Icons in a grid? Nokia phones had those for years. On-screen keyboard? Palm had those since day dot. Multipoint touch gestures? I remember seeing those in Minority Report
Also, there is a huge difference between "illegal" and "against policy".
As commercial private property, shopping centres can ask you to leave for whatever (reasonable) reason they see fit, and if you dont comply, can be forced by police under trespassing laws. Breaking their policies in the first place however is not illegal.
Static magnetic have little to no impact on electronics. Also there would still be more leakage magnetism from the HDD magnets and drive motor than a steel beam from any distance.
I agree with the grammar nazi - "download cap" and "quota" both make complete sense and are commonly used. I have never heard it called "bandwidth cap", which makes no sense anyway.
Apart from a few special cases, this going to be mostly useless for well designed houses - main windows facing the equator with a small verandah.
In summer - when the sun is strong - you dont want to sun to be hitting your windows as it will cause unwanted heating. The small verandah blocks this because of the high elevation of the sun. In winter - when the sun is weak - you want as much light into the house as possible to supplement heating. The low elevation of the sun gets past the verandah, but if the solar panels are absorbing some of that it will just drive up heating costs.
Sure, you can train someone to be a good software tester, but it is so mind-numbingly boring that most people loose focus eventually, take shortcuts and miss those edge cases that is the whole point of software testing.
I guess they are saying that people with Autism have a capacity for detailed, repetitive work that far exceeds regular people.
In Australia we dont have the same concept unilateral free speech. Our constitution gives us the right to free political speech, but not free personal speech. Personally I think it works very well.
Why does it matter if we stay in our pajamas? How am I less effective if I spend my time working rather than grooming?
Personally I think it does matter. It represents an attitude and personal discipline - getting dressed can provide a mental delineation between personal mode and work mode.
Yes, there are losses through heat and friction, but on large electrical motors that is a very small percentage. Electric motors are generally well over 70% efficient, and can be in the 90's of percent - both in driving and generation mode.
You are seriously underestimating the amount of power involved. Even if the total round trip efficiency of the regenerative system was 60%, that's 2.4MW for 30 seconds, or 20,000 kWh - enough to power 1000 homes all day. It will pay off the investment very quickly and is well worth doing.
I have a mate who had all sort of problems with his fibre cables in Africa (Ghana) - the locals would dig down to the cable to steal it, chop into it only to find it was fibre and not copper, and then move on. The problem was they'd move on 10 metres and try again with the same cable. Idiots!
I told him he should bury scrap section of fibre closer to the surface as a diversion.
I agree, it was a very simple and repetive game that should have gotten boring quickly, but for some reason I absolutely loved it. I spent more hours playing it and all of the DLC's co-op than any other game I have every owned.
The rotoscoped grahics were cool, the characters were fun, the intensity of big shootouts was exciting, and I think the main part - the elusive hunt for better gear was addictive. Properly addictive - stimulating the reward centers of your brain, just like a poker machine.
That's because the Australian government has very little commitment to renerable energy - coal is just too cheap and the coal lobby groups are powerfull.
It makes me sick that we couldnt get a measly $200M for this project in Australia - but they will give all of the sheeple a plasma TV to keep them happy...
Upgrading Computer Scientists to Software Engineer is an equally large leap, and is doing a disservice to other engineering feilds.
The majority of the time, there is simply not enough rigour exercised in the design and development of most software. Many programmers are successful because of their paricular personal flair - something closer to a craftsman / artisan.
I agree with most of what you said, except for the "vast majority managing their credit wisely" part - the US economy wouldnt have tanked so bad if that were true. Across the world per capita debt is rising to unsustainable levels.
I think people who live in the black, and use credit cards only for convenience are a real minority.
You're missing the point of the article. Whe you have already built a system with a standard amount of RAM and a standard HDD, the next dollars you spend are better off on SSD than RAM.
$100 might buy you an extra 4GB RAM which is great for superfetch, but the same dollars will buy a 32GB or 64GB SSD, which will improve your entire system partition.
In Australia the standard is either clay/concrete tiles, or colourbond steel (painted corugated zincalume) - both of which last 20+ years with minimal maintenance.
Hopefully it is simple enough to avoid most of the common fouling and corrosion issues underwater:
1) The delicated parts are all fully sealed 2) The hydraulic cylinders can be made of high grade stainless steel. 2) Any moving parts are constantly in motion so wont get encrusted by barnacles.
The speed of the turbine has nothing to do with it. You can change the exciter field strength to changfe the MW, at the cost of extra torque on the turbine and higher steam consumption.
It's only once you hit the torque/MW limits that extra units are required.
The fact that it has a half life as old as the universe demonstrates that it is very very very mildly radioactive - any less radioactive and it would be considered stable. The "depleted" term is a giveaway.
The main risk is that it is a heavy metal, like lead, and can bioacumulate. We just need to bury it somewhere with no liquid water and it will be fine.
The flywheels would be spinning at hundreds of thousands of RPM, not 50/60Hz. Switching electronics would be used to establish the mains signal and keep sync.
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What features were stolen?
Icons in a grid? Nokia phones had those for years.
On-screen keyboard? Palm had those since day dot.
Multipoint touch gestures? I remember seeing those in Minority Report
Also, there is a huge difference between "illegal" and "against policy".
