When Canada was switching to metric, dual signage was common. The km/h value was shown first, and the mph was shown in a smaller (but still quite readable) font below it. Usage of "km/h" or "mph" was explicit, to ensure there was no ambiguity.
This transition period lasted for quite some time, and after a while, the signs were ultimately replaced with speed limits listing strictly in km/h (and often the "km/h" was no longer present as well).
Canada, where I am originally from, is interesting. Metric is official measurement system but there are still a number of things that use the British Imperial System. For example, building materials still uses feet and inches, most recipes and cooking is in Fahrenheit, etc.
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This film has been out on general release for 8 days already!
Assuming that you are being serious and not simply being snarky, the article isn't late. Well, at least not for the US audience.
You see, if you look up the release dates for Into Darkness, you will see that the movie was released in Europe first and had a later release here in the US. It was released in the UK on the 9th and was released here in the US yesterday.
No doubt, the 2009 Trek reboot was rollicking good action fun with a bit of insider snark thrown in. What I've never understood, though, is how Spock managed to turn out so differently - clearly the "new" Spock has little control over his emotions, and apparently, little desire to control them. It was always that tension that made the half-breed human more human than the real humans in some circumstances.
Anyway, it seems Spock's lust handily outstrips his logic, and we're left with the most improbably romance in history. (In the immortal words of the Trek take-off Galaxy Quest (which may well be the best "StarTrek" movie yet), "That's just *wrong*...)
My thought is that that we will see a story arc where Spock is highly emotional (now), experiences Pon Farr for the first time where something bad happens, this pushes him to fully embrace logic, then he gradually realizes that there has to be a balance. My guess, having yet to watch Into Darkness, it that we will see this over several movies.
ah, on nuclear power: The science of nuclear power is settled: it works. the technology and implementation by engineers, managers, contractors and other people on the other hand is an entirely different matter
The implementation works too. The two most recent meltdowns involved a horribly designed and outdated plant (Chernobyl) and a plant hit by both an earthquake and a Tsunami at the same time (Fukushima). Either we have been lucky or the implementation works too.
Granted, Fukushima would have been less of a disaster had the culture been one where problems were reported early and help asked for early. Also, the industry is still grappling with risk levels (i.e. the size of a Tsunami to plan for).
Higher voltage? I thought it was just higher current.
No it could actually be higher voltage, 5V (or 5.25) compared to 4.8 or something like that.
Nah, it's higher current (AMPs). Both you computer USB port and the iPad USB charger put out 5V. If it's higher than that, it can blow out circuits etc. I've had enough experience to say that the wrong voltage kills
From the USB Wiki, a device (plugged into a computer) may draw a maximum of 5 unit loads (500 mA) from a port in USB 2.0; 6 (900 mA) in USB 3.0. The charger, however, puts out about 2.1 AMPs.
Exactly. A quick look at his little history (especially with Yahoo a few years back) shows that he's only in it to score some meat from a dying company while the victim is still breathing. Notice that he doesn't really go after healthy, growing companies - only those which show signs of being in serious trouble.
I suspect that if you work for a larger company? A perfect indicator of your corp being in deep kimchi would be the presence of Carl Icahn's active attempts at your company's financials... it's like seeing the Angel of Death, only he's going after the board of directors.
This happened at the company that I work for. The company had some serious business issues that drove our stock down. We would have recovered but Icahn came in, worked to get members on the BOD, and sold us off to another company. In our case, it actually worked out well as the company that purchased us badly needed diversification and kept most employees on and the division intact.
Two pieces of advice: 1. If Icahn comes calling for your company, buy up as much stock as possible, especially if you have an ESPP program. 2. Make sure your resume is up to date as your company will be sold.
I was wondering why Monsanto didnt sue the elevator instead.
Because the elevator was selling a legal product. To extend your car analogy, the cars were not stolen.
Then the farmer planted the seeds, thus "copying" the formerly legal goods. Back to the car analogy, this is like buying a Chevy from a dealer, and then copying and selling the copies. It all makes sense in the weird realm of IP law.
