And, for many years, if you expressed public outrage against the establishment, the establishment branded you a "communist", later "unpatriotic", or in Snowden's case "criminal".
The power cable is to provide power for the phone, so that it can be charged while you play videos from it. You can't charge a phone over HDMI. If you need a Micro USB-to-HDMI interface for your phone, then it is likely that your phone doesn't have another port through which it can be charged. I have never seen a phone with more than one Micro-USB port... have you?
There are two "standards" for video over Micro USB but neither is actually using any USB protocol. The devices do some tricks to discover that they should both use the fast video protocol, and then they do that.
Video over Lightning is more like video in packets over real USB, at low bandwidth. The phone compresses the video signal before sending it over to the dongle, which decompresses it and translates it into HDMI. That is also the reason behind the high price of the dongle.
The "64-bit" Intel and ARM have more to do with new instruction set architectures than the size of a processor word or the address space. The new instruction sets are more capable than the ones before, not just in the larger size of pointers and words but also in other ways, such as in the number of registers. For instance, ARM's "64-bit" ISA has 32 integer registers instead of 16.
MIPS32 is already a very capable instruction set, with 32 integer registers from the start. The 64-bit MIPS instructions is just an extension, not a replacement as on ARM and Intel.
When I saw the header, I thought that the rocket engine would have 3D-printed cooling ducts around its nozzle. It is something that Apollo / space shuttle - sized rocket engines have, but which can be quite complex. This engine doesn't.
The same 3D-printing process used here is commonly used for making steel moulds for injection moulding, particularly because 3D-printing can create cooling ducts in the moulds which are impossible to machine with current methods.
I see Chromebooks as: 1) For those who want to serf the web casually but prefer mouse and keyboard over touchscreen interfaces. 2) A proper netbook, as it was supposed to be. The first netbooks were quite similar to the Chromebook concept, a legacy-free system with a small (often Linux-based) OS that wasn't too taxing on the machine. Then Windows hijacked the "netbook" concept and made them into underpowered Windows PCs instead.
That said, I really don't see any reason why we shouldn't be able to also run touch-oriented Android apps on the ChromeOS desktop. Google, go show Microsoft how it should be done!
The page linked to has annoying ad pop-ups that show when you hover the mouse pointer over keywords. The summary above is practically all the info in the article, so there is no reason to go there.
And by the way... How did this article get up-voted enough to get to the first page? There is nothing particularly interesting about yet another Chromebook with incremental updates over its predecessor... or is there?
The important thing is not to know the structures and algorithms, but to know about them: understand what drawbacks and benefits they have in each circumstance so that you choose how to best select which one to use and how to best use them.
When it comes down to using one of them, you will most often use a highly optimized version from a library. But no matter how fast or how memory-efficient a specific implementation is, the fundamental properties of the algorithm remain.
The Economy prize is technically not a Nobel Prize. It is a prize from Sweden's national bank that is just piggybacking on the Nobel prizes, leeching on its reputation. The official title is "Sveriges Riksbank's Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel".
Much thicker than my digital Casio, for sure... but it is about the same thickness as many analogue and mechanical watches from Tissot and more expensive brands.
The dangers of cell phones are not entirely known. There are some signs that they are not good in the long run - and especially not for kids.
There are animal studies that have shown that radiation from cell phones have killed brain cells and suppressed cognitive abilities. There are doctors and scientists within radio-medicine that are dead-sure that we are going to see an epidemic of primary brain tumours in cell phone users in ten to fifteen years. There are studies that hint (but yet none that prove, that I know of) that cell phone radiation could even be addictive. A four year-old's brain is smaller, which means that there is less tissue between the phone's antenna and the areas in the brain that are responsible for higher brain functions. A kid's brain is also developing at a fast rate than an adult brain, which means that any change would have a greater impact later in life.
I say, let your child choose to use a cell phone or not when he is old enough to make an informed decision. In ten years time, we should know a whole lot more about the matter and your child should be a bit wiser as well. I also don't think that you should let him use a digital cordless phone either (because they radiate more than cell phones do). Whenever he borrows someone else's cell phone, he should preferably use a handsfree instead of holding the phone directly to the skull. Even a Bluetooth headset is better: it radiates a thousandth of what a typical cell phone does.
It is not that easy as "Oil will run out, problem solved".
