They also lack complicated emissions control systems, and there's no exhaust system to rust out either (may not be an issue for you depending on climate). Regenerative braking reduces wear on the brakes. The battery is obviously an expensive wear item, but even factoring that in I'm guessing the electric is still significantly cheaper to maintain.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. I would have to imagine that Tesla has been taking sales from Lexus. The Lexus LS and the Tesla Model S are both larger sedans that are very similar in terms of price.
As long as it still lights up and you can see it, my guess is that no one is going to replace a dimming light cluster. Besides, most failures would either be the electronics that drive the LEDs, or water eventually getting into the housing.
Besides, assuming an average speed of 30 MPH (which is likely a bit on the low side) 10k hours is 300,000 miles which would be about the expected lifetime of the rest of the car anyway.
Well, part of the problem with Saturn is that starting in the early 2000's GM disassembled everything that made it different, so that at the end it really was just another GM nameplate selling the same cars as all the other GM nameplates, often at the same dealer. That's probably why no one wanted to buy it, as it really wasn't unique anymore.
Slackware has native 64 bit support. Actually, it's probably more pure than many other distros since by default it doesn't install multilib (for running 32 bit programs) which you'll run into if you try to install and use Wine.
One possibility is to land in one of the "craters of eternal darkness" on the moon that never receive any sunlight and therefore will have a much more steady temperature. A bonus, it's also theorized that these craters are the most likely places one might find water on the moon, though there's currently no evidence that there's any water in them. Downside is that they are all near the poles which makes it a bit harder to get to.
Actually, that's what they should do with the current Olympics. Then we can create a new Olympics that bans any technology the ancient Greeks didn't have. Oh yeah, and all the athletes compete naked.
I seriously doubt that the average retirement age in the NFL is 36. Maybe that's the average age of players that choose to hang up their helmets and call it quits, but the average NFL player only plays in the NFL for less than 4 seasons. My guess is that the typical NFL player "retires" sometime in their mid-late 20's when no team is willing to sign them, not of their choice.
I just remember 15 years ago where something like a high end 21" Trinitron cost over $1000. Monitors (and TVs) nowadays are incredibly cheap, even without factoring in inflation.
Actually, I would say the opposite. Employers don't seem to care too much about hard science and math degrees. You may be smart and have a lot of knowledge, but they don't want to train you, so they only care about what skills and experience you have. So in terms of employment, you're better off with a degree like engineering that focus more on teaching you how to do things rather than high-level knowledge - at least at the bachelor's level. If you want to take that degree and pursue a masters or PhD in science and math then you'll find more jobs that want a scientist or mathematician. Or you could always teach too.
I was in a Perkins that lost power once. Our breakfast was on the grill when it happened so we got our food, but no one behind us got theirs. We chatted a bit with the manager. The burners and grill were gas powered, but electronically controlled so when the power went out they all shut down. They did stay open though as they could still make change, but it was pretty much only bakery items at that point.
My high school advisers basically said something along the lines of "Don't worry if you don't know what you want to major in at college. Many people don't know either, and most of the ones who think they know will change their major anyway, so just take a bunch of generals and worry about later." Which may or may not actually be good advice, depending on what major you end up picking, as some majors have a large course-load that you require you start on it immediately for your freshman year (such as engineering) if you want to graduate in a reasonable time frame. But then again those aren't likely the kind of majors that will land you a job as a high school career adviser...
What was generally interesting was that the assumption that everyone was going to a four year university. If you didn't know what you wanted to do after you graduated, they would tell you to go to college and jump right to helping you pick out a university to attend. Very little was said about other options like vocational schools, community colleges, joining the military, entering the workforce, etc. Options that would have suited a lot of my classmates better than going to university for no other reason that everyone telling that that's what they should do.
I know a guy who did. He went to a community college for his final year of high school. Didn't complete the requirements to graduate high school and get his diploma. However, since he was already in the community college's system, he could still sign up for classes so stayed there and completed his associates degree. He then took that degree and transferred to a four year college and they never questioned his lack of a high school diploma or GED.
