It's not that - Musk is after VW's business. He wants them to be forced to produce massive numbers of cars that need massive numbers of batteries. That, as the CEO of a large battery company with a car marketing devision, is *hugely* advantageous to him.
It's a graphics API that gives you lower level access to the GPU.
There two big improvements from OpenGL that all of these APIs (D3D 12, Metal, Mantle, Vulkan,...) are trying to achieve (plus a bunch of smaller ones) 1) Give complete control over thread safety in accessing memory on the GPU, rather than having the API be thread safe. This lets game developers make informed decisions like "I know that frame n-2, and n-1 use part of this texture, but not all of it, during work for frame n, I can update the part they're not accessing with no thread safety primitives". That can shave a whole millisecond off a frame layout time per contended lock on some platforms. When you're trying to lay out in 8 or 16 milliseconds, that's really important. 2) Specify more information up front, allowing earlier verification, and baking of states. OpenGL drivers do not know in what states (what vertex formats, what blend modes, what shaders etc) are going to be used when draw calls come in. That means that they need to verify the state, and recompile shaders at the last second (on many architectures, changing blend mode requires at least a re-run of the back end of the shader compiler for example). This can be mitigated by caching, but ultimately it doesn't work as well as it could. The new APIs let developers specify which of the states they're going to use up front, and therefore the system to optimise for them very early on.
The middle lane is accurate, given that in California (for some idiotic reason), the middle lane is where you're meant to stay by default on a 3 lane freeway. You're meant to leave the left lane for passing, and the right lane for entering and exiting.
The practice of this rule is that everyone middle lane hogging reduces the width of the freeway to 2 lanes, and the whole place snarls up in no time.
It puzzles me every time that someone says this on *any* topic.
If it works in an area the size of a US state, then organise it at that scale... The US does oddly enough, have well defined areas of land that are roughly the area of US states.
Actually, the mug shot idea does very much do exactly what the CFSM was set up for.
The original idea was "hey, guys are making laws saying you're going to study one religion's version of creation as if its science, lets point out how ridiculous that is by inventing another version of creation that 'should be taught as science'".
The idea in the drivers license case is "hey, the law says that you have to weak specific head gear, unless you're a member of specific religions. Either everyone should have the freedom to wear whatever headgear they like, or no one should. Lets point out how ridiculous it is that a sikh or a muslim gets to obscure their face on their drivers licence by inventing something crazy you can obscure your face with"
Yeh, next time you see a sports car crash, watch how much of it sacrifices itself to saving the survival cell. In fact, screw it, lets make this the next time you see a sports car crash...
Stronger cars are bad - we learned that long ago. What you want is weak (to the point of maximum energy absorption per unit acceleration) cars, and strong survival cells.
If by "low population" you mean "San Jose alone is the 10th largest city in the entire country, and if you count the entire urban conurbation that is the Bay Area, it's twice the size of LA, and second only to NewYork", sure. And no, before you ask, it's not less dense than LA either - twice the population in 1.5 times the area.
If it means that they can carry twice as many first class passengers 30% of the time, then they'll still buy it. Economy class passengers lose airlines money - they're only on the plane to lose them less money than having an empty 3/4 of a plane. First/Business meanwhile actually makes money, but the seating is layed out to make sure it's always full.
The Iraq war directly cost $2tn over 8 years. That's $250bn a year. The mid point of estimates of socialised health care is $130bn a year.
Stop invading random countries, and you'll easily have enough cash to pay for basic health for every citizen, and even have a budget saving of an eight of a trillion dollars a year to do something else cool with (I don't know, maybe free tuition at universities).
Why have a separate table, when we've already learnt that having multiple glyph lookup tables is a terrible idea, and leads to no one being able to figure out which lookup table to use for a particular file. Unicode has plenty of room for all forms of written communication (hyroglyphics/emojis included), so use the one single table that we have pretty much standardised, and move on.
