They'll turn all that Americium into smoke detectors and we'll all get to listen to that fucking beep in the middle of the night because nobody can seem to make a detector that has a light sensor on it.
"create direct peer-to-peer connections between two users without being monitored by the carrier, which, in turn, allows for free data communications"
That sounds like a app that would be nice to have if you're in the middle of nowhere without cells, but want to stay connected to friends in your party.
The same people whose desktop has 2 30"+ 4k monitors, who drive a Tesla, and who live in a $600k+ house. No one who is budget conscious would buy it, but no one like that would buy the $10,000 Apple watch either. Yet these products still exist because some people out there don't care what they cost.
There are actually quite a few people who don't drive Teslas or have $600k+ houses that work with multiple monitors. While there is a large market for budget conscious people, there is also a large market for professionals need a relatively fast machine but spend a lot of time on the road (or, at least, not chained to a desk) and don't want to carry a heavy laptop around.
I have three monitors - 2x20 and and a 30. I'll likely be upgrading to 2x42 with my SP4 so I can have two, full-sized architectural prints open at the same time in my office (plus email/calendar/takslist on the native screen), but be able to take the tablet with me to job sites where I can look up all the same information and jot down site notes directly on the plans in my PDf viewer. I'm decidedly not in the Tesla-driving set, but I know what will save me time and money and aggravation - and $3k (okay $2200, I cheaped out and got the i5/512GB) is worth a couple days of consulting income to make my office run smoother and reduce duplicated effort (typing up field notes or scanning and labeling field note sheets individually).
That's actually opposite of what it was just a couple of decades ago. It cost me 3-4x as much to move east to west (east coast to CA) as to move back to the east coast. People are still flocking to CA.
Wait, was there supposed to be discussion on this? Ok...
Welcome to every niche product, ever. It's like asking if Apple killed the mp3/flac player by making phones. If you're market is 1% or less of the mass-marketed product, you really can't expect to get rock-bottom, high volume pricing. Does it suck? Sure, if you're an aficionado of the niche. For everyone else they just odn't have to pay for two devices.
So the president who has been lambasted by congress for being soft on terrorists and has no backbone for attacking people who we hate has been found to have been picking people off a dozen at a time right under our noses.
The question to ask, then, is whether the Republicans who are decrying Obamas lack of any action in the middle east are
(1) Wrong, because they didn't know he was actually doing something (and, by the report, quite a lot)
or (2) Liars, because they all had the security briefing - apparently every.fucking.week - that we were taking out hostile targets and decided to capitalize on the fact that the president couldn't defend himself from their political attacks without exposing the program
"It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”"
The switch to turn it on was only five layers deep? It amazing it wasn't adopted more universally with how obvious it was. If they wanted it to be used they should have only included it as an undocumented registry key hack. Then everyone would want it and there'd be dozens of site showing you how to enable it.
I'm pretty sure there's more loose change than that in the couch cushions at one infinite loop.
The bigger question: does it also occur in the A9/A9X, or were they just not out when the lawsuit was filed. Could UW request an injunction against the current crop of processors as well?
Here's the thing - there's a finite chance that your seatbelt will trap you in your car as you burn to death or drown in a lake. In fact, that was the exact argument made against mandatory seatbelt laws.
And yet today pretty much everyone wears their seatbelts and we don't hear about people burning alive or drowning because they were trapped by a seatbelt and unable to escape. Instead, the survivability of crashes is greatly increased and vehicular deaths are on the decline even as road miles and number of cars in continuing to climb.
By the time autonomous cars are allowed to operate on their own, the safety benefits will far outweigh the complications.
That's the stupidest thing I've every heard. Have you every heard of commercial airline service? Do you know how they fly in cloudy weather? Instruments!
What you meant to say, if you're not an idiot, is that "Google cars should be able to work on a reduced set of input to allow for redundancy."
Sorry to be so harsh, but - well, if you propose foolish things...
Yes. It's two 7:8 screens, not too far off from 4:3, really. Unfortunately, in a lappable screen (10-14"), having two 7-8" screens isn't really all that useful.
I'm moving to a 16:9 screen soon. But it'll be 4k and 40" on the diagonal. And I'm getting two. I still would prefer a ratio closer to square on a laptop/tablet, though.
There's no reason that you couldn't have a masonry wall system and this kind of roof.
Of course, they're using plywood, which is about 3x as expensive as structural lumber (on a boardfoot basis), and CNC milling - which is not really "developing country" stuff. This is new age construction for hipsters. You make your couple million then go "roughing it" in a 900SF house for a few years and blog about it until the money runs out and you get tired of no Starbucks. Then you go back with your "world experience" to get another job and a $1.5M condo in the city.
