The 70's brought two major innovations in fuel economy:
1. Diesel engines
2. Tiny engines
It's just a coincidence that they both got introduced at the same time. My parents' 84 Rabbit was 45 HP; the new TDI Jettas have a 170 HP model.
I can't believe you got modded up for repeating something that's been proven false so many times. The the robotic spot-welder put thousands of people out of work. So did the the printing press, the typewriter, the cotton gin, google. And yet somehow the unemployment rate remains basically constant.
The problem I've always had with cursive, and the reason I haven't used it in forever, is that it's completely illegible. It's an inherent flaw, not a recent problem. My grandparents' perfectly-crafted script gives me trouble.
The US can't enter into a treaty without Senate ratification, even if the president signs it. That being said, they might not look up from kissing Obama's ass long enough to take their paperweights off the 'yes' button.
I find it hard to believe I'm putting these words together in the same sentence, but there was an interesting episode of Star Trek Voyager on the subject.
If a "western democracy" overthrew your nation's government and put in a despot, would your first thought be "hey kids, let's overthrow it and install a western democracy!!"
Well, the original premise was that one head couldn't read a 100TB drive in a reasonable amount of time. I agree that it doesn't make sense for current drives.
I wonder... what if you had a radial strip of GMR heads instead of a single read head? Thermal expansion means you'd still need a "fine tune" coil. It would be like putting an inch ruler next to a centimeter ruler. Only a handful of lines mate up, but give it a tiny bump and you get a whole new set of mates. Splatter large files across the disk. They would read in as a jumble but you could reassemble in cache. Probably crazy but I swear it works great in my head;)
That's a bit conservative. 100 times more density means 10 times more data per rotation. So more like 1GB/sec. Besides, who cares how long your site backup takes or how long it takes to fill up your DVR? That's where spinning disks are going. For random access there's SSD's and then probably MRAM.
On an unrelated note, did it take anybody else 5 tries to not read TFA as "High pressure XKCD is a newly developed technique..."
Not only is it a false sense of security, it's a false sense of control. A guy I knew was driving along when a semi jackknifed and decapitated him. He had absolutely no opportunity to "change his chances of survival". You're still more likely to be killed by another idiot driver than a trained pilot.
You're both right. For every conscientious person, there's an asshole that follows his animal instinct to perpetually consume as much as he possibly can.
We're probably boned either way, but at the moment I'm less distressed with the president buying corporations than I was with corporations buying the president.
You're wrong, GP is right. Weight is the amount of force needed to hold an object stationary, or equivalently, the amount of gravity acting on the object. Regardless of the actual amount of opposing force. You don't look up at a falling anvil and think, "whew, good thing it's weightless!"
Huh?? It is just as bad to copy the first 80 bytes of a 40-byte string into an 80-byte buffer as it is to copy an 80-byte string into a 40-byte buffer. How is your code not simply "pretending" to comply?
What? As opposed to safe pest control methods like atrazine and DDT? When done by idiots (cane beetle) biological control can be disastrous. But when done carefully it's safe and effective.
From Wikipedia:
An example of an invasive species is the alligator weed. [...] The alligator weed flea beetle and two other biological controls were released in Florida. Because of their success, Florida banned the use of herbicides to control alligator weed three years after the controls were introduced.
Well, now that TV is over nice tight band-limited channels I hear there's a plan in the works to let devices detect dead space in the TV spectrum and do WiFi/WiMax over that. I hope something comes of it.
If your or your neighbor's microwave causes much interference, have it checked out.
I'm not an RF engineer, but I would imagine there's a huge decibel difference between "cooks flesh" and "interferes with milliwatt radio transmissions".
There's plenty of licensed spectrum that you can use, just get a license.
That's my point, I shouldn't have to make a Federal case out of it to send a radio signal 50 feet. And WiFi has proven that.
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The 70's brought two major innovations in fuel economy:
1. Diesel engines
2. Tiny engines
It's just a coincidence that they both got introduced at the same time. My parents' 84 Rabbit was 45 HP; the new TDI Jettas have a 170 HP model.
