Why aren't there more controls in place to prevent this type of random access? Why don't they require a gatekeeper who can oversee and approve these types of requests rather than granting broad access based on 'trust'?
No one said it wasn't a desktop OS. It was used in the business environment, although it didn't have a lot of time before XP came out. You didn't, however, get it on home PC's purchased from OEM's. You got Windows ME or Windows 98.
XP was the first 'home edition' NT Kernel available to users via OEM.
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And yet we're still talking about him 40 years later, he'd doing commercials, stand-up, and he's a pop icon.
Somehow I doubt Picard will attain such a status;)
Windows 2000 was not a home OS. It was targeted strictly for the business environment. At the time, Windows ME was the home OS's offered from Microsoft.
Windows XP was the first home edition of Windows that moved the home user into the NT kernel.
"In Minnesota, where authorities have upgraded hundreds of traffic lights to LEDs, the Transportation Department occasionally gets reports of an obstructed light. But by the time a highway crew arrives, the wind has often knocked out the snow and ice, said traffic systems specialist Jerry Kotzenmacher. Minnesota is experimenting with weather shields."
They simply need to design a better visor for these that doesn't leave such an easy surface for the snow to collect to begin with or look to other workarounds to remove it if it does. Apparently this isn't news as it has been going on for years. Some cities use heated lenses, some use compressed air, and some just brush them out with a broom if needed. In all cases, someone blaming a blocked street light in the middle of a storm for running the light is no different than the old bulbs burning out and leaving the light dark to begin with. From the sounds of the reports, lights burning out are far more common than one of these being totally blocked by snow for any length of time. If they are driving that fast, without caution, in a snow storm or bad driving conditions, then they have no excuse.
I think these smart phones have gone far beyond being an 'It' phone. This isn't some hot item that one quickly loses interest in within a few weeks. I bought my first smart phone (an iPhone) a few years ago. I still use it heavily. Having the internet in your pocket is a huge convenience for all sorts of circumstances. The apps are just icing. I use mine 5 times a week at the gym, I look up prices, I check release dates for movies, music, and media, all while I'm out and about. These have real purpose far beyond just being an accessory to one's clothes.
They are essentially a mini-pc in your pocket, and I hardly need to extol the benefits of a PC to this crowd;)
I can only hope this brings down the cost of these phones. The prices are already greater than the cost of netbooks and bargain laptops/desktops. I realize that miniaturization is a factor, but we really need more strong competitors in this area. I would much prefer a non-subsidized phone except the price is a little daunting all in one lump sum.
Every image people are showing here shows the snow building up from the bottom towards the top. If snow was so easy to stick to such a surface, we should see at least SOME accumulation on the top of the lens, which isn't the case, unless the bottom of the lens is already full of snow/ice.
Everyone here is basing their logic on a guess. There is no light casing without this lip in any of the sample images from TFA or posted here otherwise. They simply assume that the heat from the old style lights is the only factor.
I think it's far more likely that the old design was adequate for an incandescent light due to it's heat output, but inadequate for an LED light since it doesn't emit as much heat and it doesn't get any heat to the hood/lip surface areas.
The lip and horizontal surface angles at the bottom of the hood are the root cause IMO.
Even those have a lip on the bottom for snow to collect and build on. The basic design is there, but it needs to be refined for low temperature lighting. Your linked pic also suffers from the same sideways 'C' design which offers a tiny bit of 'floor' area that snow can collect on, as well as the classic 'lip' under the light lens.
Seems odd that some enterprising company hasn't stepped in and profited from this.
Until they build a lens cover with no lip, and an angled lens, I wouldn't say it's a given that snow will stick as it will always have nooks in which to collect.
Even TFA example shows how badly these are designed for snowy conditions. They relied on heat to keep them clear which is not going to work with LED lights. They obviously need to design a better lens cover and hood.
Those do have a bottom. They look like a 'C' with the opening at the bottom, but it still easily gives a 'floor' for light snow to collect. Not that the bottom of the 'C' also has a lip where the light lens is.
