Its a damn game you dribbling idiot kid. Even if they advertised it as immersive photorealistic 3D and it ended up as a copy of space invaders it wouldn't warrant death threats. Get out of your parents basement and get a fucking sense of perspective for your own good as well as everyone else.
I live in the UK, not the USA. The rules are different here and credit unions are either small operations that have few facilities or they're simply a way to transfer money.
"You clearly don't understand what Open Source is, or the point of it. Read"
You seem to be confusing charging for the source code with charging for a build that includes closed source code. Perhaps you should learn to read yourself.
"Hey dummy, QUIT USING BANKS! Use a credit union. That's your own fault."
We don't all live in our parents basement or in the 3rd world. Some of us require the various facilities of a proper bank to do business.
... but I agree on this. Sure, google made the manufacturers install their apps, but so what? They got the OS for free and thats the whole point. Its not the same as MS making people pay for their OS but still forcing OEMs to install their shit.
Google has to make money out of android somehow and if they can't do it via the play store or some other method they'll simply start charging for the OS itself. Its exactly the same as what happened when people starting bitching about various bank charges. So now the banks dropped the charges and instead a lot of them charge you a flat fee just to have an account. Nice going people, thanks for that.
So allowing a democratic referendum on returning national powers is equivalent to signing away national power without consulting the people is it? Exactly what is it you're smoking?
Except you prize clown - signing maastricht was NOT in the conservative party manifesto so the people had no idea this was going to happen if they voted for them.
"In order for the EU to remove power from any national government, besaid national government would first have to agree with this or, second, there needs to be an unanimous vote by all member states to remove that pow"
Oh really? You mean like the maastricht treaty where is was a case of sign it or you'll no longer be considered a member of the EEC and will have to pay duty on all imports to the EU? Is that the sort of agreement you're talking about?
There is no plot here, its simply politicians and beaurocrats who can barely spell "technology" never mind understand it, making yet another foolish gesture or in order to try and show who is in control of it.
The irony of a european government that is increasingly removing the powers of national governments to concentrate it in brussels, complaining about a potential monopoly on internet search engines (Which there pretty much has been for a decade) is just so bizarre you couldn't make it up.
Given that would wipe out Irelands position as european tech darling ireland probably wouldn't allow it or would procrastinate long enough for google to withdraw the funds.
"Oh, the Nikel-Cadmium batteries contaminated the soil more than the lithium ion of today, and while there were less phones back then, those contaminated more and used more raw materials."
My 2G phone is smaller and used less raw materials in its manufacture than any smartphone.
"Those worked fine... Why discontinue them?"
I don't know, you tell me. There reaches a point where things are good enough , the only reason to keep replacing them is to make money for the companies involved, not to provide a better service to the consumer.
"The internet thing is a bonus, if you decide to use it in a pinch."
Why should it? I still use a 2G feature phone since it does everything I need, i can operate it without looking at the screen and while wearing gloves and the battery lasts over a week on standby. What is so welcome about me having to spend money on a phone with 4G when I don't need the functionality?
Quantum entanglement has only been demonstrated in labs or down shielded cables with high frequency EM , ie light. Not with radio waves and not in the outdoor enviroment. It sounds like someone in the chinese Ministry of Propaganda has slung together a load of terminology picked at random from an undergrad physics book to try and impress. Plus as others have said, if it really worked it would be about as top secret as you can get.
... doesn't mean it'll exist there. Who knows what sort of unusual chemical reactions would occur at those temperatures and pressures with the other elements also swilling around down there. Until someone put a representative mix of elements into a pressure vessel mimicking those conditions we simply have no idea what could be down there. It might even be something chemists and physicists haven't even dreamed of. And as for what is going on in the cores of the gas giants....
Quite what the fuss is about Dr Who I have no idea. The storylines are childish (but then it is really a kids show I suppose), overblown and never live up to their promise - the season denouement is usualy more a "meh" that a "wow!", the dialogue is often amateur to say the least, the special effects are dire (and there's no excuse for that in 2018 when even a standard graphics card can do some pretty impressive stuff), and now the BBC have bowed to feminists and made him a woman. Hint - there's a reason he's called a Time Lord and not a Time Lady. I watched a couple of series then gave up.
Is person for real? I think he/she should try moving out from the parents house and take off the cotton wool protective hazmat suit because they obviously don't know what real stress is.
