Ok, thats the first explanation that has made any sense. Thanks! Americans confusing a french accent with 'geez that must be how Canadians speak english!'. lol
Well if you like the current designs on he Canadian bills, wait for the new ones as we replace all our paper money with difficult to counterfeit polymer notes. New $100 and $50 are already out with more to follow.
What the heck? I don't pay anything for interact transactions, nor should you. Its money right out of your account just like cash. There's no service being provided.
So its obvious for money but not obvious for other digital commodities like music? The 'I should be allowed to copy digital music' argument goes it is not stealing since I'm only making a copy of what you have and am not depriving you of any property. If I make a copy of your digital money is that not the same thing?
Why would you assume that? Since governments print the money and different governments share techniques on how to make it counterfeit proof, it would just be a trade secret. There's no point in making a patent on it.
If you made the battery small enough so it could not actually drive the vehicle, then you would have to wait for the motor to start up then the transmission to kick in before it would move. I'm guessing that design wasn't that popular as a few of those delays when starting up again after a red light would get really annoying.
Given that most new cars have a period of maintenance factored in where the owner does not pay for warranty work (often 5 years), any warranty work performed like software updates simply come right off the companies bottom lin.e It only makes good business sense to make this as inexpensive as possible and if they can do updates remotely without actually going into the dealer then this is a huge cost savings for them and far more convenient to the owner.
Also, given how much of the safety systems on these high end Mercedes are under software control, I wouldn't be surprised if the lawyers are warning the company that if they do not do due diligence in rolling out safety related upgrades, then they may be liable for crashes related to the failing of this software. In such a case making sure the software updates are rolled out to as many people as possible as easily as possible would be a mandate of theirs.
Sure, then we can have switches for everything. It can default to all white male, then switches to add female, black, gay, atheist, muslim, disabled whatever. That way the people who live with their heads up their ass can pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist.
deliberately exploiting the increased publicity of this to divert attention away from the fact that they're an utter bunch of assholes in many other ways
Yes, the actual story is that the police didn't do their jobs, but that's certainly not anything new and it's certainly not the only story.
Well in this case they actually followed up on a complaint and arrested who they thought might be the accused based on a positive id of a witness (although apparently incorrect).
Contrast that to the police in Florida where a guy shoots an unarmed person for simply walking down the street and don't even bother trying to arrest the guy responsible when it is clearly a murder. I'd rather action that is a mistake rather than complete inaction and incompetence.
Companies and banks have been rounding up/down transactions to the nearest penny for years, and you've apparently never cared what happens to that fraction of a cent. Without pennies it will be exactly the same thing but it will be fractions of a nickel. I really don't see the issue.
My personal involvement in nuclear work ended in the late 90s when I switched to medical robotics but I've kept following the progress (or unfortunately the occasional lack of it due to bureaucracy)
The hot particles in the scrape off layer aren't classified as 'plasma', i.e. they've totally recombined?
Correct - they are better classified as 'soot'.Its a contaminant that if not scraped off tens to cool the plasma and collapse the raction. This was discovered and the divertor function conceived and designed at the JET reactor in England.
I've visited the actual JET reactor in England (precursor to ITER), walked inside the JET mockup in England, helped design the teleoperated ITER divertor plate maintenance robot, including writing all of its software, as well as performed integration and test of that robot in the ITER mockup facility in Italy. I think I'm qualified to know what a divertor plate actually does and does not do.
The plasma DOES come in contact with the 'divertor', which is a part of the interior of the reactor where the cool outer edge of the plasma outside the last set of closed field lines is drawn out over a large surface area to trap and remove the helium 'ash' and other contaminants from the plasma.
Actually the plasma never comes into contact with the divertor The divertors are at the bottom of the torus where the field lines are twisted and the contaminants can be pulled off. There is no plasma here but the heat of the reaction is still very much present.
The plasma never comes into contact with anything as doing so means it would cool enough to lose the reaction
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Ok, thats the first explanation that has made any sense. Thanks! Americans confusing a french accent with 'geez that must be how Canadians speak english!'. lol
Well if you like the current designs on he Canadian bills, wait for the new ones as we replace all our paper money with difficult to counterfeit polymer notes. New $100 and $50 are already out with more to follow.
There's been several movies where the main character did the same thing with the fractions of cents on interest calculations. That is not new.
Well considering I know several people who have had their PayPal accounts hacked (I refuse to get one) I'd hope security would be a lot better.
What the heck? I don't pay anything for interact transactions, nor should you. Its money right out of your account just like cash. There's no service being provided.
