Everyone, (including GP, no doubt) upon seeing the headline, was thinking of nothing else than the Tron Guy, hoping no-one would post a picture. There you went and spoiled it all..
IF ONLY I COULD! Writing LaTeX code is nothing compared to keeping track of Word changing / autoformatting fonts / styles all the time. Apparently some people really don't care if they change from arial to times to courrier, 10pt, 12pt... whatever. If you are used to make good looking decent documents in TeX using a responsive editor, at times you can really go MAD when you receive a 10-page 100MB (text only!!!) document to revise which changes styles all the time. This is really not funny. But no, Word is the standard and therefore everyone has to make documents that suck.
PS: I'm no TeX fanboi. People who ever had to cooperate on documents will no doubt know what I'm talking about...
Incorrect. Extracting Aluminum from Al2O3 takes a LOT of heat - ie: energy. You're, essentially, calling for the use of even more energy than you extract from the resulting hydrogen.
Unless I understand you wrong, you are saying something rather obvious. The use of the aluminium is not to 'create' energy, but to transport it. OBviously this process will not work at 100% efficiency, and therefore you need more energy to reduce (as opposed to oxidise) the aluminium than you will get from the hydrogen. But the efficiency may be better than e.g. store the energy in batteries.
IIRC the complaint was not that they showed small pieces of the information, but that they cached complete articles, making them available (for free) after they had been transferred to the (paying) archive section of the newspapers.
Um, no. You're bleeding of the exact same amount of kinetic energy either way. Where you do save is that you're not running your engine at full speed until the last possible moment. Instead, it can drop down to idle as you let friction gradually slow you while you close the distance. Now, whether the savings in idle-vs.-driving is better than the amount you lose by transferring your kinetic energy into heat via friction instead of electricity via the braking generators is beyond me.
Not true: afaik the Prius slows down by converting the kinetic energy to electricity and storing this in the batteries. In other words: if you don't push the throttle, it 'brakes' a bit. If, on the other hand you really brake hard (like to avoid hitting a nearby car), this is just ordinary braking with energy loss.
You don't think a nationality is possible without a common language?
Living in Belgium, with its three official languages, two of which I need to speak at work on a daily basis, I am well aware a nationality is possible without a common language. Maybe that argument was indeed not completely valid.
However, it doesn't contribute to the feeling of "togetherness" that so many languages are spoken in Europe, especially because people of the largest nations (England, France, Germany, Spain) tend not to speak many others besides their own.
However, most people don't. They'll accelerate when they know there's a red light or stopped traffic in front of them, even though it just means they need to brake harder
You are completely right. However, there is another problem: your way of "driving at optimum efficiency" may be very annoying to others. I, for example have experienced quite often that the guy in fromt of me drives to a green light at a leisurly pace, only to accelerate just in front of it, slip through the orange one (or even the red one) and leaves me standing in front of the red. This may or may not be a good strategy for him, but annoys me far more than other people that keep a normal speed and brake at orange (or red).
Put in a nerdlyer way: what does game theory say on this? Isn't there a clash between the benefit of the individual (even only in terms of fuel efficiency) and the whole group? (Ok, if everyone would be synchronised etc, this problem could probable be solved, at least in theory, because in practice, not everyone would join probably).
This is a strong point for the hybrid cars (such as the Prius): they do not influence your driving style, and therefore do not influence other people, you don't need the synchronised system etc... They just take the current situation and make the best of in in a completely transparent way.
...If GPS couldn't be relied upon then the sale of GPS equipment would surely be aversely affected.
Do you think this would be America's biggest concern in times of war?
...Rerouting the internet backbone. A significant amount of traffic still goes through US-controlled nodes in US territory.
Do you think Europeans are happy about that either?
Would you personally be happy to be relying on another country's goodwill for daily needs? Well, Europeans are no different and they don't like it either.
If you've been to Europe recently and noticed how citizens see themselves as European first and nationals second, you will see they've done very well on their goals.
Imho this is not true. Most Europeans (at least those I kwnow) might not be patriottic in the same way as Americans are perceived to be, and might respect other nationalities etc., but they haven't forgotten their own nationality. Europe is fun and all, and the unified currency is a ball, but there is no such thing as a "European nationality". Besides, how could this be possible, when there isn't even a common language?
With the mainly US funded NATO as their defense umbrella, Europe could divert funds that would otherwise have been spent on weapons to social programs. This has kept the level of internal and external strife to a minimum - why fight when everyone is fat and happy.
