The short answer is not really. If it takes millions of years for a ball of dust to reform into a planet, you've done your job.
Also, the strength of a gravity well has to do with the mass there AND how densely packed the mass is. IE, if you have two planets with the same mass, but one is much less dense (and so has a greater diameter) the less dense one will have a weaker gravity well. (Or rather, easier to escape from.)
BlackBerries can hook directly into ActiveSync just like other smartphones without a BES.
Ah, it's been several years since I've messed with them, but that didn't used to be true. It used to be you had to use either BES, or a web based service that BlackBerry provided that would poll the email server via IMAP or POP3 and then pass them on to the phone.
Of course, at the time the only thing that did ActiveSync was WindowsMobile, which was pretty terrible.
Thats why, paraplegic is to be interpreted as losing the use of both legs.
From the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary entry for paraplegic: : an individual affected with paraplegia
And from the entry for paraplegia: : paralysis of the lower half of the body with involvement of both legs usually due to disease of or injury to the spinal cord
So it seems you are correct. While there are people who lack the use of their arms while maintaining the use of their legs, the term paraplegics does not appear to be generally applicable to them. So what do you call them?
Between most sysadmins I know, their dislike of BES is pretty universal and we wish they would embrace ActiveSync like everyone else.
Ditto. Once Exchange is set up to support ActiveSync, users can set up their own Windows Mobile or iPhones without any IT support. BES requires extra hardware and software licenses, plus the time from IT workers. And that's if the BES is working properly.
Why people want to continue going down the BES route is a mystery.
In addition to this there are black and yellow poles that apparently act as truck detractors like the upside down U-shaped hoops in lawn croquet. The bus would fit over these perfectly but a truck in this same section of traffic would hit one of these before endangering the bus.
When I saw those in the video, the first thing I thought of was what happens when a car is trying to change lanes. If they don't happen to know about the upcoming hoop, they will plow right into it.
I mean, from what I understand, schools just plain do not hold anyone back because they fail...they just continue to promote them on to the next grade regardless of their level of learning the material
It depends a lot on the school and the district. In Texas there are standardized tests for most grade levels that students must pass to continue to the next grade. This prevents students from being passed along to each grade without learning anything, and works well in this respect. Unfortunately it has the downside that (as it is tightly related to funding) teachers spend most of their time preparing students to take the test. So, less students are passed on to the next grade, but less overall learning occurs by students.
This is hardly an either/or situation. If a C- correlates to knowing 70% of the material, then that is the bare minimum a student must know to pass a course. This isn't requiring that you need to know 100% of everything that is taught. Heck, it's only about 2/3 of what is taught, which is really pretty pathetic.
If the student has a learning disability and is unable to learn 70% of the material, then that doesn't mean that they should just get credit. It means that they shouldn't be in the class, or need additional tutoring.
LED backlit LCD's consume about 1/2 the power of a florescent lit one
Do you have a source for that? I love LEDs, but I've never seen an LED that was more power efficient than a florescent tube.
For large TVs, the big benefit of using LEDs is that you can make the display thinner than you can with a florescent tube. It is also possible to dynamically darken parts of the screen to increase contrast relative to the rest of the screen. But few LED backlit screens use this technology, and you pay much more for it.
(I realize that page says LED screens have lower power consumption, but the linked source clearly says reports are varied with some consuming as much as power hungry plasma displays.)
There is also discussion of using three sets of LEDs in red, green, and blue for backlights. Then during display you cycle through the colors at an extremely high rate. This has the benefit of reducing the number of pixels by a third as you only need one pixel for an area instead of three discreet sub-pixels in an RGB configuration.
Of course this has the downside of needing an LCD pixel that can cycle that quickly.
Since TF2 doesn't have a plot, the only really bad achievements are the noob ones like "play on all the stock maps" or "get 1000 kills" or Most of which I haven't earned...:-(
Spaced based power is already possible, it simply isn't economical due to the previously mentioned difficulties of getting materials out of the gravity well into geostationary orbit. But that's not really the point. There are a number of things done better in space than on Earth. There are a number of minerals that are much more plentiful in space. And there is far less concern about dangerous byproducts in space. And on larger scales, getting enough mass up into space is simply impossible.
