You can't power the webcam from batteries, it requires 500 mA (2.5W). A set of batteries would last for less than an hour.
And if you think Li-ion batteries, they are expensive, allow 500 recharges only, are fire and environmental hazard, and worst of all they need constant babysitting, and still tend to fail when you need them most...
Wires are the way to go in most computer setups. IMO, WUSB is going nowhere just because of power issues alone. My keyboard, mouse, and audio devices (Telex mic and USB SoundBlaster thingy) all are powered by USB, and don't tell me I need five or more wallwarts...
"Faster" also means "needs more power". You can have a WUSB headset that transfers stereo 24 bps sampled at 96 kSa/s - but it would run on 3 "AA" batteries, for 15 minutes... and you need $300 headphones (not incl.) to hear any difference.
BT can do audio as good as you practically need, at 1% of the power budget of faster interfaces. There is a very material, physical reason for that. Roughly speaking, transmission of each bit costs you some, and the more bits you send the more you have to pay.
There is another little difference. [W]USB is of MASTER-SLAVE design. Devices (cameras, mice) are slaves. The PC is the master. The master device is very, very complex. Pretty much it -must- run an advanced OS (Linux, Windows, BSD, Mac stuff.) You can not cram such a resource into a small device. BT, OTOH, can operate peer to peer, with very low computing needs at every node. So you can make two RC cars driving together, for example, if each has a BT interface to talk to another. Try this with WUSB...
You can't use the public schools either, you're too old.
He had his chance, and it was his choice to take it or not.
You can't exceed the speed limit.... You can't run red lights.
That does not constitute use of them; these are not material objects, but information. The information you can use (and you'd better do, when driving!)
You can't use the carpool lane by yourself because of the incredible number of individual commuters.
Well, you can use it for turns. The rest is covered by a decision by the taxpayers (represented by your lawmakers) - that includes you - to limit this resource to few individuals, for the greater good of the collective.
You can't drive without a license.
You can, on private roads. Public roads are governed by an agreement between the people and you. If you don't like that agreement, don't drive (and don't pay taxes.)
You can't be president until you're 35.
This condition corrects itself:-(
You can't run your own TV station, your taxes subsidize huge networks.
Become a huge network then.
You can't fly a Harrier jet, even though you helped buy them.
You can - join the Air Force. Everybody else is not trained properly to handle such an expensive machine.
You can't live in a gov't building, even though it belongs "to the people".
Sure you can; you only need to commit a federal crime and get yourself convicted...
...lots of people start out talking to cops in "confront" mode
True, but it's the cops who are supposed to be professionals here.
The cops are expected to face disturbed individuals, and they should be trained in defusing the confrontation. Unfortunately, too many cops enjoy the thrill. An analogy would be a doctor who loves to misdiagnose and mistreat his patients until they die, and *only then* he miraculously brings them back (because, for example, an open heart massage makes him feel good.)
If the cop wanted to "investigate an investigation" he would have checked first if anyone present seems to be a victim or an aggressor. But apparently the cop just focused on a single person who was just conveniently standing there.
Lack of ties to the real investigation can be seen as a proof that the cop abandoned a lawful investigation and instead embarked on a power trip, demanding personal property of a person outside of any investigative need.
It can be also speculated that the court's opinion has been formed already - because the Supreme Court could just reject the case, with no explanations, and the previous decision (against the guy) would stand.
Since they took the case, the justices have reasonable expectation to come up with a ruling, and any ruling other than declaring such ID checks anti-constitutional would be a waste of time.
There is another comment that says that only CA requires to carry the ID all the time. So either the poster is wrong, or it is legal in NV to just be, with or without papers.
I also concluded that the cop was bullying the suspect because the cop did not explain his investigation, though it was definitely related to the people involved. Instead, the cop was relying on the power of law behind him. That is not even mentioning their less than gentleman's approach to the girl...
Other posters suggested that rural cops (and citizens, as this case suggests) are not very well trained in delicate behavior. So what we have here is just two rough guys who refused to talk to each other, in their own ways. But one guy had a powerful weapon at his disposal - the power of law. The other had nothing. The problem here is abuse of that weapon. Bullying is just another word for it.
your driver's license isn't yours, it's the government's. If they want to revoke it they can and will
Revoke it they can, if you can't drive safely; however, you are not obligated to show the license to anyone when you are not driving. You are not even required to have an ID with you. And a man who was standing outside of a vehicle (with someone else at the driver seat) does not look like a driver to me.
The cop should not play 20 questions or anything like that. However he must explain himself. Imagine, you are standing at a street corner. Cops rush in, handcuff you and shove into their car. I bet you will scream "What have I done???" even before realizing it.
The reason for that explanation is simple. People must talk to each other if they want cooperation. If the cop wants a reasonable action from the suspect, he must act reasonably himself. I am sure if the cop took his time and talked to the suspect, he would get all his questions answered. But the cop tried to bully the guy, and I guess cowboys really hate that...
