Comment Re:Atomospheric toxins. (Score 1) 256
Yes, but Mars has toxins like no air in the atmosphere.
On both planets, if you stick your head out the window, you're going to die. On one of them though, you have ready sources of water etc.
Yes, but Mars has toxins like no air in the atmosphere.
On both planets, if you stick your head out the window, you're going to die. On one of them though, you have ready sources of water etc.
My favorite feature is Birds Eye view, which uses aerial photos rather than satellite photos. Sometimes that can get you better info from that, since they usually have 4 different perspectives you can rotate through, and they are much closer and more detailed.
That was true, but Google was pretty quick to copy it. They now seem to have incorporated it into their 3D view as well, which makes panning somewhat better (and more importantly hides the worst defects in the 3D view by limiting the projection to a POV very similar to where the texture map image was taken from).
Yep, for sure. This too is my second vehicle. For sure with the limited range it couldn't be my primary one, but for commuting it seems ideal.
Yep, speaking to a couple of colleagues who have the same car, it seems like I managed to negotiate a very good deal. The car is in theory about $34k. There's a $7.5k federal subsidy that comes off that (and is included already in the numbers I quoted above). There's also then a $2.5k CA subsidy that appears in your taxes (and was not included in the numbers I quoted above), so basically, I'm getting a 36 month lease for around $5,700. I figure the depreciation on the vehicle alone would be more than that even if it were petrol. Given that it's electric, and the battery is likely to wear, I'm guessing the depreciation would have been closer to $15-20k.
That sounds like an issue with the laws surrounding driving cars, not an issue with crossing the road.
Aside - while I have no stats to back it up, my bet would be that it's far less dangerous to jay walk in the UK than it is to cross at one of America's crossings attached to a huge light controlled crossroads (mostly due to right turn on red, but partly due to just the sheer number of things drivers must concentrate on). Speaking as a European living in the US, America's road designs are utterly and thoroughly fucked.
In the ballpark of $4000 down (inc CA sales tax, vehicle registration, first payment etc), and $120 a month (inc CA sales tax).
Things I've observed in the short term:
For the most part it feels just like any other golf.
When you're driving around with not many people around you, it's eerily quiet.
On the front of quietness - people don't notice you. Expect people to step out in front of you in supermarket car parks.
Range really suffers going up a hill - on the plus side, you get it all back as you go back down the hill.
Range seems to be roughly as advertised (if not a little more).
Charging seems to be substantially slower than advertised, but that's okay, it has basically a whole day to charge at the weekend.
"Don't jaywalk" has a pretty fucking good reason behind it.
It does? The UK doesn't have a "don't jaywalk" rule, and there don't seem to be any adverse effects.
The problem with "SMT on top" of their current design is that their current design is SMT. They're just marketing it as true 8 cores, not SMT.
The current piledriver design doesn't have 8 separate floating point units, or 8 separate instruction decode units. It has 4 of each. They just have 8 ALUs - 2 to each decode unit. It's ALU/ALU SMT, when Intel has ALU/FP SMT.
There's one other - VW. The eGolf looks basically exactly like a normal golf (with the exception of the front grill being filled in to aid aerodynamics).
And yes, this is exactly the reason that I just leased a new eGolf, and not any of the other electric options.
As someone who arranged the lease on a VW eGolf today, 100 or 200 miles is plenty. As a commuter vehicle that's all you need.
That said, I did still lease it, because 1) the battery will probably be getting crappy in 3 years, and 2) the tech will be *oh so much* better in 3 years time (heck, hopefully I'll be able to lease a model 3 by then).
The i7 4790k is faster than any CPU AMD make, by quite a wide margin. They're trying to sell this as the ultimate graphics crunching box... That needs a faster CPU than they can produce.
No, fuck yeh engineering!
To be fair, the shuttle *does* have rocket motors that propel it. Ofc, it's still incomplete, it lacks the fuel tanks, and enough motors to get it to orbit on its own.
Why is it that slashdot seems to be incapable of seeing the difference between something being in SciFi books, and something being actually designed and implemented by engineers?
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
