will be so many cyclists we need to build new paths to keep them safe. You only need new paths when there is a significant number of cyclists in which case there is an impact on traffic. If you don't have a huge number then they can safely use the road with cars.
Netflix has a pretty good track record, so unless the CEO is spouting some off-the-rails crap, I'll assume that they have a good plan in place.
This is "off-the-rails crap". All negative cash flow is an indication of is that the company is spending money faster than it can make it. This is an indication that whatever success you have had so far is at risk. The investments Netflix is making now need to not only keep its existing subscribers happy but must also attract enough new subscribers to increase revenue enough to cover the current level of expenses. The shows might all be successes but just not generate enough increase in revenue or the rate of new shows may turn out to be too low to maintain the existing subscribers.
I really like Netflix (I'm a subscriber myself) and I think they are doing exactly what they have to do to keep the company going but that's not an indication of success it's an indication of a company fighting to remain competitive.
All you are saying is that it is possible to invest the money they are making wisely and I completely agree. The point is that it is also possible to invest foolishly and this should be a particular concern when you have negative cash flow because it means that you cannot sustain that state for too long and so even small missteps in that situation can have a very magnified impact. Taking these sorts of risks is usually the indication of a company fighting to stay ahead of its competitors, not an indication of success.
Bicycles don't consume gasoline, nor does one pay a registration fee, yet it does cost money to build and maintain bike paths.
It also costs money to maintain footpaths so should they start taxing pedestrians too? Not everything is paid for by taxing the people using it especially when all of society benefits from the activity. Cycling makes you healthier reducing health care costs, lowers the need for more expensive roads saving the government money and produces no carbon emissions and pollution. Normally you don't want to discourage an activity like that by taxing it.
I suspect that there will soon be a lot of bike kits for sale where you purchase the frame and wheels separately. Quick release wheels are a doddle to attach so they could even offer free assembly.
In this application, steganography is probably better. Encrypted data is generally easy to spot and ban - China has already banned VPNs. However, with steganography, you can have what looks like an ordinary picture containing the data for the picture that you actually want to send. Since this looks just like an ordinary image unless they block the transmission of all images it should get through.
I think he's saying that spending money developing new shows is better than resting on their laurels and collecting cash.
If so he is saying very wrong. Investing in the future is a great way to ensure success in the future but it is by no means an indication or guarantee of success in the present or future. It's entirely possible to invest heavily and be an utter failure e.g. if they invested in shows which were complete flops. The fact that their CEO equates investment in the future to automatic success is not a healthy sign since it suggests they have not planned for what happens if the investments go awry.
Sorry, I can now see that English isn't your first language but this and your apparent lack of understanding of how current flows through a conductor means that there is little point my continuing to explain since you are misinterpreting what I say and have some serious gaps in your understanding. For example, in English electricity refers to the flow of electric charge or, if 'static electricity', the build up of charge and "charge carrier" refers to the thing which carries the charge when there is a flow of electrical charge whereas you interpret this as 'charged' which is not the same (charge carriers have to be charged but they also have to move).
I'd suggest looking up how electricity flows through wires in a suitable textbook - high school or first year university should be fine - and then remember that were enough of these particle produced and somehow stabilized they would behave like protons.
A physical electron does not travel. It simply moves out and back.
Not in a DC circuit. With a DC circuit, the electrons do have a net movement - they may more back and forth but they move forth more than they move back. If they did not move there would be no constant magnetic field. The electrons do move a lot slower than the electric field but they do move and you can measure their speed.
Scintillation is a completely different phenomenon to do with emission of light. In AC circuits the electrons still have a net movement but it reverses with the current so that over time it averages to zero. If there were no movement of charge there would be no magnetic field. Yes, there is a flow of energy but there is also a physical movement of electrons too.
That was the idea - I should clearly just stick to physics though!
Farewell Commander Koenig.
Mr Turnbull has. What is with politicians today making nonsensical statements like this?
Well as someone who has studied the law I would expect him to have some knowledge of tax law. Usually, those laws rely on the laws of mathematics - at least I've no idea how you can calculate taxes without mathematics. If the laws of Australia are quite literally built on top of the laws of mathematics I'd be very careful about undermining the importance of those laws otherwise there might be interesting tax consequences.