No, in my experience, they always leave a lip on the bottom edge of these lights, where snow or ice can collect. The lip is always found at the bottom edge of the 'lens', which for some reason, always seems to be vertical, rather than tilted outward.
Why aren't they using sloped lenses and hoods for these? Essentially putting blinders on them with no bottom so that snow isn't allowed to collect inside the enclosure?
A president can have just as much effect by inaction as he can with Action. In the end, the buck stopped with Bush, whether he took action or decided not to. One of the biggest complaints about Reagan was his inaction during the A.I.D.S. breakout. It was essentially ignored by him. His inaction had a huge impact on thousands of American lives.
The 'floating mountains' were due to the superconductor ore in them. If you recall at the beginning, the ceo of the company had some of it floating on some magnets on his office desk. Room temperature superconductors. The mountains ripped loose from the top soil and float in the planets strong magnetic field. That's why you see skeleton looking structures on the ground, where loose ore has collected along the magnetic lines and left those domed structures that looked like bones.
Agreed. I don't think it was anti-technology, but rather all about using your resources wisely. The scene where they asked for forgiveness when they had to kill a predator basically laid it all out. They understood that there were necessities, but they would do them as needed to survive. They also didn't mock the offworlders for what they knew. They complained that their 'cup was already full', meaning they were inflexible about learning a new way.
Given their native capabilities to network with other animals and plants, store memories, travel quickly via land and air, and easy accessibility to huge stores of food due to native flora and fauna, it's not surprising that they weren't technologically advanced. They simply didn't need it.
The basic problem is that we pay these folks to think like a paranoid (albeit with a little dose of common sense, and some thoroughness when needed). We basically got what we paid for. It sounds like some background checks where in order.
Alcohol doesn't prevent the ability to handle situations, it impairs them. I think it's a good point to raise. These people were not arrested for DWI, they were arrested for DUI.
The amount they were impaired isn't known other than a blood alcohol count, as it affects each person differently, but they are being judged as if they had just slaughtered someone with a car, which is obviously not the case.
Are they innocent of a crime? No. Do they deserve to be punished in a public court for something far worse? No.
Except these people haven't 'mowed down three people'. They haven't committed any other crime than driving under the influence. No children were hurt in the making of this tweet. No damage done. No insurance claims filed. They were simply caught driving under the influence.
People here keep associating these people with murderers, referencing the M.A.D.D. folks, ad-nauseum. The simple truth, is that the only crime here is DUI until it isn't. This isn't pre-cog court. These folks most likely would have gone home, and no one would have been the wiser if they hadn't been pulled over. Were they pulled over for weaving? Perhaps because the cop camps outside of some winery? They are being treated as if they did hit and kill someone, when such a thing hasn't happened. They are being pre-judged due to every drunk driver who happened to cause some accident.
This does nothing more than to prosecute these people in a public court, without a trial.
My sister was killed in a jeep driven by a drunk driver. Did I hate the driver? Yes. Was it totally his fault? No. I later learned that a construction company failed to put up signs warning that the pavement was uneven due to resurfacing. Could he have avoided the accident if he hadn't been drinking? Who knows. I can't claim to know the future, or predict events. I can only judge the facts after they are known. Somehow I doubt this blog presents the facts that are heard in a trial. This blog won't prevent DUI. It simply serves some sick need for people to butt into other peoples business so that they can feel judgmental and holier than thou.
I found this very plausible given what we know about superconductors: The Hallelujah Mountains are floating islands that circulate slowly in the magnetic currents like icebergs at sea, scraping against each other and the towering mesa-like mountains of the region. On Pandora, the magnetic effect causes huge outcroppings of Unobtainium to rip loose from the surface and float in the magnetic vortices. The stone 'arcs' you saw in the film supported this, where the minerals actually deposited along strong magentic lines, leaving those huge 'skeleton' looking structures.
