The problem is that some people are not in shape to begin with, so cycling is actually quite hard on them. The problem with electric bikes is that it doesn't fix the root problem, which is, that the person is out of shape. After a few months of biking regularly without assistance, you'll be in pretty good shape, and you'll wonder why anybody would need an electric bike. That being said, the biggest gripe I have with electric bikes, is that in most places, the law dictates that they can't assist over some specified speed, usually around 30 km/h. That's way to slow for my tastes. It's pretty easy to maintain that speed on a decent bike without electrical assistance. On my bike, with walking effort, I can easily maintain 22-25 km/h on the flats.
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You do realize we are talking about a Porsche here, right? Sure there's cars Ferraris (can't recall exact models) that have tons of stuff build into them to make even your everyday driver to be able to control it much better, even at speeds that should only be attempted on the track, but that isn't anybody's cup of tea. It's like saying that nobody should be able to fly those old, restored WWII planes because the lack modern control systems. Some people like to actually be driving instead of letting the computers in the car do all the driving for them.
Exactly. Reminds me of the stuff about Dropbox telling everybody their stuff was encrypted, and that even employees of Dropbox couldn't read the files. But it turned out that it wasn't true, and that files weren't actually being encrypted with the user's password, but with a single master key that was in the hands of Dropbox.
All parties are dead. As far as I understand, this is a work of fiction. It's not somebody's private journal of things they wanted to keep secret. The only affected party is the author himself.
Are you sure that's what they mean? Or are you interpreting that the wrong way. Your citizenship is a work permit. Couldn't this be interpreted as "we don't want to help you get work visa, and we want you to be able to start right away". Living in a government city I see similar stuff all the time. "Must have xyz security clearance" is common. The point is, they would rather hire somebody who has the ability to start work right away without any red tape than hire you and find out there's some obscure reason you can't get security clearance.
Kind of brings up a problem with Bitcoin though. If money can cease to exist due to a bad hard drive, and there is a limited amount of Bitcoin, then eventually a decent amount of it will be lost. If the average person starts using it, with their usually ability to keep things safe and backed up, it probably won't take long to disappear a significant amount of the money. The government could even destroy any Bitcoins it takes possession of through drug busts or other means, simply by deleting the wallets.
The only problem I have with BitCoin at the moment is that it isn't something you want to hold on to. Buy it, do your transaction immediately before the value changes. Somebody pays you in BitCoin, immediately cash out before the value goes down. With most currencies, you can put it in the bank, or under your mattress, and be reasonably sure that in a week it won't have lost half of its value. There are lots of people making sure that the value of the US dollar doesn't do that kind of stuff, because it would be terrible for the economy, to have money changing value so often.
I don't need to carry around a tablet all the time either. A cheap small phone will do in a pinch to check a map, look up the bus times, check email, check social networks. I bring the tablet along if I know I'm going to be waiting around for a while and will have time to actually do something on it. But if I'm going out to dinner or drinks with friends, there's little purpose to having anything more advanced than a basic cell phone on me.
Personally, I don't really care about the specs of my phone. I think you're much better off getting a cheap phone and then getting a tablet to do all the stuff you'd normally do on your phone. As long as the phone can make calls, send messages, and act as wifi hotspot for my tablet, I'm fine with it. Phones are either too small to do any real tasks, or too large to just be a phone. I'd rather just have a phone that does it's job, and have a tablet to do my actual mobile computing.
Although one thing wrong with this phone is the price. at 400 euros, it's more expensive than the Nexus 5, but with much worse specs. I think it's fine if they want to make a low spec phone, but at least price it accordingly.
Maybe the US government is trying to buy all the Bitcoins. The number of Bitcoins limited to 21 million, if Wikipedia is correct. Even at $1000 each, it would only cost them 21 billion dollars to own them all, which is peanuts as far as the government is concerned. Once they own all the Bitcoins, or a significant portion of them, the currency starts to lose all value, because nobody can afford it, and they stop trading them. Instead of trying to outlaw Bitcoin, or control Bitcoin, which is impossible, they could basically just get rid of all it's value. Any new virtual currencies that start to gain traction could just be bought out before they have any value, assuming, like Bitcoin, they had a limited amount of currency.
