I think the most obvious danger would be someone taking a knife to the skin to break into the car and hotwire it. Or is this material stronger than that?
That problem already exists with convertibles today. Besides, I imagine the wires could still be protected by something more than just fabric.
1) This CPU runs on **4 watts!** I'm not sure my cell phone can run on 4 watts in standby.
My Nokia charger was rated for 1.5 watts. My current Motorola Razr comes with a charger that's rated for ~2.8 watts. Obviously, the wattage of a charger has to be higher than the battery output in order to charge the phone.
Make of it what you will. Um the charger only has to have higher voltage than the battery.
Yep. I made many of these when I was 12. You have to use thin waxy paper (the type used by florists to wrap flowers is perfect). They lift really well.
Based on my experience the one on the show was too heavy for its size (he made it out of paper mache over a basket ball I think).
Without threads you end up with multiple distinct tasks all interleaved into one massive while loop or something. It's terrible. Threads allow you to deal with seperate issues individually as if they are a single flow of execution. I regularly use more than 10 threads for desktop applications. They allow me to responsive applications or just as importantly, applications that give the appearance of responsiveness.
Nothing is worse than a UI that stops responding because the programmer decided to do heavy processing work in the UI thread.
I've never really understood why a forum of "geeks" are so negative about threads. Maybe everyone here aren't as good at programming as they would like to believe.
Writing threaded programs is not hard. It just requires proper training or experience (just like anything else).
Blu-ray has horrifying DRM and doesn't really look that much better than DVDs with good postprocessing
You are talking out of your ill-informed inexperienced ass. There is a high degree of probability that you haven't actually seen a hi-def video on a hi-def TV but let's examine your assertion anyway.
You are saying that there is not much difference between 1920x1080p and a 720x480i picture. Think about it. I'm interested to know more about this "good postprocessing" that can somehow make DVD even approach the quality of any HiDef source.
I can't believe so many slashdotters claim to see no difference between DVD (720x576) and Hidef video (1920x1200). To me, the difference is day and night. How many slashdotters would be happy with VGA photos over 2 megapixel photos? That's the quality difference we are talking about here folks. I can notice the difference in quality every time, even on a 15" LCD. Animated films, text from credits and title sequences, etc all look crisp and sharp as if they're directly rendered on your computer (as opposed to rendered and then processed as video). Everyone I've demonstrated HD to on my 46" LCD and HTPC setup is shocked and amazed at the quality.
My only explanation for the aparent anti-HD bias of slashdot is that most people haven't actually seen HD at all, or haven't seen it setup properly. Most retailers in NZ still have their hi-def screens hooked up to a DVD player via RF! You need a good quality HD player (a PC with HDMI/DVI output is the most effective) and digital connections all the way. Using analogue component connectors will degrade the picture significantly.
Unfortunately, due to a failure to perform a metric/imperial conversion, the mission failed when the probe performed a perfect soft landing on the moon's surface.
Because XML is a standard. Almost all languages have a standards compliant XML parser that you can easily use. Why invent a new format and a parser, when you can use an existing standard that has most of the issues already sorted out? You don't have to spend time working out if a bug is caused by your parser or something else. XML handles things like character escaping, unicode, etc gracefully whereas a format you design may not unless you spend a lot of time on it.
Formats like JSON are just as usable, and not to mention more lightweight. Where's the gain
Again, because XML is a standard. Everyone speaks the language. The pitfulls and caveats of XML are well understood by most, if not all, developers and companies.
The iPhone/iPod touch LCD is protected by a solid piece of glass. It's not like other large screen devices where the LCD can get crushed if it shares your pocket with other devices or if you sit on it.
The net gravitation force on the rock in the middle might be zero, but the pressure exerted on the rock in all directions (pressure caused by gravitational forces being exerted on the matter that makes the earth) from the surrounding rock would be massive. It sounds like you're trying to argue that the earth cannot possibly exist. Think of a rock between clamps, it's not moving but it's still going to be totally crushed.