If you have a spaceship that can accelerate at 1G indefinitely, you can travel just about anywhere. Eventually you are going close enough to the speed of light that thanks to time dilation, clocks on the spaceship are basically stopped to a stationary observer. The Andromeda galaxy is only about 33 years or so away ship time, which means that humans could not only visit the Andromeda galaxy, but they could actually return. Traveling further really doesn't add much travel time to the people on the ship - the furthest observable galaxies are only about 40 years ship time. Though trips like these would likely still be a one-way trip, because hundreds of millions of years (or more) would have passed on Earth, so it wouldn't be certain there would be anything to return to.
That's what I've found on anything that I've tracked the price on for a while. Anything I would actually want to buy on Black Friday is either not marked down at all, or only has a very modest discount that isn't worth battling the crowds for. Everything else is either the cheapest possible no-name junk that I would never buy, or occasionally some old stock they want to move. It seems the whole idea now is to work people up into a frenzy so they aren't thinking rationally rather than actually put items on sale.
That's one of the things no one seems to mention. The media seems to play it up like it's people messing around and pointing at planes with $10 laser pointers from the office supply store but it's pretty obvious that whoever is doing this has some pretty serious equipment. It kind of surprises me that there's that many people out there that have this kind of equipment that also feel the need to point it at aircraft.
It would be like making the cockpit glass out the same stuff they make laser safety goggles out of. The thing is, you can't easily filter out just one wavelength of light, so the safety goggles for green lasers are orange tinted, and the red laser glasses are all green tinted. I'm guessing most pilots don't want orange or green windows on their plane. And if you wanted to filter both the red and green wavelengths you might as well just paint over the windows.
Maybe if they actually build those planes where the pilots don't have windows, they can have some mechanism that drops the appropriate filter in front of the camera when the plane gets hit with the laser.
Really? Because Windows ME supposedly required a Pentium processor. Not sure whether or not that was a hard requirement or if it could still technically boot on a 486. If it really is a 486, it must be dreadfully slow, especially since most 486's aren't going to accept enough ram to run ME comfortably.
You have an odd way of counting OSes. By your logic, Microsoft has been supporting Windows now for 30 years. There really isn't much in common with the latest version of OSX and version 10.0 from 2001. You can't even run a program that ran on 10.0 on the latest version of OSX. But you can run a program that ran on Windows XP RTM on the latest version of Windows.
Used to be that 9-5 included your lunch and other breaks. At some point employers managed to change lunch to unpaid for white collar workers while still expecting you to be at your desk for 8 hours so now it's 8-5 (or 9-6). For a lot of blue collar jobs, especially when there multiple shifts, it's still an 9-5 or a similar eight-hour block (for first shift).
All 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 10, include Windows-on-Windows which is an emulation layer for running 16-bit applications. So the 32-bit version of Windows 10 can still run your Windows 3.0 applications from 1990. This layer is not included in the 64-bit versions of Windows, so they cannot run 16-bit applications (well technically Windows 7 can if you install XP Mode). 64 bit versions on Windows however do include a similar Windows-on-Windows layer for running 32 bit applications.
Given that there isn't a whole lot of difference under the hood between Vista and Windows 7, I'm kind of curious what Chrome is doing that won't work on Vista anyway. Unless Google's announcement is that they're simply not going to test on Vista anymore, in which case Chrome will likely still run okay, just not be officially supported.
Dropping support for Windows XP on the other hand actually makes sense.
My assumption is they are talking about Betacam. I can't imagine they would be producing tapes for Betamax for all these years, except for the fact you can use a Betacam tape in a Betamax recorder. My guess is that the Pro market must have moved over to other formats and there just isn't enough volume left to justify continuing to produce the tapes.
Though my understanding is that other companies still make the tapes so new tapes will still be available for the time being.
