After the subsidy, the Chevy Volt is something like $35,000. That's within reach of the upper middle class at least. And it's quite affordable if leased ($350/mo).
I don't know about the fakester accounts, I doubt it upset that many people. The damage was already done by their inability to scale up. That's ultimately what did Friendster in. Well, that and the fact that MySpace had plenty of iron on hand to handle the deluge of Friendster refugees.
There's room for both. The real-world costs of LFTR's still remain to be seen. There's not going to be a one-shot magic bullet for our future energy needs (there isn't even one for our today-energy needs). It's going to be a mix of several different power sources.
Who cares if they burn another regeneration? The arbitrary limit of 13 incarnations can easily be gotten around. For instance, the Master was resurrected for the Time War and presumably given a fresh set of regenerations, why wouldn't the Time Lords have reset everyone's "regeneration counter" back to zero, or removed the limit entirely?
It would've had to be designed for that from the get-go. The shuttle as it exists would die in about 3 weeks in orbit and be more trouble than it's worth.
Baseband firmware's separate from Android. Nobody else locks it down like that, and if Moto was so worried about fiddling with the baseband, then burn it into an non-writable ROM chip. The eFuse is watching for any modifications to the OS Kernel and Bootloader, the "computer bits."
They're not destroying it after the fact, they're booby-trapping it up front. Now, if an official update accidentally tripped the fuse on unmodified phones . . . well that would make for quite a show, I'll make the popcorn. But yeah, I think they can put whatever countermeasures they want to in a phone. I think it ought to be illegal, but I don't believe it currently is. I'm glad I know about this eFuse and Motorola's asshattery. I'll gladly give my money to Motorola's competitors when I get my next phone(s).
AFAIK, as long as the voltages are the same, you can use a higher wattage power supply on a smaller device without problems. The device will only take what amperage it needs.
I said "fraud" not "unreliable." There's a big difference. Kos fired R2K when Nate Silver rated their performance in accurately predicting the outcome of elections very poorly. Crappy != Fraud, at least not by default. Evidence of fraud surfaced in the fourth party study, which has spurred the Daily Kos to file suit.
As for polls - you will always get a flawed poll since some people aren't truthful or are just hanging up on the pollers. And then there are some people that are answering truthfully but then never goes to the election.
Of course, but that's not the issue here. The issue here is R2K's survey data appears to have been altered or fabricated by the pollster themselves.
^I doubt they will. There are segments of the market in both computing and mobile devices that Apple simply doesn't want to bother with (budget, alternative form factors in mobile devices, etc). And so they will never have a true monopoly in those spaces because they just plain don't want one. They'll be a major player for the foreseeable future, but they're not interested in taking everything over.
Phones are pretty well dominated by ARM. Intel's trying it's damnedest to wedge x86 in to the smartphone segment, but are there any widespread phones or mobile devices running anything but an ARM-derivative?
It's an interesting idea, however Senators were previously appointed by their state's legislatures and I don't like the idea of going back to that system. It'll probably make them even more beholden to pork barrel projects to please their state legislators. I fear the problem would become even worse.
There's no lower limit to the size of a bomb made with stable ordinary matter. You can use chemical explosives and/or kinetic energy just fine and with much less effort and energy than generating antimatter for the same effect.
Pure conjecture here, but perhaps the motive was to indicate obvious tampering in an election that wouldn't matter much in the larger scheme of things (the Republican incumbent is all but certain to win no matter what Democrat runs) to demonstrate by example how flawed the voting machines are in the hopes of getting them banned.
But filtering is probably the behavior you want. Much of the gulf spill is a microns-thick rainbow-colored sheen on the surface of the water, and there's really no way to clean that up or burn it off beyond letting nature take its course. If you can run a bunch of supertankers around the oil slick Roomba style, they could pump large volumes of oil and seawater through filters like these, dump the clean water and hold on to the oil. If the filters work well enough, it might be possible to circle the whole slick and keep it confined away from shore.
It's the volume that really matters here. Right now, the best way we've got to "compress" hydrogen into a suitable vehicle fuel is by building it into bigger molecules that can be conveniently dense liquids at normal atmospheric pressures and temperatures. Hence biodiesel and liquid hydrocarbons.
The Nexus One has turned out exactly as Google had intended--showcasing what Android is capable of on nice hardware. It was never meant to be sold in huge volumes, it's targeted for developers and enthusiasts.
. . . but it broke a mission-critical web app and they had to roll it back to IE6. Since more and more sites aren't bothering to target IE6 anymore, I've installed Chrome and use that for everything but that one stupid web app.
It'll suck for some titles, but it won't make any real difference for the popular titles--it takes about a month for demand to die down enough to actually get a popular new release in my experiences. Not that it matters much to me--I've got plenty of other stuff in my queue.
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Sorry, $33,500 as quoted by Chevy.
After the subsidy, the Chevy Volt is something like $35,000. That's within reach of the upper middle class at least. And it's quite affordable if leased ($350/mo).
