Can't they put a big red cutoff switch for the battery, for owners who won't be charging to just physically disconnect the battery when they're parked?
If I had one, I wouldn't need the computer/GPS/3G_app/dataminer to keep running when I'm grocery shopping or working, as long as it reboots in less than, say, a minute.
Do that are you're down to the raw battery leakage only.
I, on the other hand, understand that a "currency" which is not backed by the need of a government to keep its value at a minimum in order to preserve the purchasing power of its people, has no reason to not crash hard. Real currencies have cyclical values, but there's an anchor in the reality of pitchfork-equipped people having to get food (unless they eat UN rations, or you're a hardcore dictator zimbabwe-style and provide food banks).
The mathematical model may be sound, but the usual checks and balances don't exist, making the risk and volatility very high. It's a speculative investment for disposable income, not a currency.
You care about parallel processor speed, I just want FPGAs and ASICs to run faster and cooler, while running as much or more computation. That requires denser chips with shorter interconnects and lower voltages.
How do you expect to get 400G/1T ethernet to connect your fancy processors if I don't get smaller transistors?
Well slashdot reads my mind, because the first "you might like to read" right below TFS is "US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures"
So nothing will go wrong. China produces enough "volunteers" yearly to run a few experiments. They might get an offer for redemption for putting their lives on the line for the good of the people.
Pain the helmet black and your soldier's reaction to dismemberment becomes either "'tis but a scratch" or "that's just a flesh wound", and he keeps on fighting.
It's not the best example though, since they were working, at least for a time, under the assumption that the Germans were going to get it first. So they were Patriots saving their country from a nasty defeat.
> No rational person would trust their government to behave morally with tool for all time.
Europeans tend to think that the guy holding the weapon is also a (lower-class) human being, and that said human being has learnt from history class that he should question turning said shiny weapon against the will of the crowd or the morals of the civilized society. Not that there aren't fanatics and madmen everywhere, but US-style extreme mistrust of government isn't in every brain out there.
I recommend that you link a couple million LEDs, just in case you need more info. But if you do that, the USB port might not be happy, so you should fall back on the displayport one instead, since it's about the same size. I've got that thing with a big LED or laser for you to plug into the USB in the meantime, you can use it to rest your hand.
Makes sense. Pulling fiber through existing walls is a pain, when cable can just be rammed through, and most people can't be trusted with optical fibers and connectors: "look Ma, I can bend it along the edge of the shelf and then loop it around that nail, stop kneading and give me a hand"
Verizon FiOS is FTToutsideofTH, not fiber to the router. They actually use cable (as in nasty TV connectors) to link the fiber termination box to the TV cable box and the WiFi router. It actually makes it more flexible to install and doesn't impact bandwidth given the reach, but it's fundamentally no different than fiber to the curb.
> I wonder if the people who design those laser "dazzlers" and microwave emitters for "non-lethal crowd control" > ever consider that their devices might be turned on innocent people by an oppressive military or police force and > not just rioting mobs of enemy soldiers.
My answer would definitely be "yes", since the military of western democracies typically doesn't participate in "non-lethal crowd control" (yet).
That and the fact that many countries initially offered their "assistance and expertise in crowd management" to their favorite dictators at the beginning of the Arab spring.
My point, with is close to your point, is that the engineer designs a tool. The manufacturer builds a tool. They sell it to someone who the government says will be using it within the framework or the law, or at least in accordance to our interests.
Since the end of the Korean war, it takes longer than most US wars have lasted to build a _new_ weapon (Afghanistan is the exception that confirms the rule). So you don't start designing a weapon thinking how great it will kill $bad_guy, hoping they're still shooting at $good_customer by the time the DVT completes. You build the next best thing which will hopefully be the right thing against $next_bad_guy. Who's $next_bad_guy? Not your problem, just make it efficient.
"when the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? it's not my department, says Wernher Von Braun."
He didn't say that, but that summarizes the lives of thousands of people who make a living designing and building weapons (except a few fanatics who relish the though that their weapons kill $bad_guy)
Bitcoin exists because people can mine by themselves.
Have massive spare computing power? Make essentially free money!
Very few people want to put down $1000 to by that virtual thing that can crash any second now. But a lot will play if they don't have to put money down.
No audio input either. I've got the least technology available in any car made in the US after 2010. Unless you somehow find it a worthwhile challenge to try to reprogram the injection or the gauges by tapping rhythmically on the hood, go and play with my neighbors' easy targets instead.
The RER A line in Paris claims up to 1.2 million riders a day, or 300 million rides a year. That's for one tunnel with one lane each way.
I agree that tunnels are better for mass transit, but they won't dig one all the way to my house. No business case until they convert the whole mountain into condos. 2099 maybe.
So in the meantime I'll take my DroneCab(TM) instead.
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Can't they put a big red cutoff switch for the battery, for owners who won't be charging to just physically disconnect the battery when they're parked?
If I had one, I wouldn't need the computer/GPS/3G_app/dataminer to keep running when I'm grocery shopping or working, as long as it reboots in less than, say, a minute.
Do that are you're down to the raw battery leakage only.
Reichsmark.
I, on the other hand, understand that a "currency" which is not backed by the need of a government to keep its value at a minimum in order to preserve the purchasing power of its people, has no reason to not crash hard.
