I started using re-usable bags and a backpack when I started having to hike to the nearest supermarket. You can fit more in them, you don't even notice the backpack, and the handles don't turn into cheese wire after thirty seconds with a moderate load. Mine even have a folding fibreboard base so you can fill them more easily. Once you get past the initial investment - and small policy nudges should take care of that - the convenience makes the switch worthwhile all on its own.
Car owners: do you use plastic crates? Safeway here used to offer them when it had a scan-as-you-go self-service system and I'm surprised they didn't take off more generally.
That's not a business model anyone else can fall back on, though. The whole appeal of Android is that it's not just The Originator pumping out phones to its own whims. (Saying this as an unrepentant iPhone owner looking for greener pastures.)
Newton's Laws are, at best, approximations to general relativity that are well-behaved on human timescales. They're quantitatively extremely good but that doesn't put them in another class from Hooke's Law, say, which only holds for a perfect harmonic potential, or Ohm's law, which falls down on similar length scales to Moore's law. That some of them used as the basis for physics and some aren't doesn't change the fact that they're all quantitative models for observed phenomena and have an equal stake to the 19th century's pretentious "law" label.
The info's out there, just not in these articles. For the northern hemisphere it'll be above the horizon in the east before dawn and (as December progresses) in the west after sunset. You won't get text alerts for a comet (time-insensitive, unpredictable) but Heavens Above, my preferred satellite-flare web site, will give you simple "where-to-look" instructions for ISON. You're better served by getting one of the many excellent astronomy smartphone apps; I use Star Walk but Distant Suns is also very popular. They're expensive as apps go but they're totally worth it.
What's to be sceptical about? This is our first shot at observing a completely new sungrazer. Whether it becomes some spectacular fireworks show comes way, way down the awesomeness scale in comparison.
Err, this part of it, I should say. I sincerely doubt - regardless of whatever he may subsequently argue - that he's a strong proponent of killing people who oppose assisted suicide. He's just prone to writing what he's thinking.
Adams has a history of defending really stupid ideas (intelligent design etc.) on the basis of his personal philosophy, then walking the argument back as being an attempt to play devil's advocate or stimulate debate when it turns out he's off in contrafactual la-la land. I wouldn't take this as much more than an emotional internet outburst, and you can understand why he'd be emotional in this instance.
If you're going to nitpick, at least act like you want to educate people and aren't just being a smartass:
1) It's a law the same way Newton's Laws are laws: it's a simple quantitative relation which has held up very well over time.
2) a) In its original formulation it said that the number of components you could put on a chip at minimum cost (because you can always cram in more at higher cost) doubled ever year.
ii) In its later correction (he used only five data points in the first paper!) he revised this to every two years.
gamma) It was a head honcho in Intel who then concluded that such a relationship would double overall computer performance every eighteen months.
Given that the components of interest on a processor are transistors, I do not have any great objection to the generalisation that it's transistor counts that double and not all components.
So you think the accelerator card version is just a stopgap for customers looking to upgrade (rather than replace) their systems, and it'll go away in time?
There's no other component. (Pedantry: calling it a GPU is a misnomer as nobody really uses them for real-time graphics. You won't be playing Crysis 3 with one of these. It just happens that this kind of hardware came out of graphics silicon design.)
You can already get generators like this on a small scale, but due to the significantly greater density of water than air, they're hellaciously inefficient.
Cost-effective matters in the military, because $500Bn spent on orbiting power satellites is $100Bn you could've spent setting up a supply line the sane way (and then some), plus $400Bn that could have been spent on the operation in other ways. Contrary to popular belief, the military does not have arbitrarily deep pockets.
Blocking the whole movie because it includes footage of someone else making one joke about that particular state, a joke pertinent to the issue that the entire movie is about? Baby. Bathwater.
The Nexus is an outlier, as comes with a near-zero profit margin for Google; that's not sustainable. The Moto G is much, much more interesting because Motorola's devices are still supposed to turn a profit.
That's why you perform use-case-specific benchmarking. 3DMark, for instance, is closely modelled on the kinds of calculations actually involved in 3D graphics on mobiles. You'd use an entirely different benchmark protocol for something like a server, or a scientific supercomputer.
Apple's devices have consistently had the fastest available PowerVR GPUs at launch*. Funnily enough for games performance, this makes rather more of a difference than having additional CPU cores.
*In their device class, anyway. The 4S launched against the Vita with the same part, but had half as many GPU cores.
There are games that include tweaks for specific hardware - iOS apps will typically turn off/on antialiasing and the like in response to the device they're running on - but there are no reported examples of hardware drivers including app-specific tweaks like you see on a PC. (With the exception of benchmarks, where the tweaks help no-one, and less than ten preinstalled Samsung utilities.)
I don't think that Dustin Curtis counts as "Apple". And I don't think you'll find many remarks from Apple that "high resolution is a bad thing" either.
(Fact is, they're not going to upgrade resolution until they can do an integer multiple or iOS goes resolution-independent. It's not a question of "lacking", it's a question of them making a tradeoff that suits their particular product line, in the same way that Samsung's shipping Pentile displays rather than RGB.)
If we're going to wind the clock back 7000 years I'd rather start with re-establishing bears and coyotes as the dominant predators in the National Mall.
No, this is the one where the same Director demoted the head of its Natural Research Centre to a figurehead position and reassigned her as "at risk" staff.
