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How much would you pay for an ex-rental car ? The argument is total BS.
How much would you pay for an ex-rental car ? The argument is total BS.
FUCK OFF !
As if a rental company give a flying toss about depreciation !
Where Sheldon tells an Indian woman how to cook curry ? Ok.
Heat storage effect -as soon as you put anything in cold in the pan the whole element goes cold and it takes ages to reheat. Unlike a gas flame.
And “induction” heating is 90% conduction - only a tiny part of the pan is inducted and then the heat has to conduct to the rest of the pan. So in some ways its worse than a conventional electric hob because the heating is so uneven, and you still get the heat storage effect.
5G mms is the high speed service. But its affected by wind, buildings and cars. And the phones that have it are expensive because the circuitry uses heaps of power and the battery is the most expensive part of the phone.
So mms is mainly being promoted for stationary devices, and in buildings that have repeater emitters.
The 5G low band phones are cheaper to make than 4G because the circuitry is more efficient so you can use smaller batteries.
5G has a more efficient algorithm for ordering incoming/outgoing signals, so like-for-like there is higher speed and less freezing. But in new areas the telcos just build fewer towers so the speed is no better than 4G.
In Australia, the only cheese you could buy in the supermarket in the 1970s was Kraft in the little blue packets sold in the dry goods section.
To buy “real” cheese you had to go to a dairy, or go to the city centre and buy cheese cut off the block and wrapped in greaseproof paper from a contintental delicatessan.
Polyethylene film was not available.
So when it came out and you could buy real cheese in film from the supermarket, Kraft responded by bringing out "more convenient " Kraft Singles, which you didn’t have to laboriously (?) cut from the block.
Its salted curds like cheese, but its not matured. Instead mineral salts are added which absorb the water, the same sort of stuff used in corned beef, bacon and ham.
The colouring is artificial. Its naturally a light grey colour.
What incentive would they have? What competition is there?
They would have no incentive of course. A Win11 system with the TPM turned off would be infected with malware straight away.
All the current major distros of linux require TPM.
TPM prevents users from downloading random kinder eggs that install ransomware. Any business that disables TPM is crazy.
Linux distro version depositories are deleted after 2 years.
Distributors only sell new cars, and the subscription is included in the credit plan. New car and fleet buyers are fine with the extra security and backup these services provide.
The distributors don’t care a damn what second hand buyers think.
Compare with the level of support israel has got. You can be certain people in Ukraine are.
Given that it is essentially a proxy war between the US and Russia, its quite possible the war could end without either side actually “winning”.
Obviously the US will continue to support the war for as long as possible, and if that means turning ukraine to ash and destroying the economies of western europe, well that is a price they are willing to pay.
There are still shortages in Russia and if the gas and electricty shortages continue through winter that could be devastating in Russia. It wouldn’t take that much to tip the country into chaos, what the response of the Russian govt to Ukraine would be - possibly using their really large missiles that can wipe out a whole village - is completely unknown.
We don’'t really understand the mentality of the Ukraine govt. The fact that many western weapons seem to go missing before they reach the front and the coincidence of the Azerbaijan getting a pile of muntions just after deliveries to Ukraine may indicate that the aims of the Ukraine govt may not totally align with those of western europe.
Just about every language is written in C. Even GW-BASIC was written in C (most BASIC interpreters were written in assembly code at the time).
When all the code was being rewritten for Y2K, C was used because it was really the only language that was portable at the time, you could write the program on a PC, and then compile and configure it on a mainframe, or vice versa.
A more pertinent question would be what isn’t wriiten in C.
Critical software, like interfaces, machine operation or database systems, are generally not written in C. That’s because C code can be dense and obscure. If the original programmer retire or goes missing, and the system crashes, no one else may have a clue what they’ve actually coded. So a more explicable, higher level language is used and C is quarantined to use in system software where its power and access is useful.
It won’t fail because of money. Musk has enough money to fund it out of his petty cash forever.
If it fails, it will fail in the same way the newsnet failed - it becomes full of angry old men screaming about Israel and guns.
Physical media or local downloads is the way to go.
PS5 games are like 90 GB. A DVD ROM stores 4.7 GB.
Its over.
A punchcard is two dimensional. Actually you can have multiple dimensions on a punch card, the positions of the card can store different data and you can determine what that is by the position of holes on another part of the card.
Whereas a paper tape, or a magnetic tape is serial and has only one dimension (you can divide the tape into different bands though).
Commodore 65.
Intellivision computer.
Commodore SuperPET based on the Zilog Z8000.
When you upload a song, you indicate whether it has copyright and who owns it, Then, whenever its played they pay the copyright owner based on an audience size basis, similar to Spotify.
If you don’t, the copyright owner informs Google, and they close that link.
Even if you have music playing in the background of an instructional video, the copyright holders will go after you.