MOST usually means >50%, and I can assure you that most people don't wear watches today. A recent survey, even in the US shows that 68% people do not wear a watch. It is also likely, that there has never been at time that MOST people have worn a watch, even in the 90's. Maybe in the US, or other highly developed countries, but not 50% of all people, and definitely not today.
That said, a smart watch was a great fantasy idea of the 90's. I, personally, can't see it being feasible today except for a very small niche market, and I don't think that small of a market would make the product profitable.
From the 3 gov't agencies, two non-profits and half-dozen private companies I've worked for as evidence, it seems that looking good in a tight dress is the major qualification.
What does that say about you? Personally, I think it would be distracting to work in an environment where all the guys run around in tight dresses all day.
*IF* google built a fiber network in one of the nicer Chicago suburbs, I'd move as fast as I could. I wouldn't even sell my current house, I'd just find a nice house in the suburb and put an offer down the same week.
You realize we are talking about cellular internet speeds, right? 4.39Mbps on my phone is just fine for such a crowded area. Just checked at my house, and I get 21.84Mbps down, 7.00Mbps up... On my phone, over the AT&T cellular network. I don't see how that is "bad".
I feel your pain, living in Chicago. Google fiber is never coming here. Even AT&T can't buy decent 4G speeds here.
I doubt google will come to Chicago any time soon. Too big of a city, too many regulations, too much paperwork.
That said, I don't seem to have any issues with AT&T in the Chicagoland area. Sitting in an office building downtown (the largest one), I'm getting 67ms ping, 4.39Mbps down, 2.73Mbps up in the middle of the afternoon. It is fast enough that I don't even bother connecting my phone to our wifi network, it's actually faster except for when everyone goes home. Then our wifi is much faster, but I don't ever bother unless I'm using my phone to do testing on internal servers.
If the FBI and/or other agencies require such abilities, perhaps then, companies such as Verizon should place this in their contracts something like "authorities can use your devices to track you and/or use your data for any of their investigations as they see fit".
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you haven't read your agreement.
Not all that familiar with the innards of RDP myself, but the obvious difference is that a bitmap may or may not be visible on the screen, only partially visible, or repeatedly visible. This would allow parts of the bitmap that are currently not on the screen to be sent once to the client and reused over and over again, allowing smoother screen draws and less bandwidth/latency on incremental changes.
Depositing more than $10k in the bank by any means gets flagged. It doesn't even have to be a single deposit of $10k, any time I deposit or move more than $10k over a short time period (about a week), it gets flagged.
I've had numerous occasions where the bank has notified me that they are holding my money for up to a week while they do whatever they do with it (notify the IRS/FBI). In fact, it is even in their terms of service, and that has been the case for the past 10ish years (I don't remember exactly when it started, but I believe it was about 10 years ago, might have been more like 20).
Nothing hard about it at all, and that is exactly what it is. Oh, you mean you didn't read anything, nor bother to try and understand what you are talking about before spouting random BS as an anonymous coward? Yeah, that is what I thought.
Linux can either sign their bootloaders with either: 1) Their own key and provide the necessary key and have users install it into the UEFI, or have the motherboard/bios manufacturers preload it, OR 2) Use Microsoft's key and sign it their boot loaders with that since it is likely already installed into most (non-apply) UEFI systems OR 3) Instruct users to disable secure boot and you can live your live in blissful ignorance never knowing if malware has taken over your entire linux machine, logging every keystroke you make, and recording everything you do, and sending it off to the "bad guys".
Depends on where of course. The coldest we've seen in the US is -62 degrees celcius (Barrow, Alaska), while Finland has seen -51.
That doesn't explain it for the vast majority, however. It's more likely older diesels that were unreliable, especially in the cold, and the loud, dirty, smog from them that turned off most Americans to diesel. I still find most diesels to be louder, and sound "worse" than most, but then again, I'm an American.
or know where the boot or bonnet of their vehicle is
Well if you live in a big city, you are probably familiar with seeing boots on vehicles when you don't pay the parking tickets.
Other than that, I do hear "live in a flat" often enough that I didn't realize it was actually from England, and I live and have lived my entire life in the Chicago area.
Sorry, I just noticed that the conversation went from bombs to warheads halfway through the thread, and I even said warheads. My bad, you are correct, the average warhead is very small. The average (nuclear) bomb is very large.
Sorry, I should have said 33,500 kilotons is large enough to destroy/kill everything in a 55-60 mile diameter "instantly". A larger number of people would die further out than that due to radiation poisoning, etc
You might want to recheck that. The average nuclear warhead in the US arsenal is approximated to be 33,500 kilotons (slightly larger than the well known B41). For comparison, the nukes used in/on Japan were 15 and 21 kilotons. 33,500 kilotons is large enough to destroy/kill everything in a 55-60 mile diameter. It would take about 1000 of these to DIRECTLY kill everything in the United States. Factor in the indirect damage (nuclear poisoning, fallout, etc etc), and you could kill everyone in the United States with far far fewer. India (for example only), has 1/3rd the area of the United States. It would take probably 100 33.5 megaton nuclear bombs to kill everyone in an area equal to the size of India, and it would likely kill a couple hundred million of people not in that area.
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MOST people DO wear watches.
MOST usually means >50%, and I can assure you that most people don't wear watches today. A recent survey, even in the US shows that 68% people do not wear a watch. It is also likely, that there has never been at time that MOST people have worn a watch, even in the 90's. Maybe in the US, or other highly developed countries, but not 50% of all people, and definitely not today.
That said, a smart watch was a great fantasy idea of the 90's. I, personally, can't see it being feasible today except for a very small niche market, and I don't think that small of a market would make the product profitable.
