AFAIK, Tesla Model S uses NCR18650B cells from Panasonic. And they may actually be available at Walmart inside one of the many forms of battery pack they sell. And if they aren't, they are easily found online. So you could conceivably change every individual cell from a Model S battery pack. I wouldn't recommend it for many reasons, one of them being that just buying the cells it will probably cost you more than buying a entirely new battery from Tesla.
Tesla Model 3 batteries are different. They use 2170 cells specially made for it, though they may eventually become a standard for all EVs.
If they do this then goodbye all Chromium based browsers that implement this and hello Firefox - and any browsers that fork from that...
Unfortunately, Firefox copies everything Chrome does nowadays. They already killed XUL extensions to use the same framework as Chrome, which is less powerful. They also removed ability to install unsigned extensions, like Chrome. There are good reasons to do that, like multi-threading and security. But there are good reasons for what Google is doing right now, so I wouldn't be surprised if Firefox followed suit.
Oracle is not inherently evil, it is just a company that loves money more than its public image. And for a company that loves money so much, overpaying men just because they are men seems weird.
Yes, I say overpay men, not underpay women. Because if women do the same job for less, then one should expect a greedy company like Oracle to hire more women and fire these unprofitable men or cut their pay.
The way the headline is phrased, it seems like it will become something that will be taught in every classroom.
In reality it is just an online course that a small part of the population are expected to follow. Coincidentally, it more or less matches the number of people who can code. That's a good initiative, but not especially "ambitious", and that's probably for the best.
Non competes are hardly enforceable. It might be a legal battle if you are a CEO that ran off with trade secrets to start a new company, but a guy making 40k? Please, no one gives a fuck what you do, they only wrote it in the contract because people fall for it.
Whether or not they are enforceable is usually a matter of compensation more than anything. If your employer pays you for your non-compete period, it most likely is enforceable, otherwise, it most likely isn't.
We don't need that shit running in the background.
That's unless you do. You don't want apps running in the background, except you want to be notified of messages by your favorite instant messenger, or you want your fitness tracker to actually track, or be notified of traffic jams.
What you really want, like everyone else, is that your phone magically guesses which background processes you want and with ones you don't. Unfortunately, there is no magic, but it doesn't stop manufacturers from trying, and failing.
The worst part is that there is not standard. It results in apps behaving differently depending on smartphone models, with different kinds of manual overrides.
Meltdown and Spectre don't depend on the number of cores/threads. These attacks exploit branch prediction and cache timing, and even single core CPUs are affected.
A good tube amplifier should probably sound the same as a good amplifier using field-effect transistors. Honestly any amplifier of any kind that doesn't sound the same as the others is probably not a good amplifier.
Guitar amps would be the exception. But I don't really consider them as amplifiers, more like musical instruments.
Prices will drop. But more importantly, having the panel itself being a speaker is good at least for the center channel, and considering the size of the screen, maybe even the left and right.
The usual setup has a speaker under the screen, it is not ideal, the center channel is designed to come from center of the screen itself. In theaters, most speakers are behind the screen.
All my water bottles have their pH values as well as their mineral composition and other data.
Worth noting that almost all bottled water in France, where I live, is spring water, even the cheap ones, so I suppose it is a legal obligation. It looks like it is the same in other European countries.
I've never seen it used as a marketing argument though. It is usually more about "low/zero nitrates".
Females are more emotional then males. We've known this for thousands of years. Cavemen understood this. Was a clinical study really necessary?
Cavemen "understood" a lot of things that turned out to be completely wrong. Proper studies are the difference between science and superstition. And even assuming that you are right about females being more emotional (I think you are), what can you make of that affirmation? What does "emotional" means? How do you apply that knowledge to the link between social media and depression? These preconceptions can guide your research, they can even be taken into account into your calculations (Bayesian statistics), but without testing, these are almost worthless.
Note taking is one area where "mobile first" is a good idea. The best note taking device is the one you have with you. And most of the times, it is a mobile device.
