/var meant to be both writable and persistent. That makes it very sensitive and a good target for attackers. This is the reason why it is a good idea to avoid putting executable files in there. In fact the less you rely on/var, the better.
/usr,/bin,/lib and/etc can be mounted read-only in production. That's the case of Android for example. As a result, it is a much safer place for executables and libraries.
As you suggested I checked Google for facts and I was indeed wrong on some points, sorry. Germany gets most of its electricity from coal, not gas. And I thought the import/exports where on a daily basis instead of a yearly basis (I didn't write it though, so you probably implied it somehow). However my point still stands : Germany export expensive fossil fuel power when demand is high and imports cheap nuclear power when demand is low.
Here are the facts about Germany : - Coal : 45% - Renewables : 22% - Nuclear : 16 % - Gas : 11% - Exports are higher during winter (high demand) and imports are higher during summer (low demand) - Renewable electricity production is at the lowest in winter - Coal electricity production is at the highest in winter - Germany is a net exporter globally, France is also a net exporter globally. Germany is a net exporter for France. Source : http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/downloads/pdf-files/aktuelles/stromproduktion-aus-solar-und-windenergie-2013.pdf (+ others)
Germany's production is mostly fossil fuel. They may be the champion of renewables but it still represents only a small part of the picture. The way Germany works is more of less like this : France has plenty of nuclear reactors that are good at producing base load power, so, when demand is low, Germany buys this excess power for a low (sometimes even negative) price. Now, when demand is high, France's nuclear power is not sufficient for its own use, so Germany starts its gas plants and sell back electricity at a high price.
Piracy, in Japan ? I've seen very little of it compared to other countries. However they have a large second hand market, which probably has a similar effect on sales.
As for Albums, they are almost collector items. The CDs and packaging are high price / high quality. For example, the bar code, price and other technical data are printed on a separated piece of cardboard (spine card / obi). This is partly to avoid messing with the cover art. In fact we can argue that the album itself is merchandize.
Interesting point. But can we really call a place where sound doesn't exist "quiet". In the same way we can't call vacuum "cold" because there is no temperature. The air in an anechoic chamber actually makes things stop vibrating whereas vacuum merely prevents the sound from propagating.
Ask Slashdot, they can tell you if a product will fail or not with 50% accuracy. If you use a time machine, you can go up to 90% : Slashdot is quite good as predicting the past.
Communities like Slashdot are good for many things but predictions is not one of them. Of course, we have to be right sometimes (like with Windows RT) because being 100% wrong is just as hard as being 100% right
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And yet, HD on the Wii would've added costs that were completely unnecessary at the time.
Remember, back in 2006/7, HDTVs were pretty much limited to the family room, if the house had an HDTV. Almost certainly the main users of the Wii won't have an HDTV (well, I'm sure there were a few rich families who bought a HDTV for their kids back then).
You just said the second point I wanted to bring. The Wii is marketed as a console for the living room and indeed, while we have several consoles at home, the Wii is the one that get the most time on the big screen. After all, party games and local multiplayer is where the Wii really shines. In the end, it makes the lack of HD even more noticeable.
Note that I don't think that it is a bad move from Nintendo. The Wii sold really well and was always profitable. I just said that, in my opinion, the Wii would have been much better with HD.
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I have a Wii and I still rage about the lack of HD. Indeed the games are fun and that's why I rage instead of just forgetting about this crap piece of hardware. Good graphics won't turn a bad game into a good game but it certainly make things more enjoyable. The WiiU is OK though, it may not be able to show scenes as complex as the competition (Xbox one, PS4, PC) but at least, it is not an aliased mess.
It's real. I have a Galaxy Note 2 and cheap long cables can't charge it correctly. These cables work fine on device requiring less charge current. No amount of plugging and unplugging help, thin cables work 0% of the time, better cables (original or not) work 100%.
