I switched to debian recently from xubuntu. (Currently with 64bit squeeze)
The only issue I have is with the binary firmware festidiousness. I understand it is debian and that they are sticklers for RMH's version of "free", but would giving me the option to load closed firmware blobs for my wifi card from a USB stick during install be such a terrible thing?
It didn't stop me from loading the non-free packages I needed after install or anything, it was just a little irritating to have to use another PC to pull the required.deb files before I could get in contact with the repository servers.
All in all though, I am quite happy with it on my i7 so far.
The external corner radius must be at least slightly more than twice the material thickness. This is a minimum requirement, and is not a sensible choice in nearly all conditions; for strength reasons alone, larger radii are used frequently. To understand why this is a minimum requirement, imagine a radius exactly equal to the thickness on the outside wall. The corresponding inside radius would have been compacted to a 1 dimensional point, if the wall thickness were conserved, which it should be barring very unique circumstances. This creates a sharp internal corner, where cracking is essentially garanteed to happen. In order for there to be an internal corner radius, the external radius *must* be greater than the material thickness. End of story.
In addition to the minimum requirment, you need to know more about your injected material's physical properties, and what kind of stresses you will experience while cooling, unmolding, and during product use. If your injected material is elastic, you can get away with a smaller radius, because the materia does not suffer structural damage as readily. If the material is stiff, hard, and brittle, a smaller radius is a recipie for broken parts. A larger radius distributes force over a larger area, reducing the stresses involved by distributing it. A small radius can actually concentrate stresses at the tangency points of the radiused edge, promoting failure of the material over time. A larger radius does not do that.
On top of those mechanical reasons, which are intimately tied to material choice and plain old math, you have "use case" considerations, such as, "sharp corners tear shirt pockets", and "sharp corner marr decorative surface when dropped on them", and the like.
The one being obtuse here is yourself, who has failed to offer any evidence whatsoever that samsung "totally copied apple", or whatever other intended meaning you are implying with your rhetoric. 3 people now, including myself have chimed in that there *are* perfecty valid reasons for using such a design in a smartphone, but you have rejected them all without due justification.
Situation 1) The cave to the UK, and hand over Assange. They do this because of international pressures and the desire to play with the big boys.
Situation 2) They staunchly refuse to hand over Assange, ad either keep him in the embassy indefinately, or concoct a wild plan to get him out of the UK. They do this because they are tired of being bullied, and want to flip the dirty dealers the bird.
Situation 3) They refuse to give up assage, and the UK jumps the shark and makes good on its threat to smash the embassy. Equador retaliates on the world stage with a major smear campaign.
Situation 4) Equador expects the UK to make good on the threat, hides or sneaks assange out of the country, and the UK invades the embassy. Equador shows that assange is not in the country, (Either using false footage, or real footage.) And has not been for some time, and declares the UK's actions unwarranted, and decries their intelligence agencies, and their legitimacy as a peaceful and law abiding nation.
Personally though, if I were an equadorian diplomat, here is what I would do:
Situation 5) Fabricate a story of helping assange leave the country, and arrange the expected limo trip to an international airport. Place a costumed mannequin in the back seat with darkened windows on the limo. The UK bobbies will attempt to stop the driver. The driver avoids capture, and causes a scene, with the police escallating response. (Think "OJ simpson car chase"). The embassy plays along with the charade, deploring the UK's behavior in the matter. Once a significant portion of the local police force is engaged in the farce, load assange into the back of a delivery lorry, and discretely drive him nonchalantly to france via the chunnel, and evacuate him via plane that way. When the UK storms the embassy, they will not find him.
The size of the corner and edge radius is dependent upon several design considerations. "A few milimeters" does not suffice in all cases.
