System on chip is great for embedded solutions, but for performance solutions it's better with more specialized designs that can be combined in different ways depending on which kind of performance that shall be achieved. It's quite different to run a web server from a graphic-intense game.
Well, that's British, but look at other European countries that actually have modern standards you will see a difference. The UK is some 30 to 40 years behind on building standards where double-glazed windows are an add-on option in many buildings except the newest and many faucets still don't mix hot and cold water.
So why should they have a modern electric system? The British go their own way.
It doesn't matter if it's Republicans or Democrats - both are authoritarians. It's just different subjects that they bring up.
Republicans are rabid anti-abortion and tries to stop it completely, democrats are trying to gain control of other things and use the racist card whenever convenient.
Both parties are pretty crappy and if the election system had been proportional they would see some fresh competition, but they don't want that so they avoid reforms into true democracy.
No, you are definitely wrong on that account. Since the mid 70's most installations in residential have been 3-phase using a 5-wire system, 3 wires for each phase, 1 for neutral and 1 for protective ground. You can't even get 2-phase system here, and if you were to ask for it you would be seen as being nuts. Only if you have a small studio apartment you may get 1-phase, but the power companies prefers to offer 3-phase to avoid balance problems in the net.
And if you want 115V then you need a transformer to step down from 230V.
A long time ago there were some DC system instead of the 50Hz AC system that is standard today. The railroad still uses 16 2/3 Hz for the overhead lines both due to historical reasons and because the inductance in the wires aren't causing as much voltage drop over longer distances as if 50Hz were to be used.
Unfortunately I live in an apartment built in the 60's where there's only 1-phase service with a combined ground/neutral wire, and that causes some annoyances with ground currents through the central antenna that caused my TV to go blank when I turned on the stove in the kitchen until I installed a separation transformer on the antenna wire. The ground current was bad enough to cause sparks between the antenna connector and TV if I disconnected it.
3-phase is a lot more common outside the US than in the US.
When you run 3-phase you have 230-240 V to ground, but about 400V between the phases. If it had been a 2-phase system then it would be almost 500V.
Many residential dwellings in Scandinavia actually runs 3-phase 400V, even 2 and 3 room apartments. And many appliances are available in more variants in 3-phase than in 1-phase.
Another reason for running 3-phase is that you will lower the current through the neutral wire causing less problems with ground currents.
And then we have the Norwegian 3-phase system with 230V between the phases and no neutral. But there's a historical reason for that - Norway have a lot of ground with high resistance where a neutral/ground wire don't work well.
3-phase is pretty much standard in residential in Sweden. Stoves, washers and driers are usually 3-phase 400V. There are 1-phase 230V appliances as well, but the number of variants is lower and often limited to the cheaper variants.
It doesn't really matter what you call an agile development style or if it's even documented or not (OK, it's good if there's a trail in some way so you can see what has been done or not).
What is really scary is those that tries to impose the waterfall style of development - it's something that only works if you design simple hardware items with few ways it can go wrong. On software it can cause a project to go on for years (Half-Life 3 anyone).
Wet roads comes in many variants, from the simple thin layer that only lowers the friction a little to deep trenches and pools that catches the cars and throws them offtrack and then to the black ice with a wet surface that looks just like an ordinary wet road but has almost no friction at all and causes really dangerous situations because the road can transit from being just wet to being black ice in an instant.
A much better way that to disrupt the communication which only works temporarily is to instead trace all communication and identify as many operatives for IS as possible outside Syria in order to round them up in a coordinated strike. Also identify as many channels as possible that finances them and take out those channels.
We can't really tell what kind of government an alien civilization has, and how well it works for them.
For Humans democracy works as long as the population is well-educated and able to take their own decisions, but when there's a shortage of education then things turns into an authoritarian system.
However a human can when targeting a weapon also perform estimations of predicted paths based on evasive maneuvers depending on many factors involved that computers not always can do. That's one reason why it was so hard for a computer to beat a human in chess - humans don't always follow the expected patterns, places unexpected decoys etc. that a computer can't fully account for.
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And when we finally discover life elsewhere it's not where we expected it to be.
System on chip is great for embedded solutions, but for performance solutions it's better with more specialized designs that can be combined in different ways depending on which kind of performance that shall be achieved. It's quite different to run a web server from a graphic-intense game.
Well, that's British, but look at other European countries that actually have modern standards you will see a difference. The UK is some 30 to 40 years behind on building standards where double-glazed windows are an add-on option in many buildings except the newest and many faucets still don't mix hot and cold water.
So why should they have a modern electric system? The British go their own way.
