what do you think goes on at the other end of the copper/fibre cable?
No supercomputing whatsoever. I'm not a physicist, a mathematician, a code breaker nor anyone else with supercomputing needs. My HTTP request for web page is quite likely served by a single core. Maybe 2.
Far more games are played on ARM cpus than X86 CPUs these days. Of course the takeover started at the bottom end with Snake, and moved on through Angry Birds etc., it's only a matter of time before ARM takes over the hard core gamers too. It's more a matter of having a platform with big screen and interesting controllers. ARM CPUs are already up to the task of running such systems.
Considering the junk the British Military are still using, the old junk they're selling to you must be bad! You probably want to look for holes filled in with newspaper and Polyfiller.
And by emitted, we're talking about from the earth.
Of course we are you idiot. Which is not the same as "that hit's it" in the post you replied to. You look really stupid trying to patronise people when you don't understand the posts you are replying to. Is English not your first language?
They still are the reasons. It's information that's been brought up in current affairs programmes here over the years. I'm certainly not going to spend 20 minutes digging on the internet for the sake of convincing you. You're not worth that to me.
Agreed. However, going with the example, I'd just require a flying car test and license for any user that gets one.
I wouldn't allow flying cars until the technology was up to self-driving. People often have accidents whilst driving ordinary cars. With flying cars the possibilities for having them are greater, because of the extra dimension to keep track of. And the consequences of having them are far more serious, for them, the other flying car, and for the people below them on the ground.
Whilst I'm not saying that I have complete trust in a theoretical future self-driving system, I have far more trust than I do in the ability of ordinary people to manage it.
Note for those thinking ordinary people already fly planes: That's true, but only because the volume is low. Anything within 3 nautical miles, at the same altitude is classed as a near miss for current planes. Flying cars would be a whole different kettle of fish.
But all this is irrelevant to the TFS question, which is unanswerable without a better analogy.
It's absolutely far too ambiguous. If he has to do it by analogy because of NDA concerns he could have at least done it with an imaginary software feature that we could consider properly. But to compare it with the existence of a physical machine. Pointless.
I've unliked plenty of things. It never occurred to me that it was anything other than obvious.
For post or a comment, the "Like" text turns to "Unlike". A simple toggle for something that doesn't matter.
For a page like, The "Like" button turns to "Liked" with a checkmark. Hover or click that and "Unlike" is on the drop down-menu. Unliking a page is a rarer and bigger significance of event than a comment like, so it's good design to make it so that it can't be done with a single click.
There's lots of things to complain about in the Facebook UI, but I don't see this as one of them.
" A retroreflector reflects light right back at where it came from no matter what angle it hits it at."
Wrong. Out of 10^17 photons emitted, only one will make it back to the original source.
How is that wrong? He said "that hits it", you are talking about "emitted". For sure when you aim a laser at the moon, one a proportion of the photons will hit it. Because unlike popular opinion lasers do produce light that diverges. And of course some will be deflected or stopped by matter in the earths atmosphere.
Likewise, not all the photons that are reflected will get back to the telescope, for the same reasons.
None of which contradicts the statement that retroreflectors reflect light right back at where it came from. They do.
The second retroreflector installed had to be hand-aimed.
The whole point of a retroreflector is that it bounces light back to it's source from whatever angle it comes. OK, not from behind, but over near to 180 degrees.
But leaving that aside, what would be the point of "hand-aiming" one, given that the moon and the earth are constantly in motion with respect to each other? It would only be aimed at something for the moment it was aimed.
If you're saying it was aimed at somewhere on the moon itself, then it still provides no evidence that man was ever on the moon, as we can't test it from here.
Looking forward to your more detailed explanation of what you are referring to.
Do we know for sure yet whether the "terrorists" fired a shot? I saw one person claiming to be a witness that said the terrorists fired first, but most reports have no mention of that, and the event by event accounts that I've seen don't say that they shot.
In fact there were plenty of crowds around, who don't seem to have seen the need to duck for cover, so the gun, real or not, doesn't seem to even have been waved around till the police showed up.
In which case did they have a functioning gun at all? Or was it a replica. Or did they not have access to ammo. We may have to wait for the trial before this information is released. And why only one gun, when there were two of them? They seemed to have plenty of bladed weapons.
