when first reading TFS, my first parsing suggested some random C-jockeys screaming "oh no it isnt" in a bid to prove the ipad isnt a TV, didnt make a lot of sense
Hammond: And here we have our Kia, standing on 15" alloys, with a 1.6 litre engine, she is a proud beast. Our car is equiped with air conditioning and metallic paint. Inside, the back seats fold flat into the boot floor to present a flat loading surface, making this a practical and versatile car.
Clarkson: And now, let's look at the ford. Mind you, it was a bit difficult to find a model T, so we had to go for the next best thing. Yes, it's a ford, and it is available in any color you like, as long as it's black, and here it comes now.
*video of the stig drifting a Focus RS 500 around the track*
it is a little known fact that the Z in Z80 stands for Zoidberg, after an unfortunate timetravel incident, he ended up making the z80 a reailty, the trade-off however, were constant whooping noises.
right, so even though the jury is supposed to call guilty/not guilty, here the judge basically did a "LALALALALALALALALAA cant hear you!!" and got an invite to the black turtleneck club?
Man, i should have studied law instead of engineering
And a human is controlling that at a high level whether he's sitting in the cockpit or in California with a remote joystick.
The difference is wether or not the pilot dies/gets tortured for months as a hostage after being shot down after taking too much risk.
Taking a drone on a suicide mission doesnt really matter, your boss might give you an earfull, but in the end you just go home and have dinner with your wife
yes, the US was founded by europeans who thought that europe wasnt strict, religious and uptight enough
Which sort of explains the need to have a holy war on anything and everything, and the freakin out when someone shows digital rendered boobies in a 16+ game
the shuttle isnt designed to stay up for any long period of time, it leaks air (badly) and its power suply isnt specced for long trips. Even if just idling up there, it would need an active cooling system to prevent serious damage from over/underheating.
i guess you could use it as a meteor shield, but it won't take long before that giant uncontrolable floating heap of spacejunk becomes more of a menace to your station then the meteorites
and here in europe, most people will have debit cards for their bank account, but not a credit card. Signing up for a credit card just to donate $1 to a fund raiser isnt gonna work
Back in primary school, at the age of 11-12, i read about the theory of nuclear fision (mostly the basic principals used in a fision reactor), i dont remember wether i also knew about critical mass and the uranium gun-type design, but i truely believe i would have understood the basic design.
Sure, working out the exact dimensions of various parts would have been beyond the working knowledge of a 12-year old, but once out of high school that shouldn't have been a real problem.
I appluad you for the initiative, but people can do very very sneaky stuff in code, so your IANAS/PE pretty much means that if the author was anywhere half competent and wanted to do something Evil(tm) he could probably sneak it past you
Which is part of my problem with the idea that open source means it is automagically safe, i know i wouldnt be able to tell if some hardcore C-lib does something less then savory without spending a disjointed amount of time on the needed code-review. You basically assume someone else has checked to see if there arent any malicious things in there, but for 99% of the people, doing a fully fledged code review is unfeasable.
Not that i think this is an argument against open source, i just think the open == secure argument is hardly true
apparently tesla never heard of the streisand effect.
They would have been much better of with offering their cars for review to the autobild group (here in europe anyway). Here in holland, autoweek also publices on the most used news website in the country, a good review headline there would help them much more then sueing the bbc.
If they do indeed have a good product, put that out there instead, unless off course, top gear was right, and the range/charge issue is indeed a crippling problem for most electric cars, including tesla's roadster
true dat, i have driven a LPG car for a while (petrol car with LPG installation added), and while it still ran on petrol and the combined range was around 900-1000 km, the LPG range was only 350 km before needing a fill-up. Now given that it was a company car i was forced to drive on LPG 95% of the time, resulting in very very frequent tank-stops. For this reason alone i would prefer not to drive LPG again.
Now halve that range and change the fill-up time from 5 minutes to 8 hours and you have a typical electric car.
If that is what you want, watch fifth gear, much more about cars, but also way more boring.
As for Vicki, she lost all credibility the moment she started doing toyota adds, and please dont get me started on the aygo Vs alfa Romeo Giulia "comparison" commercial, it makes me want to drop her in a vat of acid just watching what she does with the alfa..
don't know how much the underclocking and so forth would increase the battery life though... What are the main things that eat the battery when the screen's off?
my HTC desire claims that since this morning, 70% of the battery usage was because of cell standby and background tasks (and only 3% because of the 20 minutes of angry birds on the tram), now this includes running google talk, whatsapp and mail/calendar synching. With this usage pattern i can probably go 36-40 hours between charges.
