your speakers need to be rated at better than the amplifier's peak power
No.
The easiest way to destroy speakers is to have too "small" amplifier (one without enough power), not too big.
Reason: when amplifier is pushed to the limit it will clip (or worse) which will create a lot of high frequencies which will burn the (relatively low rated) high frequency element.
With high enough power your ears will control your brains which will control the remote which will control the amplifier power - down. This very usually happens before any speaker element is destroyed (but not always). The effect on your ears is left as an non-exercise for the reader.
There haven't been significant problems in Japan??? In what planet is your "Japan"? If you do not consider Japanese nuclear accidents "significant" I do not want to imagine what is "significant" in your opinion... Yes, sanity should prevail.
Furthermore you might want to investigate what has happened to uranium mines in France.
We need nuclear (to replace coal), but it cannot be the only solution, we need wind, solar, etc. Most importantly we need to stop wasting energy.
Calculate the "core damage frequency" of your favourite nuclear reactor type. Multiply it with the number of reactors needed worldwide. You will end up in a number which is "not nice". Add the problems in mining, preprocessing, postprocessing and decommission.
Hopefully you'll end up with wisdom: nuclear energy alone cannot be the solution.
I am certain that "even" in Canada the average pay for women/black/gay/islam is a lot less than for christian white men, the changes for high level job is less, etc.
The situation is likely not as bad as in USA where courts routinely give a lot bigger penalties for black, police is much more likely to stop a car driven by blacks, etc. but to claim equality is naive at best.
I could maybe get 2+ but it hardly would make sense as the "apparent" speed would not increase that much and the price would.
Where I live there is monopoly (ISP == land line owner == cable TV operator == big money) so 100M to my house by 2015 with a reasonable price... I doubt.
I've tried 3G in several places and it has never worked. Friends have told me to use GPRS as it is faster.
Suvi Linden (kokoomus - a bit right leaning party) is a complete and utter idiot, so take a shipload of salt whatever she says.
For example the 75% requirement does not, most likely, mean 0.75 * 1Mbit/s = 8.1Gbytes/day. Nor is there (likely) any requirement for international or even inter-ISP traffic. Then there might be no penalties or the penalties are something like "50% of the monthly payment" if the speed is not reached.
I am even more doubtful with the 100M, at the moment even in cities ADSL2+ is often unavailable (I've got 8000/992).
Oh, one more thing, the 3G actual speed is pathetic. Getting practically any web page through is futile. Downtown in a "major" city.
There is exactly one problem with nuclear: it does not scale up.
Do the math: find out the chance of a nuclear reactor catastrophic accident and multiply that with the number of reactors needed (either for USA or whole world). You'll end up with a number which is "not nice".
You, of course, did remember to add preprocessing and postprocessing of the fuel, transportation, etc, didn't you.
Do you know what is one of the problems with Symbian and JavaME?
The keyboard and screen differences.
I hope Android has solved that, so that when I press backspace it behaves as backspace in my Finnish keyboard. And same with delete, ctrl-c (== copy), esc-f (=word forward), etc.
Furthermore I do not want to see "your screen is XxY, it is bigger/smaller than I expected, I will not run/be usable".
With more android phones hitting the market the developers will follow so will the apps
Not necessarily. Java is by a wide margin the most widely deployed platform but it does not have correspondingly big developer base.
Partly this is due to differences in phones, partly lack of development platforms in past, and partly lack of resources (memory, cpu, in past again).
But I think mostly it is due to poor support in the platform. For example I'd like to run VNC viewer (application) through SSH (application) - most phones do not support running two applications at the same time.
It is similar to Symbian in many ways.
This has now changed due to Android and N900. And hopefully with iPhone in the future.
nuclear contamination is easy to find, easy to trace and easy to know when you have cleaned it all up
But hugely lot harder to actually clean than most chemical.
I can imagine what would happen in a car accident where the battery short circuit and burn. In lead-acid, NiCd and NiMh cases as well as in plutonium battery case.
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your speakers need to be rated at better than the amplifier's peak power
No.
The easiest way to destroy speakers is to have too "small" amplifier (one without enough power), not too big.
Reason: when amplifier is pushed to the limit it will clip (or worse) which will create a lot of high frequencies which will burn the (relatively low rated) high frequency element.
With high enough power your ears will control your brains which will control the remote which will control the amplifier power - down.
This very usually happens before any speaker element is destroyed (but not always). The effect on your ears is left as an non-exercise for the reader.
Unfortunately there is no viable method of generating cheap energy to the whole world.
There haven't been significant problems in Japan??? In what planet is your "Japan"? ... Yes, sanity should prevail.
If you do not consider Japanese nuclear accidents "significant" I do not want to imagine what is "significant" in your opinion
Furthermore you might want to investigate what has happened to uranium mines in France.
We need nuclear (to replace coal), but it cannot be the only solution, we need wind, solar, etc. Most importantly we need to stop wasting energy.