A quick search shows that Malcolm Turnbull has Royal Blood and he is a direct descendant, all the way through male heirs, of King Canute.
Canute tried to command the tide knowing full well that it would not work to show his idiot advisors that there were limits to the power of the crown. So Turnbull must have been related to Canute's advisors which makes sense since Prime Minister is the modern equivalent to an advisor in a Royal Court even if the power dynamics are now very different.
Perhaps the Queen could step in to re-educate this twit since it worked before for his distant ancestor? I'd suggest having him stand in the middle of the outback in the full sun on a hot summer's day while she signs a law to make the sun to stop shining or 8pm to follow 10am if you want a more mathematical flavour.
the reality of walking through the airport without having to show a boarding pass is going to win this argument in the end
Really? Showing a boarding pass is just about the least onerous thing you do in an airport. If it allowed them to reduce the security theatre required then I'd say it is perhaps worth it. However, since a boarding pass contains information about your seat, gate number and boarding time I am still going to want one whether or not I have to show it and once you have it showing it to someone is not really that hard.
I used a rift once a few months ago and that's how I did it. However, it was a real pain and taking it off was harder since it pulled my glasses off and I had to retrieve them from the device because the fit was so tight. If I were doing this on a regular basis I would be worried that it would damage them given the very tight fit. In comparison, the Vive seemed to work a lot better with glasses because it had more room for them.
Something along the lines of uploading your prescription to the goggles, which then tweaks FOV ingame
There is no software fix that will work. However, all you need is the ability to move the lens closer to the screen so that the image it produces will be closer to the wearer's eyes which will allow even us short sighted people to focus on it. This is how things like microscopes, telescopes and binoculars work for everyone: you can adjust the focus by moving the lens until the image is in focus. So all they need to do is add a focus wheel to adjust the position of the lenses.
The key words here are "because of an express agreement". To incur a rent obligation you have to sign a contract and if that contract stipulates the allowed methods of payment it is game over. Without a contract, you are just going month-to-month with no obligation to pay for the next month and so no debt.
The electrons never reach anyone, regardless of whether it's AC or DC.
That's true for AC but not true for DC although the drift velocity is usually in milli- or micro- metres per second so it will take a while for the electrons to get very far. Even with AC there will be some diffusion of electrons as the current flows since when the current reverses it's not guaranteed that exactly the same electrons will flow back, just the same number. However, this process should be even slower than DC.
In the end, though it's a pointless exercise since there is no such thing as a "green" electron. However, if you look inside the nucleus you will find that all the protons and neutrons each contain a green quark.
PSE is going to be stuck with the clean-up costs of the sites containing the coal-fired energy generation plants.
Since they presumably own those plants what is the problem? If a customer decides to stop doing business with a company they are not responsible for the associated costs because of the loss of business. Frankly, I don't understand why MS even has to pay $23.6M just to not use PSE's power anymore. It would be completely unacceptable for a customer who switched from Windows to Linux to have to pay Microsoft a fee to cover the increase in costs to Microsoft due to the switch.
The original cost of an Oculus was more than LASIK eye surgery for most patients. Talk about fucked up priorities!
Well speaking as someone who wears glasses but could also easily afford LASIK eye surgery I tend to prioritize avoiding risks to my vision over the convenience of not wearing glasses. LASIK eye surgery carries a risk of serious complications which can severely impact your vision. Even in the best of cases, your night vision is impaired. The risk might be small but so is the benefit and the impact if you are unlucky is huge. The only time I would consider it is if my vision required such a severe correction that glasses can not easily provide it.
Never understood how apartment and rent can be required to be non-cash payment.
Legal tender only applies when you have a debt. A shop is perfectly free to decide not to sell something to you unless you pay in a form that they are willing to accept. However, a restaurant where you typically eat first and pay at the end, probably can't refuse (IANAL) to accept cash because at that point you have acquired a debt with them and they are required to accept legal tender in payment of debts.
Usually, rents are paid in advance so you are not paying off a debt but purchasing the right to live there in advance. Hence if the landlord does not want to accept your cash s/he is entitled to refuse to rent to you although I expect this could get more complicated when combined with tenants rights.