What did the "refurbishing" do for you that you couldn't do yourself? I imagine it involved taking it apart, blowing out the dust, and reformatting, but that is all simply done at home for most people reading this site.
And personally, I decided it was worth saving $300 to just double-check to make sure my backpack is zipped every time I get on my Nighthawk. Some people are less careful and/or clumsier than others and are actually justified in buying accidental protection plans, but some of us are OCD and are anally protective of our belongings (I had a g/f who went through phones about every six months, losing them, dropping them in the toilet, driving over them, etc.). In twelve years, I'm on my third cell-phone and third laptop, and that's only due to not enough power, not because of any damage. Hell, I just bought a new battery for my seven year old original Nintendo DS, because it still works just fine, excepting the 2 hours of gameplay per charge.
Probably "nothing" to do with background processes or RAM and more to do with the Dalvik VM and its Garbage Collector, and Android's lack of _full_ hardware-accelerated UI framework.;)
I have never owned one, but I've heard that Motorola installs a custom GUI that chokes all their Droid phones.
No, the fact that they're limiting their selection means that they are looking for a specific link between high standardized test scores/academic achievement and the inability to recognize people by face. No one is apparently bothering to read the first paragraph on that web page.
We are recruiting subjects for a Genome Wide Association Study of intelligence. Our study of prosopagnosia has not yet begun; if you wish to learn more about this condition, please visit faceblind.org.
Obviously this is a problem that has been looked at by hundreds of engineers and scientists, and this is the first group to successfully apply this technique; and all we can muster is a collective circle jerk trying to sound smart.
This is the first group of scientists besides thousands of undergraduate chemists every year who take a physical chemistry class and had to use Spartan calculate bandgap and relaxation times. Sorry, there's nothing cool about the computational work in this paper whatsoever, all the novelty is in what they made.
Well, the numbers in the paper are based on nanoscale assemblies. When you scale up to a 24" display, you'll lose a lot of that efficiency, so it's not really unbelievable.
Lots and lots of chemists use computational studies, they just don't bother to publish the details because it's often such an obscure molecule that no one else will care. For computational studies to be of any use whatsoever, you have to already have in mind what you're planning on making. You can't just tell Spartan (or whatever software you're using), "Show me molecular combinations that give me a 2.8 eV bandgap," it's not the computer of the Enterprise. You have to build the molecules that you think will give you an appropriate bandgap, set the various computational options (which particular molecular theories you want it to use to do the computation, because they all do something well and something poorly), and then sit back for hours while the little beastie chugs along and tries every possible rotation of every bond in the molecules to find the minimum-energy configuration of the interaction. Only at that point will it bother to calculate the bandgap for you based on the overlap of the molecular orbitals.
Change the inputs and outputs? I guess I'm old-fashioned, I'm perfectly happy with RCA, 1/4" & 1/8" jacks, and push-wire speaker connections. When I want to hook in my mp3 player or my HTPC, I just use 1/8" to 1/8" cables, on my six-month old Pioneer receiver (which, I'll admit, I bought for the features I listed above).
But I'm the kind of guy that disables Firewire ports on my PCs because they annoy me.
I didn't realize XBL indies were required to have a demo - I do all my gaming on PC, and have never even used XBL (I only have a 360 because of MS's free 360 promo this summer). But I get very annoyed when games don't have a demo - I'm not a programmer, but I can't believe they take much more effort to make once you've actually finished a game. So when a game doesn't have a demo, I just assume that it's like when production companies don't allow prescreenings of big films - it usually means they're very, very bad.
Sure, that's not fair to the few good games where Accounting said, "No, we're not going to pay two guys for another week to cut out Worlds 1-3 through 8-4 just to make a demo," but it's not my fault that their marketing and accounting departments are out of touch with the real world.
Most people aren't willing to drop five, or even three, bucks on a game that they've never heard of or never played. Without some sort of input, whether from a review, or friend's recommendation, or a demo, I won't buy a game, even if it does cost less than a trip to McDonald's.
What I would really like to see is an average time-played ratings system in Steam, XBLA, etc. I'd like to be able to log in to the Steam store, search for games at the $5 point, and then look at the ones that people have played for more than ten or twenty minutes (I have several of those, like Altitude, which just didn't catch my interest). Limit it to purchases that have actually been installed and launched, and I bet you could get a pretty good disguised ratings system out of it. Include some sort of algorithm to account for newly-released (maybe one week-old?) games, and I think it would be very useful.
Heat of fusion is used because the phase change is a great way to store energy - the molten salt can supercool, and you can still get a repeatable chunk of energy out of it when you force the crystallization. Plain old heat transfer is a bear to work with because the efficiency varies so much depending on the actual temperatures in use (stupid nighttime).
