They're all fine. The closest one to not fitting in my book is the python bit, but even that doesn't matter. Computer science isn't about actual physical computers, python has almost all the shiny functional language features cs types care about, and all of the well reasoned and coherent criticism I've seen of the whole whitespace thing apply more to large scale/collaborative projects than smaller things (also, enforced whitespace sounds like a boon for marking anything).
Less time you spend learning/dealing with the language, more time you can spend on the actual meat of the subject.
This being said, I think anyone who is planning on going near a real computer should do some architecture stuff and learn with assembly at some point, too.
No, what you need for maximum safety is a toggle. A button that you or the passenger can press with your foot which will change the function of the brake pedal to something more important.
No, you can have a key that is entirely client side, which is the user's responsibility to look after. Of course, when the clueless user loses his/her key, all the data is gone.
Those things would not be Color printing. In fact, you could view this process as monochrome too, except when the comparitively long wavelength visible light hits it, it acts in a similar way to a pigmint (well, diffraction isn't exactly the same, but similar enough).
People who bomb civilians by surprise, in their homelands mostly BTW, are not people you ever consider having a valid agenda you can somehow appease by changing your own behavior.
Because it's not about your behavior. It is about their behavior, and their agenda, which would violently exist no matter what you said or did.
At some point you have to realize you have to oppose people on the basis of their lame agenda and their lame tactics as a simple matter of principle. THEIR agenda.
Up until this point, I couldn't tell whether you were talking about iran or terrorists or the people behind the US army.
I was comparing a horse to a bicycle. Cars win in some aspects:
convenience, ease of use, speed, carrying capacity, comfort in all weather, less frequently stolen (although you're out a lot more when they are stolen)), safety (on roads/if there are no dedicated paths a big metal box is/much/ safer)
and lose in others:
Price (although there is overlap between them, a high end bicycle + electric kit + solar panels in one or more places + multiple batteries will set you back more than a second hand car whereas a cheap bike can be had for under $50 if you scrounge around), parking, in some cases avoiding congestion makes them faster, maintainence, health benefits, sometimes safety (if there are dedicated bike paths, bikes are marginally safer afaik --largely due to reduced speed)
Both options are clearly superior to a horse in most aspects. In the few cases where one would consider a horse better than a car, almost any type of pushbike is even better.
That article looks like it's mainly about increased draw from heating the passenger compartment. I hadn't considered that as a major factor (would have thought draw would be too low to matter, but it seems the amount of energy required to keep a car moving is smaller than I thought/estimated from the amount of heat a petrol engine puts out).
I was talking about increased internal resistance and possible charging problems from low temperatures of the battery itself. This can be improved by heating the battery. As long as the battery can output some energy, it can heat itself.
We might wind up seeing people actually think about insulating cars more effectively as a result of this. (A good indicator that they are becoming highly efficient in all other aspects)
Another potential issue I wasn't thinking of is the electrolyte freezing. As far as I'm aware, lithium batteries have lower freezing temperatures than other chemistries (like lead acid). As to some kind of damage or discharge resulting from freezing, I know some other chemistries can handle this just fine, I don't know enough about lithium batteries to comment here.
When your battery and motor are so large that the power draw causes issues keeping them cool all you have to do it limit whatever method you are using for cooling until things warm up. Voltages will drop and internal resistances will increase when it is cold, but you could easily include a heating element (or just run it short circuit for a short while) as there still will be some current. A heating element doesn't care if you're under some threshold voltage like your camera or phone and any battery big enough to run a car is going to have no trouble producing enough power to heat itself -- even if it's running at a small fraction of its room temperature capacity.
Not only that, but one should compare apples to apples.
A horse only has the same power output as a very small scooter, motorcycle or even some models of electric bicycle (a few horsepower). Other than theft/security concerns, an electric bicycle can be kept running indefinitely with a few square metres of solar panels in each of the two or three places it will usually be kept.