You do realize that half of those games are DirectX first, but support OpenGL, and the other half are written by Valve 10 years ago.
You are deluded. What commercial games use OpenGL? There is only a handful of them, while everything else uses DirectX.
From the 3 gov't agencies, two non-profits and half-dozen private companies I've worked for as evidence, it seems that looking good in a tight dress is the major qualification.
What does that say about you? Personally, I think it would be distracting to work in an environment where all the guys run around in tight dresses all day.
*IF* google built a fiber network in one of the nicer Chicago suburbs, I'd move as fast as I could. I wouldn't even sell my current house, I'd just find a nice house in the suburb and put an offer down the same week.
You realize we are talking about cellular internet speeds, right? 4.39Mbps on my phone is just fine for such a crowded area. Just checked at my house, and I get 21.84Mbps down, 7.00Mbps up... On my phone, over the AT&T cellular network. I don't see how that is "bad".
I feel your pain, living in Chicago. Google fiber is never coming here. Even AT&T can't buy decent 4G speeds here.
I doubt google will come to Chicago any time soon. Too big of a city, too many regulations, too much paperwork.
That said, I don't seem to have any issues with AT&T in the Chicagoland area. Sitting in an office building downtown (the largest one), I'm getting 67ms ping, 4.39Mbps down, 2.73Mbps up in the middle of the afternoon. It is fast enough that I don't even bother connecting my phone to our wifi network, it's actually faster except for when everyone goes home. Then our wifi is much faster, but I don't ever bother unless I'm using my phone to do testing on internal servers.
If the FBI and/or other agencies require such abilities, perhaps then, companies such as Verizon should place this in their contracts something like "authorities can use your devices to track you and/or use your data for any of their investigations as they see fit".
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you haven't read your agreement.
They only have 1 show that I watch anyway. I wouldn't miss it. The rest is garbage (and arguably, so is that one show).
In what world do you live in?
Not all that familiar with the innards of RDP myself, but the obvious difference is that a bitmap may or may not be visible on the screen, only partially visible, or repeatedly visible. This would allow parts of the bitmap that are currently not on the screen to be sent once to the client and reused over and over again, allowing smoother screen draws and less bandwidth/latency on incremental changes.
RDP has been able to forward the display of a single application for 5+ years.
Depositing more than $10k in the bank by any means gets flagged. It doesn't even have to be a single deposit of $10k, any time I deposit or move more than $10k over a short time period (about a week), it gets flagged.
I've had numerous occasions where the bank has notified me that they are holding my money for up to a week while they do whatever they do with it (notify the IRS/FBI). In fact, it is even in their terms of service, and that has been the case for the past 10ish years (I don't remember exactly when it started, but I believe it was about 10 years ago, might have been more like 20).
Many windows machines got bricked too, but all the crying is from the tin-foil hat wearers.
What is so hard about that?
Nothing hard about it at all, and that is exactly what it is. Oh, you mean you didn't read anything, nor bother to try and understand what you are talking about before spouting random BS as an anonymous coward? Yeah, that is what I thought.
Negative.
Linux can either sign their bootloaders with either:
1) Their own key and provide the necessary key and have users install it into the UEFI, or have the motherboard/bios manufacturers preload it, OR
2) Use Microsoft's key and sign it their boot loaders with that since it is likely already installed into most (non-apply) UEFI systems OR
3) Instruct users to disable secure boot and you can live your live in blissful ignorance never knowing if malware has taken over your entire linux machine, logging every keystroke you make, and recording everything you do, and sending it off to the "bad guys".
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Great. Now I can look forward to two more warnings on the label they put on mice. Thanks a lot.
Depends on where of course. The coldest we've seen in the US is -62 degrees celcius (Barrow, Alaska), while Finland has seen -51.
That doesn't explain it for the vast majority, however. It's more likely older diesels that were unreliable, especially in the cold, and the loud, dirty, smog from them that turned off most Americans to diesel. I still find most diesels to be louder, and sound "worse" than most, but then again, I'm an American.
or know where the boot or bonnet of their vehicle is
Well if you live in a big city, you are probably familiar with seeing boots on vehicles when you don't pay the parking tickets.
Other than that, I do hear "live in a flat" often enough that I didn't realize it was actually from England, and I live and have lived my entire life in the Chicago area.
$.50 for a delete/edit button. The B53 was replaced by the B61 not B41. The B41 was the 25mt.
Sorry, I just noticed that the conversation went from bombs to warheads halfway through the thread, and I even said warheads. My bad, you are correct, the average warhead is very small. The average (nuclear) bomb is very large.
Missile based nukes are called warheads, not bombs. Also the B53 (9mt) was replaced by the B41 (25mt), and has been replaced again.
All of these are dwarfed by the Soviet 100 megaton monster.
Sorry, I should have said 33,500 kilotons is large enough to destroy/kill everything in a 55-60 mile diameter "instantly". A larger number of people would die further out than that due to radiation poisoning, etc
You might want to recheck that. The average nuclear warhead in the US arsenal is approximated to be 33,500 kilotons (slightly larger than the well known B41). For comparison, the nukes used in/on Japan were 15 and 21 kilotons. 33,500 kilotons is large enough to destroy/kill everything in a 55-60 mile diameter. It would take about 1000 of these to DIRECTLY kill everything in the United States. Factor in the indirect damage (nuclear poisoning, fallout, etc etc), and you could kill everyone in the United States with far far fewer. India (for example only), has 1/3rd the area of the United States. It would take probably 100 33.5 megaton nuclear bombs to kill everyone in an area equal to the size of India, and it would likely kill a couple hundred million of people not in that area.
864. I always count time units since the big bang, but I refuse to let anyone know when the big bang was nor what unit of time I use.