The funny thing is that energy production hasn't gotten much bigger in the past 40 years since nuclear power plants first started being used. We're basically building more of the same old technology to supply our power needs. The only thing on the horizon that offers an improvement is fusion, and that would probably require setting up mining on the moon to get enough He-3 (if it ever works).
I'm not sure where you're going with all of the "science fiction said we should have flying cars by now" talk. Are you trying to say that much greater robotic automation is not possible?
I never said we need to mine asteroid now, or even in a decade. I said there's a good reason to do it, but there are some big hurdles in the way first. I also think that these hurdles will be overcome at some point (many decades from now) and mining will happen.
If any serious space-faring is going to happen, we're going to mine asteroids first. There simply isn't another way to get enough material up there. (Excluding possible inventions such as space elevators.)
BTW, the main showstopper for asteroid mining is that we don't have the technology & energy sources to make it viable; now, here's the best part: if you do have them, you don't really need to mine asteroids anyway, you have everything on Earth...only easier.
I think you're lacking in some vision. There are a lot of useful things you can do in space, the problem is that unless someone actually figures out how to make a space elevator, getting materials into space will always be ridiculously expensive. Asteroids, on the other hand, are already in space.
Mining asteroids depends on two major tech developments: 1. Figuring out how to process raw asteroids into anything useful in space. 2. Fully automating said processes, as well as repair and maintenance processes.
At that point you're not worried about "energy sources" because you can just process asteroids into either nuclear power plants or solar panels. This brings me to my other point, things to make in space.
Once you have a self-sustaining facility processing asteroids into solar panels, you get all of the free energy you need. It becomes trivial to move the solar panels towards Earth to create an ever growing spaced based solar power station to provide power to Earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power
Of course, it all depends on overcoming those two technological hurdles.
G) Passively cooled with no moving parts. Try wandering around Best Buy throwing sand into off-the-shelf laptops and see how long before you're thrown out with a huge repair bill.
Throw sand in their faces and see if they can catch you.
Bullshit. In the first place, yes that is the full OS X in iPhone and iPad and iPod touch. The only difference between Mac OS and iOS is the user and application interfaces.
So really, it's just the kernel. That's an interesting definition of "full".
As for OS X on a 433MHz X86 compatible - "OS X" seems to run just fine on an iPhone/iPod Touch which have 400MHz ARM processors. Sure it's not the full OS, but it can be cut down to run decently. I think OLPC could've cut out the fat and made it run decently..
I beg to differ. iOS4 runs like crap on the original iPhone and iPhone 3G. And previous versions didn't run all that smoothly. Things do seem to run much better on the iPhone 3Gs and 4, which run at 600 and 800 MHz respectively.
There is also the much publicized Arizona law which would require showing proof of legal residency if otherwise stopped by a police officer. I'm not sure if that would change anything though.
My point was that you are not required to present government-issued identification - you are simply required to give your name (and possibly place of residence, depending on your state), as corroborated by Hiibel v Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada and other cases.
From the Wikipedia article.
Some “stop and identify” laws, such as Colorado’s,[29] require a person detained to provide additional information, including an address and written identification if it is available.
That seems to imply you must show a government ID if there is one. Of course, it all varies by state.
I know a lot of people that have no college at all. Some volunteer at shelters, most have traveled the world extensively...
Really? Few people that I know have traveled the world extensively. Of those that haven't gone to college, the percentage is smaller. Where is this place that you live where everyone has cash to go gallivanting around the world with?
The capacitive touch screen won't work through a plastic bag, or gloves for that matter. You need something that will pass electricity.
That said, I agree with the GP. I have an iPhone, but a map printed on a sheet of paper is still easier to read than a device in your hand. It would also be nice if you could simply print to PDF stored on the device. Sometimes you want to read articles later when you don't have internet access.
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The short answer is not really. If it takes millions of years for a ball of dust to reform into a planet, you've done your job.
Also, the strength of a gravity well has to do with the mass there AND how densely packed the mass is. IE, if you have two planets with the same mass, but one is much less dense (and so has a greater diameter) the less dense one will have a weaker gravity well. (Or rather, easier to escape from.)
