Google is most likely getting the best chips out of Intel's standard production.
I should also note that Intel is guaranteeing these processors will survive at temperatures 5 degrees higher. They may not even sort through the processors they sell to Google. They are just betting that they will survive based on failure statistics they already have.
They may have a higher failure rate with a 5 degree increase in temperature, but the cost of the warantee replacements is more than offset by the premium they charge Google.
The key point is that Intel isn't custom making these processors, they are just playing games with the failure statistics.
Legend has it that the Celeron processor began its life as a way for Intel to make money off of the Pentiums that didn't pass quality control. If they sell the low performing processors at a discount, why shouldn't they sell the over performing ones at a premium?
Google is most likely getting the best chips out of Intel's standard production. It's akin to sorting out the best bananas at the grocery store. This sort of privilege happens when you buy enough products from a supplier.
If they were demanding much more than 5 degrees then I would say they are getting custom made chips, but I don't think that's the case.
It's a scientific study, and therefore qualifies as news for nerds.
Besides, this nerd enjoys drowning a few worms every now and again.
On a side note: My step brother used to claim that sticking two wire coat hangers in the ground and connecting them to a wall outlet would yield a bunch of worms. I never tried it.
Usually it's the donors who give a large chunk of building costs that decide the new facilities should be super-fancy.
Correct, your typical university doesn't use tuition to build buildings, etc. It's typically setup in the University bylaws (it might even be a real law) that tuition has to only cover the costs of the education, and that money cannot be used for capital improvements. However, when a generous alum builds a fancy new building on campus, it is up to the university to maintain it. These maintenance funds can be part of the tuition.
Something to think about should you ever decide to buy your alma mater a shiny new particle accelerator.
It's also worth noting that these iPhones/pods are't capital expenditures, and therefore can be included in tuition.
I think the school in question is a private religious institution, ergo no tax money being spent...
Wrong! The government cannot fund the university directly, but it can provide it's students financial aid (the Pell Grant I linked to being just one way) to help them with the cost of tuition. The financial aid the students receive of course gets paid to the university. It's unlikely that a wealthy alumni donated funds to buy each student an iPod. (they would likely encourage such alumni to buy them a new lecture hall or dorm instead) The funds almost certainly come from the tuition. Therefore, at least some of your tax dollars bought those iPods/iPhones.
I went to a private religious university, I can assure you, they do receive government money. They just don't receive as much.
get your robot to talk to thousands of potential matches at once and alert you when it gets hold of a phone number, together with a brief summary of what you talked about, and any pictures. (Or indeed, just program it to harvest pictures.)
study Jabberwocky's code in order to learn the logic patterns used to 'woo the ladies'.
I was just going to use Jabberwacky (! Jabberwocky) to do all of the tedious small talk and then take over after she agrees to meet. Similar to the way I used MMO Glider to do all of the tedious stuff in Wacraft, and then take over when it gets interesting.
- Accelerate to your target speed quickly. Spending time slowly accelerating up to it wastes fuel.
This highly depends on what kind of car you are driving. It mostly applies to spark ignition cars with manual transmissions and very little low end torque.
The throttle body on a spark ignition engine reduces output in two ways, it reduces the amount of air and fuel entering the cylinder, and it increases the pumping work required for the engine to breathe. This increase in pumping work is a major inefficiency in spark ignition engines, and is one of the reasons direct injection and diesel engines achieve better fuel economy.
Engine speed is also critical as your engine will be pumping more air/fuel with greater engine speed for a given throttle position.
Therefore, the best way to accelerate in most cars is with the engine speed low and the throttle wide open to eliminate throttling losses. This isn't possible in most automatic transmissions as they automatically downshift to a lower gear (increasing engine speed) when you open the throttle all of the way.
Vehicles with large amounts of low end torque (mostly trucks, some sports cars like a Corvette) are one possible exception to this rule as they are designed to move air and fuel more rapidly at low engine speeds.
Really, it's quite like sudo. The problem is that users and developers weren't used to this type of security. They need to adapt, not Micosoft. Microsoft got it right for once.
Really, the big problem is that Windows wasn't setup with security in mind in the first place. When Microsoft started to add security, they discovered that the developers were abusing administrator privileges. Sooner or later this was going to happen.
