Dodged evidently doesn't mean it was going to hit it and they moved it out of the way. It was actually a "close approach" as stated in the summary (gotta love sensationalism, right?). Except, close approach actually means within 700' of the defunct satellite, which really isn't all the close at all.
Some guy mined a bit coin using the computers he had lying around not in use. It took him 15 days with 2 machines w/ AMD graphic cards. He spent 5 hours setting it up and 24$ of electricity to mint a single coin.
So were the scientists at the chemical companies right or were the 3 million people who signed a petition right? Did an emotional outcry of ignorance just stop the use of something harmless? Guess we'll know in a couple of years... maybe.
Seriously, I wonder what kind of goodies are in there. Furthermore, I wonder how long till this becomes a "Receipt of Unsolicited Merchandise via mail" vs EULA/ToS case?
I started to get offended at this broad generalization that experts can't make accurate estimates. And then I realized that no where in the summary does it say anything as to the absolute value of anything. It uses phrases like "extremely accurate" or "extremely confident". If someone takes a 1,000 hour project, and predicts it will take 1002 hours +/- 1 hour, is that a failure? Or does the OP mean the expert says 1,000 hour project is predicted to take 10 hours +/-1 hour is a failure. What is this confidence? Is this 99.99%? Is this 51%? An adverb and a verb without a point of reference is useless. But man, does it sure sound good!
I know Slashdot likes to confuse us with it's hyperlink placement, but I just feel like pointing out that puting the link to TFA on the text "a city that more closely resembles the real world" makes absolutely no sense. That's where a link to a story about the Nissan Leaf DLC should go, at best. The very next sentence, "That's undoubtedly why EA decided to partner with Crest Toothpaste. Yes, toothpaste." is where the hyperlink to go since the hyperlink leads to.... a story about Crest Toothpaste DLC!
I mean, come on! Is no one doing basic proofreading here?
No, no they aren't doing basic proof reading and editing. They've learned that we will accept a very low standard of editing and still visit the site. Just like EA has learned they can treat people like crap and those same people will still buy their games.
The story here is they made a really small INU & timing module. AHRS/IMU/INU (among other acronyms) have been around for a very long time. This is simply a very, very, small one, that is probably cheaper to produce than exsiting MEMS systems. Of course, it won't have the accuracy of the larger systems, but that's part of the trade offs.
a new renewable energy source. All we have to do is put some magnets on our founding father and the amount of energy they exert spinning in their graves over this and things like this would power the whole united states with some to spare.
If we heard about this before the festival? I have to think a lot of the people who would be interested in actually watching this video who live in Texas would have been interested in going to this festival. I understand it's not SXSW, but do you think we could squeeze an article between the global warming and slashervertisements for neat things like this so we could go to them instead of watching a video about someone else having all the fun?
Funny, I'm still waiting to see the long term solution for the waste of coal plants. And no, existing as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere doesn't count.
"Gold ammo" can be bought with credits or gold. It is something the changed in a patch a while back. Although if you feel that what you buy with creds is "air gun pellets" you aren't playing the game right. Learning to shoot tanks in their weak parts is part of the game.
Not all free to play games are "rape you for useless crap". Games such as World of Tanks have a very reasonable balance between being free and having a premium side. It's an MMO, so there's constant development work (new maps, new tank lines, etc) that you don't have to buy expansions to get (an improvement over most MMOs where you had to buy the expansions or you fall our of date and can no longer really play with your friends. You aren't required to buy anything, many people play w/ buying gold or a premium account.
What can gold buy you? Premium account (increase XP and credits per battle so faster unlocking of tanks), more tank slots, and some premium tanks. None of which are really required. The premium tanks while nice, are not useful in the "end game" of clan wars. So you don't "need gold to compete".
It's a very nice model that is well removed from the typical "farmville" crap.
For problems where you need floating point AND is not multithread friendly AND need large computing power AND is specially coded, then this will be of great use. However, most massive computing problems like this are multi-thread friendly and this will still be roughly an order of magnitude from the speeds you can get by using a GPU.
