That's why I have high hopes for freewheels. They can have high energy density, very fast charge and discharge (if you need to power your steel-cutting CO2 laser) and best of all, almost illimited charge/discharge cycle life. And freewheels are already in use in some streetcars!
That, or supercaps. There's a great amount of research going on in supercaps. These have all the advantages of the freewheel plus they are solid state. I'm holding my hopes for this technology. Something tells me this is going to be the ultimate electric energy storage for the home.
So, as you can see, one is not necessarily stuck with batteries.
Well, I used to work at Nokia (I guess you've heard of them) and specifically in phone testing. In short, your post is BS from beginning to end; Nokia would make sure their phone worked with every damn operator. Whether it will be then locked in in the USA it didn't matter, because we knew it wouldn't be locked in in Europe and half of the rest of the world. And we were painfully aware of the fact that in every single country of the world we were competing, almost toe to toe, with the likes of Motorola, Samsung and Ericsson (later SonyEricsson).
Yeah, testing takes time, but it's cost in time and money is nowhere so high that we'd simply NOT test and go exclusive with one (or $SMALLNUM) operator.
Whether AT&T was the logical choice or not, I don't know, but it certainly wasn't for the reasons you cite!
This was the most valuable lecture I've ever attended. And it's the kind of lecture I can talk about with my girlfriend, with my friends, and with anyone I care about. It's the stuff of life.
This man has lived an amazing life, and no doubt, this gives him the courage and the peace of mind to leave in such a graceful way, in an ultimate act of generosity. "Take a piece of me" he said somewhere at the beginning, when inviting people in the audience to take away his stuffed animals. And I feel I received a piece of him, even though I am thousands of kilometers away from this great person.
If you want your children to persevere in their lives and reach their dreams, show them this lecture (I saw the videos on YouTube), and talk about it with them.
Strange, but for me the single most annoying "feature" of Vista is the ludicriously, totally unacceptably slow file copy. That alone should be enough to condemn Vista to the cemetery of operating systems.
The network slowdown while playing MP3 files is bad, too.
Some of my dead colleagues (that's how I call other cyclists) rode brand new forks.
As for Boeing, I am a great fan of the company, and would really like the Dreamliner to do great. Not only that, but I am willing to agree that there are ways (I don't know, I'll take your word for it) to test carbon fiber parts for indicators of stress. All I was saying is, carbon fiber parts in cycling have always and, sadly, still are 100% unpredictable.
Now, you might call me a jackass with a hammer if that makes you feel better (I actually study IC fabrication), but all I did was sharing my experience as a cyclist and bike mechanic (which is just my hobby, I have no bike shop). Whe I hear carbon fiber, I get just that slightly bit worried, is all.
But on the other hand, the engineer that blew the whistle on Boeing is definitely not just a jackass with a hammer, and you might want to listen to him a bit more attentively. MAYBE Boeing didn't test their brand new fuselage quite as thoroughly as they should have.
and a bike mechanic, I have studied the aspects of carbon frame and fork reliability very thoroughly. My verdict is: a carbon fork will work for thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers, and never ever show any signs that something's wrong, and then one day it will snap, and the rider could die (when the front wheel looses traction, you're going down. Unlike the rear wheel, in which case you have a chance to control the bike to some extent, and control the fall (I said "you have a chance", not certainty)). So many cyclists have died because of carbon fiber fork failures, and even very experienced ones. The problem is, as I said, that it's impossible to predict a cabron fiber bike part failure. With aluminum it's easier, because usually there are tell-tale signs (now, whether you'll check the part or the frame for them, it's another story). With steel and titanium it's even simpler, as these materials will usually allow a cyclist ample time before a breech develops into a full crack.
So, I do believe the technology of carbon fiber composites is very promising, but they still haven't built a carbon fiber fork I'd ride with full confidence.
That said, understand that the chances of dieing from a carbon fiber fork failure are pretty small, but sadly, completely unpredictable.
Now tell me: who here doesn't want to see the darn crater? Of all things in TFA, what I really missed is a picture of the crater that the alleged meteorite created. Just seeing it would give us some idea of whether it was a meteorite at all, and if so, how big.