Could it be related to The Great Depression? Somebody who lived until they were 85, and died between 2003 and 2013 would have been born between 1918 and 1928. Basically, they would have been quite young during the great depression. I wonder if something like this could have big effects so much later in life. It's mostly likely that, or possibly that a lot of them ended up being veterans of the war, as they would have been around 15-25 years old when the second world war was going on. I'm sure there's some very reasonable explanation why this group of people aren't living so many healthy years.
I'm thinking this must be compressed data. Clicking through, it says that there 20 GB of text data, and 13.9 million articles. This only gives 1.4 KB per article. Which seems extremely small, especially if you're getting all the formatting data. Also remember, I'm pretty sure this doesn't contain all the revision data, only the current version of each article, so the amount of data at Wikipedia would have to be quite a bit larger.
The iPad mini isn't 7 inches, it's 7.9 inches, and it's also a different aspect ratio (4:3 vs. 16:10). Looking at the numbers, the screen on the iPad mini is marginally taller (161mm vs. 151 mm), and significantly wider (120mm vs 94mm) as compared to the Nexus 7. Ignore the resolution numbers on that page, because those numbers are for the old iPad mini. The screen has remained the same size on the new model. The iPad mini has significantly more screen real estate than most 7 inch tablets. Also, the iPhone isn't you standard 4.3 inch phone. For starters, the diangonal measurement on the screen is only 4 inches, and it's actually more narrow than most other phones of the same diagonal measurement, because it's taller. I find that if I can't reach across the entire screen with my thumb then it really is too big. This is true for most 4.3 inch phones, and especially for the larger 5 inch phones. I shouldn't need 2 hands to operate a phone.
For the Wii, you can turn it off for real by holding down the power button (on the console, can't do this from Wiimote) until it's red. This will actually turn it off, and it will only use about 1 watt. If the light is yellow, the LAN card and a couple other things are still running, for checking your Wii messages and keep the weather and news channels updated. I also believe if you turn off the WiiConnect 24 feature, it will go to this power state by default when you turn it off, either from the Wiimote or the console.
You'd be much better off just buying a Raspberry Pi and connecting to it remotely from your desktop. Emulating an ARM processor on your desktop (most likely x86) would be many times slower than just running it on the Pi directly.
Which cars don't have a 5 star crash rating? What's the lowest rating for being allowed on the road? Seems like the ratings are kind of useless if every car is rated with a 5. Just from clicking around on their site, I randomly selected 5-6 cars, and all of them had a 5-star overall crash rating.
We already have this to an extent. Even something as simple as your phone has special hardware for decoding and encoding video. It has special hardware for doing AES calculations It has special hardware for doing 3D graphics rendering. The new iPhone has a processor dedicated to processing the motion information from the accelerometers. As hardware shrinks, it will be more and more feasible to have dedicated hardware for more tasks.
The only problem with this is that the power my phone is using varies wildly. I'm not sure what my phone is doing in the background, but sometimes I'll plug it in, and it will charge at the rate of about 1% per minute, while other times it will charge much slower on the same charger, depending on what the phone is doing in the background. Also, it charges slower once you get past 90%. So to test out a bunch of chargers, you have to spend quite a long time discharging your phone, timing a large amount of charge, and even then the results could be inaccurate if the phone was busy doing something while testing one of the chargers.
I was mainly thinking about how the nunchuck can be held in either hand. It's intuitive enough to just use the wii-mote with the other hand, especially for things where you just point at the screen. On a side note, I remember something about them having to redo a lot of stuff in twilight princess because Link usually held his sword left handed, and this didn't make sense when 90+% of people would be holding the wii-mote in their right hand.
One thing I thought was interesting about the WiiMote was that it was one of the only (probably the only popular one) controller which was ambidextrous. I'm not aware of anybody who uses it the other way around, but maybe some southpaws could chime in here. Most of them would likely already be conditioned to using left hand thumbstick from years of gaming, and any advantage to holding it the other way around would be lost by having to relearn all their skills.
I think you really hit the nail on the head here. What we really need is many different sizes of controllers, as long as they all have the same number of buttons,thumbsticks, and d-pads.
