Before watching the video, I thought "Oh, the back end folds into the passenger compartment, so it takes up less space. I wonder how they'll prevent people from getting crushed?"
After watching the video I thought "Wait... The whole back part of the car is hollow, and just wraps around the passenger compartment!?"
What the hell is the point? They've made a car twice as long, that is completely unusable space. Just cut that part off, and put the big black wheels in the spot that the small casters are. There, now your car is ALWAYS half the size!
I have worked at 3 game studios - Amaze Entertainment (now Griptonite), Sony Online Entertainment, and now Microsoft. I've worked on the PSP, PS3, PC, and Xbox One. I have worked on relatively short cycle year long games as the main programmer, I've written back end software for MMOs as a core-tech guy (mostly removed from the game) and as a part of the game team. I've worked on more MMO titles than most devs.
The closer you are to the game, the more hours you're going to work. SOE was particularly bad - I worked there for 6 years and only had a single real raise. The first two years was on a core tech team that was really awesome. My manager was super experienced, and we set time lines and expectations for raises, and he followed through. I learned a lot, and was making my way up. But then the team evaporated and I was put directly on a game team. I was promised bonuses that regularly fell through. "When we hit Alpha in June, you'll all get bonuses!" - Great! Oh... the game doesn't hit Alpha in June? Well, there goes June.. July... August... Game gets a facelift... Alpha the next year in June! Or July, or August. Get used to that. And promotions? Few and far between, and they always pull the "no promotions until we ship" card, which if you're working on a 6-year long dev cycle for an MMO doesn't make sense. I don't know of a single programmer who got a promotion while at SOE for the last 4 years when I was working there. At most places, if you're not directly on a team, you get a standard bonus at the end of the fiscal year - it's not huge, but it's pretty reliable. If you are on a game team, you get milestone bonuses instead, which get pushed around, and without fail they always claim that the parking lot will be filled with Ferrari's.
Management is usually bad. My last boss seemed bipolar about my performance. One month it was "Great! On track for a promotion at alpha!" to "We really expect you to put in 60 hours a week." When you're young and fresh into the industry, don't have a wife or kids, you can do 60 hours a week. But you're going to feel miserable doing it when you're trying to have a reasonable work/life balance, and with experience you'll realize that 60-hour weeks for a year is not sustainable. There was a month when I did 90+ hours every week to help a project ship on time - I didn't get a bonus, didn't get any time off, nothing, even though my manager for the project praised my work.
Of course, there is a reason I still work in games. The most passionate programmers are working in games. You get to do something you absolutely love, with really smart people, and make pretty good money doing it. At Microsoft I'm a bit more removed from the game team - which means I do my 40 and I go home. I think that you have to strive to find the balance that you want. I can't see myself ever trading my job for some boring programming position outside of games.
It's you. I've flashed firmwares of hundreds of devices - motherboards, phones, video cards, embedded systems, routers, etc, and I have never once had one of them brick.
Kepler measures the light level over time, and uses the amount of obstructed time to make most of it's calculations. It does also use the total light output difference to determine the size of the planet (really the ratio of the size of the planet to the size of the star) - but the error bars are pretty big anyway, way more than the total light output of dark side of the Earth.
The only way that Kepler would miss the planet all together was if the alien civilization made their planet put out as much light as their star.... Not very likely. An advanced civilization might want to make their planet as bright as daylight all the time, but that would be much less bright than the star.
Use a web-based (GoToMyPc.com?) or pre-installed remote administration app (Windows Remote Desktop? maybe VNC?) - or install RealVNC and use it's web app. Then control your home PC and run whatever IDE and language you prefer. I'd recommend Visual Studio Express and C# or C/C++, but that's just personal preference.
First of all, you're ignoring the amount of energy required to import and refine the gasoline. I've heard estimates as high as 8kWh per gallon for refining. Most of the power plants in the country use coal, which doesn't have an energy intensive refining process.
Secondly, you're ignoring the fact that 40% of electric vehicle owners have solar panels. This negates that pesky coal power plant and its transmission deficiencies.
If you compare the efficiency of the vehicle itself, when you put electricity into an EV, it is 85%+ efficient. If you put gasoline into a car, it is 25% efficient (max). With a gasoline car, no matter what technology comes out, that vehicle will never be more than 25% efficient. With an EV, if you want to have a green car, you can buy solar panels and charge your car that way. Or you can live in an area with wind, solar, geothermal, or nuclear sources (Southern California) and offset pollution that way. Or you can join a program with your electricity provider, and pay a little extra, and get a higher percentage of your electricity from renewable sources.
