>LED's and CFL bulbs use between 5 and 25% of the power an equivalent Tungsten or Halogen bulb might by converting all of the energy input into light instead of heat.
And look like shit. And often have a bad form factor that doesn't fit into places where incandescents can go.
>Saudi and Soviet Oil is what powers your SUV
No, it doesn't. It's pretty much all produced in North America now.
>he wanted to take all the oil and keep it for America
>How can she prove she is on the list when the airlines are instructed not to let the passenger know the reason why the passenger is denied boarding...
Malaysian Airlines actually provided her a copy of the letter from the DHS.
The judge, though, said that it's not a sworn statement, so it has no validity. You know, the letter that was used to block her from travelling. That one.
>I actually didn't see any romantic overtones with Petra that didn't occur in the book. Rather it's that Orson Scott Card is very bad at portraying platonic love in a way that doesn't look creepy in our society. It's similar to how Frodo and Sam would look completely homosexual if that relationship was put directly into the movie without any sort of translation.
I'm somewhat amused at all the controversy over Card's anti-homosexual stance - Alai kisses Ender in the book, after all. Card probably meant for it to be platonic, but it's in there.
And the Frodo/Sam gay thing was somewhat intentional on the part of the actors - at one of the One Ring conventions they said they were well aware of it when filming.
Overall, I thought the Ender's Game movie was pretty good, given the time constraints they had to deal with. Battle school felt quite abbreviated... mostly because they really needed one more battle room fight scene in there. There's a jarring jump when Ender is given command of Dragon squad, and then it zips forward to the final battle.
Yeah, in my fault tolerant systems class, the importance of physical interlocks was stressed over and over again.
You can never trust software to always work, or recover from a fault in a correct manner, so having brakes actually hooked up to brakes (or at least an override available) is a really, really good idea.
I personally experienced a Flying Dutchman in my old '84 Caprice Classic (due to a stuck accelerator cable and brakes that couldn't arrest the motion of the car), but I could still turn it off before I killed someone.
>saying the ribbon makes Office unusable is unfair.
People said you just need to get used to the ribbon. Guess what? I has been 6 years now, and I still look for various insert commands on the Insert Ribbon. Where they are not.
>This "G-sync" claims to solve that issue by making refresh rates DYNAMIC. So if my gfx card renderas at 25fps, the screen will refresh at that rate. It will be synchronized. No tearing or gfx card waiting to draw.
Well, we already have Adaptive VSYNC (if you have bothered updating your drivers in the last year), which does in fact make your GPU refresh rates somewhat dynamic to avoid the annoying 60 -> 30fps hops.
G-SYNC looks even better, though. My only worry is that it will be horrendously overpriced like a lot of NVIDIA's niche offerings.
To be fair, the famous Bridge to Nowhere was actually to connect the second largest airport in Alaska - which is on an island, since the Alaskan coastline is very rugged - with the mainland. The airport is currently serviced only by ferry, which gets shut down all the time due to high waves. It's quite bad for the tourist industry (nobody wants to risk being stuck in Alaska for an extra four days), and is also obviously bad in emergency situations.
Not that I'm necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with the federal government being involved in state-level development projects, but in this case I think it's pretty unfairly maligned. Imagine if LAX got shut down for a few days every month.
In Daggerfall, I'd level up evocation by fireballing myself. With the magic absorption trait, you don't take any damage and it recharges your mana, so you can just sit there for hours.
And no, that's not the reason why the games are amazing. =)
Negotiating generally will knock off 10-20% on the price of a new car. The website will undoubtedly use MSRP for a variety of reasons, and maybe allow the nationwide promotions they run to discount the price. But it'll still be quite a bit more than your local dealer.
It's not hard to say no to the up-selling. "No thanks, I'll pay in cash." "No thanks, I don't need a warranty." And so forth. *Always* negotiate based on the "out the door" price instead of the price of the car, because the dealership will add all sorts of fees and costs on top of the sale price of the car.
The really amusing thing is that turning down the extras will often result in the often abusively high prices coming down to a reasonable number. My wife got a 7 year bumper-to-bumper warranty for less than a thousand bucks, and I got lifetime oil changes and tire rotations for $400 (which has already paid for itself after 3 years).
