What I'm asking now is: when will Nvidia and HP be able to use these patents content to improve their products? Did these patents cover something technologically significant?
Is an USPTO decision, for once, going to foster innovation?
It's just a matter of tuning... If you happen to have a channel that is received better when you're close or touching the antenna, try shortening a bit the dipole and then move away. Shortening the antenna makes it slightly capacitive, almost the same effect your body has on it.
Or GUIs that shouldn't grow in size just to be "touch compatible". See Windows 7 vs. XP, I can't stand the excessive spacing between menus lines in 7 when I will use it as a mouse-only OS for the foreseeable future...
Red Faction had a destructible environment back in 2001 with Volition's Geo-Mod engine, which eventually improved in 2009 with the totally realtime Geo-Mod 2.0 in Red Faction: Guerrilla.
But apart from the occasional full page (bitmap) graphics, most of the two issues is black text on white background, no graphical details, two uniform-width columns, left justified, no feathering whatsoever, widows and orphans everywhere, etc.
If this was meant as a proof of good typesetting, it fails. But whether this is FOSS' or editor's failure, that's hard to tell.
Or you may use a plausible deniability system. But in doing that you may want to be reasonably sure that no data leaks exist, or you may find yourself in an even worse position.
Speedometers in cars are analog exactly because of that: it takes no time to interpret analog hands/dials with respect to reading and understanding a 3 numbers figure.
And that's not going to change anytime soon since it's how our brain works. Numbers need to be made sense of, oblique lines don't.
(Besides, doesn't anyone feel that 4s representation in 7-segment displays is wrong?)
Bleeding may be due to lower bandwith on one of the s-video components. So here the problem was likely not how good the Monster cable was, but how bad the competing cable was. If it was brand new, it shouldn't have been rated for s-video operation at all. Analog video cables are working at around 10 MHz frequency (order of magnitude). If your cable is bad/long/both, cable quality will affect the image.
Same thing goes for HDMI cables. If they are rated for HDMI, they should work now and forever (when treated according to specifications). If they don't, they shouldn't be sold as HDMI cables. If some cables are able to withstand rough field conditions, they should be specified and sold as such. If they are going to sit still behind your flat screen, at ambient temperature, with 5 plug/unplug cycles during their lifetime, any cable will do.
Of course, all of the above doesn't apply to audiophiles stuff, since what matters for them is below 200 kHz and any cable of almost any length will equally do. (Please note, I really meant 200 kHz, not 20 kHz. Reason for that, on another post maybe...)
Funny thing is that making a high-frequency cable with specific characteristics (e.g., impedance, cross-talk, etc) is fairly easy. Making one that mantains the same characteristics also throughout its lifetime when bent, mishandled, etc, that's difficult. This is especially true with HF measurement equipment cables (thousands of dollars per meter of cable), but it may be becoming relevant also for consumer equipment (e.g., thunderbolt).
the way to go on this is to checksum the existing known good mbr and then validate it from time to time offline against the checksum.
Isn't there supposed to be a BIOS setting to protect from writes to MBR? I know that MBR stuff is so '90s and nobody remembers about that anymore, but still...
Original article here (sorry, no free version available). I find ridiculous that they provide (mostly self) references to existing art, but they fail to mention commercial felt-tip silver pens.
By a quick look at the paper, their ink has a resistivity of 2*10^(-4) Ohm*cm (25 C print temperature) which is not so lower than the 5*10^(-4) Ohm*cm commercially available ink. They do reach lower resistivity, but with high temperature annealing, so it cannot be compared directly (and they fail to).
Maybe their ink is more flexible, but again they fail to provide comparison with existing ink.
Their ink has probably lower viscosity due to the use of nanoparticles (they are working between 1 and 10 Pa*s) and this probably allows for the use of rollerball pens, but if felt-tip pens are working fine with a most likely cheaper ink, why should I care?
However they do manage to master the acronyms creation art, providing the catchy PoP shorthening for their groundbreaking pen-on-paper circuit drawing approach...
If somebody does not even wonder why a private key is called like that, he should be kept away at all times from any computer system more complex than a pocket calculator.
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While I didn't check timezones/hours on some timestamps, I think it's still fairly reasonable to call this bullshit. Please check your sources next time.
Had this audiophile friend who had a jack-to-jack premium/shielded/whatnot cable that got a damaged end. He immediately bought a new one, but gave me the old one to fix it and keep it around as a spare.
I shorten it a bit and splice the thing open to solder a new jack. Can you guess the insulator color of the 3 inner cables?
Furthermore, even the developer doesn't seem to care.
