Comment Re:not new (Score 1) 243
This is bad advice. I've had an alkaline explode when I attempted recharging it.
This is bad advice. I've had an alkaline explode when I attempted recharging it.
So this device fits around an alkaline battery. I've got a Wensn decibel meter that has a battery compartment big enough for alkaline AAs, but too small for any of my rechargeable AAs. The rechargeables have a slightly bigger diameter (the difference is 0.2-0.3 mm).
So there's a chance alkaline batteries using this device won't fit.
The French government is likely to approve the sale of CNES's 34-percent stake in the Evry, France-based Arianespace launch service provider to Airbus Safran Launchers at about the same time as the Ariane 6 development contract is signed.
With that sale, Airbus Safran will control Arianespace, which means they will also own the rocket they are building for Arianespace. This is fundamentally different than the situation with Ariane 5, which Airbus built for an Arianespace owned and run by the many-headed ESA. The result was a bloated government-run operation that never made a profit.
Now Airbus will own it instead. They have already indicated that they will trim the costs at Arianespace. More importantly, with ownership will come the freedom to compete effectively in the much more competitive launch market created by the arrival of SpaceX. No need to get permission from ESA to do things.
As this story has been submitted several times in the past several days, by various submitter and is going around various other tech forums( https://news.ycombinator.com/i... , https://soylentnews.org/articl... , https://www.reddit.com/r/progr...
SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements.
AIU, they use an explosive charge of their own, carefully configured and arranged to destroy the bomb's ignition source without setting off the explosives.
I did an internship at a telecom research facility around that time. They provided me with a 286 outfitted to run electronics simulations software. It had 2 MB RAM installed on an ISA card (or a predecessor thereof, it's a long time ago). It ran Windows 3.0, sort of. 2 MB was too little, and the thing crashed constantly. Combine that with the clumsy UI (File Manager and Program Manager, for instance) and the mess of applications that hadn't standardized yet (every program used different shortcuts), and the experience was less than stellar.
The contrast with my own Macintosh was huge. If you think us Maccies are smug now, you should have seen us then.
I was in favor of replacing the current Dutch car taxing scheme with a PAYG scheme. At the moment I'm paying a tax ("ownership tax") with rates based on vehicle weight and fuel type. This is a fixed cost; I have to pay this even when my vehicle isn't driven for weeks at a time. This removes some of the financial incentive of not using the car.
A PAYG scheme more closely couples my cost to the actual cost society incurs by my road usage, esp. when you include congestion charging.
Congestion charging also gives me leverage. If my employer requires me to be at $congestion_prone_location at $congestion_peak_time I can hand him a bill. Employers don't care how much time their employees spend in traffic jams, maybe the financial consequences of those traffic jams will get their attention.
.nl doesn't have toll roads, and 'store everything' camera schemes were rare back then. They've become common since, with nary a peep from the population.
Depends on how you implement it. A PAYG tax scheme was discussed in the Netherlands a few years ago, tariffs would have depended on the environmental rating of your vehicle, i.e. an old diesel would be taxed more than a new Euro-5 compliant one.
Over here the big advantages of PAYG were seen as:
- congestion pricing becomes possible
- it'd replace taxes on ownership and car purchase with usage-related pricing, incentivizing people to drive less.
The big disadvantage was the privacy concerns.
If Machiavelli were a hacker, he'd have worked for the CSSG. -- Phil Lapsley