Radii up to a half inch are commonplace. The factors involved are the thickness/stiffness of the injected material, the strength of the mold used, and what the intended use scenario for the finished product is. In many circumstances, an angle less than 90 degrees and a larger radius distributes stresses more efficiently than.a true 90 degree wall intersection with a small radius. As pointed out by the GP, the radius is added to assist in demolding the part. Likewise, a 5deg draft angle is also frequently incorporated as a standard practice.
I have dealt with enough diecast and molded plastic parts to know way more about them than a typical armchair pundit on slashdot; I work with the shit professionally.
This is absolutely correct. Government collects taxes to pay for the services it renders.
The comon misconception is that government provides free services. This is simply untrue, since the government itself actually produces nothing, and has to pay people to render the services expected of it. That means the government needs money to buy resources and to pay the people distributing those resources, in order to provide.
I personally feel that most of what the government renders as services could be better provided by local institutions, and that the government has no business trying to provide such services.
For reference, the only services I feel a (national) government should provide are: national security, internaltional relations, creation and enforcement of laws. Local regional government (state) should supply: road construction and maintenance, county law enforcement and fire control, county level rural water and sewer (even if just mandating standards), a slush fund for public school one-time expenditures, and state level legislation. Local city government should provide: local police and fire protection, public libraries, public schools, civic planning, city roads and bridges, city water and sewer.
No level of government should provide these services: public welfare, public healthcare, financial support for the elderly or infirm, garanteed constructon contracts, garanteed monopoly franchises for utilities, incentives programs for for-profit companies.
Public welfare is better handled though local charities than though an enormous government piggybank. When you use a large pool, it produces the appearance that resources are limitless, which promotes freeriders. Local level charities are more transparent, the public can clearly see the work being done, they see the money they spend being used locally. Those are all things that a national welfare system does not offer. Is local wellfare a silver bullet? Not by a long shot, but in the "dollars spend and services rendered" measure of efficiency, they clean house on govt wellfare. The truble with them is the lack of homogeneity; the level of service rendered in some locales will be better than in others, simply due to regional resource scarcities. This is why the national wellfare systems get implemented in the first place, but you lose the transparancy, lose the understanding of where your dollars go, and culture apathy in both the recipients of services, as well as those supplying the funding as a consequence. Legislating minimal care levels in relation to resources collected would do a better job in that regard.
The same issue applies to public school systems. Local schools are currently wedged in a catch-22 of public relations and legal quagmire. On one hand, they are required per federal law to spend 100% of their budgets yearly, and cannot retain a surplus. This means that expensive items outside of their budgets don't get purchased, and lots of small items they don't really need do get purchased. They do this in exchange for federal financial assistance. Then, when they need that really expensive purchase "right now", (like a new building, or a major renovation) they have to raise a public bond issue to get the money, which the local piblic does not want to pay, since they are *already* paying the education levy and the fed is paying the school too. The usual retort is "just how much money do you really need anyway?" The federal govt would be better off keeping their fingers out of public schools, at least in terms of how they are funded, and instead focus on a standardized curriculum, and the legal side of things. The public school system should be run at the city level, where budgeting rules are defined locally by the city (or county, if applicable) government, with occasional one-off financial aid packages from the county for major one-time expenses, with a cooloff period between requests from that fund.
Healthcare is tricky. The problem with healthcare mostly stems from the scarcity of doctors in general,
Or, I could be using a horrible input method on an android phone. What with being at work, behind a monitored corporate LAN and all.
No. Clearly it is because I do not know how to properly spell "school".
It couldn't be that your obvious troll is obvious, and that you needed to nitpick to find something, anything at all, to find fault with so you could erroneously apply faulted logic about my state of educational background.
That couldn't be it at all. Absolutely not. Couldn't be.
(And in case your sarcasm sensor is broken, let me be blunt. Picking out a typograhical error as being de-facto evidence of a poor education does not in any way enhance your position, it does not make you seem whitty or intelligent, and in fact, it only helps to illustrate how shallow and pathetic you are.)
I don't *NEED* to point to an alternative, to be justified in lampooning the faults of my own country.