And unfortunately, most note taking apps are terrible on mobile. In particular, the only app I know does hand drawing correctly is Squid/Papyrus, but it is the only thing it does well. Mobile phones take pictures, have a touchscreen you can draw on, but they are terrible for text input, and yet, most mobile note taking apps rely on the latter.
Still, "mobile-first view into a powerful cloud-enabled productivity environment" doesn't sound good. The problem is data entry, not the "view", the "cloud" or the "productivity environment".
IANAL but wouldn't it put that "someone else" in a difficult position? Either you allowed him to put that video in your behalf, and in that case, it is the same as if you uploaded it yourself. And if you didn't, then the other guy is infringing your copyright and your original video will probably be taken down for that reason. In addition, YouTube can probably sue him because it violates the ToS. Also, if it goes to court, the judge will most likely dismiss the case. I mean, asking someone to upload videos for you and at the same time not giving him the right license to do so is ridiculous. The legal system and the people representing it aren't stupid.
I mean it. Did you notice refugees have smartphones? It is not because they are rich, it is because they can't afford to do without.
First thing. Can you live without internet access nowadays? Difficult, if not downright impossible if some administrative procedures can only be done online. Now, how do you access the internet? For the hardware, you can use a smartphone or a computer, but the computer is usually more expensive and less portable. For the access, you can use a land line, which is also (usually) more expensive and less portable than an entry level data plan. You may find computers with free public internet, but even then, getting there may not be free.
Next feature of smartphones: navigation. Again, you can use paper maps, and again, they will probably end up getting more expensive and less portable than smartphones.
Of course, a smartphone is a phone, a way to communicate. I mean, try to find a job without a phone. And sometimes, strangely enough, data communication (VoIP, IMs, etc...) is cheaper than phone calls. And if you have only a dumb phone, you still need to pay for it, and you still need to deal with your lack of internet access. Considering the price of entry level smartphones, especially used, you might as well get one.
Speaking about internet access, you probably noticed that it is useful in order to find good deals and compare prices. Without it, you will probably end up paying more, not a good thing if you are poor. And it is a case where a semi-permanent connection (i.e. not just a public library) is nice to have.
Also: access to knowledge and entertainment, camera, notepad, calculator, alarm clock, etc... I mean, besides food and shelter, if you are only allowed one thing to live in the modern world, that would be it.
One day we might get some independent data on the amount of radionuclides in Japanese fisheries considering the amount of radioactive effluents the ongoing Fukushima disaster is putting into their food chain.
I suppose it is easy to get them yourself, just buy a bit of Japanese fish and a Geiger counter, or send it to a lab for more precise measurements.
I may be anecdotal but animals may, in fact, respect borders if their survival depend on it. We have a natural park where fishing is forbidden, and not only there are a lot more fish than the areas right next to it but they also easier to approach. In other area, they keep their distance, especially if you carry a harpoon. Yep, they also recognize harpoons and know the approximate range in order to stay out of it.
First, writing, like most things is rarely done without constraints. So you better get used to it.
Second, having too much freedom when you are inexperienced is overwhelming. Thinking about structure, choice of words, spelling, and the arguments themselves is a lot. Taking away some variables make things a bit more manageable.
The saying is: learn the rules, then learn how to break them. The 5 paragraph essay is the first part.
People will pick up garbage and do all kind of hard work in order to get more confort in their life than UBI will get them.
UBI is for survival, not confort. And while some people with simple tastes will be happy to live with it, I expect that most people will want more. And how do you get people to pick up trash and do hard work? By paying them more of course. There is no universal rule saying that picking up trash should be paid less than office work. In fact, the garbage man probably has a more difficult and useful job, so it is natural for him to get paid more.
Also worth noting that you still get your UBI when you are working, no matter how high your pay is. Compare that to systems where you lose your unemployment benefits when you get a job. In the second case you have a real incentive not to work (or work undeclared).
Tap water that tastes like crap is a good reason for buying bottled water. And it won't make a "tremendous amount of environmental damage" if disposed of properly.
