Jesus you whiny babies! This thing is cool, it does something new. Quit nitpicking whatever analogies somebody decided to apply to it (insects) or whatever preconceptions you're bringing for no reason at all (autonomy, slashvertisements). Either post a video of a different aircraft pushing its way through ferns and a maze of ceiling joists, or quit bitching... what it does is really neat!
The more obvious choice would be natural gas. In the US nobody is building new coal plants anyways, since natural gas is cheaper. Is natural gas renewable/sustainable? No. Is it carbon-free? No. And yet still it's a whole lot better than coal. Burning coal in todays' crowded world is like a skyscraper with an outhouse.
"Svenson (1981) surveyed 161 students in Sweden and the United States, asking them to compare their driving safety and skill to the other people in the experiment. For driving skill, 93% of the US sample and 69% of the Swedish sample put themselves in the top 50% (above the median). For safety, 88% of the US group and 77% of the Swedish sample put themselves in the top 50%." cite.
The guy with charming ideas is nothing without a genius coder to implement them. And the coder indeed needs the ideas guy to suggest what he's going to code, and how it's going to look like. One can't do without the other, and so it goes in so many fields of work.
Sure, but in the end, the face man (let's call him "Jobs") is going to be a billionaire, whereas the coder ("Woz", if you will) is going to go a few years making $80K at the company he co-founded, and then get fired by Jobs to make way for dozens of other younger, cheaper Wozzes.
That's not fair - optical has definitely been trickling down from high-end long-haul applications, progressively towards campus/enterprise/residential networks and is continuing inside the data center:
Following a September 11, 2013 press announcement of them being officially Thunderbolt certified by Intel, in late September 2013, US glass company Corning Inc. released the first range of optical Thunderbolt cables available in the Western marketplace outside of Japan, along with optical USB 3.0 cables, both under the brand name "Optical Cables".[12] The cables have the advantage of being 50% smaller in diameter and 80% lighter in weight than comparable copper Thunderbolt cables, work with both the current 10 Gbps Thunderbolt protocol and the forthcoming 20 Gbps Thunderbolt 2 protocol, so are able to work with all self-powered Thunderbolt devices (unlike copper cables, optical cables cannot provide power).[12] Being optical, the cables expand the current 3 metres (9.8 ft) maximum cable length offered by copper to a new maximum of 100 metres (330 ft), meaning peripheral Thunderbolt devices can be attached further away from their host device.
So long as Amazon's re-investment in itself results in solid growth, the stock continues a steady climb, which isn't so much different from paying a dividend.
Although I guess those numbers still don't add up. A Feista already gets 30 combined MPG, so it will only burn 5000 gallons if it gets to 150K miles. The Insight would burn 3750 gal, a savings of $5K of gas at $4/gal, but that's after 150k miles, so you're still barely ahead.
They do make a cheap hybrid, the Honda Insight. It starts at $18.6K. It gets 10 mpg more than, say, the Ford Fiesta that starts at $14K. The Insight isn't a plug-in though.
Sounds like you're in violent agreement with Mr. Hypponen in the article.
Another possible response would be, "We have overstepped. Soon you will see concrete steps that we are stepping back towards more transparency and less intrusion."
I prefer the second because I think it's better for Americans as well as people everywhere. And it's not an either/or choice, since it ramping down US surveillance and control doesn't preclude people everywhere from developing their own indigenous web services or Internet infrastructure if that will serve them better.
Meh, that's like arguing "all countries have militaries and all have been in wars." OK, it's a true statement. But it overlooks awfully important differences in the size of those forces and how aggressively they use them, both internationally and against their own citizens.
Are they still trying to maintain the transparent fiction that this is anything but a taxi company that doesn't want to be called one, for regulatory purposes? They talk about driver earnings per hour, yet want to be treated like some college buddies carpooling home for thanksgiving break. It's a crock.
Beat me to it. I just junked a computer because the capacitors were all leaky and it wouldn't run stable any more. If the chips (CPU, RAM, etc) didn't need capacitors any more because they had the necessary capacitance built right in, and it was solid-state, I think that would be great. It's not like they need to hold huge amounts of energy for long periods either.