It's closer to the way copyright works with movies. The grain elevator had a used DVD and sold it to the farmer (feed grain). This was allowed by law (license). The farmer then took the DVD and made many copies (planted the grain) and sold them for a profit. This was the illegal part. The Farmer was perfectly within his rights to watch the DVD (i.e. feed the grain to the cows), but as soon as he made copies (i.e. planted the grain) he broke the law (grain license).
My thought is what we need is open source grain... (grin)
Nah, trains are old-school, hard-wired, and are limited to following a single track to a place miles from where you are ultimately going (unless you live/work next to a train stop).
Personally, I would prefer an IFF system.... Can I get missiles with that?
Between Tablets, eReaders, and smart phones why would anyone want a crippled Chromebook laptop?
My thought is that most people who are in the market now for a Laptop are looking for something more capable to do work, etc. For everything else they are using tablets or smart phones.
Apple has more cash on hand than the federal government.
That is a fairly low bar, I have more cash on hand than the federal government as I don't run a deficit.
No... In reality you don't have more cash than the government, because you are the government. People forget that anything that is done by the government is done in their names, whether they like it or not. So that deficit... yeah, it's your deficit too... Maybe if more people understood this we would have better government.
I don't want a touch screen. How about saving the touch screen and making a $150 laptop?
Ignoring that the Android OS has advantages when using a touchscreen. I think you need to look for your saving elsewhere. We live in Bazarro world where my (relevantly) expensive low resolution and DPI touchless laptop cost's more than my relatively *cheap* touchsceen high DPI tablet. The bought a whole tablet yesterday for $100. I'd be surprised if the keyboard would cost $50.
I agree. However, the reason for the Laptop being more expensive has to do with the hardware requirements to run an OS that is capable of more than just content delivery. Most content creation requires more flexibility than a current Tablet can offer.
- Memory: Tablet only needs 1Gb to 2Gb for the OS. Laptop needs at least 4Gb. - Storage: Tablet only needs 16Gb of cheap flash memory. Laptop has a 256Gb SSD or a 500Gb hard drive. - Keyboard: Tablet has a virtual keyboard. Laptop has a physical keyboard and touchpad. - CPU: Tablet has a lower end CPU. Laptop has a Intel i5 or i7 CPU, which is MUCH more powerful (most laptops now have two CPUs, a low power one and a high end one) - Networking: Tablet has WiFi, Bluetooth. Laptop has Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth. Higher end tablets have Cell service, but not the $200 models. - USB: Most Tablets require add-on for USB. Laptop has multiple built-in USB 3.0 ports. - Display: Tablet has touchscreen, IPS HD display, HDMI. Laptop has mid-range display, HDMI. - Sound: Tablet has low end sound and speakers. Laptop has higher end sound chipset and speakers.
The point is that Tablets have lower-end everything except for the display in comparison to a Laptop. This allows tablets to have a lower price point. I do agree that if a tablet can have an HD IPS display, there is no reason why laptops can't. The laptops that do have HD displays cost $300 to $400 more. The laptop manufacturers use the higher end displays as a way to increase margins.
My younger sister was assigned to read Fahrenheit 451 for one of her classes. I read through it because I had never been assigned it and was curious about the storyline. Personally, I thought it sucked compared to many of the more advanced Sci-Fi stories exploring the human condition that I was reading at the time.
She had to write a report on the meaning of the book. I pointed out to her that the writer's forward actually said that he wrote the book because he was tired of his editors screwing with his book manuscripts and deliberately or accidentally changing the meaning of his books. So she wrote her report and got a poor grade because it wasn't what the teacher either expected or believed, despite the fact that it was there in black and white for all to see.
Most teachers interpret Fahrenheit 451 as being about deliberate censorship. Bradbury, a few years before he died, interpreted his own work to reflect a society where there is more interest in entertainment and less and less interest in reading, so books get condensed to the point where the meaning is lost and society grows to despise books.
The point is that English departments have been interpreting books for years and have taught their "official" interpretation to students with no flexibility for students to come up with their own unique meaning. In my opinion, it's this institutional method to reading that makes it a chore. What makes reading fun is the ability to approach the material on your own and develop your own interpretations. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen because it makes it harder to grade...
