seems a bit suspect to me so I'm going to try going through the maths
4ft = 1.2m, the LEDs, being slightly generous I'll say consume 5W. 5*60*60*4 (total power he claims it uses) = 72000J. Work = force * Distance so 72000/1.2 = 60,000N. translating that into Kg that's a 6100kg weight needed for that much energy (assuming 100% efficiency)!
Is my science/maths flawed or has the guy in question simply not done his figures?
The summary is incredibly poorly written. Essentially the cars extract the hydrogen from hydrocarbons and store the carbon leftovers in a tank.
This is a poor idea as not only is extracting the hydrogen inefficient, you're only using a minority of the mass of the fuel to power the car and worse, you're transporting the waste around with you, then shipping it back to a processing plant where more energy will be spent making it usable. You waste so much energy throughout this process and you're using non-renewable resources doing it. Can't see anything coming from this.
What matters most for me is reliability. I've a crap Orange SPV C600 that crashes all the time. Even the alarm function is buggy.
My experience with mobile implementations of linux hasn't been great, experiencing laggy software and random crashes (the GP2X even had an issue where it would randomly brick itself). A mobile OS which is a Java software layer on top of Linux on devices with limited resources makes me uneasy.
I suppose. Depends on how far back the investigation goes. The EU aren't known for being up to speed in anti-trust cases (the record fine to nintendo was one of the worst cases of them lagging).
That's a false/bad analogy. You have a legal right to an equal chance at education and healthcare. Businesses don't have a legal right to force you to buy their products. There's simply little reason today for anyone to buy a phenom over a core2, it's simply an inferior product and currently that's being reflected in the sales of the products.
The problem is Intel are producing better chips than AMD and are able to make them for less because of lower failure rates and smaller die sizes. The main problem with the CPU industry at the moment is AMD are just doing bad in general and not keeping pace.
In the UK the law has been tested many times and a sale isn't binding until the following 3 stages are complete:
1. Invitation to treat (legal term) 2. Offer 3. Acceptance
Acceptance being the good has shipped. They are under no obligation to actually sell you something for a price advertised.
However conversely trading standards say the price advertised has to be the price at the till for goods. There's an insane fine for stores that get it wrong when inspected, something like £1000... Per miss-priced item (imagine if they're got 100 tins of beans on the shelf and they're found to be wrongly marked) and as a result many will sell misspriced items at the lower rate so that you won't tell trading standards. Tescos (UK's biggest supermarket chain) used to have a policy of any misspriced item being free. They dropped this policy after one store got the price wrong for xbox 360s and people found out about it...
I'm not sure if this is true or not but apparently every OLPC unit has a piece of kill code in it which will brick the unit if they think a unit intended for a child has gone to a third party. Even if I was to do the BOGO option, I'd feel incredibly uncomfortable knowing my unit has the capability to be bricked at will.
Am I paranoid or gullible or does this worrying piece of software exist on the unit? Is anyone working on a patch to remove it?
"All of that is immaterial. His feet don't 'give him way more energy' than a naturally footed sprinter. They can't. The only energy they store is that which is put there by the runner. I haven't studied his running style, but I expect that he has modified his style to maximize the energy put into the foot, and that the foot unloads the energy back into his lower leg on rolling off of the toe. Now, this is unnatural and required a great deal of training before he mastered it well enough to beat footed sprinters. I call bullshit on the IAAF."
When a regular foot hits the floor when running, almost all the energy is lost when it impacts the floor. There is almost no elasticity in the lower leg. This means when making the next stride, almost all the energy needed to maintain speed comes from muscles.
When this carbon limb hits the ground, it flexes, storing some of the force rather than transferring it to the ground. When the next stride is made the carbon limb will want to relieve it's tension and will provide a force that will assist the muscles
Isn't it a false economy to say that the iMac is cheaper? A PC will last you about 2-3 years before it starts to creak but a monitor should theoretically last you much longer, most people only buy new monitors because they're switching from CRTs or what something bigger. With the imac you lose the monitor when you upgrade and have to factor the cost of it in when buying the next system. With a Dell you could save yourself $300 off and reuse the monitor.
Dells also are much easier to incrementally upgrade than imacs.
Why not have the sensors run from an induced current. If it's only possible for the sensors to be supplied with a low voltage, even if they short. doesn't that mostly eliminate the chance of sparking?
You can't really blame MS for this one. It's pretty hard to install games without needing at least some access to critical files. Whenever you're installing something, there will always be an element of trust
The choices on that CSS styles comparisson seem deeply unfair. There are lots of questionable choices, for example it slates browsers for not including a non-standard Mozilla only atrribute that isn't part of the specification. They seem to be carefully chosen, test of random or the most common attributes would be fair but it seems the author picked them himself with no reasoning given.
