Well, one of the parts of the paper that you missed in your "skip reading" is that resetting ADCs have been theorized since the 70's and have physically existed since the 2000's.
From the article:
Physical realizations only started to develop in the early 2000â(TM)s. Depending on the community, the resulting ADC constructions are known as folding-ADC (cf. [27] and references therein) or the self-reset-ADC, recently proposed by Rhee and Joo [28] in context of CMOS imagers (see Fig. I-(b1-b3) for visualization of their approach). As noted in[29], the Sr-ADCs allow for simultaneous enhancement of the dynamic range as well as the signal-to-noise ratio. The goal of developing Sr-ADCs is motivated by the fact that the dynamic range of natural images typically surpasses what can be handled by the usual ADCs.
Clearly you didn't even do an ounce of research into the topic before spouting off about their supposed incompetence. Look to your own house before you criticize another's.
I call your anecdote and raise you my own: at least 15 successful projects on various platforms. I tossed out the CHIP I funded, but still use the aluminum wallet. Quite happy with my success rate.
Maybe you're buying into over-hyped projects? That was my mistake with CHIP - look for the little-but-useful ones instead.
That's true. But the point is - if Harvard can do what it wants because it's a private entity then why shouldn't the bar owner? Who should decide? The business (who chooses to cater to smokers) or the government?
Why do you imply that it has to be entirely the government's or entirely the business's choice?
What we have here is a grey area: in some cases, such as certain demonstrably-harmful conditions, certain protected classes of people, etc..., the government steps in. In others it is still up to the business, and there's a continuous back and forth about and occasional shifts in which choice belongs where. Is that not a fair compromise?
Most media entities publishing podcasts do so via an RSS feed, among other options. Not everyone's willing to go on iTunes or some other aggregator to download episodes.
I agree with the sentiment, in that LA is not dense enough. However, that doesn't mean it needs to build upwards - most European cities I've been in are almost completely 3 or 4 stories, but they make it work with good public transport, smaller houses, and building things closer together. The complete absence of row houses and mixed use zoning is part of the problem.
LA is afraid of turning into Manhattan, but tall buildings isn't the only way to get sufficient density.
There's nothing a decent LCD can't replicate, and only the purists care.
Actually, there's at least *one* thing: true vector graphics. There's a few games out there - Asteroids comes to mind - where the game ran the CRT like a line plotter rather than like a raster printer, such that you ended up with very sharp perfectly antialiased line art. You'd need a high-DPI LCD to even approximate this.
And yet.. he owns a loss making golf course in Scotland.
Do you? I'm not certain but I'm fairly sure that I don't.
No, but I also didn't get a couple of million from my dad, otherwise I would. Just because he has it doesn't mean he had anything to do with earning it.
It'll happen all over again when Trump and his congressional cronies gut Dodd-Frank.
Maybe so. But if that's the cause, then that means we haven't even started on the bubble yet, and that when it pops again prices *still* won't be any lower than they are right now.
The bubble that has to pop to bring prices down below what they are now is the low-density single-use-zoning don't-raise-my-taxes one.
I'd like to see some evidence for your assertion that they've produced nothing concrete.
You talk as if Brexit were easy. We're talking about disentangling an entire country's legislative and economic system from decades of cooperation with other countries, with a very real risk of recession and diplomatic repercussions if it's screwed up. I can't see how they'll do that properly in the two years they have, much less six months.
Hell, it probably took them at least six months to figure out in what areas of government and economics there *might* be ramifications, considering they still had to run the country in the meantime. It's pretty clear no one thought about that ahead of time.
It could also be happening almost every single time on these large projects because every single one is unique, with it's own set of unique and unforeseen problems. There's not always much heritage knowledge that can be used to predictably plan such a project, and issues can balloon into major reworks if they're only discovered late. Yes, there's some dishonesty and some negligence, but also some things that just could not have been foreseen or planned for. Hell, sometimes it's a shit estimate because of the voters: they want it done but they don't want to pay for it, so insufficient planning is done (due to lack of funds for doing so) and the resulting issues are left to be worked out in production.
It's not just a government problem, as it happens in industry as well.
I can't find it right now, but recently read an article about how much costs can balloon depending on where in the project lifecycle unexpected problems are discovered, and it was something like exponential in function of project stage. It was a very reasonable factor 2x if it's discovered early in planning, but if it's near the end of the project then it's significantly larger due to the whole project having to stop, reevaluate, rewind, retool, restart, etc...
