After our disappointment with an ASUS Win 8 tab, I wouldn't waste my time looking into Office 365.
(I also dislike the annual license fee deal attached to Office 365... Imagine folks who are about to re- tire, trying to fit an extra $100 -rent- per computer for a -software- product!)
Any country that can make a solid-fuel nuclear [CanDo] reactor work -without- needing costly -reprocessed- fuel-rods (and, who's already got some of its nuclear experts focussing on Energy from Thorium, as I write)...
should -surely- be capable of producing folks who can 1-up the competition in making a 3D-printed rifle fire.
PS As we watched the post-firing shell-removal step, we couldn't help thinking of the pre-firing step required to make a "flint-lock" rifle fire.:-)
Elderly folks & maybe younger singles who want to live -safely- in their own homes longer, even after a spouse passes on, need protection from scammers who visit & try to defraud them out of money, etc.
If they record people who telemarket, show-up on their door steps to sell and/or just won't take no for an answer, in such a way that they recording are uploaded to Virtual Witness or (today) Virtual Notary for a time-stamp, etc., ie, whatever might be needed to make it usable in court, could have it easier to win their law suits, damage claims, or just convince judges (in criminal matters), that what they say happened is what actually happened.
A family of Virtual Witness devices (like black boxes for the home) would monitor / records & securely upload any recordings of concerning incidents (eg, on touch of a button -or- if owner did not press an "All OK" button after answering door, phone, etc.)
Disabled folks (recently, intellectually disabled) may have issues being heard... slow delivery of words or questions of abilities to recall accurately what happened to them.
Virtual Witness may be the way to let many of these people enjoy increased security in their homes, knowing that - if needed - a verified recording would be available to police, courts, their lawyer, etc. when verification is needed of a claim or complaint.
Invest in any additional research that may be needed to [further] prove the safety & efficacy of Thorium-based reactors (a.k.a. "Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors" or LFTRs), per Kirk Sorensen's 10-min TED-talk.
They seem to be safer than the high-pressure reactors we use today... and they don't need or produce Plutonium.
We'll also need changes to nuclear reactor regulations, to make it easier to build lots of small ones, closer to where the energy (heat &/or electricity) is needed.
Get huge See-Me-in-Life-Size screens at the office you'd otherwise need to suffer freeway delays driving to... connect them to your home[-office]... & never suffer again.
Hold BBQ's at your home for any contract- signings that may require more than a digital signature.
I'm surprised that you're not already doing this now.
I begin to think that the "Past-is-Future" thought- lessness that -surrounds- you there has seeped into your psyche, making it hard to see obvious technical solutions.. that others take for granted (except, perhaps Yahoo's CEO.. who's recently -forbade- her staff from enjoying the -privilege- of telecommuting some days each week).
By all means enjoy the extra time you'll save, ie, by telecommuting whenever you can.
Maybe even set some "new" examples:
1. telecommuting (for those who can) 2. staggered start-times (for the rest) 3. Thorium powered plant (a big job) 4. flat organisational chart 5. zero-emission company etc.
What can you gain by -using- & -supporting- ancient, mostly fossil-fueled, mostly self-drive personal-transport via -clogged- freeways?!?
Swedes enjoyed train-commutes (through forested areas) from Stockholm to ASEA, sitting at desks, each with a phone, FAX & laptop... as early as the mid-1980's.
To get-a-Life, you may need to re-think your present designs... & add some telecommuting, etc. to the mix.
No solar panels => Satellites get short lives (a week or two?)
So, use 'em while their batteries last... as soon as they begin to work. AMSAT site should have the uplink & downlink freq's (& you should have an Amateur Radio license to transmit...)
Heavens-Above.com can tell you when to listen for the little, battery-powered Ham satellites. (Cf Amsat.org for names.)
Let us know what you hear... & let AMSAT know, too, if you're heard (& repeated) by one of the satellites.
So, these (& similar) Android app give audio on the event:
1. "Scanner Radio" app offers a list - sorted by number of listeners - of available online scanners, ie, around USA & the world.
When I chose Boston police, fire, etc. from that list (of course, it held top-place), there were over 50,000 others listening-in. Normally, numbers of listeners - across the list - are under 500.
(If your area lacks an online-connected scanning receiver & your have such a receiver & some bandwidth to share, why not consider adding your area's emergency services audio to the list?)