The right for women to vote.
It doesn't matter if it's Republicans or Democrats - both are authoritarians. It's just different subjects that they bring up.
Republicans are rabid anti-abortion and tries to stop it completely, democrats are trying to gain control of other things and use the racist card whenever convenient.
Both parties are pretty crappy and if the election system had been proportional they would see some fresh competition, but they don't want that so they avoid reforms into true democracy.
You mean the lobbyists that infects Washington.
Have two passwords, one to reveal animated ponies and R-rated porn, another for the real deal.
And how shall we be able to trust Microsoft now with the "telemetry" and Windows 10 "upgrades" that they push?
No, you are definitely wrong on that account. Since the mid 70's most installations in residential have been 3-phase using a 5-wire system, 3 wires for each phase, 1 for neutral and 1 for protective ground. You can't even get 2-phase system here, and if you were to ask for it you would be seen as being nuts. Only if you have a small studio apartment you may get 1-phase, but the power companies prefers to offer 3-phase to avoid balance problems in the net.
And if you want 115V then you need a transformer to step down from 230V.
A long time ago there were some DC system instead of the 50Hz AC system that is standard today. The railroad still uses 16 2/3 Hz for the overhead lines both due to historical reasons and because the inductance in the wires aren't causing as much voltage drop over longer distances as if 50Hz were to be used.
Unfortunately I live in an apartment built in the 60's where there's only 1-phase service with a combined ground/neutral wire, and that causes some annoyances with ground currents through the central antenna that caused my TV to go blank when I turned on the stove in the kitchen until I installed a separation transformer on the antenna wire. The ground current was bad enough to cause sparks between the antenna connector and TV if I disconnected it.
3-phase is a lot more common outside the US than in the US.
When you run 3-phase you have 230-240 V to ground, but about 400V between the phases. If it had been a 2-phase system then it would be almost 500V.
Many residential dwellings in Scandinavia actually runs 3-phase 400V, even 2 and 3 room apartments. And many appliances are available in more variants in 3-phase than in 1-phase.
Another reason for running 3-phase is that you will lower the current through the neutral wire causing less problems with ground currents.
And then we have the Norwegian 3-phase system with 230V between the phases and no neutral. But there's a historical reason for that - Norway have a lot of ground with high resistance where a neutral/ground wire don't work well.
3-phase is pretty much standard in residential in Sweden. Stoves, washers and driers are usually 3-phase 400V. There are 1-phase 230V appliances as well, but the number of variants is lower and often limited to the cheaper variants.
Yes, because these days there are no safe havens when it comes to taxes.
Switzerland are now cooperating with authorities on bank account data.
It doesn't really matter what you call an agile development style or if it's even documented or not (OK, it's good if there's a trail in some way so you can see what has been done or not).
What is really scary is those that tries to impose the waterfall style of development - it's something that only works if you design simple hardware items with few ways it can go wrong. On software it can cause a project to go on for years (Half-Life 3 anyone).
Wet roads comes in many variants, from the simple thin layer that only lowers the friction a little to deep trenches and pools that catches the cars and throws them offtrack and then to the black ice with a wet surface that looks just like an ordinary wet road but has almost no friction at all and causes really dangerous situations because the road can transit from being just wet to being black ice in an instant.
You can never have safety against lone wolfs unless you run an utopia with mind control drugs. OK, maybe that's why weed was legalized in Colorado.
A much better way that to disrupt the communication which only works temporarily is to instead trace all communication and identify as many operatives for IS as possible outside Syria in order to round them up in a coordinated strike. Also identify as many channels as possible that finances them and take out those channels.
If you exclude the tribbles.
We can't really tell what kind of government an alien civilization has, and how well it works for them.
For Humans democracy works as long as the population is well-educated and able to take their own decisions, but when there's a shortage of education then things turns into an authoritarian system.
However a human can when targeting a weapon also perform estimations of predicted paths based on evasive maneuvers depending on many factors involved that computers not always can do. That's one reason why it was so hard for a computer to beat a human in chess - humans don't always follow the expected patterns, places unexpected decoys etc. that a computer can't fully account for.
I second that.
The systemd is full steam into the Microsoft trap of system configurations hard to grasp and log files hard to get at.
Everything else is worse than SysV init. Even Systemd, which is really bad.
Especially since the amount of hidden features in Windows is large and the log files don't tell you anything it's easy to create security problems.
As long as you stay off systemd the risk is low.
They did learn from Oracle.
I always disable UPnP just because it's inherently unsafe and can in addition to that also generate strange side-effects.
Having that protocol enabled can be compared to having no firewall at all.