Between using Windows and Linux, I've noticed that Windows is becoming more Linux/Unix like with every release. With XP the Documents and Settings folder really started to feel like/home. Unfortunately, the occasional program would still try to save user information in Program Files. Now when we make Program Files an administrator only area we have problems.
The UAC issue is an issue that every company has when it does something wrong and tries to fix it. The users and developers get used to doing it the wrong way and it's very difficult to get them to do it right. Microsoft has to go through this pain if it wants to be a serious operating system.
I've seen similar problems in manufacturing. When we try to bring a process under control, the operator at that station will resist and say, "but I've been doing it that way for 20 years!" Then we have to explain that they have been doing it wrong for 20 years. It's very difficult to change your way of doing this after that long. Some companies have tried, but weren't successful. It's painful at the moment, but it will improve. Windows will become a better product because of it.
I know most people hate it, but I actually thought UAC was Vista's most redeeming quality. I think it's a shame that Microsoft actually tried to make an OS that was secure by default only to have people immediately disable it.
I think it would be better if Microsoft implemented something closer to sudo or su, but I think people would complain about that too.
many of the subjects, especially among the female photos, appeared to be frowning or pouting in the original picture, and the modified picture turned up the corners of the mouth into more of a smile.
I agree, It's most notable on these before and after pictures.
There are many parts of the world that don't have aerial photographs available (look at Google maps of GreenBay, WI; or Bowling Green, KY). This will improve Google Maps for people in those areas dramatically.
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Google is most likely getting the best chips out of Intel's standard production.
I should also note that Intel is guaranteeing these processors will survive at temperatures 5 degrees higher. They may not even sort through the processors they sell to Google. They are just betting that they will survive based on failure statistics they already have. They may have a higher failure rate with a 5 degree increase in temperature, but the cost of the warantee replacements is more than offset by the premium they charge Google.
The key point is that Intel isn't custom making these processors, they are just playing games with the failure statistics.
Legend has it that the Celeron processor began its life as a way for Intel to make money off of the Pentiums that didn't pass quality control. If they sell the low performing processors at a discount, why shouldn't they sell the over performing ones at a premium?
Wouldn't Intel run into physical limitations
Google is most likely getting the best chips out of Intel's standard production. It's akin to sorting out the best bananas at the grocery store. This sort of privilege happens when you buy enough products from a supplier.
If they were demanding much more than 5 degrees then I would say they are getting custom made chips, but I don't think that's the case.
It's a scientific study, and therefore qualifies as news for nerds.
Besides, this nerd enjoys drowning a few worms every now and again.
On a side note: My step brother used to claim that sticking two wire coat hangers in the ground and connecting them to a wall outlet would yield a bunch of worms. I never tried it.
I don't think they thought this through at all.
Yeah, I mean, how is software supposed to hold a cell phone. You would think that would be something only hardware can do.
Maybe they count like this:
1, 2, skip a few, 95, XP!
Even though the software can recognise the cats 87% of the time...
On a side note, I'm currently using this technology to automate the process of herding cats.
Honestly, I just wish they would pick a naming convention and stick with it.
Usually it's the donors who give a large chunk of building costs that decide the new facilities should be super-fancy.
Correct, your typical university doesn't use tuition to build buildings, etc. It's typically setup in the University bylaws (it might even be a real law) that tuition has to only cover the costs of the education, and that money cannot be used for capital improvements. However, when a generous alum builds a fancy new building on campus, it is up to the university to maintain it. These maintenance funds can be part of the tuition.
Something to think about should you ever decide to buy your alma mater a shiny new particle accelerator.
It's also worth noting that these iPhones/pods are't capital expenditures, and therefore can be included in tuition.
I think the school in question is a private religious institution, ergo no tax money being spent...
Wrong! The government cannot fund the university directly, but it can provide it's students financial aid (the Pell Grant I linked to being just one way) to help them with the cost of tuition. The financial aid the students receive of course gets paid to the university. It's unlikely that a wealthy alumni donated funds to buy each student an iPod. (they would likely encourage such alumni to buy them a new lecture hall or dorm instead) The funds almost certainly come from the tuition. Therefore, at least some of your tax dollars bought those iPods/iPhones.
