I think he is talking about 50cc models, which are usually 2-stroke. Because anyone older than 14 can drive one, even without a license, they are the most common type. (Note : a license is now required in certain cases, but the requirements are still much lower than with 125cc models).
- There may be third, possibly simplified system to make a 2 vs 1 situation. - Ridiculous values (out of bounds,...) can be checked and the faulty system disabled. - When it is not clear who the winner is, the pilot is shown an alert and can manually select the correct system. If you look closely in a cockpit, you'll probably find several "1-N-2" switches for this.
Probably laziness. I think the idea is that decoding audio takes maybe like 2% of one core, which isn't much. However, if you have 50 samples playing at the same time, you get to 100%. There are plenty of ways to deal with this problem, like using caches, compressing long samples (BGM, voice acting,...) and leaving stuff like gunshots and footsteps uncompressed. But doing this would require extra work, possibly including re-validation, new licenses, etc... So their solution was probably to simply replace the XBox compressed files with their uncompressed equivalents and call it a day.
I don't believe in the anti-piracy theory. Crackers will compress the audio in their release, as they have done for decades. In fact, putting large games into small packages is something they are really good at. If you want a conspiracy theory, you can say that they were paid by HDD/SSD manufacturers. This is nuts but it certainly makes more sense.
Most teachers I knew naturally used a variant of merge sort when sorting a pile of test papers. Most didn't know anything about formal sorting algorithms.
bottled water packaging cannot claim to combat dehydration
Less stupid that you might think. Of course, bottled water works against dehydration... Like almost all non-alcoholic beverages and some types of solid food. But the reason why this law exist is to prevent sellers from implying that bottled water is the best way to combat dehydration, which is not true. Tap water, soda, juice, etc... work just as well. And in some cases, like when you need electrolytes, there are better alternatives. You may call it over-regulation but I think that it does make sense.
A robbery involving mobile devices doesn't mean that the robber robs a mobile device from the robbed. For example, if robbers use phones to coordinate an assault, then a phone is involved. If a robber steals cash to buy a phone, a phone is also involved.
Just saying that with words like "involve" it is easy to create misleading statistics.
A watch can be easily connected to the blood vessels in the wrist and use the O2 / glucose mix as an energy source like the rest of your body. Recharge by eating. This would be real bleeding-edge technology.
Note that the use of blood as a power source (for implants) is seriously being researched. Look up "biofuel cell".
I seriously doubt the credibility of the article. Anyways, remote stop doesn't mean that you can stop any car, anywhere. It can be the equivalent of a virtual barrier, for example, an induction loop may be placed at some key points like red lights to transmit the signal only to cars that pass over it.
Yes, we can consider "stay-at-home parent" as a field. But because it is a job that doesn't have a price tag, it is somehow considered inferior. It's not. Don't underestimate the value of a stay-at-home parent. Cooking, cleaning, taking care of the kids, shopping, etc... Without a stay-at-home parent, you have to pay good money for someone to do this (here goes your hard earned money). You can also live in filth and neglect your kids (wow, that's progress !). Or you can attempt to do it in addition to your day job (and live an exhausting and stressful life).
Firefox OS, aka "Boot to Geko" is actually just a web browser running on top of a linux kernel with a minimal interface between the two. It's great if you like web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS,...) but not if you want something close to a desktop GNU/Linux system. Even Android is better in this regard. You can probably hack Firefox OS to get a UNIX shell, run native code, etc... but AFAIK, it is against Mozilla's philiosophy so don't expect much support.
BTW, this practice is now illegal in France. If it happens, you just need to notify the seller that you keep the product at his disposal for two weeks. If he doesn't pick it up, it's yours. Of course you don't have to pay anything.
If the word CODEC is so important to you that you write it in all caps, at least use it correctly. A codec is not a standard nor a format, it's software or hardware that deals with compession and decompression. x264 is a codec, h.264 is not.
And BTW, x264 is free software, that's for sure. But if you use it as a h.264 encoder, you have to comply with the conditions imposed by MPEG-LA. It includes paying royalties in some cases.
Non flying cars do not produce vortexes like planes do. Tailgating work by exploiting the low pressure area behind the front car. There may be a bit of turbulence but it's not what is important. Planes, like almost all heavier than air things that fly, work by making the air go down, which, by reaction, makes the plane go up. This downwards moving air ends up spinning around, creating the vortex. Cars don't need lift, and generate thrust by pushing on the road, not on the air. As a result, they don't need vortexes.