I can only assume the large deposit under the tree is either too deep down to have torn lose from the surface, too spread out or sparse to tend to rip out, or it is held into place by the huge root system of the tree itself. Given that a tree that large would take eons to grow to that size, the deposits may have formed there during that time due to some sort of cataclysm, or some other natural process. The movie never explains exactly what Unobtainium is other than it's obvious natural magnetic properties. The piece floating on his desk leads more towards semiconductor properties at room temperature.
Speedtest.net already does this, although I don't think they publish the information broken down with 3G only numbers. It specifically tests 3G speeds using the iPhone app, and geo-tags your location to get the closest server with the lowest ping times. They do have the info on file though. I wonder why they don't publish it?
I think Windows FS support is so bad simply because there isn't a lot of need for it given that they are a market leader. It's more of a need for folks like Linux and OS X to adapt to the market leader than the other way around. On top of that, MS has never been overly accepting of non-MS formats. They either buy them out and make them their own, or try to drive them to extinction. To their point of view, it simply doesn't benefit MS if Windows had a lot of FS support built in that made it potentially easier to move to another OS. In a weird sort of way, I can understand their approach as it make sense given where they started, and the market share they hold now.
Linux on the other hand, benefits greatly from a wide array of File Systems. It's one of the strengths that makes it a nice alternative in a mixed computing environment. Linux alone should have been a lesson to MS that it isn't always counter productive to be more open.
Considering DVD files are typically split at the 1 GB mark, you should have no issues with DVD. Assuming you have other files that break the 4GB barrier however, leaves you with EXT3, HPFS, or NTFS. The EXT3 support for OS X is supposed to be there using the SourceForge EXT2 driver, but I never managed to get them to mount. NTFS support is good on the OS X side, seems to be good on Linux and of course on Windows.
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Why aren't there more controls in place to prevent this type of random access? Why don't they require a gatekeeper who can oversee and approve these types of requests rather than granting broad access based on 'trust'?
No one said it wasn't a desktop OS. It was used in the business environment, although it didn't have a lot of time before XP came out. You didn't, however, get it on home PC's purchased from OEM's. You got Windows ME or Windows 98.
XP was the first 'home edition' NT Kernel available to users via OEM.
And yet we're still talking about him 40 years later, he'd doing commercials, stand-up, and he's a pop icon.
Somehow I doubt Picard will attain such a status ;)
Windows 2000 was not a home OS. It was targeted strictly for the business environment. At the time, Windows ME was the home OS's offered from Microsoft.
Windows XP was the first home edition of Windows that moved the home user into the NT kernel.
LCD Technology
Wireless G
HDTV
H.264
Multi-Core technology
LED
Bluetooth
3G
Cable Modems/DSL Broadband technology
Note that some of these existed in early forms prior to 2000, but they took new directions, or simply took off for the consumer in the last decade.
According to the reports, the snow doesn't 'stick' because the LED's don't get hot enough. It just collects in the visor.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/16/led-traffic-lights-that-c_n_393769.html
"In Minnesota, where authorities have upgraded hundreds of traffic lights to LEDs, the Transportation Department occasionally gets reports of an obstructed light. But by the time a highway crew arrives, the wind has often knocked out the snow and ice, said traffic systems specialist Jerry Kotzenmacher. Minnesota is experimenting with weather shields."
They simply need to design a better visor for these that doesn't leave such an easy surface for the snow to collect to begin with or look to other workarounds to remove it if it does. Apparently this isn't news as it has been going on for years. Some cities use heated lenses, some use compressed air, and some just brush them out with a broom if needed. In all cases, someone blaming a blocked street light in the middle of a storm for running the light is no different than the old bulbs burning out and leaving the light dark to begin with. From the sounds of the reports, lights burning out are far more common than one of these being totally blocked by snow for any length of time. If they are driving that fast, without caution, in a snow storm or bad driving conditions, then they have no excuse.
I think these smart phones have gone far beyond being an 'It' phone. This isn't some hot item that one quickly loses interest in within a few weeks. I bought my first smart phone (an iPhone) a few years ago. I still use it heavily. Having the internet in your pocket is a huge convenience for all sorts of circumstances. The apps are just icing. I use mine 5 times a week at the gym, I look up prices, I check release dates for movies, music, and media, all while I'm out and about. These have real purpose far beyond just being an accessory to one's clothes.
