Johnson said that broadband is an information service because Internet providers offer DNS (Domain Name System) services and caching as part of the broadband package. DNS and caching "are determinative here" because they allow broadband users to perform all the functions listed in the definition of an information service (e.g. acquiring, storing, and processing information), he argued.
I really hope the judges are learned in the technology. Using the ISP's DNS is obviously not a requirement, nor is using their caching. Using either of these technologies is not integral to the passing of bits from one IP to the other. What a shit argument. If anything, one could argue that the indirect use of the ISP's routing tables are some form of information service, but they aren't typically directly queried by your home/business broadband connection.
A part of my job involves installing remote telemetry units for solar fields to report power production. Just recently in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland area, the RTO is requiring Meterological Data from a local Weather Station Device in the field.(Irradiance and Back-Of-Panel Temps, but usually also include Wind Speed and direction and local temperature) They are primarily intending to use it for prediction of power output from the fields and identifying when they are underperforming, but I've often wondered if that aggregate data could be used to enhance weather predictions.
Basically, we do, we just aren't likely using them all...
You're incorrectly assuming that the electric car will need the same amount of energy to operate as a ICE car. Electric might have more (or less) efficient powertrain, aerodynamics, power steering, HVAC, brakes, etc.
Also, regenerative breaking might come into play. 30 MPG is an arbitrary assumption to compare the electric vehicle mileage per unit energy to.
The answer to that is simple. In ALL cases where the data is unavailable but should be, the claimant automatically wins as either negligence or tampering has occurred. Basically, perhaps the government/police/etc should be guilty until proven innocent, but only when it was required by law to have proper record of it's innocence and failed to produce it.
"The colour palette is still not quite right," he said. "But it proves the point and it runs quite quickly, though it's not optimised."
Mr Jordon has no plans to fine tune the demonstration and do that optimisation or take on more work to get the game beyond its loading screen, given how much trouble it took to get it working at all.
"I'm so sick of it," he said. "I'm done."
On a blog entry about Mr Jordon's work, Canon said it intended "to provide a fix as quickly as is feasible".
This will involve adding a user name and password field to the web interface for future Pixma printers and issuing an update for existing owners to add the same feature.
It looks like Cannon is planning to release a fix to correct the color palette and get the game optimized! Even better they are going to add accounts to the game for scores and going to release this for all previous purchasers of the printer! Sweet!
Imagine no more:
"Yes, but does it run linux?"
"I, for one, welcome our Linux Powered Drone Over(head)lords!"
"Linux powered drones pour Hot Grits on Natalie Portman from the Sky!"
This gets a bit more complicated. You need to also compare Gas vs Electric engine efficiency, Gas vs Electric Storage Efficiency, The effects of Regenerative Braking, on and on and on...
Gas engine has poor efficiency, but electric larger has transmission and storage losses, but gains regenerative braking. The picture is very complex. Maybe in the end its a wash?
When a business targets African-Americans by buying names associated with African-Americans, that's textbook racism. Why? Because it's making assumptions about individuals based on their membership in a group.
Its not racism unless they are getting treated in a negative way. If the business is targeting those "it" perceive have the most need for it's goods or services, then it's just being smart. If it's denying people access to good and services because of arbitrary traits, then its bad.
The Tesla batteries are individually small units - basically, repurposed laptop batteries stacked together. Tesla does not make them. And, they have been known to have problems, which Tesla has had to engineer around.
"In electricity, a battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy."
Sounds like connecting a bunch of cells they don't actually manufacture into a battery, and basically successfully dealing with the side effects, management, and other issues involved in stringing together a battery of cells. How are they not qualified to make batteries?
I don't expect the guy at the checkpoint to be able to decide if the "modified" watch is dangerous or not, and so they called in the experts (who decided that there were no explosives).
Why Not? If the guy at the checkpoint is supposed to be responsible for security, then he aught to at least be somewhat technically adept and have some idea of whether or not a circuit could be dangerous.
I think your expectations are too low for someone with this level of responsibility.
The problem is that in this case, the law shouldn't exist at all whether it's for the Koran, a flag, or a poppy, but fundamentally it's got to be one or the other, either you can burn poppies, flags, and Korans, or you can burn none of them
Well I, for one, hold as Sacred the following: Wood, Natural Gas and Coal. Have fun heating/powering your home without burning anything!
If your mileage was that much higher than rating, could this be due to the gas pump stopping early. This would make it appear you used less gas than actual, as the tank would not be filled to the same level as starting point. Assuming you calculated mileage manually using this method.