Thanks Uncle Sam for putting nuclear missiles in our back yard. As if everyone here is fat and happy because of US funding (talking about the past 50 years)?!? Besides, you mention it yourself: the EU has an economical purpose (among others), i.e. making everyone fat and happy by themselves.
Like you said - Europe's been at peace for "a fucking long time", but 50 years isn't enouigh to change huma nature, and the nature of humans is to make war.
Let's say this is some people's nature more than other's.
Neither am I, which may be the reason why we both thought the same (and noticed the typos in the first place:-). Belgian, nice to meet you. Now I'll go and get a beer...
In most european countries, you can drink alcohol when you're 16. and when your parents let see sip from their beers, even when you're only nine, no-one makes any fuss about it - because it isn't. the rerality is, if ypou treat drinking beer as no big deal...
Unless, of course, you post to/. while drunk and make one typo after another...
If FPSes had been around when I was in high school I would have loved to play on a map of the school
When I was at univ (Belgium), we modeled the building and got help from the head of the department. They wanted to use it at an open door day. Due to exams etc we were never able to finish it, unfortunately.
This woman deserves what she gets, just for wasting people's time.
I don't agree. The woman was just cautious, which seems to be justified, as the measured mercury levels were 6 times the national maximum standard.
Moreover, if what you say (more or less to be summarised as 'no big deal, clean it yourself') is true, they should have told her that. If you know, those instances should too (unless, of course, you are an über-specialist in this field).
They failed to follow the directions that came with the router. They failed to learn about the tech they were about to use. They get burnt.
They failed to read the manual of the lock to their house, so I can just enter and take their stuff?
You probably don't realize how arrogant your post really is. There are many instances where people cut each other some slack because no-one (except you maybe) is a mastermind in every matter.
...if a defect is discovered on a Phoenix-enabled chip, the manufacturer would automatically transmit the patch to all machines that might be affected.
From my own modest personal experience I know that having a device "do stuff" (be it calculate FFTs for DSP's, measure something like sensors do, be reprogrammed like this FPGA...) is generally not the main difficulty. Interfacing is an often overlooked hurdle: how is this FPGA going to receive this patch? How will the manufacturer know where the clients are?
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"Without the Swiss Army Knife, we would've been hopeless," Lederman said. "That was our primary tool."
After which he developed the now famous Lederman tool.
Everyone, (including GP, no doubt) upon seeing the headline, was thinking of nothing else than the Tron Guy, hoping no-one would post a picture. There you went and spoiled it all..
PS: I'm no TeX fanboi. People who ever had to cooperate on documents will no doubt know what I'm talking about...
Incorrect. Extracting Aluminum from Al2O3 takes a LOT of heat - ie: energy. You're, essentially, calling for the use of even more energy than you extract from the resulting hydrogen.
Unless I understand you wrong, you are saying something rather obvious. The use of the aluminium is not to 'create' energy, but to transport it. OBviously this process will not work at 100% efficiency, and therefore you need more energy to reduce (as opposed to oxidise) the aluminium than you will get from the hydrogen. But the efficiency may be better than e.g. store the energy in batteries.
He's dead - get over it. Marilyn Monroe: dead too. Elvis: him too. Get over it.
What? Him too? People have trying to tell me this a thousand times. But now it's on /., I believe it. What a loss!
IIRC the complaint was not that they showed small pieces of the information, but that they cached complete articles, making them available (for free) after they had been transferred to the (paying) archive section of the newspapers.
Good thinking. And besides, how will we get rid of the gorillas?
Geller was suing some mathematician - can't remember his name now
Some Indian guy, I believe...
Um, no. You're bleeding of the exact same amount of kinetic energy either way. Where you do save is that you're not running your engine at full speed until the last possible moment. Instead, it can drop down to idle as you let friction gradually slow you while you close the distance. Now, whether the savings in idle-vs.-driving is better than the amount you lose by transferring your kinetic energy into heat via friction instead of electricity via the braking generators is beyond me.
Not true: afaik the Prius slows down by converting the kinetic energy to electricity and storing this in the batteries. In other words: if you don't push the throttle, it 'brakes' a bit. If, on the other hand you really brake hard (like to avoid hitting a nearby car), this is just ordinary braking with energy loss.
You don't think a nationality is possible without a common language?
Living in Belgium, with its three official languages, two of which I need to speak at work on a daily basis, I am well aware a nationality is possible without a common language. Maybe that argument was indeed not completely valid. However, it doesn't contribute to the feeling of "togetherness" that so many languages are spoken in Europe, especially because people of the largest nations (England, France, Germany, Spain) tend not to speak many others besides their own.
