In 2017, hydro-produced electricity used by California totaled nearly 43,333 gigawatt-hours (GWh)
What about 2015? It was only 15,256 GWh. 2011? 43,623 GWh. The usable hydro power is swinging up and down by a factor of 300% over periods of just 2 years. What is making up such enormous differences in power production during the years of drought I wonder?
Who said that? A lot of the planet has exposed bedrock just like earth that is impossible to "dig" through.
Also, this is just a lander with a small impact drill. It wouldn't take much more than a good sized rock to slow it down or stop it. You can see such rocks laying around on the ground near the lander.
What is your definition of "Autopilot"? Let's see what Wikipedia says:
An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace human operators, but instead they assist them in controlling the aircraft. This allows them to focus on broader aspects of operations such as monitoring the trajectory, weather and systems.[1]
The autopilot is often used in conjunction with the autothrottle, when present, which is the analogous system controlling the power delivered by the engines.
It sounds to me like like autopilot is a pretty accurate term to describe what a Telsa can do. Except the Telsa does more - the equivalent of autothrottle too. Let me guess, you would prefer "Pilot assist" instead of calling it autopilot for planes?
Why shouldn't a bookstore be able to choose what they stock? Why should a bookstore be forced to carry a product they don't want to sell?
Conversely, why shouldn't a bookstore be able to choose what they stock? Why should a bookstore be forced not to carry a product they want to sell?
Imagine a small country town in the south. There's a small bookstore, and it sells books that are pro-abortion. The local newspaper calls them out on this. The mayor strolls by and tells the owner he's disappointed in them. Pastors tell their congregations that they shouldn't support businesses that promote abortion. The store stops carrying the books. Everyone is "happy".
Do you not see the problem here? This is a two way street. Just because Amazon is huge doesn't mean they are immune. Major news outlets and the dissemination of information over the internet easily exert as much pressure on the likes of Amazon and Walmart as my example above at a smaller scale.
If you go back in time 50 years, office supplies of the sort discussed in the article were paramount. There was no other way to run a business without the physical supplies required to function. So the inventory and management of those items was critical, because the volume of those items used was so high that it directly effected the profit to unsure their efficient use (we processed 5000 accounts this month, we should have consumed X amount of resources A, B and C). Now that it is possible and desirable to go "paper free", the management of physical office supplies has fallen to the wayside. Businesses recognize that these things must be needed for some tasks, and so they provide them. However since they do not drive the bottom line, and the volume consumed is an order of magnitude less, they are not managed as closely. So now it is easier than ever to take things even though the volume of those items consumed by a business is far less.
I totally agree. I grew up firmly entrenched in the cassette world. CDs didn't come on the market until I was around 16 (as in you could actually go to record stores and find some), so all of my childhood using was totally using cassettes for music. I remember when I was around 13-14 asking for pretty much the "pinnacle" of cassette technology for Christmas. That being a walkman-style cassette player / radio, that included the apex of the technology: Auto Reverse and the auto-music-search (each brand called it something different - it would fast forward or rewind until it hit silence, which usually worked and would get you to the next song or the beginning of the one you were on).
And, wow, I just googled and found the exact cassette player I got that Christmas. I haven't laid eyes on it for a few decades: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/...
Anyway, having said all that, there is nothing particularly good about the analog loss of quality that cassette tapes result in. I kinda, a little get it that vinyl adds a certain ambiance or whatever, however cassette just results in quality loss and extra noise in a not-good way.
Rotten Tomatoes lost me as any sort of regular user (IE bothering to even have an account and frequent the site specifically) over a decade ago. To me one of the most useful features they *used* to have (and maybe they've added it back since - I don't care at this point) was the ability for me to specify my favorite reviewers. This was back when Ebert was still alive. I don't agree with all of Ebert's reviews, however he served as a kind of litmus test / constant that I could use to see reviews of movies over a span of more than half a century by a single person. RT made it very convenient for me to see his (and a few other reviewers I cared about) review very easily just by pulling up nearly any mainstream movie on their site. At some point that stopped functioning, then they eventually removed the UI completely where you could select your favorite reviewers. This was somewhere around a decade ago or longer.
