Or they can do what they do in CPU manufacturing and sell those batteries that failed the performance/capacity benchmarks for the higher tier uses, but still meet the benchmarks for the lower tier uses.
However if you spread a finite amount of energy / matter over an infinite distance, the density would approach zero, thus we would not even perceive that it exists.
This assumes an even distribution of mass / matter / energy. If the distribution weren't even (because another unstable force, like gravity, caused it to collect together) you would see vast swaths of "empty" space and clumps of matter / energy as it collected together.
Also consider that "speed" is a function of distance over time and "time" is actually space/time and altered by gravity. It could very well be that the qualities of time did not exist as it does today, making the speed of light infinite.
Or, we could educate people on how to determine what a credible source is and teach people critical thinking skills.
Most of the "fake news" articles were blog posts, reddit threads, and sites that popped up to pander to fears for advertising dollars. Stuff that was easy to spot as being fake.
Yeah, sometimes I would see the "fake" sites come up with a real story a couple days before everyone else did, but generally the real sites were better researched and less blatantly biased than the "fake" article.
The problem with integrating it into cars is that it isn't efficient enough. If you consider that most solar panel installations require that they be placed at the best angle to the sun and that cars are not going to be at the correct angle, likely to be under shade/snow/garage, and the surface area of the car is low compared to typical roof installations, the maximum power from integrated solar cells is extremely low.
Even if you used solar paint and solar windows for maximum surface area, you won't be able to power a car completely off of the energy hitting the car. That said, you could probably trickle-charge to increase the car's range between full charges, which would be of great benefit to the car's current mediocre range.
HR is brain-dead when it comes to understanding technical qualifications and abilities. And they don't care.
While true, it isn't for the reason you think it is. HR, especially for non-tech companies, has no clue what all of these programming terms or software things mean. You're lucky if you get an HR person that understands anything more than Microsoft Office. They depend upon the managers, who write up the job listing, to tell them what they need.
HR makes the assumption that if you put in a specific version of the software, you really do need an expert on that version of the software. Even if you and I know that it hasn't changed much in the past six versions, HR sees it as something completely different because they don't know better. Even recruiters for technical contracting companies sometimes aren't much better.
HR expects you, the prospective employee, to understand what those terms mean and for you to tailor your resume to what the specific job requirements are. That can mean letting them know that the products are similar or that the newer version is the same as the older version. You can put it in the cover letter.
If HR is posting nonsensical job listings, you can blame the hiring manager for giving them poor requirements. Take that as an opportunity to judge the company communication and/or who you might be working for in the future.
Something that I've learned about Pandora is that you can't have multiple genres in the same station (use a mix for that) and you can't thumb up certain songs or you'll skew your playlist towards a certain genre or a small subset of songs even if the rest of the music on the station doesn't match that song.
It's like certain songs or dimensions are weighted more heavily than others and adding songs with those dimensions skews the entire playlist dataset in a direction that you don't necessarily want. When you have a small group of songs that do that, you can actually make Pandora tell you that you need to add more variety to the station to keep playing music.
But in terms of selecting and engaging targets on its own without a communications link, that technology is not there yet
Actually, not true. We are there now. MIT already has fully automatic and autonomous flying helicoptors that can perform stunts in mid-air, and there are many, many videos of targeting systems using machine vision to target and "attack" specified targets. Most of them use nerf guns and lasers, but the point remains. We know the technology to do fully automated drones that engage and eliminate targets.
The only reason that we're not doing fully automated drone strikes is exactly because it is controversial and nobody wants to take the responsibility in case a fully automated drone mistakes a preschool for a terrorist compound.
Extremely common, actually. It's one of the major pitfalls and difficulties of doing multi-threaded programming and one of the hardest things for programmers new to multi-threaded design to learn how to solve. It can also be extremely difficult to debug, even for experienced programmers.
Improper garbage collection is another extremely common bug that becomes harder to find and debug with multi-threaded programming, and that can also lead to memory leaks.
There are time tested techniques to mitigate these issues and strategies to find and squash the bugs, but as you said, they can be extremely hard to reproduce while testing.
Windows Store has more mobile games that have been ported to Windows 10 than Steam or GoG. I've also seen a lot of "free" games that have huge advertising banners covering most of the screen. They're the same type of cheap and easy to make clones filled with advertisements and pay-to-win crapware that you'll find on any other mobile platform.
These aren't AAA titles, nor are they decent, older games with great gameplay like you'd find at Steam or GoG.
What you're talking about is a forward proxy. Forward proxy servers do this (and will even proxy SSL traffic).
In the whitepaper, they're actually talking about making a new protocol that measures the one way distance time and compares it to their database of network speeds and distances to determine your location. Their solution is an application-level solution, which depends upon a Forward Proxy to know about the protocol and spoof it correctly.