As another reply says, four people total died in 70's during earlier Russian spaceflight activities (not counting accidents on the ground, some fatal some not.)
Komarov died in Soyuz-1 on descent; the parachute failed to open. This had been fixed.
Dobrovolsky, Volkov and Patsaev died on descent because the outer atmospheric valve opened too early, and the cosmonauts were only wearing shirts. This had been fixed in two ways: the valve had been reworked, and everybody now must wear light spacesuits during liftoff and descent.
Accidents are unavoidable. If one is too afraid of risk, he won't accomplish anything. As a russian proverb says, "one who does not take risks does not drink champaigne."
My PalmPilot (Visor) is dead now, but when it was working I often read books on it. Scrolling was fast, and the only thing I remember is that the "arrow down" button was so hard to press that I pressed it with the nail of my thumb instead. I never used auto-scrolling (found in many readers) because the screen was flickering badly.
With regard to low resolution, I found one font that I liked the most, and after that I somehow forgot about the issue. I think it is mostly psychological. Since you hold the device at the optimal distance for the most comfortable reading, there is not much of an eye strain (as compared to computer monitors, for example.)
The font was jagged a bit, true - but computers had jagged fonts for decades, and that was not a big deal. Antialiasing became reality only in last years (and I am typing this now in a nice, smooth Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). Before that you'd better get used to CGA or, if you are rich, VGA fonts.
I personally read a book not to enjoy its nice Times font and wonder at all the curvy lines of each character. I read a book to immerse myself into the situation that the book describes.
Only if the print is so awful that I can't comfortably read at all - then the experience starts breaking down. But even a classical Palm Pilot is far from being hard to read, and newer color ones are even better. I do most of my reading on a mini-notebook.
Note also that the list of files makes no mention of drivers. It would be tough to build a working system without PCI, IDE, USB etc.
On the other hand, a lot of everything else is there. Black hats will have a lot of fun with this, because they don't need to compile the code in order to know which of GDI API calls has a buffer overflow...
English distro of Windows in Korea is probably as easy to obtain as Korean Windows from Dell in USA:-)
I believe koreans are free to mail-order anything they want from USA, and I bet any Internet store would be ready and willing to sell them a box of Windows. But it does not mean that their local equivalent of Dell has English Windows preinstalled. Firstly, why would that OEM do that, and secondly they probably have a license only for Korean Windows.
I don't have non-English Windows myself, but I connected remotely to client's desktop in Taiwan, and everything was in Chinese, as far as I can tell (I don't read Chinese except a few glyphs.)
In GNU gettext package the code retains original strings, and gettext replaces them with translated ones on the fly. However in Windows no such luck. Resources (strings, dialogs, menus, icons and more) are attached to the executable, and to translate you attach the right set of resources to your program. Resources are ID'ed by numbers, so there are no english strings to look for.
The hack would be in ripping out the localized resources and replacing them with English ones from a stock Windows distribution. I don't know, though, if anyone can be bothered to do that...
Assuming pirating from MS: donating back is easy - by providing user assistance to others (which you couldn't do otherwise, being ignorant yourself), and by developing apps and files tied to MS products (a pirate uses MS Word, and so everyone else who wants to read has to get one), and just by consuming other Windows products which at some point you will start buying (or your employer will do it for you.)
Donating back is not a problem, and MS knows it better than anyone else.
"... than it should be..." - yes, that opens a large worm of cans, so to speak:-) But even accepting this requirement, spaceflight was always dangerous, as matter of fact - and opinions about how it "should be" are of no use. You go up strapped to a bomb, that's the only technology we have at the moment. I can't call it completely safe, even if I sit in a Soyuz equipped with the emergency escape rocket tower. There are still lots of ways to die, and astronauts of both USSR and USA discovered some of them.
To summarize: spaceflight is dangerous, and astronaut's work is not for everyone. Big surprise.
Can it me made safer? I hope so; astronauts are brave, but not suicidal. However it is very difficult and expensive to make the flight just a little safer. The whole planet's expertise is not enough to make the spaceflight completely safe. We need to get antigravity first, and that you can't buy (unless you have some starseeds, of course:)
Also, there's no evidence any shuttle astronaut ever died in an explosion - true, but one can't tell the difference between an explosion and slamming into the ground or the water at the terminal velocity.
You have a 1 in 50 chance in being killed during the mission, but, you'll get to go to space if you live.
Being pedantic, if you have 1/50 probability of dying during the mission, your chance of getting to space is 1/25:-)
However, I totally agree with tjstork - there are risks in life, and you ought to take some if you call yourself a living person. Otherwise stay in bed, cover your head with a pillow and tremble, just in case if some unspeakable evil comes after you...
