I always wondered that, and cautioned my android phone owning friends, I bet in the not to distant future, those LED electronic billboards along side the highway will start delivering target ads to you as you drive down the highway.
Imagine it's late at night, and your phone knows you've been traveling for 8 hours, and you have 4 more to go, and it's been 3 hours since you stopped to pee and get gas, and 6 hours since you had any real food, so they'll start badgering you with food with a clean bathroom at the next McDonalds thats at the next exit because you usually eat there an average of 2.7 times a week, and it's been 113 hours since you've had a Big Mac so you're due!
When they can prove that they put the ad there for you, and you went to that exact place minutes later (likely) as a result of that ad, the revenue potential for this type of "selected ad rotation" will be crazy!
I wonder how long before they show me a picture of me enjoying the Big Mac? I truly believe we'll get there, and it won't take that long!
I guess the amount of time it takes to crunch back together would ultimately be a good deciding factor as to how well you actually blew it up!
If it had enough free space to allow it to recombine without encountering other orbiting whatevers, do you think that millions of years is a good guess for the time to reassemble earth if it was blown to 1000 times it's original diameter? I guess that would be the final "max" diameter, not the size of the ball of dust right after the explosion. So if given a ball of dust roughly 1000 X the diameter of the earth, with the same total mass, how long would it really take to reattract to itself, and shrink down to roughly earth's size?
What formula would you use to rough in that approximation?
Wouldn't the little bits and pieces all attract back together again eventually if they were not at escape velocity? Like the big bang / big crunch theory? If you didnt blow it apart enough to get away from itself, wouldn't gravity win in the end?
So you might have blown it to pieces, but the pieces would eventually collect back together due to the mass and proximity? Wouldn't you have a large plume of earth chunks say maybe 1000 times the size of earth, but with nearly the same gravitational force, so it would then begin pulling itself back together?
So I'm guessing that it might take more energy to permenantly blow it to pieces than to blow it apart, and have it all come crashing back together? But im only guessing. (well guessing and hoping someone can clarify)
For some reason Opera would clobber the size and position of that box when set to mobile view. If I disable the mobile view option, it shows up right next to the preview button, and is big enough to see the HTML formatted option.
Setting this box to plain old text works wonders!
I thank you again for making my contributions to Slashdot forever more easier to read:)
I must admit, im not sure how to from my phone. I try to enter and space, but it just goes to what you see when I hit preview.
It is very annoying, but so is capitalization, and punctuation on the thing.
IIRC it was $18,500 for the base rig. A huge chunk of it was upgrading the acquisition memory to 256 million datapoints, it was a $28000+ upgrade but worth every penny. I can take 2.5 seconds of data at 100 million samples a second, or I can take 10 seconds of data at 2.5 million samples a second, and still be 10x my 250kbps bus, and I have the serial communications decoding toolbox ($8000 or so) that decodes the traces, stores the messages, triggers on anything, and displays it on the screen superimposed over the traces. You can click on a message in the output list, and it takes you zoomed to the message highlights messages shown currently on the screen etc. Very cool! The rest was on various plugins, the main one being one that allows you to pipe data into Matlab, crunch on it real-time, and display the result on the screen with the data traces (awesome!!) note: the Matlab license and packages are not included in my price either! I actually got it under a promotion Agilent had where they doubled your bandwidth for free and gave you a 1ghz B/W machine PROBES and ACCESSORIES TOO! for example for the 500mhz price! 250mhz to 500mhz etc. etc. They even honored the price nearly a year later when everything finally got approved! It was over $100k off the website by then! Excellent company to deal with! The few firmware bugs I found (expected its a complicated machine) were fixed immediately, and they kept in contact with me the whole time, and after to be sure I was happy (it was fixed). The (windows based) help menu is second to none, and it gives every detail of how various measurements and statistics it can display, so when the engineer asks "well what do you mean positive duty cycle, what thresholds does it use for that" you can generally find an IEEE spec right there, as well as the math used in equation form. For the tech using it, it will also show you how to modify the settings (even links to them) to give you whatever thresholds you want for the measurements and decodes. This is very important as you can set the machine up exactly like the interface ICs and statemachines in the devices you are testing to get accurate results on your protocol decoding, and error detection, propagation delay calculations, etc. etc. It is a very excellent piece of equipment that generates results every time I use it on something. Its hard to say that about my Tek DSO3014, or my Fluke 199C. Yeah they show you voltage VS time, but the signal is so much more than that nowadays!