Well yes, that's because every time someone brings out "means testing", they don't mean "we're going to check for people fraudulently claiming this thing", because the actual rate of fraudulent claiming is very low (contrary to what your local/national news channels will tell you). Instead, what they mean is "we're going to make the test for being disabled harder to prove, and take disability benefits away from people who genuinely are disabled".
In the UK, more "means testing" was brought in for disability benefit a few years ago. They introduced the idea that you needed to prove to an independent doctor (not your own, regular GP), that you were disabled. If you didn't go to this brand new doctor, at a date and time of the governments choosing, then you did not qualify.
This meant that for certain disabilities, it was nearly impossible to successfully claim. For example, people with cystic fibrosis had two options. Either they had a day where they could barely move, and did not make it to the doctor (bam, no ability to claim now). Or they had a day where they could move, made it to the doctor, and the doctor said "well, you made it here, and you're talking to me, clearly you can do an office job" (bam, no ability to claim).
The thing is, unless you switch jobs, you are actually doing the same job. Why do you deserve more money simply for the fact that you have been doing the same thing longer than everybody else?
Because the cost of living has gone up (inflation), so paying you the same absolute amount of money to do that job is actually paying you a lower value. Why do you think that someone who remains in a job is worth less than someone with zero experience?
I realize that with people who do IT work such as programmers or system admins that there is an increased level of productivity you can get from those who have more knowledge of the code and/or systems that are dealt specifically at a single company, but after a point, you fail to actually provide more value than you did the previous year. Essentially, you plateau.
But again - you don't provide less value, which is what not giving you a pay raise in line with inflation reflects.
Why do you think a larger population matters? If the system works in a country of 10 million people, it can also work in a state of 10 million people. Repeat that 50 (or only 30 times), and you're done.
For reference, the 1% begins at a yearly salary of somewhere around $180-190k. Even at that salary, it's gonna take you a while to save up to have so much disposable income (and no mortgage etc) to own a Lambo. What most people mean when they talk about 1%ers, and think of people sat on millions of dollars, is 0.1%ers.
While I can completely understand why you might think parent is an astroturf, I do own a VW (a 2014 Jetta 1.8T), and do indeed get better than the advertised millage. It was advertised at 25/36m/(us)g, I typically get 28 in a city, and 37 on a freeway.
I'm sure there are other VWs that do not meet the advertised specs, but certainly this car has given me the most believable estimate of any I've ever had (every other vehicle I've ever had has not got close to its fuel efficiency stats).
Actually no, I can't find a single title where the Xbox can do a higher resolution or frame rate than the PS4. And that's not surprising - again, the PS4 has more powerful hardware.
The fact that there exist games where the Xbox One can do 1080p/60 does not mean that in all cases it can. There are several games that render at 1080p on PS4, but 720p or 900p on Xbox, e.g. Assassin's Creed IV, Batman Arkham Knight, CoD, Destiny, Diablo III, Dragon Age Inquisition, Far Cry 4, Just Cause 3, Lords of the Fallen, Metro: Redux, Shadow of Mordor, Pro Evo Soccer 2015, Project Cars, Shadow Warrior, Star Wars Battle Front*, The Evil Within, Thief, Tom Raider: Definitive Edition, Watch Dogs*
* These games don't do 1080p on PS4 either, but are still higher resolution on the PS4 than on the Xbox.
Get the PS4... It's the faster machine, can run games at a higher resolution, and has a bunch of exclusives purely by dint of the developers not being able to make it work fast enough on the Xbox. There's something like 100 more games available for it.
No, it doesn't mean "encryption". It's perfectly possible to have encryption in which more parties than the sender and receiver know the key. It's not very useful if what you're trying to do is secure the communication of A and B, but that doesn't make it "not encryption".
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If you'd been paying attention... There was a live video feed of the attempt. Here's a recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Apple has extensive Metal documentation and code samples here https://developer.apple.com/me...
It's not that - Musk is after VW's business. He wants them to be forced to produce massive numbers of cars that need massive numbers of batteries. That, as the CEO of a large battery company with a car marketing devision, is *hugely* advantageous to him.
It's a graphics API that gives you lower level access to the GPU.
