I know that's become a big talking point, but if you go look at the actual "statistic" at the beginning of that game of telephone, it's actually something like "50% of bankruptcies had some medical expenses in the previous six months".
By and large, bankruptcies are caused by unanticipated job loss.
It's worse than you think. Even if you have a place to back it up, the I/O rates on modern HDs aren't increasing nearly as fast as capacity. Reading at top speed, it would take almost 7 hours to pull all the data off this drive, even if you have someplace to put it. Similarly, if you're using it as part of a RAID set, it'll take that long to rebuild if you have a failure.
Pretty soon the MTBF on these drives will be a significant fraction of (capacity)/(read rate); that will make for fun all around.
On the other hand, MIT has excellent shooting and fencing teams. We'll just see whose athletic program is superior when the zombie horde overruns Cambridge!
Of course that is hurting not just our AE efforts, but also Iran and Venezuela. I am not sure that the Saud's care one way or another about these 2 countries.
I don't know about Venezuela, but I'm pretty sure the Saud's would be quite happy to see the Iranian government (which as you say, really needs oil prices > $80/barrel) weakened or worse...
Maybe, maybe not. It's also the case that a battery (like in the current Tesla) has mostly constant power and voltage output over its whole discharge range, whereas a capacitor outputs power more and more slowly as it runs down. I'm not sure that would be acceptable in a sportscar... or maybe the discharge rate in the capacitor is plenty high to begin with? In either event you have to deal with variable voltage output from the capacitor system, which may make the electronics a lot nastier...
I think Google is unfortunately in a precarious position with Android if it's primary niche becomes crapware-filled knockoff phones or installed on very uninspired and underpowered hardware. They are in the same boat as MS, where a large majority of criticism of the platform from the average consumer is due to OEM modification, pre-loading, and crappy hardware support (via 3rd party drivers).
Hey, it worked for Windows, I don't see why it won't for Google...
OEM modification is the problem; you need to be able to run any android app on any android phone. The el cheapo vendors might actually be better - they won't bother.
Even if he thought the search was ok, if he wasn't 100% sure, the DA was just giving himself a second chance to win by arguing it wasn't a search at all. He wins if either argument holds up, so why not make both? (And he has to make them in that order; you can hardly argue 'the search was legal, and also, we didn't search it'.) This is standard legal tactics.
Well, yes and no. The court apparently ruled that the hard drive was searched; it's not clear at this point if it was ok to do the search (because it wasn't his hard drive anymore) or not. The DA had hoped to avoid any doubt on that point by arguing that just taking md5 hashes and seeing if they match wasn't a search... which, of course, it is.
An automotive junkyard might be a good bet for some of that sort of stuff - not just transmission bits, there are plenty of other motors and gears (windows, starter, various pumps) you could strip parts from. You'ld probably need a pretty good idea of what you want exactly to go that route, though.
But the funny thing is, if you define 'polar bears' to include people, he's actually right to within a factor of two!
And maybe he would, once he saw people; we probably match polar bears more closely than any other animal he's familiar with (we're omnivorous apex predators), and he might well decide to fit us in the same category.
Nobody is giving $700B to anybody; the idea is to spend (up to) $700b on mortgage-backed bonds that might be worth $700b, or more, or a fair bit less (thus stopping the financial system from locking up like a TI-89 running Vista). Best case they actually make a paper profit on it.
That's a little different than building $700B worth of heniously overcomplicated solar cells.
Mammals of the period were quite small, and presumably had much faster lifecycles than most dinosaurs... their immune systems would evolve faster. Also, the shorter lifecycle might prevent the disease from developing in a full-blown form: even if normal mice could catch AIDS, it wouldn't kill them because they'd die of old age before developing symptoms anyway.
If I remember correctly, it's much harder to hear sub-sonic bullets. That could be appealing to military snipers; a large-caliber rifle that can be easily dialed up for range or power, or dialed way down to make it very difficult to identify where the shots are coming from.
