Netherlands. 20 euros for a 20/1 MBit ADSL line. No caps, but all ISPs here say they have a fair use policy, but I've never heard it enforced. My old ISP's tech once explained it to me like this (cable internet): If your neighbourhood does not complain about slow speed we don't care how much you use.
I just did. Well, actually, it was July, but who's counting. IMO, they aircon the malls way to cool. When I walked in I got a blow to the head from the cold, and when I walked out I got a blow to the head from the heat outside (it was a Wal-Mart). They could easily run the AC at 80F and it'll feel cool inside. Because I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt when it's 100F outside. I propose a new rule: If the AC makes you want to put on a sweater in the summer, it's set too cold.
The Celeron 300A was legendary amongst overclockers. Most if not all of them were stable at 450 MHz, instead of the factory 300 MHz. There have been more of those legendary chips. The Pentium 4 Northwood-A 1.6 went to 2.4, and the AMD Barton 2500+ went to 3200+. And now, the Intel Quad Q6600 goes from 2.4 to 3.0 or 3.2. All of the top of the head, I don't actually own or have owned any of those chips, except for the Barton. Which I still use for my desktop, at stock speed.
They shouldn't be allowed to drive at all. Get some real amount of lessons, a strict theoretical exam and a practical exam. Then you can pick up your license. None of my friends have had an accident, and I'd like to think that's because in NL you actually have to show you're a good driver before you can get a license.
Especially since he's British, and they (like all sane nations) drive a lot of manuals. Downshifting, whether you like it or not, takes even the most experienced non-professional driver at least some time, in which the car isn't powered and is actually slowing down a bit. 1 second to get out of the danger area and you spend.5 of it shifting gear.
No, it's not. You think the CDC and the FDA are a good tradeoff. Someone might disagree. The point is, where do you paint the line? What is the setting on the slide between absolute freedom and absolute socialism that yields the most healthy population.
Only on that specific set of segments. If you have a web-like network like the internet, with interconnects all over the place, you won't reduce bandwidth between points A and B if entirely separate points C and D communicate. If I (.nl) go to a certain site in.se, no one in the USA will notice.
The cap on the fuel tank of most (if not all) diesel vehicles spells out DIESEL in big letters. If you can't read that, you shouldn't be driving at all.
Funny how people in countries like Sweden also use diesel. That suggest it might even work in cold weather! And for the noise, new diesels are quiet enough that you only hear them when you accelerate fast of when the car is idling at a stop. All other cases, the wind and tyre noise is far louder than the engine.
All diesels I've driven (and that's a lot of them, old and new) are very slow and sluggish when the engine is cold. Diesels need to have a warm engine to perform and get good mileage. So a hybrid diesel might be feasible, but the first time the engine runs it has to run for a while to get good efficiency.
Nike actually makes several widths of shoe, but not in the same model range. Some shoes just happen to be a bit wider. But you're right, they're narrow. I own a pair of Nike+ shoes that fit me fine, and I have a narrow foot that also overpronates and becomes even narrower. Nikes fit me. To illustrate how narrow my foot is, my hiking boots are the female version of the model (the female version is narrower), and then I filled it up with an extra insole. They're that narrow.
The word series bothers me. It's more like a spiders web, with each message taking the shortest path from a to b. In this analogy there is no congestion between a and b if points c and d on the other side of the network communicate. Stevens implied that my internet traffic generated in Holland, destined to a certain website in Sweden (for example) clogs up the pipes that his US to US e-mail also use. Which is of course false. And that is why the series of tubes meme exists. Tubes is fine, series is not.
I've only thought about this idea for 2 seconds, so it probably has some downsides. But how about using a service like Akamai where each ISP puts caching servers at strategic locations in their network. There is a lot of stuff to be cached, but disk is cheap (and you do not need redundant storage, if some of it dies so be it). Besides, it can just use a cache replacement policy like Squid does, to drop content not regularly accessed.
All youtube (and other content providers) need to do is agree to use a IP to ISP mapping and adjust their links accordingly. So, youtube's page detects my IP as being in the netblock owned by my ISP. It then alters the link to the video to point to their content caching server. This might have downsides, for example the ISP gets logs of what my IP views on youtube...
If you know your distance to one sat, and you know that sat's location, you can draw a mental sphere with radius your_distance around it. You must be somewhere on that sphere.
Now, if you know your distance (and location of) of another sat, you have another sphere where you can be on. Obviously, you cannot be in two places at the same time. So the intersection of those spheres must be where you are.
The problem is this: Intersect two spheres and you get a circle! You can be on any spot in that circle. This does not give you a complete position.
You can assume a third sphere: Earth. If the earth were perfectly round (and you were on it), you would have two possible positions (intersect three spheres and you get 2 points).
Aside from the 2 possible locations problem, the Earth isn't round. It has mountains and valleys. This means that the earth sphere is not well defined, and can intersect along multiple places with the circle. Even if you had altitude info (which you do not get from 2 sat GPS) and good contour maps of the Earth, you can not be sure where the correct intersection point is (there might be multiple, if you are in a valley, for example).