There are lots of ways to anchor without bolts. A hook and clasp embedded in the concrete through a hole in a primary vertical element would work, as would several wedge retained mortise/tenon options. There are hundreds of years of timber joints to pull from (not that they are the most cost effective compared to a modern hold-down).
Their advantage is the possibility of deep members - much deeper than framing lumber. Their drawback is lateral/flexural/torsional stability problems, especially with few ways to create shear transfer between elements (usu done with nails).
Oh, that's easy. It's not like the foundations will be made of plywood. You can tie things down with a minimum number of simple anchors (or complex ones, if you absolutely have to avoid bolts).
Using a bunch of plywood does mean having to be smart with shear wall connections, though. Without nails, there are no stressed-skin anchors or plate to web shear transfer mechanisms (field glue doesn't count). Which is, of course, bolsters my point about the inability to modify/customize the houses. The more highly engineered a product is for efficiency, the more sensitive it is to changes in configuration.
No. No it doesn't. An inclination change requires a basic amount of delta-V for a give orbital altitude. It's done at apoapsis for maximum delta theta for a given delta V. Making a change at periapsis will be the most expensive place to change.
It used to be interesting counter-wall street advice way, way back. Now it's just click bait ads for pump and dump schemes to make them rich.
Not that the ad and click-bait has anything to do with the article, but knowing who "wrote" meant that it was clear nothing of value or insight would be written on those pages.
It's a cool project. Probably good for mass production, though plywood tends to be about 2-3x as expensive per board-foot, so there would need to be a lot of efficiency built in to match the raw material cost.
Depends what you mean by smart. I've got a pair of 3.5" android handsets by (LG?) - one I got for $20 and includes FreedomPop service for free, and one is a $10 Tracfone branded of essentially the same type. I've used them as temporary phones for family on vacation where we knew we'd be separated. Kept in touch via voice/text/hangouts, played music, took pictures, checked email, looked up times/maps on the internet.
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They'll turn all that Americium into smoke detectors and we'll all get to listen to that fucking beep in the middle of the night because nobody can seem to make a detector that has a light sensor on it.
"create direct peer-to-peer connections between two users without being monitored by the carrier, which, in turn, allows for free data communications"
That sounds like a app that would be nice to have if you're in the middle of nowhere without cells, but want to stay connected to friends in your party.
The same people whose desktop has 2 30"+ 4k monitors, who drive a Tesla, and who live in a $600k+ house. No one who is budget conscious would buy it, but no one like that would buy the $10,000 Apple watch either. Yet these products still exist because some people out there don't care what they cost.
There are actually quite a few people who don't drive Teslas or have $600k+ houses that work with multiple monitors. While there is a large market for budget conscious people, there is also a large market for professionals need a relatively fast machine but spend a lot of time on the road (or, at least, not chained to a desk) and don't want to carry a heavy laptop around.
I have three monitors - 2x20 and and a 30. I'll likely be upgrading to 2x42 with my SP4 so I can have two, full-sized architectural prints open at the same time in my office (plus email/calendar/takslist on the native screen), but be able to take the tablet with me to job sites where I can look up all the same information and jot down site notes directly on the plans in my PDf viewer. I'm decidedly not in the Tesla-driving set, but I know what will save me time and money and aggravation - and $3k (okay $2200, I cheaped out and got the i5/512GB) is worth a couple days of consulting income to make my office run smoother and reduce duplicated effort (typing up field notes or scanning and labeling field note sheets individually).
That's actually opposite of what it was just a couple of decades ago. It cost me 3-4x as much to move east to west (east coast to CA) as to move back to the east coast. People are still flocking to CA.
Me too. There's nothing like a full belly from a fresh kill that knocks me out during the heat of the day.
Oh, you probably meant something heated in the microwave. Yeah, that too I guess. ;-)
That way the NRA will fight for my right to have unfettered, unregulated access.
You can have my drone when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!
Wait, was there supposed to be discussion on this? Ok...
Welcome to every niche product, ever. It's like asking if Apple killed the mp3/flac player by making phones. If you're market is 1% or less of the mass-marketed product, you really can't expect to get rock-bottom, high volume pricing. Does it suck? Sure, if you're an aficionado of the niche. For everyone else they just odn't have to pay for two devices.
You'd better believe he's counting his blessings that Al Gore didn't win.
So the president who has been lambasted by congress for being soft on terrorists and has no backbone for attacking people who we hate has been found to have been picking people off a dozen at a time right under our noses.