Im not a writer, but Im regarded by everyone in my industry as someone who knows what the hell they are talking about, and the one you want to have call when something needs to work right, so I dont care that I am not the worlds most bestest proveyor of words. If given the choice to have a mind that loved putting words together, or a mind that loved putting electronics together, Id take the mind that loved electronics. I can get my point across just fine, and do a few million things that an AC like you can only dream of, and a few million more that you can't even fathom! Besides the fact that I'm typing on my phone, it was 1am then, and I was being rushed to come to bed, I think it was better than doing nothing to contribute, or attempt to have a negative impact on the conversation, as you did. I see lots of well written stuff by people who's only real experience with a scope is looking at it on the internet, and it's quite obvious they dont have a clue how they are really used. Too bad you can't validate the content of any of those posts instead. I had 75K approved to buy my scope, so I had demo unitS from every manufacturer for 6 months sitting in my lab, and ran the shit out of every one of them on many different applications to find out what really made a scope a scope, and what each one of them was really capable of. I got to pick the one I wanted, and I am glad I got the chance to have 5 of the best pieces of test equipment in the world at once to hook up at the same time, and compare them.
Thank you Agilent for making my MSO6014A. Hands down the best tool for the job, any job. I have the only one in the company, and it took a small act of god to get the 60K req approved, but we are in demand when something has to be fixed. And it does, always, get the job done:) There's nothing more frustrating than having the "thing" hiccup with all the bosses standing around, and having them rush over to look at the scope screen and say "did you get that?" It's sure nice to be able to say "yes, yes I did... Look" MegaZoom!
I have one of those sitting on my bench, and I can tell you that the Agilent MSO's are awesome. You can add acquisition memory (up to 256 million points) There's nothing like being able to zoom in on 3-4 seconds of data at a decent acquisition rate to see what is going on. Look for a good used one, and then save up and upgrade the acquisition memory as you see fit later. Many scopes have a very limited amount of acquisition memory (under 1 million samples), and it really limits how much you can zoom in and analyze the data you've just taken. You'll spend lots of time wishing you had a "better picture" otherwise. Either too zoomed out to get enough detail later, or too zoomed in to have enough to see what happened. The acquisition memory is the key. 1 million data points at 100 million samples a second does not give you a very long snapshot of what happened and going down in sample rate is not always an option. Any time you have to actually make something really work where there's multiple processors communicating and bus level interfacing, and lots of stuff going on there will be that once in a day, or week, or hour that something doesnt go quite right, and the shit starts piling up, and getting late that is what you (and your fancy scope) cant afford to miss, and you sit there with an incomplete picture, go damn I wish i could zoom in, go back 100 milliseconds or a second, and see what really happened. But I guess I'll wait ANOTHER day, week, hour whatever for it to happen again, and hope I can catch it. Many times you cant set a trigger to catch this stuff reliably, and you just cant let it go if you want your stuff to work (right). Look at the MegaZoom examples on Agilent's website to see what I mean. BTW it is also second to none at displaying data, and showing you little irregularities that appear in the signal, as well as allowing you to zoom in on that portion with (quite literally) a couple flicks of the knob. It amazes my coworkers how I can pan and zoom to all of the glitches, but the scope really does all the hard work if you do it right. It literally sticks to the edges and such when it detects you stopping close to them. Excellent piece of equipment. But the acquisition memory makes it all possible!
I have a few friends that work for the local paper, and they all have to take turns working the night shift. Part (if not all) of the job dities on the night shift include watching the 9pm and 10pm news on all of the local networks to be sure that there isn't anything on that needs to be added to tomorrows paper quick. Ask them what time they have to work till, and they'll smile and say "right after the 10:00 news"
Unfortunately they do not stop injecting fuel unless it's a true hybrid and it shuts off, because the catalytic converter needs to be kept "lit" so there is always a fairly constant A/F ratio being delivered to prevent the emissions from spiking every time you "restarted" from coasting as the cats warmed back up to operating temperature.