The problem with bottled water is that because of aggressive marketing, some people are persuaded that bottled water is healthier when it is not. It is indeed a problem. But blaming someone for drinking bottled water after making a personal choice is going too far. What's next? Criticizing people for taking daily showers. Latest research seem to consider that daily showers for people with a sedentary lifestyle actually do more harm than good when it comes to health. Even worse, people take hot showers more than 5 minute long, just because they enjoy it, how unthinkable.
It is good to be mindful of the environment, but refusing comfort as basic as good tasting water just to save a bit of gas and recyclable plastic is counter-productively extreme. I say counter-productive because there are probably many other areas where you could be environmentally friendlier without negatively affecting your confort. Maybe you are heating parts of the house that don't need heating, maybe you need to fix that dripping faucet, maybe you have a bad habit of letting food spoil, maybe you are using too much soap,... There are no negatives to addressing these issues, and you do it before even thinking about things that affect your confort.
I think there are real technical advancement that create these cycles. Current generation is driven by high resolution OLED panels and MEMS sensors coming from smartphones as well as powerful GPUs. If another cycle happens it will likely be the result of some advancement: maybe improved optics, new rendering techniques, etc... Hopefully, the cycles will become shorter and shorter and it will finally become mainstream.
The same can be said of electric cars. These are far from new, and each time an electric car prototype came out, my father jokingly said "next in 10 years", and he has been mostly right, until now. EVs are not a joke anymore, they are here to stay, I think. Gas is getting expensive, batteries are starting to become a reasonable way of storing energy, power electronics have improved, and there is that "global warming" thing that seems to get a lot of attention lately.
It may be an unpopular opinion but I think that allowing the rich to break some rules in exchange for making things better for others is a good thing.
The whole point of being rich is to be able to do things you and I can't do. And reserving a spot of nature that is not available to the commoner in a way that doesn't damage it won't hurt anyone, so let them do it. In exchange they give us something good. Win/win: they have their little eccentricity, I have my beach access app.
Pure equality is not a good thing, some resources are limited. Letting no one access them would be a waste, and letting everyone access them would be a catastrophe. So let the rich have them, and in exchange, make the more common resources more accessible for everyone else.
Measuring sharpness is possible, but that would mean nothing. There are many image sharpening algorithms. Any self respecting editor can play with sharpness any way he wants, and it is even built in some TVs and video players.
What you want is a measurement of quality and it can't be done without a reference. Think about it, if you can tell how close a video is to the reference without the reference, then the same algorithm could be used to reconstruct the original from a degraded video. And guess what, compression algorithm do exactly that: reconstruct a good looking video from as little data as possible.
So the answer to your question is simple: compress the video using a good compressor (ex: x256) on constant quality mode and measure the final file size. In fact the original bitrate may be a good indicator, no need to do anything. However, note that adding noise will increase both the bitrate and sharpness, and it is a technique commonly used to make things appear more detailed. Artefacts such as poor deinterlacing will also increase the bitrate and sharpness, so don't trust these metrics too much.
They certainly were masterpieces but a lot of progress has been made. Newer games have better graphics, better sound, better story, more varied gameplay, more content and a better designed difficulty curve. Technology, budget and decades of game design studies allowed it. About the difficulty curve, yes, I mean it. Back in the days, difficulty was a way to prolong the gameplay through die-and-retry, it is also a remnant of quarter sucking arcades. People who laud difficult games probably forgot about all the frustration it incurred when they were younger. And anyways, the indie scene especially is full of hard games that are better than the classics thanks to said advancement.
Old games are a part of history, and people still want to play them for a variety of reasons, mostly nostalgia, and Nintendo wants to capitalize on that. Still it is not a huge market.
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AFAIK, Tesla Model S uses NCR18650B cells from Panasonic. And they may actually be available at Walmart inside one of the many forms of battery pack they sell. And if they aren't, they are easily found online.