It can keep up a higher top speed than a horse on flat ground (probably somewhat less up a hill), especially if the human helps a bit. It doesn't require as much space, require someone to clean the shit, or pollute. With the addition of a trailer, it can carry as much or more than a horse. It doesn't use anything when not in use. You get wet when it rains on both types of vehicles (there is the carriage option for the horse, I suppose -- but then again i've seen covered reclining bicycles).
The horse is clearly superior if:
1) You want to plow a field or;
2) You spend a lot of time off road.
It may also be slightly better in extremely hilly areas, although regenerative braking on the bicycle may help there.
The horse probably doesn't cause as much pollution or require as much energy to produce as the bicycle+batteries+solar panels, and lasts slightly longer (although there are only a few components -- batteries, tyres, cables, bearings -- on the bike that will need replacing if it is produced with lifetime in mind). On the other hand, the bike doesn't produce any more pollution once it's made, is possible for everyone in a city to own, and may even get you fit.
Cars won out against bikes because they're faster and more convenient than either a horse or a bike.
Yet another person who doesn't understand how vaccines work.
If everyone takes a vaccine, it doesn't need to make them all completely immune to the disease.
All it needs to do is increase resistance enough that each person, on average, infects less than one other person. At/after this point the number of people with the disease will decrease until noone has to worry about it anymore.
I've been part of veggie coops/deliveries/etc before and the price per good produce is usually better than a supermarket, close to visiting the farmers' markets on sunday.
There are a variety of systems, but my favourite was just having a box of whatever is in season arrive at your door every week.
The solution to crap produce is competition, and never buying from/telling all your friends about anyone who has terrible quality control.
Refrigerated milk delivery is common in many places. In the past you returned the empty bottles. Refrigerated ice-cream in a cold bag with an ice pack of some kind would work just as well. You only get the new one if you return the old.
Lightweight/cheap air insulated packaging with a layer of ice would work as a disposable solution, too.
Let me know when they develop a walk-around 3d display that multiple people can look at simultaneously and each see the correct view from their position.
Just letting you know that MIT have developed a prototype for a walk-around 3d display that multiple people can look at simultaneously and each see the correct view from their position.
Public transport gets better with population density (or at least number of people using it). I've lived in areas where I just walk out the front door and hop on to one of the two different bus routes that stop outside every five minutes (both of which went to several of my usual destinations). If I was going anywhere on those routes (or a single transfer) I wouldn't dream of using a car.
I've also lived in places where it's quicker to walk 8km than use the bus/train.
Oblig slightly modified xkcd reference:
Hey baby, if I could rearrange the keyboard I'd put u and i in different places because seriously, two vowels together?
Indeed. Thinking about things logically and taking autocorrect into account, it seems the ideal layout for a phone would place its letters based on (minimizing) the probabiliy that adjacent letters would appear in a word.
I've yet to figure out why they didn't just move buttons to the back -- chorded or otherwise. I've seen a few companies playing around with more touch screens on the back, but never an otherwise close to competitive phone with buttons on the back. You can even fit two or three fingers from each hand on there whilst comfortably holding the thing.
Maybe it's time someone made a peripheral (or linked to one if it already exists).
Another useful feature would be a tutorial/training mode where the buttons touch/soft pressure sensitive and showed you the position of the finger(s) and letter/button you're pressing before you fully pressed it.
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I figured AC was also referencing this song about the bagger 288
They're all fine. The closest one to not fitting in my book is the python bit, but even that doesn't matter. Computer science isn't about actual physical computers, python has almost all the shiny functional language features cs types care about, and all of the well reasoned and coherent criticism I've seen of the whole whitespace thing apply more to large scale/collaborative projects than smaller things (also, enforced whitespace sounds like a boon for marking anything).
Less time you spend learning/dealing with the language, more time you can spend on the actual meat of the subject.
