To me, this is the distinction between old and new media... old media had a handful of editors, many who collaborated, carefully crafting each day's message. Certainly new media places throttles and controls on the flow of information, but it's more of a general shaping of the flow rather than a 98% lock-down control of access. Any group you want to trade information with is now accessible, without physical travel or $20/hr domestic long-distance fees. Certainly the new "big media" companies still control the front page, but they don't limit the depth of the conversation, or the spread of its availability (great firewall and other exceptions notable, but much more rare today than in 1980.)
And, I live and drive in Florida... most days less than 30 miles, but on weekends we do actually travel more than 120 miles in a single trip at least one time a month.
When ambient temp is over 100F, and the temperature on the black asphalt can reach 130F easily, I'd be quite concerned if the batteries aren't actively thermally managed.
So, if that range capacity drops to less than 120 miles at 60mph, it's going to hurt our common weekend plans.
LiFe batteries and steel cage bodies are going to keep the cost of electric cars rather high for a long time.
What made DVD players cheap was that the components required are teeny tiny, the cost of complexity drops much faster than the cost of bulk raw materials and energy required to process the materials into usable form.
I'm waiting to see what the real battery life of these low cost electric cars is... not just range when new, but miles driven until that range has deteriorated to something unacceptable.
So you're saying slow code runs faster on a fast machine, than fast code on a slow machine?
You're not really going out on a limb, there.
Exactly... from the exposure I've had, it also seems that the "fastest computers in the world" are often used to run really poorly written code. Sure, you could take the time to optimize the code, but when you've got access to Petaflops - why bother?
Taking C code, compiling it with Emscripten into JavaScript, then running the result in a modern JavaScript implementation will give you faster code than taking the same C code and compiling it with a C compiler form 10-20 years ago.
Taking the same function, implementing it in interpreted BASIC and running it in a modern implementation will give you faster code than implementing the same function in the most optimized assembly code from 10, especially 20 years ago.
We don't measure CPU clocks in single digit MHz anymore.
Popularity on Stack Overflow indicates people having problems using the language not already addressed in other forums - older languages like C will suffer here.
Popularity on GitHub indicates people wanting to share their code, usually in open-source form... not the best indicator of what people who work for a paycheck are using.
Where do "languages" like LabView and PLC fit into this scheme? I mean, if they're tracking TypeScript...
Well, if you've got a bad taste from BoA, why not try switching? We've been happy with PNC, and similarly happy with the GM Card through Household bank before that (until we realized that we are likely NEVER going to buy another new car again, and if we do it probably won't be a GM, so that $5K perk balance was actually worthless.)
Same here, I secure my card by handing it to waiters in restaurants who disappear with it, using it in retail stores where employee turnover is atrocious, and shopping on the internet. About once every 4 years (on average) we get a charge we didn't make on the bill, we tell the company ASAP and it gets reversed and we get a new card number.
We were included in the recent Target and Home Depot attacks, nothing happened until about a month ago, then we got a $900 charge from COSTCO - impressive since we don't have a membership.
...I'm hoping that there's enough interest in the project and goes ahead, that the ecosystem thrives and other CPU-cards based on free designs like OpenRISC or RISC-V will be produced in the future.
"Workflows" which can vary from "I trained on this other thing, so it's easier for me" all the way through "there is NO way to do this operation without 17 separate steps, repeated by hand 500 times in the BAD choice, while the GOOD choice enables you to get it done with easy to remember, naturally flowing operations that it automatically records into a macro for you and then you just point it at a folder and it repeats it on every image in the folder."
I haven't used Photoshop since the 1990s versions, new GIMP is better than _that_, but I'm not "up" on the latest Adobe excuses for charging $700 per seat license fees.
You can re-bribe the pre-bribed and swing them around to your point of view. Sometimes you need to hold a public referendum, which is sort of the ultimate bribe where you have to go out with advertising and convince the public to vote for what you want.
They can seize your phone but can't compel you to decrypt it.
I sincerely believe that some of the increase in quality of police officers (yes, I know, hard to see lately) is attributable to TSA being a place where "bad cops" can go and not get tossed out with a psych profile. Which is leading up to: TSA may not be able to legally compel you to do much, but they are empowered to detain, and that can be enough sometimes.
If you'd rather not be detained, for an arbitrary amount of time deemed "necessary" by the officers at the scene, be prepared to play nice. In the case of phones, that would probably mean keeping anything you want stealthed, stealthed without being "in your face, the whole thing is encrypted suckah! what'cha gonna do 'bout it?"
