I own a Volt. Right now you can simply ignore the direct gasoline engine connection to the wheels - it only activates at speeds more than 50mph and with an empty battery, it increases fuel economy by about 10% at these conditions.
A better designed gas engine might get better economy, but GM ran out of time when they were designing the original Volt. There are rumors that the next Volt model might lose the direct connection between wheels and the engine. But yeah, a diesel-powered Volt would be a great thing...
I absolutely HATED to go outside and play ball games. Even at the age of 8 I was more interested in reading (we didn't have a computer or a game console). I can't understand parents who freak out when their children do not want to become playground bullies or basketball fanatics. Just make sure that your kids get enough actual excersize and buy them 64Gb iPad if that's what they like.
It's inert. Even if you put it on fire exactly nothing exciting is going to happen - explosives will simply melt, flow out of the casing and slowly burn.
That's my problem as well. I have a fairly crappy 5-year-old 30" HDTV. I know it's crappy but that's OK, because I only use it to play an occasional casual game or watch a movie every couple of weeks. I checked newer TVs and they are all crappy, contrast ratio is mediocre, color performance is abysmal and manufacturers compete only on "see how we can make your TV to be a big-ass 60" panel!"
So I decided not to bother and wait for 4k panels. I don't care much about content, because I'll be using it mostly for games.
Why replace perfectly fine 1080p HDTV? Newer ones often simply have more crap and more complicated UI with lots of "value-added" bloatware.
Oh, and my _phone_ has the same resolution as these 50" panels. Why the fuck he's talking about "image quality"? Until we get 4k displays the quality differences are non-existent.
I know people who developed complicated algorithms which model the actual physical geometry of the tapes to eliminate pre- and post-echoes to restore some archival records of early Soviet music performances.
IMO, digital is better than analog. Formats are not that complicated, just include a.txt file on each medium with short description of the format. Unless your format is designed by a complexity pervert it won't be complicated to write a translator for future digital archaeologists.
No, you couldn't. There are no recorded cases of hearing >21KHz, hearing range is limited by simple mechanics - the smallest hairs in your ears can vibrate only at a frequency so high.
What you were hearing is likely to be the first harmonic of the alarm, probably around 18-19KHz which indeed can't be heard by grown-ups.
Zimmerman had ability to retreat before the confrontation. He had no _duty_ to do it (that's SYG law). We might never know what happened, perhaps Zimmerman called Trayvon 'a fucking n...er' or threatened to shoot him on the spot.
Imagine that I walk into a bar and start a brawl with the biggest baddest meanie there, then I pull out my gun and shoot him. It appears to be totally legal under Florida's laws (well, I can be nicked for getting a weapon into a bar - that's a felony, btw). Should I be let go in this case? Now imagine that there is nobody in the bar at that time, so it's my word against corpse's. I'll even have bruises to prove that I was threatened!
That's why SYG laws are dumb and should be repealed. Civilians should certainly be able to use deadly force in self-defense (or in defense of other peoples' lives), or to protect their property ('castle doctrine') but that's it.
Not possible. There's nothing libelous in the statement that some company's service is bad, since there's no accepted absolute scale of good/bad service.
If he claimed that BA's flight attendant raped him and killed his mother - that would definitely be a libel.
WTF? Bulk uranium is NOT pyrophoric, it will NOT burn. Don't believe me? Buy a depleted uranium sample (I suggest http://www.unitednuclear.com/ ) and try to light it.
To actually make it burn you have to grind it into very fine dust. Just like iron or aluminium.
No, not possible. A geographically remote link has latency too big to be useful for automatic replication. And that's even without considering the way to solve the 'split brains' problem.
If you really need your servers to be up, then you should buy enough reserved instances in target regions. They are not oversold and guaranteed to be available.
So yes, making resilient architecture on top of AWS is possible and is not that hard. You'll definitely have to pay extra money for it, but much less if you tried to build it yourself.
Well, right now I have 500 machines running some heavy calculations in multiple AZs. Works perfectly fine, we have noticed the recent problems but simply stopped using the affected region (us-east-1) for the time being, shifting our calculations to other regions.
AWS is really great at scaling. It's better than anything else on the market, but it does require a lot of work.
How do you do it automatically? It's simply not possible to transparently replicate arbitrary VMs across geographically distant datacenters (lightspeed and all that...).
However, AWS provides tools for developers to do it.
I bet it'll take about 1 second to detect a forgery (just look for pixelation with a looking glass). Besides, there are tons of artists who specialize in reproductions and can create a painting that is VERY close to the original, using real pigments and sometimes even pigments that were used in the relevant period. My family owns several such reproductions and they are damn good, if they were not clearly marked as reproductions they would have required an art expert with analytical equipment to distinguish them from the real paintings.
And then all of these self-driving cars send a picture of your traffic violation and a friendly neighborhood HWP officer would meet you in a couple of miles.
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I own a Volt. Right now you can simply ignore the direct gasoline engine connection to the wheels - it only activates at speeds more than 50mph and with an empty battery, it increases fuel economy by about 10% at these conditions.
A better designed gas engine might get better economy, but GM ran out of time when they were designing the original Volt. There are rumors that the next Volt model might lose the direct connection between wheels and the engine. But yeah, a diesel-powered Volt would be a great thing...
I absolutely HATED to go outside and play ball games. Even at the age of 8 I was more interested in reading (we didn't have a computer or a game console). I can't understand parents who freak out when their children do not want to become playground bullies or basketball fanatics. Just make sure that your kids get enough actual excersize and buy them 64Gb iPad if that's what they like.
