I doubt that there will be much bacterial growth in an electrolysis vessel...
Depends on the conditions. You would be surprised where bacteria can manage grow. I've grown bacteria in the lab on electrically charged agar. Other than changing their color they really didn't seem to mind.
Pirating the content is about the only means available to them to send a message to the studios (who are really the ones causing most of this) that they need to join us in the 21st century and either make sure that their content partners are providing streaming in their regions, or uncouple the streaming rights so Netflix or someone like them can provide it. It's a bit insane that people want to pay for content, and there exists the means to provide it, but it's being held back by these antiquated deals.
Netflix could buy the rights for any show in any area. They just choose not to.
This isn't true at all. A lot of content has existing distribution deals in different regions, some of these may go back decades. Others are new deals but they can be in place before Netflix even has a chance to buy the content (bundled with broadcast rights to local TV networks, for example). I'm sure there is some content they could but chose not to buy the rights to in specific reasons, but it's definitely not "any show in any area".
Can you backlight e-ink? Seriously asking. I know the Kindle paperwhite devices are actually front-lit. The LEDs are on the side of the screen, above the e-ink layer, and the light is distributed by a light-guide embedded in the plastic screen above the e-ink layer.
I have a touch screen laptop (clam shell style, not a convertible). It's not all that useful. I use it sometimes when resizing images in Word just because I can but really, it's more annoying than anything. Go to wipe off a bit of lint and forget it's a touchscreen, start moving stuff around.
Let's subtract all the people who get shot, mauled or otherwise physically harmed for hunting Pokemon where they shouldn't, along with those smart individuals who become victims of accidents because they wanted to hunt some Pokemon where no smart human would willingly go (like, say, the middle of a busy interstate). How many years older do we then get?
Or is that ok because it only weeds out the... let's say less viable individuals?
It would probably add up to no more than a few thousand years of life lost, so overall still a very large net positive gain.
Many of them did. The problem is that the new terminals then need to be certified by each card company before they can be turned on, for each business (not just a hardware certification for the mfg, each deployment requires certification). The card companies have been dragging their feet getting them certified, particularly for small to mid sized businesses. However they did not extend the deadline for those companies that installed the terminals but can't yet use them. So these businesses did what they were supposed to do but they are in a bind now with liability shifted to them but they are unable to even accept chip cards because they can't get the big 4 to certify their installations.
This happened to my local grocery chain. They have the new readers, had them well before the deadline, but they can't use them, even now almost a year after the deadline passed, because they are still in the queue for certification.
You would think that perhaps the massive deforestation of the planet over the course of the past 400-500 years might have an impact. Combine that with massive increases in combustion on the planet you would think that it would be unsurprising that more free O2 would be contained within CO/CO2/SO2 etc than in the past.
Course that's out of my ass, and I don't know how you'd go around testing it.
So Verizon's explanation for how the data got so high is apparently because she accessed Amazon 400 times during that period. So they actually think visiting a website 400 times would account for 560 gigabytes of data? Over a gigabyte per visit. How stupid can they be?
More proof that signing up with a company that can just randomly bill you whatever they want is not a good idea. Verizon is stuck in the stone age.
The vast majority of customer service could be replaced, and in some companies has been, today by software. The people working those first tier calls today are running off of scripted responses. Customer asks this, respond with that. Customer requests this, click this button and the back-end software will complete the request, etc. It isn't hard to replace that with a automated system. The biggest hurdle right now is acquisition and implementation cost vs outsourcing it to cheap humans in the Puerto Rico*, India and Pakistan. Sure, there will be outlier calls that will need a person to handle them but those are the minority of calls and can be handled by a smaller human workforce.
*I've worked with several companies that do this kind of work and all but one has a call center in PR to handle Spanish language calls. There are also some tax benefits involved.
On the plus side, the battery will literally last forever. Charging to 90% doubles the life of a LiPo, charging to only 50% eliminates cycle-based aging almost completely (the cells will still degrade, but just as quick as they would if you didn't use them at all). 60% will likely last very long.
Normally that would be great, but I don't think extending the life of an explody phone is a positive.
Yea, sorry, that first sentence wasn't clear. Distracted at work. Still, the point of my second sentence stands:
This ruling basically says that any for profit entity would have to not only get permission from owner of the linked site, but also validate that that entity has the rights to publish the content you are linking to them for. It's insane.
That page you linked to with the photo is also copyrighted though, just by existing. What's to stop the owner of the target link from suing over that copyright? This ruling basically says that any for profit entity would have to not only get permission from owner of the linked site, but also validate that that entity has the rights to publish the content you are linking to them for. It's insane.
However, if the links are providing in the pursuit of financial gain, the poster of such links is deemed to have known that they were infringing copyright, unless they can prove otherwise. The court has stated that those sites operating "for profit" are expected to have carried out the (impossible?) "necessary checks to ensure that the work concerned is not illegally published on the website to which those hyperlinks lead."
It's unfortunate, but with a big merger like this you will end up with a lot of back office redundancy. You don't need two HR departments, for example. You don't need two purchasing departments, two ARs, two APs, two IT departments, ect. You combine and cut until the new, larger org, has sufficient support to run as one entity.
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I doubt that there will be much bacterial growth in an electrolysis vessel...
Depends on the conditions. You would be surprised where bacteria can manage grow. I've grown bacteria in the lab on electrically charged agar. Other than changing their color they really didn't seem to mind.