They are essentially a mini-pc in your pocket, and I hardly need to extol the benefits of a PC to this crowd ;)
I can only hope this brings down the cost of these phones. The prices are already greater than the cost of netbooks and bargain laptops/desktops. I realize that miniaturization is a factor, but we really need more strong competitors in this area. I would much prefer a non-subsidized phone except the price is a little daunting all in one lump sum.
Every image people are showing here shows the snow building up from the bottom towards the top. If snow was so easy to stick to such a surface, we should see at least SOME accumulation on the top of the lens, which isn't the case, unless the bottom of the lens is already full of snow/ice.
Everyone here is basing their logic on a guess. There is no light casing without this lip in any of the sample images from TFA or posted here otherwise. They simply assume that the heat from the old style lights is the only factor.
I think it's far more likely that the old design was adequate for an incandescent light due to it's heat output, but inadequate for an LED light since it doesn't emit as much heat and it doesn't get any heat to the hood/lip surface areas.
The lip and horizontal surface angles at the bottom of the hood are the root cause IMO.
Even those have a lip on the bottom for snow to collect and build on. The basic design is there, but it needs to be refined for low temperature lighting. Your linked pic also suffers from the same sideways 'C' design which offers a tiny bit of 'floor' area that snow can collect on, as well as the classic 'lip' under the light lens.
Seems odd that some enterprising company hasn't stepped in and profited from this.
Until they build a lens cover with no lip, and an angled lens, I wouldn't say it's a given that snow will stick as it will always have nooks in which to collect.
Even TFA example shows how badly these are designed for snowy conditions. They relied on heat to keep them clear which is not going to work with LED lights. They obviously need to design a better lens cover and hood.
Those do have a bottom. They look like a 'C' with the opening at the bottom, but it still easily gives a 'floor' for light snow to collect. Not that the bottom of the 'C' also has a lip where the light lens is.
I'm talking about a truly bottomless hood.
No, in my experience, they always leave a lip on the bottom edge of these lights, where snow or ice can collect. The lip is always found at the bottom edge of the 'lens', which for some reason, always seems to be vertical, rather than tilted outward.
Why aren't they using sloped lenses and hoods for these? Essentially putting blinders on them with no bottom so that snow isn't allowed to collect inside the enclosure?
A president can have just as much effect by inaction as he can with Action. In the end, the buck stopped with Bush, whether he took action or decided not to. One of the biggest complaints about Reagan was his inaction during the A.I.D.S. breakout. It was essentially ignored by him. His inaction had a huge impact on thousands of American lives.
Inaction can have as much consequence as action.
The 'floating mountains' were due to the superconductor ore in them. If you recall at the beginning, the ceo of the company had some of it floating on some magnets on his office desk. Room temperature superconductors. The mountains ripped loose from the top soil and float in the planets strong magnetic field. That's why you see skeleton looking structures on the ground, where loose ore has collected along the magnetic lines and left those domed structures that looked like bones.
Agreed. I don't think it was anti-technology, but rather all about using your resources wisely. The scene where they asked for forgiveness when they had to kill a predator basically laid it all out. They understood that there were necessities, but they would do them as needed to survive. They also didn't mock the offworlders for what they knew. They complained that their 'cup was already full', meaning they were inflexible about learning a new way.
Given their native capabilities to network with other animals and plants, store memories, travel quickly via land and air, and easy accessibility to huge stores of food due to native flora and fauna, it's not surprising that they weren't technologically advanced. They simply didn't need it.
The basic problem is that we pay these folks to think like a paranoid (albeit with a little dose of common sense, and some thoroughness when needed). We basically got what we paid for. It sounds like some background checks where in order.
Alcohol doesn't prevent the ability to handle situations, it impairs them. I think it's a good point to raise. These people were not arrested for DWI, they were arrested for DUI.
