Can't speak for the GP, but embedded GPS devices are becoming quite popular in rental and fleet services, and particularly popular for "sub-prime" car loans, and repomen. And the companies that make, maintain, and monitor these systems are hiring... and that's as much as I'll say.
This isn't a court. We don't NEED to discuss the merits of the case. If discussing how ironic it is proves to be more apropos, then that's quite alright. This is just another patent lawsuit after all, between rich companies who CAN pay the fees, so the outcome has no significant sway upon the world, UNLESS it does turn into the giant corporations turning on the patent monster they created, fed, and used (when it suited their purposes).
I don't see how your three rules apply to the equator at all.
Step 1 sounds like you're assuming jungle, but that's certainly not the case everywhere on the equator.
Step 2 is decent advice for anyone living in a hot climate, but the equator is generally not among the hottest places on earth, so it just sounds like someone is a lightweight. Try an ultra marathon through Badwater (Death Valley in California, the hottest place on earth) and get back to me on handling the weather at the equator...
Step 3 might be good advice, except step 1 suggests sun really isn't a problem wherever you're thinking of as being "The Equator!!!"
Forget the "hubs"... Houston is the 4th largest city in the us, and texas is the second most populous state. Commercial airlines wouldn't stand for losing all those customers, and diverting them to train or car travel would bring both to a sudden grinding halt, both inside and outside of the state.
With android, it's easy to back-up your installed applications. And if you didn't, somebody else did, and ut it up on the web. You just need to search the web for the APK of the proper version of the app, and don't upgrade it again.
It's kind like pushing HD radio, when most people listen to their radios in their noisy cars with stock speakers and can't tell the difference.
You've got the cause and effect backwards. People only listen to the radio in their cars, and using cheap equipment, because radio sounds pretty crappy to begin with. HD Radio has the potential to reverse both trends (but I don't expect it will).
Don't believe it? Look up how many users Pandora / Last.fm / XM/Sirius / Shoutcast / et al., have. People clearly value a radio-like service, and find the current broadcast radio situation so bad that they go for more expensive alternatives.
It's more like *duplicating* the car while the original owner still has it.
Absolutely right. There's nothing wrong with printing copies of money. The government has no copyright on the design.
Now, as soon as you SELL THEM, or otherwise FRAUDULENTLY try to pass them off as legitimate, you have broken other laws unrelated to the copying of the bills.
But I will say that having a cheap smartphone with no data plan actually works out pretty good.
It works okay, until it doesn't... When you REALLY need to get some info is exactly where you're guaranteed to be out of range of Wifi.
The biggest killer-app for smartphones is navigation, and they ALL require a data connection. No data means no navigation, no finding a good restaurant, no finding the lowest gas prices while you're on the road, etc.
Personally, I'd be okay with dial-up speed cellular data, but NONE AT ALL is completely out. Combine that with the fact that data is cheaper thaan voice, and you really can't beat services like Boost Mobile giving unlimited everything for $40/mo. The savings by cutting out the data is probably an illusion to begin with.
You do recall that the guy died moments later, don't you? There's nobody in the film running around, minus their heart. Besides, this was some supernatural cult thing. You could easily rationalize it as some form of slight of hand or mass hypnosis to impress the audience of followers. No comment about the rocks that burn on command...
Jumping from a plane using an air raft.
There's an outside possibility you'd survive. If you were sure you're going to die, I'm sure you'd try it... But I generally agree with you on this one. It was ridiculous, but not as bad as nuking the fridge, and it wasn't in a horrendous stinker of a film, so it can be forgiven.
Keeping an immortal knight in a subterranean cavern for thousands of years.
Well, if he's immortal, it goes without saying that he'd be fine... What's the problem? Are you suggest that, a dozen or so centuries on, he might just get up and wander off? Touche. That must be what all the traps were for...
Or, how about just shut up and watch the movie ?
Hell no! What a steaming pile that thing was. Makes T-3, the Star Wars prequals, and Die Hard 4 seem good by comparison, which isn't easy. It's the root-canal of films by washed-up old hacks.
We will never get off this rock. Interstellar travel is impossible, and always will be.
We've just recently developed materials strong enough to build a space-elevator. We're testing the feasability of solar sails now. We're working on fusion power plants. And the next solar system is only a couple light-years away. This some 60 years after we put the first man-made object into space. It may not happen in your lifetime, but how fortunate that the world doesn't revolve around you.
