Even in normal light with a phone you push the button and then a second or two later it takes the picture. That is not how a camera works. On my Canon 30D, you press the button, and within microseconds the shutter opens.
If you go from 2GHz to 2.05GHz, however, you won't see much of a difference without benchmarks.
Well, about 3 years ago I went from a 10 year old 3.4 GHz machine to a new 3.4 GHz machine and the difference was quite obvious. The new one was about 10 times faster, of course it also had double the cores.
How are you going to stop people from reproducing? Enforce abortions? Neuter everybody?
The United States does not have a particular population problem. We could fit everybody in Texas and give them a half acre of land for each individual, man, woman, boy and girl.
Most people who are capable of supporting children have relatively few children, most of them have 0.5 to 1 children per person. If we could get those who are too young or who don't have the means to support children to stop having children, we would be far better off as a society, but that will never happen.
With the case in point being both JDK and Newark Liberty having closed as a result of - wait for it - flooding during Sandy.
Closing due to a storm is not related to climate. Airports that are a thousand feet above sea level sometimes flood during storms. It helps to be built in a flood plain, but airplanes often are, because the land is cheap, and nobody wants an airport in their back yard, even if the airport was there first.
It's some kind of linux weenie thing. All of the linux modules are named after completely unrelated things so that people who aren't in the know can't possibly determine what it is for.
It has spread to other workplaces as well. Where I used to work, they started naming programs for user input after birds of prey or after construction machinery instead of what the programs actually were for. I think it is for people who like to think they are smarter than everybody else and they have to reinforce the idea by making it impossible for others to understand what program they need to use without asking the "gurus".
Well, not 30 years, but definitely in 200 years if the most alarmist theories turn out to be true. And of course, you can't build a new airport in only 200 years. Why, in the last 110 years, we have only just barely managed to build every airport ever made and only managed to move several hundred airports including moving several of the world's largest airports, sometimes more than once.
One of the current solutions is to stick a GPS tracker in every car, which is admirable on the basis of fair payment for public road usage, but utterly catastrophic in every other way. I think we just need to pay for transport infrastructure from a general fund instead.
That sounds like typical government waste. Force everybody to pay another $1,000 per vehicle so that the government can tax everybody per vehicle mile (which will probably end up being less than the cost of the GPS unit. I won't even get into the privacy issues.
Isn't there already something in every single car that records the number of miles driven?
The airspace over the United States is owned by the people of the United States. The FAA is tasked with assuring the safe use of that airspace. The FAA is not tasked with prohibiting us from using the space. That would be unconstitutional. I mean this to be understood with all kinds of sarcasm because the current and previous government have corrupted the purpose of the FAA by making zones where we cannot fly due to the movement of people who believe themselves to be people we cannot afford to lose, but in reality we would be better off without.
The retailer should (I know, I know) never have your card number stored. They should use the card number to generate a token which is stored (hopefully encrypted). While this may not look any better than just storing the card, if the token is stolen, it will only be useful at that particular merchant, and if other security is in place, such as transactions from that merchant being limited by IP, etc, then it is all but impossible for a token to be used fraudulently other than by someone inside the system.
Generating such a token requires the card number. And the token is not single use. If it was, then what would be the point? Just send the card number every time.
The token is used so that the merchant doesn't have to store the card number. Most merchants don't want the PCI responsibilities of storing a card number.
Washington DC is not a no-fly zone. It is subject to special flight rules. Programming the drones firmware to not fly in that area would prevent the operator from being able to operate the drone as allowed by the rules established by the FAA.
A large market of people who buy and play games on phones is worth more than the smaller market of people who buy and play games on computers.
Not to me. I'd rather have 100 customers pay me $100 for a product than 10,000 pay me $1. People complain about the quality of phone games, but most of the time they are free or at most a couple of dollars. I'm not willing to spend millions of dollars to develop an app that somebody is only willing to pay me $1 for on the phone, but if it was on a PC, would be happy to pay me $60.
Seriously, car systems should have, at most, a dumb screen that I can extend with whatever computer hardware I choose to add, if any. I cannot comprehend why anyone would want a built-in navigation system, for example, when my phone already does it, and does it better. Just write an app that lets me broadcast my screen through my USB port while I charge.
The user interface on phones suck. It is difficult and dangerous to enter a destination, and it requires you to hold your phone or buy or manufacture something to hold the phone up in your line of sight so you don't have to keep glancing down at it. Then what happens if you get a phone call? You have to pick it up (unless the car has bluetooth, which I would imagine if you don't like integrated GPS, you probably don't like integrated bluetooth either.)
