I'm curious why you don't feel that a screen is an important component of a portable computer.
Does running Linux on top instead of below mean that you want to boot into Linux instead of running it in an emulator?
Apple recently switched to OLED displays in their iPhone X. Although OLED have much better contrast and better blacks, they are supposed to have a shorter life span due to their organic components.
Earth develops the warp engine and can travel 10,000 times the speed of light. A planet is discovered containing extra terrestrials with technology as advanced as the Native Americans were in the 1700s. How do you think the people of Earth would treat them? If the alein planet were found to be rich in a valuable natural resource, do you think this would change Earth's reaction?
I think not owning a car will catch on a lot faster in dense urban areas than more rural areas. It will probably be faster to get vehicle in dense areas. People in denser areas are probably more likely to feel that owning a car is a burden and would find a quick, cheap, driverless taxi more freeing.
In rural areas where there's already plenty of parking and everyone is spread out and the taxi fleet is more spread out, the service will probably be slower and less desireable.
I'd like JavaScript to start heading the way of Flash and eventually be disabled by default in web browsers. We'd probably need something to replace it first, though â" something that doesn't have quite the power that JavaScript has.
My old laptop runs a lot cooler after installing NoScript and only enabling scripts for domains as-needed.
Even though its processor is three generations old, it's still faster than the more expensive 12-inch MacBook. It has more ports than the 12-inch MacBook. And the MacBook Air is the only remaining laptop with the best feature of an Apple laptop â" MagSafe. With MagSafe you can trip on the power cord or try to run off with your laptop without unplugging it first without mangling the power connector and the power port. My computer wouldn't have lasted 10 years without it.
If this technology turns out to be good and useful, it might expand to places that compete with airlines like from Chicago to NYC. It's best to stamp out potential competitors before they become profitable.
modern fashion in cars with their blunt backs and very flat windscreens that make the car so hot you need air con on even moderately hot days, let alone the desert.
This is exaggeration, right? I don't think air friction causes much heat unless you're breaking the sound barrier.
I prefer having a separate device for music anyway. I don't want my car speakers to pause and chime when I get a text. I don't want my music to pause when I use Siri to ask for directions. I want to have the option to turn the volume down instead of being force to pause it when I get a phone call.
It seems obvious that an internet service provider would be a telecom, considering that the internet is simply a tool for remote communication. What else would you classify an ISP as?
It has a 100-meter (330-foot) range and can handle up to 5 simultaneous phone calls and thousands of SMS messages.
People will have to take turns, but it's better than nothing.
A half-liter of water is a very common size of bottled water. Hard liquor is measured only with mL labels; the bottles do never mention ounces anywhere. I think common bottle sizes are 200, 250, and 750 mL. According to the metric conversion act, America is a metric country.
As an American, I am familiar with both systems. They teach us metric in school, and we use metric exclusively in high school science classes. I memorized all those high school physics constants in metric (the acceleration caused by gravity is 9.81m/s^2). I can convert between miles and kilometers, feet and meters, and pounds and kilograms approximately in my head. The reason Americans use standard units is because all our recipes are in standard units, our major roads are spaced 1 mile apart, our speed limit signs are in MPH, our cars report speeds in MPH in large characters (k/h in smaller characters), our thermostats give temperature in Fahrenheit (digital ones have a non-default option to switch to Celsius), and food in the produce and deli departments are sold by either the pound or ounce. It would be very inconvenient to switch to metrics while nearly everything sold in stores and all our infrastructure is in American standard units. We would have to convert everything everyday. It's much easier to say the speed limit is 40 mph (rather than 64 k/h) since all the signs are in mph. Why should anyone go through the extra work of dividing by 5 and multiplying by 8 to get k/p when the signs are listed in mph and all your friends are used to mph? Metric would eventually be used by in everyday language if all of our equipment, speed limit signs, etc used it. When I go to Mexico, I use k/h because all the signs there use it. When in Rome and all. We don't have to use metric just because nearly everyone else in the world does. We're free to use whatever system we want.
Additionally, you may think a federal (national) law could get all our speed limit signs converted to k/p, but I believe each state (similar to a province) has authority over its own roads. Over the history of America, the federal government has become more and more powerful - assuming many powers of the states. States don't like the federal governments taking their rights and powers from them. If the U.S. government really wanted us to switch our speed limit signs to metric, they would have to pay the states lots of money. In the past, the U.S. government enforced a national speed limit of 55 mph by giving lots of money to states who kept all their roads speed limit at or under 55 mph.
Congress could force manufacturers to label products in only metric if there was a rich special interest lobbyist group that was really in favor of metric. A rich metric lobbyist group would be the most important thing to get our country to convert to metric. Large-scale public support would be second. Without either of those, congress doesn't have much interest to care. Many congress member are older people, and older people tend to have contempt for change. And perhaps more importantly, a large number of their constituents may see banning American standard units as interfering way too much in their day-to-day lives.
tl;dr - we use metric because all of our stuff and nearly everyone we know uses it. congress has no reason to enforce change.
When I read the headline, I thought it meant risk of homeland security deciding your a terrorist – like what happened to that dude who wrote a stupid blog post and got a warrantless tracking device installed on his car by the authorities.
If they're talking about computer viruses. just don't install the things. It's not that difficult to not install a virus.
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I'm curious why you don't feel that a screen is an important component of a portable computer. Does running Linux on top instead of below mean that you want to boot into Linux instead of running it in an emulator?
Apple recently switched to OLED displays in their iPhone X. Although OLED have much better contrast and better blacks, they are supposed to have a shorter life span due to their organic components.
Earth develops the warp engine and can travel 10,000 times the speed of light. A planet is discovered containing extra terrestrials with technology as advanced as the Native Americans were in the 1700s. How do you think the people of Earth would treat them? If the alein planet were found to be rich in a valuable natural resource, do you think this would change Earth's reaction?