I'm not sure in their reason to do so, but it seems such a fundamental thing that they were motivated financially or politically (IE by the studios) to remove that feature.
There is a very fine line between a gimmick, and something that is genuinely useful on a regular basis. Many hybrids at the hardware level have been attempted. There are some I thought would be useful but turned out to have pretty much zero consumer demand. For example, cell phones with an e-ink display on that back that could always show information with zero battery drain and provide an optimal display for daylight reading. Nope. It was tried both as native device and as an add on case, and neither caught on. What about phones with slide out keyboards? Super functional right? Also totally gone from the mainstream.
These foldable phones are also a novelty looking for a killer use case. Seems useful (I have a bigger screen now for watching Netflix,or a dedicated keyboard area) but like my old slide out phone that I eventually realized I just used the onscreen keyboard 90% of the time, it won't justify the extra expense and potential for damage.
I want to point out that the cost comparison was skewed in currency conversion. The article quotes a cost of £77m, followed by the statement “The superpowers who managed to land a spacecraft on the moon have spent hundreds of millions.” which is still referring to pounds. Just wanted to point out why the comparison in the summary didn't make much sense.
I wonder if molecules that far out are "lost" and simply on their way out of the earth's gravitational influence, or if they are actually a stable part of the atmosphere. If they are a stable part of the atmosphere then they can eventually work their way back to the thicker atmosphere and then down to the surface (in the form of recombining into H20 for example). So we could be drinking water with hydrogen that came from the moon.
Even if the molecules are "lost" and doomed to escape our orbit, I wonder if this will have any impact on studies that were done on the moon's chemical composition. It seems very apparent that molecules from the earth must be deposited onto the moon if they can reach that far out. In fact, the gravity of the moon should pull them right in if they get close. That would have been continuously "tainting" the surface of the moon with our isotopic signature for billions of years.
Or maybe none of that is possible at all and I have an overactive imagination.
The "back" gesture (dragging the pill from the center to the left) for use within an app to go back is counter intuitive. Gestures should represent the physical motion matching the virtual motion. For example, you swipe your finger downwards, and the image moves downwards (which is logically "up" as you are going back up to the top of the document). Since we are accustomed to a side to side flow where older items are on the left and newer is to the right (based on LTR reading, calendars, page orders in books, etc)), a dragging motion to the left is backwards. That should scroll the display to the left, which reveals new content coming in from the right. So this new "drag the pill left to go back" is totally backwards. Apple solved this by introducing a gesture starting at the very leftmost edge of the display swiping to the right, which drags the entire display to the right revealing the previous / older item coming from the left.
I guess someone at Google made an honest mistake. Now if we lived in some alternate universe, one in which Google made, say, $116.3 billion dollars in 2018 selling ads primarily viewed through web browsers, then the skeptic in me might think shenanigans were afoot. But since we don't live in that universe, we can have peace of mind that this was purely an error by an overzealous software engineer trying to make browsers faster. Because, you know, there is absolutely no performance impact (CPU, rendering time, network bandwidth) caused by loading multiple advertisements on every web page that stream video. Anyone with a modicum of common sense would realize that blocking those ads in the first place would surely require far more resources than loading and rendering them. So I can totally see how this honest mistake was made.
So the new number crunching by QCS ignores 18 crashes that happened before Autosteer was rolled out, because the total mileage of those vehicles prior to the crash was not known. Yet... those crashes most certainly occurred. In fact, it's quite possible that the crash itself resulted in enough destruction to the vehicle that the odometer could not be read and thus the exact mileage is not known and reported in the data.
With Autosteer enabled, more data is collected about the vehicle, so the exact mileage is known. QCS, in totally throwing out 18 crashes that definitely occurred to Teslas before Autosteer is as bad or worse than including them when the mileage was not known, again, because the crash could be the cause of the exact mileage not being known in a non-Autosteer state. If the crash was the cause of the missing data, and QCS uses missing data as filter to not include the crash in the statistics, then quite obviously they are going to see different results because of ignoring more than 20% of all the pre autosteer crashes that occurred.