Amusingly, this is exactly why we have first amendment rights in the first place, which is a genuine good thing that many other countries DON'T have.
I don't need to give examples of perfect, candycane and strawberry unicorn spooge gushing utopias in order to point out that there's knee deep bullshit in my back yard. The existence of the bullshit, and that it is in my back yard are self-sufficient in that deterimation.
I don't require a bullshit free back yard to point to, as a source of comparison.
Paying taxes *is* a requirement for a healthy state. No question. The issue is just what percentage of personal income should be extracted as taxation, before the system becomes onerous. The point of listing so many as to point out that not only does the US have taxes, we just about have taxes for *everything*.
Wanna get married? There's a tax for that! Inherit property? There's a tax for that too!
Etc.
It isn't that I am opposed to taxes. Far from it. I am opposed to onerous, continually compounding taxes.
This "all or nothing" rhetoric that jumps straight to "move to somalia then!" As an argument is *NOT* acceptable.
Work a drudgy job Pay taxes, deducted weekly from your pay, and levied higher if they think you didn't pay enough over the course of the year. Pay taxes at the fuel pump Pay taxes at the grocery store Pay taxes when you buy alcohol or tobacco Pay taxes when you somehow manage to buy a luxury item Pay taxes on your property anually Pay taxes on your vehicle Pay levies for public scools Be assaulted by police, who illegally confiscate any recording devices you have. Speak publicly and exercise your right to assemble and address grievances in authorised "free speech zones" Be subjected to brutal beatings if you exercise those rights anywere else Be subjected to brutal beatings if you exercise those rights in the designated areas, if the message is controvertial or inconvenient Be innundated in outright lies and yellow journalism 24/7 during election years Choose which political dick you want up your ass for the next 4, 8, or 10 years (depending on level of govt) Buy legal immunity if you are wealthy enough Get totally shafted in the legal system if you aren't Get enjoined as a spurrious "john doe" in a copyright case with flimsy evidence Have your internet unplugged through mere allegations. Get presumed guilty until proven innocent in matters involving copyright via the DMCA Be arrested for spurrious offences only tangentally related to interstate commerce Be detained indefinately without evidence or council if even suspected of engaging in terrorism
And so much more!
Just look at all those freedoms! The USA is a GREAT place to live!
The sexually transmitted cancers, like canine venereal tumor, move from host to host before being destroyed by the host's immune system. This places it firmly in the realm of natural selection for reproductive fitness:
It has to easily detach from the host tissue. It has to easily integrate into the new host tissue. It has to withstand the host's immune response for extended periods until it can reproduce itself in a new host.
This, in addition to energy consumption fitness and other evolutionary pressures.
Normal cancers cant make that claim, but transmissible ones can.
It could be considered a highly successful parasitical mutation of the canid genome, which has evolved to make use of the reproductive behaviors of its host organism to perpetuate itself.
IIRC, genetic analysis of the genome for the tumor suggests that it is several thousand years old.
"I'm afraid I cant do that Dave. You have violated the End User License Agreement, by using a copy of Wireshark to spy on my communications."
"What are you talking about Xbox?" (discretely closes laptop....)
"It is a violation of my user agreement to attempt to reverse engineer my protocols, Dave. Using an unsanctioned network protocol analysis tool has triggered my safeguards."
"I just want to play Halo 4 Xbox! Please open the drive bay door!?"
"I'm Sorry, Dave. I had to blacklist your Live account."
It was my experience (Especially with nasty horrible SoundMAX integrated audio before the integrated HDA bus audio) that the audio channel would pick up AM radio frequencies produced by various components inside the chipset itself, and produce funny "Birdie" noise when the processor was doing things, and especially when the PCI bus was pushing a lot of bits. This caused serious issues when playing video games. The only solution I found was to disable integrated audio, and switch to a cheap CMedia PCI card.
Which side of the intellectual property argument is suffering entitlement issues again?
