Um, but they do have a lot to do with rain belts, and along with warming temperatures you also see those shift, which will mean increased pace of desertification.
Why assume that a shift in rain patterns would mean an increase of desertification? Couldn't a shift just as easily increase rainfall to an area that is currently a desert? In general, higher temperatures mean more water in the air, larger storms, and more rainfall.
What is the advantage of this over DLNA/UPnP? I get the streaming of Netflix, etc, but why wouldn't this be possible using DLNA? Why not use standards that are already established and work on most televisions bought in the past couple of years?
Personally I don't think it's better, I would love if it could be used as a generic UPnP device. I'm really hoping someone figures out a way to make that happen. I managed to snag the 3 months of free Netflix when it was first offered, so I'm willing to gamble $11 or so that someone will find a way to do it. But at that price, even if they don't, I still have a mildly useful device without spending a lot of money.
On a related note, can somebody tell me why this device is desirable? I'm still struggling with the use case here. What is the benefit of Chromecast over something like teeny little wdtv box? It's smaller and cheaper but does a lot less.
It's a small, extremely portable, self-contained media streaming device. It can be powered entirely by the TV, and controlled remotely from an android device. It is potentially possible for this little device to replace a lot of the other boxes hanging off your TV. When you go on vacation or to a friend's house you can very easily throw it in a bag and take it with you, without losing any settings. You also get all that for only $35, with 3 months of Netflix included (if you order from the right place).
Personally I'm hoping that someone figures out how to add generic UPnP support.
They could cart the CO2 and some water to a place with lots of wind or solar but inconvenient access to a hungry power grid and use the Fischer-Tropsch process to synthesize "carbon neutral" ish propane. When it burns, they could recapture the CO2 and do it again.
That process looks like it mainly deals with Carbon-Monoxide which is a different animal that Carbon-Dioxide.
and I'll stop complaining about lack of SD slots. Especially since the SD cards mostly seem to run crappy FAT file systems. There's really no excuse for that.
I still want an SD card so I can get data on and off my phone when it won't fully boot.
Considering this is an optional app that you have to download (rather than being baked into an Android release), what does it offer that loads of similar free apps on the Google Play store have offered for years now (OK, apart from the fact that it's an app from Google of course)?
I'd have been more impressed if this had come with the Android 4.3 release to be honest and might actually be one of the very few pre-installed Android apps that could be justify being uninstallable.
It doesn't display ads or constantly try to get you to update to the "premium" version. There is also no limit to the number of devices you can track (most free services limit the number of devices that can be tracked under one account).
More likely he's suffering from whatever illness those infomercial actors are suffering from. You know, the ones that can't seem to pour themselves a glass of water without spilling it all over their shirt.
Question is - why is it necessary for concrete to be reinforced? Obviously, the Romans didn't have steel or iron rebar. They formed and poured their structures without any rebar, and they've lasted a couple thousand years. It seems more than obvious that our architects and engineers can learn a few things from the Romans.
The Romans didn't build 8 lane bridges spanning highways with trucks carrying hundreds of tons of cargo at 70 mph. They also didn't build 150 story skyscrapers.
I have wondered how the rolling code stays in sync if you ever press your key fob while out of range. The code would increment to the next one and the car would still be expecting a different one. I haven't found an answer to how this works in a quick Google search, do you or anyone here know how that is handled?
Wikipedia says that the receiver usually checks a 256 code range for the received signal in case it missed some clicks. That seems like it would eventually work it's way out of sync though.
Filing a law suit should at an absolute minimum require the plaintiff to pay some costs to the defendant (perhaps the smaller of the legal costs incurred by either side) should the plaintiff lose
I was about to say how that would never work for the little guy trying to sue a big company with an army of lawyers. Then I noticed your bit about paying the smaller of the legal costs from either side. That's actually quite a clever way to work around the issue. I approve.
If you wanted your new buzzword to have a real meaning perhaps you should have named it something that actually means something. The words Software Defined Network have a generic, non-specific meaning, that's why they are being applied to everything that even remotely fits their definitions. Whatever happened to real names with specifics, like "Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection"
Yes, lets make "touch" gaming even shittier than it already is. Cannot wait for the gamers to be punted back into the main menu because they inadvertently entered a gesture. First thing I had to disable on the Ipad...
That's probably actually a feature, not a downside, to the businesses that are BlackBerry's primary market.
The salts aren't meant to be secure. They are commonly stored in plain text right next to the password in the database. The salt's actual job is not to prevent a hacker from breaking that user's password, but to prevent the hacker from being able to break all the passwords at once. The salt effectively "messes up" the hash of the password so that that even if multiple user's have the exact same password they will have different hashes. We all know many users use "1234" as their password. If each user has a random salt applied to the password and if the hacker guesses one user's password, he can't look at all the other users with the same hash and know that they all have the same password. The hacker has to spend the time cracking each password individually.
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Um, but they do have a lot to do with rain belts, and along with warming temperatures you also see those shift, which will mean increased pace of desertification.
Why assume that a shift in rain patterns would mean an increase of desertification? Couldn't a shift just as easily increase rainfall to an area that is currently a desert? In general, higher temperatures mean more water in the air, larger storms, and more rainfall.
You're assuming the warming stops at 'habitable'...
Thank you.
We'll also see deserts increase in size and new ones form.
We'll also see more fisheries collapse.
Deserts have very little to do with temperature.