I was going to comment on this, as well. In Europe, the security check is time-consuming and generates long queues, especially in HELLthrow.
That said, not having to wait at the checkin counter (or electronic check-in machine (and then do the button-ticket-CC tango)) and at the gate is great! I hate waiting in queues, so anything that can reduce them is welcome.
..at least they are re-doing the vote, and that's good, even if the end result will be the same. Considering how egregious the irregularities were, for example, in Portugal, and yet noone seems to give a duck, it's nice that some hungarian senior officials are making a stand of principle.
I should disclose that I am half hungarian.
Now I hope the other countries where MS did their dirty deeds to get OOXML ISO-standardized, will have an epifany of sorts and cancel the fraudolent voting results.
Just because they do shady things here and there And by here and there, you mean everywhere. (mostly in business practices however) doesn't mean everything they do is evil. And by doesn't mean, you mean it does mean:)
you'd notice that these animals show signs of some kind of organisation - they have a designated watch/guard, who won't be eating that time, but will provide valuable protection to the rest of the group, and warn when humans approach. I think this is amazing.
Then, they throw stones - that is, they realized they can use an object as a weapon.
I tend to conclude that they have, somehow, evolved. Which is fascinating, or horrifying, depending on your POW. Now, I don't claim to be particularly noble of heart, and if a monkey started attacking me or throwing stones at me, I'd certainly breat its (his?) neck, but it doesn't escape me the fact that these animals might be extremely valuable. Maybe, perhaps, the most valuable biological (and anthropological) find of all times.
Is region coding even relevant, anymore? Both BluRay and HD-DVD are so laden with advanced DRM artifacts, that implementing something as a regional, even per-country restriction is a mindless.
MySQL requires code contributions to be re-assigned to MySQL AB, so AFAIK they actually own every last line of code.
Wow, that's really mean. Actually, a totally bastard thing to do. I don't know of any other opensource project that would dare to be such a douchebag towards contributors, and get away with it. How MySQL managed so far, is beyond me. Perhaps contributors were unaware of this clause, just like I was, before reading your post?
Your post is self-contraddicting: you state that Adobe is a monopoly, but then you list products that are dominating the market because they are best of breed. If a company dominates a market because their product is the best, then it's not a monopoly. A monopolist dominates without competing, and its products are usually not the best possible. A monopolist dominates by leveraging their monopoly.
For an example, take Shimano (I am an avid biker, hence the example): they dominate the market of bikeparts. But they arrived to this dominant position by selling good products competitively priced. Shimano hubs and bottom brackets are excellent, especially considering the pricepoint they are offered at. Shimano chains are as good or better than competitors' at parity of price. Shimano groups (crankset+brakes+shifters+levers+cassette+deraileu rs) are just as good as the competitors', and usually cheaper - but noone bars Campagnolo from bringing out their own groups, and that's what Campagnolo indeed does.
If Shimano was a monopolist, it would use their market dominance to interfere and negate the efforts of its competitors. Now, I did notice Shimano trying to pull a fast one with the Octalink splined interface, but they failed miserably.
Returning to Adobe: do they dominate the market with their products? Yes. Can they use their position to interfere and/or negate the products of their competitors? I don't see how they could do that. (But Microsoft did (and I think still does) do that, and was convicted for it).
Nice to see opensource programs perform so well, so consistently. I only wish the author(s) maintained the ports and packages himself. The Win32 port seems a bit of an afterthought. Anyway, still a brilliant antivirus program.
(My other OS favourites include Audacity, CDex, The GIMP and OpenSolaris (you didn't expect that one coming, did you)).
I went to read his bio page. I saw "CCSE" next to his name, and thought "Cisco Certified Systems Engineer? This guy might know a thing or two about networks, after all." I think most industry certs are pieces of crap, but not the CCSE (Cisco has other certs, much easier to achieve, BTW), for which I actually have a lot of respect.
But then I saw, a bit further down on the page: "CCSE Check Point Certified Security Expert". Ummm... And then I saw:
"Training:
Web Application (In)security - NGS Software 7/07 Black Hat Training Las Vegas Successfully completed this course.
