Would you also call a GPS (the direction-giving kind) a fancy interface for a map? You might be correct but that distinction has little benefit, like calling a motorcycle a motor vehicle.
The article says it has launched.
The summary says it has launched.
The Acrossair page says they need beta testers.
The app page (on the Acrossair site) says it will launch when Apple approves it.
Does anyone know which is correct? I tend to believe it has already launched since the article and summary corroborate.
Perhaps someone on the other side of the water could try to pull it up in the iTunes store.
Scientists at the time suggested that the night-shining clouds over London were made of meteoritic dust. But those aerosols are typically too small to reflect sunlight efficiently, Kelley argues, suggesting the clouds above Europe were made of ice crystals. This assumption, along with the new analysis of shuttle plume movement, strongly suggests that the object that blazed into the atmosphere and disintegrated above Siberia was a moisture-rich comet rather than a relatively dry asteroid.
Easy enough to verify. Aaaaaand, nope. Only the shuttle's main engines use liquid oxygen/hydrogen. The boosters use a solid mixture and each one provides over twice the force generated by all three main engines combined (therefore it's safe to assume the boosters are expelling a significant amount of the total exhaust).
For the 17 of you commenting about his misuse of the word supercritical: I believe he meant supercritical mass. Which is to say, pebble bed reactors cannot form the geometry necessary for sustained uncontrollable supercriticality. I could be entirely wrong of course, but I'm certain the GP was referring to core geometry not neutron cycle.
Other benefits might include transmitting the power to remote locations where generation or transmittal is otherwise difficult (Antarctica for example), and more efficient power distribution on the power grid. If the power could be transmitted to different sites without significant loss, I^2xR losses in power lines across the grid could be minimized. Of note would be peak hours, and sunrise/sundown. I'm not sure what the power usage graphs look like, but I'm assuming there's enough fluctuation that it would be useful to shift power as the time of day changed.
It's probably off-topic because it has nothing to do with the article, which is about a legal battle regarding a Trademark between Psion and Dell. A quick search will tell you everything you need to know about what a Trademark is and isn't.
Someone mod this above the grandparent, even as a non-lawyer the idea is ridiculous. I create a second company to make a product with the same name I want to use in my first company and suddenly the trademark is void?
I'm surprised no one has mention the handling of the actual cell phone. The search was done by an officer, not a school official, and the citation was issued from the police. Why was the cell phone then turned over to the school. It also seems this would be evidence, making it worse.
Except the "disorderly conduct" is what led to the search. Prior to that they had no basis for an arrest, only school action such as expulsion. The search would have been unlawful, and AFAIK Jack Bauer tactics don't work in the real world (threatening to do A, to force a person to do B, thereby justifying A).
There are much easier ways to do this than pumping water 50 feet in the air, like say... a camera on a balloon? The only ships going after pirates are sufficiently large enough to carry a mast or helo with enough range that another 50 feet vertical wouldn't change.
Yah, we had this in the Navy. Someone on my ship saved the Navy something on the scale of $1,000,000 (had to do with radar parts for planes if I remember right), and the Navy cut him a check for $3,000./golfclap
These people would do far better selling their solutions to the military as private consultants.
How does one keep track of all these passwords? Find a secure password keeper application and use it religiously. Sourceforge is a good place to look. Some even work on PDAs.
Just don't forget to backup your password file. I learned that the hard way (who would have thought a 2 year old drive can fail catastrophically after having 20 year old computers work just fine).
Apple's decisions are not relevant to the discussion. Apple did not set up the USPO, and is not solely responsible for a lack of reform. They took necessary steps to ensure they would not be sued.
If this style patent did not exist, what would motivate Apple to make a great product and develop better software. Other companies would just come in behind Apple and use their technology.
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Would you also call a GPS (the direction-giving kind) a fancy interface for a map? You might be correct but that distinction has little benefit, like calling a motorcycle a motor vehicle.
The article says it has launched.
The summary says it has launched.
The Acrossair page says they need beta testers.
The app page (on the Acrossair site) says it will launch when Apple approves it.
Does anyone know which is correct? I tend to believe it has already launched since the article and summary corroborate.
Perhaps someone on the other side of the water could try to pull it up in the iTunes store.
