The real problem with JavaScript is that it has a single numerical type, and that type is a stupid choice. You can't do 64-bit integer arithmetic in JavaScript in a remotely sane way.
It seemed to make sense at the time, when Livescript was just a quick hack for simple dynamic web glue. But the fact that this gaping wound made it through multiple upgrade and standardization cycles has to be a major embarrassment for all concerned.
The database is just that a data store not the application.
Oracle also sells an enterprise application suite and they are the most gawdawfully unusable, clumsy, slow applications I have ever had the misfortune to be subjected to. Oracle application superpower: throwing away user's data part way through an unbelievably tortuous chain of slow loading screens.
Nice theory, but reports of increased duration due to changing from free spinning to ducted fans appear to be conspicuously absent.
Are there reports of trying and failing?
The net isn't overflowing with failure reports either, except the occasional attempt to use EDF's for quadcopters, which fails pathetically because the ducts are optimized for high speed flight, never mind that it is well known that free props outperform EDF's for horizontal flight. I suppose the reason that there aren't a whole lot of published attempts to compare ducted fan hover endurance to (larger, equivalent thrust) free prop performance is, the effort appears doomed from the start.
Executive summary: disk loading trumps tip losses.
Why does Amazon keep putting out these stupid drone delivery theatre videos? Yes, a quadcopter can lift a 5 pound box and fly 20 minutes out, 20 minutes back with it. And land in a big farmer's field as shown in the video. Now let me see, the market consisting of farmers living 7 miles from an Amazon warehouse dispatch center is how big exactly? Is there even one? And don't forget, this thing will need to be flown with cell coverage for the operator video... there's no way it's going to land autonomously in somebody's front yard without eventually maiming the mailman or killing the cat. And um. Exactly how many front yards are there available in the urban centers where these things would need to operate? What if it's raining? Windy? What is the failure rate? Failure mode? (Hint: it's raining hardware on your car.)
At least they showed a normal quadcopter this time, not some pathetic piece of concept art. It still just sends a simple, clear message: "Amazon is full of shit."
The headline is misleading crap and the summary is embarrassing puff piece for dummies, who apparently are not expected to know what nuclear fusion is. (Hmm, is there anybody reading this site who doesn't know that? If so, you need to go back to your fake Facebook news, Zuck is missing you.)
The project is real enough and it's exciting, as in, it's a fusion design concept that has not yet hit the wall. As far as I can tell, the Wendelstein 7-X is not expected to achieve ignition, much less energy break-even or commercial viability, rather it is intended to demonstrate that a plasma can be sustained over a long period (30 minutes) above ignition temperature (somewhere around 100 million degrees). That's exciting. However, there is no particular new news about this. Wikipedia lists a timeline item of Hydrogen plasma at 80 million degrees for 0.25s. As far as I can tell, the device is currently all apart, being upgraded in advance of a new series of tests that should achieve that, following successful plasma confinement tests early this year. That's all we know. No new news... probably no new news until sometime in the new year. More or less on track, it would seem. Given the sad history of over promising and under delivering in the fusion sector, it is understandable and laudable that the we aren't seeing a lot of breathless predictions from the project. Assuming that Wendelstein 7-X proves something about practicality of the stellarator approach, I assume the next step would be funding for a fancier one. Eventually, the might prove that ITER should be a stellarator and not a tokamak. Who knows. It does not feel like free energy for everyone in the immediate future, but it does feel like progress.
Got to hand it to Carmack and friends, separating Zuck from a huge bag of windfall riches was a really slick move, but face it, VR remains a boutique niche and that isn't changing in the foreseeable future. This is the business: selling expensive hardware to early adopters willing to spend hours a day standing up waving their arms around while wearing a heavy, sweaty headset. With the hype died down, that is exactly what percent of the market? Worse thing is, everybody wants a piece of that nonexistent market. Reality: your hundreds of dollars of VR gear is going to end up gathering dust in the closet right next to your Guitar Hero controller and you will be back to couch potato status with your PS4 controller or keyboard and mouse if you are in that segment that can afford a sufficiently powerful laptop or gaming PC. It's about that standing up thing. After the initial thrill, it just isn't going to happen for more than a few minutes a day.