While I agree with the content of your post, (you get what you pay for), the premise (that I chose to stay at each) is wrong. I didn't (directly) chose where I stayed in either of the above. When you travel for work, it's often someone else who is picking your hotel for you. When I travel for personal reasons, I generally stay somewhere between the two examples listed above. I can afford to spend more than the 50$ a night el cheapo, but can't afford the 400$ a night luxury rooms.
There is a difference between interacting with an average human and interaction with someone getting paid minimum wage. There's no value added by the later.
On two recent trips I had drastically different experiences. Front desk clerk at a cheaper hotel took 25 minutes to check in the three people in our group. We asked about simple things like which of the three restaurants next to the hotel was better and he couldn't even tell us what restaurants were next to the hotel. The second was at a much nicer hotel. The person behind the counter was clearly paid more, smiled, and was very nice. It took them all of about 10 minutes to get all four rooms of the group checked in, including changing floors for one of them. They also made some great recommendations for food.
What people want is value added. I'd never check in via a kiosk for the second hotel, but I'd be very glad to check in via a kiosk at the first. Not wanting interaction with idiots isn't the same as not wanting interaction with people.
Cheat codes? Or you went and downloaded a "trainer"? Seriously, what the hell is this crap where I don't own the game I bought? You want to run a freemium game? Great! I'll happily support the developers for that business model. I will not however buy "half" of a game.
It's about sounding "science", as much as it a well defined scientific concept. An inverted pendulum is a well defined controls problem, where you take an unstable system and make it stable with your control laws. This is often solved in one dimension as part of undergraduate controls classwork with a cart and a stick balanced above it. The description of throwing and catching inverted pendulums perfectly describes what they are doing.
On the other hand, if they said they were throwing and catching a stick, I'd assume they were simply catching it. The balancing the unstable system with their control laws would not be assumed. Hope this helps.
The 27" Korean's are nice screens. For the most part they are the A- grade of the same ones going in to monitors that are twice to 3 times as much. You might have to live with a dead pixel or two, but I doubt you'll be disappointed.
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Dodged evidently doesn't mean it was going to hit it and they moved it out of the way. It was actually a "close approach" as stated in the summary (gotta love sensationalism, right?). Except, close approach actually means within 700' of the defunct satellite, which really isn't all the close at all.
Some guy mined a bit coin using the computers he had lying around not in use. It took him 15 days with 2 machines w/ AMD graphic cards. He spent 5 hours setting it up and 24$ of electricity to mint a single coin.
So were the scientists at the chemical companies right or were the 3 million people who signed a petition right? Did an emotional outcry of ignorance just stop the use of something harmless? Guess we'll know in a couple of years... maybe.
Seriously, I wonder what kind of goodies are in there. Furthermore, I wonder how long till this becomes a "Receipt of Unsolicited Merchandise via mail" vs EULA/ToS case?
I started to get offended at this broad generalization that experts can't make accurate estimates. And then I realized that no where in the summary does it say anything as to the absolute value of anything. It uses phrases like "extremely accurate" or "extremely confident". If someone takes a 1,000 hour project, and predicts it will take 1002 hours +/- 1 hour, is that a failure? Or does the OP mean the expert says 1,000 hour project is predicted to take 10 hours +/-1 hour is a failure. What is this confidence? Is this 99.99%? Is this 51%? An adverb and a verb without a point of reference is useless. But man, does it sure sound good!
Funny, I thought it was called terrorism. Although I really have no idea what the word means anymore.
I know Slashdot likes to confuse us with it's hyperlink placement, but I just feel like pointing out that puting the link to TFA on the text "a city that more closely resembles the real world" makes absolutely no sense. That's where a link to a story about the Nissan Leaf DLC should go, at best. The very next sentence, "That's undoubtedly why EA decided to partner with Crest Toothpaste. Yes, toothpaste." is where the hyperlink to go since the hyperlink leads to.... a story about Crest Toothpaste DLC! I mean, come on! Is no one doing basic proofreading here?
No, no they aren't doing basic proof reading and editing. They've learned that we will accept a very low standard of editing and still visit the site. Just like EA has learned they can treat people like crap and those same people will still buy their games.
IANAL, and I haven't checked the license, but I suspect you legally don't own rights that can be passed on upon your death.
I don't care, I'm self centered and dead option?
