But there are trends, and some of these trends are predictable given the rise of technologies. For example, nowadays social media has made conventional wars between major world powers highly unlikely. Censorship only works for short-duration wars like Desert Storm before the sight of bloodied soldiers and civilians spread through the Internet and turn public opinion against the war.
The program evolved from the success of DARPA's VAnishing Programmable Resources (VAPR) program, which is developing a new class of self-destructing electronics designed to destroy themselves on command to prevent them from being captured by enemy forces.
The site appears to be using a Javascript-based anti-adblocker. When I disable Javascript, I can get past the adblock warning. I don't read German, but here's proof:
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If everybody can be as attractive as they choose to be, wouldn't that mean the end of romance? When there's no more romance, sex becomes no different than masturbation.
Something that can be reused infinitely is an infinite resource. So for most practical purposes a renewable resource is an infinite resource. Same difference. Note that I used the word "practical". Because of entropy, there can't be any perfectly renewable resources and any infinite supply of raw materials is naturally limited by the energy required to make use of them.
Despite appearances, a charging station isn't a parking spot with a plug for your car. It's a spot at a gas pump that takes half an hour to use. And that's the real challenge with electric cars...not range, not cost. Those are solved or about to be solved.
The range is part of the problem. An electric with a 1000 mil range could be charged entirely at home for all travel scenarios except a cross country road trip, which I'd expect expect will remain the gas guzzler's domain. The alternative is fuel cells, which can be refueled at gas pump speeds, something which could put a brake on Musk's lithium-ion ambitions.
This is perhaps the best argument for Bitcoin or some form of anonymous or at least pseudonymous payment system. Here's hoping someone will develop a form of digital cash that will gain mainstream acceptance.
Forcing the source code to be revealed might set a precedent that could be used against companies like Google or other cloud service providers. While TrueAllelle appears to be a standalone system rather than a cloud service, the company behind it could claim a similar "trade secret" defense against the petition.
Not hardly, because in a lot of ways LinkedIn is as much of a pest on the internet as Facebook and Twitter.
The big difference is you can safely ignore LinkedIn. Ignoring FB only works if you live in the boondocks or in some weird country like Russia, China or Japan.
Venus does have a weak magnetic field, but it's not generated in the core but in the atmosphere through collision with the solar wind:
As on Earth, solar ultraviolet radiation removes electrons from the atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, creating a region of electrically charged gas known as the ionosphere. This ionised layer interacts with the solar wind and the magnetic field carried by the solar wind.
During the continuous battle with the solar wind, this region of the upper atmosphere is able to slow and divert the flow of particles around the planet, creating a magnetosphere, shaped rather like a comet's tail, on the lee side of the planet.
If we think of planet's iron core as a gigantic power generator, then Venus's slow rotation, when compared to Earth or Jupiter, might explain the absence of a strong internal magnetic field.
Scoring high in an IQ test doesn't guarantee real world intelligence. It mostly means you're good at detecting visual or numeric patterns quickly. Deciding on political issues doesn't fall into this category of problems.
I'm not sure if wind power plants can be reduced to backyard size and still retain their efficiency, but I'm all in favor of decentralized power production even if it's naturally less efficient than centralized power systems. So long as the pollution or disposal costs aren't significantly greater, household or neighborhood power systems are preferable to single point of failures like nuclear or coal power plants or even hydroelectric power plants that require large dams to be built. I don't mind nuclear or fusion power if it can be safely built as part of a large apartment complex.
It is disappointing to see the high energy physicists continue to dominate the nobel prize. Since the 1930s, anyone who discovers some new quirk about some fundamental particle gets the prize.
I'm not sure what you mean by dominate but a significant share of prizes awarded in the last fifteen years were for physics with clear practical applications, including LEDs (2014), graphene (2010), fiber optics and CCDs (2009), giant magnetoresistance (2007), laser spectroscopy (2005), and the integrated circuit (2000). The 2003 prize was given for "contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids". Other years the prizes was awarded for astrophysics: 2011, 2006 and 2002. The other prizes appear to be for quantum physics, but not all of them deal with LHC-type of high energy physics.
