I'm assuming you meant 2 kWh per day.. where do you live that that's only 20 cents? Where I live, that's *ostensibly* the price, but the real price is double that when you add all the tacked-on per- kWh fees and such (like the "fuel" fee. Why isn't that folded into the quoted price?), And that's before adding in all the "percent of bill" fees that are basically the same thing, when you think about it.
If you're stuck to the bumper, you have to wait until the guy in front clears a little space. If you left the space to begin with, you can start accelerating right away. If you left the right amount of space, you can even anticipate the guy in front of you's movement based on the cars in front of him.
Leave a few feet of buffer, so you can start matching speeds right away. The close packers and "extra-nudgers" don't even realize the extra delay they're putting into the traffic stops. They're impatient, so they sacrifice actual improvements in favor of perceived short-term gains.
The shit that doubles my commute time, though, is the assholes that slam on the brakes when they see cops, and who slow down to gawk at accidents and construction in grade-separated lanes. Look at the g'dang road ahead of you and the cars around you. Stuff that's behind hundreds of tons of interlocking concrete barriers isn't something you need to be worried about....
Have you ever noticed everyone has a different list of stuff they think is "good driving habits" and "bad driving habits"? Or that those columns are often interchanged depending on who you talk to?
Will these people never learn that a race to the bottom and razor thin margins is not the way to run business? Meanwhile, Apple will have strong profits and will be laughing all the way to the bank.
What?? Sure it is. Do less, for less is a perfectly valid marketing decision. The trick is to do the research and leave out the stuff that the market doesn't care about.
In a healthy market, there are products for many budget levels. The problem happens when the "race to the bottom" crowds out quality products in favor of the crap ones. It's a market failure if you can't get good quality at any price.
But that is a problem in other markets, where discounters have run amok, as is the case with everything sold at Wal Mart. And a lesson that consumers must take to heart: If you want quality products to be available, you must occasionally buy them. Even if they cost 5% more. (I kid you not, certain members of my family won't even look at a better quality product if the price is even a penny higher than the discount crapola...)
Who recommends quick sort for anything? It's got a bad, O(N^2) degenerate case that's been known about.. since the development of the algorithm.
It's my understanding that merge sort or merge/insertion hybrids are typically used generally, as merge has O(N*log N) for all inputs, and is stable, while insertion can be extremely fast for short lists (but is not appropriate for large lists, as it's also O(N^2)). Other sorts might be chosen if the data is known in advance to have favorable properties for them.
Quick sort's main use is for CS101 courses, to give you something that is relatively easy to understand, implement, and analyze, and which can be easily compared with the other CS101 sort technique, bubble sort.
There's no rule that says you have to come to a stop ON the guy's bumper ahead of you. If you leave a bit of space, you can resume driving more quickly...
Those figures aren't in that article. Further the article gives little mention of bulk freight transport and instead concentrates on passenger transport efficiency.
I'm confused now though. I didn't think there was anything confusing about inception. It was quite straightforward right up until the fairly obvious "or is it?" ending...
I agree it wasn't a "great of cinema" but it was fun to watch. Its competition wasn't "Star Trek," it was "Skyline"...
Why would you use one of the F-keys when you can just use/
There's always a better way, although I think F3 is inferior ^F because it takes your hands off the home row.... WIth tab, backspace, ^f, the space bar, and ^L, you can accomplish a LOT of browser tasks without having to reposition your hands.
Go to the library. Ask the librarian to help you find a "basics" book. For general use stuff, there should be one there that's more concise than the university web page crap. For specialty software, you might have to ILL something, but I have yet to see an online tutorial explain things with enough depth to understand the software
Then read the whole thing and try every example. EVERY example. Not just the ones that you think are relevant to whatever tasks you have right now. If you have a Mac, click the desktop, click help from the menu bar, and select "Help Center" and read all of the topics. Believe it or not, power users do, in fact, read the "getting started" tutorials and such.
In fact, this is what separates the power users from the average blunderers! Reading the documentation will plant the seeds of things you can do with the software. Things it might not have occurred to you to even ask how to do, because it didn't occur to you it was even a thing you might want to do.