The problem with their solution is that network speeds are fluid and a computer with a problem (e.g. a local neighborhood node or a legitimately slow client that is delaying all traffic 20-30ms) can make their estimates wildly inaccurate. Even today, Cogent to Level 3 has a 197ms ping in LA. In the paper, they used average speeds for various known networks. This can be mitigated somewhat by measuring client traffic and only counting outliers (e.g. all traffic from a certain area being delayed the same, except for our rogue client) but it still doesn't mitigate the local computer problem.
A second problem with their solution is that it only measures distance - a server in Miami, Florida accepting data from a client in Seattle, Washington is 2732 mi and the same distance (roughly) as Lima, Peru. This means that a client in Lima should pretend to be from Seattle when they connect to their combo VPN/Forward Proxy in Miami. Satellite customers are will almost always have extremely high latency because of the round trip between Earth and the Satellite, even if they're legitimately in the correct area.
In addition, they were only able to make this accurate to about 400km, which means if you have a nearby beneficial country within that range, you can use a VPN in that country and they still won't know.
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That's why the states have the ability to raise the minimum wage in their state above the federal minimum wage to better reflect costs of living, but they are unable to make it lower. For example, California is $10/hour and New York is $9/hour while the federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour.
In this case, a more accurate example would be you doing a search for transaction data using the bank's own search feature and finding transactions from your neighbor mixed in with your own data. The guy wasn't hacking. It was openly displayed and mixed with their own data. The first time it happened, they reported it immediately and the vendor said they would fix the issue. This time, he did some searches to find out what was going on and got locked out and accused of looking at his neighbor's transaction data.
The sad part is that the X1 boxes are an upgrade from the old boxes that didn't even work properly on 1080p televisions.
Good luck getting on demand programming to work properly on those. Most of the time they would crap out with some unknown error that Comcast couldn't fix over the phone.
I'm the type of person that can be asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow (less than a minute, tops). I also sleep like the dead and will sleep through anything, including being physically assaulted and natural disasters, until morning.
Have you gone to the grocery store or local quick stop to pick up some over the counter medicine? That homeopathic crap is sitting next to the real drugs in the same exact section, both of which cost the same (or the homeopathic crap costs more!) and both of which declare in big letters that they cure similar symptoms.
You have to read the box to find out which one has real drugs in it that have been scientifically proven to have actual effectiveness at the proper dosages for the symptoms that you have or you'll very easily pick up the homeopathic crap by mistake.
Yeah, my mouse had similar tech. You dropped it into a cradle and it would charge...
Unfortunately, it had the nasty problem of the contacts corroding or wearing off, preventing it from charging. Given that it was corroding in a mostly temperature and humidity controlled environment, I won't give good odds to these things lasting in a hot and muggy car.
Yes, because they will realize that being a mouthpiece for a propaganda machine and catering to a small core of their demographic is alienating to a large segment of the population.
Some day, those people that are making the decision to pander to their base will be replaced, and hopefully there will be a culture shift towards moderate. At that point, we will stop thinking of that as clever, because it will no longer be true.
I live in a metropolitan area of a red state on the east coast, and not only have I seen Teslas in person, but I know people (friend of a friend) that have them. It helps that there's a supercharger at a nearby mall that I almost always see a Tesla parked at, but I've seen them parked around town, too.
Your anecdotal evidence is just as good as my anecdotal evidence, and neither one is indicative of the actual popularity, supply or demand of the car.
Well, we already know that individual atoms have sound so they're probably talking about sound in a way that the layman wouldn't consider is sound. At this level, they're probably talking about the vibration or movement of energy within the rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate traveling at the speed of sound and generated from the Hawking Radiation at the Sound Event Horizon.
I think his point is that an ASCII log is human readable with any text editor without needing an interpreter program.
Binary logs tend to be full of garbage to the average human and transferring the log file and/or running the log program aren't always feasible when you're in recovery mode.
Given that systemd is the boot up daemon for the entire system, being able to read the logs when the system won't boot properly is incredibly important.
If you only read the laws themselves, you wouldn't think that. In theory, the laws are there to give you better service through a dealership because the evil large corporation gives you poor service at a steep price. They're there to prevent a monopoly on service so that you're not required to go to a Ford Garage so that a Ford Mechanic can fix your car with Ford Parts and price gouge the hell out of you.
In practice, they still do it and with the kickbacks and other ties to the parent company, they might as well be the same thing. The dealer ends up being the middle man that takes his cut and raises the price by thousands of dollars. The laws have effectively enshrined the dealership business model and Tesla threatens that.