There two big improvements from OpenGL that all of these APIs (D3D 12, Metal, Mantle, Vulkan, ...) are trying to achieve (plus a bunch of smaller ones)
1) Give complete control over thread safety in accessing memory on the GPU, rather than having the API be thread safe. This lets game developers make informed decisions like "I know that frame n-2, and n-1 use part of this texture, but not all of it, during work for frame n, I can update the part they're not accessing with no thread safety primitives". That can shave a whole millisecond off a frame layout time per contended lock on some platforms. When you're trying to lay out in 8 or 16 milliseconds, that's really important.
2) Specify more information up front, allowing earlier verification, and baking of states. OpenGL drivers do not know in what states (what vertex formats, what blend modes, what shaders etc) are going to be used when draw calls come in. That means that they need to verify the state, and recompile shaders at the last second (on many architectures, changing blend mode requires at least a re-run of the back end of the shader compiler for example). This can be mitigated by caching, but ultimately it doesn't work as well as it could. The new APIs let developers specify which of the states they're going to use up front, and therefore the system to optimise for them very early on.
The middle lane is accurate, given that in California (for some idiotic reason), the middle lane is where you're meant to stay by default on a 3 lane freeway. You're meant to leave the left lane for passing, and the right lane for entering and exiting.
The practice of this rule is that everyone middle lane hogging reduces the width of the freeway to 2 lanes, and the whole place snarls up in no time.
It puzzles me every time that someone says this on *any* topic.
If it works in an area the size of a US state, then organise it at that scale... The US does oddly enough, have well defined areas of land that are roughly the area of US states.
Actually, the mug shot idea does very much do exactly what the CFSM was set up for.
The original idea was "hey, guys are making laws saying you're going to study one religion's version of creation as if its science, lets point out how ridiculous that is by inventing another version of creation that 'should be taught as science'".
The idea in the drivers license case is "hey, the law says that you have to weak specific head gear, unless you're a member of specific religions. Either everyone should have the freedom to wear whatever headgear they like, or no one should. Lets point out how ridiculous it is that a sikh or a muslim gets to obscure their face on their drivers licence by inventing something crazy you can obscure your face with"
Yeh, next time you see a sports car crash, watch how much of it sacrifices itself to saving the survival cell. In fact, screw it, lets make this the next time you see a sports car crash...
https://youtu.be/eP1_POQPJVw?t...
Notice how the car pretty much self destructs, but leaves the survival cell 100% in tact. Result, a driver that walks out of a 300km/h crash.
Stronger cars are bad - we learned that long ago. What you want is weak (to the point of maximum energy absorption per unit acceleration) cars, and strong survival cells.
If by "low population" you mean "San Jose alone is the 10th largest city in the entire country, and if you count the entire urban conurbation that is the Bay Area, it's twice the size of LA, and second only to NewYork", sure. And no, before you ask, it's not less dense than LA either - twice the population in 1.5 times the area.
It's not just a matter of being in the right metro area. In the bay area for example, the choice is Comcast, or a *really* terrible AT&T service.
Thankfully, I hear AT&T are planning on launching gigabit service soon, but still - being in a city, or metro area does not guarantee competition.
If it means that they can carry twice as many first class passengers 30% of the time, then they'll still buy it. Economy class passengers lose airlines money - they're only on the plane to lose them less money than having an empty 3/4 of a plane. First/Business meanwhile actually makes money, but the seating is layed out to make sure it's always full.
The Iraq war directly cost $2tn over 8 years. That's $250bn a year. The mid point of estimates of socialised health care is $130bn a year.
Stop invading random countries, and you'll easily have enough cash to pay for basic health for every citizen, and even have a budget saving of an eight of a trillion dollars a year to do something else cool with (I don't know, maybe free tuition at universities).
You realise this article is about efficiency, not emissions, right?
It seems like you're trying to express a problem, when in actual fact, you've expressed a solution.
the federal government takes a nice large chunk to pay for our military
Great - then you know what to do - elect people who pledge to shrink your military in exchange for providing enough money for working health care.
