Optical mouse + recliner = fail. I have it for my HTPC and it sucks horribly. If I wasn't too far away for all the consumer oriented wireless I would use a wireless trackball in a heartbeat. I've bugged Lenovo about making the keyboard with Trackpoint in a wireless version but so far no dice.
Sure, I don't expect conservative supreme court justices to recuse themselves when a Roe case comes up even if they personally believe abortion is immoral. I work to make sure people who would appoint them don't get elected, but once they are sitting there is no reason to think that they won't use the rational portion of their brain to judge the case in relation to constitutional law. Of course their opinion will color their decision, but that's why we have people judging the law not robots.
Did you play WoW at launch? It was buggy, crashy, and fairly unpolished (admittedly it was more polished than most games in the genre at launch, but it's from Blizzard that's kind of expected =) Almost all non-trivial software is fairly buggy at launch because no matter how good your QA is they will never have enough resources to perfectly model the real world, and even if they did the product would be so expensive it would never be bought. For example the code for the space shuttle costs a staggering ~$1,000 per line and it only has to run on one platform, and it STILL has bugs (admittedly very few).
I guess you missed this where the Bush administration is trying to revive COPA the law that already got smacked about for being unconstitutional (as did all the follow-on acts that followed in its mold).
Exactly, asking a judge to recuse themselves because what they do in their free time is an insult to the judge and the court! It might be proper to ask a circuit court judge to recuse themselves on a precedence setting case if they happened to run an adult oriented business, but to ask him based on the contents of his hard drive or personal directory on a web server is just asinine and just goes to show the motives of the people suing over these "obscene" films.
That's because *shock* Apple has made the device easy and intuitive to use. I'm not an Apple fanboy (far from it, I dislike the Mac) but this is something they do well. It's the same reason the iPod took off so fast, it was head and shoulders above all the other digital music players when it came to ease of use. I prefer my Blackberry because I can do 30+wpm on the keyboard but for someone who's not generally composing long emails the iphone is great.
I'd argue that modern GPU's aren't application specific, hence things like gpgpu. I'd say they are their own category like CPU's. Perhaps I'm not enough into the hardware side to understand the usage but I think of ASIC's and ASSP's as purpose built chips which are distinct from parts like CPU's, GPU's, FPGA's and programmable DSP's which tend to be more flexible in their abilities.
MIDP Java is generally pretty small and fast, it's what's used on basically all smartphone platforms other than the iPhone and Windows Mobile (ok there's Symbian native, but I don't think most new development is going that direction due to the portability of Java).
Yep, and good equipment will also use Glonass when available. I expect once the Galileo constellation is more complete you will see even higher end consumer devices using both GPS and Galileo. I was really glad when they announced that the commercial parties had abandoned the project and that it was being picked up by the EU directly, per device licensing fees would have meant it would basically go unused like Iridium.
I can't see how any fabric is going to have a lower coefficient of drag than clearcoat, so the only possible advantage with respect to drag is that you can do compound shapes more easily than you can with metal. The problem is this is BMW and it's going to be expensive no matter what so why not make it out of metal and gain the efficiency of ultra-smooth paint. I guess their engineers think they can gain more from lighter skin weight than is lost to friction?
Now scaler chip makes a LOT more sense to me than the GPU. Everyone knows ATI was the partner for the GPU and there would be few people in the industry that would call a GPU an ASIC. A scaler chip is very much an ASIC and I can see where MS might decide to do their own scaler chip, but they had no chance of doing their own modern GPU without a partner.
I'm looking at the Body Style and Size table and with a few exceptions like some Very Large vehicle/body combinations and the Sport segment the larger the vehicle the fewer deaths per registered year, so I would say that more mass=safer is proven out by the statistics.
I was comparing the real world fuel economies reported at www.fueleconomy.gov for the civic coupe vs the hybrid. Averages are about 40 vs 44mpg in mixed driving.
