Interesting. One of the things I thought when Romney stated he wasn't going to release the information was that he was trying for a rope-a-dope, much like the President did to McCain with the birth certificate issue.
I think the complaint was not that the programmers are striving for perfect bits, but that they are assuming all bits will be perfect - that there will never be bad RAM, or corrupt input, and that their program does what they wanted it to do, rather than what it actually does....
Flat earth is a reasonable approximation over small distances, but, more importantly, at no time during which sailing on the open sea was a thing, did anyone smart believe that the earth was flat. In fact a non-flat earth was a critical assumption required for the calculations necessary to navigate on the open ocean.
If you're referring to the Columbus voyage, the smart people held that the earth's diameter was too great to make the trip in the vessels of the time, as they wouldn't be able to store sufficient supplies to reach the destination. Those people were right.
The only reason that Columbus didn't die of mutiny and his crew of starvation, dehydration, or malnutrition was that there happened to be a huge, previously not well known land mass at right about the distance that Columbus thought the whole trip would be.
FTL doesn't look very likely. We shouldn't count on it when making plans.
Looks like we're going to have to FOIA the actual request, then, as whoever was interviewed was clearly confused about what WiFi is:
The Kindle also scored over some other e-readers on the market as the competitors could not provide the text-to-speech requirement, the long-lasting battery life and the free Wi-Fi with a global network that was required, the note said. The J&A had stated that "costs associated with downloading content either via 3G or Wi-Fi must be not separately priced."
Please name some of them. I haven't done the redirect-to-127..1 thing in a while, but I'd like to be able to block domains if I choose to.
The built in firewall on my machine can do filtering by IP address rather than by domain name. I think. I haven't perused the documentation extensively yet.
I don't doubt that you can convert coal to natural gas, My doubting is that it would be a useful conversion.
You take a pound of carbon-carbon bonds that would yield X number of kilojoules of energy if broken and combined with oxygen, and instead of combining them directly with oxygen, you bond with hydrogen somehow (If it's from H2, you're adding energy, so it must be from H2O...), and then later break the carbon-hydrogen bonds to combine with oxygen resulting in H20 and CO2 and Y kilojoules of energy.
I fail to see how Y could possibly be greater than X for the same quantity of CO2 released, unless we're ignoring where the hydrogen input comes from.
The uranium comment was a tongue-in-cheek analogy - If we're assuming the ability to turn stuff into other stuff with no energy cost that makes the whole thing pointless, why not just assume that we can turn the carbon into something with no emissions at all.. e.g. uranium. Energy balance isn't an issue - carbon carbon fusion would be endothermic, so within the three laws of thermodynamics, there is no reason why it should be impossible transmute some quantity of carbon to some quantity of uranium & iron with zero net energy cost. All we need is a magic fusion catalyst (like the philosopher's stone mentioned in another post)...
Oddly, The Kindle doesn't meet the requirements, either. The Kindle and Kindle Touch don't do video, and the Kindle Fire doesn't do 3G...
Also, the requirements are not specific to Amazon - B&N has devices which match the requirements as fully as Amazon does, including the 3G download requirement. If they wanted to force Amazon to be the only supplier, they would've had to require that the device allow web browsing over the 3G link.
You can mark your place on a Nook by tapping the top right corner (a bookmark icon shows up) while reading, you can also mark a more explicit bookmark (nook numbers pages based on what the publisher claims, so two or three "nook pages" might be the same official page, and the top-corner bookmark only marks the official page) by holding your finger on a word or sentence on the page and saving a highlight or note bookmark.
All of these types of bookmarks, as well as a chapter menu, are available in two or three taps off the content menu that appears when you tap the center of the screen.
Never had a Kindle, but I've been very satisfied with my Nook (although I'm surprised there's no cell-enabled simple touch..)
There have been some incredible improvements in both Nook and Kindle devices (and their prices) over the last few years, which I can only attribute to a price war between Amazon and B&N, although Amazon has a huge branding advantage because they also sell everything. Since we all benefit from the competition, I would would like to urge people to keep the competition going by considering buying a device from someone other than the #1 seller.
However, if the #1 seller really is the best choice for you.. it would be sub-optimal for you to buy anything else, so I only urge people to try to ignore the brand names when evaluating the various devices.
That said, I don't think we're ever going to see a Readius, though.
Among the reasons he would not be eligible is that it doesn't exist. There is a Medal of Honor reserved for military personnel, and there is also a Congressional Gold Medal, but the only people sporting "Congressional Medals of Honor" in the US are con men.
You could rent a game for a short period for a very low price. you could perma-rent the game for a less low price. They also had a "play anything for fixed monthly price." deal. Finally, their trial deal was that you could play something like an hour of something like any forty things for free, and I think there was even a way to regenerate trial hours.
Tell me about GameStop's free trial period on used games...
It was replaced with an even equally ugly building that doesn't even have the mitigating factor of having been designed to achieve superlative height. It will achieve one superlative, however. We are nearing the completion of the largest ever monument to capitulation....