There was an Outer Limits episode named "Think Like a Dinosaur", based on a short story of the same name. A distant race of Dinosaurs come to help humanity and give them transporter technology. The catch is that the transporter always creates a duplicate and a human operator is required to destroy the original by pushing a button. The story deals with a technical issue which left the original not destroyed (as they think the transmission failed and cancelled the process). When they discover the transmission was actualy successful, the operator has to deal with ethical and moral issues when he is ordered by the Dinosaurs to destroy the original transportee who he has started to befriend.
Really good story and great Outer Limits episode. I highly recommend watching the episode if you can get a chance.
Our foreign policy over the past 75 years has been screwy and downright slimey at times
What exactly is wrong with doing those things (except for the fact that OBL doesn't like it?). The US supports allies and pro-West governments. Wow, what a shocker.
You really think that if the US was completely isolationist that OBL wouldn't "bother the west"? If the US did all the bad stuff, why are there attacks in more "peaceful" countries like the Netherlands?
There's a native PDF reader for jailbreaked ipod touches (no need for apache, php etc).
A second option is simply to email yourself the PDF. The PDF stays in the ipod's local mail cache and you can read it anytime. This also needs a jailbreaked ipod as the ipod doesn't come with mail (IIRC).
The Turing test is pretty clearly defined. The tester has to know that they are talking to both a human and machine and the to pass the test the machine has to convince the tester that they are the human.
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I think the most obvious danger would be someone taking a knife to the skin to break into the car and hotwire it. Or is this material stronger than that?
That problem already exists with convertibles today. Besides, I imagine the wires could still be protected by something more than just fabric.
Do you know all this from experience or is it just based on the hip and cool belief that the United States is now a closed facist society?
If only he had insulted the Jooooos instead. That we instead of being prosecuted he could of been gifted a job at the BBC.
Meanwhile, Osama's still loose.
I don't mean to be nitpicky but isn't Osama most likely outside of the US? Somewhere outside the jurisdiction of the FBI?
My Nokia charger was rated for 1.5 watts. My current Motorola Razr comes with a charger that's rated for ~2.8 watts. Obviously, the wattage of a charger has to be higher than the battery output in order to charge the phone.
Make of it what you will. Um the charger only has to have higher voltage than the battery.
No, they just make documentaries or post on slashdot instead.
Yep. I made many of these when I was 12. You have to use thin waxy paper (the type used by florists to wrap flowers is perfect). They lift really well.
Based on my experience the one on the show was too heavy for its size (he made it out of paper mache over a basket ball I think).
Feel free to leave now. Remember to leave your computer and internet connection and freedom to rant and bitch about your government behind.
Without threads you end up with multiple distinct tasks all interleaved into one massive while loop or something. It's terrible. Threads allow you to deal with seperate issues individually as if they are a single flow of execution. I regularly use more than 10 threads for desktop applications. They allow me to responsive applications or just as importantly, applications that give the appearance of responsiveness.
Nothing is worse than a UI that stops responding because the programmer decided to do heavy processing work in the UI thread.
I've never really understood why a forum of "geeks" are so negative about threads. Maybe everyone here aren't as good at programming as they would like to believe.
Writing threaded programs is not hard. It just requires proper training or experience (just like anything else).
I also wonder if something like this could be used, say, in the manufacture of LED displays where each pixel has dedicated state information
Isn't that what active matrix displays (almost all displays used today) do?
Don't microcontrollers already integrate non-volatile memory? Whether it's FLASH or MRAM, that doesn't seem to be a problem.
The interesting thing here is that they've made something that until now has only been theoretical.
Blu-ray has horrifying DRM and doesn't really look that much better than DVDs with good postprocessing
You are talking out of your ill-informed inexperienced ass. There is a high degree of probability that you haven't actually seen a hi-def video on a hi-def TV but let's examine your assertion anyway.
You are saying that there is not much difference between 1920x1080p and a 720x480i picture. Think about it. I'm interested to know more about this "good postprocessing" that can somehow make DVD even approach the quality of any HiDef source.
