That is their plan. They will have small local distribution centers with picking robots. You order the groceries on-line, and your order is delivered to your home by a self-driving-car 30 minutes later.
Walmart is already halfway there. At our local Wally World, we order all the stuff online, tell them when we want to pick it up, and get a notification when it's ready. You still have to drive to the store, but you pull around to the side, confirm payment, and the workers bring your stuff out to you, already bagged and ready to put in the car.
There are still things I'd rather go into the store for - I'm kind of picky about meat and produce, so that's a separate trip to Publix.
Divide by 8 and change for me. AT&T keeps trying to upsell me to 18 megabit service, and I keep explaining to them that they're not even able to provide the 12 megabit service I already am paying for.
So from where did you get this nonsense that Disney was making full-length movies with anywhere near 8 people?
He never said Disney was making full length movies with only 8 people, he said the company *started* with that number. Disney had already been producing animated short films for more than a decade before "Snow White", y'know.
Some of my earliest fond memories were sitting with my family in front of our tv and watching the landings in all their black and white detail.
Same here, but because we lived in Cocoa Beach, we watched the launches outside. There has yet to be anything NASA has put up that was as impressive as a Saturn V launch. Even 15 miles away, they still made the ground shake, and Apollo 17 (a nighttime launch) lit up the sky almost like daylight.
I think you might have a point there - I'm not sure where all the disparagement towards millenials is coming from. I'm in my 50s, and I work with plenty of interns and new grads in an engineering setting. My experience has been that most of them actually make an effort and bust their ass to get the job done, and are much more aware of needing to plan for the future than my generation was. Yeah, culturally there are differences and sometimes generational gaps in experiences, but I can't see any real reason to dogpile on them just for that.
Fuckin' seriously? "Not rewarding"? What a crock of shit. Who made you judge? Seeing videos is the same as going there?
Gotta agree here. Even the popular tourist spots can sometimes have something unique to offer. Mont St. Michel offers a totally different experience when you actually stay overnight and can roam around at night when the vast majority of tourist traffic is gone for the day.
And fuel economy of large vehicles is much better than it used to be. My 1/2 ton truck gets 19MPG, which is bad compared to a car but is much better than the 13MPG that the same truck got in 2008.
Is that city or highway mileage, and 2WD or 4WD? If it's city, those are awesome numbers, but highway, not as much - my old carbureted '86 2WD C10 got about 18 highway (per experience) and 14 city (per EPA). My current 2002 half-ton extended-cab Sierra (4.8L V8) with 165,000 miles gets a little better than 20 highway now, and it got about 14 mpg on average when towing a 4,000 pound trailer from Wisconsin to Florida last year, but the mountains in TN/GA had a bit to do with the poor mileage, and being a 2WD truck helps too. Not bad for an old, beat-up truck.
Ummm, no. Batteries are for STORAGE not GENERATION.
And any fuel is for both storage AND generation - batteries just decouple the two from each other. Regardless of how the electricity is generated, the first battery that's able to reliably store enough charge to power an automobile for 1,000 miles over an extended number of recharging cycles has the potential to put an awfully big dent in the fortunes of oil companies.
Personally, I would not have said the objects are outside of the Sun's gravity well.
I wouldn't have either, but I was responding to another poster that did regarding the number of missions that have reached interstellar space. I wasn't intending to make a statement regarding the Sun's gravity well.:-)
It's been an interesting discussion, but largely academic, since Homo sapiens may very well never achieve it by any of the definitions presented thus far unless we can come up with some seriously kick-ass new methods of propulsion and/or energy storage. When Voyager 1 experiences its closest approach to Gliese 445, the Sun will be more than twice as far away (1.6 light-years vs 3.45), but because the Sun is so much more massive, it quite probably will still be the dominant gravitational force acting on it. By that time, humans as we know them now will no longer exist, having evolved into something else by then.
What defines "out of the Sun's gravity well"? All six objects I mentioned are traveling faster than the solar escape velocity, and thus the Sun's gravitational influence is no longer sufficient to slow any of them enough to pull them into a solar orbit. Gravity doesn't just stop at a given distance, so deceleration from the Sun's gravity will continue to become smaller and smaller until they encounter something that has a greater gravitational influence than the Sun at that distance. In 20,000 years or so when Voyager 1 reaches a distance of a light-year from the Sun, it'll still be the dominant gravitational influence on the spacecraft.
We've even sent two crafts into interplanetary space, outside Sol's gravity well.