My fullsize sedan gets 24mpg in mixed driving but that can't compare to the 32-35 mpg highway that the Ford Escape Hybrid and Saturn Vue Hybrid get, hybrid drive trains make a HUGE difference in an SUV, where they are pointless is compacts, the Civic Hybrid only gets like 10% better fuel economy then the most efficient non-hybrid model and it costs 50% more.
You don't have to see it to believe it, Ford sold more cars than light trucks/SUV's in Q1'08 for the first time since the early 90's. It's bad news for them since the F150 has been the best selling vehicle in the US for most of that time.
Yep basically, even after the recent about face in HIIBEL V. SIXTH JUDICIAL DIST. COURT OF NEV.,HUMBOLDT CTY the court still requires that the statute be narrowly defined and that there be a reasonable suspicion that the subject of an inquiry is involved in a crime.
My honors US History class in high school was interesting for that very reason, we used three different textbooks throughout the year and at the end of the year we had to write our final by comparing and contrasting how the authors political viewpoints colored the way they reported history. We did plenty of memorization, but our teacher did everything to minimize the amount of work that took including teaching us efficient methods of memorization. We learned that the average human brain has maximum efficiency of memorization with lists of seven. We also learned an interesting technique for memorizing groups of lists, visualize the house you grew up in, now count the windows around that house, now attach a list of seven to each window. If you run out of windows start using doors, then pieces of furniture. In that way most people in the class had no trouble memorizing lists of up to a few hundred important dates in American history.
I signed up in 2001 I believe but I've been here since the fall of 1997, there were no accounts early on and even after they were implemented there was no real benefit to having one. The Katz filter was the killer feature that got me to signup to be tracked =)
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Optical mouse + recliner = fail. I have it for my HTPC and it sucks horribly. If I wasn't too far away for all the consumer oriented wireless I would use a wireless trackball in a heartbeat. I've bugged Lenovo about making the keyboard with Trackpoint in a wireless version but so far no dice.
I wish you could do custom moderation, that would get a +1 old skool =)
Sure, I don't expect conservative supreme court justices to recuse themselves when a Roe case comes up even if they personally believe abortion is immoral. I work to make sure people who would appoint them don't get elected, but once they are sitting there is no reason to think that they won't use the rational portion of their brain to judge the case in relation to constitutional law. Of course their opinion will color their decision, but that's why we have people judging the law not robots.
Didn't the beta NDA expire at release? The few that I have electronically signed have all said they expire when the game reaches launch.
Did you play WoW at launch? It was buggy, crashy, and fairly unpolished (admittedly it was more polished than most games in the genre at launch, but it's from Blizzard that's kind of expected =) Almost all non-trivial software is fairly buggy at launch because no matter how good your QA is they will never have enough resources to perfectly model the real world, and even if they did the product would be so expensive it would never be bought. For example the code for the space shuttle costs a staggering ~$1,000 per line and it only has to run on one platform, and it STILL has bugs (admittedly very few).
I guess you missed this where the Bush administration is trying to revive COPA the law that already got smacked about for being unconstitutional (as did all the follow-on acts that followed in its mold).
Uh, you're forgetting which district court this guy is the head judge on, there's not a lot of shouting about sinner coming from the 9th district....
Exactly, asking a judge to recuse themselves because what they do in their free time is an insult to the judge and the court! It might be proper to ask a circuit court judge to recuse themselves on a precedence setting case if they happened to run an adult oriented business, but to ask him based on the contents of his hard drive or personal directory on a web server is just asinine and just goes to show the motives of the people suing over these "obscene" films.
You're correct, I was thinking 3 satellites vs 4, it's been a while since I did this stuff =)
That's because *shock* Apple has made the device easy and intuitive to use. I'm not an Apple fanboy (far from it, I dislike the Mac) but this is something they do well. It's the same reason the iPod took off so fast, it was head and shoulders above all the other digital music players when it came to ease of use. I prefer my Blackberry because I can do 30+wpm on the keyboard but for someone who's not generally composing long emails the iphone is great.