Take a phone with a smaller screen (wouldnt need a 3.7 inch 800*480 screen on a low end android "dumbphone", think of the 2.4" 240*320 on the wildfire), and turn of the 3G radio and all synching/app functions, and your android phone should last a whole lot longer
All remaing RBMK reactors were modified post-chernobyl to mitigate the risks present in the original design, the RBMKs running today would not respond with the same catastrofic failure as Chernobyl-4 has to that set of operating parameters.
Moreover, a lot of old reactors have been scheduled for shutdown, but then had their lifespan extended because we simply need the power, i'm not sure about how the russians feel about building new reactors (presumably not too bad, since they are building new ones), but here in the west, old design based BWRs could have been phased out already for ABWRs SBWRs or SEBWRs with much safer designs, if only the public was so anti-nuclear
fukushima close to state of the art? those reactors were built 40 years ago based on 50 year old plans.
Furthermore, you really believe the public will be able to form enough of an understanding to differentiate between a BWR/PWR and stuff like pebble bed reactors? The first thing the press started blaring about when this whole mess started was wether or not this could go the way of chernobyl, never mind that these BWRs are fundamentally less flawed then a non-modified RBMK (and all RBMKs have been modified post chernobyl)
Even if we invent a perfect fusion reactor tomorrow, with zero risk and ponies and unicorns instead of nuclear waste, the public will cry out against it as soon as we say the word nuclear
I'm getting somewhat annoyed with the use of some terms here, you are using "liquidator", somewhere up i saw "exclusion zone", all of which are very much connected to chernobyl.
liquidators were people doing cleanup after the frickin reactor exploded, nothing like that happened at fukushima, and very likely wont happen at all, stop comparing the two incidents implicitly by using these terms
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Schedule managers would be a more apt term
when first reading TFS, my first parsing suggested some random C-jockeys screaming "oh no it isnt" in a bid to prove the ipad isnt a TV, didnt make a lot of sense
Halo 3 and Halo 3 ODST
Hammond: And here we have our Kia, standing on 15" alloys, with a 1.6 litre engine, she is a proud beast. Our car is equiped with air conditioning and metallic paint. Inside, the back seats fold flat into the boot floor to present a flat loading surface, making this a practical and versatile car.
Clarkson: And now, let's look at the ford. Mind you, it was a bit difficult to find a model T, so we had to go for the next best thing. Yes, it's a ford, and it is available in any color you like, as long as it's black, and here it comes now.
*video of the stig drifting a Focus RS 500 around the track*
i think my ethics class ruined me for any possible law career though
it is a little known fact that the Z in Z80 stands for Zoidberg, after an unfortunate timetravel incident, he ended up making the z80 a reailty, the trade-off however, were constant whooping noises.
maybe they calculated the fraction on a pentium processor using microsoft excel?
Damn, i never knew making the obligatory /. jokes makes you feel so dirty
right, so even though the jury is supposed to call guilty/not guilty, here the judge basically did a "LALALALALALALALALAA cant hear you!!" and got an invite to the black turtleneck club?
Man, i should have studied law instead of engineering
And a human is controlling that at a high level whether he's sitting in the cockpit or in California with a remote joystick.
The difference is wether or not the pilot dies/gets tortured for months as a hostage after being shot down after taking too much risk.
Taking a drone on a suicide mission doesnt really matter, your boss might give you an earfull, but in the end you just go home and have dinner with your wife
so i have internet on my swiss army knife? man those thing are versatile!
But are they fighting?
(and no, rock-em sock-em robots dont count :P)
yes, the US was founded by europeans who thought that europe wasnt strict, religious and uptight enough
Which sort of explains the need to have a holy war on anything and everything, and the freakin out when someone shows digital rendered boobies in a 16+ game
the shuttle isnt designed to stay up for any long period of time, it leaks air (badly) and its power suply isnt specced for long trips. Even if just idling up there, it would need an active cooling system to prevent serious damage from over/underheating.
i guess you could use it as a meteor shield, but it won't take long before that giant uncontrolable floating heap of spacejunk becomes more of a menace to your station then the meteorites
and here in europe, most people will have debit cards for their bank account, but not a credit card. Signing up for a credit card just to donate $1 to a fund raiser isnt gonna work
i'm pretty sure getting a hollow sphere made out of plutonium isnt exactly a cake-walk either
i doubt anyone at the NSA is that naive
Back in primary school, at the age of 11-12, i read about the theory of nuclear fision (mostly the basic principals used in a fision reactor), i dont remember wether i also knew about critical mass and the uranium gun-type design, but i truely believe i would have understood the basic design.
