If you bought it from Amazon, try returning it.
My Nexus 5x died about six months ago after owning it for 18 months, and Amazon gave me a full refund (after some discussion about it being a known unresolved design fault, so I didn't want a repair). I then took the money and bought a Pixel XL, and it effectively cost me nothing.
Yep, both Nexus 5x's in my household bootlooped, one after almost exactly a year, the other after ~18 months. We had the first one repaired, but for the second I managed to get a full refund (!) from Amazon and bought a Pixel XL from somewhere else on a good deal, costing me a net £20.
Lots of negative things can be said about Amazon, but their willingness to accept returns/refunds does make me think twice about buying from elsewhere, even if Amazon is slightly more expensive.
A guinea pig is a mammal and on some biological level, I feel a connection to it—but a spider is an insect, with an insect brain, and I feel almost no connection to it. The alien-ness of a tarantula is what gives me the willies. To test this and remove other factors, if there are two guinea pigs, one normal one and one with the mind of a tarantula, I would feel much less comfortable holding the latter guinea pig, even if I knew neither would hurt me.
Now imagine that you made a spider much, much smarter—so much so that it far surpassed human intelligence? Would it then become familiar to us and feel human emotions like empathy and humor and love? No, it wouldn’t, because there’s no reason becoming smarter would make it more human—it would be incredibly smart but also still fundamentally a spider in its core inner workings. I find this unbelievably creepy. I would not want to spend time with a superintelligent spider. Would you??
I agree, and it reminds me of this quote, from the essay "On Being the Right Size" by J. B. S. Haldane:
You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.
Treat them properly and they don't cry, why should they?
My kid cried this morning because I gave her a drink in the "wrong" cup. She cried yesterday because she didn't know what she wanted for breakfast. She cried the other week because I stopped her from poking herself in the eye with her fork.
What would make you think that miniaturizing supercapacitors would in any way improve their energy density?
My understanding is that decreasing size and increasing energy density are linked because creating better ways to build better nanostructures underpins both aspects.
they could store enough charge to run the phone for days or even weeks.
Not true. Even the best supercaps have an energy density far lower than batteries.
Not true right now, but the article is all about miniaturising supercaps. Miniaturising supercaps to chip-scale could, in theory, massively increase the energy density such that it exceeds that of Lithium batteries. That still looks like it's a long way off though.
Basically, a supercapacitor on a chip could be the next generation "battery" everyone is seeking for mobile phones etc.
If this were true, manufacturers would be using existing discrete supercapacitors in phones; but they aren't, are they?
Any existing supercap which stores enough energy to power a phone for a day or more is much too bulky to fit inside a phone, so miniaturising supercaps would bring new applications.
Basically, a supercapacitor on a chip could be the next generation "battery" everyone is seeking for mobile phones etc. They would have the advantage of charging in a couple of minutes (or even quicker), and they could store enough charge to run the phone for days or even weeks.
You're just restating what it means to be "brighter". To remove the surprise you have to find a mundane explanation for the difference in albedo.
The surprise should be removed by the fact that we've known each body's albedo for decades. I was surprised that the a space scientist working on DSCOVR wasn't aware of the differences in albedo, or was aware but hadn't actually pictured the difference in his mind. It just seems odd for someone in his position to be surprised by this.
“It is surprising how much brighter Earth is than the moon,” said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Our planet is a truly brilliant object in dark space compared to the lunar surface.”
The Moon has an albedo of about 0.1 (similar to coal), while Earth's albedo is three times greater, so this isn't really very surprising at all.
I agree the wages are absurd, but the fact is that Fox make an obscene amount of money out of The Simpsons, and it's only fair that a healthy chunk of that dosh goes to the people involved in actually making the programme.
