That's because the authorities limited them to under Mach 1 when over land. Even the French authorities did that. They didn't go supersonic until over the Atlantic.
The agreement they signed with the EU explicitly allows use of an adapter to comply. If the EU didn't like how Apple planned to comply, they could have excluded the use of adapters in the agreement. And the adapter is included with the iPhone. No separate purchase required.
Especially if you'd be tinting the windows anyway. If you can make this stuff for not much more than regular window tinting, then it might end up way ahead of photovoltaics on the roof.
The questions would be (i) how much more expensive than regular tinting, (ii) how much more/less heat ends up in the building versus tinting (this stuff may be more efficient or less efficient at keeping summer heat out of the building than straight tinting) and (ii) what's the cost of the additional wiring you'd need (as you wouldn't wire it directly into the building distribution, you'd at least have it on the other side of circuit breakers from the loads). You could potentially build wiring right into the mullions, though. That could make wiring pretty cost effective.
This is much more interesting for commercial building use than for the home. At home, you're better off shading your windows and just using less AC. Once you get above tree height the math goes the other way. Cover as much of the facade as possible, including vision glass, with photovoltaics. They're already using both transparent and non-transparent photovoltaic on tall building facades.
It doesn't work that way. The cover is clearly supposed to be a picture of an alcoholic beverage container. Hence the "40% alcohol" tagline. You can't use a picture of a Coke bottle on your cover, for example, and say "it's a novel, not a beverage".
IMHO (and IANAL) the "40% alcohol" tagline is where there is a clear difference between "reused some old-timey graphics" and "plays off of Jack Daniels' brand". Even without that tagline, though, there is an argument to be made that the cover is playing off of the whiskey-bottle theme.
BUT, 70% might be low enough that when you walked outside and saw how bright it really was, you might think to yourself "oh, yeah... definitely that was tinted in there".
I think his point was that if you were inside a building that all the windows had the exact same 70% transparency, you'd have a hard time answering the question "is there tinting on this window". Whereas if someone said "here's two windows" and one was 70% and one was 90%, you'd be able to totally tell the difference. We're just not that good at detecting the difference between "full daylight" and "70% of full daylight", unless we're directly comparing the two.
Transparency is merely how much of the light gets through. What you are talking about is translucency (i.e. scattering). There's no indication from the article that there is significant scattering. It would just look like you had tinting on the window.
Let's put aside Assange and discuss one of your examples.
In Ethiopia, a homosexual charged with a sex crime, is actually charged with a sex crime. Whether you and I would subsequently believe he is a criminal or should be referred to as a criminal is a completely separate issue.
1) Verizon is your ISP. They already see all your internet traffic. That's just the way ISPs work. Cisco did not previously have access to any information about your internet traffic (and, btw, considering their stated goals of their cloud system, there does not seem to be a reason for them to have access to it now).
2) The problem is not automatic updates. It's the dramatic change in your relationship with Cisco and how your router operates that is the problem. Automatic updates, if they were just bug fixes and feature upgrades, sound like a good thing.
The reason Carbon 14 dating works is because cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere keep creating more Carbon 14, keeping the level of Carbon 14 in the atmosphere constant fairly constant. Carbon 14 is absorbed through photosynthesis, resulting in the amount within a plant being roughly the same proportion as the amount in the atmosphere. Once the plant dies (or in the case of tree rings, once that ring is done growing) no more Carbon 14 is absorbed, and the amount in the plant material starts to decline along the half-life curve.
A nearby supernova (close enough to see with the naked eye) would increase the cosmic ray flux into the atmosphere, therefore temporarily spiking the amount of Carbon 14. The result here is interesting for two reasons: (1) perhaps we've just used Carbon 14 data to help confirm a possible ancient supernova and (2) because the level of Carbon 14 in the atmosphere may not stay exactly the same over time, we can provide better dating information if we understand such changes over time (i.e. if we can confirm there is a reason for the spike in Carbon 14, then we can more comfortably incorporate that spike into date measurements).