I went to a private religious university, I can assure you, they do receive government money. They just don't receive as much.
ACU pays for the hardware, student (or their parents) select and pay for their monthly AT&T service plan.
Students, parents, and taxpayers pay for the hardware, student (or their parents) select and pay for their monthly AT&T service plan.
There, fixed it for ya!
I'm also glad to see my tax dollars hard at work buying kids iPhones, when I don't even have one.
What if they both really are computers?
get your robot to talk to thousands of potential matches at once and alert you when it gets hold of a phone number, together with a brief summary of what you talked about, and any pictures. (Or indeed, just program it to harvest pictures.)
I would go a step further and have it filter out the ugly ones.
study Jabberwocky's code in order to learn the logic patterns used to 'woo the ladies'.
I was just going to use Jabberwacky (! Jabberwocky) to do all of the tedious small talk and then take over after she agrees to meet. Similar to the way I used MMO Glider to do all of the tedious stuff in Wacraft, and then take over when it gets interesting.
I'm just glad Doc Brown gave up time travel to study the other great mystery of the universe.
- Accelerate to your target speed quickly. Spending time slowly accelerating up to it wastes fuel.
This highly depends on what kind of car you are driving. It mostly applies to spark ignition cars with manual transmissions and very little low end torque.
The throttle body on a spark ignition engine reduces output in two ways, it reduces the amount of air and fuel entering the cylinder, and it increases the pumping work required for the engine to breathe. This increase in pumping work is a major inefficiency in spark ignition engines, and is one of the reasons direct injection and diesel engines achieve better fuel economy.
Engine speed is also critical as your engine will be pumping more air/fuel with greater engine speed for a given throttle position.
Therefore, the best way to accelerate in most cars is with the engine speed low and the throttle wide open to eliminate throttling losses. This isn't possible in most automatic transmissions as they automatically downshift to a lower gear (increasing engine speed) when you open the throttle all of the way.
Vehicles with large amounts of low end torque (mostly trucks, some sports cars like a Corvette) are one possible exception to this rule as they are designed to move air and fuel more rapidly at low engine speeds.
personally I think they got it right with UAC. That won't stop people from complaining though, as we've seen...
It's not so much that people don't like UAC, they just don't like change. It takes a while for people to realize that they are better off changing.
Really, it's quite like sudo. The problem is that users and developers weren't used to this type of security. They need to adapt, not Micosoft. Microsoft got it right for once.
Really, the big problem is that Windows wasn't setup with security in mind in the first place. When Microsoft started to add security, they discovered that the developers were abusing administrator privileges. Sooner or later this was going to happen.
/home. Unfortunately, the occasional program would still try to save user information in Program Files. Now when we make Program Files an administrator only area we have problems.
Between using Windows and Linux, I've noticed that Windows is becoming more Linux/Unix like with every release. With XP the Documents and Settings folder really started to feel like
The UAC issue is an issue that every company has when it does something wrong and tries to fix it. The users and developers get used to doing it the wrong way and it's very difficult to get them to do it right. Microsoft has to go through this pain if it wants to be a serious operating system.
I've seen similar problems in manufacturing. When we try to bring a process under control, the operator at that station will resist and say, "but I've been doing it that way for 20 years!" Then we have to explain that they have been doing it wrong for 20 years. It's very difficult to change your way of doing this after that long. Some companies have tried, but weren't successful. It's painful at the moment, but it will improve. Windows will become a better product because of it.
I know most people hate it, but I actually thought UAC was Vista's most redeeming quality. I think it's a shame that Microsoft actually tried to make an OS that was secure by default only to have people immediately disable it.
I think it would be better if Microsoft implemented something closer to sudo or su, but I think people would complain about that too.
My first impression was, "it looks a lot like the moon."
many of the subjects, especially among the female photos, appeared to be frowning or pouting in the original picture, and the modified picture turned up the corners of the mouth into more of a smile.
I agree, It's most notable on these before and after pictures.
There are many parts of the world that don't have aerial photographs available (look at Google maps of GreenBay, WI; or Bowling Green, KY). This will improve Google Maps for people in those areas dramatically.
Nevermind, I get it now. This solves two problems, getting to the water, and purifying it.
It seems nice and all, but the lifestraw is a much more elegant solution to the problem.