Re: So does this mean my two multimeters that can measure down to 0.00000001A are wrong?
Yes, in the same way that the distances on road signs are wrong.
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It's oil.
Tactics like this don't change the system, just encourage it. IT types are generally intelligent and analytical, and believe in making systems efficient - soft bribery of power-hungry politicians really isn't the techie way, I suspect this will upset more as the headlines spread.
Turning the power off on my phone apparently prompts me before actually powering down, in the kerfuffle of boarding I thought I'd turned it off. Felt a bit of a Muppet when I got to arrivals and found the phone still asking me if I was sure I wanted to power down, but luckily didn't seem to kill 400 people, which is a plus.
Exactly. Fiat currencies may not be backed by gold (which is in itself fiat - go figure as our Sherman friends might say), but are backed by faith in governments, which in turn are backed by armies. Turn up and start stealing that which underpins Sterling (the land and its governance), and loads of blokes in green or blue will politely remind you that it's a poor plan. Without them, the country is unstable, so faith in the currency low.
Do I have any faith in bc to physically defend its governance (such as it may be) if push came to shove? Not in any meaningful way, no. If a crypto flaw showed bc tokens were being duplicated through a cunning hack, it would be dropped in a heartbeat as no real sanctions could apply.
Having used Hailo in London, being able to hail a cab to a backstreet location, 5minutes free waiting time, having the drivers name and phone number, billed directly to my credit card with a receipt emailed to me moments later, I assure you the efficiency is there!
As long as most people still use abc123 or password1, you don't need staggeringly complex pass phrases. If you are in a field with a hungry carnivore you don't need to run fastest, just faster than somebody else. With enough low hanging fruit, you don't need to worry so much about the top branches. You get the metaphors.
Apple have a high fashion quotient, it carried them for a while, but they do seem to have lost their way when they can't retain customers like they used to. I suspect an analysis of Samsung customers moving to Apple vs the opposite would show some innovation was long overdue.
I believe they are a very decent mid-market device company charging high premium prices shored up by great marketing.
A buy back is a great idea, it will defend the share price and get rid of a bunch of cash. It will also dissuade shareholders from forcing a dividend distribution. Smart move.
Or, to put it another way -
Is there any part of this that isn't just a marketing pitch?
In fairness, I could be interested in Office365, but having bought various bits of MSO for real money for my business, then it would seem moving to 365 would mean effectively throwing away my existing perpetually licensed products, even though the last bit is only a few months old?
As for macros, AC above me, SOME of the licensing options don't include installables, others do. If you need them, go for that license instead?
What an insulting amount! What would it have cost for a security consultancy to have found that? Three grand US wouldn't pay for the first days consulting where the coffee and biscuits would be hit hard in the meeting room.
I know the result isn't a labour for money, but a bit of proportionality would seem appropriate.
Something in my gut says flexible won't scale easily - the dynamic system may well stabilise itself in the plane of rotation, I can't help but think uneven perimeter mass distribution could go critical then catastrophic pretty quickly. Maybe it is having heard my washing machine spin cycle with a pair of jeans, but I suppose I'm thinking being flexible means it's more likely to be off-axis slightly, and bad things happen.
Happy to be proved wrong, of course, but I fear scaling will just amplify the problem exponentially!
Imagine if you downloaded every video on youtube that there has ever been, at every resolution, then you would play that for free to however many people wanted it, at the best quality they could handle. And you did that globally, in every language, 24/7. Big ask of your datacentre. Google already do this of course, and it isn't even their core business. This is the kind of scale where you would want this.
Currencies tied to nothing are known as 'fiat', and that is most currencies since the dropping of the gold standard. However, even though they are all based on faith alone, some also have the interests of a nation underpinning them which dampens volatility. Remove any motive to dampen volatility, and this is going to happen.
Interestingly, gold investing itself has something of a fiat nature, as the material properties are not as valuable as the trading price. If you want an exchange format you can really believe in, I suggest sheep.
All the mental frothing about how backwards the UK is and so forth - we were pretty flippin' advanced when we put an underground railway into our capital city a mere 150 years ago. Funnily enough, back then they just weren't thinking ahead to the 21st century when people might want to fit loads of little radio transmitters for their portable telephones to surf the internet. In short, the infrastructure wasn't designed with that in mind.
Now in Hong Kong, for instance, the metro opened in 1979, a mere 116 years later than London. Radio waves 'existed', as did computers and frankly diesel engines and even electricity - it was easier to see ahead that extra cabling space might be needed. Because of this, when the hugely clever tunnelling machines (not labourers with shovels and horses, please note) bore the network, it wasn't too big an ask to add an extra few inches.
I'm an engineer by training, at one point I could have had a stab at designing you a factory line, but now work in entertainment. It took time, but am now paid about the same as I used to get as an engineer, I use a few of the skills I was taught, I certainly use the same engineering mindset I always had naturally. I am happy in my work, far happier than any job tied directly to my degree made me, yet on this scale I would have a lousy job. Wouldn't swap for toffee!
Why say this? Well, the assumptions that go into studies like this change the outcome. Confirmation bias and all that. In other words, what a waste of time and effort!
I know some third party apps already do augmented reality translation and can do so because of their local translation tools instead of having to use a network connection. Now Google can work locally the augmented reality on live camera images is just a short step further
The foundation he set up with his wife isn't constrained by appeasing donors sensitivities, so can back some grander plans. Malaria research is one of their big areas as it isn't 'sexy' so doesn't attract big pharmaceutical company investment as there is no 'return'.
Similarly, I can't see swathes of Catholics for instance wanting to donate to a condom competition, but the foundation has clearly thought the problem through, bit of cost benefit analysis, and thought this worth a punt as the benefit is globally staggering.
Full credit where due.
If your first real contact with a vendor is their sales droid, you know they don't know the product intimately but will recite marketing blurb and empty promises
If your first real contact is with an experienced technician or engineer, they can answer questions not using the marketing blurb but from experience. They can tell you what did and didn't work. Engineers are less likely to lie, or mislead by omission, they have professional credibility at stake, and many engineers value that over commission if it came to the crunch. They can sniff out bullshit and expect other engineers to also sniff it out.
Have an engineer pre-sell to other engineers, then the twat in the Audi gets to come in for an easy 'close' if the buyer feels they trust the engineer and any tech tests they may have run
Since 2k sounds cooler.
It's as much about the aspect ratio, 2k wide images are close to 1.85 than 1.69, another hangover from film days.
Never underestimate the amount of fetishism in cameras, film, lenses, etc., where someone will find something new to grasp onto as the only thing stopping their ponderous introspective navel-gaze selling like Titanic. Really. It is dirt common to see directors demanding the latest super mega fast lenses, then stop them all the way down with rakes of best quality neutral density filters just to reduce the hyperfocal range back to that of a crappy old film camera to do rack focus moves.