No, you went wrong by confusing "improving the decisions of the scheduler, so that the user experience is improved" with "making the scheduler run faster."
Even though that acceleration seems increddibly fast, Moores Law proposes an exponential acceleration* that will outgrow that acceleration by far. (That's also the reason why Moores law will fail at some point.)
*Actually he never talked about speed but number of transistors, but that's sufficiently correlated;-)
Don't you know we are living in a post-productivity world? It's all about the churn now,
Speak for yourself. Maybe you are living in a post-productivity USA, but that's not "the world". Meanwhile, my country of residence is making its money by selling machinery and cars to the rest of the world. And I'd bet that countries like China, that actually produce stuff and sell it to countries like yours, would equally disagree.
A gift from person A to person B should be a symbol saying "I know you, and I believe that you should have this gift I am giving you".
Only that in reality, most (or at least many) gifts are a symbol given to satisfy certain social norms or expectations. While it certainly would be nice if every gift would be the heartfelt symbol you'd like it to be, that's not the world we all live in.
I was about to mod this insightful, but when reviewing the video, I found that the bright spot is not visible from 0:15 to 0:20. As solid-fuel rockets usually don't stop to burn for a few seconds (and I don't see a stage-switch) the "sunlight glinting off the underside" theory suddenly gets a lot more plausible than the rocket theory.
The test itself is important because cable operators are still, perhaps unfairly, seen by some as being inferior to fully fibre optic-based broadband services
Of course cable *is* (technologically) inferior to fiber. There's no doubt about it. 100Mbps would be trivial on fiber, heck 1Gbps would be trivial on fiber. The only advantage of cable is that it's already there, whereas for FTTH the vast majority of households will have to wait for a long time until they are connected.
Sierra's The Realm had an alpha that was free, then sold the beta client and charged monthly. When it was ready, they released the full version, and the beta testers didn't have to buy another copy, since they had already paid for one.
I'd prefer Blizzard's approach: Do a closed "Friends and Family" alpha, a free public beta, and when it's ready, release the game. I'd say WoW counts as "commercial success" even without trying to charge customers for beeing guinea pigs.
MD5 is considered broken, but it's not THAT broken. If you manage to find two short* strings with the same MD5 sum, you should post that result to a security conference and get famous.
Researchers found that a growing number of owls were being trapped, traded or killed in black magic rituals.
If they are killing owls in black magic rituals, they either have a pretty strange translation of Harry Potter, or very bad reading comprehension. Or maybe somebody did not understand that not every trend that started some times after 1997 is caused by Harry Potter.
You may be correct for the US, but as you mentioned, the "EULA" for your property can not include everything. I sincerely doubt that you could enforce your "punch in the face rule" pretty much anywhere.
In Germany, you can not enforce bag searches without a really, really good reason. Example of "not good enough": A store detective is not allowed to open or search bags of customers he suspects of theft. He can politely ask the customer, but if the customer refuses the detective has to wait for the police. Given that precedent, the chances of movie theaters to find a "good enough" reason to be allowed to search your bag are pretty slim.
Please stop blaming all problems of your aoutomotive industries to 30 year old regulation. Other manufacturers are able to build energy efficient front wheel drive cars with a pretty good performance. If yours don't, blame their lack of innovation.
Oh, and light trucks are probably large and not whimpy, but definately not fast. Which implies "not fun".
Shit like what? A lady died. I don't think it's completely insane for the family of the victim to want to be heard in court. They lost a loved one. The kid and the parents just have to appear and account for their actions.
It was an accident. Accidents happen. If someone dies, that's awful, but it's still an accident. If you start to sue any child that somehow harmed someone else, parents would have to start leashing their kids as soon as they leave the house (and use a short leash). For some reason that's not the society I'd want to live in.
It makes for a disturbing headline, but logically I think it makes perfect sense.
If the goal of the legal system is to make as much money as possible out of it, then yes, it is a logical decision. Also, it's exactly what's wrong with the system.
The german sources I've read claim a 20 minute recharge time, which is much more plausible. The destination of the car was the seat of our Secretary of Commerce, with a lot of press waiting, so unless they pulled a stunt by exchanging cars somewhere en route the rest of the story is to be considered fact. So "just another startup" manufactured some batteries and installed them in a modified Audi A2, while keeping all 4 seats and the trunk in a useable state, and managed to drive that car from Munich to Berlin without recharging. This is an incredible feat, even if the claim on the recharge time in the article (I've not read said claim on the manufacturers website) might be dubious.
If the car takes 3 HP (2 kW) to drive at highway speed
HA! You are an order of magnitude too low. Otherwise we'd all be installing 50cc moped motors into our cars. I think 30-40 HP is what it takes to overcome air resistance, rolling resistance, and the incline of the terrain when that comes along.
