It's an _effective_ fuel economy estimate. It assumes that you do most driving using only electric propulsion with energy from the battery which is charged from electric network.
And GM Volt is going to be sold this year. It's in the final stages of development now.
"Do you really think the USSR could have survived a German military undivided by multiple fronts powered by an industry undisturbed by coordinated day and night bombing by the US and Britain? "
Yes. US only started to matter for the USSR after the first two years of war. Also, lend-lease was about 1% of USSR industrial output during the war.
"You clearly don't know what you're talking about. The Apple design is faultless in this regard."
Sure, Apple can never be wrong:)
"You click on the USA flag, and then select either the Russian flag, or a flag of some other country that Apple trades in. Couldn't be easier."
Except that you need: notice that little flag, 2 understand what it says.
"Once selected, that country will remain for future visits to the site."
In fact, it doesn't.
"The top of the screen is reserved for frequently used navigation tasks. A one off preference does NOT belong there."
Except that without this 'one-off' change the site is USELESS for non-English-speaking people.
"For whatever business reason they don't trade in the Ukraine. But that's not a website design issue."
But they DO trade in the Ukraine. They have authorized partners, etc.
"Your inability to understand the difference between the words "distributor" and "reseller" is not a web-site design problem. It's a literacy problem on your part. In any product supply chain, distributors operate in the levels between manufacturer and resellers. Distributors don't sell to consumers."
Except that there is no this distinction in Russian. Distributors certainly can sell things directly to customers.
And in fact they DO sell things directly to customers, according to the #@^$#*&$^ Apple.com site.
"Apple's consumer website www.apple.com is one of the best designed websites out there."
WTF? Apple.com is crap, complete and useless.
Let's say I'm a visitor from Ukraine (I am, BTW). I go to apple.com - and see a site in English. How do I switch language to Ukrainian or Russian? The common way is to have a switch at the top of the site, offering language choices from GeoIP database.
But here I have to scroll it all the way down and click on inconspicuous 'Choose your country or region' button.
Ok, I click it and see country names. There's Ukraine? Nowhere to be found, even though I know as a fact that there are authorized Apple sellers in Kiev. Ok, I click on "Russia" because I speak Russian as well.
Great, I see the big 'Buy' button on the top left. I eagerly click it (http://www.apple.com/ru/buy/). And see a lot of options (some of them with in a broken grammar - can't they find good translators?). What should I choose? What is the difference between Apple distributors and resellers?
But how can I find this locator without resorting to a search engine? It turns out, I have to click on "Apple Authorised Reseller" link here: http://www.apple.com/ru/buy/ Its description says: "They help you to choose Mac or iPod, provide professional consultation and technical support of Apple products" - not a word about ability to search.
In short, Apple's web site is a #$#*@(&$^#*(&$ mess.
"Climate Science's real problem is lack of falsifiability."
How so? Models are shown to be pretty good.
"On the other hand, If the temperature goes up, or down, if there is more rain, or less rain, more hurricanes, or less hurricanes, glaciers get bigger or smaller, see ice expands or contracts, droughts or floods, it's all evidence for global warming! If we entered a new ice age or a new warm period everything and anything is proof of global warming! Global warming can not be disproven!"
It can certainly be. Climate models predict that in general glaciers will retreat (and they do, at predicted rate), the same with sea level, etc. The data is noisy and requires a fair bit of time to gather. But we are pretty good at analyzing and gathering data now.
"Academia can be very insular. It's publish or perish and it's difficult to get published if the editors think you're part of the "tin-foil-hat gang" or being paid by Exxon. There is also a great bias against publishing negative results. Climate science is full of models that are plugged into a computer and out comes a result."
And nothing is more satisfying than to show that another model is hopelessly flawed compared to your model. Don't overestimate how hard it is to publish. It's not hard at all.
"When you also notice that nature itself creates a lot of global warming gases when it makes volcanoes, how can anyone not question the idea that human-produce emissions are so much worse?"
Do you think you're the first who thought about this and everything else you've said? Ha. Basically, one can never ask a good question which has not yet been investigated by specialists in the field.