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They also lack complicated emissions control systems, and there's no exhaust system to rust out either (may not be an issue for you depending on climate). Regenerative braking reduces wear on the brakes. The battery is obviously an expensive wear item, but even factoring that in I'm guessing the electric is still significantly cheaper to maintain.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. I would have to imagine that Tesla has been taking sales from Lexus. The Lexus LS and the Tesla Model S are both larger sedans that are very similar in terms of price.
As long as it still lights up and you can see it, my guess is that no one is going to replace a dimming light cluster. Besides, most failures would either be the electronics that drive the LEDs, or water eventually getting into the housing.
Besides, assuming an average speed of 30 MPH (which is likely a bit on the low side) 10k hours is 300,000 miles which would be about the expected lifetime of the rest of the car anyway.
Well, part of the problem with Saturn is that starting in the early 2000's GM disassembled everything that made it different, so that at the end it really was just another GM nameplate selling the same cars as all the other GM nameplates, often at the same dealer. That's probably why no one wanted to buy it, as it really wasn't unique anymore.
Slackware has native 64 bit support. Actually, it's probably more pure than many other distros since by default it doesn't install multilib (for running 32 bit programs) which you'll run into if you try to install and use Wine.
That's why the LED is there. To tell you that you've forgotten to turn off the power strip.
One possibility is to land in one of the "craters of eternal darkness" on the moon that never receive any sunlight and therefore will have a much more steady temperature. A bonus, it's also theorized that these craters are the most likely places one might find water on the moon, though there's currently no evidence that there's any water in them. Downside is that they are all near the poles which makes it a bit harder to get to.
Actually, that's what they should do with the current Olympics. Then we can create a new Olympics that bans any technology the ancient Greeks didn't have. Oh yeah, and all the athletes compete naked.
I seriously doubt that the average retirement age in the NFL is 36. Maybe that's the average age of players that choose to hang up their helmets and call it quits, but the average NFL player only plays in the NFL for less than 4 seasons. My guess is that the typical NFL player "retires" sometime in their mid-late 20's when no team is willing to sign them, not of their choice.
I just remember 15 years ago where something like a high end 21" Trinitron cost over $1000. Monitors (and TVs) nowadays are incredibly cheap, even without factoring in inflation.
Actually, I would say the opposite. Employers don't seem to care too much about hard science and math degrees. You may be smart and have a lot of knowledge, but they don't want to train you, so they only care about what skills and experience you have. So in terms of employment, you're better off with a degree like engineering that focus more on teaching you how to do things rather than high-level knowledge - at least at the bachelor's level. If you want to take that degree and pursue a masters or PhD in science and math then you'll find more jobs that want a scientist or mathematician. Or you could always teach too.
I was in a Perkins that lost power once. Our breakfast was on the grill when it happened so we got our food, but no one behind us got theirs. We chatted a bit with the manager. The burners and grill were gas powered, but electronically controlled so when the power went out they all shut down. They did stay open though as they could still make change, but it was pretty much only bakery items at that point.
My high school advisers basically said something along the lines of "Don't worry if you don't know what you want to major in at college. Many people don't know either, and most of the ones who think they know will change their major anyway, so just take a bunch of generals and worry about later." Which may or may not actually be good advice, depending on what major you end up picking, as some majors have a large course-load that you require you start on it immediately for your freshman year (such as engineering) if you want to graduate in a reasonable time frame. But then again those aren't likely the kind of majors that will land you a job as a high school career adviser...
What was generally interesting was that the assumption that everyone was going to a four year university. If you didn't know what you wanted to do after you graduated, they would tell you to go to college and jump right to helping you pick out a university to attend. Very little was said about other options like vocational schools, community colleges, joining the military, entering the workforce, etc. Options that would have suited a lot of my classmates better than going to university for no other reason that everyone telling that that's what they should do.
I know a guy who did. He went to a community college for his final year of high school. Didn't complete the requirements to graduate high school and get his diploma. However, since he was already in the community college's system, he could still sign up for classes so stayed there and completed his associates degree. He then took that degree and transferred to a four year college and they never questioned his lack of a high school diploma or GED.