I don't consider it an idiotic reaction, assuming that he drove carefully after the impact. Pulling over is not without risks and the car nearly told him to continue driving. And considering the range of the Tesla, home was certainly not that far away. When the car switched to a more alarming message he did pull over and left the car. Maybe that it wasn't the best course of action but I think that is is reasonable for an emergency reaction (everything took less than 5 minutes).
And BTW, even if this guy is indeed an idiot, then it is a good argument for Tesla : in case of fire, even an idiot can survive.
With Chromium, disabling "local" extensions would mean blocking all extensions. Chromium is a pure open source project, which isn't tied to the Google ecosystem. So blocking extensions from outside the Play Store would make no sense.
Even if we manage to solve chess, the game will still be interesting to non-perfect solvers such as humans. A bit like rock-paper-scissors is still played by both humans and computers even though the optimal strategy (chose at random) is well known and simple. This strategy will guarantee a draw against any opponent but you won't be able to win. By using a good suboptimal strategy you will lose against perfect players, draw against pure-random players but at least, if your suboptimal strategy is better than your opponent's suboptimal strategy, you can win.
MRIs and other superconducting magnets are the biggest wasters of helium right now. They work on an open circuit because right now, it is cheaper to waste helium rather than trying to recycle it.
Using helium for balloons is clearly a waste but it accounts for only 16% of total consumption. And that's for all kinds of balloons, including blimps.
If development machines can access the internet, then the source code is online. It's possible to really work offline but the cost is so high that it is usually only done with classified programs. And it won't prevent a cracker from simply convincing a developer to steal the code using an USB stick.
What you need is contradictory. You want to hand out all your data to a single company and you want to be in control. Want convinience : go with Google or Microsoft, or work with an intermediary. Want control : get your own servers. Want something in-between : keep doing what you are doing now with multiple providers. End-to-end encryption have to be done within the client software. Webmail, for example, will almost never qualify. As for the NSA, unless your business deal with state secrets or organized crime, they don't care about your data.
Terrorists, by definition, want to terrorize people, not necessarily a high body count. Bombing a crowded mall will kill a lot of people but it will result in more anger and sadness than terror. Effective terrorism is much more subtle. Killings are kept to a minimum : enough to prove one's point but not so much as to turn fear into anger and sadness. Anthrax letters are a good example : only 5 people died, 17 others infected, yet it had massive repercussions. As for 9/11, I consider it more like a declaration of war than a pure terrorist act.
I think it is better to consider these robo-cars as a train. And like modern trains, cars will synchronize acceleration and breaking. Driving bumper to bumper can actually be safer than leaving space between the cars. For example, if your car fails to break for any reason, you won't have time to build relative speed between your car and the car in front of you and the impact will be greatly reduced. This train-like behavior can be improved using special bumpers. Of course, if something like a large rock suddenly falls on the road, the result may be catastrophic but trains are not immune to this kind of problem and are still the safest kind of transportation.
I stay with AdblockPlus, thank you. I consider these forks stupid : - Relying on a comparatively obscure fork is less user friendly than unticking a box - With the proper settings ABP and ABE do *exactly* the same thing. I checked the code just to be sure. No hidden backdoor or anything. - Three forks just to disable a fucking checkbox, that's ridiculous. You want an "enhanced" ABP, no problem, but get together instead of making things even more confusing for users. - Chances are that bugs will be fixed on ABP first. After all, there is someone getting paid for this... ABE users will have to wait until the fix is backported.
On a related note, they should share with Google a Nobel Peace Prize for the countless nasty arguments settled by a simple search.
Before that, we had The Guinness Book of Records. It was created as a reference book to settle arguments in pubs. Don't believe me ? Go check wikipedia.
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/var meant to be both writable and persistent. That makes it very sensitive and a good target for attackers. This is the reason why it is a good idea to avoid putting executable files in there. In fact the less you rely on /var, the better.
Several countries in Africa are traversed by the Equator, which is a good place for launch facilities.
Maybe that's the idea.
