Wrong. What you have are transistors, and the hope that someone will be able to read their on-off state at some indeterminate point in the future
Why would they send transistors instead of physically encoded data like everyone else? All of our space junk has miniature data of some sorts. My name is written out in plain text on a piece of silicon floating around in space right now. It seems likely that space-faring animals of the future will have figured out light refraction and be able to read all this.
Flash and other re-writable technology doesn't last long and anyone who can build a moon lander will know this. So if they sent up transistors it'll be old school ROM or PROM tech which will be visible under magnification. Nothing in the article indicated they did this though. Sounds like they made some little CDs or just laser etched the text on little discs/coins.
I'd expect integrated lights rather than rechargeable ones, powered by the propulsion battery.
I rented an ebike and bumped into the rear light with a bag causing it to pop open and release a couple of AA cells on to the road. Expect the headlight to be wired but with a round beam that blinds oncoming traffic and blinks so nobody can judge your speed and a rear light that may not be wired. At least in the USA where GM is headquartered.
That's all I need, files magically disappearing from my local media. Thanks but no thanks.
Don't enable the "Files On-Demand" function and it'll make every file available always."Files On-Demand" is there today but all it does is, for example, not download a file you created on PC#1 to PC#2 until you try to access it on PC#2. The new feature uses access statistics to do things more automatically if you let it. No reason to think your files will magically disappear. There's plenty of reasons to not use OneDrive, but this isn't one of them.
The article proposes no solution. The author simply whines about programming being hard. He suggests there's "simple small-scale problems" which don't need "rock stars" to solve. No examples of these problems or what programming might be like if it were fixed.
So much for dynamic range, isn't that what good speakers are supposed to provide?
Louder speakers or a quieter room allow for more dynamic range. Airport speakers are super loud with heaps of dynamic range. Would you consider those good speakers? Good for airports, yeah.
Seriously. Most of us have cores sitting idle. Instead of being abused / tracked / annoyed / occasionally infected by advertising, why not let sites do a small amount of mining while we visit?
Seriously. Most web pages have whitespace and other useless areas. Instead of being pestered for subscriptions, why not put something to generate revenue there.
It's a slippery slope. I expect we'll have miner-blocker add-ons by the end of the year.
\There's literally no reason for essentially basic x86 code to not fucking run.
You believe that because you don't understand how powerful an MMU can be when coupled with non-volatile storage and how difficult and resource intensive maintaining a 32-bit compatibility layer can be.
The reputation NiCds got for having lousy energy capacity was due to a memory effect. If you kept recharging the battery before it had been fully discharged, it "learned" the low charge state as its new zero state, and you lost that bottom portion of its capacity (due to crystalline growth).
You mean voltage depression. And it's from overcharging. Easily reversed by discharging the cells individually. Memory effect is something else.
You may one day find yourself wanting a job where one of your current co-workers are working. Are they going to remember you as the ass who walked out and left them a stinking pile and ruined their vacation plans? Or does it suck so bad for them too that it won't matter? Everywhere I've worked it only takes one person to say no and you're not getting hired.
Cars are recalled all the time. Or worse, they aren't recalled because it's cheaper to pay out for dead and maimed people. Why is this article about fear instead of praising Tesla for catching this before anyone got hurt?
Detroit gets real winters. Abandoned buildings aren't heated. Freezing water expands and breaks pipes. Now the building has structural damage in addition to wasting clean water. This is a win for everyone, including the squatters who won't be living with mold or falling through water-damaged floors.
It's easy to bring in water in jugs and any drains will still work. You can even make the toilets work. Annoying, sure, but hardly uninhabitable.
I'm not going to recommend anyone specific because most are not bad. I budget $1/month for my domain. I let my web site host do it.
There's two big things to consider. Can you easily transfer to another registrar if needed? Can someone too easily hijack your domain? Exploring these questions will send you down the right path.
Qt has model-driven views. Here's some videos. See #47 for a bit about model-view:
https://www.youtube.com/playli...
Also, be sure to catch up on C++11/14 if you do come back to us from the dark side.
Can you or anyone explain how what the neurons are doing is "calculus"?
Calculus is how we scientifically communicate nature to each other, not away for nature to implement mathematics. Flies are not doing calculus any more than you catching a thrown ball is doing calculus. This headline, and perhaps the grant proposal, is written for stupid people. I hope this explains it for you.
I have yet to go to a coffee shop or pub without free and unlimited WiFi access (keep in mind I never go to starbucks). Either they drop the $50 or so to get an access point or ask the Personal Telco Project (http://www.personaltelco.net/) to hook them up at no cost. And then there's the MetroFi free network (http://www.metrofi.com/) if you're really desperate. I'm sure there's ways you could spend money for WiFi access but I can't imagine why anyone would.
Perhaps there was an urgent need to get counters in the hands of emergency personnel. Someone probably suggested that scooping up everything they could from nearby universities would be faster than waiting on an order for new ones. I don't see anything suspicious about this at all.
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Wrong. What you have are transistors, and the hope that someone will be able to read their on-off state at some indeterminate point in the future
Why would they send transistors instead of physically encoded data like everyone else? All of our space junk has miniature data of some sorts. My name is written out in plain text on a piece of silicon floating around in space right now. It seems likely that space-faring animals of the future will have figured out light refraction and be able to read all this.
Flash and other re-writable technology doesn't last long and anyone who can build a moon lander will know this. So if they sent up transistors it'll be old school ROM or PROM tech which will be visible under magnification. Nothing in the article indicated they did this though. Sounds like they made some little CDs or just laser etched the text on little discs/coins.