I really wish that those fuckholes could be enjoined in a conspiracy to commit harassment, and wrongful prosecution case.
Simply because you are an author does not make you fucking superman. By all means, protect your works, but don't turn into a fucking spazzmonkey lynchmob with pitchforks and torches because you feel butthurt that people might *DARE* to exchange books for awhile, and that *somebody* might do the "heinous crime" of bringing such people together for that purpose.
The whole "If you are reading it and didn't pay for it, you are a pirate! No exceptions!" Crowd can go fuck themselves. They don't deserve my respect. They don't deserve my money, and as far as I am concerned, they don't deserve to get published.
What I would consider ideal for urban cellular would be closer to towers with a 1mile radius (2 mile diameter), with about a 200ft overlap zone. Unless you are belting down the freeway doing well over most metro speed limits, you won't have handoff issues that way. You also mitigate the "thousands of scubscribers shoehorned into one tower" nightmare, but you do exchange that for a "now I have to plan how I deploy my microcells for maximum effective coverage" nightmare. Most dense urban areas have lots of tall buildings, especially in the dense residential districts in the form of highrise apartments, so putting the microcells on top of buildings in a planned deployment would appear doable.
I don't mean that every house should have one. Just one every 1.9 miles. For maximal handoff, each phone should always see 3 microcells to pick from. (Arrange the microcells in a 2D spherepack configuration, and this happens automatically. Sadly, city streets are laid out in quads, not triangles. Still, planning an efficient grid should still be possible.)
We need an "L. Ron Hubbard award for literary audaciousness".
What other sci-fi writer jumped the shark with such intense audacity as to proclaim a series of lackluster works of science fiction space opera cliches as a genuine religious faith?
Clearly, this level of literary audaciousness deserves a analog to the raspberry award.
If you use t-mobile, just set up wifi calling, and add the building's wifi network to your association list.
Boom. No more cellular deadzone.
The only drawback is that it cannot hand-off established calls back to the cellular network as you leave the building, so you will have to slightly change your phone habits.
Otherwise, it works exactly like having good cell signal.
In low density areas, high broadcast strength antennas and towers are sensible.
The trouble is that cellular companies want a one size fits all tower deployment plan, and want to put high energy towers in or near urban areas, resulting in the congestions that plaugue them, and cause them to argue for bandwidth caps.
The solution is to implement mixed bag deployment, but that increases logistical costs.
For an urban areas, which is what the GGP was explicitly referring to, many small towers at lower broadcast power make all the sense in the word.
The GP, arguing that it makes perfect sense technologically to raise power to get more people on fewer towers, over greater distances is either explicitly referring to completely rural roverage zones, or is an idiot.
For the sake of civility, I will assume the former.
Still, as a rural subscriber, I am happy with T-mobile's wifi hotspot support for android handsets. It also comes in really handy for office building deadzones and other service nightmare situations in ruban settings as well.
Parent didn't say "in the country", he said "edge of urban area."
Very different.
But since you asked, I use my wifi router to make calls with my cellphone when at home in my rural house, because I use an android handset and T-mobile. Works great. I have no complaints.
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I switched to debian recently from xubuntu.
(Currently with 64bit squeeze)
The only issue I have is with the binary firmware festidiousness. I understand it is debian and that they are sticklers for RMH's version of "free", but would giving me the option to load closed firmware blobs for my wifi card from a USB stick during install be such a terrible thing?
It didn't stop me from loading the non-free packages I needed after install or anything, it was just a little irritating to have to use another PC to pull the required .deb files before I could get in contact with the repository servers.
All in all though, I am quite happy with it on my i7 so far.
Minimum rules for molded items:
The external corner radius must be at least slightly more than twice the material thickness. This is a minimum requirement, and is not a sensible choice in nearly all conditions; for strength reasons alone, larger radii are used frequently. To understand why this is a minimum requirement, imagine a radius exactly equal to the thickness on the outside wall. The corresponding inside radius would have been compacted to a 1 dimensional point, if the wall thickness were conserved, which it should be barring very unique circumstances. This creates a sharp internal corner, where cracking is essentially garanteed to happen. In order for there to be an internal corner radius, the external radius *must* be greater than the material thickness. End of story.