Pause any morph in the state between two faces and you have the very realistic looking face of a person who does not exist. Couple that with our modern software algorithms that identify various landmark points on a person's face (used by SnapChat and other filters to put sunglasses on a person's face in the right location, etc), and voila... you have infinite face creation with no manual input by blending input images together. It's very clear in some of the images on the website from TFA that they are using actual face photos as their source input, so what they are doing is a derivative on the face morphing, perhaps using multiple inputs instead of two.
This is just stupid. What does the speed of wireless networks have to do with ANY of the other aspects in the story at all? At 4G I am not bandwidth bound. I can stream video at a far higher resolution than needed for a 4" screen. It has no impact on shopping, messaging, banking, etc. Further, what does the network have to do with the apps that communicate over that network? We tried AOL once. It had everything this story talked about in one unified place and interface. It sucked. It went away because that's how our markets work. People use what they want to use, which is typically based on what gives them what they want and the way they want it.
The fact that China will be producing networking 5G networking gear is... inconsequential. I'm sure there are many, many products created in China that are sold at tremendous volume that the West does not buy nor care to buy. No one here is going to buy 5G hardware with built in Chinese Government Approved and Controlled AI to restrict communication just because they make a lot of them or use them there.
The only reason to run Windows is to use the Office Suite for compatibility
Wow, there is one, and only one, reason to run Windows, the most widely used desktop OS in the world. That's quite a mind blowing revelation there. I bet you did a lot of research to come to that conclusion.
And less sarcastically... what about the average joe who would just like to use the OS environment they are already familiar with? That alone is a valid reason to run Windows 10.
I just spent some time testing this. I see two things going on. One is that the frequent search terms are definitely biased towards searching for female photos. This may be legit and simply represents what people search for most. Here are the search suggestions when I type "photos of my": photos of my female friends photos of my friends photos of my female friends in bikinis photos of my boyfriend photos of my girlfriend photos of my female friends this month photos of my friends from this month photos of my wife
There is, however, most certainly an actual difference in the functionality between searching for "photos of my female friends" and "photos of my male friends". When I search for the female friends, I see a search result box titled in bold text "Photos of my female friends" and it does indeed contain pictures of my female friends. Beneath this box is another result box titled just "Photos" with random posted photos (4 of the 6 are of females, but not from my friends).
Now, when I search for "photos of my male friends" it does not have a results box that says "Photos of my male friends" at all, and instead only has the generic "Photos" box with photos from random posts (and two have men in them along with females, and one is only of a female - however none is of just a male).
So there is definitely a difference in actual functionality here, at least from my account as a male. It was implemented to function in this way.
What if you needed to go somewhere else because of an emergency?
The terms of service you agree to when you buy the ticket and enter into an agreement with the airline prohibits the "hidden city" type behavior, unless there is an emergency.
In this particular case the person already had a reserved flight from the hidden city. He can't claim there was an emergency or the other exceptions that would release him from the TOS. It's right in the summary:
He instead flew on a separate Lufthansa reservation from Frankfurt to Berlin.
There was solid evidence showing he intended on breaking the terms of service and constructed his own route. To me this is a no-brainer - the customer agreed to specific terms, then broke those terms with blatant evidence showing he intended to do so all along.
If you have access to the Apple account, you can remote wipe the phone, which removes the pin. However you still have to log into the device with the Apple account ("Activation Lock"), which as I indicated had been taken over by the thief. https://support.apple.com/kb/P...
My son worked as a dishwasher and saved up for it. He bought it for $100 from a friend that upgraded their phone. But thank you for your parenting advice. Actually yesterday I went to the local pawn shop and bought a ZTE phone for $10 that he's using for snapchat, etc, for now.
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How would a "DNA proof" that he was dead even look like?
When you look at the DNA under a very powerful microscope you can see that the little DNAs have Xs over their eyes.
In 2017, hydro-produced electricity used by California totaled nearly 43,333 gigawatt-hours (GWh)
What about 2015? It was only 15,256 GWh. 2011? 43,623 GWh. The usable hydro power is swinging up and down by a factor of 300% over periods of just 2 years. What is making up such enormous differences in power production during the years of drought I wonder?
https://www.energy.ca.gov/alma...
