Because the first one to send an FU to its competitors will trigger a hot war?
It's the prisoner's dilemma really, all it takes is one of the competitors to realize its sinking by maintaining its patent truce with the others and try to get a first-mover advantage by sniping the others patents. Things after that would quickly escalate.
Just look what happened with the patent lawsuit and Apple.
What other country on either the North or South American continent contains the word "America?"
"The Americas" -> continents "America" -> the USA
When it's the only country that has "America" in the name, it seems pretty unambiguous to me. If I'm not aware of a country's full title, please enlighten.
Undoing my moderation to ask... but I've got CM10.1 (Android 4.2.2) on my Nexus S, but there is no "Users" option.
Is there some magic trick to make this appear (like the clicking on something 5 times in a row in system info to make the developer options menu appear)?
I don't think you're thinking about how big space is.
A nuke is bad for space equipment? We're talking hitting an asteroid moving say... 60,000 mph (which travels 1.44 million miles a day) months before it hits earth.
Even detecting the successful ignition of the device with equipment pointed straight at it might be difficult.
You forgot the most important comparison: Lithium Ion = 400 Wh/l
So hydrogen has no better energy density than batteries, and requires an additional (and very expensive... platinum ftw) fuel cell, has much lower cycle efficiency (the most efficient production method is to make it from natural gas @ ~80% efficiency, the cell itself yields around 50%, so your cycle efficiency is about 40%), and still requires fossil fuels... eg: natural gas. It's also stored under intense pressure (5-10kpsi), the tanks have to be replaced periodically due to pressure cycling and hydrogen embrittlement. Oh, and you can't stop it from seeping out of tank seals, so it also "self discharges."
Diatomaceous earth also works wonders. Get a bag of "food grade" (yes, it's often mixed into the food you eat) DE and sprinkle around the baseboards where they're coming in. Avoid "pool grade" for your lung health.
It works like moon dust works on astronauts: it's sticky and microscopic and gets into the joints and cuts up the ants, resulting in their eventual death by dehydration.
You have wireless internet at home, not "out whereever."
You use this MS app to download Youtube videos to watch later, when you don't have internet access.
This seems like time-shifting.
It gets more fuzzy say... you have now a mediocre 3G internet connection with a 200mb monthly cap (common).
Now you want to download the video to watch later, where you technically have internet access, but due to slow speeds it would take a long time, and eat up 1/3 of your total monthly bandwidth. You're network-shifting?
And yet Slashdot ran a story a couple days ago about reading finger touches on an LCD screen by analyzing the power inside your house and using the EMI fingerprint to reconstruct the touch points:
Who knows, maybe they could game a magic bad image causing buffer overflows through the radar (dradis whatever) or something.
The lesson I took from it is the same the internet has shown: all you need is the tiniest "in" exposed and you're owned. And the Cylons had agents inside with physical access. Having no network limits the damage an agent can do to one system at a time, right? Seems reasonable to me.
Slashdot Mirror
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig's_law_of_the_minimum
-1 wrong processor to you, sir.
Because the first one to send an FU to its competitors will trigger a hot war?
It's the prisoner's dilemma really, all it takes is one of the competitors to realize its sinking by maintaining its patent truce with the others and try to get a first-mover advantage by sniping the others patents. Things after that would quickly escalate.
Just look what happened with the patent lawsuit and Apple.
What other country on either the North or South American continent contains the word "America?"
"The Americas" -> continents
"America" -> the USA
When it's the only country that has "America" in the name, it seems pretty unambiguous to me. If I'm not aware of a country's full title, please enlighten.
Sam
Either
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor
I did go to Youtube and search for "man cacti jump."
The internet delivers as promised.
2.5% of the water on earth is freshwater.
Of that, 1.5% is in liquid surface water (30.1% of that 2.5% is groundwater).
So... 0.0325% of earth's water is easily human usable, and another 0.775% is usable with some effort (drilling).
Not as much as people think.
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html
He didn't say _how many_ decades!
By that measure, I'm days old, but already using the computer. Precocious little scamp, ain't I?
Sam
This IS the VW XL1.
Yes, a man in China stabbed 22 children in a spree, all of whom survived.
That Lanza douche shot 28 (not including his mother at home) and 2 survived.
