>> That's without even looking at the point that the Bitcoin network can handle, at most, seven transactions per second, under ideal conditions.
This IS a huge issue, and one that needs to be fixed. Generating fixed sized blocks every 10 minutes was and is a major design flaw in the protocol. It doesn't fit with the scale required to meet the financial needs of 8 billion people.
I'm hesitant to call 30 seconds an acceptable window for initial transaction confirmation. 10 minutes is a joke, and the hours it takes for full confirmation now isn't funny at all.
I had that one too, and it's a good phone. Unfortunately it doesn't have a gyro or compass. I got this year's model so I could play with cardboard. Getting Android 7 in the process was a bonus.
The other difference is that the headphone jack is moved to the bottom of the new model.
I travel for work, and rent a lot of brand-spanking-new cars.
Car software is shit. It doesn't matter what brand of car, it's shit.
I get in the car, factory reset the radio, reboot the car, connect Bluetooth, sync contacts, and go. Most recently I did this in a Buick Endeavor. Enabling Android Auto locked up the car entertainment system and I had to reboot the car. Apple car play worked, but bluetooth phone calls only worked 25% of the time when the phone rang while Pandora was open.
That's not an isolated incident. I've locked up the infotainment system on a dozen other rentals. That's extremely frustrating. The best was a Ford Focus that wouldn't reset with a power-off/power-on reset. The system didn't recover until I left it off for an hour.
It's not just new cars, either. I own a Chevy Equinox that won't Bluetooth pair with an iPhone 6. At least it doesn't lock up.
Did Musk make ANY attempt to warn folks that such driving was not responsible, or did he happily enjoy the PR attention that came along with it?
Yes, the car nags you not to do no-hands driving, and in the post-one-drove-under-a-truck-crash software updates have made it more aggressive about annoying you.
The only way to no-nag drive a Tesla hands free now is to hang your water bottle off of the side of the steering wheel.
> Exactly! If I plug 100 into late 2008, when QE first started, That's equivalent to 115 today. Wow.. $15 over 9 years! That's sure a lot of money!
A more clever girl would have taken that money and bought a foreclosure in 2008, then fixed it and rented it out to today. The realtor tells me the house is worth more than double what I paid for it.
Has inflation in housing prices been universal?: I don't know. It _feels_ like it.
>> If you suddenly find a million Euros in there that you weren't expecting and decide to spend it, you stole that money. > Actually not.
It depends on the Country you are in. My understanding is that under the Union Jack it's called "Theft by finding."
The trick with laws is to remember that what is right is not necessarily the law, and what is the law for you is not necessarily the law for someone else.
That's not what they meant. They meant "we could bypass the hybrid immobilizer and run it as an IC only car, but doing so leaves the hybrid system in an unknown state. It's possible, though unlikely, that this could cause a burst-into-flames failure mode."
I feel that Toyota JP will probably pipe up at some point and ask why the family didn't contact them directly. People lose keys, even in Japan. It shouldn't have been thousands of dollars and a hack to fix this.
My Dodge minivan requires a transponder key and I have only one. A second transponder key, programmed by the dealer, is over $200.
I lose stuff, so an irreplaceable key is a bad idea for me. That key is now stuffed inside the plastic housing that covers the lock and I use $2 "dumb" keys instead.
This is a fantastic discovery. It tells us that these systems need to dramatically increase their training sets for sign recognition to include signs that have stickers, bullet holes, dirt, dents, etc. It also tells us that we need to teach the AI to sanity check when it sees a sign. If a stop sign appears on a 70mph highway, then that is suspicious.
Related to this, I quietly hold the opinion that one piece that's missing from AI is a "sheep" behavior. More specifically, when road markings and/or signs are unclear, evaluate the behaviors of other drivers. If the car in front of me followed a specific path and didn't experience sudden deceleration or erratic movement then consider that path as more safe than the unknown. In considering my own driving, I find I use this a great deal.
Yep, that's how it works. The admissions board has "broad discretion" and makes decisions based on academics, the student essay, extracurricular activities, letters of recommendation, and race.
I'm not saying that's how it should be; I'm saying how it is.
Candidly I don't feel that this is the first problem we should work on though. If I could sole one-and-only-one issue with college I'd choose to fix the cost problem long before I worked on admissions.
Paypal only sucks if you've never looked at what it takes to get a merchant account. Before Paypal it cost you a grand, minimum, to accept credit cards.
For Tesla, how many new Electric cars could you buy in the US when they started selling them? It was practically zero. People who wanted an electric car were stuck with having to buy a gasser and converting them.
If you don't consider Tesla's autopilot revolutionary you just aren't paying attention.