2a. "TuneIn [Pro]" app is (yet another) Internet Radio app; [Boston Univ Radio's] WBUR stayed on the story -continuously- from shortly after the event became known.
2b. Using the same app, one can get cur- rent weather and detailed forecasts, also on a continuous basis, from USA Weather broadcasters (commercial-free, these are available 24x7 - to those near the area of the event - on 10 VHF channels near 162 MHz); Boston's gov't weather station was available via TuneIn (Search "By location" for Boston for a list of all broadcasters - AM / FM / Wx, including some located in nearby states).
3. "EchoLink" app - for Radio Amateurs - let licensed Hams listen to & (in normal times) even transmit on repeaters - most on 2m VHF (around 146 MHz) & 70cm UHF (near 440 MHz) - that would become active, especially when an event (flood, earthquake, etc.) takes out normal POTS or cellular phone & 2-way radio comms.
(If you're a Radio Ham, you can add your own station (eg, home, office or vehicle radio) or your club's repeater to the list. Whenever you sign-in, you're on one of the lists, so friends can contact you, on the fly. Also, EchoLink is like an old-time phone-echange switchboard, ie, able to connect repeaters, etc. together, eg, to support relief operations after a larger dis- aster or - during peaceful times - just a yacht- or bike-race, etc.)
These apps work on Android phones & tab's 2.2 thru 4.1.2, in my experience. Of course, YMMV.
I don't know what app's may be available for iPhone, etc.
To be useful in commerce, a currency must be stable, so that the value of one's [company's] work, products, or services aren't unduly lost, at the whim of investors.
Whenever I see a new article on the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, I am reminded of the ADVANTAGES (better cost, safety, waste, political implications, etc.) of Liquid Fluoride THORIUM Reactors (a.k.a. LFTR's, already being developed around the world (in various phases of R&D, eg, in China, India, Taiwan, & [privately] USA).
More people need to know about the opportunities of this -safer- green- energy source, so they can decide for themselves whether it's time to -push- for regulatory changes, that will -ease- the transition to Thorium, in our time.
Introduction: Kirk Sorensen's recent TED-talk
More details: (search YouTube.com for
"Thorium remix"
and take your pick)
1. fill box with a newspaper, wrapped in security tape or whatever. 2. inure to max. value offered. 3. send (with "Atheist" label) ======================= 4. PROFIT for each one that gets "lost"
Open Source "RockBox" ought to give folks a clue on how to access the capabilities of a wide range of MP3- players - from Apple iPod's to Sandisk Sansa Clip Zip's, & lots more.
(Some have video functions, too, but I don't know how much of these would be accessed / used by RockBox.)
Numerous model-specific user manuals & a 1st-class web site make this Open Source project worthy of emulation, as well as useful to -both- end-users and experimenter / developers of innovative replacement firmware for many models & various applications.
Although it was good to see at least mild-mention of the Poor, it'd be better to have service cost expressed -equitable- units, that recognized the vast differences in amount of human-time it takes - across the world - to earn $20.
Well, if the Kenwood TM-D700A is back on the air (ie, after -its- recent glitch), Ham Radio could save the day, albeit only when there's another Ham operator on the ground, in the coverage footprint to talk to & (hopefully) reliably relay messages to / from NASA.
Ideally, the very-speed (9.6 Kb/Sec, AX.25 data mode) packet radio link would let ISS forward its messages into the world-wide store-and-forward network, as well as fetch any incoming messages.
(Of course, the same radio provides an unencrypted voice mode channel, concurrently, with data mode traffic.)
PS If they do this, & find it works for them, it just might justify an upgrade to Kenwood's current model - the TM-D710A - instead of completing the repair of the older TM-D700A.
The newer radio can help put the ISS on the EchoLink voice network - for which there's an Android app - as well as APRS for position reporting.
One of Australias' "Big 2" SuperMarket chains (ie, Coles) places Chinese-sourced "Honey & Syrup" in the middle of the rectangle of shelf-space otherwise occupied by honeys.
As "Honey" is listed first, in the product's name, I - for one - was once fooled into thinking that the product would -surely- have at least 50% honey in each plastic bottle of "Honey & Syrup," so I tracked down the Australian distributor & asked for details about the product.
