I don't think computers were ever mentioned when i was at secondary school (in Britain) in the early 70s.
My first contact with computers was at tech college in about 77, where i learnt a little bit of (i think) BASIC programming - using paper tape and a teletype, dialling in to the local university's mainframe.
I guess your interpretation of the word "use" is different to mine. I wouldn't apply it to a passive component in a circuit. I would say the RF amp uses power, the antenna conducts/transmits/dissipates power. Although none of those words quite fit with "power" - but they would fit with "energy".
Yeah, of course. My Galaxy S3's got one. But my point was there doesn't seem to be any external antennas that you can clip onto your phone (or something) when you need a bit of an ERP boost.
Antennas don't use much power to begin with, if any at all.
Huh???
Antennas don't use any power. The transmitter uses the power (and the receiver to a certain extent) - and the efficiency of the antenna affects how much power the transmitter uses. If the antenna's inefficient, the transmitter must use more power to produce the required effective radiated power - which, of course, drains the battery more. Therefore, an efficient antenna will increase battery life.
That sounds plausible. My phone operates on 850MHz and, as i understand it, 1/4 wavelength is the best length for an antenna - so an 88mm length of wire should be the go. However, i'd imagine it would work best if it was a dipole. Doing a good soldering job on the connector would be a bit critical at that frequency, of course.
It probably is about time someone started selling add-on antennas for mobiles now, really - not car type ones, but ones you hook onto your phone when it's needed.
I've been cycling for about 40 years. Iin that time i've come off my bike about 4 times - and never come close to hitting my head. In most parts of Australia it's compulsory to wear a helmet, but i never have.
Wearing a helmet is much more dangerous than not wearing one. No helmets ever have wide brims - for very good reasons. That means, if you wear a helmet, you have a much higher risk of getting skin cancer than you would have of getting a head injury if you didn't. I wear a wide brimmed hat.
About ten years ago, i stopped eating wheat and other similar grains, because they didn't really agree with me. After a while of that, i started getting the urge to eat fish. At that stage in my life i couldn't really think of a good reason not to, so i did. I never started eating dairy or eggs again - and i still don't touch them. And i didn't start eating other meat until several years later, when i went to work in Afghanistan. I also started eating bread again while i was there (and drinking alcohol, after a year off it - but that's another story!).
The years off wheat etc were definitely beneficial and starting eating it again didn't seem to do any harm. And i'm certain that the years of being vegan were good for my health long term too. I'd quite like to go back to being vegan, but i couldn't be bothered with the hassle nowadays - and i've developed a taste for meat too1;-)
Doctors are best avoided, in my opinion. You don't stay healthy long if you start taking the pills they love to dish out. I don't need a doctor to tell me whether i'm healthy or not. It's my body and, unlike a lot of people, it seems, i'm well enough in touch with what's going on with it to know how healthy i am.
None of the vegans i know are skinny! And some of them do quite physically demanding jobs. One's a rigger, for example, and a dive trainer. I did building work quite a bit of the time when i was vegan - i had to drink a litre of soya milk a day to get enough protein.
If you're vegan, i hope for your sake that you don't take supplements - because they throw out your body's natural balance and probably make you less healthy. It's totally possible to get all your nutrient needs from a vegsn diet - and to be healthier than your average meat eater - but you have to be on the ball.
I was vegan for 14 years and i was healthy. I've got quite a few long term vegan friends who are also healthy. None of us take or took supplements.
That's not true. There are a few non animal sources if B12. I was vegan for 14 years and i didn't just seem healthy, i was healthy - healthier than i would have been if i was a lacto vego.
So what's to say that the attitude that traditional pharmaceuticals have side effects, put about by homeopathists (and the leaflets that come in the box) isn't responsible for some proportion of the side effects perceived?
Maybe the nocebo effect is responsible for MRSA. If people stop believing overuse of antibiotics is responsible for it, maybe it will go away! Maybe if people stop believing thalidomide causes birth defects, those defects will magically disappear.
But most people don't think about the side effects of the drugs they accept from quacks willy nilly - if they did, they probably wouldn't be so keen to take them. Fortunately my mum was one of the smarter ones and refused the thalidomide the quack tried to give her when she was pregnant with me. (In her old age, she used to accept drugs from the quack, so as not to offend them and to keep them onside, but she didn't take most of them. She lived to be 86.)
The fact is that there's a vast amount of proven and well documented detrimental side effects of pharmaceutical drugs - and a big proportion of the use of those drugs is totally unnecessary.
