They aren't. The tax on gas only covers a small part of the cost of road maintenance in the US. Also the wear of roads depends on the axle load with an exponent of four. It's an investment by the state in the hope to collect on other taxes as well.
A minimum recommended spec gives developers a target to optimize for. The Oculus Rift CV1 has two panels with a 1024x1200 resolution and the framerate should be at a steady 90Hz. In addition to that, the image has to be distorted to compensate for the relatively simple lenses. Ideally, the scene should also use oversampling. It's no wonder that a powerful card is recommended.
Done something stupid like provided a consistent UI? You're supposed to do that. Companies like Microsoft encourage you to follow their guidelines and keep the look of your software consistent to theirs. And now MS turns around and sues another company for writing software consistent to their platform.
Creating software has become an incalculable risk because of patent attorneys.
If the police wants to search something, the device can provide a reasonable suspicion. It's a circumvention device for civil rights. Much like drug sniffing dogs are reportedly misused.
If you have point to point communication, traffic analysis can easily detect the participants of a network. If you have a central server with lots of uninvolved people, you either need to get the information from the server or rely on timing analysis. The timing is useless with asynchronous communication and can be obfuscated by introducing delays.
Reminds me of the time I tried to batch-convert hundreds of icons. GIMP is scriptable. So I looked at Scheme and then at the API and examples. Scheme wasn't the issue, but the API just didn't seem to make sense. After a few hours, I gave up and started Photoshop. I pressed record, converted an icon and applied the recorded script to the folder within a few minutes.
I have yet to meet a motorist who stricly adheres to the speed limits. Or one who doesn't run a yellow light even though he could stop safely. Motorists seem to be very aware of the rules that bicyclists are breaking while they shrug off their own lawlessness as both normal and acceptable. At the same time, motorists kill thousands of people per year in the US alone and are most often at fault when a bicyclist gets hurt.
Bicyclists should wait at red lights just like everyone else, for example. It doesn't mean "stop, look, then proceed if you don't see a car crossing". It means you wait until it turns green.
Why? You make an assertion without providing a reason. Starting at the same time as cars exposes bicyclists to the risk of both right hooks and left hooks. Fully stoppimg also means that the bike is longer on the crossroads. If the crossing road is obviously clear of traffic, it can be safer to run the light. At least thats what a study conducted in Paris concluded. As a result, bicyclists are now explicitly allowed to run red lights at a few marked crossings.
I still don't buy it. The primary source referenced by everything else is the article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. It does not mention the paths being elevated. The text is decorated with a photo of a bike bridge in Copenhagen - outside Germany. I think journalists with a poor grasp of the German language saw the photo an their imagination ran wild.
At one point you have to wonder whether laziness or incompetence can explain those frivolous takedowns anymore. Maybe the actual goal is to get rid of anything that competes with your IP for search results.
The Motofone F3 is dirt cheap, light, compact and lasts long on a charge. It features an epaper display that is perfectly readable in full sunlight and is always on. It's quite convenient to be able to read the time without pressing the power button first.
The disadvantage is that the segment display shows only a few letters at a time. If you want to do any amount of texting, it's too inconvenient.
Nearly half of the students aiming for a bachelors or masters degree in mathematics in Germany are women. I had assumed that it's the same internationally, but actually this seems not to be the case. Interesting.
I do have some apps crash, but that's the app developer's problem. Not much the OS vendor can do about that.
I've written a somewhat popular Android app and most of its crashes are either the fault of the runtime or of vendor specific customizations.
The Developer Console provides excellent reporting on both uncaught Java exceptions and crashes in native code. Most often, the Dalvik VM crashes during garbage collection. The Dalvik class loader is also flaky and has issues with multithreading that only got worked around in newer versions. I've also seen the libchromium crash inside my app from adverts delivered by Googles Admob service, which is somewhat scary from a security perspective.
Another issue is that apps using Googles compatibility library now crash on HTC devices running Android 4.1 as soon as the user presses the menu key. HTC is no longer providing updates and Google simply states that it's not their fault and therefore not their problem. Now thousands of app developers have to independently find out about the issue and work around it.
So when an app crashes, there's a good chance that it's not the fault of the app developer. On a brighter note, the ART VM used in Android 5 and newer seem to be rock solid.
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They aren't. The tax on gas only covers a small part of the cost of road maintenance in the US. Also the wear of roads depends on the axle load with an exponent of four. It's an investment by the state in the hope to collect on other taxes as well.
Also don't forget bicycles, motorbikes and tractors.
Those are expensive to build and require additional space.
VR has been in use for decades, mostly by the military. Did you actually look for studies before posting this?