RTA, they spend a long time (days?) down there and it is permissible for one to sleep while the other stands watch. But in this case they are supposed to lock the vault door:
The written Air Force instructions on ICBM safety, last updated in June 1996, says, "One crewmember at a time may sleep on duty, but both must be awake and capable of detecting an unauthorized act if... the Launch Control Center blast door is open" or if someone other than the crew is present.
The blast door is not the first line of defense. An intruder intent on taking control of a missile command post would face many layers of security before encountering the blast door, which â" when closed â" is secured by 12 hydraulically operated steel pins. The door is at the base of an elevator shaft. Entry to that elevator is controlled from an above-ground building. ICBM fields are monitored with security cameras and patrolled regularly by armed Air Force guards.
You've got it backwards. If your phone doesn't link to your car, you might be tempted to take your eyes off the road to look at the phone as a map or to send a voicemail or skip to the next song. But if it links to the car, you can get turn-by-turn directions from your phone or use it to send a voicemail, etc, all eyes-free and hands-free.
Oh, hang on, that's what HTML was supposed to do in the first place, until 'web designers' decided they needed the page to look exactly the way they wanted it to look.
Look, the idea got a fair try, and it failed. Not because of web designers. The basic premise of separating content from presentation is fundamentally wrong. They aren't separable. People on a 4.5" display don't want - in fact they cannot even use - the same content as people on a 30" desktop display.
Are others confirming a 25-30% battery life increase? That is a stunning increase. (If performance, screen brightness, etc. are maintained). Surely that was not achieved just by trimming eye candy. I am really curious what power optimizations were done?
4k was touted in the original Mac Pro announcement, and it has two high-end graphics cards. That's why I was hoping for the announcement of a 4k Apple display today. I guess it didn't happen. In fact here's a wired article from 30 minutes ago on the very topic. I use my current MacBook Pro on a 30" Dell monitor so I am not a brand purist. But since a 4k display on a laptop is cutting edge I thought a vendor-supported configuration would be smoothest. I've had pretty spotty results driving dual dvi max resolution from laptops in the past - not just performance, but even supporting it at all.
I largely agree, since I am currently using one of the early Thunderbolt MacBook Pros, and there has been extremely little available for Thunderbolt for most of that time. But Apple is the only major player advancing 4k desktop displays at the moment, and they are using Thunderbolt 2 to do that.
I was really hoping the new MacBook pro would support a new 4k external display. With Thunderbolt 2 making it in, my question now is whether it will have the graphics grunt to handle it, and what sort of 4K display they are releasing in tandem with the Mac Pro?
Well, the long-term effects of diseases like diabetes and HPV are known perfectly well - they're awful. Be sure to weigh that against your skepticism of new vaccines.
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Jesus you whiny babies! This thing is cool, it does something new. Quit nitpicking whatever analogies somebody decided to apply to it (insects) or whatever preconceptions you're bringing for no reason at all (autonomy, slashvertisements). Either post a video of a different aircraft pushing its way through ferns and a maze of ceiling joists, or quit bitching... what it does is really neat!
The more obvious choice would be natural gas. In the US nobody is building new coal plants anyways, since natural gas is cheaper. Is natural gas renewable/sustainable? No. Is it carbon-free? No. And yet still it's a whole lot better than coal. Burning coal in todays' crowded world is like a skyscraper with an outhouse.
Ha ha, classic:
"Svenson (1981) surveyed 161 students in Sweden and the United States, asking them to compare their driving safety and skill to the other people in the experiment. For driving skill, 93% of the US sample and 69% of the Swedish sample put themselves in the top 50% (above the median). For safety, 88% of the US group and 77% of the Swedish sample put themselves in the top 50%." cite.
Sure, but in the end, the face man (let's call him "Jobs") is going to be a billionaire, whereas the coder ("Woz", if you will) is going to go a few years making $80K at the company he co-founded, and then get fired by Jobs to make way for dozens of other younger, cheaper Wozzes.