How often do over reaching laws get repealed? How often does government say "hey we don't need to regulate this realm anymore because circumstances have changed"? How often have you seen governments de-centralize things in order to make them more responsive to the needs of the citizens they serve?
All of the above happens ALL THE TIME. Deregulation and privitization were big buzzwords a few years back. Deregulation of the electric utility in California led to blackouts and Enron fraud. Systematic deregulation of the banking and stock markets led to the recession we're currently in. It's funny, Alan Greenspan was a die-hard libertarian his entire life, then after several years of him writing the rules, everything crashed, and he denounced libertarianism, the philosophy he was so dedicated to, and yet people like yourself are still cheering it on, in spit of all reality.
You have to employ magical thinking to be a libertarian. Last election, Ron Paul was refused entry into the Fox presidential candidate debate. He went to make a scene, but they did not recant. When confronted by this obvious case where Fox's freedom allowed them to exclude him, a clear example where regulation is absolutely necessary, he just mumbles something about, Oh, maybe if they had even LESS REGULATION STILL, they might have made a better decision. You have to be absolutely irrational to buy into the hand-waving false promises of libertarianism.
Libertarianism is a cult. Don't drink the Coolaide.
It's absolutely ridiculous that this question is still being debated. It was clear way back during the OPEC oil embargo, where the future was... Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the roof of the White House to make a point.
There is absolutely, positively NO QUESTION that the future of passenger cars is direct storage of electricity, very likely in plain old rechargeable batteries. Electricity which was mostly supplied by solar power. The math worked decades ago, and it works now. It's insane that, now that we're getting further along, with multiple fully electric cars on the market, and solar power installations going in all across California, that people are STILL trying to pretend the future might be anywhere else.
Hydrogen and ethanol were always just ploys by the oil and car companies to delay change, convince people that maybe we had a different path forward, and so laying off of increasing fuel efficiency standards. The math never worked... it was all politics.
Now, the future of cargo transport is still up in the air, but that seems fairly obvious, too. Natural gas is cheaper than oil, very widely available, and much cleaner. Traditional engines can be converted to burn natural gas without drastic changes. In the medium-term, higher-efficiency engines will probably replace conventional engines, burning less natural gas for the same power... This seems likely to be fuel cells (double the efficiency), but turbines and even high compression conventional engines still have a shot at this point. That's pretty obviously the future of trucks. Trains will likely just change to eliminating combustion, and using power lines strung over tracks in most of the country, perhaps with conventional fuel for the most remote areas.
Even the inventors of nuclear bombs didn't want the damned things to exist.
That's an incredibly one-dimentional view of things. There were certainly enthusiastic supporters, like Teller. And even Oppenheimer backed off on his recomendation to eliminate the arsenal, once he saw more of international politics.
Honestly, nuclear bombs are unequivocablly a very good thing. It brought war to its obvious conclusion, and eliminated all delusions around the topic, and attached a stigma to warring nations that didn't exist before, and forced peace upon us all, even those who didn't want it.
The white collar producing GDP wouldn't be where it's at without the invention of air conditioning.
That's a nice little assertion with no evidence to back it up...
Did you notice body tempurature is 98.6F degrees? Plus, sweat glands allow us to handle much higher without trouble. There 's no reason you can't be comfortable in very high temps... you do, however, need to drop the long-sleeve, synthetic cloth, business suits.
Try walking outside high noon in August in this city. Your face will melt off and your sneakers will turn into a puddle of gummy ooze.
Humans evolved in the African deserts. We have very little fir, and numerous sweat glands. We also have one of the most efficent gaits, to minimize the exertion required to travel. Humans are better suited to high temperatures than most any animal. I guarantee, now matter how harsh the climate, somewhere near you is a high school with teenagers running track, doing football practice, etc., in the worse of the summer heat, with no ill effects. So suck it up and get out there.
Not that I'm surprised by your attitude. I've heard from a (small) number of people living in the desert who somehow feel that they're being injured if a single bead of sweat EVER forms on their bodies. I don't understand it at all. But then again, I like the desert, and hate crowded urban areas, so I say YOU SHOULD STAY AWAY. The weather will kill you. Go home. (More for me)
I don't believe it's possible to achieve a solid framerate without hardware decoding in the video card hardware
There's absolutely no truth to that. Several years ago, you couldn't get CPUs fast enough that they could decode high-bitrate highdef H.264 video, but it's been a long time since that was the case. Even low-end CPUs have enough power these days.