I agree that there's an overprescription of drugs but why spend money on expensive homeopathic remedies when sugar pills in a variety of shapes and colours, with fancy names, will do just as well.
Yeah, i agree. There's no real reason to waste money on homeopathics.
But most of the things that quacks hand out antibiotics etc for don't need a real cure. The quacks should be telling them to go away and stop wasting their time. But, instead, they dish out pills because their silly patients want them. Giving people harmless homeopathics isn't hurting citizens nearly as much as giving them harmful (unnecessary) antibiotics.
Not only does homeopathy work (for some people, at least), but it doesn't have the nasty side effects of most (all?) pharmaceutical drugs. It's also considerably cheaper. There's an insane amount of over prescription of pharmaceuticals in developed countries - wasting billions of dollars every year and causing untold harm to the people who take them unnecessarily, and to the population in general (think superbugs). It would be much better if most of them were replaced with homeopathic placebos.
Just make sure you buy an android phone that can install non-market applications.
You only need to be able to turn on USB debugging (under "developer options" in 4.0.3) - then you can install any app you develop via a USB connection. It's easiest if you use Eclipse etc. Google "android development eclipse", or something similar, for help in setting it up. It's pretty easy!
Anyone on NextG can switch with minimal difficulty to Optus, Vodafone, Virgin, Boost, TPG, Amaysim... (insert a dozen more carriers here).
Not quite! Anyone in a major urban area, maybe, but not anyone. I don't have a choice, there's only Telstra where i work (in a remote part of the Northern Territory).
Yeah, i reckon go for Sennheiser. I've got a pair of HD215s which are great. They have good sound and good isolation and parts are easily replaceable (i.e., pads, cable). You won't get them for $50 i don't think, but it may be worth saving up a bit and spending more than $50 if you can.
He probably does know. But he can't make a judgement based on what he "knows", only on the evidence that's been placed before him during the case. That's how the law works.
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I don't think computers were ever mentioned when i was at secondary school (in Britain) in the early 70s.
My first contact with computers was at tech college in about 77, where i learnt a little bit of (i think) BASIC programming - using paper tape and a teletype, dialling in to the local university's mainframe.
I guess your interpretation of the word "use" is different to mine. I wouldn't apply it to a passive component in a circuit. I would say the RF amp uses power, the antenna conducts/transmits/dissipates power. Although none of those words quite fit with "power" - but they would fit with "energy".
Yeah, of course. My Galaxy S3's got one. But my point was there doesn't seem to be any external antennas that you can clip onto your phone (or something) when you need a bit of an ERP boost.
Antennas don't use much power to begin with, if any at all.
Huh???
Antennas don't use any power. The transmitter uses the power (and the receiver to a certain extent) - and the efficiency of the antenna affects how much power the transmitter uses. If the antenna's inefficient, the transmitter must use more power to produce the required effective radiated power - which, of course, drains the battery more. Therefore, an efficient antenna will increase battery life.
That sounds plausible. My phone operates on 850MHz and, as i understand it, 1/4 wavelength is the best length for an antenna - so an 88mm length of wire should be the go. However, i'd imagine it would work best if it was a dipole. Doing a good soldering job on the connector would be a bit critical at that frequency, of course.
It probably is about time someone started selling add-on antennas for mobiles now, really - not car type ones, but ones you hook onto your phone when it's needed.
I've been cycling for about 40 years. Iin that time i've come off my bike about 4 times - and never come close to hitting my head. In most parts of Australia it's compulsory to wear a helmet, but i never have.
Wearing a helmet is much more dangerous than not wearing one. No helmets ever have wide brims - for very good reasons. That means, if you wear a helmet, you have a much higher risk of getting skin cancer than you would have of getting a head injury if you didn't. I wear a wide brimmed hat.
About ten years ago, i stopped eating wheat and other similar grains, because they didn't really agree with me. After a while of that, i started getting the urge to eat fish. At that stage in my life i couldn't really think of a good reason not to, so i did. I never started eating dairy or eggs again - and i still don't touch them. And i didn't start eating other meat until several years later, when i went to work in Afghanistan. I also started eating bread again while i was there (and drinking alcohol, after a year off it - but that's another story!).
The years off wheat etc were definitely beneficial and starting eating it again didn't seem to do any harm. And i'm certain that the years of being vegan were good for my health long term too. I'd quite like to go back to being vegan, but i couldn't be bothered with the hassle nowadays - and i've developed a taste for meat too1 ;-)
I was responding to your "anecdotal hypothesis that vegan chicks are crazy"!
