I'm always amused that every single time anything is ever shown wrong when talking about weather models (not even climate models!), we have at least one person posting something like this.
You mean, aside from Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, CS:GO, League of Legends, Hearthstone, Starcraft 2 and the myriad of other PC exclusives which smashed all sorts of records. The PC isn't the red-headed stepchild of AAA, it's just that AAA has forced itself into a rut of catastrophically large marketing and art costs all while forgetting to ever renew themselves, which means the only way to be profitable is to sell a large amount of copies right on release, then sell DLC and season passes and "elite" passes and other crap like that. This is somewhat easier to do on consoles, not because of their install base (which is comparatively small), but because of their demographics: lots of teenagers (who are very easily swayed by targeted advertizing and who generally don't pay the bills) and adult males who use games as stress relief or mindless distractions (and thus don't particularly look at quality or competition, just at what's on the ads).
This is like saying that movies which aren't action-packed stupid blockbusters like Transformers are the "red-headed stepchild of Hollywood".
Replace Lenovo with IBM and you might have a point, but Lenovo's brand reputation has taken a nosedive. They've introduced a bunch of new lines mostly comprised of cheap, expendable and unreliable laptops. The ThinkPad line is still okay (though warranty coverage isn't what it used to be), but it's not what Lenovo's marketing is even focused on, largely because they think they have their business market captive (which is likely extremely foolish).
Yeah, and the top-level comments are missing a left margin and have a misaligned right marging versus the top block. Post and "Load All Comments" are the wrong color, etc.
I think it's a damn sight better than Beta ever was, it just needs a few more tweaks here and there.
I think they've come out and said this can hit around 30 fps without trouble on the Pebble itself. E-paper displays have quietly been improving it seems since that model isn't a special display made just for Pebble (I can't find the post again but someone had dug up a screen which seemed to fit the Time's specs exactly). Thing is, they're still somewhat washed out compared to normal LCD screens and tend to tear easily (this is why the new animations are brilliant, since they all integrate this tearing effect, making it look intended instead). I can see them being used in smartphones at some point, but even then you interact with them in such a different fashion that I think e-paper's shortcomings would become too evident.
Flip side, e-paper is downright ideal for a watch. I'm frankly surprised there have been so few e-paper smartwatches announced as of yet.
And quite excited about it. This is essentially the first consumer device with wide appeal that I can think of which will have a color e-paper display. It also comes with better materials than their first watch (which it obviously directly supersedes, unlike the Steel which is classier), especially the Gorilla Glass front, as well as a mic and a new, quite neat UI. The price might be a bit high overall and I'd have wished for a larger screen with less bezel proportionally, but getting the same battery life on a much more dynamic and modern watch is great.
The fact it's well on its way to beat all previous Kickstarters by a long stretch should be a testament to the fact that yes, people want smartwatches, but not necessarily any sort of smartwatch. For me, Wear devices are automatically out because they have poor battery life and their screen shuts down while inactive on top of being not great to read in the sun. A smartwatch should be usable in all situations a normal watch is, at the very least, and the battery should be long enough that you can make a trip for a few days without worrying about a charger. The Pebble guys seem to have understood this, and it's paying off.
I know science is hard, but let's go over it like you're five.
Global warming is largely considered to be caused by something called greenhouse gases. The most prominent one is CO2, which is generated by burning fossil fuels among other things. Earth is by and large heated by the sun's rays going through the atmosphere and hitting the Earth, heating the air and ground. A part of those rays, however, gets bounced off the surface or re-emitted. Those rays can then leave the atmosphere, not heating up the Earth. Greenhouse gases act as a sort of shield around the atmosphere, reflecting those rays back again towards the Earth over and over.
Aerosols act as an additional barrier beyond the greenhouse gases which have the opposite effect: they bounce the sun's ray off the atmosphere before they can even get in, thus reducing the total amount of heat getting in the atmosphere in the first place and thus reducing the impact of greenhouse gases.
TL;DR Human CO2 increases greenhouse effect, but that still requires heat to get in in the first place.
It's ironic that people are excited and proud of this, but turn around and become mad at the very notion of assisted suicide. In the best case you're going to survive for a bit on Mars.