We have 3 pico (femto maybe) cells at my work that take cdma calls and data and route them into Verizon somehow (LAN?). We also have 4 Spotwave systems set up in other locations to re-transmit CDMA and GSM voice and data outside the building, so I'm quite sure it is legal to have the equipment, and transmit on Cell phone frequencies, because it is something that can be arranged by our help desk, and our telecom guy installs them and maintains them, as they are purchased, or leased by our company. Now being able to set it up wherever you want to, and start intercepting calls meant to be covered by another site, might be a different story!/sidenote: I used to have a spotwave system camping with me and set it up in places where there was poor coverage, and it was amazing how people would naturally collect in front of my rig over a weekend, as they all used to get their voicemails and texts as they walked by, and wow here is the only place in the campground my cell phone works! I used to unplug it if they collected to much and blabbered too loud. it was great fun to see them all lose their signals at once. Hello??? Hello???
Cheers!
Besides that, the "average" Dell user most likely had Microsoft WORKS installed on their system, and either has to cough up more $ to activate their MS Office trial version, or find another solution elsewhere (OO or TPB).
But if the bricking was caused by blowing a fuse designed to prevent unauthorized firmware from being run on the device, I'd bet the user has whatever cables are required to load the factory firmware also:) so Id have to say it was not bricked, just Defective By Design with DRM restrictions.
I'm wondering if the '64GB SSD (mind you, not HDD)' they talk about in TFA is something more along the line of a SD card or similar flash chip instead of the more expensive SLC type you'd find with a laptop type hard drive? That would help keep costs in line, and maybe we'll even be lucky, and it'll be in a connector so we can change them easily, and upgrade the storage capacity as flash memory gets cheaper and bigger!
Couldn't they set aside space for applications on the phone, and store much of the application code on the device for the next time it's used? Just check versions, and update only when there are changes?
check out hawking technology (specifically hwu8dd) don't let the looks fool ya! it gets me internet anywhere. their boosters work great too, 250mw with a high gain directional antenna if you need it! all excellent equipment (i've used) where every other adapter fails! Everyone I know that travels has one! they even have a wifi detector / high gain directional antenna all in one!
I type too slow to be practical here, but thanks for beating me to that! Even finding/adding proper level Bi-directional level conversion would prove difficult at those speeds. C/ramspeed (in your favorite units) is not much to work with! Even with the "perfect" led connected, the signal voltage getting to the chips as the CPU writes to the RAM would still be dangerously low! With the RAM chip getting full voltage, and something less coming in as a 1, and the RAM module would risk reading all 0's! If it didn't burn out the thing the instant any real load was driven from the RAM when it tried to light the LEDs.
I had that same touchscreen problem, and I ended up calling HTC to see if perhaps I was doing something wrong, or stressing the touchscreen in the hip case. He informed me that there were defective touchscreens, and even called my carrier to authorize an out of warranty replacement! I was impressed! Offtopic I know, but hopefully helpful. (Posted from a windows mobile device lucky enough to have felt Linux firsthand!)
I'd bet that if she spent a few minutes Googling the right things that she could tell right away if he is spying on her. Example...
1. Google "secretly removing my spying husbands penis while he is sleeping"
2. Watch for him to sleep
3. Still is divorce. (PROFIT?)
WOW! This is the only thing new for two hours, and it sucks ass big time! That is the 5 seconds of content padded with 6 or 7 minutes of the stupidest video ever produced... REALLY Slashdot What the FUCK! The dumb-ass starts out the video rambling on about an abortion! Like he's funny! Maybe WTFV (watch the fucking video) before putting it on the front page! For sure remove the HUMOR tag!
Maybe their not ready to open source the Blu-ray DRM just quite yet. Maybe once it is cracked it would become a better business decision, but right now, I think the Blu-ray death squad prefers working with the likes of themselves, and those they can control.
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I always wondered that, and cautioned my android phone owning friends, I bet in the not to distant future, those LED electronic billboards along side the highway will start delivering target ads to you as you drive down the highway.
