I can fill a fossil fuel vehicle in 5 minutes. A level-3 charger (running at 480V and 125A) will take half an hour to get a Leaf to 80%. Most stations are level-2, which takes a good bit longer. In many cases, it won't make a practical difference, but it's disingenuous to try to say that there's no difference in capability between gas and electric vehicles.
Oops, forgot to mention: The article lists the estimated production price on the new buggy to be $150k-$175k apiece. It'd be interesting to see a cost analysis of the price to buy, feed, stable, and replace a horse compared to the price to buy, maintain, park, and replace one of the new carriages.
I see a parallel between the carriage situation and emulating game systems. You get the same practical value (playing the game/scenic carriage ride through Central Park), but you lose the little inconveniences that make the experience special. Oddly enough, the "clip-clop" and stepping over horse manure to get into the carriage are part of what I wanted to pay for, just like I want to swab out old game cartridges and cross the room to hit the reset button when I get frustrated with a tough level.
Are they non-standard degree names, or something like Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering? Did you get any job experience, or just plow through a bunch of degrees? Are you looking for jobs in an area with a high demand for your specialties? Experience in academic programming is worlds apart from experience in corporate software engineering. Beyond 4 years of school, if you don't have any work experience, your CV makes you look like an academic (or worse yet, a "professional student").
Clauses against reverse engineering are nearly ubiquitous in (non-open) software. Amusingly, Origin's EULA, Popcap's EULA, Plants vs. Zombies' EULA, and Steam's EULA all forbid reverse-engineering of the code that each agreement applies to. It seems that you may have some kind of double-standard with software, AC.
Let's be honest here... you want to work 8am - 5pm with an hour lunch, get paid over $60k a year (more in higher standard states), get bonuses and have a nice cushy job? That's absurd.
Absurd? It describes my current work situation closely. Well, if you exclude the pay and hours; my pay is in the ballpark of yours, and my hours aren't as rigid as "8-5 with an hour lunch". Still, there's always something better and always something worse. It's important to be able to find satisfaction in whatever job you're doing, and you seem to have done that just fine.
The 24th amendment to the consitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 both come to mind (although the amendment was ratified January 23rd, 1964, so it's a few months over 50 years). I agree with the statement that our laws tend to restrict rights much more than they grant them, though. In theory, you've got the right to do anything that isn't forbidden by law, so the only laws that cause a net gain in freedom are the ones that restrict actions that take away someone else's freedom.
I've got a Logitech mouse (LX7) that I probably bought about 8 years ago and still use every day at work. The rubber is starting to rot, but the mouse itself works like the day I bought it. The only Logitech mouse that I've had die is an MX310 that I bought in 2004, and that lasted until about 2010.
Something similar happened in my Super Nintendo. It blew an internal fuse. I replaced it with a fuse taken from an even less-functional system, and the same thing happened. I just bridged the gap with wire. Some resolutions work perfectly, but higher-res output won't display anything. My guess is that there are multiple bad capacitors on the board.
I hate using a stylus. I don't use multitouch often, but that's not what I see as the best feature of a capacitive screen anyhow. I like that I can lightly swipe a finger across the display and achieve a gesture. You just don't get the same ease of use with resistive touch. I can imagine that the extra precision would be necessary if you're remoting in to a desktop GUI, but that's outside my normal use-case for touch devices, personally.
Valve or individual game developers occasionally mark games as free, and they get pushed out to just about everyone with an account. The article noted that those titles have near-universal ownership but very low play times, since the freebies aren't usually what you choose when deciding what to play.
One time use codes aren't uncommon. They could give out codes that are useable either as a Steam/Amazon/Play store/whatever discount code, or via a mail-in rebate type of mechanism. Either that, or post a reusable code and take the gamble that you'll pull in more customers with the lower price than you'll lose in per-purchase profit margin.
The guy said "computer industry", but it was obvious that they were referring to undocumented changes in the hardware, and how that made trouble for people using OSes that couldn't use the manufacturer-provided drivers. It happens *all* the time in consumer-level hardware, especially when you're talking about a Chinese knock-off of something. Simple example: wifi adapters with multiple hardware revisions, all sold under the same product number.
Now, if you want to talk about the hardware engineers themselves rather than their products, then yes, the engineer building the thing has to have a fully-specified part, the behavior of which matches the datasheet and doesn't change.
You can't talk about those things interchangeably, like you were trying to. If someone's talking about a driver not working with a piece of hardware, first, they're talking about hardware. Second, they're talking about a consumer that an "invisible" hardware change impacted.
They wouldn't be what I'd call an "engineer", and maybe "programmer" would've been a better word than "developer". I certainly would've described myself as a programmer before I was out of high school. You're nitpicking word choice without addressing the point that I was trying to make: limitations suck, and someone using standard tools is going to be able to find more material to learn from, anyhow. If the choice is between having a bunch of Chromebooks or nothing, then that's an obvious choice. If there's another option available, then it's better to teach a student with something they'll be able to get help with on their own.