Holding down the power button for ten seconds or so forces a reset.
In my case I have to press the button for ten seconds, release, then press it again until the screen lights up. So I think the sequence is turn off the tablet, then turn it back on, which is actually consistent with how you'd perform a hard reset on a PC without a hardware reboot button. Some laptops require you to physically remove the battery for a few minutes, but that's not an option with tablets.
There's no way code this critical could have simply been dropped in by some R&D leads. No. Way.
True. But I think some posters object to the idea that the cheat requires special hardware. The question the article raises is if special hardware was needed to enable the emissions cheat, or was it done entirely in software? Repurposing already existing hardware sensors seems to be the "safer" way to cheat since the sensor would need to be replaced anyway if damaged. A sensor specially designed to detect an emission test should be a bit more obvious to spot since it won't be listed in the manual sent to licensed repair shops.
While the surface is hell, I remember reading somewhere that the upper atmosphere of Venus is actually quite balmy. With its thick atmosphere, Venus would be the perfect place to launch an airship or other lighter than air vehicle. Maybe it can support not just balloons but even a floating "air" station that seems like the better alternative to a Martian space colony.
Isn't Moore's law just another name for exponential growth? It's merely a trend that doesn't say whether at some point in the future the growth will level off or crash.
Please mod parent up.
The new "service", if it can be called such, is being compared to Yelp but none of the articles mention any other connection between its founders and Yelp.
Given historical ties with Russia (or rather the USSR) and the high probability that Cuba would look the other way regarding the numerous sanctions in place against Russia due to the involvement in the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine it seems like Russia has lost out on some major opportunities here, not least the ability to get a bit of a PR coup and rattle the cages of some of the more hawkish US political/military crowd.
Putin's Russia has nothing to offer Cuba in terms of infrastructure. Russia main technology export is weapons, which won't be of much use to Cuba in any serious confrontation with the US.
It seems that many projects now opt for a regular progression of numbers with or without any major new features. Even Ubuntu releases, formerly the occasion for the introduction of some initially broken new feature, have become boring affairs. Even the well-numbered Linux kernel appears to break the major.minor paradigm. Besides the addition of more and more drivers, was there anything particularly disruptive in the move from Linux 3.19 to Linux 4.0? Beyond the third digit of the bug fix releases, Linux version numbering fall more into the sentimental rather than semantic versioning camp.
This is by design in the DCMA. Keep people from looking at your code means preventing independent oversight.
But everyone that knows anything about the software industry already knows this.
This is largely a side effect of the DMCA, which, as the title of the law itself suggests, is simply about preventing the production of unauthorized copies of copyrighted material. That it has been used to suppress free speech or stifle innovation is a good example of how a bad or even a good law can be abused. Proof again that you can't just vote people into office then sit back and let them do all the dirty work.
Sure, we don't teach kids how fuel injection works, but they'll be driving cars when they're old enough
We also don't teach them how to drive in school. That's something done outside of school.
Perhaps that was a bad analogy?
When they're old enough they'll be driven to office in a self-driving iCar or forced to walk or take some high-density public transport because they can't earn enough to buy a car.
Speaking a language facilitates communication. Inventing it hinders it.
I don't mean that new languages shouldn't develop, but most attempts to produce a language on demand fail because they don't answer a need. When circumstances force together two groups of people speaking two different languages, a pidgin or creole language evolves, generally from attempts by one group to speak the words of the other language using the grammar of their native language. The new language isn't invented as an academic exercise but evolves from the need to communicate.
I find this confusing. Competitors are complaining that Google has an unfair home screen advantage, but they still want branded Android? Why can't they just do what Amazon and the Chinese gadget manufacturers have been doing, create their own Android fork? I've seen Chinese tablets and smartphones themed to look iPhones, WinPhones or some even more horrible hybrid of both, and some of them are even exported with the internationally useless Chinese apps still intact.