That's not a problem, that's a good thing! But nobody has 14 years worth of B12 stored!
Doctors are best avoided, in my opinion. You don't stay healthy long if you start taking the pills they love to dish out. I don't need a doctor to tell me whether i'm healthy or not. It's my body and, unlike a lot of people, it seems, i'm well enough in touch with what's going on with it to know how healthy i am.
None of the vegans i know are skinny! And some of them do quite physically demanding jobs. One's a rigger, for example, and a dive trainer. I did building work quite a bit of the time when i was vegan - i had to drink a litre of soya milk a day to get enough protein.
Yeah, i agree. I know from experience that a vegan diet can damage young children. They definitely need animal products to develop normally.
If you're vegan, i hope for your sake that you don't take supplements - because they throw out your body's natural balance and probably make you less healthy. It's totally possible to get all your nutrient needs from a vegsn diet - and to be healthier than your average meat eater - but you have to be on the ball.
I was vegan for 14 years and i was healthy. I've got quite a few long term vegan friends who are also healthy. None of us take or took supplements.
The fact that there are millions of severely bipolar meat eaters kinda undermines your theory, i'm afraid.
That's not true. There are a few non animal sources if B12. I was vegan for 14 years and i didn't just seem healthy, i was healthy - healthier than i would have been if i was a lacto vego.
They're not building my next iPhone!
So what's to say that the attitude that traditional pharmaceuticals have side effects, put about by homeopathists (and the leaflets that come in the box) isn't responsible for some proportion of the side effects perceived?
Maybe the nocebo effect is responsible for MRSA. If people stop believing overuse of antibiotics is responsible for it, maybe it will go away! Maybe if people stop believing thalidomide causes birth defects, those defects will magically disappear.
But most people don't think about the side effects of the drugs they accept from quacks willy nilly - if they did, they probably wouldn't be so keen to take them. Fortunately my mum was one of the smarter ones and refused the thalidomide the quack tried to give her when she was pregnant with me. (In her old age, she used to accept drugs from the quack, so as not to offend them and to keep them onside, but she didn't take most of them. She lived to be 86.)
The fact is that there's a vast amount of proven and well documented detrimental side effects of pharmaceutical drugs - and a big proportion of the use of those drugs is totally unnecessary.
I agree that there's an overprescription of drugs but why spend money on expensive homeopathic remedies when sugar pills in a variety of shapes and colours, with fancy names, will do just as well.
Yeah, i agree. There's no real reason to waste money on homeopathics.
But most of the things that quacks hand out antibiotics etc for don't need a real cure. The quacks should be telling them to go away and stop wasting their time. But, instead, they dish out pills because their silly patients want them. Giving people harmless homeopathics isn't hurting citizens nearly as much as giving them harmful (unnecessary) antibiotics.
Prior art in face recognition dates back many millions of years!
Try (100%) lavender oil - that's very effective for getting rid of warts.
Not only does homeopathy work (for some people, at least), but it doesn't have the nasty side effects of most (all?) pharmaceutical drugs. It's also considerably cheaper. There's an insane amount of over prescription of pharmaceuticals in developed countries - wasting billions of dollars every year and causing untold harm to the people who take them unnecessarily, and to the population in general (think superbugs). It would be much better if most of them were replaced with homeopathic placebos.
Just make sure you buy an android phone that can install non-market applications.
You only need to be able to turn on USB debugging (under "developer options" in 4.0.3) - then you can install any app you develop via a USB connection. It's easiest if you use Eclipse etc. Google "android development eclipse", or something similar, for help in setting it up. It's pretty easy!
Anyone on NextG can switch with minimal difficulty to Optus, Vodafone, Virgin, Boost, TPG, Amaysim ... (insert a dozen more carriers here).
Not quite! Anyone in a major urban area, maybe, but not anyone. I don't have a choice, there's only Telstra where i work (in a remote part of the Northern Territory).
Yeah, i reckon go for Sennheiser. I've got a pair of HD215s which are great. They have good sound and good isolation and parts are easily replaceable (i.e., pads, cable). You won't get them for $50 i don't think, but it may be worth saving up a bit and spending more than $50 if you can.
He probably does know. But he can't make a judgement based on what he "knows", only on the evidence that's been placed before him during the case. That's how the law works.
But will it be fanless? For me, that's the main attraction of the Transformer.