No, not "a lot". Very, very few. This is a common delusion among black youth, thinking they're going to make it big in sports. There are only 30 NBA teams, with 15 players each. Each team has only a few new hires each year, maybe 4. So that's 2.9 million high school graduates potentially competing for 120 jobs.
No, not "a lot". Very, very few. This is a common delusion among youth, thinking they're going to make it big in entertainment. There is only 1 Lady Gaga, who is famous for her singing and breaking social norms (wearing dresses made of meat, etc). It's unlikely that more than 1 or at most a handful of people could become successful for this. So that's 2.9 million high school graduates potentially competing for 1 job.
Nothing wrong with giving geeks hope. Not sure how you inferred that from my comment.
How about instead you show kids in every group, who all have their own problems and worries, that anyone can be wildly successful by being the best in any field, whether it is programming, basketball, or anything?
Not saying the headline's claim is true or untrue, but... these are all examples of very rare individuals - the luckiest or the most skilled of all the geeks, that made it big.
If you go by that argument, I can also point out that alot of the jocks from high school are now making many, many millions of dollars as professional athletes (NFL, NBA, etc.)
Disclaimer: Didn't RTFA, but still, dumb argument.
great, first the VA shooter, and now this anti-korean game.
hope there's at least some south korean protagnoists in the game or else i'm pretty sure i'm gonna get capped in the face by some idiot for being korean.
It's FAKE. It's a HOAX.. Look at the apps in the app store list:
* Angry Birds: Not by "clickgamer" it's by Rovio.
* Windows 7 Ultimate? As an app you can download from Windows 8?
* "App Store" is trademarked by Apple.
* Title bar text isn't centered like in other Win8 leaks.
When someone makes an extrordinary claim in science (i.e., cold fusion), many others must also reproduce and verify the claim before people have faith in it. If it can't be verified, then people won't have faith in it.
For real theories, even though we're trusting experts, the experts can continually provide consistent results that support the theories.
When someone makes an extrordinary claim in religion (i.e., cured blindness via prayer), it has generally not been possible to verify or reproduce the claims (or else a lucrative business would be starting blindness cure clinics where people pray for you until you're healed, right?). But people still have faith anyway. That's the difference.
With religion, even the experts can't reproduce or verify their own claims. (If prayer really worked better than western medicine, you would see a faith healer replace the surgeon general)
Am I the only one who read the parent post in an eastern european accent from the DirectTV commercial with the tiny giraffe? ("Opulence, I has it." -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkMsSIjQXxo)
"...I want usability. And Apple has that.... Is not about stat, is about the expeirence, and apple has it."
Thus, to keep a spacecraft operating effectively, a full analysis must be done to take into account all energy (thermal or otherwise) sources in a spacecraft and redirect energy to appropriately sized energy sinks (radiators, heat-pies, etc.).
As of March 9th, we've had a total of 67 full days in the year. (31 in jan, 28 in feb, 8 in march). This year we have 365 days. Our year is only 18.35616% over.
350k sales in 67 days translates to 1907k sales in 365 days.
1907k * $0.99 * (35%) = $660.8k
Yeah, if you guess purely random, you will probably win only 50% of the time. The real trick is to outguess the computer by figuring out what it thinks that you think.
In reality, I beat the first 7 rounds, then lost 10 in a row. Then later lost about 12-15 rounds in a row and ragequit immediately.
I like your idea, but here's my cynical take:
What if individuals could feel the benefits of other's happiness without doing anything to contribute on their own? (I.e., sitting around all day, while enjoying the happiness earned by other's who are living happy and successful lives?)
What if we could feel the joy of being a billionaire, winning the lottery, earning a promotion, having sex with hot girls, and etc., while not having to do any of it? Would anyone really strive to do it?
Hey, sorry, my attitude wasn't directed at you. I should have picked a better comment to hit reply to. There are many people dismissing this as a flat-four, without actually watching the video to see that it's completely different. That's where my irritation was directed towards.
No issues with you asking questions. I'll try to address your question in non-car-speak: The difference is that a boxer engine is still like a traditional engine, where you have # of cylinders = # of pistons. In this engine you have 2x the number of pistons in each cylinder.
In a traditional IC engine, each piston moves in and out of each cylinder - and in your head, you can imagine the cylinder as being like a "cup" that the piston moves into and out of. That's how a traditional IC engine, boxer or not, works.
In this engine, instead of the cylinder being shaped like a "cup" that a piston slides into, the cylinder is actually a real cylinder that is open at both ends. And there are two pistons that move in that one cylinder.
I not a car guy. So, will someone explain to me how this differs from a boxer engine?
No offense to you, but nobody here is reading TFA or looking at the video of it in motion.. argh.
This is not a boxer engine. This is not the same as the engine in the Subaru WRX/etc.
