2008 oil price - $145/barrel
2008 gas price - $4/gallon
2012 oil price - $105/barrel
2012 gas price - $4/gallon
So if market forces = investor speculation and strategic closures of US refineries, then yes, this is clearly due to market forces. Isn't capitalism great?
Because the only way the rental car knows it's speed is through GPS. It's not like there's a computer in there that can report back wheel speed via a standard computer interface in the passenger-side footwell.
While ODBII does report current vehicle speed/rpm values I don't believe there's access to any historical data.
That doesn't mean the data isn't there (it may or may not be, depending on the vehicle), just that you need expensive specialty tools in order to get at it.
I don't know why I bother responding to this but that's a best case 'happy day' scenario and you know it.
Assume that the user actually wants to use the lazily loaded feature right away and that on their crapware infested e-machine it takes more than half a second to load. Your choices as a developer are.
A. Crash because resources didn't load in 0.5 second like you said they would
B. Show an hourglass so the user waits a minute for said feature to load
C. Stop responding for a while want watch the user launch 5 more instances of the application and yell at customer support.
And there is also the use of threading. Put as much of your initialization as possible into a separate thread. Your user interface and the most basic functionality can be available from the main thread while secondary functionality and assets are being initialized/loaded in the separate thread.
People who complain about slow load times (the reason de etra for splash screens) won't complain about hourglass icons while lazy-loaded assets are initialized? Which part of bizarro world do you live on sir?
I would rather have my app load everything in to memory/initialize connections at startup. As an added bonus you don't have to throw locking logic around everything that might not be finished loading yet. KISS.
I have a Nexus One that I got a full price, outside of AT&T, without a contract, and simply moved my SIM card over from my previous 2G phone. I even went into AT&T and got them to replace the 2G SIM card with a 3G SIM card. I have no data plan, and have disabled the (Celluar) Data Network access on the phone, so I only get data via WiFi.
You sir have violated the terms of service of your contract. If AT&T finds out (and that's not particularly hard to do, they just compare your actual IMEI to the IMEI registered to your SIM) they can retroactively bill you for the required data plan in their TOS and cancel your service (with penalties if you're under contract), probably in that order.
This in no way means I think you should be billed for a service that you neither used nor intended to use, but that's one of the reasons so few people hopped on board the Nexus train.
"By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance. It is thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished."
Whatever we do, let us not wonder what it is about our national character (I want stuff cheap) or our national trends (cutting local labor _always_ boosts stock price) or national policies (yes we subsidize moving jobs overseas) that creates a situation where a whole buttload of manufacturing went to China, including Apple's
A great many things are still manufactured in America. This is because they have a labor cost of zero dollars + whatever it costs to keep a fully automated production line running.
"Keeping those jobs here" employs whoever drives the forklifts, 3 accountants and 4 rich sociopaths with MBAs. People who talk about off-shoring tend not to focus on that.
Russians never had access to Levis or Coke any more than we had access to Russian cars.
There were always grey/black market imports, on both sides of the fence...
...also please do not send us any more Ladas in retaliation for our HAARP 'attack', not even the high-end luxury models sporting features like "front and one side window," "power headlight" and "full floor"
But when Ford develop new software for the ECU in later models to improve fuel efficency and emissions they don't give you a free upgrade on your old model. They won't even let you pay for it. You can't even offer to pay for an entire new engine to upgrade your last-years-model.
Ford (and basically every other maker) will happily sell you a new engine for your 1 year old car, they just won't give you a special upgrade price or install it for free.
Also new software isn't what makes those fuel efficiency figures go up, not by itself anyway.
Yes, I'm sure that many large corporations will welcome your jail-broken phones running custom kernels(*) with open arms. They will also provide mileage reimbursements for commuting to the office on your flying pig.
*ignoring the fact that this feature could be easily integrated into the stock vanilla build because drumroll that's what CM was built from
First off, for mobile devices this is a bit of a mixed bag, so lets talk about desktops. We all still have them, if you're a gamer you have a pretty nice one. Power efficiency is not something you are at all concerned about, the PSU in your rig could comfortably power a submarine.
Some of us would like to buy a $100 CPU and clock it up to compete with a $300 CPU. This used to be quite easy to do, and at that point Intel had no competition, so it was an $800 CPU, and games were quite often CPU bound.