So its obvious for money but not obvious for other digital commodities like music? The 'I should be allowed to copy digital music' argument goes it is not stealing since I'm only making a copy of what you have and am not depriving you of any property. If I make a copy of your digital money is that not the same thing?
Why would you assume that? Since governments print the money and different governments share techniques on how to make it counterfeit proof, it would just be a trade secret. There's no point in making a patent on it.
ok, seriously. Where did the aboot thing come from cause no one here pronounces about like that.
I like the sound of my hybrid while idling - i.e. no sound. Can't get greener than that.
Loud, smelly, polluting, hard to start in cold weather... I could keep going as to why people dont buy them.
If you made the battery small enough so it could not actually drive the vehicle, then you would have to wait for the motor to start up then the transmission to kick in before it would move. I'm guessing that design wasn't that popular as a few of those delays when starting up again after a red light would get really annoying.
Given that most new cars have a period of maintenance factored in where the owner does not pay for warranty work (often 5 years), any warranty work performed like software updates simply come right off the companies bottom lin.e It only makes good business sense to make this as inexpensive as possible and if they can do updates remotely without actually going into the dealer then this is a huge cost savings for them and far more convenient to the owner.
Also, given how much of the safety systems on these high end Mercedes are under software control, I wouldn't be surprised if the lawyers are warning the company that if they do not do due diligence in rolling out safety related upgrades, then they may be liable for crashes related to the failing of this software. In such a case making sure the software updates are rolled out to as many people as possible as easily as possible would be a mandate of theirs.
Sure, then we can have switches for everything. It can default to all white male, then switches to add female, black, gay, atheist, muslim, disabled whatever. That way the people who live with their heads up their ass can pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist.
deliberately exploiting the increased publicity of this to divert attention away from the fact that they're an utter bunch of assholes in many other ways
Isn't that a Republican party strategy?
Yes, the actual story is that the police didn't do their jobs, but that's certainly not anything new and it's certainly not the only story.
Well in this case they actually followed up on a complaint and arrested who they thought might be the accused based on a positive id of a witness (although apparently incorrect).
Contrast that to the police in Florida where a guy shoots an unarmed person for simply walking down the street and don't even bother trying to arrest the guy responsible when it is clearly a murder. I'd rather action that is a mistake rather than complete inaction and incompetence.
Wow, I can't believe that attitude, and can't believe it got modded insightful.
Feathers exist for the purpose of flying. (snip) If evolution is real, then feathers evolved for flying.
Ostrich, emu, penguin...
How do you reconcile that feathers would have come about BEFORE the creature was even close to capable of flying?
Same reason some modern birds have feathers but cannot fly. Same reason whales and snakes have hip bones.
Well, when obama took office gas was below $2 a gallon...and nobody ever said that would happen again only 12 months before that when it was over $3.
Well shit. Gas was $0.30 a gallon when Kennedy and Johnson were in office, then look what happened when the Republicans came to power.
I don't see what the problem is.. They're basically interchangeable.
Companies and banks have been rounding up/down transactions to the nearest penny for years, and you've apparently never cared what happens to that fraction of a cent. Without pennies it will be exactly the same thing but it will be fractions of a nickel. I really don't see the issue.
Why would you get angry? It's a penny - who cares?
My personal involvement in nuclear work ended in the late 90s when I switched to medical robotics but I've kept following the progress (or unfortunately the occasional lack of it due to bureaucracy)
The hot particles in the scrape off layer aren't classified as 'plasma', i.e. they've totally recombined?
Correct - they are better classified as 'soot'.Its a contaminant that if not scraped off tens to cool the plasma and collapse the raction. This was discovered and the divertor function conceived and designed at the JET reactor in England.
I see you have not met a fusion reactor.
I've visited the actual JET reactor in England (precursor to ITER), walked inside the JET mockup in England, helped design the teleoperated ITER divertor plate maintenance robot, including writing all of its software, as well as performed integration and test of that robot in the ITER mockup facility in Italy. I think I'm qualified to know what a divertor plate actually does and does not do.
The plasma DOES come in contact with the 'divertor', which is a part of the interior of the reactor where the cool outer edge of the plasma outside the last set of closed field lines is drawn out over a large surface area to trap and remove the helium 'ash' and other contaminants from the plasma.
Actually the plasma never comes into contact with the divertor The divertors are at the bottom of the torus where the field lines are twisted and the contaminants can be pulled off. There is no plasma here but the heat of the reaction is still very much present.
The plasma never comes into contact with anything as doing so means it would cool enough to lose the reaction