A battery charger engine can run constantly at it's optimum RPM and so doesn't need a gear box, and doesn't have to have reasonable efficiency over a wide range. Also provided the battery capacity is decent, won't be running for most of the time. It can also be mounted for easy access or removal for maintenance. So the maintenance cost should be quite a bit lower.
One sided deal? Users get language learning, at no monetary cost. At a quality that matches or exceeds courses costing rather a lot of money. And duolingo have obviously put in a lot of work on the design, coding and initial language materials.
Want a completely open source alternative? No one is stopping you from putting in years of work for no reward to create one.
What makes you think there are regular expressions? I get the impression they just have a list of possible ways of phrasing the translation of a phrase. And when someone complains about a missing way, if it gets past the social networking checks, it gets added to the list.
I just dont like the "do shit and get enough shit to progress" thing.
The point is that if you know the material in question you progress quickly through it. If you do't know it you won't. If the gamification is holding you back that's because you don't know the earlier stuff as well as you think you do. You only grind when you're on a lesson with material you don't yet know.
Like most electronic language learning aids, it can teach you vocabulary, but not how to communicate./quote>
There's no substitute for immersion. But you have to start somewhere if you're not in a position to get immersion.
Duolingo's examples, at least in the early lessons (I didn't stick with it), tend to randomly give examples with both an article and a noun, like "le chat", "une pomme", which might explain your confusion.
Right. Probably best to add in an adjective on the definate article phrases to nudge the user towards thinking of a specific thing rather than a generic thing.
(Not that indefinate things can't have adjectives, it's a subtle nudge rather than a foolproof method.)
Yes. But in this case the data the user supplies is impersonal content (translations of given texts), not personal and private information. So unlike with Google it's not a problem here.
Not at all, there are lots of small construction companies around town that have the skills and equipment to fill in a pot hole.
Outsourcing to private firms is already a pretty standard practice. What you're advocating happens now. Only clearly the cost then is not the "Total cost of that is just north of zero." that you were after.
There is nothing cookoo about it beyond the fact that people like yourself are so narrow minded that it will never seriously be considered.
WTF? You suggest people doing it for free, then when called on it you describe a situation of private sector outsourcing that costs similar to what it costs now - because it is what's done now in many places. You are cuckoo.
That's another way. I was reverse engineering a web service at the time so I was only interested in sniffing data between a particular iOS app and the server.
You may be wrong there. I've not used Little Snitch or the Fire TV specifically specifically, but I've monitored the data connection on an iOS using the packet sniffer Charles. The trick is that you use the Mac as a proxy, so all traffic from the device goes through the Mac, and is thus available to be sniffed.
As I say, I don't know if Little Snitch can do it, nor whether the Fire TV can work with proxies. But there's no technical hurdle.
No it's not different. It's deltas for OTA updates. But even if it were, why the fuck would you comparing legitimate updates of software, amounting to a handful of GB once in a blue moon to a bug in a device that's consuming many GBs every day?
99% of the time they provide me no information that I critically need that I cannot get from my surroundings or my smartphone. I don't need a clock to be available to me at the flip of a wrist except very rarely. My day is not scheduled that tightly and there almost always are at least 2 clocks within eye shot anywhere I usually go.
This is doubtless what the typical Victorian gentleman said about wrist watches when he had a perfectly good pocket watch on a chain. And yet wrist watches caught on, as an item worn by most men for a century or so.
For the last decade or two, they've gone out of favour. But they may well come back. But it won't be with any of the current smartwatches.
He might be rich, but he also has a lot of time on his hands. He doesn't NEED to wait in line personally to buy the latest Apple products, but he does.
Personally I think the brain damage when he crashed his plane might explain some of his behaviour.
Whilst I have no patience for people using alternative medicine over real medicine, it's over-stating to say that it killed him. He would most likely have still died had he gone for real medical treatment straight away.
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Hybrids are for other companies. Tesla is there to showcase the best that pure electric vehicles can do.
A battery charger engine can run constantly at it's optimum RPM and so doesn't need a gear box, and doesn't have to have reasonable efficiency over a wide range. Also provided the battery capacity is decent, won't be running for most of the time. It can also be mounted for easy access or removal for maintenance. So the maintenance cost should be quite a bit lower.
One sided deal? Users get language learning, at no monetary cost. At a quality that matches or exceeds courses costing rather a lot of money.
And duolingo have obviously put in a lot of work on the design, coding and initial language materials.
Want a completely open source alternative? No one is stopping you from putting in years of work for no reward to create one.
Learning an extra language expands the mind and brings new opportunities. Why would you want other people to get those benefits and not yourself?