So you could conceivably change every individual cell from a Model S battery pack. I wouldn't recommend it for many reasons, one of them being that just buying the cells it will probably cost you more than buying a entirely new battery from Tesla.
Tesla Model 3 batteries are different. They use 2170 cells specially made for it, though they may eventually become a standard for all EVs.
If they do this then goodbye all Chromium based browsers that implement this and hello Firefox - and any browsers that fork from that...
Unfortunately, Firefox copies everything Chrome does nowadays. They already killed XUL extensions to use the same framework as Chrome, which is less powerful. They also removed ability to install unsigned extensions, like Chrome.
There are good reasons to do that, like multi-threading and security. But there are good reasons for what Google is doing right now, so I wouldn't be surprised if Firefox followed suit.
Oracle is not inherently evil, it is just a company that loves money more than its public image.
And for a company that loves money so much, overpaying men just because they are men seems weird.
Yes, I say overpay men, not underpay women. Because if women do the same job for less, then one should expect a greedy company like Oracle to hire more women and fire these unprofitable men or cut their pay.
The way the headline is phrased, it seems like it will become something that will be taught in every classroom.
In reality it is just an online course that a small part of the population are expected to follow. Coincidentally, it more or less matches the number of people who can code. That's a good initiative, but not especially "ambitious", and that's probably for the best.
BTW, it looks like anyone can take the course: https://www.elementsofai.com/
Non competes are hardly enforceable. It might be a legal battle if you are a CEO that ran off with trade secrets to start a new company, but a guy making 40k? Please, no one gives a fuck what you do, they only wrote it in the contract because people fall for it.
Whether or not they are enforceable is usually a matter of compensation more than anything.
If your employer pays you for your non-compete period, it most likely is enforceable, otherwise, it most likely isn't.
We don't need that shit running in the background.
That's unless you do.
You don't want apps running in the background, except you want to be notified of messages by your favorite instant messenger, or you want your fitness tracker to actually track, or be notified of traffic jams.
What you really want, like everyone else, is that your phone magically guesses which background processes you want and with ones you don't. Unfortunately, there is no magic, but it doesn't stop manufacturers from trying, and failing.
The worst part is that there is not standard. It results in apps behaving differently depending on smartphone models, with different kinds of manual overrides.
Meltdown and Spectre don't depend on the number of cores/threads.
These attacks exploit branch prediction and cache timing, and even single core CPUs are affected.
A good tube amplifier should probably sound the same as a good amplifier using field-effect transistors. Honestly any amplifier of any kind that doesn't sound the same as the others is probably not a good amplifier.
Guitar amps would be the exception.
But I don't really consider them as amplifiers, more like musical instruments.
Prices will drop. But more importantly, having the panel itself being a speaker is good at least for the center channel, and considering the size of the screen, maybe even the left and right.
The usual setup has a speaker under the screen, it is not ideal, the center channel is designed to come from center of the screen itself. In theaters, most speakers are behind the screen.
All my water bottles have their pH values as well as their mineral composition and other data.
Worth noting that almost all bottled water in France, where I live, is spring water, even the cheap ones, so I suppose it is a legal obligation. It looks like it is the same in other European countries.
I've never seen it used as a marketing argument though. It is usually more about "low/zero nitrates".
Females are more emotional then males. We've known this for thousands of years. Cavemen understood this. Was a clinical study really necessary?
Cavemen "understood" a lot of things that turned out to be completely wrong. Proper studies are the difference between science and superstition.
And even assuming that you are right about females being more emotional (I think you are), what can you make of that affirmation? What does "emotional" means? How do you apply that knowledge to the link between social media and depression? These preconceptions can guide your research, they can even be taken into account into your calculations (Bayesian statistics), but without testing, these are almost worthless.
MusicBrainz Picard can do a pretty good job at fixing that mess automatically.
Note taking is one area where "mobile first" is a good idea. The best note taking device is the one you have with you. And most of the times, it is a mobile device.