Ultimate Hacking - Black Hat Edition 7/06 Black Hat Training Las Vegas Successfully completed this course.
etc..."
This guy seems one of those that would hang on the wall the course attendance diploma, which is kinda sad. I applaude and appreciate his good intentions, and those are, at the end of the day, the most important thing, but his skills as an expert witness in this case may be, indeed, a bit lacking. Let's hope for the best (and the best would be an eventual, total and utter defeat of the RIAA and the labels it represents. I can dream, can't I.).
In the real world however, even precision mirrors top out at 80% or so.
I think this is very incorrect, in this context. Silver-coated glass mirrors (that is, the normal household mirrors) have a reflectivity of about 98 % at 700 nm, and it increases even further with lower wavelengths. And this one was an infrared laser.
but I'd like to understand how are such weapons going to overcome the problem of a reflective surface on the shell? And I don't even mean a silver-based mirror, just simple chrome coating. That would reflect over 99% of the incoming energy. The fact that a laser beam of almost 100% the original strength would hit random targets on the ground is an added bonus. And there are such reflective compounds that would reflect the ray right back at the "sender". Sure, those would reflect less than 99% or the energy, but if a $5 shell can damage a $5.000.000 weapon system, it's well worth the shell being destroyed in the process.
I'm thinking aloud here, guys, cut me some slack, show me how/why am I wrong, if I am.
This kind of devices were used to calculate differential equations using hydro-mechanical analogues of differentiators and integrators. Basically, this sort of calculating machine would be easiest implemented today, using operational amplifiers and discrete components such as resistors and capacitors (or even inductances).
To be honest, in 1935 there were electronic tubes, and such a machine could have been implemented with them, therefore electronically. But probably the complexity and low reliability of electronic tubes of the time had rendered it unviable.
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I had a quick look at how much music by Sibelius I can find, and it's over 200 albums, which, I think, is eccellent.
Nothing by the less-known composers like Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (the more talented son of J. S. Bach) but still, pretty satisfactory.
Sh*t - and just when I decided to save up some money for next summer.
That's why I have high hopes for freewheels. They can have high energy density, very fast charge and discharge (if you need to power your steel-cutting CO2 laser) and best of all, almost illimited charge/discharge cycle life. And freewheels are already in use in some streetcars!
That, or supercaps. There's a great amount of research going on in supercaps. These have all the advantages of the freewheel plus they are solid state. I'm holding my hopes for this technology. Something tells me this is going to be the ultimate electric energy storage for the home.
So, as you can see, one is not necessarily stuck with batteries.
Well, I used to work at Nokia (I guess you've heard of them) and specifically in phone testing. In short, your post is BS from beginning to end; Nokia would make sure their phone worked with every damn operator. Whether it will be then locked in in the USA it didn't matter, because we knew it wouldn't be locked in in Europe and half of the rest of the world. And we were painfully aware of the fact that in every single country of the world we were competing, almost toe to toe, with the likes of Motorola, Samsung and Ericsson (later SonyEricsson).
Yeah, testing takes time, but it's cost in time and money is nowhere so high that we'd simply NOT test and go exclusive with one (or $SMALLNUM) operator.
Whether AT&T was the logical choice or not, I don't know, but it certainly wasn't for the reasons you cite!
I can't believe the mods went for it, though?!
This was the most valuable lecture I've ever attended. And it's the kind of lecture I can talk about with my girlfriend, with my friends, and with anyone I care about. It's the stuff of life.
This man has lived an amazing life, and no doubt, this gives him the courage and the peace of mind to leave in such a graceful way, in an ultimate act of generosity. "Take a piece of me" he said somewhere at the beginning, when inviting people in the audience to take away his stuffed animals. And I feel I received a piece of him, even though I am thousands of kilometers away from this great person.
If you want your children to persevere in their lives and reach their dreams, show them this lecture (I saw the videos on YouTube), and talk about it with them.
Strange, but for me the single most annoying "feature" of Vista is the ludicriously, totally unacceptably slow file copy. That alone should be enough to condemn Vista to the cemetery of operating systems.
The network slowdown while playing MP3 files is bad, too.