So where does that lead us to? A device which watches us all, which sends much of that data to central services provided by Google, where that data will most likely be stored and can most likely be accessed by law enforcement agencies.
Google Glass is the best example why we need Free Software on those device, otherwise it will become a privacy nightmare. If we don't draw the line here, just think how future prostetics will be. Do you really want some company to decide what your brain implant will be able to do?
Google glasses is the best example why we will need privacy jammers. Without access to the cloud, Google Glasses become next to useless. Of course, cell phone jamming is currently illegal.
It should be here. Just because it's not the first one is irrelevant.
Really? Then explain to me why we don't we see articles about every iteration of email clients on mobile devices? By your reasoning they are apps and use an electronic device so they should be news on Slashdot. They just aren't new, news, or interesting and would turn Slashdot into a pure advertisement platform.
" This is enough for me." as it turns out,l you aren't the only person in the world.
You should probably think upon that a little bit.
Oh, really... Just because you don't agree with me is no reason to get snide... I do happen to know that I am not the only one on earth and that everyone has different needs. But there are existing products. We don't need another slashvertisement to highlight yet another one.
Perhaps you are just in the wrong place, this is supposed to be NEWS for Nerds, not Advertisements R US.
The are a number of Android apps and ODB Bluetooth adapters already on the market. You can use them view trouble codes,capture car diagnostics, etc. This isn't new or news...
I have a Garmin EcoRoute with Bluetooth which grabs ODB data and presents it as gauges to the Garmin GPS on my Kenwood head unit. I can also use it record trip/mileage information and view/reset diagnostic codes. It will even show me an efficiency graph over the trip. This is enough for me.
My concern about the gameified "driving score" is that it could lead to some people being more concerned about beating their top score than focusing on driving safely. We don't need more distracted drivers...
People who think they tune out ads are actually more influenced by them in their purchasing choices. They don't recognize the familiarity effect. I wish I could remember the marketing terminology for that so I could find some research to substantiate my claim. Working from memory here. Sorry.
I don't tune out ads, I just skip them. I DVR practically everything I watch now and skip the commercials when watching. If a show is just starting, I will walk away and do something else for 20 minutes before watching it using the DVR just to avoid commercials.
As for influence, I have yet to see an advertisement that influenced me to do something or buy something. At best, they make me aware of something new. At worst, they barely stop short of outright lying to their potential customers. The most annoying ads are for medical conditions.
Some shows simply don't get shown over here. No idea why, they just don't make it across the pond. Britain has some great shows that I would love to watch, yet no such luck.
Ok, one'd say, there's maybe not even a DVD set of it because, well, it just ran for a season or two (the old Simpsons joke about the longest running British sitcom with 4 episodes is actually pretty apt). Well, there IS. Great, I'd think, I'm in the EU, Britain is in the EU, it is trivial to order... huh? Not delivering to your country? Why not? Because it didn't run here yet. I see, but nobody has any intent to do it.
I got a wordy reply that can be summed up in four words: "Sucks to be you".
Asking around with our networks I got replies along the lines of "doesn't fit into our lineup". It's not statistically significant since that was the ONLY reply I got out of 10 emails I sent. The rest couldn't even be assed to reply.
So I'm sitting here, screaming "STFU and take my money already!", but nobody wants to sell it to me.
You can, by the way, log into Amazon.co.uk and buy DVDs, etc. which will be shipped to your address in the States. Shipping is a tad high and you have to deal with the exchange rate, but it does work. Granted, it's a different story if the only place to get the DVD is directly from the producer (i.e. BBC) as they can refuse to sell it to you.
It is not easy to segregate networks like this. Remember that the receptionist might need the reservations app, and will probably need Internet access as well. So you're looking at two separate computers on his or her desk. Same with some of the accounting people - they still need to pull documents from the web.
The military already does this. It's common to have three different computers with different security levels on one desk, all of them air gapped from each other. But you're looking at three switches, three sets of cables to run, and so on. It's a lot of work even for an organization the size of the US Army, so it would not be feasible for a small practice.
