In my experience, mirroring a PC screen to an android phone adds a significant amount of lag. In the few seconds where they show both screens simultaneously, it looks like they are having those same lag issues
From what I understand, the buildings collapsed the way they did because of the particular way they were built. They had central support columns instead of a traditional exterior steel frame, and the intense heat from the fire caused those central columns to fail.
Basically, the WTC didn't fall like a normal skyscraper, because it wasn't a normal skyscraper
Unlike that phone, a Model M will work even on the newest computers (with the right adapters). There is no adapter that will make a rotary phone work on a touch-tone-only phone network.
I'm still using a Model M that was made in 1983, through an AT-to-ps2 adaptor, and then through a ps2-to-usb adaptor.
Built-to-Last doesn't mean much if you can't still use it for it's original purpose
Just because a company is buying spectrum doesn't mean it has a use for it. Spectrum is a very limited resource, so one way to fight your competition is to buy the spectrum they need, simply to keep them from having it. This is especially true for Verizon, which has a vested interest in keeping it's competitors coverage area as small as possible, because coverage is their ONLY advantage right now.
Only because the FCC forced them to do it. As part of the original spectrum auction, Verizon was required to put that spectrum to use by a certain date. That date came and went, so the FCC told them that they had to either use it or sell it.
They aren't picking favorites, they are setting limits on greed.
There is nothing wrong with kicking fatty out the door when he goes back for his 10th plate at the buffet line, especially when you find out he was saving some of it for "later" (In reference to Verizon's purchase of the 700mhz block A spectrum that they never got around to using)
All this guy has to do is wait for the next missing person to show up dead from exposure/injury, and then go to the local paper saying "I could have saved this person, but the FAA wouldn't let me"
To use your starbucks example to explain the point of the parent post: the government spent MORE than $100,000 in order to eliminate that $5 cup of coffee
When I was little we used to play NES over at my friends house. The TV in the basement where we played was kinda built into the wall, and the drywall around the TV had a bunch of little triangular dents from all the times my friend and his brother would throw the controller.
I got my start doing mr-fix-it work by fixing smashed NES controllers for all my friends
If Jesus is the son of God, then you shouldn't be worshiping him like you do (that would be putting someone else before god, Exodus 20:3) And if Jesus IS God, then he never really died, just merely faked his own death.
The modern bible makes it sound like Jesus and God are somehow the same thing. Probably to get around the dilemma of believing in the Old Testament which says "have no other god before me" while simultaneously worshiping Jesus instead of God.
As far as the tree of knowlege goes, if God didn't put it there, who did? and why would he intentionally tell them not to eat it? Wouldn't it have been better to just snap his fingers and make the tree go away? Adam and Eve didn't have "knowledge" at the time, so they presumably had the mental capacity of the average toddler (having no concept of nakedness), so God basically performed the equivalent of placing a cookie jar in front of a 2-year-old and then telling the 2-year-old not to eat any of the cookies. I would expect the creator of the universe to be a bit smarter than that.
Now, you could claim that it was Lucifer that created the Tree of Knowledge in order to trick us, but that would contradict other parts of the bible that say Lucifer has no power to create anything.
Basically, either the Bible is wrong, or God is a complete moron who should have known better.
This might be the most important part. The internet shows you that it's OK to disagree with the people directly around you, because you aren't alone in your opinion.
Unfortunately this also works both ways, and emboldens crazy fringe beliefs as well.
There was a recent survey showing that the majority of people believed astrology was a legitimate science. Unfortunately it was discovered shortly afterwards that most of the people taking the survey had confused the word "astrology" with the word "astronomy".
If you are the type to accept external morality more easily than internal personal morality, then there is nothing wrong with shopping around and picking the best parts from each option.
All people have a deep desire to believe they are doing the right thing. Some people seek confirmation from others as a group, and some people self-confirm. Unfortunately, within these two categories there are also people who delude themselves, both as individuals (self-centered egomaniacs) and as groups (cults and religious zealots) who end up causing harm while convincing themselves they are doing good.
There is nothing wrong with having external morality, as long as you don't end up with external self-delusion. Picking and choosing from different religions helps to minimize the self-delusion, because it prevents you from being swallowed-up by any particular viewpoint.