Why are we using scare quotes for the word "rape"? Whether you believe the accusations, or whether you believe those accusations should count as rape, he would actually go on trial for two counts of rape... not for two counts of 'rape'.
When Intel sold it's ARM business in 2006 it said: "The sale also will enable Intel to focus its investments on its core businesses, including high-performance, low-power Intel Architecture-based processors and emerging technologies for mobile computing, including Wi-Fi and WiMAX broadband wireless technologies."
They were making ARM chips. They decided to sell the business. It's unlikely that such a decision hinged on a few pennies a chip for the licensing fees.
Now that I've read more, I think I was only partially correct. It looks more like the main reason to go with ARM is that there was a fully-baked hardware/software solution already in place around ARM's implementation of TPM. So AMD could sort of glom on to the whole thing.
Near as I could figure from the limited information, they're doing it this way so that the crypto-subsystem can be software-compatible with tablets and smartphones.
There are many potential causes of inflation, only one of which is the government printing more money.
Hyper-inflation in Germany in the 20s and 30s was definitely caused by the government printing money. So was inflation in Brazil in the late 20th century.
But inflation can also be caused by
- Supply shocks (like the oil shocks of the 70s) - Increase in the velocity of money - Other increases in the money supply not caused by printing (Printed money is multiplied in the financial system, if the multiplication factor increases, money supply increases even without any money being printed. Also, wealth can be injected into the system in other ways. There was incredible inflation in N. California in the early years of the Gold Rush. Ancient Rome used to experience inflation when conquering armies came back into the cities with their looted wealth.) - Reduction in the savings rate - Financial bubble increasing demand through the wealth effect - Psychology/expectation (example: Brazil's inflation went on long after it's root cause was solved -- which was government printing money in that case. There was an elaborate system put in place to change consumer expectation about inflation, which finally stopped runaway prices.) - Economic growth stimulating demand faster than industries can keep up
the result is the same as having cloned a person's hardware token.
Sort of the same. But the difference is very important. The difference is that any RSA customer could decide (and some have probably already decided even before this) that a software system running on a networked PC is not secure enough and decide to only use the hardware tokens, which are not susceptible to cracks like this.
There are many tax strategies that are illegal if they are implemented only to avoid taxes. The trick is that the burden of proof is on the IRS to prove that the only reason you implemented the strategy was to avoid U.S. taxes. So all he has to say is "I gave up my citizenship because I didn't like U.S. policy on ______", and they can't really touch him. And he's probably smart enough to have avoided a paper trail.
But the question is: Is he burying the bone because he knows he will eat it later? or is he burying the bone because that is an instinctual behavior of canids? With dogs, a simple logical argument would tend to point to the latter reason. If the dog were really thinking "I should save this for later", then why is he burying it? Are you in the habit of stealing his bones? Many domestic dogs bury bones. Very few domestic dogs have a reasonable expectation that anyone/anything would steal the bone if it were not buried.
As an employer you wouldn't care if your employees are lying to you as long as they get the job done? No wonder business ethics in the U.S. is in the shitter.
We have the highest corporate rates, not the highest corporate taxes. After all the deductions, credits, loopholes, etc., our corporations do not generally pay more than in other developed countries. GE and Seimens have pretty similar businesses.
From GE's last annual report:
"Income taxes (benefit) on consolidated earnings from continuing operations were 28.5% in 2011 compared with 7.3% in 2010 and (11.6)% in 2009."
From Seimen's last annual report:
"The effective tax rate was 24% in fiscal 2011 and benefited from the income tax treatment of the Areva disposal gain, which was mainly tax-free. For comparison, the effective tax rate of 29% in the prior year was adversely affected by the goodwill impairment charges at the Diagnostics Division, the majority of which was not deductible for tax purposes."
I interpreted that comments as "Ogg Theora and WebM are no better in quality than what MPEG3 might have been if there had been a codec between MPEG2 and MPEG4".
Maybe I'm just giving the poster too much benefit of the doubt?
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That's because the authorities limited them to under Mach 1 when over land. Even the French authorities did that. They didn't go supersonic until over the Atlantic.