Actually, this shutdown shows us how irrelevant the massive federal government is to our personal lives. Our governmental spending is *40%* of GDP. That's higher than Venezuela, and is on par with Socialist paradise Norway.
What do we get for that 40%?
Well, that's what the shutdown is showing. Other than Obama vindictively shutting down parking lots and overlooks (which don't cost even a percentage of GDP) to try to make the government seem relevant, we see it does nothing for us.
Think about what a comparative impact Apple has on our country, at only about 0.5% of GDP.
>However, the Surface Pro 2 looks very attractive. I am buying one.
The Surface Pro looked good to me, too, except on price.
But I went into my local Best Buy and tried it out.
Pretty terrible experience. I'm not sure what I was expecting from a tablet laptop (maybe something along the lines of the ASUS Transformer, which actually worked pretty well?) but the touch surface was just terrible.
Yeah, we were used mixed Fortran/C++ code when I was in grad school circa 2000. The Fortran code was already parallelized due to a long history of having better parallelization tools than C, so we wrapped it in a C library and linked the object code together. Students in my HPC class didn't know that they were calling Fortran at all when they executed the numerical kernel we provided, just that it worked and was fast.
>Prices must have really crashed since I was playing it
Pfft, I haven't played it recently either. I quit maybe a month? after the game released. Maybe two, since we had a baby in there some time.
Yeah, early on gear to beat Diablo was super expensive, but as people kept grinding out the magic items, the cost to kit yourself out for Diablo Inferno plummeted.
And since it's not like there was anything to do *after* Diablo, most people quit at that point and dumped their gear on the RMAH.
> I honestly believe that the Chinese should switch to some sort of romanization like pinyin
They have. Learning pinyin has been mandatory in the PRC since the 1950s.
While I take notes myself in pinyin, it doesn't help when dealing with a dialect speaker, though. Quite the contrary - while a dialect speaker can read characters just fine, they cannot read pinyin. It is because of this and other reasons characters are still used.
The PRC's approach is actually, working though. Basically the entire youth of China speaks Mandarin today (plus their regional dialect). It's the older generation that doesn't speak Mandarin.
I just wish my first encounter on my own in China hadn't been a dialect speaker with only a passing familiarity with Mandarin. And he was a taxi driver!
>At the time, science was seen as an offshoot of philosophy (natural philosophy).
This is something that confuses a lot of modern readers who look at the Galileo Affair.
When they see a churchman making "philosophical" arguments against Galileo, they assume it is due to some preposterous navel-gazing argument, not knowing the primary objection to Galileo came from people we'd call scientists today.
Galileo was making claims contrary to the founder of "science", Aristotle, and couldn't answer the counter-objections that scientists raised. The debate was taken to the authorities, the Roman Catholic Church, who told Galileo that they loved his theory, but that he didn't have enough evidence yet (and rightly so) to call it settled science. Contrary to the prevailing belief (and a forged letter claiming this) Galileo was not prohibited from teaching heliocentrism, just from teaching it as accepted fact. The Pope - a friend of his, and who believed his theory but was worried about making sudden changes in society - in fact encouraged Galileo to publish a comparison of heliocentrism and geocentrism, discussing the relative merits of each. Galileo, in typical nerd fashion, wrote a book that said heliocentrism is great, and anyone who believes otherwise is an idiot, including you, Mr. Pope. *This* is what got Galileo subject to house arrest. Not heliocentrism (which was utterly uncontroversial up until Galileo flipped off the pope - Copernicus was well received).
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>LED's and CFL bulbs use between 5 and 25% of the power an equivalent Tungsten or Halogen bulb might by converting all of the energy input into light instead of heat.
And look like shit. And often have a bad form factor that doesn't fit into places where incandescents can go.
>Saudi and Soviet Oil is what powers your SUV
No, it doesn't. It's pretty much all produced in North America now.
>he wanted to take all the oil and keep it for America
He turned it all over to the Iraqis, dude.
Precisely what I find ridiculous about the situation. They want to have it both ways.
>How can she prove she is on the list when the airlines are instructed not to let the passenger know the reason why the passenger is denied boarding...
