It depends on your definition of "for", if you mean "for money" then it's not correct usage. If it's "for their cause" as in "not working against them" then yes they are "literally" advancing their cause and message by broadcasting the video.
5.0 is kind of crap and a big step backwards from 4.4.4, I unfortuantely upgraded my Moto G to 5.0.1 and it just kind of ground to a halt. They haven't released the 5.0 update for the Moto X 2013 yet and now I'm hoping that they'll wait until 5.2 as the new OS seems kind of half-baked compared to the ultra-polished 4.4.4.
When the B+/A+ was announced/released they said that would be the last revision until 2017 which would probably be a substantial redesign. I would google for articles about the announcement of the B+ they have a couple quotes about 2017 being the timeframe of the next version. They didn't specifically call it the "Pi 3" but I would imagine that's the naming convention they end up with.
It's wildly dependent on the rated output, some are rated for 500ma, others are rated for 4100ma, depends on the device, what rate the battery is capable of charging at and the pricepoint of your device. I have Samsung chargers for 600, 800, 1200 and 1500ma from various devices I've purchased.
They still manufacture the A+, which I was playing around with this very afternoon, it is still single core, and even with a Edimax usb wifi nub (I hesitate to call it a dongle, it's too short) plugged in, it only pulls about 130mA, but "spikes" to 160mA when you start pinging Google or 250mA if you start X. By comparison the B+ single core starts at around 250mA draw due to the extra USB host controller and can well exceed 600mA running Minecraft with a mouse and keyboard plugged in and the GPU at full tilt.
I think they're trying to maintain compatibility with the existing ecosystem. The GPU did not change, they just added 3 more cores and another half gig of RAM. This is a drop-in replacement to keep their product competitive without breaking anything too drastic with their existing product line. Sort of along the lines of why the iPhone 5 had a taller screen and iPhone 6 actually had a usable sized screen. Baby steps. Those Chinese phone sellers don't have to support that product after they wrap it in bubble wrap and drop it in the mail; the RPi organization has industrial customers who have standardized on their hardware as a Long Term Solution and make up a sizable portion of their business (they're forcasting approx 20% of their business in 2015 will be industrial customers). So there's that.
The Raspberry Pi 3 in 2017 or so should be pretty amazing, between that phone you linked to, and the new ESP8266 it's clear we've only waded hip-deep in to the era of ultra low energy, high powered wireless devices. In the mean time this is a very acceptable bump in performance to what originally was an educational toy.
Old 747s have terrible fuel economy which is their highest operating cost, plus they have to be completely torn down (seats out, overhead bins out) for a complete airframe inspection, engines rebuilt etc every 6 years or so and it costs millions of dollars to do this "frame off restoration" with qualified FAA certified mechanics. After the fourth or so complete restoration the cost-benefit ratio slips in favor of buying a whole new airplane. This isn't like buying a pickup truck for personal use which you can just drive until the wheels fall off, swap in a new rear axle and drive it another 500,000 miles without ever doing a proper inspection of the frame, wheel bearings, etc.
In addition to the major overhauls, they do slightly less major overhauls every 4 years, and they still do a full 2 day inspection every 18 months or so.
Eventually these old 747s get sold for a song because the maintenance to keep them flying isn't worth it. There's a 747 in the background at the Top Gear test track (which is a converted airfield) that is parked most of the time or used as a prop for movies but is still airworthy when someone needs an extra cargo jet, or needs to fly a football team to Australia or something for top dollar. But they're not economical for daily use by major commercial airliners anymore.
Or it and it's food source(s) got washed under the ice shelf by a fast moving warm ocean current? Some of the fastest moving ocean currents surround Antarctica. Quick napkin math says that water is replaced every three months.
Depends on the insulating effect of feathers! Birds have much higher heat tolerances than humans, 130F isn't too extreme for avians. Particularly if the feathers act to absorb and dissipate 95 ghz.
Apparently 95 ghz is the frequency they use to burn the skin in heat rays, it's energy is fully absorbed by the first 1/64" of skin. From Wikipedia "employs a microwave beam at 95 GHz; a two-second burst of the 95 GHz focused beam heats the skin to a temperature of 130 ÂF (54 ÂC) at a depth of 1/64th of an inch (0.4 mm) and is claimed to cause skin pain without lasting damage."