This is the main reason this is good. Just like giving flu shots at the pharmacy. Technology has advanced so much, at yet, in the medical field, prices have only skyrocketed, because there's strict limits on who can do what. If diabetics can give themselves their own insulin injections, there's no reason the average Joe shouldn't be able to give themselves a flu shot, or at least get one from somebody who doesn't cost as much to employ as a nurse. Same goes for simple blood tests. For many blood tests, there's very little reason to go to a specialized lab, so they can charge extravagant amounts of money for putting a drop of blood on a piece of paper and looking at what color it turns. We need to bring the cost of healthcare down, especially for routine procedures if we want people to be able to afford medical care in the future.
Well, to be fair, it's probably the only reason most people have Silverlight installed. The only other thing I can think of that used Silverlight was when NBC required Silverlight for watching the Olympics, but I think that was back in 2010. I don't know why Netflix doesn't just required some kind of App to be installed. They have one for Windows 8. Sure the browser feature would be nice as a fallback options, but for actually watching shows it would be much better accomplished outside the browser.
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I could think of quite a few things that are quite a bit more fragile. Not to say that you shouldn't be careful with newborns, but I think this is going a little bit over the top, and would probably cause the parent much more stress then it would relieve. I have 3 kids myself, and personally, I even found the sound only baby monitor a little annoying.
Filing a warranty claim isn't always free to the end user. When my eReader died, I had to pay shipping to get it to the repair depot. That was only about $10, but that is actually significant percentage of a $100 eReader. With something large and heavy like a Playstation, it could be significantly more to actually get your device fixed under the warranty. Also, there's all that time you can't be using the device. If it's just for fun, like a playstation, this may not be a big deal, but what if it's a laptop you bought for work. Going without a computer for 4-6 weeks certainly isn't something I'd want to deal with because some employee wanted to do some form of "protest". Hurting the end-users isn't really the answer.
Very much agree with this. The compilers, for the most part, are smarter than people at optimizing code. There is almost no reason to write code in assembly anymore, other than "because we can", which is a fine reason for a "fun" project. However I wouldn't write assembly if I was trying to run a business. Java has the added advantage that it uses Just-In-Time compiling, so there's a lot of cases where Java, or.Net or any other language that uses an intermediate byte-code and actually outperform C.
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The problem is that some people are not in shape to begin with, so cycling is actually quite hard on them. The problem with electric bikes is that it doesn't fix the root problem, which is, that the person is out of shape. After a few months of biking regularly without assistance, you'll be in pretty good shape, and you'll wonder why anybody would need an electric bike. That being said, the biggest gripe I have with electric bikes, is that in most places, the law dictates that they can't assist over some specified speed, usually around 30 km/h. That's way to slow for my tastes. It's pretty easy to maintain that speed on a decent bike without electrical assistance. On my bike, with walking effort, I can easily maintain 22-25 km/h on the flats.
You do realize we are talking about a Porsche here, right? Sure there's cars Ferraris (can't recall exact models) that have tons of stuff build into them to make even your everyday driver to be able to control it much better, even at speeds that should only be attempted on the track, but that isn't anybody's cup of tea. It's like saying that nobody should be able to fly those old, restored WWII planes because the lack modern control systems. Some people like to actually be driving instead of letting the computers in the car do all the driving for them.
Exactly. Reminds me of the stuff about Dropbox telling everybody their stuff was encrypted, and that even employees of Dropbox couldn't read the files. But it turned out that it wasn't true, and that files weren't actually being encrypted with the user's password, but with a single master key that was in the hands of Dropbox.
All parties are dead. As far as I understand, this is a work of fiction. It's not somebody's private journal of things they wanted to keep secret. The only affected party is the author himself.
Are you sure that's what they mean? Or are you interpreting that the wrong way. Your citizenship is a work permit. Couldn't this be interpreted as "we don't want to help you get work visa, and we want you to be able to start right away". Living in a government city I see similar stuff all the time. "Must have xyz security clearance" is common. The point is, they would rather hire somebody who has the ability to start work right away without any red tape than hire you and find out there's some obscure reason you can't get security clearance.
Kind of brings up a problem with Bitcoin though. If money can cease to exist due to a bad hard drive, and there is a limited amount of Bitcoin, then eventually a decent amount of it will be lost. If the average person starts using it, with their usually ability to keep things safe and backed up, it probably won't take long to disappear a significant amount of the money. The government could even destroy any Bitcoins it takes possession of through drug busts or other means, simply by deleting the wallets.
