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"I cnduo't bvleiee taht..."
What actually amazes me is that I immediatly recognized that there was a missing L...
"I cnduo't bvleiee taht..."
What actually amazes me is that I immediatly recognized that there was a missing L...
“Although the total number of electrons in the memory does not change as the stored data changes,” Dr. Kubiatowicz said, the trapped ones have a higher energy than the untrapped ones. A conservative estimate of the difference would be 10^(-15) joules per bit.
As the equation E=mc^2 makes clear, this energy is equivalent to mass and will have weight. Assuming that all these bits in an empty four-gigabyte Kindle are in a lower energy state and that half have a higher energy in a full Kindle, this translates to an energy difference of 1.7 times 10^(-5) joules, Dr. Kubiatowicz calculated. Plugging this into Einstein’s equation yields his rough estimate of 10^(-18) grams.
Of course Kubiatowicz also says that:
[10^(-18) grams] is only about one hundred-millionth as much as the estimated fluctuation from charging and discharging the device’s battery.
Which is a far better comparison than the one obtained from The Guardian where Graeme Ackland of Edinburgh University stated:
"If Prof Kubiatowicz is really struggling with the extra weight, he is welcome to come to Edinburgh where it's cooler, and the lack of thermal energy in his Kindle will more than compensate."
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which would mean a loss of some control and in many cars also disables power steering.
SHUTTING OFF YOUR ENGINE WILL NOT CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR CAR.
TFA was referring to a loss of some control, which is exactly what happens when you lose power steering/brake assist. It was not referring to a total loss of control or "endo"...
Test this by shutting off your engine in your driveway and...
Don't. With modern vehicles, letting the engine rotate while powered off may damage the catalytic converter when it is reached by non-burned/liquid fuel. You should only do that for a 10-20 meters in case of an emergency start (e.g., depleted battery due to age/cold temperatures).
Braking or pressing the cancel button will not work
BRAKING ALWAYS WORKS
TFA, again, is correct since it is explaining that braking will not work for the purpose of disabling cruise control.
What I'm asking now is: when will Nvidia and HP be able to use these patents content to improve their products? Did these patents cover something technologically significant?
Is an USPTO decision, for once, going to foster innovation?
But apart from the occasional full page (bitmap) graphics, most of the two issues is black text on white background, no graphical details, two uniform-width columns, left justified, no feathering whatsoever, widows and orphans everywhere, etc.
If this was meant as a proof of good typesetting, it fails. But whether this is FOSS' or editor's failure, that's hard to tell.
Speedometers in cars are analog exactly because of that: it takes no time to interpret analog hands/dials with respect to reading and understanding a 3 numbers figure.
And that's not going to change anytime soon since it's how our brain works. Numbers need to be made sense of, oblique lines don't.
(Besides, doesn't anyone feel that 4s representation in 7-segment displays is wrong?)
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