For Chromium OS, a guy called Hexxeh had some builds, but he seemed disappointed by the performance, so the port is on an indefinite hiatus. For the Chromium browser, I saw posts that indicated that it could be built for and run on the Pi. I haven't tried it, and I didn't try to find binaries. For Chrome itself (browser and OS), Google doesn't seem to have produced appropriate binaries.
And then you've got a developer used to being tied into that web app for anything they want to do. "Certainly not impossible" doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. A cheap computer that's suitable for learning programming isn't a very high bar, and there are a lot of options.
"Should", maybe. But you know it won't. It's a "not our problem" situation; Google's got egg on their face, not the hardware manufacturers. Only the people that actually look bad are going to have any pressure to fix the problem.
It's a multilayered thing. I'd say that the U.S. population is made up of the misfits and cast-offs from other countries, and as a result has very different cultural leanings than other countries. Those leanings are wonderful tools for the sociopaths that run our corporations. "Supporting others is welfare/socialism, and that's (dun dun DUN) Communism!". Or maybe "The government is taking away your right to free choice! Isn't that why you left [country of origin]?!"
People with power and influence play the rest of the population like fiddles. Those in power decided that (at least in the short term) government-controlled health care would be bad for profits, so they play on the unique insecurities inherent to American culture to achieve their goals.
To give something a fair shake is to give it a fair chance. It started off around 1830 as an American colloquialism meaning "an honest deal", but the meaning has shifted.
What I saw was that you made an obvious statement, then got upset at another user that made a similarly-obvious statement. I comprehend that you're being kind of a hypocritical ass, but I'm not quite sure why.
Months:
Just For Memory, A Mouse Jumps Jelly And Somebody Orange Never Diets. Jelly Frogs March About My Jelly Jungle Almost Slipping Onto Neighbour's Doormat Jammy Fingers Might Annoy My Jealous Jumping Auntie So Ought Not Dance Jumping Frogs Might Annoy Me Just Joking About Skipping Over Napping Daddy Jane Found Michael And Martin Juggling Jelly And Sprinkles Outside Nelly's Door
Then, of course, there are mnemonics for even shorter lists of words, used by much more educated people as learning tools.
OK, yes, this is a political topic....about Australia. Immediately turning the discussion to U.S. politics with an inflammatory comment was a wonderful troll move.
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I can fill a fossil fuel vehicle in 5 minutes. A level-3 charger (running at 480V and 125A) will take half an hour to get a Leaf to 80%. Most stations are level-2, which takes a good bit longer. In many cases, it won't make a practical difference, but it's disingenuous to try to say that there's no difference in capability between gas and electric vehicles.
Oops, forgot to mention: The article lists the estimated production price on the new buggy to be $150k-$175k apiece. It'd be interesting to see a cost analysis of the price to buy, feed, stable, and replace a horse compared to the price to buy, maintain, park, and replace one of the new carriages.
I see a parallel between the carriage situation and emulating game systems. You get the same practical value (playing the game/scenic carriage ride through Central Park), but you lose the little inconveniences that make the experience special. Oddly enough, the "clip-clop" and stepping over horse manure to get into the carriage are part of what I wanted to pay for, just like I want to swab out old game cartridges and cross the room to hit the reset button when I get frustrated with a tough level.
"Received" is used in one of the older senses of the word, roughly synonymous with "accepted" or "approved".
Are they non-standard degree names, or something like Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering? Did you get any job experience, or just plow through a bunch of degrees? Are you looking for jobs in an area with a high demand for your specialties? Experience in academic programming is worlds apart from experience in corporate software engineering. Beyond 4 years of school, if you don't have any work experience, your CV makes you look like an academic (or worse yet, a "professional student").
Clauses against reverse engineering are nearly ubiquitous in (non-open) software. Amusingly, Origin's EULA, Popcap's EULA, Plants vs. Zombies' EULA, and Steam's EULA all forbid reverse-engineering of the code that each agreement applies to. It seems that you may have some kind of double-standard with software, AC.
Let's be honest here... you want to work 8am - 5pm with an hour lunch, get paid over $60k a year (more in higher standard states), get bonuses and have a nice cushy job? That's absurd.
Absurd? It describes my current work situation closely. Well, if you exclude the pay and hours; my pay is in the ballpark of yours, and my hours aren't as rigid as "8-5 with an hour lunch". Still, there's always something better and always something worse. It's important to be able to find satisfaction in whatever job you're doing, and you seem to have done that just fine.
The 24th amendment to the consitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 both come to mind (although the amendment was ratified January 23rd, 1964, so it's a few months over 50 years). I agree with the statement that our laws tend to restrict rights much more than they grant them, though. In theory, you've got the right to do anything that isn't forbidden by law, so the only laws that cause a net gain in freedom are the ones that restrict actions that take away someone else's freedom.
I've got a Logitech mouse (LX7) that I probably bought about 8 years ago and still use every day at work. The rubber is starting to rot, but the mouse itself works like the day I bought it. The only Logitech mouse that I've had die is an MX310 that I bought in 2004, and that lasted until about 2010.