On the general computer use side, I can't tell you how many times i've "helped" teachers in my family with computer tasks where they simply did not want to learn any of the basics. "I just want to do X", they say, and they have these big notebooks full of handwritten "exact steps to do " X's past.
So, instead of the 1-5 minutes it would take to actually do the task, it takes 45 minutes to exhaustively explain each step. (I can't count how many times I've had to stop after saying "right-click" something, and explain what right-clicking is, or had to point to the menu bar because "from the blah, blah menu, select blah" is, apparently a completely new concept every freakin' time.
And, I might add, these are often tasks that I don't actually do myself, so all I'm doing is this anyway.
The problem is not just teachers, but with people who have decided they're "done learning." They're experts in whatever they specialize in, and don't need to know anything from other subjects except the bare minimum to accomplish tasks in their specialty. It's an attitude that maybe shows up more in teachers than engineers, but it's something that everyone is susceptible to.
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I just looked at the turning point website, and I agree that I can't see how it could be anything other than an overpriced gimmick if you actually tried to use it in the classroom as anything more than an occasional "classroom game" type dealy. Have you done anything to make the area's constituents aware of the potentially wasted money? Taxpayers need to know about these things so it will even occur to them to bitch at the town meetings.
I think it would be a pretty ideal demonstration to actually demonstrate the use of the product before a town meeting, along with the price...
Eh.. Use your thumb instead of your pinky. CTRL is in a very convenient place on the apple keyboard (once you remap caps-lock using the prominent "keyboard preferences", that is... How do you remap keys on a windows machine again?)
Sounds like a prime opportunity for some arbitrage fun. I mean, the difference is well over a year's salary for an average regular person. What are the import rules down there?
Those aren't crippled chips, though. Those are chips that, according to the manufacturer's QC, won't work at the speed of the top chip, or have a bad transistor in one of the on-chip memory arrays. In the past, the bad bits were designed to be able to be disabled by fusing a connection, and it would have been a bad idea to try to access them anyway.
Those chips cannot perform at the level of the top chip. They might be able to be over clocked, at some risk of overheating and/or data loss, but for the most part, they were a best effort on the part of the manufacturers. They salvaged their yield by mitigating faults, and you got to save money by not buying a "perfect" chip.
It sounds like the yields are now exceeding consumer demand, so to keep the market segmented, intel is now disabling perfectly good chips, rather than moving on to harder-to-make, more powerful chips. I'd be surprised if their target audience, mid-sized businesses according to the article, didn't have at least one member who realizes this and sues...
I'm pretty sure you're going to eat that pound of olive oil or whatever whether you bike OR drive to work. Unlike a car, most people have to keep burning fuel all the time - people don't just start back up again on demand...
But is only part of the picture. liquid water's density also has a small temperature dependence. Warm water is less dense than cold, although a degree or two isn't going to be a significant percentage, it can still add up to noticeable changes in depth when you're talking about a column of water 4 km deep - it only takes a.04% increase in volume to equate to an extra 2 meters in depth...
The fan running more is a flaw, not a feature. The tiny fans that fit in laptops can get pretty loud. Interrupting thought while doing stuff, or distracting from entertainment programs.
I'm not suggesting that they will be driving through physical tunnels. Just that the reception of their tracking collars will be "mysteriously" very poor most of the time.
All stock Priuses run entirely on gasoline. And will do so until the plug-in versions come out later this year. If they're getting 50mpg, it's because they recapture some of the losses and use the performance assist of the electric drive to get away with sizing the engine for average load instead of peak load.
Don't be like those people who put "I am electric" stickers on their, as far as i can tell, completely unmodified hybrids....
If only google had access to some kind of electronic system for organizing and sifting through thousands of patents to pick out ones for further review by humans....
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I'm assuming you meant 2 kWh per day.. where do you live that that's only 20 cents? Where I live, that's *ostensibly* the price, but the real price is double that when you add all the tacked-on per- kWh fees and such (like the "fuel" fee. Why isn't that folded into the quoted price?), And that's before adding in all the "percent of bill" fees that are basically the same thing, when you think about it.
