Motorcycles actually are a smaller target for radar. The radar tends to pick up on other vehicles if there are any nearby. I notice this on those "Your Speed Is..." signs they set up around town, I have to get pretty close on my motorcycle before they work. I was also let off a ticket once because the officer said he didn't get a good readout on my bike.
That was a few years ago, so it's entirely possible lidar and so forth make the difference insignificant - obviously clocking motorcycles is doable if somebody wants to spend the money. (My real solution was to start riding more offroad, where you can scare yourself at 20mph, and the bikes are unpleasant at freeway speeds anyways.)
two-thirds of all solar PV capacity in place worldwide has been installed since January 2011.
Let's put that into perspective. It took nearly four decades to install 50 gigawatts of PV capacity worldwide. But in the last 2 1/2 years, the industry jumped from 50 gigawatts of PV capacity to just over 100 gigawatts. At the same time, global module prices have fallen 62 percent since January 2011.
Even more amazingly, the solar industry is on track to install another 100 gigawatts worldwide by 2015 -- nearly doubling solar capacity in the next 2 1/2 years.
Yes, it will still take a while to make a real dent in the world's huge energy demands, but doubling every few years is pretty impressive!
Considering the fucking lawyers will get most of that settlement, kindly STFU.
Oh well, the plaintiff's complaints don't sound like anything that should have made them rich, yet they'll never have to work again, even after the lawyers get their piece. And the proximate source of that money is an oil company, which is turning a buck destroying natural resources they didn't create, making a mess of the atmosphere that will take the next couple centuries to clean up. Might as well throw some lawyers in the brew.
If cyber "war" has replaced nuclear war then that is an excellent trade. Even John Kerry was waxing nostalgic for the Cold War the other day. What a joke! Are people that dumb? Have we so quickly forgotten what it was like to face a REAL threat of annihilation and actual global destruction? I would take another 9/11 over another Cuban Missile Crisis any day of the week. Let alone some computer hacking.
Well it's all a matter of degree. The phone is impressive. On the other hand, the prefab GSM Module is really the core of the phone.
Oooh, car analogy time! This is like a kit car where you use a Chevy or Ford engine and transmission. Very few hobbyists go further than that, and if they do, they aren't hobbyists by the time they're done:)
But what would really intrigue me would be if the new MacBook Air was running iOS 8... Why not just make one?
Witness "convergence" in Windows 8! Nobody has figured out how to support both a Touch interface and a WIMP interface well. Each app(lication) is made with the assumption of one or the other. Touch applications don't even have a mouse cursor. Even after somebody figures out the UI metaphors (and Microsoft is getting a lot of expensive bruises doing that), it will be an entire generation of apps before they are written convergence in mind - if it ever really catches on.
For the moment, I think Surface Pro should just have two separate modes - if you open a.docx without the keyboard folded out, you get a simplistic viewer with a little editing enabled (no change tracking, document merging, etc). If you open a docx with the keyboard enabled, you get real Word.
Apple hasn't taken the convergence plunge yet at all (that we know of), so it would have to switch between OSX and iOS entirely.
My (parents') Amiga 500 died half a dozen times from electrostatic discharge. Ultimately we made a mat to sit it on, out of cardboard wrapped in foil and wired to the wall outlet ground. You would spark yourself on the mat before using the computer.
Yes, look at the article: "NYPD spokeswoman Kim Royster told The New York Times the department was "creating new ways to communicate effectively with the community" and that Twitter provided "an open forum for an uncensored exchange" that is "good for our city."
Oh, but they didn't mean it! They didn't expect this, we subverted it! It's a backfire, really!
What else could either side possibly say? Anyways, the Police comment is closer to the truth, this is good for the city.
As many as possible. I've said for years the real money lies in being a welder, plumber, or an electrician.
But have you tried backing it up with any facts? People keep repeating it, but the statistics keep insisting otherwise. You can point to an anecdote about a welder who made $150K in a year. The trouble is showing that large numbers of young people could all become welders who make $150K per year. On average, welders make $32,000 per year. And that's among welders who actually hold a job as a welder.
Whoah, I just googled it and Corning just (in the last week) released a USB3 optical converter/cable that's $109.99 for 10m. Maybe USB 3.1 will get us there - one connection to rule them all (even HDMI and ethernet).
That sounds interesting for piping TV throughout the home, but what about all the USB peripherals you need on a terminal? (Mouse, keyboard, USB connection for syncing your mp3 player, etc). I guess you could just solve the mouse/keyboard situation with a wireless peripherals if the range is sufficient, although bluetooth for one is not meant to work through walls.