Yeah, unless the root filesystem is encrypted they can get in. But it's going to be awfully hard to be sure he didn't add in a logic bomb in some harmless-looking daemon that'll wipe all data if the root password is changed again from what he set it to... and that would be pretty trivial to set up (say, just splice it into an rc file somewhere).
We can also conclude from these problems that they don't have good backups, let alone disaster recovery systems.
Actually, much fertilizer used in agriculture is produced with natural gas, and human metabolism isn't fantasically efficient. It's entirely possible that walking produces more net C02 than driving a fuel-efficient car (assuming you eat extra calores to make up, blah blah...) - and let's not even talk about the additional methane if you're eating beef instead of grains.
We don't have any dangerous wildlife, we shot it all, whereas you lot appear to have a country full of poisonous plants and poisonous/pointy-toothed predators.
Yes, and after doing so, the Europeans invented environmentalism and inflicted it on us, inhibiting our ongoing efforts to do the same. I expect Rousseau wouldn't have gone rambling on about how fabulous the State of Nature was if wolves were trying to eat him...
And now we have bobcats mauling joggers in California. No doubt the grizzlies and polar bears will be pitching in soon, as soon as they figure out that we've stopped shooting at them.
He's always had a stubborn/principled/PITA streak. Up until about 2004, this made him every Democrats' favorate Republican, because approving of his sporadic stands against some Bush policy or other allowed them to prove how high-minded and bipartisan they were.
Now that McCain might actually get executive power, they've noticed that he's actually a conservative (sort-of), and thus evil. But his positions haven't actually changed much.
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Several of the stories (and amazon.com) indicate that, yes, the new version will charge via USB.
False.
I know that's become a big talking point, but if you go look at the actual "statistic" at the beginning of that game of telephone, it's actually something like "50% of bankruptcies had some medical expenses in the previous six months".
By and large, bankruptcies are caused by unanticipated job loss.
It's worse than you think. Even if you have a place to back it up, the I/O rates on modern HDs aren't increasing nearly as fast as capacity. Reading at top speed, it would take almost 7 hours to pull all the data off this drive, even if you have someplace to put it. Similarly, if you're using it as part of a RAID set, it'll take that long to rebuild if you have a failure.
Pretty soon the MTBF on these drives will be a significant fraction of (capacity)/(read rate); that will make for fun all around.
On the other hand, MIT has excellent shooting and fencing teams. We'll just see whose athletic program is superior when the zombie horde overruns Cambridge!
Of course that is hurting not just our AE efforts, but also Iran and Venezuela. I am not sure that the Saud's care one way or another about these 2 countries.
I don't know about Venezuela, but I'm pretty sure the Saud's would be quite happy to see the Iranian government (which as you say, really needs oil prices > $80/barrel) weakened or worse...
Maybe, maybe not. It's also the case that a battery (like in the current Tesla) has mostly constant power and voltage output over its whole discharge range, whereas a capacitor outputs power more and more slowly as it runs down. I'm not sure that would be acceptable in a sportscar... or maybe the discharge rate in the capacitor is plenty high to begin with? In either event you have to deal with variable voltage output from the capacitor system, which may make the electronics a lot nastier...
So as if javascript isn't bad enough, now we're going to have the inevitable beowulf cluster running across the tabs of our browsers?
Like the Army! What could possibly go wrong?
I think Google is unfortunately in a precarious position with Android if it's primary niche becomes crapware-filled knockoff phones or installed on very uninspired and underpowered hardware. They are in the same boat as MS, where a large majority of criticism of the platform from the average consumer is due to OEM modification, pre-loading, and crappy hardware support (via 3rd party drivers).
Hey, it worked for Windows, I don't see why it won't for Google...
OEM modification is the problem; you need to be able to run any android app on any android phone. The el cheapo vendors might actually be better - they won't bother.
Even if he thought the search was ok, if he wasn't 100% sure, the DA was just giving himself a second chance to win by arguing it wasn't a search at all. He wins if either argument holds up, so why not make both? (And he has to make them in that order; you can hardly argue 'the search was legal, and also, we didn't search it'.) This is standard legal tactics.
It's a Redundant Array of Independent Arguments.
