It's used in lots of different parts, but yeah, batteries over the last decade have become the primary industrial sink. See http://seekingalpha.com/articl...
It's not like there aren't other customers in the meantime. By having a certification program Apple is providing a path by which these operations can be rewarded for improving working conditions, accessing a wider customer base than competitors who don't. That's how things like this get done... with small carrots and small sticks to encourage incremental improvements without chaos. Not that Apple's a paragon of corporate responsibility, but it appears they are aware of the pros and cons in this situation and think this is the best move forward.
Keys that work reliably even if you don't hit them square on.
Full size up and down cursor keys with the traditional inverted T layout so I don't get cramps in my right pinky.
Either middle physical touchpad buttons, or at least ensure the top and bottom sets can be mapped to 4 button codes, not two (i.e. the clitmouse and top buttons are their own mouse device) so we can map primary selection pastes to one of them.
Don't do anything that prevents the touchpad firmware's gesture junk from being turned off or ignored.
Bonus for an extra wide touchpad with a plastic guard that can be slid over the left hand side to get a smaller but more centered touchpad for those of us who would prefer to rest our left hand under the space bar without generating mouse events.
later model managed to camouflage better thanks to mimetic polyalloys and looked much more lamer.
FTFY.
I never understood why everyone liked T2's shiny blobs of cop-out CGI animation over the awesome gasket-blowing, spark throwing, gear grinding variety. T-600s FTW.
A moon mining colony would be in the routine business of getting material out of the moon's gravity well for use in spacecraft construction. If you can't, then you aren't a mining colony. You can mine for local use, but that just makes you a colony that has mines.
Point being, if we assume they are to exist, we must assume they will have non-military assets that could easily be repurposed to military use. Or in other words, spacenoids will have dangerous toys, so we'd better hope they have good, diplomatically sane, chains of command or there will be trouble.
In the US.edu sector we have to do this, due to federal CALEA regulations. We have to make some good faith attempt to verify the identity of people we provide Internet access to, or at least shovel that responsibility over to another IDP by using their accounts.
Yeah, you'll have to get someone else to download the app, transfer the.apk and side-load it. Assuming the app itself doesn't require a social login just to work.
Google search accounts are pretty good at keeping you logged out when you log out. I have one because it is the only way to file bug reports against google's codebase. I only log in for that, and have never found myself accidentally logged in... it's just a basic browser-based account.
I too ditched my youtube account shortly after it got tied to Google.
Changing the frequency of your thermal radiation a bit will not make a meaningful difference in cooling.
It is a bit backwards to phrase this as "beaming heat into cold space" rather than "reflecting most incoming ambiently-produced IR radiation while selectively emitting radiation in a same band we absorb" This doesn't seem to be the fault of journalists, it's phrased that way in the paper. This article avoids using that semantic.
Were they to allow the wavelengths re-emitted by the general environment outside, you'd get an offsetting absorptive heat gain. They could likely get the same effect at different wavelengths, but choosing this wavelength means basically no heat gain from atmospheric emission. There could even very well be a better choice of wavelength based on whatever materials the ground is made up of, but that could vary.
Yeah, winter homes will have to wait until they can make the film thermally sensitive so it only works in the summer. Or change windows seasonally. Maybe an installable storm window that reflects 10um back in. But really anything that is a chore is likely to not get done.
(Currently there are different energy efficient glasses for northern versus southern U.S. homes, but it is harder to get the high-solar-gain/low-e type for north-facing windows in prefab windows for us northerners)
in order to sink heat you must have something to heat, and vacuum just ain't that.
If you can get heat into radiative form (which this gadget can) and it doesn't get reflected back at you, effectively, it is sunk.
Second - I don't suppose there is some kind of magic involved in this discover, that magically allows IR radiation to bypass the several kilometers of atmosphere you have before outer space.
Thermal inertia and the transfer of heat by winds in the lower atmosphere mean that the temperature of Venus's surface does not vary significantly between the night and day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus#Atmosphere_and_climate)
That's for businesses to work out amongst themselves.
If the internet goes out to whoever pays the most baksheesh, and therefore gets the most bandwidth, what if the rest of us are left with precious little?