Something similar happened in my Super Nintendo. It blew an internal fuse. I replaced it with a fuse taken from an even less-functional system, and the same thing happened. I just bridged the gap with wire. Some resolutions work perfectly, but higher-res output won't display anything. My guess is that there are multiple bad capacitors on the board.
I hate using a stylus. I don't use multitouch often, but that's not what I see as the best feature of a capacitive screen anyhow. I like that I can lightly swipe a finger across the display and achieve a gesture. You just don't get the same ease of use with resistive touch. I can imagine that the extra precision would be necessary if you're remoting in to a desktop GUI, but that's outside my normal use-case for touch devices, personally.
Valve or individual game developers occasionally mark games as free, and they get pushed out to just about everyone with an account. The article noted that those titles have near-universal ownership but very low play times, since the freebies aren't usually what you choose when deciding what to play.
One time use codes aren't uncommon. They could give out codes that are useable either as a Steam/Amazon/Play store/whatever discount code, or via a mail-in rebate type of mechanism. Either that, or post a reusable code and take the gamble that you'll pull in more customers with the lower price than you'll lose in per-purchase profit margin.
To watch the whole show from start to finish, your moon gazing should begin at 10:20 p.m. PDT
(FTA). OK, so maybe they should've included the information in the summary too. If it starts at 22:20 PDT, then it's starting at 01:20 EDT.
The guy said "computer industry", but it was obvious that they were referring to undocumented changes in the hardware, and how that made trouble for people using OSes that couldn't use the manufacturer-provided drivers. It happens *all* the time in consumer-level hardware, especially when you're talking about a Chinese knock-off of something. Simple example: wifi adapters with multiple hardware revisions, all sold under the same product number.
Now, if you want to talk about the hardware engineers themselves rather than their products, then yes, the engineer building the thing has to have a fully-specified part, the behavior of which matches the datasheet and doesn't change.
You can't talk about those things interchangeably, like you were trying to. If someone's talking about a driver not working with a piece of hardware, first, they're talking about hardware. Second, they're talking about a consumer that an "invisible" hardware change impacted.
The post you replied to was talking about hardware, not software.
They wouldn't be what I'd call an "engineer", and maybe "programmer" would've been a better word than "developer". I certainly would've described myself as a programmer before I was out of high school. You're nitpicking word choice without addressing the point that I was trying to make: limitations suck, and someone using standard tools is going to be able to find more material to learn from, anyhow. If the choice is between having a bunch of Chromebooks or nothing, then that's an obvious choice. If there's another option available, then it's better to teach a student with something they'll be able to get help with on their own.
For Chromium OS, a guy called Hexxeh had some builds, but he seemed disappointed by the performance, so the port is on an indefinite hiatus. For the Chromium browser, I saw posts that indicated that it could be built for and run on the Pi. I haven't tried it, and I didn't try to find binaries. For Chrome itself (browser and OS), Google doesn't seem to have produced appropriate binaries.
And then you've got a developer used to being tied into that web app for anything they want to do. "Certainly not impossible" doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. A cheap computer that's suitable for learning programming isn't a very high bar, and there are a lot of options.
"Should", maybe. But you know it won't. It's a "not our problem" situation; Google's got egg on their face, not the hardware manufacturers. Only the people that actually look bad are going to have any pressure to fix the problem.
It's a multilayered thing. I'd say that the U.S. population is made up of the misfits and cast-offs from other countries, and as a result has very different cultural leanings than other countries. Those leanings are wonderful tools for the sociopaths that run our corporations. "Supporting others is welfare/socialism, and that's (dun dun DUN) Communism!". Or maybe "The government is taking away your right to free choice! Isn't that why you left [country of origin]?!"
People with power and influence play the rest of the population like fiddles. Those in power decided that (at least in the short term) government-controlled health care would be bad for profits, so they play on the unique insecurities inherent to American culture to achieve their goals.
To give something a fair shake is to give it a fair chance. It started off around 1830 as an American colloquialism meaning "an honest deal", but the meaning has shifted.
What I saw was that you made an obvious statement, then got upset at another user that made a similarly-obvious statement. I comprehend that you're being kind of a hypocritical ass, but I'm not quite sure why.
Months:
Just For Memory, A Mouse Jumps Jelly And Somebody Orange Never Diets.
Jelly Frogs March About My Jelly Jungle Almost Slipping Onto Neighbour's Doormat
Jammy Fingers Might Annoy My Jealous Jumping Auntie So Ought Not Dance
Jumping Frogs Might Annoy Me Just Joking About Skipping Over Napping Daddy
Jane Found Michael And Martin Juggling Jelly And Sprinkles Outside Nelly's Door
Then, of course, there are mnemonics for even shorter lists of words, used by much more educated people as learning tools.
OK, yes, this is a political topic....about Australia. Immediately turning the discussion to U.S. politics with an inflammatory comment was a wonderful troll move.