Then dont use touchscreens. BMW has it right with the big knob control at the center console. Rotate, push, up down left right. this can easily be added to the steering wheel.
Hell my Jeep I was able to use the 6 stereo buttons to navigate a DashPC decently safe. If the UI is not written by a moron, it can be done easily without a touchscreen or added driver distraction.
But only in predetermined locations by the manufacturer.
Call me when they can make that button travel across the screen with a moving icon.
Also I really wonder how much added distortion to the visual display this adds. Notice they did not have any shots that would show you that you are looking through and can see all the spots where the buttons are. designed to be.
Just stand up every 20 minutes, or take a short walk to get more Monster or RedBull every half hour and you eliminate 99.99876% of all the oogy boogies about how sitting will kill you instantly.
A small telescope and a piece of paper, put the paper a few inches away from the eyepiece, and aim the scope at the sun, view the reflection on the paper.
Cover the end of the scope with a "space blanket" first to reduce the intensity and to avoid melting the crap plastic lenses in the garbage telescope bought at a department store.
" perhaps this could be the first "tablet" capable of running fully Free Software?"
I have had Linux tablets for the past 10 years. Fujitsu tablets have been running "fully free software" for as long as linux guys have had out hands on them.
Why is it that everyone thinks that tablets are brand new? I have had a tablet for over 20 years, My first ran Windows for Workgroups 3.11, for Pen computing.
If you want a Ubuntu Tablet, go onto ebay and buy a used Fujitsu Stylistic and install Ubuntu. You have a choice from the $100.00 ST5011D to a $500.00 current model. So even the really poor people can have one.
Unfortunately M42 is not visible from around here, and most people cant spot it until it is pointed out, even in low light pollution areas. People in general dont notice. But the trained eye certainly can, like you point out.
But, IT would have to be brighter than -2.5 to be seen from Earth during full daylight. Anything near the sun within several sun widths would have to be ungodly bright to even be noticed. Even during a 2 month period a close supernovae would be unnoticed. The could would not stay at -2.5 for very long, so even if it was a super bright -1 it would be close to 6 months before it would swing around into twilight.
You could have a 4.5 month period of not being able to see it. Plenty of time for a distant one to dim considerably.
You cant see a Gamma Ray burst. Sorry the real world is not like SCI-Fi.
And no, they would not see it. Can you see ANY nebula in the night sky with your eyes? there are several that are LARGER than the moon up there if they were visible to the eye, but require a camera to show them, something that did not exist back then. Supernovae dont stay lit in the sky for a very long time they fade out to below human visibility within a short time and if it was close to the viewing line of the sun, Nobody would have ever seen it even if it was Lit up for a few weeks..
Use a Cisco Wireless solution. The whole setup using their Managed setup. Run Cat 6 everywhere, 2 runs to each location leave one in place for future. I would also run an extra cat6 to every unit and let them pay to have their builder add in runs to each room or the integrator to run to where the AV racks will be for each unit.
I would also add a good Cisco firewall and a transparent proxy cache server to reduce your POP load.
Call up any Cisco Certified dealers and they can give you a nice exact list of what you need and a price.
Dont even think of dinking around with consumer gear for this. And dont think you can get away without running wires.
If Michael White is that stupid then it explains a lot. The Direct TV UI is completely horrid in every way. The guide sucks the menus suck, the remote sucks. It's better than the garbage that Comcast has, but only marginally. All of the Cable or Satellite providers have the crappiest UI possible on their boxes. Because they refuse to spend any money on them so they have the box engineers simply slap one together for the least possible cost.
Apple is going to wipe the floor with them. If apple finds a way to have a $45.00 a month subscription to most of the desired channels out there but in a On demand form, They will utterly destroy Dish and the others.
A 10,000 Watt signal into a 70DBm antenna and assuming the receiving side has a sensitivity of -124Dbm Like that of the equipment at Arecebo, I'm not assuming super spaceman unobtanium.
The signal at arrival after only 1 light year will be -161Dbm -170 is considered the noise floor on a super clear frequency in the Ghz range.
This is Basic RF stuff here. Do you not know this?
It does not matter, even if they were 10 lightyears away they can not detect any of our radio signals...
The 50 Watts from a GPS Sattelite that is 20,000Km away will only have about 2.3e-16% of that signal arriving at the antenna. Radio signals don't go on forever at full power, they drop off really fast.
http://www.antenna-theory.com/basics/friis.php The Friis Equation is used to calculate this. and if you calculated out a 1Megawatt TV station transmit power to cover even a small 1 lightyear distance... Unless they are intently looking for the signal, and we transmitted at the quietest frequency in the galaxy (Low background noise) ther estill have a very good chance of never seeing our signal.
So at 20 Lightyears, all hope is lost trying to get any TV or FM radio... the only chance is a tightly beamed intentional ultra high power signal in hopes that the target will be listening in 20 years and they have the same technology and frequency range. You have a better chance of getting hit by lightning from a thunderstorm in china while you are in Iowa.
