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by radiorental 8y ago
I stand corrected. That said, I do remember that while the OG PS4 shipped with the Blu-Ray hardware, the PS4 would not play the Blu-Ray format. I guess at some point they started shipping a software update to support the format.
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by radiorental 8y ago
Forgive me, you are right, it does now. When it shipped it did not support Blu-Ray for the reasons mentioned above.
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by radiorental 8y ago
Sony is well known for avoiding cannibalization of other divisions to the point of shooting itself in the foot. E.g. the PS4 doesn't have a Blu-Ray drive because Sony also sells Blu-Ray players at roughly the same cost at the PS4 (kee
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by radiorental 8y ago
I suspect they could do this but it turned out they couldn't get the cost of the design down. So, they have a working product, but once they had a better idea of the numbers they killed it, hence the late stage cancelation.
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by radiorental 8y ago
There has to be something else going on here. It strikes me as relatively simple to have the device talk to the mat and optimise on which coil was providing the most current draw. I suspect that engineering does have a design that meets re
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by radiorental 8y ago
I believe you mean that separation of hate speech from freedom of speech rights isn't easy.
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by radiorental 8y ago
Them be Centimeters Matey!
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by radiorental 8y ago
The market value and construction cost are two very different things.
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by radiorental 8y ago
Validation of autogenerated code is a well established field. E.g. https://www.mathworks.com/products/transitioned/simverificat...
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by radiorental 8y ago
I don't have access to JPL's models obviously, but here's a simple student project 'reverse engineering' the rovers in some of the same tools JPL uses. Note the control diagrams towards the end. These are the very
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by radiorental 8y ago
> I still haven't seen any case for visual programming. Aerodef, automotive, etc all use some form of visual programming. Controls engineers rarely write code, the systems are way too complex. E.g. I highly recommend watching this
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by radiorental 8y ago
Re-read my comment. It has sold more units that any other electric car.
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by radiorental 8y ago
Updated my parent comment. I took my numbers from wikipedia. My understanding is that Leaf sales have declined as better cars have come on the market. That said, I was providing a counterpoint to the OP's statement that Japanese manu
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by radiorental 8y ago
> Leaf didn't change anything. Citation needed. Nissan has sold 400,000 of them to date. I believe that once the initial backorder is addressed and Model 3's get some miles under their belts we will see the various subpar engin
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by radiorental 8y ago
You are aware there a whole bunch of other parts of the planet? Total worldwide sales of the leaf are north of 400,000 units. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf "Global sales totaled over 380,000 Leafs by D
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by radiorental 8y ago
The most popular selling electric car is a Nissan leaf, has been on the market for 8 years, and it costs half of a model 3 (ignoring specs)
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by radiorental 8y ago
I expect us to die. I think you may have misread the intent of my comment. We're going away.
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by radiorental 8y ago
I view our success as a product of evolution. It is the driving factor that got us down out of the trees, cultivating our food and to where we are today. Would we be putting a little less pressure on the environment without people like Edw
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by radiorental 8y ago
Your wife could do all of that on a video conference call, and actually see the person's real face + nunaces. Not sure how VR solves the problem you describe. Your wife needs to be there in person if a skype call wouldn't suffice
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by radiorental 8y ago
Are you talking about the iPhone?? That's not a virtual keyboard. Your finger knows when it's touching the screen. Also, tapping on designate target and freeform drawing are two very different things There's no possible su
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by radiorental 8y ago
Yes, but who are these people and what are they doing when they travel? VR is just a video conference call on steroids. Business travel is 'common' but relative to the rest of productive output at an average business it's pe
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by radiorental 8y ago
Two thoughts, based on evaluating remote collaboration tech. 1) Writing on virtual whiteboard in VR just doesn't feel right, there's no tactile feedback. It's doable but doesn't beat a real whiteboard (nothing beats a r
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by radiorental 8y ago
What real-world use case does putting all the [insert job function] in a single virtual room solve? This is a case of tech looking for a solution. I pick up the phone or email people in the same building. I'm not sure jumping into a
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by radiorental 8y ago
There's recent reporting that Glyphosate affects insect gut bacteria. https://cen.acs.org/environment/pesticides/Glyphosate-disrup... I think the larger point being, the more chemicals we insert into the envi
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Scientists Have Found Rare Giant Viruses Lurking in the Soil of a US Forest(sciencealert.com)
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by radiorental 8y ago
The case is that you know what is your food. Too often we'd order Indian and realise they had added extra salt to preserve some 'overstock' Also, invariably the content in takeaway food is the lowest cost produce. If you care
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by radiorental 8y ago
'decommissioned' means different things to different people https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-f117-nighthawk-ste...
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by radiorental 8y ago
I never charge at home if I can avoid paying for it. Not everyone lives in a house with dedicated electrical outlets.
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by radiorental 8y ago
Plugshare.com is your friend.
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by radiorental 8y ago
> Plus, what about the Bolt, Volt, i3, Soul EV, or any number of other EVs? Only teslas can charge on the supercharger network afaik. And, Nissan dealers will let other manufacturers car's charge if you pay, ymmv but it happens. Li

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