"Interstellar", I think you meant to say, and there are four - Pioneer 10 & 11 and Voyager 1 & 2, although Voyager 1 is the only one confirmed to have passed the heliopause. New Horizons will join the bunch in 25-30 years, as will the third stage of its launch vehicle.
PSI uses "pound" as a measure of force, where one pound-force is equal to the force exerted by one pound (mass) under the acceleration of 1g. One pound-force is what is meant when most people speak of "pounds", but in common usage the same is true of the kilogram - most people mean "kilogram-force" when they say "kilogram". The fact remains that "pound" is an SI-derived unit of mass, not weight.
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Given Firefox's continued problems with memory management over time, I can start to get some understanding as to why, if the guy really thinks an out-of-bounds read is a buffer overflow.
Except Adobe can't just waive away any liability with the stroke of a pen.
This is true, but there's also a thing called "duty to mitigate" that Adobe will almost certainly bring up. If the data was truly that valuable, Adobe will argue that a reasonable person would have taken steps to protect it, i.e. made backups, and thus mitigated the potential damage from any error on Adobe's part, or from something else like a failed drive. Not taking the drive to a professional data recovery service right away will also be a part of Adobe's defense on the same grounds.
He may possibly win his lawsuit, but could end up with a trivial amount in damages because of this.
I didn't dismiss anything. Your statement "And almost no I/O". was provably false. I showed that it was false, and I guess you can't handle that. Go argue somewhere else, kid.
They're available with the same USB3 and Thunderbolt ports as the Macs are. Sure, if you have a need for 4 Thunderbolt ports you might be out of luck, but I'm betting there are going to be very few people for whom that's worth the price premium. Additionally, lower-cost variants are available for those that don't need TB at all.
Seriously. They're using real CPUs, upgradable, and you can get the VESA brackets to stick 'em on the back of your display if space is at a premium. They're also available in a wide range of performance/price specs to meet most needs.
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It sounds like you want to have stable function key access for all the features, which was one of the awesome features of WordPerfect.
And one of the others was "Reveal Codes". It made child's play of figuring out what unprintable dreck was screwing up your document.
That is their plan. They will have small local distribution centers with picking robots. You order the groceries on-line, and your order is delivered to your home by a self-driving-car 30 minutes later.
Walmart is already halfway there. At our local Wally World, we order all the stuff online, tell them when we want to pick it up, and get a notification when it's ready. You still have to drive to the store, but you pull around to the side, confirm payment, and the workers bring your stuff out to you, already bagged and ready to put in the car.
There are still things I'd rather go into the store for - I'm kind of picky about meat and produce, so that's a separate trip to Publix.
Divide by 8 and change for me. AT&T keeps trying to upsell me to 18 megabit service, and I keep explaining to them that they're not even able to provide the 12 megabit service I already am paying for.
So from where did you get this nonsense that Disney was making full-length movies with anywhere near 8 people?
He never said Disney was making full length movies with only 8 people, he said the company *started* with that number. Disney had already been producing animated short films for more than a decade before "Snow White", y'know.
Some of my earliest fond memories were sitting with my family in front of our tv and watching the landings in all their black and white detail.
Same here, but because we lived in Cocoa Beach, we watched the launches outside. There has yet to be anything NASA has put up that was as impressive as a Saturn V launch. Even 15 miles away, they still made the ground shake, and Apollo 17 (a nighttime launch) lit up the sky almost like daylight.
I think you might have a point there - I'm not sure where all the disparagement towards millenials is coming from. I'm in my 50s, and I work with plenty of interns and new grads in an engineering setting. My experience has been that most of them actually make an effort and bust their ass to get the job done, and are much more aware of needing to plan for the future than my generation was. Yeah, culturally there are differences and sometimes generational gaps in experiences, but I can't see any real reason to dogpile on them just for that.
Fuckin' seriously? "Not rewarding"? What a crock of shit. Who made you judge? Seeing videos is the same as going there?
Gotta agree here. Even the popular tourist spots can sometimes have something unique to offer. Mont St. Michel offers a totally different experience when you actually stay overnight and can roam around at night when the vast majority of tourist traffic is gone for the day.
and to suggest otherwise would conflict with the "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" clause in the US Constitution
That's in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
And fuel economy of large vehicles is much better than it used to be. My 1/2 ton truck gets 19MPG, which is bad compared to a car but is much better than the 13MPG that the same truck got in 2008.