It has been done : On May 14, 2005 an AS350 B3 piloted by Eurocopter test pilot Didier Delsalle touched down on the top of Mt. Everest, at 8,848 m (29,030 ft). This record has been confirmed by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. ( from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_AS350 )
For planes, auto-pilot is easier. Obstacles in air are very uncommon. You could cruise simply by going blindly from A to B in a straight line and the chances of hitting anything will be very low. You just need relatively simple systems to reduce this risk to something insignificant. Take off and landing are a bit trickier but even these are more predictable than driving. Plus, you still have two highly trained pilots aided by air traffic controllers.
No, the specs shouldn't be restricted for style reasons. I believe that the permissive specs and "undefined behaviors" are part of what made C and later C++ so successful. I hate it when languages try to dictate how I should code when there are no technical reasons. My beliefs are that languages should be designed for experts, not for preventing beginners from shooting themselves in the foot. For this, there are compiler warnings, coding standards, static analysis tools,... (which I believe are essential)
Now let me tell you a few reasons why "if (a = b)" is better than "a = b;" followed by "if (a)" : - An extra line takes up screen real estate, which is precious. - In the two line version, "a" is written twice instead of once. It goes against the principle of code factorization. Of course there are arguments going against it but it is just to show that it is not clear cut. Personally, I would use "if ((a = b))" : it gets rid of the warning, it's a common way of showing that you are not doing a typical equality test and it doesn't suffer the problems I mentioned.
As for point 2, while it is unlikely to find a compiler that have trouble guessing that the two styles mean the same thing, changing compiler is not that simple, especially if you are on an exotic platform.
I also don't believe in point 3 : whether you use it of not, "if (a = b)" remains uncommon, and it will jump at any experienced programmer.
In France we have a somewhat controversial tax called ISF (Impôt de solidarité sur la fortune). People owning more than 1.3M€ in assets can be taxed up to 1.5% of their net worth annually.
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I think he is talking about 50cc models, which are usually 2-stroke.
Because anyone older than 14 can drive one, even without a license, they are the most common type. (Note : a license is now required in certain cases, but the requirements are still much lower than with 125cc models).
- There may be third, possibly simplified system to make a 2 vs 1 situation. ...) can be checked and the faulty system disabled.
- Ridiculous values (out of bounds,
- When it is not clear who the winner is, the pilot is shown an alert and can manually select the correct system. If you look closely in a cockpit, you'll probably find several "1-N-2" switches for this.
Probably laziness. ...) and leaving stuff like gunshots and footsteps uncompressed. But doing this would require extra work, possibly including re-validation, new licenses, etc...
I think the idea is that decoding audio takes maybe like 2% of one core, which isn't much. However, if you have 50 samples playing at the same time, you get to 100%. There are plenty of ways to deal with this problem, like using caches, compressing long samples (BGM, voice acting,
So their solution was probably to simply replace the XBox compressed files with their uncompressed equivalents and call it a day.
I don't believe in the anti-piracy theory. Crackers will compress the audio in their release, as they have done for decades. In fact, putting large games into small packages is something they are really good at.
If you want a conspiracy theory, you can say that they were paid by HDD/SSD manufacturers. This is nuts but it certainly makes more sense.
You mean a glide ratio of 150 ? It there is no mistake it is quite impressive.
Top class sailplanes hardly exceed 60.
I suppose you are talking about Link... I'm just trying to imagine something written by Link.
"Yaaaaa! Hay! Ugh! Heyaaaahh!"
"Ha! Ha! Hayaaaa!"
"Whaaaaaa!"
Most teachers I knew naturally used a variant of merge sort when sorting a pile of test papers. Most didn't know anything about formal sorting algorithms.
bottled water packaging cannot claim to combat dehydration
Less stupid that you might think.
Of course, bottled water works against dehydration... Like almost all non-alcoholic beverages and some types of solid food.
But the reason why this law exist is to prevent sellers from implying that bottled water is the best way to combat dehydration, which is not true. Tap water, soda, juice, etc... work just as well. And in some cases, like when you need electrolytes, there are better alternatives.
You may call it over-regulation but I think that it does make sense.
Economy -> ???
-> Profit
Game consoles with their OS in ROM are commonly hacked.
A robbery involving mobile devices doesn't mean that the robber robs a mobile device from the robbed.
For example, if robbers use phones to coordinate an assault, then a phone is involved. If a robber steals cash to buy a phone, a phone is also involved.
Just saying that with words like "involve" it is easy to create misleading statistics.
A watch can be easily connected to the blood vessels in the wrist and use the O2 / glucose mix as an energy source like the rest of your body. Recharge by eating. This would be real bleeding-edge technology.
Note that the use of blood as a power source (for implants) is seriously being researched. Look up "biofuel cell".