These are people that have been known to be involved with Islamic fundamentalism for a decade, and yet it seems likely they couldn't get easy access to firearms.
You think the public should have easy access to firearms. In this case armed bystanders couldn't have stopped the initial attack which was to run into the soldier with a car. We don't know the cause of death yet, so we don't know if that was fatal in itself, but it could have been.
For sure an armed bystander could have put an end to this sooner, but at what stage? Even after the meat cleaver attack most bystanders thought there had been a car "accident". The chances of some member of the public getting out their gun and committing themselves to shooting a man, before the first swipe with a meat cleaver are limited. For someone who'd not a police trained firearms officer assessing the situation and committing to shoot and possibly kill someone takes more that a second or two.
But still, the outcome of this MIGHT have been better had a member of the public been armed and willing to shoot someone.
But the flip side is that the "terrorists", both these ones and others, would then have easier access to firearms. They would certainly have been properly armed, and may well have have killed more people.
UK gun policy is working. Gun crime here has been falling for years. It would be foolish to reverse the policy when the existing trend is a good one.
Thanks for the link! I found a far more detailed version of the story at the link below. And it's a cracking read. An armed robbery, then a chase across about 5 miles of London, on foot and in various forms of transport including a hijacked tram and a milk float. The police handicapped by the fact they so rarely need guns, no-one knows where the key to the gun-locker is. And so they have to break in.
They could make a film out of this. It's almost like a chase from keystone cops or an Ealing comedy.
There's defiantly more in the way of shotguns and a rifle from hunters than there are pistols and revolvers "from the crowd". It being in the region of Hackney Marshes, a pocket of countryside near to central London. (It was still un-built up enough in the early 2000s for them to put the Olympics village there.)
So it backs up what I was saying about the majority of guns there being shotguns for rural types. But as to 3 or 4 pistols or revolvers - we don't know if they were carried, or brought out from homes. Two of them didn't work for the policemen, the storywriter speculates that the policemen were not familiar with the weapons, but they might just as easily been non-functioning. Nor do we know the professions of the people doing the lending. There are plenty of soldiers, security guards, and security services in London, less so elsewhere in the country. And the guns appeared over a 5 mile chase. So that meant that it passed a hell of a lot of people that didn't show any access to guns. So whilst it's a great story, it's not evidence of people carrying guns in the street, let alone widespread practice of it. Indeed guns seem to be so rare that the police hardly ever have need to unlock their own gun-lockers.
But to be fair I did overstep the mark with "No notable ownership". There was ownership of guns in urban areas. I was just trying to stress that the vast majority of guns then were shotguns used for rural purposes.
People were allowed to own guns but the vast majority then were living day to day existences, with no money for non-essential items. And guns were certainly that, except for people like farmers who needed them for their job.
If they had no penalty, then did the government make any money off this loan? If not, you see why the private sector would not make this loan and Tesla went to gov't. I'm not saying this was a bad decision, but if the government is loaning out taxpayer money without adequate return on investment, the taxpayers should be pissed off as much as a bank's shareholders would be.
Nonsense. A banks purpose in making a loan is profit. A government has a much wider set of goals. Loans like this are about encouraging desirable industries. The fact that it's being paid of early is fantastic news. It means the company that was being encouraged is being successful. And that money is now available to encourage some other worthwhile company or perhaps another industry entirely.
The only people that will be unhappy about this are people that want things to go badly under Obama's watch, and people who have reason to want electric cars to fail. Both will be disappointed this is a success.
Slashdot Mirror
Nope. $666.66 in 1976 dollars is worth about $2,724.41 today.
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
668: The Neighbor of the Beast.
what do you think goes on at the other end of the copper/fibre cable?
No supercomputing whatsoever. I'm not a physicist, a mathematician, a code breaker nor anyone else with supercomputing needs. My HTTP request for web page is quite likely served by a single core. Maybe 2.
Far more games are played on ARM cpus than X86 CPUs these days. Of course the takeover started at the bottom end with Snake, and moved on through Angry Birds etc., it's only a matter of time before ARM takes over the hard core gamers too. It's more a matter of having a platform with big screen and interesting controllers. ARM CPUs are already up to the task of running such systems.
I for one am happy to see WinTel crumbling at both ends. Windows and X86, each as ugly as the other.
Why would an ARM chip use 2 Watts?
