I've had pretty much the same experience with cheap analog A/V senders. It was kinda cool turning it on and off - "now you have internets - now you don't."
Microwaves, on the other hand, I've never had any trouble with. I can stand next to it cooking something and troll facebook at the same time.
As a person living in Norway: yes, you are technically correct. However, we are a member of the European Economic Area, which is a bilateral agreement (the EEA also includes Lichtenstein and Iceland) between us and the EU. This means we have to implement all EU directives unless we _really_ don't want to (i.e. we veto them). It also means we get some benefits of being friends with the EU. The technicalities are really quite complicated.
So I guess that instead of this lengthy explanation, the OP was a bit sloppy. Or he was ignorant, which is also quite possible.
Well, given that Lockheed announced three days ago that they had "agreed to buy it", implying that they won't have it for several months (and it may not even physically exist yet), I'd say nada.
Actually, if you had read the other article, the "commercial quantum computer" is not of the sort that can crack encryption in any way, shape or form that a normal computer cannot do as fast or faster.
It is, however, very useful for a lot of very large and very computer intensive research problems, such as in artificial intelligence.
I never understood this US silliness of distinguishing cable from DSL. In my country, everything gets touted as ADSL, except for fiber and some rare super-expensive SDSL-lines.
But surely, if they are using Fourier techniques, they could just transfer on infinitely many frequencies at once, yeah? I mean, such a device would have Tbps, puking in the face of this measly 12 Tbps in TFA...
The thing keeping me from upgrading my free account is that they've deleted a good portion of artists i listen to lately, like e.g. Overseer. I don't want to pay for a service where the amount of available content is decreasing!
Except that a hybrid design makes a lot less sense in an airplane than in a car, where you can recover braking energy etc. In a plane, the point would be moot. Even a setup like the Chevy Volt wouldn't have much potential, since airplane engines typically run in their most effective range anyway.
Oh, wait, you were just talking about gaming the contest, not doing anything actually useful... Well, i guess the rules are always open to interpretation by the judges, especially as "electric propulsion system" can easily be argued to mean "purely electric".
customer drops their old battery in a dispenser, swipes their card and a new one pops out
Say what? Customer drops old battery in a dispenser? Even if you get battery energy densities as high as for petrol (which would be amazing), you're talking 60-80 kg batteries (or about the weight of a human being). Sure, let me just drop that in the dispenser over there.
Seriously, have them play with applets like this that show them how simple things can behave very differently from an initial guess would suggest. And motivate them with "further up ahead, people are doing awesome things!"
You might find it interesting to have a look at the Bak-Sneppen model . Sure, it's a toy model, but it suggests that an interlinked system does not need major, external events in order for large jumps in an evolution-like process to occur. Our normal intuition for what is statistically plausible does not necessarily hold.
A lot of it has also to do with an unneccesary demand for ultra-high resolution. Some of my all-time favorite games, like Need for Speed 5 or space-battle-tank-fighter Battlezone, are playable on a netbook with integrated graphics while emulated through Wine. I still prefer them to e.g. the latest Need for Speed, where content and playability has been sacrifized on the altar of cartoon realism and HD/HDR graphics. Hey, EA: I don't enjoy games more if they are ultra-high-def, I enjoy them more if they are fun and challenging to play!
Why else is Google testing driverless vehicles, you think? It's not like they're a car company, and when you consider that a cutting-edge smartphone has number crunching capabilities far surpassing the guidance systems in the space shuttle...
I agree about anti-glare, that wears off pretty fast, especially if you use anything but water and a lens cloth to clean your glasses.
But the scratch proof stuff is truly magic! I had a chance to compare my eight year old glasses with some cheap glasses one of my relatives' children had, and man, was there a world of difference. And I'm not really careful with my glasses either, I've lost them tons of times when playing football or skiing.
Okay, can someone explain this to me? Maybe I'm a little thick today, but I don't see the purpose of this Thunderbolt thingy. Case in point:
Last night I had a friend over to watch a movie. He brought it on his 2.5" external USB harddrive that was held together with sticky tape, and it still took less time to transfer the entire movie to my HTPC (~80 sec.) than to find popcorn.
Oh, suck it up. I live at 63N, and we're just now starting to get sunrise around the time we go to work. It's inconvenient, but not "very unpleasant", and if you don't like it just go live on a tropical island.
