They really do need to come up with better metrics for hybrid cars, as it is always strikes me as crazy when they specify city mileage greater than highway mileage. Maybe mpg+wh, miles per gallon plus watt-hours, where watt-hours are the watt-hours in the battery at the beginning of the ride minus the watt-hours in the battery at the end of the drive. I guess the problem with this is it would require accurate battery charge measurement, which seems to have been an elusive to this point.
I believe the problem is that there are health consequences associated with steroids. So if baseball gets to the point you suggest, I basically have to be willing to accept the adverse health consequences of steroids in order to play baseball competitively.
This makes more sense to me, as I thought the bible was supposed to be the Old Testament and the New Testament. I was curious how they could have find a bible older than the new testament.
First: You can detect stationary objects with a Doppler radar, just look at the zero Doppler components. The point of a Doppler radar is that you can distinguish between moving and stationary objects.
Most marine navigation radars (Furuno, etc.) are not doppler radars. They are simple single pulse systems that need to be able to detect stationary objects such as buoys.
How is this comment insightful in any way? It was meant to be nothing more than inflamatory taunting, the prototypical example of a troll. Also, I don't say this because I drive an SUV. I actually drive a Celica that gets 35 MPG. I just fail to see any reason for such a spiteful post to be labeled insightful.
I would circle the (was) for FORTRAN being the language for engineering. FORTRAN does seem to be the language of choice for older engineers, but MATLAB is the language of choice for the younger engineers. Many of the older engineers have preconceived notions that FORTRAN code executes much faster than MATLAB code, but if you adequately vectorize MATLAB code (avoid "for" loops), the execution times are similar; however, with MATLAB editing code is quicker (no recompiling), generating figures is easier, and it is amazing how many routines you can find for MATLAB. As a disclaimer I must say that I have limited experience with FORTRAN (learned C and MATLAB in Engineering school), but some of the people I work with have many older programs written in FORTRAN and they tend to use MATLAB for new simulations.
I think I do serious work and I must say I rarely use the Windows command line. For what tasks you do generally find cmd.exe to be indispensible? I think the only two commands I ever use are "ping" and "ipconfig", and this is usually for trouble-shooting, not "serious work".
SRAM = STATIC Random Access Memory
SDRAM = Synchronous DYNAMIC Random Access Memory
DRAM is basically a capactior, SRAM is a latch. Two different memory technologies. I believe a CPU cache is typically SRAM.
OK, I didn't RTFA, but this is slashdot right? Aren't the gates (and channels) of current (no pun intended) transistors only several atoms wide? So several "memristors" can be created in the space of several atoms? I guess leakage current places limitations on how "large" of a memristor value can be created?
I believe the other reply to your comment was regarding the irony of you discussing power without understanding the definition of power. Power is an instantaneous measurement, what you are comparing is energy (Power x Time) or AVERAGE power (Power x Duty Factor). I haven't RTFA, but I will believe an earlier post which said the AVERAGE power is about 10 Watts. A "AA" battery delivering 10 Watts of power could do so for ~ 13 minutes (assuming 1.5 V, 1500 mAh); however, this assumes a AA battery is capable of delivering 6.6 Amps of current, which I suspect isn't likely (though I don't know the internal resistance of a "AA" battery).
You may be surprised with how many of those phones may have only been in a water coma. I mistakenly went swimming with my cell phone in my pocket and after a few days of drying, everything worked fine. The screen stayed a little foggy for a while, but that was just an inconvenience.
While we are at it, why don't we make all government services a la carte? If I don't want Social Security / Medicare, I can skip out and not pay the associated tax. For those that don't want Socialized Medicine when it arrives, let them skip out and not have to pay higher taxes.
In my neighborhood, we have two cable providers (Comcast and Millenium Digital Media) and Verizon FiOS. Until recently, I had cable, but decided to switch to Verizon FiOS. Main reason I switched was good timing on Verizons part. We were having some service disruptions with our cable provider and some headaches dealing with customer service. Seemed like we had to wait on the phone for 30 minutes just to talk with somebody. At the same time Verizon had just installed fiber in our neighborhood. It was quite an operation they had, their must of been a crew of about 50 guys with shovels, and I believe they had our ~1/4 mile street, (~0.4 km for you metric people) done in a day. Anyhow, after Verizon installed the fiber they went on a blitz to get as many people in the neighborhood signed up as possible with free installation and some package discounts. So we decided to make the switch.