And unfortunately, most note taking apps are terrible on mobile. In particular, the only app I know does hand drawing correctly is Squid/Papyrus, but it is the only thing it does well. Mobile phones take pictures, have a touchscreen you can draw on, but they are terrible for text input, and yet, most mobile note taking apps rely on the latter.
Still, "mobile-first view into a powerful cloud-enabled productivity environment" doesn't sound good. The problem is data entry, not the "view", the "cloud" or the "productivity environment".
IANAL but wouldn't it put that "someone else" in a difficult position?
Either you allowed him to put that video in your behalf, and in that case, it is the same as if you uploaded it yourself.
And if you didn't, then the other guy is infringing your copyright and your original video will probably be taken down for that reason. In addition, YouTube can probably sue him because it violates the ToS.
Also, if it goes to court, the judge will most likely dismiss the case. I mean, asking someone to upload videos for you and at the same time not giving him the right license to do so is ridiculous. The legal system and the people representing it aren't stupid.
I mean it. Did you notice refugees have smartphones? It is not because they are rich, it is because they can't afford to do without.
First thing. Can you live without internet access nowadays? Difficult, if not downright impossible if some administrative procedures can only be done online. Now, how do you access the internet? For the hardware, you can use a smartphone or a computer, but the computer is usually more expensive and less portable. For the access, you can use a land line, which is also (usually) more expensive and less portable than an entry level data plan. You may find computers with free public internet, but even then, getting there may not be free.
Next feature of smartphones: navigation. Again, you can use paper maps, and again, they will probably end up getting more expensive and less portable than smartphones.
Of course, a smartphone is a phone, a way to communicate. I mean, try to find a job without a phone. And sometimes, strangely enough, data communication (VoIP, IMs, etc...) is cheaper than phone calls. And if you have only a dumb phone, you still need to pay for it, and you still need to deal with your lack of internet access. Considering the price of entry level smartphones, especially used, you might as well get one.
Speaking about internet access, you probably noticed that it is useful in order to find good deals and compare prices. Without it, you will probably end up paying more, not a good thing if you are poor. And it is a case where a semi-permanent connection (i.e. not just a public library) is nice to have.
Also: access to knowledge and entertainment, camera, notepad, calculator, alarm clock, etc... I mean, besides food and shelter, if you are only allowed one thing to live in the modern world, that would be it.
One day we might get some independent data on the amount of radionuclides in Japanese fisheries considering the amount of radioactive effluents the ongoing Fukushima disaster is putting into their food chain.
I suppose it is easy to get them yourself, just buy a bit of Japanese fish and a Geiger counter, or send it to a lab for more precise measurements.
I may be anecdotal but animals may, in fact, respect borders if their survival depend on it.
We have a natural park where fishing is forbidden, and not only there are a lot more fish than the areas right next to it but they also easier to approach. In other area, they keep their distance, especially if you carry a harpoon. Yep, they also recognize harpoons and know the approximate range in order to stay out of it.
First, writing, like most things is rarely done without constraints. So you better get used to it.
Second, having too much freedom when you are inexperienced is overwhelming. Thinking about structure, choice of words, spelling, and the arguments themselves is a lot. Taking away some variables make things a bit more manageable.
The saying is: learn the rules, then learn how to break them. The 5 paragraph essay is the first part.
People will pick up garbage and do all kind of hard work in order to get more confort in their life than UBI will get them.
UBI is for survival, not confort. And while some people with simple tastes will be happy to live with it, I expect that most people will want more.
And how do you get people to pick up trash and do hard work? By paying them more of course. There is no universal rule saying that picking up trash should be paid less than office work. In fact, the garbage man probably has a more difficult and useful job, so it is natural for him to get paid more.
Also worth noting that you still get your UBI when you are working, no matter how high your pay is. Compare that to systems where you lose your unemployment benefits when you get a job. In the second case you have a real incentive not to work (or work undeclared).
Don't tell them about "The Fuck"
https://packages.debian.org/fr...