The hedgehogs will thank you (and eat the snails).
A minimum recommended spec gives developers a target to optimize for. The Oculus Rift CV1 has two panels with a 1024x1200 resolution and the framerate should be at a steady 90Hz. In addition to that, the image has to be distorted to compensate for the relatively simple lenses. Ideally, the scene should also use oversampling. It's no wonder that a powerful card is recommended.
Done something stupid like provided a consistent UI? You're supposed to do that. Companies like Microsoft encourage you to follow their guidelines and keep the look of your software consistent to theirs. And now MS turns around and sues another company for writing software consistent to their platform. Creating software has become an incalculable risk because of patent attorneys.
If the police wants to search something, the device can provide a reasonable suspicion. It's a circumvention device for civil rights. Much like drug sniffing dogs are reportedly misused.
If you have point to point communication, traffic analysis can easily detect the participants of a network. If you have a central server with lots of uninvolved people, you either need to get the information from the server or rely on timing analysis. The timing is useless with asynchronous communication and can be obfuscated by introducing delays.
Why would it land on earth? The mined material is almost worthless here.
It's not the cops job to deal out punishment.
Reminds me of the time I tried to batch-convert hundreds of icons. GIMP is scriptable. So I looked at Scheme and then at the API and examples. Scheme wasn't the issue, but the API just didn't seem to make sense. After a few hours, I gave up and started Photoshop. I pressed record, converted an icon and applied the recorded script to the folder within a few minutes.
I have yet to meet a motorist who stricly adheres to the speed limits. Or one who doesn't run a yellow light even though he could stop safely. Motorists seem to be very aware of the rules that bicyclists are breaking while they shrug off their own lawlessness as both normal and acceptable. At the same time, motorists kill thousands of people per year in the US alone and are most often at fault when a bicyclist gets hurt.
Bicyclists should wait at red lights just like everyone else, for example. It doesn't mean "stop, look, then proceed if you don't see a car crossing". It means you wait until it turns green.
Why? You make an assertion without providing a reason. Starting at the same time as cars exposes bicyclists to the risk of both right hooks and left hooks. Fully stoppimg also means that the bike is longer on the crossroads. If the crossing road is obviously clear of traffic, it can be safer to run the light. At least thats what a study conducted in Paris concluded. As a result, bicyclists are now explicitly allowed to run red lights at a few marked crossings.
This sounds less dangerous than throwing a rock off a bridge.
I still don't buy it. The primary source referenced by everything else is the article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. It does not mention the paths being elevated. The text is decorated with a photo of a bike bridge in Copenhagen - outside Germany. I think journalists with a poor grasp of the German language saw the photo an their imagination ran wild.
The sources say nothing about the bike paths being elevated. I'm quite certain that you're mistaken on this.
At one point you have to wonder whether laziness or incompetence can explain those frivolous takedowns anymore. Maybe the actual goal is to get rid of anything that competes with your IP for search results.
The Motofone F3 is dirt cheap, light, compact and lasts long on a charge. It features an epaper display that is perfectly readable in full sunlight and is always on. It's quite convenient to be able to read the time without pressing the power button first. The disadvantage is that the segment display shows only a few letters at a time. If you want to do any amount of texting, it's too inconvenient.
Why wait for Tesla when you can get a Zero motorcycle?
John Kiriakou, the whistleblower went to jail.
Most doctors don't take the Hippocratic Oat.
Nearly half of the students aiming for a bachelors or masters degree in mathematics in Germany are women. I had assumed that it's the same internationally, but actually this seems not to be the case. Interesting.
We do have gender equity in math. Is that because math is more "societally meaningful" than CS or engineering?
I do have some apps crash, but that's the app developer's problem. Not much the OS vendor can do about that.
I've written a somewhat popular Android app and most of its crashes are either the fault of the runtime or of vendor specific customizations.
The Developer Console provides excellent reporting on both uncaught Java exceptions and crashes in native code. Most often, the Dalvik VM crashes during garbage collection. The Dalvik class loader is also flaky and has issues with multithreading that only got worked around in newer versions. I've also seen the libchromium crash inside my app from adverts delivered by Googles Admob service, which is somewhat scary from a security perspective.
Another issue is that apps using Googles compatibility library now crash on HTC devices running Android 4.1 as soon as the user presses the menu key. HTC is no longer providing updates and Google simply states that it's not their fault and therefore not their problem. Now thousands of app developers have to independently find out about the issue and work around it.
So when an app crashes, there's a good chance that it's not the fault of the app developer. On a brighter note, the ART VM used in Android 5 and newer seem to be rock solid.