David Lametti is the Minister of Justice in Canada. Is "justice minister" a different role?
Don't panic, TFA said the raw data was "statistically identical". You can still use tools like SNPedia and Promethease to explore your own raw data.
I'd expect integrated lights rather than rechargeable ones, powered by the propulsion battery.
I rented an ebike and bumped into the rear light with a bag causing it to pop open and release a couple of AA cells on to the road. Expect the headlight to be wired but with a round beam that blinds oncoming traffic and blinks so nobody can judge your speed and a rear light that may not be wired. At least in the USA where GM is headquartered.
That's all I need, files magically disappearing from my local media. Thanks but no thanks.
Don't enable the "Files On-Demand" function and it'll make every file available always."Files On-Demand" is there today but all it does is, for example, not download a file you created on PC#1 to PC#2 until you try to access it on PC#2. The new feature uses access statistics to do things more automatically if you let it. No reason to think your files will magically disappear. There's plenty of reasons to not use OneDrive, but this isn't one of them.
The article proposes no solution. The author simply whines about programming being hard. He suggests there's "simple small-scale problems" which don't need "rock stars" to solve. No examples of these problems or what programming might be like if it were fixed.
That SID chip music will be back :)
SID music never went away. Go to the High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) and put 2018 in their search box. SID wasn't part of the Amiga chipset though.
So much for dynamic range, isn't that what good speakers are supposed to provide?
Louder speakers or a quieter room allow for more dynamic range. Airport speakers are super loud with heaps of dynamic range. Would you consider those good speakers? Good for airports, yeah.
So an article talking about something that happened ten years ago? Where's the news?
The main news page naturally presents you with articles we've seen before. Taking it to this extreme is unnecessary.
Seriously. Most of us have cores sitting idle. Instead of being abused / tracked / annoyed / occasionally infected by advertising, why not let sites do a small amount of mining while we visit?
Seriously. Most web pages have whitespace and other useless areas. Instead of being pestered for subscriptions, why not put something to generate revenue there.
It's a slippery slope. I expect we'll have miner-blocker add-ons by the end of the year.
\There's literally no reason for essentially basic x86 code to not fucking run.
You believe that because you don't understand how powerful an MMU can be when coupled with non-volatile storage and how difficult and resource intensive maintaining a 32-bit compatibility layer can be.
The reputation NiCds got for having lousy energy capacity was due to a memory effect. If you kept recharging the battery before it had been fully discharged, it "learned" the low charge state as its new zero state, and you lost that bottom portion of its capacity (due to crystalline growth).
You mean voltage depression. And it's from overcharging. Easily reversed by discharging the cells individually. Memory effect is something else.
You may one day find yourself wanting a job where one of your current co-workers are working. Are they going to remember you as the ass who walked out and left them a stinking pile and ruined their vacation plans? Or does it suck so bad for them too that it won't matter? Everywhere I've worked it only takes one person to say no and you're not getting hired.
You employer can go pound sand.
Cars are recalled all the time. Or worse, they aren't recalled because it's cheaper to pay out for dead and maimed people. Why is this article about fear instead of praising Tesla for catching this before anyone got hurt?
It is not a great solution. What happens when you don't live at ground level but on the second , third or 100th floor?
If you live in a 100 story structure then you already have an address. This isn't meant to solve problems of another kind.
what exactly is OS X missing?
The latest OpenGL and support for the latest GPU hardware. They also want to switch to a proprietary GL instead of Vulcan.
Detroit gets real winters. Abandoned buildings aren't heated. Freezing water expands and breaks pipes. Now the building has structural damage in addition to wasting clean water. This is a win for everyone, including the squatters who won't be living with mold or falling through water-damaged floors. It's easy to bring in water in jugs and any drains will still work. You can even make the toilets work. Annoying, sure, but hardly uninhabitable.
Where is London Boris Johnson? Why do I care about this place or its mayor?
Here's how it works... No self-respecting algorithm is ever going to admit recognizing someone wearing glasses like those.
I'm not going to recommend anyone specific because most are not bad. I budget $1/month for my domain. I let my web site host do it. There's two big things to consider. Can you easily transfer to another registrar if needed? Can someone too easily hijack your domain? Exploring these questions will send you down the right path.
Qt has model-driven views. Here's some videos. See #47 for a bit about model-view: https://www.youtube.com/playli... Also, be sure to catch up on C++11/14 if you do come back to us from the dark side.
Can you or anyone explain how what the neurons are doing is "calculus"?
Calculus is how we scientifically communicate nature to each other, not away for nature to implement mathematics. Flies are not doing calculus any more than you catching a thrown ball is doing calculus. This headline, and perhaps the grant proposal, is written for stupid people. I hope this explains it for you.
I have yet to go to a coffee shop or pub without free and unlimited WiFi access (keep in mind I never go to starbucks). Either they drop the $50 or so to get an access point or ask the Personal Telco Project (http://www.personaltelco.net/) to hook them up at no cost. And then there's the MetroFi free network (http://www.metrofi.com/) if you're really desperate. I'm sure there's ways you could spend money for WiFi access but I can't imagine why anyone would.
Perhaps there was an urgent need to get counters in the hands of emergency personnel. Someone probably suggested that scooping up everything they could from nearby universities would be faster than waiting on an order for new ones. I don't see anything suspicious about this at all.