Initially, 1kg was defined as the weight of 1 litre of water but it changed because it isn't something that is easy to measure accurately. Currently, there is no link between mass and volume. The litre is just an alias for the cubic decimeter, the same way that the (metric) ton is just an alias for the megagram. Just different names for the same thing. So 1 litre is and has always been 1000cc or 0.001m3.
First of all, ISP based ad blocking goes against net neutrality. Additionally there is this small thing called https. When https is used, the only thing the ISP sees is that a connection to an IP is made. Which means there is no way to know if what is transferred is an ad or not. The only way to effectively block ads when https is used is to do man in the middle, an egregious privacy violation. There are other solutions like DNS poisoning and IP based blocking but these can be worked around by the likes of Google. And again, this is not something I want my ISP to mess with.
Well you don't need climate change for people to be stupid. There are places that are regularly flooded, it makes the news every time and yet, people still build and buy. And it's not like there is a historic city or something, just fishermen huts built on stilts, you can't get more obvious.
Shader programs are almost exclusively floating point maths. And a big part of rasterization (drawing triangles) is interpolation, floating point maths again. The two big things that define the power of a GPU are floating point computing power and memory bandwidth. Which one is more important depend on the engine used, with possible tradeoffs between the two.
The Galaxy S5 is 142 x 72.5 x 8.1 mm and 145g with a 2800mAh battery, removable and waterproof. That's 10% bigger in volume, 5% lighter and 7% less battery life, very close. You can recover that battery capacity by changing it after 1 year (batteries degrade), you may keep the old one as a backup.
At least almost everyone uses their smartphone to make phone calls, among other things. But when is the last time you've actually seen gloves in a glove box?
It is also illegal to sell anything as drugs. Selling talcum powder as cocaine can get you in legal trouble as much as if you sold the real deal. In fact, it would make sense to make the sentence worse for fake drug dealers. Real drugs, at least the most popular ones, have well known effects, we know how to treat them and should one take them, steps can be taken to minimize the risks. Fake drugs, not so much. Some products can be more toxic than the real thing, especially when injected. Variations in purity (including the 0% purity of fake drugs) are also a common cause of overdoses.
Quantum physics and general relativity are both very successful theories and yet, they don't make the same predictions so one or both of them must be broken at some point. And black holes are at that point. Small enough for quantum mechanics and heavy enough for general relativity.
That's not it. They are rather tolerant in what they accept, there are a few touchy subjects like ad blockers and sometimes an app is removed for some time for obscure reasons (like Tasker). But globally you can find almost everything legal in the play store, even root apps and apps that compete directly with Google's offering. These are not things that you will find on the Apple app store.
The real reason is that : - For OEMs to get the Play store and the rest of the gapps on their devices, they need to follow Google's guidelines, something they sometimes don't want to. - Google gets 30% of all app sales in addition to valuable user data. Something that 3rd parties would prefer to end up in their own pockets. - China.
True alternative markets installed by users themselves are, I think, a minority. And I think a large part of them are for piracy. Free software markets like F-Droid, the ones that everyone here like to talk about are probably just a niche. A very important niche but a niche anyways.
Are you joking? GMail is big but it if far from a monopoly. I'm not sure it is even the biggest. In my personal contact list, about 20% have an @gmail address. At work there are almost no @gmail. This doesn't cover gmail addresses hidden behind a domain name but most of the companies I worked with were self-hosted or worked with a related provider. For the rest, the biggest one seemed to be Microsoft, with Google as a distant second. That's lots of anecdotal evidence but seeing this, I can't believe in a monopoly.
I know that everytime a new standard is developed there must be someone linking to this xkcd, however, in this case, it is not really relevant. Vulkan is the offspring of Mantle, a proprietary API by AMD that was given away to the Khronos Group. As such, a competition between Mantle and Vulkan is highly unlikely. If Mantle stays alive, it is likely to be something built on top of Vulkan. There are real competitors, like Direct3D 12 and Metal but Direct3D is Windows-only and Metal is Apple-only. Vulkan is the only one that is cross-platform. On Linux and ultimately Android, it is likely to be the only choice for those wanting a low-level API. OpenGL is likely to stay with us for quite some time but not as a competitor to Vulkan as both have different use cases. In fact, Vulkan is a good thing as it will allow OpenGL to go back to its roots of providing a higher level API for things like CAD and experimenting with 3D rendering. The conflict of interest between game developers wanting a low-level, state of the art API and others wanting something more stable and higher level was disastrous to OpenGL in the early 2000s.