You set the X% I referred to high enough to provide adequate service to the lowest tier customers.
Frankly a lot of the attention focusing on ISPs is misplaced. The real monopolization happens at the CDN level. No amount of bandwidth is going to make your TCP sessions run fast nationwide if all your servers are in California, that's just a fundamental fact of physics (speed of light.) Extending net neutrality rules to require private server farms to offer of fund common carriage CDN capacity is probably not going to happen under this FCC.
As a liberal who knows a thing or two about the guts of ISPs I had many arguments about the wisdom of many "Net Neutrality" proposals with my friends. Some of the requirements people wanted amounted to being expected to fill out your tax forms while riding a unicycle along a tight rope.
Of course we don't want low-end users conned into using ISPs that dictate who gets to "be on the Internet." But we also want ISPs to be able to keep the Internet usable even if the latest P2P sharing fad software is written in a way that threatens to pretty much destroy it. Of course we want a "public Internet" but we also will raise holy hell if Company X gets to use the public facility for free and uses more than anyone else to the point where service degrades.
The rational solution to this mess is to require companies to provide X% of public service alongside their buildouts for private endeavors, thus creating a safe harbor which avoids an accounting nightmare, while allowing businesses to do business, and to have a publicly funded watchdog surveil that that bandwidth is publicly available from the outside.
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It's used in lots of different parts, but yeah, batteries over the last decade have become the primary industrial sink. See http://seekingalpha.com/articl...
It's not like there aren't other customers in the meantime. By having a certification program Apple is providing a path by which these operations can be rewarded for improving working conditions, accessing a wider customer base than competitors who don't. That's how things like this get done... with small carrots and small sticks to encourage incremental improvements without chaos. Not that Apple's a paragon of corporate responsibility, but it appears they are aware of the pros and cons in this situation and think this is the best move forward.
Friggin magnets. How do they work?
The desert cart at my work warns that items "may have come in contact with nuts."
I keep meaning to find a picture of Ron Jeremy in a Chef's outfit, photoshop in a quote bubble that says "My Bad!" and stick it on there.
Keys that work reliably even if you don't hit them square on.
Full size up and down cursor keys with the traditional inverted T layout so I don't get cramps in my right pinky.
Either middle physical touchpad buttons, or at least ensure the top and bottom sets can be mapped to 4 button codes, not two
(i.e. the clitmouse and top buttons are their own mouse device) so we can map primary selection pastes to one of them.
Don't do anything that prevents the touchpad firmware's gesture junk from being turned off or ignored.
Bonus for an extra wide touchpad with a plastic guard that can be slid over the left hand side to get a smaller but more centered
touchpad for those of us who would prefer to rest our left hand under the space bar without generating mouse events.
Lenovo thinkpad power connectors are very USBish.
Yes, they would be free to discover a service to our paradise that fullfills them most. And males would get to play outside.
I am here if you need to talk.
later model managed to camouflage better thanks to mimetic polyalloys and looked much more lamer.
FTFY.
I never understood why everyone liked T2's shiny blobs of cop-out CGI animation over the awesome gasket-blowing, spark throwing, gear grinding variety. T-600s FTW.
Belters are a giant problem, yes, I just don't see any way to keep the stealth spray-paint out of their hands.
A moon mining colony would be in the routine business of getting material out of the moon's gravity well for use in spacecraft construction. If you can't, then you aren't a mining colony. You can mine for local use, but that just makes you a colony that has mines.
Point being, if we assume they are to exist, we must assume they will have non-military assets that could easily be repurposed to military use. Or in other words, spacenoids will have dangerous toys, so we'd better hope they have good, diplomatically sane, chains of command or there will be trouble.
In the US .edu sector we have to do this, due to federal CALEA regulations. We have to make some good faith attempt to verify the identity of people we provide Internet access to, or at least shovel that responsibility over to another IDP by using their accounts.
Yeah, you'll have to get someone else to download the app, transfer the .apk and side-load it. Assuming the app itself doesn't require a social login just to work.
I'm surprised he got by the lzw filter after using "SJW" so much.
