Wyse-60 Amber. I wrote a really detailed and complete termcap entry for that terminal. that and the IBM 3151 are my favorite terminals, the IBM mostly because of the Model-M like keyboard.
The real problem is controlling for the detuning issue. Assuming that the iPhone did't have the detuning issue you would still lose 10dB to 15dB or a little more due to the bag of water issue, so it's hard to test in the real world. Regardless. I'm waiting a few months to see what happens. There are rumors swirling that replacement iPhones don't exhibit the issue, but I suspect that is due to iOS 4.01 reporting less bars overall and not a hardware fix...
No, but there are 2 issues at play here. One is the signal strength due to forcing the signal through a bunch of meat and the other is the "shorting" of the antenna. There is no fix the for first issue, and that is the one responsible for most of the loss. For the second issue, I've not tested it but I've read in numerous places that electrical tape does in fact fix the problem, and electrical tape is typically 2 to 3 mils thick. Consumer reports pointed out that duct tape also fixed the problem and common commercial duct tape is about 8 mils...
True, to a point. It's also true that the FCC has a lot of rules about antenna placement in regards to peoples heads, and power issues. I've used the iPhone 4, and when not detuning the antenna due to a bad grip I found the signal strength and call quality to be excellent. Having said that I'll be waiting until Apple silently slipstreams a new version of the iPhone 4 into production before I buy one. All they need to do is put a 2 to 3 mil clear coat on the stainless antenna to solve the bridging issue.
All RF devices with antennas can be adversely affected by environment and one of the worst things for reception is a big bag of contaminated water. Having said that, the iPhone 4 is the only cell phone that I am aware of with an external antenna that can be detuned by bridging the antennas. THe Nexus one can, for example, be made to lose up to 17 dB of signal with the "death grip". The iPhone 4 can lose up to 24 dB with the same grip. This is due to the added degradation by detuning the antenna...
The reality is that a good signal is anything between about -107 and -51 dB, and most phones (iPhone 4 included) work fine down to about -113 dB, below which the call is dropped. Generally speaking, if you are anywhere over -89 dB you won't drop a call with the death grip all other things being equal. If you are less than -89 then you can grip your way to a dropped call.
I didn't think this was required, but/sarcasm. Starbucks sucks. I'm actually sitting here in sweats, drinking crappy chock full o' nuts coffee, currently listening to 2112, writing code. BTW hipness (lame term, BTW) has nothing to do with age - you either have it or not, and if you have to tell people that you have it - you don't.
Now, I'm not an engineer, but could their desire for continued extraction of oil have delayed their plans, made the stack more complex?
Not based on my understanding since they are continuing with the relief well, the purpose of which is to plug the well with cement.
Now that they have the cap in place, if it works I don't see why they don't just turn the well into a producing well. Might as well get something out of the disaster...
From where I sit, Motorola / Verizon are more evil than Apple / AT&T. Well, OK, AT&T is pretty fucking evil, but the reality is that Apple has never been about open devices and so has never violated any trust with any communities, because iPhone has always been a walled garden. On the other hand Android is wide open, yet they are coupled with Verizon, notorious for locking down phones and removing features, and Motorola who knows fuck all about good software. Android + (Verizon and Motorola) seems like oil and water to me. Plus the Droid-X software seems to not be getting good reviews today: http://gizmodo.com/5587225/motorola-droid-x-review meaning that hacking it is even more desirable.
We do, but keep in mind that an ICE is only about 18%to 19% efficient (the engine itself is about 20% http://courses.washington.edu/me341/oct22v2.htm, but not all of that gets to the pavement - 80%+ of the energy from burning gasoline ends up as heat or sound. Electric cars on the other hand are much more efficient - about 70% of what ends up in the battery goes to turning the wheels. http://ec.europa.eu/transport/urban/vehicles/road/electric_en.htm.
Then you have delivery and fuel management. With gasoline, you used a lot of energy in the refining process, and then you have to put it in trucks and deliver it. Of course, transmitting electricity has it's problems as well - the average line loss is somewhere around 6.5%, and the uranium for nuclear plants, and the coal, natural gas and fuel oil needs to be obtained and refined, so I would call this one a wash, with perhaps an edge to electric since sending electricity down the wire is more efficient than delivering the fuel by truck
On average electricity generating stations (hydro excepted) are about 35% to 40% efficient. of that about 93.5% gets to your outlet. Of that 99.8% gets to the battery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_polymer_battery from the charger, and 99.8% gets from the battery to the motor (there are some minimal losses in the battery cables)
Bottom line is that (not counting transmission and production expenditures) assuming a quantity of energy: Joules x.998 x.998 x.70 =.697Joules for electric car, and.20 Joules for an ICE. An electric car is more than 3 times as efficient as an ICE powered car.