As a network engineer, they would not need three separate switches to handle 3 different security models. All you need is a single switch and a firewall that supports 802.1q trunking (multiple VLANs). There are a number of smart switches on the market that are under $500 and Juniper has a some very nice SOHO firewalls for under $1000. You set up the diagnostics computer, and any computer that needs to talk to it, on an isolated VLAN. You then set up any system that needs to talk to the internet on a separate VLAN and configure that VLAN on the firewall.
I'm guessing that the US Army goes with the 3 physical switch model because of simplicity and ease of deployment. i.e. The guy setting it up doesn't have to have any networking configuration knowledge, just which cable goes where.
100 miles would take you from NYC to Philly with 3 miles to spare. That is long way. 100 mile commutes, each way are pretty rare on the east coast.
Even a weekend trip, that is a decent distance, much longer and you might as well take a plane.
Wow, you are soooo out of touch.... that is not a long way... not even close...
I do a 70+ miles round trip commute every day in the North East (Boston area). Unless there is a charge station at work, a 100 mile range just won't cut it. Especially when you start to factor in sitting in traffic due to accidents, storms, reduced range due to below freezing weather, etc. I would feel more comfortable with a 200 mile range, but that is still cutting it close in the winter time (reduced power due to frigid weather).
As for flying, it's not even close to being worth it to fly 100 miles. My thought is that you would have to be very well off or be able to expense the trips if you were to fly every time you had to travel 100 miles. It would take you 2 hours just to start boarding the plane at most airports. If you had driven, you'd be there.
For me, it would barely be worth it to fly the 360 miles that I drive to visit my relatives twice a year (Christmas, Summer). When you factor in cost, time, jet fuel, etc. its cheaper, faster, more comfortable, and healthier (not stuck in a tube with a bunch of people sharing cold germs) for me to drive. This trip takes me from Boston, through Maine, into New Brunswick, Canada. Not exactly a corridor that is likely to get a vast array of charging stations. Anyone traveling outside of a major metro area would run into the same problem.
If ALL of your travel is in a major metro area, then your right, a lower range would work for you. However, it's just not going to work for the rest of us.
Why do I care how fast Japanese can access content when it takes 30 seconds to load www.google.com in Canada using one of the top telco's in the country?
Canada truly is the 3rd world of internet access.
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are now getting FiberOP (similar to FIOS), which goes up to 250MB. My Dad has it.
I'm jealous because I can't get a similar service in the Mass. town where I live (Verizon stopped their FIOS rollout in MA before getting to us).
I think we all understand the difference in population density and how that affects the cost to provide infrastructure services. That plays a big part in how places in Japan can offer better price and performance than places in the US.
So what's the excuse in NY, SF, Chicago, Boston and other high density cities that have a population density greater than Tokyo? If Google can wire up low-density Kansas City and Austin, why can't the telcos figure out how to make money wiring up a neighborhood full of high density apartment buildings?
For the Boston area, the issues are:
1. Old Infrastructure, expensive to run new services as you have to dig up streets, etc., while not affecting existing old infrastructure. 2. Negotiations must be completed with each town. Some run their own ISP services. 3. Anti-competitive behavior. Existing ISPs will do anything they can to derail any challenge to their "high-speed" ISP access monopoly. Yes, DSL and satellite are available, but they don't offer the same speeds.
Put yourself in the place of some poor slob picking up the documentation 5 or 10 (or even 50) years from now, and decide whether reading what you're writing would be useful to them.
Hardly anything is useful 5 to 10 years out.
That is wrong.
There are many computer programs still in active use that are more than 10 years old that could benefit from good documentation.
More than once, I've used documentation over 100 years old (obviously not computer-programming related) that proved to be very useful in designing heating, ventilation, and plumbing for an old building.
Hey, I said "hardly" anything... there are always exceptions... (grin)
BTW, I'll bet that the new heating and ventilation system required updates to the building documentation making the old heating system diagrams obsolete....