If you have a spaceship that can accelerate at 1G indefinitely, you can travel just about anywhere. Eventually you are going close enough to the speed of light that thanks to time dilation, clocks on the spaceship are basically stopped to a stationary observer. The Andromeda galaxy is only about 33 years or so away ship time, which means that humans could not only visit the Andromeda galaxy, but they could actually return. Traveling further really doesn't add much travel time to the people on the ship - the furthest observable galaxies are only about 40 years ship time. Though trips like these would likely still be a one-way trip, because hundreds of millions of years (or more) would have passed on Earth, so it wouldn't be certain there would be anything to return to.
That's what I've found on anything that I've tracked the price on for a while. Anything I would actually want to buy on Black Friday is either not marked down at all, or only has a very modest discount that isn't worth battling the crowds for. Everything else is either the cheapest possible no-name junk that I would never buy, or occasionally some old stock they want to move. It seems the whole idea now is to work people up into a frenzy so they aren't thinking rationally rather than actually put items on sale.
That's one of the things no one seems to mention. The media seems to play it up like it's people messing around and pointing at planes with $10 laser pointers from the office supply store but it's pretty obvious that whoever is doing this has some pretty serious equipment. It kind of surprises me that there's that many people out there that have this kind of equipment that also feel the need to point it at aircraft.
It would be like making the cockpit glass out the same stuff they make laser safety goggles out of. The thing is, you can't easily filter out just one wavelength of light, so the safety goggles for green lasers are orange tinted, and the red laser glasses are all green tinted. I'm guessing most pilots don't want orange or green windows on their plane. And if you wanted to filter both the red and green wavelengths you might as well just paint over the windows.
Maybe if they actually build those planes where the pilots don't have windows, they can have some mechanism that drops the appropriate filter in front of the camera when the plane gets hit with the laser.
Really? Because Windows ME supposedly required a Pentium processor. Not sure whether or not that was a hard requirement or if it could still technically boot on a 486. If it really is a 486, it must be dreadfully slow, especially since most 486's aren't going to accept enough ram to run ME comfortably.
You have an odd way of counting OSes. By your logic, Microsoft has been supporting Windows now for 30 years. There really isn't much in common with the latest version of OSX and version 10.0 from 2001. You can't even run a program that ran on 10.0 on the latest version of OSX. But you can run a program that ran on Windows XP RTM on the latest version of Windows.
Used to be that 9-5 included your lunch and other breaks. At some point employers managed to change lunch to unpaid for white collar workers while still expecting you to be at your desk for 8 hours so now it's 8-5 (or 9-6). For a lot of blue collar jobs, especially when there multiple shifts, it's still an 9-5 or a similar eight-hour block (for first shift).
All 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 10, include Windows-on-Windows which is an emulation layer for running 16-bit applications. So the 32-bit version of Windows 10 can still run your Windows 3.0 applications from 1990. This layer is not included in the 64-bit versions of Windows, so they cannot run 16-bit applications (well technically Windows 7 can if you install XP Mode). 64 bit versions on Windows however do include a similar Windows-on-Windows layer for running 32 bit applications.
Given that there isn't a whole lot of difference under the hood between Vista and Windows 7, I'm kind of curious what Chrome is doing that won't work on Vista anyway. Unless Google's announcement is that they're simply not going to test on Vista anymore, in which case Chrome will likely still run okay, just not be officially supported.
Dropping support for Windows XP on the other hand actually makes sense.
How did they do the ternary operator then?
My assumption is they are talking about Betacam. I can't imagine they would be producing tapes for Betamax for all these years, except for the fact you can use a Betacam tape in a Betamax recorder. My guess is that the Pro market must have moved over to other formats and there just isn't enough volume left to justify continuing to produce the tapes.
Though my understanding is that other companies still make the tapes so new tapes will still be available for the time being.