Ah well, a thunderbolt dock is like $300 anyways, vs. $30 for a good USB3 hub. I think USB will beat out thunderbolt.
Hey, it's 2014 and USB 1.0 was standardized 19 years ago, this tech ought to be good by now. That said USB3 is pretty good. The only thing I connect via Thunderbolt on my Macbook is the external display, and I'm not even clear on whether that's actually Thunderbolt, or just a faux Thunderbolt DisplayPort connector.
The article does not list "extended range" among the advantages, so I guess they are not switching over to the optical thunderbolt. Too bad, I think that would be a much bigger advantage than the 2x speedup (my MacBook already has 2 thunderbolt2 connectors). If optical thunderbolt ever catches on you could use it to attach multiple terminals to a computer, such as routing uncompressed low-latency video signals throughout your home. Last I checked, there still is not a good way to do this over gigabit ethernet.
How directly comparable are the megapixel figures anyways? To start with, I don't think Lytro has a bayer filter, and it is less sensitive to lens quality.
Boooo. Lytro is a genuinely innovative camera, and I applaud them for that. What the artistic payoff turns out to be, only time will tell, but it's worth exploring.
Psychology will never be as simple or predictable as Newtonian physics. On the other hand, the fact that "big data" is driven primarily by market forces (in particular, targeted marketing and automated trading) seem to give credence to the concept that information can be used to narrow probabilities somewhat. (Perhaps this is what you mean by "useful phenomenology"?)
Racial profiling is a good concrete example of this. Crime statistics are often used to rationalize race-based profiling, but it is key to realize that by taking this step you are moving beyond passively understanding the present, into using that information to shape the future, thus perpetuating a problem that should instead be solved.
You will almost never find a risk-free investment with a higher return than the interest rate on a loan. If you ignore the "risk-free" part, then you are equating a certain cost with an uncertain return, which is not correct. So the answer is not "always," but "it depends" on the usual factors - your time horizon, whether having more would help you as much as having less would hurt you, etc...
That reminds me of the old saw about the economist and his friend walking down the street. The friend spots a $20 bill on the street and says, "whoah, it's a $20 bill!" The economist, not even looking down, says "nope, if there were a $20 bill lying there, somebody would have picked it up already!"
According to the article the owner would have control over whether the phone gets wiped. My point, mainly, is that handsets are utterly dependent on infrastructure in any case, so the notion that this will give sweeping new powers to the government to suppress dissent are unfounded.
What you describe is probably exactly how the kill switch will be implemented. (How else would it be implemented?)
All the hyperbole in here is silly. Try not paying your phone bill and you will discover there is already a "kill switch." The questions at issue are administrative - how to share the list of stolen phones between carriers, set the criteria for putting a phone on the list, etc.
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Motorcycles actually are a smaller target for radar. The radar tends to pick up on other vehicles if there are any nearby. I notice this on those "Your Speed Is..." signs they set up around town, I have to get pretty close on my motorcycle before they work. I was also let off a ticket once because the officer said he didn't get a good readout on my bike. That was a few years ago, so it's entirely possible lidar and so forth make the difference insignificant - obviously clocking motorcycles is doable if somebody wants to spend the money. (My real solution was to start riding more offroad, where you can scare yourself at 20mph, and the bikes are unpleasant at freeway speeds anyways.)
Fortunately, that is not true. Solar adoption is increasing very rapidly. From an article 6 months ago:
Yes, it will still take a while to make a real dent in the world's huge energy demands, but doubling every few years is pretty impressive!
Oh well, the plaintiff's complaints don't sound like anything that should have made them rich, yet they'll never have to work again, even after the lawyers get their piece. And the proximate source of that money is an oil company, which is turning a buck destroying natural resources they didn't create, making a mess of the atmosphere that will take the next couple centuries to clean up. Might as well throw some lawyers in the brew.
If cyber "war" has replaced nuclear war then that is an excellent trade. Even John Kerry was waxing nostalgic for the Cold War the other day. What a joke! Are people that dumb? Have we so quickly forgotten what it was like to face a REAL threat of annihilation and actual global destruction? I would take another 9/11 over another Cuban Missile Crisis any day of the week. Let alone some computer hacking.
Oooh, car analogy time! This is like a kit car where you use a Chevy or Ford engine and transmission. Very few hobbyists go further than that, and if they do, they aren't hobbyists by the time they're done :)
If it was good enough for Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder then it's good enough for you!