If you're stuck to the bumper, you have to wait until the guy in front clears a little space. If you left the space to begin with, you can start accelerating right away. If you left the right amount of space, you can even anticipate the guy in front of you's movement based on the cars in front of him.
Leave a few feet of buffer, so you can start matching speeds right away. The close packers and "extra-nudgers" don't even realize the extra delay they're putting into the traffic stops. They're impatient, so they sacrifice actual improvements in favor of perceived short-term gains.
The shit that doubles my commute time, though, is the assholes that slam on the brakes when they see cops, and who slow down to gawk at accidents and construction in grade-separated lanes. Look at the g'dang road ahead of you and the cars around you. Stuff that's behind hundreds of tons of interlocking concrete barriers isn't something you need to be worried about. ...
Have you ever noticed everyone has a different list of stuff they think is "good driving habits" and "bad driving habits"? Or that those columns are often interchanged depending on who you talk to?
Will these people never learn that a race to the bottom and razor thin margins is not the way to run business? Meanwhile, Apple will have strong profits and will be laughing all the way to the bank.
What?? Sure it is. Do less, for less is a perfectly valid marketing decision. The trick is to do the research and leave out the stuff that the market doesn't care about.
In a healthy market, there are products for many budget levels. The problem happens when the "race to the bottom" crowds out quality products in favor of the crap ones. It's a market failure if you can't get good quality at any price.
But that is a problem in other markets, where discounters have run amok, as is the case with everything sold at Wal Mart. And a lesson that consumers must take to heart: If you want quality products to be available, you must occasionally buy them. Even if they cost 5% more. (I kid you not, certain members of my family won't even look at a better quality product if the price is even a penny higher than the discount crapola...)
Simple:
They are raking in so much money that they can afford to have their timepieces regularly sanitized, polished, and waxed.
Who recommends quick sort for anything? It's got a bad, O(N^2) degenerate case that's been known about.. since the development of the algorithm.
It's my understanding that merge sort or merge/insertion hybrids are typically used generally, as merge has O(N*log N) for all inputs, and is stable, while insertion can be extremely fast for short lists (but is not appropriate for large lists, as it's also O(N^2)). Other sorts might be chosen if the data is known in advance to have favorable properties for them.
Quick sort's main use is for CS101 courses, to give you something that is relatively easy to understand, implement, and analyze, and which can be easily compared with the other CS101 sort technique, bubble sort.
If the lights had camera on them, they could anticipate the traffic and show all green to this driver.
What's that you say, the cameras are pointed at the intersection rather than away from it...
There's no rule that says you have to come to a stop ON the guy's bumper ahead of you. If you leave a bit of space, you can resume driving more quickly...
Those figures aren't in that article. Further the article gives little mention of bulk freight transport and instead concentrates on passenger transport efficiency.
Surely it says something that even at a price of nothing, churchill wasn't willing to bear the cost....
More energy efficient than Ships? I think you might want to look over the numbers again...
I'm confused now though. I didn't think there was anything confusing about inception. It was quite straightforward right up until the fairly obvious "or is it?" ending...
I agree it wasn't a "great of cinema" but it was fun to watch. Its competition wasn't "Star Trek," it was "Skyline"...
... and drinking bear
Eewwwwwww
Also, any text box in OS X. (some of the emacs keybindings made it into OS X for some reason..)
I can't seem to find where it's documented, though..
Do you use firefox or opera?
You can go right back to her with this:
Why would you use one of the F-keys when you can just use /
There's always a better way, although I think F3 is inferior ^F because it takes your hands off the home row.... WIth tab, backspace, ^f, the space bar, and ^L, you can accomplish a LOT of browser tasks without having to reposition your hands.
Go to the library. Ask the librarian to help you find a "basics" book. For general use stuff, there should be one there that's more concise than the university web page crap. For specialty software, you might have to ILL something, but I have yet to see an online tutorial explain things with enough depth to understand the software
Then read the whole thing and try every example. EVERY example. Not just the ones that you think are relevant to whatever tasks you have right now. If you have a Mac, click the desktop, click help from the menu bar, and select "Help Center" and read all of the topics. Believe it or not, power users do, in fact, read the "getting started" tutorials and such.