In California, you could buy this car and get $5,000 state and $7,500 federal tax credits - lowering the cost of the car by $12,500. The standard gas version of this car is looking to run ~$16,000... well equipped probably $20k. So long as this is in the same ballpark, you -could- be driving an EV for under $10k, and that is a steal for a brand new car.
Local solar astronomer here - Current global warming trend is definitely not Sun driven. We went through a prolonged period of solar inactivity over the last 5 years and what do you know, temperatures kept going up. We also monitor the Sun in every conceivable wavelength and from multiple angles, so it would be pretty hard to have some significant amount of energy hitting us that we don't know about.
This guy should have let the "honeypot" article sit around and see what happens first, rather than having the explanation article AND have it be posted on slashdot. Doing this interferes with the experiment by making it less likely to be picked up - anyone who reads the slashdot article (or the article it links to) first will not believe and propagate the honeypot article.
Timothy McVeigh was a white, middle aged, Christian, army veteran... And he killed 168 people. It is the second deadliest act of terrorism in the United States, behind 9/11.
Profiling someone based on their age, gender, religion, race, etc, is not only unconstitutional, it also doesn't work.
Its not like they randomly selected this guy off the street, swabbed his johnson, and said "This might be the rapist!"
They must have already had pretty substantial evidence to be able to get him, so really the low probability doesn't matter, because 1/13 means that 12/13 chance it would have cleared him by finding someone else's spit on his stick. The DNA evidence still makes the case against him stronger.
I am so sick of news reports claiming that if you alter one entangled particle, that the other entangled particle is affected too - like if you push one, the other one moves. IT DOESN'T!
What happens is if you measure the state of one particle, and then you measure the state of the other particle, they are always equal (or opposites, depending on the entanglement type).
Think of it this way... You have a CD burner that burns two CDs at the same time and puts random data on both, but the random data is identical. Obviously, no matter how far away the CDs are, if you read them, they contain the same information. There is absolutely zero information transfer going on here!
Carbon-12 is stable. Carbon-14 is not stable, and has a half life of about 5700 years.
Carbon-14 is generated in the atmosphere by cosmic rays hitting a Nitrogen atom, and the atmospheric concentration of C14 to C12 is about one in a trillion.
Natural atmospheric CO2 can be created with any kind of Carbon atom, but fossil fuels will only create C02 with C-12 atoms (since the C-14 atoms would have long decayed). So if we find out that recently the atmospheric concentration of C(14)02 to C(12)O2 is different than the concentration of atmospheric C-14 to C-12, then we can determine the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere that is created by burning fossil fuels.
Following along that same line of data, we can also take ice core samples and examine the atmospheric makeup in the past, so that we can verify to check natural levels of C(14)O2, and ensure that they are much lower than current levels.
I am not familiar with Thomas Friedman, but it seems to me like his explanation of the evidence is just a bit dumbed down so that he doesn't have to explain the periodic table, isotopes, stable and unstable atoms, decay rates, and the other sorts of things that average day-to-day people gloss over at.:)
I have a question... If we already have laws that prevent animal cruelty, then why do we need a law specifically for having sex with an animal?
If you ask me, the process of butchering millions of chickens, cows, pigs, and sheep every year is far bigger deal for those animals than the perhaps ten thousand a year that are forced to have sex with a human.
I don't think that we should put people in jail for bestiality for the same reasons I don't think we should put people in jail for having anal sex or a scat fetish. The law should not be used to dictate morality, and no matter how icky you think something is, there is someone else who enjoys it.
This isn't news. I got in trouble for all sorts of shit when I was in school, and I don't recall ever trying to make a news report about it.
The school bans candy, the child disobeyed, the child is punished. Seriously, that's all. I got in trouble for running when I was in school - that doesn't make them fascists, and the school wasn't just trying to make an example out of me, and my parents didn't get enraged and scream at the principal. No, instead, I stopped running, I took my punishment (Staying after class), and that was that.
Apple is getting ready to release a new iPhone in the next few months. I'm sure this kind of regular product cycle makes consumers not want to upgrade for the quarter before a new release. I know I'm going to skip the 3GS and wait for the "4" or whatever the new one is called.
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SN 1987A is approximately 167,885 light years away, and they are showing a change of around 4 hours.
4 hours divided by 167,885 years (4029240 hours) = ~0.00001% (I hope I did that math correctly).
So like.. if the age of the Universe is 13.7 billion years, we would incorrectly believe it was 13.7000137 billion years old.
Before watching the video, I thought "Oh, the back end folds into the passenger compartment, so it takes up less space. I wonder how they'll prevent people from getting crushed?"
