Then your knowledge is wrong and you might want to learn more about it. Hint: How much bits do you need to store one decimal digit? Then why do you only need 7 bits (not 2*4) to store a two digit decimal number, hmmm?
I don't know much about the situation in the USA, but in Germany we already have a certain amount of competition. Here's how our normal tiny AA batteries work: - You can buy AA batteries from many different companies - You can charge them at your own wall plug, which is standardized - You can choose among a few electricity providers.
So that's how I imagine the swapping scheme: When you arrive at the swapping station you see a list of the available batteries, sorted by vendor or amount of recharges or expected milage (for your car modell). Swapping in an old battery is cheap, getting a new one costs more.
Also, I don't really understand the problem of "swapping an old battery and then selling the new one". When you buy a car you could make a security deposit for the battery at the recharger station. Ideally, this amount should be included in the price you pay for your car. This deposit is linked to your car ID (but not to your name). So when you got a new battery and sold it you won't be able to get another one for swap, unless you repay your security deposit. (My english isn't that good, but I hope you get the idea)
Simple, the people don't own the batteries. And when you recharge you pay a little extra fee instead of having to buy a battery later. That fee covers the production of new batteries and the recycling of old ones.
Also, instead of these "Did you know that the US Army uses drones"-stories I'd be much more interested in the details on how this is made safe. How much equipment would I have to steal to take controll of a drone or the entire robotics section of the army? Just out of curiosity, of course.;->
So you haven't heard of the incident when amazon deleted a book on a customer device? And that this customer was a student who read nineteen-eighty-four for an important university assignment, annotated the book and then was left with only his then-useless notes and a gift certificate?
This incident was actually the reason why I bought a Hanlin V5, a dead simple ereader without wireless, who displays all important formats: PDF, TXT, RTF, DOC, CHM, FB2, HTM, WOLF, DJVU, LIT, EPUB, PPT, Mobipocket, ZIP, RAR, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, MP3.
Seriously, how could anyone ever buy a kindle? Would you buy from a bookstore, that breaks into your house, rips your post-its out of your book, steals it and leave you a gift certificate?
If you are certified in CPR it would be a bit suspicious if you kill people all the time. But isn't that a bit far fetched? How many psychopaths lurk out there, waiting for people who look like they need CPR but would probably survive without help and kill them?
Also, you don't need to be CPR certified to be allowed to help people. The idea of not charging people who perform bad CPR is to encourage them to help, even if they don't know the correct amount of heart pressures before helping to breath. (Based on some studies even bad CPR is usually better than none at all)
I'm surprised that the USA does not already have a bill like this. In other countries (e.g. Germany) helping people in need is mandatory. You are also encouraged to give CPR and if you fail at it and make it worse you are not charged (otherwise people would be too scared of screwingn up and never administer CPR at all).
That actually exists for emails and is called "Spam Gourmet", where you make up a username that is tied to a real e-mail and which allows you to hand out limited addresses, like slashdotcomment.3.johnrpenner@spamgourmet.com, which will only forward 3 mails to your real address.
Sure, but that's the pop culture definition of "evolve". In the context of biology its basically an abbrevation for "improves from generation to generation because of reproduction, variation and unintended selection". If you create harder to swat mosquitos by only swatting the ones in your room that you actually CAN swat its evolution in the biological sense, since the mosquitos are adapting to the swatter (as opposed to you intending to breed better mosquitos). If a car manufacturer takes the bestselling cars from last year and varies them a bit he is doing this to make them sell better. That's not evolution in the biological sense, at best you could call it "car breeding".;)
If you really like to stick to the chess analogy: Imagine a big chess tournament with 300'000 participants. And then some of the automatic sliding doors in the building get stuck, preventing some people from accessing the playing room. The referee then decides that the people in the room can have as many turns as they like, which makes winning very easy.
Next time you play chess I'll come over, shake the table and make one of your pieces fall down and roll under the couch. Then I'll cry "Oh noes - I just lost an imaginary soldier! I want someone to blame someone now!..."
I mean, its great that they won't give you a refund for your ships if you got them destroyed because of stupidity... but if the network code destroyed your fleet? Isn't that CCP's fault entirely?
Wrong! It would be best if every country was good at science. If the USA stopped their anti science bias ("Evolution isn't real, me saying that climate change is fake is as valid as a climate scientist saying it is!") the whole world would benefit from that. And guess what: that includes the USA, so go ahead!
Since you are the second one who did not understand what I meant I guess it's my fault for not being clear enough. I wasn't talking about "Figure out where North is from looking at your GPS device without using any tricks like moving".
