But the new cell towers seem to be bad a building fade. 100% signal in my yard from the cell tower 5 blocks away. 20% signal inside the house near a window.
Sorry but this has existed as a communications system in the middle east and india for well over a decade now. People over there have been doing this with laser pointers and LED's for a very long time.
Granted it was only 100bt as it used existing transciver chips, but the jump to 1Gps is not that hard.
and why red and green? The existing designs all use RED for alignment and then IR for data comms so that it's not visible from acute angles.
Ok, blowing all my moderation to correct some wild innacuracies here.
Hangar costs, Unless you are uber rich you dont have a hangar, but a parking spot / tie down either in the grass or if you are rich, on some tarmac. there are small fields all over the USA and Europe, in fact they outnumber airports 50 to 1 that will let you park your plane for around $50-$150 a month.
Annual inspections, $1500.00 Do you realize how much I pay for monthly inspections on my car? it comes out to far higher than $1500 a year.
I know people that make as little as I do that own and operate a 4 seater aircraft. Contrary to belief, private aircraft can be affordable and safe. In fact most private aircraft are left outside their entire lifetime and only see a hangar when they are in for service like engine overhaul, wing replacement, etc... And those are the high costs you did not mention. You cant ignore a plane like 99% of all car owners do to their cars. The wings have to be replaced after XXXX hours, engine needs to be completely overhauled every XXXX hours... and those numbers are small, most around the 2500 hour mark.
Yes, AVGAS is the cheapest part of owning a plane. You can buy a Piper Warrior II that is in like new condition, pay for all maintaince, parking, service, upgrades, and AVGAS for 10 years for the price difference to this electric plane.
It's the same as comparing a honda civic to a Chevy volt. Identical cars, but you save nothing as the extra cost is more than the gas you would buy over a 10 year period. (and yes they ARE identical. I have parked them side by side and sat in both looking things over. the Volt is a honda Civic with fancy electric drive.)
Most businesses I deal with have flocked away from BlackBerry. and yes this is Fortune 500 companies as well as mom and pop places with less than 50 employees.
Rim dropped the ball, kicked it off the field and is trying to fake they still have it. Everyone knows they are dead.
the ONLY chance they have is to stop the RIM email fees, give away the enterprise server software for free and make it less of a ugly evil turd as well. And finally, tell all governments to stuff it in their ass and revoke all email+messaging interception to regain the trust of the corporate world. yes that means telling the UAE to stuff it in their Bursa.
they have one chance this year to become relevant once again, and this device is not it.
Many are returning to that after the past few years of ASCAP/BMI sending out goons to fine bars and restaurants for daring to play the radio in their establishment. There are two bars I frequent that have evicted any jukebox or DJ and have live entertainment most of the time. It's a single guy with a guitar most of the time or a duo, but that is far better than recorded music.
1 linux box with 8 sound cards = 8 separate mp3 playback systems. a bit of PHP to make a web page to control it all and you are done. In fact there are tons of command line or service based mp3 player apps out there for linux that can run multiple instances.
Because you are not going to find anything that is cheap and ready to go. You have to either spend the money, and yes the amusement park has the money to spend on it, contrary to what the managers tell you. Or you spend a couple months rolling it yourself.
Skype DOES use relay servers when there is no ports open on the firewall that a user is behind. It's why skype works all the time and raw VoIP can not without opening ports.
Really, smuggling it physically that way. This is pretty much proof the Taliban is nothing but bumbling morons.
Real secret ops people who had any clue at all, would have done it differently. OTS Consumer tech has the ability to sneak a LOT past security checkpoints.
As someone that has worked in this field for over 6 years. Both home automation and Smart Buildings, Microsoft has a very VERY long way to go. AMX,Vantage, and Crestron all own that market.. And no they dont run a Microsoft OS. In fact it would be utterly retarded to run a full fledged OS for this.
Each device is interconnected on it's own network, most of the time RS485. Redundant controllers on the system ensure high reliability and by only running the code for the systems task, I.E. lighting it further increases reliability. So a typical fully automated home will have about 6-8 controllers. I put in 2 for lighting, 1 for redundant hot backup, because lighting is considered critical. 1 dedicated for security, 1 for hvac, and one in each major media section. Theater get's it's own and one or two is used for the other 6 rooms in the house with tiny 55" Tv's and shared video distribution. I have one dedicated for Whole house audio, and a final one that does side jobs like sprinklers, gathering the weather info, maybe parsing RSS feeds for stocks, news, etc... to be fed to the other systems that all interconnect and can be controlled by the single 6" and 8" touchscreens through the house, or by the ipads and iphones.
NONE of this runs a Microsoft OS. and none of it is designed in any way like their demo homes. Segregated but communicating systems means that if a system goes down you retain a bulk of the operation and only lose the subsystems on that failed branch. Microsoft design will crash to the floor taking it all with it.
Yes, you can design a Crestron or AMX system to crash to the floor, Badly designed systems like that exist out there, typically in homes where they cant afford to do it right so the integrator half asses it. Those systems typically never work smoothly as they overload a controller with too much.