And the reason I am talking about low MP salts is because I didn't realize we were talking about different things - I was talking about feasibility for home solar installations, which won't be able to generate temperatures like those 100-acre desert installations can. They would be using heat engines, like some geothermal generators, not boiling water into steam.
I should, however, note that his "1 tonne of salt per house per day" figure seems a bit fishy.
Molar heat of fusion for sodium thiosulfate is 50 kcal/kg = 209,200 J/kg. 20,000 kWh * 1000 J/s*kW * 3600 s/hr = 72,000,000,000 J. 72,000,000,000 J / 209,200 J/kg = 344,000 kg = 379 tons. Sorry, I guess I didn't remember the number as well as I thought I did. Of course, if you can harness all the energy, with zero waste, instead of just the phase-change energy, you could probably get it down to about one ton.
It also requires a massive amount of salt. Sodium thiosulfate, one of the favored salts for thermal energy storage due to low cost, practical melting point, high heat of fusion, and low toxicity, takes over one ton to store the energy required by the average household for one day. You can reuse it each day, of course, but that's still a buttload of salt for just one city.
Their hand is going to be forced on the matter whether they like it or not. WOW apparently lost 600,000 subscribers since last year which is a drop of 5.5% or ~ $108 million in revenue. I don't think they can sustain their current model if subscribers continue to drop like that.
Well, 5 percent in six months is certainly something to be concerned about, but the overhead drops almost as quickly as the income, so in eight or nine years, their $2,000,000,000/year cash cow will be breaking even. I don't think they need to worry quite yet.
I think a lot of it has to do with impressions. It sounds a lot less like an internet scam to most people if they've bothered to get the 501(c)3 approval.
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What did the "refurbishing" do for you that you couldn't do yourself? I imagine it involved taking it apart, blowing out the dust, and reformatting, but that is all simply done at home for most people reading this site.
And personally, I decided it was worth saving $300 to just double-check to make sure my backpack is zipped every time I get on my Nighthawk. Some people are less careful and/or clumsier than others and are actually justified in buying accidental protection plans, but some of us are OCD and are anally protective of our belongings (I had a g/f who went through phones about every six months, losing them, dropping them in the toilet, driving over them, etc.). In twelve years, I'm on my third cell-phone and third laptop, and that's only due to not enough power, not because of any damage. Hell, I just bought a new battery for my seven year old original Nintendo DS, because it still works just fine, excepting the 2 hours of gameplay per charge.
Even if it does, undoubtedly Sony will take the option away a year or two into its life-cycle.
Probably "nothing" to do with background processes or RAM and more to do with the Dalvik VM and its Garbage Collector, and Android's lack of _full_ hardware-accelerated UI framework. ;)
I have never owned one, but I've heard that Motorola installs a custom GUI that chokes all their Droid phones.
No, the fact that they're limiting their selection means that they are looking for a specific link between high standardized test scores/academic achievement and the inability to recognize people by face. No one is apparently bothering to read the first paragraph on that web page.
We are recruiting subjects for a Genome Wide Association Study of intelligence. Our study of prosopagnosia has not yet begun; if you wish to learn more about this condition, please visit faceblind.org.
Obviously this is a problem that has been looked at by hundreds of engineers and scientists, and this is the first group to successfully apply this technique; and all we can muster is a collective circle jerk trying to sound smart.
This is the first group of scientists besides thousands of undergraduate chemists every year who take a physical chemistry class and had to use Spartan calculate bandgap and relaxation times. Sorry, there's nothing cool about the computational work in this paper whatsoever, all the novelty is in what they made.
Well, the numbers in the paper are based on nanoscale assemblies. When you scale up to a 24" display, you'll lose a lot of that efficiency, so it's not really unbelievable.
Lots and lots of chemists use computational studies, they just don't bother to publish the details because it's often such an obscure molecule that no one else will care. For computational studies to be of any use whatsoever, you have to already have in mind what you're planning on making. You can't just tell Spartan (or whatever software you're using), "Show me molecular combinations that give me a 2.8 eV bandgap," it's not the computer of the Enterprise. You have to build the molecules that you think will give you an appropriate bandgap, set the various computational options (which particular molecular theories you want it to use to do the computation, because they all do something well and something poorly), and then sit back for hours while the little beastie chugs along and tries every possible rotation of every bond in the molecules to find the minimum-energy configuration of the interaction. Only at that point will it bother to calculate the bandgap for you based on the overlap of the molecular orbitals.
Shouldn't the article say more than the summary?
The castrated Gizmodo article didn't, but the original CNET article did (though not by much).