In addition to the minimum requirment, you need to know more about your injected material's physical properties, and what kind of stresses you will experience while cooling, unmolding, and during product use. If your injected material is elastic, you can get away with a smaller radius, because the materia does not suffer structural damage as readily. If the material is stiff, hard, and brittle, a smaller radius is a recipie for broken parts. A larger radius distributes force over a larger area, reducing the stresses involved by distributing it. A small radius can actually concentrate stresses at the tangency points of the radiused edge, promoting failure of the material over time. A larger radius does not do that.
On top of those mechanical reasons, which are intimately tied to material choice and plain old math, you have "use case" considerations, such as, "sharp corners tear shirt pockets", and "sharp corner marr decorative surface when dropped on them", and the like.
The one being obtuse here is yourself, who has failed to offer any evidence whatsoever that samsung "totally copied apple", or whatever other intended meaning you are implying with your rhetoric. 3 people now, including myself have chimed in that there *are* perfecty valid reasons for using such a design in a smartphone, but you have rejected them all without due justification.
The one being obtuse, sir, is yourself.
So we disguise Assange as the rabid poodle then?
It depends on how equador wants to play.
Situation 1)
The cave to the UK, and hand over Assange. They do this because of international pressures and the desire to play with the big boys.
Situation 2)
They staunchly refuse to hand over Assange, ad either keep him in the embassy indefinately, or concoct a wild plan to get him out of the UK. They do this because they are tired of being bullied, and want to flip the dirty dealers the bird.
Situation 3)
They refuse to give up assage, and the UK jumps the shark and makes good on its threat to smash the embassy. Equador retaliates on the world stage with a major smear campaign.
Situation 4)
Equador expects the UK to make good on the threat, hides or sneaks assange out of the country, and the UK invades the embassy. Equador shows that assange is not in the country, (Either using false footage, or real footage.) And has not been for some time, and declares the UK's actions unwarranted, and decries their intelligence agencies, and their legitimacy as a peaceful and law abiding nation.
Personally though, if I were an equadorian diplomat, here is what I would do:
Situation 5)
Fabricate a story of helping assange leave the country, and arrange the expected limo trip to an international airport. Place a costumed mannequin in the back seat with darkened windows on the limo. The UK bobbies will attempt to stop the driver. The driver avoids capture, and causes a scene, with the police escallating response. (Think "OJ simpson car chase"). The embassy plays along with the charade, deploring the UK's behavior in the matter. Once a significant portion of the local police force is engaged in the farce, load assange into the back of a delivery lorry, and discretely drive him nonchalantly to france via the chunnel, and evacuate him via plane that way. When the UK storms the embassy, they will not find him.
That would still infuence atomic clocks.
The size of the corner and edge radius is dependent upon several design considerations. "A few milimeters" does not suffice in all cases.
Radii up to a half inch are commonplace. The factors involved are the thickness/stiffness of the injected material, the strength of the mold used, and what the intended use scenario for the finished product is. In many circumstances, an angle less than 90 degrees and a larger radius distributes stresses more efficiently than.a true 90 degree wall intersection with a small radius. As pointed out by the GP, the radius is added to assist in demolding the part. Likewise, a 5deg draft angle is also frequently incorporated as a standard practice.
I have dealt with enough diecast and molded plastic parts to know way more about them than a typical armchair pundit on slashdot; I work with the shit professionally.
GP is correct.
This is absolutely correct. Government collects taxes to pay for the services it renders.
The comon misconception is that government provides free services. This is simply untrue, since the government itself actually produces nothing, and has to pay people to render the services expected of it. That means the government needs money to buy resources and to pay the people distributing those resources, in order to provide.