Microsoft has a very long way to go or they need to partner with Crestron and AMX in hopes they adopt this system and throw away 20+ years of reliable consistent operation and switch to a unknown.
Ladies and gentlemen... The above is the typical thought pattern of the Tea Party and the Republicans currently trying like hell to steal the party from the rest of us that have been standing here going , "What the hell happened?"
Next up from roman_mir, how allowing women to vote has caused them harm.
And this same exact effect is also observed in a forest. And those areas where the wind farms are (except for off shore ones) used to have Huge old growth forests only a few hundred years ago if you are talking about the USA, 6000 years ago if you are talking europe, asia, middle-east, etc..
So what about the effect on climate from all those damned trees?
I already have that in my car. anyone that has bought an aftermarket stereo that has a high level of iphone integration already has these features.
Hell Kenwood has one that now mirrors the iphone screen on the dash display, it's been out for a year now... Did the article author even look to se what was already on the market?
What I want is a genuine Android based car stereo. Unfortunately anything out there is all locked down wierd like the Parrot Android car stereo or a complete steaming turd from china running a 500mhz processor and runs WinCE for the nav section.
I though the hard part of making a space plane was that reentry is still a burn in problem. There is no way to slowly glide into the atmosphere without having to be fire and melt proof. and those requirements make it hard to build a plane that can take off enter space, re-enter and land.
I'm betting we can make one now that can take off and make it to orbit, it's the coming home part that is the problem.
windows did all of that in WFW3.11 for pen computing.
": is there video or discussion of someone using a touchscreen for manipulating objects on a screen prior to 1997? It seems the answer must be yes, but I can't find a smoking gun"
Look up any of the early tablets. There are several that pre date 1997.
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But the new cell towers seem to be bad a building fade. 100% signal in my yard from the cell tower 5 blocks away. 20% signal inside the house near a window.
Sorry but this has existed as a communications system in the middle east and india for well over a decade now. People over there have been doing this with laser pointers and LED's for a very long time.
Granted it was only 100bt as it used existing transciver chips, but the jump to 1Gps is not that hard.
and why red and green? The existing designs all use RED for alignment and then IR for data comms so that it's not visible from acute angles.
Ok, blowing all my moderation to correct some wild innacuracies here.
Hangar costs, Unless you are uber rich you dont have a hangar, but a parking spot / tie down either in the grass or if you are rich, on some tarmac. there are small fields all over the USA and Europe, in fact they outnumber airports 50 to 1 that will let you park your plane for around $50-$150 a month.
Annual inspections, $1500.00 Do you realize how much I pay for monthly inspections on my car? it comes out to far higher than $1500 a year.
I know people that make as little as I do that own and operate a 4 seater aircraft. Contrary to belief, private aircraft can be affordable and safe. In fact most private aircraft are left outside their entire lifetime and only see a hangar when they are in for service like engine overhaul, wing replacement, etc... And those are the high costs you did not mention. You cant ignore a plane like 99% of all car owners do to their cars. The wings have to be replaced after XXXX hours, engine needs to be completely overhauled every XXXX hours... and those numbers are small, most around the 2500 hour mark.
Yes, AVGAS is the cheapest part of owning a plane. You can buy a Piper Warrior II that is in like new condition, pay for all maintaince, parking, service, upgrades, and AVGAS for 10 years for the price difference to this electric plane.
It's the same as comparing a honda civic to a Chevy volt. Identical cars, but you save nothing as the extra cost is more than the gas you would buy over a 10 year period. (and yes they ARE identical. I have parked them side by side and sat in both looking things over. the Volt is a honda Civic with fancy electric drive.)
I guess you missed all the stories over the past few years about RIM handing all BES traffic to the whiny governments that demanded it.
Most businesses I deal with have flocked away from BlackBerry. and yes this is Fortune 500 companies as well as mom and pop places with less than 50 employees.
Rim dropped the ball, kicked it off the field and is trying to fake they still have it. Everyone knows they are dead.
the ONLY chance they have is to stop the RIM email fees, give away the enterprise server software for free and make it less of a ugly evil turd as well. And finally, tell all governments to stuff it in their ass and revoke all email+messaging interception to regain the trust of the corporate world. yes that means telling the UAE to stuff it in their Bursa.
they have one chance this year to become relevant once again, and this device is not it.
" If you burned down Parliament with everyone inside, you'd get out on parole sooner than that."
Sounds like you canadians have a plan in place then to fix the problems?
Remember, burning down the White house here in the USA did not fix us, Look at the scumbags we have in ours.
Many are returning to that after the past few years of ASCAP/BMI sending out goons to fine bars and restaurants for daring to play the radio in their establishment. There are two bars I frequent that have evicted any jukebox or DJ and have live entertainment most of the time. It's a single guy with a guitar most of the time or a duo, but that is far better than recorded music.
and no Paging override, like he mentioned was needed.
1 linux box with 8 sound cards = 8 separate mp3 playback systems. a bit of PHP to make a web page to control it all and you are done. In fact there are tons of command line or service based mp3 player apps out there for linux that can run multiple instances.