Some of my dead colleagues (that's how I call other cyclists) rode brand new forks.
As for Boeing, I am a great fan of the company, and would really like the Dreamliner to do great. Not only that, but I am willing to agree that there are ways (I don't know, I'll take your word for it) to test carbon fiber parts for indicators of stress. All I was saying is, carbon fiber parts in cycling have always and, sadly, still are 100% unpredictable.
Now, you might call me a jackass with a hammer if that makes you feel better (I actually study IC fabrication), but all I did was sharing my experience as a cyclist and bike mechanic (which is just my hobby, I have no bike shop). Whe I hear carbon fiber, I get just that slightly bit worried, is all.
But on the other hand, the engineer that blew the whistle on Boeing is definitely not just a jackass with a hammer, and you might want to listen to him a bit more attentively. MAYBE Boeing didn't test their brand new fuselage quite as thoroughly as they should have.
and a bike mechanic, I have studied the aspects of carbon frame and fork reliability very thoroughly. My verdict is: a carbon fork will work for thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers, and never ever show any signs that something's wrong, and then one day it will snap, and the rider could die (when the front wheel looses traction, you're going down. Unlike the rear wheel, in which case you have a chance to control the bike to some extent, and control the fall (I said "you have a chance", not certainty)). So many cyclists have died because of carbon fiber fork failures, and even very experienced ones. The problem is, as I said, that it's impossible to predict a cabron fiber bike part failure. With aluminum it's easier, because usually there are tell-tale signs (now, whether you'll check the part or the frame for them, it's another story). With steel and titanium it's even simpler, as these materials will usually allow a cyclist ample time before a breech develops into a full crack.
So, I do believe the technology of carbon fiber composites is very promising, but they still haven't built a carbon fiber fork I'd ride with full confidence.
That said, understand that the chances of dieing from a carbon fiber fork failure are pretty small, but sadly, completely unpredictable.
No, I don't think you're crazy, your assumption seems very plausible.
Thank you!
Now tell me: who here doesn't want to see the darn crater? Of all things in TFA, what I really missed is a picture of the crater that the alleged meteorite created. Just seeing it would give us some idea of whether it was a meteorite at all, and if so, how big.
Which is pretty much what Apple asked for.
I was going to comment on this, as well. In Europe, the security check is time-consuming and generates long queues, especially in HELLthrow.
That said, not having to wait at the checkin counter (or electronic check-in machine (and then do the button-ticket-CC tango)) and at the gate is great! I hate waiting in queues, so anything that can reduce them is welcome.
Then why not publish the list anonymously?
..at least they are re-doing the vote, and that's good, even if the end result will be the same. Considering how egregious the irregularities were, for example, in Portugal, and yet noone seems to give a duck, it's nice that some hungarian senior officials are making a stand of principle.
I should disclose that I am half hungarian.
Now I hope the other countries where MS did their dirty deeds to get OOXML ISO-standardized, will have an epifany of sorts and cancel the fraudolent voting results.
..we own our phones.
Just because they do shady things here and there And by here and there , you mean everywhere. (mostly in business practices however) doesn't mean everything they do is evil. And by doesn't mean , you mean it does mean :)
Just using parent post's style.
you'd notice that these animals show signs of some kind of organisation - they have a designated watch/guard, who won't be eating that time, but will provide valuable protection to the rest of the group, and warn when humans approach. I think this is amazing.
Then, they throw stones - that is, they realized they can use an object as a weapon.
I tend to conclude that they have, somehow, evolved. Which is fascinating, or horrifying, depending on your POW. Now, I don't claim to be particularly noble of heart, and if a monkey started attacking me or throwing stones at me, I'd certainly breat its (his?) neck, but it doesn't escape me the fact that these animals might be extremely valuable. Maybe, perhaps, the most valuable biological (and anthropological) find of all times.
Is region coding even relevant, anymore? Both BluRay and HD-DVD are so laden with advanced DRM artifacts, that implementing something as a regional, even per-country restriction is a mindless.
MySQL requires code contributions to be re-assigned to MySQL AB, so AFAIK they actually own every last line of code.