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When Canada was switching to metric, dual signage was common. The km/h value was shown first, and the mph was shown in a smaller (but still quite readable) font below it. Usage of "km/h" or "mph" was explicit, to ensure there was no ambiguity.
This transition period lasted for quite some time, and after a while, the signs were ultimately replaced with speed limits listing strictly in km/h (and often the "km/h" was no longer present as well).
Canada, where I am originally from, is interesting. Metric is official measurement system but there are still a number of things that use the British Imperial System. For example, building materials still uses feet and inches, most recipes and cooking is in Fahrenheit, etc.
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This film has been out on general release for 8 days already!
Assuming that you are being serious and not simply being snarky, the article isn't late. Well, at least not for the US audience.
You see, if you look up the release dates for Into Darkness, you will see that the movie was released in Europe first and had a later release here in the US. It was released in the UK on the 9th and was released here in the US yesterday.
No doubt, the 2009 Trek reboot was rollicking good action fun with a bit of insider snark thrown in. What I've never understood, though, is how Spock managed to turn out so differently - clearly the "new" Spock has little control over his emotions, and apparently, little desire to control them. It was always that tension that made the half-breed human more human than the real humans in some circumstances.
Anyway, it seems Spock's lust handily outstrips his logic, and we're left with the most improbably romance in history. (In the immortal words of the Trek take-off Galaxy Quest (which may well be the best "StarTrek" movie yet), "That's just *wrong*...)
My thought is that that we will see a story arc where Spock is highly emotional (now), experiences Pon Farr for the first time where something bad happens, this pushes him to fully embrace logic, then he gradually realizes that there has to be a balance. My guess, having yet to watch Into Darkness, it that we will see this over several movies.
ah, on nuclear power:
The science of nuclear power is settled: it works.
the technology and implementation by engineers, managers, contractors and other people on the other hand is an entirely different matter
The implementation works too. The two most recent meltdowns involved a horribly designed and outdated plant (Chernobyl) and a plant hit by both an earthquake and a Tsunami at the same time (Fukushima). Either we have been lucky or the implementation works too.
Granted, Fukushima would have been less of a disaster had the culture been one where problems were reported early and help asked for early. Also, the industry is still grappling with risk levels (i.e. the size of a Tsunami to plan for).
Higher voltage? I thought it was just higher current.
No it could actually be higher voltage, 5V (or 5.25) compared to 4.8 or something like that.
Nah, it's higher current (AMPs). Both you computer USB port and the iPad USB charger put out 5V. If it's higher than that, it can blow out circuits etc. I've had enough experience to say that the wrong voltage kills
From the USB Wiki, a device (plugged into a computer) may draw a maximum of 5 unit loads (500 mA) from a port in USB 2.0; 6 (900 mA) in USB 3.0. The charger, however, puts out about 2.1 AMPs.
Exactly. A quick look at his little history (especially with Yahoo a few years back) shows that he's only in it to score some meat from a dying company while the victim is still breathing. Notice that he doesn't really go after healthy, growing companies - only those which show signs of being in serious trouble.
I suspect that if you work for a larger company? A perfect indicator of your corp being in deep kimchi would be the presence of Carl Icahn's active attempts at your company's financials... it's like seeing the Angel of Death, only he's going after the board of directors.
This happened at the company that I work for. The company had some serious business issues that drove our stock down. We would have recovered but Icahn came in, worked to get members on the BOD, and sold us off to another company. In our case, it actually worked out well as the company that purchased us badly needed diversification and kept most employees on and the division intact.
Two pieces of advice: 1. If Icahn comes calling for your company, buy up as much stock as possible, especially if you have an ESPP program. 2. Make sure your resume is up to date as your company will be sold.
I was wondering why Monsanto didnt sue the elevator instead.
Because the elevator was selling a legal product. To extend your car analogy, the cars were not stolen.
Then the farmer planted the seeds, thus "copying" the formerly legal goods. Back to the car analogy, this is like buying a Chevy from a dealer, and then copying and selling the copies. It all makes sense in the weird realm of IP law.