Also , as electricity is cheaper at night than in the day , most people would prefer charging there cars at night.
It won't be when we're all driving electric cars. but then again, even if it cost the same at night it will still be cheaper than gasoline in the long run...
Is tweak Windows 7 a little bit and replace the mouse with a stylus or the user's finger, this will fail. A tablet needs a UI and OS designed specifically for touch, and applications need to be designed for that OS. I have yet to see anything from Microsoft that indicates to me that they really understand that. No amount of corporate IT agreements will get companies to purchase devices they don't really need.
The real answer is to track down the trolls, and permanently ban them from the game as well as the forum, block their IP and and their e-mail address. Well, only a 10 or 35 day ban in the IP since it's probable assigned via DHCP and will get re-assigned to someone else.
They need to (if they don't already) specify that if people get banned for this reason they don't get a refund on their subscription.
People will still troll, and and trolls will find a way back in, but if you make it difficult and expensive enough most trolls will just go troll/. for free.
Of course there are a lot of basement dwellers with a lot of time on their hands and their mom's Visa card...
This might piss a number of people off, but I know that if Xbox Live had this policy a few years ago I'd still be a member. Instead I purchased my xbox 360 and only play standalone games on it - I'm not paying to listen to the blathering rantings of 30 year old basement dwellers that behave like 12 year olds...
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what can Chrome do that Firefox can't?
Not crash.
Phil Laak may take a lot of people's money, but I 'd hardly call him a terrorist.
Sean Connery and Andy Garcia were great in that movie. Kevin Costner, meh.
Costner peaked with "Silverado"
Wyse-60 Amber. I wrote a really detailed and complete termcap entry for that terminal. that and the IBM 3151 are my favorite terminals, the IBM mostly because of the Model-M like keyboard.
Those are called potato chips, generally served with Mountain Dew, and molest from the GI tract outward...
I have a thermos. Sometimes it keeps hot stuff hot, sometimes it keeps cold stuff cold. How do it know?
mils = 1/1000 of an inch, not a millimeter...
I don't remember being able to use my Apple formatted floppy disks with my IBM PC, or run my TRS 80 code on my Apple II...
The real problem is controlling for the detuning issue. Assuming that the iPhone did't have the detuning issue you would still lose 10dB to 15dB or a little more due to the bag of water issue, so it's hard to test in the real world. Regardless. I'm waiting a few months to see what happens. There are rumors swirling that replacement iPhones don't exhibit the issue, but I suspect that is due to iOS 4.01 reporting less bars overall and not a hardware fix...
No, but there are 2 issues at play here. One is the signal strength due to forcing the signal through a bunch of meat and the other is the "shorting" of the antenna. There is no fix the for first issue, and that is the one responsible for most of the loss. For the second issue, I've not tested it but I've read in numerous places that electrical tape does in fact fix the problem, and electrical tape is typically 2 to 3 mils thick. Consumer reports pointed out that duct tape also fixed the problem and common commercial duct tape is about 8 mils...
True, to a point. It's also true that the FCC has a lot of rules about antenna placement in regards to peoples heads, and power issues. I've used the iPhone 4, and when not detuning the antenna due to a bad grip I found the signal strength and call quality to be excellent. Having said that I'll be waiting until Apple silently slipstreams a new version of the iPhone 4 into production before I buy one. All they need to do is put a 2 to 3 mil clear coat on the stainless antenna to solve the bridging issue.
All RF devices with antennas can be adversely affected by environment and one of the worst things for reception is a big bag of contaminated water. Having said that, the iPhone 4 is the only cell phone that I am aware of with an external antenna that can be detuned by bridging the antennas. THe Nexus one can, for example, be made to lose up to 17 dB of signal with the "death grip". The iPhone 4 can lose up to 24 dB with the same grip. This is due to the added degradation by detuning the antenna...
The reality is that a good signal is anything between about -107 and -51 dB, and most phones (iPhone 4 included) work fine down to about -113 dB, below which the call is dropped. Generally speaking, if you are anywhere over -89 dB you won't drop a call with the death grip all other things being equal. If you are less than -89 then you can grip your way to a dropped call.
