We have loads of words with Germanic origins. Doesn't change it from learned.
Learnt, is still slang. If you find it in use here, you will be in a KOA park or truck stop in Tennessee, Arkansas or Mississippi or the deep south.
Pretty much every app has 2.2.x support simply due to the massive installed base, and the fact that they keep rolling out 2.x.x phones in emerging markets.
It's the Windows XP of the mobile world.
Six cars would be 720 kW with the new superchargers, actually
I'm not sure the demand would be all that unpredictable, though, and there are a rather large number of power plants in each NERC interconnect to pick up suerges in demand. Quebec's interconnect (yeah, we have our own, like Texas) is effectively entirely served by a power generation system that can ramp up/down rapidly (hydro) too. On top of that, there's currently a project under construction to connect three of the biggest North American power grids, the Eastern (eastern US and Canada excluding Quebec), western (Western US and Canada excluding Alaska) and Texas interconnects, and that'll start as a 5 gigawatt node, scaling up to 30GW. Using superconducting powerlines, no less.
Anyhow, maybe I'm biased because I come from a place where power is extremely plentiful and cheap to the extent that electrical heating is the overwhelmingly dominant form of heating, but I'm really not convinced that electric cars are going to be a major issue to the grid.
Found memories back in the day. My favorite release was 4.12 right when 4.x was getting a little long in the tooth. Nothing seemed to work right on non server hardware after that.
Yes, you need variable levels of detail, but again, how is that different from PC? The iOS platforms have a relatively limited set of targets that each update roughly once a year (PCs have an enormous set of potential variables), and you don't have to support them that far back. For the iPhone, it's pointless supporting anything older than the 3GS today, for example, meaning you have only four iOS smartphone targets to worry about, and you can usually get away with just doing a low/med/high or even low/high. Compare that to PC... One look at Valve's hardware survey should make anybody cringe at the variation there.
Yes, it's true that you've got the iPod, iPad, and Apple TV on top of that, but the iPod usually tracks the iPhone close enough that you can just pretend it's an iPhone. The iPad normally tracks to the iPhone generation that comes after it, but the screen resolution being much higher differentiates it. And the Apple TV is actually really underpowered (single core), and outdated (still on A5), but if they decided to put some focus on that you could see it with hardware closer to the iPod.
So there's a few things to target there, but there's a lot of overlap, and it's still a much simpler situation than the PC, and you don't necessarily need to do more than two or three performance profiles to cover most or all devices...
Nintendo, I agree, they're in one heck of a pickle. I don't really understand why they went the way they did with the WiiU. If there was an award for "least changes made to hardware platform over three consecutive generations", they'd win it. But more to the point, by picking the previous generation of hardware as their performance target, they've pretty much locked themselves out of any potential cross-platform titles with the PS4 and XBone. That won't be as big a deal in the near term, but later on, when people aren't putting out games for the 360 and PS3? They'll have a hard time getting third party support. Last time around, the Wii had a massive install base, and it still had a real hard time getting compelling third party content. It had barely any cross platform titles, and when it did, they were normally dumbed-down versions. The WiiU has the exact same issue, but without the huge install base... First party titles will help, but I think this generation is really going to be a wash for Nintendo on the console front (the 3DS is selling very well).
In terms of hardware costs this coming generation, that's definitely true. Last time, the 360 and PS3 used bleeding-edge hardware that had a significant performance advantage over anything you'd find in a PC. This time around, the 360 and PS4 look to have about half the performance of a modern PC. They've definitely gone for low-cost and low-tdp there. And to be honest that's probably the right decision this time around. We're reaching a point of diminishing returns in CPU and GPU performance, but having a ton of RAM like the new consoles do, that's probably more valuable than more GPU or CPU power would have been.
50 gb bluray are affordable. i have a 10 spindle of them they cost $36 or $3.6 per blank http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817607055
the license for renting movies out is not that simple.
i have seen highly compressed discs that fit 4 movies a single layer dvd in theory a dual layer bluray can do better by 9x or 36 movies if this new disc is 1 petabyte is equal to 20,971.52 dual layer bluray or 754,974.72 high compression movies per disc. full hd obviously isn't nearly as many movies from tfa 50,000. for 4k, 300gb is a normal encode size for a 90 minute movie so 3,500 movies per petabyte. still not bad. but lets face it, this technology won't pan out, who is going to compress 1 petabyte of movies besides pirates and archivers hoping to preserve the past. optical media has annoying problems with archive if dust scratches or media rot occur and you were using a single optical backup you could lose a lot of movies with ease. i lost a small segment of my music (classical from pressed cds) and when i checked the backup there was damage to the media and i lost a few songs. also i've noticed that burned cdr like for linux aren't guaranteed to work if you order from cheap disc burning operations.
so i think the only way this tech is going to fly is if someone invests into doing it. and without a demo unit it's not going to fly, too many scams in optical disc storage
More than likely the "we are non profit" mantra is double-speak for "we ain't gonna pay much for it" and probably "we'll pay late, and try to get the host to do it for free as a "charity"
So, my advice, look for the dumbest host you can, the smart ones will kick you off in a year or two when they tire of your shit.
The top of mine broke, but its quite fixable. The way it was made the top "brush" (twisted stranded wire) is soldered to a thicker wire in an "A" shape. It had two holes in the top end of the shaft, one of them cracked out. At this point the belt is a good 20 years old, but, last time I rigged it up to work for a few minutes it gives some sparks.
H+ ions eh? Just so happens I was looking at a water torch video recently (sadly, nearly everyone working on such things seems to be a crackpot who is trying to fit an oxyhydrogen generator to his car) and wondering if there was any other silly excuse I could use to set up a rig to make some hydrogen.
Course when you really get down to it, if you are going to go through that much trouble to make a table top accelerator, it seems like it would be easier to skip the electrical energy to mechanical energy and mechanical energy to electrostatic potential steps. Seems like charging a capacitor and using some sort of cathode/annode setup..... and that is how the VDG ended up in the museum
Though, still pretty cool. It may be one of the cheaper and safer ways to get some of the high voltages, high voltage diodes and capacitors are not exactly the cheapest components to build up ladders of.
The faint throbbing that returned to my elbow once in a while for several years after I got the bright idea to put a plastic report cover on the wall next to the VDG and let it run, discharging a stream of small sparks at the plastic surface. It lit up a bright, thick spark, close to 4" to my finger, and traveled right down to the elbow.
But as strong as it can be, at least you only have to deal with as much energy as you store. Not quite dealing with line current.
I wanna see Hillary go down just like Snowden.
What's the difference? I wanna see all the D.C. fucks go down when their time comes. Just like this.
Couldn't be too far off with the Richard Milhouse Obama administration leakin poo out it's pantlegs at recently measured rates.
Cher & Cher alike.
Absolutely nothing's wrong with it
In the early days of Fark, the pages were *all* static -- we generated it whenever we added a new entry, or archived the day's content. The only dynamic bit was the random comments in the banner, and that was a CGI with a randomizer and then would push out a different image once in a while. (and the image was sent NPH to avoid server overhead).
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.