It's the same with the football Premier League here in the UK. We have players that are paid £250,000 every week for several hours work (at most), and most people find that abhorrent. But that fact is that millions of people either pay the extortionate ticket prices, or pay Sky £50 a month in order to watch what these players are doing. All that money has to go somewhere, and it's only fair that a healthy chunk goes to the people actually playing the game that the public are will to collectively pay so much money to watch.
Whatever doesn't go to the people directly involved in the content ends up with someone even less deserving.
Of course, the people earning these massive sums could donate a large percentage of it to charity without even noticing. Feel free to blame them for not doing that:o)
I zoomed all the way in to the very far right of the image and with an incredibly crude estimation, determined there were about 10,000 stars displayed on my monitor. At the darkest part of the image. Whats weird is how close together they look. How come everything looks so far away from us?
The billions of tiny stars are actually nowhere near as large as they look in the picture. They are points of light that have been smudged out into little blobs by the image capturing process. The brighter the star the bigger the blob - that's why the nearer, brighter stars look much bigger, when in fact they are also virtually point sources at this scale.
Here's another good one - if you could heat a pinhead here on Earth to the same temperature as the Sun's core (about 15 million Kelvin), it would incinerate everything within a 100km (60 mile) radius.
We've also given you Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers, the Prodigy, Massive Attack, Orbital, Underworld, Faithless etc. etc., all of which could be classed as (or at the very least have been heavily influenced by) electronic dance music. If you haven't heard of any of these, that's your loss.
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If you bought it from Amazon, try returning it. My Nexus 5x died about six months ago after owning it for 18 months, and Amazon gave me a full refund (after some discussion about it being a known unresolved design fault, so I didn't want a repair). I then took the money and bought a Pixel XL, and it effectively cost me nothing.
Yep, both Nexus 5x's in my household bootlooped, one after almost exactly a year, the other after ~18 months. We had the first one repaired, but for the second I managed to get a full refund (!) from Amazon and bought a Pixel XL from somewhere else on a good deal, costing me a net £20.
Lots of negative things can be said about Amazon, but their willingness to accept returns/refunds does make me think twice about buying from elsewhere, even if Amazon is slightly more expensive.
A guinea pig is a mammal and on some biological level, I feel a connection to it—but a spider is an insect, with an insect brain, and I feel almost no connection to it. The alien-ness of a tarantula is what gives me the willies. To test this and remove other factors, if there are two guinea pigs, one normal one and one with the mind of a tarantula, I would feel much less comfortable holding the latter guinea pig, even if I knew neither would hurt me.
Now imagine that you made a spider much, much smarter—so much so that it far surpassed human intelligence? Would it then become familiar to us and feel human emotions like empathy and humor and love? No, it wouldn’t, because there’s no reason becoming smarter would make it more human—it would be incredibly smart but also still fundamentally a spider in its core inner workings. I find this unbelievably creepy. I would not want to spend time with a superintelligent spider. Would you??
Came here to say the same thing. The headline makes no sense whatsoever.
You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.
Dark chocolate still has sugar in. It doesn't have milk in like milk chocolate.
True, but it usually has significantly less - it depends how bitter you like your dark chocolate.
Also, some of the sugar in milk chocolate actually comes from the milk (milk is about 5% sugar IIRC).
The company added that it will also ban any sales of its products by third-party sellers on Amazon
Can they actually do that?
Treat them properly and they don't cry, why should they?
My kid cried this morning because I gave her a drink in the "wrong" cup. She cried yesterday because she didn't know what she wanted for breakfast. She cried the other week because I stopped her from poking herself in the eye with her fork.
Shame on me for treating her improperly :o)
Earlier this month, it was reported Twitter blocked U.S. intelligence agencies from having access to a widely used data mining service it partly owns.
What's that got to do with the 140 character limit?
What would make you think that miniaturizing supercapacitors would in any way improve their energy density?
My understanding is that decreasing size and increasing energy density are linked because creating better ways to build better nanostructures underpins both aspects.
they could store enough charge to run the phone for days or even weeks.