How about Powershell? It has an ISE you can pickup and learn in less than 20 minutes. It takes about 2 hours just to get to the point where you're writing actual code. Powershell gives you full access to the.net library and runtime but the requirements to produce executable code are on par with Python. In fact Powershell looks a lot like "Python#" and IDLE.
You can get an ASUS X205 with Windows 8.1 preinstalled for about $200 shipped if you shop around, $179 if you're willing to walk in to a Microsoft Store.
That said it's not three times smaller, it's three times less volume. It's only 2cm on a side smaller, not much bigger than a Raspberry Pi B+, which let's be honest, isn't game-changing at this point. 2012 was a long time ago.
Yeah retail salespersons are kind of dinosaurs at this point. You can't technically buy a car on Amazon but you can buy a road legal (in some states) scooter there. Inertia is the only reason you can't order a new Toyota Camry or Prius on Amazon and have it shipped to your house. You can do it with used cars on Ebay at least.
I'm not sure jobs or tax revenue are a good reason to impede forward progress though.
I'm not a vet student, but I did spend a night helping one study the sinuses of a large animal (they split in to large animal (farm) and small animal (pet) specialties) and some of the learning materials are a little difficult to wrap your brain around, in particular how the sinuses (voids in the skull) exist inside the skull, how they connect (or don't) and simply where they are. The brain has enough trouble understanding negative spaces, even more trouble trying to conceptualize the winding, twisting 3D negative spaces you can't ever directly view without cutting apart a skull to do so. Even then doing so only gives you half the picture, and in negative space.
There are some videos online showing the sinuses in "positive 3D space" but it's still only a reference (Everyone is different) so I would imagine having a 3D positive space model of a tumor you've never seen and can't see without cutting open someone's head would be incredibly helpful, especially since you can't just buy off the shelf reference material for human tumors like you can bovine sinuses.
One of the major online retailers last week had a 5TB USB 3.0 external drive for $129 how much data do you have??? My file server is setup with about 8 TB of space which is plenty it turns out.
Solar is already on par with electricity prices (which are mainly driven by the pool-table flat price of coal) and solar is expected to be half the price of electricity in 15 years. And that's in the first year. That means you get back 100% return on your investment in the first year. The next 25 years are just gravy (assuming no hail storms and your batteries never wear out). If you live in a hot state nearly free electricity during the hottest part of the day means you'll have a very predictable and very low electric cost for 10 months out of the year (12 if you have gas heat).
What I'm saying is, solar is already cost-effective, but in 10 years even with dirt-cheap oil, solar will still be cheaper, and there's no global fluctuation in locally produced and consumed solar energy.
Energy independence = less need for global intervention in war-torn oil producing states.
I would imagine ESPN is charging Dish at LEAST $20/mo per subscriber, and Dish is willing to eat that as a cost of being first out of the gate for internet ESPN cord cutter subscribers. The rest is free, really.
The hardware hasn't become less serviceable, it's that the hardware has shrunk to the size where it's not economical to break out the audio from the video, or the CPU from the audio and video, or the eithernet, disk controller, etc. As a result you end up with a tiny circuit board that costs pennies to produce, is easily maintainable and fits inside today's slim devices.
If you want a repairable computer with a separate chip for every application, I have a coal plant to sell you
The last event I went to like this, 12 oz beers were $5 and cocktails were $6. Which for downtown Dallas is average, if not slightly below the median price. And it was pretty fantastic. As a vet, an engineer and a computer programmer we had a pretty fantastic time, A+ would go again. Let the schoolchildren enjoy the museum during the day.
Taxis can pick up fares on the street. Private cars have to be arranged beforehand. This is a BIG distinction between taxis and Uber. BIG BIG. Taxi companies are terrible at arranging pickups, which is what Uber has replaced. The problem is that each Taxi driver is "independent" and has no quota of X% prearranged fares they have to pick up each week/month. If they want to sit at the airport and wait for a fare, they can. If they want to sit outside of a hotel and wait for a fare, they can. An uber driver has to take any fare they get selected for, and if they decline X%, they get a warning, and after that eventually lose their contract. Which means uber drivers actually pick you up.