It should be easy to dig on Mars.
Who said that? A lot of the planet has exposed bedrock just like earth that is impossible to "dig" through.
Also, this is just a lander with a small impact drill. It wouldn't take much more than a good sized rock to slow it down or stop it. You can see such rocks laying around on the ground near the lander.
What is your definition of "Autopilot"? Let's see what Wikipedia says:
An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace human operators, but instead they assist them in controlling the aircraft. This allows them to focus on broader aspects of operations such as monitoring the trajectory, weather and systems.[1]
The autopilot is often used in conjunction with the autothrottle, when present, which is the analogous system controlling the power delivered by the engines.
It sounds to me like like autopilot is a pretty accurate term to describe what a Telsa can do. Except the Telsa does more - the equivalent of autothrottle too. Let me guess, you would prefer "Pilot assist" instead of calling it autopilot for planes?
Why shouldn't a bookstore be able to choose what they stock? Why should a bookstore be forced to carry a product they don't want to sell?
Conversely, why shouldn't a bookstore be able to choose what they stock? Why should a bookstore be forced not to carry a product they want to sell?
Imagine a small country town in the south. There's a small bookstore, and it sells books that are pro-abortion. The local newspaper calls them out on this. The mayor strolls by and tells the owner he's disappointed in them. Pastors tell their congregations that they shouldn't support businesses that promote abortion. The store stops carrying the books. Everyone is "happy".
Do you not see the problem here? This is a two way street. Just because Amazon is huge doesn't mean they are immune. Major news outlets and the dissemination of information over the internet easily exert as much pressure on the likes of Amazon and Walmart as my example above at a smaller scale.
If you go back in time 50 years, office supplies of the sort discussed in the article were paramount. There was no other way to run a business without the physical supplies required to function. So the inventory and management of those items was critical, because the volume of those items used was so high that it directly effected the profit to unsure their efficient use (we processed 5000 accounts this month, we should have consumed X amount of resources A, B and C). Now that it is possible and desirable to go "paper free", the management of physical office supplies has fallen to the wayside. Businesses recognize that these things must be needed for some tasks, and so they provide them. However since they do not drive the bottom line, and the volume consumed is an order of magnitude less, they are not managed as closely. So now it is easier than ever to take things even though the volume of those items consumed by a business is far less.
I totally agree. I grew up firmly entrenched in the cassette world. CDs didn't come on the market until I was around 16 (as in you could actually go to record stores and find some), so all of my childhood using was totally using cassettes for music. I remember when I was around 13-14 asking for pretty much the "pinnacle" of cassette technology for Christmas. That being a walkman-style cassette player / radio, that included the apex of the technology: Auto Reverse and the auto-music-search (each brand called it something different - it would fast forward or rewind until it hit silence, which usually worked and would get you to the next song or the beginning of the one you were on).
And, wow, I just googled and found the exact cassette player I got that Christmas. I haven't laid eyes on it for a few decades: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/...
Anyway, having said all that, there is nothing particularly good about the analog loss of quality that cassette tapes result in. I kinda, a little get it that vinyl adds a certain ambiance or whatever, however cassette just results in quality loss and extra noise in a not-good way.
Rotten Tomatoes lost me as any sort of regular user (IE bothering to even have an account and frequent the site specifically) over a decade ago. To me one of the most useful features they *used* to have (and maybe they've added it back since - I don't care at this point) was the ability for me to specify my favorite reviewers. This was back when Ebert was still alive. I don't agree with all of Ebert's reviews, however he served as a kind of litmus test / constant that I could use to see reviews of movies over a span of more than half a century by a single person. RT made it very convenient for me to see his (and a few other reviewers I cared about) review very easily just by pulling up nearly any mainstream movie on their site. At some point that stopped functioning, then they eventually removed the UI completely where you could select your favorite reviewers. This was somewhere around a decade ago or longer.
I'm not sure in their reason to do so, but it seems such a fundamental thing that they were motivated financially or politically (IE by the studios) to remove that feature.