The story here is they made a really small INU & timing module. AHRS/IMU/INU (among other acronyms) have been around for a very long time. This is simply a very, very, small one, that is probably cheaper to produce than exsiting MEMS systems. Of course, it won't have the accuracy of the larger systems, but that's part of the trade offs.
a new renewable energy source. All we have to do is put some magnets on our founding father and the amount of energy they exert spinning in their graves over this and things like this would power the whole united states with some to spare.
If we heard about this before the festival? I have to think a lot of the people who would be interested in actually watching this video who live in Texas would have been interested in going to this festival. I understand it's not SXSW, but do you think we could squeeze an article between the global warming and slashervertisements for neat things like this so we could go to them instead of watching a video about someone else having all the fun?
This debugs the algorithm, not the software, nor the hardware used. There is an enormous difference.
Funny, I'm still waiting to see the long term solution for the waste of coal plants. And no, existing as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere doesn't count.
"The statement was accompanied by a photo"
So how about a damn link to the photo since TFA doesn't have a copy?
"Gold ammo" can be bought with credits or gold. It is something the changed in a patch a while back. Although if you feel that what you buy with creds is "air gun pellets" you aren't playing the game right. Learning to shoot tanks in their weak parts is part of the game.
Not all free to play games are "rape you for useless crap". Games such as World of Tanks have a very reasonable balance between being free and having a premium side. It's an MMO, so there's constant development work (new maps, new tank lines, etc) that you don't have to buy expansions to get (an improvement over most MMOs where you had to buy the expansions or you fall our of date and can no longer really play with your friends. You aren't required to buy anything, many people play w/ buying gold or a premium account.
What can gold buy you? Premium account (increase XP and credits per battle so faster unlocking of tanks), more tank slots, and some premium tanks. None of which are really required. The premium tanks while nice, are not useful in the "end game" of clan wars. So you don't "need gold to compete".
It's a very nice model that is well removed from the typical "farmville" crap.
For problems where you need floating point AND is not multithread friendly AND need large computing power AND is specially coded, then this will be of great use. However, most massive computing problems like this are multi-thread friendly and this will still be roughly an order of magnitude from the speeds you can get by using a GPU.
BRB... Need to go trademark myself....
Am I the only one who read that as "Ok now how about an Ego version"?
While I agree with the content of your post, (you get what you pay for), the premise (that I chose to stay at each) is wrong. I didn't (directly) chose where I stayed in either of the above. When you travel for work, it's often someone else who is picking your hotel for you. When I travel for personal reasons, I generally stay somewhere between the two examples listed above. I can afford to spend more than the 50$ a night el cheapo, but can't afford the 400$ a night luxury rooms.
There is a difference between interacting with an average human and interaction with someone getting paid minimum wage. There's no value added by the later.
On two recent trips I had drastically different experiences. Front desk clerk at a cheaper hotel took 25 minutes to check in the three people in our group. We asked about simple things like which of the three restaurants next to the hotel was better and he couldn't even tell us what restaurants were next to the hotel. The second was at a much nicer hotel. The person behind the counter was clearly paid more, smiled, and was very nice. It took them all of about 10 minutes to get all four rooms of the group checked in, including changing floors for one of them. They also made some great recommendations for food.
What people want is value added. I'd never check in via a kiosk for the second hotel, but I'd be very glad to check in via a kiosk at the first. Not wanting interaction with idiots isn't the same as not wanting interaction with people.
Cheat codes? Or you went and downloaded a "trainer"? Seriously, what the hell is this crap where I don't own the game I bought? You want to run a freemium game? Great! I'll happily support the developers for that business model. I will not however buy "half" of a game.
It's about sounding "science", as much as it a well defined scientific concept. An inverted pendulum is a well defined controls problem, where you take an unstable system and make it stable with your control laws. This is often solved in one dimension as part of undergraduate controls classwork with a cart and a stick balanced above it. The description of throwing and catching inverted pendulums perfectly describes what they are doing.
On the other hand, if they said they were throwing and catching a stick, I'd assume they were simply catching it. The balancing the unstable system with their control laws would not be assumed. Hope this helps.
The 27" Korean's are nice screens. For the most part they are the A- grade of the same ones going in to monitors that are twice to 3 times as much. You might have to live with a dead pixel or two, but I doubt you'll be disappointed.