I've driven more than 130 kph (80 mph) in a car that barely HAD 40 HP. I don't know how much horse powers you need to keep a Hummer running at 55 mph, but driving a Audi A2 (which is a pretty small car) at that speed will take much less. The most energy efficient A2 produced was rated at below 4 l/100km (i.e. about 80 mpg).
As others mentioned, the article is short on facts. I can drive 300 miles at 55 mph (average) and spend 0 kWh, as long as the road is downhill all the way, or if I use a sail. That fact alone is worthless.
The car was driven from Munich to Berlin. So it was no hypothetical value, but a real drive on a real road. Munich is about 520m, and Berlin at abut 100m, so you gain 420m of potential energy over the course of 600 km, which is basically nothing.
Regarding the charging current requirement: The (german) sources I've read all talk about a 20 Minute recharge time, not a 6 minute time. Additionally in Europe, you usually get 2 phases 230V each. Combined, the involved current seems to be a lot more realistic, even if still a bit steep. Unfortunately, I didn't find any hard data on the capacity and energy density of the battery, so a lot of the calculations has to remain guessworks
In some legislations that will count as an illegal DoS attack. In my country of residence, you might be eligible for a fine and up to five years in prison for excuting that script.
Gummy fingers can even fool sensors being watched by guards. Simply form the clear gelatin finger over your own. This lets you hide it as you press your own finger onto the sensor.
This technique also has the added benefit that the gelantine will have the correct temperature, so fingerprint sensors that measure temperature will also be foiled. If the gelantine is thin enough, it might even foil pulse detectors, so you'll pass the most common "life detectors".
Generally speaking, hard to imagine being born and raised in the US without knowing to speak English...
Yes, but only the "born" part is neccessary to become citizen. You can be born in the US (and thus become citizen), be raised somewhere else, and then come back at a later time (and vote)
there are 20 million people here during the workday, it's a pretty good sample of the US.
Even if that was true (which I suppose it's not), the US is not a good sample of the world. There are markets like Europe or Asia that may behave completely different than the US markets. (If you don't believe that, look at the list of the most popular cars in the US and than at the list of the most popular cars in Europe)
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No, you went wrong by confusing "improving the decisions of the scheduler, so that the user experience is improved" with "making the scheduler run faster."
The Arizona State University seems to have a whole lot of volunteers.
but apparently you've got a ways to go yet in the subtlety and satire department.
Actually we are pretty famous for our complete lack of humor.
Even though that acceleration seems increddibly fast, Moores Law proposes an exponential acceleration* that will outgrow that acceleration by far. (That's also the reason why Moores law will fail at some point.)
*Actually he never talked about speed but number of transistors, but that's sufficiently correlated ;-)
Don't you know we are living in a post-productivity world? It's all about the churn now,
Speak for yourself. Maybe you are living in a post-productivity USA, but that's not "the world". Meanwhile, my country of residence is making its money by selling machinery and cars to the rest of the world. And I'd bet that countries like China, that actually produce stuff and sell it to countries like yours, would equally disagree.
A gift from person A to person B should be a symbol saying "I know you, and I believe that you should have this gift I am giving you".
Only that in reality, most (or at least many) gifts are a symbol given to satisfy certain social norms or expectations. While it certainly would be nice if every gift would be the heartfelt symbol you'd like it to be, that's not the world we all live in.
I was about to mod this insightful, but when reviewing the video, I found that the bright spot is not visible from 0:15 to 0:20. As solid-fuel rockets usually don't stop to burn for a few seconds (and I don't see a stage-switch) the "sunlight glinting off the underside" theory suddenly gets a lot more plausible than the rocket theory.
The test itself is important because cable operators are still, perhaps unfairly, seen by some as being inferior to fully fibre optic-based broadband services
Of course cable *is* (technologically) inferior to fiber. There's no doubt about it. 100Mbps would be trivial on fiber, heck 1Gbps would be trivial on fiber. The only advantage of cable is that it's already there, whereas for FTTH the vast majority of households will have to wait for a long time until they are connected.
Sierra's The Realm had an alpha that was free, then sold the beta client and charged monthly. When it was ready, they released the full version, and the beta testers didn't have to buy another copy, since they had already paid for one.
I'd prefer Blizzard's approach: Do a closed "Friends and Family" alpha, a free public beta, and when it's ready, release the game. I'd say WoW counts as "commercial success" even without trying to charge customers for beeing guinea pigs.
MD5 is considered broken, but it's not THAT broken. If you manage to find two short* strings with the same MD5 sum, you should post that result to a security conference and get famous.
*i.e. not longer than your average password
You should have quoted the next sentence, too:
There was no wider effect on general maths ability in either group, just on the ability to complete the puzzles learned as the current was applied
i.e. nobody was made dumber (or smarter), it only influenced the learning process while the current was active.
Researchers found that a growing number of owls were being trapped, traded or killed in black magic rituals.