I've yet to come across Opera based CSS issues (only major problem is Opera hates curly quote marks and seems to have a limited selection of standard fonts) but there are some major Mozilla ones that aren't represented there. Lack of support for negative z-indexes is one that had to cause me to do some extensive recoding of a site recently
I suspect very few of the "call the Waaaambulance" type people here have actually read the article. There's actually quite compelling evidence of shady or unfair goings on in that trial. Completely striking the testimony of one of the main negotiators because of a family member with vested interests (having a wife work at one company is worse than you working for another company?) does seem extremely odd. It's not even slight testimony, it essentially was confirmation that SCO were told and led to believe they had ownership of Unix rights.
Although this testimony could've had holes picked in, to completely discount something so incredibly important to the case is odd.
If you don't turn up to court to defend your writing against libel, if wouldn't be terribly difficult for a court to find most things injurious to the character and reputation of a person/organization.
The paradox is that without a defence, you're not likely to be cleared but to mount a defence you have to give up anonymity. Hence why these things can't really have initial hearings. Only chance is if a judge thinks there's no case to answer.
I believe the for dropping Directsound is that the technology rarely changes significantly for sound cards and that direct access isn't needed because there's only limited commands needed for sound cards. Weighing the benefits of crashing due to poor drivers to the benefits direct access gives you.
actually XP is incapable of running true DX10 applications because DX10 removes directsound. Because of buggy graphics card drivers, Directsound was all too often a cause of crash bugs. Vista, rather than talking to sound hardware uses a software layer to interface with soundcards so software makers never actually get direct access (and are less likely to crash because of this). This is what you're supposed to use instead of directsound and XP doesn't offer anything like this.
But to say that is to deny our ability to flame MS! Clearly it's an example of MS' incompetence that a random number generator that's 7+ years old has been broken by recent maths and it can be exploited to gain full access when you already have full access!
That question would indicate their attitude that they don't have to worry about the PIs. The government and various media companies are just waiting to find some technicality they can get them on to shut down the site. There's a lot of seemingly unrelated laws out there that could give them reason to prosecute them. Remember Al Capone was stopped purely on a technicality because it was impossible to try him for his gangster activities.
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seems a bit suspect to me so I'm going to try going through the maths
4ft = 1.2m, the LEDs, being slightly generous I'll say consume 5W. 5*60*60*4 (total power he claims it uses) = 72000J. Work = force * Distance so 72000/1.2 = 60,000N. translating that into Kg that's a 6100kg weight needed for that much energy (assuming 100% efficiency)!
Is my science/maths flawed or has the guy in question simply not done his figures?
The summary is incredibly poorly written. Essentially the cars extract the hydrogen from hydrocarbons and store the carbon leftovers in a tank. This is a poor idea as not only is extracting the hydrogen inefficient, you're only using a minority of the mass of the fuel to power the car and worse, you're transporting the waste around with you, then shipping it back to a processing plant where more energy will be spent making it usable. You waste so much energy throughout this process and you're using non-renewable resources doing it. Can't see anything coming from this.
What matters most for me is reliability. I've a crap Orange SPV C600 that crashes all the time. Even the alarm function is buggy.
My experience with mobile implementations of linux hasn't been great, experiencing laggy software and random crashes (the GP2X even had an issue where it would randomly brick itself). A mobile OS which is a Java software layer on top of Linux on devices with limited resources makes me uneasy.
I suppose. Depends on how far back the investigation goes. The EU aren't known for being up to speed in anti-trust cases (the record fine to nintendo was one of the worst cases of them lagging).
That's a false/bad analogy. You have a legal right to an equal chance at education and healthcare. Businesses don't have a legal right to force you to buy their products. There's simply little reason today for anyone to buy a phenom over a core2, it's simply an inferior product and currently that's being reflected in the sales of the products.
The problem is Intel are producing better chips than AMD and are able to make them for less because of lower failure rates and smaller die sizes. The main problem with the CPU industry at the moment is AMD are just doing bad in general and not keeping pace.
In the UK the law has been tested many times and a sale isn't binding until the following 3 stages are complete:
1. Invitation to treat (legal term)
2. Offer
3. Acceptance
Acceptance being the good has shipped. They are under no obligation to actually sell you something for a price advertised.
However conversely trading standards say the price advertised has to be the price at the till for goods. There's an insane fine for stores that get it wrong when inspected, something like £1000... Per miss-priced item (imagine if they're got 100 tins of beans on the shelf and they're found to be wrongly marked) and as a result many will sell misspriced items at the lower rate so that you won't tell trading standards. Tescos (UK's biggest supermarket chain) used to have a policy of any misspriced item being free. They dropped this policy after one store got the price wrong for xbox 360s and people found out about it...