LA's metro is rubbish, and traffic is very much not a "solved problem" in LA. The low density of sprawl combined with the metro being laid out as a star with no cross links means it's usually faster just to sit in traffic. Here in Pasadena the metro regularly blocks traffic because, in contrast to what you assert, it is most certainly not all underground. Metro is also not a solved problem for a city as low density as LA, as how do you maintain coverage while keep down travel time and still get enough riders to make it profitable?
Also, considering that he doesn't say what he'll put in the tunnels he's planning to bore, it may very well be more metro.
Every week I drive to the supermarket and pick up 20-30 kg of stuff
This is a key cultural difference between Europeans and Americans, and it doesn't get pointed out enough. When I lived in Europe, I'd stop by the store almost every day on my way home and by what I needed for the next 24-48 hours, which'd always fit in just one bag (drank tap water). Living in the US now, I've gotten out of the habit and instead tend to buy in bulk.
If there were more smaller supermarkets/butchers/grocers/etc more widely and evenly distributed in the US, then we wouldn't have to "carry cargo" at that scale. That's neither a quick nor an easy change to make, however.
Article is talking about quality in the sense of it being a good film vs rubbish, not whether or not they've cranked up the compression. He's saying that if all that Netflix has is "Big Summer Movie Blockbuster XXIV: The Return", people will watch it anyway even if it's trash, so why bother trying to curate their movie selection. For me that's a deal-breaker, as I have very little interest in trash.
Streaming quality is not mentioned anywhere, neither in TFS or TFA. I'll give you that the title is ambiguous, but the summary isn't.
Not a single person can't tell me after spending almost the comparable amount of swiping time 'looking' for a show that it takes to actually watch one, you just finally pick something and watch it.
True - I can't fathom wasting an hour of my life swiping through shows trying to find something to watch. Either I've heard about a show elsewhere and go straight to it, or I do something else with my time.
I just had something similar done in the US to an old sewer main, except they used a fiberglass sleeve saturated with epoxy, and a compressor to blow it into the existing pipe. Sewer's a larger bore than gas, of course.
Already done to some degree. See, for instance, the International Docking Adapter that launched last July (and also Feb 2015, but that one blew up). This is NASA's implementation of the international docking standard, and should allow anyone to dock with the ISS. I believe this standard is also meant to be used for berthing, so could potentially be used to join modules permanently.
I'm not sure if it's swapping or what, but too many tabs open for too long causes this Chromebook to slow to a crawl, only fixed by closing the largest memory hogs.
My similarly-specced Chromebook doesn't, unfortunately. If I leave a tab with gmail open for a week (because who reboots a Chromebook?), just that tab consumes almost half the RAM and slows the thing to a crawl. I semi-regularly have to open the task manager and close any tabs using more than 400 MB.
It didn't use to, so either Chrome has become more bloated or gmail has. Considering it's not just gmail, however, I'd guess the former.
While I agree that the US drinking age is too high, and that US culture should change to gradually introduce people to drinking, the European picture is not nearly as rosy as you paint it. I'm originally from Belgium and was there in college, and while I never saw a kegstand, we all still drank more than was wise. Blackouts were not uncommon, as was drinking yourself sick, and needing help getting home. I'd say a big difference was the pace - people weren't binging, but they'd start at 22:00 and drink so late they were still drunk when they showed up in class the next morning (not having slept, of course).
But despite this somewhat-bleak picture, no one ever even had to go to a hospital that I saw or heard of. While there was a lot of drinking, there was at least *some* degree of moderation, and I agree with you that familiarity with alcohol has something to do with it. Lowering the US drinking age to 16 wouldn't fix heavy drinking or alcoholism, but it might reduce poisonings and deaths.
You can't just claim to have a machine that violates known laws and expect to be taken seriously, but if you actually *produce* such a machine and it really does violate known laws, I would most certainly hope that everyone pays attention. Regardless of whether or not that's the case here, if someone makes a conclusive and reproducible observation that violates our knowledge of the laws of physics, then our knowledge needs to be reexamined. To act otherwise would be like saying that Michelson and Morley should have tossed out their interferometer because the results it produced violated the laws of physics known at the time.
As far as the EM drive is concerned we're still waiting on the "conclusive" bit, but we seem to be getting closer and closer.