As commercial private property, shopping centres can ask you to leave for whatever (reasonable) reason they see fit, and if you dont comply, can be forced by police under trespassing laws. Breaking their policies in the first place however is not illegal.
Static magnetic have little to no impact on electronics. Also there would still be more leakage magnetism from the HDD magnets and drive motor than a steel beam from any distance.
I agree with the grammar nazi - "download cap" and "quota" both make complete sense and are commonly used. I have never heard it called "bandwidth cap", which makes no sense anyway.
Apart from a few special cases, this going to be mostly useless for well designed houses - main windows facing the equator with a small verandah.
In summer - when the sun is strong - you dont want to sun to be hitting your windows as it will cause unwanted heating. The small verandah blocks this because of the high elevation of the sun.
In winter - when the sun is weak - you want as much light into the house as possible to supplement heating. The low elevation of the sun gets past the verandah, but if the solar panels are absorbing some of that it will just drive up heating costs.
Sure, you can train someone to be a good software tester, but it is so mind-numbingly boring that most people loose focus eventually, take shortcuts and miss those edge cases that is the whole point of software testing.
I guess they are saying that people with Autism have a capacity for detailed, repetitive work that far exceeds regular people.
In Australia we dont have the same concept unilateral free speech. Our constitution gives us the right to free political speech, but not free personal speech. Personally I think it works very well.
Why does it matter if we stay in our pajamas? How am I less effective if I spend my time working rather than grooming?
Personally I think it does matter. It represents an attitude and personal discipline - getting dressed can provide a mental delineation between personal mode and work mode.
Nah, it's much cheaper than that - in bulk and generated on-site it costs only cents per litre.
Yes, there are losses through heat and friction, but on large electrical motors that is a very small percentage. Electric motors are generally well over 70% efficient, and can be in the 90's of percent - both in driving and generation mode.
You are seriously underestimating the amount of power involved. Even if the total round trip efficiency of the regenerative system was 60%, that's 2.4MW for 30 seconds, or 20,000 kWh - enough to power 1000 homes all day. It will pay off the investment very quickly and is well worth doing.
I have a mate who had all sort of problems with his fibre cables in Africa (Ghana) - the locals would dig down to the cable to steal it, chop into it only to find it was fibre and not copper, and then move on. The problem was they'd move on 10 metres and try again with the same cable. Idiots!
I told him he should bury scrap section of fibre closer to the surface as a diversion.
First point - it was their word against his. You'd need an independant observer as a witness.
1kg of Bananas ;)
I agree, it was a very simple and repetive game that should have gotten boring quickly, but for some reason I absolutely loved it. I spent more hours playing it and all of the DLC's co-op than any other game I have every owned.
The rotoscoped grahics were cool, the characters were fun, the intensity of big shootouts was exciting, and I think the main part - the elusive hunt for better gear was addictive. Properly addictive - stimulating the reward centers of your brain, just like a poker machine.
That's because the Australian government has very little commitment to renerable energy - coal is just too cheap and the coal lobby groups are powerfull.
It makes me sick that we couldnt get a measly $200M for this project in Australia - but they will give all of the sheeple a plasma TV to keep them happy...
Upgrading Computer Scientists to Software Engineer is an equally large leap, and is doing a disservice to other engineering feilds.
The majority of the time, there is simply not enough rigour exercised in the design and development of most software. Many programmers are successful because of their paricular personal flair - something closer to a craftsman / artisan.
I agree with most of what you said, except for the "vast majority managing their credit wisely" part - the US economy wouldnt have tanked so bad if that were true. Across the world per capita debt is rising to unsustainable levels.
I think people who live in the black, and use credit cards only for convenience are a real minority.
You're missing the point of the article. Whe you have already built a system with a standard amount of RAM and a standard HDD, the next dollars you spend are better off on SSD than RAM.
$100 might buy you an extra 4GB RAM which is great for superfetch, but the same dollars will buy a 32GB or 64GB SSD, which will improve your entire system partition.
You crazy americans and your cardboard houses!
In Australia the standard is either clay/concrete tiles, or colourbond steel (painted corugated zincalume) - both of which last 20+ years with minimal maintenance.
Hopefully it is simple enough to avoid most of the common fouling and corrosion issues underwater:
1) The delicated parts are all fully sealed
2) The hydraulic cylinders can be made of high grade stainless steel.
2) Any moving parts are constantly in motion so wont get encrusted by barnacles.
The speed of the turbine has nothing to do with it. You can change the exciter field strength to changfe the MW, at the cost of extra torque on the turbine and higher steam consumption.
It's only once you hit the torque/MW limits that extra units are required.
Prices in Australia still do end in .99, it's only the final total at the cash register that is rounded down to the nearest 5c.
The fact that it has a half life as old as the universe demonstrates that it is very very very mildly radioactive - any less radioactive and it would be considered stable. The "depleted" term is a giveaway.
The main risk is that it is a heavy metal, like lead, and can bioacumulate. We just need to bury it somewhere with no liquid water and it will be fine.
Kinetic energy is 1/2 m * v ^2.
Increased mass will only increase energy lineary, but the squared velocity term means that if you double the speeds you get four times the energy.
The flywheels would be spinning at hundreds of thousands of RPM, not 50/60Hz. Switching electronics would be used to establish the mains signal and keep sync.