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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Luckily the Telepgraph picked an appropriate image...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
How the fuck is forced arbitration legal?
Since judges generally don't like being told their opinion doesn't matter, it might be worth trying anyway. I don't recall whether the chance of your case being thrown out is larger or smaller if you tried the arbitration process first - they don't like people wasting their time either.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
That means the translator is essentially a second writer. But they don't hire people with writer skills. So the results are sometimes... not the best.
Occasionally though, it sometimes works better than the original.
I'm thinking in particular of a scene in Hot Shots! where someone says "it was a hunting accident".
There's a pun there which was not in the original: the word in Portuguese for hunt, caça, is also a name for fighter jets.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
why don’t they just put "you waive all your rights and agree that, in case of dispute, we are always right" in there?!
I thought they did?
that's basically what they do. Yes.
If i get close enough to the person who decided to first add mandatory arbitration to these sort of contracts.... Imma bite them so hard their grandparents feel it.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
And yet another company skimps on testing hardware and/or personnel.
I love the ambiguity of English language.
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Even Tesco gets in on the act.
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@Atazhaia I thought Kramer was funny. The other three main characters were complete wastes of screen space. And plots with George always made me want to stab myself in the face with a machete.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
And plots with George always made me want to stab myself in the face with a machete.
I never understood how that show became so popular when the entire main cast is entirely unlikable.
They aren't you know evil or villainous, they're just not likable.... like i'd be coworkers with any of them, but friends? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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@anonymous234 It really makes the Samurai Pizza Cats and the Ted Woolseys of the world stand out
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@Atazhaia I thought Kramer was funny. The other three main characters were complete wastes of screen space. And plots with George always made me want to stab myself in the face with a machete.
I had a very similar response to Designing Women, Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives....
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Quantum Supremacy is here, if Google is to be believed.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Any puns or wordplay (except a few lucky ones where the words happen to correspond in the two languages) have to be essentially rewritten from scratch.
Q: How does one ocean greet another?
A: They wave at each other.This translates surprisingly well into Spanish.
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5699368212219623807203 + (-569936821113563493509)3 + (-472715493453327032)3 = 3
Apparently there's an infinite amount of ways to express 3 as the sum of 3 cubes, but the numbers grow ridiculously fast. This is the smallest one after 13+13+13 and 43+43+(-5)3.
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@DogsB I've really been enjoying the cut of El Reg's jib recently and they've moved up my browsing list. I don't know if they've made editorial changes or just had a series of popular articles that have drawn more attention than usual.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
why don’t they just put "you waive all your rights and agree that, in case of dispute, we are always right" in there?!
I thought they did?
that's basically what they do. Yes.
If i get close enough to the person who decided to first add mandatory arbitration to these sort of contracts.... Imma bite them so hard their grandparents feel it.
Bite in the right place and their grandchildren sure will.
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Worth the risk.
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Wow, a combination of hardware and software? What'll they come up with next?
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is terrible
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
In other northern and southern hemispheres news
Wow, a combination of hardware and software? What'll they come up with next?
you mean...... just like every other mobile computing device that uses dynamic clock speeds.... and in fact most desktops sold today use that too....
Just another instance of Apple claiming to be the first to market with some new technology which is in fact an already existing and well established technology. All they did was slap a new buzzword on it and call it their invention.
..... okay to be fair Apple ain't the only one that does it, but you must admit they have a history of doing that!
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@Vixen They're innovators at the art of spouting marketing BS!
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
All they did was slap a new buzzword on it and call it their invention.
I don't think they even did that. The official site, like the news article, refers to it as
new built-in software and hardware system
I guess there's no catchy term like "Retina" for "new built-in software and hardware system"
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Vixen They're innovators at the art of spouting marketing BS!
That i will freely give them credit for.
I'd even go so far as to say they are market leaders for that.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
I don't think they even did that. The official site, like the news article, refers to it as
new built-in software and hardware system
So, they didn't use software and hardware to help preserve battery performance before?