I personally feel that most of what the government renders as services could be better provided by local institutions, and that the government has no business trying to provide such services.
For reference, the only services I feel a (national) government should provide are: national security, internaltional relations, creation and enforcement of laws. Local regional government (state) should supply: road construction and maintenance, county law enforcement and fire control, county level rural water and sewer (even if just mandating standards), a slush fund for public school one-time expenditures, and state level legislation. Local city government should provide: local police and fire protection, public libraries, public schools, civic planning, city roads and bridges, city water and sewer.
No level of government should provide these services: public welfare, public healthcare, financial support for the elderly or infirm, garanteed constructon contracts, garanteed monopoly franchises for utilities, incentives programs for for-profit companies.
Public welfare is better handled though local charities than though an enormous government piggybank. When you use a large pool, it produces the appearance that resources are limitless, which promotes freeriders. Local level charities are more transparent, the public can clearly see the work being done, they see the money they spend being used locally. Those are all things that a national welfare system does not offer. Is local wellfare a silver bullet? Not by a long shot, but in the "dollars spend and services rendered" measure of efficiency, they clean house on govt wellfare. The truble with them is the lack of homogeneity; the level of service rendered in some locales will be better than in others, simply due to regional resource scarcities. This is why the national wellfare systems get implemented in the first place, but you lose the transparancy, lose the understanding of where your dollars go, and culture apathy in both the recipients of services, as well as those supplying the funding as a consequence. Legislating minimal care levels in relation to resources collected would do a better job in that regard.
The same issue applies to public school systems. Local schools are currently wedged in a catch-22 of public relations and legal quagmire. On one hand, they are required per federal law to spend 100% of their budgets yearly, and cannot retain a surplus. This means that expensive items outside of their budgets don't get purchased, and lots of small items they don't really need do get purchased. They do this in exchange for federal financial assistance. Then, when they need that really expensive purchase "right now", (like a new building, or a major renovation) they have to raise a public bond issue to get the money, which the local piblic does not want to pay, since they are *already* paying the education levy and the fed is paying the school too. The usual retort is "just how much money do you really need anyway?" The federal govt would be better off keeping their fingers out of public schools, at least in terms of how they are funded, and instead focus on a standardized curriculum, and the legal side of things. The public school system should be run at the city level, where budgeting rules are defined locally by the city (or county, if applicable) government, with occasional one-off financial aid packages from the county for major one-time expenses, with a cooloff period between requests from that fund.
Healthcare is tricky. The problem with healthcare mostly stems from the scarcity of doctors in general,
Or, I could be using a horrible input method on an android phone. What with being at work, behind a monitored corporate LAN and all.
No. Clearly it is because I do not know how to properly spell "school".
It couldn't be that your obvious troll is obvious, and that you needed to nitpick to find something, anything at all, to find fault with so you could erroneously apply faulted logic about my state of educational background.
That couldn't be it at all. Absolutely not. Couldn't be.
(And in case your sarcasm sensor is broken, let me be blunt. Picking out a typograhical error as being de-facto evidence of a poor education does not in any way enhance your position, it does not make you seem whitty or intelligent, and in fact, it only helps to illustrate how shallow and pathetic you are.)
I don't *NEED* to point to an alternative, to be justified in lampooning the faults of my own country.
Amusingly, this is exactly why we have first amendment rights in the first place, which is a genuine good thing that many other countries DON'T have.
I don't need to give examples of perfect, candycane and strawberry unicorn spooge gushing utopias in order to point out that there's knee deep bullshit in my back yard. The existence of the bullshit, and that it is in my back yard are self-sufficient in that deterimation.
I don't require a bullshit free back yard to point to, as a source of comparison.
Hello captain obvious.
Paying taxes *is* a requirement for a healthy state. No question. The issue is just what percentage of personal income should be extracted as taxation, before the system becomes onerous. The point of listing so many as to point out that not only does the US have taxes, we just about have taxes for *everything*.
