It does appear it can be done in Germany. Skyhook's coverage map shows plenty of of access points in Germany for their service. I would expect that they aren't all user submitted and more a result of the wardriving efforts to map certain areas. I don't know if they needed to do something special like registering with the government to allow this.
Just because you understand a subject does not necessarily make you qualified to teach. There are some University professors that are horrible teachers but understand their subject backwards and forwards.
Usually teachers (depends on the state) have to take education courses to understand the methods of teaching. My wife is a teacher and we have had converstaions about home schooling.
The issue is that depending on the child, they may learn differently and presenting the material in a certain way make confuse the child. Using only book learning might not help a child who doesn't learn that way.
There also has be some knowledge on recognizing learning difficulties and how to deal with them in teaching that child.
The thing is, that those $2,000 used cars were once the $20,000 car at some point. If people go out and buy a lot more of those new hybrid cars now, in 5-10 years a lot of those $2,000 cars will be hybrids and more fuel efficient cars.
It's not an immediate process but if those people that buy new cars now go for more fuel efficient then it will go down the chain of used cars.
The bigger problem as I see it is not the chance of hitting the board, but all the metal bits that are not floating around the case and possibly getting on the board causing shorts and what not. That's why usually if you mod a case, you should not have any of the boards inside and clean the case thoroughly before installing components.
I find it disturbing that #5 was the GTA: San Andreas strategy guide. Is the selection of computer and internet books so meager, that a strategy guide makes the top ten. I think that choice really shows the lack of serious consideration on this list.
I can understand that Amazon is trying to appeal to a large audience and not the computer power user, but there are better choices even for the casual user other game strategy guides.
When I read the article, there was a special coating to resist the effect of marking by ink. The hardness coating could be applied and the other part of the coating that resists inking could be left on the top part of the CD so that you can write on it and still resist scratching.
I think it's a step in preventing mixups at the hospital and allowing easy access of patient information at the hospital during their stay.
Think of it this way. A PDA with access to the patient database files. Instead of paper charts, the Doctor scans the RFID in the patient and the medical charts appear on the PDA device. No mixup of charts between patients. The RFID could also prevent that bracelet from getting lost, etc. as well. There could be scan points in OR's etc that could "reject" a patient that was not set up for the procedure, instantly warning hospital staff there was a mixup of patient.
This is really a piece of system that could improve reliability and identity problems in the hospital. It is not necessarily a solution in and of itself, but rather a piece of a total system to improve the medical system.
That might be so, then how does the model for magazines work then? In those cases, paying for a subscription gets a discount per issue rather than a markup. In this case, the "guaranteed" income from the subscription is the companies incentive for the discount rather than the volatile income from rack sales. Also with subscriptions you can claim a readership of so much with numbers to back that up.
I'm more curious about the fact that in very cold cilmates, batteries tend to not have as good of performance. And in some areas the main battery of cars needs warmers to make sure they perform well enough to start the car. The hybrids may not have problems starting, but would the reduced performance of the battery cause problems in mileage efficiency since the gasoline motor would have to run more often to pick up the slack of the lower performing battery?
From reading the articles on this. The protection is something that is handled through the TV tuner. So yes if you feed the signal to a VHS it will work, but if you try to record something from the higher quality outputs from a TV, such as S-Video, etc. Those outputs will be disabled when the Broadcast flag is set. So even you have a device that could record, they will not be able to get a signal to record from or get a lower quality signal than the port is capable of providing.
I think whether this idea is a good one or not depends on what the program considers a Computer Science Degree. Where I have taken classes, the philosophy of Computer Science is more the science of algorithms and mathematics rather than practical programming experience. The idea being the research of new and more efficient algorithms or data structures not tied to a specific language . This is more suited towards graduate work in the field of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Some other programs may approach the degree as a professional/vocational type of program preparing the student for eventual work in the field of programming.
Learning assembly may be more beneficial to the student learning as an eventual programmer in that understanding some of the low level work that the computer is doing could be important in programming.
I'm not sure that the mathematics and concept work would help as much considering a lot of the ideas in this is more general and not tied to any specific architecture, so learning the low level process may not help as much.
I don't think that the analog phone system will go away anytime soon since there really needs to be an economic reason for the system to go away. Once the system no longer is profitable for the phone companies (since maintenance and upgrades are expensive) they will stop supporting it, unless the government steps in and subsidizes it enough for them to keep providing the service.