The claim is done in the context that the show hadn't started yet. Just like how a random member of the public wouldn't be expected to be allowed in, I don't think it's spurious to claim that a competitor also has no reason to be able to come over to your booth and start messing with your stuff. Once the show's started, all of that changes, of course.
Yes, because every other characteristic in that $10k is the exact same as Tesla's $35k. No way in hell they may also add other things, just like how the Model S is basically wheels and a frame, right?
This sounds more like you're attempting to teach problem solving and fundamental mathematics (logic being part of that) using programming robots as an easy to understand and enjoyable application of the theory. It's been said many times that the curriculum of most countries in the world could use courses on problem solving and critical thinking.
But that doesn't even answer it because 20% growth per year is still massive growth. Keep hold of it for a few years and you can sell it for twice as much as it was worth.
Medical oversight also ensures, as much as possible, that there are no treatments remaining that may be able to recover sufficient quality of life to avert the need for suicide. If the go-to response to suicidal tendencies was to go see a doctor for support, we may see a sharp decline in mental health-related suicides.
How someone can twist the ability for a suffering human to request, of their own volition and under extensive medical supervision, assisted suicide, and turn it into a slippery slope fallacy of death camps and selective culling of the population is beyond me. There is just no connection outside of your ever so slightly deranged brain there.
Restrained or executed is a bit much. Forced labor at a SWAT building as janitor for 10 years though? That might work. He's not violent, he's stupid. Let him bask in his stupidity.
If both Opera and Chrome fail to work in such a fashion, I'd double-check my OS install. Those aren't pieces of software that generally misbehave like that.
I disagree. They saw that their technology was outdated and, instead of dragging it for years as a giant ball and chain, they started from scratch, for the better. WinForms was basically the Swing of the.NET world, but with a much better visual designer. All the UI was built into the code as objects and the auto-designer would often make a mess of it, while building it manually was a complete nightmare.
WPF, in contrast, completely rebuilds the software stack in favor of a more cleanly separated MVC-ish approach, with the M and C being built in a regular.NET language while the view is entirely constructed in language-agnostic XAML (basically XML). This is very similar to how Android works, except Microsoft is typically more verbose than Android.
While it does mean UI developers had to relearn everything, modern WPF applications can look far nicer, are much easier to work with and are more flexible than their WinForms counterparts. It's the same reason I applauded Microsoft's controversial decision to rebuild DirectX from scratch with version 10, but looking at how messy OpenGL development still is I can't help but find it was the right call after all.
How many stores used to sell ham radios, nascent computers, electronics components and more? Contrast with how many stores sell iPods and Android phones.
Perhaps "don't have anything to offer anymore" is the wrong phrasing. Rather, they don't have anything distinctive, yet are generally more expensive or come with more restrictive policies than Walmart, Best Buy or Amazon, while not offering better sales service.
If that's their goal, I wouldn't be surprised to see them buy Xamarin. It'd give them a serious foothold into the Android and iOS development space using their own technology and language as a basis. It would also go a long way towards cementing their claims to be taking Mono more seriously, since Xamarin sponsors Mono.
Most people have to hack their phones to install HTC Sense on a non-HTC device, voiding their warranty and risking to brick their device. Trying to install vanilla Android on a non-Nexus phone carries the same risk. I think there may be a flaw in your logic somewhere...
What in the hell? Is Cyanogen "rogue" because they're using the Android Open-Source Project as it was designed? Because that also makes Samsung, Motorola, HTC and every other manufacturer who reskins/alters Android "rogue".
Yeah, this was absolutely the right call. There were four possible scenarios here:
-There is no snowstorm and the officials shut the city down. At worst, people lose a day's worth of work, some businesses are affected. Whiners abound.
-There is no snowstorm and the officials leave the city running. Nothing happens, nobody notices.
-There is a snowstorm and the officials shut the city down. Everyone congratulates them for their foresight.
-There is a snowstorm and the officials leave the city running. Possible severe damage to infrastructure, possible death toll, cleanup is significantly more complicated and takes far longer. Officials are berated for their carelessness.