Imagine it's late at night, and your phone knows you've been traveling for 8 hours, and you have 4 more to go, and it's been 3 hours since you stopped to pee and get gas, and 6 hours since you had any real food, so they'll start badgering you with food with a clean bathroom at the next McDonalds thats at the next exit because you usually eat there an average of 2.7 times a week, and it's been 113 hours since you've had a Big Mac so you're due!
When they can prove that they put the ad there for you, and you went to that exact place minutes later (likely) as a result of that ad, the revenue potential for this type of "selected ad rotation" will be crazy!
I wonder how long before they show me a picture of me enjoying the Big Mac? I truly believe we'll get there, and it won't take that long!
Thanks.
I guess the amount of time it takes to crunch back together would ultimately be a good deciding factor as to how well you actually blew it up!
If it had enough free space to allow it to recombine without encountering other orbiting whatevers, do you think that millions of years is a good guess for the time to reassemble earth if it was blown to 1000 times it's original diameter? I guess that would be the final "max" diameter, not the size of the ball of dust right after the explosion. So if given a ball of dust roughly 1000 X the diameter of the earth, with the same total mass, how long would it really take to reattract to itself, and shrink down to roughly earth's size?
What formula would you use to rough in that approximation?
Just curious. Thanks again!
Wouldn't the little bits and pieces all attract back together again eventually if they were not at escape velocity? Like the big bang / big crunch theory? If you didnt blow it apart enough to get away from itself, wouldn't gravity win in the end?
So you might have blown it to pieces, but the pieces would eventually collect back together due to the mass and proximity? Wouldn't you have a large plume of earth chunks say maybe 1000 times the size of earth, but with nearly the same gravitational force, so it would then begin pulling itself back together?
So I'm guessing that it might take more energy to permenantly blow it to pieces than to blow it apart, and have it all come crashing back together? But im only guessing. (well guessing and hoping someone can clarify)
Thanks!
For some reason Opera would clobber the size and position of that box when set to mobile view. If I disable the mobile view option, it shows up right next to the preview button, and is big enough to see the HTML formatted option.
Setting this box to plain old text works wonders!
I thank you again for making my contributions to Slashdot forever more easier to read :)
I must admit, im not sure how to from my phone. I try to enter and space, but it just goes to what you see when I hit preview. It is very annoying, but so is capitalization, and punctuation on the thing.
IIRC it was $18,500 for the base rig. A huge chunk of it was upgrading the acquisition memory to 256 million datapoints, it was a $28000+ upgrade but worth every penny. I can take 2.5 seconds of data at 100 million samples a second, or I can take 10 seconds of data at 2.5 million samples a second, and still be 10x my 250kbps bus, and I have the serial communications decoding toolbox ($8000 or so) that decodes the traces, stores the messages, triggers on anything, and displays it on the screen superimposed over the traces. You can click on a message in the output list, and it takes you zoomed to the message highlights messages shown currently on the screen etc. Very cool! The rest was on various plugins, the main one being one that allows you to pipe data into Matlab, crunch on it real-time, and display the result on the screen with the data traces (awesome!!) note: the Matlab license and packages are not included in my price either! I actually got it under a promotion Agilent had where they doubled your bandwidth for free and gave you a 1ghz B/W machine PROBES and ACCESSORIES TOO! for example for the 500mhz price! 250mhz to 500mhz etc. etc. They even honored the price nearly a year later when everything finally got approved! It was over $100k off the website by then! Excellent company to deal with! The few firmware bugs I found (expected its a complicated machine) were fixed immediately, and they kept in contact with me the whole time, and after to be sure I was happy (it was fixed). The (windows based) help menu is second to none, and it gives every detail of how various measurements and statistics it can display, so when the engineer asks "well what do you mean positive duty cycle, what thresholds does it use for that" you can generally find an IEEE spec right there, as well as the math used in equation form. For the tech using it, it will also show you how to modify the settings (even links to them) to give you whatever thresholds you want for the measurements and decodes. This is very important as you can set the machine up exactly like the interface ICs and statemachines in the devices you are testing to get accurate results on your protocol decoding, and error detection, propagation delay calculations, etc. etc. It is a very excellent piece of equipment that generates results every time I use it on something. Its hard to say that about my Tek DSO3014, or my Fluke 199C. Yeah they show you voltage VS time, but the signal is so much more than that nowadays!