For example, volcano CO2 emissions are many times less than emissions from fossil fuels. The current unpronounceable volcano emitted about 2 times less CO2 than the grounded planes would have done.
"If they'd made their data available in the first place, so others could check their work, we wouldn't be having this problem now."
They did.
"Instead they tried to suppress debate"
They didn't do it.
"and lost or corrupted the original data"
They hasn't done it.
"to the point that if there IS a problem we won't be able to reliably document it."
They hasn't done it.
You really should have present us documents of every second of your life. You hasn't done this, so we can safely assume that you are raping your daughter every day.
It's quite possible that the Martian life used different nucleotids. For example, even on Earth uracil is used instead of thymine in RNA. Also, parts of DNA can be methylated.
And it's certainly conceivable that some other substances can be used for genetic information. Maybe even from non-organic elements (metals, for example).
>Games development Game developers are desperately looking for something, anything better than C++. C# is looking better each day.
Unfortunately, the choice of C++ is often dictated by externalities (no C# on PS3, etc.)
>systems development, OS development There are several OSes developed in Java, C# and other languages. I'm pretty sure we'll move away from C-based OSes in 'near' future.
>embedded programming and the like And it's more and more irrelevant (Moore's law). It's quite often easier to use more expensive embedded system then to pay for more complex development.
>are places where it pays for development to be done by people who know what they're doing using tried and true programming tools that demand such expertise Hammer and a spade are also tried and true tools. But somehow I don't see people building bridges and tunnels exclusively with spades and hammers.
So let's protect the network. Let's start using digital signatures for everything all the way down to Ethernet packets.
For example, in future when your host does a DNS request (with DNSSec) it'll also retrieve server's public key and use it to encrypt connection from the very first packet. And every incoming packet must also be cross-signed by your provider (whose certificate is installed on your computer during the connection setup), etc.
The current state of security in the Internet is just appalling. We can do MUCH better.
HTML5 is a joke. It won't be able to compete with Flash for rich apps.
I dare you to show me how you're going to implement simple BadgerBadger video in HTML5. Go on, try it. And that's only an example of a _simple_ animation.
Flash is right now one the best suites for animated vector graphics. They have a beautiful internal model for vector graphics (lines are represented as diagonals in a polygon, not as edges of triangles).
Oh, and Flash is also open. You can freely download the SWF specification and implement it.
I'm pretty sure audit will find serious violations in Fed. But we know the amount of US dollars in circulation to a pretty good precision, so there won't be any groundbreaking discoveries.
"Regional president" is actually a correct translation of his title. Russia is divided into regions, and some of them are called 'republics' and thus are governed by presidents. Some other regions are 'gubernias' and are governed by 'gubernators'.
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Great. Now read it what it says.
It's an _effective_ fuel economy estimate. It assumes that you do most driving using only electric propulsion with energy from the battery which is charged from electric network.
And GM Volt is going to be sold this year. It's in the final stages of development now.
You can't run a common car for 100 km. on a liter of gasoline. Sorry. There's just not enough energy in gasoline for that, no matter what you do.
What you're talking about is GM Volt ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM Volt ) which _is_ going to be sold commercially this year.
Btrfs has built-in volume management (including intelligent RAID) too...
Basically, it's what it says in the article.
For the record, I've offered this way to solve the leak problem before: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1639434&cid=32081154
My post contains a more detailed link: http://wonderful-russia.net/russian-science/peaceful-nuclear-explosions/
"Do you really think the USSR could have survived a German military undivided by multiple fronts powered by an industry undisturbed by coordinated day and night bombing by the US and Britain? "
Yes. US only started to matter for the USSR after the first two years of war. Also, lend-lease was about 1% of USSR industrial output during the war.
Yes, it's not the first time.
Gravity Probe B did the same with _rotating_ _gyroscopes_. In hard vacuum. Cooled to liquid helium temperature.
Now that is cool!
It won't solve all problems, it just allows to avoid the first step (language change).
