So basically, Mozilla is telling Thunderbird people, "go find your own sugar daddy, we're not sharing ours." All this talk of a new messaging platform is obviously a way of attracting funding. But I'm not optimistic that it will be forthcoming. So why doesn't Google work on a GMail skin/plugin for Thunderbird that emulates a limited feature set for offline use? POP3 is just for downloading the mail into Thunderbird. If people love the GMail so much, wouldn't they want a version of the experience off-line? I can't believe Google wouldn't consider this. GMail doesn't work when your on a 4 hour flight and need to work on some correspondence or plan out your calendar. They're conceding this to Microsoft office? Wow, until now I've given too much credit to the Google for being proactive with competitive strategies.
To me this is an important step. It means that we might describe biological vision (ours and most animals) in an more efficient manner. You don't need millions of layered algorithms duplicating evolution. Instead, vision can be described much simpler. We can derive the optimal version of this type of vision and see what holds for biology. We can also try and develop robotics that emulates optimal biological methods and see how well it meshes with our existential experiences of reality. If it meshes well, then you have the foundation for levels of man/machine integration.
This doesn't imply overlords, just a very clean version of robotic humans that could help us take the next steps in our evolution. But, I'm sure that doomsday predictions and irrational fear will come along for the ride as well. Maybe we can explain and correct that as well.
I'll have to check out Origin Pro further. I tend to use Minitab, Excel and Graphis (www.kylebank.com) Graphis is a real lifesaver for complex 3d graphing. I haven't found a another tool that lets me create compound 3d graphs as easily. It's great when you can make graphs that the engineers understand instantly and management enjoys because of all the pretty colors. Everyone's happy!
OK, here's how it works. (Worked with all types of passive RFID in the past)
First, the tags in question are passive. No battery, so they require the reader to supply the tag with the energy.
The implantable chips work in or near the LF (low frequency) 125-134KHz band. Due to this frequency, the tags work strictly on near field magnetic waves. The tags contain a IC chip with 40 to 50 feet of hair-thin copper strand wound around a core. This inductive coil converts oscillating magnetic fields into a voltage for the chip. So the chip gets its energy and commands from the reader as one transmission.
A command, such as "tag id request", has a response section at the end of the command where the reader just emits a simple energy-transferring carrier wave while listening to its drive circuits. The chip communicates by switching a resistive load on and off. These load changes are felt as current or voltage changes in the reader's driving circuits. Changes in the reader's driver circuit are decoded by another circuit into tag response data. The reader and tag therefore form a single transformer circuit similar to AC power transformers.
13.56Mhz HF RFID uses the same principle as LF RFID but UHF RFID (800MHz and higher) does not. Neither HF or UHF RFID technologies have been demonstrated to be suitable for implantation applications.
I always found it puzzling that the brightest minds seem to feel there's a fair percentage chance we'll find sign of extraterrestrial intelligence from radio waves.
Referencing current standards of data compression and error correction algorithms, the more efficient and closer you get to Shannon's limit (data/bandwidth), the more the signal appears as noise. Even if the main goal of data compression is a smaller data set, the side effect is that predictability is removed. High efficiency RF encoding and error correction have a similar effect on the radio spectrum in that predictability is minimized in the transmitted signal.
As we evolve our wireless algorithms further, we may not be able to detect ourselves with conventional radio listening. It will just sound like standard background noise.
Thunderbird needs a deal with Google (Firefox default home) so the millions in kickbacks will roll in. I guarantee the Firefox group will love 'em again and help them spend the money!
If Apple integrated faster versions of their software into Safari then I would pick it up. Might make a good "gateway" application to buying more Apple products.
So can you call up the customer on your own time and get them to contract outside of IBM? If they really are going crazy about this, it's a perfect time for the recently laid off to start private contracting with the company.
There's an official Disneyland located in Hong Kong so it's not that far. Maybe three hours by plane from Beijing. The park is probably modeled after the HK one.
The specs do not line up exactly. PRAM: 100uA at 1.5V for programming each bit cell FLASH: 8ma at 1.8V for programing one page (256 bytes), internally rebuffered in SRAM
I doubt that anyone can be a monopoly in advertising. Ads aren't like fuel oil, precious metals, telephone communication, business computers or operating systems. A customer's lack of choice in consuming advertisements means less sales for the advertiser. The advertiser would then be unwise to continue allocating money towards a loosing advertising channel and the problem would correct itself.
It's hard enough to imagine a monopoly on search with 3 giant companies in the market but a monopoly on advertising is just a silly concept to me.
Some Six Flags theme parks now have an area near the arcades with about 8 Wii units playing different games. They call it the "Wii Experience". No joke, first time I have seen the machine in person and tried out the games. It was at the Atlanta Six Flags but the operator told me that the demo exists at other Six Flags as well.
The FPGA could be used as an extra function processor in cases where new or faster functions are needed that are too slow when first implemented by the processor. The designers could hang the FPGA off of a main bus and allowing the processor to re-flash a ROM that holds the bit stream when the FPGA boots.
This could be great for media devices. It wouldn't fix badly designed hardware but for cases where they want to add some extra functions to extend the life of the product until the next product design is ready. If said new functions don't fit in the processor time cycle for the smooth functionality, they could use the FPGA to implement processor intensive functions and therefore extend the device for a while.