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I started using re-usable bags and a backpack when I started having to hike to the nearest supermarket. You can fit more in them, you don't even notice the backpack, and the handles don't turn into cheese wire after thirty seconds with a moderate load. Mine even have a folding fibreboard base so you can fill them more easily. Once you get past the initial investment - and small policy nudges should take care of that - the convenience makes the switch worthwhile all on its own.
Car owners: do you use plastic crates? Safeway here used to offer them when it had a scan-as-you-go self-service system and I'm surprised they didn't take off more generally.
That's not a business model anyone else can fall back on, though. The whole appeal of Android is that it's not just The Originator pumping out phones to its own whims. (Saying this as an unrepentant iPhone owner looking for greener pastures.)
Newton's Laws are, at best, approximations to general relativity that are well-behaved on human timescales. They're quantitatively extremely good but that doesn't put them in another class from Hooke's Law, say, which only holds for a perfect harmonic potential, or Ohm's law, which falls down on similar length scales to Moore's law. That some of them used as the basis for physics and some aren't doesn't change the fact that they're all quantitative models for observed phenomena and have an equal stake to the 19th century's pretentious "law" label.
The info's out there, just not in these articles. For the northern hemisphere it'll be above the horizon in the east before dawn and (as December progresses) in the west after sunset. You won't get text alerts for a comet (time-insensitive, unpredictable) but Heavens Above, my preferred satellite-flare web site, will give you simple "where-to-look" instructions for ISON. You're better served by getting one of the many excellent astronomy smartphone apps; I use Star Walk but Distant Suns is also very popular. They're expensive as apps go but they're totally worth it.
Happy hunting!
The comparison is made for each individual nation, not for the EU as a whole.
Err, in 2003 the boom period started.
What's to be sceptical about? This is our first shot at observing a completely new sungrazer. Whether it becomes some spectacular fireworks show comes way, way down the awesomeness scale in comparison.
Err, this part of it, I should say. I sincerely doubt - regardless of whatever he may subsequently argue - that he's a strong proponent of killing people who oppose assisted suicide. He's just prone to writing what he's thinking.
Adams has a history of defending really stupid ideas (intelligent design etc.) on the basis of his personal philosophy, then walking the argument back as being an attempt to play devil's advocate or stimulate debate when it turns out he's off in contrafactual la-la land. I wouldn't take this as much more than an emotional internet outburst, and you can understand why he'd be emotional in this instance.
If you're going to nitpick, at least act like you want to educate people and aren't just being a smartass:
1) It's a law the same way Newton's Laws are laws: it's a simple quantitative relation which has held up very well over time.
2) a) In its original formulation it said that the number of components you could put on a chip at minimum cost (because you can always cram in more at higher cost) doubled ever year.
ii) In its later correction (he used only five data points in the first paper!) he revised this to every two years.
gamma) It was a head honcho in Intel who then concluded that such a relationship would double overall computer performance every eighteen months.
Given that the components of interest on a processor are transistors, I do not have any great objection to the generalisation that it's transistor counts that double and not all components.
So you think the accelerator card version is just a stopgap for customers looking to upgrade (rather than replace) their systems, and it'll go away in time?
There's no other component. (Pedantry: calling it a GPU is a misnomer as nobody really uses them for real-time graphics. You won't be playing Crysis 3 with one of these. It just happens that this kind of hardware came out of graphics silicon design.)
Knights Landing will be available as both an accelerator card and a standalone CPU with some sort of large high-speed memory pool on the die.
You can already get generators like this on a small scale, but due to the significantly greater density of water than air, they're hellaciously inefficient.
Cost-effective matters in the military, because $500Bn spent on orbiting power satellites is $100Bn you could've spent setting up a supply line the sane way (and then some), plus $400Bn that could have been spent on the operation in other ways. Contrary to popular belief, the military does not have arbitrarily deep pockets.
They wouldn't even have been the first museum in North Carolina to have shown it.
Neither of those movies have ever been scheduled to appear at the museum.
Blocking the whole movie because it includes footage of someone else making one joke about that particular state, a joke pertinent to the issue that the entire movie is about? Baby. Bathwater.
The Nexus is an outlier, as comes with a near-zero profit margin for Google; that's not sustainable. The Moto G is much, much more interesting because Motorola's devices are still supposed to turn a profit.
That's why you perform use-case-specific benchmarking. 3DMark, for instance, is closely modelled on the kinds of calculations actually involved in 3D graphics on mobiles. You'd use an entirely different benchmark protocol for something like a server, or a scientific supercomputer.
Apple's devices have consistently had the fastest available PowerVR GPUs at launch*. Funnily enough for games performance, this makes rather more of a difference than having additional CPU cores.
*In their device class, anyway. The 4S launched against the Vita with the same part, but had half as many GPU cores.
There are games that include tweaks for specific hardware - iOS apps will typically turn off/on antialiasing and the like in response to the device they're running on - but there are no reported examples of hardware drivers including app-specific tweaks like you see on a PC. (With the exception of benchmarks, where the tweaks help no-one, and less than ten preinstalled Samsung utilities.)
I don't think that Dustin Curtis counts as "Apple". And I don't think you'll find many remarks from Apple that "high resolution is a bad thing" either.
(Fact is, they're not going to upgrade resolution until they can do an integer multiple or iOS goes resolution-independent. It's not a question of "lacking", it's a question of them making a tradeoff that suits their particular product line, in the same way that Samsung's shipping Pentile displays rather than RGB.)
If we're going to wind the clock back 7000 years I'd rather start with re-establishing bears and coyotes as the dominant predators in the National Mall.
No, this is the one where the same Director demoted the head of its Natural Research Centre to a figurehead position and reassigned her as "at risk" staff.