Real currencies have cyclical values, but there's an anchor in the reality of pitchfork-equipped people having to get food (unless they eat UN rations, or you're a hardcore dictator zimbabwe-style and provide food banks).
The mathematical model may be sound, but the usual checks and balances don't exist, making the risk and volatility very high. It's a speculative investment for disposable income, not a currency.
You care about parallel processor speed, I just want FPGAs and ASICs to run faster and cooler, while running as much or more computation.
That requires denser chips with shorter interconnects and lower voltages.
How do you expect to get 400G/1T ethernet to connect your fancy processors if I don't get smaller transistors?
> The record labels want online streaming to die.
Wrong.
They know it's the future, they just haven't figured out how to sustainably eat all its profits and make it grow.
Advertising in the 21st century?
That's what the sex tape is for.
Well slashdot reads my mind, because the first "you might like to read" right below TFS is "US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures"
So nothing will go wrong. China produces enough "volunteers" yearly to run a few experiments. They might get an offer for redemption for putting their lives on the line for the good of the people.
You didn't see the old documentary?
Pain the helmet black and your soldier's reaction to dismemberment becomes either "'tis but a scratch" or "that's just a flesh wound", and he keeps on fighting.
> The craft looks for all the world like a pair of donuts
I can hear sleeping brits having nightmares. They are "all the world", and that craft is clearly a pair of Doughnuts.
It's not the best example though, since they were working, at least for a time, under the assumption that the Germans were going to get it first. So they were Patriots saving their country from a nasty defeat.
> No rational person would trust their government to behave morally with tool for all time.
Europeans tend to think that the guy holding the weapon is also a (lower-class) human being, and that said human being has learnt from history class that he should question turning said shiny weapon against the will of the crowd or the morals of the civilized society.
Not that there aren't fanatics and madmen everywhere, but US-style extreme mistrust of government isn't in every brain out there.
"Ubuntu"
Learn a bit.
I recommend that you link a couple million LEDs, just in case you need more info. But if you do that, the USB port might not be happy, so you should fall back on the displayport one instead, since it's about the same size.
I've got that thing with a big LED or laser for you to plug into the USB in the meantime, you can use it to rest your hand.
Makes sense.
Pulling fiber through existing walls is a pain, when cable can just be rammed through, and most people can't be trusted with optical fibers and connectors: "look Ma, I can bend it along the edge of the shelf and then loop it around that nail, stop kneading and give me a hand"
Verizon FiOS is FTToutsideofTH, not fiber to the router. They actually use cable (as in nasty TV connectors) to link the fiber termination box to the TV cable box and the WiFi router.
It actually makes it more flexible to install and doesn't impact bandwidth given the reach, but it's fundamentally no different than fiber to the curb.
> I wonder if the people who design those laser "dazzlers" and microwave emitters for "non-lethal crowd control"
> ever consider that their devices might be turned on innocent people by an oppressive military or police force and
> not just rioting mobs of enemy soldiers.
My answer would definitely be "yes", since the military of western democracies typically doesn't participate in "non-lethal crowd control" (yet).
That and the fact that many countries initially offered their "assistance and expertise in crowd management" to their favorite dictators at the beginning of the Arab spring.
My point, with is close to your point, is that the engineer designs a tool. The manufacturer builds a tool. They sell it to someone who the government says will be using it within the framework or the law, or at least in accordance to our interests.
Since the end of the Korean war, it takes longer than most US wars have lasted to build a _new_ weapon (Afghanistan is the exception that confirms the rule). So you don't start designing a weapon thinking how great it will kill $bad_guy, hoping they're still shooting at $good_customer by the time the DVT completes. You build the next best thing which will hopefully be the right thing against $next_bad_guy. Who's $next_bad_guy? Not your problem, just make it efficient.
"when the rockets go up,
who cares where they come down?
it's not my department,
says Wernher Von Braun."
He didn't say that, but that summarizes the lives of thousands of people who make a living designing and building weapons (except a few fanatics who relish the though that their weapons kill $bad_guy)
Bitcoin exists because people can mine by themselves.
Have massive spare computing power? Make essentially free money!
Very few people want to put down $1000 to by that virtual thing that can crash any second now. But a lot will play if they don't have to put money down.
If only "embrace, extend, extinguish" worked on the NSA, Microsoft would get some serious Karma points.
The difference with about 100 Americans on the road today, is that at least they know it in advance.
Let me use my 5-ring divination technique ... Yep, no bad news at all starting 366 days before summer 2020.
These slaves have the best internet connectivity on the planet!
Panem et circenses to the Nth power!
I didn't see pictures, but if the truck had any medical supplies markings, they may have just hoped to find prescription drugs.
No audio input either.
I've got the least technology available in any car made in the US after 2010.
Unless you somehow find it a worthwhile challenge to try to reprogram the injection or the gauges by tapping rhythmically on the hood, go and play with my neighbors' easy targets instead.
The RER A line in Paris claims up to 1.2 million riders a day, or 300 million rides a year. That's for one tunnel with one lane each way.
I agree that tunnels are better for mass transit, but they won't dig one all the way to my house. No business case until they convert the whole mountain into condos. 2099 maybe.
So in the meantime I'll take my DroneCab(TM) instead.