Even if we beamed our strongest transmitter at them and used the entire planets power to send a 200 giggawatt signal into a 56db gain dish array at them. The signal that would arrive at their location would be barely above the background noise. and that is using a incredibly tight directional antenna, Hope we get it right for the motion of their star in relation to ours.
" This result isn't surprising, as the likelihood of us stumbling across intelligent aliens living in the Gliese 581 system transmitting radio"
They mean Transmitting on frequencies that WE use. They could have had a different technology evolutionary path, One where they let their Nicola Tesla do a power distribution system like Ours wanted to do here. That kind of system would have made RF of limited use here. So they may have went to Masers or other technology. Maybe even higher frequencies that attenuate faster.
They also may have had a far higher IQ and never created the technology Plague like we have with the Creation of Television.
Just like how the Viking probe looked for life and only found sterile soil and we called Mars dead. When you look for evidence looking down a very narrow tube you will never see anything that is outside of that tube.
I have always though that Hollywood executives were completely Idiotic Morons with an IQ around 85.
And this guy has proven it without a shadow of a doubt.
Please hollywood, keep hiring and showcasing complete idiots like this guy. It means you will not see the end coming and will stand there off guard and blindsided when the bitter end whips and smacks them in the face.
That you Canadians are doing what the United States is telling you to do.
Good lap dog!
And yes, I am trying to enrage you, why are you people not fighting the corruption that is bleeding over the border from our country? The more you just let this stuff happen, the more they will try and roll over you.
Starting with a lot of Congress being tried for Treason against the People OF the United states, those found guilty need to face a firing squad and have it televised on C-SPAN.
Problem is the sheep in this country keep voting for these scumbags that want to hide everything so they can try and get away with more.
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Ask for payment up front. That is what I have resorted to as a photographer.
Honestly, if they balk at paying up front, even a 50% downpayment then the possibility of them screwing you went up 500%.
Then dont use touchscreens. BMW has it right with the big knob control at the center console. Rotate, push, up down left right. this can easily be added to the steering wheel.
Hell my Jeep I was able to use the 6 stereo buttons to navigate a DashPC decently safe. If the UI is not written by a moron, it can be done easily without a touchscreen or added driver distraction.
But only in predetermined locations by the manufacturer.
Call me when they can make that button travel across the screen with a moving icon.
Also I really wonder how much added distortion to the visual display this adds. Notice they did not have any shots that would show you that you are looking through and can see all the spots where the buttons are. designed to be.
Just stand up every 20 minutes, or take a short walk to get more Monster or RedBull every half hour and you eliminate 99.99876% of all the oogy boogies about how sitting will kill you instantly.
A small telescope and a piece of paper, put the paper a few inches away from the eyepiece, and aim the scope at the sun, view the reflection on the paper.
Cover the end of the scope with a "space blanket" first to reduce the intensity and to avoid melting the crap plastic lenses in the garbage telescope bought at a department store.
dont look in the eyepiece for any reason.
When All you have ever eaten is Cow dung, a new flavor of cow dung is incredibly tasty to you, but real food will taste foreign and scary to you.
You need to taste some real food and stop shoveling that Windows Cow Poop down your throat. Take small bites though, your stomach needs to acclimate.
" perhaps this could be the first "tablet" capable of running fully Free Software?"
I have had Linux tablets for the past 10 years. Fujitsu tablets have been running "fully free software" for as long as linux guys have had out hands on them.
Why is it that everyone thinks that tablets are brand new? I have had a tablet for over 20 years, My first ran Windows for Workgroups 3.11, for Pen computing.
If you want a Ubuntu Tablet, go onto ebay and buy a used Fujitsu Stylistic and install Ubuntu. You have a choice from the $100.00 ST5011D to a $500.00 current model. So even the really poor people can have one.
And if it was in line with the galactic disc it can easily be hidden from the dust and all the light pollution from our galaxy, Very good point.
Unfortunately M42 is not visible from around here, and most people cant spot it until it is pointed out, even in low light pollution areas. People in general dont notice. But the trained eye certainly can, like you point out.
But, IT would have to be brighter than -2.5 to be seen from Earth during full daylight. Anything near the sun within several sun widths would have to be ungodly bright to even be noticed. Even during a 2 month period a close supernovae would be unnoticed. The could would not stay at -2.5 for very long, so even if it was a super bright -1 it would be close to 6 months before it would swing around into twilight.
You could have a 4.5 month period of not being able to see it. Plenty of time for a distant one to dim considerably.
You cant see a Gamma Ray burst. Sorry the real world is not like SCI-Fi.
And no, they would not see it. Can you see ANY nebula in the night sky with your eyes? there are several that are LARGER than the moon up there if they were visible to the eye, but require a camera to show them, something that did not exist back then. Supernovae dont stay lit in the sky for a very long time they fade out to below human visibility within a short time and if it was close to the viewing line of the sun, Nobody would have ever seen it even if it was Lit up for a few weeks..