You can train a dog, but cats are too dumb to respond to any useful training other than knowing where its cat bowl is.
So a dog follows authority blindly whereas a cat will do whatever it feels like doing and still gets its way. Who's the smarter one?
I can't believe so many slashdotters claim to see no difference between DVD (720x576) and Hidef video (1920x1200). To me, the difference is day and night. How many slashdotters would be happy with VGA photos over 2 megapixel photos? That's the quality difference we are talking about here folks. I can notice the difference in quality every time, even on a 15" LCD. Animated films, text from credits and title sequences, etc all look crisp and sharp as if they're directly rendered on your computer (as opposed to rendered and then processed as video). Everyone I've demonstrated HD to on my 46" LCD and HTPC setup is shocked and amazed at the quality.
My only explanation for the aparent anti-HD bias of slashdot is that most people haven't actually seen HD at all, or haven't seen it setup properly. Most retailers in NZ still have their hi-def screens hooked up to a DVD player via RF! You need a good quality HD player (a PC with HDMI/DVI output is the most effective) and digital connections all the way. Using analogue component connectors will degrade the picture significantly.
Unfortunately, due to a failure to perform a metric/imperial conversion, the mission failed when the probe performed a perfect soft landing on the moon's surface.
Duh.
Because XML is a standard. Almost all languages have a standards compliant XML parser that you can easily use. Why invent a new format and a parser, when you can use an existing standard that has most of the issues already sorted out? You don't have to spend time working out if a bug is caused by your parser or something else. XML handles things like character escaping, unicode, etc gracefully whereas a format you design may not unless you spend a lot of time on it.
Formats like JSON are just as usable, and not to mention more lightweight. Where's the gain
Again, because XML is a standard. Everyone speaks the language. The pitfulls and caveats of XML are well understood by most, if not all, developers and companies.
The iPhone/iPod touch LCD is protected by a solid piece of glass. It's not like other large screen devices where the LCD can get crushed if it shares your pocket with other devices or if you sit on it.
The net gravitation force on the rock in the middle might be zero, but the pressure exerted on the rock in all directions (pressure caused by gravitational forces being exerted on the matter that makes the earth) from the surrounding rock would be massive. It sounds like you're trying to argue that the earth cannot possibly exist. Think of a rock between clamps, it's not moving but it's still going to be totally crushed.
That's really retarded.
Er. They are burying the CO2, not converting it back to hydrocarbons.
That's true, but it does make it a lot easier to write drivers for things where speed doesn't matter as much (FTP fs, SSH fs, etc).
There was an Outer Limits episode named "Think Like a Dinosaur", based on a short story of the same name. A distant race of Dinosaurs come to help humanity and give them transporter technology. The catch is that the transporter always creates a duplicate and a human operator is required to destroy the original by pushing a button. The story deals with a technical issue which left the original not destroyed (as they think the transmission failed and cancelled the process). When they discover the transmission was actualy successful, the operator has to deal with ethical and moral issues when he is ordered by the Dinosaurs to destroy the original transportee who he has started to befriend.
Really good story and great Outer Limits episode. I highly recommend watching the episode if you can get a chance.
Our foreign policy over the past 75 years has been screwy and downright slimey at times
What exactly is wrong with doing those things (except for the fact that OBL doesn't like it?). The US supports allies and pro-West governments. Wow, what a shocker.
You really think that if the US was completely isolationist that OBL wouldn't "bother the west"? If the US did all the bad stuff, why are there attacks in more "peaceful" countries like the Netherlands?
There's a native PDF reader for jailbreaked ipod touches (no need for apache, php etc).
A second option is simply to email yourself the PDF. The PDF stays in the ipod's local mail cache and you can read it anytime. This also needs a jailbreaked ipod as the ipod doesn't come with mail (IIRC).
The Turing test is pretty clearly defined. The tester has to know that they are talking to both a human and machine and the to pass the test the machine has to convince the tester that they are the human.