Phones are capable of doing a lot of things that they are not very good at and purpose built devices are orders of magnitudes better than phones at just about everything except making phone calls. In fact, the phonebook on my car's bluetooth connection to the phone is better than the interface on my phone.
My built-in GPS shows road construction and accidents, something my phone doesn't do, and it shows it on a 8.8 inch screen, something my phone doesn't do.
University is not supposed to teach you how to program. Computer Science teaches you the theory of computing. Computer Engineering teaches you how computers work. MIS teaches you how to manage techies. None of those are specifically supposed to teach you how to program. However, all of them will likely have a class in which programming is used as a tool. There are also classes available in University which do specifically teach programming languages.
However, they true purpose of University is to make you a well-rounded, socially adjusted person, who is teachable and has a good grounding in the concepts with which one would be working in that field. You don't actually learn how to do your job until you are in the field.
Vocational Institutions are very good at teaching specific skills. However, they don't focus on teaching how to learn new skills, just how to be good at one particular one. As a manager, I would hire a developer fresh out of University and showed an understanding of the concepts of programming languages over one from a vocational institution who knew the syntax of a particular language.
Kind of like the "flipping houses" gold rush. As a property manager, part of my job is to buy houses that some poor sucker bought and sunk tens of thousands of dollars into and is now worth maybe $1,000 more than when he bought it. The people really making a killing are the lecturers who go around the country selling "programs" on how to flip houses.
How about they spend extra money on the people who are interested in learning computers and spend less money on people who are not interested in learning computers? This is how marketing works in the real world. They don't market dolls to boys because boys don't like dolls. They market dolls to girls because girls like dolls. They market toy trucks to boys because boys like toy trucks. Take a cue from the business world. For the greatest ROI, spend the money on the people who are interested in your product.
I also made that point earlier. The only reason I can think to fly something so massive is the range. The 747 has about 6,000 nm. A 737 properly outfitted would suffice, but only has 3,000 nm range. A 757 or 767 is about 4400 nm. I'm sure that they would outfit the airplane to have less seats than normal anyway, and it would probably end up lighter, so they could probably put extended tanks in whatever they end up with to extend the range.
I should also point out that although the 737-900ER claims a range of 3000 nm, there are scheduled 737 flights of 5000 nm, so the estimates appear to be conservative. I believe the Amsterdam to Houston flight may use additional baggage area fuel tanks.
I can *never* get any carrier to move me to an earlier flight. Both in Europe or the US. It sucks.
Try Southwest. They tend to try to get you to the next leg of your journey as quickly as they can. The other airlines want you on the flight you booked.
Sit around an airport at the end of the day and you can observe the difference. Southwest comes in with half empty flights on their last flight of the day. The other airlines come in with every seat packed and with people overnighting at the previous airport because they couldn't get a seat.
All they need to do is haul around the president and his flunkies, some congress critters and some press. They need a small office and a meeting room. A 747 is overkill already, let alone an AN-225. They could get a 757 and it should be more than sufficient.
Not even remotely the same thing. Of course you would get in trouble for making Internet Explorer Plus. However, these are users. They did not MAKE Whatsapp Plus. They merely used it. Some of them, perhaps most of them are unaware that they are not affiliated. The appropriate target is the creator of Whatsapp Plus. Targeting the user is detrimental to WhatsApp's cause.
a third of 2013's police-reported car accidents were the rear-end crashes and a "large number" of the drivers either didn't apply the brakes at all (what?!)
That is because they didn't hit send yet. They were still staring at their phone and not concerned whatsoever with the innocents in the car with them, or the innocents in the car in front of them.
Another poster said that texters have worse response time than drunks. That is probably not true, because drunks at least have a response time. You can't respond to something when all of your sensory input is focused on something else. For texters, the response comes after the crash.
I have noticed a trend for years that rear end collisions have been getting more prevalent and the damage more severe. It was like people weren't even hitting the brakes. I blamed it on texting while driving. Now the statistics are saying the same thing.
However, I am NOT in favor of the new devices to apply the brakes when the driver doesn't. Automation in the cockpit will only lead to stupid people becoming MORE complacent in the car and will increase their irresponsible behaviors. Instead of looking up every other character to see what is going on, they will just stare continuously at their phone until they have finished their message.
Perhaps I could see having such a braking system if, after a single auto-braking incident, the car disabled itself except for low speed travel so it could pull over to the shoulder, and then, travel over 10 mph was disabled until the car was reset by a qualified driving instructor.
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Even in normal light with a phone you push the button and then a second or two later it takes the picture. That is not how a camera works. On my Canon 30D, you press the button, and within microseconds the shutter opens.