So Zuck got the idea that everybody would be reading their fake Facebook news on a VR headset next year? I wonder why.
Intel's 14nm node is generally superior to TSMC's 10nm node (where the Centriq will most likely be fabbed).
Can you quantify that? I generally assign a 30% "marketing penalty" to TSMC. By that rule of thumb, TSMC's 10nm node is a bit better than Intel's 14nm, other things being equal, which is of course a gross simplification. IMHO, the reality is, Intel's traditional process advantage is no more. It may even be turning into a process handicap as Intel persists in going it alone in a shrinking market while others are pooling resources in growing markets.
May I point out that in a population of 54 million, both GBP 2.4 and GBP 2.1 million round to zero... that's about a nickel a person. So... Brits don't spend money on vinyl or digital downloads. Seems to me the latter is the news... just how do Brits get their digital downloads?
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The real problem with JavaScript is that it has a single numerical type, and that type is a stupid choice. You can't do 64-bit integer arithmetic in JavaScript in a remotely sane way.
It seemed to make sense at the time, when Livescript was just a quick hack for simple dynamic web glue. But the fact that this gaping wound made it through multiple upgrade and standardization cycles has to be a major embarrassment for all concerned.
The database is just that a data store not the application.
Oracle also sells an enterprise application suite and they are the most gawdawfully unusable, clumsy, slow applications I have ever had the misfortune to be subjected to. Oracle application superpower: throwing away user's data part way through an unbelievably tortuous chain of slow loading screens.
Oracle is not the end all be all of java.
No, it's the troll under the bridge.
Half of all programmers are below average. It's a statistical tautology and meaningless.
Not quite meaningless, it implies that the average as the same as the mean. BTW, isn't "meaningless tautology" a superfluous redundancy?
Java was originally created as embedding controller language originally for interactive television.
And Java is the worst thing about Blu-ray.
Nice theory, but reports of increased duration due to changing from free spinning to ducted fans appear to be conspicuously absent.
Are there reports of trying and failing?
The net isn't overflowing with failure reports either, except the occasional attempt to use EDF's for quadcopters, which fails pathetically because the ducts are optimized for high speed flight, never mind that it is well known that free props outperform EDF's for horizontal flight. I suppose the reason that there aren't a whole lot of published attempts to compare ducted fan hover endurance to (larger, equivalent thrust) free prop performance is, the effort appears doomed from the start.
Executive summary: disk loading trumps tip losses.
ducted fans are considerably better for high-thrust low-speed operation such as Ntra-copters.
Nice theory, but reports of increased duration due to changing from free spinning to ducted fans appear to be conspicuously absent.
BTW, what's an ntra-copter?
Whoosh.
I wonder how these drones avoid collision with other air users?
I wonder why drones always seem to have open-ended propellor blades, rather than ducted fan blades.
Simple: a free spinning prop is roughly twice as efficient as a ducted fan and weighs considerably less.
Why does Amazon keep putting out these stupid drone delivery theatre videos? Yes, a quadcopter can lift a 5 pound box and fly 20 minutes out, 20 minutes back with it. And land in a big farmer's field as shown in the video. Now let me see, the market consisting of farmers living 7 miles from an Amazon warehouse dispatch center is how big exactly? Is there even one? And don't forget, this thing will need to be flown with cell coverage for the operator video... there's no way it's going to land autonomously in somebody's front yard without eventually maiming the mailman or killing the cat. And um. Exactly how many front yards are there available in the urban centers where these things would need to operate? What if it's raining? Windy? What is the failure rate? Failure mode? (Hint: it's raining hardware on your car.)
At least they showed a normal quadcopter this time, not some pathetic piece of concept art. It still just sends a simple, clear message: "Amazon is full of shit."
They are both just Linux skins.
The headline is misleading crap and the summary is embarrassing puff piece for dummies, who apparently are not expected to know what nuclear fusion is. (Hmm, is there anybody reading this site who doesn't know that? If so, you need to go back to your fake Facebook news, Zuck is missing you.)