"I am not shopping at ANY store that has the Microsoft system in it"
I hate to break the bad news to you mate, but you won't be shopping anywhere then. 99.9% of point of sale front end systems (known as tills to non geeks) are microsoft windows based and have been for decades. Before that it was DOS with the occasional OS/2 based system. The backend could be linux or something else non windows, but tills almost exclusively run Windows.
"And as others pointed out, the train is inefficient. It is fine if you are going 500 miles with no stops, but when going under 30 miles and with multiple stops, the train, like LRT, is a horrible choice"
What a load of crap. Clearly you don't live in a large city with a metro and have probably never even been on one. They work extremely well, far better than a few hundred "pods" would.
"OTOH, if you can get in a small pod and travel at 100-200 mph and go from start to destination directly, it is far far more efficient than a train."
Really? Explain.
"With above ground trains, they have to be designed to handle running into semi's and item"
Only if you're stupid enough to build your new metro line with road crossings on it.
"With underground pods, these things will be lightweight like an aircraft. Far less energy."
The majority of energy consumption consists of pushing air out of the way, not moving the weight of the vehicle. This is why a 200 ton commuter train is more efficient per passenger than a 2 ton car. Calling a car a "pod" and sticking it in a tunnel doesn't change the physics.
How about you join a load of larger versions of these vehicles together (perhaps 100 people per vehicle, 10 vehicles in total) and call it , I dunno, a "train" maybe? Then put it on steel rails to reduce rolling resistance and hence energy consumption and make it powerful enough to get to 100mph (I've heard strange rumours that in france trains can do over 200mph, but no, that much be witchcraft!), then run each "train" at a 10 minute headway and guess what - you transport far more people! Its obviously a crazy idea, but you never know...
Quite why this is better than a train that could also do 100mph (yes, amazingly there are such trains Elon, they even run in tunnels too!) which could carry 100x the number of passengers at a time is anyones guess though it probably has something to do with clueles politicians thinking they're being On Message which this expensive sci-fi BS.
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Wrong. Change the char to an int and see what result you get. This is basic C, never mind C++.
"Except for the integer, those sizes are comparable to most any language"
Really?
int main()
{
char a[1];
printf("%d\n",sizeof(a));
return 0;
}
$ ./a.out
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Its a damn game you dribbling idiot kid. Even if they advertised it as immersive photorealistic 3D and it ended up as a copy of space invaders it wouldn't warrant death threats. Get out of your parents basement and get a fucking sense of perspective for your own good as well as everyone else.
I live in the UK, not the USA. The rules are different here and credit unions are either small operations that have few facilities or they're simply a way to transfer money.
"You clearly don't understand what Open Source is, or the point of it. Read"
You seem to be confusing charging for the source code with charging for a build that includes closed source code. Perhaps you should learn to read yourself.
"Hey dummy, QUIT USING BANKS! Use a credit union. That's your own fault."
We don't all live in our parents basement or in the 3rd world. Some of us require the various facilities of a proper bank to do business.
... but I agree on this. Sure, google made the manufacturers install their apps, but so what? They got the OS for free and thats the whole point. Its not the same as MS making people pay for their OS but still forcing OEMs to install their shit.
Google has to make money out of android somehow and if they can't do it via the play store or some other method they'll simply start charging for the OS itself.
Its exactly the same as what happened when people starting bitching about various bank charges. So now the banks dropped the charges and instead a lot of them charge you a flat fee just to have an account. Nice going people, thanks for that.
I never said that. Either thats some feeble straw man or you can't comprehend simple english.
I don't think its my grasp of reality that is faulty. Perhaps look in the mirror.
So allowing a democratic referendum on returning national powers is equivalent to signing away national power without consulting the people is it? Exactly what is it you're smoking?
Except you prize clown - signing maastricht was NOT in the conservative party manifesto so the people had no idea this was going to happen if they voted for them.
"In order for the EU to remove power from any national government, besaid national government would first have to agree with this or, second, there needs to be an unanimous vote by all member states to remove that pow"
Oh really? You mean like the maastricht treaty where is was a case of sign it or you'll no longer be considered a member of the EEC and will have to pay duty on all imports to the EU? Is that the sort of agreement you're talking about?
"democratically agreed by the European Citizen "
Really? When did the UK get a referendum on the maastricht treaty then?
There is no plot here, its simply politicians and beaurocrats who can barely spell "technology" never mind understand it, making yet another foolish gesture or in order to try and show who is in control of it.