Peak oil implies that it is harder than before and becomes progressively harder to extract the oil that is left. You need to spend energy to extract oil, and as it becomes harder to extract oil, you need to spend more and more energy. And where do you think this energy is coming from? Are oil companies using renewable energy? Get Real! No, what we see already is that emissions of green-house gases per unit of oil is increasing, and that it will continue to increase until the demand for oil is gone.
You don't have a 3 button mouse because of Microsoft. Before Microsoft introduced the scroll wheel, the most popular mice on the market had three (proper) buttons.
You must have misunderstood how it works in classic X apps. You read as if you have never used it in X.
Paste-on-middle-click pastes into the text area that you middle-click on, and nowhere else.
The mechanism is also separate from the usual Cut/Copy/Paste functionality. Middle-click is used to paste the selected text, not what is on the clipboard. It is very fast and convenient, done completely with the mouse. The modality is not broken.
Ars Technica made a video comparing animated transitions in iOS 6 and iOS 7 side by side. The animations in iOS 7 do take longer than those in iOS 6, making the user experience more sluggish.
There has previously been a theory that these mass reoccurring extinctions would have been created by the near passing of a hypothetical star that we would have been unable to detect because it would be on the other side of the Oort cloud. I suppose that this new finding will debunk that theory for good.
The hypothetical star had been named Nemesis. I know of it only because I ready about it in a novel by Asimov recently.
Mammoth-type animals have actually appeared and gone extinct not once, but at about once every ice-age cycle. That blew my mind when I heard it the first time.
That the last type the mammoths would have gone extinct because of climate change does not seem very far-fetched then, now does it.
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... and money is what drives the US government.
And, for many years, if you expressed public outrage against the establishment, the establishment branded you a "communist", later "unpatriotic", or in Snowden's case "criminal".
A system can not be "public" if it is discriminating against people who don't carry mobile phones that can run the app that is required.
Have you seen how many sizes of barrel plugs there are out there? ;)
Here is an example for you.
And we haven't started talking about voltage or AC/DC yet.
The power cable is to provide power for the phone, so that it can be charged while you play videos from it. ... have you?
You can't charge a phone over HDMI. If you need a Micro USB-to-HDMI interface for your phone, then it is likely that your phone doesn't have another port through which it can be charged. I have never seen a phone with more than one Micro-USB port
There are two "standards" for video over Micro USB but neither is actually using any USB protocol.
The devices do some tricks to discover that they should both use the fast video protocol, and then they do that.
Video over Lightning is more like video in packets over real USB, at low bandwidth. The phone compresses the video signal before sending it over to the dongle, which decompresses it and translates it into HDMI.
That is also the reason behind the high price of the dongle.
You're thinking of Thunderbolt, not Lightning.
The "64-bit" Intel and ARM have more to do with new instruction set architectures than the size of a processor word or the address space.
The new instruction sets are more capable than the ones before, not just in the larger size of pointers and words but also in other ways, such as in the number of registers. For instance, ARM's "64-bit" ISA has 32 integer registers instead of 16.
MIPS32 is already a very capable instruction set, with 32 integer registers from the start. The 64-bit MIPS instructions is just an extension, not a replacement as on ARM and Intel.
When I saw the header, I thought that the rocket engine would have 3D-printed cooling ducts around its nozzle. It is something that Apollo / space shuttle - sized rocket engines have, but which can be quite complex. This engine doesn't.
The same 3D-printing process used here is commonly used for making steel moulds for injection moulding, particularly because 3D-printing can create cooling ducts in the moulds which are impossible to machine with current methods.
Now that Steve Jobs is gone, Apple need another Reality Distortion Field Generator. Why not think big? ...
I see Chromebooks as:
1) For those who want to serf the web casually but prefer mouse and keyboard over touchscreen interfaces.
2) A proper netbook, as it was supposed to be. The first netbooks were quite similar to the Chromebook concept, a legacy-free system with a small (often Linux-based) OS that wasn't too taxing on the machine. Then Windows hijacked the "netbook" concept and made them into underpowered Windows PCs instead.
That said, I really don't see any reason why we shouldn't be able to also run touch-oriented Android apps on the ChromeOS desktop.
Google, go show Microsoft how it should be done!
