Even better would be: "the copepods ate the student!" Speaking of which, human population almost doubled in the past 50 years, I'm starting to wonder... who's going to eat us? And how much longer do we have?
Enter list online and have the cart calculate the shortest distance to each item in the store based on its current location
Select all the items in the store and watch their server crash trying to figure the shortest path for that (most likely the cart has just a dummy terminal with no computing power, so the shortest path would have to be calculated by the server).
Why the hell not include ALL proofs that someone takes the time to type into Wikipedia? They're running low on hard drive space or what? And what's gonna be next, drop proofs from textbooks because they can't figure which one to include?
The temperature in a cave means nothing, unless you take into account the cave's ability to dissipate heat somewhere (water or air moving through the cave). If you go inside a cave that's been at constant 55F for a thousand years and you suddenly heat it with 50 kilowatts of power from your data center the temperature will settle at 255F in a hurry. About the only advantage you get from a cave is a constant supply of really cold water (if sufficient rain that year). Ambient air temperature is irrelevant since usually you don't have a strong draft in a deep cave and static air will heat up pretty quickly.
If the computer is going to predict my next move, I might as well let the computer play the game. If the algorithm is using a neural network, the computer will become just like me as time passes. The main difference between a good player and a normal one, is the difference from the nominal behaviour. Thus making this method of uterly useless. Your computer doesn't predict what YOU do because it can see it in real time and has no need at all to know what you're going to do in the future. Your computer, however, has to predict what THE OTHER players do when your server connection is bad and the information about what others do around you is coming too slow or not at all. Thus, not exactly useless.
Ok, there's their mistake, they didn't hire a lawyer. Three paragraphs? That's just crazy.
Hopefully they'll hire one before the time to appeal expires.
So judges in this country can't reason if I don't hire a $200/hr lawyer? What if I've got 5 kids to feed and don't have money for a lawyer? That means everything the other side says is true regardless of whether or not they proved it?
The EU has really become the United States of Europe. Its more like the early United States since the states still retain a lot of power, but assuming it holds together it will probably continue to become more like one nation over time.
It'd be nice if it did that, however it will be hard. First there is a significant language barrier (that was much less of an issue in the US), and second every little country has a long history of (sometimes nasty) fights with other little countries around its borders. Getting everyone to forget the past and hug together will be difficult if at all possible.
Hard drives that are used 24/7 fail because their mechanical (moving) parts are built from the cheapest materials that would last for the warranty period. Most of my Western Digital drives develop a noticeable "whine" within a year or two and typically fail soon after that. The "whine" sounds somewhat like an F1 engine running at max rpm, just not as loud (you can hear it if you get your ear close to the drive), and it definitely sounds like there's metal-on-metal friction in the bearings (not good). Better bearings are slightly harder to manufacture and thus no longer used in consumer products. Afterall we're supposed to get products that break and need to be replaced often to keep the manufacturers in bussiness.
Exxon makes gas, lubricants, plastics, oil, etc, etc,.. who's fault is it if the ice melts?
Nobody's blaming Exxon for causing ice to melt. TFA blames Exxon for funding a disinformation campaign with the sole purpose of confusing the public and government on global warming science.
A nobel winning economist blasts drug patents.
Isn't that a bit like the apple calling the orange; black? or some other such mixed metaphor ?
How about welfare recipient calling attention to highway safety?
school nurse protesting soap opera commercials?
Perhaps more like you blasting a nobel winning economist?
Consider: When Google grants itself the top ad slot for a search term, it denies itself the revenue of a third-party advertiser who might have paid for that slot. Thus, in a very real sense, Google pays exactly the same rate as everyone else.
I'm not buying this. Slots are not sold individually with a price tag on each. They are being auctioned in batch. Whoever pays most gets 1st, next guy gets 2nd, etc. When Google takes 1st slot for themselves they don't really lose much since they just shift everyone else 1 slot down and still take all their money.
We had a sliding screen door that didn't work too well. My wife left it half-open one day. I asked her how many flies she thought that would keep out:
a) all of them
b) half of them
c) none of them
d) just the dumb ones
And the real answer is...
e) half of the dumb ones
And here I thought "batsuit" as in some different kind of lawsuit. And/. was going to explain me how it works...
Please stop giving me false hopes, ok?
If sensorrs like those in the mazda are used, they are designed to fail in a manner to cause the least noticeable effect. In other words, the throttle will fail so that you lose power and slow down, not speed up. There are many standards bodies monitoring these things (not that they make us safer, but we can pretend). I for one, am not going to worry about it too much.
When sensors fail they will fail in any way they want, regardless of how they were designed to fail. Otherwise it wouldn't be a failure.
And a cable is any better? I've been a car where the accelerator cable broke and left the throttle wide open. I suspect a servo might well be more robust than a cable.
Yes, cable is better. There is a spring that holds the throttle closed, and when you push the gas pedal the cable pulls it open. If the cable breaks then the spring would still close it back. It can only get stuck open if there's a lot of sticky gunk inside that keeps it open (a servo wouldn't help there) or if the spring breaks. My car has dual springs on the throttle, so that's pretty hard to happen.