Russia will not abandon ISS, and neither would other partners (who pay not that much into the program.) In fact, some of currently lesser partners likely will find some more dough to get more stock, so to say, and elevate their participation as the cheapest and most reliable way to get into space.
Europe does not mind leaving USA fiddling with its new-but-already-obsolete Apollo reworks while ESA and Russia and China will focus on real space activities. One man up there is worth more than a thousand on the ground. One flying rocket is worth a thousand of paper designs. That's how the worth is calculated.
Current political situation in the world is favorable - there is no cold war, Russia and China are happy to work with others, and Japan may even consider finally dumping its super-reliable rocket:-) This leaves only one odd man out - who would that be, I wonder?
Any human on the planet is a walking dead; we all die sooner or later, and most die painfully, uncomfortably, and at their own expense.
A race car driver is facing far more risks than an astronaut - he drives his car every day (in training or during the race) only slightly below the threshold of instant death.
Even taxi driver's job in certain cities is more dangerous than astronaut's. I haven't heard about astronauts mugged or cut up or shot during the mission. Myself, I would rather die in a fiery explosion than from a burglar's gun.
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And if you think Li-ion batteries, they are expensive, allow 500 recharges only, are fire and environmental hazard, and worst of all they need constant babysitting, and still tend to fail when you need them most...
Wires are the way to go in most computer setups. IMO, WUSB is going nowhere just because of power issues alone. My keyboard, mouse, and audio devices (Telex mic and USB SoundBlaster thingy) all are powered by USB, and don't tell me I need five or more wallwarts...
BT can do audio as good as you practically need, at 1% of the power budget of faster interfaces. There is a very material, physical reason for that. Roughly speaking, transmission of each bit costs you some, and the more bits you send the more you have to pay.
There is another little difference. [W]USB is of MASTER-SLAVE design. Devices (cameras, mice) are slaves. The PC is the master. The master device is very, very complex. Pretty much it -must- run an advanced OS (Linux, Windows, BSD, Mac stuff.) You can not cram such a resource into a small device. BT, OTOH, can operate peer to peer, with very low computing needs at every node. So you can make two RC cars driving together, for example, if each has a BT interface to talk to another. Try this with WUSB...
He had his chance, and it was his choice to take it or not.
You can't exceed the speed limit. ... You can't run red lights.
That does not constitute use of them; these are not material objects, but information. The information you can use (and you'd better do, when driving!)
You can't use the carpool lane by yourself because of the incredible number of individual commuters.
Well, you can use it for turns. The rest is covered by a decision by the taxpayers (represented by your lawmakers) - that includes you - to limit this resource to few individuals, for the greater good of the collective.
You can't drive without a license.
You can, on private roads. Public roads are governed by an agreement between the people and you. If you don't like that agreement, don't drive (and don't pay taxes.)
You can't be president until you're 35.
This condition corrects itself :-(
You can't run your own TV station, your taxes subsidize huge networks.
Become a huge network then.
You can't fly a Harrier jet, even though you helped buy them.
You can - join the Air Force. Everybody else is not trained properly to handle such an expensive machine.
You can't live in a gov't building, even though it belongs "to the people".
Sure you can; you only need to commit a federal crime and get yourself convicted...
I bet those moderators are not from California :-) The parent post is "+1 Insightful" in CA.
True, but it's the cops who are supposed to be professionals here.
The cops are expected to face disturbed individuals, and they should be trained in defusing the confrontation. Unfortunately, too many cops enjoy the thrill. An analogy would be a doctor who loves to misdiagnose and mistreat his patients until they die, and *only then* he miraculously brings them back (because, for example, an open heart massage makes him feel good.)
It is legal for anyone to lie, except when under oath. A cop can lie whenever he sees any benefit in it.
Lack of ties to the real investigation can be seen as a proof that the cop abandoned a lawful investigation and instead embarked on a power trip, demanding personal property of a person outside of any investigative need.
Since they took the case, the justices have reasonable expectation to come up with a ruling, and any ruling other than declaring such ID checks anti-constitutional would be a waste of time.
I also concluded that the cop was bullying the suspect because the cop did not explain his investigation, though it was definitely related to the people involved. Instead, the cop was relying on the power of law behind him. That is not even mentioning their less than gentleman's approach to the girl...
Other posters suggested that rural cops (and citizens, as this case suggests) are not very well trained in delicate behavior. So what we have here is just two rough guys who refused to talk to each other, in their own ways. But one guy had a powerful weapon at his disposal - the power of law. The other had nothing. The problem here is abuse of that weapon. Bullying is just another word for it.
I easily may not have any ID with me when I walk to the street corner to buy something [half-]edible. That is still legal, I hope...
Revoke it they can, if you can't drive safely; however, you are not obligated to show the license to anyone when you are not driving. You are not even required to have an ID with you. And a man who was standing outside of a vehicle (with someone else at the driver seat) does not look like a driver to me.