Google, for example, works fine - it presents a localized homepage by default based on GeoIP.
Yandex is very popular in Russia and Ukraine ( http://www.searchcowboys.com/yandex/1203 ).
It just works better than Google for Russian-language sites.
"You clearly don't know what you're talking about. The Apple design is faultless in this regard."
Sure, Apple can never be wrong :)
"You click on the USA flag, and then select either the Russian flag, or a flag of some other country that Apple trades in. Couldn't be easier."
Except that you need: notice that little flag, 2 understand what it says.
"Once selected, that country will remain for future visits to the site."
In fact, it doesn't.
"The top of the screen is reserved for frequently used navigation tasks. A one off preference does NOT belong there."
Except that without this 'one-off' change the site is USELESS for non-English-speaking people.
"For whatever business reason they don't trade in the Ukraine. But that's not a website design issue."
But they DO trade in the Ukraine. They have authorized partners, etc.
"Your inability to understand the difference between the words "distributor" and "reseller" is not a web-site design problem. It's a literacy problem on your part. In any product supply chain, distributors operate in the levels between manufacturer and resellers. Distributors don't sell to consumers."
Except that there is no this distinction in Russian. Distributors certainly can sell things directly to customers.
And in fact they DO sell things directly to customers, according to the #@^$#*&$^ Apple.com site.
"Apple's consumer website www.apple.com is one of the best designed websites out there."
WTF? Apple.com is crap, complete and useless.
Let's say I'm a visitor from Ukraine (I am, BTW). I go to apple.com - and see a site in English. How do I switch language to Ukrainian or Russian? The common way is to have a switch at the top of the site, offering language choices from GeoIP database.
But here I have to scroll it all the way down and click on inconspicuous 'Choose your country or region' button.
Ok, I click it and see country names. There's Ukraine? Nowhere to be found, even though I know as a fact that there are authorized Apple sellers in Kiev. Ok, I click on "Russia" because I speak Russian as well.
Great, I see the big 'Buy' button on the top left. I eagerly click it (http://www.apple.com/ru/buy/). And see a lot of options (some of them with in a broken grammar - can't they find good translators?). What should I choose? What is the difference between Apple distributors and resellers?
Ok, I click on "Apple distributors" - http://www.apple.com/ru/buy/shop/
Great! I now can see the list of 3 (count them - THREE!) Apple shops for the whole Russia, all in Moscow. Wow!
And you might notice that I still can't find Ukrainian distributors.
Ok, I'm a power user and do a web search: http://yandex.ua/yandsearch?text=Apple%20%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9%20%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80&lr=143&ncrnd=214 on a local search engine. Great! Now I found the http://www.apple.com/ru/buy/locator/ - reseller locator.
And with a couple of clicks I find what I need: http://www.apple.com/ru/buy/locator/map.html?tySearch=1&viaProduct=2&viaSpecial=-1&strCountry=UKR&lat=50.45&lng=30.5233333&gCountry=UA
But how can I find this locator without resorting to a search engine? It turns out, I have to click on "Apple Authorised Reseller" link here: http://www.apple.com/ru/buy/ Its description says: "They help you to choose Mac or iPod, provide professional consultation and technical support of Apple products" - not a word about ability to search.
In short, Apple's web site is a #$#*@(&$^#*(&$ mess.
"Climate Science's real problem is lack of falsifiability."
How so? Models are shown to be pretty good.
"On the other hand, If the temperature goes up, or down, if there is more rain, or less rain, more hurricanes, or less hurricanes, glaciers get bigger or smaller, see ice expands or contracts, droughts or floods, it's all evidence for global warming! If we entered a new ice age or a new warm period everything and anything is proof of global warming! Global warming can not be disproven!"
It can certainly be. Climate models predict that in general glaciers will retreat (and they do, at predicted rate), the same with sea level, etc. The data is noisy and requires a fair bit of time to gather. But we are pretty good at analyzing and gathering data now.
"The holocaust was undeniably real"
Nope.
"because there are still some living eye witnesses"
Worldwide Jew conspiracy.
