Sure. No matter the capacity of the battery, it should be able to be fully charged within 2 hours. So, whether it's a cellphone, an iPad, or a Chevy Volt, it should be able to be charged in 2 hours.
Think so actually, assuming you can get enough power to it. Higher capacity lithium ion batteries can generally handle higher charging currents too. The Chevy Volt is apparently constrained by the amount of power the charging outlets it uses can supply but the website claims it takes 4 hours to charge it from a 240 volt outlet.
It looks like the Daily Mail actually did proper journalism there for once. There's some more recent BBC coverage of the same raid though, if that helps.
Not only that, Megaupload links pop up in all sorts of places. For example, I was looking at Linux drivers for various USB TV tuners, and it turns out that one of the ones I was looking at had a vendor-supplied driver for Linux that was helpfully linked on the LinuxTV wiki and apparently only available from Megaupload.
Now imagine what will happen if there's another economic crash during the 60+ years between the plants being shut down and the planned start of actual decommissioning work, with no possible way for them to earn more money
The UK's older reactors like the Magnox units are being decommissioned on a long-term basis, about 80 years from shutdown to final clearing of the reactor site. The delay is to allow the radioactivity in the core components such as the reactor vessel and primary steam piping to decay to virtually nothing which makes future dismantling easier.
Actually, there's quite a lot of expensive decommissioning work happening even before the 80 years are up - in fact, it looks like it's going to take over a decade to get each Magnox reactor to the point where all that has to be done is long-term care and monitoring, and that's the accelerated version of the decommissioning program. Older reactors have been taking several decades. (Also, British nuclear power and Magnox were deeply screwed up in many ways and it's far from clear if the Sellafield parts of the Magnox program can safely be decommissioned at all. )
I believe the operators of several UK reactors didn't save up enough money to decommission them over their planned operating lifetime either and ended up getting extensions on the basis that they wouldn't be able to afford to decommission them safely. It looks like the decommissioning costs are overrunning the planned budget already too.
I imagine the US reactors are up for similar custodial treatment and the newspaper reports are sensationalistic garbage as they usually are.
The article seems quite clear - they don't have enough money in the decommissioning accounts to meet the projected decommissioning costs like they promised they would when applying for their licenses, and are hoping that a combination of interest on savings and the decrease in radioactivity will allow them to decommission them in a few decades. Which is risky, because a financial crisis or an increase in the cost of decommissioning over the intervening years could leave them basically dumping the cost on the government.
Up until this point, there haven't really been any ARMv6 devices that you'd really want to run Ubuntu on anyway - from what I can tell they're pretty much all either ancient smart phones with small screens or headless embedded devices with no floating point support. Speaking of floating point, Debian's probably going to be quite slow on the Raspberry Pi because its ARMv6 version doesn't have hardware floating point support - it was aimed at those FPU-less embedded devices.
I think they eventually changed this after everyone yelled about it, but originally their selected retailers were adding hefty extra charges on top of VAT and shipping in quite a few EU countries. You may not have noticed the complaining because they stuck all discussion of the retailers and pricing in the off-topic section of the forum and closed a lot of the threads just like this.
Note that this only applies to those Swedes who aren't unfortunate enough to also be sex workers.
It's an interesting tale actually. According to feminist ideology, women are forced into selling sexual services through economic coercion - that is, they do it because they don't have any better alternatives available to them, not because they want to. So various feminists decided the solution to that problem by making it illegal for anyone to pay someone else for sex, which would somehow magically make the underlying economic problem go away because magic. Not only that, they criminalised a whole bunch of other stuff too - for example, there's a law against profiting from prostitution which makes it illegal to rent an apartment to someone who sells sex from it, so all these impoverished, desperate women who the law was supposedly meant to help keep getting kicked out on the streets by their landlords.
Now imagine what would happen if all transactions were cashless, if there was no way to exchange any kind of services for money that didn't involve banks - at least, not unless you were willing to do business with some very shady organisations - and those banks were forced to close down these women's bank accounts too by the exact same law.
Generally speaking, private companies aren't allowed to send men with guns to your door to drag you away and throw you into a metal box for the rest of your life, or to kill you with a missile from a drone.
That state of affairs took quite a bit of government intervention to achieve, though. For example, look at how companies have historically suppressed unions in the US. They'd probably have used missiles from drones if those had been invented at the time, but because they didn't their hired guns were restricted to more old-fashioned methods like blindly firing machine guns into encampments.
Even if the database was correct, I'm not sure it'd be workable. As one of the comments rightly pointed out, the legal requirement is that the driver must be insured to drive that car. There are I believe circumstances involving the used car trade where it's entirely legal for someone to drive a car on public roads even though it's not specifically named on any insurance policy and therefore not listed in the national database as being insured, because the driver is still insured to drive it under their motor trade policy.
The tutorial level you have to complete in order to actually be able to play with it has an annoying non-dismissable pop up at the bottom which covers up part of the machine. Either it's buggy or they don't like my monitor size.
