fine. i bet the co2 level outside at street level is never more than 10% higher than up in the sky.
I prefer data to what you're willing to bet on. Luckily, someone is going to go forth and gather it regardless of what you think, and we'll find out whether you're right or not.
It's awesome how you really are the stereotypical dead broke neckbeard on slashdot.
Getting just five used cables this way will save enough to pay for breakfast for two in a nice restaurant in Mendocino. You don't get to do fun stuff by throwing away money. I've saved hundreds of dollars just by hauling crates of cables around with me through my various moves, many of which came from thrift stores, yard sale, and flea markets.
If I need a cable right away, I don't look to see which flea market occurs next. I just buy it. But mostly I don't have to, because crates. Sorry you haven't got a place to store crates yet.
his BBC lucrative contract
You really think nobody would pay him more than the BBC? Seriously?
The actual spec is behind a paywall, as with most tech specs, but Wikipedia says.
cable of about 5 meters (16 feet) can be manufactured to Category 1 specifications easily and inexpensively by using 28 AWG (0.081 mmÂ) conductors.[107] With better quality construction and materials, including 24 AWG (0.205 mmÂ) conductors, an HDMI cable can reach lengths of up to 15 meters (49 feet).[107]
You may be right, and this is just the physical consequence of the spec, but 28 AWG is quite thin wire. (One poster said his long cable has a booster, so maybe that's another way, but that's not "cheapest" either).
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect cyclists to have adequate lighting on their bikes at night.
Neither do I. Then again, until the streetlights were turned off in the places I've been talking about, most of them already did.
It's very rare that an entire journey would have street lighting at any time of night.
Around here, it's completely expected. The local authorities have put huge emphasis on promoting cycling in Cambridge over the past decades, and both the streets and the major cycle/pedestrian paths are normally lit during the dark hours, making cycling one of the most efficient and sustainable ways to get around the city. Turning off significant amounts of lighting is a surprisingly cycle-hostile and retrograde step, until you realise it's a different level of local council responsible for making that decision.
Then again, I live in a village with green fields on all sides.
I suspect both the priorities and the expectations in rural areas are quite different to those in densely populated cities or suburbs. I probably wouldn't buy a small hatchback if I lived in the middle of nowhere or a huge 4x4 for driving around the city either.
Well, ultimately you can do whatever you can get away with. Build some oil platforms, and what is anybody going to do about it? Of course, others could also start building platforms as well in competition, and then the Chinese are left with the same dilemma. The only way to truly enforce exclusivity is to either go to war or start imposing economic sanctions/etc, but if the US were to start putting sanctions on China that could get messy fast with all the trade.
Nobody really wants to get into a shooting war over this stuff.
The French government doing things to Google France because they don't like what Google USA does would set a disastrous precedent for anybody doing business in France
Why? The UK had anti bribery laws with much the same reach, and the US was all over mega upload. It's not like things like this are unprecedented, and yet business continues. No one thinks they'll be the next test case.
1. Visit shady torrent site.
2. Search for whatever porn you fancy.
3. Click the wrong "Download" button.
4. Install "Updated Flash".
This is just one of the gazillion attack vectors.
There's the
And so on and so forth.
> How much you pay for a service has nothing to do with how much it costs to provide a service
Competition drives prices down. So there is a direct correlative effect in non-regulated/monopolized markets. I don't believe there is a car insurance price regulation in effect in the US.
You mean Samsung would know when to tell the phone "not" to open as per their planned obsolescence policy.
Hey, now, this isn't Sony we're talking about. ("Sony timer" was a common phrase in Japan for a few years, with a strong urban legend that actual timers were built in to pop the day the warrantee expired. My favorite urban legend was that Sony employees carried a remote that could expire all your Sony timers early if you annoyed them.)
Wouldn't bother me any, but then I shattered the glass on my phone about 3 years ago, and it has many seams. Still works fine for me.
There's an easy definition to Homo Sapiens: a child of a Homo Sapiens. This works for all possible people throughout human history.
Except that it doesn't. It's a classic case of begging the question.
How do we know you are human by that definition?
We would have to know that your parents were human.
But how do we know that?
We would have to know that your grandparents were human.
But how do we know that?
Before long, we look at a common ancestor to you and the chimp. Which either makes the chimp human, or you not.
No, you can not get around this by saying in modern recorded history either, because how do you determine that the first person in modern recorded history was human? There must then be another criterion.
If offered a $45 HDMI cable over a $2 one, save your money and go cheap, heck by 3 of the cheap ones incase it breaks while installing it, you will be money ahead and you won't hear the difference EVER.
I hope you don't work with technology in any way. Sure, buy the cheapest cable that meets spec, but remember the first rule of engineering: the vendor is a lying bastard. There's a reason the cheapest cable is the cheapest cable. Paying $45 for a 6-foot HDMI cable is silly. Paying $45 for a 50-foot HDMI cable isn't.
Also, for HDMI specifically, the different numbered specs matter depending on use case. If your doing "4K" video, you'll want the HDMI 1.4 (or above) cable. If you want high color depth for a specific application, you'll want at least 1.3.
Sure, cheap is good, but as always in life, avoid the cheapest crap in the store.
I've had cheap longer mini-jack cables fail - just break inside the insulation. I've had cheap RCA cables break, short, and most annoyingly have the center-pins break off and get stuck in my equipment.
Yeah, avoid the $40 job with the weird connectors, but a $4 patch cable can save a lot of headache over a $1 cable.
Well, no not really. Right or wrong play no part in how this is going to play out. Thiongs will happen regardless of my opinions on the morality of it.
No one gets to impose their views on France. People get to impose their views on corporations where part of the corporation operates in their country. Those sre the consequences one has to reason about.
Now, France is the 6th largest economy which gives them considerably more bargaining power than many of the other places you mentioned. In every case google can decide to play ball or leave. And they will need to evaluate in each case whether the impact of leaving is worse financially than the impact of staying.
That is how it will play out. Right and wrong has nothing to do with it, because frankly google doesn't care about right and wrong and neither domost other large companies.
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