Is that city or highway mileage, and 2WD or 4WD? If it's city, those are awesome numbers, but highway, not as much - my old carbureted '86 2WD C10 got about 18 highway (per experience) and 14 city (per EPA). My current 2002 half-ton extended-cab Sierra (4.8L V8) with 165,000 miles gets a little better than 20 highway now, and it got about 14 mpg on average when towing a 4,000 pound trailer from Wisconsin to Florida last year, but the mountains in TN/GA had a bit to do with the poor mileage, and being a 2WD truck helps too. Not bad for an old, beat-up truck.
Ummm, no. Batteries are for STORAGE not GENERATION.
And any fuel is for both storage AND generation - batteries just decouple the two from each other. Regardless of how the electricity is generated, the first battery that's able to reliably store enough charge to power an automobile for 1,000 miles over an extended number of recharging cycles has the potential to put an awfully big dent in the fortunes of oil companies.
Wonder what this bot was coded in.
Personally, I would not have said the objects are outside of the Sun's gravity well.
I wouldn't have either, but I was responding to another poster that did regarding the number of missions that have reached interstellar space. I wasn't intending to make a statement regarding the Sun's gravity well. :-)
It's been an interesting discussion, but largely academic, since Homo sapiens may very well never achieve it by any of the definitions presented thus far unless we can come up with some seriously kick-ass new methods of propulsion and/or energy storage. When Voyager 1 experiences its closest approach to Gliese 445, the Sun will be more than twice as far away (1.6 light-years vs 3.45), but because the Sun is so much more massive, it quite probably will still be the dominant gravitational force acting on it. By that time, humans as we know them now will no longer exist, having evolved into something else by then.
What defines "out of the Sun's gravity well"? All six objects I mentioned are traveling faster than the solar escape velocity, and thus the Sun's gravitational influence is no longer sufficient to slow any of them enough to pull them into a solar orbit. Gravity doesn't just stop at a given distance, so deceleration from the Sun's gravity will continue to become smaller and smaller until they encounter something that has a greater gravitational influence than the Sun at that distance. In 20,000 years or so when Voyager 1 reaches a distance of a light-year from the Sun, it'll still be the dominant gravitational influence on the spacecraft.
We've even sent two crafts into interplanetary space, outside Sol's gravity well.
"Interstellar", I think you meant to say, and there are four - Pioneer 10 & 11 and Voyager 1 & 2, although Voyager 1 is the only one confirmed to have passed the heliopause. New Horizons will join the bunch in 25-30 years, as will the third stage of its launch vehicle.
PSI uses "pound" as a measure of force, where one pound-force is equal to the force exerted by one pound (mass) under the acceleration of 1g. One pound-force is what is meant when most people speak of "pounds", but in common usage the same is true of the kilogram - most people mean "kilogram-force" when they say "kilogram". The fact remains that "pound" is an SI-derived unit of mass, not weight.
Except that since the pound is defined as a fraction of a kilogram, it too is implicitly a measure of mass, not weight.
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Given Firefox's continued problems with memory management over time, I can start to get some understanding as to why, if the guy really thinks an out-of-bounds read is a buffer overflow.
I'd have thought for an exercise like that, NATO would have been jamming it themselves for realism.
you might recall my name from the masthead of Byte Magazine, as Contributing Editor, Software.
Back when computer magazines actually had useful information in them. Steve Ciarcia's "Circuit Cellar" articles were always a good read.
Except Adobe can't just waive away any liability with the stroke of a pen.
This is true, but there's also a thing called "duty to mitigate" that Adobe will almost certainly bring up. If the data was truly that valuable, Adobe will argue that a reasonable person would have taken steps to protect it, i.e. made backups, and thus mitigated the potential damage from any error on Adobe's part, or from something else like a failed drive. Not taking the drive to a professional data recovery service right away will also be a part of Adobe's defense on the same grounds.
He may possibly win his lawsuit, but could end up with a trivial amount in damages because of this.
But we never found out if SAL 9000 dreamed.
I didn't dismiss anything. Your statement "And almost no I/O". was provably false. I showed that it was false, and I guess you can't handle that. Go argue somewhere else, kid.
They're available with the same USB3 and Thunderbolt ports as the Macs are. Sure, if you have a need for 4 Thunderbolt ports you might be out of luck, but I'm betting there are going to be very few people for whom that's worth the price premium. Additionally, lower-cost variants are available for those that don't need TB at all.
I'm not sure if kids these days even know that a CD or DVD were used in computers
Or that the writable CD drive that costs $25 to include in a new build was once a hulking, $10,000 external peripheral that we could only lust after.
You want a small computer, get a NUC.
Seriously. They're using real CPUs, upgradable, and you can get the VESA brackets to stick 'em on the back of your display if space is at a premium. They're also available in a wide range of performance/price specs to meet most needs.