No, its both. Iceland is worried about flooding because that's going to cause major damage to infrastructure, but the ash cloud in 2010 stopped air travel in the UK.
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Or they can do what they do in CPU manufacturing and sell those batteries that failed the performance/capacity benchmarks for the higher tier uses, but still meet the benchmarks for the lower tier uses.
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This assumes an even distribution of mass / matter / energy. If the distribution weren't even (because another unstable force, like gravity, caused it to collect together) you would see vast swaths of "empty" space and clumps of matter / energy as it collected together.
Also consider that "speed" is a function of distance over time and "time" is actually space/time and altered by gravity. It could very well be that the qualities of time did not exist as it does today, making the speed of light infinite.
Or, we could educate people on how to determine what a credible source is and teach people critical thinking skills.
Most of the "fake news" articles were blog posts, reddit threads, and sites that popped up to pander to fears for advertising dollars. Stuff that was easy to spot as being fake.
Yeah, sometimes I would see the "fake" sites come up with a real story a couple days before everyone else did, but generally the real sites were better researched and less blatantly biased than the "fake" article.
The problem with integrating it into cars is that it isn't efficient enough. If you consider that most solar panel installations require that they be placed at the best angle to the sun and that cars are not going to be at the correct angle, likely to be under shade/snow/garage, and the surface area of the car is low compared to typical roof installations, the maximum power from integrated solar cells is extremely low.
Even if you used solar paint and solar windows for maximum surface area, you won't be able to power a car completely off of the energy hitting the car. That said, you could probably trickle-charge to increase the car's range between full charges, which would be of great benefit to the car's current mediocre range.
While true, it isn't for the reason you think it is. HR, especially for non-tech companies, has no clue what all of these programming terms or software things mean. You're lucky if you get an HR person that understands anything more than Microsoft Office. They depend upon the managers, who write up the job listing, to tell them what they need.
HR makes the assumption that if you put in a specific version of the software, you really do need an expert on that version of the software. Even if you and I know that it hasn't changed much in the past six versions, HR sees it as something completely different because they don't know better. Even recruiters for technical contracting companies sometimes aren't much better.
HR expects you, the prospective employee, to understand what those terms mean and for you to tailor your resume to what the specific job requirements are. That can mean letting them know that the products are similar or that the newer version is the same as the older version. You can put it in the cover letter.
If HR is posting nonsensical job listings, you can blame the hiring manager for giving them poor requirements. Take that as an opportunity to judge the company communication and/or who you might be working for in the future.
It's still there.
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Something that I've learned about Pandora is that you can't have multiple genres in the same station (use a mix for that) and you can't thumb up certain songs or you'll skew your playlist towards a certain genre or a small subset of songs even if the rest of the music on the station doesn't match that song.
It's like certain songs or dimensions are weighted more heavily than others and adding songs with those dimensions skews the entire playlist dataset in a direction that you don't necessarily want. When you have a small group of songs that do that, you can actually make Pandora tell you that you need to add more variety to the station to keep playing music.
Actually, not true. We are there now. MIT already has fully automatic and autonomous flying helicoptors that can perform stunts in mid-air, and there are many, many videos of targeting systems using machine vision to target and "attack" specified targets. Most of them use nerf guns and lasers, but the point remains. We know the technology to do fully automated drones that engage and eliminate targets.
The only reason that we're not doing fully automated drone strikes is exactly because it is controversial and nobody wants to take the responsibility in case a fully automated drone mistakes a preschool for a terrorist compound.
Extremely common, actually. It's one of the major pitfalls and difficulties of doing multi-threaded programming and one of the hardest things for programmers new to multi-threaded design to learn how to solve. It can also be extremely difficult to debug, even for experienced programmers.
Improper garbage collection is another extremely common bug that becomes harder to find and debug with multi-threaded programming, and that can also lead to memory leaks.
There are time tested techniques to mitigate these issues and strategies to find and squash the bugs, but as you said, they can be extremely hard to reproduce while testing.
Windows Store has more mobile games that have been ported to Windows 10 than Steam or GoG. I've also seen a lot of "free" games that have huge advertising banners covering most of the screen. They're the same type of cheap and easy to make clones filled with advertisements and pay-to-win crapware that you'll find on any other mobile platform.
These aren't AAA titles, nor are they decent, older games with great gameplay like you'd find at Steam or GoG.
What you're talking about is a forward proxy. Forward proxy servers do this (and will even proxy SSL traffic).
In the whitepaper, they're actually talking about making a new protocol that measures the one way distance time and compares it to their database of network speeds and distances to determine your location. Their solution is an application-level solution, which depends upon a Forward Proxy to know about the protocol and spoof it correctly.
