My trackball is wireless, and I hate it. Logitech doesn't make a wired version. The trackball never moves, so it doesn't have the problems a mouse does.
I've never liked wireless (everywhere I've been called to troubleshoot it there's been external interference that caused issues) and I've always wired devices in. Not so convenient for smart phones, but even in laptops we've been moving to laptop docks that give gigabit LAN speeds when docked. Wireless is just slow in comparison.
Better design and manufacturing will help, but at some point we're simply running out of room in a given slice of spectrum.
This got me thinking: In my area they're moving to smart water meters and these new smart power meters. We have the smart water meters installed already, I wonder if the city even thought to test it nearby a smart power meter. I would assume that the RF is not necessarily on all the time, but who knows they've designed it. If these new meters participate in a combination hub-spoke/p2p where every meter is talking to each other as well as relaying to a base station, it's conceivable that the two smart meters will actually interfere with each other, never mind the dozen or so wifi hotspots around my house.
That'd suck for my phone's wifi, but pretty much every other device in my house is near a wired port thanks to me finally getting around to wiring up my whole house with cat6.
In TFA, it says that there were crashes done to try to replicate the problem. There were procedures to follow after the crash, and it appears that they weren't followed after the original crash test:
In June, GM and NHTSA both crashed a Volt and couldn't replicate the May fire, said Greg Martin, a spokesman for the automaker. GM has safety procedures for handling the Volt and its battery after an accident. Had those been followed, there wouldn't have been a fire, he said in a phone interview.
Even after a severe crash of a gasoline-powered car, it surely would be inspected or something before and after repair. It doesn't sound like that happened after this test.
If you bothered to use something besides XP, you'd have noticed that IE is launched in a sandbox of sorts.
It's pretty easy to test. Put a Word document (or something similar) up to your websites and download it through IE, clicking on the "Open" button. Word will launch and inherit the same rights as your browser (which isn't allowed to write to your Documents or Desktop folders) and saving will fail with a permissions issue.
iTunes was the main reason I went from my iPhone 3GS to my Galaxy S. While I never experienced the data corruption as some have, I found it really irritating to have to use Mac/iTunes or Win/iTunes to do something with my phone - I am using linux 99% of the time.
The main one was iTunes trying to organize my library, even when I specifically turned that feature off. That was the tipping point. Leave my organization alone.
The morning of the iPhone 4S the news crew was out downtown talking to a new owner who waited all night for one. He was like "this Siri thing is cool" and asked the phone for the local weather, and it gave him the current time... on camera. That was pretty funny.
I've experienced the same thing with the voice control on my Galaxy S, so I stopped using it. It took longer to get it to do what I wanted with voice than to just type it in.
Adams issued a three-page statement Thursday saying his daughter posted the clip to get back at him for telling her he would be reducing the amount of financial support he gives her and taking away her Mercedes.
It's more like the other software you choose to install. Microsoft's OS pointing to their own service and obfuscating / making it difficult to change the default is not allowed.
Imagine buying a car and wanting an aftermarket stereo that's feature-rich, then finding out the car's manufacturer integrated some of the car's "features" in the stock unit so it's very difficult to change without modification (OnStar, I'm looking at you...)
Setting the SSD first is not enough - if you don't boot from the other devices, actually disable them (or does your BIOS let you do that?) On my Intel board, I've disabled boot from floppy, boot from USB, boot from CDROM, etc... The BIOS won't wait for the devices to settle then. The POST on my board went from 15 seconds to 5 after I did the above.
I had the blinking cursor problem too until I did it, it's almost like the BIOS waits for all the damn devices to be ready before it boots...
It still requires concentration to think of an answer for the question the caller asked. Concentration in that circumstance would mean taking away concentration from driving.
Humans do not multitask. We task-switch at best. Nobody is immune to that, and it does apply to everyone.
I would also imagine that is shares a compression stroke to drive both pistons, leveraging more efficiency.
The problem is current transmissions is they have a single input. A lot of dual crankshaft engine are "mended" together with gearing to drive a single input shaft, but I wonder what the mechanical losses would be through that setup.
It'd be interesting if they could design a transmission that can take two inputs and use them with more mechanical efficiency than using a gearing system. Either that, or all-wheel-drive systems could actually have the front wheels running off one crankshaft and the rear wheels running off the rear crankshaft. That'd be one hell of a complex transmission, but I don't know if it'd be any more efficient doing it that way.
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My trackball is wireless, and I hate it. Logitech doesn't make a wired version. The trackball never moves, so it doesn't have the problems a mouse does.
I've never liked wireless (everywhere I've been called to troubleshoot it there's been external interference that caused issues) and I've always wired devices in. Not so convenient for smart phones, but even in laptops we've been moving to laptop docks that give gigabit LAN speeds when docked. Wireless is just slow in comparison.