Witness "convergence" in Windows 8! Nobody has figured out how to support both a Touch interface and a WIMP interface well. Each app(lication) is made with the assumption of one or the other. Touch applications don't even have a mouse cursor. Even after somebody figures out the UI metaphors (and Microsoft is getting a lot of expensive bruises doing that), it will be an entire generation of apps before they are written convergence in mind - if it ever really catches on.
For the moment, I think Surface Pro should just have two separate modes - if you open a .docx without the keyboard folded out, you get a simplistic viewer with a little editing enabled (no change tracking, document merging, etc). If you open a docx with the keyboard enabled, you get real Word.
Apple hasn't taken the convergence plunge yet at all (that we know of), so it would have to switch between OSX and iOS entirely.
My (parents') Amiga 500 died half a dozen times from electrostatic discharge. Ultimately we made a mat to sit it on, out of cardboard wrapped in foil and wired to the wall outlet ground. You would spark yourself on the mat before using the computer.
Oh, but they didn't mean it! They didn't expect this, we subverted it! It's a backfire, really!
What else could either side possibly say? Anyways, the Police comment is closer to the truth, this is good for the city.
But have you tried backing it up with any facts? People keep repeating it, but the statistics keep insisting otherwise. You can point to an anecdote about a welder who made $150K in a year. The trouble is showing that large numbers of young people could all become welders who make $150K per year. On average, welders make $32,000 per year. And that's among welders who actually hold a job as a welder.
Whoah, I just googled it and Corning just (in the last week) released a USB3 optical converter/cable that's $109.99 for 10m. Maybe USB 3.1 will get us there - one connection to rule them all (even HDMI and ethernet).
Ah well, a thunderbolt dock is like $300 anyways, vs. $30 for a good USB3 hub. I think USB will beat out thunderbolt.
I'm just afraid those ridiculous prices won't come down until optical is the norm. $659 for a 30m cable? A 30m fiber network cable is $60.
No, terminal servers and thin clients are pretty useless on today's video-heavy applications.
Hey, it's 2014 and USB 1.0 was standardized 19 years ago, this tech ought to be good by now. That said USB3 is pretty good. The only thing I connect via Thunderbolt on my Macbook is the external display, and I'm not even clear on whether that's actually Thunderbolt, or just a faux Thunderbolt DisplayPort connector.
The article does not list "extended range" among the advantages, so I guess they are not switching over to the optical thunderbolt. Too bad, I think that would be a much bigger advantage than the 2x speedup (my MacBook already has 2 thunderbolt2 connectors). If optical thunderbolt ever catches on you could use it to attach multiple terminals to a computer, such as routing uncompressed low-latency video signals throughout your home. Last I checked, there still is not a good way to do this over gigabit ethernet.
How directly comparable are the megapixel figures anyways? To start with, I don't think Lytro has a bayer filter, and it is less sensitive to lens quality.
Boooo. Lytro is a genuinely innovative camera, and I applaud them for that. What the artistic payoff turns out to be, only time will tell, but it's worth exploring.
Psychology will never be as simple or predictable as Newtonian physics. On the other hand, the fact that "big data" is driven primarily by market forces (in particular, targeted marketing and automated trading) seem to give credence to the concept that information can be used to narrow probabilities somewhat. (Perhaps this is what you mean by "useful phenomenology"?)
Racial profiling is a good concrete example of this. Crime statistics are often used to rationalize race-based profiling, but it is key to realize that by taking this step you are moving beyond passively understanding the present, into using that information to shape the future, thus perpetuating a problem that should instead be solved.
You will almost never find a risk-free investment with a higher return than the interest rate on a loan. If you ignore the "risk-free" part, then you are equating a certain cost with an uncertain return, which is not correct. So the answer is not "always," but "it depends" on the usual factors - your time horizon, whether having more would help you as much as having less would hurt you, etc...
That reminds me of the old saw about the economist and his friend walking down the street. The friend spots a $20 bill on the street and says, "whoah, it's a $20 bill!" The economist, not even looking down, says "nope, if there were a $20 bill lying there, somebody would have picked it up already!"
According to the article the owner would have control over whether the phone gets wiped. My point, mainly, is that handsets are utterly dependent on infrastructure in any case, so the notion that this will give sweeping new powers to the government to suppress dissent are unfounded.
All the hyperbole in here is silly. Try not paying your phone bill and you will discover there is already a "kill switch." The questions at issue are administrative - how to share the list of stolen phones between carriers, set the criteria for putting a phone on the list, etc.
There's a digital edition too, but I presume that doesn't exclude the print edition, or your list will be empty.