If another technology comes about that supplants the analog phone base then the utility companies will probably switch to that technology. The POTS is still compelling because you can pretty much attach a cheap ($5 dollar phone) to a land line and pay for a cheap service. There are other advantages as others have pointed out that the other technologies have not overcome such as availability during a power outage, emergency services, and almost instant availability.
Until the level of service can match most POTS at this point and be profitable at about the same level, no other technology will probably supplant it.
While this is true right now, in the future where Robots are more commonplace and lower maintenance I can see being no longer true.
A robot who can do most of the jobs of workers and work all day and night without any breaks, no benefits, no retraining for new employees, etc. will be better. I see robots being more cost effective as technology advances.
I don't think paypal should really be used for the micropayment side. I am skeptical of using paypal for anything anymore considering their policies. They are not considered a bank and can get away with things that a bank is required by law to prevent. There are cases of fraud with paypal that caused problems since there are no rules of what paypal should be responsible for. Until there are more protections in place, I think another method would work for micropayments.
I think there's a distinction of comsumption versus being able to be sold. I think with pornographic magazines and I guess soon, violent video games, children cannot have access to buy them or look at them with permission. So if the parent buys it they are allowed to look at them legally, but it requires an adult to supervise the sale. As opposed to alcohol where consumption of alcohol by those under 21 is illegal.
You might be thinking of the ATI AIW 128 possibly. The ATI AIW Radeon will let you record in other formats including MPEG2 for movies. I used to use it all the time. The only I didn't like was the fact was that I had both 3d and tv-tuner features on one card. So I had to upgrade this to another AIW (or buy 2 separate cards) if I wanted to get better of only one of the features.
The only thing is there already is a movie called Millennium. I wonder if there would be issues trying to make a movie with close to the same name. I figured they'll put something on the end of it to keep the trademark people at bay.
Just thinking about how the software piracy battle has raged for years and years. I'm sure that those clueless people will be unable to get their MP3's. Just like software piracy really isn't in the open now, it will go underground and it will require some ammount of computer knowledge to get. Unfortunately, it will be a little tougher than software piracy since I think the RIAA is a little more committed to sticking it to everyone they can. Eventually there will be a backlash on them as they piss off everyone with lawsuits and close minded-ness. I don't think that will have everyone condoning MP3 use, but might make things such as the user choice radio station a reality.
As far as I see it, this was just a way for Nintendo to get some attention to the Game Cube. Now people will want to see this at E3 just see what the fuss is about and whether it will happen. They aren't serious about dropping this. This is business and most business won't just drop the money spent on R&D just because some people didn't quite like it. Nintendo will drum up some conversation to keep it on people's minds and hopefully their wallets will follow.
The problem with rental of videos is that you have to pay per use for them. The other issue is that the videos are paid special at a higher price because they have a license that allows them to be rented. If you have ever lost a video from Blockbuster and saw how much the videos have costed, then you would see the prices the stores pay on each video.
Although I think lately, since they are selling used copies of videos, they now pay for a license to rent videos out to the public and pay regular price for the actual tapes.
Essentially this has already happened with videos. It also reminds me of some of the emerging technologies of dvd recordables. Some of the media is keyed for data backup and some for video media. The video media is much more expensive to pay for licensing fees.
My problem with all of this is that doing all this stuff to the return envelopes does nothing but make the sender of it feel better. I used to work for a bank in Application processing. We used to open envelopes on machine AND by hand. Which mean we would get the nasty stuff people would send. We saw large numbers of different things, people would send cigarette butts, religious literature, dirty trash, random other junk mail, sharp pieces of metal. Of course the people in charge of the mail really didn't care what we received, it just went into the trash. And the people that were opening the mail where I worked were temporary workers anyway. So we really didn't have a problem with losing people to opening the mail. You can't imagine how many people send back the envelopes with the phrase "remove me from your list" without any information of their name, address, etc.
The whole reason I remember them doing this was when they had some PIII chips that were failing the L2 cache test, but only by less than half the ammount of memory in the cache. So they disabled this memory and called it a celeron. As technology progressed and yields became very high and the demand for the celeron chips grew, they needed to produce chips outside of those that had bad memory. So, intel decided to disable half the L2 cache on entirely good PIII units to meet demand. I'm not sure if they are still continuing this practice or have redesigned to no longer have to waste items.
