FYI - Subaru has been working on electric cars for years. Take this article from 2007 - Subaru doubles the battery range on its electric car concept. From what I've read, they've also been working on hybrid tech that will work well with AWD drivetrains that have come to define their brand.
I think a vast majority of people would disagree with you that that 3D detracts from the experience (if done right). The success of Avatar is a good testament that people actually like 3D movies. However, crappy conversion from 2D to 3D at the last minute (see Clash of the Titans) make for a bad experience. Since the new Hobbit movie is going to be directed for 3D from the get-go, I hope it will be on par with Avatar in quality.
I hated automatics until I drove a newer Porsche. That thing would even downshift when coasting down a hill to keep speed in check and save wear on the brakes. It was a fine example of an automatic transmission done right... smooth, very responsive, and much 'smarter' than I thought it would be... so much so that I felt no need to use the tiptronic shifting (ability to manually shift gears).
Microsoft has a free version of Visual Studio for download (their "Express" edition). It's not as fancy as the full fledged version, but it's not bad at all. You can write XNA apps and most anything else with it.
Don't eat food from a box. It's hard to avoid corn based products if your in the "McDonalds-lunch and rip-open-a-box-and-add-water-dinner" mindset. It's trivially easy if you don't mind cooking and baking. I have no problem avoiding corn based products (and have a need to). Make your food with fresh vegetables. Bake bread (bread machines make this incredibly easy). Bake your own cookies with cane sugar if you want something sweet. Eat more fish. Grass fed beef is getting easier and easier to find.
It strikes me as something they did to simplify the upgrade process for themselves rather than for the user. i assume it is easier to just gather up all the files and move them to a temp and then reallocate them to the new Win7 folders using a physical move rather than a logical one.
Sometimes what is easiest for the developer to produce ends up being easiest on the end user. It's easy to get "Easy" correct, and it's easy to get "Hard" wrong.
Ugh. Didn't you read the parent's complete post? The idea is to start with a targeted high-profit niche market - in this case, the performance oriented market - and work your way down to the mainstream consumer as you invest in the manufacturing and technology to allow for production line mass manufacturing. The Model S is less performance and more luxury oriented, on par with higher end BMWs or Mercedes, and won't be hand build like the Tesla Roadster is. The BlueStar project (planned followup to the Model S) will be far more mainstream.
Play pumps are being installed in many places in Africa, and have been for over 5 years now. They're a pretty big success so far. Frontline on PBS did a piece a while ago about them: FRONTLINE - South Africa
...my house has a land line connection. LOL! The memories. I think I destroyed part of the line along the side of my house about 4 years ago with a weed-eater. My advice? Do what I did - forget the line is there (except don't completely forget and ruin it on accident like I did:)
I've had the same thought. I'd love to be able to drive to work in a plug-in vehicle of some sort, park the car in the sun all day and let it passively recharge, and then drive home using that free power. The only thing the sun does for my car now is make the interior too damn hot (even with window tint and a sun shade).
I think Microsoft is a victim of their own attempts at cost cutting. Cost cutting, as far as I've observed, has diminishing returns to the point where it can actually be detrimental to the bottom line and cost more in the long run. The more you try to squeeze out of initial cost, the more risk you inject in to the equation in terms of quality. The red ring of death is a good example - savings of a few million IIRC ended up costing a billion.
They're all the same. Okay, there are some minor differences, but they're all based on the same concepts and principles.
There's one thing I've learned over the years- it's that if you understand the concepts of computer science and programming in general, you can use any programming language.
When I interview candidates for a job, I don't focus too much on what languages they know... I want to know how they think. I want to hire the person who can grab a good reference book and know what to search for when they want to do something. Learning the syntax of a language is trivial, learning the concepts of computing is not. Some people have it, most don't.
I hope that's what you got out of your education. The syntax, tips, tricks, and gotchas of any language can be picked up pretty quickly if so.
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FYI - Subaru has been working on electric cars for years. Take this article from 2007 - Subaru doubles the battery range on its electric car concept. From what I've read, they've also been working on hybrid tech that will work well with AWD drivetrains that have come to define their brand.