To try to standardise how this is pronounced? eg. "wizzywig", "scuzzy" etc.
'Zemp' would be a nice easy way of saying this.
Am I paranoid or gullible or does this worrying piece of software exist on the unit? Is anyone working on a patch to remove it?
"All of that is immaterial. His feet don't 'give him way more energy' than a naturally footed sprinter. They can't. The only energy they store is that which is put there by the runner. I haven't studied his running style, but I expect that he has modified his style to maximize the energy put into the foot, and that the foot unloads the energy back into his lower leg on rolling off of the toe. Now, this is unnatural and required a great deal of training before he mastered it well enough to beat footed sprinters. I call bullshit on the IAAF."
When a regular foot hits the floor when running, almost all the energy is lost when it impacts the floor. There is almost no elasticity in the lower leg. This means when making the next stride, almost all the energy needed to maintain speed comes from muscles.
When this carbon limb hits the ground, it flexes, storing some of the force rather than transferring it to the ground. When the next stride is made the carbon limb will want to relieve it's tension and will provide a force that will assist the muscles
You mean apple's adverts lied to me? Dells are supposed to be wrapped in hundreds of metres of wires and stuff!
Isn't it a false economy to say that the iMac is cheaper? A PC will last you about 2-3 years before it starts to creak but a monitor should theoretically last you much longer, most people only buy new monitors because they're switching from CRTs or what something bigger. With the imac you lose the monitor when you upgrade and have to factor the cost of it in when buying the next system. With a Dell you could save yourself $300 off and reuse the monitor. Dells also are much easier to incrementally upgrade than imacs.
Headline is a bit sensationalist.
Why not have the sensors run from an induced current. If it's only possible for the sensors to be supplied with a low voltage, even if they short. doesn't that mostly eliminate the chance of sparking?
There's also the millenium seed bank at wakeshurst place in Sussex which has an extremely comprehensive library of seeds.
You can't really blame MS for this one. It's pretty hard to install games without needing at least some access to critical files. Whenever you're installing something, there will always be an element of trust
The choices on that CSS styles comparisson seem deeply unfair. There are lots of questionable choices, for example it slates browsers for not including a non-standard Mozilla only atrribute that isn't part of the specification. They seem to be carefully chosen, test of random or the most common attributes would be fair but it seems the author picked them himself with no reasoning given. I've yet to come across Opera based CSS issues (only major problem is Opera hates curly quote marks and seems to have a limited selection of standard fonts) but there are some major Mozilla ones that aren't represented there. Lack of support for negative z-indexes is one that had to cause me to do some extensive recoding of a site recently
I suspect very few of the "call the Waaaambulance" type people here have actually read the article. There's actually quite compelling evidence of shady or unfair goings on in that trial. Completely striking the testimony of one of the main negotiators because of a family member with vested interests (having a wife work at one company is worse than you working for another company?) does seem extremely odd. It's not even slight testimony, it essentially was confirmation that SCO were told and led to believe they had ownership of Unix rights. Although this testimony could've had holes picked in, to completely discount something so incredibly important to the case is odd.
4. Get fined by the EU for using lb instead of kilograms
If you don't turn up to court to defend your writing against libel, if wouldn't be terribly difficult for a court to find most things injurious to the character and reputation of a person/organization. The paradox is that without a defence, you're not likely to be cleared but to mount a defence you have to give up anonymity. Hence why these things can't really have initial hearings. Only chance is if a judge thinks there's no case to answer.
I believe the for dropping Directsound is that the technology rarely changes significantly for sound cards and that direct access isn't needed because there's only limited commands needed for sound cards. Weighing the benefits of crashing due to poor drivers to the benefits direct access gives you.
actually in that case you'd likely be sued by the company
actually XP is incapable of running true DX10 applications because DX10 removes directsound. Because of buggy graphics card drivers, Directsound was all too often a cause of crash bugs. Vista, rather than talking to sound hardware uses a software layer to interface with soundcards so software makers never actually get direct access (and are less likely to crash because of this). This is what you're supposed to use instead of directsound and XP doesn't offer anything like this.
But to say that is to deny our ability to flame MS! Clearly it's an example of MS' incompetence that a random number generator that's 7+ years old has been broken by recent maths and it can be exploited to gain full access when you already have full access!
That question would indicate their attitude that they don't have to worry about the PIs. The government and various media companies are just waiting to find some technicality they can get them on to shut down the site. There's a lot of seemingly unrelated laws out there that could give them reason to prosecute them. Remember Al Capone was stopped purely on a technicality because it was impossible to try him for his gangster activities.