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I can't believe Google wouldn't consider this. GMail doesn't work when your on a 4 hour flight and need to work on some correspondence or plan out your calendar. They're conceding this to Microsoft office? Wow, until now I've given too much credit to the Google for being proactive with competitive strategies.
To me this is an important step.
It means that we might describe biological vision (ours and most animals) in an more efficient manner. You don't need millions of layered algorithms duplicating evolution. Instead, vision can be described much simpler. We can derive the optimal version of this type of vision and see what holds for biology. We can also try and develop robotics that emulates optimal biological methods and see how well it meshes with our existential experiences of reality. If it meshes well, then you have the foundation for levels of man/machine integration.
This doesn't imply overlords, just a very clean version of robotic humans that could help us take the next steps in our evolution. But, I'm sure that doomsday predictions and irrational fear will come along for the ride as well. Maybe we can explain and correct that as well.
I'll have to check out Origin Pro further.
I tend to use Minitab, Excel and Graphis (www.kylebank.com)
Graphis is a real lifesaver for complex 3d graphing.
I haven't found a another tool that lets me create compound
3d graphs as easily. It's great when you can make graphs
that the engineers understand instantly and management enjoys
because of all the pretty colors. Everyone's happy!
OK, here's how it works. (Worked with all types of passive RFID in the past)
First, the tags in question are passive. No battery, so they require the reader to
supply the tag with the energy.
The implantable chips work in or near the LF (low frequency) 125-134KHz band.
Due to this frequency, the tags work strictly on near field magnetic waves.
The tags contain a IC chip with 40 to 50 feet of hair-thin copper strand wound around
a core. This inductive coil converts oscillating magnetic fields into a voltage for the
chip. So the chip gets its energy and commands from the reader as one transmission.
A command, such as "tag id request", has a response section at the end of the command where the
reader just emits a simple energy-transferring carrier wave while listening to its drive
circuits. The chip communicates by switching a resistive load on and off.
These load changes are felt as current or voltage changes in the reader's driving circuits.
Changes in the reader's driver circuit are decoded by another circuit into tag response data.
The reader and tag therefore form a single transformer circuit similar to AC power transformers.
13.56Mhz HF RFID uses the same principle as LF RFID but UHF RFID (800MHz and higher) does not.
Neither HF or UHF RFID technologies have been demonstrated to be suitable for implantation
applications.
I always found it puzzling that the brightest minds seem to feel there's a fair percentage chance we'll find sign of extraterrestrial intelligence from radio waves.
Referencing current standards of data compression and error correction algorithms, the more efficient and closer you get to Shannon's limit (data/bandwidth), the more the signal appears as noise.
Even if the main goal of data compression is a smaller data set, the side effect is that predictability is removed. High efficiency RF encoding and error correction have a similar effect on the radio spectrum in that predictability is minimized in the transmitted signal.
As we evolve our wireless algorithms further, we may not be able to detect ourselves with conventional radio listening. It will just sound like standard background noise.
Thunderbird needs a deal with Google (Firefox default home) so the millions in kickbacks will roll in.
I guarantee the Firefox group will love 'em again and help them spend the money!
If Apple integrated faster versions of their software into Safari then I would pick it up.
Might make a good "gateway" application to buying more Apple products.
So can you call up the customer on your own time and get them to contract outside of IBM?
If they really are going crazy about this, it's a perfect time for the recently
laid off to start private contracting with the company.
There's an official Disneyland located in Hong Kong so it's not that far.
Maybe three hours by plane from Beijing. The park is probably modeled
after the HK one.
Power consumption specs for programming PRAM are not stated in many places but
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I was able to find a reference here:
http://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/051213.html
And for comparison to flash memory, here is the 512Mb 1.8v part from ST Micro:
http://www.st.com/stonline/products/literature/ds
The specs do not line up exactly.
PRAM: 100uA at 1.5V for programming each bit cell
FLASH: 8ma at 1.8V for programing one page (256 bytes), internally rebuffered in SRAM
I doubt that anyone can be a monopoly in advertising.
Ads aren't like fuel oil, precious metals, telephone communication,
business computers or operating systems. A customer's lack of choice
in consuming advertisements means less sales for the advertiser.
The advertiser would then be unwise to continue allocating money towards
a loosing advertising channel and the problem would correct itself.
It's hard enough to imagine a monopoly on search with 3 giant companies in
the market but a monopoly on advertising is just a silly concept to me.
Some Six Flags theme parks now have an area near the arcades with about 8 Wii units playing different games.
They call it the "Wii Experience". No joke, first time I have seen the machine in person and tried out the games.
It was at the Atlanta Six Flags but the operator told me that the demo exists at other Six Flags as well.
The FPGA could be used as an extra function processor in cases where new or faster functions are needed that are too slow when first implemented by the processor. The designers could hang the FPGA off of a main bus and allowing the processor to re-flash a ROM that holds the bit stream when the FPGA boots.
This could be great for media devices. It wouldn't fix badly designed hardware but for cases where they want to add some extra functions to extend the life of the product until the next product design is ready. If said new functions don't fit in the processor time cycle for the smooth functionality, they could use the FPGA to implement processor intensive functions and therefore extend the device for a while.