Instant on is a marketing term. All it means is that you get something like 80 or 90 percent of the full brightness within a second or so; most of the bulbs that have it still take time to warm up to full brightness.
Nope, the EU did the same thing - they set a minimum efficiency standard that banned traditional incandescent bulbs starting with high-wattage ones but still allowed high-efficiency versions. Your mileage may vary as to actual availability, but certainly here in the UK you can still get Philips "EcoClassic" halogen incandescent bulbs and various other brands too. Obviously they don't save you as much electricity as a CFL would, but they're dimmable and everything.
I'm not sure about over in the US, but here in the UK it was basically impossible to buy high-efficiency halogen bulbs for normal light fixtures anywhere until the government mandated it. You could get CFLs quite easily but not halogens.
No, if you listened to the keynote, they took speech characteristics, and then broke the target voice pattern up into 5ms pieces and reconstructed the voice to match a reference translation from a different language. What they are doing is not only very interesting, but clearly has space for improvement and a variety of applications.
Incidentally, if you want to do similar voice matching of text-to-speech yourself I believe that the open source Festvox project has supported doing this for a few years now, though it's not terribly well-documented. See festvox/src/vc/HOWTO. You'll need to record some sample phrases in your own voice for the voice transformation code to work from, but apparently the Microsoft demo requires that too.
This is actually an old idea in some ways. For example, apparently the old-fashioned Sony Jumbotrons - the big screens in places like sports stadiums - were built around a similar device. Each color of each pixel has its own electron gun that floods the entire segment of phosphor with electrons, effectively acting as a kind of lamp.
all Gawker media sites (I'd entertain a counterargument defending Jezebel)
Jezebel is definitely included in that category, it's just that it's aimed at trolling feminists specifically. For example (and I found that blog post through Google in a couple of minutes)
Yeah, the Gawker properties tend to censor any comment that's even remotely critical of the original article - and when, as inevitably happens, the original article is a bunch of dubious bullcrap the best discussion usually happens as a result of such comments. You're not going to get much value from the comments section if you systematically delete all the interesting comments.
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Sure. No matter the capacity of the battery, it should be able to be fully charged within 2 hours. So, whether it's a cellphone, an iPad, or a Chevy Volt, it should be able to be charged in 2 hours.
Think so actually, assuming you can get enough power to it. Higher capacity lithium ion batteries can generally handle higher charging currents too. The Chevy Volt is apparently constrained by the amount of power the charging outlets it uses can supply but the website claims it takes 4 hours to charge it from a 240 volt outlet.
It looks like the Daily Mail actually did proper journalism there for once. There's some more recent BBC coverage of the same raid though, if that helps.
Not only that, Megaupload links pop up in all sorts of places. For example, I was looking at Linux drivers for various USB TV tuners, and it turns out that one of the ones I was looking at had a vendor-supplied driver for Linux that was helpfully linked on the LinuxTV wiki and apparently only available from Megaupload.
Now imagine what will happen if there's another economic crash during the 60+ years between the plants being shut down and the planned start of actual decommissioning work, with no possible way for them to earn more money
The UK's older reactors like the Magnox units are being decommissioned on a long-term basis, about 80 years from shutdown to final clearing of the reactor site. The delay is to allow the radioactivity in the core components such as the reactor vessel and primary steam piping to decay to virtually nothing which makes future dismantling easier.
Actually, there's quite a lot of expensive decommissioning work happening even before the 80 years are up - in fact, it looks like it's going to take over a decade to get each Magnox reactor to the point where all that has to be done is long-term care and monitoring, and that's the accelerated version of the decommissioning program. Older reactors have been taking several decades. (Also, British nuclear power and Magnox were deeply screwed up in many ways and it's far from clear if the Sellafield parts of the Magnox program can safely be decommissioned at all. )
I believe the operators of several UK reactors didn't save up enough money to decommission them over their planned operating lifetime either and ended up getting extensions on the basis that they wouldn't be able to afford to decommission them safely. It looks like the decommissioning costs are overrunning the planned budget already too.
I imagine the US reactors are up for similar custodial treatment and the newspaper reports are sensationalistic garbage as they usually are.
The article seems quite clear - they don't have enough money in the decommissioning accounts to meet the projected decommissioning costs like they promised they would when applying for their licenses, and are hoping that a combination of interest on savings and the decrease in radioactivity will allow them to decommission them in a few decades. Which is risky, because a financial crisis or an increase in the cost of decommissioning over the intervening years could leave them basically dumping the cost on the government.
Up until this point, there haven't really been any ARMv6 devices that you'd really want to run Ubuntu on anyway - from what I can tell they're pretty much all either ancient smart phones with small screens or headless embedded devices with no floating point support. Speaking of floating point, Debian's probably going to be quite slow on the Raspberry Pi because its ARMv6 version doesn't have hardware floating point support - it was aimed at those FPU-less embedded devices.
