One issue with rechargeable batteries is that they don't hold a load so well (higher internal discharge current) - so you put a set of batteries in your flashlight, and a couple of months from now when you need them, they're empty.
You pay some licensing costs PER PROCESSOR (or PER CORE, or a combination thereof). As such, it might be cheaper to buy a $100k, 32 processors server than a similar performance, $50k, 64 processors server.
"High details" are usually shown in super-zoomed images in games reviews.
30 fps is absolutely enough in minimum frame rate (depends on game, though - less might be enough in some titles).
In this case a drilling robot could do even more - remember that a geologist there would mean his bulk, food and water for half a year (or at least food), backup systems for survival, EVA suit (you'll need one on Mars), and double all this for the return trip.
You could send a 10-ton drilling robot, abandon it there and return half a ton of rocks in the same energy budget, and a drilling robot could do so much more than a geologist in a week
Details on medium-low, and on lower resolution (1280 by 1024 or 1440 by 900 seems to be the limit spot, 800 by 600 is better, and usually 1680 by 1050 not very good. Higher resolutions need not apply).
Usually "smooth gameplay" means decent minimum frame rates
Those laws were applicable in the 1916.
As for the reasoning behind those laws, remember that the judicial system is paid from the country's budget, not by the legal taxes - so, indirectly, you pay for every case that goes to the judge. And, because of those lots and lots of cases that drag for a long time, your own case might take months and months or years and years.
Mod parent up:
Most of the things discussed here have little importance in a "normal" winter, with -5 to -10 Celsius (15 Fahrenheit) and without freezing under the hood. However, ice can form over the many moving parts inside the car, so heating up is good for things other than the engine
I've done it too. It isn't much of a problem in winter (inside air ventilation over windshield will protect it from the air exhaled by one person). However, this is much more a problem with four people in the car, of if it's cold and raining (the ventilation system pulls rain drops inside, then vaporizes them on the heater and sends them across the windshield).
You need to scrape the interior windows when your car was left outside in the winter - internal humidity condenses everywhere, but mostly on the front wind shield)
That's the best thing to do - if the owners want to follow the rules, they will (with just a little bit of "help"). If they don't, putting them against the wall by making them sign some disclaimer or so, is bad for you in both the long and the short term.
Google would be able to "diverge" its Android OS from the modifications made by the mobile phone operators - this would force them to rewrite their modifications from a version of Android to another, or to start back-porting into the version of Android they started with any change Google made.
As for the simple solution "make our modifications available to any competitor by open sourcing them", good luck with that.
Cruise uses less power than ascending (take off) - so you'd need to reduce your estimate. As for the 15 minutes, I wouldn't much trust batteries to not lose performance over time (looking at my mobile phones).
There was a Pegasus rocket(?), launched from a B-52 bomber at higher altitude and speed than what this thingy is capable.
Currently, the Pegasus (air-launched rocket) can put satellites of about 443 kg (1,000 pounds) in LEO.
If this launch vehicle isn't as successful as other launch vehicles, I don't think why other similar ideas will.
The sales tax you're talking about is applied equally to truck tires and ice cream, and this sale tax doesn't go directly to road maintenance. A part of all your taxes go (depending on the current budget) to road maintenance (but the sales tax is not specifically directed to road maintenance, as it would be a - let's say - fuel tax).
However, with a a car you have to pay a yearly "property tax" to your local authorities (well, maybe in the USA it's different), no matter that your car is legally allowed to drive or not. You don't have to pay this "property tax" for a bicycle, even though the value of some bicycles is higher than the value of some cars.
When you are a foreign citizen, searching laptops, personal electronic devices and so on is just a prerequisite for entering the country (if you don't want your laptops to be searched, you are free to leave, but if you want to enter we need to search your laptop).
I don't know how this can be related to US citizens (as a country should not be/is not allowed to refuse entry to its citizens)
Remember that searching personal effects is rarely done, but entirely normal in border posts
Growth-based computer games provide easy, fast accomplishments, and this in some cases creates psychological addiction. I went thru this phase several times, and it ain't pretty remembering how good it felt then.
This works so much faster than in real life, and the rewards are (relatively) so big, real life doesn't offer anything like it (and to top it all, the games can be seen as being played for free, or almost for free - this isn't true at all, but it can be seen like that at the time).
"Then again.. it's NL (and BE).. where we like to take little babies onto the front/rear of our bikes.. without helmets:D"
Guilty of this too, by baby loves riding on its special seat on the bycicle (just behind handle bar). He even steers sometime (which scares the hell out of me)
To protect the aluminium frame and the paint work, I'm resting my bike against posts/trees by the saddle or by the rear wheel, not by the top bar. And even if my bike is having a lowered and oblique top bar (Focus Dirt Decision 2.9), I keep the saddle low and mount/dismount in the "classic" way.
Also, two-stroke engines on motorcycles need oil-and-gasoline, might need maintenance, you can ride a bike when out of electricity but it's difficult to move a motorcycle with an empty tank, and so on.
Cheap electric bikes are at the $499 price tag, which is the price for a nice non-electric bike
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One issue with rechargeable batteries is that they don't hold a load so well (higher internal discharge current) - so you put a set of batteries in your flashlight, and a couple of months from now when you need them, they're empty.
How do you say "AA" battery in Romanian?
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How do you say "AA" battery in German?