Modern games are generally not CPU bound, they are GPU/memory bound. The good news is that you can overclock GPUs just like you can CPUs. The bad news is that you're probably only looking at a 15% overclock without losing stability and you still won't have all of the extra pipelines/shaders of the fancier card.
So...is it still practical? I still do it because I'm a tight bastard and I still enjoy gaming/fast compiles. It helps, but the rewards for doing so aren't nearly what they used to be, and sane people are far more concerned with a reliable overclock than a +2Ghz e-peen that crashes after 5 minutes.
several times there were class action lawsuits against GM, Ford, and Toyota due to their refusal to sell the appropriate adapters and codebooks necessary to troubleshoot or reset "check engine lights" and computer warnings to the 3rd-party mechanic shops.
None of those lawsuits seem to have prevented BMW and Mercedes from doing that very same thing. Oh you can still read ODBII codes, but there are plenty of failure/maintenance codes that you need very expensive hardware to read or clear.
Imagine if the car companies wanted to take away your RIGHT to have your car fitted out with a turbocharger, or an aftermarket performance chip, or a better flywheel, or any number of other changes.
I live in California, our state government took those rights away quite some time ago (CARB)
I mean really - how often do you break TRACES in a motherboard or PCB in any home consumer product? I haven't ever seen a failure like that get out of QC. The things that kill consumer electronics are corrosion, solder point failure (usually from overpressured heatsinks or heat based warping, see RROD), bad/exploding capacitors, and the occasional power surge or ESD damage.
Agreed 100%. Its highly unusual for a PCB to fail, 90% of the time it's been bad solder joints or bad caps which can then escalate into other problems. Solder joints go bad due to heat or vibration or just being poorly soldered in the first place.
This problem is going to get much worse before it gets any better. lead based solders help prevent joint cracking and they're now illegal in the EU. As a result all new electronics use lead-free formulations. This means more heat/vibration related failures than ever, all because more politicians demanded we 'think of the children!'(tm)
The only thing consequentially different is computer capability, but a faster/more complex computer would just as likely be a liability as a bonus. Software design techniques, if anything, have gone rapidly backwards for this sort of application since the late 70s/early 80
It's not just software. High energy particles abound in space and they will be passing through the most delicate pieces of your hardware sooner or later. Underneath those conditions which do you think is more robust? A 4Mhz CPU with massive 76' era traces or a modern 4x3.5 Ghz CPU with a 0.22 mm die process?
There are reasons for having these kinds of processors but as command/control circuitry on anything exposed to high radiation they seem like an exceptionally poor choice. .
There's no reason for Intel to 'dither', just like Microsoft they are large enough that they don't have to pick a growth strategy. They can go in multiple directions at once to see which ones pan out
...as for ARM support, it makes sense for Microsoft to go this way but there's still a fundamental disconnect between UI design in a mobile device and a conventional PC.
Since there's no way to (without developer intervention) reformat the massive library of existing windows applications to fit a mobile device the interface mismatch is going to be completely awful unless they are only running applications that are designed with that environment in mind.(scalable UI based on 4" touchscreen vs 24" monitor+mouse)...at which point what's the big allure?
Quite a lot of it is right on the surface of the water which is why it shows up quite clearly on satellite pictures. Less than 1metre deep the vertical loss of light is not all that relevant yet. Find a spot with live corals in it and the view will blow your mind.
Of course. Many corals need an incredible amount of light to be happy...which is why they're pretty much all located close to shore
...which is why a lot of them are dead. Global warming/acidification aren't good of course, but mostly it's water quality.
Phosphate runoff (fertilizer and sewage) chokes the reefs with algae, and then the reef dies. Where phosphate runoff is bad enough, everything (not just coral) dies. Those are those anaerobic 'dead zones' you hear about.
Because that's not actually true. The richest Americans have about $1 trillion in cash reserves and American corporations have about $1.5 trillion in cash reserves. That's money that's not doing anything other than earning interest. There's an interesting argument to be made that that money is being kept out of the economy because taxes on the rich and corporations are actually too low.
Unfortunately these numbers aren't even close.
The wealthy American corporations are virtually all multinationals collectively hiding trillions more in offshore tax-havens. Why do you imagine they keep lobbying for a repatriation tax holiday?
Fuel cells are incredibly capable sources of power generation that can be run from renewable resources. The main problem is safely sequestering the hydrogen in the event of a crash.
Really? I thought the main problem was the rather large amount of platinum you need to make one.
