You know that ads are protected by the first amendment too. Following your logic any kind of ad blocking should be illegal. And while physically restraining a person from speaking is indeed assault. If I am hosting a private event, I can ask you to leave for any reason, and if you refuse to comply, then you are trespassing and I have the right to detain you until the cops arrive.
In 10 years, I'd rather not have a car. I have a car because I need to if I want to keep a tiny bit of independence. Mass transit is poor and taxis are a ripoff so they are not really an option. But having a car is a PITA : you have to have a place to park it, pay for insurance even when you don't use it, maintenance costs time and money too. There are places where you don't need your own car, the challenge for the next 10 years is to make it so everywhere else.
And I won't mind paying $400/month for not needing a car and still go where I want to when I want to. I may even save money.
I prefer Android for several reasons but I am sad to see the Windows phone fiasco. I really wanted it to succeed... for other people. The biggest reason is that it didn't try to be a clone of iOS and Android. I especially liked the tile-based interface. I don't know how it does in practice but at least, they tried something that is not a iOS clone. They also introduced the "flat" design which everyone copied, for the better or for the worse. It seemed like it was rather well designed internally too. It was far from perfect, and judging by the failure, it wasn't even good but it really brought something. Had it be more successful, it would have stirred competition, for the good of everyone. iOS vs Android used to be a thing, but now, it looks like they both settled in their niche.
They probably copied part of their design from Tesla, after all, Tesla opened all their patents, it would be silly not to use them. But what make you say that they just made a Tesla copycat. In fact, the thing about Tesla is not revolutionary technology but how they made something people want to buy. Before Tesla, EV were all about fuel economy, ecology, urban areas and mid-range smaller cars, cars for responsible adults. Tesla said "fuck that" and made a big, expensive toy that can also be used as a vehicle. Talk to anyone who has tried the model S and they will tell you they felt like kids playing. They leveraged the advantages of electric engines such as low maintenance and high torque, the auto-pilot is just a straightforward extension of existing line and distance keeping systems. They addressed the range problem by using more expensive batteries (their position on the high-end allowed it) and building high power charging stations. In the end, they just took existing technologies and made them into a nice, fun package, a bit like Apple. LeEco borrowed the concept but it says nothing about the details. For example, from the article, its autopilot looks more like what GeoHot is doing rather than Tesla.
It is obviously not the only use for a smartphone but it is an essential one. And now that smartphones have enough power to run everything we need to waste time, that cameras can take pictures where you can recognize what it is, people are starting to consider sound quality more seriously.
Time spent looking is a metric Google have been using for years to estimate the quality of their search results (and relevance of their ads too, I suppose). I'm surprised Facebook didn't do that.
Hmm... How do you know the kid next door's porn viewing habits?!? Or is that a euphemism for you and you just don't want to admit you whack of to porn?
In fact he is probably pissed off because he shares an internet connection with his neighbors and there is not enough bandwidth for everyone's porn.
Making a slow but accurate rendering engine is easy. The equations are relatively simple, the rest is simply a lot of iterations on crazy detailed model. Making a fast but good looking and sufficiently accurate engine is fucking hard.
From the summary, it looks like the team went with the bruteforce approach, which is fine, but not something to brag about IMHO. They even imply that it takes twice as long to render from two very close viewpoints (stereo). I'm surprised they can't manage to exploit the correlation between the two.
Obscure? Greek mythology is 2000+ years old and it still part of our culture. Just look around you, it's everywhere. Maybe you don't know Eris (as a greek deity) but I'm quite sure thousands if not millions of kids do. If they don't outnumber the number of kids who know Xena, it will be the case soon. Eris is not as popular as Zeus or Athena but she is in the top 50. It is one of the name you are likely to encounter if you have even a passing interest in Greek mythology.
Eris is actually a great name. She is the greek god of discord, and considering the mess caused by the discovery of the dwarf planet, it is quite fitting. It is one of my preferred "planet" name. Xena? Yeah, it sounds cool, she is the heroine of a cult classic series but how is it relevant? It was never intended as a final name anyways.