If performance is anything like http://maruos.com/ on the Nexus 5... no thanks, I can get that performance from Raspbian on $60 worth of Pi + $20 for Keyboard and mouse.
If the government didn't mind the transactions, then it wouldn't be laundering, it would just be obscure. When you've got "bad" transactions that are made obscure, that becomes laundering.
Think of it like resisting arrest - if nobody's trying to arrest you, then it's O.K. to run from the cops - as long as you don't look too guilty while you're doing it, otherwise, they'll assume you've done something bad and try to stop you.
Evidence based medicine is founded on clinical studies
Most, current evidence based medicine is, but more and more "SQL queries" are making their way into the researchers' input data pool - it's not just CDC anymore.
It's actually quite sad what proportion of "work" that goes on in a hospital is focused on serving the reimbursement bureaucracy, but there is some patient care and even research happening there too.
Yes, I suppose if you put your mind and wallet to it, you could access all the paywalled medical journals and learn navigate the system of publications to find what's relevant to your particular medical need. If you took that a step further and gave yourself a "full workup" examination, you, too, would have found your hernia - that's standard practice dating back 50 years or more.
The point is, doctors do this daily, they're practiced, and they have a fair idea about common problems and how to spot them - you should go through the "front line" of diagnosis of common problems, like hernia, before digging deeper into the latest research. But, when you fall into the group of people with medical needs that aren't adequately addressed with common, front line diagnosis and treatments, that's where the new stuff becomes valuable. Things that would have gotten a shrug of the shoulders and Rx for some pain killers last year might actually be treatable today. I remember in 1991, a colleague had ulcers, and his doctor was stuck firmly in 1989, telling him to avoid food and drink that irritate the ulcers and basically hope they'll go away on their own - thing was, in 1990 they published the causal connection between H.pylori and common ulcers, making them curable with a short course of antibiotics, which is common practice today, but his doctor wasn't "up on these things" so he was left to suffer.
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Or, FlappyBird.
To me, this is the distinction between old and new media... old media had a handful of editors, many who collaborated, carefully crafting each day's message. Certainly new media places throttles and controls on the flow of information, but it's more of a general shaping of the flow rather than a 98% lock-down control of access. Any group you want to trade information with is now accessible, without physical travel or $20/hr domestic long-distance fees. Certainly the new "big media" companies still control the front page, but they don't limit the depth of the conversation, or the spread of its availability (great firewall and other exceptions notable, but much more rare today than in 1980.)
Click the link, watch the video - If, Loop, etc. was illustrated.
Not sure the carbon-balance is there, ice costs quite a bit of energy to make.
Personally, I like the "cool seats", but most of those are air-circulators - which don't seem like they're going to have really good longevity.
$200 to $150 isn't exactly the bottom falling out of the price, the way DVD players went from $200 to $20 in the space of 5 years.
And, I live and drive in Florida... most days less than 30 miles, but on weekends we do actually travel more than 120 miles in a single trip at least one time a month.
When ambient temp is over 100F, and the temperature on the black asphalt can reach 130F easily, I'd be quite concerned if the batteries aren't actively thermally managed.
So, if that range capacity drops to less than 120 miles at 60mph, it's going to hurt our common weekend plans.
Shocking disconnect from the high capacity of Elon's funds.
LiFe batteries and steel cage bodies are going to keep the cost of electric cars rather high for a long time.
What made DVD players cheap was that the components required are teeny tiny, the cost of complexity drops much faster than the cost of bulk raw materials and energy required to process the materials into usable form.
I'm waiting to see what the real battery life of these low cost electric cars is... not just range when new, but miles driven until that range has deteriorated to something unacceptable.
So you're saying slow code runs faster on a fast machine, than fast code on a slow machine?
You're not really going out on a limb, there.
Exactly... from the exposure I've had, it also seems that the "fastest computers in the world" are often used to run really poorly written code. Sure, you could take the time to optimize the code, but when you've got access to Petaflops - why bother?
Taking C code, compiling it with Emscripten into JavaScript, then running the result in a modern JavaScript implementation will give you faster code than taking the same C code and compiling it with a C compiler form 10-20 years ago.
Taking the same function, implementing it in interpreted BASIC and running it in a modern implementation will give you faster code than implementing the same function in the most optimized assembly code from 10, especially 20 years ago.
We don't measure CPU clocks in single digit MHz anymore.
It is very close to C and other "close to the machine" languages.
Getting closer all the time, and still never quite there.
Popularity on Stack Overflow indicates people having problems using the language not already addressed in other forums - older languages like C will suffer here.