I can't believe you got modded up for repeating something that's been proven false so many times. The the robotic spot-welder put thousands of people out of work. So did the the printing press, the typewriter, the cotton gin, google. And yet somehow the unemployment rate remains basically constant.
The problem I've always had with cursive, and the reason I haven't used it in forever, is that it's completely illegible. It's an inherent flaw, not a recent problem. My grandparents' perfectly-crafted script gives me trouble.
Dave Barry wrote a funny (yet true) piece on the topic.
They're thinking of quitting the exporting, and adding more import statements. And this is causing a problem, because, why not do both?
So does a pencil.
I can't imagine a wind farm ever approaching the drag coefficient of a forest.
The US can't enter into a treaty without Senate ratification, even if the president signs it. That being said, they might not look up from kissing Obama's ass long enough to take their paperweights off the 'yes' button.
I find it hard to believe I'm putting these words together in the same sentence, but there was an interesting episode of Star Trek Voyager on the subject.
This isn't 1992, x86 decode IS trivial.
If a "western democracy" overthrew your nation's government and put in a despot, would your first thought be "hey kids, let's overthrow it and install a western democracy!!"
Well, the original premise was that one head couldn't read a 100TB drive in a reasonable amount of time. I agree that it doesn't make sense for current drives.
I wonder... what if you had a radial strip of GMR heads instead of a single read head? Thermal expansion means you'd still need a "fine tune" coil. It would be like putting an inch ruler next to a centimeter ruler. Only a handful of lines mate up, but give it a tiny bump and you get a whole new set of mates. Splatter large files across the disk. They would read in as a jumble but you could reassemble in cache. Probably crazy but I swear it works great in my head ;)
That's a bit conservative. 100 times more density means 10 times more data per rotation. So more like 1GB/sec. Besides, who cares how long your site backup takes or how long it takes to fill up your DVR? That's where spinning disks are going. For random access there's SSD's and then probably MRAM.
On an unrelated note, did it take anybody else 5 tries to not read TFA as "High pressure XKCD is a newly developed technique..."
Not only is it a false sense of security, it's a false sense of control. A guy I knew was driving along when a semi jackknifed and decapitated him. He had absolutely no opportunity to "change his chances of survival". You're still more likely to be killed by another idiot driver than a trained pilot.
Yeah, but will you smell her butt?
Wait, don't answer that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke
You're both right. For every conscientious person, there's an asshole that follows his animal instinct to perpetually consume as much as he possibly can.
We're probably boned either way, but at the moment I'm less distressed with the president buying corporations than I was with corporations buying the president.
You're wrong, GP is right. Weight is the amount of force needed to hold an object stationary, or equivalently, the amount of gravity acting on the object. Regardless of the actual amount of opposing force. You don't look up at a falling anvil and think, "whew, good thing it's weightless!"
Huh?? It is just as bad to copy the first 80 bytes of a 40-byte string into an 80-byte buffer as it is to copy an 80-byte string into a 40-byte buffer. How is your code not simply "pretending" to comply?
Disclaimer, talking out of my ass here.
A pest is anything that pisses you off.
Venn Diagram: ( (herbicide) (insecticide ) pesticide )
An example of an invasive species is the alligator weed. [...] The alligator weed flea beetle and two other biological controls were released in Florida. Because of their success, Florida banned the use of herbicides to control alligator weed three years after the controls were introduced.
I would call it more than a minor annoyance. Their 2008 profit was €3.9 billion, this is 27% of that.
Well, now that TV is over nice tight band-limited channels I hear there's a plan in the works to let devices detect dead space in the TV spectrum and do WiFi/WiMax over that. I hope something comes of it.
If your or your neighbor's microwave causes much interference, have it checked out.
I'm not an RF engineer, but I would imagine there's a huge decibel difference between "cooks flesh" and "interferes with milliwatt radio transmissions".
There's plenty of licensed spectrum that you can use, just get a license.
That's my point, I shouldn't have to make a Federal case out of it to send a radio signal 50 feet. And WiFi has proven that.