FWIW I'm running Cyangogenmod 12.1 without any Google web-based apps. So it's possible to have a fully functional Android device without the Google imprimatur.
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But there are trends, and some of these trends are predictable given the rise of technologies. For example, nowadays social media has made conventional wars between major world powers highly unlikely. Censorship only works for short-duration wars like Desert Storm before the sight of bloodied soldiers and civilians spread through the Internet and turn public opinion against the war.
If everybody can be as attractive as they choose to be, wouldn't that mean the end of romance? When there's no more romance, sex becomes no different than masturbation.
Something that can be reused infinitely is an infinite resource. So for most practical purposes a renewable resource is an infinite resource. Same difference. Note that I used the word "practical". Because of entropy, there can't be any perfectly renewable resources and any infinite supply of raw materials is naturally limited by the energy required to make use of them.
Despite appearances, a charging station isn't a parking spot with a plug for your car. It's a spot at a gas pump that takes half an hour to use. And that's the real challenge with electric cars...not range, not cost. Those are solved or about to be solved.
The range is part of the problem. An electric with a 1000 mil range could be charged entirely at home for all travel scenarios except a cross country road trip, which I'd expect expect will remain the gas guzzler's domain. The alternative is fuel cells, which can be refueled at gas pump speeds, something which could put a brake on Musk's lithium-ion ambitions.
This is perhaps the best argument for Bitcoin or some form of anonymous or at least pseudonymous payment system. Here's hoping someone will develop a form of digital cash that will gain mainstream acceptance.
Forcing the source code to be revealed might set a precedent that could be used against companies like Google or other cloud service providers. While TrueAllelle appears to be a standalone system rather than a cloud service, the company behind it could claim a similar "trade secret" defense against the petition.
Not hardly, because in a lot of ways LinkedIn is as much of a pest on the internet as Facebook and Twitter.
The big difference is you can safely ignore LinkedIn. Ignoring FB only works if you live in the boondocks or in some weird country like Russia, China or Japan.
As on Earth, solar ultraviolet radiation removes electrons from the atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, creating a region of electrically charged gas known as the ionosphere. This ionised layer interacts with the solar wind and the magnetic field carried by the solar wind.
During the continuous battle with the solar wind, this region of the upper atmosphere is able to slow and divert the flow of particles around the planet, creating a magnetosphere, shaped rather like a comet's tail, on the lee side of the planet.
If we think of planet's iron core as a gigantic power generator, then Venus's slow rotation, when compared to Earth or Jupiter, might explain the absence of a strong internal magnetic field.
Scoring high in an IQ test doesn't guarantee real world intelligence. It mostly means you're good at detecting visual or numeric patterns quickly. Deciding on political issues doesn't fall into this category of problems.
I'm not sure if wind power plants can be reduced to backyard size and still retain their efficiency, but I'm all in favor of decentralized power production even if it's naturally less efficient than centralized power systems. So long as the pollution or disposal costs aren't significantly greater, household or neighborhood power systems are preferable to single point of failures like nuclear or coal power plants or even hydroelectric power plants that require large dams to be built. I don't mind nuclear or fusion power if it can be safely built as part of a large apartment complex.
It is disappointing to see the high energy physicists continue to dominate the nobel prize. Since the 1930s, anyone who discovers some new quirk about some fundamental particle gets the prize.
I'm not sure what you mean by dominate but a significant share of prizes awarded in the last fifteen years were for physics with clear practical applications, including LEDs (2014), graphene (2010), fiber optics and CCDs (2009), giant magnetoresistance (2007), laser spectroscopy (2005), and the integrated circuit (2000). The 2003 prize was given for "contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids". Other years the prizes was awarded for astrophysics: 2011, 2006 and 2002. The other prizes appear to be for quantum physics, but not all of them deal with LHC-type of high energy physics.
Holding down the power button for ten seconds or so forces a reset.
