PNG has its own set of deficiencies, and not every image fits cleanly into "better as a JPEG" or "better as a PNG". Many images are way smaller using wavlet compression, but also need transparency, which JPEG doesn't support. But if you convert to PNG, you get a file size 10 or even a 100 times larger, because PNG is lossless.
Sorry, skills such as running a cash register are no longer needed. Please proceed to the starvation line to your left.
Exactly. It is well known that automation causes poverty. Economists call this "the productivity catastrophe". That is why America, Europe, and Japan are mired in misery, while countries that have wisely avoided the "efficiency trap" such as Somalia, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan, are doing so well.
The exact same thing was said about Linux in 1991-1992, that it would never compete against "real" operating systems like Solaris, ULTRIX, and others.
That is not my recollection. There was a demo of X11 running on SLS Linux at the 1992 SUG meeting, and the folks from Sun were giving each other very concerned looks. They clearly saw it as a serious threat.
It's also the wet dream of everyone in the area desiring it
Sure, the rural counties have no political power, and are bullied by the coast. But they would need political power to secede. Chicken and egg problem.
There is zero chance the California legislature would support an urban-rural split.
The main "mistake" with the iPhone X is the price. As Apple is now realizing, not many people are willing to pay $1000 for a phone. They don't have to discontinue it to fix that.
And fuel tanks that can keep LH2 liquid (-253 C)need a lot of insulation.
You only need a lot of insulation for long term storage. If you gas-up-and-go, you will be drawing out gaseous H2 to feed the fuel cell even faster than it boils off.
Not to mention how explosive all that hydrogen is!
Gasoline is more explosive than hydrogen. Either can be handled safely with appropriate equipment and procedures.
BTW, how many kwhr do they plan to stuff into these things in how many minutes in order to turn their aircraft around for a return flight?
You can refuel as fast as a jet if you use liquid H2 feeding into fuel cells. That still counts as "electric".
Liquid H2 has three times the energy density of jet fuel. 140 MJ/kg for H2, vs 43 MJ/kg for jet fuel. A fuel cell is twice as energy efficient. So that gives you a total of six times the range per kg of fuel.
2040 is 22 years from now. So some politician gets publicity and greenie support while needing to budget nothing, negotiate nothing, and pay no consequences since he will be retired long before anything happens.
A lot can change in 22 years, so by 2040 electric flights may actually make sense, but that won't be because of any political pronouncements. It is nerds that change the world, not politicians.
Fox News, InfoWars, Art Bell. That's really all you need right there.
Indeed. The alt-right ditto-heads are going to crowdsource these rankings into an echo-chamber in the first 10 minutes. I can't imagine why anyone thought this was a good idea.
Not in San Jose. Well, it does rain once or twice in the winter, but I just stay home on those days, so I don't have to bother to learn how to drive on wet roads.
Oh...I thought at first read it was some sort of protest group that was "on a mission", or something to that effect.
That is basically correct. The group was The Spanish Empire. The missions were constructed along El Camino Real ("The King's Road"), each about one day's ride from the next. They had a mission of converting the natives to Christian Catholicism. The "Mission District" of San Francisco is the area of the original Spanish settlement.
This sounds very unhealthy, why is he putting boundaries on a kid that is not even his?
Yes, that is weird. But he also doesn't mention the kid's age. Keeping a six year old off Facebook is reasonable. But if you keep a 14 year old off social media, you are basically turning the kid into a social outcast. For an teenager trying to navigate the awkwardness of puberty, the last thing he needs is some asshole uncle micromanaging his social interactions.
If you don't want your kids to hate you, then you should avoid using parenthood as an opportunity to impose your weird idiosyncrecies on them.
Or they'll keep piggy backing off someone else's subscription. I can't stream Prime video, but I get free 2-day shipping
I also share an account with other family members, and we all share the Prime video as well as the free shipping. What is stopping you from doing that? They don't limit the video to one location.
