Modern vending machines use software to distinguish between different coins and I'm sure upgrading the firmware once would be a lot cheaper than forever including $1 bill reading mechanisms in the machines.
As for "how long would it take?"...here in Europe the complete switch over from local currency to Euros took about three days. The shops had instructions to only give change in Euros so once you spent the money in your pocket that was it.
(But you also lose braking/cornering ability...not that American car designers seem overly-concerned with that - I think they only put big tires on American cars because consumers prefer them).
SImple: Less tire area in contact with the road = less friction. Adding camber reduces that contact area.
The guy in the article claims to have invented a tire which doesn't wear out so fast when you put camber in your suspension. That's what this is all about (reading comprehension!)
Because most web languages were designed for people who think HTML is 'coding'
Seriously though...because dynamic languages are quite well suited to programs which run for a millisend or so then terminate, and no real need for complex data storage/manipulation.
Itanium failed because it used a VLIW architecture - great for specialized processing tasks on big machines but for general purpose computing (ie. what 99.9% of people do) it wasn't much faster than x86.
Are computers really 'too slow' now? It seems to me that an x64 desktop at 3GHz is fast enough for just about anything a normal person would do. The only "normal task" I can think of that's too slow at the moment is decoding x264 video on netbooks and they're better off with a little hardware decoder tacked on than a mega-CPU upgrade.
Games are more constrained by RAM and GPU than CPU at the moment. RAM and GPUs are catching up fast and game logic is a good target for parallel processing - more cores is the way to go (by that I mean "will be cheaper/easier than making the existing cores faster").
For almost everything else, more cores and better software would give much more of a boost then making individual cores faster.
At the end of the day the deciding factor will be simple economics: If a process/factory costs $X then Intel has to sell $Y chips to justify it.
Expensive chips are going to be an increasingly harder sell. I can get a decent quad core for $100 now and soon it will be more like $50.
If only 0.005% of people are buying the $1000 chips then the factories aren't going to be built.
A million teenagers are rubbing their hands with glee and filling their friend's (or enemy's) mailboxes with "Are you dead yet?" messages as we speak.
What we really need is for Facebook to automatically hide accounts if you don't access them for 90 days. After six months without access they should be permanently deleted.
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Modern machines require you to hum at the same time and they're keyed to your voice.
Did you know that one of the conditions of probation is often that you're not allowed to drink? Yowza!
the punishment really can be life destroying
You talk like people have no choice about getting drunk...
If you're a convicted criminal with special interlock system in your car then maybe you can drive in the right hand lane like the truckers do.
I'm sure they'll come up with a place for you to insert the coins.
Besides, lots of heavy coins would make underwear droop downwards - more coins=more droop!
So long as the slot is big enough for the biggest note then what does it matter?
nb. Compare the size of a crumpled banknote with a new one - the crumpled on is smaller! Oh, noes...!
Modern vending machines use software to distinguish between different coins and I'm sure upgrading the firmware once would be a lot cheaper than forever including $1 bill reading mechanisms in the machines.
As for "how long would it take?"...here in Europe the complete switch over from local currency to Euros took about three days. The shops had instructions to only give change in Euros so once you spent the money in your pocket that was it.
I'm betting they'll even have a cross on the ground for tourists to stand on and take photos.
Right next to the souvenir shop.
My friend went to Africa and at the Equator there's some guys who demonstrate the Coriolis Effect with a funnel and a bucket of water...a couple of paces to either side of the white line on the road.
And yes, it really works!
Fixing pinball machines is expensive...
Yes.
(But you also lose braking/cornering ability...not that American car designers seem overly-concerned with that - I think they only put big tires on American cars because consumers prefer them).
SImple: Less tire area in contact with the road = less friction. Adding camber reduces that contact area.
The guy in the article claims to have invented a tire which doesn't wear out so fast when you put camber in your suspension. That's what this is all about (reading comprehension!)
Um, I think you misspelled "not WiFi, period".
The waves. They do nothing.
It's all about vectors, not positions. The sim. looked fine to me.
The first two were OK but when the Ewoks appeared it was clear where this was going...
Why not compare it to, say, the Apple Newton. That would make a lot more sense.
Because most web languages were designed for people who think HTML is 'coding'
Seriously though...because dynamic languages are quite well suited to programs which run for a millisend or so then terminate, and no real need for complex data storage/manipulation.
Itanium failed because it used a VLIW architecture - great for specialized processing tasks on big machines but for general purpose computing (ie. what 99.9% of people do) it wasn't much faster than x86.
Are computers really 'too slow' now? It seems to me that an x64 desktop at 3GHz is fast enough for just about anything a normal person would do. The only "normal task" I can think of that's too slow at the moment is decoding x264 video on netbooks and they're better off with a little hardware decoder tacked on than a mega-CPU upgrade.
Games are more constrained by RAM and GPU than CPU at the moment. RAM and GPUs are catching up fast and game logic is a good target for parallel processing - more cores is the way to go (by that I mean "will be cheaper/easier than making the existing cores faster").
For almost everything else, more cores and better software would give much more of a boost then making individual cores faster.
At the end of the day the deciding factor will be simple economics: If a process/factory costs $X then Intel has to sell $Y chips to justify it.
Expensive chips are going to be an increasingly harder sell. I can get a decent quad core for $100 now and soon it will be more like $50.
If only 0.005% of people are buying the $1000 chips then the factories aren't going to be built.
Intel and AMD have both been producing it for a number of years now.
A million teenagers are rubbing their hands with glee and filling their friend's (or enemy's) mailboxes with "Are you dead yet?" messages as we speak.
What we really need is for Facebook to automatically hide accounts if you don't access them for 90 days. After six months without access they should be permanently deleted.
Peeing inkjet ink is the best way to a fortune (and less painful).
It's for machines where data is supposed to be very temporary - ie. photocopiers, etc.
I'm sure it's just stored in the RAM of the drive controller and it generates a new key on each reboot.
If breaking AES256 is only "kind of tricky" to you then I'm sure there's a lot of major governments who'll be willing to make you a very rich man.
Or maybe you don't really know what you're on about.
The key only known to the drive, the owner doesn't know it.