A longer explanation would be that each generation of gaming consoles effectively are a dead end. There is no upgrade path for the hardware, the operating system on a new generation isn't really designed with backwards compatibility in mind and the consoles are locked down to a level making it only possible for the most extreme hackers of each generation to really do something outside the ordinary with them. Gaming consoles are there for consumption, not creativity.
The end effect may be that the citizens of a small community won't be able to get broadband because there is no company that want's to provide it and the municipalities are banned from doing it.
You haven't understood the real reason behind the use of SIM cards - the ability to swap phone at your leisure without the need to mess with the telecom operator. At least this is possible in many locations throughout the world - like in Europe. And maybe you want to have a cheap rugged phone when you are out on a hike and a cool flashy when you are at work.
I see this with a different SIM card size as a way to lock the customer to a specific brand, not to improve the experience for the customer. If I will be locked to only use Apple phones with my SIM card then I can't change to another brand with standard SIM card size.
And I can't see a benefit of a phone much thinner than the phone I have today, it will just be more sensitive to damage.
Doesn't matter how well you build a plant, it's always the human factor involved, and add to that material decay.
In human factor you can add incorrect selection of material when building, failure to predict a fatal chain of events and so on. There are always incidents in power plants, but most of them are caught in the processes surrounding the core and are at most logged in a log book.
However you may never know that someone during construction did take a shortcut in some way and that shortcut may circumvent a security measure. That shortcut may not be obvious and the person that did it has long since forgotten about it and did it because he wanted to go home earlier on a Friday. So suddenly when something happens you may sit there with a core that has lost control because all control wires happens to go through the same single point of failure that was created due to this shortcut.
Reality is however even more complicated because the single point of failure may have occurred by a combination of factors, a misprint on a requirement added to a mistake on a drawing combined with a small deviation in selection of material from someone providing a device and then an installer that took a shortcut by mixing up cabling that should have had redundant routes so that they cross paths.
And all the time the nuclear power plants are getting older, and in that factor you have everything from material decay to spiders and dust collecting in locations hard to access.
As I have been working at an industrial plant I know that there are always someone that takes a shortcut, and that procedures aren't always being followed. Some people are aware about the fact that there are limits in the system others are oblivious and overrides safeties whenever they think it's convenient since every stop costs money.
For new plants - well, you have new materials, new technology and new ways to fail. Software solutions ages a lot faster than old relay technology. You can get a replacement relay in place in a 40 year old construction and be up and running again without any trouble but try to find spare parts for a 40 year old computer solution that nobody knows how to convert into something new because no live person understands that odd programming language that was used. The rule in any industry is also - don't touch it if it's working, so if it's working for 40 years it's likely to be the thing that was installed 40 years ago without modifications.
And when you get a radioactive leak it will cause contamination for a long time - at least decades before the decay has brought down the level, and sometimes centuries. It's a long lasting poison that makes the occasional oil spill seem to be rather nice. And radiation contamination isn't visible.
From what we can see out of this is that we are actually in the future pictured by the 80's TV series Max Headroom where corporations rule, "TV" (today the internet) is global and number of viewers is what counts. Now we are just waiting for Edison Carter and Max to appear.
And as with every empire - the need to expand or crumble. But there is not much room left to expand into now. USA either controls through proxies (most of western Europe included) or more or less directly (Iraq, Afghanistan). The remains aren't really worth fighting about - like Libya and Sudan since they are going to cost a lot more than what is gained - or as in the case of China and Russia - they are too hard to chew down, especially now with the unbalanced US economy.
One might wonder if the cold war was a war without winners, just that the US is falling into disarray later due to tripping over itself.
Ah - good, then I don't need to mess with the cookie handling of Drupal.
For what it's worth - then that's a good thing since I hate all those cookies that is on my computer for "tradedoubler" and stuff like that - I don't get any doubled trade for that. Cookies are meant to be eaten, not had.
I'm just waiting for opt-in law for telemarketers and other kind of junk too.
The problem comes when you have sensitive data stored offsite and that service goes under and the servers are sold to highest bidder or end up at home at some employee who are setting up his own service.
Who takes responsibility for that the data is erased?
And the list is incomplete too. Considering that there are 193 states in the world (or more if you are considering some that aren't fully recognized) then the list may even be incorrect.
And an inch has had different meaning depending on country in past times:
Sweden: 24.74 mm replaced by the decimal inch of 29.6904 mm Denmark: 26.2 mm Norway: 31.4 mm Germany: 26.1 mm (but Sachsen had 23.6 mm and there was also the Prussian decimal inch of 37.6625 mm)
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Since the ISP:s don't want to offer IPv6 to their customers the traffic is a lot lower than it could have been.
Right now it's necessary to do tunneling to an access point for IPv6 and that's not convenient for the majority of the internet users.
That's for you to find out as soon as you have invented/created Adamantium.
But a revolution is too much to define it as. It's an evolution, and with better understanding you get better products.
A revolution would be when someone finds out how to make a fusion powered car or aircraft.
A longer explanation would be that each generation of gaming consoles effectively are a dead end. There is no upgrade path for the hardware, the operating system on a new generation isn't really designed with backwards compatibility in mind and the consoles are locked down to a level making it only possible for the most extreme hackers of each generation to really do something outside the ordinary with them. Gaming consoles are there for consumption, not creativity.