Because you are not going to find anything that is cheap and ready to go. You have to either spend the money, and yes the amusement park has the money to spend on it, contrary to what the managers tell you. Or you spend a couple months rolling it yourself.
Um. no.
Skype DOES use relay servers when there is no ports open on the firewall that a user is behind. It's why skype works all the time and raw VoIP can not without opening ports.
It's just proof of how stupid they are.
Really, smuggling it physically that way. This is pretty much proof the Taliban is nothing but bumbling morons.
Real secret ops people who had any clue at all, would have done it differently. OTS Consumer tech has the ability to sneak a LOT past security checkpoints.
As someone that has worked in this field for over 6 years. Both home automation and Smart Buildings, Microsoft has a very VERY long way to go. AMX,Vantage, and Crestron all own that market.. And no they dont run a Microsoft OS. In fact it would be utterly retarded to run a full fledged OS for this.
Each device is interconnected on it's own network, most of the time RS485. Redundant controllers on the system ensure high reliability and by only running the code for the systems task, I.E. lighting it further increases reliability. So a typical fully automated home will have about 6-8 controllers. I put in 2 for lighting, 1 for redundant hot backup, because lighting is considered critical. 1 dedicated for security, 1 for hvac, and one in each major media section. Theater get's it's own and one or two is used for the other 6 rooms in the house with tiny 55" Tv's and shared video distribution. I have one dedicated for Whole house audio, and a final one that does side jobs like sprinklers, gathering the weather info, maybe parsing RSS feeds for stocks, news, etc... to be fed to the other systems that all interconnect and can be controlled by the single 6" and 8" touchscreens through the house, or by the ipads and iphones.
NONE of this runs a Microsoft OS. and none of it is designed in any way like their demo homes. Segregated but communicating systems means that if a system goes down you retain a bulk of the operation and only lose the subsystems on that failed branch. Microsoft design will crash to the floor taking it all with it.
Yes, you can design a Crestron or AMX system to crash to the floor, Badly designed systems like that exist out there, typically in homes where they cant afford to do it right so the integrator half asses it. Those systems typically never work smoothly as they overload a controller with too much.
Microsoft has a very long way to go or they need to partner with Crestron and AMX in hopes they adopt this system and throw away 20+ years of reliable consistent operation and switch to a unknown.
Ladies and gentlemen... The above is the typical thought pattern of the Tea Party and the Republicans currently trying like hell to steal the party from the rest of us that have been standing here going , "What the hell happened?"
Next up from roman_mir, how allowing women to vote has caused them harm.
"Survival of the most-connected" is a valid theory, though I personally don't think it's best for most people.
it's the one we are currently running on, contrary to the fairy tales told to you in school.
I have had some rabid grenies claim to me that the windmills were slowing the earths rotation.
And this same exact effect is also observed in a forest. And those areas where the wind farms are (except for off shore ones) used to have Huge old growth forests only a few hundred years ago if you are talking about the USA, 6000 years ago if you are talking europe, asia, middle-east, etc..
So what about the effect on climate from all those damned trees?
There you go again, bringing fact and sanity into the conversation.
Stop that, it's an election year, and foaming at the mouth counter-rationalism statements are what is required.
I'm mostly concerned that the blades will cut the puppies and kittens in half when it rains cats and dogs.
Trees also slow the wind causing a LOCAL change. So should we also ban trees?
I already have that in my car. anyone that has bought an aftermarket stereo that has a high level of iphone integration already has these features.
Hell Kenwood has one that now mirrors the iphone screen on the dash display, it's been out for a year now... Did the article author even look to se what was already on the market?
What I want is a genuine Android based car stereo. Unfortunately anything out there is all locked down wierd like the Parrot Android car stereo or a complete steaming turd from china running a 500mhz processor and runs WinCE for the nav section.
Why? It is time to turn the flag waving nationalism in this country against the corporations. Call the MPAA a terrorist organization and have at them.
"f you need a high level of shared editing and some programability, and are online with broadband, Google Docs is it. "
Fixed that for you. Google docs has a tiny flaw in that it don't work when you are not online.
Anyone that is against what that man did is a terrorist and should be labelled as an enemy of the US troops.
I though the hard part of making a space plane was that reentry is still a burn in problem. There is no way to slowly glide into the atmosphere without having to be fire and melt proof. and those requirements make it hard to build a plane that can take off enter space, re-enter and land.
I'm betting we can make one now that can take off and make it to orbit, it's the coming home part that is the problem.
windows did all of that in WFW3.11 for pen computing.
": is there video or discussion of someone using a touchscreen for manipulating objects on a screen prior to 1997? It seems the answer must be yes, but I can't find a smoking gun"
Look up any of the early tablets. There are several that pre date 1997.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_for_Pen_Computing
1991-1995 That pretty much is a giant smoking gun of "prior art"
Yup. Every single Tablet made cince 1992 Starting with the Dauphin DTR-1 and all products made by Fujitsu in their stylistic line.
There is more prior art on this than anything else. This guy is about to get pounded hard in the taint by Apple and the Courts.