I hear this "household typically has 2 or more cars" argument all the time. It's crap. We have 4 old cars, one for each person. It's not like one could just have a short-range only car. What would they do when they needed to go somewhere far-ish and everyone else is at work? Mind you that yes, everyone works every day and so takes their car.
I'm sure that most households with more than 1 car don't just have that car sitting around until they need to take a long trip (which could be a weekly or more occurrence). If you own more than one car, it's usually because your using it regularly.
I can't wait until electric cars can really be practical, but the theoretical option to have an extra car for distance doesn't make them so
Why should a woman who wants to go to a hacker convention expect to be subjected to sexual advances? Or, more to the point, why would a man at a hacker convention feel entitled to make sexual advances? After the fact, why do you feel the need to defend men who make sexual advances at a computer hacker convention?
Seriously? Because in our society it is traditional for men to make the advances. If men didn't make the advances, our species wouldn't continue. Essentially anywhere a woman or a man goes, there will be the possibility of sexual advances, even if such an advance is simple verbal flirtation. Why would it not be expected that a women who willingly goes somewhere there is a high concentration of men in a non-formal (social) environment will be hit on?
Maybe they can get rid of all the non-hd channels and sell SD boxes that simply down-convert? That would certainly free up some wasted bandwidth!
They could also just admit that TV = HD now, and stop charging extra for the privilege to use your now 10 year old tv! I mean, really, how long has HD been around?
I'm not a social scientist, so I am legitimately asking "what is the point to eradicating poverty?"
I think the point is to continually increase standards of living. In a sufficiently wealthy economy, the poverty line could very well be where a person has food and shelter, has some spending money, but can't afford high speed internet or educational courses to better themselves. Not being able to afford a car in some locations would make it difficult to get by or get ahead. Not having a cellphone or cable tv might put you at social disadvantages that hinder your confidence and make getting a job or working a job more difficult.
This way you can sort by alpha-num and it will be in the order you want. The extra zeroes make it easy to insert some other folders later. But honestly, does it really matter?
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Johnson said that broadband is an information service because Internet providers offer DNS (Domain Name System) services and caching as part of the broadband package. DNS and caching "are determinative here" because they allow broadband users to perform all the functions listed in the definition of an information service (e.g. acquiring, storing, and processing information), he argued.
I really hope the judges are learned in the technology. Using the ISP's DNS is obviously not a requirement, nor is using their caching. Using either of these technologies is not integral to the passing of bits from one IP to the other. What a shit argument. If anything, one could argue that the indirect use of the ISP's routing tables are some form of information service, but they aren't typically directly queried by your home/business broadband connection.
A part of my job involves installing remote telemetry units for solar fields to report power production. Just recently in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland area, the RTO is requiring Meterological Data from a local Weather Station Device in the field.(Irradiance and Back-Of-Panel Temps, but usually also include Wind Speed and direction and local temperature) They are primarily intending to use it for prediction of power output from the fields and identifying when they are underperforming, but I've often wondered if that aggregate data could be used to enhance weather predictions.
Basically, we do, we just aren't likely using them all...
AT&T should pay you a commission!
You're incorrectly assuming that the electric car will need the same amount of energy to operate as a ICE car. Electric might have more (or less) efficient powertrain, aerodynamics, power steering, HVAC, brakes, etc.
Also, regenerative breaking might come into play. 30 MPG is an arbitrary assumption to compare the electric vehicle mileage per unit energy to.
The answer to that is simple. In ALL cases where the data is unavailable but should be, the claimant automatically wins as either negligence or tampering has occurred. Basically, perhaps the government/police/etc should be guilty until proven innocent, but only when it was required by law to have proper record of it's innocence and failed to produce it.
"The colour palette is still not quite right," he said. "But it proves the point and it runs quite quickly, though it's not optimised."
Mr Jordon has no plans to fine tune the demonstration and do that optimisation or take on more work to get the game beyond its loading screen, given how much trouble it took to get it working at all.
"I'm so sick of it," he said. "I'm done."
On a blog entry about Mr Jordon's work, Canon said it intended "to provide a fix as quickly as is feasible".
This will involve adding a user name and password field to the web interface for future Pixma printers and issuing an update for existing owners to add the same feature.
It looks like Cannon is planning to release a fix to correct the color palette and get the game optimized! Even better they are going to add accounts to the game for scores and going to release this for all previous purchasers of the printer! Sweet!
:p
Imagine no more:
"Yes, but does it run linux?"
"I, for one, welcome our Linux Powered Drone Over(head)lords!"
"Linux powered drones pour Hot Grits on Natalie Portman from the Sky!"
