Most universtities teach several different subjects so us scientists/engineers have had first hand experience with these people (and from time to time, their course material).
The glass ID tag is extremely small. Glass is actually pretty strong also. Combine these two and you'll have something that's pretty hard to break (I actually carry one in my wallet for no particular reason other than it's cool to show people sometimes).
I understand that it's not painful and "disappears" once organs rearrange to accomodate the new entity. Allergy is extremely unlikely (though probably not impossible). I'd be more concerned about lack of proper sterile procedures.
Once again, I'll throw out a plug for my old company which has some very useful info for those who would like to find out more about RFID: http://www.intersoft-us.com/
But RFID doesn not require the participation of the owner. That stranger who just jostled you in the subway now has your RFID code (You can make RFID readers *small*) Now a)You don't know the code has been stolen (vs having your passcard lost or stolen) and b)When you do discover the code as been stolen, changing your own code is a *lot* more hassle than issuing a new passcard.
These things could be negated by RFID chips with rolling codes or read/write ability but these are not commonly available in the glass capsule RFID chips. I'd give good odds that this company is not pushing the boudaries either and has the standard one-id versions.
Bear in mind that RFID devices are operating on the limits of what power can be obtained from a fairly weak power source in the first place. Any extra complexity has a real impact on the operational range.
I signed up for the 3disks-at-a-time plan and was getting screwed over from the start. Movies sent back on a Monday would "take a long time to get there" and I wouldn't get the new movies until Saturday or later making the service effectively a two-week turnaround with my viewing habits. I downgraded to 1disk-at-a-time and suddenly the new movies started coming in Thursday or Friday.
If there was a market for software where the developers indemnified their softwre, you would see such software. People just aren't willing to pay the price except in rare circumstances and then you're usually into the realm of bespoke software. Would the comentator be willing to pay $1000 for his web browser?
The biggest show-stopper for Thunderbird for me was that people would send me little vcs notifications from Outlook and they would just sit in my mozilla inbox as weird looking files rather than get inserted into the calendar. You could import them manually but it was a hassle. I went searching for a solutions but the mozilla people would point their fingers at the thunderbird and the thunderbird people would point their fingers at mozilla and I don't have time to do the job myself so when I was asked if there was an alternative to Outlook... (Calendering is one of the supreme needs of the suits).
An integration will be most welcome. Though too late to make any big difference here, I still use Mozilla myself and would be happy not to have to decode VCS files in my head.
Oh, and no one is buying less gas (until these past few weeks).
People are buying more gas. Why wait until prices go up to fill up? I have been filling up every day on the way home where normally I have to wait four days. Sure it's panic buying but if gas stops, I'm screwed (and I went through the petrol(gas) strike in England a few years ago so I know what happens). Gas cans have also been flying off the shelf. There are no 5 gallon cans left *anywhere* around here.
Things should level out soon but the rising prices have actually had a positive feedback effect.
The train track goes from within walking distance of my house (there is a disused station there no less) to within a mile or two of where I work 40 miles away. I would *love* to be able to take the train. There just isn't the inclination here though.
This thing people miss is that there is a configurational difference between SUVs/vans and cars anyway. In a van or SUV, the luggage area tends to come flat with the bottom of the door making it hard to pile groceries on top of each other with the door open whereas a car's trunk/boot has a back to it allowing much more piling of groceries. If you have a hatchback, you're laughing too.
Add in that a van or SUV also is likely to have an extra row of seats (in most cases a PITA to remove)...
We own both a van and a VW saloon car. I have been surprised several times when I haven't been able to fit much more in the van than the car. (Mind you, the van has been useful in a few occasions with the seats out where the car could not have coped but overally, the van has turned out to be a mistaken buy [Hard to forsee two members of your family dying though])
RFID really isn't expensive. Plug for the company I used to work for: Affordable RFID kits. If you call the owner, he's a great chap and happy to answer any questions you might have.
I accidently found out with the Passat I used to have that if you left the headlights on and disconnected the + battery lead and tapped it against the battery terminal post a few times, the central locking would *unlock* the doors. Never found a use for it but I wrote to VW about it and they just blew me off.
However, most everything will/should be internally regulated anyway and it's quite possible your 9V item would be quite happily powereed from the 12V supply. Not that I'm recommending trying it:D
Pah, amateur. I compose my comments ahead of time then have a script that monitors the RSS feed, performs a soundex match on key terms and posts if an approximate match is made. If there's no match, it just steals a random comment from the previous time the article came up.