The question to ask, then, is whether the Republicans who are decrying Obamas lack of any action in the middle east are
(1) Wrong, because they didn't know he was actually doing something (and, by the report, quite a lot)
or
(2) Liars, because they all had the security briefing - apparently every.fucking.week - that we were taking out hostile targets and decided to capitalize on the fact that the president couldn't defend himself from their political attacks without exposing the program
And they blog about it incessantly.
It's easy to not worry about climate change when you'll probably be dead in a few years anyway.
"It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”"
The switch to turn it on was only five layers deep?
It amazing it wasn't adopted more universally with how obvious it was. If they wanted it to be used they should have only included it as an undocumented registry key hack. Then everyone would want it and there'd be dozens of site showing you how to enable it.
I'm pretty sure there's more loose change than that in the couch cushions at one infinite loop.
The bigger question: does it also occur in the A9/A9X, or were they just not out when the lawsuit was filed. Could UW request an injunction against the current crop of processors as well?
That's silly - the iPhone will never work properly with Google car.
Here's the thing - there's a finite chance that your seatbelt will trap you in your car as you burn to death or drown in a lake. In fact, that was the exact argument made against mandatory seatbelt laws.
And yet today pretty much everyone wears their seatbelts and we don't hear about people burning alive or drowning because they were trapped by a seatbelt and unable to escape. Instead, the survivability of crashes is greatly increased and vehicular deaths are on the decline even as road miles and number of cars in continuing to climb.
By the time autonomous cars are allowed to operate on their own, the safety benefits will far outweigh the complications.
That's the stupidest thing I've every heard. Have you every heard of commercial airline service? Do you know how they fly in cloudy weather? Instruments!
What you meant to say, if you're not an idiot, is that "Google cars should be able to work on a reduced set of input to allow for redundancy."
Sorry to be so harsh, but - well, if you propose foolish things...
...is with a good guy with a nuke.
"it is like having two screens"
Yes. It's two 7:8 screens, not too far off from 4:3, really. Unfortunately, in a lappable screen (10-14"), having two 7-8" screens isn't really all that useful.
I'm moving to a 16:9 screen soon. But it'll be 4k and 40" on the diagonal. And I'm getting two. I still would prefer a ratio closer to square on a laptop/tablet, though.
There's no reason that you couldn't have a masonry wall system and this kind of roof.
Of course, they're using plywood, which is about 3x as expensive as structural lumber (on a boardfoot basis), and CNC milling - which is not really "developing country" stuff. This is new age construction for hipsters. You make your couple million then go "roughing it" in a 900SF house for a few years and blog about it until the money runs out and you get tired of no Starbucks. Then you go back with your "world experience" to get another job and a $1.5M condo in the city.
There are lots of ways to anchor without bolts. A hook and clasp embedded in the concrete through a hole in a primary vertical element would work, as would several wedge retained mortise/tenon options. There are hundreds of years of timber joints to pull from (not that they are the most cost effective compared to a modern hold-down).
Their advantage is the possibility of deep members - much deeper than framing lumber. Their drawback is lateral/flexural/torsional stability problems, especially with few ways to create shear transfer between elements (usu done with nails).
Oh, that's easy. It's not like the foundations will be made of plywood. You can tie things down with a minimum number of simple anchors (or complex ones, if you absolutely have to avoid bolts).
Using a bunch of plywood does mean having to be smart with shear wall connections, though. Without nails, there are no stressed-skin anchors or plate to web shear transfer mechanisms (field glue doesn't count). Which is, of course, bolsters my point about the inability to modify/customize the houses. The more highly engineered a product is for efficiency, the more sensitive it is to changes in configuration.
No. No it doesn't. An inclination change requires a basic amount of delta-V for a give orbital altitude. It's done at apoapsis for maximum delta theta for a given delta V. Making a change at periapsis will be the most expensive place to change.
It used to be interesting counter-wall street advice way, way back. Now it's just click bait ads for pump and dump schemes to make them rich.
Not that the ad and click-bait has anything to do with the article, but knowing who "wrote" meant that it was clear nothing of value or insight would be written on those pages.
It's a cool project. Probably good for mass production, though plywood tends to be about 2-3x as expensive per board-foot, so there would need to be a lot of efficiency built in to match the raw material cost.
Also, it will be very difficult to customize.
Depends what you mean by smart. I've got a pair of 3.5" android handsets by (LG?) - one I got for $20 and includes FreedomPop service for free, and one is a $10 Tracfone branded of essentially the same type. I've used them as temporary phones for family on vacation where we knew we'd be separated. Kept in touch via voice/text/hangouts, played music, took pictures, checked email, looked up times/maps on the internet.
It's every bit a smart phone, for $20.