It is easy to imagine the world as something mechanical, governed by mathematical laws. But me... I must be special, I have a consciousness, and free will, I can't be described by the same laws. Because fellow humans seem to behave like me, and because I was born from humans, it is natural to think that they also have a consciousness, free will, etc... So they are probably special too. Elephants, nah... not special, evolution is OK for them. At least we made progress : only white males used to be special (for white males).
Probably the reason they stated this in their privacy policy is to protect themselves in case of a lawsuit. If they have an "OK Google" kind of thing, such a clause is almost necessary. Even though it is obvious that speech is recorded and sent to a server (that's the whole point) there will be people who will complain that they didn't know and seek damages.
I don't think it will drastically reduce the graphics quality. Correct me if I am wrong but with all these new deferred rendering and complex shader stuff, more and more things are done per-pixel rather than on the geometry. It should make the penalty proportionally less. We are also to the point where graphical improvements are becoming subtle : enough for people to feel the difference but not enough for most of them to say exactly why. This should actually make split screen easier. Other parts of the game such as physics can be done once for all players.
But as I've seen somewhere, split screen is not just a feature, it is a way of life. Split screen or single screen multiplayer in general is a totally different experience from network and solo play. Reducing a very different way of enjoying a game to a question of detail in a 3D renderer is rather silly IMHO.
The parts that failed (thruster and harpoons) were made by the German. For the thruster they worked with a Dutch company and built it in Switzerland...
The problem wasn't because they somehow didn't expect the low gravity environment, it was that the parts designed to deal with it failed. The nitrogen thruster designed to push the lander down failed, something they knew beforehand, even though the reason is unknown. The harpoons designed to hold it in place also failed : reportedly the nitrocellulose propellant failed to ignite properly in a vacuum. What they didn't expect that could have affected the lander's ability to stay in place is that the surface was harder than expected. This was one of the major discoveries made using Philae.
I recently bought a e-reader and bought a Kobo because it fitted my needs, my budget and was easily available for me. There were other options, including "no-name" stuff, but one that was out of the equation right off the bat was the Kindle. Come on... an e-reader that doesn't support ePub, are you serious?
Now, if you don't mind selling your soul to Amazon, sure, get a Kindle. I won't blame you, Amazon is convenient after all.
It seems to correlate with what I see in everyday life, especially at work. Some people, especially higher management, seem to win more than others, even games they are not particularly skilled at. I think it is that they simply really want to win instead of just having fun, or, in the case of work, find an interesting job with a good work-life balance. Cheating is very characteristic of this behavior. For non-winners, it spoils the fun and the negative of the risk of getting caught isn't enough to offset the benefit of winning. Increase the perceived benefit or winning and cheating becomes a more attractive option.
Exactly. Ad-blockers can pretend to download the ads, but not show the ads. Not detectable by a web site.
One of the common tricks for detecting ad-blockers is to check the size of the element containing the ad banner using JS. If the size is smaller than expected (because no ad is displayed) or no element is present, trigger the anti-adblock code. So if you pretend to download the ads but not show them, the script will detect it. You can, however, put a placeholder instead of the ad and download nothing or you can disable the script. There is not one single method of detecting ad blockers.
I don't remember the study but it seems that yes, breaking speed limits as well as other traffic laws increases the average throughput of the traffic. Of course, it also increase the number and severity of accidents. The study is about cities with a lot of traffic and unsafe driving, such as Mexico city.
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Initially, 1kg was defined as the weight of 1 litre of water but it changed because it isn't something that is easy to measure accurately. Currently, there is no link between mass and volume.