There is a very fine line between a gimmick, and something that is genuinely useful on a regular basis. Many hybrids at the hardware level have been attempted. There are some I thought would be useful but turned out to have pretty much zero consumer demand. For example, cell phones with an e-ink display on that back that could always show information with zero battery drain and provide an optimal display for daylight reading. Nope. It was tried both as native device and as an add on case, and neither caught on. What about phones with slide out keyboards? Super functional right? Also totally gone from the mainstream.
These foldable phones are also a novelty looking for a killer use case. Seems useful (I have a bigger screen now for watching Netflix,or a dedicated keyboard area) but like my old slide out phone that I eventually realized I just used the onscreen keyboard 90% of the time, it won't justify the extra expense and potential for damage.
More than likely it's an overbroad method of filtering to block requests to that page from servers.
I want to point out that the cost comparison was skewed in currency conversion. The article quotes a cost of £77m, followed by the statement “The superpowers who managed to land a spacecraft on the moon have spent hundreds of millions.” which is still referring to pounds. Just wanted to point out why the comparison in the summary didn't make much sense.
I wonder if molecules that far out are "lost" and simply on their way out of the earth's gravitational influence, or if they are actually a stable part of the atmosphere. If they are a stable part of the atmosphere then they can eventually work their way back to the thicker atmosphere and then down to the surface (in the form of recombining into H20 for example). So we could be drinking water with hydrogen that came from the moon.
Even if the molecules are "lost" and doomed to escape our orbit, I wonder if this will have any impact on studies that were done on the moon's chemical composition. It seems very apparent that molecules from the earth must be deposited onto the moon if they can reach that far out. In fact, the gravity of the moon should pull them right in if they get close. That would have been continuously "tainting" the surface of the moon with our isotopic signature for billions of years.
Or maybe none of that is possible at all and I have an overactive imagination.
The "back" gesture (dragging the pill from the center to the left) for use within an app to go back is counter intuitive. Gestures should represent the physical motion matching the virtual motion. For example, you swipe your finger downwards, and the image moves downwards (which is logically "up" as you are going back up to the top of the document). Since we are accustomed to a side to side flow where older items are on the left and newer is to the right (based on LTR reading, calendars, page orders in books, etc)), a dragging motion to the left is backwards. That should scroll the display to the left, which reveals new content coming in from the right. So this new "drag the pill left to go back" is totally backwards. Apple solved this by introducing a gesture starting at the very leftmost edge of the display swiping to the right, which drags the entire display to the right revealing the previous / older item coming from the left.
YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study
While Landrum didn't explicitly blame YouTube for the rise in flat Earth believers
When your headline is so inaccurate that it is contradicted right in the summary...
I guess someone at Google made an honest mistake. Now if we lived in some alternate universe, one in which Google made, say, $116.3 billion dollars in 2018 selling ads primarily viewed through web browsers, then the skeptic in me might think shenanigans were afoot. But since we don't live in that universe, we can have peace of mind that this was purely an error by an overzealous software engineer trying to make browsers faster. Because, you know, there is absolutely no performance impact (CPU, rendering time, network bandwidth) caused by loading multiple advertisements on every web page that stream video. Anyone with a modicum of common sense would realize that blocking those ads in the first place would surely require far more resources than loading and rendering them. So I can totally see how this honest mistake was made.
So the new number crunching by QCS ignores 18 crashes that happened before Autosteer was rolled out, because the total mileage of those vehicles prior to the crash was not known. Yet... those crashes most certainly occurred. In fact, it's quite possible that the crash itself resulted in enough destruction to the vehicle that the odometer could not be read and thus the exact mileage is not known and reported in the data.
With Autosteer enabled, more data is collected about the vehicle, so the exact mileage is known. QCS, in totally throwing out 18 crashes that definitely occurred to Teslas before Autosteer is as bad or worse than including them when the mileage was not known, again, because the crash could be the cause of the exact mileage not being known in a non-Autosteer state. If the crash was the cause of the missing data, and QCS uses missing data as filter to not include the crash in the statistics, then quite obviously they are going to see different results because of ignoring more than 20% of all the pre autosteer crashes that occurred.