Awesome.
BlackBerries can hook directly into ActiveSync just like other smartphones without a BES.
Ah, it's been several years since I've messed with them, but that didn't used to be true. It used to be you had to use either BES, or a web based service that BlackBerry provided that would poll the email server via IMAP or POP3 and then pass them on to the phone.
Of course, at the time the only thing that did ActiveSync was WindowsMobile, which was pretty terrible.
Thats why, paraplegic is to be interpreted as losing the use of both legs.
From the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary entry for paraplegic:
: an individual affected with paraplegia
And from the entry for paraplegia:
: paralysis of the lower half of the body with involvement of both legs usually due to disease of or injury to the spinal cord
So it seems you are correct. While there are people who lack the use of their arms while maintaining the use of their legs, the term paraplegics does not appear to be generally applicable to them. So what do you call them?
No, BB simply has a much more efficient push email system than ActiveSync, or polling every 15 minutes.
My iPhone often rings the new email alert a second or two before Outlook does.
Between most sysadmins I know, their dislike of BES is pretty universal and we wish they would embrace ActiveSync like everyone else.
Ditto. Once Exchange is set up to support ActiveSync, users can set up their own Windows Mobile or iPhones without any IT support. BES requires extra hardware and software licenses, plus the time from IT workers. And that's if the BES is working properly.
Why people want to continue going down the BES route is a mystery.
In addition to this there are black and yellow poles that apparently act as truck detractors like the upside down U-shaped hoops in lawn croquet. The bus would fit over these perfectly but a truck in this same section of traffic would hit one of these before endangering the bus.
When I saw those in the video, the first thing I thought of was what happens when a car is trying to change lanes. If they don't happen to know about the upcoming hoop, they will plow right into it.
I mean, from what I understand, schools just plain do not hold anyone back because they fail...they just continue to promote them on to the next grade regardless of their level of learning the material
It depends a lot on the school and the district. In Texas there are standardized tests for most grade levels that students must pass to continue to the next grade. This prevents students from being passed along to each grade without learning anything, and works well in this respect. Unfortunately it has the downside that (as it is tightly related to funding) teachers spend most of their time preparing students to take the test. So, less students are passed on to the next grade, but less overall learning occurs by students.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAKS
This is hardly an either/or situation. If a C- correlates to knowing 70% of the material, then that is the bare minimum a student must know to pass a course. This isn't requiring that you need to know 100% of everything that is taught. Heck, it's only about 2/3 of what is taught, which is really pretty pathetic.
If the student has a learning disability and is unable to learn 70% of the material, then that doesn't mean that they should just get credit. It means that they shouldn't be in the class, or need additional tutoring.
LED backlit LCD's consume about 1/2 the power of a florescent lit one
Do you have a source for that? I love LEDs, but I've never seen an LED that was more power efficient than a florescent tube.
For large TVs, the big benefit of using LEDs is that you can make the display thinner than you can with a florescent tube. It is also possible to dynamically darken parts of the screen to increase contrast relative to the rest of the screen. But few LED backlit screens use this technology, and you pay much more for it.
Information available here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED-backlit_LCD_television
(I realize that page says LED screens have lower power consumption, but the linked source clearly says reports are varied with some consuming as much as power hungry plasma displays.)
There is also discussion of using three sets of LEDs in red, green, and blue for backlights. Then during display you cycle through the colors at an extremely high rate. This has the benefit of reducing the number of pixels by a third as you only need one pixel for an area instead of three discreet sub-pixels in an RGB configuration.
Of course this has the downside of needing an LCD pixel that can cycle that quickly.
Since TF2 doesn't have a plot, the only really bad achievements are the noob ones like "play on all the stock maps" or "get 1000 kills" or Most of which I haven't earned... :-(
This was my thought, but who hosts tens of thousands of customers on a cluster that can't handle a box or two being removed?
Spaced based power is already possible, it simply isn't economical due to the previously mentioned difficulties of getting materials out of the gravity well into geostationary orbit. But that's not really the point. There are a number of things done better in space than on Earth. There are a number of minerals that are much more plentiful in space. And there is far less concern about dangerous byproducts in space. And on larger scales, getting enough mass up into space is simply impossible.