Aside from the fact that the playing field never is level - ever.
There is also a correction needed. Britain doesn't use "Soccer", the right term when talking about it is "Football".
What is termed "Football" on the American side should be called "Handegg" and seems to be weaklings version of Rugby.
The end effect may be that the citizens of a small community won't be able to get broadband because there is no company that want's to provide it and the municipalities are banned from doing it.
Only in the [Soviet Russia] Apple World....
What would be great by releasing that? So that even more people would be able to write bad code?
You haven't understood the real reason behind the use of SIM cards - the ability to swap phone at your leisure without the need to mess with the telecom operator. At least this is possible in many locations throughout the world - like in Europe. And maybe you want to have a cheap rugged phone when you are out on a hike and a cool flashy when you are at work.
I see this with a different SIM card size as a way to lock the customer to a specific brand, not to improve the experience for the customer. If I will be locked to only use Apple phones with my SIM card then I can't change to another brand with standard SIM card size.
And I can't see a benefit of a phone much thinner than the phone I have today, it will just be more sensitive to damage.
Imagine how much fun pranksters would have if they found the addresses of your light fixtures. But it could also lead to some awesome light shows.
The main difference between digital cables is the mechanical properties. A cheap cable may break easier.
Doesn't matter how well you build a plant, it's always the human factor involved, and add to that material decay.
In human factor you can add incorrect selection of material when building, failure to predict a fatal chain of events and so on. There are always incidents in power plants, but most of them are caught in the processes surrounding the core and are at most logged in a log book.
However you may never know that someone during construction did take a shortcut in some way and that shortcut may circumvent a security measure. That shortcut may not be obvious and the person that did it has long since forgotten about it and did it because he wanted to go home earlier on a Friday. So suddenly when something happens you may sit there with a core that has lost control because all control wires happens to go through the same single point of failure that was created due to this shortcut.
Reality is however even more complicated because the single point of failure may have occurred by a combination of factors, a misprint on a requirement added to a mistake on a drawing combined with a small deviation in selection of material from someone providing a device and then an installer that took a shortcut by mixing up cabling that should have had redundant routes so that they cross paths.
And all the time the nuclear power plants are getting older, and in that factor you have everything from material decay to spiders and dust collecting in locations hard to access.
As I have been working at an industrial plant I know that there are always someone that takes a shortcut, and that procedures aren't always being followed. Some people are aware about the fact that there are limits in the system others are oblivious and overrides safeties whenever they think it's convenient since every stop costs money.
For new plants - well, you have new materials, new technology and new ways to fail. Software solutions ages a lot faster than old relay technology. You can get a replacement relay in place in a 40 year old construction and be up and running again without any trouble but try to find spare parts for a 40 year old computer solution that nobody knows how to convert into something new because no live person understands that odd programming language that was used. The rule in any industry is also - don't touch it if it's working, so if it's working for 40 years it's likely to be the thing that was installed 40 years ago without modifications.
And when you get a radioactive leak it will cause contamination for a long time - at least decades before the decay has brought down the level, and sometimes centuries. It's a long lasting poison that makes the occasional oil spill seem to be rather nice. And radiation contamination isn't visible.
That's why you use SIP locally and IAX2 for interconnect between Asterisk boxes.
There is a list of alternatives here; http://www.focus.com/briefs/voip/10-best-skype-alternatives/.
Use the Force Luke, use the Force.
From what we can see out of this is that we are actually in the future pictured by the 80's TV series Max Headroom where corporations rule, "TV" (today the internet) is global and number of viewers is what counts. Now we are just waiting for Edison Carter and Max to appear.
I just consider: Max Headroom. That's the world we are living in - with small differences.
And as with every empire - the need to expand or crumble. But there is not much room left to expand into now. USA either controls through proxies (most of western Europe included) or more or less directly (Iraq, Afghanistan). The remains aren't really worth fighting about - like Libya and Sudan since they are going to cost a lot more than what is gained - or as in the case of China and Russia - they are too hard to chew down, especially now with the unbalanced US economy.
One might wonder if the cold war was a war without winners, just that the US is falling into disarray later due to tripping over itself.
Ah - good, then I don't need to mess with the cookie handling of Drupal.
For what it's worth - then that's a good thing since I hate all those cookies that is on my computer for "tradedoubler" and stuff like that - I don't get any doubled trade for that. Cookies are meant to be eaten, not had.
I'm just waiting for opt-in law for telemarketers and other kind of junk too.
The problem comes when you have sensitive data stored offsite and that service goes under and the servers are sold to highest bidder or end up at home at some employee who are setting up his own service.
Who takes responsibility for that the data is erased?
And the list is incomplete too. Considering that there are 193 states in the world (or more if you are considering some that aren't fully recognized) then the list may even be incorrect.
It also stops you from building your own supercomputer.
Maybe US DoD was involved?
OpenVMS - The operating system with uptime as long as the support time of some operating systems.
And an inch has had different meaning depending on country in past times:
Sweden: 24.74 mm replaced by the decimal inch of 29.6904 mm
Denmark: 26.2 mm
Norway: 31.4 mm
Germany: 26.1 mm (but Sachsen had 23.6 mm and there was also the Prussian decimal inch of 37.6625 mm)
So inches varies by which inch you mean...