In most areas the cost of electricity is heavily regulated, and in Minnesota and Wisconsin (xcel energy), the actual production costs are broken down in detail on every single monthly bill. We pay X cents per KwH for the power plant, and Y cents for the lines, and Z cents for administration, etc. and when the power company wants to change their rates they have to get approval from the state. I don't know about other parts of the country, but here atleast, they aren't selling below cost
The vast majority of people who die in a building fire died because of toxic fumes, not because of actual fire. A smokeless fire isn't really dangerous to you unless you are near it (you would feel the heat) or it is large enough to compromise the building structure.
Also, a smokeless housefire is pretty much impossible, there aren't that many materials in common use that burn that cleanly
They make basic smoke alarms with "bad cook" buttons that disable the alarm for a 10-20 minutes when pressed. The button is big enough that you can poke it with a broom handle if it's too far from the floor
If you did raise the cost of electricity, where would that extra money go? Giving more money to the power company isn't going to reduce climate damage, it would just make the executives and shareholders richer.
Just look at oil. There are already ridiculous markups on oil (and obscenely rich Arabs) but it doesn't stop people from driving gasoline cars.
The only way you could raise the price of electricity to match it's "true cost", while actually paying back the environment, would be to put the extra money into environmental restoration or renewable energy projects. That would require a new tax however, and the people currently in charge of the government are a bunch of tax-hating climate change deniers.
SATA sucked when it first came out. They rarely put any sort of reinforcement around the connector on early sata hard drives, and the connector tended to break right off the circuit board. One computer I worked on had 2 10k RPM hard drives ruined by a heat sink falling on the sata cables and breaking the connectors. The customer had important data on the drives, so we ended up cutting apart some sata cables and soldering the wires directly to the circuit board as a semi-permanant fix
It's the high volume of air moving though the gun that keeps the gun cool, not the size of the heat gun barrel.
If the fan stopped moving while the heater coils were on full, the heat gun would quickly either catch fire, burn out the coils, or pop some sort of internal overload protection (if there is one)
I predict that some military-general-turned-politician will start complaining about national security risks and taxpayer money being wasted (on something other than the military) and the project will suddenly find itself behind a security-clearance-only paywall.
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In my experience, mirroring a PC screen to an android phone adds a significant amount of lag.
In the few seconds where they show both screens simultaneously, it looks like they are having those same lag issues
Put the cell phone in airplane mode first
From what I understand, the buildings collapsed the way they did because of the particular way they were built. They had central support columns instead of a traditional exterior steel frame, and the intense heat from the fire caused those central columns to fail.
Basically, the WTC didn't fall like a normal skyscraper, because it wasn't a normal skyscraper
Unlike that phone, a Model M will work even on the newest computers (with the right adapters). There is no adapter that will make a rotary phone work on a touch-tone-only phone network.
I'm still using a Model M that was made in 1983, through an AT-to-ps2 adaptor, and then through a ps2-to-usb adaptor.
Built-to-Last doesn't mean much if you can't still use it for it's original purpose
Just because a company is buying spectrum doesn't mean it has a use for it.
Spectrum is a very limited resource, so one way to fight your competition is to buy the spectrum they need, simply to keep them from having it. This is especially true for Verizon, which has a vested interest in keeping it's competitors coverage area as small as possible, because coverage is their ONLY advantage right now.
Only because the FCC forced them to do it. As part of the original spectrum auction, Verizon was required to put that spectrum to use by a certain date. That date came and went, so the FCC told them that they had to either use it or sell it.
They aren't picking favorites, they are setting limits on greed.
There is nothing wrong with kicking fatty out the door when he goes back for his 10th plate at the buffet line, especially when you find out he was saving some of it for "later"
(In reference to Verizon's purchase of the 700mhz block A spectrum that they never got around to using)
"AT&T on Wednesday threatened to not participate in the auction at all"
Good, that leaves more spectrum for the companies that actually need it, instead of wannabe monopolists that have spectrum to spare.
All this guy has to do is wait for the next missing person to show up dead from exposure/injury, and then go to the local paper saying "I could have saved this person, but the FAA wouldn't let me"
To use your starbucks example to explain the point of the parent post: the government spent MORE than $100,000 in order to eliminate that $5 cup of coffee
When I was little we used to play NES over at my friends house. The TV in the basement where we played was kinda built into the wall, and the drywall around the TV had a bunch of little triangular dents from all the times my friend and his brother would throw the controller.