A gun by itself doesn't cause violence, but it makes it super easy to escalate violent force into the deadly range.
To quote Farnsworth: "Who needs courage, when you have a gun!"
Sam
And that advertising means that in the minds of the public, it is MCDONALD'S, not an individual franchisee being sued.
Most knives have sharp edges and they'll cut anything in front of them in a non-discriminatory fashion :).
Sam
Undoing my moderation to ask... but I've got CM10.1 (Android 4.2.2) on my Nexus S, but there is no "Users" option.
Is there some magic trick to make this appear (like the clicking on something 5 times in a row in system info to make the developer options menu appear)?
Sam
It means he wants a fiscal conservative party, not a religious conservative party. Right now, the two are mixed together in the Republican party.
And no, I don't count the libertarian party. They're more like... the borderline anarchist party.
I want a party that has financial responsibility without saying they want to gut everything to do with government.
Sam
I say:
My neighbor's wife Barbera is a dirty cheating hooker.
You say:
You're biased because you didn't also say my neighbor's husband John or Jim, who is also cheating on his wife.
On top of that, he was talking about the headline news segments of Fox, MSNBC, and CNN. Not the [worthless] talking head shows.
Sam
I think you mean Chapter 7.
Sam
sed 's/wife/dog/'
I hope...
The Van Allen belt only extends ~40k miles from the earth's surface. I'm not sure how they're relevant to something occuring 86 million miles away?
I don't think you're thinking about how big space is.
A nuke is bad for space equipment? We're talking hitting an asteroid moving say... 60,000 mph (which travels 1.44 million miles a day) months before it hits earth.
Even detecting the successful ignition of the device with equipment pointed straight at it might be difficult.
Sam
You forgot the most important comparison: Lithium Ion = 400 Wh/l
So hydrogen has no better energy density than batteries, and requires an additional (and very expensive... platinum ftw) fuel cell, has much lower cycle efficiency (the most efficient production method is to make it from natural gas @ ~80% efficiency, the cell itself yields around 50%, so your cycle efficiency is about 40%), and still requires fossil fuels... eg: natural gas. It's also stored under intense pressure (5-10kpsi), the tanks have to be replaced periodically due to pressure cycling and hydrogen embrittlement. Oh, and you can't stop it from seeping out of tank seals, so it also "self discharges."
Oh, and don't forget, 30 minutes to fill for a 150 mile range http://www.caranddriver.com/features/pump-it-up-we-refuel-a-hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicle-the-half-hour-fill-up-page-2 . The exact same rate as a Tesla supercharger.
I've never understood why anyone ever looked at hydrogen as a panacea to solve electric car ills.
Sam
That should be a setting in the BIOS. Look for something like "Wake on USB."
Both my media machine and laptop have this enabled, and a simple tap of the spacebar wakes them up.
Sam
Your COMMENT is a huge
Diatomaceous earth also works wonders. Get a bag of "food grade" (yes, it's often mixed into the food you eat) DE and sprinkle around the baseboards where they're coming in. Avoid "pool grade" for your lung health.
It works like moon dust works on astronauts: it's sticky and microscopic and gets into the joints and cuts up the ants, resulting in their eventual death by dehydration.
Sam
A thought experiment:
You have wireless internet at home, not "out whereever."
You use this MS app to download Youtube videos to watch later, when you don't have internet access.
This seems like time-shifting.
It gets more fuzzy say... you have now a mediocre 3G internet connection with a 200mb monthly cap (common).
Now you want to download the video to watch later, where you technically have internet access, but due to slow speeds it would take a long time, and eat up 1/3 of your total monthly bandwidth. You're network-shifting?
Sam
I sure wish the mod system went higher than 5.
And yet Slashdot ran a story a couple days ago about reading finger touches on an LCD screen by analyzing the power inside your house and using the EMI fingerprint to reconstruct the touch points:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/04/26/1619230/5-sensor-turns-lcd-monitors-into-touchscreens
Who knows, maybe they could game a magic bad image causing buffer overflows through the radar (dradis whatever) or something.
The lesson I took from it is the same the internet has shown: all you need is the tiniest "in" exposed and you're owned. And the Cylons had agents inside with physical access. Having no network limits the damage an agent can do to one system at a time, right? Seems reasonable to me.
Sam