This got me thinking: In my area they're moving to smart water meters and these new smart power meters. We have the smart water meters installed already, I wonder if the city even thought to test it nearby a smart power meter. I would assume that the RF is not necessarily on all the time, but who knows they've designed it. If these new meters participate in a combination hub-spoke/p2p where every meter is talking to each other as well as relaying to a base station, it's conceivable that the two smart meters will actually interfere with each other, never mind the dozen or so wifi hotspots around my house.
That'd suck for my phone's wifi, but pretty much every other device in my house is near a wired port thanks to me finally getting around to wiring up my whole house with cat6.
Considering your machine will be compiling 90% of the time, it won't affect you much at all.
*whooosh*
In TFA, it says that there were crashes done to try to replicate the problem. There were procedures to follow after the crash, and it appears that they weren't followed after the original crash test:
Even after a severe crash of a gasoline-powered car, it surely would be inspected or something before and after repair. It doesn't sound like that happened after this test.
Maybe something to do with the DRM in the video card drivers? I do recall some DRM messing up something in the network stack early on too.
If you bothered to use something besides XP, you'd have noticed that IE is launched in a sandbox of sorts.
It's pretty easy to test. Put a Word document (or something similar) up to your websites and download it through IE, clicking on the "Open" button. Word will launch and inherit the same rights as your browser (which isn't allowed to write to your Documents or Desktop folders) and saving will fail with a permissions issue.
iTunes was the main reason I went from my iPhone 3GS to my Galaxy S. While I never experienced the data corruption as some have, I found it really irritating to have to use Mac/iTunes or Win/iTunes to do something with my phone - I am using linux 99% of the time.
The main one was iTunes trying to organize my library, even when I specifically turned that feature off. That was the tipping point. Leave my organization alone.
The morning of the iPhone 4S the news crew was out downtown talking to a new owner who waited all night for one. He was like "this Siri thing is cool" and asked the phone for the local weather, and it gave him the current time... on camera. That was pretty funny.
I've experienced the same thing with the voice control on my Galaxy S, so I stopped using it. It took longer to get it to do what I wanted with voice than to just type it in.
From TFA:
What a fucked-up family.
It's more like the other software you choose to install. Microsoft's OS pointing to their own service and obfuscating / making it difficult to change the default is not allowed.
Imagine buying a car and wanting an aftermarket stereo that's feature-rich, then finding out the car's manufacturer integrated some of the car's "features" in the stock unit so it's very difficult to change without modification (OnStar, I'm looking at you...)
Setting the SSD first is not enough - if you don't boot from the other devices, actually disable them (or does your BIOS let you do that?) On my Intel board, I've disabled boot from floppy, boot from USB, boot from CDROM, etc... The BIOS won't wait for the devices to settle then. The POST on my board went from 15 seconds to 5 after I did the above.
I had the blinking cursor problem too until I did it, it's almost like the BIOS waits for all the damn devices to be ready before it boots...
Check the boot order in the BIOS - it's probably waiting for a CDROM or USB device to settle.
You could just write it on your walls with UV paint and mention it in your will. :)
Karma can be a bitch sometimes.
I've been driving manual cars/trucks for 20 years and I've never had to do what you describe. We have some very hilly areas around here...
I'd wager if you had to do that you should be driving an automatic.
Come to think of it, if you take a driving test with a manual car and do that you'd probably rack up demerits here... (not in Europe)
Sure, unless the ebook store revoked the book and the only copy is on the electronics device that is now molten plastic/metal.
The chances of a house fire destroying books is a lot less likely than some company going under and revoking access to material.
It still requires concentration to think of an answer for the question the caller asked. Concentration in that circumstance would mean taking away concentration from driving.
Humans do not multitask. We task-switch at best. Nobody is immune to that, and it does apply to everyone.
It's illegal in BC, Canada as well. They do stings every once in a while and hand out hundreds of tickets at a time here.
Recently the police released a top 10 excuses list for using their cell phone while driving. They're pretty lame excuses.
I've seen people argue with the radio.
This also applies to having a conversation in the car with someone in the passenger seat. It's a distraction.
Holy shit, that's what that does? I've been using slashdot for probably 10 years and I inferred "Reply to Parent" and never clicked on it.
Hah, learn something new every day. Sure would've been useful as I'd been using the css lines to track the parent. What a waste of time that was...
Duh, so that when the texter kills someone they can be issued a $200 fine and a slap on the wrist.
Music never did it for me... however, listening to talk radio that is discussing a topic you're interested in helped.
I would also imagine that is shares a compression stroke to drive both pistons, leveraging more efficiency.
The problem is current transmissions is they have a single input. A lot of dual crankshaft engine are "mended" together with gearing to drive a single input shaft, but I wonder what the mechanical losses would be through that setup.
It'd be interesting if they could design a transmission that can take two inputs and use them with more mechanical efficiency than using a gearing system. Either that, or all-wheel-drive systems could actually have the front wheels running off one crankshaft and the rear wheels running off the rear crankshaft. That'd be one hell of a complex transmission, but I don't know if it'd be any more efficient doing it that way.
Windows 8 is so bulletproof it never needs to be shut down or restarted, so they've removed the option!