Not true. Even the best supercaps have an energy density far lower than batteries.
Not true right now, but the article is all about miniaturising supercaps. Miniaturising supercaps to chip-scale could, in theory, massively increase the energy density such that it exceeds that of Lithium batteries. That still looks like it's a long way off though.
Basically, a supercapacitor on a chip could be the next generation "battery" everyone is seeking for mobile phones etc.
If this were true, manufacturers would be using existing discrete supercapacitors in phones; but they aren't, are they?
Any existing supercap which stores enough energy to power a phone for a day or more is much too bulky to fit inside a phone, so miniaturising supercaps would bring new applications.
Basically, a supercapacitor on a chip could be the next generation "battery" everyone is seeking for mobile phones etc. They would have the advantage of charging in a couple of minutes (or even quicker), and they could store enough charge to run the phone for days or even weeks.
You're just restating what it means to be "brighter". To remove the surprise you have to find a mundane explanation for the difference in albedo.
The surprise should be removed by the fact that we've known each body's albedo for decades. I was surprised that the a space scientist working on DSCOVR wasn't aware of the differences in albedo, or was aware but hadn't actually pictured the difference in his mind. It just seems odd for someone in his position to be surprised by this.
“It is surprising how much brighter Earth is than the moon,” said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Our planet is a truly brilliant object in dark space compared to the lunar surface.”
The Moon has an albedo of about 0.1 (similar to coal), while Earth's albedo is three times greater, so this isn't really very surprising at all.
I agree the wages are absurd, but the fact is that Fox make an obscene amount of money out of The Simpsons, and it's only fair that a healthy chunk of that dosh goes to the people involved in actually making the programme.
It's the same with the football Premier League here in the UK. We have players that are paid £250,000 every week for several hours work (at most), and most people find that abhorrent. But that fact is that millions of people either pay the extortionate ticket prices, or pay Sky £50 a month in order to watch what these players are doing. All that money has to go somewhere, and it's only fair that a healthy chunk goes to the people actually playing the game that the public are will to collectively pay so much money to watch.
Whatever doesn't go to the people directly involved in the content ends up with someone even less deserving.
Of course, the people earning these massive sums could donate a large percentage of it to charity without even noticing. Feel free to blame them for not doing that :o)
IIRC, the conclusion was that it would be status LEDs on space probes or radiation glow from buried nuclear waste.
Why would space probes have status LEDs? Think about it.
Better to live under a Sharia theocracy than a tyrannical nanny state.
Don't they pretty much amount to the same thing?
I zoomed all the way in to the very far right of the image and with an incredibly crude estimation, determined there were about 10,000 stars displayed on my monitor. At the darkest part of the image. Whats weird is how close together they look. How come everything looks so far away from us?
The billions of tiny stars are actually nowhere near as large as they look in the picture. They are points of light that have been smudged out into little blobs by the image capturing process. The brighter the star the bigger the blob - that's why the nearer, brighter stars look much bigger, when in fact they are also virtually point sources at this scale.
His first post I can't find in the time I have, is intense as well as much longer.
Here it is.
Hmm, I wonder how many phones are valuable.
FWIW I have a Moto G running CM11, and it is vulnerable. I checked with this test:
env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"
Someone further down reckons that this can be exploited via a DHCP request, if you are connected to a malicous AP for example. Scary stuff.
Here's another good one - if you could heat a pinhead here on Earth to the same temperature as the Sun's core (about 15 million Kelvin), it would incinerate everything within a 100km (60 mile) radius.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."
-- Dr. Ian Malcolm
There's a trend today towards removing long running 'advanced' functionality in order to give the appearance of simplicity.
Very true. Google Maps on Android is a prime example.
We've also given you Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers, the Prodigy, Massive Attack, Orbital, Underworld, Faithless etc. etc., all of which could be classed as (or at the very least have been heavily influenced by) electronic dance music. If you haven't heard of any of these, that's your loss.