Best purchase I've made in a long time is a Brother MFC-9340CDW. Duplex full-colour printing when I need it, with the bonus of double-sided scanning and copying. I've used the sheet feeder on the scanner more times than I can count, and I never pause to think whether to print in black and white or draft mode... I just print. Two years in on the original toner cartridges and haven't got a low toner message yet.
Inkjets are for people who want to line Epson or HP's pockets with money to pay for dried out ink cartridges.
As someone using an HP Spectre X360 13" laptop (1920x1080 screen) with a 27" Samsung 4K monitor, I can happily say that desktop scaling sucked *ss on Unity and has merely switched to sucking the dog's bollocks under Gnome. Either way, you'll be left with a bad taste in your mouth.
Windows 10 can somehow figure out if i'm using my laptop with a 4k 27" screen, or with a 1600x1200 21" screen (I have the 21" at work). Once logged in, the scaling matches between both screens. It "just works". Ubuntu has *never* done this, on any screen setup i've had.
25 years with Linux, however, and i'm not giving up now...
So, really no different than in many other fields.
Cycling - doping scandals that run one step ahead of the ability to test for the latest performance enhancements Battery Life in laptops/tablets - 12 hours battery life!* (* unless you turn it on) etc. etc.
Regulatory testing has always been a game of showing the regulators the least offensive mode of your product, and once certified claiming it's valid for all modes. Some days, all Engineering can do is make sure their objections are noted in writing. Yes, I speak from personal experience.
Link to the Timex watch has already been modded up (or posted first, I don't know which), but the YesSolstice watch is the coolest one i've seen in a while.
Not really. I use my GPS inside an aluminum can all the time (an airplane). It works great as long as the antenna can see a window. Presumably the antenna in the coke can would be close to the spot you rip open to drink from, or the antenna pops out when you open it, one or the other.
What I want to know is, if I open my can inside a faraday cage, can I disable the transmitter/tracking agent quickly enough that I could disassemble the can before the Coke(tm) police found me. In other words, if I win, do I get to keep the can? Or do I have to relenquish it? It can't be that cheap a piece of electronics...
Come on, really... Commercial airliners aren't Starships off in the Delta Quadrant. A hole in the airframe the size of a bullet would be met with nothing more than decompression, oxygen masks dropping from the ceiling, and the pilot flying down to a lower altitude. Decompression may be a little uncomfortable for some passengers, but that's about the most extreme part.
There would be no continuous rush of air through the cabin, like you see in the movies, with passengers being sucked out from one end of the plane to the other. The pressure would equalize, and then there would just be a hole in the cabin, much like having a car window open while driving (albeit at 400mph, so there would be a bit of a vaccuum there).
"My policy is quite clearly to never trust a human with a gun..."
I would add to that "unless he/she has a badge," but in general I would agree.
What a bunch of useless answers. What the person obviously wanted to know is, what point on the earth was facing the asteroid when it passed a point where it could have hit us?
Based on this article, i'd make a rough estimate that it would have crossed earth's orbit path at about 0200h GMT on June 14th. So, all we need to know is what local time zone was at 1200h (sun at highest point, approximately) when it was 0200h GMT.
1200h would be 10 hours east of GMT. My handy-dandy clock tells me that GMT+10h is Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, etc. So it sounds like Australia was facing the asteroid at the time it passed...
Hope this answers the original poster's question...
That could be part of it, but another major part of it is how an ICBM would affect a hardened missle silo. One programmed to hit a silo dead on and carrying a civilian GPS might hit 100m off-center... This may cause some local devestation, but it wouldn't destroy the ICBM contained within. The US, with the ability to 'see through' the SA, would be able to target *your* silos perfectly. So they could safely withstand your pre-emptive strike, and effectively retaliate with their own. At least, that's what I hear... 8-P
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Best purchase I've made in a long time is a Brother MFC-9340CDW. Duplex full-colour printing when I need it, with the bonus of double-sided scanning and copying. I've used the sheet feeder on the scanner more times than I can count, and I never pause to think whether to print in black and white or draft mode... I just print. Two years in on the original toner cartridges and haven't got a low toner message yet.
