I pay $40/month total for 1200 voice minutes + unlimited data, and it works (perhaps "unofficially") with tethering. How did I get such a great deal? By skipping the "big three" contract carriers in favor of pre-paid. (I use Virgin Mobile, but Boost etc. have similar deals.)
The real difference between the Nexus 7 and those other tablets is that the Nexus 7 is fast (quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3). Between that and the fact that, as a Google-branded device, it will actually get OS upgrades (unlike those other tablets), it's not only a better value now but it's also future-proof enough to justify paying for the extra 8GB.
I also remember those airport security problems professor Mann had. I have to wonder whether he might be the sort of person that unintentionally escalates these situations. Or at least fails to effectively de-escalate them.
Would it similarly be "escalation" for a paraplegic to refuse to remove his prosthetic leg for airport security? The policy says they shouldn't have to, after all. (Admittedly, a policy which is apparently not followed.)
It's wired to a computer he keeps in his pants pocket (it's in his article: the I/O device didn't get damaged by the guy pulling on it, the CPU got damaged because the altercation caused him to pee himself and short it out).
Given that there exist MicroSD cards the size of a fingernail that store 64 GB, I think it's reasonable to assume that he could have had plenty of memory capacity if he'd chosen to design it that way.
Not if they're designed right, they won't. With a fully autonomous system, the vehicles would by default prefer major roads over minor roads, and those major roads would often have pedestrian bridges. However, when a pedestrian needs to cross a road that lacks such bridges, the pedestrian pressing a button would change that preference.
I don't know what pedestrian Utopia you're living in, but around here (a metro area of about 5 million people) there are so few pedestrian bridges as to be negligible. (I can count all the ones I know of on one hand.) Building the car controller out of silicon instead of meat is not likely to change that.
Any vehicles within a span beginning a block away and extending to three blocks away would shift over one road in either direction. So as soon as the nearest block worth of traffic in either direction clears the intersection, the road would be clear for pedestrians for a period of time, but the cars themselves would not stop, or even slow down.
That's not a bad idea under the right circumstances, but around here either the street grid either has such large "blocks" (i.e. it's made of suburban arterials with miles between major roads) that diverting the vehicles is impractical, there is enough pedestrian traffic (i.e. downtown) that they want to cross every block on a regular basis, or the "next block over" is made of residential streets and the residents would scream bloody murder if somebody started diverting traffic down them.
Speed conventions (which are set relative to speed limits, but not at them)...
"Speed conventions" (by which I assume you mean the speed people actually choose to drive) are not set relative to speed limits. People drive at the maximum speed they feel to be safe/comfortable, which is a function of the physical characteristics of the situation (lane/shoulder width, horizontal curvature/superelevation, sight distance, traffic, etc.).
Sometimes engineers design a road with the minimum physical characteristics to accommodate a given speed limit (for example, a curvy mountain road or a tight cloverleaf); in those cases, drivers' speeds tend to correspond to the posted limit by coincidence. Other times, speed limits are set arbitrarily/politically, in which case they get ignored unless police spend an inordinate amount of time enforcing them.
I think anyone who's been in any big city (first or 3rd world) is used to people trying to cross streets as soon as they possibly can regardless of whether the 'walk' light is lit up.
What, do Soviet pedestrians obey the signal?
Probably a better way of saying what was said is "the presence of traffic lights makes drivers behave in ways more likely to cause accidents". Which sort of obviously makes sense, any time you ask someone to stop there's a probability that they won't stop, and therefore cause an accident.
The presence of traffic lights makes the situation more predictable, which makes drivers feel safer. When they feel safer, they speed up and/or pay less attention.
Maybe the lady got one cat, got infected, went crazy, and got 19 more? (Remember, the parasite causes rodents to be attracted to cats; maybe it has a similar effect in humans.)
I went to a high-ranked public university (Georgia Tech) and also took the experimental online classes last fall (AI, Machine Learning and Databases) and found that the quality of the courses was pretty equal with Tech.
Anyone taking the Stanford class -- even if they were a freshman spring semester -- enrolled before Udacity (or the preceding Stanford experimental online classes) existed.