Percolators tend to over-extract coffee, resulting in a bitter, burnt taste. In other words, they are terrible. The problem is : the best part of the brew often comes from the beginning of the extraction. And because the percolator reheats and recirculate the brew, a lot of it is wasted while a lot of the bitter stuff (which include caffeine) at the end remains. It is easy to tell : if it smells good during the brew process, that because all the aroma goes into the air rather than into the cup. There are ways to tame the percolator by carefully monitoring the time and temperature but most of the times, you will get a better result by simply using a cheap drip coffee maker.
Of course, if you are one of the few who really like percolator coffee, you don't have to change your methods, it is all a matter of taste after all. And no matter what technique you use, the right coffee, fresh and properly ground, will always make a huge difference.
Command lines are by nature more intuitive than GUIs. They require you to learn commands (or have a reference handy), and to type, and they are not flashy, but you can't beat the intuitiveness of "giving orders to the computer". 3D touch is the opposite, it adds a whole new axis : not only you need to know where to press, how long, but also how hard.
When the whole point of an article is explaining some observation and the summary doesn't even mention said explanation, then it is not a summary. More like an introduction.
Scientists now are not trying to prove that human-made global warming is true, they are trying to quantify it, like they always did. The consensus is simply the result of error margins being smaller. The error is still present though, and it is big, that's why now we don't know much besides "global warming is happening" and that's why research is still going on.
Quantifying is very important because we have solutions but none of them are without drawbacks. There is the solution of doing nothing, which may not be that bad, and there are ridiculous solutions like covering the oceans with white stuff and there is everything in between.
Margarine can contain animal products. Really, the only good thing with margarine is that it is cheap. It started as a cheap substitute for butter and it still is.
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This should prove interesting
CCC = Chaos Compter Club, a German hacker collective.
You know that ads are protected by the first amendment too. Following your logic any kind of ad blocking should be illegal.
And while physically restraining a person from speaking is indeed assault. If I am hosting a private event, I can ask you to leave for any reason, and if you refuse to comply, then you are trespassing and I have the right to detain you until the cops arrive.
Greece's former finance minister probably has as much credibility in financial matters as Steve Jobs had on cancer treatment.
In 10 years, I'd rather not have a car.
I have a car because I need to if I want to keep a tiny bit of independence. Mass transit is poor and taxis are a ripoff so they are not really an option. But having a car is a PITA : you have to have a place to park it, pay for insurance even when you don't use it, maintenance costs time and money too.
There are places where you don't need your own car, the challenge for the next 10 years is to make it so everywhere else.
And I won't mind paying $400/month for not needing a car and still go where I want to when I want to. I may even save money.
I prefer Android for several reasons but I am sad to see the Windows phone fiasco. I really wanted it to succeed... for other people.
The biggest reason is that it didn't try to be a clone of iOS and Android. I especially liked the tile-based interface. I don't know how it does in practice but at least, they tried something that is not a iOS clone. They also introduced the "flat" design which everyone copied, for the better or for the worse. It seemed like it was rather well designed internally too.
It was far from perfect, and judging by the failure, it wasn't even good but it really brought something. Had it be more successful, it would have stirred competition, for the good of everyone. iOS vs Android used to be a thing, but now, it looks like they both settled in their niche.
They probably copied part of their design from Tesla, after all, Tesla opened all their patents, it would be silly not to use them.
But what make you say that they just made a Tesla copycat.
In fact, the thing about Tesla is not revolutionary technology but how they made something people want to buy. Before Tesla, EV were all about fuel economy, ecology, urban areas and mid-range smaller cars, cars for responsible adults. Tesla said "fuck that" and made a big, expensive toy that can also be used as a vehicle. Talk to anyone who has tried the model S and they will tell you they felt like kids playing.
They leveraged the advantages of electric engines such as low maintenance and high torque, the auto-pilot is just a straightforward extension of existing line and distance keeping systems. They addressed the range problem by using more expensive batteries (their position on the high-end allowed it) and building high power charging stations. In the end, they just took existing technologies and made them into a nice, fun package, a bit like Apple.
LeEco borrowed the concept but it says nothing about the details. For example, from the article, its autopilot looks more like what GeoHot is doing rather than Tesla.
It is obviously not the only use for a smartphone but it is an essential one.