Wow, that's really mean. Actually, a totally bastard thing to do. I don't know of any other opensource project that would dare to be such a douchebag towards contributors, and get away with it. How MySQL managed so far, is beyond me. Perhaps contributors were unaware of this clause, just like I was, before reading your post?
Your post is self-contraddicting: you state that Adobe is a monopoly, but then you list products that are dominating the market because they are best of breed. If a company dominates a market because their product is the best, then it's not a monopoly. A monopolist dominates without competing, and its products are usually not the best possible. A monopolist dominates by leveraging their monopoly.
u rs) are just as good as the competitors', and usually cheaper - but noone bars Campagnolo from bringing out their own groups, and that's what Campagnolo indeed does.
For an example, take Shimano (I am an avid biker, hence the example): they dominate the market of bikeparts. But they arrived to this dominant position by selling good products competitively priced. Shimano hubs and bottom brackets are excellent, especially considering the pricepoint they are offered at. Shimano chains are as good or better than competitors' at parity of price. Shimano groups (crankset+brakes+shifters+levers+cassette+deraile
If Shimano was a monopolist, it would use their market dominance to interfere and negate the efforts of its competitors. Now, I did notice Shimano trying to pull a fast one with the Octalink splined interface, but they failed miserably.
Returning to Adobe: do they dominate the market with their products? Yes. Can they use their position to interfere and/or negate the products of their competitors? I don't see how they could do that. (But Microsoft did (and I think still does) do that, and was convicted for it).
Nice to see opensource programs perform so well, so consistently. I only wish the author(s) maintained the ports and packages himself. The Win32 port seems a bit of an afterthought. Anyway, still a brilliant antivirus program.
(My other OS favourites include Audacity, CDex, The GIMP and OpenSolaris (you didn't expect that one coming, did you)).
I went to read his bio page. I saw "CCSE" next to his name, and thought "Cisco Certified Systems Engineer? This guy might know a thing or two about networks, after all." I think most industry certs are pieces of crap, but not the CCSE (Cisco has other certs, much easier to achieve, BTW), for which I actually have a lot of respect.
But then I saw, a bit further down on the page: "CCSE Check Point Certified Security Expert". Ummm...
And then I saw:
"Training:
Web Application (In)security - NGS Software
7/07
Black Hat Training Las Vegas
Successfully completed this course.
Ultimate Hacking - Black Hat Edition
7/06
Black Hat Training Las Vegas
Successfully completed this course.
etc..."
This guy seems one of those that would hang on the wall the course attendance diploma, which is kinda sad. I applaude and appreciate his good intentions, and those are, at the end of the day, the most important thing, but his skills as an expert witness in this case may be, indeed, a bit lacking. Let's hope for the best (and the best would be an eventual, total and utter defeat of the RIAA and the labels it represents. I can dream, can't I.).
In the real world however, even precision mirrors top out at 80% or so.
I think this is very incorrect, in this context. Silver-coated glass mirrors (that is, the normal household mirrors) have a reflectivity of about 98 % at 700 nm, and it increases even further with lower wavelengths. And this one was an infrared laser.
For example check this paper for info on silver's reflectivity.
but I'd like to understand how are such weapons going to overcome the problem of a reflective surface on the shell? And I don't even mean a silver-based mirror, just simple chrome coating. That would reflect over 99% of the incoming energy. The fact that a laser beam of almost 100% the original strength would hit random targets on the ground is an added bonus. And there are such reflective compounds that would reflect the ray right back at the "sender". Sure, those would reflect less than 99% or the energy, but if a $5 shell can damage a $5.000.000 weapon system, it's well worth the shell being destroyed in the process.
I'm thinking aloud here, guys, cut me some slack, show me how/why am I wrong, if I am.
This kind of devices were used to calculate differential equations using hydro-mechanical analogues of differentiators and integrators. Basically, this sort of calculating machine would be easiest implemented today, using operational amplifiers and discrete components such as resistors and capacitors (or even inductances).
To be honest, in 1935 there were electronic tubes, and such a machine could have been implemented with them, therefore electronically. But probably the complexity and low reliability of electronic tubes of the time had rendered it unviable.