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It does appear it can be done in Germany. Skyhook's coverage map shows plenty of of access points in Germany for their service. I would expect that they aren't all user submitted and more a result of the wardriving efforts to map certain areas. I don't know if they needed to do something special like registering with the government to allow this.
Cooks Illustrated as well..
Just because you understand a subject does not necessarily make you qualified to teach. There are some University professors that are horrible teachers but understand their subject backwards and forwards.
Usually teachers (depends on the state) have to take education courses to understand the methods of teaching. My wife is a teacher and we have had converstaions about home schooling.
The issue is that depending on the child, they may learn differently and presenting the material in a certain way make confuse the child. Using only book learning might not help a child who doesn't learn that way.
There also has be some knowledge on recognizing learning difficulties and how to deal with them in teaching that child.
The thing is, that those $2,000 used cars were once the $20,000 car at some point. If people go out and buy a lot more of those new hybrid cars now, in 5-10 years a lot of those $2,000 cars will be hybrids and more fuel efficient cars.
It's not an immediate process but if those people that buy new cars now go for more fuel efficient then it will go down the chain of used cars.
The bigger problem as I see it is not the chance of hitting the board, but all the metal bits that are not floating around the case and possibly getting on the board causing shorts and what not. That's why usually if you mod a case, you should not have any of the boards inside and clean the case thoroughly before installing components.
I find it disturbing that #5 was the GTA: San Andreas strategy guide. Is the selection of computer and internet books so meager, that a strategy guide makes the top ten. I think that choice really shows the lack of serious consideration on this list. I can understand that Amazon is trying to appeal to a large audience and not the computer power user, but there are better choices even for the casual user other game strategy guides.
When I read the article, there was a special coating to resist the effect of marking by ink. The hardness coating could be applied and the other part of the coating that resists inking could be left on the top part of the CD so that you can write on it and still resist scratching.
I think it's a step in preventing mixups at the hospital and allowing easy access of patient information at the hospital during their stay.
Think of it this way. A PDA with access to the patient database files. Instead of paper charts, the Doctor scans the RFID in the patient and the medical charts appear on the PDA device. No mixup of charts between patients. The RFID could also prevent that bracelet from getting lost, etc. as well. There could be scan points in OR's etc that could "reject" a patient that was not set up for the procedure, instantly warning hospital staff there was a mixup of patient.
This is really a piece of system that could improve reliability and identity problems in the hospital. It is not necessarily a solution in and of itself, but rather a piece of a total system to improve the medical system.
That might be so, then how does the model for magazines work then? In those cases, paying for a subscription gets a discount per issue rather than a markup. In this case, the "guaranteed" income from the subscription is the companies incentive for the discount rather than the volatile income from rack sales. Also with subscriptions you can claim a readership of so much with numbers to back that up.
Make that a 2002 or newer BMW without a six-disc changer or GPS system. :) Since that seems to be restrictions on the iPod hookup.
I don't think security by obscurity is the best way to go about that.
I'm more curious about the fact that in very cold cilmates, batteries tend to not have as good of performance. And in some areas the main battery of cars needs warmers to make sure they perform well enough to start the car. The hybrids may not have problems starting, but would the reduced performance of the battery cause problems in mileage efficiency since the gasoline motor would have to run more often to pick up the slack of the lower performing battery?
From reading the articles on this. The protection is something that is handled through the TV tuner. So yes if you feed the signal to a VHS it will work, but if you try to record something from the higher quality outputs from a TV, such as S-Video, etc. Those outputs will be disabled when the Broadcast flag is set. So even you have a device that could record, they will not be able to get a signal to record from or get a lower quality signal than the port is capable of providing.
I think whether this idea is a good one or not depends on what the program considers a Computer Science Degree. Where I have taken classes, the philosophy of Computer Science is more the science of algorithms and mathematics rather than practical programming experience. The idea being the research of new and more efficient algorithms or data structures not tied to a specific language . This is more suited towards graduate work in the field of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Some other programs may approach the degree as a professional/vocational type of program preparing the student for eventual work in the field of programming.
Learning assembly may be more beneficial to the student learning as an eventual programmer in that understanding some of the low level work that the computer is doing could be important in programming.
I'm not sure that the mathematics and concept work would help as much considering a lot of the ideas in this is more general and not tied to any specific architecture, so learning the low level process may not help as much.
I don't think that the analog phone system will go away anytime soon since there really needs to be an economic reason for the system to go away. Once the system no longer is profitable for the phone companies (since maintenance and upgrades are expensive) they will stop supporting it, unless the government steps in and subsidizes it enough for them to keep providing the service.