However, most people don't. They'll accelerate when they know there's a red light or stopped traffic in front of them, even though it just means they need to brake harder
You are completely right. However, there is another problem: your way of "driving at optimum efficiency" may be very annoying to others. I, for example have experienced quite often that the guy in fromt of me drives to a green light at a leisurly pace, only to accelerate just in front of it, slip through the orange one (or even the red one) and leaves me standing in front of the red. This may or may not be a good strategy for him, but annoys me far more than other people that keep a normal speed and brake at orange (or red).
Put in a nerdlyer way: what does game theory say on this? Isn't there a clash between the benefit of the individual (even only in terms of fuel efficiency) and the whole group? (Ok, if everyone would be synchronised etc, this problem could probable be solved, at least in theory, because in practice, not everyone would join probably).
This is a strong point for the hybrid cars (such as the Prius): they do not influence your driving style, and therefore do not influence other people, you don't need the synchronised system etc... They just take the current situation and make the best of in in a completely transparent way.
All prime numbers have been taken already :-(
Do you think this would be America's biggest concern in times of war?
Do you think Europeans are happy about that either?
Would you personally be happy to be relying on another country's goodwill for daily needs? Well, Europeans are no different and they don't like it either.
If you've been to Europe recently and noticed how citizens see themselves as European first and nationals second, you will see they've done very well on their goals.
Imho this is not true. Most Europeans (at least those I kwnow) might not be patriottic in the same way as Americans are perceived to be, and might respect other nationalities etc., but they haven't forgotten their own nationality. Europe is fun and all, and the unified currency is a ball, but there is no such thing as a "European nationality". Besides, how could this be possible, when there isn't even a common language?
2. the abuse of power - ask anyone who looks Turkish in Germany how often they are stopped and asked for ID. It's pretty much daily in some areas.
Obviously this type of racism is impossible in a country without ID cards.
With the mainly US funded NATO as their defense umbrella, Europe could divert funds that would otherwise have been spent on weapons to social programs. This has kept the level of internal and external strife to a minimum - why fight when everyone is fat and happy.
Thanks Uncle Sam for putting nuclear missiles in our back yard. As if everyone here is fat and happy because of US funding (talking about the past 50 years)?!? Besides, you mention it yourself: the EU has an economical purpose (among others), i.e. making everyone fat and happy by themselves.
Like you said - Europe's been at peace for "a fucking long time", but 50 years isn't enouigh to change huma nature, and the nature of humans is to make war.
Let's say this is some people's nature more than other's.
I'm not a native english speaker
Neither am I, which may be the reason why we both thought the same (and noticed the typos in the first place :-). Belgian, nice to meet you. Now I'll go and get a beer...
In most european countries, you can drink alcohol when you're 16. and when your parents let see sip from their beers, even when you're only nine, no-one makes any fuss about it - because it isn't. the rerality is, if ypou treat drinking beer as no big deal...
Unless, of course, you post to /. while drunk and make one typo after another...
If FPSes had been around when I was in high school I would have loved to play on a map of the school
When I was at univ (Belgium), we modeled the building and got help from the head of the department. They wanted to use it at an open door day. Due to exams etc we were never able to finish it, unfortunately.
YES, that was what I was thinking! Lots of the older people rolled around mercury, and you don't see them dropping like flies.
IIRC rolling it around is not necessarily because is only harmful in gaseous form.
This woman deserves what she gets, just for wasting people's time.
I don't agree. The woman was just cautious, which seems to be justified, as the measured mercury levels were 6 times the national maximum standard. Moreover, if what you say (more or less to be summarised as 'no big deal, clean it yourself') is true, they should have told her that. If you know, those instances should too (unless, of course, you are an über-specialist in this field).
They failed to follow the directions that came with the router. They failed to learn about the tech they were about to use. They get burnt.
They failed to read the manual of the lock to their house, so I can just enter and take their stuff?
You probably don't realize how arrogant your post really is. There are many instances where people cut each other some slack because no-one (except you maybe) is a mastermind in every matter.
A very simple game, but, very intense. Hell, my friends and I still get a bad case of 'tennis elbow' after playing it for too long.
Same holds for some Artworx games...
HLT
From my own modest personal experience I know that having a device "do stuff" (be it calculate FFTs for DSP's, measure something like sensors do, be reprogrammed like this FPGA...) is generally not the main difficulty. Interfacing is an often overlooked hurdle: how is this FPGA going to receive this patch? How will the manufacturer know where the clients are?