The litre is just an alias for the cubic decimeter, the same way that the (metric) ton is just an alias for the megagram. Just different names for the same thing. So 1 litre is and has always been 1000cc or 0.001m3.
First of all, ISP based ad blocking goes against net neutrality.
Additionally there is this small thing called https. When https is used, the only thing the ISP sees is that a connection to an IP is made. Which means there is no way to know if what is transferred is an ad or not.
The only way to effectively block ads when https is used is to do man in the middle, an egregious privacy violation. There are other solutions like DNS poisoning and IP based blocking but these can be worked around by the likes of Google. And again, this is not something I want my ISP to mess with.
Well you don't need climate change for people to be stupid.
There are places that are regularly flooded, it makes the news every time and yet, people still build and buy. And it's not like there is a historic city or something, just fishermen huts built on stilts, you can't get more obvious.
Shader programs are almost exclusively floating point maths. And a big part of rasterization (drawing triangles) is interpolation, floating point maths again.
The two big things that define the power of a GPU are floating point computing power and memory bandwidth. Which one is more important depend on the engine used, with possible tradeoffs between the two.
The Galaxy S5 is 142 x 72.5 x 8.1 mm and 145g with a 2800mAh battery, removable and waterproof.
That's 10% bigger in volume, 5% lighter and 7% less battery life, very close. You can recover that battery capacity by changing it after 1 year (batteries degrade), you may keep the old one as a backup.
At least almost everyone uses their smartphone to make phone calls, among other things.
But when is the last time you've actually seen gloves in a glove box?
It is also illegal to sell anything as drugs. Selling talcum powder as cocaine can get you in legal trouble as much as if you sold the real deal.
In fact, it would make sense to make the sentence worse for fake drug dealers. Real drugs, at least the most popular ones, have well known effects, we know how to treat them and should one take them, steps can be taken to minimize the risks. Fake drugs, not so much. Some products can be more toxic than the real thing, especially when injected. Variations in purity (including the 0% purity of fake drugs) are also a common cause of overdoses.
Quantum physics and general relativity are both very successful theories and yet, they don't make the same predictions so one or both of them must be broken at some point.
And black holes are at that point. Small enough for quantum mechanics and heavy enough for general relativity.
That's not it. They are rather tolerant in what they accept, there are a few touchy subjects like ad blockers and sometimes an app is removed for some time for obscure reasons (like Tasker). But globally you can find almost everything legal in the play store, even root apps and apps that compete directly with Google's offering. These are not things that you will find on the Apple app store.
The real reason is that :
- For OEMs to get the Play store and the rest of the gapps on their devices, they need to follow Google's guidelines, something they sometimes don't want to.
- Google gets 30% of all app sales in addition to valuable user data. Something that 3rd parties would prefer to end up in their own pockets.
- China.
True alternative markets installed by users themselves are, I think, a minority. And I think a large part of them are for piracy. Free software markets like F-Droid, the ones that everyone here like to talk about are probably just a niche. A very important niche but a niche anyways.
The NSA should provide a backup service then. This would be the only service where you can ask for a restore from before you even subscribed.
Google actually takes security very seriously.
They want to make sure no one but them can read your email.
Are you joking? GMail is big but it if far from a monopoly. I'm not sure it is even the biggest.
In my personal contact list, about 20% have an @gmail address. At work there are almost no @gmail.
This doesn't cover gmail addresses hidden behind a domain name but most of the companies I worked with were self-hosted or worked with a related provider. For the rest, the biggest one seemed to be Microsoft, with Google as a distant second.
That's lots of anecdotal evidence but seeing this, I can't believe in a monopoly.
I know that everytime a new standard is developed there must be someone linking to this xkcd, however, in this case, it is not really relevant.
Vulkan is the offspring of Mantle, a proprietary API by AMD that was given away to the Khronos Group. As such, a competition between Mantle and Vulkan is highly unlikely. If Mantle stays alive, it is likely to be something built on top of Vulkan.
There are real competitors, like Direct3D 12 and Metal but Direct3D is Windows-only and Metal is Apple-only. Vulkan is the only one that is cross-platform. On Linux and ultimately Android, it is likely to be the only choice for those wanting a low-level API.