I didn't think this was required, but /sarcasm. Starbucks sucks. I'm actually sitting here in sweats, drinking crappy chock full o' nuts coffee, currently listening to 2112, writing code. BTW hipness (lame term, BTW) has nothing to do with age - you either have it or not, and if you have to tell people that you have it - you don't.
I'm 42 and probably more hip than you. Sent from my iPad sitting in Starbucks listening to Passion Pit.
Besides, it was Halo 3 on the 360. Halo 2 came out on the original X-Box. These guys don't even know their own products.
Now, I'm not an engineer, but could their desire for continued extraction of oil have delayed their plans, made the stack more complex?
Not based on my understanding since they are continuing with the relief well, the purpose of which is to plug the well with cement.
Now that they have the cap in place, if it works I don't see why they don't just turn the well into a producing well. Might as well get something out of the disaster...
From where I sit, Motorola / Verizon are more evil than Apple / AT&T. Well, OK, AT&T is pretty fucking evil, but the reality is that Apple has never been about open devices and so has never violated any trust with any communities, because iPhone has always been a walled garden. On the other hand Android is wide open, yet they are coupled with Verizon, notorious for locking down phones and removing features, and Motorola who knows fuck all about good software. Android + (Verizon and Motorola) seems like oil and water to me. Plus the Droid-X software seems to not be getting good reviews today: http://gizmodo.com/5587225/motorola-droid-x-review meaning that hacking it is even more desirable.
censorship != first amendment.
We do, but keep in mind that an ICE is only about 18%to 19% efficient (the engine itself is about 20% http://courses.washington.edu/me341/oct22v2.htm, but not all of that gets to the pavement - 80%+ of the energy from burning gasoline ends up as heat or sound. Electric cars on the other hand are much more efficient - about 70% of what ends up in the battery goes to turning the wheels. http://ec.europa.eu/transport/urban/vehicles/road/electric_en.htm .
Then you have delivery and fuel management. With gasoline, you used a lot of energy in the refining process, and then you have to put it in trucks and deliver it. Of course, transmitting electricity has it's problems as well - the average line loss is somewhere around 6.5%, and the uranium for nuclear plants, and the coal, natural gas and fuel oil needs to be obtained and refined, so I would call this one a wash, with perhaps an edge to electric since sending electricity down the wire is more efficient than delivering the fuel by truck
On average electricity generating stations (hydro excepted) are about 35% to 40% efficient. of that about 93.5% gets to your outlet. Of that 99.8% gets to the battery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_polymer_battery from the charger, and 99.8% gets from the battery to the motor (there are some minimal losses in the battery cables)
Bottom line is that (not counting transmission and production expenditures) assuming a quantity of energy: Joules x .998 x .998 x .70 = .697Joules for electric car, and .20 Joules for an ICE. An electric car is more than 3 times as efficient as an ICE powered car.
Also , as electricity is cheaper at night than in the day , most people would prefer charging there cars at night.
It won't be when we're all driving electric cars. but then again, even if it cost the same at night it will still be cheaper than gasoline in the long run...
OK, That IP address resolves to New Richmond outside CIncinatti. http://geotool.flagfox.net/
Call the New RIchmond Police: 102 Willow Street New Richmond, OH 45157-1354 (513) 553-2001
You're welcome
I'd hate to think there was an 'orrible cunt out there seeking retribution against Sol.
Is tweak Windows 7 a little bit and replace the mouse with a stylus or the user's finger, this will fail. A tablet needs a UI and OS designed specifically for touch, and applications need to be designed for that OS. I have yet to see anything from Microsoft that indicates to me that they really understand that. No amount of corporate IT agreements will get companies to purchase devices they don't really need.
35 = 15.
The real answer is to track down the trolls, and permanently ban them from the game as well as the forum, block their IP and and their e-mail address. Well, only a 10 or 35 day ban in the IP since it's probable assigned via DHCP and will get re-assigned to someone else.
They need to (if they don't already) specify that if people get banned for this reason they don't get a refund on their subscription.
People will still troll, and and trolls will find a way back in, but if you make it difficult and expensive enough most trolls will just go troll /. for free.
Of course there are a lot of basement dwellers with a lot of time on their hands and their mom's Visa card...
This might piss a number of people off, but I know that if Xbox Live had this policy a few years ago I'd still be a member. Instead I purchased my xbox 360 and only play standalone games on it - I'm not paying to listen to the blathering rantings of 30 year old basement dwellers that behave like 12 year olds...