If they are killing owls in black magic rituals, they either have a pretty strange translation of Harry Potter, or very bad reading comprehension. Or maybe somebody did not understand that not every trend that started some times after 1997 is caused by Harry Potter.
You may be correct for the US, but as you mentioned, the "EULA" for your property can not include everything. I sincerely doubt that you could enforce your "punch in the face rule" pretty much anywhere.
In Germany, you can not enforce bag searches without a really, really good reason. Example of "not good enough": A store detective is not allowed to open or search bags of customers he suspects of theft. He can politely ask the customer, but if the customer refuses the detective has to wait for the police. Given that precedent, the chances of movie theaters to find a "good enough" reason to be allowed to search your bag are pretty slim.
"Which of these adverts did you enjoy the most?"
I did not enjoy any of the adverts.
"I'm sorry, I can't enter that into my survey, please select one of the valid options"
Please stop blaming all problems of your aoutomotive industries to 30 year old regulation. Other manufacturers are able to build energy efficient front wheel drive cars with a pretty good performance. If yours don't, blame their lack of innovation.
Oh, and light trucks are probably large and not whimpy, but definately not fast. Which implies "not fun".
cure
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
None of them are going to cure you in a finger-snap.
"The average cold lasts seven days, but if you take this drug it will be over in a week"
Shit like what? A lady died. I don't think it's completely insane for the family of the victim to want to be heard in court. They lost a loved one. The kid and the parents just have to appear and account for their actions.
It was an accident. Accidents happen. If someone dies, that's awful, but it's still an accident. If you start to sue any child that somehow harmed someone else, parents would have to start leashing their kids as soon as they leave the house (and use a short leash). For some reason that's not the society I'd want to live in.
It makes for a disturbing headline, but logically I think it makes perfect sense.
If the goal of the legal system is to make as much money as possible out of it, then yes, it is a logical decision. Also, it's exactly what's wrong with the system.
The german sources I've read claim a 20 minute recharge time, which is much more plausible. The destination of the car was the seat of our Secretary of Commerce, with a lot of press waiting, so unless they pulled a stunt by exchanging cars somewhere en route the rest of the story is to be considered fact. So "just another startup" manufactured some batteries and installed them in a modified Audi A2, while keeping all 4 seats and the trunk in a useable state, and managed to drive that car from Munich to Berlin without recharging. This is an incredible feat, even if the claim on the recharge time in the article (I've not read said claim on the manufacturers website) might be dubious.
If the car takes 3 HP (2 kW) to drive at highway speed
HA! You are an order of magnitude too low. Otherwise we'd all be installing 50cc moped motors into our cars. I think 30-40 HP is what it takes to overcome air resistance, rolling resistance, and the incline of the terrain when that comes along.
I've driven more than 130 kph (80 mph) in a car that barely HAD 40 HP. I don't know how much horse powers you need to keep a Hummer running at 55 mph, but driving a Audi A2 (which is a pretty small car) at that speed will take much less. The most energy efficient A2 produced was rated at below 4 l/100km (i.e. about 80 mpg).
As others mentioned, the article is short on facts. I can drive 300 miles at 55 mph (average) and spend 0 kWh, as long as the road is downhill all the way, or if I use a sail. That fact alone is worthless.
The car was driven from Munich to Berlin. So it was no hypothetical value, but a real drive on a real road. Munich is about 520m, and Berlin at abut 100m, so you gain 420m of potential energy over the course of 600 km, which is basically nothing.
Regarding the charging current requirement: The (german) sources I've read all talk about a 20 Minute recharge time, not a 6 minute time. Additionally in Europe, you usually get 2 phases 230V each. Combined, the involved current seems to be a lot more realistic, even if still a bit steep. Unfortunately, I didn't find any hard data on the capacity and energy density of the battery, so a lot of the calculations has to remain guessworks
In some legislations that will count as an illegal DoS attack. In my country of residence, you might be eligible for a fine and up to five years in prison for excuting that script.
Gummy fingers can even fool sensors being watched by guards. Simply form the clear gelatin finger over your own. This lets you hide it as you press your own finger onto the sensor.
This technique also has the added benefit that the gelantine will have the correct temperature, so fingerprint sensors that measure temperature will also be foiled. If the gelantine is thin enough, it might even foil pulse detectors, so you'll pass the most common "life detectors".
I thought the president could simply click the big red button?
Generally speaking, hard to imagine being born and raised in the US without knowing to speak English...
Yes, but only the "born" part is neccessary to become citizen. You can be born in the US (and thus become citizen), be raised somewhere else, and then come back at a later time (and vote)
there are 20 million people here during the workday, it's a pretty good sample of the US.
Even if that was true (which I suppose it's not), the US is not a good sample of the world. There are markets like Europe or Asia that may behave completely different than the US markets. (If you don't believe that, look at the list of the most popular cars in the US and than at the list of the most popular cars in Europe)