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I've had pretty much the same experience with cheap analog A/V senders. It was kinda cool turning it on and off - "now you have internets - now you don't."
Microwaves, on the other hand, I've never had any trouble with. I can stand next to it cooking something and troll facebook at the same time.
Actually, if you paid any attention to the news, you should know that we vetoed the (third) EU Post Directive about a month ago.
As a person living in Norway: yes, you are technically correct. However, we are a member of the European Economic Area, which is a bilateral agreement (the EEA also includes Lichtenstein and Iceland) between us and the EU. This means we have to implement all EU directives unless we _really_ don't want to (i.e. we veto them). It also means we get some benefits of being friends with the EU. The technicalities are really quite complicated.
So I guess that instead of this lengthy explanation, the OP was a bit sloppy. Or he was ignorant, which is also quite possible.
Well, given that Lockheed announced three days ago that they had "agreed to buy it", implying that they won't have it for several months (and it may not even physically exist yet), I'd say nada.
It is, however, very useful for a lot of very large and very computer intensive research problems, such as in artificial intelligence.
I never understood this US silliness of distinguishing cable from DSL. In my country, everything gets touted as ADSL, except for fiber and some rare super-expensive SDSL-lines.
would have Tbps
... and silly me for assuming /. supported a character encoding that became the de facto standard years ago.
But surely, if they are using Fourier techniques, they could just transfer on infinitely many frequencies at once, yeah? I mean, such a device would have Tbps, puking in the face of this measly 12 Tbps in TFA...
Hopefully, the guts of your system won't be slashdotted, though...
This. I had to do an end-of-term project in that POS software.
If you think this is bad, you obviously haven't tried Awesome WM, with libraries like "Wicked". You try googling for "Awesome Wicked clock widget"...
The thing keeping me from upgrading my free account is that they've deleted a good portion of artists i listen to lately, like e.g. Overseer. I don't want to pay for a service where the amount of available content is decreasing!
Except that a hybrid design makes a lot less sense in an airplane than in a car, where you can recover braking energy etc. In a plane, the point would be moot. Even a setup like the Chevy Volt wouldn't have much potential, since airplane engines typically run in their most effective range anyway.
Oh, wait, you were just talking about gaming the contest, not doing anything actually useful... Well, i guess the rules are always open to interpretation by the judges, especially as "electric propulsion system" can easily be argued to mean "purely electric".
customer drops their old battery in a dispenser, swipes their card and a new one pops out
Say what? Customer drops old battery in a dispenser? Even if you get battery energy densities as high as for petrol (which would be amazing), you're talking 60-80 kg batteries (or about the weight of a human being). Sure, let me just drop that in the dispenser over there.
Seriously, have them play with applets like this that show them how simple things can behave very differently from an initial guess would suggest. And motivate them with "further up ahead, people are doing awesome things!"
Wait a minute, you're holding it wrong.
FTFY
You might find it interesting to have a look at the Bak-Sneppen model . Sure, it's a toy model, but it suggests that an interlinked system does not need major, external events in order for large jumps in an evolution-like process to occur. Our normal intuition for what is statistically plausible does not necessarily hold.
soapbox->get_off(me);
There's an app for that.
Why else is Google testing driverless vehicles, you think? It's not like they're a car company, and when you consider that a cutting-edge smartphone has number crunching capabilities far surpassing the guidance systems in the space shuttle...
But the scratch proof stuff is truly magic! I had a chance to compare my eight year old glasses with some cheap glasses one of my relatives' children had, and man, was there a world of difference. And I'm not really careful with my glasses either, I've lost them tons of times when playing football or skiing.
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Okay, can someone explain this to me? Maybe I'm a little thick today, but I don't see the purpose of this Thunderbolt thingy. Case in point: Last night I had a friend over to watch a movie. He brought it on his 2.5" external USB harddrive that was held together with sticky tape, and it still took less time to transfer the entire movie to my HTPC (~80 sec.) than to find popcorn.
Would be ironic if it was Blackberry...
Some of Canonical's choices of recent are not synergistic to my goals.
I regret to inform you that the remainder of your statement was rendered void by your use of the (non-)word "synergistic".
Oh, suck it up. I live at 63N, and we're just now starting to get sunrise around the time we go to work. It's inconvenient, but not "very unpleasant", and if you don't like it just go live on a tropical island.