Add in the fact that producing large quantities of hydrogen involves using a boat-load of electricity, which probably comes from the same coal fired power plant that is currently charging your electric car.
Sticking a fuel cell in the center of a car = safely sequestering it in the event of a crash. Problem solved. See how easy that was?
While I agree that an old Civic isn't going to cut it in accident safety compared to modern cars, I'd wager that the center of gravity and weight are *significantly* lower than just about any modern car, in its segment or otherwise.
I can't speak for center of gravity, but a CRX is a light good handling car. It may fold up like a wet paper bag in an accident, but you stand a pretty good chance of avoiding one in the first place if you're paying attention.
...But that's all besides the point. Speed cameras are all about revenue generation. The biggest danger to us isn't that Asian kid with the giant wing on his Honda, it's the soccer mom driving a ginormous SUV, yelling at the kids in the back seat and not paying any goddamn attention to the road.
Automation will DEMAND redistribution, or we will all starve in the midst of plenty.. which is a pretty stupid thing to do just to make one person obscenely rich.
And my army of kill-bots will DEMAND that you leave the premises...just before opening fire on the insolent peasants.
Samsung - no locked bootloaders on any carrier
HTC - Heavy bootloader locking only recently, and across all carriers. The Thunderbolt is just a bit higher profile, as it was the first one.
Motorola - All locked, all the time, with very rare exceptions, on all carriers
Wait what? Having a locked (but exploitable) bootloader is a lot different than what Motorola does. If you load an unsigned rom you will brick your phone.
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Not just for gaming. It had multitasking, dma, several co-processors...oh and more than 16 colors *rimshot*
I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further!
GeckoMan, GeckoMan, does whatever a Gecko can...
So pretty much a superhero who can sell car insurance and catch small insects.
2008 oil price - $145/barrel
2008 gas price - $4/gallon
2012 oil price - $105/barrel
2012 gas price - $4/gallon
So if market forces = investor speculation and strategic closures of US refineries, then yes, this is clearly due to market forces. Isn't capitalism great?
While ODBII does report current vehicle speed/rpm values I don't believe there's access to any historical data.
That doesn't mean the data isn't there (it may or may not be, depending on the vehicle), just that you need expensive specialty tools in order to get at it.
I don't know why I bother responding to this but that's a best case 'happy day' scenario and you know it.
Assume that the user actually wants to use the lazily loaded feature right away and that on their crapware infested e-machine it takes more than half a second to load. Your choices as a developer are.
A. Crash because resources didn't load in 0.5 second like you said they would
B. Show an hourglass so the user waits a minute for said feature to load
C. Stop responding for a while want watch the user launch 5 more instances of the application and yell at customer support.
D. All of the above
People who complain about slow load times (the reason de etra for splash screens) won't complain about hourglass icons while lazy-loaded assets are initialized? Which part of bizarro world do you live on sir?
I would rather have my app load everything in to memory/initialize connections at startup. As an added bonus you don't have to throw locking logic around everything that might not be finished loading yet. KISS.
You sir have violated the terms of service of your contract. If AT&T finds out (and that's not particularly hard to do, they just compare your actual IMEI to the IMEI registered to your SIM) they can retroactively bill you for the required data plan in their TOS and cancel your service (with penalties if you're under contract), probably in that order.
This in no way means I think you should be billed for a service that you neither used nor intended to use, but that's one of the reasons so few people hopped on board the Nexus train.
"By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance. It is thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished."
-American's Banker Association, 1924
Don't forget the dock operators, the longshoremen, the freight, customs, etc. and all the services to keep those working.
A great many things are still manufactured in America. This is because they have a labor cost of zero dollars + whatever it costs to keep a fully automated production line running.
"Keeping those jobs here" employs whoever drives the forklifts, 3 accountants and 4 rich sociopaths with MBAs. People who talk about off-shoring tend not to focus on that.
There were always grey/black market imports, on both sides of the fence...
...also please do not send us any more Ladas in retaliation for our HAARP 'attack', not even the high-end luxury models sporting features like "front and one side window," "power headlight" and "full floor"
Ford (and basically every other maker) will happily sell you a new engine for your 1 year old car, they just won't give you a special upgrade price or install it for free.
Also new software isn't what makes those fuel efficiency figures go up, not by itself anyway.
Yes, I'm sure that many large corporations will welcome your jail-broken phones running custom kernels(*) with open arms. They will also provide mileage reimbursements for commuting to the office on your flying pig.