Any thoughts on running Windows Server 2016 instead, under the assumption it'll give you a similar feature set as Enterprise? I've been using 2012 R2 in workstation mode as a gaming desktop instead of 7, and it's worked pretty much flawlessly once configured correctly.
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You've never seen one, so they don't exist?
There's at least two citations of work on the implementation of resetting ADCs in the paper you read. Google them.
Well, one of the parts of the paper that you missed in your "skip reading" is that resetting ADCs have been theorized since the 70's and have physically existed since the 2000's.
From the article:
Clearly you didn't even do an ounce of research into the topic before spouting off about their supposed incompetence. Look to your own house before you criticize another's.
True, in some ways. However, I'll raise you that the knob on a Fahrenheit amp only goes down to 3.
I call your anecdote and raise you my own: at least 15 successful projects on various platforms. I tossed out the CHIP I funded, but still use the aluminum wallet. Quite happy with my success rate.
Maybe you're buying into over-hyped projects? That was my mistake with CHIP - look for the little-but-useful ones instead.
Why do you imply that it has to be entirely the government's or entirely the business's choice?
What we have here is a grey area: in some cases, such as certain demonstrably-harmful conditions, certain protected classes of people, etc..., the government steps in. In others it is still up to the business, and there's a continuous back and forth about and occasional shifts in which choice belongs where. Is that not a fair compromise?
Most media entities publishing podcasts do so via an RSS feed, among other options. Not everyone's willing to go on iTunes or some other aggregator to download episodes.
I agree with the sentiment, in that LA is not dense enough. However, that doesn't mean it needs to build upwards - most European cities I've been in are almost completely 3 or 4 stories, but they make it work with good public transport, smaller houses, and building things closer together. The complete absence of row houses and mixed use zoning is part of the problem.
LA is afraid of turning into Manhattan, but tall buildings isn't the only way to get sufficient density.
Actually, there's at least *one* thing: true vector graphics. There's a few games out there - Asteroids comes to mind - where the game ran the CRT like a line plotter rather than like a raster printer, such that you ended up with very sharp perfectly antialiased line art. You'd need a high-DPI LCD to even approximate this.
No, but I also didn't get a couple of million from my dad, otherwise I would. Just because he has it doesn't mean he had anything to do with earning it.
Maybe so. But if that's the cause, then that means we haven't even started on the bubble yet, and that when it pops again prices *still* won't be any lower than they are right now.
The bubble that has to pop to bring prices down below what they are now is the low-density single-use-zoning don't-raise-my-taxes one.
I'd like to see some evidence for your assertion that they've produced nothing concrete.
You talk as if Brexit were easy. We're talking about disentangling an entire country's legislative and economic system from decades of cooperation with other countries, with a very real risk of recession and diplomatic repercussions if it's screwed up. I can't see how they'll do that properly in the two years they have, much less six months.
Hell, it probably took them at least six months to figure out in what areas of government and economics there *might* be ramifications, considering they still had to run the country in the meantime. It's pretty clear no one thought about that ahead of time.
It could also be happening almost every single time on these large projects because every single one is unique, with it's own set of unique and unforeseen problems. There's not always much heritage knowledge that can be used to predictably plan such a project, and issues can balloon into major reworks if they're only discovered late. Yes, there's some dishonesty and some negligence, but also some things that just could not have been foreseen or planned for. Hell, sometimes it's a shit estimate because of the voters: they want it done but they don't want to pay for it, so insufficient planning is done (due to lack of funds for doing so) and the resulting issues are left to be worked out in production.
It's not just a government problem, as it happens in industry as well.
I can't find it right now, but recently read an article about how much costs can balloon depending on where in the project lifecycle unexpected problems are discovered, and it was something like exponential in function of project stage. It was a very reasonable factor 2x if it's discovered early in planning, but if it's near the end of the project then it's significantly larger due to the whole project having to stop, reevaluate, rewind, retool, restart, etc...
LA's metro is rubbish, and traffic is very much not a "solved problem" in LA. The low density of sprawl combined with the metro being laid out as a star with no cross links means it's usually faster just to sit in traffic. Here in Pasadena the metro regularly blocks traffic because, in contrast to what you assert, it is most certainly not all underground. Metro is also not a solved problem for a city as low density as LA, as how do you maintain coverage while keep down travel time and still get enough riders to make it profitable?