"photographs"
Faked.
"original videos"
Staged.
"documents"
Faked and/or misrepresented.
"etc. that clearly prove that it happened."
Hah! You are sheeple if you believe in that crap. Hail Halliburton!
"Academia can be very insular. It's publish or perish and it's difficult to get published if the editors think you're part of the "tin-foil-hat gang" or being paid by Exxon. There is also a great bias against publishing negative results. Climate science is full of models that are plugged into a computer and out comes a result."
And nothing is more satisfying than to show that another model is hopelessly flawed compared to your model. Don't overestimate how hard it is to publish. It's not hard at all.
"When you also notice that nature itself creates a lot of global warming gases when it makes volcanoes, how can anyone not question the idea that human-produce emissions are so much worse?"
Do you think you're the first who thought about this and everything else you've said? Ha. Basically, one can never ask a good question which has not yet been investigated by specialists in the field.
For example, volcano CO2 emissions are many times less than emissions from fossil fuels. The current unpronounceable volcano emitted about 2 times less CO2 than the grounded planes would have done.
"If they'd made their data available in the first place, so others could check their work, we wouldn't be having this problem now."
They did.
"Instead they tried to suppress debate"
They didn't do it.
"and lost or corrupted the original data"
They hasn't done it.
"to the point that if there IS a problem we won't be able to reliably document it."
They hasn't done it.
You really should have present us documents of every second of your life. You hasn't done this, so we can safely assume that you are raping your daughter every day.
It's quite possible that the Martian life used different nucleotids. For example, even on Earth uracil is used instead of thymine in RNA. Also, parts of DNA can be methylated.
And it's certainly conceivable that some other substances can be used for genetic information. Maybe even from non-organic elements (metals, for example).
>Games development
Game developers are desperately looking for something, anything better than C++. C# is looking better each day.
Unfortunately, the choice of C++ is often dictated by externalities (no C# on PS3, etc.)
>systems development, OS development
There are several OSes developed in Java, C# and other languages. I'm pretty sure we'll move away from C-based OSes in 'near' future.
>embedded programming and the like
And it's more and more irrelevant (Moore's law). It's quite often easier to use more expensive embedded system then to pay for more complex development.
>are places where it pays for development to be done by people who know what they're doing using tried and true programming tools that demand such expertise
Hammer and a spade are also tried and true tools. But somehow I don't see people building bridges and tunnels exclusively with spades and hammers.
So let's protect the network. Let's start using digital signatures for everything all the way down to Ethernet packets.
For example, in future when your host does a DNS request (with DNSSec) it'll also retrieve server's public key and use it to encrypt connection from the very first packet. And every incoming packet must also be cross-signed by your provider (whose certificate is installed on your computer during the connection setup), etc.
The current state of security in the Internet is just appalling. We can do MUCH better.
HTML5 is a joke. It won't be able to compete with Flash for rich apps.
I dare you to show me how you're going to implement simple BadgerBadger video in HTML5. Go on, try it. And that's only an example of a _simple_ animation.
Flash is right now one the best suites for animated vector graphics. They have a beautiful internal model for vector graphics (lines are represented as diagonals in a polygon, not as edges of triangles).
Oh, and Flash is also open. You can freely download the SWF specification and implement it.
More likely there are problems with corruption, which doesn't really bother anyone involved in trading.
Note that dollar has sharply _increased_ in value against most of world's currencies today.
Nah.
I'm pretty sure audit will find serious violations in Fed. But we know the amount of US dollars in circulation to a pretty good precision, so there won't be any groundbreaking discoveries.
?
SWF format is a (mostly) open specification: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/
Flash _Player_ is closed, but nobody forces you to use it. See? You have a choice.
How do you feel browsing with ad-blocker and noscript?
No, support for local languages is good.
However, the way it's being added is technically bad.
"Regional president" is actually a correct translation of his title. Russia is divided into regions, and some of them are called 'republics' and thus are governed by presidents. Some other regions are 'gubernias' and are governed by 'gubernators'.
Yes, it's a mess.