Those figures are about customers staying with the same phone manufacturer, NOT THE PLATFORM. With iOS, you only have one manufacturer, with Android, there's dozens. So Android could be at 25% as people switch back and forth between Motorola/HTC/Samsung/LG and yet not have a single customer switching away from Android.
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wget has a speed limit option that works well.
More than that, you should look into prioritizing ACKs or changing the queuing method on your router and never have the problem again.
Can't speak for the GP, but embedded GPS devices are becoming quite popular in rental and fleet services, and particularly popular for "sub-prime" car loans, and repomen. And the companies that make, maintain, and monitor these systems are hiring... and that's as much as I'll say.
This isn't a court. We don't NEED to discuss the merits of the case. If discussing how ironic it is proves to be more apropos, then that's quite alright. This is just another patent lawsuit after all, between rich companies who CAN pay the fees, so the outcome has no significant sway upon the world, UNLESS it does turn into the giant corporations turning on the patent monster they created, fed, and used (when it suited their purposes).
I don't see how your three rules apply to the equator at all.
Step 1 sounds like you're assuming jungle, but that's certainly not the case everywhere on the equator.
Step 2 is decent advice for anyone living in a hot climate, but the equator is generally not among the hottest places on earth, so it just sounds like someone is a lightweight. Try an ultra marathon through Badwater (Death Valley in California, the hottest place on earth) and get back to me on handling the weather at the equator...
Step 3 might be good advice, except step 1 suggests sun really isn't a problem wherever you're thinking of as being "The Equator!!!"
Forget the "hubs"... Houston is the 4th largest city in the us, and texas is the second most populous state. Commercial airlines wouldn't stand for losing all those customers, and diverting them to train or car travel would bring both to a sudden grinding halt, both inside and outside of the state.
With android, it's easy to back-up your installed applications. And if you didn't, somebody else did, and ut it up on the web. You just need to search the web for the APK of the proper version of the app, and don't upgrade it again.
You've got the cause and effect backwards. People only listen to the radio in their cars, and using cheap equipment, because radio sounds pretty crappy to begin with. HD Radio has the potential to reverse both trends (but I don't expect it will).
Don't believe it? Look up how many users Pandora / Last.fm / XM/Sirius / Shoutcast / et al., have. People clearly value a radio-like service, and find the current broadcast radio situation so bad that they go for more expensive alternatives.
I didn't say it was legal, I said it wasn't "wrong" until you use it to defraud someone.
Absolutely right. There's nothing wrong with printing copies of money. The government has no copyright on the design.
Now, as soon as you SELL THEM, or otherwise FRAUDULENTLY try to pass them off as legitimate, you have broken other laws unrelated to the copying of the bills.
It works okay, until it doesn't... When you REALLY need to get some info is exactly where you're guaranteed to be out of range of Wifi.
The biggest killer-app for smartphones is navigation, and they ALL require a data connection. No data means no navigation, no finding a good restaurant, no finding the lowest gas prices while you're on the road, etc.
Personally, I'd be okay with dial-up speed cellular data, but NONE AT ALL is completely out. Combine that with the fact that data is cheaper thaan voice, and you really can't beat services like Boost Mobile giving unlimited everything for $40/mo. The savings by cutting out the data is probably an illusion to begin with.
You do recall that the guy died moments later, don't you? There's nobody in the film running around, minus their heart. Besides, this was some supernatural cult thing. You could easily rationalize it as some form of slight of hand or mass hypnosis to impress the audience of followers. No comment about the rocks that burn on command...
There's an outside possibility you'd survive. If you were sure you're going to die, I'm sure you'd try it... But I generally agree with you on this one. It was ridiculous, but not as bad as nuking the fridge, and it wasn't in a horrendous stinker of a film, so it can be forgiven.
Well, if he's immortal, it goes without saying that he'd be fine... What's the problem? Are you suggest that, a dozen or so centuries on, he might just get up and wander off? Touche. That must be what all the traps were for...
Hell no! What a steaming pile that thing was. Makes T-3, the Star Wars prequals, and Die Hard 4 seem good by comparison, which isn't easy. It's the root-canal of films by washed-up old hacks.
You need to read up on your history. Oceanic voyages were long and dangerous, yet colonies persisted.
We've just recently developed materials strong enough to build a space-elevator. We're testing the feasability of solar sails now. We're working on fusion power plants. And the next solar system is only a couple light-years away. This some 60 years after we put the first man-made object into space. It may not happen in your lifetime, but how fortunate that the world doesn't revolve around you.
