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  1. Re:$3000 BASE PRICE?!?!? on Microsoft Announces Ultra-Thin, Pixel-Dense Surface Studio Touchscreen PC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ... and you don't get a 10 point touch screen, so it's still not great for artists who like to draw. I guess that's why it's called a Surface Studio
    The iMac may be slightly higher resolution, it's slightly wider but not as high. It's 4500x3000 not 3840x2160

  2. So you have to have a huge write cache on the RAID controller to support the slow hard drive? Or do you slow the SSD writes down to the hard drive speed?

    If the whole point is to keep your data safe, you'll need a non-volatile cache. You could use flash I suppose... Wait you've just created a hybrid drive.

  3. Re:self-driving or assisted driving ? on All Tesla Vehicles Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    From youtube videos of it, it takes about 4 minutes of hands-off driving for the warning to appear.

  4. If you RTFA, you'd see they used the term "ultrasonic radar", hence why I put it in <quote> tags

  5. Re:self-driving or assisted driving ? on All Tesla Vehicles Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    They have a warning that triggers when the driver takes their hands off the wheel. Repeated ignored warnings disengage the auto-pilot system. It will then lock out the feature until you stop the car.

  6. I think it's called "don't buy the car if you don't want it"

  7. ultrasonic radar

    Don't they mean ultrasonic sonar?

  8. If the compressor is built to work in a high temperature environment, it can be on the outside. The waste heat it generates can then be radiated or conducted.

    I never said it was efficient either, the person I replied to said evaporative cooling was the only option.

  9. You could.... use a heat pump?
    How do you think I cool my house and inside my car to a lower temperature than outside?
    How does my fridge and freezer get colder than the inside of my house?

    Satellites with radioactive material in them use the heat to generate electricity. The problem then becomes heat, so they need to be covered in reflective material so the sun doesn't melt them.

  10. I thought Venice was on Earth

  11. They don't last too long in the atmosphere.
    It's hot, it's acidic and it's dense.

    With the 400+ degrees, the sulfuric acid and being 90x higher pressure than earth, nothing we've sent there has lasted more than about 2 hours on the surface

    The current record holder is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with 127 minutes..

  12. Not the other Aussie bank on Apple is 'Intransigent, Closed and Controlling' Say Banks (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    ANZ already had NFC payments on their Android app.
    They have now just announced support for Apple Pay too

  13. Positive. It's the Honda "Internavi" system.
    It supports live traffic and map updates via IR and RF signals from networks all over Japan too.

    Completely useless after the car gets exported though, and the language can't be switched to English either.

  14. Stop being stupid and looking down at your printed directions when you should be looking at the road in front of you.

  15. in-car systems use the vehicle speed sensor and a gyro for the main navigation input, with GPS being used to find an approximate position only.

    At least that's how it works in my 2005 Honda. Means it still works in urban canyons and tunnels.

    I suppose an after-market system could use an accelerometer instead of the speed sensor. GPS isn't the quickest in terms of updating your absolute position. If it's running at 1Hz and you're travelling at 100kph, it's around 30m between updates.

    It's quite often my phone says "Take the 3rd exit" in a round-about when I'm already taking that exit.
    The reason I don't use the in-car navigation is because its maps are only for Japan, and I've never even been to Japan.

  16. Re:Title smells like bullshit on 'StrongPity' Malware Infects Users Through Legitimate WinRAR and TrueCrypt Installers (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Yellow journalism, or the yellow press, is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism.

    That pretty much describes every media outlet around these days.

  17. Re:What does Cyanogenmod still offer? on Cyanogen Gets a New CEO, Shifts Away From Selling a Full Mobile Operating System (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    It goes one step further than the stock privacy settings, you can feed in fake data so apps that don't work with out permissions still work.

  18. Re:Not free! on O'Reilly Gives Away Free Programming Ebooks (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    Who said you have to provide your information?

  19. Re:Pirate Bay should be flagged on Chrome and Firefox Flag The Pirate Bay As a 'Phishing' Site...Again (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    I think you typed the word "bribes" wrong, it's not spelled "contributions"

  20. Re:Pirate Bay should be flagged on Chrome and Firefox Flag The Pirate Bay As a 'Phishing' Site...Again (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I didn't elect them, I don't live in USA, nor is TPB a US based site.

  21. Re:Upgrade now for 25% less battery life! on Apple To Make macOS Sierra Available As Automatic Download Beginning Today (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 1

    Shared clipboard?
    So everytime you copy something, it's uploaded to iCloud?

  22. The good kind, I'm not American.

  23. Don't read the drivel that passes for news these days and you'll only have a couple of articles to read a day at most.

  24. Cg42 expects each customer to be an average loss of $1,248 annually, and losses to approach $1 billion over the year. Cg42 also found that the average cord-cutter saves $104 per month by canceling.

    And after further investigation, Cg42 has discovered there are 12 months in a year.

  25. Re:Pollution stops at US border on 92% of the World's Population Exposed To Unsafe Levels of Air Pollution: WHO (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The data is dodgy.

    Limitations
    Data from different countries are of limited comparability because of
    a) Different location of measurement stations;
    b) Different measurement methods;
    c) Different temporal coverage of certain measurements; if only part of the year was covered,
    the measurement may significantly deviate from the annual mean due to seasonal
    variability;
    d) Possible inclusion of data which were not eligible for this database due to insufficient
    information to ensure compliance;
    e) Differences in sizes of urban areas covered: for certain countries, only measurements for
    larger cities were found, whereas for others also cities with just a few thousand inhabitants
    were available. Heterogeneous quality of measurements;
    f) Omission of data which are known to exist, but which could not yet be accessed due to
    language issues or limited accessibility.

    http://www.who.int/phe/health_...

    If you untick the "Modeled annual mean" you'll get a better picture of where the data points are measured. The middle of Africa where it's entirely red has no data points.
    It just happens to be hot and dry with some wind, so you get dust in the air. I guess that's "natural pollution"