If another technology comes about that supplants the analog phone base then the utility companies will probably switch to that technology. The POTS is still compelling because you can pretty much attach a cheap ($5 dollar phone) to a land line and pay for a cheap service. There are other advantages as others have pointed out that the other technologies have not overcome such as availability during a power outage, emergency services, and almost instant availability.
Until the level of service can match most POTS at this point and be profitable at about the same level, no other technology will probably supplant it.
While this is true right now, in the future where Robots are more commonplace and lower maintenance I can see being no longer true.
A robot who can do most of the jobs of workers and work all day and night without any breaks, no benefits, no retraining for new employees, etc. will be better. I see robots being more cost effective as technology advances.
I don't think paypal should really be used for the micropayment side. I am skeptical of using paypal for anything anymore considering their policies. They are not considered a bank and can get away with things that a bank is required by law to prevent. There are cases of fraud with paypal that caused problems since there are no rules of what paypal should be responsible for. Until there are more protections in place, I think another method would work for micropayments.
I think there's a distinction of comsumption versus being able to be sold. I think with pornographic magazines and I guess soon, violent video games, children cannot have access to buy them or look at them with permission. So if the parent buys it they are allowed to look at them legally, but it requires an adult to supervise the sale. As opposed to alcohol where consumption of alcohol by those under 21 is illegal.
You might be thinking of the ATI AIW 128 possibly. The ATI AIW Radeon will let you record in other formats including MPEG2 for movies. I used to use it all the time. The only I didn't like was the fact was that I had both 3d and tv-tuner features on one card. So I had to upgrade this to another AIW (or buy 2 separate cards) if I wanted to get better of only one of the features.
The only thing is there already is a movie called Millennium. I wonder if there would be issues trying to make a movie with close to the same name. I figured they'll put something on the end of it to keep the trademark people at bay.
Just thinking about how the software piracy battle has raged for years and years. I'm sure that those clueless people will be unable to get their MP3's. Just like software piracy really isn't in the open now, it will go underground and it will require some ammount of computer knowledge to get. Unfortunately, it will be a little tougher than software piracy since I think the RIAA is a little more committed to sticking it to everyone they can. Eventually there will be a backlash on them as they piss off everyone with lawsuits and close minded-ness. I don't think that will have everyone condoning MP3 use, but might make things such as the user choice radio station a reality.
As far as I see it, this was just a way for Nintendo to get some attention to the Game Cube. Now people will want to see this at E3 just see what the fuss is about and whether it will happen. They aren't serious about dropping this. This is business and most business won't just drop the money spent on R&D just because some people didn't quite like it. Nintendo will drum up some conversation to keep it on people's minds and hopefully their wallets will follow.
The problem with rental of videos is that you have to pay per use for them. The other issue is that the videos are paid special at a higher price because they have a license that allows them to be rented. If you have ever lost a video from Blockbuster and saw how much the videos have costed, then you would see the prices the stores pay on each video.
Although I think lately, since they are selling used copies of videos, they now pay for a license to rent videos out to the public and pay regular price for the actual tapes. Essentially this has already happened with videos. It also reminds me of some of the emerging technologies of dvd recordables. Some of the media is keyed for data backup and some for video media. The video media is much more expensive to pay for licensing fees.
My problem with all of this is that doing all this stuff to the return envelopes does nothing but make the sender of it feel better. I used to work for a bank in Application processing. We used to open envelopes on machine AND by hand. Which mean we would get the nasty stuff people would send. We saw large numbers of different things, people would send cigarette butts, religious literature, dirty trash, random other junk mail, sharp pieces of metal. Of course the people in charge of the mail really didn't care what we received, it just went into the trash. And the people that were opening the mail where I worked were temporary workers anyway. So we really didn't have a problem with losing people to opening the mail. You can't imagine how many people send back the envelopes with the phrase "remove me from your list" without any information of their name, address, etc.
The whole reason I remember them doing this was when they had some PIII chips that were failing the L2 cache test, but only by less than half the ammount of memory in the cache. So they disabled this memory and called it a celeron. As technology progressed and yields became very high and the demand for the celeron chips grew, they needed to produce chips outside of those that had bad memory. So, intel decided to disable half the L2 cache on entirely good PIII units to meet demand. I'm not sure if they are still continuing this practice or have redesigned to no longer have to waste items.