That appears to be the bed width between the wheel wells. I assume it would fit width wise on top of the wheels, which is still in the bed. As to the length, not even most full size trucks are long enough to fit the whole sheet. I guess the main point is that you wouldn't have any trouble getting the sheet of plywood home.
In my old Ranger there were a couple of spots in the bed where you could put a couple of 2x8 beams across it and have a place to stack 4x8 sheets. You did have to lower the tailgate, but they didn't stick out past the end of the lowered tailgate so there was no special requirements (flags etc...) for hauling them. It was very convenient. I would hope this truck has a similar feature, since it's almost free to add and increases the utility greatly.
You generally have to find someone willing to sell you a fleet vehicle if you want a full 8 foot bed. Modern trucks are more like minivans with a vestigial bed sticking out of the back.
I have on old fleet truck: four full doors and an eight-foot bed. I love it, it’s getting quite old, and I have no idea how I’m ever going to replace it
I think this is a better summary of his conclusions from that same paragraph:
I conclude that, even rather optimistically, it's going to take many, many deep ideas to build an AI.
The appendix linked there doesn't seem to be ready yet though. In any case, I like how this is phrased. I'd like to see some of the hype around deep learning calm down.
You can use EC2 in somewhat similar ways to GAE. They have Elastic Map Reduce (which runs the MapReduce side of Hadoop) and SimpleDB/S3 for storage. SimpleDB is even one of the backends that Django nonrel supports. The only real instance you have to manage is the web/app server. Amazon also offers a level of free service:
I am more sad about the current state of android tablets. Are there any decent tablets available? When I looked recently, I found a bunch of announcements for stuff that was coming, like the Dell Streak. But the actual tablets available look like knockoff Chinese junk. The Archos tablets seem to be the only moderately respectable devices in the bunch, and those seem to have their share of problems.
The Archos tablet is the same as the Rockchip aPad that is known under many names: iWeb, iRobot, etc. I am doing a sort-of custom rom for the device and it's really hard to do without the sources. I don't really understand the chinese companies, though. Why would they not want people working for them, for free?
Is this true? Because the Archos 5 Internet Tablet source seems to be on their site (I originally didn't find it because the naming is kind of weird, but it's there!)
I have a Dell Streak eval currently. It's an extremely nice and well designed device with a beautiful screen and great battery life. The only knock is that it's running Android 1.6, but that will supposedly be remedied soon.
Really, I can't say enough about this device. It's great and far more portable than my iPad.
The other thing to say here is that the latest research indicates that carbs may actually be a leading cause of heart disease rather than fat. For example:
The study says refined carbs are bad — that's an important distinction. Also, some research (The China Study, for example) suggests that proteins (not fat) from animal-based foods are a cause of heart disease (and cancers).
Sorry, you're right about the refined carbs. Also, going further along the meat lines, there was also recent research differentiating processed meats (e.g. bacon, sausage, lunch meats, etc.) versus unprocessed meats. If I remember correctly, the unprocessed meats had no real links to heart disease and cancers (in moderation). However, the processed meats did show some links to those health problems. The researchers speculated that it was probably either the high salt content or the nitrates in the processed meats that were the culprits, but the study didn't actually look at that.
This is actually where exercise can come in to play. The author is right that recent research says that exercise is not necessarily the most effective way to lose weight. However, there is evidence that exercise can help you maintain your weight.
So if you backslide a bit and stop watching what you eat, you can still help yourself out by exercising.
Not the API, but I went to the homepage and tried out the help bubble. The text went outside the bubble, which made it hard to read and didn't look very nice. This is Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP. I also have a custom DPI, but that usually just causes problems in IE.
IE 8.0.7600.16385 on Windows 7 x64 has the text going outside the buggle on the right, as well the background color of the header extending out to the right as well.
Chrome 5.0.375.70 on "" also has the text flowing past the right side, but the header bg doesn't.
I suspect the issue is you UL is 100% width, plus padding, but I'm no CSS whiz.
Cool idea though and good question, I've been curious about how to make a public API as well.
Hmm, started with a vanity search and got totally irrelevant results. Then tried vanity searches with friends names. Again, bad results. Putting the names in quotes seems to do a better job, so the problem doesn't seem to be coverage. Makes it seem like they may not be doing a very good pagerank-like calculation.