If you go from 2GHz to 2.05GHz, however, you won't see much of a difference without benchmarks.
Well, about 3 years ago I went from a 10 year old 3.4 GHz machine to a new 3.4 GHz machine and the difference was quite obvious. The new one was about 10 times faster, of course it also had double the cores.
How are you going to stop people from reproducing? Enforce abortions? Neuter everybody?
The United States does not have a particular population problem. We could fit everybody in Texas and give them a half acre of land for each individual, man, woman, boy and girl.
Most people who are capable of supporting children have relatively few children, most of them have 0.5 to 1 children per person. If we could get those who are too young or who don't have the means to support children to stop having children, we would be far better off as a society, but that will never happen.
In my experience, companies have embraced teleconferencing with the same open arms as they have embraced telecommuting. In other words, they have not.
With the case in point being both JDK and Newark Liberty having closed as a result of - wait for it - flooding during Sandy.
Closing due to a storm is not related to climate. Airports that are a thousand feet above sea level sometimes flood during storms. It helps to be built in a flood plain, but airplanes often are, because the land is cheap, and nobody wants an airport in their back yard, even if the airport was there first.
It's some kind of linux weenie thing. All of the linux modules are named after completely unrelated things so that people who aren't in the know can't possibly determine what it is for.
It has spread to other workplaces as well. Where I used to work, they started naming programs for user input after birds of prey or after construction machinery instead of what the programs actually were for. I think it is for people who like to think they are smarter than everybody else and they have to reinforce the idea by making it impossible for others to understand what program they need to use without asking the "gurus".
Well, not 30 years, but definitely in 200 years if the most alarmist theories turn out to be true. And of course, you can't build a new airport in only 200 years. Why, in the last 110 years, we have only just barely managed to build every airport ever made and only managed to move several hundred airports including moving several of the world's largest airports, sometimes more than once.
One of the current solutions is to stick a GPS tracker in every car, which is admirable on the basis of fair payment for public road usage, but utterly catastrophic in every other way. I think we just need to pay for transport infrastructure from a general fund instead.
That sounds like typical government waste. Force everybody to pay another $1,000 per vehicle so that the government can tax everybody per vehicle mile (which will probably end up being less than the cost of the GPS unit. I won't even get into the privacy issues.
Isn't there already something in every single car that records the number of miles driven?
Devolving is a form of evolving, just as deceleration is a form of acceleration.
The airspace over the United States is owned by the people of the United States. The FAA is tasked with assuring the safe use of that airspace. The FAA is not tasked with prohibiting us from using the space. That would be unconstitutional. I mean this to be understood with all kinds of sarcasm because the current and previous government have corrupted the purpose of the FAA by making zones where we cannot fly due to the movement of people who believe themselves to be people we cannot afford to lose, but in reality we would be better off without.
The retailer should (I know, I know) never have your card number stored. They should use the card number to generate a token which is stored (hopefully encrypted). While this may not look any better than just storing the card, if the token is stolen, it will only be useful at that particular merchant, and if other security is in place, such as transactions from that merchant being limited by IP, etc, then it is all but impossible for a token to be used fraudulently other than by someone inside the system.
Generating such a token requires the card number. And the token is not single use. If it was, then what would be the point? Just send the card number every time. The token is used so that the merchant doesn't have to store the card number. Most merchants don't want the PCI responsibilities of storing a card number.
Washington DC is not a no-fly zone. It is subject to special flight rules. Programming the drones firmware to not fly in that area would prevent the operator from being able to operate the drone as allowed by the rules established by the FAA.
Every species evolves every time it reproduces.
A large market of people who buy and play games on phones is worth more than the smaller market of people who buy and play games on computers.
Not to me. I'd rather have 100 customers pay me $100 for a product than 10,000 pay me $1. People complain about the quality of phone games, but most of the time they are free or at most a couple of dollars. I'm not willing to spend millions of dollars to develop an app that somebody is only willing to pay me $1 for on the phone, but if it was on a PC, would be happy to pay me $60.
Seriously, car systems should have, at most, a dumb screen that I can extend with whatever computer hardware I choose to add, if any. I cannot comprehend why anyone would want a built-in navigation system, for example, when my phone already does it, and does it better. Just write an app that lets me broadcast my screen through my USB port while I charge.
The user interface on phones suck. It is difficult and dangerous to enter a destination, and it requires you to hold your phone or buy or manufacture something to hold the phone up in your line of sight so you don't have to keep glancing down at it. Then what happens if you get a phone call? You have to pick it up (unless the car has bluetooth, which I would imagine if you don't like integrated GPS, you probably don't like integrated bluetooth either.)