Also, considering that he doesn't say what he'll put in the tunnels he's planning to bore, it may very well be more metro.
Every week I drive to the supermarket and pick up 20-30 kg of stuff
This is a key cultural difference between Europeans and Americans, and it doesn't get pointed out enough. When I lived in Europe, I'd stop by the store almost every day on my way home and by what I needed for the next 24-48 hours, which'd always fit in just one bag (drank tap water). Living in the US now, I've gotten out of the habit and instead tend to buy in bulk.
If there were more smaller supermarkets/butchers/grocers/etc more widely and evenly distributed in the US, then we wouldn't have to "carry cargo" at that scale. That's neither a quick nor an easy change to make, however.
Article is talking about quality in the sense of it being a good film vs rubbish, not whether or not they've cranked up the compression. He's saying that if all that Netflix has is "Big Summer Movie Blockbuster XXIV: The Return", people will watch it anyway even if it's trash, so why bother trying to curate their movie selection. For me that's a deal-breaker, as I have very little interest in trash.
Streaming quality is not mentioned anywhere, neither in TFS or TFA. I'll give you that the title is ambiguous, but the summary isn't.
True - I can't fathom wasting an hour of my life swiping through shows trying to find something to watch. Either I've heard about a show elsewhere and go straight to it, or I do something else with my time.
Not everyone's as addicted to TV as you claim.
I find food in general to be sweeter in the US, almost as if the whole country has a sweet tooth. Chocolate being sweeter is just one symptom of that.
It's not to my taste, but who am I to judge...
Bah, wake me up when Amazon broadcasts the World Cup with non-US English commentators. Then, I'll be interested.
I just had something similar done in the US to an old sewer main, except they used a fiberglass sleeve saturated with epoxy, and a compressor to blow it into the existing pipe. Sewer's a larger bore than gas, of course.
Already done to some degree. See, for instance, the International Docking Adapter that launched last July (and also Feb 2015, but that one blew up). This is NASA's implementation of the international docking standard, and should allow anyone to dock with the ISS. I believe this standard is also meant to be used for berthing, so could potentially be used to join modules permanently.
Then please enlighten us.
I'm not sure if it's swapping or what, but too many tabs open for too long causes this Chromebook to slow to a crawl, only fixed by closing the largest memory hogs.
My similarly-specced Chromebook doesn't, unfortunately. If I leave a tab with gmail open for a week (because who reboots a Chromebook?), just that tab consumes almost half the RAM and slows the thing to a crawl. I semi-regularly have to open the task manager and close any tabs using more than 400 MB.
It didn't use to, so either Chrome has become more bloated or gmail has. Considering it's not just gmail, however, I'd guess the former.
While I agree that the US drinking age is too high, and that US culture should change to gradually introduce people to drinking, the European picture is not nearly as rosy as you paint it. I'm originally from Belgium and was there in college, and while I never saw a kegstand, we all still drank more than was wise. Blackouts were not uncommon, as was drinking yourself sick, and needing help getting home. I'd say a big difference was the pace - people weren't binging, but they'd start at 22:00 and drink so late they were still drunk when they showed up in class the next morning (not having slept, of course).
But despite this somewhat-bleak picture, no one ever even had to go to a hospital that I saw or heard of. While there was a lot of drinking, there was at least *some* degree of moderation, and I agree with you that familiarity with alcohol has something to do with it. Lowering the US drinking age to 16 wouldn't fix heavy drinking or alcoholism, but it might reduce poisonings and deaths.
You can't just claim to have a machine that violates known laws and expect to be taken seriously, but if you actually *produce* such a machine and it really does violate known laws, I would most certainly hope that everyone pays attention. Regardless of whether or not that's the case here, if someone makes a conclusive and reproducible observation that violates our knowledge of the laws of physics, then our knowledge needs to be reexamined. To act otherwise would be like saying that Michelson and Morley should have tossed out their interferometer because the results it produced violated the laws of physics known at the time.
As far as the EM drive is concerned we're still waiting on the "conclusive" bit, but we seem to be getting closer and closer.
What about high-speed long-distance travel, say a suborbital from NY to Shanghai? Or is it still better to go via a ballistic trajectory?
Any thoughts on running Windows Server 2016 instead, under the assumption it'll give you a similar feature set as Enterprise? I've been using 2012 R2 in workstation mode as a gaming desktop instead of 7, and it's worked pretty much flawlessly once configured correctly.