Also becuse of the copper in it brass has antiseptic properies. Something the victorians discovered by chance which is why hospitals used to have brass door knobs and handles all over the place. Of course these days stainless steel is used along with a boatload of disinfectant. Medicine sometimes regresses unfortunately.
This is pure carbon which is really NOT something you want to build any kind of structure out of if its likely ever to come near a naked flame or source of heat. It'll have to be impregnated into something else as with carbon fibre which will almost certainly reduce its strength it its even possible.
If they wanted to reuse the FM band for some public service then I could just about understand it - but 20Mhz of VHF spectrum is useless for any modern data comms so I can't see who'd use it. Seems to me this is simply the worst kind of "we know best" patrician politics forcing people to go digital for no other reason that some political idiots think digital is The Future so must be embrased. By force if necessary. Never mind that analog is better in a lot of case particularly a mountainous country like norway and thats before we get onto the issue of electronic waste from all the junked FM radios.
Geography is not your strong point obviously. And there are still plenty of AM stations in France too - I can pick a lot of them up from where I live in the UK.
Economy, torque, reliability (well, not so much any more with all the extra complexity) and ease of maintenance (no HT system for starters).
Yes, for NOx they're bloody awful and the politicians knew this but in the 90s CO2 emissions were seen as more important. Which of NOx or CO2 is more important now probably even the greens would have trouble answering.
They have no purpose. Most people now simply use TVs as monitors for a set top box and if you need any more functionality simply plug your computer or tablet into a normal TV. Why anyone would pay a significant extra amount of cash for an oversized underpowered android tablet I have no idea.
"Yeah, because large cities that have extensive public transit systems (Like Chicago, New York, and LA) totally donâ(TM)t have horrendous traffic problems."
Err yeah, that traffic is despite the metro/subway, not because of it. What do you think the traffic in manhatten would be like if everyone had to drive to work there? Idiot.
They're called Metro systems. There's even one in LA though he may not know that since he probably hasn't been on public transport since he was in his mothers womb. Amazingly they travel through tunnels underground and bypass road traffic! Who knew?
" which is a government silencing him in a rather permanent way by taking his life."
Riiiight, because the NSA I'm sure thinks a hit squad is the way to solve the snowden problem.
"Ironically he has found a safe haven in the very closet of the boogeyman you wish to identify."
Yes fancy. Russia taking in someone who is sticking it to the US military and intelligence establishment and is on the run from US authorities. Who'd have thunk it? Its totally unprecedented... oh, wait....
Trust me - once his usefullness to Putin is done, whether that be in 5 or 10 years time, he'll be shoved into some small flea pit flat in a crumbling soviet tower block and be told to shut up or else, or if he's ruffled too many feathers in the kremlin he'll be deported to his fate.
"No reaching for pull chains/knobs/switches that we would have to get out of bed to even use."
Oh no, having to get out of bed and walk a few feet, how awful! Far better to stay in bed and make sure those donut and burger calories stay on your waistline where they belong!
... using your finger, then you're probably too goddamn lazy to read the instruction manual to all this solution-looking-for-a-problem home automation basement dwelling nerds wet dream bandwagon that every company is jumping on because they can't actually think of anything original and useful.
... in the last week or so its changed so you now need an account on linkedin (or facebook) to be able to view anyones profile at all, never mind the details. I'm sure that has nothing whatsoever to do with MS wishing to get as much user data as possible.
All I had to do was attach the wheels conveniently laid out next to the hubs for me already and it was done!
Seriously, I'm getting tired of the reduction of the art programming in the public eye down to something any idiot can do. Any idiot can't do it - what they can do is plug some coloured preprogrammed very high level game blocks together on screen to produce some piss awful "game" whose gameplay would have been embarrasingly simple on an Atari 2600.
... but telnet and ftp are generic protocols with clients available on most systems. Wheres the many in that? Whats a company to do? Hey, how about rolling its own proprietary protocols to lock-in users with client software that need to be paid for? Ker-ching!
Plenty of printers with telnet access didn't even ask for a password by default, they just dropped you straight into the printers command shell as soon as you connected. Encrypting the network link won't make that sort of zero security any safer.
Sure, because left wing apologists for totalitarian regimes are just a straw man invented by the Evil Right as an excuse to criticise those caring sharing people on the left who only want whats best for their fellow man.
Remember, China is (nominally) left wing, so for the deluded liberal left, just as with the Cuban regime, it can do no wrong. Human rights violations, oppression of free speech, torture? So what, who cares. They're obviously done for a good left wing reasons such as challenging the western imperialist hegmony etc etc blah blah so any personal tragedies are just collateral damage in the path to the True Way.
Issues of systemd aside, all those computers switched on doing nothing use up a boatload of electricity when you total the amount. Not only that, but leaving a machine on allows plenty of time for potential hackers to have a crack at it - unless you specifically switch off networking when you leave it - plus counter to what people think, computer components do wear out when left on, not just fans and spinning disks but also the electronics. If you only use your machine once or twice a day its actually better for it in the long term to switch it off. Sure, of you're only going to keep it for a few years anyway who cares. But I've got a 17 year old linux file server still going that gets used once or twice a week and spends the rest of its time off. And aside from motherboard battery changes its had nothing done to it and its in as good condition now as it was in 99 when I bought it.
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Also becuse of the copper in it brass has antiseptic properies. Something the victorians discovered by chance which is why hospitals used to have brass door knobs and handles all over the place. Of course these days stainless steel is used along with a boatload of disinfectant. Medicine sometimes regresses unfortunately.