Udacity classes aren't self-paced (which is their advantage over the likes of MITx). You can watch the lectures whenever you like, but the assignments and tests are due on a set schedule. This not only provides accountability and motivation to finish, but also means that there are other people learning the same thing so you can get help via forums/study groups.
Droughts are uncommon by definition. ("A prolonged period of abnormally low precipitation; a shortage of water resulting from this," according to Google.)
If a drought becomes common or normal, then it's just the new climate and isn't called a drought anymore.
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I don't know about you, but I can't survive eating conifers, cycads and ginkgos. Therefore, the "but it worked for the dinosaurs!" argument is somewhat less than persuasive to me.
Some guy got bit by a black widow. Now he goes out every night to kill every single on on his property. I hate spiders as much as the next guy, but spiders are here for a reason, to keep flying insects in line, population wise.
I'm pretty sure a black widow is unlikely to keep flying insects in line, given that they live under rocks and in crevices that are too tight for anything to fly through.
I like C. I also drive a car with a manual transmission, and change my own oil, spark plugs, and brake pads.
Regrinding transmission gears or building carburetors is like programming in assembler (or maybe even writing machine code with a hex editor).
However, that's not to say that I don't also like high-level languages. I especially like C# for the clean object-orientation, plus the syntactic sugar (e.g. accessor methods) and operator overloading that Java doesn't have (not a fan of the Microsoftness, though). MATLAB/Octave is really convenient for mathematical stuff, too.
The different tastes you get for [exclusively... sodium chloride] are mainly due to texture. Fleur de sel, for example, is fine and irregular.
But fleur de sel (and other sea salts) are not exclusively sodium chloride, and that's the whole point (or at least most of it). (See this handy diagram from Wikipedia.)
"Normal" sea salt is a commodity. "Fancy" sea salt from specific places (pink salt, fleur de sel, etc.) is expensive. With the right marketing (and with the desalinization plant located in the right place), they could charge "fancy salt" prices.
"Start your engines; I can't wait?" Dude, this was released years and years ago. In fact, the guy in the article previously reviewed the Doom 3 source code (which is much newer) and just decided to go back and do this old engine for completeness' sake.
Wikipedia has a list of games that already exist that are based on the GPL Quake 3 source. You need to crawl out from under your rock a little more often!
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I pay $40/month total for 1200 voice minutes + unlimited data, and it works (perhaps "unofficially") with tethering. How did I get such a great deal? By skipping the "big three" contract carriers in favor of pre-paid. (I use Virgin Mobile, but Boost etc. have similar deals.)
My (16 GB) Nexus 7 got tethered to my Android smartphone (with a 32 GB SD card) within a few days of receiving it.
I did it to share my cellular data connection, but this thread gives me the idea to use it to network-mount the SD card on the tablet...
The real difference between the Nexus 7 and those other tablets is that the Nexus 7 is fast (quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3). Between that and the fact that, as a Google-branded device, it will actually get OS upgrades (unlike those other tablets), it's not only a better value now but it's also future-proof enough to justify paying for the extra 8GB.
Would it similarly be "escalation" for a paraplegic to refuse to remove his prosthetic leg for airport security? The policy says they shouldn't have to, after all. (Admittedly, a policy which is apparently not followed.)
It's wired to a computer he keeps in his pants pocket (it's in his article: the I/O device didn't get damaged by the guy pulling on it, the CPU got damaged because the altercation caused him to pee himself and short it out).
Given that there exist MicroSD cards the size of a fingernail that store 64 GB, I think it's reasonable to assume that he could have had plenty of memory capacity if he'd chosen to design it that way.
Maybe I didn't have a problem with the packaging because I got the $250 (higher margin) version...
Tape is a non-issue; you have to slit the tape on the external shipping box anyway (same as if you had an Apple tablet delivered by mail, by the way).
I have a Nexus 7 too, and I didn't find the sleeve to be too tight.
I don't see why you can't imagine that; it's already happened.