From TFA:
Since the official rejection, Hughes's app has become one of the most popular offered in the Cydia store, with more than 50,000 sold in the past 13 months. Throughout that time, Wi-Fi Sync has cost $9.99, not including occasional promotional discounts. Hughes declined to say how much he has grossed in sales [...]
Maybe that's why he's not interested. And maybe that's also why Apple didn't feel the need to pay him for his efforts...
Asked if a cellphone's signal could really be that powerful, Carson said, "It is when it goes in the right place at the right time."
To prove his point, Carson took ABC News inside Boeing's electronic test chamber in Seattle, where engineers demonstrated the hidden signals from several electronic devices that were well over what Boeing considers the acceptable limit for aircraft equipment. A Blackberry and an iPhone were both over the limit, but the worst offender was an iPad. There are still doubters, including ABC News's own aviation expert, John Nance.
"There is a lot of anecdotal evidence out there, but it's not evidence at all," said Nance, a former Air Force and commercial pilot. "It's pilots, like myself, who thought they saw something but they couldn't pin it to anything in particular. And those stories are not rampant enough, considering 32,000 flights a day over the U.S., to be convincing."
You will get a similar search also when you're redirected from.kz to.com and it's not just a translated interface, the results do look country customized.
I think the poorer experience is referred to loger round trip times, impacting especially features like InstantSearch.
if the US did phase it out what exactly is going to replace it?
IMHO the real question here is not only what will replace current nuclear plants, but what is gonna make up for the increase in power demands. You know, like from all these environment friendly electric cars that should replace current ones anytime now...
Flywheels are also common in datacenters, where they fill the gap between the limited run-time of battery powered UPSs and the long start time of diesel generators.
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What I'm asking now is: when will Nvidia and HP be able to use these patents content to improve their products? Did these patents cover something technologically significant?
Is an USPTO decision, for once, going to foster innovation?
It's just a matter of tuning... If you happen to have a channel that is received better when you're close or touching the antenna, try shortening a bit the dipole and then move away. Shortening the antenna makes it slightly capacitive, almost the same effect your body has on it.
Or GUIs that shouldn't grow in size just to be "touch compatible". See Windows 7 vs. XP, I can't stand the excessive spacing between menus lines in 7 when I will use it as a mouse-only OS for the foreseeable future...
Red Faction had a destructible environment back in 2001 with Volition's Geo-Mod engine, which eventually improved in 2009 with the totally realtime Geo-Mod 2.0 in Red Faction: Guerrilla.
But apart from the occasional full page (bitmap) graphics, most of the two issues is black text on white background, no graphical details, two uniform-width columns, left justified, no feathering whatsoever, widows and orphans everywhere, etc.
If this was meant as a proof of good typesetting, it fails. But whether this is FOSS' or editor's failure, that's hard to tell.
Or you may use a plausible deniability system. But in doing that you may want to be reasonably sure that no data leaks exist, or you may find yourself in an even worse position.
Speedometers in cars are analog exactly because of that: it takes no time to interpret analog hands/dials with respect to reading and understanding a 3 numbers figure.
And that's not going to change anytime soon since it's how our brain works. Numbers need to be made sense of, oblique lines don't.
(Besides, doesn't anyone feel that 4s representation in 7-segment displays is wrong?)
Bleeding may be due to lower bandwith on one of the s-video components. So here the problem was likely not how good the Monster cable was, but how bad the competing cable was. If it was brand new, it shouldn't have been rated for s-video operation at all. Analog video cables are working at around 10 MHz frequency (order of magnitude). If your cable is bad/long/both, cable quality will affect the image.
Same thing goes for HDMI cables. If they are rated for HDMI, they should work now and forever (when treated according to specifications). If they don't, they shouldn't be sold as HDMI cables. If some cables are able to withstand rough field conditions, they should be specified and sold as such. If they are going to sit still behind your flat screen, at ambient temperature, with 5 plug/unplug cycles during their lifetime, any cable will do.
Of course, all of the above doesn't apply to audiophiles stuff, since what matters for them is below 200 kHz and any cable of almost any length will equally do. (Please note, I really meant 200 kHz, not 20 kHz. Reason for that, on another post maybe...)
or bent.
Funny thing is that making a high-frequency cable with specific characteristics (e.g., impedance, cross-talk, etc) is fairly easy. Making one that mantains the same characteristics also throughout its lifetime when bent, mishandled, etc, that's difficult. This is especially true with HF measurement equipment cables (thousands of dollars per meter of cable), but it may be becoming relevant also for consumer equipment (e.g., thunderbolt).
the way to go on this is to checksum the existing known good mbr and then validate it from time to time offline against the checksum.