I think not owning a car will catch on a lot faster in dense urban areas than more rural areas. It will probably be faster to get vehicle in dense areas. People in denser areas are probably more likely to feel that owning a car is a burden and would find a quick, cheap, driverless taxi more freeing. In rural areas where there's already plenty of parking and everyone is spread out and the taxi fleet is more spread out, the service will probably be slower and less desireable.
I'd like JavaScript to start heading the way of Flash and eventually be disabled by default in web browsers. We'd probably need something to replace it first, though â" something that doesn't have quite the power that JavaScript has. My old laptop runs a lot cooler after installing NoScript and only enabling scripts for domains as-needed.
The drive through is often the fast lane and going indoors to order is the slow lane. The drive through customers usually take priority.
Even though its processor is three generations old, it's still faster than the more expensive 12-inch MacBook. It has more ports than the 12-inch MacBook. And the MacBook Air is the only remaining laptop with the best feature of an Apple laptop â" MagSafe. With MagSafe you can trip on the power cord or try to run off with your laptop without unplugging it first without mangling the power connector and the power port. My computer wouldn't have lasted 10 years without it.
This "bot policy" is discriminatory in nature. This is not the America our forefathers envisioned.
I trust the lava lamps to be random more than I trust the CPU.
I thought their eyes looked kind of of at first, but then I google imaged "faces". The neural network faces look less "off" than the real thing.
These faces are a lot less scary than previous neural-network human faces attempts. https://www.fastcodesign.com/3...
If this technology turns out to be good and useful, it might expand to places that compete with airlines like from Chicago to NYC. It's best to stamp out potential competitors before they become profitable.
Oh, I see. Windshields aren't as vertical as they used to be, so more sunlight gets shines in.
modern fashion in cars with their blunt backs and very flat windscreens that make the car so hot you need air con on even moderately hot days, let alone the desert.
This is exaggeration, right? I don't think air friction causes much heat unless you're breaking the sound barrier.
I prefer having a separate device for music anyway. I don't want my car speakers to pause and chime when I get a text. I don't want my music to pause when I use Siri to ask for directions. I want to have the option to turn the volume down instead of being force to pause it when I get a phone call.
It seems obvious that an internet service provider would be a telecom, considering that the internet is simply a tool for remote communication. What else would you classify an ISP as?
You can't link to his comment; that's copyright infringement. Billly Gates' lawyer is preparing to sue you for millions as we speak!
It has a 100-meter (330-foot) range and can handle up to 5 simultaneous phone calls and thousands of SMS messages. People will have to take turns, but it's better than nothing.
Does mining bitcoins count as profit if you're spending much more money in electricity costs to run your mining rig?
I've never heard of a hundred weight before. I'm American.
A half-liter of water is a very common size of bottled water. Hard liquor is measured only with mL labels; the bottles do never mention ounces anywhere. I think common bottle sizes are 200, 250, and 750 mL. According to the metric conversion act, America is a metric country.
As an American, I am familiar with both systems. They teach us metric in school, and we use metric exclusively in high school science classes. I memorized all those high school physics constants in metric (the acceleration caused by gravity is 9.81m/s^2). I can convert between miles and kilometers, feet and meters, and pounds and kilograms approximately in my head. The reason Americans use standard units is because all our recipes are in standard units, our major roads are spaced 1 mile apart, our speed limit signs are in MPH, our cars report speeds in MPH in large characters (k/h in smaller characters), our thermostats give temperature in Fahrenheit (digital ones have a non-default option to switch to Celsius), and food in the produce and deli departments are sold by either the pound or ounce. It would be very inconvenient to switch to metrics while nearly everything sold in stores and all our infrastructure is in American standard units. We would have to convert everything everyday. It's much easier to say the speed limit is 40 mph (rather than 64 k/h) since all the signs are in mph. Why should anyone go through the extra work of dividing by 5 and multiplying by 8 to get k/p when the signs are listed in mph and all your friends are used to mph? Metric would eventually be used by in everyday language if all of our equipment, speed limit signs, etc used it. When I go to Mexico, I use k/h because all the signs there use it. When in Rome and all. We don't have to use metric just because nearly everyone else in the world does. We're free to use whatever system we want.
Additionally, you may think a federal (national) law could get all our speed limit signs converted to k/p, but I believe each state (similar to a province) has authority over its own roads. Over the history of America, the federal government has become more and more powerful - assuming many powers of the states. States don't like the federal governments taking their rights and powers from them. If the U.S. government really wanted us to switch our speed limit signs to metric, they would have to pay the states lots of money. In the past, the U.S. government enforced a national speed limit of 55 mph by giving lots of money to states who kept all their roads speed limit at or under 55 mph.
Congress could force manufacturers to label products in only metric if there was a rich special interest lobbyist group that was really in favor of metric. A rich metric lobbyist group would be the most important thing to get our country to convert to metric. Large-scale public support would be second. Without either of those, congress doesn't have much interest to care. Many congress member are older people, and older people tend to have contempt for change. And perhaps more importantly, a large number of their constituents may see banning American standard units as interfering way too much in their day-to-day lives.
tl;dr - we use metric because all of our stuff and nearly everyone we know uses it. congress has no reason to enforce change.
They would cancel each other out, creating a small explosion.
When I read the headline, I thought it meant risk of homeland security deciding your a terrorist – like what happened to that dude who wrote a stupid blog post and got a warrantless tracking device installed on his car by the authorities.
If they're talking about computer viruses. just don't install the things. It's not that difficult to not install a virus.
What's wrong with pounds and inches? What is so unscientific about them? NASA uses pounds and inches.