Why have a separate table, when we've already learnt that having multiple glyph lookup tables is a terrible idea, and leads to no one being able to figure out which lookup table to use for a particular file. Unicode has plenty of room for all forms of written communication (hyroglyphics/emojis included), so use the one single table that we have pretty much standardised, and move on.
Well yes, that's because every time someone brings out "means testing", they don't mean "we're going to check for people fraudulently claiming this thing", because the actual rate of fraudulent claiming is very low (contrary to what your local/national news channels will tell you). Instead, what they mean is "we're going to make the test for being disabled harder to prove, and take disability benefits away from people who genuinely are disabled".
In the UK, more "means testing" was brought in for disability benefit a few years ago. They introduced the idea that you needed to prove to an independent doctor (not your own, regular GP), that you were disabled. If you didn't go to this brand new doctor, at a date and time of the governments choosing, then you did not qualify.
This meant that for certain disabilities, it was nearly impossible to successfully claim. For example, people with cystic fibrosis had two options. Either they had a day where they could barely move, and did not make it to the doctor (bam, no ability to claim now). Or they had a day where they could move, made it to the doctor, and the doctor said "well, you made it here, and you're talking to me, clearly you can do an office job" (bam, no ability to claim).
The thing is, unless you switch jobs, you are actually doing the same job. Why do you deserve more money simply for the fact that you have been doing the same thing longer than everybody else?
Because the cost of living has gone up (inflation), so paying you the same absolute amount of money to do that job is actually paying you a lower value. Why do you think that someone who remains in a job is worth less than someone with zero experience?
I realize that with people who do IT work such as programmers or system admins that there is an increased level of productivity you can get from those who have more knowledge of the code and/or systems that are dealt specifically at a single company, but after a point, you fail to actually provide more value than you did the previous year. Essentially, you plateau.
But again - you don't provide less value, which is what not giving you a pay raise in line with inflation reflects.
Why do you think a larger population matters? If the system works in a country of 10 million people, it can also work in a state of 10 million people. Repeat that 50 (or only 30 times), and you're done.
For reference, the 1% begins at a yearly salary of somewhere around $180-190k. Even at that salary, it's gonna take you a while to save up to have so much disposable income (and no mortgage etc) to own a Lambo. What most people mean when they talk about 1%ers, and think of people sat on millions of dollars, is 0.1%ers.
While I can completely understand why you might think parent is an astroturf, I do own a VW (a 2014 Jetta 1.8T), and do indeed get better than the advertised millage. It was advertised at 25/36m/(us)g, I typically get 28 in a city, and 37 on a freeway.
I'm sure there are other VWs that do not meet the advertised specs, but certainly this car has given me the most believable estimate of any I've ever had (every other vehicle I've ever had has not got close to its fuel efficiency stats).
Actually no, I can't find a single title where the Xbox can do a higher resolution or frame rate than the PS4. And that's not surprising - again, the PS4 has more powerful hardware.
The fact that there exist games where the Xbox One can do 1080p/60 does not mean that in all cases it can. There are several games that render at 1080p on PS4, but 720p or 900p on Xbox, e.g. Assassin's Creed IV, Batman Arkham Knight, CoD, Destiny, Diablo III, Dragon Age Inquisition, Far Cry 4, Just Cause 3, Lords of the Fallen, Metro: Redux, Shadow of Mordor, Pro Evo Soccer 2015, Project Cars, Shadow Warrior, Star Wars Battle Front*, The Evil Within, Thief, Tom Raider: Definitive Edition, Watch Dogs*
* These games don't do 1080p on PS4 either, but are still higher resolution on the PS4 than on the Xbox.
Get the PS4... It's the faster machine, can run games at a higher resolution, and has a bunch of exclusives purely by dint of the developers not being able to make it work fast enough on the Xbox. There's something like 100 more games available for it.
No, it doesn't mean "encryption". It's perfectly possible to have encryption in which more parties than the sender and receiver know the key. It's not very useful if what you're trying to do is secure the communication of A and B, but that doesn't make it "not encryption".