This is pure carbon which is really NOT something you want to build any kind of structure out of if its likely ever to come near a naked flame or source of heat. It'll have to be impregnated into something else as with carbon fibre which will almost certainly reduce its strength it its even possible.
If they wanted to reuse the FM band for some public service then I could just about understand it - but 20Mhz of VHF spectrum is useless for any modern data comms so I can't see who'd use it. Seems to me this is simply the worst kind of "we know best" patrician politics forcing people to go digital for no other reason that some political idiots think digital is The Future so must be embrased. By force if necessary. Never mind that analog is better in a lot of case particularly a mountainous country like norway and thats before we get onto the issue of electronic waste from all the junked FM radios.
Something like that I imagine. They'll probably just not renew the FM licenses of stations - they'll be forced to go digital if not already on it.
Geography is not your strong point obviously. And there are still plenty of AM stations in France too - I can pick a lot of them up from where I live in the UK.
Economy, torque, reliability (well, not so much any more with all the extra complexity) and ease of maintenance (no HT system for starters).
Yes, for NOx they're bloody awful and the politicians knew this but in the 90s CO2 emissions were seen as more important. Which of NOx or CO2 is more important now probably even the greens would have trouble answering.
They have no purpose. Most people now simply use TVs as monitors for a set top box and if you need any more functionality simply plug your computer or tablet into a normal TV. Why anyone would pay a significant extra amount of cash for an oversized underpowered android tablet I have no idea.
"Yeah, because large cities that have extensive public transit systems (Like Chicago, New York, and LA) totally donâ(TM)t have horrendous traffic problems."
Err yeah, that traffic is despite the metro/subway, not because of it. What do you think the traffic in manhatten would be like if everyone had to drive to work there? Idiot.
They're called Metro systems. There's even one in LA though he may not know that since he probably hasn't been on public transport since he was in his mothers womb. Amazingly they travel through tunnels underground and bypass road traffic! Who knew?
Yup, thats kind of the point!
Did you think that up all by yourself or did mummy help you?
" which is a government silencing him in a rather permanent way by taking his life."
Riiiight, because the NSA I'm sure thinks a hit squad is the way to solve the snowden problem.
"Ironically he has found a safe haven in the very closet of the boogeyman you wish to identify."
Yes fancy. Russia taking in someone who is sticking it to the US military and intelligence establishment and is on the run from US authorities. Who'd have thunk it? Its totally unprecedented... oh, wait....
Trust me - once his usefullness to Putin is done, whether that be in 5 or 10 years time, he'll be shoved into some small flea pit flat in a crumbling soviet tower block and be told to shut up or else, or if he's ruffled too many feathers in the kremlin he'll be deported to his fate.
Remind us what country you're living in right now Eddie? Perhaps ask your mate Putin about government data control, misinformation and spying.
... given his best mate AA Gill died of cancer the other day.
The two do tend to dovetail quite frequently however. Drive-thrus for example.
"No reaching for pull chains/knobs/switches that we would have to get out of bed to even use."
Oh no, having to get out of bed and walk a few feet, how awful! Far better to stay in bed and make sure those donut and burger calories stay on your waistline where they belong!
... using your finger, then you're probably too goddamn lazy to read the instruction manual to all this solution-looking-for-a-problem home automation basement dwelling nerds wet dream bandwagon that every company is jumping on because they can't actually think of anything original and useful.
Probably means mum and dad 20 foot away downstairs doing little jonnies dinner while he pretends to be a bad ass on this "anonymous" service.
... in the last week or so its changed so you now need an account on linkedin (or facebook) to be able to view anyones profile at all, never mind the details. I'm sure that has nothing whatsoever to do with MS wishing to get as much user data as possible.
All I had to do was attach the wheels conveniently laid out next to the hubs for me already and it was done!
Seriously, I'm getting tired of the reduction of the art programming in the public eye down to something any idiot can do. Any idiot can't do it - what they can do is plug some coloured preprogrammed very high level game blocks together on screen to produce some piss awful "game" whose gameplay would have been embarrasingly simple on an Atari 2600.
... but telnet and ftp are generic protocols with clients available on most systems. Wheres the many in that? Whats a company to do? Hey, how about rolling its own proprietary protocols to lock-in users with client software that need to be paid for? Ker-ching!
Plenty of printers with telnet access didn't even ask for a password by default, they just dropped you straight into the printers command shell as soon as you connected. Encrypting the network link won't make that sort of zero security any safer.
Sure, because left wing apologists for totalitarian regimes are just a straw man invented by the Evil Right as an excuse to criticise those caring sharing people on the left who only want whats best for their fellow man.
Meanwhile, back in the real world...
Remember, China is (nominally) left wing, so for the deluded liberal left, just as with the Cuban regime, it can do no wrong. Human rights violations, oppression of free speech, torture? So what, who cares. They're obviously done for a good left wing reasons such as challenging the western imperialist hegmony etc etc blah blah so any personal tragedies are just collateral damage in the path to the True Way.
Issues of systemd aside, all those computers switched on doing nothing use up a boatload of electricity when you total the amount. Not only that, but leaving a machine on allows plenty of time for potential hackers to have a crack at it - unless you specifically switch off networking when you leave it - plus counter to what people think, computer components do wear out when left on, not just fans and spinning disks but also the electronics. If you only use your machine once or twice a day its actually better for it in the long term to switch it off. Sure, of you're only going to keep it for a few years anyway who cares. But I've got a 17 year old linux file server still going that gets used once or twice a week and spends the rest of its time off. And aside from motherboard battery changes its had nothing done to it and its in as good condition now as it was in 99 when I bought it.