In a lot of less dense American cities, Uber is something like 12x faster than hailing a cab. If a taxi even drives down your street once an hour. I'm near a major bar district and Taxis here only drop people off, then go looking for fares by the hotel again. Have you ever tried using a Taxi in an american city outside of the most dense urban core? They don't work. They're broken.
The first five miles around downtown are solidly urban, and Taxis fill a specific (and important!) gap between public transit and private transit. If the Taxis don't owe the city anything, why are they a protected and regulated monopoly? Why not just disband the taxi system entirely and let services like Uber replace them in cities with urban cores smaller than SF and NYC?
I wish(!) My car developed a short last winter and I switched to commuting by bicycle most days, Uber on the rainy/colder days (somewhat rare here in Dallas). It's about $6.50 one way to my office downtown from my house. I smashed up my hand (partial cut to my index finger's extendor tendon) and ended up taking Uber every day for three weeks while I was unable to ride my bike. I spend about $90/month on uber rides in the winter, it's pretty fantastic. If the city of Dallas were to ban Uber, I'd buy another car and go back to driving on cold rainy days. Between gas insurance and parking downtown, Uber actually comes out about $0.70 a day cheaper than owning a car full time. And I don't have to drive in rush hour traffic, so I can respond to work emails "in transit" which means I can leave the house 15 minutes later than normal, and my correspondence is already caught up for the morning before I walk through the door.
Uber is reliable and someone always shows up in 5 minutes. I've never had a taxi arrive less than 45 minutes after I called for one. Here in Dallas taxi's primary purpose is going between downtown and the airport. With Uber I've been able to finally write off my main reason for owning a car - reliable transportation, and do it in a cost effective manner.
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I think if we're getting this specific, I would label that as "inadvertently collaborating with" but I don't disagree with you.
It depends on your definition of "for", if you mean "for money" then it's not correct usage. If it's "for their cause" as in "not working against them" then yes they are "literally" advancing their cause and message by broadcasting the video.
5.0 is kind of crap and a big step backwards from 4.4.4, I unfortuantely upgraded my Moto G to 5.0.1 and it just kind of ground to a halt. They haven't released the 5.0 update for the Moto X 2013 yet and now I'm hoping that they'll wait until 5.2 as the new OS seems kind of half-baked compared to the ultra-polished 4.4.4.
When the B+/A+ was announced/released they said that would be the last revision until 2017 which would probably be a substantial redesign. I would google for articles about the announcement of the B+ they have a couple quotes about 2017 being the timeframe of the next version. They didn't specifically call it the "Pi 3" but I would imagine that's the naming convention they end up with.
It's wildly dependent on the rated output, some are rated for 500ma, others are rated for 4100ma, depends on the device, what rate the battery is capable of charging at and the pricepoint of your device. I have Samsung chargers for 600, 800, 1200 and 1500ma from various devices I've purchased.
They still manufacture the A+, which I was playing around with this very afternoon, it is still single core, and even with a Edimax usb wifi nub (I hesitate to call it a dongle, it's too short) plugged in, it only pulls about 130mA, but "spikes" to 160mA when you start pinging Google or 250mA if you start X. By comparison the B+ single core starts at around 250mA draw due to the extra USB host controller and can well exceed 600mA running Minecraft with a mouse and keyboard plugged in and the GPU at full tilt.
I think they're trying to maintain compatibility with the existing ecosystem. The GPU did not change, they just added 3 more cores and another half gig of RAM. This is a drop-in replacement to keep their product competitive without breaking anything too drastic with their existing product line. Sort of along the lines of why the iPhone 5 had a taller screen and iPhone 6 actually had a usable sized screen. Baby steps. Those Chinese phone sellers don't have to support that product after they wrap it in bubble wrap and drop it in the mail; the RPi organization has industrial customers who have standardized on their hardware as a Long Term Solution and make up a sizable portion of their business (they're forcasting approx 20% of their business in 2015 will be industrial customers). So there's that.