Use a Cisco Wireless solution. The whole setup using their Managed setup. Run Cat 6 everywhere, 2 runs to each location leave one in place for future. I would also run an extra cat6 to every unit and let them pay to have their builder add in runs to each room or the integrator to run to where the AV racks will be for each unit.
I would also add a good Cisco firewall and a transparent proxy cache server to reduce your POP load.
Call up any Cisco Certified dealers and they can give you a nice exact list of what you need and a price.
Dont even think of dinking around with consumer gear for this. And dont think you can get away without running wires.
If Michael White is that stupid then it explains a lot. The Direct TV UI is completely horrid in every way. The guide sucks the menus suck, the remote sucks. It's better than the garbage that Comcast has, but only marginally. All of the Cable or Satellite providers have the crappiest UI possible on their boxes. Because they refuse to spend any money on them so they have the box engineers simply slap one together for the least possible cost.
Apple is going to wipe the floor with them. If apple finds a way to have a $45.00 a month subscription to most of the desired channels out there but in a On demand form, They will utterly destroy Dish and the others.
The people that voted to pass it never even read it.
In Texts a Cactus can practice Law. That is the state where a lot of the really bad lawyers go as they are incredibly lax on their requirements.
If it does not load perfectly every time, you failed.
for example? Any of the Gawker Media websites, some times you have to reload t hem 3 times to get the fricking hyperlinks to work.
any usability bug is an epic fail.
dude, unless your tooth is 250meters in diameter, I'm already talking that.
And no they DONT get a signal well above the noise level, not at 20Ly out.
http://www.antenna-theory.com/basics/friis.php - start there to learn about path losses.
A 10,000 Watt signal into a 70DBm antenna and assuming the receiving side has a sensitivity of -124Dbm Like that of the equipment at Arecebo, I'm not assuming super spaceman unobtanium.
The signal at arrival after only 1 light year will be -161Dbm -170 is considered the noise floor on a super clear frequency in the Ghz range.
This is Basic RF stuff here. Do you not know this?
It does not matter, even if they were 10 lightyears away they can not detect any of our radio signals...
The 50 Watts from a GPS Sattelite that is 20,000Km away will only have about 2.3e-16% of that signal arriving at the antenna. Radio signals don't go on forever at full power, they drop off really fast.
http://www.antenna-theory.com/basics/friis.php The Friis Equation is used to calculate this. and if you calculated out a 1Megawatt TV station transmit power to cover even a small 1 lightyear distance... Unless they are intently looking for the signal, and we transmitted at the quietest frequency in the galaxy (Low background noise) ther estill have a very good chance of never seeing our signal.
So at 20 Lightyears, all hope is lost trying to get any TV or FM radio... the only chance is a tightly beamed intentional ultra high power signal in hopes that the target will be listening in 20 years and they have the same technology and frequency range. You have a better chance of getting hit by lightning from a thunderstorm in china while you are in Iowa.
Even if we beamed our strongest transmitter at them and used the entire planets power to send a 200 giggawatt signal into a 56db gain dish array at them. The signal that would arrive at their location would be barely above the background noise. and that is using a incredibly tight directional antenna, Hope we get it right for the motion of their star in relation to ours.
" This result isn't surprising, as the likelihood of us stumbling across intelligent aliens living in the Gliese 581 system transmitting radio"
They mean Transmitting on frequencies that WE use. They could have had a different technology evolutionary path, One where they let their Nicola Tesla do a power distribution system like Ours wanted to do here. That kind of system would have made RF of limited use here. So they may have went to Masers or other technology. Maybe even higher frequencies that attenuate faster.
They also may have had a far higher IQ and never created the technology Plague like we have with the Creation of Television.
Just like how the Viking probe looked for life and only found sterile soil and we called Mars dead. When you look for evidence looking down a very narrow tube you will never see anything that is outside of that tube.
The ipad data plan is data only. and you can take that sim and put it in a iPhone and use it data only.
Did the AT&T guy even know what his company offers?
I have always though that Hollywood executives were completely Idiotic Morons with an IQ around 85.
And this guy has proven it without a shadow of a doubt.
Please hollywood, keep hiring and showcasing complete idiots like this guy. It means you will not see the end coming and will stand there off guard and blindsided when the bitter end whips and smacks them in the face.
That you Canadians are doing what the United States is telling you to do.
Good lap dog!
And yes, I am trying to enrage you, why are you people not fighting the corruption that is bleeding over the border from our country? The more you just let this stuff happen, the more they will try and roll over you.
Starting with a lot of Congress being tried for Treason against the People OF the United states, those found guilty need to face a firing squad and have it televised on C-SPAN.
Problem is the sheep in this country keep voting for these scumbags that want to hide everything so they can try and get away with more.
Oh Yay, more bad Sci-Fi with Kevin Sorbo....
Why cant they let that whole show just die?
You seem to not be able to read or figure it out, so I'll explain it to you..
I by used and therefore I AM A DIRTY THIEF. I suggest you read again and brush up on your troll skills, you suck at it.