I got my start doing mr-fix-it work by fixing smashed NES controllers for all my friends
If Jesus is the son of God, then you shouldn't be worshiping him like you do (that would be putting someone else before god, Exodus 20:3)
And if Jesus IS God, then he never really died, just merely faked his own death.
Can't have it both ways
The modern bible makes it sound like Jesus and God are somehow the same thing. Probably to get around the dilemma of believing in the Old Testament which says "have no other god before me" while simultaneously worshiping Jesus instead of God.
As far as the tree of knowlege goes, if God didn't put it there, who did? and why would he intentionally tell them not to eat it? Wouldn't it have been better to just snap his fingers and make the tree go away?
Adam and Eve didn't have "knowledge" at the time, so they presumably had the mental capacity of the average toddler (having no concept of nakedness), so God basically performed the equivalent of placing a cookie jar in front of a 2-year-old and then telling the 2-year-old not to eat any of the cookies. I would expect the creator of the universe to be a bit smarter than that.
Now, you could claim that it was Lucifer that created the Tree of Knowledge in order to trick us, but that would contradict other parts of the bible that say Lucifer has no power to create anything.
Basically, either the Bible is wrong, or God is a complete moron who should have known better.
This might be the most important part. The internet shows you that it's OK to disagree with the people directly around you, because you aren't alone in your opinion.
Unfortunately this also works both ways, and emboldens crazy fringe beliefs as well.
There was a recent survey showing that the majority of people believed astrology was a legitimate science. Unfortunately it was discovered shortly afterwards that most of the people taking the survey had confused the word "astrology" with the word "astronomy".
Science isn't perfect, and unlike most religions, never claims to be perfect.
If you are the type to accept external morality more easily than internal personal morality, then there is nothing wrong with shopping around and picking the best parts from each option.
All people have a deep desire to believe they are doing the right thing. Some people seek confirmation from others as a group, and some people self-confirm. Unfortunately, within these two categories there are also people who delude themselves, both as individuals (self-centered egomaniacs) and as groups (cults and religious zealots) who end up causing harm while convincing themselves they are doing good.
There is nothing wrong with having external morality, as long as you don't end up with external self-delusion. Picking and choosing from different religions helps to minimize the self-delusion, because it prevents you from being swallowed-up by any particular viewpoint.
I want this expression as a bumper sticker
In most areas the cost of electricity is heavily regulated, and in Minnesota and Wisconsin (xcel energy), the actual production costs are broken down in detail on every single monthly bill. We pay X cents per KwH for the power plant, and Y cents for the lines, and Z cents for administration, etc. and when the power company wants to change their rates they have to get approval from the state. I don't know about other parts of the country, but here atleast, they aren't selling below cost
The vast majority of people who die in a building fire died because of toxic fumes, not because of actual fire. A smokeless fire isn't really dangerous to you unless you are near it (you would feel the heat) or it is large enough to compromise the building structure.
Also, a smokeless housefire is pretty much impossible, there aren't that many materials in common use that burn that cleanly
They make basic smoke alarms with "bad cook" buttons that disable the alarm for a 10-20 minutes when pressed. The button is big enough that you can poke it with a broom handle if it's too far from the floor
If you did raise the cost of electricity, where would that extra money go? Giving more money to the power company isn't going to reduce climate damage, it would just make the executives and shareholders richer.
Just look at oil. There are already ridiculous markups on oil (and obscenely rich Arabs) but it doesn't stop people from driving gasoline cars.
The only way you could raise the price of electricity to match it's "true cost", while actually paying back the environment, would be to put the extra money into environmental restoration or renewable energy projects. That would require a new tax however, and the people currently in charge of the government are a bunch of tax-hating climate change deniers.
SATA sucked when it first came out. They rarely put any sort of reinforcement around the connector on early sata hard drives, and the connector tended to break right off the circuit board. One computer I worked on had 2 10k RPM hard drives ruined by a heat sink falling on the sata cables and breaking the connectors. The customer had important data on the drives, so we ended up cutting apart some sata cables and soldering the wires directly to the circuit board as a semi-permanant fix
It's the high volume of air moving though the gun that keeps the gun cool, not the size of the heat gun barrel.
If the fan stopped moving while the heater coils were on full, the heat gun would quickly either catch fire, burn out the coils, or pop some sort of internal overload protection (if there is one)
I predict that some military-general-turned-politician will start complaining about national security risks and taxpayer money being wasted (on something other than the military) and the project will suddenly find itself behind a security-clearance-only paywall.