It's closer to the way copyright works with movies. The grain elevator had a used DVD and sold it to the farmer (feed grain). This was allowed by law (license). The farmer then took the DVD and made many copies (planted the grain) and sold them for a profit. This was the illegal part. The Farmer was perfectly within his rights to watch the DVD (i.e. feed the grain to the cows), but as soon as he made copies (i.e. planted the grain) he broke the law (grain license).
My thought is what we need is open source grain... (grin)
Not too familiar with rail yards or switching in general, are you?
Actually, I am. Neither technology solves the last mile problem, though...
It's called a "train".
Nah, trains are old-school, hard-wired, and are limited to following a single track to a place miles from where you are ultimately going (unless you live/work next to a train stop).
Personally, I would prefer an IFF system.... Can I get missiles with that?
Between Tablets, eReaders, and smart phones why would anyone want a crippled Chromebook laptop?
My thought is that most people who are in the market now for a Laptop are looking for something more capable to do work, etc. For everything else they are using tablets or smart phones.
to find programmers who like contests.
...and who have time to participate in contests
Apple has more cash on hand than the federal government.
That is a fairly low bar, I have more cash on hand than the federal government as I don't run a deficit.
No... In reality you don't have more cash than the government, because you are the government. People forget that anything that is done by the government is done in their names, whether they like it or not. So that deficit... yeah, it's your deficit too... Maybe if more people understood this we would have better government.
I don't want a touch screen. How about saving the touch screen and making a $150 laptop?
Ignoring that the Android OS has advantages when using a touchscreen. I think you need to look for your saving elsewhere. We live in Bazarro world where my (relevantly) expensive low resolution and DPI touchless laptop cost's more than my relatively *cheap* touchsceen high DPI tablet. The bought a whole tablet yesterday for $100. I'd be surprised if the keyboard would cost $50.
I agree. However, the reason for the Laptop being more expensive has to do with the hardware requirements to run an OS that is capable of more than just content delivery. Most content creation requires more flexibility than a current Tablet can offer.
- Memory: Tablet only needs 1Gb to 2Gb for the OS. Laptop needs at least 4Gb.
- Storage: Tablet only needs 16Gb of cheap flash memory. Laptop has a 256Gb SSD or a 500Gb hard drive.
- Keyboard: Tablet has a virtual keyboard. Laptop has a physical keyboard and touchpad.
- CPU: Tablet has a lower end CPU. Laptop has a Intel i5 or i7 CPU, which is MUCH more powerful (most laptops now have two CPUs, a low power one and a high end one)
- Networking: Tablet has WiFi, Bluetooth. Laptop has Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth. Higher end tablets have Cell service, but not the $200 models.
- USB: Most Tablets require add-on for USB. Laptop has multiple built-in USB 3.0 ports.
- Display: Tablet has touchscreen, IPS HD display, HDMI. Laptop has mid-range display, HDMI.
- Sound: Tablet has low end sound and speakers. Laptop has higher end sound chipset and speakers.
The point is that Tablets have lower-end everything except for the display in comparison to a Laptop. This allows tablets to have a lower price point. I do agree that if a tablet can have an HD IPS display, there is no reason why laptops can't. The laptops that do have HD displays cost $300 to $400 more. The laptop manufacturers use the higher end displays as a way to increase margins.
My younger sister was assigned to read Fahrenheit 451 for one of her classes. I read through it because I had never been assigned it and was curious about the storyline. Personally, I thought it sucked compared to many of the more advanced Sci-Fi stories exploring the human condition that I was reading at the time.
She had to write a report on the meaning of the book. I pointed out to her that the writer's forward actually said that he wrote the book because he was tired of his editors screwing with his book manuscripts and deliberately or accidentally changing the meaning of his books. So she wrote her report and got a poor grade because it wasn't what the teacher either expected or believed, despite the fact that it was there in black and white for all to see.