I don't know what pedestrian Utopia you're living in, but around here (a metro area of about 5 million people) there are so few pedestrian bridges as to be negligible. (I can count all the ones I know of on one hand.) Building the car controller out of silicon instead of meat is not likely to change that.
That's not a bad idea under the right circumstances, but around here either the street grid either has such large "blocks" (i.e. it's made of suburban arterials with miles between major roads) that diverting the vehicles is impractical, there is enough pedestrian traffic (i.e. downtown) that they want to cross every block on a regular basis, or the "next block over" is made of residential streets and the residents would scream bloody murder if somebody started diverting traffic down them.
"Speed conventions" (by which I assume you mean the speed people actually choose to drive) are not set relative to speed limits. People drive at the maximum speed they feel to be safe/comfortable, which is a function of the physical characteristics of the situation (lane/shoulder width, horizontal curvature/superelevation, sight distance, traffic, etc.).
Sometimes engineers design a road with the minimum physical characteristics to accommodate a given speed limit (for example, a curvy mountain road or a tight cloverleaf); in those cases, drivers' speeds tend to correspond to the posted limit by coincidence. Other times, speed limits are set arbitrarily/politically, in which case they get ignored unless police spend an inordinate amount of time enforcing them.
What, do Soviet pedestrians obey the signal?
The presence of traffic lights makes the situation more predictable, which makes drivers feel safer. When they feel safer, they speed up and/or pay less attention.
Attach a ruler to your caulk gun and measure how far you've squeezed the plunger... or just use the whole tube in a single batch.
Here you go.
Maybe the lady got one cat, got infected, went crazy, and got 19 more? (Remember, the parasite causes rodents to be attracted to cats; maybe it has a similar effect in humans.)
I went to a high-ranked public university (Georgia Tech) and also took the experimental online classes last fall (AI, Machine Learning and Databases) and found that the quality of the courses was pretty equal with Tech.
Anyone taking the Stanford class -- even if they were a freshman spring semester -- enrolled before Udacity (or the preceding Stanford experimental online classes) existed.
Udacity classes aren't self-paced (which is their advantage over the likes of MITx). You can watch the lectures whenever you like, but the assignments and tests are due on a set schedule. This not only provides accountability and motivation to finish, but also means that there are other people learning the same thing so you can get help via forums/study groups.
Droughts are uncommon by definition. ("A prolonged period of abnormally low precipitation; a shortage of water resulting from this," according to Google.)
If a drought becomes common or normal, then it's just the new climate and isn't called a drought anymore.
I don't know about you, but I can't survive eating conifers, cycads and ginkgos. Therefore, the "but it worked for the dinosaurs!" argument is somewhat less than persuasive to me.
I'm pretty sure a black widow is unlikely to keep flying insects in line, given that they live under rocks and in crevices that are too tight for anything to fly through.
That argument is bullshit and always has been. It's nice to see a court (albeit European) finally recognize it for once!
I like C. I also drive a car with a manual transmission, and change my own oil, spark plugs, and brake pads.
Regrinding transmission gears or building carburetors is like programming in assembler (or maybe even writing machine code with a hex editor).
However, that's not to say that I don't also like high-level languages. I especially like C# for the clean object-orientation, plus the syntactic sugar (e.g. accessor methods) and operator overloading that Java doesn't have (not a fan of the Microsoftness, though). MATLAB/Octave is really convenient for mathematical stuff, too.
But fleur de sel (and other sea salts) are not exclusively sodium chloride, and that's the whole point (or at least most of it). (See this handy diagram from Wikipedia.)
"Normal" sea salt is a commodity. "Fancy" sea salt from specific places (pink salt, fleur de sel, etc.) is expensive. With the right marketing (and with the desalinization plant located in the right place), they could charge "fancy salt" prices.
You sell it as fancy eco-friendly sea salt for $15/lb.
"Start your engines; I can't wait?" Dude, this was released years and years ago. In fact, the guy in the article previously reviewed the Doom 3 source code (which is much newer) and just decided to go back and do this old engine for completeness' sake.
Wikipedia has a list of games that already exist that are based on the GPL Quake 3 source. You need to crawl out from under your rock a little more often!