â-- ARM Cortex-A9
â-- 1 ops / cycle @ 800 MHz - 2 GHz
â-- 0.25 - 1 Watt
â-- ARM Cortex-A15
â-- 4 ops / cycle @ 1 - 2.5 GHz*
â-- 0.35 Watt
Well played!
Considering the junk the British Military are still using, the old junk they're selling to you must be bad! You probably want to look for holes filled in with newspaper and Polyfiller.
That doesn't make sense given that Facebook Home is a purely Android thing.
Yep, you got the Abbot and Costello reference.
The reference for the Profit! meme though is South Park. That's where Slashdotters got it from.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts
You may work with light for a living, but your English comprehension is shit. No one here is wrong, and yet you are trying to correct them.
And by emitted, we're talking about from the earth.
Of course we are you idiot. Which is not the same as "that hit's it" in the post you replied to. You look really stupid trying to patronise people when you don't understand the posts you are replying to. Is English not your first language?
They still are the reasons. It's information that's been brought up in current affairs programmes here over the years. I'm certainly not going to spend 20 minutes digging on the internet for the sake of convincing you. You're not worth that to me.
Agreed. However, going with the example, I'd just require a flying car test and license for any user that gets one.
I wouldn't allow flying cars until the technology was up to self-driving. People often have accidents whilst driving ordinary cars. With flying cars the possibilities for having them are greater, because of the extra dimension to keep track of. And the consequences of having them are far more serious, for them, the other flying car, and for the people below them on the ground.
Whilst I'm not saying that I have complete trust in a theoretical future self-driving system, I have far more trust than I do in the ability of ordinary people to manage it.
Note for those thinking ordinary people already fly planes: That's true, but only because the volume is low. Anything within 3 nautical miles, at the same altitude is classed as a near miss for current planes. Flying cars would be a whole different kettle of fish.
But all this is irrelevant to the TFS question, which is unanswerable without a better analogy.
It's absolutely far too ambiguous. If he has to do it by analogy because of NDA concerns he could have at least done it with an imaginary software feature that we could consider properly. But to compare it with the existence of a physical machine. Pointless.
I've unliked plenty of things. It never occurred to me that it was anything other than obvious.
For post or a comment, the "Like" text turns to "Unlike". A simple toggle for something that doesn't matter.
For a page like, The "Like" button turns to "Liked" with a checkmark. Hover or click that and "Unlike" is on the drop down-menu. Unliking a page is a rarer and bigger significance of event than a comment like, so it's good design to make it so that it can't be done with a single click.
There's lots of things to complain about in the Facebook UI, but I don't see this as one of them.
I don't like Google. I can't remember the last time they made a move I liked. But this one is good.
I suspect they do have a profit motive though. We just don't know what it is yet.
I suspect the stuff they make has a certain longevity about it.
Tell that to Google Reader users. And Google Code downloaders. And users of all the other projects they scrapped in the last few months.
Faking a video by photoshopping it together from other video sources would indeed be rather hard to do convincingly.
The technology is way beyond the need to fake video frame by frame with photoshop. Apps like Apple Motion are available for $50!
Wait a minute... what? The fairies aren't real? Are you sure? Conan Doyle was pretty convinced. And he had Sherlock Holmes to consult with.
" A retroreflector reflects light right back at where it came from no matter what angle it hits it at."
Wrong. Out of 10^17 photons emitted, only one will make it back to the original source.
How is that wrong? He said "that hits it", you are talking about "emitted". For sure when you aim a laser at the moon, one a proportion of the photons will hit it. Because unlike popular opinion lasers do produce light that diverges. And of course some will be deflected or stopped by matter in the earths atmosphere.
Likewise, not all the photons that are reflected will get back to the telescope, for the same reasons.
None of which contradicts the statement that retroreflectors reflect light right back at where it came from. They do.
The second retroreflector installed had to be hand-aimed.
The whole point of a retroreflector is that it bounces light back to it's source from whatever angle it comes. OK, not from behind, but over near to 180 degrees.
But leaving that aside, what would be the point of "hand-aiming" one, given that the moon and the earth are constantly in motion with respect to each other? It would only be aimed at something for the moment it was aimed.
If you're saying it was aimed at somewhere on the moon itself, then it still provides no evidence that man was ever on the moon, as we can't test it from here.