Malaysian Airlines actually provided her a copy of the letter from the DHS.
The judge, though, said that it's not a sworn statement, so it has no validity. You know, the letter that was used to block her from travelling. That one.
Fucking unbelievable.
Yep. The Secret World is awesome.
No monthly fees, just a daily fee (more or less) to pay for double XP when you're actually playing.
But I love the classless design of it. Build your own class, via a point-based system. Make your own combos! It's great.
Yep. Well said. Path of Exile is a brilliant game.
>I actually didn't see any romantic overtones with Petra that didn't occur in the book. Rather it's that Orson Scott Card is very bad at portraying platonic love in a way that doesn't look creepy in our society. It's similar to how Frodo and Sam would look completely homosexual if that relationship was put directly into the movie without any sort of translation.
I'm somewhat amused at all the controversy over Card's anti-homosexual stance - Alai kisses Ender in the book, after all. Card probably meant for it to be platonic, but it's in there.
And the Frodo/Sam gay thing was somewhat intentional on the part of the actors - at one of the One Ring conventions they said they were well aware of it when filming.
Overall, I thought the Ender's Game movie was pretty good, given the time constraints they had to deal with. Battle school felt quite abbreviated... mostly because they really needed one more battle room fight scene in there. There's a jarring jump when Ender is given command of Dragon squad, and then it zips forward to the final battle.
Yeah, in my fault tolerant systems class, the importance of physical interlocks was stressed over and over again.
You can never trust software to always work, or recover from a fault in a correct manner, so having brakes actually hooked up to brakes (or at least an override available) is a really, really good idea.
I personally experienced a Flying Dutchman in my old '84 Caprice Classic (due to a stuck accelerator cable and brakes that couldn't arrest the motion of the car), but I could still turn it off before I killed someone.
>saying the ribbon makes Office unusable is unfair.
People said you just need to get used to the ribbon. Guess what? I has been 6 years now, and I still look for various insert commands on the Insert Ribbon. Where they are not.
>This "G-sync" claims to solve that issue by making refresh rates DYNAMIC. So if my gfx card renderas at 25fps, the screen will refresh at that rate. It will be synchronized. No tearing or gfx card waiting to draw.
Well, we already have Adaptive VSYNC (if you have bothered updating your drivers in the last year), which does in fact make your GPU refresh rates somewhat dynamic to avoid the annoying 60 -> 30fps hops.
G-SYNC looks even better, though. My only worry is that it will be horrendously overpriced like a lot of NVIDIA's niche offerings.
To be fair, the famous Bridge to Nowhere was actually to connect the second largest airport in Alaska - which is on an island, since the Alaskan coastline is very rugged - with the mainland. The airport is currently serviced only by ferry, which gets shut down all the time due to high waves. It's quite bad for the tourist industry (nobody wants to risk being stuck in Alaska for an extra four days), and is also obviously bad in emergency situations.
Not that I'm necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with the federal government being involved in state-level development projects, but in this case I think it's pretty unfairly maligned. Imagine if LAX got shut down for a few days every month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge
In Daggerfall, I'd level up evocation by fireballing myself. With the magic absorption trait, you don't take any damage and it recharges your mana, so you can just sit there for hours.
And no, that's not the reason why the games are amazing. =)
Bundled options are *far* cheaper than customized options. It's one of the reasons American car companies have been getting their asses kicked.
We're talking like $2,000 vs $5,000 here.
>No negotiating and no up-sell.
Which is why I *won't* use the website.
Negotiating generally will knock off 10-20% on the price of a new car. The website will undoubtedly use MSRP for a variety of reasons, and maybe allow the nationwide promotions they run to discount the price. But it'll still be quite a bit more than your local dealer.
It's not hard to say no to the up-selling. "No thanks, I'll pay in cash." "No thanks, I don't need a warranty." And so forth. *Always* negotiate based on the "out the door" price instead of the price of the car, because the dealership will add all sorts of fees and costs on top of the sale price of the car.
The really amusing thing is that turning down the extras will often result in the often abusively high prices coming down to a reasonable number. My wife got a 7 year bumper-to-bumper warranty for less than a thousand bucks, and I got lifetime oil changes and tire rotations for $400 (which has already paid for itself after 3 years).