What makes you think there are regular expressions? I get the impression they just have a list of possible ways of phrasing the translation of a phrase. And when someone complains about a missing way, if it gets past the social networking checks, it gets added to the list.
I just dont like the "do shit and get enough shit to progress" thing.
The point is that if you know the material in question you progress quickly through it. If you do't know it you won't. If the gamification is holding you back that's because you don't know the earlier stuff as well as you think you do. You only grind when you're on a lesson with material you don't yet know.
Like most electronic language learning aids, it can teach you vocabulary, but not how to communicate./quote>
There's no substitute for immersion. But you have to start somewhere if you're not in a position to get immersion.
Duolingo's examples, at least in the early lessons (I didn't stick with it), tend to randomly give examples with both an article and a noun, like "le chat", "une pomme", which might explain your confusion.
Right. Probably best to add in an adjective on the definate article phrases to nudge the user towards thinking of a specific thing rather than a generic thing.
(Not that indefinate things can't have adjectives, it's a subtle nudge rather than a foolproof method.)
No, a bigot judges based on prejudice. I gave you plenty of time to talk sense before coming to the conclusion that you are a cuckoo tea-partier.
Yes. But in this case the data the user supplies is impersonal content (translations of given texts), not personal and private information. So unlike with Google it's not a problem here.
There is no difference. Especially when the public construction firms are private construction firms because of outsourcing.
I'm afraid you are a typical unthinking tea-partier. You have no reasons for what you say, only assertions. "Private good - Gubmint bad. Ug. Ug."
Same people doing exactly the same thing. It will cost exactly the same.
Not at all, there are lots of small construction companies around town that have the skills and equipment to fill in a pot hole.
Outsourcing to private firms is already a pretty standard practice. What you're advocating happens now. Only clearly the cost then is not the "Total cost of that is just north of zero." that you were after.
There is nothing cookoo about it beyond the fact that people like yourself are so narrow minded that it will never seriously be considered.
WTF? You suggest people doing it for free, then when called on it you describe a situation of private sector outsourcing that costs similar to what it costs now - because it is what's done now in many places. You are cuckoo.
That's another way. I was reverse engineering a web service at the time so I was only interested in sniffing data between a particular iOS app and the server.
You may be wrong there. I've not used Little Snitch or the Fire TV specifically specifically, but I've monitored the data connection on an iOS using the packet sniffer Charles. The trick is that you use the Mac as a proxy, so all traffic from the device goes through the Mac, and is thus available to be sniffed.
As I say, I don't know if Little Snitch can do it, nor whether the Fire TV can work with proxies. But there's no technical hurdle.
You do realize that we're not "consuming 1s and 0s that the ISP has to go out and manufacture, right?
Actually that's exactly what we are doing.
It's an Android forked Amazon device that's chewing through bandwidth, not an Apple device.
Noob or lazy? If the cap fits wear it.
No it's not different. It's deltas for OTA updates. But even if it were, why the fuck would you comparing legitimate updates of software, amounting to a handful of GB once in a blue moon to a bug in a device that's consuming many GBs every day?
Just need something to whine about?
99% of the time they provide me no information that I critically need that I cannot get from my surroundings or my smartphone. I don't need a clock to be available to me at the flip of a wrist except very rarely. My day is not scheduled that tightly and there almost always are at least 2 clocks within eye shot anywhere I usually go.
This is doubtless what the typical Victorian gentleman said about wrist watches when he had a perfectly good pocket watch on a chain. And yet wrist watches caught on, as an item worn by most men for a century or so.
For the last decade or two, they've gone out of favour. But they may well come back. But it won't be with any of the current smartwatches.
He might be rich, but he also has a lot of time on his hands. He doesn't NEED to wait in line personally to buy the latest Apple products, but he does.
Personally I think the brain damage when he crashed his plane might explain some of his behaviour.
Whilst I have no patience for people using alternative medicine over real medicine, it's over-stating to say that it killed him. He would most likely have still died had he gone for real medical treatment straight away.
Woz has been positive about Android in the past. Whilst he likes Apple products he does appreciate openness.
I can't say that this news is a surprise, but that's because Galaxy Gear is bad, not because Woz is biased against Android.
50. Yes. Which is very much in line with what I said. What it contradicts is what you said:
"Erm, whole europe has no single HVDC line, there are only short connections over the baltic sea and to mediteranian islands."
You're were wrong. It's no big deal, because it's an obscure topic. But it was you that was wrong, not I.
Why don't you try writing something funny?
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I agree, they are not expensive for what they are. But they are far from mass market so far.
I did. What are you confused about?