If you look at the video, you'll see that there are TWO moving pistons in each combustion chamber. In a traditional engine, you have a single piston in one cylinder that moves back and forth in the cylinder. In this engine, you have TWO pistons that are in the same cylinder, moving in opposite directions. So a 2-cylinder engine would actually have 4 pistons.
I love how their solution to the monkeys is "to train bands of larger, more ferocious monkeys". WHATCOULDPOSSIBLYGOWRONG?
Well, eventually they will escalate from stronger monkeys to gorillas. And that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
But this change seems very likely to be real. We've had electric motors on the sidelines for more than a century, and we know they work great. We've also had batteries a long time, so maybe we should be more cautious and skeptical about breakthroughs. But what we haven't had all that long are all these new battery materials such as lithium-ion. So I think that even if Toshiba's advance is less than it sounds, many others are working hard on the same problems, and we'll see huge improvements soon. Like LCDs were 5 years ago, batteries are on the cusp, and it really won't take much more to make the battery + electric motor combination better, much better, than combustion engine + gas tank. I'd be hesitant to buy a new car with a combustion engine. Might be obsolete very quickly, the way CRTs went last year. Combustion engine powered cars still have a few years, perhaps, the only question is how many?
I don't see our gasoline infastructure going away in a few years. Even if we made all the breakthroughs you suggest in the next 10 years, the roads will still be filled with IC-engines. It will take MANY decades for IC engines to be phased out.
1) Many people won't upgrade to electric because their gas powered car still works fine. 2) MANY people - "driving enthusiasts" - will still want to drive around in their old IC-car. I know, for a fact, that I will still have a nice rumbly V8 in 40 years, if I'm still alive. I don't care if gasoline is $50 a gallon from a specialty store. You will always have people like me who will find great joy in driving an IC car, the same way many of us still opt for a manual transmission when modern dual-clutch automatics are actually faster and more efficient. It's not always about dollars and it's not always about efficiency. Sometimes it's about that irrational and illogical love for the sound of a finely tuned IC engine. I know I'll find joy in roaring past a column of silent electric cars in my vintage 2015 gas powered car, 40 years from now.
Ah, sorry if I misunderstood. I have an angry knee-jerk reaction to people complaining about cutting into a lane at the last second is. Yeah, purposely entering an exit lane only to return to your original lane after bypassing 100ft of the jam is definately no good.
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Operating brake and throttle at the same time are mandatory for doing a heel-toe maneuver... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heel-and-toe)
Not impressed. Won't be impressed until they squeeze the Unreal 4 Engine into an animated .GIF.
No, not "a lot". Very, very few. This is a common delusion among black youth, thinking they're going to make it big in sports. There are only 30 NBA teams, with 15 players each. Each team has only a few new hires each year, maybe 4. So that's 2.9 million high school graduates potentially competing for 120 jobs.
No, not "a lot". Very, very few. This is a common delusion among youth, thinking they're going to make it big in entertainment. There is only 1 Lady Gaga, who is famous for her singing and breaking social norms (wearing dresses made of meat, etc). It's unlikely that more than 1 or at most a handful of people could become successful for this. So that's 2.9 million high school graduates potentially competing for 1 job.
Nothing wrong with giving geeks hope. Not sure how you inferred that from my comment.
How about instead you show kids in every group, who all have their own problems and worries, that anyone can be wildly successful by being the best in any field, whether it is programming, basketball, or anything?
Not saying the headline's claim is true or untrue, but... these are all examples of very rare individuals - the luckiest or the most skilled of all the geeks, that made it big.
If you go by that argument, I can also point out that alot of the jocks from high school are now making many, many millions of dollars as professional athletes (NFL, NBA, etc.)
Disclaimer: Didn't RTFA, but still, dumb argument.
There's a "rest of the state?" :)
(Also in NoVA, no outages or severe weather here)
great, first the VA shooter, and now this anti-korean game.
hope there's at least some south korean protagnoists in the game or else i'm pretty sure i'm gonna get capped in the face by some idiot for being korean.
Eh.. my arguments may not hold up, but I'm just applying occams razor. Simplest explanation is that this is a hoax.
Read this thread where these screenshots first showed up back in January (from a new account with a single post). And decide for yourself...
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/967600-windows-app-store-screenshot/
It's FAKE. It's a HOAX.. Look at the apps in the app store list:
* Angry Birds: Not by "clickgamer" it's by Rovio.
* Windows 7 Ultimate? As an app you can download from Windows 8?
* "App Store" is trademarked by Apple.
* Title bar text isn't centered like in other Win8 leaks.
FAKE. move along, nothing to see here....
When someone makes an extrordinary claim in science (i.e., cold fusion), many others must also reproduce and verify the claim before people have faith in it. If it can't be verified, then people won't have faith in it.
For real theories, even though we're trusting experts, the experts can continually provide consistent results that support the theories.