(I should have generalised from what we - long ago - discovered about so-called 95 gram cans of "designer tunas"...which turned out to contain from about 40% tuna up to slightly over 70%, depending on each can's "designer flavor.")
(The Australian importer's phone number was answered by an auto-parts company(!). Checking the phone number, it was then listed, in the phone catalog, as a car parts company.)
Assuming that the company was perhaps a rural-based operation, happy to convert some extra storage space into profits, I focused on the product's make-up, since the label did not specify the prevalence of either of the two named ingredients.
Verbally, the person at the cart parts company, who answered as importer & distributor of this product, told me that the product was 60% -syrup- & only 40% honey. As the label did not show these percentages, I couldn't help replying: "Today, maybe, but I'd almost expect the Chinese supplier to further reduce the percentage of honey it may mix in, in future, ie, to cut its cost.
Someday, some new evidence will arise... of Aaron's murder - committed by someone or several, who share the "fire-in-the-eyes" of the senator, who Aaron met at a party (per his last video talk).
He said (in the same video), that he'd never -give- his Life for (any such issue), so I don't believe he would -take- his Life for this or any other issue.
Slashdot Mirror
Same day as when we heard of Subj site...
Why does everybody & his/her dog want
big profits for little exercise of Intelligence?
After our disappointment with an ASUS Win 8 tab,
I wouldn't waste my time looking into Office 365.
(I also dislike the annual license fee deal attached
to Office 365... Imagine folks who are about to re-
tire, trying to fit an extra $100 -rent- per computer
for a -software- product!)
I'm not surprised...
Any country that can make a solid-fuel nuclear [CanDo] reactor work -without- needing costly -reprocessed- fuel-rods (and, who's already got some of its nuclear experts focussing on Energy from Thorium, as I write)...
should -surely- be capable of producing folks who can 1-up the competition in making a 3D-printed rifle fire.
PS As we watched the post-firing shell-removal step, :-)
we couldn't help thinking of the pre-firing step required
to make a "flint-lock" rifle fire.
Elderly folks & maybe younger singles who want to live -safely- in their own homes longer, even after a spouse passes on, need protection from scammers who visit & try to defraud them out of money, etc.
If they record people who telemarket, show-up on their door steps to sell and/or just won't take no for an answer, in such a way that they recording are uploaded to Virtual Witness or (today) Virtual Notary for a time-stamp, etc., ie, whatever might be needed to make it usable in court, could have it easier to win their law suits, damage claims, or just convince judges (in criminal matters), that what they say happened is what actually happened.
A family of Virtual Witness devices (like black boxes for the home) would monitor / records & securely upload any recordings of concerning incidents (eg, on touch of a button -or- if owner did not press an "All OK" button after answering door, phone, etc.)
Disabled folks (recently, intellectually disabled) may have issues being heard... slow delivery of words or questions of abilities to recall accurately what happened to them.
Virtual Witness may be the way to let many of these people enjoy increased security in their homes, knowing that - if needed - a verified recording would be available to police, courts, their lawyer, etc. when verification is needed of a claim or complaint.
Mine is purely for target practice...
Targets -look- like animals, :-)
but not one of them has to die.
KhanAcademy.org has a pair of courses that may be useful here
[to be found under Science / Technology]:
1. Reverse Engineering (showing where some parts come from)
2. Bit-Zee Bot (uses those parts & others, incl an Arduino board)
(A Win 8 app can download these & the other courses cost-free.)
Invest in any additional research that may be needed
to [further] prove the safety & efficacy of Thorium-based
reactors (a.k.a. "Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors"
or LFTRs), per Kirk Sorensen's 10-min TED-talk.
They seem to be safer than the high-pressure reactors
we use today... and they don't need or produce Plutonium.
We'll also need changes to nuclear reactor regulations,
to make it easier to build lots of small ones, closer to
where the energy (heat &/or electricity) is needed.
Get huge See-Me-in-Life-Size screens
at the office you'd otherwise need to suffer
freeway delays driving to... connect them
to your home[-office]... & never suffer again.
Hold BBQ's at your home for any contract-
signings that may require more than a digital
signature.
I'm surprised that you're not already doing this
now.
I begin to think that the "Past-is-Future" thought-
lessness that -surrounds- you there has seeped
into your psyche, making it hard to see obvious
technical solutions.. that others take for granted
(except, perhaps Yahoo's CEO.. who's recently
-forbade- her staff from enjoying the -privilege-
of telecommuting some days each week).