The irony of a european government that is increasingly removing the powers of national governments to concentrate it in brussels, complaining about a potential monopoly on internet search engines (Which there pretty much has been for a decade) is just so bizarre you couldn't make it up.
Given that would wipe out Irelands position as european tech darling ireland probably wouldn't allow it or would procrastinate long enough for google to withdraw the funds.
"Oh, the Nikel-Cadmium batteries contaminated the soil more than the lithium ion of today, and while there were less phones back then, those contaminated more and used more raw materials."
My 2G phone is smaller and used less raw materials in its manufacture than any smartphone.
"Those worked fine... Why discontinue them?"
I don't know, you tell me. There reaches a point where things are good enough , the only reason to keep replacing them is to make money for the companies involved, not to provide a better service to the consumer.
"The internet thing is a bonus, if you decide to use it in a pinch."
What a shame its not on sale where I live.
"this should be seen as a welcome development."
Why should it? I still use a 2G feature phone since it does everything I need, i can operate it without looking at the screen and while wearing gloves and the battery lasts over a week on standby. What is so welcome about me having to spend money on a phone with 4G when I don't need the functionality?
Quantum entanglement has only been demonstrated in labs or down shielded cables with high frequency EM , ie light. Not with radio waves and not in the outdoor enviroment. It sounds like someone in the chinese Ministry of Propaganda has slung together a load of terminology picked at random from an undergrad physics book to try and impress. Plus as others have said, if it really worked it would be about as top secret as you can get.
... doesn't mean it'll exist there. Who knows what sort of unusual chemical reactions would occur at those temperatures and pressures with the other elements also swilling around down there. Until someone put a representative mix of elements into a pressure vessel mimicking those conditions we simply have no idea what could be down there. It might even be something chemists and physicists haven't even dreamed of. And as for what is going on in the cores of the gas giants....
Quite what the fuss is about Dr Who I have no idea. The storylines are childish (but then it is really a kids show I suppose), overblown and never live up to their promise - the season denouement is usualy more a "meh" that a "wow!", the dialogue is often amateur to say the least, the special effects are dire (and there's no excuse for that in 2018 when even a standard graphics card can do some pretty impressive stuff), and now the BBC have bowed to feminists and made him a woman. Hint - there's a reason he's called a Time Lord and not a Time Lady. I watched a couple of series then gave up.
Is person for real? I think he/she should try moving out from the parents house and take off the cotton wool protective hazmat suit because they obviously don't know what real stress is.
The smaller tills are just calculators on steroids and probably don't run much of an OS at all.
"I am not shopping at ANY store that has the Microsoft system in it"
I hate to break the bad news to you mate, but you won't be shopping anywhere then. 99.9% of point of sale front end systems (known as tills to non geeks) are microsoft windows based and have been for decades. Before that it was DOS with the occasional OS/2 based system. The backend could be linux or something else non windows, but tills almost exclusively run Windows.
"And as others pointed out, the train is inefficient. It is fine if you are going 500 miles with no stops, but when going under 30 miles and with multiple stops, the train, like LRT, is a horrible choice"
What a load of crap. Clearly you don't live in a large city with a metro and have probably never even been on one. They work extremely well, far better than a few hundred "pods" would.
"OTOH, if you can get in a small pod and travel at 100-200 mph and go from start to destination directly, it is far far more efficient than a train."
Really? Explain.
"With above ground trains, they have to be designed to handle running into semi's and item"
Only if you're stupid enough to build your new metro line with road crossings on it.
"With underground pods, these things will be lightweight like an aircraft. Far less energy."
The majority of energy consumption consists of pushing air out of the way, not moving the weight of the vehicle. This is why a 200 ton commuter train is more efficient per passenger than a 2 ton car. Calling a car a "pod" and sticking it in a tunnel doesn't change the physics.
How about you join a load of larger versions of these vehicles together (perhaps 100 people per vehicle, 10 vehicles in total) and call it , I dunno, a "train" maybe? Then put it on steel rails to reduce rolling resistance and hence energy consumption and make it powerful enough to get to 100mph (I've heard strange rumours that in france trains can do over 200mph, but no, that much be witchcraft!), then run each "train" at a 10 minute headway and guess what - you transport far more people! Its obviously a crazy idea, but you never know...
Or something.
Quite why this is better than a train that could also do 100mph (yes, amazingly there are such trains Elon, they even run in tunnels too!) which could carry 100x the number of passengers at a time is anyones guess though it probably has something to do with clueles politicians thinking they're being On Message which this expensive sci-fi BS.