Had you RTFA you would have seen this:
Scientists at the time suggested that the night-shining clouds over London were made of meteoritic dust. But those aerosols are typically too small to reflect sunlight efficiently, Kelley argues, suggesting the clouds above Europe were made of ice crystals. This assumption, along with the new analysis of shuttle plume movement, strongly suggests that the object that blazed into the atmosphere and disintegrated above Siberia was a moisture-rich comet rather than a relatively dry asteroid.
Citation needed.
Easy enough to verify. Aaaaaand, nope. Only the shuttle's main engines use liquid oxygen/hydrogen. The boosters use a solid mixture and each one provides over twice the force generated by all three main engines combined (therefore it's safe to assume the boosters are expelling a significant amount of the total exhaust).
For the 17 of you commenting about his misuse of the word supercritical: I believe he meant supercritical mass. Which is to say, pebble bed reactors cannot form the geometry necessary for sustained uncontrollable supercriticality. I could be entirely wrong of course, but I'm certain the GP was referring to core geometry not neutron cycle.
A rectenna is much cheaper per m^2 than a solar cell.
And 3 times as efficient.
Other benefits might include transmitting the power to remote locations where generation or transmittal is otherwise difficult (Antarctica for example), and more efficient power distribution on the power grid. If the power could be transmitted to different sites without significant loss, I^2xR losses in power lines across the grid could be minimized. Of note would be peak hours, and sunrise/sundown. I'm not sure what the power usage graphs look like, but I'm assuming there's enough fluctuation that it would be useful to shift power as the time of day changed.
If this article can be believed it's hardly as dangerous as you're making it out to be.
http://permanent.com/p-sps-bm.htm
This isn't an ion cannon. The effects at the transmitter are minimal, so I'd expect they won't do much to a satellite.
http://permanent.com/p-sps-bm.htm
Some people use the word "coke" to refer to a soft drink, so consider that in place of "soda or beverage."
It's probably off-topic because it has nothing to do with the article, which is about a legal battle regarding a Trademark between Psion and Dell. A quick search will tell you everything you need to know about what a Trademark is and isn't.
hypocritically post... lifelong pussy... NIGGER
And yet you're posting as AC.
Apple does not claim Podcast and Podcast cannot be Trademarked based on a previous decision by the PTO.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theglobalgeekpodcast/309396084/sizes/l/
Someone mod this above the grandparent, even as a non-lawyer the idea is ridiculous. I create a second company to make a product with the same name I want to use in my first company and suddenly the trademark is void?
I'm surprised no one has mention the handling of the actual cell phone. The search was done by an officer, not a school official, and the citation was issued from the police. Why was the cell phone then turned over to the school. It also seems this would be evidence, making it worse.
Except the "disorderly conduct" is what led to the search. Prior to that they had no basis for an arrest, only school action such as expulsion. The search would have been unlawful, and AFAIK Jack Bauer tactics don't work in the real world (threatening to do A, to force a person to do B, thereby justifying A).
In other news, a perpetual motion machine was built, it requires a 120 volt power source and runs indefinitely.
It's range is largely limited by the radio gear, which can be mitigate a lot with military grade gear.
I'm not sure you know the meaning of "military grade."
There are much easier ways to do this than pumping water 50 feet in the air, like say... a camera on a balloon? The only ships going after pirates are sufficiently large enough to carry a mast or helo with enough range that another 50 feet vertical wouldn't change.
Yah, we had this in the Navy. Someone on my ship saved the Navy something on the scale of $1,000,000 (had to do with radar parts for planes if I remember right), and the Navy cut him a check for $3,000. /golfclap
These people would do far better selling their solutions to the military as private consultants.
If it's as simple as all that, why is there a list equally as long, of countries that were unsuccessful? I think calling it routine is naive.
How does one keep track of all these passwords? Find a secure password keeper application and use it religiously. Sourceforge is a good place to look. Some even work on PDAs.
Just don't forget to backup your password file. I learned that the hard way (who would have thought a 2 year old drive can fail catastrophically after having 20 year old computers work just fine).
Apple's decisions are not relevant to the discussion. Apple did not set up the USPO, and is not solely responsible for a lack of reform. They took necessary steps to ensure they would not be sued. If this style patent did not exist, what would motivate Apple to make a great product and develop better software. Other companies would just come in behind Apple and use their technology.