Change the inputs and outputs? I guess I'm old-fashioned, I'm perfectly happy with RCA, 1/4" & 1/8" jacks, and push-wire speaker connections. When I want to hook in my mp3 player or my HTPC, I just use 1/8" to 1/8" cables, on my six-month old Pioneer receiver (which, I'll admit, I bought for the features I listed above).
But I'm the kind of guy that disables Firewire ports on my PCs because they annoy me.
I just wish we could tag this story with "shitcock."
I didn't realize XBL indies were required to have a demo - I do all my gaming on PC, and have never even used XBL (I only have a 360 because of MS's free 360 promo this summer). But I get very annoyed when games don't have a demo - I'm not a programmer, but I can't believe they take much more effort to make once you've actually finished a game. So when a game doesn't have a demo, I just assume that it's like when production companies don't allow prescreenings of big films - it usually means they're very, very bad.
Sure, that's not fair to the few good games where Accounting said, "No, we're not going to pay two guys for another week to cut out Worlds 1-3 through 8-4 just to make a demo," but it's not my fault that their marketing and accounting departments are out of touch with the real world.
Most people aren't willing to drop five, or even three, bucks on a game that they've never heard of or never played. Without some sort of input, whether from a review, or friend's recommendation, or a demo, I won't buy a game, even if it does cost less than a trip to McDonald's.
What I would really like to see is an average time-played ratings system in Steam, XBLA, etc. I'd like to be able to log in to the Steam store, search for games at the $5 point, and then look at the ones that people have played for more than ten or twenty minutes (I have several of those, like Altitude, which just didn't catch my interest). Limit it to purchases that have actually been installed and launched, and I bet you could get a pretty good disguised ratings system out of it. Include some sort of algorithm to account for newly-released (maybe one week-old?) games, and I think it would be very useful.
Just before Christmas was had a massive hail storm (some as big as cricket balls)
I've tried to determine how big cricket balls are, but the little critters just wouldn't sit still long enough.
You're not doing it right, my crickets keep coming back, they can't get enough of it.
ED2 is a comedic remake, so it doesn't really count, at least in my book.
. . . but it's the remake of The Evil Dead, not another sequel. And Bruce is currently only signed on to produce, not act.
I don't know if I should mark you as stupid or smart/funny... STOP CONFUSING ME...
They've finally added the "-1, Stupid" mod?
I think you're too young to get the reference....
I think you're too anonymous to realize s/he dropped the 'H' at the beginning.
...since TFA had absolutely none whatsoever.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/24/us-japan-nuclear-jellyfish-idUSTRE75N0Z520110624
Heat of fusion is used because the phase change is a great way to store energy - the molten salt can supercool, and you can still get a repeatable chunk of energy out of it when you force the crystallization. Plain old heat transfer is a bear to work with because the efficiency varies so much depending on the actual temperatures in use (stupid nighttime).
And the reason I am talking about low MP salts is because I didn't realize we were talking about different things - I was talking about feasibility for home solar installations, which won't be able to generate temperatures like those 100-acre desert installations can. They would be using heat engines, like some geothermal generators, not boiling water into steam.
I should, however, note that his "1 tonne of salt per house per day" figure seems a bit fishy.
Molar heat of fusion for sodium thiosulfate is 50 kcal/kg = 209,200 J/kg. 20,000 kWh * 1000 J/s*kW * 3600 s/hr = 72,000,000,000 J. 72,000,000,000 J / 209,200 J/kg = 344,000 kg = 379 tons. Sorry, I guess I didn't remember the number as well as I thought I did. Of course, if you can harness all the energy, with zero waste, instead of just the phase-change energy, you could probably get it down to about one ton.
Yeah, but lumber is way more than ten times as easy to come by as Na2S2O3.
This is by no means all-inclusive, but it's a starting point.
It also requires a massive amount of salt. Sodium thiosulfate, one of the favored salts for thermal energy storage due to low cost, practical melting point, high heat of fusion, and low toxicity, takes over one ton to store the energy required by the average household for one day. You can reuse it each day, of course, but that's still a buttload of salt for just one city.
. . .how many new X-Boxes he will buy with the money he stole.
Their hand is going to be forced on the matter whether they like it or not. WOW apparently lost 600,000 subscribers since last year which is a drop of 5.5% or ~ $108 million in revenue. I don't think they can sustain their current model if subscribers continue to drop like that.
Well, 5 percent in six months is certainly something to be concerned about, but the overhead drops almost as quickly as the income, so in eight or nine years, their $2,000,000,000/year cash cow will be breaking even. I don't think they need to worry quite yet.
I think a lot of it has to do with impressions. It sounds a lot less like an internet scam to most people if they've bothered to get the 501(c)3 approval.