This being said, I think anyone who is planning on going near a real computer should do some architecture stuff and learn with assembly at some point, too.
most-often executed output code on earth', then yes, I guess you're right.
Don't forget mars, too. Can't seem to find the source, but pretty sure I read that nasa uses gcc.
No, what you need for maximum safety is a toggle. A button that you or the passenger can press with your foot which will change the function of the brake pedal to something more important.
You've never met the electronic mail man? It's called email for a reason.
No, you can have a key that is entirely client side, which is the user's responsibility to look after. Of course, when the clueless user loses his/her key, all the data is gone.
Those things would not be Color printing. In fact, you could view this process as monochrome too, except when the comparitively long wavelength visible light hits it, it acts in a similar way to a pigmint (well, diffraction isn't exactly the same, but similar enough).
I'd be interested to see a breakdown for where all the rest goes. Do you have a link to a source?
Only if the guy holding the trigger isn't crazy enough to actually pull it and has a lot to lose.
People who bomb civilians by surprise, in their homelands mostly BTW, are not people you ever consider having a valid agenda you can somehow appease by changing your own behavior.
Because it's not about your behavior. It is about their behavior, and their agenda, which would violently exist no matter what you said or did.
At some point you have to realize you have to oppose people on the basis of their lame agenda and their lame tactics as a simple matter of principle. THEIR agenda.
Up until this point, I couldn't tell whether you were talking about iran or terrorists or the people behind the US army.
So kill off anyone who isn't greedy, conniving and manipulative?
Sounds like an excellent long term plan.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it a fetish, but freshly ironed/fresh out of the dryer pants/underpants feel pretty good.
Be fair, Office Libre, OO etc are very nearly as good as microsoft products at crashing in my experience.
I was comparing a horse to a bicycle. Cars win in some aspects: /much/ safer)
convenience, ease of use, speed, carrying capacity, comfort in all weather, less frequently stolen (although you're out a lot more when they are stolen)), safety (on roads/if there are no dedicated paths a big metal box is
and lose in others:
Price (although there is overlap between them, a high end bicycle + electric kit + solar panels in one or more places + multiple batteries will set you back more than a second hand car whereas a cheap bike can be had for under $50 if you scrounge around), parking, in some cases avoiding congestion makes them faster, maintainence, health benefits, sometimes safety (if there are dedicated bike paths, bikes are marginally safer afaik --largely due to reduced speed)
Both options are clearly superior to a horse in most aspects. In the few cases where one would consider a horse better than a car, almost any type of pushbike is even better.
That article looks like it's mainly about increased draw from heating the passenger compartment. I hadn't considered that as a major factor (would have thought draw would be too low to matter, but it seems the amount of energy required to keep a car moving is smaller than I thought/estimated from the amount of heat a petrol engine puts out).
I was talking about increased internal resistance and possible charging problems from low temperatures of the battery itself. This can be improved by heating the battery. As long as the battery can output some energy, it can heat itself.
We might wind up seeing people actually think about insulating cars more effectively as a result of this. (A good indicator that they are becoming highly efficient in all other aspects)
Another potential issue I wasn't thinking of is the electrolyte freezing. As far as I'm aware, lithium batteries have lower freezing temperatures than other chemistries (like lead acid). As to some kind of damage or discharge resulting from freezing, I know some other chemistries can handle this just fine, I don't know enough about lithium batteries to comment here.
When your battery and motor are so large that the power draw causes issues keeping them cool all you have to do it limit whatever method you are using for cooling until things warm up. Voltages will drop and internal resistances will increase when it is cold, but you could easily include a heating element (or just run it short circuit for a short while) as there still will be some current. A heating element doesn't care if you're under some threshold voltage like your camera or phone and any battery big enough to run a car is going to have no trouble producing enough power to heat itself -- even if it's running at a small fraction of its room temperature capacity.
Not only that, but one should compare apples to apples.