Mignon
You pay some licensing costs PER PROCESSOR (or PER CORE, or a combination thereof). As such, it might be cheaper to buy a $100k, 32 processors server than a similar performance, $50k, 64 processors server.
Not to rain on your parade, but...
e-ink is much better in direct sunlight than backlit screens (especially if they are shiny)
"High details" are usually shown in super-zoomed images in games reviews.
30 fps is absolutely enough in minimum frame rate (depends on game, though - less might be enough in some titles).
In this case a drilling robot could do even more - remember that a geologist there would mean his bulk, food and water for half a year (or at least food), backup systems for survival, EVA suit (you'll need one on Mars), and double all this for the return trip.
You could send a 10-ton drilling robot, abandon it there and return half a ton of rocks in the same energy budget, and a drilling robot could do so much more than a geologist in a week
Details on medium-low, and on lower resolution (1280 by 1024 or 1440 by 900 seems to be the limit spot, 800 by 600 is better, and usually 1680 by 1050 not very good. Higher resolutions need not apply).
Usually "smooth gameplay" means decent minimum frame rates
Those laws were applicable in the 1916.
As for the reasoning behind those laws, remember that the judicial system is paid from the country's budget, not by the legal taxes - so, indirectly, you pay for every case that goes to the judge. And, because of those lots and lots of cases that drag for a long time, your own case might take months and months or years and years.
Mod parent up:
Most of the things discussed here have little importance in a "normal" winter, with -5 to -10 Celsius (15 Fahrenheit) and without freezing under the hood. However, ice can form over the many moving parts inside the car, so heating up is good for things other than the engine
I've done it too. It isn't much of a problem in winter (inside air ventilation over windshield will protect it from the air exhaled by one person). However, this is much more a problem with four people in the car, of if it's cold and raining (the ventilation system pulls rain drops inside, then vaporizes them on the heater and sends them across the windshield).
You need to scrape the interior windows when your car was left outside in the winter - internal humidity condenses everywhere, but mostly on the front wind shield)
That's the best thing to do - if the owners want to follow the rules, they will (with just a little bit of "help"). If they don't, putting them against the wall by making them sign some disclaimer or so, is bad for you in both the long and the short term.
The parent isn't troll (except that it's not explicit protectionism by the government, but implicit based on the IP rights)
Patch panels will certainly go smaller over time. UPS-es too, not to mention 24 and 48-ports switches and so on.
Less to pay if you drop the service?
Google would be able to "diverge" its Android OS from the modifications made by the mobile phone operators - this would force them to rewrite their modifications from a version of Android to another, or to start back-porting into the version of Android they started with any change Google made.
As for the simple solution "make our modifications available to any competitor by open sourcing them", good luck with that.
Cruise uses less power than ascending (take off) - so you'd need to reduce your estimate. As for the 15 minutes, I wouldn't much trust batteries to not lose performance over time (looking at my mobile phones).
There was a Pegasus rocket(?), launched from a B-52 bomber at higher altitude and speed than what this thingy is capable.
Currently, the Pegasus (air-launched rocket) can put satellites of about 443 kg (1,000 pounds) in LEO.
If this launch vehicle isn't as successful as other launch vehicles, I don't think why other similar ideas will.
The sales tax you're talking about is applied equally to truck tires and ice cream, and this sale tax doesn't go directly to road maintenance. A part of all your taxes go (depending on the current budget) to road maintenance (but the sales tax is not specifically directed to road maintenance, as it would be a - let's say - fuel tax).
However, with a a car you have to pay a yearly "property tax" to your local authorities (well, maybe in the USA it's different), no matter that your car is legally allowed to drive or not. You don't have to pay this "property tax" for a bicycle, even though the value of some bicycles is higher than the value of some cars.
Maybe even without a flight (Canada, Mexico, naval entry points)
When you are a foreign citizen, searching laptops, personal electronic devices and so on is just a prerequisite for entering the country (if you don't want your laptops to be searched, you are free to leave, but if you want to enter we need to search your laptop).
I don't know how this can be related to US citizens (as a country should not be/is not allowed to refuse entry to its citizens)
Remember that searching personal effects is rarely done, but entirely normal in border posts
"In what ways are other forms of entertainment more real?"
Now this is real entertainment... not
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrIugmr8kzE
Growth-based computer games provide easy, fast accomplishments, and this in some cases creates psychological addiction. I went thru this phase several times, and it ain't pretty remembering how good it felt then.
This works so much faster than in real life, and the rewards are (relatively) so big, real life doesn't offer anything like it (and to top it all, the games can be seen as being played for free, or almost for free - this isn't true at all, but it can be seen like that at the time).
"Then again.. it's NL (and BE).. where we like to take little babies onto the front/rear of our bikes.. without helmets :D"
Guilty of this too, by baby loves riding on its special seat on the bycicle (just behind handle bar). He even steers sometime (which scares the hell out of me)
To protect the aluminium frame and the paint work, I'm resting my bike against posts/trees by the saddle or by the rear wheel, not by the top bar. And even if my bike is having a lowered and oblique top bar (Focus Dirt Decision 2.9), I keep the saddle low and mount/dismount in the "classic" way.
Also, two-stroke engines on motorcycles need oil-and-gasoline, might need maintenance, you can ride a bike when out of electricity but it's difficult to move a motorcycle with an empty tank, and so on.
Cheap electric bikes are at the $499 price tag, which is the price for a nice non-electric bike