I wonder too, since so far Obama administration has done hardly anything to stop or recriminate against the leaks, at least publicly.
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From 3m to 100m! Personally I think that sounds great - it will enable truly dumb terminals fully capable of full-motion video applications.
So long as Amazon's re-investment in itself results in solid growth, the stock continues a steady climb, which isn't so much different from paying a dividend.
It's not even close to being an issue, check out the graph in this link.
Although I guess those numbers still don't add up. A Feista already gets 30 combined MPG, so it will only burn 5000 gallons if it gets to 150K miles. The Insight would burn 3750 gal, a savings of $5K of gas at $4/gal, but that's after 150k miles, so you're still barely ahead.
They do make a cheap hybrid, the Honda Insight. It starts at $18.6K. It gets 10 mpg more than, say, the Ford Fiesta that starts at $14K. The Insight isn't a plug-in though.
A "pre-dawn" raid even. WTF? They're going for style points?
Another possible response would be, "We have overstepped. Soon you will see concrete steps that we are stepping back towards more transparency and less intrusion."
I prefer the second because I think it's better for Americans as well as people everywhere. And it's not an either/or choice, since it ramping down US surveillance and control doesn't preclude people everywhere from developing their own indigenous web services or Internet infrastructure if that will serve them better.
Did you actually read what I wrote?
Meh, that's like arguing "all countries have militaries and all have been in wars." OK, it's a true statement. But it overlooks awfully important differences in the size of those forces and how aggressively they use them, both internationally and against their own citizens.
Are they still trying to maintain the transparent fiction that this is anything but a taxi company that doesn't want to be called one, for regulatory purposes? They talk about driver earnings per hour, yet want to be treated like some college buddies carpooling home for thanksgiving break. It's a crock.
Why not?
Beat me to it. I just junked a computer because the capacitors were all leaky and it wouldn't run stable any more. If the chips (CPU, RAM, etc) didn't need capacitors any more because they had the necessary capacitance built right in, and it was solid-state, I think that would be great. It's not like they need to hold huge amounts of energy for long periods either.
You've got it backwards. If your phone doesn't link to your car, you might be tempted to take your eyes off the road to look at the phone as a map or to send a voicemail or skip to the next song. But if it links to the car, you can get turn-by-turn directions from your phone or use it to send a voicemail, etc, all eyes-free and hands-free.
Look, the idea got a fair try, and it failed. Not because of web designers. The basic premise of separating content from presentation is fundamentally wrong. They aren't separable. People on a 4.5" display don't want - in fact they cannot even use - the same content as people on a 30" desktop display.
Are others confirming a 25-30% battery life increase? That is a stunning increase. (If performance, screen brightness, etc. are maintained). Surely that was not achieved just by trimming eye candy. I am really curious what power optimizations were done?
4k was touted in the original Mac Pro announcement, and it has two high-end graphics cards. That's why I was hoping for the announcement of a 4k Apple display today. I guess it didn't happen. In fact here's a wired article from 30 minutes ago on the very topic. I use my current MacBook Pro on a 30" Dell monitor so I am not a brand purist. But since a 4k display on a laptop is cutting edge I thought a vendor-supported configuration would be smoothest. I've had pretty spotty results driving dual dvi max resolution from laptops in the past - not just performance, but even supporting it at all.
I largely agree, since I am currently using one of the early Thunderbolt MacBook Pros, and there has been extremely little available for Thunderbolt for most of that time. But Apple is the only major player advancing 4k desktop displays at the moment, and they are using Thunderbolt 2 to do that.
I was really hoping the new MacBook pro would support a new 4k external display. With Thunderbolt 2 making it in, my question now is whether it will have the graphics grunt to handle it, and what sort of 4K display they are releasing in tandem with the Mac Pro?
Well, the long-term effects of diseases like diabetes and HPV are known perfectly well - they're awful. Be sure to weigh that against your skepticism of new vaccines.