I don't think it is a matter of appearing "too wise". I have known several people with IQs from 140 to 160, and while they were not Rainman, they all had some significant personality disorders. I think it is those socialization problems that keep many high IQers from being good leaders rather than just being "too smart".
The human brain is a balanced organ, and if too many neurons are devoted to doing well on an IQ test, then not enough are left over for things like empathy, and social skills.
Sports cars are usually for people who like to drive.
Driving a Tesla on Hwy 1 from Carmel to Big Sur is fun. Commuting at 15 mph in stop-and-go traffic on 101 from San Jose to Mountain View is not. It feels great to just click on Autopilot and zone out.
Really. Since "marketing" and "staying power" count for more than "working and deployed technology", Tesla should be proud to be last on the list.
This is one of those articles where it is clear that the journalist made the list first, putting Tesla last to get more clicks, and then made up BS numbers to justify it.
So how did Einstein simply explain his life's work?
Special and General Relativity, explained very clearly. Albert was a good writer, and could explain concepts intuitively. Hundreds of books have been written about relativity, but this book was one of the first, and still may be the best.
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Then use PNG for those types of images.
PNG has its own set of deficiencies, and not every image fits cleanly into "better as a JPEG" or "better as a PNG". Many images are way smaller using wavlet compression, but also need transparency, which JPEG doesn't support. But if you convert to PNG, you get a file size 10 or even a 100 times larger, because PNG is lossless.
It would be much better to have one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases, a single format that allows a mixture of wavelets, rasters, and vector graphics, as well as alpha transparency.
Sorry, skills such as running a cash register are no longer needed. Please proceed to the starvation line to your left.
Exactly. It is well known that automation causes poverty. Economists call this "the productivity catastrophe". That is why America, Europe, and Japan are mired in misery, while countries that have wisely avoided the "efficiency trap" such as Somalia, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan, are doing so well.
The exact same thing was said about Linux in 1991-1992, that it would never compete against "real" operating systems like Solaris, ULTRIX, and others.
That is not my recollection. There was a demo of X11 running on SLS Linux at the 1992 SUG meeting, and the folks from Sun were giving each other very concerned looks. They clearly saw it as a serious threat.
Real estate is more expensive here in Cali, but we sold a place/bought a place, so it doesn't really figure into our expenses.
Here is a list of things that make California unaffordable to most people:
1. Housing
So, yes, you are right, it is affordable, as long as you ignore housing.
It's also the wet dream of everyone in the area desiring it
Sure, the rural counties have no political power, and are bullied by the coast. But they would need political power to secede. Chicken and egg problem.
There is zero chance the California legislature would support an urban-rural split.
FaceID is optional.
If you don't like it, don't enable it.
If you own apple stock, I'd be selling it.
Apple has a PE of 19. Google has a PE of 38, and Amazon's is over 300.
So future underperformance is already priced into Apple's stock. Investor consensus is that they will see little or no growth.
The main "mistake" with the iPhone X is the price. As Apple is now realizing, not many people are willing to pay $1000 for a phone. They don't have to discontinue it to fix that.
you'd have to be functionally retarded to interpret "a company worth more than 9 figures" as "limited to Google."
If "more than 9 figures" means more than $999,999,999, then there are several thousand corporations just in America.
The bottom company in the S&P 500 is worth $3.6B.
Disclaimer: I think the idea of nationalizing these companies is insane. I trust Google way more than I trust the NSA.
And fuel tanks that can keep LH2 liquid (-253 C)need a lot of insulation.
You only need a lot of insulation for long term storage. If you gas-up-and-go, you will be drawing out gaseous H2 to feed the fuel cell even faster than it boils off.
Not to mention how explosive all that hydrogen is!
Gasoline is more explosive than hydrogen. Either can be handled safely with appropriate equipment and procedures.
BTW, how many kwhr do they plan to stuff into these things in how many minutes in order to turn their aircraft around for a return flight?
You can refuel as fast as a jet if you use liquid H2 feeding into fuel cells. That still counts as "electric".