Im not a writer, but Im regarded by everyone in my industry as someone who knows what the hell they are talking about, and the one you want to have call when something needs to work right, so I dont care that I am not the worlds most bestest proveyor of words. If given the choice to have a mind that loved putting words together, or a mind that loved putting electronics together, Id take the mind that loved electronics. I can get my point across just fine, and do a few million things that an AC like you can only dream of, and a few million more that you can't even fathom! Besides the fact that I'm typing on my phone, it was 1am then, and I was being rushed to come to bed, I think it was better than doing nothing to contribute, or attempt to have a negative impact on the conversation, as you did. I see lots of well written stuff by people who's only real experience with a scope is looking at it on the internet, and it's quite obvious they dont have a clue how they are really used. Too bad you can't validate the content of any of those posts instead. I had 75K approved to buy my scope, so I had demo unitS from every manufacturer for 6 months sitting in my lab, and ran the shit out of every one of them on many different applications to find out what really made a scope a scope, and what each one of them was really capable of. I got to pick the one I wanted, and I am glad I got the chance to have 5 of the best pieces of test equipment in the world at once to hook up at the same time, and compare them.
Thank you Agilent for making my MSO6014A. Hands down the best tool for the job, any job. I have the only one in the company, and it took a small act of god to get the 60K req approved, but we are in demand when something has to be fixed. And it does, always, get the job done:) There's nothing more frustrating than having the "thing" hiccup with all the bosses standing around, and having them rush over to look at the scope screen and say "did you get that?" It's sure nice to be able to say "yes, yes I did... Look" MegaZoom!
I have one of those sitting on my bench, and I can tell you that the Agilent MSO's are awesome. You can add acquisition memory (up to 256 million points) There's nothing like being able to zoom in on 3-4 seconds of data at a decent acquisition rate to see what is going on. Look for a good used one, and then save up and upgrade the acquisition memory as you see fit later. Many scopes have a very limited amount of acquisition memory (under 1 million samples), and it really limits how much you can zoom in and analyze the data you've just taken. You'll spend lots of time wishing you had a "better picture" otherwise. Either too zoomed out to get enough detail later, or too zoomed in to have enough to see what happened. The acquisition memory is the key. 1 million data points at 100 million samples a second does not give you a very long snapshot of what happened and going down in sample rate is not always an option. Any time you have to actually make something really work where there's multiple processors communicating and bus level interfacing, and lots of stuff going on there will be that once in a day, or week, or hour that something doesnt go quite right, and the shit starts piling up, and getting late that is what you (and your fancy scope) cant afford to miss, and you sit there with an incomplete picture, go damn I wish i could zoom in, go back 100 milliseconds or a second, and see what really happened. But I guess I'll wait ANOTHER day, week, hour whatever for it to happen again, and hope I can catch it. Many times you cant set a trigger to catch this stuff reliably, and you just cant let it go if you want your stuff to work (right). Look at the MegaZoom examples on Agilent's website to see what I mean. BTW it is also second to none at displaying data, and showing you little irregularities that appear in the signal, as well as allowing you to zoom in on that portion with (quite literally) a couple flicks of the knob. It amazes my coworkers how I can pan and zoom to all of the glitches, but the scope really does all the hard work if you do it right. It literally sticks to the edges and such when it detects you stopping close to them. Excellent piece of equipment. But the acquisition memory makes it all possible!
I have a few friends that work for the local paper, and they all have to take turns working the night shift. Part (if not all) of the job dities on the night shift include watching the 9pm and 10pm news on all of the local networks to be sure that there isn't anything on that needs to be added to tomorrows paper quick. Ask them what time they have to work till, and they'll smile and say "right after the 10:00 news"
Unfortunately they do not stop injecting fuel unless it's a true hybrid and it shuts off, because the catalytic converter needs to be kept "lit" so there is always a fairly constant A/F ratio being delivered to prevent the emissions from spiking every time you "restarted" from coasting as the cats warmed back up to operating temperature.