The only problem I have with BitCoin at the moment is that it isn't something you want to hold on to. Buy it, do your transaction immediately before the value changes. Somebody pays you in BitCoin, immediately cash out before the value goes down. With most currencies, you can put it in the bank, or under your mattress, and be reasonably sure that in a week it won't have lost half of its value. There are lots of people making sure that the value of the US dollar doesn't do that kind of stuff, because it would be terrible for the economy, to have money changing value so often.
I don't need to carry around a tablet all the time either. A cheap small phone will do in a pinch to check a map, look up the bus times, check email, check social networks. I bring the tablet along if I know I'm going to be waiting around for a while and will have time to actually do something on it. But if I'm going out to dinner or drinks with friends, there's little purpose to having anything more advanced than a basic cell phone on me.
Personally, I don't really care about the specs of my phone. I think you're much better off getting a cheap phone and then getting a tablet to do all the stuff you'd normally do on your phone. As long as the phone can make calls, send messages, and act as wifi hotspot for my tablet, I'm fine with it. Phones are either too small to do any real tasks, or too large to just be a phone. I'd rather just have a phone that does it's job, and have a tablet to do my actual mobile computing.
Although one thing wrong with this phone is the price. at 400 euros, it's more expensive than the Nexus 5, but with much worse specs. I think it's fine if they want to make a low spec phone, but at least price it accordingly.
Maybe the US government is trying to buy all the Bitcoins. The number of Bitcoins limited to 21 million, if Wikipedia is correct. Even at $1000 each, it would only cost them 21 billion dollars to own them all, which is peanuts as far as the government is concerned. Once they own all the Bitcoins, or a significant portion of them, the currency starts to lose all value, because nobody can afford it, and they stop trading them. Instead of trying to outlaw Bitcoin, or control Bitcoin, which is impossible, they could basically just get rid of all it's value. Any new virtual currencies that start to gain traction could just be bought out before they have any value, assuming, like Bitcoin, they had a limited amount of currency.
Could it be related to The Great Depression? Somebody who lived until they were 85, and died between 2003 and 2013 would have been born between 1918 and 1928. Basically, they would have been quite young during the great depression. I wonder if something like this could have big effects so much later in life. It's mostly likely that, or possibly that a lot of them ended up being veterans of the war, as they would have been around 15-25 years old when the second world war was going on. I'm sure there's some very reasonable explanation why this group of people aren't living so many healthy years.
I'm thinking this must be compressed data. Clicking through, it says that there 20 GB of text data, and 13.9 million articles. This only gives 1.4 KB per article. Which seems extremely small, especially if you're getting all the formatting data. Also remember, I'm pretty sure this doesn't contain all the revision data, only the current version of each article, so the amount of data at Wikipedia would have to be quite a bit larger.
The iPad mini isn't 7 inches, it's 7.9 inches, and it's also a different aspect ratio (4:3 vs. 16:10). Looking at the numbers, the screen on the iPad mini is marginally taller (161mm vs. 151 mm), and significantly wider (120mm vs 94mm) as compared to the Nexus 7. Ignore the resolution numbers on that page, because those numbers are for the old iPad mini. The screen has remained the same size on the new model. The iPad mini has significantly more screen real estate than most 7 inch tablets. Also, the iPhone isn't you standard 4.3 inch phone. For starters, the diangonal measurement on the screen is only 4 inches, and it's actually more narrow than most other phones of the same diagonal measurement, because it's taller. I find that if I can't reach across the entire screen with my thumb then it really is too big. This is true for most 4.3 inch phones, and especially for the larger 5 inch phones. I shouldn't need 2 hands to operate a phone.
For the Wii, you can turn it off for real by holding down the power button (on the console, can't do this from Wiimote) until it's red. This will actually turn it off, and it will only use about 1 watt. If the light is yellow, the LAN card and a couple other things are still running, for checking your Wii messages and keep the weather and news channels updated. I also believe if you turn off the WiiConnect 24 feature, it will go to this power state by default when you turn it off, either from the Wiimote or the console.
You'd be much better off just buying a Raspberry Pi and connecting to it remotely from your desktop. Emulating an ARM processor on your desktop (most likely x86) would be many times slower than just running it on the Pi directly.