The agreement they signed with the EU explicitly allows use of an adapter to comply. If the EU didn't like how Apple planned to comply, they could have excluded the use of adapters in the agreement. And the adapter is included with the iPhone. No separate purchase required.
Especially if you'd be tinting the windows anyway. If you can make this stuff for not much more than regular window tinting, then it might end up way ahead of photovoltaics on the roof.
The questions would be (i) how much more expensive than regular tinting, (ii) how much more/less heat ends up in the building versus tinting (this stuff may be more efficient or less efficient at keeping summer heat out of the building than straight tinting) and (ii) what's the cost of the additional wiring you'd need (as you wouldn't wire it directly into the building distribution, you'd at least have it on the other side of circuit breakers from the loads). You could potentially build wiring right into the mullions, though. That could make wiring pretty cost effective.
This is much more interesting for commercial building use than for the home. At home, you're better off shading your windows and just using less AC. Once you get above tree height the math goes the other way. Cover as much of the facade as possible, including vision glass, with photovoltaics. They're already using both transparent and non-transparent photovoltaic on tall building facades.
It doesn't work that way. The cover is clearly supposed to be a picture of an alcoholic beverage container. Hence the "40% alcohol" tagline. You can't use a picture of a Coke bottle on your cover, for example, and say "it's a novel, not a beverage".
IMHO (and IANAL) the "40% alcohol" tagline is where there is a clear difference between "reused some old-timey graphics" and "plays off of Jack Daniels' brand". Even without that tagline, though, there is an argument to be made that the cover is playing off of the whiskey-bottle theme.
BUT, 70% might be low enough that when you walked outside and saw how bright it really was, you might think to yourself "oh, yeah... definitely that was tinted in there".
I think his point was that if you were inside a building that all the windows had the exact same 70% transparency, you'd have a hard time answering the question "is there tinting on this window". Whereas if someone said "here's two windows" and one was 70% and one was 90%, you'd be able to totally tell the difference. We're just not that good at detecting the difference between "full daylight" and "70% of full daylight", unless we're directly comparing the two.
Transparency is merely how much of the light gets through. What you are talking about is translucency (i.e. scattering). There's no indication from the article that there is significant scattering. It would just look like you had tinting on the window.
Let's put aside Assange and discuss one of your examples.
In Ethiopia, a homosexual charged with a sex crime, is actually charged with a sex crime. Whether you and I would subsequently believe he is a criminal or should be referred to as a criminal is a completely separate issue.
This is different for two main reasons:
1) Verizon is your ISP. They already see all your internet traffic. That's just the way ISPs work. Cisco did not previously have access to any information about your internet traffic (and, btw, considering their stated goals of their cloud system, there does not seem to be a reason for them to have access to it now).
2) The problem is not automatic updates. It's the dramatic change in your relationship with Cisco and how your router operates that is the problem. Automatic updates, if they were just bug fixes and feature upgrades, sound like a good thing.
The reason Carbon 14 dating works is because cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere keep creating more Carbon 14, keeping the level of Carbon 14 in the atmosphere constant fairly constant. Carbon 14 is absorbed through photosynthesis, resulting in the amount within a plant being roughly the same proportion as the amount in the atmosphere. Once the plant dies (or in the case of tree rings, once that ring is done growing) no more Carbon 14 is absorbed, and the amount in the plant material starts to decline along the half-life curve.
A nearby supernova (close enough to see with the naked eye) would increase the cosmic ray flux into the atmosphere, therefore temporarily spiking the amount of Carbon 14. The result here is interesting for two reasons: (1) perhaps we've just used Carbon 14 data to help confirm a possible ancient supernova and (2) because the level of Carbon 14 in the atmosphere may not stay exactly the same over time, we can provide better dating information if we understand such changes over time (i.e. if we can confirm there is a reason for the spike in Carbon 14, then we can more comfortably incorporate that spike into date measurements).
Why are we using scare quotes for the word "rape"? Whether you believe the accusations, or whether you believe those accusations should count as rape, he would actually go on trial for two counts of rape... not for two counts of 'rape'.