The funny thing is that energy production hasn't gotten much bigger in the past 40 years since nuclear power plants first started being used. We're basically building more of the same old technology to supply our power needs. The only thing on the horizon that offers an improvement is fusion, and that would probably require setting up mining on the moon to get enough He-3 (if it ever works).
I'm not sure where you're going with all of the "science fiction said we should have flying cars by now" talk. Are you trying to say that much greater robotic automation is not possible?
I never said we need to mine asteroid now, or even in a decade. I said there's a good reason to do it, but there are some big hurdles in the way first. I also think that these hurdles will be overcome at some point (many decades from now) and mining will happen.
If any serious space-faring is going to happen, we're going to mine asteroids first. There simply isn't another way to get enough material up there. (Excluding possible inventions such as space elevators.)
BTW, the main showstopper for asteroid mining is that we don't have the technology & energy sources to make it viable; now, here's the best part: if you do have them, you don't really need to mine asteroids anyway, you have everything on Earth...only easier.
I think you're lacking in some vision. There are a lot of useful things you can do in space, the problem is that unless someone actually figures out how to make a space elevator, getting materials into space will always be ridiculously expensive. Asteroids, on the other hand, are already in space.
Mining asteroids depends on two major tech developments:
1. Figuring out how to process raw asteroids into anything useful in space.
2. Fully automating said processes, as well as repair and maintenance processes.
At that point you're not worried about "energy sources" because you can just process asteroids into either nuclear power plants or solar panels. This brings me to my other point, things to make in space.
Once you have a self-sustaining facility processing asteroids into solar panels, you get all of the free energy you need. It becomes trivial to move the solar panels towards Earth to create an ever growing spaced based solar power station to provide power to Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power
Of course, it all depends on overcoming those two technological hurdles.
G) Passively cooled with no moving parts. Try wandering around Best Buy throwing sand into off-the-shelf laptops and see how long before you're thrown out with a huge repair bill.
Throw sand in their faces and see if they can catch you.
Bullshit. In the first place, yes that is the full OS X in iPhone and iPad and iPod touch. The only difference between Mac OS and iOS is the user and application interfaces.
So really, it's just the kernel. That's an interesting definition of "full".
As for OS X on a 433MHz X86 compatible - "OS X" seems to run just fine on an iPhone/iPod Touch which have 400MHz ARM processors. Sure it's not the full OS, but it can be cut down to run decently. I think OLPC could've cut out the fat and made it run decently..
I beg to differ. iOS4 runs like crap on the original iPhone and iPhone 3G. And previous versions didn't run all that smoothly. Things do seem to run much better on the iPhone 3Gs and 4, which run at 600 and 800 MHz respectively.
There is also the much publicized Arizona law which would require showing proof of legal residency if otherwise stopped by a police officer. I'm not sure if that would change anything though.
My point was that you are not required to present government-issued identification - you are simply required to give your name (and possibly place of residence, depending on your state), as corroborated by Hiibel v Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada and other cases.
From the Wikipedia article.
Some “stop and identify” laws, such as Colorado’s,[29] require a person detained to provide additional information, including an address and written identification if it is available.
That seems to imply you must show a government ID if there is one. Of course, it all varies by state.
I know a lot of people that have no college at all. Some volunteer at shelters, most have traveled the world extensively...
Really? Few people that I know have traveled the world extensively. Of those that haven't gone to college, the percentage is smaller. Where is this place that you live where everyone has cash to go gallivanting around the world with?
Also, there are big zip-loc bags you could use.
The capacitive touch screen won't work through a plastic bag, or gloves for that matter. You need something that will pass electricity.
That said, I agree with the GP. I have an iPhone, but a map printed on a sheet of paper is still easier to read than a device in your hand. It would also be nice if you could simply print to PDF stored on the device. Sometimes you want to read articles later when you don't have internet access.
But the prices for iPhone enabled plans at AT&T are the same whether or not there is a contract. Where exactly are the savings?
Yes, but used phones are still tied to AT&T. The monthly price at AT&T is the same whether you have a contract or not, so why not sign the contract?
Are you using the newer Flash 10.1 on Windows with hardware acceleration?