Verizon FiOS has worked well for me so far. The biggest issue I have with FiOS is that you need a cable box at every television set and my Hauppauge PCI cards don't receive any cable channels anymore (unless I want to donate a box to them too). A really cool feature would be a box that would decode some set of digital signals and broadcast them in analog over the internal cable system, while allowing the user to select the set and assign the analog channel.
Isn't that the same argument the guy creating Linspire (or whatever the hell it was called) was trying to make. I guess the issue was the default user in Linspire was root or something, but I also forget what the exact issue was? Anyway, his point was users data is pretty much the most important thing on a computer, the rest is just a tool to generate and keep the data.
I believe Police Officers/Soldiers present different circumstances, as it is basically their job to be present at times of emergency. As far as Lawyers, which Lawyers besides Public Defenders have to retain a client that they don't wish to represent? If you only refer to Public Defenders, then that is fine, have Public Physicians. Once you create Public Physicians, I predict complaints about unequal quality of care almost immediately. I do not intend to convey that this is a simple problem; however, it is a slippery slope, and when compelling arguments exist on both sides of a topic, I prefer to go with the side that requires less government intervention.
I have a similar problem as the GP. Giving somebody an absolute right (healthcare in this case), deprives somebody else (a doctor for example) of their rights. By saying that everybody is entitled to healthcare you have said that a doctor does not have the right to set his/her fees. Instead, decisions made by the government will mandate what the doctor does. If I were looking for a profession, I would not want to enter such a profession.
Maybe the congress-people should go to medical school in their spare time so they can provide for the general welfare of the populace.
I agree that dust will not be a problem, as the pathways through which the light signal would travel would probably be sealed in some way and I can't even begin to guess why the GP was concerned about a computer being knocked on its side. However, I would imagine that since the pickups for a hard drive are magnetic, dust would not make much of a difference. Now I don't know how big the gap is between a head and the platter, so I guess if this was close enough dust could scratch a platter? But our CD drives tend to work fairly reliably over an unsealed path.
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It is simple to solve world hunger. All we need to do is start feeding plants "Brawndo". Its got electrolytes, which is what plants need.
They really do need to come up with better metrics for hybrid cars, as it is always strikes me as crazy when they specify city mileage greater than highway mileage. Maybe mpg+wh, miles per gallon plus watt-hours, where watt-hours are the watt-hours in the battery at the beginning of the ride minus the watt-hours in the battery at the end of the drive. I guess the problem with this is it would require accurate battery charge measurement, which seems to have been an elusive to this point.
Guess that means the students don't have to "buy" this one themselves. I guess maybe if they are on a full scholarship this is true.
It is likely Not Sure's brother. So he must be pretty smart.
You think that is puzzling? I'm even more puzzled that the first post can be redundant.
I believe the problem is that there are health consequences associated with steroids. So if baseball gets to the point you suggest, I basically have to be willing to accept the adverse health consequences of steroids in order to play baseball competitively.
This makes more sense to me, as I thought the bible was supposed to be the Old Testament and the New Testament. I was curious how they could have find a bible older than the new testament.
Second: Clouds are not stationary objects.
Most marine navigation radars (Furuno, etc.) are not doppler radars. They are simple single pulse systems that need to be able to detect stationary objects such as buoys.
How is this comment insightful in any way? It was meant to be nothing more than inflamatory taunting, the prototypical example of a troll. Also, I don't say this because I drive an SUV. I actually drive a Celica that gets 35 MPG. I just fail to see any reason for such a spiteful post to be labeled insightful.
I would circle the (was) for FORTRAN being the language for engineering. FORTRAN does seem to be the language of choice for older engineers, but MATLAB is the language of choice for the younger engineers. Many of the older engineers have preconceived notions that FORTRAN code executes much faster than MATLAB code, but if you adequately vectorize MATLAB code (avoid "for" loops), the execution times are similar; however, with MATLAB editing code is quicker (no recompiling), generating figures is easier, and it is amazing how many routines you can find for MATLAB. As a disclaimer I must say that I have limited experience with FORTRAN (learned C and MATLAB in Engineering school), but some of the people I work with have many older programs written in FORTRAN and they tend to use MATLAB for new simulations.
I think I do serious work and I must say I rarely use the Windows command line. For what tasks you do generally find cmd.exe to be indispensible? I think the only two commands I ever use are "ping" and "ipconfig", and this is usually for trouble-shooting, not "serious work".