When Intel sold it's ARM business in 2006 it said: "The sale also will enable Intel to focus its investments on its core businesses, including high-performance, low-power Intel Architecture-based processors and emerging technologies for mobile computing, including Wi-Fi and WiMAX broadband wireless technologies."
They were making ARM chips. They decided to sell the business. It's unlikely that such a decision hinged on a few pennies a chip for the licensing fees.
But that's not why Intel doesn't make ARM chips. The licensing fees are tiny.
Now that I've read more, I think I was only partially correct. It looks more like the main reason to go with ARM is that there was a fully-baked hardware/software solution already in place around ARM's implementation of TPM. So AMD could sort of glom on to the whole thing.
Near as I could figure from the limited information, they're doing it this way so that the crypto-subsystem can be software-compatible with tablets and smartphones.
No. Inflation is when prices go up. Nothing more.
There are many potential causes of inflation, only one of which is the government printing more money.
Hyper-inflation in Germany in the 20s and 30s was definitely caused by the government printing money. So was inflation in Brazil in the late 20th century.
But inflation can also be caused by
- Supply shocks (like the oil shocks of the 70s)
- Increase in the velocity of money
- Other increases in the money supply not caused by printing (Printed money is multiplied in the financial system, if the multiplication factor increases, money supply increases even without any money being printed. Also, wealth can be injected into the system in other ways. There was incredible inflation in N. California in the early years of the Gold Rush. Ancient Rome used to experience inflation when conquering armies came back into the cities with their looted wealth.)
- Reduction in the savings rate
- Financial bubble increasing demand through the wealth effect
- Psychology/expectation (example: Brazil's inflation went on long after it's root cause was solved -- which was government printing money in that case. There was an elaborate system put in place to change consumer expectation about inflation, which finally stopped runaway prices.)
- Economic growth stimulating demand faster than industries can keep up
The list goes on, but it's lunchtime...
the result is the same as having cloned a person's hardware token.
Sort of the same. But the difference is very important. The difference is that any RSA customer could decide (and some have probably already decided even before this) that a software system running on a networked PC is not secure enough and decide to only use the hardware tokens, which are not susceptible to cracks like this.
There are many tax strategies that are illegal if they are implemented only to avoid taxes. The trick is that the burden of proof is on the IRS to prove that the only reason you implemented the strategy was to avoid U.S. taxes. So all he has to say is "I gave up my citizenship because I didn't like U.S. policy on ______", and they can't really touch him. And he's probably smart enough to have avoided a paper trail.
But the question is: Is he burying the bone because he knows he will eat it later? or is he burying the bone because that is an instinctual behavior of canids? With dogs, a simple logical argument would tend to point to the latter reason. If the dog were really thinking "I should save this for later", then why is he burying it? Are you in the habit of stealing his bones? Many domestic dogs bury bones. Very few domestic dogs have a reasonable expectation that anyone/anything would steal the bone if it were not buried.
Wait... that can't be right. I thought everything bad was caused by the government and everything good was caused by free market forces.
As an employer you wouldn't care if your employees are lying to you as long as they get the job done? No wonder business ethics in the U.S. is in the shitter.
We have the highest corporate rates, not the highest corporate taxes. After all the deductions, credits, loopholes, etc., our corporations do not generally pay more than in other developed countries. GE and Seimens have pretty similar businesses.
From GE's last annual report:
"Income taxes (benefit) on consolidated earnings from continuing operations were 28.5% in 2011 compared with 7.3% in 2010 and (11.6)% in 2009."
From Seimen's last annual report:
"The effective tax rate was 24% in fiscal 2011 and benefited from the income tax treatment of the Areva disposal gain, which was mainly tax-free. For comparison, the effective tax rate of 29% in the prior year was adversely affected by the goodwill impairment charges at the Diagnostics Division, the majority of which was not deductible for tax purposes."
But that's still just as true for WebM. This issue is not a differentiator between the two codecs.
I interpreted that comments as "Ogg Theora and WebM are no better in quality than what MPEG3 might have been if there had been a codec between MPEG2 and MPEG4".
Maybe I'm just giving the poster too much benefit of the doubt?