All this combined is why 2-sat GPS does not give you a position. All it could reliably tell you is which hemisphere you are on.
My cheap hand-held unit, a Garmin Etrex Legend (which is at least 7 year old technology by now, and retails for about a hundred dollars), just assumes that I am at the position which is nearest to sea level. Which is a valid assumption, considering it's a trekking GPS, and not an aviation one. But, I have had my GPS report my position as -10 meters while I was at approx. 200 meters above sea level (in France). But that usually only lasts a few minutes and a bit of common sense can rule that out as invalid. Still, you're right. You need 4 sats for a true "3D" position fix. I think people who depend on correct altitude information should spend some more money and get a GPS with a barometric altimeter.
Also, I am not really interested in my altitude. I live in the Netherlands, where the highest elevation around in most places is a curb.:)
You can kind of assume where the receiver is. You get 2 possible locations with 3 sats, one will be where you are, and one will be up or down from where you are. Pick the location that is most likely and work from there. For example, the railway use in the summary pretty much guarantees that the trains will not go flying any time soon. Aviation can go both ways, but planes do come with altimeters.
Thats not how GPS works however. The satellites hum a digital tune. The receiver hums the same tune. It then measures how much later the sat's tune is heard. With this and the speed of light you can calculate how far the satellite is from you. Get distances to three sats and you can triangulate your position.
So you might hear the tune fine, but if the ionosphere delays the tune every so slightly, your reading will be off and your position will be inaccurate.
Scouting Nederland's (Dutch Scouting) official position, from their website:
Everyone can join, regardless of religion, colour of skin, nationality, disability or sexual inclination.
Every time I read about the BSA I am a little bit ashamed that I am a Scout. Not a BSA one, but still. Such a policy is fundamentally in conflict with a core value of being a Scout: respect. For yourself, for another.
I get 4,5 hours out of my 8-cell MSI S271 with a dual core AMD Turion TL-56. 2 gigs of ram and integrated ati video.
With a less power consuming CPU, it can go well over 5 hours. Mine draws 17 Watt idle (according to some software which polls the battery discharge info).
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Netherlands. 20 euros for a 20/1 MBit ADSL line. No caps, but all ISPs here say they have a fair use policy, but I've never heard it enforced. My old ISP's tech once explained it to me like this (cable internet): If your neighbourhood does not complain about slow speed we don't care how much you use.
I just did. Well, actually, it was July, but who's counting. IMO, they aircon the malls way to cool. When I walked in I got a blow to the head from the cold, and when I walked out I got a blow to the head from the heat outside (it was a Wal-Mart). They could easily run the AC at 80F and it'll feel cool inside. Because I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt when it's 100F outside. I propose a new rule: If the AC makes you want to put on a sweater in the summer, it's set too cold.
Then up the number. In maillemaker's idea, you can set it yourself. No reason you can't up it.
The Celeron 300A was legendary amongst overclockers. Most if not all of them were stable at 450 MHz, instead of the factory 300 MHz. There have been more of those legendary chips. The Pentium 4 Northwood-A 1.6 went to 2.4, and the AMD Barton 2500+ went to 3200+. And now, the Intel Quad Q6600 goes from 2.4 to 3.0 or 3.2. All of the top of the head, I don't actually own or have owned any of those chips, except for the Barton. Which I still use for my desktop, at stock speed.
They shouldn't be allowed to drive at all. Get some real amount of lessons, a strict theoretical exam and a practical exam. Then you can pick up your license. None of my friends have had an accident, and I'd like to think that's because in NL you actually have to show you're a good driver before you can get a license.
Especially since he's British, and they (like all sane nations) drive a lot of manuals. Downshifting, whether you like it or not, takes even the most experienced non-professional driver at least some time, in which the car isn't powered and is actually slowing down a bit. 1 second to get out of the danger area and you spend .5 of it shifting gear.
No, it's not. You think the CDC and the FDA are a good tradeoff. Someone might disagree. The point is, where do you paint the line? What is the setting on the slide between absolute freedom and absolute socialism that yields the most healthy population.
Only on that specific set of segments. If you have a web-like network like the internet, with interconnects all over the place, you won't reduce bandwidth between points A and B if entirely separate points C and D communicate. If I (.nl) go to a certain site in .se, no one in the USA will notice.
The cap on the fuel tank of most (if not all) diesel vehicles spells out DIESEL in big letters. If you can't read that, you shouldn't be driving at all.
Funny how people in countries like Sweden also use diesel. That suggest it might even work in cold weather! And for the noise, new diesels are quiet enough that you only hear them when you accelerate fast of when the car is idling at a stop. All other cases, the wind and tyre noise is far louder than the engine.
All diesels I've driven (and that's a lot of them, old and new) are very slow and sluggish when the engine is cold. Diesels need to have a warm engine to perform and get good mileage. So a hybrid diesel might be feasible, but the first time the engine runs it has to run for a while to get good efficiency.