> Isn't it a bit like a small aviation company saying they'll test a relatively cheap warplane that goes at 2/3 the speed of a 1960s model (the SR-71)?
No.
It's like a rocket company saying they'll test a rocket that's much cheaper to fly than the competition and carries a heavier payload. There will be demand for it because engineers will look at it and say to themselves "Hey, this lets me fit more stuff on my satellite to make it last longer and work better."
Making a spacecraft last a year longer dramatically improves the cost/earnings math for projects. It's a huge consideration.
The FH will let them put kit out to a further GTO, reducing the amount of fuel the satellite burns to circularize. That leaves more fuel in the satellite, reducing one of the big constraints on the satellite's lifespan. If this lets a customer keep their satellite alie for an extra year or two that's a huge cost savings.
> OK, so the thrust of even 3 full-burn engines over-stresses the vehicle, burn the outboards at 2-at-a-time max thrust, with all others throttled down, then jettison the exhausted engines and ramp up the next 2 to full thrust. > And with a 6-pack - burning 2 at a time, Mars and the Asteroids become real possibilities.
Burning 2 at a time is extremely inefficient. Spend some time in Kerbal Space Program and you'll see why this doesn't work. You want to burn as much of your fuel as close to the ground as possible.
>> And why the hell does volunteer work have anything to do with getting into a university!
Top tier universities have scores of academically qualified candidates. They make the bulk of their decisions on extracurricular activities like volunteer work.
It would be interesting to compare this to android. The Uber app's apk is 30mb courtesy of https://apps.evozi.com/apk-dow... . Unzipping that dumps 97 megs of stuff.
60 MB of java class dex files, 18.2 MB of pseudo XML binary files in \res 11 MB in \lib 5 MB in \assets, half of which is a timezone database and the rest in yada yada.
Can someone reply or PM a download link for the iUber package so I can compare it?
I respectfully submit that by shining a light on this developers will fix it. It's like how old apps used to ask for every permission under the sun. When users started complaining about it they trimmed it down. Same deal here.
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>> That's without even looking at the point that the Bitcoin network can handle, at most, seven transactions per second, under ideal conditions.
This IS a huge issue, and one that needs to be fixed. Generating fixed sized blocks every 10 minutes was and is a major design flaw in the protocol. It doesn't fit with the scale required to meet the financial needs of 8 billion people.
I'm hesitant to call 30 seconds an acceptable window for initial transaction confirmation. 10 minutes is a joke, and the hours it takes for full confirmation now isn't funny at all.
I had that one too, and it's a good phone. Unfortunately it doesn't have a gyro or compass. I got this year's model so I could play with cardboard. Getting Android 7 in the process was a bonus.
The other difference is that the headphone jack is moved to the bottom of the new model.
I just bought this year's J3 for $120. It's an awesome phone and meets my removable battery and MicroSD or no-buy rule.
I've had three at fault accidents in twenty years of driving, and was lucky enough to walk away from all three.
For some of us the "overall lifesaving potential" isn't a hypothetical concept.
I want a self driving car. I'm a terrible driver. This could literally save my life.
I travel for work, and rent a lot of brand-spanking-new cars.
Car software is shit. It doesn't matter what brand of car, it's shit.
I get in the car, factory reset the radio, reboot the car, connect Bluetooth, sync contacts, and go. Most recently I did this in a Buick Endeavor. Enabling Android Auto locked up the car entertainment system and I had to reboot the car. Apple car play worked, but bluetooth phone calls only worked 25% of the time when the phone rang while Pandora was open.
That's not an isolated incident. I've locked up the infotainment system on a dozen other rentals. That's extremely frustrating. The best was a Ford Focus that wouldn't reset with a power-off/power-on reset. The system didn't recover until I left it off for an hour.
It's not just new cars, either. I own a Chevy Equinox that won't Bluetooth pair with an iPhone 6. At least it doesn't lock up.
Did Musk make ANY attempt to warn folks that such driving was not responsible, or did he happily enjoy the PR attention that came along with it?
Yes, the car nags you not to do no-hands driving, and in the post-one-drove-under-a-truck-crash software updates have made it more aggressive about annoying you.
The only way to no-nag drive a Tesla hands free now is to hang your water bottle off of the side of the steering wheel.
> Exactly! If I plug 100 into late 2008, when QE first started, That's equivalent to 115 today. Wow.. $15 over 9 years! That's sure a lot of money!
A more clever girl would have taken that money and bought a foreclosure in 2008, then fixed it and rented it out to today. The realtor tells me the house is worth more than double what I paid for it.
Has inflation in housing prices been universal?: I don't know. It _feels_ like it.
>> If you suddenly find a million Euros in there that you weren't expecting and decide to spend it, you stole that money.
> Actually not.