In my case I have to press the button for ten seconds, release, then press it again until the screen lights up. So I think the sequence is turn off the tablet, then turn it back on, which is actually consistent with how you'd perform a hard reset on a PC without a hardware reboot button. Some laptops require you to physically remove the battery for a few minutes, but that's not an option with tablets.
There's no way code this critical could have simply been dropped in by some R&D leads. No. Way.
True. But I think some posters object to the idea that the cheat requires special hardware. The question the article raises is if special hardware was needed to enable the emissions cheat, or was it done entirely in software? Repurposing already existing hardware sensors seems to be the "safer" way to cheat since the sensor would need to be replaced anyway if damaged. A sensor specially designed to detect an emission test should be a bit more obvious to spot since it won't be listed in the manual sent to licensed repair shops.
While the surface is hell, I remember reading somewhere that the upper atmosphere of Venus is actually quite balmy. With its thick atmosphere, Venus would be the perfect place to launch an airship or other lighter than air vehicle. Maybe it can support not just balloons but even a floating "air" station that seems like the better alternative to a Martian space colony.
Isn't Moore's law just another name for exponential growth? It's merely a trend that doesn't say whether at some point in the future the growth will level off or crash.
Please mod parent up. The new "service", if it can be called such, is being compared to Yelp but none of the articles mention any other connection between its founders and Yelp.
Given historical ties with Russia (or rather the USSR) and the high probability that Cuba would look the other way regarding the numerous sanctions in place against Russia due to the involvement in the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine it seems like Russia has lost out on some major opportunities here, not least the ability to get a bit of a PR coup and rattle the cages of some of the more hawkish US political/military crowd.
Putin's Russia has nothing to offer Cuba in terms of infrastructure. Russia main technology export is weapons, which won't be of much use to Cuba in any serious confrontation with the US.
How about motion blur? Won't that also reduce the problem without necessarily increasing the processing complexity?
It seems that many projects now opt for a regular progression of numbers with or without any major new features. Even Ubuntu releases, formerly the occasion for the introduction of some initially broken new feature, have become boring affairs. Even the well-numbered Linux kernel appears to break the major.minor paradigm. Besides the addition of more and more drivers, was there anything particularly disruptive in the move from Linux 3.19 to Linux 4.0? Beyond the third digit of the bug fix releases, Linux version numbering fall more into the sentimental rather than semantic versioning camp.
This is by design in the DCMA. Keep people from looking at your code means preventing independent oversight.
But everyone that knows anything about the software industry already knows this.
This is largely a side effect of the DMCA, which, as the title of the law itself suggests, is simply about preventing the production of unauthorized copies of copyrighted material. That it has been used to suppress free speech or stifle innovation is a good example of how a bad or even a good law can be abused. Proof again that you can't just vote people into office then sit back and let them do all the dirty work.
Sure, we don't teach kids how fuel injection works, but they'll be driving cars when they're old enough
We also don't teach them how to drive in school. That's something done outside of school.
Perhaps that was a bad analogy?
When they're old enough they'll be driven to office in a self-driving iCar or forced to walk or take some high-density public transport because they can't earn enough to buy a car.
Speaking a language facilitates communication. Inventing it hinders it.
I don't mean that new languages shouldn't develop, but most attempts to produce a language on demand fail because they don't answer a need. When circumstances force together two groups of people speaking two different languages, a pidgin or creole language evolves, generally from attempts by one group to speak the words of the other language using the grammar of their native language. The new language isn't invented as an academic exercise but evolves from the need to communicate.
I find this confusing. Competitors are complaining that Google has an unfair home screen advantage, but they still want branded Android? Why can't they just do what Amazon and the Chinese gadget manufacturers have been doing, create their own Android fork? I've seen Chinese tablets and smartphones themed to look iPhones, WinPhones or some even more horrible hybrid of both, and some of them are even exported with the internationally useless Chinese apps still intact.
FWIW I'm running Cyangogenmod 12.1 without any Google web-based apps. So it's possible to have a fully functional Android device without the Google imprimatur.