Popularity on GitHub indicates people wanting to share their code, usually in open-source form... not the best indicator of what people who work for a paycheck are using.
Where do "languages" like LabView and PLC fit into this scheme? I mean, if they're tracking TypeScript...
Well, if you've got a bad taste from BoA, why not try switching? We've been happy with PNC, and similarly happy with the GM Card through Household bank before that (until we realized that we are likely NEVER going to buy another new car again, and if we do it probably won't be a GM, so that $5K perk balance was actually worthless.)
Same here, I secure my card by handing it to waiters in restaurants who disappear with it, using it in retail stores where employee turnover is atrocious, and shopping on the internet. About once every 4 years (on average) we get a charge we didn't make on the bill, we tell the company ASAP and it gets reversed and we get a new card number.
We were included in the recent Target and Home Depot attacks, nothing happened until about a month ago, then we got a $900 charge from COSTCO - impressive since we don't have a membership.
...I'm hoping that there's enough interest in the project and goes ahead, that the ecosystem thrives and other CPU-cards based on free designs like OpenRISC or RISC-V will be produced in the future.
What, you don't like SoftBank's ownership of ARM?
"Workflows" which can vary from "I trained on this other thing, so it's easier for me" all the way through "there is NO way to do this operation without 17 separate steps, repeated by hand 500 times in the BAD choice, while the GOOD choice enables you to get it done with easy to remember, naturally flowing operations that it automatically records into a macro for you and then you just point it at a folder and it repeats it on every image in the folder."
I haven't used Photoshop since the 1990s versions, new GIMP is better than _that_, but I'm not "up" on the latest Adobe excuses for charging $700 per seat license fees.
You can re-bribe the pre-bribed and swing them around to your point of view. Sometimes you need to hold a public referendum, which is sort of the ultimate bribe where you have to go out with advertising and convince the public to vote for what you want.
They can seize your phone but can't compel you to decrypt it.
I sincerely believe that some of the increase in quality of police officers (yes, I know, hard to see lately) is attributable to TSA being a place where "bad cops" can go and not get tossed out with a psych profile. Which is leading up to: TSA may not be able to legally compel you to do much, but they are empowered to detain, and that can be enough sometimes.
If you'd rather not be detained, for an arbitrary amount of time deemed "necessary" by the officers at the scene, be prepared to play nice. In the case of phones, that would probably mean keeping anything you want stealthed, stealthed without being "in your face, the whole thing is encrypted suckah! what'cha gonna do 'bout it?"
Maybe it was a "special sale", but I recently saw a Pi3 + 2A power supply + class 10 memory card + case + HDMI cable for $57... BYOKMM.
If performance is anything like http://maruos.com/ on the Nexus 5... no thanks, I can get that performance from Raspbian on $60 worth of Pi + $20 for Keyboard and mouse.
If the government didn't mind the transactions, then it wouldn't be laundering, it would just be obscure. When you've got "bad" transactions that are made obscure, that becomes laundering.
Think of it like resisting arrest - if nobody's trying to arrest you, then it's O.K. to run from the cops - as long as you don't look too guilty while you're doing it, otherwise, they'll assume you've done something bad and try to stop you.
Evidence based medicine is founded on clinical studies
Most, current evidence based medicine is, but more and more "SQL queries" are making their way into the researchers' input data pool - it's not just CDC anymore.
It's actually quite sad what proportion of "work" that goes on in a hospital is focused on serving the reimbursement bureaucracy, but there is some patient care and even research happening there too.
Yes, I suppose if you put your mind and wallet to it, you could access all the paywalled medical journals and learn navigate the system of publications to find what's relevant to your particular medical need. If you took that a step further and gave yourself a "full workup" examination, you, too, would have found your hernia - that's standard practice dating back 50 years or more.
The point is, doctors do this daily, they're practiced, and they have a fair idea about common problems and how to spot them - you should go through the "front line" of diagnosis of common problems, like hernia, before digging deeper into the latest research. But, when you fall into the group of people with medical needs that aren't adequately addressed with common, front line diagnosis and treatments, that's where the new stuff becomes valuable. Things that would have gotten a shrug of the shoulders and Rx for some pain killers last year might actually be treatable today. I remember in 1991, a colleague had ulcers, and his doctor was stuck firmly in 1989, telling him to avoid food and drink that irritate the ulcers and basically hope they'll go away on their own - thing was, in 1990 they published the causal connection between H.pylori and common ulcers, making them curable with a short course of antibiotics, which is common practice today, but his doctor wasn't "up on these things" so he was left to suffer.
Amazon plans to lease the lamp post space, cost of electricity factored into the lease.