Inkjets are for people who want to line Epson or HP's pockets with money to pay for dried out ink cartridges.
As someone using an HP Spectre X360 13" laptop (1920x1080 screen) with a 27" Samsung 4K monitor, I can happily say that desktop scaling sucked *ss on Unity and has merely switched to sucking the dog's bollocks under Gnome. Either way, you'll be left with a bad taste in your mouth.
Windows 10 can somehow figure out if i'm using my laptop with a 4k 27" screen, or with a 1600x1200 21" screen (I have the 21" at work). Once logged in, the scaling matches between both screens. It "just works". Ubuntu has *never* done this, on any screen setup i've had.
25 years with Linux, however, and i'm not giving up now...
I think it would be a lot easier to keep a list of companies *not* doing this. It'll be a very short list.
So, really no different than in many other fields.
Cycling - doping scandals that run one step ahead of the ability to test for the latest performance enhancements
Battery Life in laptops/tablets - 12 hours battery life!* (* unless you turn it on)
etc.
etc.
Regulatory testing has always been a game of showing the regulators the least offensive mode of your product, and once certified claiming it's valid for all modes. Some days, all Engineering can do is make sure their objections are noted in writing. Yes, I speak from personal experience.
I can just see Spidey calling him "dumbass" somewhere during the movie...
Not the solution, unfortunately... He did specify he wanted 802.11g.
Link to the Timex watch has already been modded up (or posted first, I don't know which), but the Yes Solstice watch is the coolest one i've seen in a while.
Not really. I use my GPS inside an aluminum can all the time (an airplane). It works great as long as the antenna can see a window. Presumably the antenna in the coke can would be close to the spot you rip open to drink from, or the antenna pops out when you open it, one or the other.
What I want to know is, if I open my can inside a faraday cage, can I disable the transmitter/tracking agent quickly enough that I could disassemble the can before the Coke(tm) police found me. In other words, if I win, do I get to keep the can? Or do I have to relenquish it? It can't be that cheap a piece of electronics...
"rupturing the hull..."
Come on, really... Commercial airliners aren't Starships off in the Delta Quadrant. A hole in the airframe the size of a bullet would be met with nothing more than decompression, oxygen masks dropping from the ceiling, and the pilot flying down to a lower altitude. Decompression may be a little uncomfortable for some passengers, but that's about the most extreme part.
There would be no continuous rush of air through the cabin, like you see in the movies, with passengers being sucked out from one end of the plane to the other. The pressure would equalize, and then there would just be a hole in the cabin, much like having a car window open while driving (albeit at 400mph, so there would be a bit of a vaccuum there).
"My policy is quite clearly to never trust a human with a gun..."
I would add to that "unless he/she has a badge," but in general I would agree.
Yeah, I was going to ask if the replacement case came with free clothing, toiletries, etc...
It *is* kinda hard to use with Linux. That is, if you think plugging in a USB cable is hard.
Plug in... Mount... Copy files. Pretty simple.
What a bunch of useless answers. What the person obviously wanted to know is, what point on the earth was facing the asteroid when it passed a point where it could have hit us?
Based on this article, i'd make a rough estimate that it would have crossed earth's orbit path at about 0200h GMT on June 14th. So, all we need to know is what local time zone was at 1200h (sun at highest point, approximately) when it was 0200h GMT.
1200h would be 10 hours east of GMT. My handy-dandy clock tells me that GMT+10h is Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, etc. So it sounds like Australia was facing the asteroid at the time it passed...
Hope this answers the original poster's question...
I wonder if a physical location has ever been Slashdotted by people showing up in person?
That could be part of it, but another major part of it is how an ICBM would affect a hardened missle silo. One programmed to hit a silo dead on and carrying a civilian GPS might hit 100m off-center... This may cause some local devestation, but it wouldn't destroy the ICBM contained within. The US, with the ability to 'see through' the SA, would be able to target *your* silos perfectly. So they could safely withstand your pre-emptive strike, and effectively retaliate with their own. At least, that's what I hear... 8-P