Actually, this shutdown shows us how irrelevant the massive federal government is to our personal lives. Our governmental spending is *40%* of GDP. That's higher than Venezuela, and is on par with Socialist paradise Norway.
What do we get for that 40%?
Well, that's what the shutdown is showing. Other than Obama vindictively shutting down parking lots and overlooks (which don't cost even a percentage of GDP) to try to make the government seem relevant, we see it does nothing for us.
Think about what a comparative impact Apple has on our country, at only about 0.5% of GDP.
The proposition system here in California works reasonably well.
>However, the Surface Pro 2 looks very attractive. I am buying one.
The Surface Pro looked good to me, too, except on price.
But I went into my local Best Buy and tried it out.
Pretty terrible experience. I'm not sure what I was expecting from a tablet laptop (maybe something along the lines of the ASUS Transformer, which actually worked pretty well?) but the touch surface was just terrible.
Yep. My dad was part of the group that converted F4s into target dummies.
People would sit on the ground with a grown-up RC remote control and pilot them around as targets for human-piloted planes to shoot down.
Yeah, we were used mixed Fortran/C++ code when I was in grad school circa 2000. The Fortran code was already parallelized due to a long history of having better parallelization tools than C, so we wrapped it in a C library and linked the object code together. Students in my HPC class didn't know that they were calling Fortran at all when they executed the numerical kernel we provided, just that it worked and was fast.
>Prices must have really crashed since I was playing it
Pfft, I haven't played it recently either. I quit maybe a month? after the game released. Maybe two, since we had a baby in there some time.
Yeah, early on gear to beat Diablo was super expensive, but as people kept grinding out the magic items, the cost to kit yourself out for Diablo Inferno plummeted.
And since it's not like there was anything to do *after* Diablo, most people quit at that point and dumped their gear on the RMAH.
>But you don't need to do that either. You could just play the game normally.
Up until Act 2 Inferno. Then the game just got fucktardedly difficult unless you used the AH.
You don't need to use a credit card. A small amount of in-game gold was all that was needed to kit your character up to beat Diablo on Inferno.
> I honestly believe that the Chinese should switch to some sort of romanization like pinyin
They have. Learning pinyin has been mandatory in the PRC since the 1950s.
While I take notes myself in pinyin, it doesn't help when dealing with a dialect speaker, though. Quite the contrary - while a dialect speaker can read characters just fine, they cannot read pinyin. It is because of this and other reasons characters are still used.
The PRC's approach is actually, working though. Basically the entire youth of China speaks Mandarin today (plus their regional dialect). It's the older generation that doesn't speak Mandarin.
I just wish my first encounter on my own in China hadn't been a dialect speaker with only a passing familiarity with Mandarin. And he was a taxi driver!
Savage and Voelker are both awesome professors. Nice to see them in the news again on Slashdot.
>At the time, science was seen as an offshoot of philosophy (natural philosophy).
This is something that confuses a lot of modern readers who look at the Galileo Affair.
When they see a churchman making "philosophical" arguments against Galileo, they assume it is due to some preposterous navel-gazing argument, not knowing the primary objection to Galileo came from people we'd call scientists today.
Galileo was making claims contrary to the founder of "science", Aristotle, and couldn't answer the counter-objections that scientists raised. The debate was taken to the authorities, the Roman Catholic Church, who told Galileo that they loved his theory, but that he didn't have enough evidence yet (and rightly so) to call it settled science. Contrary to the prevailing belief (and a forged letter claiming this) Galileo was not prohibited from teaching heliocentrism, just from teaching it as accepted fact. The Pope - a friend of his, and who believed his theory but was worried about making sudden changes in society - in fact encouraged Galileo to publish a comparison of heliocentrism and geocentrism, discussing the relative merits of each. Galileo, in typical nerd fashion, wrote a book that said heliocentrism is great, and anyone who believes otherwise is an idiot, including you, Mr. Pope. *This* is what got Galileo subject to house arrest. Not heliocentrism (which was utterly uncontroversial up until Galileo flipped off the pope - Copernicus was well received).
I said a desktop, not a retarded-looking all in one.