So the locals elect a government, that decides to cheap out and not pay Detroit for safe treated water.
Flint elects a local government, but they have no authority. Since the city went bankrupt in 2011, all spending and managerial decisions are made by an "emergency manager" appointed by the Governor.
I think this is a big part of why we saw chips mostly become stagnant compared to in years prior
Nope. CPU power increases have slowed down because the mainstream market isn't demanding faster CPUs. It's not the bottleneck for a vast majority of users. Even serious games only need a decent CPU and then put all of their money into video cards. The market pressure has been on price and power usage, not performance. Intel is just responding to the market.
Everyone knows that the first product they release has to be really good. After years of hype, not immediately living up to that hype will be a death sentence for the product.
I'm very interested in Magic Leap. They've been doing everything to avoid the hype. I have a feeling that they may swoop in and eat everyone's lunch.
A bunch of nations pitched in on the ITER fusion reactor. It's already 300% over budget and won't be fully operational until at least 2027. Global cooperator does not necessarily make projects better or easier.
Let us not forget either, that it was hardly the only high-profile hack on Sony in recent years which showed them to be exhibiting signs of severe negligence with regards to network security basics.
Sony Pictures, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Sony Music are all completely separate companies. Maybe they all have shitty security- but none of the same people are involved.
A similar idea is to use electric vehicles in people's garages to "time shift" demand. Nevada Power (and I'm sure others) offers a rate plan for EV owners where power is much cheaper after 11pm and more expensive in the afternoons. Cars can already be set to start to wait until a set time to begin charging.
Power companies spend a lot of money building "peaker" power plants that are only needed between 4pm and 7pm. Theoretically, when a power company hits its supply limit, it could put a call out to any EV currently plugged in saying "I'll pay 6 cents per kWh for what's in your battery". If they don't get as much power as they need, they would put out another request at 7 cents. If you paid 4 cents the previous night, that's a good deal for everyone. The car would be set up with rules about what price you want and how much power you're willing to part with.
This week they added a new game mode called Mutators and gave it out for free. Not a lot of companies would do that. I bought both cosmetic DLCs that I didn't care about just to give them a few bucks.
ProtonMail suspects a "state actor" but has zero evidence to support that. It makes no sense for a government to just DDOS a mail service. Governments would hack into the servers.
That's the first thing I thought of, too. It looks like the new EU regulations are very similar to the US's regulations. People are going to cheer this ruling, thinking it brings legitimacy to bitcoins. I think it's going to destroy bitcoin's biggest advantage- anonymity.
"The rules will also have to be complied with by any other kinds of businesses involved in making or receiving cash payments for goods worth at least €10,000, regardless of whether payment is made in a single, or via a series of linked, transactions."
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So the locals elect a government, that decides to cheap out and not pay Detroit for safe treated water.
Flint elects a local government, but they have no authority. Since the city went bankrupt in 2011, all spending and managerial decisions are made by an "emergency manager" appointed by the Governor.
The Flint city government was essentially taken over by the state in 2011.
Netflix already collects and publishes that data from their side.
http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/country/us/
I think this is a big part of why we saw chips mostly become stagnant compared to in years prior
Nope. CPU power increases have slowed down because the mainstream market isn't demanding faster CPUs. It's not the bottleneck for a vast majority of users. Even serious games only need a decent CPU and then put all of their money into video cards. The market pressure has been on price and power usage, not performance. Intel is just responding to the market.
Everyone knows that the first product they release has to be really good. After years of hype, not immediately living up to that hype will be a death sentence for the product.
I'm very interested in Magic Leap. They've been doing everything to avoid the hype. I have a feeling that they may swoop in and eat everyone's lunch.
To compare, NASA's $18B budget is more than the entire rest of the world combined spends on space exploration.
So what's their excuse?
My numbers were homicides, which does not include suicides.
I'm sure that worked in France.
In 2013, the US had 3.55 gun homicides per 100k residents. France had 0.22. That's 94% less. So whatever France is doing seems to work pretty well.
The point is that they are real scientists, following scientific rigor, with no financial interest in rigging the tests.
Is this your first visit to Slashdot since 2006?
A bunch of nations pitched in on the ITER fusion reactor. It's already 300% over budget and won't be fully operational until at least 2027. Global cooperator does not necessarily make projects better or easier.
NASA's Eagleworks Laboratory keeps finding that the thing produces thrust, but nobody has any idea why.
http://www.biztekmojo.com/001550/nasas-new-tests-confirm-impossible-em-drive-thruster-can-really-work
Let us not forget either, that it was hardly the only high-profile hack on Sony in recent years which showed them to be exhibiting signs of severe negligence with regards to network security basics.
Sony Pictures, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Sony Music are all completely separate companies. Maybe they all have shitty security- but none of the same people are involved.
That would require the power companies to care.
I explained right up front exactly why they care.
Power companies spend a lot of money building "peaker" power plants that are only needed between 4pm and 7pm.
to at least double the normal usage
I'm not sure where you're getting that from.
A similar idea is to use electric vehicles in people's garages to "time shift" demand. Nevada Power (and I'm sure others) offers a rate plan for EV owners where power is much cheaper after 11pm and more expensive in the afternoons. Cars can already be set to start to wait until a set time to begin charging.
Power companies spend a lot of money building "peaker" power plants that are only needed between 4pm and 7pm. Theoretically, when a power company hits its supply limit, it could put a call out to any EV currently plugged in saying "I'll pay 6 cents per kWh for what's in your battery". If they don't get as much power as they need, they would put out another request at 7 cents. If you paid 4 cents the previous night, that's a good deal for everyone. The car would be set up with rules about what price you want and how much power you're willing to part with.
This week they added a new game mode called Mutators and gave it out for free. Not a lot of companies would do that. I bought both cosmetic DLCs that I didn't care about just to give them a few bucks.
Last month they added the Back to the Future DeLorean- which is pretty iconic.
Maybe they instituted amazing security recently. But they got hacked last year.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/07/protonmail_fail_javascript/
ProtonMail suspects a "state actor" but has zero evidence to support that. It makes no sense for a government to just DDOS a mail service. Governments would hack into the servers.
That was certainly the best puzzle of the bunch. I remember begging my dad to buy a CD Rom drive so I could play that game.
If it exposes a new generation of kids to Redd Foxx, I'm fine with that.
It is always done the same, they are robots. There is no human interaction or improv.
Sure. And since these people are dead, a hologram is the best we're going to get from them. Nobody is trying to replace Louis CK.
I would absolutely pay a few bucks to see a Redd Foxx routine.
That's the first thing I thought of, too. It looks like the new EU regulations are very similar to the US's regulations. People are going to cheer this ruling, thinking it brings legitimacy to bitcoins. I think it's going to destroy bitcoin's biggest advantage- anonymity.
"The rules will also have to be complied with by any other kinds of businesses involved in making or receiving cash payments for goods worth at least €10,000, regardless of whether payment is made in a single, or via a series of linked, transactions."
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2015/june/new-eu-anti-money-laundering-rules-to-take-effect-from-26-june/
Are you aware that elements have different isotopes with importantly different properties?