The best course of action by far is to shut the city down. The downside of doing so when there is no snowstorm is far lesser than the opposite. Those who complain have no idea what the fuck they're talking about (and who really expects a cabaret singer to have any knowledge of risk assessment and weather prediction?).
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I'm always amused that every single time anything is ever shown wrong when talking about weather models (not even climate models!), we have at least one person posting something like this.
Go grab qBittorrent instead. Free, open-source, not owned by the Bittorrent corporation.
Android 4.1, no-name dual-core CPU, just 1GB of RAM... doesn't seem comparable to the Shield in any shape or form.
You mean, aside from Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, CS:GO, League of Legends, Hearthstone, Starcraft 2 and the myriad of other PC exclusives which smashed all sorts of records. The PC isn't the red-headed stepchild of AAA, it's just that AAA has forced itself into a rut of catastrophically large marketing and art costs all while forgetting to ever renew themselves, which means the only way to be profitable is to sell a large amount of copies right on release, then sell DLC and season passes and "elite" passes and other crap like that. This is somewhat easier to do on consoles, not because of their install base (which is comparatively small), but because of their demographics: lots of teenagers (who are very easily swayed by targeted advertizing and who generally don't pay the bills) and adult males who use games as stress relief or mindless distractions (and thus don't particularly look at quality or competition, just at what's on the ads).
This is like saying that movies which aren't action-packed stupid blockbusters like Transformers are the "red-headed stepchild of Hollywood".
Replace Lenovo with IBM and you might have a point, but Lenovo's brand reputation has taken a nosedive. They've introduced a bunch of new lines mostly comprised of cheap, expendable and unreliable laptops. The ThinkPad line is still okay (though warranty coverage isn't what it used to be), but it's not what Lenovo's marketing is even focused on, largely because they think they have their business market captive (which is likely extremely foolish).
Yeah, and the top-level comments are missing a left margin and have a misaligned right marging versus the top block. Post and "Load All Comments" are the wrong color, etc.
I think it's a damn sight better than Beta ever was, it just needs a few more tweaks here and there.
I think they've come out and said this can hit around 30 fps without trouble on the Pebble itself. E-paper displays have quietly been improving it seems since that model isn't a special display made just for Pebble (I can't find the post again but someone had dug up a screen which seemed to fit the Time's specs exactly). Thing is, they're still somewhat washed out compared to normal LCD screens and tend to tear easily (this is why the new animations are brilliant, since they all integrate this tearing effect, making it look intended instead). I can see them being used in smartphones at some point, but even then you interact with them in such a different fashion that I think e-paper's shortcomings would become too evident.
Flip side, e-paper is downright ideal for a watch. I'm frankly surprised there have been so few e-paper smartwatches announced as of yet.
And quite excited about it. This is essentially the first consumer device with wide appeal that I can think of which will have a color e-paper display. It also comes with better materials than their first watch (which it obviously directly supersedes, unlike the Steel which is classier), especially the Gorilla Glass front, as well as a mic and a new, quite neat UI. The price might be a bit high overall and I'd have wished for a larger screen with less bezel proportionally, but getting the same battery life on a much more dynamic and modern watch is great.
The fact it's well on its way to beat all previous Kickstarters by a long stretch should be a testament to the fact that yes, people want smartwatches, but not necessarily any sort of smartwatch. For me, Wear devices are automatically out because they have poor battery life and their screen shuts down while inactive on top of being not great to read in the sun. A smartwatch should be usable in all situations a normal watch is, at the very least, and the battery should be long enough that you can make a trip for a few days without worrying about a charger. The Pebble guys seem to have understood this, and it's paying off.
I know science is hard, but let's go over it like you're five.
Global warming is largely considered to be caused by something called greenhouse gases. The most prominent one is CO2, which is generated by burning fossil fuels among other things. Earth is by and large heated by the sun's rays going through the atmosphere and hitting the Earth, heating the air and ground. A part of those rays, however, gets bounced off the surface or re-emitted. Those rays can then leave the atmosphere, not heating up the Earth. Greenhouse gases act as a sort of shield around the atmosphere, reflecting those rays back again towards the Earth over and over.