And now that smartphones have enough power to run everything we need to waste time, that cameras can take pictures where you can recognize what it is, people are starting to consider sound quality more seriously.
Now is your chance to send your message to the moon.
Time spent looking is a metric Google have been using for years to estimate the quality of their search results (and relevance of their ads too, I suppose).
I'm surprised Facebook didn't do that.
Also we're in a new era of mass extinction called the anthropocene.
No we are not. Anthropocene has no official basis. It may someday (it is in discussion) but for now, we are still in the Holocene.
Hmm... How do you know the kid next door's porn viewing habits?!? Or is that a euphemism for you and you just don't want to admit you whack of to porn?
In fact he is probably pissed off because he shares an internet connection with his neighbors and there is not enough bandwidth for everyone's porn.
This, or if he is a sysadmin, you should hire him.
Here is a bonus xkcd for you : https://xkcd.com/705/
Beer fund, for a so-called Islamist group, how can it be anything but a joke?
Making a slow but accurate rendering engine is easy. The equations are relatively simple, the rest is simply a lot of iterations on crazy detailed model.
Making a fast but good looking and sufficiently accurate engine is fucking hard.
From the summary, it looks like the team went with the bruteforce approach, which is fine, but not something to brag about IMHO. They even imply that it takes twice as long to render from two very close viewpoints (stereo). I'm surprised they can't manage to exploit the correlation between the two.
Obscure? Greek mythology is 2000+ years old and it still part of our culture. Just look around you, it's everywhere.
Maybe you don't know Eris (as a greek deity) but I'm quite sure thousands if not millions of kids do. If they don't outnumber the number of kids who know Xena, it will be the case soon.
Eris is not as popular as Zeus or Athena but she is in the top 50. It is one of the name you are likely to encounter if you have even a passing interest in Greek mythology.
Eris is actually a great name. She is the greek god of discord, and considering the mess caused by the discovery of the dwarf planet, it is quite fitting. It is one of my preferred "planet" name.
Xena? Yeah, it sounds cool, she is the heroine of a cult classic series but how is it relevant? It was never intended as a final name anyways.
Percolators tend to over-extract coffee, resulting in a bitter, burnt taste. In other words, they are terrible.
The problem is : the best part of the brew often comes from the beginning of the extraction. And because the percolator reheats and recirculate the brew, a lot of it is wasted while a lot of the bitter stuff (which include caffeine) at the end remains. It is easy to tell : if it smells good during the brew process, that because all the aroma goes into the air rather than into the cup.
There are ways to tame the percolator by carefully monitoring the time and temperature but most of the times, you will get a better result by simply using a cheap drip coffee maker.
Of course, if you are one of the few who really like percolator coffee, you don't have to change your methods, it is all a matter of taste after all.
And no matter what technique you use, the right coffee, fresh and properly ground, will always make a huge difference.
Paper is good but paper cups often have a plastic lining to keep them waterproof.
I don't know how environment-friendly it is.
Command lines are by nature more intuitive than GUIs. They require you to learn commands (or have a reference handy), and to type, and they are not flashy, but you can't beat the intuitiveness of "giving orders to the computer".
3D touch is the opposite, it adds a whole new axis : not only you need to know where to press, how long, but also how hard.
Genetically modified T-cells to treat cancer, reminds me of this.
https://xkcd.com/938/
Intake-compression-power-exhaust are how a reciprocating piston achieves expand-cool-contract-heat.
Is there a 1:1 relationship between the two?
When the whole point of an article is explaining some observation and the summary doesn't even mention said explanation, then it is not a summary. More like an introduction.
Step 3: fight the invasion of mutant cell towers
Scientists now are not trying to prove that human-made global warming is true, they are trying to quantify it, like they always did. The consensus is simply the result of error margins being smaller.
The error is still present though, and it is big, that's why now we don't know much besides "global warming is happening" and that's why research is still going on.
Quantifying is very important because we have solutions but none of them are without drawbacks. There is the solution of doing nothing, which may not be that bad, and there are ridiculous solutions like covering the oceans with white stuff and there is everything in between.
Margarine can contain animal products.
Really, the only good thing with margarine is that it is cheap. It started as a cheap substitute for butter and it still is.