The problem with their solution is that network speeds are fluid and a computer with a problem (e.g. a local neighborhood node or a legitimately slow client that is delaying all traffic 20-30ms) can make their estimates wildly inaccurate. Even today, Cogent to Level 3 has a 197ms ping in LA. In the paper, they used average speeds for various known networks. This can be mitigated somewhat by measuring client traffic and only counting outliers (e.g. all traffic from a certain area being delayed the same, except for our rogue client) but it still doesn't mitigate the local computer problem.
A second problem with their solution is that it only measures distance - a server in Miami, Florida accepting data from a client in Seattle, Washington is 2732 mi and the same distance (roughly) as Lima, Peru. This means that a client in Lima should pretend to be from Seattle when they connect to their combo VPN/Forward Proxy in Miami. Satellite customers are will almost always have extremely high latency because of the round trip between Earth and the Satellite, even if they're legitimately in the correct area.
In addition, they were only able to make this accurate to about 400km, which means if you have a nearby beneficial country within that range, you can use a VPN in that country and they still won't know.
That's why the states have the ability to raise the minimum wage in their state above the federal minimum wage to better reflect costs of living, but they are unable to make it lower. For example, California is $10/hour and New York is $9/hour while the federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour.
In this case, a more accurate example would be you doing a search for transaction data using the bank's own search feature and finding transactions from your neighbor mixed in with your own data. The guy wasn't hacking. It was openly displayed and mixed with their own data. The first time it happened, they reported it immediately and the vendor said they would fix the issue. This time, he did some searches to find out what was going on and got locked out and accused of looking at his neighbor's transaction data.
Actually, given our current crop of sociopathic CEOs, the humanity would actually probably be higher.
The sad part is that the X1 boxes are an upgrade from the old boxes that didn't even work properly on 1080p televisions.
Good luck getting on demand programming to work properly on those. Most of the time they would crap out with some unknown error that Comcast couldn't fix over the phone.
I'd say probably.
I'm the type of person that can be asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow (less than a minute, tops). I also sleep like the dead and will sleep through anything, including being physically assaulted and natural disasters, until morning.
Have you gone to the grocery store or local quick stop to pick up some over the counter medicine? That homeopathic crap is sitting next to the real drugs in the same exact section, both of which cost the same (or the homeopathic crap costs more!) and both of which declare in big letters that they cure similar symptoms.
You have to read the box to find out which one has real drugs in it that have been scientifically proven to have actual effectiveness at the proper dosages for the symptoms that you have or you'll very easily pick up the homeopathic crap by mistake.
Yeah, my mouse had similar tech. You dropped it into a cradle and it would charge...
Unfortunately, it had the nasty problem of the contacts corroding or wearing off, preventing it from charging. Given that it was corroding in a mostly temperature and humidity controlled environment, I won't give good odds to these things lasting in a hot and muggy car.
Yes, because they will realize that being a mouthpiece for a propaganda machine and catering to a small core of their demographic is alienating to a large segment of the population.
Some day, those people that are making the decision to pander to their base will be replaced, and hopefully there will be a culture shift towards moderate. At that point, we will stop thinking of that as clever, because it will no longer be true.
I live in a metropolitan area of a red state on the east coast, and not only have I seen Teslas in person, but I know people (friend of a friend) that have them. It helps that there's a supercharger at a nearby mall that I almost always see a Tesla parked at, but I've seen them parked around town, too.
Your anecdotal evidence is just as good as my anecdotal evidence, and neither one is indicative of the actual popularity, supply or demand of the car.
Well, we already know that individual atoms have sound so they're probably talking about sound in a way that the layman wouldn't consider is sound. At this level, they're probably talking about the vibration or movement of energy within the rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate traveling at the speed of sound and generated from the Hawking Radiation at the Sound Event Horizon.
I think his point is that an ASCII log is human readable with any text editor without needing an interpreter program.
Binary logs tend to be full of garbage to the average human and transferring the log file and/or running the log program aren't always feasible when you're in recovery mode.
Given that systemd is the boot up daemon for the entire system, being able to read the logs when the system won't boot properly is incredibly important.
If you only read the laws themselves, you wouldn't think that. In theory, the laws are there to give you better service through a dealership because the evil large corporation gives you poor service at a steep price. They're there to prevent a monopoly on service so that you're not required to go to a Ford Garage so that a Ford Mechanic can fix your car with Ford Parts and price gouge the hell out of you.
In practice, they still do it and with the kickbacks and other ties to the parent company, they might as well be the same thing. The dealer ends up being the middle man that takes his cut and raises the price by thousands of dollars. The laws have effectively enshrined the dealership business model and Tesla threatens that.
No, its both. Iceland is worried about flooding because that's going to cause major damage to infrastructure, but the ash cloud in 2010 stopped air travel in the UK.