Which cars don't have a 5 star crash rating? What's the lowest rating for being allowed on the road? Seems like the ratings are kind of useless if every car is rated with a 5. Just from clicking around on their site, I randomly selected 5-6 cars, and all of them had a 5-star overall crash rating.
We already have this to an extent. Even something as simple as your phone has special hardware for decoding and encoding video. It has special hardware for doing AES calculations It has special hardware for doing 3D graphics rendering. The new iPhone has a processor dedicated to processing the motion information from the accelerometers. As hardware shrinks, it will be more and more feasible to have dedicated hardware for more tasks.
The only problem with this is that the power my phone is using varies wildly. I'm not sure what my phone is doing in the background, but sometimes I'll plug it in, and it will charge at the rate of about 1% per minute, while other times it will charge much slower on the same charger, depending on what the phone is doing in the background. Also, it charges slower once you get past 90%. So to test out a bunch of chargers, you have to spend quite a long time discharging your phone, timing a large amount of charge, and even then the results could be inaccurate if the phone was busy doing something while testing one of the chargers.
I was mainly thinking about how the nunchuck can be held in either hand. It's intuitive enough to just use the wii-mote with the other hand, especially for things where you just point at the screen. On a side note, I remember something about them having to redo a lot of stuff in twilight princess because Link usually held his sword left handed, and this didn't make sense when 90+% of people would be holding the wii-mote in their right hand.
One thing I thought was interesting about the WiiMote was that it was one of the only (probably the only popular one) controller which was ambidextrous. I'm not aware of anybody who uses it the other way around, but maybe some southpaws could chime in here. Most of them would likely already be conditioned to using left hand thumbstick from years of gaming, and any advantage to holding it the other way around would be lost by having to relearn all their skills.
I think you really hit the nail on the head here. What we really need is many different sizes of controllers, as long as they all have the same number of buttons,thumbsticks, and d-pads.
This is the main reason this is good. Just like giving flu shots at the pharmacy. Technology has advanced so much, at yet, in the medical field, prices have only skyrocketed, because there's strict limits on who can do what. If diabetics can give themselves their own insulin injections, there's no reason the average Joe shouldn't be able to give themselves a flu shot, or at least get one from somebody who doesn't cost as much to employ as a nurse. Same goes for simple blood tests. For many blood tests, there's very little reason to go to a specialized lab, so they can charge extravagant amounts of money for putting a drop of blood on a piece of paper and looking at what color it turns. We need to bring the cost of healthcare down, especially for routine procedures if we want people to be able to afford medical care in the future.
Well, to be fair, it's probably the only reason most people have Silverlight installed. The only other thing I can think of that used Silverlight was when NBC required Silverlight for watching the Olympics, but I think that was back in 2010. I don't know why Netflix doesn't just required some kind of App to be installed. They have one for Windows 8. Sure the browser feature would be nice as a fallback options, but for actually watching shows it would be much better accomplished outside the browser.
I could think of quite a few things that are quite a bit more fragile. Not to say that you shouldn't be careful with newborns, but I think this is going a little bit over the top, and would probably cause the parent much more stress then it would relieve. I have 3 kids myself, and personally, I even found the sound only baby monitor a little annoying.
Filing a warranty claim isn't always free to the end user. When my eReader died, I had to pay shipping to get it to the repair depot. That was only about $10, but that is actually significant percentage of a $100 eReader. With something large and heavy like a Playstation, it could be significantly more to actually get your device fixed under the warranty. Also, there's all that time you can't be using the device. If it's just for fun, like a playstation, this may not be a big deal, but what if it's a laptop you bought for work. Going without a computer for 4-6 weeks certainly isn't something I'd want to deal with because some employee wanted to do some form of "protest". Hurting the end-users isn't really the answer.
Very much agree with this. The compilers, for the most part, are smarter than people at optimizing code. There is almost no reason to write code in assembly anymore, other than "because we can", which is a fine reason for a "fun" project. However I wouldn't write assembly if I was trying to run a business. Java has the added advantage that it uses Just-In-Time compiling, so there's a lot of cases where Java, or .Net or any other language that uses an intermediate byte-code and actually outperform C.