1991 called and they want credit back for this new face "morphing" thing.
http://www.criticalcommons.org...
Pause any morph in the state between two faces and you have the very realistic looking face of a person who does not exist. Couple that with our modern software algorithms that identify various landmark points on a person's face (used by SnapChat and other filters to put sunglasses on a person's face in the right location, etc), and voila... you have infinite face creation with no manual input by blending input images together. It's very clear in some of the images on the website from TFA that they are using actual face photos as their source input, so what they are doing is a derivative on the face morphing, perhaps using multiple inputs instead of two.
This is just stupid. What does the speed of wireless networks have to do with ANY of the other aspects in the story at all? At 4G I am not bandwidth bound. I can stream video at a far higher resolution than needed for a 4" screen. It has no impact on shopping, messaging, banking, etc. Further, what does the network have to do with the apps that communicate over that network? We tried AOL once. It had everything this story talked about in one unified place and interface. It sucked. It went away because that's how our markets work. People use what they want to use, which is typically based on what gives them what they want and the way they want it.
The fact that China will be producing networking 5G networking gear is... inconsequential. I'm sure there are many, many products created in China that are sold at tremendous volume that the West does not buy nor care to buy. No one here is going to buy 5G hardware with built in Chinese Government Approved and Controlled AI to restrict communication just because they make a lot of them or use them there.
That pathetic excuse to keep Windows around has been around for decades and is false.
iOS replaced Windows? You run iOS on your laptop and desktop computers?
The only reason to run Windows is to use the Office Suite for compatibility
Wow, there is one, and only one, reason to run Windows, the most widely used desktop OS in the world. That's quite a mind blowing revelation there. I bet you did a lot of research to come to that conclusion.
And less sarcastically... what about the average joe who would just like to use the OS environment they are already familiar with? That alone is a valid reason to run Windows 10.
I just spent some time testing this. I see two things going on. One is that the frequent search terms are definitely biased towards searching for female photos. This may be legit and simply represents what people search for most.
Here are the search suggestions when I type "photos of my":
photos of my female friends
photos of my friends
photos of my female friends in bikinis
photos of my boyfriend
photos of my girlfriend
photos of my female friends this month
photos of my friends from this month
photos of my wife
There is, however, most certainly an actual difference in the functionality between searching for "photos of my female friends" and "photos of my male friends". When I search for the female friends, I see a search result box titled in bold text "Photos of my female friends" and it does indeed contain pictures of my female friends. Beneath this box is another result box titled just "Photos" with random posted photos (4 of the 6 are of females, but not from my friends).
Now, when I search for "photos of my male friends" it does not have a results box that says "Photos of my male friends" at all, and instead only has the generic "Photos" box with photos from random posts (and two have men in them along with females, and one is only of a female - however none is of just a male).
So there is definitely a difference in actual functionality here, at least from my account as a male. It was implemented to function in this way.
a few hundred thousand more crooks to catch.
What if you needed to go somewhere else because of an emergency?
The terms of service you agree to when you buy the ticket and enter into an agreement with the airline prohibits the "hidden city" type behavior, unless there is an emergency.
In this particular case the person already had a reserved flight from the hidden city. He can't claim there was an emergency or the other exceptions that would release him from the TOS. It's right in the summary:
He instead flew on a separate Lufthansa reservation from Frankfurt to Berlin.
There was solid evidence showing he intended on breaking the terms of service and constructed his own route. To me this is a no-brainer - the customer agreed to specific terms, then broke those terms with blatant evidence showing he intended to do so all along.
If you have access to the Apple account, you can remote wipe the phone, which removes the pin. However you still have to log into the device with the Apple account ("Activation Lock"), which as I indicated had been taken over by the thief.
https://support.apple.com/kb/P...
My son worked as a dishwasher and saved up for it. He bought it for $100 from a friend that upgraded their phone. But thank you for your parenting advice. Actually yesterday I went to the local pawn shop and bought a ZTE phone for $10 that he's using for snapchat, etc, for now.