We have 3 pico (femto maybe) cells at my work that take cdma calls and data and route them into Verizon somehow (LAN?). We also have 4 Spotwave systems set up in other locations to re-transmit CDMA and GSM voice and data outside the building, so I'm quite sure it is legal to have the equipment, and transmit on Cell phone frequencies, because it is something that can be arranged by our help desk, and our telecom guy installs them and maintains them, as they are purchased, or leased by our company. Now being able to set it up wherever you want to, and start intercepting calls meant to be covered by another site, might be a different story! /sidenote: I used to have a spotwave system camping with me and set it up in places where there was poor coverage, and it was amazing how people would naturally collect in front of my rig over a weekend, as they all used to get their voicemails and texts as they walked by, and wow here is the only place in the campground my cell phone works! I used to unplug it if they collected to much and blabbered too loud. it was great fun to see them all lose their signals at once. Hello??? Hello???
Cheers!
Besides that, the "average" Dell user most likely had Microsoft WORKS installed on their system, and either has to cough up more $ to activate their MS Office trial version, or find another solution elsewhere (OO or TPB).
But if the bricking was caused by blowing a fuse designed to prevent unauthorized firmware from being run on the device, I'd bet the user has whatever cables are required to load the factory firmware also:) so Id have to say it was not bricked, just Defective By Design with DRM restrictions.
That's why they are activated by the school server, and secured by Bitfrost. If a non G1G1 XO ends up on EBay, it will not function.
I'm wondering if the '64GB SSD (mind you, not HDD)' they talk about in TFA is something more along the line of a SD card or similar flash chip instead of the more expensive SLC type you'd find with a laptop type hard drive? That would help keep costs in line, and maybe we'll even be lucky, and it'll be in a connector so we can change them easily, and upgrade the storage capacity as flash memory gets cheaper and bigger!
Couldn't they set aside space for applications on the phone, and store much of the application code on the device for the next time it's used? Just check versions, and update only when there are changes?
check out hawking technology (specifically hwu8dd) don't let the looks fool ya! it gets me internet anywhere. their boosters work great too, 250mw with a high gain directional antenna if you need it! all excellent equipment (i've used) where every other adapter fails! Everyone I know that travels has one! they even have a wifi detector / high gain directional antenna all in one!
I type too slow to be practical here, but thanks for beating me to that! Even finding /adding proper level Bi-directional level conversion would prove difficult at those speeds. C/ramspeed (in your favorite units) is not much to work with! Even with the "perfect" led connected, the signal voltage getting to the chips as the CPU writes to the RAM would still be dangerously low! With the RAM chip getting full voltage, and something less coming in as a 1, and the RAM module would risk reading all 0's! If it didn't burn out the thing the instant any real load was driven from the RAM when it tried to light the LEDs.
I had that same touchscreen problem, and I ended up calling HTC to see if perhaps I was doing something wrong, or stressing the touchscreen in the hip case. He informed me that there were defective touchscreens, and even called my carrier to authorize an out of warranty replacement! I was impressed! Offtopic I know, but hopefully helpful. (Posted from a windows mobile device lucky enough to have felt Linux firsthand!)
I'd bet that if she spent a few minutes Googling the right things that she could tell right away if he is spying on her. Example... 1. Google "secretly removing my spying husbands penis while he is sleeping" 2. Watch for him to sleep 3. Still is divorce. (PROFIT?)
I would venture a guess that many here do!
I agree totally. (TOO lazy to make a new user account just to "Twitter" myself a little)
WOW! This is the only thing new for two hours, and it sucks ass big time! That is the 5 seconds of content padded with 6 or 7 minutes of the stupidest video ever produced... REALLY Slashdot What the FUCK! The dumb-ass starts out the video rambling on about an abortion! Like he's funny! Maybe WTFV (watch the fucking video) before putting it on the front page! For sure remove the HUMOR tag!
Maybe their not ready to open source the Blu-ray DRM just quite yet. Maybe once it is cracked it would become a better business decision, but right now, I think the Blu-ray death squad prefers working with the likes of themselves, and those they can control.