What I meant is that knowing your exact location will allow you to correct the (magnetic) compass reading to figure out where the geographic north pole is. A couple hundred years ago people only needed to do these tedious calculations when sailing close to the poles. What I was imagining is a world where the magnetic poles are so far off that you would have to do the correction no matter where you are. This is where technology comes in: By using GPS in ADDITION to the technology we already have (compasses) we can have an "electronic compass" that has a needle pointing to the geographic pole. So instead of doing calculations by hand you just have a look at your device where a needle graphic shows you the way to go.
If you ask for technical details: Since the newer iPhones will have a (magnetic) compass inside (or so I heard) you could write an app that does the coordinate transformation for you, having it display an old fashioned compass where the needle wiggles a bit when you shake it before returning to pointing north and use that app to show it off at parties, triggering dialogs like "See, the cool thing about this compass is that it actually points to the geographic pole instead of the magnetic one!" "the whtat???!!" "Uhm, never mind".
(Of course, all this speculation is just for entertainment purpose, since the magnetic pole is still close enough to the geographic one so that we can just rely on our old magnetic compasses)
When it comes to "World fastest train" the Transrapid counts. Its a train and it has a top speed of about 500km/h which is over 300 mph.
Ironically, the only Transrapid in commercial use is the one that is also in China. So I guess China now has both the fastest train and the fastest wheel train.
It is actually pretty cool that this happens at the time our technology is so advanced that we can have electronic compasses that simply use GPS to figure out where they are so they can point to the geographic north pole, instead of towards the magnetic one. Imagine how inconvenient it would have been for people if this had happened a view hundred years earlier; they would have to do some extra calculations to navigate their ships.
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Don't forget to tell the neighbours that they need to encrypt their wifi or the kids will simply use that. :)
Then your knowledge is wrong and you might want to learn more about it.
Hint:
How much bits do you need to store one decimal digit?
Then why do you only need 7 bits (not 2*4) to store a two digit decimal number, hmmm?
I don't know much about the situation in the USA, but in Germany we already have a certain amount of competition. Here's how our normal tiny AA batteries work:
- You can buy AA batteries from many different companies
- You can charge them at your own wall plug, which is standardized
- You can choose among a few electricity providers.
So that's how I imagine the swapping scheme:
When you arrive at the swapping station you see a list of the available batteries, sorted by vendor or amount of recharges or expected milage (for your car modell). Swapping in an old battery is cheap, getting a new one costs more.
Also, I don't really understand the problem of "swapping an old battery and then selling the new one". When you buy a car you could make a security deposit for the battery at the recharger station. Ideally, this amount should be included in the price you pay for your car. This deposit is linked to your car ID (but not to your name). So when you got a new battery and sold it you won't be able to get another one for swap, unless you repay your security deposit.
(My english isn't that good, but I hope you get the idea)
So, you haven't seen Mr Deity yet? Also, there's somegreybloke, Defenders of Steve and SMBC theatre.
Wouldn't that mean that only reality is sharp, while the AR from the lenses remains blurry?
Anyway, how do you focus on something that is in your lense? Is that even possible?
Simple, the people don't own the batteries. And when you recharge you pay a little extra fee instead of having to buy a battery later. That fee covers the production of new batteries and the recycling of old ones.
bing does not have a monopoly
I wonder when we'll have remote controlled tanks.
Also, instead of these "Did you know that the US Army uses drones"-stories I'd be much more interested in the details on how this is made safe. How much equipment would I have to steal to take controll of a drone or the entire robotics section of the army? ;->
Just out of curiosity, of course.
Why can't these companies just use two browsers, an old one for their intranet and a new one for everything else?
I mean, neither sticking to an old browser, nor updating your intranet apps makes any sense to me. Why not two browsers?
So you haven't heard of the incident when amazon deleted a book on a customer device? And that this customer was a student who read nineteen-eighty-four for an important university assignment, annotated the book and then was left with only his then-useless notes and a gift certificate?
This incident was actually the reason why I bought a Hanlin V5, a dead simple ereader without wireless, who displays all important formats: PDF, TXT, RTF, DOC, CHM, FB2, HTM, WOLF, DJVU, LIT, EPUB, PPT, Mobipocket, ZIP, RAR, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, MP3.
Seriously, how could anyone ever buy a kindle? Would you buy from a bookstore, that breaks into your house, rips your post-its out of your book, steals it and leave you a gift certificate?
Here, here!