Calculate the "core damage frequency" of your favourite nuclear reactor type. Multiply it with the number of reactors needed worldwide.
You will end up in a number which is "not nice".
Add the problems in mining, preprocessing, postprocessing and decommission.
Hopefully you'll end up with wisdom: nuclear energy alone cannot be the solution.
I am certain that "even" in Canada the average pay for women/black/gay/islam is a lot less than for christian white men, the changes for high level job is less, etc.
The situation is likely not as bad as in USA where courts routinely give a lot bigger penalties for black, police is much more likely to stop a car driven by blacks, etc. but to claim equality is naive at best.
when a significant portion of society breaks a law, there's not something wrong with the society, but with the law
So equality between races, genders and minorities rights are wrong?
How about Java? (Concurrent maps are very "cute").
I could maybe get 2+ but it hardly would make sense as the "apparent" speed would not increase that much and the price would.
Where I live there is monopoly (ISP == land line owner == cable TV operator == big money) so 100M to my house by 2015 with a reasonable price ... I doubt.
I've tried 3G in several places and it has never worked. Friends have told me to use GPRS as it is faster.
Maybe, but terrifying sure is.
Disagree.
Now it is impossible to tell whether she really was "terrified" or not as the sole purpose of the "lottery" (court case) is to win money.
So the justice will not be served - it cannot be served.
However, if the penalty were just (say, 10'000) she would much less likely sue just for the money.
No it does not.
It means ISP must offer "at reasonable price", not at it's own expense.
Define "low price".
I'd assume that it will cost approximately $100 per month for 100M. Then it might cost you thousands to get the fiber into your home.
Those who pay for that are the customers themselves.
There is a problem that rural areas getting empty - people are moving into cities.
This law is to counter that movement. 1M is not enough for telecommuting, for example.
RTFM.
There is right to get one, if you are willing to pay.
Eh?
The 100M is a plan for 2015. There is, apparently, no price limit (my 8/1M is about 40 euros).
So you get 6 times more "bang" for about 65% more "buck".
Suvi Linden (kokoomus - a bit right leaning party) is a complete and utter idiot, so take a shipload of salt whatever she says.
For example the 75% requirement does not, most likely, mean 0.75 * 1Mbit/s = 8.1Gbytes/day.
Nor is there (likely) any requirement for international or even inter-ISP traffic.
Then there might be no penalties or the penalties are something like "50% of the monthly payment" if the speed is not reached.
I am even more doubtful with the 100M, at the moment even in cities ADSL2+ is often unavailable (I've got 8000/992).
Oh, one more thing, the 3G actual speed is pathetic. Getting practically any web page through is futile. Downtown in a "major" city.
OK. I'll wait for actual implementation.
P.S. I have been waiting for the invasion of Linux viruses for over 15 years, how long you expect I need to wait for this?
How does those malware affect live Linuxes?
There is exactly one problem with nuclear: it does not scale up.
Do the math: find out the chance of a nuclear reactor catastrophic accident and multiply that with the number of reactors needed (either for USA or whole world). You'll end up with a number which is "not nice".
You, of course, did remember to add preprocessing and postprocessing of the fuel, transportation, etc, didn't you.
Do you know what is one of the problems with Symbian and JavaME?
The keyboard and screen differences.
I hope Android has solved that, so that when I press backspace it behaves as backspace in my Finnish keyboard. And same with delete, ctrl-c (== copy), esc-f (=word forward), etc.
Furthermore I do not want to see "your screen is XxY, it is bigger/smaller than I expected, I will not run/be usable".
With more android phones hitting the market the developers will follow so will the apps
Not necessarily. Java is by a wide margin the most widely deployed platform but it does not have correspondingly big developer base.
Partly this is due to differences in phones, partly lack of development platforms in past, and partly lack of resources (memory, cpu, in past again).
But I think mostly it is due to poor support in the platform. For example I'd like to run VNC viewer (application) through SSH (application) - most phones do not support running two applications at the same time.
It is similar to Symbian in many ways.
This has now changed due to Android and N900. And hopefully with iPhone in the future.
nuclear contamination is easy to find, easy to trace and easy to know when you have cleaned it all up
But hugely lot harder to actually clean than most chemical.
I can imagine what would happen in a car accident where the battery short circuit and burn. In lead-acid, NiCd and NiMh cases as well as in plutonium battery case.
I sincerely hope you can too.
Swedish army (FRA) is snooping practically every packet going out of Finland.
BTW, Slahsdot does not have ssl connection ...
I really hope all the advertisements go to Silverlight.
And I hope for FlashBlock-for-the-Mobiles - but this seems to be harder.
I agree that de Icaza is "bridge builder", but unfortunately "the roads into Microsoft" are all one-way.
It is inverse square even if it is focused.
Just that the factor might be close to one (or zero, if you count losses).