In fact, this is what separates the power users from the average blunderers! Reading the documentation will plant the seeds of things you can do with the software. Things it might not have occurred to you to even ask how to do, because it didn't occur to you it was even a thing you might want to do.
On the general computer use side, I can't tell you how many times i've "helped" teachers in my family with computer tasks where they simply did not want to learn any of the basics. "I just want to do X", they say, and they have these big notebooks full of handwritten "exact steps to do " X's past.
So, instead of the 1-5 minutes it would take to actually do the task, it takes 45 minutes to exhaustively explain each step. (I can't count how many times I've had to stop after saying "right-click" something, and explain what right-clicking is, or had to point to the menu bar because "from the blah, blah menu, select blah" is, apparently a completely new concept every freakin' time.
And, I might add, these are often tasks that I don't actually do myself, so all I'm doing is this anyway.
The problem is not just teachers, but with people who have decided they're "done learning." They're experts in whatever they specialize in, and don't need to know anything from other subjects except the bare minimum to accomplish tasks in their specialty. It's an attitude that maybe shows up more in teachers than engineers, but it's something that everyone is susceptible to.
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I just looked at the turning point website, and I agree that I can't see how it could be anything other than an overpriced gimmick if you actually tried to use it in the classroom as anything more than an occasional "classroom game" type dealy. Have you done anything to make the area's constituents aware of the potentially wasted money? Taxpayers need to know about these things so it will even occur to them to bitch at the town meetings.
I think it would be a pretty ideal demonstration to actually demonstrate the use of the product before a town meeting, along with the price...
Eh.. Use your thumb instead of your pinky. CTRL is in a very convenient place on the apple keyboard (once you remap caps-lock using the prominent "keyboard preferences", that is... How do you remap keys on a windows machine again?)
Sounds like a prime opportunity for some arbitrage fun. I mean, the difference is well over a year's salary for an average regular person. What are the import rules down there?
Multitouch MP3 player plus $20/month prepaid MiFi?
Those aren't crippled chips, though. Those are chips that, according to the manufacturer's QC, won't work at the speed of the top chip, or have a bad transistor in one of the on-chip memory arrays. In the past, the bad bits were designed to be able to be disabled by fusing a connection, and it would have been a bad idea to try to access them anyway.
Those chips cannot perform at the level of the top chip. They might be able to be over clocked, at some risk of overheating and/or data loss, but for the most part, they were a best effort on the part of the manufacturers. They salvaged their yield by mitigating faults, and you got to save money by not buying a "perfect" chip.
It sounds like the yields are now exceeding consumer demand, so to keep the market segmented, intel is now disabling perfectly good chips, rather than moving on to harder-to-make, more powerful chips. I'd be surprised if their target audience, mid-sized businesses according to the article, didn't have at least one member who realizes this and sues...
I'm pretty sure you're going to eat that pound of olive oil or whatever whether you bike OR drive to work. Unlike a car, most people have to keep burning fuel all the time - people don't just start back up again on demand...
That is correct, for floating ice.
But is only part of the picture. liquid water's density also has a small temperature dependence. Warm water is less dense than cold, although a degree or two isn't going to be a significant percentage, it can still add up to noticeable changes in depth when you're talking about a column of water 4 km deep - it only takes a .04% increase in volume to equate to an extra 2 meters in depth...
The fan running more is a flaw, not a feature. The tiny fans that fit in laptops can get pretty loud. Interrupting thought while doing stuff, or distracting from entertainment programs.
I'm not suggesting that they will be driving through physical tunnels. Just that the reception of their tracking collars will be "mysteriously" very poor most of the time.
All stock Priuses run entirely on gasoline. And will do so until the plug-in versions come out later this year. If they're getting 50mpg, it's because they recapture some of the losses and use the performance assist of the electric drive to get away with sizing the engine for average load instead of peak load.
Don't be like those people who put "I am electric" stickers on their, as far as i can tell, completely unmodified hybrids....
If only google had access to some kind of electronic system for organizing and sifting through thousands of patents to pick out ones for further review by humans....