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@TimeBandit Maybe they did but it wasn't built-in?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
I don't think they even did that. The official site, like the news article, refers to it as
new built-in software and hardware system
So, they didn't use software and hardware to help preserve battery performance before?
no, they did. they just called it "turning the screen off when it's in you pocket". and "designing a product that does not discharge your battery fast enough for it to catch fire from the waste heat (by design at least)"
now they have a SYSTEM
and systems are better.
so they charge more because it's a SYSTEMsup>TM</sup
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
sup>TM</sup
Is this a new fancy marketing term for ™?
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
Just another instance of Apple claiming to be the first to market with some new technology which is in fact an already existing and well established technology
I think this has more to do with them being sued for whatever-gate the last time someone noticed the phone slowing down on low-capacity batteries.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
sup>TM</sup
Is this a new fancy marketing term for ™?
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*whispers* You're not doing it right.(Also: @ben_lubar, there seems to be a problem with the quote parser being too greedy and/or angle brackets not working well with underscores.)
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
I don't think they even did that. The official site, like the news article, refers to it as
new built-in software and hardware system
So, they didn't use software and hardware to help preserve battery performance before?
There was that fiasco a couple years ago where the system would deliberately slow down as the phone aged. Could that count as "preserving battery life?"
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
I don't think they even did that. The official site, like the news article, refers to it as
new built-in software and hardware system
So, they didn't use software and hardware to help preserve battery performance before?
There was that fiasco a couple years ago where the system would deliberately slow down as the phone aged. Could that count as "preserving battery life?"
i think you're thinking of "Premature
~Ejaculation~Planned Obsolescence"
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@Mason_Wheeler The paper may be fine (
), but that title is a total
. Heat and energy are already the same type of thing (heat is specifically transfer of energy).
What they mean is to convert heat into electrical energy.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler The paper may be fine (
), but that title is a total
. Heat and energy are already the same type of thing (heat is specifically transfer of energy).
What they mean is to convert heat into electrical energy.
also, sure they can do that, but what the hell is a paramagnon anyway? smells of marketing bullshit to me.
Imma wait to get excited until there is an industrial scale product that makes use of the effect. Until then it's just hot air and back patting in my books.
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@Benjamin-Hall Or, more to the point, into useful energy. Imagine if this could be applied to waste heat...
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
also, sure they can do that, but what the hell is a paramagnon anyway? smells of marketing bullshit to me.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
also, sure they can do that, but what the hell is a paramagnon anyway? smells of marketing bullshit to me.
Etymology
para- + magnonNoun
paramagnon (plural paramagnons)(physics) Damped magnons existing in a disordered magnetic state.
correction.
Smells of StarTrek Technobabble to me
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@Vixen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnon
A magnon is a quasiparticle, a collective excitation of the electrons' spin structure in a crystal lattice.
Most condensed-matter physics sounds like Treknobabble.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
what the hell is a paramagnon anyway?
A magnoid in the category of endofunctors
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
What the research team found, though, is that the paramagnons push the electrons only for a billionth of a millionth of a second—long enough to make paramagnets viable energy-harvesters
So, heating it up pulses a tiny bit, and then nothing? Hardly useful.
Also, I'm pretty sure this was discovered in Popular Science 20 years ago (or something remarkably similar). I don't have my sketches from elementary school, but I do recall the power generation facilities for my "2 million dollar house-ship" including a material based on this concept that converted heat into electricity using panels painted black on the exterior.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
Until then it's just hot air
Which can be "turned into" energy.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
(Also: @ben_lubar, there seems to be a problem with the quote parser being too greedy and/or angle brackets not working well with underscores.)
Markdown? Poorly designed? No, that would be like finding people who drink coffee in a Starbucks. Impossible.
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@ben_lubar But people don't get coffee at Starbucks. They may some kind of caffeinated swill, but it's hardly coffee.
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