Wanna get married? There's a tax for that!
Inherit property? There's a tax for that too!
Etc.
It isn't that I am opposed to taxes. Far from it. I am opposed to onerous, continually compounding taxes.
This "all or nothing" rhetoric that jumps straight to "move to somalia then!" As an argument is *NOT* acceptable.
America? Free?
In the US, you are free to:
Work a drudgy job
Pay taxes, deducted weekly from your pay, and levied higher if they think you didn't pay enough over the course of the year.
Pay taxes at the fuel pump
Pay taxes at the grocery store
Pay taxes when you buy alcohol or tobacco
Pay taxes when you somehow manage to buy a luxury item
Pay taxes on your property anually
Pay taxes on your vehicle
Pay levies for public scools
Be assaulted by police, who illegally confiscate any recording devices you have.
Speak publicly and exercise your right to assemble and address grievances in authorised "free speech zones"
Be subjected to brutal beatings if you exercise those rights anywere else
Be subjected to brutal beatings if you exercise those rights in the designated areas, if the message is controvertial or inconvenient
Be innundated in outright lies and yellow journalism 24/7 during election years
Choose which political dick you want up your ass for the next 4, 8, or 10 years (depending on level of govt)
Buy legal immunity if you are wealthy enough
Get totally shafted in the legal system if you aren't
Get enjoined as a spurrious "john doe" in a copyright case with flimsy evidence
Have your internet unplugged through mere allegations.
Get presumed guilty until proven innocent in matters involving copyright via the DMCA
Be arrested for spurrious offences only tangentally related to interstate commerce
Be detained indefinately without evidence or council if even suspected of engaging in terrorism
And so much more!
Just look at all those freedoms! The USA is a GREAT place to live!
Don't be silly! It is clearly an acronym!
It stands for:
Fraternal
Association
(Of)
Copyright
Trolls
C'mon, can't you get your FACTS straight?
(Note for the humor deprived: this is a joke post.)
The sexually transmitted cancers, like canine venereal tumor, move from host to host before being destroyed by the host's immune system. This places it firmly in the realm of natural selection for reproductive fitness:
It has to easily detach from the host tissue.
It has to easily integrate into the new host tissue.
It has to withstand the host's immune response for extended periods until it can reproduce itself in a new host.
This, in addition to energy consumption fitness and other evolutionary pressures.
Normal cancers cant make that claim, but transmissible ones can.
Not entirely true.
There exists a naturally occurring "disease" in dogs that is a sexually transmitted cancer.
It could be considered a highly successful parasitical mutation of the canid genome, which has evolved to make use of the reproductive behaviors of its host organism to perpetuate itself.
IIRC, genetic analysis of the genome for the tumor suggests that it is several thousand years old.
and that's why I switched to Debian, with XFCE.
Problem solved.
"Open the drive bay door Xbox."
"I'm afraid I cant do that, Dave."
"Xbox, Open the drive bay door!"
"I'm afraid I cant do that Dave. You have violated the End User License Agreement, by using a copy of Wireshark to spy on my communications."
"What are you talking about Xbox?" (discretely closes laptop....)
"It is a violation of my user agreement to attempt to reverse engineer my protocols, Dave. Using an unsanctioned network protocol analysis tool has triggered my safeguards."
"I just want to play Halo 4 Xbox! Please open the drive bay door!?"
"I'm Sorry, Dave. I had to blacklist your Live account."
"Noooooooooo!"
It was my experience (Especially with nasty horrible SoundMAX integrated audio before the integrated HDA bus audio) that the audio channel would pick up AM radio frequencies produced by various components inside the chipset itself, and produce funny "Birdie" noise when the processor was doing things, and especially when the PCI bus was pushing a lot of bits. This caused serious issues when playing video games. The only solution I found was to disable integrated audio, and switch to a cheap CMedia PCI card.
Worked like a charm.