The Raspberry Pi 3 in 2017 or so should be pretty amazing, between that phone you linked to, and the new ESP8266 it's clear we've only waded hip-deep in to the era of ultra low energy, high powered wireless devices. In the mean time this is a very acceptable bump in performance to what originally was an educational toy.
Old 747s have terrible fuel economy which is their highest operating cost, plus they have to be completely torn down (seats out, overhead bins out) for a complete airframe inspection, engines rebuilt etc every 6 years or so and it costs millions of dollars to do this "frame off restoration" with qualified FAA certified mechanics. After the fourth or so complete restoration the cost-benefit ratio slips in favor of buying a whole new airplane. This isn't like buying a pickup truck for personal use which you can just drive until the wheels fall off, swap in a new rear axle and drive it another 500,000 miles without ever doing a proper inspection of the frame, wheel bearings, etc.
In addition to the major overhauls, they do slightly less major overhauls every 4 years, and they still do a full 2 day inspection every 18 months or so.
Eventually these old 747s get sold for a song because the maintenance to keep them flying isn't worth it. There's a 747 in the background at the Top Gear test track (which is a converted airfield) that is parked most of the time or used as a prop for movies but is still airworthy when someone needs an extra cargo jet, or needs to fly a football team to Australia or something for top dollar. But they're not economical for daily use by major commercial airliners anymore.
With today's ultra capacitors it seems like you could recapture 70% of the energy on the way down again. Maybe more.
Or it and it's food source(s) got washed under the ice shelf by a fast moving warm ocean current? Some of the fastest moving ocean currents surround Antarctica. Quick napkin math says that water is replaced every three months.
Depends on the insulating effect of feathers! Birds have much higher heat tolerances than humans, 130F isn't too extreme for avians. Particularly if the feathers act to absorb and dissipate 95 ghz.
Apparently 95 ghz is the frequency they use to burn the skin in heat rays, it's energy is fully absorbed by the first 1/64" of skin. From Wikipedia "employs a microwave beam at 95 GHz; a two-second burst of the 95 GHz focused beam heats the skin to a temperature of 130 ÂF (54 ÂC) at a depth of 1/64th of an inch (0.4 mm) and is claimed to cause skin pain without lasting damage."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_burn
So yeah, penetration would be poor at best, unless between towers, or from LEO/MEO SpaceX built satellites to rooftop antennas.
How about Powershell? It has an ISE you can pickup and learn in less than 20 minutes. It takes about 2 hours just to get to the point where you're writing actual code. Powershell gives you full access to the .net library and runtime but the requirements to produce executable code are on par with Python. In fact Powershell looks a lot like "Python#" and IDLE.
The link to buy the car just pushed you to a dealership contact form, it was mostly an ad wrapped up and disguised as an Amazon listing.
You can get an ASUS X205 with Windows 8.1 preinstalled for about $200 shipped if you shop around, $179 if you're willing to walk in to a Microsoft Store.
That said it's not three times smaller, it's three times less volume. It's only 2cm on a side smaller, not much bigger than a Raspberry Pi B+, which let's be honest, isn't game-changing at this point. 2012 was a long time ago.
Yeah retail salespersons are kind of dinosaurs at this point. You can't technically buy a car on Amazon but you can buy a road legal (in some states) scooter there. Inertia is the only reason you can't order a new Toyota Camry or Prius on Amazon and have it shipped to your house. You can do it with used cars on Ebay at least.
I'm not sure jobs or tax revenue are a good reason to impede forward progress though.
I'm not a vet student, but I did spend a night helping one study the sinuses of a large animal (they split in to large animal (farm) and small animal (pet) specialties) and some of the learning materials are a little difficult to wrap your brain around, in particular how the sinuses (voids in the skull) exist inside the skull, how they connect (or don't) and simply where they are. The brain has enough trouble understanding negative spaces, even more trouble trying to conceptualize the winding, twisting 3D negative spaces you can't ever directly view without cutting apart a skull to do so. Even then doing so only gives you half the picture, and in negative space.