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Most universtities teach several different subjects so us scientists/engineers have had first hand experience with these people (and from time to time, their course material).
The glass ID tag is extremely small. Glass is actually pretty strong also. Combine these two and you'll have something that's pretty hard to break (I actually carry one in my wallet for no particular reason other than it's cool to show people sometimes).
I understand that it's not painful and "disappears" once organs rearrange to accomodate the new entity. Allergy is extremely unlikely (though probably not impossible). I'd be more concerned about lack of proper sterile procedures.
Once again, I'll throw out a plug for my old company which has some very useful info for those who would like to find out more about RFID: http://www.intersoft-us.com/
Rich
But RFID doesn not require the participation of the owner. That stranger who just jostled you in the subway now has your RFID code (You can make RFID readers *small*) Now a)You don't know the code has been stolen (vs having your passcard lost or stolen) and b)When you do discover the code as been stolen, changing your own code is a *lot* more hassle than issuing a new passcard.
These things could be negated by RFID chips with rolling codes or read/write ability but these are not commonly available in the glass capsule RFID chips. I'd give good odds that this company is not pushing the boudaries either and has the standard one-id versions.
Bear in mind that RFID devices are operating on the limits of what power can be obtained from a fairly weak power source in the first place. Any extra complexity has a real impact on the operational range.
Rich
I signed up for the 3disks-at-a-time plan and was getting screwed over from the start. Movies sent back on a Monday would "take a long time to get there" and I wouldn't get the new movies until Saturday or later making the service effectively a two-week turnaround with my viewing habits. I downgraded to 1disk-at-a-time and suddenly the new movies started coming in Thursday or Friday.
Rich
Possibly the "error message/alert as a popup window" paradigm is just broken.
Rich
And let's not forget, a big old deity with a white beard coming out and saying "evolution is crap, I want the credit'.
Rich
Physical diagram basics
Electron: Draw small circle with minus sign in it.
Proton: Draw small but slightly larger circle with plus sign in it.
Quark: Fire up raytracing software. For hardcopy, be sure to have a color printer handy.
So much for back-of-a-napkin physics.
Rich
Anyone who has used Novell's administrtion software can tell you that the best thing they could do for usability is to delete their product line.
Rich
If there was a market for software where the developers indemnified their softwre, you would see such software. People just aren't willing to pay the price except in rare circumstances and then you're usually into the realm of bespoke software. Would the comentator be willing to pay $1000 for his web browser?
Rich
An integration will be most welcome. Though too late to make any big difference here, I still use Mozilla myself and would be happy not to have to decode VCS files in my head.
Rich
Absolutely. Catastrophic data loss is the only thing that keeps our users from filling up their hard-drives.
http://www.brucemedical.com/ik1605.html
People are buying more gas. Why wait until prices go up to fill up? I have been filling up every day on the way home where normally I have to wait four days. Sure it's panic buying but if gas stops, I'm screwed (and I went through the petrol(gas) strike in England a few years ago so I know what happens). Gas cans have also been flying off the shelf. There are no 5 gallon cans left *anywhere* around here.
Things should level out soon but the rising prices have actually had a positive feedback effect.
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Add in that a van or SUV also is likely to have an extra row of seats (in most cases a PITA to remove)...
We own both a van and a VW saloon car. I have been surprised several times when I haven't been able to fit much more in the van than the car. (Mind you, the van has been useful in a few occasions with the seats out where the car could not have coped but overally, the van has turned out to be a mistaken buy [Hard to forsee two members of your family dying though])
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I think that's the most egregious substitution of "of" for "have" that I have ever seen.
Rich
The sarcasm thread was a couple of days ago...
I accidently found out with the Passat I used to have that if you left the headlights on and disconnected the + battery lead and tapped it against the battery terminal post a few times, the central locking would *unlock* the doors. Never found a use for it but I wrote to VW about it and they just blew me off.
RIch
Just how do you think royalty comes to be anyway?
However, most everything will/should be internally regulated anyway and it's quite possible your 9V item would be quite happily powereed from the 12V supply. Not that I'm recommending trying it :D
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Whereas a leaked Blakes 7 episode would be encoded with Orac.
Rich
I do. In fact, I had a balcony put on the second floor so I could sit in comfort and jeer at renters as they walk past.
Rich