Looking forward to your more detailed explanation of what you are referring to.
Do we know for sure yet whether the "terrorists" fired a shot? I saw one person claiming to be a witness that said the terrorists fired first, but most reports have no mention of that, and the event by event accounts that I've seen don't say that they shot.
In fact there were plenty of crowds around, who don't seem to have seen the need to duck for cover, so the gun, real or not, doesn't seem to even have been waved around till the police showed up.
In which case did they have a functioning gun at all? Or was it a replica. Or did they not have access to ammo. We may have to wait for the trial before this information is released. And why only one gun, when there were two of them? They seemed to have plenty of bladed weapons.
These are people that have been known to be involved with Islamic fundamentalism for a decade, and yet it seems likely they couldn't get easy access to firearms.
You think the public should have easy access to firearms. In this case armed bystanders couldn't have stopped the initial attack which was to run into the soldier with a car. We don't know the cause of death yet, so we don't know if that was fatal in itself, but it could have been.
For sure an armed bystander could have put an end to this sooner, but at what stage? Even after the meat cleaver attack most bystanders thought there had been a car "accident". The chances of some member of the public getting out their gun and committing themselves to shooting a man, before the first swipe with a meat cleaver are limited. For someone who'd not a police trained firearms officer assessing the situation and committing to shoot and possibly kill someone takes more that a second or two.
But still, the outcome of this MIGHT have been better had a member of the public been armed and willing to shoot someone.
But the flip side is that the "terrorists", both these ones and others, would then have easier access to firearms. They would certainly have been properly armed, and may well have have killed more people.
UK gun policy is working. Gun crime here has been falling for years. It would be foolish to reverse the policy when the existing trend is a good one.
Thanks for the link! I found a far more detailed version of the story at the link below. And it's a cracking read. An armed robbery, then a chase across about 5 miles of London, on foot and in various forms of transport including a hijacked tram and a milk float. The police handicapped by the fact they so rarely need guns, no-one knows where the key to the gun-locker is. And so they have to break in.
http://pfoa.co.uk/uploads/asset_file/The%20Tottenham%20Outrage%20-%201909.pdf
They could make a film out of this. It's almost like a chase from keystone cops or an Ealing comedy.
There's defiantly more in the way of shotguns and a rifle from hunters than there are pistols and revolvers "from the crowd". It being in the region of Hackney Marshes, a pocket of countryside near to central London. (It was still un-built up enough in the early 2000s for them to put the Olympics village there.)
So it backs up what I was saying about the majority of guns there being shotguns for rural types. But as to 3 or 4 pistols or revolvers - we don't know if they were carried, or brought out from homes. Two of them didn't work for the policemen, the storywriter speculates that the policemen were not familiar with the weapons, but they might just as easily been non-functioning. Nor do we know the professions of the people doing the lending. There are plenty of soldiers, security guards, and security services in London, less so elsewhere in the country.
And the guns appeared over a 5 mile chase. So that meant that it passed a hell of a lot of people that didn't show any access to guns.
So whilst it's a great story, it's not evidence of people carrying guns in the street, let alone widespread practice of it. Indeed guns seem to be so rare that the police hardly ever have need to unlock their own gun-lockers.
But to be fair I did overstep the mark with "No notable ownership". There was ownership of guns in urban areas. I was just trying to stress that the vast majority of guns then were shotguns used for rural purposes.
People were allowed to own guns but the vast majority then were living day to day existences, with no money for non-essential items. And guns were certainly that, except for people like farmers who needed them for their job.
If they had no penalty, then did the government make any money off this loan? If not, you see why the private sector would not make this loan and Tesla went to gov't. I'm not saying this was a bad decision, but if the government is loaning out taxpayer money without adequate return on investment, the taxpayers should be pissed off as much as a bank's shareholders would be.
Nonsense. A banks purpose in making a loan is profit. A government has a much wider set of goals. Loans like this are about encouraging desirable industries. The fact that it's being paid of early is fantastic news. It means the company that was being encouraged is being successful. And that money is now available to encourage some other worthwhile company or perhaps another industry entirely.
The only people that will be unhappy about this are people that want things to go badly under Obama's watch, and people who have reason to want electric cars to fail. Both will be disappointed this is a success.
Ah those hipster Google fanboys, suddenly disappointed that their toys are being taken away one by one.