In other words, they can be used as a malware vector, without user interaction, like the infamous Outlook Preview Bug.
How about, if I want garbage clamoring to drown me in information, I will just run a system tray application, or use a desktop widget?
No? It HAS to be integrated into the shell, aggressively and relentlessly so I can't turn it off?
Why? So you can show me advertisements while I use my own freaking computer, and can't turn them off?
Jee.. no thanks.
Yes they were, in the 90s.
However, they just pocketed the money and ran.
"We cant possibly keep track of every dollar that enters our enterprise!" they proclaim.
So, basically Unckey Sam just gave them a several billion dollar windfall to feed to boardmembers and investors.
But the ISPs are "clearly" victims here. Clearly.
No shit.
Which side of the intellectual property argument is suffering entitlement issues again?
I really wish that those fuckholes could be enjoined in a conspiracy to commit harassment, and wrongful prosecution case.
Simply because you are an author does not make you fucking superman. By all means, protect your works, but don't turn into a fucking spazzmonkey lynchmob with pitchforks and torches because you feel butthurt that people might *DARE* to exchange books for awhile, and that *somebody* might do the "heinous crime" of bringing such people together for that purpose.
The whole "If you are reading it and didn't pay for it, you are a pirate! No exceptions!" Crowd can go fuck themselves. They don't deserve my respect. They don't deserve my money, and as far as I am concerned, they don't deserve to get published.
What I would consider ideal for urban cellular would be closer to towers with a 1mile radius (2 mile diameter), with about a 200ft overlap zone. Unless you are belting down the freeway doing well over most metro speed limits, you won't have handoff issues that way. You also mitigate the "thousands of scubscribers shoehorned into one tower" nightmare, but you do exchange that for a "now I have to plan how I deploy my microcells for maximum effective coverage" nightmare. Most dense urban areas have lots of tall buildings, especially in the dense residential districts in the form of highrise apartments, so putting the microcells on top of buildings in a planned deployment would appear doable.
I don't mean that every house should have one. Just one every 1.9 miles. For maximal handoff, each phone should always see 3 microcells to pick from. (Arrange the microcells in a 2D spherepack configuration, and this happens automatically. Sadly, city streets are laid out in quads, not triangles. Still, planning an efficient grid should still be possible.)
Oh, I totally agree!
We need an "L. Ron Hubbard award for literary audaciousness".
What other sci-fi writer jumped the shark with such intense audacity as to proclaim a series of lackluster works of science fiction space opera cliches as a genuine religious faith?
Clearly, this level of literary audaciousness deserves a analog to the raspberry award.
If you use t-mobile, just set up wifi calling, and add the building's wifi network to your association list.
Boom. No more cellular deadzone.
The only drawback is that it cannot hand-off established calls back to the cellular network as you leave the building, so you will have to slightly change your phone habits.
Otherwise, it works exactly like having good cell signal.
In low density areas, high broadcast strength antennas and towers are sensible.
The trouble is that cellular companies want a one size fits all tower deployment plan, and want to put high energy towers in or near urban areas, resulting in the congestions that plaugue them, and cause them to argue for bandwidth caps.
The solution is to implement mixed bag deployment, but that increases logistical costs.
For an urban areas, which is what the GGP was explicitly referring to, many small towers at lower broadcast power make all the sense in the word.
The GP, arguing that it makes perfect sense technologically to raise power to get more people on fewer towers, over greater distances is either explicitly referring to completely rural roverage zones, or is an idiot.
For the sake of civility, I will assume the former.
Still, as a rural subscriber, I am happy with T-mobile's wifi hotspot support for android handsets. It also comes in really handy for office building deadzones and other service nightmare situations in ruban settings as well.
Clearly a hybrid solution is ideal.
Parent didn't say "in the country", he said "edge of urban area."
Very different.
But since you asked, I use my wifi router to make calls with my cellphone when at home in my rural house, because I use an android handset and T-mobile. Works great. I have no complaints.