The cop should not play 20 questions or anything like that. However he must explain himself. Imagine, you are standing at a street corner. Cops rush in, handcuff you and shove into their car. I bet you will scream "What have I done???" even before realizing it.
The reason for that explanation is simple. People must talk to each other if they want cooperation. If the cop wants a reasonable action from the suspect, he must act reasonably himself. I am sure if the cop took his time and talked to the suspect, he would get all his questions answered. But the cop tried to bully the guy, and I guess cowboys really hate that...
Oligarchs should pay for that. Or rot in Siberian prison of their choice :-)
Komarov died in Soyuz-1 on descent; the parachute failed to open. This had been fixed.
Dobrovolsky, Volkov and Patsaev died on descent because the outer atmospheric valve opened too early, and the cosmonauts were only wearing shirts. This had been fixed in two ways: the valve had been reworked, and everybody now must wear light spacesuits during liftoff and descent.
Accidents are unavoidable. If one is too afraid of risk, he won't accomplish anything. As a russian proverb says, "one who does not take risks does not drink champaigne."
With regard to low resolution, I found one font that I liked the most, and after that I somehow forgot about the issue. I think it is mostly psychological. Since you hold the device at the optimal distance for the most comfortable reading, there is not much of an eye strain (as compared to computer monitors, for example.)
The font was jagged a bit, true - but computers had jagged fonts for decades, and that was not a big deal. Antialiasing became reality only in last years (and I am typing this now in a nice, smooth Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). Before that you'd better get used to CGA or, if you are rich, VGA fonts.
Only if the print is so awful that I can't comfortably read at all - then the experience starts breaking down. But even a classical Palm Pilot is far from being hard to read, and newer color ones are even better. I do most of my reading on a mini-notebook.
On the other hand, a lot of everything else is there. Black hats will have a lot of fun with this, because they don't need to compile the code in order to know which of GDI API calls has a buffer overflow...
I believe koreans are free to mail-order anything they want from USA, and I bet any Internet store would be ready and willing to sell them a box of Windows. But it does not mean that their local equivalent of Dell has English Windows preinstalled. Firstly, why would that OEM do that, and secondly they probably have a license only for Korean Windows.
In GNU gettext package the code retains original strings, and gettext replaces them with translated ones on the fly. However in Windows no such luck. Resources (strings, dialogs, menus, icons and more) are attached to the executable, and to translate you attach the right set of resources to your program. Resources are ID'ed by numbers, so there are no english strings to look for.
The hack would be in ripping out the localized resources and replacing them with English ones from a stock Windows distribution. I don't know, though, if anyone can be bothered to do that...
If this OS comes in Thai language only, then only people familiar with the language can use it. Thai is notoriously complex.
Assuming pirating from MS: donating back is easy - by providing user assistance to others (which you couldn't do otherwise, being ignorant yourself), and by developing apps and files tied to MS products (a pirate uses MS Word, and so everyone else who wants to read has to get one), and just by consuming other Windows products which at some point you will start buying (or your employer will do it for you.)
Donating back is not a problem, and MS knows it better than anyone else.
To summarize: spaceflight is dangerous, and astronaut's work is not for everyone. Big surprise.
Can it me made safer? I hope so; astronauts are brave, but not suicidal. However it is very difficult and expensive to make the flight just a little safer. The whole planet's expertise is not enough to make the spaceflight completely safe. We need to get antigravity first, and that you can't buy (unless you have some starseeds, of course :)
Also, there's no evidence any shuttle astronaut ever died in an explosion - true, but one can't tell the difference between an explosion and slamming into the ground or the water at the terminal velocity.
Being pedantic, if you have 1/50 probability of dying during the mission, your chance of getting to space is 1/25 :-)
However, I totally agree with tjstork - there are risks in life, and you ought to take some if you call yourself a living person. Otherwise stay in bed, cover your head with a pillow and tremble, just in case if some unspeakable evil comes after you...
Europe does not mind leaving USA fiddling with its new-but-already-obsolete Apollo reworks while ESA and Russia and China will focus on real space activities. One man up there is worth more than a thousand on the ground. One flying rocket is worth a thousand of paper designs. That's how the worth is calculated.
Current political situation in the world is favorable - there is no cold war, Russia and China are happy to work with others, and Japan may even consider finally dumping its super-reliable rocket :-) This leaves only one odd man out - who would that be, I wonder?
A race car driver is facing far more risks than an astronaut - he drives his car every day (in training or during the race) only slightly below the threshold of instant death.
Even taxi driver's job in certain cities is more dangerous than astronaut's. I haven't heard about astronauts mugged or cut up or shot during the mission. Myself, I would rather die in a fiery explosion than from a burglar's gun.
In [post-]Soviet Russia nondisclosure agreements are often enforced with a bullet from a TT.