Aerosols act as an additional barrier beyond the greenhouse gases which have the opposite effect: they bounce the sun's ray off the atmosphere before they can even get in, thus reducing the total amount of heat getting in the atmosphere in the first place and thus reducing the impact of greenhouse gases.
TL;DR Human CO2 increases greenhouse effect, but that still requires heat to get in in the first place.
It's ironic that people are excited and proud of this, but turn around and become mad at the very notion of assisted suicide. In the best case you're going to survive for a bit on Mars.
The claim is done in the context that the show hadn't started yet. Just like how a random member of the public wouldn't be expected to be allowed in, I don't think it's spurious to claim that a competitor also has no reason to be able to come over to your booth and start messing with your stuff. Once the show's started, all of that changes, of course.
Yes, because every other characteristic in that $10k is the exact same as Tesla's $35k. No way in hell they may also add other things, just like how the Model S is basically wheels and a frame, right?
This sounds more like you're attempting to teach problem solving and fundamental mathematics (logic being part of that) using programming robots as an easy to understand and enjoyable application of the theory. It's been said many times that the curriculum of most countries in the world could use courses on problem solving and critical thinking.
But that doesn't even answer it because 20% growth per year is still massive growth. Keep hold of it for a few years and you can sell it for twice as much as it was worth.
Destructors? This isn't C++.
Medical oversight also ensures, as much as possible, that there are no treatments remaining that may be able to recover sufficient quality of life to avert the need for suicide. If the go-to response to suicidal tendencies was to go see a doctor for support, we may see a sharp decline in mental health-related suicides.
How someone can twist the ability for a suffering human to request, of their own volition and under extensive medical supervision, assisted suicide, and turn it into a slippery slope fallacy of death camps and selective culling of the population is beyond me. There is just no connection outside of your ever so slightly deranged brain there.
Restrained or executed is a bit much. Forced labor at a SWAT building as janitor for 10 years though? That might work. He's not violent, he's stupid. Let him bask in his stupidity.
If both Opera and Chrome fail to work in such a fashion, I'd double-check my OS install. Those aren't pieces of software that generally misbehave like that.
I disagree. They saw that their technology was outdated and, instead of dragging it for years as a giant ball and chain, they started from scratch, for the better. WinForms was basically the Swing of the .NET world, but with a much better visual designer. All the UI was built into the code as objects and the auto-designer would often make a mess of it, while building it manually was a complete nightmare.
.NET language while the view is entirely constructed in language-agnostic XAML (basically XML). This is very similar to how Android works, except Microsoft is typically more verbose than Android.
WPF, in contrast, completely rebuilds the software stack in favor of a more cleanly separated MVC-ish approach, with the M and C being built in a regular
While it does mean UI developers had to relearn everything, modern WPF applications can look far nicer, are much easier to work with and are more flexible than their WinForms counterparts. It's the same reason I applauded Microsoft's controversial decision to rebuild DirectX from scratch with version 10, but looking at how messy OpenGL development still is I can't help but find it was the right call after all.
How many stores used to sell ham radios, nascent computers, electronics components and more? Contrast with how many stores sell iPods and Android phones.
Perhaps "don't have anything to offer anymore" is the wrong phrasing. Rather, they don't have anything distinctive, yet are generally more expensive or come with more restrictive policies than Walmart, Best Buy or Amazon, while not offering better sales service.
If that's their goal, I wouldn't be surprised to see them buy Xamarin. It'd give them a serious foothold into the Android and iOS development space using their own technology and language as a basis. It would also go a long way towards cementing their claims to be taking Mono more seriously, since Xamarin sponsors Mono.
Most people have to hack their phones to install HTC Sense on a non-HTC device, voiding their warranty and risking to brick their device. Trying to install vanilla Android on a non-Nexus phone carries the same risk. I think there may be a flaw in your logic somewhere...
What in the hell? Is Cyanogen "rogue" because they're using the Android Open-Source Project as it was designed? Because that also makes Samsung, Motorola, HTC and every other manufacturer who reskins/alters Android "rogue".
The best course of action by far is to shut the city down. The downside of doing so when there is no snowstorm is far lesser than the opposite. Those who complain have no idea what the fuck they're talking about (and who really expects a cabaret singer to have any knowledge of risk assessment and weather prediction?).