I think a vast majority of people would disagree with you that that 3D detracts from the experience (if done right). The success of Avatar is a good testament that people actually like 3D movies. However, crappy conversion from 2D to 3D at the last minute (see Clash of the Titans) make for a bad experience. Since the new Hobbit movie is going to be directed for 3D from the get-go, I hope it will be on par with Avatar in quality.
I hated automatics until I drove a newer Porsche. That thing would even downshift when coasting down a hill to keep speed in check and save wear on the brakes. It was a fine example of an automatic transmission done right... smooth, very responsive, and much 'smarter' than I thought it would be... so much so that I felt no need to use the tiptronic shifting (ability to manually shift gears).
It has been said many times, and is so appropriate here - "Taxes buy civilization"
The 'pool' is small enough that we could increase the CO2 level by 37% in just the last hundred or so years.
Another fun one - the obligatory "sudo make me a sandwich" responds with "Okay."
Microsoft has a free version of Visual Studio for download (their "Express" edition). It's not as fancy as the full fledged version, but it's not bad at all. You can write XNA apps and most anything else with it.
...was won by Firefox, according to the summary at the end. Isn't that what the average user cares most about? How fast a page loads?
Don't eat food from a box. It's hard to avoid corn based products if your in the "McDonalds-lunch and rip-open-a-box-and-add-water-dinner" mindset. It's trivially easy if you don't mind cooking and baking. I have no problem avoiding corn based products (and have a need to). Make your food with fresh vegetables. Bake bread (bread machines make this incredibly easy). Bake your own cookies with cane sugar if you want something sweet. Eat more fish. Grass fed beef is getting easier and easier to find.
It strikes me as something they did to simplify the upgrade process for themselves rather than for the user. i assume it is easier to just gather up all the files and move them to a temp and then reallocate them to the new Win7 folders using a physical move rather than a logical one.
Sometimes what is easiest for the developer to produce ends up being easiest on the end user. It's easy to get "Easy" correct, and it's easy to get "Hard" wrong.
I think Tesla is adopting a similar battery sales model. You "lease" the battery when you "buy" the car.
Ugh. Didn't you read the parent's complete post? The idea is to start with a targeted high-profit niche market - in this case, the performance oriented market - and work your way down to the mainstream consumer as you invest in the manufacturing and technology to allow for production line mass manufacturing. The Model S is less performance and more luxury oriented, on par with higher end BMWs or Mercedes, and won't be hand build like the Tesla Roadster is. The BlueStar project (planned followup to the Model S) will be far more mainstream.
...how I envy those people.
Play pumps are being installed in many places in Africa, and have been for over 5 years now. They're a pretty big success so far. Frontline on PBS did a piece a while ago about them: FRONTLINE - South Africa
...my house has a land line connection. LOL! The memories. I think I destroyed part of the line along the side of my house about 4 years ago with a weed-eater. My advice? Do what I did - forget the line is there (except don't completely forget and ruin it on accident like I did :)
...you're no friend of mine.
Wow. Breath. And switch to decaf.
The pictures have context. Read the caption to their immediate right.
...but how do you repair a fiber optic cable that has been cut? What is the magic process for sticking it back together?
I've had the same thought. I'd love to be able to drive to work in a plug-in vehicle of some sort, park the car in the sun all day and let it passively recharge, and then drive home using that free power. The only thing the sun does for my car now is make the interior too damn hot (even with window tint and a sun shade).
I wish I could mod this "Sad but true"
I think Microsoft is a victim of their own attempts at cost cutting. Cost cutting, as far as I've observed, has diminishing returns to the point where it can actually be detrimental to the bottom line and cost more in the long run. The more you try to squeeze out of initial cost, the more risk you inject in to the equation in terms of quality. The red ring of death is a good example - savings of a few million IIRC ended up costing a billion.
They're all the same. Okay, there are some minor differences, but they're all based on the same concepts and principles. There's one thing I've learned over the years- it's that if you understand the concepts of computer science and programming in general, you can use any programming language. When I interview candidates for a job, I don't focus too much on what languages they know... I want to know how they think. I want to hire the person who can grab a good reference book and know what to search for when they want to do something. Learning the syntax of a language is trivial, learning the concepts of computing is not. Some people have it, most don't. I hope that's what you got out of your education. The syntax, tips, tricks, and gotchas of any language can be picked up pretty quickly if so.
Yeah, seriously, move on people. Why use vi when you could be using gvim?! ;-)