All of the above happens ALL THE TIME. Deregulation and privitization were big buzzwords a few years back. Deregulation of the electric utility in California led to blackouts and Enron fraud. Systematic deregulation of the banking and stock markets led to the recession we're currently in. It's funny, Alan Greenspan was a die-hard libertarian his entire life, then after several years of him writing the rules, everything crashed, and he denounced libertarianism, the philosophy he was so dedicated to, and yet people like yourself are still cheering it on, in spit of all reality.
You have to employ magical thinking to be a libertarian. Last election, Ron Paul was refused entry into the Fox presidential candidate debate. He went to make a scene, but they did not recant. When confronted by this obvious case where Fox's freedom allowed them to exclude him, a clear example where regulation is absolutely necessary, he just mumbles something about, Oh, maybe if they had even LESS REGULATION STILL, they might have made a better decision. You have to be absolutely irrational to buy into the hand-waving false promises of libertarianism.
Libertarianism is a cult. Don't drink the Coolaide.
It's absolutely ridiculous that this question is still being debated. It was clear way back during the OPEC oil embargo, where the future was... Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the roof of the White House to make a point.
There is absolutely, positively NO QUESTION that the future of passenger cars is direct storage of electricity, very likely in plain old rechargeable batteries. Electricity which was mostly supplied by solar power. The math worked decades ago, and it works now. It's insane that, now that we're getting further along, with multiple fully electric cars on the market, and solar power installations going in all across California, that people are STILL trying to pretend the future might be anywhere else.
Hydrogen and ethanol were always just ploys by the oil and car companies to delay change, convince people that maybe we had a different path forward, and so laying off of increasing fuel efficiency standards. The math never worked... it was all politics.
Now, the future of cargo transport is still up in the air, but that seems fairly obvious, too. Natural gas is cheaper than oil, very widely available, and much cleaner. Traditional engines can be converted to burn natural gas without drastic changes. In the medium-term, higher-efficiency engines will probably replace conventional engines, burning less natural gas for the same power... This seems likely to be fuel cells (double the efficiency), but turbines and even high compression conventional engines still have a shot at this point. That's pretty obviously the future of trucks. Trains will likely just change to eliminating combustion, and using power lines strung over tracks in most of the country, perhaps with conventional fuel for the most remote areas.
Latitude doesn't dictate temperature. Britian and France are at the same latitude as Canada as well, yet Canada is VASTLY colder.
I've been in -40F degree weather in the contiguous US, and that's without actually trying to find a particularly cold area.
That's an incredibly one-dimentional view of things. There were certainly enthusiastic supporters, like Teller. And even Oppenheimer backed off on his recomendation to eliminate the arsenal, once he saw more of international politics.
Honestly, nuclear bombs are unequivocablly a very good thing. It brought war to its obvious conclusion, and eliminated all delusions around the topic, and attached a stigma to warring nations that didn't exist before, and forced peace upon us all, even those who didn't want it.
That's a nice little assertion with no evidence to back it up...
Did you notice body tempurature is 98.6F degrees? Plus, sweat glands allow us to handle much higher without trouble. There 's no reason you can't be comfortable in very high temps... you do, however, need to drop the long-sleeve, synthetic cloth, business suits.
Humans evolved in the African deserts. We have very little fir, and numerous sweat glands. We also have one of the most efficent gaits, to minimize the exertion required to travel. Humans are better suited to high temperatures than most any animal. I guarantee, now matter how harsh the climate, somewhere near you is a high school with teenagers running track, doing football practice, etc., in the worse of the summer heat, with no ill effects. So suck it up and get out there.
Not that I'm surprised by your attitude. I've heard from a (small) number of people living in the desert who somehow feel that they're being injured if a single bead of sweat EVER forms on their bodies. I don't understand it at all. But then again, I like the desert, and hate crowded urban areas, so I say YOU SHOULD STAY AWAY. The weather will kill you. Go home. (More for me)
There's absolutely no truth to that. Several years ago, you couldn't get CPUs fast enough that they could decode high-bitrate highdef H.264 video, but it's been a long time since that was the case. Even low-end CPUs have enough power these days.
Those figures are about customers staying with the same phone manufacturer, NOT THE PLATFORM. With iOS, you only have one manufacturer, with Android, there's dozens. So Android could be at 25% as people switch back and forth between Motorola/HTC/Samsung/LG and yet not have a single customer switching away from Android.
1976.
You meaan Android? Nobody seems to mind.
There are plenty of designs out there for evaporative food coolers which use no electricity.
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