It's inert. Even if you put it on fire exactly nothing exciting is going to happen - explosives will simply melt, flow out of the casing and slowly burn.
You've misspelled 'NSA'...
They are improved, sure. But they are still CRAP, compared with OLED phone displays or good computer displays.
That's my problem as well. I have a fairly crappy 5-year-old 30" HDTV. I know it's crappy but that's OK, because I only use it to play an occasional casual game or watch a movie every couple of weeks. I checked newer TVs and they are all crappy, contrast ratio is mediocre, color performance is abysmal and manufacturers compete only on "see how we can make your TV to be a big-ass 60" panel!"
So I decided not to bother and wait for 4k panels. I don't care much about content, because I'll be using it mostly for games.
Nah, I'm happy to spend my money to buy new crap if it has some new and and interesting features. But why buy something that isn't any better?
23andMe already pioneered this!
Seriously, they have this feature.
Why replace perfectly fine 1080p HDTV? Newer ones often simply have more crap and more complicated UI with lots of "value-added" bloatware.
Oh, and my _phone_ has the same resolution as these 50" panels. Why the fuck he's talking about "image quality"? Until we get 4k displays the quality differences are non-existent.
I know people who developed complicated algorithms which model the actual physical geometry of the tapes to eliminate pre- and post-echoes to restore some archival records of early Soviet music performances.
.txt file on each medium with short description of the format. Unless your format is designed by a complexity pervert it won't be complicated to write a translator for future digital archaeologists.
IMO, digital is better than analog. Formats are not that complicated, just include a
No, you couldn't. There are no recorded cases of hearing >21KHz, hearing range is limited by simple mechanics - the smallest hairs in your ears can vibrate only at a frequency so high.
What you were hearing is likely to be the first harmonic of the alarm, probably around 18-19KHz which indeed can't be heard by grown-ups.
Zimmerman had ability to retreat before the confrontation. He had no _duty_ to do it (that's SYG law). We might never know what happened, perhaps Zimmerman called Trayvon 'a fucking n...er' or threatened to shoot him on the spot.
Imagine that I walk into a bar and start a brawl with the biggest baddest meanie there, then I pull out my gun and shoot him. It appears to be totally legal under Florida's laws (well, I can be nicked for getting a weapon into a bar - that's a felony, btw). Should I be let go in this case? Now imagine that there is nobody in the bar at that time, so it's my word against corpse's. I'll even have bruises to prove that I was threatened!
That's why SYG laws are dumb and should be repealed. Civilians should certainly be able to use deadly force in self-defense (or in defense of other peoples' lives), or to protect their property ('castle doctrine') but that's it.
Other people in this thread pointed out that SYG laws indeed WERE considered in this case: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4173251&cid=44779213
So I repeat, were these black boys left loose? Or were they arrested and are awaiting a trial, which will almost certainly find them guilty?
Oh, here's a real reverse Zimmerman case: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/16/the-reverse-travyon-martin-case-and-the-other-george-zimmerman.html - a man in a car shot another man whom he deemed to be threating.
Were these black boys left loose once they claimed a "stand your ground" defense? No?
Thought so.
Then point it out. There is NO such testimony. None. Nada. Zilch. Nichego.
What we have are WORDS of Zimmerman and a witness' statement that she saw someone on top of someone. Maybe.
Not possible. There's nothing libelous in the statement that some company's service is bad, since there's no accepted absolute scale of good/bad service.
If he claimed that BA's flight attendant raped him and killed his mother - that would definitely be a libel.
WTF? Bulk uranium is NOT pyrophoric, it will NOT burn. Don't believe me? Buy a depleted uranium sample (I suggest http://www.unitednuclear.com/ ) and try to light it.
To actually make it burn you have to grind it into very fine dust. Just like iron or aluminium.
Hmmm.... That explains the fact that lots of particle physics grads switch to finance.
No, not possible. A geographically remote link has latency too big to be useful for automatic replication. And that's even without considering the way to solve the 'split brains' problem.
If you really need your servers to be up, then you should buy enough reserved instances in target regions. They are not oversold and guaranteed to be available.
So yes, making resilient architecture on top of AWS is possible and is not that hard. You'll definitely have to pay extra money for it, but much less if you tried to build it yourself.
Well, right now I have 500 machines running some heavy calculations in multiple AZs. Works perfectly fine, we have noticed the recent problems but simply stopped using the affected region (us-east-1) for the time being, shifting our calculations to other regions.
AWS is really great at scaling. It's better than anything else on the market, but it does require a lot of work.
How do you do it automatically? It's simply not possible to transparently replicate arbitrary VMs across geographically distant datacenters (lightspeed and all that...).
However, AWS provides tools for developers to do it.
You can do it with AWS, no problem. Only one region was affected this time, other regions are OK.
I bet it'll take about 1 second to detect a forgery (just look for pixelation with a looking glass). Besides, there are tons of artists who specialize in reproductions and can create a painting that is VERY close to the original, using real pigments and sometimes even pigments that were used in the relevant period. My family owns several such reproductions and they are damn good, if they were not clearly marked as reproductions they would have required an art expert with analytical equipment to distinguish them from the real paintings.
And then all of these self-driving cars send a picture of your traffic violation and a friendly neighborhood HWP officer would meet you in a couple of miles.