Most teachers interpret Fahrenheit 451 as being about deliberate censorship. Bradbury, a few years before he died, interpreted his own work to reflect a society where there is more interest in entertainment and less and less interest in reading, so books get condensed to the point where the meaning is lost and society grows to despise books.
http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-31/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted/
The point is that English departments have been interpreting books for years and have taught their "official" interpretation to students with no flexibility for students to come up with their own unique meaning. In my opinion, it's this institutional method to reading that makes it a chore. What makes reading fun is the ability to approach the material on your own and develop your own interpretations. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen because it makes it harder to grade...
So where does that lead us to? A device which watches us all, which sends much of that data to central services provided by Google, where that data will most likely be stored and can most likely be accessed by law enforcement agencies.
Google Glass is the best example why we need Free Software on those device, otherwise it will become a privacy nightmare. If we don't draw the line here, just think how future prostetics will be. Do you really want some company to decide what your brain implant will be able to do?
Google glasses is the best example why we will need privacy jammers. Without access to the cloud, Google Glasses become next to useless. Of course, cell phone jamming is currently illegal.
Lets see:
It's an app.
It use electronic device.
It should be here. Just because it's not the first one is irrelevant.
Really? Then explain to me why we don't we see articles about every iteration of email clients on mobile devices? By your reasoning they are apps and use an electronic device so they should be news on Slashdot. They just aren't new, news, or interesting and would turn Slashdot into a pure advertisement platform.
" This is enough for me."
as it turns out,l you aren't the only person in the world.
You should probably think upon that a little bit.
Oh, really... Just because you don't agree with me is no reason to get snide... I do happen to know that I am not the only one on earth and that everyone has different needs. But there are existing products. We don't need another slashvertisement to highlight yet another one.
Perhaps you are just in the wrong place, this is supposed to be NEWS for Nerds, not Advertisements R US.
The are a number of Android apps and ODB Bluetooth adapters already on the market. You can use them view trouble codes,capture car diagnostics, etc. This isn't new or news...
I have a Garmin EcoRoute with Bluetooth which grabs ODB data and presents it as gauges to the Garmin GPS on my Kenwood head unit. I can also use it record trip/mileage information and view/reset diagnostic codes. It will even show me an efficiency graph over the trip. This is enough for me.
My concern about the gameified "driving score" is that it could lead to some people being more concerned about beating their top score than focusing on driving safely. We don't need more distracted drivers...
People who think they tune out ads are actually more influenced by them in their purchasing choices. They don't recognize the familiarity effect. I wish I could remember the marketing terminology for that so I could find some research to substantiate my claim. Working from memory here. Sorry.
I don't tune out ads, I just skip them. I DVR practically everything I watch now and skip the commercials when watching. If a show is just starting, I will walk away and do something else for 20 minutes before watching it using the DVR just to avoid commercials.
As for influence, I have yet to see an advertisement that influenced me to do something or buy something. At best, they make me aware of something new. At worst, they barely stop short of outright lying to their potential customers. The most annoying ads are for medical conditions.
I feel your pain.
Some shows simply don't get shown over here. No idea why, they just don't make it across the pond. Britain has some great shows that I would love to watch, yet no such luck.
Ok, one'd say, there's maybe not even a DVD set of it because, well, it just ran for a season or two (the old Simpsons joke about the longest running British sitcom with 4 episodes is actually pretty apt). Well, there IS. Great, I'd think, I'm in the EU, Britain is in the EU, it is trivial to order ... huh? Not delivering to your country? Why not? Because it didn't run here yet. I see, but nobody has any intent to do it.
I got a wordy reply that can be summed up in four words: "Sucks to be you".
Asking around with our networks I got replies along the lines of "doesn't fit into our lineup". It's not statistically significant since that was the ONLY reply I got out of 10 emails I sent. The rest couldn't even be assed to reply.
So I'm sitting here, screaming "STFU and take my money already!", but nobody wants to sell it to me.
You can, by the way, log into Amazon.co.uk and buy DVDs, etc. which will be shipped to your address in the States. Shipping is a tad high and you have to deal with the exchange rate, but it does work. Granted, it's a different story if the only place to get the DVD is directly from the producer (i.e. BBC) as they can refuse to sell it to you.
It is not easy to segregate networks like this. Remember that the receptionist might need the reservations app, and will probably need Internet access as well. So you're looking at two separate computers on his or her desk. Same with some of the accounting people - they still need to pull documents from the web.