The amount they were impaired isn't known other than a blood alcohol count, as it affects each person differently, but they are being judged as if they had just slaughtered someone with a car, which is obviously not the case.
Are they innocent of a crime? No. Do they deserve to be punished in a public court for something far worse? No.
Except these people haven't 'mowed down three people'. They haven't committed any other crime than driving under the influence. No children were hurt in the making of this tweet. No damage done. No insurance claims filed. They were simply caught driving under the influence.
People here keep associating these people with murderers, referencing the M.A.D.D. folks, ad-nauseum. The simple truth, is that the only crime here is DUI until it isn't. This isn't pre-cog court. These folks most likely would have gone home, and no one would have been the wiser if they hadn't been pulled over. Were they pulled over for weaving? Perhaps because the cop camps outside of some winery? They are being treated as if they did hit and kill someone, when such a thing hasn't happened. They are being pre-judged due to every drunk driver who happened to cause some accident.
This does nothing more than to prosecute these people in a public court, without a trial.
My sister was killed in a jeep driven by a drunk driver. Did I hate the driver? Yes. Was it totally his fault? No. I later learned that a construction company failed to put up signs warning that the pavement was uneven due to resurfacing. Could he have avoided the accident if he hadn't been drinking? Who knows. I can't claim to know the future, or predict events. I can only judge the facts after they are known. Somehow I doubt this blog presents the facts that are heard in a trial. This blog won't prevent DUI. It simply serves some sick need for people to butt into other peoples business so that they can feel judgmental and holier than thou.
Yeah ;) Head wasn't following what I was typing. Had breakfast on my mind...
I found this very plausible given what we know about superconductors: The Hallelujah Mountains are floating islands that circulate slowly in the magnetic currents like icebergs at sea, scraping against each other and the towering mesa-like mountains of the region. On Pandora, the magnetic effect causes huge outcroppings of Unobtainium to rip loose from the surface and float in the magnetic vortices. The stone 'arcs' you saw in the film supported this, where the minerals actually deposited along strong magentic lines, leaving those huge 'skeleton' looking structures.
I can only assume the large deposit under the tree is either too deep down to have torn lose from the surface, too spread out or sparse to tend to rip out, or it is held into place by the huge root system of the tree itself. Given that a tree that large would take eons to grow to that size, the deposits may have formed there during that time due to some sort of cataclysm, or some other natural process. The movie never explains exactly what Unobtainium is other than it's obvious natural magnetic properties. The piece floating on his desk leads more towards semiconductor properties at room temperature.
Speedtest.net already does this, although I don't think they publish the information broken down with 3G only numbers. It specifically tests 3G speeds using the iPhone app, and geo-tags your location to get the closest server with the lowest ping times. They do have the info on file though. I wonder why they don't publish it?
http://www.speedtest.net/global.php
I think Windows FS support is so bad simply because there isn't a lot of need for it given that they are a market leader. It's more of a need for folks like Linux and OS X to adapt to the market leader than the other way around. On top of that, MS has never been overly accepting of non-MS formats. They either buy them out and make them their own, or try to drive them to extinction. To their point of view, it simply doesn't benefit MS if Windows had a lot of FS support built in that made it potentially easier to move to another OS. In a weird sort of way, I can understand their approach as it make sense given where they started, and the market share they hold now.
Linux on the other hand, benefits greatly from a wide array of File Systems. It's one of the strengths that makes it a nice alternative in a mixed computing environment. Linux alone should have been a lesson to MS that it isn't always counter productive to be more open.
Considering DVD files are typically split at the 1 GB mark, you should have no issues with DVD. Assuming you have other files that break the 4GB barrier however, leaves you with EXT3, HPFS, or NTFS. The EXT3 support for OS X is supposed to be there using the SourceForge EXT2 driver, but I never managed to get them to mount. NTFS support is good on the OS X side, seems to be good on Linux and of course on Windows.
I'd go with NTFS using NTFS-3G as it gives read/write support on all 3 OS's and is open source ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfs-3g/ )