I think they eventually changed this after everyone yelled about it, but originally their selected retailers were adding hefty extra charges on top of VAT and shipping in quite a few EU countries. You may not have noticed the complaining because they stuck all discussion of the retailers and pricing in the off-topic section of the forum and closed a lot of the threads just like this.
Wait, Windows Phone doesn't let you save drafts of SMS messages? Even my old dumbphone can manage to do that!
There is no formal contract. Also, if you look at the information on that particular puzzle that was linked in TFA, it appears the crossword setter pretty much gave the game away as to what the trick was in one of the other clues.
Note that this only applies to those Swedes who aren't unfortunate enough to also be sex workers.
It's an interesting tale actually. According to feminist ideology, women are forced into selling sexual services through economic coercion - that is, they do it because they don't have any better alternatives available to them, not because they want to. So various feminists decided the solution to that problem by making it illegal for anyone to pay someone else for sex, which would somehow magically make the underlying economic problem go away because magic. Not only that, they criminalised a whole bunch of other stuff too - for example, there's a law against profiting from prostitution which makes it illegal to rent an apartment to someone who sells sex from it, so all these impoverished, desperate women who the law was supposedly meant to help keep getting kicked out on the streets by their landlords.
Now imagine what would happen if all transactions were cashless, if there was no way to exchange any kind of services for money that didn't involve banks - at least, not unless you were willing to do business with some very shady organisations - and those banks were forced to close down these women's bank accounts too by the exact same law.
Generally speaking, private companies aren't allowed to send men with guns to your door to drag you away and throw you into a metal box for the rest of your life, or to kill you with a missile from a drone.
That state of affairs took quite a bit of government intervention to achieve, though. For example, look at how companies have historically suppressed unions in the US. They'd probably have used missiles from drones if those had been invented at the time, but because they didn't their hired guns were restricted to more old-fashioned methods like blindly firing machine guns into encampments.
Chromium, which should be like Chrome for this purpose.
Even if the database was correct, I'm not sure it'd be workable. As one of the comments rightly pointed out, the legal requirement is that the driver must be insured to drive that car. There are I believe circumstances involving the used car trade where it's entirely legal for someone to drive a car on public roads even though it's not specifically named on any insurance policy and therefore not listed in the national database as being insured, because the driver is still insured to drive it under their motor trade policy.
The tutorial level you have to complete in order to actually be able to play with it has an annoying non-dismissable pop up at the bottom which covers up part of the machine. Either it's buggy or they don't like my monitor size.
Instant on is a marketing term. All it means is that you get something like 80 or 90 percent of the full brightness within a second or so; most of the bulbs that have it still take time to warm up to full brightness.
Nope, the EU did the same thing - they set a minimum efficiency standard that banned traditional incandescent bulbs starting with high-wattage ones but still allowed high-efficiency versions. Your mileage may vary as to actual availability, but certainly here in the UK you can still get Philips "EcoClassic" halogen incandescent bulbs and various other brands too. Obviously they don't save you as much electricity as a CFL would, but they're dimmable and everything.
I'm not sure about over in the US, but here in the UK it was basically impossible to buy high-efficiency halogen bulbs for normal light fixtures anywhere until the government mandated it. You could get CFLs quite easily but not halogens.
It isn't exactly innovative, though - there have been ways of adapting TTS voices to sound like a particular speaker that require less training than this for years. There's even an open source implementation of it in Festvox.
No, if you listened to the keynote, they took speech characteristics, and then broke the target voice pattern up into 5ms pieces and reconstructed the voice to match a reference translation from a different language. What they are doing is not only very interesting, but clearly has space for improvement and a variety of applications.
Incidentally, if you want to do similar voice matching of text-to-speech yourself I believe that the open source Festvox project has supported doing this for a few years now, though it's not terribly well-documented. See festvox/src/vc/HOWTO. You'll need to record some sample phrases in your own voice for the voice transformation code to work from, but apparently the Microsoft demo requires that too.
LEDs are apparently fairly heat sensitive, so this may not be quite that simple.
This is actually an old idea in some ways. For example, apparently the old-fashioned Sony Jumbotrons - the big screens in places like sports stadiums - were built around a similar device. Each color of each pixel has its own electron gun that floods the entire segment of phosphor with electrons, effectively acting as a kind of lamp.
all Gawker media sites (I'd entertain a counterargument defending Jezebel)
Jezebel is definitely included in that category, it's just that it's aimed at trolling feminists specifically. For example (and I found that blog post through Google in a couple of minutes)
Circlejerks like r/ShitRedditSays...
Yeah, the Gawker properties tend to censor any comment that's even remotely critical of the original article - and when, as inevitably happens, the original article is a bunch of dubious bullcrap the best discussion usually happens as a result of such comments. You're not going to get much value from the comments section if you systematically delete all the interesting comments.
How many actual tablet workloads are that heavily multi-threaded, though?