As you suggested I checked Google for facts and I was indeed wrong on some points, sorry. Germany gets most of its electricity from coal, not gas. And I thought the import/exports where on a daily basis instead of a yearly basis (I didn't write it though, so you probably implied it somehow).
However my point still stands : Germany export expensive fossil fuel power when demand is high and imports cheap nuclear power when demand is low.
Here are the facts about Germany :
- Coal : 45%
- Renewables : 22%
- Nuclear : 16 %
- Gas : 11%
- Exports are higher during winter (high demand) and imports are higher during summer (low demand)
- Renewable electricity production is at the lowest in winter
- Coal electricity production is at the highest in winter
- Germany is a net exporter globally, France is also a net exporter globally. Germany is a net exporter for France.
Source : http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/downloads/pdf-files/aktuelles/stromproduktion-aus-solar-und-windenergie-2013.pdf (+ others)
Another thing : according to this http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/images/7/75/Half-yearly_electricity_and_gas_prices.png household electricity for s1 2013 in Germany is 0.29€/kWh, that's more than 0.40$/kWh and among the most expensive in Europe. Are you taking everything into account when you are talking about 0.18€ (taxes, subscription...) ?
Germany's production is mostly fossil fuel. They may be the champion of renewables but it still represents only a small part of the picture.
The way Germany works is more of less like this : France has plenty of nuclear reactors that are good at producing base load power, so, when demand is low, Germany buys this excess power for a low (sometimes even negative) price. Now, when demand is high, France's nuclear power is not sufficient for its own use, so Germany starts its gas plants and sell back electricity at a high price.
Does it mean that 45% of all servers will be used to heat up water ? Or maybe something about weather forecasts.
Piracy, in Japan ? I've seen very little of it compared to other countries. However they have a large second hand market, which probably has a similar effect on sales.
As for Albums, they are almost collector items. The CDs and packaging are high price / high quality. For example, the bar code, price and other technical data are printed on a separated piece of cardboard (spine card / obi). This is partly to avoid messing with the cover art.
In fact we can argue that the album itself is merchandize.
Interesting point. But can we really call a place where sound doesn't exist "quiet". In the same way we can't call vacuum "cold" because there is no temperature.
The air in an anechoic chamber actually makes things stop vibrating whereas vacuum merely prevents the sound from propagating.
Ask Slashdot, they can tell you if a product will fail or not with 50% accuracy. If you use a time machine, you can go up to 90% : Slashdot is quite good as predicting the past.
Communities like Slashdot are good for many things but predictions is not one of them. Of course, we have to be right sometimes (like with Windows RT) because being 100% wrong is just as hard as being 100% right
And yet, HD on the Wii would've added costs that were completely unnecessary at the time.
Remember, back in 2006/7, HDTVs were pretty much limited to the family room, if the house had an HDTV. Almost certainly the main users of the Wii won't have an HDTV (well, I'm sure there were a few rich families who bought a HDTV for their kids back then).
You just said the second point I wanted to bring.
The Wii is marketed as a console for the living room and indeed, while we have several consoles at home, the Wii is the one that get the most time on the big screen. After all, party games and local multiplayer is where the Wii really shines. In the end, it makes the lack of HD even more noticeable.
Note that I don't think that it is a bad move from Nintendo. The Wii sold really well and was always profitable. I just said that, in my opinion, the Wii would have been much better with HD.
I have a Wii and I still rage about the lack of HD. Indeed the games are fun and that's why I rage instead of just forgetting about this crap piece of hardware. Good graphics won't turn a bad game into a good game but it certainly make things more enjoyable.
The WiiU is OK though, it may not be able to show scenes as complex as the competition (Xbox one, PS4, PC) but at least, it is not an aliased mess.
It's real. I have a Galaxy Note 2 and cheap long cables can't charge it correctly. These cables work fine on device requiring less charge current.
No amount of plugging and unplugging help, thin cables work 0% of the time, better cables (original or not) work 100%.
Hey, Facebook, make sure that no one else can use these techniques. That's your duty as a patent holder.