Well, yes and no. The court apparently ruled that the hard drive was searched; it's not clear at this point if it was ok to do the search (because it wasn't his hard drive anymore) or not. The DA had hoped to avoid any doubt on that point by arguing that just taking md5 hashes and seeing if they match wasn't a search... which, of course, it is.
An automotive junkyard might be a good bet for some of that sort of stuff - not just transmission bits, there are plenty of other motors and gears (windows, starter, various pumps) you could strip parts from. You'ld probably need a pretty good idea of what you want exactly to go that route, though.
1. Get everyone to agree that nuclear weapons are bad.
2. ???
3. Profit!
But the funny thing is, if you define 'polar bears' to include people, he's actually right to within a factor of two!
And maybe he would, once he saw people; we probably match polar bears more closely than any other animal he's familiar with (we're omnivorous apex predators), and he might well decide to fit us in the same category.
Solaris only works on Apple Mac Supercomputeres.
No, that'll only be true after Apple buys Sun, which by my calculations would require approximately 15 minutes of iPod sales revenue.
Actually, the Japanese built and used several of these in WWII (they had to surface to launch); link.
Impressive, but probably not worth the cost and resources...
Nobody is giving $700B to anybody; the idea is to spend (up to) $700b on mortgage-backed bonds that might be worth $700b, or more, or a fair bit less (thus stopping the financial system from locking up like a TI-89 running Vista). Best case they actually make a paper profit on it.
That's a little different than building $700B worth of heniously overcomplicated solar cells.
Um... you do realize that AC moves the heat (plus some) into the outside air, it doesn't destroy it, right?
Obviously, the solution is orbital data centers using microwave power links and laser data links. No doubt Google is working on this.
Mammals of the period were quite small, and presumably had much faster lifecycles than most dinosaurs... their immune systems would evolve faster. Also, the shorter lifecycle might prevent the disease from developing in a full-blown form: even if normal mice could catch AIDS, it wouldn't kill them because they'd die of old age before developing symptoms anyway.
If I remember correctly, it's much harder to hear sub-sonic bullets. That could be appealing to military snipers; a large-caliber rifle that can be easily dialed up for range or power, or dialed way down to make it very difficult to identify where the shots are coming from.
Yeah, unless the root filesystem is encrypted they can get in. But it's going to be awfully hard to be sure he didn't add in a logic bomb in some harmless-looking daemon that'll wipe all data if the root password is changed again from what he set it to... and that would be pretty trivial to set up (say, just splice it into an rc file somewhere).
We can also conclude from these problems that they don't have good backups, let alone disaster recovery systems.
Actually, much fertilizer used in agriculture is produced with natural gas, and human metabolism isn't fantasically efficient. It's entirely possible that walking produces more net C02 than driving a fuel-efficient car (assuming you eat extra calores to make up, blah blah...) - and let's not even talk about the additional methane if you're eating beef instead of grains.
We don't have any dangerous wildlife, we shot it all, whereas you lot appear to have a country full of poisonous plants and poisonous/pointy-toothed predators.
Yes, and after doing so, the Europeans invented environmentalism and inflicted it on us, inhibiting our ongoing efforts to do the same. I expect Rousseau wouldn't have gone rambling on about how fabulous the State of Nature was if wolves were trying to eat him...
And now we have bobcats mauling joggers in California. No doubt the grizzlies and polar bears will be pitching in soon, as soon as they figure out that we've stopped shooting at them.
burrito can get you at least fifteen miles on foot
By the time you fertilize, cook, and transport that burrito you've spent 10X the energy in it. By some analyses you're better off driving.
Also, with burritos, you have to worry not just about C02 but about the more powerful global warming gas, methane....
He didn't.
He's always had a stubborn/principled/PITA streak. Up until about 2004, this made him every Democrats' favorate Republican, because approving of his sporadic stands against some Bush policy or other allowed them to prove how high-minded and bipartisan they were.
Now that McCain might actually get executive power, they've noticed that he's actually a conservative (sort-of), and thus evil. But his positions haven't actually changed much.