It depends on the Country you are in. My understanding is that under the Union Jack it's called "Theft by finding."
The trick with laws is to remember that what is right is not necessarily the law, and what is the law for you is not necessarily the law for someone else.
It's not Open source, but I've had great success with their new cloudified product Fusion 360.
Mod parent up for fact-based journalism and actual research.
That's not what they meant. They meant "we could bypass the hybrid immobilizer and run it as an IC only car, but doing so leaves the hybrid system in an unknown state. It's possible, though unlikely, that this could cause a burst-into-flames failure mode."
I feel that Toyota JP will probably pipe up at some point and ask why the family didn't contact them directly. People lose keys, even in Japan. It shouldn't have been thousands of dollars and a hack to fix this.
I do this, with an almost-smart key.
My Dodge minivan requires a transponder key and I have only one. A second transponder key, programmed by the dealer, is over $200.
I lose stuff, so an irreplaceable key is a bad idea for me. That key is now stuffed inside the plastic housing that covers the lock and I use $2 "dumb" keys instead.
Dumb question here. Why do we trust Apple or Samsung parts more than Huwai?
This is a fantastic discovery. It tells us that these systems need to dramatically increase their training sets for sign recognition to include signs that have stickers, bullet holes, dirt, dents, etc. It also tells us that we need to teach the AI to sanity check when it sees a sign. If a stop sign appears on a 70mph highway, then that is suspicious.
Related to this, I quietly hold the opinion that one piece that's missing from AI is a "sheep" behavior. More specifically, when road markings and/or signs are unclear, evaluate the behaviors of other drivers. If the car in front of me followed a specific path and didn't experience sudden deceleration or erratic movement then consider that path as more safe than the unknown. In considering my own driving, I find I use this a great deal.
The backup system is bridge officers paying attention, pass to the right (port) and honk twice if you are going to pass on the left.
It helps that the Ocean is very very big.
> Popularity Contest
Yep, that's how it works. The admissions board has "broad discretion" and makes decisions based on academics, the student essay, extracurricular activities, letters of recommendation, and race.
I'm not saying that's how it should be; I'm saying how it is.
Candidly I don't feel that this is the first problem we should work on though. If I could sole one-and-only-one issue with college I'd choose to fix the cost problem long before I worked on admissions.
Paypal only sucks if you've never looked at what it takes to get a merchant account. Before Paypal it cost you a grand, minimum, to accept credit cards.
For Tesla, how many new Electric cars could you buy in the US when they started selling them? It was practically zero. People who wanted an electric car were stuck with having to buy a gasser and converting them.
If you don't consider Tesla's autopilot revolutionary you just aren't paying attention.
> Isn't it a bit like a small aviation company saying they'll test a relatively cheap warplane that goes at 2/3 the speed of a 1960s model (the SR-71)?
No.
It's like a rocket company saying they'll test a rocket that's much cheaper to fly than the competition and carries a heavier payload. There will be demand for it because engineers will look at it and say to themselves "Hey, this lets me fit more stuff on my satellite to make it last longer and work better."
Making a spacecraft last a year longer dramatically improves the cost/earnings math for projects. It's a huge consideration.
There will be a market for it.
The FH will let them put kit out to a further GTO, reducing the amount of fuel the satellite burns to circularize. That leaves more fuel in the satellite, reducing one of the big constraints on the satellite's lifespan. If this lets a customer keep their satellite alie for an extra year or two that's a huge cost savings.
> OK, so the thrust of even 3 full-burn engines over-stresses the vehicle, burn the outboards at 2-at-a-time max thrust, with all others throttled down, then jettison the exhausted engines and ramp up the next 2 to full thrust.
> And with a 6-pack - burning 2 at a time, Mars and the Asteroids become real possibilities.
Burning 2 at a time is extremely inefficient. Spend some time in Kerbal Space Program and you'll see why this doesn't work. You want to burn as much of your fuel as close to the ground as possible.
>> And why the hell does volunteer work have anything to do with getting into a university!
Top tier universities have scores of academically qualified candidates. They make the bulk of their decisions on extracurricular activities like volunteer work.
I don't agree with it, but it is what it is.
It would be interesting to compare this to android. The Uber app's apk is 30mb courtesy of https://apps.evozi.com/apk-dow... . Unzipping that dumps 97 megs of stuff.
60 MB of java class dex files,
18.2 MB of pseudo XML binary files in \res
11 MB in \lib
5 MB in \assets, half of which is a timezone database
and the rest in yada yada.
Can someone reply or PM a download link for the iUber package so I can compare it?
I respectfully submit that by shining a light on this developers will fix it. It's like how old apps used to ask for every permission under the sun. When users started complaining about it they trimmed it down. Same deal here.
SQL server 2017 is one.