Sure, working out the exact dimensions of various parts would have been beyond the working knowledge of a 12-year old, but once out of high school that shouldn't have been a real problem.
I appluad you for the initiative, but people can do very very sneaky stuff in code, so your IANAS/PE pretty much means that if the author was anywhere half competent and wanted to do something Evil(tm) he could probably sneak it past you
Which is part of my problem with the idea that open source means it is automagically safe, i know i wouldnt be able to tell if some hardcore C-lib does something less then savory without spending a disjointed amount of time on the needed code-review. You basically assume someone else has checked to see if there arent any malicious things in there, but for 99% of the people, doing a fully fledged code review is unfeasable.
Not that i think this is an argument against open source, i just think the open == secure argument is hardly true
apparently tesla never heard of the streisand effect.
They would have been much better of with offering their cars for review to the autobild group (here in europe anyway). Here in holland, autoweek also publices on the most used news website in the country, a good review headline there would help them much more then sueing the bbc.
If they do indeed have a good product, put that out there instead, unless off course, top gear was right, and the range/charge issue is indeed a crippling problem for most electric cars, including tesla's roadster
true dat, i have driven a LPG car for a while (petrol car with LPG installation added), and while it still ran on petrol and the combined range was around 900-1000 km, the LPG range was only 350 km before needing a fill-up. Now given that it was a company car i was forced to drive on LPG 95% of the time, resulting in very very frequent tank-stops. For this reason alone i would prefer not to drive LPG again.
Now halve that range and change the fill-up time from 5 minutes to 8 hours and you have a typical electric car.
If that is what you want, watch fifth gear, much more about cars, but also way more boring.
As for Vicki, she lost all credibility the moment she started doing toyota adds, and please dont get me started on the aygo Vs alfa Romeo Giulia "comparison" commercial, it makes me want to drop her in a vat of acid just watching what she does with the alfa..
Anyone instantly worried that installing this software in your own machine might also make any data on that machine available for stalking?
It somehow doesnt seem like a good idea to me to trust a programmer proficient at this kind of this without a very very thorough code review first
do you have GPS enabled? google maps might be running in the background constantly updating your location etc...
don't know how much the underclocking and so forth would increase the battery life though... What are the main things that eat the battery when the screen's off?
my HTC desire claims that since this morning, 70% of the battery usage was because of cell standby and background tasks (and only 3% because of the 20 minutes of angry birds on the tram), now this includes running google talk, whatsapp and mail/calendar synching. With this usage pattern i can probably go 36-40 hours between charges.
Take a phone with a smaller screen (wouldnt need a 3.7 inch 800*480 screen on a low end android "dumbphone", think of the 2.4" 240*320 on the wildfire), and turn of the 3G radio and all synching/app functions, and your android phone should last a whole lot longer
All remaing RBMK reactors were modified post-chernobyl to mitigate the risks present in the original design, the RBMKs running today would not respond with the same catastrofic failure as Chernobyl-4 has to that set of operating parameters.
Moreover, a lot of old reactors have been scheduled for shutdown, but then had their lifespan extended because we simply need the power, i'm not sure about how the russians feel about building new reactors (presumably not too bad, since they are building new ones), but here in the west, old design based BWRs could have been phased out already for ABWRs SBWRs or SEBWRs with much safer designs, if only the public was so anti-nuclear
fukushima close to state of the art? those reactors were built 40 years ago based on 50 year old plans.
Furthermore, you really believe the public will be able to form enough of an understanding to differentiate between a BWR/PWR and stuff like pebble bed reactors? The first thing the press started blaring about when this whole mess started was wether or not this could go the way of chernobyl, never mind that these BWRs are fundamentally less flawed then a non-modified RBMK (and all RBMKs have been modified post chernobyl)
Even if we invent a perfect fusion reactor tomorrow, with zero risk and ponies and unicorns instead of nuclear waste, the public will cry out against it as soon as we say the word nuclear
I'm getting somewhat annoyed with the use of some terms here, you are using "liquidator", somewhere up i saw "exclusion zone", all of which are very much connected to chernobyl.
liquidators were people doing cleanup after the frickin reactor exploded, nothing like that happened at fukushima, and very likely wont happen at all, stop comparing the two incidents implicitly by using these terms