I don't consider it an idiotic reaction, assuming that he drove carefully after the impact. Pulling over is not without risks and the car nearly told him to continue driving. And considering the range of the Tesla, home was certainly not that far away.
When the car switched to a more alarming message he did pull over and left the car.
Maybe that it wasn't the best course of action but I think that is is reasonable for an emergency reaction (everything took less than 5 minutes).
And BTW, even if this guy is indeed an idiot, then it is a good argument for Tesla : in case of fire, even an idiot can survive.
Most certainly not.
With Chromium, disabling "local" extensions would mean blocking all extensions.
Chromium is a pure open source project, which isn't tied to the Google ecosystem. So blocking extensions from outside the Play Store would make no sense.
Even if we manage to solve chess, the game will still be interesting to non-perfect solvers such as humans.
A bit like rock-paper-scissors is still played by both humans and computers even though the optimal strategy (chose at random) is well known and simple. This strategy will guarantee a draw against any opponent but you won't be able to win. By using a good suboptimal strategy you will lose against perfect players, draw against pure-random players but at least, if your suboptimal strategy is better than your opponent's suboptimal strategy, you can win.
...and show me your sexy polygons in wireframe.
Not the best example but : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_cannon
MRIs and other superconducting magnets are the biggest wasters of helium right now.
They work on an open circuit because right now, it is cheaper to waste helium rather than trying to recycle it.
Using helium for balloons is clearly a waste but it accounts for only 16% of total consumption. And that's for all kinds of balloons, including blimps.
If development machines can access the internet, then the source code is online.
It's possible to really work offline but the cost is so high that it is usually only done with classified programs. And it won't prevent a cracker from simply convincing a developer to steal the code using an USB stick.
It has been done many times.
There are countless articles and news on the subject, like this one : http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/05/google-recaptcha-brought-to-its-knees/
What you need is contradictory. You want to hand out all your data to a single company and you want to be in control.
Want convinience : go with Google or Microsoft, or work with an intermediary. Want control : get your own servers. Want something in-between : keep doing what you are doing now with multiple providers.
End-to-end encryption have to be done within the client software. Webmail, for example, will almost never qualify.
As for the NSA, unless your business deal with state secrets or organized crime, they don't care about your data.
Terrorists, by definition, want to terrorize people, not necessarily a high body count.
Bombing a crowded mall will kill a lot of people but it will result in more anger and sadness than terror.
Effective terrorism is much more subtle. Killings are kept to a minimum : enough to prove one's point but not so much as to turn fear into anger and sadness. Anthrax letters are a good example : only 5 people died, 17 others infected, yet it had massive repercussions.
As for 9/11, I consider it more like a declaration of war than a pure terrorist act.
I think it is better to consider these robo-cars as a train. And like modern trains, cars will synchronize acceleration and breaking.
Driving bumper to bumper can actually be safer than leaving space between the cars. For example, if your car fails to break for any reason, you won't have time to build relative speed between your car and the car in front of you and the impact will be greatly reduced. This train-like behavior can be improved using special bumpers.
Of course, if something like a large rock suddenly falls on the road, the result may be catastrophic but trains are not immune to this kind of problem and are still the safest kind of transportation.
I stay with AdblockPlus, thank you. I consider these forks stupid :
- Relying on a comparatively obscure fork is less user friendly than unticking a box
- With the proper settings ABP and ABE do *exactly* the same thing. I checked the code just to be sure. No hidden backdoor or anything.
- Three forks just to disable a fucking checkbox, that's ridiculous. You want an "enhanced" ABP, no problem, but get together instead of making things even more confusing for users.
- Chances are that bugs will be fixed on ABP first. After all, there is someone getting paid for this... ABE users will have to wait until the fix is backported.
On a related note, they should share with Google a Nobel Peace Prize for the countless nasty arguments settled by a simple search.
Before that, we had The Guinness Book of Records. It was created as a reference book to settle arguments in pubs.
Don't believe me ? Go check wikipedia.