When your engine stalls most cars DO failover to less automated system called manual steering and manual brakes. As long as you dont pull the key out to lock the steering wheel you can still turn and brake. It just takes more muscle to do it. I've actually tested this first hand when I had to disable the power steering on my VW (long story) and drove it on manual steering for a month or two. Parking was a b*tch but once the car got moving steering was cake.
This theory only breaks down if your car has fly-by-wire steering or brakes, where there is no mechanical connection between steering wheel and road wheels, or between brake pedal and master (brake) cylinder. But there aren't many cars like that (and I wouldn't buy one).
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Even better would be: "the copepods ate the student!" Speaking of which, human population almost doubled in the past 50 years, I'm starting to wonder... who's going to eat us? And how much longer do we have?
Or you could temporarily immunosupress the cancer patient?
So you think 5% chance of getting rabbies and dying is worse than 50% chance of dying from brain cancer?
Select all the items in the store and watch their server crash trying to figure the shortest path for that (most likely the cart has just a dummy terminal with no computing power, so the shortest path would have to be calculated by the server).
Why the hell not include ALL proofs that someone takes the time to type into Wikipedia? They're running low on hard drive space or what? And what's gonna be next, drop proofs from textbooks because they can't figure which one to include?
So does this kind of contract make CMU a valid war target in case the US goes to open war with another nation? Just wondering.
The temperature in a cave means nothing, unless you take into account the cave's ability to dissipate heat somewhere (water or air moving through the cave). If you go inside a cave that's been at constant 55F for a thousand years and you suddenly heat it with 50 kilowatts of power from your data center the temperature will settle at 255F in a hurry. About the only advantage you get from a cave is a constant supply of really cold water (if sufficient rain that year). Ambient air temperature is irrelevant since usually you don't have a strong draft in a deep cave and static air will heat up pretty quickly.
Why not use a cloth eye cover?
No, they didn't. Where's the statistics?
So judges in this country can't reason if I don't hire a $200/hr lawyer? What if I've got 5 kids to feed and don't have money for a lawyer? That means everything the other side says is true regardless of whether or not they proved it?
It'd be nice if it did that, however it will be hard. First there is a significant language barrier (that was much less of an issue in the US), and second every little country has a long history of (sometimes nasty) fights with other little countries around its borders. Getting everyone to forget the past and hug together will be difficult if at all possible.
Hard drives that are used 24/7 fail because their mechanical (moving) parts are built from the cheapest materials that would last for the warranty period. Most of my Western Digital drives develop a noticeable "whine" within a year or two and typically fail soon after that. The "whine" sounds somewhat like an F1 engine running at max rpm, just not as loud (you can hear it if you get your ear close to the drive), and it definitely sounds like there's metal-on-metal friction in the bearings (not good). Better bearings are slightly harder to manufacture and thus no longer used in consumer products. Afterall we're supposed to get products that break and need to be replaced often to keep the manufacturers in bussiness.
So how do you screencap a BSOD?
Read more carefully please. It's not 20x, it's 5x. They use 40 lb per 4-day trip and want to reduce it to 2 lb per DAY.
Exxon makes gas, lubricants, plastics, oil, etc, etc,.. who's fault is it if the ice melts?
Nobody's blaming Exxon for causing ice to melt. TFA blames Exxon for funding a disinformation campaign with the sole purpose of confusing the public and government on global warming science.
Perhaps more like you blasting a nobel winning economist?
I'm not buying this. Slots are not sold individually with a price tag on each. They are being auctioned in batch. Whoever pays most gets 1st, next guy gets 2nd, etc. When Google takes 1st slot for themselves they don't really lose much since they just shift everyone else 1 slot down and still take all their money.
We had a sliding screen door that didn't work too well. My wife left it half-open one day. I asked her how many flies she thought that would keep out:
a) all of them
b) half of them
c) none of them
d) just the dumb ones
And the real answer is...
e) half of the dumb ones
And here I thought "batsuit" as in some different kind of lawsuit. And /. was going to explain me how it works...
Please stop giving me false hopes, ok?
Oh shit, the car ran over a bunch of people. Must self-destruct to remove any evidence!
Ok, but that doesn't mean that cable is inherently bad. Your unsafe experience was caused by improper design, not because it had cable acceleration.
When sensors fail they will fail in any way they want, regardless of how they were designed to fail. Otherwise it wouldn't be a failure.
Yes, cable is better. There is a spring that holds the throttle closed, and when you push the gas pedal the cable pulls it open. If the cable breaks then the spring would still close it back. It can only get stuck open if there's a lot of sticky gunk inside that keeps it open (a servo wouldn't help there) or if the spring breaks. My car has dual springs on the throttle, so that's pretty hard to happen.
This theory only breaks down if your car has fly-by-wire steering or brakes, where there is no mechanical connection between steering wheel and road wheels, or between brake pedal and master (brake) cylinder. But there aren't many cars like that (and I wouldn't buy one).