Pirating the content is about the only means available to them to send a message to the studios (who are really the ones causing most of this) that they need to join us in the 21st century and either make sure that their content partners are providing streaming in their regions, or uncouple the streaming rights so Netflix or someone like them can provide it. It's a bit insane that people want to pay for content, and there exists the means to provide it, but it's being held back by these antiquated deals.
Netflix could buy the rights for any show in any area. They just choose not to.
This isn't true at all. A lot of content has existing distribution deals in different regions, some of these may go back decades. Others are new deals but they can be in place before Netflix even has a chance to buy the content (bundled with broadcast rights to local TV networks, for example). I'm sure there is some content they could but chose not to buy the rights to in specific reasons, but it's definitely not "any show in any area".
So you want to carry around different keyboards for each application you use? That sounds like the opposite of easier.
Can you backlight e-ink? Seriously asking. I know the Kindle paperwhite devices are actually front-lit. The LEDs are on the side of the screen, above the e-ink layer, and the light is distributed by a light-guide embedded in the plastic screen above the e-ink layer.
I have a touch screen laptop (clam shell style, not a convertible). It's not all that useful. I use it sometimes when resizing images in Word just because I can but really, it's more annoying than anything. Go to wipe off a bit of lint and forget it's a touchscreen, start moving stuff around.
Why change the # to £. Would change if the $ to £ make more cents?>
Don't know if typo or clever pun.....
Let's subtract all the people who get shot, mauled or otherwise physically harmed for hunting Pokemon where they shouldn't, along with those smart individuals who become victims of accidents because they wanted to hunt some Pokemon where no smart human would willingly go (like, say, the middle of a busy interstate). How many years older do we then get?
Or is that ok because it only weeds out the ... let's say less viable individuals?
It would probably add up to no more than a few thousand years of life lost, so overall still a very large net positive gain.
It's 1071.4286 stone.
We'll know Musk has figured it out when he, someday, vanishes without a trace and nobody remembers he was here.
I think there is a problem with your theory...
Because it's direct competition to their main business maybe?
Just upgrade your damn terminal already.
Many of them did. The problem is that the new terminals then need to be certified by each card company before they can be turned on, for each business (not just a hardware certification for the mfg, each deployment requires certification). The card companies have been dragging their feet getting them certified, particularly for small to mid sized businesses. However they did not extend the deadline for those companies that installed the terminals but can't yet use them. So these businesses did what they were supposed to do but they are in a bind now with liability shifted to them but they are unable to even accept chip cards because they can't get the big 4 to certify their installations.
This happened to my local grocery chain. They have the new readers, had them well before the deadline, but they can't use them, even now almost a year after the deadline passed, because they are still in the queue for certification.
..without having a stupid extra dongle to buy and lose.
Glue dongle into port. Problem solved.
This topic is filled with people who think they are experts..
Welcome to the internet.
You would think that perhaps the massive deforestation of the planet over the course of the past 400-500 years might have an impact. Combine that with massive increases in combustion on the planet you would think that it would be unsurprising that more free O2 would be contained within CO/CO2/SO2 etc than in the past.
Course that's out of my ass, and I don't know how you'd go around testing it.
Deforestation by man over the past 800,000 years?
So Verizon's explanation for how the data got so high is apparently because she accessed Amazon 400 times during that period. So they actually think visiting a website 400 times would account for 560 gigabytes of data? Over a gigabyte per visit. How stupid can they be? More proof that signing up with a company that can just randomly bill you whatever they want is not a good idea. Verizon is stuck in the stone age.
AWS.
The vast majority of customer service could be replaced by a well designed website.
Well sure, if we're going to consider the impossible...
The vast majority of customer service could be replaced, and in some companies has been, today by software. The people working those first tier calls today are running off of scripted responses. Customer asks this, respond with that. Customer requests this, click this button and the back-end software will complete the request, etc. It isn't hard to replace that with a automated system. The biggest hurdle right now is acquisition and implementation cost vs outsourcing it to cheap humans in the Puerto Rico*, India and Pakistan. Sure, there will be outlier calls that will need a person to handle them but those are the minority of calls and can be handled by a smaller human workforce.
*I've worked with several companies that do this kind of work and all but one has a call center in PR to handle Spanish language calls. There are also some tax benefits involved.
On the plus side, the battery will literally last forever. Charging to 90% doubles the life of a LiPo, charging to only 50% eliminates cycle-based aging almost completely (the cells will still degrade, but just as quick as they would if you didn't use them at all). 60% will likely last very long.
Normally that would be great, but I don't think extending the life of an explody phone is a positive.
Guess you haven't seen the Martian then :P
I dunno, have you seen the prices of hammers lately?
This ruling basically says that any for profit entity would have to not only get permission from owner of the linked site, but also validate that that entity has the rights to publish the content you are linking to them for. It's insane.
However, if the links are providing in the pursuit of financial gain, the poster of such links is deemed to have known that they were infringing copyright, unless they can prove otherwise. The court has stated that those sites operating "for profit" are expected to have carried out the (impossible?) "necessary checks to ensure that the work concerned is not illegally published on the website to which those hyperlinks lead."
It's unfortunate, but with a big merger like this you will end up with a lot of back office redundancy. You don't need two HR departments, for example. You don't need two purchasing departments, two ARs, two APs, two IT departments, ect. You combine and cut until the new, larger org, has sufficient support to run as one entity.
Real runners don't give a shit and just run.