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I don't know about the fakester accounts, I doubt it upset that many people. The damage was already done by their inability to scale up. That's ultimately what did Friendster in. Well, that and the fact that MySpace had plenty of iron on hand to handle the deluge of Friendster refugees.
There's room for both. The real-world costs of LFTR's still remain to be seen. There's not going to be a one-shot magic bullet for our future energy needs (there isn't even one for our today-energy needs). It's going to be a mix of several different power sources.
I'm pretty sure they'll still do the developer editions like they did with the G1/ADB1 and Ion.
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!
The rumor came from The Sun. Huge grain of salt, people.
Who cares if they burn another regeneration? The arbitrary limit of 13 incarnations can easily be gotten around. For instance, the Master was resurrected for the Time War and presumably given a fresh set of regenerations, why wouldn't the Time Lords have reset everyone's "regeneration counter" back to zero, or removed the limit entirely?
It would've had to be designed for that from the get-go. The shuttle as it exists would die in about 3 weeks in orbit and be more trouble than it's worth.
Baseband firmware's separate from Android. Nobody else locks it down like that, and if Moto was so worried about fiddling with the baseband, then burn it into an non-writable ROM chip. The eFuse is watching for any modifications to the OS Kernel and Bootloader, the "computer bits."
They're not destroying it after the fact, they're booby-trapping it up front. Now, if an official update accidentally tripped the fuse on unmodified phones . . . well that would make for quite a show, I'll make the popcorn. But yeah, I think they can put whatever countermeasures they want to in a phone. I think it ought to be illegal, but I don't believe it currently is. I'm glad I know about this eFuse and Motorola's asshattery. I'll gladly give my money to Motorola's competitors when I get my next phone(s).
AFAIK, as long as the voltages are the same, you can use a higher wattage power supply on a smaller device without problems. The device will only take what amperage it needs.
I said "fraud" not "unreliable." There's a big difference. Kos fired R2K when Nate Silver rated their performance in accurately predicting the outcome of elections very poorly. Crappy != Fraud, at least not by default. Evidence of fraud surfaced in the fourth party study, which has spurred the Daily Kos to file suit.
Actually, Kos had already fired R2K before the study was performed. Evidence of fraud was only recently discovered.
Of course, but that's not the issue here. The issue here is R2K's survey data appears to have been altered or fabricated by the pollster themselves.
^I doubt they will. There are segments of the market in both computing and mobile devices that Apple simply doesn't want to bother with (budget, alternative form factors in mobile devices, etc). And so they will never have a true monopoly in those spaces because they just plain don't want one. They'll be a major player for the foreseeable future, but they're not interested in taking everything over.
Phones are pretty well dominated by ARM. Intel's trying it's damnedest to wedge x86 in to the smartphone segment, but are there any widespread phones or mobile devices running anything but an ARM-derivative?
It's an interesting idea, however Senators were previously appointed by their state's legislatures and I don't like the idea of going back to that system. It'll probably make them even more beholden to pork barrel projects to please their state legislators. I fear the problem would become even worse.
Safari is closed-source but uses WebKit. Apple contributes code to the WebKit project, but does not share the sources for the complete Safari browser.
There's no lower limit to the size of a bomb made with stable ordinary matter. You can use chemical explosives and/or kinetic energy just fine and with much less effort and energy than generating antimatter for the same effect.
Pure conjecture here, but perhaps the motive was to indicate obvious tampering in an election that wouldn't matter much in the larger scheme of things (the Republican incumbent is all but certain to win no matter what Democrat runs) to demonstrate by example how flawed the voting machines are in the hopes of getting them banned.
But filtering is probably the behavior you want. Much of the gulf spill is a microns-thick rainbow-colored sheen on the surface of the water, and there's really no way to clean that up or burn it off beyond letting nature take its course. If you can run a bunch of supertankers around the oil slick Roomba style, they could pump large volumes of oil and seawater through filters like these, dump the clean water and hold on to the oil. If the filters work well enough, it might be possible to circle the whole slick and keep it confined away from shore.
It's the volume that really matters here. Right now, the best way we've got to "compress" hydrogen into a suitable vehicle fuel is by building it into bigger molecules that can be conveniently dense liquids at normal atmospheric pressures and temperatures. Hence biodiesel and liquid hydrocarbons.
The Nexus One has turned out exactly as Google had intended--showcasing what Android is capable of on nice hardware. It was never meant to be sold in huge volumes, it's targeted for developers and enthusiasts.
. . . but it broke a mission-critical web app and they had to roll it back to IE6. Since more and more sites aren't bothering to target IE6 anymore, I've installed Chrome and use that for everything but that one stupid web app.
It'll suck for some titles, but it won't make any real difference for the popular titles--it takes about a month for demand to die down enough to actually get a popular new release in my experiences. Not that it matters much to me--I've got plenty of other stuff in my queue.