Phones are capable of doing a lot of things that they are not very good at and purpose built devices are orders of magnitudes better than phones at just about everything except making phone calls. In fact, the phonebook on my car's bluetooth connection to the phone is better than the interface on my phone.
My built-in GPS shows road construction and accidents, something my phone doesn't do, and it shows it on a 8.8 inch screen, something my phone doesn't do.
University is not supposed to teach you how to program. Computer Science teaches you the theory of computing. Computer Engineering teaches you how computers work. MIS teaches you how to manage techies. None of those are specifically supposed to teach you how to program. However, all of them will likely have a class in which programming is used as a tool. There are also classes available in University which do specifically teach programming languages.
However, they true purpose of University is to make you a well-rounded, socially adjusted person, who is teachable and has a good grounding in the concepts with which one would be working in that field. You don't actually learn how to do your job until you are in the field.
Vocational Institutions are very good at teaching specific skills. However, they don't focus on teaching how to learn new skills, just how to be good at one particular one. As a manager, I would hire a developer fresh out of University and showed an understanding of the concepts of programming languages over one from a vocational institution who knew the syntax of a particular language.
Kind of like the "flipping houses" gold rush. As a property manager, part of my job is to buy houses that some poor sucker bought and sunk tens of thousands of dollars into and is now worth maybe $1,000 more than when he bought it. The people really making a killing are the lecturers who go around the country selling "programs" on how to flip houses.
How about they spend extra money on the people who are interested in learning computers and spend less money on people who are not interested in learning computers? This is how marketing works in the real world. They don't market dolls to boys because boys don't like dolls. They market dolls to girls because girls like dolls. They market toy trucks to boys because boys like toy trucks. Take a cue from the business world. For the greatest ROI, spend the money on the people who are interested in your product.
I also made that point earlier. The only reason I can think to fly something so massive is the range. The 747 has about 6,000 nm. A 737 properly outfitted would suffice, but only has 3,000 nm range. A 757 or 767 is about 4400 nm. I'm sure that they would outfit the airplane to have less seats than normal anyway, and it would probably end up lighter, so they could probably put extended tanks in whatever they end up with to extend the range.
I should also point out that although the 737-900ER claims a range of 3000 nm, there are scheduled 737 flights of 5000 nm, so the estimates appear to be conservative. I believe the Amsterdam to Houston flight may use additional baggage area fuel tanks.
The Oldest flying 747 is also the fifth 747 produced. It was delivered in August 1970 and is still flying today.
I can *never* get any carrier to move me to an earlier flight. Both in Europe or the US. It sucks.
Try Southwest. They tend to try to get you to the next leg of your journey as quickly as they can. The other airlines want you on the flight you booked.
Sit around an airport at the end of the day and you can observe the difference. Southwest comes in with half empty flights on their last flight of the day. The other airlines come in with every seat packed and with people overnighting at the previous airport because they couldn't get a seat.
All they need to do is haul around the president and his flunkies, some congress critters and some press. They need a small office and a meeting room. A 747 is overkill already, let alone an AN-225. They could get a 757 and it should be more than sufficient.
Not even remotely the same thing. Of course you would get in trouble for making Internet Explorer Plus. However, these are users. They did not MAKE Whatsapp Plus. They merely used it. Some of them, perhaps most of them are unaware that they are not affiliated. The appropriate target is the creator of Whatsapp Plus. Targeting the user is detrimental to WhatsApp's cause.
a third of 2013's police-reported car accidents were the rear-end crashes and a "large number" of the drivers either didn't apply the brakes at all (what?!)
That is because they didn't hit send yet. They were still staring at their phone and not concerned whatsoever with the innocents in the car with them, or the innocents in the car in front of them.
Another poster said that texters have worse response time than drunks. That is probably not true, because drunks at least have a response time. You can't respond to something when all of your sensory input is focused on something else. For texters, the response comes after the crash.
I have noticed a trend for years that rear end collisions have been getting more prevalent and the damage more severe. It was like people weren't even hitting the brakes. I blamed it on texting while driving. Now the statistics are saying the same thing.
However, I am NOT in favor of the new devices to apply the brakes when the driver doesn't. Automation in the cockpit will only lead to stupid people becoming MORE complacent in the car and will increase their irresponsible behaviors. Instead of looking up every other character to see what is going on, they will just stare continuously at their phone until they have finished their message.
Perhaps I could see having such a braking system if, after a single auto-braking incident, the car disabled itself except for low speed travel so it could pull over to the shoulder, and then, travel over 10 mph was disabled until the car was reset by a qualified driving instructor.