Here is the bestbuy web page showing the 3-months of netflix is back for both online and in-store purchases.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Chromecast+HDMI+Streaming+Media+Player/9071056.p?id=1219013308425&skuId=9071056&st=Chromecast&cp=1&lp=1
What is the advantage of this over DLNA/UPnP? I get the streaming of Netflix, etc, but why wouldn't this be possible using DLNA? Why not use standards that are already established and work on most televisions bought in the past couple of years?
Personally I don't think it's better, I would love if it could be used as a generic UPnP device. I'm really hoping someone figures out a way to make that happen. I managed to snag the 3 months of free Netflix when it was first offered, so I'm willing to gamble $11 or so that someone will find a way to do it. But at that price, even if they don't, I still have a mildly useful device without spending a lot of money.
I believe the offer is available again when purchased from a physical BestBuy store.
On a related note, can somebody tell me why this device is desirable? I'm still struggling with the use case here. What is the benefit of Chromecast over something like teeny little wdtv box? It's smaller and cheaper but does a lot less.
It's a small, extremely portable, self-contained media streaming device. It can be powered entirely by the TV, and controlled remotely from an android device. It is potentially possible for this little device to replace a lot of the other boxes hanging off your TV. When you go on vacation or to a friend's house you can very easily throw it in a bag and take it with you, without losing any settings. You also get all that for only $35, with 3 months of Netflix included (if you order from the right place).
Personally I'm hoping that someone figures out how to add generic UPnP support.
Fortunately, a process for removing the extra oxygen atom has been considered by others.
Now that's very interesting... It was written almost 7 years ago though, what ever happened to the tech?
Why not propane?
They could cart the CO2 and some water to a place with lots of wind or solar but inconvenient access to a hungry power grid and use the Fischer-Tropsch process to synthesize "carbon neutral" ish propane. When it burns, they could recapture the CO2 and do it again.
That process looks like it mainly deals with Carbon-Monoxide which is a different animal that Carbon-Dioxide.
Why?
Dealing with wires sucks. Batteries are annoying. No batteries or wires is better.
and I'll stop complaining about lack of SD slots. Especially since the SD cards mostly seem to run crappy FAT file systems. There's really no excuse for that.
I still want an SD card so I can get data on and off my phone when it won't fully boot.
Slowest... Network... Ever...
Considering this is an optional app that you have to download (rather than being baked into an Android release), what does it offer that loads of similar free apps on the Google Play store have offered for years now (OK, apart from the fact that it's an app from Google of course)?
I'd have been more impressed if this had come with the Android 4.3 release to be honest and might actually be one of the very few pre-installed Android apps that could be justify being uninstallable.
It doesn't display ads or constantly try to get you to update to the "premium" version. There is also no limit to the number of devices you can track (most free services limit the number of devices that can be tracked under one account).
More likely he's suffering from whatever illness those infomercial actors are suffering from. You know, the ones that can't seem to pour themselves a glass of water without spilling it all over their shirt.
I just went googling for my old posts about how to do integer factorization with D-Wave. Guess what? GONE!
That's what you get for observing them.
Question is - why is it necessary for concrete to be reinforced? Obviously, the Romans didn't have steel or iron rebar. They formed and poured their structures without any rebar, and they've lasted a couple thousand years. It seems more than obvious that our architects and engineers can learn a few things from the Romans.
The Romans didn't build 8 lane bridges spanning highways with trucks carrying hundreds of tons of cargo at 70 mph. They also didn't build 150 story skyscrapers.
I have wondered how the rolling code stays in sync if you ever press your key fob while out of range. The code would increment to the next one and the car would still be expecting a different one. I haven't found an answer to how this works in a quick Google search, do you or anyone here know how that is handled?
Wikipedia says that the receiver usually checks a 256 code range for the received signal in case it missed some clicks. That seems like it would eventually work it's way out of sync though.
That's a neat trick since fire ant workers can't ingest particles larger than 2 microns.
I'm fairly sure ants know how to take bites out of things larger than their mouth.
Underestimating people by thinking that they won't download the next link down, which is the completely free pirated album.
If only 1% of those people pay for the full album this way, that's 1% more sales than they likely would have had without it.
I assure you, the technology in my car is FAR more than 4 years out of date.
Filing a law suit should at an absolute minimum require the plaintiff to pay some costs to the defendant (perhaps the smaller of the legal costs incurred by either side) should the plaintiff lose
I was about to say how that would never work for the little guy trying to sue a big company with an army of lawyers. Then I noticed your bit about paying the smaller of the legal costs from either side. That's actually quite a clever way to work around the issue. I approve.
If you wanted your new buzzword to have a real meaning perhaps you should have named it something that actually means something. The words Software Defined Network have a generic, non-specific meaning, that's why they are being applied to everything that even remotely fits their definitions. Whatever happened to real names with specifics, like "Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection"
Yes, lets make "touch" gaming even shittier than it already is.
Cannot wait for the gamers to be punted back into the main menu because they inadvertently entered a gesture. First thing I had to disable on the Ipad...
That's probably actually a feature, not a downside, to the businesses that are BlackBerry's primary market.
And how Android talks to Exchange.
ummm... no....
Android talks to exchange though the OWA web API.
I don't think that means what they think it means.
The salts aren't meant to be secure. They are commonly stored in plain text right next to the password in the database. The salt's actual job is not to prevent a hacker from breaking that user's password, but to prevent the hacker from being able to break all the passwords at once. The salt effectively "messes up" the hash of the password so that that even if multiple user's have the exact same password they will have different hashes. We all know many users use "1234" as their password. If each user has a random salt applied to the password and if the hacker guesses one user's password, he can't look at all the other users with the same hash and know that they all have the same password. The hacker has to spend the time cracking each password individually.