When someone makes an extrordinary claim in religion (i.e., cured blindness via prayer), it has generally not been possible to verify or reproduce the claims (or else a lucrative business would be starting blindness cure clinics where people pray for you until you're healed, right?). But people still have faith anyway. That's the difference.
With religion, even the experts can't reproduce or verify their own claims. (If prayer really worked better than western medicine, you would see a faith healer replace the surgeon general)
Am I the only one who read the parent post in an eastern european accent from the DirectTV commercial with the tiny giraffe? ("Opulence, I has it." -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkMsSIjQXxo)
... Is not about stat, is about the expeirence, and apple has it."
"...I want usability. And Apple has that.
Mmmmmmmm... heat-pies.. glarggghughhhhhh *Drool*
Relevant Propaganda http://www.hulu.com/watch/4510/futurama-anti-robot-propaganda
Everyone.. it's not 1.4M sales in a year.
As of March 9th, we've had a total of 67 full days in the year. (31 in jan, 28 in feb, 8 in march). This year we have 365 days. Our year is only 18.35616% over.
350k sales in 67 days translates to 1907k sales in 365 days.
1907k * $0.99 * (35%) = $660.8k
Yeah, if you guess purely random, you will probably win only 50% of the time. The real trick is to outguess the computer by figuring out what it thinks that you think.
In reality, I beat the first 7 rounds, then lost 10 in a row. Then later lost about 12-15 rounds in a row and ragequit immediately.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
Sorry, this is slashdot... that's as far as we know. Maybe someone from the Outside can chime in on what happens when a man and woman get together??
Hopefully it's sweet like ninjas! (I love ninjas)
I like your idea, but here's my cynical take:
What if individuals could feel the benefits of other's happiness without doing anything to contribute on their own? (I.e., sitting around all day, while enjoying the happiness earned by other's who are living happy and successful lives?)
What if we could feel the joy of being a billionaire, winning the lottery, earning a promotion, having sex with hot girls, and etc., while not having to do any of it? Would anyone really strive to do it?
Best. Sentence. Ever.
:)
Hey, sorry, my attitude wasn't directed at you. I should have picked a better comment to hit reply to. There are many people dismissing this as a flat-four, without actually watching the video to see that it's completely different. That's where my irritation was directed towards.
No issues with you asking questions. I'll try to address your question in non-car-speak: The difference is that a boxer engine is still like a traditional engine, where you have # of cylinders = # of pistons. In this engine you have 2x the number of pistons in each cylinder.
In a traditional IC engine, each piston moves in and out of each cylinder - and in your head, you can imagine the cylinder as being like a "cup" that the piston moves into and out of. That's how a traditional IC engine, boxer or not, works.
In this engine, instead of the cylinder being shaped like a "cup" that a piston slides into, the cylinder is actually a real cylinder that is open at both ends. And there are two pistons that move in that one cylinder.
Hope that helps.
I not a car guy. So, will someone explain to me how this differs from a boxer engine?
No offense to you, but nobody here is reading TFA or looking at the video of it in motion.. argh.
This is not a boxer engine. This is not the same as the engine in the Subaru WRX/etc.
If you look at the video, you'll see that there are TWO moving pistons in each combustion chamber. In a traditional engine, you have a single piston in one cylinder that moves back and forth in the cylinder. In this engine, you have TWO pistons that are in the same cylinder, moving in opposite directions. So a 2-cylinder engine would actually have 4 pistons.
"Do not look into hotel with remaining eye."
Well, eventually they will escalate from stronger monkeys to gorillas. And that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
You should joke with a fool look-a-like before you correct people as it just makes you joke like a fool.
I don't see our gasoline infastructure going away in a few years. Even if we made all the breakthroughs you suggest in the next 10 years, the roads will still be filled with IC-engines. It will take MANY decades for IC engines to be phased out.
1) Many people won't upgrade to electric because their gas powered car still works fine.
2) MANY people - "driving enthusiasts" - will still want to drive around in their old IC-car. I know, for a fact, that I will still have a nice rumbly V8 in 40 years, if I'm still alive. I don't care if gasoline is $50 a gallon from a specialty store. You will always have people like me who will find great joy in driving an IC car, the same way many of us still opt for a manual transmission when modern dual-clutch automatics are actually faster and more efficient. It's not always about dollars and it's not always about efficiency. Sometimes it's about that irrational and illogical love for the sound of a finely tuned IC engine. I know I'll find joy in roaring past a column of silent electric cars in my vintage 2015 gas powered car, 40 years from now.
Ah, sorry if I misunderstood. I have an angry knee-jerk reaction to people complaining about cutting into a lane at the last second is. Yeah, purposely entering an exit lane only to return to your original lane after bypassing 100ft of the jam is definately no good.
:)
My bad.