*ignoring the fact that this feature could be easily integrated into the stock vanilla build because drumroll that's what CM was built from
First off, for mobile devices this is a bit of a mixed bag, so lets talk about desktops. We all still have them, if you're a gamer you have a pretty nice one. Power efficiency is not something you are at all concerned about, the PSU in your rig could comfortably power a submarine.
Some of us would like to buy a $100 CPU and clock it up to compete with a $300 CPU. This used to be quite easy to do, and at that point Intel had no competition, so it was an $800 CPU, and games were quite often CPU bound.
Modern games are generally not CPU bound, they are GPU/memory bound. The good news is that you can overclock GPUs just like you can CPUs. The bad news is that you're probably only looking at a 15% overclock without losing stability and you still won't have all of the extra pipelines/shaders of the fancier card.
So...is it still practical? I still do it because I'm a tight bastard and I still enjoy gaming/fast compiles. It helps, but the rewards for doing so aren't nearly what they used to be, and sane people are far more concerned with a reliable overclock than a +2Ghz e-peen that crashes after 5 minutes.
None of those lawsuits seem to have prevented BMW and Mercedes from doing that very same thing. Oh you can still read ODBII codes, but there are plenty of failure/maintenance codes that you need very expensive hardware to read or clear.
I live in California, our state government took those rights away quite some time ago (CARB)
Agreed 100%. Its highly unusual for a PCB to fail, 90% of the time it's been bad solder joints or bad caps which can then escalate into other problems. Solder joints go bad due to heat or vibration or just being poorly soldered in the first place.
This problem is going to get much worse before it gets any better. lead based solders help prevent joint cracking and they're now illegal in the EU. As a result all new electronics use lead-free formulations. This means more heat/vibration related failures than ever, all because more politicians demanded we 'think of the children!'(tm)
It's not just software. High energy particles abound in space and they will be passing through the most delicate pieces of your hardware sooner or later. Underneath those conditions which do you think is more robust? A 4Mhz CPU with massive 76' era traces or a modern 4x3.5 Ghz CPU with a 0.22 mm die process?
There are reasons for having these kinds of processors but as command/control circuitry on anything exposed to high radiation they seem like an exceptionally poor choice. .
There's no reason for Intel to 'dither', just like Microsoft they are large enough that they don't have to pick a growth strategy. They can go in multiple directions at once to see which ones pan out
...as for ARM support, it makes sense for Microsoft to go this way but there's still a fundamental disconnect between UI design in a mobile device and a conventional PC.
Since there's no way to (without developer intervention) reformat the massive library of existing windows applications to fit a mobile device the interface mismatch is going to be completely awful unless they are only running applications that are designed with that environment in mind.(scalable UI based on 4" touchscreen vs 24" monitor+mouse)...at which point what's the big allure?
Of course. Many corals need an incredible amount of light to be happy...which is why they're pretty much all located close to shore
...which is why a lot of them are dead. Global warming/acidification aren't good of course, but mostly it's water quality.
Phosphate runoff (fertilizer and sewage) chokes the reefs with algae, and then the reef dies. Where phosphate runoff is bad enough, everything (not just coral) dies. Those are those anaerobic 'dead zones' you hear about.
Unfortunately these numbers aren't even close.
The wealthy American corporations are virtually all multinationals collectively hiding trillions more in offshore tax-havens. Why do you imagine they keep lobbying for a repatriation tax holiday?
Really? I thought the main problem was the rather large amount of platinum you need to make one.
Add in the fact that producing large quantities of hydrogen involves using a boat-load of electricity, which probably comes from the same coal fired power plant that is currently charging your electric car.
Sticking a fuel cell in the center of a car = safely sequestering it in the event of a crash. Problem solved. See how easy that was?
I can't speak for center of gravity, but a CRX is a light good handling car. It may fold up like a wet paper bag in an accident, but you stand a pretty good chance of avoiding one in the first place if you're paying attention.
...But that's all besides the point. Speed cameras are all about revenue generation. The biggest danger to us isn't that Asian kid with the giant wing on his Honda, it's the soccer mom driving a ginormous SUV, yelling at the kids in the back seat and not paying any goddamn attention to the road.
And my army of kill-bots will DEMAND that you leave the premises...just before opening fire on the insolent peasants.
Wait what? Having a locked (but exploitable) bootloader is a lot different than what Motorola does. If you load an unsigned rom you will brick your phone.