After watching the video I thought "Wait... The whole back part of the car is hollow, and just wraps around the passenger compartment!?"
What the hell is the point? They've made a car twice as long, that is completely unusable space. Just cut that part off, and put the big black wheels in the spot that the small casters are. There, now your car is ALWAYS half the size!
I have worked at 3 game studios - Amaze Entertainment (now Griptonite), Sony Online Entertainment, and now Microsoft. I've worked on the PSP, PS3, PC, and Xbox One. I have worked on relatively short cycle year long games as the main programmer, I've written back end software for MMOs as a core-tech guy (mostly removed from the game) and as a part of the game team. I've worked on more MMO titles than most devs.
The closer you are to the game, the more hours you're going to work. SOE was particularly bad - I worked there for 6 years and only had a single real raise. The first two years was on a core tech team that was really awesome. My manager was super experienced, and we set time lines and expectations for raises, and he followed through. I learned a lot, and was making my way up. But then the team evaporated and I was put directly on a game team. I was promised bonuses that regularly fell through. "When we hit Alpha in June, you'll all get bonuses!" - Great! Oh... the game doesn't hit Alpha in June? Well, there goes June.. July... August... Game gets a facelift... Alpha the next year in June! Or July, or August. Get used to that. And promotions? Few and far between, and they always pull the "no promotions until we ship" card, which if you're working on a 6-year long dev cycle for an MMO doesn't make sense. I don't know of a single programmer who got a promotion while at SOE for the last 4 years when I was working there. At most places, if you're not directly on a team, you get a standard bonus at the end of the fiscal year - it's not huge, but it's pretty reliable. If you are on a game team, you get milestone bonuses instead, which get pushed around, and without fail they always claim that the parking lot will be filled with Ferrari's.
Management is usually bad. My last boss seemed bipolar about my performance. One month it was "Great! On track for a promotion at alpha!" to "We really expect you to put in 60 hours a week." When you're young and fresh into the industry, don't have a wife or kids, you can do 60 hours a week. But you're going to feel miserable doing it when you're trying to have a reasonable work/life balance, and with experience you'll realize that 60-hour weeks for a year is not sustainable. There was a month when I did 90+ hours every week to help a project ship on time - I didn't get a bonus, didn't get any time off, nothing, even though my manager for the project praised my work.
Of course, there is a reason I still work in games. The most passionate programmers are working in games. You get to do something you absolutely love, with really smart people, and make pretty good money doing it. At Microsoft I'm a bit more removed from the game team - which means I do my 40 and I go home. I think that you have to strive to find the balance that you want. I can't see myself ever trading my job for some boring programming position outside of games.
Being detained is not the same as being arrested.
Not really found. This is like trying to find a lost child, and your search dog picks up a scent, or you find a child size shoe.
Still lost. Not found.
It's you. I've flashed firmwares of hundreds of devices - motherboards, phones, video cards, embedded systems, routers, etc, and I have never once had one of them brick.
It doesn't make much of a difference to Kepler.
Kepler measures the light level over time, and uses the amount of obstructed time to make most of it's calculations. It does also use the total light output difference to determine the size of the planet (really the ratio of the size of the planet to the size of the star) - but the error bars are pretty big anyway, way more than the total light output of dark side of the Earth.
The only way that Kepler would miss the planet all together was if the alien civilization made their planet put out as much light as their star.... Not very likely. An advanced civilization might want to make their planet as bright as daylight all the time, but that would be much less bright than the star.
Use a web-based (GoToMyPc.com?) or pre-installed remote administration app (Windows Remote Desktop? maybe VNC?) - or install RealVNC and use it's web app. Then control your home PC and run whatever IDE and language you prefer. I'd recommend Visual Studio Express and C# or C/C++, but that's just personal preference.
You're not comparing apples to apples.
First of all, you're ignoring the amount of energy required to import and refine the gasoline. I've heard estimates as high as 8kWh per gallon for refining. Most of the power plants in the country use coal, which doesn't have an energy intensive refining process.
Secondly, you're ignoring the fact that 40% of electric vehicle owners have solar panels. This negates that pesky coal power plant and its transmission deficiencies.
If you compare the efficiency of the vehicle itself, when you put electricity into an EV, it is 85%+ efficient. If you put gasoline into a car, it is 25% efficient (max). With a gasoline car, no matter what technology comes out, that vehicle will never be more than 25% efficient. With an EV, if you want to have a green car, you can buy solar panels and charge your car that way. Or you can live in an area with wind, solar, geothermal, or nuclear sources (Southern California) and offset pollution that way. Or you can join a program with your electricity provider, and pay a little extra, and get a higher percentage of your electricity from renewable sources.
awwwww...