The military already does this. It's common to have three different computers with different security levels on one desk, all of them air gapped from each other. But you're looking at three switches, three sets of cables to run, and so on. It's a lot of work even for an organization the size of the US Army, so it would not be feasible for a small practice.
As a network engineer, they would not need three separate switches to handle 3 different security models. All you need is a single switch and a firewall that supports 802.1q trunking (multiple VLANs). There are a number of smart switches on the market that are under $500 and Juniper has a some very nice SOHO firewalls for under $1000. You set up the diagnostics computer, and any computer that needs to talk to it, on an isolated VLAN. You then set up any system that needs to talk to the internet on a separate VLAN and configure that VLAN on the firewall.
I'm guessing that the US Army goes with the 3 physical switch model because of simplicity and ease of deployment. i.e. The guy setting it up doesn't have to have any networking configuration knowledge, just which cable goes where.
100 miles would take you from NYC to Philly with 3 miles to spare. That is long way. 100 mile commutes, each way are pretty rare on the east coast.
Even a weekend trip, that is a decent distance, much longer and you might as well take a plane.
Wow, you are soooo out of touch.... that is not a long way... not even close...
I do a 70+ miles round trip commute every day in the North East (Boston area). Unless there is a charge station at work, a 100 mile range just won't cut it. Especially when you start to factor in sitting in traffic due to accidents, storms, reduced range due to below freezing weather, etc. I would feel more comfortable with a 200 mile range, but that is still cutting it close in the winter time (reduced power due to frigid weather).
As for flying, it's not even close to being worth it to fly 100 miles. My thought is that you would have to be very well off or be able to expense the trips if you were to fly every time you had to travel 100 miles. It would take you 2 hours just to start boarding the plane at most airports. If you had driven, you'd be there.
For me, it would barely be worth it to fly the 360 miles that I drive to visit my relatives twice a year (Christmas, Summer). When you factor in cost, time, jet fuel, etc. its cheaper, faster, more comfortable, and healthier (not stuck in a tube with a bunch of people sharing cold germs) for me to drive. This trip takes me from Boston, through Maine, into New Brunswick, Canada. Not exactly a corridor that is likely to get a vast array of charging stations. Anyone traveling outside of a major metro area would run into the same problem.
If ALL of your travel is in a major metro area, then your right, a lower range would work for you. However, it's just not going to work for the rest of us.
Why do I care how fast Japanese can access content when it takes 30 seconds to load www.google.com in Canada using one of the top telco's in the country?
Canada truly is the 3rd world of internet access.
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are now getting FiberOP (similar to FIOS), which goes up to 250MB. My Dad has it.
I'm jealous because I can't get a similar service in the Mass. town where I live (Verizon stopped their FIOS rollout in MA before getting to us).
I think we all understand the difference in population density and how that affects the cost to provide infrastructure services. That plays a big part in how places in Japan can offer better price and performance than places in the US.
So what's the excuse in NY, SF, Chicago, Boston and other high density cities that have a population density greater than Tokyo? If Google can wire up low-density Kansas City and Austin, why can't the telcos figure out how to make money wiring up a neighborhood full of high density apartment buildings?
For the Boston area, the issues are:
1. Old Infrastructure, expensive to run new services as you have to dig up streets, etc., while not affecting existing old infrastructure.
2. Negotiations must be completed with each town. Some run their own ISP services.
3. Anti-competitive behavior. Existing ISPs will do anything they can to derail any challenge to their "high-speed" ISP access monopoly. Yes, DSL and satellite are available, but they don't offer the same speeds.
That is wrong.
There are many computer programs still in active use that are more than 10 years old that could benefit from good documentation.
More than once, I've used documentation over 100 years old (obviously not computer-programming related) that proved to be very useful in designing heating, ventilation, and plumbing for an old building.
Hey, I said "hardly" anything... there are always exceptions... (grin)
BTW, I'll bet that the new heating and ventilation system required updates to the building documentation making the old heating system diagrams obsolete....