Your car mirror swats flies all day. The Hubble not so much. ;)
Nike actually makes several widths of shoe, but not in the same model range. Some shoes just happen to be a bit wider. But you're right, they're narrow. I own a pair of Nike+ shoes that fit me fine, and I have a narrow foot that also overpronates and becomes even narrower. Nikes fit me. To illustrate how narrow my foot is, my hiking boots are the female version of the model (the female version is narrower), and then I filled it up with an extra insole. They're that narrow.
The word series bothers me. It's more like a spiders web, with each message taking the shortest path from a to b. In this analogy there is no congestion between a and b if points c and d on the other side of the network communicate. Stevens implied that my internet traffic generated in Holland, destined to a certain website in Sweden (for example) clogs up the pipes that his US to US e-mail also use. Which is of course false. And that is why the series of tubes meme exists. Tubes is fine, series is not.
Because MAC addresses do not make it past a route. My ISP does not know what my computers MAC addresses are, because they are all behind a router.
How about a proxy server?
I've only thought about this idea for 2 seconds, so it probably has some downsides. But how about using a service like Akamai where each ISP puts caching servers at strategic locations in their network. There is a lot of stuff to be cached, but disk is cheap (and you do not need redundant storage, if some of it dies so be it). Besides, it can just use a cache replacement policy like Squid does, to drop content not regularly accessed.
All youtube (and other content providers) need to do is agree to use a IP to ISP mapping and adjust their links accordingly. So, youtube's page detects my IP as being in the netblock owned by my ISP. It then alters the link to the video to point to their content caching server. This might have downsides, for example the ISP gets logs of what my IP views on youtube...
-those strings of instructions that result in nifty applications and programs-
Why do you need to explain what code is? This is news for nerds, not news for my mother. Give us some credit please.
Actually, no you can't.
If you know your distance to one sat, and you know that sat's location, you can draw a mental sphere with radius your_distance around it. You must be somewhere on that sphere.
Now, if you know your distance (and location of) of another sat, you have another sphere where you can be on. Obviously, you cannot be in two places at the same time. So the intersection of those spheres must be where you are.
The problem is this: Intersect two spheres and you get a circle! You can be on any spot in that circle. This does not give you a complete position.
You can assume a third sphere: Earth. If the earth were perfectly round (and you were on it), you would have two possible positions (intersect three spheres and you get 2 points).
Aside from the 2 possible locations problem, the Earth isn't round. It has mountains and valleys. This means that the earth sphere is not well defined, and can intersect along multiple places with the circle. Even if you had altitude info (which you do not get from 2 sat GPS) and good contour maps of the Earth, you can not be sure where the correct intersection point is (there might be multiple, if you are in a valley, for example).
All this combined is why 2-sat GPS does not give you a position. All it could reliably tell you is which hemisphere you are on.
My cheap hand-held unit, a Garmin Etrex Legend (which is at least 7 year old technology by now, and retails for about a hundred dollars), just assumes that I am at the position which is nearest to sea level. Which is a valid assumption, considering it's a trekking GPS, and not an aviation one. But, I have had my GPS report my position as -10 meters while I was at approx. 200 meters above sea level (in France). But that usually only lasts a few minutes and a bit of common sense can rule that out as invalid. Still, you're right. You need 4 sats for a true "3D" position fix.
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I think people who depend on correct altitude information should spend some more money and get a GPS with a barometric altimeter.
Also, I am not really interested in my altitude. I live in the Netherlands, where the highest elevation around in most places is a curb.
You can kind of assume where the receiver is. You get 2 possible locations with 3 sats, one will be where you are, and one will be up or down from where you are. Pick the location that is most likely and work from there. For example, the railway use in the summary pretty much guarantees that the trains will not go flying any time soon.
Aviation can go both ways, but planes do come with altimeters.
Thats not how GPS works however. The satellites hum a digital tune. The receiver hums the same tune. It then measures how much later the sat's tune is heard. With this and the speed of light you can calculate how far the satellite is from you. Get distances to three sats and you can triangulate your position.
So you might hear the tune fine, but if the ionosphere delays the tune every so slightly, your reading will be off and your position will be inaccurate.
True.
Scouting Nederland's (Dutch Scouting) official position, from their website:
Everyone can join, regardless of religion, colour of skin, nationality, disability or sexual inclination.
Every time I read about the BSA I am a little bit ashamed that I am a Scout. Not a BSA one, but still. Such a policy is fundamentally in conflict with a core value of being a Scout: respect. For yourself, for another.
Being gay is a choice?
I get 4,5 hours out of my 8-cell MSI S271 with a dual core AMD Turion TL-56. 2 gigs of ram and integrated ati video. With a less power consuming CPU, it can go well over 5 hours. Mine draws 17 Watt idle (according to some software which polls the battery discharge info).
I hope you didn't have a brown-out...