By all means enjoy the extra time you'll save, ie,
by telecommuting whenever you can.
Maybe even set some "new" examples:
1. telecommuting (for those who can)
2. staggered start-times (for the rest)
3. Thorium powered plant (a big job)
4. flat organisational chart
5. zero-emission company
etc.
What can you gain by -using- & -supporting-
ancient, mostly fossil-fueled, mostly self-drive
personal-transport via -clogged- freeways?!?
Swedes enjoyed train-commutes (through
forested areas) from Stockholm to ASEA,
sitting at desks, each with a phone, FAX &
laptop... as early as the mid-1980's.
To get-a-Life, you may need to re-think your
present designs... & add some telecommuting,
etc. to the mix.
Start Today! :-)
"Antares PhoneSat Cubesat Launch Now Planned for April 21"
can be selected from the list on Right side column of this page:
+ http://ww2.amsat.org/
No solar panels => Satellites get short lives (a week or two?)
So, use 'em while their batteries last... as soon as they begin
to work. AMSAT site should have the uplink & downlink freq's
(& you should have an Amateur Radio license to transmit...)
Heavens-Above.com can tell you when to listen for the little,
battery-powered Ham satellites. (Cf Amsat.org for names.)
Let us know what you hear... & let AMSAT know, too, if you're
heard (& repeated) by one of the satellites.
Enjoy!!
So, these (& similar) Android app give audio on the event:
1. "Scanner Radio" app offers a list
- sorted by number of listeners -
of available online scanners, ie,
around USA & the world.
When I chose Boston police, fire, etc.
from that list (of course, it held top-place),
there were over 50,000 others listening-in.
Normally, numbers of listeners - across
the list - are under 500.
(If your area lacks an online-connected
scanning receiver & your have such a
receiver & some bandwidth to share,
why not consider adding your area's
emergency services audio to the list?)
2a. "TuneIn [Pro]" app is (yet another)
Internet Radio app; [Boston Univ Radio's]
WBUR stayed on the story -continuously-
from shortly after the event became known.
2b. Using the same app, one can get cur-
rent weather and detailed forecasts, also
on a continuous basis, from USA Weather
broadcasters (commercial-free, these are
available 24x7 - to those near the area of the
event - on 10 VHF channels near 162 MHz);
Boston's gov't weather station was available
via TuneIn (Search "By location" for Boston
for a list of all broadcasters - AM / FM / Wx,
including some located in nearby states).
3. "EchoLink" app - for Radio Amateurs -
let licensed Hams listen to & (in normal times)
even transmit on repeaters - most on 2m VHF
(around 146 MHz) & 70cm UHF (near 440 MHz)
- that would become active, especially when an
event (flood, earthquake, etc.) takes out normal
POTS or cellular phone & 2-way radio comms.
(If you're a Radio Ham, you can add your own
station (eg, home, office or vehicle radio) or
your club's repeater to the list. Whenever you
sign-in, you're on one of the lists, so friends
can contact you, on the fly. Also, EchoLink is
like an old-time phone-echange switchboard,
ie, able to connect repeaters, etc. together, eg,
to support relief operations after a larger dis-
aster or - during peaceful times - just a yacht-
or bike-race, etc.)
These apps work on Android phones & tab's
2.2 thru 4.1.2, in my experience. Of course,
YMMV.
I don't know what app's may be available for
iPhone, etc.
To be useful in commerce, a currency must be stable,
so that the value of one's [company's] work, products,
or services aren't unduly lost, at the whim of investors.
Only a few minutes after visiting Shodan, via its Anniversary promo link (from a Google search),
Firefox 20.0 cashed
Coincidence or cause & effect...? You decide?
'looking like a "Lawnmower for Sale" but with message
encrypted into tel.# & eMail address
Better, encrypted into photos for an apartment / house
ad (on a free-ad web site)
Dump your eDevice(s)
QED
Whenever I see a new article on the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster,
I am reminded of the ADVANTAGES (better cost, safety, waste, political
implications, etc.) of Liquid Fluoride THORIUM Reactors (a.k.a. LFTR's,
already being developed around the world (in various phases of R&D, eg,
in China, India, Taiwan, & [privately] USA).