I'm not sure you've refuted the parent's point all that well. Parent makes the claim that no one is making 2880x1800 laptops, and you counter by claiming that he could get a 1920x1200 or 2048x1536 display.
I think I missed that day in math class where they showed how 2304000 = 3145728 = 5184000....
A 15 inch screen simply doesn't need a resolution like that.
Shut up and change you username to "OldManEyes" or something. It's still a fraction of the dpi of newsprint. Increases in monitor resolution will make it possible to have crisper text (or just more text, but crisper is a better choice), which is easier to read.
I'm typing this in a 13" monitor at 1280 x 800, and looking at the jagged edges and aliasing around my icons and text and thinking that I would even like more than 2880x1800, but at least it's a good start. It's not worth it for me at the current price, but that's an issue with my limited resources, not with the idea of a higher dpi screen.
Stop thinking in terms of, "What's the minimum we can get away with and still be useful." That's an oppressive philosophy when applied in the way you have, implicitly impugning those who want more than the minimum as frivolous. Instead, try thinking about "What's the best we can do with the resources we have." instead.
Just going with the minimum bearable specs got us stuck for 100 years with an abysmal academy frame rate of 24fps that we're only just now starting to talk about getting out of.
Don't put stuff down just because you can't enjoy it.
If they say "linux" without specifying a distro, obviously, they must be talking about LFS. That's going to be tricky no matter what hardware you try to put it on, and it's certainly not going to "just work" right out of the box...
1) bigger fans - same thrust, lower blade airspeed 2) bigger wings - same lift, lower airspeed - less thrust required
But yeah, that doesn't work too well in something that needs to be a car. However, car noise comes from other factors and may be worse depending on where you live.
Also, if they set the flying car highways at ~20k feet, the noise will be mitigated quite a bit.
No, it means they have to set the "listed" flag to FALSE. It's a one-bit field in their database, and the cost is offset by having smaller indexes for searching the listed numbers.
Amazon wouldn't use VTOLs. They'd develop a steerable drop-package, and just push the parcels out the back of whatever the civilian version of a C-130 is. Landings are too expensive.
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Interesting. One of the things I thought when Romney stated he wasn't going to release the information was that he was trying for a rope-a-dope, much like the President did to McCain with the birth certificate issue.
I think you're mis-interpreting the complaint.
I think the complaint was not that the programmers are striving for perfect bits, but that they are assuming all bits will be perfect - that there will never be bad RAM, or corrupt input, and that their program does what they wanted it to do, rather than what it actually does....
Will you feel the same when the most powerful Intel processors lock out your choice of OS?
In a world where that happens, either that OS will be easy to work with, or people will move to AMD's most powerful processors.....
Flat earth is a reasonable approximation over small distances, but, more importantly, at no time during which sailing on the open sea was a thing, did anyone smart believe that the earth was flat. In fact a non-flat earth was a critical assumption required for the calculations necessary to navigate on the open ocean.
If you're referring to the Columbus voyage, the smart people held that the earth's diameter was too great to make the trip in the vessels of the time, as they wouldn't be able to store sufficient supplies to reach the destination. Those people were right.
The only reason that Columbus didn't die of mutiny and his crew of starvation, dehydration, or malnutrition was that there happened to be a huge, previously not well known land mass at right about the distance that Columbus thought the whole trip would be.
FTL doesn't look very likely. We shouldn't count on it when making plans.
Looks like we're going to have to FOIA the actual request, then, as whoever was interviewed was clearly confused about what WiFi is:
The Kindle also scored over some other e-readers on the market as the competitors could not provide the text-to-speech requirement, the long-lasting battery life and the free Wi-Fi with a global network that was required, the note said. The J&A had stated that "costs associated with downloading content either via 3G or Wi-Fi must be not separately priced."
Please name some of them. I haven't done the redirect-to-127..1 thing in a while, but I'd like to be able to block domains if I choose to.
The built in firewall on my machine can do filtering by IP address rather than by domain name. I think. I haven't perused the documentation extensively yet.
I don't doubt that you can convert coal to natural gas, My doubting is that it would be a useful conversion.
You take a pound of carbon-carbon bonds that would yield X number of kilojoules of energy if broken and combined with oxygen, and instead of combining them directly with oxygen, you bond with hydrogen somehow (If it's from H2, you're adding energy, so it must be from H2O...), and then later break the carbon-hydrogen bonds to combine with oxygen resulting in H20 and CO2 and Y kilojoules of energy.
I fail to see how Y could possibly be greater than X for the same quantity of CO2 released, unless we're ignoring where the hydrogen input comes from.
The uranium comment was a tongue-in-cheek analogy - If we're assuming the ability to turn stuff into other stuff with no energy cost that makes the whole thing pointless, why not just assume that we can turn the carbon into something with no emissions at all.. e.g. uranium. Energy balance isn't an issue - carbon carbon fusion would be endothermic, so within the three laws of thermodynamics, there is no reason why it should be impossible transmute some quantity of carbon to some quantity of uranium & iron with zero net energy cost. All we need is a magic fusion catalyst (like the philosopher's stone mentioned in another post)...