I'd argue that modern GPU's aren't application specific, hence things like gpgpu. I'd say they are their own category like CPU's. Perhaps I'm not enough into the hardware side to understand the usage but I think of ASIC's and ASSP's as purpose built chips which are distinct from parts like CPU's, GPU's, FPGA's and programmable DSP's which tend to be more flexible in their abilities.
MIDP Java is generally pretty small and fast, it's what's used on basically all smartphone platforms other than the iPhone and Windows Mobile (ok there's Symbian native, but I don't think most new development is going that direction due to the portability of Java).
Actually you can usually get a good approximation using two satellites because the other solution is either in space or inside the planet.
Yep, and good equipment will also use Glonass when available. I expect once the Galileo constellation is more complete you will see even higher end consumer devices using both GPS and Galileo. I was really glad when they announced that the commercial parties had abandoned the project and that it was being picked up by the EU directly, per device licensing fees would have meant it would basically go unused like Iridium.
I can't see how any fabric is going to have a lower coefficient of drag than clearcoat, so the only possible advantage with respect to drag is that you can do compound shapes more easily than you can with metal. The problem is this is BMW and it's going to be expensive no matter what so why not make it out of metal and gain the efficiency of ultra-smooth paint. I guess their engineers think they can gain more from lighter skin weight than is lost to friction?
Now scaler chip makes a LOT more sense to me than the GPU. Everyone knows ATI was the partner for the GPU and there would be few people in the industry that would call a GPU an ASIC. A scaler chip is very much an ASIC and I can see where MS might decide to do their own scaler chip, but they had no chance of doing their own modern GPU without a partner.
Yeah every state has vehicle equipment laws about bumper placement and there is NO way that most jacked up pickups comply with the law.
I'm looking at the Body Style and Size table and with a few exceptions like some Very Large vehicle/body combinations and the Sport segment the larger the vehicle the fewer deaths per registered year, so I would say that more mass=safer is proven out by the statistics.
I was comparing the real world fuel economies reported at www.fueleconomy.gov for the civic coupe vs the hybrid. Averages are about 40 vs 44mpg in mixed driving.
My fullsize sedan gets 24mpg in mixed driving but that can't compare to the 32-35 mpg highway that the Ford Escape Hybrid and Saturn Vue Hybrid get, hybrid drive trains make a HUGE difference in an SUV, where they are pointless is compacts, the Civic Hybrid only gets like 10% better fuel economy then the most efficient non-hybrid model and it costs 50% more.
That's why those vehicles are illegal, but try getting a cop to actually enforce those laws instead of mild speeding violations!
You don't have to see it to believe it, Ford sold more cars than light trucks/SUV's in Q1'08 for the first time since the early 90's. It's bad news for them since the F150 has been the best selling vehicle in the US for most of that time.
Yep basically, even after the recent about face in HIIBEL V. SIXTH JUDICIAL DIST. COURT OF NEV.,HUMBOLDT CTY the court still requires that the statute be narrowly defined and that there be a reasonable suspicion that the subject of an inquiry is involved in a crime.
My honors US History class in high school was interesting for that very reason, we used three different textbooks throughout the year and at the end of the year we had to write our final by comparing and contrasting how the authors political viewpoints colored the way they reported history. We did plenty of memorization, but our teacher did everything to minimize the amount of work that took including teaching us efficient methods of memorization. We learned that the average human brain has maximum efficiency of memorization with lists of seven. We also learned an interesting technique for memorizing groups of lists, visualize the house you grew up in, now count the windows around that house, now attach a list of seven to each window. If you run out of windows start using doors, then pieces of furniture. In that way most people in the class had no trouble memorizing lists of up to a few hundred important dates in American history.
I signed up in 2001 I believe but I've been here since the fall of 1997, there were no accounts early on and even after they were implemented there was no real benefit to having one. The Katz filter was the killer feature that got me to signup to be tracked =)