More people need to know about the opportunities of this -safer- green-
energy source, so they can decide for themselves whether it's time to
-push- for regulatory changes, that will -ease- the transition to Thorium,
in our time.
Introduction: Kirk Sorensen's recent TED-talk
More details: (search YouTube.com for
"Thorium remix"
and take your pick)
1. fill box with a newspaper, wrapped in security tape or whatever.
2. inure to max. value offered.
3. send (with "Atheist" label)
=======================
4. PROFIT for each one that gets "lost"
Of course, you'll likely need to do a few more courses & complete a student-teaching (practicum).
With increased safety levels, Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (a.k.a. LFTRs) would have even better results.
Then, take another step: Consider the Cost-Effectiveness of LFTRs, from construction to safe storage of waste, per Mega-KWH of electricity produced.
Now, what's the best choice, out of these 3 alternatives...?
Open Source "RockBox" ought to give folks a clue on
how to access the capabilities of a wide range of MP3-
players - from Apple iPod's to Sandisk Sansa Clip Zip's,
& lots more.
(Some have video functions, too, but I don't know how
much of these would be accessed / used by RockBox.)
Numerous model-specific user manuals & a 1st-class
web site make this Open Source project worthy of
emulation, as well as useful to -both- end-users and
experimenter / developers of innovative replacement
firmware for many models & various applications.
Have a look: http://www.rockbox.org/
ibid.
Although it was good to see at least mild-mention of the Poor,
it'd be better to have service cost expressed -equitable- units,
that recognized the vast differences in amount of human-time
it takes - across the world - to earn $20.
Is Google Earth crippled, while your "mapping" or displaying China?
OK, so you'd have to use GE -outside- China...
Well, if the Kenwood TM-D700A is back on the air (ie, after -its- recent glitch),
Ham Radio could save the day, albeit only when there's another Ham operator
on the ground, in the coverage footprint to talk to & (hopefully) reliably relay
messages to / from NASA.
Ideally, the very-speed (9.6 Kb/Sec, AX.25 data mode) packet radio link
would let ISS forward its messages into the world-wide store-and-forward
network, as well as fetch any incoming messages.
(Of course, the same radio provides an unencrypted voice mode channel,
concurrently, with data mode traffic.)
PS If they do this, & find it works for them, it just might justify an upgrade
to Kenwood's current model - the TM-D710A - instead of completing the
repair of the older TM-D700A.
The newer radio can help put the ISS on the EchoLink voice network -
for which there's an Android app - as well as APRS for position reporting.
One of Australias' "Big 2" SuperMarket chains (ie, Coles) places Chinese-sourced "Honey & Syrup" in the middle of the rectangle of shelf-space otherwise occupied by honeys.
As "Honey" is listed first, in the product's name, I - for one - was once fooled into thinking that the product would -surely- have at least 50% honey in each plastic bottle of "Honey & Syrup," so I tracked down the Australian distributor & asked for details about the product.
(I should have generalised from what we - long ago - discovered about so-called 95 gram cans of "designer tunas" ...which turned out to contain from about 40% tuna up to slightly over 70%, depending on each can's "designer flavor.")
(The Australian importer's phone number was answered by an auto-parts company(!). Checking the phone number, it was then listed, in the phone catalog, as a car parts company.)
Assuming that the company was perhaps a rural-based operation, happy to convert some extra storage space into profits, I focused on the product's make-up, since the label did not specify the prevalence of either of the two named ingredients.
Verbally, the person at the cart parts company, who answered as importer & distributor of this product, told me that the product was 60% -syrup- & only 40% honey. As the label did not show these percentages, I couldn't help replying: "Today, maybe, but I'd almost expect the Chinese supplier to further reduce the percentage of honey it may mix in, in future, ie, to cut its cost.
each walking from pasture to their own little barn.
I'm sure it's just a matter of time before these cows master pottying (as cats can use toilets).
Shocking them, however, isn't the way... Maybe import some good Swiss cow trainers...?
Someday, some new evidence will arise... of Aaron's murder - committed by someone or several, who share the "fire-in-the-eyes" of the senator, who Aaron met at a party (per his last video talk).
He said (in the same video), that he'd never -give- his Life for (any such issue), so I don't believe he would -take- his Life for this or any other issue.