The project is real enough and it's exciting, as in, it's a fusion design concept that has not yet hit the wall. As far as I can tell, the Wendelstein 7-X is not expected to achieve ignition, much less energy break-even or commercial viability, rather it is intended to demonstrate that a plasma can be sustained over a long period (30 minutes) above ignition temperature (somewhere around 100 million degrees). That's exciting. However, there is no particular new news about this. Wikipedia lists a timeline item of Hydrogen plasma at 80 million degrees for 0.25s. As far as I can tell, the device is currently all apart, being upgraded in advance of a new series of tests that should achieve that, following successful plasma confinement tests early this year. That's all we know. No new news... probably no new news until sometime in the new year. More or less on track, it would seem. Given the sad history of over promising and under delivering in the fusion sector, it is understandable and laudable that the we aren't seeing a lot of breathless predictions from the project. Assuming that Wendelstein 7-X proves something about practicality of the stellarator approach, I assume the next step would be funding for a fancier one. Eventually, the might prove that ITER should be a stellarator and not a tokamak. Who knows. It does not feel like free energy for everyone in the immediate future, but it does feel like progress.
...their profits are increasing. Like the companies on the following list: 1. Apple
Huh? Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2016. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $46.9 billion and quarterly net income of $9 billion, or $1.67 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $51.5 billion and net income of $11.1 billion, or $1.96 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 38 percent compared to 39.9 percent in the year-ago quarter.
Revenue down. Income down. Earnings per share down. Margin down. Looks pretty down to me.
...nothing worth seeing has come out in years. You know how Hollywood could increase ticket sales? They could try making films that don't suck.
Ex Machina was great (non-hollywood). Available on Blu-ray for $8.
* No stepping in sticky puddles of spilled liquid sugar bomb
Got to hand it to Carmack and friends, separating Zuck from a huge bag of windfall riches was a really slick move, but face it, VR remains a boutique niche and that isn't changing in the foreseeable future. This is the business: selling expensive hardware to early adopters willing to spend hours a day standing up waving their arms around while wearing a heavy, sweaty headset. With the hype died down, that is exactly what percent of the market? Worse thing is, everybody wants a piece of that nonexistent market. Reality: your hundreds of dollars of VR gear is going to end up gathering dust in the closet right next to your Guitar Hero controller and you will be back to couch potato status with your PS4 controller or keyboard and mouse if you are in that segment that can afford a sufficiently powerful laptop or gaming PC. It's about that standing up thing. After the initial thrill, it just isn't going to happen for more than a few minutes a day.
So Zuck got the idea that everybody would be reading their fake Facebook news on a VR headset next year? I wonder why.
Intel's 14nm node is generally superior to TSMC's 10nm node (where the Centriq will most likely be fabbed).
Can you quantify that? I generally assign a 30% "marketing penalty" to TSMC. By that rule of thumb, TSMC's 10nm node is a bit better than Intel's 14nm, other things being equal, which is of course a gross simplification. IMHO, the reality is, Intel's traditional process advantage is no more. It may even be turning into a process handicap as Intel persists in going it alone in a shrinking market while others are pooling resources in growing markets.
population of UK is much more than 54 million fewl
Typo... 65 million is not "much" more than 54 million and does not significantly change the math.
Just to be on the safe side, you should stick your phone in a bucket of water.
Afterwards, don't forget to dry it out in the microwave.
There's got to be a plan right?
1) Samsung leaks "no headphone jack in s8" rumour
2) Wait 3 weeks
3) Samsung leaks s8 specs with headphone jack
Result: free publicity!
This trend has more to do with the fact that "man bites dog" stories are always good for hits.
I ran into someone buying vinyl that didn't even realize he needed a turntable to play it.
See, the vinyl is too thin for a USB jack. So you need an adapter to play it.
May I point out that in a population of 54 million, both GBP 2.4 and GBP 2.1 million round to zero... that's about a nickel a person. So... Brits don't spend money on vinyl or digital downloads. Seems to me the latter is the news... just how do Brits get their digital downloads?
Hmm. Have you taken Numerical Analysis?
It's quite clear that he (she, it?) has never studied computer science at all.
Nah, I've been programming longer than Knuth has, starting with machine language. You just need to think procedurally.
In your case, it sounds more like "sporadically".