It is actually a nice tool: if you mistyped a shell command, just type "fuck" and it will attempt to fix it for you.
Tap water that tastes like crap is a good reason for buying bottled water.
And it won't make a "tremendous amount of environmental damage" if disposed of properly.
The problem with bottled water is that because of aggressive marketing, some people are persuaded that bottled water is healthier when it is not. It is indeed a problem. But blaming someone for drinking bottled water after making a personal choice is going too far.
What's next? Criticizing people for taking daily showers. Latest research seem to consider that daily showers for people with a sedentary lifestyle actually do more harm than good when it comes to health. Even worse, people take hot showers more than 5 minute long, just because they enjoy it, how unthinkable.
It is good to be mindful of the environment, but refusing comfort as basic as good tasting water just to save a bit of gas and recyclable plastic is counter-productively extreme. I say counter-productive because there are probably many other areas where you could be environmentally friendlier without negatively affecting your confort. Maybe you are heating parts of the house that don't need heating, maybe you need to fix that dripping faucet, maybe you have a bad habit of letting food spoil, maybe you are using too much soap, ... There are no negatives to addressing these issues, and you do it before even thinking about things that affect your confort.
I think there are real technical advancement that create these cycles. Current generation is driven by high resolution OLED panels and MEMS sensors coming from smartphones as well as powerful GPUs. If another cycle happens it will likely be the result of some advancement: maybe improved optics, new rendering techniques, etc...
Hopefully, the cycles will become shorter and shorter and it will finally become mainstream.
The same can be said of electric cars. These are far from new, and each time an electric car prototype came out, my father jokingly said "next in 10 years", and he has been mostly right, until now. EVs are not a joke anymore, they are here to stay, I think. Gas is getting expensive, batteries are starting to become a reasonable way of storing energy, power electronics have improved, and there is that "global warming" thing that seems to get a lot of attention lately.
It may be an unpopular opinion but I think that allowing the rich to break some rules in exchange for making things better for others is a good thing.
The whole point of being rich is to be able to do things you and I can't do. And reserving a spot of nature that is not available to the commoner in a way that doesn't damage it won't hurt anyone, so let them do it. In exchange they give us something good. Win/win: they have their little eccentricity, I have my beach access app.
Pure equality is not a good thing, some resources are limited. Letting no one access them would be a waste, and letting everyone access them would be a catastrophe. So let the rich have them, and in exchange, make the more common resources more accessible for everyone else.
Measuring sharpness is possible, but that would mean nothing. There are many image sharpening algorithms. Any self respecting editor can play with sharpness any way he wants, and it is even built in some TVs and video players.
What you want is a measurement of quality and it can't be done without a reference. Think about it, if you can tell how close a video is to the reference without the reference, then the same algorithm could be used to reconstruct the original from a degraded video. And guess what, compression algorithm do exactly that: reconstruct a good looking video from as little data as possible.
So the answer to your question is simple: compress the video using a good compressor (ex: x256) on constant quality mode and measure the final file size. In fact the original bitrate may be a good indicator, no need to do anything. However, note that adding noise will increase both the bitrate and sharpness, and it is a technique commonly used to make things appear more detailed. Artefacts such as poor deinterlacing will also increase the bitrate and sharpness, so don't trust these metrics too much.
No they are not. Take off the nostalgia goggles.
They certainly were masterpieces but a lot of progress has been made. Newer games have better graphics, better sound, better story, more varied gameplay, more content and a better designed difficulty curve. Technology, budget and decades of game design studies allowed it.
About the difficulty curve, yes, I mean it. Back in the days, difficulty was a way to prolong the gameplay through die-and-retry, it is also a remnant of quarter sucking arcades. People who laud difficult games probably forgot about all the frustration it incurred when they were younger. And anyways, the indie scene especially is full of hard games that are better than the classics thanks to said advancement.
Old games are a part of history, and people still want to play them for a variety of reasons, mostly nostalgia, and Nintendo wants to capitalize on that. Still it is not a huge market.