The page linked to has annoying ad pop-ups that show when you hover the mouse pointer over keywords. The summary above is practically all the info in the article, so there is no reason to go there.
And by the way... How did this article get up-voted enough to get to the first page? There is nothing particularly interesting about yet another Chromebook with incremental updates over its predecessor ... or is there?
The important thing is not to know the structures and algorithms, but to know about them: understand what drawbacks and benefits they have in each circumstance so that you choose how to best select which one to use and how to best use them.
When it comes down to using one of them, you will most often use a highly optimized version from a library. But no matter how fast or how memory-efficient a specific implementation is, the fundamental properties of the algorithm remain.
Who's this Higgs boso?
The Economy prize is technically not a Nobel Prize. It is a prize from Sweden's national bank that is just piggybacking on the Nobel prizes, leeching on its reputation.
The official title is "Sveriges Riksbank's Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel".
Much thicker than my digital Casio, for sure... but it is about the same thickness as many analogue and mechanical watches from Tissot and more expensive brands.
The dangers of cell phones are not entirely known. There are some signs that they are not good in the long run - and especially not for kids.
There are animal studies that have shown that radiation from cell phones have killed brain cells and suppressed cognitive abilities.
There are doctors and scientists within radio-medicine that are dead-sure that we are going to see an epidemic of primary brain tumours in cell phone users in ten to fifteen years.
There are studies that hint (but yet none that prove, that I know of) that cell phone radiation could even be addictive.
A four year-old's brain is smaller, which means that there is less tissue between the phone's antenna and the areas in the brain that are responsible for higher brain functions. A kid's brain is also developing at a fast rate than an adult brain, which means that any change would have a greater impact later in life.
I say, let your child choose to use a cell phone or not when he is old enough to make an informed decision. In ten years time, we should know a whole lot more about the matter and your child should be a bit wiser as well.
I also don't think that you should let him use a digital cordless phone either (because they radiate more than cell phones do).
Whenever he borrows someone else's cell phone, he should preferably use a handsfree instead of holding the phone directly to the skull. Even a Bluetooth headset is better: it radiates a thousandth of what a typical cell phone does.
It is not that easy as "Oil will run out, problem solved".
Peak oil implies that it is harder than before and becomes progressively harder to extract the oil that is left. You need to spend energy to extract oil, and as it becomes harder to extract oil, you need to spend more and more energy.
And where do you think this energy is coming from? Are oil companies using renewable energy? Get Real!
No, what we see already is that emissions of green-house gases per unit of oil is increasing, and that it will continue to increase until the demand for oil is gone.
You don't have a 3 button mouse because of Microsoft.
Before Microsoft introduced the scroll wheel, the most popular mice on the market had three (proper) buttons.
You must have misunderstood how it works in classic X apps. You read as if you have never used it in X.
Paste-on-middle-click pastes into the text area that you middle-click on, and nowhere else.
The mechanism is also separate from the usual Cut/Copy/Paste functionality. Middle-click is used to paste the selected text, not what is on the clipboard. It is very fast and convenient, done completely with the mouse. The modality is not broken.
I bet that most people type with both thumbs in landscape mode.
Ars Technica made a video comparing animated transitions in iOS 6 and iOS 7 side by side. The animations in iOS 7 do take longer than those in iOS 6, making the user experience more sluggish.
Direct link to video.
Link to article with the video in it
There has previously been a theory that these mass reoccurring extinctions would have been created by the near passing of a hypothetical star that we would have been unable to detect because it would be on the other side of the Oort cloud.
I suppose that this new finding will debunk that theory for good.
The hypothetical star had been named Nemesis. I know of it only because I ready about it in a novel by Asimov recently.
I would not be surprised if someone would have broken it within mere hours after they have become available.
How long does it take to etch a PCB (mould) and how long does it take for gelatine to cool down (finger cast)? (The method that Mythbusters used)
There is already a classic vintage game called Parallax.
It has lasting fame for having given name to the video game technique Parallax scrolling.
The game's soundtrack by Martin Galway is also a classic, with many covers/remixes made by video game music enthusiasts.
Mammoth-type animals have actually appeared and gone extinct not once, but at about once every ice-age cycle.
That blew my mind when I heard it the first time.
That the last type the mammoths would have gone extinct because of climate change does not seem very far-fetched then, now does it.