Isn't there supposed to be a BIOS setting to protect from writes to MBR? I know that MBR stuff is so '90s and nobody remembers about that anymore, but still...
Original article here (sorry, no free version available). I find ridiculous that they provide (mostly self) references to existing art, but they fail to mention commercial felt-tip silver pens.
By a quick look at the paper, their ink has a resistivity of 2*10^(-4) Ohm*cm (25 C print temperature) which is not so lower than the 5*10^(-4) Ohm*cm commercially available ink. They do reach lower resistivity, but with high temperature annealing, so it cannot be compared directly (and they fail to).
Maybe their ink is more flexible, but again they fail to provide comparison with existing ink.
Their ink has probably lower viscosity due to the use of nanoparticles (they are working between 1 and 10 Pa*s) and this probably allows for the use of rollerball pens, but if felt-tip pens are working fine with a most likely cheaper ink, why should I care?
However they do manage to master the acronyms creation art, providing the catchy PoP shorthening for their groundbreaking pen-on-paper circuit drawing approach...
Search for alternative sources to paywalled content, learn how to deal with pageviews-harvesting blogs, post link.
Slashdot, where editing is crowdsourced.
p.s. Thanks for the link...
My grandfather bought yearly, between the 50s and 80s, a printed almanac with dates to sow various plants calculated for the coming year.
They are still sold today in my region (and maybe others) in Italy: publisher link, translation.
Can somebody please remind me why we moved from Java applets to Javascript applets?
It can't be just a matter of tight browser-VM integration or GPLiness.
Why are we coding the whole thing all over again?
If somebody does not even wonder why a private key is called like that, he should be kept away at all times from any computer system more complex than a pocket calculator.
While I didn't check timezones/hours on some timestamps, I think it's still fairly reasonable to call this bullshit. Please check your sources next time.
Had this audiophile friend who had a jack-to-jack premium/shielded/whatnot cable that got a damaged end. He immediately bought a new one, but gave me the old one to fix it and keep it around as a spare.
I shorten it a bit and splice the thing open to solder a new jack. Can you guess the insulator color of the 3 inner cables?
Brown, blue, and yellow-green.
You make it sound like we're doing a smart thing, paying other nations to handle the nuclear hassle for us.
Not really, since we ended up having nuclear plants on our borders anyway (notice that trend going on in western Switzerland/southern France?)...
Furthermore, even the developer doesn't seem to care.
From TFA:
Since the official rejection, Hughes's app has become one of the most popular offered in the Cydia store, with more than 50,000 sold in the past 13 months. Throughout that time, Wi-Fi Sync has cost $9.99, not including occasional promotional discounts. Hughes declined to say how much he has grossed in sales [...]
Maybe that's why he's not interested. And maybe that's also why Apple didn't feel the need to pay him for his efforts...
TFS is not summarizing TFA. Is it also because it links to TFA's page 2?
Proper link: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/safe-cellphone-plane/story?id=13791569
Proper excerpt:
Asked if a cellphone's signal could really be that powerful, Carson said, "It is when it goes in the right place at the right time."
To prove his point, Carson took ABC News inside Boeing's electronic test chamber in Seattle, where engineers demonstrated the hidden signals from several electronic devices that were well over what Boeing considers the acceptable limit for aircraft equipment. A Blackberry and an iPhone were both over the limit, but the worst offender was an iPad. There are still doubters, including ABC News's own aviation expert, John Nance.
"There is a lot of anecdotal evidence out there, but it's not evidence at all," said Nance, a former Air Force and commercial pilot. "It's pilots, like myself, who thought they saw something but they couldn't pin it to anything in particular. And those stories are not rampant enough, considering 32,000 flights a day over the U.S., to be convincing."
Already possible, even tho the country code appears to be kk.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=kk&q=russia
You will get a similar search also when you're redirected from .kz to .com and it's not just a translated interface, the results do look country customized.
I think the poorer experience is referred to loger round trip times, impacting especially features like InstantSearch.
if the US did phase it out what exactly is going to replace it?
IMHO the real question here is not only what will replace current nuclear plants, but what is gonna make up for the increase in power demands. You know, like from all these environment friendly electric cars that should replace current ones anytime now...
Flywheels are also common in datacenters, where they fill the gap between the limited run-time of battery powered UPSs and the long start time of diesel generators.
When knowledge will be outlawed, only outlaws will have knowledge.
But I have to admit that this would give interesting explanations to, e.g., empathy.