There are some videos online showing the sinuses in "positive 3D space" but it's still only a reference (Everyone is different) so I would imagine having a 3D positive space model of a tumor you've never seen and can't see without cutting open someone's head would be incredibly helpful, especially since you can't just buy off the shelf reference material for human tumors like you can bovine sinuses.
One of the major online retailers last week had a 5TB USB 3.0 external drive for $129 how much data do you have??? My file server is setup with about 8 TB of space which is plenty it turns out.
Solar is already on par with electricity prices (which are mainly driven by the pool-table flat price of coal) and solar is expected to be half the price of electricity in 15 years. And that's in the first year. That means you get back 100% return on your investment in the first year. The next 25 years are just gravy (assuming no hail storms and your batteries never wear out). If you live in a hot state nearly free electricity during the hottest part of the day means you'll have a very predictable and very low electric cost for 10 months out of the year (12 if you have gas heat).
What I'm saying is, solar is already cost-effective, but in 10 years even with dirt-cheap oil, solar will still be cheaper, and there's no global fluctuation in locally produced and consumed solar energy.
Energy independence = less need for global intervention in war-torn oil producing states.
I would imagine ESPN is charging Dish at LEAST $20/mo per subscriber, and Dish is willing to eat that as a cost of being first out of the gate for internet ESPN cord cutter subscribers. The rest is free, really.
The hardware hasn't become less serviceable, it's that the hardware has shrunk to the size where it's not economical to break out the audio from the video, or the CPU from the audio and video, or the eithernet, disk controller, etc. As a result you end up with a tiny circuit board that costs pennies to produce, is easily maintainable and fits inside today's slim devices.
If you want a repairable computer with a separate chip for every application, I have a coal plant to sell you
The last event I went to like this, 12 oz beers were $5 and cocktails were $6. Which for downtown Dallas is average, if not slightly below the median price. And it was pretty fantastic. As a vet, an engineer and a computer programmer we had a pretty fantastic time, A+ would go again. Let the schoolchildren enjoy the museum during the day.
Taxis can pick up fares on the street. Private cars have to be arranged beforehand. This is a BIG distinction between taxis and Uber. BIG BIG. Taxi companies are terrible at arranging pickups, which is what Uber has replaced. The problem is that each Taxi driver is "independent" and has no quota of X% prearranged fares they have to pick up each week/month. If they want to sit at the airport and wait for a fare, they can. If they want to sit outside of a hotel and wait for a fare, they can. An uber driver has to take any fare they get selected for, and if they decline X%, they get a warning, and after that eventually lose their contract. Which means uber drivers actually pick you up.
In a lot of less dense American cities, Uber is something like 12x faster than hailing a cab. If a taxi even drives down your street once an hour. I'm near a major bar district and Taxis here only drop people off, then go looking for fares by the hotel again. Have you ever tried using a Taxi in an american city outside of the most dense urban core? They don't work. They're broken.
The first five miles around downtown are solidly urban, and Taxis fill a specific (and important!) gap between public transit and private transit. If the Taxis don't owe the city anything, why are they a protected and regulated monopoly? Why not just disband the taxi system entirely and let services like Uber replace them in cities with urban cores smaller than SF and NYC?
I wish(!) My car developed a short last winter and I switched to commuting by bicycle most days, Uber on the rainy/colder days (somewhat rare here in Dallas). It's about $6.50 one way to my office downtown from my house. I smashed up my hand (partial cut to my index finger's extendor tendon) and ended up taking Uber every day for three weeks while I was unable to ride my bike. I spend about $90/month on uber rides in the winter, it's pretty fantastic. If the city of Dallas were to ban Uber, I'd buy another car and go back to driving on cold rainy days. Between gas insurance and parking downtown, Uber actually comes out about $0.70 a day cheaper than owning a car full time. And I don't have to drive in rush hour traffic, so I can respond to work emails "in transit" which means I can leave the house 15 minutes later than normal, and my correspondence is already caught up for the morning before I walk through the door.
Uber is reliable and someone always shows up in 5 minutes. I've never had a taxi arrive less than 45 minutes after I called for one. Here in Dallas taxi's primary purpose is going between downtown and the airport. With Uber I've been able to finally write off my main reason for owning a car - reliable transportation, and do it in a cost effective manner.