In California, you could buy this car and get $5,000 state and $7,500 federal tax credits - lowering the cost of the car by $12,500. The standard gas version of this car is looking to run ~$16,000... well equipped probably $20k. So long as this is in the same ballpark, you -could- be driving an EV for under $10k, and that is a steal for a brand new car.
http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2011/06/17/rumors-and-the-rising-river/
Local solar astronomer here - Current global warming trend is definitely not Sun driven. We went through a prolonged period of solar inactivity over the last 5 years and what do you know, temperatures kept going up. We also monitor the Sun in every conceivable wavelength and from multiple angles, so it would be pretty hard to have some significant amount of energy hitting us that we don't know about.
This guy should have let the "honeypot" article sit around and see what happens first, rather than having the explanation article AND have it be posted on slashdot. Doing this interferes with the experiment by making it less likely to be picked up - anyone who reads the slashdot article (or the article it links to) first will not believe and propagate the honeypot article.
There was not a single female ("Eve") alive at that time, there were at least thousands of females, and those females were all reproducing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
This image explains it pretty well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MatrilinealAncestor.PNG
go and just grab all the GPS transmitters and put them on city busses or something and then watch the church ppl looking stupid.
You don't need to help them out, they look stupid on their own just fine!
Timothy McVeigh was a white, middle aged, Christian, army veteran... And he killed 168 people. It is the second deadliest act of terrorism in the United States, behind 9/11.
Profiling someone based on their age, gender, religion, race, etc, is not only unconstitutional, it also doesn't work.
I was thinking the exact same thing!
Its not like they randomly selected this guy off the street, swabbed his johnson, and said "This might be the rapist!"
They must have already had pretty substantial evidence to be able to get him, so really the low probability doesn't matter, because 1/13 means that 12/13 chance it would have cleared him by finding someone else's spit on his stick. The DNA evidence still makes the case against him stronger.
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I am so sick of news reports claiming that if you alter one entangled particle, that the other entangled particle is affected too - like if you push one, the other one moves. IT DOESN'T!
What happens is if you measure the state of one particle, and then you measure the state of the other particle, they are always equal (or opposites, depending on the entanglement type).
Think of it this way... You have a CD burner that burns two CDs at the same time and puts random data on both, but the random data is identical. Obviously, no matter how far away the CDs are, if you read them, they contain the same information. There is absolutely zero information transfer going on here!
Carbon-12 is stable. Carbon-14 is not stable, and has a half life of about 5700 years.
Carbon-14 is generated in the atmosphere by cosmic rays hitting a Nitrogen atom, and the atmospheric concentration of C14 to C12 is about one in a trillion.
Natural atmospheric CO2 can be created with any kind of Carbon atom, but fossil fuels will only create C02 with C-12 atoms (since the C-14 atoms would have long decayed). So if we find out that recently the atmospheric concentration of C(14)02 to C(12)O2 is different than the concentration of atmospheric C-14 to C-12, then we can determine the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere that is created by burning fossil fuels.
Following along that same line of data, we can also take ice core samples and examine the atmospheric makeup in the past, so that we can verify to check natural levels of C(14)O2, and ensure that they are much lower than current levels.
I am not familiar with Thomas Friedman, but it seems to me like his explanation of the evidence is just a bit dumbed down so that he doesn't have to explain the periodic table, isotopes, stable and unstable atoms, decay rates, and the other sorts of things that average day-to-day people gloss over at. :)
I always thought micro started with a u.
I have a question... If we already have laws that prevent animal cruelty, then why do we need a law specifically for having sex with an animal?
If you ask me, the process of butchering millions of chickens, cows, pigs, and sheep every year is far bigger deal for those animals than the perhaps ten thousand a year that are forced to have sex with a human.
I don't think that we should put people in jail for bestiality for the same reasons I don't think we should put people in jail for having anal sex or a scat fetish. The law should not be used to dictate morality, and no matter how icky you think something is, there is someone else who enjoys it.
This isn't news. I got in trouble for all sorts of shit when I was in school, and I don't recall ever trying to make a news report about it.
The school bans candy, the child disobeyed, the child is punished. Seriously, that's all. I got in trouble for running when I was in school - that doesn't make them fascists, and the school wasn't just trying to make an example out of me, and my parents didn't get enraged and scream at the principal. No, instead, I stopped running, I took my punishment (Staying after class), and that was that.
Apple is getting ready to release a new iPhone in the next few months. I'm sure this kind of regular product cycle makes consumers not want to upgrade for the quarter before a new release. I know I'm going to skip the 3GS and wait for the "4" or whatever the new one is called.