This gets a bit more complicated. You need to also compare Gas vs Electric engine efficiency, Gas vs Electric Storage Efficiency, The effects of Regenerative Braking, on and on and on...
Gas engine has poor efficiency, but electric larger has transmission and storage losses, but gains regenerative braking. The picture is very complex. Maybe in the end its a wash?
Well then we just need for Police Police to Police Police.
When a business targets African-Americans by buying names associated with African-Americans, that's textbook racism. Why? Because it's making assumptions about individuals based on their membership in a group.
Its not racism unless they are getting treated in a negative way. If the business is targeting those "it" perceive have the most need for it's goods or services, then it's just being smart. If it's denying people access to good and services because of arbitrary traits, then its bad.
The Tesla batteries are individually small units - basically, repurposed laptop batteries stacked together. Tesla does not make them. And, they have been known to have problems, which Tesla has had to engineer around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_(electricity)
"In electricity, a battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy."
Sounds like connecting a bunch of cells they don't actually manufacture into a battery, and basically successfully dealing with the side effects, management, and other issues involved in stringing together a battery of cells. How are they not qualified to make batteries?
You forgot hamster wheels.
I don't expect the guy at the checkpoint to be able to decide if the "modified" watch is dangerous or not, and so they called in the experts (who decided that there were no explosives).
Why Not? If the guy at the checkpoint is supposed to be responsible for security, then he aught to at least be somewhat technically adept and have some idea of whether or not a circuit could be dangerous.
I think your expectations are too low for someone with this level of responsibility.
Ah, someone below beat me to it.... Well, I knew there had to be more than one of us! See this is a legitimate religion! Protect us!
The problem is that in this case, the law shouldn't exist at all whether it's for the Koran, a flag, or a poppy, but fundamentally it's got to be one or the other, either you can burn poppies, flags, and Korans, or you can burn none of them
Well I, for one, hold as Sacred the following: Wood, Natural Gas and Coal. Have fun heating/powering your home without burning anything!
I thought facebook was a phishing scam!
If your mileage was that much higher than rating, could this be due to the gas pump stopping early. This would make it appear you used less gas than actual, as the tank would not be filled to the same level as starting point. Assuming you calculated mileage manually using this method.
I hear this "household typically has 2 or more cars" argument all the time. It's crap. We have 4 old cars, one for each person. It's not like one could just have a short-range only car. What would they do when they needed to go somewhere far-ish and everyone else is at work? Mind you that yes, everyone works every day and so takes their car.
I'm sure that most households with more than 1 car don't just have that car sitting around until they need to take a long trip (which could be a weekly or more occurrence). If you own more than one car, it's usually because your using it regularly.
I can't wait until electric cars can really be practical, but the theoretical option to have an extra car for distance doesn't make them so
Why should a woman who wants to go to a hacker convention expect to be subjected to sexual advances? Or, more to the point, why would a man at a hacker convention feel entitled to make sexual advances? After the fact, why do you feel the need to defend men who make sexual advances at a computer hacker convention?
Seriously? Because in our society it is traditional for men to make the advances. If men didn't make the advances, our species wouldn't continue. Essentially anywhere a woman or a man goes, there will be the possibility of sexual advances, even if such an advance is simple verbal flirtation. Why would it not be expected that a women who willingly goes somewhere there is a high concentration of men in a non-formal (social) environment will be hit on?
Maybe they can get rid of all the non-hd channels and sell SD boxes that simply down-convert? That would certainly free up some wasted bandwidth!
They could also just admit that TV = HD now, and stop charging extra for the privilege to use your now 10 year old tv! I mean, really, how long has HD been around?
I'm not a social scientist, so I am legitimately asking "what is the point to eradicating poverty?"
I think the point is to continually increase standards of living. In a sufficiently wealthy economy, the poverty line could very well be where a person has food and shelter, has some spending money, but can't afford high speed internet or educational courses to better themselves. Not being able to afford a car in some locations would make it difficult to get by or get ahead. Not having a cellphone or cable tv might put you at social disadvantages that hinder your confidence and make getting a job or working a job more difficult.
I am not a social scientist, just my 2c.
Logical fallacy, attacking a straw man. The cops aren't there to protect you.
Well, at least they pretend to in LA: http://www.joinlapd.com/motto.html
Someone Mod This UP!
Check your units. kWh per hour would be an accelerating rate of energy usage.
Try this:
010- Photos
020- My Pics
030-DL
040-Wallpaper
This way you can sort by alpha-num and it will be in the order you want. The extra zeroes make it easy to insert some other folders later. But honestly, does it really matter?