It's not very intuitive, but the contact patch is the same with narrow and wide tires. If the weight of the car and tire pressure remains the same, then also the contact area must be the same. Force equals area tmes pressure.
Google for oculus rift.
Actually, we did! At stock clocks the ivy bridge consumes less power an produces less heat. This is especially true for underclocked laptop versions.
They also used screen brightness of 200nits, way below max.
I overclocked my i7-920 from 2.66 to 3.7GHz and noticed significant change in cpu limited games like skyrim or civ 5. It's defenitely worth it if you want to get a few extra years out from your old system.
My nexus s used to lose connection to cell towers with android 2.3.1. Apparently a subsysem had crashed an the only way to restore the connection was to restart the phone. The crash was always silent, without any notification, I usually noticed it when I tried to make phone calls. Often (about every other week) I spent days without connection before I noticed it. The problem was not limited to my phone and it reocurred with firs vanilla 4.0 firmware.
Being able to receive basic phone calls does constitue as "decent function".
It's not two dimensional if it has a measurable thickness, which you stated in that same sentence. Unless you have a different definition of "two dimensional" than the rest of us.
It's two dimensional in sense that the third dimension is insignificantly small relative to other two dimensions e.g. it's flat. Also keep in mind that flat does not mean planar, for example earth is flat in spherical coordinates (r=const).
What I find even more disgusting is the following:
We don't have an obligation to solve America's problems. Our only obligation is making the best product possible.
The core ideas behind capitalism are heartless. You must either participate the lottery called "American Dream" or accept socialism. I will be the first one to welcome you to EU if you choose the latter.
Well apparently corporations are people too
It's not true.
The biggest problem with business today. Not just shortsighted and focused on short term profits, but the "Fuck America" attitude as long as it makes them X amount of more profit. Profit at all costs.
Don't be so modest, the attitude they teach in business school is "Fuck the World".
I thought the size of one bit IS one bits. Next they'll tell you that the size of atom is yellow.
Despite improvements, ICS isn't quite as smooth and responsive as iOS was four years ago on the first iPhone, and it's really becoming quite an annoyance that Google hasn't yet solved this.
Both iOS and Windows Phone 7 use retained mode graphics, while android uses immediate mode graphics. Difference is that in android cpu has to redraw everything on screen when something changes while competitors load everything to GPU which will then redraw the screen. Android developers brag about android being hardware accelerated but it still uses the old model - even tho line command is hardware accelerated the cpu still has to make this line command.
Valve is like no other big company in this business. A good reason for them is that they don't want to, just as plain as that. Valve is owned by Valve employees, they do what they like.
The theory of relativity combines both delta distance and delta time into interval. The interval between two events that are connected by a ray of light (or something moving at the speed of light) is 0.
Apple's strategy for the last decade has been to ride the cusp of the wave of commoditisation. They identify a market that is about to be overrun by commodity products, enter it at the point when they can get commodity prices from their suppliers but still charge premium prices to their customers, and then move on to a new market while keeping a small share at the expensive end of the newly commoditised market.
I personally think that part of Apples success comes from focus on small set of products. They don't speak about generic "target audiences" and "markets" as much as others do and they don't flood those markets with products for each niche segment. For us, consumers, it doesn't matter if Apple can keep it going - they already changed the industry. For apple shareholders there would be something to worry about when P/E ratio grows larger, but currently there's no bubble there.
What kind of technology and materials would we need to get the giant Fermilab etc. down from square kilometres down to square metres or even inches?
A black hole would do. It can compress whole earth down to a small stain on the surface of it.
When velocity approaches the speed of light you'll have 0/0 but you can use L'Hopital's rule and get a definite position/time/mass from Lorenz equations. When speed goes over c the part of Lorenz equations, that is under square root, goes negative and you'll have imaginary time and space.
If all else fails, lower your standards.