Google search accounts are pretty good at keeping you logged out when you log out. I have one because it is the only way to file bug reports against google's codebase. I only log in for that, and have never found myself accidentally logged in... it's just a basic browser-based account.
I too ditched my youtube account shortly after it got tied to Google.
Changing the frequency of your thermal radiation a bit will not make a meaningful difference in cooling.
It is a bit backwards to phrase this as "beaming heat into cold space" rather than "reflecting most incoming ambiently-produced IR radiation while selectively emitting radiation in a same band we absorb" This doesn't seem to be the fault of journalists, it's phrased that way in the paper. This article avoids using that semantic.
Were they to allow the wavelengths re-emitted by the general environment outside, you'd get an offsetting absorptive heat gain. They could likely get the same effect at different wavelengths, but choosing this wavelength means basically no heat gain from atmospheric emission. There could even very well be a better choice of wavelength based on whatever materials the ground is made up of, but that could vary.
Yeah, winter homes will have to wait until they can make the film thermally sensitive so it only works in the summer. Or change windows seasonally. Maybe an installable storm window that reflects 10um back in. But really anything that is a chore is likely to not get done.
(Currently there are different energy efficient glasses for northern versus southern U.S. homes, but it is harder to get the high-solar-gain/low-e type for north-facing windows in prefab windows for us northerners)
in order to sink heat you must have something to heat, and vacuum just ain't that.
If you can get heat into radiative form (which this gadget can) and it doesn't get reflected back at you, effectively, it is sunk.
Second - I don't suppose there is some kind of magic involved in this discover, that magically allows IR radiation to bypass the several kilometers of atmosphere you have before outer space.
It's called an absorption spectrum. In this case, specifically it's called the Infrared Atmospheric Window.
Thermal inertia and the transfer of heat by winds in the lower atmosphere mean that the temperature of Venus's surface does not vary significantly between the night and day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus#Atmosphere_and_climate)
So any material that is transparent in one wavelength and opaque in others is Maxwell's demon?
Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment on a closed system. This is not a closed system.
It would be different if the atmosphere reflected IR, but that's not the case.
Not in the sense of a mirror, but yes, it does, nondirectionally. More importanty, it tends to radiate at frequencies not absorbed by the material.
in no way shape or form do I "experience fear about losing their job to a robot once a week"
Yeah the survey should of included a response of "I hope my job gets taken over by robots, screw this job!"
Devs directly examining customer audio would be a bad idea -- lots of legal liabilities there. Beta tester data is another matter.
You should only need a small subset for training, preferably one made up partially of users who provide more feedback than a normal customer.
But who pays who what?
That's for businesses to work out amongst themselves.
If the internet goes out to whoever pays the most baksheesh, and therefore gets the most bandwidth, what if the rest of us are left with precious little?
You set the X% I referred to high enough to provide adequate service to the lowest tier customers.
Frankly a lot of the attention focusing on ISPs is misplaced. The real monopolization happens at the CDN level. No amount of bandwidth is going to make your TCP sessions run fast nationwide if all your servers are in California, that's just a fundamental fact of physics (speed of light.) Extending net neutrality rules to require private server farms to offer of fund common carriage CDN capacity is probably not going to happen under this FCC.
As a liberal who knows a thing or two about the guts of ISPs I had many arguments about the wisdom of many "Net Neutrality" proposals with my friends. Some of the requirements people wanted amounted to being expected to fill out your tax forms while riding a unicycle along a tight rope.
Of course we don't want low-end users conned into using ISPs that dictate who gets to "be on the Internet." But we also want ISPs to be able to keep the Internet usable even if the latest P2P sharing fad software is written in a way that threatens to pretty much destroy it. Of course we want a "public Internet" but we also will raise holy hell if Company X gets to use the public facility for free and uses more than anyone else to the point where service degrades.
The rational solution to this mess is to require companies to provide X% of public service alongside their buildouts for private endeavors, thus creating a safe harbor which avoids an accounting nightmare, while allowing businesses to do business, and to have a publicly funded watchdog surveil that that bandwidth is publicly available from the outside.