Liquid H2 has three times the energy density of jet fuel. 140 MJ/kg for H2, vs 43 MJ/kg for jet fuel. A fuel cell is twice as energy efficient. So that gives you a total of six times the range per kg of fuel.
2040 is 22 years from now. So some politician gets publicity and greenie support while needing to budget nothing, negotiate nothing, and pay no consequences since he will be retired long before anything happens.
A lot can change in 22 years, so by 2040 electric flights may actually make sense, but that won't be because of any political pronouncements. It is nerds that change the world, not politicians.
It is not the numbers themselves, but the arrangement of those numbers that is copyrighted.
Any text, any image, any sound, any video, any algorithm, can be represented as a single (very big) number.
Also, any "arrangement of numbers" can be represented as a single number (assuming that the original numbers belong to a denumerable set).
Fox News, InfoWars, Art Bell. That's really all you need right there.
Indeed. The alt-right ditto-heads are going to crowdsource these rankings into an echo-chamber in the first 10 minutes. I can't imagine why anyone thought this was a good idea.
Being a social outcast isn't necessarily bad.
There is nothing wrong with an introvert choosing to focus on non-social interests.
But that is not the same as social isolation being forced on a "normal" kid by a weird authoritarian uncle.
Weather conditions change
Not in San Jose. Well, it does rain once or twice in the winter, but I just stay home on those days, so I don't have to bother to learn how to drive on wet roads.
Oh...I thought at first read it was some sort of protest group that was "on a mission", or something to that effect.
That is basically correct. The group was The Spanish Empire. The missions were constructed along El Camino Real ("The King's Road"), each about one day's ride from the next. They had a mission of converting the natives to Christian Catholicism. The "Mission District" of San Francisco is the area of the original Spanish settlement.
This sounds very unhealthy, why is he putting boundaries on a kid that is not even his?
Yes, that is weird. But he also doesn't mention the kid's age. Keeping a six year old off Facebook is reasonable. But if you keep a 14 year old off social media, you are basically turning the kid into a social outcast. For an teenager trying to navigate the awkwardness of puberty, the last thing he needs is some asshole uncle micromanaging his social interactions.
If you don't want your kids to hate you, then you should avoid using parenthood as an opportunity to impose your weird idiosyncrecies on them.
It's also incredibly dangerous. You could kill someone.
Statistically, it is more dangerous to have a human in control.
I drive the same route several times per week. If Autopilot got it right yesterday, it will get it right today.
In stop-and-go traffic, the worst that will happen is a fender scrape, and that is LESS likely to happen with the software in control.
Or they'll keep piggy backing off someone else's subscription. I can't stream Prime video, but I get free 2-day shipping
I also share an account with other family members, and we all share the Prime video as well as the free shipping. What is stopping you from doing that? They don't limit the video to one location.
I don't think it is a matter of appearing "too wise". I have known several people with IQs from 140 to 160, and while they were not Rainman, they all had some significant personality disorders. I think it is those socialization problems that keep many high IQers from being good leaders rather than just being "too smart".
The human brain is a balanced organ, and if too many neurons are devoted to doing well on an IQ test, then not enough are left over for things like empathy, and social skills.
Gets people to think about how climate change will affect their lives
No it doesn't. It just erodes your credibility.
Remember the wise advice of Mark Twain: "When in doubt, tell the truth."
Sports cars are usually for people who like to drive.
Driving a Tesla on Hwy 1 from Carmel to Big Sur is fun. Commuting at 15 mph in stop-and-go traffic on 101 from San Jose to Mountain View is not. It feels great to just click on Autopilot and zone out.
Why is marketing strategies even listed?
Really. Since "marketing" and "staying power" count for more than "working and deployed technology", Tesla should be proud to be last on the list.
This is one of those articles where it is clear that the journalist made the list first, putting Tesla last to get more clicks, and then made up BS numbers to justify it.
So how did Einstein simply explain his life's work?
Special and General Relativity, explained very clearly. Albert was a good writer, and could explain concepts intuitively. Hundreds of books have been written about relativity, but this book was one of the first, and still may be the best.