OpenGL is likely to stay with us for quite some time but not as a competitor to Vulkan as both have different use cases. In fact, Vulkan is a good thing as it will allow OpenGL to go back to its roots of providing a higher level API for things like CAD and experimenting with 3D rendering. The conflict of interest between game developers wanting a low-level, state of the art API and others wanting something more stable and higher level was disastrous to OpenGL in the early 2000s.
I suggest GLUT. Not only you can draw a spinning cube but you also can just as easily draw a spinning teapot.
It is easy to imagine the world as something mechanical, governed by mathematical laws. But me... I must be special, I have a consciousness, and free will, I can't be described by the same laws.
Because fellow humans seem to behave like me, and because I was born from humans, it is natural to think that they also have a consciousness, free will, etc... So they are probably special too. Elephants, nah... not special, evolution is OK for them.
At least we made progress : only white males used to be special (for white males).
Probably the reason they stated this in their privacy policy is to protect themselves in case of a lawsuit.
If they have an "OK Google" kind of thing, such a clause is almost necessary. Even though it is obvious that speech is recorded and sent to a server (that's the whole point) there will be people who will complain that they didn't know and seek damages.
You mean this : https://xkcd.com/978/ ?
I don't think it will drastically reduce the graphics quality. Correct me if I am wrong but with all these new deferred rendering and complex shader stuff, more and more things are done per-pixel rather than on the geometry. It should make the penalty proportionally less. We are also to the point where graphical improvements are becoming subtle : enough for people to feel the difference but not enough for most of them to say exactly why.
This should actually make split screen easier. Other parts of the game such as physics can be done once for all players.
But as I've seen somewhere, split screen is not just a feature, it is a way of life. Split screen or single screen multiplayer in general is a totally different experience from network and solo play. Reducing a very different way of enjoying a game to a question of detail in a 3D renderer is rather silly IMHO.
The parts that failed (thruster and harpoons) were made by the German. For the thruster they worked with a Dutch company and built it in Switzerland...
Successfully landed not once but three times!
The problem wasn't because they somehow didn't expect the low gravity environment, it was that the parts designed to deal with it failed.
The nitrogen thruster designed to push the lander down failed, something they knew beforehand, even though the reason is unknown. The harpoons designed to hold it in place also failed : reportedly the nitrocellulose propellant failed to ignite properly in a vacuum.
What they didn't expect that could have affected the lander's ability to stay in place is that the surface was harder than expected. This was one of the major discoveries made using Philae.
I recently bought a e-reader and bought a Kobo because it fitted my needs, my budget and was easily available for me. There were other options, including "no-name" stuff, but one that was out of the equation right off the bat was the Kindle.
Come on... an e-reader that doesn't support ePub, are you serious?
Now, if you don't mind selling your soul to Amazon, sure, get a Kindle. I won't blame you, Amazon is convenient after all.
It seems to correlate with what I see in everyday life, especially at work.
Some people, especially higher management, seem to win more than others, even games they are not particularly skilled at. I think it is that they simply really want to win instead of just having fun, or, in the case of work, find an interesting job with a good work-life balance.
Cheating is very characteristic of this behavior. For non-winners, it spoils the fun and the negative of the risk of getting caught isn't enough to offset the benefit of winning. Increase the perceived benefit or winning and cheating becomes a more attractive option.
Exactly. Ad-blockers can pretend to download the ads, but not show the ads. Not detectable by a web site.
One of the common tricks for detecting ad-blockers is to check the size of the element containing the ad banner using JS. If the size is smaller than expected (because no ad is displayed) or no element is present, trigger the anti-adblock code.
So if you pretend to download the ads but not show them, the script will detect it. You can, however, put a placeholder instead of the ad and download nothing or you can disable the script.
There is not one single method of detecting ad blockers.
I don't remember the study but it seems that yes, breaking speed limits as well as other traffic laws increases the average throughput of the traffic. Of course, it also increase the number and severity of accidents.
The study is about cities with a lot of traffic and unsafe driving, such as Mexico city.