If you are certified in CPR it would be a bit suspicious if you kill people all the time.
But isn't that a bit far fetched? How many psychopaths lurk out there, waiting for people who look like they need CPR but would probably survive without help and kill them?
Also, you don't need to be CPR certified to be allowed to help people. The idea of not charging people who perform bad CPR is to encourage them to help, even if they don't know the correct amount of heart pressures before helping to breath.
(Based on some studies even bad CPR is usually better than none at all)
I'm surprised that the USA does not already have a bill like this. In other countries (e.g. Germany) helping people in need is mandatory. You are also encouraged to give CPR and if you fail at it and make it worse you are not charged (otherwise people would be too scared of screwingn up and never administer CPR at all).
That actually exists for emails and is called "Spam Gourmet", where you make up a username that is tied to a real e-mail and which allows you to hand out limited addresses, like slashdotcomment.3.johnrpenner@spamgourmet.com, which will only forward 3 mails to your real address.
Sure, but that's the pop culture definition of "evolve". ;)
In the context of biology its basically an abbrevation for "improves from generation to generation because of reproduction, variation and unintended selection".
If you create harder to swat mosquitos by only swatting the ones in your room that you actually CAN swat its evolution in the biological sense, since the mosquitos are adapting to the swatter (as opposed to you intending to breed better mosquitos).
If a car manufacturer takes the bestselling cars from last year and varies them a bit he is doing this to make them sell better. That's not evolution in the biological sense, at best you could call it "car breeding".
Oh, you mean that the year in the title isn't the release date, it's the expiry date?
If you really like to stick to the chess analogy:
Imagine a big chess tournament with 300'000 participants. And then some of the automatic sliding doors in the building get stuck, preventing some people from accessing the playing room. The referee then decides that the people in the room can have as many turns as they like, which makes winning very easy.
And no, I neither play Eve nor Chess...
Next time you play chess I'll come over, shake the table and make one of your pieces fall down and roll under the couch. Then I'll cry "Oh noes - I just lost an imaginary soldier! I want someone to blame someone now!..."
That does not really matter at all. It's not about getting a lot of correct digits of Pi.
I mean, its great that they won't give you a refund for your ships if you got them destroyed because of stupidity... but if the network code destroyed your fleet? Isn't that CCP's fault entirely?
Wrong!
It would be best if every country was good at science. If the USA stopped their anti science bias ("Evolution isn't real, me saying that climate change is fake is as valid as a climate scientist saying it is!") the whole world would benefit from that. And guess what: that includes the USA, so go ahead!
Since you are the second one who did not understand what I meant I guess it's my fault for not being clear enough. I wasn't talking about "Figure out where North is from looking at your GPS device without using any tricks like moving".
What I meant is that knowing your exact location will allow you to correct the (magnetic) compass reading to figure out where the geographic north pole is. A couple hundred years ago people only needed to do these tedious calculations when sailing close to the poles. What I was imagining is a world where the magnetic poles are so far off that you would have to do the correction no matter where you are.
This is where technology comes in: By using GPS in ADDITION to the technology we already have (compasses) we can have an "electronic compass" that has a needle pointing to the geographic pole. So instead of doing calculations by hand you just have a look at your device where a needle graphic shows you the way to go.
If you ask for technical details: Since the newer iPhones will have a (magnetic) compass inside (or so I heard) you could write an app that does the coordinate transformation for you, having it display an old fashioned compass where the needle wiggles a bit when you shake it before returning to pointing north and use that app to show it off at parties, triggering dialogs like "See, the cool thing about this compass is that it actually points to the geographic pole instead of the magnetic one!" "the whtat???!!" "Uhm, never mind".
(Of course, all this speculation is just for entertainment purpose, since the magnetic pole is still close enough to the geographic one so that we can just rely on our old magnetic compasses)
When it comes to "World fastest train" the Transrapid counts. Its a train and it has a top speed of about 500km/h which is over 300 mph.
Ironically, the only Transrapid in commercial use is the one that is also in China. So I guess China now has both the fastest train and the fastest wheel train.
Ubj vf guvf n gebyy cbfgvat? ;-C
Fubhyq unir orra "-1 snvyrq gb or vagrerfgvat"
It is actually pretty cool that this happens at the time our technology is so advanced that we can have electronic compasses that simply use GPS to figure out where they are so they can point to the geographic north pole, instead of towards the magnetic one. Imagine how inconvenient it would have been for people if this had happened a view hundred years earlier; they would have to do some extra calculations to navigate their ships.
Yay for technology!