Try representing 1/3 in any finite number of digits. You can't.
"1/3"
You can. I just did. So did you. In base-10, even. In fact, the answer is the same for base-4 or higher. Using only two digits, "1" and "3". Any rational number can be represented using a finite number of digits, using... (wait for it) a RATIO.
(Represent one-third in Base 2? why that would be "1/11". One-third in Base 3 would be "1/10".)
Freight trains get right-of-way because the carriers get massive penalties for delays (especially e.g. refrigerated foodstuffs). It is definitely cheaper to bribe passengers with, say, a free meal for your inconvenience.
Freight is also worth much more per cubic metre than a person - carriers would rather lose grumpy passengers than lucrative freight contacts.
the electric engine's serious torque will allow it to do 0-60mph in about 3 seconds
The engine's power does this. To get a X-kg mass up to 60mph requires about 400J per kg (e.g. a 500kg car would require about 200kJ)
...in about 3 seconds
Change in energy / change in time = POWER, not torque! An engine's power dictates how fast a given mass can accelerate.
I know of another creature, vaguely reptilian to the less-informed, with triangular "wings". It is sleek like a fighter-jet (perhaps more so than this dinosaur)...
how hard would it really be for a next-gen console to pull this off?
The current level of AI found in modern games is not a limit of how smart the processor is. AI is limited by the inability to express AI-ness in modern programming languages.
The hardware can be open source - "source" being the design files etc, in the same way that some OSS has source code available, but not necessarily the binaries.
The hardware would simply be free (as in speech) rather than free (as in beer).
Surely it'll backfire -
The summary states specific Intel chips, not even all Intel chips - what are the odds that the 6-10 colleagues that you want to make conference call with even all HAVE the acceptable chips? Surely if even one of those users doesn't, it kinda ruins it for all involved, and consequently all get irritated at Skype?
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Try representing 1/3 in any finite number of digits. You can't.
"1/3"
You can. I just did. So did you. In base-10, even. In fact, the answer is the same for base-4 or higher. Using only two digits, "1" and "3". Any rational number can be represented using a finite number of digits, using... (wait for it) a RATIO.
(Represent one-third in Base 2? why that would be "1/11". One-third in Base 3 would be "1/10".)
Freight trains get right-of-way because the carriers get massive penalties for delays (especially e.g. refrigerated foodstuffs). It is definitely cheaper to bribe passengers with, say, a free meal for your inconvenience. Freight is also worth much more per cubic metre than a person - carriers would rather lose grumpy passengers than lucrative freight contacts.
the electric engine's serious torque will allow it to do 0-60mph in about 3 seconds
...in about 3 seconds
The engine's power does this. To get a X-kg mass up to 60mph requires about 400J per kg (e.g. a 500kg car would require about 200kJ)
Change in energy / change in time = POWER, not torque! An engine's power dictates how fast a given mass can accelerate.
I know of another creature, vaguely reptilian to the less-informed, with triangular "wings". It is sleek like a fighter-jet (perhaps more so than this dinosaur)...
... and comes with frikkin' lasers on it's HEAD!
how hard would it really be for a next-gen console to pull this off? The current level of AI found in modern games is not a limit of how smart the processor is. AI is limited by the inability to express AI-ness in modern programming languages.
No, no, no. Soccer is european football, not the other way around.
Oh, so european football is not soccer?
The hardware can be open source - "source" being the design files etc, in the same way that some OSS has source code available, but not necessarily the binaries. The hardware would simply be free (as in speech) rather than free (as in beer).
Could've had over 4 billion if your employer had picked a 32-bit OS...
Surely it'll backfire - The summary states specific Intel chips, not even all Intel chips - what are the odds that the 6-10 colleagues that you want to make conference call with even all HAVE the acceptable chips? Surely if even one of those users doesn't, it kinda ruins it for all involved, and consequently all get irritated at Skype?