SRAM = STATIC Random Access Memory SDRAM = Synchronous DYNAMIC Random Access Memory DRAM is basically a capactior, SRAM is a latch. Two different memory technologies. I believe a CPU cache is typically SRAM.
OK, I didn't RTFA, but this is slashdot right? Aren't the gates (and channels) of current (no pun intended) transistors only several atoms wide? So several "memristors" can be created in the space of several atoms? I guess leakage current places limitations on how "large" of a memristor value can be created?
Before long soap companies are going to start hosting the modern day equivalent of operas for the housewives of America to watch.
I believe the other reply to your comment was regarding the irony of you discussing power without understanding the definition of power. Power is an instantaneous measurement, what you are comparing is energy (Power x Time) or AVERAGE power (Power x Duty Factor). I haven't RTFA, but I will believe an earlier post which said the AVERAGE power is about 10 Watts. A "AA" battery delivering 10 Watts of power could do so for ~ 13 minutes (assuming 1.5 V, 1500 mAh); however, this assumes a AA battery is capable of delivering 6.6 Amps of current, which I suspect isn't likely (though I don't know the internal resistance of a "AA" battery).
You must be from Baltimore, the place where "think" has become the official substitute for "thing".
You may be surprised with how many of those phones may have only been in a water coma. I mistakenly went swimming with my cell phone in my pocket and after a few days of drying, everything worked fine. The screen stayed a little foggy for a while, but that was just an inconvenience.
While we are at it, why don't we make all government services a la carte? If I don't want Social Security / Medicare, I can skip out and not pay the associated tax. For those that don't want Socialized Medicine when it arrives, let them skip out and not have to pay higher taxes.
In my neighborhood, we have two cable providers (Comcast and Millenium Digital Media) and Verizon FiOS. Until recently, I had cable, but decided to switch to Verizon FiOS. Main reason I switched was good timing on Verizons part. We were having some service disruptions with our cable provider and some headaches dealing with customer service. Seemed like we had to wait on the phone for 30 minutes just to talk with somebody. At the same time Verizon had just installed fiber in our neighborhood. It was quite an operation they had, their must of been a crew of about 50 guys with shovels, and I believe they had our ~1/4 mile street, (~0.4 km for you metric people) done in a day. Anyhow, after Verizon installed the fiber they went on a blitz to get as many people in the neighborhood signed up as possible with free installation and some package discounts. So we decided to make the switch.
Verizon FiOS has worked well for me so far. The biggest issue I have with FiOS is that you need a cable box at every television set and my Hauppauge PCI cards don't receive any cable channels anymore (unless I want to donate a box to them too). A really cool feature would be a box that would decode some set of digital signals and broadcast them in analog over the internal cable system, while allowing the user to select the set and assign the analog channel.
Isn't that the same argument the guy creating Linspire (or whatever the hell it was called) was trying to make. I guess the issue was the default user in Linspire was root or something, but I also forget what the exact issue was? Anyway, his point was users data is pretty much the most important thing on a computer, the rest is just a tool to generate and keep the data.
I believe Police Officers/Soldiers present different circumstances, as it is basically their job to be present at times of emergency. As far as Lawyers, which Lawyers besides Public Defenders have to retain a client that they don't wish to represent? If you only refer to Public Defenders, then that is fine, have Public Physicians. Once you create Public Physicians, I predict complaints about unequal quality of care almost immediately. I do not intend to convey that this is a simple problem; however, it is a slippery slope, and when compelling arguments exist on both sides of a topic, I prefer to go with the side that requires less government intervention.
I have a similar problem as the GP. Giving somebody an absolute right (healthcare in this case), deprives somebody else (a doctor for example) of their rights. By saying that everybody is entitled to healthcare you have said that a doctor does not have the right to set his/her fees. Instead, decisions made by the government will mandate what the doctor does. If I were looking for a profession, I would not want to enter such a profession.
Maybe the congress-people should go to medical school in their spare time so they can provide for the general welfare of the populace.
I thought there was a "Select" before the "Start" as well as two "B A" s, but I forget what game that was even for, so I could be mistaken.
I agree that dust will not be a problem, as the pathways through which the light signal would travel would probably be sealed in some way and I can't even begin to guess why the GP was concerned about a computer being knocked on its side. However, I would imagine that since the pickups for a hard drive are magnetic, dust would not make much of a difference. Now I don't know how big the gap is between a head and the platter, so I guess if this was close enough dust could scratch a platter? But our CD drives tend to work fairly reliably over an unsealed path.