I seriously doubt the credibility of the article.
Anyways, remote stop doesn't mean that you can stop any car, anywhere. It can be the equivalent of a virtual barrier, for example, an induction loop may be placed at some key points like red lights to transmit the signal only to cars that pass over it.
Yes, we can consider "stay-at-home parent" as a field. But because it is a job that doesn't have a price tag, it is somehow considered inferior. It's not. Don't underestimate the value of a stay-at-home parent.
Cooking, cleaning, taking care of the kids, shopping, etc... Without a stay-at-home parent, you have to pay good money for someone to do this (here goes your hard earned money). You can also live in filth and neglect your kids (wow, that's progress !). Or you can attempt to do it in addition to your day job (and live an exhausting and stressful life).
Firefox OS, aka "Boot to Geko" is actually just a web browser running on top of a linux kernel with a minimal interface between the two. It's great if you like web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS, ...) but not if you want something close to a desktop GNU/Linux system. Even Android is better in this regard.
You can probably hack Firefox OS to get a UNIX shell, run native code, etc... but AFAIK, it is against Mozilla's philiosophy so don't expect much support.
BTW, this practice is now illegal in France.
If it happens, you just need to notify the seller that you keep the product at his disposal for two weeks. If he doesn't pick it up, it's yours. Of course you don't have to pay anything.
If the word CODEC is so important to you that you write it in all caps, at least use it correctly.
A codec is not a standard nor a format, it's software or hardware that deals with compession and decompression. x264 is a codec, h.264 is not.
And BTW, x264 is free software, that's for sure. But if you use it as a h.264 encoder, you have to comply with the conditions imposed by MPEG-LA. It includes paying royalties in some cases.
Non flying cars do not produce vortexes like planes do. Tailgating work by exploiting the low pressure area behind the front car. There may be a bit of turbulence but it's not what is important.
Planes, like almost all heavier than air things that fly, work by making the air go down, which, by reaction, makes the plane go up. This downwards moving air ends up spinning around, creating the vortex. Cars don't need lift, and generate thrust by pushing on the road, not on the air. As a result, they don't need vortexes.
It has been done : On May 14, 2005 an AS350 B3 piloted by Eurocopter test pilot Didier Delsalle touched down on the top of Mt. Everest, at 8,848 m (29,030 ft). This record has been confirmed by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. ( from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_AS350 )
For planes, auto-pilot is easier. Obstacles in air are very uncommon. You could cruise simply by going blindly from A to B in a straight line and the chances of hitting anything will be very low. You just need relatively simple systems to reduce this risk to something insignificant. Take off and landing are a bit trickier but even these are more predictable than driving.
Plus, you still have two highly trained pilots aided by air traffic controllers.
You forgot the obligatory xkcd link.
Here it is : http://xkcd.com/1098/
No, the specs shouldn't be restricted for style reasons. I believe that the permissive specs and "undefined behaviors" are part of what made C and later C++ so successful. ... (which I believe are essential)
I hate it when languages try to dictate how I should code when there are no technical reasons. My beliefs are that languages should be designed for experts, not for preventing beginners from shooting themselves in the foot. For this, there are compiler warnings, coding standards, static analysis tools,
Now let me tell you a few reasons why "if (a = b)" is better than "a = b;" followed by "if (a)" :
- An extra line takes up screen real estate, which is precious.
- In the two line version, "a" is written twice instead of once. It goes against the principle of code factorization.
Of course there are arguments going against it but it is just to show that it is not clear cut. Personally, I would use "if ((a = b))" : it gets rid of the warning, it's a common way of showing that you are not doing a typical equality test and it doesn't suffer the problems I mentioned.
As for point 2, while it is unlikely to find a compiler that have trouble guessing that the two styles mean the same thing, changing compiler is not that simple, especially if you are on an exotic platform.
I also don't believe in point 3 : whether you use it of not, "if (a = b)" remains uncommon, and it will jump at any experienced programmer.
From the comments, it looks like the concept of logical equivalence is indeed a hard concept to grasp.
!women || people (a logical consequence) is probably closer to the intended meaning.
Only if men != women.
Using the SI :
507 MM = 507*1e6*1e6 = 507 trillions = 507 T
6.8 MM = 6.8*1e6*1e6 = 6.8 trillions = 6.8 T
2 K = 2 Kelvin = -271.15 C = -407.07 F
That's a lot of code, but it took about 1000 times the world population to write it. Also, YouTube views are very cold.
In France we have a somewhat controversial tax called ISF (Impôt de solidarité sur la fortune).
People owning more than 1.3M€ in assets can be taxed up to 1.5% of their net worth annually.