Oddly, The Kindle doesn't meet the requirements, either. The Kindle and Kindle Touch don't do video, and the Kindle Fire doesn't do 3G...
Also, the requirements are not specific to Amazon - B&N has devices which match the requirements as fully as Amazon does, including the 3G download requirement. If they wanted to force Amazon to be the only supplier, they would've had to require that the device allow web browsing over the 3G link.
Far more efficient to convert coal => methane then burn that. Interestingly, the engines and boilers for methane work well for hydrogen.
Eh.. What? How do you convert coal to methane without costing energy or releasing CO2?
I say it's far more efficient to convert the coal to uranium, and then there would be zero carbon emissions!
You can mark your place on a Nook by tapping the top right corner (a bookmark icon shows up) while reading, you can also mark a more explicit bookmark (nook numbers pages based on what the publisher claims, so two or three "nook pages" might be the same official page, and the top-corner bookmark only marks the official page) by holding your finger on a word or sentence on the page and saving a highlight or note bookmark.
All of these types of bookmarks, as well as a chapter menu, are available in two or three taps off the content menu that appears when you tap the center of the screen.
Why spend $30 for an external light, when for not much more than that, you can just get an e-reader with a built-in light?
(I'm pretty sure there is a Kindle has a built-in light model, too, but I was lazy in my searching)
Never had a Kindle, but I've been very satisfied with my Nook (although I'm surprised there's no cell-enabled simple touch..)
There have been some incredible improvements in both Nook and Kindle devices (and their prices) over the last few years, which I can only attribute to a price war between Amazon and B&N, although Amazon has a huge branding advantage because they also sell everything. Since we all benefit from the competition, I would would like to urge people to keep the competition going by considering buying a device from someone other than the #1 seller.
However, if the #1 seller really is the best choice for you.. it would be sub-optimal for you to buy anything else, so I only urge people to try to ignore the brand names when evaluating the various devices.
That said, I don't think we're ever going to see a Readius, though.
And pull in all the baggage of EA's internal culture.
Buying EA would destroy Valve.
Among the reasons he would not be eligible is that it doesn't exist. There is a Medal of Honor reserved for military personnel, and there is also a Congressional Gold Medal, but the only people sporting "Congressional Medals of Honor" in the US are con men.
You could rent a game for a short period for a very low price. you could perma-rent the game for a less low price. They also had a "play anything for fixed monthly price." deal. Finally, their trial deal was that you could play something like an hour of something like any forty things for free, and I think there was even a way to regenerate trial hours.
Tell me about GameStop's free trial period on used games...
I see no contradiction in the statement about slavery. The laws of nature did not enslave them, the laws of men did.
It was replaced with an even equally ugly building that doesn't even have the mitigating factor of having been designed to achieve superlative height. It will achieve one superlative, however. We are nearing the completion of the largest ever monument to capitulation....
I'm not sure you've refuted the parent's point all that well. Parent makes the claim that no one is making 2880x1800 laptops, and you counter by claiming that he could get a 1920x1200 or 2048x1536 display.
I think I missed that day in math class where they showed how 2304000 = 3145728 = 5184000....
A 15 inch screen simply doesn't need a resolution like that.
Shut up and change you username to "OldManEyes" or something. It's still a fraction of the dpi of newsprint. Increases in monitor resolution will make it possible to have crisper text (or just more text, but crisper is a better choice), which is easier to read.
I'm typing this in a 13" monitor at 1280 x 800, and looking at the jagged edges and aliasing around my icons and text and thinking that I would even like more than 2880x1800, but at least it's a good start. It's not worth it for me at the current price, but that's an issue with my limited resources, not with the idea of a higher dpi screen.
Stop thinking in terms of, "What's the minimum we can get away with and still be useful." That's an oppressive philosophy when applied in the way you have, implicitly impugning those who want more than the minimum as frivolous. Instead, try thinking about "What's the best we can do with the resources we have." instead.
Just going with the minimum bearable specs got us stuck for 100 years with an abysmal academy frame rate of 24fps that we're only just now starting to talk about getting out of.
Don't put stuff down just because you can't enjoy it.
If they say "linux" without specifying a distro, obviously, they must be talking about LFS. That's going to be tricky no matter what hardware you try to put it on, and it's certainly not going to "just work" right out of the box...
Now where can you get an iphone connector for only $1.95?
No clue. How about $3.25? You need it to charge too?
Two ways, really:
1) bigger fans - same thrust, lower blade airspeed
2) bigger wings - same lift, lower airspeed - less thrust required
But yeah, that doesn't work too well in something that needs to be a car. However, car noise comes from other factors and may be worse depending on where you live.
Also, if they set the flying car highways at ~20k feet, the noise will be mitigated quite a bit.
No, it means they have to set the "listed" flag to FALSE. It's a one-bit field in their database, and the cost is offset by having smaller indexes for searching the listed numbers.
The noise comes from the fans more than the wings. The wings are already cutting through the air way slower than the fans.
Amazon wouldn't use VTOLs. They'd develop a steerable drop-package, and just push the parcels out the back of whatever the civilian version of a C-130 is. Landings are too expensive.