A horse only has the same power output as a very small scooter, motorcycle or even some models of electric bicycle (a few horsepower). Other than theft/security concerns, an electric bicycle can be kept running indefinitely with a few square metres of solar panels in each of the two or three places it will usually be kept.
It can keep up a higher top speed than a horse on flat ground (probably somewhat less up a hill), especially if the human helps a bit. It doesn't require as much space, require someone to clean the shit, or pollute. With the addition of a trailer, it can carry as much or more than a horse. It doesn't use anything when not in use. You get wet when it rains on both types of vehicles (there is the carriage option for the horse, I suppose -- but then again i've seen covered reclining bicycles).
The horse is clearly superior if:
1) You want to plow a field or;
2) You spend a lot of time off road.
It may also be slightly better in extremely hilly areas, although regenerative braking on the bicycle may help there.
The horse probably doesn't cause as much pollution or require as much energy to produce as the bicycle+batteries+solar panels, and lasts slightly longer (although there are only a few components -- batteries, tyres, cables, bearings -- on the bike that will need replacing if it is produced with lifetime in mind). On the other hand, the bike doesn't produce any more pollution once it's made, is possible for everyone in a city to own, and may even get you fit.
Cars won out against bikes because they're faster and more convenient than either a horse or a bike.
6) Thinkpad style eraser head control (somebody should do that).
The technical term is clit mouse. Nipple mouse is also acceptable.
Yet another person who doesn't understand how vaccines work.
If everyone takes a vaccine, it doesn't need to make them all completely immune to the disease.
All it needs to do is increase resistance enough that each person, on average, infects less than one other person. At/after this point the number of people with the disease will decrease until noone has to worry about it anymore.
I've been part of veggie coops/deliveries/etc before and the price per good produce is usually better than a supermarket, close to visiting the farmers' markets on sunday.
There are a variety of systems, but my favourite was just having a box of whatever is in season arrive at your door every week.
The solution to crap produce is competition, and never buying from/telling all your friends about anyone who has terrible quality control.
Refrigerated milk delivery is common in many places. In the past you returned the empty bottles. Refrigerated ice-cream in a cold bag with an ice pack of some kind would work just as well. You only get the new one if you return the old.
Lightweight/cheap air insulated packaging with a layer of ice would work as a disposable solution, too.
Let me know when they develop a walk-around 3d display that multiple people can look at simultaneously and each see the correct view from their position.
Just letting you know that MIT have developed a prototype for a walk-around 3d display that multiple people can look at simultaneously and each see the correct view from their position.
Here's a link to the summary on slashdot http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/07/12/2225233/mit-develops-holographic-glasses-free-3d-tv
Make sure you read the article or some of the comments so you don't confuse it with a head tracking version and post stupid comments like this retard: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2975701&cid=40634291
Public transport gets better with population density (or at least number of people using it). I've lived in areas where I just walk out the front door and hop on to one of the two different bus routes that stop outside every five minutes (both of which went to several of my usual destinations). If I was going anywhere on those routes (or a single transfer) I wouldn't dream of using a car.
I've also lived in places where it's quicker to walk 8km than use the bus/train.
Oblig slightly modified xkcd reference:
Hey baby, if I could rearrange the keyboard I'd put u and i in different places because seriously, two vowels together?
Indeed. Thinking about things logically and taking autocorrect into account, it seems the ideal layout for a phone would place its letters based on (minimizing) the probabiliy that adjacent letters would appear in a word.
I've yet to figure out why they didn't just move buttons to the back -- chorded or otherwise. I've seen a few companies playing around with more touch screens on the back, but never an otherwise close to competitive phone with buttons on the back. You can even fit two or three fingers from each hand on there whilst comfortably holding the thing.
Maybe it's time someone made a peripheral (or linked to one if it already exists).
Another useful feature would be a tutorial/training mode where the buttons touch/soft pressure sensitive and showed you the position of the finger(s) and letter/button you're pressing before you fully pressed it.